Cambridge, St John's College, MS H.19<\/a>. A translation into Latin is preserved in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner 466 (see Upton (1988), where the Latin text is reproduced). In the opinion of the editor of the text, the manuscripts are two different revisions by the author, and therefore they have not been copied one from one another ( Fobes (1928), p. 16).<\/p> In this copy of the Greek text, the tragedy is dedicated to William Parr (1513-1571) when he was Earl of Essex, i.e. after 23 December 1543. Therefore, it must have been copied after this date and, in Upton's view, the composition of the play must also have taken place after this date (see Upton (1988), p. 2). Dr Erika Elia<\/p>","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"UK asks regulator to study AstraZeneca vaccine\nCredit: Unsplash\/CC0 Public Domain\nThe British government said on Friday it has asked its independent medicines regulator to assess AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine as part of the formal approval process for the drug to be rolled out by the end of the year.\nMore than 1.4 million people have died since the novel coronavirus emerged in China late last year, and three drug developers\u2014Pfizer\/BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca\/Oxford University\u2014are currently applying for approval for their vaccines to be used as early as December.\nAstraZeneca has completed Phase III clinical trials of its vaccine, the last stage before regulatory approval.\nBut under British rules, the government must also ask the independent Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to green light the drug.\n\"We have formally asked the regulator to assess the Oxford\/AstraZeneca vaccine, to understand the data and determine whether it meets rigorous safety standards,\" said Health Secretary Matt Hancock.\nBritain has secured access to 100 million doses of the vaccine produced by the British drug manufacturer in partnership with the University of Oxford.\nThe department of health has said it expects four million doses of the shot to be ready for Britain by the end of the year and 40 million by the end of March 2021.\nEarlier on Thursday, AstraZeneca said further research was needed on the vaccine, but the additional testing was unlikely to affect the approval process.\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine has shown an average 70-percent effectiveness.\nBut that rate jumped to 90 percent when an initial half-dose then a full dose was given, similar to that in rival vaccines in development by Pfizer\/BioNTech and Moderna.\nUS scientists have said the higher rate of effectiveness came during tests in people aged 55 and under, and was discovered by accident during the clinical trials.\n\"Now that we've found what looks like a better efficacy, we have to validate this, so we need to do an additional study,\" AstraZeneca chief executive Pascal Soriot told Bloomberg.\nThe UK government has already formally asked the MHRA to assess the Pfizer\/BioNTech vaccine for its suitability.\nCitation: UK asks regulator to study AstraZeneca vaccine (2020, November 27) retrieved 30 January 2023 from https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2020-11-uk-astrazeneca-vaccine.html\nFollow the latest news on the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak\nEU regulator could approve Covid vaccines 'late 2020, early 2021'\nAstraZeneca says its vaccine needs 'additional study'\nAstra\/Oxford seek coronavirus vaccine approval after 'effective' trials\nCovid-19 vaccine: the next steps\nAstraZeneca promises virus vaccine at cost price worldwide\nA 'vaccine for the world'? UK team seeks approval for virus jab\nUpdated boosters cut risk of XBB variant infection by nearly half\nStudy shows updated bivalent boosters are more effective at preventing hospitalization and death from Omicron\nCOVID-19 vaccine based on new technology tested in clinical study\nCoordination of COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials produces a 'treasure trove' of data and a model for the future","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"in: Pages needing enhanced family history perspective, Counties of Minnesota, Dakota County, Minnesota,\nMinneapolis\u2013Saint Paul\nMinnesota counties on the Mississippi River\nDakota County, Minnesota\nDakota County, Minnesota view Community messages\nDakota County, Minnesota links \u2022 Birth records \u2022 Businesses \u2022 Cemeteries \u2022 Census data \u2022 Census records \u2022\nLocation in the state of Minnesota\nMinnesota's location in the U.S.\nOctober 27, 1849 [1]\nNamed for Named after the Dakota people.\n586.33 sq mi (1,519 km\u00b2)\n16.75 sq mi (43 km\u00b2), 2.86%\n625\/sq mi (241\/km\u00b2)\nWebsite www.dakotacounty.us\nDakota County is the third most populous county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The county is bordered by the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers on the north, and the state of Wisconsin on the east. Dakota County comprises the southeast portion of seven-county Minneapolis-St. Paul, the sixteenth largest metropolitan area in the United States with about 3.3 million residents. As of the 2020 census, the population was 439,882.[1] The county seat is Hastings.[2]\nThe county was the site of historical events at Mendota that defined the state's future, including providing materials for the construction of Fort Snelling across the river and the signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux which ceded land from the native Dakota nation for the Minnesota Territory. The county's history was initially tied to the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers, both strategically important for United States expansion and as the convergence of the Dakota and Ojibwe nations who regarded the site as sacred. Influence shifted westward during the post-World War II settlement boom when Interstate 35 connected the western half of the county to Minneapolis and Saint Paul and bedroom communities grew. Today, Dakota County has a population that exceeds Minneapolis's. Most work outside the county but like many metro counties, Dakota continues to absorb industry and jobs from the core cities.[3][4]\nDakota County is named after the Dakota Sioux tribal bands who settled in the area.[3] The name is recorded as \"Dahkotah\" in U.S. Census records until 1851.[5]\n1.1 Hastings and South Saint Paul\n1.2 Suburban growth\n1.3 Historic sites\n2 Law and government\n2.1 Politics\n3.1 Lakes and rivers\n3.4 National protected areas\n6 Cities and towns\n7.1 Schools\n7.2 Colleges and universities\n8 Recreation\n8.1 Parks\nTaoyateduta led the Mendota Mdewakanton in northern Dakota County. He and 121 Sioux leaders ceded much of the present Twin Cities region.[6]\nIn the 1600s, Mdewakanton Dakota fled their ancestral home of Mille Lacs Lake in northern Minnesota in response to westward expansion of the Ojibway nation.[7] According to Dakota tradition, their ancestors pushed out the Iowa who were found settled at the mouth of the Minnesota River.[8] Later in 1680, the Mdewakanton Dakota were contacted by French explorer Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut and the Mendota (mdo-TE) band of the Mdewakanton south of the Minnesota River were contacted later by Joseph Nicollet in the 18th century.[9] While Taoyateduta (a.k.a. Little Crow) led the Mendota in northern Dakota County, upstream to the southwest, Chief Black Dog established his village of 600 people around 1750 at the isthmus between Black Dog Lake (from which is named after him) and the Minnesota River, near the present site of the Black Dog Power Plant.[7][10]\nSaint Peter's Church in Mendota is the state's oldest church\nFollowing the published expeditions of explorers, in 1805, Zebulon Pike negotiated for military territory with the Mendota band which included land in Dakota County at the Mississippi River confluences with the Minnesota and St. Croix Rivers.[11] In 1819, on what is now Picnic Island on the south bank of the Minnesota River, Colonel Henry Leavenworth built a stockade fort called \"St. Peter's Cantonment\" or \"New Hope,\" where materials were assembled for the construction of Fort Snelling to be built on the bluff on the north bank.[12] Permanent settlement on the island was impossible due to annual flooding. Alexis Bailey built some log buildings nearby to trade in furs in 1826. Henry Hastings Sibley later built the first stone house in Minnesota in 1836, overlooking Fort Snelling. Sibley was a partner in the American Fur Company, and considerable fur trade occurred at Mendota due to the accessibility of the confluence.\nOn-going United States expansion into the then \"Northwest Territory\" led to government purchase of land from the Dakota people (the Mdewakanton, Wahpekute, Wahpeton, and Sisseton bands) via the Treaty of St. Peters and the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux in 1851.[13][14] and the Treaty of Mendota.[15] After the establishment of the Minnesota Territory in 1849, Dakotah County (later Dakota County) spanned from the Mississippi River to the Missouri River.[16] By the time Minnesota achieved statehood in 1858, power and influence had shifted from Mendota, across the rivers to Saint Paul and Minneapolis.\nHastings and South Saint Paul[]\nContinuing into the 20th century, the hub of activity in the county was in Hastings, the county seat, and a focal point of transportation, communication, and commerce. St. Peter's, now Mendota, had lost out to Fort Snelling. Hastings is critically located on the Mississippi River at the confluence of the St. Croix River and on the Vermillion River, which provided ample water power. Commercial interests built substantial wealth among the businessmen who dealt in lumber, milling, and railroads as the county residents depended on them to sell their agricultural products and to provide the goods needed for a growing economy and rising standard of living.\nDuring this time, the stockyards and meat-packing plants in South Saint Paul became historically significant as the largest stockyards in the world.[17] Ranchers in the vast countryside to the west brought their livestock for shipping to the hungry populations of St. Louis, Memphis, and New Orleans, downstream.[18] These plants were worked by new immigrants from Romania, Serbia, and other Eastern European countries.[19] The rest of the county remained agricultural during the boom of milling activity north of the Minnesota River due to lack of bridge connections. Rail access came in 1866 via the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railroad which shipped grain to millers.[20] The Minneapolis St. Paul Rochester and Dubuque Electric Traction Company line in 1905 (now the Dan Patch Corridor), was primary for passengers going to entertainment parks and resorts in Burnsville and Lakeville.[21]\nSuburban growth[]\nBeginning in the 1950s, population and household growth shifted to the western portion of the county. This area of Dakota County had been predominantly Irish and Scottish extending southward toward the Scandinavians of Southern Minnesota.[22][23] As population pressures expanded south from Minneapolis and Bloomington, the completion of Interstate 35W and 35E brought about major construction in the post-World War II period, turning villages into cities over the period of 20 years. Burnsville, Apple Valley, Eagan, and Lakeville brought over 200,000 people into the county by the end of the century. The Western and Northern Service Centers were constructed in the early 1990s each with an additional courthouse location. License centers were subsequently setup in Burnsville and Lakeville. Though pressure remained since the postwar boom to move the county seat to one of the larger communities in the county, the Dakota County Board maintained the seat in Hastings, while providing government services across the county.[24]\nHistoric sites[]\nThe history of the county is well-illustrated by the Registered Historic Places in the county, including the settlement at Mendota, the homes of well-heeled residents of Hastings, the ethnic gathering places in South Saint Paul, and other sites related to life on the prairie, including religion, education, transportation, commerce, and farm life.\nLaw and government[]\nDakota County is governed by the Board of Commissioners. The members of the Board as of March 1, 2017 are:\nMike Slavik, District 1\nKathleen Gaylord, District 2\nThomas Egan, District 3\nJoe Atkins, District 4\nLiz Workman, District 5\nMary Liz Holberg, District 6\nChris Gerlach, District 7\nDakota County has an elected Sheriff (Tim Leslie) and an elected County Attorney (James Backstrom). There are appointed boards for the library system, community development agency, and several advisory boards. Dakota County is served by an elected board of the Soil and Water Conservation District.\nPolitics[]\nDakota County voters tend to vote Democratic. Since 1960, the county has selected the Democratic Party candidate in 71% of national elections (as of 2020).\nUnited States presidential election results for Dakota County, Minnesota[25]\n2020 109,638 41.81% 146,155 55.73% 6,466 2.47%\n2016 99,864 43.07% 110,592 47.70% 21,404 9.23%\n2000 87,250 47.87% 85,446 46.88% 9,553 5.24%\n1996 57,244 37.11% 77,297 50.11% 19,725 12.79%\n1984 55,119 52.54% 49,125 46.83% 667 0.64%\n1964 13,856 32.73% 28,391 67.07% 81 0.19%\n1948 6,819 34.75% 12,487 63.63% 317 1.62%\n1944 7,731 47.13% 8,562 52.20% 110 0.67%\n1940 8,339 47.00% 9,327 52.57% 77 0.43%\n1936 4,043 26.26% 8,890 57.73% 2,465 16.01%\n1924 3,931 42.34% 929 10.01% 4,424 47.65%\n1912 609 14.20% 1,777 41.42% 1,904 44.38%\n1892 1,481 37.95% 1,989 50.97% 432 11.07%\nAccording to the 2000 census, the county has a total area of 586.33 square miles (1,518.6 km2), of which 569.58 square miles (1,475.2 km2) (or 97.14%) is land and 16.75 square miles (43.4 km2) (or 2.86%) is water.[26]\nLakes and rivers[]\nVermillion Falls in Hastings\nThe northern and eastern border of Dakota County is marked by the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers. Management and jurisdiction of the rivers falls into multiple local, State and Federal agencies. Most of the Minnesota River bank is under the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge with fish, wildlife, and parkland managed collectively by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. The Dakota County Soil and Water Conservation District assists the county's six watershed management organizations (WMO) which include the Black Dog WMO, Gun Club Lake WMO, Lower Minnesota River Watershed District, Lower Mississippi WMO, North Cannon River WMO, and the Vermillion River Watershed Joint Powers Organization.[27][28] [29]\nMississippi River: Adjacent to Mendota Heights, Lilydale, South St. Paul, Inver Grove Heights, Rosemount, and Hastings.\nMinnesota River: Adjacent to Burnsville, Eagan, Mendota Heights, and Mendota.\nVermillion River: From Farmington through Eureka Township to Hastings.\nBlackhawk Lake\nHolland Lake\nJensen Lake\nThomas Lake\nEureka Township\nChub Lake\nLake Rebecca\nLake Isabelle\nBullfrog Pond\nLake Marion\nRavenna Township\nMud Hen Lakes\nLake Byllesby\nWest Saint Paul\nThompson Lake\nKeegan Lake\nInterstate 35E\nInterstate 35W\nInterstate 494\nU.S. Highway 52\nMinnesota State Highway 3\nMinnesota State Highway 13\nMinnesota State Highway 110\nRamsey County (north)\nWashington County (northeast)\nPierce County, Wisconsin (east, across the Mississippi River)\nGoodhue County (southeast)\nRice County (southwest)\nScott County (west)\nHennepin County (northwest)\nNational protected areas[]\nMain article: protected area\nMinnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge (part)\nMississippi National River and Recreation Area (part)\nSince the county grew as a bedroom community of Minneapolis and St. Paul, just over half of the residents (54%) work outside the county.[4]\n1860 9,093 1,457.0%\n1970 139,808 78.5%\nU.S. Decennial Census\nAccording to the 2010 census, Dakota County had a population of 398,552, of which 195,661 (49.1%) were male and 202,891 (50.9%) were female. In terms of age, 76.7% of the population were 16 years and over, 73.6% were 18 years and over, 70.5% were 21 years and over, 12.8% were 62 years and over, and 10.0% were 65 years and over. The median age was 36.8 years. The median age for males was 35.7; the median age for females was 37.9.\nIn terms of race and ethnicity, the county was 85.2% White (82.3% Non-Hispanic White Alone), 4.7% Black or African American, 0.4% American Indian and Alaska Native, 4.4% Asian, 0.1% Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, 2.4% from Some Other Race, and 2.9% from Two or More Races. Hispanics and Latinos of any race make up 6.0% of the population.\nIn terms of households, 69.5% were family households and 30.5% were non-family households. Approximately 55.2% were husband-wife family households; 26% had children under 18 years of age. Approximately 36.6% of households had children under 18 years of age living in them; 18.6% had people over the age of 65 living in them. The average household size is 2.60 and the average family size is 3.12. In terms of housing occupancy, 95.3% of households were occupied and 4.7% were vacant. Of the vacant housing units, 2.0% were for rent, 0.1% were rented but not occupied, 1.2% were for sale only, 0.2% were sold but not occupied, 0.5% were for seasonal, recreational, or occasional use, and 0.8% were all other vacants. The homeowner vacancy rate was 1.7% and the rental vacancy rate was 8.1%. Of all occupied housing units, 76.5% were owner-occupied and 23.5% were renter-occupied. The population in owner-occupied units was 314,833; the average household size was 2.71. The population in renter-occupied units was 80,866; the average household size was 2.26. [30]\nCities and towns[]\nStreet in downtown Apple Valley with signature red lamp posts. In the background is the Western Service Center.\nDakota County is home to sites significant in the state's early history. At Mendota, the Treaty of Mendota was signed, opening much of Southern Minnesota to settlement, and there prominent Saint Paul businessmen built their grand mansions. Though linked with the state's capital for much of history via rail, Dakota County owes much of its current growth to the expansion of Minneapolis' population which accelerated during the post-World War II boom era of the 1960s. This demand for housing along with two major interstate highways linking Minneapolis (I-35W) and St. Paul (I-35E) to the county concentrated major growth and demand along the northern end. Today, the cities of Burnsville, Eagan, Apple Valley, Lakeville, Rosemount, Hastings, Inver Grove Heights, Mendota Heights, West St. Paul, and South St. Paul are synonymous with the Twin Cities, as being part of \"the Cities.\" Both Burnsville and Eagan are nearly developed and have become more like independent cities attracting major development than just residential bedroom suburbs.[31][32]\nLakeville's downtown began in the early 20th century, contrasting its modern suburban development.\nIn contrast, the southern end of Dakota County reflects the rural past with small towns such as Farmington, Coates, Vermilion, Hampton, Rudolph, and Miesville where street grids and housing dating from the early 20th century can be found. Much of the county is self-contained except for two examples. The City of Hastings, the county seat, lies on both banks of the Mississippi River and was heavily linked historically and physically by rail to the early growing influence of the state's capital, Saint Paul. On the south border, the City of Northfield, technically in Rice County, has slightly expanded north into Dakota however the city itself is allowed into the municipal sewer boundary.\nThough all of Dakota County is considered part of the metropolitan area and open to major development, the county government has steadily preserved farmland and continues to acquire new permanent natural lands in the southern townships.[33] This has further defined the boundaries between urbanized and rural which is starkly visible in the outskirts of the developed cities. While the center of population still lies north with more cosmopolitan residents, culturally Dakota County is a rural community and the Dakota County Fair is still a largely agricultural event and held in Farmington.\nMost of northern Dakota County is frequently referred to as \"South of the River\" for its location being south of the Minnesota River.[34][35][36][37]\nUnincorporated Communities\nHastings\u2020\nMendota Heights\nMiesville\nNew Trier\nNorthfield \u2021\nSouth St. Paul\nSunfish Lake\nWest St. Paul\nCastle Rock Township\nDouglas Township\nEmpire Township\nGreenvale Township\nHampton Township\nMarshan Township\nNininger Township\nSciota Township\nVermillion Township\nWaterford Township\nEureka Center\nNininger\n\u2020 Hastings is in Dakota County; a part of the city extends into Washington County.\n\u2021 Northfield is mainly in Rice County; a part of the city extends into Dakota County.\nDakota County is home to the state's largest school districts and some of the highest paid Superintendents.[38] Nationally recognized Independent School District 196 (Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan) houses 28,000 and is the fourth largest school district in the state.[39][40] Other districts include Independent School District 191 (Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District), Independent School District 194 (Lakeville-Elko-New Market), Independent School District 197 (West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan) and Independent School District 200 (Hastings).\nSchools[]\nBurnsville Senior High School (ISD 191)\nJohn Metcalf Junior High School (ISD 191)\nJoseph Nicollet Junior High School (ISD 191)\nEdward D. Neill Elementary (ISD 191)\nGideon Pond Elementary (ISD 191)\nRahn Elementary (ISD 191)\nSioux Trail Elementary (ISD 191)\nSky Oaks Elementary (ISD 191)\nVista View Elementary (ISD 191)\nWilliam Byrne Elementary (ISD 191)\nNorth Trail Elementary (ISD 192)\nMeadowview Elementary (ISD 192)\nAkin Road Elementary (ISD 192)\nFarmington Elementary (ISD 192)\nRiverview Elementary (ISD 192)\nRobert Boeckman Middle School (ISD 192)\nLevi P. Dodge Middle School (ISD 192)\nFarmington Senior High School (ISD 192)\nOak Ridge Elementary (ISD 196)\nRed Pine Elementary (ISD 196)\nRosemount Elementary (ISD 196)\nThomas Lake Elementary (ISD 196)\nDakota Hills Middle (ISD 196)\nBlack Hawk Middle School (ISD 196)\nRosemount Middle School (ISD 196)\nScott Highlands Middle School (ISD 196)\nValley Middle School (ISD 196)\nSaint Joseph Catholic School\nRosemount High School (ISD 196)\nEagan High School (ISD 196)\nEastview High School (ISD 196)\nSchool of Environmental Studies (ISD 196)\nSimley High School (ISD 199)\nSouth Saint Paul High School (SSD 6)\nHoly Trinity Catholic School\nColleges and universities[]\nInver Hills Community College\nLibraries[]\nDakota County Libraries\nBurnhaven Library in Burnsville\nFarmington Library in Farmington\nGalaxie Library in Apple Valley\nHeritage Library in Lakeville\nInver Glen Library in Inver Grove Heights\nPleasant Hill Library in Hastings\nRobert Trail Library in Rosemount\nCity of South St. Paul Library in South St. Paul\nWentworth Library in West St. Paul\nWescott Library in Eagan\nRecreation[]\nParks[]\nBig Rivers Regional Trail in Mendota Heights\nLake Byllesby Regional Park in Cannon Falls\nLebanon Hills Regional Park in Eagan\/Apple Valley\nMiesville Ravine Park Reserve in Miesville\nDakota Woods Dog Park in Empire Township\nSpring Lake Park Reserve in Hastings\/Rosemount\nThompson County Park in West St. Paul\nDakota County Bikeway System\nPierce Butler, U.S. Supreme Court justice\nHarold Stassen (R), Former Governor of Minnesota, Aide to Adm. Bull Halsey, Aide to President Dwight Eisenhower, Participant\/Drafter of the United Nations Charter\nIgnatius Donnelly, Politician\nHenry Hastings Sibley, Politician, Indian agent\nNational Register of Historic Places listings in Dakota County, Minnesota\n^ \"2010 Census Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File\". American FactFinder. United States Census Bureau. http:\/\/factfinder2.census.gov\/faces\/tableservices\/jsf\/pages\/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_PL_GCTPL2.ST05&prodType=table. Retrieved 25 April 2011.\n^ a b \"County Origin\". Dakota County Historical Society. 2005. http:\/\/www.dakotahistory.org\/county\/origin.asp.\n^ a b Kevin Monroe, Dawn Thongsavath, Heidi Welsch (May 2006). \"Public Assistance Caseload, Increase Analysis\" (PDF). Dakota County Employment and Economic Assistance. http:\/\/www.co.dakota.mn.us\/NR\/rdonlyres\/00000519\/ibzkmqzmkyilpjfjtgytyocqfauykfmo\/06PublicAssistCaseGrowthAnalysisFinalReportII.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-12.\n^ Charles Dosh (2003-2007). \"Dakota County Genealogy\". MN Gen Web. http:\/\/www.tc.umn.edu\/~bluhm002\/Dakota\/public_html\/index.html.\n^ (1904) \"Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties\" II (Treaties, 1778-1883). . and \"Treaty with the Sioux\". 1837-09-29. http:\/\/digital.library.okstate.edu\/kappler\/Vol2\/treaties\/sio0493.htm#mn1. and \"Treaty with the Sioux\u2014Sisseton and Wahpeton Bands\". 1851-07-23. http:\/\/digital.library.okstate.edu\/kappler\/Vol2\/treaties\/sio0588.htm. and \"Treaty With the Sioux\u2014Mdewakanton and Wapahkoota Bands\". 1851-08-05. http:\/\/digital.library.okstate.edu\/kappler\/Vol2\/treaties\/sio0591.htm. Retrieved 2007-06-26.\n^ a b Mark Morrison (2008). \"Dakota Life\". City of Bloomington. http:\/\/www.ci.bloomington.mn.us\/main_top\/2_facilities\/rec_facility\/pond\/signs\/dakota_life\/dakota_life.htm.\n^ Handbook of American Indians, 1906 (2008). \"Iowa Indian Tribe History\". Access Genealogy. http:\/\/www.accessgenealogy.com\/native\/tribes\/iowa\/iowahist.htm.\n^ \"Who We Are\". Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community. 2007. http:\/\/mendotadakota.com\/mn\/who\/.\n^ Dakota County Historical Society (2005). \"Historic Sites: Burnsville\". http:\/\/www.dakotahistory.org\/county\/burnsville.asp.\n^ \"The Treaty Story\". Minnesota History Center. 1999. http:\/\/www.minnesotahistorycenter.org\/exhibits\/territory\/territory\/treaty\/treaty4.html.\n^ \"Historic Sites:Mendota Heights\". Dakota County Historical Society. 2005. http:\/\/www.dakotahistory.org\/county\/mendotaheights.asp. Retrieved 2008-02-28.\n^ Carley, Kenneth (1976). The Sioux Uprising of 1862. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 0-87351-103-4. OCLC 2225048.\n^ Lass, William (1977, 1998). Minnesota: A History. New York, New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-04628-1. OCLC 37527613.\n^ Meyer, Roy Willard (1993). History of the Santee Sioux: United States Indian Policy on Trial. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.\n^ Dosh, Charles. \"Welcome To Dakota County, Minnesota - MNGenWeb\". MN Genweb. http:\/\/www.tc.umn.edu\/~bluhm002\/Dakota\/public_html\/index.html. Retrieved 2008-03-02.\n^ \"South St. Paul Riverfront Trail\". Mississippi National River and Recreation area. http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/archive\/miss\/tug\/segments\/seg16.html. Retrieved 2007-03-19.\n^ \"County Origin\". Dakota County Historical Society. 2005. http:\/\/www.dakotahistory.org\/county\/origin.asp. Retrieved 2008-02-28.\n^ \"Historic Sites:South St. Paul\". Dakota County Historical Society. http:\/\/www.dakotahistory.org\/county\/ssp.asp. Retrieved 2007-03-19.\n^ ED Neill (1881). \"History of Dakota County 1881\". Burnsville Heritage Committee. Archived from the original on 2009-10-25. http:\/\/www.webcitation.org\/query?url=http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/Heartland\/Acres\/6038\/History_of_Dakota_County_1881.html&date=2009-10-25+07:31:26.\n^ \"The Dan Patch railway\". St. Louis Park Historical Society. http:\/\/www.slphistory.org\/history\/danpatch.asp.\n^ Kevin Gerahty (2006-03). \"Histories of the Dakota County Irish\". Friends of the Highland Cemetery. http:\/\/freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/~friendsofthehighlandcemetery\/.\n^ Karen Miller (1896). The diary of Karen Miller. s.n.. http:\/\/books.google.com\/?id=FyL6GgAACAAJ.\n^ Dan Gearino (2000-08-11). \"County breaks ground on $36.5 million Northern Service Center in West St. Paul\". Thisweek Newspapers. http:\/\/www.thisweek-online.com\/2000\/august\/11nsc.html. Retrieved 2008-05-10.\n^ Leip, David. \"Atlas of US Presidential Elections\". http:\/\/uselectionatlas.org\/RESULTS.\n^ \"Census 2000 U.S. Gazetteer Files: Counties\". United States Census. http:\/\/www.census.gov\/tiger\/tms\/gazetteer\/county2k.txt. Retrieved 2011-02-13.\n^ Home - Dakota County Soil and Water Conservation District\n^ Mississippi River Critical Area Program - Division of Waters: Minnesota DNR\n^ Lower Minnesota River Watershed District\n^ http:\/\/factfinder2.census.gov\/faces\/tableservices\/jsf\/pages\/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_DP_DPDP1&prodType=table\n^ Burnsville 'in great shape,' mayor says\n^ U.S. Postal Service studies Eagan site for possible relocation of 3 metro post offices\n^ Dakota County News and Program Updates\n^ South of the River Music\n^ South of the River 7 on 7 Passing League\n^ South of the River Band\n^ Dirk Deyoung (1998-04-24). \"South of the river draws big players\". Minneapolis \/ St. Paul Business Journal. http:\/\/twincities.bizjournals.com\/twincities\/stories\/1998\/04\/27\/focus3.html?q=%20South%20of%20the%20River%20%20Burnsville. Retrieved 2008-06-05.\n^ State Auditor Awada says some Minnesota school boards mask superintendent pay\n^ School District 196 Public Relations and Communications\n^ About School District 196\nDakota County Historical Society\nDakota County government's website\nDakota County Library's website\nPark maps\nDakota County Community Development Agency\nDakota County Biographies from 1881\nCoordinates: 44\u00b041\u2032N 93\u00b004\u2032W \/ 44.68, -93.06\nHennepin County Ramsey County Washington County\nScott County Pierce County, Wisconsin\nRice County Goodhue County\nFeatures of Dakota County, Minnesota\nMunicipalities and communities of Dakota County, Minnesota, United States\nCounty seat: Hastings\nApple Valley | Burnsville | Coates | Eagan | Farmington | Hampton | Hastings\u2021 | Inver Grove Heights | Lakeville | Lilydale | Mendota | Mendota Heights | Miesville | New Trier | Northfield\u2021 | Randolph | Rosemount | South St. Paul | Sunfish Lake | Vermillion | West St. Paul\nCastle Rock | Douglas | Empire | Eureka | Greenvale | Hampton | Marshan | Nininger | Randolph | Ravenna | Sciota | Vermillion | Waterford\nCastle Rock | Eureka Center | Waterford\nPierce Butler, U.S. Supreme Court justice | Natalie Darwitz, Olympic Silver Medalist | Ignatius Donnelly, Minnesota's 2nd Lt. 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{"text":"As yogurt's named NY snack, plant lays off workers\nYesterday, Gov.\nAs yogurt's named NY snack, plant lays off workers Yesterday, Gov. Check out this story on lohud.com: http:\/\/lohud.us\/1sXhVYW\nWestchester Published 10:28 a.m. ET Oct. 16, 2014\nYesterday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a law to make yogurt the official state snack. At the same time, a Batavia yogurt plant announced 32 layoffs.\nAlpina Foods said it would lay off 32 of its workers in Batavia effective Sunday, a decision the company attributed in part to the loss of a contract, Gannett's Albany Bureau reported today.\nThe company, which had 58 employees at the plant as of January, had promised 50 total jobs for a series of tax breaks and grants when it was originally built.\n\"Alpina Foods remains committed to Batavia and western New York and views this current workforce reduction as a temporary but necessary approach to address immediate business challenges facing the company in the short term,\" Gustavo Badino, Alpina Foods' U.S. general manager, said in a statement.\nThe Genesee County Economic Development Center, which provided some of the tax breaks, said it would help the company to get the jobs back.\n\"We'll work with them to find any potential customers and anything they may need to bring their employment back where it was,\" said agency spokeswoman Rachael Tabelski.\nCuomo yesterday signed a bill to designate yogurt as the official New York snack.\nThe state is the largest producer of yogurt in the nation, with Chobani and Fage based in central New York.\nRead or Share this story: http:\/\/lohud.us\/1sXhVYW","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Anonymous Affiliates Are Unhappy About the 'Robin Hood' Hack\nNow that the afterglow of the latest AntiSec assault on the global intelligence firm Stratfor is dulling a bit, some members affiliates of Anonymous are protesting the hacking of a regular old, hard-working American company.\nAdam Clark Estes\nNow that the afterglow of the latest AntiSec assault on the global intelligence firm Stratfor is dulling a bit, some members affiliates of Anonymous are protesting the hacking of a regular old, hard-working American company. This week, the details of AntiSec hacktivists' latest project, loosely dubbed Anonymous' LulzXmas, is stealing headlines in classic LulzSec fashion. The hack reportedly resulted in over 200 gigabytes of Stratfor's data, including everything from log-ins to credit card numbers, and received coverage in all the big outlets from Fox News to The New York Times (and The Atlantic Wire, too). It was reported that AntiSec stole a bunch of money from the rich Stratfor customers and gave it to charities like The Red Cross. But now, doubts are beginning to surface about whether AntiSec's Robin Hood move might backfire. After all, what happens when the charities are inevitably forced to give that money back to the Startfor customers who unknowingly donated? Further, as details emerge of a two-month-old hack on a small business -- albeit one that potentially supplies pepper-spray to the pepper-spray-loving cops who then spray it all over Occupy protesters -- some wonder whether AntiSec is actually fighting the good fight. Based on rumors that the hackers are preparing to launch a full-on assault against the \"some of the most powerful men in the world,\" however, we're pretty sure Anonymous is not defending the One Percent.\nBefore we risk our readers getting an eye poked out by all the finger-pointing, we ought to make one thing clear. Anonymous and its offshoots (AntiSec, LulzSec and whatever other ___Sec groups we haven't heard about yet) are loosely organized, at best. So when one self-identified Anon steps forward to protest the work of other Anon-affiliates, it's not at all surprising that he or she would deny that AntiSec's Stratfor attack was condoned by Anonymous. To quote a Pastebin rant uploaded by someone called Self-Identified Anon on Tuesday night: \"THE PASTEBIN CLAIMING THAT THE STRATFOR HACK IS NOT THE WORK OF ANONYMOUS IS NOT THE WORK OF ANONYMOUS.\" The Pastebin we think Self-Identified Anon is talking about is this one from AntiSec, a collaboration between former LulzSec and Anonymous members affiliates. Though that post doesn't actually mention Anonymous once, the story that it helped spawn was widely reported (including by us) as an affiliated attack. Maybe it was; maybe it wasn't. The problem with leaderless organizations like Anonymous is that they're pretty amorphous, sometimes inconsistent and always vague about who did what.\nNevertheless, Self-Identified Anon goes on to raise an interesting point about who AntiSec's attack are really impacting. S\/he even raises the issue of Constitutional rights. \"#antisec has been purposefully misrepresented by these so-called Anons and portrayed in false light as a collective that hacks the little man, the 99% or even the 89%,\" the post reads. \"Stratfor employees are well versed in counter-intelligence, though they kinda lack intelligence per-se and are nothing more than opportunistic attention whores who are definetly agent provocateurs. As a media source, Stratfor's work is protected by the freedom of press, a principle which Anonymous does not give a fuck any day of the week.\" This idea gets interesting when you consider the second LulzXmas hack, an attack on the law-enforcement supply shop Special Forces Gear. Apparently the attack actually happened several months ago, and the shop's owner says he's been feeling the sting where it matters most for small businesses these days, the wallet in his back pocket. The Daily Dot's Fruzsina E\u00f6rd\u00f6gh spoke to Dave Thomas, owner of Special Forces Gear, as well as a self-identified member of AntiSec:\n\"I imagine it is coming up again because of the publicity over Stratfor,\" said Thomas. \"That's what they are after. I am not a big company. I am minuscule. They've hurt me financially quite a bit, and I am thinking here we go again.\" \u2026\nIn a private message with the Daily Dot, an AntiSec member admitted Special Forces was essentially chump change, but attacking it is part of a \"war of attrition\" and \"guerrilla tactics.\"\n\"We go for every weak point,\" wrote the AntiSec member. \"We cut off every resource. We twist the knife in the back of the already untrusted.\"\nGood grief. So now we've got Dave Thomas, the small business owner who sells pepper-spray to cops, invoking the rhetoric of the 99 Percent, while at least one hacktivist-type is arguing that Anonymous isn't standing up for the 99 Percent \u2026 or even the 89 Percent! We haven't seen a response from AntiSec, but we doubt they're going to be thrilled about this interpretation of their behavior.\nBut like we suggested at the start, it certainly looks like Anonymous affiliates are waging war on the One Percent as fiercely as ever. Writing in The Australian, Fran Foo reported on Wednesday that some of those listed as victims of the Stratfor attack represent the ultra elite, including one wealthy member of the Australian Parliament and a \"prominent journalist.\" Meanwhile, the former unofficial spokesperson for Anonymous Barrett Brown is doing some recruiting on Reddit to find folks to help him search through a giant cache of One Percenter email addresses. Also, another hacktivist-type is now warning of an impending \"First Bank Release\" that's sure to include a few jabs in the direction of the One Percent. As always, we're not sure what will come of these threats, if anything, but it seems pretty clear that a powerful set of Anon-affiliates, including AntiSec, are very much watching out for the 99 Percent.\nWe guess it all comes down to one question: What did AntiSec actually do with all that money they stole from Stratfor customers? The Red Cross told us yesterday that they were looking into the issue of misplaced donations, potentially stemming from the AntiSec attack, but that the onus was on the credit card companies to determine if the transactions were fraudulent. Mastercard is trying to figure that out right now. \"This incident currently is under investigation,\" a spokesperson told The Atlantic Wire in an email, \"therefore MasterCard cannot disclose additional details regarding the incident or otherwise comment at this time.\" Time will tell whether or not AntiSec actually stole from the rich and gave to the poor, rather than vice versa. As for Thomas's business woes, it could be argued that his financial hurt might have something to do with the collective outrage that's followed the many instances of police brutality against the Occupy protesters. Then again, maybe he sold an extra lot of pepper-spray, too.\nWe can definitely buy what Thomas says about AntiSec seeking publicity. Whether that was the primary motivation or not, the hactivists have succeeded in making what may be 2011's last big hack another object of the media's fascination. Journalists (like your humble Atlantic Wire Anonymous correspondent) will be digging through the details of this at least until Thursday, when we're pretty sure AntiSec or Anonymous or both will strike again. The suspected target: Go Daddy. Duh.\nAdam Clark Estes is a former writer for The Wire. He has also written for The Huffington Post and Vice.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"David and Nic Sheff Want You to 'Just Say Know' to Drugs and Alcohol\nPlay-Button-SolidListen\nMichael Krasny\nFacebookShare-FB\nTwitterShare-Twitter\nEmailShare-Email\nNic and David Sheff co-authored the drug education book for young readers, \"High: Everything You Want to Know About Drugs, Alcohol and Addiction.\"\nDavid and Nic Sheff's twin father and son memoirs about dealing with drug addiction inspired the 2018 film \"Beautiful Boy.\" Now, they want to shift the conversation about drugs from the old slogan \"just say no\" to \"just say know.\" Their new book \"High: Everything You Want to Know About Drugs, Alcohol and Addiction\" is a resource for young readers, from fifth to eighth grade. It uses research and personal stories to provide facts about specific drugs and alcohol. Nic and David Sheff join Forum to discuss how to encourage conversations about addiction and its consequences.\nDavid and Nick Sheff at Book Passage\nDavid Sheff, journalist; co-author, \"High: Everything You Want to Know About Drugs, Alcohol, and Addiction\"; author, \"Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction\"\nNic Sheff, TV and movie writer; co-author, \"High: Everything You Want to Know About Drugs, Alcohol, and Addiction\"; author, \"Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines\"\nCopyright \u00a9 2019 KQED Inc. All Rights Reserved. Terms of ServicePrivacy PolicyContact Us","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"People Professor Karin Littau\nProfessor Karin Littau\nklittau@essex.ac.uk\n5NW.5.13, Colchester Campus\nAcademic support hours\nProfile Research Teaching and supervision Publications Contact\nBIOGRAPHY I am Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Essex. Before joining the Department in 1998, I was Senior Lecturer in the School of English at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Prior to that I taught at the University of Warwick, where I studied for my MA in English Literature and PhD in Comparative Literary Theory (funded by a University of Warwick Scholarship; and a British Academy Major State Studentship). I am a founding member of the Centre for Film and Screen Media, established at Essex in 2001, and was its Director from 2003-2008. I am also a member of the Centre for Bibliographical History, based in the Department of History. Since 1998 I have served on the Executive Committee of the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA). RESEARCH My research interests are in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and film, and include book and film history, reception, adaptation, and translation studies. I have published on the relations between print and screen media, and am especially interested in the effects of media technologies on the senses, perception, and cognition; and the effects of print, cinematograph, and computer on practices of reading, writing, and translation. I have written on Jane Austen, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Angela Carter, and Kathy Acker; and on films by the Lumieres, G. W. Pabst, David Cronenberg, and Ridley Scott. My work is driven by a love of theory, ranging from literary theory, and theories of editing and translation, to film theory and media philosophy. My books include Theories of Reading: Books, Bodies, and Bibliomania (2006), which was funded by the British Academy and published in Spanish by Manantial (2008); Cinematicity in Media History (2013 with Jeffrey Geiger); and A Companion to Translation Studies (2007 with Piotr Kuhiwczak). I am also co-guest-editor of three special issues of Comparative Critical Studies for the British Comparative Literature Association: Inventions: Literature and Science (2005), Cinematicity (2009), and Migration (2014). My next book is A History of Literature and Film for Routledge, which focuses on the ways in which literary writing has been reshaped by moving pictures and gives a revisionary account of literary history from the perspectives of film. I am the author of journal articles in SubStance; MLN; Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies; Forum for Modern Language Studies; Dedalus (Portuguese Comparative Literature Association); PKn: Primerjalna knjizevnost (Slovene Comparative Literature Association); Translation Studies; TTR: Traduction Terminologie Redaction (Canadian Association for Translation Studies); Theatre Research International; and of book chapters in collections such as Translation and World Literature (2018), Film Analysis. A Norton Reader (2013), New Takes in Film-Philosophy (2010), Crash Cultures: modernity, mediation and the material (2002), and Alien Identities: Exploring Differences in Film and Fiction (1999). SUPERVISION I have supervised and examined theses in the UK and EU, including a Doctor Europaeus. I welcome applications for doctoral research in any of the following areas: * literature and film * film adaptation, intermediality, transmedia * comparative literature, rewriting, and translation * history of the book, silent cinema, and digital media * technology, mediality, materialism * reception studies and the history of reading * physiology of reading, embodied spectator, affect Please note that I do not supervise practice-based research in creative writing or film.\nBA Trent\nMA Warwick\nPhD Warwick\nDirector of Research, Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex (2010 - 2015)\nAppointed Member, University Research Committee, University of Essex (2014 - 2016)\nMember, Humanities Faculty Research Group, University of Essex (2014 - 2015)\nChair, Departmental Research Committee, Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex (2010 - 2015)\nSelection Panel Representative, Panel D, CHASE \/ AHRC Doctoral Studentships (2014 - 2015)\nDeputy Director of Research, Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex (2015 - 2016)\nStudy Abroad Officer, Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex (2018 - 2018)\nEthics Officer, University of Essex (2018 - present)\nOther academic\nMember, Executive Committee, British Comparative Literature Association (1998 - present)\nMember, Editorial Advisory Board, The Translator (Routledge) (2013 - present)\nMember Review Panel, Research Council for Culture and Society, Academy of Finland (2018 - 2019)\nLiterature and film\nOpen to supervise\nComparative media, intermediality, and transmedia\nAdaptation, translation, and comparative literature\nHistory of the book, silent cinema, and digital media\nTechnology, mediality, materialism\nReception studies and the history of reading\nPhysiology of reading, embodied spectator, affect\n[Respondent] \"Engaging the Material Turn\", Embodied Translations: Media and Technologies in Translation and Performance, Nida School of Translation Studies (in collaboration with the San Pellegrino University Foundation, Cardiff University, Texas Christian University)\nInvited presentation, Misano Adriatico, Italy, 9\/4\/2019\n[Keynote] \"'From Print to Pixels: The Many Futures of Reading\", Readers and Reading in the Book: The Imaginary and the Material, Leeds Centre for Dante Studies, CompLab, and Institute for Medieval Studies\nInvited presentation, Keynote presentation, Leeds, United Kingdom, 27\/3\/2019\n[Keynote] \"The Materialities of Translation-Art\", Embodied Translations: Media and Technologies in Translation and Performance, Nida School of Translation Studies (in collaboration with the San Pellegrino University Foundation, Cardiff University, Texas Christian University)\nKeynote presentation, Misano Adriatico, Italy, 2019\n[Guest Speaker] \"Filmic Translation and Transmediation\", Bristol Seminar, Faculty of Arts.\nInvited presentation, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2015\n[Plenary] \"Mediality in Flux\", Workshop: Media in Motion\nin collaboration with Konstanz University, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom, 2014\n[Conference Paper] \"Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Cinematic Imagination\", Panel on Cinematicity in Media History, 53rd Annual Conference: Society for Cinema and Media Studies\nChicago, United States, 2013\n[Plenary] \"Translating between Media\", Translating and Interpreting Across Media: Exploring the Relevance of (Inter)mediality for Language Pedagogy, Sponsored by The Higher Education Academy \/ AHRC.\nInvited presentation, Manchester, United Kingdom, 2013\n[Guest Speaker] \"Myth and Translation\", Translation Seminar, Centre for Co-Curricular Studies\nInvited presentation, London, United Kingdom, 2013\n[Guest Speaker] \"Reading in the Age of Edison\", Departmental Seminar, Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft\nInvited presentation, Konstanz, Germany, 2012\n[Guest Speaker] \"Subsequent Steps towards a Media History of the Book\", Seminar Series - Landmarks in Book History: the Future of the Discipline, The Open University's Book History Research Group, and the Institute of English Studies, University of London.\nInvited presentation, 2012\n[Invited Guest] Metanoia Workshop on \"Theories of Reading. Books, Bodies, and Bibliomania\", Series on Speculative Poetik, Sonderforschungsbereich 626 '\u00c4sthetische Erfahrung im Zeichen der Entgrenzung der K\u00fcnste', Peter Szondi Institut f\u00fcr Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft\nInvited presentation, Berlin, Germany, 2012\n[Conference Paper] Panel on \"Embodied Reading\", Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP) Conference: The Book in Art & Science\nWashington D.C., United States, 2011\n[Plenary] \"Darwin's Radio: Media and Cultural Change\", Possible Worlds - A Day Conference in Honour of Dame Gillian Beer\nLondon, United Kingdom, 2011\n[Plenary] \"The Movie-minded Reader\", Interdisciplinary Workshop: Engaging with Film: Perspectives on Cinematic Literacy, Institute of Advanced Study\nInvited presentation, University of Warwick, Berlin, Germany, 2011\n[Public Lecture] \"History of Translation: from Scroll to Hypertext\", City University London Events, in association with UCL and SOAS.\n[Guest Speaker] \"Translation and Book History\", Reseach Seminars in Translation Studies\nInvited presentation, University of Edinburgh\/ Herriot Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2011\n[Jury-selected Guest and Speaker] \"An Archaeology of Affect: Reading, History and Gender\", Who Reads? 25th Vilenica International Literary Festival\nInvited presentation, Lipica, Slovenia, Lipica, Slovenia, 2010\n[Keynote] \"Intermedial Translation\", Symposium: Disordering the Disciplines: Translation and Interdisciplinarity\nKeynote presentation, Norwich, United Kingdom, 2010\n[Plenary] \"Medea's Gift\", International Congress: Women and Translation, Asociaci\u00f3n de Estudios Hist\u00f3ricos de la Mujer de la Universidad de M\u00e1laga\nInvited presentation, M\u00e1laga, Spain, 2010\n[Guest Speaker] \"Cross-media Translation\", Translation Studies Seminar, Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies\n[Guest Speaker] \"Cross-media Histories - Why Book History matters to Film History, and vice versa\", The History and Language of Print Culture Research Seminar\nInvited presentation, Salford, United Kingdom, 2009\n[Keynote] \"The Physiology of Momentary Angels: Towards a Reception Aesthetics of Media\", International Conference: Philosophy and Film\/ Film and Philosophy\nKeynote presentation, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2008\n[Guest Speaker] \"Summa Phantasmagoria\", Symposium with Steven Connor on the occasion of the publication of Marina Warner's book Phantasmagoria. Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies and Department of Art History and Theory\nInvited presentation, Colchester, United Kingdom, 2007\n[Guest Speaker] \"Anatomy of Reading\", Departmental Seminar, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies\nColchester, United Kingdom, 2006\n[Conference Paper] \"Technological Aesthesis: The Impressing Inventions of Gutenberg and the Lumi\u00e8res\", British Comparative Literature Association XIII International Conference, Literature and Science\nLeeds, United Kingdom, 2004\n[Guest Speaker] \"Translation and Gender\", Institute of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies\nInvited presentation, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2003\n[Conference Paper] \"The Physiology of Consumption\", Unprincipled Passions: Emotion and Modernity\nSouthampton, United Kingdom, 2002\n[Guest Speaker] \"The Physiology of Reading', Departmental Seminar, Department of Literature\n[Guest Speaker] \"Schaulust: Physical Pleasure and Non-Narrative Cinema\", Departmental Seminar, Department of Literature\n[Conference Paper] \"Translating like\/as a Woman\", Conference: Gender and Translation\nNorwich, United Kingdom, 1999\n[Guest Speaker] \"Pandora's Tongues\", Gender Seminar\n[Conference Paper] \"The Scattering of Languages\", Paideia. XXth World Congress of Philosophy\nBoston, United States, 1998\n[Guest Speaker] \"Angela Carter's New Reading of Pabst's Wedekind's Lulu\", Departmental Seminar, Department of Literature\n[Guest Speaker] \"Adaptation and Rewriting\", Doctoral Seminar, Comparative Literature\n[Conference Paper] \"The Power of Myth: Babel, Oedipus, Pandora\", Conference on Translation and Power\nCoventry, United Kingdom, 1997\n[Guest Speaker] \"Translation and Literary Theory\", Seminar Series: Translation Studies\nInvited presentation, Manchester Insitute of Science and Technology, 1997\n[Conference Paper] \"Derrida in Translation\", Applied Derrida\nLuton, United Kingdom, 1995\n[Conference Paper] \"Reading Thieving Theorizing\", ESSE European Society for the Study of English\nGlasgow, United Kingdom, 1995\n[Conference Paper] \"Pandora's Tongues\", EST European Society for the Study of Translation, Translation as Intercultural Communication\nPrague, Czechia, 1995\n[Conference Paper] \"Global Theory and Local Translation\", ESSE European Society for the Study of English\nBordeaux, France, 1993\n[Conference Paper] \"Intertextuality and Translation: The Waste Land in French and German\", XIII World Congress of FIT\nBrighton, United Kingdom, 1993\n[Guest Speaker] \"Woman-handling the Text: Translating Barthes into Quebecois\", Warwick Seminars in Comparative Studies: Translation the Cultural Turn\nInvited presentation, Coventry, United Kingdom, 1993\n[Guest Speaker] \"The Other in Gadamer and Derrida\", Critical Forum\n[Conference Paper] \"Towards a Postmodern Theory of Translation\", Translation Studies - an Interdiscipline\nVienna, Austria, 1992\n[Conference Paper] \"Translation as Incursion: Moves Across and Beyond the Borders of Continental Thought\", VI Triennial Conference of the British Comparative Literature Association: Across Europe\n[Conference Paper] \"The Text on Trial. What a Performance. Brecht and the Witch-hunt, Galileo and the Inquisition\", Theatre and the Discourses of Power\nExeter, United Kingdom, 1991\n[Guest Speaker] \"Postmodernism and Performance\", Cultural and Policy Studies Unit\nInvited presentation, Bolton, United Kingdom, 1990\n[Guest Speaker] \"Performance\/Text in the Domain of Translation\", Philosophy-Literature Society\n[Guest Speaker] \"The Transposition of the Figure of Sally Bowles from Novel to Play to the Film Cabaret\", The Arts Graduate Forum\nApproaches to Film and Media (LT121)\nNarrative and Film (LT206)\nCityscapes of Modernism (LT368)\nAdaptation (LT928)\nIndependent Literature Project (LT831)\nLittau, K., (2019). Afterword: Translation and the Histories and Geographies of the Book. Comparative Critical Studies. 16 (2-3), 365-374\nLittau, K., (2018). Translation and Optical Media: Spirit-Channeling in Edward FitzGerald's Rub\u00e1iy\u00e1t of Omar Khayy\u00e1m. Amodern. 8\nLittau, K., (2017). Response by Littau to the responses to \"Translation and the materialities of communication\". Translation Studies. 10 (1), 97-101\nLittau, K., (2017). Okuman\u0131n Teorileri: Kitaplar, Bedenler ve Bibliyomani. \u00c7evrimd\u0131\u015f\u0131 \u0130stanbul. Special Issue: Edebiyatta Okurun Rol\u00fc [The Role of Readers in Literature] (6), 40-44\nLittau, K., (2016). Translation and the materialities of communication. Translation Studies. 9 (1), 82-96\nLittau, K., (2016). Translation's Histories and Digital Futures. International Journal of Communication. 10, 907-928\nLittau, K., (2015). \"In the Beginning\"... an Intermedial Babel. SubStance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism. 44.3 (138), 112-127\nBahun, S., Finburgh, C. and Littau, K., (2014). Guest Editors' Introduction to Comparative Critical Studies (special issue: Migration). Comparative Critical Studies. 11 (2-3), 145-160\nLittau, K., (2012). The Dog and the Phonograph: Possible Futures in the Self-Development of Media. Comparative Critical Studies (e-CCS Online Supplement). 9 (3), 41-56\nLittau, K., (2011). First steps towards a media history of translation. Translation Studies. 4 (3), 261-281\nLittau, K., (2011). An archaeology of affect: Reading, history and gender. Primerjalna Knjizevnost. 34 (2), 193-203\nLittau, K., (2011). Media, mythology and morphogenesis: Aliens\u2122. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. 17 (1), 19-36\nLittau, K., (2011). Artheologija afecta: branje, zgodovina in spol. PKn Primerjalna knji\u017eevnost. 34 (2), 51-61\nGeiger, J. and Littau, K., (2009). Guest Editors' Introduction to Comparative Critical Studies (special issue: Cinematicity). Comparative Critical Studies. 6 (3), 287-295\nLittau, K., (2009). Summa Phantasmagoria. Comparative Critical Studies. 6 (3), 403-409\nLittau, K., (2005). Serial Translation: Angela Carter's New Reading of Pabst's Wedekind's Lulu. Comparative Critical Studies. 2 (1), 45-65\nFalconer, R. and Littau, K., (2005). Guest Editors' Introduction to Comparative Critical Studies (special issue: Inventions: Literature and Science). Comparative Critical Studies. 2 (2), v-x\nLittau, K., (2000). Pandora's Tongues. TTR: Traduction, Terminologie, R\u00e9daction: Etudes sur le Texte et Ses Transformations. 13 (1), 21-35\nLittau, K., (1997). Translation in the Age of Postmodern Production: From Text to Intertext to Hypertext. Forum for Modern Language Studies. 33 (1), 81-96\nLittau, K., (1996). Reading Thieving Theorizing: Philip Hensher's Other Lulus and Kathy Acker's The Selling of Lulu. Dedalus: Revista Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada. 6, 37-50\nGRANT, IH. and Littau, K., (1996). Deconstruction. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. 6 (1), 33-44\nLittau, K., (1995). Refractions of the Feminine: The Monstrous Transformations of Lulu. MLN. 110 (4), 888-912\nLITTAU, K., (1994). Deconstruction. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. 4 (1), 67-93\nLittau, K., (1993). Dagmar Kift Arbeiterkultur im gesellschaftlichen Konflikt: die Englische Music Hall im 19 Jahrhundert Essen: Klartext-Verlag, 1991. 240 p. ISBN 3-88474-154-3.. New Theatre Quarterly. 9 (35), 299-299\nLITTAU, K., (1993). PERFORMING TRANSLATION - BETWEEN TEXT AND PERFORMANCE. THEATRE RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL. 18 (1), 53-60\nLITTAU, K., (1992). Hermeneutics. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. 2 (1), 46-51\nLittau, K., Bahun, S. and Finburgh, C., (2014). Migration (Special Issue of Comparative Critical Studies). Edinburgh University Press\nLittau, K. and Geiger, J., (2013). Cinematicity in media history. Edinburgh University Press. 9780748676125\nLittau, K. and Geiger, J., (2009). Cinematicity (Special Issue of Comparative Critical Studies). Edinburgh University Press\nLitt\u00e1u, K., (2008). Teor\u00edas de la lectura Libros, cuerpos y biblioman\u00eda. Ediciones Manantial. 9875001236. 9789875001237\nLittau, K. and Kuhiwczak, P., (2007). A Companion to Translation Studies. Multilingual Matters. 9781853599569\nLittau, K., (2006). Theories of Reading: Books, Bodies, and Bibliomania. Polity. 0745616593. 9780745616599\nLittau, K. and Falconer, R., (2005). Inventions: Literature and Science (Special Issue of Comparative Critical Studies). Edinburgh University Press\nLittau, K., (2018). Two Ages of World Literature. In: Translation and World Literature. Editors: Bassnett, S., . Routledge. 159- 174. 1138641758. 9781138641754\nLittau, K., (2013). Reading in the Age of Edison: The Cinematicity of 'The Yellow Wall-Paper'. In: Cinematicity in Media History. Editors: . Edinburgh UP. 67- 87. 9780748676118\nGeiger, J. and Littau, K., (2013). Introduction: Cinematicity and comparative media. In: Cinematicity in Media History. Editors: . Edinburgh University Press. 1- 18. 9780748676118\nLittau, K., (2013). Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1895-1897), Lumiere Brothers. In: Film Analysis: A Norton Reader (Second edition). Editors: Geiger, J. and Rutsky, RL., . W W Norton and Company. 18- 38. 9780393923247\nGeiger, J. and Littau, K., (2013). : Cinematicity and Comparative Media. In: Cinematicity in Media History. Edinburgh University Press. 1- 18. 9780748676118\nLittau, K., (2011). The ghost is the machine: Media-philosophy and materialism. In: New Takes in Film-Philosophy. Editors: Carel, H. and Tuck, G., . Palgrave MacMillan. 154- 170. 9780230294851\nLittau, K., (2010). Translation in the Age of Postmodern Production: From Text to Intertext to Hypertext. In: Critical Readings in Translation Studies. Editors: Baker, M., . Routledge. 435- 448. 0415469546. 9780415469548\nLittau, K., (2009). Translation in the Age of Postmodern Production: From Text to Intertext to Hypertext. In: Translation Studies. 4 Vols. Editors: Baker, M., . Routledge. 435- 448. 0415344220. 9780415344227\nLittau, K. and Kuhiwczak, P., (2007). Introduction. In: A Companion to Translation Studies. Editors: Littau, K. and Kuhiwczak, P., . Multilingual Matters Limited. 1- 12. 1853599573. 9781853599576\nLittau, K., (2005). Arrival of a Train at la Ciotat (1895-1897): Silent Films and Screaming Audiences. In: Film Analysis: A Norton Reader. Editors: Geiger, J. and Rutsky, RL., . Norton. 43- 62. 9780393979831\nLittau, K., (2002). Eye-Hunger: Physical Pleasure and Non-Narrative Cinema. In: Crash Cultures: modernity mediation and the material. Editors: Arthurs, J. and Grant, I., . Intellect Books \/ University of Chicago Press. 35- 51. 1-84150-071-2\nLittau, K., (2001). Jacques Derrida. In: The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism. Editors: Sim, S., . Routledge. 1136698329. 9781136698323\nLittau, K., (2001). Paul de Man. In: The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism. Editors: Sim, S., . Routledge. 1136698329. 9781136698323\nLittau, K., (2001). Geoffrey Hartmann. In: The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism. Editors: Sim, S., . Routledge. 1136698329. 9781136698323\nLittau, K., (2001). J. Hillis Miller. In: The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism. Editors: Sim, S., . Routledge. 1136698329. 9781136698323\nLittau, K., (2001). Deconstruction. In: The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism. Editors: Sim, S., . Routledge. 1136698329. 9781136698323\nLittau, K., (2001). Difference. In: The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism. Editors: Sim, S., . Routledge. 1136698329. 9781136698323\nLittau, K., (2001). Diff\u00e9rance. In: The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism. Editors: Sim, S., . Routledge. 1136698329. 9781136698323\nLittau, K., (2000). Hypertext and Translation. In: Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English. Editors: Classe, O., . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. 1884964362. 9781884964367\nLittau, K., (2000). Frank Wedekind, The Lulu Plays. In: Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English. Editors: Classe, O., . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. 1884964362. 9781884964367\nLittau, K., (1999). Adaptation, Teleportation and Mutation from Langelaan's to Cronenberg's The Fly. In: Alien Identities: Exploring Difference in Film and Fiction. Editors: Cartmell, D., Kaye, H., Hunter, IQ. and Whelehan, I., . Pluto\/Chicago University Press. 141- 155. 9780745314051\nLittau, K., (1998). Jacques Derrida. In: The Icon Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought. Editors: Sim, S., . Icon. 187416665X. 9781874166658\nLittau, K., (1998). Paul de Man. In: The Icon Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought. Editors: Sim, S., . Icon. 187416665X. 9781874166658\nLittau, K., (1998). Geoffrey Hartman. In: The Icon Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought. Editors: Sim, S., . Icon. 187416665X. 9781874166658\nLittau, K., (1998). J. Hillis Miller. In: The Icon Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought. Editors: Sim, S., . Icon. 187416665X. 9781874166658\nLittau, K., (1998). Deconstruction. In: The Icon Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought. Editors: Sim, S., . Icon. 187416665X. 9781874166658\nLittau, K., (1998). Difference. In: The Icon Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought. Editors: Sim, S., . Icon. 187416665X. 9781874166658\nLittau, K., (1998). Diff\u00e9rance. In: The Icon Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought. Editors: Sim, S., . Icon. 187416665X. 9781874166658\nLittau, K., (1996). Incommunication: Derrida in Translation. In: Applying: To Derrida. Editors: Brannigan, J., Robbins, R. and Wolfreys, J., . Macmillan. 107- 123. 9780333656624\nLITTAU, K., (1993). INTERTEXTUALITY AND TRANSLATION - THE WASTE LAND IN FRENCH AND GERMAN. In: Translation - The Vital Link. Proceedings of the XIII World Congress of the International Federation of Translators, Vol. I. Editors: . Chameleon Press. 63- 69. 0-9522056-0-2. 9780952205623\nReports and Papers (1)\nLittau, K., (1994). 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{"text":"Explore Calgary\nCalgary's New Black Lives Matter Mural Has Been Scrapped Due To Alleged Racist Backlash\nApparently threats were involved.\nShaoni Das\nAug 12, 2020, 4:28 PM\nBernard Spragg. NZ | Flickr\nThe installation of a new Calgary Black Lives Matter mural has been put on hold due to \"safety concerns.\"\nPink Flamingo, a black and LGBTQ+ run organization, has been given $120,000 to set up four anti-racism murals across the city, according to CBC News. Their proposed location for one of the murals received so much backlash that they've decided to scrap the idea.\nEditor's Choice: Surfers In BC Accidentally Found A Dog In A Cave That Has Been Missing For 3 Months\nThe vitriol that has been produced due to the type of information that's been disseminated through articles has been incredibly, without mincing words, quite racist and quite violent towards us.\nAllison Dunne\nThe proposed location is home to an existing mural, Giving Wings To A Dream. The artist of this mural, Doug Driediger, explained that the art displayed is supposed to represent diversity and multiculturalism.\nDunne said that there have been \"legitimate\" concerns brought up by members of the public who don't want the original mural to be replaced.\nDunne also said, \"as an organization, we have received numerous threats.\" She said she plans to report these threats to the authorities.\nVia CBC's The Calgary Eyeopener","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"As you may know, the Minnesota Food Charter Network has become inactive without staff. A Transition Team, composed of former Action Team members, was charged with recommending future directions for statewide collaborative work.\nThis blog post outlines these recommendations and directions for future work. The recommendations are based, in part, on recommendations from the 2018 Minnesota Food Charter Network Evaluation Report, which notes:\nParticipants in the network recognize the importance of building connectivity across all sectors and groups.\nFostering connectivity needs to become more intentional and ongoing. There is a need to identify and mentor more individuals who are willing to take on leadership and facilitation roles.\nPeople want to know what other groups across Minnesota are working on. Gathering and sharing stories about the successes of local, regional, and issue-specific networks and groups should be a focus.\nWhat is Recommended?\nAfter reviewing many existing evaluation documents and attending a National Convening of States with Food System Plans, the Transition Team recommends the following:\nA shift in focus to invest in local and regional groups working to improve the food system in Minnesota, focused on collaborative efforts to building connectivity and capacity, particularly across differences and across sectors and scales.\nSupport the emergence of new leadership, developing skills, connectivity, and experience; with priority on under-represented communities and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC).\nContinue to support connectivity through the existing communications channels, including the Minnesota Food Charter website, social media, and blog.\nSet the stage for the next phase of collaborative, statewide work. Statewide, collaborative food-systems work is being re-envisioned, to emphasize equity-based food systems work already being done in communities across the state. The future of continued collaborative statewide efforts will ultimately be shaped by those who want to work together.\nAs new leadership emerges, we hope new funding opportunities to support statewide, collaborative food systems work will become available. Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives will continue to serve as the fiscal host for these activities in the short term, until a new fiscal host(s) is identified.\nWhat Is the Minnesota Food Charter Network Doing to Support these Recommendations?\nSo far, the Minnesota Food Charter Network has:\nContributed $15,000 of scholarships to the Food Justice Summit to support new leadership, particularly in communities of color.\nProvided financial support to build leadership and facilitation skills from communities across Minnesota, in partnership with University of Minnesota Extension staff. More information on the Facilitation and Leadership training can be found at z.umn.edu\/foodjustice\nPledged financial support for a second cohort to participate in the Action Learning Seed Fund through a shared-gifting process, in partnership with University of Minnesota Extension staff.\nContinued to host the Minnesota Food Charter website and promote the amazing food systems work happening across the state through contributions to social media, email, and the website, to further collaboration and peer-learning.\nPlease contact info@mnfoodcharter.com if you'd like to contribute a story or promote an event on the Minnesota Food Charter Blog or Facebook page!\nWhat is happening with the Minnesota Food Charter?\nThe Minnesota Food Charter and its companion guides continue to be a shared roadmap to guide policymakers and community leaders with strategies to provide all Minnesotans with access to healthy, safe, and affordable food. For example, the Minnesota Statewide Health Improvement Partnership is organizing work around Food Charter strategies in every Minnesota county. And, nearly 40 cities and counties have used the Food Access Planning to include food systems strategies in local planning for the first time ever. Across the state, we have identified many groups working to implement the 99 strategies laid out in the Minnesota Food Charter (Check out the Minnesota Food Charter Champion Map here!)\nThe Minnesota Food Charter Network was created to support the growing ecosystem working to implement strategies. The current shift in focus will continue to support the implementation of current Minnesota Food Charter strategies AND allow for new strategies and ideas to take shape.\nHow can I stay connected?\nThe Minnesota Food Charter website will remain active. Organizations and groups are encouraged to contribute blog posts about their work by emailing info@mnfoodcharter.com\n\u00ab Talk About the Food Charters: States Gather to Share and Learn","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Payson High School\nPayson High School (Arizona)\nNebo School District\nHigh school (disambiguation)\nSecondary education in the United States\nPayson High School may refer to\nPayson High School (Utah)\nSeymour High School is also known as Payson-Seymour High School, located in Payson, Illinois\nThis page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia -\thttps:\/\/wn.com\/Payson_High_School\nPayson High School is a high school located in the rural town of Payson, Arizona. It has approximately 750 students.\nThe Payson Longhorns are well known for their wrestling program with legend Dennis Pirch as longtime coach, R.C. LaHaye who is now Grand Canyon University Wrestling Coach is a former three-time state champion from Payson.\nPayson won the 3A State Championship in Boys Track and Field in 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991 and 2006. Dan Reid was the head coach from 1987-1991 with Chuck Hardt the head coach in 2006. Payson won the 3A State championship in Girls Track and Field in 1999, 2000, and 2001 under coach Chuck Hardt who was also the coach for the 2001 3A State champion Girls Cross-country team. Payson also won the State Championship in football in 1977, 1981, 1998, and in 2008. Payson won a 3A State Championship in baseball in 1999. Payson won a 3A State Championship in Golf in 2001. Payson High School's Modern Choir performed in Carnegie Hall in June 2007.\nThis page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia -\thttps:\/\/wn.com\/Payson_High_School_(Arizona)\nNebo School District is a public school district in Utah County, Utah serving the southern part of the county. It lies beneath the Provo City School District and Alpine School District beginning at Utah Lake and moving south. The Nebo School District's slogan is \"Your Partner in Education.\"\nWith over 31,500 students, Nebo is the 7th largest school district in Utah and among the fastest-growing. The district operates 5 high schools, 6 junior high schools, 27 elementary schools, and 2 alternative schools. The district is named for nearby Mount Nebo, the tallest peak in the Wasatch Range.\nThere are currently five high schools in the Nebo School District.\nMaple Mountain High School\nMaple Mountain High School was established within the borders of Spanish Fork in 2009. The school's enrolment area covers eastern Spanish Fork and all of Mapleton. The school's colors are Maroon and Gold, with the mascot being a Golden Eagle. Its slogan is \"An Attitude of Excellence\". The principal is currently John Penrod, whilst David Knudsen and DeAnn Nielsen are the Assistant Principals. Maple Mountain High School's address is 51 North 2550 East, Spanish Fork, UT 84660. It also operates mmhs.nebo.edu, a subdomain of the District's website.\nThis page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia -\thttps:\/\/wn.com\/Nebo_School_District\nA high school (also secondary school, senior school, secondary college) is a school that provides adolescents with part or all of their secondary education. It may come after primary school or middle school and be followed by higher education or vocational training.\nThe term \"high school\" originated in Scotland, with the world's oldest high school being Edinburgh's Royal High School from 1505. The Royal High School was used as a model for the first public high school in the United States, Boston Latin School founded in Boston, Massachusetts.\nThe precise stage of schooling provided by a high school differs from country to country, and may vary within the same jurisdiction. In all of New Zealand and Malaysia, along with most of Britain and parts of Australia, Bangladesh and Canada, high school means the same thing as secondary school, but instead of starting in 9th grade, these \"secondary schools\" begin at ages 11 or 12.\nIn Australia, high school is a secondary school, from Year 7 or Year 8 through to Year 12, varying from state to state. High school immediately follows primary (elementary) school; therefore, a Year-7 Australian high-school student is sometimes as young as 12. In Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory, the term \"high school\" generally refers to Years 7\u201310, whereas the term \"College\" is used for Years 11\u201312. In Victoria the term \"secondary college\" has largely replaced the term \"high school\" following the reforms of the Labor Government in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Some schools have retained the name \"high school\" (such as Melbourne High School) and many have now dropped the \"secondary\" and are simply known as \"college\".\nThis page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia -\thttps:\/\/wn.com\/High_school\nHigh school is the last segment of compulsory secondary education in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Scotland, the United States, and other countries; the term also refers to the building where such education takes place.\nHigh school may also refer to:\nFolk high school, institutions of adult and continuing education common in the Nordic countries and Germany\nVocational university, in the non-English speaking world\nArt, entertainment, and media\n\"High School\" (1975), comedy monologue by Jimmie Walker\nHigh School, a manhwa series by Kim Young Ho\nFictional entities\n\"Highschool\", a Strong Bad email from the Homestar Runner website\nHigh School (1940 film), a 1940 American film\nHigh School (1954 film), a 1954 Italian film\nHigh School (1968 film), a 1968 documentary film\nHigh School (2010 film), a 2010 comedy film\nHigh School High (1996), a comedy starring Jon Lovitz and Mehki Phifer\nHigh School Musical, a made-for-TV film\nHigh Schools (film), a 1984 documentary\nThis page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia -\thttps:\/\/wn.com\/High_school_(disambiguation)\nIn most jurisdictions, secondary education in the United States refers to the last four years of statutory formal education (grade nine through grade twelve) either at high school or split between a final year of 'junior high school' and three in high school.\nThe United States historically had a demand for general skills rather than specific training\/apprenticeships. High school enrollment increased when schools at this level became free, laws required children to attend until a certain age, and it was believed that every American student had the opportunity to participate regardless of their ability.\nIn 1892, in response to many competing academic philosophies being promoted at the time, a working group of educators, known as the \"Committee of Ten\" was established by the National Education Association. It recommended twelve years of instruction, consisting of eight years of elementary education followed by four years of high school. Rejecting suggestions that high schools should divide students into college-bound and working-trades groups from the start, and in some cases also by race or ethnic background, they unanimously recommended that \"every subject which is taught at all in a secondary school should be taught in the same way and to the same extent to every pupil so long as he pursues it, no matter what the probable destination of the pupil may be, or at what point his education is to cease.\"\nThis page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia -\thttps:\/\/wn.com\/Secondary_education_in_the_United_States\nmytopschool.com\nhawaiiinternationalschool.com\nwestcovinaschool.com\nglasgowbusinessschool.com\nchongqingschool.com\nevanstonschool.com\nhelsinkiinternationalschool.com\nelginschool.com\nmarinetechnologyschools.com\nhighqualityvoices.com\naustraliaschoolofart.com\nafricadanceschool.com\nhighenergyray.com\nasiapacificinternationalschool.com\ncairointernationalschool.com\nschoolofglobalstudies.org\nschooljobonline.com\nlosangelesinternationalschool.com\nchinaschoolofart.com\nHigh School, Jeremy Fisher\nHigh School, Friday Night Boys\nHigh School, SuperChick\nHigh School, Xo\nHigh School, Hanoi Rocks\nHigh School, Eyeliners\nHigh School, The Eyeliners\nHigh School, Slingshot 57\nHigh School, MC5\nHigh School, Partia\nHigh School, Nerf Herder\nHigh School, Off By One\nBubble gum and house parties\nWhen you stole your parents rum\nAnd tried to screw everything that could breathe\nBack in high school we didn't have a whole lot to do\nWe watched the world go by on the television screen\nSaid it's the 90's kids that's way out this is way in\nGo beat each other up on the dance floor\nTold us drugs were no good\nBut then we smoked 'em and liked 'em\nSo much that we smoked a little more\nWe liked 'em so much, we smoked a little more\nDid I call your name?\nDid you hear me singin' that song that I wrote for you?\nYou're so the same but your so different\nI didn't recognize you\nIt's kinda hard with all that sexual confusion\nSometimes you don't know if you're gay or straight\nBut what's the difference, it's a wonderful illusion\nMost times you won't make it past second base\nI'm in a band, we kinda suck but we don't now it yet\nAnd I don't care anyway\n'Cuz soon, I'm gonna sell these drums, pay my rent\nSupport my kid and tell him all about way back in daddy's day\nI'll tell him all about way back in daddy's day\nSome years later by a soda coolerator\nIn a corner store back in my home town\nThis stranger smiles at me, said\n\"Remember the class of '93?\"\nAnd for some reason it makes him look real proud\nAfter all the good times he said we had\nHe looks at me, scratches his head\nAnd asked me where the hell I ever went\nAnd the funny thing is that I never even knew him\nBut he coulda been any one of my high school friends\nYour so the same but your so different\nDid I call you name?\nSingin' that song that I wrote for you\nSingin' that song I wrote for you\nLatest News for: payson high school\nLois June Balle Lundell\nProvo Daily Herald 19 Jul 2019\nLois June Balle Lundell, age 90, of Payson, Utah passed away on July 14, 2019. Lois June was born on June 2, 1929 in Payson, Utah to Leo Royal Balle and Alpha Rozena Madsen Balle. She graduated from Payson High School and was crowned Miss Payson in 1947. For over 25 years, she was employed as a secretary at Payson High School....\nGeorgia Davis Allen\nAfter the war her family returned to Payson, Utah where she attended Jr ... High School, graduating in 1950 ... She became involved in the early days of the Payson Scottish Festival ... Her funeral service will be held Friday, July 19, 2019, at 11.00 am in the LDS Page Ward, 700 South and 600 East in Payson ... Internment will be at the Payson City Cemetery....\nRuth Elmer\nRuth was born on November 16, 1928 in Payson to Walter and Erma Hill Thatcher, she has 2 sisters, and 3 brothers. Following her graduation from Payson High School, she married her sweetheart Dale Elmer in the Salt Lake Temple on Sept 24th 1947 ... at the Payson Stake Center, 650 West 800 South, Payson ... Interment will be at the Payson City Cemetery ... .......\nLaMar J Alvey\n1937-2019 ... He graduated from Payson High School, class of 1955. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1956 to 1962 ... They resided in Payson for the past 60 years raising six children, creating a legacy of 24 grandchildren and 36 great-grandchildren ... at Walker Funeral Home in Payson, 587 South 100 West ... .......\nScott Henry Day\nSt George News 30 Jun 2019\nHe graduated from Payson High School, doing well in academics and all sports, and graduated from Brigham Young University ... He taught at Snow Canyon Middle and High School, Lava Ridge Intermediate and Dixie Middle School and loved working with his students....\nRamirez honored at academic awards banquet\nAltus Times 28 Jun 2019\nBlair High School teacher Rod Zachary ......\nPHS gets new vice principal\nHJ News 25 Jun 2019\nClint Peery, a teacher from Payson High School, has been hired as the new assistant principal at Preston High School ... Peery has been teaching TV, video, and business classes for the past eight years at Payson High ... \"I am very excited to join the amazing staff at Preston High School this coming year....\nNebo's Payson Principal, RaShel Shepherd, Honored with Secondary Crystal Owl Award\nServe Daily 24 Jun 2019\nRaShel Shepherd was honored with the Secondary Crystal Owl Award during a Nebo School District administrator training ... She also has a deep knowledge of being an effective school leader ... \"RaShel has done an impressive job leading Payson High School through a very difficult transition....\nAnthony Robles, a one-legged NCAA wrestling champ, visits Lander camp\nIndex-Journal 23 Jun 2019\nRobles and LaHaye attended high school in neighboring cities \u2014 Robles in Mesa, Arizona, and LaHaye in Payson, Arizona \u2014 and they used to train for tournaments together ... LaHaye and Robles had a mutual friend in high school, and the three of them trained together each summer....\nMac Bowen Brimhall and Geraldine \"Jeri\" Taylor Brimhall\nProvo Daily Herald 16 Jun 2019\nHe lived for some of his early years in Salem and graduated from Spanish Fork High in 1955 ... Jeri was born in Payson on June 11, 1938 to Sterling Taylor and (Mary) Lucille Johnson. She attended schools in Payson and graduated from Payson High School in 1956....\nPayson senior Amanda Butler wrapping up busy year at state high school rodeo finals\nLast year at this time, Payson's Amanda Butler was wrapping up a high school rodeo officer campaign and gunning for her first state title .......\nBelle Fourche standout wraps up her career\nRapid City Journal 30 May 2019\nBELLE FOURCHE . Payson Birkeland has made the most of her sports opportunities at Belle Fourche High School .......\nHigh school graduation round up\nProvo Daily Herald 20 May 2019\nOver the next several weeks, thousands of high school seniors will across a stage and celebrate their years of hard work and dedication to earn their high school diplomas ... With the three dozen high schools across the county, it's easy to get lost in the likewise three dozen graduation ceremonies ... Landmark High School ... Payson High School....","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sean Murphy (lung) expected to be ready by Opening Day\nA's catcher Sean Murphy is recovering from surgery on a collapsed lung over the offseason. Bob Melvin states he should be ready by Opening Day.\nIn Murphy's rookie season, he had a .233 batting average, .364 on-base percentage, and a .821 OPS. He also tallied seven home runs. He's an interesting backstop to target late in one-catcher formats.\nRyan Evans - Baseballogy2 years ago\nA.J. Burnett pitches solid six innings Sunday\nBurnett went six innings while giving up seven hits, two walks, and two earned runs while striking out seven.\nBurnett was out-dueled by Jake Arrieta on the evening but has continued to be an effective pitcher since returning from injury earlier this month. Burnett hasn't kept the pace he set for himself in the first half of the season but still has his ERA under four for the month of September.\nDaniel Marcus4 years ago\nA.J. Burnett has decent outing, but Pirates lose\nA.J. Burnett had another good outing against the Chicago Cubs. He scattered eight hits but only gave up two runs in 5 1\/3 innings. Burnett also had seven strike outs. He did not get a decision as the Pirates lost in extra innings, 3-2.\nThis is good news to see Burnett getting some of his form back for the rest of the season. Burnett should be a viable starter in your lineup from here on out.\nRick Briggs - Asylum Fantasy Sports Network7 years ago\nA.J. Burnett placed on 15-day DL\nAccording to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, A.J. Burnett has been placed on the 15-day disabled list due to elbow inflammation. This not too surprising considering Burnett has struggled since the All-Star break. He has pitched just 16 innings in his last three starts, giving up 18 runs and 32 hits, including seven earned runs and 10 hits in just 4 1\/3 innings in his last outing versus Cincinnati.\nSince boasting a 2.11 ERA before the All-Star Game, Burnett has seen it swell to 3.06 while dropping his last two decisions. Keep monitoring his progress. If this is merely swelling due to fatigue, the rest could get the 38-year-old Burnett back to form and he could help your fantasy team in the late season run.\nA.J. Burnett leads Pirates to 1-0 victory over Philly\nThe Pittsburgh Pirates went to extra innings twice in three days with the Phillies. The crazier part of that, both games were knotted at 0-0. Burnett went 9 innings of shut out baseball, but the Bucs weren't able to back Burnett's outstanding outing.\nA.J. Burnett went full beast mode on Sunday, as he threw 9 shut out innings and struck out 4 batters. Burnett does not record a high volume of strikeouts, but he does tend to go 7+ innings every time he takes the mound. He also has one of the lowest NL ERA's, which makes him an extremely valuable fantasy pitcher.\nCaleb Luketic - Caleb On Sports8 years ago","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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He packed up his G-pick, said goodbye to fufu, and headed to South America, which better suits his style. He is very involved in bird conservation, having created Tandayapa Bird Lodge and Mindo Cloudforest Foundation, and he now spends a significant amount of his time on donor cultivation for conservation groups. He used to be a fanatical lister, but now prefers to target the world's specialties, and uses his enthusiasm to bring others into the hobby. He is also one of the founders of Tropical Birding.\nKeith Barnes\nKeith reailzed that he was no longer a scientist when a significant difference in the tail lengths of larks didn't really make a significant difference in his life! Turning his back on the Ivory Towers, Keith helped found Tropical Birding and now heads the Africa and Asia operations. Having traveled far and wide in Africa in search of larks, turacos, bee-eaters and other beasties, he has turned his interests towards Asia and its wren-babblers and pittas. Before Keith was able to actually see most of the birds he wanted to, he had to sit in an office and write about them, producing The Important Bird Areas of Southern Africa and The Red Data Book of Birds of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland in the process.\nChristian Boix\nChristian followed the swallows, and headed south from Spain in 1990 after developing a lust for African ornithology. He has an unhealthy interest in the reproductive biology of birds, especially those with bizarre mating and breeding systems, such as birds-of-paradise and hornbills. Christian's effect on clients is so profound we refer to them as either BC or AC. Nobody believes he is a Spaniard as he speaks English like a South African. A partner of Tropical Birding, Christian spends most of his time leading tours in Africa and Asia, where his infectious enthusiasm has ensured a faithful following.\nNick Athanas\nNick's obsession with bird sounds is legendary. In fact, it is rumored he can live off the songs of antbirds without any other sustenance. Nick gave up a lucrative career in geophysics to go watch birds in South America a decade ago and has never looked back. He is one of the founders of Tropical Birding, and when not leading tours, can often be found in odd corners of the world adding to his collection of photos and sound recordings. American by birth, Nick now lives in Quito, Ecuador.\nKen Behrens\nKen discovered flickers in the Pennsylvania woods when his family relocated there, and he has been chasing birds ever since. He has progressed from US road trips through to adventurous treks through the highlands of the Albertine Rift and Bolivian Amazon. Ken spent the better part of two years counting birds in Cape May, where he developed a particular interest in seawatching, which he considers the more challenging cousin to hawk-watching! Now based in Cape Town, he enjoys the spectacular seabirding when not leading tours. Ken is a keen photographer and writer, and recently co-authored Birding Ethiopia, a site guide to that country, and is also working on a field guide to eastern North American waterbirds in flight.\nJen Brumfeld\nJen hails from Akron, Ohio, where she presently gets great kicks working for Cleveland Metroparks as a scientific illustrator and naturalist. Heavily involved in young birder education, she is the editorial advisor for the ABA's youth birder newsletter, A Bird's-Eye View. Jen's natural history illustrations have appeared in throngs of journals, newsletters, books, and even on greeting cards. Birding is innate for this gal, who ventures to say she's gone way beyond the \"interest.\" It's simply a way of life.\nBradley Davis\nBrad grew up chasing vagrants in southern Ontario, where a lost Variegated Flycatcher in Toronto in 1993 piqued his interest in tropical birds. When no more appeared on the shores of Lake Ontario over the next few years, he decided he would have to go to them instead. After a number of birding trips and field work throughout the Americas, Brad has now settled in southern Brazil \u2013 a perfect base for chasing after the piculets, antbirds and spinetails over which he obsesses. When not guiding, he keeps busy recording bird songs, devouring old and new ornithological literature, and exploring new areas of the country \u2013 particularly the vast Amazon basin where his interests in distribution and vocalizations are equally indulged. Brad guides for TB in Brazil and Ecuador.\nJosh Engel\nJosh grew up near Chicago, where he soon learned the joys of birding along the Lake Michigan shoreline. He was soon crisscrossing the US with other young birders before getting hooked on the Neotropics. Josh has been spending a lot of time in Africa lately, fueling a fast-growing obsession with Madagascar's ground-rollers and asities, the red dunes of Namibia, and the many endemics of South Africa, where he now lives. Past trips to Indochina have left him longing to return to southeast Asia as well.\nCharley Hesse\nCharley's devotion to birds began when he could first lift binoculars to his face. Before graduation at university he eloped with his life list to India and Mexico. He studied mixed flocks in Cameroon and compiled inventories of rainforest birds in Malaysia before heading to Japan for work in international public relations. Today, Charley works as a bird guide in four continents, having birded much of South America and over 50 countries worldwide. British by birth he is now also fluent in Spanish and Japanese.\nJos\u00e9 Illanes\nOriginally from the Amazonian village of Sani Isla, Jos\u00e9 is rapidly getting hooked on world birding. After tallying over 2,000 birds in 2005, Jos\u00e9 has not looked back; now guiding for us in Venezuela, Peru, and his home Ecuador (in between trips to southeast Asia, Africa and Europe). His first visit to the US came in 2006 when he brought the house down with his speech on Ecuadorian birding at the ABA convention in Maine. When not guiding, he can often be found poring over foreign bird books. He recently became a father for the first time.\nScott Olmstead\nLess than a month after finishing college with a degree in Latin American Studies, Scott headed straight for Costa Rica, where he began learning the birds of Central America. When his money ran out, he returned home for a few seasons of fieldwork across the US, banding songbirds, counting migrating raptors, and studying eagle nests. In 2006, when he could stay away no longer, Scott came back to the Neotropics as a tour leader. He guides TB trips in Brazil and Ecuador, where he enjoys chasing elusive antpittas through the thick understory. Originally from Connecticut, Scott is now based in Arizona.\nMichael Retter\nMichael spent all of his college vacations birding in Mexico and became so hooked that all he could think about was quesadillas and leading bird tours after he graduated. He can be found guiding anywhere from Canada down to Ecuador, but a recent trip to Micronesia whetted his appetite for birding beyond the Americas. When at home in the Midwest, Michael puts his intense interests in taxonomy and distribution to use both as \"Sightings\" Department Editor and Technical Reviewer for ABA's Birding magazine.\nBenji Schwartz\nBenji Schwartz began birding at a tender young age, but soon realized that in order to expand his world list he would have to leave the confines of Minnesota. His quest to see new species has since led him to every continent but Antarctica. Two years ago Benji decided he wanted to lead tours fulltime and began with an intensive six month course to lead safaris in Africa. However, he found that it was too difficult to convince non-birders to look at the cisticolas on the left while a lion was attacking an impala on his right. After a brief hiatus of guiding in Ecuador and Alaska, he has now returned to Africa with Tropical Birding so that he can focus on the birds while still seeing all the other amazing wildlife.\nAndr\u00e9s V\u00e1squez\nSince graduating with a degree in Ecology in 2003, Andr\u00e9s has hardly had time to get back to his native Quito as he has been twitching new birds in every corner of megadiverse Ecuador. He spent a year among colorful tanagers and quetzals of the Choc\u00f3 cloud forest before heading to the steaming Amazon in search of eagles and antbirds. In his free time he explores popular birding areas and less-frequented destinations to boost his bird list. When not in the field, he can be found at his computer working on book publishing; he has already released several wildlife guidebooks for Ecuador.\nSam Woods\nSam obsession for birds began with a pair of tits in the Royal London park at age 11. Working for TB fits in perfectly with his plan of building up a massive world list, and now he guides on five continents. Now well known around the world for his affable English gentlemanly demeanor and his skilled guiding, his prodigious output of trip reports has almost surpassed those qualities. Sam supposedly resides in Ecuador, but his schedule hardly allows any time there.\nCristina Cervantes\nCristina is TB's General Manager. It is through her good work that our tours run so smoothly. An Ecuadorian, she has a thorough understanding of business in South America and is in constant contact with most operators in Ecuador. If there is something to be arranged, whether it be an intense birding trip in the Amazon or an independent trip to the Galapagos, she is the one to contact. She is an occasional birder too, but prefers colorful toucans to skulking tapaculos.\nDesir\u00e9e D'sylva\nDesir\u00e9e was raised in Quito, Ecuador, but her life has taken her on many exciting adventures to the most beautiful places in the world. Desir\u00e9e lived on merchant ships during her teens, and saw spectacular scenery and culture throughout India and Europe, Somalia, Ethiopia, and the whole East African seaboard, and is the only person in the company to have sailed through both the Suez and Panama canals. After finishing her college career in history, she developed a farm in NW Ecuador to produce eco-friendly palm oil. It didn't work. Desir\u00e9e manages the Africa and Asia logistics at TB.\nPablo Cervantes\nYadira Ordo\u00f1ez\nYadi does the groundwork in our Quito office and she is the one making the arrangements for our many South American tours. She may be small in stature, but she can certainly sound intimidating on the phone, which gives us a useful edge when dealing with local hotels and lodges. Aside from making bookings, she also stays on top of the accounting department, keeps the guides in line, and organizes whatever else needs to be organized. Basically, Yadi can do it all.\nespacio Compulsive birders from around the world\nIain CampbellIain ended his career as a geochemist in West Africa when it dawned on him that his life list was more valuable than gold. He packed up his G-pick, said goodbye to fufu, and headed to South America, which better suits his style. He is very involved in bird conservation, having created Tandayapa Bird Lodge and Mindo Cloudforest Foundation, and he now spends a significant amount of his time on donor cultivation for conservation groups. He used to be a fanatical lister, but now prefers to target the world's specialties, and uses his enthusiasm to bring others into the hobby. He is also one of the founders of Tropical Birding.\nKeith BarnesKeith reailzed that he was no longer a scientist when a significant difference in the tail lengths of larks didn't really make a significant difference in his life! Turning his back on the Ivory Towers, Keith helped found Tropical Birding and now heads the Africa and Asia operations. Having traveled far and wide in Africa in search of larks, turacos, bee-eaters and other beasties, he has turned his interests towards Asia and its wren-babblers and pittas. Before Keith was able to actually see most of the birds he wanted to, he had to sit in an office and write about them, producing The Important Bird Areas of Southern Africa and The Red Data Book of Birds of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland in the process.\nChristian BoixChristian followed the swallows, and headed south from Spain in 1990 after developing a lust for African ornithology. He has an unhealthy interest in the reproductive biology of birds, especially those with bizarre mating and breeding systems, such as birds-of-paradise and hornbills. Christian's effect on clients is so profound we refer to them as either BC or AC. Nobody believes he is a Spaniard as he speaks English like a South African. A partner of Tropical Birding, Christian spends most of his time leading tours in Africa and Asia, where his infectious enthusiasm has ensured a faithful following.\nNick AthanasNick's obsession with bird sounds is legendary. In fact, it is rumored he can live off the songs of antbirds without any other sustenance. Nick gave up a lucrative career in geophysics to go watch birds in South America a decade ago and has never looked back. He is one of the founders of Tropical Birding, and when not leading tours, can often be found in odd corners of the world adding to his collection of photos and sound recordings. American by birth, Nick now lives in Quito, Ecuador. Ken BehrensKen discovered flickers in the Pennsylvania woods when his family relocated there, and he has been chasing birds ever since. He has progressed from US road trips through to adventurous treks through the highlands of the Albertine Rift and Bolivian Amazon. Ken spent the better part of two years counting birds in Cape May, where he developed a particular interest in seawatching, which he considers the more challenging cousin to hawk-watching! Now based in Cape Town, he enjoys the spectacular seabirding when not leading tours. Ken is a keen photographer and writer, and recently co-authored Birding Ethiopia, a site guide to that country, and is also working on a field guide to eastern North American waterbirds in flight.\nJen BrumfeldJen hails from Akron, Ohio, where she presently gets great kicks working for Cleveland Metroparks as a scientific illustrator and naturalist. Heavily involved in young birder education, she is the editorial advisor for the ABA's youth birder newsletter, A Bird's-Eye View. Jen's natural history illustrations have appeared in throngs of journals, newsletters, books, and even on greeting cards. Birding is innate for this gal, who ventures to say she's gone way beyond the \"interest.\" It's simply a way of life.\nBradley DavisBrad grew up chasing vagrants in southern Ontario, where a lost Variegated Flycatcher in Toronto in 1993 piqued his interest in tropical birds. When no more appeared on the shores of Lake Ontario over the next few years, he decided he would have to go to them instead. After a number of birding trips and field work throughout the Americas, Brad has now settled in southern Brazil \u2013 a perfect base for chasing after the piculets, antbirds and spinetails over which he obsesses. When not guiding, he keeps busy recording bird songs, devouring old and new ornithological literature, and exploring new areas of the country \u2013 particularly the vast Amazon basin where his interests in distribution and vocalizations are equally indulged. Brad guides for TB in Brazil and Ecuador.\nJosh EngelJosh grew up near Chicago, where he soon learned the joys of birding along the Lake Michigan shoreline. He was soon crisscrossing the US with other young birders before getting hooked on the Neotropics. Josh has been spending a lot of time in Africa lately, fueling a fast-growing obsession with Madagascar's ground-rollers and asities, the red dunes of Namibia, and the many endemics of South Africa, where he now lives. Past trips to Indochina have left him longing to return to southeast Asia as well. Charley HesseCharley's devotion to birds began when he could first lift binoculars to his face. Before graduation at university he eloped with his life list to India and Mexico. He studied mixed flocks in Cameroon and compiled inventories of rainforest birds in Malaysia before heading to Japan for work in international public relations. Today, Charley works as a bird guide in four continents, having birded much of South America and over 50 countries worldwide. British by birth he is now also fluent in Spanish and Japanese.\nJos\u00e9 Illanes Originally from the Amazonian village of Sani Isla, Jos\u00e9 is rapidly getting hooked on world birding. After tallying over 2,000 birds in 2005, Jos\u00e9 has not looked back; now guiding for us in Venezuela, Peru, and his home Ecuador (in between trips to southeast Asia, Africa and Europe). His first visit to the US came in 2006 when he brought the house down with his speech on Ecuadorian birding at the ABA convention in Maine. When not guiding, he can often be found poring over foreign bird books. He recently became a father for the first time. Scott Olmstead Less than a month after finishing college with a degree in Latin American Studies, Scott headed straight for Costa Rica, where he began learning the birds of Central America. When his money ran out, he returned home for a few seasons of fieldwork across the US, banding songbirds, counting migrating raptors, and studying eagle nests. In 2006, when he could stay away no longer, Scott came back to the Neotropics as a tour leader. He guides TB trips in Brazil and Ecuador, where he enjoys chasing elusive antpittas through the thick understory. Originally from Connecticut, Scott is now based in Arizona. Michael RetterMichael spent all of his college vacations birding in Mexico and became so hooked that all he could think about was quesadillas and leading bird tours after he graduated. He can be found guiding anywhere from Canada down to Ecuador, but a recent trip to Micronesia whetted his appetite for birding beyond the Americas. When at home in the Midwest, Michael puts his intense interests in taxonomy and distribution to use both as \"Sightings\" Department Editor and Technical Reviewer for ABA's Birding magazine. Benji Schwartz Benji Schwartz began birding at a tender young age, but soon realized that in order to expand his world list he would have to leave the confines of Minnesota. His quest to see new species has since led him to every continent but Antarctica. Two years ago Benji decided he wanted to lead tours fulltime and began with an intensive six month course to lead safaris in Africa. However, he found that it was too difficult to convince non-birders to look at the cisticolas on the left while a lion was attacking an impala on his right. After a brief hiatus of guiding in Ecuador and Alaska, he has now returned to Africa with Tropical Birding so that he can focus on the birds while still seeing all the other amazing wildlife.\nAndr\u00e9s V\u00e1squez Since graduating with a degree in Ecology in 2003, Andr\u00e9s has hardly had time to get back to his native Quito as he has been twitching new birds in every corner of megadiverse Ecuador. He spent a year among colorful tanagers and quetzals of the Choc\u00f3 cloud forest before heading to the steaming Amazon in search of eagles and antbirds. In his free time he explores popular birding areas and less-frequented destinations to boost his bird list. When not in the field, he can be found at his computer working on book publishing; he has already released several wildlife guidebooks for Ecuador.\nSam Woods Sam obsession for birds began with a pair of tits in the Royal London park at age 11. Working for TB fits in perfectly with his plan of building up a massive world list, and now he guides on five continents. Now well known around the world for his affable English gentlemanly demeanor and his skilled guiding, his prodigious output of trip reports has almost surpassed those qualities. Sam supposedly resides in Ecuador, but his schedule hardly allows any time there. Office Staff Cristina CervantesCristina is TB's General Manager. It is through her good work that our tours run so smoothly. An Ecuadorian, she has a thorough understanding of business in South America and is in constant contact with most operators in Ecuador. If there is something to be arranged, whether it be an intense birding trip in the Amazon or an independent trip to the Galapagos, she is the one to contact. She is an occasional birder too, but prefers colorful toucans to skulking tapaculos. Desir\u00e9e D'sylvaDesir\u00e9e was raised in Quito, Ecuador, but her life has taken her on many exciting adventures to the most beautiful places in the world. Desir\u00e9e lived on merchant ships during her teens, and saw spectacular scenery and culture throughout India and Europe, Somalia, Ethiopia, and the whole East African seaboard, and is the only person in the company to have sailed through both the Suez and Panama canals. After finishing her college career in history, she developed a farm in NW Ecuador to produce eco-friendly palm oil. It didn't work. Desir\u00e9e manages the Africa and Asia logistics at TB.\nYadira Ordo\u00f1ezYadi does the groundwork in our Quito office and she is the one making the arrangements for our many South American tours. She may be small in stature, but she can certainly sound intimidating on the phone, which gives us a useful edge when dealing with local hotels and lodges. Aside from making bookings, she also stays on top of the accounting department, keeps the guides in line, and organizes whatever else needs to be organized. Basically, Yadi can do it all.\nGot Questions? Just Ask!\nCall from US & Canada:\nCall from other countries:\nTropical Birding sees more with\nSpecial discounts on binoculars and scopes, test drive gear, and more\nTake your photography farther with\nClick here for exclusive discounts on camera gear\nWebsite \u00a9 2021 by Tropical Birding Tours.\nSite developed by Laura Kammermeier.\nContact Us | Bookings | Catalogs | Newsletter | Trip Reports | Articles","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"COMMENTARY: Fall football not in the cards for New Mexico State\nJason Groves\nLas Cruces Sun-News\nNew Mexico State football finds itself in an exclusive club heading into the weekend where the Aggies were supposed to be on the road at I-10 rival UTEP.\nAt the end of a week where the rest of college football reversed course and decided to give it a go, the Aggies are currently one of three FBS programs who will not attempt to play fall football as the Pac-12, the Mountain West and the Mid American Conference set to join the fray next month.\nThe other two are Old Dominion, who has tapped out all together and will return to the field in fall of 2021, and NM State's fellow independent, Connecticut.\nBut sitting out fall football in the midst of a COVID-19 \"season\" that has already had over 20 games either canceled or altered through the first four weeks, is the right move for a number of reasons.\nI wouldn't call it a reset, but more a question of, what would NM State football possibly gain playing this fall, assuming the independent program could even cobble together a schedule?\nThere won't be money games to be had, NM State athletics is already facing a deficit of between $500,000 to $2.5 million shortfall and the Aggies simply have not been preparing for games since they announced postponing football until the spring a million years ago back in August.\nThe reality is that NM State would be better served by adhering to its original plan to play a limited number of games in the spring, rather than absorb the costs associated with travel, COVID-19 testing multiple times a week, or hosting games with no fans in the Aggie Memorial Stadium stands.\nA limited spring schedule would allow Aggies head coach Doug Martin, who is currently limited to conducting walk throughs, to hold his 15 \"spring ball\" practices, in October, before playing two or three FCS opponents, and possibly a Division II in state school or two, to gain some experience and confidence before the 2021 season, which is currently the final year on his contract.\nWhile state restrictions may loosen in the coming months to allow the University of New Mexico to play home games, it's unclear fans will be allowed. A spring schedule could possibly allow New Mexico State athletics director Mario Moccia to recoup some revenue, either through ticket sales or potential television ads.\nMore:Doomsday scenario: What would it cost if there were no Aggies sports in 2020-21?\nA spring on the NM State campus could include a spring volleyball match during the day and an Aggies football game that night.\nThe new normal.\nThere is also a football piece to consider.\nThe Aggies have lost at least 15 players to the transfer portal with 11 players leaving prior to COVID-19 changing the face of college football.\nThe number of players to leave the program has been noticeable, as well as some of the more experienced players such as two year starter at quarterback Josh Adkins, backup quarterback Matt Romero, wide receiver Drew Dan, four-year starter defensive lineman Roy Lopez and standout linebacker Rashie Hodge.\nSome players, such as Lopez (Arizona) and Dan (Illinois), ended up at Power 5 conference programs. Adkins had his struggles in 2019, but was still in line to compete with junior college transfer Jonah Johnson in fall camp, according to Martin following last season.\nIf there was ever a team that needs to build some confidence and continuity, it's the Aggies.\nPerhaps the school will look to incoming WAC partners Dixie State and Tarleton State, both FCS members. The Aggies could also host one or two of the Division II football members in the state to round out the four or five-game schedule that Martin described when NM State postponed football.\nThe Aggies have not been preparing to play this fall. It would be unfair, and unwise, at this point, to ask the Aggies to serve as a \"fill-in\" opponent while they have a chance to develop for what will be a critical 2021 season.\nSports Editor Jason Groves can be reached at 575-541-5459 or jgroves@lcsun-news.com. Follow him on Twitter @jpgroves.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Justia Regulation Tracker Department Of Commerce International Trade Administration Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Coated Free Sheet Paper from the People's Republic of China, 60632-60636 [E7-21041]\nFinal Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Coated Free Sheet Paper from the People's Republic of China, 60632-60636 [E7-21041]\nDownload as PDF 60632 Federal Register \/ Vol. 72, No. 206 \/ Thursday, October 25, 2007 \/ Notices this proceeding in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). International Trade Commission (ITC) Notification In accordance with section 735(d) of the Act, we have notified the ITC of our final determination. As our final determination is affirmative, the ITC will determine within 45 days whether imports of the subject merchandise are causing material injury, or threat of material injury, to the industry in the United States. If the ITC determines that material injury or threat of injury does not exist, the proceeding will be terminated and all securities posted will be refunded or canceled. If the ITC determines that such injury does exist, the Department will issue an antidumping duty order directing CBP to assess antidumping duties on all imports of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the effective date of the suspension of liquidation. Return or Destruction of Proprietary Information This notice will serve as the only reminder to parties subject to administrative protective order (''APO'') of their responsibility concerning the destruction of proprietary information disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely written notification of return\/ destruction of APO materials or conversion to judicial protective order is hereby requested. Failure to comply with the regulations and the terms of an APO is a sanctionable violation. We are issuing and publishing this determination and notice in accordance with sections 735(d) and 777(i) of the Act. Dated: October 17, 2007. David M. Spooner, Assistant Secretary for Import Administration. A. General Comments Targeting mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with NOTICES Comment 9: Application of Partial Facts Available to Hansol, Moorim, and Hankuk's Total Cost of Manufacture Comment 10: Differences in Merchandise Were Not Verified B. Company\u2013Specific Comments Hansol Comment 1: Treatment of Constructed Export Price (CEP) Offset Comment 2: Treatment of Indirect Selling Expenses Incurred in Korea (DINDIRSU) Comment 3: Treatment of Missing U.S. Payment Dates Comment 4: Treatment of U.S. Repacking Comment 5: Adjustment of Hansol's Reported U.S. Rebates Comment 6: Production Quantities Were Not Verified Comment 7: General and Administrative Expense Rate Comment 8: Financial Expense Rate Kyesung Comment 9: Price Adjustment Related to the U.S. Price Comment 10: Request to Apply Partial Adverse Facts Available Moorim Hankuk Comments Comment 1: Standard and Appropriate Statistical Techniques Comment 2: Validity of Certain Pasta from Italy Comment 3: Statistical Significance Requirement Comment 4: Whether the Average\u2013to\u2013 Average Method Can Account for Targeted Dumping Comment 5: Statutory Application of Transaction\u2013to\u2013Transaction Methodology 17:26 Oct 24, 2007 Cost of Production Comment 11: Moorim's Pulp Costs Remain Unexplained Appendix\u2014Issues in Decision Memo VerDate Aug<31>2005 Comment 6: Discretionary Application of Transaction\u2013to\u2013Transaction Methodology Comment 7: Margin Calculation of Targeted and Non\u2013Targeted Sales Comment 8: Proposed Transaction\u2013to\u2013 Transaction Margin Program Jkt 214001 Comment 12: Timeliness of Targeted Dumping Allegation concerning Hankuk Paper Comment 13: Standard Costs for Hankuk EN Paper Comment 14: Credit Balance for Bad Debt Allowance [FR Doc. E7\u201321035 Filed 10\u201324\u201307; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510\u2013DS\u2013S PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE International Trade Administration A\u2013570\u2013906 Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Coated Free Sheet Paper from the People's Republic of China Import Administration, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. EFFECTIVE DATE: October 25, 2007. SUMMARY: On June 4, 2007, the Department of Commerce (the ''Department'') published its preliminary determination of sales at less than fair value (''LTFV'') in the antidumping investigation of coated free sheet paper (''CFS'') from the People's Republic of China (''PRC''). The period of investigation (''POI'') is April 1, 2006, through September 30, 2006. We invited interested parties to comment on our preliminary determination of sales at LTFV. Based on our analysis of the comments we received, we have made changes to our calculations for the mandatory respondents. The final dumping margins for this investigation are listed in the ''Final Determination Margins'' section below. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Magd Zalok or Drew Jackson, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482\u20134162 and 482\u2013 4406, respectively. AGENCY: Final Determination We determine that CFS from the PRC is being, or is likely to be, sold in the United States at LTFV as provided in section 735 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (''the Act''). The estimated margins of sales at LTFV are shown in the ''Final Determination Margins'' section of this notice. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background The Department published its preliminary determination of sales at LTFV on June 4, 2007. See Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Coated Free Sheet Paper from the People's Republic of China, 72 FR 30758 (June 4, 2007) (''Preliminary Determination''). Between June 18, 2007, and July 13, 2007, the Department conducted verifications of the collapsed entity Gold East Co. Ltd.(Gold East Paper (Jiangsu) Co. Ltd., Gold Hua Sheng Paper (Suzhou Industry Park) Co. Ltd., and China Union (Macao E:\\FR\\FM\\25OCN1.SGM 25OCN1 Federal Register \/ Vol. 72, No. 206 \/ Thursday, October 25, 2007 \/ Notices mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with NOTICES Commercial Offshore) Company Ltd.) (collectively ''Gold East'') and its U.S. affiliate, and separate rates applicant Yanzhou Tianzhang Paper Industry Co. Ltd. (''Yanzhou Tianzhang''), and its U.S. importer. See the ''Verification'' section below for additional information. We invited parties to comment on the Preliminary Determination. On August 31, 2007, petitioner,1 the Bureau of Fair Trade, Ministry of Commerce, People's Republic of China (''BOFT''), Yanzhou Tianzhang, and Gold East filed case briefs. Petitioner and Gold East filed rebuttal briefs on September 7, 2007. Additionally, on September 12, 2007, petitioner, Gold East, Yanzhou Tianzhang, and BOFT, along with other interested parties in concurrent CFS investigations, submitted comments regarding the scope of the instant investigation. These parties filed rebuttal scope comments on September 20, 2007. In response to requests from interested parties, the Department held a hearing on the scope of the investigation on September 26, 2007. Analysis of Comments Received With the exception of the scope issue, all issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs by parties to this investigation are addressed in the ''Investigation of Coated Free Sheet Paper from the People's Republic of China: Issues and Decision Memorandum,'' dated October 17, 2007, which is hereby adopted by this notice (''Issues and Decision Memorandum''). The scope issue is addressed in a separate memorandum. See ''Scope Comments'' section, below. A list of the issues which parties raised and to which we respond in the Issues and Decision Memorandum is attached to this notice as an Appendix. The Issue and Decision Memorandum is a public document and is on file in the Central Records Unit (''CRU''), Main Commerce Building, Room B\u2013099, and is accessible on the Web at http:\/\/ia.ita.doc.gov\/frn. The paper copy and electronic version of the memorandum are identical in content. Additionally, because some of the issues that parties raised and to which we respond contain proprietary information, there is a separate proprietary version of the Issues and Decision Memorandum. See ''Investigation of Coated Free Sheet Paper from the People's Republic of China: Issues and Decision Memorandum, Comments and Department of Commerce's Positions Containing Proprietary Information,'' dated October 17, 2007. 1 Petitioner in this investigation is NewPage Corporation. VerDate Aug<31>2005 17:26 Oct 24, 2007 Jkt 214001 Changes Since the Preliminary Determination Based on our analysis of the comments received, we have changed the margin calculation for Gold East. Those changes include the following: 1. We revised our calculation of the per\u2013unit cost of Gold East's self\u2013 produced electricity and did not value steam used in production. 2. Based on verification findings, (a) we revised the average market\u2013 economy price reported for a type of pulp; (b) recalculated the net unit price of constructed export price (''CEP'') sales to account for unreported selling expenses; (c) reclassified one export price sale as a CEP sale and adjusted the sale's price to reflect CEP expenses; and (d) based the dumping margin of one unreported sale on adverse facts available (''AFA''). 3. We did not value certain reported factors based on our finding that these factors are used in the maintenance of machines, and are properly classified as overhead items. 4. We revised surrogate values for certain factors of production. 5. We valued certain inputs used by Gold East to treat water. 6. We revised the surrogate values for factory overhead, selling, general and administrative (''SG&A''), and profit. 7. We corrected a ministerial error involving one of Gold East's self\u2013 produced inputs. For a detailed analysis of Gold East's margin calculation, see ''Final Determination in the Investigation of Coated Free Sheet Paper from the People's Republic of China: Analysis Memorandum for Gold East'', dated October 17, 2007. We assigned separate rates applicant Yanzhou Tianzhang the revised final margin calculated for Gold East, the only mandatory respondent to fully participate in this investigation. We assigned the PRC\u2013wide rate, as total AFA, to Shandong Chenming Paper Holdings Limited (''Chenming'), because it ceased participating in this investigation prior to the scheduled verification and, consequently, did not demonstrate its entitlement to a separate rate. Scope of Investigation The merchandise covered by this investigation includes coated free sheet paper and paperboard of a kind used for writing, printing or other graphic purposes. Coated free sheet paper is produced from not\u2013more-than 10 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 60633 percent by weight mechanical or combined chemical\/mechanical fibers. Coated free sheet paper is coated with kaolin (China clay) or other inorganic substances, with or without a binder, and with no other coating. Coated free sheet paper may be surface\u2013colored, surface\u2013decorated, printed (except as described below), embossed, or perforated. The subject merchandise includes single- and double\u2013side-coated free sheet paper; coated free sheet paper in both sheet or roll form; and is inclusive of all weights, brightness levels, and finishes. The terms ''wood free'' or ''art'' paper may also be used to describe the imported product. Excluded from the scope are: (1) Coated free sheet paper that is imported printed with final content printed text or graphics; (2) base paper to be sensitized for use in photography; and (3) paper containing by weight 25 percent or more cotton fiber. Coated free sheet paper is classifiable under subheadings 4810.13.1900, 4810.13.2010, 4810.13.2090, 4810.13.5000, 4810.13.7040, 4810.14.1900, 4810.14.2010, 4810.14.2090, 4810.14.5000, 4810.14.7040, 4810.19.1900, 4810.19.2010, and 4810.19.2090 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (''HTSUS''). While HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and customs purposes, our written description of the scope of this investigation is dispositive. Scope Comments On August 20, August 28, and September 10, 2007, the petitioner requested that the Department clarify the scope of the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of CFS paper from Indonesia, Korea and the People's Republic of China. Specifically, the petitioner asked the Department to ''clarify that the scope of the investigation includes coated free sheet paper containing hardwood BCTMP.'' Because this was a general issue pertaining to all six investigations, the Department set up a general issues file to handle this scope request. A hearing on the scope request was held on September 26, 2007. The hearing comprised a public session, a closed session for the antidumping investigation from Korea, and a closed session for the countervailing duty investigation from the PRC. After considering the comments submitted by the parties to these investigations, we have determined not to adopt the scope clarification sought by the petitioner. See Memorandum to Stephen J. Claeys, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import E:\\FR\\FM\\25OCN1.SGM 25OCN1 60634 Federal Register \/ Vol. 72, No. 206 \/ Thursday, October 25, 2007 \/ Notices mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with NOTICES Administration, entitled ''Scope Clarification Request: NewPage Corporation'' dated concurrently with this notice, which is appended to ''Issues and Decision Memorandum for the Final Determination in the Countervailing Duty Investigation of Coated Free Sheet Paper from the People's Republic of China.'' Adverse Facts Available Section 776(a)(2) of the Act provides that, if an interested party (A) withholds information requested by the Department, (B) fails to provide such information by the deadline, or in the form or manner requested, (C) significantly impedes a proceeding, or (D) provides information that cannot be verified, the Department shall use, subject to sections 782(d) and (e) of the Act, facts otherwise available in reaching the applicable determination. Pursuant to section 782(e) of the Act, the Department shall not decline to consider submitted information if all of the following requirements are met: (1) The information is submitted by the established deadline; (2) the information can be verified; (3) the information is not so incomplete that it cannot serve as a reliable basis for reaching the applicable determination; (4) the interested party has demonstrated that it acted to the best of its ability; and (5) the information can be used without undue difficulties. On June 7, 2007, six days before the commencement of verification, counsel for Chenming informed Department officials that Chenming would not continue its participation in the instant investigation. See Memorandum to the File through Howard Smith, Program Manager, Office 4, concerning ''Telephone Conversation with Counsel for Shandong Chenming Paper Holdings Co., Ltd.,'' dated June 7, 2007; see also Chenming's letter to the Department, concerning, ''Coated Free Sheet Paper from the People's Republic of China; Withdrawal of Shandong Chenming Paper Holdings Limited and Withdrawal of Consent to Access Proprietary Information,'' dated June 11, 2007. Because Chenming ceased participation in the instant investigation, the Department was not able to conduct its scheduled verification of Chenming's responses. Verification is integral to the Department's analysis because it allows the Department to satisfy itself that it is relying upon accurate information and calculating dumping margins as accurately as possible. By failing to participate in verification, Chenming prevented the Department from verifying its reported information, including separate rates information, VerDate Aug<31>2005 17:26 Oct 24, 2007 Jkt 214001 and significantly impeded the proceeding. Moreover, by not permitting verification, Chenming failed to prove that it is free of government control and entitled to a separate rate. Additionally, Chenming's refusal to participate in verification demonstrates that it failed to cooperate by not acting to the best of its ability to comply with a request from the Department. Section 776(b) of the Act authorizes the Department to use an adverse inference with respect to an interested party if the Department finds that the party failed to cooperate by not acting to the best of its ability to comply with a request for information. See, e.g., Certain Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and Tubes From Thailand: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 62 FR 53808, 53819\u201320 (October 16, 1997); see also Crawfish Processors Alliance v. United States, 343 F. Supp.2d 1242 (CIT 2004) (approving use of AFA when respondent refused to participate in verification). Therefore, pursuant to sections 776(a)(2)(C) and (D) and 776(b) of the Act, we have, as AFA, treated Chenming as part of the PRC\u2013wide entity and assigned Chenming the PRC\u2013 wide rate of 99.65 percent. See the sections entitled ''The PRC\u2013Wide Rate'' and ''Corroboration,'' below, for a discussion of the selection and corroboration of the PRC\u2013Wide rate. Verification As provided in section 782(i) of the Act, we conducted verifications in the PRC and the United States of the information submitted by the respondent and the separate rate applicant for use in our final determination. See the Department's verification reports on the record of this investigation in the CRU with respect to Gold East and Yanzhou Tianzhang. For all verified companies, we used standard verification procedures, including examination of relevant accounting and production records, as well as original source documents provided by respondents. Surrogate Country In the Preliminary Determination, we stated that we had selected India as the appropriate surrogate country to use in this investigation for the following reasons: (1) it is a significant producer of comparable merchandise; (2) it is at a similar level of economic development pursuant to 773(c)(4) of the Act; and (3) we have reliable data from India that we can use to value the factors of production. See Preliminary Determination. For the final determination, we received no comments and made no changes to our PO 00000 Frm 00018 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 findings with respect to the selection of a surrogate country. Separate Rates In proceedings involving non\u2013 market\u2013economy (''NME'') countries, the Department begins with a rebuttable presumption that all companies within the country are subject to government control and, thus, should be assigned a single antidumping duty deposit rate. It is the Department's policy to assign all exporters of merchandise subject to an investigation in an NME country this single rate unless an exporter can demonstrate that it is sufficiently independent so as to be entitled to a separate rate. See Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Sparklers from the People's Republic of China, 56 FR 20588 (May 6, 1991) (''Sparklers''), as amplified by Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Silicon Carbide from the People's Republic of China, 59 FR 22585 (May 2, 1994) (''Silicon Carbide''), and Section 351.107(d) of the Department's regulations. In the Preliminary Determination, we found that Gold East and the separate rate applicant, Yanzhou Tianzhang, demonstrated their eligibility for separate\u2013rate status. No party has commented on the eligibility of Gold East or Yanzhou Tianzhang for separate\u2013rate status. For the final determination, we continue to find that the evidence placed on the record of this investigation by Gold East and Yanzhou Tianzhang demonstrate both a de jure and de facto absence of government control, with respect to their respective exports of the merchandise under investigation and thus are eligible for separate rate status. The PRC\u2013Wide Rate In the Preliminary Determination, the Department found that certain companies and the PRC\u2013wide entity did not respond to our requests for information. In the Preliminary Determination, we treated these PRC producers\/exporters as part of the PRC\u2013 wide entity because they did not demonstrate that they operate free of government control over their export activities. No additional information has been placed on the record with respect to these entities after the Preliminary Determination. The PRC\u2013wide entity has not provided the Department with the requested information; therefore, pursuant to section 776(a)(2)(A) of the Act, the Department continues to find that the use of facts available is appropriate to determine the PRC\u2013wide rate. Section 776(b) of the Act provides that, in selecting from among the facts E:\\FR\\FM\\25OCN1.SGM 25OCN1 Federal Register \/ Vol. 72, No. 206 \/ Thursday, October 25, 2007 \/ Notices mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with NOTICES otherwise available, the Department may employ an adverse inference if an interested party fails to cooperate by not acting to the best of its ability to comply with requests for information. See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Certain Cold\u2013 Rolled Flat\u2013Rolled Carbon\u2013Quality Steel Products from the Russian Federation, 65 FR 5510, 5518 (February 4, 2000). See also, ''Statement of Administrative Action'' accompanying the URAA, H.R. Rep. No. 103\u2013316, vol. 1, at 870 (1994). We determine that because the PRC\u2013 wide entity has failed to cooperate to the best of its ability because it did not respond to our request for information. Therefore, the Department finds that, in selecting from among the facts otherwise available, an adverse inference is appropriate for the PRC\u2013 wide entity. Because we begin with the presumption that all companies within a NME country are subject to government control and because only the companies listed under the ''Final Determination Margins'' section below have overcome that presumption, we are applying a single antidumping rate - the PRC\u2013wide rate - to all other exporters of subject merchandise from the PRC. Such companies did not demonstrate entitlement to a separate rate. See, e.g., Synthetic Indigo from the People's Republic of China: Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 65 FR 25706 (May 3, 2000). The PRC\u2013wide rate applies to all entries of subject merchandise except for entries from the respondents which are listed in the ''Final Determination Margins'' section below (except as noted). Corroboration At the Preliminary Determination, we corroborated our AFA margin by comparing the range of control number\u2013 specific dumping margins calculated for the preliminary determination to the dumping margin alleged in the petition. For the final determination, we conducted a similar analysis and continue to find that the margin of 99.65 percent has probative value. See Memorandum to the File: ''Corroboration of the PRC\u2013Wide Facts Available Rate for the Final Determination in the Antidumping Duty Investigation of Coated Free Sheet Paper from the People's Republic of China'', dated October 17, 2007. In addition, no party to this investigation has commented on our selection of this rate as AFA. Accordingly, we find that the rate of 99.65 percent is corroborated within the meaning of section 776(c) of the Act. VerDate Aug<31>2005 17:26 Oct 24, 2007 Jkt 214001 Final Determination Margins We determine that the following weighted\u2013average dumping margins exist for the period April 1, 2006, thorough September 30, 2006: Weighted Average Margin (percent) 60635 does exist, the Department will issue an antidumping duty order directing CBP to assess antidumping duties on all imports of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the effective date of the suspension of liquidation. Notification Regarding APO This notice also serves as a reminder to the parties subject to administrative GE's Collapsed Entity: ................ 21.12 protective order (''APO'') of their (Gold East Paper (Jiangsu) Co. responsibility concerning the Ltd.-Gold Hua Sheng Paper. disposition of proprietary information (Suzhou Industry Park) Co. Ltd.disclosed under APO in accordance China Union. with 19 CFR 351.305. Timely (Macao Commercial Offshore) Company Ltd. notification of return or destruction of Yanzhou Tianzhang Paper InAPO materials or conversion to judicial dustry Co. Ltd. ........................ 21.12 protective order is hereby requested. PRC\u2013Wide Rate ......................... 99.65 Failure to comply with the regulations and the terms of an APO is a Disclosure sanctionable violation. This determination and notice are issued and We will disclose to parties the calculations performed within five days published in accordance with sections 735(d) and 777(i)(1) of the Act. of the date of publication of this notice in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). Dated: October 17, 2007. Manufacturer\/Exporter Continuation of Suspension of Liquidation In accordance with section 735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, we are directing U.S. Customs and Border Protection (''CBP'') to continue to suspend liquidation of all imports of subject merchandise that are entered or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after June 4, 2007, the date of publication of the preliminary determination in the Federal Register. We will instruct CBP to continue to require a cash deposit or the posting of a bond for all companies based on the estimated weighted\u2013 average dumping margins shown above. The suspension of liquidation instructions will remain in effect until further notice. ITC Notification In accordance with section 735(d) of the Act, we have notified the International Trade Commission (''ITC'') of our final determination of sales at LTFV. As our final determination is affirmative, in accordance with section 735(b)(2) of the Act, the ITC will determine whether the domestic industry in the United States is materially injured, or threatened with material injury, by reason of imports or sales (or the likelihood of sales) for importation of the subject merchandise within 45 days of this final determination. If the ITC determines that material injury or threat of material injury does not exist, the proceeding will be terminated and all securities posted will be refunded or canceled. If the ITC determines that such injury PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 David M. Spooner, Assistant Secretary for Import Administration. Appendix I Parties' Comments Comment 1: Whether to Reconsider China's Non\u2013Market Economy (NME) Status and Whether to Treat Certain PRC Companies as Market Oriented Enterprises Comment 2: Alleged Double Remedy in Concurrent NME AD and CVD Proceedings Comment 3: The Appropriate Surrogate Financial Statements to use to Calculate Financial Ratios Comment 4: Whether to Adjust the Financial Ratios by Allocating Wages and Salaries Between Non\u2013 manufacturing and Manufacturing Expenses Comment 5: Whether to Adjust the Financial Ratios by Allocating ''Stores and Spares'' Expenses Between Direct Material Costs and Overhead Expenses Comment 6: Whether to Value Certain Materials Claimed to be Overhead Expenses Comment 7: Whether to Value Self\u2013 Produced Electricity Used to Produce Electricity Comment 8: Whether to Value Steam That is a By\u2013Product of Self\u2013Produced Electricity Comment 9: Whether to Value Certain Inputs used in Treating Water Comment 10: Whether GE Incorrectly Reported the Unit Price of Certain Purchases Comment 11: Whether the Department Erred in Calculating the Value of a Self\u2013 Produced Input E:\\FR\\FM\\25OCN1.SGM 25OCN1 60636 Federal Register \/ Vol. 72, No. 206 \/ Thursday, October 25, 2007 \/ Notices Comment 12: Whether Certain Pulp Purchases Should be Treated as Market\u2013 Economy Purchases Comment 13: Whether it is Appropriate to Value Labor Using the Expected Wage Rate Calculated by the Department Comment 14: The Appropriate Surrogate Value For A Ground Calcium Carbonate Input Comments 15: The Appropriate Surrogate Value for a Proprietary Material Comment 16: The Appropriate Surrogate Value for a Proprietary Material Comment 17: The Appropriate Surrogate Value for Hydrochloric Acid Comment 18: The Appropriate Surrogate Values For Other Paper Chemicals Comment 19: The Appropriate Surrogate Value For Steam Coal Comment 20: The Appropriate Surrogate Value for Certain PET Packing Materials Comment 21: The Appropriate Surrogate Value for a Proprietary Material Comment 22: How to Account for Certain Unreported Expenses Comment 23: Whether the Department Should Base the Dumping Margin for One Unreported Sale on Total Adverse Facts Available Comment 24: Whether to Reclassify One Sale as a CEP Sale Comment 25: Whether to Adjust the Market\u2013Economy Purchase Price of NBKP [FR Doc. E7\u201321041 Filed 10\u201324\u201307; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510\u2013DS\u2013S DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE International Trade Administration A\u2013560\u2013820 Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Coated Free Sheet Paper from Indonesia Import Administration, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. SUMMARY: We determine that imports of coated free sheet paper (''CFS paper'') are being, or are likely to be, sold in the United States at less than fair value (''LTFV''), as provided in section 735 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (''the Act''). The estimated margins of sales at LTFV are shown in the ''Final Determination'' section of this notice. EFFECTIVE DATE: October 25, 2007. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brian C. Smith or Gemal Brangman, AD\/ CVD Operations, Office 2, Import mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with NOTICES AGENCY: VerDate Aug<31>2005 17:26 Oct 24, 2007 Jkt 214001 Administration\u2013Room B\u2013099, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482\u20131766 or (202) 482\u20133773, respectively. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background On June 4, 2007, the Department published in the Federal Register the Preliminary Determination of sales at LTFV in the antidumping duty investigation of CFS paper from Indonesia. See Coated Free Sheet Paper from Indonesia: Notice of Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Postponement of Final Determination, 72 FR 30753 (June 4, 2007) (''Preliminary Determination''). On June 13, 2007,1 PT. Pindo Deli Pulp & Paper Mills (''PD''), PT. Pabrik Kertas Tjiwi Kimia, Tbk (''TK''), and their affiliates PT. Cakrawala Mega Indah (''CMI''), PT Indah Kiat Pulp & Paper Tbk (''IK''), PT. Lontar Papyrus Pulp & Paper Industries (''Lontar''), PT Arara Abadi (''AA'') and PT. Wirakarya Sakti (''WKS'') (hereafter collectively referred to as ''the Indonesian Respondents'') 2 submitted a revised cost of production (''COP'') database for TK which incorporated corrections found prior to the start of verification. On June 27, 2007, the Indonesian Respondents submitted a revised COP database for PD which incorporated corrections submitted at the start of PD's cost verification on June 22, 2007. From June 20 through July 20, 2007, we verified the sales and cost questionnaire responses of the Indonesian Respondents. On August 20, 27, and 28, 2007, the Department issued its verification reports. We provided the interested parties an opportunity to comment on the Preliminary Determination and the Department's verification findings. On June 29, 2007, the petitioner 3 requested a hearing to discuss issues addressed by the interested parties in their case and rebuttal briefs. On August 28, 2007, the petitioner requested that the Department clarify the scope of the investigation of CFS paper from Indonesia and placed on the record of this review information to support its request. 1 June 13, 2007, is seven days prior to the start of the cost verification. 2 PD and TK are CFS paper producers, whereas CMI is a reseller of paper products produced by PD and TK. IK and Lontar are pulp producers, whereas AA and WKS are forestry companies. 3 The petitioner in this investigation is NewPage Corporation. PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 On September 5, 2007, the petitioner and the Indonesian Respondents submitted case briefs. On September 6, 2007, the petitioner withdrew its request for a hearing. Because the petitioner was the only interested party to request a hearing and it subsequently withdrew its request, no hearing was held on issues raised in the September 5, 2007, case briefs. On September 10, 2007, both the petitioner and the Indonesian Respondents submitted rebuttal briefs. Also on September 10, 2007, the Department rejected the petitioner's August 28, 2007, scope clarification submission because it contained untimely filed new factual information. The petitioner refiled its submission with the new factual information redacted on September 10, 2007. On September 12, 2007, the petitioner and Indonesian Respondents filed case briefs on the scope issue. On September 14, 2007, the Department rejected the Indonesian Respondents' case brief on the scope issue because it contained untimely filed new factual information. The Indonesian Respondents refiled this case brief with the new factual information redacted on September 17, 2007. On September 17, 2007, the Department rejected the Indonesian Respondents' September 10, 2007, rebuttal brief because it contained untimely filed new argument. The Indonesian Respondents refiled their rebuttal brief with the new argument redacted on September 18, 2007. On September 20, 2007, the petitioner and Indonesian Respondents filed rebuttal briefs on the scope issue. A hearing on the scope issue was held on September 26, 2007. Period of Investigation The period of investigation is October 1, 2005, through September 30, 2006. This period corresponds to the four most recent fiscal quarters prior to the month of the filing of the petition. Analysis of Comments Received All issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs submitted by the parties to this investigation are addressed in the ''Issues and Decision Memorandum'' (''Decision Memo'') from Stephen J. Claeys, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, to David M. Spooner, Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, dated October 17, 2007, which is hereby adopted by this notice. A list of the issues that parties have raised and to which we have responded, all of which are in the Decision Memo, is attached to this notice as an appendix. Parties can find a complete E:\\FR\\FM\\25OCN1.SGM 25OCN1\n[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 206 (Thursday, October 25, 2007)]\n[FR Doc No: E7-21041]\nA-570-906\nFinal Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Coated Free\nSheet Paper from the People's Republic of China\nAGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,\nDepartment of Commerce.\nEFFECTIVE DATE: October 25, 2007.\nSUMMARY: On June 4, 2007, the Department of Commerce (the\n``Department'') published its preliminary determination of sales at\nless than fair value (``LTFV'') in the antidumping investigation of\ncoated free sheet paper (``CFS'') from the People's Republic of China\n(``PRC''). The period of investigation (``POI'') is April 1, 2006,\nthrough September 30, 2006. We invited interested parties to comment on\nour preliminary determination of sales at LTFV. Based on our analysis\nof the comments we received, we have made changes to our calculations\nfor the mandatory respondents. The final dumping margins for this\ninvestigation are listed in the ``Final Determination Margins'' section\nFOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Magd Zalok or Drew Jackson, Import\nAdministration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of\nCommerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC\n20230; telephone: (202) 482-4162 and 482-4406, respectively.\nFinal Determination\nWe determine that CFS from the PRC is being, or is likely to be,\nsold in the United States at LTFV as provided in section 735 of the\nTariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act''). The estimated margins of\nsales at LTFV are shown in the ``Final Determination Margins'' section\nof this notice.\nThe Department published its preliminary determination of sales at\nLTFV on June 4, 2007. See Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less\nThan Fair Value: Coated Free Sheet Paper from the People's Republic of\nChina, 72 FR 30758 (June 4, 2007) (``Preliminary Determination'').\nBetween June 18, 2007, and July 13, 2007, the Department conducted\nverifications of the collapsed entity Gold East Co. Ltd.(Gold East\nPaper (Jiangsu) Co. Ltd., Gold Hua Sheng Paper (Suzhou Industry Park)\nCo. Ltd., and China Union (Macao\nCommercial Offshore) Company Ltd.) (collectively ``Gold East'') and its\nU.S. affiliate, and separate rates applicant Yanzhou Tianzhang Paper\nIndustry Co. Ltd. (``Yanzhou Tianzhang''), and its U.S. importer. See\nthe ``Verification'' section below for additional information.\nWe invited parties to comment on the Preliminary Determination. On\nAugust 31, 2007, petitioner,\\1\\ the Bureau of Fair Trade, Ministry of\nCommerce, People's Republic of China (``BOFT''), Yanzhou Tianzhang, and\nGold East filed case briefs. Petitioner and Gold East filed rebuttal\nbriefs on September 7, 2007. Additionally, on September 12, 2007,\npetitioner, Gold East, Yanzhou Tianzhang, and BOFT, along with other\ninterested parties in concurrent CFS investigations, submitted comments\nregarding the scope of the instant investigation. These parties filed\nrebuttal scope comments on September 20, 2007. In response to requests\nfrom interested parties, the Department held a hearing on the scope of\nthe investigation on September 26, 2007.\n\\1\\ Petitioner in this investigation is NewPage Corporation.\nAnalysis of Comments Received\nWith the exception of the scope issue, all issues raised in the\ncase and rebuttal briefs by parties to this investigation are addressed\nin the ``Investigation of Coated Free Sheet Paper from the People's\nRepublic of China: Issues and Decision Memorandum,'' dated October 17,\n2007, which is hereby adopted by this notice (``Issues and Decision\nMemorandum''). The scope issue is addressed in a separate memorandum.\nSee ``Scope Comments'' section, below. A list of the issues which\nparties raised and to which we respond in the Issues and Decision\nMemorandum is attached to this notice as an Appendix. The Issue and\nDecision Memorandum is a public document and is on file in the Central\nRecords Unit (``CRU''), Main Commerce Building, Room B-099, and is\naccessible on the Web at http:\/\/ia.ita.doc.gov\/frn. The paper copy and\nelectronic version of the memorandum are identical in content.\nAdditionally, because some of the issues that parties raised and to\nwhich we respond contain proprietary information, there is a separate\nproprietary version of the Issues and Decision Memorandum. See\n``Investigation of Coated Free Sheet Paper from the People's Republic\nof China: Issues and Decision Memorandum, Comments and Department of\nCommerce's Positions Containing Proprietary Information,'' dated\nChanges Since the Preliminary Determination\nBased on our analysis of the comments received, we have changed the\nmargin calculation for Gold East. Those changes include the following:\n1. We revised our calculation of the per-unit cost of Gold East's\nself-produced electricity and did not value steam used in production.\n2. Based on verification findings, (a) we revised the average\nmarket-economy price reported for a type of pulp; (b) recalculated the\nnet unit price of constructed export price (``CEP'') sales to account\nfor unreported selling expenses; (c) reclassified one export price sale\nas a CEP sale and adjusted the sale's price to reflect CEP expenses;\nand (d) based the dumping margin of one unreported sale on adverse\nfacts available (``AFA'').\n3. We did not value certain reported factors based on our finding\nthat these factors are used in the maintenance of machines, and are\nproperly classified as overhead items.\n4. We revised surrogate values for certain factors of production.\n5. We valued certain inputs used by Gold East to treat water.\n6. We revised the surrogate values for factory overhead, selling,\ngeneral and administrative (``SG&A''), and profit.\n7. We corrected a ministerial error involving one of Gold East's\nself-produced inputs.\nFor a detailed analysis of Gold East's margin calculation, see\n``Final Determination in the Investigation of Coated Free Sheet Paper\nfrom the People's Republic of China: Analysis Memorandum for Gold\nEast'', dated October 17, 2007.\nWe assigned separate rates applicant Yanzhou Tianzhang the revised\nfinal margin calculated for Gold East, the only mandatory respondent to\nfully participate in this investigation.\nWe assigned the PRC-wide rate, as total AFA, to Shandong Chenming\nPaper Holdings Limited (``Chenming'), because it ceased participating\nin this investigation prior to the scheduled verification and,\nconsequently, did not demonstrate its entitlement to a separate rate.\nScope of Investigation\nThe merchandise covered by this investigation includes coated free\nsheet paper and paperboard of a kind used for writing, printing or\nother graphic purposes. Coated free sheet paper is produced from not-\nmore-than 10 percent by weight mechanical or combined chemical\/\nmechanical fibers. Coated free sheet paper is coated with kaolin (China\nclay) or other inorganic substances, with or without a binder, and with\nno other coating. Coated free sheet paper may be surface-colored,\nsurface-decorated, printed (except as described below), embossed, or\nperforated. The subject merchandise includes single- and double-side-\ncoated free sheet paper; coated free sheet paper in both sheet or roll\nform; and is inclusive of all weights, brightness levels, and finishes.\nThe terms ``wood free'' or ``art'' paper may also be used to describe\nthe imported product.\nExcluded from the scope are: (1) Coated free sheet paper that is\nimported printed with final content printed text or graphics; (2) base\npaper to be sensitized for use in photography; and (3) paper containing\nby weight 25 percent or more cotton fiber. Coated free sheet paper is\nclassifiable under subheadings 4810.13.1900, 4810.13.2010,\n4810.13.2090, 4810.13.5000, 4810.13.7040, 4810.14.1900, 4810.14.2010,\nand 4810.19.2090 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States\n(``HTSUS''). While HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and\ncustoms purposes, our written description of the scope of this\ninvestigation is dispositive.\nScope Comments\nOn August 20, August 28, and September 10, 2007, the petitioner\nrequested that the Department clarify the scope of the antidumping and\ncountervailing duty investigations of CFS paper from Indonesia, Korea\nand the People's Republic of China. Specifically, the petitioner asked\nthe Department to ``clarify that the scope of the investigation\nincludes coated free sheet paper containing hardwood BCTMP.''\nBecause this was a general issue pertaining to all six\ninvestigations, the Department set up a general issues file to handle\nthis scope request. A hearing on the scope request was held on\nSeptember 26, 2007. The hearing comprised a public session, a closed\nsession for the antidumping investigation from Korea, and a closed\nsession for the countervailing duty investigation from the PRC. After\nconsidering the comments submitted by the parties to these\ninvestigations, we have determined not to adopt the scope clarification\nsought by the petitioner. See Memorandum to Stephen J. Claeys, Deputy\nAssistant Secretary for Import\nAdministration, entitled ``Scope Clarification Request: NewPage\nCorporation'' dated concurrently with this notice, which is appended to\n``Issues and Decision Memorandum for the Final Determination in the\nCountervailing Duty Investigation of Coated Free Sheet Paper from the\nPeople's Republic of China.''\nAdverse Facts Available\nSection 776(a)(2) of the Act provides that, if an interested party\n(A) withholds information requested by the Department, (B) fails to\nprovide such information by the deadline, or in the form or manner\nrequested, (C) significantly impedes a proceeding, or (D) provides\ninformation that cannot be verified, the Department shall use, subject\nto sections 782(d) and (e) of the Act, facts otherwise available in\nreaching the applicable determination.\nPursuant to section 782(e) of the Act, the Department shall not\ndecline to consider submitted information if all of the following\nrequirements are met: (1) The information is submitted by the\nestablished deadline; (2) the information can be verified; (3) the\ninformation is not so incomplete that it cannot serve as a reliable\nbasis for reaching the applicable determination; (4) the interested\nparty has demonstrated that it acted to the best of its ability; and\n(5) the information can be used without undue difficulties.\nOn June 7, 2007, six days before the commencement of verification,\ncounsel for Chenming informed Department officials that Chenming would\nnot continue its participation in the instant investigation. See\nMemorandum to the File through Howard Smith, Program Manager, Office 4,\nconcerning ``Telephone Conversation with Counsel for Shandong Chenming\nPaper Holdings Co., Ltd.,'' dated June 7, 2007; see also Chenming's\nletter to the Department, concerning, ``Coated Free Sheet Paper from\nthe People's Republic of China; Withdrawal of Shandong Chenming Paper\nHoldings Limited and Withdrawal of Consent to Access Proprietary\nInformation,'' dated June 11, 2007. Because Chenming ceased\nparticipation in the instant investigation, the Department was not able\nto conduct its scheduled verification of Chenming's responses.\nVerification is integral to the Department's analysis because it allows\nthe Department to satisfy itself that it is relying upon accurate\ninformation and calculating dumping margins as accurately as possible.\nBy failing to participate in verification, Chenming prevented the\nDepartment from verifying its reported information, including separate\nrates information, and significantly impeded the proceeding. Moreover,\nby not permitting verification, Chenming failed to prove that it is\nfree of government control and entitled to a separate rate.\nAdditionally, Chenming's refusal to participate in verification\ndemonstrates that it failed to cooperate by not acting to the best of\nits ability to comply with a request from the Department. Section\n776(b) of the Act authorizes the Department to use an adverse inference\nwith respect to an interested party if the Department finds that the\nparty failed to cooperate by not acting to the best of its ability to\ncomply with a request for information. See, e.g., Certain Welded Carbon\nSteel Pipes and Tubes From Thailand: Final Results of Antidumping Duty\nAdministrative Review, 62 FR 53808, 53819-20 (October 16, 1997); see\nalso Crawfish Processors Alliance v. United States, 343 F. Supp.2d 1242\n(CIT 2004) (approving use of AFA when respondent refused to participate\nin verification). Therefore, pursuant to sections 776(a)(2)(C) and (D)\nand 776(b) of the Act, we have, as AFA, treated Chenming as part of the\nPRC-wide entity and assigned Chenming the PRC-wide rate of 99.65\npercent. See the sections entitled ``The PRC-Wide Rate'' and\n``Corroboration,'' below, for a discussion of the selection and\ncorroboration of the PRC-Wide rate.\nAs provided in section 782(i) of the Act, we conducted\nverifications in the PRC and the United States of the information\nsubmitted by the respondent and the separate rate applicant for use in\nour final determination. See the Department's verification reports on\nthe record of this investigation in the CRU with respect to Gold East\nand Yanzhou Tianzhang. For all verified companies, we used standard\nverification procedures, including examination of relevant accounting\nand production records, as well as original source documents provided\nby respondents.\nSurrogate Country\nIn the Preliminary Determination, we stated that we had selected\nIndia as the appropriate surrogate country to use in this investigation\nfor the following reasons: (1) it is a significant producer of\ncomparable merchandise; (2) it is at a similar level of economic\ndevelopment pursuant to 773(c)(4) of the Act; and (3) we have reliable\ndata from India that we can use to value the factors of production. See\nPreliminary Determination. For the final determination, we received no\ncomments and made no changes to our findings with respect to the\nselection of a surrogate country.\nSeparate Rates\nIn proceedings involving non-market-economy (``NME'') countries,\nthe Department begins with a rebuttable presumption that all companies\nwithin the country are subject to government control and, thus, should\nbe assigned a single antidumping duty deposit rate. It is the\nDepartment's policy to assign all exporters of merchandise subject to\nan investigation in an NME country this single rate unless an exporter\ncan demonstrate that it is sufficiently independent so as to be\nentitled to a separate rate. See Final Determination of Sales at Less\nThan Fair Value: Sparklers from the People's Republic of China, 56 FR\n20588 (May 6, 1991) (``Sparklers''), as amplified by Notice of Final\nDetermination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Silicon Carbide from\nthe People's Republic of China, 59 FR 22585 (May 2, 1994) (``Silicon\nCarbide''), and Section 351.107(d) of the Department's regulations.\nIn the Preliminary Determination, we found that Gold East and the\nseparate rate applicant, Yanzhou Tianzhang, demonstrated their\neligibility for separate-rate status. No party has commented on the\neligibility of Gold East or Yanzhou Tianzhang for separate-rate status.\nFor the final determination, we continue to find that the evidence\nplaced on the record of this investigation by Gold East and Yanzhou\nTianzhang demonstrate both a de jure and de facto absence of government\ncontrol, with respect to their respective exports of the merchandise\nunder investigation and thus are eligible for separate rate status.\nThe PRC-Wide Rate\nIn the Preliminary Determination, the Department found that certain\ncompanies and the PRC-wide entity did not respond to our requests for\ninformation. In the Preliminary Determination, we treated these PRC\nproducers\/exporters as part of the PRC-wide entity because they did not\ndemonstrate that they operate free of government control over their\nexport activities. No additional information has been placed on the\nrecord with respect to these entities after the Preliminary\nDetermination. The PRC-wide entity has not provided the Department with\nthe requested information; therefore, pursuant to section 776(a)(2)(A)\nof the Act, the Department continues to find that the use of facts\navailable is appropriate to determine the PRC-wide rate. Section 776(b)\nof the Act provides that, in selecting from among the facts\notherwise available, the Department may employ an adverse inference if\nan interested party fails to cooperate by not acting to the best of its\nability to comply with requests for information. See Notice of Final\nDetermination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Certain Cold-Rolled\nFlat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel Products from the Russian Federation,\n65 FR 5510, 5518 (February 4, 2000). See also, ``Statement of\nAdministrative Action'' accompanying the URAA, H.R. Rep. No. 103-316,\nvol. 1, at 870 (1994). We determine that because the PRC-wide entity\nhas failed to cooperate to the best of its ability because it did not\nrespond to our request for information. Therefore, the Department finds\nthat, in selecting from among the facts otherwise available, an adverse\ninference is appropriate for the PRC-wide entity.\nBecause we begin with the presumption that all companies within a\nNME country are subject to government control and because only the\ncompanies listed under the ``Final Determination Margins'' section\nbelow have overcome that presumption, we are applying a single\nantidumping rate - the PRC-wide rate - to all other exporters of\nsubject merchandise from the PRC. Such companies did not demonstrate\nentitlement to a separate rate. See, e.g., Synthetic Indigo from the\nPeople's Republic of China: Notice of Final Determination of Sales at\nLess Than Fair Value, 65 FR 25706 (May 3, 2000). The PRC-wide rate\napplies to all entries of subject merchandise except for entries from\nthe respondents which are listed in the ``Final Determination Margins''\nsection below (except as noted).\nCorroboration\nAt the Preliminary Determination, we corroborated our AFA margin by\ncomparing the range of control number-specific dumping margins\ncalculated for the preliminary determination to the dumping margin\nalleged in the petition. For the final determination, we conducted a\nsimilar analysis and continue to find that the margin of 99.65 percent\nhas probative value. See Memorandum to the File: ``Corroboration of the\nPRC-Wide Facts Available Rate for the Final Determination in the\nAntidumping Duty Investigation of Coated Free Sheet Paper from the\nPeople's Republic of China'', dated October 17, 2007. In addition, no\nparty to this investigation has commented on our selection of this rate\nas AFA. Accordingly, we find that the rate of 99.65 percent is\ncorroborated within the meaning of section 776(c) of the Act.\nFinal Determination Margins\nWe determine that the following weighted-average dumping margins\nexist for the period April 1, 2006, thorough September 30, 2006:\nManufacturer\/Exporter Margin\n(percent)\nGE's Collapsed Entity:...................................... 21.12\n(Gold East Paper (Jiangsu) Co. Ltd.-Gold Hua Sheng Paper....\n(Suzhou Industry Park) Co. Ltd.-China Union.................\n(Macao Commercial Offshore) Company Ltd.....................\nYanzhou Tianzhang Paper Industry Co. Ltd.................... 21.12\nPRC-Wide Rate............................................... 99.65\nWe will disclose to parties the calculations performed within five\ndays of the date of publication of this notice in accordance with 19\nCFR 351.224(b).\nContinuation of Suspension of Liquidation\nIn accordance with section 735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, we are\ndirecting U.S. Customs and Border Protection (``CBP'') to continue to\nsuspend liquidation of all imports of subject merchandise that are\nentered or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after June\n4, 2007, the date of publication of the preliminary determination in\nthe Federal Register. We will instruct CBP to continue to require a\ncash deposit or the posting of a bond for all companies based on the\nestimated weighted-average dumping margins shown above. The suspension\nof liquidation instructions will remain in effect until further notice.\nITC Notification\nIn accordance with section 735(d) of the Act, we have notified the\nInternational Trade Commission (``ITC'') of our final determination of\nsales at LTFV. As our final determination is affirmative, in accordance\nwith section 735(b)(2) of the Act, the ITC will determine whether the\ndomestic industry in the United States is materially injured, or\nthreatened with material injury, by reason of imports or sales (or the\nlikelihood of sales) for importation of the subject merchandise within\n45 days of this final determination. If the ITC determines that\nmaterial injury or threat of material injury does not exist, the\nproceeding will be terminated and all securities posted will be\nrefunded or canceled. If the ITC determines that such injury does\nexist, the Department will issue an antidumping duty order directing\nCBP to assess antidumping duties on all imports of the subject\nmerchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or\nafter the effective date of the suspension of liquidation.\nNotification Regarding APO\nThis notice also serves as a reminder to the parties subject to\nadministrative protective order (``APO'') of their responsibility\nconcerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under\nAPO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305. Timely notification of return or\ndestruction of APO materials or conversion to judicial protective order\nis hereby requested. Failure to comply with the regulations and the\nterms of an APO is a sanctionable violation. This determination and\nnotice are issued and published in accordance with sections 735(d) and\n777(i)(1) of the Act.\nDated: October 17, 2007.\nDavid M. Spooner,\nAssistant Secretary for Import Administration.\nParties' Comments\nComment 1: Whether to Reconsider China's Non-Market Economy (NME)\nStatus and Whether to Treat Certain PRC Companies as Market Oriented\nComment 2: Alleged Double Remedy in Concurrent NME AD and CVD\nComment 3: The Appropriate Surrogate Financial Statements to use to\nCalculate Financial Ratios\nComment 4: Whether to Adjust the Financial Ratios by Allocating Wages\nand Salaries Between Non-manufacturing and Manufacturing Expenses\nComment 5: Whether to Adjust the Financial Ratios by Allocating\n``Stores and Spares'' Expenses Between Direct Material Costs and\nOverhead Expenses\nComment 6: Whether to Value Certain Materials Claimed to be Overhead\nComment 7: Whether to Value Self-Produced Electricity Used to Produce\nComment 8: Whether to Value Steam That is a By-Product of Self-Produced\nComment 9: Whether to Value Certain Inputs used in Treating Water\nComment 10: Whether GE Incorrectly Reported the Unit Price of Certain\nComment 11: Whether the Department Erred in Calculating the Value of a\nSelf-Produced Input\nComment 12: Whether Certain Pulp Purchases Should be Treated as Market-\nEconomy Purchases\nComment 13: Whether it is Appropriate to Value Labor Using the Expected\nWage Rate Calculated by the Department\nComment 14: The Appropriate Surrogate Value For A Ground Calcium\nCarbonate Input\nComments 15: The Appropriate Surrogate Value for a Proprietary Material\nComment 16: The Appropriate Surrogate Value for a Proprietary Material\nComment 17: The Appropriate Surrogate Value for Hydrochloric Acid\nComment 18: The Appropriate Surrogate Values For Other Paper Chemicals\nComment 19: The Appropriate Surrogate Value For Steam Coal\nComment 20: The Appropriate Surrogate Value for Certain PET Packing\nComment 22: How to Account for Certain Unreported Expenses\nComment 23: Whether the Department Should Base the Dumping Margin for\nOne Unreported Sale on Total Adverse Facts Available\nComment 24: Whether to Reclassify One Sale as a CEP Sale\nComment 25: Whether to Adjust the Market-Economy Purchase Price of NBKP\n[FR Doc. E7-21041 Filed 10-24-07; 8:45 am]\nBILLING CODE 3510-DS-S","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u203a Economy & Finance \u203a Google's Chrome Browser Changes To Be Investigated By UK's Competition Watchdog\nGoogle's Chrome Browser Changes To Be Investigated By UK's Competition Watchdog\nBy admin2 on January 8, 2021 \u2022 ( 0 )\nAn investigation into Google's proposals to remove third-party cookies and other functions from its Chrome browser will be investigated by the competition watchdog of the United Kingdom. The decision to probe the proposed changes were initiated after concerns were raised in different quarters that the new changes implemented by Google could result in curbing digital advertising by rivals.\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said that the prove will target to make an assessment of whether Google's proposed changes to Chrome could result in contraction of advertising spend on the ecosystem of Alphabet's Google and put at disadvantage the company's competitors.\nThe technology which Google calls the 'Privacy Sandbox' project will give the option to people to receive relevant ads which will help to sustain the current advertising model without the need for the company to track the users of Chrome at the individual user level, Google has said.\n\"As the CMA found in its recent market study, Google's Privacy Sandbox proposals will potentially have a very significant impact on publishers like newspapers, and the digital advertising market,\" CMA Chief Executive Officer Andrea Coscelli said.\nComplaints from Marketers for an Open Web (MOW), a coalition of technology and publishing companies, had been received by it the CMA said. The complaint alleged that Google is \"abusing its dominant position\" through the proposals.\nThird-party cookies have already been blocked by other web browsers such as Mozilla and Apple Inc's Safari.\nA Google spokeswoman said that there is requirement for the industry to bring in major changes to the manner in which digital advertising functions if one wants to create a more private web while at the same time empowering the publishers and advertisers who support the free and open internet.\n\"We welcome the CMA's involvement as we work to develop new proposals to underpin a healthy, ad-supported web without third-party cookies.\"\nThe UK regulator said that a crucial role in targeted digital advertising is played by the so called third party cookies. These cookies help advertisers to effectively and accurately target selected audiences as well as fund free online content for consumers, such as newspapers.\nThe regulators however also said that the current system also present concerns on privacy as these third party cookies allow tracking of behaviour of consumers all across the web in different ways that causes a makes many consumers to feel uncomfortable and ways that such customer may find difficult to understand.\nIt will work with Britain's data watchdog on the investigation, the CMA said.\n(Adapted from Reuters.com)\n\u2039 Patria Investments Ltd expects IPO valuation between $1 billion to 1.6 billion\nBoeing Agrees To A $2.5bn Settlement In US Over 737 Max Conspiracy Charges \u203a\nCategories: Economy & Finance, Regulations & Legal, Strategy, Uncategorized","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"n2N Announces Integration Platform\nn2N Commerce, Inc. (n2N), Cambridge, MA, has announced a new cross-channel on-demand eCommerce technology platform that will be designed from the ground-up to service large multi-channel retailers.\nVictoria's Secret Direct will power its $1.3 billion annual direct-to-consumer business with n2N's on-demand software in the second half of 2007.\nn2N also announced it has closed on $30 million in initial financing from General Catalyst Partners and Limited Brands, Inc. (NYSE:LTD), which owns Victoria's Secret along with The Limited, Express, Bath & Body Works, Henri Bendel.\nAccording to n2N's press release, its cross-channel platform will seamlessly integrate eCommerce, call center, and order management applications using Web 2.0 technology and personalization throughout \"to create a solution that enables retailers to craft strongly branded consumer experiences across channels.\" It will be engineered in conjunction with and incorporating technology from n2N partners Demandware, Allurent, and ChoiceStream.\nIt is unclear from both the press release and conversations with the company just how much actual functionality n2N will provide by itself, and what will be provided by integration partners. It is also puzzling why they chose to announce this now, two weeks after the National Retail Federation show in New York, and at least six months before anything will be going live.\nNickelodeon, GSI Extend Partnership\nJunction Solutions Acquires Ecommerce Front-End\nProfitCenter Software Announces New User\nEscalate Retail Ranked No. 2 on RIS Leaderboard\nNew Auto Parts Direct Commerce System\nGhirardelli Deploys CORESense\nGSI Commerce and Rockport Extend Contract\nPCS Signs Current USA\nSigma to Resell MAS 500\nJunction Solutions Acquires POS Solution\nJunction Solutions Releases JunctionMCR 4.1\nCommercialWare Launches Java Powered Cross-Channel...\nMK Capital Invests $7.5 MM in Junction Solutions\nCommercialWare In RIS Top 10","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"No transparency in airport negotiations\n5 August 2013 By Louis R. Jasikoff\nAirport Director Centini claims public does not need to know\nThe Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton International Airport is owned and operated by the counties of Lackawanna and Luzerne and is a governmental subdivision controlled by six board members. Of these, three hail from Lackawanna County and three from Luzerne County, all presiding as the Bi-County Airport Board, according to the airport's website at www.FlyAVP.com.\nCurrent board members are Luzerne County Manager Robert Lawton, Luzerne County Councilmen Tim McGinley and Rick Williams, and Lackawanna County Commissioners James Wansacz, Corey O'Brien, and Patrick O'Malley.\nAt the July 18 Bi-County Airport Board meeting, approval was given by the board for airport management to begin negotiating a new contract with Aviation Technologies as the incoming fixed based operator (FBO) at the Avoca Airport. A fixed base operator is responsible for commercial and general aviation fueling, aircraft maintenance, charter flights, and flight school operations, amongst other duties.\nThe current fixed base operator is Saker Aviation, whose ten-year contract expires on August 31 of this year.\nUpon the recommendation of Airport Director Barry Centini, the board voted 5\u20130 (Lawton did not register a vote), authorizing management to commence negotiating a contract with Aviation Technologies.\nBefore a final recommendation was presented to the board, a number of companies submitted proposals to assume responsibilities as the new fixed base operator. Those proposals were reviewed by Centini, Airport Assistant Director Michael Conner, and Director of Finance and Administration Gary Borthwick, according to Centini. Proposals arrived from Aviation Technologies, Taughannock Aviation, VOLO Aviation, current FBO Saker Aviation, and others.\nCentini was asked for access to the RFQ\/RFPs (request for qualifications\/proposals) submitted by the competing businesses, as well as the rating matrix used in determining a final recommendation. He responded, \"It is not public knowledge and it is their [the airport board's] responsibility to evaluate who is best to serve the airport needs.\" The Gazette explained that when performing a similar investigation into Wilkes-Barre's Hawkeye surveillance system the documents similar to those now being sought were readily available. Centini responded tersely, \"Then get a Right-to-Know.\"\nThe Independent Gazette has attempted to contact all of the airport board members to pose some serious questions. These queries include how the evaluations were performed, how the RFQ\/RFPs were written, and to what extent\u2014if at all\u2014the handling of the FBO contract represents \"business as usual\" in Luzerne and Lackawanna Counties. Could it be that contracts are being awarded based not on merit, but on whom one is related to or knows?\nOf the board members the WBIG has had contact with, none have seen any rating matrix indicating how Centini's favored applicant was determined.\nIt has come to light that some substantial up-front money has been offered to upgrade current FBO facilities by the companies pursuing the FBO contract. It has also been discovered that the \"flowage fee\" offered to the airport varies among the competing companies. A flowage fee is a percentage of fuel revenue the fixed based operator returns to the airport facility.\nWhile the highest responsible bid is not the only factor in determining the eventual contract winner, it is certainly an important factor\u2014along with experience. According to a source that wishes to remain anonymous at this time, experience is indeed critical for a fixed base operator, especially when dealing with environmental and other government agencies. The source asserted that airport administration-recommended Aviation Technologies possesses no FBO experience. Comment from Aviation Technologies was not forthcoming at the time of printing.\nSaker Aviation, however, filed a lawsuit in the Court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna County on July 31 contending a breach of contract, and seeking a preliminary and permanent injunction against both Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties (doing business as the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton International Airport), prohibiting them from awarding the FBO lease to Aviation Technologies, Inc. Originally assigned to be adjudicated by Judge Vito P. Geroulo, the hearing was continued until August 14 pending reassignment to another judge.\nLuzerne County Manager Lawton told the Gazette, \"Questions being posed by the [paper] have certainly given me pause on this matter, and at this point I will not vote to approve any contract until reviewing the evaluations and recommendations made by airport staff.\"\nAirport board Chairman McGinley said he will be asking the airport solicitor for an opinion on whether or not suppressed proposal information should be made public.\nLuzerne County board member Williams commented, \"Transparency is paramount to insure public trust, and questions raised by the Gazette help in making informed decisions.\" He, too will wait to hear from the solicitor, and urged the public to attend the next airport board meeting. That meeting is scheduled for August 29 at the Terminal Building Conference Room at 10:30 am.\nLackawanna County board members could not be reached for comment by the time of printing.\nTaxpayer Group Pressing for Gasgate Answers Interacting with the County ACE Commission Concerning a Conflict of Interest Matter Taxpayers Bankrolling Sweetheart Deals Property Tax Independence Act info session held with local AFSCME members\nLouis R. Jasikoff\nhttp:\/\/www.jasikoff.com\nLou is the founder and producer of the WBIG family of publications. He's been active in politics most of his adult life, and is passionate in building the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Independent Gazette into an independent press organization that is respected for its independent journalism, educating the public on stories and issues often not discussed in today's biased and controlled media.\nThis is very upsetting. Why can't the public see the RFPs? After all the corruption in both Lackawanna and Luzerne counties, the commissioners should know better \u2013 or is this just more of the same? Who is benefiting from this contract change? What kind of experience does this new company have? I hear this action will result in 34 local jobs lost! I fly out of Avoca Airport often and I'm worried about safety. Why isn't there more concern from the public? What was the result of the hearing today?\nI have the RFP and in the basic qualifications section it states that the qualifications to bid was 3 years in the business of operating a fixed based operation or has provided airline ground handling. I work in the industry and running an FBO is a difficult task in a trying economy. Throwing bags into airplanes is really only a statement Barry Centini Airport Director put into the RFP so he could qualify Aviation Technologies to get the award. The RFP was awarded to the least qualified respondent and I believe was fixed at the get go because I Barry Centini was walking around the PA Aviation Council convention with the owner of Aviation Technoligies a year ago trashing Saker Aviation the company that lost the FBO lease. Also in the RFP there is a clause that says if the Winner of the RFP gets a Sign on Bonus from a fuel supplier that the airport gets no less than 50% of that bonus. Rumor has it that Barry wanted to guide the RFP winner to the fuel company that offered the most cash. The problem with that is this fuel suppliers have to collect that back over time and that is at the expense of all the users of the airport. 1 year ago Allentown took money from a supplier during that rfp and they selected the highest bidder on fuel in return for a 1 million dollar check. Makes you wonder why airlines want to charge so much per ticket out of AVP and ABE these secret payoffs have a lot to do with it. Allentown has suffered great losses as a result of there event. The amount AVP received is rumored to be over $250,000 but I can not confirm this. It was horrible to see a good service provider that had all the qualifications to continue at AVP fall to yet another scandal. This whole process should be exposed. There were several very qualified bidders for this and some actually would have brought additional business to the airport but when they inquired to Barry Centini how the award went to Aviation Technoligies his response was it was a point system that would be disclosed after the contracts were signed. My bet is the contracts were signed with aviation technologies a long time before the RFP went out\nThanks for the insights, Concerned Pilot. You're welcome to email our editor with any additional information you're comfortable sharing.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Aeroparque (J. Newbery)\nEzeiza (M. Pistarini)\nTango Shows\nInfo Buenos Aires\nWe are a company leader in travel.\nIf you're looking for tranquillity and security: that is our commitment.\nEmpresa l\u00edder en viajes.\nSPECIAL PRICE \"SE\u00d1OR TANGO \" FOR 2 PERSONS 175 dolares \/ 7000 pesos.\nEl viejo almac\u00e9n\nIt is the most traditional tango venue of Buenos Aires, a redoubt with all the warmth and nostalgia of tango. Every day a dinner at 20 pm, with Argentinian meats and international cuisine a la carte is performed. The show, described as \"truly Buenos Aires,\" begins at 22 pm and lasts nearly two hours.\nTRANSFER + SHOW + DINNER 60 dolares \/ 2400 pesos\t(per person)\nTRANSFER + SHOW 42 dolares \/ 1700 pesos\t(per person)\nTango Porte\u00f1o\nTango Porte\u00f1o recreates the golden age, the decade of the 40 ', which used to be the undisputed reign of the tango, the great passion of Argentina entire society. It offers a journey through time by those glorious years in Buenos Aires when tango was enjoyed and breathed in every corner of the city.\nTango Porte\u00f1o is a wonderful space where they live and live the great orchestras of Canaro, Fresedo, Piazzolla, De Caro, Gobbi, Biagi, De Angelis, Di Sarli, D'Arienzo, Lomuto, D'Agostino and of course the unforgettable Troilo and Pugliese which was then developed its full potential and in a healthy but demanding competition in the reign Chateclair, Armenonville, Marabou, Tabaris, Tibidabo and many others who disappeared in the implacable transformation of the big city were fighting.\nTRANSFER + SHOW 25 dolares \/ 950 pesos\t(per person)\nMadero Tango\nHe looked out the window at the spectacular Silver laughed along with what became the immigrants that originated the tango with the most modern buildings in Argentina, it is understood that the tango is alive. Enjoy the \"experience\" Madero Tango Tango is really where the tango lives. , Recently declared World Heritage, tango is much more than the evocation of the golden decades considered this genre. Madero Tango is the only place of its kind where past and present merge to create a bond with the tango audience that will never be forgotten.\nSe\u00f1or Tango\nYou will enjoy a display of light, color and sound, in the context of more personalized and careful attention, with all the latest technology at the service of the most dazzling show in the history of tango. With 40 artists on stage, deployment of music, dance and singing in a show created, directed and produced by Fernando Soler, singer and central figure of the show. Se\u00f1or Tango was declared of parliamentary interest by the Chamber of Deputies of Tourist Interest by the Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Interest by the legislature of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.\nGGVIAJES Y TURISMO\ninfo@ggviajes.com\nM\u00f3vil: 15 6991-3477 (Guardia 24 hs.)\nLa Pampa 4455 - Capital Federal","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Asian American Press\nBuilding Community Within Diversity\nThe R-Word: As cruel and offensive as any slur\nby aanews\nin Editorial\n\u2014 8 Mar, 2014\nBy John Michaelson\nMinnesota News Connection\nST. PAUL, Minn. (March 5, 2014) \u2014 Across Minnesota and the nation today, people are being asked to take time to stop and think about how their words may affect others.\nThis is \"Spread the Word to End the Word\" day, asking people to remove the word \"retarded\" from their vocabulary, said Julie Hertzog, director of the PACER Center's National Bullying Prevention Center.\n\"Recognizing that the 'R-word' is offensive, we want to remove it from our society so that students with disabilities feel included and accepted and are identified for their abilities, not for their disabilities,\" said Hertzog, the mother of a son with Down Syndrome.\nWhile today is focused on getting everyday people to stop using the \"R-word,\" Hertzog said that on a higher level, recent years have seen its use removed from the text of local and national code and law.\n\"Words really do affect our perceptions about people,\" she said, \"and the term 'mental retardation' is being replaced by 'intellectual disability' in much of our medical dictionaries and our laws.\"\nAccording to the state Department of Health, more than one in five Minnesotans has some type of disability that impacts his or her daily life.\nMore information online at r-word.org and at IDaction.org.\nPrevious story COMMUNITY CALENDAR\nNext story ClearWay launches new QUITPLAN Services\n\u00a9 Copyright 2020 Asian American Press. Typegrid Theme by WPBandit.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > Macroeconomic Analysis > United States Brent Crude Oil Fund\nWhy the US Economy Stalled in 1Q15\nBy Jeffrey Rosenberg\nSo, lower bond yields in March and April have come in an environment of steadily disappointing economic data. And, in that environment, the Federal Reserve's more dovish communication furthered expectations for a more benign interest rate environment.\nHowever, investors should be careful not to read too much into these latest developments.\nDespite seasonal adjustments, the U.S. economy has still exhibited surprisingly strong seasonality since the financial crisis. The chart plots the Citi U.S. Economic Surprise Index \u2014 an index that reacts positively when economic data surprise above economist forecasts and negatively when data surprise below.\nThere's a distinct and sharp downward trend at the beginning of almost every year since 2011, only to hit a trough in June and accelerate to a peak by the end of the year. In addition to economic surprises (relative to forecasts), realized first-quarter GDP has noticeably underperformed other quarters since the financial crisis, for various reasons.\nMarket Realist \u2013\nReasons the US economy stalled in 1Q15\nThe US economy stalled in 2014 for several reasons, including seasonality, weather, strength of the dollar, the West Coast port strike, and the oil price slump.\nThe first quarter has been historically been below par. The Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates the average annualized first quarter growth to be 0.6% and the rest of the year to be 2.9% (2010\u20132014). A rebound can be expected over the year.\nThe United States faced an unusually harsh winter, which was a drag on output. Even the weaker-than-expected March jobs report with a meager 126,000 job additions could include the weather as a factor. The above graph shows how far more than the historical norm were held back from their jobs due to the weather in March.\n[marketrealist-chart id=400696]\nDollar strength (UUP) also adversely affected output. The dollar has been on the rise since mid-2014, as you can see in the above graph. It has risen almost 22% over the past year. The rise in the dollar crimps business spending.\nCorporate earnings and revenues of S&P 500 (VOO) (SPY) companies with more than 50% of their businesses abroad are expected to suffer by almost 10% in 1Q15, as estimated by FactSet.\nWest Coast port strike\nThe West Coast Port strike also contributed to the slowdown. The strike was instrumental in narrowing the trade gap, or the difference between imports and exports, to its lowest level since 2009. Exports declined to $186.25 billion, a drop of 1.6% in February.\nOil effect\nThe oil price slump (USO) (BNO) of 2014 undermined business investments, especially in the mining and exploration sector. The low prices have hurt production in the energy sector, which has led to a fall in output. Schlumberger (SLB) and Halliburton have already announced cuts in spending. As reported by Reuters, Schlumberger aims to reduce capital spending for 2015 by $500 million to $2.5 billion. Halliburton (HAL) has estimated a 15% cut in spending to $2.8 billion.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Dakar, the fashionable African capital\nGustavo Augusto-Vieira\nAdama Pari (right) and a model from Dakar Fashion Week\nDakar, the capital of Senegal, is internationally renowned for having hosted, up to 2008, the most important rally in the world. However, for the past 15 years, it has been considered as the African fashion capital. And this is where one of the most important events in this sector takes place annually, the Dakar Fashion Week. The latest edition, held in June 2016, reunited 20 stylists from ten nationalities and launched new fashion proposals to the market, such as Inass Saghdaoui, Moroccan, who has been noteworthy for her asymmetric shapes and unconventional materials utilized in her creations. Designers and buyers from various regions, such as Johannesburg, Casablanca, and Lagos go there seeking original designs and also multiple trends the local fashion provides.\nDaker Fashion Week has not only possibly placed Senegal on the international fashion map but the country is also recognized as a place populated by elegant people. \"We have always been a fashionable country. But fashion in a traditional manner. We have always worn the \"boubou\" [a local typical outfit] and we even make things out of silk. Now, as years have gone by, we have introduced modernity\", confirms Adama Paris, stylist. She was original name in the Congo was Adama Amanda Ndiaye, she created the event in 2002. She is the daughter of a Senegalese diplomats and lived in France with her family and then she became interested in fashion when was still quite young. She quit her job in a bank and returned to Senegal. \"Don't you have a Fashion Week like in France?\" she remembers asking at that time. \"And they told me they didn't. So, I created one\".\nThe event began just funded by Adama's own money, but now we count on diverse sponsors and coverage from large-scale press vehicles, such as the Vogue Magazine and The New York Times newspaper. \"People know me, but there is still a struggle for getting financial support. But, I know it is easier now than when I first started\", she compares \"My reputation on the continent has been made this way, by speaking about my project with influential people. Now I am fighting a great deal to get funding and economic perks from the industry. We are not just designing fashion for the sake of fashion\".\nAccording to Adama, Dakar Fashion Week has sought to go beyond just fashion shows and is trying to organize and professionalize the fashion sector on the continent. There have been meetings with designers and business people resulting in the creation of a television program on fashion, featuring her and also the creation of the African Federation of Fashion Designers. \"We have met to define next year's fashion calendar for Africa\", she reveals. The idea is to prepare a calendar including such important events on the continent as: Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, Lagos Fashion and Design Week (LFDW), held in Nigeria, Angola Fashion Week (AFW) and the International Festival of African Fashion (FIMA), created by Alphadi, in Nigerian by the stylist in 1998, sponsored by Unesco, and even other editions can be held in various countries.\n\"I think African fashion is growing quite a lot and quickly\", evaluates Adama Paris. \"The local production is a great opportunity for everybody, because our continent is so vast and there are so many resources. And the costs here are lower than in Europe\". During the course of the 15 years of Dakar Fashion Week, it has already reunited at least one thousand 200 professionals from the fashion industry. \"Investors are looking at Africa and now we have the opportunity to make joint business ventures. We are tired of seeing people who come to our country and taking all our resources away from us. Now, I am part of this generation that wants its own fashion\".\nDakar Fashion Week\nBrazilian exchange\nIn April 2015, at the S\u00e3o Paulo Fashion Week (SPFW) the Africa Africans Fashion was on the catwalks. On that occasion, the visitors could check out five African stylists on the catwalks: Palesa Mokubung (South Africa), Amaka \"Maki\" Osakwe (Nigeria), Jamil Walji (Kenya), Xuly B\u00ebt (Mali) and Imane Ayissi (Cameroun). The idea of the organizers of the show was to trace a panorama on the contemporary visual designs of the African continent through the artist works arising from diverse countries.\n\"We put the most contemporary on display related to African fashion design, through the individuality of each stylist. It was also extremely important to make Africa achieve closer relations with Brazil, where Black culture is so ever present and important\", said the Nigerian editor and art director Andy Okoroafor, who was the curator of the Show. \"We wish African fashion to be understood and absorbed by the Brazilian public in general and also by the Afro-Brazilian stylists\", Emanoel Araujo commented, curatorial director of the Afro-Brazil Museu, who is a partner of SPFW in this initiative. \"I am glad to put on display my designs and participate in a project to disclose African culture\", stated Palesa Mokubung, the South African. She was in S\u00e3o Paulo participating in the Exhibit, together with her colleagues Jamil Walji and Amaka \"Maki\" Osakwe. Currently, in spite of being called the Rally Dakar, the famous Rally event takes place annually in South American countries; as well as the African style, which are sought to transverse the ocean and conquer new followers.\n3 Trillions of dollars is the approximate amount the fashion industry transacts annually, including the textile, wearing apparel, footwear, and luxury fashion sectors. The source of this information is from the World Trade Organization (WTO). There are an overall 59 million people employed in the textile sector.\nKaftan, the traditional Moroccan fashion\nContrary to Dakar Fashion Week that wagers on global markets, Caftan du Maroc is an event focused on promoting traditional kaftan Moroccan fashion, a type of handmade tunic or robe. This has been in progress for 21 years partnering with the country's government, the event is held in various world capitals, such as Paris, London, and Amsterdam.\n\"The activities are planned to provide the visitors an imaginary escape to distant lands, to a world of beautiful clothing, unforgettable cuisine, and romantic entertainment and sounds\", explains Loubna Ennadir, directress of the North American edition that was held in Washington DC last November. The fashion show displayed 25 models by six renowned stylists. The US$ 185 dollar entrance fee also included a typical Moroccan dinner.\nEthiopia: the large fashion factory\nIn search of competiveness and generating jobs, in such countries as Ethiopia, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Mauritius, Ghana, and South Africa, this country has invested in implementing wearing apparel and footwear factories. The Hawassa industrial park was inaugurated in Ethiopia in June 2016 and it provides 1.3 million square meters of space and houses 21 clothing, fabric, purses\/bags, and footwear factories, which will double the job positions for Ethiopians in this sector. The space will generate 1 billion dollars in exportation revenues, 10 times greater than the current volume.\nThe new industrial park once it is completely operating will generate 60,000 job positions in one single location, more than the current 53,000 industrial textile jobs nowadays in Ethiopia. It was built by the Chinese China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation for 250 million dollars, invested by the Ethiopian government; the industrial park is located 275 kilometers from Addis Ababa, the capital city.\nHawassa provides enormous industrial sheds for meeting the needs of international manufactures, but there are even smaller industrial sheds for Ethiopian fashion companies and from other African counties as well. There are such fashion companies as PVH Corp. (owner of the Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger brands), the giant Swiss fast-fashion H&M company, and the Chinese Wuxi Jinmao Foreign Trade Company, as these are among the 15 foreign companies renting industrial sheds in the park, as well as others from India, Sri Lanka, and China, as well as six Ethiopian companies.\nEthiopia is nowadays at the center of the attention of global companies due to the low overhead compared to its main competitors, such as China, Vietnam, and Indonesia. Besides that, the country also has the potential to become a source of raw materials: there is over 3.2 million hectares of land including an appropriate climate or growing cotton and other natural fibers; although, only 7% of the land is currently being harnessed for crop growing.\nGTBank Fashion Weekend brings together designers in Nigeria\nEvent in Dakar unites Brazilian and Senegalese entrepreneurs\nSenegal opens Museum of Black Civilizations\nDakar: A reference city","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"All Products Technical Articles Services\nELISAPro\nFA Buffers & Mounting Fluids\nSerology Reference Testing\nRaw Material & Serum Testing\n9CFR Virus Testing\nSterility Testing\nBovine Polyomavirus\nSenecavirus A (SVA) Testing\nEMA & EP Virus Testing\nVirus Bank Characterization\nCell Line Characterization\nMycosplasma Testing\nCustom Testing\nTesting with VMRD\nBiologics Testing Submission\nAbout VMRD\nIs Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) Still a Threat?\nTravis C. McGuire, D.V.M., Ph.D., Director of Research | May. 2009\nEIA is still clearly a threat; however the threat is less than in the 1970s. The overall percentage of EIA positive horses among those tested in the United States decreased from near 4% in 1972 to <0.01% in 20051. Prior to the mid-1990s, 92% of the positive horses were in a \"hot zone\" (see illustration) of states that included the South (including Texas and Oklahoma) and parts of the Midwest1. Since the mid-1990s there have been clusters of EIA occurring in states outside the hot zone that can be seen on the website, which contains complete data and maps on EIA testing in the United States from 1972 to 2007. Notable increases in positive horses outside the hot zone states include those in Nevada in 2003; South Dakota in 2001; Utah in 2000; North Dakota in 1999; Utah, Oregon and Indiana in 1998; South Dakota in 1997; Idaho in 1996; and New York and Michigan in 1995. For 2006, the percent positive horses among those tested varied by state from zero in 27 states to 0.048% in Mississippi where 20 of 41,331 samples were positive. It seems that infected horses in the hot zone states continue transmission and that sometimes transmission occurs in states outside the hot zone. Infections in the states inside and outside the hot zone are due to transmission from infected horses, although the sources of the infected horses are not always known.\nA documented outbreak of EIA outside the United States demonstrates the threat of an infected horse. On June 15, 2006, the first case of EIA was reported in the Republic of Ireland2 and by November 14, 2006, the number of cases in the Republic of Ireland was 263. All the 26 cases appeared to be epidemiologically linked. In August of 2006 the first case of EIA occurred in Northern Ireland and the case was epidemiologically linked to the outbreak in the Republic of Ireland3. The source of the outbreak in the Republic of Ireland was thought to be due to the use of an unauthorized veterinary medical product2. Regardless of the source of the initial infection with EIA virus, there was transmission to other horses. In this outbreak, the first horse infected was documented to be a threat to other horses.\nTransmission of EIA from an infected horse usually occurs by blood transfer to a non-infected horse. Blood transfer and transmission occurs naturally by biting insects such as horseflies and deerflies following interrupted feeding on an infected horse1. Blood transfer and transmission also occurs from the use of blood-contaminated needles and equipment. Transmission with other body fluids may occur. Recent quantification of EIA virus RNA by RT-PCR demonstrated significant RNA copies in nasal, buccal and genital secretions obtained from swabs; however, the quantities were always less than in plasma4. Transmission from horses in the carrier-state with low-level viremia is much less probable than from an acute case with high-level viremia. The practical problem in EIA control and in determining the threat from a particular EIA-infected horse is distinguishing whether the infected horse has a high- or low-level viremia. Further, depending on the horse and the duration of infection, periods of low-level viremia are interrupted with episodes of high-level viremia increasing the potential for transmission.\n1. https:\/\/www.aphis.usda.gov\/vs\/nahss\/equine\/eia\/eia_info_sheet.pdf\n2. Reynolds, DI. Equine infectious anaemia in Ireland. Veterinary Record 159:187, 2006.\n3. Menzies F, Patterson T. Description of the first case of equine infectious anaemia in Northern Ireland. Veterinary Record 159:753-754, 2006.\n4. Quinlivan M, Cook RF, Cullinane A. Real-time quantitative RT-PCR and PCR assays for a novel European field isolate of equine infectious anaemia virus based sequence determination of the gag gene. Veterinary Record 160:611-618, 2007.\nE: Products Support\nE: Biologics Testing Support\nCopyright \u00a9 2023 VMRD, Inc.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Manitoba\/Ontario forest designated World Heritage Site\nBy: Dylan Robertson\nPosted: 07\/1\/2018 11:38 AM\t| Comments:\nPIMACHIOWINAKI CORP.\nA stretch of boreal forest along the Manitoba-Ontario boundary, part of which is shown in a handout photo, has won international recognition for its pristine environment and connection with Indigenous culture.\nHey there, time traveller!\nThis article was published 1\/7\/2018 (381 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.\nOTTAWA \u2014 A United Nations committee has declared a swath of forest in Manitoba and Ontario a World Heritage Site, ending a $15-million, 14-year effort to grant the designation to Pimachiowin Aki.\n\"It was such a wonderful feeling to hear the words today,\" Poplar River resident Sophia Rabliauskas wrote Sunday from Bahrain, at a meeting of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). \"We can now devote all our efforts to preserving Pimachiowin Aki as a treasure for our peoples and the world.\"\nSunday's decision ends a bid that started in 2004 by First Nations people living in the boreal forest in eastern Manitoba and northwestern Ontario. The site holds both cultural and natural significance to them, but submitting a bid based on those two elements made it a complicated proposal.\nThe four First Nations behind the bid hope UNESCO status will attract tourism, economic activity and research into climate change. The four led the effort, with funding from Manitoba and Ontario.\nGet the full story.\nJoin free for 30 days\nAfter that, pay as little as $0.99 per month for the best local news coverage in Manitoba.\nKeep reading free:\nEmail Address: I agree to the Terms and Conditions, Cookie and Privacy Policies, and CASL agreement.\nAlready have an account? Log in here \u00bb\nSubscribers Log in below to continue reading,\nnot a subscriber? Create an account to start a 30 day free trial.\nYour free trial has come to an end.\nWe hope you have enjoyed your trial! To continue reading, we recommend our Read Now Pay Later membership. Simply add a form of payment and pay only 27\u00a2 per article.\nFor unlimited access to the best local, national, and international news and much more, try an All Access Digital subscription:\nThank you for supporting the journalism that our community needs!\nWe hope you have enjoyed your free trial!\nTo continue reading, select a plan below:\nIntroductory pricing*\nUnlimited online reading and commenting\nDaily newspaper replica e-Edition\nNews Break - our award-winning iOS app\nExclusive perks & discounts\nRead Now Pay Later\nper article\nCommitment-free\nOnly pay for what you read\nRefunds available\n*Introductory pricing schedule for 12 month: $0.99\/month plus tax for first 3 months, $5.99\/month for months 4 - 6, $10.99\/month for months 7 - 9, $13.99\/month for months 10 - 12. Standard All Access Digital rate of $16.99\/month begins after first year.\nMon to Sat Delivery\nIncludes all benefits of All Access Digital\n6-day delivery of our award-winning newspaper\n\"It was such a wonderful feeling to hear the words today,\" Poplar River resident Sophia Rabliauskas wrote Sunday from Bahrain, at a meeting of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). \"We can now devote all our efforts to preserving Pimachiowin Aki as a treasure for our peoples and the world.\"\nManitoba Sustainable Development Minister Rochelle Squires was \"ecstatic\" Sunday, calling the Canada Day result a good omen for Indigenous empowerment and for conservation.\n\"To know that this pristine area of the boreal shield will be protected and preserved for future generations, to also study climate change and also make it a climate change-resistant part of world is such an incredible future that Manitobans can be really proud of,\" she said.\n\"It's incredibly fitting that we received the inscription on Canada Day.\"\nFederal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said she was \"delighted\" in a Sunday statement.\n\"These national treasures represent the very best that Canada has to offer, including the history, cultures, and contributions of Indigenous peoples,\" she wrote.\n\"On this Canada Day, I am very proud to be able to showcase Pimachiowin Aki to the world.\"\nHIDEHERO OTAKE PHOTO\nPictographs are seen within the Pimachiowin Aki site in this photo provided in June 2018.\nThis is the first time UNESCO has designated World Heritage status based on two factors, meaning it needed approval from both the heritage and culture committees. This is the third attempt by Pimachiowin Aki to get World Heritage Site status. Two previous attempts were thwarted by confusion about the hybrid bid in 2013, and by the 2016 pullout of an Ontario reserve.\nThis spring, Rabliauskas told the Free Press that it would have been unthinkable to proceed with the bid without including both the culture and nature factors.\n\"Without this land, we would not be able to survive as a people,\" said Rabliauskas, who has been involved with the bid since its inception.\n\"We consider these areas very sacred spaces, where we practise our ways of life,\" she said.\nIn 2014, a report by Marr Consulting pegged the number of anticipated tourists at less than 1,000 a year, and question how much revenue would be generated as a result of the designation. Bid officials say they will work hard to promote the area.\nPimachiowin Aki is an Ojibwa phrase that means \"the land that gives life.\" The tract of land includes the Poplar River, Bloodvein, Pauingassi and Little Grand Rapids First Nations in Manitoba, and Crown land in both provinces.\nWant to get a head start on your day?\nGet the day's breaking stories, weather forecast, and more sent straight to your inbox every morning.\nSubscribe to Head Start\nThe last two of those First Nations were hit by wildfires this May, forcing 1,400 residents to evacuate to Winnipeg for weeks.\nIt's unclear whether UNESCO designation would affect future wildfires in the area. Bid officials said they'd study the issue, but they weren't sure whether it would mean faster emergency response to fires in the area, or limits on fire-suppression tactics that endanger local species.\nParks Canada said in a statement that the UNESCO designation for Wood Buffalo National Park didn't affect the emergency response to the 2016 Fort McMurray fire in Alberta.\nThe site is 29,040 square kilometres of boreal forest and traditional Ojibwa (Anishinaabe) territory, roughly the size of Belgium. It was 13 per cent larger before Pikangikum First Nation in Ontario pulled out of the bid in 2016.\nThe former NDP government cited the Pimachiowin Aki project for its decision to reroute the Bipole III transmission line to west of Lake Manitoba instead of east of Lake Winnipeg. That change cost roughly $1 billion.\ndylan.robertson@freepress.mb.ca\nRefundRefund\nYou can comment on most stories on The Winnipeg Free Press website. You can also agree or disagree with other comments. 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{"text":"Classes to do battle on Green\nby Tara Kyle | 5\/18\/01 5:00am\nIn the absence of such defining traditions as an ice sculpture or bonfire to call its own, Green Key has long struggled with a bit of an identity crisis. This year, the 2003 Class Council has set out to change that by instituting an event they hope will become an annual tradition entitled \"Class Combat.\"\nSaturday on the Green, students will have the opportunity to win glory for their respective class by competing in events ranging from a traditional pie eating contest and obstacle course, to the more creative \"chicken suit wrestling\" and the curiously-titled \"chubby bunny.\"\n\"We're trying to bring a larger purpose to the big weekend. Every weekend includes huge parties and drinking and all that,\" 2003 Class Council President Daniel Chang said of organizers' hopes for thebrand new Green Key competition.\n\"Every year I read articles in The Dartmouth that say, 'what are the Green Key traditions -- oh wait, there are none,'\" he said. \"We're trying to make something new in the spirit of competition and class spirit.\"\nSome 15 campus organizations -- Greek houses, religious affinity and cultural groups among them -- are involved in sponsoring individual events. Various sources contributed over $4000 in funding, including $1000 approved by the Student Assembly.\nFirst place winners in each event will earn five points toward their class total, and runners-up will take two. At the end of the day, the victorious class will receive a four-foot high trophy.\nReferencing the concern that students will show up to these events intoxicated, Chang noted that he and fellow organizers joked that the common practice of adding \"in bed\" to the end of fortune cookie messages can be adapted to the situation.\n\"Everyone can just add 'drunk' to the beginning of all these events: drunk ass-boxing...\"\nThe idea for this sort of competition had been kicked around and passed between various class councils over the years, but finally began to pick up steam after Chang and a friend brainstormed an Olympics theme at a leadership conference last year. Graduating seniors Dean Krishna '01 and Rebecca Lee '01 obtained initial funding last winter before turning the reigns over to Chang and the 2003 Class Council.\nChang anticipates the at least 500 students to attend over the course of the day. All participants in Class Combat will take home free T-shirts, with individual event winners netting versions with the added inscription, \"I'm a winner.\"\nDartmouth announces campus-wide tobacco ban\nA 'winter wonderland': College gears up for outdoor programming\nPeer schools adjust plans amid nationwide rise in COVID-19 cases","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"FDA approves Dificid for oral suspension and for c...\nFDA approves Dificid for oral suspension and for children aged 6 months and over to treat Clostridioides (formerly Clostridium) difficile-associated diarrhea.-Merck Inc.+ Astellas\nPublished:28th Jan 2020\nMerck Inc., announced the FDA has approved a New Drug Application (NDA) for Dificid (fidaxomicin) for oral suspension, and a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for Dificid tablets for the treatment of Clostridioides (formerly Clostridium) difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) in children aged six months and older. The FDA's approval of the new formulation and new indication for Dificid was based on a Phase III, multicenter, investigator-blind, randomized, parallel group study (known as the SUNSHINE study, NCT02218372) in which the safety and efficacy of fidaxomicin was evaluated in pediatric patients from 6 months to less than 18 years of age (one patient was less than six months of age). This study, sponsored by Astellas Pharma Europe B.V. (with Merck & Co., Inc. as collaborator) included 148 randomized patients aged <18 years with confirmed cdi, of whom 142 received either fidaxomicin (suspension or tablets, twice daily) or vancomycin (suspension or tablets, four times daily) in a 2:1 ratio. patients were randomized by age group, as follows: 30 patients from 6 months to><2 years; 49 patients age 2 to><6 years, 40 patients age 6 to><12 years and 29 patients age 12 to><18 years. generally, the two treatment groups were balanced regarding demographics and other baseline characteristics. cdad clinical response in the overall pediatric population, assessed through two days following 10 days of treatment, was similar between the fidaxomicin and vancomycin groups (77.6% vs. 70.5% with a 95% ci for the treatment difference of 7.5 [-7.4%, 23.9%]). sustained clinical response, defined as the proportion of treated patients with confirmed clinical response and no cdad recurrence through 30 days after the end of treatment, was higher for fidaxomicin than for vancomycin (68.4% vs. 50.0% with a 95% ci for the treatment difference of 18.4 [1.5%, 35.3%]).>\nCondition: Infectious Diseases\/Clostridium\nSummit Therapeutics announces topline results for phase III Ri-CoDIFy study for C. Difficile infection.\nSummit Therapeutics Inc. announced topline results for the Phase III Ri-CoDIFy study evaluating its investigational drug, ridinilazole, for the treatment of and Sustained Clinical Response (SCR) for patients suffering from C. difficile infection (C. diff. infection or CDI).\nPhase III ECOSPOR III study of SER 109 shows efficacy in C. difficile infection.\nSeres Therapeutics announced late-breaking data from its Phase III ECOSPOR III study evaluating SER 109, an investigational oral microbiome therapeutic for recurrent C. difficile infection (rCDI).\nSeres Therapeutics and Nestle Health Science to jointly commercialise SER 109 ,oral microbiome, in United States and Canada.\nSeres Therapeutics, Inc. announced that it has entered into an agreement with Nestl\u00e9 Health Science to jointly commercialize SER 109, Seres' investigational oral microbiome therapeutic for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), in the United States and Canada. If approved, SER-109 would become the first-ever FDA-approved microbiome therapeutic.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > First Fruits > Journals > Faith and Philosophy > Vol. 28 (2011) > Iss. 1\nIntroduction: Faith, Rationality, And The Passions\nSarah Coakley\nReason, Faith, And Meaning\nTears And Weeping: An Augustinian View\nThe Non-Aristotelian Character Of Aquinas's Ethics On The Passions\nEleonore Stump\nSkeptical Detachment Or Loving Submission To The Good? Reason, Faith, And The Passions In Descartes\nJohn Cottingham\nKant, The Passions, And The Structure Of Moral Motivation\nThe Monstrous Centaur: Joseph De Maistre On Reason, Passion, And Violence\nDouglas Hedley\nKierkegaard On Faith, Reason, And Passion\nMerold Westphal\nIntellectual Emotions And Religious Emotions\nPeter Goldie\nBook Review: Crossing The Threshold Of Divine Revelation\nNicholas Wolterstorff\nBook Review: The Metaphysics Of Everyday Life: An Essay In Practical Realism\nWilliam Hasker\nBook Review: C.S. Lewis As Philosopher: Truth, Goodness, And Beauty\nDavid O'Hara\nBook Review: Transforming Philosophy And Religion: Love's Wisdom\nN.N. Trakakis\nBook Review: Alone In The World: Human Uniqueness In Science And Theology\nAims, Scope, and Policies\nPatrons of the Journal\nSupport Faith and Philosophy\nSubmit Book for Review\nAll Issues Vol. 36, Iss. 1 Vol. 35, Iss. 4 Vol. 35, Iss. 3 Vol. 35, Iss. 2 Vol. 35, Iss. 1 Vol. 34, Iss. 4 Vol. 34, Iss. 3 Vol. 34, Iss. 2 Vol. 34, Iss. 1 Vol. 33, Iss. 4 Vol. 33, Iss. 3 Vol. 33, Iss. 2 Vol. 33, Iss. 1 Vol. 32, Iss. 4 Vol. 32, Iss. 3 Vol. 32, Iss. 2 Vol. 32, Iss. 1 Vol. 31, Iss. 4 Vol. 31, Iss. 3 Vol. 31, Iss. 2 Vol. 31, Iss. 1 Vol. 30, Iss. 4 Vol. 30, Iss. 3 Vol. 30, Iss. 2 Vol. 30, Iss. 1 Vol. 29, Iss. 4 Vol. 29, Iss. 3 Vol. 29, Iss. 2 Vol. 29, Iss. 1 Vol. 28, Iss. 4 Vol. 28, Iss. 3 Vol. 28, Iss. 2 Vol. 28, Iss. 1 Vol. 27, Iss. 4 Vol. 27, Iss. 3 Vol. 27, Iss. 2 Vol. 27, Iss. 1 Vol. 26, Iss. 5 Vol. 26, Iss. 4 Vol. 26, Iss. 3 Vol. 26, Iss. 2 Vol. 26, Iss. 1 Vol. 25, Iss. 4 Vol. 25, Iss. 3 Vol. 25, Iss. 2 Vol. 25, Iss. 1 Vol. 24, Iss. 4 Vol. 24, Iss. 3 Vol. 24, Iss. 2 Vol. 24, Iss. 1 Vol. 23, Iss. 4 Vol. 23, Iss. 3 Vol. 23, Iss. 2 Vol. 23, Iss. 1 Vol. 22, Iss. 4 Vol. 22, Iss. 3 Vol. 22, Iss. 2 Vol. 22, Iss. 1 Vol. 21, Iss. 4 Vol. 21, Iss. 3 Vol. 21, Iss. 2 Vol. 21, Iss. 1 Vol. 20, Iss. 4 Vol. 20, Iss. 3 Vol. 20, Iss. 2 Vol. 20, Iss. 1 Vol. 19, Iss. 4 Vol. 19, Iss. 3 Vol. 19, Iss. 2 Vol. 19, Iss. 1 Vol. 18, Iss. 4 Vol. 18, Iss. 3 Vol. 18, Iss. 2 Vol. 18, Iss. 1 Vol. 17, Iss. 4 Vol. 17, Iss. 3 Vol. 17, Iss. 2 Vol. 17, Iss. 1 Vol. 16, Iss. 4 Vol. 16, Iss. 3 Vol. 16, Iss. 2 Vol. 16, Iss. 1 Vol. 15, Iss. 4 Vol. 15, Iss. 3 Vol. 15, Iss. 2 Vol. 15, Iss. 1 Vol. 14, Iss. 4 Vol. 14, Iss. 3 Vol. 14, Iss. 2 Vol. 14, Iss. 1 Vol. 13, Iss. 4 Vol. 13, Iss. 3 Vol. 13, Iss. 2 Vol. 13, Iss. 1 Vol. 12, Iss. 4 Vol. 12, Iss. 3 Vol. 12, Iss. 2 Vol. 12, Iss. 1 Vol. 11, Iss. 4 Vol. 11, Iss. 3 Vol. 11, Iss. 2 Vol. 11, Iss. 1 Vol. 10, Iss. 4 Vol. 10, Iss. 3 Vol. 10, Iss. 2 Vol. 10, Iss. 1 Vol. 9, Iss. 4 Vol. 9, Iss. 3 Vol. 9, Iss. 2 Vol. 9, Iss. 1 Vol. 8, Iss. 4 Vol. 8, Iss. 3 Vol. 8, Iss. 2 Vol. 8, Iss. 1 Vol. 7, Iss. 4 Vol. 7, Iss. 3 Vol. 7, Iss. 2 Vol. 7, Iss. 1 Vol. 6, Iss. 4 Vol. 6, Iss. 3 Vol. 6, Iss. 2 Vol. 6, Iss. 1 Vol. 5, Iss. 4 Vol. 5, Iss. 3 Vol. 5, Iss. 2 Vol. 5, Iss. 1 Vol. 4, Iss. 4 Vol. 4, Iss. 3 Vol. 4, Iss. 2 Vol. 4, Iss. 1 Vol. 3, Iss. 4 Vol. 3, Iss. 3 Vol. 3, Iss. 2 Vol. 3, Iss. 1 Vol. 2, Iss. 4 Vol. 2, Iss. 3 Vol. 2, Iss. 2 Vol. 2, Iss. 1 Vol. 1, Iss. 4 Vol. 1, Iss. 3 Vol. 1, Iss. 2 Vol. 1, Iss. 1","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'Game of Thrones' star Lena Headey shares emotional Instagram post after Episode 5\nJayme Deerwester\nSpoiler alert! The following contains details from \"Game of Thrones\" Season 8 Episode 5, \"The Bells.\" Read our recap here.\n\"When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die,\" Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) famously told the too-good-for-his-own-good Ned Stark (Sean Bean) back in Season 1 of HBO's \"Game of Thrones.\" \"There is no middle ground.\"\nUltimately, Cersei did both by seizing the Iron Throne for herself in Season 6 and then escaping the executioner's blade (or fire) when she was killed by a pile of bricks. And for that, Headey has no regrets.\n\"There she goes. It's been fun, and bonkers,\" Headey wrote in an Instagram post Monday night. \"I loved her. I am grateful for the opportunity. Massively thankful for your encouraging and supportive love along the way.\"\nShe concluded, \"And now her watch is ended (I know she'd never make it, Nights watch wouldn't have her .. but still.)\"\nSeason 8, Episode 5 recap: 'Game of Thrones' just burned itself to the ground\nFor whom the 'Bells\" toll: All those King's Landing battle deaths, ranked\nHeadey is probably right about the Night's Watch. Even if it still existed and accepted women, Cersei was never a big supporter. She saw it more of a purgatory for ousted nobles or those who believed in \"grumpkins and snarks\" rather than \"the shield that guards the realms of men.\"\nAnd even after Jon Snow (Kit Harington) brought her a wight to drive home the threat posed by the army of the dead, Cersei decided to withhold her armies, preferring to take on whatever ragged survivors emerged from Episode 3's Battle of Winterfell.\nViewers saw Cersei at her most vulnerable during the siege of Kings Landing \u2013 even though she was in a similar position during Season 2's Battle of the Blackwater. The difference? This time, she didn't have her father to come to her rescue and her brother Tyrion, who helped save the city that time, was on the opposing side \u2013 though he did try to spare her life and that of her twin brother\/lover Jamie (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau).\nAnd so, just one episode after she defiantly spurned Tyrion's request that she cede the Iron Throne to Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) and executed Dany's faithful advisor Missandei (Nathalie Emmanuel), she acted delusional (about her chances of holding onto the throne) and was ultimately afraid to face death. And even though she was scared, she had to know the rubble offered a much kinder death than she would have gotten from Dany, especially in mad queen mode.\nCersei may have died, but by escaping justice, she almost won the Game of Thrones.\nFans fume: Viewers unhappy with handling of Daenerys' 'mad queen' arc, Cersei's demise\n'Game of Thrones': Why it's the defining pop-cultural experience of the millennial generation","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"News Story of the Day\nResources for Advocates\nReport Abuse to your AG\nNewark archdiocese bought second beach house for use by McCarrick\nCNA Staff, Sep 9, 2020 \/ 11:30 am MT (CNA).- Months before officials in the Archdiocese of Newark sold a beach house used by former cardinal Theodore McCarrick for sexual abuse and coercion, the archdiocese bought a second beach house on the Jersey Shore, at which McCarrick reportedly hosted friends and courted donors.\nThe second beach house, according to an investigative report from northjersey.com, was purchased in 1997 by the Newark archdiocese from the neighboring Diocese of Metuchen. The house was located in Brick, New Jersey, on Barnegat Bay.\nThe archdiocese bought that home four months before it sold the Sea Girt, New Jersey beach house which McCarrick was alleged to have used for sexual abuse and coercion since the 1980s.\nBoth homes were owned by the Diocese of Metuchen, which McCarrick led as a bishop from 1981 to 1986, before they were purchased by the Archdiocese of Newark, which McCarrick led from 1986 to 2000.\nThe Sea Girt house was purchased by the Metuchen diocese in 1985, and sold to the Newark archdiocese in 1988.\nThe Brick house was purchased in 1987 by a Metuchen priest, Msgr. Francis Crine, and Walter Uzenski, principal of the school at Crine's parish. Crine died in 1989, and Uzenski gave the house to St. James Parish in Woodbridge, NJ, to settle an unspecified debt of Crine's. In 1994, the parish transferred the property to the diocese, northjersey.com reported.\nIt is not clear what debt Crine owed to the parish.\nCrine was a Metuchen chancery official during McCarrick's tenure in Newark. He was also pastor of St. James Parish during a period in which at least three priests were assigned to the parish who eventually faced allegations of sexual abuse, misconduct, and theft.\nMcCarrick was first accused of misconduct toward seminarians, and of compelling them to visit the Sea Girt house, in the late 1980s. He was accused in 1994 of abusing a seminarian there. According to northjersey.com, the apostolic nuncio to the U.S. ordered the Sea Girt home be sold in the late 1990s.\nIn April 1997, four months before the Sea Girt home was sold, the Archdiocese of Newark purchased the Brick house. In 2002, after McCarrick had become Archbishop of Washington, the archdiocese sold the home.\nAccording to northjersey.com, there are no allegations of sexual abuse or coercion at the beach house in Brick.\nNews that the Archdiocese of Newark purchased a second beach house at which McCarrick entertained guests comes as Catholics await the results of internal investigations on McCarrick conducted by the Vatican, and by the archdioceses of Newark and Washington.\nLittle information regarding McCarrick's misconduct has been released by those dioceses or the Holy See since news emerged in June 2018 that McCarrick was credibly accused of sexually abusing minors.\nThe former cardinal has since been laicized, and is accused of serially sexually abusing and coercing minors, seminarians, and young priests.\nThe Archdiocese of Washington has declined repeatedly to release files on slush funds controlled by McCarrick in Newark and Washington, in which several hundred thousand dollars reportedly was under the archbishop's direct control, with no auditing or oversight. McCarrick is believed to have used the funds to lavish cash gifts on other Church leaders.\nThe Vatican investigation is expected to report whether other senior Church leaders enabled, abetted, or ignored allegations against McCarrick. A report was initia...\nRead the rest of the story here.\nor sign in with email.\nDonate Report Abuse to your AG\nCHILD USA, in partnership with SNAP, has developed Survivor Toolkits to help survivors understand their rights and guide them through the empowering but challenging process of filing a civil lawsuit.\nShare Your Story Get Help Now Locations\nSNAPNetwork\nProtect the vulnerable. Heal the wounded. Prevent the abuse.\nSurvivor Supporter\nSNAP Network is a GuideStar Gold Participant\nPO Box 56539, Saint Louis, MO 63156, United States\nSNAP \u00a9 2018. All Rights Reserved.\nNationBuilder Theme by Nation Digital","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Twitter: Hornets\nCourt Vision: No. 2 Duke opens ACC play with strong statement\nDuke's talented freshman Jahlil Okafor set a new career high with 28 against Boston College.\nDURHAM, N.C. \u2014 No. 2 Duke (13-0, 1-0) made easy work of Boston College (7-5, 0-1) at home on Saturday afternoon by a final of 85-64 in the ACC opener for both teams. Duke continued to show the multiple ways it can win basketball games, and how maybe head coach Mike Krzyzewski is right when he says this team isn't playing nearly as well as it can \u2014 yet. Which is a scary thought.\n1. Jahlil Okafor continues to be really good, all while adjusting to basketball on this level.\nWell, sort of \u2014 if adjusting means averaging 26.3 points and 8.0 rebounds over the last three games, all while shooting 30-of-39 from the field (76.9 percent).\nThe adjustment, it seems, is coming in dealing with how different teams defend him differently. Some have single-covered him. Some have double \u2014 even triple \u2014 teamed him. Some try some sort of combination of all kinds of things.\nBoston College is one of the rare teams that actually has a seven-footer in senior Dennis Clifford, and he actually did a decent job on Okafor when he was guarding him, at least making things more difficult than they would have been. But he played 17 minutes and fouled out.\nClifford being the wily vet that he is made things as difficult for Okafor as he could legally without doing anything too bad, with the exception of an Flagrant 1 elbow that was unintentional. But through it all, Okafor kept his cool.\n\"I think he was just really ready to play me and eager. He didn't want me to score, so when I was trying to move block to block, he was doing a lot of holding and grabbing, things like that,\" Okafor said.\n\"It doesn't affect me at all. It was just being patient, letting the game come to me, not try to force anything, kind of battle back with him and just being strong in the post.\"\nKrzyzewski echoed that sentiment, because he knows people are going to try to intimidate the seemingly-unflappable freshman.\n\"He has a toughness, he just doesn't \u2014 Jah is special in every way. I thought he handled everything today really well,\" Krzyzewski said. \"But it won't affect (him) where he's knocked back, but he also isn't going to go bonkers in retaliation or anything like that. He's a special guy. He's really got everything, including being a great teammate and a great demeanor.\"\n2. Justise Winslow remains the biggest x-factor for this team.\nYes, another of Duke's freshmen who seems too big for his age, Duke's talented wing might have had his best game in a Duke uniform to date, scoring 13 points on 5-of-7 shooting (1-of-2 from three), adding seven rebounds, four assists, two blocks, three fouls and just one turnover in 26 minutes.\nAt 6-foot-4, 225 pounds, he's more linebacker than wing, but he has the athleticism to play there with the speed and agility to boot \u2014 not to mention the power.\nHe had double figures in five straight games to start the season, then got a bit more quiet, averaging 10.6 in the next five. In the last two, though, he's averaging 14.5 points, 7.0 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 1.0 blocks in just 28.5 minutes. Oh, and he's shooting 10-of-18 from the floor in that span, too.\n\"Really just have fun, try to live in the moment, just go out there and have fun with my brothers, compete and just give it everything I have because you never know, God forbid I get hurt or something like that, this could be my last game,\" Winslow said.\nAnd that energy is what the Blue Devils need from him. Duke doesn't need him to score a ton, though. Not really. It's a luxury.\nThey need him using his game-changing and almost unfair athleticism to make plays, like a steal and a breakaway dunk or the swat of a shot on the interior. And he did that against Boston College.\n\"I just tried to play hard out there, compete and just give it my all. When I do that, I'm flying all over the court, getting teals, getting blocks, dunks, three-pointers, rebounds and setting good screens,\" Winslow said, naming like almost every good thing in basketball. \"When you're out there just having fun and competing, then your best is going to show.\"\n3. Krzyzewski has \u2014 and will continue to \u2014 push this team beyond the boundaries of normalcy.\nDuke said after a game against Elon earlier in December that this team can't be \"normal\". It's normal to let human nature creep in and play poorly after a long layoff or overlook an outmatched opponent.\nAs young as this team is, he also knows how good it can be. As long as it's not normal. So he tries to eradicate any signs of that. He called a timeout quickly in the second half when Boston College strung together a few baskets.\n\"We were scoring, and it was like we, it was okay because we were going to score and they were going to score. It's human nature,\" Krzyzewski said. \"You've got to battle it. They're not going to lie down and die for you. So we picked it up a little bit after that.\"\nIt has gotten to the point where he was upset enough to mention a few \"run-outs\" the Eagles got when Duke was up by 24 in the second half. \"I'd have to look and see why that occured,\" Krzyzewski said. \"It may have occured becuase we're up by 24.\"\nThat's not a good eough reason for Krzyzewksi. But at the same time, there's a balance, and these kids \u2014 they are still kids, after all \u2014 somtimes seemed as if they were living under that burden of expectations instead of reveling in it.\nA close-knit group off the court, they've rallied a lot more behind each other at any sign of passion or enthusiasm, chest-bumping and fiercely encouraging each other, and that seems to have gotten them going whenever a slow stretch hits.\n\"We have a lot of fun off the court and even on the court, we're having a lot of fun. You just build a bond like there, it really makes you want to go out there on the floor and fight for your brothers,\" Okafor said.\n\"We're a very tight group off the court and I think when we're out there having fun, that's when we're playing at our best. So just try to make the extra pass, get everybody involved and just get Cameron rocking,\" Winslow said.\nIt was plenty of times, particularly when Duke forced a shot-clock violation, where Cameron and the players were practically frothing at the mouth with excitement.\nAnd so they'd rather be out there chest-bumping and screaming than methodically, emotionlessly going about their business.\n\"Basketball is fun, a fun game and we all love playing it, otherwise we wouldn't be here,\" Duke point guard Tyus Jones said. \"So you've definitely got to make sure you're having fun but at the same time, it's a business. We find the happy medium.\"\nMarshall Plumlee's entire stat line \u2014 11 minutes, 3 points, six rebounds, four blocks. If he's going to be an effective backup for Okafor when and if he gets into foul trouble, he has to give Duke a boost, and he did just that today.\n14-of-17 \u2014 That was Jahlil Okafor's free-throw line number, as he made 14-of-17 from the foul line (82.3 percent). That brought him up from about 50 percent on the season to nearly 61 percent, and that will help dissuade teams from just fouling him.\nFOX Sports Carolinas","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home\/Health\/Super-gonorrhoea spread causes 'deep concern'\nSuper-gonorrhoea spread causes 'deep concern'\nTwo women in the UK have been infected with super-gonorrhoea, sparking deep concern from sexual health doctors.\nA European \"party destination\" is one line of inquiry and health officials are trying to contact subsequent sexual partners in the UK.\nBoth women have since been cured of their infections, which were resistant to the main therapy.\nPublic Health England encouraged people to use condoms with new and casual partners.\nOne of the women appears to have been infected in mainland Europe. The other acquired the infection in the UK, but this case also has strong links to Europe.\nDr Nick Phin, from Public Health England, said it was \"unfair\" to say super-gonorrhoea was currently circulating in the UK.\nBut he told the BBC: \"It really brings home the message that these organisms will spread globally and you can get them in the UK.\"\nWhat is gonorrhoea?\nThe disease is caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae.\nThe infection is spread by unprotected vaginal, oral and anal sex.\nSymptoms can include a thick green or yellow discharge from sexual organs, pain when urinating and bleeding between periods.\nHowever, vaginal and rectal infections often have no symptoms.\nAn untreated infection can lead to infertility, pelvic inflammatory disease and can be passed on to a child during pregnancy.\nThere is no personal connection or established chain of sexual partners that links the two women.\nBut both were infected with a version of gonorrhoea that was resistant to the first choice antibiotics \u2013 a combination of azithromycin and ceftriaxone.\nThe cases were not related to the \"world's worst case\", which was detected in the UK in 2018 after a trip to South East Asia.\nDr Phin said: \"We tried to follow up contacts as much as possible, but it can be difficult \u2013 particularly if people don't have details you can contact them with.\n\"It is possible there may be other cases, these are definitely the first two we have picked up and at the moment there are two.\"\nThe bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoea has rapidly developed resistance to new antibiotics.\nThere have been growing levels of super-gonorrhoea around the world with similar cases reported in Japan, Canada and Australia.\nDr Olwen Williams, president of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, said: \"We are deeply concerned by these new developments.\"\nPaddy Horner, from the University of Bristol, told the BBC: \"We've got to wait and see what happens over next few months and whether more cases appear, but it is only a matter of time before it arrives in the UK.\n\"When people mix sexually it can spread quite rapidly and the concern is this could become established \u2013 if not from this infection, then one in the future.\nFollow James on Twitter.\n[contf] [contfnew]\n[contfnewc] [contfnewc]\n5 ways the UKs health plan falls flat\nCheap common drugs may help mental illness\nA high-level delegation visited Yei River State to intensify Ebola preparedness in Sudan\nWinning the hearts of communities fearful of Ebola\nAs post-cyclone resettlement, 200 000 people lack access to health services in Mozambique\nOne-in-five suffers mental health condition in conflict zones: new UN report","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Building self-esteem through football\nGerman Football Championship for Workshops for People with Disabilities held since 2000\nTeam Berlin won the women's competition last year\n\"The atmosphere was sensational, the women felt respected\"\nFor most football fans, the words 'German Football Championship' immediately bring to mind teams such as Bayern Munich and Wolfsburg \u2013 but the top men's and women's teams are not the only ones to compete for this title.\nWhat began as the National Football Competition for Workshops for People with Disabilities became the German Football Championship for Workshops for People with Disabilities in 2007. Last year Team Berlin, a partnership between the women's teams from the Berlin Workshops for People with Disabilities (BWB) and Frau am Ball Berlin e.V. won the women's competition.\n\"It really was an incredible experience, I have to say. I genuinely didn't expect it,\" said Anne Fischer, founder of Frau am Ball e.V., in an interview with FIFA.com. \"All of the women were extremely proud to have won the title and felt as if they were taken seriously in this setting, which is something that hadn't occurred to me.\n\"We were given a big trophy and it was just a good experience. Silvia Neid was there too, which was a great token of respect and gave the place a real buzz. It also meant that there were plenty of spectators for the final. We weren't really used to that; it was like being in a parallel universe. The atmosphere was sensational, and the women felt respected \u2013 and for them to actually go on and win the final was incredible.\"\nThe team will return to defend their title this year, having bypassed qualification via the regional championships as they have no competition. \"Essentially, we don't have to qualify because we're the only team in Berlin,\" laughed Fischer.\n\"It's a very different story in North Rhine-Westphalia, where they have a whole array of teams. That means that only the very best side become state champions and reach the national finals, so it's a whole different situation. We're lucky really.\"\nI think that leading a club like this has less to do with teaching technique and is more about the fact that people want to be seen for what they can contribute.\nAnne Fischer, founder of Frau am Ball e.V.\nFischer founded Frau am Ball with a fellow student in 2006. Run by volunteers, the club is designed to be inclusive and offers women with a wide range of different abilities the opportunity to play football together in a secure environment. Fischer leads training once a week, even though she is traditionally more at home in the water. \"I'm originally a swimmer and then moved into canoe racing,\" said the social worker.\n\"Having said that, we always played plenty of football and I really enjoyed it,\" she continued. \"In my mid-20s I played for a team in Berlin's Kreuzberg district for a while, and picked up a few things about how football training sessions work and what drills you can do. I then completed training courses with the Berlin Football Association and the Berlin Disabled Sports Association.\n\"However, I think that leading a club like this has less to do with teaching technique and is more about the fact that people want to be seen for what they can contribute. Football provides a great opportunity to do that.\"\nIt was football that ultimately brought about the club's partnership with BWB, which has had a women's team for many years.\n\"As the name suggests, the German Football Championship for Workshops is for workshop employees,\" Fischer explained. \"As a club, we took part in the competition a few years ago, but were then told that we could no longer participate as we aren't a workshop, and several of the women who play for us don't work in one. That was when the idea of teaming up with BWB came about, as they had not been so successful in previous years,\" she added with a smile.\n\"That meant we were both hoping to get something out of it. We wanted to compete again, and BWB wanted to be back up there with the best teams. Before the competition, we held an open training session to see whether any other women in Berlin were keen to get involved, and we found two really good footballers as a result.\"\nWorkshop football in Germany\nMany people with mental or psychological impairments play football in their free time at one of almost 700 workshops for people with disabilities\nThese workshops are held in more than 2,600 locations\nFootball helps to promote values such as fair play, tolerance and team spirit and thus teaches valuable social skills that help people take a major step towards inclusion\nMany workshop teams train regularly and compete in tournaments. Each of Germany's 16 federal states holds a regional championship, with the winners qualifying for the German Championship\nThe 20th edition of the German Championship for Workshops for People with Disabilities takes place from 16 to 19 September 2019","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tropical Lizard With Built-in Scuba Gear Can Stay Submerged for 16 Minutes\nBy George Dvorsky on at\nUnprecedented footage from Costa Rica shows tiny tropical lizards \"breathing\" from an air sac suspended atop their snouts\u2014an apparent scuba tank that helps them stay submerged for extended periods.\nThis footage comes courtesy of Lindsey Swierk, an ecologist from Binghamton University in New York. While observing water anoles in southern Costa Rica back in 2015, she was impressed by the length of time these tropical lizards were able to stay underwater. When disturbed or frightened, water anoles leap into nearby streams, waiting it out in hopes the prospective predator will go away. In one extraordinary case, Swierk's team timed a dive lasting for 16 minutes.\n\"I remember it clearly because that lizard was going to be the last one my team was processing that day,\" she told Gizmodo. \"Three of us were approaching the lizard to capture it, and it dove into a relatively shallow area in the stream surrounded by rocks... In the end, we disturbed the lizard at the 16 minute mark\u2014something that of course I regret now, wondering how long it would have naturally remained submerged otherwise.\"\nImpressed, and also very confused, by the length of the dive, she returned a couple of years later to take a closer look\u2014but this time she came equipped with an underwater camera. Swierk was starting to suspect that the water anole was \"a tiny scuba diver,\" as she wrote in her blog. As the new video evidence shows, these lizards appear to have evolved a \"scuba-tank method of sorts to 'breathe' underwater.\" The new footage is the now the first to capture this process in action.\nAs the lizards lie motionless underwater, bubbles can periodically be seen appearing above their snouts. The bubbles quickly expand in size, and then shrink. It may very well be a form of underwater respiration, in which oxygen is pulled from the recycled air bubble on the lizard's head, though further research will be required to validate these visual observations.\n\"We really don't know too much about this phenomenon yet, which makes it so interesting,\" Swierk told Gizmodo. \"I think it's possible that some air pockets are being trapped around the anole's head and throat, and that the inhalation and exhalation of the air bubble allow for some 'trading' of fresh air among these air pockets. Or perhaps it has something to do with using the bubble to get rid of carbon dioxide.\"\nLooking ahead, Swierk would like to examine how the lizards' head shape might help retain large bubbles of air, and how it potentially enables bubbles to stick to the surface of the anole's body. She'd also like to study the oxygen in the bubble during an extended dive.\n\"My hope is to examine this phenomenon in an ecological and evolutionary context, comparing these traits and others related to underwater breathing between semi-aquatic anoles and (most other) anole species that typically don't rely on water as a refuge,\" she added. \"These projects are all in their infancy, and I'm excited to begin talking with collaborators.\nA paper will be published describing Swierk's observations in the forthcoming March issue of Herpetological Review. [Anole Annals via New Scientist]\nFeatured image: Lindsey Swierk","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"ZwitterCo Secures $5.9M Series Seed Financing Led by Mann+Hummel Corporate Ventures in collaboration with R-Cubed Capital Partners\nZwitterCo today announced that it has closed its Series Seed financing of $5.9 million to scale its water treatment and advanced separations solutions. The funding round was led by global filtration and separations technologies leader Mann+Hummel Corporate Ventures in collaboration with R-Cubed Capital Partners, and with additional support from Burnt Island Ventures and individual investors.\nZwitterCo Awarded $1.25M Grant from Department of Energy\n\"The focus of the grant is to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative treatment technologies that will transform the energy sector's produced water from an environmentally hazardous waste to a recoverable resource...\"\nThe National Science Foundation Hereby Awards a Grant of $225k to ZwitterCo\n\"This project under the direction of Christopher Drover, Ayse Asatekin is entitled: Extremely fouling resistant nanofiltration membranes treating organic-rich wastewater... This grant is awarded pursuant to the authority of the National Science Foundation...\"\nAnnouncing ImagineH2O's Tenth Accelerator Cohort\n\"Imagine H2O has selected the next group of outstanding water companies for the 2019 accelerator... ZwitterCo (Somerville, Ma - USA) Removing organics from industrial wastewater is an operator's biggest daily challenge. Although today's membranes...\"\nZwitterCo Awarded Catalyst Water Challenge Grant by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center\n\"MassCEC made a total of seven $65,000 awards, two of which have a water innovation focus, to the following Massachusetts innovators: ZwitterCo (Cambridge) aims to commercialize a new, zwitterion-based membrane technology...\"\n\u00a9 2022 ZwitterCo. All Rights Reserved\nZwitterCo's zwitterionic chemistry and extremely fouling-resistant membranes are setting a new standard for precision separation and resource management.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Darlene Brander\nCEO, Wanuskewin Heritage Park\nMs. Darlene Brander is the Chief Executive Officer of Wanuskewin Heritage Park, an internationally acclaimed northern plains Indigenous interpretive site that is home to more than 6,400 years of history. Ms. Brander oversees all of Wanuskewin's operations including overseeing the execution of Wanuskewin's four pillars. These four pillars signify the most extensive development campaign in the organization's history and include: 1) Elevating Wanuskewin to an international centre of excellence in education, preservation and interpretation of Indigenous arts and culture, 2) Preservation of the Opimihaw valley, protection of the Park's unique ecology and biodiversity of the land 3) Returning bison back to the park and 4) UNESCO world heritage designation. Darlene worked at Wanuskewin from 1998 to 2000, where she was an Aboriginal Awareness Education Manager. Since that time, her 18-year career has included progressively responsible positions with not-for-profit organizations, gaming institutions, municipal governments and First Nations organizations. The return to the park, in the CEO capacity, allows Ms. Brander to honour Wanuskewin's past, thrive in the present, and realize it's future. A Band Member of the Red Earth Cree First Nation, Darlene holds a B.Ed. from the University of Saskatchewan, as well as a Chartered Professional in Human Resources designation. An active community member, Ms. Brander sits on several boards including, Chair of the Saskatoon Board of Police Commissioners and the Canadian Association of Police Governance. She is a past Director for the Saskatoon Aboriginal Professional Association and the Nutrien Wonderhub.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Brownfields Voluntary Cleanup Programs\nHome > News & Events > Environmental Law > Brownfields Voluntary Cleanup Programs\nENVIRONMENTAL & REGULATORY UPDATE\nBy Kenneth Anspach and David Butman\nNew Opportunities for Redeveloping Contaminated Industrial Property\nCertain current environmental legislation and regulations are taking a new direction in addressing environmental & contamination, resulting in new opportunities for those in the adhesives and sealants industry. In particular, these environmental laws are providing opportunities in the redevelopment of potentially or actually contaminated urban, industrial facilities known as \"brownfields.\"\nThis article briefly outlines some problems that have developed as a result of strict environmental laws, the new brownfields programs that have emerged in response to these problems, and the potential benefits and pitfalls for those in the adhesives and sealants industry seeking to take advantage of these brownfields programs.\nBecause of strict environmental laws and regulations, most notably the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), brownfields have been abandoned by industry in a desperate attempt to avoid being held liable for the often immense costs of cleaning up these contaminated sites. As a result, the industry has located its operations in rural, undeveloped sites known as \"greenfields\" where it will not face this potential liability.\nIndustry's shift in locating its operations to greenfields and abandoning or avoiding brownfields, however, has resulted in several adverse consequences. It has contributed to both urban and contamination sprawl since once-pristine areas are now subject to environmental contamination. Moreover, the communities surrounding and once relying on the abandoned brownfield sites have become economically depressed as the industry providing an economic base has left the community. Finally, because there is no market for these sites, thousands of acres of real estate remain valueless and idle, and they pose even greater environmental and health hazards as the contamination at these sites remains in the ground or water.\nThese adverse environmental and economic consequences prompted the development of a new approach in addressing contaminated property. Today, 30 states have adopted voluntary cleanup programs encouraging the redevelopment of brownfield sites by reformulating cleanup standards and limiting the liability for those who redevelop these sites. In addition, the American Bar Association recently published Brownfields: A Comprehensive Guide to Redeveloping Contaminated Property (hereafter The Brownfields Guide) written by Todd S. Davis and Kevin D. Margolis to assist industry and industry lawyers in taking advantage of state programs.\nIllinois' Voluntary Cleanup Program\nThe state of Illinois provides a case study in what these 30 states have done to reformulate cleanup standards applicable to brownfields. Illinois' voluntary cleanup program provides developers of brownfields with less-stringent cleanup standards than those applying to other sites. Rather than requiring the same level of cleanup regardless of what the site's future use will be, Illinois' voluntary cleanup program considers the future use of a site. As such, the Illinois voluntary cleanup program recognizes that a brownfield site that will be used for industrial or commercial purposes does not require the same level of cleanup as a site that will be used for residential purposes. Because the future use of the site, as well as the background levels of contamination surrounding the site, are considered in establishing the cleanup standards for each site, cleanup standards for brownfield sites being redeveloped for commercial or industrial purposes will often be less stringent and less costly to comply with than they would be under the traditional standards.\nOnce a brownfield site is cleaned under the voluntary cleanup program and a \"No Further Remediation Letter\" is issued by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, the developer, as well as lenders who acquire the property through foreclosures, will be released from liability for further investigation and cleanup under the Illinois Environmental Protection Act.\nMoreover, Congress recently limited lender liability under the Asset Conservation, Lender Liability, and Deposit Insurance Protection Act of 1996. Now a lender will only be held liable under CERCLA if it has control \"of the decision-making of the borrower's compliance with environmental laws\" or has \"responsibility for the handling or disposal of hazardous substances.\"\nTo further encourage ownership and redevelopment of brownfield sites, Illinois amended its Environmental Protection Act to eliminate strict, and joint and several, liability for parties subject to cost-recovery actions brought by the state. Now, a party can only be held liable for cleanup costs in a cost-recovery action brought by the state if he caused the release of hazardous substances. Additionally, such a party can only be held liable for his proportionate share. Previously, a party could potentially be held liable for the entire cleanup costs even if he did not cause the release of hazardous substances.\nPrimary Considerations\nIf one is interested in relocating her industrial or commercial operation and is considering redeveloping a brownfield site, she should first ensure that the sire is eligible to participate in her state's program. Not all sites are eligible for participation in voluntary cleanup programs, and states have differing eligibility requirements. For example, in Illinois, the following sites are ineligible for participation in the voluntary cleanup program:\nSites listed on the federal National Priorities List under CERCLA;\nPermitted treatment, storage and disposal facilities, or facilities subject to closure requirements under federal or Illinois hazardous-waste laws;\nSites subject to federal or Illinois laws for underground storage tanks; and\nSites undergoing investigation or remedial activities pursuant to a federal court or U.S. EPA order.\nAnother primary consideration is an assessment of the value of the site to be cleaned and developed. As The Brownfields Guide notes, no amount of environmental cleanup will redeem a site that has no intrinsic real estate value. Therefore, before investing in a site, determine if the site would have value if it were clean.\nIn assessing the value of a brownfield site, The Brownfields Guide identifies three factors to consider:\nEstimating the value of the properly as if there were no loss of value due to environmental contamination;\nValuing the property, taking into consideration the environmental contamination; and\nCalculating the difference between the two value estimates, yielding the loss in value due to the impairment.\nIn determining the first factor, estimating the value of the property as if there were no environmental contamination, it is important to consider the property in light of its surroundings. The estimation should be calculated as if the site were a similarly situated site without the contamination.\nSimilarly, in determining the second factor, valuing the property taking the environmental contamination into consideration, it is important to him an environmental consultant who is an expert in contaminants and understands the nature and extent of the contamination to assist the appraiser in accurately estimating the value of the contaminated property.\nFinancing the Cleanup\nAfter reviewing the above factors and considerations, one must then consider how to finance the cleanup. The costs of cleanup range from paying initial costs of site assessment to the actual cleanup of the facility. Several options are available for financing cleanups.\nFirst, lending institutions are beginning to feel more comfortable with financing the redevelopment of contaminated property because of the recent changes addressing lender liability. In addition, some state agencies will help finance the costs of the preliminary site identification and site assessment costs in the form of grants. Communities surrounding the site offer another potential revenue source because they have an interest in the redevelopment of the site. Federal funding for the redevelopment of brownfields is also available. While the U.S. EPA has provided several $200,000 grants to cities and communities to develop a planning process for brownfield remediation, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development may provide a more direct and immediate source of funding for such projects. HUD's Community Development Block Grants may be used to finance the site assessments as well as the actual cleanup. The Brownfields Guide identifies several other sources of revenue and financing strategies to redevelop brownfields, as well.\nSite owners potentially have the opportunity to have cleanup costs paid for by their comprehensive general liability (CGL) policies, as well. As soon as owners receive confirmation from a testing laboratory of contamination, they should immediately file claims with their insurance carriers. Such carriers would include those insurers that were covering the policy periods from the date the contamination was deposited to the present.\nAnother option for those site owners would be to contact an attorney skilled in that subject area for the purpose of filing and handling those insurance claims. The two highest priorities in these claims are timeliness and proving the terms and conditions of the insurance policy. The latter is most easily accomplished through locating the policies themselves.\nWhile states and the federal government are encouraging the redevelopment of brownfield sites by amending environmental laws to limit liability and reducing cleanup standards for industrial and commercial sites, there are also tax incentives to further encourage the redevelopment of brownfield sites. The costs for cleaning up a brownfield site may be deductible.\nUnder President Clinton's 1997 balanced-budget proposal that was recently enacted into public law, a taxpayer may elect to deduct cleanup costs he has incurred in abating or controlling hazardous substances at a \"qualified contaminated site\" in the year the taxpayer incurs those costs. A\"qualified contaminated site\" must fall within certain \"targeted areas,\" and there must be a release or threat of release of hazardous substances. Moreover, the site must be used in the taxpayer's trade or business.\nPreviously, it was unclear whether a taxpayer could deduct cleanup costs in the year the costs were incurred or whether the taxpayer was required to capitalize those costs over the life of the property. This possible tax deduction provides yet another incentive to explore the option of redeveloping a brownfield site for one's operations.\nPitfalls of Redeveloping Brownfields\nWhile there is a trend in environmental laws and regulations to encourage the voluntary cleanup and redevelopment of brownfields and many incentives are being offered, there remain some pitfalls of which one should be aware if considering redeveloping a brownfield site. Most importantly, a developer should understand that, while the states are leading the way in amending state environmental laws and providing voluntary cleanup programs, the federal government has not amended the federal environmental laws and has not yet signed off on these state programs. This means that even if one complies with her state's cleanup program and cleanup standards, she may still be sued by the federal government.\nWhile U.S EPA Region V has entered into a Memorandum of Agreement (M0A) not to sue redevelopers that enter the voluntary cleanup programs and comply with the cleanup standards of the states within its region, this MOA does not encompass a private party's right to sue for cleanup costs. Therefore, a redeveloper can be subject to a lawsuit under federal law by an adjacent landowner or by a private party who purchases the property and subsequently uses the property for residential purposes, which requires higher levels of cleanup.\nRecent changes in environmental laws are providing opportunities for those in the industrial and commercial industries to redevelop and make efficient formerly valueless brownfield sites. However, because these changes in the laws are recent and still evolving, there remain potential pitfalls that one should recognize. A person seeking to take advantage of these brownfield opportunities should contact an attorney skilled in this area.\nIf you are interested in reading more about brownfields, Brownfields: Comprehensive Guide To Redeveloping Contaminated Property provides a detailed analysis of every aspect of obtaining and redeveloping a brownfield site. The guide can be purchased by contacting the American Bar Association Service Center, PO Box 10892, Chicago, FL 60611; 800-285-2221.\nDownload the PDF for the text.\nKenneth Anspach is a Chicago Attorney concentrating in environmental and commercial law and litigation. He represents banks, manufacturers, companies and industrial-property owners. Mr. Anspach is a former hearing officer for The Illinois Pollution Control Board and a former Illinois Assistant Attorney in the Environmental Control Division. David Butman is a third-year law student at Chicago-Kent College of Law and is enrolled in the Program in Environmental and Energy Law. This article is not to be interpreted as a substitute for an attorney's competent legal analysis and advice.\nlinkedinfacebookinstagramtwitter\nCategories Select Category Civil Litigation Commercial Litigation Environmental Law Fire Loss Insurance Claims Insurance Coverage Life Insurance Claims Our Blog Personal Injury Wrongful Death\nArchives Select Month January 2023 November 2022 October 2022 September 2022 August 2022 July 2022 June 2022 May 2022 April 2022 March 2022 February 2022 January 2022 December 2021 November 2021 October 2021 February 2021 January 2021 December 2020 November 2020 October 2020 September 2020 August 2020 July 2020 May 2019\nI highly recommend Attorney Kenneth Anspach. He is located in the Chicago loop. My husband stumbled upon his information on Google. He was the first lawyer we called and we did not look further after talking to him over the phone. His area of expertise is environmental law, toxic tort,\u2026\nKen and his team are AMAZING! I contacted Ken about an accidental life insurance policy after a family member passed away in a car accident. I was told by many other lawyers that I had no shot of winning this claim because the death certificate needed to be amended. Ken\u2026\nKen knows his business. He works effectively with other attorneys and the government to get things done. Not only is he honest and fair, but his first thought is for his clients\u2014which is a rarity in the legal profession.\nKen knows insurance recovery law but also the intangibles\u2014such as when a carrier will settle even though there's no case law to compel this. He has worked for us around the country, finding funds we didn't know were available to us.\nKen is my go-to-guy. We switched from a larger environmental law firm to work with him. He does more than save us about $100,000 a year in fees. Ken is knowledgeable, patient, explains the law in plain English, and never wastes my time.\nAre You Faced With A Difficult Situation?\nWe Will Champion Your Case.\nCommon Things Homeowners Insurance May Not Cover\nInsurance Claims: When is it Time to Hire a Lawyer?\nTips on Dealing with an Insurance Claim after a Fire","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Shaun Marsh\nCricket\/News\nWill Pucovski Suffered Shoulder Injury, Will Be Reassessed On The Eve Of 4th Test\nWill Pucovski faces an anxious wait to see if he can recover from a shoulder injury in time for the fourth and final Vodafone Test against India, with Australia giving him every opportunity to prove his fitness. Australia confirmed Will Pucovski suffered\nShaun Marsh And His Wife Rebecca Marsh Welcome Their 3rd Child\nShaun Marsh, Australian cricketer and his wife Rebecca Marsh have welcomed their third child on Thursday. On the next day on Friday, several photos were shared on her Instagram showing off their newborn son, Ted. The 32-year-old opening batsman posted an adorable\nShaun Marsh Can Be Considered As A Stop-Gap Option: Allan Border\nShaun Marsh can be considered a stop-gap option in the top of the order in the injury-hit Australian squad, feels former Australian skipper Allan Border. In a conversation, with The West Australia, Allan Border suggested the idea to include 37-year-old Shaun Marsh\nAustralia vs India 2020-21: Brad Hogg Reveals Why Shaun Marsh Has Been Snubbed For Test Series Against India\nEven though Shaun Marsh has been scoring centuries in the Sheffield shield, his name is not in the 17-men squad announced for the four-match Test series against India in December. His snub from the Test team has made everyone curious. Former Australian\nCricket\/Cricket Top 5-10\/IPL 2020\nIPL 2020: Top 4 IPL 2008 Records Which Are Unlikely To Be Broken\nEveryone is excited to experience the IPL 2020. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has already confirmed that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will host the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) between 19th September and 10th\nCricket\/Cricket Top 5-10\nTop 5 Highest IPL Partnerships For Any Wicket\nIn an innings, the good partnerships are always important as it sets the game for the batting side. Strong partnerships help the batting side to control the bowling team. In IPL history, we have already experienced many great partnerships which hugely helped\nAustralian Cricketer Shaun Marsh Set To Become Father For Third Time\nAustralian batsman Shaun Marsh is set to become a father for the third time as his wife Rebecca announced via an Instagram post while the family was enjoying on a beach. They have received congratulations from well-wishers. Shaun and Rebecca had married\nCricket Editor's pick\/Cricket\/Cricket Top 5-10\nIPL 2020: Three Unsold IPL Players Having Splendid Time in the Big Bash League\nThe auctions of the Indian Premier League (IPL) for edition 13 had some interesting bids after the trading window closed much before the grand event. Although it has been the same old story for the Australian cricketers this season as well, it\nAaron Finch Names Underrated T20 Player\nThe Australian limited-overs skipper Aaron Finch believes that Shaun Marsh is a special player in the team who has been underestimated. Shaun Marsh is playing the first time for Melbourne Renegades, which is led by Aaron Finch. Marsh is an outstanding T20\nICC World Cup 2019: Peter Handscomb Replaces Injured-Shaun Marsh For Remainder Of The Tournament\nThe defending champions Australia is the latest victim on the injury list. They lost the services of their experienced campaigner Shaun Marsh, who was hit by Pat Cummins during the net sessions. However, they got an able-replacement in the form of Peter","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"NFL Conference Finals: Betting Lines, Live Odds Comparisons At US Sportsbooks\n\u2022 Football\n\u2022 NFL\nWas that the greatest weekend of National Football League playoff football ever?\nIt would be hard to argue against that fact: the first three games had a field goal to win the game as time expired, while the fourth had one to send the game to overtime. Three of the four winners were road teams, and underdogs.\nThat last game, Kansas City vs. Buffalo, may also go down as the greatest game of all time. Just the fact that there were 25 points scored in the final 1:52 of the contest should ensure that, but the emotional rollercoaster watching it (as a neutral as well: I can't begin to think about what it was like as a fan or as someone who had A LOT of money riding on it) was incredible. And we all knew what was going to happen when the coin flip went to Patrick \"Grim Reaper\" Mahomes: he went right down the field to lock up a fourth-straight AFC title game appearance.\nNow think back to those games, if you can. Mahomes was an overtime coin flip in 2019 from going to four Super Bowls in a row (ironic, right?) All four of the games have been at Arrowhead, which shows you how good Mahomes and the Chiefs have been for an extended period of time. In the first three appearances, the Chiefs scored 31, 35, and 38 points, against three different teams. Cincinnati will be the fourth different opponent to come to Missouri, which shows you how hard it is to stay at the top in the NFL.\nIn the late game this Sunday, the dominance of the NFC West will be on showcase, as the Los Angeles Rams host the San Francisco 49ers, with the winner advancing to the Super Bowl in\u2026 EXACTLY THE SAME PLACE. SoFi will host the Super Bowl on February 13, and one of these two teams will be playing in it for the second time in four years.\nSometimes it is tough to see just how good teams are when they play in tough divisions. Just think about this: what would San Fran's record have been this season if it played in the NFC East? Surely not 10-7, considering the 49ers beat both NFC East playoff participants this year, Philadelphia and Dallas.\nThis game will be a test for those people who like to wager on trends, and others who might use the eye test. The 49ers swept LA this year in the regular season, and have done so in the previous two campaigns as well. All but one of the games had 40+ points (the over\/under here is 43.5). The Rams nearly collapsed last weekend, but pulled it out of the fire. San Fran has some key players banged up after playing in the frigid Green Bay temps.\nI guess what bettors and fans want to know is, will there be chaos like last weekend, or will the games be relatively straightforward?\nAt this point of the NFL season, we could see anything. But I would say we are going to get another great weekend of games, on the final day of the NFL season with multiple contests.\nNFL Conference Championship Weekend Odds\nNFL Conference Championship Lookahead Spreads\nCincinnati Bengals +7 at Kansas City Chiefs -7\nSan Francisco 49ers +3.5 at Los Angeles Rams -3.5\n4-Cincinnati Bengals (12-7) at 2-Kansas City Chiefs (14-5) 3:00 p.m. EST (CBS and fubo.TV)\nIf you remember back to Week 17 (which January 2, so your memory could be a little foggy after New Year's Eve), the Bengals beat Kansas City to clinch the AFC North. That was the only loss for the Chiefs since a week before Halloween, when a loss to the Titans dropped KC to 3-4. Since then, Patrick Mahomes turned back into Superman, with a cast of characters around him worthy of any superhero movie.\nBut the Bengals have a emerging superstar under center in Joe Burrow, and he threw for 446 yards and four TDs against the Chiefs in Week 17. Can Cincinnati get to the Super Bowl ahead of schedule, or will it be a AFC three-peat for the Chiefs.\nRead more about this game in our Best Odds and Bets for Sunday Night Football Guide.\n6-San Francisco 49ers (12-7) at Los Angeles Rams (14-5), 6:30 p.m. EST (CBS and fubo.TV)\nTwo stunning wins for the NFC West teams in the Divisional Round were achieved in different manners, although they both ended the same way: with a kicker blasting a ball through the uprights to win the game as the clocks turned to all zeros.\nThese two teams just played in Week 18, with the 49ers clinching a playoff berth on the finao day with the victory. Oh, how the Rams' fans might look back on that game after the season: San Fran OWNS the Rams over the last few seasons, and for much of the last decade.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Neighborhood 'greenway' coming to Greenwood-Phinney\nby Chris Maykut on February 3, 2012\nA neighborhood \"greenway\" is coming to Greenwood and Phinney Ridge, and you can help make it happen. The next meeting of our neighborhood greenway group is from 6-7:45 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 9, at the Greenwood Library, 8016 Greenwood Ave. N.\nThe City of Seattle is creating 11 miles of greenways through seven neighborhoods this year as part of a pilot program. Greenwood-Phinney's greenway could be along 1st Avenue NW from NW 85th Street to NW 58th Street.\n\"Greenways connect parks and schools, community centers and neighborhood business districts. Neighborhood Greenways help with transportation, and they help with getting people where they want to go within their own communities,\" City Councilmember Sally Bagshaw said in a recent press release.\nThe Neighborhood Greenways under SDOT review total 11 miles: seven miles in Ballard, Beacon Hill, Greenwood, North Delridge, Wallingford, and the University District and an additional four miles in Laurelhurst (funded by Seattle Children's Hospital). These projects are intended to form the backbone of a new network of Greenways that effectively connect people to the places they want to go by giving them a choice to travel on quieter, safer streets around the city.\nNeighborhood Greenways are slow-speed, low-traffic residential streets made even more pleasant for the people who live, walk, and bike on them. By adding new park-like amenities and limiting cut-through traffic, Greenways are naturally attractive both for families, and for anyone seeking a safer, more connected community experience. By placing Greenways a block or two away from major arterials, Neighborhood Greenways create a great option for people who prefer to walk or bike away from congested streets. While many new dedicated walking and bicycling trails are beyond the reach of our City's budget, 10 miles of Greenways can be built for the cost of a single mile of new trail, offering the potential to bring a high-quality network to all Seattle neighborhoods at a comparatively low cost. Greenways have the potential to serve neighborhoods where many people cannot afford a car. Neighborhood access by emergency service vehicles and freight delivery vehicles \u2014 and parking \u2014 is preserved along Greenways.\nMotivated by concerns for public safety and a grassroots movement of citizens across Seattle demanding greater community connection, SDOT staff has been studying how other cities link people with their desired neighborhood destinations. By 2015 in Portland, for example, 85% of all residents will live within a half-mile of a Greenway. Portland's safe streets policies have made streets safer for everyone whether they choose to walk, ride a bicycle, or drive. Portland's traffic fatality rate is falling six times faster than the rest of the United States. Infrastructure that makes it safer for walking and bicycling automatically benefits drivers through improved safety and saved lives.\nTagged as: biking, neighborhood greenways, pedestrian, safety, traffic\nNext post: Reminder: 85th & 8th intersection closed all weekend to be rebuilt\nPrevious post: PNA officially launches new PNA Village, services to begin April 1","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Politics FG To Revive National Labour Advisory Council \u2013 Ngige\nFG To Revive National Labour Advisory Council \u2013 Ngige\nDr Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Productivity, says plans are underway to revive the National Labour Advisory Council in order to ensure international best labour practices in the country.\nNgige who addressed newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja, stressed that the resuscitation of the council was imperative in order to ensure International Labour Organisation (ILO) best practices in the country.\n\"The National Labour Advisory Council is a very important organ of the tripartite committee arrangement that we have in the labour management.\n\"The Council will help us to review the labour laws in the country and ensure international best practices.\n\"So this ministry under my leadership will make sure that we will revive the council.\nHe said part of the reason why the council was not performing optimally was due to lack of funds.\nNgige noted that the meeting of the advisory council cost between N7 million and N10 million.\nHe said that a tripartite committee meeting would be held to determine on how to revive the council and at an affordable cost too.\n\"The National Labour Advisory Council is important because it is the equivalent of the public hearing which they do at the National Assembly.\n\"So for us in the executive, the labour council serves as public hearing for the tripartite that is the employers, government and the unions that will have the opportunity to look at the laws.\n\"These are laws that will be enforced and make us comfortable in our various places of work\".\nNgige said the revival of the council would afford the tripartite committee opportunity to fashion out ways to solve some problems like casualization and contract staffing.\nHe noted that there are laws guiding casualization and contract staffing, but these laws are being abused by employers.\n\"As long as we are here, we cannot permit indecent jobs and this ministry must protect Nigerians irrespective of where they come from.\n\"To that extent we are going to enforce the law and that is why we have to revive the Inspectorate Department and the Industrial Relations Department.\n\"They have to work together now and see how we can tackle and improve on this issue because a lot of companies are now into casualization\", Ngige said.\nThe minister noted that many multi-national companies are getting contracts in Nigeria, but have no labour clause that protects the Nigerian workers.\n\"As I was told, most of such companies have used the opportunity to ship in their nationals to Nigeria thus depriving Nigerians of gainful employment.\n\"It is very unfortunate that it is Nigerians who are breaking the laws; it is not those who are coming from outside the country who are breaking the law.\n\"Nigerians break the laws at the point of entry, Nigerians break the law when these people are inside the country that is why the expatriate quotas is full of flaws.\n\"The Ministry of Labour will discuss with the Interior Ministry to look at the expatriate quota laws to ensure total compliance\", he said. (NAN)\nChris Ngige\nMinister of Labour and Productivity\nNational Labour Advisory Council\nPrevious article3 Facts That Proves Nemesis Is Catching Up With Sambo Dasuki\nNext articleNigeria In Urgent Need Of Constitutional, Not Political Change \u2013 Mimiko\nCriticise Us Fairly, President Buhari Appeals To Nigerian Elite\nOndo Poll: Court Dismisses Suit Challenging Akeredolu's Reelection\nAPC Will Soon Be Africa's Largest Political Party\u2026 Even Developed Nations Will Learn From Us: Yahaya Bello","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Musicians\/Bands Americana Jim Barrens\nJim Barrens\nI've been writing and playing songs since 1965. That's a lot of years and a lot of life's experience. It's been quite a journey.\nThrough my songs I've come to know hundreds of people, real and imagined, who have enriched my life. Like the Vietnam veteran battling his demons; the hitchhiker and the poodle; a singing cowboy; an Irish woman coming to America, and the Italian immigrant and country she fell in love with. Hurricane survivors in Kentucky. Emmylou Harris; Philando Castile, Keith Lamont Scott and hundreds of others; the marchers in Selma; a Virginia Lady with a Pretty Face. And an aging singer facing his own frailties and mortality with a wink and a grin.\nJoin me on the journey\u2026.the best songs and stories are probably just around the corner.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Dina Burdakova 5d Wins European Women's Go Championship\nBy Artem Kachanovskyi | News | 11.09.2021 1:40 | Views: 2839 | Comments: 1\nInterview translated from Russian by Artem Kachanovskyi\nThis year the European Women's Go Championship (EWGC) took place online from the 4th \u2013 5th September. As was also the case in 2020, the tournament could not be played in person due to COVID-19 restrictions.\nOGS was again chosen as the server that would host the tournament. Similar to most other online competitions nowadays, anti-cheating measures were in place: all the participants were obliged to record themselves playing.\nThe EWGC was open to all European female go players and brought together 30 participants from eleven countries. This is comparable to the last in-person EWGC, which was held in Trier (Germany) in 2019: the number of participants was 36 and they represented the same number of countries.\nAfter six rounds, two participants representing Russia were top of the tournament table: both Dina Burdakova 5d and Virzhinia Shalneva 3d had one defeat each. Dina lost in the last round to Milena Bocle 2d from France, while Virzhinia lost to Dina in the third round. The fate of the champion's title was thus determined by the first tie-breaker statistic: the sum of opponents' scores (SOS). By this measure, Dina Burdakova claimed the champion's title, while Virzhinia Shalneva was the runner-up \u2013 a great result also.\nDina and Virzhinia were followed by the two other Russian players \u2013 Natalia Kovaleva 5d and Anastasiia Khlepetina 1d finished third and fourth, respectively. Natalia has in fact won the EWGC numerous times in the past, including last year's edition. This time, however, she lost both to the winner and the runner-up. Fifth place went to Milena Bocle 2d from France.\nDina Burdakova 5d, the winner of the EWGC 2021\nI decided to ask this year's champion, Dina Burdakova, a few questions about her experience of participating in the event:\nArtem: Dina, congratulations on your victory! How did the tournament go?\nDina: Thank you very much, Artem! As for me, the tournament went smoothly, there were no problems or delays. The referees kept us participants well informed, and published the updated tournament leaderboard after each round. The participants, in turn, also were punctual.\nFor me personally this tournament was very exciting. I wanted to show a good result, so I tried hard in every game. I am happy with my victory, even though I didn't expect it. After the tournament I analyzed my games, and I was really surprised that I managed to win. Seems like this year luck was on my side.\nArtem: Did you prepare for this competition?\nDina: Yes, I played online on Fox Weiqi and OGS, reviewed my games with the AI \"KataGo\" and solved problems. I didn't have much time for preparation, but I decided that it's better to study little and often than not to study at all. It seems like this approach worked out.\nDina Burdakova playing in the Russian championship in 2010\nArtem: Which of your games was the hardest one?\nDina: Probably the last one, with Milena. That was the last round and I felt like I already didn't have the power to focus and concentrate. In some important moments of the game I hurried and after a few moves I regretted that, of course.\nArtem: Did you like the format of online tournaments, or do you prefer to play in person?\nDina: I prefer to play in person. I like to travel, and I enjoy the tournament atmosphere and the emotions of the participants. However, an online tournament has its own benefits: at home you feel more comfortable and less nervous.\nArtem: Thank you for your time, Dina, and good luck in future go competitions!\nThis sample article is taken from the September edition of the European Go Journal.\nYou'll find plenty more articles like this one in each issue of the Journal. Subscribe on Patreon to receive the current and the future issues of the Journal automatically: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/europeangojournal.\nIf you would like to purchase any of the past editions, send a message to journal@eurogofed.org.\nLondon Go Centre\nThe article fails to mention that Diana K\u0151szegi gave a live review of her final game which you watch here\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/cUopyfzCDZI","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"SearchSkip to content\nStage 12: Tour de France\nBy Kirsten Frattini September 26, 2018 8:37pm\nUpdated: September 26, 2018 8:37pm Race: UCI Road World Championships\nWorlds: Surprise bronze for Campenaerts in Innsbruck\n'It feels like a victory to me' says Belgian champion\nVictor Campenaerts with the bronze from the 2018 UCI Road World championships time trial\nVictor Campenaerts (Belgium)\nThe 2018 UCI Road World championships time trial podium: Tom Dumoulin, Rohan Dennis and Victor Campenaerts\nVictor Campenaerts (Belgium) went deep to win the European time trial title\n(Bettini Photo)\nBelgium's Victor Campenaerts was an outside favourite to medal at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships, and he expressed his utter surprise at securing the bronze in the elite men's individual time trial Wednesday in Innsbruck.\nCampenaerts repeats in European Championships men's time trial title\nWorld Championships: Dumoulin sees Dennis as biggest rival for time trial title\nRohan Dennis wins time trial world title\nDennis shows his maturity to take first world TT title\nRohan Dennis: World title four years in the making\n\"I did not expect this at all,\" Campenaerts told reports in the mixed zone after finishing third behind Rohan Dennis (Australia) and Tom Dumoulin (Netherlands).\n\"I'm super happy. To me, it feels a little bit like winning because it was the highest I could aim for. I knew that Tom Dumoulin and Rohan Dennis, especially on this parcours, would be outstanding.\"\nCampenaerts had a solid season in the time trials with second place at the Volta ao Algarve, fifth in the prologue at Tour de Romandie, third in the prologue at the Giro d'Italia and fourth in the prologue at the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9.\nHe went on to win the titles in the time trial at the Belgium and European Championships, and took that success into the BinckBank Tour with second in the stage 2 time trial and then third in the opening stage of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a.\nDennis competed in the team time trial on Sunday where his BMC Racing team took the bronze medal. He said that he was worried about Campenaerts after he decided not to race the event with his Lotto Soudal team.\n\"I was worried about him after he didn't ride the TTT,\" Dennis said. \"It was a long one, and it does take it out of you. He got close in the time trials at the Giro and the Vuelta, so you couldn't count him out. He's not just another rider; he's a genuine contender.\"\nAhead of the Innsbruck time trial, however, Campenaerts said that the course didn't suit his characteristics because it included a significant climb over Gnadenwald in the final third of the 52.1km course.\n\"I knew that maybe I could take the third place but it would be tough with the tough climb, and it was not the perfect parcours for me,\" he said.\nDennis won the title after covering the course in 1:03:02, almost a minute and a half ahead of defending champion Dumoulin. But the Dutchman just barely squeezed in for the silver medal after beating Campenaerts by less than a second. Poland's Michal Kwiatkowski finished in fourth place 2:04 down.\n\"After all, it seemed that I was battling for the second place and behind me, there was a decent gap, so I'm super satisfied to end my season this way.\"\nAsked if he was disappointed to lose the silver medal by such a close margin, Campenaerts said, \"To be honest, I'm not disappointed, not at all.\n\"I'm happy with third place. I knew that Dumoulin and Dennis would be outstanding on this course, so this feels like a victory to me.\"\nDefending world champion warns against making predictions\n'I'm proud of how I put the power down and my kept my head on my shoulders'\nVictor Campenaerts\nCyclingnews Newsletter\nSign up to the Cyclingnews Newsletter, from Immediate Media Company Limited. You can unsubscribe at any time. For more information about how to do this, and how we hold your data, please see our privacy policy\nWe'd love to hear what you think Submit Feedback","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hawksley Valley\nHockley Historic Community Hall & Church\n\u2022 994174 Mono-Adjala Townline \u2022 Mono, ON\n| Show Starts: 8:00PM\nFeaturing: Hawksley Workman\nHockley Valley becomes Hawksley Valley as this Juno winner takes to the stage of this wee village's historic community hall.\nA staple of the Canadian arts scene for almost 20 years, Workman boasts a catalogue of 15 solo releases showcasing his now signature spectrum of sonic influence, from cabaret to electro-pop to anthemic rock and plenty in between. The accolades amassed include JUNO nods and wins and widespread critical acclaim. As a producer, his fingerprints grace releases by JUNO and Polaris Prize nominees and winners like Tegan and Sara, Sarah Slean, Serena Ryder, Hey Rosetta!, and Great Big Sea. He's also penned melodies with a myriad of artists, from Oscar award winning Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose, Inception) to French rock icon Johnny Hallyday. Hawksley's touring career has seen him play nearly a thousand shows worldwide. He's headlined prestigious venues like Massey Hall in Toronto and The Olympia in Paris, and opened for heroes Morrissey, David Bowie, and The Cure.\nCoffee, tea, drinks and snacks will be available by donation.\nThis is a standing show with some seating available. For more information contact hockleysoundsgood@gmail.com.\n994174 Mono-Adjala Townline, Mono, ON\nHawksley Valley will be at Hockley Historic Community Hall & Church in Mono, ON on Friday, November 8, 2019.Doors at 7:30PM, and the Show Starts around 8:00PM. Hawksley Valley includes Hawksley Workman. Hockley Historic Community Hall & Church is located at 994174 Mono-Adjala Townline, Mono, ON.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Company Name: GMO Trading\nRegulators: CySEC, FSB\nLeverage: 1:500\nFunding Methods: Debit\/credit cards, Wire Transfer\nPlatform: MetaTrader 4\nVisit Broker 80% of retail i...\nTry Demo Open Account Suspect Fraud? See what our users say about\nGMO Trading Review\nLast Updated: September, 2019.\nGMO Trading seems to focus on keeping its offer as simple as possible, while at the same time giving its traders all the tools they could possibly need to be successful. By such tools, above and beyond everything else, we mean the MT4 trading platform, as well as the impressive suite of educational material available at the site. GMO Trading is regulated and fully MiFID-compliant. Why would you consider it as your primary online trading destination though?\nLaunched in 2017, the brokerage is by no means an industry veteran. One could say that it is one of those operations which obviously have a lot to prove, and in this regard, GMO Trading are certainly willing to put their offer where their promotional copy is.\nThe About Us section of the broker's website does not make a particularly good impression though. There is nothing there that would grab the attention of the visitor and it doesn't really say much about the operator either. Fortunately, the website-wide footer is much more generous in this regard. Through it, we learn that the corporate entity currently running the operation is a certain Royal Forex Ltd, based at Prodromou & Demetracopoulou 2, 4th Floor, 1090, Nicosia, Cyprus. The company is indeed a registered Cyprus investment firm (its registration number is HE336694), and as such, it is a member of the investor compensation fund. What this means is that traders who lose their deposits in case of a sudden broker bankruptcy, will have their monies refunded by the authorities.\nAs already mentioned in the intro of this review, GMO Trading is regulated by CySEC. The license number of the operator is 269\/15, which is interesting, as the brokerage was only launched in 2017. They probably had their license issued 2 years earlier, or \u2013 what's more likely \u2013 they worked under a different brand-name.\nThe above said CySEC license means that the broker is fully MiFID compliant, which enables it to lawfully peddle its services all through the EEA.\nIn addition to the above said CySEC license, GMO Trading are also registered with a number of national regulatory agencies, such as the UK's FCA, Norway and Denmark's Finanstilsynet, the Netherlands' AFM, and FI of Sweden.\nBeing an EEA-licensed operation, GMO Trading only accepts traders from the EU. US traffic, or traffic originating from other parts of the world (such as Australia) is not accepted.\nBucking the currently dominant trend of cryptocurrency-based CFDs, GMO Trading do not offer such trading instruments.\nTransparency is indeed one of the main selling points of the brokerage. Documents pertaining to various operational aspects (such as the Safety of Trader Funds, the AML and KYC policies observed by the brokerage, etc), are all available in full at the website.\nGMO Trading support can be contacted through email. They offer two options in this regard: [email protected] and [email protected] Support emails are usually answered within 24 hours.\nTwo phone numbers are available as well: +357 22007575 for Cyprus, and +44 2039364444 for the UK.\nGMO Trading Products\nThe selection of tradable assets and markets is surprisingly massive at GMO Trading. They cover Forex, Indices, Commodities and Stocks, and their trading conditions are mostly good.\nTheir Forex selection covers scores of currency pairs, from the majors all the way down to exotics. The maximum available leverage is 1:500 on currencies, which is indeed very impressive. None of the other markets feature such outstanding leverage though.\nAs far as spreads are concerned, they can be as low as 0.7 pips on a pair like the EUR\/USD. On more exotic pairs, such as the EUR\/ILS though, the minimum spread is as high as 47.6 \u2013 which is quite understandable, considering the trading volume disparity involved. It has to be noted that the spreads are variable.\nOn indices, the trading conditions are quite a bit different. The maximum available leverage on these instruments is 1:125. The spreads vary wildly here too, but they can indeed be as low as 0.32 on the US Dollar Index for instance. If you're planning to trade indices, make sure you check the trading hours, because these products are not available around the clock like currencies.\nMoving on to commodities, the maximum available leverage remains at the 1:125 mark. The minimum spread in this category can hit ridiculously low levels though: on RBOB Gasoline for instance, the minimum spread is just 0.0007 pips. The number and diversity of the tradable commodities is impressive. Besides Gold, Silver, Oil and Gas, soybeans, wheat and corn can be traded too, together with palladium, cotton and even orange juice.\nThe stocks category is broken into two sub-categories: US- and European stocks. The maximum available leverage on all of them is 1:50. The minimum spreads are 0.21, though on some European stocks they can go as low as 0.021.\nGMO Trading Platforms\nIn this regard, GMO Trading seem committed to keeping things as simple as possible.\nThe Web Trader is the go-to option for most beginners, since it can be accessed at a few clicks directly from the website and it offers a handy Demo option, which allows all comers to put its features to the test without putting any real money into harm's way. This platform is compatible with most major browsers and it can indeed be accessed download-free from just about anywhere in Europe. Besides the obvious advantages stemming from its web-based nature, this platform also offers one-click trade execution. Advanced charting options are available, together with an impressive selection of technical indicators. Visual trends and trading cubes are featured too.\nAs already said above, MT4 is the flagship platform of the brokerage. It is available for download at the site, free of charge, and it can be installed within a couple of minutes. Traders are given the choice of a demo account on this platform too.\nMT4 is renowned for the features and the trading environment it offers. It comes with scores of trading tools and preinstalled technical indicators. Through this platform, traders can create their own indicators though, and they can install as many as they want from a massive pool of over 2k free indicators. Indicators can be purchased from 3rd parties too and installed.\nThe charting options are unparalleled. Traders can create templates which they can save for later use.\nEAs (Expert Advisors) represent one of the most popular features of the platform. EAs are in essence auto-traders, which can trade away according to the traders' settings, around the clock, provided they're coupled up with a good VPS service.\nGMO Trading Deposit Options\nGMO Trading accept a variety of credit cards, as well as the good, old-fashioned wire transfer. A number of eWallet solutions are supported too: Neteller, Webmoney and Skrill.\nThe educational material delivered through the GMO Trading website is plentiful as well as useful. There are eBooks, articles, courses, tutorials, as well as a VOD (video of the day) archive, which can be accessed by all comers.\nGMO Trading may not be the oldest and biggest global Forex\/CFD brokerage out there, but its offer is solid in every regard. It features excellent platforms, decent trading conditions, as well as a more than decent selection of tradable assets. Education and great support are just a sort of cherry on top of the cake. Also, the minimum required deposit is just $250.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"LafargeHolcim establishes new European Works Council\nWritten by Global Cement staff 28 March 2017\nSwitzerland: LafargeHolcim and employee representatives in Europe have established a new European Works Council (EWC). The forum for consultation and dialogue at a transnational level will bring together worker representatives from 19 countries with senior leaders from LafargeHolcim.\n\"People are essential to the success of LafargeHolcim and our commitment to social dialogue through the new European Works Council is testament to this. During a period of transformation, we recognise that ensuring the full commitment, mobilisation, and engagement of our employees is a key building block for success,\" said Eric Olsen, chief executive officer of LafargeHolcim.\nThe EWC was established based on an agreement signed by Olsen and Executive Committee members Caroline Luscombe, responsible for Organisation and Human Resources and Roland K\u00f6hler, responsible for Europe, Australia \/ New Zealand and Trading as well as Sam H\u00e4gglund, General Secretary of the European Federation of Building and Woodworkers EFBWW, among other management and employee representatives. Chaired by K\u00f6hler, the EWC replaces the previous European Works Councils. Countries represented in the EWC include Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and the UK.\nPublished in Global Cement News\nEuropean Works Council\nFLSmidth enters negotiations with ThyssenKrupp over acquisition of its mining business\nCemex UK supplies Vertua Classic concrete for building in Leeds Climate Innovation District\nYorkshire Water tests new concrete surface technology in the UK\nLafargeHolcim heads to the roof\nBogdan Dobre appointed as new general manager of Holcim Romania\nJoin the Global Cement Live weekly webinar - FREE - Thursdays 2 - 3pm CET\nURL: https:\/\/globalcement.com\/news\/item\/5969-lafargeholcim-establishes-new-european-works-council\n\u00a9 2021 Pro Global Media Ltd. All rights reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Brush fires flare throughout region\nBy Lee Hammel TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF\nApr 17, 2012 at 7:00 PM Apr 17, 2012 at 10:34 PM\nFirefighters had a busy day today with at least four brush fires reported around Worcester County.\nA Paxton firefighter was injured in a brush fire in Leicester, according to Leicester Fire Chief Robert F. Wilson. The firefighter, whose name was not available, was struck in the back of the head by a falling tree branch, Chief Wilson said.\nThe firefighter was taken to the hospital, but his injury did not appear to be serious, the chief said.\nThe fire burned about an acre off Route 56 on the Leicester-Paxton line, not far from a Worcester reservoir. It was reported at 4 p.m. and took about a half hour to put out, but firefighters were there for 1 1\/2 hours because of dry conditions, Chief Wilson said.\nFirefighters from Paxton and Rutland assisted Leicester. They used a chain saw to cut down a half-dozen dead trees that were burning 20 or 30 feet above the ground, he said.\nThe fire is of suspicious origin, the chief said. More than 40 firefighters battled it, he said.\nLancaster firefighters were called about 2 p.m. to woods behind 234 South Meadow Road, Deputy Fire Chief Michael Hanson said. He said apparently three 13-year-old boys started a fire and then threw an aerosol deodorant can into it.\nThe can exploded and the fire burned a patch about 100 by 100 feet. It took two engines with eight call firefighters about 15 minutes to extinguish, then an hour to make sure surrounding dry brush did not ignite, Deputy Chief Hanson said.\nBrush fires also were reported in Petersham and Northbridge. A brush fire off Carpenter Road in Northbridge was burning late tonight, and had been for hours, police said. Fire departments from Uxbridge and Grafton were assisting the Northbridge Fire Department.\nEarlier in the day a brush fire was reported at Country Club Drive and the golf course in Northbridge.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"[Salem Horror Fest Review] 'Papi Ramirez vs. Giant Scorpions' Uses Creative Ingenuity & Heart to Enormously Positive Results\nSome of the best pieces of art and entertainment are those created under the confines of technical and financial limitations...\n...It forces the artist to use a finite amount of colors and paintbrushes, which requires a special kind of resourceful creativity that can really challenge the artist. Videographer and filmmaker Leslie Rivera takes this minimalist approach to a whole new level. Playing at the 2020 Salem Horror Fest, Papi Ramirez vs Giant Scorpions is, more or less, a one-man band kind of production. Filmed entirely in Rivera's storage unit with a green screen, and a host of props, this constrained but robust film is truly a sight to behold.\nPapi begins his hero's journey at home cradling his wife and lovingly nestling his head on her pregnant stomach. Both are ecstatic about the birth of their daughter and are clearly very much in love with each other. Papi starts his day like any other, driving across the flat, barren desert to reach his next stuntman gig. After a long, hot, strenuous day, Papi wants nothing more than to embrace his wife and leave work in the rearview mirror, but that's not in the cards for him. While pulling over to relieve himself, a large black figure approaches him on the long, lone road. To his amazement, the figure is a giant scorpion! While trying to outrun the abomination, Papi ends up falling into a deep, dark pit in the ground. Now trapped by the giant scorpion, he meets two smaller scorpions, who identify themselves as the spawn of the larger one. Equipped only with his wits and paternal motivation to see his daughter born, Papi must use the scarce resources around him to fight his way out.\nScorpions achieves something not often seen in film anymore, which is caring for its technical proficiency just as much as it appreciates its emotional resonance. It understands the importance of this very vital balance and I actually feel that Rivera cares for the story he's telling. It took a little while for me to spot the heart amongst the eccentric and stimulating aesthetic, but once I found it, it all kind of came together for me. At first glance, I was nearing an eye-rolling session due to its sometimes-obnoxious theatrical qualities. It comes off like an extended episode of Robot Chicken that you might catch at 2 A.M. on Adult Swim, but the joke was on me, because my shallow initial judgements were proven wrong. Once Papi is in the dark pit, he reflects on his situation and finds his center by focusing on what means most to him: his wife and unborn daughter. His own paternal instincts are mirrored by the scorpion and her two children. Don't get me wrong, it's as ridiculous as it sounds and the scorpion children provide some of the film's biggest laughs, but beneath the goofy exterior is a story about two parents who would die for their children. It's heartfelt stuff and, unless you're completely devoid of feeling and have no soul, it's impossible not to appreciate the film's earnest themes.\nScorpions is one of the greatest technical achievements I've seen this year. Not because of a massive scale backed by millions, but because of its limitations and small-scale creativity. This isn't a bottle film taking place in one location, either. The amount of dynamic filmmaking achieved by using so little is incredible. Rivera manages to take us to several locations by way of green screen, forced perspective, and digital matte paintings. The film could have easily rubbed me the wrong way if it were an overly self-satisfying vanity project, and I'm happy to report the opposite. Because the film is filled with so much heart, none of the filmmaking trickery ever comes off as showy. The length of the film also speaks volumes about what's necessary and what is just visual fluff. Clocking in at just under 50 minutes, Scorpions knows its sweet spot and never outstays its welcome. The film never lingers on anything unimportant to the story and it honors its titular character by doing so. Not allowing the story to meander ensures the visuals never lose their charm for viewers and helps the film stay centered on its heartfelt focus.\nRivera has clearly proven he is a filmmaking renaissance man. Putting this production together required more than just a good idea and dedication. This was accomplished by way creative ingenuity, a painstaking post-production, and thinking far outside the box. I would recommend this to any parent, or anyone who has someone in their life they would fight tooth and nail to protect and care for. Funnily enough, I would also recommend this to the pot-smoking college student who regularly enjoys binging old episodes of Robot Chicken and Squidbillies. Many times, when heartwarming intent is cooked with comical absurdity the result feels insincere, but Rivera has crafted a delightfully balanced recipe. Papi Ramirez vs Giant Scorpions is not to be missed.\nBy Jeffrey W. Hollingsworth","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\"For medical purposes I am her mother. But I am also her aunt.\"\nMany families are grappling with similar questions as a family tree today is beginning to look more like a tangled forest. Genealogists have long defined familial relations along bloodlines or marriage. But as the composition of families changes, so too has the notion of who gets a branch on the family tree.\nSome families now organize their family tree into two separate histories: genetic and emotional. Some schools, where charting family history has traditionally been a classroom project, are now skipping the exercise altogether\u2026\nRob Okun, a 61-year-old magazine editor from Massachusetts, agreed to donate his sperm to a lesbian couple 16 years ago. Mr. Okun already had two biological children with a longtime female partner and two stepchildren with his current wife. He wanted no role in parenting the children born with his donated sperm, but did want them to know who he was.\nThe couple, Patricia Kogut and Lynne Dahlborg, agreed, and Ms. Kogut gave birth to Lucyna and Nathaniel. Ms. Dahlborg then adopted both children.\n\"There is the family tree and there is the day-to-day structure of the family,\" Ms. Kogut said.\nNYT Posted at 7:40 pm on July 5, 2011\nnytimes.com\/2011\/07\/05\/us\/05tree.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all\nRead More From NYT","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Developing Open Educational Resources policy for Antigua and Barbuda\nnews_050413_antigua.jpg\nUNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning brought together twenty education administrators, teachers, and policy makers from Antigua and Barbuda for two consultative workshops on developing a national OER policy and a country strategy for implementing ICT-CFT from 18 to 21 March 2013.\nThe workshops focused on brainstorming essential elements to be incorporated in such a strategy, while aligning it to the national educational goals, plans and strategies on capacity building in ICTs in education. The UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers was used to guide the discussions around teacher professional development.\nThe workshops were inaugurated by Dr Edmund Mansoor, Honourable minister for The Ministry of Telecommunications, Science and Technology and Mr Winston Williams, Honourable Minister for Education. Both the ministers reiterated Antigua and Barbuda's commitment to integrate ICTs in primary, secondary and tertiary education and to harness OERs.\nBoth workshops were facilitated by Neil Butcher, an educational technology specialist, who will prepare a draft policy on ICT in Education and OER in Antigua and Grenada, which will be presented to Ministry of Telecommunication and Ministry of Education, Government of Antigua and Barbuda before the end of March. This policy will incorporate a structured approach to harnessing the UNESCO ICT Competence Framework for Teachers to direct capacity building in Antigua and Barbuda. It will also integrate strategies on the effective use of Open Educational Resources (OER) in Antigua and Barbuda.\nThe workshop was organized by the UNESCO Kingston Office in collaboration with the Commonwealth of Learning and the support of the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Telecommunication, Science and Technology, Government of Antigua and Barbuda, and National Commission for UNESCO.\nEducation transforms lives\nOpen Educational Resources (OER)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cambridgeshire coronavirus: People hospitalised monthly with COVID-19 in our region triples\nThe number of patients in mechanical ventilation beds has also increased\nBenjamin Hatton\nStaff at a Coronavirus testing centre in (Image: PA)\nThe monthly number of people admitted to hospital with a confirmed case of Covid-19 has tripled in the East of England.\nThat is according to the government's daily tracker of Covid-19 data for the region, which also shows the number of Covid-19 patients in mechanical ventilation beds rising.\nIn the last four weeks of available data, up to and including October 6, there were 304 \"Covid-19 patients admitted to hospital\" in the region.\nIn the four weeks preceding that, there were 98, according to data on the government's daily tracker and analysed by the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\nThe government website says those figures refer to \"people admitted to hospital who tested positive for Covid-19 in the 14 days prior to admission, and those who tested positive in hospital after admission\".\nCase numbers rising\nZooming in to look at the trend in recent weeks, the weekly number of Covid-19 patients admitted rose more than 30 per cent in the last seven days up to and including October 6. In those last seven days of available data, 117 Covid-19 patients were admitted to hospital, up from 86 the week before \u2013 a jump of more than 30 per cent. There were 46 the week before, 55 the week before that, and 29 the week before, which is the week beginning September 2.\nThere were 23 patients admitted to hospital who had tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday, October 5, more than any single day since July.\nThe number of Covid-19 patients in mechanical ventilation beds has also risen, from a seven-day rolling average of 1.6 on September 8, to 12 on the last day of available data, Thursday, October 8.\nThe government's website says the figure includes \"the numbers of Covid-19 patients in beds which are capable of delivering mechanical ventilation and includes Nightingale hospitals\".\nData on the number of deaths related to Covid-19 in the region has more of a delay.\nThe most recent data available is for the week ending September 25, where 10 deaths were recorded in the East of England where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate. There were eight such deaths in each of the two preceding weeks.\nThe number of people testing positive is also rising in the region. The number of confirmed cases in the East of England have also tripled, rising from 1,150 in the week September 15 to 21, to 1,740 a week later, to 3,079 in the seven days up to October 5.\n'I urge everyone to pull together and help reverse this upward trend'\nOn Thursday (October 8), Public Health England East released a statement calling on residents \"to do their bit to help slow the rise in Covid-19 cases\".\nDeputy director for health protection at Public Health England East, Dr Jorg Hoffmann, said: \"The East of England is beginning to reflect what is being seen in other parts of the country with a steady rise in the number of cases of Covid-19 and although we may not yet be in a similar situation as some of the areas in the north, the increasing rates of infection are cause for concern and action.\n\"I urge everyone to pull together and help reverse this upward trend; please adhere to the rule of six and follow guidelines around social distancing, face coverings and hand washing. Remember hands, face, space. If you experience a high temperature, new continuous cough or loss of, or change to, your sense of smell or taste, we ask that you self-isolate immediately and arrange a test.\nSign up to the CambridgeshireLive newsletter\nIf you're looking for a way to stay up to date with the latest breaking news from around Cambridgeshire, the CambridgeshireLive newsletter is a good place to start.\nThe daily update will deliver the top news and features to your inbox every evening.\nWe choose the most important stories of the day to include in the newsletter, including crime, court news, long reads, traffic and travel, food and drink articles and more.\nSigning up to the newsletter is simple. All you have to do is to click here and type in your email address.\nIt's one of the many ways that you can read the news that matters to you from CambridgeshireLive.\n\"By being disciplined and following these rules, you greatly reduce the risk to yourself and those you love. It really is simple \u2013 by following the advice you are doing your bit and if we all do this together, we will build a defence and help protect others who may be at a higher risk at getting seriously ill should they become exposed to the infection.\"\nResidents are advised to adhere to the government guidelines on the rule of six and social distancing, and to maintain good hygiene, wear a mask and keep distance from others in line with the guidance.\nThose who show signs of coronavirus symptoms \u2013 such as a high temperature, a new, continuous cough and a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste \u2013 are advised to self-isolate immediately and book a test as soon as possible.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"by Mel Sep 21, 2019 | 0 Votes | 25 Bought | 0 Reviews Your vote - rate\nMarketplace:\nOutdoor and Sporting Goods Adidas is the largest activewear manufacturer in Europe, and the second-largest globally. Originally designed strictly for wear in athletics, it has since diversified into the very lucrative market of streetwear fashion as one of the most popular athleisure brands in the world. Buy Now Similar Brands Bought Post a Review\nIntroduction What to Buy Highlights Is It Time to Buy?\nAdidas AG, or simply Adidas, is a multinational corporation founded and headquartered in Germany, that designs and manufactures shoes, clothing, and accessories. It is the largest activewear manufacturer in Europe, and the second-largest globally. Originally designed strictly for wear in athletics, Adidas has since diversified into the very lucrative market of streetwear fashion as one of the most popular athleisure brands in the world.\nWith its recognizable \"three stripes\" logo and its omnipresence in the world of amateur and professional sports, hardly anyone hasn't come across an item of Adidas clothing at least once in his or her lifetime. What began as an athletic shoe company in 1924 is now one of the most valuable brands in the world, venturing into apparel by popularizing the tracksuit in 1967 and now selling a whole range of men's, women's, and kids' clothing and accessories such as jackets and hoodies, hats, socks, bags, underwear, watches, eyewear, mobile accessories, and more.\nAdidas has also branched out into Adidas branded body care products such as perfume, deodorant, shower gels, and aftershave cologne. Adidas is also the largest manufacturer of sports bras in Europe (the second largest in the world).\nAdidas' fame started with famed sprinter Jesse Owens, the 1936 Olympics, and a pair of rubber spiked running shoes. The brand continues to make footwear the core of its billion-dollar business by producing shoes not only for athletics but also for soccer, basketball, football, baseball, golf, and tennis.\nBut with the cultural acceptance of sportswear in mainstream fashion inspired by urban street style and hip-hop, the role of sportswear was forever changed when Adidas' launched its bestselling Originals line of shoes in the 1970s, offering modernized updates on their timeless silhouettes such as the Swift, NMD, Superstar, Continental, Samba, Campus, and Stan Smith that serve as classic templates to how fashion sneakers are designed today. Now with athleisure apparel and accessories as part of its line, today's Adidas' Originals features successful collaborations with Pharrell Williams, Raf Simons, Jeremy Scott, Alexander Wang, Palace Skateboards and, more specifically, Kanye West's groundbreaking Yeezy line that have revolutionized street lifestyle and men's fashion in general.\nMeanwhile, one of the main drivers of Adidas sales has always been football kits and football equipment. Adidas remains the number one supplier and innovator of team kits for international association football teams and clubs, which the brand has also made available to the public through club jerseys, training pants and track jackets, to cleats such as the famed Copa, Predator, X, and Nemeziz worn by superstars Lionel Messi, Mo Salah, and Paul Pogba.\nTop fashion designer Stella McCartney, meanwhile, has been a regular collaborator of Adidas for close to 15 years and has been focusing on developing cutting-edge, high-performance recycled materials. Not only has she been designing stylish athleisure apparel, but is also leading Adidas towards offering sustainable options with her Adidas by Stella McCartney line using as much recycled polyester as possible, with a few made with ocean plastic recovered by another McCartney partner, Parley for the Oceans.\nTogether with McCartney and Parley for the Oceans, Adidas is at the forefront of apparel sustainability with its innovations in creating footwear and clothing made of recyclable materials. Adidas has produced an entire collection of sportswear where each piece has at least 75% of its construction made of materials reclaimed and recycled from marine plastic waste and illegal deep-sea gillnets collected from beaches, remote islands, and coastal communities. Currently, Adidas has committed to producing 11 million pairs of shoes and a range of sportswear through this partnership with Parley.\nTo start shopping on Adidas.com, you can browse the straightforward menu on top of each page by Men, Women, Kids, Sports, and Brands categories. From there you'll find a menu for Featured (New Arrivals and Best Sellers), Shoes, Clothing, Accessories, and Sport. Inside each product page, you can find a variety of photos, product details, color options, size chart and selection, rating & reviews, and suggested related items.\nAdidas accepts the following payment methods: Major credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover), PayPal\/PayPal Express, Apple Pay, and Adidas Gift Cards. At the moment, all shipping on the Adidas site is FREE within the United States and with no coupon codes required until further notice.\nIf you want to return your Adidas.com purchase for any reason, the company will offer you a full refund within 30 days of purchase (personalized products are not returnable) by visiting their online returns page to print a return label. Once your package is labeled, you can drop it off physically from within the USA at any UPS Drop Off Location within said 30 days.\nFurthermore, check out Adidas.com's promotions pages for a 15% off code or more on future purchases. You can also sign up for Adidas news and get an additional 15% off coupon for your next order.\nFinally, since the hottest new drops and colorways of your favorite sneakers tend to sell out in a blink of an eye, go to the \"Release Dates\" link for the most accurate countdown on Adidas release dates for Yeezy, UltraBOOST, Pharrell, Falcon, Nite Jogger, PureBoost Go, Continental, Yung and other collections so you won't miss a drop.\nIs It Time to Buy?\nAs the name that made athletic kits-as-streetwear a cultural and fashion phenomenon and the brand that dared to take a chance on Kanye West's Yeezy; Adidas has proven time and again that it's a game-changer when it comes to combining contemporary trends with classic silhouettes in its athletic shoes and sportswear. Now, with free shipping at no minimum purchase and a goal to market a 100% recyclable shoe by 2021, there's no better time to go all-in on the Adidas lifestyle.\nAdidas Blog\nNew Brand Added: Adidas\nby Mel Sep 21, 2019 Adidas is the largest activewear manufacturer in Europe, and the second-largest globally. Originally designed strictly for wear in athletics, it has since diversified into the very lucrative market of streetwear fashion as one of the most popular athleisure brands in the world. Read More Be the First to Post a Review!\nPlease fill in the title and the full review fields The review text can be a maximum of 10000 characters long Please rank the brand before submitting your review The review title can be a maximum of 50 characters long Cancel Submit Your Review\nThe Home Depot One of the most recognizable home improvement brands in the United States, The Home Depot is renowned for offering a wide variety of products, home improvement services, and free DIY workshops and project ideas. Barnes & Noble Barnes & Noble is the largest bookselling company in the United States. With over 750 retail stores across all 50 states, this company sells a variety of digital media, toys and educational products, gifts, reading aids, art supplies, and more, in addition to a myriad of books. iStock Photo Owned and managed by Getty Images, iStock Photo is among the world's best source of quality stock content, be it photos, illustrations, videos or audio, at affordable prices. eBay Along with Amazon, eBay is one of the most recognizable online marketplaces that sell literally anything you'll ever need. Whether it is the latest gadgets, handbags for the ladies, old and collectible VHS tapes, or even travel deals, you can find them all on eBay! PatPat Established by InterFocus Inc, PatPat is set up with the sole intent of providing quality mom and baby goods at affordable prices. And how they do that? They use the Manufacturer to Consumer model (M2C) \u2013 They cut out the middlemen and let you order your products directly from the manufacturers. Mattel Mattel is one of the biggest brands and companies when it comes to popular children's toys. They own multiple IPs including the iconic brands, Barbie and Hot Wheels. Aside from their own range of toys, they also work with other huge entertainment companies like Disney and DC Comics.\nBrands686 Articles80 Surveys3 Blog Posts793 Users49 User Reviews0\nAll Copyrights reserved to PiKoYa \u00a9","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Race for a cure\nWar-ravaged Syria takes new steps against coronavirus, says no recorded cases yet\nBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria, already shattered by nine years of war, has banned entry for foreigners arriving from many countries hit by the coronavirus as part of widening measures to combat the epidemic.\nA worker sanitises a door at a hospital, as hospitals enforce a series of measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Damascus, Syria March 19, 2020. REUTERS\/Omar Sanadiki\nAlthough the government says it has yet to document any infections, Syria is seen at high risk.\n\"We have vulnerable populations in camps, refugees, slum areas at the outskirts of large urban centers,\" the World Health Organization's Syria representative, Nima Saeed Abid, told Reuters.\n\"If we take the scenarios in China or even in Iran, we are expecting we may have large number of cases and we are preparing accordingly.\"\nCoronavirus infections have also yet to be recorded in the large parts of Syria outside government control - the east, northeast and northwest.\nThe rebel-held northwest was already facing a major humanitarian crisis with nearly one million people displaced by fighting in the past few months as the Russian-backed government mounted an offensive.\nU.N. political affairs chief Rosemary DiCarlo said on Friday that she had heard from sources on the ground about the potentially devastating impact of coronavirus in Syria.\n\"If anyone - incredibly - still needed a reason to stop the fighting there, this is it,\" DiCarlo posted on Twitter.\nThe entry ban announced overnight by Damascus followed the closure of schools, parks, restaurants and various public institutions. A health hotline is being launched, Health Minister Nizar Yazigi said.\nHe also responded to suggestions of a cover-up.\n\"The health ministry is the only source of information about this matter and not rumors circulating on social media,\" the state news agency quoted him as saying on Thursday. \"When there is an infection, it will be announced.\"\nStill, Kurdish-aligned authorities that govern much of northeastern and eastern Syria are not convinced.\n\"We took decisions to close all crossings with the regime,\" said Ghassan al-Yousef, head of a council that administers areas of Deir al-Zor province east of the Euphrates River.\nHe cited fear of the virus crossing from government territory west of the Euphrates River, particularly areas controlled by pro-Damascus Shi'ite militias that are backed by Iran and recruit from countries where the virus has spread.\nThe Kurdish-led administration has banned movement between towns in its region starting from Saturday and a curfew will begin Monday.\nIn the opposition-held northwest, rescue workers whose usual role is to respond to government bombardments have been sanitizing classrooms. Medics in the northwest fear the virus would spread very quickly in crowded camps for the displaced.\nAll the countries bordering Syria have coronavirus outbreaks.\nWriting by Tom Perry; Editing by Angus MacSwan and Sonya Hepinstall","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"KOBI5.com > News > Local > Teen with tactical belt prompts school lockdown\nTeen with tactical belt prompts school lockdown\nAshland, Ore. \u2014 Both Ashland High School and Lincoln School went into lock down Thursday morning after Ashland Police got a call of a young man with a tactical belt and what looked like a holster for a handgun.\n\"I think that we're constantly on edge right now. Especially around our schools and universities. It's just\u2026 it's the world that we live in,\" Ashland Police Chief Tighe O'Meara said.\nIt was a day just like any other for the Ashland Police Department and nearby schools until a call came in around 10:30 Thursday morning.\n\"We were there\u2026 inside a couple of minutes,\" Chief O'Meara said.\nA city of Ashland employee said he saw a young man wearing tactical gear who looked armed with a holstered handgun.\nHe was walking on Ashland High School campus.\n\"Anybody looking at this kid would be alarmed by his dress and the fact that he's walking onto a high school campus with tactical gear on\u2026 one day after 17 people died in a similar situation in Florida,\" Chief O'Meara said.\nBoth Ashland High School and Lincoln School across the street immediately went into lock down.\nBut only for about fifteen minutes until police discovered it was a false alarm.\n\"He wasn't armed. But he was wearing a tactical belt with a radio holder on it that very easily can be mistaken for a holster,\" Chief O'Meara said.\nThe young man, who is a student, is apparently known for wearing the belt.\nAnd while everyone was thankful there wasn't actually a threat, Chief O'Meara says it was good for Ashland Police to practice its active shooter response.\n\"No two situations are the same. We get there, we figure out what's going on, and we address the situation however we have to,\" Chief O'Meara said.\nChief Tighe O'Meara says Ashland Police has a good relationship with the schools.\nPolice are meeting with school leaders to find out how they can respond even more effectively if it were to happen again.\nTags: Ashland Ashland Police lockdown\nPrevious Article 8th annual Careers in Gear brings students and businesses together\nNext Article Police respond to threat at North Medford High School","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Posse Los Angeles supporters at the 2019 Golf Outing.\nPosse L.A. Golf Outing Raises $60K\nFall 2019 | Los Angeles\nThis September, Posse Los Angeles and Avison Young held their 7th Annual Golf Outing with the support of Shawmut Design and Construction. Posse Los Angeles Advisory Board members Jonathan Larsen and Greg Skalaski collaborated to ensure the continued success of the event, which raised $60,000.\nThe outing was held at the Calabasas Country Club and was attended by more than 100 golfers and guests. The tournament began with a brief program and breakfast for the participants. Posse Los Angeles Advisory Board Chair James Wilcox welcomed the golfers and spoke about the impact of The Posse Foundation.\n\"I'm such a believer in Posse and what it stands for.\"\n\"I'm such a believer in Posse and what it stands for,\" says James, a managing director and wealth manager at First Republic Investment Management. \"I encourage everyone to consider hiring a Posse Scholar or alum. It really transforms a workplace.\"\nFollowing the tournament, guests attended a reception with live music where Jonathan Larsen presented Posse Los Angeles with a ceremonial check for the proceeds raised. Jonathan thanked the event's sponsors, including Pinnacle Construction and other long-standing sponsors who have been deeply committed to Posse's mission.\n\"Without sponsor support this tournament would not be possible,\" Jonathan said in his remarks. \"It takes $50,000 to support a single Posse. Your contribution helps shape tomorrow's leaders.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Giveaway of Esther by Jennifer North\nMay 8, 2019 April 7, 2019 by HNSA Editor\nHere's a treat for April. Our sponsor, Allen & Unwin, is offering a 3 book giveaway of Esther by Jennifer North, the story of Esther Abraham, a First Fleet convict who became the First Lady of the colony of Sydney. You can read a sample chapter here.\nJessica North has been researching Esther's story for over a decade, discovering intriguing new information. She is a program director at the Australian Research Institute for Environment and Sustainability at Macquarie University, and author of several guides.\nSubscribe to our HNSA newsletter then comment on this post to enter the draw. Contest ends at 5 pm on 6 May 2019. Winning entries will be determined via random.org.\nThe little-known rags to riches love story of a convict girl who arrived in Australia on the First Fleet. Much like another, better-known colonial woman, Elizabeth Macarthur, Esther successfully managed her husband's property and became a significant figure in the new colony.\nEsther only just escaped the hangman in London. Aged 16, she stood trial at the Old Bailey for stealing 24 yards of black silk lace. Her sentence was transportation to the other side of the world.\nShe embarked on the perilous journey on the First Fleet as a convict, with no idea of what lay ahead. Once on shore, she became the servant and, in time, the lover of the dashing young first lieutenant George Johnston. But life in the fledgling colony could be gruelling, with starvation looming and lashings for convicts who stepped out of line.\nEsther was one of the first Jewish women to arrive in the new land. Through her we meet some of the key people who helped shape the nation. Her life is an extraordinary rags-to-riches story. As leader of the Rum Rebellion against Governor Bligh, George Johnston became Lieutenant-Governor of NSW, making Esther First Lady of the colony, a remarkable rise in society for a former convict.\n'North skilfully weaves together one woman's fascinating saga with an equally fascinating history of the early colonial period of Australia. The resulting true story is sometimes as strange and thrilling as a fairytale.' \u2013 Lee Kofman, author of The Dangerous Bride.\nHNSA Sydney 2019 will be held on the weekend of 25-27 October 2019 at Western Sydney University Parramatta.\nOnce again, historical fiction writers and readers can gather for a three stream program on the weekend of 26-27 October including our extended Academic stream on Sunday 27 October. This time there's also a Craft & Publishing program on Friday 25 October with craft workshops, masterclasses and manuscript assessments with top class tutors. Our Guest of Honour is Jackie French. Keynote speaker Paula Morris will address our theme: History Repeats.\nAmong the 60 acclaimed speakers are patrons Kate Forsyth and Sophie Masson, Catherine Jinks, Ali Alizadeh, Marie Munkara, Lucy Treloar, Robert Gott, Pamela Hart, Nicole Alexander, Jane Caro, Alison Goodman, Kelly Gardiner, Michelle Aung Thin, Meg Keneally, Majella Cullinane and so many more.\nOur signature First Pages Pitch Contest returns with $200 prize money on offer. They'll also be a sword fight or two with our Historical Re-enactments & Weapons display!\nEnjoy a delicious meal at our conference dinner on Saturday 26 October where Anna Campbell will entertain us. You'll also hear who's won this year's ARA HNSA Short Story Contest with a $500 prize.\nVisit our website to purchase your early bird tickets now!\nSubscribe to our newsletter for interviews, podcasts and conference news.\nLearn about our sponsorship opportunities.\nLet's make a noise about historical fiction!\nCategories Conference updates, GiveawaysTags Giveaways, HNSA 2019\tPost navigation\nMelbourne Satellite Event: Triumphs and Pitfalls of the Self-Publishing Game\nWhich panel will you choose? Crime or research?\n14 thoughts on \"Giveaway of Esther by Jennifer North\"\nShirley Patton\nAnother great historical fiction novel on my must read list! Plus research.\nEditor - HNSA\nThere are sooo\u2026 many. \ud83d\ude42\nGopi Elton\nI wonder what she did with the black lace?\nChrissie Mios\nThis sounds a fantastic series and one that my 83-year-old mother would love as well. As a keen genealogist, she's secretly disappointed that none of our ancestors arrived on the First Fleet\u2014 always interested in Australian stories based on the history of our country. Esther sounds like the perfect champion of women of the time \u2014 strong, courageous and resourceful. I'd love to meet her!\nI hope you win!\nThis sounds incredible! Love that gorgeous cover as well\nWill you enter?\nDianne Myers\nCannot wait to read this. I am currently studying for a BA at UNE majoring in Australian history and as a keen reader and genealogist with a female first fleeter in my family I can never get enough Australian historical fiction.\nThis looks wonderful, I'll definitely add it to my tbr-list. She's sounds like a wonderful character, in such a terrifying yet fascinating time\u2026\nSharon Talbot\n\"Esther\" sounds fascinating \u2013 I'd love to read about her. I know little about Aussie First Fleet, but have heard similar stories of arrivals on the First Four Ships to Canterbury\/Christchurch (NZ).\nMy English teacher caught me reading \"Sara Dane\" in class. Yep, I got in trouble, but I loved Gaskin's fiction about a strong woman in early colonial Australia. \"Esther\" sounds all the better for being based on a real historical entity and piles of research! Grown-up historical (bio)fiction for a grown-up me. Excellent stuff.\nThis book looks really interesting and on a subject I haven't much explored before.\nLoreth\nLooking forward to reading this one.\nRosemary Argue\nLooks like a very interesting read! It's about time that such amazingly strong Australian women are written about in fiction.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Buzz about Beekeeping Regulations\nIn 2015, the Governor signed into law, P.L. 2015, c.76, which preempted municipal authority to regulate beekeeping activity. Meaning, municipal governments could no longer adopt ordinances to regulate beekeeping within their borders and all ordinances regulating such activity adopted prior to the law were now void. As a \"home rule state,\" New Jersey's municipalities are generally said to have broad power to enact local regulations for all activities, except where the Legislature has specifically preempted. P.L. 2015, c.76 is a rare example of state preemption over local authority. Instead of allowing for local control, the 2015 law vested exclusive authority to promulgate beekeeping regulations and standards with the State Department of Agriculture. Unlike most other forms of preemption, however, P.L. 2015, c.76 allows municipalities to be delegated authority to monitor and enforce the standards promulgated by the Department.\nSince the law's signing, the Department of Agriculture has worked with the League and various beekeeping organizations to compose standards to regulate beekeeping. On November 20, 2017, the Department published those proposed standards. You can view these proposed regulations in their entirety, here.\nBelow is a brief overview of the Department's proposed standards. This is simply an overview, highlighting pertinent sections of the proposed regulations which have a direct municipal impact. This overview should be read in conjunction with the proposed regulations in their entirety. Comments on these proposed regulations are due by January 19, 2018. If you have questions or concerns with these proposed regulations that you wish to be addressed you should submit written comments to the Department before the January 19, 2018 deadline. For more details on how to submit comments please see the notice of proposed rulemaking, here. Also, you may forward these concerns to the League so that they may be addressed in the comments the League plans to submit to the Department.\nContact: Frank Marshall, Esq., League Staff Attorney, FMarshall@njslom.org or 609-695-3481 x. 137.\nHive Density\n<1\/4 Acre \u00bc Acre to <5 Acres 5 Acres or More\nResidential property where Agriculture is a Permitted Use *Not Addressed* 2 Hives per lot 40 Hives per lot\nResidential property where agriculture is not a permitted use New (not already in existence) hives are not permitted. If hives were in existence prior to July 31, 2015, a waiver may be sought under N.J.A.C 2:24-76.3 None, without a waiver. Hobbyist may seek waiver for up to 2 hives per lot. None, without a waiver. Hobbyist may seek waiver for up to 10 hives per lot.\nCommercial property where agriculture is not a permitted use New (not already in existence) hives are not permitted. If hives were in existence prior to July 31, 2015, a non-qualified commercial beekeeper may seek a waiver for up to 10 hives. Non-qualified commercial beekeeper may seek a waiver for up to 10 hives per lot. Non-qualified commercial beekeeper may seek a waiver for up to 20 hives per lot.\nFarms or commercial farms Number of hives permitted is subject to N.J.A.C 2:76-2A.2 Number of hives permitted is subject to N.J.A.C 2:76-2A.2 Number of hives permitted is subject to N.J.A.C 2:76-2A.2\nUndeveloped tract of land where agriculture is a permitted use *Not addressed* *Not Addressed* 40 Hives per lot\nWaiver and Procedures for Requesting Waivers\nThe above-listed hive limitations may be extended through a request for a waiver. A waiver is submitted by the beekeeper to the governing authority. The governing authority can be the Department or a municipality if the municipality adopts through ordinance the Department's apiary standards. (More on this below) In order to obtain a waiver to own and maintain additional hives, the beekeeper must submit an application for hearing to the governing authority. The request for a hearing must be made at least 10 days prior to a regularly scheduled meeting of a governing body, with public notice provided as required for regulatory actions of that governing body. The applicant must also obtain from the municipality's tax assessor's office a certified list of all property owners within 200 feet of the applicant's property and provide to all of those property owners written notice of the meeting where the waiver application will be heard. The notice shall include the following:\nThe name and address of the applicant;\nThe address, lot and block number of the property at which the applicant intends to maintain the hive(s);\nThe nature of the waiver requested, setting forth the number of the proposed hives; and\nThe date, time, and place of the hearing before the governing body.\nThe governing authority may grant or deny an application for a waiver based upon a preponderance of evidence (roughly 51% or more) that the applicant has demonstrated good cause for granting such waiver. Furthermore, an applicant seeking a waiver must certify that the hives are free of disease. When deciding to grant or deny a waiver the governing authority shall consider the following:\nThe size of the property where the applicant proposes to keep the hive(s);\nThe distance between the location of where the hive(s)is\/are intended to be kept and the physical location of adjacent property owners' homes or dwelling units;\nWhether the property where the Hives are proposed to be kept is fenced to provide a particular type of flyway barrier;\nWhether the hives for which the waiver is requested are the first hives or an addition to existing hives on the applicant's property;\nThe prior history of complaints against the applicant for violations of the beekeeping standards;\nThe zoning district of the property where the hives are proposed to be kept;\nWhether the hive(s) serve some business purpose or the hive(s) are to be kept as a hobby; and\nOther such facts as the governing authority may believe appropriate to consider according to the case and circumstances presented at the time the application is heard.\nA waiver can also be revoked upon the request of a resident or property owner of the municipality in which the hives are located. In order to seek a waiver revocation, the applicant seeking revocation must address the same issues as someone seeking a waiver and be made by a person who certifies they reside or own property in the municipality in which the waiver applies. Furthermore, notice must be given to the beekeeper through regular and certified mail that waiver revocation will be sought.\nLocation of Hives\nAll hives must be located a minimum of 10 feet from any property line and at least 25 feet from any roadside, sidewalk, or path. Hives must also be 85 feet away from any public place including playgrounds, sports fields, schools, churches, or churches unless special permission is granted for educational or research purposes. Entrance to the hives must be located away from adjacent residential property.\nA beekeeper must establish a flyway barrier at least six feet tall. The flyway barrier must be made of a solid wall, fence, dense vegetation, or some combination thereof. The flyway barrier must run parallel to the property line and extend 10 feet beyond the colony in each direction. If the adjacent property is undeveloped or agriculturally utilized, then no flyway barrier is required.\nBeekeepers are also required to register with the Department. The proposed rules identify the information needed for registration and the process for doing such. If you wish to examine these requirements please see the complete copy of the proposed rules found in the link above.\nAlong with registration, hobbyist beekeepers are required to certify that they have completed recurrent training every five years. This training can be provided by the various entities including Rutgers University, the Department, or the NJ Beekeepers association. Records of the completion of these programs must be submitted to the governing body overseeing these standards.\nAdministration of Standards and Authority Delegated to Municipalities\nWithout municipal action, administration of these proposed standards is provided by the Department of Agriculture. A municipality, however, may take over administration if it passes an ordinance adopting by reference the apiary standards promulgated by the Department. A municipality wishing to take over administration must designate the municipal office responsible for monitoring the standard and must also send a copy of any ordinance(s) adopting these standards at least two weeks in advance of formal consideration of such ordinance.\nIf a municipality which has adopted the Department's standards finds a condition or circumstance is not sufficiently addressed by those standards the municipality shall request guidance from the Department. This guidance can include making a request to the Department, allowing the municipality to adopt apiary standards that were in effect by ordinance prior to the passing of P.L. 2015 c.76, on July 31, 2015, if those prior standards would resolve the condition or circumstance. The Department must provide guidance to a municipality no later than 90 days from the time such request is received.\nIf the Department fails to provide guidance within 90 days, the municipality may adopt by ordinance its own standards to address the condition or circumstance. Prior to adopting its own standards, however, a municipality must first consult with the Department, the League, the NJ Beekeepers Association, and the Mid-Atlantic Apiculture Research and Extension Consortium. Further, any standards the municipality chooses to adopt under this fashion must reflect consideration for population density, the density and intensity of development, type of land use, and honey bee biology and behavior.\nFor those municipalities which adopt the Department's standards, reports must be provided to the Department covering the period between February 15 and October 15 annually. Reports must be submitted by May 31, August 30, and October 30 and must contain the following:\nThe number of registration applications incorrectly sent to the municipality and forwarded to the Department;\nThe number and type of complaints from residents including complaints of swarms and\/or disruptive contact of honey bees with swimming pools;\nThe number of monitoring inspections by the municipality;\nThe number of registrant reports of disease of bees to the municipality and forwarded to the Department; and\nThe number and type of enforcement actions taken.\nContact: Frank Marshall, Esq, Staff Attorney, fmarshall@njslom.org,609-695-3481 x137.\nCY 2018 Budget Matters\nBudget Deadlines, Calendar Year 2018 Budget, Local Budgets\nAs you continue to prepare your 2018 municipal budget, we would like to bring to your attention Local Finance Notice 2017-26, recently issued by the Division, detailing CY 2018 Budget matters. We would like to note that in 2018, the Division will automate the financial reporting process, which is explained below in further detail, resulting in a streamlined process, which will eliminate the need to file a separate User-Friendly Budget.\nI. CY 2018 Budget Deadlines\nThe Division of Local Government Services has extended the deadline to introduce your CY 2018 budget to March 16. It is important to be mindful of these dates as you develop your budget. First, in the past, the timely adoption of the municipal budget has been a best practices question. Secondly, the Division has taken a harder line with municipalities that fail to timely adopt their budgets. Governing body members who willfully fail or refuse to timely adopt their budgets can be subjected to a daily personal penalty of $25.\nThe proposed changes (absent referendum dates) are:\nIntroduction and Adoption of Budget \u2013 Non-Referendum Statutory Date Revised Date\nMayor\/Council Faulkner Act (Executive) budget transmission to governing body 1\/15 2\/16\nMunicipal introduction and approval of budget 2\/10 3\/16\nMunicipal adoption 3\/20 4\/20\nNotwithstanding the revised dates, a budget may be adopted anytime within 10 days of receiving the Director's certification of approval of the budget.\nII. FY 2019 State Aid\nOne of the unknowns you face when preparing your municipal budget is how much property tax relief funding the State Aid will provide to your town. This number is not known until the Governor's budget is presented. At this time it unknown when incoming Governor Murphy is scheduled to deliver his State Budget address. As in the past with the first year of a new Governor, we expect the State Budget address to be late February or early March. According to the Local Finance Notice, after the budget is proposed the Division will notify municipalities of the CMPTRA and Energy Tax Receipts amounts that can be anticipated in their budgets. For budgeting purposes, the Division is advising municipalities to use the 2017 funding amounts for the 2018 budget.\nIII. Health Insurance Contribution and Waiver Accounting\nThe 2010 property tax levy cap law included an exception for health care cost. The exception is based on the average State Health Benefits increase, which is 0.0% for 2018. Therefore, there will be no levy cap exception for Health Benefits. The Division has also outlined how employee contributions for health insurance should be accounted and that the formal budget message must contain information or a schedule showing the amounts contributed from employees, the employer share, and total costs. The disclosure may be broken down by employee group.\nIV. Financial Automation Submission Tracking (\"FAST\")\nThe Division will be automating the budget process through their Financial Automation Submission Tracking system known as FAST. All reports, documents, and information that was previously submitted on paper, email, or excel spreadsheets will be submitted through FAST. Beginning January 1, 2018, all municipalities and counties must submit the following documents through FAST:\nAnnual Debt Statement\/Supplementary Debt Statements\nAnnual Financial Statement\nBudget\/ User-Friendly Budget\nAnnual Audit\/Corrective Action Plan\nDedication By Riders\nAll Emergencies\nAs a result of the FAST system, the Division will no longer require a separate submission of a User-Friendly Budget. Instead, a separate User-Friendly Budget report will be generated through FAST. Also, the CAP workbooks have been integrated into the FAST system and as such, municipalities will no longer be required to submit separate CAP workbooks.\nIn addition, all budgets submitted through FAST will be posted to the Division's website upon introduction and adoption. While it does not eliminate the requirement of N.J.S.A. 40A:4-10 to post your current and three prior year's budgets on your municipal website you can satisfy this requirement by adding a link to the Division's reports on your website.\nThe Division is providing training and information directly to your Chief Financial Officer, auditors, and financial professionals on FAST.\nV. Local Examination\nIf a municipality meets certain standards they are able to locally examine their budget in any 2 of 3 consecutive years. This year the Division will be examining Group 3 budgets. If your municipality is considered a Group 1 or 2 you can have the Division examine your budget but you first must pass a resolution prior to the introduction of the municipal budget.\nVI. Transitional Aid Application Process\nCalendar Year municipalities in financial distress will have only one opportunity to apply for Transitional Aid. For budgeting purposes, the municipalities that received Transitional Aid in CY 2017 may anticipate Transitional Aid in an amount equal to 85% of their CY 2017 aid allocation. The due date for the application will be set shortly.\nLocal Finance Notice 2017-26 details issues that a municipality should consider when preparing their 2018 municipal budget. We suggest you review the notice with your professional staff.\nContact: Lori Buckelew, Senior Legislative Analyst,lbuckelew@njslom.org,609-695-3481 x112.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Opinion: Computer hacking may never fully go away even with the best new technology \u2014 and we may not want it to\nThis wasn't the first, nor it will be the last, such attack. However, certain details made cybersecurity experts worried: First, hackers used a zero-day exploit, i.e. a yet unknown flaw in the code, to execute their attack. Second, they targeted a company that isn't as valuable a target as a bank, for example, but has a strategic significance due to its connection with the companies it serves.\nAccording to experts, independent hackers are upping their game, employing advanced tools and strategies, acting like elite government-backed hackers, rather than mere criminals.\nWhile I don't necessarily disagree with this assessment, I can't help but wonder if these experts have underestimated the global hacker community? Also, it is as if they're not aware of the state and rapid growth of global data infrastructure.\nGlobalization and unification\nWe live in the era where digital globalization and unification have reached the highest levels in history. In addition to some benefits, this also brought multiple risks to the table.\nOne is centralization. Instead of having a decentralized structure that is fragmented across multiple nodes, the data is often stored in a unified system, which means there is a singular point of failure. When that system gets breached eventually, the attacker can gain access to more information and power than he would've had if he had accessed a walled-off segment of the same system.\nThis is especially the case with cloud-based services. The monopoly power of tech giants and service providers growing across the developed world is another pain point as it ensures that a handful of companies provides services to the vast majority of enterprises that share a unified infrastructure and software backbone.\nWhile it may not be obvious to those less tech-savvy, it's quite easy even for a newbie hacker to discern what operating system (OS), content management system (CMS), marketing technology (martech) platform or other point of entry his victims use, and what kind of vulnerabilities \u2014 if any \u2014 exist for the version the victim is currently using.\nAll that's left is to execute the attack and cover his tracks.\nFinally, one must never underestimate the power of social engineering; this approach is superior to any other as it provides access to valuable information regardless of the failsafes in place. If anything, experience has taught us that no system is impervious to hacking.\nThis also means that the endgame shouldn't be to make a system \"unhackable.\" Rather, the goal should be to limit and mitigate the damage that could result from a possible breach.\nPlacing countermeasures that make hacking more trouble than it's worth is a better tactic than enticing hacker with huge vaults of digital treasure. Instead of relying on \"good old Windows\" or WordPress, one should use lesser-known, or even bespoke, operating systems and software whose exploits aren't publicly available.\nBut these investments require knowledge and additional funds, and companies are either reluctant, unqualified or incapable of making the necessary move.\nHowever, there is more that companies can do to protect their data and network.\nEarlier in the article, I mentioned the significant benefits of decentralization and fragmentation of the IT infrastructure as the best means for mitigating malicious attacks. Both of these features are hallmarks of the zero trust principle.\nThe main concept behind zero trust is that devices should not be trusted by default, even if they are connected to a managed corporate network such as the corporate local area network (LAN) and were previously verified. Every device within the network should have access only to necessary software and infrastructure \u2014 e.g., only an accountant's computer should have access to accounting software.\nThis way, a hacker needs to overcome a lot of hurdles, authenticate multiple times and sidestep many security procedures to complete his task \u2014 and even then, data he gains access to is limited to what the hacked entity was privy to.\nThe beauty of this approach was best demonstrated when hackers gained access to the Verkada cameras used in Cloudflare\noffices. As the chief technology officer of the company said on the corporate blog:\n\"To be clear: This hack affected the cameras and nothing else. No customer data was accessed, no production systems, no databases, no encryption keys, nothing. Some press reports indicate that we use a facial recognition feature available in Verkada. This is not true. We do not.\n\"Our internal systems follow the same zero trust model that we provide to our customers, and as such our corporate office networks are not implicitly trusted by our other locations or data centers. From a security point of view, connecting from one of our corporate locations is no different than connecting from a non-Cloudflare location.\"\nThe chain is as strong as its weakest link. By applying zero trust principles, the network architect assumes every link is the weakest one. In this case, it was the Verkada cameras.\nHowever, even with a zero trust model in place, a hacker could still get his hands on valuable information, such as customer data.\nBig data companies like to use (and abuse) the data provided to them by their customers and users, and rarely implement adequate measures to protect it. Hackers are very much aware of this negligence, and are all too happy to help themselves to stored credentials, which have an enormous value not only on the black market, but also for subsequent phishing and social engineering attacks.\nSo let's add one more item to the list: Companies need to make sure consumer data is encrypted, and in the spirit of zero trust principles, is used and accessed on an as-needed-basis and in an encrypted state whenever possible.\nGood hackers?\nHowever, the story about hacking does not end here. By now we've learned that hacking = bad. But are there scenarios where hacking might actually be a good thing? Furthermore, do we really need unhackable systems in this day and age?\nIn a world growing increasingly authoritarian, it would be ill-advised to strive for an infrastructure impervious to scrutiny and whistle-blowers. While companies and government organizations may not like to remain vulnerable, gaining unauthorized access to critical information is imperative in case these organizations overstep their boundaries, which has often and repeatedly happened throughout history.\nEdward Snowden's act of social engineering lifted the veil and exposed damage that the National Security Agency (NSA) did to the personal freedoms of Americans. WikiLeaks and others gave the public the necessary insight into the works and actions of elected officials and organizations. Media organizations have done the same over the years, exposing corruption.\nThis kind of unauthorized access allows for bottom-up control and should always be a welcome sight for the truth-seekers and individuals who refuse to blindly trust everything governments and companies do or say in their effort to rule and not serve the citizens. Having these kinds of failsafes is the last-resort protection against tyranny and, as such, should be a desirable weakness in the eyes of the average person.\nNow, perhaps, more than ever.\nWhat is your take on recent hacks? Does your company or the company you work at employ any of the countermeasures mentioned in this article? Let me know in the comment section below.\nThe S&P 500 and the Dow sink by 2% as virus surge\nVirgil Abloh Sells Off-White to LVMH, Deepening Ties With Luxury Conglomerate","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Knives out among Austria's far-right after poll rout\nVienna (AFP)\nLeaders of Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) gather Tuesday in Vienna as they reel from heavy losses in Sunday's elections and corruption scandals hanging over the party intensify.\nThe man at the centre of those scandals, its former leader Heinz-Christian Strache, has invited journalists to a \"personal statement\" on Tuesday morning as speculation mounts that he will be suspended or even expelled from the party.\nVoters delivered a stinging rebuke to the FPOe, which plunged 10 points to 16 percent in the aftermath of May's so-called \"Ibiza-gate\" affair.\nThat scandal brought down Strache and saw the FPOe's government with the centre-right People's Party (OeVP) collapse.\nSince the result on Sunday evening, one grim-faced FPOe politician after another has toured the TV studios to make clear that the party needs a spell in opposition to put its house in order -- a process that may well mean the knives are out for Strache.\nOn Monday evening the leader of the party in Upper Austria province, Manfred Haimbuchner, told Austrian media that he expected Strache to be suspended.\nOn Tuesday leaders of the Vienna branch of the party are expected to discuss yet another scandal which broke in the days leading up to the election, this time involving Strache's use of party money.\nProsecutors confirmed Thursday they were investigating Strache's expenses and had questioned his former bodyguard and his former office manager \"on the suspicion... of submitting fake receipts\" costing the party more than 5,000 euros ($5,500).\nThe FPOe's national executive will also meet on Tuesday in the presence of new leader Norbert Hofer to discuss how to \"reconstruct\" the party.\n- Rising recriminations -\nIn the immediate aftermath of \"Ibiza-gate\", the party closed ranks around Strache, who was filmed appearing to offer public contracts to a woman he believed was a Russian oligarch's niece in return for campaign help.\nStrache himself initially contritely resigned his posts but soon turned to loudly protesting his innocence and bemoaning a conspiracy against him.\nIn the run-up to May's European elections, a successful social media campaign launched by party supporters encouraged a \"preference vote\" for Strache in order to demonstrate his continuing support among the party's base.\nWhile he eventually turned that seat down, the Strache family name may not disappear from the corridors of power entirely as his wife Philippa is still in the running for one of the FPOe's seats in parliament.\nHowever, in recent days the recriminations against him have been rising within the party.\nStrache's erstwhile colleague in government, FPOe ex-Defence Minister Mario Kunasek, said that if the expenses allegations against Strache \"proved to be true, I don't see any other option\" but to expel him, \"however painful it is\".\nSome comments aimed at Strache online from people claiming to be FPOe voters have been even less forgiving.\n\"Keep quiet for once! The quicker the party expels you the better for its future,\" reads one.\n- Ghost of Haider -\nIn a country of 8.8 million people, Strache's Facebook page has almost 800,000 fans and some have speculated that he may be tempted to see if his personal following is enough to start his own party.\nIn 2020 there are key municipal elections in Vienna, and before the current turmoil there were rumours that Strache was preparing a run for mayor.\nWatchers of Austrian politics would be forgiven for feeling a bout of deja-vu coming on.\nIn the early 2000s, a previous OeVP-FPOe government also collapsed amid infighting, with the far-right's charismatic Joerg Haider eventually setting up his own rival movement.\nWatching the rows on the far-right with some trepidation will be the winner of Sunday's election, OeVP leader Sebastian Kurz.\nHe had made it clear that the FPOe was one of his preferred coalition partners but this option may be off the table for the foreseeable future.\n\"In future Kurz will have to take into account the instability in the FPOe which will make it very difficult for him to fulfil his ambition to govern in a stable way over the next five years,\" political analyst Thomas Hofer told AFP.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"EU investigation clears Apple Music overseas\niOS Apple\nUpdated: Aug 08, 2015, 12:24 AM\nAlan F.\nWhile Apple Music has been under investigation in the U.S. for making certain demands of music labels during contract negotiations, in the EU lawmakers have cleared the tech giant of any wrong doing involving its streaming music service. When Apple was in negotiations with Universal, Sony and Warner to discuss streaming tunes on Apple Music, the company reportedly asked the labels to request that rival Spotify stop offering its ad-supported free tier of streaming. Considering that 55 million out of 75 million Spotify subscribers are using the free service, Apple was hoping it could hit its rival hard by having the labels demand that Spotify put an end to its free ad-supported tier of service.\nIn another rumored example of illegal behavior, Apple allegedly told Universal Music that it would reimburse it for lost royalties, if it were to stop providing YouTube with tunes to stream. The EU started investigating Apple in April when these reports starting surfacing. EU investigators sent out questionnaires to the record labels seeking their side of the story.\nIn the U.S., both state and federal agencies are looking into Apple's behavior and are looking to see if it violates antitrust laws. In addition, Apple's App Store is also being investigated for antitrust violations. When an App Store user subscribers to a music streaming service via the store, Apple keeps 30% of the proceeds. That forces rival streamers to either raise their prices by 30% (becoming less competitive in the process) or accept a lower profit margin.\nUnlike Spotify, Apple doesn't offer a free tier of streaming music. Instead, Apple allows users to sign up for three months of free service. Once that period expires, individuals can subscribe to Apple Music for $9.99 a month. Families with up to six members can opt for the family plan, priced at $14.99 a month.\nJust the other day, Apple revealed that it had signed up 11 million members to its three month free trial. More important for Apple will be the number of free trial subscribers that decide to shell out for a paid subscription.\nNew reasons to get excited every week\nGet the most important news, reviews and deals in mobile tech delivered straight to your inbox\nSort: Newest first Oldest first Most popular\nAll comments need to comply with our\nPhonearena comments rules\nA discussion is a place, where people can voice their opinion, no matter if it is positive, neutral or negative. However, when posting, one must stay true to the topic, and not just share some random thoughts, which are not directly related to the matter.\nThings that are NOT allowed:\nOff-topic talk - you must stick to the subject of discussion\nTrolling - see a description\nFlame wars\nOffensive, hate speech - if you want to say something, say it politely\nSpam\/Advertisements - these posts are deleted\nMultiple accounts - one person can have only one account\nImpersonations and offensive nicknames - these accounts get banned\nModeration is done by humans. We try to be as objective as possible and moderate with zero bias. If you think a post should be moderated - please, report it.\nHave a question about the rules or why you have been moderated\/limited\/banned? Please, contact us.\nJoin the discussion...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Results for \"author_first: Bill, author_last: Moyers\"\nstring(19) \"2014-04-26 10:55:00\" The Language of Life By Bill Moyers Book Excerpt A poem by Stanley Kunitz on the spiritual practice of you.\nstring(19) \"2013-04-26 10:00:00\" The Language of Life By Bill Moyers Book Excerpt Alegria's poem \"Summing Up.\"\nstring(19) \"2013-04-09 09:50:00\" Fooling with Words By Bill Moyers Book Excerpt Deborah Garrison's poem \"A Kiss.\"\nstring(19) \"2012-04-19 08:40:00\" The Language of Life By Bill Moyers Book Excerpt Rita Dove's poem \"The First Book\" on openness.\nstring(19) \"2012-04-17 09:10:00\" The Language of Life By Bill Moyers Book Excerpt Jane Kenyon's poem \"Peonies at Dusk.\"\nstring(19) \"2012-04-11 09:10:00\" The Language of Life By Bill Moyers Book Excerpt Donald Hall's poem \"White Apples\" on listening.\nstring(19) \"2012-01-17 00:00:00\" Bill Moyers: The Language of Life By Bill Moyers, David Grubin Film Review A remarkable eight-part series with poetry readings and interviews by host Bill Moyers.\nstring(19) \"2012-01-17 00:00:00\" Bill Moyers: Amazing Grace By Bill Moyers, Elena Mannes Film Review A documentary with performances of the popular hymn and comments by Bill Moyers and many others about the reasons for its continuing impact.\nstring(19) \"2011-10-18 14:00:00\" Bill Moyers: The Wisdom of Faith with Huston Smith By Bill Moyers, Huston Smith, Pamela Mason Wagner Film Review A lively series about wisdom traditions and religion's path into the future.\nstring(19) \"2011-07-23 19:00:00\" Bill Moyers Journal By Bill Moyers Book Review A top-drawer collection of 47 interviews with independent thinkers on a wide variety of subjects.\n$_GET['author_first'] Bill\n$_GET['author_last'] Moyers\nQUERY_STRING author_first=Bill&author_last=Moyers","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Kevin Follett has reached 100,000 miles (Dec. 20, 2017)\nKevin Follett\nDOB: DOB: March 10, 1961\n[Editor's note: Kevin Follett's 100,000+ miles is particularly interesting, because he has \"logged\" more than just his running.]\nI just completed my lifetime goal of 100,000 miles\non December 20. What makes my log perhaps a little unique is that I have not only logged these miles (started January 1, 1977), but I've kept track of every person I've ever run with and post this list known as \"Follett Miles\", and I've also kept track of every single wildlife sighting from nearly 17,000 deer to exotic animals like Ibex & Monkeys to dangerous animals like Mountain lions & Wild Boars. In my log I have kept track of every shoe I've worn since 1973. Also in my online log is a 41 year Autobiography of my running- I've run, coached, and traveled to many parts of the world to watch my oldest daughter, Katie Mackey of the Brooks Beasts, complete.\nAs long as I can remember, I have loved writing things down and documenting them. I have kept a detailed diary of my life, kept a detailed record of my finances and budget, etc. To me \"it didn't count unless I wrote it down\".\nIn January of 1977, my Dad encouraged me to start documenting how much I was running. As I started this log, I not only wrote down how much I was running, but who I ran with and how much with each person. I also kept track of which shoes I was running in, the weather, and for me, the most fun was documenting wildlife sightings. With all these stats I could makes charts and graphs, see trends and set goals. When people ran with me, I gave them \"Follett miles\". For this reason, I believe many people ran with me that might have otherwise not cared, just so they could move up on my \"Follett Miles Running Partners\" list!\nI started teaching High School Math and coaching Cross Country and Track in 1983. During the summers, my wife and I led four Track team projects in Scandinavia, Switzerland and Belgium with Athletes in Action. Teaching, coaching and traveling in the summers were great experiences and through them I have developed life long friendships and running partners. Our family loved to travel, and as the children got older we always worked in a run on our vacations. We visited new places with the goal of running in every state and several foriegn countries (22 countries in all). Many of the states and most of the foriegn countries were visited while following my daughters to their college cross country and track meets.\nWhen my oldest daughter, Katie Mackey, gradruated from the University of Washington and joined the Brooks Beasts professional track club, I was able to travel around the world to see her compete. Some of the highlights included seeing her race in the World Relays in the Bahamas and setting an American Record in the 4x1500 meters, seeing her race in the Continental Cup in Marrakesh, Morrocco for Team Americas, and winning a 3000 meter Diamond Leage race in Stockholm, Sweden.\nI set my goal of running 100,000 miles in September of 1981 when I reached 10,000 miles. I did the math and figured it was doable to run 100,000 miles in the next thirty-five to forty years if I could stay healthy and be consistent. Looking back, I'd say one of the hardest parts of reaching the milestone was finding time every day while working and raising a family to carve out one to two hours to get in a run. Most of my miles were in Colorado, so winter always presented a challenge with snowstorms and early sunsets. I also have a lot of other interests like backpacking in the summer and hunting in the fall, so again it was figuring out how I would get my run in with everything else I enjoyed doing throughout the year.\nOver my 41 years of running, I raced only about one to three times each year. I raced everything from the mile (4:25.1) in high school to six different ultra-marathons by the time I was in my 30s. Trail races over tough terrain were my favorites over the years.\nMy first marathon was the Rawhide Marathon in my home-town of Fort Collins, Colorado, in which I ran 2:49:50 in October of 1984. My second marathon was the Colorado Marathon, again in my home-town of Fort Collins, ran when I turned 50 years old in 3:52. I loved trail races running the 35 mile Doc Holiday Trail Race in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, the 16 mile Pony Express Trail Race in Monument, Colorado (finishing 3rd), the 19k Frutigen to Adelboden Climb in Switzerland, the 13.1 Peak to Peak Trail Race in Estes Park, Colorado, the 14 mile Pikes Peak Ascent (in 2:58), and the 26 mile Valley View Trail Race in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.\nMy best races were three 50k trail races run in the early 1990s. I ran and won the Phd 50k Trail Race in Fort Collins, Colorado in December of 1992. I took 3rd overall in the Colorado Trail 50k held in Waterton Canyon, just outside of Denver, Colorado in September of 1993. Then I defended my title in the Phd 50k Trail race in December of 1993, winning in my best 50k time of 3:29:40.\nI've gotten a lot out of running over the years, and probably the best part was running with my wife and daughters and having hours and hours to talk and grow closer. Through these runs, running gave a lot back to me. I will continue to run, but having to put in close to 50 miles per week won't be 'required' now that I've met the 100,000 mile goal.\nKevin's running log website, which includes a complete running autobiography, decade by decade: http:\/\/users.frii.com\/kfollett\/running.html\nOther links to articles about Kevin: https:\/\/www.runnersworld.com\/runners-stories\/this-colorado-man-has-logged-100000-miles-in-his-lifetime\nhttp:\/\/www.9news.com\/mobile\/article\/news\/local\/laporte-man-runs-100000-miles\/502034436\nhttp:\/\/www.coloradoan.com\/story\/sports\/2017\/12\/24\/kevin-follett-reaches-lifetime-goal-running-100-000-miles\/979729001\/","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Taylor Herring News, Uncategorized, bad habits, nundos| Written By James\nCatholic nuns open restaurant to promote new show 'Bad Habits, Holy Orders'.\nChannel 5 is opening the doors to convent life by launching 'NUNdos'- a brand new, soulful soup pop-up in Shoreditch, London.\nThe activation is the world's first nun-powered eatery promising 'food for the soul' where diners will be invited to break bread and reflect on modern life over a hot lunch cooked and served by the Daughters of Divine Charity from Swaffham and Chesterfield convents.\nThe 'NUNdos' pop-up will raise awareness of ground breaking new series Bad Habits, Holy Orders which airs on Channel 5 on Thursday 19th October at 10pm.\nThe series follows five selfie-obsessed young women as they swap hedonism for a life of humility, by living in a working convent in East Anglia for four weeks under the guidance of the sisters. The series was made by Crackit Productions and ordered by Commissioning Editor \u2013 Factual, Guy Davies.\nVisitors to 'NUNdos' will find themselves transported to a spiritual haven where they will be encouraged to relax, slow down and take stock of their lives over a bowl of hearty chicken or wholesome lentil soup.\nTo help wash away any unsavoury thoughts of Instagramming their food, diners will be encouraged to drop their phones in the amnesty collection bin and adheres NUNdos' easy to follow restaurant rules (thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's food etc).\nCustomers have the opportunity to order 'Mother Superior's Chicken Broth' or 'Wholesome Lentil Soup', and will be encouraged to take part in life affirming exercises and soul-searching activities. As guests discourse with fellow diners or settle in to chat with the sisters about daily life, millennial malaise will be under the spotlight.\nFor dessert, the nuns will serve a takeaway treat as a reminder to diners to nourish the soul beyond the walls of NUNdos.\nRich Turner, Senior Director, Comms, Viacom International Media Networks UK said: \"Bad Habits, Holy Orders tackles the issue of millennials finding purpose and direction in a fast-paced, image-conscious, social media-obsessed world, with inspiring results. What better way to bring the show's themes to life than teaming up with the Daughters of Divine Charity to bring a little spiritual sparkle to the streets of Shoreditch. Channel 5 has undergone a content evolution and this activation underlines our determination to get under the skin of our programming, opening up new conversations, broadening our audience and ultimately building reputation.\"\nChannel 5's comms team worked with award-winning creative agency Taylor Herring to create 'NUNdos'. Claire Wigington, Senior PR Manager, Channel 5 is overseeing the comms campaign for Bad Habits, Holy Orders.\nThe marketing campaign, overseen by Chris Aylott, Senior Director, Marketing, Channel 5 and Ross Cleal, Senior Brand Marketing Manager, Channel 5, featured partnerships designed to be more immersive than traditional media formats to drive conversation.\nPartnering with Spotify to create The Hedoniser, the campaign encouraged users to determine the level of naughtiness of their music tastes, as well as offering them a bespoke playlist based on their preferences. The trailer for the show was shown while the results loaded and users had the opportunity to share their \"naughty score\" across Facebook and Twitter.\nThe marketing campaign also saw a partnership with Metro during launch week to take over the Commuter Confessions Box within the paper, encouraging readers to share their most private confessions with the nation, supported with press advertising promoting the show.\nA partnership with Mail Online saw the creation of a social media film, asking people from across the country a series of questions to see where they ranked on the moral barometer from Saintly to Sinner. This activity ran across their website, social media channels and was supported with digital display and a homepage takeover on the day of launch.\nBad Habits, Holy Orders airs on Channel 5 on Thursday 19th October at 10pm\nGreggs release Advent Calendar. Merry Greggsmas!\nNundos. Nuns open Shoreditch restaurant offering 'food for the soul'","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Man accused of involvement in huge cross-country \u00a39m cocaine and heroin gang\nBehnam Tomas Tavakoli-Juibari is accused of being part of a group which supplied hundreds of kilos of Class A drugs in England, Wales and Scotland\nLuke TraynorChief Reporter\n(Image: merpol)\nA man is to stand trial accused of being part of a massive cross-country \u00a39m cocaine and heroin plot, the ECHO can reveal.\nBehnam Tomas Tavakoli-Juibari is alleged to have conspired to supply Class A drugs in relation to Operation Wessex, a huge police investigation into the workings of a large organised crime group.\nThat centred on the supplying hundreds of kilos of Class A drugs in England, Wales and Scotland, with eight members jailed for a total of 106 years in May 2018.\nMany of those convicted were from Wirral as officers seized a \u00a31.4m stash including more than 9kgs of cocaine, 7kg of unadulterated heroin, 10,000 MDMA pills and 11,000 diazepam tablets.\nIt has now emerged another man, aged 35, is facing prosecution in relation to the same Operation Wessex plot.\nDrugs seized by Merseyside Police during Operation Wessex, an investigation into a Wirral gang behind a \u00a39m cocaine plot (Image: Liverpool Echo)\nCash seized by Merseyside Police during Operation Wessex, an investigation into a Wirral gang behind a \u00a39m cocaine plot (Image: Liverpool Echo)\nTavakoli-Juibari, from Wallasey, denies conspiring to supply Class A drugs and remains on bail.\nThe one-time company director is set to stand trial in the summer of 2021.\nDuring Operation Wessex, ledgers revealed the gang moved drugs with a street value in excess of \u00a39m between the end of January and the beginning of July 2016.\nAlong with the drug hauls, officers also recovered around \u00a3200,000 in cash from the gang, which included Leon Hinchcliffe \u2013 arrested in December 2016 \u2013 and Peter Atherton.\nIn May 2018, eight members of the drugs mob were jailed for a total of 106 years including 34-year-old Leon Hinchcliffe, who was handed a 22 year sentence.\nAmong the most significant sentences were Atherton, from Heswall, who got 18 years, nine months, Hinchcliffe, from Noctorum, jailed for 22 years, six months, Christopher Thomas, 41, of Orrell Park, who got 16 years, Michael Brady, 39, of Moreton, who received 14 years and Ian Rowley, 40, of Orrell Park, who was jailed for 12 years, eight months.\nTavakoli-Juibari denies conspiring to supply Class A drugs.\nCourtsYoung thugs and thieving carers who have walked free so far this yearThese are some of the people who have avoided jail so far this year\nWirralShe told other parents to never be scared of speaking up and rasing your concerns\nLiverpool 3-0 Brentford - goals and highlights, Jurgen Klopp reaction\nCoronation StreetITV Coronation Street Barbara Knox's co-star spat, mystery illness and arrestThe Corrie legend has played Rita Tanner on the soap since 1964\nEverton FCRafa Benitez was sacked as Everton manager on Sunday after one win in 13 Premier League games\nEverton FCFormer Everton defender Gary Naysmith has backed Duncan Ferguson as a possible long-term successor to Rafa Benitez","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Christopher Heffron\nWith gun violence on the rise, we as a nation find ourselves at a crossroads.\nHoward Unruh woke up on the morning of September 6, 1949, with a plan. After breakfast, the 28-year-old went for a walk in his Camden, New Jersey, neighborhood with a Lugar and an eight-round magazine. In less than 15 minutes, he shot 16 people indiscriminately; 13 would die from their injuries. Mass shootings predate this rampage, but none were as deadly. Unruh, it seems, started a trend.\nAs this is being written, on the 153rd day of the year, there have been 213 mass shootings in this country. Let that sink in: Gun violence is outpacing the days of the year. The recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, Uvalde, Texas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, are giving credence to experts, who say 2022 could be the deadliest on record.\nFedEx buildings, grocery stores, schools, hospitals, even wakes have become killing fields. \"America the beautiful\" has developed an ugly problem.\nWhen COVID-19 seemed like it was positioned in our rearview mirror at the end of winter, Americans should have rejoiced. Instead, we got aggressive. Reports show that gun violence spiked in the early spring and has been rising ever since. In the first five months of the year, in fact, over 8,000 people died from gun violence. Given how these attacks always peak in the summertime, firing weapons might replace baseball as our national pastime.\nBut how do we define the problem? The Gun Violence Archive, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, DC, says that mass shootings are an American phenomenon and defines it as a gun-related incident where there are \"four victims shot, either injured or killed, not including any shooter.\" Other forms of gun violence, such as suicide, person-to-person, or domestic violence are categorized differently.\nIn the wake of these tragedies, voices inevitably rise to a howl. Second Amendment apologists blame mental illness for the epidemic, but according to the National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI), it's a weak argument. \"Most people with mental health conditions will never become violent, and mental illness does not cause most gun violence,\" NAMI reports. \"Mental illness contributes to only about 4 percent of all violence, and the contribution to gun violence is even lower.\"\nWhile the Constitution is clear that \"the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed,\" it was written long before assault weapons and bump stocks, nor does it advise Americans on gun trafficking, background checks, or legislation. In June of 2021, the state of Texas allowed for handgun ownership without a license, despite the objections of law enforcement organizations and gun control advocates. Other states, such as Iowa, Montana, and Tennessee have passed similar gun laws.\nAnd for what? Firearms, statistically, do not make us safer. According to a review in the Annals of Internal Medicine, even a properly stored firearm in the home doubles the risk of homicide and triples the risk of suicide.\nWhile gun rights should be protected for responsible owners (the vast majority of whom will never commit acts of mass violence), the right to stay alive is a higher priority. Put simply: Your right to carry a gun does not outweigh my right to not be killed by one.\nLove Held Back\nThe Church is clear on this issue. In their 2020 document, \"A Mercy and Peace-building Approach to Gun Violence,\" the US bishops said that the Church \"recognizes that recourse to self-defense is legitimate for one's own safety. In today's world, however, weapons that are increasingly capable of inflicting great suffering in a short period of time are simply too accessible.\"\nAccessibility is only one aspect of the crisis. There are others, including poverty, racial inequities, drugs, the mass media\u2014the list is long. But ambivalence to human life should be included.\nIndifference eats away at our culture, but it's hardly a 21st-century invention. Unruh, the New Jersey shooter, was analyzed by doctors who looked for a motive and a measure of humanity. They would find neither. In one session, Unruh told a psychologist his only regret was a lack of ammunition. He is reported to have looked at his doctor vacantly and said, \"I'd have killed a thousand.\"\nApathy is alive and well in this century\u2014and it's armed. But love is stronger, even when it's neglected.\nPoet and historian Aberjhani wrote that the \"world's anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.\" These words ring true: When one person decides to end the lives of others, love is held back. When the body of Christ is shot, it's a shared wound. We all feel it. And the bleeding needs to stop.\nFather Roger Lopez, a friar and high school teacher in Cincinnati, Ohio, describes the student walkout at his Franciscan high school to protest gun violence.\nPrevPreviousEarth and Spirit\nNextEmbracing Our Own MortalityNext","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Laboratory of General and Clinical Neurophysiology\nElena V. Sharova\nGalina N. Boldyreva\nMarina V. Chelyapina-Postnikova\nNadezhda S. Ignatova\nAnna O. Kantserova\nAnna Karchevskaya\nArina Yu. Kuleva\nSvetlana V. Kuptsova\nYelena M. Kushnir\nLyubov B. Oknina\nAndrey A. Simonov\nKristina K.D. Vigasina\nMaria Y. Yarets\nLudmila A. Zhavoronkova\nAlexandra S. Zigmantovich\nKaverina M.Yu., Kuleva A.Yu., Krotkova O.A. The Role of the Hippocampus in Detecting the Novelty of Impressions: A Literature Review. The Russian Journal of Cognitive Science. 2022. V. 9. N. 1-2. P. 27-43. DOI: 10.47010\/22.1-2.2.\nKantserova A.O., Oknina L.B., Pitskhelauri D.I., Podlepich V.V., Masherov E.L., Vologdina Y.O. Evoked potentials of the midbrain associated with the beginning and end of a sound of a simple tone. Fiziologiya Cheloveka. 2022. V. 48. N. 3. P. 5-13. DOI: 10.31857\/S0131164622030080.\nKantserova A.O., Oknina L.B., Pitskhelauri D.I., Podlepich V.V., Masherov E.L., Vologdina Y.O., Sieber I.A. ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE OF HUMAN MIDBRAIN TO THE END OF SOUND. I.P. Pavlov Journal of Higher Nervous Activity. 2022. V. 72. N. 5. P. 707-716. DOI: 10.31857\/S0044467722050082.\nKuleva A.Yu., Sharova E.V., Boldyreva G.N., Strunina Yu.V., Yarets M.Y., Galkin M.V., Bychkova A.S., Smirnov A.S., Krotkova O.A. RESTING-STATE FEATURES OF THE BRAIN FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY IN PATIENTS WITH LATERALIZED TEMPORAL MEDIOBASAL LESIONS (FMRI AND EEG DATA). Zhurnal Vysshei Nervnoi Deyatelnosti Imeni I.P. Pavlova. 2022. V. 72. N. 2. P. 187-200. DOI: 10.31857\/S0044467722020083.\nTroshina E.M., Masherov E.L., Sazonova O.B., Kuleva A.Yu., Kaverina M.Yu., Krotkova O.A., Sharova E.V. ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL INDICATORS ACCOMPANYING THE MENTAL REPRESENTATION OF MOVEMENT. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED AND FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH (MEDICAL SCIENCES ). 2022. N. 4. P. 10-17. DOI: 10.17513\/mjpfi.13372.\nSharova E.V., Kaverina M.Yu., Kuleva A.Yu., Boldyreva G.N., Smirnov A.S., Zhavoronkova L.A., Kuptsova S.V., Troshina E.M. PECULIARITIES OF FMRI RESPONSES DURING REAL AND IMAGINARY MOVEMENTS IN PATIENTS WITH AND WITHOUT BEHAVIOR ASPONTANEITY AFTER TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY. MEZHDUNARODNYY ZHURNAL PRIKLADNYKH I FUNDAMENTAL'NYKH ISSLEDOVANIY. 2022. N. 3. P. 37-44. DOI: 10.17513\/mjpfi.13364.\nStern M.V., Sharova E.V., Zhavoronkova L.A., Boldyreva G.N., Strunina Yu.V., Kuleva A.Yu., Pronin I.N. Connectivity of functional motor system's cortical-subcortical links in healthy right- and left-handers according to MRI data. Asimmetria. 2022. V. 16. N. 1. P. 32-50. DOI: 10.25692\/ASY.2022.16.1.004.\nKrotkova O.A., Kuleva A.Yu., Galkin M.V., Kaverina M.Y., Strunina Y.V., Danilov G.V. Memory modulation factors in hippocampus exposed to radiation. 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Burdenko National Medical Research Center for Neurosurgery. 2019. P. 87-101.\nYarets M.Y., Sharova E.V., Kuleva A.Yu., Boldyreva G.N., Troshina E.V., Galkin M.V., Krotkova O.A. Features of EEG changes during therapeutic radiation exposure in patients with meningiomas of the mediobasal regions of the right and left hemispheres. Eds. A. Gorban'. Moskva: MFTI. 2019. P. 82-90.\nChelyapina-Postnikova M.V., Sharova E.V., Zaitsev O.S. A comparative clinical and encephalographic study on manifestation of the choline and dopamine deficiency syndromes in consciousness recovery after severe traumatic brain injury. International Journal of Medical Science and Clinical Invention. 2019. V. 6. N. 5. P. 4468-4471. DOI: 10.18535\/ijmsci\/v6i5.07.\nDanilov G.V., Vigalina K.D., Strunina Yu.V., Kaverina M.Yu., Galkin M.V., Kuleva A.Yu., Alexeeva A.N., Lazutkin A.A., Enikolopov G.N., Krotkova O.A. 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P. 757-766.\nBoldyreva G.N., Sharova E.V., Koptelov Y.M., Shepetkov A.M., Nikitin K.V., Kornienko V.N., Fadeeva L.M. Study of the genesis of pathological EEG patterns in tumor and traumatic lesions of the human brain. Fiziologiya Cheloveka. 2005. V. 31. N. 1. P. 24-32.\nSharova E.V. Electrographic correlates of brain reactions to afferent stimuli in postcomatose unawareness states after severe brain-skull injury. Fiziologija Cheloveka. 2005. V. 31. N. 3. P. 5-15.\nBoldyreva G.N., Sharova E.V., Koptelov Y.M., Shchepetkov A.N., Nikitin E.S., Kornienko V.N., Fadeeva L.M. Study of the genesis of pathological EEG patterns in tumor and traumatic lesions of the human brain. Human Physiology. 2005. V. 31. N. 1. P. 18-25. DOI: 10.1007\/s10747-005-0003-6.\nSharova E.V. Electrographic correlates of brain reactions to afferent stimuli in postcomatose unconscious states after severe brain injury. Human Physiology. 2005. V. 31. N. 3. P. 245-254. 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{"text":"The Friday Cover\nThe Friday Cover is POLITICO Magazine's email of the week's best, delivered to your inbox every Friday morning.\nTrump Should Come Clean\nThe president should confess his affairs, admit he wanted to keep them quiet and apologize to the public for his deception.\nRich Lowry is editor of National Review and a contributing editor with Politico Magazine.\nIf it wasn't obvious before, it should be now: President Donald Trump is in an impeachment fight.\nIt hasn't fully ripened yet. That won't happen unless Democrats take the House and do so with a healthy margin in the fall. But Michael Cohen's statement that he committed campaign-finance violations at the behest of Trump makes it that much more likely Democrats will impeach him once they have the power and the votes to do it.\nThe campaign-finance charges give the Democrats one article of impeachment\u2014they will find others\u2014and surely will intensify the desire of the Democratic base for the sternest rebuke the House can make of a president. Even if Nancy Pelosi, assuming she's still the leader of her caucus, wants to avoid impeachment as pointless and politically counter-productive, she will be hard-pressed to resist the #Resistance on the question.\nThis means Trump is in a political fight more than a legal one. His concern shouldn't be the Southern District of New York\u2014current Justice Department guidance says a sitting president can't be indicted\u2014but the House Judiciary Committee. His strategy shouldn't be aimed at convincing prosecutors that he stayed on the right side of the law, but the broader public that he deserves to stay in office.\nThe most powerful tool that he has in that effort is telling the truth, exactly the approach most uncongenial to him.\nThe American public has a nearly boundless ability to forgive. Wayward politicians have fallen back on it throughout our history, whether it was Alexander Hamilton pouring out his guts over his sordid affair with Maria Reynolds, or John F. Kennedy admitting error in the Bay of Pigs, or Bill Clinton (after a season of extravagant and increasingly tinny denials) 'fessing up to his fling with Monica Lewinsky.\nIt is in this spirit that Donald Trump should confess his affairs with Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, admit he wanted to keep them quiet for a variety of reasons (sheer embarrassment, the potential political fallout, and the emotional effect on his wife and youngest son), and apologize to the public for his deception. Then, he should say he's directing his lawyer to approach the Federal Election Commission to negotiate a large payment for any violation of its rules.\nThere are several advantages to this approach. First, Trump doesn't lose anything in terms of his reputation because literally no one believes his denials of the alleged affairs. The women are credible, and what they say happened is in keeping with Trump's M.O. over the years.\nSecond, it gets his story on a much more believable footing. The idea that Michael Cohen paid off women who were making up stories, and Trump knew nothing about it in real time\u2014despite a tape suggesting otherwise\u2014and then happily ponied up from his own funds as soon as he learned about it is otherworldly.\nThird, it would be a shock to the system like few other things he could do in office. Such is his reflexive aggression that a little contrition would play as big as the firing of James Comey.\nFourth, there's a good chance that Democrats will seem petty and vindictive for impeaching him over the payments if he's really tried to put the underlying conduct behind him (this certainly didn't work out well for Republicans in the Clinton impeachment).\nThe downside? Trump's base wants him to be a fighter. True, but it also wants him to get the best of his political enemies, and this would be a means to do it. He is remembered as brazening out the \"Access Hollywood\" tape, although he initially addressed it with a speech including the line, \"I said it, I was wrong and I apologize.\"\nThen, there's any legal exposure of coming clean. His lawyers might not like it, but he has to decide whether he's going to worry chiefly about fighting off an impeachment push and winning again in 2020, or forestalling the threat of getting indicted sometime in 2021 should he lose his reelection.\nThere's no guarantee, but if he is seen as dealing with the issue forthrightly now, it makes it harder for prosecutors to go after him in another three years because there's a norm against further pursuing defeated politicians (one that he would be wise to stop eroding, by the way).\nOf course, all of this is fantasy, given Trump's natural instincts. A pugilist who never admits error, he surely believes that he can bluff and improvise his way out of the mess, and wait to abandon elements of his current version of events until strictly necessary. He thinks, not unreasonably, that he can continue to make his investigators the issue and that so long as he has the vast majority of his party with him he has a brake against a removal vote in the Senate.\nHe might be right. This is what he's done his entire adult life. But the stakes are larger than ever before, and even a moment's reflection on how he got in this fix would suggest perhaps giving forthrightness a try.\nSenate Republicans\nMore from POLITICO Magazine\nLETTER FROM GREENVILLE\nMore on Magazine\nPOLITICO Magazine Links\nPOLITICO Home\nPOLITICO Pro\nPOLITICO Florida\nPOLITICO New Jersey\nPOLITICO New York\nBlogs, Columns & Cartoons\nMorning Agriculture\nMorning Cybersecurity\nMorning Defense\nMorning Education\nMorning eHealth\nMorning Media\nMorning Money\nMorning Score\nMorning Shift\nMorning Tech\nMorning Trade\nMorning Transportation\nPrescription Pulse","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Livin' On Love\nBy Alan Jackson\nView all Podcasts | Subscribe\nRollin' Hills Bluegrass Show\t| With Mike Garrett and Brother Paul!\nBy WKZU\nMike Garrett and Paul Adams host a Saturday morning bluegrass show each Saturday from 8 am to 10 am on Kudzu 104.9. Mike and Paul are well known in the tri-state area that Kudzu 104.9 covers. They bring their life time of knowledge, music and fellow musicians into every show. Here is the latest podcast of the show.\nClick Episode to Listen. Right-click and 'Save Link As' to Download\nWeek end of 01-16-2021\nJanuary 18th, 2021 12:00am | Duration: 01:59:42\nYour browser does not support HTML5 audio, but you can still download this podcast.\nWeekend of 01\/09\/2021\nJanuary 4th, 2021 12:00am | Duration: 01:59:48\nDecember 28th, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 02:00:01\nRollin's Hills Bluegrass Show\nDecember 21st, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 01:57:29\nDecember 7th, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 2:00:01\nNovember 30th, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 01:59:51\nNovember 23rd, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 01:59:52\nWeekend of 11\/7\/2020\nNovember 9th, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 2:00:01\nWeek end of 10\/24\/2020\nNovember 3rd, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 01:59:51\nOctober 19th, 2020 12:01am | Duration: 01:58:42\nOctober 5th, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 01:59:33\nSeptember 28th, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 01:57:15\nSeptember 21st, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 01:59:03\n1 Year Anniversary Show\nSeptember 7th, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 02:59:55\n1 Year Anniversary Show 9\/5\/2020\nAugust 31st, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 01:59:57\nAugust 24th, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 01:59:30\nAugust 3rd, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 01:59:40\nJuly 27th, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 01:59:05\nWeekend 07\/11\/2020\nJuly 6th, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 01:59:26\nJuly 3rd, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 01:59:02\nJune 22nd, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 01:59:00\nJune 15th, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 01:59:13\nJune 8th, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 01:59:11\nJune 1st, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 01:59:31\nMay 26th, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 01:59:40\nVolume Thirty Five\nRollin' Hills Bluegrass Show 05\/02\/2020\nMay 4th, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 01:59:31\nVolume Thirty Four\nApril 27th, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 01:58:42\nVolume Thirty Three\nVolume Thirty Two\nVolume Thirty One\nApril 6th, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 02:00:01\nVolume Thirty\nMarch 31st, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 01:29:23\nVolume Twenty Nine\nMarch 23rd, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 01:59:38\nVolume Twenty Eight\nMarch 16th, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 01:59:04\nVolume Twenty Six\nMarch 2nd, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 01:57:40\nVolume Twenty Five\nFebruary 24th, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 01:57:08\nVolume Twenty Four\nVolume Twenty Three\nVolume Twenty Two\nFebruary 3rd, 2020 12:00am | Duration: 01:58:14\nVolume Twenty One\nView archived episodes from: January 2021December 2020November 2020October 2020September 2020August 2020July 2020June 2020May 2020April 2020March 2020February 2020January 2020December 2019November 2019October 2019September 2019","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u2190 Redux: Dear Cannibals, Have a Happy Thanksgiving\nEarshot \u2192\nNEIL ORAM \u2013 THE RAIN STANDS TALL\nPosted on 26 November, 2015 by Niall\nNeil Oram is a poet who was very much involved with the British Poetry Revival of the 1960s and featured alongside the likes of Lee Harwood and Tom Raworth in the famous Michael Horovitz anthology Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain.\nHe later contributed to Poetry Review during the editorship of Eric Mottram and witnessed firsthand the coup which saw the magazine renouncing its experimentalism and radicalism, and returning \u2013 tail between its legs \u2013 to the mainstream fold in 1985.\nWhile many of his peers ended up in Cambridge and other universities, Oram founded a quasi-commune in the Highlands near Inverness. Also a painter and storyteller, he reached a larger audience when he turned his own life into a Guinness Book of Records- breaking play called The Warp, directed by Ken Campbell. A lyric-epic-dramatic poem, the 24-hour play is a feast for poets and a behemoth of subversion, but also charts the real life and times of the hippie era in Britain much more authentically than any documentary.\nOram as a poet is noticeably different to both mainstream and avant-garde practitioners of today. His poem 'This is Not the Ten O'Clock News' goes in a completely other direction than Tom Leonard's classic 'The Six O'Clock News'.\nThis is not the Ten o'clock news.\nThis is the truth. You people never fell\nFrom a mythic state of grace. Cain\nYour father was a killer, who started off this race,\nAnd his blood is thumping through your veins\nA fact you can't escape.\nOram spiritually diagnoses while satirising. The Rain Stands Tall is an important new book because it is a definitive selection from his 1959-2015 oeuvre. It's a very nicely produced paperback by Barncott Press (who have also published a novel Inside Out and a new play The Friends of Deception by Oram.) The front and back covers feature artworks by the author, a gifted and energetic all-rounder who was born in Torquay in 1938.\nThe short introduction is a brilliant telling of how an unsuspecting poet stumbled upon his true vocation. Oram felt as if he had had a close encounter, near Regents Park, with the spirit of the Victorian poet Philip Bourke Marston. This is why he later chose the name of Phil Masters for his own character in The Warp..\nHis work is unabashedly lyrical, autobiographical, seeking revelation of self. This is what lyric poetry was invented for, but that role has become unfashionable, the art has become self-conscious, and polyphony is supposedly obligatory. However, the 'lyric I' can only succeed or fail depending on the nature and personality of the 'I' that deploys it. Oram, the embodiment of Thomas Gray's hoary mountain 'Bard' speaking truth to power, lets you know who he is and what he's about without wasting time. The first poem begins:\nWhen I first came across poetry\nI imagined poets soaked in strangeness\nPlaying and intuiting\nMinds like mine.\nInterestingly, a later line foresees his career as playwright, the hippie Shakespeare.\nI imagined loads of us imagining each other\nAll over this dramatic globe.\nAnother quote was used as epigraph to an anthology of French poetry, the only English in the book. It communicates perhaps the nature of the disillusionment we encounter in this first poem: 'What is going on is a war between those who believe in poetry and those who don't.' The term 'hippie' actually means someone who is in a social conflict between the forces of the 'hip' and the 'square'. This differs from the usual 'left' and 'right' in an instructing if equally simplistic way. A leftist could be square, a right-winger could be hip, as in the days of the Roundheads and Cavaliers. Though imperfect and limited, it is often useful as a tool for working out what is going on in a given situation. Corbyn's anti-nuclear pacifism is 'hip', say, to Cameron's very predictable and 'square' military-industrial will to bomb Syria. (Unlike the previous example, this coincides with left-right alignments.) The hip\/square dialectic is also an updating of the hipster legacy which literati took from their jazz heroes in '50s America. Both hippie and hipster are pejorative terms today, but hip remains hip, if ambiguous. One poem 'Bebop Reality' pays homage to Jim Burns' 'Against the Square World'.\nOram does not over-quote. Though he likes poets such as Charles Olson, his work is not lettered, not littered with literary references. Points of allusion are Reiner Kunze, Frances Horovitz, Mary Oliver, Sorley MacLean. A fine poem 'Roger' celebrates the virtually unknown poet-painter Roger Mitchell who became Marty Mission in The Warp, a composite character also based on the better-known poet Harry Fainlight. Oram is both politicised and spiritualised. Few modern English poets can claim to have been resident at the ashrams of Indian gurus Rajneesh and Babaji. He has an idea of a poet as teacher which is not schoolmaster or professor. His awareness of language is different to other linguistic tricksters. Manichean and manic-depressive, language is a force for good, but is used for evil:\nLanguage has been used to steer\nImagination into judgement.\nIn the powerful protest poem 'Voice', Oram \u2013 who self-identifies as Celtic \u2013 pays homage to Sorley MacLean and laments what corporate new-speak has done to the Scottish countryside and its language,\nA language which rose from earth, wind and sea\nFrom skill and struggle with ropes and wood.\nThis real voice, seasoned through celebration\nand lament\nCould ease communal struggle 'gainst always-\nhungry fate\nAnd focus the mind on details of the heart,\nOn shades of changing nearness in the unkempt hills\nand sea.\nOram \u2013 psychologically allied to Blake \u2013 sees neoliberal encroachments on the countryside as spiritual warfare by dark forces and recalls an image of MacLean talking to camera in the Sound of Raasay while nuclear submarines suddenly and unexpectedly appeared in the background. A huge anger makes the Selected Poems a kind of forge, a kind of furnace. But there is ideal as well as spleen, another way of life which at times seems that of an ancient Tang Dynasty poet in the hills.\nA way of life. To paint\nWhen all is still.\nThe quiet morning stirs\nThe cold light slowly\nKills the stars.\nvaguely mirrors\nCaressed by the sounds\nOf shifting leaves.\nOram has been praised by the likes of Lee Harwood and Iain Sinclair both as wordsmith and as someone who is above and beyond literary fashion. There is a terrifying sincerity about some of this utterance as well as a ribald comedy. 'Dust Bin Blues' is a hilarious song, supposedly about a bitter elderly woman, but really a lyrical mirror in which anyone could recognise their anti-self. The triviality of mainstream poetry is ducked from and the aridity of avant-garde poetry is dived from as Oram weaves and warps what is his. There is vitality, emotional largesse, a wilful gutting out of the mind, a Dionysian splendour in this book. Oram manages that peculiar miracle: to be an English Celt.\nhttp:\/\/barncottpress.com\/portfolio\/the-rain-stands-tall\/\nNiall McDevitt\nPhoto of Neil Oram at the Poetry Cafe by Julie Goldsmith\nBy Niall McDevitt\nView all posts by Niall \u2192\nThis entry was posted on 26 November, 2015 in homepage and tagged Barncott Press, Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain., Julie Goldsmith, Ken Campbell, Lee Harwood, Michael Horovitz, Neil Oram, Niall McDevitt, poetry review, review, The Poetry Cafe, The Rain Stands Tall, The Warp, Tom Raworth. Bookmark the permalink.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Nokia Q2 report: more Lumias sold, less money made\nNokia Windows Phone S40\nNokia announced the Q2 financial results and numbers are red all over. Net sales and operating profits are down for Nokia as a whole and its core, Devices & Services. Actually, the only division reporting a positive IFRS operating profit is Nokia Siemens Networks.\nIt's not all bad news - volumes of Lumia sales increased 32% quarter on quarter to 7.4 million units, up from 4 million for the same quarter last year. That's below analysts' expectations of 8.1 million, which has sent Nokia stock down almost 4% at the time of writing.\nThe Lumia 720 and Lumia 520 (the world's most popular Windows Phone handset) are two of the main drivers behind the growth. These are mid-range and entry level phones respectively, which lead to a decrease in average selling price by 4% to \u20ac151 (no Symbian sales counteracted that somewhat as Symbians were cheaper than Lumias).\nYear on year the smartphone sales are down from 10.2 million units, but a large portion of that is Symbian sales which went from 6 million in Q2 2012 to close to zero in Q2 2013. Also, net sales for Smart devices are down 24% year on year.\nNokia's featurephone business still rakes in a good deal of money (more than Smart Devices), but net sales are down 39% year on year as volumes dropped 27%. Nokia shipped 53.7 million feature phones, with 4.3 million of them being Ashas. Nokias ordinary keypad phones that cost above \u20ac30 have declined. The whole feature phone segment is really feeling the heat of ever-cheaper low-end smartphones.\nRegionally, things aren't great either \u2013 net sales declined by a quarter year on year in Nokia's strongest market, Europe, and a whopping 57% in China. Other regions are down as well, even Nokia's smallest market, North America.\nNokia's HERE maps also saw a decline in net sales year on year, even though external sales went up. Most of that is due to higher sales to vehicle customers (providing map data for cars' built-in navigation) and less due to sales of Nokia devices.\nNokia Siemens Networks posted a profit for the fifth quarter in a row. Small profit, but still it's the only division that did. NSN is a 50\/50 joint venture between Nokia and Siemens, but Nokia has agreed to buy Siemens out for \u20ac1.7 billion (\u20ac1.2 billion in cash, \u20ac0.5 billion as a loan from Siemens to be paid in a year).\nAs for next quarter, Nokia expects Devices & Services to be in the red again, but with higher net sales due to more Lumia shipments.\nYou can get more details and numbers from the full report (PDF).\nVerizon rolls out Android Pie for Nokia 2 V\nNokia 2.2 arrives in the US with Android One and dedicated Assistant key for $139\nFlashback: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic - the little touchscreen that couldn't\nHMD's deals for Prime Day include $200-off Nokia 9 PureView\nNOK Stock Fan\nThe good thing is NOK stock has been holding pretty steady between 7.75 and 8.10 which is not a major change. stock price source:http:\/\/investorshangout.com\/board\/52058\/N\u00adokia-Corporation-NOK\nHkq\nA lot of subscriber waiting NOKIA TABLET size model, then we can satisfy to use the unit.\nanamyas\nwoild love to use meego again...after years of using Nokia symbian, and wiping a tear at its expected death, i think i howled when meego died as well. After playing wiht the wp8 phone and trying to convince myself to buy one.....ive decided to wait f...\nTotal reader comments: 126\nTop 10 by daily interest\nTop 10 by fans\nXiaomi Mi A2 (Mi 6X)\nNokia 6.1 Plus (Nokia X6)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"3.6 Sexual, reproductive and maternal health: HIV and STIs\nGlobal Adolescent Health\nThis course will explore the dynamic factors affecting the health and wellbeing of young people around the world, and how important it is for individuals, communities and nations that we improve the health and life chances of this important population group. With over 25% of the world's population aged between 10 and 24 years, today's generation of young people is the largest in human history. As the future leaders and drivers of growth, productivity and innovation, young people are our greatest assets, and investment in their health and wellbeing has social, economic and other benefits that continue across the lifespan and into the next generation. In this course we will adopt a life-course framework to take a holistic view of youth health and wellbeing. We will explore changing patterns of adolescent health and development, including why adolescence is starting earlier and ending later; how puberty and adolescent brain development may shape future health; and how what happens in adolescence can affect the start to life for the next generation. We'll also look at the major health and social issues affecting young people and ways of addressing these through policy, practice and programming. COURSE FORMAT: This course comprises short video lectures and interviews, required and recommended readings, online discussion, quizzes and written assignments. There is no required text for this course and all readings are provided. DO I HAVE TO PAY FOR THIS COURSE? No- you may access 100% of material in this course for free. You are also welcome to do as much or as little of the course as you like, including all (or none!) of the assessment tasks- it all depends on your learning goals. The option to pay for this course is there for those who wish to receive a Course Certificate as evidence of completion (which does require you to attempt and successfully pass the assessment tasks). WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR? This course will be relevant for anyone with an interest in the health and wellbeing of young people. You do not need to be of any particular personal or professional background to benefit from this course, but having some basic undergraduate study experience will be helpful to your learning (particularly if in a health related field). WHAT IS THE MOST INTERESTING THING I'LL LEARN IF I TAKE THIS COURSE? You'll learn how so much of what happens during adolescence can impact not only the future health of individuals, but the health of the next generation as well. You'll develop a greater understanding of the key factors impacting upon youth health and learn how to be a better advocate for the health and wellbeing of young people. View the MOOC promotional video here: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/z5l4mod\nHad a great learning experience and i am a better social worker now especially in dealing with youth\nA Fantastic approach to Adolescent Medicine! Adheres to Best Practice.\\n\\nHighly recommended!\nWeek 3 - Major health problems of adolescents (Part I)\nThis week we explore our conceptual framework for adolescent health as it relates to health-related behaviours and states and health outcomes. By that we mean, how do the biological, social, economic and other influences that we have discussed so far play out in terms of adolescent health outcomes (e.g. death and disability) and behaviours (e.g. those relating to sexual activity or substance use)? What are the major health issues affecting young people around the world today, and how does this differ by region, gender and other variables? We will explore the latter question over the course of this week and next, with the focus this week predominantly on sexual and reproductive health and mental health.\nWeek 3-4 Briefing with George Patton4:04\n3.1 Adolescent mortality around the world7:24\n3.2 Adolescent mortality: causes of death3:58\n3.3 Adolescent disease burden6:22\n3.4 Adolescent mortality and disease burden: health actions4:18\n3.5 Sexual, reproductive and maternal health: an overview13:13\n3.6 Sexual, reproductive and maternal health: HIV and STIs7:34\n3.7 Sexual, reproductive and maternal health: SRH risks8:09\n3.8 Sexual, reproductive and maternal health: clinical and policy approaches9:49\n3.9 Adolescent mental health: an introduction5:28\n3.10 Mental health and substance abuse: a global picture7:26\n3.11 What happens to mental health problems?4:47\n3.12 Assessing and responding to mental health problems7:43\n3.13 Alcohol and illicit drugs5:33\n3.14 Mental health: responding to a young person4:19\nInterview with Dr Susan Kasedde (USA) 22:29\nInterview with Prof Vikram Patel (India \/ UK) 15:38\nInterview with Sarah Soysa (Sri Lanka) 12:44\nProfessor Susan Sawyer\nChair of Adolescent Health\nProfessor George Patton\nProfessorial Fellow\nThis lecture is concerned with a group of conditions that are overwhelmingly\nconcentrated in low and middle income countries.\nHIV was the focus of the MDGs.\nIt was MDG 6 and\nhas been one of the major areas in global health to have an adolescent focus.\nAdolescents have come into focus around HIV because,\ncompared to other age groups, death rates have diminished little in the past decade.\nOne reason for this has been the survival into adolescence of children infected\nduring the perinatal period.\nAnother factor is likely to be the difficulties for adolescents accessing\nantiretroviral medications as effectively as older age groups.\nLack of knowledge, stigma, and\nsometimes judgmental attitudes of healthcare providers play a role in this\nlimited access of HIV-infected adolescents to essential medications.\nAlthough the greatest burden of HIV is in those living with the disease,\nit's also important to remember that about half of all children orphaned by HIV and\nAIDS are aged 10 to 14 years.\nThis slide illustrates the total number of deaths in young females and\nyoung males across the GBD sub-regions.\nThe total number of deaths within each five year band is illustrated here,\nwith the deeper brown representing young adults 20 to 24,\nand the paler blue younger adolescents.\nThere are some striking conclusions that we can make from these graphs.\nDeaths due to HIV rise steeply through the adolescent and young adult years, and\nare much higher in those aged 20 to 24 than those aged 10 to 14.\nSecondly, it's striking that death rates\nare very much higher in young women than in young men.\nThis arises from the high rates of infection of young women.\nIn part, this arises from the greater likelihood of young women having\na sexual relationship with an older man.\nThirdly, southern Sub-Saharan Africa stands out for\nits strikingly high rates of HIV deaths compared to any other sub-region.\nThis next slide looks at the measure of DALYs,\nor disability-adjusted life years, due to HIV across\na selected range of sub-regions with a breakdown by males and females.\nAnd again, southern Sub-Saharan Africa stands out for\nits very high rates of burden of disease due to HIV\ncompared to every other sub-region.\nIn each of the other sub-regions of Sub-Saharan Africa,\nthe burden of disease due to HIV is greater in young women than in young men.\nIt's worth noting that in Eastern Europe, HIV is more a problem of young\nmales reflecting it's different mode of transmission through injecting drug use.\nThis next slide is looking at a different measure of HIV,\nthat is zero-prevalence, and specifically, how much variation\nthere is in HIV infection rates across the different countries of Sub-Saharan Africa.\nThe picture is again clear that they epicenter of the HIV epidemic\nis in southern, and to a lesser extent, eastern Sub-Saharan Africa.\nWith women far more affected then young men.\nThere is no simple response to the problem of HIV in adolescents.\nRather, there are a set of interlinked responses that range from prevention\nthrough to treatment with medications that effectively keep HIV under control.\nComprehensive sexuality education is one essential element.\nThis ideally should begin well before the onset of sexual activity,\nideally in the late primary school years.\nSexual education is more effective if linked to essential resources\nsuch as condoms.\nAnd if young women are empowered to choose when and\nwith whom they are sexually active.\nMale circumcision is clearly effective in preventing HIV transmission,\nas is the treatment of other sexually transmitted infections.\nIn some settings, such as Eastern Europe,\nthe main mode of transmission of HIV is through injecting drug use.\nIn these settings, the ability to access sterile injecting equipment is\nan essential part of the service system response.\nAntiretroviral medication is now affordable in almost all settings.\nIt has transformed HIV from being an acute illness with a rapid downhill course,\ninto a chronic illness lasting decades.\nThe major problem for adolescents\nis really around configuring service systems to adequately meet their needs.\nSusan will talk more about this in week six.\nI want to turn briefly to other sexually transmitted infections\nthat affect adolescents.\nThis slide shows DALY rates for selected sexually transmitted\ninfections across different sub-regions for females 15 to 24.\nYou may be surprised to see that Oceania, including Papua New Guinea and\nthe Pacific Island nations,\nhas the highest rate of sexually transmitted infections other than HIV.\nThis slide shows a similar picture for young males where, again,\nOceania has the highest rates, followed by the regions of Sub-Saharan Africa.\nYet there are also substantial rates of sexually transmitted\ninfections across South and Southeast Asia, and in Latin America.\nSome sexual transmitted infections such as chlamydia occur across\na wide range of regions.\nAnd although commoner in lower middle income countries,\ndo effect adolescents in high income settings.\nOverall, 1 in 20 adolescents develop a new STI each year, and\nmore than half of all STIs, other than HIV, occur in young people.\nThe adolescents with the highest risk for STIs are girls who sell sex,\nboys who have sex with males, and injecting drug users.\nHPV, or the human papilloma virus,\nis a particularly significant sexually transmitted infection.\nWith new infections peaking at the age of 15 years.\nThe most common clinical manifestation is as genital warts,\nbut its greater significance is as a risk factor for later cervical cancer.\nIt heightens the risk for HIV transmission.\nBut is preventable with HPV vaccination targeting younger adolescents\nbefore they become sexually active.\nAlthough HPV vaccination remains too expensive for most low-income countries,\nGarvey has funded sub-national roll-outs in a number of countries.\nWe will talk further about effective actions against HIV and\nother STIs in a future lecture.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Office of Public Works Projects\nD\u00e1il \u00c9ireann Debate, Thursday - 13 June 2019\nCeisteanna (69)\nRuth Coppinger\n69. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the public consultation on the draft Phoenix Park visitor experience strategic review; when the final document will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24640\/19]\nFreagra\u00ed scr\u00edofa (Ceist ar Public)\nMinister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform\nThe Draft Phoenix Park Visitor Experience Strategic Review, which was on display in the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre, was commissioned to examine how visitors currently experience the facilities on offer within the Phoenix Park. The purpose of the review was to identify areas for potential future enhancement of the Phoenix Park that would improve the visitor experience for all users. It was developed in line with the core principles of the 'Conservation Management Plan for the Phoenix Park', which remains unchanged by this process.\nIt should be emphasised that the draft review is not a formal development plan or strategy for the Phoenix Park. It is not part of a formal statutory document of any kind and not part of a statutory public consultation process.\nThe Draft Review was on public display for ten weeks in order to facilitate observations and comments from the public. It was considered that the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre was the best, most centrally located, venue for a public exhibition of information in respect of the Draft Phoenix Park Visitor Experience Strategic Review. The full Draft Review and an executive summary were also available to view at the Visitor Centre. For those who were not in a position to view the exhibition in person, a comprehensive Executive Summary of the Report and a pdf of all the exhibition panels has been available for download from the Phoenix Park website. OPW remains open to, and indeed welcomes, any further observations and comments from any party.\nOPW is currently considering all the comments and observations received to date following the period of public information. It is not yet in a position to say when this will be completed.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"by Karthik Murali January 25, 2016 October 3, 2020\nThe flood gates were open by the then Finance Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh to allow foreign investment into India in 1991. Since then India has progressed quite rapidly in the FMCG, Manufacturing and especially the IT Sector.\nIndia saw a rapid influx of international IT firms such as HP, Google, Microsoft, Accenture set up shop in India. All these companies identified the potential and foresaw millions of dollars in profits reaping in a short while as soon as the IT Dot com takes off. Though the bubble burst in the early 2000's due to the depression period in the first decade, most of these firms remained strong and committed to the goals\nAlongside the international firms, impact of IT didnt exclude the Indian firms as well. Indian IT firms that saw a phenomenal rise in growth included Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys , HCL, Wipro and Cognizant Technology Solutions. Larsen & Toubro saw a late entrant to this sector but nevertheless doing really well..\nThe biggest impact of IT revolution in India was however on the job sector. Each company hired nearly 25-30,000 each year from engineering colleges in almost all departments. Earlier engineering colleges had placements that were attended by only core companies respective to that sector. However the IT majors found a huge requirement of software engineers in bulk and began recruiting on a very mass scale. This gave an opportunity from even small engineering colleges in Tier 2 and 3 cities to attend central campus placements and get a chance to work in a multi national firm. The opportunity to work in these kind of companies was never bestowed upon to these college graduates and hence it impacted the economy on a wider scale.\nA separate category of people called \"Software engineers\" was identified by people who mostly belonged to one of these top 5 IT firms. Economy's boost resulted in increase of land prices, rental charges and subsequently saw growth in retail sector as well. The increase in purchasing power of these people impacted the overall economy and the GDP. Software exports accumulated to several billions of dollars and the foreign exchange had recovered as well to a certain extent.\nNot only did the IT sector worked for the MNC's but India also saw several startups being funded by rocket VC's burning a lot of cash and growing exponentially every single day. Some of the companies included Flipkart, Ola, Oyo Rooms, Snapdeal , Zomato and the likes. Incidentally these startups began to hire from the top brass of the MNC's who also preferred to work on something exciting than the same usual stuff\nThe hiring of IT firms has considerably slowed down in the last 2 years, but the steady attrition rate in the companies has added to the additional requirements in recruitments\nImpact of Blogging on me\nMovies that has really impacted me\nImpact of Console Games\nMy Fav Dance Videos\nThe Good Wife \u2013 The Debate (S06E12) : A Review","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Enhance Your Data With The Use Of Business Intelligence Software\nAngela Mackay, Sage Business Development Manager\nMany businesses struggle to handle their data, especially when those businesses are growing in revenues and resource. Trying to scale Excel reports or similar practices becomes extremely difficult, with more teams required to create reports that take longer to finish, meaning data easily becomes out of date.\nBut there is a better way. Business intelligence systems like Panintelligence can plug directly into your data sources \u2013 whether that's Sage 200 or another database \u2013 so the information that's reported on is always live and up to date.\nGet real-time data at your fingertips, always\nMuch like responsive websites, best of breed business intelligence systems should work across multiple devices \u2013 particularly on tablet and mobile. Workers in the field therefore have access to data that's important to them at all times.\nIn the Panintelligence platform, it's incredibly simple to create your own bespoke reports to reflect the information you need to see. Any new charts or graphs can be built directly through the user interface, with no coding or technical expertise required.\nGet all staff on the same page\nInstead of having individual staff or teams creating their own reports, in which they've analysed data from different sources in their own ways, a central reporting dashboard means everyone in the business is looking at the same information.\nThis means that all staff and teams are on the same page. Access rights can also be set up to ensure that people can only see the information that's relevant to them, while other sensitive company data can be locked back.\nMake decisions based on data you can trust\nWith inefficient reporting practices, it can be difficult to place a good degree of trust in the data you're viewing. With data that's live and always up to date, it's far easier to make key decisions without having to wade through multiple databases or individual reports.\nStart saving time and resource on reporting, run meetings directly from your dashboard, and place more trust in your data than you could ever have done before. Scale up to a business intelligence platform and make life easier.\nIf you would like to learn more, please feel free to contact us by clicking the link below.\nBCN Group continues to grow\nPoor communication is proving costly, report reveals.\nStyal Road\nManchester Office Trident 3,\nTrident Business Park,\nStyal Rd,\nManchester Airport,\nLeeds Office Bramley Grange,\nSkeltons Lane,\nLS14 3DW\n\u00a9 BCN Group | Terms | GDPR | Privacy Policy","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"GAA Museum Shop\nMy cart: Your shopping cart is empty\nTour Vouchers\nPhotos, Prints & Posters\n2018 All-Ireland Hurling Finals\nBack to Images from the All-Ireland Finals; 2009-2019\n2019 All-Ireland Football Final Replay (15)\n2019 All-Ireland Football Finals (15)\n2019 All-Ireland Hurling Finals (16)\n2014 All-Ireland Hurling Final Replay (30)\n2012 All-Ireland Hurling Final Replays (30)\n2012 All-Ireland Football Final (30)\nGalway minor team prior to the 2018 All-Ireland minor hurling final\nGalway's Niall Collins on the attack during the 2018 All-Ireland minor hurling final\nKilkenny minor team prior to the 2018 All-Ireland minor hurling final\nPlayers in action during the 2018 All-Ireland minor hurling final\nGalway and Kilkenny players in action during the 2018 All-Ireland minor hurling final\nGalway Captain S\u00e9an Neary lifts the Irish Press Cup following his side's victory in the 2018 All-Ireland minor hurling final\nClash of the ash during the 2018 All-Ireland senior hurling final\nGalway and Limerick players in action during the 2018 All-Ireland senior hurling final\nGalway's David Burke during the 2018 All-Ireland senior hurling final\nLimerick's Seamus Flanagan in action during the 2018 All-Ireland senior hurling final\nAction from the 2018 All-Ireland senior hurling final\nGalway's Joe Canning in action during the 2018 All-Ireland senior hurling final\nGet the latest Croke Park updates to your inbox weekly\n+353 (0)1 8192300.\nCroke Park, Jones Road, Dublin 3\nGAA.ie\nREGISTERED IN IRELAND NO. 4192\nRegistered Office, Jones Road, Dublin 3\n\u00a9 2015 Croke Park","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Heartless Crew\nThe Heartless Crew is a sound system consisting of three members MC's Bushkin, Mighty Moe and DJ Fonti. Mighty Moe started out as a Hip Hop DJ. His parents are from the Middle-East. Bushkin and Fonti have West-Indian backgrounds.\nIt was established in 1992 when the trio met at Holloway Boys School. Their inspiration was taken from the likes of Buju Banton, R Kelly, Shabba, Det and Brockie. They started off playing house parties and small clubs, moving through to a residency at Chimes night club in Hackney in 1996.\nBy '98 they joined pirate station Mission 90.6 FM pioneering a mix of R&B, hip-hop, jungle and dancehall-derived sounds, taking its cues straight from the Jamaican sound system tradition while adding fresh and modern elements from UK garage. In 2002 they signed to BBC 1Xtra, where they presented their Sunday evening 2-hour slot. They also released a debut compilation album Heartless Crew presents Crisp Biscuit, closely followed by debut single The Heartless Theme aka the Superglue Riddim. They left 1Xtra in 2006 and can now be found on www.phatbeats.net every Sunday from 9-11pm.\nListen to their live tapes and you'll see why they're so popular. DJ Fonti effortlessly drops one sexy bassline tune after another a ragga track, a classic jump-up jungle tune, or Bushkin's favorite hip-hop jam of the moment. The outfit is fronted by Bushkin, who comes on like a growly North London version of No Limit rapper Mystikal, and Mighty Moe, whose more high-pitched voice alternates between a fast forward chat and tuneful R&B-derived singing.\nbasslinespeed garageuk dancehalluk garage\nHeartless Crew tracks\nHeartless Crew videos\nDJ Fonti\nMighty Moe","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Michael Andersen\nFebruary 19, 2014 |\nAuthor: Michael AndersenMichael Andersen\nFine Brothers Sitcom \"MyMusic\" Brings Fictional Media Company to Life\nFor the past two years, YouTubers Benny and Rafi Fine (commonly known as The Fine Brothers) have released MyMusic, a sitcom tailored for the YouTube crowd. The Vaudevillian comedy is framed as a behind-the-scenes look at an independent music news company. But unlike its televised forebears, the media production company featured in the show was [\u2026]\nVoicemails from the Future Explore the Impact of Climate Change\nColumbia University's PoLAR Partnership is exploring the potential impact of climate change through FutureCoast, a fictional narrative playing out across a series of \"chronofacts\", voicemails sent back in time from potential futures. The physical manifestations of these chronofacts have been hidden across the globe. By Brandie Minchew, originally posted at ARGNet \\n\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PdXNNOfzmsw\\n Sometime in the [\u2026]\nJanuary 2, 2014 |\nGoogle's Ingress Takes Mobile Gaming to the Streets\nGoogle has encouraged Android users to wage a silent battle for global domination focused on locations of cultural relevance, through its mobile game Ingress. For over a year, \"field agents\" in the game's invite-only beta have pieced together a deep narrative hiding just beneath the surface of the geolocative gameplay. The game was recently opened up to [\u2026]\nDecember 20, 2013 |\nStep Counter Meets \"39 Steps\" with Fitness App \"The Walk\"\nSix to Start, creators of the narrative fitness app Zombies, Run! traded genres for their newest mobile game. In The Walk, players are thrust into the starring role of a spy thriller by adding a few extra steps to their daily walking routines. By Celina Beach, originally posted at ARGNet When Six to Start created Zombies, [\u2026]\nNovember 7, 2013 |\nShort Film From Infiniti Lets Viewers Drive the Action\nIn the short film Deja View, two people find themselves on the road with no memories, and your phone number in their call history. Actions you take when they call that number influences what happens next. By Michael Andersen, originally posted at ARGNet A sharply dressed man and woman are lost on an empty stretch [\u2026]\nOctober 7, 2013 |\nToronto Film Fest Asks Fans to Plug in to Cronenberg Films\nDavid Cronenberg's newest project, Body\/Mind\/Change, ties together the often grisly technologies featured in his films into a game that crosses over from the internet into the real world. Fans of Cronenberg's films can register to participate in the beta-testing process for special gaming platforms called \"PODs\" in anticipation of an event taking place at the [\u2026]\nUnfinished Austen Novel Finds New Life Through Collaborative Web Series\nOver the summer, the creators of the Emmy Award-winning web series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries launched an experimental follow-up project based on an unfinished Jane Austen novel. In Welcome to Sanditon, audience members were invited to assume roles as Sanditon residents while a modernized interpretation of Austen's final work unfolded as a web series. By [\u2026]\n\"The Optimist\" Draws Fans Into Fictionalized Disney History\nDisney is running an alternate reality game that delves into the origin story of Disney Parks through a fictionalized lens. For the next six weeks, players will work alongside Amelia, an aspiring documentary filmmaker and college student, as she seeks to uncover the secrets her grandfather left behind. By Michael Andersen, originally posted at ARGNet [\u2026]\nChecking Up on Games for Health 2013\nThe Games for Health conference in Boston explored the numerous ways people are using games to improve health and wellness, tackling everything from the obesity epidemic to central line placement. By Michael Andersen, originally posted at ARGNet Over the years, a number of alternate reality games and transmedia experiences have used their storytelling platform as [\u2026]\nBlack Markets, Phenomenal Work, and Foster Care at DIY Days\nDIY Days returned to The New School in April for a free all-day conference devoted to exploring new models of producing independent film and transmedia storytelling projects, with a strong focus on leveraging the platforms for social good. By Michael Andersen, originally posted at ARGNet The elevator doors open. As I step out, a woman [\u2026]\n19 Best Prime Day Deals on Amazon Devices: Kindle, Echo, Fire\nAuthor: Scott GilbertsonScott Gilbertson\n26 Best Amazon Prime Day Alternative Deals From Walmart, eBay, Etc\nStar Wars News: 'Rise of Skywalker' Reshoots Are Happening, Apparently\nAuthor: Graeme McMillanGraeme McMillan\nAmazon Prime Day 2019: 17 Best Early Deals and Shopping Tips","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Fiction The Paint\nThe Paint\nJames Stewart III\nDCIM100GOPROGOPR2001.JPG\nSitting on a basketball at half-court, Jim is telling the boys the fundamentals of the game. Mason and Jimmy listen intently. Well, as intently as can be expected from a five and seven-year-old. Everything is just so interesting on a warm, sunny day in the suburbs: a kid sliding down the nearby playground equipment, workers repaving a residential driveway across the street, birds doing bird things. They're alone except for those birds pecking at something near the border between asphalt and grass that surrounds the court.\nIt's a day off on the weekend, which in retail is sacrosanct. A high-holy day all in itself. Usually, when Jim has a day off he works a side-job, today he's got nothing going on. Part of him feels guilty, though. Always.\n\"That area there, right around the basket,\" he says pointing at the 15 x 12 ft. rectangle, outlined by fading white lines. \"That's where the game is won and lost. The paint. That's your house and you protect it at all costs.\"\nOn South Side, Jim started playing down-low because of his size but stuck there because of his heart. In the paint the grace of the game, at times an intricately choreographed dance, devolves into gritty survivalism. Elbows fly, knees drive into thighs, one of those fast, graceful skinny motherfuckers comes in weak thinking he can get an easy layup. As they ascend towards the rim with visions of two points, perhaps a gentle finger-roll, to just flip the ball into the rim, Jim knows this man's fantasy needs some reconfiguring.\n\"In the paint, nobody gets anything easy.\"\nHe pushes his glasses further up the ridge of his nose, rubs his bushy, black mustache, then adjusts his high grey tube socks, two red stripes running around the top. His shorts are short. Really short.\n\"Can we shoot now?\" Mason asks impatiently.\nHe decided against a shirt today since it's so hot, plus he can show off his muscles, which don't exist to anyone but himself. He flexes bones. Skin, the color of cocoa butter, blue eyes, a poorly done flattop cut by his mother, Mason's always running low on patience.\n\"That's all you ever wanna do,\" Jimmy says.\n\"Boys, listen and learn something.\"\nMason grunts. A ball hog. All attitude with an inability to hide whatever he's feeling.\n\"Stand up and I'll show you two how it's done.\"\nThe boys spring up, while it takes Jim longer to unfold his large frame. Standing upright he towers over his young sons descending in height by age and hues of brown, covering the spectrum so fully that only one of them is even called brown.\nJim is dark-skinned, the prevailing idea of Black in America. Jimmy is swinging his arms through the air in some approximation of the stretches he's seen basketball players do on TV. Copper-complexioned he'll be asked the rest of his life where he's from and hear guesses anywhere from Central and South America, North Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. He'll let them down every time he says he's from Chicago. Mason is high yellow. All brown. All black.\nAs soon as Jim stands, Mason grabs the ball from the ground, throws it ahead of him, chases it down, takes two dribbles, comes to a complete stop in front of the basket, pulls the ball back like a shot-putter, sends it over the front of the rim to the white polymer backboard where it thuds before rattling through the chain link net. Turning back towards Jim he shakes his head and flexes his bones in celebration. Jimmy gets the rebound.\nOn these courts, the sweet snapping swish of the ball through a nylon net is replaced by jangling reminiscent of loose change that the chain link provides. Much more durable for the bipolar weather of the Midwest, but also more dangerous for fingers.\nAwaiting further instructions, with the childhood inability to stand still while holding a ball, Jimmy attempts to spin it on his finger. Looks so easy. He quickly finds out it's not. Spin, smack, drop, bounce. Spin, smack, drop, bounce. He settles for trying to balance it on a finger, no spin. He just ends up running in tiny circles trying to keep the ball from the asphalt as it wobbles every which way.\n\"Lemme try,\" Mason demands.\nCatching the ball from Jimmy, he gives it a shot and fails. Tries again\u2026 fails. His face scrunches up, the ever-present dimples in his squirrel-cheeks compete with the wrinkles at the bridge of his nose to show his frustration. He smacks the ball with one hand, switches and smacks it with another, as if there's some answer to this mystery inside the sphere.\n\"Betchu guys can't do this,\" he announces to his family.\nMason wipes the ball on his bare stomach, tilts his head back, alllll the way back. Then holding the ball above his head with both hands, gently sets it into the groove between nose and forehead, then let's go. His neck and shoulders wiggle, hands up and ready to catch the ball if it falls.\nJim and Jimmy lock-eyes, both laughing.\n\"Your brother's got no sense.\"\nMason keeps the ball balanced for all of five, six seconds. When it falls he celebrates with the same enthusiasm he showed after making a basket.\n\"Now pass the ball here,\" Jim tells Mason. The ball's disproportionately large in the boy's hands. A thought that never occurs when grown men shoot around. Effortless moves, a chest-pass, a lay-up, a free-throw, all seem to require every ounce of strength his boys have.\nMason reaches back and lets go, the ball makes it to Jim in a bounce and a half.\n\"Now pay attention, we're gonna start down low, where the game's really played.\"\n\"Let's shoot three's!\" blurts Mason.\n\"That's not what dad said. The game's in the paint,\" replies Jimmy, a constant check on his brother's impulses.\n\"Exactly, boy. All the best teams always have a big man controlling the paint. Wilt, Bill, Kareem, Moses, and Chocolate Thunder! All you kids out here tryna 'Be Like Mike,' now.\"\nIn Chicago, the history of the game reaches beyond professional contracts into the high schools and the playground. From Jim's alma mater, Hales Franciscan, people expected Sam Puckett, a smooth All-American point-guard to do great things in college and the NBA. Neither happened.\nDribbling to the block, Jim shoots a standard layup, right hand rising, balancing the ball on his palm, jumping off his left foot, right knee rising in unison with his arm as if an invisible string connects knee and elbow. The ball banks off the backboard and in.\nHe tries to think of the last time he played a pickup game. College, maybe? A few years after? Whatever the moment, it certainly didn't have the gravity then that he's feeling it should have now.\n\"See. That's the easiest shot in the game. It's simple. You want to get as close as possible, as often as possible. That's why on defense you have to keep them out of the paint. You give these shots up and they'll take advantage of you all game. If someone thinks they can get something easy from you once, they'll keep coming in and testing you until you stop them.\"\n\"I can do that. I'll make those all day!\" says Mason.\n\"No, he can't! Let me try first,\" Jimmy replies.\nJim passes Jimmy the ball. The boy dribbles it toward the right-hand side of the rim and takes a shot. Jimmy jumps off his right foot, instead of his left, the ball hits off the bottom of the rim and comes off it with a loud clank. The ball ricochets and hits Jimmy on the top of his head with a hollow plonk.\nJim smiles and Mason laughs, while Jimmy, embarrassed, runs after the ball which shot off the court onto the surrounding grass.\n\"That was alright, but you jumped off the wrong foot. You'll get it next time. Let your brother try.\"\nJimmy, still on the grass, reaches back and throws the ball to Mason football-style.\n\"I'll do it right.\"\nFor Mason, smaller and weaker than his older brother, basketball 101 is still a physical impossibility. In order just to get the ball above the rim it's essential for him to get in a deep squat, cock the ball back to his ear, and catapult it. The ball bounces off the backboard and in. Before it jangles through the net, he's already grunting and flexing bone.\n\"SEE THAT!\"\nJim rolls his eyes.\n\"You made it, but practice isn't always about making shots. It's about learning how to play the game right.\" Jim means to deflate Mason's ego, just a bit.\n\"Yeah,\" Jimmy agrees.\nThe boys go through a few more rounds of layups, the ball gaining a gritty, dusty feeling. It ricochets off the rim into the grass, through wood chips in the playground, and into the street a few times, Jim shouting as the boys begin to run into it absentmindedly. His deep, loud, voice stops time, the boys freeze immediately, then look both ways. Of course, no cars are coming by on this boring street.\nThey run up a small grass incline back towards the court. Jimmy has the ball on his hip, and it's just as wide as his waist.\n\"Here. Pass it again,\" Jim says, thinking about the next lesson. Raising it above his head Jimmy hurls the ball towards his dad.\nJim has to keep the boys shooting to keep them interested, but they can shoot layups left handed without mastering their right, plus they're not strong enough to shoot anything other than layups. The key to the game isn't offense anyway.\nHe knows the game is really all about defense. Defense and rebounding. Anybody could do these things, but the key is they have to want to. It can't be faked. Thankless toil, the drudgery that builds winners, that builds champions, an attitude, unrelenting persistence. Brings you nothing but bruises, welts, and floor burns. Your body, you give to the team, a sacrifice. You can't let them down.\nImage: \"Basketball Court 3\" by Jason Thibault, Massive Content licensed under CC 2.0\nJames Stewart III is a Black writer from Chicago. He earned an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MA from North Central College. He is currently finishing a novel about the daily struggles of a multi-racial working-class family and the costs they pay for loving each other. He also co-curates a text-based performance series \"The Guild Complex presents Exhibit B\" and is a managing editor of the magazine Critics' Union. Stewart works as a paraprofessional with special needs students at a high school in the Chicagoland-area.\nLatest posts by James Stewart III (see all)\nThe Paint - June 21, 2020","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jun 29th: The July 2, 2019, Total Solar Eclipse\nby Jay Pasachoff | Jun 29, 2019 | Solar Eclipse | 0 comments\nPodcaster: Jay Pasachoff\nTitle: The July 2, 2019, Total Solar Eclipse\nOrganization: Williams College and Caltech\nLinks: http:\/\/www.eclipses.info and http:\/\/www.totalsolareclipse.org\nDescription: On July 2, the path of totality of a total solar eclipse will cross the Pacific Ocean, including Oeno Island, and then cross Chile and Argentina. Scientists and tourists will observe the path of totality, especially from the region of Chile that includes La Serena and the Elqui Valley, with the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory among astronomical facilities in totality. The observations at this minimum phase of the sunspot cycle will provide important information about the solar corona, and will fill in the ordinary gaps between on-disk extreme-ultraviolet imaging and satellite imaging of the outer corona.\nBio: Jay Pasachoff is Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy at Williams College and Chair of the International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Eclipses. He is on sabbatical at Carnegie Observatories.\nThe fifth edition of his textbook The Cosmos: Astronomy in the New Millennium (Pasachoff and Alex Filippenko, and a new book on the intersection of art and astronomy, Cosmos: The Art and Science of the Universe (Roberta J. M. Olson and Pasachoff), have just been published.\nSee http:\/\/solarcorona.com\nBio: Jay Pasachoff is Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy at Williams College and Chair of the International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Eclipses. He is on sabbatical at Carnegie Observatories. The fifth edition of his textbook The Cosmos: Astronomy in the New Millennium (Pasachoff and Alex Filippenko, and a new book on the intersection of art and astronomy, Cosmos: The Art and Science of the Universe (Roberta J. M. Olson and Pasachoff), have just been published. See http:\/\/solarcorona.com\nToday's sponsor: Big thanks to our Patreon supporters this month: Frank Tippin, Brett Duane, Jako Danar, Joseph J. Biernat, Nik Whitehead, Timo Siev\u00e4nen, Steven Jansen, Casey Carlile, Phyllis Simon Foster, Tanya Davis, Rani B, Lance Vinsel, Steven Emert.\nOr please visit our Patreon page: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/365DaysOfAstronomy\nWe are looking forward to the next total solar eclipse, July 2nd, 2019. The path of the eclipse will cross South America\u2014Chile and Argentina\u2014after going across the Pacific and we hope to see what we saw at the '17 total solar eclipse, the most recent total solar eclipse in which the path of totality crossed the United States.\nWhat happens during an eclipse is that the moon goes in front of the sun and a total eclipse is a little closer than average in its orbit around the earth and entirely covers the everyday sun so that we see the outer parts of the sun, the solar corona. But sometimes the moon is a little smaller than average and a ring of everyday sunlight, an annulus of sunlight, remains visible and that makes the sky too bright. The blue sky remains and we can't see the corona so we scientists are especially interested in the total solar eclipses when the sky is dark and we can't see the corona, the outer atmosphere of the sun. It is about a million time darker than a normal day so even if one percent of the everyday sun remains visible that's still ten-thousand times brighter than it is during a total eclipse so you really have to get into the path of the total eclipse.\nThe path on July 2nd, 2019, crosses the Pacific. It passes only one island but is mainly over ocean, and just hits South America, where it is low in the sky. It is only about thirteen degrees above the horizon when it reaches the coast of Chile and then at sunset on the horizon just inside the Atlantic coast of Argentina.\n18 months later, in December 2020, which is then summertime in South America, there will be another total solar eclipse a little further south, also crossing Chile and Argentina. At that time, the peak will be over Argentina and the sun will be over 70 degrees high in the sky in Argentina. And my group will be located on the Atlantic coast of Argentina.\nIn any case, we only occasionally get these total solar eclipses\u2014every 18 months or so on the average\u2014and the sun is different every time. Here, for example, is a series of three different total eclipses that were painted almost 100 years ago by Howard Russell Butler in oils. At that time, the cameras couldn't show with the photographic plates or film the detail of the corona the way they can today, so Butler took notes during the couple of minutes of totality and then used his skills as a portrait painter to translate it into oil paintings. These paintings in particular hung for decades over the entrance of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, part of the American Museum of Natural History. Butler had first been invited by the US Naval Observatory on the 1918 expedition to Oregon, and then he got interested as one might and painted also 1923, 1925 that you just saw, and also in 1932.\nIn any case, we have many scientific observations that we can make only at total solar eclipses. The corona changes with the sunspot cycle, the roughly 11-year sunspot cycle. We are now at the minimum of the sunspot cycle; most days have no sunspots at all on the surface of the sun and that means there are only a few coronal streamers relatively close to the solar equator and the poles remain visible where there are plumes that come out of the poles looking much like the filings that come out of a bar magnet. All this illustrates how important the magnetic field is for the sun.\nThe magnetic field in sunspots was discovered by George Ellery Hale at the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1908 and the sunspot regions are regions of especially strong magnetic field. But the coronal magnetic fields, which are weaker, are still strong enough to govern the very hot gas around the sun.\nIt was discovered at an eclipse in 1869 that there were some special spectral emissions from the corona, in particular a strange one in the green, \"the coronal green line.\" In 1868, they found a yellow line which was soon called helium because it was only from the sun. The next year, in 1869, the coronal green light was seen and they thought it was from \"coronium,\" a new element as helium turned out to be. As you know, helium did turn out to be a fundamental element but they didn't discover that until 1895, when they isolated it on Earth. And coronium took until 1940 to explain, and then it was finally realized that it wasn't a new element but it was really only a form of iron that only existed when it was so hot\u2014over a million degrees\u2014that half of iron's normal 26 electrons had been driven off so this is iron that's 13 times ionized (since the neutral state is Roman numeral I), which is called iron 14. And we now have several spectral lines of different ionization stages and elements.\nWe will be observing those from our sites in Chile. I will be at a mine at a mountainside at an altitude of about 2200 feet on the centerline as it passes Chile. And unusually, there is actually a couple of major astronomical observatories in the zone of totality. I have permission to have 4 of my colleagues at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory for the eclipse, and they will have a variety of cameras and telescopes to make images of the sun both in ordinary light\u2014what we call white light, all the sunlight together\u2014 and also through some special filters and with some spectrographs. So when we only get a couple of minutes every year and a half or so to see what the corona is like in detail, we want to take advantage of that. And then we can put together these observations at eclipses from what we can get from NASA and European Space Agency spacecraft, which can't observe the region of the sun that we see best at total solar eclipses. So only on the days of total solar eclipses do we get a complete view of the sun including all of its layers.\nAnd we should also remember that the sun is a typical star and that there are billions and trillions of stars like the sun, so when we are observing the details of the solar corona at an eclipse, we're learning what the details are of the coronas of all these distant stars that are all fuzzed out without our ability to see detail.\nA total solar eclipse remains a scientifically valuable occasion and also a fantastic occasion for individuals to see.\nThe 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Audio post-production by Richard Drumm. Bandwidth donated by libsyn.com and wizzard media. You may reproduce and distribute this audio for non-commercial purposes. Please consider supporting the podcast with a few dollars (or Euros!). Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org. This year we will celebrates the Year of Everyday Astronomers as we embrace Amateur Astronomer contributions and the importance of citizen science. Join us and share your story. Until tomorrow! Goodbye!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tracker's top 10 most stolen cars\n30\/04\/2014 in Market Insight\nThe BMW X5 remains top of the car thief's shopping list, according to the latest figures from Tracker.\nIt was the car most frequently stolen and recovered in 2013 - the fifth year in a row that it has topped the table.\nLast year Tracker recovered nearly \u00a38,500,000 worth of stolen vehicles and returned them to their owners.\nThe BMW M3 was the second most stolen and recovered vehicle last year, moving up from third in 2012 and sixth place in 2011.\nIn 2012, the number two spot was occupied by the Range Rover Sport and Vogue, but in 2013, they sit in seventh and eighth place respectively.\nThe Mercedes-Benz C-Class makes its first appearance on the table, taking third place, while the Porsche 911 reappears in ninth for the first time since 2011.\nBMWs dominated in 2013, with the 5 Series, X5, M3 and 3 Series all making the table.\nHowever, the Audi A4 leapt from ninth position in 2011, up to fourth in 2013, while the Audi RS4 doesn't appear at all. The Audi S3 takes equal eighth with the Range Rover Vogue.\n\"It's clear from our latest figures that thieves continue to target prestige models with the most expensive car recovered being worth \u00a390,000,\" said Adrian Davenport, police liaison officer for Tracker.\nThe chart suggests franchised dealers representing premium brands could have a real opportunity to upsell additional car security systems.\nAuthor: Tim Rose Tim Rose\ntim.rose@bauermedia.co.uk\nAs editor, Tim is responsible for the media content, planning and production of AM's multiple channels (AM print and digital magazines, website, social media and contributing to our events planning). He interviews and writes about as many franchised dealer groups and UK divisions of motor manufacturers as possible, to explore the issues facing UK motor retail and understand what solutions dealers and suppliers are using to overcome these.\nClick here for aftersales best practice and procurement insight\nMost popular articles in Market Insight\n1) 'Volatility' to define 2022 car retail sector, says Cox Automotive\n2) New consumer car finance volumes rose 33% in November\n3) Pendragon CEO Bill Berman: car supplies could take eight years to recover","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"From the page to the stage: The Utica College Theatre Department\nPicture of the cast for \"Something Rotten!\" as it begins rehearsal.\nCharles Buckley, Staff Writer\nThere are many places where people can go on campus to enjoy extracurriculars. One of these places is the theater. The UC Theatre Department has put on many shows for people to enjoy over the years, the latest one, \"Something Rotten!\" has begun its rehearsal phase even while the pandemic is going on.\nThe department is run by Professor of Theater Laura Salvaggio. With the help of directors, stagehands and loyal actors she has successfully put on many plays and musicals over the last few years.\n\"I love the ability to shake everyone's emotional response in the room and have everyone feeling the same way while watching a scene be performed,\" Salvaggio said.\nMany people, especially the actors, also enjoy the theater because it gives them a chance to be creative and let their imagination run wild as they recreate scenes either fictional or historical.\n\"My favorite thing about the theater is being able to play another character and see things through their point of view,\" Justin Jones said, a senior business major who acted for the theater during his time at Utica College. \"It's very exciting.\"\nOne of the most recent productions was the radio play \"War Of The Worlds,\" which was performed over the campus radio station, WPNR, last semester.\nAlong with the actors, A lot of people who do crew enjoy working on sets. Especially when it comes to making a set that helps enhance the performance.\n\"A lot of time and consideration goes into building the sets,\" Salvaggio said. \"The crew usually has to work on creating a full-scale set from a not-to-scale model.\"\nMusicals have seen some success for the department as well, such as \"Urinetown,\" which was the last live musical performed in the Strebel Auditorium before the COVID pandemic began. However, one musical that many actors and viewers enjoyed the most and still talk about was \"Cabaret,\" which the department did back in 2018.\n\"That musical was one of the biggest ones we had ever done,\" Salvaggio said. \"It was fun and very engaging for everyone who was a part of it.\"\nFor something like \"Cabaret\" or any type of play, there is a process that truly helps take it from the page to on the stage in terms of performing.\n\"What truly brings a piece of theatre from page to stage is a collaborative art,\" said Hannah DeStefano, a junior and communications and media major. \"Of course, you have the most visible part, the actors playing their roles, but you also have a working collaboration of artists in every facet. From set to costumes to orchestrations to lights and so much more. This transformation happens as each part of the working body comes alive and plays its role well.\"\nAnother major element brought from the page to stage in terms of a theater performance is everyone coming together.\n\"The magic of the musicals here is thanks to the collaborative spirit of the cast and crew,\" said Jason Francey, the assistant director for college engagement and the director of this year's musical \"Something Rotten!\". There are so many moving pieces and so many people involved that it's hard to pinpoint just one thing. It is truly thanks to the efforts of everyone that the show comes together and wows the audience.\"\nThe theater is always looking for people to help out in many different ways. If interested, send an email to Laura Salvaggio at [email protected].\nUC Theatre Department\nCharles Buckley, Clerk\nName: Charles Buckley\nClass Year: Sophomore\nMajor: Communications and Media\nMinors: Creative Writing and Theatre\nPrevious Position: Staff Writer...\nUtica College Archives: A historical treasure","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"man of the house cast 1995\n, man of the house cast tommy lee jones\nMan of the House \/ Cast\nRoland Sharp\nCedric the Entertainer\nPercy Stevens\nBrian Van Holt\nEddie Zane\nShea Whigham\nRanger Holt\nTerry Parks\nRanger Riggs\nCaptain Nichols\nMorgan Ball\nTom Reynolds\nWho is the cast of Man of the House?\nMan of the House (2005) Cast and Crew. Texas Ranger Roland Sharp (Tommy Lee Jones) follows a strict code of behavior and has no patience for those who don't follow suit. When five cheerleaders -- Anne (Christina Milian), Teresa (Paula Garc\u00e9s), Evie (Monica Keena), Heather (Vanessa Ferlito) and Barb (Kelli Garner) -- witness a murder,...\nMan of the House - Cast and Crew | Moviefone\nwww.moviefone.com\/movie\/man-of-the-house\/17651\/credits\/\nWhat is the movie Man of the house about?\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Man of the House is a 2005 American crime comedy film directed by Stephen Herek and starring Tommy Lee Jones. The plot revolves around Sgt. Roland Sharp, a lonesome Texas Ranger who goes undercover as an assistant coach to protect a group of college cheerleaders who have witnessed a murder.\nMan of the House (2005 film) - Wikipedia\nen.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Man_of_the_House_(2005_film)\nWhat is the rating of Man of the House?\nJames Berardinelli of ReelViews panned the film, rating it one star out of four and writing: \"The movie is an \"action comedy\" in name only - there's nothing in Man of the House that could be considered funny or exciting.\"\nWho is the cast of the entertainer?\nCast (in credits order) complete, awaiting verification. Tommy Lee Jones. ... Roland Sharp. Cedric the Entertainer. ... Percy Stevens (as Cedric The Entertainer) Christina Milian.\nMan of the House (2005) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb\nwww.imdb.com\/title\/tt0331933\/fullcredits\/\nwww.imdb.com\/title\/tt0331933\/fullcredits\nMan of the House (2005) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.\nMan Of The House Cast - Image Results\nMore Man Of The House Cast images\nMan of the House Cast and Crew - Cast Photos and Info | Fandango\nwww.fandango.com\/man-of-the-house-86074\/cast-and...\nCast + Crew Friday, February 25, 2005 PG-13, 1 hr 37 min\nMan Of The House Cast and Crew | TV Guide\nwww.tvguide.com\/movies\/man-of-the-house\/cast\/137851\nMeet the cast and learn more about the stars of Man Of The House with exclusive news, pictures, videos and more at TVGuide.com\nMan Of The House Cast and Characters | TV Guide\nwww.tvguide.com\/tvshows\/man-of-the-house\/cast\/738625\nMeet the cast and learn more about the stars of of Man Of The House with exclusive news, photos, videos and more at TVGuide.com\nwww.moviefone.com\/movie\/man-of-the-house\/17651\/...\nSee the full list of Man of the House cast and crew including actors, directors, producers and more.\nMan About the House (TV Series 1973\u20131976) - Cast & Crew - IMDb\nm.imdb.com\/title\/tt0069607\/fullcredits\nMan About the House (1973\u20131976) Series Cast & Crew. Directed by (1) Writing credits (2) Cast (84) Produced by (2) Production Design by (7) Art Department (1)\n\"House M.D.\" Man of the House (TV Episode 2012) - Full Cast ...\n\"House M.D.\" Man of the House (TV Episode 2012) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.\nman of the house cast 1995 kelli garner\nman of the house cast tommy lee jones monica keena\nman of the house cast and crew man of the house\nmovie man of the house cast anne archer\nMan of the House\nPG-132005 \u00b7 Crime \u00b7 1h 40m\nA taciturn Texas Ranger (Tommy Lee Jones) goes under cover as a coach to protect a group of college cheerleaders who witnessed a murder. en.wikipedia.org\nOriginal release date: February 25, 2005\nDirector: Stephen Herek\nBudget: $40 M\nPaula Garc\u00e9s\nProfessor Molly McCarthy\nU.S. Marshals\nCode Name: The Cleaner","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Remote sensing of cometary bow shocks: Modelled asymmetric outgassing and pickup ion observations\nMarkku Alho, Riku J\u00e4rvinen, Cyril Simon Wedlund, Hans Nilsson, Esa Kallio, Tuija Pulkkinen\nDepartment of Electronics and Nanoengineering\nEsa Kallio Group\nDespite the long escort by the ESA Rosetta mission, direct observations of a fully developed bow shock around 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko have not been reported. Expanding on our previous work on indirect observations of a shock, we model the large-scale features in cometary pickup ions, and compare the results with the ESA Rosetta Plasma Consortium Ion Composition Analyser ion spectrometer measurements over the pre-perihelion portion of the escort phase. Using our hybrid plasma simulation, an empirical, asymmetric outgassing model for 67P, and varied interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) clock angles, we model the evolution of the large-scale plasma environment. We find that the subsolar bow shock standoff distance is enhanced by asymmetric outgassing with a factor of 2 to 3, reaching up to 18000km approaching perihelion. We find that distinct spectral features in simulated pickup ion distributions are present for simulations with shock-like structures, with the details of the spectral features depending on shock standoff distance, heliocentric distance, and IMF configuration. Asymmetric outgassing along with IMF clock angle is found to have a strong effect on the location of the spectral features, while the IMF clock angle causes no significant effect on the bow shock standoff distance. These dependences further complicate the interpretation of the ion observations made by Rosetta. Our data-model comparison shows that the large-scale cometary plasma environment can be probed by remote sensing the pickup ions, at least when the comet's activity is comparable to that of 67P, and the solar wind parameters are known.\nMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/mnras\/stab1940\nplasmas\nshock waves\nmethods: numerical\ntechniques: miscellaneous\ncomets: individual: 67P\n10.1093\/mnras\/stab1940Licence: CC BY\nAlho_Remote_sensing_of_cometary_MNoRASFinal published version, 6 MBLicence: CC BY\nDive into the research topics of 'Remote sensing of cometary bow shocks: Modelled asymmetric outgassing and pickup ion observations'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.\noutgassing Physics & Astronomy 100%\nbows Physics & Astronomy 90%\nremote sensing Physics & Astronomy 86%\ninterplanetary magnetic fields Physics & Astronomy 65%\nshock Physics & Astronomy 61%\nion Earth & Environmental Sciences 50%\nsensors Physics & Astronomy 48%\nmagnetic field Earth & Environmental Sciences 46%\nShocks and Magnetosheaths in the Heliosphere\nAlho, M., J\u00e4rvinen, R., Lakka, A., Knuuttila, O. & Pulkkinen, T.\nProject: Academy of Finland: Other research funding\nsolar wind 100%\ncoronal mass ejection 82%\nupstream 71%\nion 63%\nextremely low frequencies 58%\nScience-IT\nMikko Hakala (Manager)\nFacility\/equipment: Facility\nDensity functional theory 74%\nAlho, M., J\u00e4rvinen, R., Simon Wedlund, C., Nilsson, H., Kallio, E., & Pulkkinen, T. (2021). Remote sensing of cometary bow shocks: Modelled asymmetric outgassing and pickup ion observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 506(4), 4735-4749. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/mnras\/stab1940\nAlho, Markku ; J\u00e4rvinen, Riku ; Simon Wedlund, Cyril ; Nilsson, Hans ; Kallio, Esa ; Pulkkinen, Tuija. \/ Remote sensing of cometary bow shocks: Modelled asymmetric outgassing and pickup ion observations. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2021 ; Vol. 506, No. 4. pp. 4735-4749.\n@article{23fdd3f2ddc147b7a800d4c86f69e10f,\ntitle = \"Remote sensing of cometary bow shocks: Modelled asymmetric outgassing and pickup ion observations\",\nabstract = \"Despite the long escort by the ESA Rosetta mission, direct observations of a fully developed bow shock around 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko have not been reported. Expanding on our previous work on indirect observations of a shock, we model the large-scale features in cometary pickup ions, and compare the results with the ESA Rosetta Plasma Consortium Ion Composition Analyser ion spectrometer measurements over the pre-perihelion portion of the escort phase. Using our hybrid plasma simulation, an empirical, asymmetric outgassing model for 67P, and varied interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) clock angles, we model the evolution of the large-scale plasma environment. We find that the subsolar bow shock standoff distance is enhanced by asymmetric outgassing with a factor of 2 to 3, reaching up to 18000km approaching perihelion. We find that distinct spectral features in simulated pickup ion distributions are present for simulations with shock-like structures, with the details of the spectral features depending on shock standoff distance, heliocentric distance, and IMF configuration. Asymmetric outgassing along with IMF clock angle is found to have a strong effect on the location of the spectral features, while the IMF clock angle causes no significant effect on the bow shock standoff distance. These dependences further complicate the interpretation of the ion observations made by Rosetta. Our data-model comparison shows that the large-scale cometary plasma environment can be probed by remote sensing the pickup ions, at least when the comet{\\textquoteright}s activity is comparable to that of 67P, and the solar wind parameters are known.\",\nkeywords = \"plasmas, shock waves, methods: numerical, techniques: miscellaneous, comets: individual: 67P\",\nauthor = \"Markku Alho and Riku J{\\\"a}rvinen and {Simon Wedlund}, Cyril and Hans Nilsson and Esa Kallio and Tuija Pulkkinen\",\ndoi = \"10.1093\/mnras\/stab1940\",\njournal = \"Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society\",\nAlho, M, J\u00e4rvinen, R, Simon Wedlund, C, Nilsson, H, Kallio, E & Pulkkinen, T 2021, 'Remote sensing of cometary bow shocks: Modelled asymmetric outgassing and pickup ion observations', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 506, no. 4, pp. 4735-4749. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/mnras\/stab1940\nRemote sensing of cometary bow shocks: Modelled asymmetric outgassing and pickup ion observations. \/ Alho, Markku; J\u00e4rvinen, Riku; Simon Wedlund, Cyril; Nilsson, Hans; Kallio, Esa; Pulkkinen, Tuija.\nIn: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 506, No. 4, 10.2021, p. 4735-4749.\nT1 - Remote sensing of cometary bow shocks: Modelled asymmetric outgassing and pickup ion observations\nAU - Alho, Markku\nAU - J\u00e4rvinen, Riku\nAU - Simon Wedlund, Cyril\nAU - Nilsson, Hans\nAU - Kallio, Esa\nAU - Pulkkinen, Tuija\nN2 - Despite the long escort by the ESA Rosetta mission, direct observations of a fully developed bow shock around 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko have not been reported. Expanding on our previous work on indirect observations of a shock, we model the large-scale features in cometary pickup ions, and compare the results with the ESA Rosetta Plasma Consortium Ion Composition Analyser ion spectrometer measurements over the pre-perihelion portion of the escort phase. Using our hybrid plasma simulation, an empirical, asymmetric outgassing model for 67P, and varied interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) clock angles, we model the evolution of the large-scale plasma environment. We find that the subsolar bow shock standoff distance is enhanced by asymmetric outgassing with a factor of 2 to 3, reaching up to 18000km approaching perihelion. We find that distinct spectral features in simulated pickup ion distributions are present for simulations with shock-like structures, with the details of the spectral features depending on shock standoff distance, heliocentric distance, and IMF configuration. Asymmetric outgassing along with IMF clock angle is found to have a strong effect on the location of the spectral features, while the IMF clock angle causes no significant effect on the bow shock standoff distance. These dependences further complicate the interpretation of the ion observations made by Rosetta. Our data-model comparison shows that the large-scale cometary plasma environment can be probed by remote sensing the pickup ions, at least when the comet's activity is comparable to that of 67P, and the solar wind parameters are known.\nAB - Despite the long escort by the ESA Rosetta mission, direct observations of a fully developed bow shock around 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko have not been reported. Expanding on our previous work on indirect observations of a shock, we model the large-scale features in cometary pickup ions, and compare the results with the ESA Rosetta Plasma Consortium Ion Composition Analyser ion spectrometer measurements over the pre-perihelion portion of the escort phase. Using our hybrid plasma simulation, an empirical, asymmetric outgassing model for 67P, and varied interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) clock angles, we model the evolution of the large-scale plasma environment. We find that the subsolar bow shock standoff distance is enhanced by asymmetric outgassing with a factor of 2 to 3, reaching up to 18000km approaching perihelion. We find that distinct spectral features in simulated pickup ion distributions are present for simulations with shock-like structures, with the details of the spectral features depending on shock standoff distance, heliocentric distance, and IMF configuration. Asymmetric outgassing along with IMF clock angle is found to have a strong effect on the location of the spectral features, while the IMF clock angle causes no significant effect on the bow shock standoff distance. These dependences further complicate the interpretation of the ion observations made by Rosetta. Our data-model comparison shows that the large-scale cometary plasma environment can be probed by remote sensing the pickup ions, at least when the comet's activity is comparable to that of 67P, and the solar wind parameters are known.\nKW - plasmas\nKW - shock waves\nKW - methods: numerical\nKW - techniques: miscellaneous\nKW - comets: individual: 67P\nU2 - 10.1093\/mnras\/stab1940\nDO - 10.1093\/mnras\/stab1940\nJO - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society\nJF - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society\nAlho M, J\u00e4rvinen R, Simon Wedlund C, Nilsson H, Kallio E, Pulkkinen T. 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{"text":"Hidden Details You May Have Missed In The Marvel Movies\nAdditional Hidden Details You May Have Missed In The...\nEvery Marvel Cinematic Universe Antagonist, Ranked\nWatch: New Fantastic Four Feature Trailer\nhttp:\/\/www.wallpapersnewhd.com\/the-fantastic-four-2015-movie-wallpaper-hd-free-download\/#prettyPhoto Via wallpapersnewhd.com\n'Spider-Verse' Director Hints at Identity of Main Villain in Potential Sequel\nComic Con may be over, but that doesn't mean there isn't more to watch and more to talk about. Following yesterday's Suicide Squad trailer release, here's the latest feature trailer for the new Fantastic Four movie.\nThe film stars Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell, Toby Kebbell, Reg E. Cathey and Tim Blake Nelson. It is directed by Josh Trank and will hopefully successful reboot the franchise that has been left in the dust since the Rise of The Silver Surfer sequel in 2007.\nWade Wilson has been writing for Goliath since 2015. By day, Wade Wilson discusses comics, movies, and video games and by night... he may or may not be Deadpool.\nRobert Downey Jr. & Joe Rogan Discuss Marvel Movies, Iron Man's (Potential) Return & More\nAdditional Hidden Details You May Have Missed In The Marvel Movies","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Talking about depressing website filing\nnuprqmghhjdy by admin\nhimself is a small webmaster, very small kind of, from January 06 began doing web site. By the end of 05, I saw an article on the website making money in a computer magazine with a classmate in the dormitory. It was about how to make money with Google adsense.\nfreshman, learning web production, using FrontPage, will point special effects, such as text floating over, and so on, and now looks very bad. It's a static page, but at that time I thought it was written better than the others. See this Wangzhuan article, then interest way, just do it. I quickly went to the library to borrow some books, but it was still a static page. I made a website about tea during the vacation. Looking for free space everywhere, using a free two level domain name. Later, know what is dynamic web pages, learning the ASP, bought the space, will change all static into a static. I found the authority of a domain name, so I bought it.\n, however, there is the filing problem. At that time, I had learned how to get a forum, found a free version of the mobile network, and made a community with my website. It is not for the record, then she went to the Ministry of information industry (now the Ministry) on the website for the record. The first one was smooth and I didn't submit the electronic bulletin board service. It was successfully passed a week later. But two weeks later, I found a better domain name, so the record had to be done again. But this time it is not so smooth, but it is also a station. This time it has been called electronic bulletin service, and it must go through the pre examination and approval procedures.\nAfter consulting the process,\nbegan to prepare, write materials and query relevant information. The filing was really long. Repeatedly submitted, have been hit back, or the main site may not bring news words, or the number of moderators is not enough, or may not open with the teaching of the section\u2026\u2026 All sorts of reasons, I'll go instead. The second submission in August, 06, has dragged on for 07 years in January. At that time, I have to go through the record, or to shut down, or I can first shut down the forum, first \"temporary\" through\u2026\u2026 At the time of the final examination, I had to take a compromise plan, which was closed for the time being.\n, make full use of vacation time, look for a person to do moderators everywhere, want the copy of identity card of others\u2026\u2026 Go to school, submit in 07 years in March. It was a long time, but it was a smooth pass, and got the cert file. By the end of June, told me that can get the material. Run to the communications authority, and tell me that the process is over here, and ask me to bring some of the materials they provide to the public security department for the record, so go ahead.\nbirthday is nothing, just ran the public security department, one-way ride two hours of public transportation, no money to play rental, that expensive\u2026\u2026 Others this is called efficiency, go in and seat, but also pouring water, let me wait. Half an hour, a little, everything is done. Leave, this is called efficiency.\n, this station is finally over. Later on >\nLiverpool Lemar pursuit to go 'down to the wire'\nBAFTA Los Angeles Awards Season Tea Party\u200f Includes Charity Auction\nThe time for pollin","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"You are here: Home \u00bb Grand Ole Opry \u00bb Page 3\nGrand Ole Opry officially welcomes Country Music Hall of Famer Bobby Bare\ntheadmin April 10, 2018\nPhoto Courtesy Grand Ole Opry, LLC. Chris Hollo, Photographer The Grand Ole Opry welcomed home Bobby Bare as an official\u2026read more\nLarry Gatlin returns to host Opry Country Classics\ntheadmin March 2, 2018\nSeason Kicks Off Tomorrow, March 1, with Spotlight on \"The Songs of Johnny and June\" on Couple's 50th Wedding Anniversary Country\u2026read more\nJillian Jacqueline to make Grand Ole Opry debut February 13\ntheadmin February 7, 2018\nBig Loud Records rising Country songstress JILLIAN JACQUELINE continues her high-profile performance streak with her Grand Ole Opry debut on\u2026read more\nChris Janson, Craig Morgan, Trace Adkins, Dustin Lynch & more head to Grand Ole Opry in February\ntheadmin January 20, 2018\nIf you live in the Nashville, or are planning a trip to Nashville in February, take a look at what\u2026read more\nExile kicks off 2018 celebration Of 55th Anniversary as special musical guest on Huckabee\nCrossover hit-making band, Exile, is celebrating a distinguished career of 55 years as the longest running self-contained vocal group. This\u2026read more\nChris Young reflects on remarkable year\ntheadmin December 21, 2017\nThe Grand Ole Opry's newest member wraps 2017 as surprise guest for Garth Brooks' sold-out show in Nashville Photo credit:\u2026read more\nSmith & Wesley to perform on Grand Ole Opry stage; Joining star-studded cast for Dr. Ralph Stanley Tribute\ntheadmin October 12, 2017\nSmith & Wesley has enjoyed many firsts in the last year, including their first Top 25 single and music video\u2026read more\nWilliam Michael Morgan launches title track single with renewed sense of self\ntheadmin October 4, 2017\nMuch has happened for William Michael Morgan since the release of his first single, \"I Met A Girl,\" and the\u2026read more\nJosh Turner Celebrates 10 Years as a Member of the Grand Ole Opry\ncountry September 21, 2017\nJosh Turner (center) celebrates 10 years of Grand Ole Opry membership with friends and staff from the Opry, MCA Nashville\u2026read more\nDarius Rucker Celebrates 5 Years as a Member of the Grand Ole Opry\nDarius Rucker Celebrates his 5 year Opry Anniversaryon September 20, 2017Darius Rucker Celebrates his 5 year Opry Anniversaryon September 20,\u2026read more\n'Miss Country Soul' Jeannie Seely Celebrates 50 Years As A Member of the Grand Ole Opry\nMichael Guth, Chief Operating Officer, Opry Entertainment Group, Sally Williams, General Manager, Grand Ole Opry \/ Sr. Vice President, Programming\u2026read more\nThe Marshall Tucker Band Returns to the Grand Ole Opry\ncountry August 31, 2017\nLegendary Southern Rock Group to Perform on Opry Stage on Tuesday, September 26On Tuesday, September 26, for the first time\u2026read more","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Rock the Kasbah (2015)\nRock the Kasbah DVD and Blu-ray release date was set for February 2, 2016.\nGenre(s): Comedy, War, Music\nDanny McBride\nScott Caan\nEugenia Kuzmina\nLeem Lubany\nSteve Bing\nBill Block\nRock the Kasbah is the story of a down and out music manager who takes off to Afghanistan with his last client on a last ditch effort to tour the country. Penniless, alone and desperate, the protagonist stumbles upon a new client. This time, he has found a young female star of the Afghan version of American Idol. This is the story of how he finds redemption in navigating the young star's career throughout the show.\nRelease Date February 2, 2016\nI Heart Huckabees\nWalk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"NOISETTES AND MINUS THE BEAR INTIMATE SESSIONS ON LAST.FM ORIGINALS\nLast.fm are showcasing a new feature that shines a light on original programming features and intimate artist experiences: Last.fm Originals.\nThe latest sessions on Last.fm Originals will be indie pop band the Noisettes who are about to release their next album 'Contact'.\nThey are a perfect fit for the Originals sessions, which will see the band perform an intimate set for Last.fm along with an exclusive interview. The Noisettes session is set to go live on August 27th 2012.\nFollowing shortly after and proving Last.fm are diverse and on the pulse as ever, Seattle based alt-rockers Minus The Bear have recorded a very special sessions for music fans, which comes just in time for the release of their latest album 'Infinity Overhead', out September 3rd 2012.\nlast.fm\/music\/Noisettes\nlast.fm\/music\/Minus+the+Bear\nWHAT'S ONFM RECOMMENDSINTERNETBEST NEW MUSICBEST NEW MUSIC","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Rochelle News-Leader\nSubscribe Login View E-Edition\nAlready a subscriber? LOGIN \u00bb\nThe word of the year\nBy: Chuck Roberts - Updated: 2 weeks ago\nThe English language is continually evolving. Words that meant one thing in the past have developed a new meaning now. Check this out: according to the new Cambridge Dictionary, the latest definition of a woman is: \"an adult who lives and identifies as a female even though they may have been born as a different sex.\" Likewise a man is now \"an adult who lives and identifies as a male even though they might have been born a different sex.\" It is interesting to note that the definition refers to a different sex, not the opposite sex suggesting that there are more than two sexes.\nNew meanings have developed for old words, like the adjective woke. I use to think of woke as a verb: I woke up tired this morning. A woke corporation is an entity that signals its support for progressive policies as a means of maintaining influence and signaling a form of virtue. Woke corporations typically support the leftist side of an issue. The word \"woke capitalism\" has often been attributed to an article by Ross Douthat in the New York Times in 2015, and the usage of this term has grown exponentially ever since.\nBut the winner-take-all for this year is the Merriam-Webster Dictionary word of the year: \"gaslighting.\" Gaslighting has its origin in the 1938 English play, \"Gaslight\" by Patrick Hamilton, where a husband attempts to drive his wife crazy by distorting reality and slowly dimming the gaslights so he can declare her insane, commit her to an institution and collect her inheritance. The wife notices the dimming of the gaslights, but the husband leads her to believe that they are not fading so as to have her question her own sanity. According to Robin Stern, author of \"The Gaslight Effect,\" gaslighting is, \"the act of undermining another person's reality by denying facts, the environment around them, or their feelings.\" According to the American Psychological Association in the past, gaslighting is \"manipulation so extreme as to induce mental illness or to justify commitment of the gaslighted person to a psychiatric institution.\" In recent years, the term, gaslighting, has expanded usage to mean essentially lying with a straight face. Those who participate in gaslighting are often pathological liars and display narcissistic tendencies. They are interested in gaining control over a group or over a particular discussion. Some examples of gaslighting phrases are: \"That did not happen,\" \"I never said that,\" \"That's a lie,\" \"You're nuts,\" \"The border is secure,\" etc. You can often recognize a gaslighter by their need to impose their judgements on you; they feel they are always correct in their assertions; they are constantly complaining; they never accept responsibility; they are constantly calling you names; they say one thing and do another and are intimidating.\nThese words with new meanings are often put forth by the elite and powerful in our society to reinforce their elitism and perhaps control the conversation. When one of these elitists hits a person with a fancy word that they know nothing about, the listener usually doesn't respond since it is prudent not to talk about something you know nothing about. If clarification is asked of the elitist, a person often runs the risk of being declared an idiot. It may be prudent to just disengage from the conversation and obtain the clarification by other means.\nSomeday, these words will probably fade into oblivion much like the expression, \"it's a Doozy\" (referring to the fancy and unusual Duesenberg automobile) and \"jeepers creepers\" (an expression of surprise which came from the 1938 song by Louis Armstrong). New words or words with new meanings will most likely continue to appear.\nLetter: Concern with sheriff's stance\nLetter: Law non-enforcement\nLetter: CAN sends thanks for shopping trip help\nThe American dream and the game of Monopoly\nWe see you are enjoying our articles!\nIf you wish view the full all article, watch this short video or subscribe now for full access.\nSubscribe Watch Video No, thanks! I will stick to the free stuff\nThe English language is continually evolving. Words that meant one thing in the past have developed a new meaning now.\nWarning! Invalid username or password.\nA password reset email has been sent containing a link to reset your password.\n211 East Illinois Route 38 Rochelle IL 61068\n\u00a9 2023 News Media Corporation. All Rights Reserved","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A tale of three broadcasters\nCairnsBlog contributing writer Sid Walker takes an unexplained bomb to the ABC...\nI am one of growing number of people around the world who believes the western mass media is deeply dishonest about some very important topics.\nI believe something must be done to rectify this - urgently.\nSad to say, the mass media's tendency to report selectively is not confined to commercial media.\nIn this tale, written from an Australian perspective, I'll review an incident that took place overseas several years ago - and the remarkable failure of Australia's premier public broadcaster to report the story.\nThen I'll look at equivalent public broadcasters, in Britain and the USA, to examine their bizarre reportage of the same extraordinary event.\nPublicly-funded mass media can - and should - survive only if they enjoy widespread confidence. Why should the public fund media which lies about very important topics - matters of life and death? Read on - and judge for yourself whether the tangled web woven by these three mass media organizations is evidence of deliberate deception.\nAll Quiet at the ABC\nThis is the story of a 47-story building, in a world-famous city, that collapsed several years ago. The collapse was not 'intended' - in the sense that this was no listed demolition site. It was a busy office building, occupied by working staff until the previous day. Then, a little more than six years ago, it simply collapsed.\nIf you think that's odd, hold on tight... there's more...\nAs far as I can observe from a search of the ABC's public web archive, the unexpected collapse of this rather large building has never once been reported by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.\nThat's right! A large building (World Trade Center Building 7 - also known as the Salomon Building) drops to the ground in daylight. It was a massive steel-framed concrete construction - built to last. After what appeared to be a localized fire lasting a few hours, the entire structure fell neatly in its own footprint at near free-fall velocity.\nFinally, and quite amazingly, \"Our\" ABC simply ignores the incident. Trawling the archives of the ABC website as best I can, I've found:\n- No investigative report of the collapse of WTC-7\n- No profile of the building and its strange history\n- No report on the ongoing mysteries surrounding its collapse\n- No report on its rapid rebuilding & re-opening\nA couple of qualifications are in order. First, if I missed the story in the ABC's archives, I do apologize and would like to put the record straight. I did find one obscure mention of WTC-7 in an edited ABC talkboard (although re-checking more recently, I'm unable to locate even that). On that particular page, I recall a participant from the general public mentioned the unexplained collapse once. There may be more references to find on the ABC site - but they certainly don't 'stand out'.\nSecond, it is possible the story was reported by the ABC - but that report has not been added to the public web archive. Probably not all ABC reports get archived? Yet the archive is quite comprehensive for major 21st century stories. Big news items are almost always recorded for posterity. Take, for example, the massive blaze that lasted many hours in the Madrid Windsor Building in 2005 (which incidentally didn't cause the building to fall) . Coverage of that incident can be found easily when searching the ABC's website.\nIn summary, not one significant report about World Trade Center 7, the remarkable 47-storey collapsing building, seems to have survived (if it ever existed) in the ABC archives.\nIn case you weren't previously aware of the event under discussion, WTC-7 collapsed in the late afternoon of September 11th 2001. A smaller building than the Twin Towers (WTC 1 & 2), it was partially on fire for only a few hours before falling to the ground.\nNow of course, the collapse of the Twin Towers was widely reported by the Australian media. You may feel therefore consider, as the demise of their smaller sibling resulted in no apparent loss of life, that not reporting WTC-7's mysterious drop was a permissible oversight. Perhaps so.\nBefore making a judgment about that, let's review equivalent coverage by the ABC's sibling organizations.\nPrecognition at the BBC\nAustralia's ABC was largely based on its British counterpart, the well-respected BBC \u2013 a veritable institution of public broadcasting with increasingly global reach.\nHow did the BBC dealt with the collapse of WTC-7? Did it also ignore the event?\nNot at all! The BBC covered the collapse on the day, quite promptly. The remarkable thing, it turns out, is how promptly!\nEarly in 2007, a sharp-eyed skeptic trawling through tapes of the BBC's live media coverage of the 9-11 atrocity, discovered to his amazement that the BBC actually reported the collapse half an hour before it happened!\nYou read that right.\nThis extraordinary, quite unprecedented collapse of a steel-framed concrete tower block - an event essentially unreported by Australia's mass media - was noted by the flagship British broadcaster in advance.\nWhen the footage in question was brought to the attention of the BBC (and tens of thousands of interested citizens around the world who track the mystery of 9-11 via the internet) , the discovery caused quite a stir at BBC HQ. Unable to deny the accuracy of the video footage or its astonishing timing, the BBC eventually settled on the position the premature report was simply a 'mistake'.\nThe BBC's News Editor attempted damage limitation partly by rebutting 'conspiracy theories' about the overly-prescient report in his official BBC blog. He has permitted (moderated) reader responses to be posted. See them here and here. Nearly a year later, alarmed, angry and concerned people are still demanding an adequate explanation from the BBC. It doesn't seem we're going to get one... anytime soon.\nSignificantly, the BBC hasn't reported on its own miraculous reporting in on BBC news or current affairs (nor has 'Our' ABC for that matter). You'll only find out about this story if you are looking for it.\nPrecognition at the Beeb? Nothing to see here, folks! Move along!\nAdmission on PBS\nSo, perhaps the ABC was right to be cautious about telling the tale of WTC-7? The story is a minefield for public broadcasters!\nEven so, after a seemly six year delay, perhaps there's an opportunity for the ABC to break its silence on the topic and leap-frog the competition? It's about time Australian journalists got a real scoop.\nIf the ABC does investigate the case, a call to the influential and well-resourced Lowy Institute for International Policy might be useful.\nScarcely a week goes by without the Lowy Institute pronouncing on one or other of the topics de jour\u2026 climate change, terrorism, the world economy etc. The ABC runs frequent stories about the Lowy Institute's latest opinions, which it seems to hold in very high regard.\nThe Lowy Institute was founded by billionaire-philanthropist Frank Lowy. Sometimes described as the richest Australian, Lowy had a long and interesting career that included a spell, early on, as a warrior in the Haganah during the Israeli 'War of Independence' (which others call the Nakba). Lowy settled in Australia in the 1950s and became a shopping center magnate.\nLowy's global corporation Westfield has been exceptionally successful in the USA, where it operates under the name of 'Westfield America'.\nIn 1997, Larry Silverstein was appointed to the board of Westfield America.Now, Larry Silverstein was the leaseholder on WTC 7 \u2013 and also the leaseholder for the Twin Towers \u2013 at the time of the September 11th mass murder.\nSilverstein was interviewed by America's public broadcaster (PBS) a year or so after the attacks. In that interview, he made the extraordinary statement that the order was given during the afternoon of September 11th to 'pull' WTC-7.\nNow, that remark implies that the building was pre-rigged with explosives \u2013 a very odd suggestion indeed. A controlled demolition of a tower block cannot be carried out in a few hours. It requires days, if not weeks, of careful preparation.\nAmerica's mainstream media hasn't followed up Silverstein's gob-smacking admission. Perhaps it feels he deserves a little privacy to get on with his life? Nor, it seems, have the US law enforcement authorities bothered him unduly.\nHowever, Australia's very own Frank Lowy is presumably on first name terms with the New York developer. Frank must be able to pick up the phone and ask Larry exactly what happened with WTC-7 and what he meant by 'pull it'.\nPublishing Larry's clarification might just give this aspiring research organization a world exclusive.\nat Sunday, December 30, 2007 Posted by Michael P Moore Labels: Blogs, Climate, Internet\nApparently they found an entire spaceship full of aliens near an airfield in the US some (60) sixty years ago and yes, you got it, that damn government mouthpiece ABC didn't say a single word about it. AND NOW THEY WALK AMONGST US!\nDon't you just love conspiracy theories.\nAnd now for another shower from Piers Walker..............\nSun Dec 30, 11:59:00 am\nI stayed up all night 9\/11 watching live, there was a report with footage showing flight 93 landing & passengers disembarking. This plane never crashed as later reported. Also it was obvious no plane hit pentagon.\nwtc is big news overseas. Anon above obivously does not know much about sutff, eh?\nSun Dec 30, 01:36:00 pm\nOh, I reckon they did talk about it, if the Roswell fable is what you refer to. Too much, in my opinion. What is your point? Possibly there is no conspiracy at all with WTC7. The author is calling attention to the fact that it seems to be treated as non-news, when in fact, no matter what happened, whatever did happen is certainly news and should be reported to the public.\nGosh, you do gotta love those conspiracy theeerists. Just show me the proof that our governments can undermine their own people somehow.\nGo ahead, I'll give you some time.\nGeez, what are they going to believe next...that husbands can kill their own wives or even children?\nThe ignorant masses think if they stick the word \"conspiracy\" on something, it makes all the facts go away.\nThinking they are so very clever and cute, they merely reveal themselves are fools.\n\"Apparently they found an entire spaceship full of aliens near an airfield in the US some (60) sixty years ago and...\"\nDid they happen to find your brain in it?\nThat would be news.\nThere's only one important question concerning the attacks, did the US gov't allow\/participate in 9\/11?\nThe answer to that query would explain the illegal wire-taps, suspension of habeas corpus, banning of books like \"America Deceived\" from Amazon, detaining of dissenters in fences miles away from events, and multiple wars based on lies.\nHow can the gov't be innocent in 9\/11 when we have caught it lying so many times (WACO, Ruby Ridge, no WMDs, USS Liberty, Operation Northwoods, Gulf of Tonkin, Pearl Harbor, ETC.)?\nIn law, if you determine a person lies ONCE during his testimony, it can be assumed that he lied in the remainder of his testimony. How come we do not hold the gov't to the same standard as it holds us to?\nThe gov't lied to us about Iraq and more Americans have died there than in 9\/11. If the gov't lied about Iraq then why is everyone so reluctant to believe that the gov't lied about 9\/11?\nFinal link (before Google Books bends to pressure and drops the title):\nAmerica Deceived (book)\nMaybe there is a confidential reason these buildings are outfitted with demolition charges throughout, in the event that they must be quickly pulled? This would explain Silverstein's revelation and also the odd hush afterwards. After all, we wouldn't really want people (terrorists) attempting to trigger these pre-fitted charges on their own timetable.\nThe actual 9-11 commission conclusions resemble more of conspiracy theory then what you just consumed. And just like someone that is either unable to weigh provable facts for fear of having to do something that you would be morally obligated to do something about you would rather use innuendo and name calling to smear people that would like to know how building just falls down. You can use Popular mechanics if you like or NIST but they have proved to be fabricated and un-provable by people that have letters after their names.\nA major collapse of my BBQ grill when fully loaded would be a major set back, so if for no other reason I am confident that myself along with many other BBQ coinsures in our great nation would be more then grateful to know if physics has changed, if steels melting point has dropped, if high concentrations of sulfur is not a residue that relates directly thermate.\nThe chem-e's from Islamic jihad have always wanted a real test environment.\nThen there was the concomitant case of a war\/invasion\/occupation to demolish WMD (as in ABC Atomic, Biological & Chemical weapons) in a country that had none. ???\nMysterious sh*t going down, for sure.\nEkk\nP.S. No connection\/conspiracy of course ...\nAn then there was the concomitant case of a war\/invasion\/occupation to demolish WMD (as in ABC Atomic, Biological & Chemical weapons) in a country that had none. ???\nMysterious shit going down, for sure.\nAn insightful analysis of the silent hand controlling the mainstream media. Collapsing WTC7 was a case of destroying the evidence, so the Zionist owners would not only get US opinion on their side to fight their wars, but also collect on the massive insurance fraud. Our attorney General Mukasey made sure the insurance claim went through for Larry.\nYou gotta love conspiracies!\nDid you hear the one about nineteen Arabs with box cutters and a guy with a towel on his head? Some kooks think these people did 9\/11 by themselves. With no help from any government! If you believe this, please ask the medical staff to adjust your dosage... and maybe lay off the net for a while.\nI like how these comment shills never speak to any of the points being made.\nOf course that's because the point is valid. If 9\/11 skeptics really were crazy as these shills would have us believe, then it would be easy to prove it.\nAnd yet, nobody has been able to speak any truth to the inconsistencies in the official 9\/11 story. Nobody has explained the record volume of put options placed on American and United just before 9\/11, and nobody has explained the near-instant removal of the debris from the NYC site. It should come as no surprise that WTC7's story is equally full of holes.\nUntil someone speaks to these points, I cannot take seriously anyone who defends the official story.\nExploding across the Internet in one of the biggest bombshells to date, is the thoughts from a man who has had inside knowledge of these kinds of things since the get-go. He's also dying from cancer and has nothing left to lose. He's been an insider to the intelligence community for decades and well-respected in Italy. He says, along with himself, that it's now a common belief among current intelligence people that 9\/11 was, indeed, an inside job!\nHe's one of the people who revealed the existence of a top-secret CIA plan in Europe during the cold war that used \"false-flag\" operations designed to paint any pro-Soviet groups in Europe as terrorists. This was a careful scheme to plant double agents within the lefty ranks and also to use bombing and assassination to make those commies look evil to the general population (somethings never change). The plan was called Operation Gladio.\nCossiga revealed all of this to the Italian Parliament in the year 2000. His honesty and integrity over the entire matter made him beloved by his people and yet the powers that be, used his revelations to force him out of office for exposing the real deal. Now, he's saying that the attack on the US was an obvious false flag event staged by the CIA along with the Israeli Mossad to give them an excuse to do what they will in the Mideast:\nCan you say \"I am a FUCKING DOLT?\"\nC'mon, let's do it together, now-I KNOW you can. \"I am a Fucking Dolt!\" There you go, you're getting better! Every morning when you wake up, to go to your mindless, fucking job-if you have one-say that to yourself in the mirror. This way, you can justify your totally fucking insignificant meaning in the scheme of the world. Do the world a favor-keep the hole in your face closed.\nYes; to implicate Jews in the crimes committed on 9-11 is as crazy as imagining aliens from another planet exist in Arizona. Except for these rather obvious differences: Jews actually exist, and the references made in this editorial are factual. Perhaps Anonymous can explain the \"pull it\" comment, and then defend the BBC's prophetic reporting of WT7's collapse.\nvery thought provoking article. Thank you.\nThe 47 story building No 7 collapsed in 6.7 seconds at about 5.20 pm on 11th September 2001 and was not hit by a plane. the Congressional Committee did not even mention it. There is ample expert material to state that it was blown \"up\". For the serious; There is ample confirmation of that e.g. go to scholars for 911truth and justice or, say; 911 blogger.com.\nThis material has been continually been sent to the ABC over the last 2.5. years. They do not even acknowlege the leads.\nIt is crystal clear that there is a msm blackout on any competent and objective discussion anout the murders on 9\/11. The ABC is as culpable as the private press and the day will come when they have to account for the deceitful omissions on the proper reporting and investigation of 9\/11. Have they ever replayed the collapse of that buiding? See also the blogs at the BBC under Richard Porter (Part of the conspiracy parfts 1 and 2) and the explanation for the loss of the archival Jane Standley 'clairvoyant' tapes.\nFor those who are Bush believers and swollow the \"Bush Believers Nutty conspircay theory that 19 Arabs did it\",I sincerely suggest that you do your research on the net and through published expert reports. Im Australia you can start with Frank (??) Legge from WA and soon to come will be Dr. David Leifer from the University of Sydney architecture department. In summary the scientists can prove that two tower and buildin No 7 were blown up; as they fell at almost freefall speed and the concrete was pulverised. Drop concrete from a defined height and see for yourself that it does not pulverize and turn to dust. To do that one needs extra energy imput, the only explanaation if explosives.\nBest start with the site: Patriotsquestion911.com, there you see the architects and engineers named plus many others. 9\/11 was an inside murder job, Australians died that day and the ABC could not give a stuff about finding the truth, nor does the Federal Government. So; believe 'your ABC? I think not.\nMallee\nsorry if this is a repeat.\nOne would think that the U.S.' recovery from the \"attacks\" of 9\/11 would be big news. After all, what better revenge against the \"terrorists\" than to REBUILD the buildings which were brought down on that day? Wouldn't that be cause for great national celebration?!\nObservation: I have not seen one single story or picture, on ANY network television station, about the new building located where WT7 formerly stood. I never saw one single clip about it's planning, construction progress, or it's \"grand opening.\"\nIsn't that just a little bit strange?!\nWell what amazes one is the strategy applied by those rubbishing anything that is typically reported by corporate media is proved false, all you can see from them is smalltalk and cliches invloving \"aliens\".\nYou need to comeup with a new strategy rather than use the strategy of using outrageous cliches.\nThe free-fall speed, the fact it had no reason whatsoever to fall, and the fact of so many other bizarre coincidenes that day are enough to convince me this building fell to a controlled demolition.\nI would not be at all surprised at Silverstein's foreknowledge one little bit either, but the importance of the \"pull it\" quote is overstated by 9-11 truthers, just as it was under investigated by 9-11 ostrich-media; it's an extremely vague phrase.\nFor those interested in assaying whether Jews use the media, business, and political channels to ethnic ends, thre is no better resource than Jewish Tribal Review, found at http:\/\/www.jewishtribalreview.org\/\nOr their magnificent book-record, When Victims Rule, found here:\nhttp:\/\/www.jewishtribalreview.org\/wvr.htm\nSee also the Jewish people's primary religious document (not the Old Testament, racist enough as that is - see John Hartung's site: http:\/\/strugglesforexistence.com\/ ), but the Talmud:\nhttp:\/\/www.come-and-hear.com\/navigate.html\nOpen minds everybody!\nJefferson said there is no truth we should fear.\nThere was an article at GeorgeWashington's, that included an interview with an ex NYT reporter's fictional romance (Clansyesqe) theme traking 911. It was a pretty interesting interview,(this one is very interesting) and I had some questions for George but could not bring myself to submitting for Giggel Blig I D.\nGeorge, there are a lot of things about this guy that are suspect. First, as an NYT best selling author, we know one thing: He tows the Zio-Line. You don't get on that list unless the phalanx has been skinned and tattooed with an inverted overlay of two equilateral triangles.\nOn the surface, he seems to be playing devil's advocate: Buffering and marginalizing the truth with a Clancyesque romantic fiction thriller. I remember way back when a cutesy Zio Facilitator was, Little Green Snot Balls (or something like that) was publishing videos of \"orbs\" fluttering around the collapsing WTCs.\nHere's what you should have asked:\nGW: What about the fact that navigation instructions could be uploaded to commercial airliner autopilot control systems?\nGW: What about the fact that the FAA, in the summer of 2000, implemented a new policy to turn off primary radar at FAA towers?\nThe FAA even complained:\n\"In the rush to modernize enroute centers, we must retain current system safeguards, such as primary radar which FAA plans to deactivate beginning June 2000.Primary radar is the least sophisticated type of surveillance, but it is the only tool currently available to detect aircraft or objects without an operating transponder. If a plane is equipped with a transponder, it can fail for many reasons, including electrical and mechanical failure; however, pilots can also choose not to turn them on. You can imagine that people involved in illegal activities would certainly like to keep themselves invisible and that's what will happen if primary radar is turned off.\"\nNote: This means that planes without transponders could not be seen on the scopes. You can have anonymous flights.\nGW: What about the fact that 2 months before 911, the FAA rescinded a 40 year old \"rule\" order that allowed pilots to carry weapons?\nGW: What about the fact that no Arab names were found on the flight manifests, and no Arab DNA found in the autopsies, for any of the alleged hijacked flights?\nGW: What about the fact that the Taliban met with UNOCAL and the US Department of Energy in August 2001 to negotiate a pipeline right of way through Afghanistan?\nGW: What about the military stand down orders issued on 911?\nGW: What about the fact that all the airports the alleged 911 flights departed from were under contract to Israeli security companies?\nGW: What about the fact that Bin Ladden denied he had any role in the 911 attacks?\nBut most glaring of all was his response to this question:\nGW: My father-in-law says that people predicted Peak Oil decades ago, and were proven wrong. Does the discovery of the massive new oil reserve in Brazil change your conviction that Peak Oil is upon us?\nSA: Unless it is as big as Ghawar ... no. Oil IS running out. If not, do you seriously believe we'd have invaded Iraq?\nIraq was not about securing an oil supply. Iraq is only about extortion for a trillion dollars a year of fraudulent defense procurements stolen paid for by the good faith and credit of American citizens. It had nothing to do with dwindling supplies. The world has been in an oil glut. I worked the oil patch before, on and after 911. The only problem the with oil was where to store it all!\nThe market manipulation began when Bush decided \"we\" needed to fill the petroleum reserve, the price went up 10$ a barrel when that was announced. But it wasn't high enough. The war, if anything , has cut oil supplies, and still we are in a glut. We don't have an energy crisis, we have an energy NON-crisis!\nThe war is about money for the fascist corporate elite. Period.\nI hope this author isn't a little green football kicker. It just seems there were so many other questions to ask. There is a time line. There is a civil suit.\nAnd besides, anybody with half a brain knows who the real criminals are!\nI hope this \"light at the end of the tunnel\" is not a fusion flash to burn the books.\nPosting this nonsense makes the owner of this blog, Michael Moore, look extremely foolish and ignorant.\nOne step forward, and a dozen steps back. This Sid guy must have \"something\" on you, huh Mr. Moore?\nDon't forget about that \"unsolved\" Anthrax attack (which used US Military Grade Anthrax, of course).\nAs an Australian i can only hope the ABC reads this Cairnsblog by Sid Walker - someone will tell them, for i too have long noticed that their sin\/s of omission about WTC7 are equally shared by SBS and the commercial TV stations.\nThey indeed are a phalanx moving in lockstep with the military towards achieving the NWO goal as decreed by the Tel Aviv\/Washington\/London axis. The axis-of-evil as asserted by GWB; Iraq, Iran and Nth Korea was mere projection onto designated enemies to distract from the true axis-of-evil cancer as nurtured by the ABC and other main media in Australia without whom there could be no NWO.\nFor the shill who started the comments with the theme of `entire spaceship full of aliens` and also others with their own thread disrupters, perhaps he and they could have a look at the still smoking WTC ruins pics with the steel upright stumps cut at 45 degrees, so absolutely characteristic of controlled demolition practice : -\nhttp:\/\/www.whatreallyhappened.com\/wtc_charges.html The compiler of that page is Michael Rivero.\nPerhaps then they might resume their infantile prattle about spaceships, as if readers didn't register anything. Btw, i notice that they are under Anonymous nearly always, or simliar. They have something to hide, like the things which scurry away when a rock is turned over ?\nAnd as for the ABC and the others, war crimes trials for them; for they are as complicit in 911 as are all those who needed a new Pearl Harbour to kick off wars without end, and set about actually doing it in the full knowledge that even the ABC in Australia, like the BBC, would keep us all benighted.\nThe point here is that without knowing in advance that media - including the ABC - would cover up the crimes of 911, the perps would not have dared even think of it, let alone do it.\nAmerican friends of mine have confirmed the collapse of the building. A poll conducted earlier this year now has 70% of Americans believing the American Government is with-holding information from the public about Sept. 11\nI'm surprised you lot haven't blamed Kevin Byrne and the Unity party for the collapse of the World Trade Centre.\nHere are the facts.\n\"After the north tower collapsed, some firefighters entered 7 World Trade Center to search the building. They attempted to extinguish small pockets of fire, but low water pressure hindered their efforts. A massive fire burned into the afternoon on the 11th and 12th floors of 7 World Trade Center, the flames visible on the east side of the building. During the afternoon, fire was also seen on floors 6\u201310, 13\u201314, 19\u201322, and 29\u201330. At approximately 2:00 p.m., firefighters noticed a bulge in the southwest corner of 7 World Trade Center between the 10th and 13th floors which was a sign that the building was unstable and might collapse. During the afternoon, firefighters also heard creaking sounds coming from the building. Around 3:30 pm, given that 7 World Trade Center was unstable and would possibly collapse, FDNY Chief Daniel Nigro decided to halt rescue operations, surface removal and searches along the surface of the debris near 7 World Trade Center and evacuate the area due to concerns for the safety of personnel. At 5:20 p.m. EDT on September 11, 2001, 7 World Trade Center collapsed. The building had been evacuated and there were no casualties associated with the collapse.\"\nAnd that's a fact.\nIn May 2002, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) issued a report on the collapse based on a preliminary investigation conducted jointly with the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers under leadership of Dr. W. Gene Corley, P.E. FEMA made preliminary findings that the collapse was not primarily caused by actual impact damage from the collapse of 1 WTC and 2 WTC but by fires on multiple stories ignited by debris from the other two towers that continued unabated due to lack of water for sprinklers or manual firefighting. Structural elements were exposed to high temperatures for a sufficient period of time to reduce their strength to the point of collapse.\nAnd what about the so called plane hit on the Pentagon? Those circular holes looked damned suspicious, also the fact that there was no plane wreckage. I am still very suspicious about September 11.\nThe obfuscatory tactics by some of the people (agents?) who've posted comments above remind me a lot of some of the emails I received after I published an article on the Port Arthur massacre in Nexus mag last year. Could they be the same people who wrote to me, I wonder?\nCarl Wernerhoff\nhttp:\/\/www.nexusmagazine.com\/articles\/MartinBryant1.html\nMichael Randallbard said...\nAussies....wow some of you are REALLY not up to speed on this subject.\nI saw a video filmed only half an hour before tower 7 was demolished by explosives where Guiliani and also firefighters were yelling for people to back way because \"it's going to collpase\". Of course Silverstein and Guiliani knew the plan way before. Silverstein mispoke when he used the term \"pull the building\" which is only a demolition term. But the question I almost never see asked is how did they get the building wired in 4 hours? It's impossible to do this even in a weeks time.\nSo when the firemen said the bldg was going to collapse and urged everyone to evacuate, how on earth could anyone know this was going to happen until it happened making it the first skyscraper in history to fall in 8 seconds due to a couple small fires, which happened to be set by the way, in the CIA offices intentionally to insure that this operation was never uncovered.\nFrankly I am shocked to see how out of it our friends down under are. The only conspiracy on 9\/11 was the shabby unprofessional attempt to blame outsiders for an obvious inside job.\nRecall that Goring phoned Geobbles and Hitler to inform them that the Reichstag was on fire. Hitler and Goebbles were having dinner at the time they got the call. One of the first things Goring said was the communists did it, this while the bldg was still buring and no forensic studies had been done. Of course everyone now knows that the Germans did it to rally the people behind their agendas.\nThe world trade towers demolition was the modern day Reichstag. History always repeats. Create an enemy to blame in order to get public support. Shock the public with the unthinkable and they will show fear which is the strongest of all emotions. People will give up their freedom, yes even their minds when fear takes over.\nS.L.I. Asia said...\nFirst they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.\nThose are the three stages of the truth before it is accepted as self-evident. -Ghandi\nI started to see that there was something wrong when East Timor was in the news.\nThe media kept talking about \"the militias\" who were killing people and trying to stop the election.\nI thought \"what militias? Why would the East Timorese not want an election?\"\nI started searching the internet for answers. It turns out that when Indonesia invaded East Timor they killed one third of the entire population making it relatively the biggest genocide in modern history. We didn't hear about THAT either!\nAnyway, the took all the best land in brought in thousands of their own people to settle there.\nTHEY were \"the militias\"\nAhh.. now it makes sense. No wonder they didn't want the Indonesian military to go. No wonder they ran away over the border after the election.\nBut the Australian media never explained that. Why not? Why such a glaring omission?\nHaving found internet news sources I have come to the horrifying realisation that almost everything I have ever been told about politics and history was either a lie, a beat-up or only part of the truth.\nDid Bush admin lie about Weapons of Mass Deception?\nSo what else have they lied about?\nFor the neocon lovers here that pretend to believe the \"Bush Admin\" official version of 9\/11 you are by far in the minority.\nShrink Rat said...\n\"ignorance thru education said...\nPosting this nonsense makes the owner of this blog, Michael Moore, look extremely foolish and ignorant....\"\nYou can always identify govt. shills because they indulge in ad hominem derision and avoid discussing data. Whatever they're paying you, 'ignorance', it clearly is way too much.\nMon Dec 31, 12:00:00 am\nI am waiting for the nuke explosion going off. Remember the missing nuke missles? No one would know who did it! The evidence evaporates, it is geting easier for the final NWO conspiracy see? You've been set up, \"sheeple\"! All the laws are in place. Try to change America now, it's too late for us.\nMy impression is that the purpose of this story about the absence of coverage of WTC-7 by ABC news is a call to the Australian public to look into their alleged public broadcasting system. How is it that a public entity can fail to inform the public on such a topic as the possible connivance in 9\/11 by people other than the 19 alleged hijackers? The absence of comment on this building by the 9\/11 Commission in the United States is another interesting fact. As we know, icebergs in the shipping lane are mostly invisible. Well, our society is full of these mostly-buried threats to our safety.\nTo believe that those in power are there for our benefit in this \"best of possible worlds\" is to say that all those years of pedophilia covered up in the Catholic Church was all for the best. It is to say that government graft and corruption, when finally exposed, was really good for us all along (considering that earlier alternative action would have exposed it and not allowed the enrichment of such people with the off-shore accounts and bottomless black budgets in places like Pentagon).\nWe know that in the states, security for our airports has been transferred to people who may have other agendas (drug trafficking? smuggling of other things like weapons?), because they insure the safety of passengers. Have you ever heard of protection rackets? And what about the private army growing and expanding through the US, Blackwater, which is now offering \"safety\" from illegal Mexicans, while it can now pull off some Trojan Horse.\nI fall back on the Gospels (though I am not particularly religious). Bad trees bear bad fruit. They have to be cut down. That would include the \"tree\" of a public broadcasting system which hides vital information from the public and forces it through fields of icebergs without warning them of danger until it can report on the disaster.\nCommander Z said...\nJEWS DID 911 AND ALL WORLD WARS. They are now planning for WWIII and Depression II. Yes and Ron Paul is a Jew Stooge to stampede the Goy into a gold Standard. Who controls the world's gold?? You guess it: JEWS\nwww.Jew-Crime.com\nwww.PatriotMilitia.com\nName the jackals of war and profits and porn and dope and censorship: JEWS\nThis will no doubt be censored by a Jew controlled moderator.\nkosherbacon,\nlyndon larouche is expecting you to man the tables at the post office tomorrow.\nI'm a Republican Vice precinct committee person here in Owen County Indiana and we're pushing Ron Paul for pres. And YES Israel and our own CIA did 911 and are lying U.S. into wars. I highly recomend the following sites for verification of this: http:\/\/www.realnews247.com http:\/\/nogw.com\/ilrunshow.html and www.whatreallyhappened.com get these spread around BEFORE the next war. Russia has warned they'll attack whomever attacks Iran. BEFORE more of our kids die for THEIR CAUSES! I have friends who are 'jewish' but NOT zionists nor users of their satanic doctrine called the TALMUD. This is KEY! Google the 'satanic talmud' and learn who our enemies really are. Nothing will change until these PARASITES are exposed.\nAmerican here who believes our govt had something to do with 9\/11. Too many facts to list here, but a couple sticks out. Condy Rice made a statement after 9\/11 where she says that no one could have imagined that someone would fly a jet into a building. Yet, some month before 9\/11, FEMA did a study about terrorist attacks and on the front cover of the study, they had crosshairs over the twin towers, talking of a plane hitting a building!!??? Also, the plane that hit the pentagon...we saw footage from a security cam, you cannot make out from the footage exactly what hit the building. Yet, there were dozen of other security cams filing that day. The FBI confiscated the footage and we have never seen those films, why????\nThe thing that amazes me is that there are still people out there who don't KNOW 9\/11 was an operation run by the Neocons (ie jewish zionist crazies) and Dick Cheney using Israeli intelligence personnel to justify the destruction of Israel's greatest enemy in the middle east (Iraq) and the personal wealth of Cheney and his friends (haliburton and lockheed-martin - who both Dick and his wife are involved with).\nLet's not be distracted by the shilling and those who want to blame the jews for this - SURE - most of the perpetrators in this were jewish but that would be like blaming italians for something the mafia did.\nTo paraphrase an oft spoken line of BS used in regards to muslims -\nthe neocons might be jewish, but not all jews are neocons.\nWhatever happened, happened. There\nis nothing anyone can do about it.\n'THEY' always win, 'WE' always lose. This is a fact of life. Its\nbeen going on forever and 'THEY'\nlove all these comments. \"Keep them\npounding the keyboards and that is\nas far as any of it will ever get\". Remember, 'THEY' never lose.\nMoney is Power.\nAll mafia are Italians, but not all Italians are mafia...\nWe should keep this in mind when we have a disagreement with Israel and her supporters worldwide. Most Jews have no more control over Israel and her worldwide support network than we do. Most Israeli Jews have no more control over Israel than I have over George W. Bush.\nYou are right. The collapse of building WTC7 really gives the whole rotten game away\nThe media and other government lackies have responded by ignoring it or calling anyone who points it out as deranged.\nThe internet is our only hope.\nwww.LaserGuidedLoogie.com\nTo clear up anu doubts, search for,\nRichard Gage, and his presentation,,\nBarry Jennings, and his eye witness account of WTC7's lobby and up to the sixth floor stairway he was in blowing up.\nIt is not \"the jews\" that did the 911 false flag attacks, but Zionists. Religious or fake religious that have world domination in mind.\nThe only way to remedy this, is through a deliberate effort to ensure ALL peoples liberty, in every nation on Earth. This includes any and all Vice, decriminalized, which only becomes a crime when organized criminals get into political power and make laws against vice, which they then profit from.\nNot just the enimies we have been told, exist. The world really needs to wake up that there are dark souls in our midst.. Sworn enimies of Truth, Justice, etc.. everywhere. They pose as Doctors, Teachers, Lawers, friends in all walks.. Even a couple posters here. They are not like most people and are irredemeable. We have to understand this, if we are to see a solution.\nGene Stewart said...\nAnonymously mocking people as conspiracy theorists for asking questions does not address either the questions or the disturbing answers that arise from them. It displays only a closed mind and is useless.\nThis is a good article raising interesting questions the mainstream media have been trained to ignore or mock; that answers some of the questions right there.\nHow did three buildings fall down when no other high rises in history have ever collapsed in such a way, let alone from insufficient causes or, in the case of Building Seven, no cause at all.\nThe sad attempts to mock and belittle these and other very real questions demonstrates how desperate the cover-up must be, to have cleared the crime scene so quickly of physical evidence and to have instituted such a hegemony of lies.\nLike the Reichstag fire, Pearl Harbor, the USS Liberty, and so many other false flag operations, the general shape of the crime we call 9\/11 will eventually be widely known, even if the specifics may never be agreed upon.\nIf steel(WTC buildings frames) melts from a kerosene flame (jet fuel), then WHY do welders need oxygen tanks to get the gas mixture hot enough to melt\/cut through steel? Because there is not enough free oxygen in the air we BREATH. Seems to me that welders could save a lot of money by leaving the oxygen out of it if theres enough available in the atmosphere here on Earth to do it for free. WAKE UP DUMMIES.\nWTC 7 WAS PULLED BECAUSE THE PLANE THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO HIT IT CRASHED , LANDED, OR WAS SHOT DOWN ELSEWHERE AND THEY FIGURED NO ONE WOULD NOTICE...? WELL, SOME OF US DID!\nVisible said...\nBoy... you sure caught a lot of trolls. The good news is that not everybody is stupid.\nthank you for this-\n\"hoffa_ said...\nSun Dec 30, 02:33:00 PM\"\nheh heh... well said.\nIt looks like you're picking up some Zionist traffic too; once again masquerading as Anti-Semites; shades of the white supremacy hit on Ron Paul.\nThese are facts; 9\/11 was an inside job. Bin Laden has been dead for years. There is no al qaeda it is an elite construct. There is no real Muslim terrorist problem. It is a simple police matter. \"They' are out to get you.\nPossibly the most amazing year in modern history is coming up. What out.\nChi0ne1 said...\nSHEEPLE it is time to WAKE UP. SHEEPLE it is time to WAKE UP.\n911, war on this and that, illegal aliens, abortion, feminism, etc are only rabbit trails to keep the SHEEPLE from looking at the real culprits, the elite.\nThere are 2 types of people. The elite(global bankers, semite and non-semite) and the sheeple(the cannon fodder of the \"different\" countries). As long as the sheeple continue to see only one or two trees in the forest of the elite and stay divided the elite will continue to win. The elite has only one General while the sheeple have many(some of which are also from the elite). Who do you think is winning?\nThe SHEEPLE need to wake up NOW. We need to forget about \"curing\" the symptoms and try to figure out how to cure the disease.\nIf Dr. Paul were a stooge for the Jews he would be mainstream media instead of being feared by the media (and Jews - since the JDL is calling for his supporters to be killed).\nYou want Govt. conspiracy proof?\nBush is President (or is it King?)\nOk, I found this via the Rense.Com news site, probably the only source of real news available on a global basis.\nI have also been to HitEnter.co.uk and seen what is there, watch it all and the jigsaw becomes complete.\nYes I am anonymous, but only because I genuinely fear for what may happen to those who can be identified by the NWO.\nAtta himself was asked at his trial why they attacked the WTC's. His response was omitted from the report. He allegedly cited Israel.\nThe investigating committee has still not produced an official report on the collapse of WTC7, citing unexplained anomalies as the reason.\nSomeone stated that WTC7 was destroyed by fire? Well just go watch the videos. The spine of the building was destroyed in a controlled demolition.\nSteel framed buildings cannot collapse due to fire. When was the last time your house collapsed because you boiled some carrots on the stove? Steel does not melt or weaken at those temperatures, and the fires in the twin towers and WTC7 were of the low temperature variety, not pressurised gas as found in your stove. Does a steel BBQ melt? No. Remember we are talking about tons of very thick steel here.\nThe main WTC's both collapsed in under 10 seconds. That is free fall speed, the same speed as it would take for a golf ball to hit the ground. Say bang 100 times as fast as you can, if you take more than 10 seconds then you have joined the conspiracy theorists too, by default.\nYes, my dear Aussies, the US, UK and AUS governments are all answerable to the people whom they serve, and those people are above them not below them. You get to vote for someone who does what the NWO tells them to do, not what you tell them to do.\nIf it wasn't for the internet the NWO would have been able to continue towards its objectives in the shadows. The internet was created as a control tool by the NWO, but ironically has become its Nemesis.\nHey Kosherbacon,\nFor thousands of years gold and silver have been the only legitimate currencies. It's the dirty central-banking-fiat-money system that certain trans-generationsl criminals are using to enslave mankind.\nWTC is a string-theory mechanics event. See wot i mean mr moore!!??\nNow where's the Koo-De-Tah article?\nmc said...\n9\/11 was an inside job- the amount of information available online gives ample evidence that the official conspiracy theory is a hoax. The msm has supported the official conspiracy theory from the first. If it were not for a few authors and the alternative news media, we would be left to the manipulations of msm. It is clear that all 3 wtc bldgs were brought down by controlled demolitions and that the pentagon was not hit by a 757. If you are uninformed, just go to 911truth.org or any of the many 9\/11 truth sites or read a book by Webster Tarpley or Jim Marrs or David R. Griffin or another revealer of the truth.\nWhy do some still believe the govt.?? I don't know. Probably they are afraid to look at this without the veil of illusion. Then they must peel more layers off the onion and begin to understand what the American empire is all about. 9\/11 created the opportunity to invade 2 nations, prop up the mil-ind. boondoggle, strip out the provisions of the constitution, and increase control of the citizens by the corpgov - Many are awake, many are beginning to awaken, and many will never come out of their sleep walk. But for anyone not afraid to see beyond the illusion, just do the research and follow-\nSee when they \"pulled\" the twin towers.\nSome smuck accidentally pulled building 7 as well!?\nPrewired, Preplanned.\nBut because we are all mainstream media junkies, we accepted their explanation and went back to our illusion we are told to call \"reality\".\nAmazing. Why bother providing us with an explanation at all? We have some very good little self governing sheep (paid or unpaid shills). With the logic of such shills any logical explanation can be called a \"conspiracy\" theory and building 7 was dismantled at high speed by a 1000 wrench bearing monkeys hired by Al-qaeda?\nLies look so much more like truth coming out of the mouth of a pretty newscaster.\nHere in Australia, I've never come across so many compliant and obedient citizens.\nWho without question.\nBelieve anything coming from the blow hole of Corporate Endorsed Mandated Sources of Authenticated Information.\nThats right, you don't have to think.\nJust think what we tell you to think.\nStay on your knees sheep.\nI'm standing.\nThanks for the info Sid.\nAre we 100% sure that is WTC7 in the background? If so then WOW!!!!\nRegardless of anything, they are the only buildings in HISTORY that, Coincidently ALL THREE, on the same DAY:\n*Looked liked a controlled demolition.\n*Fell like a controlled demolition.\n*Have all the characteristics of a controlled demolition.\n*Building 7..just fell..due to ..fires..or monkeys..mean ones too.\nGee I should've bought a lottery ticket on 9\/11.\nOh and too bad about the first shill comment. Nothing wrong with being a shill. But please at least be getting paid for it!\nAnother thing they haven't commented on ever is the death of Osama Bin Laden. There was lot's of media coverage in asian press including India. Even French press mentioned it in passing. That was a longtime ago now but eeven more relevent since Bhutto was murdered as when he did an interview with David Frost she mentioned that the same GUY BEING HELD FOR THE BEHEADING OF DANIEL PERLE WAS ALSO GUILTY OF THE MURDER OF OSAMA BIN LADEN. If you can still find the video it is about six minutes in. It also says Bin Laden's son is now inolved.?\nMon Dec 31, 01:00:00 pm\nAlreadyPublished said...\nGood stuff Sid!\nDid you know that the ABC are obliged to respond to all complaints, but will not?\ne.g., 15 months ago, sent thrice:\nbass.marco@abc.net.au\nmediawatch@your.abc.net.au\nglenn.jenny@abc.net.au\ntvnews.abcvic@abc.net.au\nDear Madams and Sirs,\nOn the 5th anniversary of the \"catastrophic and catalyzing\" events\nof September 11, Hugo Chavez --- President of the 4th largest\nsupplier of hydrocarbons to the United States --- declared:\nThe hypothesis that is gaining strength, which was said on television last night, and which could soon blow up, was that it was the same\nU.S. IMPERIAL POWER that PLANNED AND CARRIED OUT THIS TERRIBLE\nTERRORIST ATTACK, or act, against its own people and against citizens\nhttp:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&q=chavez%2C+911%2C+video\nAccording to a poll conducted recently by Scripps-Howard and Ohio\nState University, 34% of Americans strongly suspect that 911 was an\ninside job, while over 50% suspect U.S. goverment complicity (by\nintentional neglect).\nhttp:\/\/www.scrippsnews.com\/911poll\nAccording to a poll conducted in 2004 by Zogby International,\nHALF of New Yorkers suspected U.S. government complicity.\nhttp:\/\/www.zogby.com\/news\/ReadNews.dbm?ID=855\nOn September 11, 2001, five jubilant ISREALI men were arrested in an\nexplosives-tainted moving van.\nThe five \"SUSPECTED CONSPIRATORS\" were reportedly in possession of\n\"maps\" and \"other evidence linking them to the bombing plot.\"\nhttp:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/911timeline\/2001\/bergenrecord091201.html\nOn September 11, 2001, a river of brightly glowing molten metal\n(minimum temp. of 1400C) -- identical in appearence to the molten iron produced in a thermite reaction -- poured from the 81st floor of the South Tower for at least 7 minutes immediately preceding collapse.\nSee for yourself:\nOn the eve of the 5th anniversary, BBC1 matter-of-factly reported:\n\"a recent poll showed that almost half the U.S. population -- that's a\nhigh figure -- HALF -- believe there's been a Washington coverup.\"\nThis statement of fact was followed by a relatively \"fair and\nbalanced\" 10 minute interview with Dr. David Ray Griffin, author of\n\"The New Pearl Harbor - disturbing questions about the Bush\nadministration and 911\"\nA report in the Guardian of September 5, 2001 asked:\nWho really blew up the twin towers?\nAs the fifth anniversary of 9\/11 nears, Christina Asquith finds\nacademics querying the official version of events\nTuesday September 5, 2006\nShards of glass and dust from the World Trade Centre towers sit on\nProfessor Steven Jones's desk at Brigham Young University in Utah.\nEvidence, he says, of the biggest cover-up in history - one too evil\nfor most to believe, but one he has staked his academic career on\nexposing.\nThe attacks of September 11, Jones asserts, were an \"inside job\",\npuppeteered by the neoconservatives in the White House to justify the\nOCCUPATION OF OIL-rich Arab countries, inflate military spending and\nEXPAND ISREAL.\n\"We don't believe that 19 hijackers and a few others in a cave in\nAfghanistan pulled this off acting alone,\" says Jones. \"WE CHALLENGE\nTHIS OFFICIAL CONSPIRACY THEORY and, by God,\nWE'RE GOING TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS.\"\nhttp:\/\/education.guardian.co.uk\/higher\/worldwide\/story\/0,,1864657,00.html\n1) Why does the abc censor all evidence undermining the official\nconspiracy theory?\n2) Who is \"the decider\" at the abc?\ni am skeptical of the whole official 9\/11 story. but when i think about if the buildings really were demolished by explosives, then that means it had to be rigged and set up for weeks, or months, whatever.\nok stay with me here...\nso wouldnt that mean that hundreds of demolition experts would have to be sweeping the two towers and placing explosives in key areas.\nwhen would they have time to do this? how could they do this undetected in \"the city that never sleeps\"?\nand the biggest thing...\ni have thought about it and thought about it for years now, and i just dont think bush and company is smart enough to pull something like this off. by implying the attacks were planned, that means that literally thousands of people had to be involved. not one so far has felt the weight of guilt on their conscience, enough to talk?\ni dont argue that there is some type of coverup. but to say it was planned like this, more evidence is needed; right now, its all speculative. and i am skeptical of both sides.\nAlso the fact that on 09\/10\/01 Donald Rumsfailed said that the Pentagon has misplaced 2.3 TRILLION dollars and the next day 9\/11 so nobody dare ask about the missing money. And that the towers fell 10 stories a second. And some high up who worked in WTC 7 said sometime after 9:00am that there were bodies in the lobby of WTC 7. The stand down order given by the Dick and the town hall meeting 2 months after 9\/11 where Bush said he saw the first plane hit on a TV at the school. He said \"Before he went into the classroom that the TV was obviously on and he saw the first plane hit and thought to himself that must be one terrible pilot. Now what station had their cameras on the WTC before the planes hit? And better yet what poor school has cable? But before entering the school the reporters asked him if he knew what was happening in New York? He said he will talk about it later and proceeded to go into the school. Go to whatreallyhappened.com to find this gem of a lie in Bush's movements on the day of 9\/11. And we all know where he was when the second plane hit so again where did he see the first plane?\nhttp:\/\/911guide.googlepages.com\/danielnigro\nAussiegirl said...\nHere is a 3 min vid of Bernazir Bhutto being interviewed by David Frost, where she talks of Osama Bin Ladens MURDER! Why didnt David Frost pass a comment? Any Reporter worth his merit should have jumped on it..\nhttp:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=UnychOXj9Tg\nChuck Guiteau said...\nIf you are looking for the truth, you might want to start by not misrepresenting the facts.\n\"Pull\" is not a demolitions term, it is a firefighters term, and means \"pull all personnel back to safe distance (abandon efforts).\nWTC7 did not collapse unexpectedly. The firefighters, after performing a transit survey, realized that parts of the building were out of plumb, sagging and in danger of collapse. This was hours before the event took place.\nWTC7 was in full conflagration on a number of floors, while others were seriously damaged from the fall of WTC1, including a 10-story hole in the outer wall. To say that it suffered no damage and the fire was localized is deliberately untruthful.\nWTC7 did not fall neatly into its own footprint. It damaged buildings 70 yards away.\nNo explosive detritus was found in the aftermath, in any of the building's rubble, including WTC7. All were investigated, by the FBI crime lab, the NY State crime lab, NYPD and FDNY, both of which had police, investigators and other specialists on scene for weeks. Not one UX cap, not one shock tube, not one copper backplate were found.\nNo nitrate signature was identified. This is absolute proof that no explosives were used, since it cannot be explained away with the usual \"they were in on it\" dodge. Modern detection equipment works in the 1-2 picogram range and is available to anyone, including all the above-mentioned agencies, plus insurance investigators and private laboratories.\nPlease don't take my word for any of this, use your zeal for the truth and verify it all independently.\nSome helpful resources for confused conspiracists:\nWTC 7 and the Lies of the 9\/11 Truth Movement: http:\/\/wtc7lies.googlepages.com\/introduction\nWTC 7 Engineering investigation papers and collapse hypotheses: http:\/\/wtc7lies.googlepages.com\/wtc7engineeringpapers%2Ccollapsehypotheses\nDeceptive claims made about WTC 7 by conspiracists, collapse expected by all, expert witnesses (video): http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=2873871255585611926#19m35s\nAfter 67 posts, at last a negative comment that is courteous and seemingly contains substantive criticisms.\nIf you are looking for the truth, you might want to start by not misrepresenting the facts....\nUnfortunately, Chuck, you haven't provided a single reference to back up the various claims you make.\nCould you help our your readers with relevant links that support your assertions, so we can better assess their worth?\nBradhoo wrote:\ni just dont think bush and company is smart enough to pull something like this off.\nLet's hope they aren't :-)\nWTC 7 was not mentioned by the 911 Commission.\nNIST (National Institute of Standards & Techonology) was charged with producing a full explanation of all 3 buildings collapse. A 10,000 page report was written on WTC 1 & 2 and only 1 paragrah was written on actual collapse. That is around 0.005% of the whole research effort. NISTs excuse was that they only researched up until \"collapse initiation\". This was not the full account they were charged with creating. The report on WTC has still not been completed by NIST.\nNIST then contracted a company called ARA to reseach WTC7, they passed it on like a hot potato.\nNISTs request to ARA was this (paraphrasing), \"determine the collapse mechanisms by looking between floors 8-46 only. Hold on, this is a 47 story building. Any demolition company you speak to will tell you the lower floors and sub floors is what they work on to get the collapse to start. So they are telling ARA not to look at the most important data.\nThis is just a small sample of the lies and convenient ommissions that NIST\/FEMA & the 911 Commission made on building 7.\nAnd a quick word to all the people out there that think I am a conspiracy theorist.\nOpen your eyes, stop making broad assumptions of which you know very little about, and wake up before it is too late. I am a member of this group www.stj911.org and we were conspiracy theorist until all this was proven, now it is conspiracy fact.\nThere are hundreds of other groups looking and proving all sorts of things on 911, get educated please.\nTue Jan 01, 12:05:00 am\nYou don't give us enough credit here in the states. The \"official\" 911 Report doesn't mention Bldg. 7 at all. For something that weighs 3lbs. you'd think it could get a mention.\nHey congrats guys you made it onto whatreallyhappened.com\na damn fine website it is too!\nalso I will post the link onto here.... http:\/\/forums.canadiancontent.net\/international-politics\/70073-9-11-truth-manifesto-8.html?posted=1#post914129\nSibel Edmonds, former translator for the FBI has had a state's secrets order placed upon her.\nGoogle to find out why anything she knows related to 9\/11 cannot be told atm.\nRichard Porter, Head of News, BBC World at the website you linked:\n\"We no longer have the original tapes of our 9\/11 coverage (for reasons of cock-up, not conspiracy). So if someone has got a recording of our output, I'd love to get hold of it.\"\nSo the BBC LOST its footage of 9\/11?? The most important defining event of recent history and you LOST the footage?? And you expect us to believe that? And why don't you look for the \"recording of your output\" on YouTube like everybody else?\n\"Conspiracy\" doesn't even begin to cover what this global criminal gang is up to.\nBTW Silverstein said \"pull IT\". IT does not mean \"firefighters\". IT means the building. That's why IT is in the singular.\nHow about having an Honest New Year, America? Your evil government did it to justify War for Israel and to make money.\ngreetings from hapax\nBrahdoo,\nAt least you are open to a few matters. There is a video; either mysteries of 911 (Google it 1.5 hours) of Loose Change (2nd Ed. Final cut being released now) In one of those vieos there is an interview with a banker(?) who had five floors of computers in one of the WTCs. He said that there was notice of a 'power down' and that went ahead in the week or so before 9\/11. He said that people were trundling cables through the building for \"an internet upgrade\". There were no security cameras etc. I think it was the janitor, Rodrigeus who said a floor was locked off and workers noticed dust from some sort of work each day. Also, the \"sniffer\" dogs were taken out the week before 9\/11. So there are some hints to suggest that 100s of workers would not have been needed to place the charges. Then when you have examned all that, google \"five Danccing Israelis\". See their interview on Israeli TV, they were there to \"document the event\". Pity that all the photos etc that they took were not released by the police who arrested them. Must go, and let you get on with your research, In two weeks you might be able to determine beyond reasonable doubt that that the buildings were \"blown up\". For technical matters go to journal of 9\/11 scholars. As for JB being \"too\" dumb, that is not relevant, he just does as he is told, probably by Uncle Dick..look up Norman Mineta's testimony to the Congresional committe. Sorry, but I could go on for hours, just put your head down and make up your own mind, then realise that the continuing aiders and abettors in the treasonous murder are the MSM.\nSee also 911blogger.com for 5 minutes each day to keep up with developments.\nMallee.\nPS previous attempt at a post was a bit hot eh?\nThis Blog had so much potential for discussing relevant issues about the present and future of Cairns. With all this totally unsupported rehashed conspiracy crap obviously this is the wrong place to find intelligent discussion. Is this your Blog Mr Moore or Sid whatshisname's? Perhaps he could start his own and take his followers with him?\nYou are obviously a talented writer so why allow this Blog to be comandeered by stuff that would have been found in an old 'Melbourne Truth' newspaper?\nWell Monty, I guess like any forum, there are things that you interested in and things you aren'nt.\nNot everything on teh ABC nor Channel 10 interests you I dare say.. so what do you do? Switch the channel, or switch it off.\nEgdeHill Ernie\nG'day everyone\nIt's sad to read many errors and misconceptions in the comments here, so I thought I'd offer a few suggestions for people to check up.\nCheers, and Happy New Year.\n1. Juanita Neilson said: \"I stayed up all night 9\/11 watching live, there was a report with footage showing flight 93 landing & passengers disembarking. This plane never crashed as later reported.\"\nThat was a case of misreporting in the confusion of the day. See http:\/\/www.911myths.com\/html\/93_landed_in_cleveland.html\n2. \"Also it was obvious no plane hit pentagon.\"\nThe evidence a plane hit the Pentagon is very clear. Remnants of the plane and of its passengers were removed from the site. See http:\/\/www.911myths.com\/html\/pentagon.html\n3. Anonymous (30.12 2.56pm) said: \"I am confident that myself along with many other BBQ coinsures in our great nation would be more then grateful to know if physics has changed, if steels melting point has dropped\u2026\"\nSteel didn't need to melt for the buildings to collapse. See http:\/\/www.debunking911.com\/fires.htm\n4. \"\u2026if high concentrations of sulfur is not a residue that relates directly thermate.\"\nThermate isn't the only potential source of sulphur. See http:\/\/www.911myths.com\/html\/traces_of_thermate_at_the_wtc.html\n5. PoliticalSpazz said: \"Collapsing WTC7 was a case of destroying the evidence, so the Zionist owners would\u2026collect on the massive insurance fraud.\"\nSilverstein is well out of pocket despite the insurance payout. See http:\/\/wtc7lies.googlepages.com\/larrysilverstein%3Ainsuranceprofitmotive%3F\n6. Richard Carpenter said: \"Did you hear the one about nineteen Arabs with box cutters and a guy with a towel on his head? Some kooks think these people did 9\/11 by themselves.\"\nWhat exactly is the problem with nineteen people using edged weapons to take control of four planes?\n7. Anonymous (30.12 3.30pm) said: \"Nobody has explained the record volume of put options placed on American and United just before 9\/11\u2026\"\nHave you read this article and its links? See http:\/\/www.911myths.com\/html\/put_options.html\n8. Michael Mazur said: \"\u2026have a look at the still smoking WTC ruins pics with the steel upright stumps cut at 45 degrees, so absolutely characteristic of controlled demolition practice\u2026\"\nAlso characteristic of being cut during the clean up.\n9. Michael Randallbard said: \"I saw a video filmed only half an hour before tower 7 was demolished by explosives where Guiliani and also firefighters were yelling for people to back way because \"it's going to collpase\". Of course Silverstein and Guiliani knew the plan way before.\"\nAlso explained by the amount of damage the building sustained in the collapses of WTCs 1 and 2.\n10. Gene Stewart said: \"How did three buildings fall down when no other high rises in history have ever collapsed in such a way...\"\nNot many other buildings have been struck by large jets loaded with fuel and travelling at high speed.\n11. Anonymous (31.12 5.47am) said: \"The main WTC's both collapsed in under 10 seconds. That is free fall speed, the same speed as it would take for a golf ball to hit the ground.\"\nVideo evidence suggests it took quite a bit longer than that. See http:\/\/www.911myths.com\/html\/freefall__video_evidence.html\nAnd no, I'm no Bush supporter. I wonder whether he could find sand at the beach, or remember what he had for breakfast without the cook reminding him.\nAnd that's why I think 9\/11 wasn't an inside job.\nMany sheeple are betting on Ron Paul. I on the other hand am very cautious and concerned. What better way to get someone behind their man than to let the people think that they are against him. They have been doing this for centuries. They infiltrated the peace movement of the 60\/70's, they have pretty much infiltrated everything else. Sheeple have to realize that Ron Paul has been inside the Beltway for 10 terms. If I am wrong then I am wrong, if Ron Paul supporters are wrong then they are in for a rude awakening. There are only the globalists and the sheeple. As long as the sheeple stay divided the globalists will win. There are way too many generals among the sheeple and some of them are from the elite.\nWed Jan 02, 07:58:00 am\nI can't let the last comment be a 9\/11 \"official story \" shill.\nTwo points only, no need to go over every think again point by point, though I and many others could.\nPoint 1.(quote)5. PoliticalSpazz said: \"Collapsing WTC7 was a case of destroying the evidence, so the Zionist owners would\u2026collect on the massive insurance fraud.\"\nSilverstein is well out of pocket despite the insurance payout. See http:\/\/wtc7lies.googlepages.com\/larrysilverstein%3Ainsuranceprofitmotive%3F(end quote)\nLarry Silverstein may have had substantial out of pocket expense with redeveloping that property, if he had gone about it in the ordinary way. But since 9\/11 was a \"terrorist attack\" federal, state and local money payed for the removal of debris and supplied the workforce to do it. With no medical liability for those workers who have been dieing from exposure ever since.\npoint2.(quote)10. Gene Stewart said: \"How did three buildings fall down when no other high rises in history have ever collapsed in such a way...\"\nNot many other buildings have been struck by large jets loaded with fuel and traveling at high speed(end quote)\nBuilding # 7 wasn't hit by a plane at any speed.\nPeople do your own research. But if you are starting off with the assumption that government is our friend, you may not want to bother.\nWe've come to a fork in the road. We should take it. (thanks Yogi).\n\"If you are looking for the truth, you might want to start by not misrepresenting the facts.\"\nAs you do?\n\"\"Pull\" is not a demolitions term, it is a firefighters term, and means \"pull all personnel back to safe distance (abandon efforts).\"\nActually, about misrepresenting, you should inform yourself first. Listen to the Silverstein interview, he says \"I think we'll have to pull IT\".\nNow if he were actually talking about personel and firemen, he would've said pull THEM out. He doesn't say, \"we'll have to pull\", he said \"we'll have to pull IT\"\nAnd \"pull\" IS a control demolition lingo.\n\"WTC7 did not collapse unexpectedly. The firefighters, after performing a transit survey, realized that parts of the building were out of plumb, sagging and in danger of collapse. This was hours before the event took place.\"\nWrong. This would have caused a dissymmetric collapse. Also, only parts of the building were affected. But it fell at almost freefall speed. 6.7 seconds to be precise. Now check up a well-known law of physics called the path of least resistance (also look up where the actual fires were and you will see that this building, if caused by the fires, should have fallen on its side and not on its footprint).\nConsidering all three towers collapse. The law of resistance is not applied. The 'experts' call it a progressive collapse. The use of the word progressive is used because the underlying structure offers resistance which would cause a much lenghtier collapse time frame. They have offered up the answer that \"the kenetic energy from the upper part was enough to completely eliminate any resistance from the structure\" which is totally laughable. A pityful rounded-up answer to obfuscate the issue.\nI suggest you watch Richard Gage's presentation on all three tower's collapse.\n\"WTC7 was in full conflagration on a number of floors, while others were seriously damaged from the fall of WTC1, including a 10-story hole in the outer wall. To say that it suffered no damage and the fire was localized is deliberately untruthful.\"\nYes, and many other buildings were even more affected by the twin collapses and yet they haven't fallen. Might it be because none of these other buildings were 1- owned by Silverstein thru his lease for the WTC complex to the NY port authority 2- didnt have CIA offices 3- didnt have SEC offices with important records partaining to the Enron scandal.\nFires don't make collumns go away. Only a minimal number of collumns (main) were damaged as per the FEMA reports.\n\"WTC7 did not fall neatly into its own footprint. It damaged buildings 70 yards away.\"\nAny control demolition with a 47-story (this is not a small building) will cause debris to go in a range of up to a 100 yards.\nBy this admission, I can clearly see you haven't watched the many videos of the collapse of WTC 7. It is clearly falling neatly into place. There isn't even the slightest angle to its descent, and yet you say it didn't fell into its footprint...?\nAm I to assume that a 47 story building collapsing from whatever means (even the best control demolition) won't make debris go further than the lenght of a football field??? The building itself was 2.5 times the lenght of a football field. (insert sarcasm smiley)\n\"\"No explosive detritus was found in the aftermath, in any of the building's rubble, including WTC7. All were investigated, by the FBI crime lab, the NY State crime lab, NYPD and FDNY, both of which had police, investigators and other specialists on scene for weeks. Not one UX cap, not one shock tube, not one copper backplate were found.\"\"\nBZZZZZZZZZZZT! Wrong again Mr disinformer. 1- Iron oxide pellets were found. 2- Firemen have witness accounts of explosions in the building (as with WTC 1 and 2). 3- And heat analysis of the WTC complex have shown high tempatured spots (over 1600 F) in the underground a month after 9-11. Pools of molten lava were found in all three undergrounds (eyewitness accounts from firemen + plus heat survey over WTC complex.. .all readily available on the web).\n\"\"No nitrate signature was identified. This is absolute proof that no explosives were used, since it cannot be explained away with the usual \"they were in on it\" dodge. Modern detection equipment works in the 1-2 picogram range and is available to anyone, including all the above-mentioned agencies, plus insurance investigators and private laboratories.\"\"\nI hope you know you can make explosives WITHOUT nitrate or its consequent residues?? You're quite quick to put the \"absolute proof\" tag on that one. Also, I hope you are aware of the effectivness of thermate. Thermate alone could have been used.\n\"Please don't take my word for any of this, use your zeal for the truth and verify it all independently.\"\nFor sure I won't take your word for it. I mean, you actually think an office fire (and damage) could make a 750 tower fall in 6.7 seconds without sending debris at more than 70 yards from the building...\nMy zeal for the truth compared to yours seems like an elephant compared to a rodent. You being the latter.\nThu Jan 03, 02:28:00 am\nPeter, there are many errors and misconceptions in your post. For you to say no plane hit the Pentagon makes me believe you MUST have been onsite on the day, where you? One can finds heaps either way in 9\/11 on the net, all is meaningless because of this. I can't stand it when people present what is just their opinion as fact. Qualify people!\nTHE MISSING DEMOLITON CREW?? I recall reading where, during the digging of Ground Zero, excavators came across a collapsed tunnel under WTC7 which contained the skeletal remains of many people.\nMy immediate thought was, \"Was this the demolition crew\/witnesses??\" herded up and locked into a tunnel, to die and ever be silent.\nTalk to as many Americans as you can....the majority are now very suspicious of the Bush Administration.\n9\/11 was a string theory mechanics event, if one listens to More Than a Feeling by Boston backwards there are references to 9\/11 and wtc in it, and this song was recorded in mid-70s!\nThu Jan 03, 01:18:00 pm\nfurthermore, the song More Than A Feeling details the feelings of the terrorist who was as the controls of the 2nd plane that hit wtc, the name marianne in the song is code for Mohamed. Listen to lyrics and u will see. \"I closed my eyes and I slipped away.\" The \"More than a feeling\" line refers to the moment the plane hit the tower and the instant of anticipation of achieving and passing into eternal paradise. Note the exhilaration the terrorist-pilot felt was from the anticpation of his glory, for the actual eventual occurrance of this is, of course, unknown. This instant of exhilaration lasted just the instant for the terroritst-pilot but it was so great he would swap his first love for it.\nPs. \"It was a bunch of pissed off Muslims who flew planes into wtc, anyone who thinks otherwise is a retard!\"\nWho could argue with that. You convinced me.\nIts a very good website.\nThe content of the website is informative.\nWe can share our views.\nRupam\nOffers free talent profiles, as well as business contacts to the acting and modeling industries\nHollywood North Acting & Modeling\nits hard at first to believe the truth especially when we have been brainwashed for thousands of years, its time for everyone to wake up and take control of their lives and then the change will happen PEACE\nFri Jan 02, 09:25:00 am\nsteelmasterusa said...\nIt is really harsh to believe that we have been brain washed since so many years.It is high time to wake up for the sake of peace!\nBird proof buildings from commercial steel buildings are the most fabulous ones.Birds can be hazardous in commercial buildings.\nWed Nov 04, 04:40:00 pm\nRobert never sleeps\nArmy majors can only run Cairns\nQuick as the come, they go\n112 million blogs\nMayor Byrne's Clifton Beach re-design\nLittle Drummer Boy updated\nClifton Beach, our new Manunda\nHow to save $599,999,920\nIf you can't say something good, go home!\nCairns needs full time councillors\nHicks out on Saturday\nand one from Snoopy\nMerry Christmas from Ronald\nThey're a pretty lot in Ipswitch\nCaptain Cairns says...\nSweet FA parking at Smithfield\nYour meaning of Christmas\nA real Mayor of Cairns\nRoyals on YouTube\nCouncil are out of their tree\nShe's an alright right Charlie\nGoodbye Ali G & Borat\nA load of rubbish\nRight has no idea\nGood on ya Liz\nABC polls on Yacht Club\nCairns Yacht Club worth fighting for\nUS Presidential Poll\nThe Post wants your jokes\nProud to continue Nixon's endless war\nVote early. 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Some say 30 AD, others 33 AD, and a minority have suggested other years. It might all seem to be purely academic to the man or woman in the pew, and in one sense it is; those who have been born again by the Spirit of God know He indwells them, and the specific date of the redeeming act pales in significance to this sublime fact.\nTo those who have not experienced the deep peace and sense of assurance that comes from being indwelt by the Spirit of God, however, the question has some importance, because it bears on whether the Bible can be trusted when it addresses the eternal \"things which are not seen\" (2 Cor. 4:18). How so? Because people without the spiritual insights afforded by a personal relationship with the Savior must look to external indicators to weigh whether its truth claims are believable. Such externals include the testimony of nature; the testimony of the changed lives of Christians around them; the testimony of historical records and archaeology; and the testimony of the Bible itself. Those immersed in a secular worldview can dismiss the marvels of nature as either an accident of random chance or perhaps due to the intervention of \"aliens\" (actually demons); those who know individual Christians with an inconsistent or immature walk with Christ can tar Christianity in general with such labels as \"hypocrites\" or \"judgmental\"; those who know something about biblical history and archaeology may say \"no one knows for sure\" due to the clamoring skeptical voices filling social media and academia, which vigorously push a negative slant on the facts; and those who find in the Bible \"unbelievable\" miracles and \"rigid, outdated\" moral standards they deem inappropriate for our \"enlightened, tolerant\" age of near-total individual freedom, readily point to perceived errors in its pages to claim that its moral precepts and its testimony that Jesus is the only Savior of the world can be ignored.\nYet, it remains true that no sane person doubts that Jesus of Nazareth once walked the dusty roads of ancient Israel, and His life left a mark on the human race that has endured for two millennia. But notwithstanding this acknowledgement, most people are content to heed the voices of skeptics, supposedly authoritative scholars who question the biblical text, or in-name-only \"cultural Christians\" who embrace a vague \"spirituality\" that encompasses all religious aspirations but is devoid of objective substance. As a result, they refuse to seriously wrestle with what those truly committed to the Bible's message have to say \u2013 particularly when they say a bunch of different things about the Book they all claim as Truth! To the point of this article, many people realize that believers can't even agree on the year when their Savior was crucified. If they can't get their facts straight on that key event, how can they be expected to get right anything the Bible teaches? In their rational minds, their skepticism seems well-justified.\nIn last month's issue of the ABR Newsletter, I discussed some of my research regarding the date of the Crucifixion. That article, \"How the Passover Illuminates the Date of the Crucifixion,\" looked at how the Passover was first observed on the night before the Israelites left Egypt, then at how God commanded His people to commemorate it each year as a memorial to His great deliverance (Ex. 12, Lev. 21, Nm. 28). Applying this information from the Word to initially narrow down the options for the date of the Crucifixion \u2013 it ruled out any days other than a Friday, or any duration other than from Friday afternoon to Sunday morning \u2013 the study then looked at records of lunar eclipses, in the hope that such objective, science-based information could tie the date of the Crucifixion to a specific year. We left that investigation with the observation that lunar eclipse information contributed nothing of substance in making a determination, leaving us with two possible candidate dates \u2013 April 7, 30 BC and April 3, 33 BC. We concluded that further information was needed to try to choose between them.\nThis installment picks up from where we left off last month, looking at additional factors which may help us choose between these two options. Here we will delve into some chronological details in the books of Acts and Galatians. The reader will notice our approach is to go directly to Scripture whenever possible, and when datable extrabiblical events are taken into account, to only use those which have virtually unanimous acceptance. If the resulting conclusions match up with what the scholars say, well and good; if not, the reader is encouraged to evaluate them by the straightforward sense of Scripture, not by filtering them first through the opinions of scholars. As a wise friend, an engineer, told me in an email, \"As erroneous historical scholarship seldom results in death or malpractice lawsuits, far too many liberties are taken with scholarly presumptions. I find many (not all) scholars are often in error but never in doubt...\" This is a sentiment I agree with; there is a lot of scholarly arrogance out there. For this reason, we do well to base our conclusions directly on the biblical text and original source material, unfiltered by the opinions of others. If the scholars can read the original material and render opinions on it, so can you and I! Although their studies may be helpful from time to time, we need not slavishly depend on them to interpret Scripture for us, since God has promised to send His Spirit to give us insight if we are sincere seekers:\nWhen the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come (Jn. 16:13, ESV).\nMy goal in this paper is to look closely at details in Scripture itself that point to a clear-cut date for the Crucifixion. I believe that many commentators have eschewed their own careful exegetical work and have overlooked the immediate context of the passages from which they derive their chronological understandings, piggybacking instead on fashionable academic trends and adopting erroneous conclusions as a result. We can avoid these errors if we are sensitive to scriptural context on the one hand, yet at the same time embracing a whole-Bible perspective. This we will attempt to do below.\nLuke's Consecutively Ordered Events\nHaving a series of events presented in consecutive order would be a big help in establishing a timeline surrounding the Crucifixion. We have excellent cause to expect we can derive a reliable sequence of events from Scripture itself, because we have the records of a first-rate historian, Luke, to work with. He states in Luke 1:3 (NASB): \"It seemed fitting for me as well, having investigated everything carefully from the beginning, to write it out for you in consecutive order, most excellent Theophilus...\" Acts 1:1-2 begins in similar fashion: \"The first account I composed, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when He was taken up to heaven...\" A straightforward reading of these verses indicates that Luke's intent in both books was to set forth a chronological, consecutive ordering of events.\nSince a straightforward reading of the biblical text has never discouraged academics from questioning it, it is necessary to support the contention that Luke aimed for a chronological ordering in his account. As scholars are wont to do, some have argued in recent years that the apparent sense of the text is not the correct one; that Luke had no qualms about rearranging his material in logical order to tell his story. When a detailed study is done, however, it strongly supports the idea of explicit chronological ordering conveyed by the NASB translation. I commend to you a carefully done exegetical paper by Benjamin Fung, Aida Spencer and Francois Viljoen (2017), \"What does k\u03b1\u03b8\u03b5\u03be\u1fc6\u03c2 in Luke 1:3 mean? Discovering the writing order of the Gospel of Luke,\" In die Skriflig 51(1), a2218, online at https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4102\/ids.v51i1.2218. It concludes that an in-depth study of the word kathexes in Luke 1:3, \"in consecutive order\" (NASB) or \"an orderly account\" (ESV), indicates chronological order was intended. As they write near the beginning of their lengthy analysis:\nIn Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek (Montanari 2015:1002) k\u03b1\u03b8\u03b5\u03be\u1fc6\u03c2 indicates 'in succession, one after another, in order'. According to BDAG (2000:490) k\u03b1\u03b8\u03b5\u03be\u1fc6\u03c2 has a similar but more elaborative meaning, namely 'pertinent to being in sequence in (1) time, (2) space, or (3) logic'. In the Bible k\u03b1\u03b8\u03b5\u03be\u1fc6\u03c2 usually refers to sequence of time, and when Luke uses k\u03b1\u03b8\u03b5\u03be\u1fc6\u03c2 to describe time, he describes chronological order, as will be demonstrated (emphasis added).\nSummarizing their section on the etymology of k\u03b1\u03b8\u03b5\u03be\u1fc6\u03c2, the authors observe:\nIn summary\u2026in Luke 1:3 Luke intends to write one event after another according to their time of happening (next, or next in order to and down) for everything he has investigated (to the end). By using k\u03b1\u03b8\u03b5\u03be\u1fc6\u03c2, Luke suggests that he writes his Gospel in chronological order.\nIt stands to reason that since Luke wrote Acts for the same recipient he directed his Gospel to, Theophilus, his declared chronological approach in the Gospel is reflected in Acts as well. He states in Acts 1:1-2, \"The first account I composed, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when He was taken up to heaven...\" By beginning thus, it is clear that Luke views what he is about to relate in Acts as a continuation of what was set forth earlier in his Gospel. Acts is Luke's second account for Theophilus, so we should expect it also to be \"in consecutive order.\" We have here solid grounds for taking the order of events as Acts presents them as the order in which they occurred. We will give Fung, Spencer and Viljoen the last word on this, extracted from their Conclusion:\nBesides Luke 1:3, k\u03b1\u03b8\u03b5\u03be\u1fc6\u03c2 occurs four times only in Luke and Acts in the NT, and the usages in Luke 8:1, Acts 3:24 and 11:4 (i.e. 75%) refer to time sequence\u2026.Luke always uses \u1f11\u03be\u1fc6\u03c2 to describe a time sequence, whether referring generally to time or specifically to hour\u2026(emphasis added).\nThe Timeline of Acts 1-9\nWith those preliminaries out of the way, we want to first determine the approximate amount of time required for the events that span Acts 1 through 9 to take place. This can only be done by actually reading the material and exercising judgment based on what the text says, not by theorizing based on a superficial observation of the number of chapters involved. The following timeline is extracted from those chapters, condensed for brevity. The NASB has been used.\nFrom the Crucifixion at Passover to the Ascension \u2013 43 days\nActs 1:3: \"To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God.\" After His Crucifixion on a Passover Friday, Jesus rose from the dead \"on the first day of the week\" (Mk 16:1-2, Lk 24:1), \"on the third day\" (1 Cor 15:3-4). This was followed by 40 days of post-Resurrection appearances to his disciples.\nThe Pentecost Harvest of 3000 \u2013 50 days inclusive after Passover\nActs 2:1, 41: \"When the day of Pentecost had come [50 days, counted inclusively, after Passover]\u2026that day there were added about three thousand souls.\"\n[Total elapsed time from Passover ~ 7 weeks.]\nConverts increase, Pentecost visitors don't go home, people start selling possessions to help them\nActs 2:42-45, 47: \"They [including many visiting Jews] were continually devoting themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer\u2026And all those who had believed were together and had all things in common; and they began selling their property and possessions and were sharing them with all, as anyone might have need\u2026And the Lord was adding to their number day by day\u2026\" [Since many new converts were Pentecost visitors from far away (vv. 9-11) who had come to Jerusalem with no intention of a prolonged stay, they had limited resources with them. Therefore, this selling and sharing began almost immediately after Pentecost to meet their needs. People were prepared to sell their possessions because there was widespread Messianic expectation.]\n[Propose 3 weeks to see the need for donations, begin property sales, and set up distribution strategies. Total elapsed time from Passover ~ 10 weeks.]\nEpisode of the lame man, 5000-plus new converts; apostles jailed, let off with a warning\nActs 3-4: \"And [shortly after the start of selling possessions] a man who had been lame from his mother's womb was being carried along, whom they used to set down every day at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, in order to beg alms of those who were entering the temple [a very public spot, so many people were aware of him.]\u2026Peter said, \"\u2026In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene\u2014walk!\"\u2026And all the people saw him walking and praising God\u2026and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him. As they [the apostles] were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them\u2026And they laid hands on them and put them in jail until the next day\u2026But many of those who had heard the message believed; and the number of the men [not counting women\/children] came to be about five thousand\u2026On the next day, their rulers and elders and scribes\u2026began to confer with one another\u2026And when they had summoned them, they commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said to them\u2026\"we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard\" [aggravating the Jewish authorities]\u2026And the congregation of those who believed were of one heart and soul\u2026there was not a needy person among them, for all who were owners of land or houses would sell them and bring the proceeds of the sales and lay them at the apostles' feet, and they would be distributed to each as any had need\u2026Barnabas\u2026owned a tract of land, sold it and brought the money and laid it at the apostles' feet.\"\n[Propose this happens within 2 weeks of the start of the selling possessions, about 1 month after Pentecost. Total elapsed time ~ 12 weeks, or 3 months since Passover.]\nConversions continue, Jewish leaders feel threatened, apostles jailed and flogged\nActs 5: \"At the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were taking place among the people; and they were all with one accord in Solomon's portico [a crowd in a very public place would attract attention]\u2026And all the more believers in the Lord, multitudes of men and women, were constantly added to their number\u2026Also the people from the cities in the vicinity of Jerusalem were coming together, bringing people who were sick or afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all being healed\u2026.But the high priest rose up, along with all his associates (that is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy. They laid hands on the apostles and put them in a public jail. But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the gates of the prison, and taking them out he said, \"Go, stand and speak to the people in the temple the whole message of this Life.\" Upon hearing this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and began to teach. [No delay!]\u2026The high priest questioned them, saying, \"We gave you strict orders not to continue teaching in this name [after the healing of the lame man], and yet, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and intend to bring this man's blood upon us\"\u2026But Peter and the apostles answered, \"We must obey God rather than men\u2026He [Jesus] is the one whom God exalted to His right hand as a Prince and a Savior, to grant repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.\"\u2026But when they heard this, they [the High Priest and Sadducees] were cut to the quick and intended to kill them. [This evil intent on the part of the Jewish leaders emerges quickly.]\u2026But a Pharisee named Gamaliel\u2026gave orders to put the men outside for a short time\u2026They took his advice; after calling the apostles in, they flogged them and ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and then released them\u2026.And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they kept right on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.\"\n[Propose the first arrest of the apostles happens about 5 months after Passover. Severity of punishment quickly escalates.]\nConversions continue, Stephen made a deacon, arrested and martyred\nActs 6-7: \"Now at this time while the disciples were increasing in number [which was happening continually], a complaint arose on the part of the Hellenistic Jews [the ones who came at Pentecost to Jerusalem from far away] against the native Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily serving of food. So the twelve summoned the congregation of the disciples and said, \"It is not desirable for us to neglect the word of God in order to serve tables. \"Therefore, brethren, select from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may put in charge of this task\u2026and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit\u2026The word of God kept on spreading; and the number of the disciples continued to increase greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were becoming obedient to the faith\u2026And Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and signs among the people. But some men from what was called the Synagogue of the Freedmen, including both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and some from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and argued with Stephen\u2026And they stirred up the people, the elders and the scribes, and they came up to him and dragged him away and brought him before the Council\u2026And he said, \"Hear me, brethren and fathers!...Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who had previously announced the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become; you who received the law as ordained by angels, and yet did not keep it.\"\u2026But they cried out with a loud voice, and covered their ears and rushed at him with one impulse. When they had driven him out of the city, they began stoning him; and the witnesses laid aside their robes at the feet of a young man named Saul.\"\n[Propose Stephen's death happens within 7 months of Passover.]\nGreat persecution begins, Saul takes a leading role, is converted\nActs 8-9: \"Saul was in hearty agreement with putting him to death. And on that day [the very day of Stephen's death] a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles\u2026.But Saul began ravaging the church, entering house after house, and dragging off men and women, he would put them in prison. Therefore, those who had been scattered went about preaching the word....Now Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest, and asked for letters from him to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem\u2026.As he was traveling, it happened that he was approaching Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him; and he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, \"Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?\" And he said, \"Who are You, Lord?\" And He said, \"I am Jesus whom you are persecuting, but get up and enter the city, and it will be told you what you must do.\"\u2026Saul got up from the ground, and though his eyes were open, he could see nothing; and leading him by the hand, they brought him into Damascus\u2026\"\n[Propose Saul's conversion happens within 9 months of Passover.]\nSummary about the Timeline of Acts 1-9\nLooking over this information, and making what seem to be reasonable deductions about how much time passes in view of the very fast growth of the Church (3000, 5000, \"multitudes\u2026were constantly added\") and rapidly escalating animosity of the Jewish religious leaders in the face of aggressive evangelizing by the apostles, there is no good reason to suppose that the events of Acts 1-9 took a year or more to occur. Not more than a few months would be necessary to bring the Jewish leaders' antipathy to a boil, since the apostles adopted a very \"in your face\" attitude against the High Priest and the Sadducees, making it very reasonable for Saul's conversion to have taken place in the latter part of the crucifixion year. It must be kept in mind, also, that these were the same Jewish leaders who had pushed for the death penalty against Jesus, predisposing them to have little tolerance for His followers. Not more than 9 months appears necessary after Passover of the crucifixion year for all of these events to have taken place. The honest skeptic without a chronological agenda can pad this time with a couple more months if they wish, but beyond that appears to be unrealistically generous.\nPaul's Early Travels in Acts 8-12\nWe have just sketched out reasons why less than a year was necessary, from the Crucifixion to the conversion of Saul, for the clash between the disciples and the Jewish religious leaders to result in the scattering of the infant Church and Saul's single-minded persecution of it. In order to establish a longer timeline in which to place one or more independently datable events, we now establish the sequence of places Paul visited in his early days as a Christian, from his conversion to his second trip to Antioch. All Scriptures that follow (ESV) are presented in consecutive order. Clarifying notes have been added in [brackets], while the places Paul visited are emphasized in bold italics.\nJerusalem, the starting point\nActs 8:1, 3: \"And Saul approved of his [Stephen's] execution. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles\u2026.But Saul was ravaging the church [in Jerusalem], and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison.\"\n1. Damascus #1\nActs 9:3-6, 8, 19: \"Now as he went on his way, he approached Damascus... and suddenly a light from heaven shone around. And falling to the ground he heard a voice saying to him, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?' And he said, 'Who are you, Lord?' And he said, 'I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. But rise and enter the city, and you will be told what you are to do.'...So they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus...and taking food, he was strengthened. For some days he was with the disciples at Damascus.\" [This is the first major time marker in Paul's Christian life: his conversion.]\n2. Arabia\nGal 1:15-17a: \"But when he who had set me apart...was pleased to reveal his Son to me [at his conversion, on his first visit to Damascus], in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone; nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me [his gospel was not influenced by people, but revealed by the Lord], but I went away into Arabia...\"\nGal 1:17b: \"...And returned again [for the second time] to Damascus.\" [Note that this passage does not say that Paul spent three years in Arabia! That is a common misconception. All it tells us is that Paul went there for an apparently rather short period of time, then returned.]\nActs 9:23, 25: \"When many days had passed [in Damascus], the Jews plotted to kill him...but his disciples took him by night and let him down through an opening in the wall [of Damascus], lowering him in a basket.\" [2 Cor 11:32-33: \"At Damascus, the governor [ethnarch] under King Aretas [IV] was guarding the city of Damascus in order to seize me, but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his hands.\"]\n4. Jerusalem #1\nActs 9:26-27: And when he [Saul] had come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join the disciples. And they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple. But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles\u2026\"\nGal 1:18: \"Then after [Gk. meta] three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and remained with him fifteen days.\" [This is the second major time marker in Paul's Christian life: his first trip to Jerusalem after he had been a Christian for a total of three years, not three years since he got back from Arabia. The Greek preposition meta tells us this time period traces back to his conversion, as clarified below.]\nActs 9:29-30a: \"And he spoke and disputed against the Hellenists [at Jerusalem]. But they were seeking to kill him. And when the brothers learned this...\"\n5. Tarsus\nActs 9:30b: \"...they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him [Saul] off to Tarsus [in Cilicia].\"\nGal 1:21: \"Then [until Barnabas sought him out] I went into the regions of Syria [Antioch] and Cilicia [Tarsus]. [Acts 21:39: Paul replied, \"I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia...]\nActs 11:19-22, 24b-25: \"Now those who were scattered because of\u2026Stephen traveled as far as\u2026Antioch\u2026 preaching the Lord Jesus\u2026and a great number who believed turned to the Lord. The report of this [large-scale Gentile conversions] came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch\u2026.And a great many people were added to the Lord [at Antioch]. So [because he needed help ministering to all the new converts] Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul\u2026\"\n6. Antioch #1\nActs 11:26-28: \"...and when he [Barnabas] had found him [at Tarsus], he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year [of ministry at Antioch] they [Barnabas and Saul] met with the church and taught a great many people. Now in these days [the year when Barnabas and Saul were at Antioch] prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. And one of them named Agabus stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be [in the near future] a great famine [which had not started yet, it was a prophecy] over all the [Roman] world (this took place in the days of Claudius [41-54 AD]).\nActs 11:29-30: So the disciples [at Antioch] determined, every one according to his ability, to send [pre-emptive] relief to the brothers living in Judea. And they did so, sending it [the famine relief] to the elders [at Jerusalem] by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.\"\nGal 2:1: \"Then after [Gk. dia] fourteen years I went up again [a second time] to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus [a Gentile] along with me.\" [This is the third major time marker in Paul's Christian life \u2013 fourteen years post-conversion, encompassing all his time as a Christian up to the end of his one year of Antioch ministry with Barnabas. The Greek preposition dia makes this clear, see below.]\nGal 2:2: \"I went up [to Jerusalem] because of a revelation [not because of famine relief] and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles [this Gentile-centered gospel was the revelation], in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain.\" [Cf. Gal 1:12: \"For I neither received it [the gospel he preached] from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.\" This revelation was Paul's distinctive gospel message that applied specifically to Gentile believers. Labeling this trip merely a \"famine relief mission,\" as if that was its primary reason, denies Paul's plain statement that it was driven by \"a revelation\" he needed to share. His goal for the trip was to convey his Gentile-centered gospel message privately to some of the leadership in Jerusalem \"for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.\" It was only because he already planned to go to Jerusalem that the pre-emptive famine relief was sent along with him, Barnabas and Titus. Think about it: if famine relief was the main motive for the trip, Titus' inclusion makes little sense. But it does if we consider that he was Exhibit A of God's new work among the Gentiles. If famine relief had been the main motive, it would most efficiently have been sent with the prophet Agabus and his companions when they returned to their home in Jerusalem after their Antioch visit.]\nActs 12:1-4: \"About that time [when Barnabas and Paul left Antioch for Jerusalem] Herod [Agrippa I] the king\u2026killed James the brother of John...proceeded to arrest Peter\u2026during the days of Unleavened Bread [part of the Passover festival]...intending after the Passover [in just a few days] to bring him out to the people.\"\nActs 12:6-7, 19a: \"Now when Herod [Agrippa I] was about to bring him [Peter] out, on that very night\u2026an angel of the Lord stood next to him\u2026And the chains fell off his hands...And after Herod searched for him [Peter] and did not find him, he examined the sentries and ordered that they should be put to death.\"\nActs 12:19b-23: \"Then he [Herod Agrippa I] went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent time there. Now Herod was angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon, and they came to him with one accord, and...asked for peace, because their country depended on the king's country for food. On an appointed day [for their meeting] Herod put on his royal robes, took his seat upon the throne, and delivered an oration to them [in context, to the people of Tyre and Sidon]...And the people were shouting, \"The voice of a god, and not of a man!\" [buttering him up to curry his political favor] Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down\u2026he [Herod Agrippa I] breathed his last [44 AD, see https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herod_Agrippa, which summarizes this current consensus of scholarship in its endnotes].\"\nActs 12:24-25: \"But the word of God increased and multiplied. And [following the death of Herod Agrippa I] Barnabas and Saul returned [to Antioch] from Jerusalem when they had completed their service [for the Antioch church, in explaining to the elders at Jerusalem God's work among the Gentiles there, and only secondarily delivering their famine offering], bringing with them John, whose other name was Mark.\"\nAnalysis of the Acts 8-12 Timeline\nThe above presentation of Paul's early travels, from his conversion to his return to Antioch from his second trip to Jerusalem, is securely based on information taken straight from Scripture. Only the date of Herod Agrippa I's death is drawn from outside sources, but it is confirmed by multiple classical writings reflected in the Wikipedia entry; indeed, one will find no serious dissent from the 44 AD date for Herod's death anywhere, so strong is the evidence. Now we need to build upon this information and draw out its implications for determining the date of the Crucifixion.\nFirst, however, a note about a possible complaint some may direct at this study concerning the King Aretas mentioned in 2 Cor. 11:32-33. Some scholars have alleged that Aretas would not have had authority to control an ethnarch in Damascus before about 37 BC, requiring Paul's abrupt departure after his second trip there to have been in 37 AD or later. Such conjectures, however, were dismissed by well-respected scholar F.F. Bruce, whose opinion carries considerable weight. In Chronological Questions in the Acts of the Apostles, a November 1985 lecture at John Rylands University (online at https:\/\/www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk\/api\/datastream?publicationPid=uk-ac-man-scw:1m1627&datastreamId=POST-PEER-REVIEW-PUBLISHERS-DOCUMENT.PDF), Bruce states:\nAretas IV was king of the Nabataean Arabs from about 9 B.C. to A.D. 40. It is widely supposed, though on doubtful grounds, that Damascus actually belonged to his kingdom for a few years before his death -- perhaps through a change of imperial policy at the beginning of the principate of Gaius in A.D. 37.8 His ethnarch who, according to 2 Corinthians 11:32, watched the gates of Damascus in an attempt to arrest Paul, was probably the head of the Nabataean colony in that city.9 Paul's residence in Damascus, according to Galatians 1:17f., fell within the three years or so following his conversion, and that event must certainly be dated well before A.D. 40, the year of Aretas's death. Even if Aretas did control Damascus from A.D. 37 until his death, Paul's escape from the city is probably to be dated before A.D. 37. It is only in a very general way that the reference to Aretas helps us in our chronological quest (emphasis added).\nGiven the spotty state of our knowledge of the degree Aretas exercised hegemony over Damascus in the decade before his death \u2013 for he need not have been a Rome-approved ruler over Damascus to have had a loyal underling in a position of authority in the Nabataean colony there \u2013 it is not possible to use him as a solid anchor for Pauline chronology. We can, with F.F. Bruce, safely dismiss Aretas from consideration as a non-factor, and look to other, more reliable dating criteria instead, like the death of Herod Agrippa I that we will look at later.\nThe Three and Fourteen Years\nIt is now necessary to support in some depth the contention that the mention of fourteen years in Galatians 2:1 refers to time elapsed since Paul's conversion. Though some view this passage as referring to time that passed since his first trip to Jerusalem for his 15-day visit with Peter, making the total time since his conversion approximately seventeen years (3+14), the Greek text indicates otherwise. In contrast to Galatians 1:18, where the preposition meta, \"with,\" is used in reference to three years, the preposition used in 2:1 is dia, having the basic meaning of \"through\" or \"during.\" It conveys the sense of continuity with something discussed earlier, not supplemental information that independently follows after an event that already occurred. If Paul's meaning was that fourteen years had passed from the time of his first visit to Jerusalem, the best choice of preposition would have been the same one he had already used in Gal 1:18, meta. That would have accurately conveyed that the fourteen years was an additional time period tacked on to the three years from his conversion already mentioned. See, for instance, Hebrews 4:8: \"For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on (meta)\" \u2013 a day subsequent to Joshua's. But instead, Paul purposely switched to the preposition dia. Since God is the God of the \"jots and tittles,\" there was a reason for this change!\nThat the fourteen years of Galatians 2:1 refers to time passed since Paul's conversion is supported by various standard reference works. For example, the Expositor's Greek Testament observes:\nThe author has shown by a rapid glance over the first thirteen years of his Christian life how independent he had been of human teaching at his conversion and subsequently. He now proceeds to record the true history of the negotiations which he had undertaken at Jerusalem in conjunction with Barnabas in the fourteenth year of his ministry [emphasis added].\nMost impressive to me, due to the depth of his Greek exegesis, is the work of the inimitable Henry Alford, whose analysis of the Greek text of Galatians 2:1 is extremely precise and detailed. Some may disrespect him because his work was done in the nineteenth century, but the last time I looked, the principles of Greek grammar had not changed since his day. He says in part (https:\/\/www.studylight.org\/commentaries\/hac\/galatians-2.html):\nNext, from what time are we to reckon? Certainly at first sight it would appear,\u00ad from the journey last mentioned [i.e., the first trip to Jerusalem]\u2026But why? Is the prima facie view of a construction always right?...Are we not bound, in all such cases, should any reason ab extra exist for doing so, to reexamine the passage, and ascertain whether our prima facie impression may not have arisen from neglecting some indication furnished by the context? That this is the case here, I am persuaded...\nAlford then elucidates the same insight I obtained independently from the original Greek:\nThe \u1f14\u03c0\u03b5\u03b9\u03c4\u03b1 [epeita, \"then\" or \"after\"] in both cases [Gal 1:18 and 2:1] may be well taken as referring back to the same terminus a quo [point of origin], \u03b4\u03b9\u1f70 [dia] being used in this verse [2:1] as applying to the larger interval, or even perhaps to prevent the fourteen years being counted from the event last mentioned [1:18], as they would more naturally be, had a second \u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03ac [meta] been used. What would there be forced or unnatural in a statement of the following kind? \"After my conversion...my occasions of communicating with the other Apostles were these: (1) after three years I went up, etc. (2) after fourteen years had elapsed, I again went up, etc?\"\nThough Alford's technical material is too long to quote in full here (see the link if interested), he goes into such analytical depth that in my estimation he makes a timeless, slam-dunk exegetical case for the fourteen years being reckoned from Paul's conversion, and that this period encompassed the three years from his conversion to his first visit to Jerusalem. Those who can handle his copious Greek citations are encouraged to review his analysis.\nAlthough I do not agree with the 33 AD point he starts measuring from (for reasons developed below), Tony Bartolucci has put together an excellent compilation of much more recent resources that confirm the soundness of Alford's earlier work, basing his exegesis on the grammatical analysis made by Albert L. Lukaszewski and Mark Dubis in The Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament (Logos Bible Software, 2009). He concludes, in agreement with both my independent study and the work of Alford, that the periods of three and fourteen years are both measured from Paul's Damascus Road conversion, with the longer period including the first within it. Here are two excerpts from that compendium, online at http:\/\/www.tonybartolucci.com\/Sermons\/Galatians%20Exegesis\/Galatians%201.18-24.pdf:\n[Regarding Gal 1:18] The words after three years do not merely refer to a lapse of time. They are argumentative. Paul is showing all through this section, his entire independence of the Jerusalem apostles. Therefore, the three years have reference, not to the time after his return from Arabia, but to the period of time after his conversion.... [Wuest, Kenneth S., Wuest's Word Studies from the Greek New Testament: For the English Reader (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997).]\nBy the time we get to [Gal] 2:1 we are 14 years after his conversion. In total, Paul only spent 15 days in Jerusalem out of 14 years. [Bartolucci, 21, emphasis added; the copious notes on which this conclusion was based are found at http:\/\/www.tonybartolucci.com\/Sermons\/Galatians%20Exegesis\/Galatians%202.1-10.pdf.]\nI could add more support, but this will suffice. The most powerful argument in favor of extending the fourteen years of Galatians 2:1 back to Paul's conversion is an objective one tied to the preposition changing from meta to dia within the immediate context. It was a purposeful change indicating that the references in Galatians 1-2 to the passing of three and fourteen years must refer to time measured from Paul's conversion. Only a desire to accommodate a preferred chronological outcome requiring additional time can ignore this clear meaning of the Greek grammar. It gives us a sturdy skeleton which can be fleshed out with other people, places and dates.\nThe Timing of the Second Jerusalem Visit\nLet us now recap what we have established so far. The time from the Crucifixion to Paul's conversion was less than a year, likely about nine months. Then, the time from Paul's conversion to his second trip to Jerusalem, in the company of Barnabas and Titus, was fourteen years. Let us keep these details in mind as we now come to a highly-debated (by scholars, anyway) issue: How to relate the trip to Jerusalem described in Galatians 2:1-10, to the trips to Jerusalem described in Acts 11:29-12:25 and 15. Which trip does Galatians 2:1-10 correspond with? In the above timeline of Acts 8-12, it was assumed that the natural sense of the texts indicated Paul's second visit to Jerusalem in Acts 11:29-30 (the first being his brief 15-day visit with Peter) corresponded with the one described in Galatians 2:1-2. Not all scholars agree with this assumption, so it needs to be exegetically demonstrated.\nWe will begin by first taking a look at the situation described in Acts 15, which deals mostly with the meeting known as the Jerusalem Council. Then we will perform an analysis of Galatians 2:1-10 similar to that done with Acts 8-12, thereby establishing a timeline. Finally, we will compare the events described in Galatians 2:1-10 with the situations in Acts 12 and 15, and deduce the most straightforward way of reconciling these different records with each other.\nThe Situation in Acts 15\nSandwiched between the Jerusalem-based events of Acts chapters 12 and 15, we have the story of the first missionary journey of Paul and Barnabas related in Acts 13 and 14. The events of the first missionary journey do not apply to our analysis here, so we will skip over those two chapters. Here is the compressed story from Acts 15, as given in the NASB:\nSome men came down from Judea and began teaching the brethren, \"Unless you are circumcised\u2026you cannot be saved.\" And\u2026the brethren determined that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders concerning this issue\u2026and they reported all that God had done with them. But some of the sect of the Pharisees who had believed stood up, saying, \"It is necessary to circumcise them and to direct them to observe the Law of Moses.\" The apostles and the elders came together to look into this matter. After there had been much debate\u2026James answered, saying, \"\u2026it is my judgment that we do not trouble those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles, but that we write to them that they abstain from things contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.\" Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas\u2026Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren, and they sent this letter by them\u2026\"For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these essentials: that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell.\" So when they were sent away, they went down to Antioch; and having gathered the congregation together, they delivered the letter\u2026After some days Paul said to Barnabas, \"Let us return and visit the brethren in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are.\" Barnabas wanted to take John, called Mark, along with them also. But Paul kept insisting that they should not take him along who had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work\u2026they separated from one another, and Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus. But Paul chose Silas and left [Paul's second missionary journey]\u2026\nThe Situation in Galatians 2:1-10\nNow we turn to Galatians 2. A critically important matter is how one goes about synchronizing the account in this chapter with information from Acts. Does it connect with the so-called \"famine relief\" trip that spans Acts 11:29 though 12:25, or with the Jerusalem Council visit of Acts 15? We begin by reading Galatians 2:1-10 (NASB), emphasizing a few important words for special attention:\nThen after an interval of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along also. It was because of a revelation that I went up; and I submitted to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but I did so in private to those who were of reputation, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain. But not even Titus, who was with me, though he was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised. But it was because of the false brethren secretly brought in, who had sneaked in [to Antioch] to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to bring us into bondage [following circumcision and the Mosaic Law]. But we did not yield in subjection to them for even an hour, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you. But from those who were of high reputation (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality) \u2013 well, those who were of reputation contributed nothing to me. But on the contrary, seeing that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been to the circumcised (for He who effectually worked for Peter in his apostleship to the circumcised effectually worked for me also to the Gentiles), and recognizing the grace that had been given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we might go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. They only asked us to remember the poor \u2013 the very thing I also was eager to do.\nLet us now examine in detail those important points.\n\"I went up again to Jerusalem\" \u2013 \"Again\" tells us Paul had been to Jerusalem at least one time before. When? We know from Acts 9:26-27 that Paul's first visit to Jerusalem was when he \"met with Peter and James privately three years after his conversion\" (Gal 1:18-19), so logically Galatians 2:1 is referring to the second Jerusalem visit introduced in Acts 11:29-30. Moreover, Barnabas was not involved in the Acts 9:26-27 visit as a traveling companion with Paul, but was a member of the Jerusalem church (cf. Acts 4:36-37, where he placed the proceeds from selling a tract of land at the apostles' feet). This means that connecting \"again\" with Barnabas \u2013 as if it was a second trip made with Barnabas, effectively being Paul's third trip to Jerusalem related in Acts 15 \u2013 is misinterpreting the passage. Besides, elsewhere when Paul wants to say he plans to do something that he had already done twice before, he does not ambiguously say \"again,\" but is very clear: \"Here for the third time I am ready to come to you\" (2 Cor 12:14). It is reasonable to expect he would have been similarly specific, if in Galatians 2 \"again\" referred to what was actually his third trip to Jerusalem.\n2. \"Taking Titus along\" \u2013 Luke says nothing in Acts 15 about Titus being included in the group that accompanied Paul and Barnabas to the Jerusalem Council. Though an argument from silence, this was a notable omission if he was indeed part of that trip, because in Gal 2:3 Paul draws particular attention to him as an example of the grace of God saving Gentiles apart from keeping the requirements of the Mosaic Law: \"But not even Titus...though he was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.\" This Lukan silence about Titus makes good sense if his visit took place not during the highly public Jerusalem Council, but during Paul's earlier, second visit to Jerusalem when he met \"in private\" with only James, Peter and John to give them evidence of God's work among the Gentiles. In fact, if we identify the visit with Titus with the \"famine relief\" trip in Acts 11:29-30, it provides a motivation for the indignant visit to Antioch of the Pharisaical brethren described in Acts 15:1-2, which directly led to holding the Jerusalem Council.\n3. \"Because of a revelation\" \u2013 See the comments above under \"Jerusalem #2.\" This revelation, as already mentioned, should not be understood as the famine prophecy of Agabus (after all, Agabus and his companions, being Jerusalem natives, could just as well have taken the famine relief collection to Jerusalem themselves, saving Paul and Barnabas the trip and disruption of their important work at Antioch). When the overall context is considered, it makes far better sense to see this revelation as new information revealed by the Lord directly to Paul, the \"apostle to the uncircumcised\": namely, that circumcision and other works of the Law do not apply to Gentiles as means of salvation, but only God's grace in calling and regenerating. Paul's gospel was that Gentiles are saved by faith alone, not by circumcision or keeping the Mosaic Law. Some commentators have pointed out that Peter received a revelation of sorts in Acts 10:9-16, and supposed this might have been the revelation Paul referred to; but why would Paul have felt obliged to go to Jerusalem in connection with a revelation that came to Peter, who was already in Jerusalem? The insight given to Peter was very limited, only addressing the bald fact that Gentiles could be saved: \"God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean.\" It did not address the practical outworking of that insight, which the Lord's revelation to Paul did. Remember, too, that Paul later raked Peter over the coals for hypocrisy:\nnevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we [Jews] have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified...I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly (Gal 2:16, 21).\nWe are on firm ground in seeing the revelation given to Paul as directly connected with his above teaching, coming as it does just a few verses after Gal 2:1-10, that salvation is by faith alone.\n4. \"I submitted to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles...in private\" \u2013 This mention that the matter was dealt with \"in private\" is in obvious conflict with the very public nature of the debate portrayed in Acts 15 (\"When they arrived at Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all that God had done with them\" (15:4); \"Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them...\" (15:22);\"and they sent this letter by them, \"The apostles and the brethren who are elders...greetings\" (15:23). This does not sound at all like something that took place \"in private.\" Thus, Acts 15 is a poor match for Gal 2:1-10, whereas Acts 11:29-12:25 \u2013 where Luke had hardly anything to say about Paul and Barnabas \u2013 fits the situation like a glove.\n5. \"Gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship\" \u2013 This would have been the perfect place in Galatians 2 for Paul to have mentioned the apostolic letter issued as a result of the Jerusalem Council in Acts 15. But what do we hear about that letter? Silence. This is, quite frankly, very surprising if Galatians 2:1-10 was indeed addressing the Jerusalem Council events, simply because that letter is cited as a source of great encouragement to the believers: \"And when they had read it, they rejoiced because of its encouragement\" (Acts 15:31). That the \"right hand of fellowship\" gets mentioned in Galatians 2, while the far more affirming apostolic letter gets no mention, is a powerful argument that Galatians 2:1-10 looks back to the private, low-key meeting with the Apostles depicted in Acts 11-12, not to the extremely public Jerusalem Council meeting in Acts 15.\n6. \"They only asked us to remember the poor \u2013 the very thing I also was eager to do\" \u2013 In Acts 15, the request from \"the church and the apostles and the elders\" goes well beyond asking Paul and Barnabas to \"only\" remember the poor: \"For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these essentials: that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication...\" (Acts 15:28-29). In the light of these four stipulations in the apostolic letter, if Acts 15 was the setting for Galatians 2:1-10, for Paul to say in Galatians that the only stipulation placed upon him was \"to remember the poor\" makes no sense.\nThe Situation in Acts 11-12\nFor completeness, we should ask whether Acts 11-12 adds anything to our knowledge about Paul's travels. Hardly anything substantive can be added, beyond the superficial observation that Paul went to Jerusalem to consult privately with James, Peter and John, the \"pillars\" of the Jerusalem church, about the Gospel for the Gentiles he had received as a revelation from the Lord. Upon reflection, though, this dearth of material about the doings of Paul, Barnabas and Titus at this time is actually excellent evidence connecting Galatians 2:1-10 with Acts 12 rather than Acts 15, because if that trip dealt mostly with the sort of private consultation Gal 2:2 describes, it was more likely that Luke would have little to say about it.\nSummary about the Timing of the Second Jerusalem Visit\nTying together these direct observations from Scripture about Acts 15, Galatians 2:1-10 and Acts 11-12, it should be apparent to the impartial reader that Galatians 2:1-10 best fits the background of Acts 11:29-12:25. Additional evidence that we are on the right track can be found in the support for this interpretation given by the ESV Study Bible, which takes into account the majority of current scholarship. It includes a chart in the Galatians 2 notes which ties together Gal 2:1-10 with Acts 11:29-30 (the \"famine relief\" visit), and Gal 2:11-14 with Acts 15:1-2a. This deduction is consistent with the mention in Acts 15:1 of the men who came down to Antioch from Judea \u2013 after the misnamed \"famine relief\" trip of Acts 11:29-12:25, and after the first missionary journey described in Acts 13-14 (Paul and Barnabas were back in Antioch by this time), but before the Jerusalem Council began. These men were probably those mentioned in Galatians 2:12, \"For before certain men came from James, he [Peter] was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party.\" It all fits together. Since the events of Acts 15:2b-29 describe the Jerusalem Council, it follows that, if the events of Galatians 2:11-14 match up with what happened in Acts 15:1-2a (which preceded the Jerusalem Council), then the events of Galatians 2:1-10 also preceded the Jerusalem Council.\nA few observations from other scholars are in order before moving on. Bartolucci's aforementioned notes on Galatians 2 (p. 27) include the following quote drawn from Timothy George's commentary on Galatians (The New American Commentary, Vol. 30 (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1994, 135-137): \"The events of Gal. 2:1\u201310 parallel the \"famine visit\" Paul and Barnabas made to Jerusalem as recorded in Acts 11:25\u201330. This view has been convincingly argued by F. F. Bruce although it remains a minority opinion among commentators on the epistle.\" Bruce's analysis can be read online at https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/bjrl\/problems-1_bruce.pdf, particularly pp. 305-307. Finally, in his article \"The Epistle to the Galatians\" posted at https:\/\/bible.org\/article\/epistle-galatians, Dr. Greg Herrick noted:\nThere is better evidence to suggest that Acts 11:27-30 is the visit related in Galatians 2:1-10. First, it is difficult to imagine that the decree preceded the events of Peter's separation from the Gentiles and Paul's rebuking him. Surely Peter, even though he possessed a vacillating spirit, would not have done such a thing after the Jerusalem church, that is, those who caused it the first time (Gal 2:12), had settled the issue. Second, it is further difficult to imagine that the Judaizers could have accomplished so much damage, as the letter to the Galatians indicates, if Galatians 2:1-10 refers to the Council. Third, Paul appears to be listing his visits to Jerusalem, in succession since his conversion. This would mean that Galatians 2:1-10 would be equivalent to Acts 11. Fourth, in Galatians 1:21 Paul says that he visited Syria and Cilicia. This occurred after his first visit (1:18) and before his second visit to Jerusalem (2:1). This most likely refers to the fact that Paul concentrated his missionary work in Tarsus and Antioch (after Barnabas 'retrieved' him from Tarsus) without going to any other centers. If this is true then, he did not evangelize in Galatia until after his second visit to Jerusalem and therefore, Galatians 2:1-10 must refer to the famine visit with evangelization of Galatia (Acts 13, 14) sometime later.\nIn summary, the only place to put Galatians 2:1-10 in reference to Acts is in the context of the \"famine relief\" visit described in Acts 11:29-30 and 12:25.\nActs 12 and the Death of Herod Agrippa I\nNow we turn to the main issue covered by Acts 12, the affairs of Herod Agrippa I. Here is the critical thing to note: Everything described in this chapter takes place during the time Paul and Barnabas were in Jerusalem during his second visit there, the visit discussed in Galatians 2:1-10. Acts 11:30 informs us of the departure from Antioch of Paul, Barnabas and Titus for Jerusalem, while Acts 12:25 reports their return to Antioch. Between these two bookends we have the story of the events leading up to the death of Herod Agrippa I. This means that the death of Agrippa I, known without doubt from classical histories to have taken place in AD 44, solidly anchors in time Paul's second visit to Jerusalem.\nWhat little scholarly debate that exists about the death of Herod Agrippa I centers around whether it occurred before or after the Passover of 44 AD. Where one comes down on that question affects whether or not one affirms, following the plain sense of Acts 12, that the death of Herod Agrippa I was in the same year that Peter was imprisoned. The unbelieving skeptics' view, following one interpretation of classical literature, is that Agrippa died during the dies natalis games celebrating the founding of Caesarea. Those games took place in March, before the Passover, so adopting this view directly conflicts with the situation portrayed in the Scriptures. It forces one to divorce Paul's second journey to Jerusalem from the year of Herod's death, placing it a year afterwards.\nYet, the entire passage in Acts 12 reads smoothly as an uninterrupted unit: from the death of James the brother of John, through Peter's arrest during the Feast of Unleavened Bread, to the death of the guards blamed for Peter's escape, to Herod's ill-fated trip to Caesarea where he died. F.F. Bruce has suggested that the games at Caesarea were not the problematic dies natalis games, but those celebrating Claudius' birthday on August 1 (Suetonius, Claudius, 2.1; Bruce, Chronological Questions, note 16). This fits the situation well, and for what it's worth, the Wikipedia information on the death of Herod Agrippa I follows this understanding (https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herod_Agrippa). Josephus (Antiquities 19.8.2\/343) merely says the death of Agrippa I was in the context of some \"shows in honor of the emperor,\" without being more specific. Others have suggested the games of the Augustalia were in view, a festival celebrated October 12 in honor of Emperor Augustus.\nThe bottom line is, we just don't know for certain, as far as the classical sources or Josephus are concerned, what was the precise occasion for Herod Agrippa's visit to Caesarea. But we do know that Scripture paints a perfectly clear picture that Agrippa's death was simultaneous with the time Paul, Barnabas and Titus were in Jerusalem during Paul's second visit there. We have no reason to doubt this, unless we value the uncertain interpretations of classical scholars over the plain sense of the Word of God.\nIt is time to bring this study to a close. Much more could have been written, but the length would have been too great. We have learned the following things:\n1. The death of Herod Agrippa I took place at Caesarea in 44 AD, during a festival probably held between August and October. This is a solidly-attested date from history.\n2. Agrippa's death was in the same year that the apostle Paul visited Jerusalem for the second time, in the company of Barnabas and Titus, for a private meeting with the leaders there to present the gospel God revealed to Paul for preaching to the Gentiles.\n3. Paul's second visit to Jerusalem was in his fourteenth year as a Christian. Per Jewish and Roman custom this was probably reckoned inclusively, in the same way we showed last month that Scripture counts the days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.\n4. Counting back fourteen years from 44 AD using inclusive reckoning, we conclude Paul was saved in 31 AD, possibly even late 30 AD depending on how much time was spanned by the events of Acts 1-9.\nAccordingly, the most likely date for the Crucifixion, so far as the scriptural and astronomical clues we have examined are concerned, is Friday, April 7, 30 AD.\nIn closing, the data on which this determination is based was derived from a straightforward, plain-sense understanding of Scripture, rather than one which elevates the results of secular scholarship over the biblical record. Such scholarship nowadays depends greatly upon studies of classical histories and how to interpret them, along with questioning whether the plain sense of the biblical text is the right sense. Even otherwise conservative scholars have stumbled over this as they have sought to gain a hearing in the academic world. But we need to be reminded that skepticism about the plain sense of Scripture goes back to Satan's words to Eve in the Garden: \"Yea, hath God said\u2026?\" (Gen 3:1). When scholars do this we must exercise great discernment, lest we be led astray from God's revealed truth.\nIn a future installment of this ongoing study, I hope to address how the date of Herod's death, when understood through the lens of Scripture rather than in dependence on dubious interpretations of the writings of Josephus and other classical authors, is likewise consistent with a 30 AD Crucifixion. It even ties in precisely with the prophecy of the \"Seventy Weeks\" of Daniel 9:24-27.\n[Article slightly revised 4\/8\/18 to fix a few minor errors and typos.]\nSeal of Jezebel Identified\nDigging for Truth-Episode 30: On the Reliability of NT Manuscripts (Part Two)\nPromised Land Pomegranates\nDigging for Truth-Episode 29: The Reliability of NT Manuscripts with Dr. Craig Evans\nDigging for Truth-Episode 28: Artifacts from Every Day Life in Bible Times\nDigging for Truth Episode 27: Archaeology and the Life of Christ\nDigging for Truth Episode 25: Israel in Egyptian Inscriptions\nDigging for Truth-Episode 23: Has Joshua's Altar Been Found on Mt. Ebal?\nDigging for Truth-Episode 22: ABR's Dig at Tel Shiloh Part Two\nThe Seraiah Assumption: Wrapping Up Some Loose Ends\nDigging for Truth-Episode 20: Relating the Bible to Archaeology\nCanaanite Child Sacrifice, Abortion, and the Bible\nThe Seraiah Assumption and the Decree of Daniel 9:25\nPinpointing the Date of Christ's Birth\nSetting the Record Straight on the Primeval Chronology of the Septuagint (Part 1)\nNew Evidence for Kainan in New Testament and LXX Papyri\nThe Case for the Septuagint's Chronology in Genesis 5 and 11\nEvangelicalism's Search for Chronological Gaps in Genesis 5 and 11: A Historical, Hermeneutical and Linguistic Critique\nThe Genesis 5 and 11 Genealogy and Chronology Research Project\nDigging for Truth-Episode 10: The Walls of Jericho (Part One)\nThe Oldest Yahweh Inscription\nEvidence for Inerrancy from a Second Unexpected Source: The Jubilee and Sabbatical Cycles\nKhirbet el-Maqatir: A Fortress in the Highlands of Canaan and Proposed New Site for Joshua's Ai\nEl Araj Excavations Unearth First-Century Artifacts and a Byzantine Church\nArchaeologists Claim to have Found the City of Ziklag\nBiblical-Era Purple Dye Production Site Discovered\nOstraca from King Herod's Palace at Machaerus Rediscovered\nWatchtower from the Reign of King Hezekiah Excavated\nABR fulfills its mission through memberships and generous donations from supporters.\nJoin us in our mission! 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The material also has to ensure the contents remain whole and undamaged during transport \u2013 oversized boxes that contain little may get crushed, overfilled boxes may rip open.\nThe packaging must be able to endure diagonal falls from a height of 100 cm.\nThe packaging must be able to bear the weight of 4-5 packages of a similar weight on top of it.\nOld barcodes must be removed as they may prevent the automatic sorting of parcels and cause delays in parcels reaching their destination.\nThe packaging material must be durable enough so that its contents are not damaged. Standard envelopes and plastic bags, for example, are not suitable. Incorrect packaging may injure or stain parcel handlers and other parcels.\nMinimum measurements: 1 cm * 15 cm * 15 cm (height \u00d7 width \u00d7 depth).\nMaximum measurements: 60 cm * 36 cm * 60 cm.\nMaximum weight of parcel: 35 kg.\nIf the parcel's width and height are at their maximum permitted size, we recommend opting for a larger locker so that it is more convenient for the person receiving it to remove it from the locker.\nInner packaging\nInner packaging must ensure that the contents do not move inside the packaging. Incorrectly packaged items may injure or stain parcel handlers and other parcels. If necessary, use foam rubber, bubble wrap, plastic shavings, corrugated cardboards, corners, special air-filled plastic pouches or other similar materials for filling the parcel. You can also use various tension films or nets.\nThe contents of the parcel cannot be in direct contact with the outer packaging.\nWhen placing several items in one parcel, they must be separated using cushions.\nContainers used to transport liquids or powdered substances must be hermetically sealed and the container must be packaged into sturdy transport packaging (corrugated cardboard, plastic box, wooden box, etc.).\nWhen packing fragile items, suitable packaging materials must be used (edge protectors, cushions, filling materials, etc.).\nSealing the parcel\nWhen packaging items as required, the packaging must be sealed (using strong adhesive tape, packaging film, etc.) so that it cannot be opened without damaging it or so that it does not open during transport. It must be noted that the heavier an item is, the stronger its packaging must be.\nNo extra items are allowed to be added to the parcel.\nThe parcel cannot have open edges or protruding ends.\nThe parcel must be closed on all sides and the information required to send it must remain visible.\nMarking a parcel: labels and stickers\nAll old labels and stickers must be removed.\nThe label must include contact details for the sender and the receiver.\nThe label must be attached to the top of the parcel.\nIf a delivery includes several parcels, each parcel must be marked with a parcel label with a unique identification number.\nDo not place the label or sticker at the connection point of the box lids.\nIn case of fragile items, attach a special label to the parcel.\nHand-written notes on the parcel are not taken into account when handling it.\nFragile itemas\nFragile items must be packaged in a way that decreases their risk of breaking during transport. Place fragile items in the centre of the parcel where they are not in contact with the sides of the package.\nFragile items must be separately packed into a break-resistant package to prevent the items coming into contact with each other and hinder their movement inside the package during transport. Empty space in the package must be filled using filling materials, i.e. the contents must be fixed in place, using inner support.\nParcels move on the line along with other parcels with a weight up to 35 kg, which means that other heavier parcels may come to rest on top of the parcel and the parcel may experience bumping due to the height differences in the separate parts of the line.\nMark a fragile parcel with the red marking depicting glass!\nWhen packaging sharp objects, bear in mind the safety of other parcels \u2013 the packaging must be strong enough for the sharp points to remain in the package and not damage it. The sharp points must be encased in a protective casing, e.g. plastic or wooden casings.\nWhen sending an item filled with a liquid or semi-solid substance, the items must be placed in a hermetically sealed container, i.e. it must be packaged in a securely sealable container or bottle. Containers with a large opening must be placed in a plastic bag and sealed in a way that prevents liquid to spill out from the package.\nContainers containing a liquid must be placed in a cardboard box and secured in the package. The package must include a substance that absorbs the liquid in case the bottle or container breaks.\nPowdered substances must be packaged securely in a bag, box or container. Then it must be placed securely in a break-resistant package, using inner support, when necessary.\nParcels containing liquid or semi-solid substances must be packaged in a way that endures falls from a height of 100 cm.\nMagnets\/items containing a magnet\nMagnets or items containing a magnet can be sent only if the magnet is packed in a way that no metal items stick to the parcel containing the magnet.\nPACKAGING GOODS ON PALLETS\nHeavy goods (> 35 kg) and goods requiring special handling must generally be placed on a pallet.\nCommonly used standard pallets:\nName Dimensions (mm) Standard weight up to\u2026\n\u00bd EUR-pallet (teho pallet) 800\u00d7600 370 kg\nEUR-pallet 800\u00d71200 740 kg\nFIN-pallet 1000\u00d71200 925 kg\nBEAR IN MIND THE FOLLOWING WHEN PACKAGING GOODS ON PALLETS:\nUse undamaged pallets that comply with the standards of the destination country.\nThe goods must not extend over the edges of the pallet.\nIt is also important that the pallet's size is used to the fullest extent possible so that the goods do not move during transport.\nThe goods must be fastened to the pallet, using various means (packaging film, plastic and metal bands, etc.).\nWhen placing goods on pallets, the lower items should be able to bear the weight of the packages on top and the pallet must remain stable during the entire transport chain.\nWe recommend using additional protective means (edge protectors, filling materials, anti-slip paper, slip sheets), when necessary.\nThe pallet must be able to be lifted with a forklift from all sides.\nMarking pallets\nPallets must be marked with a sticker generated in the web-based system.\nPallets requiring special handling must be marked accordingly.\nFor mixed pallets, a marking must be added for the pallet as a whole as well as for all individual parcels on the pallet, unless otherwise agreed upon.\nPrivate Helpdesk\nMon-Fri 9:00 \u2013 21:00\nSat 9:00 \u2013 17:00\nSun 9:00 \u2013 15:00\nRead our FAQ\nBusiness Helpdesk\nInterlacing tutorials\nParcel lockers locations\nAbout Itella\nCopyright Itella LLC|Website Privacy Policy\nWe use cookies on our website\nWe will ask your consent to use these cookies which are not strictly necessary to enable core functionality of our website and to provide the service you request when visiting our website.\nYou can choose which cookies you enable by ticking boxes here.\nNecessary cookiesThese cookies are needed for our website to work in a secure and correct way. 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{"text":"comment,\nThere's an account in the Bible, just before Judas plans to betray Jesus, where a woman comes up to Jesus and pours expensive perfume all over his feet. At seeing this Judas calls out: \"Why this waste? Why wasn't this perfume sold and the money given to the poor?\" Interestingly Jesus sides with the woman and disagrees with the Judas protest. You could call \"the Judas protest\" the protest people make that money should be spent on the poor, but only when that money is going to be spent on worship. This protest has hit fever pitch recently over the apparent $1.5 billion pledged (not given) to rebuild the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Firstly, the Catholic Church doesn't own Notre-Dame, the French government does. Secondly, Notre Dame cathedral, one of the finest buildings of the medieval era still standing, and more than 850 years after construction began, was until the recent fire, one of Europe's most visited sites with about 12 million tourists a year. That's almost half Australia's population. Recently American baseball spent more than US$1 billion in less than a month on only three players' contracts; Manny Machado, Bryce Harper and Mike Trout. Where were the protests of: \"Why wasn't this money spent on the poor?\" Last year U.S. basketball star LeBron James' career earnings passed the $1 billion mark, but there was no great outcry in the media for the poor. Of course, if he'd decided to build a church for a fraction of his earnings there would have been angry protests of \"What about the poor?\" Yet, how do all these people, so suddenly concerned about the poor now, know these billionaires restoring Notre-Dame aren't also helping the poor? In my experiences of raising money for the poor I've discovered it's those further down the income scale who give less both in amount and percentage. I'm musing the Australian Taxation Office might even agree with me on this. In a 2017 report entitled \"Taxation Statistics\" the ATO revealed charities rely on the super rich, but individual taxpayers who made tax-deductible donations gave just 0.4 per cent of their taxable income. This means, of those Australians donating to charity, the average amount donated is less than half of 1% of their annual taxable income. It appears this seemingly massive crowd of protesters for the poor do not end up putting their money where their mouth is. In a world as ephemeral as 2019, soon everything we do, type, say and photograph will be deleted, and we will be cremated, and our ashes scattered. Therefore should we condemn those trying to preserve one of the most inspirational and visited architectural human triumphs on the planet that may well last for another 850 years of inspiration? Last year's French World Cup soccer team were paid a combined annual salary of $1.1 billion for entertaining us for only twelve months and we cheered them like gods. But when a couple of billionaires, not paupers, pledge their own $1.5 billion as a gift to inspire the world for another 850 years, the crowd screams \"Foul! What about the poor?\". The latest Marvel movie \"Avengers: End Game\" that lasts for 181 minutes, is set to make another $2 billion for Marvel as did \"Avengers: Infinity War\" last year. Shouldn't Marvel be giving this $4 billion to the poor? The Sydney Football Stadium after only thirty years is currently being rebuilt from scratch for $700 million and Olympic Stadium after not even twenty years, is to be redeveloped for $800 million, even though both stadiums were in perfect working order. Nobody seems too concerned this particular $1.5 billion of taxpayer money isn't going to the poor. Wre live in a world where there is more money than we can even conceive and the global debt alone is currently at $244 trillion. Yet you would swear this $1.5 billion to restore Notre-Dame was the last few coins on earth. If the roof of the Sydney Opera House came down - well I don't know what would be left if it did - but if it did, I have no doubt we would happily spend $1.5 billion repairing it without any thought for the poor.\nhttps:\/\/nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net\/transform\/v1\/crop\/frm\/t7dzvta5NUQvz8uk8bzMfu\/d53c8a87-5b82-4dc4-86eb-a0c528647c61.jpg\/r11_246_4917_3018_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg\nMay 1 2019 - 7:00AM\nPoor miss out on entertainment's billions\nFather Brendan Lee\nThere's an account in the Bible, just before Judas plans to betray Jesus, where a woman comes up to Jesus and pours expensive perfume all over his feet.\nAt seeing this Judas calls out: \"Why this waste? Why wasn't this perfume sold and the money given to the poor?\"\nInterestingly Jesus sides with the woman and disagrees with the Judas protest.\nYou could call \"the Judas protest\" the protest people make that money should be spent on the poor, but only when that money is going to be spent on worship.\nThis protest has hit fever pitch recently over the apparent $1.5 billion pledged (not given) to rebuild the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.\nFirstly, the Catholic Church doesn't own Notre-Dame, the French government does.\nSecondly, Notre Dame cathedral, one of the finest buildings of the medieval era still standing, and more than 850 years after construction began, was until the recent fire, one of Europe's most visited sites with about 12 million tourists a year. That's almost half Australia's population.\nRecently American baseball spent more than US$1 billion in less than a month on only three players' contracts; Manny Machado, Bryce Harper and Mike Trout.\nWhere were the protests of: \"Why wasn't this money spent on the poor?\"\nLast year U.S. basketball star LeBron James' career earnings passed the $1 billion mark, but there was no great outcry in the media for the poor.\nOf course, if he'd decided to build a church for a fraction of his earnings there would have been angry protests of \"What about the poor?\"\nYet, how do all these people, so suddenly concerned about the poor now, know these billionaires restoring Notre-Dame aren't also helping the poor?\nIn my experiences of raising money for the poor I've discovered it's those further down the income scale who give less both in amount and percentage.\nI'm musing the Australian Taxation Office might even agree with me on this.\nIn a 2017 report entitled \"Taxation Statistics\" the ATO revealed charities rely on the super rich, but individual taxpayers who made tax-deductible donations gave just 0.4 per cent of their taxable income.\nThis means, of those Australians donating to charity, the average amount donated is less than half of 1% of their annual taxable income.\nIt appears this seemingly massive crowd of protesters for the poor do not end up putting their money where their mouth is.\nIn a world as ephemeral as 2019, soon everything we do, type, say and photograph will be deleted, and we will be cremated, and our ashes scattered.\nTherefore should we condemn those trying to preserve one of the most inspirational and visited architectural human triumphs on the planet that may well last for another 850 years of inspiration?\nLast year's French World Cup soccer team were paid a combined annual salary of $1.1 billion for entertaining us for only twelve months and we cheered them like gods.\nBut when a couple of billionaires, not paupers, pledge their own $1.5 billion as a gift to inspire the world for another 850 years, the crowd screams \"Foul! What about the poor?\".\nThe latest Marvel movie \"Avengers: End Game\" that lasts for 181 minutes, is set to make another $2 billion for Marvel as did \"Avengers: Infinity War\" last year.\nShouldn't Marvel be giving this $4 billion to the poor?\nThe Sydney Football Stadium after only thirty years is currently being rebuilt from scratch for $700 million and Olympic Stadium after not even twenty years, is to be redeveloped for $800 million, even though both stadiums were in perfect working order.\nNobody seems too concerned this particular $1.5 billion of taxpayer money isn't going to the poor.\nThe Olympic Stadium is to be redeveloped for $800 million. Nobody seems too concerned this taxpayer money isn't going to the poor.\nWre live in a world where there is more money than we can even conceive and the global debt alone is currently at $244 trillion.\nYet you would swear this $1.5 billion to restore Notre-Dame was the last few coins on earth.\nIf the roof of the Sydney Opera House came down - well I don't know what would be left if it did - but if it did, I have no doubt we would happily spend $1.5 billion repairing it without any thought for the poor.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Towns of Mexico > Chiapas > Villa Corzo > Tom\u00e1s Paredes\nTom\u00e1s Paredes (Chiapas)\nThe most complete information about the tiny town of Tom\u00e1s Paredes (photos, maps, statistics, population) on a single page.\nDid you know that this town in Chiapas has 1 inhabitants?\nThe town of Tom\u00e1s Paredes is located in the Municipality of Villa Corzo (in the State of Chiapas). There are 1 inhabitants. Of all the towns in the municipality, it occupies the number #1238 in terms of number of inhabitants. Tom\u00e1s Paredes is at 621 meters of altitude.\nMap. How to get to Tom\u00e1s Paredes?\nOther towns in the Municipality of Villa Corzo\nThe town of Tom\u00e1s Paredes is located at 1.5 kilometers from , which is the most populated locality in the municipality, in the North direction. In addition, it is located at 34.8 kilometers from Villa Corzo, which is the capital of the municipality, in the Northwest direction. If you browse our webpage, you will also find a map with the location of Tom\u00e1s Paredes.\nWhere is Tom\u00e1s Paredes? How to get there? Map\nHow to get to the town of Tom\u00e1s Paredes in Chiapas? Using this map, use the controls to zoom in and out on the village and others in the vicinity to see the direct route, and to be able to plan, for example, hiking activities in Tom\u00e1s Paredes.\nNeed to locate a certain Tom\u00e1s Paredes building on a satellite photo? In this link we have an updated image, where you can see the streets and houses of the village..\nThe population of Tom\u00e1s Paredes (Chiapas) is 1 inhabitants\nPopulation data in Tom\u00e1s Paredes (Chiapas)\nEvolution of the population in Tom\u00e1s Paredes: Total Men Women\nSatellite photo of Tom\u00e1s Paredes\nAmazing satellite GPS maps of Tom\u00e1s Paredes, to see from space this beautiful village, as well as the surroundings of the municipality of Villa Corzo. You can search free satellite map (2023) of Tom\u00e1s Paredes.\nVote for Tom\u00e1s Paredes. Opinions.\nDo you like Tom\u00e1s Paredes? Or don't you like it much? Now you can vote for Tom\u00e1s Paredes so that everyone knows it. Use these stars (\"0\" you like little, \"5\" you like a lot) to rate with your opinion.\n>>> Map with all the towns within the municipality of Villa Corzo\n>>> Click here to see more towns in the State of Chiapas (statistics, photos, maps, restaurants, hotels,...) <<<\n4 de Octubre (66 inhabitants)\nEl Cielito (10 inhabitants)\nEl Jard\u00edn (- inhabitants)\nFracci\u00f3n Padre Piedra (2 inhabitants)\nLa Pe\u00f1ita (15 inhabitants)\nLas Brisas (6 inhabitants)\nLas Cruces (12 inhabitants)\nLas Jacarandas (5 inhabitants)\nDos Canelos (4 inhabitants)\nNuevo Mitontic (El Cimarr\u00f3n) (207 inhabitants)\nSan Antonio del Monte (- inhabitants)\nSan Ram\u00f3n (119 inhabitants)\nSanta Teresa (11 inhabitants)\nSelva Escondida (6 inhabitants)\nSin Pensar (5 inhabitants)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Kyaa Super Kool... team gets naughty for first look launch\nHoping to make a big splash, the makers of the sex comedy Kyaa Super Kool Hai Hum (KSKHH) have planned to launch the movie's first look from the depths of a swimming pool.\nbollywood Updated: Apr 07, 2012 14:06 IST\nKavita Awaasthi\nOn Monday, the film's entire cast, including Tusshar Kapoor, Riteish Deshmukh, Sarah Jane Dias and Neha Sharma, will dive into the pool at a city hotel and officially launch the first look from there.\n\"Since the film is naughty, the idea is to make the launch naughty as well,\" says director Sachin Yardi. \"The film has been shot in Goa and to bring in the elements of water, bikinis and glamour, we will have a few other girls (junior artistes) in bikinis as well. We didn't want to do a conventional launch. The plan is to be different, stand out and get noticed. Innovative promotional strategies help get a film a strong identity. KSKHH, already is making waves as it is a sequel to the earlier hit film Kyaa Kool Hai Hum.\"\nYardi denies that the film is a sex comedy, saying: \"I would rather call KSKHH a wacky and crazy comedy. The humour is in a different zone from what we have seen in other comedy films.\" In fact, he adds, he even toned down the naughtiness factor in a few of the scenes.\n\"We have consciously maintained a line and haven't gone overboard,\" he says. \"Nothing is blatantly crude or vulgar in the film. As for the double entendres, we subscribe to the philosophy that we aren't saying anything dirty but the dialogues are interpreted by people in a naughty manner.\"\nMemorable promotions\n* For 3 Idiots, Aamir Khan played hide and seek with fans for a week.\n* Shah Rukh Khan unveiled Ra.One's first look on Twitter in Jan 2011, and released the trailer during the World Cup seven months before the film released.\n* Aamir Khan got ushers in film theatres to sport his Ghajni hairstyle.\n* Advertisements that announced 'Manisha Koirala dead' were carried in major publications for Mahesh Bhatt's Criminal.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"It's been a couple of years since I updated my bio, so here is an updated version of my own journey into Narrative Branding\u00ae. I am the founder and CEO of Verse Group, an independent brand consulting and design firm that was started in 2004. [My second job is serving the NYC marketing community as President of the NYAMA, nyama.org, but that is a different story.]\nNarrative Branding is a breakthrough method for creating, staging and managing brands in today's digital\/social\/mobile world.\nNarrative Branding is written up in text books \u2014 Kotler & Keller's Marketing Management, 14th Edition \u2014 and has been taught to MBA students at Wharton, Columbia and Kellogg at Northwestern.\nOver the years I have had the great good fortune to work with \u2014 and sometimes create \u2014 a number of iconic brands. Some examples include: Lockheed Martin's centennial branding; co-creating Samsung's brand strategy to lift it to class status over the past 15 years; creating NXP Semiconductor brand; creating Terra; restaging of MSN in 2000 with a butterfly designed to live in a digital world; re-staging Telef\u00f3nica from a local brand in Spain to a true multinational; brand strategy that transformed Legend Computing into Lenovo and so forth.\nI am a storyteller. I am a creative writer \u2014 non-fiction, one-act plays, screenplays \u2014 but mostly a fiction writer. My short fiction has been published in magazines such a Runner's World, Ladies Home Journal and Philadelphia Magazine, but mostly in small literary journals like Witness, The Quarterly and Many Mountains Moving and in anthologies like The Bruce Springsteen Reader published by Penguin Books. I received my MFA in creative writing from Columbia University's School of the Arts. Through Columbia I met and was very much influenced by several writers including Gordon Lish, Jorge Luis Borges, Elizabeth Hardwick, Sanjay Nigam and John Leonard. It also led to my chance meeting J.D. Salinger, a meeting which did not change the course of my life.\nI am an economist, with my Economics degree from University of Pennsylvania. There I was taught and deeply influenced by the extraordinary economist Sidney Weintraub who was himself a graduate student of John Maynard Keynes in the 1930s.\nI began my marketing\/branding\/advertising career in the market research department at Ted Bates. Looking back, I recognize the tremendous opportunity I was given to understand both the strategic and the creative sides of business. It also led to the peculiar situation where I'm probably the only MFA who has served as a Director of Planning and Research.\nAt the time, Ted Bates was one of the world's largest advertising agencies, famous for the ideas of it's co-founder Rosser Reeves. Reeves is legendary for articulating \"the unique selling proposition\" \u2014 or USP as it is better known. Reeves wrote a seminal book \"Reality in Advertising\" which set forth the agency's famous USP philosophy. With the fortune he made in advertising he retired at an early age to write novels.\nFrom Ted Bates I moved to Backer & Spielvogel and on to a series of increasingly senior roles at J. Walter Thompson and BBDO Worldwide and then into the world of brand consulting with the late Peter Kim at Bright Sun Consulting. In 1998 I was invited to join FutureBrand as an executive director.\nBy the mid-1990s it became quite clear to me that there was a fundamental problem with the way brands were created and managed \u2014 e.g. the Brand Positioning method, which is also known as USP. From concrete experience, from listening to and conducting thousands of hours of qualitative research, it became clear that what created emotional bonds between people and brands were the stories that they shared. And that the strongest of brands had engaging stories with a core metaphor at the heart of those stories. For example, in the case of MSN it is the butterfly, which allows people to co-create their own worlds online.\nThis set me on a journey of learning about how narrative shapes our understanding of the world and its power in creating and staging brands, or, more importantly, in creating community and bringing people closer to each other. It led to many conversations with writers, actors, movie makers, composers, neurologists, market researchers, psychologists and others.\nThis led to the development of a breakthrough method for creating and staging brands based on digital narratives, on storytelling, on metaphors. A brand is more like a hit Broadway musical or an attraction at Disneyworld.\nNarrative Branding\u00ae is the result of those investigations.\nAnd in 2004 I founded Verse Group to bring this method to market.\nAnd, over a drink some time, I'll be happy to share my story of how meeting J.D. Salinger did not change my life.\n4 Responses to \"About Randall Ringer\"\n1 wayne cerullo February 13, 2009 at 2:41 pm\nRandall \u2013 good to see you telling stories and kicking butt! If my long-term memory serves me correctly, we met at D-E about ten years ago when I was considering the branding side of marketing. I believe Marty Susz is a mutual friend as well.\nI saw your survey reference \u2014 well done!\n2 Matt Sawyers March 23, 2009 at 9:45 am\nMr. Ringer:\nVery engaging reading, as was the Feb 2009 study. I'm a strategic CD at a small shop in New Haven, with a Creative Writing background, appreciating the fact that conversations are commanded by storytellers. Compelling, 1st-hand accounts become part of the brand mythology and create an oral tradition of shared experiences. So bravo.\n3 mike brennan November 16, 2010 at 7:43 pm\nRandall I love your linking of narrative and branding! It's refreshing to hear about when so many places just \"sell\".\n1 Scrap the mortgage deduction? Americans weigh in | Reuters Money Trackback on August 10, 2011 at 9:27 am","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Shoot at Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal\nChris Lacey\nStudley Royal Shoot owns the freehold shooting rights at Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal. Their arrangement to shoot on the estate is entirely separate to the National Trust.\nWhen does shooting take place at Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal?\nShooting takes place at Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal within the water garden and abbey grounds on Fridays in November, December and January every year (except the Friday between Christmas and New Year's Day.) The National Trust closes the abbey and water garden on these days, but all other areas (including deer park and valley of the seven bridges) remain open as usual.\nThe shoot can, and does, shoot outside the water garden and abbey areas (predominantly Seven Bridges Valley, Studley Lake and Mackershaw deer park) in autumn and winter as is their right to do so.\nWhy does the Shoot take place at Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal?\nThe current situation is one the National Trust inherited following its purchase of the Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal estate from North Yorkshire County Council in 1983.\nIn 1966, Henry Vyner, the last private owner of what was the 18,000 acre Studley Royal Estate, placed the contents, rights, chattels and land on the open market. A part of the sales included the freehold shooting rights. These rights were purchased by a private individual who sold them on to the current owner in 1971.\nWhat do the shooting rights mean?\nLike all freeholders they have a right, in law, to shoot at any time within the respective shooting periods. The freeholder has the right to shoot anywhere on the estate including the abbey and water gardens.\nThis is not a unique situation and many landowners within the UK find themselves having to operate like this, including those landowners who now manage land that was part of the old Studley Royal Estate.\nWhy has the National Trust not bought the shooting rights?\nUnlike local or county councils, as a private charity, the National Trust has no power to compulsory purchase or place any legal claim to a right previously sold.\nWhat has Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal agreed with the Shoot?\nAfter legal negotiations some years ago, the National Trust reached an agreement with the Shoot to close the estate on Fridays in November, December and January. This was done to try to minimise the disruption to our visitors on other days and to allow the shoot to have exclusive access on that day only. Like all landowners we continue to manage the situation to the best of our ability. The closure dates are always printed in the members' handbook and available on our website.\nWhilst we have been able to negotiate a specific day for closure in the abbey and water garden area, the Shoot can and does, shoot anywhere on any day within the confines of their shooting rights. Shooting can take place on any parcel of land within their portfolio without our prior knowledge and we have no bearing or influence on the Shoot's activity.\nWe are given limited notice of these 'extra' days. We give notice to visitors on the Fountains Abbey homepage and onsite that the Shoot will be taking place.\nWhat are the Shoot's responsibilities when at Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal?\nIn the past we have asked the Shoot to manage all aspects of their operations including 'the drive' i.e. staffing with respect to walkers using the public footpaths outside the paying area but still within our landownership.\nAs an independent company with freehold rights the Shoot is clearly responsible for all aspects of their work including the management of others who use the countryside. All shoots in the U.K. should adhere to the Code of Good Shooting Practice.\nDoes the National Trust make any financial gain from the Shoot?\nThe National Trust takes no part in any aspect of the shoot and there is no financial gain or otherwise to the Trust.\nThe 'Studley Royal Shoot' continues to operate as an independent company and totally separate from any National Trust business or affairs. We understand that the freeholder rears both wild and open penned birds on their own land.\nDiscover more at Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden\nLooking after the deer at Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal\nFind out more about how we manage the deer throughout the year to ensure we have a healthy herd.\nConservation projects at Fountains Abbey\nTogether with our partners, it's our role to ensure this exceptional landscape is looked after now and in the future. Find out about some of the projects we're working on at the moment.\nFountains Abbey and Studley Royal: A World Heritage Site\nFountains Abbey and Studley Royal sits on the world stage. The 18th-century water garden, incorporating some of the largest Cistercian abbey ruins in Europe achieved the status of a World Heritage Site. Find out what exactly a World Heritage Site is and how that impacts the work we do.\nIn 1132, 13 monks came here to start a simpler life. Over 400 years later, when Henry VIII demanded the closure of the Abbey, the monks left behind the most complete Cistercian abbey remains in the country.\nOur position on trail hunting\nWe recognise that trail hunting is an issue that polarises people's opinions and provokes strong reactions.\nOur position on shooting\nWe protect and care for places so people and nature can thrive.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Issue 22 - 4th December 2006\nMonday 4 December 2006\nStatutory disciplinary and grievance procedures\nDepartment for Constitutional Affairs v Jones UKEAT\/0333\/06\/DM\nFor the purposes of regulation 6(5) Employment Act 2002 (Dispute Resolution) Regulations 2004 (\"the Regulations\") a grievance that the employer has dismissed or is contemplating dismissal includes a complaint about the manner in which the employer is contemplating dismissal and the manner in which he has dealt with an appeal against dismissal. Therefore a complaint of discrimination in relation to the handling of the investigation and disciplinary procedures which led to dismissal and its outcome, including the appeal, would usually be a complaint about dismissal and the grievance procedures do not apply. More info\nWarner Ltd v Aspland UKEAT\/0531\/05\/MAA\nA letter before action between the parties' solicitors may constitute a grievance for the purpose of the Regulations as long as it meets the requirements of regulation 2(1). A series of letters may be read together when deciding whether the complaint relates to the eventual claims. In the circumstances the grievance was not part of \"without prejudice\" correspondence. More info\nAdding respondent after judgment\nAske Security Ltd v Foote & KAM Security Ltd UKEAT\/0433\/06\/RN\nThe claimant obtained a judgment in default. She subsequently asked for a review to add the name of a new respondent as it would not be possible to recover against the original employer. Although the new respondent was a different legal entity the Employment Tribunal found it were in effect the same company and pierced the corporate veil. The EAT held that instead of just entering judgment against the new respondent the Employment Tribunal should have given it an opportunity to submit a response form and give evidence in defence. More info\nHassan v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis UKEAT\/0437\/06\/DM\nThe dismissal of probationary police officer under regulation 13 of the Police Regulations 2003 by an Assistant Commissioner was a complaint which could be brought under the provisions against race and\/or religious discrimination. The dismissal process was not sufficiently judicial to attract the common law protection of absolute immunity. The procedure adopted was not sufficiently similar to that adopted in a court of law. More info\nLake v British Transport Police UKEAT\/0154\/06\/LA\nThe conduct, procedure and the decisions of a Police Disciplinary Board are all immune from suit because it is a judicial body. The protection afforded to police officers who may be 'whistleblowers' introduced by s43KA Employment Rights Act 1996 does not affect this immunity and does not enable police officers to challenge the conduct, procedure or decisions of the Board. However the bringing of the disciplinary proceedings as well as the action of the Chief Constable on appeal or review could be subject to complaint.\nTerritorial jurisdiction\nTransocean International Resources Ltd v Russell EATS\/0074\/05\/MT\nWorkers on installations situated on or over the UK Continental Shelf were covered by the Working Time Regulations 1998 in relation to their rights to paid annual leave prior to the 2006 amendments. More info\nUnauthorised deductions\nDundee City Council v Robertson EAT\/595\/01\nA car allowance which was provided whether or not the claimant ever used his car for work purposes should still be treated as payment of expenses under s27(2)(b) Employment Rights Act 1996 and therefore its withdrawal was not an unauthorised deduction from wages. More info\nContractual redundancy entitlement\nPeries v Wirefast Ltd UKEAT\/0245\/06\/DA\nAlthough the handbook in which the entitlements in relation to redundancy was contained stated that it was not part of the contract, this did not preclude a policy emerging based on custom and practice that could harden into a contractual entitlement. More info\nAli v Sovereign Buses (London) Ltd UKEAT\/0274\/06\/DM\nThe right to silence under article 6(2) ECHR in criminal proceedings cannot be read into the principle of fairness under section 98(4) Employment Rights Act 1996 as applying to internal disciplinary procedure. Provided the principles set out in the relevant authorities such as X v Y [2004] ICR 1634 are applied, there will be satisfactory recognition of the standards of fairness invoked by the Convention. More info\nRoyal Bank of Scotland plc v McAdie UKEAT\/0268\/06\/ZT\nThe fact that an employer is responsible for an employee's incapacity is relevant to whether it is reasonable to dismiss for that incapacity and in such a case it may be necessary in such a case to \"go the extra mile\" in finding alternative employment or to put up with a longer period of sickness absence than would otherwise be reasonable. In the present case, however, even though an employee's stress-related illness was attributable to the employer, given that at the time of the dismissal there was no prospect of her ever returning to work the dismissal could not be unfair. More info\nScope v Thornett [2006] EWCA Civ 1600\nThe consideration of continuing loss in unfair dismissal claims inevitably involves the consideration of uncertainties and therefore involves a speculative element. Evidence to the contrary may be so sparse so as to lead to conclusion that loss would have continued indefinitely, however where there is evidence it may not have done so that must be taken into account and reasons for the conclusions made and factors relied on sufficiently stated. More info\nBirmingham City Council v Laws UKEAT\/0360\/06\/MAA\nThe Employment Tribunal erred in finding disability discrimination in relation to a complaint that had never formed part of the Claimant's claim despite a number of case management discussions and an agreed list of issues. More info\nLondon Borough of Barnet v Ferguson UKEAT\/0220\/06\/DA\nWhen considering whether there has been a failure to make reasonable adjustments the Employment Tribunal must identify the relevant arrangements made by the employer, the relevant physical features of the premises, the identity of non-disabled comparators (where appropriate) and the nature and extent of the substantial disadvantage suffered by the Claimant. The Employment Tribunal had erred in failing to do so. A failure to consider whether any reasonable adjustments can be made is not a breach of the duty itself, however it may put an employer at risk of a breach (following Tarbuck v Sainsburys Supermarkets Ltd [2006] IRLR 664). More info\nProtected disclosure\nBolton School v Evans [2006] EWHC Civ 1653\nThe Court of Appeal held that a protected disclosure does not extend to the whole course of conduct surrounding a disclosure but only the disclosure itself. Thus where disciplinary action was taken for the misconduct committed in hacking into a school's IT system to demonstrate problems with security, this was not done on the grounds that a protected disclosure had been made.\nIncrease in Employment Tribunal awards\nThe new increased limits on Employment Tribunal awards come into effect on 1 February 2007. The full schedule can be found in the link to the statutory instrument below. More info\nGarden Court Chambers \u2013 CallCounsel\nEmployment Callback - 020 7993 7888 or fax 020 7993 7700\nWednesday and Friday 2pm \u2013 5pm\nHousing - 020 7993 7666\nTuesday, Wednesday & Thursday 2pm -5pm\nImmigration - 020 7993 7777\nTuesday, Wednesday & Thursday 10am \u2013 1pm\nFrom 1 January 2007 the Employment Call Counsel service is expanding to include the acceptance of requests for more detailed written advice. Papers can be submitted without contacting the Call Counsel line first. Simply send in paperwork to Employment Call Counsel, Garden Court Chambers, 57-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LS, clearly stating that you are asking for advice under the Call Counsel scheme. This service is specifically for non-urgent queries only and you will receive a full response within 21 days.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Live Now: Arkansas vs. Kentucky\nArkansas vs. Kentucky\nImpact of Title IX radiates throughout the WCWS\nIsaiah Houde | SEC Network\nHogs set program and attendance record in upset of LSU\nOklahoma City - The impact of Title IX was on full display inside and out at USA Softball Hall Of Fame Stadium for the Women's College World Series.\nThe parking lots were filled with lifelong fans of the sport and the stadium was loaded with energy from the very first pitch on Day 1. An unreal turnout was eye-popping as the event continues to grow every year by substantial numbers.\nThe WCWS drew in a total of 67,631 fans in 2011, which was then tenth-most in the history of the event. The second-most number of fans to show up was in 2019 when 78,361 people showed love for their favorite teams.\nA staggering 115,514 fans showed up in 2021, which blew away the record set just two years prior. The 2022 tournament is on pace to break the previous one held, after a record-high 24,602 people appeared at the first two sessions -- with an average of 12,301 per session. There was an average of 11,551 in attendance during 2021, showing the strong potential for 2022 to be bring in the highest attendance thus far.\nLongtime fan and LSU alumni Sinah Goode spoke with SEC Network's Emily Proud about the turnout and was ecstatic.\n\"I love that there's so many fans here,\" Goode said with joy. \"That is one of the neatest things. The last few years we've come it's been sold out every time and it's just great. It's wonderful, no doubt.\"\nHow long has she been coming?\n\"Since 1973, but that was in Omaha,\" Goode continued. \"Somewhere in the 1990's we started coming almost every year. Probably for the last 20 years we've come every year.\"\nWith the 50th anniversary of Title IX around the corner, Goode said this is a perfect time to reflect on the adversity women have faced.\n\"Going back to old times, we were all in this together,\" Goode continued. \"There was no support, no monetary support or any kind of support.\n\"It changed (women's sports) dramatically. Before I came to Norman High, there was just gymnastics and tennis, maybe track and field. After I came, and because of Title IX, we had all those other sports. The women never played, but they always wanted to. We were teaching people the rules while they were playing on these high school teams.\n\"All that stuff is true. We had no budget, we had no uniforms and we had the throwaways (uniforms) from the boys. If we wanted to have the gym, you got to the gym at six in the morning, because it was not available to you at any other time.\"\nThe uniforms and budget were a huge issue for women in sports, along with the venues in which they played in. USA Softball Hall of Stadium is one prime example of the drastic changes that have been made over the last half century.\nThe NCAA detailed the renovations made since 2011 that have allowed for the continued growth of the event.\nIn 2011, a multipurpose field house was constructed behind the scoreboard in left-center field. During the WCWS, it is used to house the umpiring crews, and teams use to gather before and after games.\nIn 2013 and 2014, four new locker rooms and larger dugouts were part of a renovation to improve the student-athlete experience at the event. Concession stands and additional restrooms were also built. Also, during this time, batting cages were added down each baseline to help for possible pinch-hitting duties or to warm up before games. This is in addition to the two practice fields that were built at the complex in 2003, where teams prepare for their upcoming games.\nIn 2018, metal roof coverings were added to the batting cages. The following year, the press box and broadcast areas were renovated. Teams can walk through tunnels in the complex to reach locker rooms and to reach rooms where they answer questions from the press.\nAll the renovations have led to Oklahoma City remaining the host of the WCWS through 2035.\nThese changes have been beneficial for all collegiate teams, including the SEC groups that have had at least one team present since 2002.\nFlorida, led by Tim Walton, was the sole SEC team to compete in the WCWS and it was present with an unlikely run. The Gators outscored opponents 47-0 in the NCAA Softball Tournament and landed in the WCWS on what some would consider an off year.\nThree former Gators that were on the 2020 Tokyo Olympic team were at an autograph session and two of them discussed the impact of Title IX in a conversation with Proud.\n\"When I think about my life and the person I've become, so much of it has been fostered through softball,\" former Florida catcher Aubree Munro said. \"I grew and played a little bit of volleyball and a little bit of basketball, but I fell in love with softball at a young age.\"\n\"It's made me a better person, a better leader, a better teammate and it now translates to my real life. All of that goes back to softball, so to have the opportunity to compete at a high level and to pursue a dream has taught me so much that I get to carry the rest of my life\"\nMichelle Moultrie played a few years before Munro and she gave more insight on the impact that Title IX has had on women in sports.\n\"I just think it's really awesome,\" Moultrie said. \"I think for women to get the recognition that they are great athletes and that people come to see them and want to see them. I think it's really cool for these athletes to go to a big school, or go to a small school, and get this experience that's equal to a man. I think people and fans in general are supporting women and it's really awesome to see.\"\nPlayers like Munro and Moultrie help build on a sport that was cherished and protected by fans like Goode.\n\"This is my favorite week of the year, when I get to come to Oklahoma City and watch softball,\" Goode concluded with a grin.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"CAP LC Event\nCAP LC Publication\nLastest News in French\nCAP LC United Nations\nUN HRC 48\nUN UPR\n70 th \u2013 Commitment of Civil Society\nCo-Signing letters\nCo-Signing letters 2021\nCivil society organisations call on apparel brands and retailers to cut ties with suppliers using forced labour of ethnic minorities in China\nby CAPLC2021 | Jul 27, 2020 | Signing letters, Signing letters 2020\nToday, 72 Uyghur rights groups are joined by over 100 civil society organisations and labour unions from around the world in calling on apparel brands and retailers to stop using forced labour in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (\"Uyghur Region\"), known to local people as East Turkistan, and end their complicity in the Chinese government's human rights abuses. The groups have issued a call to action seeking brand commitments to cut all ties with suppliers implicated in forced labour and end all sourcing from the Uyghur Region, from cotton to finished garments, within twelve months.\n\"Now is the time for real action from brands, governments and international bodies \u2013 not empty declarations. To end the slavery and horrific abuses of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Turkic Muslim peoples by the Chinese government, brands must ensure their supply chains are not linked to the atrocities against these people. The only way brands can ensure they are not profiting from the exploitation is by exiting the region and ending relationships with suppliers propping up this Chinese government system,\" said Jasmine O'Connor OBE, CEO of Anti-Slavery International.\nThe Chinese government has rounded up an estimated 1 to 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Turkic and Muslim people in detention and forced-labour camps, the largest interment of an ethnic and religious minority since World War II. The atrocities in the Uyghur Region \u2013 including torture, forced separation of families, and the compulsory sterilisation of Uyghur women \u2013 are widely recognised to be crimes against humanity. A central element of the government's strategy to dominate the Uyghur people is a vast system of forced labour, affecting factories and farms across the region and China, both inside and beyond the internment camps.\nGulzira Auelkhan, a Kazakh woman who was formerly detained in an internment camp and then subjected to forced labour in a factory said: \"The clothes factory was no different from the [internment] camp. There were police, cameras, you couldn't go anywhere.\"\nDespite global outrage at the abuses, leading apparel brands are bolstering and benefiting from the government's assault on the peoples of the region. Brands continue to source millions of tons of cotton and yarn from the Uyghur Region. Roughly 1 in 5 cotton garments sold globally contains cotton and\/or yarn from the Uyghur Region; it is virtually certain that many of these goods are tainted with forced labour. Moreover, apparel brands maintain lucrative partnerships with Chinese corporations implicated in forced labour, including those that benefit from the forced labour transfer of victims from the Uyghur Region to work in factories across China.\n\"Global brands need to ask themselves how comfortable they are contributing to a genocidal policy against the Uyghur people. These companies have somehow managed to avoid scrutiny for complicity in that very policy \u2013 this stops today,\" said Omer Kanat, Executive Director of the Uyghur Human Rights Project.\nThe supply chains of most major apparel brands and retailers are tainted by Uyghur forced labour. Major corporations claim not to tolerate forced labour by their suppliers, but have offered no credible explanation as to how they can meet this standard while continuing to do business in a region where forced labour is rife.\n\"Forced labourers in the Uyghur Region face vicious retaliation if they tell the truth about their circumstances. This makes due diligence through labour inspections impossible and virtually guarantees that any brand sourcing from the Uyghur Region is using forced labour,\" said Scott Nova, Executive Director of the Worker Rights Consortium.\n\"Given the lack of leverage and the inability to prevent or mitigate adverse human rights impacts, apparel brands and retailers must take the necessary steps to end business relationships connected to the Uyghur Region in order to fulfil their responsibility to respect human rights as defined by the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights,\" said David Schilling, Senior Program Director of Human Rights at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility.\n\"If responsible business conduct has any meaning, it requires fashion brands to act when independent journalists, United Nations human rights experts, and human rights NGOs expose grave human rights abuses,\" said Jennifer (JJ) Rosenbaum, Executive Director of Global Labor Justice \u2013 International Labor Rights Forum. \"Business and human rights principles require fashion brands to stop using cotton and labour from the Uyghur Region in their global supply chains.\"\nCAP Freedom of Conscience joined a coalition of NGO to demand the release of Dr. Gulshan Abbas.\nAfter 25 Years: Solidarity with Tai Ji Men\nCAP Freedom of Conscience joins IHRC's Urgent Appeal for an immediate halt to the deportation of Ahmadis from Germany\nUNITED SIKHS welcomes the news that more than 100 Sikhs and Hindus from Afghanistan\nViolations of fundamental rights of Ahmadis of Pakistan at the hands of judiciary\nPAKISTAN: Mob lynches factory manager accused of blasphemy; further proof of dangerous effects of blasphemy laws\nBrochure de pr\u00e9sentation CAP LC 2022\nNewsletter Archive CAP LC\nFeedspot has included CAP Freedom of Conscience in their famous index of Top 50 Human Rights Blogs and Websites To Follow in 2021\nTweets by caplc1\nEuropean Coordination for Freedom of Conscience\nEuropean Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)\nLEGAL INFORMATION AND GENERAL CONDITIONS OF USE\nCAP Libert\u00e9 de Conscience NGO with ECOSOC consultative status","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"DAVID STOLLMAN\nAfter serving on the staff of the North-American Interfraternity Conference for two years, David continued working with fraternities by speaking on campuses around the country. He has facilitated workshops on over 500 campuses and has also served on the faculty of numerous university and fraternal leadership conventions.\nDavid has been an active volunteer of his fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon, serving in the roles of a chapter counselor, District Governor, Balanced Man Steward, and Member of the Educational Foundation's Board of Governors. He's also worked with Sig Ep, for ten years David served the NYU chapter of the Alpha Sigma Tau sorority as a chapter advisor.\nIn addition to co-founding CAMPUSPEAK, David created Recruitment Boot Camp. In the last 10 years, RBC has helped over ten thousand fraternity and sorority chapters, as well as hundreds of communities across North America to recruit better and more members. He was a co-founder of HazingPrevention.Org and was named an emeritus member of their board after serving as their Treasurer for four terms.\nHe has served three terms on the Association of Fraternity & Sorority Advisor's Foundation Board of Directors. David is the 2004 recipient of the prestigious Anson Award from the Association of Fraternity Advisors for his work advancing the fraternal movement. Sigma Phi Epsilon and the University of Maryland have both recognized David as a distinguished alumnus. He is also a Crown Degree recipient from the Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority; designating him as a trusted patron for his service and educational support. David was also honored by Phi Mu Delta Fraternity with their highest recognition for a non-member, the Ron Jury award, as well as the Alpha Sigma Tau McCrory Order of Interfraternity Excellence for \"exemplifying the finest tradition of fraternal service.\"\nA proud Maryland Terrapin, receiving degrees in both Government and Communications, David still calls Philadelphia home, but now lives in South Florida with his wife and his three kids.\nContact: stollman@campuspeak.com\nMONICA BEBIE\nMonica Bebie has been working in student affairs and with fraternities and sororities for over 15 years. Throughout her career, she has worked at both private and public institutions including the University of the Pacific, Marquette University, Carnegie Mellon University and Arizona State University. She joined Gamma Phi Beta while attending the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and majoring in Criminal Justice, and she earned her master's degree in Student Affairs in Higher Education from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania.\nMonica truly believes in fraternity, and she believes that when fraternity is done right, it can be by far the richest and most impactful experience a college student can have. In 2011 Monica was recognized as the Campus Professional of the Year by Beta Theta Pi Fraternity and in 2012 Monica received the Outstanding Campus Professional Award by the Association of Fraternity Advisors and the Fraternity Insurance Purchasing Group.\nOutside of work Monica loves to be active, running, working out, and hiking. She volunteers at her church and enjoys spending time with her family and friends. She loves watching college and professional sports cheering on the Wisconsin Badgers and Green Bay Packers.\nEmail: monica@campuspeak.com\nDAVID STETTER\nDavid Stetter is a graduate of Northern Kentucky University where he earned his B.S. in Psychology and Communication. After undergrad, he began his journey with higher education earning his master's degree in Student Affairs in Higher Education from Miami University. Throughout his career in higher education, he has worked in leadership development and fraternity\/sorority life. Stetter is a founding father of his home chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon, an experience that sparked his passion for higher education. He is currently pursuing his MBA with a focus on Marketing & Change Management.\nIn David's free time you can find him training for his next Marathon, exploring a National Park (or smaller state parks), and being a fur-father to his terrier, Molly. He serves on the National Board of Governors for the Human Rights Campaign where he advocates for equality and justice for the LGBTQ+ community.\nEmail: stetter@campuspeak.com\nCOURTNEY BARSTAD LOGAN\nDirector of Contract Management\nCourtney is a graduate of the University of North Dakota, where she earned her B.A. in Communication and her M.S. in Educational Leadership. Courtney has been working in student affairs primarily with Fraternity and Sorority Life for over 12 years. In addition to FSL, Courtney is passionate about leadership education, global service, and mentoring. After spending over seven years with the amazing students at North Dakota State University, Courtney joined the team at a women's retail franchise where she wore various hats (and clothes) while supporting a growing team. Courtney is a volunteer for her sorority, Alpha Chi Omega, and enjoys traveling as a facilitator for their various programs.\nIn her free time, Courtney can be found serving as the entertainment director for her toddler and tending to her two fur kids. She is most at home at sporting events, community activities, family gatherings and really anywhere that has snacks.\nEmail: courtney@campuspeak.com\nALYSSA LAWRENCE\nAlyssa is a graduate of Johnson & Wales University, where she earned her B.S. in Marketing. Throughout her time at Johnson & Wales, Alyssa participated in DECA where she was able to compete at an international level for a business plan and entrepreneurial concept development. In her free time, Alyssa enjoys the beautiful Colorado scenery with her dog and boyfriend, learning how to cook new recipes, daydreaming about the newest animal addition that might come home, and running her small business that creates custom clothes.\nEmail: alyssa@campuspeak.com\nALEXANDRA GERMAN\nDirector of Educational Programs\nAlex is a graduate of the University of North Dakota, where she earned her B.A. in Communication and her M.S. in Educational Leadership. Alex has experience working in higher education primarily in College Athletics and Alumni Relations. After spending over five years at UND, Alex worked for an oil and gas company conducting public education events around North Dakota and Minnesota. In her free time, Alex loves going to the lake with her husband and kids, cheering on the University of North Dakota football team and enjoying the outdoors when the North Dakota weather allows!\nEmail: alexandra@campuspeak.com\nKARISSA DAVIS\nKarissa Davis is a graduate of Grand Valley State University where she earned a B.S. in Advertising\/PR and a B.S. in Hospitality Tourism Management. She earned her M.Ed. in Student Affairs in Higher Education. Karissa has held positions at Northern Arizona University and Arizona State University, in roles within residential life, housing operations, new student programs, and community relations. In her free time, Karissa enjoys baking, reading, DIY home projects, and spending time with her husband, two children, and two dogs.\nEmail: karissa@campuspeak.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Wang Quanzhang\nUpdate on Wang Quanzhang\u2014No \"Hard Violence\"\nWang Quanzhang, a rights lawyer, finally met with a lawyer after having been disappeared for more than three years. The lawyer, Liu Weiguo, reported that that Wang told him that he has suffered \"no hard violence.\" In the article below, Wang's wife Li Wenzu reminds us what \"no hard violence\" means...\n709 Families and Supporters\nRegarding Lawyer Wang Quanzhang's Case of Alleged \"Subversion of State Power\"\nLawyer Wang Quanzhang was disappeared in July 2015, in the beginning stage of the 709 crackdown in which more than 300 lawyers and activists were affected\u2014disappeared, detained, or questioned. Subsequently, all of the detainees were either prosecuted and sentenced or released\u2014except lawyer Wang...\n709 Family Members Accompany Lawyer to Tianjin Detention Center, Denied Opportunity to See Wang Quanzhang; Judge Also Refuses Them\u2014Li Wenzu's epic search for her husband is violently stopped on the 12th day\nOn April 19, 2018, Wang Quanzhang's wife, Li Wenzu, and family members of 709 lawyers Wang Qiaoling, Liu Ermin, Yuan Shanshan, accompanied lawyers Lin Qilei and Xie Yang to the Tianjin Detention Center to ask to see Wang Quanzhang, but their request was denied. The following day, Li Wenzu, Wang...\nLi Wenzu \"Disappeared\" on 6th Day of \"March for Her Husband\"\nOn April 4, 2018, the 999th day of her husband's disappearance, Li Wenzu , wife of lawyer Wang Quanzhang who was arrested in the 709 Crackdown, started her march, from the Supreme People's Court in Beijing to the Tianjin No.2 Intermediate People's Court to search for her husband. On April 9, 2018,...\nLawyers Associations Should Assume the Responsibility of Defending the Rights of Lawyers Wang Quanzhang and Li Yuhan\nIn the 900 days Lawyer Wang Quanzhang, from Tianjin, has been in custody\u2014since he was first detained in July 2015 in the 709 Crackdown\u2014he has yet to be allowed to meet with a lawyer; and lawyer Li Yuhan, of Shenyang, who once represented Wang Quanzhang, was arrested in November 2017 on suspicion of...\nMy Second Statement on Refusing Officially-Appointed Lawyers\nAmong the detainees of the \"709\" crackdown, lawyer Wang Quanzhang is the only one about whom there had not been any news for nearly two years since his detention in August 2015. The authorities not only denied him access to the lawyers retained by his wife, but also suppressed the lawyers. Recently...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"in Publicidade\nA internet e a Revolu\u00e7\u00e3o\nUm pensamento s\u00e9rio, com express\u00e3o feliz. Este an\u00fancio com toque surrealista, \u00e0 Giorgio de Chirico, lembra Os P\u00e1ssaros, de Alfred Hitchcock, e, sobretudo, Le Roi et l'Oiseau, de Paul Grimault. Descoloridas e gelatinosas, as figuras do poder assemelham-se a pe\u00e7as de um jogo de xadrez subvertido pelas asas da internet. A ag\u00eancia Marcel Paris explica:\n\"We all know the role of social networks and Internet in spreading revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.Social networks are now an essential source of information, as evidenced by the results obtained by France24, the French international news channel that broadcasts in three languages (French, English and Arabic).\nIt's mainly the Arabic language version that broke all audience records during this period. But the channel as a whole has benefited from an increase in audience : in March 2011, france24.com experienced a peak in traffic with nearly 14 million visits and about 59 million page views.\nThe channel has also been very successful on Twitter thanks to its intense coverage of the Arab Spring, with a large amount of tweets dedicated to the topic, which enabled the channel to quintuple the number of followers of its Twitter account since the beginning of the year.\nBased on these exceptional results, France24 and its agency Marcel have decided to highlight the link between freedom of information and freedom of expression on Internet\".\nMarca: France 24. T\u00edtulo: The Birds. Ag\u00eancia: Marcel Paris. Dire\u00e7\u00e3o: Philippe Grammaticopoulos. Fran\u00e7a, 2011.\nEtiquetas:Chirico, Fran\u00e7a, Grimault, Hitchcock, internet, pa\u00edses \u00e1rabes, revolu\u00e7\u00e3o, totalitarismo","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"NGA Opposes FTC Children's Ad Proposal\nARLINGTON, Va. \u2014 National Grocers Association said it has asked the Federal Trade Commission to withdraw its proposed limits for advertising food products to children.\nARLINGTON, Va. \u2014 National Grocers Association said it has asked the Federal Trade Commission to withdraw its proposed limits for advertising food products to children.\n\"This is just another example of unnecessary regulatory overreach at a time when the food industry has taken giant steps in providing consumers with nutritional information and healthy food choices,\" said Peter J. Larkin, president and chief executive officer, NGA.\nThe Interagency Working Group on Food Marketed to Children: Proposed Nutrition Principles include recommendations addressing the nutritional quality of foods that are heavily marketed to children ages 2-17.\n\"The 'voluntary' Proposed Principles require the reformulation of a wide range of products and limit the marketing of national and private-brand label products,\" NGA said in a statement. \"NGA, food retailers, food wholesalers and manufacturers have had a lot of recent experience with 'voluntary principles,' including country of origin labeling and nutrition labeling, both of which began as 'voluntary regulations' and quickly became government mandates that were costly and burdensome to independent retailers and wholesalers.\"\nTAGS: Laws & Regulations\nSN Top 10: Whole Foods, Save A Lot, Albertsons top the week's headlines\nSN Top 10: Amazon, Kroger, Rite Aid top the week's headlines\nSN Top 10: KeHE, Instacart, Boxed top the week's headlines\nSN Top 10: Rowe's, Hy-Vee, Walmart top the week's headlines","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Contact Us Links\nS \u2022 H \u2022 A\nSullivan \u2022 Hazeltine \u2022 Allinson llc\nAttorneys at Law\nRecent Representation\nBankruptcy Practice\nWilliam D. Sullivan\nWilliam A. Hazeltine\nElihu E. Allinson III\nHome About the Firm\tServices Recent Representation Bankruptcy Practice News\tRecent Cases Opinions Blog Our Attorneys\tWilliam D. Sullivan William A. Hazeltine Elihu E. Allinson III Blog\nThe firm serves as Delaware bankruptcy counsel to Vector Launch Inc., a company formed to develop a family of small launch vehicles designed for the rapid and frequent launch of payloads ranging from 60 kg \u2013 315 kg to low-Earth orbit.\nThe firm served as lead bankruptcy counsel to Adams Resources Exploration Corporation, a company that owned non-working interests in oil and gas wells located in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, Montana, and Arkansas, in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding.\nThe firm served as bankruptcy counsel to the Denver Broncos in repurchasing the name rights for the stadium.\nThe firm served as counsel for the defendant int the successful defense of breach of fiduciary duty claims against founder in the Delaware Chancery Court.\nThe firm served as counsel to religious organizations in the successful negotiation of a Chapter 11 settlement plan.\nFirm Summary\nSullivan \u00b7 Hazeltine \u00b7 Allinson llc is a boutique law firm dedicated to serving our clients' business litigation needs.\nOur core practice focuses on representing parties in interest in commercial bankruptcy cases pending before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, including debtors, creditors' and equity committees, trade vendors, asset purchasers, trustees and landlords. Our size, experience and fee structure make us uniquely situated to help our clients effectively navigate the bankruptcy reorganization or liquidation process efficiently and effectively.\nIn addition, we handle business litigation matters for our clients in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, the Delaware Chancery Court, and the Delaware Superior Court, including contract disputes, corporate dissolution\/trusteeship matters, and D&O litigation.\nWhatever business issues bring you before the Delaware federal and state courts, we can help you obtain an expedient and successful resolution.\nS\u2022H\u2022A News\nWe've moved. Our new address is 919 North Market Street, Suite 420, Wilmington, DE 19801. We look forward to serving you at our new location.\nThe Judicial Conference of the United States has approved bankruptcy filing fee increases effective June 1 as follows:\nChapter 7---$335\nChapter 13---$310\nChapters 9, 11 and 15--$1,717\nThe fee increases are projected to raisea additional $35 million per year for the federal court system.\nFeatured SHA\nGarnet BioTherapeutics, Inc. is a development stage biopharmaceutical company that developed a unique cellular therapy with the potential to significantly improve upon the treatment of numerous diseases. This therapy, comprised of human adult bone marrow-derived. . .\nView More Summaries\nFeatured Opinion\nIn re Weinstein Holdings Company, LLC Third Circuit Court of Appeals, May 21, 2021 997 F.3d 497\nIn September 2011, Bruce Cohen and his production company, Bruce Cohen Productions, entered into an agreement (the \"Cohen Agreement\") with SLP Films, Inc., a non-debtor special purpose entity formed by The Weinstein Company (\"TWC\") to. . .\nView More Opinions\nSullivan \u00b7 Hazeltine \u00b7 Allinson llc\n919 North Market Street, Suite 420 \u2022 Wilmington, DE 19801 \u2022 Tel: (302) 428-8191 \u2022 Fax: (302) 428-8195\n\u00a9 Copyright 2022 - All rights reserved. Privacy Terms of Use","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Top 5 \"out of this world\" U of M events of 2014\nIn 2014 U of M people explored the far reaches of space from the comforts of Winnipeg.\nOccultation of star by asteroid\nOccultation of star by asteroid observed at U of M observatory\nA team of amateur astronomers at the Glenlea Astronomical Observatory south of Winnipeg managed to capture a video image of an asteroid passing in front of a star. The astronomical event, called an occultation, is rare and difficult to observe, and the astronomers' ability to observe it required a great deal of skill \u2014 so much skill that an international astronomy magazine profiled their work online.\nNeil deGrasse Tyson visits U of M for first Canadian University appearance\nNeil deGrasse Tyson, acclaimed astrophysicist and television personality, gave his first lecture at a Canadian university \u2014 the University of Manitoba \u2014 on March 13 to more than 3,000, rather raucous, people. The cheering when he came out on stage was similar to what you'd hear at a rock concert. Science is indeed cool.\nA model rocket lifts off\nSpace Camp 2014\nTuesday, July 15 was an exciting afternoon at the 2014 Space Adventure Camp at the University of Manitoba as participants took to the skies with rockets and drones. Earlier in the week the Space Campers constructed model rockets which were sent soaring hundreds of meters into the air (with the assistance of a little rocket fuel).\nDavid Barnard speaks at Magellan Aerospace\nU of M enters partnership with Magellan Aerospace to build satellites\nThe Honourable Michelle Rempel, Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification has announced $2.4 million in support to the University of Manitoba towards establishing a world class satellite integration facility. The Magellan Aerospace \/ University of Manitoba Advanced Satellite Integration Facility (ASIF) will be used for research, development and the construction and testing of satellite components.\nEmmanuel Rotimi (Timi) Ojo. \/\/ Photo Mike Latschislaw\nRotimi Ojo working with NASA on remote sensing of soil moisture, now on PhD research\n\"The timing is excellent, because NASA has begun work on a satellite that will take global soil moisture readings, and they've asked for my collaboration. Their satellite can only sense a few inches below the surface but I'll take deeper readings for them to create a more complete picture.\"\nOur resident astronomy expert, Chris Rutkowski, has also collected some of the most incredible stories of space exploration of 2014. The final frontier was a fascinating place this past year.\nSpaceX crash\nA lot of hope and expectation has been placed on the commercialization of space. When SpaceX was to send its first payload to the International Space Station, this would have heralded the new era of space exploration and development. What will this mean to private spaceflight?\nNew Horizons spacecraft now nearing Pluto\nThis spacecraft was sent to Pluto when it was still considered a planet! It's been ten years en route and will in a matter of about eight months give our first good look at what was once our most distant (but still not an exoplanet) Solar System companion.\nOrion spacecraft successful test flight\nNASA's replacement heavy-lifting body finally completed its first test flight. After the Space Shuttle program wound down, NASA needed something for our next step into the universe. This is the spacecraft that will be used when humans head for Mars in about 15 to 20 years.\nRosetta's Philae Lander touches down on Comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko\nWhen Rosetta landed on a comet, it marked a significant milestone in that it was the first landing on an astronomical body that wasn't a planet or moon. Sure, it bounced and ended up tucked underneath an overhanging rock so that its batteries died two days after it got there, but it was still a remarkable feat of engineering.\nTwo astronomy-related films nominated for Golden Globes (Interstellar and Theory of Everything)\nFor Hollywood to have two astronomy-films in theatres in time for the major awards (including the Oscars) is pretty rare. Interstellar is about humans' eventual destiny in space, whereas The Theory of Everything is the biopic of Stephen Hawking, the guy who imagined the universe.\nChris Rutkowski is a Canadian science writer and educator with a background in astronomy who's been studying reports of UFOs and writing about his investigations and research since the mid-1970s.\n>> See more Best of 2014 lists here.\nAstronomy, best of 2014, campus community, lists, Physics and astronomy, year-end\nUM congratulates Digvir Jayas on being named President at University of Lethbridge\n\"A place of belonging, friendship and learning\"\nIndigenous, indigenous students, Kinesiology and Recreation Management, Mentorship\nAtikamekw filmmaker latest Writer-In-Residence\nAlumni, Arts and culture, Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture, department of english theatre film and media, Faculty of Arts, film, writing\nWe will make 2023 another great year!\nMembers of UM community appointed to Order of Canada\nAlumni, Indigenous","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Digital Democracy: government transparency website keeps track of state legislators\nHome \u00bb Digital Democracy: government transparency website keeps track of state legislators\nBY: ELIJAH BASSETT\nIf the workings of your own government seem distant and obscure to you, you're not alone. But if you're living in California or New York, a new accountability platform called Digital Democracy wants to enlighten you about what goes on in your state legislature.\nThe site lets you watch full hearings and uses artificial intelligence to create transcripts of everything that's said during the meetings. Its search function also lets you look up speakers, organizations, bills, hearings, and committees. The information is organized to let you find out key points of what politicians are up to, including histories of donations and gifts from organizations to lawmakers.\nIt was started by former California senator Sam Blakeslee, along with students from California Polytechnic University, as a response to the lack of transparency in local government, and this transparency will be more important now than ever. As Wired points out, Trump's plans to roll back federal legislation in a wide range of contexts will put the onus on state legislatures to decide what they want to do about the situations covered by these former laws. According to Blakeslee, \"this is a perfect moment if you want to make a difference to engage in the politics in your state.\"\nIn fact, it's not activists, but journalists who are making the most use of the platform, because of its database-like presentation \u2013 not to mention the dryness of the content. Even its co-founder Gavin Newsom, also lieutenant governor of California, calls it a \"data-dump,\" so it will mostly appeal to people who are already politically engaged. Still, we can hope that that audience grows, especially given many Americans' shaken trust in politicians, government, and more mediated forms of information like social media.\nSince this platform doesn't offer any commentary on the data it presents, it puts the power of interpretation in the hands of the readers, which could be powerful in a media environment where people are worried about being led astray by misinformation and other people's agendas.\nAccording to Wired, California Polytechnic students are also working on a way to run their transcripts through a tool called ClaimBuster, which detects statements of fact, and then send these claims to Politifact to be fact-checked. This will further strengthen the government transparency that the site strives for, making it a valuable tool for the engaged citizen.\nDigital Democracy is also planning on expanding to Florida and Texas in the near future.\nTags California Digital Democracy Gavin Newsom government government transparency New York Sam Blakeslee transparency website","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"AUDIO\/VIDEO\/BLOGS\nBehind the Blend Wall\nPublished on: 14:10PM Dec 01, 2009\nby Jeanne Bernick\nThe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today it is preparing to raise the limit on ethanol in gasoline from 10% to 15%, effectively breaking down a blend wall that has stymied ethanol demand and growth. The approval is contingent on completion of final testing by early next year.\nAs the blend wall crumbles, expect to see the powerful ethanol industry group Growth Energy standing behind it. The lobbying organization has been pushing to break the blend wall for well over a year now. As Tom Buis, president of Growth Energy has said: \"We made the case.\"\nGrowth Energy employs such powerhouse figures as former four-star Gen. Wesley Clark, and is supported by POET, the world's largest ethanol producer, along with 54 member ethanol plants. At the same time, Growth Energy is grassroots, working through its web site to encourage new \"friends\" of ethanol.\nOne of my favorite thing about Growth Energy is its Truth Squad, a group of people engaged in responding to blogs that hate on ethanol. Growth Energy has provided a list of blogs for followers to watch and reply to, and Truth Squad members are urged to keep their replies \"civil and factual\" and based on science and research.\nGen. Clark and Growth Energy may have started tearing down the blend wall, but make no mistake there are bigger battles ahead in the Washington lobbying war for ethanol.\nBuck Fever\n1928 Hart-Parr 12-24: By the Boot Straps","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"HM PREMIERE: The Restitution paves path with full album stream of 'Into the Dark'\nToday, HM is proud to premiere the full album stream of The Restitution's sophomore album, Into the Dark. The band \u2014 a moniker for the solo project of musician Michael Wright \u2014 sought out to explore the brokenness of human connection through the music and lyrics of the work; the album spent over four years in the making.\nWright spoke about the album:\n\"Humans need each other by nature, but we live in a society where we are unwittingly making it easier to live without each other, and thereby harder to live with each other. This is something that has affected me deeply, and is really what this record is about.\"\nThe album was also produced, engineered and mixed by Wright, recorded at It's a Trap! Recording.\nFans of the work can purchase the piece over at the band's Bandcamp page.\nThe Space for Rebirth\nOn Age of the Abstract's new EP, 'Rebirth,' the duo explores what a new sound looks like apart from the day-job in Canidria. Here, contributing writer Andrew Voigt talks with Julio Arias about influence, vision, and how writing in the wake of his father's death propelled the band forward.\nFull Feature More from Age of the Abstract","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag: Barack Obama\nWanda Sykes is Sorry She Snubbed Michelle Obama\nEntertainment News May 22, 2019 by Sheryl Estrada\nWanda Sykes, comedienne, TV producer, actress, and Emmy Award-winning writer, once sat near former First Lady Michelle Obama at an event during former President Barack Obama's first year in office. Most people in that situation would have relished the opportunity. But, at the time, Sykes wasn't interested in a conversation\u2026.\nBarack and Michelle Obama to Produce Frederick Douglass Biopic in Upcoming Slate of Film Projects\nEntertainment Good News May 2, 2019 by Sheryl Estrada\nFrederick Douglass, the first Black man nominated for Vice President of the United States, will have his life story told through the lens of Barack and Michelle Obama, the first Black President and First Lady. It was announced on Tuesday that the Obama's Higher Ground Productions is producing a feature\u2026\nBeyonc\u00e9's 'Homecoming' is a Love Letter to HBCUs and Black Culture\nEntertainment News April 17, 2019 by Sheryl Estrada\nBeyonc\u00e9 Knowles-Carter fans missed some sleep waiting for the release of the documentary \"Homecoming\" at 3 a.m. ET on Wednesday, and #Beyonc\u00e9Homecoming continues to trend on Twitter. Not only was the film released on Netflix, but Queen Bey surprised her fans by announcing a live album of the same name. \u2026\nStevie Wonder Performing During Nipsey Hussle Memorial Was Predicted in a Rap Lyric\nNipsey Hussle, a Grammy-nominated rapper, entrepreneur and activist who believed in uplifting his community by investing in STEM education, said that R&B legend Stevie Wonder's music would be played at the time of his death. Nipsey, 33, whose real name was Ermias Ashgedom, was killed outside his clothing store\u2026\nBarack Obama Calls Out Divisive Politics, Says It's Fear People Have of 'Losing Their Status'\nGood News News April 6, 2019 by DiversityInc Staff\nThe former president calls attention to the future saying division won't be tolerated. The 44th President of the United States, speaking Wednesday at the World Travel & Tourism Council Global Summit in Seville, Spain, warned of the rise of populism in North America and countries in the European Union. \"These\u2026\nMichelle Obama: Virginia McLaurin is 'Still Dancing at 110 Years Old'\nGood News News March 13, 2019 by Sheryl Estrada\nIt's Women's History Month and Virginia McLaurin,\"Grandma Virginia,\" has lived and prospered through more than a century of American history detailed in textbooks. McLaurin turned 110 on Tuesday and first lady Michelle Obama gave her a shout-out on her special day. \"Still dancing at 110 years old\u2014happy birthday, Virginia!\" Obama\u2026\nTucker Carlson's Racism, Homophobia, Xenophobia Revealed in Audio Clips\nNews March 12, 2019 by Katherine Lewin\nAny president who would kill all of the Muslims, they could would be \"king\" and white men should be credited with creating civilization, Carlson said. That's just the beginning. The racist, homophobic and xenophobic rants from Tucker Carlson continue with another round of audio released on Monday by Media Matters\u2026\nBlack Parents on Obama Cradling Their Newborn: 'The Most Pivotal Moment' of Our Lives\nGood News News Popular January 8, 2019 by DiversityInc Staff\nA newborn baby started out her new year with an expected greeting from former President Barack Obama. On a golf outing at the Kaneohe Klipper Golf Club, in Kaneohe, Hawaii, Obama walked up to a Black couple with a 7-week-old daughter, Paisleigh, and said \"Give me Paisleigh.\" In a video,\u2026\nUPDATE: Trump Makes Unannounced Trip to Iraq Amid Criticism for Not Visiting Troops at Christmastime\nNews Organizational Misbehavior Popular December 26, 2018 by Sheryl Estrada\nUPDATE: Dec. 26, 2018 at 4:08 p.m. In a visit that came hours after NBC News reported that President Trump was the first president since 2002 that did not visit wounded warriors or troops during Christmastime, Trump and First Lady Melania Trump met with troops stationed in Iraq, traveling there\u2026\nHumana CEO Bruce Broussard Receives 2018 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award\nFeatured Partners December 20, 2018 by DiversityInc Staff\nRobert F. Kennedy Human Rights honored its 2018 Ripple of Hope laureates during the annual Ripple of Hope Gala at the New York Hilton Midtown on Dec. 12. Humana CEO Bruce D. Broussard was honored along with the 44th President of the United States Barack Obama, Discovery President and CEO\u2026\n. @AIGinsurance' s @lynnoldfieldaig was honored as #CEO of the Year by @InsBizCanada. #featuredcontent https:\/\/t.co\/ztHNGFPobK 16 hours ago\nTune in on Monday to the @karenhunter Show, where @DiversityInc CEO @JohnsonCarolynn will join the conversation at\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/24UzctvbvV 19 hours ago\n. @Mastercard launched #PricelessPlanetCoalition, a platform to unite corporate sustainability efforts and make mea\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/gE3r91DvHx 20 hours ago","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Price & Performance\nFund List\nOnline Subscription Docs\nOnline Investor Docs\nPoint of Sale Disclosures\nDistributions & Tax\nShort Term Performance\nCommentary \/\nGlobal Infrastructure Fund 10\/2018\nNinepoint Global Infrastructure Fund\nOctober 2018 Commentary\nYear-to-date to October 31, the Ninepoint Global Infrastructure Fund generated a total return of -3.68% compared to the S&P Global Infrastructure Index, which generated a total return of -4.12% and our new benchmark the MSCI World Core Infrastructure Index, which generated a total return of 2.98%. Note that we have changed our benchmark purely for administrative reasons, but unfortunately it does make our year-to-date returns appear significantly worse on a relative basis.\nReturns in the month of October were disappointing on an absolute and relative basis, with the Fund generating a total return of -5.86% while the S&P Global Infrastructure Index generated a total return of -2.14% and the MSCI World Core Infrastructure Index generated a total return of -1.33%. In October, the US 10-year bond yield rallied from 3.06% to 3.16%, remaining above the key psychological level of 3.0%, which acted as a headwind for the equity markets. Our positioning in the Industrials, Energy and Information Technology sectors detracted from performance during the month. Conversely, our holdings in the Communications and Financials sectors generated gains. Note that we have begun to reduce our Energy weightings and increase our Utilities weightings, rotating to move more in line with our new benchmark. Finally, currency hedging detracted from performance in October as the CAD weakened despite the successful negotiation of the USMCA trade deal.\nOctober 2018 will be remembered for the dramatic correction in the equity markets, with the S&P 500 falling 10.6% to an intraday low on October 29, before rebounding. The list of potential factors or causes of the correction have been well documented (including a more-hawkish than expected FED tone that led to higher rate expectations, a deteriorating US-China relationship that led to the enactment of trade tariffs, wage and materials cost inflation that led to margin compression in various earnings reports and the looming US midterm elections that led to political uncertainty) but, in realty, no single factor can be blamed.\nWhatever the trigger, aggressive positioning in crowded high-growth and high-multiple stocks was unwound and the entire market de-rated. Broadly speaking, rising rates and uncertainty imply lower P\/E multiples but consider the following scenarios for the S&P 500 based on forward earnings estimates: 15x $178 = 2,670 (seems unlikely since earnings growth remains positive in 2019), 16x $178 = 2,850 (very reasonable), 17x $178 = 3,025 (quite possible) or 18x $178 = 3,200 (seems unlikely without an improvement in either the FED's tone or US-China trade rhetoric).\nTherefore, we believe that it is too early to position for an outright downturn and expect markets to end the year higher than today. Positive seasonality for the markets should kick in (gains in November and December occur 75% of the time based on data from the past twenty years), the midterm elections proved to be benign (on average markets rally 7% from August 31 to year-end around midterms based on history) and earnings expectations and market valuations have been reset to reasonable levels.\nOur modelling indicates that the Canadian dollar is roughly fairly-valued. However, the equity market selloff has introduced a new level of complexity to our FX analysis as prior correlations become less statistically significant. We have therefore maintained hedges on half of our USD\/CAD exposure to reduce volatility in the Fund.\nTop contributors to the year-to-date performance of the Ninepoint Global Infrastructure Fund included Parkland Fuel (+186 bps), MasterCard (+111 bps) and CSX Corporation (+94 bps). Top detractors year-to-date included Westshore Terminals (-61 bps), Mastec (-55 bps) and Williams Companies (-46 bps).\nThe Ninepoint Global Infrastructure Fund was concentrated in 30 positions as at October 31, 2018 with the top 10 holdings accounting for approximately 39.7% of the fund. Over the prior fiscal year, 24 out of our 30 holdings have announced a dividend increase, with an average hike of 8.9%. Using a total infrastructure approach, we will continue to apply a disciplined investment process, balancing valuation, growth and yield in an effort to generate solid risk-adjusted returns.\nNinepoint Global Infrastructure Fund - Compounded Returns\u00b9\nFund 0.0% 24.3% 0.5% 6.7% 24.3% 9.8% 5.9% 7.7%\n1 All returns and fund details are a) based on Series F units; b) net of fees; c) annualized if period is greater than one year; d) as at October 31, 2018; e) 2011 annual returns are from 09\/01\/11 to 12\/31\/11.\nThe Fund is generally exposed to the following risks. See the prospectus of the Fund for a description of these risks: capital depletion risk; concentration risk; credit risk; currency risk; cybersecurity risk; derivatives risk; exchange traded funds risk; foreign investment risk; income trust risk; inflation risk; interest rate risk; liquidity risk; market risk; regulatory risk; series risk; short selling risk; small company risk; specific issuer risk; tax risk.\nNinepoint Partners LP is the investment manager to the Ninepoint Funds (collectively, the \"Funds\"). Commissions, trailing commissions, management fees, performance fees (if any), other charges and expenses all may be associated with mutual fund investments. Please read the prospectus carefully before investing. The indicated rate of return for series F units of the Fund for the period ended October 31, 2018 is based on the historical annual compounded total return including changes in unit value and reinvestment of all distributions and does not take into account sales, redemption, distribution or optional charges or income taxes payable by any unitholder that would have reduced returns. Mutual funds are not guaranteed, their values change frequently and past performance may not be repeated. The information contained herein does not constitute an offer or solicitation by anyone in the United States or in any other jurisdiction in which such an offer or solicitation is not authorized or to any person to whom it is unlawful to make such an offer or solicitation. Prospective investors who are not resident in Canada should contact their financial advisor to determine whether securities of the Fund may be lawfully sold in their jurisdiction.\nThe opinions, estimates and projections (\"information\") contained within this report are solely those of Ninepoint Partners LP and are subject to change without notice. Ninepoint Partners makes every effort to ensure that the information has been derived from sources believed to be reliable and accurate. However, Ninepoint Partners assumes no responsibility for any losses or damages, whether direct or indirect, which arise out of the use of this information. Ninepoint Partners is not under any obligation to update or keep current the information contained herein. The information should not be regarded by recipients as a substitute for the exercise of their own judgment. Please contact your own personal advisor on your particular circumstances. Views expressed regarding a particular company, security, industry or market sector should not be considered an indication of trading intent of any investment funds managed by Ninepoint Partners. Any reference to a particular company is for illustrative purposes only and should not to be considered as investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell nor should it be considered as an indication of how the portfolio of any investment fund managed by Ninepoint Partners is or will be invested. Ninepoint Partners LP and\/or its affiliates may collectively beneficially own\/control 1% or more of any class of the equity securities of the issuers mentioned in this report. Ninepoint Partners LP and\/or its affiliates may hold short position in any class of the equity securities of the issuers mentioned in this report. During the preceding 12 months, Ninepoint Partners LP and\/or its affiliates may have received remuneration other than normal course investment advisory or trade execution services from the issuers mentioned in this report.\nNinepoint Partners LP: Toll Free: 1.866.299.9906. DEALER SERVICES: CIBC Mellon GSSC Record Keeping Services: Toll Free: 1.877.358.0540\nVice President, Portfolio Manager\nJeff Sayer - 2019 Mid Year Review\nGlobal Infrastrucutre Fund 11\/2018\nRoyal Bank Plaza, South Tower, 200 Bay Street Suite 2700, PO Box 27\n\u00a9 Ninepoint Partners LP 2020\nprivacy policy irc report accessibility proxy voting\nCMS 1 en","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Railway Children \/ Swallows and Amazons (1970)\nClaude Whatham, Lionel Jeffries\nRonald Fraser, Virginia McKenna, Sally Thomsett, Bernard Cribbins, Dinah Sheridan, Jenny Agutter\nAction-Adventure, UK Classics, Family\nThe Railway Children: Edith Nesbit's 1906 novel The Railway Children was adapted for the big screen in 1970 by Lionel Jeffries when he directed the classic film version which has been loved by children and adults alike ever since. When their father mysteriously disappears and is rumoured to have been imprisoned for spying, the three children and their mother have to move to a modest cottage in the Yorkshire countryside. Led by eldest daughter Bobbie (Jenny Agutter) they develop a fascination with the railway that runs nearby. This interest brings new and unlikely friendships as well as several exciting and dangerous adventures, but when the children are faced with a terrible crisis can they save the railway and prove their father's innocence as well? Swallows And Amazons: Set in the Lake District during the glorious summer of 1929, Arthur Ransome's timeless tale is the bright, breezy and colourful story of six children who spend an idyllic summer messing about in boats. As the narrative develops, their friendly rivalry becomes filled with imaginary dangers and thoughts of piracy which culminate in an exciting and suspense-filled conclusion. Based on one of the best-loved children's novels of all time, this enchanting film recaptures the carefree innocence of a lost era.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Spectrum $49.99 300 - 1,000 Mbps **\n(wireless speeds may vary)\nCable 70%\nCenturyLink $50.00 *** 10 - 940 Mbps DSL 55%\nStarTouch Broadband - - Wireless 98%\nBenton Rural Electric Association $49.95 - Wireless 98%\nDesert Winds Wireless - - Wireless 66%\n**Limited time offer; subject to change; valid to qualified residential customers who have not subscribed to any services within the previous 30 days and who have no outstanding obligation to Charter. Spectrum Internet\u00ae Gig promotion price is $89.99\/mo; standard rates apply after yr. 1. Taxes, fees and surcharges extra and subject to change during and after the promotional period; installation\/network activation, equipment and additional services are extra. General Terms: INTERNET: Speed based on wired connection and may vary by address. Wireless speeds may vary. Services subject to all applicable service terms and conditions, subject to change. Services not available in all areas. Restrictions apply. Enter your address to determine availability. \u00a92022 Charter Communications.\nSpeed based on wired connection. Available Internet speeds may vary by address. Gig capable modem required for Gig speed. For a list of Gig capable modems, visit Spectrum.net\/modem.\n***Speeds\/pricing may vary. Service is not available everywhere.\nProvider: Spectrum\nAt 86%, broadband coverage in the 99350 ZIP code is slightly lower than the rest of Washington - 97%, and comparable to broadband coverage across the U.S. - 95%.\nThe vast majority of those living in the 99350 ZIP will have access to DSL, which covers 86% of households. Cable internet is also an option for many, offering service to 70% of the area. No fiber-optic providers are currently available in Prosser, but satellite or fixed-wireless providers may offer broadband options in your area.\nThere are seven internet providers serving the 99350 area, and 51.30% of households will have internet options from more than one provider. Among seven internet providers in 99350, prices start at $49.95 and available download speeds reach up to 1,000 Mbps.\nAverage internet speeds in Prosser\nSpectrum 114 Mbps 12 Mbps Cable\nCenturyLink 24 Mbps 9 Mbps DSL\n*Data sourced from M-LAB speed tests taken by real users in Prosser.\nProsser \u2013 55 Mbps\nWA \u2013 126 Mbps\nWA \u2013 39 Mbps\nThe largest internet providers serving the 99350 ZIP code are Spectrum, CenturyLink, and HughesNet bringing cable, DSL, and satellite options to the area.\nCable internet from Spectrum is available to most in the 99350 ZIP code, covering 70% of households. Many will also have the option of DSL from CenturyLink, which covers 55% of the area. Prosser's third most-available internet provider, HughesNet, offers satellite to around 100% of residents in the 99350 ZIP code.\nSpectrum cable internet\n1,000 Mbps**\n**GIG: Limited time offer; subject to change; valid to qualified residential customers who have not subscribed to any services within the previous 30 days and who have no outstanding obligation to Charter. Spectrum Internet\u00ae Gig promotion price is $89.99\/mo; standard rates apply after yr. 1. Taxes, fees and surcharges extra and subject to change during and after the promotional period; installation\/network activation, equipment and additional services are extra. General Terms: INTERNET: Speed based on wired connection and may vary by address. Wireless speeds may vary. Services subject to all applicable service terms and conditions, subject to change. Services not available in all areas. Restrictions apply. Enter your address to determine availability. \u00a92022 Charter Communications.\nCable from Spectrum offers broadband to most households in the 99350 ZIP code, covering 70% of the area.\nSpectrum's cable network is likely to offer faster speeds than DSL or satellite service, but 99350 residents in densely populated areas may experience slowed speeds during peak usage times.\nInternet prices for Spectrum start at $49.99\/mo.*, which is lower than the average starting price for internet in Prosser, $56.98.\nSpectrum customers who choose the lowest-priced plan can expect speeds up to 300 Mbps**, which comes to an estimated $0.17 per Mbps, about the same as the average cost per Mbps for the lowest priced plans in Prosser, $0.81.\nFor those who value internet speed as much as cost, Spectrum offers download speeds up to 1,000 Mbps** and upload speeds up to 5 Mbps in 99350 ZIP code. These download speeds are available to 70% of the area, and are much faster than the average max speeds from all Prosser's providers, 47 Mbps.\nCenturyLink DSL internet\nDSL from CenturyLink offers broadband to about half of households in the 99350 ZIP code, covering 55% of the area.\nDSL internet from CenturyLink uses telephone lines to deliver service, which often leads to lower prices and higher availability, though download speeds are likely to be slower than cable or fiber-optic internet.\nInternet prices for CenturyLink start at $50\/mo.*, which is lower than the average starting price for internet in Prosser, $56.98.\nCenturyLink customers who choose the lowest-priced plan can expect speeds up to 10 Mbps, which comes to an estimated $5.00 per Mbps, significantly higher than the average cost per Mbps for the lowest priced plans in Prosser, $0.81.\nFor those who value internet speed as much as cost, CenturyLink offers download speeds up to 940 Mbps and upload speeds up to 20 Mbps in 99350 ZIP code. These download speeds are available to 55% of the area, and are much faster than the average max speeds from all Prosser's providers, 47 Mbps.\nSatellite from HughesNet offers broadband to all households in the 99350 ZIP code, covering 100% of the area.\nHughesNet satellite internet offers reliable connection throughout the 99350 ZIP where other internet types may not be available, but service is likely to come with low monthly data allowances and high latency, making streaming binges and real-time online gaming impractical.\nInternet prices for HughesNet start at $64.99\/mo.*, which is higher than the average starting price for internet in Prosser, $56.98.\nHughesNet customers who choose the lowest-priced plan can expect speeds up to 25 Mbps, which comes to an estimated $2.60 per Mbps, higher than the average cost per Mbps for the lowest priced plans in Prosser, $0.81.\nFor those who value internet speed as much as cost, HughesNet offers download speeds up to 25 Mbps and upload speeds up to 3 Mbps in 99350 ZIP code. These download speeds are available to 100% of the area, and are about the same as the average max speeds from all Prosser's providers, 47 Mbps.\nSpectrum is the fastest internet provider in the 99350 ZIP code with download speeds up to 1,000 Mbps*. These speeds are available to 70% of households in 99350. The next fastest internet provider in the 99350 ZIP code is CenturyLink, offering download speeds up to 940 Mbps to 55% of the area.\nBenton Rural Electric Association offers the cheapest internet in the 99350 ZIP with service starting at $49.95\/mo. This is slightly less than the average starting price for internet in Prosser, $56.98.\nWhat's the best internet deal in my area?\nInternet deals such as speed upgrades, promotional pricing, equipment perks and free installation are available from many internet providers. Bundling internet with TV and home phone is also a popular way to get a deal on internet.\nShould I use my own router?\nThere are benefits to using your own router vs. buying or renting one from your internet provider, such as lower monthly costs and more product options. If you choose to use your own router, keep in mind that your internet provider's tech support may not be able to fully assist you with your personal router. Select providers may not give you the option to use your own router.\nIs cable or fiber internet better?\nFiber and cable internet are similar internet service types, but fiber offers a few advantages over cable. Fiber internet can deliver faster upload and download speeds than cable in most areas, and is less vulnerable to slowed speeds during peak usage times. Cable does have the advantage over fiber in terms of availability, covering 89% of U.S. households compared to fiber's 38%.\nHome page Washington Prosser 99350","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"USS Rendova (CVE-114) Areas With Asbestos Exposure\nThe USS Rendova (CVE-114) was a Commencement Bay-class escort carrier laid down on June 15, 1944, and launched on December 29, the same year. It was commissioned on October 22, 1945, with the hull number CVE-114 under Capt. R. W. Ruble's command and served in the US Navy for 9 years until it was decommissioned on June 30, 1955. During its activity, the ship carried a complement of 1066 men on board and had its main missions in San Diego, Hawaii, San Francisco, Turkey, Panama, Suez, Tsingtao, Okinawa, Bremerton, and Korea. After the decommissioning, the ship was struck from the Navy List on April 1, 1971.\nAsbestos exposure primarily results from inhalation of air containing microscopic asbestos fibers. Small-diameter asbestos fibers get into the air when manipulated, submitted to mechanical pressure, damaged, disturbed, or removed. When fiber-containing particles remain suspended in the air, it can take many hours to settle on horizontal surfaces, posing a constant and invisible health hazard.\nEveryone who served on the USS Rendova (CVE-114) inhaled the asbestos fibers and is at risk for developing lung disease\nShipmates on USS Rendova (CVE-114)\ngeorge albert acosta\ndonald e. baribault\nandre francis barker\nalbert j. bilotas\nrobert allen condit\nkenneth oscar ekelund\nedward warren. gearin\nralph g. lindblom\nmarvin w. owens\nlamar charles stephens\nharry young","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sale of Finca in Caniles\nFinca in Caniles, Spain\nPrice : \u20ac3,750,000 (\u00a33,133,988)\nReference : MATJL1000\n***954 HECTARES OF LICENSED BIG GAME HUNTING LAND***\nFinca la Semana incorporates twelve farms with over 27 buildings dotted across this vast country estate. The majority of which were constructed using beautifully coloured local stones, sadly few of these buildings remain intact due to neglect but the 'print' size of each of the farms suggest that all of the main farm houses would make a four to six bedroom dwelling with additional out buildings to convert to smaller dwellings (1 or 2 bedroom chalets).\nThe agricultural land through the valley produces vast quantities of onions, potatoes, tomatoes, courgettes, sweet corn, lettuce and there are also many grapevines. The quality of the soil is extremely rich and as it's fed by mountain water Nitrate contamination would be non existent (soil analysis would be required for an organic certificate).\nThere's an abundance of water available and all the farm land has irrigation from water deposits, wells, irrigation channels or more modern irrigation pipes laid on the surface of the land to trickle feed when required.\nThe property has a big game hunting license which is a rare commodity to find now, this allows the hunting of wild boar & deer as well as the usual small game hunting of partridge, hares and pigeons. Please contact our office for further information and photographs.\nSwimming Pool Room for a Pool Parking Off Street\nGarden type Land Views Mountains and Country\nRural Good by all weather dirt road Own water supply","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u203a Blogs \u203a Curatorial\nSpecial Loan: John Singer Sargent's \"Fishing Boats at Whitby\"\nJohn Witty, Anne L. Poulet Curatorial Fellow\nA Summer Interlude by a Young Artist\nIn the summer of 1884, John Singer Sargent was at a pivotal moment in his career. Leaving Paris and scandal behind him following the unfavorable reception of his portrait Madame X, he retreated to England to reevaluate his next steps. He spent the month of August in Sussex, at the homes of his patrons, the wealthy industrialist brothers Albert and Thomas Vickers. (Sargent would eventually paint thirteen members of the Vickers family.) The diary of Frances Vickers, Thomas's wife, records an outing to the seaside village of Whitby, on August 29. While visiting the historic resort town with his hosts, Sargent painted Fishing Boats at Whitby, a small seascape that captures the atmosphere of a cloudy late summer's day. This painting is on view at the Frick through August, a generous loan from the collection of Trustee Margot Bogert and her husband, Jerry.\nFishing Boats at Whitby affords the opportunity to look over the shoulder of a young artist in the process of developing his signature style. Sargent literally turned his back on some of the town's more notable features, including a picturesque harbor and the ruins of a thirteenth-century abbey that would later inspire the setting for Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897). He instead focused on the changing atmosphere of the scene before him. With a horizon that bisects the composition just below center, the quick study is a pared-down vision of shore, sea, and sky. Sargent represents the calm waters with a uniform application of a light blue-gray pigment. In the sky above, the artist layered thick brushstrokes of white over thin base layers of a gray hue \u2014 close to the color of the sea, but whiter. At the top of the composition, this tonal variation builds up into the thicker applications of white paint that suggest clouds. In the lower half of the painting, Sargent's sparse, deftly applied brushstrokes create the effect of waves gently breaking on a sand beach. The delicate washes of the waves allow the brown sand to show through, suggesting the water's transparency. The painting's subtle variations are interrupted by angular black forms along the horizon, meant to represent cobles, flat-bottomed fishing boats commonly used along the northeastern coast of England.\nSargent painted Fishing Boats at Whitby only two months after he submitted Madame X to the Paris Salon. The infamous portrait of the New Orleans\u2013born Virginie Gautreau, today one of the artist's best-known works, represents his modern interpretation of the French academic tradition, developed in the Paris studio of his teacher Carolus-Duran. Sargent's portrait of Thomas Vickers's three daughters (Weston Park Museum, Museums Sheffield), also painted in 1884, shares some of the signature features of Madame X, notably the unusually tense poses of the young women and their placement against a shadowy, indeterminate background.\nIt is tempting to imagine Fishing Boats at Whitby as a moment of escape for the artist after the fraught reception of Madame X. Briefly liberated from the task of portraiture, Sargent devoted his attention to the shifting light of a cloudy day \u2014 the kind of impressionistic pursuit that he would explore with great success in future works, specifically Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose (Tate Gallery, London), painted the following year. Perhaps the fact that he dedicated Whitby to his hostess Edith Vickers, with an inscription at the bottom right of the composition, is an expression of his enjoyment of the relaxed afternoon of painting en plein air.\nRaised by an American family that moved between the fashionable cities of Europe, Sargent lived at the confluence of American, English, and Continental artistic tastes. By 1884, he had mastered his teacher's modern interpretation of the French academic tradition, but also was drawn to Impressionism's more radical approach and the charms of the British Aesthetic movement. One artist that Sargent could look to for inspiration in this varied cultural and aesthetic landscape was James McNeill Whistler, a fellow American some twenty years his senior. Admired for his original style, Whistler was a fixture in the artistic circles of Paris and London, as Sargent would one day be.\nFishing Boats at Whitby is displayed near a seascape by Whistler, Symphony in Gray and Green: The Ocean. Whistler painted The Ocean in 1866 in Chile, where he had traveled to support the country's fight against Spain during the Chincha Islands War. While it is unlikely that Sargent ever saw the canvas, he would have been familiar with Whistler's body of work, and Fishing Boats at Whitby reflects his engagement with the older painter's approach. Thanks to Margot and Jerry Bogert, it is possible this summer to contemplate two American expatriate artists' explorations of the light of foreign shores.\nJohn Singer Sargent (1856\u20131925), Fishing Boats at Whitby, 1884, oil on canvas, private collection.\nFishing Boats at Whitby\nAnonymous's blog\nWhat's on at the Frick\nSign up for news about exhibitions, events, and more. 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{"text":"Bill Walsh Toyota Incentives\nCurrent 2020 Toyota Highlander SUV Special offers\nGet $750 finance cash when you buy Highlander!\nApplies to select new 2020 Toyota Highlander.\n$750 Finance cash from Toyota Motor Sales USA, Inc. for qualified, non-subvened finance contracts through Toyota Financial Services on the purchase of a new 2020 Highlander. Finance Cash must be applied toward the down payment on a qualified TFS finance agreement up to 72 months. Limit one Finance Cash per finance transaction. Customer must take delivery from dealer stock by 02-03-2020. Not all customers will qualify. Offer available only through participating Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and Wisconsin Toyota dealers. Offer void where prohibited. Finance Cash offer may not be combined with any other offers except qualifying College Grad or Military Rebate. Toyota Certified Used Vehicles are not eligible for this Finance Cash offer. No cash payment will be made to consumer. See your participating Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and Wisconsin dealer for details.\n* College Graduate Rebate is available on all new and unlicensed Toyota vehicles. Toyota Certified UsedVehicles (TCUVs) and Scion Certified Pre-Owned Vehicles are not eligible for the Rebate Program.College Graduate Finance Program (which is not a rebate and instead offers competitive APRs andlease terms) is available on the lease or finance (including preferred option) of all new and unlicensedToyota models or on TCUVs or Scion Certified Pre-Owned Vehicles. Subject to the foregoing limits andrequirements below, the College Graduate Rebate Program and College Graduate Finance Program areavailable upon credit approval from and execution of a finance or lease contract through a participatingToyota dealer and Toyota Financial Services (TFS). Not all applicants will qualify. To qualify for theCollege Graduate Rebate Program and College Graduate Finance Program, customers must be currentlyenrolled in a graduate degree program from an eligible school (as defined below), or enrolled in or be agraduate from an eligible school and provide proof of graduation (showing an upcoming graduation withinsix months OR a recent graduation within two calendar years from the date of signing your vehicle leaseor finance contract) from one of the following eligible schools located in the 50 United States, Puerto Rico,or U.S. Virgin Islands: (a) an accredited four-year college, university or registered nursing program; OR(b) an accredited two-year college associate degree or an undergraduate academic degree as awardedby community colleges, junior colleges, technical colleges and universities; OR (c) an accredited two-yeartrade or vocational school; OR (d) an accredited graduate school. In all cases, the student will have twocalendar years from receipt of their degree to take advantage of the program. Must provide proof ofqualification and any one of the following documents will be accepted: (a) copy of diploma; OR (b) letterfrom the college\/university\/trade school registrar's office stating graduation date and type of degree orcertification earned; OR (c) copy of the final transcript confirming graduation date and type of degreeearned; OR (d) copy of current transcript (or letter from college\/university registrar's office) confirmingcurrent enrollment in a graduate degree program. Eligible customers must also meet credit approvalrequirements and furnish proof of present or future employment (which will begin within 120 days of creditapproval) when submitting credit application. Rebate offered by Toyota Motor North America. Rebate willbe applied on TFS lease agreements toward the amount due at lease signing or delivery or capitalizedcost reduction or the down payment on TFS finance contracts. Limit one rebate per lease or financetransaction. College Graduate Rebate Program may not be combined with the Toyota Military RebateProgram or iFi Program. Rebate valid on contracts executed between January 7, 2020 and March 31,2020 . College Graduate Programs are subject to change or termination at any time. Some restrictionsapply. Programs are not available in AL, FL, GA, HI, NC, and SC. Rebate terms may be more generous inyour local area. Ask your participating dealer about the college graduate rebate terms in your area. Underthe College Graduate Finance Program, competitive APRs and lease terms are available on eligiblefinance contracts with terms up to specified number of months for retail and lease and preferred optionfinancing on new vehicles. See dealer for details. Must pay sales tax. Void where prohibited by law. Notredeemable for cash.\u00a92020 Toyota Financial Services. All rights reserved.Toyota Financial Services is a service mark of Toyota Motor Credit Corporation (TMCC).TMCC is the authorized attorney-in-fact and servicer for Toyota Lease Trust.\n$500 rebate offered by Toyota Motor North America and may be applied toward finance or lease contracts on new Toyota vehicles, dated from January 3, 2018 through April 2, 2018. To qualify for the rebate, at the time of purchase or lease you must (1) be in current active duty status in the U.S. military (Navy, Army, Air Force, Marines, National Guard, Coast Guard and active Reserve) OR a U.S. military inactive reserve (i.e., Ready Reserve) that is part of the individual Ready Reserve, Selected Reserve and Inactive National Guard; OR a military veteran or retiree of the U.S. military within one year of their discharge\/retirement date; OR a household member of an eligible U.S. military personnel, including Gold Star family members; AND (2) provide verifiable proof of military status or active service; (3) receive a salary sufficient to cover ordinary living expenses and payment for your new vehicle; and (4) receive credit approval from and execute a finance or lease contract through a participating Toyota dealer and Toyota Financial Services. Not all applicants will qualify. On lease contracts, rebate must be applied toward the Amount Due at Lease Signing or toward the Capitalized Cost Reduction. On finance contracts, rebate must be applied toward the Down Payment. Limit one rebate per finance or lease transaction per eligible U.S. military personnel or eligible household member. Offer not combinable with the College Graduate Rebate Program, the iFi Program, and the Lease-End Refi Program. Vehicle must be taken out of dealer stock. Terms, conditions and restrictions apply. Program is not available in AL, FL, GA, HI, NC, and SC. Rebate terms may be more generous in your local area. Ask your participating dealer about the military rebate terms in your area. Must pay sales tax. Void where prohibited by law. Not redeemable for cash.* $500 rebate offered by Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. and may be applied toward finance orlease contracts on new Toyota vehicles, dated from January 7, 2020 through March 31, 2020. Toqualify for the rebate, at the time of purchase or lease you must (1) be in current active dutystatus in the U.S. military (Navy, Army, Air Force, Marines, National Guard, Coast Guard and activeReserve) OR a U.S. military inactive reserve (i.e., Ready Reserve) that is part of the individualReady Reserve, Selected Reserve and Inactive National Guard; OR a retiree of the U.S. military, OR a military veteran within two years of their discharge date; OR a household member of an eligibleU.S. military personnel, including Gold Star family members; AND (2) provide verifiable proof ofmilitary status or active service; (3) receive a salary sufficient to cover ordinary living expenses andpayment for your new vehicle; and (4) receive credit approval from and execute a finance or leasecontract through a participating Toyota dealer and Toyota Financial Services. Not all applicants willqualify. On lease contracts, rebate must be applied toward the Amount Due at Lease Signing or towardthe Capitalized Cost Reduction. On finance contracts, rebate must be applied toward the Down Payment.Limit one rebate per finance or lease transaction per eligible U.S. military personnel or eligible householdmember. Offer not combinable with the College Graduate Rebate Program, the iFi Program, and theLease-End Refi Program. Vehicle must be taken out of dealer stock. Terms, conditions and restrictionsapply. Program is not available in AL, FL, GA, HI, NC, and SC. Rebate terms may be more generous inyour local area. Ask your participating dealer about the military rebate terms in your area. Must pay salestax. Void where prohibited by law. Not redeemable for cash. Toyota Financial Services is a service markof Toyota Motor Credit Corporation (TMCC). TMCC is the authorized attorney-in-fact and servicer forToyota Lease Trust.\u00a92020 Toyota Financial Services. All rights reserved. Toyota Financial Services is a service markof Toyota Motor Credit Corporation (TMCC). TMCC is the authorized attorney-in-fact and servicer forToyota Lease Trust.\nLease a new 2020 Highlander for only $349 per month for 36 months.\n$349 per month for 36 months\n$3,799 cash due at signing\nLease a new 2020 Highlander (L AWD 3.5L V6 Direct Shift 8-Speed Automatic) for $349 a month for 36 months with $3,799 due at signing, which includes first month's payment, $2,800 down payment, $0 security deposit and $650 acquisition fee. Does not include, taxes, license, title fees, insurance and dealer charges. Closed-end lease. Example based on model #6937 with FE, LO, 2T. Total Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price $37,638. Monthly payments of $349 total $12,564. Capitalized cost of $32,572 based on down payment and dealer participation, which may vary by dealer. Payment may vary depending on model, equipment choice, and final transaction price. Lease-end purchase option is $24,088. Customer responsible for maintenance, excess wear and tear and $0.15 per mile over 12000 miles per year. To qualified Tier 1+ customers through Toyota Financial Services. $350 disposition fee due at lease end unless customer purchases vehicle or decides to re-finance through Toyota Financial Services. Subject to availability. See participating dealer for details. Offer ends 02-03-2020. Does not include College Grad or Military Rebate. ToyotaCare covers normal factory scheduled service for 2 years or 25,000 miles, whichever comes first. Offer valid in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. See Toyota dealer for details and exclusions. Cannot exceed 12000 miles per year.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Inquest on Briton killed in Afghanistan\nAn inquest is set to open into the death of a Leamington Spa man killed while working in Afghanistan.\nThe hearing into the death of Leo Thomas James Ryan, 35, was expected to be adjourned by the county's coroner.\nIt is understood that Mr Ryan suffered a fatal gunshot wound in Kabul on May 5.\nDancing on IceTributes pour in as Dancing on Ice star Sean Rice dies at 49ITV has paid tribute to the Dancing on Ice star","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Read The Death Trust Online\nAuthors: David Rollins\nTags: #Suspense, #Fiction\nThe Death Trust (5 page)\nBOOK: The Death Trust\n\"I'm going to get a cup of coffee down the road,\" said Masters. \"Oh, before I forget, you'll need these.\" She handed me a large envelope. \"Your common access card\u2014your CAC\u2014will get you in and out of Ramstein. You'll find a cell phone and pager in there, too, as well as a swipe card to get you into OSI on the base. See you in, say, twenty.\"\nShe turned and walked out before I could offer an alternate plan. The receptionist had slipped away too, gone back to her bratwurst. I was alone in the foyer with a bag that contained four pairs of underwear and socks, a spare shirt, and a toothbrush I was too afraid to use. To be honest, I don't like being told what to do, which might be an odd thing for someone in the military to say. But I especially don't like it when I'm being ordered around by an officer of the same rank. So I walked out.\nOkay, I needed a shower, but what I needed more than anything else was that dentist, or at least some serious painkillers. Deodorant would've been good, too, and some mouthwash. I was thinking that maybe I could rinse my teeth clean. I also needed a car. It occurred to me that General Scott's second-in-command wasn't the person I should interview first. That honor went to the chief crash investigator. And I also wanted to talk to the person everyone seemed most concerned about, not, it seemed, because her husband had been killed, but because of who her father was.\nI found a tourist office and took a map of K-town. I asked the woman behind the counter for the nearest tooth doctor and was told that he didn't open till 0900, confirming what Masters had said. That was still half an hour away. I found a pharmacy and bought the strongest analgesic available without a prescription.\nNext stop, Hertz. I rented a Mercedes\u2014what else?\u2014and a map of the Rhineland-Palatinate, the province I found myself in. By the time I got back behind the wheel, the painkillers were working\u2014mercifully\u2014and I found myself able to at last concentrate on the job.\nI drove back down the highway, retracing my steps to Ramstein, fumbling with Masters's report, holding it against the steering wheel as I read. Two miles beyond the Kaiserslautern city limit, the pager beeped.\n? it said. I turned it off. A handful of seconds later, the cell began ringing. I was about to turn that off, too, but decided to see what was up.\n\"Major, what are you doing?\" said the voice on the other end.\n\"Driving. Do they do it on the left side of the road here, or the right?\"\n\"I'm on the road to Ramstein, which I know sounds like a song title or an old Bob Hope movie, but\u2014\"\n\"Special Agent Cooper, we agreed that you were going to meet me in the foyer.\"\nagreed on that, but I'm not sure who with. Hey, I hired a Mercedes, like yours only newer. I think I prefer Chevrolet.\" I can be infuriating, especially when I want to be, and this was one of those times. It was obvious that Masters didn't want me here, probably because she thought she was more than capable. She was treating me like I was a pain in the ass, and I objected to that because she didn't even know me. And, apart from these interpersonal observations, as far as I could see from her report, her investigation had gotten precisely nowhere. It was all typed out neat and tidy and all her verbs were conjugated correctly, but the whole was utterly devoid of any imagination or intuition. She didn't get it. Scott had been killed, but the big question on everyone's lips was whether someone had helped him along, even though no one was prepared to even voice that option, except for Gruyere, and her only admission on that point was the fact that she'd sent me here. Masters had asked questions and people had answered them, but she didn't appear to have questioned the answers.\n\"You've got a meeting with Lieutenant General von Koeppen in fifteen minutes,\" Masters said.\n\"But I haven't had a shower or a shave and I'm still wearing yesterday's nonthermal underwear.\"\nI wondered whether she was the type who uses silence as a weapon to keep her partner in line. Not my kind of woman. \"Okay, then,\" I said, keeping it light and cheery. \"I'll catch up with you later.\" I didn't wait for an answer. I ended the call and turned off the cell. That was against the rules, of course. In this business, people get nervous if they can't contact you 24\/7. I opened the glove compartment and threw the phone in, closing the hatch after it.\nA short time later, I turned off the highway and into the security post. The guard scanned my CAC card with a portable gizmo and checked that I looked as handsome in real life as I did in the photo. Satisfied, he then said, \"Thank you, sir,\" and waved me through. Before moving off, I asked for directions to Hangar B3. Ramstein, as I said, is a huge facility, and the soldier had to go back inside and consult a map. He returned moments later with a photocopy of the base layout. A line drawn in blue ink meandered across the page to the hangar.\nTen minutes later, I pulled up outside my destination. B3 was at least the size of two, possibly three, football fields. It was\nbig, it was impossible to tell how big. I walked to a side door feeling dwarfed by the structure. Huge overhead lights illuminated the interior. There were several C-5 Galaxies parked inside\u2014transport planes roughly the size of 747s. I stopped an airman and asked for further directions. He pointed down the far corner of the hangar.\nI eventually found what I was looking for, an area sealed off by walls of plastic and tape. Signs warned that this was a restricted area and that access was for authorized personnel only. I did what any investigator worth his pay would do and figured the signs weren't talking to me. I parted the plastic and looked inside. On the floor were the remains of what I assumed was General Scott's glider\u2014pretty much every little piece\u2014laid out for examination. The plane had hit the ground with such force that it appeared to have literally exploded. At least a dozen personnel were picking through these remains, cataloguing them. It was a mammoth task. There weren't many whole sections left intact.\nI made my way to what would have been the cockpit. There was a lot of dried blood on the pieces. That figured. The human body is really just a big bag of water. When it hits the ground at over one hundred and fifty miles per hour, it bursts.\n\"You right there, mate?\" said a voice behind me. The man wore the uniform of a Royal Air Force squadron leader, except his accent was about as English as mine. Australian. I'd come to recognize the accent after a stint in Afghanistan, where Australia's Special Forces, the Special Air Service, were deployed. Those boys were smart and very tough. I owed my life to half a dozen of them.\n\"Special Agent Vin Cooper,\" I said, flashing him my OSI creds.\n\"Wayne Roach.\"\nI recognized the name. Roach was heading the crash team investigating the wreckage. He was looking for cause. His was the signature on the report I'd read.\n\"OSI. Not the local branch, I take it?\" he asked.\n\"Flew in this morning.\"\n\"You working with that Masters chick on this?\"\n\"Lucky man. She's a spunkrat. Young to be a major, too. Rumor has it she can suck-start an F-16.\"\nThat gave me an interesting perspective on Masters. She had a reputation. Also, this guy thought her meteoric rise through the ranks had something to do with qualities other than those for which officers usually received promotion. I didn't add to the conversation, which might have made the squadron leader nervous. Parts of the services are, in some ways, even more PC than private enterprises.\nHe cleared his throat and said, \"You read the preliminary?\"\nI nodded. \"You've had a couple more days with this since you and your team did the initial write-up. Got anything to add?\"\n\"Yeah, as a matter of fact.\"\nI followed the squadron leader to a bench covered with various items of metal and fiberglass. Roach was short and bald, and the crotch of his pants appeared to get sucked up his butt as he walked, springing off his toes with each step. His uniform was a size too small for his frame, which didn't help. Maybe he was getting fat and didn't realize it. Or couldn't accept it.\nHanging on the wall behind the bench was a large photograph of the smiling, relaxed General Scott standing next to his sailplane. The aircraft's wingspan was a tad under sixty feet. The nose where the pilot sat was small and bulbous, with a large Perspex bubble canopy. Now, only shards of the glider remained\u2014slightly more than what remained of the general, according to Masters's report. I ran my eyes over the individual pieces spread out across the floor and found it difficult to imagine that this was the aircraft in the picture. Roach picked up an aluminum bracket.\n\"I can tell you now that General Scott's plane was sabotaged.\" He held up a piece of metal. \"Check this out.\"\nSabotage meant murder. I didn't bat an eyelid at the news, though once the folks Stateside heard it, the shit would definitely fly. \"What is it?\" I asked.\n\"The wings of the glider slide off and on to make transporting it from field to field possible. That makes this piece crucial. It's the bracket that clamps the main wing spar to the fuselage.\" Roach pulled the clamp apart and the top section split into two separate pieces across a fine, ragged crack. \"That's not supposed to happen, by the way,\" he said. \"This is seven-oh-seven-five\u2014aircraft-grade aluminum alloy. It's light and, as you might expect, extremely strong. At least, it's supposed to be.\"\nHe passed me a black-and-white photo. \"What's this?\" I asked.\n\"A photo,\" he said, being a wiseass. \"Well, actually, it's called a macrograph\u2014makes it easy to see the metal's crystal structure. This is what seven-oh-seven-five should look like.\" He passed me another black-and-white print. \"Compare them.\"\nI put the two prints side by side. On one, the crystals were big; on the other, they were small. Easy to see the difference, sure, but I still didn't know squat.\n\"Basic metallurgy lesson number one: When the crystals are small, the metal is good and strong,\" Roach said. \"The bigger those crystals get, the weaker the metal becomes. Milled nonferrous metals like aluminum don't take kindly to stress. They have almost zero elasticity. Put too much stress on them and they don't bend or deform, they just crack.\nPah-ting,\"\nhe said, musically.\n\"Do you mind putting it together for me like I was a five-year-old, Squadron Leader?\"\nRoach swapped the photos for a couple of bits of aluminum he'd recovered from his bench. \"We've duplicated what we believe happened to the failed clamp that held on the general's wings. We heated and cooled it rapidly a couple of dozen times. Doing that to a metal\u2014just about any metal\u2014changes its crystal structure, making it weaker. The seven-oh-seven-five in your left hand failed at one-tenth the load of the seven-oh-seven-five in your right. Take a closer look.\"\nI did as I was asked and examined the metals. On the outside, they appeared identical. In cross-section where they'd cracked, though, one piece had broken clean while the other had a porous honeycomb appearance.\n\"Nothing like this could happen by accident?\" I asked. I knew the answer to that before I asked the question, but I've found it sometimes pays to ask the obvious.\n\"No bloody way,\" the squadron leader said, shaking his head. \"Someone got to the general's plane, removed the clamp, and then went to work on it, or exchanged it for this one, knowing full well what the consequences of that would be.\"\n\"Don't stop now, Squadron Leader. You've got a captive audience here. What happened when that clamp failed?\"\n\"You read about it in the report,\" he said.\n\"I've read an eyewitness account. Tell me in your own words what you think happened.\"\nHe shrugged. \"On the morning of the crash, the general and another pilot were chasing thermals, maybe ten miles from the base. The weather was good and the conditions were ideal for soaring. The general, like the pilot in the other plane, was climbing to around twelve thousand feet and then doing aerobatics\u2014loops, rolls, and spins\u2014down to around five thousand feet. They'd apparently done that twice\u2014gone up and then come down\u2014before the general's day flew into the crapper. When he reached altitude for the third time, he put the glider into a flat spin. I reckon the clamp was probably already broken by then, but it's impossible to say. According to the witness, the right-hand wing on the general's plane appeared to fold. The airflow ripped it clean away a second or two later as what was left of the aircraft began a spiral dive.\n\"It dove like that, spinning, for several thousand feet before the g-forces tore the other wing off. Within moments, gravity accelerated the wreckage to around two hundred and fifty miles per hour. General Scott would've had plenty of time to contemplate his end before it came. From the clamp letting go to impact took around thirty seconds. That's a lot of time for your life to flash before your eyes.\" Roach paused. Maybe he was picturing the man trapped inside his fiberglass coffin heading for the ground. I certainly could. Roach snapped out of it and cleared his throat. \"The tail broke off at about two thousand feet of altitude. The nose of the aircraft hit a tree, which is why so little of it was left intact. Not much of the tree left, either. The general's remains\u2014what they could find, at any rate\u2014were scooped into buckets with a ladle. Shooting the bugger with a twelve-gauge at close range wouldn't have been nearly as effective, or messy. Not a great way to get your card punched.\" Roach paused for another moment of consideration before asking, \"Anything else, Special Agent?\"\n\"Yes,\" I managed to say. The saliva glands in my mouth were working overtime and my skin was clammy. I knew what was coming. I made it to a basin against the wall before my stomach let go. I'd be lying if I said my reaction to Roach's re-creation had nothing to do with my own experiences in the air. The Australian had just brought it all back\u2014the fear, the helplessness, the feeling in your guts when the hard floor beneath drops away revealing an abyss. And you just\u2026fall\u2026My stomach heaved again.\n\"You okay, mate?\"\n\"Yeah, I'm on one of those weird fad diets,\" I said. I cupped my hands under the water and splashed my face.\nSkulk by Rosie Best\nWagonmaster by Nita Wick\nName of the Devil by Andrew Mayne\nEnigma. 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{"text":"Bipartistan Coulterism\nWho's meaner, conservatives or liberals?\nCathy Young | From the October 2003 issue\nLast June the Democratic National Committee sponsored an ad portraying the president as Frankenstein creating a monster for a federal judgeship. This, Fox News host Sean Hannity declared, was a typical example of Democratic demonization. \"They're obviously being pretty mean-spirited here,\" he said, \"as they usually are.\"\nConfronted with this accusation, Democratic consultant Victor Kamber parried, \"It's the Republicans that have been the hate mongers in the past campaigns.\" Hannity's mild-mannered liberal co-host Alan Colmes inquired of another guest, \"You think Democrats are a lot meaner than Republicans?\"\nActually, conservatives have been doing quite well in the meanness sweepstakes, thanks largely to the impressive efforts of Ann Coulter. The right-wing pundit's latest book, Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism, attempts, among other things, to rehabilitate Sen. Joe McCarthy.\nIt opens with guns blazing: \"Liberals have a preternatural gift for striking a position on the side of treason. You could be talking about Scrabble and they would instantly leap to the anti-American position. Everyone says liberals love America, too. No they don't. Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy. This is their essence.\" And so it goes, for nearly 300 more pages: \"They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant. Fifty years of treason hasn't slowed them down.\"\nCoulter's sweeping generalizations, which can't distinguish Democratic Cold Warriors from Democratic fellow travelers, have alienated even some of her usual supporters (though not Hannity). But none of the nastiness or hysteria in Treason is new. Coulter has, after all, jokingly wished assassination on Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta and not-so-jokingly accused Mineta of \"burning with hatred for America\" because he opposes racial profiling in airport screening. Her long rap sheet of hateful remarks includes this gem from a speech last year to the Conservative Political Action Committee: \"We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals by making them realize that they could be killed, too.\"\nI've long been baffled to see so many conservatives defend Coulter as a fiery and witty, if over-the-top, polemicist. Reviewing her previous book, Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right, in The Weekly Standard, Christopher Caldwell lauded the \"Menckenesque invective\" of such aper\u00e7us as: \"Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do. They don't have the energy. If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now.\" There's no accounting for taste, I suppose; but even if you regard Coulter's rhetoric as funny, her consistent demonization of her opponents and her constant equation of dissent with treachery are not.\nWhen Coulter appeared on Hannity and Colmes to discuss Treason, Colmes pressed her on the subject of which liberals alive today she would accuse of treason. \"Keep talking,\" she replied. \"I might be able to point the finger at you.\"\nJust her twisted sense of humor? Coulter sounded entirely serious when she went on to query Colmes about his opposition to the war in Iraq and his concern that the war on terrorism may endanger civil liberties \u2014 or, as she put it, that \"we're in the middle of a civil liberties emergency every time John Ashcroft talks to a Muslim.\"\nSuch rhetoric is not unique on the right. Last November, when Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle complained about being attacked by radio host Rush Limbaugh, he was widely ridiculed for \"whining.\" But Limbaugh's denunciations of Daschle were in fact fairly extreme.\n\"What more do you want to do to destroy this country than what you've already tried?\" he inquired after Daschle criticized the Bush administration's conduct of the war on terrorism. \"It is unconscionable what this man has done! This stuff gets broadcast around the world, Senator. What do you want your nickname to be? Hanoi Tom? Tokyo Tom?\"\nThis is nasty stuff, even if it's meant to be somewhat tongue in cheek, and it gives liberals cause to cry that conservatism has been taken over by shrill hate mongers. Sure, they'll admit, the left has its own nasties such as Michael Moore \u2014 but those, they insist, are few and far between, marginal figures well to the left of the liberal mainstream. Moore is not considered a liberal icon, is not invited to speak at conferences of liberal political action committees, and does not appear regularly on television as a serious political pundit.\nTrue enough. But even in the liberal mainstream, a lot of left-leaning commentary has a streak of Coulteresque nastiness.\nIf the conservative paradigm is that liberals are unpatriotic, if not downright un-American (and possibly also godless and libertine), then the liberal paradigm is that conservatives are at best uncompassionate and at worst bigots and fascists. Hannity has a point when he says that people who are outraged by Coulter's crude stereotyping of Democrats often don't hesitate to suggest that \"the Republicans want to poison the air, water, kill children and throw children on the streets.\" Not to mention abuse the elderly and burn down black churches.\nHyperbole? Not exactly. Think back to the infamous ad from the 2000 presidential campaign in which the daughter of James Byrd Jr., the black Texas man who was deliberately dragged to his death behind a car, said she felt as if her father was killed all over again when Gov. Bush refused to sign the state's hate crimes law. Or to the cartoon on the Web site of the Democratic National Committee showing Bush shoving a wheelchair-bound granny down the edge of a Social Security trust fund graph. Or to a cartoon in the New York Daily News that showed Gale Norton, Bush's nominee to be secretary of the interior, declaring, \"Leave no child alive.\"\nThe rhetoric gets especially noxious on racial issues. Some years ago, Al Gore said this about critics of affirmative action: \"I've heard those who say we have a colorblind society. They use their color blind the way duck hunters use a duck blind \u2014 they hide behind it and hope the ducks won't notice.\"\nMore recently, after the Supreme Court ruling upholding affirmative action, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd said this about Clarence Thomas' dissenting opinion: \"The dissent is a clinical study of a man who has been driven barking mad by the beneficial treatment he has received.\" Thomas, of course, has been the target of exceptionally nasty rhetoric from his critics; in 1994, on the PBS show To the Contrary, Julianne Malveaux remarked, \"I hope that his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease.\"\nWhen it comes to mean-spirited rhetoric, both left and right are better at seeing the speck in the other's eye than the log in their own. This sets off a vicious cycle, in which each side feels justified in hurling vicious slurs because the other camp is even worse.\nIn a recent, cautious critique of Coulter, conservative writer David Horowitz declared that he enjoyed her attacks on liberals because he felt they were well-deserved: \"No one wields the verbal knife more ruthlessly than so-called liberal pundits like Joe Conason, to cite but one example\u2026.If people Joe Conason admired were the objects of acid Coulterisms, so much the better.\" A 2002 Wall Street Journal piece lauded Coulter as the right's answer to Lenny Bruce, Louis Farrakhan, and Angela Davis. Meanwhile, liberals talk about the need to develop programming to counter invective-filled right-wing talk radio.\nThis endless shouting match \u2014 \"You're mean!\" \"No, you're mean! And since you're being mean we'll be even meaner!\" \u2014 can be entertaining at times. But it drowns out serious arguments.\nNEXT: Of Smears and Smeagol\nCathy Young is a contributing editor at Reason.\nRussian Propaganda Has Succeeded in Persuading Credulous Americans That It Poses a Grave Threat to Democracy\nJacob Sullum | 2.1.2023 12:01 AM","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bob Dylan and Philosophy\nIt's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Thinking)\nVernezze, Peter\nThe legions of Bob Dylan fans know that Dylan is not just a great composer, writer, and performer, but a great thinker as well. In Bob Dylan and Philosophy, eighteen philosophers analyze Dylan's ethical positions, political commitments, views on gender and sexuality, and his complicated and controversial attitudes toward religion. All phases of Dylan's output are covered, from his early acoustic folk ballads and anthem-like protest songs to his controversial switch to electric guitar to his sometimes puzzling, often profound music of the 1970s and beyond. The book examines different aspects of.\nPublisher: New York : Open Court, 2011.\nCharacteristics: 1 online resource : photo\nAdditional Contributors: Porter, Carl J.\nIrwin, William 1970-\nRead more reviews of Bob Dylan and Philosophy at iDreamBooks.com\nDylan, Bob, 1941- \u2014 Philosophy.\nDylan, Bob, 1941- \u2014 Political and Social Views.\nMusic and Philosophy.\nRock Music. \u2014 History and Criticism.\nRock Musicians \u2014 United States. \u2014 Philosophy.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Penguin History Of New Zealand\nAuthor: Michael King\nPublisher : Penguin Group New Zealand, Limited\nImprint : Penguin Books (NZ)\nAuthor : Michael King\nEdition : Reprint\nReading Level : good\nIllustrations :\nNew Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce a full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that followed the franchise, the movements and the conflicts of human history have been played out more intensively and more rapidly in New Zealand than anywhere else on Earth. This title tells that story in all its colour and drama. The narrative that emerges is an inclusive one about men and women, Maori and Pakeha. It shows that British motives in colonizing New Zealand were essentially humane; and that Maori, far from being passive victims of a \"fatal impact\", coped heroically with colonization and survived by selectively accepting and adapting what Western technology and culture had to offer. The latter part of the book reveals how an insulated and dependent British colony transformed itself into an independent nation, open to and competing with technological and cultural influences sweeping the globe.\nWinner of Montana New Zealand Book Awards: Readers' Choice Award 2004 and Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers' Choice Award 2004.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"home car accidents vehicle rollovers\nSeattle Vehicle Rollover Lawyers\nAfter Being Injured in a Rollover\nHow Dangerous Are Rollover Accidents?\nPossible Injuries in a Rollover Accident\nCauses of Vehicle Rollover Accidents\nThe Danger of SUVs\nAfter a Rollover\nWorking with You Towards Recovery\nWhat Can You Do After Being Injured in a Rollover?\nVictims of rollover crashes often suffer catastrophic injuries or death. Despite the dangers of SUVs and other large vehicles, manufacturers continue to produce and sell them to the public every year.\nIf you or a loved one has been the unfortunate victim of a rollover accident, you should get in touch with the experienced Seattle car accident attorneys at Hardwick & Pendergast, P.S. By establishing a strong claim, we may be able to hold the negligent driver and\/or the automaker liable for the losses you have sustained. Contact us today at (888) 228-3860 to get started on the path to recovery.\nIn a recent one-year period studied by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), rollover accidents made up 3% of all vehicle collisions, but were involved in 33% of all fatalities. Rollover accidents, while not common, are tragically dangerous to the occupants of a vehicle. One way to help prevent rollover fatalities is to make sure everyone in the vehicle is wearing a seatbelt - 72% of the fatalities for that year involved a lack of safety belts. Almost two-thirds of these victims were completely thrown from the vehicle during the accident.\nVehicle Rollover Recoveries\n$1,925,000 recovery in a wrongful death claim for a Federal Way family that was traveling to Los Angeles when they were cut off on the freeway, causing their car to rollover.\nView more Case Results here.\nThe initial collision can be devastating, but occupants can also be crushed during the rollover, and some are ejected while the vehicle is still in motion. There are many reasons why rollovers are dangerous, and many types of injuries that Seattle motorists may suffer during one of these violent crashes:\nDuring the roll, the occupants may be thrown around in the interior of the car. Even someone wearing a seatbelt can strike a side window, a seat, the dashboard, or the steering wheel. This impact can result in head trauma and brain damage. Anyone who has lost consciousness, or who feels nauseated or confused after an accident, should seek immediate medical attention. Traumatic brain injuries often have long-lasting or permanent symptoms, including significant changes to one's physical and mental abilities.\nThe sudden changes in directions that can occur during a rollover can result in devastating neck and back injuries. Even people who are wearing seatbelts can experience whiplash injuries, herniated disks, and other debilitating spinal cord injuries. Those who are not buckled up are more likely to be ejected or thrown about inside the rolling vehicle. In such cases, victims may lose feeling or sensation in their limbs, resulting in permanent disabilities such as paralysis.\nLaceration Injuries\nEven when a car has a solid frame and maintains its shape during a rollover, the windshield and side windows will likely shatter during the crash. Lacerations and amputations are possible in these accidents. Victims who do not receive immediate treatment may lose a significant amount of blood, or suffer permanent scarring and disfigurement.\nThe NHTSA reports that about 40 percent of all fatal rollover crashes involve excessive speeding.\nCauses of Washington Vehicle Rollover Accidents\nThere are a number of contributing factors to rollovers. Some of the most common include:\nVehicle design: Many vehicles such as SUVs, pickup trucks, vans, and 15-passenger vans have a high center of gravity. A vehicle with a high center of gravity and narrower track width has a greater chance of tipping or rolling over.\nRoad conditions: The NHTSA reports that rollover accidents are most likely to occur on rural roads that do not have barriers.\nSpeed: The faster a vehicle is going, the more likely it is to rollover, especially when there is some type of impact. Additionally, most fatal rollover car accidents occur where the posted speed is over 55 mph.\nDriver negligence: Most rollovers are single-vehicle crashes. Many of these accidents could have been prevented had the driver been more attentive or careful. Drivers who are fatigued, speeding, drunk, or distracted have a greater chance of being involved in a rollover crash in Washington.\nRoutine driving: It is a common misconception that rollovers have to involve a reckless driver or a dangerous condition. The NHTSA has stated that over 90% of fatal rollover accidents involve routine driving maneuvers such as negotiating a curve. Rollovers can also occur when the drivers attempt sudden action.\nDangerous roadway: If a driver has to veer suddenly to avoid a pothole, there is the risk of a rollover. Governing bodies in charge of the roadway have a legal obligation to keep it properly maintained.\nDefective tires: When a tire goes out on the highway, there is a risk that the vehicle will veer out of control. In 2000, Bridgestone\/Firestone had to recall millions of tires that had the potential to cause fatal SUV rollover accidents.\nWhen sports utility vehicles (SUVs) gained prominence in the 1990s and early 2000s, they were touted as comfortable, luxurious, and safe vehicles. Although SUV sales dropped off during the economic crisis, the numbers have surged back up over recent years. The sturdy structure of the SUV can provide extra protection in the case of an accident; however, the same design factors that supposedly prevent injuries can also contribute to rollovers.\nThe key structural features that distinguish SUVs from more traditional motor vehicles and make them more susceptible to devastating accidents include the following:\nHigher center of gravity: SUVs are typically taller than regular automobiles. This equates to a higher center of gravity, and consequently, a greater risk of rollover accidents. Rollovers have the potential for roof crush, which can cause severe head and spinal cord injuries and even death. According to the NHTSA, SUVs can have a 10% or higher chance of rollovers. Most SUV rollovers occur when the driver strikes a low object like a curve, or when the driver executes an emergency maneuver to avoid a road hazard.\nIncreased weight: SUVs can weigh up to four tons, much greater than the average automobile in the U.S. Due to their mass, SUVs can cause much more damage in a crash, not just to themselves, but to other smaller automobiles.\nFalse sense of security: According to a report by the Opinion Research Corporation, 39% of Americans felt they were \"much less vulnerable\" when riding in an SUV. This false sense of security can encourage negligent or reckless behavior in SUV drivers, leading to a higher risk of an accident.\nVictims of rollover accidents often need immediate medical attention. Emergency services, surgery, hospitalization, and rehabilitation services may be necessary, but extremely costly. If the rollover resulted from someone else's negligence, the victims are eligible for compensation. A skilled car accident attorney will work to determine who should be held liable, possibly:\nThe vehicle's driver: Did the driver cause the rollover because he or she was speeding, intoxicated, or distracted?\nDriver of other vehicle: Did another negligent driver cause the rollover by making an unsafe lane change, by forcing the vehicle off the roadway, or through some other negligent or reckless act?\nManufacturer of the vehicle: In some cases, it is possible to recover financial support from the manufacturer of the vehicle if the car rolled as the result of faulty design.\nWorking with You Towards Recovery in Washington\nThe experienced Seattle car accident injury attorneys at Hardwick & Pendergast, P.S., know how to handle all types of injury cases. We work with accident investigators to determine the cause of the crash and liability. We are ready to provide you and your loved ones with a free and comprehensive case evaluation on your potential personal injury claim. 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{"text":"As Bennett plants tree in Hebron, Lapid calls for 'separation from Palestinians'\nPro-peace-process activist took to streets to express support of Kerry, with Lapid joining them claiming it was time for Israel 'to separate from Palestinians.' Meanwhile, Bennett takes to Hebron to plant olive tree for future generations\nActivists supporting peace talks took to the streets Thursday, holding demonstrations at 20 key junctions across the nation. Among those expressing their support for the peace process were Yesh Atid activists, who were surprised to receive a visit from Finance Minister Yair Lapid.\nLapid addressed the demonstrators and expressed optimism at the political process, saying: \"A political process is under way; we are here because it is real.\" He added that \"we will not miss this chance, it is time to separate from the Palestinians.\"\nLapid further stressed that it was important to show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that there is support for a peace deal. \"Yesh Atid will not allow this chance to be missed.\" The finance minister noted that the economic situation is improving and is inseparable from the political process. He further promised that his party activists will continue to demonstrate for peace both in Israel and with Palestinians.\nAlso on Thursday, Habayit Hayehudi Chairman Naftali Bennett came to Tu B'Shevat celebrations in Hebron where he planted an olive tree.\n\"We are planting an olive tree today, and those children planting it will enjoy its fruits, along with their grandchildren and great-grandchildren. We will be here forever.\"\nHe also mentioned US Secretary of State John Kerry's proposal to install plasma screens and other electronic devices as a substitute for armed forces in the Jordan Valley, and emphasized that \"while conversations on plasmas are taking place, we are talking about real children and real people.\"\nUS consulate posts anti-settlement news report\nThe US Consulate General in Jerusalem on Thursday hinted at a second incident in days of Israeli criticism of US Secretary of State John Kerry.\nOn its Facebook account, the consulate linked to a story on an Israeli news site that refuted claims by Israeli Minister of Housing Uri Ariel that Kerry approved his plan to build 1,400 new settlement units in the West Bank.\nThe story quoted a US official as saying: \"Our position on settlements has not changed, and we have consistently communicated our objection both publicly and directly to the Israelis on settlement announcements.\"\n\"In case you missed it on Monday, the U.S. official in this story got it right,\" the consulate noted.\nDays earlier, after the Israeli defense minister undermined Kerry's efforts to finalize a peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians, the State Department asked Israel's prime minister to publicly express his disagreement.\nThough Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave no official comment, he seemed to exert pressure on the minister, Moshe Yaalon, whose office issued a statement of apology Wednesday.\nYaalon had described Kerry Tuesday as having an \"obsession\" with Middle East peace. In a private conversation with Israeli officials, Yaalon said Kerry's plan was \"not worth the paper it was written on.\"\nNetanyahu: Jew Free Palestinian State would be Ethnic Cleansing\nA \"Jew free\" Palestinian state would be tantamount with ethnic cleansing said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with Canada's CTV, reports the algemeiner.\n\"It's absurd that we're willing to recognize, that I'm willing to recognize the Palestinians, but in exchange, they're not willing to recognize the Jewish state, the nation state of the Jewish people. There's something wrong there\", said Netanyahu, highlighting that, due to him, the crux of the disagreement in the negotiations is not about the settlement or about territories, but about the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state.\nIn the interview Netanyahu also stated that the Palestinians living inside Israel have full civic rights and are not asked to leave.\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that a \"Jew-free\" Palestinian state, now being contemplated in peace talks, would be tantamount to ethnic cleansing, in a trailer for an hour-long interview with Canada's CTV to be broadcast this week.\nWhen the interviewer, CTV's Lisa LaFlamme, said that 1 in 5 Israelis are Arab, Netanyahu responded, \"Sure. We're not asking them to change their religion, they have full civic rights. Now in the Palestinian state, the way its being contemplated, no Jew can live there, it has to be Jew free, ethnic cleansing. Well, what is that? There are Arabs who live here, but they can't contemplate Jews living there.\"\nHe said that rather than the issue of settlements, the crux of the disagreement is the Palestinian Authority's refusal to recognize a Jewish state.\n\"I think the issue of settlements will be resolved, the question of the territories, in general, will be resolved in the negotiations. I don't think it's the heart of the conflict, though I know people think of it that way, but it isn't, it isn't so,\" Netanyahu said.\n\"It's not about settlements, it's not about territory, and it's not even about a Palestinian state, which we agreed right from the start to recognize. It's about a Jewish state. It's about survival of the state of Israel. It's absurd that we're willing to recognize, that I'm willing to recognize the Palestinians, but in exchange, they're not willing to recognize the Jewish state, the nation state of the Jewish people. There's something wrong there.\"\nWith three more months before a U.S.-set deadline for the talks, Netanyahu said he was hopeful that the talks succeed.\n\"I hope they don't fail, and I hope we can do everything we can to have a successful outcome. We're ready to do it, i'm ready to do it,\" he said.\nJordan's King Abdullah meets Netanyahu in Amman for talks\nJordan's King Abdullah II held talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Amman on Thursday.\n\"King Abdullah and Netanyahu discussed peace process developments in light of the current US-sponsored Israeli-Palestinians peace negotiations,\" a palace statement said.\nLast week, King Abdullah met with President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.\nThe king said at the time that it was a priority to protect Palestinian national interests, especially regarding a final status agreement.\nUS Secretary of State John Kerry coaxed the two sides back to the negotiating table in July after a three-year freeze, and they have agreed to keep talking for nine months.\nIsrael has issued plans for thousands of illegal settlements since talks began and insists on having a military and civilian presence in the Jordan Valley, a third of the occupied West Bank.\nAbed Rabbo: \"Palestinian Leadership Rejects Kerry's Plan\"\nSecretary-General of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Abed Rabbo, stated that the Palestinian leadership rejects the proposed agreement presented by U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry.\nAbed Rabbo said that what Kerry is proposing is a Palestinian state that has no capital, no borders, and is trying to get the Palestinians to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.\nHe added that Kerry agrees with the Israeli conditions that reject any eviction of settlement blocks, and many settlements, is adopting the Israeli stance that rejects any Palestinian control over borders, and is suggesting a \"state\" with no sovereignty.\nIn a press conference with political leaders of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Abed-Rabbo said that the proposed agreement also demands the Palestinians to accept and recognize Israel's illegitimate settlements, mainly its settlement blocs, built in direct violation of International Law.\n\"The peace process is hitting large walls, walls of Israel's illegitimate settlements, Israel's rejection to recognize our internationally guaranteed rights. Tel Aviv is just placing more obstacles and preconditions\", he said, \"Israel wants to build a Wall in the Jordan Valley, similar to its apartheid wall west of the West Bank, so that it can keep its illegal settlements and military bases\".\nAbed-Rabbo further stated that even the American mediator does not know the exact size of Israel's settlements, especially since Israel keeps expanding them through its illegal confiscation, and theft of Palestinian lands.\n\"By demanding us to recognize it as a Jewish State, Tel Aviv is demanding us to drop our legitimate, historic rights, Kerry is demanding us to adopt Israel's version\", the official said, \"Jerusalem will face the same fate, what kind of a state they are talking about?, a state with no borders, no capital\u2026\".\nHe further stated that the Executive Committee of the PLO has granted a green light to the Political Committee to resume its efforts to join more international organizations, including UN institutions.\n\"The Palestinians must join international organizations\", Abed-Rabbo added, \"We need to search for an international mediator for peace talks, the U.S. has failed, and is just adopting Israel's demands and preconditions\".\nFurthermore, a senior Palestinian official told the Xinhua Chinese News Agency, that the Palestinian leadership would resume its international activities in April, once the nine months of direct talks, under American mediation, expire.\nMember of the PLO Executive Committee, Taiseer Khaled, said that the United States and Israel have two main coherent positions rejecting the Right of Return of the Palestinian refugees, and demanding the Palestinians to recognize Israel as a Jewish State.\n\"They want us to drop the legitimate rights of the displaced Palestinians, they are proposing settling the refugees in countries they live in, or in a different state\", Khaled said, \"Israel does not admit to its responsibility for displacing the refugees, it does not recognize their rights, and wants the international community to deal with them\".\nThe official said that what Kerry is asking the Palestinians now is partially based on proposals by former U.S president, Bill Clinton, who suggested the return of some externally displaced refugees to the Palestinian territories, and not back to their lands in historic Palestine.\nKerry also wants other countries, especially Arab states, to provide residency rights to the refugees.\nIsrael's Yaalon risks isolation after Kerry slur\nIsrael's defense minister may have apologized for his offensive comments about US Secretary of State John Kerry but his outburst could see him marginalized by Washington, commentators warned on Wednesday.\nA furious diplomatic row erupted between Israel and its closest ally on Tuesday when Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon was quoted as saying Kerry had an \"obsession\" about the peace process and was working out of a \"sense of messianism.\"\nWashington immediately lashed out at the \"offensive\" remarks, demanding an apology, which was eventually published by Yaalon's office late on Tuesday, although it stopped short of denying the comments.\n\"The defense minister had no intention to cause any offense to the secretary, and he apologizes if the secretary was offended by words attributed to the minister,\" it said, expressing appreciation for Kerry's efforts to advance the ongoing peace talks.\nHis remarks also sparked a welter of criticism inside Israel, with several cabinet ministers and the opposition saying many officials saying his personal attack on Kerry was inappropriate.\nAlthough the statement appeared to head off the crisis, commentators said Yaalon's dismissive comments could cost him dearly.\n\"The Americans have long marked Yaalon as a possible obstacle to reaching a peace agreement,\" wrote Nadav Eyal in Maariv newspaper.\n\"The problem isn't what Yaalon said about the peace talks. The problem is Yaalon's personal attack\" on Kerry, he wrote, saying the minister had made a \"beginner's error\" which could cost him a seat at the table with the Americans.\n\"His opposition to the negotiations -- whether in principle or tactical -- may position him politically, but could also, if mishandled, make him irrelevant,\" Eyal concluded.\nThe left-leaning Haaretz newspaper took a similar line.\n\"It is still difficult to assess the damage caused by Defense Minister Yaalon's disgraceful, mocking and arrogant comments,\" diplomatic correspondent Barak Ravid wrote.\nYaalon, he said, appeared to have abandoned his role as a \"responsible adult\" in the previous government for one formerly played by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman: \"that of the volatile minister who is boycotted in Washington.\"\nLieberman, a normally outspoken hardliner who has taken a more moderate stance since returning to office in November after being acquitted of corruption allegations, on Tuesday issued a rebuke directed at Yaalon, saying there was \"no place for lashing out personally.\"\n\"Lieberman has learned his lesson. He understood that his crude style toward the Americans hurt him... so he made an effort to build good relations with Kerry despite their disagreements,\" Ravid wrote.\n\"Even after his apology, Yaalon still has to find a way to rehabilitate his relations with Washington. Otherwise he will see the inside of the White House and Pentagon only in photographs.\"\nSince being appointed secretary of state in February 2013, Kerry has visited the region 10 times in a bid to push forward the peace process, recently outlining a detailed plan for security in a final deal - which was utterly dismissed by Yaalon.\nBut a senior official in the ruling right-wing Likud said the defense minister had merely vocalized what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was thinking.\n\"Boogie said out loud what Netanyahu would like to say,\" he told Yediot, using the defense minister's nickname.\n\"You hear his aides in the bureau and you understand the spirit of things. Kerry is a burden.\"\nOpposition leader Isaac Herzog said the incident showed Netanyahu's ruling party had no interest in pursuing peace.\n\"The defense minister's insulting and offensive lashing out at Secretary of State Kerry exposes Likud's true face,\" he said late on Tuesday, accusing the government of having \"no vision for peace.\"\nBut Shimon Shiffer, the Yediot correspondent who first reported Yaalon's remarks, said the problem lay predominantly in the way the US-led negotiations were being conducted, which had forced Israel into an impossible corner.\n\"The negotiations ... are being pursued at present with an insulting lack of transparency,\" he wrote.\n\"The parameters of the agreement that they are proposing could end in a security catastrophe for Israel, but if we insist on our vital security interests they will lay responsibility for the failure of the talks on us.\n\"And if that is the situation, it is no wonder that the defense minister is furious,\" he wrote, saying Yaalon's remarks were aimed at his own government.\n\"Essentially, Yaalon was urging Netanyahu and (chief negotiator Tzipi) Livni to stop being so terrified, to stop playing make-believe and to start sharing with the Israeli public the things that are happening behind the scenes in the negotiations,\" he said.\nRecognition of Jewish State is Sticking Point in Peace Talks: Netanyahu\nPrime Minister of Israeli occupation Benjamin Netanyahu provided the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state to reach a peace deal agreement with the Palestinian negotiators. Netanyahu has made such recognition the pillar of his public statements in the recent weeks, calling it \"the real key to peace,\" \"the minimal requirement\" and \"an essential condition.\" Israeli, American and Palestinian officials all say it has become a core issue in the negotiations that started last summer.\nHe previously dismissed Palestinian refugees right of return to their land claiming that \" it is \"not right, not justified, and not legitimate.\"\nPLO official, Tayseer Khaled, said that the demand to recognize Israel as a Jewish state was \"dangerous.\" He explained that such recognition would harm the issue of the refugees and their \"right of return.\"\nResheq: Kerry's options represent conspiracy against the right of return\nEzzat Resheq, member of Hamas's political bureau, warned the Palestinian negotiator against responding to the options proposed by US secretary of state John Kerry concerning resolving the issue of refugees, which cancel the right of return. Resheq said in a press statement on Wednesday that Kerry's options represent a conspiracy against one of the Palestinian constants that is the right of return, and stressed that the Palestinians at home and abroad will not accept any option except the return to their homeland.\nHe emphasized that the right of return of Palestinian refugees to their towns and villages from which they have been forcibly displaced is a sacred inalienable right, and that any partial or interim solution that does not include recognizing the right of return of all refugees is unacceptable.\nResheq also called on all the Palestinian factions and forces to adopt a unified position against Kerry's plan that aims to liquidate the Palestinian cause.\nMeanwhile, a number of Palestinian institutions in Europe that are active in the field of the right of return denounced the statements made by Mahmoud Abbas, in which he considered the right of return an individual right and alluded to the possibility of compensating the refugees in exchange for ceding their right to return to their homeland.\nThese institutions said in a statement that Abbas's remarks would pave the way for new concessions regarding the Palestinian rights, and stressed that the right of return is legally guaranteed as an inalienable, individual and collective right.\nThey also confirmed that no one has the right to dispose of the right of return, and called on the Palestinian leadership to adopt a national strategy that will end the suffering of the Palestinian refugees.\nPeace Talks Move to Palestinian Refugee Issue\nAlthough the United States has insisted to the Israelis and Palestinians that all five permanent-status issues are part of the US-brokered negotiations, it was only when an Israeli radio report mentioned the issue that the topic suddenly gained credibility in the eyes of many skeptics. The Palestine News Network (PNN) ran a short translation from Israeli radio, confirming that US Secretary of State John Kerry had made reference to the issue of Palestinian refugees and that he had put forward four locations for their absorption.\nKerry's suggestion no doubt reflects the various discussions, differences and understandings between Israel and the Palestinians. The Palestinians have repeatedly insisted that Israel acknowledge its historic and moral responsibility in creating the Palestinian refugee problem. Many expect that this issue, more than any actual agreement on numbers, could be the gateway to a breakthrough.\nAfter the issue of who is responsible is resolved, it is understood that Palestinian refugees are to be given choices, including returning to their homeland in Palestine, staying where they are or going to certain third countries. The fourth option, which is highly contested, calls for some Palestinians to settle in Israel. The issue is finessed by having this small population absorbed over a number of years based on Israel approving it within the context of family reunification.\nThe Arab Peace Initiative dealt with the issue of refugees by citing UN Resolution 194, which calls for the right of return. The initiative perspective then added, however, that \"an agreed\" solution must be found. This key phrase gives the Israelis a virtual veto on any solution it does not consider acceptable.\nThe discussions on this issue over the years are best summarized in a Canadian effort referred to generally as the Ottawa Process, a mostly academic project led by Canadian academics and former diplomats connected to McGill University. The project's website, Palestinian Refugee ResearchNet, contains research and discussions on the history of Palestinian refugees and various proposals regarding them. This information is available to everyone.\nExperts in refugee issues say that putting aside politics, polemics and narratives, the most efficient way to resolve the Palestinian refugee issue requires three basic steps: acceptance, choosing return options and implementation, including compensation. Refugees agreeing to resolve their status in this way would have to sign a document to that effect and would receive an immediate cash payment. This would also necessarily require them to sign off on which of four countries they would like to adopt as their permanent home.\nAbbas Shiblaq, editor of the refugee newsletter Shaml, noted in 1996 the following in regard to implementation of the right of return: \"It would be naive to assume that political considerations and developments of the last fifty years will not have an impact on the way that this right might be implemented.\" Shiblaq and other McGill University experts assert that not every single refugee will return. They base this conclusion on a number of surveys of refugees, including a comprehensive study by Khalili Shikaki of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research. He found in 2003 that less than 10% of Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, Jordan and Lebanon were willing to return to historic Palestine and become Israeli citizens.\nAt one time, it was argued that the refugee issue involved two groups: those (laji'in) who became refugees in 1948 and those (nazihin) displaced in 1967. The idea was that the Palestinians displaced from the West Bank in 1967 could be returned immediately, without waiting for resolution for the 1948 refugees. This idea was scrapped, however, after the eruption of the second intifada in 2000, and the idea prevailed for a resolution involving all registered refugees with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).\nThe status of UNRWA, created in 1948, is itself also hotly debated. One suggestion put forward is to dissolve it within 10 years of any agreement. The Israelis insist that whatever agreement is reached, that will be considered the end of negotiations on it, closing the entire file forever.\nWhile many worry that the refugee issue is a deal breaker, leading Palestinian thinkers such as Al-Quds University President Sari Nusseibeh feel that the disagreements over the right of return \u2014 while extremely personal and emotional \u2014 are less difficult to resolve than, say, issues of borders or Jerusalem. As with all the permanent-status issues, however, neither side will reveal its final position on any topic until there is a comprehensive agreement that can be sold to the public as a single, closed package that must be accepted or rejected in its entirety.\nThis article was first published on Al-Monitor\nPalestinian consensus against negotiations\nHamas Movement renewed its rejection of talks resumption between Palestinian and occupation authorities in light of the imbalance of power in favor of the Israeli occupation. Member of Hamas' Political Bureau, Sami Khater, warned that US secretary of state John Kerry's framework agreement did not meet the minimum limits of Palestinian rights.\nKhater expressed his movement's total rejection of the current negotiations in light of the imbalance of power in favor of Israeli occupation \"especially that the results will certainly be at the expense of the weaker party\".\nNo Palestinian can accept Kerry's plan that states the Jewishness of Israel, neutrality of Jerusalem, exchange of land, and liquidation of right of return, he said.\nKhater said that Hamas had informed the PA negotiating team of its rejection of the negotiation process.\nMeanwhile, a workshop has been organized by the Popular Assembly against Negotiations on Tuesday at Engineers Union headquarters in Gaza under the title \"Palestinian factions' position towards Israeli-Palestinian negotiation.\"\nDuring the workshop, Palestinian factions voiced their rejection to the current negotiation process, saying that it aims at liquidating the Palestinian cause and covering Israeli crimes.\nDr. Sami Abu Zuhri, spokesman for Hamas movement, pointed out that talks' resumption came at a time of weak regional and Arab situation.\nHe said that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is not entitled to carry out the negotiation process amid a national consensus against peace talks, stressing the need to achieve reconcilation.\nFor his part, Dr. Ahmed al-Modalal, a leader in Islamic Jihad Movement, stated that the current round of negotiation came to liquidate the Palestine cause, saying that the Palestinian people will never give up their legitimate rights. He also called for re-activating the resistance option.\nIOA planning hundreds of new agricultural projects in occupied Golan Heights\nThe Israeli occupation authority (IOA) is planning to establish hundreds of new agricultural projects in the occupied Syrian Golan heights, Hebrew press reported. The Walla Hebrew website said on Tuesday that the Israeli government had endorsed in its last Sunday meeting a five-year plan to develop new agricultural areas in the Golan to be used by Jewish farmers.\nIt said that the government would open 750 new agricultural projects in that period to the tune of 115 million dollars including the cost of removing mines and the establishment of water networks.\nThe website said that the plan envisages the reclamation of around 30,000 dunums near to the Jewish settlements to encourage tourism and farming and to create new work opportunities.\nIsrael's Ya'alon Apologizes to Kerry for Calling Him \"Messianic and Obsessive\"\nThe office of Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon issued a statment on Tuesday, saying: \"Israel and the United states share a common goal to advance the peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians led by Secretary Kerry.\n\"We appreciate Secretary Kerry's many efforts towards that end. The defense minister had no intention to cause any offense to the secretary, and he apologizes if the secretary was offended by words attributed to the minister.\"\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone with a senior US official in a bid to smooth over a diplomatic controversy sparked by comments attributed to Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, an Israeli official said on condition of anonymity. The official added that Ya'alon also discussed the matter with US Ambassador Dan Shapiro.\nEarlier on Tuesday, Yedioth Ahronoth reported that the Israeli defense minister suggested that US Secretary of State John Kerry's quest for Israeli-Palestinian peace was messianic and obsessive.\n\"The remarks of the Defense Minister (Moshe Ya'alon), if accurate, are offensive and inappropriate especially given all that the United States is doing to support Israel's security needs,\" State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a brief statement that constituted a rare rebuke to close ally Israel.\n\"To question Secretary Kerry's motives and distort his proposals is not something we would expect from the defense minister of a close ally,\" White House spokesman Jay Carney said.\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed that \"The United States is our greatest ally,\" noting: \"We are working in cooperation with the US president, the vice president... and the secretary of state. We are making efforts to promote peace, security, and stability in the region. We maintain our interest, while cultivating this important tie between the two nations. We strive to reach a true peace accord. We do not want a bi-national state but we also don't want an Iran-backed state that will try to annihilate the State of Israel.\nEarlier Tuesday, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon made remarks about US Secretary of State John Kerry, calling his efforts \"misplaced obsession and messianic fervor. His words sparked a rash of furious comments in the Knesset's hallways on Tuesday, with Israeli chief negotiator Tzipi Livni accusing him of damaging bilateral relations.\nYa'alon expressed his great skepticism of Kerry and the US's efforts, both in private conversations in Israel and in the US.\n\"The American security plan presented to us is not worth the paper it's written on,\" Ya'alon said. \"It contains no peace and no security. Only our continued presence in Judea and Samaria and the Jordan River will endure that Ben-Gurion Airport and Netanya don't become targets for rockets from every direction. \"\nHe called Kerry's passion out of place.\n\"American Secretary of State John Kerry, who turned up here determined and acting out of misplaced obsession and messianic fervor, cannot teach me anything about the conflict with the Palestinians.\"\nUS slams reported Israeli criticism of Kerry plan as 'offensive'\nThe US State Department on Tuesday condemned as \"offensive and inappropriate\" reported comments by Israel's defense minister criticizing a security plan put forward by US Secretary of State John Kerry.\n\"The remarks of the defense minister if accurate are offensive and inappropriate especially given all that the United States is doing to support Israel's security needs,\" spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki told reporters following a visit by Kerry to the Vatican.\nIsraeli Defense Minister Criticizes US Security Plan\nThe Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon has stated that the US Security\nplan presented by US Secretary of State John Kerry, \"is not worth the paper it's written on.\"\nHe goes on to state that, \"The moment we leave Judea and Samaria he [Mahmoud Abbas] is finished. In reality, there have been no negotiations between us and the Palestinians for all these months \u2013 but rather between us and the Americans. The only thing that can 'save us' is for John Kerry to win a Nobel Prize and leave us in peace.\"\nAccording to the Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry-al-Youm, Kerry has asked the Arab League to push the Palestinians for some concessions so that he can push the Israelis for something similar, Ynet reports. The question of recognizing Israel as a Jewish state is however something that the Palestinians will never do.\nThabet condemns Abbas's remarks about the right of return\nThabet Organization for the Right of Return denounced Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's recent remarks in which he considered the right of return a personal and optional right that can be substituted. The organization said that Abbas's remarks are consistent with US secretary of state John Kerry's plan, which aims to liquidate the Palestinian cause and cancel the right of refugees to return to their homeland in 1948 Palestine.\nIt said in a statement that the right of return is inalienable and that no one has the right to relinquish it.\nThe statement also stressed that any agreement to cancel the right of return is legally void, according to the second article of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949.\n\"The Palestinian refugees refuse all forms of resettlement, displacement or alternative homeland, and adhere to their right to return to their homeland Palestine. Their stay in the Diaspora is only temporary,\" Thabet organization added.\nIt called upon the PA leadership in Ramallah to back down from such remarks, put an end to the futile negotiations and adopt a national strategy that promotes Palestinian unity and protects the constants and rights, especially the right of return.\nIt also asked the PA to pay attention to the issue of the Palestinians in Syria, especially those besieged in the Yarmouk refugee camp and work on lifting the blockade on it and allowing the entry of humanitarian aid to the camp before it is too late.\nFor his part, the head of the Jordanian Society for the return and refugees Kazem Ayesh warned in a press statement of the ongoing negotiations, led by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, which would deprive the refugees from returning to Palestine.\nAyesh considered Abbas's comments an assault on the right of refugees to return to their homes from which they were forcibly displaced, stressing that the negotiating team does not have the right to waiver any Palestinian right or constant.\nIsraeli Minister: the publication of new homes tenders coordinated with Kerry\nThe Israeli Minister of Housing and Construction, Uri Ariel\n\"The publication of the latest tenders for new homes were coordinated with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and that he approved of them.\" the Israeli Minister of Housing and Construction, Uri Ariel , said.\n\"Even if the United States does not approve of the construction, it will continue,\" he added. \"The United States is our greatest ally, but they also sometimes take actions we do not approve of.\"\nThe announcement was made Friday with the approval of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and came on the heels of the release of 26 Palestinian prisoners.\nLast week, the Israel Land Authority and Ministry of Construction and Housing announced the publication of 1,400 new construction tenders east of Jerusalem, and several areas in the West Bank.\nSeize the moment for peace, Biden tells Israel\nIsraeli President Shimon Peres welcomes US Vice President Joe Biden in Jerusalem for a meeting on January 13, 2014\nUS Vice President Joe Biden on Monday urged Israel to seize this moment in history to make peace with the Palestinians in talks with President Shimon Peres.\nAt a working meeting after the two leaders paid their last respects to former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, who was buried on Monday, the talk turned to the US-led direct peace talks.\n\"The one place (in the region) where there's a possibility for an island of stability ... is between the Palestinian people and the Israeli people, in two secure states respecting one another's sovereignty and security,\" Biden said in remarks relayed by the White House.\n\"And the president believes and I believe that this is one of those opportunities, one of those moments in history where it has to be seized.\"\nAt the end of July, US Secretary of State John Kerry coaxed Israel and the Palestinians into their first direct peace talks in nearly three years, with the parties agreeing to a nine-month timetable for reaching a deal.\nSo far, there has been little visible progress, and Biden admitted there were some \"very difficult decisions\" ahead.\nBut he expressed confidence that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was \"up to\" the task and expressed hope that the same was true of Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas.\n\"Israel's ultimate security rests in a genuine accommodation with the Palestinians that it is born out of secure borders that are peaceful,\" he said.\nThe US vice president arrived in Israel early on Monday to represent Washington at Sharon's funeral, with Peres hailing his timing.\n\"Your coming is timely, important and moving. You came not only on a sad day but during days that Israel has to take tough decisions,\" he said in remarks relayed by his office.\n\"All of us are aware that we have to take the decision now, that it's tough and difficult but we have an open window and God knows when it will happen again.\"\nBiden then went for a dinner meeting at Netanyahu's Jerusalem residence, although there was no immediate word on the content of their talks.\nThe last time Biden visited Israel was in March 2010 on a visit which was overshadowed by an Israeli announcement of plans to build 1,600 new homes in annexed East Jerusalem as Washington was trying to revive peace talks.\nThe move infuriated the White House and deeply embarrassed Netanyahu.\nDirect negotiations began in July between Israel and the Palestinians in a US-led attempt to restart the deadlocked peace process. Israel has announced plans to build thousands of homes in illegal settlements across the West Bank over the course of the talks, inhibiting US efforts.\nThe Palestinian negotiating team resigned in protest against continued Israeli settlement construction in mid-November, dealing a major blow to negotiations between Israel and the PLO that had already been stalled.\nNegotiator Mohammed Shtayyeh told AFP at the time that they resigned in response to \"increasing settlement building (by Israel) and the absence of any hope of achieving results,\" following Netanyahu's announcement that Israel would build 20,000 new settlement homes in the West Bank.\nFormer Israeli Generals: No Strategic Reason for Israel to Stay in the Jordan Valley\nThree former Israeli generals says that Israel should gradually relinquish control of the Jordan Valley as part of a peace treaty, reports Jerusalem Post.\nMaj.-Gen. (res.) Shlomo Brom, former director of the Strategic Planning Division of the General Staff and a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies, told Jerusalem Post that there need to be a pure strategic discussion about the consequence of leaving the Jordan Valley, calling the politicians for \"leaving the slogans behind\".\nAccording to Brom the Jordan Valley is a \" artificial strategic asset\", something he believs both Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ya'alon is aware of.\nBrig.-Gen. (res.) Gadi Zohar, former head of the Terrorism Arena for Military Intelligence, and current president of the Council for Peace and Security, said to Jerusalem Post that he believes that the Israeli military forces should stay in the Jordan Valley during the initial stage and withdraw when they see that the agreement works. Zohar also said that there are no need for Israeli settlements in the Jordan Valley, stating that \"these are a burden\" from a military point of view.\nThe Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon has stated that the US Security plan presented by US Secretary of State John Kerry, \"is not worth the paper it's written on.\"\nAccording to the Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry-al-Youm, Kerry has asked the Arab League to push the Palestinians for some concessions so that he can push the Israelis for something similar YnetNews report.\nThe question of recognizing Israel as a Jewish state is however something that the Palestinians will not do.\nNetanyahu: Abbas's Statements a Sign He's Not Ready to Continue Talks with Israel\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's statements over the weekend show that he is not ready to make the decisions necessary to continue talks with Israel.\nNetanyahu's statements came during his meeting with the US Vice President Joe Biden Monday night, where both of them discussed the Iranian nuclear file and the current Israel-Palestinain peace negotiations.\nIt's work mentioning that on Saturday, Abbas said that no peace agreement would be possible without East Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital. He also refused to recognize Israel as a Jewish State, a principle endorsed by Arab foreign ministers on Sunday. Yet, the most important issue he insisted on during his statment was the refugee issue.\n\"Let me put it simply: the right of return is a personal decision. What does this mean? That neither the PA, nor the state, nor the PLO, nor any Palestinian or Arab leader has the right to deprive someone from his right to return,\" Abbas said.\nPalestinian Authority FM meets Kerry in Paris\nPalestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki met with US Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday at the office of the US ambassador to Paris, a statement from the PA minister's office said.\nKerry was in Paris to attend a meeting with the \"Friends of Syria\" group of mainly Western and Gulf countries opposed to Syrian president Bashar Assad.\nThe US Secretary of State has also been holding shuttle meetings with Arab foreign ministers who are members of an Arab League committee to follow up on the Middle East peace process.\nAl-Maliki reiterated that the Palestinians oppose recognizing Israel as a Jewish state and insist that East Jerusalem becomes the future Palestinian capital.\nArab diplomats support the Palestinian position on all major issues, al-Maliki added.\nKerry kick-started negotiations in July after a three-year hiatus.\nKerry: Time for Tough Decisions in the Peace Process\nUs secretary of state John Kerry met with Arab leaders on Sunday to give an update on the latest developments in the peace talks. Kerry said that Washington is determined to bring Israelis and Palestinians together in a peace agreement and also emphasized that the peace process is in a very critical point right now.\n\"Through the course of the last five months, President Abbas and Prime Minister Netanyahu have both demonstrated courageous and determined leadership\", Kerry said. \"They've made tough choices, and they are contemplating even tougher choices in the weeks ahead.\"\nJohn Kerry also said that the Arab foreign ministers support the Palestinian and Israeli leaders in their efforts to agree to a framework for permanent status negotiations.\nBarhoum: Kerry exploiting Arab weakness to impose his \"disastrous\" scheme\nHamas movement warned any local or Arab party against supporting the US secretary of state John Kerry's so-called Framework Agreement. Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman, said in a statement on Sunday that the Palestinian people did not authorize anyone to negotiate on their behalf and would not allow surrendering any of their rights regardless of sacrifices.\nKerry is apparently determined on marketing his \"disastrous\" scheme as evident in his shuttle visits to the region and the meeting today in Paris with foreign ministers of the Arab follow-up committee, the spokesman said.\nHe said that Kerry was exploiting the current state of Arab weakness and all American pressure cards to impose his scheme that only benefits American and Israeli goals and projects in the region.\nBarhoum said that Kerry wants to impose recognition of Israel as a \"Jewish state\" and to liquidate the Palestine cause.\nThe Arab countries should support and protect the Palestinian people and their rights, steadfastness and resistance and to confront the American-Israeli plots targeting the Palestinian people and peoples of region at large, the spokesman concluded.\nMaariv: Settlement shall lose Israel its last stronghold in Europe\nChancellor Angela Merkel with Israel's Perez\nIsraeli daily Maariv said in its Sunday edition that Germany is seeking to get rid of the historical burden towards the Jews and to make normal relations with Israel.\nThe daily interpreted this as yet another deterioration in the relations with the Europe and a drop of the last pro-Israel European strongholds, given Germany's opposition to colonial settlement building in the occupied West Bank.\nThe relations started to deteriorate in September 2012, when Israel pinned hopes on Germany to thwart the Palestinian endeavor to gain membership in the UN.\nHowever, Israel wasn't able to recruit the European countries to realize that objective, the daily said, which angered the Israeli state. It added that Germany has no trust in Netanyahu as one who believes in a two-state solution, arguing that he inherited his father's belief that Israel's land is undividable, which further adds to Israel's isolation.\nThat belief, according to the Maariv, heralds Israel's loss of Germany, its dearest ally in Europe.\nRight of return is personal: Abbas\nPresident Mahmoud Abbas stressed Saturday that there will be no peace agreement with Israel without an agreement over Jerusalem. \"Without Jerusalem there will be no peace between us,\" Abbas told crowds from Jerusalem at his headquarters.\n\"Without Jerusalem written clearly and in bold, there will not be peace with them,\" he added.\nAbbas said he heard Israelis say that Jerusalem will not be on the agenda of a final peace agreement.\nHowever, he made it clear that the Palestinians are not going to give up on the fact that Jerusalem, occupied in 1967, is going to be the capital of their future independent state.\nAbbas said he went to the United Nations to achieve certain goals, which he said he did achieve them.\n\"We went and we will continue on this path,\" he said.\nAbbas stressed that the Palestinians have rights \"and we will continue to demand our rights until in the end we get them.\"\nUntil then, he said, the Palestinians will remain steadfast in Jerusalem, in the West Bank, in the Gaza Strip and anywhere there are Palestinians.\n\"We are not going to kneel to anyone or anything,\" he stressed.\nMahmoud Abbas said that the Palestinian right of return to their occupied lands since1948 is like marriage.\nHe added, this right is personal and the Palestinians could choose and then decide what they want.\nAbbas added, the authority, state, organization or he himself could not deprive anyone from his right of return.\n\"There may be several options, and the refugees are to choose. There are compensation and other choices,\".\" He said, pointing out that even the father cannot waive the right of his children, as a personal right.\nIsrael annexes Palestinian lands to expand industrial settlement of Ariel\nPalestinian farmers said that the Israeli occupation authority uses nowadays heavy construction vehicles and explosives to level the Palestinian land around the illegal industrial settlement of Ariel in order to expand the settlement for the building of more factories. They added that these settlement expansion works are taking place on Palestinian annexed lands near the farms of Abu Kayed and Abu Basal, west of Salfit city, noting that the expansion of this settlement would reduce the green areas used for grazing cattle.\nThese annexed lands belong to Salfit city and the towns of Kifl Hares and Bruqin.\nThe Hebrew radio had quoted Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu as saying that everyone knows that the settlement blocs of Ariel, Gush Etzion and Ma'ale Adumim would always remain part of the Israeli state as it is the case with Jerusalem.\nEU's Ashton 'deeply concerned' over Israel settlements\nThe European Union's foreign policy supremo said Saturday she was \"deeply concerned\" by what she said were \"illegal\" Israeli plans for more than 1,800 new settler homes.\n\"I was deeply concerned to hear the latest announcement by the Israeli authorities to advance settlement plans once more,\" Catherine Ashton said in a statement.\nShe added the settlements were \"illegal under international law, constitute an obstacle to peace and threaten to make the two-state solution impossible.\"\nShe reiterated her call on Israel to cease its settlement building and said\ncurrent efforts at peace talks were a \"unique opportunity\" for both sides.\nOn Friday, Tel Aviv unveiled proposals for 1,076 units in annexed east Jerusalem and 801 in the occupied West Bank in a move the Palestinians said was aimed at forcing the United States to abandon its push towards Middle East peace.\nPage: 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi\nConrad L. Schoch, Keith A. Seifert, Sabine Huhndorf, Vincent Robert, John L. Spouge, C. Andr\u00e9 Levesque, Wen Chen, and Fungal Barcoding Consortium\nPNAS April 17, 2012 109 (16) 6241-6246; https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.1117018109\nConrad L. Schoch\nFor correspondence: schoch2@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Keith.Seifert@AGR.GC.CA\nKeith A. Seifert\nSabine Huhndorf\nVincent Robert\nJohn L. Spouge\nC. Andr\u00e9 Levesque\nWen Chen\nEdited* by Daniel H. Janzen, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, and approved February 24, 2012 (received for review October 18, 2011)\nFigures & SI\nSix DNA regions were evaluated as potential DNA barcodes for Fungi, the second largest kingdom of eukaryotic life, by a multinational, multilaboratory consortium. The region of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 used as the animal barcode was excluded as a potential marker, because it is difficult to amplify in fungi, often includes large introns, and can be insufficiently variable. Three subunits from the nuclear ribosomal RNA cistron were compared together with regions of three representative protein-coding genes (largest subunit of RNA polymerase II, second largest subunit of RNA polymerase II, and minichromosome maintenance protein). Although the protein-coding gene regions often had a higher percent of correct identification compared with ribosomal markers, low PCR amplification and sequencing success eliminated them as candidates for a universal fungal barcode. Among the regions of the ribosomal cistron, the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region has the highest probability of successful identification for the broadest range of fungi, with the most clearly defined barcode gap between inter- and intraspecific variation. The nuclear ribosomal large subunit, a popular phylogenetic marker in certain groups, had superior species resolution in some taxonomic groups, such as the early diverging lineages and the ascomycete yeasts, but was otherwise slightly inferior to the ITS. The nuclear ribosomal small subunit has poor species-level resolution in fungi. ITS will be formally proposed for adoption as the primary fungal barcode marker to the Consortium for the Barcode of Life, with the possibility that supplementary barcodes may be developed for particular narrowly circumscribed taxonomic groups.\nDNA barcoding\nfungal biodiversity\n\u21b51To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail: schoch2{at}ncbi.nlm.nih.gov or Keith.Seifert{at}AGR.GC.CA.\n\u21b52A complete list of the Fungal Barcoding Consortium can be found in the SI Appendix.\nAuthor contributions: C.L.S. and K.A.S. designed research; K.A.S., V.R., E.B., K.V., P.W.C., A.N.M., M.J.W., M.C.A., K.-D.A., F.-Y.B., R.W.B., D.B., M.-J.B., M. Blackwell, T.B., M. Bogale, N.B., A.R.B., B.B., L.C., Q.C., G.C., P. Chaverri, B.J.C., A.C., P. Cubas, C.C., U.D., Z.W.d.B., G.S.d.H., R.D.-P., B. Dentinger, J.D-U., P.K.D., B. Douglas, M.D., T.A.D., U.E., J.E.E., M.S.E., K.F., M.F., M.A.G., Z.-W.G., G.W.G., K.G., J.Z.G., M. Groenewald, M. Grube, M. Gryzenhout, L.-D.G., F. Hagen, S. Hambleton, R.C.H., K. Hansen, P.H., G.H., C.H., K. Hirayama, Y.H., H.-M.H., K. Hoffmann, V. Hofstetter, F. H\u00f6gnabba, P.M.H., S.-B.H., K. Hosaka, J.H., K. Hughes, Huhtinen, K.D.H., T.J., E.M.J., J.E.J., P.R.J., E.B.G.J., L.J.K., P.M.K., D.G.K., U.K., G.M.K., C.P.K., S.L., S.D.L., A.S.L., K.L., L.L., J.J.L., H.T.L., H.M., S.S.N.M., M.P.M., T.W.M., A.R.M., A.S.M., W.M., J.-M.M., S.M., L.G.N., R.H.N., T.N., I.N., G.O., I. Okane, I. Olariaga, J.O., T. Papp, D.P., T. Petkovits, R.P.-B., W.Q., H.A.R., D.R., T.L.R., C.R., J.M.S.-R., I.S., A.S., C.S., K.S., F.O.P.S., S. Stenroos, B.S., H.S., S. Suetrong, S.-O.S., G.-H.S., M.S., K.T., L.T., M.T.T., E.T., W.A.U., H.U., C.V., A.V., T.D.V., G.W., Q.M.W., Y.W., B.S.W., M.W., M.M.W., J.X., R.Y., Z.-L.Y., A.Y., J.-C.Z., N.Z., W.-Y.Z., and D.S performed research; V.R., J.L.S., C.A.L., and W.C. analyzed data; C.L.S., K.A.S., and S.H. wrote the paper.\nThe authors declare no conflict of interest.\n\u21b5*This Direct Submission article had a prearranged editor.\nData deposition: The sequences reported in this paper have been deposited in GenBank. Sequences are listed in Dataset S1.\nThis article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org\/lookup\/suppl\/doi:10.1073\/pnas.1117018109\/-\/DCSupplemental.\nFreely available online through the PNAS open access option.\nYou are going to email the following Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi\nConrad L. Schoch, Keith A. Seifert, Sabine Huhndorf, Vincent Robert, John L. Spouge, C. Andr\u00e9 Levesque, Wen Chen, Fungal Barcoding Consortium\nProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Apr 2012, 109 (16) 6241-6246; DOI: 10.1073\/pnas.1117018109\nArticle Classifications","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"(500) days of revenge\nFiled under: Uncategorized \u2014 posted by Breakup Girl @ 12:18 pm\nFrom Broadsheet:\nWhere would writers be without the people who've done them wrong? Without dysfunctional lovers, bad bosses and explosive partings of the ways, we wouldn't have \"You're So Vain,\" \"The Devil Wears Prada,\" \"I Married a Communist,\" Dr. Evil or \"The Starter Wife,\" to name but a few of a million examples. Nothing quite takes the sting out of heartache and humiliation like turning your tormentor into a thinly veiled antagonist. So it wasn't surprising when Scott Neustadter, co-writer of the twee anti-romance hit \"(500) Days of Summer,\" fessed up this weekend in the U.K.'s Daily Mail that the movie's titular heartbreaker was based on a real woman. The movie does, after all, start with the warning that \"any resemblance to people living or dead is purely coincidental. Especially you, Jenny Beckman. Bitch.\" Not exactly the sort of thing people say when there are no hard feelings.\n\/snip\/\nBut Neustadter admits that when the real Summer read his script, she told him she related to the Tom character, making her either acutely unself-aware or supremely adept at pushing his buttons. And if it's the latter, Neustadter may wish to further consider this. Six years ago Lauren Weisberger turned her stint as an assistant at Vogue into a bestselling roman \u00e0 clef that became a hit movie, an act of payback right up there with Nora Ephron's scathing divorce saga \"Heartburn.\"\nThis weekend, however, Weisberger's Devil herself, Anna Wintour, emerged as the sharp, tough-as-nails, and eminently fascinating hero of a critically acclaimed movie of her own, \"The September Issue.\" It might not be revenge, but it's got to feel a little like vindication. So while Neustadter may be enjoying the box office fruit of his disastrous love affair, somewhere, Jenny Beckman may be quietly banging away on a screenplay called \"Some Like It Scott.\"\nTags: Broadsheet, Mary Elizabeth Williams, movies, revenge | Comments (0)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Appellate court allows Thomas More Society case against Aurora, IL 'mega-abortion facility' to resume\nBy Calvin Freiburger | June 23, 2015 , 04:25pm\nThe Chicago-based pro-life legal group, Thomas More Society, reports its ongoing lawsuit against Planned Parenthood over its 21,000-square-foot \"mega-abortion facility\" in Aurora, Illinois will be able to continue, as the Illinois Appellate Court, Second Judicial District has reversed a lower court's decision to throw out the suit.\nThomas More is challenging the legality of Planned Parenthood having built the clinic in a business development district from which the law specifically bars ostensibly non-profit entities. The court ruled that litigation on this claim may resume, though it upheld the dismissal of \"several secondary claims\" against the abortion giant.\n\"Planned Parenthood built its abortion facility in Aurora under false pretenses and in blatant violation of the strictures of Aurora's zoning code, which require a tax-paying for-profit use on that site,\" Thomas More Special Counsel Peter Breen said in the press release. The statement goes on to accuse Planned Parenthood of acquiring construction permits for the facility via dummy \"front\" companies and of changing its tax status to avoid zoning requirements.\n\"Planned Parenthood boasted that it had been paying property taxes on the property from 2006 throughout the pendency of proceedings in the circuit court, and its attorneys argued that such payment of property taxes proved that it was lawfully operating as a for-profit entity,\" according to the press release. \"However, within a few months after the suit was dismissed by the circuit court, Planned Parenthood applied for and was granted property tax exemptions and a rebate of taxes paid for the prior three years, arguing that its use of the property was strictly charitable and non-profit.\"\nLive Action News previously reported in 2011 that Planned Parenthood had nearly a dozen such \"abortion supercenters\" either in operation or under construction.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u0427\u0442\u043e \u0442\u0430\u043a\u043e\u0435 XR?\n\u0417\u0430\u0447\u0435\u043c \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0442\u0435\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0432\u0430\u0442\u044c?\n\u041d\u0430\u0439\u0434\u0438 \u0441\u0432\u043e\u044e \u0433\u0440\u0443\u043f\u043f\u0443\nLet's Get Wild - Rewilding to Save the Planet\nTuesday, June 08, 2021 by Marion Kudla\nRewilding: An Introduction\nA lot has changed in Yellowstone Park in the past twenty-five years. Healthy stands of willow trees line the banks of streams. Songbirds sing from tree branches. Beaver dams made of willow dot the streams. If you're lucky, you can spot a beaver slapping its tail on the surface of the water. Twenty-five years ago, it would've been difficult to find any of these species. What changed? And what made this healthy ecosystem possible? In one word: wolves.\nBefore the 1900s, wolf packs roamed across the United States. But by the early 20th century, wolf populations declined due to habitat loss and hunting programs. In 1973, the government, scientists, and conservation groups took steps to restore these dwindling wolf populations. The Fish and Wildlife Service listed the wolf as an endangered species and made Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem a recovery area. And twenty-five years ago, forty-one wolves were released in Yellowstone. Many species that had disappeared after the wolf populations declined, such as the songbirds and beavers, began to reappear.\nBefore the reintroduction of wolves, Yellowstone elk numbers had exploded. Without wolves to hunt the elk population, the elk could overgraze on willow, aspen, and cottonwood plants. Willows, however, are important to beavers who use it to build their dams. As elk populations grew and overgrazed the streambanks, crucial plant species disappeared, which caused the further disappearance of beaver populations. Once wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone and could help control elk population size, plant and animal species returned.\nThe wolf reintroduction program had a goal not only to restore wolf populations, but also the health of the Yellowstone ecosystem as a whole. This conservation concept of reintroducing species into a landscape to help restore ecosystem health is called rewilding. As ecosystems around the world suffer on the verge of collapse, rewilding could be a method to help save the planet's biodiversity\u2014and in turn, ourselves.\nBreaking Down the Concept of Rewilding\nRewilding was first defined by conservation biologist Dave Foreman in an issue of Wild Earth in the Fall of 1992. A few years later, two American conservation biologists named Michael Soul\u00e9 and Reed Noss built on the concept. In their now highly-referenced article from 1998, Soul\u00e9 and Noss originally defined rewilding as a conservation effort that \"emphasizes the restoration and protection of big wilderness and wide-ranging, large animals\u2014particularly carnivores\" (Soul\u00e9 and Noss, 1998).\nMore specifically, rewilding is a conservation method that focuses on restoring biodiversity and ecosystem health by doing three things:\nProtecting core wilderness areas\nConnecting those areas with wildlife corridors [strips of undisturbed habitat that link one core area to another]; and\nProtecting and introducing keystone species species whose benefits to an ecosystem outweigh their population size\nSince the late nineties, the method has been adopted globally. And the term itself has come to include a range of approaches:\nTranslocation rewilding: includes the example of reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone Park. Translocation rewilding involves either reintroducing a species recently lost to local extinction, or releasing individuals to strengthen an existing population. Both measures seek to restore a balanced ecosystem across all species interactions.\nPassive rewilding: lets nature take its course. Humans step back from the landscape and let nature heal itself without human interference.\nPleistocene rewilding: involves reintroducing species from the Pleistocene era\u2014known as the Ice Age\u2014which ended about 12,000 years ago. At the end of the Ice Age, many of the animals we associate with that time, such as mastodons, saber tooth tigers, and woolly mammoths, died off in a mass extinction. Biologists who support Pleistocene rewilding argue that the die off of these large animal species created an unbalanced ecosystem. They believe that by reintroducing these Pleistocene-era species through genetic modifications of current similar species (which we will discuss below) or introducing similar, existing species, ecosystems may be restored.\nRewilding Efforts from Around the World\nWe began with an example from Yellowstone Park in North America because it is a well-known example, but rewilding has been used to restore ecosystems around the world. These global efforts include all three rewilding approaches. Read some case studies below:\nCopyright: Knepp Wildland\nIn brief: Knepp Estate. A pioneering, promising rewilding project in the United Kingdom that turned an aristocratic estate into a biodiversity sanctuary. Some of the rarest species in the United Kingdom, such as the purple emperor butterfly, reside here. An example of passive rewilding that offers hope for replication across other rewilding projects.\nThe rewilding movement has formed strong roots in the United Kingdom. A number of projects are happening across the UK. One famous example comes from southern England.\nKnepp Estate is a 3,500 acre estate in West Sussex County in southern England. Since 2001, it has been a pioneer in the United Kingdom's rewilding efforts. For over 200 years, the estate was used for dairy farming. Much of the land was cleared for pasture, which prevented wildlife species from living there.\nIn 2001, however, the estate became a rewilding project. The land was encouraged to heal itself with minimal human influence through the use of grazing animals. Unlike dairy cows, which emit methane gases that contribute to climate change and require clear-cut pastures, grazing herbivores, such as cattle, ponies, pigs, and deer, roam freely between forest and open spaces. As a side note, the difference between pasture-grazing dairy cows and free-range cattle is that, while both release methane, free-range cattle cancel out their negative impact on the climate by restoring habitat, as outlined below.\nThese free-roaming creatures can then lead to a whole chain of positive reactions across the landscape: by munching and trampling on scrub plants, grazing animals prevent forests from turning into densely-packed woodland. This dense woodland with brush and scrub prevents wild species from moving freely, foraging, and breeding\u2014a poor habitat for wild species. Grazing animals can also disperse nutrients and seeds through their dung or carried on their fur. This helps distribute plant species across the landscape and allows for a richer mosaic, or array, of flora.\nAs a result of these grazing animals and letting nature heal on its own, the results at Knepp Estate have been positive. Many rare or endangered species have returned: turtle doves, nightingales, peregrine falcons, and purple emperor butterflies. Many of these rare or endangered species use Knepp Estate as a safe breeding ground\u2014one of few in England. The Estate has a number of statistics to be proud of, boasting the largest population of purple emperor butterflies in the United Kingdom; the frequent appearance of one of the rarest birds in Western Europe: the black stork; and all five UK species of owls.\nThis haven for critically endangered or rare species is a promising step not only for the United Kingdom, but also for global rewilding efforts. As wild spaces and safe habitats become increasingly fragmented, places like Knepp Estate offer potential solutions and glimmers of hope. Having wildlife regions like Knepp Estate also becomes incredibly important if we hope to preserve our planet's rich biodiversity.\nHowever, Knepp Estate has recently faced some challenges. At the moment, Knepp Estate is an important wildlife corridor between neighboring St Leonard's and Ashdown forests. This allows species to migrate safely between habitats. But potential housing developments of 3,500 new homes could turn Knepp Estate from a corridor into an island.\nThere is, of course, fierce opposition to this housing development project. It remains to be seen whether this flourishing rewilding project will be able to continue providing a safe haven for rare and endangered species in the United Kingdom.\nCopyright: Pleistocene Park\nIn brief: Pleistocene Park in Siberia. A famous example of Pleistocene rewilding. Not only seeks to rewild the Russian steppe, but also mitigate climate change in the process.\nSiberia in Russia is famously known as a cold and isolated place. Many may know it as a region of exile in Russian history. It is less known, perhaps, as a rewilding park.\nPleistocene Park in Northern Siberia is a rewilding site. Run by the Zimov family\u2014the elder Sergey Zimov and his son Nikita Zimov\u2014since the late 1980s, the Park seeks to restore the mammoth steppe ecosystem; in other words, to restore the land to what it was when woolly mammoths roamed the land during the last Ice Age. How? And maybe more importantly, why?\nPleistocene Park is a prime example of Pleistocene rewilding: the reintroduction of species to bring back the balance of ecosystems that existed before human contact. The Park uses large grazing mammals, such as moose, musk ox, bison, horses, yaks, etc., to change the landscape. These herbivores prevent dark trees from growing and help grass species grow instead. As a result, grasslands similar to those during the Pleistocene era have spread across the Park. But why does this matter in the first place?\nThese grasslands are powerful players in the fight against climate change. First of all, permafrost, the thick layer of icy soil that stays frozen in cold places like Siberia, stores a lot of carbon. Warming temperatures from climate change, however, threaten to melt the permafrost. When this happens, permafrost turns formerly frozen organic matter into greenhouse gases.\nGrazing mammals can change all of that. When they graze on the grasses in the winter, the herbivores trample down the snow. In turn, the snow acts as a protective layer over the permafrost to prevent it from melting and releasing greenhouse gases. Another reason why grasslands can help prevent climate change is their light color. Because grasslands are lighter than shrubs or trees, the surface reflects sunlight back into space, which keeps the Earth's surface cool. This is called the albedo effect.\nFinally, Pleistocene era grasses have a deep root system that can absorb more carbon from the atmosphere than most modern plant species. Grasslands like those in Pleistocene Park can act as powerful carbon storage sites as carbon emissions rise worldwide.\nIn addition to bringing back these grazing animals, Pleistocene Park is charging ahead with an even bolder plan: bring back the woolly mammoth. With help from the Church Lab at Harvard and the wildlife conservation organization Revive & Restore, the Zimovs hope to de-extinct the woolly mammoth. As very large herbivores, woolly mammoths can more effectively restore the Pleistocene grasslands.\nScientists are able to bring the woolly mammoth back by using technologies that can edit a species' genes. In this case, scientists edit the genes of woolly mammoths' closest living relative: the Asian elephant. By giving the Asian elephant woolly mammoth qualities such as hair, these altered elephants can live in the Arctic conditions of Pleistocene Park. These efforts to bring species back from the dead is called de-extinction.\nThere are, however, controversies attached to these efforts. Opponents question whether humans have the right to mess with the laws of nature. Opponents to the Pleistocene rewilding concept as a whole also argue that rewilding with exotic animals will not bring back the healthy ecosystems of the Pleistocene era. They say that landscapes have evolved too much since then to be able to go back. Additionally, opponents warn that Pleistocene rewilding could have too many unpredictable consequences that are not worth the risk.\nIn brief: Tanzania's Kitulo National Park. Translocation rewilding efforts to bring back some of the globe's most iconic species: the zebra. An example of a holistic approach to rewilding efforts.\nWhen you picture African grasslands, what animals do you imagine? Lions? Gazelle and antelope? Zebras? All of these vibrant animals are closely tied to the African landscape. But imagine if they disappeared.\nThis is what happened to zebras in Tanzania over fifty years ago. It is a familiar story that has repeated in places across the globe. Half a century ago, zebras were hunted to local extinction or removed to make room for ranches and farms.\nIn 2018, however, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in Tanzania reintroduced zebras into Tanzania's Kitulo National Park in the Southern Highlands region. The reintroduced zebras included 16 adult\/subadult females, six adult\/subadult males, and two juvenile males.\nThe reintroduction of these zebras is a part of rewilding efforts in the region and an idea that began in the early 2000s with Dr. Tim Davenport, Director of the WCS Tanzania Program, who designed the reintroduction.\n\"It was thrilling to see the zebras moving across the plateau as they had for untold centuries. This collaboration proves that we can restore wildlife in once degraded landscapes\u2014provided there is political will and good science behind these efforts,\" Davenport said in a WCS press release.\nThe rewilding efforts in Tanzania's Kitulo National Park don't stop at zebras though. WCS has planted 4 million indigenous trees and takes care of the region's rare montane, or mountainous, grasslands. These replanted trees serve as corridors for other animal species to pass safely from one habitat to another.\nLike Knepp Estate, the rewilding efforts in Kitulo National Park prove that, as Dr. Davenport says, the restoration of degraded landscapes is possible. If after losing one of the most iconic animals in Tanzania\u2014if not on the African continent\u2014conservationists and activists can successfully restore them to their native habitat, then it is also possible in other degraded landscapes.\nWith rewilding efforts at Kitulo National Park, Africa's grasslands may once again be the site of numerous animal species\u2014not just a place in our imagination.\nCopyright: Simon Fordham\/NaturePix\nIn brief: Tiritiri Matangi Island in New Zealand. An island sanctuary for some of the nation's most endangered birds. A blueprint for other rewilding projects and an example of united civilian and scientific efforts.\nTiritiri Matangi Island sits 30 kilometers east of central Auckland. This 220-hectare island is one of the most successful conservation rewilding projects in the world. Each year, it attracts more than 20,000 visitors. Visitors from all over the world come to see many rare species, such as the k\u014dkako and takah\u0113 birds. But it wasn't always a flourishing ecosystem.\nLike many of the other rewilding stories we explored, the island experienced intense loss of vegetation. When European settlers arrived on the island in the mid 19th century, they cleared much of the land for farming. The Maori had been living on the island for 400 years prior, so the island had experienced some human contact. After European settlement, however, the island lost 94% of its native bush.\nBetween 1984 and 1994, a bold push for rewilding occurred. A group of volunteers planted 250,000 - 300,000 trees. This has led to the return of a healthy ecosystem. Now, sixty percent of the island is covered in native forest, and 40% in grassland. Birds, reptiles, and insects that might not find a home on the mainland have returned to the island.\nBirds like the takah\u0113, for example, find a safe home on the island, where they can forage and breed. With only around 200 birds left in the total population, the island provides a sanctuary for these rare birds and prevents the species from disappearing completely.\nIn addition to the tree planting efforts in the 80s and 90s, another reason why rewilding efforts have been successful on the island is the removal of unwanted or invasive predators. These predators, such as house cats, rats, and possums, were introduced to the island when European settlers arrived and caused native bird populations to fall. Their removal has helped bring back populations of native species.\nThis method of rewilding, however, does not always meet approval. Pest removals in New Zealand have involved use of poisons, which critics argue are harmful to all animals, including native species. These efforts are part of the New Zealand government's goal of being predator free by 2050. While there is some pushback to the methods involved in this effort, however, there is overall support for this nationwide rewilding project.\nThese rewilding efforts on Tiritiri Matangi Island offer a blueprint for other sanctuary projects in New Zealand, as well as around the world, that hope to protect native species. Sanctuaries like Tiritiri Matangi Island provide crucial safe spaces that endangered or rare species in New Zealand wouldn't otherwise be able to find.\nThese sanctuaries with healthy populations can even increase populations in other regions that may be suffering. By providing a healthy, breeding individual to another species population on another island with few individuals, for example, conservationists can strengthen populations elsewhere.\nFor these reasons, Tiritiri Matangi Island remains a crucial rewilding site that can help New Zealand restore its unique native species populations.\nPatagonia | Chile and Argentina\nCopyright: Tompkins Conservation\nIn brief: Tompkins Conservation purchased tracts of land in Chile and Argentina to turn into national parks. An example of rewilding philanthropy at the forefront of nature conservation efforts.\nSince the 1990s, Doug and Kristine Tompkins have pretty much stood at the helm of global wildlands philanthropy. Kristine Tompkins, Former CEO of the clothing brand Patagonia, and her late husband Doug Tompkins, clothing tycoon of The North Face and Esprit, have contributed to rewilding efforts in Argentina and Chile for a quarter century.\nTogether, they have contributed $170 million to rewilding projects in the Patagonian region, which stretches across Argentina and Chile. Their efforts have also raised around $45 million from philanthropists around the globe. Through the Tompkins Conservation and its partners, the Tompkins have helped protect 14 million acres of land and reintroduced many endangered species.\nTheir rewilding projects rest on two main principles: 1. Buy land to turn into national parks, and 2. Set up wildlife programs that reintroduce native species to these parks. Their vision has led to the return of endangered species such as the huemul deer, puma, Darwin's rhea, Andean condor, and pampas cat in Chile, and giant anteaters, jaguars, and green-winged macaws in Argentina.\nBefore his tragic and unexpected death in December 2015, Doug Tompkins had felt a sense of urgency in buying these vast tracts of land in Patagonia. His vision was to buy up as much land as possible in order to prevent the sixth mass extinction. Kris Tompkins has helped continue this vision even after Doug Tompkins' death.\nIn 2018, for example, Kris Tompkins and then Chilean president Michelle Bachelet reached a ground-breaking agreement. The Tompkins Conservation would hand over 9 million acres of land to the Chilean government by April 2019. This agreement would put the land under the protection of the Chilean government and in turn, create five national parks and expand three. The Tompkins Conservation donations of fully-functioning national parks are the largest in the history of wildlands philanthropy.\nThe Tompkins' projects were not always well-received, however. When the Tompkins were first buying up land in Chile, locals eyed them with suspicion. Here were two multi-millionaire foreigners purchasing huge amounts of land. Conspiracy theories started to fly.\nSome theories proposed that the millionaires were going to use the land as a nuclear waste dump. Others thought the Tompkins were going to introduce American bison. Rumors and conspiracy theories aside, there were also many locals who were and continue to be opposed to the Tompkins' rewilding efforts.\nLocal ranchers held a protest in 2013, afraid of livestock removal and attacks from newly introduced pumas. Many local ranchers see these national parks as a threat to a traditional way of life, and a valuing of wildlife over livestock.\nSince Doug Tompkins' death in 2015, however, public opinion has changed. Many Chilean and Argentinian citizens realized the sincerity of the Tompkins' efforts. What at first seemed like a suspicious power move or cover up by wealthy Americans, is now seen as a project for public improvement to educate and inspire people on the beauty of Patagonia.\nOver the last quarter century, the Tompkins Conservation has shown the power of philanthropy. In its own way, like Tiritiri Matangi Island, Pleistocene Park, or Knepp Estate, the Tompkins' wildlands philanthropic project sets a blueprint for others to follow. Whether through private or public investment, or scientific inquiry, global rewilding efforts need all the tools in the shed.\nChallenges and Controversies\nAs outlined briefly above, arguments for or against rewilding could go on for days. The case studies mentioned only scratch at the surface of rewilding challenges and controversies. Rewilding has many supporters and has had success worldwide, but there are also examples of failed attempts and many scientific, political, and ethical arguments against rewilding.\nFor some, the idea of wild animals roaming their backyards is not a welcome idea. While there is a range of attitudes towards wolves and their reintroduction, Yellowstone Park's efforts have faced pushback from local landowners. These opponents worry about their personal safety, and for farmers and ranchers, they worry that wolves will kill their livestock.\nTo give another example from North America, some American scientists want to introduce Pleistocene rewilding to North America (like Pleistocene Park in Siberia). Others, however, argue that introducing large Pleistocene-era mammals to North America could reduce diversity of species or harm other environmental efforts in the Great Plains region, such as the return of buffalo herds to Native American reservation lands.\nIn addition to the controversies, some rewilding projects have faced dramatic challenges. Oostvaardersplassen in the Netherlands dealt with public anger in 2018. It is the site of a rewilding project that went wrong.\nWith few predators in the small 5,000 hectare reserve, the herbivore population exploded. But then came the winter of 2017-2018 which was much colder and more wet than usual. With such high numbers of animals in a small area of land with limited food resources during the winter, many animals starved to death. The population of red deer, horses, and cattle fell from 5,230 to 1,850. Almost 90% of the dead animals were shot by the Dutch state forestry organization, the Park's managers, because they were starving.\nAnother important debate in the conservation community is the history and definition of rewilding and its connection to the concept of 'wilderness.' Kim Ward, in 'For wilderness or wildness? Decolonising rewilding,' argues that restoring wilderness and returning to a landscape before human contact is an idea that erases thousands of years of cultural history. The concept of rewilding to a state of 'wilderness'--an idea of nature 'untouched' by humans--is one tied to white, patriarchal colonization because it removes the indigenous cultures that may have existed on that land for tens of thousands of years. Instead, rewilding efforts should focus on restoring 'wildness' and be sensitive 'to existing cultural interpretations, social impacts, and indigenous livelihoods,' writes Ward.\nAs with any environmental conservation method, rewilding requires careful planning and research. When we humans interfere in an ecosystem, we take on the risk of disturbing a complex web of interconnections. After centuries of disruption, however, rewilding offers one of many possible tools we can use to heal the planet.\nFurther Reading on Rewilding\nFeral by George Monbiot\nRewild Yourself by Simon Barnes\nWilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm by Isabella Tree\nRewilding North America: A Vision for Conservation in the 21st Century by Dave Foreman\nAbout the Rebellion\nExtinction Rebellion is a decentralised, international and politically non-partisan movement using non-violent direct action and civil disobedience to persuade governments to act justly on the Climate and Ecological Emergency. 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{"text":"SHUNIA: A Genre-Defying Album of Chants and Music to Uplift, Energize and Transform our Lives\nThe B Company\nJanuary 15, 2021, 08:07 GMT\nSHUNIA takes the listener through mantra melodies, energetic vocals, and dynamic compositions worthy of a feature film score. They are joined by renowned Moroccan artist Hassan Hakmoun on two of the tracks.\nLisa Reagan and Suzanne Jackson comprise the duo Shunia; their second album debuts today.\nSuzanne Jackson & Lisa Reagan performing \"Sa Re Sa Sa\" for the video. The two became friends while attending graduate school at University of Maryland, and both performed with the Washington National Opera for 20 years.\nNew self-titled album by Shunia blends Sanskrit chants, Latin prayer, ancient poetry, and exquisite orchestration into a sound that feels both new and timeless.\nThe mantras that we are chanting on this album have been chanted for thousands of years. Our hope is that people will sing and dance along with this album because it profoundly moves them.\"\n\u2014 Lisa Reagan\nLOS ANGELES, CA, USA, January 15, 2021 \/EINPresswire.com\/ -- SHUNIA, by Shunia, features the fusion of classical instruments from different countries, multiple styles of vocals, and the focusing energy of ancient chants to bring feelings of joy, hope, and awareness to Western culture at a crucial moment in time. The album is charted on Amazon's Top 20 Digital New Releases for New Age music this week, and is now available worldwide.\nTo create their self-titled album of transcendent music and melodic harmonies, Shunia -- music duo Lisa Reagan and Suzanne Jackson -- co-composed with Tony Award-winning producer Jamshied Sharifi. The album takes the listener through mantra melodies, energetic vocals, and dynamic compositions worthy of a feature film score. They are joined by renowned Moroccan artist Hassan Hakmoun, the godfather of Gnawa music, performing on two of the tracks.\nOn the making of SHUNIA, Lisa Reagan says, \"As musicians whose lives have been enriched by chanting, we wanted to create a beautiful garden of sound where the chants could come alive. The mantras that we are chanting on this album have been chanted for thousands of years. We thought about the unique energy of each of these mantras and created music that would be in harmony with it. Our hope is that people will sing and dance along with this album because it profoundly moves them.\"\nThere is indeed a sense of deep focus present in each track on SHUNIA, which invites listening on dual levels. On one level, listeners are entertained by stunning compositions, virtuosic playing, and the duos' rich vocals. On another level, one can focus on the wisdom of each mantra and lyric as it is expressed with deep conviction and impressive clarity. A page on the Shunia website dedicated to \"mantra\" further explains the meaning of each track. Shunia's music is recommended for group classes or personal practice of yoga, and for simply gathering inspiration to move into a healthier and more enlightened future in 2021.\nIn advance of the full album debut, four tracks were released with inspiring videos, including \"Akal\" (June 2020); \"Sa Re Sa Sa\" (October 2020); \"Breeze At Dawn\" (November 2020); and \"Alleluia\" (December 2020). The duo's high-quality, uplifting videos are available at this YouTube location: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCVvsZECVFyfF5OFCS5VWJCw\nDick Metcalf, editor of Contemporary Fusion Reviews, has this to say about the album: \"It stands apart from all the other 'chant' albums, particularly because it is very 'listenable'...Each song contains an element of surprise, but the one that impressed me the most, and therefore became my choice for favorite of the eight offered up is 'Ang Sang Wahe Guru'\u2026 vibrations that will help you realize purpose and meaning in your life. Even if you're not a devotee of 'chant' music, you will find this powerful performance rewarding and meaningful. I give Shunia a MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED rating, with a (perfect) 'EQ' (energy quotient) score of 5.00\u2026meaning that it also gets a 'PICK' from me for 'most empowering album.'\"\nSHUNIA is available globally on most platforms today. Physical CDs are available at https:\/\/shuniasound.com\/ and Amazon.\nLisa Reagan, Suzanne Jackson, and Jamshied Sharifi are available for media interviews about the album, and for live guest segments on social media. Physical CDs and a digital Dropbox of the album are available upon request to Beth Hilton at bethhilton@theBCompany.com.\nRadio airplay requests may be made to Max Horowitz of Crossover Media at maxcrossover@gmail.com.\nShunia Album Track List\nSa Re Sa Sa (4:54)\nBreeze At Dawn (4:12)\nAlleluia (6:51)\nAkal (6:48)\nHar Hare Han Wahe Guru (6:21)\nAng Sang Wahe Guru (6:42)\nOng Namo (5:37)\nSa Ta Na Ma (8:27)\nPrimary Links:\nShunia: https:\/\/shuniasound.com\/\nSpotify: https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/2zQv6X0oMSlC01mup2lJZ3?si=9mS_kdQCQfiyiDfrZxJP8Q\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/shuniasound\/\nYoutube: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCVvsZECVFyfF5OFCS5VWJCw\nInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/shuniasound\/\nTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/shuniamusic\nAbout Shunia:\nLisa Reagan and Suzanne Jackson became friends while attending graduate school at University of Maryland. Both performed with the Washington National Opera for 20 years while launching successful solo careers. The duo decided to meld their love for the power of chanting with their Western vocal prowess. This led them to form Shunia (pronounced SHOON-ya), choosing the Sanskrit word meaning \"stillness and receptivity\" as the name of their duo. Visit ShuniaSound.com for more information.\nAbout Jamshied Sharifi:\nJamshied Sharifi is a New York-based composer, producer, and keyboardist. He has composed the scores for feature films including Harriet The Spy, Down To Earth, Clockstoppers, and Rollerball, as well as contributing music to numerous television shows and independent films. He has produced and\/or performed with Paula Cole, Ray Charles, Dream Theater, Laurie Anderson, Hassan Hakmoun, Yungchen Lhamo, Mirabai Ceiba, and many others. He produced Snatam Kaur's album, Beloved, which was nominated for the 2019 Best New Age Album Grammy. Sharifi did some orchestrations for Sting's Broadway musical, The Last Ship. His orchestrations for The Band's Visit won the 2018 Tony Award.\nBeth Hilton\nVisit us on social media:\nAlbum Release Interview: The Making of SHUNIA by Shunia\nDistribution channels: Culture, Society & Lifestyle, Movie Industry, Music Industry, Religion, World & Regional\nBurbank, California, 91604\nhttp:\/\/www.thebcompany.com\nIndian Trap Releases the New Single \"Shiva Mantra (Om Namah Shivaya)\" with Award-winning Indian Composer S. J. Jananiy\nElectronic composer and synthesist Bart Hawkins Releases ENTERING THE AXIS MUNDI\nAnn Licater, the New Age Recording Artist and World Flutist, Releases New Album WHISPERS FROM EARTH\nView All Stories From This Author","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The best secluded cycle routes around Cambridgeshire for social distancing\nYou can still get your daily exercise fix while social distancing\nAlistair Ryder\nSecluded cycle routes for self-isolating around Cambs (Image: Simon Cooper\/PA Wire)\nNewly updated government advice has stated that you can only go out for one session of exercise per day while the country is on lockdown.\nWell, if that's all you're allowed, why not go for a long cycle through some of the most secluded routes in the region?\nMany popular cycle routes are now partially closed as National Trust properties and several other public parks have locked their doors for the foreseeable future.\nBut there are still plenty of great routes you can try out for yourself - here are some of our favourites.\nIf cycling isn't your cup of tea, no bother - why not check out one of our many Cambridgeshire walking guides instead?\nHere you can find our list of favourite riverside walks, walks with a view and wildlife spotting walks too.\nAlternatively, you can find out more about home workouts and yoga sessions here.\nCambridge to Stansted Mountfitchet\nThis 31-mile journey to Essex is exactly what the doctor ordered after long periods spent at home.\nStarting in central Cambridge, you'll soon be in a secluded cycle paradise as you make your way down national cycle route 11, and a mixture of winning off-road tracks and quiet country roads, as you pass through villages including Sawston.\nFor more information on this cycle route click here.\nEly to Downham Market\nOn the opposite side of things, why not cycle up to Norfolk?\nThis 24-mile route starts near the cathedral, but soon leaves the centre of the city on National Cycle route 11 on an off-road trail to Little Downham.\nPlenty of country roads are complimenting by riverside stretches next to the New Bedford River and River Ouse, before ending at Downham Market's tourist information centre.\nFor further details click here.\nHuntingdon to Peterborough\nAnd here's a simple but effective 27-mile cycle route - all you need to do is follow national cycle route 12 through the Cambridgeshire countryside, as you make your way towards Peterborough.\nUK coronavirus latest: The locations of all 9,500 positive COVID-19 cases\nCoronavirus latest: The rules at Sainsbury's, Asda, Tesco, Morrisons and more to keep shelves stocked during COVID-19 pandemic\nMarch to Wisbech\nA nice 12-mile cycle here. Starting from March railway station, the route largely follows national cycle route 63, passing by the Twenty Foot River and a plethora of off-road tracks, before ending at the Wisbech tourist information centre.\nIt's truly a Fenland delight.\nRead more about this route by clicking here.\nPeterborough to March\nAnd finally, here's a nice 20-mile cycle from Peterborough to the heart of the Fens.\nFollowing National Cycle Route 63, the start of the route follows the River Nene out of Peterborough to Whittlesey before a series of off-road tracks and quiet country lanes take you into March, finishing at the train station.\nGet more information about this cycle route here.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Circus World Museum Information\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Circus_World_Museum\nRingling Brothers Circus Winter Headquarters\nU.S. National Historic Landmark\nCircus World seen from Water Street\nBaraboo, Wisconsin\n43\u00b028\u203201\u2033N 89\u00b044\u203207\u2033W \/ 43.4669\u00b0N 89.7353\u00b0W \/ 43.4669; -89.7353\nCIRCUS WORLD MUSEUM Latitude and Longitude:\n69000032 [1]\nSignificant dates\nDesignated NHL\nAugust 4, 1969 [2]\nThe Circus World Museum is a large museum complex in Baraboo, Wisconsin, devoted to circus-related history. The museum, which features not only circus artifacts and exhibits, but also hosts daily live circus performances throughout the summer, is owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society and operated by the non-profit Circus World Museum Foundation. The museum was the major participant in the Great Circus Parade held from 1963 to 2009.\n2 Exhibits\n3 Great Circus Parade\nCircus World Museum is located in Baraboo, Wisconsin, because Baraboo was home to the Ringling Brothers. It was from Baraboo in 1884 that the Ringling Brothers Circus began their first tour as a circus. Over six seasons, the circus expanded from a wagon show to a railroad show with 225 employees, touring cities across the United States each summer. Baraboo remained the circus's headquarters and wintering grounds until 1918, when the Ringling Brothers Circus combined with the Barnum and Bailey Circus, which the Ringling Brothers had bought out in 1908. The combined entity, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, was successful until 2017 when it took its final bow on Sunday May 21, 2017, in Uniondale, New York.\nIn 1954, John M. Kelley, a former attorney for the Ringling Brothers, incorporated Circus World Museum with the intent of forming a museum of the Ringling Brothers Circus and circus history in general. By this time the popularity of circuses and other live shows was declining in favor of new media, such as television. After an initial period of organization and fundraising, the museum acquired a large site in Baraboo that included the former wintering grounds of the Ringling Brothers Circus. This site was deeded to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (now called the Wisconsin Historical Society) to be used as the museum's location, and Circus World Museum opened to the public on July 1, 1959.\nOwned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, the museum sits on some of the land owned by the Ringlings, and includes eight of the ten remaining Ringling buildings on the grounds. Circus World Museum holds one of the largest collections of circus materials in the world, including circus wagons, posters, photography, and artifacts used by shows from all over the United States. The museum also has smaller collections of Wild West shows and carnival materials.\nOffice in Ringlingville\nWagon on display at Circus World Museum\nCircus World Museum encompasses several buildings holding numerous exhibits on circus history.\nRinglingville consists of the remaining buildings of the original wintering grounds of the Ringling Brothers Circus, a National Historic Landmark. Buildings in Ringlingville include the Ring Barn, Elephant House, Animal House, Baggage Horse Barn, Winter Quarters Office, and Wardrobe Department. Tours of Ringlingville present information on the history of the Ringling Brothers Circus, as well as offering behind the scenes glimpses into the efforts taken by the circus while preparing for shows.\nThe Irvin Feld Exhibit Hall is the museum's largest building, and houses exhibits on the history of the Ringling Brothers Circus, as well as other exhibits relating to general aspects of circuses and circus history.\nThe Hippodrome is a permanent big-top which houses the museum's daily circus and magic show performances.\nThe W.W. Deppe Wagon Pavilion houses a collection of fifty restored antique circus wagons.\nThe C.P. Fox Wagon Restoration Center is used by the museum to refurbish Circus Wagons, and visitors to the building can view in wagon restorations that are in progress.\nThe Robert L. Parkinson Library and Research Center is a research facility holding collections of circus-related books, photographs, archives, and periodicals. The library is open to the public at no charge while staff are present.\nGreat Circus Parade\nMain article: Great Circus Parade\nThe Great Circus Parade, which featured historic circus wagons from the Circus World Museum, was held in Milwaukee in 1963, and in various cities between 1985 and 2005, primarily Milwaukee (1985\u20132003) and Baraboo, Wisconsin (2004\u20132005), [3] and Chicago, Illinois. [4] [5] When held in Milwaukee, the parade entailed a two-day journey by train across Wisconsin, from Baraboo to Milwaukee, making brief stops at cities along the way. An encampment on Milwaukee's lake front allowed visitors to view the circus wagons up close, take elephant, camel, and zebra rides, and view historical circus artifacts. The parade itself took a three-mile route through downtown Milwaukee. It was on hiatus during the mid-2000s, but it returned to Milwaukee in 2009. The parade is expected to run every few years in the future.\nList of National Historic Landmarks in Wisconsin\nNational Register of Historic Places listings in Sauk County, Wisconsin\n^ National Park Service (January 23, 2007). \"National Register Information System\". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.\n^ \"Ringling Brothers Circus Winter Quarters\". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on October 7, 2012. Retrieved June 30, 2008.\n^ Boyd, Joe (July 2, 1959). \"35,000 see circus parade at Baraboo\". Retrieved April 9, 2016.\n^ \"'83 Parade\" (PDF). The Circus Report. March 1, 1983. Retrieved April 11, 2016.\n^ \"Circus Parade may make comeback\". Milwuakee Journal. June 20, 1984. Retrieved March 10, 2016.\nGreat Circus Parade website\nArchitectural style categories\nLists by insular areas\nMinor Outlying Islands\nLists by associated state\nProtected areas of Wisconsin\nApostle Islands National Lakeshore\nIce Age National Scientific Reserve\nSaint Croix National Scenic Riverway\nChequamegon-Nicolet\nNational Wildlife\nGravel Island\nHackmatack\nHoricon Marsh\nNecedah\nTrempealeau\nUpper Mississippi River\nWhittlesey Creek\nIce Age Trail\nTimms Hill Trail\nNational Estuarine\nResearch Reserves\nWilderness System\nBlackjack Springs\nGaylord Nelson\nPorcupine Lake\nWhisker Lake\nWisconsin Islands\nAmnicon Falls\nAztalan\nBelmont Mound\nBig Bay\nBig Foot Beach\nBrunet Island\nCapital Springs\nCopper Culture\nCopper Falls\nCouncil Grounds\nDevil's Lake\nGovernor Dodge\nGovernor Nelson\nGovernor Thompson\nHarrington Beach\nHartman Creek\nHeritage Hill\nHigh Cliff\nKinnickinnic\nKohler-Andrae\nLake Kegonsa\nMenominee River\nMill Bluff\nMirror Lake\nNelson Dewey\nNew Glarus Woods\nPattison\nRoche-a-Cri\nRocky Arbor\nStraight Lake\nWhitefish Dunes\nYellowstone Lake\nState Natural\nAbraham's Woods\nBayshore Blufflands\nBlack Earth Rettenmund Prairie\nBlack Tern Bog\nDells of the Wisconsin River\nDorothy Lake\nDunnville Barrens\nGibraltar Rock\nGrandma Lake\nKangaroo Lake\nMoquah Barrens\nParfrey's Glen\nPewits Nest\nRush River Delta\nSpread Eagle Barrens\nSpruce Lake Bog\nTwin Lakes Bog\nTwo Creeks Buried Forest\nWind Pudding\nState Recreation\nBrowntown-Cadiz Springs\nChippewa Moraine\nFischer Creek\nHoffman Hills\nBrule River\nCoulee Experimental\nFlambeau River\nGovernor Knowles\nHavenwoods\nKettle Moraine - Lapham Peak Unit\nKettle Moraine - Loew Lake Unit\nKettle Moraine - Northern & Southern Units\nKettle Moraine - Pike Lake Unit\nNorthern Highland-American Legion\nPeshtigo River\nPoint Beach\nState Historical Sites\nH. H. Bennett Studio\nSylvanus Wade House\nState Wildlife Areas\nBuena Vista Marsh\nCrex Meadows\nDewey Marsh\nKillsnake\nRetrieved from \" https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/?title=Circus_World_Museum&oldid=868552385\"\nMuseums in Sauk County, Wisconsin\nNational Historic Landmarks in Wisconsin\nBuildings and structures completed in 1884\nCircus museums in the United States\nMedia museums in the United States\nHistory museums in Wisconsin\nNational Register of Historic Places in Sauk County, Wisconsin","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Rodney Lincoln Free After 36 Years\nSuzan Reid\nLisanne Gaidamavice\nColleen Lefholz\nCaroline Fritz\nJerome Bales\nMidwest Innocence Project is organizing this fundraiser on behalf of Rodney Lincoln.\nCreated June 5, 2018\nAt age 73, Rodney Lincoln became a free man after serving 36 years and 9 days in prison for a crime he did not commit. He was taken away from his family, especially, his four children, missing almost 4 decades of moments as a father and grandfather. Now, though free, justice for Mr. Lincoln falls short -- He will receive zero compensation for the years taken from him.\nRodney Lincoln was wrongfully convicted of the April 27, 1982 murder of JoAnn Tate and an attack on her two young daughters. After Lincoln's first trial resulted in a hung jury, he was convicted in a second trial after the City of St. Louis presented evidence of then seven-year-old MD's identification and a hair found at the crime scene, which the prosecutor said \"matched\" Lincoln's. DNA testing of the hair later proved it was not Lincoln's. Further, MD, the only eyewitness in the case, recanted her identification of Mr. Lincoln and advocated for Mr. Lincoln's exoneration and release. Additional documents previously withheld by the State later revealed that her identification of Lincoln was manipulated by the state.\nAfter an evidentiary hearing on March 17-18, 2016 in Cole County (Mo.), Circuit Judge Daniel Green denied Lincoln's petition for habeas relief on June 16, 2016, four months after the hearing. Lincoln's legal team at the Midwest Innocence Project (MIP) then filed a motion for the transfer of Lincoln's case to the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri in December 2016, after the Missouri Court of Appeals (Western District) denied a motion to rehear or transfer the case. \"Because the Missouri Supreme Court has not recognized a freestanding claim of actual innocence in cases where the death penalty has not been imposed, we are not at liberty to expand Missouri habeas jurisprudence to permit consideration of the claim in this case,\" Appellate Judge Cynthia L. Martin wrote in the court's ruling.\n\"I can't imagine a judicial system where innocence is not a ground for relief from a conviction,\" said Sean O'Brien, founder of the Midwest Innocence Project and professor at the University of Missouri (Kansas City) School of Law. \"We're still trying to wrap our heads around that.\"\nOn December 5, 2016, MD, wrote this letter asking Governor Nixon for Mr. Lincoln's release. Governor Nixon did not grant this request, but on June 1, 2018, outgoing Governor Eric Greitens reviewed that same application and made the decision to commute Lincoln's sentence to \"time served,\" releasing him after nearly four decades in prison. \"Mr. Lincoln walks out of prison a free and innocent man, whether the courts recognize it or not,\" said MIP Executive Director, Tricia Bushnell.\nIn an interview shortly after his release, when asked if he has any words for his supporters, Mr. Lincoln said \"God bless each and every one of you - and thank you so much - for giving me the strength to go on. I'll never forget.\" (Read this poem by Mr. Lincoln.) Now, he needs our help building a life and making up for lost time.\nPlease donate now and share this fundraiser to help Mr. Lincoln rebuild his life. The proceeds of this GoFundMe will go directly to Mr. Lincoln. www.gofundme.com\/RodneyLincolnFinallyFree\nMidwest Innocence Project\nRodney Lincoln","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Book Walk Sets\nGood with Words\nYouth Ambassadors\nAbout OWSH\nPromenade des contes\nWhen I Get Older\nby K'NAAN\nillustrated by Rudy Gutierrez\nIn his first book for children, When I Get Older, Somali-Canadian poet, rapper, singer, and songwriter K'NAAN tells his own story. Born in Somalia, he grew up in Mogadishu. His grandfather was a renowned poet who passed on his love of words to his grandson. When the Somali Civil War began in 1991, K'NAAN was just thirteen. His mother made the difficult decision to move her family so that they could grow up in safety. Like so many other immigrants, he had to make a place for himself in a world of alien customs, clothes, and language. His road was a hard one: he lost many friends to violence. But K'NAAN's love of music, and his enormous talent, became a way for him to connect with his past, with his classmates, and eventually, to millions of people around the world.\nInternational Day of Peace Sept. 21, International Day of Music October 1, World Kindness Day November 13, Human Rights Day Dec. 10, International Migrants Day December 18, Canadian Multiculturalism Day June 27.\nWhen I Get Older: The Story Behind 'Wavin' Flag. Text \u00a9 2012 K'NAAN Illustrations \u00a9 2012 Rudy Gutierrez. Reproduced by permission of Tundra Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers, a Penguin Random House Company, Toronto.\nSuitable for: JK to grade 8.\nThemes: Identity, Character Education: inclusion and acceptance.\nAvailable: September 1, 2022\nAll videos associated with QR Coded signs from the Book Set are located here and can be viewed at any time.\nBook Creators\nK'NAAN\nWinner of three Juno awards and recently named the Globe and Mail's Artist of the Year and, now, children's book author, K'NAAN has a moving and inspiring personal story. K'NAAN (whose name means \"traveler\" in Somali) spent his childhood in Mogadishu surrounded by a loving family which included his aunt, one of Somalia's most famous singers, and his poet grandfather. When K'NAAN was thirteen, he and his family fled war-torn Somalia and immigrated to Toronto. His story is inspiring, and his struggles as a new immigrant will speak to many young North Americans.\nRudy Gutierrez\nRudy Gutierrez is an American artist-illustrator of Puerto Rican heritage whose art has been described as \"Wall Medicine\", ancient yet contemporary, urban in a sense and musical in feel and is known for creating images that combine elements of indigenous art with that of urban culture. He is a professor at Pratt Institute, New York.\n19 Liverpool St , Guelph, ON, Canada N1H 2K8\nStorytime Trail is a program of OneWorld Schoolhouse Foundation\nOneWorld Schoolhouse Foundation acknowledges it resides on the ancestral lands of the Attawandaron people and the treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the New Credit. As a community, we have a responsibility to honour and respect the four directions, land, waters, plants, animals and ancestors.\n\u00a9 2023 OneWorld Schoolhouse Foundation, all content and imagery unless otherwise noted.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Linguistics professor co-authors textbook with alumna\nNortheastern Illinois University Linguistics Professor Judith Kaplan-Weinger and alumna Char Ullman have published a new textbook, \"Methods for the Ethnography of Communication: Language in Use in Schools and Communities.\" The book aids students in the study of communication in the classroom and community settings.\nDesigned for the Anthropological Linguistics graduate course that Kaplan-Weinger teaches at Northeastern, the book emphasizes the principles of ethnographic communication, collecting and analyzing data, and making the connections between communicative acts and situations.\nA few years in the making, the book is built on the framework that both Kaplan-Weinger and Ullman (M.A. '93 Linguistics), now an assistant professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, have been using in their classes.\n\"We wrote the book because there is nothing else like it that takes students through the entire process of doing an ethnography of communication,\" said Kaplan-Weinger, who also serves as coordinator of the Linguistics program. \"I have been thrilled to be able to share my love for the study of language and culture with my Northeastern students over the past 28 years, and now I am thrilled to share this area of linguistics with students outside Northeastern as well.\"\nJudith Kaplan-Weinger","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hunter Lovins\nNatural Capitalism\nHunter is President and founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions and co-creator of the \"Natural Capitalism\" concept. She serves as Chief of Impact at Change Finance, which created the first truly fossil free ETF. She serves as a member of Now Partners, helping frame the new discipline of Regenerative Value Creation.\nNamed Millennium TIME Magazine Hero of the Planet, Hunter Lovins was awarded the 2008 Sustainability Pioneer Prize by the European financial community for her 30 years of work framing the sustainability movement, setting forth the business case for energy efficiency, renewable energy and resource productivity and climate protection.\nA social entrepreneur, she mentors for the Unreasonable Institute, and consults to large corporations, small businesses, communities, and dozens of nations around the world.\nA founding professor of Sustainable Management at Bard MBA and several other graduate programs, she was called by Newsweek Magazine the \"green business icon.\"\nPreviously, she co-founded Tree People, serving as its Assistant Director for 6 years, and Rocky Mountain Institute, which she led it for 20 years as CEO.\nAuthor of hundreds of papers and 15 books, including the landmark work, Natural Capitalism, Ms. Lovins travels the world, lecturing at such venues as the World Economic Forum, the UN, WOBI, TED and many others. Her private and public sector clients include Unilever, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Wal-Mart, Royal Dutch\/Shell, the International Finance Corporation, and the governments of Afghanistan, Australia, Bhutan, Canada, Honduras, Jamaica, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, the US and many more.\nHunter is one of the creators of the field of regenerative economics, and serves as Regenerative Executive for the Colorado Regenerative Recovery Coalition. She is the author of 16 books. Her book, The Way Out: Kickstarting Capitalism to Save Our Economic Ass, won the Atlas Award. Her book, Creating a Lean and Green Business System, won the Shingo Prize. Her most recent book, A Finer Future: Creating an Economy in Service to Life won a Nautilus Award.\nA Colorado rancher, she won the Humongous Fungus award for the highest concentration of mycorrhizal fungi. For many years a firefighter and EMT, she now rides for the Boulder County Sheriff's Mounted Search and Rescue Patrol.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Updated on: Sunday, November 28, 2021, 03:59 PM IST\nFPJ Legal: Allahabad HC directs name, gender change of transgender in educational records\nFollowing UP Education Board's Denial, The Allahabad High Court issued directions to the State authorities for allowing the trans woman to let change the requirements on marksheets and certificates.\nRepresentative Image |\nThe Allahabad High Court on Friday issued directions to the State authorities to enable a trans woman to change her previous name and gender changed in her educational mark-sheets and certificates.\nThe Bench of Justice Vivek Chaudhary also ordered the issuance of fresh changed mark sheets and certificates to her, as per the certificate issued by the District Magistrate to the petitioner. This was considered indicating petitioner's change in gender under Section 7 of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 (the Act).\nAccording to LiveLaw, 'The bench was dealing with a writ petition wherein court was prayed to direct Board of High School and Intermediate Education, Allahabad (U.P.) (U.P. Board) and Council for the Indian Schools Examination, New Delhi (CISE Board) to change petitioner's name and gender in her matriculation and intermediate marksheets respectively. A mandamus was also sought commanding both the authorities to amend their regulations and guidelines with regard to change of gender and names.'\nDetails of the case:\nPetitioner with her earlier name as 'X' (name of the petitioner concealed) and gender as male, had appeared and passed High School and Intermediate in the year 2011 and 2013 respectively. Noting that she was suffering from gender dysphoria, she underwent gender reassignment surgery in October 2017 from male to female. She also got published a gazette notification in respect of change of her name from 'A' to 'S' and gender from 'male' to 'female'.\nPetitioner also got her Aadhar and PAN cards issued in her new name and gender as female. But when she applied for getting her earlier name and gender changed in her school records, the request was rejected.\nIn June 2017, the petitioner had applied for the change in her High School documents but during filling forms for the said purpose, she noticed that columns for change of name and other details were there but the form was silent about the change in gender.\nConsequently, she approached different authorities requesting them to change petitioner's name and gender. However failing to get allowance on name and gender change from Examination Committee of the U.P. Board, the petitioner took to the High Court.\nCourt's verdict:\nCourt stressed that the very purpose of bringing the Act into force was to provide equality and respect to transgender persons. Therefore, noting that the Act is a socially beneficial legislation, court held,\n\"This Act cannot be given an interpretation which would defeat the very purpose for which the same is brought in force. It has to be interpreted in a manner that solemn purpose for which it is legislated is achieved.\"\nAccordingly, Court rejected State counsel's contentions. Court observed,\n\"The purpose is to give recognition to transgender persons as they perceived themselves and, in case, they undergo a gender reassignment procedure, to provide them appropriate changed certificates and identity documents.\"\nCourt also stated that Section 7 is required to be interpreted in a manner that the transgender persons who are issued a certificate under Section 6 or persons like petitioner who had undergone the gender re-assignment procedure prior the Act came into force, both are held entitled to apply before the District Magistrate for issuance of a certificate indicating 'change in gender'.\nFurther holding that denying such a right to persons who had already undergone the gender re-assignment procedure would frustrate the very purpose of the Act, court permitted the petitioner to submit an application under Section 7 of the Act before the District Magistrate.\nCourt also directed that on the basis of DM's such certificate, the petitioner would have the liberty to approach Boards' authorities for changing the identity on her educational records and the Board officials will have to take immediate steps after receiving her application.\nSimilar instances in the past:\nIn the past, the Delhi High Court in 2019 directed CBSE and Delhi University to work out a way to help a transgender who is seeking change of name and gender, from male to female, in education records. The court assured the petitioner that her right to gender identity was a constitutional right which has been recognised by the apex court and said \"let us work out what can be done\".\nWhile, the Bombay High Court years back observed that the Maharashtra government should take steps to include a column for transgenders in the online application form for change of name in the official gazette.\n(with inputs from LiveLaw)\nFPJ Legal: Delhi High Court sets November 30 for final hearing on same-sex marriages in India\nPublished on: Sunday, November 28, 2021, 03:59 PM IST\nUP Education Board\nMumbai: Senior citizen replies to fraud SMS, loses Rs 70,000\nWatch video: Fire breaks out at Hyderabad's Rajendra Nagar residence, no casualties\nPunjab Assembly Polls: CM Charanjit Singh Channi's brother Manohar Singh denied Congress ticket,...\nMumbai: ACB data reveal 148 govt officials involved in corruption cases yet to be suspended\nExperts urge on strict laws and tax hike on making India tobacco free","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Rick Hansen Foundation gives YOW Accessibility Gold Rating\nThe Editor \u2014 December 3, 2019\nOttawa International Airport Authority\nOTTAWA, ON\u2013To mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the Ottawa International Airport Authority is thrilled to announce that the Ottawa International Airport (YOW) has received the \"Accessibility Certified Gold\" rating under the Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility CertificationTM (RHFAC) program.\nFrom the left: Sarah McCarthy (Rick Hansen Foundation), Krista Kealey (Ottawa International Airport Authority), Julie Sawchuk (Accessibility Strategist and Educator), Samantha Proulx (Accessible Built Environment Specialist, ABE Factors Inc.), and Mardelle Woods (Rick Hansen Foundation Ambassador) (CNW Group\/Ottawa International Airport Authority)\nRHFAC is the first program to rate meaningful access, based upon the holistic user experience of people with varying disabilities affecting their mobility, vision and hearing. To date, over 1,200 buildings have been rated through the program.\n\"The airport terminal, which opened in 2003, was built with accessibility in mind. As building code and accessibility standards have evolved over the years, along with the needs of the community, the Authority has endeavoured to not only keep up, but to exceed these standards as it strives to provide the best possible passenger experience,\" said Mark Laroche, President and CEO of the Ottawa International Airport Authority. \"We are delighted to have achieved this exceptional level of certification which is a tribute to the Authority's commitment to an accessible terminal for all passengers, employees and visitors.\"\n\"My sincerest congratulations to the Ottawa International Airport on this remarkable achievement. Your commitment to creating an accessible environment for everyone who travels through the airport \u2013 whether it be employees, tourists, or people returning home \u2013 demonstrates a true leader in creating a Canada where everyone can go everywhere. Your leadership sets the bar for others across our country and the globe to follow suit,\" said Rick Hansen, Founder, Rick Hansen Foundation.\nRHFAC is a program that rates the level of meaningful access in commercial, institutional and multi-residential buildings and sites, offering a snapshot of the sites current level of accessibility. For YOW, notable accessibility features include:\nA strategic wayfinding system that is consistent throughout the building;\nA variety of seating options, with and without arm rests;\nUniversal washrooms with accessible features such as adult-size change tables and emergency call systems;\nRoll-up, automatic drinking fountains;\nA variety of flooring options, in particular carpeting that is easy to roll on; and\nParkade facility with accessible parking with direct access to the pedestrian walkways that lead to the elevator lobbies for safe movement.\nThe Authority is committed to continuing its efforts to ensure that as accessibility needs evolve, so too will the airport's facilities.\nFor more information about the Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility CertificationTM program, please visit the Rick Hansen Foundation website.\nAbout the Ottawa International Airport Authority\nOIAA manages, operates and develops airport facilities and lands in support of the economic growth of Canada's Capital Region, generating more than $2.2 billion annually in total economic activity in Ottawa and Gatineau.\nAbout the Rick Hansen Foundation\nThe Rick Hansen Foundation (RHF) was established in 1988, following the completion of Rick Hansen's Man In Motion World Tour. For nearly 30 years, RHF has worked to raise awareness, change attitudes, and remove barriers for people with disabilities. Visit www.rickhansen.com to learn more.\nGore Mutual Foundation Donates $50,000 in Celebration of GivingTuesday\nthyssenkrupp Elevator raises $113,000+ for Cystic Fibrosis with variety of events\nOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL PARTNER, SINAPI ABA SAVINGS AND LOANS, NAMED BEST BANK FOR WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS\nSixty-two organizations recognized as Employee Recommended Workplaces for 2020\nAwardsTechnlogy\nL'Or\u00e9al Paris announces the esteemed Canadian honorees of their fourth annual Women of Worth program\nTen Canadian Organizations among 2019 U.S. Healthcare Philanthropy High Performers List\nFrom the left: Samantha Proulx (Accessible Built Environment Specialist, ABE Factors Inc.) and Julie Sawchuk (Accessibility Strategist and Educator) (CNW Group\/Ottawa International Airport Authority)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Browse by State and County\nBrowse by Family Surname\nMap Resources\nVintage Postcards, Photos, and Images\nGenealogy Books\nAdditional Helps\nHearthstone Legacy Publications\nMy Genealogy Hound\nBrowse the Spahr Family Surname Genealogy\nThis section makes it possible to view all the biographies currently available for the Spahr family surname.\nPlease keep in mind that this is a list of only the primary biography surnames. Other surnames mentioned within a biography are not included in these lists of surnames. To search for the other surnames, use the Search Website feature. Also note that new biographies added to the website may not be listed in these lists for several days after the biographies go onto the website. This is a rapidly expanding section, so check back often.\nTo browse the currently available biographies for the Spahr family surname, click on the desired biography in the list below:\nA. N. Spahr (Greene County, Ohio)\nCamaralza H. Spahr (Greene County, Ohio)\nCyrus Arnold Spahr (Cumberland County, Pennsylvania)\nJesse Spahr (Allegheny County, Pennsylvania)\nWilliam Spahr (Cumberland County, Pennsylvania)\nUse the links at the top right of this page to search or browse thousands of family biographies.\nMy Genealogy Hound is a free service of Hearthstone Legacy Publications. All contents of this website are copyright 2012-2018.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Where is the TEDx Event?\nThe TEDx event takes place in the Gemeindeamt of Altaussee. This is the municipal office of the town, where the folks of Altaussee meet and make critical decisions about the future of this beautiful area. It is located in the center of the town, with a beautiful view on the Loser and a 5 minutes walk to the famous Lake Altaussee.\nAltaussee is a village in the middle of the Alps between Vienna and Munich, and a cultural hotspot in the southern region of the German-speaking nations of Switzerland, Austria, and Germany. It is a picturesque place in the mountains, similar to Davos in Switzerland hosting the World Economic Forum. Many of Altaussee's residents have their business and headquarters in Vienna and homes in Altaussee.\nThe community of Altaussee links back to the stone age and really took off when the Celts began building the salt mines (hence the name of the region \"Salzkammergut\", i.e. salt chamber area). That is why villages like Hallstatt and Altaussee look back at over 7,000 years of continuous settlement. Altaussee became more visible on the Austrian map when the Austrian Emperor Franz Josef the I. built his summer castle (like Windsor Castle, UK) in Bad Ischl, next to Altaussee. Since then, the area was a magnet not just for the Austrian\/German aristocrats but also became very widely known by artists, scientists, and influential people, because of its location and sceneries https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EKmmWp6bBz8. Sigmund Freud, Ego Schiele, Victor Frankl, Gustav Mahler, Hugo von Hofmannsthal started to build the next layer of the Altaussee community a century ago and created a very unique culture of combining and discussing art and sciences.\nAlso, in pop culture, Altaussee was mentioned prominently. In 2014, the Hollywood movie \"The Monuments Man\" with George Clooney, Matt Damon, and Bill Muray told the story of retrieving the art treasures stolen from the Nazis and hidden in the salt mines. And in 2015, Altaussee was an essential location in the James Bond movie \"Spectre\".\nGemeindeamt Altaussee\nAltaussee with Lake Altaussee\nFrom Vienna and Lower Austria:\nVienna \u2013 Altaussee: about 300 km\nMunich \u2013 Altaussee: about 230 km\nFrom Southern Austria:\nGraz \u2013 Altaussee: about 160 km\nArrival by car A1 Westautobahn * Exit Regau * Gmunden * Bad Ischl * Bad Aussee * Altaussee\nA8 Munich \u2013 Salzburg *\nA1 Westautobahn * Exit Thalgau * Bad Ischl * Bad Aussee * Altaussee\nA9 Pyhrnautobahn * Exit Liezen * Stainach * Trautenfels * Bad Aussee * Altaussee\nArrival by train Vienna West Station * Attnang-Puchheim * Bad Aussee Munich * Salzburg * Attnang-Puchheim * Bad Aussee Graz * Stainach\/Irdning * Bad Aussee\ncontact@tedxaltaussee.com\nOberlupitsch 123, 8992 Altaussee\nWhat is TEDx?\nIn the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized (subject to certain rules and regulations)\nAPPLY AS SPEAKER\nThis TEDx event is independently organized","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Most Recent 10 Episodes\nDiversity in Tech\nPivot to Purpose\nSide Hustle Success\nRestarting Your Career\nMarriage and Career\nDreams Take Flight\nCustomize Your Career\nBlack In America\nRory's Recommendations\nLeadership Seminars on Diversity & Inclusion\nProt\u00e9g\u00e9 Podcast\u00ae\nCareer Advice. Inspiration. Truth.\n100th Episode Special \u2013 The Career Wisdom of Deval Patrick\nNovember 27, 2017 By Protege Podcast\nFor our 100th episode, we are honored to welcome former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick to Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Podcast! Governor Patrick and I talk about being an outsider looking in, balancing work and family, the privilege and pain points of a life in public service, and so much more. It's a rare career interview of a living American legend, a legal and political trailblazer who speaks candidly about the highs and lows of his extraordinary career.\nWhat It Takes \u2013 Pamela Mitchell, Executive Coach Extraordinaire\nDecember 18, 2016 By Protege Podcast\nWhat does an executive coach do? How do you distinguish a great executive\/career coach from someone who just gives you advice? On this week's episode we talk with Pamela Mitchell, best-selling author, founder of The Reinvention Institute, and host of The Liftoff Project podcast, about the profession of executive coaching. How do I know Pamela is insightful and expert at executive coaching? I'm not just a fan; I've been her client. On this episode in our series \"What It Takes,\" my executive coach breaks down how to merge your personal and professional selves into one sustainable identity.\nWhat It Takes \u2013 Wesley Snell is Ready For Goliath\nOctober 17, 2016 By Protege Podcast\nWesley Snell is a cyber security expert leading a critical command center for the federal government. He's also a successful entrepreneur with a thriving transportation business. He's a father, a husband, and also a minister. This week's Guest Mentor didn't grow up with a silver spoon in his mouth. To the contrary, Wes grew up in a single parent household, was diagnosed with ADHD as young student, and, as a an adult, was stricken with Bell's Palsy. That's a lot of life for someone only 33 years old. As part of our series \"What It Takes\" profiling dynamic leaders, we invite you to bear witness to this amazing story of how faith, tenacity, and a mother's love helped Wes overcome some daunting odds.\nWhat It Takes \u2013 Charles Rice Leads With Integrity\nSeptember 19, 2016 By Protege Podcast\nAs CEO of Entergy New Orleans, Charles Rice leads with discipline, vision and, most of all, integrity. Hear Charles' story of managing through the turbulence of Ray Nagin's administration and helping to lead Entergy New Orleans post-Katrina. As part of our series \"What It Takes,\" Charles provides candid advice on getting to the C-suite and succeeding there. We also go deep on the importance of diverse leadership teams, and the single metric that tells you everything you need to know about a company's commitment to inclusion.\nWhat It Takes \u2013 Frank Supovitz, A Sports Fan's Best Friend\nWhat's it like to be the executive event manager for the Super Bowl, the NHL Finals, the Indy 500, and college basketball's Big East tournament? Our Guest Mentor on this week's Protege Podcast, Frank Supovitz began his career as an usher at Radio City Music Hall and now serves as president of Fast Traffic Events and Entertainment. Hear Frank's behind the scenes account of what happened when the lights went out in the Superdome during the 2013 Super Bowl, and why you should never lose your identity when working for powerful and prestigious companies.\nWhat It Takes \u2013 Bobby Sharma Takes On The World\nAugust 29, 2016 By Protege Podcast\nBobby Sharma brings sports to far flung places. As CEO of Blue Devil Holdings, Bobby is the international dealmaker helping to expand basketball, soccer and cricket to emerging markets. His negotiation skills, international relationships, and 20 years of experience in the sports industry provide his clients with out of the box thinking and innovative, profitable partnerships. As part of our series \"What It Takes,\" we have an illuminating conversation with Bobby about the ins and outs of multi-million dollar sports deals, and learn why he thinks lawyers make great business leaders.\nWhat It Takes \u2013 Reggie Williams, CEO of Ambrosia For Heads Part 2\nReggie Williams knows the music industry from so many different angles it's sick.\nReggie cut his teeth as an executive at MTV and BET as both brands dominated television and emerging digital media platforms. As well, Reggie has learned hard lessons as a startup entrepreneur, lessons that he's converted into wisdom and innovation as CEO of Ambrosia For Heads. If you love hip hop culture \u2013 the music, its history and its powerful and permeating impact on American and world culture \u2013 you will find Ambrosia For Heads to be a living encyclopedia of the art form. As part of our series \"What It Takes\" profiling dynamic leaders, Reggie shares his rise to success in and out of corporate America and what he's learned about himself as an entrepreneur and music industry insider.\nWhat It Takes \u2013 Zing Shaw on Diversity in Pro Sports\nAugust 1, 2016 By Protege Podcast\nFirst it was Donald Sterling and the Los Angeles Clippers. Then the Atlanta Hawks had their own crisis. Race and equity in professional sports have always made headlines, but who are the people responsible for making sure diversity is a strategic priority among the owners and senior leaders in sports? As part of our series \"What It Takes,\" I talk with Zing Shaw, the chief diversity officer of the Atlanta Hawks, the first diversity executive ever appointed in the NBA. Zing talks about what prepared her to advise senior management and ownership in a crisis, and why it's important to love the business of sports more than you love the game. Check out Zing's powerful, yet practical career advice about earning a seat at the table and making it count!\nWhat It Takes \u2013 Corry Rush, VP of Communications, New York Giants\nJuly 3, 2016 By Protege Podcast\nAs Vice President of Communications for the New York Giants, Corry Rush helps manage crisis communications and public relations in the biggest sports media market in the country. On this week's Protege Podcast, we discuss \"What It Takes\" to break into and succeed in the sports industry. Corry and I discuss handling the Jason Pierre Paul crisis, why he reads anything Tony Dungy writes, and why it's important to keep your cool in his job, or any.\nWhat It Takes \u2013 Toni Blackman, hip hop entrepreneur Part 1\nJune 27, 2016 By Protege Podcast\nYou have incredible creative talent. You have a deep love of hip hop. You want to make a difference in people's lives. Can you combine all three into a successful and meaningful career? On this week's Protege Podcast, our Guest Mentor is Toni Blackman, a hip hop and spoken word artist, U.S. State Department Hip Hop Ambassador, Echoing Green Fellow, and founder of Freestyle Union. Continuing our series \"What It Takes\" profiling dynamic professionals, our conversation with Toni provides some raw truth about believing in yourself, trusting your creative instincts, and shrewdly managing your business affairs. One more thing: did I mention that Toni freestyles on the podcast? A two part episode to start your week inspired!\n...Next Page\nAn iTunes New & Noteworthy podcast for 2016\n\u00a9 Copyrights Reserved 2019. Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Podcast \u00ae Designed By: www.walkerbranding.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Best Bets: Dali exhibit takes 'Stairway' to Biggs Museum\nDec 3rd, 2020 \u00b7 by Craig Horleman \u00b7 Comments: 0\nThroughout the last eight months of the pandemic, through the closures and the concern for fellow employees and patrons, the one thing Biggs Museum of American Art curator Ryan Grover could look forward to is the arrival of Salvador Dal\u00ed.\n\"It's always been, 'The show's coming. The show's coming,'\" he said.\nThe show finally arrives today, as 150 pieces of the eccentric, famed artist's work is on display at the Dover museum in a traveling exhibition of his illustrations for \"Les Chants de Maldoror\" and \"The Divine Comedy,\" titled \"Stairway to Heaven: Life and Death in the Visions of Salvador Dal\u00ed.\"\nAll the works are from the collection of the Park West Museum in Southfield, Michigan, which organized the exhibition. The almost-three-year U.S. tour will end Feb. 8 at the Biggs.\nGetting the exhibit to the Biggs was a three-year process. Mr. Grover thought perhaps it wouldn't come to pass once coronavirus hit the country.\n\"We were a little nervous at first that because of COVID that they might have canceled. I mean, it would have been within their purview to do so if they really wanted to. But luckily, that didn't happen and, luckily, we were able to stay open. So the stars kind of aligned with us there,\" he said.\n\"That's not always the case. We had other exhibitions that were lined up for next spring that did cancel, and we've had to create other exhibitions. So it all depends on the lender and the organizing company \u2014 what their comfort levels are in the situation. Naturally, with COVID, most people are pretty uncomfortable.\"\nCreated for two publications, the artworks in this exhibition signal two distinct periods in Dal\u00ed's career: the hedonism of his youth and the redemption he sought later in life. These two sets also signal his transition from surrealism to mysticism.\nUnder the influence of intimate friends and poets such as Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca and Andr\u00e9 Breton, Dal\u00ed became infatuated with the sadistic and amoral subjects of the surrealist icon, the Count of Lutr\u00e9amont (pseudonym of the French Uruguayan romantic poet Isidore Lucien Ducasse).\nDal\u00ed was soon asked to supply illustrations for a reprinting of the Count of Lutr\u00e9amont's epic poem, \"Les Chants de Maldoror.\" The artist created 44 original intaglio prints for the publication, which are on view at the Biggs.\nThis was among his earliest book projects; however, Dal\u00ed, who died in 1989 at age 84, would supply art for dozens of publications in his lifetime, including the Shakespearean plays \"Alice in Wonderland\" and \"The Divine Comedy,\" also included in the exhibit.\nDal\u00ed originally began illustrating \"The Divine Comedy\" as a commission by the Italian state and with papal approval to commemorate the 700-year anniversary of the birth of its author, the poet Dante Alighieri. Due to Dal\u00ed's Spanish heritage and early blasphemous attitude, his agreement to illustrate this centrally important biblical Italian text fell through.\nInstead, he personally oversaw the creation of woodblock prints replicating all 100 of the watercolors he produced for the project. From an astounding 3,500 individually carved printing blocks, the series of prints was produced over four years. The result was a portfolio of 100 fine art prints corresponding to \"The Divine Comedy\" and among the most expensive books ever produced.\nMr. Grover said he read about the exhibition in a trade magazine.\n\"I knew about the images that were made for one of the two publications (\"The Divine Comedy\") that we have featured here in the show, and so I was interested in it automatically and then read a little bit more about the exhibition. So I just contacted them, and they basically just added us to the contract. So we're feeling very fortunate about it.\"\nAt 150 pieces, it's one of the largest exhibitions the Biggs has hosted.\n\"We typically do not have shows with this many works in them. So there is a lot of Dal\u00ed' to take in,\" Mr. Grover said.\n\"We're definitely not the biggest museum. We're a very approachable size, and so a lot of the temporary exhibitions that we put on, you're usually able to come in and out like within a half-hour to 45 minutes. With this one, you could just sort of take it in and sort of read the text and just kind of get through it in the traditional time frame. But you also have the absolute option to also just kind of slow down a little bit and really analyze the images because there's a lot of them. There's a lot going on in the images and especially with the fine art prints that were created for 'The Divine Comedy.'\n\"So many people are really familiar with that text and the storyline. Even if they've not read it, you know a little bit about the sort of journey through the underworld that this person is experiencing, and so there's a lot that's going to be very familiar about the subject and this work.\"\nMr. Grover was less familiar with the illustrations for \"Les Chants de Maldoror.\"\n\"They aren't really meant to be pictures directly into the storyline. They're meant to really sort of accompany the epic poem. And so they are actually more familiar to people than you might think because they are all of what Dal\u00ed was doing during his surreal phase,\" he said.\n\"So it is the melting clocks and the bodies with the chest of drawers in them, and it is the angels and the crutches and all these other kind of things that we've always sort of picked up a little bit by a little bit when you see the iconic Dal\u00ed paintings on the side of a lunchbox. So there's just a lot that you can study and a lot of symbols and a lot to take in in a really great narrative.\"\nDespite closing Thursday due to the report of a possible secondary COVID-19 exposure, the Biggs reopens its doors today for the exhibition.\nBut the museum is limiting the number of visitors on site per government guidelines. Due to anticipated demand, it is highly recommended to purchase tickets in advance and to call to reserve a time slot. The museum will still welcome walk-ins, but those visitors without reservations will be asked to wait before entering if there are parties on the schedule. Making a reservation will guarantee admittance and limit wait time.\nDaily admission passes can be purchased up to one month in advance via the Event Calendar on biggsmuseum.org or by calling 674-2111. Current hours of operation are Wednesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.\nFor those who can't make it to the Biggs in person, a virtual tour of \"The Divine Comedy\" will take place Dec. 15 at 6 p.m. and a virtual tour of \"Les Chants de Maldoror\" will be staged Jan. 5 at 6 p.m.\nThere will also be a virtual guest lecture with the curator of the exhibition, David Rubin, on Jan. 19 at 6 p.m.\nOn Jan. 2, kids can celebrate First Saturday with the free digital Biggs Kids Workshop. Visit the Biggs' Facebook page any time after 10 a.m. that day to access the latest Biggs Kids Workshop video, which teaches children about the art of Salvador Dal\u00ed and guides them to create their own Dal\u00ed-inspired art.\nTo help complete the Biggs Kids Workshop projects at home, a limited supply of \"Big Ol' Bag of Biggs Art\" with all needed supplies are available for pickup free of charge. These can be collected from the museum throughout the month.\nTo arrange pickup in advance, contact Curator of Community and Academic Programs Kristen Matulewicz by emailing kmatulewicz@biggsmuseum.org. Follow the Biggs on Facebook to be notified when the video is posted.\nThe Biggs Museum is at 406 Federal St. in Dover.\nNew in theaters this weekend is the comedic drama \"Half Brothers.\"\nTo share news of your entertainment event, group or venue, contact Craig Horleman at 741-8224 or chorl@newszap.com.\nReach features editor Craig Horleman at chorl@newszap.com\nTags:Art \u00b7 Best Bets \u00b7 Museums","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cabinet Office signs MoU with IBM\nIBM has become the latest supplier to sign a 'memorandum of understanding' about providing efficiencies in its business with central government\nThe firm's announcement of its agreement with the Cabinet Office follows similar deals involving other ICT vendors that met with minister Francis Maude over the summer.\nIBM said that as part of the agreement it has provided a number of ideas and commitments to reduce costs, which are in line with the government's plans to \"generate in-year savings\". It added that the MoU identifies several areas in which it could \"help improve efficiency and effectiveness in the longer term and support the desired reform of public services\".","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home\/Infographic\/Pregnancy in the United States [Infographic]\nPregnancy in the United States [Infographic]\nNowSourcing Follow on Twitter February 4, 2013\nThe toothless smile, the soft hands only big enough to grip one of your fingers, and the harmless drool that people only tolerate because they know they can't help it. Yes, babies, everyone's little bundle of joy! Almost everyone falls weak at the knees to the smile of a chunky, newborn baby. Mothers in the U.S. love their babies and many can recall just about every moment within the nine month span of being pregnant with their pride and joy. Millions of pregnancies occur every year in America and mothers all across the country can relate to one another, but even though some aspects of pregnancy are beautiful, others lean toward the ugly side of things.\nWith about six million pregnancies happening every year in the U.S, only about four million of those actually result in live births, with the other two million being lost due to things such as miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies. These tragedies can effect a mother to be heavily with things such as postpartum depression which about 11% of mothers suffer. In the U.S., the infant death rate is 639 deaths per 100,000 births, with Mississippi ranking as the number one state for infant death rate.\nAll of the live births in the U.S. result in Americans using about 27 million disposable diapers every year. Out of all those four million live births as mentioned above, only three percent of them result in twins, so if you're hoping for twice the fun, your chances are slim.\nPregnancies in the U.S. are happening everyday as pregnancy rates are on the rise with mothers beginning to be younger in age. This infographic presented by InsuranceQuotes takes a look at many statistics of pregnancy within the U.S, both the good and the bad.\ninfographic Pregnancy United States\nNowSourcing\nBrian Wallace is the Founder and President of NowSourcing, an industry leading infographic design agency , based in Louisville, KY and Cincinnati, OH which works with companies that range from startups to Fortune 500s. Brian also runs #LinkedInLocal events nationwide, hosts the Next Action Podcast, and has been named a Google Small Business Advisor for 2016-2018. Follow Brian Wallace on LinkedIn as well as Twitter.\n5 Things Every Foster Kid Should Know About Paying for College\nWeb Consumption Throughout Time [Infographic]\nContent Marketing vs. Traditional Advertising [infographic]\nKeep Your Home Safe From Burglars [Infographic]\nWhen Compulsion Takes Over [Infographic]\nMajor Medical Advances Developed In Louisville [Infographic]\nEmbrace Your Midlife Crisis [Infographic]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hood, Ann, 1956-\nNew York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2010.\nMother and infant -- Fiction.\nAdoptive parents -- Fiction.\nBirthmothers -- Fiction.\nThe painful and courageous journey toward adoption made by several of her clients forces Maya Lange, founder of The Red Thread, an adoption agency that specializes in placing baby girls from China with American families, to confront the lost daughter of her past.\nBook FICTION HOO 1 1\n\"In China there is a belief that people who are destined to be together are connected by an invisible red thread. Who is at the end of your red thread?\"After losing her infant daughter in a freak accident, Maya Lange opens The Red Thread, an adoption agency that specializes in placing baby girls from China with American families. Maya finds some comfort in her work, until a group of six couples share their personal stories of their desire for a child. Their painful and courageous journey toward adoption forces her to confront the lost daughter of her past. Brilliantly braiding together the stories of Chinese birth mothers who give up their daughters, Ann Hood writes a moving and beautifully told novel of fate and the red thread that binds these characters' lives. Heartrending and wise, The Red Thread is a stirring portrait of unforgettable love and yearning for a baby.\nAnn Hood was born on December 9, 1956, in West Warwick, R.I. She attended the University of Rhode Island and New York University. For several years, she worked as a flight attendant before pursuing her dream of becoming a writer.\nAnn Hood had a dream of writing ever since her first \"novel\" at the age of 11. It was not until 1987, with the publication of Somewhere off the Coast of Maine that she received the recognition she had been longing for. Set in the period from the 1960s to the 1980s, the story deals with the lives of three women of the Vietnam era and their children. Strong on emotion and personal growth, Hood's writing frequently examines the intricacies of various levels of relationships. Other works include Something Blue, which also involves the association between three friends.\nIn her engaging new tearjerker, Hood (The Knitting Circle) follows several families as they attempt to adopt daughters from China. Holding down the center is Maya Lange, who, as head of the Red Thread Adoption Agency, is the prospective parents' guide through the adoption process. Childless Maya is driven by a desire to make amends for a tragic accident in her past, though her clients have their own share of heartbreak-miscarriages and infertility-and, predictably, the expectations and reservations about parenthood that they confide to Maya are shaped by a host of personal issues. In a nod to Hood's last novel, several women knit to calm their nerves as they await their new daughters. Meanwhile, Maya, also a knitter, takes painful steps toward letting go of the past. The individual arcs are woven together beautifully, though the interspersed tales of how the Chinese children came to be abandoned tend to clutter more than add. Regardless, Hood's sensitive depiction of her characters' hopes and fears makes for a moving story of dedication, forgiveness, and love. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved\nA group of Americans plan to adopt daughters from China through an agency founded by a bereaved mother, in Hood's moving novel (The Knitting Circle, 2007, etc.). Maya walked away from her husband Adam and her formerly happy life in Hawaii after the accidental death of her infant daughter left her in emotional freefall. (The exact circumstances surrounding the accident are not revealed until halfway through the novel.) In part to assuage her anguish, Maya started The Red Thread Adoption Agency, referring to a Chinese saying that a red thread connects people destined to be together. Operating out of Providence, R.I., Maya conducts her latest orientation of a group of couples embarking on the yearlong (or more) process of adopting abandoned Chinese girl babies. Without exception, the wives initiate the adoptions. Theo is bored by ovulation-driven sex with wife Sophie and, still a globetrotting beach bum at heart, views children only as a threat to freedom. Emily, whose efforts to win over her teenage stepdaughter Chloe have netted rejection, unwittingly abetted by her husband Michael, seeks family equilibrium. Nell and Benjamin Walker-Adams, New England aristocrats (he's descended from John Adams) have given up on Nell's mood-bending fertility treatments, but she's experiencing the most untrammeled baby-lust of her charmed life. Brooke, married to exMajor Leaguer Charlie, yearns to fill the void left by her sterility, but Charlie thinks three's a crowd, until suddenly their attitudes reverse. Susannah, ambivalent about and vaguely shamed by the retarded daughter her husband Carter adores, wants a \"normal\" child. Interspersed throughout are italicized vignettes about Chinese mothers forced by the quota on children and prejudice against girls to make wrenching decisions. The raw and riveting Chinese stories siphon narrative juice from the more conventional American angst that dominates the novel. Still, the tale ends with a pleasing sense that the red thread is more than a myth, especially in Maya's case. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.\nHood's latest engaging novel is a timely exploration of the adoption process, specifically the adoption of Chinese girls by five couples in Providence, Rhode Island, brought together by Maya and her Red Thread Adoption Agency. One by one, Hood introduces each couple: there's a compulsive investment banker and her consultant husband; a social do-gooder and her immature husband who still pines for an ex-girlfriend; Maya's friend Emily, who longs for her own daughter, tired of vying with her stepdaughter for her husband's affection; an ex-baseball player who fears losing his wife's love and attention to the new adoptee; and a mismatched couple with their own mentally challenged daughter whom the wife struggles to love. Maya is an upbeat ringleader who believes every child is connected by a red thread to those fated to play a part in his or her destiny. Hood intersperses the stories of these diverse couples with the sad stories of five Chinese babies slated for adoption, resulting in part soap opera, part enlightening look at contemporary adoptions, and an altogether entertaining read.--Seaman, Donna Copyright 2010 Booklist\nLibrary Journal Review\nLike her best-selling The Knitting Circle, Hood's new novel features the themes of loss and reconnection. After the death of her infant daughter in an accident, Maya Lange opens an adoption agency that places Chinese babies with American parents. Six couples waiting to adopt share the lengthy process and eventually create a bond, although they were previously strangers. Meanwhile, Maya is forced to confront her feelings about her child's death and her former husband so that she can heal and learn to fall in love again. The stories of the adopting parents are intertwined with those of the Chinese women who, for various reasons, had to give up their baby girls. The tone here is somber, but in the end these parents are transformed by the healing journeys they have made. Verdict Hood offers a thoughtful novel about the yearning for a child that's primed to be a book club pick. Readers who enjoyed Hood's last novel or are fans of writers like Jacqueline Mitchard will enjoy this as well. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 1\/10.]-Amy Ford, St. Mary's Cty. Lib., Lexington Park, MD (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Fellows' Corner\nPitolisant Offers Important Risk-Benefit Profile for Patients With Narcolepsy\nJeffrey Dayno, MD, chief medical officer of Harmony Biosciences, as well as John C. Jacobs, the chairman and CEO, shared their insight into the potential impact pitolisant can make in the treatment of narcolepsy and excessive daytime sleepiness.\nBy: Matt Hoffman\nJeffrey Dayno, MD\nPitolisant, a selective histamine 3 receptor antagonist\/inverse agonist developed by Harmony Biosciences, was recently approved under the brand name Wakix for the treatment of excessive daytime sleepiness in adults with narcolepsy. The agent was not deemed a controlled substance by the DEA\u2014the first narcoleptic therapy to be void of that scheduling.1\nAs there is an ongoing need for better and more effective medications in sleep disorders such as narcolepsy, the door was open for agents like pitolisant to enter the market. It has been shown to be generally safe and well-tolerated, based on pooled safety data from 4 placebo-controlled trials totaling more than 300 patients.2\nIn clinical trials, the therapy has shown to be quite effective. In a 5-year dataset, patients experienced drops in Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) scores of 3.4 points (to 13.4) through 12 months, and 6.2 points (to 10.6) by year 5. The data also show reductions of multiple symptoms of REM dysregulation, a 76% reduction in the symptoms of cataplexy, a 62% reduction in sleep paralysis, and a 54% reduction in hypnagogic hallucinations from baseline to year 1.3\nTo learn more about the therapy's advantages, NeurologyLive sought comment from Jeffrey Dayno, MD, chief medical officer, Harmony Biosciences, and John C. Jacobs, MBA, chairman and CEO, Harmony Biosciences. The pair provided some insight into what to expect now that pitolisant is approved.\nNeurologyLive: What does this approval offer physicians treating narcolepsy?\nJohn C. Jacobs, MBA: Wakix provides healthcare professionals managing people living with narcolepsy a new and important treatment option for their patients. While there are medications on the market approved for narcolepsy, Wakix is the first and only FDA-approved non-scheduled product for narcolepsy.\nIs there a specific subgroup of patients with narcolepsy in which pitolisant can make an impact?\nJeffrey Dayno, MD: There are up to 200,000 Americans living with narcolepsy, all of whom have excessive daytime sleepiness. Wakix is the first and only FDA approved non-scheduled product for narcolepsy, and it offers an important benefit\/risk profile to address the unmet medical need that exists in people living with narcolepsy.\nCould you expand on the risk-benefit profile offered by pitolisant, and what particular unmet needs will be aided by its approval?\nJeffrey Dayno, MD: While there are medications on the market approved for narcolepsy, Wakix is the first and only FDA approved non-scheduled product for narcolepsy. It is a first-in-class medication with a novel mechanism of action, that works through a natural chemical in the brain, histamine, a major wake-promoting neurotransmitter.\nThe efficacy of Wakix for the treatment of EDS in adult patients with narcolepsy was evaluated in two multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies, HARMONY 1 and HARMONY 1bis. These studies included a total of 261 patients who were randomized to receive Wakix, placebo, or active control; these patients had a median age of 37 (in HARMONY 1) and 40 (in HARMONY 1bis). Treatment duration was 8 weeks, with a three-week dose titration phase followed by a 5-week stable dose phase; 75% to 80% of the patients in these studies had a history of cataplexy. In both of these studies, Wakix demonstrated a statistically significant improvement in EDS as measured by the ESS score.\nIn the placebo-controlled trials conducted in patients with narcolepsy with or without cataplexy, the most common adverse reactions (occurring in \u22655% of patients and at twice the rate of placebo) with the use of Wakix were insomnia (6%), nausea (6%), and anxiety (5%).\nWhat will the dosing variations of the therapy be, and when will it be available?\nJeffrey Dayno, MD: The recommended dose range for Wakix is 17.8 mg to 35.6 mg administered orally once daily in the morning upon wakening. Wakix will be commercially available to healthcare professionals and appropriate patients in the US in the fourth quarter of 2019.\nTranscript adjusted for clarity.\n1. WAKIX represents the first and only non-scheduled treatment approved for patients with narcolepsy in the U.S. [press release]. Plymouth Meeting, PA: Harmony Biosciences; August 15, 2019. finance.yahoo.com\/news\/harmony-biosciences-announces-fda-approval-120000845.html. Accessed August 15, 2019.\n2. Scart-Gr\u00e8s C, Momah C, Roy M, Maski K, Piris S, Bogan RK. Sleep. 2019;42(Suppl 1):A244\u2013A245. doi: 10.1093\/sleep\/zsz067.612. Presented at: SLEEP 2019. June 8-12, 2019; San Antonio, TX. Abstract 0614.\n3. Harmony Biosciences presents 5-year data on pitolisant at international narcolepsy symposium [news release]. Plymouth Meeting, PA: Harmony Biosciences; September 11, 2018. harmonybiosci\u00adences.com\/newsroom\/harmony-biosciences-presents-5-year-data-on-pitolisant-at-international. Accessed August 15, 2019.\nFDA Approves Intranasal Diazepam, Rimegepant and Erenumab Effectively Treats Refractory Migraine, MS Treatments Double Since 2011\nNeurology News Network for the week ending January 18, 2020.\nOcrelizumab Drug Label Updated With New Safety Information\nThe FDA approved an updated drug label for the multiple sclerosis drug, including updates on immunizations and risks in specific patient populations.\nPhagenyx System for Dysphagia Treatment Gains Breakthrough Designation\nThe neurostimulation device may help to accelerate the removal of a patient's breathing tube by restoring neurological swallowing control.\nLamotrigine Recalled Due to Cross-Contamination\nThe recalled lot of lamotrigine used to treat epilepsy and bipolar disorder is set to expire in June 2021 and was distributed between August 23 and August 30, 2019.\nIntranasal Diazepam FDA Approved for Seizure Clusters\nThe drug, which is a schedule IV controlled substance, is the first nasal spray approved as rescue medication in patients 6 years and older with epilepsy.\nNew Neuroimaging Guidelines for Migraine, Lemborexant Improves Sleep Onset, Patients with Parkinsons Have Compromised Swimming Ability\nNovel Aspirin Formulation May Address Bothersome MS Symptoms, Treatment Side Effects\nThe proprietary formulation of aspirin and fumaric acid addresses issues with pretreating fumarate flush, a bothersome side effect of popular MS disease-modifying therapy Tecfidera.\nLemborexant Superior to Zolpidem, Placebo for Insomnia Treatment\nThe drug was associated with significant improvements in sleep onset, sleep efficiency, and wake-after-sleep onset for both doses compared with placebo.\nOptimizing Care of Spinal Muscular Atrophy in an Advancing Treatment Era\nIn this Peer Exchange, experts discussed current SMA therapies, what they have learned, and what the future holds for treatment of this devastating disease.\nLasmiditan Effective in Migraine Regardless of Prior Triptan Use\nLasmiditan was efficacious across a number of doses in patients with migraine regardless of prior good or insufficient response to triptan administration.\nJudgment Call: Exploring Treatment Tactics in Clinically Isolated Syndrome\nMore aggressive strategies in the treatment of multiple sclerosis have created an opportunity for physicians to refine the way they address a first demyelinating event, and perhaps change the course of disease.\nNeurologyLive Year in Review: Top FDA Approvals\nThe approvals introduced several new classes of drugs, including the ditans and gepants in migraine, as well as novel formulations that can ease the administration of treatments for Parkinson disease and epilepsy.\nA Neurology Pipeline for the Ages\nThe director of the Jefferson Headache Center at Thomas Jefferson University detailed the most notable achievements from 2019, and what to expect in the coming year.\nNeurologyLive Year in Review: Top Peer Exchange Segments\nCatch up on some of our most popular Peer Exchange panels with experts in the field, including discussions on epilepsy, migraine, multiple sclerosis, and more.\nAddressing Insomnia in the Elderly\nKarl Doghramji, MD, medical director of the Jefferson Sleep Disorders Center, reviews optimal management strategies for elderly patients with insomnia disorder.\nStudies Investigate 2 Doses of Fenfluramine in Dravet Syndrome\nThe second of 2 identical trials investigating 2 doses of low-dose fenfluramine (Fintepla) is set to be completed in early 2020, as the agent awaits FDA approval.\nUbrogepant Approved for Acute Migraine in Adults\nBranded as Ubrelvy, Allergan's oral calcitonin gene-related peptide antagonist is the first-in-class to be approved for this indication.\nFDA Approves Lemborexant for Insomnia Treatment in Adults\nThe small-molecule dual orexin receptor antagonist was approved based on data from 2 pivotal phase 3 studies which showed statistical superiority over placebo for sleep onset latency.\nIntellisphere, LLC\n2 Clarke Drive, Suite 100\nCranbury, NJ 08512\nCopyright \u00a9 2019 NeurologyLive. 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{"text":"CVS to close 900 stores: Drugstore chain's store closings represent 10% of locations\nCVS plans to close about 900 stores over the next three years, reflecting nearly 1 in 10 of its locations, as the drugstore chain continues its pivot away from retail and toward health care services.\nThe company announced Thursday that it would shutter 300 stores per year for the next three years.\n\"The company is committed to offering impacted colleagues roles in other locations or different opportunities as part of its overall workforce strategy,\" CVS said in a statement.\nThe closures will begin in spring 2022.\nA list of locations poised to close was not immediately available.\nCVS spokesperson T.J. Crawford said the company would decide which locations to close based on \"a number of factors,\" including \"local market dynamics, population shifts and store density\" as well as \"ensuring Aetna and Caremark coverage and the needs of underserved communities.\"\nCVS has been grappling for years with digital competition, which has been exacerbated by the onset of Amazon's pharmacy efforts. The company has diversified its business by acquiring insurer Aetna and repositioning certain stores as \"HealthHub\" locations with a focus on clinical services and health products.\n\"The company has been evaluating changes in population, consumer buying patterns and future health needs to ensure it has the right kinds of stores in the right locations for consumers and for the business,\" CVS said Thursday.\nThe closures are expected to result in an impairment charge of $1 billion to $1.2 billion in the fourth quarter.\n\"Our retail stores are fundamental to our strategy and who we are as a company,\" CVS CEO Karen Lynch said in a statement. \"We remain focused on the competitive advantage provided by our presence in thousands of communities across the country, which complements our rapidly expanding digital presence.\"\nYou can follow USA TODAY reporter Nathan Bomey on Twitter @NathanBomey and subscribe to our free Daily Money newsletter here for personal finance tips and business news every Monday through Friday morning.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Wharton's alumni network is the largest and strongest of any leading business school. More than 94,000 alumni live and work in more than 153 countries, including more than 1,500 doctoral alumni worldwide. Doctoral graduates continue their strong relationships with faculty and peers long after graduation, collaborating and exchanging ideas through shared research and in professional gatherings. In addition to Wharton's active alumni base, you gain access to Penn's larger alumni network of 250,000 graduates.\nSarah Zechman\nSugata Ray\n\"The faculty at Wharton were very supportive\u2026 They let me set my own [research] agenda, but helped ensure that agenda would be successful,\" says alumnus Sara Zechman, who is on the faculty at the University of Chicago.\n\"Whatever you want to do, there is someone at Wharton who knows something about it,\" says alumnus Sugata Ray, who is on the faculty at the University of Florida.\nBrowse profiles of doctoral alumni:\nWilfred Amaldoss\nPhD 1998, Marketing\nThe Fuqua School of Business, Duke University\nKate Bundorf\nGina Cattani\nPhD, 2004\nNew York University Stern School of Business\nErica Johnson\nPhD 2010, Business & Public Policy\nBlake McShane\nPhD 2010, Statistics\nMarcelo Olivares\nPhD 2007, Operations, Information Management & Decision Processes\nPhD 2009, Finance\nKarl Russo\nJoint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress\nPhD 2008, Accounting","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Get News Media essential facts below. View Videos or join the News Media discussion. Add News Media to your PopFlock.com topic list for future reference or share this resource on social media.\nElements of mass media that focus on delivering news\nElectronic news-gathering trucks and photojournalists gathered outside the Prudential Financial headquarters in Newark, United States in August 2004 following the announcement of evidence of a terrorist threat to it and to buildings in New York City.\nThe news media or news industry are forms of mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a target public. These include print media (newspapers, newsmagazines), broadcast news (radio and television), and more recently the Internet (online newspapers, news blogs, news videos, live news streaming, etc.).\nSome of the first news circulations occurred in Renaissance Europe. These handwritten newsletters contained news about wars, economic conditions, and social customs and were circulated among merchants. The first printed news appeared by the late 1400s in German pamphlets that contained content that was often highly sensationalized. The first newspaper written in English was The Weekly Newes, published in London in 1621. Several papers followed in the 1640s and 1650s. In 1690, the first American newspaper was published by Richard Pierce and Benjamin Harris in Boston. However, it did not have permission from the government to be published and was immediately suppressed.[1]\nIn 1729, Benjamin Franklin began writing a new form of newspaper that was more satirical and more involved in civic affairs than previously seen. In 1735, John Peter Zenger was accused of seditious libel by the governor of New York, William Cosby. Zenger was found not guilty, largely in part to his attorney Andrew Hamilton, who later wrote a paper in which he argued that newspapers should be free to criticize the government as long as it was true. Later, with the ratification of the Bill of Rights in 1791, freedom of the press would be guaranteed by the First Amendment.[1]\nIn the 1830s, newspapers started seeking commercial success and turned toward reportage. This began with the New York Sun in 1833. Advancements in technology made it cheaper to print newspapers and \"penny papers\" emerged. These issues sought out local news and coverage of society. Later, news-gathering became a central function of newspapers. With the invention of the telegraph in 1845, the \"inverted pyramid\" structure of news was developed.[2] Through the latter half of the 1800s, politics played a role in what newspapers published. By the end of the century, modern aspects of newspapers, such as banner headlines, extensive use of illustrations, \"funny pages,\" and expanded coverage of organized sporting events, began to appear. Also, media consolidation began with many independent newspapers becoming part of \"chains\".[1]\nThe early 1900s saw Progressive Era journalists using a new style of investigative journalism that revealed the corrupt practices of government officials. These exposing articles became featured in many newspapers and magazines. The people who wrote them became labeled as \"muckrakers\". They became very influential and were a vital force in the Progressive reform movement. However, after 1912 muckraking declined. The public began to think the expos\u00e9s were sensationalized, but they did make a great impact on future policies.[1]\nDuring the 1920s, radio became a news medium, and was a significant source of breaking news. Although, during World War I, radio broadcasts in America were only given information about Allied victories because Great Britain had a monopoly on the transatlantic radio lines. For the newspapers, the government suppressed any radical or German papers during and after the war.[1]\nWith the introduction of the television came The Communications Act of 1934. It was an agreement between commercial television and the people of the United States that established that: The airways are public property; Commercial broadcasters are licensed to use the airways; The main condition for use will be whether the broadcaster served \"the public interest, convenience, and necessity.\" During the Vietnam War, the media reporting directly challenged the government, drawing attention to the \"credibility gap\" -- official lies and half-truths about the war.[1]\nTelevision news continued to expand during the 1970s, and by 1990, more than half of American homes had cable systems and nationally oriented newspapers expanded their reach. With technological advancements in the newsroom, notably the Internet, a new emphasis on computer-assisted reporting and a new blending of media forms emerged, with one reporter preparing the same story in print, online, and on camera for a newspaper's cable station.[1]\nA \"medium\" (plural \"media\") is a carrier of something. Common things carried by media include information, art, or physical objects. A medium may provide transmission or storage of information or both. The industries which produce news and entertainment content for the mass media are often called \"the media\" (in much the same way the newspaper industry is called \"the press\"). In the late 20th century it became commonplace for this usage to be construed as singular (\"The media is...\") rather than as the traditional plural.\n\"Press\" is the collective designation of media vehicles that carry out journalism and other functions of informative communication, in contrast to pure propaganda or entertainment communication. The term press comes from the printing press of Johannes Gutenberg in the sixteenth century and which, from the eighteenth century, was used to print newspapers, then the only existing journalistic vehicles. From the middle of the 20th century onwards, newspapers also began to be broadcast (radio news and television news). The advent of the World Wide Web brought with it online newspapers, which then expanded to include online news videos and online streaming news in the 2010s. The use of the term \"press\", however, was maintained.\nBroadcasting is the distribution of audio and video signals (programs) to a number of recipients (\"listeners\" or \"viewers\") that belong to a large group. This group may be the public in general, or a relatively large audience within the public. Thus, an Internet channel may distribute text or music worldwide, while a public address system in (for example) a workplace may broadcast very limited ad hoc soundbites to a small population within its range.\nThe sequencing of content in a broadcast is called a schedule.\nTelevision and radio programs are distributed through radio broadcasting or cable, often simultaneously. By coding signals and having decoding equipment in homes, the latter also enables subscription-based channels and pay-per-view services.\nA broadcasting organization may broadcast several programs at the same time, through several channels (frequencies), for example BBC One and Two. On the other hand, two or more organizations may share a channel and each use it during a fixed part of the day. Digital radio and digital television may also transmit multiplexed programming, with several channels compressed into one ensemble.\nWhen broadcasting is done via the Internet the term webcasting is often used.\nBroadcasting forms a very large segment of the mass media.\nBroadcasting to a very narrow range of audience is called narrowcasting.\nIn a broadcast system (television), journalists or reporters are also involved with editing the video material that has been shot alongside their research, and in working on the visual narrative of the story. Broadcast journalists often make an appearance in the news story at the beginning or end of the video clip.\nIn television or broadcast journalism, news analysts (also called news-casters or news anchors) examine, interpret, and broadcast news received from various sources of information. Anchors present this as news, either videotaped or live, through transmissions from on-the-scene reporters (news correspondents).\nNews films (\"clips\") can vary in length; there are some which may be as long as ten minutes, others that need to fit in all the relevant information and material in two or three minutes. News channels these days have also begun to host special documentary films that stretch for much longer durations and are able to explore a news subject or issue in greater detail.\nThe desk persons categorise news stories with various formats according to the merit of the story. Such formats include AVO, AVO Byte, Pkg, VO SOT, VOX POP, and Ancho Visual.\nThe AVO, or Anchor Voice Over, is the short form of news. The story is written in a gist. According to the script visual is edited. The anchor reads the news while the visual is broadcast simultaneously. Generally, the duration of an AVO is 30 to 40 seconds. The script is three to four lines. At first the anchor starts to read the news, and, after reading one or one-and-a-half lines, the visual is aired, overlapping the face of anchor.\nThe AVO Byte has two parts: An AVO, and one or more bytes. This is the same as an AVO, except that as soon as the AVO ends, the Byte is aired.\nThe Pkg has three parts: Anchor, Voice Over, and Sign Off. At first a Script is written. A voice over anchor reads the anchor or anchor intro part.\nReading the newspaper: Brookgreen Gardens in Pawleys Island, South Carolina.\nA newspaper is a lightweight and disposable publication (more specifically, a periodical), usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. It may be general or special interest, and may be published daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly, bimonthly, or quarterly.\nGeneral-interest newspapers are usually journals of current news on a variety of topics. Those can include political events, crime, business, sports, and opinions (either editorials, columns, or political cartoons). Many also include weather news and forecasts. Newspapers increasingly use photographs to illustrate stories; they also often include comic strips and other entertainment, such as crosswords.\nPrint journalism\nJournalists at work in Montreal in the 1940s\nA story is a single article, news item or feature, usually concerning a single event, issue, theme, or profile of a person. Correspondents report news occurring in the main, locally, from their own country, or from foreign cities where they are stationed.\nMost reporters file information or write their stories electronically from remote locations. In many cases, breaking stories are written by staff members, through information collected and submitted by other reporters who are out on the field gathering information for an event that has just occurred and needs to be broadcast instantly. Radio and television reporters often compose stories and report \"live\" from the scene. Some journalists also interpret the news or offer opinions and analysis to readers, viewers, or listeners. In this role, they are called commentators or columnists.\nThe editor's office (Newsroom) of the Helsingin Sanomat in 1965\nReporters take notes and also take photographs or shoot videos, either on their own, by citizens or through a photographer or camera person. In the second phase, they organize the material, determine the focus or emphasis (identify the peg), and finally write their stories. The story is then edited by news or copy-editors (U.S. style) or sub-editors in Europe, who function from the news desk. The headline of the story is decided by the news desk, and practically never by the reporter or the writer of the piece. Often, the news desk also heavily re-writes or changes the style and tone of the first draft prepared by the reporter \/ writer originally. Finally, a collection of stories that have been picked for the newspaper or magazine edition, are laid out on dummy (trial) pages, and after the chief editor has approved the content, style and language in the material, it is sent for publishing. The writer is given a byline for the piece that is published; his or her name appears alongside the article. This process takes place according to the frequency of the publication. News can be published in a variety of formats (broadsheet, tabloid, magazine and periodical publications) as well as periods (daily, weekly, semi-weekly, fortnightly or monthly).\nNewsmagazines\nCover of 2512, a monthly newsmagazine published in R\u00e9union.\nA newsmagazine, sometimes called news magazine, is a usually weekly magazine featuring articles on current events. News magazines generally go more in-depth into stories than newspapers, trying to give the reader an understanding of the context surrounding important events, rather than just the facts.\nA newsreel was a documentary film common in the first half of the 20th century, that regularly released in a public presentation place containing filmed news stories.\nCreated by Path\u00e9 Fr\u00e8res of France in 1908, this form of film was a staple of the typical North American, British, and Commonwealth countries (especially Canada, Australia and New Zealand), and throughout European cinema programming schedule from the silent era until the 1960s when television news broadcasting completely supplanted its role.\nNewspaper \"gone to the Web\" in California\nOnline journalism is reporting and other journalism produced or distributed via the Internet. The Internet has allowed the formal and informal publication of news stories through mainstream media outlets as well as blogs and other self-published news stories. Journalists working on the Internet have been referred to as J-Bloggers, a term coined by Australian Media Academic Dr Nicola Goc to describe journalists who [blog] and [blog]gers who produce journalism. \"J-Bloggers: Internet bloggers acting in the role of journalists disseminating newsworthy information, who subscribe to the journalistic ideals of an obligation to the truth and the public's right to know\".[3]\nAn early leader was The News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.\nMany news organizations based in other media also distribute news online. How much they take advantage of the medium varies. Some news organizations use the web only or primarily.\nThe Internet challenges traditional news organizations in several ways. They may be losing classified ads to Web sites, which are often targeted by interest instead of geography. The advertising on news web sites is sometimes insufficient to support the investment.\nEven before the Internet, technology and perhaps other factors were dividing people's attention, leading to more but narrower media outlets.\nOnline journalism also leads to the spread of independent online media such as openDemocracy and the UK, Wikinews as well as allowing smaller news organizations to publish to a broad audience.\nStreaming Journalism\nLive online streaming journalism began on various online platforms in the late 2010s, such as youtube.com and twitch.tv (which began primarily as a live streaming platform targeting gamers, then expanding into non-gaming topics including news and political reporting and commentary).\nTea accounts are a rising class of social media accounts on YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram that report on the latest news and gossip on the internet.[4] These content creators are known to create an eco-system of drama and further escalate online scandals. While mainstream news outlets often fail to report news on influencers and internet celebrities, tea accounts have capitalized on this opportunity to meet the great demand for such news stories. Notable tea accounts on YouTube include the Shade Room and DramaAlert.\nNews coverage and new media\nBy covering news, politics, weather, sports, entertainment, and vital events, the daily media shape the dominant cultural, social and political picture of society. Beyond the media networks, independent news sources have evolved to report on events which escape attention or underlie the major stories. In recent years, the blogosphere has taken reporting a step further, mining down to the experiences and perceptions of individual citizens.\nAn exponentially growing phenomenon, the blogosphere can be abuzz with news that is overlooked by the press and TV networks. Due to the rise of social media involvement in news, the most common news value has become entertainment in recent years.[5] Apropos of this was Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s 11,000-word Rolling Stone article apropos of the 2004 United States presidential election, published June 1, 2006. By June 8, there had been no mainstream coverage of the documented allegations by President John F. Kennedy's nephew. On June 9, this sub-story was covered by a Seattle Post-Intelligencer article.[6]\nMedia coverage during the 2008 Mumbai attacks highlighted the use of new media and Internet social networking tools, including Twitter and Flickr, in spreading information about the attacks, observing that Internet coverage was often ahead of more traditional media sources. In response, traditional media outlets included such coverage in their reports.[7] However, several outlets were criticized as they did not check for the reliability and verifiability of the information.[8] Some public opinion research companies have found that a majority or plurality of people in various countries distrust the news media.[9][10]\nFake news articles are untruthful-on-purpose stories. They have the purpose of misleading the reader to think one way.[11] With the rise of new media through social media, there has been an increase in fake news. This increase in fake news has progressed over time and continues to show, especially in today's media. The use of Twitter, Facebook, etc. has made it easier for false or misleading articles to be seen. The amount of misleading news articles that are produced are causing audiences to believe that every piece of information on the internet is true. A major problem is the issue of unbiased articles showing up in a timeline next to fake articles. This makes it hard for others to determine between what is fact and what is opinion. Specifically, the media coverage during the 2016 United States presidential election saw numerous misleading articles for both candidates.[12]\nMedia integrity\nMedia integrity refers to the ability of a news media outlet to serve the public interest and democratic process, making it resilient to institutional corruption within the media system,[13] economy of influence, conflicting dependence and political clientelism. Media integrity encompasses following qualities of a media outlet:\nindependence from private or political interests\ntransparency about own financial interests\ncommitment to journalism ethics and standards\nresponsiveness to citizens\nThe concept was devised particularly for the media systems in the region of South East Europe,[14] within the project South East European Media Observatory, gathering organisations which are part of the South East European Network for Professionalization of Media (SEENPM).\nCourt of public opinion\nHostile media effect\nMedia bias in the United States\nNews media in the United States\nNews media in Germany\nNews presenter\n^ a b c d e f g \"NOW with Bill Moyers. Politics & Economy. Milestones in Media and Politics\". PBS. Retrieved .\n^ \"Purdue OWL: Journalism and Journalistic Writing\". owl.english.purdue.edu. Retrieved .\n^ Media and Journalism: Theory to Practice (2008) Melbourne: OUP, p45\n^ Lorenz, Taylor (2019-05-16). \"How Tea Accounts Are Fueling Influencer Feuds\". The Atlantic. Retrieved .\n^ Harcup, Tony; O'Neill, Deirdre (2 December 2017). \"What is News?: News values revisited (again)\". Journalism Studies. 18 (12): 1470-1488. doi:10.1080\/1461670X.2016.1150193.\n^ Public Interest in News Topics Beyond Control of Mainstream Media Archived 2006-06-15 at the Wayback Machine, June 9, 2006.\n^ As it happened: Mumbai attacks 27 Nov, BBC News, November 27, 2008.\n^ Twitter In Controversial Spotlight Amid Mumbai Attacks, Information Week, November 29, 2008.\n^ Karen Dawisha, Bruce Parrott - 1997, Politics, Power and the Struggle for Democracy in South-East Europe p 164\n^ Frank Newport - 2012, The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion 2011 - Page 335\n^ Hill, Taylor (1 February 2017). \"Hook, Line, and Sinker: Media Disruptors That Will Influence the Industry in 2017\". Editor and Publisher.\n^ \"Should the tech giants be liable for content?\". The Economist. 428 (9108): 14, 16. 8 September 2018. ProQuest 2100785283.\n^ Lessig, Lawrence. \"Institutional Corruption - LessigWiki\". wiki.lessig.org. Retrieved .\n^ Petkovi?, Brankica, ed. (2014). Media Integrity Matters: Reclaiming Public Service Values in Media and Journalism: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia (PDF). Ljubljana: Peace Institute.\nChart - Real and Fake News (2016)\/Vanessa Otero (basis) (Mark Frauenfelder)\nChart - Real and Fake News (2014) (2016)\/Pew Research Center\nNews_media","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"All game reviews Puzzle\/Logic | Action\/Arcade | Fun online games\nPlay online game\nMuseum of Thieves 2010-12-10\nGoldie Roth lives in the tyrannical city of Jewel, where impatience is a sin, and boldness is a crime. Frustrated, Goldie runs away. She finds herself in the Mysterious Museum of Dun, where she meets a boy named Toadspit, and discovers the museum holds terrible and thrilling secrets. Only a thief can understand its strange shifting rooms, and fortunately, Goldie has a talent for thieving.\nPlaying the game you're to spot the differences. If you do that fast, you'll get some bonuses.Your task is to get as many points as you can.\nBut as soon as you start playing you realize that this isn't an ordinary museum. And it is even stranger than you thought. Sometimes the whole building seems to... shift. As if a huge sleeping beast has woken up, turned around and gone back to sleep again. And when you step into the next room, it is not the one you were expecting!\nSee related tags: Mortimer Beckett\nRate this game: Current game rating: 5\n3 in a row, Action, Adventure, Arcade, Board games, Brain teasers, Business simulators, Detective games, Games for kids, Games for Windows, Hidden object, Hide and seek, I-spy, Latest games, Logic games, Match 3, Micro management, Mobile games, Mystery games, Online games, Puzzle, Seek and Find, Simulation, Strategy games, Time management\nTell your friend about this game. Just type their e-mail and press Send button:\nDisagree with the game review or have anything else to say about the game?\nSteal the Meal\nMate in One Move\nFitz 2\nMatch Fever\nThis is Museum of Thieves review. Play this game online for free here.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Alabama vs. Notre Dame odds, predictions, betting trends for college football playoff semi-final\nNo. 1 Alabama faces No. 4 Notre Dame in the semifinal of the college football playoffs on January 1.\nThe game moved from the Rose Bowl to AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Amas. Kickoff is scheduled for 5 p.m. on ESPN.\nAlabama (11-0) is making its sixth CFP appearance and is seeking a sixth national championship with coach Nick Saban. The Crimson Tide ranked second in the FBS with 49.7 points per game with an offense that features quarterback Mac Jones, running back Name Harris and wide receiver DeVonta Smith.\nNotre Dame (10-1) is back in the playoffs for the second time in three seasons with coach Brian Kelly after an impressive one-year tour of the ACC, but the Fighting Irish enter the showdown with the same questions from the greats. Games. after a 34-10 loss to Clemson in the ACC championship game. Quarterback Ian Book is 30-4 as a starter.\nHere's everything you need to know about Alabama vs Notre Dame betting, including up-to-date odds, trends and our prediction for the CFP semi-final.\nAlabama vs. Notre Dame Betting Odds\nSpread: Alabama \u201319.5\nBelow: 65.5\nMoney line: Alabama \u2013110, Notre Dame \u2013110\nThe Crimson Tide opened as 17.5-point favorites, and that line is up two points. Is he largest semi-final spread in the history of the College Football Playoff.\nAlabama vs. Notre Dame Historic Series\nThe Irish lead the all-time series 5-2, and that includes victories in the 1973 Sugar Bowl and the 1975 Orange Bowl. Crimson Tide won the final meeting 42-14 in the BCS championship game on January 7, 2013.\nThree trends to know\n\u2013 Crimson Tide is 4-1 S \/ U in the CFP semifinals, and Alabama is 3-2 ATS in those Games. The Crimson Tide is 1-1 ATS as a double-digit favorite in those Games.\n\u2013 The Irish are 5-6 ATS this season. Notre Dame is 12-10-1 ATS in Games at neutral venues with Brian Kelly since 2010.\n\u2013 The Crimson Tide is 8-3 ATS this season, and that includes a 2-1 ATS mark when the spread is less than 20 points.\nThree things to see\n\u2013 Notre Dame offensive line. In that BCS championship loss in 2013, the Irish were mistreated up front. Notre Dame's offensive line includes All-American candidates like Liam Eichenberg, Aaron Banks, RViennaainsey and Tommy Kraemer. It's a seasoned group that has to give Ian Book time to work against a talented Alabama defense that improved in the second half of the season. That said, Amas A&M, Ole Miss and Florida combined to average 374 passing yards against Alabama. Book can be successful with targets like Michael Mayer, Avery Davis and Ben Skowronek, but he needs to be more decisive on the pocketbook. That could open up the running gamKaren Kyren Williams, who is averaging 122.1 rushing yards per game.\n\u2013 Alabama's running game. The Irish allowed just 3.7 yards per carry, and the defense, led by Butkus award winner Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah, is solid. The Crimson Tide will test it with a running attack that averages 5.0 yards per cName Name Harris rushed for 24 touchdowns and averaged 5.9 yards per cName If Harris releases early, Notre Dame will be in trouble.\n\u2013 The first trimester. With such a high margin, sometimes it is that simple. Alabama outscored its opponents 132-37 in the first quarter of this season, and has outscored its opponents 52-13 in those previous five semifinals. A quick lead would allow offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian to do whatever he wants. What will Notre Dame defensive coordinator Clark Lea do to interrupt that with his seven backs?\nStatistics that matter\nMac Jones leads the FBS with that passer rating, which is higher than the 202.0 passer rating LSU's Joe Burrow put up last season. DeVonta Smith andTechieetchie are big problems for a Notre Dame secondary that had two interceptions this season, and Jones has played the best he can in big Games. Smith poses the greatest challenge to the Irish defense.\nThe lines on both sides will tell you right away if the Irish have a chance in another big game opportunity. Alabama's offense is clicking an all-time level, and Jones should be able to adapt early to perimeter goals. The Crimson Tide hit two long TDs in the second quarter to build a two-touchdown lead at halftime. Notre Dame threatens to turn it into a game in the third quarter when Book responds, but Alabama turns to Harris at closing time. That puts Saban within reach of a seventh national championship, which would break the record of legendary coach Bear Bryant.\nFinal score: Alabama 42, Notre Dame 23\nwww.sportingnews.com\nPrevBobi Wine compares Uganda's elections to \"a war and a battlefield\" | Uganda\nNextClemson vs. Ohio State Betting Odds, Predictions & Trends for College Football Playoffs Semifinal\nVenezuela's Nicol\u00e1s Maduro sends oxygen to tackle Brazil's Covid crisis | Nicolas Maduro\nMinute by Minute: Biden's Inauguration Week Kicks Off as Security Heightens in Washington\n'A Union of Factions': Why the assault on the US Capitol happened\nThe FBI examines the 25,000 National Guard soldiers in Washington for fear of \"an attack from within\"\nWhen movie stars strike: Russell Crowe's reaction to criticism could set a trend | Movie","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ten great rockumentaries\n29 July, 2013 in Features\nBob Dylan providing the iconic opening to 'Don't Look Back' with 'Subterranean Homesick Blues'\nOur selection of cinematic gems give an insight into the fantastic, fascinating and sometimes fraught lives of musicians and songwriters\nhen you love an artist's music, it's natural that you'll want to know more about the people behind it. Which is why there have been countless dozens of 'rockumentaries' made over the years. Some are essentially just concert films, with a few 'behind the scenes' clips thrown in; increasingly in the modern era, some are little more than an exercises in brand marketing. But some are true cinematic gems\u2026 and we've listed ten that we think fall into the latter category below.\nDon't Look Back\nDir. DA Pennebaker, 1967\nShot in fly-on-the-wall style in black and white, this groundbreaking film by renowned documentary-maker Pennebaker follows a young Bob Dylan on his 1965 UK tour. Widely considered a classic not just of the rockumentary genre but of documentary film-making full stop, it's worth watching for the scene where Dylan mercilessly lambasts a suddenly very sheepish Donovan for hurling an empty bottle out a window alone.\nDir. Albert & David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, 1970\nThis film started life as a simple document of the Stones' 1969 US tour. But that tour, of course, included the infamous free concert at Altamont speedway, where 18-year-old Meredith Hunter, was stabbed and killed by Hell's Angels\u2026 and so the movie ended up being a document, instead, of the 60s dream going wrong in spectacular fashion. The DVD release includes a phone-in discussion of the tragedy on KSAN radio the following day, with Sonny Berger among the callers.\nDir. Rob Reiner, 1984\nOkay, yes, this one's a spoof. But it's still one of the greatest rock n' roll movies ever made\u2026 and as just about any touring band will tell you, \"It's funny because it's true\". Even the arty, intellectual Cocteau Twins once described a then-recent tour as \"just like Spinal Tap\u2026 right down to getting lost under the stage\". But hey, enough of our yappin'\u2026\nDir. Dave Markey, 1993\nOstensibly a tour movie following New York alt\/art rockers Sonic Youth on their 1991 trek around Europe, Markey's film ended up being, as well, the definitive cinematic document of grunge at its height, with great live footage of Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr and Babes In Toyland.\nDir. Nick Broomfield, 2002\nMainstream hip-hop is a strange world where big business and street gang rivalries collide. The most obvious person to really get under the skin of that world probably wasn't a 50-year-old former boarding school boy from Somerset\u2026 yet Broomfield's attempt to get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding the deaths of Notorious BIG and Tupac Shakur makes for fascinating viewing all the same. Then again, he'd had quite a lot of practice at this kind of thing \u2013 his 1998 film Kurt And Courtney could also easily have made this list.\nEnd Of The Century: The Story Of The Ramones\nDir. Jim Fields and Michael Gramaglia, 2003\nHere's something you may not know about Da Brudders: after falling out over a woman (and politics), childhood friends Joey and Johnny Ramone never spoke to one another from the early 80s onwards, despite continuing to tour and record for another 15 years. The rift between them is at the heart of this great career-spanning documentary by Fields and Gramaglia \u2013 and also nearly ensured that it never came out.\nDir. Sacha Gervasi, 2008\nLike Spinal Tap\u2026 but real. Canadian heavy metal band Anvil had some success in the 1980s but were then pretty much forgotten about by the world at large\u2026 until former Anvil roadie turned successful Hollywood screenwriter Gervasi made this movie. Following Lipps and Robb as they navigate the highs and lows of the comeback trail and featuring talking heads from the likes of Lemmy, Lars Ulrich and Slash, it's one of the funniest \u2013 and most heart-warming \u2013 rock n' roll films you'll ever see.\nMichael Jackson's This Is It\nDir. Kenny Ortega, 2009\nInitially not intended to become a movie, This Is It documents Michael Jackson's preparation and rehearsals for the mammoth concert run of the same name, which was scheduled to start in July 2009, but cancelled due to his death. Although the rumours surrounding the late MJ mean his legacy is riddled with uncertainty, there's no doubting the King Of Pop was aiming to deliver yet another historic performance. This Is It is the closest fans get to witnessing it.\nKaty Perry: Part Of Me\nDir. Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz, 2012\nPossibly not everyone's cup of tea, but you don't need to be a Katy Perry fan to find this film compelling. Following her career from gospel-singing beginnings to the global megastar we know now, this fly-on-the-wall documentary gives us an interesting insight to her slightly unhinged, candyland pop star life. Live performances from her last world tour are shot in 3D, so viewing on the latest technology feels almost like sharing the stage with the star.\nSearching For Sugarman\nDir. Malik Bendjelloul, 2012\nTwo South Africans set out to uncover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock n' roller, Rodriguez. His career didn't last long in the US, but unknown to Rodriguez he had become a national music idol in South Africa. A touching tale with constant twists and turns\u2026 resulting in a Detroit construction site worker discovering that his long-faded musical aspirations had come true after all.\nRoy Orbison and Buddy Holly being brought back to life\nTupac Shakur to be immortalised in food\nUnreleased Tupac music to be made available\nSupro's Supreme tribute to Keith Richards\nLegendary line-up confirmed for Desert Trip\nTesco to sell vinyl from this weekend\nTags: Anvil, Bob Dylan, film, Katy Perry, Michael Jackson, movie, Notorious BIG, rockumentary, Rodriguez, Spinal Tap, The Ramones, The Rolling Stones, Tupac\n\u2190 Interview: Andy Fraser\nBook review: Music Theory, Songwriting And The Piano \u2192","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Saint Leo Blog\nSee all Degree program articles\nOnline Doctor of Education Student Bleeds Saint Leo Green\nSaint Leo Online MSID Grad Enjoying New Healthcare Role\nAn In-Depth Look at Saint Leo's Online Master's in Instructional Design\nSaint Leo Launches 5 New Online Degree Programs for Fall 2019\nOnline Adult Learner, Caregiver Eyes Rewarding Healthcare Career\nYou Won't Find Many Others Like This Saint Leo Alumna\nSaint Leo ROTC Cadet Eyes Army Career\n20-Year Air Force Vet Eyes Career in Policing\nThis Saint Leo Alum Now Owns a World Series Ring\nCriminal Justice Degree Helps Alum Make a Difference\nSaint leo Learning\nSee all Saint leo Learning articles\nCSI Camp Gives Students Front Seat to Criminal Justice Careers\n5 Quick Tips for Answering True-or-False Test Questions\nQ&A with Office of Accessibility Services Director Michael Bailey\nDespite Leukemia, Saint Leo Alumna Keeps on Kicking\nSaint Leo Marketing Class Teams Up with Local Nonprofits\nHistory Professor Embarks on 44th Year at Saint Leo University\nDiving into Saint Leo's Lakeland Education Center\nAttorney in Ted Bundy Trial Speaks at Saint Leo Event\nChinese Student Finds Supportive Home at Saint Leo\n6 Big Benefits to Study Abroad Opportunities\nSee all Life Balance articles\nBalancing a Navy Career with Online Degree Programs and Family\nMilitary and College: 7 Reasons Active-Duty Members Need a Degree\n9 Thought-Provoking Quotes from Famous Fathers\nA Glimpse into a Saint Leo Monk's Life\nSaint Leo Community Weighs in on Black History Month\nFor Online Learners: 3 Ways to Separate Your Education & Personal Life\nNavy Vet & Military Wife Pursues DBA from Saint Leo University\nStudy Apps: 13 Must-Have Study Apps for College Students\nSee all Financial Aid articles\n8 Proven Money-Saving Strategies for College Students\nWhat Documents Do I Need to Complete My FAFSA Application?\nThe 5 Most Effective Financial Aid Moves for Graduate Students\n3 Tax Breaks for College Students You Can't Afford to Miss\n18 Money Moves for First-Time College Students\n7 Ways To Maximize Your Military Education Benefits\nSee all Career Advice articles\n5 Reasons Why You Should Pursue a Software Engineering Career\nWhat Can You Do with a Hospitality Management Degree?\nBusiness Careers: What a CFO Does and How to Become One\nWhat Can You Do with a Master's in Instructional Design (MSID)?\n6 Exciting Career Tracks for MBA in HR Management Grads\nTop 3 Reasons You Should Pursue a Career in Social Work\nCriminal Justice Careers: What It's Like to Be a Private Investigator\nSocial Work Careers: A Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)\nCriminal Justice Careers: A Secret Service Special Agent\nJob Report: Degrees in Criminal Justice, Social Work, and Business\nPosted June 21, 2019 by Greg Lindberg\nDealing with a leukemia diagnosis is tough for anyone. But having to manage the disease for a decade is quite a tall order.\nJasmine Johnson, who graduated from Saint Leo University in 2012, has been up for this challenge since 2009.\nOriginally from Baltimore, Md., Johnson and her family flocked south to Florida when she was just four years old. The 33-year-old is the eldest of four, including one brother and two sisters.\nFor high school, Johnson first attended Clearwater Central Catholic High School for her freshman and sophomore years before moving to Countryside High School for her final two years.\nShe discovered her love for soccer at age 12. In 2004, she enrolled at the University of Florida and got to play on the Gators women's soccer team. Injuries, however, sidelined her and temporarily put a halt to her college soccer career.\n\"When I was in high school, I tore my ACL,\" she says. \"My mom's insurance couldn't pay for surgery, so I just kept playing through the injury. I finally had surgery on it when I was at UF, but then my other knee started acting up. It was pretty demanding playing in the SEC, and I wanted to find another place where I could play but that wouldn't cause quite as much wear and tear on my body.\"\nTransferring to Saint Leo University\nIt was her continual involvement in soccer that ultimately led her to Saint Leo University after being out of college for a few years.\n\"I was part of a semipro team in Tampa,\" she explains. \"We were playing against some of the local schools and played Saint Leo one time. Our coach said I should talk with the Saint Leo coach. It was Ged O'Connor back then. He said he would find money for me and a spot on the Saint Leo women's soccer team.\"\nShe received a partial soccer scholarship and enrolled in 2009.\nJohnson earned her bachelor's degree in psychology with a minor in sociology. She explains how she decided on this academic track.\n\"My goal was to be a college soccer coach,\" she says. \"At the time, there weren't very many coaching courses or programs out there, so I had to find something that could relate to this type of career. I felt like a psychology degree was a great choice because when you're coaching young people who are becoming adults, you're more than just a coach on the field to them. They might come to you for personal or emotional support as well, and you can have a major influence on them as both athletes and individuals.\"\nShe lived on campus during all three years at Saint Leo. Two of her roommates, Aija Bent-Trinder and Malloree Enoch, were a huge help to her pushing through her health struggles.\n\"We experienced so much together,\" she recalls. \"We were always there for each other during our hardships. In fact, the two of them still reach out to me to see how I'm doing.\"\nA Supportive Community\nJohnson says she could not have made a better decision than coming to Saint Leo to finish her higher education.\n\"When I started at Saint Leo, it was a huge eye-opener. The classes were so much smaller. The professors knew everyone's names, and I knew most of the students' names in my classes. For me, it was so much better to be in that kind of an atmosphere. It really felt like a family.\"\nTo her, Saint Leo's core value of community rings true because of the community support she has received over the years and how she continues to reach out to others in hopes of raising money for a bone marrow transplant.\nShe wrapped up her bachelor's in psychology from Saint Leo in 2012.\nAn Unanticipated Journey\nShe was first diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia in 2009 just as the soccer season was getting underway.\n\"The first thing I noticed was that I didn't have any recovery or stamina,\" she recalls. \"After the games were over, I would just sit on the field because I couldn't even get up and walk off the field. Shortly after that, I started feeling completely drained with extreme fatigue, and then I was getting severe migraines that lasted 24 hours.\"\nTrainers in the athletics department recommended she get blood work done. A few days later, she was in class and got a phone call from trainer Barb Wilson.\n\"She told me I needed to get my blood work results right away. For a second, I wondered if there was something seriously wrong.\"\nWhen she got to the training room, she was informed that her white count was 232, which is an extremely high number. Because of this, the doctors thought she might have leukemia.\n\"I honestly said 'no' and walked out of the training room. I went back to class, grabbed my bag, went outside the Abbey and started crying. My grandma had passed away of leukemia, so that was the only knowledge I had of this disease. I saw firsthand how she went downhill\"\nDespite having limited health insurance, one of the assistant coaches, Annie Hamel, was able to get her an appointment at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa.\n\"The doctor explained leukemia and all of its effects to me and then told me I couldn't play soccer anymore. At the time, that was the biggest blow of all because of how much the game meant to me. I think I was actually more upset that I couldn't play than that I had leukemia.\"\nShe was finally able to get on a patient assistance program and found a connection to someone who worked for a pharmaceutical company. She started on a medication that typically costs $4,000 per month.\n\"It's been an up-and-down roller coaster ride with my insurance situation, the doctors and the different medications I've been on,\" she confides.\nThe medications she has been on have improved her white count numbers, but they are not preventing new cancer cells from growing.\n\"I'm not feeling sick right now, but I'm not really getting better, either, in terms of the leukemia.\"\nProfessional Pursuits\nWhile dealing with her health situation, Johnson has continued to work at several hospitality jobs. On the soccer front, she has worked for the Tampa Dynamo FC for two years and is about to embark on her third season. She has served as the head coach of several youth girls' teams.\n\"I'm responsible for organizing training sessions, creating schedules for each season, managing game situations and providing both emotional and psychological support to the girls. Overall, I teach them how to be respectful, goal-oriented and kind-hearted.\"\nHer ultimate goal is to be the club director of a women's soccer program.\n\"I think it's so important for young girls to have women they can look up to,\" she says.\nFinding the Perfect Match\nJohnson is now seeking a bone marrow transplant, a procedure she says would essentially cure her of the leukemia. Currently, the closest person who could provide her bone marrow that could possibly help is her mom, but she is only a half-match for what Johnson needs.\n\"As a minority, it's also harder to find a match. So, I want to push for everyone out there to get into the registry.\"\nShe says if she can find a match, her insurance would pick up 80 percent of the cost of the transplant. That means she'd be on the hook for 20 percent of what is typically a very costly procedure.\nHELP JASMINE: Check out the GoFundMe page for Jasmine Johnson to help support her in her quest to get a bone marrow transplant. She also recommends everyone sign up to be part of the registry on Be the Match.\nPlus, she is holding an event called \"Jasmine's Jog for a Match\" on Saturday, July 27, 2019 at 9 a.m. at the Summerfield Soccer Complex 11942 Big Bend Road in Tampa. The event can be found on this Facebook page with more details\nPhoto credit: The photographs included in this blog article were provided by Jasmine Johnson and Saint Leo University athletics and are used with permission.\n#SaintLeoAlumni\nTopics: Saint Leo Learning, Featured, Saint Leo Alumni","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Michael Frank\nMichael Frank has contributed to The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Radio Kingston, and dozens of other outlets, and is an adjunct professor of journalism at SUNY New Paltz.\n@mfwords\nImmigration Has Not Been Magically Fixed Under Biden\nThe recent deportation of a Rockland County resident shows that reforming the system will take time. Meanwhile, state legislators and activists are trying to prevent further injustice.\nHunger in the Hudson Valley, Before and After COVID-19\nAs the pandemic spread nationwide, so did breadlines\u2014for the first time since the Great Depression. In Ulster County, a unique volunteer response prevented such a crisis. At least for a while.\nAdvocating for immigrants' rights in the Hudson Valley.\nJustice Delayed, Not Denied\nLuis Martinez is an Undocumented Immigrant. But a Judge in the Southern District of New York Ruled that Everyone on American Soil Has a Right to Justice.\nVoice from behind Bars\nA conversation with Luis Martinez, who is being detained for deportation despite a pending U visa.\nUndocumented in the Hudson Valley: The Luis Martinez Story\nHe's an employer, father, husband, and community member. Why is ICE threatening to deport this man?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Review: Love's Victory, Penshurst Place\nIn August WSG member and PhD student at Birkbeck College Miriam al Jamil went to the 'premiere' of Lady Mary Wroth's Love's Victory at Penshurst Place, Kent. She reviews it here:\nInspired by a WSG notice, I obtained a last-minute ticket for the first ever professional performance of Love's Victory (MS transcription here) which was staged in the beautiful medieval Baron's Hall at Penshurst Place in Kent. Penshurst was the home of Lady Mary Wroth (1587-1651\/3) whose prose romance Urania and sonnets are better known than this pastoral tragi-comedy, written between 1617 and 1619. It exists in only two manuscript copies, an incomplete Huntingdon MS and a Penshurst version on which the performance was based. The project to revive the play has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of Lancaster University's Shakespeare and his Sisters project which Professor Alison Findlay has been running for two years, and a film of the performance will shortly be posted on their website. It will be a valuable resource and interesting I am sure for many WSG members.\nThe gallery of the hall served as Venus's heavenly domain, from which she and Cupid observe the entangled trysts of four pairs of lovers, echoing aspects of Shakespeare's As You Like It. Venus demands that her power is respected and the complex web of the lovers' desires and misunderstandings is formed and untangled through rhyming couplets, in song and music. The lovers devise word games and singing competitions to while away the time. Each represents aspects of love, its fickleness and calculation, vulnerability and yearning. The dilemma of an arranged marriage makes all true love secondary, an offence to Venus which results in the tragic death pact of the true lovers Musella and Philisses in her Temple. The Penshurst MS provides the denouement of the plot which is missing in the Huntingdon version. Musella's mother is brought in and rebuked for making a forced marriage arrangement which has led to the death of her daughter. Her shame and grief convince Venus to reverse the tragic ending and restore the lovers to life again. So we all celebrate the joyful triumph of love. How could it be otherwise?\nThe language, arguments for love in all its aspects and guises framed in a pastoral setting was suitable entertainment for Wroth's private audience in her country house. It reflects traditions of courtly masque entertainments and aristocratic participation. Professor Findlay suggests it may have brought Wroth together with her cousin William Herbert if they both performed in the play. Certainly Mary entered into a relationship with William after her husband died. The final scene lays the blame for miserable marriages squarely on the mother and it is tempting to read Mary's personal story through the twists and turns of the plot. The performers gave energy and insight to their roles, and the evening was an encouraging contribution to the ongoing rediscoveries of women's skill and creativity to which we all subscribe at WSG. Interested readers may want to order the forthcoming edition of Love's Victory edited by Findlay and Michael Brennan once it is available on the Manchester University Press website.\nAuthor wsg1558wpPosted on October 3, 2018 January 26, 2019 Categories WSG ReviewsTags 17thc, editions, performance, plays\nPrevious Previous post: Reminder: WSG seminar September 2018\nNext Next post: WSG Bursary 2018 now open","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Alastair Borthwick\nAlastair Charles Borthwick OBE (17 February 1913 \u2013 25 September 2003) was a Scottish author and broadcaster whose books recorded the popularisation of climbing as a working class sport in Scotland, and the Second World War from the perspective of an infantryman.[1]\nBiography[edit]\nBorthwick was born in Rutherglen but raised in Troon and later Glasgow where he attended Glasgow High School and was a member of the school's Officer Training Corps.[2] He left school at the age of sixteen to become a copytaker for the Evening Times. Soon afterwards, he joined the Glasgow Weekly Herald, a smaller newspaper where, as part of a staff of five, he wrote on a wide variety of topics, including front page leads, the women's and children's pages and compiling the crossword.[3]\nIt was through writing for the Herald's \"Open Air\" page that he discovered rock climbing, an activity which had traditionally been the preserve of the well off, but was becoming increasingly popular with young, working-class Glaswegians. The nascent subculture of poor but resourceful people hitchhiking north, camping or \"dossing\" in caves and bothies became the mainstay of his Open Air columns, and later his first book, Always a Little Further, which was published in 1939.[4]\nThe book documented this social change, which Ken Wilson described as \"...as if a group of East Enders had suddenly decided to take up grouse-shooting or polo,\" with accounts of encounters with tramps, tinkers and hawkers, and of hitching to Ben Nevis in a lorry full of dead sheep, all described in Borthwick's humorous style.[5] It became a classic and has never been out of print since its publication.\nDuring the Second World War Borthwick served with a variety of British Army units in North Africa, Sicily and Western Europe. Initially he served as a private in the Highland Light Infantry, but due to his OTC experience was to have been commissioned as a second lieutenant on 2 September 1939.[2] However, for some reason this commission was cancelled and in the end he was not commissioned until 3 November 1941, by which time he was a lance-corporal.[6]\nHe worked mainly as a Battalion Intelligence Officer and reached the rank of captain. He transferred to the Reconnaissance Corps on 14 January 1941, having by then being promoted to war substantive lieutenant.[7] He transferred to the 5th Seaforth Highlanders on 13 October 1944.[8] His most significant feat came in the Netherlands towards the end of the War, when he led a battalion of 600 men behind enemy lines in the dark, relying on his sense of direction as the maps were inaccurate.[4] The Germans woke up the next morning to find the British dug in behind them.[9]\nAfter the War, Borthwick wrote his second book, Sans Peur (republished as Battalion in 1994), which was a history of his regiment during the second half of the war. Unlike many regimental histories written by committees or retired generals, it was written from the perspective of a junior officer who fought on the front line, and was highly acclaimed.[10]\nFor the rest of his career Borthwick worked mainly as a television and radio broadcaster, writing and presenting programs on subjects from Joseph McCarthy to Bonnie Prince Charlie. He regarded Scottish Soldier as his best work from this period. It was a thirteen part series about the history of the Scottish regiments, told from the point of view of the infantryman.[3] He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1952 New Year Honours[11] for his part in organizing an engineering exhibition as part of the Festival of Britain.[4]\n^ \"ALASTAIR BORTHWICK\". Undiscovered Scotland.\n^ a b \"No. 34723\". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 October 1939. p. 7400.\n^ a b Perrin, Jim (9 October 2003). \"Alastair Borthwick\". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 October 2008.\n^ a b c Chris Hall, 'Borthwick, Alastair Charles (1913\u20132003)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Jan 2007\n^ Wells, Colin (6 October 2003). \"Alastair Borthwick\". The Independent. Retrieved 11 October 2008. [dead link]\n^ \"No. 34846\". The London Gazette (Supplement). 7 May 1940. pp. 2793\u20132798.\n^ \"No. 35216\". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 July 1941. p. 3975.\n^ \"No. 36743\". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 October 1944. p. 4676.\n^ \"Alastair Borthwick\". The Telegraph. 3 October 2003. Retrieved 11 October 2008.\n^ \"Alastair Borthwick\". London: The Times. 18 October 2003. Retrieved 11 October 2008.\n^ \"No. 39421\". 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{"text":"Home Private Equity News & Analysis Investors CIRC strengthens oversight of PE investments\nCIRC strengthens oversight of PE investments\nChinese regulator CIRC has issued a circular calling for insurers to review the impact private equity investments have on their 'solvency and overall returns'.\nCarmela Mendoza\nChina's insurance regulator has issued guidelines for insurers investing, or looking to invest in private equity, with a view to intensify supervision on the major investments of insurers.\nChinese insurers navigating the private equity landscape have been told to review the impact private equity investments have on their \"solvency and returns\", as well as to enhance internal management systems to guard against insider trading, according to a China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) circular.\nIn addition, senior executives of insurance companies who hold stakes in private equity firms cannot be involved in the firms' investment decisions. GPs backed by Chinese insurers also need to hire external advisory firms for project review, investment decision-making, and risk and asset management.\nThe new guidelines are in line with the CIRC's heightened scrutiny on insurance companies' investments.\nEarlier this month, Chen Wenhui, vice chairman of CIRC urged insurance companies to take precautions against risks. \"Most traditional large and medium insurance companies keep risks under control, while for some radical firms hidden risks loom large as they experienced surprisingly fast business expansion in recent years,\" Chen said in an interview with local media.\nAdeline Tan, head of advisory, Hong Kong at Mercer, tells Private Equity International, that the latest guidelines won't be a huge change in the governance of Chinese insurers, especially as it pertains to internal management.\n\"The smaller insurers, however, may be more impacted in having to use external independent providers, as they are typically less accustomed to outsourcing and may have to consider their framework for identifying, selecting and appointing external parties,\" Tan says. \"They may also have to consider how to collaborate with these providers to achieve their end objective and demonstrate adherence to CIRC's guidelines.\n\"In addition, the involvement of third parties may also force a rethink of their investment decision-making process and care is needed if the advice received or the advisor experience does not meet expectations.\"\nTan also notes that working with third party advisors could potentially yield new opportunities and partnerships for the domestic GP while leading to some constructive changes in the industry. \"The GPs may have different approaches on whether to utilise one firm for all solutions or focus on specialists. It would be useful to see how this aspect may lead to development of competitive advantage and differentiation for the GPs,\" she adds.\nAlternative investments made up 36 percent of Chinese insurers' investments, which totalled 13.4 trillion yuan ($2 trillion; \u20ac1.7 trillion), at the end of 2016, according to data from research and consulting firm Cerulli Associates.\nChinese insurers have been drawn to alternatives ever since the CIRC lifted the industry's investment restrictions in 2012 and raised the investment ceiling to up to 30 percent of total assets in 2014. Then in September 2015, the regulator allowed insurers to set up private equity funds as long as they invest in industries deemed a national priority, such as infrastructure, healthcare, technology and biotech.\nChina Life Insurance Company, the country's biggest insurer is looking to invest up to five percent of its 2.4 trillion yuan ($357 billion; \u20ac325 billion) in private equity. China Life has made commitments to funds managed by Hony Capital and CITIC Capital Partners, according to PEI data.\nShenzhen-headquartered Ping An Insurance on the other hand has backed UOB Venture Management's 100 billion yuan Sino-Singapore Private Equity Fund, which targets companies in Chongqing and South-East Asia. In December last year Ping An's asset management arm also started working with the Queensland Investment Corporation to pursue cross-border deals.\nMeanwhile Beijing-based Anbang Insurance Group, whose total assets reached 1.45 trillion yuan as of end-2015, gained prominence for its high-profile global acquisitions. It has invested $1 billion in South Korea's Tongyang Life Insurance, $1.95 billion for New York's Waldorf Astoria hotel and $6.5 billion for acquisition of Strategic Hotels & Resorts from Blackstone.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Egunsi Foods makes ready-to-go foods that are inspired by authentic West African cuisine\nIf you've been looking for delicious, authentic West African food, then you should try Egunsi Foods. It's a New York-based food company that produces ready-to-go items derived from West African cuisine. You'll be amazed by their tasty soups and sauces, along with easy-to-follow recipes. See what new and exciting flavors you can bring to your home meals.\nTo some the Brooklyn Nets guard is an entitled conspiracy theorist. To others he is a superstar millionaire with a conscience Kyrie Irving takes a moment on court during a game against the Golden State Warriors earlier this season. Photograph: Justin Lane\/EPA Midway through the feature film Uncle Drew, the titular character confronts the coach who lured him and his over-the-hill teammates out of retirement and into a basketball tournament at New York City's famed Rucker Park. Feeling conned into cooperating for the love of the game while a $100,000 winner's prize went purposefully unmentioned, Uncle Drew flips his totally convincing wig. \"You just don't get it, do you, Young Blood,\" he says. \"This game, the love I got for it \u2013 it's all sacred to me.\" Looking back, it was a hell of an acting job by Kyrie Irving. It has been two weeks since the 28-year-old All-Star guard was last seen in uniform for the Brooklyn Nets. That's counting the Barclays Center dates against Orlando last Saturday and against Milwaukee on Monday, which saw former league MVP James Harden back up his axis-tilting trade out of Houston with 66 points and 26 boards in a pair of Nets wins. \"Personal reasons\" was the line Irving offered up as cover for his extended leave, which ended on Tuesday. And in these quote-unquote unprecedented times, only a monster would have thought to challenge him on it. Or at least that was until a maskless Irving was caught on video celebrating his sister's birthday at a packed New Jersey nightclub last week. And while the threat of a $50,000 fine and upwards of $800,000 in docked pay for breaking the NBA's Covid-19 protocols might have compelled a lesser talent to get back to work, Irving \u2013 whose salary is $33m this year \u2013 can afford to press pause, apparently. Days after the maskless birthday video surfaced, he was spotted at a virtual event for Manhattan district attorney candidate Tahanie Aboushi that took place as the Nets played host to the Nuggets last Tuesday. It's enough to make you wonder: What's Kyrie's motivation? He has been a tough nut to crack since the LeBron-less Cavaliers grabbed him with the first pick in the 2011 draft. After posting three consecutive losing seasons to open his promising career, you'd think Irving would have welcomed King James when he returned to the Cavaliers in 2014. But Irving mostly brooded over his loss of primacy as the Cavs snapped a 52-year championship drought in Cleveland. A forced trade to Boston in 2017 should have marked the end of Irving's inferiority complex, but he bristled under the direction of coach Brad Stevens while openly pining for a seasoned ensemble. (Never mind the two rising stars he had in Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum, or the veteran experience that Al Horford brought to the table.) Signing with the Nets in 2019 was supposed to be a homecoming of sorts for the New Jersey-raised Irving \u2013 and then, when an injured Kevin Durant and DeAndre Jordan joined him in Brooklyn, the culmination of a grand plan that had been brewing at least since Irving and Durant were spied huddling inside a Staples Center tunnel before the 2018 All-Star game. But all Irving has done since arriving in town is shade his greatest co-conspirator, deny first-year coach Steve Nash and pick a fight with the most pugnacious media market this side of the Atlantic. The dissenting position is about par for a player who famously has said he does not believe in dinosaurs and wondered whether the world is flat. Playing the contrarian is as much a feature of Irving's game as his unstoppable dribble and clutch shot-making. And yet: Irving is often justified in going against the grain. On a Ringer podcast last week, writer Jackie MacMullan recalled a years-ago argument she had with Irving about the NBA draft and his contention that college players \"should be able to go wherever they want\" given that they are not chattel \u2013 and damned if he doesn't have a point. (MacMullan's cringe response: \"Yeah, you are, dude. That's the way it works!\") When the NBA suspended play last summer, Irving \u2013 incidentally, the vice president of the players' union \u2013 was the most notable player to object to a restart, believing that it might steal focus from a worldwide reckoning on anti-black racism following the murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. And damned if the avalanche of MLK Day tributes from Mike Pence, Mitch McConnell, Mike Pompeo and so many more willfully ignorant Republican lawmakers didn't prove Irving right on that score, too. Some say Irving's opposition to the NBA restart was meaningless as he was injured anyway. But the fact that Irving also gave $1.5m of his own money to female peers who opted out of the WNBA bubble over Covid-19 or the social justice movement hints at a deeper thought process. Hell, Stephen Jackson, the former pro and a close friend of Floyd's, recently revealed that Irving had bought a house for Floyd's family. Clearly, when it comes to the things Irving does and says \u2013 not least moving on from basketball by his early 30s \u2013 nothing is out of bounds. Even Uncle Drew, the creaky old man who wrong-foots much younger playground players with his explosive game, plays against type. Only a true artiste like Irving would dare take a character that was intended as a vehicle to sell fizzy drinks and spin it into a basketball version of The Nutty Professor. As for the experiment Irving created in Brooklyn, well, that's pretty heady stuff, too. Forget the Johnson-Pierce-Garnett troupe that tipped off the Nets' Brooklyn-era and the James-led Miami triumvirate that augured the modern epoch of player-built super teams. With the Harden trade, the Nets new Big 3 put the reigning champion Lakers on notice: they're in it to win it all. That they also reflect their local constituency more clearly than any pro team since the Brooklyn Dodgers \u2013 between the long beard, the beanpole, the truther, the hipster coach and Amar'e Stoudemire, the Orthodox Jewish assistant who also happens to be black \u2013 means they have finally overtaken the Knicks as New York's hoops standard bearers. It only took nine years. Then again, that's the view on paper \u2013 which assumes Irving, now that he is back, will be the non-ball hogging third banana on offense while assuming a greater role on the opposite end to help mitigate the loss of rim protector Jarrett Allen. To hear Nets GM Sean Marks tell it last week, Irving couldn't be happier with how things turned out. But of course there's no way to know for sure until the mercurial guard returns to work, and even then he'll still likely remain the toughest read in sports. Does he truly mean to be difficult? Is he trolling? Or is he, as Uncle Drew himself might suggest, \"nuthin but a hustler\"? Hoops historians will be sorting out Irving's many complexities for decades. Really, if anything's for certain about the man, it's this: keeping the world off-balance is what he does best. Now as for the shape of said world? Oof. Please. Do not get him started.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Culture, Design, Fat Nancy's Dubai\nThe Gates of Satwa\nWalking the busy streets of Satwa is a unique experience. But turn a corner down a different direction to usual, and you'll find yourself in the back streets. Cycling these back streets is a different experience altogether.\n[Originally published on I'm Not A Fiend]\nFrom the urban neon lights of Satwa Road and Al Diyafah, just seconds later you feel transported to a sandy village. One storey buildings as far as the eye can see, dusty palm trees, and scrawny cats that eye you up and down from the top of a dumpster. Cockerels crow and goats bleat from behind fences. Who lives in these ramshackle abodes is an eternal mystery to me. In many, it seems to all be men, up to twenty. What are their lives like? It's another world, and it's right under our noses.\nThis is Satwa still though, and commerce remains a dominant fixture. Only now it's nothing but bakeries, tiny grocery stores, and the odd building supplies shop, whose supplies seem to have remained toppled up in the dusty shelves for decades. If you need just a couple of nails to hang up some pictures, perhaps a bearded old man will let you have them for free. It's no skin off his back, in his jungle of bits and bobs.\nEvery Friday afternoon, under a certain tree at a certain crossroads, a group of cheering men huddles around an ironing board. Some kind of illegal activity is afoot! Nothing more than a simple card game, but a rowdy one at that. Don't look too closely or they'll get antsy.\nCycling is the way to explore these streets. The roads are narrow, but they're flat and straight. The only traffic will be the occasional 'Satwa truck guy', and a lot of other bicycles. You can speed past house after house, peering into any gates left open. You'll catch glimpses inside, flashes of stoney courtyards and damp stairwells. Clothes seem to hang from every possible surface. Trees double as laundry stands and bike racks.\nBikes might be commonplace in Satwa, but girls on bikes aren't. I get a lot of funny looks as I speed past the jostling crowds that gather outside the chai and shawarma joints at the weekend. Bemused, confused, appalled, or admiring? I'm not exactly sure! But I'm gone a second later.\nThe gates themselves are a thing of beauty. Metal wrought into arabesque patterns, timeworn paint peeling and chipping away. Birds, fish, stars, and hearts, made in a bygone era. The falcons of the UAE. The bricks crumble around them, but these gates remain steadfast. They don't make buildings like this anymore. Behind the gates is usually a central courtyard. Beyond that, who knows?\nOne afternoon we stopped outside a house with a sculpture of two majestic fish above the front door. We were mesmerised. The house had geometric grate-work, a blue and white patterned gate, and turquoise fencing. It was simultaneously beautiful and outrageous. When an Asian man on a bicycle pulled up in front and started getting his keys out, we had to speak to him. Finally an opportunity for insight into these gates.\nThe friendly man revealed he was Vietnamese, and had only been in Dubai for two weeks. He was working in ship repairs. And as far as he knew about the fish? They were put there by the Arabic owners of the house. He hadn't really paid them much attention, it seemed.\nThe mystery of these houses remains. Because amongst all the crumbling buildings, there'll be the occasional villa painted in vibrant turquoise or terracotta. There will be carefully tended to plants outside, proud UAE flags on the walls. Love and attention has gone into this presentation.\nAnd therein lies the beauty of Satwa. The loyalty and pride felt by its people, combined with the eternal sense of the unknown. You really never know what you're going to find around the next corner. Sandy lots are transformed into rugged football pitches or cricket lawns. Carparks are turned into town squares, housing huddles of men with cups of hot chai. But above all, these little fortresses and gates of Satwa continue to fascinate and bemuse me.\nOriginally written by Beth for I'm Not A Fiend\nThis entry was posted in: Culture, Design, Fat Nancy's Dubai\nTagged with: Culture Dubai, Design, dubai, fat nancy, fat nancy's new diet, Middle East, satwa\nPrevious Post'Papa' New Hemingway Biopic Shot and premiered in Cuba\nNext PostThe Invergo Coffee brewer","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Marine Protected Areas around the Northern Channel Islands\nThe Channel Islands network is made up of 11 no-extraction Marine Reserves, protecting a diverse array of ecosystems\nBlue Park Facts\nAward Year:\nChannel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (NOAA; CINMS), Channel Islands National Park (CINP) and California Department of Fish & Wildlife (CDFW)\nOther Awards & Designations:\nImportant Bird Area (IBA)\nThe Northern Channel Island MPAs, located off the coast of Southern California in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, protect a variety of marine ecosystems such as rocky intertidal communities, sea grass beds, giant kelp forests and deep sea coral gardens. The Channel Islands network is made up of 11 state and federal no-extraction Marine Reserves and 2 no-extraction Special Closure Areas. Over 5,000 species of invertebrates, mammals like seals and sea lions, large open-water fish and seabirds reside there. The Channel Island MPAs protect a handful of endangered species such as the blue whale, the orca and the fur seal. The abundance of marine species in the region is largely due to high productivity driven by upwelling and its situation between warm and cold water bioregions.\nThe network of Channel Island MPAs are collectively managed by three entities: the Channel Islands National Park, the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. All three work together to create regulations and facilitate enforcement. The agencies also engage the ancestors of the indigenous coastal people, the Chumash, as well as other local community members. The Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and National Park were designated in 1980. The portions of the area within California state waters were designated in 2003. The Reserves and Conservation Areas were then adopted by NOAA and expanded into federal waters in 2006 and 2007.\nChannel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Official Website\nChannel Islands National Park Official Website\nCalifornia Department of Fish & Wildlife Official Website\nChannel Islands National Marine Sanctuary on MPAtlas.org\nAnacapa Island Reserve on MPAtlas.org \u2013 California, U.S.\nAnacapa Island Conservation Area on MPAtlas.org \u2013 California, U.S.\nAnacapa Island Special Closure on MPAtlas.org - California\nCarrington Point Reserve on MPAtlas.org \u2013 California\nFootprint Reserve on MPAtlas.org \u2013 California, U.S.\nGull Island Reserve on MPAtlas.org \u2013 California, U.S.\nHarris Point Reserve on MPAtlas.org \u2013 California, U.S.\nJudith Rock Reserve on MPAtlas.org \u2013 California\nPainted Cave Reserve on MPAtlas.org \u2013 California\nRichardson Rock Reserve on MPAtlas.org \u2013 California, U.S.\nSan Miguel Island Special Closure on MPAtlas.org \u2013 California\nSanta Barbara Island Reserve on MPAtlas.org \u2013 California, U.S.\nScorpion Reserve on MPAtlas.org \u2013 California, U.S.\nSkunk Point Reserve on MPAtlas.org \u2013 California\nSouth Point Reserve on MPAtlas.org \u2013 California, U.S.\nBlue Parks is a Marine Conservation Institute initiative working to build a global network of effective marine protected areas to save ocean wildlife.\nAll photos courtesy of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and National Parks Service","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Paddan-Aram\nExcerpt from the Lexham Bible Dictionary, the most advanced Bible dictionary.\nAlso known as Paddan. The region around Haran in upper Mesopotamia; Abraham's family's place of origin (Gen 25:20; 28:2, 5\u20137; 31:18; 33:18; 35:9, 26; 46:15; 48:7). The etymology of the name is debated and ultimately unknown. It could be another name for Aram-Naharaim or the name of another town in the region. It is central to the story of Jacob and Laban (Gen 28\u201331).\nLexham Bible Dictionary\nThe most advanced Bible Dictionary\nThe most advanced Bible dictionary as a part of Biblia Plus, which includes everything you need to take your Bible study to the next level. For less than $1 a week, you'll get devotionals, Bible study guides, thematic studies, and much more!\n$3.99 \/mo from Faithlife\nThe Lexham Bible Dictionary\nPaddan-Aram (\u05e4\u05b7\u05bc\u05d3\u05b8\u05bc\u05df \u05d0\u05b2\u05e8\u05b8\u05dd\u200e, paddan aram). Also known as Paddan. The region around Haran in upper Mesopotamia; Abraham's family's place of origin (Gen 25:20; 28:2, 5\u20137; 31:18; 33:18; 35:9, 26; 46:15; 48:7). The etymology of the name is debated and ultimately unknown. It could be another name for Aram-Naharaim\nThe Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary\nPaddan-Aram (Place)\nPADDAN-ARAM (PLACE) [Heb paddan-\u02be\u0103r\u0101m (\u05e4\u05b7\u05bc\u05d3\u05b7\u05bc\u05df\u05be\u05d0\u05b2\u05e8\u05b8\u05dd)]. Var. PADDAN. A name for the area around Haran, the homeland of Abraham's family in upper Mesopotamia. This designation occurs only in Genesis and only in passages generally ascribed to the Priestly source. It appears particularly in reference\nBaker Encyclopedia of the Bible\nPaddan, Padan, Paddan-aram, Padan-aram\nPaddan, Padan, Paddan-aram, Padan-aram. Northwestern Mesopotamian district whose name means, \"Field of Aram,\" distinguishing this flatland from the mountainous regions to the north and east. Paddan-aram (kjv Padan-aram) is alternately called Paddan (kjv Padan) in Genesis 48:7, the \"land of Aram\" in Hosea\nThe International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised\nPaddan-Aram pad\u02b9\u0259n-\u0101\u02b9ram or -\u00e2r\u02b9\u0259m [Heb paddan \u02bear\u0101m; Gk Mesopotamia, Mesopotamia Syrias]; AV PADAN-ARAM. The region of Harran in upper Mesopotamia. \"Paddan-aram\" and \"Haran\" may be dialectical variants for the same locality, since pad\u0101nu and \u1e2barr\u0101nu are synonyms for \"road\" or \"caravan route\"\nTyndale Bible Dictionary\nPaddan, Paddan-Aram\nPADDAN, PADDAN-ARAM Northwestern Mesopotamian district whose name means \"Field of Aram,\" distinguishing this flatland from the mountainous regions to the north and east. Paddan-aram is alternately called Paddan in Genesis 48:7, the \"land of Aram\" in Hosea 12:12, and Aram-naharaim in Genesis 24:10 meaning\nThe HarperCollins Bible Dictionary (Revised and Updated)\nPaddan-aram (pay\u00b4duhn-air\u00b4uhm), one of the names for the northwest region of Mesopotamia, between the Khabur and Euphrates rivers (Gen. 25:20; 28:2, 5\u20137; 31:18; 33:18; 35:9, 26; 46:15). It is also called Aram-naharaim (Heb., \"Aram between two rivers\"; nrsv: \"Mesopotamia\") in 24:10. In the Assyrian language,\nThe Wycliffe Bible Encyclopedia\nPadan-Aram\nPADAN-ARAM. It is a region which lies largely E and N of the upper Euphrates River as it flows S and then turns E. The district lies opposite the NE corner of the Mediterranean Sea, E of the Orontes River. Haran, its chief city, was the home of Abraham from which he emigrated to Canaan. He sent a servant\nThe New Bible Dictionary, Third Edition\nPADDAN, PADDAN-ARAM. The 'field' or 'plain' of Aram (rsv *'Mesopotamia') is the name given in the area around Harran in Upper Mesopotamia, N of the junction of the rivers Habur and Euphrates in Gn. 25:20; 28:2; 31:18, etc., and is identical with Aram-naharaim, 'Aram of the rivers', of Gn. 24:10; Dt.\nEerdmans Dictionary of the Bible\nPaddan-Aram (Heb. paddan-\u02be\u0103r\u0101m) (also PADDAN)An area around Haran in upper Mesopotamia. Usually translated \"Field of Aram\" (cf. Hos. 12:12 [MT 13]), Paddan-aram is generally regarded as an alternate designation for Aram-naharaim, the territory encompassed by the great bend of the Euphrates River.\nEerdmans Bible Dictionary\nPaddan-Aram [pp\u0103d\u02ca\u0259n \u00e2r\u02ca\u0259m] (Heb. paddan\u02d2ar\u0101m). A region in northern Mesopotamia centered around the city of Haran; according to critical scholars the term used by the Priestly source for Aramnaharaim. The inhabitants are identified as Arameans (Gen. 25:20; KJV \"Padan-aram\"; 31:24; RSV \"Mesopotamia\")\nPaddan\nPaddan [p\u0103d\u02ca\u0259n] (Heb. paddan). A short form of the name Of Paddan-Aram (Gen. 48:7; KJV \"Padan\").\nCatholic Bible Dictionary\nPADDAN-ARAM The plain of Aram, the name given to the region around Haran in upper Mesopotamia, where Abraham's family lived before traveling to Canaan (Gen 25:20; 28:2; 31:18; cf. Gen 24:10). Here too lived Laban, whom Jacob served, and here most of Jacob's sons were born (Gen 29:31\u201330:24; cf. Gen 35:26;\nSmith's Bible Dictionary\nPa\u00b4dan-a\u00b4ram. By this name, which signifies the table-land of Aram, i.e., Syria, the Hebrews designated the tract of country which they otherwise called Aram-naharaim, \"Aram of the two rivers,\" the Greek Mesopotamia, Gen. 24:10, and \"the field (DAV, 'country') of Syria.\" Hos. 12:13. The term was perhaps","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Regional News: Guntur\nPanic prevails as LPG tanker overturns\nGuntur, Dec 14 (INN): Panic prevailed for some time at Lakshmi Narasimha Colony on the Visakhapatnam - Chennai National Highway 5 near Mangalagiri in Guntur district on Tuesday after a fully laden Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) tanker overturned, leading to a gas leak. The leaking gas created a sense of panic among the resident and road users. Traffic along the highway came to a standstill, prompting the police to divert vehicles at different points. Efforts to salvage the 16-wheel-tanker soon started with a team of experts from Indian Oil Corporation rushed to the spot. The team started to make efforts to transfer the LPG to another tanker, using an emergency recovery van.\nThe tanker was heading for Chennai from Visakhapatnam when it lost control and overturned at a sharp curve. However, no one was injured in the incident. According to police, the curve at the spot where the tanker overturned was particularly acute since the Highway is in the process of being upgraded by the National Highways Authorities of India. Sensing trouble, the district authorities asked the Electricity Board to disconnect power supply. The district authorities also evacuated around 200 families from the area to safer places, to ward off any untoward mishaps. The police meanwhile had a tough time managing the traffic as the volume of vehicles on the Highway piled up, adding to the chaos.\nNews Posted: 14 December, 2010","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"About JCM\nUtility of Amsel Criteria, Nugent Score, and Quantitative PCR for Gardnerella vaginalis, Mycoplasma hominis, and Lactobacillus spp. for Diagnosis of Bacterial Vaginosis in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Women\nBeverly E. Sha, Hua Y. Chen, Qiong J. Wang, M. Reza Zariffard, Mardge H. Cohen, Gregory T. Spear\nBeverly E. Sha\nDepartment of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois\nFor correspondence: bsha@rush.edu\nHua Y. Chen\nDivision of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois\nQiong J. Wang\nM. Reza Zariffard\nDepartment of Immunology\/Microbiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois\nMardge H. Cohen\nDepartment of Medicine, CORE Center, Cook County Bureau of Health Sciences, Chicago, Illinois\nGregory T. Spear\nDOI: 10.1128\/JCM.43.9.4607-4612.2005\nBacterial vaginosis (BV) is a clinical syndrome presenting with a malodorous vaginal discharge and increased vaginal pH. Diagnosis has been based on clinical Amsel criteria and direct Gram stain of vaginal secretions. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected participants in the Women's Interagency HIV Study contributed cervicovaginal lavage (CVL) samples. Lactobacilli, Gardnerella vaginalis, and Mycoplasma hominis in cervicovaginal lavage samples were quantified by PCR. Gynecologic evaluation included Nugent score and Amsel criterion assessment. We compared the gold standard Nugent score to Amsel criteria and quantitative bacterial PCR for diagnosing BV in 203 CVL samples from women with Nugent scores of 7 to 10 (BV group) and 203 samples from women with BV Nugent scores of 0 to 3 (\"No-BV\" group). Only 75 of the 203 CVL samples from women with Nugent scores of 7 to 10 met positive Amsel criteria. Increasing levels of G. vaginalis and M. hominis and decreasing levels of lactobacilli were significantly associated with BV by Nugent score. Of the group with Nugent scores of 7 to 10, 83% and 81% had log10 G. vaginalis counts and log10 M. hominis counts greater than 6.81 and 4.82, respectively, while only 30% and 31% of the group with Nugent scores of 0 to 3 were above these thresholds, respectively. There was significant overlap in the log10 lactobacillus counts between the two groups. Utilizing all three log10 bacterial counts (G. vaginalis, M. hominis, and lactobacilli) in our model improved the sensitivity and specificity to 83% and 78%, respectively, in comparison with Nugent score. In this cohort, Amsel criteria were poorly predictive of BV. PCR quantification of G. vaginalis and M. hominis from CVL is significantly more sensitive than Amsel criteria for diagnosing BV.\nIn women of childbearing age, bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the most common cause of vaginitis. In BV, normal vaginal flora, consisting of hydrogen peroxide-producing lactobacilli, are replaced by Gardnerella vaginalis, Mycoplasma hominis, Mobiluncus species, and anaerobic gram-negative rods (14). BV has been associated with preterm delivery, chorioamnionitis, postabortion infection, and pelvic inflammatory disease. In 1983, Amsel et al. established clinical criteria for diagnosing BV. The presence of three of the following four criteria is considered to be consistent with the presence of BV: vaginal pH of >4.5, clue cells on saline wet mount, release of a fish amine odor on addition of 10% KOH to a drop of vaginal discharge, and a characteristic thin, homogenous vaginal discharge (1). In 1991, Nugent et al. described a Gram stain scoring system of vaginal smears to diagnose BV (10). The Nugent score is calculated by assessing for the presence of large gram-positive rods (Lactobacillus morphotypes; decrease in Lactobacillus scored as 0 to 4), small gram-variable rods (G. vaginalis morphotypes; scored as 0 to 4), and curved gram-variable rods (Mobiluncus spp. morphotypes; scored as 0 to 2) and can range from 0 to 10. A score of 7 to 10 is consistent with BV.\nCompared to the Amsel criteria, the Nugent score allows for assessment of alteration in vaginal flora as a continuum rather than a dichotomy. Vaginal cultures for G. vaginalis are sensitive but not specific, as 50 to 60% of healthy asymptomatic women will be culture positive (14). Because Amsel criteria are dependent on the acumen of the clinician, the Nugent score has been favored for diagnosing BV due to superior reproducibility and sensitivity (9). Nevertheless evaluation of smears is also subjective and therefore requires an experienced slide reader (10).\nRecently we reported on a PCR method to quantify M. hominis, G. vaginalis, and lactobacilli in cervicovaginal lavage (CVL) samples obtained from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected women and were able to demonstrate that M. hominis and G. vaginalis bacterial counts were significantly increased and lactobacillus bacterial counts were significantly decreased in the presence of BV (13, 16).\nTo further explore the relationships between BV diagnosed by Amsel criteria and Nugent score and that diagnosed by quantitative PCR for G. vaginalis, M. hominis, and lactobacilli, we analyzed 406 CVL samples from the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) repository.\nPatient cohort.Four hundred six CVL samples obtained from 362 HIV-infected women were selected from the WIHS repository. WIHS is a longitudinal, multicenter cohort study of HIV-infected and high-risk uninfected women followed at six clinical sites in the United States. Following institutional review board approval, 2,059 HIV-infected women were enrolled from October 1994 through November 1995. Informed consent was obtained from all subjects, and human experimentation guidelines of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and\/or those of the investigators' institutions were followed. A detailed interview, physical and gynecologic examination, and laboratory monitoring are performed every 6 months (3). A detailed description of the women from whom the 406 CVL samples were obtained has been previously published (13).\nGynecologic examination included assessment for genital tract infections and genital tract dysplasia as previously described (6). Women were scheduled for visits when they were not menstruating and were instructed to avoid inserting any substance into the genital tract for 48 h before their examination. Samples were collected in the following order: vaginal pH; vaginal swabs for Gram stain, wet mount, and KOH with amine odor test; CVL collection; and Pap smear. Bacterial vaginosis was assessed by Amsel criteria (1) and Nugent score (central reading at the laboratory of Sharon Hillier, University of Pittsburgh-Magee Women's Hospital) (10). We required the presence of at least three of the four Amsel criteria for the diagnosis of BV by Amsel criteria.\nCVL collection and processing.CVL samples were collected by irrigation of the cervix with 10 ml of nonbacteriostatic sterile saline followed by aspiration from the posterior fornix. CVL was held on ice until being processed within 6 hours of collection. CVL was gently vortexed to evenly distribute cells before aliquoting and freezing at \u221270\u00b0C. Two hundred three CVL samples from women with Nugent scores of 7 to 10 (bacterial vaginosis group) and 203 CVL samples from women with Nugent scores of 0 to 3 (non-bacterial vaginosis group) in 1-ml aliquots were selected for analysis. Paired CVL samples from the two groups were each matched by plasma HIV RNA levels within 0.3 log10 and by site and visit number (visits 2 to 5).\nBacteria.Mycoplasma hominis and Gardnerella vaginalis were both obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (Manassas, Va.), and Lactobacillus crispatus was kindly provided by Lin Tao (University of Illinois at Chicago Dental School). Bacteria were grown as previously described (16).\nDNA isolation and real-time PCR.DNA was isolated, and real-time PCR was performed as previously described (16). Briefly, bacteria obtained by centrifugation of 1 ml of CVL were disrupted by treatment with lysis buffer. DNA was purified using phenol-chloroform. DNA (50 ng) was mixed with MgCl2, deoxynucleoside triphosphates, primers, uracil-DNA N-glycosylase, and Taq polymerase (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA). Amplification used an ABI Prism 5700 Thermocycler (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA). Primer sequences were as follows: for M. hominis, F-RNAHI, 5\u2032-CAATGGCTAATGCCGGATACGC-3\u2032, and R-RNAH2, 5\u2032-GGTACCGTCAGTCTGCAAT-3\u2032); for G. vaginalis, F-GVI, 5\u2032-TTACTGGTGTATCACTGTAAGG-3\u2032, and R-GV3, 5\u2032-CCGTCACAGGCTGAACAGT-3\u2032 (16). The Lactobacillus primer sequences were designed to detect both L. jensenii and L. crispatus, the two most common Lactobacillus species in the female genital tract (F-LBF, 5\u2032-ATGGAAGAACACCAGTGGCG-3\u2032; R-LBR, 5\u2032-CAGCACTGAGAGGCGGAAAC-3\u2032) (7, 16). All three primer sets resulted in amplification of DNA from the appropriate type of bacteria but showed no cross-reactivity to the other two organisms or any of a panel of 16 common genital tract bacteria (16). In each thermocycler run, six standards consisting of 103 to 107 copies of DNA from the appropriate bacterium were included to generate a standard curve (16). CVL sample DNAs that resulted in values higher than the standard curve were diluted and rerun. The bacterial counts represent the total amount in 1 ml of CVL. This was obtained by determining the total DNA isolated from the CVL samples times the number of bacteria in 50 ng DNA.\nStatistical methods.Descriptive statistics for the three bacterial counts were computed. SAS 8.1 (Cary, NC) software was used for all the statistical analyses. The associations between BV by Nugent score criterion and the quantitative bacterial PCR counts were analyzed by the logistic regression models (SAS PROC LOGISTIC) with the subject's BV status as the outcome and one or more quantitative bacterial PCR counts as predictors. Cut points for the bacterial counts to predict BV versus its absence (\"No-BV\") were determined according to whether the predictive probability obtained from the fit of the logistic model was less or greater than 0.5. The cut points were used to reclassify the observed samples based on their bacterial counts, and the sensitivity and specificity were computed. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were generated using different combinations of quantitative bacterial PCR counts to define BV. In our analyses we controlled for plasma viral load to account for possible selection bias because, in the sampling design, our CVL samples were matched between the BV group and the No-BV group by plasma viral load.\nLogistic regression models with BV status by Nugent score as outcome and Amsel criteria alone or Amsel criteria plus the bacterial counts as predictors were also fitted to the data. Similarly, the plasma viral load was adjusted in the analyses. Sensitivity and specificity were estimated.\nSince 362 subjects contributed the 406 CVL samples, 12% of the samples were repeated measures. Because the number of subjects contributing repeated measures was relatively small, and because the repeated measures were separated, in general, by \u22656 months, the possible correlations among repeated measures were ignored in the analysis for simplicity. We also performed the same analyses on data that excluded the 12% repeated measures.\nThe mean log10 bacterial counts\/ml CVL for G. vaginalis, M. hominis, and lactobacilli are 7.6, 4.57, and 8.17, respectively, for the BV group and 5.65, 3.8, and 8.8, respectively, for the No-BV group (Fig. 1). The Pearson correlation coefficient between BV by Nugent score and levels of G. vaginalis, M. hominis, and lactobacilli are 0.38, 0.47, and \u22120.24, respectively.\nBox plot diagram showing the distribution of log10 bacterial counts for each bacterial species, Gardnerella vaginalis (G vag), Mycoplasma hominis (M hom), and Lactobacillus spp. (Lacto) by Nugent score. The cut points identified for G. vaginalis, M. hominis, and Lactobacillus spp. that differentiate the BV group from the No-BV group are denoted by a dashed line.\nUsing Nugent score as the gold standard for diagnosing BV, we assessed the sensitivity and specificity of the Amsel criteria. Seventy-five of the 203 CVL samples from women with Nugent scores of 7 to 10 and two of the 203 CVL samples from women with Nugent scores of 0 to 3 met positive Amsel criteria (sensitivity = 37%, specificity = 99%). Because of the poor sensitivity of Amsel criteria in this population, we analyzed the performance of each of the individual components of the Amsel criteria compared to Nugent score. Vaginal pH of >4.5 improved the sensitivity of diagnosing BV at the expense of specificity compared to the other three components of the Amsel criteria (Table 1).\nSensitivities and specificities of Amsel criteria and individual components in comparison to Nugent score for the diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis\nFor the 406 CVL samples, BV by Nugent score and BV by Amsel criteria were strongly associated (odds ratio = 58.9, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 14, 244). The association remained strong (odds ratio = 143, 95% CI: 21, 990) even after the bacterial counts were adjusted in the model. The odds ratios between BV by Nugent score and a 10-fold increase in G. vaginalis, M. hominis, or lactobacilli after controlling for plasma viral load are 1.45 (95% CI: 1.3, 1.62), 1.85 (95% CI: 1.6, 2.14), and 0.61 (95% CI: 0.5, 0.75), respectively. When all the other bacterial counts and Amsel criteria in addition to the plasma viral load are included in the logistic model, the odds ratios between BV by Nugent score and a 10-fold increase in G. vaginalis, M. hominis, or lactobacilli are 1.24 (95% CI: 1.04, 1.4), 1.82 (95% CI: 1.51, 2.19), and 0.54 (95% CI: 0.43, 0.68), respectively.\nCut points separating the BV group from the No-BV group were determined for each individual bacterial count based on whether the predictive probability (Fig. 1) is greater than or less than 0.5. We found that, if these cut points were used to differentiate the BV group from the No-BV group, a high agreement with BV by Nugent score was observed for G. vaginalis counts and for M. hominis counts. Log10 G. vaginalis counts\/ml CVL were greater than 6.81 in 83% of the BV group and lower than 6.81 in 70% of the No-BV group. Log10 M. hominis counts\/ml CVL were greater than 4.82 in 81% of the BV group and lower than 4.82 in 69% of the No-BV group. The cut point obtained based on the log10 lactobacillus counts\/ml CVL (<8.5 or >8.5) differentiated the BV from the No-BV group poorly with only 58% correct for both the BV group and the No-BV group.\nWe also determined cut points (using predictive probability) based on counts of pairs of bacteria or combining all three bacteria to see if this would improve the agreement with BV by Nugent score (Table 2). Using BV by Nugent score as the gold standard for diagnosing BV, we calculated sensitivities and specificities for each approach (Table 2). Combining two or more bacteria improved the specificity with only a mild loss in sensitivity of quantitative bacterial PCR for diagnosing BV when the same rule was followed to obtain the cut points.\nLog10 bacterial cut points for M. hominis (MH), G. vaginalis (GV), and lactobacilli (L) alone and in combination and sensitivities and specificities of these models using Nugent score as the gold standard method to diagnose bacterial vaginosis\nTo investigate the diagnostic characteristics of the predictor(s) obtained in the logistic regression models, we computed sensitivity and specificity for all possible cut points corresponding to the fit of each logistic regression model and plotted them as ROC curves (Fig. 2). The values of the area under the curve (AUC in Fig. 2) show clearly that the combined predictors are better for the diagnosis of BV. The analyses were repeated for the data with the 12% repeated measures removed. The results were either unchanged or minimally changed. The changed sensitivity and specificity are provided in parentheses next to the first set of analyses in the tables. Other changes corresponding to the analyses without the repeated measures including the ROC curves were not presented due to the minimal differences seen.\nROC curves for combinations of one or more bacterial counts as diagnostic criteria for BV. MH, M. hominis; GV, G. vaginalis; LA, lactobacilli; AUC, area under the curve. The closer the AUC is to 1.0, the better the bacterial counts predict BV. The bottom row of curves shows that the inclusion of all three quantitative bacterial counts in the model provides better predictive power. The addition of Amsel criteria further improves the power, and inclusion of plasma viral load does not change the power.\nAt least 30% of women presenting with vaginal complaints remain without a diagnosis after a comprehensive workup (2). Thus, improved diagnostic tests are needed. BV is the most common identified cause of vaginitis and is a common disorder in women throughout the world, regardless of HIV status. Although the diagnosis of BV by Amsel criteria is simple, it is relatively insensitive. Of the 203 samples we analyzed from the WIHS cohort that had BV (Nugent score of 7 to 10), only 75 met the definition of BV by Amsel criteria. Thus, if Nugent score is considered the gold standard for diagnosing BV, the sensitivity and specificity of Amsel criteria in this cohort were 37% and 99%, respectively. Schwebke et al. reported the sensitivity and specificity of Amsel criteria compared to Nugent score to be 70% and 94%, respectively, in a cohort of nonpregnant women (12). The sensitivity of Amsel criteria in our cohort was very poor and much worse than the sensitivity of 70% reported by Schwebke et al. However, in two pregnant cohorts the sensitivity of Amsel criteria compared to Gram stain was only 35% and 46% (5, 15). While we suspect that variability in clinician interpretation was an important factor, we cannot exclude the possibility that the sensitivity of the Amsel criteria is different in women with HIV infection.\nOur data demonstrate that quantitative bacterial PCR for G. vaginalis, M. hominis, and lactobacilli significantly correlates with the Nugent Gram stain method to diagnose BV. We found that women with BV diagnosed by Nugent score have significantly higher numbers of G. vaginalis (P < 0.0001) and M. hominis (P < 0.0001) and significantly lower numbers of lactobacillus (P < 0.0001) organisms in the CVL than women without BV. Using quantitative culture techniques on vaginal swabs, others have shown similar log10 changes in G. vaginalis (4, 8) and M. hominis (8) bacterial counts in women with BV by Nugent score. Variable results have been seen using quantitative culture techniques to assess log10 lactobacillus changes in the presence of BV. Hillier et al. (8) found significant loss of total and H2O2-producing lactobacilli in 39 vaginal swabs taken from women with Nugent scores of 7 to 10 compared to 47 vaginal swabs taken from women with Nugent scores of 4 to 6 and 85 vaginal swabs taken from women with Nugent scores of 0 to 3. Mean log10 total lactobacillus CFU\/ml were 6.3 for the BV group (Nugent scores, 7 to 10), 6.6 for the intermediate group (Nugent scores, 4 to 6), and 7.0 for the No-BV group (Nugent scores, 0 to 3, P < 0.001) (8). In contrast, Delaney et al. found no significant change in log10 lactobacillus counts by Nugent score but did find that the proportion of H2O2-producing strains of Lactobacillus markedly declined as Nugent score increased from 0 to 3 to 7 to 10 (4). He analyzed only 11 vaginal swabs from women with Nugent scores of 7 to 10 and 71 and 22 vaginal swabs from women with Nugent scores of 0 to 3 and 4 to 6, respectively. While we found significantly lower numbers of mean lactobacilli\/ml of CVL in the BV group (Nugent scores, 7 to 10) than in the No-BV group (Nugent scores, 0 to 3), there was significant overlap between the two groups (Fig. 1). There were differences between our study design and those of Hillier and Delaney. Because we utilized CVL fluid and not vaginal swabs, we sampled both cervical and vaginal flora. Our PCR primers were designed to detect and quantify two species of Lactobacillus (L. jensenii and L. crispatus), whereas Hillier and Delaney performed culture to detect and quantify all Lactobacillus spp. We also did not assess for H2O2 production.\nOthers have used PCR methods to assess BV. Obata-Yasuoka et al. previously reported on a multiplex PCR method of diagnosing BV via quantifying Mobiluncus mulieris, Mobiluncus curtisii, Bacteroides fragilis, and G. vaginalis from vaginal swabs in pregnant (n = 138) and nonpregnant (n = 34) women (11). PCR was considered positive for BV when 103 to 104 CFU of any tested bacterial species was present in a vaginal swab. Compared to Gram stain, 78.4% (29\/37) of the samples with Nugent scores of 7 to 10 were found to be positive for one or more bacteria by PCR compared to 4.4% (6\/135) with Nugent scores of 0 to 6. Overall the sensitivity and specificity of the multiplex PCR in comparison to Nugent score were 78.4% and 95.6%, respectively.\nIn addition we were able to identify cut points for G. vaginalis and M. hominis that differentiated the BV group from the No-BV group. Modeling of combinations of bacteria demonstrated that the combination of the three bacteria provided the best combined sensitivity and specificity for diagnosing BV when using Nugent Gram stain as the gold standard. We did not assess for other bacteria identified as important in bacterial vaginosis such as Prevotella spp., Bacteroides spp., Mobiluncus spp., Peptostreptococcus spp., or Ureaplasma urealyticum (4, 8). The addition of one or more of these bacteria to our model could improve the correlation with Nugent score.\nWe did not include plasma HIV RNA levels as a variable in the models because the effects were insignificant. While we are unaware of any data to suggest that BV alters plasma HIV RNA levels, our results should be interpreted as being controlled for plasma HIV RNA levels because our selection of CVL samples was not random (the BV group and the No-BV group were matched by plasma HIV RNA levels). Thus, while the sensitivities and specificities of our models should be expected to be similar when applied to a randomly selected population (even HIV-negative populations), the specific cut points generated here cannot be generalized to a randomly selected population if the plasma HIV RNA level is associated with BV by Nugent score. We treated repeated measures in a single subject as independent samples. Although this can result in underestimation of the variability, it does not introduce bias into estimates of regression coefficients. The underestimation of the variability can be expected to be small in our analysis, because repeated measures accounted for only 12% of the samples, and the repeated measures were separated by significant time intervals. Further analyses excluding repeated measures confirmed this conclusion.\nWhile a PCR method of detecting BV is more labor-intensive and costly than the Nugent Gram stain scoring method for clinical diagnosis, it is less cumbersome than older quantitative culture techniques utilized in research settings where assessing for changes in specific bacteria could aid in understanding the pathogenesis and\/or consequences of BV. For example, we recently demonstrated that BV was associated with increased HIV expression in the CVL of HIV-infected women. In multivariate analysis, this was found to be inversely associated with lactobacillus bacterial counts and positively associated with M. hominis bacterial counts in the CVL but not associated with Gardnerella vaginalis bacterial counts. This analysis could not have been done with the Nugent Gram stain method as the Nugent score cannot assess for M. hominis due to its lack of a cell wall nor provide quantitative information about specific bacteria associated with BV.\nWe conclude that quantitative bacterial PCR has potential as a tool to evaluate the bacterial microflora of the vagina. These data need to be confirmed in HIV-seronegative populations.\nWe thank all the women who participated or are still participating in the WIHS. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the WIHS in providing samples and clinical data. The six clinical sites (Principal Investigators) are as follows: New York City\/Bronx Consortium (Kathryn Anastos); Brooklyn, NY (Howard Minkoff); Washington DC Metropolitan Consortium (Mary Young); the Connie Wofsy Study Consortium of Northern California (Ruth Greenblatt and Herminia Palacio); Los Angeles County\/Southern California Consortium (Alexandra Levine); and the Chicago Consortium (Mardge Cohen) and the Data Coordinating Center (Alvaro Munoz). We thank John O'Keefe, University of Illinois at Chicago, for data management and Cheryl Jennings, Rush University Medical Center, for cataloging the CVL samples.\nFinancial support was from National Institutes of Health grant P01 H040539; the Women's Interagency HIV Study, which is funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases with supplemental funding from the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (grants U01-AI-35004, UO1-AI-31834, UO1-AI-34994, UO1-AI-34989, UO1-AI-34993, and UO1-AI-42590); the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (grant UO1-CH-32632); and the National Center for Research Resources (grants MO1-RR-00071, MO1-RR-00079, and MO1-RR-00083).\nReceived 28 January 2005.\nReturned for modification 10 March 2005.\nAccepted 3 June 2005.\nAmerican Society for Microbiology\nAmsel, R., P. A. Totten, C. A. Spiegel, K. C. S. Chen, D. A. Eschenbach, and K. K. Holmes. 1983. Nonspecific vaginitis: diagnostic criteria and epidemiologic associations. Am. J. Med. 74:14-22.\nAnderson, M. R., K. Klink, and A. Cohrssen. 2004. Evaluation of vaginal complaints. JAMA 291:1368-1379.\nBarkan, S. E., S. L. Melnick, S. Martin-Preston, K. Weber, L. A. Kalish, P. Miotti, M. Young, R. Greenblatt, H. Sacks, and J. Feldman for the WIHS Collaborative Study Group. 1998. The Women's Interagency HIV Study. Epidemiology 9:117-125.\nDelaney, M. L., and A. B. Onderdonk for the Microbiology and Prematurity Study Group. 2001. Nugent score related to vaginal culture in pregnant women. Obstet. Gynecol. 98:79-84.\nGratacos, E., F. Figueras, M. Barranco, R. Ros, A. Andreu, P. L. Alonso, and V. Cararach. 1999. Prevalence of bacterial vaginosis and correlation of clinical to Gram stain diagnostic criteria in low risk pregnant women. Eur. J. Epidemiol. 15:913-916.\nGreenblatt, R. M., P. Baccetti, S. Barkan, M. Augenbraun, S. Silver, R. Delapenha, et al. for the WIHS Collaborative Study Group. 1999. Lower genital tract infections among HIV-infected and high-risk uninfected women. Sex. Transm. Dis. 26:143-151.\nHillier, S. L. 1998. The vaginal microbial ecosystem and resistance to HIV. AIDS Res. Hum. Retrovirol. 14:S17-S21.\nHillier, S. L., M. A. Krohn, L. K. Rabe, S. J. Klebanoff, and D. A. Eschenbach. 1993. The normal vaginal flora, H2O2-producing lactobacilli, and bacterial vaginosis in pregnant women. Clin. Infect. Dis. 16(Suppl. 4):S273-S281.\nKrohn, M. A., S. L. Hillier, and D. A. Eschenbach. 1989. Comparison of methods for diagnosing bacterial vaginosis among pregnant women. J. Clin. Microbiol. 27:1266-1271.\nNugent, R. P., M. A. Krohn, and S. L. Hillier. 1991. Reliability of diagnosing bacterial vaginosis is improved by a standardized method of Gram stain interpretation. J. Clin. Microbiol. 29:297-301.\nObata-Yasuoka, M., W. Ba-Thein, H. Hamada, and H. Hayashi. 2002. A multiplex polymerase chain reaction-based diagnostic method for bacterial vaginosis. Obstet. Gynecol. 100:759-764.\nSchwebke, J. R., S. L. Hillier, J. D. Sobel, J. A. McGregor, and R. L. Sweet. 1996. Validity of the vaginal gram stain for the diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis. Obstet. Gynecol. 88:573-576.\nSha, B. E., M. R. Zariffard, Q. J. Wang, H. Y. Chen, J. Bremer, M. H. Cohen, and G. T. Spear. 2005. Female genital tract HIV load correlates inversely with Lactobacillus spp. but positively with bacterial vaginosis and Mycoplasma hominis. J. Infect. Dis. 191:25-32.\nSobel, J. D. 1997. Vaginitis. N. Engl. J. Med. 337:1896-1903.\nTam, M. T., M. Yungbluth, and T. Myles. 1998. Gram stain method shows better sensitivity than clinical criteria for detection of bacterial vaginosis in surveillance of pregnant low-income women in a clinical setting. Infect. Dis. Obstet. Gynecol. 6:273-275.\nZariffard, M. R., M. Saifuddin, B. E. Sha, and G. T. Spear. 2002. Detection of bacterial vaginosis-related organisms by real-time PCR for lactobacilli, Gardnerella vaginalis and Mycoplasma hominis. FEMS Immunol. Med. Microbiol. 34:277-281.\nJournal of Clinical Microbiology Sep 2005, 43 (9) 4607-4612; DOI: 10.1128\/JCM.43.9.4607-4612.2005\nThank you for sharing this Journal of Clinical Microbiology article.\nYou are going to email the following Utility of Amsel Criteria, Nugent Score, and Quantitative PCR for Gardnerella vaginalis, Mycoplasma hominis, and Lactobacillus spp. for Diagnosis of Bacterial Vaginosis in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Women\nMessage Subject (Your Name) has forwarded a page to you from Journal of Clinical Microbiology\nMessage Body (Your Name) thought you would be interested in this article in Journal of Clinical Microbiology.\nEditor Conflicts of Interest\nResources for Clinical Microbiologists\nFollow #JClinMicro\nPrint ISSN: 0095-1137; Online ISSN: 1098-660X","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Get Your Free Audiobook\nThe Oral Biography\nBy: Mitchell Zuckoff\nNarrated by: Meryl Streep, Warren Beatty, Tim Robbins, Julianne Moore, Paul Newman, Julie Christie, Elliott Gould, Martin Scorsese, Cher\nCategories: Biographies & Memoirs, Artists, Writers & Musicians\n5 out of 5 stars 5.0 (1 rating)\nNarrated by: Meryl Streep,Warren Beatty,Tim Robbins,Julianne Moore,Paul Newman,Julie Christie,Elliott Gould,Martin Scorsese,Cher\nRobert Altman - visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend - comes roaring to life in this rollicking cinematic biography, told in a chorus of voices that can only be called Altmanesque.\nHis outsized life and unique career are revealed as never before: here are the words of his family and friends, and a few enemies, as well as the agents, writers, crew members, producers, and stars who worked with him, including Meryl Streep, Warren Beatty, Tim Robbins, Julianne Moore, Paul Newman, Julie Christie, Elliott Gould, Martin Scorsese, Robin Williams, Cher, and many others. There is even Altman himself, in the form of his exclusive last interviews.\nAfter an all-American boyhood in Kansas City, a stint flying bombers through enemy fire in World War II, and jobs ranging from dog-tattoo entrepreneur to television director, Robert Altman burst onto the scene in 1970 with the movie M*A*S*H. He revolutionized American filmmaking, and, in a decade, produced masterpieces at an astonishing pace: McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Thieves Like Us, The Long Goodbye, 3 Women, and, of course, Nashville. Then, after a period of disillusionment with Hollywood - as well as Hollywood's disillusionment with him - he reinvented himself with a bold new set of masterworks: The Player, Short Cuts, and Gosford Park. Finally, just before the release of the last of his nearly 40 movies, A Prairie Home Companion, he received an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement from the Academy, which had snubbed him for so many years.\nMitchell Zuckoff - who was working with Altman on his memoirs before he died - weaves Altman's final interviews, an incredible cast of voices, and contemporary reviews and news accounts, into a riveting tale of an extraordinary life. Here are a series of revelations that force us to reevaluate Altman as a man and an artist.\n\u00a92009 Mitchell Zuckoff (P)2009 Random House\n\"A brilliantly researched, near-cinematic evocation. . . . Altman never gave up creating his cinematic portraits of people on the margins\u2014con artists, prostitutes, gamblers, theives, clowns, movie executives\u2014if only to shed light on the falsity behind his country's seemingly indefatigable, desperate pursuit of success.\" ( The New Yorker)\n\"Scrupulously intelligent and entertaining. . . . Noisy, funny, slightly ill considered, a bit chaotic, and wholly believeable. In short, Altmanesque.\" ( The New York Times Book Review)\n\"I just now put [ Robert Altman] down feeling heartbroken but happily and deeply inspired. . . . Wonderful.\" (Wes Anderson)\nFall and Rise: The Story of 9\/11\nHeads Will Roll\nNo Reviews are Available\nDaniel R. Mendoza\nGiven what I do for a living\/with my life, this feels like the most significantly helpful and meaningful biography of a filmmaker I've ever experienced. Mr. Altman's work has had a profound effect on me and now this celebration of his life and work has, too.\nAmazing altman\nThis book made you feel like you knew Bob Altman...the first big movie, the wives, the genius, the alcohol and pot. The narration is brillliant. Highly recommended.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ingemar Cox receives a distinguished runner-up prize \u2013 K\u00f8benhavns Universitet\nDatalogisk Institut, DIKU > Nyheder > DIKU-nyheder 2016 > Ingemar Cox receives a...\nIngemar Cox receives a distinguished runner-up prize\nLloyd's Science of Risk prize\nDIKU's Professor Ingemar Cox in collaboration with a research team from Microsoft Research, Herzeliya, Israel as well as University College London, received a Lloyd's Science of Risk runner-up Prize 2015 for their paper \"Automatic Identification of Web-Based Risk Markers for Health Events\".\nThe paper \"Automatic Identification of Web-Based Risk Markers for Health Events\" was awarded a runner-up prize at the 2015 Lloyd's Science of Risk prize award.\nIngemar Cox and his colleagues showed that web search engine queries coupled with information on Wikipedia can be used to infer Web-based risk markers that are precursors to some common health events, including cardiovascular disease, sexually transmitted infections and mental health conditions.\nExamples: Searches for pet stores were risk markers for allergy. Possible new risk markers could be: searching for fast food and theme restaurants was associated with a transient increase in risk of heart attack, suggesting this exposure goes beyond a long-term risk factor but may also act as an acute trigger of heart attacks. Dating and adult content websites were risk markers for sexually transmitted infections, such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).\nIn their article the team conclude that web-based methods provide a powerful, low-cost approach to automatically identify risk factors, and support more timely and personalized public health efforts to bring human and economic benefits.\nRead the full paper (PDF)\nProfessor Ingemar Cox is newly appointed ACM Fellow\nIngemar Cox receives Sustained Impact Paper Award\ningemar.cox@di.ku.dk","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\"Armed Forces Don't Need\u2026\": Rahul Gandhi Rejects Digvijaya Singh's Remark\nJanuary 24, 2023 January 24, 2023 TodaysTrendNewsLeave a Comment on \"Armed Forces Don't Need\u2026\": Rahul Gandhi Rejects Digvijaya Singh's Remark\nJAMMU: Dissociating his party from a controversial statement by a senior party leader. Rahul Gandhi today said the Congress does not agree with. Digvijay Singh's comments questioning India's surgical strikes and described the statement as \"ridiculous\".\n\"We do not agree with Digvijay Singh's views. The party's views are above Digvijay Singh's views,\" Rahul . Gandhi said in response to questions from reporters on the sidelines of . His Bharat Joro Yatra in Jammu.\n\"Party views are formed out of a conversation. Digvijay Singh's views are outside views. They are not views held by the party. We are crystal clear \u2013 the armed forces do one job, and they do it well. They don't need to give proof,\" the Congress leader said.\nRahul Gandhi's clarification came as the . Congress came under fire for Digvijay Singh's comments at the . Bharat Joro Yatra rally on Monday.\nThey are ruling with a bundle of lies,\" Mr Singh said.\nTrying to do damage control, the Congress said the comments did not reflect the views of the party.\nMr Singh also said: \"I have the utmost respect for the Defense Forces\".\nBut the BJP seized on. The remark and slammed him and the Congress as \"anti-national\" for questioning the Army. The party also demanded an apology from Rahul Gandhi.\n\"Congress leaders are doing bharat todo (divide India) on Rahul Gandhi's orders. Digvijay Singh has become the epitome of toxic comments. Trust in the army is unshakeable and above politics. If the army says there was a surgical strike, how come? You want proof again and again. It shows that You don't have confidence in our army,\" said BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia.\n\"It has become a characteristic of Congress to make irresponsible statements. But it will not be tolerated if they speak against the Indian Army. It seems that Rahul Gandhi and Digvijay Singh are blinded by their hatred for Narendra Modi,\" said. BJP leader\nIndia launched surgical strikes in 2016 after 18 soldiers were killed in a terrorist . Attack on an army base in Uri, Jammu and Kashmir.\nThe February 2019 Pulwama attack on a security convoy was blamed on. Pakistan-based terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed.\nDays after the attack, India retaliated with an airstrike in. Pakistan's Balakot, leading to an aerial dogfight between the neighbors.\nWhat US Said On BBC Documentary On PM Modi, 2002 Riots\nWatch: SpiceJet Passenger Deboarded After Misbehaving With Crew\nChetan Sharma To Continue As Chairman Of BCCI Selection Committee, New Panel Named\nGurugram Man Laid Off By Amazon India After 5-Year Stint: \"First I Lost My Father\u2026\"\nKerala Woman Orders Biryani Online, Dies After Eating It; Minister Orders Probe\n'Culture of police' and 'ancient' procedures were on display in Tyre Nichols videos, ex-officers say\nJanuary 30, 2023 January 30, 2023 Asif","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Everyday Heroes: Abisoye Ajayi-Akinfolarin\nBy christianajiki\nThere is a women's empowerment evolution going on in the world currently, and take it or not, it is one that has come to stay. Not only has it come to stay, it keeps advancing. In addition, women are now a driving force; raising, building, and pushing fellow women to heights formerly restricted to only the male. The more interesting fact is that, Nigerian women are not left out of this evolution. Talk of Mo Abudu setting the pace in the movie industry; Tara Durotoye in the beauty industry; or even Temi Ajibewa \u2013 The Millionaire Housewife \u2013 teaching and helping several hundreds of women to attain financial freedom and yet balancing things up as wives and mothers. ABISOYE AJAYI AKINFOLARIN For Abisoye Ajayi-Akinfolarin, it is technology. The Ondo State-born hero is a Computer Programmer, Women Rights Activist, and the founder of Pearls Africa Youth Foundation, a foundation whose objective is to train young and vulnerable girls in underdeveloped communities in Nigeria, particularly in the field of technology. Born on May 29, 1985, her interest in computers was ignited at the age of 10, after she visited her brother's friend's business center. This interest kept budding, and she decided to intern with an IT firm after her secondary school education. Afterwards, she attended the Nigerian Institute of Information Technology (NIIT) and later, the University of Lagos, where she obtained a BSc in Business Administration. HER CAREER\nbellanaija.com\nAbisoye's career kick started when she joined E.D.P Audit and Security Associates, where she worked for seven years. She built her career from the scratch \u2013 as an intern \u2013 and rose to the level of Associate Consultant. Irrespective of her growing career as an IT Consultant, Abisoye quit her job in 2012 for a call \u2013 passion for women liberation and relevance. WHY PEARLS AFRICA YOUTH FOUNDATION? In 2013, Abisoye came across a government survey which revealed that, less than 8% of Nigerian women were employed in professional, managerial or technology jobs. This further highlighted the fact that an enormous number of girls were unskilled in computer programming. Riding on the oars of this passion now stirred, she decided to close up the gender gap in technology. Hence, she began to encourage young girls to gain relevant technological skills. She chose to focus on young girls because, according to her, \"gender justice is a matter of basic rights and also a key means to addressing poverty. An empowered girl will become an empowered woman; an empowered woman builds an empowered family, and an empowered family builds a powerful nation through transforming local communities and adding more to the world's economic prosperity.\" THE 'WHAT' Over the years, Pearls Africa Youth Foundation has developed programs and projects to train and empower girls. Girls Coding: This program is directed at young girls between the ages of 10 and 17, and living in underdeveloped communities or orphanage homes in Nigeria. Through this program, girls are trained in computer skills, robotics, and programming, using HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Pythons and Scratch. It also connects these young girls with female mentors and Tech Companies for internship, in order to reinforce their learning and broaden their horizon. The program is supported by the United States Mission in Nigeria. As the name suggests, Empowered Hands is a project that empowers less privileged girls with vocational training in bead making, fashion designing, Aso-oke weaving, Ankara Crafts, hair styling, making of wigs, which runs from July-August yearly. Other programs include Lady Labs, Safe Space, community outreach, medical outreach, Educate Her, school outreach, as well as internship placements. ACHIEVEMENTS\nSome of the students at Girls Coding. tink-africa.com\nThe Foundation has trained over 400 girls since its establishment. One of such girls is Sharon Okpoe, a student of the Foundation, aged 17 years old, who is also a beneficiary of Girls Coding. Sharon recently created a website called Makoko Fresh with her team, STAM. Makoko Fresh is a website where the fishermen in Makoko would be able to sell their fishes to other people living outside the community without the help of a middleman. She created the website to bridge the gap between fisherman and willing consumers. REWARD Abisoye Akinfolarin was featured as one of CNN's top 10 heroes of the year (2018) and as the first Nigerian CNN hero. She would be given $10,000 in support of her heroic endeavors. References: PearlsAfrica, CNN, Guardian Life\nUS-Based Nigerian Woman Returns Lost $36,000 Dollars\nNigerian Senate Recommends Fuel Tanker Driver For National Honour\n'The Labour of our Heroes Past': Securing the Future for the Coming Generation\nEveryday Heroes: Mallam Mukhtar Gulma\nThis article was first published on 24th November 2018\nchristianajiki\n3 thoughts on \"Everyday Heroes: Abisoye Ajayi-Akinfolarin\"\nThank you so much for accepting my connect. I am a user of windows 10 OS computer and found this shareit pc feature so interesting so i would like to share with all of you.\n29th March 2019 7:31 am\nA very awesome blog post. We are really grateful for your blog post. You will find a lot of approaches after visiting your post.\n7 Step Guide to Bankroll Management\n18th October 2022 7:55 am\nThis site definitely has all of the information I needed about this subject\nMy website: cartoon porn\n22nd January 2023 3:08 am\nVicky Umodu who is a granny said God has given her everything she has asked for, there was no need to steal another person's money. Read more about Discover Nigeria Nigerians in Diaspora have always defied the odds to prove that Nigeria is a nation filled with great and trustworthy people. The story of a \u2026 Continue reading US-Based Nigerian Woman Returns Lost $36,000 Dollars\nThere were no casualties recorded due to the driver's bravery and courage. The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has recommended a brave tanker driver identified as Ejiro Otarigho to President Muhammadu Buhari for National Honour. In a bid to avert a tragic fire incident that would have cost numerous lives and properties, Mr \u2026 Continue reading Nigerian Senate Recommends Fuel Tanker Driver For National Honour\nEveryday Heroes History Personal Development\nThe fifth line of the first stanza of our national anthem reads, 'The Labours of our heroes past, shall never be in vain!\". However, this evokes different thoughts in the mind of Nigerians when they sing this line of our anthem. Despite the setbacks of post-independence Nigeria, it's important to recount some of the \"labours \u2026 Continue reading 'The Labour of our Heroes Past': Securing the Future for the Coming Generation\nDiscover Nigeria Everyday Heroes\nMallam Mukhtar Gulma, the school teacher who sacrificed his life for his students in Federal government College Birnin Yauri, Kebbi state, is a hero by whatever standard you may want to choose or whatever definition you might like to adopt. A normal man with a sign of beyond normal courage, Mallam Mukhtar Gulma will be \u2026 Continue reading Everyday Heroes: Mallam Mukhtar Gulma\nBy jeremiah","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"\u0413\u043b\u0430\u0432\u043d\u0430\u044f \/ Souvenirclock \/ Heart ERA better opt to move right\nHeart ERA better opt to move right\nTommy Talau 24.\nYou go out there, you get your reads and when the ball gets Custom Stitched jerseys in the air like that, everything feels like it slows down.\nOffseason lookahead: This is another offseason position to watch.\nMurray also has 1 rushing yards and 15 TDs.\n\u2013 Head Coach Doug Marrone on WR Laviska Shenault Jr.\nI think, like always, guys in our secondary, we move on fast and I think we always come to the sideline and understand exactly what it was and why a bad play happened for us, and then we fix it and got right down to it.\nBut the reality of the situation that may have been the most troubling is there was nothing fluky about the defeat.\n20 during the Jays' dreadful series at the Yankees.\nMiami coach Brian Flores took some heat when he decided to hand the reins to rookie Tua Tagovailoa as the Dolphins were in the thick of the playoff hunt.\nElias and Corbin had way too much time for a feud that didn't have a great deal of momentum.\nDaniel Jacobs will take place Saturday, May 4 \u2014 the weekend of Cinco de Mayo.\nWhat is clear is that four linebackers will be a feature of this defense and that is indeed a unique and welcome throwback.\nThere are some things he does that Pat did.\nI could see the Jaguars signing a veteran here, but I don't sense they feel it's a have to.\nHelp support Rhode Island communities by ordering your Patriots license plate today!\nI'm sure he's learned customize my own jersey things about our organization and learned some things from us, and I think we've all learned some things from him.\nLouis that cemented his status as a future Cooperstown inductee before he ever played for the Angels.\nOur focus also goes far beyond whether we play in the fall, Ambrosie wrote, noting that non-player football operations were asked to cut budgets by 20 percent and that he and league's executive team took 20 percent pay cuts in April.\nBouye: You definitely don't want to let the coach down.\nI'm just really proud of my team.\nMight be a better guard or right tackle at the next level.\nIt faced Coppin State and Bellarmine, but three similar games were canceled because of COVID protocols; one was to be rescheduled, but when Krzyzewski became concerned about how the pandemic was affecting his players, he called off the game so his players could have a break at Christmas.\nBryan wasn't the only player Marrone singled out as playing well Thursday.\nMichael from Orange Park, FL: Buying Wembley Stadium also means Shad Khan get a part of every rent check given to Wembley, including the NFL games.\n\u2014 Before defeating McGregor, Mayweather had landed roughly 46 percent of his punches, customized jerseys limiting his opponents to connecting on just 22 percent.\nNow, we're not in the same position that we've been in years past with our cap situation, but we're hopeful that this is just a short period of time that we're like that, and we move on and going forward, that we'll have the flexibility back to be able to do that.\nIt will be the second time Canelo has fought at the venue and Saunders' first appearance there.\nIt just shows that as a whole offensive unit we're just imposing our will, said Wynn on Monday.\nThe stories of their own families begin on this campus, where they met their wives, Michelle and Melissa.\n\u041f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u044b\u0434\u0443\u0449\u0430\u044f \u0437\u0430\u043f\u0438\u0441\u044c: 349 game NRL, veteran also upset MMA legend mark\n\u0421\u043b\u0435\u0434\u0443\u044e\u0449\u0430\u044f \u0437\u0430\u043f\u0438\u0441\u044c: Saints think that helped maybe different offense, smart","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Kirishima Thing: Review\nThe Kirishima Thing: ReviewJ. FletcherAugust 12, 2012 March 8, 2022\nRegardless of creed, culture or country there is a singularly unifying trial that all teenagers endure, the cruelty and disruptive refinement of high school. And in a country like Japan, where the image of the archetypal uniformed school student has become something of a national trademark, that hormone driven ecosystem remains as fragile as it is combustible. It's this volatile and ambiguous adolescent playground that advertising director turned filmmaker Daihachi Yoshida's has set his latest film, The Kirishima Thing.\nBased on the award-winning novel of the same name by Ryo Asai, Yoshida delivers a darkly comedic, and occasionally confronting dissection of teen angst as he navigates the butterfly effect unleashed when the most popular of the popular kids, Kirishima (who is never actually seen, but only referenced throughout the film) simply disappears, leaving a power vacuum within the school's hierarchical social scene.\nCondensing the acclaimed novel to its fundamental themes, Yoshida pulls his narrative focus to encapsulate Ryoya Maeda, an awkward film-club student, portrayed by rising star Ryunosuke Kamiki (20th Century Boys 3), and Hiroki Kikuchi, newcomer Masahiro Higashide, who excels within the school's elitist clique. Crafting a deeply intricate character study of his two primary protagonists, Yoshida delivers a compelling and intricate expose of teen morality as the teenagers waver under the flux of their shifting social standings in the wake of Kirishima's mysterious absence.\nProduced by hit-maker Takahiro Sato, whose previous works include the cult film franchises Death Note & Gantz, and boasting an outstanding support cast including Ai Hashimoto (Confessions) and Suzuka Ohgo (Memoirs of a Geisha), Yoshida's off-kilter vision never panders to the atypical teen drama tropes, instead he deftly pries open themes of abandonment, jealousy and ambition from the most ordinary of subjects, allowing his somewhat cynical narrative to surge forward unrestrained. The result is poignant, albeit twisted morality tale that manages to entertain as much as it resonates.\ndramafilmJapanesereview","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Albert Watson drawing on Larne 'hunger' in defence of Shield against Linfield\nNorth West 200 to return in 2022 after two-year absence\nSportMotorcycling\nIrish road racing dates 2022 - Mid Antrim 150 to return for first time since 2016?\nA full season of Irish national road racing is on the cards in 2022 after two barren years, with the sport heavily hit by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\nBy Kyle White\nUpdated Tuesday, 16th November 2021, 5:43 pm\nNo national events have taken place in the Republic of Ireland since 2019, while the Cookstown 100 was the only Irish road race meeting that went ahead in 2020.\nThis year, Armoy made a welcome return to the calendar in the summer, while the Cookstown 100 also proceeded on a rescheduled date in September after the Co Tyrone event was postponed from April.\nHowever, things are looking up for next season, when road racing is set to return in the south, while a full calendar is also scheduled in Northern Ireland \u2013 including the return of the North West 200 in May. Plans are also afoot to rescue the Ulster Grand Prix and restore the historic Dundrod meeting to the calendar in 2022 after it was hit by a financial crisis in 2019.\nDerek Sheils leads the late Malachi Mitchell-Thomas as the Mid Antrim 150 in 2016.\nA number of milestone dates are on the horizon, with the Cookstown 100 and Ulster Grand Prix set to celebrate 100 years, while the Tandragee 100 will aim to mark its 60th anniversary in May.\nThe Mid Antrim 150, last held in 2016, is also slated for a comeback next year.\nFurther afield, it is hoped that racing will return on the Isle of Man with the TT, Southern 100 and Classic TT and Manx Grand Prix meetings, which haven't taken place since 2019.\nThe TT will run from May 29 to June 11, with the Classic TT and Manx Grand Prix scheduled from August 21 to September 2. The Southern 100 is pencilled in for July 11-14.\nIrish road racing dates 2022\nApril 22-23 \u2013 Cookstown 100\nApril 29-30 \u2013 Tandragee 100\nMay 10-14 \u2013 North West 200\nJune 18-19 \u2013 Kells\nJune 25-26 \u2013 Cork\nJuly 2-3 \u2013 Skerries 100\nJuly 9-10 \u2013 Walderstown\nJuly 16-17 - Faugheen\nJuly 29-30 \u2013 Armoy\nAugust 12-13 \u2013 Mid Antrim 150 (tbc)\nAugust 16-20 \u2013 Ulster Grand Prix (tbc)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Meryem Ok researched microfluidic and bulk production of cationic liposomes\/siRNA complexes for applications in gene therapy\nMeryem at the 2014 MIT-Brazil Networking Event, presenting her summer internship to MIT-Brazil's sponsor Santander Universities.\nOver the course of two and a half months in the summer of 2014, Meryem worked with Professor Lucimara de La Torre at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) School of Chemical Engineering, Department of Materials and Bioprocess Engineering and the Center for Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering (CBMEG). She also collaborated with the Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory (LNNano), part of Brazil's National Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM). Her project was entitled, \"Microfluidic and Bulk Production of Cationic Liposomes for RNAi Delivery.\" The goal was to help Prof de La Torre's lab transition from DNA-\u00ad\u2010based therapeutics to RNA interference by transfecting HeLa cells with cationic liposomes\/siRNA complexes, ultimately for applications in gene therapy.\nAs a bioengineer, Meryem had previously worked on projects in immunology, DNA damage and repair, and chemically modified antibacterial or photosensitive nanoparticles. \"People often ask me what it actually means to be a bioengineer. Biological Engineering is the application of engineering to solve biological problems or, in some cases, the application of biology to solve engineering problems. It is an extremely interdisciplinary field, which is what I love about it.\"\nThank you, MISTI, for providing me with the opportunity to experience the interdisciplinary field of bioengineering, from the nanoscale to the global scale.\nMeryem became interested in nanomedicine in the fall of 2013 when she participated in a semester\u2010long Advanced Seminar in Biomaterials at MIT. While she had some previous experience with nanoparticles, working with microfluidic devices was a novel experience for her. \"When I first started working with these devices, it took me quite a while to set everything up and reach hydrodynamic stability. However, by the end of the internship I felt like I had developed a certain level of proficiency and facility in manipulating the tubing and flow within the device. Also, it was really fascinating to be able to produce nanoscale biological structures in micrometer-\u00ad\u2010scale channels. To put things in perspective, the thickness of an average human hair is 80,000 to 100,000 nanometers, and I was producing liposomes 1\/1,000 of that size, with diameters on the order of 100 nanometers. It gave me confidence as a bioengineer, and it confirmed my newfound passion for nanomedicine.\"\nIn addition to the technical training, interning in Brazil offered Meryem a global perspective on research. She enjoyed working in a university environment with the added bonus of delicious Brazilian food and desserts. Despite some setbacks due to limited resources and inevitable World Cup distractions, Meryem learned to be proactive and creative, like her coworkers, in order to accomplish tasks while in Brazil. \"I had to take a lot of initiative as a scientist and collaborate with researchers in different departments and labs, both on and off-\u00ad\u2010campus, given that my project required a variety of materials and analytical instruments.\" While in Campinas, Meryem also attended the 4th annual Microfluidics Workshop at CNPEM, where she viewed seminars and participated in discussions on the broad applications of microfluidics in health, energy and electrical engineering, among others. \"In Brazil, I had to become comfortable enough with the concepts and scope of my project to discuss and present my work to graduate students, post\u2010docs and professors in Portuguese. This helped me develop confidence in the subject material and in my ability to interact with other scientists on a global level.\"\nLink to blog: http:\/\/meryemok.wordpress.com\/\nMajor & Class Year\nBioE '15\nMISTI Program\nMISTI Host\nState University of Campinas (Instituto de Qu\u00edmica\/ Unicamp)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"ACT \u00bb\nBest ACT Test Prep Courses in Hong Kong\nManhattan Review in Hong Kong is a high-end test prep company that offers a full range of services for the ACT. Our Hong Kong students learn how to effectively and efficiently reach their desired ACT scores with several flexible ACT learning options, including on-site ACT prep classes, online ACT instruction, private ACT tutoring, and ACT practice tests. Manhattan Review's ACT students master the content of each ACT section, and they also learn how to use test-taking strategies and time management skills to further boost scores. The study techniques and general academic abilities covered in our ACT prep courses also facilitate long-term academic success. Manhattan Review has been improving test scores and all-around academic performance since we were founded in 1999, and thousands of students around the world have benefited from our instruction. Manhattan Review's Hong Kong ACT tutors and instructors are eminently qualified and highly experienced, and they also receive comprehensive training in our innovative course materials and instructional methodologies. With Manhattan Review's ACT services, Hong Kong students can prepare with confidence.\nManhattan Review students are regularly accepted to the most prestigious universities in the English-speaking world. Thousands of our clients have successfully met the high admission standards of elite schools such as MIT, Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, the University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, Williams, Swarthmore, Emory, UCLA, NYU, Vanderbilt, and UC Berkeley. Many of our former students are now respected professionals in a wide variety of fields. Some of them work for Fortune 500 companies, including Dow Chemical, Prudential Financial, United Technologies, JP Morgan Chase, and Wells Fargo. Others have returned to Hong Kong and accepted jobs at Asia Pacific Vision, Giordano International Limited, Bank of China, New World Development, and other area firms. At Manhattan Review, we are dedicated to bringing this same degree of success to the next generation of university students. Contact our Hong Kong office today by phone, email, or online for details on our ACT prep services.\nStudents should not underestimate the importance of standardized testing to university admissions. Test-optional policies at postsecondary institutions in the United States have become more widely adopted, and more than 900 of the country's approximately 4,500 tertiary institutions no longer require standardized testing. Very few of these schools, however, feature prominently in the national rankings. 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{"text":"Arashijar The Breakdown Of The Basic Nature Of\nSpanish and mexican war - rectoria.unal.edu.co\nspanish and mexican war\nThe Mexican War of Independence \u2014 was an armed conflict between the people of Mexico and the Spanish colonial authorities which started on 16 September The movement, which became known as the Mexican War spanish and mexican war Independence, was led by Mexican-born Spaniards, Mestizos and Amerindians who sought independence from Spain.\nIt started as an idealistic peasants' rebellion against their colonial masters, but ended as an unlikely alliance between Mexican ex-royalists and Mexican guerrilla insurgents. In the early 19th century, Napoleon's occupation of Spain led to the outbreak of revolts all across Spanish America. After the abortive Conspiracy of the Machetes in[2] the War of independence led by the Mexican-born Spaniards became a reality with the Grito de Dolores coming 11 years after the conspiracy, which is considered in modern Mexico to be a precursor of the War of Independence. As indicated perhaps by the failed conspiracy, before the movement for independence was far from gaining unanimous support among Mexicans, who became divided between non-independent persons, autonomists and royalists.\nAnalysis Of Resistance To Civil Government By Henry David Thoreau\nThese meetings came to include famed military leader Ignacio Allende. In Hidalgo arrived at the conclusion that a revolt against the colonial government was needed because of the events and injustice being perpetrated upon the poor of Mexico, which had gotten out of hand. By this time Hidalgo had achieved some notoriety.\nLater he also became known as a top theologian. When his older brother died inHidalgo took over as Priest for the town of Dolores.\nHenry David Thoreau Resistance To Civil Disobedience Analysis\nHidalgo was in Dolores on 15 Septemberwith other leaders of the rebel \"conspiracy\" including military commander Allende, when word came to them that the conspiracy had been found out. Needing to move immediately, Hidalgo ran to the church, calling for all the people to gather, where from the pulpit he called upon them to revolt. Being inspired and tired of their ill-treatment by the wealthy who had befriended the Spanish and mexican war and the Spanish, they all shouted in agreement for such a revolt.\nThey were a comparatively small group, and poorly armed with whatever was at their disposal. Spanish and mexican war only had sticks and rocks as weapons. On the morning of 16 SeptemberHidalgo called upon the remaining locals who happened to be in the market on that day, and again, from the pulpit, he announced his intention to strike for independence and exhorted the people of Dolores to join him.\nMost did: Hidalgo had an army of some men within minutes. Hidalgo and Allende marched their little army through towns including San Miguel and Celaya, and where the angry rebels killed all the Spaniards they found.\nAlong the way they adopted the standard of the Virgin of Guadalupe as their symbol and protector.]\nOne thought on \"Spanish and mexican war\"\nSaktilar :\nYou have hit the mark. Thought good, it agree with you.\nNall :\nDolrajas :\nThis message, is matchless))), very much it is pleasant to me :)\nGanris :\nI join. I agree with told all above. We can communicate on this theme. Here or in PM.\nDugul :\nDusida to article Spanish and mexican war\nDoushakar to article Spanish and mexican war\nYogis to article Spanish and mexican war\nZolojar to article Spanish and mexican war\nSharn to article Spanish and mexican war\nAkinonris to article Spanish and mexican war\nAmarinder bindra\nBoule de suif maupassant\nFate in oedipus rex","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/11ab5a446a584202b0fb0dd5ebb6b626\nThe Chemours Co\nEPA hits chemical maker for not notifying on new compounds\nBy EMERY P. DALESIOFebruary 15, 2019 GMT\nFILE - This June 15, 2018, file photo shows the Chemours Company's PPA facility at the Fayetteville Works plant near Fayetteville, N.C. where the chemical known as GenX is produced. The EPA said in a violation notice letter this week that The Chemours Co. also failed to provide information showing when the company learned the chemical GenX contaminated water wells and properties around its factories near Fayetteville and Parkersburg, W. Va.. The agency says the violations found came after inspecting the two plants in 2017. (AP Photo\/Gerry Broome, File)\nRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) \u2014 A chemical maker's North Carolina plant may have broken federal law by failing to notify the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency before it started manufacturing and repurposing new industrial compounds, the agency said this week.\nThe Chemours Co. also failed to provide information showing when the company learned the chemical GenX contaminated water wells and properties around its factories near Fayetteville and Parkersburg, West Virginia, the EPA said in a violation notice letter dated Wednesday.\nFederal law requires the producers of potentially toxic substances that \"may present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment\" to notify the EPA before the companies start making new chemicals or use an existing compound for a significantly new use. That would allow the agency to investigate their effects.\n\"The review process exists to make sure that new chemicals are safe and that new uses those chemicals are put to are also safe,\" environmental lawyer Robin Smith said. \"It's a basic requirement that's intended to protect health and safety.\"\nOperators of Chemours' Fayetteville plant failed to give those required notices for several chemicals including HFPO, a chemical used to make the compound GenX. GenX has been found in drinking water wells near the plant and also the municipal utility serving the city of Wilmington, about 100 miles (161 kilometers) down the Cape Fear River.\nThe EPA classifies GenX as an \"emerging contaminant\" needing research. Animal studies show GenX has the potential to affect the kidneys, blood, immune system, liver and developing fetuses following oral exposure, the EPA said in a draft report released last year. \"The data are suggestive of cancer,\" the report said.\nChemours also failed to contain GenX within its West Virginia plant despite a 2009 agreement with the federal agency that the company would stop 99 percent of the chemical from getting into the water and air.\nEPA said it found the violations after inspecting the two plants in 2017. Since then, Chemours has made changes to address some of the issues raised, company spokeswoman Lisa Randall said in an emailed statement. She wouldn't say why Chemours didn't provide EPA with the required notices.\nChemours also should provide within 30 days information EPA previously asked for describing when the Fortune 500 company first learned that GenX had contaminated drinking water wells near the two plants, the agency said.\nIts Chemours investigation may find other violations and fines could follow, EPA said.\n\"It's significant that EPA is now weighing in,\" said Geoff Gisler, a Southern Environmental Law Center attorney. \"EPA ensuring the company is properly documenting and registering the chemicals they're using at the site is an important thing to have happen.\"\nFollow Emery P. Dalesio on Twitter at http:\/\/twitter.com\/emerydalesio. His work can be found at https:\/\/apnews.com\/search\/emery%20dalesio.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"On to Ottawa in marvelous, meandering prose\nby Yutaka Dirks Feb 28, 2012 4 min read Share\nThe Time We All Went Marching\nBy Arley McNeney\nGoose Lane, 2011\nThe last spike was driven in the transcontinental railway in 1885, satisfying a commitment made to British Columbia by the Canadian federal government. The railway would unite the Confederation, open up new lands for colonization, and provide greater access for industry and trade. Fifty years later, in June 1935, hundreds of unemployed men took to those same rails in what was dubbed the On to Ottawa Trek.\nIn response to staggering unemployment rates during the Great Depression, the federal government set up isolated relief camps where single, jobless men toiled in poor working and living conditions. Thousands of these men walked out in April 1935 and boarded boxcars heading to Ottawa to raise their demands with the government of Prime Minister R. B. Bennett. The march was crushed in Regina when a police riot against the Trekkers ended with two people confirmed dead and over 100 arrested. This is the historic moment in Canadian working peoples' history referred to in the title of Arley McNeney's beautifully written second novel.\nThe Time We All Went Marching is composed of vignettes that move back and forth through time and from character to character, bringing the struggle of working-class men and women in the 1930s and 1940s to life through luminescent prose.\nThe story begins in the aftermath of the Second World War as Edie takes her four-year-old son, Belly, and boards a train bound for New Westminster, B.C. She leaves Slim, her husband of 10 years, passed out in their apartment covered in ice and snow from an open window and a burst pipe.\nThroughout the journey, Edie spins stories for her son, and for herself, about the On to Ottawa Trek. She relates how the men lacked placards and so used shoe polish to write slogans \u2013 We Want Work and Wages! End the Slave Camp System! \u2013 on their clothes. \"They wear their sweaters until the letters bear their scent,\" McNeney writes, \"until the sweat bleeds the message imprecisely onto their damp skins.\"\nSlim's stories of taking part in the Trek were what first captivated Edie. She returns to these stories after leaving him behind, retelling Slim's story the way she imagines it. And she tells it wonderfully: \"Slim knows that the train can confuse your body so much it thinks it's been airborne. He knows the way your legs reject solid ground when you've been moving so fast for so long.\"\nThe lyrical rhythm of the prose and the working-class subject matter prompt favourable comparisons to Michael Ondaatje's classic novel In the Skin of a Lion, but the story lacks Ondaatje's narrative drive. It is not until a quarter of the way through that the story picks up a solid pace. An accident on the train leaves Belly injured, and the passengers are forced to stop in a snowbound saloon. Even then, the drama and conflict feel muted.\nUnfortunately, the almost-phantasmic vignettes and twisting narrative threads that are the novel's strength work against building needed suspense. McNeney's treatment of the Regina Riot as a memory retold by Edie, a non-participant, brings poetry to the experience but lessens the tension.\nUltimately, this is not a peoples' history but the story of one woman on the cusp of change. Edie has made a bold decision to break with her current life. However, instead of looking to her future, she spends the journey returning to the past: her teenage love affair with a prisoner in a graveyard, and her first years with Slim when she disguised herself as a miner to keep him company in the tunnels.\nEdie also wrestles with her ambivalent feelings toward her son. McNeney acknowledges that rearing children can be a burden as easily as a blessing, and that this burden may not always be overcome by a mother's love. Edie loves Belly but yearns for the freedom to pursue the wildness within her. \"There are those who want to ascend in life and those who want to move straight and fast as far as they can go: those who seek clouds and those who seek the sun setting along a horizon they will never touch. Edie believes that the world can be divided into those who dream of walls and those who dream of trains.\"\nA train is a machine with unwavering purpose; it moves relentlessly forward on the rails. If the cars leave the track, there is no escaping disaster. Unlike a train, McNeney's beautiful novel takes time to meander; the prose jumps ethereally off track, and patient readers will find themselves richer for the derailment.\nTags: activism labour review\nThis article originally appeared in the March\/April 2012 issue of Briarpatch.\nFinding our own voices\nA profile of Migrante Ontario\nPeak oil for preteens\nWhy strike support isn't enough\nLessons in solidarity organizing on the one-year anniversary of the postal strike\nGood ideas are not enough\nby MaryCarl Guiao Jul 1, 2010 4 min read\nby Airin Stephens Sep 1, 2011 2 min read\nby Dave Bush and Kaley Kennedy Jul 1, 2012 4 min read\nby Yutaka Dirks May 1, 2013 3 min read","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"< ALL ARTISTS\nTomi Ungerer is best known for his witty children's books, as well as being a successful political commentator, prolific writer, and erotic artist. Born in Strasbourg in 1931, he first gained notoriety after moving to New York in 1956 and creating illustrations for magazines such as Esquire, Life, Harper's Bazaar, The Village Voice, and The New York Times. Ungerer is now internationally renowned for his etched caricatures imbued with sharp social satire\u2014a style maintained in his children's books, which he began to publish with Harper and Row in 1957. These books include such fantastical tales as \"The Mellops Go Flying,\" (1957) about a family of daring pigs, \"The Three Robbers\" (1962) a classic French and German story about bandits made honest by an orphan girl, and \"Moon Man\" (1967) about the man in the moon's adventure to Earth.\nDuring the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s Ungerer began to branch out from advertising and editorial work to make personal pictorial responses to racism, fascism, and war\u2014most notably a set of brutal anti-Vietnam War posters. In the 1970s he began to draw erotic illustrations for adult books\u2014which he continues, in addition to children's books, since moving to Ireland in ...\nDuring the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s Ungerer began to branch out from advertising and editorial work to make personal pictorial responses to racism, fascism, and war\u2014most notably a set of brutal anti-Vietnam War posters. In the 1970s he began to draw erotic illustrations for adult books\u2014which he continues, in addition to children's books, since moving to Ireland in 1976.\nUngerer's work has been shown internationally including a retrospective exhibition that traveled from the Louvre to Munich, D\u00fcsseldorf, Hamburg, Dublin, and the Royal Festival Hall in London; as well as solo exhibitions at Itabashi Art Museum in Tokyo, Strasbourg's Museum of Modern Art, and Max Ernst Museum in Br\u00fchl, Germany. The Council of Europe chose Tomi Ungerer as their first Ambassador for Childhood and Education and he has been awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Prize for children's literature. In 2007 a museum dedicated solely to the artist's work and collections opened in Strasbourg.\nClick here for more books by Tomi Ungerer.\nArtists Books \/ Children \/ Erotic\nshow more descriptionshow less description\nHometown Strasbourg, France\nLives and Works Strasbourg, France and Ireland\nMus\u00e9e Tomi Ungerer-Centre international de l'illustration\nArtist Twitter\nArtist Facebook\nWorks Available for Purchase\nNo works\n\"Visual Impact\" Author Liz McQuiston's Art Picks\nThe graphic designer and author of Phaidon's Visual Impact: Creative Dissent in the 21st Century Liz McQuiston selects 10 pieces that exemplify the art of protest.\nChildren's Book Icon Tomi Ungerer on His Wild Career\nOn the verge of his landmark survey at New York's Drawing Center, we spoke to the revered author of children's books (and adult entertainments) about his life's work.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Church Updates and Response to Covid-19\nCentralOnline\nChurch Updates & COVID-19\n2021 Prayer Goals\nAs we start our year together, we want to challenge you to pray \u2014 for our community, our city and our world. And we want to give you two simple prayer goals for 2021. You can write them down.\nMaybe you need to make a reminder on your phone that pops up every week. We want to make these prayers a priority, because we believe these prayers line up with God's will for our church. We believe these prayers are foundational prayers. Prayers that He will hear and respond to.\nWe hope you'll accept this challenge. We hope you'll make it a priority to pray these foundational prayers \u2014 for unity and leaders. And if you do, we can't wait to see where God will take us.\nUNITY - \"So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.\" Philippians 2:1-4\nLEADERS - \"As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace.\" 1 Peter 4:10\nIn compliance with the regulations put in place by the BC Health authorities on November 19th, we will be extending our office closure until at least February 5th.\nWe will continue to offer our services online - HERE and on our Facebook page, and encourage you to participate.\nDue to the recently announced provincial health order, the leadership of Central Christian Assembly has advised that, from Monday, November 9 until Monday, November 23, the church office will be closed. Staff will be working from home and we are discouraging anyone from coming to the building\nAlthough our province has entered phase three of reopening, the building of Central Christian Assembly remains closed to the public. We are continuing online services and are carefully considering reopening Sunday services in-person in September, but will continue to have online accessibility even when this happens.\nOur other church ministries including Second Chance Clothes Closet, Youth, and Young Adults will remain canceled for now, but we are working towards starting up some of these ministries soon.\nKids ministry, live-streamed services, pre-service prayer as well as a post-service gathering are all still occurring every Sunday.\nPre-service prayer begins at 10AM via Zoom\nThe live stream service begins at 10:45AM via Facebook or the Church Website\nThe post-service gathering begins at 11:30AM via Zoom\nKids Ministry resources are available at any time using this link | www.centralmychurch.com\/cca-kids-online\nEquip Nights will be starting up shortly, please check back here shortly for more details or sign up here if you'd like updates on this.\nIn compliance with the government's restriction on gatherings of 50 or greater, Central Christian Assembly is cancelling in-person worship services effective Sunday, March 22 until further notice. During this time, our church website will be a valuable resource for you to connect and to receive updates as to when we may resume our normal in-person Sunday services.\nIn the meantime, we will be live-streaming Pastor Bill's sermons via a live link. On March 22 he will begin a new series entitled \"The 23rd Psalm in the Times of COVID-19\". Psalm 23 was written by a man who faced his own crises and yet was able to say, \"The LORD is my Shepherd, I shall not want.\u200b\u200b\nAll other church-related activities will be cancelled until further notice. This includes Children's Ministry, Youth, Young Adults and Second Chance Clothes Closet. Prayer requests and praise reports may be submitted through the contact form on the website.\nWe would like to put together a list of volunteers who are able to assist seniors and\/or those in self-isolation with grocery shopping, pharmacy pickups, and prayer requests. Please indicate your willingness to be part of this team by emailing Robyn at the church office (rs.cca@telus.net) or by completing the contact form on the website.\nIf you are a member or a regular attender at Central Christian Assembly and would like to continue to tithe during this time, there is an online option through our website. Cheques may also be mailed to the church (5855 Imperial Street, Burnaby, BC, V5J 1G4) or dropped through the mail slot at the west door of the building (Russell Avenue).\nThese are uncertain times for all of us, and unsettling for many. Please remember God's promise to His people in Philippians 4:6-7:\n\"Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.\"\nOur prayer is that you remain as safe and healthy as possible and that it will not be long before we can join together in worship. God bless you!\nCENTRAL CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY | 5855 IMPERIAL STREET, BURNABY, BC, V5J 1G4, CANADA\n| \u200b Tel: 604-433-2324 | info@centralchristianassembly.com |\nCOVID-19 REQUEST FOR PRAYER CONTACT US\n\u00a9 2020 Central Christian Assembly","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Turkish banks press ahead with football club debt restructuring\nANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's banking association said on Friday that the restructuring of the mounting debts of the country's top football clubs was moving forward, adding that the debts would be matured for five years, with two years without paying the principal on the loans.\nIn January, the Turkish banking Association (TBB) said Turkey's top football clubs, such as Fenerbahce and Galatasaray, will have their debts restructured but not written off, in a move to ease their spiralling debts.\nIn a statement on Friday, the TBB said there would be \"no erasing of debts or pricing beyond market norms. The financial liabilities subject to restructuring will be matured for a total of five years, with two years of non-refundable principal.\"\n\"It is not possible to transfer the debts of football clubs to a bank, and each bank will continue to manage its own credit risk,\" it added.\nLike many Turkish businesses which took large foreign currency loans, clubs have also suffered from a currency crisis that saw Turkey's lira lose almost 30 percent of its value against the dollar in 2018.\nThe \"Big Four\" clubs - which also include Besiktas and Trabzonspor - have spent heavily to attract foreign stars. Poor domestic and international results have exacerbated the debts they have amassed.\nAs the clubs struggle with their debts, which have racked up to more than 10 billion lira (1 billion pounds), they have started to offload valuable players to alleviate some of the financial burdens - putting the teams under more pressure on the pitch.\nReporting by Ebru Tuncay and Tuvan Gumrukcu, editing by Louise Heavens","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"LOWELL SPINNERS\nMinor League Baseball - A \/\nLowell Spinners Tickets\n6 events near Ashburn, VA\nWedJul 1\nLowell Spinners at State College Spikes\nTBD - Medlar Field At Lubrano Park, College, PA, US\nThuJul 2\nFriJul 3\nFriAug 14\nLowell Spinners at Williamsport Crosscutters\nTBD - Bowman Field, Williamsport, PA, US\nSatAug 15\nSunAug 16\nThuJun 18\nConnecticut Tigers at Lowell Spinners\n7:05 PM - LeLacheur Park, Lowell, MA, US\nFriJun 19\nSatJun 20\nSunJun 21\nLowell Spinners at Vermont Lake Monsters\n1:00 PM - Centennial Field Vermont, Burlington, VT, US\nMonJun 22\nTueJun 23\nWedJun 24\nStaten Island Yankees at Lowell Spinners\nHudson Valley Renegades at Lowell Spinners\nSatJul 4\nLowell Spinners at Staten Island Yankees\n7:00 PM - Richmond County Bank Ballpark, Staten Island, NY, US\nSunJul 5\nMonJul 6\nTueJul 7\nAuburn Doubledays at Lowell Spinners\nFriJul 10\nLowell Spinners at Brooklyn Cyclones\nTBD - MCU Park, Brooklyn, NY, US\nSatJul 11\nNorthwest Pioneer League All-Star Game\nWest Virginia Black Bears\nAuburn Doubledays\nState College Spikes\nMahoning Valley Scrappers\nBatavia Muckdogs\nHudson Valley Renegades\nLowell Spinners Schedule\nThe Lowell Spinners have been the most popular minor league baseball team in Massachusetts since the Elmira Pioneers moved to Lowell. The town is simply abuzz with energy as the New York - Penn minor league season gets underway in summer and several of the best minor league players in the country step onto the diamond looking to earn their way to the Majors while scoring big wins for the Spinners. The Spinners are affiliated with the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball and annually feature players who will go on to become big time MLB stars. Be sure to get your tickets to see the Lowell Spinners from StubHub as soon as possible so you can have the best seats to all of the biggest games.\nThe home season opener will be on June 13th against the Vermont Lake Monsters who will be in town through the 15th. The Spinners' home opener is always a spectacular event and you will definitely want to be in the stands for the 2014 event. June 20th through 22nd brings the Tri-City ValleyCats to LeLacheur Park to take on the Spinners. The ValleyCats won the Stedler division last season, finishing just in front of the Spinners and any series between these two teams has huge repercussions on the division standings, even one early in the season. The Connecticut Tigers, another Stedler division rival, then come to town at the beginning of July for another important series. All of the best New York - Penn League teams will be coming to LeLacheur Park to take on the Spinners as they look to finish the 2014 season at the top of the Stedler division standings. Take a look at the complete Lowell Spinners schedule here on StubHub and get tickets for the games you hope to attend.\nThe Lowell Spinners are now affiliated with the Boston Red Sox, one of the best teams in Major League Baseball and were previously associated with the Florida Marlins. Being affiliated with such a prestigious MLB team means that you have the opportunity to see some of the future MLB stars playing in a smaller venue with better access to the players for pictures and autographs. Tickets to see the Red Sox play at Fenway Park can be hard to come by but you can see future Red Sox players on the diamond today in the comfortable confines of LeLacheur Park. Past players for the Lowell Spinners who have gone on to success in the Major Leagues include Jacoby Ellsbury, David Eckstein, Jonathan Papelbon, Kevin Youkilis, and Hanley Ramirez. The Spinners last won a division title in 2009 but after finishing just two and a half games back in the Stedler division last season this could be the year that the Spinners once again bring home a division title and make a return to the playoffs.\nNothing quite compares to the time honored tradition of taking in a baseball game. After all, there is a reason it is referred to as America's Pastime. From the smell of the freshly cut grass to the National Anthem bellowing through the stands and the crack of the bat as a hitter connects with a pitch, to the sight of a ball flying over the outfield wall and the taste of a fresh hot dogs or Cracker Jacks, attending a baseball game is a a sensory experience like no other and the memories it produces will last a lifetime. The ultimate family day or night out, a baseball game is the perfect bonding experience whether seeing the game with family, friends, or co-workers. As the innings and pitches pile up everyone in attendance can feel the intensity pick up as every pitch, run, and base runner, begin to matter more and more. By the time the seventh inning stretch rolls around a break from the action is welcome just to settle the nerves and enjoy a traditional song before getting right back to all the excitement for the final two and a half innings. As you file out of the stadium after the last out you likely will already be wanting to start making plans for your next visit to the ballpark.\nLowell Spinners New York - Penn League\nThe New York - Penn League is a short season league which runs from late June to early September and plays only 76 games, meaning every game in every series takes on extra importance. The league is timed to start after the MLB has held its amateur draft and players have been signed so New York - Penn League players are all looking to impress to get signed for the following season as well as to pull off big wins for their club. The history of the league dates back to 1939 and it is currently made up of 14 teams from seven different states.\nThe Spinners reached the New York - Penn League playoffs for the first time in 2008 when they won the first of their back-to-back Stedler division titles but have yet to make a return to the playoffs since 2009.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"You are here: Home | Catalogues | 2016 | Cupid with Bow and Arrow, Sitting on the Back of a Lion\nVilhelm Nicolai Marstrand\n(1810\u20131873, Copenhagen)\nCupid with Bow and Arrow, Sitting on the Back of a Lion. Pen and brown ink over a preliminary drawing in pencil. 34.6 x 38.3 cm. Circa 1836\u201339.\nWith light, masterful strokes of the pen Marstrand has sketched the God of Love in a playful mood sat nonchalantly on the back of a good-natured lion. The genre painter and portraitist, Vilhelm Marstrand, was just fifteen when he began his studies under C. W. Eckersberg at the Copenhagen Academy. From 1836 to 1839 he lived in Rome, where he joined the resident circle of Danish artists. Constantin Hansen's famous group portrait of 1837 shows the artist in front of an open window in the com\u00adpany of his Danish colleagues (Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen). It was in Rome that Marstrand discovered his own field of artistic endeavour in the depiction of the everyday life of Romans. His genre scenes reflect the day-to-day activities of the inhabitants of Rome and the colourful goings-on in the streets of the citt\u00e0 eterna. Marstrand used this genre, which quickly gained great popularity, to address a new, middle-class clientele back home. Pictures of the everyday life of ordinary people were in vogue around 1840 and served to satisfy the yearning for Italy felt among the Danish public. In 1841 Marstrand returned to Copenhagen, where he was appointed a member of the Academy two years later. From 1848 he taught there as a professor, although he subsequently returned to Italy on many occasions for study tours lasting several years.\nThe present study sheet from a sketchbook probably arose during his first stay in Italy. The drawing is a witty, playful variation on a theme treated by his famous colleague, the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, in a relief done in 1831. Whereas classical severity dominates in Thorvaldsen's work, Marstrand's interpretation radiates a carefree light-heartedness.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"8 events to check out in Dayton this weekend\nBy Don Thrasher\nSpring is finally here. The Dayton Dragons will return soon, the summer concert season gets closer every day, and new and returning events are starting to pop up like bright flowers.\nIn the next week alone, Daytonians can choose from diverse offerings such as the Industrial Strength Bluegrass Festival, the Boonshoft Block Party and a Broadway-themed concert starring Dayton native Julie James of SiriusXM. Here's a look at these and other upcoming area events.\nWhen: March 24-26; Thursday at 6 p.m. Doors opens at 4 p.m.; Friday and Saturday at noon. Doors open at 10 a.m.\nWhere: Roberts Convention Centre, 123 Gano Road, Wilmington\nDetails: Award-winners Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers host the spring installment of its Industrial Strength Bluegrass Festival. The twice-yearly event also features performances by Larry Sparks & the Lonesome Ramblers, Appalachian Road Show, Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, Blue Highway and others.\nCost: Advance tickets are $100 for three-day reserved seats, $90 for three-day general admission. Single day general admission tickets are $30 Thursday and $40 Friday and Saturday. Door tickets are $110 for three-day general admission and $80 for two-day general admission. Single day general admission tickets at the door are $35 Thursday and $45 Friday and Saturday.\nMore info: 800-965-9324 or industrialstrengthbluegrass.com\nCredit: CONTRIBUTED PHOTO\nBoonshoft Block Party\nWhen: Saturday, March 26 at 7 p.m. The movie begins at 8 p.m.\nWhere: Dixie Twin Drive-In, 6201 N. Dixie Dr., Dayton\nDetails: A screening of Jerry Seinfeld's \"Bee Movie\" headlines Boonshoft Block Party presented by Dayton Society for Natural History. The annual spring fundraiser offers an evening of lawn games, face painting, food trucks, a 50\/50 raffle, a photo booth and giveaways from special guest Kristi Leigh from Mix 107.7.\nCost: $60 per car and $100 VIP package\nMore info: 937-275-7431 or www.boonshoftmuseum.org\nCredit: CONTRIBUTED\n\"The Julie James Show\"\nWhen: Saturday, March 26 at 7:30 p.m.\nWhere: Fitton Center for Creative Arts, 101 S. Monument Ave., Hamilton\nDetails: Dayton Christian High School graduate Julie James, host of the entertaining \"Broadway Names with Julie James\" on SiriusXM, returns to the Miami Valley for an evening of show tunes, theme songs and storytelling. She will also showcase her three-and-a-half octave range. \"I consider this a real love letter to my upbringing, without which I don't think I'd be living out so many dreams here in NYC,\" James said.\nCost: Members: $29; Non-members: $37\nMore info: 513-863-8873 or fittoncenter.org\nWhen: March 25-April 10; 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 3 p.m. Sunday opening weekend; and 8 p.m. Friday, 5 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday the following weekends.\nWhere: Dayton Theatre Guild, 430 Wayne Ave., Dayton\nDetails: Arthur Miller's drama \"The Price\" is described as a play about \"family dynamics, the price of furniture and the price of one's decisions.\" Debra Kent directs a cast featuring Dave Williamson as Solomon, Wendi Michael as Esther, Brendan Sheehan as Victor and Ted Eltzroth as Walter.\nCost: $21 adults, $19 seniors and $14 students\nMore info: 937-278-5993 or daytontheatreguild.org\nWorld Championship ICE Racing Series\nWhen: Saturday, March 26 at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.\nWhere: Hobart Arena, 255 Adams St., Troy\nDetails: International Championship Events presents World Championship ICE Racing Series Revival Tour.\nCost: Reserved seats are $22 in advance, $24 day of show. General admission tickets in advance are $17 adults and $7 youth 12 and younger. Prices day of show are $19 adults and $9 youth 12 and younger. Add $5 for Pit Party Passes, which includes early entry at 5:30 p.m.\nMore info: 937-339-2911 or hobartarena.com\nWhen: Thursday, March 31 at 8 p.m. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.\nWhere: The Brightside, 905 E. Third St., Dayton\nDetails: The two founders of this Nashville-based country act are from very different parts of the country, but they found a way to make it work. Phil Evans, a singer-songwriter from Arkansas, and Max Martilik, a guitarist from Los Angeles, bring The Roads Below to town for a show with local opener Jamie Suttle.\nCost: $12 in advance, $15 day of show\nMore info: 937-410-0450 or www.thebrightsidedayton.com\nGabe Kea\nWhen: Friday, March 25 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, March 26 at 7:15 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.\nWhere: Wiley's Comedy Club, 101 Pine St., Dayton\nDetails: With his big personality and imposing 6-foot-5-inch frame, Gabe Kea started using humor to put people at ease at early age. His easygoing nature and a quick wit honed while growing up in Canada and the United States made the Cincinnati-based comedian a natural on stage. His debut comedy album, \"Dumber Than a Fish,\" was released in October 2020.\nMore info: 937-224-5653 or visit wileyscomedy.com\nCredit: HANDOUT\nThe NEON Oscar Party\nWhen: Sunday, March 27\nWhere: The NEON, 130 E. Fifth St., Dayton\nDetails: The NEON's annual Oscar Party. Official ballots are available at the Neon's box office. Doors will open at 7 p.m. Official presentation begins at 8 p.m. Completed ballots must be turned in by 7:45 p.m. on March 27 and you must be present to be eligible for prizes. You can reserve your seats by dropping off your ballot we doors open Saturday, March 26 at noon. (Only two advanced reserved seats per person). Current COVID protocols will be enforced.\nMore info: 937-222-8452 or visit neonmovies.com\nContact this contributing writer at 937-287-6139 or e-mail at donthrasher100@gmail.com.\nRussell Florence Jr. also contributed to this report.\nMelt Bar & Grilled permanently closed in Beavercreek\nNew restaurant opens in former location of El Greco's Pizza Villa\nDayton chef to host evening of food, music, networking\nIce Cream for Breakfast Day returns Saturday to Jubie's Creamery\nTrotwood pizza restaurant applies for liquor license\nDon Thrasher\nDon Thrasher, a native of Gadsden, Alabama, has been a weekly contributor for the Dayton Daily News since 2003. He covers national and international music, performance and art. Don is a versatile writer, who has interviewed ballet dancers, professional athletes, authors, comedians, filmmakers, rodeo clowns and other disparate figures.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Florida Broward County Fort Lauderdale Robert David Malove\nRobert David Malove\nHelping people protect their freedom and get their lives back on track.\nCriminal Law, DUI & DWI, Appeals & Appellate ...\nROBERT DAVID MALOVE is Board Certified as a specialist in criminal trial law by the Florida Bar Board of Legal Education and Specialization. Mr. Malove is distinguished trial lawyer with more than three decades of experience in federal and state courts. He concentrates on legal issues relating to DUI, white-collar crime defense and healthcare fraud defense for which his Health Care Fraud Blog has received widespread recognition. Mr. Malove is a co-author of the noted treatise, WHITE COLLAR CRIME: HEALTH CARE FRAUD (West) (2014-2015 ed.) In 2007, Mr. Malove completed post-graduate studies in Healthcare Corporate Compliance at George Washington University and furthered his comprehensive knowledge in the various state and federal laws regarding healthcare fraud and corporate compliance. Also, in 2007, Mr. Malove attended the Health Care Compliance Association's Compliance Academy has successfully completed the Certified in Healthcare Compliance Examination, thus earning the CHC designation which was renewed through 2011. Prior to serving as an Assistant Public Defender in cases ranging from murder, fraud, to DUI, he graduated with a Doctor of Jurisprudence from Pepperdine University School of Law. Consistent with staying on the cutting edge of developments in criminal defense, one of Mr. Malove's signature trademarks, he earned a Masters Degree in Forensic Science, from the George Washington University in 1981, long before forensic science became part of our everyday lexicon. Before that, Mr. Malove was conferred a BS in the Administration of Justice from The American University School of Justice. He has served as a guest commentator on COURT-TV and maintains membership in the National Association of Criminal Defense lawyers and Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Mr. Malove has extensive experience in the area of pill mill defense and represents the Florida Academy of Pain Medicine, Florida Academy of Physician Assistants, American Academy of Pain Man\nCivil Appeals, Federal Appeals\nDomestic Violence Criminal Defense, Domestic Violence Restraining Orders\nFlorida and Federal Post Conviction Relief\nMedicare and Health Care Fraud\n11th Circuit\nUS District Court for the Middle District of Florida\nUS District Court for the Northern District of Florida\nUS District Court for the Southern District of Florida\nGeorge Washington University - Virginia Campus\nother | Corporate Healthcare Compliance\nMaster of Forensic Science (1981) | Forensic Science\nB.S. (1979)\nSelected To Super Lawyers: 2010 - 2011, 2014 - 2021\nMartindale-Hubbell Lawyers Service\nPeer Rated for Highest Level of Professional Excellence\nFlorida State Bar # 407283\nWhen the Feds Come Knocking\nHow to Choose a DUI Lawyer in Florida\nRobert David Malove, P.A.\nWHITE COLLAR CRIME: HEALTH CARE FRAUD (2010-2011 ed.)\nBoard Certified Criminal Trial Lawyer\nThe Florida Bar Board of Legal Speciaization & Education\nCertified in Healthcare Compliance\nHealth Care Compliance Association\nFort Lauderdale Expert Criminal Trial Attorney Robert D. Malove Call Now 954-861-0384\nFort Lauderdale criminal, DUI and Medicare fraud defense law invites views to visit his site and offers free consumer info.\nFacebook Twitter LinkedIn Justia Profile Robert David Malove's Avvo Profile Robert David Malove's Lawyers.com Profile Robert David Malove's Martindale Profile\nThe Law Offices Of Robert David Malove\n200 SE 9th Street\nMonday: Open 24 hours (Today)\nTuesday: Open 24 hours\nWednesday: Open 24 hours\nThursday: Open 24 hours\nFriday: Open 24 hours\nSunday: Open 24 hours\nEmail Robert David Malove\nMark Eiglarsh\nSusan R Brown\nPlantation, FL\nDave Simmons\nBradford M. Cohen","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The World Is Running Out Of A Critical Snakebite Antidote\nPublished September 9, 2015 at 4:28 PM CDT\nBlack mambas are one of the fastest snakes in the world and grow up to 14 feet long. But their venom is no match for the antidote Fav-Afrique.\nThe treatment is called Fav-Afrique. It's the only anti-venom approved to neutralize the bites of 10 deadly African snakes, like spitting cobras, carpet vipers and black mambas. And the world's stockpiles of it are dwindling, Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday. The last batch expires next June.\n\"I think this is really a health crisis,\" says Dr. Gabriel Alcoba, the snakebite medical adviser for Doctors Without Borders. \"We're talking about more than 30,000 deaths per year. This is an epidemic. This is comparable to many other diseases.\"\nAlcoba says he has seen many lives saved by Fav-Afrique. \"I saw a small child who had been bitten on the face,\" he says. \"The child's whole face was swollen. He could practically not breathe, and you could not see his eyes.\"\nDoctors gave the child the anti-venom. \"And this [his symptoms] all resolved in two days, and the child could go home.\"\nThis time next year, though, there may not be any Fav-Afrique at clinics across Africa, Alcoba says.\nFav-Afrique has been produced by just one company \u2014 Sanofi Pasteur in France. The company stopped production last year because it was priced out of the anti-venom market, a spokesperson told the BBC. Sanofi is willing to give the recipe to another company. But so far, no plans have been finalized.\nAcross the world, about 100,000 people die of snakebites each year, Doctors Without Borders says. Even more have limbs amputated or disfigured because of bites. To put that into perspective, Ebola has killed about 11,000 people in West Africa.\nGovernments, nonprofits and the World Health Organization need to step up to the plate and make sure high-quality anti-venom is produced, Alcoba says. \"It's a global responsibility,\" he says.\nRight now WHO has one full-time person devoted to snakebite treatments around the globe, says WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl.\n\"For us at WHO, snakebites are an important an issue,\" he says. \"We know how much mortality and morbidity this causes.\"\nBut the agency has struggled to find funding for the problem. \"That's what's hindering us, and the production of snakebite anti-venom worldwide,\" Hartl says.\nAnti-venoms aren't cheap. One treatment of Fav-Afrique costs up to $500 \u2014 more than a month's salary for many families in Africa.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sacrifices of Special Forces Soldiers recognized during ceremony\nPhoto By Sgt. Demetrysean Lewis | Special Forces Soldier plays bagpipes during ceremony.... read more read more\nPhoto By Sgt. Demetrysean Lewis | Special Forces Soldier plays bagpipes during ceremony. see less | View Image Page\nStory by Sgt. Demetrysean Lewis\n7th Special Forces Group (Airborne)\n7th SFG(A) Rock Garden Memorial & Valor Award Ceremony\nEGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. \u2013 Soldiers assigned to the 1st Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), held a Rock Garden Memorial and Valor Award Ceremony, on the 7th SFG(A) compound, Aug 21st.\nThe Rock Garden Memorial is a memorial commemorating the fallen soldiers from past to present.\nDuring the Memorial, 1st Battalion honored three of their fallen, Master Sergeant Luis Felipe Deleon-Figueroa, Master Sergeant Jose Juan Gonzalez and Sergeant First Class Michael James Goble. MSG Deleon-Figueroa and MSG Gonzalez were killed August 21, 2019 and SFC Goble was killed December 23, 2019 while conducting combat operations in Afghanistan.\n\"This event is humbling. Every year we remember the men and women of this formation, their legacy and acts of heroism.\" said CSM Brock Buddles, Command Sergeant Major, 1st Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne).\nThe Army considers gallantry as a courageous behavior, especially in battle. Today's memorial recognized not only our fallen, but those still serving within our formation.\nLt. Gen. Francis Beaudette, Commanding General, USASOC, presented three Silver Stars, seven Bronze Star Medals with Valor device, three Army Commendation Medals with Valor device and four Purple Hearts.\nThe Silver Star is third highest medal for valor in combat and reserved for exceptional gallantry in action.\nLt. Gen. Beaudette said \"The actions of the Warriors we are recognizing today speak volumes about them as individuals. They also clearly reflect the Families and communities that shaped these men. Even if they cannot be here physically \u2013 thank you for what your Families do to support you every day.\"\nThe 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) continues to support the nation's global fight against terrorism. The fallen warriors will never be forgotten and their sacrifice was not in vain.\n\"Lo Que Sea, Cuando Sea, Donde Sea\" \"De Oppresso Liber\"\nStory ID: 376555\nLocation: FL, US\nThis work, Sacrifices of Special Forces Soldiers recognized during ceremony, by SGT Demetrysean Lewis, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/about\/copyright.\nRock Garden Ceremony","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"FireWorks and Sticky Buns\nI have to admit, although I'm a dedicated fitness enthusiast, another passion that I have to counterbalance is my love of food. Our recent summer holiday offered the perfect blend of exercise and indulging in the farm and seafood culture of Prince Edward Island. My husband, Mark, and I had planned a week on the [\u2026]\nBy Kiley Torti\nI have to admit, although I'm a dedicated fitness enthusiast, another passion that I have to counterbalance is my love of food. Our recent summer holiday offered the perfect blend of exercise and indulging in the farm and seafood culture of Prince Edward Island. My husband, Mark, and I had planned a week on the Island, with a five-day tip-to-tip self-guided bike adventure starting at North Cape and pedalling though to the East Point Lighthouse.\nMy sister, who has both family and friend connections on the Island and has made multiple visits over the years, was my ear to the ground when it came to building our custom \"must-see, -do and -eat\" list. After an initial exchange of ideas, she put me in touch with some Islander friends for the inside seaside scoop. Mark and I were celebrating our wedding anniversary, too. What would be a worthy splurge to mark the occasion? The overwhelming vote was to stay at The Inn at Bay Fortune and experience The Feast. I didn't need much convincing.\nThe Inn at Bay Fortune is the only five-star country inn in eastern Prince Edward Island. It's the home of celebrity chef Michael Smith and wife Chastity, plus the legendary dining experience at his restaurant, FireWorks.\nFireWorks the Inn at Bay FortuneThe author of 10 cookbooks, Smith is also the affable star of five different Food Network TV series. His current goal is to put The Inn at Bay Fortune and FireWorks on the map as an international culinary destination.\nAs we pedalled against a mighty Atlantic headwind, we were motivated by the promise of an epic meal and boutique accommodations. While most guests arrive in slightly more upscale attire, we were greeted with warm Maritime hospitality and our bikes were treated to VIP parking in one of the vegetable barns. After being handed cold glasses of mint-infused water, Mark and I were taken on a tour of the inn before being shown to our room. We were encouraged to wander the whimsical grounds of the organic farm, host to heirloom vegetables, fragrant herbs, flower beds exploding with colour, and rows of regal sunflowers proudly presiding. A friendly feline, whom we named Jeeves, showed us around his stomping grounds. The property embraces both the farm and the sea: 46 acres of land overlooks Bay Fortune and beyond to the Northumberland Strait.\nFor those arriving by car, The Inn at Bay Fortune is a pleasant and pastoral one-hour drive from Charlottetown and 90 minutes from the Confederation Bridge. The seaside property was originally built in 1913 as the summer home for Broadway playwright Elmer Harris and his family. The humble hamlet of Fortune was known as an artist colony and offered summer residence for many Broadway stars to flee the heat of New York City. There are 15 unique and newly refurbished guest rooms\u2014nine rooms face the courtyard and another six rooms are located in the two towers.\nIn keeping with the artisan spirit, the Smiths have partnered with the Artisans on Main gallery in nearby Souris. The restaurant, common areas and guest rooms have been enriched with colourful, original artwork. See something you like? Arrangements can be made to help you transport it home, and all of the proceeds go to the artist.\nEach room has been thoughtfully decorated with a blend of rustic seaside charm, treasured antiques and modern amenities that the sophisticated traveller has come to expect: cozy fireplaces, Nespresso coffee machines, high-thread-count sheets, luxurious terry-cloth robes and living plants. A gourmet breakfast is also included with your stay.\nAfter a walk down to the beach (only 10 minutes on foot), we had a quick shower so that we could arrive promptly for the evening's celebratory kickoff at 6 p.m. in the garden. Oyster Hour takes guests on a culinary sampling journey of flavours, with appetizers from the firepits, stone ovens, herb garden and smokehouse and, of course, the all-you-can-slurp, world-famous Colville Bay and Fortune Bay oysters in the kitchen.\nBefore we began our food tour around the grounds, we were forced to choose between creative, enticing drink stations. Would it be local craft beer? Island grapes? A blueberry smash with vodka from the Island's distillery? A classic G&T? FireWorks fiercely embraces the farm-to-fork movement and is proud to feature a wide variety of Island ingredients sourced from the fields, forests, streams and beaches.\nWhat's in a name? FireWorks is the 7.6-metre (25 foot) wood-burning brick stove (a.k.a. \"the fire-breathing beast\") that is the anchor of the restaurant's Fire Kitchen. The restaurant has enveloped every form of live-fire cooking known to man, with a smokehouse, open hearth, grill, rotisserie, plancha and wood oven. Here, no dials, no switches, no gas and no power can be found\u2014it's just old-school fire cooking, the traditional way.\nIf you want to know more, the Fire Brigade is an energetic team of young chefs and serving staff who are proud to share their trade secrets. You're invited into the kitchen to take pictures, and the passionate crew loves to answer questions. It is equal parts live kitchen show and long-table-style dining on butcher-block tables that transcends the stuffy boundaries of your typical restaurant meal. It's an inspiring experience made ever more intoxicating by the flavours and tastes of the six-course meal.\nAccording to the inn's website, FireWorks is an atelier \"devoted to rediscovering, respecting and reimagining the food ways of the past.\" Sitting in the kitchen, it truly does feel like a family affair, as the staff continually sing the praises of on-site organic farmers Jeff and Carey Wood, an integral part of the team. The Woods grow more than 200 different fruits and vegetables, and the cooks are helping on the farm every day.\nThe house salad is an impressive affair: each evening, it features over 50 different organic greens, tender shoots, leaves, herbs and flowers, all of which are grown on site. A new menu is created daily, using ingredients from the organic farm and herb gardens, as well as a rotating roster of local farmers, fisherfolk, foragers and culinary artisans. While the daily details change, guests can expect freshly baked wood-oven bread, a taste-of-the-Island charcuterie board, smoked fish, local seafood chowder (divine), and the oh-so-fresh salad accompanied by wood-roasted meats, fish and vegetables. The evening finishes, of course, with freshly baked desserts. I was grateful for logging in a 70 km (43.5 mile) bike ride earlier in the day.\nTo walk off our food belly, Mark and I took a moonlight stroll down to the water before rolling back to our room and falling asleep to the gentle Maritime breeze. The next day, the gourmet breakfast did not disappoint. The fire theme continued in the morning, with a hot skillet, house-made bacon, hand-squeezed orange juice, all-natural smoothies, locally roasted coffee and freshly baked cinnamon buns.\nThe best part? They took pity on us cyclists and sent us away at checkout with a bag of the cinnamon buns to fuel our upcoming miles. At our first pit stop, fingers sticky from the last of our fancy doggy-bag buns, we knew one thing for sure: we'd cycle the entire distance of the Island again for The Inn at Bay Fortune experience.\nKiley Torti\nKiley Torti is a health and fitness professional living in Banff, Alberta. She is an Ontario refugee who is happiest when wandering through the backcountry in pursuit of a Rocky Mountain high. Hiking, biking, or skiing, she is always on the lookout for new adventures in far-flung places on her extended backyard.\nFried Egg Jellyfish and Totems; Exploring Haida Gwaii by Kayak.\nWhere the Buffalo Roam \u2013 Bison in Banff National Park\nGet reeled in at the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival\nPosted on Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017\nFiled under Atlantic Canada | Food\nTagged: FireWorks | PEI | Prince Edward Island | Sticky Buns | The Inn at Bay Fortune","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Truthout Publishes a Co-Athoured Op-Ed by GWS Professor Nadine Naber and Sociology Faculty Atef Said on What Americans Can Learn from the 2011 Egypt Revolution the Post-Presidential Election\nIn a co-authored op-ed published by Truthout, Nadine Naber, UIC professor of gender and women's studies and global Asian studies and interim director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy,\u2026\nWGN-TV Morning News Interviews Head of Political Science Evan McKenzie on the Presidental Election and Potential Legal Challenges\nThe WGN-TV Morning News interviewed Evan McKenzie, UIC professor and head of political science and faculty member at UIC John Marshall Law School, on the presidential election results and potential legal challenges. A WGN Radio news report also included\u2026\nNine LAS Undergraduate Students Selected to Present at the Largest Professional Convention ThinkTank\nEarlier this year 9 UIC students were selected to participate in the nation-wide Think Tank: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, coordinated by Howard University and made\u2026\nPolitical Science Clinical Associate Professor Alba Alexander Explains How President Trump's Second Term Would Mean\nAlba Alexander, UIC clinical associate professor of political science, is among a panel of experts to provide commentary in a WalletHub piece that explores what a second term of a Donald Trump presidency\u2026\nNPR-affiliated WGBH Radio Interviews LAS Distinguished Professor Barbara Ransby on the Boston-area Efforts to Turn Movements into Organized Political Power\nNPR affiliate WGBH Radio interviewed Barbara Ransby, UIC professor of Black studies, gender and women's studies, and history; LAS distinguished professor; director of the Social Justice Initiative; and MacArthur Endowed Chair at UIC,\u2026\nHistorian Robert Johnson Receives the American Historical Association's 2020 Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award\nUIC LAS Historian Robert Johnston for being named the recipient of the American Historical Association's 2020 Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award. Johnston, who came to UIC from Yale in 2003, is a leading\u2026\nNBCNews.com Quotes BLTS and CLJ Professor David Stovall on Teaching Racism Continues to be a Divisive Issue\nDavid Stovall, UIC professor of Black studies and criminology, law, and justice, is quoted in a NBCNews.com story on how talking and teaching about racism continues to be a divisive issue, particularly in\u2026\nCoordinator of Korean Language Program Shares Tips on How to Learn Korean via US News and World Report\nHanae Kim, lecturer and coordinator of the Korean language program, was interviewed for US News and World Report on a feature \"How to Learn Korean: A U.S. News Guide.\"\nCommunication Specialist Kishonna Gray Examines the Racial Harassment in the Online Gaming Community on ABC's Good Morning America\nABC's Good Morning America interviews Kishonna Gray, UIC assistant professor of communication and gender and women's studies, in a segment examining racial harassment in the online gaming community. \"Sexism or racism in those\u2026\nThe Associated Press Reports the Department of Defense $3M Award to Support UIC Undergraduate STEM Research Program\nThe Associated Press reported on a $3 million Department of Defense award to support a UIC undergraduate STEM research program. Quoted in the piece is the project's principal investigator Russell Hemley, College of\u2026\nDirectors of Undergraduate Studies\nLAS Standing Committees\nLAS Senators\nRemote and On-Campus Teaching Resources","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Homepage Destinations\nListen to the sound of the waves and marvel at \"the most beautiful sunset in the world\" (A. Hitchcock)\nTake a ferry or a catamaran to one of the nearby islands and take a dip in the bluest sea\nSip some coffee or a cocktail with the locals at the many caf\u00e9s, lounge bars or restaurants\nGreeting to the Sun and the Sea Organ\nAll senses awakened\nFirst you have to meet THE SEA ORGAN \u2013 a sound art object and experimental musical instrument that creates lovely chimed tunes using only the rolling power of sea waves. The installation looks like a series of broad steps leading down into the sea hiding clever engineering beneath their surface. Nikola Ba\u0161i\u0107, a renowned architect, has devised an ingenious system of resonant chambers that produces syncopated ever-changing tunes which soothe and excite the minds of countless amazed visitors \"chilling\" on Riva.\nRight next to it is THE GREETING TO THE SUN - another installation of the brilliant architect symbolizing the communication between man and nature. This stirring monument consists of 300 multi-layered glass plates that absorb solar energy during the day and create a spectacular waterfront light show just after sunset. These installations are a holiday for all your senses.\nExplore 3000 Years of History\nGet to know the symbol of Zadar \u2013 the Church of St. Donatus and travel through time. The Church of St. Donatus is an amazing church from the 9th century, a sightseeing must and the largest pre-Romanesque structure in Croatia! It's 27 m high and 22 m wide, has a specific cylindrical shape, a double interior and it stands out with its originality. Today, it mostly serves as a remarkable venue for medieval renaissance music. The whole structure is an architectural example of the Carolingian period and it is considered the most significant of its kind in Europe. Most of its ornaments largely originate from the ruins of the nearby Roman Forum. Built between the 1st century BC and the 3rd century AD and commissioned by the first Roman Emperor Augustus, the forum complex features an elaborate design of temples and colonnades with one proud column standing intact to this day. Take spectacular photos on the site!\nUNESCO Fortifications\nFeel like a knight!\nSee if you like the City Walls as much as UNESCO does. Zadar was once the largest city-fortress in the Republic of Venice and its City Walls were an important part of an elaborate defence system.The City Walls of Zadar, together with the other five components of the Venetian Works of Defence of the 16th and 17th century, located in today's Croatia, Italy and Montenegro, joined UNESCO's World Heritage List in 2017 as an outstanding monument of the modern maritime fortification scheme.The most impressive part of the Walls is the Land Gate, the main historical entrance to the city built in 1543 by Michele Sanmicheli, a famous Venetian architect. As an integral part of the Walls, it is considered one of the finest Renaissance monuments in whole Dalmatia, boasting its triumphal arch, central passage and two smaller side arches for pedestrians. Study history in a new way!\nStep by step hedonism\nLearn about the local food and rituals every step of your walk-through Zadar \u2013 from colourful markets, fresh Mediterranean ingredients, local dishes and coffee get-togethers that last for hours. Zadar nucleus' lively feel, with its restaurants, bars, coffee shops and bakeries makes spending time here one of the most enjoyable things to do. This vibrant quarter with a great atmosphere is in the oldest part of the Town of Zadar where the present meets the past. Wander around many narrow streets and stone-paved alleyways or splendid, picturesque squares. When you feel the need to take a break, stop at a traditional \"konoba\"- a trattoria style restaurant featuring local delicacies. Afterwards, act like the local people: find your favourite spot and experience the feeling of coffee drinking being less of a habit and more of a sacred ritual. They enjoy drinking it for hours. Try some delicious, fresh Mediterranean local foods, taste some of the excellent regional wines, or find the best ice-cream in town. Regardless of what you do, just soak up that cheery atmosphere.\nStreet style in Zadar\nAlso known as the Wide Street, Kalelarga is the main and the most beloved street in Zadar, probably older than the city itself! Extending in the east-west direction, following the print of the main longitudinal Roman street (Decumanus Maximus), Kalelarga, for many, is a place of fun and leisure, processions and celebrations.\nFive reasons to love the centre\nFive Wells Square\nThe Five Wells Square is located on a site between the medieval City Walls and the Renaissance Grimani Bastion. It features five lined-up wells built during the siege by the Turks in the 16th century. You can find the oldest park in Croatia on top of its adjacent bastion.\nTake me to church!\nEpiscopal Complex (Churches)\nOr even better \u2013 a whole complex. The Episcopal complex of Zadar includes the Roman Forum, the Cathedral of St. Anastasia, the Archbishop's Palace, the Church of St. Donatus, the Zmajevi\u0107 Seminary, the Orthodox Church of St. Elias, the Benedictine Nunnery and several other buildings. For some golden moments, visit the permanent Exhibition of Church Art \u2013 the Gold and Silver of Zadar!\nCoffee-Loving People\nBut first, coffee!\nWhether you have just arrived, got up or need a break \u2013everything starts with a coffee in Croatia. Coffee lovers, you have found your paradise!\nThe Most Beautiful Sunset\nA sunset more beautiful than any movie\nIf you don't take our word for it, take Alfred Hitchcok's. One of the most famous directors in the world said that the sunset in Zadar was the most beautiful one in the world. See it for yourself.\nThe Boatsmen of Zadar\nThe most romantic way to see Zadar\nYou don't have to go to Venice to enjoy a gondola ride, as the city's barkajoli will transport you to the other end of the old town, as well as back in time.\nSICU & Benedictine Nuns\nHistory treasure more valuable than silver and gold\nThe Gold and Silver permanent exhibition in Zadar is definitely a must. But, while there, look for another type of treasure \u2013 the history behind the story.\nSt. Simeon\nThe legendary saint\nHoly moly, what a story! Find out about Saint Simeon and his story about Zadar!\nZadar is a city of the people, by the people and for the people. This is the home of tightly-connected communities that appreciate culture and tradition and show a profound interest in social interaction on every occasion. These friendly outgoing people gladly spend free afternoons with their friends sipping coffee on the dazzling Riva, relishing in the warm embrace of the hot sun, gazing at the beauties of the open sea and discussing some common topics of their daily lives. They also spin a gripping yarn or two for all absorbed visitors who pass the famous Kalelarga in their quest to experience the pulse of the town in the most beloved of all of Zadar's streets. They reveal a gleam of joy in their eyes while dining in superb local restaurants and show a unique zest for life in attending great cultural venues or the vibrant club scene. Zadrani (people of Zadar) know how to appreciate the finer things in life and display a true flair of their treasured vibrant town, so come and join them and enjoy them!\nAfter a long day of sightseeing the city, you will be rewarded with the best sight yet \u2013 the Zadar sunset. The best place to watch it is definitely by the sea, walking along the promenade. You can take photos or even better \u2013 try remembering it in your head, because no pictures and no words can describe it. Afterwards, you can move along to a modern light installation called \"Greeting to the Sun\" that is charged by the sun during the day and emits a light show during the night. It's in Zadar that one realizes why the sun is in the centre (of attention).\nOne of the most notable symbols of Zadar are barkajoli (lat. barcatores), an 800-year-long father-to-son lineage of traditional boat rowers! The beloved barkajoli have survived the challenges of modern times and even today they transport their faithful customers for one and a half minutes, crossing just 71 m between the two ports of the city. Although there are only a couple of barkajoli left, they are very proud of their profession passed from generation to generation all the way from the 14th century. Many use it to save time, but riding in a barka can offer so much more. You haven't really been in Zadar until you have ridden in a barka. See, or better said, sea Zadar from another perspective!\nThe treasure was not kept by kings and emperors \u2013 but by nuns! The treasure of Zadar history is inseparable from the Benedictine convent of St. Mary and its nuns guardians. Their shared history goes back to the time of the Byzantine Empire. In newer history, the Benedictines once again proved essential when they hid the treasure in a deep hole under the church bell tower during the bombings of the Allies in 1943. Many items that have been preserved with love, knowledge and pride have great value. But for the people of Zadar, the most valuable item is the so-called \u010cika's cross. Although small in size and without gems, it has held a special meaning for the people here since the 8th century. Find your favourite item while you find out more about the history of this treasure.\nThe legend says that, in 1203, a merchant who was carrying the body of St. Simeon from the Holy Land to Venice sought shelter in Zadar because of a storm. He didn't reveal the identity of the body he was carrying, but when he became ill and before he died, he gave the nurses a hint. That is why they dug up the grave with the local priests. Simultaneously, three city rectors had the same dream the night before the body of Saint Simeon was to be excavated. St. Simeon has been revered in Zadar ever since. The Chest of Saint Simeon, a masterpiece of medieval art, is a rectangular cedar wood sarcophagus in the shape of a chasse, overlaid with silver and silver-gilt plaques, said to hold the relics of St. Simon the God-receiver. On Oct. 8th, the Patron's Day, the chest is opened and the mummy of the saint is displayed for a week. But you can visit the Church of Saint Simeon any day of the year!\nmatching tours\nTHE MAGIC OF MUSIC IN ZADAR\nExperience History & Culture\nDays 1 - 7\nSEE, HEAR, MEET AND EXPERIENCE ZADAR\nZadarhalf Triathlon by Falkensteiner Punta Skala\nlocation ZADAR\ndate May 15, 2021 - May 15, 2021\nZadar Islands","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Smart Luggage That Follows You, Drives You, Weighs Itself And More\nLooking for luggage that will follow you on its own? Or maybe a rideable suitcase to save you from a long walk across an airport? Or a bag that weighs itself and never gets lost? Maybe having \"baggage\" isn't so bad after all...\nDesiree Higareda November 21, 2016 \u2022 5 min read\nTraveling can be fun or annoying, and sometimes certainly both. While traveling, all kinds of things can ruin the mood; over-packing (and the ensuing fees), losing your luggage, or running the distance of a marathon between all your gates and all your connections, dragging around a heavy suitcase the whole time. Thanks to advances in technology, a number of startups are offering smart luggage that can take a lot of the unfortunate torture out of travel. From foldability and GPS tracking to built-in weight scales and robot bags that follow you around like good puppy, here are a few smart luggage solutions to consider for your next trip:\nBarracuda is collapsible luggage. BAM! The founders say it takes about 10 second to completely fold down the 8.5lbs bag into its compact, even-more-portable state. Another unique feature is a built-in tray, helpful for business travelers who need something other than their lap on which to prop their laptop while catching up on work.\nBarracuda also includes: a portable weight scale, a GPS tracker (activated by downloading the companion app) and USB charger (said to fully charge most smartphones up to five times). Both the scale and tracker, however, are not built into the luggage. On Barracuda.co, you can stock up for $299 per bag\u2013it's an additional $50 for the tracker.\nCowarobot R1\nHands free traveling is a primary feature of the Cowarobot, and its app; it's trying to take the \"lugging around\" out of the luggage experience. This fully autonomous smart suitcase comes equipped with sensors that detect the environment, registering and reacting to obstacles in its path, like stairs and sidewalk drop-offs. Each user is also provided with a customized bracelet that links to the suitcase sensor system to ensure that it's following the right owner.\nThe Cowarobot moves at 4.5 mph, and on a full charge can travel up to 12.5 miles. The app will alert users if they are too far from their luggage, and it will find its way back to a user in the unfortunate case of separation. The Cowarobot will retail for approximately $699\u2013pre-orders are very sold out on their Indiegogo campaign.\nModobag is a bag that you can ride like a little scooter. The speed goes up to 8mph, which is three times as fast as a normal walking pace. Crowding and traffic in airports is already challenging for many travelers, and having people riding motorized bags around may be an issue for travelers and the airport authorities. But still, you're riding a motorized suitcase\u2013who doesn't want to play bumper-cars while waiting for their US Airways jet to find its second wing?\nThe rideable suitcase also comes equipped with dual USB connection ports, LED lights, releasable foot pegs, telescopic handle bars and GPS tracking capabilities (available at an additional cost of $69). It is designed to last up to three hours on a single charge (fully charges in one-hour). The bag also complies with carry-on regulations, and is TSA and FAA compliant. Modobag is 22x9x14, and weighs 19lbs. \u2013 the max rider weight is 260lbs. The rideable bag is priced at $1,095 on Indiegogo.com, and is estimated to ship in January 2017.\nFloatti\nThis suitcase and app duo allows users to control functions of their smartphone directly from the bag's app-connected smart handle, including: pick up calls, receive notifications, play music and compose voice-to-text messages. Floatti was designed with a docking strap and integrated hooks for extra backpacks, or accessories. The luggage also comes equipped with a detachable gadget compartment, which aims to simplify a user's experience through airport security. Floatti also includes an integrated weight scale, and tracker.\nThe suitcase is available in six colors, and two sizes; 21.5\u00d713.8\u00d78.27 (8.27lbs) and 26.8\u00d717.9\u00d79.6 (9.9lbs); the carry-on size is available on Indiegogo.com for $320, and the check-in bag is $360. Both come with a 10-year warranty, and are planned to ship December 2016.\nLike the Cowarobot, Travelmate is an autonomous suitcase that automatically follows its owner when connected to its companion app. The suitcase can move while vertical or horizontal, and has built-in sensors that help avoid people and objects in its path. Travelmate even comes equipped with a speaker that will notify you if any obstacle is in the way, and LED indicator lights that tell you what direction the luggage is going. The luggage has a battery life of 4 hours and lasts up to 100 hours in standby mode.\nOverall, the motor and components take up less than 5 percent of the suitcase's volume, so packing space is less of an issue. A removable battery is also included and could be used to charge smartphones. The luggage is available in three different sizes, and prices start at $399. Travelmate's Indiegogo campaign has raised just over $12,000 on a $4,000 goal and there is a bit more than three weeks left in the fundraising.\nBluesmart luggage is another feature-rich, app-connected piece of smart luggage that seems to hit all the key concerns. The suitcase offers features such as: location tracking, separation notification, a built-in scale, remote digital lock, and it includes a battery for cell-phone charging. The 9.4 lbs suitcase is 22x14x9 and meets all international carry-on limitations. The design includes an easy-access front compartment to quickly store and remove electronic devices. On their website, pricing starts at $449 per bag, and the company offers a 2-year warranty at no additional charge.\nUnlike Barracuda and Modobag, Raden is designed with an integrated scale, among a few other smart-tricks (like the now-standard built-in charger). Paired with its app, Raden allows users to track their baggage (near and far) and receive information related to their trip, like security wait times and travel time to the airport.\nRaden smart luggage is available in two different sizes; 22 in (8.4lbs) or 28 in (13lbs). The suitcase also includes two built-in USB ports, and a security lock. On Raden.com the small luggage is priced at $295 each, and the large is $395; both are available in 10 different colors.\nDesiree Higareda\nCONTRIBUTOR at SnapMunk\nDesiree Higareda is a journalist and freelance writer based in Anaheim, California. She writes about all kinds of stuff, and believes it is good to know a little bit about everything--especially products that will make our lives easier. In her free time, she enjoys learning new vegetarian recipes, gardening and bargain shopping.\nLatest posts by Desiree Higareda (see all)\nMindset's New Smart Headphones Are Designed To Improve Your Concentration - March 8, 2017\nA Connected Smart Medication Bottle That Sends You Alerts - January 3, 2017\nA Platform For Judging Likability & Competence By Your Photos - December 8, 2016\nFiled Under: Crowdfunding Tagged With: Barracuda, Bluesmart, Cowarobot R1, Floatti, Innovation, Internet of Things, iot, luggage, Modobag, Raden, Startups, Travel, Travelmate, wanderlust\nDelores Cooper says\nLOL, where was this luggage when Casey Niestat had to get around the airport?\nPaula Smiley says\nNot only is this product something to think about if you find yourself going through the airport a hundred times per year, but the airport is likely to put a stop to folks riding around on the things!\nBrent Evans says\nWhen I see Kickstart products like this, it starts to make me wonder if there are more products on the site from the SAME group of people, or if EACH Kickstarter is the idea of 1 person? Do you know what I mean?\nIsn't it cool to see some of these products coming through the Kickstarter process? I really enjoy watching these campaigns, it has become an obsession of mine.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ethiopia security crisis self-inflicted, Eritrea innocent \u2013 Ex-US Diplomat\nEthiopia LATEST NEWS\nby Newsroom Mar 20, 2018 0\nEthiopia must deal with its home generated security crisis and stop using Eritrea as a smokescreen, this is the view of a former United States Assistant Secretary of State.\nHerman Cohen on Monday waded into renewed claims by Ethiopia that neighbouring Eritrea was backing groups aimed at destabilizing the country.\nCohen described the Ethiopian claims as false and averred that the current security crisis in the country was \"self-inflicted by a minority kleptocratic regime,\" in apparent reference to the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF).\nEthiopia is currently under a state of emergency imposed on February 16 this year, a day after Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn resigned his position to allow for political reforms.\nThe ruling coalition, the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) is set to meet to elect his successor. The country is currently under a Command Post administering the state of emergency.\nThe latest accusation against Eritrea was by the federal police chief who whiles giving a briefing on the state of emergency late last week, reportedly cited Eritrean involvement in the crisis. The Eritrean Information minister dismissed the claims in an email exchange with Bloomberg.\n\"The regime is desperately trying to deflect attention from its intractable domestic crisis \u2014 of its own making \u2014 and find external scapegoats,\" Yemane Ghebre Meskel said describing the claims as false and one that did not merit a serious response.\nThe ex-ambassador has been a regular commentator on African politics and has previously spoken about the Ethiopian situation.\n\"In Ethiopia, instead of an all-parties reconciliation conference, I fear a Middle East type military dictatorship takeover and a zero sum game bloody outcome. USG, do not let it happen,\" he said hours after a state of emergency was imposed on February 16.\n\"While in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Secretary Tillerson should have talks with Ethiopian government about their internal political crisis, and should encourage the regime in power not to fear an opening to transparent democracy,\" he tweeted on March 3, 2018.\n\"Ethiopia regime should withdraw SOE declaration prior to naming OPDO leader Abiy Ahmed as new Prime Minister, thereby avoiding tense vote in Parliament, and setting stage for political reforms,\" he tweeted two days earlier.\nSenators replace Wetang'ula with Orengo as Senate leader\nJudge halts Jimi Wanjigi bodyguard gun case\nTwo Somali, Kenyan telecom giants recognized as Africa-changing companies\nNewsDesk Oct 4, 2017 Oct 4, 2017\nSudanese police fire tear gas at stone-throwing protesters\nNewsroom Jan 10, 2018\nTanzania's tough mining laws paying off\nNewsroom Jun 9, 2018","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Penske Media Corporation, Rockbridge in Robb Report Joint Venture\nPMC has invested in the guide to the luxury lifestyle.\nBy Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke on December 30, 2016\nPenske Media Corporation is partnering with Rockbridge Growth Equity on the Robb Report, the companies revealed today. With this deal, PMC will add a stake in the authority on luxury lifestyle for the ultra-affluent consumer to a stable of titles that includes WWD, Variety, Hollywood Life and Deadline.\n\"Over the past four decades Robb Report has cemented its position as the world's leading brand for luxury lifestyle,\" PMC chairman and chief executive officer Jay Penske said. \"To bring the Robb Report onto the PMC digital platform is a remarkable opportunity to further propel this pioneering media brand.\"\nRobb Report, which was founded in 1976, provides advice and recommendations in superluxe categories such as aviation, boating, automobiles and watches. The brand has steadily expanded its global footprint in the last couple of years. It was acquired in 2014 by the Detroit-based Rockbridge Growth.\nThe deal between PMC and Rockbridge is scheduled to close in early January and will provide an opportunity for both companies to expand on the current strengths of the Robb Report's consumer reach while growing its reach and building up its digital platform.\n\"The partnership with PMC is a strong strategic fit and joining forces will accelerate and drive Robb Report's future growth,\" said Brian Hermelin, managing partner for Rockbridge Growth Equity. \"The joint venture and PMC's investment allows us to focus our combined energies on expanding Robb Report's digital capabilities as well as continuing to improve its print distribution channels and event activation to deliver optimal consumer and advertiser experiences.\"\nRobb Report will continue to exist as an independent brand, but its New York and Los Angeles locations will join the PMC offices on either coast. Financial details of the partnership were not disclosed.\nPMC is a leading digital media and information services company. Its owned and operated brands reach more than 179 million visitors monthly, according to comScore, and Penske Media was recently named one of the Top 100 Private Companies in the United States and North America. PMC is one of the largest digital media companies in the world, publishing more than 20 digital media brands, including its India.com joint venture with ZEE TV in India. PMC additionally owns and produces more than 80 annual events, summits, award shows and conferences while housing a dynamic research and emerging data business.\nUSTR Holds Off on Vietnam Tariffs\u2014For Now","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"3rd-strike.com | New Releases\nDECEIVE INC. will launch a demo next week ahead of its debut in March\nSweet Bandits Studios and Tripwire Interactive have announced that DECEIVE INC. will be launching on March 21st on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series, offering a Standard edition for $19.99 and a Black Tie Edit... Read More \u00bb\nFebruary 4, 2023 - Noparg - News, Trailers - No Comments\nGunscape is now out on Nintendo Switch\nBlowfish Studios has announced that their world-building FPS, Gunscape, is now out for the Switch for $14.99 USD\/\u20ac 11.99. Providing players with an expansive construction toolkit, the game allows it... Read More \u00bb\nSTORY OF SEASONS: A Wonderful Life to release on all platforms in June\nMarvelous Europe has announced that the latest Story of Seasons game, STORY OF SEASONS: A Wonderful Life, will release on June 27 on PC, PS5, Xbox Series, and Switch. In order to deliver this news, M... Read More \u00bb\nJanuary 27, 2023 - Noparg - News, Trailers - No Comments\nIndie publisher HOOK reveals new demos\nThe indie publishing label HOOK has announced its participation in the upcoming Steam Next Fest with two demos for the upcoming Madshot: Road to Madness and The Magical Mixture Mill. These two demos w... Read More \u00bb\nDefinitely Not Fried Chicken now out on Steam Early Access\nMerge Games and developer Dope Games have announced that their Breaking Bad-inspired management sim, Definitely Not Fried Chicken, is launching today on Steam Early Access featuring a 15% launch disco... Read More \u00bb\nJanuary 20, 2023 - Noparg - News - No Comments\nCorpse Keeper will be coming out soon in Early Access\nMelancholia Studio and Thermite Games have announced that their gothic roguelike Corpse Keeper will be coming out in Early Access for PC on the 15th of February. Placing players in the shoes of a necr... Read More \u00bb\nWe Were Here Forever is coming out on console\nDeveloper Total Mayhem Games has announced that their co-op puzzle title, We Were Here Forever, will be coming to the Playstation and Xbox console families the 31st of this month. After a successful r... Read More \u00bb\nThe Karters 2: Turbo Charged will be coming out soon\nIndie studio Pixel Edge has announced that their kart racing game, The Karters 2: Turbo Charged, will soon be coming to all platforms. Pre-registrations for the beta can already be done through the ga... Read More \u00bb\nJanuary 8, 2023 - Noparg - News, Trailers - No Comments\nThe End of the Sun will be part of Steam's Next Fest\nThe team behind The End of the Sun has announced that a demo of their game will be featured as part of Steam's Next Fest event in February, although it will come out on the 24th of January. Alongsid... Read More \u00bb\nDecember 31, 2022 - Noparg - News, Trailers - No Comments\nGoblins of Elderstone goes on sale for the Steam Winter Sale\nDeveloper Outerdawn has announced that their city-building game, Goblins of Elderstone, will be taking part in the Steam Winter Sale, offering a 50% discount until the sale ends. This deep discount le... Read More \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Roger Stone's Excuse for His \"Podesta Time in a Barrel\" Comment Is Even Stupider Given the Paul Manafort Prosecution\nSeptember 5, 2018 \/12 Comments\/in 2016 Presidential Election, Mueller Probe, WikiLeaks \/by emptywheel\nIn addition to Randy Credico, Jerome Corsi will testify before the Mueller grand jury on Friday. That means that the grand jury will hear testimony from two people who can address the truth of two claims Roger Stone made before the House Intelligence Committee on September 26, 2017.\nFirst, there's Stone's claim he learned about WikiLeaks' plans to release the John Podesta emails in October via Credico.\nNow, let me address the charge that I had advance knowledge of the timing, content and source of the WikiLeaks disclosures from the DNC. On June 12, 2016, WikiLeaks' publisher Julian Assange, announced that he was in possession of Clinton DNC emails. I learned this by reading it on Twitter. I asked a journalist who I knew had interviewed Assange to independently confirm this report, and he subsequently did. This journalist assured me that WikiLeaks would release this information in October and continued to assure me of this throughout the balance of August and all of September. This information proved to be correct. I have referred publicly to this journalist as an, \"intermediary\", \"go-between\" and \"mutual friend.\" All of these monikers are equally true.\nCredico has not only said this is not true, but that Stone threatened him to prevent him from testifying as much.\nThen, there's Stone's claim (first made publicly by Corsi the previous March) that his tweet predicting John Podesta would soon catch political heat pertained to a project he and Corsi were working on at the time.\nMy Tweet of August 21, 2016, in which I said, \"Trust me, it will soon be the Podesta's time in the barrel. #CrookedHillary\" Must be examined in context. I posted this at a time that my boyhood friend and colleague, Paul Manafort, had just resigned from the Trump campaign over allegations regarding his business activities in Ukraine. I thought it manifestly unfair that John Podesta not be held to the same standard. Note, that my Tweet of August 21, 2016, makes no mention, whatsoever, of Mr. Podesta's email, but does accurately predict that the Podesta brothers' business activities in Russia with the oligarchs around Putin, their uranium deal, their bank deal, and their Gazprom deal, would come under public scrutiny. Podesta's activities were later reported by media outlets as diverse as the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. My extensive knowledge of the Podesta brothers' business dealings in Russia was based on The Panama Papers, which were released in early 2016, which revealed that the Podesta brothers had extensive business dealings in Russia. The Tweet is also based on a comprehensive, early August opposition research briefing provided to me by investigative journalist, Dr. Jerome Corsi, which I then asked him to memorialize in a memo that he sent me on August 31st , all of which was culled from public records. There was no need to have John Podesta's email to learn that he and his presidential candidate were in bed with the clique around Putin.\nI noted at the time that that Corsi's explanation didn't make any sense, because while the July 31 report did pertain to John Podesta, his August 31 report focused exclusively on Tony (the Corsi materials start at page 39 of Stone's HPSCI testimony; note the conflation of Tony for John got repeated in Craig Murray's explanations for the WikiLeaks' go-between he met in September).\nBut the explanation is even less credible given what has happened since: Paul Manafort, whose plight the Corsi report was (per Stone) explicitly a response to, got indicted in part because he told Tony Podesta to hide his ties to Russian-backed Ukrainian politicians. Indeed, in classic Corsi style, he describes Podesta's role in Manafort's crime, without disclosing that Podesta was in legal trouble because of Manafort's effort to hide his own crimes; Corsi presented them as equal partners in this crime.\nCNN further reported on Aug. 19 the Podesta Group had issued a statement affirming the firm has retained the boutique Washington-based law http:\/\/www.capdale.com firm Caplin & Drysdale \"to determine if we were mislead by the Centre for a Modern Ukraine or any other individuals with potential ties to foreign governments or political parties.\" The Podesta Group statement issued to CNN continued: \"When the Centre became a client, it certified in writing that 'none of the activities of the Centre are directly or indirectly supervised, directed, controlled, financed or subsidized in whole or in part by a government of a foreign country or a foreign political party.' We relied on that certification and advice from counsel in registering and reporting under the Lobbying Disclosure Act rather than the Foreign Agents Registration Act.\"\nThe CNN statement concluded with the statement, \"We will take whatever measures are necessary to address this situation based on Caplin & Drysdale's review, including possible legal action against the Centre.\" In breaking the story that the Podesta Group had hired Caplin & Drysdale, Buzz Feed https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/rosiegray\/top-lobbying-firm-hiresoutside-counsel-in-ukraine-manafort?utm term=.duLexkeKBx#.rj4gn3gmln reported on Aug. 19, that both the Podesta Group and Manafort's D.C. political firm were working under contract with the same group advising Yanukovych and his Ukrainian Party of Regions \u2013 namely the non-profit European Centre for a Modern Ukraine based in Brussels. On Dec. 20, 2013, Reuters reported http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usaukraine-lobbying-idUSBRE9BJ1B220131220#6oTXxKZp25obYxzF.99 the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine paid $900,000 to the Podesta Group for a two-year contract aimed at improving the image of the Yanukovych government in the United States that the Podesta Group told Reuters they were implementing through contacts with key congressional Democrats.\nThat detail is important of a number of reasons. First, because it makes it entirely unlikely that Stone (who was meeting with Rick Gates during this period, if not his \"boyhood friend\" Manafort himself) learned of Podesta's ties via Panama Papers and not from Manafort himself. But it also provides a reason why Corsi and Stone would be focusing on Tony at the time \u2014 to draw attention away from Manafort, and with it, the corruption that Manafort implicated the Trump Administration in. Indeed, the Manafort EDVA court record shows that Gates and Manafort were using a range of financial and political means of doing the same at precisely that time.\nIt's clear, given what we've learned as part of the Manafort prosecutions, that the effort to impugn Tony Podesta had everything (as Stone partly tells truthfully)to do with the plight of Manafort at the time.\nWhich is to say, it didn't have anything to do with John, and so can't be used to explain that tweet.\nOn top of everything else. Mueller appears to be finishing up false statements charges against Stone.\nTags: Jerome Corsi, John Podesta, Paul Manafort, Randy Credico, Tony Podesta\nhttps:\/\/www.emptywheel.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Stone-Agent-of-Chaos.jpg 797 1072 emptywheel https:\/\/www.emptywheel.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Logo-Web.png emptywheel2018-09-05 14:38:012018-09-05 15:06:40Roger Stone's Excuse for His \"Podesta Time in a Barrel\" Comment Is Even Stupider Given the Paul Manafort Prosecution\nBob Conyers says:\nI hadn't realized Jerome Corsi was a bit player in this mess. I can't for the life of me imagine what he would be like under oath, and the outside chance that he faces some kind of legal danger makes me happy.\nCorsi is in Alex Jones territory, and made the bizarre claim that Obama wears a ring that meant he was in a secret gay union with his college roommate, and Stephen Colbert interviewed one adherent to the theory who said that the CIA teleported him and Obama to Mars.\nhttps:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/important-colbert-investigates-claims-that-barack-obama-is-a-gay-martian\/\nhttp:\/\/www.cc.com\/video-clips\/s190yi\/the-colbert-report-this-changes-everything\u2014obama-s-martian-gayness\npunaise says:\nIf the real thing don't do the trick\nYou better make up something quick\nYou gonna burn it out to the wick\nAren't you, Barrel-Coulda?\nRayne says:\n~laughing~\n:~)\n(at least I exercised some restraint and forwent the \"low-hanging fruit\" of an easy d*ck rhyme.\n\u2026and skipped the \"down to my knees\" part entirely, ick.)\nWillis Warren says:\nIs the electric chair on the table? Guillotine?\nBruce Olsen says:\nLet's just, ummm, stone them all to death.\nRapier says:\nIs the Kavanaugh hearing over? Some questions about his history with Rodger would possibly be a real hoot.\n@Bruce (couldn't reply): Baseball bats. Up close and personal. I call dibs on \"stones\". The other 200M of you can have what's left.\nGreat scene in The Untouchables, isn't it?\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QHH9EYZHoVU\nFrank Probst says:\nI have trouble keeping the Podestas straight, tbh.\nOn your first point, I think you've got \"reasonable doubt\" right out of the gate, because no matter who prosecutors say that Stone was talking about, Stone's defense is that he was talking about someone else.\nOn your second point, you're going to need a flowchart and a really good timeline as visual aids to make things clear to a jury. And everything has to pass the \"I got my Podestas mixed up.\" defense. It sounds like the documentation is clear on this (and there's a clear record of who said what when), so it gets you past the problem that nobody here seems to have any credibility as a witness unless there's documentation to back up their testimony. But it's going to have be laid out VERY clearly for a jury to buy it.\njoulie says:\nstone on ingraham radio 8:30 am cdt\nTravisV says:\nShelby Holliday at WSJ has news re: Credico. Twitter thread here:\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/shelbyholliday\/status\/1038082393377263616\nBrett Kavanaugh Was In the Loop on (Broader) Precursor to John Yoo's Stellar... Open Thread: Take the Ride","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Sane Cynic\nwhat separates us from the other dogs is that we bite to teach lessons\nDas Kurzwort\nDat find ich jut\nWas zum\u2026?\n\u00c4lteres\nFu\u00dfballerisches\n\u2190 Top of the table \u2013 and a cup farce\nNot for the faint of heart \u2192\nThe dirty deed is done\nVer\u00f6ffentlicht am 10. August 2010 | 1 Kommentar\nAs I indicated yesterday, the Football Association of Saxony-Anhalt (FSA) does not agree with my opinion that culpability should play a role in determining which youth teams participate in the DFB-Pokal and NOFV-Pokal.\nFor reasons I cannot find in any of the statutes governing youth football or football in the FSA territory, officials have decided to register Hallescher FC's Under-19 team for the DFB-Pokal and 1. FC Magdeburg's Under-17 team for the much less prestigious NOFV-Pokal.1\n1. FC Magdeburg have reacted with a press release that is mild in my opinion, but nevertheless manages to call the decision \"unsportsmanlike\". It further adds that the decision reflects exactly a statement from Halle's youth coordinator made last week and reported as \"the only fair solution\" in Halle-based newspaper Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. The press release closes with words of regret with regard to the notion of fair play that is always propagated by the FSA, but seems to not have any influence on the association itself.\nMagdeburg's cooperation was not rewarded \u2013 the club had readily agreed to switch the final locations to Halle instead of Magdeburg in order to get the matches to be played. In essence, the decision rewards Halle's boycotting the final at the close of last season with a spot in the DFB-Pokal. And while FSA president Werner Georg has apparently assumed full responsibility for the mess and also promised an internal investigation, I am not holding my breath for anything constructive.\nAll I can hope for is a resounding defeat for Halle in the DFB-Pokal \u2013 and in the Under-19 Bundesliga match against Magdeburg that is scheduled for 22 August.\nNOFV is the regional FA governing football in Brandeburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Berlin, Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt [\u21a9]\nDieser Beitrag wurde unter Fu\u00dfballerisches, U19 abgelegt und mit Fair play, Hallescher FC, Idiocy, Youth verschlagwortet. Setze ein Lesezeichen auf den Permalink.\nEine Antwort zu \"The dirty deed is done\"\nPingback: Die Woche (2010-08-15) auf Twitter | The Sane Cynic\nSidebar? We don't need no stinkin' sidebar.\nProudly powered by WordPress. Theme: Coraline von WordPress.com.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Chleb Ravenell and Kathryn Dennis still dating or not?\nAmerican reality TV star Kathryn Dennis gained notoriety after appearing on the \"Southern Charm.\" The famous person from Charleston comes from a long line of powerful politicians who were the owners of \"Lewisfield Plantation.\" Kathryn's appearance on \"Southern Charm\" affected her personal and professional life. She made acquaintances on the program and eventually started dating the politician and businessman Thomas Ravenel. The couple's relationship ended badly, and they were entangled in a bitter custody dispute over their two children. Kathryn and her ex-protracted boyfriend's argument usually makes news. Thomas and Kathryn have both received sentences for various offenses, raising concerns about their parenting skills.\nFacts about Kathryn Dennis :\nFull Name Kathryn Dennis\nBirth Date 6 August 1991\nBirth Place Charleston, South Carolina, United States\nNick Name Not found\nEducation Graduated\nFather's Name Luke Dennis\nMother's Name Allison Dennis\nSiblings 1\nBuild Not found\nProfession a model, a Southern socialite, and reality television star\nWife\/Husband\/Boyfriend\/Girlfriend (Name) Not found\nNet Worth $800 thousand.\nFacebook https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BravoTVsKathrynCalhounDennis\nTwitter Not found\nInstagram https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kathryndennis\/?hl=en\nKathryn Dennis's boyfriend:\nWhen Kathryn Dennis first appeared on Southern Charm in 2014, she was a 21-year-old college student who struck up a friendship with Thomas Ravenel, who was already a regular cast member.\nThomas and Kathryn's on-and-off romance produced a lot of the drama on the Bravo series during the following few seasons. Before their legal split, the couple welcomed two children: St. Julien Rembert Ravenel and Kensington \"Kensie\" Calhoun. So, Many Southern Charm fans hoped Kathryn would find love after her long-term, on-and-off romance with Thomas Ravenel ended in 2016.\nShe later dated musician Hunter Price and politician Joseph Abruzzo, but neither relationship worked out.\nViewers met Chleb Ravenell, Kathryn's new boyfriend, at the Southern Charm Season 7 reunion, which aired in January 2021. Before Chleb made his on-screen debut, the couple had been dating for a long time.\nThe couple started dating in the summer of 2020, and in October of that same year, they made their relationship official on Instagram.\nIn April 2021, Chleb and Kathryn shared a Charleston residence. When Season 8 of Southern Charm premieres, Chleb and Kathryn are dating and sharing a home, but they have since broken up. The reality stars dated for over a year before a source told Us Weekly in November 2021 that they had broken up.\nKathryn Dennis Early Life\nKathryn Dennis is a Filipina singer, actor, and television personality. She was born Kathryn Dennis De Guzman Iringan on September 15, 1995. Grand Champion of Popstar Kids' inaugural season. After starring in the highly regarded teleseries My Special Tatay, she and Ken Chan gained popularity as a love team. She is one of the Journey Hosts on The Clash's third season and the primary hosts of All-Out Sundays, a show that airs on Sundays at noon.\nKathryn Dennis's Career\nWhen Kathryn Dennis was a senior in high school, she worked as a receptionist for the first time. She began her career as a front desk agent at the \"Old Santee Canal Park\" before moving on to the \"Fitness World.\" Before working as an intern in the Lieutenant Governor's office, she later worked as a page in the South Carolina Senate. Also, Kathryn joined the cast of \"Southern Charm,\" a Bravo reality series that follows the lives of seven socialites in South Carolina in 2014. 2018 saw the end of her 70-episode tenure on the program.\nKathryn appeared on the pop culture-focused late-night chat show \"Watch What Happens: Live\" in the interim. Also, she appeared as a guest on \"Celebrity Page,\" a syndicated program covering the entertainment industry. So, Kathryn has recently entered several business initiatives, primarily concerning fashion and lifestyle. She also introduced the \"Kensie + Saint\" brand of children's furniture. Also, Kathryn represents Gwynn's department store brand in Charleston. So, the reality star is eager to join the \"Gwynn's Studio\" as a partner in creativity. She also works on updating vintage items with contemporary designs.\nKathryn Dennis's Family Background\nLuke Dennis and his wife Allison Dennis welcomed Kathryn Calhoun Dennis into the world on August 5, 1992. In Berkeley County, South Carolina, she was raised.\nKathryn Dennis's relationship status\nThomas Ravenel, a politician, former state treasurer, and Kathryn Dennis occasionally dated. They originally met while working together on the reality series \"Southern Charm.\" Despite Thomas being thirty years Kathryn's senior, the two seemed to like one another and eventually fell in love. Together, they have two children: St. Julien Rembert Ravenel, who was born in 2016, and Kensington Calhoun Ravenel, who was born in 2014.\nTheir marriage started to falter in 2014, but they were able to patch things up after Kensington was born. In May 2016, the two's issues erupted again, and they have been engaged in a court dispute ever since. Kathryn, however, would not give up on getting custody of her kids, and she once more appealed to the judge. She charged Thomas with using drugs. She then received permission to share in the care of her kids. So, sadly, the agreement did not make their relationship more peaceful. Also, Kathryn talked to JD Madison and Elizabeth, her children's godparents, on the reality show about her problems.\nOn the other hand, Thomas used his Instagram posts to express his dissatisfaction. In a July 2018 report published on \"The RadarOnline,\" it was revealed that Thomas and Kathryn's issues began when their child's nanny accused him of attacking her sexually in 2015. According to reports, Thomas gave the babysitter money to drop the lawsuit.\nKathryn Dennis's Background in Education\nShe graduated in 2009 from the \"Berkeley High School\" she had attended. At the \"University of South Carolina,\" she later studied journalism, fashion, and visual communication. Kathryn participated in several volunteer endeavors at the university, such as the \"Andre Bauer For Governor Campaign\" and the \"Red Ribbon Week Campaign.\" She also contributed to the political campaigns of Joe Wilson. Kathryn also held positions as the University of South Carolina College Republicans' creative director and chairwoman for recruitment.\nWhat is Kathryn Dennis's net worth?\nHer net worth is $800 thousand.\nWho or what is Chleb Ravenell?\nChleb held several other positions and is currently employed full-time by Apple in Charleston as a Product Specialist.\nIs Naomi and Kathryn Dennis still close?\nNaomie claims that her friendship with Kathryn is still \"strained.\"\nNaomie revealed her reasons for leaving Southern Charm to Us Weekly two months after she departed the show.\nWhat source of income does Kathryn have?\nKathryn Dennis receives a $25,000 episode pay for her work on Southern Charm. Gwynn's department store currently employs Kathryn as a brand representative.\nRead More \u2013 Kawhi Leonard : Read About Kawhi Leonard Retirement\nChleb Ravenell\nChleb Ravenell and Kathryn Dennis\nKathryn Dennis","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"THE AKASHA INNOVATION HUB\nCAN EQUITY BE TOKENISED IN IRELAND? DAVID GILMORE, AKASHA\nTaken from interview with Simon Cocking - https:\/\/irishtechnews.ie\/equity-tokenised-ireland-david-gilmore-akasha\/\nAKASHA Innovation Hub and SORS Digital Assets are excited to host a panel discussion on Wednesday 5th February covering the topic of Tokenisation in Ireland. Quick interview with David Gilmore from Akasha.\nHow was the last year, what worked well, what didn't move as quickly as you would have liked?\nWe set up in Dublin in 2019, this was part of our global expansion having already established bases in Zug, Berlin and Barcelona. There were a number of highlights in 2019 for AKASHA, we solidified our partnership with CERN, presented at the World Economic Forum and at Devcon 5 in Osaka, Japan we announced Ethereum.World, a platform seeking to unify the Ethereum ecosystem by integrating decentralized apps into a simple, delightful social experience. At our Innovation Hub here in Dublin we have a number of Blockchain start ups taking part in our incubation and acceleration programs. I think that the issue of regulation in the Blockchain space in Ireland is lagging behind other countries such as the UK and Germany and it is important to address that issue. For example, the German Federal Ministry has issued a national Blockchain strategy for the Token economy and we need a similar initiative in Ireland at this point.\nWhat are your plans for the future?\nIt is the goal of AKASHA to continue to develop distributed technologies that enable the creation of new Blockchain backed innovation driven economies and foster the emergence of knowledge driven societies through collective intelligence. Moving from proof of concept to rolling out production is a key target for 2020. We hope to expand to more locations and are currently collaborating with the Isle of Man government about taking an active role in their regulatory sandbox.\nWhat will you be talking about at this event?\nThe primary topic at the Event will be the Tokenisation of equity in Ireland with specific focus on the Tokenization of Real Estate, Assets, Commodities and Securities. We are delighted that representatives from the Central Bank and the Department of Finance will be in attendance, it will be useful for them to hear from our German partners Black Manta about how regulation is actually working in the Blockchain space in Germany. Our panel comprises of a broad spectrum of the Blockchain industry including developers, legal experts, Blockchain entrepreneurs and venture capital funds looking to invest in the space.\nWhat inspired you to organise it?\nWe feel that we need to start a conversation among the key stakeholders in the space and that it will be hugely beneficial to bring together the leading industry experts with representatives from the Central Bank and Department of Finance. Also we are determined to continue to increase awareness and education around the Blockchain development and applications in Ireland so we will be holding one event each month on various topical issues.\nWhich influencers and websites do you follow to keep up to date with the latest developments?\nObviously irishtechnews.ie continues to be a great resource for Blockchain information in Ireland. Other than the usual Twitter, Linkedin and Reddit sources, we like to go to as many meetups and conferences as possible, we find this is a great way of keeping our ear to the ground and find out all of the goings on that aren't necessarily in the public domain. This was one of the reasons we become proud sponsors of the BlockW event in Dublin.\nHow can people find out more about what you are working on? Anything else you'd like to add \/ we should have asked?\nWe have just launched our new website, www.akasha.ie and are always happy to have visitors drop in for a coffee in our offices in Dublin City Centre.\nAKASHA Innovation Hub partner with Agriledger\nGaming & Digital Assets - What's the Play?!\nLONDON BLOCKCHAIN WEEK: AKASHA & NOVUM TALK TOKENISATION\n\u00a9 2020 by The AKASHA INNOVATION HUB","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Posts Tagged 'Caribou'\nFractured Air x Blogoth\u00e8que \u2013 S02E02 | February mix\nWe're excited to present three exclusive tracks for February's mixtape.\nFebruary's edition features an exclusive first listen of UK-based organist and composer James McVinnie's \"Cycles_1\" album, set for release this Spring via Icelandic independent Bedroom Community. The album is a collection of reworks of McVinnie's glorious 2013 Bedroom Community album, \"Cycles\", an album featuring thirteen organ pieces performed by Mcvinnie, written by Nico Muhly and also featuring contributions from Nadia Sirota, Chris Thompson and Simon Wall. Presented here is the rework of \"O Emmanuel\" (the final of the \"Seven O Antiphon Preludes\" from \"Cycles\") by composer Paul Evans, who is also the producer and engineer at the legendary Greenhouse Studios; the creative home of Bedroom Community, founded by Valgeir Sigur\u00f0sson in 1997.\nAlso featured on February's mixtape is an exclusive first listen of Irish songwriter Brigid Mae Power's hauntingly beautiful cover of Planxty's \"As I Roved Out\" (a regular inclusion on Power's enthralling live shows), taken from her forthcoming \"The Ones You Keep Close\" EP, comprising a collection of older songs of Power's newly recorded by Peter Broderick at his Woods, Oregon-based studio The Sparkle during 2016. The stunning six-track vinyl EP will be available this April via German independent label Oscarson.\nWe're happy to also feature the exclusive track \"Rook\" by Seattle-based artist Beno\u00eet Pioulard (Kranky, Ghostly International, Morr Music) which will be exclusively made available on a tour-only CD during his forthcoming eagerly-awaited European tour, commencing on 4th March 2017.\nAlso included on February's mixtape are new releases from: Brokeback; Colin Stetson; Hauschka; Jens Lekman; Visible Cloaks; Cindy Lee; Clap! Clap!; Talaboman; Mind Over Mirrors; Julie Byrne & much more.\nTo listen on La Blogoth\u00e8que:\nhttp:\/\/www.blogotheque.net\/2017\/02\/28\/fractured-air-x-blogotheque-s02e02-february-mix\/\n01. Visible Cloaks \u2013 \"Circle\" (RVNG Intl)\n02. Julia Holter \u2013 \"So Lillies\" (Live at RAK) (Domino)\n03. Yaw \u2013 \"Where Will You Be\" (!K7)\n04. Fran\u00e7oise Hardy \u2013 \"Voil\u00e0\" (Disques Vogue)\n05. Cindy Lee \u2013 \"A Message From The Aching Sky\" (Superior Viaduct)\n06. The Sadies \u2013 \"It's Easy (Like Walking)\" [feat. Kurt Vile] (Yep Roc)\n07. The Saxophones \u2013 \"If You're on the Water\" (Self-Released)\n08. Brokeback \u2013 \"Spanish Venus\" (Thrill Jockey)\n09. Jens Lekman \u2013 \"What's That Perfume That You Wear?\" (Secretly Canadian)\n10. William Onyeabor \u2013 \"Fantastic Man\" (Luaka Bop)\n11. Brentford Disco Set \u2013 \"Rebel Disco\" (Soul Jazz)\n12. Adrian Homer Miller \u2013 \"One and Only One\" (Light In The Attic)\n13. Colleen \u2013 \"Eclipse\" (Thrill Jockey)\n14. Those Who Walk Away \u2013 \"First Degraded Hymn\" (Constellation)\n15. Toydrum \u2013 \"I've Got a Future\" (Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Rework) [feat. Gavin Clark] (Skint)\n16. Julie Byrne \u2013 \"I Live Now As A Singer\" (Ba Da Bing!)\n17. Clap! Clap! \u2013 \"Ascension Psalm\" (feat. HDADD) (Black Acre)\n18. Talaboman \u2013 \"Safe Changes\" (R&S)\n19. Caribou \u2013 \"People Eating Fruit\" (Leaf)\n20. Vermont \u2013 \"Norderney\" (Kompakt)\n21. Paddy Mulcahy \u2013 \"On The Steps\" (Self-Released)\n22. Hauschka \u2013 \"Constant Growth Fails\" (City Slang \/ Temporary Residence)\n23. Mind Over Mirrors \u2013 \"To the Edges\" (Paradise Of Bachelors)\n24. James McVinnie \u2013 \"O Emmanuel\" (Paul Evans Remix) (Bedroom Community)\n25. Beno\u00eet Pioulard \u2013 \"Rook\" (Self-Released)\n26. Colin Stetson \u2013 \"Spindrift\" (Constellation)\n27. Mario Batkovic \u2013 \"Restrictus 2\" (Invada)\n28. Richard Osborn \u2013 \"Still I Will Be Merry\" (Tompkins Square)\n29. Brigid Mae Power \u2013 \"As I Roved Out\" (Oscarson)\nCompiled by Fractured Air, February 2017. The copyright in these recordings is the property of the individual artists and\/or record labels. If you like the music, please support the artist by buying their records.\nhttp:\/\/www.blogotheque.net\/\nhttps:\/\/fracturedair.com\/\nTagged with Beno\u00eet Pioulard, Brigid Mae Power, Brokeback, Caribou, Cindy Lee, Clap! Clap!, Colin Stetson, Colleen, Jens Lekman, Julia Holter, Julie Byrne, Mario Batkovic, Mind over Mirrors, Paddy Mulcahy, Richard Osborn, Talaboman, The Sadies, The Saxophones, Those Who Walk Away, Toydrum, Vermont, Visible Cloaks, William Onyeabor, Yaw\nAlbums & Reissues Of The Year: 2014\nThe following is a selection of the albums and re-issues that had the greatest impact on us for a wide range of different reasons. As difficult as it proved to settle on a final (and very concise) selection, we both turned to these special albums most often throughout the year. 2014 has been a year which has produced so many absolutely wonderful and truly special albums, here's our personal selection of some of these (with a selection of ten albums and five re-issues).\nWords: Mark & Craig Carry, All artwork: Craig Carry\nAlbums of the year:\nGrouper 'Ruins' (Kranky)\n'Ruins' was made while U.S. musician and artist Liz Harris was on an artist residency (set up by Galeria Z\u00e9 dos Bois) during 2011 in Portugal's Aljezur region. The location would provide a striking influence to Harris's subsequent recordings (recorded in typically minimal fashion: a portable 4-track, Sony stereo mic and an upright piano) while the sense of both departure and a new-found freedom flow throughout 'Ruins' and its majestic and dreamlike eight tracks. During her Aljezur residency, Harris would embark on daily hikes to the nearest beach where she would encounter the ruins of several old estates and a small village. As Harris has said: \"The album is a document. A nod to that daily walk. Failed structures. Living in the remains of love. I left the songs the way they came (microwave beep from when power went out after a storm); I hope that the album bears some resemblance to the place that I was in.\"\n'Ruins' is a stunning achievement which proves all the more astonishing considering the already extensive (and consistently breathtaking) recorded output of Grouper since the mid 00's. 'Clearing' is arguably Harris's most singularly beautiful song conceived to date. As Harris sings: \"What has been done \/ Can never be undone\" over a gorgeously delicate piano line we embark on yet another wholly unique and deeply personal odyssey under the stewardship of Harris's very heart. Like a silent witness we hold our breath as we remain under Harris's spell throughout (from the timeless ballad 'Holding' to the closing epic drone-heavy tour-de-force 'Made of Air'). 'Ruins' is a quietly breathtaking force of nature: an album made as much by Harris's own hands as by the moonlight's illumination in the night sky or the evening sun's last rays of faded half-light.\n'Ruins' is available now on Kranky.\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Grouper\/\nhttp:\/\/www.kranky.net\/\nCaribou 'Our Love' (City Slang\/Merge)\nOne of my most memorable moments of this past year was undoubtedly witnessing Caribou's storming live set at 2014's Body & Soul festival. A euphoric feeling ascended into the summer evening skyline as each transcendent beat and luminous pop-laden hook flooded our senses. The majority of 2010's glorious LP 'Swim' was revisited, from the tropicalia-infused 'Odessa' to the hypnotic 'Sun' and all points in between. Dan Snaith & co's set further confirmed the legendary status of Caribou; whose innovative and utterly compelling sonic creations (where elements of krautrock, dance, jazz, soul, hip-hop, and electronic soundscapes form one irresistible, mind-blowing sound spectrum) have long served a trusted companion for the independent music collector.\nThis year marked the highly anticipated fifth Caribou studio album, 'Our Love', which, in many ways, nestles beautifully between its predecessor 'Swim' and Snaith's more techno-oriented project of Daphni. Lead single 'Can't Do Without You' is an instant classic with a seamless array of melodic patterns and soulful vocals that evokes the soul-stirring songbook of Al Green as much as it spans the history of the dance floor. Several of the songs were co-written by gifted Canadian composer\/violinist Owen Pallett (whose own solo record 'In Conflict' has been one of the most original, daring and innovative records of 2014) and Pallett's distinctive violin-led melodies coalesce effortlessly with Snaith's visionary dance structures.\nNumerous remixes have since seen the light of day (where new perspectives and insights are drawn and re-configured) with the latest example being Carl Craig's techno mix of 'Your Love Will Set You Free'. Much in the same way as 'Swim', I know (and firmly believe) 'Our Love' will remain as vital and significant for many more years and decades to come.\n'Our Love' is available now on City Slang (EU) and Merge (USA).\nhttp:\/\/www.caribou.fm\nhttp:\/\/cityslang.com\nhttp:\/\/www.mergerecords.com\nSharon Van Etten 'Are We There' (Jagjaguwar)\nWhen Jersey-native and New York-based songwriter Sharon Van Etten first announced the arrival of 'Are We There', Van Etten's fourth full-length and follow-up to her 2011 seminal work 'Tramp', she had these words to share: \"I really hope that when someone puts my record on that they hear me.\" Of course, Van Etten's wishes have clearly been fulfilled. If there's one thing we can firmly establish by now it is this: Van Etten makes music from the real world; a world of real events and real people with real feelings. Subsequently, steeped in a sometimes harsh reality, Van Etten's songs are imbued with fears, struggles and (often) much pain. Much like Chan Marshall's pre 'The Greatest' recorded output, Van Etten bravely examines her own life's immediate surroundings and relationships to share her most innermost confessions and feelings for us all to bear witness. Through Van Etten's songs we too can find our own deepest feelings long hidden in the shadows of some forgotten, distant dream.\n'Are We There' is Van Etten's first self-produced album (The National's Aaron Dessner produced its predecessor 'Tramp') and features a host of wonderful musicians, including: Torres's Mackenzie Scott on vocals (who toured extensively supporting Van Etten); Heather Woods-Broderick (on strings and vocals); Mary Lattimore (harp) as well as Van Etten's trusted and formidable rhythm section (Zeke Hutchins on drums and David Hartley on bass). The use of vocal harmonies (Van Etten, Scott and Woods-Broderick) is a pure joy to witness. The resultant musical arrangements are stunningly cohesive and yet genuinely innovative, providing for many moments of challenging and divine musicianship \u2014 at times wonderfully dense and strikingly tactile ('Our Love' or 'Every Time The Sun Coms Up') \u2014 other times remain starkly sparse ('I Know') but, importantly, such intricacies of musicianship and arrangements only ever serve the song.\n\"Everybody needs to feel\" sings Van Etten on 'Your Love Is Killing Me'. It's a sentiment that best serves the phenomenal and beloved artist that is Sharon Van Etten and 'Are We There'. It's another step to becoming your own true self. It's a destination no one is ever likely to realistically reach but striving for it is proving to be Van Etten (and her sacred songbook)'s true towering achievement.\n'Are We There' is available now on Jagjaguwar.\nhttp:\/\/www.sharonvanetten.com\/\nhttp:\/\/www.jagjaguwar.com\/\nClark 'Clark' (Warp)\n'I Dream Of Wires' is a documentary based on the phenomenal resurgence of the modular synthesizer; exploring the passions and dreams of people who have dedicated part of their lives to this electronic music machine. The splendid documentary \u2014 released earlier this year \u2014 features interviews with Ghostly's Solvent (who co-wrote the film in addition to composing the film score), Carl Craig, Jeremy Greenspan (Junior Boys) and Warp's Clark. Reflecting on this particular film now, I feel it is precisely this exploration of passions and dreams that filters into the dazzling music of UK's Chris Clark. The unique blend of utterly transcendent electronic creations is forever steeped in a rare beauty, filled with endless moments of divine transcendence.\nThis year marked the eagerly awaited release of new self-titled full-length (and seventh for Warp), following up 2012's magical 'Iradelphic'. The gifted producer's meticulous touch can be felt throughout, from the cold-cut classic 'Unfurla' to the blissful synth-laden 'The Grit In The Pearl'. Dance music for the here-and-now that breathes life and meaning into music's endless possibilities.\nAs Clark has said: \"Music is like sculpture. It's like trying to capture a moment of ultimate momentum, and distill it forever\".\n'Clark' is available now on Warp.\nhttp:\/\/throttleclark.com\/\nhttp:\/\/warp.net\/\nHauschka 'Abandoned City' (City Slang\/Temporary Residence Ltd)\nWitnessing Hauschka's Volker Bertelmann \u2014 whether in live setting during his renowned concert performances or in recorded contexts \u2014 a certain sense of magic fills the air. Sylvain Chomet's 2010 animated marvel 'The Illusionist' comes to mind, as we are left in wonderment to observe the artist's vast collection of skills and unlimited wells of talent. Known worldwide as one of the most recognizable 21st Century proponents of what is known as Prepared Piano, Bertelmann has amassed a considerable body of work over the last decade, ceaselessly weaving his own singular path \u2014 and on his own terms \u2014 to wondrous effect (much like fellow modern composers and restless souls Nils Frahm and Max Richter or such Twentieth Century masters as Eric Satie, John Cage and Steve Reich). Importantly, the album itself draws from research Bertelmann made (after the discovery of a series of photographic prints depicting the subject of abandoned cities) on the number of actual vacated cities in existence (each track title references a particular city). As Bertelmann has said: \"I was interested in finding a metaphor for the inner tension I feel when I'm composing music, a state of mind where I'm lonely and happy at the same time.\"\n'Abandoned City' proves a certain milestone in Hauschka's recorded output to date. An intriguing sense of both adventure and discovery seeps through every pore of the album's ten compositions. Like all of Hauschka's art, nothing is as it first seems. As we delve further into this abandoned city Hauschka has built for us we begin to lose all sense of what we initially thought was important in the process. We lose all traces of ourselves for that beautiful instant we are under Bertelmann's sacred spell and that is what Hauschka's divine art forever manages to do.\n'Abandoned City' is available now on City Slang (EU) and Temporary Residence Ltd (USA).\nhttp:\/\/hauschka-net.de\/\nhttp:\/\/cityslang.com\/\nhttp:\/\/temporaryresidence.com\/\nSteve Gunn 'Way Out Weather' (Paradise Of Bachelors)\nThe flawless North Carolina-based independent label Paradise of Bachelors has yet again been responsible for a string of modern-day Americana masterpieces, not least the latest tour-de-force from the ever-prolific, Brooklyn-based guitar prodigy and songsmith, Steve Gunn. This year's 'Way Out Weather' feels like a natural culmination where every aspect of Gunn's deeply-affecting songs \u2014 poignant story-telling quality, immaculate instrumentation and intricate musical arrangements \u2014 is heightened as the towering eight creations hits you profoundly and stirs your soul. 2013's 'Time Off' was the starting point of Gunn's song-writing path, having collaborated closely with Kurt Vile, Michael Chapman, Mike Cooper, The Black Twig Pickers and a host of others in recent times.\nA timeless feel permeates every corner of the record. The recording sessions took place at Black Dirt Studio in Westtown, New York, featuring a formidable cast of musicians (and Gunn's long-term collaborators) further adding to the widescreen, cinematic sound to 'Way Out Weather's sprawling sonic canvas. Longtime musical brothers and kindred spirits Jason Meagher (bass, drones, engineering), Justin Tripp (bass, guitar, keys, production), and John Truscinski (drums), in addition to newcomers Nathan Bowles (drums, banjo, keys: Black Twig Pickers, Pelt); James Elkington (guitar, lap steel, dobro: Freakwater, Jeff Tweedy); Mary Lattimore (harp, keys: Thurston Moore, Kurt Vile); and Jimy SeiTang (synths, electronics: Stygian Stride, Rhyton.)\nOn the utterly transcendent album closer, 'Tommy's Congo', shades of Sonny Sharrock beautifully surfaces beneath the artefacts of time. The deep groove and rhythm interwoven with this vivid catharsis is nothing short of staggering. The cosmic spirit captured on the closing cut \u2014 and each of these sublime recordings \u2014 permanently occupies a state of transcendence. As each song-cycle unfolds, the shimmering worlds of Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue or the Stones' 'Exile On Main St.' fades into focus. 'Way Out Weather' is dotted with captivating moments from the ways of a true master.\n'Way Out Weather' is available now on Paradise Of Bachelors.\nhttp:\/\/steve-gunn.com\/\nhttp:\/\/paradiseofbachelors.com\/\nCaoimh\u00edn \u00d3 Raghallaigh & Dan Trueman 'Laghd\u00fa' (Irishmusic.net)\n2014 has been a remarkable year for Ireland-based composer Caoimh\u00edn \u00d3 Raghallaigh. Firstly, January saw the release of contemporary quintet The Gloaming's stunning self-titled debut album via Real World Records. Subsequent concerts would be performed across the globe (including Sydney's Opera House) to mass celebration and widespread critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. As well as touring with his other band, the Irish\/Swedish quartet This Is How We Fly, across both Ireland and Europe, \u00d3 Raghallaigh also performed a series of truly special solo concerts (entitled \"In My Mind\", a solo fiddle and film show) across the length of Ireland for the month of October. Despite the hectic touring schedules, \u00d3 Raghallaigh also released two stunning works: the solo album 'Music For An Elliptical Orbit' (via Dublin-based label Diatribe Records) and the mesmerizing 'Laghd\u00fa', a collaboration with U.S. fiddle player Dan Trueman.\n'Laghd\u00fa' (an Irish word which translates as: a lessening, a decrease, a reduction) is a hugely significant work for many reasons. Most notably, it was Trueman who first introduced \u00d3 Raghallaigh to his beloved ten-string hardanger d'amore fiddle (custom-made in Norway by Salve H\u00e5kedal) during September 2000. It is the simple dialogue and deep connection which exists between the pair (both performing identical instruments and identical baroque bows) which is a pure joy to savor. Two traditional pieces are performed by the pair ('The Jack of Diamonds Three' and 'Fead an Iolair') while the remainder of 'Laghd\u00fa' comprises original compositions written and arranged by Trueman and \u00d3 Raghallaigh. The dynamic range is nothing short of staggering \u2014 from the near-silent to the nigh-on orchestral, at times exploding joyously from their hybrid 10-string fiddles, at times barely there \u2014 holding time still in the process. The resultant eleven heavenly tracks occupy both the realms populated by the most ancient forms of traditional music as well as those thrillingly in-between spaces carved out and inhabited in modern neoclassical composition of the most utterly enchanting and truly sacred kind.\n'Laghd\u00fa' is available now via Irishmusic.net HERE.\nhttp:\/\/www.caoimhinoraghallaigh.com\/\nhttp:\/\/www.manyarrowsmusic.com\/\nhttp:\/\/irishmusic.net\/\nChristina Vantzou 'N\u00b02' (Kranky)\n'N\u00b02' is the second solo album by the Brussels-based artist and Kansas-born composer Christina Vantzou and, like its predecessor, 'N\u00b01', was issued by the formidable Chicago-based independent label Kranky. Written over a period of four years, 'N\u00b02' finds Vantzou reunited with Minna Choi \u2014 of the San Francisco-based Magik*Magik Orchestra \u2014 and regular contributor Adam Wiltzie (A Winged Victory For The Sullen, Stars Of The Lid) who Vantzou effectively began her musical career with when the duo made music as The Dead Texan (Vantzou was keyboardist as well as film-maker, illustrator and animator). A wide sonic palette is used throughout, from the gentle ripple-flow of piano notes on the album's penultimate track, 'Vostok' and prominence of harp on the achingly beautiful 'VHS' to the rapturous crescendo of strings of 'Going Backwards To Recover What Was Left Behind' where an emotion-filled sadness engulfs every pore. Elsewhere, slowly shifting layers of brass and woodwind drifts majestically in 'Brain Fog' before brooding strings come to the fore, resulting in a cathartic release of energy. Layers of angelic voices appear and disappear throughout, forming not only a monumental symphonic movement but also an other-worldly choral work.\nIndeed, the most appropriate analogy to imagine while attempting to surmise the sheer magic of 'N\u00b02' is the act of making those frame-by-frame animations Vantzou has so patiently and laboriously created in the past: while they are meticulously worked on, over such a long and painfully slow process, the results yielded are both stunningly imperfect and remarkably pure. It's a characteristic which runs through all of Vantzou's breathtaking art (from her drawings and sleeve artwork to her dreamlike slow motion film works) which truly heightens all that surrounds you.\n'N\u00b02' is available now on Kranky.\nhttp:\/\/www.christinavantzou.com\/\nBirds Of Passage 'This Kindly Slumber' (Denovali)\nNew Zealand-based composer Alicia Merz has been quietly amassing a soul-stirring collection of albums under her Birds Of Passage moniker over the past five years or so. 'This Kindly Slumber' \u2014 released by German independent label Denovali Records \u2014 is Merz's third solo full-length album and features Merz's spellbinding lyricism (at times recalling Mark Linkous or Daniel Johnston in their open honesty and raw emotion). Like Grouper's Liz Harris, Birds Of Passage's power emanates from minimal musical arrangements (vocal takes are often first takes) where a sense of both purity and intimacy is conjured by Merz throughout, providing for an unforgettable listening experience. As we delve into the innermost caverns of 'This Kindly Slumber's mysterious and complex maze of real and imagined landscapes; the sensation one feels is akin to the finest of Murakami's fictional prose or the most ancient of children's nursery rhymes and folklore tales. Interestingly, Merz holds a deep fascination with nursery rhymes since a very young age and 'Ladybird, Ladybird' is combined with 'And All Of Your Dreams' to powerful effect. Elsewhere, the deeply personal 'Yesterday's Stains' contains an openness and honesty rare in music.\n'This Kindly Slumber' is a life-affirming journey which finds Merz navigating the darkest of nights while facing her gravest of fears. On the other side of this kindly slumber we realize that even the darkest of shadows lie closest to light: through the sacred and secret songs of Birds Of Passage we learn that in every moment of hopelessness exists hope. For that, we can be eternally grateful.\n'This Kindly Slumber' is available now on Denovali.\nhttp:\/\/birdsofpassagemusic.com\/\nhttp:\/\/www.denovali.com\/\nMarissa Nadler 'July' (Bella Union\/Sacred Bones)\n'July' (which documents Nadler's life events from one July to the next) is the ever-prolific U.S. songwriter's latest opus of longing and hope. The album can be read and interpreted autobiographically but, crucially, like all of Nadler's songbook, songs are masterfully left open to the listener's interpretation. Interestingly, Randall Dunn (Earth, Sunn O))), is at the helm of production duties on 'July'; providing a first-time collaboration for the pair. Accompanying Nadler is Eyvind Kang (strings), Steve Moore (synths) and Phil Wandscher (Jesse Sykes, Whiskeytown) on lead guitar. However, as is always the case with such a truly unique songwriter, it is Nadler's breathtaking voice and impeccable lyricism which quietly dominate proceedings. Like such kindred spirits as Missourri songwriter Angel Olsen or British folk legends Vashti Bunyan and Bridget St. John, Nadler's music captivates the mind (and heart) of each and every listener fortunate enough to cross paths with her. From album opener 'Drive' to the forlorn closing piano ballad 'Nothing In my Heart', immediacy and directness prevails throughout 'July'. Transcendental moments abound, from the poetic lyricism to 'We Are Coming Back' (\"Still I live many miles away \/ So I can miss you a little everyday\") to the brooding tour-de-force 'Dead City Emily' which combines both gut-wrenching honesty (\"I was coming apart those days\") and heart-stopping beauty as, ultimately, the prevailing sense of hope outlasts all struggle and inner-conflict (\"Oh I saw the light today \/ Opened up the door\").\nAs the lyrics of 'Drive' return to my mind: \"Still remember all the words to every song you ever heard\"; I feel those very words reflect the empowering feeling in which the cherished songbook of Marissa Nadler ceaselessly awakens (and continues to re-awaken) in me.\n'July' is available now on Bella Union (EU) and Sacred Bones (USA).\nhttp:\/\/www.marissanadler.com\/\nhttp:\/\/bellaunion.com\/\nhttp:\/\/www.sacredbonesrecords.com\/\nReissues of the year:\nThe Moles 'Flashbacks And Dream Sequences: The Story Of The Moles' (Fire)\nLooking back on 2014, the first sounds which come to my mind is Australian band The Moles and the magical first-time discovery of their music in the form of their first retrospective 'Flashbacks And Dream Sequences: The Story Of The Moles', released via Fire Records. The double-album is packed to the brim with impeccably constructed pop songs, heart-breaking love songs and just about every shade and nuance in between (spanning punk, shoe gaze and indie rock). 'Flashbacks and Dream Sequences: The Story of The Moles' contains the band's two studio albums; debut full-length 'Untune The Sky' (originally released in 1991) and follow-up 'Instinct' (the latter was heralded by The Sea And Cake's Archer Prewitt as being \"as close to perfection as any Beatles or Beach Boys record and it stands on its own as a classic in my book\") and a whole plethora of b-sides and rarities, culled from various EP's and singles. Led by Richard Davies (who later would join Eric Mathews and form Cardinal), The Moles were formed in Sydney in the late 80's and unleashed a resolutely unique songbook which would prove hugely influential on a whole host of diverse bands (The Flaming Lips, The Sea And Cake). The original band line-up consisted of Glenn Fredericks, Richard Davies, Warren Armstrong and Carl Zadra, friends from law school who were fans of Flying Nun, The Fall and The Go Betweens, drawing their name from a reference to 'Wind In The Willows' and spy novels (John Le Carr\u00e9 and Graham Greene).\nWhat's most apparent on this defining release is that the truly unique vision (in both Davies's songwriting and The Moles' music) deserves to be known \u2014 and embraced \u2014 the world over. \"It's always an adventure. There's an element of a well that never runs dry,\" Richard Davies told us earlier in the year, on discussing The Moles. It's a sentiment which could not be more true for The Moles and their utterly visionary and absolutely essential music.\n'Flashbacks And Dream Sequences: The Story Of The Moles' is available now on Fire Records.\n[Richard Davies Facebook Page]\nhttp:\/\/www.firerecords.com\/\nLewis 'L'Amour' (Light In The Attic)\nWhen Light In The Attic Records reissued the much-fabled, timeless cult-classic 'L'Amour' by Lewis (originally released in 1983 on the unknown label R.A.W.) not much was known about the whereabouts of its esteemed author, not least the actual identity of \"Lewis\", for that matter. The sense of mystery only deepened when consulting the album's liner notes: Was Lewis still alive? What has he been doing in the intervening years? What other musical treasures are lying around only awaiting to be discovered written by this elusive figure? Crucially, without even beginning to dig any further into biographical detail (or absence thereof), it's clear that, on listening to 'L'Amour', Lewis created nothing short of a bona-fide masterpiece. Heartbreak is immediately evident from Lewis's lonesome, brooding, ghostly baritone from album opener 'Things Just Happen That Way' (\"I took her hand \/ She took my heart\") while a sparse set-up of whispered voice together with only piano, synthesizer (or an occasional plucked guitar) remains throughout \u2014 recalling Waits or Springsteen at their most hushed and introspective best \u2014 creating a defining album of heartbreak \u2014 and love \u2014 in the process.\nAnd what about the biographical gaps? Indeed Lewis was, as it turned out, a pseudonym. Lewis's true identity has proved to be that of Randall Wulff (as confirmed by famed L.A. photographer Ed Colver, who had shot the \u00fcber-cool cover-shoot for L'Amour's album sleeve). However, for the purposes of the Light In The Attic liner notes, the mystery remained unsolved (after a long two-and-a-half year search). That is, until August 2014, when the real-life Randall Wulff was found (read Light In The Attic's amazing article HERE) \u2014 alive and well and still quietly making his own masterful music \u2014 in what must have been the year's most enchanting and heart-warming of stories.\nL'Amour' is available now on Light In The Attic.\nhttp:\/\/lightintheattic.net\/artists\/691-lewis\nhttp:\/\/lightintheattic.net\/\nOne Of You 'One Of You' (Little Axe)\nOne of the most stunning re-issues of recent times came this year via the Portland, Oregon-based label Little Axe Records (a label founded when Mississippi Records split into two labels in 2011), with it's issuing of a self-titled LP by One Of You. The author's name and identity remains anonymous but we do know this startling collection was made by a Czech immigrant to Canada who set up her own Scarab label in the early '80's, releasing music under the pseudonyms One of You and The Triffids. Having fled her homeland in the late sixties to emigrate to Canada for hopes of a better future and life there, One Of You's music would be imbued with a prevailing sense of loss, regret and much hardships. The music itself, written in both Czech and English, and arranged in typically minimal fashion (synthesizer, guitar, organ) touches upon outsider folk, folk-psych, Eastern European folk and minimalist music traditions. One Of You's deeply affecting, timeless music yields moments of powerful intensity while a whole spectrum of emotions, images and textures are unleashed beautifully upon the listener all at once.\n'One Of You' is available now on Little Axe.\nhttp:\/\/littleaxerecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/one-of-you-s-t\nhttp:\/\/www.littleaxerecords.com\/\nK. Leimer 'A Period of Review (Original Recordings: 1975-1983)' (RVNG Intl)\nRVNG Intl. is a Brooklyn-based music institution that operates on few but heavily fortified principles, dealing with forward-reaching artists that ceaselessly push the sonic envelope. From visionary luminaries such as Julia Holter, Holly Herndon, Blondes, Maxmillion Dunbar et al, RVNG Intl. has consistently delivered some of the most adventurous, enthralling and breathtaking records this past decade. One of the label's cornerstones has become the awe-inspiring archival series which has featured (and celebrated) musical pioneers Craig Leon, Ariel Kalma and K. Leimer. The third installment of the archival series \u2014 released earlier this year \u2014 was Seattle-based sound sculptor, K. Leimer and a vast treasure of ambient voyages entitled 'A Period of Review (Original Recordings: 1975-1983)'. I simply cannot think of a more special musical document to have graced my life this past year than Kerry Leimer's resolutely unique and deeply human canon of pioneering ambient music.\nA glimpse into Leimer's creative process is touched upon on the compilation's liner notes: \"The loop provided an instant structure \u2013 a sort of fatalism \u2013 the participation of the tape machine in shaping and extending the music was a key to setting self-deterministic systems in motion and held clear relationship to my interests in fine art.\"\n'A Period of Review (Original Recordings: 1975-1983)' offers the perfect entry point (across an exhaustive double-album and thirty spellbinding tracks) into the beautifully enthralling and ever-revolving world inhabited by the special soul of Mr. Kerry Leimer.\n'A Period of Review (Original Recordings: 1975-1983)' is available now on RVNG Intl.\nhttp:\/\/www.palaceoflights.com\/\nhttp:\/\/igetrvng.com\/\nFikret K\u0131z\u0131lok 'Anadolu'yum' (Pharaway Sounds)\nAlthough technically issued at the tail end of 2013, legendary Turkish folk singer Fikret K\u0131z\u0131lok (1947-2001)'s exquisite collection of singles from 1971-75 (compiled into a 14-track set entitled 'Anadolu'yum' and issued by Pharaway Sounds, a subsidiary label of Light In The Attic Records) proved \u2014 like the many equally formidable Pharaway Sounds releases \u2014 a true haven for music lovers. Merging genres and fuzing styles almost at will (as evidenced by the immense musical arrangements drawing from such diverse sources as Western influences, India and his own native Turkey), K\u0131z\u0131lok's diverse appetite and deep appreciation for music shines through in every one of this magical compilation's fourteen tracks. From the heavenly and beautifully forlorn Anatolian folk masterpiece 'Anadolu'yum (1972&1975)' to the irresistible sitar-aided 'G\u00fcn Ola Devran D\u00f6ne' (1971), K\u0131z\u0131lok's musical path would be dictated by numerous external obstacles of the day (namely, the political unrest of his native Turkey throughout the 1970's) while a pressure to conform to audience's expectations (K\u0131z\u0131lok was a pop phenomenon in Turkey, regularly charting instant hits) proved immense in the intervening years, while he would become most often associated with his best known love ballads from his considerable 1970's output.\n'Anadolu'yum' is available now on Pharaway Sounds.\nAll designs and artwork by Craig Carry: http:\/\/craigcarry.net\nWith very special thanks to all the wonderful musicians and labels for the true gift of their music. And a special thank you to all our readers for reading during the year.\nWeb: http:\/\/fracturedair.com\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FracturedAir\nTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/Fractured_Air\nMixcloud: http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/Fractured_Air\/\nPosted in DON'T LOOK BACK\nTagged with A Period Of Review, Abandoned City, Anadolu'yum, Are We There, Bella Union, Birds Of Passage, Caoimh\u00edn \u00d3 Raghallaigh, Caribou, Christina Vantzou, City Slang, Clark, Dan Trueman, Denovali, Fikret Kizilok, Fire Records, Flashbacks And Dream Sequences, Grouper, Half Way Home, Hauschka, Irishmusic.net, Jagjaguwar, July, K. Leimer, Kranky, Laghdu, L'Amour, Lewis, Light In the Attic, Little Axe, Marissa Nadler, Merge, N\u00b02, One Of You, Our Love, Paradise of Bachelors, Pharaway Sounds, Ruins, RVNG INTL, Sacred Bones, Sharon Van Etten, Steve Gunn, Temporary Residence Ltd, The Moles, This Kindly Slumber, Warp\nMixtape: Some Velvet Morning [A Fractured Air Mix]\nSome Velvet Morning [A Fractured Air Mix]\nhttp:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/Fractured_Air\/some-velvet-morning-a-fractured-air-mix\/\n01. Goat 'To Travel The Path Unknown' [Sub Pop]\n02. Miles Davis 'John McLaughlin' [CBS, Columbia]\n03. Pharoah Sanders 'Greeting To Saud' [Impulse!]\n04. Boom Bip Feat. Nina Nastasia 'The Matter (Of Our Discussion)' [Lex]\n05. Kate Ellis 'Why Do You Smile?' [Diatribe]\n06. Spoon 'Inside Out' [Anti-]\n07. St. Vincent 'Severed Crossed Fingers' [Loma Vista, Republic]\n08. Rival Consoles '3 Chords' [Erased Tapes]\n09. Nils Frahm 'Peter' (Clark Remix) [Warp]\n10. Caribou 'Our Love' [City Slang \/ Merge]\n11. Daphni & Owen Pallett 'Julia' [Jiaolong]\n12. Cora Venus Lunny 'The Unknown (Dissolution)' [Diatribe]\n13. Tape 'Merak' [H\u00e4pna]\n14. The Raincoats 'The Void' [Rough Trade]\n15. Adrian Crowley 'Trouble' [Chemikal Underground]\n16. Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra 'Some Velvet Morning' [Reprise]\nTagged with Adrian Crowley, Boom Bip, Caribou, Cora Venus Lunny, Daphni, Diatribe, Erased Tapes, Goat, Kate Ellis, Lee Hazlewood, Miles Davis, Nancy Sinatra, Nils Frahm, Nina Nastasia, Owen Pallett, Pharoah Sanders, Rival Consoles, Spoon, St. Vincent, Sub Pop, Tape, The Raincoats\nMixtape: I Think I Knew [A Fractured Air Mix]\nI Think I Knew [A Fractured Air Mix]\nA selection of some of our favourite music released in the first six months of 2014.\nhttp:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/Fractured_Air\/i-think-i-knew-a-fractured-air-mix\/\n01. William Tyler 'Whole New Dude' (Excerpt) [Merge]\n02. John Murry 'Glass Slipper' [Ruby Works]\n03. The War On Drugs 'In Reverse' [Secretly Canadian]\n04. Marissa Nadler 'Firecrackers' [Bella Union \/ Sacred Bones]\n05. The Delines 'The Oil Rigs At Night' [El Decor \/ Cortez]\n06. Cate Le Bon feat. Perfume Genius 'I Think I Knew' [Wichita \/ Turnstile]\n07. The Moles 'This Is A Happy Garden' [Fire]\n08. Greg Gives Peter Space 'Electric Eel River' [Erased Tapes]\n09. Hauschka 'Thames Town' [City Slang \/ Temporary Residence]\n10. Roll The Dice 'In Deference' [Leaf]\n11. Trans Am 'I'll Never' [Thrill Jockey]\n12. Jamie xx 'Girl' [Young Turks]\n13. Caribou 'Can't Do Without You' [City Slang \/ Merge]\n14. Hydras Dream 'The End' [Denovali]\n15. Yann Tiersen 'Meteorites' [Mute]\nMixcloud \/ Soundcloud\nTagged with Caribou, Cate Le Bon, Greg Gives Peter Space, Hauschka, Hydras Dream, Jamie xx, John Murry, Marissa Nadler, Roll The Dice, The Delines, The Moles, The War On Drugs, Trans AM, William Tyler, Yann Tiersen\nFractured Air 12: Pick A Wonder (A Mixtape by Pick A Piper & knoWonder)\nhttp:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/Fractured_Air\/fractured-air-12-pick-a-wonder-a-mixtape-by-pick-a-piper-amp-knowonder\/\n01. Kollektiv Turmstrasse \u2013 Tristesse\n02. Ame \u2013 Den Ratta\n03. Shawn Snell \u2013 Fast Mover\n04. Kaan Duzarat \u2013 Piece For Bass (Trus'me Remix)\n05. Kaiserdisco \u2013 Amalfino\n06. Soundstream \u2013 Makin' Love\n07. Soundstream \u2013 Good Soul\n08. Curtis Mayfield \u2013 Little Bit Of Love (FOC Edits)\n09. Shelby Grey \u2013 Stateless\n10. Nico Stojan \u2013 Damm It\n11. Acid Pauli \u2013 iBang\n12. Petter \u2013 Some Polyphony\n13. Nebraska \u2013 This Is The Way\n14. Letherette \u2013 No Point\n15. Tale of Us \u2013 Discochord\n16. Head High \u2013 It's A Love Thing (Piano Invasion)\n17. Jacques Greene \u2013 Ready\n18. Gary Beck \u2013 Before The Crash\n19. Mount Kimbie \u2013 You Took Your Time (Kyle Hall Remix)\n20. Grown Folk \u2013 Halfway House\n21. Dam Mantle \u2013 Brothers Fowl\n22. Dauwd \u2013 What's There\n23. Pick a Piper \u2013 Hour Hands (Carrot Green Remix)\n\"Pick a Wonder\" is a special mix made by Toronto-based Pick A Piper's Brad Weber with KnoWonder (Robin Johnston) as part of a live performance for the Archi-Textures weekly series. Each week has a different curator (who each put on one show a month for the weekly series). The curator that did our night was 'Knotibel' and \"Bonding Agents\" was the name of his night in January.\nBrad Weber: selector, decks, effects, roland SPDS\nRobin Johnston: kaos pads, effects, loops\nBrad Weber \u2014 as well as being the leader of collaborative project Pick A Piper \u2014 is also the drummer for Caribou. April 2013 saw the release of Pick A Piper's self-titled debut album on Mint Records, while City Slang issued 'Pick A Piper' for European audiences. As Weber told us, \"Pick a Piper was originally formed to channel my impression of dance music using organic instrumentation\u2026I'm really interested blurring the lines and leaving the sound source up to the interpretation of the listener.\"\n'Pick A Piper' is available now from Mint Records (North America), AbandonBuilding (USA\/Japan) and City Slang (Europe).\nhttp:\/\/archi-textures.info\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pickapiper\nhttp:\/\/www.mintrecs.com\nhttp:\/\/www.cityslang.com\nTagged with Archi-Textures, Brad Weber, Caribou, City Slang, knoWonder, Mint Records, Pick A Piper, Robin Johnston\nChosen One: Fresh Snow\nInterview with Fresh Snow.\n\"Psych\/noise\/kraut group with one of my best pals Andy Lloyd on bass. Their live shows are insane. Sometimes they play inside of a pod with projections on all sides, sometimes they have a four-piece horn\/string section. I actually have no idea what to expect, ever, so I love them.\"\n\u2014Brad Weber, Pick A Piper\/Caribou\n'Space Is The Place' \u2013 a Sun Ra album title from many moons ago \u2013 is a fitting description of Fresh Snow's forthcoming debut album, 'I'. The improvisations comprise of compelling soundscapes that have space, rhythm and dynamics for the pieces of music to escalate into fully expansive walls of sound. The results are staggering. Across five instrumental voyages, a plethora of ideas \u2013 encompassing an array of genres \u2013 are fully realized by the Toronto-based group. The large sonic canvas draws from noise, psych, krautrock and indie pop, seamlessly crossing boundaries and in turn, pushing the sonic envelope.\nFresh Snow consists of Bradley Davis on guitars, Andy Lloyd (Caribou, Born Ruffians) on bass, Jon Maki (Tropicalia) on drums, and Tim Condon (Mirrored Silver Sea) on laptop\/keys. The Toronto-based band started with jams of largely improvised music, before work begun on arrangements of the songs. Stellar guest musicians joined the core four-piece, in the form of Laura C. Bates (Trent Severn, Boxcar Boys) on violin, Aurora Cowie (Triple Gangers) on trumpet and Karl Silveira (trombone) and John David Williams (clarinet). The mixing of the album consisted of a combination of predominately Pro Tools and analog gear. The result is 'I', a kaleidoscope of innovative sounds. The album was mastered by James Plotkin, notable for his work with Tim Hecker, OLD and Khanate.\nAlbum Opener 'Saturation Complete' was also the band's debut single, which was released last year. What is so impressive is that this twelve minute journey into the heart of krautrock is in fact a debut single. I feel the diverse musical backgrounds where each member comes from, is responsible for the eclectic nature of their sound. 'Your Thirst For Magic Has Been Quenched By Death' is a sprawling instrumental opus of strings, synths, guitars, keys and drums. The use of strings adds a gorgeous dynamic and feel to the guitar-led melody. A state of motion is forever inherent in the sonic creations, especially once the bassline comes to the foreground of the mix.\n'To A Sea' is in a word, lush. The track is a departure from the noise explorations, and remains rooted in gorgeous 60's pop. A lush pop gem is created, complete with Condon's vocoder. The use of vocals adds new dimensions to 'I\"s expansive sound, where brighter textures and mood is arrived upon. At the heart of 'I'is the joyous sound of blissed out jams \u2013 'Kick Out The Jams' anyone? \u2013 where the creative energies of talented musicians unleash their artistic visions into the world outside.\nFor fans of Neu! and Can, you have just discovered your favourite new band in Fresh Snow. But to use reference points would do injustice to 'I\"s masterful achievements. Upon endless revisits to this remarkable debut, I feel Chicago's Tortoise are a great parallel, in terms of dynamics and musicianship. Fresh Snow's experimentation with sound similarly offers endless possibilities. The band who are renowned for their incendiary live performance \u2013 having recently performed Led Zeppelin's 'IV' in its entirety \u2013 have distilled their myriad of influences to tape. 'I' is just the beginning.\nFresh Snow's \"I\" LP will be available on August 13th on Reel Cod Records.\nInterview with Tim Condon, Fresh Snow.\nI just love Fresh Snow's compelling sound. It is large and expansive, yet always, organic and personal. I would love to gain an insight into the formation of the band and the inception of Fresh Snow?\nThanks! Fresh Snow came about after Brad was offered a solo show. He drafted in Andy (Caribou, Born Ruffians) on bass, Jon (Tropicalia) on drums and myself (Mirrored Silver Sea) on laptop\/ keys. We played an improvised show one night in July 2010. It was a really hot humid Toronto night, so our decision to call ourselves \"Fresh Snow\" (after a Neu! song) was wishful thinking, if nothing else. It was the first time I met Jon and Andy, just as we went onto stage. It was all improvised and people seemed to like it. The next stage was reconvening in February 2011 at a friend's basement and we recorded improvised music, slowly working out what the hell we were doing. We walked away with a 7 hour Pro Tools session for Brad and I to work on. By November 2012, after almost two years of work, the album is finished. It is sent off for mastering by James Plotkin (Tim Hecker, Khanate,). By this point we had played many shows and had cohesive intentions to what we do. In hindsight, if we'd written, rehearsed, and then recorded the songs the inception of the band and the record would have been a much easier\/ faster route. But I don't believe the album could have turned out the same way if this had been the case \u2013 the benefit of spending almost two years on arrangements took us in a direction that would have been difficult to have come across in a rehearsal space, and allowed us the opportunity of trial and error with \"I\".\nCongratulations on the debut full-length album, 'I'. A sonic marvel is created, where krautrock, ambient, psychedelic and pop are effortlessly fused together. Please tell me about 'I' and the recording\/mixing of this set of songs? Upon listening to 'I', it is clear how the magical spark of creativity and flowing energy is captured wonderfully from start to finish.\nThe initial recording came about during the aforementioned basement recording session \u2013 7 hours of sound to then be chipped away into just under an hour's worth of music. Brad and I spent the next 9 months or so editing this into arrangements that we could work with. Some of the initial structure for the pieces was similar to what the four of us had played on the day. Much of it wasn't though \u2013 we took snippets of performance (often as short as 3 seconds) and then edited\/ treated\/ manipulated and arranged them into new pieces. Once we had basic arrangements of pieces we re-recorded the majority of the album with the band, using these edited arrangements as templates. With the re-recording, we were able to re-introduce aspects of improvisation and non-linear performance, now that we had arrangements and pieces as a structure to work within.\nBrad and I spent a further six months overdubbing guitars, keyboards and processing sound ourselves. We then brought in some exceptional guest musicians \u2013 Laura C. Bates (Trent Severn, Boxcar Boys) on violin, Aurora Cowie (Triple Gangers) on trumpet and Karl Silveira and John David Williams \u2013 trombone and clarinet respectively (from the Boxcar Boys as well). Laura played a huge role in the arrangement of the string sections, as did Aurora with the coda of \"BMX Based Tactics\". This coda features 55 tracks of trumpet (primarily for the purpose of producing the drones that are heard throughout this section) and we were concerned that upon each request for another take from Aurora that we may have been looking at a manslaughter charge \u2013 with her face becoming redder and redder as the piece went on, losing all remaining breath\u2026Through the writing process and mixing process we were keen to have a balance between arrangement\/ structure and ambient sound as texture, which hopefully comes across throughout.I then mixed the album with a combination of digital gear (Pro Tools primarily) and outboard analog gear.\nMy personal favourite is 'Your Thirst For Magic Has Been Quenched By Death'. A great title and an awesome interstellar journey. A sacred dimension is tapped into here, where guitars, violin, synthesizer and drums build slowly into a magical realm of achingly beautiful sound. Please discuss the construction of this song? Was the violin melody the pre-cursor to the song?\nThanks again! The pre-cursor to \"Thirst\u2026\" initially came about by a loop of Jon's drumming \u2013 a beat that was fragmented, heavy and pretty propulsive. I looped this, then Brad sequenced some analog synthesizers to form the arpeggio that runs throughout. He then accompanied this with the guitar line. I edited this into sections to create the intro (and added the introductory guitar), verse (where I added the strings and synths), \"chorus\" and outro. We then brought Laura in to further strengthen my string\/ synth parts with her violin. Jon then overdubbed drums, and finally Andy added his bass. As bass is so central to our sound it was unusual to leave it to be introduced so late in the piece, but for this we were very much favouring space, rhythm and increasing dynamics to lead to the introduction of the bass. Hopefully when Andy's bass finally enters it is significantly propulsive.\n'To A Sea' is the gorgeous opening track to Part B of the record. A guitar rock rhythm has timeless shades of Velvet Underground and Neu! I love how the instrumentation of voice, glockenspiel and shaker adds new textures to the record's sonic canvas. The brass section is utterly compelling amidst the soaring synths. Please tell me about the instrumentation used here, and the different sections inherent in 'To A Sea'?\nThis song started with Brad's guitar throughout. Brad has a background of guitar-based pop (amongst others) and at around the 6th hour of the initial recording session this song came about \u2013 I think we were all worn down by a lot of noise so we opted for something quieter! The body of the piece is pretty much as is from the initial session, however has been further augmented with pretty much whatever Brad and I could throw at\/ make work with it. We wanted it to be as lush as possible, so we went with glockenspiel, analog string machine (Roland RS202), drum machines, trumpets and trombones (played again by Aurora and Karl), synths (Roland Jupiter) and finally my vocodered voice. The lyrics are naive and sentimental and only my wife knows the lyrics \u2013 I'd be too embarrassed for them to be intelligible, thus the vocoder!\nThe second section\/ outro is totally Brad's love of classic guitar pop coming through again! We liked the idea of something sparse, with lead guitar lines sounding like they were from a Easybeats\/ Yardbirds album. The rest of the accompaniment is all rooted in 1960's sounds, so doesn't sound too innovative, but it is a nice change in the context of the album! It's also nice to have at least one song on the album that we can play to our family members that does not come across as awful noise.\nWhat are the defining records for you?\nPersonally those that influence my decisions with music making and mixing are in particular: The Black Heart Procession \u2013 1, Mercury Rev \u2013 Deserter's Songs, Labradford \u2013 Mi Media Naranja, Portishead \u2013 Third, The Necks \u2013 Drive By, Low \u2013 Songs For A Dead Pilot, Wilco \u2013 Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, LCD Soundsystem \u2013 Sound Of Silver, Rosy Parlane \u2013 Iris.\n'Helix Pass' is sublime. The gorgeous use of instrumentation is breathtaking \u2013 the brass and strings meld together so perfectly with the transcendent guitars and synths. How was this song put together?\nHelix Pass came about by a 3 second loop of Jon's drumming that we liked from the initial recording session. I then arranged this into 7 minutes of drums. Brad then wrote the main keyboard line throughout and I wrote the acoustic guitar chorus hook, Andy wrote his bass part which gave it the definition that it needed and then Jon overdubbed drums onto it. I then augmented this with layers of keyboards and granular synthesis. By this point it was shaping up pretty well so we brought Laura and Aurora (Laurora?) in to further define the sections with their respective violin and trumpet. Karl also played trombone on it. We had around 15 different endings to this piece at various points, but after playing it more and more live we moved towards the heavy \"doom\" piano, violin, guitar sustain ending, as performed live this normally feeds into \"Thirst\" and works really well. This ending worked well for the album version, so we re-recorded this and finally committed to it. This track, alongside cassette only track \"French Horse Hall Of Fame\", was by far the most intensively worked piece on the album.\nDo you plan to tour Europe? I hope so.\nWe hope to, and are certainly open to offers! I lived in London for almost three years and was fortunate to visit much of Europe, and would really love the opportunity for Fresh Snow to play in Europe. Berlin, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Paris and Stockholm in particular are cities I really love. I feel a great affinity for many European labels (Kompakt, Editions Mego, Bedroom Community, Touch & Mille Plateaux in particular) so would love to play on the same soil that has produced so many important records and artists.\nI'd\/ we'd love to play the UK as well. The music scene in London and Dublin was very inspirational, and I very much enjoyed being home from shows by 11.30pm! That's much more manageable than finishing shows here in Toronto at 2am, as the -15C weather settles in.\nWhat are you listening to most lately?\nSince finishing the album and not being employed I've had a lot more time to listen to music! El-P & Killer Mike's most recent albums, Radian \u2013 Juxtaposition, Ben Frost \u2013 By The Teeth (his music is probably what makes me most patriotic to be an Australian!), Hildur Gu\u00f0nad\u00f3ttir \u2013 Without Sinking, Motobeacon \u2013 Alt's Garage (fantastic Toronto duo), Dusted \u2013 Total Dust (the new duo by Brian Borcherdt, my favourite artist from Toronto), Iderdown \u2013 A Semb (wow\u2026.), Fire! (with Jim O'Rourke) \u2013 Unreleased?, Unseen Machine \u2013 The Devil's Hard Drive (wow x2\u2026..) & Koen Holtkamp \u2013 Gravity\/Bees. There has been so much exceptional work put out in the last few years \u2013 this is a really great time for music lovers.\nFresh Snow's \"I\" LP will be available on August 13th. The tape version is available now which contains an extra track. A special Reel Cod Records release show for Fresh Snow-I will take place on August 8th at the Boat in Kensington Market, Toronto.\nhttp:\/\/freshsnowmusic.com\nhttp:\/\/freshsnow.bandcamp.com\nhttp:\/\/www.reelcod.com\nTagged with Aurora Cowie, Born Ruffians, Boxcar Boys, Brad Weber, Caribou, Fresh Snow, Fresh Snow I, I, James Plotkin, Laura C. Bates, Mirrored Silver Sea, Pick A Piper, Reel Cod Records, Saturation Complete, Tim Condon, Trent Severn, Triple Gangers, Tropicalia","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"343.32(2)(b) (b) The scale adopted by the secretary shall assign, for each conviction, 3 demerit points for exceeding the lawful speed limit by 10 or less miles per hour, 4 demerit points for exceeding the lawful speed limit by more than 10 but less than 20 miles per hour or 6 demerit points for exceeding the lawful speed limit by 20 or more miles per hour. Except as provided in s. 343.085 (5), the scale adopted by the secretary may not assign more demerit points for a subsequent conviction for exceeding the lawful speed limit than the number of demerit points specified for the conviction in this paragraph.\n343.32(2)(bc) (bc)\n343.32(2)(bc)1.1. Except as provided in subd. 2., the scale adopted by the secretary shall assess, for each conviction, twice the number of demerit points that are assessed for the same offense committed by the holder of a regular license, if the convicted person has been previously convicted of an offense for which demerit points are assessed and the person is one of the following:\n343.32(2)(bc)1.a. a. A person who holds a probationary license.\n343.32(2)(bc)1.b. b. An unlicensed person who would hold a probationary license if licensed.\n343.32(2)(bc)1.c. c. A person who holds an instruction permit under s. 343.07.\n343.32(2)(bc)2. 2. The secretary may not increase under subd. 1. the number of demerit points that are assessed for a violation of ch. 347.\n343.32(2)(bd) (bd) The scale adopted by the secretary shall assess, for each conviction, 6 demerit points for a violation of s. 346.44 or 346.62 (2m), except that convictions under s. 346.44 and 346.62 (2m) arising out of the same incident or occurrence shall be counted as a single conviction.\n343.32(2)(be) (be) The scale adopted by the secretary shall assess, for each conviction, 2 demerit points for a violation of s. 346.94 (22) (c) or (d), except that convictions arising out of the same incident or occurrence shall be counted as a single conviction.\n343.32(2)(bg) (bg) The scale adopted by the secretary shall assign, for each conviction, 3 demerit points for operating a motor vehicle while disqualified, revoked, suspended or out-of-service under s. 343.44 or a local ordinance in conformity therewith.\n343.32(2)(bj) (bj) The scale adopted by the secretary shall assess, for each conviction, 6 demerit points for a violation of s. 346.63 (6), 4 demerit points for a violation of s. 346.63 (2m), and 3 demerit points for a violation of s. 346.63 (7) (a) 3. The scale adopted by the secretary shall not assess any demerit points for conviction of a violation of s. 346.63 (5) or (7) (a) 1. or 2.\n343.32(2)(bk) (bk) The scale adopted by the secretary shall assess, for each conviction, 6 demerit points for a violation of s. 346.70 (1) by the operator of a vehicle.\n343.32(2)(bm) (bm)\n343.32(2)(bm)1.1. The scale adopted by the secretary may not assess any demerit points for operating a motor vehicle without a valid operator's license in the operator's immediate possession in violation of s. 343.18 (1).\n343.32(2)(bm)2. 2. The scale adopted by the secretary may not assess more than 2 demerit points for operating a motor vehicle with a defective or improper speedometer in violation of s. 347.41.\n343.32(2)(br) (br) The scale adopted by the secretary may not assess any demerit points for modifying the height of a vehicle in violation of s. 347.455.\n343.32(2)(bt) (bt) The scale adopted by the secretary may not assess any demerit points for a violation of s. 346.922 or 347.48 (2m) (b), (c) or (d) or (4) (am).\n343.32(2)(c) (c)\n343.32(2)(c)1.1. Except as provided in subd. 2., in order for the secretary to suspend an operating privilege under this subsection, the operator must have accumulated 12 demerit points in any 12-month period.\n343.32(2)(c)2. 2. The secretary shall suspend, for a period of 6 months, the operating privilege of any person who holds a probationary license issued on or after September 1, 2000, and who has accumulated 12 demerit points in any 12-month period.\n343.32(2)(d) (d) When an operator accumulates more than 6 demerit points or has been involved in 2 or more accidents in a one-year period where the accident report indicates that the person may have been causally negligent, the secretary may require the operator to report to an examining station for driver improvement counseling, consisting of either group or individual counseling, reexamination or both.\n343.32(2)(e) (e) The secretary may require any person who has had his or her operating privilege suspended or revoked, whether the suspension or revocation is the result of action under this section or s. 343.30, or conviction for an offense which requires mandatory revocation under s. 343.31 to participate in driver improvement counseling, consisting of either group or individual counseling, reexamination or both.\n343.32(2)(f) (f) A reexamination required under par. (d) or (e) may consist of all or part of the tests specified in s. 343.16 (2) (b), or any other special examination as required under s. 343.16 (5). Upon conclusion of the counseling, interview and examination, the secretary shall take action as authorized at the conclusion of other examinations under s. 343.16 (6) (a).\n343.32(3) (3)\u2002Except as provided in sub. (1m), a revocation or suspension under this section may be for any period not exceeding one year unless a different period is specifically prescribed by law.\n343.32(4) (4)\u2002In adopting rules for weighing traffic convictions by their seriousness under sub. (2), the secretary shall provide by rule for a reduction of up to 3 points if a person shows to the department satisfactory evidence of completion of a rider course approved by the secretary. This subsection applies only to demerit points relating to violations committed before completion of the rider course by a person while driving or operating a motorcycle.\n343.32(5) (5)\u2002In adopting rules for weighing traffic convictions by their seriousness under sub. (2), the secretary also may provide by rule for a reduction of points if a person shows to the department satisfactory evidence of completion of a course of instruction in traffic safety, defensive driving or similar course or driver improvement counseling approved by the secretary.\n343.32(6) (6)\u2002There shall be no minimum waiting period before issuance of an occupational license under s. 343.10 to a person whose operating privilege has been suspended under sub. (2) if the person is otherwise eligible for issuance of an occupational license.\n343.32 History History: 1971 c. 42, 278, 281; 1973 c. 90; 1977 c. 29 s. 1654 (7) (a), (c); 1977 c. 273; 1979 c. 221; 1981 c. 31, 216, 327; 1987 a. 24, 132; 1989 a. 22, 75, 105, 195, 359; 1991 a. 26, 32, 39, 189; 1993 a. 16, 314, 480; 1995 a. 113, 269, 338, 420, 448; 1997 a. 84, 135; 1999 a. 9, 185; 2005 a. 106, 317; 2009 a. 8, 103, 311; 2011 a. 256; 2013 a. 151; 2019 a. 50.\n343.32 Cross-reference Cross-reference: See also ch. Trans 101, Wis. adm. code.\n343.325 343.325\u2003Courts to report appeals; when appeal stays suspension, revocation or disqualification.\n343.325(1)(1)\u2002If a person files a notice of appeal from a conviction the clerk of the court in which such conviction occurred, or the judge of a court not having a clerk, shall:\n343.325(1)(a) (a) Promptly forward to the department a certificate stating that such appeal has been taken; and\n343.325(1)(b) (b) If the appeal is subsequently dropped, promptly certify such fact to the department; and\n343.325(1)(c) (c) Upon determination of the appeal by the appellate court, promptly certify such decision to the department.\n343.325(2) (2)\u2002Notwithstanding ss. 343.31, 343.315 and 343.32 and except as otherwise provided in sub. (4), the secretary shall not suspend or revoke a person's operating privilege or disqualify a person from operating a commercial motor vehicle on the basis of a conviction if the secretary receives from the court in which the conviction occurred a certificate stating that an appeal from the conviction has been taken. If the secretary receives such certificate after suspension or revocation of the operating privilege, the operating privilege shall be reinstated without requiring compliance with s. 343.38. If the secretary receives the certificate after suspension of the operating privilege or disqualification, the operating privilege or authorization to operate a commercial motor vehicle shall be reinstated automatically.\n343.325(3) (3)\u2002Whenever suspension or revocation of an operating privilege or a disqualification has been withheld as provided in sub. (2) and the department receives notice that the conviction in question has been affirmed on appeal or that the appeal has been dropped, the secretary shall suspend or revoke such operating privilege or disqualify the person from operating a commercial motor vehicle on the same basis as if the appeal had not been taken, but the period of suspension, revocation or disqualification shall run from the date of suspension, revocation or disqualification following the affirmance of the conviction or dropping of the appeal, less any time the operating privilege had been suspended or revoked or the authorization to operate a commercial motor vehicle had been disqualified prior to the receipt by the secretary of the certificate under sub. (2).\n343.325(3m) (3m)\u2002Whenever the suspension or revocation of an operating privilege or a disqualification has been rescinded or withheld because of administrative action, an appeal, or a court order to reopen, stay or vacate a conviction, suspension, revocation or disqualification, and that suspension, revocation or disqualification is subsequently reimposed, the period of suspension, revocation or disqualification so reimposed shall be reduced by the period of suspension, revocation or disqualification previously served.\n343.325(4) (4)\u2002If a person whose suspension, revocation or disqualification was stayed pursuant to sub. (2) is convicted of an offense for which revocation or disqualification is mandatory under s. 343.31 or 343.315, during the pendency of the appeal of the original conviction, the secretary shall forthwith revoke such person's operating privilege or disqualify the person from operating a commercial motor vehicle on account of the latter conviction, notwithstanding the appeal of either or both convictions.\n343.325(5) (5)\u2002This section shall not prevent suspension or revocation of an operating privilege or a disqualification if there are grounds for suspension, revocation or disqualification other than the conviction in question.\n343.325(6) (6)\n343.325(6)(a)(a) If a court enters an order reopening, vacating or staying a conviction or a suspension or revocation of an operating privilege or a disqualification, the court shall promptly forward a copy of that order to the department.\n343.325(6)(b) (b) If there is subsequent court action affecting the order to reopen, vacate or stay, the court shall promptly notify the department of that action.\n343.325(7) (7)\u2002The department, upon receipt of an order under sub. (6), shall proceed under this section as if an appeal had been taken.\n343.325 History History: 1971 c. 278; 1977 c. 29 s. 1654 (7) (a), (c); 1977 c. 273; Sup. Ct. Order, 146 Wis. 2d xiii (1988); 1989 a. 7, 72; 1995 a. 113.\n343.33 343.33\u2003Hearing on suspensions and revocations.\n343.33(1)(1)\u2002Whenever the department under authority of s. 343.32 or 343.34 revokes or suspends a person's operating privilege, the department shall immediately notify such person thereof in writing and upon his or her request shall afford him or her an opportunity for a hearing on the revocation or suspension unless the department is satisfied from the records and information in its possession that a hearing is not warranted. If the department is not so satisfied and the person requests a hearing, the department shall hold a hearing as soon as practicable and in any event within 20 days after receipt of the request therefor. If the person requesting the hearing is a resident of this state, the department shall fix the place of the hearing as close as practicable to the applicant's residence and in no event shall it be set for a place not in the county of the applicant's residence or a county contiguous thereto without the consent of the applicant. If the applicant is a nonresident, the department shall determine the place of the hearing. Any person who fails without cause to appear at the time and place specified in the notice served on him or her forfeits the right to a hearing.\n343.33(2) (2)\u2002Upon the hearing, the department or its hearing examiner may administer oaths, issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the production of relevant books and papers and may require a reexamination of the licensee. No law enforcement officer or other witness produced by the person who has requested a hearing to testify on his or her behalf shall be paid a witness fee by the department nor shall any law enforcement officer called to appear for the department be paid any witness fee. All testimony shall be taken and transcribed.\n343.33(3) (3)\u2002Upon completion of the hearing, the department shall make findings of fact and shall either let the order of suspension or revocation stand or, upon good cause appearing therefor, rescind the order or modify the period of suspension or revocation.\n343.33 History History: 1977 c. 29 ss. 1460, 1654 (7) (a), (c); 1977 c. 418; 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (2); 1989 a. 72; 1993 a. 16.\n343.34 343.34\u2003Suspension of licenses. The secretary may suspend operating privileges under this section under the following circumstances:\n343.34(1) (1)\u2002Whenever the secretary is satisfied that a person has violated a restriction on the license and that it is in the interests of public safety to suspend the license, the secretary shall suspend such license for a period not exceeding one year unless the violation is cause for revocation.\n343.34(2) (2)\u2002When a person has been convicted under s. 343.16 (7) (b).\n343.34 History History: 1971 c. 164 s. 82; 1975 c. 5; 1977 c. 29 s. 1654 (7) (c); 1977 c. 273; 1989 a. 105; 1991 a. 269.\n343.345 343.345\u2003Restriction, limitation or suspension of operating privilege. The department shall restrict, limit or suspend a person's operating privilege if the person is delinquent in making court-ordered payments of child or family support, maintenance, birth expenses, medical expenses or other expenses related to the support of a child or former spouse, or who fails to comply, after appropriate notice, with a subpoena or warrant issued by the department of children and families or a county child support agency under s. 59.53 (5) and related to paternity or child support proceedings, as provided in a memorandum of understanding entered into under s. 49.857.\n343.345 History History: 1997 a. 191; 2007 a. 20.\n343.35 343.35\u2003Surrender of licenses upon cancellation, revocation or suspension.\n343.35(1)(1)\u2002The department may order any person whose operating privilege has been canceled, revoked or suspended to surrender his or her license or licenses to the department. The department may order any person who is in possession of a canceled, revoked or suspended license of another to surrender the license to the department.\n343.35(2) (2)\u2002Any person who fails to surrender a license as required by this section may be required to forfeit not more than $100.\n343.35(3) (3)\u2002The secretary or an appointed agent may take possession of any license required to be surrendered to the department or may direct any traffic officer to take possession thereof and return it to the department.\n343.35 History History: 1971 c. 278; 1977 c. 29 s. 1654 (7) (a), (c); 1977 c. 273; 1985 a. 29; 2007 a. 20; 2009 a. 28.\n343.36 343.36\u2003Department to distribute suspension, revocation and disqualification lists and nonresidents' records of conviction.\n343.36(2)(2)\u2002Once each month, the department shall compile a list of the names and addresses of all residents of this state whose operating privileges were revoked or suspended or who were disqualified under s. 343.315 during the preceding month and the periods of those revocations, suspensions and disqualifications and, upon request, shall forward the list to the sheriff of each county, to the chief of police or the constable, respectively, of each city, village and town and to all county traffic officers.\n343.36(3) (3)\u2002Upon receiving a record of conviction showing that a nonresident operator of a motor vehicle has been convicted in this state of an offense which is grounds for revocation, suspension or disqualification under the laws of this state, the department shall forward a certified copy of such record to the motor vehicle administrator in the state wherein the person so convicted is a resident.\n343.36 History History: 1977 c. 29 s. 1654 (7) (a); 1977 c. 273; 1989 a. 167; 1995 a. 338.\n343.37 343.37\u2003No operation under foreign license during revocation or suspension.\n343.37(1)(1)\u2002An operator's license or permit issued by another jurisdiction does not authorize a resident of this state whose operating privilege has been revoked or suspended pursuant to the laws of this state to operate a motor vehicle in this state until that person has obtained a new license when and as provided in this chapter. This subsection applies to a resident of this state even though that person was a nonresident at the time that person's operating privilege was revoked or suspended.\n343.37(2) (2)\u2002Notwithstanding the privilege conferred on nonresidents by s. 343.05 (4) (b) 1., a nonresident whose operating privilege has been revoked or suspended pursuant to the laws of this state is not authorized to operate a motor vehicle in this state under an operator's license or permit issued by another jurisdiction until the nonresident's operating privilege in this state has been reinstated pursuant to the laws of this state. This subsection applies to a nonresident even though the nonresident was a resident of this state at the time the nonresident's operating privilege was revoked or suspended. This section does not limit the operating privilege granted to nonresidents by s. 343.05 (2) (a) 2.\n343.37 History History: 1989 a. 105, 359; 1991 a. 316.\n343.38 343.38\u2003Reinstatement after revocation, suspension, cancellation, or disqualification.\n343.38(1)(1)\u2002Reinstatement after revocation. Except as provided in ss. 343.10, 343.31 (1m), 343.39, and 351.07, the department shall not reinstate the operating privilege of a person whose operating privilege has been duly revoked unless the period of revocation has expired and the person:\n343.38(1)(a) (a) Pays to the department all required fees; and\n343.38(1)(b) (b) If the secretary so prescribes, passes an examination including the tests specified in s. 343.16 or such parts thereof as the secretary may require; and\n343.38(1)(c)1.1. Except as provided in subd. 2., files and maintains with the department proof of financial responsibility in the amount, form and manner specified in ch. 344. Except for a reinstatement under s. 343.31 (1m), this subdivision does not apply after 3 years have elapsed since the expiration of the period of revocation. For a reinstatement under s. 343.31 (1m), this subdivision does not apply to a person after 3 years have elapsed since the reinstatement of the operating privilege of the person.\n343.38(1)(c)2. 2. No proof under subd. 1. shall be required for any of the following:\n343.38(1)(c)2.a. a. A vehicle subject to the requirements of s. 121.53, 194.41 or 194.42.\n343.38(1)(c)2.b. b. A vehicle owned by or leased to the United States, this state or any county or municipality of this state.\n343.38(1)(c)2.c. c. Reinstatement of an operating privilege revoked under s. 343.30 (1q) (b) 2. or (d), 343.305 (10) (d) or 343.31 (3) (b) or (bm) 2.\n343.38(1)(c)2.d. d. Reinstatement of an operating privilege revoked under s. 343.31 (1) (b) or (2) if, within the 5-year period preceding the violation, the person has not been convicted of a prior offense that may be counted under s. 343.307 (2) and if, within the 10-year period preceding the violation, the person has not been convicted of 2 or more prior offenses that may be counted under s. 343.307 (2).\n343.38(1)(d) (d) If the person's operating privilege has been revoked under s. 343.31 (1m), satisfies all of the following:\n343.38(1)(d)1. 1. The person has not been convicted of an offense that is a felony or a misdemeanor, that is counted under s. 343.307 (1) or specified under s. 351.02 (1) (a), and that was committed during the 10-year period immediately preceding the application for reinstatement.\n343.38(1)(d)2. 2. Not more than 45 days before applying for reinstatement, the person submits to and complies with an assessment by an approved public treatment facility, as defined in s. 51.45 (2) (c), for examination of the person's use of alcohol, controlled substances, or controlled substance analogs and development of a driver safety plan for the person.\n343.38(2) (2)\u2002Reinstatement of nonresident's operating privilege. A nonresident's operating privilege revoked or suspended under the laws of this state is reinstated as a matter of law when the period of revocation or suspension has expired and the nonresident pays the fees specified in s. 343.21 (1) (j), (jr), if applicable, and (n).\n343.38(3) (3)\u2002Reinstatement after suspension. Except as provided in sub. (2) and s. 343.10, the department shall not reinstate the operating privilege of a person whose operating privilege has been duly suspended while the suspension remains in effect. Subject to s. 343.31 (2t) (b), upon the expiration of the period of suspension, the person's operating privilege is reinstated upon receipt by the department of the fees specified in s. 343.21 (1) (j) and (n) and, for reinstatement of an operating privilege suspended under ch. 344, the filing with the department of proof of financial responsibility, if required, in the amount, form, and manner specified under ch. 344.\n343.38(3g) (3g)\u2002Reinstatement after certain cancellations.\n343.38(3g)(a)(a) The department may reinstate the operator's license of a person whose operator's license has been duly canceled under s. 343.25 (2) or (3) if the person pays the fees specified in s. 343.21 (1) (m) and (n) and either the person is at least 18 years of age or the requirements specified in s. 343.15 are satisfied.\n343.38(3g)(b) (b) The department may reinstate the operator's license or identification card of a person whose operator's license or identification card has been duly canceled because of the person's nonpayment of a fee if the person pays that fee, pays any fee required by the department under s. 20.905 (2), and pays the fees specified in s. 343.21 (1) (m) and (n).\n343.38(3r) (3r)\u2002Reinstatement of commercial driving privileges following disqualification.\n343.38(3r)(a) (a) Except as provided in pars. (b) and (c), upon application for reinstatement after a person's disqualification by the department, the department may issue a commercial driver license to the person if the person has paid the fees required under s. 343.21 (1) (jm) and (n), taken any examination required by the department under s. 343.16, and satisfied any other requirement under this chapter for reinstatement.\n\/statutes\/statutes\/343 true statutes \/statutes\/statutes\/343\/iii\/325 Chs. 340-351, Vehicles statutes\/343.325 statutes\/343.325 section true","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Platt Group\nINSIDER Archives\nSearch Results for: Withum\nWithum Admits Six Partners\nJuly 3, 2019 by INSIDE Public Accounting\n(l-r): Anthony Aniello, Chaya Siegfried, Ryan Shannon, Joseph Malfettano, Jessica Hollobaugh Giresi, Erik Halluska\nPrinceton, N.J.-based WithumSmith+Brown (FY189net revenue of $223.3 million) has admitted six principals and senior managers to the partnership group.\n\"Each of these professionals represents Withum's next generation of leaders tasked with carrying on the tenets of our enduring company values and Withum Way traditions,\" says MP and CEO Bill Hagaman. \"Collectively and individually, they represent cooperation, integrity, giving back and a vision for growth that welcomes innovation and change.\" The six new partners join a corporate leadership team of more than 120 partners.\nThe new partners are:\nAnthony Aniello, U.S. and international tax compliance and consulting, Boston\nErik Halluska, assurance and accounting, Orlando, Fla.\nJessica Hollobaugh Giresi, litigation consulting, Princeton, N.J.\nJoseph Malfettano, team leader for New York construction services group, New York and Red Bank, N.J.\nRyan Shannon, team leader for technology services group, New York\nChaya Siegfried, leader, international business tax services, Red Bank, N.J.\nMore news from WithumSmith+Brown\nFiled Under: IPA 100, Leadership, Partnership, People\nWithum Marks Opening of its Learning Lab at the University of Central Florida\nApril 12, 2019 by INSIDE Public Accounting\nPrinceton, N.J.-based WithumSmith+Brown (FY18 net revenue of $207.6 million) has partnered with the University of Central Florida (UCF) to establish a new learning lab, which offers students a place to seek tutoring services as well as collaborate with fellow accounting majors.\nThe lab, which was designed by Withum's Creative Director Jin Park, features state-of-the-art workstations and amenities. The d\u00e9cor also features inspirational messages that align with Withum's corporate culture.\n\"The Withum Learning Lab is an extension of our ties to UCF and its College of Business, where the next generation of business advisors and accountants are being challenged to refine their skills and creativity,\" says Russell Goldberg, PIC of Withum's office in Orlando, Fla. \"At Withum, we take our responsibility very seriously to contribute to and pave the path for the future of our profession, which will only soar to new heights that not-too-long-ago once seemed unfathomable.\"\nThe Withum Learning Lab was established in memory of three of the firm's late team members who were an inspiration to their peers: Sandi Breitenstein and Barb Sorenson, who passed in 2015, as well as Robin Word, who passed in 2016.\nGregory Trompeter, director of the Kenneth G. Dixon School of Accounting at UCF College of Business, says, \"For those who are being tutored, they obviously receive one-on-one education from more senior-level students. Less obvious, is the expertise developed by the tutors who really solidify their knowledge of the subject by teaching it to others. In both instances, Withum is helping UCF develop future leaders for the community and the profession.\"\nFiled Under: Firms, IPA 100, IPA Insider\nWithum Admits Oates as Tax Partner\nJanuary 29, 2019 by INSIDE Public Accounting\nMichael Oates\nMichael Oates has joined Princeton, N.J.-based WithumSmith+Brown PC (FY18 net revenue of $207.6 million) as a tax partner in its financial services and investment group.\nPrior to joining Withum, Oates was the tax hedge fund industry leader for one of the Big 4 firms and the PIC of the national tax practice for Rothstein Kass.\nOates, who is based in the firm's New York office, joins a team of specialists focused on all audit, tax and compliance issues related to venture capital firms, hedge fund managers, private equity firms, mortgage bankers, broker-dealers, credit unions, banking institutions and regulated investment companies.\nBill Hagaman\n\"As an industry leader known for his tax abilities as they relate to alternative investment clients, Michael brings an entirely new depth of expertise to Withum that will advance our already-prominent posture and strength in the financial services sector,\" says Bill Hagaman, the firm's MP and CEO. \"His insight, knowledge and leadership are a tremendous asset to our team and an extremely diverse client roster that is continually evolving on the fund and investor front.\"\nAn industry veteran with more than 30 years' experience in the alternative investment fund sector, Oates specializes in tax research and planning, from initial organizational structure to maximum tax efficiency. He also serves as a trusted operational-matter tax advisor throughout the business and economic cycles.\n\"Withum has emerged as a leader in the publicly and privately held financial services sector and has propelled itself to the forefront, bypassing rival firms that once had the market cornered,\" Oates says.\nFiled Under: Featured, IPA 100, Partnership, People\nWithum Releases Latest Culture Video, New Website\nPrinceton, N.J.-based WithumSmith+Brown PC (FY18 net revenue of $207.6 million) has released its popular annual culture video. What started in 2012 with the firm's \"Party Rock\" flash mob video \u2013 which has been viewed more than 70,000 times \u2013 the firm releases a new dance and music video at its annual State of the Firm event.\nThe video's soundtrack, \"We Live the Withum Way,\" was written by creative services team member Madison Klarer and emphasizes components that make Withum unique, the firm says.\nThe latest culture video coincides with the launch of the firm's new corporate website and firm's tagline has been subtly amended to reflect Withum's sequential business emphasis on advisory, tax and audit services.\n\"Withum's general business philosophy has been \u2013 and continues to be \u2013 focused on expanding the advisory practice areas as well as our role as a trusted advisor to clients, regardless of their industry, annual revenue, personal income or geography,\" says Rhonda Maraziti, chief marketing officer, and the Association for Accounting Marketing's 2016 Marketer of the Year, which is sponsored by INSIDE Public Accounting. \"We remain committed to being a forward-thinking, technology-driven firm to help our clients succeed in the modern business landscape.\"\nFiled Under: IPA 100, IPA Insider\nWithumSmith+Brown Welcomes New Business Developer\nDecember 3, 2018 by INSIDE Public Accounting\nHeather Murphy- Walker\nPrinceton, N.J.-based WithumSmith+Brown PC (FY18 net revenue of $207.6 million) announces the appointment of Heather Murphy-Walker to its New York office team.\nIn her role as business development executive, Murphy-Walker will spearhead all office-growth initiatives and serve as the conduit for the firm's client base.\nMurphy-Walker has more than 10 years of marketing and business development experience in the professional services sector. Prior to joining Withum, she was a consultant for NABA. In this role, she spearheaded all marketing and communications efforts, as well as key operations aspects related to their annual convention. Previously, Murphy-Walker was a consultant with a technology CPE firm and held communications and marketing management roles with AICPA during the course of an eight-year period.\n\"Heather's background of leading product development and refining and focusing marketing and sales strategies are a tremendous value add to our team roster of talent,\" says Mike Stallone, PIC of Withum's New York office. \"We welcome her contributions and track record for success in building relationships throughout New York City and beyond.\"\nMurphy-Walker says, \"I'm eager to assist current and prospective clients by helping them articulate and understand their unique business needs and how Withum can help them achieve \u2013 and exceed \u2013 their goals.\"\nFiled Under: Featured, IPA 100, People\nWithumSmith+Brown Announces Formation of Digital Currency and Blockchain Technology Services Group\nJuly 11, 2018 by INSIDE Public Accounting\nPrinceton, N.J.-based WithumSmith+Brown PC (FY18 net revenue of $207.6 million) has announced the formation of a digital currency and blockchain technology services group to address the unique challenges posed by digital assets, cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. As an extension of the firm's technology services group, the team provides a deep level of expertise to a diverse client base involved with and entering into today's new alternative asset class.\n\"Blockchain technology and the rising use and influence of digital assets\/tokens are not a passing trend, they are becoming part of the fabric of our technology community and the possibilities of their impact and disruptions across all industries are unlimited. We are embarking into a new era that can permanently and dramatically change how we do business,\" says Chris DeMayo, partner and team leader of the new group. \"Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology pose highly unique challenges, from technology to accounting and regulatory issues \u2013 all of which our experienced, forward-thinking team is uniquely prepared to address on a client-by-client, industry-by-industry basis.\"\nLed by DeMayo, the digital currency and blockchain technology services group is made up of a team of 12 experts including thought-leaders Deep Gujral, principal; Carl Scheuten, partner; Joe Murray, manager; and Ryan Babiak, partner among others. The firm also is a member of, or accredited by, several prominent industry groups including the Accounting Blockchain Coalition, established to foster best practices in navigating accounting issues related to digital assets, and the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance.\nFiled Under: IPA 100, New Services\/Niches\nWithumSmith+Brown Admits Three New Partners\nRyan Babiak\nPrinceton, N.J.-based WithumSmith+Brown PC (FY17 net revenue of $175.4 million) has announced that three senior managers have been admitted to partnership. Ryan Babiak, Joseph Cassano and Shawn Gillon are the newest partners to join the firm's growing corporate leadership team, effective July 1.\n\"Ryan, Joe and Shawn represent a new generation of firm partners who embody our enduring company values and Withum Way traditions,\" says Bill Hagaman, MP and CEO. \"Collectively and individually, they represent passion, innovation, community and strength for their profession, clients, colleagues and peers. We congratulate each on this pinnacle of professional achievement.\"\nJoseph Cassano\nBabiak, based in the firm's Whippany, N.J., office, specializes in accounting for income taxes, federal and multi-state income tax for business entities, equity-based compensation and U.S. international taxation. He also is a member of the firm's start-up and emerging growth technology services group.\nCassano is based in Withum's New York office, where he specializes in financial reporting, tax and accounting services for hedge fund clients and also has experience working with domestic and offshore investment funds, fund-of-funds vehicles, investment advisors and related management entities. A 14-year industry veteran, he serves a diverse roster of clients as a member of the firm's financial services\/alternative investments group, including broker-dealers, private equity groups and hedge funds.\nShawn Gillon\nGillon, based in the firm's East Brunswick, N.J., office, is a CPA with more than 15 years of experience focusing on auditing, accounting and consulting services. A member of the firm's insurance services team, he works with an array of insurance companies and captives. He also serves a variety of clients in the real estate and not-for-profit sectors.\nThe three new partners join an impressive corporate leadership team at Withum comprised of more than 120 partners. Established in 1974, Withum is a public accounting firm providing advisory, tax and audit services to businesses and individuals on a local-to-global scale. Withum also is a member of HLB International, a worldwide network of independent professional accounting firms and business advisers committed to assisting clients to build and expand globally.\nFiled Under: IPA 100, Partnership, People\nWithumSmith+Brown Welcomes Ruggieri as a Principal\nMay 22, 2018 by INSIDE Public Accounting\nKathy Ruggieri\nKathy Ruggieri has joined Princeton, N.J.-based WithumSmith+Brown PC (FY17 net revenue of $175.4 million) as a principal in the firm's Healthcare Services Group.\nIn addition to traditional tax and audit services, Withum's Healthcare Services Group provides consulting and advisory services, including those related to revenue cycle, internal audit and corporate compliance, valuations and fair market value assessments and opinions, cloud solutions and cybersecurity.\n\"Highly accomplished and results-driven, Kathy brings to her new role a depth of expertise that will advance Withum's posture and strength in healthcare during this increasingly complex post-reform era,\" says Bill Hagaman, MP and CEO. \"Her insight, knowledge and leadership are a tremendous asset to our firm and a diverse healthcare client roster that is continually evolving to provide the highest quality of care.\"\nRuggieri has more than 34 years of health care experience who most recently served as vice president of a New Jersey-based, health care finance and technology consulting firm. In this role, she oversaw revenue cycle, revenue integrity, reimbursement and emerging payment model strategy.\n\"I am pleased to join Withum's Healthcare Services Group and galvanized by the talent and vision of our team members, who not only keep pace with \u2013 but remain in front of \u2013 the latest industry advancements and trends,\" says Ruggieri. \"I'm looking forward to helping shape the firm's future health care services path, including a leadership role with revenue cycle consulting services.\"\nFiled Under: IPA 100, People\nWithumSmith+Brown SOC Team Authors and Presents Inaugural AICPA SOC for Cybersecurity Certification\nWhen the AICPA hosted its flagship System and Organization Controls (SOC) for Cybersecurity Certification course this past week, members of Princeton, N.J.-based WithumSmith+Brown's (FY17 net revenue of $175.4 million) SOC for Cybersecurity Services Group served as lead instructors for the curriculum. This first-of-its-kind program also was authored by the professionals from the advisory, tax and audit firm. In total, seven Withum professionals also are among the first CPAs nationwide to earn the AICPA's SOC for Cybersecurity digital badge.\nA market-driven, flexible and voluntary reporting framework, SOC helps organizations communicate their cybersecurity risk management program initiatives as well as effectiveness of controls.\nWithum's certified SOC for Cybersecurity team members includes Tony Chapman, partner and SOC practice leader; Anurag Sharma, principal; Scott Mahoney, senior manager; Jim Bourke, partner, director of advisory practice; Stephanie Fitzgerald, SOC senior manager; Anupam Goradia, SOC senior manager; and Andrea Fernandez, SOC staff auditor. These certifications have earned Withum the distinction of having more AICPA-authorized SOC specialists, to perform peer reviews on SOC engagements, than any other CPA firm nationwide.\n\"As a leader in SOC and cybersecurity and information security services, Withum has once again distinguished itself \u2013 this time as it relates to the new cybersecurity risk management reporting framework,\" says Chapman. \"Our firm is among the first and has the highest concentration of fully designated SOC professionals authorized to provide peer reviews.\"\nAICPA has retained Withum to write, present live and record on-demand viewings of the first SOC for Cybersecurity Certificate training course for SOC professionals. Three of Withum's professionals, Chapman, Sharma and Mahoney, served as course authors and presenters. Topics addressed in the AICPA-sponsored course offer an overview of the cyberthreat landscape and terminology, various SOC services, components of a cybersecurity risk management program, utilization of criteria to assess an entity's controls, key steps for performing the cyber risk-management examination and factors to consider while forming the opinion and preparing the practitioner's report.\nSOC for Cybersecurity is a new entity-wide cybersecurity audit that allows organizations to report on their cybersecurity management programs to internal and external stakeholders with credibility. For clients whose cybersecurity risk management programs are mature, an independent third-party firm can perform a comprehensive examination to assess cybersecurity risk management programs.\nFiled Under: AICPA, IPA 100, Technology\nWithumSmith+Brown's Digital Solutions and Services Group Welcomes Williams\nMarch 16, 2018 by INSIDE Public Accounting\nFabian Williams\nPrinceton, N.J.-based WithumSmith+Brown (FY17 net revenue of $175.4 million) welcomed Fabian Williams as a principal in the digital solutions and services group.\n\"Fabian's deep expertise and years of experience with Office 365 and SharePoint is a tremendous asset to Withum's digital solutions and services group,\" says Daniel Cohen-Dumani, partner and group leader. \"As a recognized Microsoft most valuable professional (MVP), Fabian will provide insight and technical leadership to drive us into the future.\"\n\"I am extremely happy and excited to join Withum and energized by the leadership and technical talent of our team members,\" says Williams. \"I'm looking forward to helping shape the firm's future path within our Office 365, Azure and SharePoint solutions and offerings.\"\nSign Up For The IPA INSIDER E-News Update\nTweets by @ipainsider\nInside Public Accounting\nThe Platt Group, LLC\nCarmel IN 46032\n\u00a9 Copyright 2019 INSIDE Public Accounting.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Not all individuals contribute equally or in the same way to the human condition. It was necessary for a substantial number of people with exceptional knowledge, problem-solving ability, and skills to work as a team to transform Manhattan from a forest to a metropolis. Until now, we have been focusing on differences between Stone-Age and technologically-enhanced cultures in order to appreciate extreme variations of the human condition. We have not discussed differences between the individual members of a culture. Not every member of the Nukak is the same height and weight. Not all members of the Nukak are equally skilled in blowing darts or fashioning necklaces. Not all college students are the same height and weight. Not all college students are equally proficient at shooting free throws or playing a musical instrument.\nPsychology can be described as the science of individual differences. In the prior examples, psychologists would look to hereditary and experiential variables as potential causes of behavioral variation. Before we consider some controversial issues, it should prove helpful to place these issues within the larger context of how to formulate useful questions regarding individual differences. Frequently, by being specific and clear when defining terms, it is possible to shed light and avoid heat, even with the most contentious of topics. The scientific method is our best strategy for obtaining useful information to address difficult theoretical and practical questions.\nI will use the game of basketball as an example since it is an internationally popular sport among adult males and females. The objective of the game is to shoot a 9-1\/2\u2013inch diameter sphere through an 18-inch circular rim located ten feet off the ground. The easiest, and most certain way to accomplish this, is to hold the basketball in your hands and \"dunk\" (or \"stuff\") it through the rim (\"hoop\"). Basketball is a game where \"size matters\" (especially height). It is an advantage to be as close to the rim as possible.\nOne has to be over seven feet tall to be able to dunk a basketball while still standing on the ground. How likely is it that a person grows to be over seven feet tall? To answer this question, it would be necessary to measure everyone's height and divide the number of people who are seven feet or more by the total. A more analytic approach would be to create a frequency distribution of the number of people of different heights.\nFigure 7.18 Normal curves for height.\nFigure 7.18 is an example of frequency distributions for the heights of samples of American husbands and wives. The normal curve is a symmetrical bell-shaped curve characteristic of many variables in nature, including human characteristics and performance (e.g., height, reaction time, etc.). It is defined by a formula resulting in specific percentages of the area under the curve being related to distance along the X-axis. The distance is measured in standard deviation units, a statistical index of variability (i.e., consistency). The size of the standard deviation is based on the extent to which scores cluster around the mean. If scores tend to be close to the mean (i.e., are consistent), the standard deviation is low. If the scores vary widely from the mean, the standard deviation is high. The normal curve includes approximately two-thirds of the scores between plus and minus one standard deviation, and 95 percent of the scores between plus and minus two standard deviations.\nOne characteristic of any symmetrical curve is that the peak indicates the mean (i.e., average) score. Another characteristic of a symmetrical curve is how \"spread out\" it is. The male curve above seems more spread out than the \"narrower\" female curve. The narrowness of a curve indicates the extent to which the scores pile up close to the mean, that is, the consistency (or variability). The female scores are more consistent (i.e., less variable) in the figure. The average height for women in the figure is 65 inches with a standard deviation of 4, and the average for men is 71 inches with a standard deviation of 5. Assuming the distributions are normal, this would mean that approximately two-thirds of women are between 61 and 69 inches, and two-thirds of men are between 66 and 76 inches. A height of seven feet (84 inches) would be almost three standard deviations above the mean height for men. This would mean that only about one in five hundred men attain that height. No wonder extremely tall individuals tend to be favored draft picks in professional basketball. They are hard to find.\nSometimes a basketball scout remarks that a particular player \"has what you can't teach.\" The implication is that height is entirely genetically determined. In fact, it has been reported that hundreds of genes influence human height (Lango, Estrada, and Lettre et al., 2010). Clearly, whether one does or does not possess the Y-chromosome matters. It needs to be emphasized, however, that even a physical characteristic such as height can be significantly affected by environmental factors. The Centers for Disease Control statistics (2012) indicate that overall, the average heights for American women and men have been stable for many years. However, the heights of recent immigrants show an increase. The apparent explanation is that those recently arriving react to the American diet. Those who have been exposed to this diet for extended periods have apparently approached their genetic potential.\nIf you cannot reach the basket while standing on the ground, it may still be possible to dunk the ball by jumping. An amusing basketball movie from several years ago was entitled \"White Men Can't Jump.\" The implication of the title was that if one created frequency distributions for men of different races, one would see diverging curves similar to those for the height of women and men. Collecting such data and plotting the curves would determine the accuracy of the title. That is, it is an empirical question. Another empirical question would address the extent to which jumping is like height. Do you think nutrition might influence jumping ability? What about exercises designed to strengthen your leg muscles or improve flexibility? Is jumping something you can teach? Do you think there is such a thing as jumping technique? As you move further from the hoop, one's height becomes less of an advantage and skill level increases in importance. Shooting ability is clearly a characteristic related to basketball performance which can be taught and practiced.\nIntelligence Testing\nWe will now try to apply the approach used to address questions regarding basketball to issues related to human intelligence. Perhaps no term is more misunderstood or, as we shall see, more misused, than intelligence. It is common to describe ourselves or others as being \"smart\" (i.e., intelligent) or \"not so smart.\" A repeated lesson of this book is the need to be careful when labeling people. Labels can be used as pseudo-explanations, diverting us from searching for true explanations. Also, there is always the potential for self-fulfilling prophecies. When one attributes exceptionally good or poor performance to levels of \"intelligence\", the search for another explanation ceases. Once one is labeled as intelligent or dull, this can have significant effects upon how they are treated by those with the best intentions.\nDo you think people vary in intelligence the way they do with height, jumping ability, and shooting from a distance? If so, is intelligence more like height, jumping ability, or shooting from a distance? The first step in addressing this question requires defining what we mean by intelligence. Recall, an operational definition defines terms by the procedures used to measure them. For example, the definition of height would be the number of standardized units (e.g., inches) from the bottom of your feet to the top of your head when you are in an erect standing position. A person's height is observable to someone else. We cannot directly observe intelligence as we do height. Intelligence is like learning, which is also not directly observable. Rather, it is operationally defined based on behavioral observations. Technically, we do not observe learning; we observe learned behavior. Applying this same approach to intelligence, we need to observe intelligent behavior.\nAt the beginning of the twentieth century, many of the countries experiencing the Industrial Revolution implemented compulsory education to increase the knowledge and skills of future workers. The French government asked Alfred Binet, a psychologist, to develop an easily administered test to identify children requiring special assistance to succeed in the public schools. Binet (1903) formulated an ordered list of 30 questions addressing basic skills such as memory, problem-solving, and vocabulary. Examples of simple items include asking a child to point to his\/her nose and to name a food. Examples of difficult items would be to use three different words in a sentence and to provide the definition of an abstract word. Scoring was based on the concept of mental age as determined by the average number of items children of different ages got correct. It must be emphasized that Binet formulated his test to address a practical problem, school readiness, not to assess native ability. The test was designed to serve a supportive function; to diagnose the type of assistance a child needed to succeed. Binet anticipated the possibility of interpreting his test as measuring intelligence, but believed intelligence was multifaceted and fluid, rather than unitary and stable. He also believed intelligence was influenced by experience and that comparisons could only be made for people sharing similar environmental conditions (White, 2000).\nDespite Binet's (1903) stated reservations, the Stanford psychologist, Lewis Terman (1916), standardized his test on American children, calculated an IQ (intelligence quotient) score as proposed by William Stern (1912), and considered it to measure intelligence. The IQ score was obtained by dividing a child's mental age by the child's chronological age and multiplying by 100. For example, if a 4-year old tested at the level of an average 5-year old, the IQ score would equal 125 (5\/4 X 100).\nUnlike Binet, Terman believed his test items measured an inherited, unitary, and stable trait of intelligence. Based on this assumption, his standardization process produced IQ test results adhering to the normal curve with a mean of 100 and standard deviation of 15 (see Figure 7.19). This meant that a little more than 68 per cent of the scores were between 85 and 115 (i.e., from minus one to plus one standard deviation) and a little more than 95 per cent were between 70 and 130 (minus two to plus two standard deviations).\nFigure 7.19 Normal curve for IQ.\nThe Stanford-Binet became the most popular intelligence test for decades. It is ironic that a test developed to address a practical concern and considered by its founder to be inappropriate as an index of intelligence, became the basis for the first operational definition of intelligence (i.e., IQ test score). Having an operational definition for intelligence, it becomes possible to ask if the questions on the test appear to be measuring something clearly biological such as height, something probably having a strong biological component such as jumping ability, or something clearly requiring skill development such as shooting from a distance. Terman believed and acted as though IQ score, despite being inferred from behavioral observations, measured something akin to height. Arguably, a memory test such as digit span seems akin to height or jumping ability. The amount of items one is able to repeat back is limited by the capacity of short-term memory. However, the great majority of IQ test questions are obviously influenced by experience. Children are taught to label and point to different body parts. Vocabulary and grammatical rules are learned. As described in Chapter 1, children must be taught to follow instructions and work to the best of their ability in order for the test to provide meaningful results.\nWould it make sense to visit the rainforest and administer the Stanford-Binet to a Nukak child in English? Based on the test results, would it make sense to make important life decisions for the child? It is unfortunate that so much controversy and harm was introduced by redefining a procedure designed to assess school readiness as a test of intelligence. Terman believed \"There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ\" (Terman, 1922). It is true that, IQ score is a better predictor of school performance at all levels and of job performance than any other test result (Schmidt & Hunter, 1998). This should not be surprising. Binet and his colleagues spent 15 years developing items to determine which children would require special assistance to succeed in school. Many jobs in a technologically advanced culture are dependent on the skills and knowledge acquired in schools.\nUnlike Binet, whose goal was to identify school children requiring special assistance, Terman proposed using IQ tests to classify children and place them on separate educational and career paths. This was frequently recommended despite the fact that the children were unschooled or English was not their native language. Terman became an advocate of eugenics, proposing that IQ test results should be used as a basis for controlling reproductive and educational practices. According to him, \"High-grade or border-line deficiency\u2026 is very, very common among Spanish-Indian and Mexican families of the Southwest and also among Negroes. Their dullness seems to be racial, or at least inherent in the family stocks from which they come. Children of this group should be segregated into separate classes\u2026 They cannot master abstractions but they can often be made into efficient workers\u2026 from a eugenic point of view they constitute a grave problem because of their unusually prolific breeding\" (Terman, 1916, pp. 91-92). Tragically, thousands of poor African-American women were involuntarily sterilized as the result of such positions (Larson, 1995, p. 74).\nIn 1974, Leon Kamin published The Science and Politics of IQ questioning the motivations behind the use of IQ test results as the basis for social policy recommendations. Other similar articles and books soon followed (c.f., Block & Dworkin, 1976; Cronback, 1975; Scarr, & Carter-Saltzman, 1982). In 1994, Herrnstein & Murray published The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, sparking further controversy regarding the interpretation of research findings and their social implications. In reaction to the increasingly heated public and professional debates regarding intelligence testing, the American Psychological Association appointed a Task Force chaired by the respected cognitive scientist, Ulrich Neisser. The Task Force was charged with reviewing the findings of the voluminous research literature, reaching conclusions, and making recommendations. The authors of the report concluded:\nIn a field where so many issues are unresolved and so many questions unanswered, the confident tone that has characterized most of the debate on these topics is clearly out of place. The study of intelligence does not need politicized assertions and recriminations; it needs self-restraint, reflection, and a great deal more research. The questions that remain are socially as well as scientifically important. There is no reason to think them unanswerable, but finding the answers will require a shared and sustained effort as well as the commitment of substantial scientific resources. Just such a commitment is what we strongly recommend (Neisser et al., 1996).\nIn Chapter 1, we discussed the requirements of psychological explanations and the implications regarding nature\/nurture controversies. Intelligence is frequently used in a circular manner as a pseudo-explanation for behavior. Why does someone obtain a high score on an IQ test? \u2013 Because she\/he is intelligent. How do you know someone is intelligent? \u2013 Because she\/he scores high on the IQ test. IQ cannot serve as both an independent and dependent variable. An IQ test consists of behavioral tasks presumed to require intelligence. As such, IQ test performance is something to be explained (i.e., a dependent variable), not in and of itself an explanation (i.e., an independent variable). As always, psychology looks to nature and nurture for its explanations. No single gene has consistently been reported to have a strong effect on IQ (Deary, Whalley, & Starr, 2009). Hundreds of genes have been found to impact upon human height (Lanktree et al., 2011). It is likely that thousands of the 17,000 or so human genes influence IQ test scores.\nWe described how pseudo-explanations can result in self-fulfilling prophecies. It might surprise you to know that such effects have been experimentally demonstrated to occur with regard to intelligence both in the laboratory and in the field. In one study, college students were told that they were given either \"maze bright\" or \"maze dull\" rats to run through a maze (Rosenthal & Fode, 1963). Even though the rats were randomly assigned to the categories, the \"maze-bright\" rats performed better than the \"maze dull\" rats. Presumably, the students' expectancies influenced how they treated the rats and affected the results.\nIn an important book entitled Pygmalion in the Classroom, Rosenthal & Jacobson (1968) demonstrated the external validity of this finding with children in schools. After tests were administered to first- through sixth-grade students, teachers were told that the results indicated that some of their students would \"bloom\" that year. Randomly, 20 per cent of the students in each of the classes were designated as \"bloomers.\" Sure enough, upon re-testing at the end of the year, first- and second grade students designated as \"bloomers\" improved more than the control students. The same effect was not demonstrated in the students in the later grades. It was suggested that young children are especially sensitive to the types of behaviors related to teacher expectancies.\nRather than acting as though intelligence exists as a human characteristic akin to height, it is more accurate, as well as prescriptive, to consider intelligence akin to jumping or shooting a basketball from a distance. Research must be designed to analyze the specific genetic and experiential components of behaviors considered to be intelligent. For example, what genes and learning experiences are necessary for a child to respond to an instruction to touch his\/her nose, or include three words in a sentence? This approach avoids unnecessary controversy concerning racial or ethnic differences in intelligence. Rather, research is conducted to determine the potential causal variables in the acquisition of culturally-defined intelligent behaviors. Such a strategy is grounded in the reality that both nature and nurture contribute to an individual's responding to any item on an IQ test.\nAnalyzing Intelligence\nDo you think there is a trait of athleticism that applies to all sports? Or, do you think that there are separate abilities and skills that apply to different sports? One of Alfred Binet's initial suggestions was that intelligence is complicated and can be analyzed into separate abilities and skills. This differed from Terman's belief that intelligence was a unitary aptitude applicable under all conditions. More than a century has passed since Binet implemented his test in the Paris school system. Since then, other more comprehensive tests permitting more analytic scoring and prescriptive applications, have been developed.\nDavid Wechsler gained experience developing adult intelligence tests for the military during World War 1. While serving as Chief Psychologist at Bellevue Medical Center in New York City, he developed the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale (1939). This was later published in 1955 as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) and revised in 1981, 1997, and 2008. Wechsler agreed with Binet that intelligence was multi-faceted and included several diverse types of questions on his test. Wechsler also believed that the verbal abilities assessed on the Stanford-Binet were highly dependent on education and therefore culturally biased. He developed a combination of tasks which did not rely on verbal knowledge and that could produce a separate performance IQ score. Subsequent revisions of the WAIS included additional types of questions and more analytical scores.\nFigure 7.20 Subscales of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.\nFigure 7.20 provides an overview of the different categories and types of test items and the different scores (indexes in the Figure) one can obtain with recent versions of the WAIS. The WAIS and WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children) are presently the most frequently administered intelligence tests (Kaplan & Saccuzzo, 2009, pp 250-251). One of the reasons for this popularity is the prescriptive capability resulting from the subscale indexes and the scores for different item types comprising each subscale. For example, a low score on the vocabulary items of the Verbal Comprehension index could suggest the benefit of working with flashcards whereas a low score on the information items might suggest assignment of reading material. A similar analytic and prescriptive approach would apply to the other indexes and item types.\nIt is possible to use the statistical technique of factor analysis to analyze intelligent behavior based upon the results of empirical research studies. Citing more than six decades of research evaluating human cognition, John Carrol (1993) obtained results supporting a three-stratum model of cognitive ability (see Figure 7.21). The first stratum consisted of a General Intelligence factor, consistent with Terman's unitary approach. However, the results also suggested the eight \"Broad Ability\" factors listed above as well as 69 narrow abilities. Analyzing intelligence test performance into different components in this way reduces the controversy resulting from a single global score. Rather than generating questions regarding differences in \"intelligence\", questions regarding differences in performance on different types of tasks are generated. This requires examination of the specific broad and narrow abilities involved in answering test items. Ultimately, the genetic (nature \u2013 e.g., parts of the brain) and experiential (nurture \u2013 e.g., learning experiences)) variables influencing the abilities impacting upon specific test items need to be specified.\nFigure 7.21 Carroll's three-stratum model of cognitive ability. Key: fluid intelligence (Gf), crystallized intelligence (Gc), general memory and learning (Gy), broad visual perception (Gv), broad auditory perception (Gu), broad retrieval ability (Gr), broad cognitive speediness (Gs), and processing speed (Gt). Carroll regarded the broad abilities as different \"flavors\" of g.\nDifferent Types of Intelligence\nDo you think the same type of athleticism applies to all sports? Or, do you think there are different forms of athleticism applying to basketball players, baseball players, soccer players, etc.? Relating this to intelligence, it is common for people to distinguish between \"school smarts\" and \"street smarts.\" Does that distinction make sense to you? It does to Howard Gardner. Wechsler disagreed with Terman's belief that intelligence was unitary as opposed to multi-faceted. Gardner (1983) disagreed with Terman's belief that the Stanford-Binet test measured the only important form of intelligence and proposed a multiple intelligence model (see Figure 7.22).\nFigure 7.22 Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Model.\nVerbal\/linguistic intelligence, logical\/mathematical intelligence, and to a lesser extent, visual spatial intelligence, are the domains emphasized on the majority of standardized tests. Again, this should not be surprising since Binet developed the original test to assess school readiness. Gardner believed it was necessary to also consider bodily\/kinesthetic intelligence, musical\/rhythmic intelligence, intra- and inter-personal intelligence, and naturalistic intelligence, in order to appreciate the full range of human intellectual ability and accomplishment.\nIntelligence and Human Potential\nI previously quipped that based on our DNA and the amount of brain space dedicated to our hands and speech-related body parts, the title of this book could be \"Thumbs, Tongues, and Cortex.\" Human potential and accomplishment is built upon this three-legged stool. Without the conceptual knowledge, problem-solving ability, imagination, and creativity permitted by our brains (i.e., what we usually consider \"intelligence\"), our speaking and tool-making capabilities would be very limited. Wechsler defined intelligence as \"the global capacity of a person to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with his environment\" (1939). Eat, survive, reproduce. When we examine the aptitudes and abilities required to obtain and prepare food, build and maintain shelters, establish and maintain cooperative relationships with relatives, friends, and significant others, and raise children, we can appreciate Gardner's consideration of other, non-school related forms of intelligence. We had to be intelligent in order to survive on this planet for a very long time before we created schools. It is only in the past century that for many, adapting to the human condition became so related to the three \"R\"s and performing well on standardized and non-standardized tests. One can debate the appropriateness or inappropriateness of considering any of Garner's eight \"intelligences\" as aptitudes, talents, skills, or traits. What cannot be debated is the essential role each has played in the totality of human achievement and the importance of each when considering our potential as individuals and a species. Much human achievement requires cooperation and teamwork. This is true in order to survive in the rainforest or to transform Manhattan Island. Our combined potential is greater than the sum of our individual potentials. The transformation of Manhattan required cooperation among diverse individuals possessing the different talents and skills required to plan, design, and create the impressive skyline. The best strategy for realizing our potential as a species is to act upon John Adam's and Albert Binet's desires to educate each and every individual.\nConsideration of intelligence in this chapter is out of place with regard to the organization of the book. As described in Chapter 1 and in the material above, nature and nurture are involved in intelligent human behavior. This implies the Nature\/Nurture section as being the appropriate location to include intelligence. Instead, I chose to discuss intelligence as a way of concluding the Mostly Nurture section.\nThe bottom line of Wechsler's definition of intelligence is its adaptive nature. What is considered intelligent depends upon one's physical and social environmental demands. Surviving in the rainforest requires very different behaviors than performing well in school. Performing well in school requires different behaviors than performing well on the job or in social contexts. It took millions of years of natural selection for the human being to evolve. The result was an animal capable of adapting to a wide range of environmental conditions. As social and communicating animals, humans profit from the experiences of others. Shared knowledge and skills have resulted in the accelerating development of life-transforming tools and technologies. There is no way to predict the environmental conditions humans will create in the future. We can predict the continued modification of and adaptation to a new world; perhaps even new worlds!\nIntelligence and Self-Control\nGod, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed,\nCourage to change the things which should be changed,\nand the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.\nReinhold Neibuhr\nDo you think you can be more intelligent? Your answer to the question may depend on whether you agree with Terman's or Binet's assumptions. If, like Terman, you believe intelligence is unitary, inherited, and fixed, a passive serenity is called for. If you agree with Binet, that intelligence is multi-faceted and affected by experience, a more active, courageous approach becomes possible. We have seen that the science of psychology has resulted in knowledge regarding procedures effecting behavior change. This makes it possible for you to apply the self-control process described in previous chapters to change the behaviors you consider to reflect intelligence and develop your potential.\nAt the beginning of this chapter we saw how much of our knowledge consists of concepts and that adaptation may often be described as problem-solving. A college education is designed to expand your knowledge base as well as improve and add to your problem-solving skills. Review of the types of items tested on Wechsler's IQ test (see Figure 7.10) reveals how attending college could improve your performance on each of the sub-scale indexes. Succeeding in college will require a significant amount of reading in diverse content areas. Along the way you will acquire many new concepts and expand your vocabulary. You will take math courses requiring quantitative reasoning and humanities courses requiring comprehension and critical thinking. You can maximize the benefit of your formal education by being an active student. Constantly test yourself for mastery of the material. Try to integrate the information acquired in different courses and consider how to apply the knowledge and skills beyond the classroom. Time permitting, read for pleasure. Whether you enjoy fiction or non-fiction, reading will expose you to new information and ideas. The more you learn, the more informed and thoughtful you will become and the more likely to fulfill your potential.\nFigure 7.18 \"Normal curve for height\" by Philip Cohen is licensed under CC BY 4.0\nFigure 7.19 \"Normal curve for IQ\" by Dmcq is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0\nFigure 7.20 \"WAIS subscales\" by Alecmconroy is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0\nFigure 7.21 \"Carrol's three-stratum model\" by Tim Bates is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0\nFigure 7.22 \"Multiple intelligence model\" by Jgreene34 is in the Public Domain\nPrevious: Tools, Technology and the Human Condition","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Pharnext Announces PXT3003 was Granted Priority Review by the China Food and Drug Administration\nJune 14, 2018 01:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time\nPARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News:\nPharnext SA (Paris:ALPHA) (FR0011191287 - ALPHA), a biopharmaceutical company pioneering a new approach to the development of innovative drug combinations based on big genomic data and artificial intelligence, today announced that PXT3003 was granted priority review for Charcot-Marie-Tooth Type 1A disease (CMT1A) by the China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA).\nPharnext's first-in-class PLEODRUG\u2122 PXT3003 is currently in a Phase 3 clinical trial in Europe and the United States, with results expected before the end of 2018. PXT3003, developed using Pharnext's R&D platform PLEOTHERAPY\u2122, is a novel oral fixed-low dose combination of baclofen, naltrexone and sorbitol, with EMA and U.S. FDA Orphan Drug Designation.\nGeneNet Co, Ltd, a joint venture between Tasly and Pharnext, owns the commercialization rights for PXT3003 for CMT1A in Greater China (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau), as well as exclusive license rights to all PXT3003 patents applied for and authorized in Greater China.\nIn December 2017, GeneNet applied for clinical approval for PXT3003 to be registered as an imported pharmaceutical in China. PXT3003's inclusion in the priority review process will greatly shorten the waiting time for clinical approval and also expedite registration as an imported pharmaceutical.\n\"We are pleased that PXT3003 has been identified as a priority by the CFDA, and that its fast-track status will decrease the waiting time for the drug's approval,\" said Prof. Daniel Cohen, M.D., Ph.D., Pharnext's Co-Founder and CEO.\nAbout Pharnext\nPharnext is an advanced clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics for orphan and common neurodegenerative diseases that currently lack curative and\/or disease-modifying treatments. Pharnext has two lead products in clinical development. PXT3003 is currently in an international Phase 3 trial for the treatment of Charcot-Marie-Tooth Type 1A disease and benefits from orphan drug status in Europe and the United States. The results of this trial are expected in the second half of 2018. PXT864 has generated positive Phase 2 results in Alzheimer's disease. Pharnext has developed a new drug discovery paradigm based on big data genomics and artificial intelligence: PLEOTHERAPY\u2122. The Company identifies and develops synergic combinations of drugs called PLEODRUG\u2122 offering several key advantages: efficacy, safety and robust intellectual property. The Company was founded by renowned scientists and entrepreneurs including Professor Daniel Cohen, a pioneer in modern genomics, and is supported by a world-class scientific team.\nPharnext is listed on Euronext Growth Stock Exchange in Paris (ISIN code: FR0011191287).\nFor more information, visit www.pharnext.com.\nAbout Tasly\nTasly Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd. was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in August 2002 (Stock Code 600535). The company concept is \"To share the joy of health with all\" and the company mission \"To improve human life and quality of life.\" Tasly is committed to promoting the integration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) with modern medical and pharmaceutical technologies. It is also committed to building the first international brand of modernized TCM. \"To become the global innovation leader of modern TCM and the scientific standard maker of modern TCM\" is our target. To achieve this goal, Tasly will strive to bring modernized TCM to international pharmaceutical standards. To support its development strategy of \"Comprehensive Internationalization,\" Tasly has set up a complete manufacturing chain which respects international guidelines and exploits intelligent manufacturing systems. Based on its \"Two Wheels of Innovation and Capitalization\" strategy, Tasly has developed several core competitive advantages, such as its R&D model, a multi-level product system, a multi-dimensional patent protection system and a commercial and marketing network.\nPharnext\nRen\u00e9 GoedKoop, +33 (0)1 41 09 22 30\nmedical@pharnext.com\nFinancial Communication (France)\nActifin\nSt\u00e9phane Ruiz, +33 (0)1 56 88 11 15\nsruiz@actifin.fr\nInvestor Relations (U.S.)\nStern Investor Relations, Inc.\nMatthew Shinseki, +1-212-362-1200\nmatthew@sternir.com\nInvestor Relations (Europe)\nMC Services AG\nAnne Hennecke, +49 211 529252 22\nanne.hennecke@mc-services.eu\nMedia Relations (Europe)\nUlysse Communication\nBruno Arabian, +33 (0)1 81 70 96 30\nbarabian@ulysse-communication.com\nMedia Relations (U.S.)\nRooneyPartners\nKate L. Barrette, +1-212-223-0561\nkbarrette@rooneyco.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Court rules accused Russian credit card 'megahacker' can be extradited to the US\nDutch court approves extradition of Russian man for his alleged involvement in one of the largest US corporate hacks of more than 160m credit card details\nAgence France-Presse in The Hague, Netherlands\nTue 27 Jan 2015 11.40 EST Last modified on Fri 14 Jul 2017 17.30 EDT\nRussian defendant Vladimir Drinkman, left, is escorted by police officers at the courthouse in The Hague. Drinkman is accused of helping to lead a prolific computer hacking ring. Photograph: Jerry Lampen\/AFP\/Getty Images\nA Russian man accused of one of the largest US corporate hacks of more than 160m credit card details can be extradited to the US, a Dutch court has ruled.\n\"The Dutch state may extradite Russian hacker Vladimir Drinkman to the United States,\" The Hague district court said in a statement on Tuesday.\nThe ruling comes after Drinkman's lawyer earlier this month made a last-ditch effort to avoid him being sent to New Jersey, arguing that he might be prosecuted for other crimes in other states, which would breach the Netherlands-US extradition agreement.\nDrinkman, who is wanted along with four others for allegedly hacking computer networks belonging to some of the world's largest payment companies, would prefer to be extradited to Russia, where his young daughter and ex-wife live.\nThe five suspects, four Russians and a Ukrainian, are accused of stealing credit and debit card numbers and other personal information from companies such as Nasdaq, Carrefour and JetBlue and selling them online.\nJust three of the corporate victims have reported combined losses in excess of $300m.\nThe defendants are Russians Drinkman, Alexandr Kalinin, Roman Kotov and Dmitriy Smilianets, and Ukrainian Mikhail Rytikov.\nSmilianets was arrested along with Drinkman in the Netherlands and extradited. The other three suspects are still at large.\nUS investigators have been on the trail of the hackers for at least four years with Kalinin and Drinkman having been identified as Hacker 1 and Hacker 2 in a 2009 indictment of Albert Gonzalez, who was subsequently convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison for accessing the confidential data of Heartland Payment Systems and other corporations in what was, until then, the biggest case of its kind.\nThe pair were described as specialists in penetrating network security and gaining access to the systems of major corporations. Moscow-based Kotov was said to be the expert in mining the networks his accomplices had opened up.\nThis involved installing malicious code, or malware, on compromised systems, enabling the harvesting of user names and passwords, means of identification and bank card numbers.\nThe US investigators regard the estimate of 160m numbers obtained by the group as conservative.\nA stolen American credit card number and the details needed to use it were said to be worth $10, a Canadian one $15 and a European one $50 to the identity-theft wholesalers who bought the data.\nThey would then sell them on to individuals who could encode the data onto blank plastic cards and use them to buy goods or make cash withdrawals.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"https:\/\/www.middletownpress.com\/news\/article\/Greenwich-man-accused-of-phony-veteran-scam-11867508.php\nGreenwich man accused of phony veteran scam\nPublished 12:00 am EDT, Monday, June 20, 2011\nNEW HAVEN(AP) -- A Greenwich man is facing charges that he falsely claimed to be an Army Ranger wounded during four tours of duty in Afghanistan.\nPolice said Monday that 20-year-old Jesus Garcia was arrested last week on charges of larceny, fraudulent representation of Armed Force uniform, four counts of fraudulent use of military insignia and interfering with an officer. He was released on $2,500 bond and is due back in Stamford Superior Court Friday.\nA telephone message was left for Garcia with his mother, who said her son told her he was in the military.\nPolice said Garcia had an Army Ranger tattoo, posed in a military uniform and planned to speak at a Memorial Day event. Police said he ripped off two people of nearly $1,000 in connection with the scam.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Fiscal Responsibility versus Austerity in Groton\nThe North Stonington Road Bridge... at least what used to be.\nYou go to a nice restaurant and you order a fancy meal that costs $24.17. The food comes out, but it's a little slow to get to your table. Your silverware isn't quite clean. The vegetables are okay, but clearly not fresh, probably frozen. Your experience is not terrible, but it's mediocre.\nThe vegetables were frozen because that cost a little less than fresh. They laid off the more experienced dishwasher and hired a less expensive one to save money. They are also short one guy in the kitchen, again to save money, and that's why your food was slow.\nThey made the cuts so they could reduce their prices. Had they not done so, the price would have been $24.74.\nI suspect that if you were given the choice of the $24.17 mediocre experience or the $24.74 excellent experience, you'd pick the excellent one.\nOne Town's Fiscal Choice\nThat is the choice that the town of Groton, Connecticut faces in this year's budget cycle. The current intention is to hold the mill rate the same as last year's at 24.17. (The mill rate is the rate per thousand that a property owner pays in taxes.)\nBut there is a cost to this conservation:\n$1.5 million will be drawn from the general fund\nThe North Stonington Road Bridge will not be repaired\nThe Bill Memorial Library and Mystic & Noank Library will be cut, and, in later year, be completely unsupported by the town\nThe new community center will continue to have unusable water and a leaky roof.\nA Town In Decline\nA sign of decline.\nWhen a movie director is trying to show that the world the story takes place in is in decline, they will show broken things. They will show the once nice things that the society could not longer afford to maintain. \"We have to take the stairs. This building used to have an elevator, but it broke years ago and no one can fix it.\" OR \"We'll have to go the long way around. There used to be a bridge, but it was washed out in a storm years ago and we can't afford to fix it.\"\nEvery \"Bridge Out\" sign, every closed library, every \"park closed\" sign is a monument to the decline of a community. It is a celebration of past greatness and present failure.\nFor Groton to fail to repair it's bridge, to underfund the libraries, to not have a properly maintained community center, it is saying \"we used to have nice things, but we can no longer afford them.\"\nThat is a town in decline. Perhaps the town really is so poor that austerity is the only option, and visible decline the necessary cost of this, but I'm not sure everyone would agree.\nAusterity Versus Investment\nThe cost to fund the libraries is 0.1% of the total town budget, so let's focus more on the larger maintenance issues.\nThe argument for holding the mill rate level is that a half mill increase this year could lead to one the next year and the year after that. After 20 years, the mill rate goes from 24 to 34, and that's not a good thing.\nThis sidewalk on 184 has been closed for some time.\nOn the other hand, Groton has a bridge out, an unusable sidewalk, etc. If the mill rate is held level at the cost of failing to fix our infrastructure as it wears out, then there is another danger. What if the mill rate stays the same but the number of highly visible infrastructure failures increases by one every year. Twenty years from now, you'd have a low tax rate and 20 unusable bridges and sidewalks and parks throughout the town.\nWhen you have 20 \"bridge out\" and \"park closed\" signs around town, people notice. Home buyers notice. Property values fall. Tax revenues fall. Mill rates must be increased to compensate.\nUnder austerity, you still have to raise the mill rate and you end up with a town full of signs of neglect and decay.\nWhat's the Cost\nOne mill point converts to $3,686,117 of revenue. The proposed cut to the library is about $38,000. Other cuts to agencies which provide services to Groton residents come to about $30,000. Groton's share of repairing the North Stonington Road Bridge would be $300,000. Substantial improvements could be made to the community center for $250,000.\nThe total cost to fully staff the kitchen, to use our example above, would be $618,000 or 0.17 mills. If we want to do it without taking money from the general fund balance, it would be 0.57 mills.\n$550,000 of this would be one time capital costs. $1,500,000 would remain in the general fund to use in future years when we have harder times. Only $68,000 of this is recurring budget items.\nFor an owner of an average $200,000 house, the property tax based on these rates would be:\nAusterity: $4,834\nFully Funded: $4,868\nFully Funded without using town savings: $4,948\nUnder the proposed austerity, defunding the libraries, the supporting agencies, failing to repair a failed bridge, and leaving the community center in need to improvements, the average homeowner would save $114 per year.\nOne hundred and fourteen dollars. To the average family.\nThere is a line between fiscal responsibility and dangerous austerity. I think we can see where that line is.\nThe Town Council of Groton is a group of tremendously hard working and dedicated volunteers. They work with the best interests of the town in mind and want to be accountable to the taxpayers. They are pushing down this path of austerity because that is what they believe that the residents want. The loudest cries they hear are from those who want taxes cut no matter what the cost, and if that is what you want then you are being heard.\nOn the other hand, if you would like to see the bridges fixed, the community center improved to the level a town like Groton deserves, the libraries and agencies funded to provide great services to you and your neighbors and you understand it may cost a few dollars more in taxes to get these benefits, please contact you Town Councilors and let them know that you believe that 0.57 mills is a small price to keep all the nice things in Groton.\nTheir contact information can be found here.\nClosing Thought on Outside Agencies\nThe Mystic & Noank Library, the Bill Memorial Library, and other organizations called \"outside agencies\" are being cut by 25%. The argument is that the money should stay in the town. This is misguided argument.\nThe two association libraries cost the town a mere $125,000 combined and offer tremendous services funded by donors, other towns, and a variety of other sources. Groton receives millions of dollars of value for tens of thousands of dollars of expense.\nThese so called outside agencies are simply agencies that are not operated by the town but provide town services. The town gives them money because the services they provide would be profoundly more expensive for the town to provide internally.\nWhen a cut of $100,000 of expense runs the risk of losing $1,000,000 of value, it should be very closely considered. This money does not leave the town. It stays in the town and it brings friends.\nMichael Whitehouse is member of the Representative Town Meeting representing the 4th District of Groton, Connecticut.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Model Case: Oyster, 40 mm, Everose gold\nBezel: Fluted\nCalibre: 3255, Manufacture Rolex\nDial: Olive green\nThe Fluted Bezel\nThe Rolex fluted bezel is a mark of distinction. Originally, the fluting of the Oyster bezel had a functional purpose: it served to screw the bezel onto the case helping to ensure the waterproofness of the watch.\nOlive Green Dial\nThe sunray finish on Rolex dials is a predominant method in watchmaking of achieving pure metallic color dials such as shades of silver grey, rhodium or ruthenium. Silver-plating is mostly used as a base layer for the sunray finish, where further color is added to the prepared dial. Sometimes colors such as champagne are achieved through electroplating with more than half a dozen different metals.\n18 ct Everose gold\nTo preserve the beauty of its pink gold watches, Rolex created and patented an exclusive 18 ct pink gold alloy cast in its own foundry: Everose gold. Introduced in 2005, 18 ct Everose is used on all Rolex Oyster models in pink gold.\nHOW TO SET YOUR DAY-DATE 40\nSynonymous with excellence and reliability, Rolex watches are designed for everyday wear, and depending on the model, perfectly suited for a wide range of sports and other activities. Built to last, these timepieces are characterized by their distinctive and timeless aesthetics. The Oyster Perpetual Day-Date 40 is the ultimate watch of prestige. Learn more about this model and how to set the time, date and day by watching the video.\nThe Oyster Perpetual Day-Date made its debut in 1956. Available only in 18 ct gold or platinum, it was the first calendar wristwatch to display the day \u2013 spelled out in full in a window on the dial \u2013 in addition to the date. With the President bracelet, created specially for it, the Day-Date embodies the essence of Rolex prestige and excellence.\nTHE ULTIMATE WATCH OF PRESTIGE\nOyster, 36 mm, Everose gold\nOyster, 36 mm, yellow gold\nOyster, 36 mm, white gold","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hamas' Unremitting Terror,Yet, \"Bibi\" Netanyahu Lies Impotent-Once Again. What's Going On? Commentary By Adina Kutnicki\nPosted on October 29, 2018 by Adina Kutnicki\nSCOWLS, clenched fists, and promises aside, when \"Bibi\" Netanyahu or his lackeys are queried: What will it take, once and for all, to unleash the IDF to bury Hamas, it is as if they are reading from the same demented script: \"What we see from here, you don't see from there!\"\nBE that as it may, as is said, the proof is in the pudding. To wit, how many times does this grave situation, a\/k\/a \"matzav\", have to be tackled and highlighted to demonstrate that Israel's leadership are wildly derelict in their most sacred duty of all? Ad infinitum.\nBUT for the uninitiated, or the still unconvinced, here we go again. As per the actual facts on the ground\u2026.the case\u2026.the indictment\u2026.\nBack in August 2011, six years after the late PM Sharon, \"the bulldozer\", ordered the IDF to destroy twenty five plus thriving Jewish communities in Gush Katif, a\/k\/a Gaza, and the northern Shomron (to satiate the very same barbarians who rocketed southern Israel for 17 years \u2013 only to up the ante and terrorize the entire nation, after the insane \"gifting\/rewarding\" of developed Jewish communities, as evidenced during the last defensive war with Hamas in 2014), this investigative journalist was asked to memorialize the devastating destruction via its knock-on effects (for HONENU \u2013 Israel's National Legal Defense Organization) through a no-holds-barred analytical assessment. Resultant,\"The Bitter Fruits of 'Disengagement' \" was written. Shortly, others followed. Painstaking. Searing.\nEven so, those with eyes and ears and a modicum of historical acumen should have known that one cannot feed rabid beasts and, in return, expect civilized behavior! In fact, as far back as 2007, \"No Crime Without Punishment\" laid out (at Israel National News) the absolute legal and moral onus upon Israel's leaders, that is, their sworn duty to mete out punishment commensurate with the acts of terrorism against their citizens. Nullem Crimen Sine Poena. How many understand this sworn obligation?\nIn this regard, under the Orwellian circumstances cited above, it is hardly shocking that a follow-on (again, at Israel National News) report was necessary in January 2008, and with no let up in sight. Ask yourselves: Is it rational, let alone acceptable, that the most fearsome army in the Middle East (indeed, the IDF is ranked Number 8 in the world!) has yet to bring Hamas (and assorted Jihadi offshoots) to its knees?\nIN light of the above truth-telling and disinfectant, and as night follows day alike, no one should be shocked that this past weekend Hamas is still \"calling the shots\", as to when to fire, and when to \"pause\" \u2013 even though, reportedly, the IDF\/IAF targeted this and that Hamas building for destruction, all of which, \"coincidentally\", were (always are) empty. Why is this?? And, once again, Hamas' terror masters are left standing to terrorize at will.\nWave upon wave of Palestinian missiles were aimed at Israeli communities from Gaza on Friday night and Saturday morning, Oct. 26-27, gaining impetus from IDF air strikes at some 87 Hamas targets. The IDF spokesman spoke of 30 Palestinian missiles during the night, although the number was more than 50, of which Iron Dome intercepted 13 that directly threatened residential areas. This Palestinian assault focused on the town of Sderot and the Shear Hanegev Council communities rather than widely-spaced targets.\nThe IDF reported Saturday that IAF fighters hit the new Hamas General Security headquarters in the Derej district of Gaza City although they admitted the building was empty at the time of the attack. In the streets of Sderot meanwhile householders and their children huddled in shelters and fortified rooms after a day of listening to howling mobs of some 16,000 Palestinians close by, trying to force their way through the Gaza fence at three points, while hurling small bombs, grenades and rocks at the soldiers. Five rioters were killed and dozens injured by IDF gunfire before they were pushed back.\nBut Palestinian missile fire continued unabated into Saturday morning. The latest IDF bulletin held Syria and the Iranian al-Qods responsible for the Palestinian barrage of Friday night and Saturday morning. This onslaught powerfully debunked the reports of an Israeli-Hamas deal, brokered by Egypt, for the Palestinian terrorists to gradually de-escalate the border outbreaks, provided Israel held back and gave Hamas time for the process.\nIt also served as a greeting card from Hamas and Islamic Jihad to Israel's next military chief of staff, whom Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman named on Friday as Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, 54. Kochavi is currently deputy chief of staff to Lt. Gen. Gady Eisenkot, after spending three years as OC Northern Command. He served in many key combat and staff capacities during his military career, although evaluations of his capabilities are mixed.\nAs commander of the Paratroop Brigade (in 2001), he led successful operations against terrorist concentrations (in 2002-2003) in major Palestinian towns for breaking the back of the Second Intifada (Palestinian uprising) that terrorized Israeli civilian centers for two years. Kochavi designed an effective counter-terror raid technique for saving Israeli troops raiding houses for suspects from being exposed to attack in the street. They were given a tool, which was named after him, for smashing through interior walls between rooms.\nAs head of AMAN (Military Intelligence), while faulted for certain missed strategic evaluations, he had the foresight to develop the unit's technological capabilities for its leap into cyber warfare.\nKochavi is still remembered as commander of the Gaza Division 13 years ago, when Israel withdrew finally from the Palestinian enclave under the late Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. On Sept. 12, 2005, Kochavi shut the door on the last evacuated Israeli community in the Gaza Strip with the pledge: \"If a single shot, or bullet is ever fired from here against Israel, the IDF's response will be crushing!\"\nDuring the subsequent 13 years, that vow stayed in the history books. Only this week, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu noted that, whereas in 2005, Hamas had only 3,000 armed men, the number has since soared to 65,000! However, in 2009, a year after he assumed the premiership, the Hamas militia numbered no more than 12,000 men.\nPolicy-making and military thinking in Israel for dealing with unending Hamas terror has remained frozen in place for 13 years. In 2005, Egypt promised to deploy troops on the strategic \"Philadelphi Corridor\" to prevent the newly-independent and demilitarized Palestinian enclave in Gaza from smuggling in weapons for rearming. That undertaking was not honored, any more than today, Cairo is capable of forcing Hamas to accept a truce.\nAs for the incoming chief of staff, Kochavi's critics evaluate his performance as OC Northern command in charge of the Syrian and Lebanese border areas as falling short of his earlier operational and innovative promise. The question now is: Will Kochavi rise above Israel's long conceptual paralysis with regard to Gaza and resort to action for stopping the increasingly unbridled Palestinian violence? This weekend, the terrorists of Gaza threw down another gauntlet for the IDF, clearly a challenge for Gen. Kochavi to see if he will finally make good on his 13-year oath of a \"crushing response\"\nALAS, no one can unmask the insane, counter-intuitive so-called \"strategic\" policies of Israel's political echelon akin to Dr. Martin Sherman; inarguably, Israel's foremost strategic policy analyst. As such, listen raptly, for school's in session.\nTRENCHANTLY, a rational leadership \u2013 let alone, one which obsessively touts an abiding adherence to democratic principles \u2013 wouldn't allow their citizens to be subjected to a continuous barrage of missiles and kites (in tandem with stepped-up terror tactics) for years on end. In the meanwhile, said abnormal leadership continues to send in fuel and assorted supplies into Hamas-run Gaza (and Iran supported), knowing full well that Jihadis appropriate the largess! Mind you, while \"Bibi\" gives the go-ahead, ostensibly, to \"relieve\" the general population from rolling electrical outages, the urgent question is: What about taking care of Israel's terrorized citizens? In other words, if Hamas was forced to operate in the dark, in tandem, bereft of fuel to run their terror workshops, wouldn't said strategy go a long way towards bringing them to their knees? Agreed?\nKNOW this; The very fact that citizens living within Israel's southern belt (after months of incendiary-packed kite\/balloon terror and years of missile\/rocket barrages) have yet to storm the Knesset, thereby, demanding an end to the onslaught, well, it attests to a form of mental besiegement. Yes, it does.\nEFFECTIVELY, once a people believe that normalcy (and safety} is never going to be a part of their lives; that a daily life of terror and more terror (despite knowing that their armed forces can bury their tormentors) is tolerated by their leaders, said mindset becomes a \"normative\" way of thinking.\nBUT most significantly, since past is prologue, it will take untold casualties for \"Bibi\" to unleash the powerful IDF \u2013 still, only long enough to \"mow the grass\", so to speak.\nAS always, their \"strategic\" calculus is not to bury Hamas \u2013 mirroring a rational leadership \u2013 but to allow them to lick their wounds, and, once again, regroup. Stronger. As to why this is the case, for starters, let's just agree that \"Bibi\" (and his so-called right-wing crew) is more scared of angering an ever hostile Euro leadership, rather, than being frightened of the wrath of the majority Zionist public \u2013 and that's the damnable, shameful truth.\nINEXORABLY and most especially, if only \"Bibi\" was a statesman (his oratorical prowess and flourishes beside the point), Hamas (and assorted Jihadi hydras) would be too scared to rear its head.\nCONCLUSIVELY, may the G-d of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob save us (myself included, as an American-Israeli living in Israel) from our derelict leaders!\n{re-blogged at TheHomelandSecurityNetwork} click \"Archives\" to read, dated Oct. 29, 2018\nThis entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged 'No Crime Without Punishment', defensive war with Hamas in 2014, Dr Martin Sherman, school's in session, The Bitter Fruits of 'Disengagement', Wave upon wave of Palestinian missiles, wildly derelict leadership by Adina Kutnicki. Bookmark the permalink.\n4 thoughts on \"Hamas' Unremitting Terror,Yet, \"Bibi\" Netanyahu Lies Impotent-Once Again. What's Going On? Commentary By Adina Kutnicki\"\nPingback: Hamas' Unremitting Terror,Yet, \"Bibi\" Netanyahu Lies Impotent-Once Again. What's Going On? Commentary By Adina Kutnicki | Boudica2015\nPingback: PM Netanyahu's Appeasement of Hamas = Increased Terror Attacks = Dead\/Maimed Jews. Why Won't He Change Course? Commentary By Adina Kutnicki | Adina Kutnicki\nPingback: Israeli PM Netanyahu's Appeasement of Hamas = Increased Terror Attacks = Dead\/Maimed Jews. Why Won't He Change Course? Commentary By Adina Kutnicki \u2013 \ud83d\udea8 Conservative, Right Wing News\nPingback: Israel's \"Second-Class\" Jewish Citizens, The Southern Front \u2013 Rocketed, Fire-Bombed, & Blitzed For Decades, With No Relief In Sight. What's Going On? Commentary By Adina Kutnicki | Adina Kutnicki","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hello Batavia\nBatavia Ohio\nUlysses S. Grant was born in Batavia and was only a few hours' drive from where he was born, according to the National Park Service. The route features a number of historic sites, including the US House of Representatives and the Sit - in a related abolition movement - as well as a museum.\nAlso within Batavia is East Fork State Park, which has 85 km of hiking trails, 1,000 hectares of parkland and a number of historic sites.\nVisitors can spend a whole weekend browsing the museum's extensive collection of more than 100,000 artifacts and artefacts. Other museums nearby include the National Museum of Natural History, Ohio State Museum and Ohio State Library.\nIf you want to satisfy your food delivery in Batavia, go to Domino's, call them for pizza delivery, carryout or delivery to Batavia. Chicken wings have not been on the menu since 2011, but you can enjoy a variety of other options such as chicken wings, chicken nachos, burgers and more. Enjoy a day at the Great American Ballpark, dine at one of the many restaurants in the Banks or attend a concert in Fountain Square. Next time you dream of a cheese platter - covered slices of handmade pizza all day - it's time for a quick trip to the local pizza shop to buy a good old-fashioned pizza.\nDomino's has worked hard to provide the food you want and love, and you can place your order right here in Batavia with a simple call at 1 - 888 - 743 - 5555.\nPrepare your sauce of choice and suffocate it, throw it in your hands and try one of the many toppings available at Domino's, such as chicken wings, pizza, pasta or pizza rolls.\nDownload the PDF version of the Batavia, OH map so you can easily reach it when you travel over the Internet. You can also use the search box to find other places you want to search. Use the satellite view or save this PDF to receive a free printable \"Batavia\" plan.\nGeorge Ely bought the first survey from Captain Francis Minnis and took over the leadership, perhaps naming the church \"Batavia\" after New York City. George Ely acquired the rights to land in Batavia, Ohio, and other parts of Clermont County after his first interrogation. According to the agency, court employees in Clerkenwell County began accepting passport applications as a public service in 1995. The Secretary of State has identified various categories of persons entitled to accept passports under the authority of this President and the United States, as well as the State of Ohio and all other state and local government agencies under his jurisdiction. Passport applications should be paid or paid in whole or in part to the U.S. Department of State or the office of the district official in accordance with Section 2 (a) (3) (B) of Title 18, United State Code, Section 1.\nBatavia was surveyed on May 28, 1788 and received the inhabitants, with Virginia and Ezekiel Dimmitt moving to the city in 1797. In 1807, George Ely bought Minnis' home and had a town named after Batavia, New York, designated. The first survey of Clermont County in Clerkenwell County, Ohio and other parts of the county was conducted in 1788.\nThe race of the village was 94% black, 50% white, 10% African American and 5% Indian. In the 18th century, the race of villages in the Clerkenwell County, Ohio census was 94-50, with the majority of African Americans and Native Americans of color.\nMedian income per household in the village was $40,804 and median income per family was $50,238. 34.4% had children under 18, 52.2% were married couples living together, 30.3% were non-resident and 13.8% had a housekeeper without a husband. The poverty line is the poverty line for all households in Clerkenwell County, Ohio, including those with incomes of less than $25,000 a year for a family of four and $20,500 for families of five or more.\nBatavia has a population of just over 1,600, which corresponds to a population of just under 3,000 people per square mile (1.5 square kilometres). At Census # 6, 2010, a total of 2,743 people (2.1% of the total population) lived in the village.\nAt the 2010 census, there were 713 residential units in Batavia, which corresponds to a population of almost 3,000 people per square mile (1.5 square kilometers). At the census 7 in 2011, there were 696 residential units in the village, with a total of 2,743 inhabitants (2.1% of the total population).\nStarting at the Newtown Road Trailhead in Turpin Hills, the first 70 miles north will take you to Batavia, a small town of just over 1,000 people. From there, it goes up the north-west side of the village and from there to the south and east, north, through the city and into the hills and mountains of New Brunswick County, Ohio.\nwww.HelloCincinnati.com\nwww.HelloErlanger.com\nwww.HelloHamilton.com\nwww.HelloMiddletown.com\nwww.HelloSpringboro.com\nwww.HelloGreendale.com\n\u00a9 2022 Hello Batavia - All Rights Reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Keeping The University of New Mexico-Taos campus safe during the COVID-19 crisis is paramount. Information, guidelines, and recommendations are ever-changing.\nThe following changes are being enacted for the purpose of supporting our students, staff, and faculty, while at the same time allowing us to do our part to exercise an abundance of caution and contribute to social distancing (when possible).\nReduced Hours of Operation\nTo support social distancing and to minimize the spread of the virus, UNM-Taos will be open with reduced hours and limited operations. Effective today (Monday, March 16), and until further notice, campus will be open Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Campus will not physically be open on Fridays, but operations will continue remotely.\nOn March 13, UNM President Garnett Stokes announced an extended student spring break until Sunday, April 5. On Saturday, March 14, Provost James Holloway's subsequent email clarified that UNM will have no in-person\/face-to-face classes until Monday, April 6, however, online classes for the remainder of the spring semester and second 8-week courses will begin on Monday, March 23, as originally scheduled.\nFor the time being, in alignment with UNM guidelines, the NM Department of Health, Center for Disease Control, and World Health Organization, campus events are cancelled through the end of April.\nThe health of our students, staff, and faculty are of the upmost importance and any future\/revised prevention plans will be designed to minimize disruption to classes. We believe that the limited campus hours will contribute to the social distancing objective, provide balance between effective operations, keep our campus open, and help \"flatten the curve.\"\nUNM-Taos\nMarch 16, 2020 Statement PDF\nMarch 19, 2020 Statement\nMarch 16, 2020 | Uncategorized |\nCentinel Bank and UNM-Taos Launch Internship and Scholarship Program\nLibrary Newsletter for March","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"DugSawThatMovie\nSci Fi, Fantasy, Superheroes. Movie & Television reviews and discussions , Movie\/TV news.\nMovie and TV News\nGlass \u2013 PG-13 \u2013 2019 Drama\/Fantasy \u2013 2h 9m Movie Review\nDoug Montgomery II\tMovie review, Movie Reviews\t January 21, 2019 January 21, 2019 2 Minutes\nby Douglas Montgomery II\nIn 2016, M. Night Shyamalan gave us Split, a mystery\/thriller starring James McAvoy as a man with 23 different personalities. It was excitingly suspenseful, McAvoy gave a noteworthy split personality performance, and it was a nice return to form for Shyamalan. Then, adding some connectivity flavor, surprisingly links the narrative to Shyamalan's 2000 Unbreakable. For those who saw Split, it was a nice shock, generating eager anticipation, and setting up the inevitable sequel, that is the just released Glass, starring James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, and Samuel Jackson.\nNow Unbreakable would be categorized as a mystery drama, and Split a thriller mystery, but Glass, turns out is fantasy drama, and felt a little out of place amongst the previous two movies that preceded it, and I'll explain why later. I was really looking forward to seeing where Glass took the story from Split's ending, but where with Split I was intrigued, and at times on the edge of my seat at what McAvoy's character, Kevin Wendell, was going to do next, with Glass there's no more underlying mystery to him, we already know about that \"one\" personality. And the buildup to Kevin and David Dunn's (Bruce Willis) confrontation happened too quick, and proved ultimately unsatisfying. Linking Split to Unbreakable now just feels like a clever attempt to link a story, in order to spark fan excitement and generate some box office love.\nGlass, tied to Unbreakable, reminded me why I had some issues with the later. It was kind of boring. The tone of Glass, like Unbreakable, set to a grainy, grey, after it's been raining atmosphere, but lacking the mysteriousness and intensity of Split, just didn't keep me engaged. The abduction plot line in Split, a little akin to Silence of the Lambs, helped propel that story forward, but that's, unfortunately absent in Glass. Instead we have a psychiatrist(with a hidden agenda) trying to convince all of the main characters that their powers are really just curable manifestations of the mind. And the film's reveal towards the end, lending to an overarching, fantasy-like sub-plot, just didn't work. Out of the three, Split is by far the better movie. I still believe Shyamalan's got skills, but he should've let Split end as a standalone movie, without the Unbreakable lineage.\nThe return of Samuel Jackson and Bruce Willis is definitely the highlight of this movie, but the charm of their return didn't last very long, and it didn't save the movie either. I had high expectations for Glass, but couldn't get past some of the above mentioned flaws. I thought and hoped, that like Split, Glass would be Shyamalan's return to recreating the success of his earlier work, but it's not. It's an effort to break that glass wall of disappointment, but for this movie goer, the glass is cracked, but not yet broken. Glass is now playing in theaters! Go check it out!\nPublished by Doug Montgomery II\nI have been collecting comic books for over 40 years. I have been a fan of science fiction\/fantasy, etc., which includes everything from Star Wars, Star Trek, Godzilla, Marvel\/DC\/Image comics, cartoons, anime, and much more.\tView all posts by Doug Montgomery II\nPrevious Post Spider-Man: Far from Home Trailer 01\/15\/2019\nNext Post The Journey requires both faith and action.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"I'm with the band: On cusp of 95, Bert Cooper still rockin'\nBy Jon Pompia The Pueblo Chieftain\nAs a young boy growing up in Oklahoma, Bert Cooper found great joy in his humble acoustic guitar.\nUntil he traded it for a pig.\nIn the hardscrabble times of the Great Depression, Cooper realized his family needed food more than he wanted that guitar.\nAlthough he lost the six-string, Cooper has carried a deep love of music throughout his life: a passion he eagerly passed on to his twin sons Jim and John.\nNow, a few months shy of 95, Bert Cooper has come full circle, adding \"rock star\" to a musical resume that already includes \"inspiration,\" \"biggest supporter,\" \"promoter,\" sound advisor\" and \"roadie\/tech.\"\nAs part of his sons' act The CooperSonics, the lanky and spry Cooper is a hoot and a highlight, regularly joining the duo for such numbers as Mac Davis' \"It's Hard to Be Humble\" \u2014 which has evolved into his signature song \u2014 and staples such as \"Ring of Fire,\" \"King of the Road\" and \"Blueberry Hill.\"\nAll of which are embellished with theatrical moves and the occasional life lesson story.\n\"Our dad has always been our biggest supporter,\" said Jim Cooper. \"So about six years ago, we convinced him to come up and do a song with us, and that's how it got started.\"\nWith a microphone in his hand, Bert Cooper is no stick in the mud. He routinely wanders through his audience, stopping to serenade all his female fans along the way.\n\"He gets more attention from women than us,\" joked John Cooper, who like his brother plays guitar and sings. \"And that's because he isn't shy about personally singing to them: which leads to them wanting to dance with him.\n\"Really, people are just amazed he's still doing it as a performer.\"\nAnd just as everybody seems to have a favorite Beatle, so it is with the CooperSonics.\n\"As for the most popular, I'd have to say me,\" Bert Cooper said, illustrating his trademark sense of humor. \"You know, it's hard to be humble when you're a 94-year-old rock star.\"\nBorn in Celestine, OK to school teacher parents, Cooper spent time in the cotton fields, singing to himself as he picked. His interest in playing music was spurred by family gatherings around the radio, where the Grand 'Ol Opry captivated the fledgling performer.\n\"Our grandparents also had an old piano, and he used to tinker with it,\" Jim Cooper noted.\nAfter scraping up enough funds, Cooper purchased a no-frills record player from Montgomery Ward, which served to advance his love of melodies and instrumentation.\n\"Some of the performers that he enjoyed listening to were Roy Acuff, Hank Snow, Minnie Pearl, Tex Ritter, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Bing Crosby, Bobby Vinton and Nat King Cole,\" John Cooper said.\nAfter graduating high school, Cooper worked for a time as a welder in the shipyards before enlisting in the Navy. He served from 1943-46, mainly in the Pacific.\nIt was through a Navy friend that Cooper learned about Pueblo and, charmed with the Southern Colorado city, made it his permanent home after World War II.\nAfter short stints at Baker's Shoe Store and a local dairy, Cooper eventually settled into a near 40-year career at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation.\n\"Though he had a full-time job and family to raise, Dad still enjoyed playing music,\" Jim Cooper said. \"He used to sing in a barbershop quartet, as well as the church choir. Eventually, he bought a Stella Spanish guitar at a pawn shop and when we were very young, he would play that guitar and sing to us after dinner.\"\nIntrigued by the noises coming out of that wooden treasure, the twins were allowed to clumsily strum the guitar, which is still around today.\n\"No need to trade that one for a pig,\" Jim Cooper said with a laugh.\nAfter giving them a few basic lessons, Cooper pledged to buy his sons an electric guitar from Gibson's Discount Center.\n\"Actually, he put it on layaway, with the condition it would become ours if we got good grades,\" John Cooper explained.\nAs it turned out, the brothers' musical future was nearly derailed not by poor marks but misplaced fruit.\n\"During the layaway period, we and some friends 'accidentally' got into a plum fight inside the house,\" Jim Cooper admitted. \"He threatened to not buy the guitar unless we did a thorough job of cleaning up the plum-stained walls, floor and furniture.\n\"Needless to say, we wanted that guitar so badly that we cleaned the whole house from top to bottom, spic and span, in short order.\"\nAnd a promising musical career was salvaged.\nAlthough Cooper's musical aspirations gave way to the responsibilities of a family man, he reveled in his sons' ascent up the industry ladder, which started in a basement rehearsal area and progressed to local small gigs.\n\"While in college, when we decided to take our music to a more professional level in California, Dad wholeheartedly supported us morally and financially, buying us brand new guitars and our first PA system,\" John Cooper said. \"But he also cautioned us about the possible pitfalls and rigors of becoming professional entertainers.\"\nAs it turned out, Bert Cooper's foresight was as keen as his musical chops.\nAs his sons slugged it out on the ultra-competitive Los Angeles-area club circuit, Cooper never hesitated to send a check for rent \"and other starving artist expenses,\" in Jim Cooper's words. \"He also would make a couple trips a year to L.A. to support us: listening to us practice, attending live performances and offering moral and emotional support.\"\nWhen their West Coast show business dreams didn't quite materialize, the Cooper brothers returned to Pueblo and developed a popular act based around covers of classic pop and rock numbers.\nIt took some convincing, but eventually, the patriarch of this musical family made his debut at a farmers market on the Riverwalk.\n\"And the rest is history,\" the brothers said in unison.\nA legacy whose highlights include a homecoming assembly at South High School, the Cooper brothers' alma mater, where a rendition of \"Ring of Fire\" before a crowd of 1,000-plus was rewarded with a standing ovation.\nNo wonder Bert Cooper is finding it hard to be humble.\njpompia@chieftain.com\nTwitter: @jpompia","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"My Mother-in-Law's Birthplace\nThis is not a new topic, but I have not seen a definitive answer.\nMy mother-in-law was born in what was, at the time, the city of Czernowitz, province of Bukovina, Austro-Hungarian Empire. After WWI, it became Chernauti, Romania and after WWII it became Chernivsti, Ukraine, which it remains today.\nIn her profile, and those of her family members, I have put Chernivsti, Ukraine as her birthplace. I have tried to explain the history of the city in the biographical text. My reasoning has been that using the current city and country makes it easy to locate on a map search. I can also understand the logic for using the city name that was in use at the time of her birth. That is, after all, the name that she remebered and that was on her birth certificate.\nI am perfectly willing to go either way, but I would like to know if there is an official policy one way or the other.\nWikiTree profile: Pearl Brass\nasked Feb 25, 2015 in Policy and Style by Henry Chadwick G2G6 Mach 4 (48.1k points)\nCan you put then and now?\nCzernowits now called Chernivsti?\ncommented Feb 26, 2015 by Betty Fox G2G6 Pilot (153k points)\nIt seems that reasearch databases, e.g. Jewishgen.org, use the modern name for searches, so I guess I will stick with that and explain the historical name in the biographical text.\ncommented Feb 28, 2015 by Henry Chadwick G2G6 Mach 4 (48.1k points)\nThe policy is here\nhttp:\/\/www.wikitree.com\/wiki\/Location_Fields\nWe should be using the names they would have used, in the language they would have used.\nanswered Mar 1, 2015 by Maureen Rosenfeld G2G6 Pilot (181k points)\nselected Mar 1, 2015 by Anne B\nThank you for identifying the Wikitree policy. As a good soldier, I will modify my profiles to follow this policy. The question remains, however, that research sites seem to follow a different policy and that the old names will not show up on Google maps.\nIn the language in use at the time (German) the city would be called Czernowitz, \u00d6sterreichisch-Ungarische Monarchie.\ncommented Mar 1, 2015 by Henry Chadwick G2G6 Mach 4 (48.1k points)\nedited Mar 1, 2015 by Henry Chadwick\nI cut and pasted Czernowicz, etc from your answer above into my mother-in-law's father's profile. Google maps is pointing to Chernivitsi University. So it works. Now I think I will double check if this is the right in-law who came from there.\ncommented Mar 1, 2015 by Maureen Rosenfeld G2G6 Pilot (181k points)\nEU copyright laws\nasked Jun 19, 2018 in Policy and Style by Jerry Dolman G2G6 Pilot (166k points)\nResearching my mother-in-law's side of the family. Would like to start a Tetreault, Tatro, Tetrault one name study.\nasked Jan 29, 2019 in Requests for Project Volunteers by Catherine Olmstead G2G2 (2.6k points)\ntetreault\none_nam\nCan you help me find out more about my mother-in-law's family (Robidoux-235)?\nasked Jun 23, 2018 in Genealogy Help by Julie Tremblay G2G2 (2.2k points)\nrobidoux\nRemember I Created My Mother-In Laws Cox Family Profiles?\nasked Feb 1, 2018 in The Tree House by Taylor Worthington Gilchrist G2G6 Mach 8 (83.8k points)\nMy Mother-in Laws DNA was UP Loaded to Wiki!!!\nasked Sep 3, 2017 in The Tree House by Taylor Worthington Gilchrist G2G6 Mach 8 (83.8k points)\nmother in law's brother married son in law's sister\nasked Dec 20, 2015 in Genealogy Help by Dee Horn G2G Crew (960 points)\nwanting to know mother in laws family tree\nasked Jan 29, 2015 in Genealogy Help by anonymous\nmy mother in laws dad was lawerance frances gleason, he left when she was 3. washington state\nasked Jun 4, 2014 in Genealogy Help by anonymous\nMary Jane Phillips, sister of \"Bad Frank Phillips is my mother-in-laws g-grandmothe. ARE THERE ANY LIVING RELATIVES?\nasked Sep 2, 2012 in Genealogy Help by anonymous\nthornsbury","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"EUMM Observes Two Minutes Silence for the Victims of the Brussels Atrocity\nAt 15:00 hours on Wednesday 23rd March, Deputy Head of Mission (DHoM) Erik Hoeeg led EUMM staff members in Mission headquarters in Tbilisi in a two-minute observation of silence to express our condolences with the victims of the bombings in Brussels Airport and Maelbeek Metro Station. Staff members in the Field Offices also...\nInternational Women's Day: EUMM Interview with NGO \"For a Better Future\"\nFor the upcoming International Women's Day tomorrow, Field Office Mtshketa (FOM) has made a 'women's profile' interview with Ms. Nana Chkareuli - Executive Director for the NGO \"For Better Future\". The NGO works to empower women and youth and is active in Tserovani IDP Settlement. FOM has over the years visited to NGO on a regular basis, not least when we conduct VIP patrols to the Settlement. Read more...\nEUMM Georgia Head of Mission K\u0119stutis Jankauskas addresses the Subcommittee on Security and Defence in the European Parliament\nOn 17 February, EUMM Georgia Head of Mission, K\u0119stutis Jankauskas, addressed the Subcommittee on Security and Defence in the European Parliament on the subject of \"EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia: state of play and future perspectives.\"\nThe EUMM's Work in Georgia - Article by Head of Mission in Politorbis magazine\nThe EUMM (European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia) is an unarmed civilian monitoring mission. The Mission was deployed following the EU-mediated Six Point Agreement, which ended the 2008 August war and represents the EU's commitment to security in Georgia. The Mission monitors and provides information on the security situation with a special focus on the situation along...\nEUMM Field Office Mtshketa (FOM) celebrates its 14,000th patrol!\nOn 3 February, Field Office Mtskheta conducted its 14,000th patrol since FOM commenced operations in autumn 2008. Patrol no. 14,000 went to the Administrative Boundary Line (ABL) and observed the general security situation and the freedom of movement in the area - an important task that Field Office Mtskheta has been doing for many years now, and...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Azeem Rafiq: English Cricket is 'Institutionally' Racist says Former...\nAll Nine Squads Confirmed as Crucial Women's World Cup...\n17th November 2021 Comments Off on CWI and USA Cricket To Host ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2024 Views: 545 News\nCWI and USA Cricket To Host ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2024\nWest Indies and USA partnership is a vision for growth of the game\nST JOHN'S, Antigua \u2013 Cricket West Indies (CWI) and USA Cricket have confirmed their partnership to host the International Cricket Council's (ICC) Men's T20 World Cup 2024. The world governing body announced the joint bid was successful on Tuesday.\nThe strategic partnership and vision of CWI and USA Cricket for the 2024 T20 World Cup is geared towards growing the game in the Americas by re-energising the sport with a new generation of fans in the West Indies and unlocking cricket's potential in the USA.\nThe partnership and bid planning, which started close to two years ago, aims to deliver ground-breaking fan and matchday experiences that combine Caribbean carnival with the best of American \"sportainment\" and breaking new ground on digital innovation and integration. The longer term goal is to accelerate cricket's growth as the world's Number 2 sport driving towards mainstream status in the United States and enhancing cricket's prospect of inclusion in the Olympic Games, to be hosted in Los Angeles in 2028.\nThis will be the fourth occasion that the West Indies will be hosting a global ICC cricket event, and the first time for the United States. The 2024 ICC T20 World Cup will be the ninth edition and the first to feature 20 teams, competing in four groups. The third edition was hosted in the Caribbean in 2010.\nRicky Skerritt, CWI President and ICC Board member, said:\n\"CWI welcomes this announcement by the ICC. It means simply that the Caribbean has been handed another opportunity, in 2024, to host a premier world cricket event. And this time it will be in partnership with our neighbours to the north, USA Cricket, led by my colleague Paraag Marathe. We know that our strategic partnership has helped ICC to accept our bid, and we must soon get to work to make this exciting ICC decision a truly successful one for all concerned.\"\nPlease see details on the ICC announcement HERE\n-CWI","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Homepage \/ Community \/ Choosing Your First Thru-Hike\nChoosing Your First Thru-Hike\nHeather Anderson is a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, three-time Triple Crown thru-hiker, and professional speaker whose mission is to inspire others to \"Dream Big, Be Courageous.\" She is also the author of two hiking memoirs Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home and Mud, Rocks, Blazes: Letting Go on the Appalachian Trail and a preparatory guide to long-distance hiking Adventure Ready. Find her on Instagram @_WordsFromTheWild_ or her website wordsfromthewild.net\nMore From Heather Anderson\nBy: Heather Anderson\nWhen I set out on my first thru-hike in 2003, I picked the trail because it was the only one I knew about. I might have chosen something else if I'd had the access to the wide array of knowledge now at our fingertips on the internet! However, there's also the possibility I would have still chosen the Appalachian Trail for a variety of reasons. Ultimately, choosing your first thru-hike is a personal decision and rests on a lot of individual preferences. There are those who will tell you \"X should not be your first thru-hike.\" And, while there are definitely options that are objectively more difficult than others, your personal experience will dictate the answer for you.\nA classic example is the 800-mile-long Arizona Trail. The AZT is frequently chosen and recommended as a first thru-hike because of its length. However, I would say that for someone with no desert experience, it's a very challenging choice! If you're used to trekking through the woods of the East, the AT might actually be a better first thru-hike because it's more similar to what you're used to.\nIn addition to length, which\u2014although not the most important factor\u2014should definitely be considered, other factors that should be used to choose your first thru-hike are: complexity of logistics, terrain and climate, navigational challenges, physical difficulty, and popularity. Your individual combination of skills and references in these areas will help you select the trail that's right for you.\nComplexity of Logistics: For any thru-hike you will need to acquire food and other supplies along the way. Exceptions to this would be if you choose a very short (100 mile or less) route that you can complete carrying everything you need from the start. Popular choices that fall into this uber-short category are the Wonderland Trail, Bartram Trail, and Uinta Highline Trail. How frequently you reach towns or businesses that can hold packages for you or sell food\/supplies greatly impacts the logistical difficulty of a route, as well as your pack weight. Trails with infrequent resupply points can mean a very heavy pack, which is often a less than optimal choice for most first thru-hikes. Other logistics that should be considered are how you get to the start and end. Some trails have very remote finishes that require expensive shuttles, or additional hiking out (Continental Divide Trail, Great Divide Trail, Pinhoti Trail). Some, like the Pacific Crest Trail northbound require an application to cross into another country or, in lieu of that, a 30-mile hike back to the nearest road.\nTerrain and Climate: As mentioned in the AZT example above, the type of terrain and climate you'll be hiking through can play a big role in what is harder or easier for you on your first trip. The more similar the terrain and climate are to what you're already used to hiking in, the easier that trail will be for you. Adapting to very different climates can be a humongous challenge for many people. Those used to arid weather will struggle and have less skills to treat the issues that come along with hiking in extreme humidity and vice versa.\nNavigational Challenges: Some of the most popular long-distance trails in the United States right now are not trails at all. Routes such as the Hayduke Trail, Sierra High Route, Wind River High Route, and Grand Enchantment Trail are not true trails at all, but rather proposed trails or routes through unmarked terrain. Other trails such as the CDT and North Country Trail are true trails, but are infrequently marked and often have multiple route options. Others, like the AT with its iconic white blazes, are marked frequently and very easy to navigate even without a lot of backcountry experience. Your personal comfort with navigation and the availability of solid navigational information (such as GPS based apps for the specific trail) should be one of the biggest selection factors in choosing your first long-distance hike.\nPhysical Difficulty: Some trails are more physically demanding than other. Sometimes this correlates to length, but it often has to do with other aspects of terrain such as steepness, elevation change, altitude, and tread. For instance, the Pacific Crest Trail is 2600 miles long, however it's many climbs and descents are graded for pack animals and horses meaning the overall gradient is quite mellow. Compared to the more physically demanding AT, which is graded only for bipeds and packs more elevation change than the PCT into 400 less miles. Trails such as the Colorado Trail and John Muir Trail traverse landscapes well above 9,000 feet for almost their entire lengths. For hikers coming from sea level, this could make them incredibly difficult, while those living at altitude may not find them to be as challenging. The type of trail tread can also make a difference, the Long Trail is incredibly rocky and steep. In some areas you must use hands as well as feet to \"walk\" the trail. Whereas a route like the Florida Trail that is pancake flat might give you shin splints, but isn't as \"hard\" physically. Your conditioning and comfort will dictate what types of physical challenge are better suited to you.\nPopularity is becoming a deciding factor for many people. Some new thru-hikers want to know that they will be in the midst of other people doing what they are doing. Some will want solitude. Understanding the number of trail users you're likely to encounter should play into your selection. Bear in mind that by hiking a trail in a non-traditional way (a flip-flop, or southbound) or at a less popular time (although take into consideration how that impacts other issues such as climate and logistics) even popular trails like the AT and PCT can be much more solitary.\nIn the end, thru-hiking is always hard. The trail that captures your imagination the most is the one you are most likely to see through because you have a strong emotional desire to hike it. When it comes to something as all-encompassing as a thru-hike, the mental and physical components are equally important to success. In my upcoming book, Adventure Ready, co-author Katie Gerber and I go into depth on how to prepare yourself on every level for the challenges of long-distance hiking. Pre-order your copy here.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Why \"Proof of Doping\" Is a Strawman Argument\nWhen we think about doping in sports, people tend to fall in 1-of-3 buckets\nthe 10% who believe sport is now clean and that dopers account for as little as 1% of elite athletes;\nthe 10% who believe sport is every bit as dirty today as it has ever been; that the sophistication of drug programs remains a couple steps ahead of the corrupt AD powers that be; and\nthe 80% in the middle who are either ignorant on the topic or are ambivalent -- they just don't care\nEveryone has an opinion and everyone has a right to his or her opinion. But, for those who take the stance of defending sport as clean and who contend that athletes must be considered clean unless there is absolute proof to the contrary, the argument breaks down fairly quickly and definitively. Yes, they demand incontrovertible proof of cheating to declare any given athlete in any given sport a cheater. This is a strawman stance at best and, at the least, defies logic.\nThey shout,\n\"Trust in the science!\"\n\"Trust in the AD process because it's the best we've got!\"\n\"Trust in the athletes because they are nice people!\"; and to those who disbelieve in what they see\n\"Go back into your cave you trolls because all you do is spout innuendo of guilt! You have zero proof!\"\nIf those who disbelieve what they're seeing try to turn that around by saying, \"Show us proof that we should believe in these top-level athletes,\" they are met with:\npersonal verbal attacks\nemphatic statements about burden of proof being on the accusers, not on the teams and athletes\nAll of this only diminishes the stance of those who say we need to believe. The internet and the ability to share so much information today has vaulted us into an era where the accessibility to that information has tilted the discussion firmly in the favor of those who choose to take off the rose-tinted glasses and apply heavy skepticism to the feats of strength, speed, power and endurance we all witness:\nIn track & field, the women's 3,000 steeplechase WR was recently obliterated by 8 seconds -- more than 50 meters. The previous record holder was then officially investigated for EPO use. This WR performance was also a 15-second PR -- so, an improvement of 100 meters;\nMo Farah's transformation is not suspect because of how late in his career it occurred, though this is certainly questionable. Nor, is it head scratching because of how fast his times became. The BIG reason his performances became and still are highly suspect is because of his finishing speed. He's running a sub-13:00 5k with a finishing lap of 51-52 seconds. And crossing the line looking fresh as a daisy. This is absolutely ludicrous;\nIn swimming, the cases of a single athlete winning a handful or more of world championship races, and when the cumulative fatigue should be bringing that swimmer to their knees yet they somehow beat all single race swimmers who are much fresher. And we're to believe training more, wanting it more and cupping for recovery are the reasons;\nIn a team sport like cycling, we are asked to believe in team leaders for the Grand Tours as clean, whether their career progression is inconceivable or, to a degree, at least not plausible:\nbut whether you've won the atomic jockstrap race; or\nused to win a multi-minute race on the velodrome; or\neven have won a flat one-day semi-Classic\nNone of this equates or even correlates to Grand Tour podium pedigree. To think any of it does is an insult not only to intelligence but also to those riders who showed stage race promise and pedigree from the beginning of their pro careers. Winning a GT is something few cyclists achieve and it is a career-long pursuit -- not something you fall into or a transformation that can occur in a few short years -- forget about several weeks;\nIn a team sport like basketball, we see athletes who look like taller, leaner versions of NFL linebackers. We compare NBA player physiques from the 80s and previously to those of the 90s and beyond, and it's like we're looking at humans vs aliens;\nSoccer, rugby, you name it -- no different.\nInsane! All of it. Insane.\nIn the case of cycling, where it becomes nonsensical is when we are supposed to believe in a rider who has won or can win one of the 3 GTs. He's clean for myriad reasons -- I know him; he's a good guy; he's outspoken against PEDs; he's never tested positive; and so on. But, in order to believe a rider is clean, you MUST also believe the following:\nin a rigorous, 3-week race, clean can win -- not just beat, but emerge victorious -- against cheating riders;\nthat the team surrounding and supporting that athlete is also entirely clean -- otherwise, how could he be the team leader if the other riders are cheating?;\nthat the team surrounding and supporting that athlete are also stronger than any of the cheaters that are certainly in the peloton;\nthat ALL the other contenders and teams are likewise clean; and\nthat only those not talented enough to be World Tour riders and winners cheat, in order to make up for their physiological inadequacies\nThere are more points to support this, I'm sure. But, if you question any of these points, then your sycophancy around clean riding caves in immediately.\nWe are also fed so much deflection, and I'm both disappointed and dismayed by how easy the general public and the apologists lap it up. We see narcissistic videos of LeBron doing deadlifts during the NBA playoffs and hear about how dedicated he is and how he works so much harder than anyone else. While no one can dispute his talent, it would be ridiculous to believe he's not hoped up on some PED cocktail. Look here, not there.\nThe examples are endless and can be discussed about any sport on the planet.\nAnd don't get me started on the grey area horseshit. Talking about the grey area is the apologist way to excuse cheating. Cheating is about intent. There is no grey area with motive.\nLastly, as I've said many times, patterns are proof. We know unequivocally what a doping athlete looks like because there have been enough of the elites who have been popped -- not by AD organizations but rather by whistleblowers, so there's that endemic failure to the AD system to remember as well -- that we can fairly easily size-up other athletes and do a side-by-side comparison -- athlete in question vs known doper. If they look eerily similar, then, sorry, the athlete in question is a doper.\nBecause remember ... elite sport is rife with doping. And, make no mistake, dopers are not lazy athletes. If anything, they work harder because the PED cocktail they are on allows for faster recovery between sessions as well as the ability to work harder during those sessions. A clean athlete simply cannot compete with that -- unless you believe any given sport is entirely clean. That the history of cheating and doping and match fixing has been completely eradicated.\nBut, we are told to take heart. That AD is working. Sacrificial lambs are led to the slaughter and offered up as examples of the AD system working. What is curious is that nearly every single one of them is a second- or third-tier athlete. When is the last time that you read about a top-level elite being caught by an AD organization rather than a whistleblower or investigation? Even the more recent and bizarre cases with Russian athletes and Kenyan runners are in now way glowing examples of the AD system working. So, the myth of \"only those not good enough are the ones who cheat\" gets perpetuated -- because the narrative that elites are clean HAS to be protected.\nOtherwise, the entire world of sport gets exposed for the complete and utter sham it is.\nLook here, not there.\n\u200bCoach Nate","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A culture blog.\nMarch 22, 2018 ~ Max Freeman-Mills\nRuben \u00d6stlund's new satire, The Square, is an epic shot across the bows of the art world, savaging pretension and selfishness. It is almost certainly overlong and over-ambitious, but contains moments of sparkling wit and toe-curling discomfort, and some truly memorable imagery.\nClaes Bang, whom only Scandi fans will likely recognise, is the achingly cool Christian, curator of Stockholm's X-Royal modern art museum. He is a perfectly pitched send-up of the elite intelligentsia by whom modern art, or at least its roster of gatekeepers and financiers, have become dominated. Interviewed by the tenacious Anne (Elisabeth Moss), he struggles to justify the existence of art and the relevance of curatorship in a manner familiar to all who have been asked a question they are fundamentally ill-prepared to answer.\nWhen Christian's wallet and phone are artfully stolen on his way into work, his sense of indignation overwhelms his admiration for the con, and he sets upon a course of bizarre revenge. Meanwhile he is trying to market and open a new exhibition, 'The Square', which shines a light on the unequal and ungenerous society that has developed around it.\nIf Christian represents the out-of-touch world of the gatekeeper and Anne the feckless and distracted 'critic', Dominic West's flamboyant Julian, pyjama-wearing and laid-back, completes the triumvirate as the artist. They are each pathetic, but \u00d6stlund retains a basic empathy for his characters, offering tangible reasons for their behaviour. As Christian's life unravels, Bang exploits his likeability to keep viewers onside, and the Danish actor's performance is terrific throughout, confronting absurdity with an exasperated, steadfast sigh.\nThe Square plays out like an extended sketch show tied together by developing plotlines. We get recurring scenes in which characters act out silly debates and slapstick routines. From the ridiculous posturing of young, 'tech native' PRs, to fumbling attempts to distribute flyers as quickly as humanly possible, these setups are reliably amusing and occasionally jaw-dropping. Christian's attitude to the disposal of a condom is a gangbuster revelation, a brutal reminder of his shortcomings, all the more fabulous for the fact that it's basically understandable in the circumstances.\nPerhaps the centrepiece of the film is an extended sequence in which Terry Notary plays Oleg, a performance artist who flawlessly imitates an aggressively territorial ape. Intended as an amusing distraction during a grey-haired fund-raising dinner, his performance quickly crushes the fourth wall, and becomes a terrifying ordeal. As a study of spectatorship and what it takes to make someone intervene, and as a pitch-black comic circumstance, it is impeccably executed.\n\u00d6stlund's use of sound is notable for its fondness for cacophony, as characters are ludicrously drowned out, pumped up and dispirited by music, clamour and mechanical noise. Yet, unfortunately, the final sequences of the film are drawn out in the manner of a 1970s fadeout, instead of ending on a more deliberate note. 151 minutes is a serious runtime, and The Square simply could have ended 20 minutes before it did. These last scenes drive their points home, but do so without the abandon and humour that preceded them, and \u00d6stlund's satirical focus is fuzzier when applied to wider society instead of the art world specifically.\nHis razorblade sharpness is hugely impressive at points, however, and outstrips his previous film, Force Majeure. With the English-language cinema world now potentially ready for him and a Palme D'Or under his belt, it is an exciting time for this Swedish provocateur.\nPosted in Film\tFilmFilm ReviewFilmsMovieMovie reviewMoviesReviewThe Square\n< Previous Annihilation\nNext > Tomb Raider\nThe Last of Us Part II \u2014 2020's Game of the Year","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"High-resolution structural characterization of Noxa, an intrinsically disordered protein, by microsecond molecular dynamics simulations\nL. Michel Espinoza-Fonseca, Ameeta Kelekar\nChemical and Structural Biology (TMED)\nLaboratory Medicine and Pathology\nHigh-resolution characterization of the structure and dynamics of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) remains a challenging task. Consequently, a detailed understanding of the structural and functional features of IDPs remains limited, as very few full-length disordered proteins have been structurally characterized. We have performed microsecond-long molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of Noxa, the smallest member of the large Bcl-2 family of apoptosis regulating proteins, to characterize in atomic-level detail the structural features of a disordered protein. A 2.5 \u03bcs MD simulation starting from an unfolded state of the protein revealed the formation of a central antiparallel \u03b2-sheet structure flanked by two disordered segments at the N- and C-terminal ends. This topology is in reasonable agreement with protein disorder predictions and available experimental data. We show that this fold plays an essential role in the intracellular function and regulation of Noxa. We demonstrate that unbiased MD simulations in combination with a modern force field reveal structural and functional features of disordered proteins at atomic-level resolution.\nMolecular BioSystems\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1039\/c5mb00170f\n10.1039\/c5mb00170f\nFingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'High-resolution structural characterization of Noxa, an intrinsically disordered protein, by microsecond molecular dynamics simulations'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.\nNoxae Medicine & Life Sciences\nIntrinsically Disordered Proteins Medicine & Life Sciences\nMolecular Dynamics Simulation Medicine & Life Sciences\nProtein Unfolding Medicine & Life Sciences\nApoptosis Medicine & Life Sciences\nEspinoza-Fonseca, L. M., & Kelekar, A. (2015). High-resolution structural characterization of Noxa, an intrinsically disordered protein, by microsecond molecular dynamics simulations. Molecular BioSystems, 11(7), 1850-1856. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1039\/c5mb00170f\nHigh-resolution structural characterization of Noxa, an intrinsically disordered protein, by microsecond molecular dynamics simulations. \/ Espinoza-Fonseca, L. Michel; Kelekar, Ameeta.\nIn: Molecular BioSystems, Vol. 11, No. 7, 01.07.2015, p. 1850-1856.\nEspinoza-Fonseca, LM & Kelekar, A 2015, 'High-resolution structural characterization of Noxa, an intrinsically disordered protein, by microsecond molecular dynamics simulations', Molecular BioSystems, vol. 11, no. 7, pp. 1850-1856. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1039\/c5mb00170f\nEspinoza-Fonseca LM, Kelekar A. High-resolution structural characterization of Noxa, an intrinsically disordered protein, by microsecond molecular dynamics simulations. Molecular BioSystems. 2015 Jul 1;11(7):1850-1856. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1039\/c5mb00170f\nEspinoza-Fonseca, L. Michel ; Kelekar, Ameeta. \/ High-resolution structural characterization of Noxa, an intrinsically disordered protein, by microsecond molecular dynamics simulations. 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{"text":"Endeavour Reports Record FY-2021 Results\nProduction of 1.54Moz at AISC of $885\/oz l Operating cash flow of $1.2 billion l FY-2021 total shareholder return of $278m\nOPERATIONAL AND FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS\nQ4-2021 production of 398koz, up 4% over Q3-2021, while AISC increased by $11\/oz to $915\/oz\nRecord FY-2021 production of 1,536koz, a 69% increase over FY-2020, while AISC remained stable at $885\/oz\nNinth consecutive year of achieving or beating annual production and AISC guidance\nAdjusted Net Earnings of $145m or $0.58\/sh in Q4-2021; FY-2021 up $254m over FY-2020 to $577m (up 79% to $2.40\/sh)\nNet loss attributable to shareholders of $103m or $0.41\/sh in Q4-2021; which includes the impairment of $259m; FY-2021 Net Earnings of $221m or $0.92\/sh, up $0.22\/sh compared to FY-2020\nOperating Cash Flow of $356m or $1.43\/sh in Q4-2021; FY-2021 up $464m over FY-2020 to $1,175m (up 65% to $4.89\/sh)\nHealthy balance sheet at year-end with Net Cash position of $76m achieved, after absorbing circa $330m of Teranga net debt and paying strong shareholder returns during the year\nSHAREHOLDER RETURNS PROGRAMME\nFY-2021 dividend of $140m, representing $15m more than the minimum committed dividend of $125m for the year; FY-2022 minimum committed dividend set at $150m with strong potential for supplemental shareholder returns\nShare buybacks continue to supplement shareholder returns with a total of $138m worth of shares repurchased in FY-2021, $44m of which were repurchased in Q4-2021\nSabodala-Massawa Phase 1 expansion complete; robust organic growth pipeline with DFS underway for Sabodala-Massawa Phase 2, Lafigu\u00e9 and Kalana projects\nGroup M&I resources (excluding the divested Karma mine) increased by 1.0Moz year-on-year to 27.5Moz while P&P reserves remained flat at 17.8Moz as new discoveries are in the process of being converted to reserves\nGroup on track to discover 15-20Moz of Indicated resources over 2021-2025 period\nEndeavour Mining plc (LSE:EDV) (TSX:EDV) (OTCQX:EDVMF) is pleased to announce its operating and financial results for FY-2021, with highlights provided in Table 1 below.\nTable 1: Consolidated Highlights\nAll amounts in US$ million, unless otherwise stated THREE MONTHS ENDED YEAR ENDED\n31 December 2021 30 September 2021 31 December 2020 31 December 2021 31 December 2020 \u0394 FY-2021 vs. FY-2020\nOPERATING DATA FROM ALL OPERATIONS\nGold Production, koz 398 382 344 1,536 908 +69%\nAll-in Sustaining Cost1, $\/oz 915 904 803 885 873 +1%\nRealised Gold Price, $\/oz 1,787 1,763 1,841 1,773 1,760 +1%\nCASH FLOW FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS2\nOperating Cash Flow before Changes in WC 316 327 289 1,167 629 +86%\nOperating Cash Flow before Changes in WC1, $\/sh 1.27 1.31 1.77 4.86 4.59 +6%\nOperating Cash Flow 356 312 375 1,175 711 +65%\nOperating Cash Flow1, $\/sh 1.43 1.25 2.30 4.89 5.18 (6)%\nPROFITABILITY FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS2\nNet (Loss)\/Earnings Attributable to Shareholders (103) 117 65 221 96 +130%\nNet (Loss)\/Earnings per Share, $\/sh (0.41) 0.47 0.40 0.92 0.70 +31%\nAdjusted Net Earnings Attributable to Shareholders1 145 152 154 577 323 +79%\nAdjusted Net Earnings per Share1, $\/sh 0.58 0.61 0.95 2.40 2.36 +2%\nEBITDA1 123 344 227 1,139 530 +115%\nAdjusted EBITDA1 371 381 329 1,506 771 +95%\nSHAREHOLDER RETURNS\nShareholder dividends paid \u2014 70 \u2014 130 \u2014 n.a.\nShare buyback (commenced in Q2-2021) 44 35 \u2014 138 \u2014 n.a.\nFINANCIAL POSITION HIGHLIGHTS\n(Net Cash), Net Debt1 (76) 70 (75) (76) (75) +1%\nNet Debt \/ Adjusted EBITDA (LTM) ratio1 (0.05) 0.05 (0.09) (0.05) (0.09) (44)%\n1This is a non-GAAP measure. Refer to the non-GAAP measure section of the Management Report. 2From Continuing Operations excludes the Agbaou mine which was divested on 1 March 2021.\nSebastien de Montessus, President and CEO, commented: \"2021 was a very successful year for Endeavour during which we delivered against all our objectives. Our focus was on executing our capital allocation priorities to fully deliver our shareholder returns programme, while supporting our operations, continuing to strengthen our balance sheet and investing in exploration.\nOperationally, after the rapid and successful integration of the Teranga and SEMAFO assets, we were able to achieve a record year with production in excess of 1.5Moz, ensuring we have now met or exceeded guidance for the ninth consecutive year.\nOur strong operating performance generated $1.2 billion in operating cash flow which has allowed us to deliver robust shareholder returns while improving our net cash position. Since commencing our shareholder returns programme, marked by the first dividend payment in early 2021, we have already returned $338 million by way of dividends and buybacks. On the balance sheet front, we have re-established a strong net cash position after absorbing circa $330 million of net debt following the Teranga acquisition.\nWe are also pleased to have recently completed the sale of our non-core Karma mine which will allow us to focus management efforts on our high margin, long-life and low cost core assets.\nWe have entered 2022 with considerable momentum and we expect to deliver another strong year for the Group. We will remain focussed on prudent balance sheet management, cash flow generation and shareholder returns while we continue to drive long-term value for shareholders through our key growth projects and our focus on exploration.\"\nUPCOMING CATALYSTS\nThe key upcoming expected catalysts are summarised in the table below.\nTable 2: Key Upcoming Catalysts\nTIMING CATALYST\nQ1-2022 Sabodala-Massawa Completion of Definitive Feasibility Study for Phase 2\nQ2-2022 Sabodala-Massawa Launch of Phase 2 construction\nQ2-2022 Lafigue deposit \u2013 Fetekro property Completion of Definitive Feasibility Study\nQ3-2022 Shareholder returns Payment of H1-2022 dividend\nQ3-2022 Mana Wona Underground first stope production\n2021 FULL YEAR PERFORMANCE AND 2022 GUIDANCE\nFY-2021 production from all operations amounted to 1,536koz, beating the top end of the guided 1,365-1,495koz range, due to out-performance at the Hound\u00e9, Ity, Sabodala-Massawa and Mana mines. FY-2021 all-in sustaining costs (\"AISC\") amounted to $885\/oz, achieving the guided $850-900\/oz range in spite of inflationary pressures. Further details are provided in the below \"Operations Review\" section.\nTable 3: FY-2021 Performance vs. FY-2021 Guidance1\nFY-2021 2021 FULL YEAR GUIDANCE\nProduction, koz 1,536 1,365 \u2014 1,495\nAISC, $\/oz 885 850 \u2014 900\n1Production and AISC from all operations includes Agbaou until 1 march 2021 and the Teranga assets from 10 February 2021\nFollowing the divestment of the non-core Karma mine that was announced on 11 March 2022, Endeavour has updated its production and AISC guidance for its continuing operations to account for the removal of Karma's guided production, with guidance for the other operations remaining unchanged. As a result, the Group's updated 2022 guidance for continuing operations amounts to 1,315-1,400koz at an AISC of $880-930\/oz.\nTable 4: Group Production and AISC FY-2022 Guidance\nPREVIOUS FY-2022 GUIDANCE UPDATED FY-2022 GUIDANCE1 VARIANCE\nGold Production, koz 1,400 \u2014 1,500 1,315 \u2014 1,400 (85) \u2014 (100)\nAll-in Sustaining Cost2, $\/oz 890 \u2014 940 880 \u2014 930 (10) \u2014 (10)\n1Updated FY-2022 guidance excludes production from the Karma mine, which was divested on 10 March 2022.\nIn FY-2021, Endeavour implemented a shareholder returns programme that is composed of a minimum progressive dividend of $125.0 million, $150.0 million and $175.0 million for FY-2021, FY-2022, and FY-2023 respectively, that may be supplemented with additional dividends and buybacks, provided that the prevailing gold price remains above $1,500\/oz and that Endeavour's leverage remains below 0.5x Net Debt \/ adjusted EBITDA.\nEndeavour's FY-2021 declared dividends amounted to $140.0 million or $0.56 per share, which represents $15.0 million more than the minimum dividend commitment, reiterating Endeavour's strong focus on paying supplemental shareholder returns.\nShareholder returns are being supplemented through the Company's share buyback programme. A total of $137.9 million, or 6.0 million shares have been repurchased from the start of the buyback programme on 9 April 2021 until year-end 2021, of which 1.9 million shares were repurchased in Q4-2021 for $43.9 million.\nAs shown in the table below, since the launch of the Company's shareholder returns programme in early 2021, a cumulative $338.0 million has been delivered to shareholders in the form of dividends and share buybacks.\nTable 5: Cumulative Shareholder Returns Delivered\nTOTAL SHAREHOLDER RETURNS, $m\nFY-2020 dividend (paid in Q1-2021) 60\nH1-2021 dividend (paid in Q3-2021) 70\nTOTAL DIVIDENDS 200\nShare buyback (bought in FY-2021) 138\nTOTAL SHAREHOLDER RETURNS 338\nEndeavour has received approval from the Toronto Stock Exchange to renew its Normal Course Issuer Bid for its share repurchase programme, in order to continue to supplement its minimum progressive dividend and maximize value for its shareholders. Under the NCIB, Endeavour is entitled to repurchase up to 5% of its total issued and outstanding shares as of 14 March 2022, or 12,458,989 shares, during the 12 month period of the NCIB, and up to 25% of the average daily trading volume for the six months ended 28 February 2022, calculated in accordance with the rules of the TSX for purposes of the NCIB or 195,081 shares during each trading day, excluding purchases made in accordance with the block purchase exemptions under applicable TSX policies. All ordinary shares repurchased under the share repurchase programme will be cancelled.\nThe renewed NCIB will commence on 22 March 2022 and end on 21 March 2023, or such earlier date as Endeavour may complete its purchases pursuant to the notice of intention filed with the TSX.\nUnder Endeavour's prior NCIB, that commenced on 22 March 2021 and ends on 21 March 2022, Endeavour had obtained approval to purchase up to 12,172,871 ordinary shares, and purchased a total of 7,136,656 ordinary shares at a weighted average price of approximately CAD 29.32 per share.\nEndeavour's previously announced automatic share purchase agreement with Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited (\"Stifel\") will continue to allow for the purchase of ordinary shares, subject to certain trading parameters, at times when Endeavour would not be active in the market due to regulatory close periods, its own internal trading black-out periods, insider trading rules or otherwise. Outside of these periods, ordinary shares may be repurchased in accordance with management's discretion and in compliance with applicable law.\nShare purchases will be made by Stifel (or through its agent, Stifel Nicolaus Canada, Inc.) on the TSX and the London Stock Exchange, as well as through other designated exchanges and alternative trading systems in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements. The price paid for repurchased ordinary shares will be the market price of such ordinary shares at the time of acquisition or such other price as may be permitted in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements and Endeavour's existing shareholder authority to conduct share repurchases. Endeavour intends to ask shareholders to renew that authority at its 2022 AGM.\nCASH FLOW AND LIQUIDITY SUMMARY\nThe table below presents the cash flow and Net Debt position for Endeavour for the three and twelve month period ending 31 December 2021, with accompanying notes below.\nTable 6: Cash Flow and Net Cash\/(Net Debt) Position\nTHREE MONTHS ENDED YEAR ENDED\nIn US$ million unless otherwise specified 31 December 2021 30 September\n2021 31 December 2020 31 December 2021 31 December 2020\nNet cash from (used in), as per cash flow statement:\nOperating cash flows before changes in working capital from continuing operations 316 327 289 1,167 629\nChanges in working capital 40 (15) 87 8 82\nCash (used by)\/generated from discontinued operations \u2014 \u2014 (11) (9) 38\nCash generated from operating activities [1] 356 313 364 1,166 749\nCash used in investing activities [2] (132) (137) (97) (512) (160)\nCash used in financing activities [3] (71) (233) (80) (431) (71)\nEffect of exchange rate changes on cash (7) (15) 4 (32) 7\nINCREASE\/(DECREASE) IN CASH 146 (73) 191 192 525\nCash position at beginning of period 760 833 523 715 190\nCASH POSITION AT END OF PERIOD [4] 906 760 715 906 645\nCash included in assets held for sale \u2014 \u2014 \u2014 \u2014 70\nCorporate bond (500) \u2014 \u2014 (500) \u2014\nConvertible senior bond (330) (330) (330) (330) (330)\nDrawn portion of corporate loan facility [5] \u2014 (500) (310) \u2014 (310)\nNET CASH\/(NET DEBT) POSITION [6] 76 (70) 75 76 75\nNet debt\/Adjusted EBITDA (LTM) ratio1 [7] (0.05)x 0.05x (0.09)x (0.05)x (0.09)x\n1Net cash \/ debt and Adjusted EBITDA are Non-GAAP measures. Refer to the non-GAAP measure section of the Management Report.\n1) Operating cash flows increased by $43.4 million from $312.5 million (or $1.25 per share) in Q3-2021 to $355.9 million (or $1.43 per share) in Q4-2021 mainly due to an increase in working capital, a higher realised gold price and lower income taxes paid, while gold sales remained flat. Operating cash flow before working capital decreased by $10.8 million from $327.2 million (or $1.31 per share) in Q3-2021 to $316.4 million (or $1.27 per share) in Q4-2021. Operating cash flows increased by $417.2 million from $748.9 million (or $5.46 per share) in FY-2020 to $1,166.1 million (or $4.86 per share) in FY-2021 due to the addition of the acquired Wahgnion and Sabodala-Massawa mines on 10 February 2021 and the inclusion of the Boungou and Mana mines for the full year in 2021. The reduced operating cash flow per share in FY-2021 compared to FY-2020 is due to the reduction in working capital inflows and the increase in income taxes paid. Notable variances are summarised below:\nWorking capital was an inflow of $39.5 million in Q4-2021, an increase of $54.2 million over Q3-2021 mainly due to decreases in receivables, decreases in prepaid expenses and increases in trade and other payables, which was slightly offset by a reduction in inventories. Trade and other payables was an inflow of $27.4 million which mainly relates to an increase in payables at corporate, Ity, Hound\u00e9 and Mana, which was slightly offset by a decrease in payables at Karma. Receivables were an inflow of $7.8 million mainly due to a decrease in receivables at Ity related to amounts received from a local contractor, Societe de Forage et des Travaux Publics (\"SFTP\"). Prepaid expenses were an inflow of $12.4 million mainly due to a decrease in prepayments at Wahgnion, Hound\u00e9 and Boungou. Inventories were an outflow of $8.1 million for Q4-2021 due primarily to an increase in the value of long-term stockpiles at Ity.\nGold sales decreased slightly from 392koz in Q3-2021 to 390koz in Q4-2021. The realised gold price for Q4-2021 was $1,787\/oz compared to $1,763\/oz for Q3-2021 and was $1,773\/oz for FY-2021 compared to $1,761\/oz for FY-2020. Total cash cost per ounce increased from $743\/oz in Q3-2021 to $756\/oz in Q4-2021 due to lower costs at the Ity, Sabodala-Massawa and Wahgnion mines.\nIncome taxes paid decreased by $13.3 million compared to Q3-2021 to $42.1 million in Q4-2021, due to lower taxes paid at Ity as a result of less ounces sold. Taxes paid in Q4-2021 included a payment of $12.1 million related to the settlement of a tax assessment related to the Massawa project.\n2) Cash flows used by investing activities remained consistent with the prior quarter, amounting to $132.3 million in Q4-2021 as sustaining capital expenditures decreased while non-sustaining capital expenditure increased, as described below:\nSustaining capital from continuing operations decreased by $11.3 million from $54.5 million in Q3-2021 to $43.2 million in Q4-2021 due to lower sustaining capital at Hound\u00e9, Sabodala-Massawa and Boungou primarily due to less planned waste capitalisation.\nNon-sustaining capital from continuing operations increased from $44.8 million in Q3-2021 to $60.4 million in Q4-2021, due to fleet and plant optimisations at Ity, Hound\u00e9 and Sabodala-Massawa and to pre-stripping activities at Boungou.\nGrowth capital spend decreased by $0.9 million from Q3-2021 to $11.8 million in Q4-2021 and primarily relates to the Sabodala-Massawa Phase 1 expansion and ongoing Definitive Feasibility Studies (\"DFS\") studies.\n3) Cash flows used by financing activities decreased by $161.7 million to $71.2 million in Q4-2021. During Q4-2021, the Company repaid long-term debt of $500.0 million, received proceeds from the issue of Senior Notes of $494.6 million, made payments towards the Company's share buyback programme of $39.7 million and payments of financing and other fees of $19.4 million.\n4) At quarter-end, Endeavour's liquidity remained strong with $906.2 million of cash on hand and the full $500.0 million quantum undrawn under the revolving credit facility.\n5) Endeavour's corporate loan facilities were increased from $430.0 million to $800.0 million in Q1-2021 to retire Teranga's various higher cost debt facilities. In Q4-2021, Endeavour restructured its debt replacing its corporate loan facility with $500.0 million fixed rate senior notes and a $500.0 million unsecured RCF that remained undrawn at year-end. Endeavour's debt restructuring is described in the below \"Debt Refinancing\" section.\n6) Endeavour ended FY-2021 with a net cash financial position of $76.2 million. Net debt decreased by $145.8 million during Q4-2021 despite completing $39.7 million of shares buybacks. Net cash remained flat compared to the beginning of the year despite absorbing approximately $332.0 million of Net Debt from Teranga in Q1-2021.\n7) Given the net cash position, the net debt \/ Adjusted EBITDA (LTM) leverage ratio stood at (0.05)x at year-end, down from 0.05x in Q3-2021, and well below the Company's long-term target of less than 0.50x, which provides flexibility to continue to supplement its shareholder return programme while maintaining headroom to fund its organic growth. The leverage ratio remained stable year-over-year.\nDEBT REFINANCING\nOn 14 October 2021, the Company completed an offering of $500.0 million fixed rate senior notes (the \"Notes\") due in 2026 with a 5.00% annual coupon paid semi-annually. The Company also entered into a new $500.0 million unsecured revolving credit facility agreement due in 2025 with an interest rate between 2.40-3.40% plus LIBOR depending on leverage (the \"New RCF\") with a syndicate of international banks. The proceeds of the Notes, together with the Group's available cash, were used to repay all amounts outstanding under the Company's existing loan facilities and to pay fees and expenses in connection with the offering of the Notes. The New RCF replaced the bridge facility and existing revolving credit facility, which were cancelled upon completion of the Notes offering.\nThe New RCF and Notes extend the maturities of the Company's existing debt structure, while providing enhanced financial flexibility and ample liquidity headroom.\nThe table below presents the earnings and adjusted earnings for Endeavour for the three and twelve month period ending 31 December 2021, with accompanying notes below.\nTable 7: Earnings from Continuing Operations\n2021 30 September\n2021 31 December\nRevenue [8] 697 692 553 2,778 1,424\nOperating expenses [9] (250) (257) (204) (1,063) (575)\nDepreciation and depletion [9] (202) (158) (93) (649) (261)\nRoyalties [10] (45) (43) (38) (176) (99)\nEarnings from mine operations 201 235 218 891 489\nCorporate costs [11] (20) (12) (8) (63) (24)\nAcquisition and restructuring costs [12] (1) (2) (14) (29) (40)\nImpairment charge of mining interests [13] (259) \u2014 (65) (259) (65)\nShare-based compensation (7) (7) (5) (32) (19)\nExploration costs (5) (3) (1) (24) (5)\n(Loss)\/earnings from mine operations (92) 211 126 483 338\nGain\/(loss) on financial instruments [14] 16 (20) 22 23 (79)\nFinance costs (25) (15) (13) (66) (49)\nOther (expense)\/income (2) (3) (14) (16) 9\n(Loss)\/earnings before taxes (104) 172 121 424 220\nCurrent income tax expense [15] (39) (40) (51) (196) (123)\nDeferred income tax recovery [16] 34 4 3 52 37\nNet comprehensive (loss)\/earnings from continuing operations [17] (109) 136 74 279 134\nAdd-back adjustments [18] 248 36 102 367 242\nAdjusted net earnings from continuing operations [19] 139 172 175 647 376\nPortion attributable to non-controlling interests (7) 20 21 70 53\nAdjusted net earnings from continuing operations attributable to shareholders of the Company [19] 145 152 154 577 323\n(Loss)\/earnings per share from continuing operations (0.41) 0.47 0.40 0.92 0.70\nAdjusted net earnings per share from continuing operations 0.58 0.61 0.95 2.40 2.36\n8) Revenue increased by $5.5 million in Q4-2021 over Q3-2021 mainly due to the higher realised gold price for Q4-2021 of $1,787\/oz compared to $1,763\/oz for Q3-2021, which was offset slightly by lower gold sales at the Boungou, Ity and Karma mines. Revenue for FY-2021 increased by 95% compared to FY-2020 due to the acquired Wahgnion and Sabodala-Massawa mines, which contributed a total of $926.0 million to revenue and the inclusion of the Boungou and Mana mines for the full year in 2021, which contributed a total of $682.9 million to revenue for FY-2021. In addition, gold sales at the Company's three legacy mines increased by 76koz in FY-2021 compared to FY-2020, favourably impacting revenue by $135.9 million. The realised gold price also increased from $1,761 per ounce in FY-2020 to $1,773 per ounce in FY-2021 which accounted for an increase in revenue of approximately $30.0 million for the Company's three legacy continuing operations.\n9) Operating expenses decreased by $7.0 million in Q4-2021 compared to Q3-2021 due to decreased levels of production at the Boungou, Ity, Sabodala-Massawa and Karma mines. Depreciation and depletion increased by $43.7 million in Q4-2021 mainly due to additional depletion of the mining interests relating to TSFs based on the updated capacity estimates at year-end. FY-2021 operating expenses and depreciation increased mainly due to the acquired Wahgnion and Sabodala-Massawa mines and the inclusion of the Boungou and Mana mines for the full year in 2021.\n10) Royalties slightly increased to $44.9 million in Q4-2021 over Q3-2021 due to higher realised gold prices, while the underlying royalty rate stood at 5% across all assets.\n11) Corporate costs were $20.3 million for Q4-2021 compared to $12.0 million for Q3-2021. The increase in corporate costs are primarily due to costs associated with corporate integration and listing on the LSE.\n12) Acquisition and restructuring costs were $1.0 million in Q4-2021 compared to $1.8 million in Q3-2021. Costs decreased in Q4-2021 compared to the prior period due to the completion of several integration projects earlier in the year, after the completion of the acquisition of Teranga.\n13) Impairment of mining interests and goodwill was $259.4 million in Q4-2021 and FY-2021. The impairment was mainly due to the impairment of the Boungou mine of $246.3 million and $11.7 million for the Karma mine. The impairment of the Boungou mine was driven by a revised life of mine plan which reflects the increased operating costs, lower than expected production and processed grades, and a decrease in the estimated resource to reserve conversion and exploration potential surrounding the Boungou mine. The impairment of the Karma mine is based on the fair value of the total consideration to be received following disposal of the Karma mine.\n14) The gain on financial instruments was $15.6 million in Q4-2021 compared to a loss of $20.0 million in Q3-2021. The gain in Q4-2021 was mainly due to an unrealised gain on revaluation of the conversion option on the convertible notes of $8.7 million, a gain on other financial instruments of $5.8 million, gain on change in fair value of the call rights and warrant liabilities of $1.6 million and $0.8 million respectively, and a gain on the gold collar of $6.2 million and a realised gain on forward sale of $3.7 million which are both detailed below.\nThese gains were offset by foreign exchange losses of $8.1 million, a loss on the change in fair value of receivable measured at fair value through profit and loss of $2.3 million. The Company entered into a revenue protection programme for a portion of its production for 2022 and 2023 in order to protect against gold price volatility during its upcoming construction phase. The programme is structured as a low premium collar with a put price of $1,750 per ounce and a call price of $2,100 per ounce for a total of approximately 600,000 ounces. The premium for the collar of $10.0 million was paid in Q4-2021. In addition, the Company entered into a forward sales contract for approximately 540,000 ounces of production at average gold price of approximately $1,830 per ounce.\n15) Current income tax expense was $39.4 million in Q4-2021 compared to $40.4 million in Q3-2021. Current income tax expense for Q4-2021 decreased slightly compared to Q3-2021 due to lower income tax expense at Boungou associated with lower production levels and revenue generated.\n16) Deferred income tax recovery was $34.1 million In Q4-2021 compared to a recovery of $4.4 million in Q3-2021. The increase is due to the timing difference between recognising earnings and taxable earnings related to the impairments at Boungou and Karma.\n17) Net comprehensive loss of $109.4 million was recorded for Q4-2021 compared to a gain of $136.4 million in Q3-2021 due to impairments charges as described in Note 14.\n18) For Q4-2021, adjustments mainly included impairments on mineral interests of $259.4 million, a gain on financial instruments of $15.6 million, non-cash expense of inventory associated with the fair value adjustment on purchase price allocation of Teranga of $1.3 million, acquisition and restructuring costs of $1.0 million and other non-recurring expenses of $2.1 million. Full year adjustments include impairments on mineral interests of $259.4 million, non-cash expense of inventory associated with the fair value adjustment on purchase price allocation of SEMAFO and Teranga of $85.4 million, acquisition and restructuring costs of $29.5 million, gain on financial instruments of $22.9 million, net loss from discontinued operations of $3.7 million and other non-recurring expenses of $16.0 million.\n19) Adjusted net earnings attributable to shareholders for continuing operations were $145.3 million (or $0.58 per share) in Q4-2021 a decrease compared to $152.3 million (or $0.61 per share) in Q3-2021 due to increased depreciation and depletion, corporate costs and finance costs, which were slightly offset by an increase in deferred income tax recovery.\nQ4-2021 & FY-2021 OPERATIONS REVIEW\nContinued strong safety record for the Group, with a Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate of 0.20 for the trailing twelve months ending 31 December 2021.\nFY-2021 production from continuing operations amounted to a record 1,524koz, an increase of 721koz, or 90% over FY-2020 due to the addition of Sabodala-Massawa and Wahgnion in the first quarter of the year, full year production from Boungou and Mana (which were acquired in 2020), and stronger performances at Hound\u00e9 and Ity. Over the same period, AISC from continuing operations amounted to $883\/oz, an increase of $30\/oz or 4% over FY-2020 due to increases at the Group's legacy assets, which were partially offset by the addition of the low cost Sabodala-Massawa mine.\nQ4-2021 production from continuing operations amounted to 398koz, an increase of 16koz or 4% over Q3-2021, as a result of stronger performance across Hound\u00e9, Mana and Wahgnion. AISC from continuing operations increased by $11\/oz or 1% to $915\/oz in Q4-2021 due to higher costs at Boungou, Mana and Karma which were partially offset by lower costs at the flagship assets Hound\u00e9, Ity and Sabodala-Massawa as well as Wahgnion.\nTable 8: Consolidated Group Production\n(All amounts in koz, on a 100% basis) 31 December\nBoungou1 35 41 64 174 94\nHound\u00e9 77 70 101 293 277\nIty 60 61 61 272 213\nKarma 20 21 28 88 98\nMana1 54 49 61 205 121\nSabodala-Massawa2 105 106 \u2014 345 \u2014\nWahgnion2 47 34 \u2014 147 \u2014\nPRODUCTION FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS 398 382 315 1,524 803\nAgbaou3 \u2014 \u2014 28 13 105\nGROUP PRODUCTION 398 382 344 1,536 908\n1Included for the post acquisition period commencing 1 July 2020.2Included for the post acquisition period commencing 10 February 2021. 3Divested on 1 March 2021.\nTable 9: Consolidated All-In Sustaining Costs1\n(All amounts in US$\/oz) THREE MONTHS ENDED YEAR ENDED\nBoungou1 825 798 534 801 609\nHound\u00e9 874 921 612 843 837\nIty 854 915 1,055 836 807\nKarma 1,300 1,259 1,132 1,193 1,005\nMana1 1,116 1,029 803 1,026 853\nWahgnion2 1,066 1,097 \u2014 994 \u2014\nCorporate G&A 48 23 28 32 29\nAISC FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS 915 904 779 883 853\nAgbaou3 \u2014 \u2014 1,068 1,132 1,027\nGROUP AISC 915 904 803 885 873\nFY-2022 OUTLOOK\nFollowing the divestment of the non-core Karma mine that was announced on 11 March 2022, the Group's production and cost guidance for continuing operations in 2022 is expected to amount to 1,315-1,400koz at an AISC of $880-930\/oz. Production and AISC guidance is unchanged for all continuing operations, as published on 24 January 2022. More details on individual mine guidance have been provided in the below sections.\nTable 10: Production 2022 Guidance1\n(All amounts in koz, on a 100% basis) 2022 FULL-YEAR GUIDANCE\nBoungou 130 \u2014 140\nHound\u00e9 260 \u2014 275\nIty 255 \u2014 270\nMana 170 \u2014 190\nSabodala-Massawa 360 \u2014 375\nWahgnion 140 \u2014 150\nGROUP PRODUCTION FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS1 1,315 \u2014 1,400\n12022 guidance from continuing operations excludes production from the Karma mine, which was divested on 10 March 2022.\nTable 11: AISC 2022 Guidance1\n(All amounts in US$\/oz) 2022 FULL-YEAR GUIDANCE\nBoungou 900 \u2014 1,000\nMana 1,000 \u2014 1,100\nWahgnion 1,050 \u2014 1,150\nCorporate G&A 30\nGROUP AISC FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS1 880 \u2014 930\nSustaining and non-sustaining capital spend for continuing operations is expected to decrease by approximately $34.2 million in FY-2022 compared to FY-2021. Sustaining capital for 2022 is expected to amount to $169.0 million, compared to a spend of $166.4 million in FY-2021. Non-sustaining capital for FY-2022 is expected to amount to $173.0 million compared to a spend of $209.9 million in FY-2021. More details on individual mine capital expenditures have been provided in the mine sections below.\nTable 12: Sustaining and Non-Sustaining Mine Capital Expenditure 2022 Guidance1\n(All amounts in US$m) SUSTAINING CAPITAL NON-SUSTAINING CAPITAL\nBoungou 15 19\nHound\u00e9 44 18\nIty 20 29\nMana 7 40\nSabodala-Massawa 63 34\nWahgnion 20 23\nNon-mining 0 10\nMINE CAPITAL EXPENDITURES FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS 169 173\nTotal growth capital spend for FY-2022 is expected to amount to $6 million for the addition of a leach tank at Sabodala-Massawa and various study work across other assets.\nExploration will continue to be a strong focus in FY-2022 with a company-wide exploration budget of $80 million, as detailed in the table below.\nTable 13: Exploration 2022 Guidance1\n(All amounts in US$m unless stated) 2022 GUIDANCE 2022 ALLOCATION\nSabodala-Massawa mine 15 19%\nHounde mine 14 18%\nOther greenfield projects 15 19%\nIty mine 10 13%\nWahgnion mine 9 11%\nLafigue project 7 9%\nMana mine 6 8%\nBoungou mine 4 4%\nTOTAL FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS 80 100%\nNote: Approximately 50% is expected to be classified as expensed and 50% as non-sustaining capital 12022 guidance from continuing operations excludes production from the Karma mine, which was divested on 10 March 2022.\nOPERATING ACTIVITIES BY MINE\nBoungou Gold Mine, Burkina Faso\nTable 14: Boungou Performance Indicators (for the post acquisition period)\nFor The Period Ended Q4-2021 Q3-2021 Q4-2020 FY-2021 FY-2020\nTonnes ore mined, kt 301 539 335 1,437 459\nTotal tonnes mined, kt 4,294 7,126 2,240 26,439 2,534\nStrip ratio (incl. waste cap) 13.27 12.22 5.69 17.40 4.53\nTonnes milled, kt 352 349 333 1,352 641\nGrade, g\/t 3.36 3.76 6.92 4.07 5.10\nRecovery rate, % 95 95 96 95 95\nPRODUCTION, KOZ 35 41 64 174 94\nTotal cash cost\/oz 778 717 516 695 592\nAISC\/OZ 825 800 534 801 609\nQ4-2021 vs Q3-2021 Insights\nProduction decreased due to a lower mined and processed grade while throughput and recovery rate remained fairly flat.\nTotal ore tonnes mined decreased due to a focus on the planned pre-stripping activities at the East Pit in order to open up access to ore in 2022.\nTonnes milled remained at high level due to enhancements made to the SAG mill, pebble crusher and the vertical tower mill earlier in the year.\nProcessed grade decreased in line with the mining sequence as a result of mining in low grade areas of the West Pit.\nAISC increased due to lower ounces sold which was partially offset by lower sustaining capital and lower operating costs.\nSustaining capital expenditure of $1.6 million was lower than the $3.4m incurred in Q3-2021 and mainly related to the third TSF wall raise and capital spares and equipment for the processing plant. Non-sustaining capital expenditure of $9.0 million related to pre-stripping at the East pit, an increase compared to the $5.4m incurred in Q3-2021 which also related to pre-stripping at the East pit.\nFY-2021 Performance\nFY-2021 production of 174koz was slightly below the guided 180-200koz range as a result of lower processed grades. AISC of $801\/oz was in line with the outlook provided in Q3-2021, which stated that AISC is expected to continue to trend above the guided $690 \u2013 740\/oz range as a result of higher fuel prices and increased security costs. FY-2021 production was significantly above FY-2020 due to the benefit of consolidating a full year of operations and the restart of mining at Boungou in Q4-2020. AISC of $801\/oz was higher than FY-2020, as the prior year period benefitted from the processing of higher grade stockpiled ore after the re-start of mining operations.\nBoungou is expected to produce between 130\u2014140koz in FY-2022 at an AISC of between $900\u20141,000\/oz.\nMining activities in H1-2022 will focus on waste stripping and ore extraction from the East pit in addition to waste stripping in Phase 3 of the West pit. In H2-2022, stripping activities will continue in both pits, while ore will be sourced mainly from the West pit. Due to the flat dipping nature of the orebody, progressive backfilling activity will be undertaken in mined out areas of the pit which is expected to benefit mining costs and ultimately rehabilitation costs. Mill throughput is expected to remain broadly consistent with the FY-2021 performance while grades are expected to decline in line with the life of mine schedule.\nSustaining capital expenditure is expected to decrease from approximately $18.1 million in 2021 to $15.0 million in FY-2022 mainly due to the conclusion of Phase 2 waste stripping at the West pit in FY-2022.\nNon-sustaining capital expenditure is expected to decrease to approximately $19.0 million in FY-2022 compared to $22.9 million in FY-2021, with FY-2022 spend primarily relating to a significant cut back at the East pit.\nHound\u00e9 Gold Mine, Burkina Faso\nTable 15: Hound\u00e9 Performance Indicators\nTonnes ore mined, kt 777 596 2,120 4,397 5,324\nTotal tonnes mined, kt 12,297 11,966 10,741 49,917 43,495\nTonnes milled, kt 1,226 1,142 1,117 4,622 4,228\nPRODUCTION, KOZ 77 70 101 293 277\nProduction increased due to the higher recovery rates as well as the increased mill tonnage despite the lower grade milled.\nTonnes of ore mined significantly increased due to increased oxide ore mined in the Kari area, as ore mining commenced in the Kari West pit, which allowed for greater machine efficiency. In H2-2021, ore tonnes mined were significantly lower than tonnes milled as a greater focus was placed on waste extraction activities at Kari Pump, Vindaloo Main and Kari West, taking advantage of the flexibility provided by the available ore stockpiles.\nTonnes milled increased as the plant feed was made up of predominantly oxide ore from the Kari Pump and Kari West pits, supplemented by fresh materials from the Vindaloo deposit and stockpiles.\nAverage processed grades slightly decreased despite higher grades mined at Kari Pump mainly due to supplemental feed being sourced from lower grade stockpiles.\nRecovery rates increased due to the higher proportion of oxide ore processed from Kari Pump and Kari West.\nAISC decreased primarily due to lower sustaining capital expenditure as well as lower unit processing cost on account of increased oxide material milled, which lowered grinding media costs and reagent consumption. This overall decrease was partially offset by higher mining costs associated with longer hauling cycle times from the Kari Pump and Kari West pits.\nSustaining capital of $13.9 million is lower than the $21.9 million incurred in Q3-2021 and related to waste capitalisation at the Vindaloo Main and Kari Pump pits and fleet re-builds.\nNon-sustaining capital of $6.8 million is higher than the $0.6 million incurred in Q3-2021 and primarily related to the costs associated with the development of the Kari West pit and new mining fleet acquired.\nProduction for FY-2021 totalled 293koz, beating the guided 230-250koz range driven by mining efficiencies at the Kari area pits enabling access to greater volumes of high grade oxide ore. AISC amounted to approximately $843\/oz, well below the guided $865-895\/oz range due to the benefit of higher production.\nProduction increased compared to the prior year due to higher throughput as a greater proportion of oxide ore from Kari Pump was milled. This was partially offset by slightly lower grades and recoveries. AISC of $843\/oz remained broadly in line with the prior year.\nFollowing a record 2021 performance, Hound\u00e9 is expected to produce between 260\u2014275koz in 2022 at AISC of $875\u2014925\/oz.\nMining activities in FY-2022 will focus on Vindaloo Main, Kari Pump and Kari West. In H1-2022, ore will primarily be mined from Kari Pump, supplemented by Vindaloo Main, while stripping is underway at Kari West. In H2-2022, ore will be mined from Kari Pump and Kari West, once stripping has been completed. Mill throughput and recoveries are expected to decline slightly in FY-2022 due to changes in the ore blend.\nSustaining capital expenditure is expected to decrease from $49.1 million in FY-2021 to approximately $44.0 million in FY-2022, with FY-2022 expenditure relating mainly to waste extraction and fleet re-builds.\nNon-sustaining capital expenditure is expected to remain broadly consistent with the $17.1 million in FY-2021 at approximately $18.0 million in FY-2022. The FY-2022 expenditures are mainly related to waste stripping, resettlement and associated mine infrastructure in the Kari area and completion of a TSF wall raise.\nIty Gold Mine, C\u00f4te d'Ivoire\nTable 16: Ity Performance Indicators\nTonnes ore mined, kt 2,234 1,690 2,660 7,906 8,571\nTotal tonnes mined, kt 6,624 5,576 6,546 24,950 23,469\nStrip ratio (incl. waste cap) 1.97 2.30 1.46 2.16 1.74\nPRODUCTION, KOZ 60 61 61 272 213\nAISC\/OZ 854 915 1,055 836 807\nProduction remained consistent with the prior quarter as higher mill throughput was offset by lower recovery rates, while grades processed remained flat.\nTonnes of ore mined increased due to lower strip ratios at the Daapleu, Walter and Colline Sud pits as well as increased mining at the Ity, Le Plaque pits and the Heap Dump.\nTonnes milled increased due to the processing of supplemental oxide ore through the surge bin, despite the milling of a higher proportion of the high grade fresh ore from the Daapleu pit.\nRecovery rates decreased due to the lower recovery rates associated with the higher grade fresh ore from the Daapleu pit.\nAISC per ounce decreased due to a lower strip ratio, lower unit mining cost as a result of decreased drill and blast cost, and lower unit processing cost on account of increased power supply from the national grid.\nSustaining capital expenditure of $6.1 million increased compared to $5.5m incurred in Q3-2021 and related primarily to waste stripping at the Ity, Bakatouo and Walter pits as well as dewatering equipment and borehole drilling, pit slope monitoring equipment and various other capital replacements. Non-sustaining capital expenditure of $10.9 million is an increase compared to the $3.9 million in Q3-2021 and included the ongoing construction of the pre-leach and tank spargers, Le Plaque haul road and waste dump sterilisation drilling, TSF wall buttressing and TSF cell 2 sterilisation drilling.\nDuring Q2-2021, Ity transitioned from owner mining to contract mining with Societe de Forage et des Travaux Publics (\"SFTP\"), a local contractor who is already performing contract mining services at our Karma and Boungou mines. As a part of the transition, the mining fleet at Ity was sold to SFTP for a consideration of approximately $24.2 million, $14.1 million of which was received during Q4-2021 with the balance expected in early 2022.\nFY-2021 production totalled 272koz which was above the guided 230-250koz range driven by a combination of higher throughput and grade. AISC of $836\/oz was in line with the guided of $800-850\/oz range.\nProduction increased significantly compared to FY-2020 as a result of an increase in throughput due to improvements in plant operating and maintenance strategies and continued use of the surge bin providing supplemental oxide ore to the plant. AISC increased compared to FY-2020 due to less ore stockpiling and increased sustaining capital that mainly related to waste stripping at the Ity, Bakatouo, Walter and Colline Sud pits.\nIty is expected to produce between 255\u2014270koz in 2022 at an AISC of between $850\u2014900\/oz.\nOre will be mined from Le Plaque, Daapleu, Ity, Bakatouo, Walter, and Colline Sud pits and supplemented by historical ore sources including Verse Ouest stockpile and the spent Heap 2 dump. In H1-2022, mining at the current phase of Daapleu is expected to be completed, with increased contributions expected from Le Plaque and higher grade ore coming from the Walter pit in H2-2022.\nOre tonnes processed are expected to remain fairly constant throughout the year, however grades are expected to decline in H2-2022 as feed material moves away from Daapleu. The decline in grade is expected to be partially offset by increased recoveries associated with increased oxide ore sourced from Le Plaque and from the addition of the pre-leach tank. Average processed grade for the year is expected to be consistent with FY-2021.\nSustaining capital is expected to amount to $20.0 million in FY-2022 compared to $24.0 million in FY-2021. The FY-2022 sustaining capital relates mainly to capitalised waste.\nNon-sustaining capital is expected to decrease from $35.3 million in FY-2021 to approximately $29.0 million in FY-2022, with non-sustaining capital in FY-2022 relating to processing plant enhancements, land compensation, and the stage 4 TSF raise.\nMana Gold Mine, Burkina Faso\nTable 17: Mana Performance Indicators (for the post acquisition period)\nOP tonnes ore mined, kt 529 592 435 2,025 900\nOP total tonnes mined, kt 2,695 5,114 9,227 23,529 15,642\nOP strip ratio (incl. waste cap) 4.09 7.64 20.21 10.62 16.38\nUG tonnes ore mined, kt 180 199 215 838 412\nTonnes milled, kt 651 667 629 2,593 1,222\nTotal cash cost\/oz 1,070 986 741 966 787\nAISC\/OZ 1,116 1,029 803 1,026 853\nProduction increased due to higher processed grade and plant recovery rate, which was partially offset by a slight decrease in plant throughput.\nTotal open pit tonnes mined decreased due to reduced mining activity at the bottom section of Wona South Stage 2 pit which is nearing completion. This was partly offset by mining higher grade ore from the Wona South Stage 3.\nTotal underground tonnes mined decreased due to increased waste and development mining activities at the Siou underground in order to increase the mining in stopes which delivered better grades. Total underground development metres slightly increased due to the commencement of development at the Wona underground mine, where two new portals were established.\nTonnes milled decreased due to a planned plant shutdown for mill relining while the average processed grade increased due to better grades mined at Wona South Stage 3 as well as Siou underground.\nRecovery rates increased slightly due to oxide materials from the Wona South Stage 3 pit.\nAISC increased due to higher unit mining costs as a result of mining in deeper elevation of the Wona South stage 2 open pit, no more classification of open pit waste extraction as non-sustaining capital given the pit is nearing completion, and higher processing costs due to planned mill maintenance. This was partially offset by decreased sustaining capital expenditure due to less development at Siou underground.\nSustaining capital of $2.4 million, an increase compared to $2.1 million in Q3-2021, is related to underground development to create new stoping levels. Non-sustaining capital expenditure of $6.9 million, a decrease compared to $11.2 million incurred in Q3-2021, was mainly related to waste capitalisation, activities related to the preparation of the Wona underground portals and the TSF raise.\nFY-2021 production totalled 205koz, significantly beating the guided 170-190koz range due to out-performance in mining of the Wona South open pit providing high grade feed to the processing plant and higher plant availability and capacity. This was partially offset by the lower grade. The AISC amounted to circa $1,026\/oz achieving the guided $975-$1,050\/oz range.\nFY-2021 production increased by 83koz over the prior year due to the benefit of consolidating a full year of operations, strong plant performance and increased underground tonnes mined while the AISC increased by $173\/oz primarily due to higher underground mining costs due to the mining of ore at increased depth, which was partially offset by lower open pit mining costs.\nFollowing a strong out-performance in FY-2021, Mana is expected to produce between 170\u2014190koz in FY-2022 at an AISC of $1,000\u20141,100\/oz.\nMining at Wona open pit is expected to conclude at the end of H1-2022, while in H2-2022 mill feed is expected to be sourced primarily from Siou underground whilst development progresses at Wona underground where stope production is expected to commence in late FY-2022. Siou underground is largely developed and stope production is expected to be consistent throughout the year, though grade will vary depending on the stopes in production. Mining at the Maoula satellite pit, which was initially expected to commence in late H2-2022, is being considered to start earlier than planned. Mill throughout is expected to be lower in H2-2022 following the transition away from the Wona open pit. This is expected to be partially offset by supplemental feed from stockpiles and from Wona underground development in H2-2022 as well as slightly higher grades from Siou underground, while recovery rates are expected to remain strong.\nSustaining capital expenditure is expected to decrease from $12.6 million in FY-2021 to approximately $7.0 million in FY-2022, with expenditure relating mainly to plant maintenance and equipment re-builds. Non-sustaining capital expenditure is expected to be flat over FY-2021 at approximately $40.0 million in FY-2022, with expenditure relating mainly to the Wona underground development and associated infrastructure as well as Maoula infrastructure and a TSF wall raise.\nSabodala-Massawa Gold Mine, Senegal\nTable 18: Sabodala-Massawa Performance Indicators (for the post acquisition period)\nTonnes ore mined, kt 1,719 1,717 n\/a 6,603 n\/a\nTotal tonnes mined, kt 12,789 11,515 n\/a 40,933 n\/a\nStrip ratio (incl. waste cap) 6.44 5.71 n\/a 5.20 n\/a\nTonnes milled, kt 1,081 1,079 n\/a 3,777 n\/a\nGrade, g\/t 3.41 3.32 n\/a 3.19 n\/a\nRecovery rate, % 90 90 n\/a 90 n\/a\nPRODUCTION, KOZ 105 106 n\/a 345 n\/a\nTotal cash cost\/oz 458 492 n\/a 507 n\/a\nAISC\/OZ 592 655 n\/a 645 n\/a\nProduction remained flat despite the increase in processed grade as gold in circuit increased while plant throughput and plant recovery remained consistent.\nTotal tonnes mined increased slightly due to the commissioning of additional mining fleet, while total tonnes of ore mined remained stable. Ore tonnes were mainly sourced from the Sofia North and Sofia Main pits, supplemented by ore from the Sabodala pit.\nThe average processed grade increased slightly due to the contribution of higher grade ore from the Sofia Main pit.\nAISC decreased due to a decrease in sustaining capital expenditures as additional heavy mobile fleet was purchased in the prior quarter.\nSustaining capital expenditure of $14.3 million, a decrease compared to $17.5 million in Q3-2021, was related to purchases of additional dump trucks and a front end loader, planned HME fleet re-builds and waste capitalisation at the Sabadala and Sofia North pits. Non-sustaining capital expenditure of $14.1 million, an increase compared to $10.1 million in Q3-2021, mostly related to the relocation activities of the Sabodala village and infrastructure developments at Massawa.\nFY-2021 consolidated production, which comprises the period commencing on 10 February 2021, after the acquisition of Teranga, amounted to 345koz, beating the guided 310-330koz range, while AISC amounted to $645\/oz, also beating the guided $690-740\/oz range, due to the strong performance driven by higher throughput at higher grades.\nPlant Expansion\nThe Massawa deposit is being integrated into the Sabodala mine through a two-phased approach, as outlined in the 2020 pre-feasibility study (\"PFS\"). Phase 1 of the plant expansion, which was completed in Q4-2021, will facilitate processing of an increased proportion of high grade, free-milling Massawa ore through the existing Sabodala processing plant. The Phase 1 plant expansion had a total growth capital expenditure of $14.0 million, which was below the budget of $20.0 million\nPhase 2 of the expansion will add an additional processing circuit designed to process the high grade refractory ore from the Massawa deposits. The DFS is on track for completion in late Q1-2022.\nSabodala-Massawa is expected to produce between 360\u2014375koz in FY-2022 at an AISC of $675\u2014725\/oz.\nOre is expected to be sourced primarily from the Massawa Central Zone and North Zone pits in FY-2022. The Massawa Central Zone pit will be mined from the start of the year, whilst the Massawa North Zone pit is expected to commence mid-year. Mining of the Sofia North pit is expected to continue for the entire year though the mined grade is expected to be lower than the Massawa Central Zone and Massawa North Zone pits. Mining of the Sabodala pit will continue throughout the year, focussed on the pit cutback, with some supplemental low grade fresh ore expected in H1-2022. Processed grades are expected to decline compared to FY-2021, particularly in H1-2022 due to lower grade Sofia North feed, while mill throughput rates and recovery rates are expected to remain similar.\nSustaining capital expenditure is expected to increase from approximately $50.3 million in FY-2021 (only the consolidated post acquisition portion) to $63.0 million in FY-2022, related mainly to capitalised waste, fleet re-builds and continued investment in new mining equipment. Non-sustaining capital expenditure in FY-2022 is expected to remain flat at approximately $34.0 million, with FY-2022 capital expenditures related mainly to the ongoing construction of the new Sabodala village and associated relocation costs plus infrastructure and establishment works for the Massawa pits.\nGrowth capital expenditure is expected to be $3.0 million for the completion of the new leach tank at the Sabodala-Massawa plant and the overhead powerline to Massawa. Following the completion of the DFS for the Sabodala-Massawa Phase 2 expansion in late Q1-2022, further detail on the growth capital spend for the project will be provided.\nWahgnion Gold Mine, Burkina Faso\nTable 19: Wahgnion Performance Indicators (for the post acquisition period)\nTonnes ore mined, kt 1,054 917 n\/a 3,807 n\/a\nTotal tonnes mined, kt 8,965 6,154 n\/a 27,185 n\/a\nTonnes milled, kt 959 809 n\/a 3,322 n\/a\nPRODUCTION, KOZ 47 34 n\/a 147 n\/a\nAISC\/OZ 1,066 1,097 n\/a 994 n\/a\nProduction increased due to increased plant throughput and higher processed grade while the plant recovery rate remained stable.\nTotal tonnes mined increased due to increased production rates following the end of the wet season and the upgraded contractor mining fleet allowing operations to run more efficiently. Ore tonnes were mainly sourced from Nogbele North and South pits, which were primarily oxide materials that were supplemented by mostly fresh materials from the Fourkoura pits.\nTonnes milled increased due to increased mill throughput attributable to the ore feed being dryer following the end of the wet season and a higher proportion of oxide ore being processed.\nThe average processed grade increased due to higher grades sourced from Nogbele and Fourkoura pits.\nAISC decreased due to lower sustaining capital as well as lower unit mining and processing costs due to higher tonnes mined and milled, and higher ounces sold.\nSustaining capital expenditure of $4.8 million, in line with $4.1 million in Q3-2021, was related to waste capitalisation at the Nogbele North and Fourkoura pits. Non-sustaining capital expenditure of $7.2 million, in line with $7.5 million in Q3-2021, related mainly to the TSF cell 2 raise and Fourkoura resettlement costs.\nFY-2021 consolidated production, which comprises the period commencing on 10 February 2021 after the acquisition of Teranga, amounted to 147koz and achieved the mid-point of the guided 140-155koz range, while the AISC amount to $994\/oz was near the top end of the guided $940-990\/oz range.\nWahgnion is expected to produce between 140\u2014150koz in FY-2022 at an AISC of $1,050\u20141,150\/oz.\nOre is expected to be primarily sourced from the Nogbele North and Fourkoura pits, with supplemental feed coming from the Nogbele South pits in H1-2022. In H2-2022, greater volumes of ore are expected to be sourced from the Nogbele North pits while ore sourced from the Fourkoura pits is expected to remain steady throughout the year. Mill throughput rates are expected to decrease marginally in FY-2022 on account of increased fresh feed while process grades are expected to decline in line with the life of mine schedule.\nSustaining capital expenditure is expected to increase from $12.3 million in FY-2021 (consolidated post acquisition portion) to approximately $20.0 million in FY-2022, related mainly to waste extraction and equipment re-builds.\nNon-sustaining capital expenditure is expected to decrease from $27.5 million in FY-2021 (consolidated post acquisition portion) to approximately $23.0 million in FY-2022, related mainly to infrastructure required to expand site operations at Samavogo, including land compensation, housing resettlement and haul road, and TSF cell 2 wall raise.\nKarma Gold Mine, Burkina Faso\nTable 20: Karma Performance Indicators\nTonnes stacked, kt 1,246 1,264 1,327 5,157 4,871\nPRODUCTION, KOZ 20 21 28 88 98\nTotal cash cost\/oz 1,295 1,258 1,102 1,186 954\nAISC\/OZ 1,300 1,259 1,132 1,193 1,005\nKarma Sale Insights\nOn 10 March 2022, Endeavour closed the sale of its 90% interest in its non-core Karma mine in Burkina Faso to N\u00e9r\u00e9 Mining for a consideration of up to $25 million plus a 2.5% Net Smelter Return royalty, applicable on production in excess of approximately 160koz of recovered gold from 1 January 2022.\nProduction remained flat despite the improved average grade and recovery rates as the stacking rate slightly decreased and gold in circuit increased due to higher grade ore being stacked late in the quarter.\nTotal tonnes mined decreased slightly. Ore tonnes were mainly sourced from GG1 and the newly commissioned higher grade Rambo West pit.\nThe stacked grade increased slightly with the introduction of the newly commissioned higher grade ore from Rambo West Pit late in the quarter.\nGold recovery rate increased due to the benefit of ore from Rambo West Pit, which offset the GG1 ore and its associated lower recovery.\nAISC increased, mainly due to the drawdown of ore form stockpiles in Q4-2021, longer haul distances from the Rambo pit and higher sustaining capital related to capital spares purchases for the stacker system.\nSustaining capital expenditure was negligible during Q4-2021 and Q3-2021. Non-sustaining capital expenditure was $1.7 million, an increase compared to $0.2 million incurred in Q3-2021, which was related to construction of new heap leach cells.\nFY-2021 production of 88koz was at the top end of the guided 80-90koz range, AISC of $1,193\/oz was below the lower end of the guided $1,220-1,300\/oz range due to lower than guided sustaining capital on account of lower waste cost capitalised and higher production.\nProduction decreased in FY-2021 due to lower grades and recoveries from the higher proportion of transitional GG1 material stacked compared to the higher grade and associated recovery of the Kao North ore mined and stacked in FY-2020. AISC increased compared to FY-2020 due to the lower recoveries associated with GG1 ore and slightly higher unit mining and processing costs associated with the transitional ore from the GG1 pits.\nEXPLORATION ACTIVITIES\nIn 2021, more than 455,000 meters were drilled across the Group, of which 37,000 meters were drilled in Q4-2021. Total exploration spend of $90.1 million was incurred for 2021, of which $8.9 million was spent during Q4-2021.\nTable 21: Consolidated FY-2021 Exploration Expenditures and 2022 guidance1\n(All amounts in US$m) FY-2021\nACTUAL FY-2022 GUIDANCE\nSabodala-Massawa mine 12.5 15.0\nHound\u00e9 mine 13.9 14.0\nIty mine 11.0 10.0\nWahgnion mine 8.5 9.0\nLafigu\u00e9 project 10.0 7.0\nMana mine 9.1 6.0\nBoungou mine 5.4 4.0\nKarma mine 0.0 0.0\nGreenfield and development projects 19.7 15.0\nTOTAL 90.1 80.0\nNote: Amounts may differ from Management Report due to rounding 1Consolidated exploration expenditures include expensed, sustaining, and non-sustaining exploration expenditures.\nBoungou mine\nAn exploration programme of $7.0 million was planned for FY-2021, of which $5.4 million was spent consisting of 25,700 meters of drilling across 280 drillholes. Exploration efforts were focused on delineating near mine targets including Natougou Northwest, Boungou Northwest and Boungou North.\nAt Natougou Northwest, drilling delineated a zone of higher-grade mineralisation trending north to northwest that remains open towards the Boungou North and Boungou Northwest targets. In FY-2022, drilling will focus on evaluating the targets along this trend.\nAt Boungou North and Northwest, drilling demonstrated promising initial results, identifying the continuation of the Boungou shear zone, down plunge.\nAn exploration programme of $4.0 million is planned for FY-2022 with drilling focused on expanding the footprints and defining resources at Natougou Northwest, Boungou North, and Boungou Northwest. In addition, reconnaissance drilling to the north of Boungou will follow up on geochemical and geophysical anomalies at the Osaanpalo and Tawori targets.\nHound\u00e9 mine\nAn exploration programme of $7.0 million was initially planned for FY-2021, however given the exploration success during the year, $13.9 million was spent, consisting of 75,300 meters across 668 drillholes. The exploration efforts were focused on Mambo (14km to the north-east of the processing plant), Vindaloo South, Vindaloo Deeps and the Kari area; including Kari Centre, Kari Gap and Kari South.\nDuring FY-2021, exploration efforts delineated a maiden Indicated resource for Mambo, increased resources at the Kari Center-Gap-South area, and identified an initial maiden resource at the Vindaloo South target. Scout drilling beneath the southern end of the Vindaloo main pit identified a southward plunging higher grade zone which will be further investigated in FY-2022.\nAn exploration programme of $14.0 million is planned for FY-2022, with drilling focused on delineating resources at Sianikoui, investigating mineralised trends around the Dohoun deposit, extending the Vindaloo South mineralisation to the south along the Koho trend and investigating continuations of the Mambo resource towards the north-east. In addition, reconnaissance drilling will focus on several targets to the north-west of the Hound\u00e9 mine including Tioro, Grand Espoir, Baraki and Hondjo.\nIty mine\nAn exploration programme of $9.0 million was initially planned for FY-2021, however given the success of the programme, $11.0 million was spent during the year consisting of 72,800 meters across 557 drillholes.\nIn FY-2021, exploration efforts delineated resources at the junction between Walter and Bakatouo pits, the West Flotouo deposit, and at the extension of the Le Plaque deposit. In addition, early stage drilling at the adjacent Yopleu-Legaleu target successfully intercepted mineralization.\nAn exploration programme of $10.0 million is planned for FY-2022, with drilling focused on increasing the size of resources at Yopleu-Legaleu, West Flotouo, Walter-Bakatouo, Verse Est, Colline Sud and evaluating the continuity of Daapleu Deep mineralisation. In addition, early stage drilling at the Delta Extension, Goleu and Gbampleu targets is planned.\nKarma mine\nDuring FY-2021, limited exploration work continued as part of the advanced grade control drilling programme, targeting near mine extensions to be added into the current mine plan. The focus was on the Kao North area, Rambo, GG1, Anomaly B and Kanongo.\nMana mine\nAn exploration programme of $8.0 million was planned for FY-2021 of which $9.1 million was spent, consisting of 59,600 meters across 459 drillholes.\nIn FY-2021, at Maoula the focus was placed on delineating Indicated resources and on identifying extensions. At Siou South and Nyafe, work focused on testing continuations of mineralised structures and revising geological models as part of the target generation work.\nAn exploration programme of $6.0 million is planned for FY-2022, with drilling focused on increasing resources at Maoula, Nyafe and Fofina, as well as early stage exploration at several targets along the Greenville-Wona-Kona shear zone and the Boni shear zone, including Siou NW, Tounou, Kokoi Sud, Bombouela and Doumakele. In addition, early stage exploration work will look to delineate the under explored refractory resources in the Mana area.\nSabodala-Massawa mine\nAn exploration programme of $13.0 million was planned for FY-2021, of which $12.5 million was spent comprised of 100,000 meters across 929 drillholes.\nDuring FY-2021, exploration efforts have successfully delineated resources at Massawa Central Zone and Massawa North Zone, Sofia, Tina and Samina significantly extending the strike lengths of the existing mineralisation at all of these deposit.\nAn exploration programme of $15.0 million is planned for FY-2022, focused expanding on the Sofia North, Delya, Samina and Tina deposits. Further exploration work will focus on other Massawa permit targets including Bambaraya, Tiwana, Kawasara and Makana. Reconnaissance drilling is planned on the Niakafiri Extensions and Goumbati Kobokoto targets on the Sabodala permit as well.\nWahgnion mine\nAn exploration programme of $12.0 million was planned for FY-2021, of which $8.5 million was spent consisting of over 46,000 meters across 363 drillholes.\nThe exploration efforts in FY-2021 continued to focus on the Nogbele North and Nogbele South deposits, targeting the continuation of mineralised structures beneath and between the pits. Delineation drilling at Fourkoura, as well as reconnaissance drilling at Bassongoro, Salenka, Dagano, Muddi and Muddi Junction targets commenced in FY-2021.\nAn exploration programme of $9.0 million is planned for FY-2021, focused on expanding the resources at Nogbele North, Nogbele South and Fourkoura as well as delineating resources at Kassera and Ouahiri South. Reconnaissance drilling at Bozogo, Stinger and Samavogo will follow up on several high priority soil anomalies and promising reconnaissance drill intercepts.\nLafigu\u00e9 project\nDuring FY-2021, the Lafigu\u00e9 project at the Fetekro property was the largest greenfield exploration focus with $10.0 million spent. In total, 58,100 meters of drilling were completed during the year. During FY-2021, exploration drilling was mainly focussed in the area located between the Lafigu\u00e9 Center and Lafigu\u00e9 North deposits. The results of this drilling programme successfully demonstrated the overall continuity of the mineralised system, identifying shallow, subparallel, stacked mineralised lenses that were previously located outside of the 2020 resources pit shell. In addition, the exploration programme focused on converting some of the remaining Inferred resources into Indicated resources at the Lafigu\u00e9 North deposit.\nAn exploration programme of $7.0 million is planned for FY-2022. The Lafigu\u00e9 deposit remains the priority at Fetekro, while the longer-term focus is on delineating several identified targets in the central and west areas of the Fetekro property, where very little exploration drilling has been completed to date. In FY-2021, approximately 4,920 meters of reconnaissance drilling was conducted on Targets 1, 2, 9 and 11 with further exploration on these and other targets to be pursued in FY-2022.\nKalana project\nDuring FY-2021, metallurgical testwork was undertaken with samples from Kalana and Kalanako submitted for testing and the permit for the village resettlement received.\nThe ESIA is being finalised and DFS flow sheets are being updated to incorporate the results of the recent metallurgical testwork. The DFS is expected to be published in H2-2022.\nGreenfield exploration projects\nAt the Woulo Woulo target on the Afema property, Endeavour completed the initial exploration programme started by Teranga, drilling 8,347 meters since the acquisition of Teranga was completed in February 2021. Further work in FY-2022 will be focused on investigating the mineralised trend at Woulo Woulo Main.\nAt Bantou, exploration work focussed on mapping and relogging of existing core and drill chips to refine the geologic models at the Bantou and Bantou North deposits. In FY-2022 drilling will focus on resource conversion drilling and delineating the high grade mineralisation at Bantou.\nAt Siguiri, an enhanced drilling program will commence in FY-2022, focusing on promising targets which were selected based on termite mound geochemistry and IP survey results conducted in H1-2021.\nGROUP RESERVES AND RESOURCES\nProven and Probable reserves (excluding the divested Karma mine) amounted to 17.8Moz at year-end 2021, flat compared to the previous year as the addition of new reserves at Ity, Boungou and Lafigu\u00e9 offset depletion, while the new discoveries made at Hound\u00e9 and Sabodala-Massawa are in the process of being converted into reserves.\nMeasured and Indicated resources (excluding the divested Karma mine) amounted to 27.5Moz at year-end 2021, up 1.0Moz over the previous year, due to discoveries made at Ity, Hound\u00e9, Sabodala-Massawa and Lafigu\u00e9, as announced on 17 January 2022, which were offset by mining depletion and model updates.\nTable 22: Reserve and Resource Evolution (excluding the divested Karma mine)1\nIn Moz on a 100% basis Dec. 31, 20212 Dec. 31, 20203 \u0394 2021 vs 2020\nP&P Reserves 17.8 17.9 (0.1) (1)%\nM&I Resources (inclusive of Reserves) 27.5 26.5 +1.0 +4%\nInferred Resources 8.6 7.9 +0.7 +9%\n1Excludes Reserves and Resources from the Karma mine, which was divested on 10 March 2022. 2Notes available in Appendix A for the 2021 Mineral Reserves and Resources. 3For 2020 Reserves and Resource notes, please read the press release dated March 18, 2021 available on the Company's website.\nMine reserve and resource estimates were updated to factor in mine depletion, exploration success, and updated unit costs, recovery rate, geological and geotechnical assumptions, while maintaining conservative gold price assumptions, as summarized in the below table.\nTable 23: Reserve and Resource Gold Prices for Mines\nAu price $\/oz BOUNGOU HOUND\u00c9 ITY MANA SABODALA-MASSAWA WAHGNION\n2021 Reserves 1,300 1,300 1,300 UG at 1,300\nOP at 1,300 1,300 1,300\n2020 Reserves 1,300 1,300 1,300 UG at 1,300 OP at 1,500 UG at 1,200 OP at 1,300 1,300\n2021 Resources 1,500 1,500 1,8001 1,500 UG at 1,500\n2020 Resources 1,500 1,500 1,8001 1,500 UG at 1,500 OP at 1,700 1,500 1,500\n1Resources at the Golden Hill deposit were calculated at $1,800\/oz\nDetailed year-over-year reserve and resource variances are available in Appendix A, with further insights below:\nFor Boungou, P&P reserves increased from 8.6Mt at 3.65 g\/t containing 1.00Moz to 9.9Mt at 3.51 g\/t containing 1.11Moz mainly due to model optimisations and the addition of near mine reserves, which was partially offset by mine depletion. M&I resources decreased from 14.4Mt at 3.32g\/t containing 1.54Moz to 11.1Mt at 3.85 g\/t containing 1.38Moz due to mine depletion and remodelling the resource pit shell based on updated costs.\nFor Hound\u00e9, P&P reserves decreased from 46.3Mt at 1.74 g\/t containing 2.58Moz to 47.0Mt at 1.66 g\/t containing 2.51Moz mainly due to mining depletion, which was partially offset by the inclusion of additional reserves at Vindaloo North, Kari Centre and Kari Gap. M&I resources increased from 82.0Mt at 1.74 g\/t containing 4.58Moz to 103.9Mt at 1.55 g\/t containing 5.17Moz mainly due to the addition of maiden resources at Mambo and Vindaloo South and increased resources at Kari Centre, Kari Gap and Kari South.\nFor Ity, P&P reserves increased from 53.9Mt at 1.58 g\/t containing 2.75Moz to 63.0Mt at 1.47 g\/t containing 2.98Moz due to the addition of reserves from the recently discovered resources at West Flotouo, Walter-Bakatouo and Le Plaque as well as model optimisation and reblocking to 5 by 5 by 5 meter blocks to align with the current mining method. Reserve additions were partially offset by mine depletion. M&I resources increased from 77.1Mt at 1.52 g\/t containing 3.76Moz to 89.5Mt at 1.56 g\/t containing 4.48Moz due to the addition of the recently discovered resources detailed in the resource update news release from 17 January 2022.\nFor Mana, P&P reserves decreased from 14.2Mt at 3.10 g\/t containing 1.42Moz to 11.5Mt at 3.14 g\/t containing 1.16Moz, mainly due to mine depletion as well as updates to the underground mine model. M&I resources decreased from 45.2Mt at 2.07 g\/t containing 3.01Moz to 37.6Mt at 1.89 g\/t containing 2.29Moz due to mining depletion, a pit re-optimisation at the Wona open pit and Wona underground model updates.\nFor Sabodala-Massawa P&P reserves decreased from 77.4Mt at 1.93 g\/t containing 4.80Moz to 66.4Mt at 2.08 g\/t containing 4.44Moz due to depletion and an increase in cut-off grade at the Sabodala deposits due to updated mining costs. The decrease was partially offset by model optimisation at Massawa Central Zone, Massawa North Zone and Delya, while new discoveries are in the process of being converted to reserves. M&I resources increased from 102.1Mt at 2.02 g\/t containing 6.64Moz to 110.1Mt at 1.94 g\/t containing 6.88Moz due to the addition of the recently discovered resources at Massawa Central Zone, Massawa North Zone, Sofia, Tina, Samina and Delya detailed in the resource update news release from 17 January 2022.\nFor Wahgnion, P&P reserves decreased from 26.4Mt at 1.61 g\/t containing 1.37Moz to 21.6Mt at 1.52 g\/t containing 1.06Moz due to depletion and updated reserve dilution estimates. Similarly, M&I resources decreased from 44.2Mt at 1.51g\/t containing 2.15Moz to 40.7Mt at 1.48 g\/t containing 1.94Moz due to mining depletion.\nClinton Bennett, Endeavour's VP Metallurgy and Process Improvement \u2013 a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, is a \"Qualified Person\" as defined by National Instrument 43-101 \u2013 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects (\"NI 43-101\") and has reviewed and approved the technical information in this news release.\nABOUT ENDEAVOUR MINING CORPORATION\nEndeavour Mining is one of the world's senior gold producers and the largest in West Africa, with operating assets across Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso and a strong portfolio of advanced development projects and exploration assets in the highly prospective Birimian Greenstone Belt across West Africa.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"refueling....\nSelf Check In\nKid Party\nGrown Up Events\nRookie Karting Academy\nIndoor-Karting\nLaserTag\nAll You Can Play Laser Tag\nPrivate Event Check-In\nWhen They are ready for the next step...\nJUNIOR RACERS ON THE F1\nON SATURDAY MORNINGS, JR MEMBER DRIVERS ARE ABLE TO RACE ON THE FORMULA 1 TRACK. SPOTS ARE ABLE TO BE RESERVED BY PARENTS WHO ARE MEMEBERS OR WALK INS ARE ALLOWED.\nSATURDAY MORNINGS;\nKIDS CAN RACE ON THE F1 TRACK.\nThat's right! On Saturday mornings from 9am-11am, kids can now race on the Formula 1 track! No parents need to accompany them as the focus will be on the kids and their abilities. This is only open to our Jr. drivers who are members and previously have raced the Indy track.\nFormula 1 track\nOur Indy track was designed to introduce junior drivers to the basics of racing. This includes a focus on pedal management, dealing with traffic situations, controlling speed, finding a racing line, and passing without contact. Our Formula Track takes it to the next level with a road course layout that challenges racers to the greatest adversary, the track itself. Driven by NASCAR, Indy, F1 drivers and more, this track is a technical beast of 12 turns that include S turns, 180\u00b0 turns, blind corners, and chicanes. Not recommended for novice drivers, but rather junior members who have acquired the skills needed to move up, then it's time for the next step.\nWe are proud to call this city our home. Established in 2004, nothing at Track 21 Houston Indoor Go Karting was done on a small scale (Everything IS bigger in Texas!!) We have stretched the limits on indoor go karts to include more activities and ultimately; more FUN! With an 8,000 square foot laser tag arena, a nine-hole miniature golf course, and two independent race tracks all under one roof.\nTrack 21 Houston Indoor Go-Karts & More 2004 \u00a9 All Rights Reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home NewsKeeping STEM Progressive\nKeeping STEM Progressive\nSteve Mackay on October 18th, 2017\nThe future of technology and world class education hinges on the ability of universities to continue to provide a premium higher education experience. Their curricula need to be aligned closely to the demands of the world more than ever before.\nAccording to University World News, Zimbabwe has warned their universities that they must return to their initial STEM mandates thereby reverting to their cores. By producing STEM professionals the government believes they can help to create wealth in a country which has endured protracted and very difficult economic times. A large chunk of the country's prosperity depends on how many STEM jobs are being filled.\nThe Deputy Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology of Zimbabwe, Honorable Dr Godfrey Gandawa was quoted by Chronicle, saying:\n\"We cannot continue to ignore the global trend; there is a need for serious curriculum reform. Students deserve a modern education right now. Instead of a 19th century style, students need modern competences, development of a growth mind-set and a strong character.\"\nBritain has addressed the need for more STEM professionals; according to the Telegraph, candidates best suited to employers' demands have increased. In recent years the demand for STEM professionals versus the number of suitable candidates was a ratio of 2:1. The ratio is now 0.90.\nInterestingly, the millennial generation: people in their 20s, and 30s are very interested in forming part of STEM industries, whereas the Baby Boomers (those nearing retirement age) are less keen on finding STEM jobs. These revelations came from online jobs classifieds giant, Indeed.\nThere is a hurdle remaining when it comes to addressing the shortages of STEM professionals around the world. It involves the training and retaining of school teachers who teach STEM subjects ably and in the context of the demands of the real world.\nThe Scottish government has put together a plan that would offer bursaries to those wishing to be trained as teachers of STEM subjects. These bursaries would total \u00a320,000 each.\nThe country is hoping to find 100 bursary candidates a year, thereby budgeting \u00a31 million per year.\nThe Deputy First Minister of Scotland John Swinney said:\n\"STEM subjects are crucial, not just to the education of our children but the future of the economy. We need to recruit more teachers in these subjects. And to do that, we need to reach beyond recent graduates and attract people who have the appropriate subject degree but are working in business or industry.\"\nWhether or not the Scottish government's plans will work, governments are all in agreement: innovative and relevant STEM education (with some stress on entrepreneurial endeavor) and STEM graduates are critical to the growing of the global economy.\nChristie, Sophie. \"Growing Interest in Science and Engineering Jobs Set to Tackle Britain's Skills Gap.\" The Telegraph, Telegraph Media Group, 2017, www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2017\/09\/19\/growing-interest-science-engineering-jobs-set-tackle-britains\/.\nMacnab, Scott. \"Scots Workers to Be Offered \u00a320,000 to Retrain as STEM Teachers.\" Politics, The Scotsman, Aug. 2017, www.scotsman.com\/news\/politics\/scots-workers-to-be-offered-20-000-to-retrain-as-stem-teachers-1-4581534.\n\"STEM: Foundation for a Progressive Future.\" The Chronicle, www.chronicle.co.zw\/stem-foundation-for-a-progressive-future\/.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Does Haplogroup T indicate transoceanic contact?\nDonald Yates claims in Anomalous Mitochondrial DNA Lineages in the Cherokee (self published in Cherokee DNA Studies: Real People Who Provied the Geneticists wrong) that a significant portion of Cherokee contain haplogroup T and because of the step-wise nature of the group, that this is evidence of a transoceanic dispersal.\nThere are a few problems with this claim:\nThe scientific study upon which the claim was made has never been peer reviewed or published in a scientific journal. Peer review and publication in a scientific journal is viewed by most scholars as a minimum bar for making credible scientific claims. To date, the claim that haplogroup T supports a transoceanic migration event has not even reached the level of attention that geneticists have felt the need to address it (like they have done with X2a).\nYates appears to have zero years of formal academic training in DNA genetic analysis, although he is the owner of a DNA testing company. His batchelor and masters degress are in English, his PhD in Classical Studies. He was a part time communications professor and then an assistant professor for four years \"teaching public relations, speech, and other communication arts courses\" (from his LinkedIn profile). Science is often performed by those with little initial academic training, but these individuals tend to eventually distinguish themselves through publication in peer reviewed journals (e.g., Zack Simpson was a high school drop out who has co-authored a number of scholarly scientific studies). As far as I can tell, Yates has authored or co-authored zero peer reviewed publications to date.\nAt least some individuals used in the study are from Cherokee groups which had such poor ancestral claims that their petition for federal acknowledgement has been rejected (incidentally, rejected by Larry Echo Hawk, an LDS General Authority at the time).\nThe petitioner's own statements confirm the PF's analysis of the evidence that Petitioner #227 is a recently formed group of individuals from diverse origins who claim to have Indian ancestry, but who have not documented those claims.\nIf we are dealing with a genuine genetic signature, an unbiased analysis of 993 and 650,000 SNPs demonstrates that it is being absolutely dwarfed by many other genetic signatures which all seem consistent with a land-bridge migration. This doesn't nullify his research per se (Yates was specifically seeking odd-ball signatures), but these other unbiased studies do undermine the standard narrative typically advanced in both official and unofficial LDS channels for nearly two centuries.\nNote: The second of these points was compiled from a point made here (I believe it was made by \/u\/barefootcherokee, a Native American and former Mormon).","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > Life & Culture\nAnd Singapore may score beyond that as an extension of the Formula One contract is expected to be announced anytime now\nWed, Sep 13, 2017 - 5:50 AM\nSamuel Eesamuelee@sph.com.sg\nFerrari driver Sebastian Vettel in action during the Formula One Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix night race at the Marina Bay Street Circuit as seen from Swissotel The Stamford on Sept 20, 2015.\nTHE STRAITS TIMES FILE PHOTO\nTHE nine instalments of the Singapore Grand Prix seem to have zipped by just as quickly as a Formula One car.\nThis weekend's F1 race will be the 10th and by all accounts, not quite the last one. With an extension expected to be announced anytime now, here's a high-speed look at the past races.\nThe five red lights go out at the inaugural Singapore Grand Prix at the Marina Bay Street Circuit. But the very first Singapore Grand Prix was actually held in the late 1960s in Upper Thomson Road.\nIt's Hamilton's year, but F1's young guns show promise\nInstead of farms and rambutan trees though, the 21st century edition has a more stunning backdrop. Best of all, it is the only F1 race to be held after dark, amid an atmospheric night cityscape that appears magical to TV audiences.\nOn the ground, it's a carnival for all race-goers all around the circuit, with F&B stands and merchandise stalls festively illuminated by giant lanterns.\nIn the Paddock Club's hospitality suites in the newly completed S$40 million pit building, there is a unique lifestyle area with a champagne bar, food stands, live entertainment and even a spa, courtesy of race promoter and hotelier Ong Beng Seng's team.\nFernando Alonso takes the chequered flag after his Renault team-mate crashes his car - deliberately, it is revealed the following year - at the floating platform.\nThe greatest F1 show on earth continues but with major organisational improvements. Some lessons learnt include improved security and crowd control. And unlike the previous year, every piece of the infrastructure is in place, including the washrooms and landscaping.\nThe extensive road closures do not cause as much chaos this year as motorists and other visitors to the Marina Square area now know to avoid it.\nBut the economic downturn means that the debut race's 100,000 tickets sold have dropped to 79,000.\nMcLaren-Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton lifts the winner's trophy.\nThe economic recovery boosts ticket sales to 81,350, with overseas visitors and financial institutions leading the demand. Corporate clients from other industries such as legal, shipping and fast-moving consumer goods also snap up space in hospitality suites. Trackside hotels, almost at full capacity, are another beneficiary.\nThe Singapore race is described by Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone as F1's crown jewel and little wonder. After all, it costs about S$150 million to host each grand prix, with the race promoter picking up 40 per cent of the tab and the government the rest.\nFernando Alonso wins again but this time, in a Ferrari.\nF1 ticket sales continue to grow to 82,500, with Paddock Club tickets sold out two months before the race.\nThe grand prix is also boosting the MICE or meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions segment, with MICE events being held to coincide with the night race.\nThe government reveals that the first three races not only brought in more than 110,000 unique visitors to Singapore, or those who came because of the grand prix, but also drew over S$400 million in incremental tourism receipts.\nSebastian Vettel starts from pole to win in his Red Bull Racing car - the first of his four Singapore titles to date.\nIn the last year of its five-year contract, Singapore announces it has signed a new five-year deal to continue hosting the race.\nA government-commissioned study had reported the race would reap S$1 billion in net economic output over 10 years, with another S$1 billion over the same period in increased tourism and investment.\nThe F1 race has certainly raised Singapore's profile, with 360 million TV viewers tuning in to the first four races and 150,000 tourists visiting Singapore and generating S$560 million in incremental tourism receipts. Sebastian Vettel wins again.\nTicket sales jump to 87,500 - the highest since the first race in 2008. About 40 per cent are bought by overseas fans, with the top 10 markets being - in alphabetical order - Australia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, the UK and the US.\nRace promoter Singapore GP says that the buyers are a mix of tourists and business people. As for local fans, one insight stands out - 40 per cent of Bay Grandstand tickets are bought by families. The Bay Grandstand looks out to the floating platform, where the National Day Parade is held.\nSebastian Vettel wins his third straight race here.\nSingapore Airlines takes over from Singtel as the F1 title sponsor at a reported S$10 million a year, or about the same as its predecessor's annual investment.\nTicket sales fall to 84,454, even as the hospitality suites are refreshed for a cool, resort look and the F&B menus expanded by local celebrity chefs and five-star hotels.\nLewis Hamilton starts in pole to take the chequered flag in his Mercedes - his second win here.\nTicket sales improve, rising to 86,970, and so does Sebastian Vettel's form. But this time, he crosses the finish line at the Marina Bay Street Circuit in a Ferrari, after leaving Red Bull for the prancing horse at end-2014.\nTwo things stood out during the race - the fact that the evening was relatively haze-free despite a particularly bad year of smog, and that a spectator - dressed appropriately for the balmy night in bermudas - ran onto the track on lap 37.\nThe sluggish economy means ticket sales slump to its lowest - just 73,000 - with a noticeably smaller crowd in the Paddock Club. It wasn't a surprise, though, with the depressed offshore marine and banking sectors.\nMercedes continues to dominate the season and as expected, its driver, Nico Rosberg, wins.\nAfter Singapore, the F1 procession heads across the Causeway for the Malaysian Grand Prix - the first time in 15 years it is being held in the second half of the season instead of in March.\nSingapore cannot assume it is immune to divisive forces: Heng Swee Keat\nSINGAPORE has already seen some semblances of nativist tendencies here, the Republic's deputy prime minister said on...\nElite Commercial Reit's Singapore IPO to raise up to \u00a3131.2m\nTHE offer price for UK-focused Elite Commercial Reit's proposed Singapore initial public offering (IPO) has been set...\nChina unveils plan to reduce single-use plastic by 2025\n[BEIJING] China's top economic planner said it would cut the production and use of plastic over the next five years...\nSINGAPORE stocks resumed trading on Monday afternoon in negative territory, with The Straits Times Index down 0.19...\nOCBC Investment Research on Monday increased its fair-value estimate for Mapletree North Asia Commercial Trust (...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Exam \u00bb Exam \u00bb NEET UG 2021 \u2013 State-Wise Counselling, Merit List, and Other Details\nNEET UG 2021 \u2013 State-Wise Counselling, Merit List, and Other Details\nDecember 20, 2021 December 16, 2021 by Aakash Badola\nNew Delhi, 16 December 2021 \u2013 The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for Undergraduates (NEET UG) 2021 was conducted for students seeking admission into medical courses around the country. More than 83,120 Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) and over 26,940 Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) seats were offered by over 580 government, private, central, and deemed universities in India.\nFor these seats, the counselling process for different states has already started. Most states are on the way to release their merit lists. Different state admission committees will conduct state counselling on the basis of the NEET-UG 2021 rank lists. Also, aspirants included in the state merit list of NEET 2021 will be required to fulfil different eligibility criteria, as laid by the different state selection committees in India, to get admission.\nNote: Apart from MBBS and BDS, students can also get admission into Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homeopathy (AYUSH) and Bachelor of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry (BVSc & AH) courses.\nHow to Check NEET State-Wise Merit List 2021?\nHow will the NEET State-Wise Rank List 2021 be Prepared?\nNEET 2021 State-Wise Rank List \u2013 Major Points\nAs per the latest data, only Assam has released its state wise rank list for NEET 2021. Other states are sure to follow soon, which you can check by following the steps given below:\nVisit the official website of your respective state's medical counselling portal.\nClick on the state's rank list 2021 link, given under the updates section.\nOnce you do that, you will be able to see the merit list on your screen and can check your rank according to your roll number.\nDownload this file to check your category-wise rank or unreserved category rank.\nTo check the state-wise merit list 2021 for Assam, please click here.\nThe NEET 2021 state-wise rank list will be prepared on the basis of a candidate's marks in the NEET UG exam. Aspirants who have qualified for the exam need to fulfil the eligibility criteria as laid out by their respective states and put in an application with their educational qualification, identity card(s), category certificate, and other required documents.\nHere is a breakdown of the cutoff required to qualify for NEET counselling 2021:\nCategory Cutoff Marks Required\nGeneral 720-138\nSC\/ST\/OBC 137-108\nGeneral-PwD 137-122\nSC\/ST\/OBC-PwD 121-108\nAspirants included in state merit lists need to report for document verification with their relevant documents\/certificates\nThereafter, state authorities will publish their final state merit lists, based on which eligible aspirants will appear for state-level counselling and admission.\nMost states release separate NEET state merit lists 2021 for each round of counselling, which can be seen on their respective official websites.\nCategories Exam Post navigation\nUGC Issues Guidelines for Semester Exams and Reopening of Universities\nMark Zuckerberg and CBSE to Train 1 Crore Students & 10 Lakh Teachers","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A man attacks a group of police officers in New York City with a hatchet, injuring 2 before being shot dead. Police suspect the attacker was motivated by radical Islamic ideals.\nSources: CNN\nNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo announces that a complete shutdown of the 14th Street Tunnel in New York City, proposed to allow for subway repairs caused by damage from Hurricane Sandy, has been halted. Cuomo says that engineers will use a new technology from Europe to make critical repairs to the tunnel without having to close it entirely. The complete shutdown would have closed the tunnel, which is used by nearly 225,000 people each weekday, for an expected 15 months.\nAmazon announces it will split their second headquarters in New York City and National Landing in northern Virginia (outside Washington D.C.)\nProtests and riots against president-elect Donald Trump take place in Portland, Los Angeles, New York City, and Atlanta, leading to the arrests of over 225 people.\nClose to 300 landmarks in 60 countries, from the Pyramids in Egypt, to the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and the Empire State Building in New York, were lit up in blue \u2014 the official color of the United Nations \u2014 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the world body.\nA building explosion and pancake floor collapse in New York City's East Village causes at least two deaths and multiple injuries.\nThe storm reaches New York City with 370,000 people having been evacuated from low-lying areas.\nIsrael announces the deportation of 5 people involved in activism to Belgium and France amid reports that hundreds more are to fly in from Moscow and New York.\nThe United States Supreme Court overturned 8-0 a U.S. appeals court ruling against five big power utility companies, brought by U.S. states, New York City, and Land trusts, attempting to force cuts in United States greenhouse gas emissions regarding global warming. The decision gives deference to reasonable interpretations of the United States Clean Air Act by the Environmental Protection Agency.\nA court in America sentences Abdel Nur of Guyana to 15 years imprisonment after charging him with participation in a plot to blow up fuel tanks at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City.\nFormer U.S. President Bill Clinton has two coronary stents implanted in his heart at the NewYork\u2013Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, after chest pains.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'Joyce J. Scott: Truths and Visions' Curator to Lecture on Art\nPosted on: September 10th, 2015\nThe Sarah Moody Gallery of Art cordially invites you to an evening with Patterson Sims, curator for the exhibition now on view at the SMGA. Sims will lecture on the artist Joyce J. Scott and her place in contemporary art on October 6, 2015 at 5:30 p.m. in Lloyd Hall 132 on the UA campus.\nSims is the President of the Board of Independent Curators International. He has worked in the museum world for more than four decades, most recently as Director at the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey from 2001-2009. He has served as Deputy Director for Education and Research Support at New York's Museum of Modern Art and as Associate Director for Art and Exhibitions and Curator of Modern Art at the Seattle Art Museum. Sims was the first curator designated to oversee the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, where he worked from 1976 to 1987. He began his career in 1969 as Assistant Director of OK Harris Works of Art, in the then newly-developing arts district of SoHo in New York City. Sims has organized one-person exhibitions of numerous artists including Ellsworth Kelly, John Storrs, Jan Matulka, Viola Frey, Fred Wilson, Claire Zeisler, Willie Cole and Hedda Sterne. He was a co-curator of four Whitney Biennial exhibitions.\nIndependent Curators International produces exhibitions, events, publications, research and training opportunities for curators and diverse audiences around the world.\nFunding support for the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art comes from the Department of Art and Art History and the College of Arts and Sciences. Admission to the gallery is free. Hours are Monday through Friday 9:00 \u2013 4:30 p.m., Thursday evenings: 5:00 \u2013 8:00 p.m. The gallery is located at 103 Garland Hall in the heart of the UA campus on Woods Quad. Information about visitor parking is available here: http:\/\/bamaparking.ua.edu\/visitor-information\/. Parking is free on campus in a legal space after business hours. For more information, contact the gallery at (205) 348-1891 or go to https:\/\/art.ua.edu\/gallery\/smga\/.\nCategories: News, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, Visiting Artist-Scholar","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Emergency motion filed to allow districts to delay opening schools until COVID-19 cases decline\nAttorneys for the state's largest teacher's union met with a judge via Zoom on Wednesday and asked to allow districts the option to delay the start of in-person classes. Story: https:\/\/wfts.tv\/3icl9DM\nBy: Jasmine Styles\nPosted at 6:04 AM, Aug 05, 2020\nAttorneys for the state's largest teacher's union met with a judge via Zoom on Wednesday and asked to allow districts the option to delay the start of in-person classes.\nRELATED: Fla. education commissioner requires all Florida school districts to reopen campuses in August\nAt the end of July, the Florida Education Association filed a lawsuit against the governor, the Florida's Department of Education, education commissioner Richard Corcoran and others. This came after Corcoran sent out an emergency order mandating districts to open schools and host in-person classes five days a week.\nRELATED: Florida Education Association files lawsuit against state to stop reopening of in-person classes\nSome districts like Broward and Miami-Dade flouted that order and remain steadfast in starting the school year remotely.\nIn new court documents, the FEA argues the Department of Education's requirement violates the state constitution, saying it is unreasonably dangerous to send kids back to school and could lead to \"severe and irreparable human consequences.\"\nA judge did not make a decision Wednesday, but instead, scheduled hearings for Thursday and Friday.\nHowever, a decision may take even longer because attorneys representing Governor Ron DeSantis and the State Board of Education said Wednesday that they plan to appeal the decision to a Third District Court of Appeals.\nThe Hillsborough County Teacher's Union says the potential delays are unsettling with the start of school in Tampa Bay just weeks away.\nIf the injunction prevails, school districts statewide would get a choice: To keep school buildings closed and opt for an all-virtual curriculum\u2026or choose a blended model.\n\"Forcing schools to open five days a week means you're putting the superintendent, school board, employees and students in a terrible situation,\" Stephanie Baxter-Jenkins of Hillsborough County Teacher's Association argues.\nGovernor Ron DeSantis argues it's important for parents to get both options.\n\"The evidence that schools can reopen in a safe way is overwhelming, but I understand the apprehension some parents may feel. And I believe in empowering them with a choice,\" he said in a recent press conference.\nYet, teachers union leaders say that's a death sentence especially in larger districts like Hillsborough, Pinellas and Miami-Dade.\n\"Schools are designed for collaboration, we cannot meet the guidelines medical experts are telling us to stay 6 feet apart. We're just not designed that way,\" Rob Kriete of the Hillsborough County Teacher's Union argued.\nRELATED: Florida education commissioner calls school reopen lawsuit 'frivolous'","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}