{"text":"Taiwanese singer-host Hao Hao wins best male at annual Getai Awards\nTaiwanese getai entertainer Hao Hao was named the best male getai singer at the annual Shin Min-Wanbao Getai Awards 2015 on Sunday. PHOTO: THE NEW PAPER\nOct 4, 2015, 10:01 pm SGT\nhttp:\/\/str.sg\/Z6fD\nSINGAPORE - Taiwanese singer-host Hao Hao was crowned the best male getai singer at the annual Shin Min-Wanbao Getai Awards 2015 on Sunday night.\nThe best female getai singer prize went to Zhong Jing Ling, 52.\nOrganised by Singapore Press Holdings' Chinese evening newspapers Shin Min Daily News and Lianhe Wanbao, 31 awards were handed out to honour the best talents in the getai industry. The awards include the top 20 most popular getai artistes, most popular newcomer and best costume .\nThis year, there is a new category of award titled Contribution award to recognise the contributions of getai artistes who have been in the scene for more than 40 years.\nIt was won by the Ming Zhu Sisters - Choo Li Li and her elder sister Choo Leng Leng, both 52. Mr Huang Qing Yuan, 70, also received the other Contribution award.\nAbout 6,000 people packed the exhibition hall at Suntec to catch the getai performances and almost $170,000 was raised through ticket sales and donations.\nThe cheque was presented to President Tony Tan for the President's Challenge, an annual fundraising initiative.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sports Motion at the Mebyon Kernow Conference\nCornish Golfers Enjoy Success\nDetails of the Mebyon Kernow Conference are here.\nThe Truro and Falmouth branch of the party have submitted the motion below for debate.\nAlong with my fellow branch members I believe that the people of Cornwall deserve acces to sport at all levels - both to participate and to watch.\nWe need to find ways of building a consensus and to deliver the world class facilities that we deserve.\nMK recognises that:\n1. Achievement in sport has become part of the recognised cultural inheritance of Cornwall.\n2. In order for the people of Cornwall to participate at a level that befits our National status, world class educational, training and recreational facilities need to be developed.\n3. The creation of a stadium for Cornwall is an essential part of the strategic development of sport in Cornwall.\nTherfore Mebyon Kernow \u2013 the Party for Cornwall will:\n1. Take a political lead in Cornwall to demand world class development of sport in Cornwall.\n2. Set up sub-committee of the NEC in order to conduct a consultation with relevant commercial and public organisations and public interest groups with a view to developing a policy aimed at delivering national sporting success for Cornwall.\n#MKConf - 2014\nThis year our conference will be held at Lys Kernow on Sunday 16th November.\nThe morning sessions will revolve around policy debates while in the afternoon Dick Cole will give his keynote speech and there will be a chance to see what our PPCs think on various issues.\nSessions will be open to the public - but make sure that you have fully paid up membership if you would like to vote on any of the policy issues.\nYou can join MK here.\nAn Open Letter to Cllr Candy Atherton\nHere is the text of an open letter that I have sent to Cllr Atherton:\nDear Cllr Atherton,\nCornish Assembly\nI have read a report of your comments in a recent article in the Western Morning News and I would like to thank you for making it clear that The Labour party is opposed to a Cornish Assembly and that Labour does not believe that Cornwall is capable of running its own affairs.\nUnfortunately the rest of your recent diatribe as reported in the Western Morning News is a bit harder to understand.\nFor example, in reference to a Cornish Assembly you talk in terms of \"another layer of bureaucrats\". Of course this sort of statement is very emotive but then you Westminster types do so often like to be long on emotive language when the point you want to make is short on fact. Sadly you do seem to like making this (untrue) point over and over again and it behoves me, as a good citizen of Cornwall, to explain why your assertion is as wrong as a Labour Party candidate calling themselves a socialist.\nYou see \u2013 far from being an 'extra layer' - a Cornish Assembly would simply move the machinery of government 300 miles from an office with a W1 postcode back home to Cornwall. Devolved matters wouldn't be decided in Westminster any longer \u2013 no extra layer - they would be decided in Cornwall instead. No extra layer at all, none, nada, zip \u2013 just extra democratic accountability of government to the people of Cornwall.\nOf course, this does unfortunately raise the spectre of just exactly what all those expensive and centralised Westminster politicians would be doing upcountry - so I can see why your party might be a bit perturbed about disturbing the status quo.\nNow - moving on to your vision of 'regionalised' governance. I have heard you wax lyrical - time after time - about working together with partners at an appropriate level. There is absolutely nothing at all wrong with working with all sorts of partners - and Mebyon Kernow would certainly advocate that Cornwall worked with all manner of partners whether within the United Kingdom, within Europe or on global basis. Nevertheless - we wouldn't advocate giving up our democratic voice to be subsumed within a massive South West English region.\n\"Plymouth!\" I hear you cry \u2013 again and again, \"We could work with Plymouth.\"\nThere is unequivocally nothing wrong with Plymouth. Plymouth is a sterling place - you can see Cornwall from there on a good day!\nHowever, Plymouth is not Cornwall and any partnership of Cornwall with Plymouth should be based on a one-off partnership of equals and Plymouth should not be allowed to become a Trojan horse whereby Cornwall's democratic voice is swamped by the larger population of English counties and her top jobs and services are moved to Exeter or Bristol.\nFinally, your utterly ludicrous assertion that not more than one per cent of the Cornish population would welcome a Cornish Assembly is \u2013 well, just that - ludicrous. You said that you would challenge anyone on a wet October day to find more than one in one hundred who would like more politicians. I'm not quite sure what effect precipitation has on people's view of politicians - but I'm sure it doesn't have much effect on what they think about a Cornish Assembly!\nYour attempt to conflate disdain for politicians with disdain for a Cornish Assembly is laughable and disingenuous to say the least.\nCllr Atherton I have a challenge for you.\nCome with me while I knock on one hundred doors and listen to exactly what people think about a Cornish Assembly \u2013 or, admit that you are wrong and that support for a Cornish Assembly amongst the people of Cornwall is far greater than you would have us believe.\nYn lel,\nCornwall's Democratic Deficit\nHow many times do you hear that a National Cornish Assembly would be 'another layer of expensive politicians'?\nThe real facts are that Cornwall has a massive democratic deficit! See our document on a National Assembly for Cornwall - sections 60 - 64.\nSo we are already spending less on democratically elected and accountable community representatives - democracy in Cornwall is being run on the cheap.\nFurther still we believe that a National Assembly would save money - even allowing for some extra administrative costs. An National Assembly for Cornwall could sweep away the politically appointed and democratically unaccountable quangos such as the LEP.\nThe Cornish LEP came into being in a blaze of glory claiming that thousands of jobs would be created. Several years later and the only job that can be laid fairly and squarely at the door of the LEP is the one that carries a big salary - the post of LEP chairman!\nInstead of privatising public bodies and spending public money on boosting private profit a Cornish Assembly could make investments in public services.\nNot another layer of expensive politicians - a way of making them more accountable to the people and helping to improve public services.\nSay NO to supersized LOCAL government - demand a NATIONAL ASSEMBLY!\nJulia Goldsworthy, the failed MP who's only legacy was a rocking chair expenses scandal, is on the\nWestminster electoral comeback trail.\nIn an attempt to re-ingraciate herself with the electorate (and get back onboard the expenses gravy train with a newly raised salary to boot), she is heading the Lib Dem assault on devolution for Cornwall.\nThe Lib Dem party, the pick 'n mix party who like to throw any sweetie into the bag that they think may get them elected, are, yet again, re-inventing their policy on devolution.\nLike dodgy used car salesmen, they are willing to take the clapped out Cornwall Council, tart it up a bit and add a few gadgets before passing it off as a deluxe new National Assembly. Of course, like any cut and shut, the whole thing will fall apart - probably with tragic consequences.\nCornwall Council is a failed experiment. It is too big and overcentralized to work as democratic and responsive local government and does not have the capacity to handle national problems.\nMebyon Kernow is calling for a true National Assembly for Cornwall.\nAn assembly which can do away with unelected and politically appointed quangos such as the LEP and tie public spending to public accountability.\nAn Assembly which can take full controll of our housing and development policies - rather than having Westminster dictate housing numbers to us.\nAn Assembly which can prioritise spending on our NHS instead of selling it to the highest bidder.\nAnd as part of a new democratic settlement for Cornwall we need local government reform. We need to do away with Cornwall Council altogether and take real local decison-making powers closer to the people through four smaller unitary authorities and by enhancing the powers of towns and parishes.\nMebyon Kernow is the only political party with real vison and ambition for the governance of Cornwall. We have a raft of policies which have been carefully thought through and developed over years. While the Lib Dems gather in the pub and fiddle around with the back of a fag packet we are the only party that has devolution policies that do what they say on the tin.\nMaKe The Difference - support our vision, join our party, get involved - tomorrow may be too late and if you don't act now then, like the Scots, you will wake up to the usual broken Westminster pledges.\nHow Depressing! :-(\nToday I am feeling very depressed!\nNo - not because of the way the referendum went in Scotland. Ok the result was disappointing but the Yes campaign worked miracles to get the result that it did fighting against the full weight of the establishment and media. At the end of the day the people chose, yet again, to believe the false promises of the Westminster establishment politicians. It may be disheartening but the sheer scale of the engagement in the decision by the Scottish people was truly uplifting.\nWhat is so depressing is the way that it is back to business as normal for Westminster.\nNo sooner had the ink dried on the ballot papers but the excuses, ruses, justifications and obfuscations began as to why Scotland won't get what they actually voted for - devomax.\nAdd to that our local Westminster representatives talking down Cornish aspirations and you begin to think that they are gong to get away with bertrayal and deceit yet again.\nFor example we have Sarah Newton. She has obviously read the Project Fear campaign handbook by deliberately misleading people about devolution to a National Assembly of Cornwall and talking in terms of 'independence' and separation. At the same time she makes it clear that her idea of devolution is giving powers and control of massive chunks of public spending to unelected and unaccountable quangos such as the LEP. Giving control of public money to businessmen with vested interests is not devolution - it is privatisation by the back door!\nTo top it all off, I arrived home at lunch time to find a letter from George Eustice awaiting me. Apparently George is very concerned about overdevelopment in Illogan and wants to do something about it. I'll tell you what George - why didn't you vote against your government's relaxing of planning laws and their introduction of a presumption in favour of development if you were concerned about overdevelopment in Illogan. Or maybe you should support the idea of a devolved Cornish National Assembly which would have control over Cornwall's planning strategy instead of Westminster - that would be one way to allow people to have a greater say in how their localities deal with development.\nThis hypocrisy in Westminster politicians is bad enough but the kowledge that they are probably going to get away with it yet again makes it depressing.\nDick Cole, has called for a mature, wide-ranging and respectful debate about devolution. I agree with him but until we can have a debate involving a little bit of honesty from Westminster I think it is a bit of a big ask.\nIs the West Briton Biased?\nBelow is the text of a letter that I sent to the West Briton. I sent it in a week before the paper was due to be published. In the same edition there Sarah newton gives her Conservative view of 'devolution' and an overtly party political letter from Simon Rix was published.\nPeople often say that they believe that the West Briton is biased against MK but I have always said that I didn't believe this to be the case. However, I do begin to wonder given that I have had several letters rejected since I became the PPC for Mebyon Kernow whereas previously my letters were mainly printed.\nI have sent a letter to the West Briton asking them where I am going wrong that they don't think my letters fit to be published on such a regular basis. I'll have to wiat and see if I get a reply.\nToday the people of Scotland will decide whether or not their country will become independent.\nWhichever way the vote goes it has become clear in recent months that the United Kingdom will never be the same again. All over the island of Britain, from John O'Groats to Land's End or from Aberystwyth to Great Yarmouth people have been discussing the implications of the Scottish debate and their utter disillusionment with a centralised Westminster government.\nThe Westminster political parties have all espoused the benefits of the union \u2013 yet it becomes clearer every day that they are defending their own party political interests by setting out the imagined benefits of a highly centralised system of government.\nAt the same time each London based party sets out its own tawdry interpretation of 'devolution' in an attempt to appear that they might be prepared to give up some of their power to allow people run their own affairs.\nThe Tories try to convince us that placing responsibility for massive amounts of public spending into the hands of unelected and politically appointed quangos is devolution. Where is the local democracy? This is not devolution it is privatisation by the back door.\nMeanwhile Labour is certain that regional bodies are the answer. Cornwall would get swamped in a 'South West England' region. It would have a miniscule political voice and an even smaller opportunity to develop the Cornish economy.\nOf the London based parties the Liberal Democrats shout the loudest in favour of devolution for Cornwall and yet have failed to set out their vision for Cornish devolution. They have no clearly defined plan as to exactly what powers they believe Cornwall deserve or how any new powers might be used. Another vague pledge to be discarded when the going gets tough.\nThe only party that has set out a clear proposal for real and democratic devolution to Cornwall is Mebyon Kernow. The Party for Cornwall believes that people of Cornwall should be responsible for the vast majority of public spending in Cornwall through an elected national legislative Assembly. MK is the only party that has a proposal for devolution that will do what it says on the can!\nCLLR STEPHEN RICHARDSON\nMEBYON KERNOW \u2013 THE PARTY FOR CORNWALL\nPROSPECTIVE PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE FOR TRURO AND FALMOUTH\nSay NO to supersized LOCAL government - demand a N...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Saudi Arabia will need an additional 10,000 doctors by 2020, say experts\nSaudi Arabia will need an additional 10,000 doctors by 2020, say experts \/node\/1317151\/saudi-arabia\nThe Saudi government has been urged to boost training of health professionals and ease visa requirements to meet an expected shortfall in qualified medical staff in the Kingdom. (AFP)\nUpdated 10 June 2018\nWith a chronic shortage of medical staff, Saudi Arabia faces tough choices to ensure a healthy future, an exclusive report warns\nConsultancy firm Oxford Economics earlier said Saudi Arabia will need an extra 5,000 hospital beds by 2020 and 20,000 more by 2035, as its population rises.\nDUBAI: Saudi Arabia will need an additional 10,000 doctors by 2020 and twice that many by 2030 to tackle critical bed shortages and meet the needs of its growing population, experts have warned.\nA significant increase in nurses, technicians and medical staff is essential to plug the Kingdom's chronic bed shortfall \u2014 with more incentives, such as easing visa regulations, being suggested as ways of attracting and retaining overseas expertise.\nEarlier this week, Arab News revealed that a study by the consultancy firm Oxford Economics showed Saudi Arabia will need an extra 5,000 hospital beds by 2020 and 20,000 more by 2035, as its population rises.\nNow Mansoor Ahmed, director for health care, education and PPP at Colliers International, has unveiled exclusive figures showing this will result in a parallel shortage in medical professionals, unless that issue is also addressed.\n\"There is a direct correlation between number of beds and medical staff,\" he said. \"Based on a Colliers estimate, by 2020 KSA will require an additional 10,000 doctors and by 2030 another 20,000 doctors on top of that.\n\"There are two ways of filling this gap \u2014 producing more doctors and nursing staff locally, and attracting medical staff from other Arab and Asian countries. However, to do this, KSA needs to look easing its visa rules and regulations.\"\nAhmed said that one of the main challenges faced by private operators in the region, including KSA, is attracting and retaining quality staff, prompting health-care providers to \"poach\" doctors from the local market rather than hiring from abroad.\n\"Operators desperate to recruit qualified specialized staff have prompted a trend of poaching physicians from competitors,\" he said. \"With a limited pool of established physicians, their salaries have witnessed exceptional growth, to an extent that it is negatively affecting the profitability of hospitals\/clinics in KSA.\n\"A large number of doctors, nurses and paramedical staff in KSA migrate to Western countries after a few years due to better opportunities and training facilities. In addition, the current Saudi regulations for recruitment further increase the staff cost due to limited available resources.\n\"The government's role is extremely important in establishing career-focused educational institutions, such as medical and nursing colleges, to increase the supply of local medical professionals and to drive qualified Saudi talent into jobs. Moreover, to overcome the supply gap, the government needs to provide funding to the private sector and improved employment regulations to be able to attract qualified resources from abroad.\"\nAhmed believes that the Oxford Economics study's estimates are conservative.\nBased on the current annual KSA population increase of 2.65 percent per annum, he points to analysis carried out by Colliers showing the Kingdom will need an additional 7,800 beds by 2020 and 32,000 beds by 2030.\nThe real- estate costs of this alone would equate to between $1.3 billion (SR4.9 billion) and $2.6 billion by 2020 and $5.3 billion and $10.6 billion by 2030. Once fitout and medical equipment costs are added, the figures rise to $2 billion- $3.6 billion by 2020 and $7.9 billion- $14.3 billion by 2030.\n\"The growing population is the key driver, but you also have to look at the changing composition of the population which will dictate the types of bed required,\" he said. \"Between 2015 and 2050, about 21 million children will be born in KSA, creating demand for health-care facilities and services relating to mother and childcare, such as obstetrics, gynecology, and pediatrics.\"\nLife expectancy in KSA has also increased. \"These changes will lead to increasing requirement for a larger number of long-term care facilities,\" Ahmed said.\n\"Saudis have traditionally gone oversees for health care, and it is Colliers' opinion that they can be targeted if the same hospital brands where they have this treatment can establish branches in KSA.\"\nAhmed said that the focus should be not simply on increasing the number of beds, but in creating more centers of excellence dedicated to daycare surgery, which will reduce demand for bed space.\nDr. Camille Sirgi, deputy CEO of the Abu Dhabi's Bareen International Hospital, described KSA's bed shortage crisis as \"worrying\", and agreed the Oxford Economics study paints \"a real picture\" of the situation both in KSA and across the GCC.\n\"Saudi has a greater population than the rest of the GCC, so this problem is heightened,\" he said. \"And it does not just affect a certain societal segment \u2014 it has a real impact on every person in the short and long-term future.\"\nEfforts should go beyond infra- structure and additional beds, due to the shortage of nurses, physicians and hospital technicians that will emerge unless measures are taken.\nSirgi said that the Kingdom should adopt similar measures to the UAE, which last month announced long-term residency visas for up to 10 years for investors and specialists, including doctors, which would attract oversees talent to make a more permanent move. The Kingdom also needs more medical colleges and universities to train homegrown talent, and to offer financial incentives or subsidiaries for those studying in health care.\nPrasanth Manghat, CEO and executive director of the UAE's largest private health care provider NMC Health, which is expanding into Saudi Arabia, said: \"The Kingdom is working overtime to bring social, economic and cultural change. It is moving beyond the realms of the hydrocarbon-based economy. Talking in terms of health care, the details of the report are no surprise to us as we have entered the geography some time back and are present in four cities with more than 800 beds.\n\"There is not only a huge demand and supply (capacity) gap but also a definite capability gap. The short- to-medium term areas are mother and child health, geriatrics, oncology and long-term care. These four focus areas are well within the statistics.\"\nManghat said that more demand will require more skilled profes- sionals, especially the development of local talent.\nAn Australian expatriate working as a nurse in Saudi, who declined to give her name, believes a lack of primary health-care facilities \u2014 especially outside metropolitan areas \u2014 exacerbates the bed shortage issue, as people in need of early-stage medical care are not seen until their condition requires immediate and more urgent medical attention in larger city-based hospitals.\n\"There is also a lack of long-term care facilities and a health-care system that hasn't been refined to suit the needs of Saudis \u2014 especially those who live rurally and don't know how to access services provided for them by the government,\" she said.\n\"I would like to see more programs targeting difficult-to-reach areas, and developing health care in remote areas and smaller cities, so only those requiring specialist care have to come to Riyadh.\"\nHowever, Hamish Clark, partner at Middle East Health Industries at PwC, believes a drive by the Kingdom to educate its citizens to adopt healthier lifestyles may mean the bed shortage will be less critical than the study suggests.\n\"One of the most exciting things about Vision 2030 and the Ministry of Health's transformation program is the ambition to do things differently,\" he said. \"In many ways, this old way of thinking that hospital beds equal health may apply to older health systems, but in Saudi Arabia that is not the case.\n\"The Minister of Health unveiled a new Model of Care in April 2017, and this described a new way of delivering health care that puts much more emphasis on individuals looking after themselves, on the importance of virtual care and how much greater investment is needed in primary care. Keeping people well, treating them at home and providing virtual care services mean that reliance on hospital beds will be far less important.\"\nNevertheless, Clark emphasized that chronic bed shortages in ICUs need urgent attention, and foreign investment and private health care companies will be needed to close the care gap.\n\"In a young and dynamic country, with leadership that is committed to rolling out the new Model of Care, the focus on bed numbers will reduce, and quality and value will increase. There is the distinct possibility that KSA will leapfrog other health systems, like the UK's NHS, by 2030.\"\nTopics: Oxford Economics Mansoor Ahmed Colliers International Model of Care Saudi Arabia Editor's Choice Vision 2030\nSaudi Arabia needs 5,000 hospital beds by 2020: Study\n4,000 Saudi doctors to be trained annually under NTP 2020\nSaudi doctors train European doctors on Saudi Invention in Germany\nYoung Saudi nurses struggle with expectations versus reality of the job","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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Washington International Trade Association WITA\nWITA Events\nYTP Events\nNon-WITA\nWashington International Trade Conference\nSponsor WITA and The Foundation\nJoin WITA\nAbout WITA membership\nWITA Internships\nAssociation of USTR Alumni\n2020 WITA Event Series Sponsorship Opportunities\nYoung Trade Professionals (YTP)\nYTPedia\nAMERICA'S TRADE POLICY\nATP RESEARCH\nTerry Stewart's Thoughts on Trade\nWITF\nWITA Staff\nWITA > Border Adjustment Taxes, Tax Reform and Trade\nAdd to Calendar 2017\/01\/26 9:00 AM 2017\/01\/26 11:00 AM America\/New_York Border Adjustment Taxes, Tax Reform and Trade https:\/\/www.wita.org\/events\/border-adjustment-taxes-tax-reform-and-trade\/ The Rotunda\nPast event, WITA event\nBorder Adjustment Taxes, Tax Reform and Trade\n01\/26\/2017 at 9:00 AM (US\/Eastern)\nThe Rotunda Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC 20004\nWITA held a signature event looking at the Brady-Ryan tax reform blueprint, and their proposal to tax imports from around the world. The event featured two expert panels, one examined the Brady-Ryan plan in the context of existing US and global tax regimes, and the second heard from industry supporters and opponents of the proposal.\n1\/26\/17 Border Adjustment Taxes, Tax Reform and Trade Welcome Remarks and Introduction\n1\/26\/17 Border Adjustment Taxes, Tax Reform & Trade: Panel 1\n1\/26\/17 Border Adjustment Taxes, Tax Reform and Trade: Panel 1 Discussion and Q&A\n1\/26\/17 Border Adjustment Taxes, Tax Reform and Trade: Panel 2 Part 1\nGordon Gray, American Action Forum\nDan Mitchell, CATO\nJohn Veroneau, Covington & Burling LLP\nModerator: Catherine Schultz, National Foreign Trade Council\nRachelle Bernstein, National Retail Federation\nJanet Boyd, Dow\nBrian Reardon, advisor to the coalition of US exporters\nsupporting the Border Tax Adjustment proposal\nRick Woldenberg, Learning Resources\nModerator: Timothy J. Keeler, Mayer Brown\nGordon Gray is the Director of Fiscal Policy at The American Action Forum. Prior to joining the Forum, he served as senior policy advisor to Senator Rob Portman, and also served as policy director during Senator Portman's campaign. Prior to joining the campaign, he was a professional staff member for the Senate Budget Committee, and before that was deputy director of domestic and economic policy for Senator John McCain's presidential campaign. He also spent several years with the American Enterprise Institute.\nDan Mitchell is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute who specializes in fiscal policy, particularly tax reform, international tax competition, and the economic burden of government spending. He also serves on the editorial board of the Cayman Financial Review. Prior to joining Cato, Mitchell was a senior fellow with the Heritage Foundation, and an economist for Senator Bob Packwood and the Senate Finance Committee. His work has been published in numerous outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Villanova Law Review, Public Choice, Emory Law Journal, Forbes, USA Today, Offshore Investment, Playboy, and Investor's Business Daily. He has appeared on all the major TV networks, and has given speeches in almost 40 states and more than 30 countries. Mitchell earned a PhD in economics from George Mason University.\nJohn Veroneau is a partner at Covington & Burling LLP, a Washington, DC-based global law firm. His practice focuses on international trade law matters, and he chairs the firm's public policy practice group. He has served in Senate-confirmed positions in Republican and Democratic Administrations. Under President Bush, he was Deputy United States Trade Representative (USTR) and USTR General Counsel. Under President Clinton, he served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs. Mr. Veroneau was Legislative Director to former US Senator Bill Cohen, Legislative Director to former US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and Chief of Staff to US Senator Susan Collins. He earned his B.A. from the University of Maine and his J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law.\nCatherine Schultz is the Vice President for Tax Policy at the National Foreign Trade Council. Her responsibilities include international tax policy including legislative, regulatory, non-U.S. tax policy, administration, and tax treaty activity. Prior to joining the NFTC, she was a Principal at Capital Strategies Group, LLC, where she represented client interests on pending tax legislation and served as a legislative advocate on international taxation, research and development, depreciation and capital gains. Ms. Schultz participates in the OECD Technical Advisory Group on the taxation of cross-border services under the VAT, and is a member of the International Fiscal Association. She is on the faculty of the Practicing Law Institute's Basics of International Taxation program.\nRachelle Bernstein is Vice President and Tax Counsel at the National Retail Federation (NRF) as of June 2004. As such, Rachelle is the principal lobbyist for the NRF on tax policy matters, interacting with members of Congress and their staff, Treasury Department and IRS officials on behalf of the retail industry. Rachelle also staffs the NRF's Taxation Committee, made up of the tax directors for the nation's largest retailers. In addition to advocating for members on tax policy matters, Rachelle serves as a liaison with the IRS' Retail Industry Group. In this capacity, Rachelle works to negotiate solutions on industry-wide matters that will ease the tax compliance burden for the retail industry. Rachelle also serves as a spokesperson for the NRF in dealing with the media on tax-related issues. Prior to joining the NRF, Rachelle spent 18 years in the National Offices of two large public accounting firms. From 1986 to 2002, Rachelle managed the legislative services group for Arthur Andersen, being promoted from manager to participating principal during her tenure with the firm. In that capacity, she managed the analysis and distribution of information on tax legislative and regulatory matters to Andersen's tax practice and clients. In addition, she provided legislative and regulatory lobbying services to clients. In 2002, Rachelle joined Deloitte & Touche as a director in the Tax Policy Services Group of the Washington National Tax Office. At D&T, Rachelle's responsibilities included working with clients on international tax legislative issues and representing retail industry clients on tax legislative and regulatory matters. Rachelle was a tax advisor to the NRF during the last 13 years that she was in public accounting. During that time, she was involved in preparing testimony on legislation or comments on IRS regulations with respect to every major tax policy proposal that affected the retail industry. She also led several successful industry efforts to limit the scope of IRS coordinated attacks on retail tax issues. From 1981 to 1986, Rachelle worked in the Tax Policy Center of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, heading that group from 1984 through 1986, during the development of the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Rachelle lobbied on behalf of the Chamber on tax legislative and regulatory proposals affecting both large and small businesses, interacting with senior Treasury Department officials, members of Congress and the media. Her responsibilities included staffing the Chamber's Taxation Committee, made up of the heads of tax departments for the nation's largest companies and interacting with the Chamber's Board of Directors to develop Chamber positions on tax policy initiatives. From 1978 to 1981, Rachelle practiced tax law with two Washington, D.C. law firms. Rachelle is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Syracuse University College of Law. She is a member of the District of Columbia Bar. She is a past chair of the AICPA's Tax Legislation and Policy Committee, and she served on an AICPA\/ABA\/TEI Task Force on Tax Simplification. Rachelle is a founding member of The Tax Coalition.\nJanet Boyd is Director of Government Relations and Legislative Counsel for The Dow Chemical Company. Before joining Dow, Janet was a partner at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld, L.L.P., representing clients on a variety of tax policy issues. She graduated from the University of Texas with a BJ degree and the George Washington University National Law Center, and is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the Tax Committee of the American Bar Association. She is a member of the Tax Council Board, and Chair of the American Chemistry Council's Budget, Appropriations and Tax Subcommittee. She is also the immediate past President of the Charities Aid Foundation America, a charitable organization that operates a multimillion dollar program facilitating giving by corporations and individuals worldwide and current President of its sister organization, CAF Canada.\nBrian Reardon is a Senior Advisor at Venn Strategies. He previously served as a special assistant to President George W. Bush for economic policy, where he was the principal tax aide at the President's National Economic Council. Prior to serving on the White House staff, Mr. Reardon was staff director and chief economist for the Senate Republican Policy Committee. Mr. Reardon has also been lead tax lobbyist with the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) and an aide to Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI). At Venn, Mr. Reardon works to ensure that Venn's clients have market moving information first; that economic policies are fully understood by Congress and that tax, energy, and health care policy encourages investment. Mr. Reardon has a master's degree in economics from George Mason University and a bachelor's degree from Hillsdale College.\nRick Woldenberg is CEO of Learning Resources, Inc., a 150-employee manufacturer of educational materials and educational toys based in Vernon Hills, Illinois with offices in Gardena, California and Kings Lynn, England. Rick joined the company in 1990 as a member of the third generation in his family business, and has served as CEO for nearly 20 years. Rick recently started a blog: www.BorderAdjustmentTax.com. Prior to joining LR, Rick worked as an attorney in Chicago. Rick holds a B.S.E. from Princeton University and a J.D. from University of Chicago.\nTimothy J. Keeler is an attorney in the Government and International Trade Group, joined Mayer Brown in 2009, and brings an in-depth knowledge of international trade law and economic policy matters, and a history of working in the Executive Branch and Congress on major economic, legislative and regulatory issues. Prior to joining Mayer Brown, Tim served in a variety of senior positions in the U.S. Government for almost 12 years. Most recently he was the Chief of Staff in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) from 2006 \u2013 2009, where he oversaw implementation of U.S. policy, strategy and negotiations involving all aspects of international trade and investment matters. He worked on a number of key issues including: climate change and trade; US and China relations; WTO negotiations and litigation; free trade agreement negotiations and implementation; and CFIUS decisions. In recognition of his government service, Tim was awarded the USTR Distinguished Service Award, the Treasury Distinguished Service Award, and the Treasury Secretary's Honor Award twice.\nTrade Jobs\nPost Jobs on WITA\nWashington International Trade Association (WITA)\nRonald Reagan Building and International Trade Center\n1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Suite G-329\nwita@wita.org\n\u00a9 Copyright 2018. Washington International Trade Association (WITA). All rights reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Wedding Etiquette & Advice\nHow to Tell Your MOH She's Dropping the Ball\nWe'll help you do it delicately.\nBy Lindsay Tigar August 30, 2017\nFacebook Tweet Email Send Text Message Print Comment\nCredit: Lauren Werkheiser Photography\nThe most important person to attend your wedding is that man in the suit across from you, but we'd guess that you care about the woman standing on your other side just as much. Asking someone to serve as your maid of honor is exactly as the name suggests: an honor you extend to a friend, sibling, or relative who has had a major impact on your life. And while we wish that leading lady could be an all-star in every department, chances are pretty high that she'll struggle with some part of her MOH responsibilities. But how do you tell her when she's not just slipping, but really, really dropping the ball and causing you even more stress? Here, the delicate way to approach the topic.\nTHINGS A MAID OF HONOR SHOULD NEVER DO\nSet expectations.\nThough you might not want to print off a detailed job description, it's important to be clear about your expectations for the MOH right from the start. Take the advice of psychologist Dr. Nikki Martinez, Psy.D., and set aside a time-probably over dinner that you pick up the bill for-and outline what you'd like her to handle for the big day. This may include everything from planning your bachelorette party to helping out with a bridal shower. On her end, she needs to communicate her availability both from an emotional and financial perspective. During this convo, Dr. Martinez suggests being considerate and truly listening to what she's expressing in terms of her role as MOH.\nCome from a place of friendship.\nBefore there was the man, the ring, or the wedding, there was your MOH. She's been by your side through every twist, turn, meltdown and celebration for years upon years, and though you may be frustrated with how she's handling her pre-nuptial duties, you have to stop placing her in your mental \"wedding\" bucket and put her where she belongs: at the center of your friendship circle. \"She is one of your best friends, and you chose her because of that. Be a friend to her and find out what is going on,\" Dr. Martinez says. You may quickly realize that she's dealing with a big life event herself or that she's having trouble chatting with the other bridesmaids.\nHelp her delegate.\nWhile you're more of a type A woman, your bestie or sister could fall much further down the alphabet of personality types. Opposites usually attract and balance each other, but in terms of checking items off of her MOH to-do list, she may be far less punctual than you'd like her to be. This is where Dr. Martinez suggests playing to your MOH's strengths and then kindly acknowledging her weaknesses. \"If there are tasks they feel too overwhelmed to handle right now, reassign them. This will make both of you feel better,\" she says. Say for instance, one of the bridesmaids is super creative and she's offered to help design favors for the shower-let your MOH know that that's one less thing she has to worry about. Or if your MOH isn't a foodie and is not picking the best restaurants for your bachelorette, invite the pal who is always introducing you to new cuisines to take on the duty.\nTry and remember the big picture.\nOnce the whole shebang is said and done, you'll have two things: a new husband and an old best friend or sibling who will keep on standing by your side. Dr. Martinez says that sometimes brides can get too wrapped up in the details of the big day instead of seeing the big picture. While it is a once-a-lifetime celebration, you also have a once-in-a-lifetime MOH who is celebrating your love. Don't let the minor details she's dropping the ball on make or break a strong friendship or connection.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home\/Plan Your Visit\/Safe and Clean Commitment\nThe VETS' Safe and Clean Commitment\nThe VETS is looking forward to your safe return. Since you were last here our masked and vaccinated staff have been working diligently to ensure that your return to The VETS will be safe and welcoming. We have enhanced our air handling and filtration, incorporated new sanitation technologies, and have reduced all touchpoints including initiating mobile ticketing and self-scanning ticket kiosks.\nThe VETS will be operating at 100% capacity as such all patrons and staff must wear a mask at all times except while actively eating or drinking.\nEffective immediately and until further notice all patrons will be required to show proof of vaccination when attending a performance. For those with exceptions, a proof of negative COVID-19 test will be required.\nThese protocols are in conjunction with venues and arts groups across Rhode Island and the country. These polices are under constant review and will be updated accordingly.\nAll Patrons, aged 12 and over, attending a performance at The VETS will need to be Fully Vaccinated (as defined below) with an FDA or WHO authorized vaccine. Evidence of the vaccination will be required at the time of entry.\n\"Fully vaccinated\" means on the day of the performance a patron is:\nat least 14 days after their second dose of an FDA or WHO approved two dose COVID-19 vaccine\nat least 14 days after their single dose of an FDA or WHO approved single dose COVID-19 vaccine\nProof of Vaccination must come directly from the authorized provider that performed the vaccination. Patrons may display proof on a smartphone or present a physical copy.\nThe only exceptions are:\nPatrons under the age of 12, who must be accompanied by an adult that meets our Theatres' vaccination requirements\nPatrons who need reasonable accommodations due to a medical exception or a sincerely held religious belief\nPatrons who are not able to be vaccinated for one of the reasons listed above must provide proof of ONE of the following instead of evidence of vaccination:\nNegative COVID-19 PCR test performed by a medical provider within 72 hours of the performance start time. The test results must clearly show the date and time of the test\nNegative COVID-19 rapid antigen test taken within 24 hours of the performance start time by an authorized testing facility (CVS, Walgreens, State Testing Site etc)\nTogether with the proof of vaccination\nGuests 18 years or older must also present a government-issued photo ID such as a driver's license or passport\nGuests 12-18 may use a government-issued ID or school ID\nGuests under 12 do not require ID, but must be accompanied by an adult who meets the above requirements\nGuests under the age of 12 are not required to provide a negative COVID-19 test, but must be accompanied by an adult who meeds the requirements above. Guests aged 2 and over are required to wear a mask at all times when in the building (unless actively eating or drinking).\nEntry will be denied for guests who do not provide the documentation as required above.\nRhode Island's 401Health App\nEntering The VETS is quick and easy. Access and store your vaccination record with Rhode Island's 401Health app.\nLearn more about 401Health\nDownload 401Health on the App Store for iPhone\nDownload 401Health on Google Play for Andriod\nWhat We Are Doing To Keep You Safe\nMasks are required for all patrons, regardless of vaccination status. Masks must be worn at all times while inside except when actively eating or drinking. All masks must completely cover the nose and mouth and comply with the CDC guidelines for acceptable face coverings.\nThe VETS has Installed MERV-13 filters and established enhanced outside air exchange protocols to provide greater amounts of fresh air from its air handling system.\nThrough our partnerships with Clorox, increased janitorial protocols have been implemented across all areas of the building, focusing on increased cleaning and sanitizing with specific emphasis on high touchpoints and frequency utilizing the latest in Clorox Total 360 Electrostatic Technology.\nContactless Amenities\nNo Touch Ticket Scanning Kiosks have been installed to allow patrons to scan their own tickets upon entry.\nTouchless Purell hand sanitizer dispensers have been installed throughout the venue.\nIn our restrooms, we have installed automated flush devices for our toilets and urinals as well as touchless Purell soap and paper towel dispensers.\nConcessions will be available and new contactless payment options are available including Apple Pay. Guests may lower their mask only while actively eating or drinking.\nKnow before you go!\nWhat to expect when entering The VETS.\nQ: Why are you doing this?\nA: Theatres across Rhode Island and the Country were the first to close and remain the last to reopen. Over the last 17 months an association of venue leaders from across the country have worked together with top medical professionals to learn how to live in this new environment with the Virus. By working together this group created a path to do just that and to bring you, our audiences back safely.\nQ: What documents do I need to bring with me to the theatre?\nA: Proof of Vaccine, it can be your official card or a photo or copy of your vaccine card along with a photo ID. If you are unable to vaccinate (this includes accommodations for children under 12 and people with a medical condition or closely held religious belief that prevents vaccination.) then you must provide proof of a negative COVID-19 PCR test taken within 72 hours of the performance start time, or a negative COVID-19 antigen test taken within 6 hours of the performance start time.\nQ: How long will these protocol\/policies be in place?\nA: These policies are effective immediately and until further notice. The VETS COVID protocol may change, be extended, or be relaxed, without notice, as we continue to evaluate all protocols, informed by science, and conforming to all Federal, State, and local requirements. This protocol will follow changing rules and guidelines as they evolve for the safety of our patrons.\nQ: Where can I get my test done?\nA: There are many testing centers across Rhode Island including CVS and Walgreens. Visit https:\/\/covid.ri.gov\/testing for the location nearest you.\nQ: What's the difference between COVID tests?\nA: COVID-19 PCR test taken within 72 hours of the performance start time (and takes 24 hours to receive results), and a negative COVID-19 antigen test taken within 6 hours of the performance start time (is known as a rapid results test as you should have results within 15 minutes).\nQ: I've had COVID. Do I still need to be tested or obtain a vaccine?\nA: Proof of Vaccine or COVID-19 Negative Test results are always required.\nQ: Can I get a refund if I test positive or I choose not to be vaccinated or tested?\nA: Please email Box_Office_Questions@ppacri.org or call 401-421-2787 in advance of your performance date and we will do everything we can to exchange your tickets for a future date or provide a refund if necessary.\nQ: What do I do if I lost my vaccination card?\nA: Check your point of immunization; however, a photo of your immunization card or copy of the card is also accepted.\nQ: Will there be food and drink in the theatre?\nA: Food & Drinks will be available and the only time you may lower your mask is while actively eating or drinking.\nQ: Will children need to have an ID?\nA: No. patrons 12 and under will not be asked for ID.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"First Look At Mark Hamill's Chucky For 'Child's Play' Remake\nby Michael Bezanidis on April 16, 2019\nThe first official image of Mark Hamill's Chucky for the upcoming Child's Play remake has been revealed.\nA brand new Child's Play movie is hitting theaters this June, with Star Wars star Mark Hamill on board as the voice of Chucky the killer doll. Earler this morning, Mark Hamill took to Twitter to give fans a first look at Chucky's design for the highly-anticipated remake.\nMark Hamill Reacts To The Teaser For Joaquin Phoenix's 'Joker'\nYou can check out the image of Mark Hamil's Chucky below.\nDirected by Lars Klevberg from a script by Tyler Burton Smith, Child's Play is a remake and a reboot of the 1988 horror classic by Tom Holland. The film also stars Aubrey Plaza, Gabriel Bateman and Brian Tyree Henry.\nWhat do you think of this first look at Mark Hamill's Chucky? Are you excited for the new Child's Play movie? Let us know in the comments.\n'Star Wars' Actor Mark Hamill Pays Tribute To Fellow Batman Voice Actor\nHere's the official synopsis for the Child's Play remake:\nA contemporary re-imagining of the 1988 horror classic, CHILD'S PLAY follows Karen (Aubrey Plaza), a single mother who gifts her son Andy (Gabriel Bateman) a Buddi doll, unaware of its more sinister nature.\nChild's Play opens in theaters on June 21, 2019. Stay tuned for more updates on the project.\nTop Actors To Replace Ben Affleck In Matt Reeves' 'The Batman'\nPrevious1 of 7Next\nBen Affleck is officially out as Batman and it's a pretty sad day.\nWords cannot describe how sad I am to see Ben Affleck announce that he's no longer Batman. His Batman is why I do what I do. In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, I fell in love with his comic book-accurate interpretation of the Caped Crusader. It was a breath of fresh air and it felt like we finally had the one true Batman.\nThree years have quickly sped by and we're officially going to receive a new Batman for his next movie. Last night, Ben Affleck announced that he will not return as the Dark Knight in Matt Reeves' The Batman and now everyone's attention has moved towards wanting to know who the next Bruce Wayne will be. Matt Reeves is said to want an actor that's around 20 years younger than Affleck while Warner Bros. wants someone older. My guess is that Reeves wants a fresh start while the studio wants an older actor for crossover potential.\nIn this list, I will discuss the actors I think can replace Ben Affleck as Batman using the parameters that Matt Reeves and Warner Bros. want. Hit Next to see our picks to play the Batman.\nMichael Fassbender is an X-Men alum and no stranger to comic book franchises. The actor has shown multiple levels of range and could definitely handle the Batman\/Bruce Wayne personality. If they go with the older range for the next Dark Knight, then Fassbender is probably one of the best choices to take over the role.\nBen Barnes is out of a job after The Punisher season 2 and he's one of the best actors in that series. The second season tied up Barnes' arc on The Punisher and the actor has already told us that that he'd love to play the Caped Crusader. Barnes definitely has the pretty boy look going on for him and I wonder what his take on Bruce Wayne could be.\nI've said this before and I'll say it again: Ryan Gosling needs to star in a superhero movie. I've always thought Gosling would make a great Batman. Every role that he's done has shown us his capability and he could crush it as Bruce Wayne.\nJon Hamm is my top choice for an older Batman. If Warner Bros. wants to cast an older actor for crossover potential, Jon Hamm is the studio's best bet. He has a similar look to Ben Affleck, and c'mon, the guy's look just screams Bruce Wayne.\nArmie Hammer is 32 years old and was cast as the Caped Crusader in George Miller's Justice League: Mortal. That film will never see the light of day, but that doesn't mean that Hammer doesn't deserve a second shot at being the Batman. He's charming, broody and will probably give his all for this role. Armie Hammer is a great option because he's young enough for Matt Reeves and Warner Bros. could work in a way for him to crossover with the rest of the DC Extended Universe.\nGame of Thrones alum Richard Madden is my top choice to replace Ben Affleck as Batman. The actor is young, has the look and definitely has the acting chops to play the duality of Batman and Bruce Wayne. Madden just won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television series for the BBC drama Bodyguard, so Warner Bros. may want to quickly snatch him up.\nMichael Bezanidis\nMichael is the Managing Editor of Heroic Hollywood. When he's not playing video games, he's usually writing about film and television.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Forward Growth in Illinois\nIn July, Illinois held the first of three lotteries for new recreational Marijuana dispensary licenses in 2021. This lottery comes more than a year after it was suppose to award new dispensary licenses, after being held up by covid, and litigation. Out of the 589 applicants 55 winners were chosen. Although these winners have there license it is undetermined when they can start operating. We meet up with Jim Remke as he shares the new developments in Illinois.\nHarry Brelsford 0:09\nHey 420 MSP Harry here on the road, but I caught up. We're catching up with my good friend Jim Remke out of the Chicago land area. How you doing, Jim?\nJim Remke 0:21\nI'm doing good here. How are you?\nGood, good. Yeah, it's starting to get busy again. So, hey, it's been a little while since we talked what so what's news? What's going on in your world? What's going on in Illinois? what's what's happening?\nYeah, yeah, things overall are going well, in regards to the cannabis industry, we're making some headway in there, we're starting to work with more end users and establishing some more partnerships with all sorts of different companies, maybe their software, maybe their network, specialists or it, you know, maintenance providers. And yeah, just kind of get more inroads there. One of the things that has been pretty successful for us, in some regards, is just helping people identify the correct hardware solution. Sometimes you'd be surprised, there's actually some, some companies that have recommended hardware solutions on their sites for certain software, and he be surprised to find out that a lot of those aren't necessarily integrated properly. So we'll actually run through some troubleshooting and do some remote, you know, remote kind of loads are what's the right word to say, just testing labbing, you know, evaluating different equipment and stuff like that hooked up with different terminals and stuff to make sure that people are getting their equipment, right. And they're not having to put it in two or three times. You know, so that's kind of where we're seeing some success right now. And yeah, just keep keep plugging away. Yeah.\nAny updates on the state of Illinois? You know, now cheese two years ago, literally two years ago voted to legalize recreational as I recall. What what's any, any developments? Are you seeing the permits were allowed or the dispensaries opening? what's what's going on in your home state?\nYeah, the house in the Senate and the state, put the bill to the governor, and he finally signed it. Well, maybe a couple of weeks ago, or a week ago or so. And so they're going forward with licenses for over 200 craft grows infusers and transporters. And then they're also announced lottery dates for the dispensaries. There's three different dates. I think the first one is July 29, where they'll award 55 licenses, and then now you're going to do two more ladders after that. But yeah, things seem to be moving forward. For the most part. I did read one thing yesterday that said something about now, some group in Michigan is trying to halt the process, again, saying that it excludes out of state applicants, which is against the federal interstate trade commerce act or something. So I don't know. Hopefully, it moves forward. But I'm I don't know what to expect.\nYeah, yeah. No, it's, it's all a mystery, but it is accelerating. We appreciate the update. We'll, we'll we'll circle back to you soon. And check in and see how it's going. But congratulations on for growth.\nYeah, thank you very much.\nGood to talk with you here.\nAll righty. Bye bye.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"F2P Week\n\u2190 Buffalo Beer Buzz: West Shore Can Debut, Buffalo Cask Fest, Santas of Swig Homebrew Fundraiser, Brickyard Brewing Double Can Release & Sale\nBuffalo Beer Buzz: Woodcock XPA 17, Sweet & Sour Beers at Pizza Plant, Cookies for a Cause at Resurgence, Beer & Cookies at Pearl Street, 12 Gates 4th Anniversary Party \u2192\nWest Shore Brewing to Release Green Flyer IPA in Cans\nPosted on December 5, 2019 by Brian Patrick\nIf you would have asked West Shore Brewing Owner Josh Dziomba four years ago, when the brewery was still in the planning stages, if he thought he'd ever release one of his beers in cans, he would have said no. If you would have asked him again two years later, when the Clarence watering hole opened for business, he still would have said no. But, fast forward to December 2019, if you were to ask him once more, he would answer with a resounding yes. That is because West Shore will hold their first ever can release this weekend and they are looking to one of their core staples to lead the charge \u2013 Green Flyer IPA (one of the best beers in Western New York no one is talking about in my opinion (which will soon change thankfully)).\nWest Shore's flagship IPA will be released in cans on December 7 (12pm) at the brewery. All members of West Shore's Mug Club will be able to buy cans the day prior, on December 6. Green Flyer IPA will be released in 4-pack 16oz. cans. There will be no limits.\nDziomba explains that it was a shift in the marketplace, along with the constant evolution of the craft beer industry, that helped led to this can release.\n\"Two years ago when we opened I did not really think we would be in that market,\" he says. \"However, the market has been changing, and the industry evolving, and cans have become almost a must for a brewery in terms of how much of an impact you can make in the marketplace.\"\n\"It really means that we are taking the next big step in our growth,\" he continues, speaking about what releasing one of his beers in cans means to him on a personal level. \"I have always had a 5\/10\/15 year plan and now we are finally seeing some of those steps start to fall into place. It really did take me almost two years of a lot of trial and error to really refine what I have been doing. I think you have see the first real steps of this with out bourbon barrel aged stout we released over the summer, our fruited sours, and the Bavarian Cream Donut beer. We are now able to nail down some traditional beer while still leaving room for experimentation.\"\nGreen Flyer was the obvious choice to release in cans first, because \"this beer has become as close to a flagship as we have ever had,\" Dziomba says, adding \"whenever I have talked about canning, this has always been the first beer people have said I should can.\" West Shore's flagship IPA didn't arrive in its current form overnight; as you might expect, many recipe tweaks, changes and adjustments got it to where it is today and, as Dziomba explains, it's been a hell of a journey.\n\"This beer has evolved quite a bit over the last couple of years. Just the other day I was looking at the recipe for the first batch, and it was so radically different than today. First batch was over 7% an 75 IBU. I mean, that's crazy for a New England IPA. However, it was my very first NE style ever. Eventually it started to morph and evolve into a mid 6% beer, but the big change came when in January of 2019, my requirements for a NYS Farm Brewery changed from 20% to 60% ingredient bill. Couple that with the rising price of Citra hops, and as a small brewery I can't always get it. That's when I really zoned in on a recipe. I partnered up with Vertical Vines locally and started using NY Centennial as a base for this beer. The super dank tangerine notes play perfectly with the catty pineapple of Simcoe and all around awesomeness of Mosaic. Now, while this beer is NEIPA inspired, I hesitate to call this beer a true New England because it has so much NY flare in it, plus NE has really started pushing the barriers of hop fruitiness. Green Flyer has tons of citrus overtones and this batch has some nice papaya like notes to it, but it still has elements of a classic American IPA.\"\n\"As for the name, we have always been a railroad inspired brewery. Our tag line, which hasn't really been represented, is 'The Route To Great Taste.' This is a call back to the railroad of a different era. Green Flyer is inspired by a Vermont Passenger train, The Green Mountain Flyer. Not only in name but in can art as well.\"\nComing out of all of this, the logical question is, 'what's next,' and luckily for all of us, Dziomba has been asking himself the same thing. \"Already planning the next can release, just have to decide which one it will be,\" he says. He adds that we can expect to see a Double IPA, Sour and an Oatmeal Stout coming in cans in the not-so-distant future, but he just isn't sure what one is next in the pipeline. I think I speak for the majority, if not all, of us when I said, any one of those sounds delicious.\nFor more information on West Shore's Green Flyer can release, visit https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/718427778641205\/.\nBrian Campbell is a co-founder\/Brand Manager of the BNBA's enthusiast arm, Buffalo Beer League, and writes the weekly Buffalo Beer Buzz column. If you have beer news that should be included in the Beer Buzz, Brian can be reached at buffalobeerleague@aol.com, on Twitter (@buffbeerleague), Instagram (@buffalobeerleague), Facebook (@thebuffalobeerleague) and www.buffalobeerleague.com.\nThis entry was posted in Beer Event, Beer Feature, Beer Release and tagged beer feature, west shore brewing. Bookmark the permalink.\nJoin the Buffalo Beer League\n10th Annual Buffalo Beer Week\nBuffalo Beer Week Book","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Visit Credit Valley Parks After Dark at the Ignite the Night Event Series\nConversations, Media Release, News Room \/ Credit Valley Parks, Explore our Parks, Island Lake, Terra Cotta, Things to Do \/ Monday, January 23, 2023 Monday, January 23, 2023\nExperience the bright side of winter as Credit Valley Conservation (CVC) hosts Ignite the Night at Island Lake and Terra Cotta Conservation Areas. Visitors can explore the parks after dark on trails illuminated with fire and lights. The event series runs Friday and Saturday nights from January 27 until March 4.\nHiking and snowshoeing are great ways to enjoy this outdoor experience. One hour ice skating rink reservations will also be available at both locations, as conditions permit. This after dark event will run from 5:30 to 8 p.m. and regular park admission applies. Credit Valley Parks passholders receive free admission to each park.\nOn select nights, CVC will host Ignite the Night Plus which offers equipment rentals at both locations, and lake access for moonlit skating and ice fishing at Island Lake. Rentals and lake access are based on safe winter conditions. On these nights the parks will stay open until 9 p.m.\nSpecial dates for Ignite the Night Plus include:\nIsland Lake Conservation Area, Orangeville \u2013 February 4 and March 4\nTerra Cotta Conservation Area, Halton Hills \u2013 February 4 and 18\nRegistration is not required. Event details are available at cvcevents.ca. For the latest updates on park conditions, check CVC's Park Advisories page at cvc.ca\/park-advisories\/.\nTerra Cotta Conservation Area illuminated for CVC's Ignite the Night event series\nhttps:\/\/files.cvc.ca\/cvc\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20230118_034131578_iOS-scaled.jpg\nAbout Credit Valley Conservation (CVC)\nCredit Valley Conservation is one of 36 conservation authorities in Ontario. Conservation authorities are provincial\/municipal partnerships that manage the natural environment of a watershed, an area of land where the rain and snowmelt drain into a body of water. For more than 60 years, Credit Valley Conservation (CVC) has worked with its partners to build a thriving environment that protects, connects and sustains us. CVC is a member of Conservation Ontario.\nJamie Williams\nSpecialist, Marketing & Communications\nRequest information or an interview with CVC.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Why CIGC\nOvarian Cysts & Pelvic Masses\nMenopause & Hormone Therapy\nEndometrial Hyperplasia\nEndometriosis Excision\nOvarian Cystectomy\nResection of Pelvic Adhesions\nLAAM\nDualPortGYN\nVaginal Access Procedures\nCIGC Techniques\nNon-CIGC Techniques\nThe Robotic Surgery Controversy\nUFE and UAE Risks\nThe CIGC Difference\nAdenomyosis FAQs\nReady for a Consultation\nBy Natalya Danilyants, MD - Laparoscopic GYN Surgeon and Co-Founder of CIGC\nAdenomyosis Specialists\nOur experienced physicians help women understand the symptoms, diagnose the condition, and recommend the best treatment path.\nCIGC Surgeons Understand Adenomyosis\nAdenomyosis is a condition in which the cells that line the inside of the uterus (endometrium) are abnormally located in cells that make up the uterine wall (myometrium). This condition can result in a somewhat enlarged uterus. This tissue thickens, breaks down, and bleeds during every menstrual cycle and can cause very painful periods and heavy bleeding1. Adenomyosis can be difficult to diagnose \u2014 and, without seeing a specialist, symptoms like heavy bleeding and pelvic pain are often dismissed. Many patients also ask the difference between adenomyosis and endometriosis, since the symptoms sometimes resemble each other or occur simultaneously.\nAdenomyosis, while not a cancerous or precancerous condition, can still cause debilitating pain and severe menstrual bleeding for some women. Adenomyosis can be detected with a Magnetic Resonance Imagining (MRI) scan \u2014 and at times a transvaginal ultrasound \u2014 but it is confirmed after surgery through pathology. To be cured of adenomyosis, one must get a hysterectomy. Adenomyosis is an extremely common condition, but it is not always readily identified by many doctors, as initial imaging of the uterus is often conducted by an ultrasound.\nThe specialists at The Center for Innovative GYN Care\u00ae (CIGC\u00ae) are fellowship-trained and highly experienced in treating adenomyosis. They have seen many women who have had failed treatments for adenomyosis, including birth control or ablation. Neither of these treatments control the disease. The specialists at CIGC perform minimally invasive hysterectomies using DualPortGYN\u00ae with a low risk of complications, fast recovery, and less pain.\nAdenomyosis Symptoms\nAdenomyosis can vary greatly from woman to woman. It can be localized (to one area of the uterus), diffuse (involving large areas of the uterine muscle), scattered, or clustered. Adenomyosis can cause debilitating pain and severe menstrual bleeding for some women; however, up to 30 percent of women with adenomyosis have no symptoms at all.\nThe symptoms of adenomyosis may include:\nSevere pelvic pain with the menstrual cycle\nPain in the legs and back\nSwelling of the abdomen\nPain with intercourse\nClots in the legs and pelvis\nAbdominal pressure and bloating\nFocal adenomyosis in the uterus\nDiffuse, extensive adenomyosis with bleeding in the uterus\nAdenomyosis Causes\nThe causes of adenomyosis are unknown; however, some theories have been formed about its origins. One theory is that the endometrial cells are somehow able to migrate and invade the normal uterine wall. Another theory is that cells in the uterine wall develop into endometrial cells1.\nSome causes may include:\nUterine inflammation related to childbirth\nPeriods after childbirth might cause a break in the normal boundaries of uterine-lining cells\nStem cell origins\nBone marrow stem cells invade uterine muscle\nAdenomyosis Risk Factors\nIt seems that childbearing, previous uterine surgery, short menstrual cycles, and an early age of first period may be risk factors for adenomyosis.\nAdditional risk factors include:\nFibroid removal (myomectomy)\nAdenomyosis Complications\nChronic anemia and fatigue from heavy bleeding during periods\nDisrupted lifestyle from pain and fear of bleeding\nAdenomyosis Diagnosis\nAn MRI scan is the best imaging study for diagnosing adenomyosis. The characteristic feature on an MRI is a thickened junctional zone, which is the thin innermost layer of uterine muscle wall. Sometimes adenomyosis forms a mass and is mistaken for fibroids on imaging studies. An ultrasound can also be used to look for adenomyosis but is less sensitive than an MRI. An enlarged \"globular\" uterus, thickened endometrial lining, and a heterogeneous uterine wall are sonographic features that are indications of adenomyosis. If your OBGYN has a normal ultrasound and you suspect adenomyosis, an MRI should be obtained.\nA preliminary diagnosis of adenomyosis is based on reported symptoms by the patient. Since adenomyosis can occur simultaneously with other conditions, a proper diagnosis is missed by clinicians. For example, a woman having heavy periods may have both adenomyosis and fibroids. Since fibroids are a well-known cause of heavy periods, a clinician may assume her heavy bleeding is from the fibroids.\nHowever, if only the fibroids are removed, the adenomyosis will still be present and she will continue to have heavy bleeding.\nUnfortunately, the only way to definitively diagnose adenomyosis is by having a pathologist examine the uterus after a hysterectomy has been performed. Imaging studies can be used to suggest adenomyosis but are not completely accurate.\nAdditional diagnostic tools include:\nMay reveal that the uterus is enlarged\nThe injection of saline solution though a tiny tube into the uterus during an ultrasound\nThe collection of uterine tissue to test whether or not uterine bleeding is associated with adenomyosis\nAdenomyosis always needs to be considered in patients who have heavy bleeding and severe pelvic pain with periods. Since the condition is more common than most OBGYNs realize, patients with this condition may experience years of pain and suffering. Adenomyosis needs to be suspected in these patients, and clinical and diagnostic studies performed to diagnose or rule out adenomyosis.\nAdenomyosis Treatment\nThe only cure for adenomyosis is a hysterectomy. Unlike fibroids, which are often surrounded by a capsule, there is no clear border between adenomyotic tissue and normal uterine tissue. Because of this, adenomyosis cannot be effectively removed the way fibroids can, and, when removed, portions of the uterine muscle are removed as well2.\nFertility and Adenomyosis\nFor women who are not yet finished with childbearing, the symptoms of adenomyosis can be temporarily managed through medication. Although not always very effective, hormonal suppression with continuous birth control pills, Depo-Provera, or the Mirena IUD (intrauterine device) may help to keep symptoms manageable3.\nThe adenomyosis specialists at CIGC perform advanced minimally invasive surgery to treat all complex GYN conditions. While hysterectomy is the primary surgical solution for adenomyosis, any course of treatment is thoroughly discussed by the specialists, and is weighed against each patient's goals for fertility. The CIGC state-of-the-art laparoscopic techniques make it possible to treat complex GYN conditions using just two small incisions with minimal recovery time.\nDualPortGYN was developed by the CIGC minimally invasive GYN specialists to improve the outcomes of GYN surgery. DualPortGYN takes advantage of advanced surgical techniques that enhance the safety of each procedure.\nSpecialists Not OBGYNs\nYour OBGYN may be a good physician, but an OBGYN is a generalist, not a surgical specialist. The majority of the practice of an OBGYN is dedicated to obstetrics care, so your doctor does not get nearly enough patient volume or practice to learn the best surgical techniques. The average OBGYN performs only 10 to 15 hysterectomies per year, while our surgeons average 400 per year. Since a heavy surgical volume is necessary to develop and maintain surgical expertise, it is easy to see why you should see a CIGC surgeon for your adenomyosis surgery.\nAt CIGC, our adenomyosis surgeons have made a commitment to minimally invasive adenomyosis removal. We perform a higher volume of cases, see a wider range of case types, and undergo comprehensive training in advanced laparoscopic techniques. Our surgeons are able to perform even the most complex GYN surgeries with the lowest complication rates. Whether you are undergoing a definitive surgery or a conservative surgery for your adenomyosis, when you have it done at CIGC, you know you are working with specialists who concentrate only on this type of procedure.\nWho does adenomyosis affect?\nAlthough it most commonly affects women in their 40s and 50s, it can occur even among teenagers. Current research suggests that adenomyosis may be common in younger women4.\nHow common is adenomyosis?\nAdenomyosis is an extremely common condition, but it is not always readily identified by many doctors. Initial imaging of the uterus is often conducted by an ultrasound, which is commonly used to detect fibroids, but has more difficulty detecting adenomyosis. An MRI scan is a better visual test to detect adenomyosis.\nWhat is the association between adenomyosis and infertility?\nAt this time, it is unclear, with some studies showing an association and others showing none. In general, it is thought that the severe inflammation caused by migration of the uterine lining into the muscle prevents implantation of the embryo into the uterine lining, thereby causing infertility.\nWill menopause occur after hysterectomy?\nMany women fear that removing the uterus will immediately put them into menopause, and all of the symptoms and health concerns that accompany it. This is not the case. The ovaries, not the uterus, produce the hormones that dictate menopause. If the ovaries are left in place, a woman will go through menopause when it is her time.\nThe only obvious change will be the lack of a monthly menstrual cycle. In many cases, unless there is a genetic risk of ovarian cancer or signs of existing cancer, the ovaries can be retained. Speak at length to your GYN specialist about your long-term goals and how hormone therapy can play a role in managing menopause symptoms, especially in the transition and early stages.\nIs adenomyosis the same as endometriosis?\nNo. Although they can occur together, endometriosis is when endometrial cells (the lining of the uterus) are in a location outside of the uterus. Adenomyosis is when these cells are within the uterus, in the uterine wall. Although both can cause pain, endometriosis does not typically cause heavy bleeding.\nIf you think you have adenomyosis, our specialists are ready to provide an evaluation of your symptoms and conditions and recommend an appropriate solution.\nHuffington Post | What is Adenomyosis? Experts Explain this Common Women's Health Issue\nIn The Press, Featured\nExtremely Painful Periods: Adenomyosis Awareness Month\nGYN Surgery, Advocacy\nKia's Adenomyosis Pain Felt Like Being Stabbed Every Month\nGYN Surgery, Fibroids, Patient Testimonials\nTiffany D. Needed A Specialist For Multiple GYN Conditions\nGYN Surgery, Fibroids, Endometriosis\nLearn the Difference Between Adenomyosis and Endometriosis\nGYN Surgery, Endometriosis\n1 Struble J, Reid S, Bedaiwy M. Adenomyosis: A clinical review of a challenging gynecologic condition. J Minim Invasive Gynecol. 2016 Feb 1;23(2):164-85\n2 Osada H. Uterine adenomyosis and adenomyoma: the surgical approach. Fertil Steril. 2018 Mar;109(3):406-417\n3 Pontis A, D'Alterio M, Pirarba S, et al. Adenomyosis: a systematic review of medical treatment. Gynecol Endocrinol. 2016 Sep;32(9):696-700.\n4 Adenomyosis. (2018, June 08). 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{"text":"Home \u00bb Oregon standoff \u2013 an American story\nOregon standoff \u2013 an American story\nGunnar Bjornson\nThe long-suffering Bundy family is again in the focus of the American media. In 2014, its members, with the support of the armed volunteers from all over the United States have opposed the federal government. Then they talked about the protection of their own property. This time the situation is somewhat different.\nThe Occasion\nFormally, the people who occupied parts of the Federal reserve in Oregon on January 2nd are on their own grounds. They need to give federal land to local farmers, loggers and miners. The difference is the initiators came from other states. At the head of the armed group there is Ammon Bundy, son of Cliven Bundy, who defended his ranch in 2014.\nFormally, they are defending the interests of the Hammond family, whose members are in jail, who were first accused of arson, and then terrorism. But the Hammonds themselves now refuse assistance from volunteers. Despite this, people of Bundy continue confrontation with the feds.\nThe people who nobody hears\nArmed men from all the states went to the aid of Bundy, despite Bundy saying that he did not need help. The leader of the occupation movement said they were \"not needed, but things can still change\". According to the media, Ammon Bandy told the leaders of the militia movement to leave, but previously he addressed all the Americans through YouTube to support his actions if they want to be free citizens in a free country.\nThe fact that this call received an immediate response from the people from all over the country, demonstrates an important feature of the present American society: the society has a large stratum of people who traditionally do not trust the federal government. American elites, in turn, do not do anything to regain the trust of these people. They are depicted as the lunatics and psychopaths in the media, ridiculed in the popular shows, but none of the politicians are trying to ignore them. The exception is Donald Trump, but his growing popularity is due to the fact that he listens to white working class males of conservative orientation.\nThe whole policy of the United States in recent years, external and internal, is built on ignoring the vast majority of inhabitants of the country. They do not like pointless and costly wars, did not want Obamacare, do not like gay marriage and oppose the infringement of their right to bear arms, but federal authorities prefer to ignore them. The so-called militia is only the vanguard of the American silent majority. It is not surprising that the US establishment considers the extreme right to be a much more dangerous threat than the Muslim fanatics.\nGenuine American values\nMembers of the Bundy group are people who think that they can throw an armed challenge to the authorities, since they infringe on their individual freedom. \"Militia\" is a unique American phenomenon, which would be impossible in any other country in the world. The peculiarity of it is that these people protect the values on which the United States was founded: freedom, individuality, independence, self-government and religion.\nIt is significant that some of the armed Bundy groups, and Ammon Bundy himself, are Mormons, thus belong to one of the most notorious American sects. In the words of Ammon Bundy, he began leading the occupation after receiving a divine message from God ordering him to do so. The explanation is possible only in the United States, where presidents have used it before.\nThe situation is paradoxical; the US government opposes those who are the most pronounced bearers of the values on which the state and society was built on. The federal government ignores the social stratum that has made America, created a unique identity for American civilization. In this you can see the sunset of the US or a sign that its rulers are no longer linked to the United States themselves. They only care about the global agenda.\nLone wolfs against the system\nAmerican social psychology is individualistic. Cult heroes, who, by themselves, save the world in a hostile environment, dominate the public mind. That is why the militia is not able to offer any effective collective action. People act separately, under the influence of spontaneous ecstatic revelations and other individual factors, and therefore are not capable of organizing a series of measures to counteract the authorities.\nRedneck-Heideggerians\nNevertheless, the militia is what undermines the hegemony of American liberal elites, contesting the order they have established within in the US, and disputes their forged America from the perspective of authentic America, without an admixture of dangerous European values and concepts brought by highbrow emigrants from Europe since the 1930's. Freedom and global Empire cannot coexist.\nTo be a pole in a multipolar system, the civilization must return to its roots, to be itself, exists authentically. American rednecks in fact challenge the world system philosophically. It is the challenge of American Dasein, if we dare to use the language of the last great philosopher Martin Heidegger.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Beautiful books to lift your Spirit\nTel: 353 (1) 687 4096\nParish & Pastoral\nSaints & Scholars\nWomen and the Faith\nHomeShopTheology & PhilosophyCan I Stay in the Catholic Church\nHome \/ Theology & Philosophy \/ Can I Stay in the Catholic Church\nCan I Stay in the Catholic Church\nBrian Lennon SJ\n170pp\nCan I Stay in the Catholic Church quantity\nSKU: 9781856077538 Category: Theology & Philosophy Product ID: 1055\n'Can I stay?' is a question faced by many in the light of the Church's response to child abuse. For Brian Lennon, however, the question comes up not only because of the abuse but also because of the faith struggles with which he has lived for many years. The revelations about abuse brought these to a head. They also focused questions about the institution: why is it so dysfunctional and what can we do about this?\nIn the book, he goes back to the core values of the Church's Founder in the scriptures and also looks at periods in history when Church structures were quite different. Doing this gives hope: if the Church changed in the past it can change in the future.\nHe addresses directly the way the Church dealt with the abuse by asking why did Church leaders respond as they did? Who was to blame? In what ways, if any, were non-leaders in the Church connected to the crisis? He believes that the influence within Church structures of patriarchal practices, undue deference, lack of accountability and transparency made the appalling response more likely. And this in turn further undermined faith, already difficult because of wider cultural issues.\nThe Church needs to repent. One sign of this will be structural change. This will not happen without a great effort by many. Part of that effort will involve deeply divided people within the Church learning how to speak to each other about issues that are currently dealt with in a dialogue of the deaf: issues such as the ordination of women, clerical power, and a monarchical papacy. Lay leadership will be needed for that to happen. So also will a Third Vatican Council.\nBrian Lennon SJ is a Jesuit priest and has been involved in community and ecumenical work for the past 40 years. He has written several books touching on the Northern Ireland conflict and was a founder member of Community Dialogue. He has led probably 1000 processes which have brought together ex-combatants and others, including those who have lost loved ones in the conflict. As well as this work he currently coordinates a group to support and encourage newly-released prisoners.\nBeautiful books\nto lift your Spirit\nAddress: Unit 3B, Block 3, Bracken Business Park, Bracken Road\nSandyford, Dublin 18\nPhone: + 353 (1) 687 4096\nEmail: info@columba.ie\nColumba Books \u00a9 2020 All Rights Reserved","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bad Faith, Bad Religion\nA new documentary purporting to expose the sexism inherent in certain filmmaking techniques turns out to be an enemy to media literacy\n'The trap of representation' in cinema at large and in Hollywood in particular is usually understood to mean the way in which increased presence on screens does not necessarily translate into larger creative power or salaries in front of and behind the camera, and in fact may hurt the fight for these rights as it dulls the motivation to fight for them. It is more rarely used to refer to the extremely superficial, literal-minded, decontextualised approach to cinema which legitimate concerns about representation seem to have encouraged in some people. If there ever was doubt that bad faith 'feminist' readings of films had a life outside of viral TikTok videos, there is no longer: Nina Menkes' documentary Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power is proof that this way of approaching art is now trying to legitimise itself. Considering the middling-to-positive reviews the film has received from several serious outlets after its premiere at this year's Sundance Film Festival, this is the kind of dangerous development in film spectatorship that Martin Scorsese may well write an op-ed about soon.\nThe film, based on a talk Menkes has delivered in various cities across the world since 2017, begins in voiceover with the words \"as a filmmaker and a woman,\" already outlining the speaker\/director's gender essentialist perspective on cinema \u2014 one which, while useful when looking at statistics of who gets to make films in Hollywood, surely could never survive the scrutiny of 105 minutes of film analysis. Are we still to believe, in 2022, that men and women \u2014 those old-fashioned binary categories \u2014 really direct films in fundamentally different ways, either because of their gender and\/or because of the experience of the world that this gender comes with? Does Menkes herself even believe it?\nShe at the very least claims to, and her method for proving her tenuous point relies largely on a series of bad faith arguments, false equivalences and logical leaps, laid upon a flimsy foundation of film theory 101. After a condescending explanation of the difference between subject and object, she briefly interviews Laura Mulvey, whom she actually calls \"the original gangster of film theory.\" Though the legendary theorist's own contribution is rather nuanced, Menkes practically ignores her comment \u2014 the way she will continue to do, without fail, with her many other prestigious interview subjects \u2014 better to offer a wilfully simplified and decontextualised summary of the thesis laid out in the scholar's groundbreaking, frequently revisited and problematised essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. In one of many confounding examples of the supposedly insidious objectification of women in cinema, Menkes talks about women's \"to-be-looked-at-ness\" while showing a pole-dancing scene from Lorene Scafaria's Hustlers \u2014 hardly the kind of subtle, hard-to-decipher \"vortex of visual language\" that the suspenseful Philip Glass-lite score would lead us to expect. Menkes does not seem to know that objectification is partly the point of pole-dancing, and her 'analysis' misses out completely the way cinematographer Todd Banhazl (a man!) and director Scafaria (a woman?!) go out of their way to amplify not just the beauty, but also the acrobatic prowess of Jennifer Lopez in the scene. She also conveniently leaves out the fact that said pole-dancers are in fact the main protagonists, in a film which explicitly touches on the liberating potential of this activity. It is tempting to interpret Menkes' silence here as an implicit comment about how demeaning she finds pole dancing to be, something only women who have been \"brainwashed\" into flaunting their forms would do. But looking for any kind of subtext here, even the most reactionary, may be giving a rhetorically confused film too much credit.\nAs Menkes goes on to deliver correct if obvious readings of the way shot design influences our understanding and perceptions of characters, it is bad enough to see her talk about basic concepts of shot construction like they are mental warfare. What makes this even less bearable is that she seems to have gone out of her way to select examples in which the objectification of women is, again and again, very much the point. She highlights the use of soft focus cinematography on women with a clip of Rita Hayworth in Orson Welles' The Lady from Shanghai (1947), never mentioning the fact that this technique is rarely used anymore \u2014 Brainwashed is only concerned with film history to conveniently mention that \"the very first narrative film features a woman subject, a woman protagonist, and was directed by a woman producer\/director,\" referring to Alice Guy-Blach\u00e9's 1896 film The Cabbage Fairy. More frustrating is the decision to deny what the images alone make obvious: the character played by Hayworth is clearly a femme fatale, a mysterious woman of such entrancing beauty that men would follow her into hell. She is an otherworldly figure, and the soft focus cinematography and saturated lighting do not simply make her traits appear smoother like an Instagram filter \u2014 they also make her seductive aura visible, her imperfections literally disappearing as though the viewers themselves were hypnotised.\nIt is as if Menkes herself was blinded by the seductive power of her own conveniently simple argument, repeatedly ignoring the obvious artistic justifications for objectification present in every single one of her clips save for one (more on this below). One of her most convincing (but also least original) arguments is on the close-up, which effectively fragments the female subject into distinct body parts, turning a character into an object of flesh to be looked at and touched but not approached as an active agent. It's a fair point, especially when considering how rarely male characters are framed in this way. But Menkes chooses to demonstrate it with a long sequence dedicated to the bath sex scene from Gordon Parks Jr.'s Superfly (1972), analysing a fantasy of unstoppable Black male power and sex appeal from a Blacksploitation film like it is a documentary.\nShe makes a similar mistake later on when looking at the opening credits for Brian de Palma's Carrie \u2014 similar, but even more shocking and maddening, as Menkes fails to realise that the film she is trying so hard to portray as an evil indoctrination into 'the male gaze' is already making the exact same point about female objectification that she is. We enter the female communal shower like it is a secret and forbidden world of carefree happiness and sensuality, full of naked young women laughing together and unaware of the camera, and Menkes gets painfully close to understanding the film when she says \"you have to wonder, the last time I was in a locker room, I wasn't prancing around!\" When the camera lands on a young woman languidly caressing her entire body while she showers, an outraged Menkes tells her audience, \"you can't even have an experience of your own body without seeing it from this weird angle.\"\nIt is just about possible to imagine someone watching this scene and not realising that it is intentionally over the top, a deliberately unrealistic vision of what young men \u2014 the implied audience for most commercial American films at the time \u2014 imagine or hope to happen in female showers. It is however inconceivable that anyone who has actually watched the entire film or simply seen what immediately follows this opening sequence would not perceive the intense irony at its heart. Menkes leaves this out: as the young woman suddenly begins to bleed, she screams and panics, then hurries out of the room while her classmates throw tampons at her. The sensual idyll is suddenly interrupted by period blood, that boner killer. The rug is suddenly pulled from under the implied heterosexual male viewer \u2014 the exact same one Menkes believes Hollywood is straightforwardly making all its films for.\nWhere Menkes sees a salacious filmmaker using his tools to hypnotise helpless viewers into objectifying \u2014 and therefore, it is implied, always disrespecting \u2014 women, De Palma was already conceiving of a cine-literate film watcher, an active spectator capable of grasping tone and humour, one aware of what a film usually does, is actually doing, and can do. For Menkes, the only such person able to see through the 'manipulation' is, of course, herself. The inclusion in Brainwashed of a casual post-lecture discussion among the people who have attended the talk seen in the film \u2014 a suspiciously well-dressed and well-groomed crowd \u2014 feels like an awkward attempt to mitigate that impression, showing that other people also feel this way about cinema, but only thanks to Menkes opening their eyes to their 'passive interpolation' into the 'dangerous' images that they consume.\nIt's a lack of tact, a forgiving of the optics of her own project, that she does not grant other female directors. The sequence where she states that Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar win for The Hurt Locker (2008) isn't a triumph for feminism because \"every single department head on this movie was male\" is almost convincing \u2014 it would have no doubt made things easier for women in Hollywood if the first Best Picture winner to be directed by a woman had other women in key positions. But then Menkes lets The Hurt Locker end credits play out in judgmental silence, and the absurdity of what we are watching becomes impossible to ignore. Regardless of one's opinion of the film, casting Bigelow as a traitor of women here is nothing short of ridiculous, a preposterous and simply unreasonable charge that once again shows a complete disinterest in history \u2014 though she probably didn't want to, it is highly unlikely Bigelow could have imposed female collaborators on The Hurt Locker, a film made some years before #MeToo gave (some) female directors this very real option and put greater scrutiny on studios regarding quotas. Most importantly, denouncing a film as unfeminist because some men worked on it, because it deals with the \"male\" topic of war, and features the typically \"male\" motif of slow-mo explosions, betrays a dispiriting vision of what Menkes' goals for feminism are, namely a world and a cinema where the problem of sexism can only be solved by completely severing all contact between men and women.\nThis goes some way towards explaining Menkes' counterproductive decision to point out the objectification of women not in random scenes from American cinema, but in sequences of straightforward seduction. If, as Menkes believes, men's lusting after women is inherently degrading, then seduction scenes are simply the most forceful way for her to make her point. \"I had no idea how to be a woman and at the same time be an active mover,\" the director states when looking back at her life as a younger woman trying to make it in Hollywood, and many women can relate to that sentiment; most, however, know that the solution isn't to reject objectification wholesale, to renounce and distrust beauty and attraction. Not Menkes, who seems unable to imagine women reclaiming and participating in their own objectification out of their own free will \u2014 to her, all women who do so have simply been 'brainwashed' by society and movies into displaying themselves. She objects to the scene where Gal Gadot walks through No Man's Land in Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman (2017) not because it somewhat dulls the horror of real-life events, but because Gadot's Diana walks down towards the enemy in slow-motion like she is \"on a catwalk.\" Looking good is, for Menkes, always a trap. In a whiplash-inducing sequence, she quotes Audre Lorde's \"the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house\" while looking at the famous opening shot on Scarlett Johansson's derriere from Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation (2003), and says \"one might wonder if this is supposed to be her face.\" Does anyone who has seen this film, about two people of different ages, genders and backgrounds forming a unique connection that does not fit any labels, really wonder if Scarlett Johansson's ass is her face?\nA mention of Ma\u00efmouna Doucour\u00e9's Cuties (2020), a film which caused controversy online when it was added to Netflix, was therefore to be expected, and Menkes retreads the same tired argument as the outraged online users, most of whom had not seen the film (this piece explains it all very well). More unexpected is Menkes linking Cuties to Pretty Baby, Leon and Lolita, all films which to some degree confront viewers with the hypersexualisation of young girls, but in wildly different ways and with hugely varying degrees of responsibility. Menkes simply isn't interested in such nuance and has no scruples throwing the Cuties out with the bathwater.\nShe refuses to acknowledge the possibility that certain formal strategies might have consistent effects (objectifying a character, emphasising their dominance over another, etc) but not consistent meanings \u2014 that their significance always depends on context. Only someone so fiercely resistant to this nuance could argue for a one-to-one correlation between representation and endorsement; between cinema and lived reality. Brainwashed opens on a nifty graphic in the shape of an upside down triangle \u2014 just like the one on the poster for Radu Jude's Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021), but without the self-awareness \u2014 that draws a straight line from \"visual language of cinema\" to \"employment discrimination\" and \"sexual abuse\/assault.\" Far from actually trying to prove this connection, Menkes simply peppers her banal analysis of shot design with both general statistics and anecdotes. After describing the poolside scene from Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull (1980) as sexist for showing closeups on Cathy Moriarty's body that are not consistent with the distance that actually separates her from her watcher, Robert de Niro (this is called directing), she serenely states that objectification in cinema is why women cannot get jobs. Following a clip from Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982) where Deckard forces himself on Rachael who eventually stops resisting, she says \"this kind of scene certainly contributed to\" Yale university students shouting \"no means yes\" outside a woman's door in 2010.\nThe scene from Blade Runner represents a rape, and filming it reportedly made actress Sean Young uncomfortable, in part because it was not initially planned as a scene of coercion. But it is narratively coherent on many levels, and it is disingenuous for Menkes to pretend that it is not. In a futuristic universe where characters are not sure whether they are humans or robots, and whether their memories or desires are truly their own, coercion has different implications than it does in the real world, which is precisely what makes the scene and the film so disturbing. It does not justify what Deckard does, but just because something happens in a film does not mean it is the morally right thing to happen \u2014 least of all in a neo-noir film, where characters are often unsympathetic, as Deckard is, and routinely make terrible decisions, as Deckard does.\nMenkes also includes examples of such scenes from other films, and she is right to say that \"we could make a ten hour lecture\" of clips of such moments. But does she really want to absolve those frat boys of all responsibility so easily? Over and over, she makes the mistake of putting the blame for misogyny and all its real-life consequences squarely on cinema, not realising that she is in fact letting people off the hook. In wilfully misinterpreting her clips, she argues for the existence of an utterly passive viewer who takes everything they are shown at face value and simply can't help hating women as a result. Under the guise of teaching film analysis tools that would liberate viewers from the grip of sexist cinema, she further encourages a panicked form of first degree interpretation that not only insults the intelligence of both film watchers and filmmakers, but also seeks to lock them into a narrow, uninventive and literal form of passive film viewing and cynical filmmaking.\nHer argument would be more convincing if she included more examples that actually do what she thinks they're doing, such as the scene from Jay Roach's Bombshell (2019) in which the camera, gliding down Margot Robbie's body just as John Lithgow's eyes do, makes the viewer complicit in his abuse. But that would require an actually rigorous approach, and Menkes puts more effort in the appearance of expertise than in its actuality. She includes brief interviews with prominent women directors such as Eliza Hittman and Julie Dash, but reduces their pertinent comments to soundbites, just long enough to give her incoherent film an air of legitimacy, but not so extensive that they could threaten its already wonky thesis. When she ends the film with a question for the audience, asking us to see \"\u200b\u200bwhat happens if you try to actually listen inward,\" she does not particularly bother to demonstrate how female filmmakers have tried to do just that. Besides brief mentions of films by her interview subjects, a clip from C\u00e9line Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), a spatter of Agn\u00e8s Varda, a migraine-inducing cut from Chantal Akerman's \u200b\u200bJeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) to Emerald Fennell's Promising Young Woman (2020), and a montage of female characters across various films breaking the fourth wall (?), she reserves close analysis of woman-made work to her own films only.\nIt would be interesting to hear more about her attempts to \"create something different\" and \"depict female characters as full on subjects with their own intense desires,\" but here, too, she cannot escape the anecdotal and the isolated, standalone event. In her first feature, starring her sister as \"a highly alienated prostitute,\" Menkes' way to \"express how it feels to be a sexualised object\" is to focus on the impassive face of the woman, leaving the writhing body on top of her largely off screen. In her short film The Great Sadness of Zohara, she gives her alienated character agency by having her repeatedly turn around to look into the camera. These are interesting choices, but hardly evidence of an overall visual strategy or language \u2014 the same compositions could be put to totally opposite purposes. Menkes once again affords herself and her work special treatment. Near the end of the documentary, while showing a clip from her film Phantom Love (2007) in which a woman floats horizontally in mid-air then explodes, Menkes does not hesitate to draw viewers' attention to her homage to Andrei Tarkovsky's Mirror (1975); considering everything that precedes this moment, it is impossible to imagine Menkes not condemn other women directors who might place themselves in the lineage of a revered male filmmaker in this way.\nElena Lazic\nElena is the founder and editor of Animus.\nPrevious PostA Tale of Two Cities: Paris and Sydney\nNext PostQueer Subversion in Art and Life\nStrange Encounters\n'I've done so many bad things'\nEverything Old is New Again, or How We Grew to Stop Hating and Love Possession","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"You are here: Home \/ Local \/ 16th Annual Kiss A Pig Event Raises More Than $38,000 for Harford County Youth at Maryland BBQ Bash\n16th Annual Kiss A Pig Event Raises More Than $38,000 for Harford County Youth at Maryland BBQ Bash\nAugust 14, 2012 By Dagger News Service\nFrom the Boys & Girls Clubs of Harford County:\nOn Friday, August 10, fifteen dedicated volunteers puckered up to kiss a pig onstage at the MD State BBQ Bash to benefit Boys & Girls Clubs of Harford County. These 15 volunteers have spent the last 3 months working on their individual fundraising campaigns, attempting to raise the most money, and win the honor of Most Valuable Puckerer. These volunteers worked diligently in their fundraising campaigns, breaking records and over-shooting the goal of $35,000 by at least $3,000!\nThe race to win the golden pig trophy was close over the past three months, but in the end the winner was Scott Walker, Executive Director of the Bel Air Downtown Alliance. Walker had a number of events, restaurant nights, and business partnerships throughout Bel Air, helping him raise money for his campaign. Walker raised over $7,000 in his campaign, breaking the record of last year's star fundraiser, who held the record for most money raised by an individual in any Kiss-A-Pig. Scott was followed closely by Angelo Romano of APGFCU and Rocky Gonzalez of Harford County Government.\nThis event is a lot of fun for all volunteers, staff, and community members involved, but the purpose of the event is to benefit the youth of Harford County. As Club members' dues are only $12 per year, it is critical to have successful fundraisers, such as Kiss-A-Pig, and the unwavering support of volunteers to continue providing high-quality programs and services to Harford County youth. Boys & Girls Clubs would like to recognize and thank our Event Chair, Howard McComas IV, Bree Turner, Paula Casagrande of Big House Signs, and all of our Candidates and Campaign Managers: Bryan Kelly, Michelle Joyner, Brenda Morrison, Rod Bourn, Joanne Shumaker, Teri Reis, Chief Leo Matrangola, Sheriff Jesse Bane, Team Glenwood, Frank Kellner, Paul Magness, Lisa Fuller, Senator Barry Glassman, and Tiffany Jones. We also want to thank our Candidates and Campaign Managers' families, The Mill of Bel Air for donating the pig, all of the businesses that hosted events and sponsored Candidates, and everyone at the Bel Air Downtown Alliance who assisted us in publicizing and coordinating the Kiss-A-Pig finale. This event would not have been possible without all of you! We look forward to another great Kiss-A-Pig next year!\nChel Jump-Woodford says\nCongrats on your fund-raising Angelo!!\nQ says\nIt's too bad the poor pig had to kiss Scott Walker. I'm sure he 'had a few' to loosen up before the big event.\nBel Air Girl says\nSo, Q, who are you saying had to \"have a few\"?\nThe pig or Scotty?? \ud83d\ude42\nScott Walker says\nWhat?!? OK\u2026\nAnyway, THANK YOU Bel Air for supporting a GREAT cause and a GREAT event.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > visual arts > theartsdesk in Florence: The British Are Going\ntheartsdesk in Florence: The British Are Going | reviews, news & interviews\ntheartsdesk in Florence: The British Are Going\nThe closure of the British consulate this month is a notable moment in the historic relationship\nby Jasper ReesTuesday, 06 December 2011\nThe Duomo in Florence: the city's fabric - even its famous cathedral - has been shaped by the English presence\nIn the 1450s in Florence, Alberti was working on the facade of Santa Maria Novella, Donatello and Fra Filippo Lippi were active, while Leonardo was born in nearby village of Vinci. And the English established a diplomatic presence. It has continued almost uninterrupted, pausing only in times of direct conflict. This month, it ends as the British consulate closes its doors for the last time.\nCuts to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office budget and global geopolitical shifts mean that the United Kingdom no longer needs a man in Florence to tend to the needs of tourists and expats. It is an important moment in a relationship which has been very largely cultural.\nOf all the cultures with which Florence has formed a lasting relationship, the one with the English has been most profound. The English Florence is famously celebrated in books and in films. Or both, in the case of EM Forster's A Room with a View. It's there in the name of one of our heroines, Nurse Nightingale, the first of many daughters to have the city memorialised in her name by sentimental parents. The city fabric - its architecture, even its famous cathedral - has been discreetly shaped by the English presence.\nIt begins in the tangled web of alleys in the very heart of the city. Somewhere in here is the tiny Via dell'Arte della Lana, modest in length, long in history. The Arte della Lana was the wool guild, and the industry from which the medieval city derived much of its wealth. Before the Black Death nearly a third of all Florentines were supported by it. The evidence of that wealth resides here in Palazzo dell'Arte della Lana, a foursquare thug of a medieval building which bristles on a corner (pictured right).\nCompleted in 1308, it is one of the oldest surviving structures in Florence. It largely owes its existence to millions of sheep grazing a thousand miles to the north, because the lion's share of the wool which built this palazzo came from English fleeces. A gallery - an enclosed walkway - connects it with the mighty granary, Orsanmichele. Once the wool had been beaten and washed, it was taken down to the River Arno for rinsing. So in a way these sheep were the first English pilgrims to enjoy a Florentine baptism.\nIf English wool plumped the city's coffers, the English fleeced Florence in another sense. Florentine bankers loaned huge sums back to Edward III as he prosecuted the Hundred Years War. The relationship turned a trifle sour in 1339 when he defaulted on the loan. The city's three biggest banks collapsed in an almighty medieval credit crunch. The names of the families who owned the banks are still all over the city in the names of palazzi and pizzerie, chapels and streets: Bardi, Peruzzi and Acciauoli.\nThe Via dei Bardi - a tall, sunless winding street where you imagine internecine stabbings were the done thing - later inspired George Eliot as she wrote the almost indigestible Romola. (Pictured left: Niccol\u00f2 at Work: one of Frederic Lord Leighton's illustrations for Romola). But the long line of English residents spools back much further. The proof is in the cathedral. Brunelleschi's miraculous freestanding dome is the magnet that lures most visitors to the city - \"Cupula, worthie to bee seen of all travellars,\" marvelled Sir Thomas Hoby in his pioneering Elizabethan tour of Italy. The Duomo is notable for its lack of ornamental frippery, but high on the wall in the left nave is a rare piece of decoration. Mounted on a formidable warhorse is a rather gentle-looking old soldier. This fresco is the first permanent tribute ever paid by Florence to a private individual.\nBut he's not one of the city's own. He's not Dante or Boccaccio or one of the Medici who in the 1400s put Florence on the map. He's a mercenary from Essex. Or as the inscription on this trompe l'oeil tombstone has him, \"Ioannes Acutus Eques Britannicus\". Don't be deceived by the kindly old face. Sir John Hawkwood - the Florentines preferred their own spelling - was a terrifying condottiere. Florence, among his employers, expressed their gratitude for defending them from Milan by giving him a farm and, 40 years after his death, this splendid memorial. It's not quite as splendid as originally conceived - he was due to get a statue. But this magnificent portrait by Uccello of Hawkwood as a Herculean liberator incorporates the latest principles of bas-relief and perspective (pictured below right).\nIt does the heart good to know that an Englishman had such a prominent walk-on role in the Florentine Renaissance, even if his trade was violence. Florence was not involved in significant wars involving the English until the Second World War. Instead, for 500 years, we came to look and to loot. Charles I's emissaries bought up paintings by Florentine artists to enlarge his collection. After the Civil War, Florence became a pitstop of choice for royalists in exile. In the following century, the wealthy sons of the Enlightenment descended on Florence as part of the Grand Tour and bought canvases by the carriage-load. Of course there's no suggestion that the English were the only foreigners to leave their mark on Florence.\nA plaque on a building opposite the Palazzo Pitti reveals that Dostoevsky wrote a bit of The Idiot here. For a while Henry James paid annual summer visits. But the visitor who most famously summed up the experience of immersion in the city was Henri-Marie Beyle, the French novelist better known by the pseudonym which gives its name to Stendhal syndrome. Stendhal visited in 1817, and proceeded to write up his travels in the confusingly titled Naples and Florence: A Journey from Milan to Reggio. So overwhelming was his sense of wonderment as he toured the sights that he started to feel faint from a kind of exhilaration.\nSubsequent descriptions from 19th-century visitors to Florence exist in which the same set of symptoms recur: they feel dizzy and confused, their heartbeat accelerates, and on occasion they even hallucinate in front of especially beautiful images, or a surfeit of them. The Uffizi was a hotspot. It was given a name only 30 years ago by an Italian psychiatrist. Americans and Japanese, both arriving from more distant cultural worlds, were found to be particularly prone to hospitalisation.\nClinical hypersensitivity to the Renaissance is also known as Florence syndrome. The first mass migration of potential sufferers were English. After the Napoleonic Wars the genteel middle classes started to migrate south, among them great writers. In the Cascine Gardens Shelley wrote his Ode to the West Wind in 1819. The woods to the west of the centre are these days a less than romantic marketplace for trannies hawking their wares. On the other hand Santa Croce, the Franciscan barn of a church where many great Florentines are buried, is much as Ruskin found it in 1874 when he marvelled at masterpieces and sneered at tourists. His Mornings in Florence was a bossy improvement on the guidebook. He stood outside the ill-lit chapel frescoed by Giotto and noticed that \"two nice-looking Englishmen, under guard of their valet de place, passed the chapel without so much as looking in\".\nFor the fullest English experience of Florence is found across the river to Casa Guidi. It was here, opposite the monumental Palazzo Pitti, that Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (busts pictured left) made their home from 1847 after eloping. Like many English settlers, the Brownings were not wealthy. The apartment is of modest proportions, but they both wrote much of their greatest poetry in these eight rooms. Furnished and decorated much as it would have been then, it exudes a faintly oppressive atmosphere. You can all but picture Elizabeth draped consumptively on her chaise, battling through damp winters, sweating through virulent summers, slowly dwindling towards death.\nShe is buried in the so-called English Cemetery. The expats' burial ground was established nearly 200 years ago on a site just outside the old city walls. The oval-shaped island sanctuary nowadays ringed by traffic is a little patch of \"home\" in this corner of a foreign field. A gravel path leads towards a marble sarcophagus standing on six short Corinthian columns. The letters \"EBB OB 1861\" are carved into the white marble. It is a fine design by the young Lord Leighton, who studied in Florence. And she is in fine company. Here are the graves of what feels like half of Victorian England's cultural elite. The health of Arthur Hugh Clough failed in Florence while travelling round Europe. Walter Savage Landor retired cantankerously to Fiesole up the hill. Fanny Holman Hunt, the flame-haired Pre-Raphaelite muse, died here in childbirth and her tomb was sculpted by her husband William. Fanny Trollope, the mother of Anthony, lies here alongside four of her household. Even the last two descendants of Shakespeare are buried in the English Cemetery. This is a moving shrine to the life of expatriates drawn to Florence by the finer things.\nNear the exit, a verse of Elizabeth Barrett Browning is pinned to a wall. It might have been written for herself. \"And here among the English tombs\/ In Tuscan ground we lay her,\/ While the blue Tuscan sky endomes\/ Our English words of prayer\". Not sure about \"endomes\". But you get the picture.\nOf all the cultures with which Florence has formed a lasting relationship, the one with the English has been most profound\nFind books on Florence on Amazon\nLeonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan, National Gallery\ntheartsdesk in Florence: Was This the Greatest Renaissance Show Ever Held?\nTuscany is Ready for Her Close-Up","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Frank Hamilton is a British singer\/songwriter\/producer best known for #OneSongaWeek, a project in which he wrote, recorded and released a song a week for an entire year. Things started in his living room and ending with a #1 album on iTunes featuring songs written with Ed Sheeran, Newton Faulkner, Lauren Aquilina and many more.\nSince then he's recorded an EP on the London Eye in the time it takes to go round once (28 minutes), performed on Channel 4's TFI Friday, released a cover of Teenage Dirtbag featuring Wheatus, toured extensively, slept a little and recorded a 2nd album\u2026\nSongs To Make Life Slightly Less Awkward is Frank Hamilton's second album, the eagerly anticipated follow up to Best of #OneSongaWeek.\nApart from the live drums, everything was written, recorded and produced in Frank's living room before being mixed by James Earp (Nina Nesbitt) and mastered by Robin Schmidt (The 1975, Two Door Cinema Club).\n\"From a sonic point of view I hope it feels like the album was born in my bedroom, grew up in my lounge and then finished in a nice studio by professionals who actually know what they're doing\".\nRead the album credits.\nTickets: http:\/\/myticket.co.uk\/artists\/frank-hamilton\nBig Frank fan? Get involved with his latest idea.\nJoin the mailing list if you'd like to be kept in the know.\nJoin the Pre-Order Club!\nFancy a sing-song? Check out the gig listings.\nSnapchat \u2013 'frankhamilton'.\nTwitter \u2013 @frank_hamilton\nInstagram: frankhamilton\nFacebook: \/frankhamiltonuk","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Regional Cinema\nKhoj Khabar\nLakh Take Ki Baat\nKhabar Cut To Cut\n# Bhim Army # Sara Ali Khan # Ind vs Aus # NPR # Jeff Bezos # Nirbhaya\nTVS NTorq 125 Race Edition Launched In Sri Lanka: Specs, Features Inside\nTwo-wheelers and three-wheelers manufacturer TVS Motor Company has launched the NTorq 125 Race Edition scooter in Sri Lanka.\nNew Delhi, News Nation Bureau | Updated : 04 January 2020, 02:40 PM\nTVS NTorq 125 Race Edition Launched In Sri Lanka (Photo Credit : File Photo )\nTwo-wheelers and three-wheelers manufacturer TVS Motor Company has launched the NTorq 125 Race Edition scooter in Sri Lanka. As compared to the Indian version of NTorq 125 Race Edition, the scooter has received minor cosmetic updates. However, there are no mechanical updates.\nTVS Motor Company's Executive Vice President - International Business R Dilip said, \"Since its launch, the TVS NTorq 125 has become a darling of its Gen Z customers in Sri Lanka. Apart from its striking appearance and the TVS SmartXonnect feature, it is the performance which has been the hallmark of the TVS NTorq 125 experience. The scooter is built on a rich pedigree of 37 years of TVS Racing and the Race Edition is launched to celebrate the same. Today over 4 lakh youthful consumers across the globe are proud NTorq-ians and with this launch we are confident of growing this tribe from strength to strength.\"\nMeanwhile, TVS Sri Lanka CEO Ravi Liyanage said, \"The launch of TVS NTORQ 125 has witnessed a huge turn around in the Sri Lankan scooter market. The scooter has become an immediate favourite and we are sure the Race Edition will satisfy customers seeking an element of thrill and wanting more from the scooter.\"\nThe NTorq Race Edition comes equipped with an LED headlight, with a LED daytime running light, and a unique colour scheme. The scooter is available in colour options of red, black and silver. It further gets chequered race-style decals on the front apron and body panels.\nAlso Read: Tata Altroz Launch On January 22: Specs, Features Inside\nTVS Ntorq 125 Race Edition uses the same 124. 79 cc single-cylinder engine that delivers 9.25 bhp at 7,500 rpm and 10.5 Nm of peak torque at 5,500 rpm. It comes mated to a CVT automatic gearbox.\nTVS Motor Company Launches BS-VI TVS Jupiter: Know Its Prices And Features\nSuzuki Motorcycle India Overtakes Hero Motocorp To Be 3rd Largest Scooter Maker In H1\nFirst Published: Saturday, January 04, 2020 02:34 PM\n0 Post Comment (+)\n\u00a9 2019 News Nation. All rights reserved.\nThis website uses cookie or similar technologies to enhance and improve your browsing experience. By using our site, you agree to\nour Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. OK","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Joust turns 30\nJuly 23, 2012 April 9, 2014 Patrick Scott Patterson 0 Comments 1982, arcade games, classic games, joust, Lonnie mcdonald, Williams electronics\nThe early 1980s marked a huge boom period for the video game industry. As a result, many of the iconic classics of that time seem to be reaching major anniversaries in rapid-fire succession.\nThe latest to reach the 30 year milestone is Joust, the unique 1982 title from former arcade powerhouse Williams Electronics. According to government trademark records the first appearance of the title was on July 16, 1982.\nCreated by John Newcomer, the game of Joust put the player in control of an ostrich-riding knight. The object of the game was the turn away the challenges of numerous enemy knights, also riding the odd birds through levels with several platforms. From time to time an almost unbeatable pterodactyl would join into the frantic pace of the game.\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kkxY9_dZFI8[\/youtube]\nThe two-player feature helped Joust make an impact in the coin box at arcades across the country. While the ability for numerous players to play together has been a common feature in arcades for some time, in 1982 it was quite the novelty for two players to be able to play at the same time. Adding to the feature were offers of bonus points on certain levels, some of which encouraged teamwork and others that encouraged direct competition.\nWhile the classic has been long removed from most surviving arcade locations today, Kansas City gamer Lonnie McDonald has been bouncing across the country for the past year in an effort to post a high score of 9,999,999 points on every surviving Joust machine he can find. So far on his tour he has hit over 60 different Joustmachines, including one in placed in the former location of a historic arcade just days before the 30th birthday date.\n\"I have met some cool folks along the way,\" he said in a previous interview. \"Played with current world champs; seen Joust machines in homes, bars, arcades and museums. I'm not as fast or as handsome or thin, but I am wiser and more strategic. On the other hand when you win 500 free guys you can play silly if you want to.\"\n\u2190 TaleSpin\nFirst Steps: Guild Wars 2 \u2192\nPatrick Scott Patterson\nPatrick Scott Patterson (Scott or his gaming handle \"OriginalPSP\") has been gaming since 1981. A multiple-time video game world record holder as recognized by three organizations, Scott aims to help promote the fun and positive side of both past and present video game culture through this articles here and his official website at PatrickScottPatterson.com.\nRedBox offering Game Rentals Nationwide\nJune 20, 2011 J.A. Laraque 0\nGenesis Does\nApril 6, 2010 J.A. Laraque 1\nGames to Buy: December: Week 3\nDecember 14, 2010 J.A. Laraque 1","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A donation to the Wapello County Foundation becomes a part of the permanent endowment used for the benefit of communities in Wapello County.\nPledge\/Contribution Form\nWapello County Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable entity. Our Federal Tax ID Number is 42-1212642. Your charitable gift is tax deductible as provided by the rules of the Internal Revenue Service and Iowa Department of Revenue.\nThe Wapello County Foundation is a private foundation established in 1981, which operates for the benefit of Wapello County, Iowa. The Wapello County Foundation is also an affiliate of the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation, which assists the Wapello County Foundation with the distribution of funding from the County Endowment Fund Program. That program provides funding to counties in Iowa without a state-issued gaming license. The Wapello County Foundation maintains separate, independent funds generated after an initial generous gift from J. Paul Strother.\nEndow Iowa\nGifts to the Wapello County Foundation through the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation may be eligible for an Endow Iowa Tax Credits. Endow Iowa allows taxpayers to receive a 25% Iowa tax credit in addition to normal federal charitable income tax deductions for certain charitable gifts. Endow Iowa tax credits are limited each year on a first-come, first serve basis until the yearly appropriated limit has been reached.\nFor more information on giving options, please contact the Wapello County Foundation at (641) 954-5782.\nSupport the Wapello County Foundation. Donate Online Now.\nAt Tenco we are poised to begin our 54th year of service to the people of southern Iowa and beyond. We are growing in our ability to serve people with disabilities and the number being served is now over 300; this could not be possible without benefactors such as the Wapello County Foundation. We are honored to have earned your friendship and confidence and will strive hard to continue to merit it in the future.\nCheryl PlankExecutive Director, Tenco\nWe are very fortunate to have Wapello County Community Foundation as a partner in our Ottumwa community and Wapello County! Bridge View Center would not be where we are today without Wapello County Community Foundation, and for that, we are grateful!\nScott HallgrenExecutive Director, Bridge View Center\nThe Wapello County Foundation is a critical resource for the continued well-being of our local arts community. Its funding of projects and equipment for arts organizations has played a vital role in making the arts available to every single constituent of Wapello County.\nDennis WillhoitExecutive Director, Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra\nMain Street Ottumwa is thankful to have the support of the Wapello County Foundation. Their partnership allows MSO to better fulfill our mission by funding projects and programs which would not be possible without assistance. We, and other organizations in Wapello County, are fortunate to have the foundation to make our community a better place.\nFred ZesigerExecutive Director, Main Street Ottumwa\n\u00a9 2022 Wapello County Foundation. | Powered by Neapolitan Labs","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Black Genealogy\nYamasee Tribe\nYamasee Indians (a name of uncertain etymology, and evidently an abbreviated form).\nA former noted tribe of Muskhogean stock, best known in connection with early South Carolina history, but apparently occupying originally the coast region and islands of south Georgia, and extending into Florida. From their residence near Savannah river they have frequently been confused with the \"Savannahs,\" or Shawano, and the Yuchi. Missions were established in their territory by the Spaniards about 1570, and they lived under the jurisdiction of the Spanish government of Florida until 1687, when, in consequence of an attempt to transport a number of their people as laborers to the West Indies, they revolted, attacked a number of the mission settlements and peaceful Indians, and then fled north across Savannah river to the English colony of South Carolina. They were allowed to settle within the present limits of Beaufort county, where at a later period they had several villages, the principal of which was Pocotaligo; others were Tolemato and Topiqui (?). They aided against the Tuscarora in 1712, but in 1715, in consequence of dissatisfaction with the traders, organized a combination against the English which included all, or nearly all, the tribes from Cape Fear to the Florida border. The traders were slaughtered in the Indian towns and a general massacre of settlers took place along the Carolina frontier. After several engagements the Yamasee were finally defeated by Gov. Craven at Salkechuh (Saltketchers) on the Combahee and driven across the Savannah. They retired in a body to Florida where they were again received by the Spaniards and settled in villages near St Augustine. From that time they were known as allies of the Spaniards and enemies of the English, against whom they made frequent raids in company with other Florida Indians. A small part of them also appear to have taken refuge with the Catawba, where, according to Adair, they still retained their separate identity in 1743. In 1727 their village near St Augustine was attacked and destroyed by the English, and their Indian allies and most of the inhabitants were killed. In 1761 the remnant was said to number about 20 men, residing near St Augustine, and they seen also to have had a small settlement near Pensacola. The tradition of their destruction and enslavement by the Seminole is noted by several writers of this and a later period. As late as 1812 a small band retained the name among the Seminole, and some settled among the Hitchiti, but they have now completely disappeared. They were said to be darker than the Creeks, and \"flat-footed,\" and from their proficiency as canoe men gave name to a particular method of rowing known as the \"Yamasee stroke.\"\nMuskogean, Yamasee,\nHodge, Frederick Webb, Compiler. The Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. Bureau of American Ethnology, Government Printing Office. 1906.\nSubscribe to AccessGenealogy\nEnter your email address to subscribe to AccessGenealogy and receive notifications of new posts by email.\nUS Genealogy\nAlabama Genealogy\nAlaska Genealogy\nArizona Genealogy\nArkansas Genealogy\nCalifornia Genealogy\nColorado Genealogy\nConnecticut Genealogy\nDelaware Genealogy\nFlorida Genealogy\nHawaii Genealogy\nIdaho Genealogy\nIllinois Genealogy\nIndiana Genealogy\nIowa Genealogy\nKansas Genealogy\nKentucky Genealogy\nLouisiana Genealogy\nMaine Genealogy\nMaryland Genealogy\nMassachusetts Genealogy\nMichigan Genealogy\nMinnesota Genealogy\nMississippi Genealogy\nMissouri Genealogy\nMontana Genealogy\nNebraska Genealogy\nNevada Genealogy\nNew Hampshire Genealogy\nNew Jersey Genealogy\nNew Mexico Genealogy\nNew York Genealogy\nNorth Carolina Genealogy\nNorth Dakota Genealogy\nOhio Genealogy\nOklahoma Genealogy\nOregon Genealogy\nRhode Island Genealogy\nSouth Carolina Genealogy\nSouth Dakota Genealogy\nTennessee Genealogy\nTexas Genealogy\nUtah Genealogy\nVermont Genealogy\nWashington Genealogy\nWest Virginia Genealogy\nWisconsin Genealogy\nWyoming Genealogy\nFree Genealogy\nHistory of the John Wilson Family\nWilson and Allied Families: Billew, Britton, Du Bois, Longshore, Polhemus, Stillwell, Suebering\nThe Wilson Family of West Virginia\nThe Wilson Family, Somerset and Barter Hill Branch\nNotes on the Genealogy of the Bethel Vermont Wilson Family\nPortrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties, Michigan\nWainwright and related families\nThe Waitley family in the United States\nWakefield Kindred of America\nGenealogical Record of Thomas Wait and his descendants\nCopyright \u00a9 2019 Access Genealogy","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Virginia cop's retrial begins in teen's shooting at car wash\nThe retrial of a Virginia police officer is underway in the off-duty shooting of an 18-year-old man at a car wash.\nThe Richmond Times-Dispatch reports (http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lfe2kf) Richmond Police Officer David Cobb is being tried again this week on second-degree-murder and firearms counts in Paterson Brown Jr.'s death.\nCobb said he fired in self-defense after the two men got into an altercation in October 2015. Officials said Brown inexplicably jumped into Cobb's girlfriend's car and drove it out of the washing bay. According to the newspaper, witnesses said Cobb told him repeatedly to get out, and Brown wouldn't.\nA judge declared a mistrial in June after jurors became deadlocked.\nOn Monday, a witness testified that he didn't see Brown with a gun, but did observe the teen reach for his hip at one point.\nInformation from: Richmond Times-Dispatch, http:\/\/www.timesdispatch.com\nhttps:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/virginia-cops-retrial-begins-in-teens-shooting-at-car-wash","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Rocket League 1.05 patch will let you filter PS4 players out of matchmaking\nBy Shaun Prescott\nI had to stop playing Rocket League because I don't like disappointing people. In Rocket League, I invariably disappoint everyone. The rest of the world is still playing it though, and the forthcoming patch 1.05 should make PC players happy. It'll introduce new matchmaking options, including the ability to filter out PS4 competitors. This should satisfy anyone worried that mouse and keyboard players have any (dis)advantage against controller users. Apart from that (and of course, you can use a controller on PC), I'm not sure why you'd want to do it, but hey. Options.\nIn other less-consequential patch news, you'll also be able to decorate your vehicle with Chivalry: Medieval Warfare flags and decals. Similarly, Chivalry will receive a patch imminently with Rocket League-themed armor. This is surely a highlight in the history of zany video game cross-promotions.\nFinally, you'll be able to program your own music, so if you're not a fan of the game's vanilla bargain bin dubstep then why not add some Brahms instead? The patch is due within the next fortnight. While you wait, read about how Sam Roberts likes to be a dick in Rocket League.\nShaun Prescott\nShaun Prescott is the Australian editor of PC Gamer. With over ten years experience covering the games industry, his work has appeared on GamesRadar+, TechRadar, The Guardian, PLAY Magazine, the Sydney Morning Herald, and more. Specific interests include indie games, obscure Metroidvanias, speedrunning, experimental games and FPSs. He thinks Lulu by Metallica and Lou Reed is an all-time classic that will receive its due critical reappraisal one day.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Obama halts Bush missile plan\nUS president shelves plan for defence shield bases in Czech Republic and Poland.\nObama has walked away from the Bush administration's programme of missile defence [EPA]\n\"Our clear and consistent focus has been the threat posed by Iran's ballistic missile programme and that continues to be our focus and basis of the programme that we're announcing today.\"\nThe missile defence shield had prompted severe objections from Moscow, which said it was a threat to its own nuclear deterrent.\nDmitry Medvedev, Russia's president, welcomed the US decision on Thursday, describing the move as a \"responsible approach towards implementing our agreements\".\n\"I am ready to continue the dialogue,\" he said, adding he would discuss missile defence with Obama at a meeting in New York next week.\nImmediate threats\nRobert Gates, the US defence secretary, said Iran's long-range missile threat was not as immediate as had previously been feared.\nHe said Washington would deploy interceptor missiles in northern and southern Europe against more immediate threats posed by Iran's shorter range missiles, as well as place some interceptors on US ships to make the system more flexible.\nMixed reactions to US missile plans\nRepublicans attack missile U-turn\nNew shield good for Israel\nWhat Obama gets from Russia\nUS changes Euro missile plan\nPole and Czech missiles axed\nObama reassesses Iran threat\nRichard Weitz, the Director of the Center for Political-Military Analysis at the Hudson Insititute, said that the missile defence plan was revised as part of a general review of US military and defence strategy.\n\"It is a recognition by the Obama administration that the Iranian threat is a bit different than we understood [during] the Bush administration,\" he told Al Jazeera.\n\"The initial impetus for the missile defence was a concern that the Iranians were developing inter-continental ballistic missiles which could reach the United States.\n\"It is now clear that the Iranians are not going to have the capability in the time that was thought; they will have shorter-range systems, capable of hitting Israel and Europe. This missile defence plan is optimising to deal with that evolving threat.\"\nIran 'under spotlight'\nBut Alireza Ronaghi, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Tehran, said the US decision to alter the missile defence policy was likely to spark anger in Iran.\n\"I don't think anybody is very happy because Obama's words have put Iran in the focus again,\" he said.\nAl Jazeera correspondent Nick Spicer said the move would provoke a wave of criticism from Republicans in the US.\nHe said: \"Barack Obama is trying hard to say he is not giving up on the defence of Europe ... but he has found a quicker and cheaper way.\n\"The Republican opposition will see this as a sign of weakness towards Russia.\n\"It's the end of the love affair between East European states and the US ... since the second world war.\"\nFormer Soviet states had seen the missile plan as a symbol of US commitment to\nthe defence of the region 20 years after the collapse of communist rule.\nRussian question\nMirek Topolanek, former Czech Republic prime minister, said the US's decision was \"not good news\" for the country.\n\"This puts us in a position wherein we are not firmly anchored in terms of partnership, security and alliance, and that's a certain threat,\" he said.\nRobert Gates said Iran's short range missiles pose a more immediate threat [AFP]\nAlan Fisher, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Warsaw, Poland, said parties on all sides would be disappointed that the defence shield is not going ahead.\n\"Poles will be angry at the timing of this decision - today is the 70th anniversary of the day the Russians came across the border and took control of the country.\n\"They think this is really just playing into the Russian's hands.\"\nNeave Barker, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Moscow, said \"arguably the Russian side has got what it wanted ... but the more comprehensive plan\" announced on Thursday \"may cause a new level of concern\" in Russia.\nRussians had raised concerns that the Bush missile system, a deterrent for Iranian long-range missiles, could be aimed at them.\nBut the White House said on Thursday that changes to its programmes were \"not about Russia\".\n\"This is about protecting our homeland, it's about protecting the troops that we have deployed overseas ... and it was about ensuring the defence of our allies, our European and Nato allies,\" Gates said.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Wall Street aims to thwart hacking of 401(k)\nJanuary 04, 2018, 10:59 a.m. EST\n(Bloomberg) \u2013 U.S. financial firms plan to expand a secretive project protecting bank accounts against crippling cyber attacks so that it will also guard trillions of dollars in investment funds.\nThe industry-led project, called Sheltered Harbor, already is known to back up data for savings and checking accounts. But quietly, it's wrapping in data on retail brokerage accounts at some of the nation's largest firms, according to participants. And ultimately, the goal is to expand it to an even heftier pool of 401(k) accounts and pension funds, whose breach could upend global markets.\nSheltered Harbor, which began coming to light over the past year, already includes about 50 firms that collectively hold roughly two-thirds of retail bank accounts. The project relies on a \"buddy system,\" in which companies pair off, promising to step in for their partner with a backup set of account information if hackers succeed in erasing or locking up files.\nThe idea came in 2014 after hackers ravaged Sony Corp.'s U.S. film unit, deleting troves of data while leaking upcoming movies and embarrassing emails. But in this case, the global financial system is at stake.\n\"Being able to restore a network quickly is one of the most crucial elements for coping with cyber breaches and increasing resilience,\" said Edward Stroz, co-founder and co-president of Stroz Friedberg, a cybersecurity firm. \"Sheltered Harbor is the financial industry's way of showing how it can perform disaster recovery and thus maintain consumer confidence.\"\nAfter the Sony attack, bankers conducting periodic cybersecurity exercises realized that a similar assault, even on a relatively small firm, could damage confidence in the financial system. One worry is that consumers could be spooked by a severe attack on one bank, then rush to pull funds from their own institutions, setting off a sweeping run. A similar scenario could play out with securities accounts.\nSheltered Harbor's members include the nation's largest lenders, such as JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc., as well as U.S. regional banks and some smaller firms (other names are secret like many other details). It's a subsidiary of the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, whose nearly 7,000 members range from multitrillion-dollar asset managers like State Street Corp. to retirement plan providers, insurers and other financial firms of all sizes.\nThough a number of big firms have kept daily backups stored in secret mountain hideouts for years, that's not much help without a functioning network. So, Sheltered Harbor's members use a standard format to back up account data and collaborate with a partner company that can take over in an emergency.\nIf one company's computer system is devastated, the backup account data can be activated on the partner's network, giving affected customers access to their accounts within 24 hours or so. Pairs are tasked with carrying out periodic exercises, using sample data to ensure they can recreate the other's services.\nThe hope is that a stricken bank would soon restore its systems -- hopefully within a few days -- and resume control of its accounts.\nSystemic Focus\nThe aim is to prevent a stampede of retail clients. There's no plan to expand Sheltered Harbor to wholesale, institutional clients of the firms, according to executives.\nFor the largest banks, whose institutional client businesses are probably just as large and important as their vast retail networks, the danger is that a disruption would still irreparably harm the company's reputation and business. But the point is to guard the broader financial system.\nIn fact, some executives see Sheltered Harbor as a tool for resolution not recovery -- as the regulators unwind the firm that has collapsed due to a cyber attack, its partner can provide access to retail accounts quickly.\n\"Sheltered Harbor doesn't address the operational resiliency of member firms,\" said Trey Maust, who became chief executive officer of the industry-funded operation this week. \"Firms have their own continuity plans, and those typically address how to get back on one's feet after such a disruption quickly without losing clients or business.\"\nComplicated Accounts\nBecause some of the largest banks in the group operate major retail brokerages, data for those accounts already are included in the backups. Yet, organizers are still working out how to provide continuity for those operations.\nOffering basic payments capabilities for checking and savings accounts is relatively straightforward. But practices vary among firms for helping brokerage clients buy and sell equities, fixed-income products and other instruments -- making it much more complicated.\n\"You could have two different partners, one for your checking and savings accounts restoration, one for your brokerage accounts,\" said Sheltered Harbor's Maust. \"But both partners need to have transaction capability.\"\nRetirement planningRetirement benefitsRetirement incomeRetirement readiness401(k)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Photo by Brian Bahr\/Getty Images\nTexas Tech QB Alan Bowman being watched with partially collapsed lung\nBy Kevin McGuireOct 1, 2018, 12:32 PM EDT\nTexas Tech quarterback Alan Bowman was taken out of Saturday's game against West Virginia, and now it is unknown just how soon he may be able to return to action for the Red Raiders. Multiple reports say Bowman suffered a partially collapsed lung and was being treated at a local hospital over the weekend.\nIf there was any good news for Bowman, it was the report that there were no broken ribs, according to Texas Tech head coach Kliff Kingsbury. But it remains unknown when Bowman will be available again.\n\"I think without the broken ribs, it should be sooner than later,\" Kingsbury said, according to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. \"But I'm not sure the exact timetable yet.\"\nJett Duffey came off the bench to fill in for Bowman for the remainder of the West Virginia game this weekend, and it should be expected he will continue to lead the offense for as long as Bowman is unavailable.\nTexas Tech is off this week. The Red Raiders return to the field for a Thursday night game at TCU on October 11, followed by a home game against Kansas the following week.\nTags: Alan Bowman, Jett Duffey, Kliff Kingsbury","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Why Poverty?\nMission Week\nRun to Attack Poverty 5K\nHost a Poverty Sunday\nFriends of Northside \u2013 Young Professionals Ending Poverty\nMeet Caritas and her 12-year-old daughter\nAttack Poverty showed up for Caritas' family because of our generous donors and partnerships with local organizations\nWe've known Caritas and her family for four years. She's been involved in our ESL classes and her children have attend our You Can Academy after-school program. We love their family of five.\n\"they were going to McDonald's to ask for a few napkins to use as toilet paper.\nYou can imagine how our hearts broke for her when she called us last week. Both she and her husband's jobs shut down due to COVID-19. They had no money coming in to support their family. They were running out of food. Every day they were going to the local McDonald's to ask for a few napkins to use as toilet paper.\n\"I need help. Can you please find food for my family? And I'd be so happy for just one roll of toilet paper.\"\nThis was Caritas reality, like so many other families in the communities we serve. She felt hopeless.\nThankfully, Attack Poverty showed up for Caritas' family because of our generous donors and partnerships with local organizations. One of our seven distribution sites provided food and basic essentials for their family the next day.\nCaritas cried tears of joy when she received toilet paper (more than one roll!), children's kit, Houston Food Bank box with food, Supply Bridge Ministries box with toothpaste, shampoo, hand soap and more. She even asked us if we could connect her with a local church. Her hope was restored!\nThis is why every donation counts.\nBut there are still people we turn away at our distribution centers because we've run out of supplies. Families like Caritas with a household income of zero right now because they've lost their jobs. We want to be there for them too. Attack Poverty is committed to serving all our under-resourced communities.\nTo join us and care for our communities together, click here to learn about our distribution centers and donation needs. We are better together!\nMore Updates >\nThis update is part of our ongoing COVID-19 Response. We are so grateful for your generous support and commitment to helping us break the cycle of generational poverty.\nWe are a global organization that serves locally, adopting pockets of poverty and launching what we call 'Friends Communities'. These communities are long-term commitments that require mutual relationships and collaborative efforts with local organizations, churches, residents, and stakeholders committed to community transformation.\nE-mail: Info@AttackPoverty.org\nStay in touch with e-mail updates:\nHQ:\n3727 Greenbriar Dr., Ste. 100\nWe are a global organization that serves locally, adopting pockets of poverty and launching what we call 'Friends Initiatives'. These initiatives are long-term commitments that require mutual relationships and collaborative efforts with local organizations, churches, residents, and stakeholders committed to community transformation.\nCopyright \u00a9 2020 Attack Poverty\nPrivacy Policy | Return\/Refund Policy","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Mohajir militancy in Pakistan\nKhan, N., 10 Mar 2010, London, UK: Routledge. 208 p. (Routledge contemporary South Asia series)\nMohajir militancy in Pakistan: violence and transformation in the Karachi Conflict\nKhan, N., Mar 2010, Abingdon and New York: Taylor & Francis. 208 p.\nMolecular diversity assessed by VNTR and IS1296 typing of historical Mycoplasma mycoides subsp mycoides SC strains\nVarela, F., Inacio Silva, J. & Botelho, A., 15 Dec 2010, In: Veterinary Microbiology. 146, 3-4, p. 295-302 8 p.\nMonodisperse monocomponent fuel droplet heating and evaporation\nKristyadi, T., Depredurand, V., Castanet, G., Lemoine, F., Sazhin, S., Elwardany, A. E., Sazhina, E. & Heikal, M., 31 Dec 2010, In: Fuel. 89, 12, p. 3995-4001 7 p.\nMoral luck and computer ethics: Gauguin in cyberspace\nHorner, D., 16 Jul 2010, In: Ethics and Information Technology. 12, 4, p. 299-312 14 p.\nMotes in the Jungle: Lessons Learned from a Short-Term WSN Deployment in the Ecuador Cloud Forest\nCeriotti, M., Chini, M., Murphy, A. L., Picco, G. P., Cagnacci, F. & Tolhurst, B., 31 Dec 2010, Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Real-world wireless sensor networks. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, Vol. 6511. p. 25-36 12 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).\nMoving against the grain?: investigating the efficacy of a touch-based intervention in a climate of suspicion\nMacIntyre, H., Colwell, J. & Ota, C., 1 Mar 2010, In: Pastoral Care in Education. 28, 1, p. 3-18 16 p.\nMulti-centre parallel arm randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a group-based cognitive behavioural approach to managing fatigue in people with multiple sclerosis\nThomas, P. W., Thomas, S., Kersten, P., Jones, R., Nock, A., Slingsby, V., Green, C., Baker, R., Galvin, K. & Hillier, C., 16 Jun 2010, In: BMC Neurology. 10, p. 1-12 12 p.\nMultiple roles for the tectorial membrane in the active cochlea\nLukashkin, A., Richardson, G. P. & Russell, I., 1 Jul 2010, In: Hearing Research. 266, 1-2, p. 26-35 10 p.\nMuscle contractile function and neural control after repetitive endurance cycling\nRoss, E., Gregson, W., Williams, K., Robertson, C. & George, K., 2 Jan 2010, In: Medicine and science in sports and exercise. 42, 1, p. 206-212 7 p.\nMuscle full effect after oral protein: time-dependent concordance and discordance between human muscle protein synthesis and mTORC1 signaling\nAtherton, P. J., Etheridge, T., Watt, P., Wilkinson, D. J., Selby, A., Rankin, D., Smith, K. & Rennie, M. J., Nov 2010, In: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 92, 5, p. 1080-1088 9 p.\nMuseums and HE: rekindling the romance\nReynolds, R., 2010, From spark to flame: creating and sustaining motivation and inspiration in our learning community.\nMutagenesis of Propionibacterium acnes and analysis of two CAMP factor knock-out mutants\nS\u00f6rensen, M., Mak, T. N., Hurwitz, R., Ogilvie, L., Mollenkopf, H., Meyer, T. F. & Br\u00fcggemann, H., Nov 2010, In: Journal of Microbiological Methods. 83, 2, p. 211-216 6 p.\nMyeloid response and macrophage polarization in mouse melanoma lung metastasis\nGal, A., Tapmeier, T., Balathasan, L. & Muschel, R., 30 Jun 2010, 21st Meeting of the European Association for Cancer Research. Oslo: Elsevier, Vol. 8. p. 78-79 2 p. (European Journal of Cancer Supplements).\nNanoemulsion encapsulation and in vitro SLN models of delivery for cytotoxic methotrexate\nConcannon, C., Hennelly, D. A., Noott, S. & Sarker, D., 1 Jun 2010, In: Current Drug Discovery Technologies. 7, 2, p. 123-136 14 p.\nNanoporosity of alumina surfaces induces different patterns of activation in adhering monocytes\/ macrophages\nFerraz, N., Hoong, J., Santin, M. & Karlsson-Ott, M., Dec 2010, In: International Journal of Biomaterials. 2010\nGoodson, I., Biesta, G. J. J., Tedder, M. & Adair, N., 24 Feb 2010, London: Routledge. 138 p.\nNESTA Policy Briefing: The Money Game - Project finance and video games development in the UK\nBakhshi, H., Mateos-Garcia, J. & Gatland, T., Feb 2010, 12 p. London, UK : NESTA.\nNetwork Level Deterioration Modelling: A case study on masonry arch bridges\nRafiq, M. I. & Sathananthan, S., 7 Jul 2010, Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management and Life-Cycle Optimization: Proceedings of the Fifth International IABMAS Conference, Philadelphia, USA, 11-15. Sause, R., Frangopol, D. M. & Kusko, C. (eds.). Philadelphia, USA: CRC Press, 8 p.\nNeuromusculoskeletal examination and assessment \u2013 a handbook for therapists\nPetty, N., 1 Jul 2010, Japan: Ishiyakushuppan. 396 p.\nNeville Cardus, Roger Angell and the art of Transatlantic sports journalism\nSteen, R., 20 May 2010, Fifth International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies. Roehampton University, London, p. 0-0 1 p.\nNew Goulston Street shutter paintings: Animals that inhabited London before Humans\nGoodall, J., 4 Aug 2010\nNew Media and the Politics of Online Communities\nMousoutzanis, A. (ed.) & Riha, D. (ed.), 2010, Oxford: Inter-disciplinary Press. 263 p.\nNigeria Training Needs Analysis for Ecotourism and Environmental Management Systems (EMS) Development\nNovelli, M., 2010, Vienna, Austria : UNIDO.\nNo consensus between HCPs on diabetic foot care education\nMcinnes, A., 1 Jan 2010, In: Diabetic Foot. 13, 1, p. 29-38 10 p.\nNo lodgings to be had for love or money\nKaminski, J., 2010, In: Sussex Archaeological Collections. 148, p. 183-202 20 p.\nNon-adherence to antihypertensive medication and impaired cognition: which comes first?\nGard, P., 2010, In: International Journal of Pharmacy Practice. 18, 5, p. 252-259 8 p.\nNon-representational approaches to body-landscape relations\nMacpherson, H., 2010, In: Geography Compass. 4, 1, p. 1-13 13 p.\nNon Users in the Information Society. Learning from the older generation\nSourbati, M., 2010, Experiencing the Broadband Society. Gebhardt, J., Greif, H., Raycheva, L., Lobet-Maris, C. & Lasen, A. (eds.). Berlin: Peter Lang, Vol. II. p. 107-118 12 p.\nNovel carbon-based materials for use in extracorporeal systems\nMeikle, S., Mar 2010, 289 p.\nNucleotide oligomerization domain 1 is a dominant pathway for NOS2 induction in vascular smooth muscle cells: comparison with Toll-like receptor 4 responses in macrophages\nMoreno, L., McMaster, S. K., Gatheral, T., Harrington, L., Cartwright, N., Armstrong, P. C. J., Warner, T. D., Paul-Clark, M. & Mitchell, J., 1 Aug 2010, In: British Journal of Pharmacology. 160, p. 1997-2007 11 p.\nNumerical investigation of fresh water-suspended sediment mixtures discharging into saline ambient water\nGeorgoulas, A., Angelidis, P., Kotsovinos, N. & Panagiotidis, T. G., 1 Jan 2010, Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics. Athens, Greece: CRC Press, p. 547-552 6 p.\nNursing and collaborative practice\nBach, S. (ed.), Jun 2010, Exeter: Learning Matters Ltd. 208 p. (Transforming Nursing Practice)\nNutrition made Incredibly Easy\nMartyn, K., 2010, London: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. 396 p.\nObject-based video coding with dynamic quality control\nCai, X., Ali, F. & Stipidis, E., 31 Mar 2010, In: Image and Vision Computing. 28, 3, p. 285-297 13 p.\nObservational Learning through Professional Studio Practice\nBoyes, A. & Cousens, C., Apr 2010, 5th International Conference Challenging the curriculum: exploring the discipline boundaries in art, design and media.\nOccupational therapy and people with learning disabilities\nLillywhite, A. & Haines, D., 1 Jan 2010, London: College of Occupational Therapists.\nOlder people's family contacts and long-term care expenditure in OECD countries: a comparative approach using qualitative comparative analysis\nHaynes, P., Hill, M. & Banks, L., Feb 2010, In: Social policy and administration. 44, 1, p. 67-84 18 p.\nSchuman, A., 9 May 2010\nOn Going\nSalkie, R., 16 Oct 2010, Distinctions in English grammar: offered to Renaat Declerck. Capelle, B. & Wada, N. (eds.). Tokyo: Kaitakusha, p. 169-190 22 p.\nOnline Obscenity and the Myths of Freedom: Dangerous Images, Child Porn and Neoliberalism\nMaddison, S., 2010, Porn.com: Making Sense of Online Pornography. Peter Lang\nOn liquid films on an inclined plate\nBenilov, E. S., Chapman, S. J., McLeod, J. B., Ockendon, J. R. & Zubkov, V., 2010, In: Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 663, p. 53-69\nOn the relative expressiveness of second-order spider diagrams and regular expressions\nStapleton, G. & Chapman, P., 2010, 16th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, Visual Languages and Computing. p. 283-288 6 p.\nOntological modelling to support the planning of IS development processes: a position paper\nHughes, R., 2010, Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development.\nO Papel Da Inova\u00e7\u00e3o No Processo De Internacionaliza\u00e7\u00e3o De Empresas Brasileiras Do Setor De Tecnologia Da Informa\u00e7\u00e3o E Comunica\u00e7\u00e3o\nFerreira Ribeiro, F., Rezende da Costa, P., Figlioli, A. & Ades, C., 2010, In: Revista Eletr\u00f4nica de Neg\u00f3cios Internacionais (Internext). 5, 2, p. 140-166 27 p.\nOrder, duration and gap - take them all\nZheng, A., Ma, J., Petridis, M. & Xiao, B., 9 Jul 2010, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (ICCSIT). IEEE, Vol. 2. p. 647-651 5 p.\nOrder reduction of a non-Lipschitzian model of monodisperse spray ignition\nSazhin, S., Shchepakina, E. & Sobolev, V., 2010, In: Mathematical and Computer Modelling. 52, 3-4, p. 529-537 9 p.\nOutdoor recreation and the environment\nRavenscroft, N. & Gilchrist, P., 2010, The new politics of leisure and pleasure. Bramham, P. & Wagg, S. (eds.). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 45-62 18 p.\nOvercoming development adversity: how entrepreneurs led software development in India\nAthreye, S. & Hobday, M., Jan 2010, In: International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development. 3, 1, p. 36-46 11 p.\nOvercoming knowledge stickiness in scientific knowledge transfer\nBlackman, D. & Benson, A., 24 Sep 2010, In: Public Understanding of Science. 21, 5","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Overview - Current Focus\nThe Gunbang Action Group (GAG) is a voluntary coalition of community, business and government agencies. Its focus is on reducing risks arising from alcohol and other drug use in the Kakadu region. It works in partnership with the local Aboriginal people.\nThe GAG has formal responsibility for:\nManaging a local Alcohol Management Plan;\nManaging a local Volatile Substance Abuse Management Plan;\nOversight of a local Community Safety Plan.\nThe last GAG meeting was held on 3 April 2019. Some of the matters discussed:\nThe rules for the local ban system were clarified for people with health problems. Medical practitioners can advise that certain people should be banned from alcohol due to the high risk it poses to their health or recovery. Such a ban cannot be imposed, however, unless the individual to be banned is fully informed of the reasoning and agrees to the action.\nStrategies to support the Jabiru Football Club in responding to players from Gunbalanya flying home with contradband. The club has already initiated a range of strategies to address the issue. GAG will provide further help by examining the legalities of baggage seraches and by advocating additional involvment of some key stakeholders.\nHeadline issues of the draft Liquor Act were raised and it was agreed a formal response may be submitted if review shows a need. The headline issues included:\nprimary objective of the Act shifting to be the minimisation of alcohol-related harm;\nintoxication being re-defined so it incorporates people \"appearing\" to be impaired in behaviours;\nthe introduction of risk-based licensing fees; and,\nnew central role of the Liquor Commission.\nSeveral projects were confirmed for future funding as Alcohol Action Initiatives. Four others are continuing: a photography course, the translation of resources and messages to local language, a Bininj mentoring program, and development of a \"Men's Shed\".\nThe Community Safety Plan was approved and signed off, along with a Monitoring Schedule to improve implementation and accoiuntablity of the strategies being pursued.\nThe Red Lily Health Board was congratulated on announcing the start of its service delivery on 1 April. This is after some ten years of talking and patience by many on both sides of the negotiations to transfer resources and responsiblities from government to the Aboriginal sector.\n.Further details can be obtained by contacting GAG via details below.\nThe next GAG meeting is scheduled for 19 June 2019.\nThe Gunbang Action Group can be contacted by telephone on 08 89792200 \/ 0401114144 or at email gundjeihmi@mirarr.net.\nThis website is supported by the Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation and seeding funds from Alcohol Strategy and Policy, Northern Territory Government.\nGunbang Action Group\nAlcohol Management Plan\nWest Arnhem ID Card\nCommunity Safety Plan\nVSA Management Plan","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Service Manual Catalog \u00bb CANON Service Manuals \u00bb Copiers \u00bb SM_FC200\nFC 200, 220, PC 400,420,430 copiers\nFC 200, 220, PC 400, 420, 430 Copiers SERVICE MANUAL\nThis Service Manual provides information needed to service the plain paper copiers FC200\/PC400(120V model), FC220\/PC420(120V model), and PC430(LGL model) in the field.\n\ufffdBasic Operation,\ufffd provides outlines of the copier's various mechanical workings.\n\ufffdExposure System,\ufffd discusses the principles of operation used for the copier's lens drive unit and scanner drive unit. It also explains the timing at which these drive units are operated, and shows how they may be disassembled\/assembled and adjusted.\n\ufffdImage Formation System,\ufffd discusses the principles of how images are formed. It also explains the timing at which the various units involved in image formation are operated, and shows how they may be disassembled\/ assembled and adjusted.\n\ufffdPick-Up\/Feeding System,\ufffd explains the principles used from when copy paper is picked up to when a copy is delivered in view of the functions of electrical and mechanical units and in relation to their timing of operation. It also shows how these units may be disassembled\/assembled and adjusted.\n\ufffdFixing System,\ufffd explains the principles used to fuse toner images to transfer media in view of the functions of electrical and mechanical units and in relation to their timing of operation. It also shows how these units may be disassembled\/assembled and adjusted.\n\ufffdExternals\/Auxiliary Mechanisms,\ufffd shows the copier's external parts, and explains the principles used for the copier's various control mechanisms in view of the functions of electrical and mechanical units and in relation to their timing of operation. It also shows how these units may be disassembled\/assembled and adjusted.\n\ufffdInstallation,\ufffd introduces requirements for the site of installation, and shows how the copier may be installed using step-by-step instructions.\n\ufffdMaintenance and Servicing,\ufffd provides tables of periodically replaced parts and consumables\/durables and scheduled servicing charts.\n\ufffdTroubleshooting,\ufffd provides tables of maintenance\/inspection, standards\/ adjustments, and problem identification (image fault\/malfunction).\nAppendix contains a general timing chart and general circuit diagrams.\nThe following rules apply throughout this Service Manual:\n1. Each chapter contains sections explaining the purpose of specific functions and the relationship between electrical and mechanical systems with reference to the timing of operation.\nIn the diagrams, represents the path of mechanical drive where a signal name accompanies the symbol , the arrow indicates the direction of the electric signal.\nThe expression \"turn on the power\" means flipping on the power switch, closing the front door, and closing the delivery unit door, which results in supplying the machine with power.\n2. In the digital circuits, '1' is used to indicate that the voltage level of a given signal is \"High,\" while '0' is used to indicate \"Low.\" (The voltage value, however, differs from circuit to circuit.)\nIn practically all cases, the internal mechanisms of a microprocessor cannot be checked in the field. Therefore, the operations of the microprocessors used in the machines are not discussed: they are explained in terms of from sensors to the input of the DC controller PCB and from the output of the DC controller PCB to the loads.\nThe descriptions in this Service Manual are subject to change without notice for product improvement or other purposes, and major changes will be communicated in the form of Service Information bulletins.\nAll service persons are expected to have a good understanding of the contents of this Service Manual and all relevant Service Information bulletins and be able to identify and isolate faults in the machine.\nFORMAT: High resolution PDF document!\nZIP archive: 1 661 kB\ncomunicate ya 2013-02-22 18:31:11\nCLAVE PARA REINICIAR MI CONTADOR DE IMPRESORA EPSON WORKFORCE 315\nmaxon byakost 2010-01-26 15:23:41\nhttp:\/\/www.2manuals.com\/product_info.php?products_id=1138\nPut in the rest key, 20 seconds later up and running, great product, will continue to use you in the future and will recommend to friends, thanks a lot.\nmamadou sambe 2018-01-11 19:10:39\nmassive thank you for everything, It amazes me this technology still can get my head round how easy it was for you to set my Epson printer working again just by me purchasing a number :-) Thanks again Kind regards\narmando ro 2007-05-18 22:04:53\nplease service adjustment program for r220 the epson\nNotify me of updates to FC 200, 220, PC 400,420,430 copiers","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"third sunday after trinity - choral eucharist\nThe Dean - The Very Revd Andrew Nunn\n: Job 38.1-11; 2 Corinthians 6.1-13; Mark 4.35-41\nIt was a great treat a few weeks ago to be invited to stand on the stage of the Globe Theatre, just a short distance from here, and bless the stage and the theatre before it reopened after such a long period of darkness, of closure. As I left the stage the place came alive with all the fun of a rumbustious performance of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'\nBut last weekend we returned for a very different experience, a production of 'The Tempest', the last play to be written by Shakespeare and perhaps written whilst he was a resident here in what's now the Cathedral parish.\nThe play opens, as you know, in a storm battered boat, the boatswain trying to keep control of the ship; the crew and the passengers being tossed around by the tempest that gives the play its name. It was a powerful moment as the actors threw themselves around the stage and we were drawn into the experience.\nSome years ago we were on pilgrimage to the Holy Land. One of the highlights is always the boat trip on the Sea of Galilee, boarding from the hotel in which we're staying, if the level of the lake is high enough, and then sailing off to the centre of the lake where the engines can be turned off and in the silence and in the stillness and under a beating sun the passage that we've just heard is read. Except that on this particular occasion the weather was playing its part. There was a storm; it was pouring with rain and the wind was blowing it at us; the tarpaulin pulled across the boat was hardly keeping us dry. We read the passage and realised just what it might've been like for Jesus and his disciples.\nOf course, most of them were used to the sea and the unpredictability of the weather. Most of them were fishermen. Most of them knew how to manage a boat in a storm, on the lake. Most of them should have been in their comfort zone \u2013 but it seems that all of them had been caught unawares and were at their wits end. As we just heard in the psalm (Psalm 107)\ntheir soul melteth away because of the trouble.\nThey reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man: and are at their wits' end.\nIt was this that the disciples were going through, for some reason, despite their skill, despite everything they knew and had experienced 'their soul melteth away'.\nSt Paul in his Second Letter to the Corinthians, our Second Reading, speaks of the turmoil, the tempest that he's been going through\nin afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labours, sleepless nights, hunger.\nThe list is long and we recognise in it someone who has lived through all of what life can throw at us, all that can come along and set us off balance, so that we too 'reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man.' The tempest is not just something that we experience on water, in a boat, away from the land, as a victim of the elements of which God speaks to Job in our First Reading. The tempest can throw us off balance at any moment; our usual coping mechanisms seem to disappear, we're at our wits end.\nThe last fifteen months have tested us, perhaps beyond our limits. Though the effects of the pandemic have landed differently on each of us, we've all gone through this together and we're all going through this together. There's a tempest raging and we're still caught in it.\nThe postponement of so called 'Freedom Day' came as a blow and we can hardly dare to believe that what the Prime Minter is now calling the 'Terminus' on 19 July will actually happen. We stagger from dates to data and wonder how we can possibly find our way through to a better place.\nHumanity has always cried out in anger and frustration to its Gods when things do not go well. The disciples give voice to what so many people have said before and after. Jesus is there asleep in the storm, he doesn't appear to be at all affected by what his friends are going through, oblivious to their fear, disengaged from their terror, seemingly uncaring of their torment. And in Mark's direct way of telling the gospel we hear all that panic emerging as they wake the Lord and say to him\n'Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?'\nDo you not care?\nAnd Jesus addresses the wind and he speaks to the waters and there is peace. 'Peace; be still' and he says it to us in whatever it is that you, that we, are going through at this moment and challenges us as to where our faith is. Peace; be still. The tempest isn't just outside, it's inside as well. Peace; be still.\n'Please believe these days will pass.'\nWhen we decided last year to invite Mark Titchner to install his art, not in the street, on billboards, but here in the Cathedral on a monumental scale and when it became clear that it would be pointless in Lent because the Cathedral was closed, yet again, we went for these weeks in June and July. And we thought that it would still be powerful. But we didn't realise just how poignant, how powerful, how timely it would be.\nThe God we worship, the God who in creation gave the boundaries to the seas and brought order out of chaos, the God who we know in Jesus, the God we meet at the altar in this Eucharist at the very heart of the tempest of our life, the God who finds us in the midst of the calamities that assail us, is the God who speaks peace into our hearts, into our now, into the storm that can threaten to overwhelm us.\nBut there is more to say. The poet William Wordsworth begins his poem 'After the storm' with these words\nThere was a roaring in the wind all night;\nThe rain came heavily and fell in floods;\nBut now the sun is rising calm and bright;\nand the psalmist says something similar\n'he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be.'\nThrown onto the shore of the mysterious island, Shakespeare's terrified travellers find themselves untouched by the storm and in a better place, a 'brave new world'.\nGod will bring us to a better place, God's brave new world, beyond the storm, that place of peace, of order restored, of calm, and here we glimpse it now. Wherever you are, whatever is going on around you, within you, Jesus speaks peace to you. Be still. The sun is rising calm and bright. Peace; be still.\nTrinity Sunday - Choral Eucharist\nFourth Sunday after Trinity - Choral Evensong\nReturn to Sermons\nRegular Services\nMonthly Music List\nLIVE Service Stream\nWhat to expect at our Services\nSermons from Special Services\nDr Paula Gooder - Addresses from Holy Week 2021\nHoly Monday\nHoly Tuesday\nHoly Wednesday\nEaster Eve\nVideo Messages from the Anglican Communion During Covid-19\nThe Most Revd and Rt Hon. Stephen Cottrell - Archbishop of York\nThe Right Reverend Dr David Hamid\nThe Very Reverend Dr Cynthia Briggs Kittredge\nThe Reverend Canon Richard Sewell\nThe Reverend Adam Boulter\nThe Reverend Canon Dr Ellen Clark-King\nProfessor Esther Mombo\nThe Most Revd Linda Nicholls, Primate of Canada\nThe Right Reverend Dr Ignatius Makumbe\nThe Right Reverend Cleophas Lunga\nThe Reverend James Buxton\nThe Very Revd Samson Fan\nSouthwark Cathedral Liturgical Statement\nRole of the Choir\nHistory of the Choir\nThe Choir Today\nJoining the Choir\nSupporting the Choir\nConcerts, Music and Organ Recitals\nThe Cathedral Organ\nHistory of the Organ\nCathedral Organ Specifications\nOrgan Recitals\nPilgrimage to the Holy Land 2023\nThe Pilgrims' Way\nEnglish Cathedrals Passport\nSouthwark Pedal Pilgrimage\nThames Path Passport\nPlease visit our website for the most up to date information, https:\/\/cathedral.southwark.anglican.org\/worship-and-music\/worship\/sermons\/third-sunday-after-trinity-choral-eucharist\/","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Vittek, Albert William, Normandy, France, Atlantic, Korean War, World War II (WWII)\nAdapted from \"Lieutenant Commander Albert W. Vittek, U. S. Navy, \" [biography, dated 19 February 1959] in Biographies, 20th century collection, Navy Department Library.\nAlbert William Vittek\n15 February 1921 - 2 June 2012\nAlbert William Vittek was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on 15 February 1921, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Vittek. He was graduated from Kenwood High School, Raspeburg, Maryland, in 1938, and on 11 July, that year enlisted in the US Navy as Seaman\/Quartermaster 3. He was advanced to Quartermaster 2 in 1941, and from September 1941 to September 1943 made Quartermaster 1, Chief Quartermaster, and was commissioned Ensign, with date of rank 15 September 1943. He subsequently attained the rank of Lieutenant Commander, to date from 1 July 1954.\nPrior to the outbreak of World War II, from September 1938 until August 1941, he served on board USS Sumner, a destroyer unit of the Atlantic Fleet. During the period September 1941 until September 1943, when he was commissioned in the US Navy, he served on board USS Tuscarora (YTB-341), and in October 1943 was assigned to USS Arikara (ATF-98), as Navigator. In that vessel he participated in the Invasion of Normandy, including the bombardment of Cherbourg, and the Allegheny, USS ATR-57, and USS Accokeek. From May 1948 to January 1950 he was a student (Navy 5-term Plan) at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and during the next ten months he attended the General Line School, Newport, Rhode Island. In January 1951 he reported as First Lieutenant of USS Newport News (CA-148), and in November 1952 was detached with orders to USS Smalley, to which he reported in February 1953.\nFor fourteen months he served as Executive Officer and Navigator of USS Smalley, which won the Korean Presidential Unit Citation for service in June and July 1953 under the United Nations Command as a unit of Task Force 77 of the SEVENTH Fleet. Detached from the Smalley in March 1954, he reported to the Navy Department, Washington, DC, for a tour of duty in the Bureau of Naval Personnel. There he served in the Allowances and Complements Branch of the Requirements Division. He was a student at the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, from August 1956 to June 1957 then was ordered to sea as Commanding Officer of USS Dealey (DE-1006).\nIn addition to the Navy Unit Commendation Ribbon and the Korean Presidential Unit Citation Ribbon, Lieutenant Commander Vittek had the Good Conduct Medal with one Star; the American Defense Service Medal, Fleet Clasp; American Campaign Medal; European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with two stars; the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal; World War II Victory Medal; Navy Occupation Service Medal, Europe Clasp; National Defense Service Medal; Korean Service Medal with one star; and the United Nations Service Medal.\nLieutenant Commander Vittek died on 2 June 2012.\nPublished: Mon Nov 30 08:44:38 EST 2020","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Gospel of Judas\nGospel of Philip\nGospel of Truth\nGospel of Peter\nUnknown Gospel: Egerton Papyrus 2\nGospel of Q\nInfancy Gospel of James\nInfancy Gospel of Thomas\nThe Stranger's Book\nManuscript Information\nBernhard's Online Essays (GJW)\nThe Gospel of Truth\nby Mark M. Mattison\nThe following translation has been committed to the public domain and may be freely copied and used, changed or unchanged, for any purpose. It is based on the Coptic text of NHC I, 3. For information about the surviving manuscripts of the Gospel of Truth, see the Manuscript Information page. For additional information about the translation, see the introduction to the PDF version.\nFor additional reflections about the history, context, and meaning of the Gospel of Truth, see my book, The Gospel of Truth: The Mystical Gospel.\n16 Page Number\n[ ] Gap in the text\n( ) Editorial insertion\n16 The Gospel of Truth is a joy for those who've received grace from the Father of Truth, that they might know him through the power of the Word that came from the fullness \u2013 the one who's in the thought and mind of the Father. They call him \"Savior.\" That's the name of the work he'll do to redeem those who had become 17 ignorant of the Father. And the term \"the Gospel\" is the revelation of hope, the discovery of those who search for him.\nError and Forgetfulness\nSince all searched for the one from whom they had come \u2013 all were within him, the uncontainable, inconceivable one who's beyond every thought \u2013 (and) since ignorance of the Father caused anguish and terror, and the anguish grew thick like a fog, so that no one could see \u2013 Error was strengthened. It worked on its own matter in vain, not knowing the Truth.\nIt happened in a deluding way, as it (Error) prepared with power, in beauty, a substitute for the Truth. Now this wasn't humiliating for the uncontainable, inconceivable one, because the anguish and forgetfulness and delusion of deceit were like nothing, whereas the Truth is established, unchangeable, unperturbed, beyond beauty. Because of this, disregard Error, since it has no root.\nIt happened in a fog concerning the Father. It happens (now) since it (Error) prepares works in forgetfulness and terror, so that with them it (Error) might attract those in the middle and imprison them.\nThe forgetfulness of Error wasn't revealed; it wasn't a 18 [thought] from the Father. Forgetfulness didn't come into being from the Father, though it did come into being because of him. What comes into being within him is the knowledge, which was revealed so that forgetfulness might be dissolved, and the Father might be known. Forgetfulness came into being because the Father was unknown, so when the Father comes to be known, forgetfulness won't exist anymore.\nThis is the Gospel of the one they search for, revealed to those who are complete through the mercies of the Father, the hidden mystery. Through it (the Gospel), Jesus Christ enlightened those who were in darkness through forgetfulness. He enlightened them; he showed them a Way, and the Way is the Truth which he taught them.\nAs a result, Error was angry. It pursued him. It was threatened by him and brought to nothing. They nailed him (Jesus) to a tree, and he became the fruit of the Father's knowledge. However, it (the fruit) didn't cause destruction when it was eaten, but those who ate it were given joy in the discovery. He discovered them in himself and they discovered him in themselves.\nAs for the uncontainable, inconceivable one \u2013 the Father, the complete one who made all \u2013 all are within him, and all need him. Although he kept their completion within himself which he didn't give to all, the Father wasn't jealous. Indeed, what jealousy is there between him and his members? 19 For if, like this, the generation [received the completion,] they couldn't have come [\u2026] the Father. He keeps their completion within himself, giving it to them to return to him with a unitary knowledge in completion. He's the one who made all, and all are within him, and all need him.\nLike someone who's unknown, he wants to be known and loved \u2013 because what did all need if not the knowledge of the Father?\nHe became a guide, peaceful and leisurely. He came and spoke the Word as a teacher in places of learning. Those who were wise in their own estimation came up to him to test him, but he confounded them because they were vain. They hated him because they weren't wise in Truth. After all of them, all the little children came too; theirs is the knowledge of the Father. When they were strengthened, they received teaching about the Father's expressions. They knew and they were known; they received glory and they gave glory. In their hearts the living Book of the Living was revealed, which was written in the thought and mind 20 [of the] Father, and before the [foundation] of all within his incomprehensibility. This (book) is impossible to take, since it permits the one who takes it to be killed. No one could've been revealed among those who'd been entrusted with salvation unless the book had appeared. Because of this, the merciful and faithful Jesus patiently suffered until he took that book, since he knows that his death is life for many.\nWhen a will hasn't yet been opened, the wealth of the deceased master of the house is hidden; so too all were hidden while the Father of all was invisible. They were from him, from whom every realm comes. Because of this:\nJesus was revealed,\nput on that book,\nwas nailed to a tree,\nand published the Father's edict on the cross.\nOh, what a great teaching!\nDrawing himself down to death,\nhe clothed himself in eternal life,\nstripped himself of the perishable rags,\nand clothed himself in incorruptibility,\nwhich no one can take from him.\nWhen he entered the empty realms of terror, he passed through those who were stripped by forgetfulness, being knowledge and completion, proclaiming the things that are in the heart 21 [\u2026] teach those who will [receive teaching].\nThe Book of the Living\nNow those who will receive teaching [are] the living who are written in the Book of the Living. They receive teaching about themselves, and they receive it from the Father, returning to him again.\nSince the completion of all is in the Father, it's necessary for all to go up to him. Then, if someone has knowledge, they receive what are their own, and he draws them to himself, because the one who's ignorant is in need. And it's a great need, since they need what will complete them. Since the completion of all is in the Father, it's necessary for all to go up to him, and for each one to receive what are their own. He inscribed these things beforehand, having prepared them to give to those who came out from him.\nThose whose names he knew beforehand were called at the end, so that the one who has knowledge is the one whose name the Father has called, because those whose name hasn't been spoken are ignorant. Indeed, how can someone hear if their name hasn't been called? For the one who's ignorant until the end is a delusion of forgetfulness, and they'll dissolve with it. Otherwise, why do these miserable ones have no 22 name? Why do they have no voice?\nSo if someone has knowledge, they're from above. If they're called, they hear, they reply, and they turn to the one who calls them. And they go up to him, and they know how they are called. Having knowledge, they do the will of the one who called them, they want to please him, and they receive rest. Each one's name becomes their own. The one who has knowledge like this knows where they come from and where they're going. They know like one who, having been drunk, turns from their drunkenness, and having returned to themselves, restores what are their own.\nHe's returned many from Error. He went before them to the realms from which they had moved away. They had received Error because of the depth of the one who surrounds every realm, though nothing surrounds him. It's a great wonder that they were in the Father, not knowing him, and that they were able to come out by themselves, since they weren't able to grasp and know the one in whom they were. He revealed his will as knowledge in harmony with all that emanated from him.\nThis is the knowledge of the living book which he revealed to the 23 generations at the end, letters from him revealing how they're not vowels or consonants, so that one might read them and think they're meaningless, but they're letters of the Truth \u2013 they speak and know themselves. Each letter is a complete thought, like a book that's complete, since they're letters written by the Unity, the Father having written them so that the generations, by means of his letters, might know the Father.\nThe Return to Unity\nHis Wisdom meditates on the Word,\nhis teaching speaks it,\nhis knowledge has revealed it,\nhis patience is a crown upon it,\nhis joy is in harmony with it,\nhis glory has exalted it,\nhis image has revealed it,\nhis rest has received it,\nhis love made a body around it,\nhis faith embraced it.\nIn this way, the Word of the Father goes out in all, as the fruit 24 [of] his heart and an expression of his will. But it supports all. It chooses them and also takes the expression of all, purifying them, returning them to the Father and to the Mother, Jesus of infinite sweetness.\nThe Father reveals his bosom, and his bosom is the Holy Spirit. He reveals what's hidden of himself; what's hidden of himself is his Son \u2013 so that through the mercies of the Father, the generations may know him and cease their work in searching for the Father, resting in him and knowing that this is the rest. He's filled the need and dissolved its appearance \u2013 its appearance is the world in which it served, because where there's envy and strife there's need, but where there's Unity there's completion. Since need came into being because the Father wasn't known, when the Father is known, from then on, need will no longer exist. As someone's ignorance dissolves when they gain knowledge, and as darkness dissolves when the light appears, 25 so also need dissolves in completion. So the appearance is revealed from then on, but it'll dissolve in the harmony of Unity.\nFor now, their works lie scattered. In time, Unity will complete the realms. Within Unity each one will receive themselves, and within knowledge they'll purify themselves from multiplicity into Unity, consuming matter within themselves like fire, and darkness by light, death by life. If indeed these things have happened to each one of us, then it's right for us to think about all, so that this house will be holy and silent for the Unity.\nThe Parable of the Jars\nIt's like some who've left their home, having jars that weren't any good in places. They broke them, but the master of the house doesn't suffer any loss. Instead he rejoices, because in place of the bad jars are ones that are full and complete. For this is 26 the judgment that's come from above; it's judged everyone. It's a drawn, two-edged sword which cuts both ways. The Word, which is in the hearts of those who speak it, appeared. It isn't just a sound, but it was incarnated (embodied).\nA great disturbance arose among the jars, because some were empty, others filled; some provided for, others poured out; some purified, others broken. All the realms were shaken and disturbed, because they didn't have order or stability. Error was anxious. It didn't know what to do; it grieved, mourned, and hurt itself, because it knew nothing. The knowledge, which is its (Error's) destruction, approached it (Error) and all that emanated from it. Error is empty, with nothing inside it.\nTruth came into their midst, and all that emanated knew it. They welcomed the Father in Truth with a complete power that joins them with the Father. Truth is the Father's mouth; the Holy Spirit is his tongue. Everyone who loves the Truth and are joined to the 27 Truth are joined to the Father's mouth. By his tongue they'll receive the Holy Spirit. This is the revelation of the Father and his manifestation to his generations. He revealed what was hidden of himself; he explained it, because who has anything, if not the Father alone?\nComing into Being\nEvery realm emanates from him. They know they've come out from him like children who are from someone who's completely mature. They knew they hadn't yet received form or a name. The Father gives birth to each one. Then, when they receive form from his knowledge, although they're really within him, they don't know him. But the Father is complete, knowing every realm that's within him. If he wants to, he reveals whomever he wants, giving them a form and a name. He gives a name to them, and causes those to come into being who, before they come into being, are ignorant of the one who made them.\nI'm not saying, then, that those who haven't yet come into being are nothing, but they exist 28 in the one who will want them to come into being when he wants, like a later time. Before everything is revealed, he knows what he'll produce. But the fruit which he hasn't yet revealed doesn't yet know anything, nor does it do anything. In addition, every realm which is itself in the Father is from the one who exists, who establishes them from what doesn't exist. For those who have no root have no fruit either. They think to themselves, \"I've come into being,\" but they'll dissolve by themselves. Because of this, those who didn't exist at all won't exist.\nThe Parable of the Nightmares\nWhat, then, did he want them to think of themselves? He wanted to them to think, \"I've come into being like the shadows and phantoms of the night.\" When the light shines on the terror which they received, they know that it's nothing. In this way, they were ignorant of the Father, whom 29 they didn't see. Since it was terror and disturbance and instability and doubt and division, many illusions were at work among them, and vain ignorance, like they were deep in sleep and found themselves in nightmares. Either they're running somewhere, or unable to run away from someone; or they're fighting, or being beaten; or they've fallen from heights, or fly through the air without wings. Sometimes, too, it's like someone is killing them, even though no one's chasing them; or they themselves are killing those around them, covered in their blood. Until those who are going through all these nightmares can wake up, they see nothing, because these things are nothing.\nThat's the way it is with those who've cast off ignorance like sleep. They don't regard it as anything, nor do they regard its 30 other works as real, but they abandon them like a dream in the night. They value the knowledge of the Father like they value the light. The ignorant have acted like they're asleep; those who've come to knowledge have acted like they've awakened. Good for the one who returns and awakens! Blessed is the one who's opened the eyes of those who can't see! The Holy Spirit hurried after them to revive them. Having given a hand to the one who lay on the ground, it set them up on their feet, because they hadn't yet arisen. It gave them the knowledge of the Father and the revelation of the Son, because when they saw him and heard him, he granted them to taste him and to grasp the beloved Son.\nThe Revelation of the Son\nWhen he was revealed, he taught them about the Father, the uncontainable one, and breathed into them what's in the thought, doing his will. When many had received the light, they turned 31 to him. For the material ones were strangers, who didn't see his form or know him. For he came by means of fleshly form, and nothing could block his path, because incorruptibility can't be grasped. Moreover, he said new things while he spoke about what's in the Father's heart and brought out the complete Word. When the light spoke through his mouth, and by his voice gave birth to life, he gave them thought, wisdom, mercy, salvation, and the Spirit of power from the infinity and sweetness of the Father. He caused punishments and torments to cease, because they led astray into Error and bondage those who needed mercy. He dissolved and confounded them with knowledge. He became:\na Way for those who were led astray,\nknowledge for those who were ignorant,\na discovery for those who were searching,\nstrength for those who were wavering, and\npurity for those who were impure.\nThe Parable of the Sheep\nHe's the shepherd who left behind the ninety- 32 nine sheep which weren't lost. He went and searched for the one which was lost. He rejoiced when he found it, because ninety-nine is a number expressed with the left hand. However, when the one is found, the numerical sum moves to the right hand. In this way, what needs the one \u2013 that is, the whole right hand \u2013 draws what it needs, takes it from the left hand, and moves it to the right, so the number becomes one hundred. This is a symbol of the sound of these numbers; this is the Father.\nEven on the Sabbath, he worked for the sheep which he found fallen in the pit. He saved the life of the sheep, having brought it up from the pit, so that you may know in your hearts \u2013 you're children of the knowledge of the heart \u2013 what is the Sabbath, on which it isn't right for salvation to be idle, so that you may speak of the day which is above, which has no night, and of the light that doesn't set, because it's complete. Speak then from the heart, because you're the completed day, and the light that doesn't cease dwells within you. Speak of the Truth with those who search for it, and of knowledge with those who've sinned in their Error.\nDoing the Father's Will\n33 Strengthen the feet of those who stumble, and reach out to those who are sick. Feed those who are hungry, and give rest to those who are weary. Raise up those who want to arise, and awaken those who sleep, because you're the understanding that's unsheathed. If strength is like this, it becomes stronger.\nBe concerned about yourselves. Don't be concerned about other things which you've rejected from yourselves. Don't return to eat your vomit. Don't be eaten by worms, because you've already shaken it off. Don't become a dwelling-place for the devil, because you've already brought him to naught. Don't strengthen your obstacles which are collapsing, as though you're a support. For the lawless one is nothing, to be treated more harshly than the just, doing his works among others.\nDo then the Father's will, because you're from him. For the Father is sweet, and goodness is in his will. He knows what's yours, that you may find rest in them. For by the fruits they know what's yours, because the children of the Father 34 are his fragrance, since they're from the grace of his expression. Because of this, the Father loves his fragrance, and reveals it in every place. And when it mixes with matter, it gives his fragrance to the light, and in tranquility he causes it to rise above every form and every sound. For it's not the ears that smell the fragrance, but it's the Spirit that smells, and draws the fragrance to itself, and sinks down into the Father's fragrance. He shelters it, then, and takes it to the place from which it came, from the first fragrance which has grown cold. It's something in a soul-endowed delusion, like cold water sunk into loose earth. Those who see it think that it's just earth. Afterwards, it dissolves again. If a breath draws it, it becomes warm. So the fragrances which are cold are from the division. Because of this, faith came. It dissolved the division, and it brought the fullness that's warm with love, so that the cold may not return, but rather the unitary thought of completion.\nRestoring what was Needed\nThis is the Word of the Gospel of the discovery of the fullness, which comes for those who are awaiting 35 the salvation which is coming from above. The hope for which they're waiting is waiting for those whose image is light with no shadow in it. If at that time the fullness comes, the need of matter doesn't come through the infinity of the Father, who comes to give time to the need \u2013 although no one can say that the incorruptible one will come like this. But the depth of the Father multiplied, and the thought of Error didn't exist with him. It's something that's fallen, which is easily set upright in the discovery of the one who's to come to what he'll return, because the return is called \"repentance.\"\nBecause of this, incorruptibility breathed out. It followed after the one who sinned, so that they might rest, because forgiveness is what remains for the light in need, the Word of fullness. For the doctor hurries to the place where there's sickness, because that's what he (or she) wants to do. The one in need, then, doesn't hide it, because one (the doctor) has what they need. In this way the fullness, which has no need but fills the need, is what he 36 provided from himself to fill up what's needed, so that they might receive grace; because when they were in need, they didn't have grace. Because of this, a diminishing took place where there is no grace. When what was diminished was restored, what they needed was revealed as fullness. This is the discovery of the light of Truth which enlightened them, because it doesn't change.\nBecause of this, they spoke of Christ in their midst: \"Seek, and those who were disturbed will receive a return \u2013 and he'll anoint them with ointment.\" The ointment is the mercy of the Father, who will have mercy on them. But those whom he anointed are those who have been completed, because full jars are the ones that are anointed. But when the anointing of one dissolves, it empties, and the cause of the need is the place where the ointment leaks, because a breath and its power draws it. But from the one who has no need, no seal is removed, nor is anything emptied, but what it needs is filled again by the Father, who's complete.\nThe Father's Paradise\nHe's good. He knows his plants, because he planted them in his paradise. Now his paradise is a place of rest. This 37 is the completion in the Father's thought, and these are the words of his meditation. Each of his words is the work of his one will in the revelation of his Word. When they were still in the depths of his thought, the Word \u2013 which was the first to come out \u2013 revealed them along with a mind that speaks the one Word in a silent grace. He was called \"the Thought,\" since they were in it before being revealed. It happened, then, that he was the first to come out at the time when it pleased the one who wanted it. Now the Father rests in his will, and is pleased with it.\nNothing happens without him, nor does anything happen without the will of the Father, but his will is incomprehensible. His trace is the will, and no one can know him, nor does he exist for people to scrutinize so that they might grasp him, but when he wills, what he wills is this \u2013 even if the sight doesn't please them in any way before God \u2013 the will of the Father, because he knows the beginning of all of them, and their end, for in the end he'll greet them directly. Now the end is receiving knowledge of the one who's hidden; this is the Father, 38 from whom the beginning has come, and to whom all who've come out from him will return. They were revealed for the glory and the joy of his name.\nThe Father's Name\nNow the name of the Father is the Son. He's the one who first gave a name to the one who comes out from him, who was himself, and he gave birth to him as a Son. He gave him his name which belonged to him. He's the one to whom everything around the Father belongs. The name and the Son are his. It's possible for him to be seen; the name, however, is invisible, because it alone is the mystery of the invisible which comes to ears that are filled completely with it by him. For indeed, the Father's name isn't spoken, but it's revealed through a Son.\nIn this way, then, the name is great. Who, then, will be able to utter a name for him, the great name, except him alone to whom the name belongs, and the children of the name, those in whom the Father's name rests, and who themselves, in turn, rest in his name? Since the Father is unbegotten, it's he alone who gave birth to him for himself as a name, before he had made the generations, so that the Father's name might be over their head as Lord, which is the 39 true name, confirmed in his command in complete power. For the name isn't from words and naming; the name, rather, is invisible.\nHe gave a name to him alone. He alone sees him, he alone having the power to give him a name, because whoever doesn't exist has no name. For what name will they give one who doesn't exist? But the one who exists, exists also with his name, and he alone knows it, and he's given a name to him alone. This is the Father; his name is the Son. He didn't hide it within, then, but it existed. The Son alone gave a name. The name, then, belongs to the Father, as the name of the Father is the beloved Son. Where, indeed, would he find a name, except from the Father?\nBut doubtless one will ask their neighbor, \"Who is it who'll give a name to the one who existed before them, as if 40 offspring didn't receive a name from those who gave them birth?\" First, then, it's right for us to consider what the name is. It's the true name, the name from the Father, because it's the proper name. So he didn't receive the name on loan, the way others do, according to the form in which each one will be produced. This, then, is the proper name. There's no one else who gave it to him. But he's unnameable, indescribable, until the time when he who's complete spoke of him alone. And it's he who has the power to speak his name and to see him.\nSo when it pleased him that his beloved name should be his Son, and he gave the name to him who came out from the depth, he disclosed his secrets, knowing that the Father is without evil. Because of this, he brought him out so that he might speak about the place, and his resting place from which he had come, 41 and to glorify the fullness, the greatness of his name, and the Father's sweetness.\nThe Place of Rest\nEach one will speak about the place from which they came, and they'll hurry to return again to the place where they received their restoration to receive from the place where they were, receiving a taste from that place and receiving nourishment, receiving growth.\nAnd their place of rest is their fullness. All that have emanated from the Father, then, are fullnesses, and the roots of all that have emanated from him are within the one who caused them all to grow. He gave them their destinies. Then each one was revealed, so that through their own thought [\u2026] for the place to which they send their thought is their root, which takes them up through all the heights, up to the Father. They embrace his head, which is rest for them, and they're grasped, approaching him, as though to say that they receive his expression by means of kisses. But they're not revealed 42 in this way, because they neither exalted themselves, nor wanted the Father's glory, nor did they think of him as trivial or harsh or wrathful; but he's without evil, unperturbed, and sweet. He knows every realm before they've come into existence, and he has no need to be instructed.\nThis is the way of those who possess something of the immeasurable greatness from above, as they wait for the complete one alone, who's a Mother for them. And they don't go down to Hades, nor do they have envy or groaning, nor death within them, but they rest in the one who rests, not striving nor twisting around in the search for Truth. But they themselves are the Truth, and the Father is within them, and they're in the Father, being complete. They're undivided from the truly good one. They don't need anything, but they rest, refreshed in the Spirit. And they'll listen to their root. They'll devote themselves to those things that they'll find in their root and not suffer loss to their soul. This is the place of the blessed; this is their place.\nAs for the others, then, may they know, where they're at, that it's not right 43 for me, having come to the place of rest, to say anything else, but I'll come to be in it, and will devote myself continually to the Father of all and the true brothers (and sisters), those upon whom the Father's love is emptied and in whose midst there is no need. They're the ones who are revealed in Truth; they exist in the true eternal life, and they speak of the light that's complete and that's filled with the Father's seed, and that's in his heart and in the fullness. His Spirit rejoices in it, and glorifies the one in whom it existed, because he's good. And his children are complete, and worthy of his name, because he's the Father. It's children like this that he loves.\nPage 17: \"It happened in a deluding way.\" Cf. J\u00f6rgen Magnusson, Rethinking the Gospel of Truth: A Study of Its Eastern Valentinian Setting (Uppsala University), 2006, p. 77, contra most translators, who tend to use \"creation\" or \"form\" for plasma instead of \"delusion.\" Kendrick Grobel translates \"She was at work upon a molded figure\" in The Gospel of Truth: A Valentinian Meditation on the Gospel (Abingdon Press), 1960, p. 33 (but cf. p. 34); Attridge and MacRae translate \"it set about with a creation\" in James M. Robinson, ed., The Coptic Gnostic Library: A Complete Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices, Volume I (Brill), 2000, p. 83 (but cf. the note in their commentary section later in the volume on page 45); Marvin Meyer translates \"she assumed a fashioned figure\" in The Nag Hammadi Scriptures (HarperOne), 2007, p. 36; Celene Lillie translates \"She \u2026 became a molded form\" in Hal Taussig, ed., A New New Testament (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), 2013, p. 230; and Bentley Layton translates \"she took up residence in a modeled form\" in The Gnostic Scriptures (Doubleday), 1987, p. 253. The pronoun in the phrase is feminine (which could refer to \"Error,\" which is feminine in Coptic) but can also be rendered as \"it,\" as Coptic has no neuter gender. \"delusion of deceit.\" Also following Magnusson (op. cit., p. 94); cp. Grobel, \"deceitful figure\" (op. cit., p. 44); Attridge and MacRae, \"creature of deceit\" (op. cit., p. 83); Meyer, \"deceptive figure\" (op. cit., p. 36); Lillie, \"molded forms are lies\" (op. cit., p. 230); Layton, \"modeled form of deception\" (op. cit., p. 253). \"disregard.\" Grobel translates \"look with scorn\" (op. cit., p. 46); Attridge and MacRae (op. cit., p. 83), Meyer (op. cit., p. 36), and Layton (op. cit., p. 253) translate \"despise\"; but cf. Lillie, op. cit., p. 230, and Magnusson, op. cit., pp. 78, 79.\nPage 18: \"thought.\" The reconstruction is that of Magnusson, op. cit., p. 81. \"This is the Gospel of the one they search for \u2026 the Way is the Truth which he taught them.\" Based on personal correspondence with Lance Jenott dated November 15, 2017.\nPage 19: \"the Father's expressions.\" Literally, \"the forms of the Father's face.\"\nPage 20: \"who'd been entrusted with.\" Grobel (op. cit., p. 62), Meyer (op. cit., p. 38), and Layton (op. cit., p. 255) translate \"those who believed in\"; Attridge and MacRae translate \"those who have believed in\" (op. cit., p. 87); Lillie translates \"those who trust in\" (op. cit., p. 231); but cf. Magnusson, op. cit., pp. 137, 138.\nPage 21: \"delusion.\" Grobel translates \"figure\" (op. cit., p. 74); Attridge and MacRae (op. cit., p. 89) and Meyer (op. cit., p. 35) translate\"creature\"; Lillie translates \"creatures\" (op. cit., p. 231); Layton translates \"modeled form\" (op. cit., p. 256); but cf. Magnusson, op. cit., p. 100.\nPage 22: \"He revealed his will as knowledge in harmony with all that emanated from him.\" For clarity, this translation follows Lillie in omitting the preceding phrase which creates a logical incoherence: \"If his will hadn't come out from him.\" It appears that either the author changed direction mid-sentence, or the scribe copying this text made an error.\nPages 23, 34, and 41: \"expression.\" Literally, \"form of face.\"\nPage 34: \"delusion.\" Grobel translates \"animate mold\" (op. cit., p. 152); Attridge and MacRae (op. cit., p. 105), Meyer (op. cit., p. 44), and Lillie (op. cit., p. 235) translate \"form\"; Layton translates \"modeled form\" (op. cit., p. 261); but cf. Magnusson, op. cit., p. 116.\nPage 42: \"a Mother,\" following Meyer, op. cit., p. 47 (but cf. n. 49); Lillie, op. cit., p. 238 (but cf. note); Layton, op. cit., p. 264; alternatively, \"is there\"; cf. Grobel, op. cit., p. 196; Attridge and MacRae, op. cit., p. 117; Magnusson, op. cit., p. 126.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"FILM SUBJECTS\nIN THE HEART OF A CITY,\nA WILD MIRACLE AWAITS\nA FILM BY\nMarina Dodis\nThere is something astonishing happening in the city of Vancouver. Largely unnoticed amidst vehicle traffic, industrial sites and construction, wild salmon are returning to their ancient spawning grounds.\nOnce an important salmon bearing area, this watershed became severely degraded as the city grew. The run collapsed and was declared \"dead\". As salmon are iconic for people in British Columbia, concerned citizens became engaged.\nThe rewilding has begun to pay off. After disappearing for 80 years, people can now witness the autumn spectacle of these powerful swimmers fighting to reach the streams they hatched in. To have a salmon run taking place within city limits is almost completely unique in a metropolis of this size.\nFilmed with a quiet, observing lens over many years, \"The Return\" takes us into hidden enclaves of wilderness within the city, where tiny salmon smolts shimmer beneath the water's surface. Now that they have come back, their future is in our hands.\nRun Time : 20 min\nThe Return is still in the film festival circuit and therefore not available for free. However, it is available for streaming on The Green Channel. It was created by Scott Renyard, who wanted to create a community and help filmmakers continue to make environmental films. You must subscribe to watch and the monthly rate is $9.99. There is a 7 day free trial period. You will find an excellent selection on films and is well worth the nominal cost.\nThere is a section with the question \"How did you hear about us? If you answer with the filmmaker's film title or their name, $5.00 Cdn from the initial subscription fee will go to the filmmaker. This is how the filmmakers are supported.\nThis is the direct link to The Return.\nMarina Dodis is a documentary filmmaker based in Vancouver, Canada. Her background is as a still photographer, both for clients and magazines, specializing in portraiture, architecture, travel and documentary. In 2012, she graduated from the Documentary Film program at Capilano University. Her student film, Going Strong, was acquired by Knowledge Network (BC's public broadcaster) and featured in a number of local film festivals. She has worked for a wide range of organizations, corporate clients and publications, making more than 15 short films. For the majority of these films, she has been the director, cinematographer and editor.\nDIRECTOR'S NOTES\nVery close to Marina's home in East Vancouver, news broke that there were salmon in a tiny creek that runs amongst vast parking lots. It was the first time they had made it to the area in decades. Like many who have witnessed this marvel, Marina became enchanted by the experience and began to film, with the hope of making a contribution to protecting the salmon. This film is an invitation to explore where one lives and witness the resilience and rejuvenating effects of nature in our midst.\nJB MacKinnon is an internationally respected journalist and writer. His book The Once and Future World examines how people respond to nature through greed, coupled with amnesia. His work centres on the possibilities within reconnecting and rewilding.\nMike Pearson is a biologist with 30 years of field experience, specializing in habitat and population assessment of salmonids and species at risk. His work includes habitat restoration and enhancement, in conjunction with environmental groups, Indigenous communities and academic researchers.\nMorgan Guerin is the Aboriginal Fisheries Officer for the Musqueam First Nation, on whose land this film takes place. He is also a councillor and conducts educational tours for guests and visitors to c\u0313\u0259sna\u0294\u0259m, his village that dates back at least 4,000 years.\nDianne Ramage is the Director of Salmon Recovery at the Pacific Salmon Foundation and has won achievement awards for her work in wild salmon protection and recovery. She has been a streamkeeper in the Greater Vancouver area since 1998.\nJohn Templeton is president of the Stoney Creek Environmental Committee and has been part of the revitalization of the watershed for over 16 years. His efforts along with fellow streamkeepers has helped bring back salmon to the area after a 55 year absence.\nFILM TEAM\nDirector: Marina Dodis\nProducer: Marina Dodis, Lauren Weisler\nCinematographer: Marina Dodis\nAdditional Camera: Mike McKinlay, Grant Baldwin\nSound: Marina Dodis, David Daoud\nEditor: Marina Dodis\nConsulting Editor: Jenn Strom\nAnimation: Jenn Strom\nSoundscape: Hildegard Westerkamp\nNorwegian Short Film Festival:\nGrimstad, Norway\u200b\nhttps:\/\/kortfilmfestivalen.vhx.tv\/ikd-2\/videos\/the-return-1\nDOXA Film Festival:\nVancouver, Canada\u200b\nhttps:\/\/www.doxafestival.ca\/program\/2020\nFriday Harbour Documentary Film Festival:\nSan Juan, Washington, USA\nhttps:\/\/fhff2020.eventive.org\/welcome\nScience On Screen:\n5-8 November, 2020\nhttps:\/\/curamdevicesengage.ie\nWild & Scenic Film Festival :\nNevada City, California\nhttps:\/\/www.wildandscenicfilmfestival.org\nWorld Community Film Festival :\n5-13 February, 2021\nhttps:\/\/worldcommunity.ca\/film-festival\/\nColorado Environmental Film Festival :\nhttps:\/\/ceff.net\nVancouver International Mountain Film Festival :\nhttps:\/\/vimff.org\nFestival of Ocean Films:\n21 - 31 March 2021\nhttps:\/\/www.festivalofoceanfilms.com\nInternational Wildlife Film Festival :\nMissoula, Montana\n17 April - 15 May 2021\nhttp:\/\/wildlifefilms.org\nSeoul International Short Film Festival :\n1May - 31 May 2021\nhttps:\/\/www.seoulshortfilmfestival.com\nNorthwestfest International Documentary Film Festival :\nhttps:\/\/www.northwestfest.ca\nShort Circuit Film Festival :\nhhttps:\/\/cinevic.ca\/short-circuit-film-festival-2021\/\nEXPLORE FILM LOCATIONS\nLINKS (British Columbia)\nChemical Spills: 1-800-663-3456\nSalish Sea Marine Survival Project: https:\/\/marinesurvivalproject.com\nStreamkeeper Association: www.pskf.ca\nEducation Program, Fisheries+Oceans: https:\/\/www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca\/education\/resources-ressources-eng.html\nSalmonid Enhancement Program: https:\/\/www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca\/sep-pmvs\/index-eng.html\nMusqueam First Nation: https:\/\/www.musqueam.bc.ca\nFunding provided by the Pacific Salmon Foundation: https:\/\/www.psf.ca\nDistribution Inquiries: Moving Images Distribution\nmailbox@movingimages.ca\nSalmon returns - Stoney Creek\nEarly sightings of chum salmon during autumn 2020 run\nResearch to determine what is killing Coho salmon in urban streams\nLet me know if you enjoyed the film\nand if you have questions!\nRate UsPretty badNot so goodGoodVery goodAwesomeRate Us\n\u200bThank you!\nEmail: marina@marinadodis.com\nwww.marinadodis.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Biting the Bullet, Not the Dust: Deripaska Gives up His Aluminum Empire\nOleg Deripaska (Vladislav Shatilo \/ RBC \/ TASS)\nThe U.S. decision to lift sanctions on Russia's Rusal, the world's top aluminum producer outside China, is widely seen as a Christmas present for the company, global consumers of its metal and the Russian stock market.\nBut its co-owner and founder Oleg Deripaska will have mixed feelings, as the deal means giving up control of his prized aluminum empire and then seeing it return to business as usual while he remains blacklisted alongside drug lords.\nIt's a challenge for Deripaska, once Russia's richest man, as he has never before sold a major asset. He started building his empire during the 1990s \"aluminum wars\" after the collapse of the Soviet Union, waging several battles with rivals.\nNow he has to reduce his share in En+ Group to less than 45 percent from 70 percent, with no compensation.\nEn+, which manages a stake in Rusal along with Deripaska's power assets, had a market value of $8 billion a year ago but that has fallen to around $3 billion. His property will stay blocked.\n\"He is not selling, he is giving away,\" said an industry source who knows Deripaska.\nU.S. To Lift Sanctions From Aluminum Giant Rusal\nDeripaska agreed a deal with the U.S. Treasury Department within eight months to lift sanctions \u2014 a short time for a process that could have lasted years, the source said.\n\"It is a super result. Hats off.\"\nA representative of Deripaska declined to comment.\nDeripaska and the largest companies in his portfolio were put on the U.S. Treasury sanctions blacklist in April. Washington said at the time that he and a number of fellow tycoons were profiting from their association with a Kremlin conducting \"malign activities\" around the globe.\nDeripaska has described the sanctions against him as \"groundless, ridiculous and absurd.\"\nAs of April, these were the toughest penalties imposed since Moscow's 2014 annexation of Crimea. However, on Wednesday the U.S. Treasury watered them down, saying it was lifting sanctions from Rusal and En+ as Deripaska would cede control.\nThe U.S. announcement on Rusal was the \"hottest news since 2014,\" BCS Global Markets said in a note. \"It is positive for the Russian market as a whole as it demonstrates that there is a way for sanctioned companies to avoid or remove them,\" it added.\nRussian stock indexes were tracking oil prices lower on Thursday, but Rusal shares soared. London aluminum prices hit a 16-month low.\nThe deal is subject to a 30-day review, during which the U.S. Congress may pass a joint resolution of approval or disapproval.\nIf approved, Deripaska will reduce his stake in En+ by passing part of it to VTB Bank, Russia's second-largest lender, and donating some shares to a charitable foundation. His stake will also be diluted when Swiss company Glencore swaps shares in Rusal for a stake in En+.\nHis voting rights will be limited at 35 percent. He will have up to four representatives in En+'s new board of directors, where eight more directors will be independent. Half of the board will be U.S. or British nationals.\nShareholders with family ties to him will assign their voting rights to a third party, the U.S. Treasury said.\nU.S. Imposes Fresh Russia Sanctions for Election Meddling\nThe mother of Deripaska's children, Polina, and her father Valentin Yumashev, who was presidential chief of staff under former Russian president Boris Yeltsin, held 6 and 1.8 percent in En+ respectively, according to a disclosure from early 2018.\n\"He keeps some shares. Rusal will stay in Russia but be a bit more open to the U.S.,\" said a source familiar with the situation.\nDeripaska was not fighting on his own over the past eight months. France and Germany made a joint effort to get an extension of the deadline for sanctions as Rusal owns major assets in Europe, the source said.\nIreland said on Wednesday it had lobbied heavily for the removal of sanctions from Rusal to protect jobs at a large alumina plant.\nThe plan published on Wednesday was agreed a month or two ago, said another source familiar with the process. There was initial resistance from Moscow as the sides considered transferring some of Deripaska's shares to a U.S. trust.\nA compromise was found later with VTB's participation, the source added: \"It is the best possible deal. It is not ideal, but the best possible.\"\nRussia has a history of defending large, strategic groups such as Rusal, which employs 62,000 people in Russia and around the globe, to prevent them falling into foreign control.\nRussian President Vladimir Putin did not comment on Rusal at his annual news conference on Thursday. But the deal was probably approved by Russian officials, said Kirill Chuyko, head of research at BCS.\n\"It is a win... which will allow the company to work normally and Deripaska to continue working on freeing himself from sanctions,\" he added.\nRead more about: Oligarchs , Sanctions\nrefuted report\nEn+ Denies Sanctioned Russian Tycoon in Violation of Divestment Deal\nBloomberg had earlier reported that European officials said Deripaska \"retained significant day-to-day influence\" over Rusal and En+ despite divesting...\nRussia to Subsidize Purchase of Vehicles From Sanctioned Oligarch's Carmaking Giant\nDeripaska was named in a list of sweeping U.S. sanctions against major Russian businessmen and structures last April for \"malign activities.\"\nU.S. Targets Oligarchs in New Wave of Anti-Russia Sanctions\nThe U.S. Treasury Department released a new wave of anti-Russia sanctions on Friday.\nU.S. Plans to Target Russian Oligarchs With New Sanctions, Sources Say\nThe sanctions could be announced as early as next Thursday,.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag: Ray Barretto\nHenry Cole's vision of a 21st century Puerto Rican music\nDrummer Henry Cole is well known in the jazz world. The native of Mayag\u00fcez, Puerto Rico has recorded and toured with the likes of David S\u00e1nchez, Gary Burton and the 90 Miles project, and he is a permanent member of the Miguel Zen\u00f3n Quartet. He's lived in New York City for more than a decade, where he's active in the city's rich jazz scene, but when he turns his attention to his own projects, he finds inspiration back home on the Island.\nHis first album as a leader, Roots Before Branches, was a sprawling collection of funk rhythms, spoken word, folkloric percussion and jazz horn lines that all swirled around Cole's inventive and powerful drumming. The band was called the Afrobeat Collective because of the loose jamming structure inspired by Fela Kuti's work in the 70s and 80s. Their December 2012 Mayne Stage show in Chicago (it was presented as part of Ag\u00fazate's Afro-Caribbean Improvisational Music Festival) was a concert highlight of that year.\nCole and his band, the 14-piece band Villa Locura, create what Cole calls Interstellar Puerto Rican Funk. \"Villa Locura are inspired by my land and the things I miss when I'm away from my roots, away from the coast of Puerto Rico, the feeling of not having to rush and not feeling stress at all, just joy,\" says Cole. \"At the same time, there is a global influence on the sound, just as African music inspired Cuban rumba and Puerto Rican folkloric music and that in turn became a basis for Caribbean popular music. That gave rise to Latin jazz and mambo in New York and later, when bomba and plena were added to the mix, salsa.\"\nCole and I spoke a few weeks ago as he was preparing to release El Diablo, the first single from sessions that he and Villa Locura recorded at New York's famed Electric Lady Studios. Those sessions produced over a dozen tracks that will eventually be released as an album entitled Simple. Cole gathered an international cast of musicians at Electric Lady, many from the jazz world, but also percussionists from Puerto Rico and Cuba. Villa Locura, like the Afrobeat Collective, is a large ensemble, and here, too, there is space for the musicians to jam and build the songs together.\nEl Diablo was written over 60 years ago by the legendary Puerto Rican songwriter Rafael Hern\u00e1ndez, but Cole's version was inspired by a recording of it found on Ray Barretto's 1973 Fania album Indestructible, and it features the same lead vocalist from that record, Tito Allen. What Cole has done with Villa Locura is to locate the DNA that both the original Hern\u00e1ndez and Barretto recordings share: The folkloric Puerto Rican bomba rhythm, then build the track back up from there.\nThe result is a churning and very funky track that retains the contours of Barretto's horn arrangement and Allen's vocals (which have aged into a rougher but deeply expressive timbre) but sounds almost entirely different due the corp of bomberos laying the foundation, Cole's inventive use of the drum kit and twin electric guitars that alternately play in and around the melody. It finds time for a sizzling Fender Rhodes solo from Luis Perdomo before the horns come wailing back in. Meanwhile, Allen's vocal improvisations are the sound of a man having the time of his life.\nIt's definitely not salsa.\n\"My love for Diablo starts with my love for Ray Barretto which comes from studying my idol Giovanni Hidalgo,\" says Cole by way of explaining his choice of El Diablo as the first release from Villa Locura. \"If you study Ray Barretto, Indestructible is perhaps the first thing you'll learn. If you play percussion, that timbale solo on (the song) Indestructible and all of Barretto's conga solos are something that you'll memorize and imitate. Ray Barretto is a master and Indestructible is his masterpiece.\"\nWhen I note that Indestructible and the prime years of Fania were over by the time he was born, Cole schools me on the huge ongoing presence of that music. \"If you are connected to Puerto Rican culture and its music, you just can't avoid Fania\u2026 the original Fania is for Latin music what Blue Note label is for jazz. Some music stays new forever. Same thing happens with all of Cortijo's albums with Ismael Rivera.\"\nOn equal footing with Fania in El Diablo is the 4-person percussion section that drives the tune. Three of them are Puerto Ricans playing bomba (among them is Beto Torrens, who you might recognize from last year's critically lauded album by \u00ccF\u00c9, IIII + IIII) while the rhythmic accents come from a Cuban rumba tradition.\nI ask Cole about folkloric traditions where he grew up. \"Mayag\u00fcez is one of the most important cities of Puerto Rico regarding bomba and plena and at some point all major artists in popular music in Puerto Rico and in New York were from Mayag\u00fcez. So my background is very, very rich and powerful. But,\" he adds, \"when I was a kid I didn't know that. I was playing ska and all types of rock and Latin jazz. It was later on while I was in San Juan that I started exposing myself to folklore and I discovered that I have a profound love for it. Then I realized that some of the most important folkloric figures in Mayag\u00fcez studied with my family and that some of the younger exponents were even friends of mine!\"\nI note that Villa Locura and his previous band, the Afrobeat Collective, share many similarities, even some of the same members, so I ask Henry about the difference. \"Having 'afrobeat' in the name of the group was causing confusion, as many people regarded that word as a style of play, a specific sound and pattern, whereas my intent was one of spirit. While it's true that I was referencing Fela, I wasn't copying him, because the Puerto Rican element was very important too. The name Villa Locura immediately takes my music out of the Afrobeat box. Fela is still an influence, but it's not as obvious now. I've brought more of a Puerto Rican identity to the fore, and that identity represents the Mestizo culture that I am a part of: a mix of indigenous, African and European.\"\nHenry and I turn our discussion to the recording of El Diablo and other songs to still be released from Simple. Specifically, I want to know why he chose Electric Lady Studios, the facility created by Jimi Hendrix in 1970 that has since become one of the legendary recording studios in the entire world. Was Cole looking for the spirit of Hendrix?\n\"No, that wasn't it,\" says Cole. \"Residente was recording there and I was playing on some tracks for his new album. I visited Studio A and the smaller upstairs studio the day before to check out their drums. And I immediately thought to myself, 'Wow, this is a Temple. This is where I want to record my music!' I was not going for the brand, the name or even the equipment. I went to see some drums and I just felt the space\u2026 It talked to me. I felt the space welcome me.\"\nOur conversation concludes as Henry needs to head to a rehearsal. He's back home in Puerto Rico for a Villa Locura show at El Boricua in Rio Piedras, and there are also a couple of things to do to get El Diablo ready for release the day before the show. He's rolled out something of his own self-designed Kickstarter campaign, hoping that sales of downloads and related merchandise like t-shirts and art prints will bring in money so that the rest of the Simple sessions can be mixed and released as a full-fledged album. The sessions were also filmed for a planned documentary. Henry played a few rough audio mixes for me, so trust me when I say, after hearing El Diablo, you are going to want to hear more.\nDownloads can be purchased from villalocura.com, and there are autographed CD copies of Roots Before Branches available for sale as well. And just think of how cool you'll look in one of those SIMPLE tank tops this summer!\nAuthor aguzatePosted on January 11, 2018 August 16, 2019 Categories BlogTags Afrobeat Collective, El Diablo, Henry Cole, Puerto Rico, Rafael Hern\u00e1ndez, Ray Barretto, Simple, Villa Locura1 Comment on Henry Cole's vision of a 21st century Puerto Rican music","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"How to Get a Wholesale License in Tennessee\nBy: Carol Deeb\nHow to Get a Reseller's Tax ID Number\nStarting a business that sells items to the public may require that you apply for licenses and permits in your area. If you buy from a wholesale vendor and sell to end users, obtaining a wholesale license will allow you to purchase products without paying sales tax. You can then charge your customers the tax and pay the amount to your state. In Tennessee, a wholesale license is called a Certificate of Registration, and must be obtained through the state Department of Revenue.\nLog on to the Tennessee Department of Revenue's website to access the application to register your business. As an alternative, you can visit one of the regional offices to apply in person.\nAnswer the questions about your business on the application. Identify what your business does by checking the appropriate box.\nFill in your Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN), which identifies your business to the government, suppliers and others. You can apply for an FEIN at IRS.gov.\nComplete your application by including your business mailing information, business type and contact person. You must complete a separate application for each location of your business.\nSubmit your application online or in person once it has been completed. If you are using the website, click \"I Certify\" and then \"Submit\" after you have carefully reviewed your application for accuracy. Print the confirmation page if using the online registration service.\nWait about one to two weeks to receive your certificate in the mail. You can then send copies to vendors who request your wholesale information, which will exempt you from paying sales tax.\nTennessee Department of Revenue: Instructions for Opening a Business in Tennessee\nTennessee Department of Revenue: Registering Your Business in Tennessee\nTennessee Department of Revenue: How to Register One Business Location at a Time\nTennessee Department of Revenue; Business Tax Guide; February 2011\nTennessee Department of Revenue: Application for Registration\nTennessee Department of Revenue: Regional Offices\nCarol Deeb has been an editor and writer since 1988. Her work has appeared in magazines, newspapers and online publications, as well as a book on education. Deeb is a real-estate investor and business owner with professional experience in human resources. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from San Diego State University.\nHow to Obtain a Florida Resale Certificate for Sales Tax\nHow to Search for a Business License in the City of Los Angeles\nHow to Become Asus Reseller\nHow to Obtain an Ohio Tax ID Number\nHow to Get a Wholesale Retail License\nHow to Obtain a New Copy of a Master Business License","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'Let me live, love, and say it well...'\nIs poetry more vital than ever? A survey has declared Sylvia Plath the most popular poet of all time among teenagers \u2014 ahead of William Shakespeare. Meanwhile, poetry readership is surging.\nBooker Prize holds a mirror to our dark times\nCan fiction change the world? Racism, injustice, ecological destruction \u2014 the Man Booker Prize shortlist has been unveiled, and the new novels paint a bleak picture of modern society.\nThe seven-year-old YouTuber earning \u00a317m a year\nIs becoming a YouTuber a good career goal? Around one third of children dream of vlogging when they grow up. In 2018, the platform's highest earning star was a seven-year-old boy named Ryan...\nChosen by you\nWe spent 1,643 years watching this video\nWas it a waste of time? The UK's most watched YouTube videos of 2018 have been revealed, with Paul McCartney's Carpool Karaoke topping the list. Why do these videos have such appeal?\nBBC breaks Attenborough's golden rule\u2026 twice\nShould nature documentarians save the lives of the animals they film? David Attenborough has always said that he will not change the course of nature. Yet the crew of...\nBacklash as press revels in royal feud claims\nAre Meghan and Kate victims of sexism? Reports of tears and explosive rows between the Duchesses have sparked claims that the media is unfairly pitting the women against each other.\nWe need Robin Hood today, says movie director\nIs Robin Hood relevant to the modern world? The famous outlaw of Sherwood Forest has returned to our screens once more, reinvented for the 21st century, but the film has been poorly received.\nElton John ad 'nothing to do with Christmas'\nIs it consumerist rubbish or genuinely touching? The John Lewis Christmas advert has finally been released. It charts the career of music legend Elton John with a signature emotional punch.\nThe superhero whose comics took over the world\nWhat did Stan Lee teach us about life? The mastermind behind Marvel's success has died aged 95. From Spider-Man to the Hulk, he helped to create many of the world's most beloved superheroes.\nThe Christmas ad banned for being too political\nShould the ban be lifted? Thousands have signed a petition demanding that Iceland's banned \"Rang-tan\" advert be allowed on TV. They say its urgent environmental message must be heard.\n'Attenborough has betrayed the living world'\nIs this criticism fair? Environmentalist George Monbiot has denounced Sir David Attenborough, claiming his films do more harm than good. Attenborough's new series,...\nDispute over bleak message in new war poem\nDo we learn anything from history? As Remembrance Day approaches, poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy's new poem about the First World War suggests we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.\nThe young ad man who conquered the Dragons\nWhat does it take to be an entrepreneur? Ed Hollands launched his truck advertising company after university, realising a childhood dream. Sales soared this year after victory...\n'No one has ever read anything like this before'\nAre book prizes bad for writing? Milkman, a challenging work about sexual harassment in Northern Ireland, has won the Man Booker Prize. Some writers say the award is...\nThe 13th Doctor: 'change is nerve-wracking!'\nHow much does representation matter? Last night, Doctor Who returned to BBC One. For the first time in 55 years, the time travelling, two-hearted,...\nLevel up! UK's first esports degree launched\nIs it a waste of time? Students at Staffordshire University have begun studying for a controversial new degree in esports. Meanwhile, competitive gaming is becoming bigger than ever.\n'Why I believe we shouldnt glamorise crime'\n'Why I believe love can defeat poverty'\nEndangered languages\nThe English language\nNaomi Campbell talks diversity\nA brief history of LGBTQ advertising","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A story so improbable, it must be true\non July 16, 2012 by Mark Keizer\nThe tragic disappearance of a Texas teen becomes the springboard for a gripping exploration of self-delusion and pathological reinvention in Bart Layton's documentary The Imposter. Taken by itself, the story of how a brown-haired, brown-eyed, 23-year-old French-Algerian convinced everyone he was the blonde-haired, blue-eyed Texas boy who'd vanished three years earlier would be documentary enough. But Layton pushes it many steps further, stylistically and thematically, until he's ensnared us in a tangle of willfully-embraced lies and unsolved mysteries. A true crime tale with added layers of intrigue and atmosphere, The Imposter is poised for better than average documentary business in both theatrical and ancillary.\nLayton makes so many risky choices in presenting this material that when almost all of them pay off, you can't imagine the story being told any other way. Early on, we're not only given a fair sense of the crime we're about to see committed, we're brazenly introduced to the man who did it. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bourdin, a wily, compelling, self-satisfied little goblin, has impersonated missing children for years. When he stumbled upon the name Nicholas Barkley, he got much more than he bargained for. In 1994, the 13-year old Barkley disappeared from his rural San Antonio home. He was missing for over three years until his family received a call from a Spanish children's shelter claiming Barkley had been found alive in Linares, Spain. The boy they found was actually Bourdin who spun a quick-thinking and ingenious web of lies that convinced Spanish and American authorities that he was Nicholas Barkley. Within days, Barkley's sister, Carey, landed in Spain to take her long lost \"brother\" home.\nIt's flabbergasting that Bourdin's ruse got as far as it did. In an interview Layton conducted over the course of two days, Bourdin admits being equally surprised. In Texas, he attended school as Nicholas, incorporated himself into the community and developed a crush on a local girl. Equally arresting is the sad, if oddly understandable, reaction of Nicholas 's family, which is where Layton develops some of his most intriguing ideas. Nicholas's sister Carey wanted so badly to reunite with her missing brother that she was willing to ignore all warning signs, including the fact that Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bourdin looked nothing like Nicholas Barkley. Everyone bought the lie, including Nicholas's mother and uncle, who Layton also interviews. In a film so dependent upon theatrical reenactments, you'll almost stop breathing when Layton presents actual footage of Bourdin arriving in Texas for the first time. Hooded and clearly nervous, this was the moment of truth, where the family would surely look at this total stranger and realize he looked nothing like their kid. It didn't happen. The family was too willing to believe anything to get Nicholas back, including the high tales of torture and imprisonment used to explain away the discrepancies in appearance between Bourdin and their missing loved one.\nAlmost everyone here is lying to a degree, sometimes to authorities, sometimes to themselves and, possibly, sometimes to the audience. Beyond the rote facts of the case, the movie's pull comes from the constant questioning of what we're being told by Bourdin and Nicholas' earthy, dim, family. Bourdin claims his crimes stem from a loveless childhood and a desire \"to be someone else.\" Could this plea for sympathy be a true statement? From what we can ascertain, Bourdin's not in it for the money, so maybe it is true. The family, for its part, is equally culpable, even if their wounds are self-inflicted and hurt only themselves. As everyone settles into their comfortable delusions, we realize that what also keeps us off-balance is the film's lack of a moral center. Only the introduction of colorful local detective Charlie Parker jolts us back into the notion that Bourdin can't get away with this forever, nor can these strangers fool themselves forever. With Parker, the tale begins winding towards a conclusion that holds one last cruel surprise, a bomb drop that presents a possible reason why the family was so willing to accept Bourdin into their lives.\nBenefiting from outstanding contributions by cinematographers Erik Wilson and Lynda Hall, and composer Anne Nikitin, Layton creates a noirish dream state of slickness, shadows and continual disbelief. The dense storytelling, heavy thematic burdens and endlessly conflicting perspectives could have spun The Imposter right off the rails had Layton's hold not been so assured. Bourdin's story, the basis for the lackluster 2010 thriller The Chameleon, has finally been told properly, deepened by Layton into a thought-provoking essay on the lies people tell (and the lies they believe) to feel part of a family. It begs questions about whether it's better to live happily with our deceptions or unhappily with the truth. It even challenges our notion of whom we throw our sympathies and allegiances to when watching a film. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bourdin might be a conman, a serial identity thief and an unreliable narrator, but what does it say about the family of Nicholas Barkley that Bourdin is the only person we entirely believe?\nDistributor: Indomina Media\nCast: Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bourdin, Carey Gibson, Beverly Dollarhide, Charlie Parker\nDirector: Bart Layton\nProducer: Dimitri Doganis\nRating: R for language.\nRelease date: July 13 NY, August 3 LA\nTags: Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bourdin, Carey Gibson, Beverly Dollarhide, Charlie Parker, Bart Layton, Dimitri Doganis\nrajeg on 29 November 2019\nThe UPS Enterprise Portal is an online portal created for the employees or associates working at UPS. 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{"text":"Criminal justice system needs team players\nThe National Audit Office's report on the system's efficiency is an alarming read.\nThe National Audit Office's report on the efficiency of the criminal justice system is littered with jaw-dropping statistics that lead the public spending watchdog to conclude the system is 'not currently delivering value for money'.\nIt's hard to decipher which figure is the most shocking.\nIn 2014-15 the Crown Prosecution Service spent \u00a321.5m on preparing cases that were not heard in court (more on that later). The Legal Aid Agency spent \u00a393.3m on defence counsel to represent defendants whose cases never went to trial (and this excludes guilty pleas).\nBacklogs in the Crown court increased by 34% between March 2013 and September 2015. The waiting time for a Crown court hearing went up by more than a month.\nIf all of the 61,473 'either way' cases heard in the Crown court in 2014-15 had been heard in the magistrates' court instead, court running costs would have fallen by \u00a345.1m. (The NAO points out that such cases can be referred to the Crown court for sentencing after the hearing if the sentencing falls outside the magistrates' powers.)\nI would love to know why a crime victim giving evidence has a seven in 10 chance that their case will go ahead in North Wales but only a two in 10 chance in Greater Manchester. And why a case in Durham takes 243 days to progress from offence to completion, compared with 418 days in Sussex.\nBut what struck me the most was neither a monetary figure nor percentage, but the NAO's recommendation that the Criminal Justice Board, which oversees the system, agree what 'good' looks like as a whole.\nThe NAO says the lack of a common view on what success looks like means 'organisations may not act in the best interests of the whole system'. As a result, 'costs are shunted from part of the system to another'.\nFor instance, courts staff, under judicial direction, may schedule more trials than can be heard so that there are back-ups if a trial cannot proceed. However, this may lead to a witness waiting all day to give evidence for a trial that is not heard, which may 'disengage' them from the process.\nRemember the \u00a321.5m figure I mentioned earlier in relation to CPS spend on cases that weren't heard in court? \u00a35.5m was related to cases that collapsed for reasons including non-attendance of prosecution witnesses. (Of course the attendance rate might improve if fewer witnesses were left waiting around all day.)\nAnd no wonder there is no common definition of 'good', given courts themselves have differing views on what constitutes a 'good' result. According to the report, some treat a cracked case as good because it spares the full cost of a trial and finishes the matter. Others focus on improving effectiveness and identifying cases that are likely to crack, resulting in lower cracked rates.\nWorryingly, the NAO says there is 'no agreement across the system about which approach is better'.\nAnd where the NAO has spotted examples of good practice, it also found that awareness of such practices, from which others can learn from, varies.\nAt Birmingham Crown Court, for instance, police officers can make appointments to obtain search warrants from judges. Before, they had to come to court and wait for a judge to become available. The police estimate that this change will save the equivalent of two full-time police officer positions over a year.\nNo wonder there is no common definition of 'good', given courts themselves have differing views on what constitutes a 'good' result\nAlso worrying is the NAO's conclusion that despite several cross-agency initiatives to tackle inefficiencies in the criminal justice system - Transforming Summary Justice, Better Case Management, Common Platform - the Ministry of Justice's reforms won't be successful unless all parties are given 'incentives' to follow the new ways of working.\n'Without an effective mechanism through which one part of the system can hold another to account for poor performance, it is not clear what incentives the reforms will provide for organisations to use the new systems as intended,' the spending watchdog says.\nThe report will undoubtedly be uncomfortable reading for everyone involved in the criminal justice system. The Criminal Justice Board certainly has its work cut out to show that the system can deliver value for money.\nBut none of this can be achieved without everyone pulling together in the same direction, which this report suggests isn't quite happening.\nAs that annoying phrase goes, 'there's no i in team'.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Authors: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z\nBeing closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable.\n@ Jonathan Zittrain quote of the day\nJonathan Zittrain Quotes (44 quotes)\n\"We need better options for securing the Internet. Instead of looking primarily for top-down government intervention, we can enlist the operators and users themselves.\"\n\u2015 Jonathan Zittrain \u2015\nGovernment, Internet, Users, Intervention\nGenerate image\n\"We face paired dangers. The first is that our networks are successfully attacked. The second is that our fear of attack will cause us to destroy what makes the Internet special.\"\nFear, Special, Internet\n\"TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that governments around the world have asserted power over the airwaves that permeate their territories, deciding who can use what bandwidth and why - and those with licenses then, with exceptions determined by regulators, decide what to broadcast.\"\nWorld, Power, Use, Determined\n\"The problem is, we're moving to software-as-service, which can be yanked or transformed at any moment. The ability of your PC to run independent code is an important safety valve.\"\nImportant, Ability, Problem, Moving\n\"The openness on which Apple had built its original empire had been completely reversed - but the spirit was still there among users. Hackers vied to 'jailbreak' the iPhone, running new apps on it despite Apple's desire to keep it closed.\"\nSpirit, Desire, Running, Built\n\"The Internet works thanks to loose but trusted connections among its many constituent parts, with easy entry and exit for new Internet service providers or new forms of expanding access.\"\nEasy, Internet, Access, Thanks\n\"The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who wish to make a record for posterity; procuring documents and interviews from those sources will be difficult if the fruits are only one subpoena away from disclosure.\"\nDifficult, Pressure, Protect, Legal\n\"The ability to make new work from old work - especially if that new work is different enough that it doesn't dent the market for the old work - is something that benefits all creators, since so few can claim not to have a giant or 10 supporting them underneath.\"\nWork, Enough, Different, Ability\n\"Thanks to iCloud and other services, the choice of a phone or tablet today may lock a consumer into a branded silo, making it hard for him or her to do what Apple long importuned potential customers to do: switch.\"\nLong, May, Hard, Today\n\"Technologically, the Internet works thanks to loose but trusted connections among its many constituent parts, with easy entry and exit for new ISPs or new forms of expanding access.\"\n\"People may be due the benefits of a democratic electoral process. But in the United States, content curators appropriately have a First Amendment right to present their content as they see fit.\"\nPeople, May, United States, States\n\"Owned technologies are easy to grasp because they're so prevalent. They're technologies that are developed and shaped by a defined group, usually someone selling it.\"\nEasy, Defined, Selling\n\"One repressive state after another has had to face the dilemma of wanting abundant Internet for economic advancement, while ruing the ways in which its citizens can become empowered to express themselves fearlessly.\"\nEconomic, Internet, Citizens, Empowered\n\"Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon as possible, we can develop systems that place sensitive information beyond reach until a specified amount of time has passed or other conditions are met.\"\nMight, Past, Information, Amount\n\"How an individual's reputation is protected online is too important and subtle a policy matter to be legislated by a high court, which is institutionally mismatched to the evolving intricacies of the online world.\"\nWorld, Matter, Important, Policy\n\"Facebook draws from the public and public-interest sphere, a simultaneously bold and modest step towards acknowledging that our new networked technologies deeply affect our lives in ways not always captured or best shaped by the typical template of consumer and seller.\"\nBest, Our Lives, Typical, Draws\n\"Facebook allows outsiders to add functionality to the site but reserves the right to change that policy at any time, to charge a fee for applications, or to de-emphasize or eliminate apps that court controversy or that they simply don't like.\"\nTime, Change, Policy, Court\n\"Digital books and music are often different from their physical counterparts in that consumers buy licences to a work, revocable under an ongoing contract, rather than their own copies.\"\nMusic, Work, Different, Digital\n\"Citizens identify with something larger than themselves - if one's country is attacked, it can feel like a personal attack in a way that a fellow bank customer's account theft does not feel like a personal invasion.\"\nWay, Country, Citizens, Invasion\n\"Attacks on Internet sites and infrastructure, and the compromise of secure information, pose a particularly tricky problem because it is usually impossible to trace an attack back to its instigator.\"\nProblem, Information, Impossible, Internet\nLooking for more quote authors similar to Jonathan Zittrain?\nFamous educators:\nArlie Russell Hochschild, John Yoo, Quintilian, A. Bartlett Giamatti, Amy Chua, Temple Grandin, Sheena Iyengar, Srikumar Rao, Dean Ornish, Alan Dundes\nFamous American quote authors:\nTaylor Swift, Hillary Clinton, Jennifer Aniston, Noam Chomsky, Dana Goodyear, Bill Gates, Dean Heller, Trent Reznor, Henry Rollins, Alan Alda\nPopular American educators:\nArlie Russell Hochschild, John Yoo, A. Bartlett Giamatti, Amy Chua, Temple Grandin, Sheena Iyengar, Dean Ornish, Alan Dundes, Bill Nye, Mitchell Zuckoff\nAuthor born: December 24, 1969\nAuthor Profession: Educator\nSadie Frost\nAuthors | Topics | Image generator | Youtube to mp3\nQuoteParrot.com, 2015","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Updated on : Thursday, November 26, 2020, 7:50 PM IST\n'Love jihad' funded by foreign countries, conspiracy against India, says MP Minister\n\"Targets are given saying they will give money to marry Hindu girls. There should be a detailed probe by Home Ministry into such funding and action should be taken against culprits,\" said Arvind Bhadoria.\nMadhya Pradesh cabinet minister Arvind Bhadoria\nBhopal: Amid the uproar over 'love jihad', Madhya Pradesh cabinet minister Arvind Bhadoria on Thursday said love jihad and religious conversions were being funded by foreign countries and termed it a conspiracy against India.\n\"Love-Jihad and religious conversions are being funded by foreign countries. It's a big conspiracy against India. Targets are given saying they will give money to marry Hindu girls. There should be a detailed probe by Home Ministry into such funding and action should be taken against culprits,\" Arvind Bhadoria told ANI.\n\"Madhya Pradesh government is bringing a strict law on 'Love Jihad'. The women who were exploited in the garb of it and abandoned later should be rehabilitated. Unless strong laws are not brought the menace of Love Jihad will continue,\" he added.\nMadhya Pradesh government has proposed a maximum punishment of 10 years for so-called 'Love Jihad'-related offences, in its new ordinance. With this, the state government has doubled the jail term in its proposed Freedom of Religion Bill 2020. It had earlier proposed a five-year jail term.\nUnder this new proposed ordinance, there will be a provision of punishment of up to 5 years for the religious leaders, Qazi or Maulvi who have preformed religious conversion before submitting the application. The complaint of conversion and forced marriage can be made by the victim, parents, family or guardian.\nWhile addressing a public rally in Umaria district on Wednesday, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had said: I will not allow 'Love-Jihad' on the soil of Madhya Pradesh at any cost.\nA day earlier, Yogi Adityanath Cabinet cleared the UP Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance, proposing a maximum punishment of 10 years for 'love jihad'-related offences.\nThe Union Home Ministry on February 4 this year clarified that the term 'love jihad' is not defined under the existing laws and no such case has been reported so far. No such case was reported by any of the central agencies yet.\nHowever, two cases from Kerala involving inter-faith marriages have been investigated by the National Investigation Agency, according to the Home Ministry.\nMadhya Pradesh minister Arvind Bhadoria","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"All That Scratch\nAll That Scratch Events Calendar\nLine up Announced for All That Scratch Season 2, Episode 2 Live Recording\nThe lineup of the upcoming March 2020 episode of All That Scratch has been announced as the podcast continues its hotly anticipated second season of live recordings at The Other Palace.\nThe All That Scratch podcast is a curated hour of promising new British musical theatre recorded live at The Other Palace. Handpicked from open submissions, each episode features a line-up of talented writers taking part in exclusive interviews and live performances.\nSeason Two, Episode Two will feature:\n'9 Seconds to Cry' from Public Domain by Francesca Forristal and Jordan Clarke \u2013 a dark, funny, verbatim musical about the internet made exclusively using the words of vloggers, Insta 'influencers,' Facebook's tech giants, from the last 6 months.\n'The Bear Who Drinks Tears' from The Naughty Carriage on the Orphan Train by Luke Saydon \u2013 a playful musical based full of mischief, based on the true Orphan Train Movement, and a cautionary tale that warns about the dangers of not being naughty.\n'Hollow' and 'The Stolen Sea' from The Hold by Kath Haling and Bairbre Meade \u2013 a musical about nine women prisoners, being transported on the Lady Julian from the UK to Australia in 1789, and the tenacity, courage and strength it takes to survive the journey.\n'Miles and Miles and Miles' from HouseFire by Poppy Burton-Morgan and Ben Toth \u2013 part gig-theatre, part song cycle, HouseFire unpacks the complexities of climate change through a quartet of endangered animals.\n'Her Smile' and 'The Race Is On' from Untitled Rosalind Franklin Musical by Meg McGrady and Zoe Morris \u2013 a brand new musical that follows the stories of Rosalind Franklin and Anne Sayre, a decade apart but forever linked.\nAll That Scratch is dedicated to continuously sharing brilliant new British musical theatre with UK and international audiences. They are also committed to being a platform for early-stage new musical theatre to share their work, reach new audiences, and garner developmental support and producing partners for future life.\nThe live recording takes place on Monday 23 March 2020 and the podcast will be released on Wednesday 1 April 2020. Tickets to the live recording are \u00a35 and can be purchased here: https:\/\/lwtheatres.co.uk\/whats-on\/all-that-scratch\/#book\nAll That Productions are podcast and audio producers with a background in theatre. A partnership between Charlie Norburn and Alex Jackson, All That Productions was originally created to co-produce the musical theatre scratch night and podcast All That Scratch with The Other Palace.\nJoin our newsletter to be the first to hear about our podcasts, news and events.\nAll That Productions News\nAll That Scratch Podcast\nCheck your email to confirm your sign up.\nPrevious Live Recordings\nQuiz Test","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bangalore Dist Offices Bldg\nEverything you need to know about Bangalore Dist Offices Bldg: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more\nBlankets to Poor citizens On Vajpayee's 90th Birthday Celebrations\nToday is the 90th Birthday of former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Ex. Delhi BJP MLA Vijay Jolly distributed the woolen blankets to the poor people in the Delhi.\nIPL: Kings XI Punjab upsets Royal Challengers Bangalore, Gayle glisters\nKings XI Punjab marked a 4-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bangalore in 44th match of Indian Premier League. It was played in M Chinnaswamy stadium Bangalore.\nKings XI clinch a thriller against Royal Challengers\nBangalore, May 3 (IANS) A sixer by left-arm spinner Piyush Chawla in the penultimate ball helped Kings XI Punjab snatch a dramatic win by four wickets over hosts Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Chinnaswamy stadium here Wednesday.\nAir China launches new flight to Mumbai\nChengdu, May 2 (Xinhua-ANI): Air China on Wednesday launched a new regular flight between the southwestern city of Chengdu and the Indian city of Mumbai, marking the first direct air route between the Chinese mainland and the Indian economic center.\nFans root for RCB as clouds hang over\nBangalore, May 2 (IANS) Undeterred by a cloudy sky and threat of rain, thousands thronged the Chinnaswamy stadium late Wednesday to root for home team Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) against Kings XI Punjab in the Indian Premier League (IPL-V) T20 here.\nRoyal Challengers restricted to 158\/5 by Kings XI\nBangalore, May 2 (IANS) Royal Challengers Bangalore were restricted to 158 for five in 20 overs by Kings XI Punjab in their Indian Premier League (IPL) encounter at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium here Wednesday.\nKing XI Punjab opt to bowl against RCB\nBangalore, May 2 (IANS) King XI Punjab won the toss and elected to field against Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League here Wednesday.\nAir China opens flight to Mumbai\nBeijing, May 2 (IANS) Air China Wednesday launched direct flights from the country's southwestern city of Chengdu to Mumbai.\nFrail Kings XI Punjab meets firm Royal Challengers Bangalore today\nKings XI Punjab will hope to make matter equal with Royal Challengers Bangalore when they face them in M.Chinnaswamy stadium of Bengluru at 8 pm.\nKings XI wary of Gayle 'storm' in revenge game\nBangalore, May 1 (IANS) In spite of languishing at the eighth slot in the table with five defeats and four wins in nine games, an unfazed Kings XI Punjab will here Wednesday look for avenging its loss April 21 to hosts Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) though wary of their explosive batsman Chris Gayle.\nBangalore Police book two students for murder of Manipur teen Richard Loitam\nBangalore, May 1 (ANI): Bangalore Police on Tuesday booked two students-Syed Afzal Ali and Vishal Banerjee-for the murder of Manipur boy Richard Loitam.\nWipro buys Australian analytics firm\nBangalore, May 1 (IANS) Global software major Wipro Ltd has acquired Australian-based analytics firm Promax Applications Group for Australian $35 million (Rs.189 crore).\nEditor of Pak daily sees another Muslim state emerging in India\nLahore, May 1 (ANI): The Editor-in-Chief of The Nation and Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust (NPT) Chairman Majid Nizami has said that another Pakistan will emerge inside India if the latter does not stop atrocities against its Muslim population.\nMPs raise issue of attacks on northeast students\nNew Delhi, April 30 (IANS) Members of parliament from the northeast Monday raised in the Lok Sabha the issue of attacks on students from the region and demanded an inquiry into the alleged murder of a Manipuri student in Bangalore.\nNortheast students protest Manipuri student's death\nNew Delhi\/Banglaore, April 29 (IANS) More than 200 students from Manipur and other northeastern states, studying in the capital, came together Sunday at India Gate for a silent candlelight vigil to demand a proper investigation of the alleged murder of a Manipuri student in Bangalore. A rally was also held in Bangalore to demand justice for the student\nRally in Bangalore for quick probe into Manipuri student's death\nBangalore, April 29 (IANS) A large number of students, mainly from northeastern states, Sunday staged a rally here demanding a speedy probe into the April 18 death in Bangalore of a 19-year-old student from Manipur.\nMotorsports: Saleem, Surya, Phaneesh top JK Tyre-MMS Rookie Cup\nChennai, April 29 (IANS) Bangalore's Rubeel M. Saleem, Chennai lad Surya Raguram, both from Meco Racing, and H.B. Phaneesh of Mohite's Racing emerged champions in their respective classes in the first round of the third JK Tyre-MMS Rotax Rookie Cup at the 810 metre MMS Kartainment Track here Sunday.\nCongress refuses to comment on allegations against PM advisor\nNew Delhi, Apr 29 (ANI): The Congress Party on Sunday refused to comment on reports that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's advisor T.K.A. Nair was involved in caught in a land row in Bangalore.\nPM aide Nair rubbishes allegations of being involved in Bangalore land scam\nBangalore, April 29 (ANI): One of the closest advisors of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, T.K.A. Nair, on Sunday rubbished allegations that some of his relatives and a friend had been allotted land in a south Bangalore cooperative society at throwaway prices.\nMaking Bangalore's graduates vote (Karnataka Newsletter)\nBangalore, April 29 (IANS) Karnataka capital Bangalore boasts of being home to over two million graduates and diploma holders, but still cuts a sorry figure as only a few thousand of them care to vote to elect a representative to advocate their interests in the state legislature.\nGambhir leads from the front as KKR trounce RCB (Intro Roundup)\nKolkata, April 29 (IANS) Powered by skipper Gautam Gambhir's stroke-filled 93, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) trounced Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) by 47 runs in their Indian Premier league match here at the Eden Gardens Saturday.\nGambhir leads from the front as KKR trounce RCB (Roundup)\nKnight Riders thrash Royal Challengers by 47 runs\nKolkata, April 28 (IANS) Kolkata Knight Riders thrashed Royal Challengers Bangalore by 47 runs in the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Eden Gardens here Saturday.\nIAF targets 42 aircraft squadrons in next five-year plan\nBangalore, Apr 28 (ANI): The Indian Air Force has expressed to achieve the target of 42 aircraft squadron over the next five-year plan as against the current inventory of 34.\nPailan Arrows register second consecutive I-League win\nBangalore, April 28 (IANS) Pailan Arrows beat HAL Bangalore 2-1 to ensure second successive victory in an I-League football encounter at the Bangalore Football Stadium, Saturday.\nBiocon net marginally down in fiscal 2012\nBangalore, April 27 (IANS) India's biotech major Biocon Ltd posted Rs.338 crore net profit for fiscal 2011-12, registering a marginal 0.5 decline year-on-year (YoY) over the previous fiscal (2010-11) at Rs.340 crore.\nIndia test-flies naval version of LCA\nBangalore, April 27 (IANS) India Friday conducted the maiden flight of the naval version of its Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) over this tech hub under a partially cloudy sky.\nFrench firm Altran expanding India operations\nBangalore, April 26 (IANS) French major Altran Technologies is expanding its operations in India to tap the domestic market and serve its global customers in aerospace, automotive, railways and energy verticals, a senior company official said Thursday.\nBe in Bangalore for daylong dance fiesta (April 29 is World Dance Day)\nBangalore, April 26 (IANS) From bharatanatyam, kathak, kuchipudi and manipuri to modern dances, 150 artists will take turns for a daylong fiesta here Sunday to celebrate World Dance Day.\nSudden rains wash out RCB-CSK tie in Bangalore\nBangalore, April 25 (IANS) Intermittent rains even two hours after the game was to begin forced the organisers to call off the Indian Premier League match between hosts Royal Challengers Bangalore and Chennai Super Kings late Wednesday without a ball being bowled at the Chinnaswamy stadium here.\nRatings downgrade was inevitable: Wipro\nBangalore, April 25 (IANS) Downgrading of India's sovereign rating to negative from stable by global rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) was a cause for concern though inevitable due to multiple factors, a senior Wipro executive said Wednesday.\nWipro outlook cautious on flat growth\nBangalore, April 25 (IANS) India's third largest IT bellwether Wipro Ltd Wednesday hoped revenue from its flagship services business would improve in ensuing quarters despite uncertainty in the macro-environment that kept sequential growth flat in fiscal 2012.\nWipro projects flat IT revenue for first quarter\nBangalore, April 25 (IANS) Wipro Ltd has projected an average revenue of $1.54 billion for the first quarter (April-June) from its global IT services business, indicating a flat sequential growth under the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).\nWipro net up eight percent in fourth quarter\nBangalore, April 25 (IANS) Wipro Ltd has posted a net profit of Rs.14.81 billion (Rs.1,481 crore) for fourth quarter (January-March) of fiscal 2011-12, registering an eight percent increase year-on-year (YoY) in rupee terms.\nRR vs RCB: de Villiers, Dilshan and Appanna steal the victory\nIn the 30th match of IPL played yesterday in Sawai Mansingh stadium of Jaipur, Roual Challengers Bangalore sealed a 49 run win over Rajasthan Royals.\nRoyal Challengers beat Rajasthan Royals by 46 runs\nJaipur, April 23 (IANS) Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Rajasthan Royals by 46 runs in the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium here Monday.\nHCL to develop software for US energy firm\nBangalore, April 23 (IANS) India's leading IT services provider HCL Technologies will partner with US-based GridPoint to develop software for smart energy solutions, the company said late Monday.\nABB to invest Rs.250 crore on power products\nBangalore, April 23 (IANS) Leading power and automation technology group major ABB will invest Rs.250 crore ($47 million) to manufacture high-voltage power products and transformers for domestic users and exports, the company said Monday.\nRoyal Challengers post 189\/3 against Rajasthan Royals\nJaipur, April 23 (IANS) Royal Challengers Bangalore scored a mammoth 189 for three against Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium here Monday.\nRajasthan Royals opt to field against Royal Challengers\nJaipur, April 23 (IANS) Rajasthan Royals captain Rahul Dravid won the toss and elected to field against Royal Challengers Bangalore in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium here Monday.\n80 entries for National Autocross\nBangalore, April 23 (IANS) Nearly 80 vehicles, some of them driven by well-known names, are likely to take part in the first round of the inaugural Indian National Autocross Championship to be held here Sunday.\nGayle, de Villiers knocks helps RCB an easy win over KXIP\nIn the 25th match played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kings XI Punjab, the former marked a 5 wicket win over the latter.\nKings XI blown away by Gayle's knock\nMohali, April 21 (IANS) Chris Gayle struck a brilliant 87 as Royal Challengers Bangalore comfortably beat Kings XI Punjab by five wickets in the Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) Stadium here Friday.\nRoyal Challengers beat Kings XI by five wickets\nMohali, April 20 (IANS) Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Kings XI Punjab by five wickets in the Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium here Friday\nKings XI Punjab set 164-run target for Royal Challengers\nMohali, April 20 (IANS) Kings XI Punjab made 163 for six in 20 overs against Royal Challengers Bangalore at the PCA Stadium here Friday.\nRoyal Challengers elect to field against Punjab\nMohali, April 20 (IANS) Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Daniel Vettori won the toss and elected to field against Kings XI Punjab in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium here Friday.\nTourism working group proposes focus on skill development\nNew Delhi, April 20 (IANS) As proposed by the working group on tourism constituted by the Planning Commission for the 12th Five-Year Plan, more focus will be placed on skill development and capacity building to bridge the gap in demand and supply in manpower in the hospitality sector, the Tourism ministry said Friday.\nMaini firm to supply components to Airbus\nBangalore, April 20 (IANS) Maini Precision Products has bagged an order from global aerospace major Airbus to supply components to its aircraft platforms, the city-based company said Friday.\nVFS to provide Thai visa services in Bangalore\nBangalore, April 20 (IANS) VFS Global, an outsourcing and technology services specialist for diplomatic missions, will now collect from Bangalore visa applications of Karnataka residents who want to travel to Thailand.\nIndian-born Kamaljit Bawa elected to prestigious US academy\nWashington, April 20 (IANS) Indian-born Kamaljit Singh Bawa, a distinguished professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, has been elected a member of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences.\nKXIP vs RCB: Will Gayle Tsunami resurface again?\nThe 25th match of IPL 5 will be played in PCA stadium of Mohali between Kings XI Punjab and Royal Challengers Bangalore and it will start at 8 pm in the evening.\nChinese car multimedia maker CASKA to set up R&D centre in India\nKolkata, April 19 (IANS) Car multimedia systems manufacturer CASKA, owned by China-based Coagent Electronics S&T Co, is planning to set up a research and development (R&D) centre either in Chennai or Bangalore by June, a company official said Thursday.\nMicrosoft, Google win Indian developer awards\nBangalore, April 18 (IANS) Global software major Microsoft and global search engine Google bagged the Great Indian Developer Awards 2012 for innovative products and applications at the IT developers' fifth annual summit here Wednesday.\nSchengen visa processor VFS expands operations\nBangalore, April 18 (IANS) Leading outsourcing and technology services specialist for diplomatic missions, VFS Global, has expanded its operations in India's tech hub to process applications for Schengen visa to seven more European countries in addition to France and Switzerland.\nAgni-V launch today would be landmark for India's missile technology, says former Air Chief\nBangalore, Apr 18 (ANI): Stating that the launch of Agni-V will be a landmark achievement as far as the missile technology is concerned, former Air Chief, Fali Homi Major, on Wednesday this will give a huge edge to the country in as far as its nuclear capability is concerned.\nMumbai's traffic advisory firm gears up for expansion\nNew Delhi, April 18 (IANS) An intelligent traffic monitoring solutions venture that provides real-time information to help commuters estimate their travel time and select the best route has received a Rs.20 million boost.\nIPL Preview: Dice loaded in Super King's favour\nChennai, April 18 (IANS) The Chennai Super Kings will be hoping to reignite their campaign in the Indian Premier League (IPL) when they host the Pune Warriors here Thursday.\nChris, de Villiers tsunami flooded Pune Warriors\nIn the 21st match of IPL played in the Chinnaswamy stadium, RCB marked a 6 wickets win over Pune Warriors.\nGayle stars as Royal Challengers beat Pune Warriors in a thriller\nBangalore, April 18 (IANS) Riding on a brilliant 81 by Chris Gayle, Royal Challengers Bangalore pulled off a sensational six-wicket victory off the last ball against a resilient Pune Warriors in the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Chinnaswamy stadium here late Tuesday.\nRoyal Challengers beat Pune Warriors\nBangalore, April 17 (IANS) Bangalore Royal Challengers beat Pune Warriors by six wickets in the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium here Tuesday.\nFans still root for RCB, hope they bounce back\nBangalore, April 17 (IANS) 'They are down but not out' is the common refrain among die-hard fans of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), as the home team took on Pune Warriors (PW) late Tuesday at the Chinnaswamy stadium in the Indian Premier League (IPL-V) T-20 tournament.\nPune warriors set 183-run target for Royal Challengers\nBangalore, April 17 (IANS) Pune Warriors made 182 for six in 20 overs against Royal Challengers Bangalore in their Indian Premier League (IPL) encounter at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium here Tuesday.\nAdvani felicitated by Karnataka Billiards Association\nBangalore, April 17 (IANS) Pankaj Advani, who earlier this month became the first Indian to win five Asian titles, was felicitated by the Karnataka State Billiards Association (KSBA), here Tuesday.\nPune Warriors opt to bat against Royal Challengers\nBangalore, April 17 (IANS) Pune Warriors captain Sourav Ganguly won the toss and opted to bat against the Royal Challengers Bangalore in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium here Tuesday.\nBombardier inaugurates engineering centre in Bangalore\nBangalore, April 17 (IANS) Global transportation manufacturer Bombardier inaugurated its engineering service centre here Tuesday to execute aerospace projects, including aircraft design.\nConfident Pune Warriors to take on struggling Royal Challengers Bangalore\nThe 21st match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Pune Warriors will be played in M. Chinnaswamy stadium of Bangalore from 8 pm.\nGanguly defends Samuels' bowling action\nBangalore, April 16 (IANS) Pune Warriors captain Saurav Ganguly Monday defended the suspect bowling action of his off-spinner Marlon Samuels.\nRR vs RCB: Ajinkya's stunning century stole the limelight\nWith the help of Ajinkya Rahane's century and fireworks by Owais, Rajasthan Royals marked a 59 run win over Royal Challenger Bangalore.\nRajasthan Royals opt to bat against RCB\nBangalore, April 15 (IANS) Rajasthan Royals won the toss and decided to bat against Royal Challengers Bangalore in an Indian Premier League match here Sunday.\nIPL:RCB ready to fight with R Royals\nAfter being defeated in two consecutive matches in the home ground, Rajasthan Royls captain Rahul Dravid has said that his team had defeated\nRCB hope to make up for twin losses\nBangalore, April 14 (IANS) Hosts Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) hope to get back to winning ways after losing back-to-back matches when they take on Rajasthan Royals (RR) in an Indian Premier League (IPL) T-20 game at the Chinnaswamy stadium here late Sunday.\nIndecisive BJP leaves its Karnataka unit exasperated (Karnataka Newsletter)\nBangalore, April 14 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party's claim to be a party with a difference has, for long, become the butt of ridicule. It may soon be dubbed as a party that is scared to take tough decisions. At least that is what party's Karnataka unit seems to be thinking going by the exasperated comments over the lingering leadership tussle in the state.\nInfosys to hire 35,000 techies this fiscal\nBangalore, April 13 (IANS) India's second largest IT bellwether Infosys Ltd and its subsidiaries would hire 35,000 people (gross addition) in fiscal 2012-13, about 10,000 less than last fiscal (2011-12), a top company official said Friday.\nHAL take on Mumbai FC in I-League\nBangalore, April 13 (IANS) HAL Bangalore, who are already relegated, will take on Mumbai FC in the 25th round I-League football at the Bangalore Football Stadium here Saturday.\nInfosys denies misusing US visas\nBangalore\/Washington, April 13 (IANS) India's second largest IT bellwether Infosys Ltd Friday denied misusing B-1 or H1-B visas to send its employees to the US for onsite work.\nMorkel helped CSK clinch a win over Royal Challengers Bangalore\nAlbie Morkel helped CSK in achieving the unachievable as they sealed a thrilling 5-wicket victory over Royal Challengers Bangalore.\nInfosys declares 440 percent final dividend\nBangalore, April 13 (IANS) IT giant Infosys Ltd Friday declared a final dividend of Rs.22 per share for fiscal 2011-12, which is 440 percent over its par value of Rs.5 per share.\nInfosys projects 21 percent revenue growth\nBangalore, April 13 (IANS) India's IT giant Infosys Ltd Friday projected 21 percent year-on-year (YoY) consolidated revenue growth in first quarter (April-June) of new fiscal (2012-13) to Rs.9,056 crore (Rs.90.56 billion) in rupee terms.\nInfosys net up 27 percent in fourth quarter\nBangalore, April 13 (IANS) The Infosys Ltd Friday reported net profit of Rs.2,316 crore (Rs.23.16 billion) for the fourth quarter (January-March) of fiscal 2011-12, registering 27.4 percent year-on-year (YoY) growth, but 2.4 percent lower sequentially.\nSuper Kings win last ball thriller against RCB\nChennai, April 12 (IANS) Chennai Super Kings beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by five wickets in the Indian Premier League after a stunning last ball finish at the Chepauk here Thursday.\nTrainer chopper makes emergency landing on top of building in Bangalore\nBangalore, Apr 12 (ANI): A schweizer trainer helicopter, which was on a routine training sortie, made an emergency landing on top of an apartment in Indiranagar in Bangalore this evening.\nChopper lands on apartment in Bangalore\nBangalore, April 12 (IANS) A training helicopter of the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) landed on the rooftop of an apartment complex in east Bangalore Thursday evening, police said adding that no one was injured in the incident.\nScientists had expected Indonesia quake\nBangalore, April 12 (IANS) Scientists had been expecting Wednesday's great earthquake off Sumatra but it occurred a little sooner, according to Arun Bapat, an Indian seismologist in Pune.\nChennai Super Kings to play Royal Challengers Bangalore today\nChennai Super Kings will play Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 13th match of IPL 5 that will be played in M. Chidambaram stadium and will start at 4 pm.\nSave girl child, say Kajol, Sushmita\nMumbai, April 12 (IANS) People who do things like that are sick in their head, actress Kajol has said condemning the death of three-month-old Afreen who was battered by her father in Bangalore. Former beauty queen Sushmita says anyone who can do such a hideous thing should be punished.\nAfreen, Falak and fair vaginas - when will it change for India's women (Comment)\nAnother baby girl killed before she got a chance at life, another father unable to contain his disappointment at begetting a daughter, another mother mourning her child and her helplessness. The sickeningly familiar story has been repeated once again in Bangalore with the death of three-month-old Afreen from burns and bites allegedly by her father.\nBattered Bangalore baby dies, father faces murder charge\nBangalore, April 11 (IANS) Afreen, the three-month-old Bangalore girl battered by her father who wanted a son, died Wednesday in a hospital here after battling for life for several days. Her father Umar Farook is being charged with murder, police said.\nBattered by father, Bangalore baby dies\nBangalore, April 11 (IANS) Afreen, the three-month-old Bangalore girl who was battered by her own father as he wanted a son, died Wednesday after battling for life for several days, hospital authorities here said.\nBattered baby dies in Bangalore\nBangalore, April 11 (IANS) Three-month-old Afreen who was battered by her own father as he wanted a male child succumbed to her injuries Wednesday, hospital sources here said.\nKnight Riders outclass Royal Challengers\nBangalore, April 10 (IANS) Kolkata Knight Riders thrashed Royal Challengers Bangalore by 42 runs to record their first win in the fifth season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium here Tuesday.\nKnight Riders set 166-run target for Royal Challengers\nBangalore, April 10 (IANS) Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) Tuesday set hosts Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) a 166-run target in an Indian Premier League-5 match at the M. Chinnaswamy stadium here.\nRs.4.75 lakh course for aspiring women politicians\nNew Delhi, April 10 (IANS) An NGO Tuesday launched a certificate course in political leadership for women, aiming to create a pool of confident and successful law makers. The 10-week programme would cost Rs.4.75 lakh.\nSmall fire in eastern stand delays start of IPL match\nBangalore, April 10 (IANS) A burst of fire and smoke in front of the eastern stand in the Chinnaswamy stadium here Tuesday delayed the start of the Indian Premier League (IPL) match between hosts Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR).\nRoyal Challengers elect to field against Knight Riders\nBangalore, April 10 (IANS) Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to field against Kolkata Knight Riders in an Indian Premier League match at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium here Tuesday.\nEBS wins most valuable e-commerce company award\nHyderabad, April 10 (IANS) EBS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Belgium-headquartered Ogone, specialists in online payment services, has been awarded India's most valuable e-commerce company of 2012.\nBattered baby Afreen still critical: Doctors\nBangalore, April 10 (IANS) Afreen, the three-month-old baby girl battered by her father as he wanted a son, continues to be on ventilator and has been getting convulsions, doctors attending on her at a city hospital here said Tuesday.\nRCB hopes to build winning momentum (Preview)\nBangalore, April 9 (IANS) An upbeat Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) hope to build a winning momentum in the league matches of the Indian Premier League (IPL-5) T20 when they take on a struggling Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at the M. Chinnaswamy stadium here Tuesday.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Achraf Hakimi: Madrid-Born Morocco Star Whose Decisive Penalty Knocked Spain Out of FIFA World Cup\nWorld Cup 21 Nov 22 to 18 Dec 22\nSports Home FIFA World Cup 2022 News Achraf Hakimi MadridBorn Morocco Star Whose Decisive Penalty Knocked Spain Out of FIFA World Cup\nAchraf Hakimi scored the decisive penalty for Morocco against the country of his birth Spain in a Round of 16 match at the FIFA World Cup 2022\nUpdated: December 07, 2022 10:11 AM IST\nAchraf Hakimi (2nd right) celebrates with Moroccan teammates after win over Spain.\u00a9 Twitter\nWhen Achraf Hakimi stepped up to take the decisive penalty against Spain in a FIFA World Cup Round of 16 clash on Tuesday night, he was not only bearing the hopes of a country but the weight of his past too. For Hakimi, who plays for Paris Saint-Germain, was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1998 to Moroccan parents. He even joined joined Real Madrid's youth setup in 2006 from Colonia Ofigevi, at the age of eight. In the early part of his career he played for Spanish football giants Real Madrid. But he chose to represent Morocco at the international level right from the U-20 level.\n\"My mother cleaned houses and my father was a street vendor. We come from a modest family that struggled to earn a living. Today I fight every day for them. They sacrificed themselves for me,\" he had told Bundesliga.com in 2018.\n\"I was in Las Rojas (Spanish national camp) for a couple of days and I saw that it wasn't the right place for me, I didn't feel at home. It wasn't for anything in particular, but for what I felt, because it wasn't what I had grown up with and lived at home, which is Arab culture, being Moroccan... I wanted to be here.\"\nSpecial feeling.\nUnbelievable moment.\nDIMAAA MAGHRIB!!! pic.twitter.com\/UykNBqEbu7\n\u2014 Achraf Hakimi (@AchrafHakimi) December 6, 2022\nThe odds were stacked against Morocco while facing the 2010 World Cup champions Spain. The teams were closely matched throughout a tense game, with Spain having more of the ball but Morocco creating the better openings, few though they were. The last African and Arab side left standing at the first World Cup held in an Arab country, Morocco were intensely backed and their fans greatly outnumbered Spain's.\nMorocco were closest to scoring in extra-time, testing Simon, who made a fine save with his legs to deny Walid Cheddira after he broke down Spain's left flank. Despite pressure from Spain in the final moments before penalties, they could not find a winner. The match stayed 0-0 at the end of the extra-time.\nHaving been sent on for the shoot-out, Pablo Sarabia struck the post from Spain's first penalty, after Abdelhamid Sabiri put Morocco ahead. Carlos Soler and Sergio Busquets were foiled by Yassine Bounou, while Hakim Ziyech scored and Simon denied Badr Benoun, before Hakimi netted a chipped 'Panenka' penalty against the country of his birth to ignite wild celebrations.\nAfter the match, Hakimi went on to hug his mother in the stands. The image is viral on social media.\nAchraf Hakimi goes straight to his mother, to celebrate his winning penalty against Spain. pic.twitter.com\/YA2HLQdY3w\n\u2014 \u2022 (@Alhamdhulillaah) December 6, 2022\nWith AFP inputs\nFor First Women's Premier League, Record Bids Worth Rs 4,670 Crore For Five Teams\nAchraf Hakimi Morocco Spain FIFA World Cup 2022 Football\nArgentina Face FIFA Charge For \"Offensive Behaviour\" During World Cup Final In Qatar\nFormer Brazil Center-Back Miranda Announces Retirement\nLionel Messi Guides PSG To Victory On Return After World Cup Triumph\nJulian Nagelsmann \"Left Players Alone\" After Germany's \"Bad, Sad World Cup\"\nCroatian World Cup Star Dejan Lovren Rejects Accusations Of Fascism\nKylian Mbappe France 7 8\nJuli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez Argentina 7 4\nEnner Valencia Ecuador 3 3\nIvan Perisic Croatia 7 3\nBruno Fernandes Portugal 4 3\n2 Argentina 7 15 8\n4 Portugal 5 12 6\n5 Netherlands 5 10 4\n1 France 7 16 12\n2 England 5 13 11\n5 Croatia 7 8 8","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Inquiries into Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths etc. (Scotland) Act 2016\nTribunals (Scotland) Act 2014\nThere are currently no known outstanding effects for the Inquiries into Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths etc. (Scotland) Act 2016, Paragraph 16.\n16(1)Paragraph 13 of schedule 9 of the Tribunals (Scotland) Act 2014 (transitional and consequential) is amended in accordance with this paragraph.S\n(2)In sub-paragraph (2)(b)(ii), in the inserted text, for \"(ii)\" substitute \" (iza) \".\n(3)In sub-paragraph (4), in the inserted text, for \"(7)\" substitute \" (6ZA) \".\n(4)In sub-paragraph (9), in subsection (1) of inserted section 13A, for \"(c)(ii)\" substitute \" (c)(iza) \".\n(5)In sub-paragraph (10)(b), in the inserted text, for \"2(7)\" substitute \" 2(6ZA) \".\nI1Sch. 2 para. 16 in force at 1.9.2016 by S.S.I. 2016\/196, reg. 2(h)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"1 Comment Posted on September 8, 2022 September 9, 2022 by Reji Koduvath Canada\nTribute to Queen Elizabeth II (21 Apr 1926 \u2013 08 Sep 2022)\nWhile driving through the town, I found a man outside his home, bringing the Canadian Flag to half mast. I checked the news feed and learnt that Queen Elizabeth, Canada's head of state, dead at 96.\nThe British Monarch remains the constitutional head of state of Canada and the Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Forces, no matter who holds the role. Hence, the succession from the Queen to her eldest son Charles is automatic.\nAfter Queen Elizabeth's accession to the throne on 6 Feb 1952, fifteen Canadian Prime Ministers have been in office. Her reign of 70 years and 214 days was the longest for any British monarch and the second longest recorded for any monarch of a sovereign country. (Longest reigning monarch was Louis XIV of France, who reigned from 14th May 1643 until 1st September 1715 \u201472 years and 110 days.)\nIn the past four decades since I learnt about her, she matured into her senior years with josh and cheer. Her dress sense and choice of colours befitted her royal status and it always stood out. Who will ever miss her signature Launer handbag she always carried? She reportedly owned more than 200 of them!\nThe contents of her handbag was no different from what normal women carry with them. It mostly contained a mirror, lipstick, mint lozenges, and her reading glasses.\nIt is said that the Queen used her handbags to signal to her staff to help her wriggle out of difficult situations. If she shifted the handbag on her left arm (where she normally carried it) to her right arm, it indicated that it was time to wrap up. If she placed her handbag on the floor, it signaled to her staff that she needed to be saved from an uncomfortable conversation. If she placed her handbag on the dinner table, it meant that she wanted to end the event in the next five minutes.\nPrince Charles was appointed Field Marshal of the British Army, Admiral of the Fleet of the Royal Navy and Marshal of the Royal Air Force in June 2012. His appointment to the honorary five-star ranks recognised his support for the Queen as Commander-in-Chief.\nIn Canada's system of government, the power to govern is vested in the Crown but is entrusted to the government to exercise on behalf and in the interest of the people. The Crown reminds the government of the day that the source of the power to govern rests elsewhere and that it is only given to them for a limited duration.\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau paid a befitting tribute to Canada's longest-reigning Sovereign, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, calling her a person of 'wisdom, compassion and warmth.'\nThe Crown in Canada was first established by the kings of France in the sixteenth century. Organised as a royal province of France, both French and British kings and queens have reigned over Canada since 1534. Under Canada's sovereigns, the country has evolved from a French colony to an independent nation.\nFrom 2009, Prince Charles holds the rank of Lieutenant-General in the Canadian Army & Air Force and Vice-Admiral in the Royal Canadian Navy. The Queen and other members of the Canadian Royal Family hold honorary positions in various branches and regiments embodying the historical relationship of the Crown with the Canadian armed forces.\nFrom 2015, in New Zealand, like in UK, he is the Field Marshal of the New Zealand Army, Admiral of the Fleet of the Royal New Zealand Navy and Marshal of the Royal New Zealand Air Force.\nCharles's official coronation won't take place immediately following a period of mourning for the Queen. A coronation is not necessary to become king\u2014Edward VIII reigned as King without ever being crowned. After Queen Elizabeth's accession on February 6, 1952, her coronation took place on June 2, 1953, over a year later.\nCharles, whose regal name is King Charles III, is set to travel to London with Camilla, who is now the Queen Consort, to oversee the preparations for the funeral\nThe Guardian in 2017 reported that in the event of the Queen's death, her funeral would take place nine days after her passing. Hence, it might be held on Saturday September 17. The funeral ceremony will commence at 9 AM, when Big Ben will chime with a muffled hammer. The funeral cortege will arrive at the at Westminster Abbey where she will be laid to rest.\n(Images Courtesy Pixabay.com)\nBig Ben British Monarch Canada King Charles III Launer handbag New Zealand Prince Charles Queen Elizabeth II Westminster Abbey\n4 Comments Posted on July 15, 2022 August 18, 2022 by Reji Koduvath Canada, Kerala\nNightie\nIn Kerala, the nightie is everywhere with most working-class women in Kerala owning at least one.\nIllustration by Avni Karthik. Age 10\nHow did Nighty, a boxy garment which doesn't give any shape to the body, which does not enhance the body's contours, which does not bring out the women's curves became so popular? Nighties' predecessors \u2013 maxis and kaftans \u2013 did make their appearance in early seventies \u2013 mostly in movies. It did not gain popularity among the masses.\nNightie came to Kerala with the Gulf boom of the 80's, like many other fashion and material onsets. It was a sure content of the suitcases of any Mallu returning from the Gulf. He carried at least one for every female family member and relative. It could well be the first invasion of the Western culture into Kerala. Unlike the Western Nightie, it wasn't a negligee worn by women to bed at night.\nNightie is universal \u2013 fits all size or age. It does not divide women on either caste or religious lines in its use. Nightie became popular also because of the humid weather of Kerala with relative humidity mostly over 70% all through the year \u2013 day or night. It is a shapeless floor-sweeping garment made of thick cloth, with frills at all imaginable and unimaginable places, decorated with puffed sleeves.\nTo establish in the Indian society, the poor Nightie too endeared many a battle. In 2013, a Chennai school asked the parents to stop students from wearing nighties for the morning school run. In 2014, a women's group in Gothivli village near Mumbai tried to impose a fine of Rs 500 on residents wearing nighties outside their homes, describing the garment as indecent. In both cases, the nightie won the battle.\nIn 2018, Thokalapalli, a village in coastal Andhra Pradesh, barred women from wearing nightie during the daytime. They ruled that women could wear nighties only at night and any violations will attract a fine of Rs 2000 and anybody who helped in bringing such violator to book would be rewarded with Rs 1000.\nKerala women preferred the nightie over the traditional Chatta-Mundu, lungi-blouse and saree as it is easy to wear, easy to wash and it never failed in its duty and never ended up in a wardrobe malfunction.\nDraping a Thorthu over the upper torso depicted modesty for the modest and cultured, but Kerala women \u2013 smart as they are, discarded the Thorthu long ago. A nightie can well be seen in Kerala as a sign of female liberation as well as a social leveller.\nToday the Nightie is a national phenomenon with different names. Nightie in Kerala, Gowns in Mumbai, Housecoats in Goa, and kaftan for the rich. The Nightie has gained international recognition with The New York Times running a story on the outfit under the headline Wear Your Nightie Out.\nIn the soldiers' family quarters, the nightie made its presence felt. To begin with, it was introduced by the wives of the South Indian Class (SIC) soldiers especially the Mallus. It caught on and others followed suit. While on rounds of the Regimental Family Quarters, one could see the invasion of the nightie, irrespective of caste or creed!!!\nOur mother discarded her saree for the Nightie when her grandchildren came into this world. She very reluctantly wore the nightie as she had to run after the children, feed them and play with them. At the end of the day she said \"I never realised it was so comfortable.\"\nIn 2006, our mother came to Canada and lived with us for six months. For her journey from Kochi to Toronto, she wore the saree. Marina and children accompanied her and throughout the journey, it was very inconvenient and uncomfortable for her to visit the washroom in the aircraft.\nOn landing in Canada, I asked Marina to take her to the Shopping Mall and buy her two pairs of pants & top and skirt & top. Our mother, stubborn that she was, said \"Do you think I will ever wear it??\"\nAfter a week of acclimatisation, we planned a trip to Montreal \u2013 about eight hours of drive from Toronto. Now I said \"Amma, if you want to come along, you must discard the saree as it will be very convenient, else you will look like a sore thumb in the crowd.\"\nWith a lot of reluctance, she wore the pants & top. After two hours of driving, we stopped at the restaurant for a coffee break. Nidhi took Amma to the washroom and on returning to our table she said \"I never realised it was so comfortable.\"\nI accompanied Amma on her return journey. For the entire flight duration of travel from Kochi airport to home, she wore her skirt & top. My brothers, sisters-in-law and grandchildren were all flabbergasted to see the Granny in a Western outfit. One of the grandchildren remarked, \"Until now Granny was All-India. Now she is International.\"\nCanada Chatta-Mundu Gulf boom Housecoat kaftans lungi-blouse maxis nightie Saree Thorthu\n3 Comments Posted on June 3, 2022 October 19, 2022 by Reji Koduvath Canada\nSenior Citizens with Children in Foreign Lands\nA newspaper column contained woes of senior citizens in India, who are living alone with their children abroad on in some distant land. It threw up a very pertinent question \u2013 'Should the (Indian) parent be selfish enough to refuse funding or discourage their children from settling abroad?'\nSome Indian parents assume that it is the responsibility of the children to take care of the parents in their old age.\nParents brought up their children, hardly giving any developmental space to the child. They used the children like sounding boards where they tried out all those they could not do. It ended up with Engineers and Doctors without any consideration for the interest and passion of the child. The parents tried to live that ideal life (which they themselves could not) through their children.\nParents ended up paying large sums of money for admission of their children and for their grandchildren from LKG onward. The money was paid to the school, mostly owned by various religious institutions or god-men. No receipt was given for this money, thus creating Holy Black Money, all in the name of God. Praise the Lord!! Halleluiah!!!\nThe same was repeated at every stage of education up to graduation or post graduation or even PhD. Its all-Dad's Money.\nIn developed countries (USA, Canada, etc,) students fund their university education. If the same is followed in India, not more than 40% students are likely to pursue graduation. They bunk classes, have at least two subjects as supplementary per semester (as they did not qualify the semester exams) \u2013 all because its Dad's Money. If it is the children's money like here in Canada, they will make every penny count.\nIn Canada, any supplementary will not entail promotion to next semester unlike in India where in the tenth semester they may be clearing their first semester supplementary. The bigger catch is that the bank financing the education will not release the next tranche unless they know that the student is likely to graduate. I suggested to many of my friends to ask their children to take student loan even if the parent could afford to pay. In Canada, grades, marks, assessments, progress reports are confidential and are never disclosed to parents, hence difficult to keep track of the child's progress. In case the child is on student loan, the bank will keep track.\nParents of Indian origin in Canada still carry their Love for their children and end up funding their children education. Result is the same as in India.\nIndian parents buy swanky motorcycles for their teenage children on the pretext that it will save them time which they can spend fruitfully on their studies. Does it happen? Children are often seen racing and stunt driving on their motorcycles, with scant regards to the rules of the road. Wearing helmets is often to ward off police fines than saving one's head. The children, if they must, should buy their motorcycle with their own money and not with the Dad's money.\nNow comes the greatest of the greatest landmark event \u2013 MARRIAGE.\nIndian immigrant families consider it their right to select and to decide whom the children will (date and) eventually marry. They do not accept the fact that arranged marriages among Indians is on the wane. Some parents do not hesitate to send marriageable children home to seek a spouse in case there are few or no eligible candidates. Some parents even 'import' a Mail-Order Bride\/ Groom from India.\nSome parents do permit culturally exogamous dating and marriages and most children prefer selecting, dating, and eventually marrying someone of their own choosing, based on the North American criterion of romantic love. Parents complain that children's refusal to accept an arranged marriage as a rejection of them and their culture and negatively reflect upon them as parents within the community and loss of face within the community.\nMost wedding parties are attended by less than a hundred guests in North America, whereas it cannot be less than a thousand in India. Again, it is all because of Dad's Money. In North America, the bride and the groom must arrange for their marriage expenses and sometimes parents chip in.\nThe amount of money the bride's parents in India spend is well known including dowry and jewellery. It may be to make up for the money spent on the groom's education, may be to finance the groom's higher education, may be to finance the education of the groom's siblings \u2013 possibilities are endless. Legislation and enforcement can control this menace to a limited scale only. Despite enactment of the Anti-Dowry laws, ill gotten money still changes hands and the Gods also seem to be enjoying it.\nNext comes housing. Everyone seems to be building a house bigger than their neighbour's. It is never based on family needs, but in many cases only as a status symbol to show-off one's mostly ill-gotten wealth. In North America, old parents down-size and move to smaller homes, or to a gated community, or to an old age home once their children move out for education or jobs. In India it is always up-sizing, even when one is on his death bed. Only social awareness can eliminate this problem.\nHere is the ultimate \u2013 to get even with the Gods who must forgive and remit all sins in getting this wealth. Huge offerings are made in the God's houses to please Him. Most of the offerings are of no use to humanity like golden crowns, golden crosses studded with diamonds, chariots, elephants and even one's hair. It is not understood as to which God is going to be pleased with these offerings. In North America, most old people donate all their wealth or part of it to charities, which could help the humanity and may be the Gods will always be better pleased with them.\nMany of the seniors in India are restricted to their homes \u2013 the children respect them too much to be send out for a haircut, for manicure or pedicure, for drinking coffee from the nearby coffee shop, buying vegetables, haggling with the vendors etc. We claim that the children are there to do these for them.\nWait a minute! They also have their feelings too and would love to feel the tomatoes they buy, haggle with vendors to save a few rupees, exchange a few gossips, look pretty and smart.\nIn most homes in India, the seniors have limited movement or accessibility. To say the least, many are swept under the carpet\/ bed. Now days a home nurse is provided to take care of them. Some of our friends here in Canada want to admit their old parents to the available old-age homes. This involves paying a hefty amount as admission fees and monthly payments, which will surprise many. Even though one is ready to pay these, many fear for the social and family stigma that the son has pushed the old parents into an old-age home and is enjoying in Canada\/America.\nAll these critics will never do anything to mitigate the problem of the seniors but will be the first ones to raise shackles of cultural and social values.\nAnti-Dowry law arranged marriage Canada dowry Mail-Order Bride Mail-Order Groom marriage senior citizens USA\n6 Comments Posted on December 10, 2021 April 14, 2022 by Reji Koduvath Canada\nCanada's West Coast- British Columbia \u2013 was battered with heavy rainfall resulting in catastrophic flooding and landslides in November 2021. It is believed to have been caused by more than one Atmospheric Rivers (AR.)\nThe term AR was coined in 1998 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers Yong Zhu and Richard Newell, though ARs did play havoc earlier too. Until then AR was mostly referred to as tropical plume, tropical connection, moisture plume, water vapor surge, cloud burst and cloud band.\nAn AR is no river in the sky as the name suggests, but is a weather phenomenon. It is a narrow corridor of highly saturated moisture in the atmosphere that stretches to 1600 km long and about 600 km wide. Water an AR carries can be roughly compared to about 25 times carried by any major river like the Ganges or the Mississippi.\nAR is born in the tropical ocean regions near the equator, and as it travels away from the equator, the warm air mass gets saturated with water vapour. As the AR makes its landfall, water vapour condenses into precipitation, resulting in heavy rain or snow.\nARs originate form eight oceanic regions around the world, some closer to continental coasts than others. One of those regions is just off North America's western coast and can produce between one to two dozen ARs per year. ARs from the Indian Ocean caused havoc in Australia and in India, especially Kerala, Uttarakhand, Bengal in the recent years.\nHas climate change caused the ARs to be lethal?\nScientists and climatologists believe that the frequency of ARs may reduce by 10% in the years to come, but they may increase in size by about 25%. This would result in ARs dumping more water on the land as years pass by. Global warming will cause the air in the AR to become warmer and warmer the air, more water vapour it carries. When the AR makes landfall, it will release more rain or snow than the previous one.\nWhat caused flooding and land-slides in British Columbia?\nThe summer season in 2021 in British Columbia saw more than 1,600 fires charring nearly 8,700 square km of forest land. These forest fires bake the soil, making them more hydrophobic or making them to repel water. The coniferous trees in Canadian forests, when they burn, release a waxy compound that bind the forest soil, making it more hydrophobic. The water-repelling layer is typically found at or a few cm below the ground surface and is commonly covered by a layer of burned soil or ash.\nWhen the ARs dumped heavy volume of water in areas burned during the 2021 wildfires, the runoff from these burned grounds was greater and more rapid because of the hydrophobicity of the soil. Burning down of the trees and vegetation binding the soil on the mountain slopes resulted in the soil becoming loose, causing many land-slides.\nLet us now look at the mythological aspects.\nThe Abrahamic religions narrate the flood story of Noah's Ark where the God became angry with the sins of mankind. He told his faithful servant, Noah, to build an ark large enough for his family and two of every creature on earth. God delivered the promised deluge, lasting 40 days, that killed everyone and everything on earth except the population of the ark. After the flood, the ark came to rest on a mountain top, indicating that the depth of the water was higher than the mountains.\nAs per Greek mythology, Zeus, the king of the Gods, was displeased with the humans. Zeus told Deucalion to construct an ark for himself and his wife. After nine days of flooding, the world was destroyed, and the ark rested on top of Mount Parnassus.\nHindu mythology too refers to such a flood. Lord Vishnu in the form of a fish appeared to Manu and told Manu that the world would be destroyed in a great flood. Manu built a boat and tied it to the fish. The fish guided Manu's boat through the floods to the top of a mountain.\nThe Chinese too have many stories and myths about floods, Gods, dragons, and spirits. Like other flood stories, there are only a handful of survivors.\nCould these floods have been caused by an AR? Some say it might have been caused by tsunamis or by comets or asteroids hitting the earth.\nFlood stories are universal and is part of all religions and mythology where the God sent flood to destroy the sinners as punishment.. Hungarian psychoanalyst Geza Roheim hypothesised that dreams of the flood came when humans were asleep with full bladders!!\nAre the Gods unhappy with the humanity that the next flood is near? Are we to pay for our sins of not caring for Mother Nature?\n'The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.' Bible : Genesis 6:5\n- British Columbia Abrahamic religions Atmospheric River Bengal Canada catastrophic flooding climate change Climatologists cloud band cloud burst Deucalion equator Global warming Greek mythology Hindu mythology Kerala landslides Lord Vishnu Manu Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT moisture plume Mother Nature Noah's Ark precipitation Richard Newell tropical connection tropical ocean tropical plume Uttarakhand water vapor surge West Coast Yong Zhu Zeus\n5 Comments Posted on September 3, 2021 December 5, 2022 by Reji Koduvath Canada, Indian Army, Kerala\nWe all love seeing the images and videos of a surprise homecoming on YouTube, especially of US\/ Canadian soldiers. Our eyes fill with tears when we watch those videos featuring service members being welcomed home by their loved ones. A picture of a dad in uniform holding his baby for the very first time, how can you not be emotional? Yet only those of us who have actually been on the other side of the camera know that while homecomings are fabulous in their own right, they can also present some unique, and often many surprising challenges.\nFor all those watching those soldiers' homecoming videos, it will raise your feeling of patriotism and respect for those in uniform, who sacrifice a lot and how these soldiers and their families miss each other.\nHave you ever tried to fathom the stress of these soldiers and their families?\nIt was more like a deep-sea divers' decompression chamber when I suddenly appeared in front of our home's porch, a journey which had commenced 72 hours earlier from a bunker at 12,000 feet above sea level in Kashmir or Sikkim, ending at Kottayam, merely 10 feet above sea level. It took me time to accept that I was safely home, to be with my loved ones, breathing that air I breathed in my childhood.\nIt took some time to accept the new reality, that I was not in an intense and life-threatening combat zone, but in the protective nest of my mother. It did cause its own share of stress, anxiety, and fear \u2013 both to my family members and to me.\nThe extent of my stress was related to the dangers I faced while deployed, the length of time I was away from home, and was worsened if I had lost any soldiers or any of them were injured \u2013 both due to enemy action or due to vagaries of weather. The other fear was of being unaware of the changes in family dynamics, the neighbours, close relatives and so on. Being unaware of the increase or decrease of animals and fowls at home too added to the stress.\nIt was always a sigh of relief for the entire family, especially my mother as she always heaved a long sigh of relief and rushed to thank God for bringing her son home safely. Her first sentence often was \"Why did you write home that you will be home next week? I always knew you will come before.\" All these while our father kept a stoic silence to break it to say, \"Welcome home.\"\nAbove is a statue of homecoming of a sailor to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the founding of the Canadian Navy, and was unveiled on 04 May 2010 at Victoria, capital of British Columbia.\nIt all commenced when I joined Sainik (Military) School, Amaravathi Nagar in Thamizh Nadu. Travel home on vacation was a one day ordeal owing to poor rail\/ road connectivity of India in 1970's. I wrote a letter home a fortnight before about my impending travel plans and reached home safely as we friends travelled in a group. While in grade 8, my eldest brother said, \"Never write the correct date of your arrival; always give a date a few days or a week later as Amma gets very stressed, thinking that you are on a train, you may miss a connection, you may not get good food and so on.\"\nI followed his advice sincerely till my last homecoming from Canada. I never gave the exact date of my arrival and in many cases never informed anyone about my travel plans.\nIn 2015, I flew into Kochi Airport and took a taxi home. While in the taxi, I called my eldest brother and he said, \"How far away from home are you?\" \"Will be home in 45 minutes,\" I replied.\nMy brother announced \"Reji will be home in 45 minutes. Get lunch ready for him.\"\nMy mother totally surprised and thrilled exclaimed \"Which Reji? Our Reji, I spoke to him in Canada yesterday. How can he be home in 45 minutes?\"\nAfter lunch, I asked my brother as to how he made out that I have landed at Kochi and was on my way home, even before I could say anything. \"It was because of the blaring traffic horns. I know that in Canada you can never hear it. So I guessed you were in a taxi home.\"\nOur nephew is a Captain serving with the Corps of Engineers, had returned home after a gruelling six month long Young Officers' Course at Pune. On culmination of the course, he with his friends vacationed in Goa for a week. On reaching home, he rang me up to say \"Now I realised why you never disclosed your travel plans. There were many calls from my mother and she wanted me to come home immediately.\"\nMy eldest brother, now the head of the family, advised his nephew, \"Never write the correct date of your arrival; always give a date a few days or a week later.\"\nAmaravathi Nagar British Columbia Canada Canadian Navy deep-sea diver Homecoming Kashmir Kochi Kottayam Sainik School Sikkim Soldiers Tamil Nadu Victoria Welcomed\n6 Comments Posted on April 13, 2021 December 9, 2022 by Reji Koduvath Indian Army\nWomen in the Indian Defence Forces\nRegarding employment of women in the Indian Defence Forces, there have been many views expressed. I have tried to analyse it based on the reasons why Canadian women leave the Defence Forces.\nRestrictions on the employment of women in Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) have been lifted since 1989 to include combat related military occupations (Combat arms, Naval operations and Pilots.) Restrictions on employment of women in submarines were lifted in 2001.\nBy the end of 2017, there were 12 women at the general and flag officer ranks in the CAF, a record high with four in each service. The number of women in senior Non-Commissioned Member (NCM) ranks also rose to 57 Chief Warrant Officers and Chief Petty Officers, as did the number of women in Special Forces roles.\nA summary of women's representation rates for officers and NCMs in the Regular Force and Primary Reserve is as follows:\nOfficer 16.50%\nNCM 12.80%\nTotal 13.50%\nNCM 19.2%\nCanadian women have fought alongside men in Afghanistan. Hundreds of women served as combat soldiers between 2000 and 2011, mostly in Afghanistan, with a total of more than 600 deployments of 60 days or more.\nThe Department of National Defence (DND) has not collected information specifically about Canadian women's combat experience in Afghanistan, and has no definite plans to do so. DND stated that \"Participation on operations is based on the physical and mental ability of soldiers. Those who can successfully complete the requisite work-up training can deploy on operations and this process does not include gender considerations.\"\nIn the Canadian forces, every job is open to people who meet the standard of the job. The job standards that infantry soldiers meet are based on training followed by testing. Women earned the right to fight in Afghanistan alongside other Canadian soldiers by passing a series of tests, including some specific to the challenges they faced in that theatre.\nHere is the case of US Marine Corps Captain Katie Petronio, an athlete in college, and a high scorer in Marines training which she graduated in 2007. Five years later, she wrote in the Marine Corps Gazette, \"I am physically not the woman I once was and my views have greatly changed on the possibility of women having successful long careers while serving in the infantry. I can say from firsthand experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, and not just emotion, that we haven't even begun to analyse and comprehend the gender-specific medical issues and overall physical toll continuous combat operations will have on females.\"\nAfter over two years in Iraq and Afghanistan she felt that the injuries due to carrying a full combat load, left her with muscle atrophy in her thighs that was causing her to constantly trip and her legs to buckle with the slightest grade change. Her agility during firefights and mobility on and off vehicles and perimeter walls was seriously hindering her response time and overall capability.\nShe compared that while everyone experienced stress and muscular deterioration, her rate was noticeably faster than that of male Marines and further \u00adcompounded by gender-specific medical conditions. She categorically states in the article that women can hold their own in combat, but she is concerned about longevity.\nTop Five Reasons Why CF Women Leave the Force\nFamily Separation 27.4 %\nReturn to School 25.4 %\nStay at Home and Raise Family 19.9%\nMore Challenging Work 18.4%\nConflict with Spouse Career 18.4%\nThree of the top five reasons above is linked to their family responsibilities. Almost 20% of women declared that they had left the CAF to stay home and raise a family, a reason that did not even make the top ten reasons offered by men who left CAF.\nUS military's attrition data shows the following top three reasons for American women service members to leave the military:\nlack of clear roles and careers paths\ndifferential treatment they received\ndifficulty in combining career and family.\nThe same may apply to all women soldiers across the globe as family responsibilities will take precedence.\nAfghanistan CAF Canada Canadian Armed Forces Captain Katie Petronio Department of National Defence DND Family Separation Indian Defence Forces Iraq Marine Corps Gazette muscular deterioration Return to School Stay at Home US Marine Corps Women\n7 Comments Posted on September 11, 2020 April 16, 2022 by Reji Koduvath Canada\nThe Whisky War\nThe news is ripe with Indo-China border stand-off these days. How does Canada fare in border management?\nCanada and the United States share the world's longest undefended border, running along the 49th parallel from the west coast to Lake Superior and following natural boundaries for the remainder.\nDenmark and Canada share maritime boundary in the Arctic and it runs in the middle of Nares strait through which runs Kennedy Channel. This 35 km wide strait separates Ellesmere Island from northern Greenland. The strait is home to two islands \u2013 Franklin and Crozier \u2013 which falls within the territorial waters of Denmark\nThe third and the contested island is within the territorial waters of both Canada and Greenland, an uninhabited barren rock of 1.3 Sq km, named after Hans Hendrik, an Arctic traveller. A theoretical borderline in the middle of the strait goes through the island. According to an international treaty, any island which is in 12 miles of mainland comes under the territory of that country which technically allows both Denmark and Canada a claim over the island.\nThe Permanent Court of International Justice of the League of Nations in a landmark judgement of 1933 ruled the island to be a sovereign part of Denmark. The League of Nations was replaced by the United Nations after World War II and Canada claims that this decision became irrelevant with the demise of the League of Nations.\nThe dispute between Canada and Denmark re-emerged in 1973 when Denmark and Canada started demarcating their borders through negotiations. They agreed on all other disputes except Hans Island which was then decided to be resolved later.\nThe Whisky War commenced in 1984 when Canadians sailed to the island and erected the Red Maple Flag on the island and kept a famous Canadian whiskey as a symbolic expression.\nIn return, the Danish Minister of Greenland visited the island and replaced the Canadian flag with the Danish flag. He took the Canadian whisky and replaced it with world-famous Danish schnapps.\nThis Whisky War continued until 2015, with both the armies taking turns in unfurling their national flags and placing their famous whisky for the other.\nCanada and Denmark, both NATO allies, agreed to resolve dispute citing the presence of the Russian Army in the Arctic region during the cold war. On 04 May 2008, an international group of scientists from Australia, Canada, Denmark, and the UK installed an automated weather station on Hans Island. On 23 May 2018, Canada and Denmark announced a Joint Task Force to settle the dispute over Hans Island. A committee of Arctic experts was constituted to resolve the dispute peacefully. One of the main resolutions, they are thinking of, is to declare the barren stone island into condominium.\nA condominium does not mean that the two countries are going to build a high-rise apartment building on the island, but it means that the island will be co-owned and co-managed by both the countries . Thus the will have both Canadian and Danish flags on it.\n49th parallel Canada Canadian whiskey Condominium Crozier Island Danish schnapps Denmark Ellesmere Island Franklin Island Greenland Hans Hendrik Hans Island Indo-China border Kennedy Channel League of Nations maritime boundary Nares strait Permanent Court of International Justice United Nations United States which was then decided to be resolved later. Red Maple Flag Whisky War world's longest undefended border\n4 Comments Posted on October 28, 2017 April 20, 2022 by Reji Koduvath Canada, Travelogues\nFishing @ PEI\nIn the summer of 2010, we decided to travel to the Eastern most province of Canada, the Prince Edward Islands (PEI).\nPEI is located close to the Eastern Canadian coast in the Atlantic Ocean. The Confederation Bridge links Prince Edward Island with mainland Canada. The 12.9-kilometre bridge opened on 31 May 1997. One can also reach the island on a ferry. There is no toll on the bridge or charges on the ferry while entering PEI, but on leaving one got to pay.\nThe island is named after Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III and the father of Queen Victoria. The Island is 224 km long and from 6 to 64 km wide with a total area of 5,660 square km. No place in the province is more than 16 km from the sea and the highest point is 152 metres or 466 feet above sea level.\nThe island has three counties: Prince, Queens and Kings. The Island is formed from sedimentary bed rock of soft, red sandstone which produces the rich, red soil. The redness of the soil is due to the high iron-oxide (rust) content.\nAgriculture remains the dominant industry, especially potato farming in the red soil. The province currently accounts for a quarter of Canada's total potato production. In the PEI, fishing, particularly lobster fishing as well as oyster fishing and mussel farming, is second to farming as an occupation and is a highly regulated industry.\nThe lobsters are fished using a lobster trap. Lobster traps are constructed of wire and wood and an opening permits the lobster to enter a tunnel of netting. The size of the opening depends upon the size of the lobster to be caught. The majority of the newer traps consist of a plastic-coated metal frame. Traps are usually constructed in two parts, called the 'kitchen', where there is bait, and exits into the 'parlour', where the lobster is trapped from escape.\nDuring fishing season, bait fish is placed inside the trap, and the traps are dropped onto the sea floor. A long rope is attached to each trap, at the end of which is a plastic or Styrofoam buoy that bears the owner's license number and is identified by their colour coding. The traps are checked every day by the fisherman and re-baited if necessary.\nThe activity that really enthused us was the lobster and crab fishing tour, operated by Captain Mark Jerkins and assisted by his younger brother Codi. Captain Mark runs this tour in July and August at the end of the fishing season. During the tour we experienced what the lobster fisher folk undergo. It involved locating a buoy, hauling a trap and banding a claw of the lobsters. The claws are banded to ensure that the lobsters do not fight with each other and lose their claws. Watch how Cody holds the lobster's claws in the image. Outside water, if not handled properly, these claws will fall-off as they are really heavy.\nAs per Mark, this Lobster is about 40 yrs old.\nEveryone took a turn at the boat's wheel and learned how to use modern technologies to fish for lobster. Captain Mark also shared his personal experiences while fishing for lobster and also how this fourth generation lobster fishing family makes their living on the water. At the end of the tour we were treated to a sumptuous dinner of lobsters and crabs.\nMore than 1,200 lobster fishers set out for these waters to haul in lobsters during the first fishing season in PEI that runs from April 30 to June 30 each year. Setting Day marks the start of the eight-week lobster fishing season. The annual event starts at 4:45 am when the fishing communities across the island come out to cheer on their local fishing fleets as they head out to the sea. The first lobster boat that leaves the wharf is that of the most veteran fisher and his crew and other boats follow and the wharf roars with the sounds of engines, cheers and silent prayers. Some harbours invite local clergy to bless the boats and crews during this annual spring rite.\nPEI's lobster industry strongly believes in sustainability and would never jeopardize their rich resources for short term gains. Its fishery is strong because of the aggressive and sustainable management strategies implemented throughout its history. The Canada government's Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) sets minimum legal sizes to sustain the lobster fishery and fines fishermen caught with smaller lobsters on their boats.\nThe smaller lobsters called the 'Canners' are unique to the PEI, where the warmer temperatures cause the lobsters to mature quickly. These small lobsters were canned in the earlier days and so they got their name. Minimum size of 'Canners' is now set to 72 mm and they weigh between 250 and 375 grams. This is where the marine-scientific community believes the population is sustainable, as 50% of female lobsters in PEI's waters would have reproduced at least once by the time they reach this size. In other regions, the minimum legal size is 81 mm. The waters are colder there and it takes longer for the lobsters to mature \u2013 when they do, they are much bigger. The 'Market' lobsters are about 81 mm and weigh more than a pound. They are used in the restaurants and are exported live to the United States.\nThe Island's 27 crab fishermen are engaged in the trade. Their allotted annual quota for PEI fishermen is about 600 tons which include snow crab, rock crab and spider crab.\nIn PEI, during a tuna fishing season (mid July to mid October), each licence is allotted one tuna and the captain owns that fish, to conserve Bluefin tuna population. According to Captain Mark, he stays in the high-seas until a Bluefin Tuna weighing about 400 kg is caught. Tunas are fished using 'tended line' method where a baited hook is attached on a line, connected to a powerful motor on the boat to reel in the catch. At the hook end Captain Mark ties a kite which flutters in the air and goes down once the fish bites the bait. The line is now pulled in and if the tuna is not large enough, is released and the operation is repeated.\n95 %of the Bluefin Tuna is exported to Japan. A fish can be caught on a Monday, trucked to Halifax on Tuesday and arrive by plane in Tokyo on Thursday. A fish that fetches about $25,000 at the PEI Wharf may fetch half a million dollars in the Tokyo's fish market auction.\nThe fishing industry being regulated stipulates that there is a need for a licence to fish lobsters. The licenses are passed on from generation to generation and it is not that easy to get a new license as the DFO has put a cap on it. With each licence comes stipulations regarding the harvesting season dates, area they can set their traps, the number of traps permitted, the minimum and the maximum size of the lobsters that can be caught. Any violation of the stipulations will lead to hefty fines and also suspension of the license for three days. There have been hardly any violations reported as a three day suspension during a sixty day harvesting season will prove to be big loss.\nThe fishing community along with the DFO officials and the environmentalist have succeeded in maintaining the equilibrium of the fragile eco-system and also ensure optimum market value for their catches.\nAtlantic Ocean Bluefin tuna Canada Canner Lobster Captain Mark Jerkins Codi Jerkins Confederation Bridge crab Department of Fisheries and Oceans DFO Duke of Kent and Strathearn Lobster Lobster trap Market lobster PEI Prince Prince Edward Islands Queens and Kings rock crab snow crab spider crab tended line tuna fishing\n2 Comments Posted on October 22, 2017 November 25, 2022 by Reji Koduvath Canada, Travelogues\nButterfly Conservatory @ Niagara Falls\nWhen Air Vice Marshal TD Joseph (Joe) and Sophie Joseph visited us in May 2016, how could we miss a trip to the Niagara Falls. Niagara Region has much more to offer, other than the falls, like Niagara Gorge, Welland Canal, and Wine Country. (Please click on each one to read about them on my earlier Blog Posts).\nThe place, a nature lover should not miss is the Butterfly Conservatory, filled with beautiful free flying butterflies, a tropical wonderland located on the grounds of the Niagara Parks Botanical Garden. It really is a near ethereal experience.\nWhenever I see butterflies, my mind races back to the nostalgic memories of our childhood in Kerala, India. Kerala is home to more than 500 birds, 330 butterfly species from the largest butterfly in India, Birdwing, with a wingspan of about 25 cm to the smallest, the Grass Jewel with only 2 cm. It is also home to 68 species of dragonflies \u2013 the most common types being Malabar Torrent Dart, Yellow Bush Dart, Pied Reed Tail, and the Long-legged Clubtail. Many writers and poets were fascinated and inspired by these romantic creatures that they became subjects of some great contributions to Indian literature.\nAs kids, we enjoyed the sight of butterflies and dragonflies fluttering around, especially after the monsoons (June to August) and during the Onam Festival (end August \/ early September), when the flowers were in full bloom. We chased and caught a few of them. Then we tied a small thread to their tails so as to control them and make them take short flights.\nWe prompted the dragonfly in our captivity to pick up small pebbles. We increased the size of the stones until the dragonfly could lift no more. This sadistic game ended with the death of the dragonfly, when it severed its head from its torso.\nAdvent of rubber cultivation and extensive use of pesticides in Kerala for over three decades have driven these beautiful creations of God from our farmlands.\nThumbi Thullal (Dance of Dragonfly) is a dance performed by women of Kerala as a part of Onam celebrations. About six to seven women sit in a circle and the lead performer (called Thumbi meaning Dragonfly) sits in the middle of the circle. The lead performer sings melodious fast paced songs and other performers clap their hands and sway to the melody. Gradually the tempo of the song increases, and the lead performer brushes the floor with her hair as if she is possessed by a spirit. It usually ends with the lead performer fainting or playacting so.\nBack from nostalgia. At the commencement of the Niagara Gorge, about 10 km from the spectacular falls is the Butterfly Conservatory. This glass-enclosed conservatory is home to over 2000 butterflies. This state-of-the-art facility is designed to have a tropical environment within a Canadian climate characterised by both warm and cold weather. The mechanical and electrical systems maintain optimum environmental conditions for the butterflies and plants while accommodating comfort needs for its visitors.\nAround 45 different species of butterflies can be found fluttering in this rainforest setting spread over 11,000 square feet. The exact number of butterflies and species fluctuate on a day-to-day basis. The butterfly conservatory accommodates as much as 300 visitors per hour.\nThe self-guided walking tour of the Butterfly Conservatory begins with a short, informative video presentation that is close captioned for the hearing impaired. After this, one is allowed to explore the area and spot different species of butterflies as they fly all around you. The setting has a lovely pond, waterfall and a series of meandering pathways amidst several tropical plants with lovely flowers.\nThe jungle vegetation and delightful fluttering of hundreds of beautiful butterflies are unusual and a very uplifting experience. Everywhere there are exquisite butterflies floating in the warm, moist air or spreading their iridescent wings on leaves and flowers. One can even catch them mating.\nIt is a great place to see beautiful butterflies up close, but you are not allowed to touch them, because if you touch their wings, they get damaged and they cannot fly anymore and may die. One may photograph them, but surely, they need to be kept out of harm's way.\nThe Conservatory currently hosts species such as Monarchs, Swallowtails, Owls, Mosaics, Red Lacewings, Blue Morphos and Small Postmans. The green house setting also hosts goldfish, turtles, beetles, toads and Eurasian quails to help regulate insect population.\nThe best part about the tour is that you can actually get the butterflies to land on you. Some might be even willing to rest on your outstretched hand. Visitors are encouraged to wear bright clothes, wear perfume or cologne and move slowly if they wish to have butterflies land on them.\nPlates filled with fruits are kept at certain places to attract butterflies who like to feed on these and you can watch them doing so.\nMost of the butterflies have been imported from farms in tropical countries while some have been raised in a greenhouse behind the conservatory. The tour is not only entertaining but also educative. One can watch the metamorphosis process and the life cycle of a butterfly in real time. One can also observe the butterflies come out of their cocoon, dry their wings and take their first flight.\nAdjacent to the Butterfly Conservatory is the Floral Clock. This unique and stunning display is a very popular stop and is photographed almost as often as the Falls. The planted face is maintained by the Niagara Parks horticulture staff, while the mechanism is kept in working order by Ontario Hydro, the originally builders of the clock.\nThe Floral Clock is 40 feet wide, with a planted area 38 feet wide, making it one of the largest such clocks in the world. The Tower at the back of the clock, houses Westminster chimes that chime at each quarter of an hour. There is a 10-feet wide water garden that curves 85 feet around the base of the timepiece.\nIf you are lucky you may come across the Niagara Parks Commission's gardeners crawling along the special aluminium ladder they lay across the face of the clock, in order to plant and tend the clock face. Designs are created a year in advance to allow for the proper preparations. Tin dividers are built and installed to prevent soil slippage caused by the slope of the face of the clock. The clock is stopped during the planting process.\nThe floral design is changed twice each year. Spring designs are made up with Tulips, Forget-Me-Nots or similar plants, therefore, do not last long. It is followed by Violas planted in late Spring to provide a colourful design. From the latter part of May, traditional carpet bedding material is used until frost occurs. The summer designs in general are made up of approximately 24,000 carpet plants whose foliage rather than their blooms provide the necessary contrasting colors. Flowering plants are not suitable for summer planting because the plants that are used must be kept trimmed to form relatively sharp contrasting patterns and not be allowed to grow up and interfere with the movement of the hands. For this reason, reddish, green and yellow Alternanthera and Santolina form the background and markings of the various dial designs from year-to-year. California Golden Privet and Blue Festuca Grass may be used for contrast. In winter, the summer design is perpetuated by using rock chips of various colours.\nAnyone planning a visit to the Niagara Falls on the Canadian side must include these little wonderful sites in their itinerary. Always remember that the falls are better viewed from the Canadian side as one can hardly see it from the US side. So, always obtain a Canadian Visa in case you are visiting the Niagara Falls.\nbeetles Birdwing Blue Morphos butterflies Butterfly Conservatory Canada Dance of Dragonfly Dragonfly Eurasian quails Floral Clock goldfish Grass Jewel green house Kerala Long-legged Clubtail Malabar Torrent Dart Monarchs Mosaics Niagara Falls Niagara Gorge Niagara Parks Niagara Parks Botanical Garden Niagara Region Owls Pied Reed Tail Red Lacewings Small Postmans Swallowtails Thumbi Thumbi Thullal toads turtles Welland Canal Wine Country Yellow Bush Dart\n6 Comments Posted on April 5, 2016 April 16, 2022 by Reji Koduvath Canada, Travelogues\nSilencing the Roar of the Niagara Falls\n(Image Courtesy Google Maps)\nNiagara Falls is the aggregate name for three waterfalls that structure the Southern end of the Niagara Gorge; the Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side and the American Falls which includes the Bridal Veil Falls, on the American side.\nNiagara Falls is over 12,000 years old and were formed at the end of the last Ice Age, when the melting glaciers formed the Great Lakes. Water from Lake Erie at an elevation of 175m above sea level, flowed downhill towards Lake Ontario which is at an elevation of 75m. While the water rushed from one lake to another, the Niagara River, about 58 km in length; was carved out. At one point, the river had to rush over a large cliff (the Niagara Escarpment). As the falls eroded over time, the Niagara Gorge of about 11 km from where the falls were initially formed.\nAbout 800 years ago, only one fall existed. Due to erosion, Goat Island got carved out, separating the flow of the Niagara River into two channels. The larger channel formed the Horseshoe Falls and carried 90% of the water and the smaller channel, now known as the American channel carried 10%. Please click here to read more about the Niagara Falls.\nThe New York State Parks have now proposed to shutdown the American Falls for nine months to replace the two 115-year-old pedestrian stone bridges that connect the mainland to Green Island and Green Island to Goat Island and also to repair a concrete bridge that connect the mainland to Goat Island. The State has placed two proposals for the impending task.\nThe first is a two-year construction which would divert water from the American Falls for five months in the first year, from August to December. The bridges would be demolished and new piers would be anchored to the bedrock and the water flow would be restored in late December. Construction would continue in the second year with the water flowing over the Falls.\nThe second option is an accelerated one year construction, where in water would be diverted from the American Falls for nine months, April through December. It would affect the entire summer tourism season and require 24-hour-a-day construction.\nEarlier from 12 June 1969, The flow over the American Falls was stopped completely by the US Army Corp of Engineers. It was to remove the large amount of loose rock from the base of the falls to enhance its appearance. When the Falls were shut off, it attracted a drove of tourists. In case the event repeats, tourists from the world over are sure to congregate at the Niagara Falls and the social media would be filled with images and videos of the spectacle.\nThe erosion of the American Falls resulted in major rock falls in 1931 and 1954 had dumped heavy boulders at the base of the Falls. It was felt that further erosion of the American Falls would result in more rock falls and ultimate death of the American Falls. The Horseshoe Falls is yet to experience such major rock falls.\nWith a view to save the American Falls, the Army Engineers contracted Albert Elia Construction Company to construct and remove a cofferdam to stop the water flow in the American Channel. In addition, they were required to clean the surface of the river bed and remove loose rock from the face of the Falls. A cofferdam is a temporary barrage built within across a body of water to divert the water or to allow the enclosed area to be pumped out, creating a dry work environment for the major work to proceed.\nConstruction of the cofferdam began at midnight of 09-10 June 1969 and was completed by 2:40 AM on 12 June. It took 1,264 truckloads, consisting of 27,800 tons of rock and earth, to stop the flow. As the water flow sopped, a fence was erected to prevent onlooker from falling into the gorge.\nAs the Falls dried, the Niagara Police recovered the remains of a man, a woman and the carcass of a deer amongst the rocks. Closing of the American Channel resulted in heavier flow into the Horseshoe Falls. The boulders deposited at the base of the American Falls was estimated by Army Engineers at 358,000 tons, reaching 41m high in places, reducing the water fall from 30m to a mere 14m.\nAfter studying the rock-falls at the American Falls, the International Joint Commission of the US and Canada came to five conclusions:-\nWhile it is technically feasible to remove the boulders collected at the base of the American Falls, it is not desirable to do so at the present time.\nWhile structural solutions are available to arrest erosion at the crest of the American Falls, the Falls should not be stabilized by artificial means.\nA broad environmental study should be jointly carried out by Canada and the US to identify and give priority to those measures which best enhance the total setting and beauty of the Niagara Falls area.\nThe two flanks of the American Falls and the Goat Island flank of the Horseshoe Falls are sufficiently stable to warrant remedial action.\nA statistically minor element of risk from unpredictable rock movement will remain and must be accepted by the viewing public.\nOn 25 November, 1969 at 10:05 AM a drag-line lifted out the first scoops of earth and rock from the 180m long cofferdam that had been in place since 12 June. There was a little ceremony to mark the beginning of the return to normalcy. David Kennis, age 11, symbolising the next generation, pulled a cord which operated a horn. The blast from the horn signaled the drag-line operator to begin work. By 10:43 AM, the first trickle of water flowed through the dam. The first gush of muddy water spurted through the dam at 11:05 AM, but it was mid afternoon before water once again plunged over the falls. About 2,650 people watched from various vantage points with cameras and newsreels as workers began removing the dam. By the evening of 25 November 1969, the roar of Niagara returned to normal.\nIn case the water flow of the American Falls is stopped, it would be a breathtaking sight and a spectacle not to be missed, likely to be in 2019 if federal, state or private funding is found right away.\nAmerican Falls Bridal Veil Falls Canada Cofferdam Goat Island Green Island ice age New York State Parks Niagara Escarpment Niagara Falls Niagara Gorge; Horseshoe Falls Niagara River Silencing the Roar US Army Corp of Engineers\n8 Comments Posted on March 4, 2016 August 26, 2022 by Reji Koduvath Canada, Family, Parenting\nCanadian Report Card\ncompetition we faced back home always prompted us to cross-examine our children when they came home with a report card or a test result. We always wanted to know as to who got the maximum marks, where does our child stand in the class, etc. At the end of Grade 3 of Nikhil, when he came home with the report card, he declared \"Do not ask me how others did as I have no clue as I did not ask anyone about it.\"\nIt is indecent to ask someone their marks in Canada and the marks are confidential and is never announced in public. The report cards are handed over to the students in a sealed envelope, obviously to ensure confidentiality.\nThe aim of a progress report in Canada is to enable the students to reach their potential, and to succeed. It is a real challenge for the school as every student is unique and they got to ensure each student gets adequate opportunities to achieve success according to his\/her interests, abilities, and goals. The reporting is fair, transparent, and equitable for all students. It supports all students, including those with special education needs and all those learning the language of instruction (English or French). The curriculum is carefully planned to relate to the expectations, learning goals and cater to the interests, learning styles and preferences, needs, and experiences of all students.\nAll aspects of learning are communicated clearly to students and parents at the beginning of the school year and at other appropriate points throughout the school year or course. The reporting provides a descriptive feedback that is clear, specific, meaningful, and timely to support improved learning and achievement. It also develops students' self-assessment skills to enable them to assess their own learning, set specific goals, and plan next steps for their learning.\nThe high school report card looks more like the Annual Confidential Report (ACR) in the army \u2013 it appears as if it leaves no aspects of learning skills and work habit of the child uncovered. The aspects covered in the report are Responsibility, Organization, Independent Work, Collaboration, Initiative and Self-Regulation. Strengths and Steps for Improvement are listed out for each subject separately.\nMy mind raced back to our Sainik School days and even our army course days, where no marks were ever kept confidential and were mostly put up on a notice board. I always looked at the mark list on the notice board to make sure that I was not the last. What an injustice, especially to those who did not fare well!\nOnce I perused his report card in Grade 11, I asked him a few questions to find out some details about the steps for improvement and we discussed in detail as to how he is going to prepare for his Grade 12. After discussing the same, I casually asked our son as to how his friends did. Our son theorised that students want to either show off their marks or feel a bit good when they have really done well or in case they haven't, they are looking for someone who did worse. He was not in either and hence did not find out how others did. I realised that what he said was what I had been doing all throughout my life, either blow the trumpet, or look for someone who did worse to feel happy that you are not the worst.\nOur son had done exceptionally well in French and the teacher rewarded him with a recommendation for a cultural and educational exchange program in France. He went to Paris (01 July 2014) and returned on 31 Jul with a French Grade 11 Student, Guillaume Le Floch. Nikhil stayed with the Le Floch family for a month in France. Guillaume stayed with us and returned to France on 31 Aug.\nWhile Nikhil was away for a month, I felt a vacuum, both in my mind and at home. Our dog Maximus seemed pretty depressed and had been running all over the house looking for Nikhil.\nWe will all got to get used to such absence of the kids and this will prepare us to learn to live without them in times to come.\nCanada Collaboration Confidentiality descriptive feedback educational exchange program equitable fair France Independent Work Initiative Le Floch family Organization Report Card Responsibility Sainik School self-assessment skills Self-Regulation transparent\n7 Comments Posted on January 18, 2016 August 9, 2022 by Reji Koduvath Canada\nCanada : New Immigration Regulations \u2013 New Challenges\nRecently, I have been receiving many a queries regarding immigration to Canada and also regarding the Student Visas. Hence I am posting the very same article I posted on 15 February 2015. There has been no major change in the Canadian immigration policies despite the new Liberal Party government taking office.\nCanada has the most educated and qualified truck and cab drivers and security guards in the world. Many of them are immigrants who hold postgraduate degrees in Medicine, Pharmacy, Engineering, Management and Law. These are the ones who could not qualify through the strict licensing regimes of Canada in their disciplines. They are well qualified and many held important job positions back home, but are less conversant with the demands of their profession in Canada. Many who qualified through the licensing procedure had either succeeded in erasing their (bad or wrong) experiences back home or have worked hard and learnt the Canadian requirements of their profession.\nCanada's education system produces enough highly educated and trained professionals to fill the entry level positions in engineering and applied sciences. There are some openings available in the Healthcare field like doctors, pharmacists and nurses, but the effort required to obtain a license is pretty herculean. The Canadian labour markets demand skilled trades (plumbers, electricians, and truck drivers), retail sector workers, and obviously caregivers to look after the very young and the very old. The engineers and doctors who immigrated in the past 20 years learned this bitter lesson after they landed in Canada.\nOver the past 20 years, there are many cases of Canadian immigrants from Africa, Eastern Europe, and South Asia who claim to have been duped into immigrating to Canada. They found it extremely hard to find a job in any field, let alone pursue careers in which they were qualified back home. In fact, recent immigrants are the new face of urban poverty in Canada.\nThese immigrants themselves are to be blamed for their present status. Most of them applied for immigration to Canada without adequate research about their job prospects, licensing procedures, requirement of tests like IELTS, TOFEL, etc. Many in the healthcare field landed without exploring the licensing requirements to practice in Canada. They are the most vocal group among the disgruntled immigrants.\nThe Canadian government also shares the blame for the archaic point system it used to qualify applicants for immigration. Even when Canada faced serious shortages for truck drivers (the most common profession among immigrant Canadian males), the government was busy admitting doctors and engineers. Instead of prioritising younger applicants, the system brought in middle-aged workers, who were educated, but not necessarily skilled for Canadian needs. In addition, they were set in their ways and found it hard to change habits and work ethics.\nFor many students who arrived in Canada, it was a sure-shot thing for foreign student to graduate with a degree or a diploma, obtain a job and apply for permanent residency. The new immigration regulations have changed this sure-shot occurrence into a game of chance.\nToday, most immigrant students take huge loans to finance their studies in Canada in hope for a permanent residency later. Most of them were lured by the big promises their agents made and also paid a hefty sum as commission to these agents. The catch here is that a student can only apply for residency and for those jobs for which no Canadian worker is available. The employer has to prove this by advertising in two local newspapers and then certify that no suitable Canadian is available for the job.\nMany of these students were carried away by the often heard statement by these agents that Americans and Canadians do not study, they do not attend universities. etc. To add to this, in many countries there is a false propaganda that their people are doing real well in US and Canada. Please refer my earlier blog https:\/\/rejinces.net\/2014\/07\/15\/real-propaganda\/\nThe parents of these students spread the 'news' around about the successful immigration of their wards to Canada and then about the job they are in and also claim that they did send a lot of money back. All these could be to improve their ward's value in the marriage market. There are many students in Canada who married while being a student on a student visa and have brought in their partners too on a student visa. They make up a story that their residency application is nearly through and the only way to get their partner in is through student visa.\nWhile the new regulations have added new challenges for foreign students in Canada, they have also improved the odds for highly-skilled professionals and trades. Instead of a 'first come, first serve' basis, the new immigration regulations fast-tracks those prospects whose skills are more in demand in Canada.\nAs per the new system, prospective immigrants can file an online application and the Canadian government will draw names from this pool, based on the current needs of the labour market. This ensures that only those prospects who meet a certain criteria will be invited to submit a formal application for permanent residency, thus cutting the processing time and overload of applications. By prioritising those applicants whose skills are more in demand, the system improves the odds for new immigrants to succeed in Canada and not be a burden on the state.\nCandidates applying for permanent residency would have a higher chance in case they can provide a job offer letter from a prospective employer in Canada. Finding a job in Canada can take time and may be different from finding a job in one's home country. Most employers look for Canadian experience and that can be achieved only by volunteering in a position in one's field. The students in Canada do so during their education by volunteering and also in the coop opportunity the university offers in conjunction with the businesses around.\nAcceptance by the Canadian Government for permanent residency in no way guarantees employment in one's preferred profession or any other profession. Most got to start all over by volunteering in their field, attending courses to upgrade their skills to be at par with the Canadian requirement and passing various regulatory and licensing examinations.\nEven if one has the language skills in English or French needed to immigrate to Canada, those skills may not be strong enough to work in the preferred profession. Most professions and trades require one to be fluent in English or French and to have a strong knowledge of all work-related languages.\nCanadian employers often do not know how to assess education and work experience from other countries. They might prefer one with experience working in Canada. Getting that experience is one of the biggest challenges for newcomers.\nLife in Canada of an immigrant will be different than in their home country. They may have to take a job with lower pay while one upgrades their skills or get experience working in Canada. This may result in change of financial status and life-style. Even if one earns a higher salary in Canada than one was earning in one's home country, the cost of living in Canada may be higher than one is used to. All immigrants to Canada as a skilled worker, investor, entrepreneur or as a self-employed person, will have to provide proof that of sufficient funds to support the family after arrival in Canada.\nCanada Canada Immigration Canada's education system Canadian labour market citizenship fast-track Immigration Challenges Immigration Regulations Permanent Residence student Visa urban poverty\n3 Comments Posted on January 14, 2016 December 30, 2022 by Reji Koduvath Canada, Family, Parenting\nChallenges in Parenting Faced by Indian Immigrants In North America\nA nursing student, 22-year-old daughter of parents who had immigrated to the US from Kerala, was reported missing by her parents on February 24, 2014. She was last heard from by her mother who talked to her, on the phone. The daughter claimed to be in the library at the university campus, whereas the police investigation revealed that she made the call from a fitness center.\nThe parents were in for a rude shock when they learned from police that their daughter, who was a nursing student, had not attended classes since May 2013. All along, her parents believed that she was going to school, and her mother who was under the impression that her daughter was on track to follow in her footsteps. She had been living at home and telling her parents she was attending school all through the fall and winter. The father's credit card was even charged $6,072 for the Fall 2013 semester. I had heard from our daughter about of a few students who enroll in courses using the parent's credit card and later cancelling their enrollment and taking the money.\nThe parents had not been seeing their daughter's progress card and when her father asked to see the report card, she said there was something wrong with the computer. The mother had noticed that that her daughter wasn't bringing home college text books. On inquiry, she said that she was doing online reading. In hindsight, how could a mother, who is also a nurse by profession ever accept such an excuse.\nOn March 11, 2014, the police found her dead body in her car and as per the police, the cause of death appeared to be suicide, due to inhalation of a noxious substance.\nThis case study reveals the challenges in parenting faced especially by parents emigrating from India. This brings out the need for positive parent-child interactions, especially at teen and adolescence levels. Each age and stage of growth presents unique joys and challenges, and the teen and adolescence years are certainly no exception. In fact, parenting during these years will always present unique situations as a result of the physical, social and emotional changes taking place in your child's life. The parents have a great deal of influence on the behaviour of their adolescents.\nMajority of Indian immigrant parents' relationships with their children are formal and vertical with regard to age and gender. Communication and authority flow downward consistent with a hierarchical order. Indian parents accept as their duty the care of their children and children's reciprocated duty is to unquestionably respect and honour their parents. In this context, parents expect children to accede to parental wishes and to behave in ways that reflect well upon the family, and many times the community. Many Indian immigrant parents rely on the inculcation of guilt and shame to keep children, regardless of age, focused on the importance of family obligations and to behave in ways that do not 'bring shame' to the family. Anything and everything the child do is castigated with the often-heard remark that 'it's against our culture.'\nFor a majority of Indian immigrant parents in America, the desire for children to succeed educationally and economically is a very high (only doctors and engineers please.) Accordingly, children's exceptional academic performance is often viewed by parents as an honour to them.\nThis also forces children to hide their actual performance\/ report cards. Parents are also culprits as they brag about their children's academic achievements. It is very significant at high school level and when the child does not secure admission in a worthwhile university, next lot of stories are spun out by the parents. This further degrades the child's confidence, and they end up feeling out of place \u2013 trying to live in a castle of lies.\nLives of many Indian immigrant children, especially those at high school and university level can well be compared to the Hindi movie 'Ram Aur Shyam.' The children often end up leading a life of double role \u2013 one for university and one for home. It is akin to maintaining two girlfriends at the same time \u2013 one should not meet the other.\nConcerns of Indian Immigrant Parents in North America\nFear of Losing Children to the American Culture. Most Indian parents migrate with the hope of making it good with many opportunities North America offers to them and their children. However, they fear that their children, especially those who entered adolescence or young adulthood subsequent to emigrating and those born in North America, are becoming more 'Americans' and abandoning the family's cultural values. Most of these parents fail to realise that the present young Indian society has changed and have adapted to the American culture of dating, live-in relationships, drugs, pubs, etc, (mostly kept under wraps.) Some Indian parents often demand that children minimise their activities like dating based on personal choice, partying, using contraceptives, marrying for love vs accepting an arranged marriage, or reject the culture outright. Indian children often perceive their identification with the parental native culture to be a disadvantage to making it big in the American society.\nLoss of Authority Over Children. Indian parents become aware of two very painful post-immigration facts of life: that there are vastly different rules for parenting children, and the new rules significantly lessen their general authority over their children. Many parents complain that the children do not listen to them, and some are even scared of saying anything to their children. Parents also lament the 'permissiveness' of the American society that condones children's rights to challenge parental values and authority and often observe that raising children in North America is same as 'living with strangers.'\nDisciplining Children. Many Indian parents feel restrained in their authority to discipline their children 'appropriately' consistent with the usual and acceptable modes of disciplining children back in India. Many Indian parents used disciplinary practices that by American standards, are considered harsh and even abusive. For these parents, parenting in North America requires accommodation to new value systems, rules, and expectations. As a result, Indian parents overwhelmingly tend to be cautious in disciplining their children because of their unfamiliarity with other disciplinary methods and fear of breaking the law\n.Loss of Authority to Select Children's Mate. Indian immigrant families represent a kaleidoscope of religions and cultures and consider it their right to select and to decide whom the children will (date and) eventually marry. They do not accept the fact that arranged marriages among Indians is on the wane. Notwithstanding the decline in the practice, however, many Indian immigrant parents continue to endorse arranged marriages. Some parents do not hesitate to send marriageable children home to seek a spouse in case there are few or no eligible candidates. Some parents may even 'import' a potential spouse from India. Some parents do permit culturally exogamous dating and marriages and most children prefer selecting, dating and eventually marrying someone of their own choosing, based on the North American criterion of romantic love. Parents complain that children's refusal to accept an arranged marriage as a rejection of them and their values and negatively reflect upon them as parents within the community. They also reference the progressively increasing divorce rate among younger Indian immigrants and worry about their children's ability to 'make a good marriage.'\nLoss of Face Within the Community. Within the Indian community, parents are held responsible for their children's behaviour and are criticised for their failing as parents, because children's behaviour reflect negatively upon parents. They believe that it is the paramount duty of their children to enhance family pride by honouring their parents through their culturally appropriate behaviour and outstanding accomplishments. Consequently, when children behave out-of-culture, parents invariably complain that such behaviour dishonour them as 'Indian Parents' and devalue their standing as 'Indians' within the community.\nReligious Institutions. Indian parents seem to prove the adage of 'being more loyal to the king than the king themselves' when it comes to their religious matters. They force their children to attend religious ceremonies, mostly without explaining the details of the ceremony and its significance in real life. Religious teachers employed by these institutions are 'fresh off the boat (FOB)' from India and do not connect to the North American society and the stresses the children undergo here. They ensure to instill a feeling of 'guilt and shame' in the Indian parents for not strictly adhering to the religious practices and the 'sin' they are committing by not protecting their children from the 'hazards' of the 'evil' North American society. Their sermons are mostly archaic and have no place in the modern society. Luckily these sermons are in their dialects or in 'Hinglish\/ Punglish\/ Manglish,' which these children do not understand. These religious heads will talk non-stop on the evils of the North American society but wants you to part with your dollars liberally at any instant.\nThe Way Ahead\nMonitor and Supervise your Child. Children want parents who listen and try to understand, set good examples, and offer guidance. A delicate balance of allowing your child freedom while still exercising a level of parental control is key to your child achieving independence.\nMonitor Your Child's Activities. Show a constant and genuine interest in your child's life. Know where your child is at all times. Ask where they are going after school, when they will be home, and which friends they will be with. Parents who actively monitor and guide their children tend to have adolescents who experience positive relationships with peers and who are less likely to use drugs.\nCheck-in Regularly. Talk to your child after school to ask about their day. If your child is scheduled to be at a friend's house, call the friend's parent to confirm the arrangement. Be involved without being overbearing. Your child may protest your monitoring behaviour, but setting boundaries and sticking to them will show your child that you love them.\nParent in an Authoritative Style. Parent with warmth and respect, avoiding being overly controlling or overly lenient. Authoritative parents are warm but firm. They encourage their children to be independent, but as parents, they manage to keep limits and controls on their child's actions. Authoritative parents openly discuss family rules with their children, which allows the children to express their views. Authoritative parents are nurturing, while providing the rules, guidelines, and standards that children need.\nEncourage Your Children to Bring Home their Friends. This will ensure that you meet your child's friends and know the company he\/ she keeps. Interact with your child to find out the activities and conversations that took place during their outing. This is easier said than done as you have to earn the confidence of your child, especially by not reacting to those uncomfortable issues that may crop up. This will provide some insight into the activity pattern of your child outside the school hours\nEat Dinner Together. Eating dinner or at least a meal together as a family provides an ideal opportunity to interact with your children. Talk to your child about their day, their friends, and current events. It also shows that you care enough to take time to listen and learn about their interests. Research finds that teens who eat dinner with a parent five or more times during the week are less likely to smoke, drink, use drugs, get into fights and engage in sexual activity.\nCollege and University Students to Study with Education Loan. The children must utilise the facility of the liberal educational loans, especially those funded by the governments. It not only satisfies the financial need to proceed with higher education but helps in saving income tax also while repayment. Tax benefits on education loan end up reducing overall cost of the loan. Most student loans offer lower interest rates, deferred payment options and a repayment grace period following graduation. This will ensure that the children are better focused on their education. It can also act as a monitoring tool for the parents as the next tranche of the loan would not be released unless the student has scored adequate marks and have the requisite attendance. In case the parents are financially sound, they can assist the child to repay the loan in full or in part upon graduation.\nWishing all parents 'Great Parenting.' Remember what Mayim Chaya Bialik, American actress, author, and neuroscientist said, \"I came to parenting the way most of us do \u2013 knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.\"\n(Photographs are of our daughter Nidhi and our son Nikhil)\nAmerica Canada Challenges in Parenting Disciplining Children Indian Immigrants Kerala North America\n5 Comments Posted on October 7, 2015 January 6, 2023 by Reji Koduvath Canada, Parenting\nFour-Year Undergraduate Programme\nEducation in Canada aims at developing all-rounded personality of a student. Graduation is the stepping stone to the employment market. Why does Canada\/USA have four year graduation courses? After analysing the curricula our daughter and her friends went through for graduation in life sciences in Canada, my observations are as given below.\nFinances. The students being over 18 years of age want to be financially independent and do not want to depend on their parents. All of the students I met (including our daughter) had taken student loans to pay for their education. As they were paying for it with their own money, they wanted each and every penny to be counted, resulting in no bunking or whiling away time in the class \u2013 every minute had been paid for by them (not by the parents).\nPart-Time Work. Most students undertook part-time work (our daughter taught in the tuition centre for 10 hours a week) to pay for their other expenses that is not met from the student loans. Studies have proven that the students who take up part-time jobs are more dedicated to their studies, better at time management and outperform the students who do not take up part-time jobs.\nEvery Academic Year is Three Semesters Effectively. The academic year commences in September with the first semester and the second semesters beginning in January and ending by April. The period between May to August may be called summer vacation, but is used up to complete any particular requisite course(s) which could not be taken during the two semesters or pursue a course of interest. Students use this time to volunteer both within and outside the country or join a research team, or work for four months to make money and also to gain experience. Many employers like the government, city, private institutions that conduct summer camps, etc, earmark jobs for the university students. They work as swimming instructors, life guards, kids' camp guides, area cleaners, gardeners, etc.\nCourse Content. I was flabbergasted to see our daughter taking Bollywood Music and Prem Chand Kahaniya as optional subjects in the second and third year as part of a life science course. I am sure no Indian Universities would be offering such subjects. Here the students have a variety of courses to choose from and there are different pre-requisites for post graduation in different universities.\nAssignments. Assignments typically consist of 15- 20 % of the total grade. One cannot get away by copying assignment from friends. Plagiarism is very serious and may even result in failing the course. Original works and ideas are well rewarded. Assignments are given every week or at least once every 15 days and are mostly corrected by the Teaching Assistants (TAs) of the professor. TA is generally a research student under that professor and the TA makes some money by assisting the professor.\nTests. There are anywhere from two to four tests in a semester. The midterm tests range from 25 to 40 % each. The weightage for the tests are about 50 \u2013 80% depending on the professor. The key point is you do not lose all your points if you miss your final. So, if you get sick or have issues with some chapters, you are not penalised for that. The risk is evenly distributed. The catch is, you are forced to study all through the semester because you have tests every 4 to 6 weeks depending on number of tests. Some tests are comprehensive, but most are only part of the text. It all depends on the professor. The key thing is, Professor who teaches the class dictates the rules of tests and he is a God for the students.\nQuizzes: The quizzes are quite important and are sometimes online and sometime they are pop-quizzes or surprise quizzes in class. The weightage for quizzes can be from 5 \u2013 20 %. So, you have to be prepared every time with previous class material.\nGroup Projects and Individual Projects. They can be from 20 \u2013 40% of the grade. The goal is that the professor wants the students to apply what they learned in the class. There are two types of projects. Group projects as name says, will be between 2 \u2013 5 people. Individual projects, you only work on it. In either case, you end up giving final presentation in the class. The presentation skills are developed in the students from high school onward and they are well trained in executing group and individual projects.\nTerm Papers. Some classes do not have anything other than writing papers after extensive research. The research paper has to be based on a given format with full citations. One will have to follow the APA or any other similar format as per the university policy (it starts from High School here). For arts and literature classes, there will not be any exams like mid terms and they usually have two or three papers to write during semester.\nClass Participation. There is about 5 \u2013 15 % of marks for class participation. The students have to actively participate in discussions and hence have to be fully prepared for each class. The TAs sitting behind the class do the marking and the professor will award the final marks.\nCo-op. This is where the industry and the academic institution come together to offer the students a chance to work in the industry during graduation. In some universities it is mandatory for all students to take up co-op assignments. This ensures that education remains at par with the developments in the industry. The curriculum aims to provide the students exposure of actual industrial and business processes. Students' projects are mostly related to real problems identified with the industry\/ business.\nRecommendations. For applying for any job, even part-time or for a post graduate course, it is mandatory to provide recommendations of two to three professors. In case you are not well known to them, the professor would end up saying that he\/she is 'not comfortable' giving the recommendations. It is not all that easy to 'buy' these recommendations.\nThe economic progress of a country is strongly linked with the quality of education. The Canadian education system from school level onward undertake periodic review of the curriculum and subject content to ensure that they are up to date and not outmoded or obsolete. They also ensure that the system effectively fulfills the requirements of the country in creating valuable citizens for the future. Norms and standards of education are set up so as to educate the students with appropriate skills suitable for a rapidly changing economic scenario.\nWe would always get an education system we deserve and not what we desire.\nAssignment Canada Education Paper Project Quiz Semester Test\n7 Comments Posted on April 28, 2015 October 7, 2022 by Reji Koduvath Canada, Kerala, Sainik School\nKasava\/ Tapioca\/ Kappa (\u0d15\u0d2a\u0d4d\u0d2a)\nWalking down the isle of a Chinese vegetable store in Mississauga, Canada, after immigration in 2004, I was surprisingly greeted by the Kasava\/ Tapioca\/ Kappa (\u0d15\u0d2a\u0d4d\u0d2a) placed on a rack. On Closer examination, the tag read 'Kasava \u2013 Product of Guatemala'. Any Malayalee (Mallu) will always and forever relish Tapioca cooked with spices and grated coconut and fish curry marinated with special tamarind (Kudam Puli (\u0d15\u0d41\u0d1f\u0d02\u0d2a\u0d41\u0d33\u0d3f) scientifically known as Garcinia Cambogia). The concoction served in Toddy (alcoholic extract from coconut trees) shops all over Kerala (Indian Province where Malayalam is the native language and the residents are called Malayalees \u2013 now Mallus), is something one can never get in any homes.\nTapioca is not a native of Kerala. Then how come it reached the shores of Kerala?.\nTapioca is said to have originated in Brazil. Portuguese distributed the crop from Brazil to countries like Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and Kerala in India in the 17th Century. Some believe that Vysakham Thirunal, the Travancore King (1880-1885 AD), who was also a botanist, introduced this laborer's food in Travancore (South Kerala). By beginning of 19th Century, people from central Travancore migrated to the Malabar region (North Kerala) and they introduced tapioca to the locals.\nTapioca was promoted extensively during World War II in Kerala by Chithira Thirunal, Maharaja of Travancore and his Governor Sir CP Ramaswamy Iyer. Then rice was the staple food of the people of Kerala and was being imported from Burma and Indonesia. With Japanese Navy enforcing a blockade in the Malaccan Strait, the ships carrying rice to India were either destroyed or captured. This caused an acute shortage of rice.\nA large number of people, especially the labour class, accepted the starch-rich Tapioca as a substitute to costly rice. Thus Tapioca came to be known as 'staple food of the poor.' Hotels refused to include Tapioca in their menu due to its working class image.\nThe only place that served Tapioca were the toddy shops, where the labourers turned up for relaxation after a day's hard work. Today tapioca is a rarity in Kerala and so is a delicacy and hence all hotels including the five-star ones have tapioca with fish curry in all their menus.\nDuring my childhood, we used to cultivate Tapioca on our land. Tapioca is a tropical crop, tolerant to drought, but cannot withstand frost. It is best grown in lower altitudes with warm humid climate with well distributed rainfall. Our land is terraced on the hill slope into 20 x 20 feet sections. Each section is held together with stone masonry retaining wall to avoid soil erosion. On top of these walls pineapple was grown to give additional strength to the retaining wall. On some of these walls a fast growing grass was planted as fodder for cows.\nIn the month of August, the labourers till the land and make mounds of about a foot after spreading a compost mixture of cow-dung and ash. These mounds are made about three feet apart. Tapioca is planted in June with the onset of the South-West monsoon. Stakes taken from plants of the previous year is now cut into pieces of about a foot and is planted on these mounds. After a month, all the unhealthy or weak sprouts are pinched off leaving only two sprouts to grow into stakes.\nAs the plants mature, underground stems called tubers enlarge with starch. This is the time when the plant is most susceptible to rodent attacks, mainly from rats. As the tubers matured, a plant was uprooted almost every evening and tubers either were boiled and eaten with chutney or cooked with grated coconut and spices and eaten with fish curry. During weekends our mother had off being a school teacher and she made thin slices of fresh tapioca tubers and fried them in coconut oil.\nAfter about ten months, in April, tapioca is harvested. Firstly the stakes are cut off and the healthy ones are stored for cutting for next planting. Underground tubers are now pulled out manually, pulling at the base of the stakes. The tubers are cut off from their bases and carried to the peeling site.\nAt the peeling site, the women folk of the village sit on mats and peel the outer skin of the tubers and slice the white starch part into thin slices. The women folk were generally paid in kind at the scale of one for every ten basket of tubers sliced by them. The sliced tubers are now collected in baskets and carried by the men folk to the boiling site. Here the slices are boiled in water until semi-cooked. The slices are now drained and put on the ground to dry under the sun. Once dried, these are collected in gunny bags. Some of the dried tapioca was retained for our consumption and the remainder were sold off to Kunjappan Chettan, the trader who lived across our home. Please refer to my blog https:\/\/rejinces.net\/2014\/07\/15\/kunjappan-chettan-the-trader\/\nIn the 1980s, labour in Kerala became very expensive and rodent attacks on tapioca crops became severe. Most tapioca plants were infected with Gemini virus causing 'Mosaic' disease curling the leaves and thus reduced yield. In this period, the price of natural rubber skyrocketed. This turned tapioca farmers to rubber cultivation. With the incoming of rubber, out went the cows first as there was not enough grass to feed them. Further, the skins of the tapioca tubers and leaves from the uprooted stakes, which were the staple diet of the cows for four months, were now unavailable.\nMr AD George, our botany teacher at school had mentioned that the Gemini virus intruded into Kerala through a sample brought in by a professor, who while on a visit to a foreign country where tapioca was cultivated, saw a plant infected by the virus. He collected a leaf to show it to his students and brought it home to Kerala. After demonstrating the specimen to his students, the professor discarded the specimen. This virus then is believed to have spread across Kerala.\nThe land lost all its herbal healing powers with the advent of rubber cultivation. Herbal plants like Kurumtotti (Sida Rhombifolia), Kizhukanelli (Phyllanthus Amarus), Paanal (Glycosmis Arboraea), etc, all very abundant until we cultivated tapioca, became nearly extinct. The undergrowth shown in the image above is mostly of these herbal plants. Further, the present generation is totally unaware of the existence of these herbs in our own land and uses of these herbs. The cows used to eat these herbs along with the grass they chewed off the land and hence their milk also should have had some herbal effect.\nIn 2002 I visited Colonel TM Natarajan, my class mate from Sainik School and he spoke about the Sago (Sabudhana[\u0938\u093e\u092c\u0942\u0926\u093e\u0928\u093e ] or Chavvari [\u0d1a\u0d35\u0d4d\u0d35\u0d30\u0d3f\/ \u0b9a\u0bb5\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bbf\u0b9a\u0bbf]) factory his family had. That was when I realised that Sago was not a seed and it was factory manufactured and tapioca is the main ingredient. As Thamizh Nadu had many Sago factories and in order to feed them with tapioca, tapioca cultivation now moved from Kerala to Thamizh Nadu. The only hitch is that it needs extensive irrigation to grow as Thamizh Nadu does not enjoy as much rainfall as Kerala is blessed with.\nAmaravathi Nagar Brazil Canada Chavvari Chithira Thirunal Garcinia Cambogia Gemini virus Glycosmis Arboraea Guatemala Indonesia Kappa Kasava Kerala Kizhukanelli Kudam Puli Kurumtotti Maharaja of Travancore Malabar Malaysia Mr AD George Paanal Phyllanthus Amarus Portuguese Sabudhana Sago Sainik School Sida Rhombifolia Singapore Sir CP Ramaswamy Iyer Tapioca Toddy Shop Travancore World War II\n11 Comments Posted on November 24, 2014 May 26, 2022 by Reji Koduvath Canada, Indian Army, Sainik School\nCross Country Race\nThe first cross-country race (Marathon in North America), I ran was as a Grade 5 student at Sainik (Military) School Amaravathinagar. It was a 5 km run along the base of the Western Ghats on the North side of the school. With every passing year, the distance increased. with it the difficulty. On joining the National Defence Academy (NDA), the cross country race became a ritual in every semester (half-year) and thus I ran six races in three years of about 14 km. During the first 10 years of service in the Army, I ran seven races. On reaching Canada, I ran two such races, in support of charitable causes.\nRunning a marathon is one of the largest physical challenges you can set, often it is more of a mental challenge \u2013 the mental strength to complete the race despite the panting, tiredness and pains. It results in an accomplishment every time, irrespective of your age. It does not matter even if you are the last, you are part of an elite club of people that have completed the race successfully.\nAt the NDA, the cross country race was more of a team event. The Squadron which won the trophy every semester claimed more bragging rights than the cadet who came first or second. It was a matter of pride for the cadets that their Squadron did well and hence every cadet put their heart, soul and body into doing well at the race.\nThe practice for the race at NDA began nearly a month prior with all cadets running a full race almost every evening and morning on Sundays and holidays. The final race was on a Sunday morning, starting at the famous Glider Dome and ending there. One witnessed cadets completing the race despite physical injuries \u2013 a cadet finished the race after he fractured his leg halfway. There have been many cadets running the race with fever. All to ensure that they do not bring in negative points for their Squadron and let the team down.\nIn 1987, our Regiment was located in Gurgaon near Delhi and we formed part of the Brigade stationed at Meerut \u2013 about 50 km from Delhi. Cross country race was a closely contested competition among the regiments and our unit had the rare distinction of winning it for the previous five years. 1987 was the final year at Gurgaon as the unit had received its move order to the Kashmir Valley.\nOur Commanding Officer, Colonel Mahaveer Singh called Late Captain Pratap Singh, Maha Vir Chakra and self to his office in March 1987 and briefed us that we had to win the cross country competition for him. We both were Captains then and by virtue of being the senior, I became the team captain. Among young subalterns, one was away on a training course and the other admitted in the Military Hospital.\nThe team to be fielded for the competition was to consist of one officer and 15 soldiers. We started practicing for the race \u2013 two officers and 20 soldiers. Every morning at 5 we were picked up from our residence and the team used to be dropped off about 20 km from the regimental location. Now everyone had no option but to run back to the regiment. The faster one did it, lesser the agony.\nAfter a month's practice, we decided to move to Meerut a week before the race to carry out a few practices there. The race was scheduled for 11 April, Saturday to commence at 6 AM. The day we had planned to leave, Pratap's mother took seriously ill and he had to hospitalise her and take care of her. I told Pratap to reach Meerut by Thursday evening the latest.\nAs Pratap had not practiced for the last week, I had made up my mind to run the race. Pratap landed up in Meerut on his motorbike on Thursday evening. On Friday I showed him the route and told him to be stand-by.\nIn the evening we reached the Officers' Mess for dinner and all the young officers participating in the race were there. Seeing the senior Captains set to run the race, Lieutenant Atul Mishra wanted to know as to who amongst us was running the race. Pratap said that the person who woke up first woke up the other and the latter will run the race. Everyone believed it as the same was narrated by Atul after a decade.\nAfter the race, I received the trophy from the Brigade Commander and after a few minutes there was Pratap with his motorbike asking me to get on to the pillion. We rode off and as I was too tired, I hugged on to him and slept off. I woke up only on reaching our regimental location after over an hour of drive.\nWe handed over the trophy to Colonel Mahaveer, who appreciated us for the efforts and wanted to know where the rest of the team was. Pratap said \"Please do not come out with your clich\u00e9d question as to who is commanding the unit, I have ordered them to relax at Meerut for the next two days and also to visit the Nauchandi Mela\", Colonel Mahaveer passed his unique smile as a sign of approval for Pratap's actions.\nNauchandi Mela is held every year at Meerut in April-May. It is a rare symbol of communal harmony with Hindu and Muslim shrines \u2013 Nauchandi temple and the Dargah (shrine) of Muslim saint, Bala Mian. Visitors pay obeisance at both the shrines irrespective of the religion they belong to. The mela, which originally brought sellers and buyers of utensils and domestic animals together, now includes various kinds of goods, entertainment and food.\nColonel Mahaveer had a knack of delegation and had immense trust in all of us. He always encouraged the young officers to be decisive and whenever we goofed it up, he always held our hands and took the responsibility for our actions.\nCanada Captain Pratap Singh MVC Colonel Mahaveer Singh Cross Country Race Glider Dome Marathon Meerut National Defence Academy Nauchandi Mela NDA Sainik School Amaravathinagar Western Ghats","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Film Review \u2013 The Founder (2017)\nby Nick Kush \u00b7 Published January 22, 2017 \u00b7 Updated September 14, 2017\nIt's late at night and you want some cheap, fattening food to fuel your stomach after a night filled with questionable decisions. Where do you go? Possibly McDonald's! But as you eat that burger with questionable meat inside it at 2 a.m., have you ever wondered how McDonald's came to be? If so, The Founder may be the movie for you! The following review of said movie will be spoiler free so you can enjoy the movie for yourself.\nThe Founder is directed by John Lee Hancock and stars Michael Keaton as the mogul Ray Kroc as well as Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch as Dick and Mac McDonald.\nWe follow Ray Kroc as an over the hill man in his fifties who is struggling as a salesman in Illinois who meets two brothers (Dick and Mac) that run a burger joint in Southern California. Kroc sees potential in this new speedy system for a franchise opportunity with the McDonald brothers. However, the McDonald brothers quickly learn that they may have made a mistake by letting Ray Kroc have a piece of the pie.\nimage via iTunes Movie Trailers\nIt's no secret that McDonald's is one of the biggest franchises in the world today. It's reach is felt in countries like the United States to lesser known countries like Bosnia and Herzegovina. If any company deserves to have a movie made about how it came to be, that company is probably McDonald's. Whether you like it or not, McDonald's was a game changer for capitalism in America, and Ray Kroc was at the center of all of it.\nAnd what better man to put at the center of a movie than Michael Keaton? Similar to Matthew McConaughey's McConaissance, we've had a little \"Keatonssance\" the past couple years as we've seen him in Birdman and Spotlight in back to back years and we'll see him again in 2017 as the Vulture in Spider-Man: Homecoming. We've loved him for years, and it's really nice to see him in good movies once again.\nimage via The Athena Cinema\nHowever, while Michael Keaton shines as Ray Croc, The Founder, as a whole, falters.\nLet's start out with the positives. The acting, led by Michael Keaton, is pretty spot on all across the board. A couple standouts in supporting roles were both Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch as the McDonald brothers. They had a really nice sense of brotherhood together while also being able to receive a lot of sympathy later in the movie for what they deal with in Ray Kroc. But, for better or for worse (and I'll explain why later), Michael Keaton is the star of this movie. He's very dynamic onscreen to the point where, even if he's doing some pretty despicable things to people, you're still intrigued by him. It's undoubtedly fascinating to see how the food empire was built through his actions. I wouldn't be surprised if an Oscar nomination came his way.\nimage via MoviePilot\nWhat I Didn't Liked\nHowever, and I'm most likely in the minority when it comes to this movie (evident by the 82% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes), but The Founder falters from a fatally flawed story construction. The movie sets up with Ray Kroc as our main character. We first see him struggling to make a living selling contraptions to restaurants which gets us all behind him to start since he's so down on his luck. However, as the story proceeds, Kroc gets progressively worse as a character, chasing younger, married women while ripping off two genuinely nice characters in order to succeed, all the while acting like a jerk. How are we supposed to root for an nonredeemable character? What type of message does that send?\nimage via Australian Financial Review\nWe've seen an attempts before to follow a generally less than upstanding leading character in a movie. The Wolf of Wall Street with Jordan Belfort is a great example. He is definitely likable despite his flaws, but Belfort eventually gets his comeuppance for his fatal flaws and spends years in jail after years of success and later learns from his wrongdoings and attempts to help others.\nHowever, Ray Kroc has no arc other than becoming more and more ruthless and even despicable at times. Failing to give the audience a central character that is mostly likable can really detract from the overall enjoyment of the film. I'm not preaching for movies to have perfect characters at the center of the drama, but they need to have characters that have some redeeming qualities in them so that they can be forgiven for their less than stellar actions.\nimage via SONGS Publishing Music\nLike I mentioned before, the story of McDonald's should definitely be told, but I believe that The Founder would have been much more compelling as a story told from the viewpoint of the McDonald brothers so that we have someone to root for in an ultimately tragic story. We would also be able to appreciate Michael Keaton's performance much more in a true villain role.\nimage via Abu Dhabi\nThe Founder is solidly acted, nicely shot, but unfortunately not as engaging as it should be. The Founder gets a C. My opinion will definitely be in the minority, so if you feel compelled to learn more about the development of McDonald's then by all means go see this movie.\nThanks so much for reading! Have you seen The Founder? Comment down below with your thoughts!\nIf you enjoyed this article, please feel free to like, share, and subscribe!\nWhat should I discuss next? Whether it's old or new, the choice is up to you!\nTags: McDonald'sMichael KeatonMovie ReviewsMoviesOscar MoviesThe Founder\nNick Kush\nA current young professional in the greater D.C. area, Nick founded MovieBabble in October of 2016 and hasn't look back since! Nick is also a member of the Internet Film Critics Society and the Washington DC Film Critics Association. You can follow Nick on Twitter @nkush42\nNext story Star Wars: Episode VIII Titled 'The Last Jedi'\nPrevious story Film Review \u2013 xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)\nNice review. I've done so myself \ud83d\ude42\nhttps:\/\/moviesformysoul.com\/the-founder\/\nBirdman serving you a Big Mac\nthefilm.blog says:\nYou're not alone \u2013 I was surprised by the high RT rating! It's decent, but not great\nMovieBabble says:\nA lot of people I've talked to about it felt very \"meh\" as well. I guess the rotten tomatoes score comes from it being well made from a directing\/acting stand point\napynchofmadness says:\nGreat review !\nBut can we really question Kroc's character sketch given the fact that it was inspired by a real-life persona ? Also, the movie does give a lot to learn right ?\nIm totally fine with his portrayal by Michael Keaton, but, in my opinion, the construction of the movie made it so you should root for him as he's being a terrible person which didn't work well for me\nlamontage says:\nI'm going to check this out. McDonald's is surely an intriguing story of how it came to form. I've never thought twice who the founders were and it's almost blasphemy considering how much dotage I have for the plain old cheeseburger.\nLol there's certainly enough food montages to make your stomach growl!\nstevejdonahue says:\nConsidering the whole point of the McDonald brothers is that they stayed the same and never changed, making them the focus of the story would have been really boring. The movie needed to follow Ray Kroc for anything to actually happen. Definitely agree that the brothers are better and more likable characters than Kroc, but people would've complained about the movie being boring if we made them the main focus.\nI also don't know if I would consider having an unlikable lead character as a fatal flaw, even if the character doesn't get his \"comeuppance\".\nI won't argue with you disagreeing! Like I said in the review,I'm definitely in the minority when it comes to this movie.\nLol, well if you decide to disagree with me, and have some very valid points to bring up, you won't hurt my feelings!\nGreat review! I'm still surprised there was a story to tell here but I have to say, it does sound interesting. I'm looking forward to giving it a watch \ud83d\ude42\nDespite my mixed review for it, I still think it's a fascinating story to be told!\nmountaintopmoments says:\nThe Girl on the Train. That was my favorite book of all time. But the movie was slightly disappointing. But I would watch it again.\ncriticaloptimistblog says:\nNot sure why, but I really want to see this movie. 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{"text":"Our Favorite Nintendo E3 Booths, and the Best Deals on the eShop - NVC 512\nWelcome to Nintendo Voice Chat! Since there's no E3 happening this year, the NVC crew is here to take a trip down memory lane to discuss Nintendo's E3 booths from the last decade. Then, hear the best picks from the huge Switch eShop sale that's happening now. Plus, stick around to hear about more Nintendo accounts getting hacked, Zach's updated thoughts on Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition, and more. Finally, it's your questions answered on another round of Question Block.\nTimecodes!\n00:01:42 Nintendo's best E3 booth from the last decade\n00:15:00 The summer eShop sale!\n00:24:44 More news\nKnight Squad, out now, $14.99\nAncestors Legacy, 6\/11, $39.99\nProject Warlock, 6\/11, $14.99\nHouse Flipper, 6\/12, $24.99\nCasey: DDR\nPeer: Xenoblade Chronicles, Clubhouse Games, Bioshock\nZach: Xenoblade Chronicles\nIGN stands in solidarity with the Black community and condemns racism. If you want to help support the Black Lives Matter movement, we recommend donating directly to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Selecta\u021bi limba\nWelcome to the European AI Alliance platform!\nThe AI Alliance acts as a multi-stakeholder forum engaged in a broad and open discussion of all aspects of AI development and its impact on the economy and society.\nBy sharing your materials and views here, you are directly contributing to the European debate on AI, and thus helping the European Commission to inform its policymaking.\nUnder the section \"Blog\", you can find information on the Commission's work on AI. Your feedback will be solicited by experts or officials of the European Commission.\nUnder the section \"Forum\", you can raise AI-related topics and engage in open-ended peer discussions with other members of the European AI Alliance.\nUnder the section \"Documents\", a collection of public documents on AI can be found. These concern documents published by the European Commission or the Member States, as well as documents published by third countries and international organizations.\nThe \"Open library\", is a repository of all types of reports, papers, and other interesting documents on Artificial Intelligence which members of the European AI Alliance can add in order to share these with other members. You can either upload a document or share its link. Don't forget to mention the correct source!\nFinally, the section \"Events\", provides an overview of the upcoming meetings and events on AI. These can be closed events, open events, or webinars. You are able to add relevant events on AI, however, the platform moderators will ensure their relevance to the Alliance.\nWe are happy to welcome you to the European AI Alliance and look forward to discussing Europe & AI with you!\nPS. Please be aware that there is an up to 30 min delay in publishing your contributions on the platform due to secure hosting procedures and performance optimisation issues.\nAcest site este administrat de Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology\nSemnala\u021bi o problem\u0103\nSite-ul Comisiei Europene\nResurse pentru parteneri\nModulele cookie\nNu mai ar\u0103ta din nou OK","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"GHE artist Amy Speace was on Judy Collins' Wildflower Records label during my tenture at GHE, and NPR has compared her to a young Lucinda Williams. \"Amy Speace channels the classics,\" writes Billboard Magazine of her latest release \"That Kind Of Girl\". Jon Pareles of The New York Times described the record as \"grace over drama\"\n\u200bAs an associate manager at Grassy Hill Entertainment I planned and facilitated the career development of our small but mighty roster.\nUnder my care we grew our audience from 150 to 8,000+. I personally designed and implemented digital and direct marketing campaigns at a time when the industry was changing incredibly rapidly.\nI booked shows, updated and maintained our databases, and produced our company presence at industry events like SXSW and Folk Alliance. I was the point person for tour dates, and I road-managed 12-city tour of UK with a suitcase full of CDs. As a result I now know how to drive stick on the \"wrong\" side of the road.\nPOWERUP: Getting it done!\nGHE roster member and Richie Havens sideman, Walter Parks\nThe Wildflower Records showcase at SXSW featuring Amy Speace","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"FEMKE Magazine\nFEMKE Store\nWatch Moscow Apartment sing live, at Burdock\nFemke Magazine, Volume 1: New Voices\nProfile: I, Tanya\nMusician, artist and, now, author Tanya Tagaq is using this moment to both use and protect her voice.\nBy Amber Nasrulla\n\u2013 originally published in Femke Magazine, Volume 1: New Voices, Fall\/Winter 2018\nToday, when I meet Tanya Tagaq, the world's most famous throat singer, she's dressed like a 1950s housewife. Her hair is in a high ponytail and she's wearing an A-line black and green patterned dress. She says hello in her familiar-from-TV-interviews whisper\/coo \u2014 call it a \"whiscoo.\"\nIt's hours before her outdoor performance at the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival and she's at a picnic table backstage with violinist Jesse Zubot, her long-time producer, and Jean Martin, a percussionist and long-time collaborator. On social media, she calls them \"brothers.\" Singer Mari Boine, a renowned representative of the Arctic S\u00e1mi tradition from the Finnish-Norwegian border, is also there. The Tagaq-Boine performance will \"celebrate the circumpolar region of our world,\" notes the festival's program guide.\nIt's muggy, and when the sky rips open we all dash to a dressing room trailer. I speak to Zubot and Martin while Tagaq stretches out on a sofa. \"I'm sitting here because it's raining outside,\" she says. \"I'm trying not to talk. It's not my interview.\" (We're scheduled to chat the next day.) A large diamond on her ring finger glitters as she scrolls through Twitter and Instagram. \"I got a Tweet from a guy who wants an apology. If I was PMS-ing, I would have to think hard about what I want to say to him.\" The conversation was about a not-guilty verdict for a military reservist from Hamilton in the fatal shooting of Jon Styres, an unarmed First Nations man.\nTagaq, who is from Iqaluktuutiaq (Cambridge Bay) \u2014 population, approximately 1,700 \u2014 a remote Inuit town in Nunavut, says what she wants to the press and on social media. The 43-year-old Inuk activist and mother of two girls frequently highlights Inuit rights, the plight of missing and murdered Indigenous women and the horrors of colonization. To wit, an early-July Tweet from Tagaq: \"Stop telling me to quit eating meat. Stop calling me a murderer. Leave Inuit alone. Give the land back. It's stolen. Poverty is forced. PSA.\"\nShe has used her voice \u2014 physically and metaphorically \u2014 right from the start of her career, when she reinvented the genre of throat singing. Traditionally a vocal game between two women, throat singing is performed solo by Tagaq and in an experimental style blending electronic, classical, punk and rock music. For someone so vocal with her opinions, her music is the opposite. She rarely includes lyrics, and yet her albums convey volumes through songs like \"Rape Me\" and \"Fracking.\"\nThe Guardian in the U.K. describes Tagaq as \"the polar punk who makes Bj\u00f6rk sound tame.\" Her album Animism won the 2014 Polaris Music Prize, beating out both Drake and Arcade Fire and, by all accounts, she is thrilled that Animism won as Spiritual Recording of the Year in 2015 at the Western Canadian Music Awards. To date, she has released five albums and collaborated with numerous artists, like Buffy Sainte-Marie, July Talk and the Kronos Quartet.\nI admire how Tagaq says what she feels and doesn't seem to fear repercussion. My own family immigrated to Canada from a colonized country and we tend to be polite even when mistreated because we're guests in this land. I yearn for Tagaq's strength. It will be a gift to observe her creativity up close. We're booked to chat about her first book, Split Tooth (Penguin Random House), due out later this month. I also want to talk about topics that are difficult but necessary to tackle, such as Indigenous rights \u2014 topics she has introduced to global audiences. I want to discuss the power of the female voice and what she wants to accomplish next.\nIn Split Tooth, her voice alternates between poetic and startlingly childlike. There are stories of abuse, drug use and teen pregnancy. Like an Annie Pootoogook drawing come to life, there is hunger, boredom and sex. This intimate book springs from dark experiences.\nTagaq is a natural storyteller, her observations sharp and funny as she illustrates her deep knowledge and abiding love of the land. In chapter 3 of Split Tooth, she writes: \"The mosquito larvae swirl in their figure eights, hypnotizing and beautiful. A stark contrast to what they will be in a few days, when their metamorphosis turns them into the cyclone of bloodthirst. I am certain that if I ever had the opportunity to torture an enemy, they would find themselves naked on the tundra in mosquito season, with their hands tied behind their back.\" There are also mystical moments, such as when the northern lights descend. I won't share the ending except to say I sobbed when I read it. Split Tooth is not for young adults. I believe that Tagaq has the power to share her ideas through any artistic medium \u2014 book, song, social media, album or collaboration.\nSo, where will Tagaq go next? \"Wherever she wants,\" says Steve Jordan, founder and executive director of the Polaris Music Prize. \"She seems to inhabit so many lives in her recordings and performances that I could see her acting to great effect. She's really an example to everyone that just being your uncompromising self is the way to true artistic power. It can be a much more difficult journey, but the rewards are more lasting and fulfilling.\"\nOn another front, Zubot reports on his work in the recording studio and how he's been incorporating hip hop and drum beats into the music. \"We've been talking lately about getting into more repetitive grooves because that's actually very connected to a lot of throat singing. If you listen to the traditional [throat singing], it's very rhythmic.\"\nWhen you watch Tagaq perform, you don't experience a typical rock 'n' roll show. But consider this. She was hailed by Rolling Stone magazine as \"one of today's most electric, transfixing performers in any genre.\" In a phone call from Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, her friend and fellow throat singer, Kathleen Merritt, describes being transfixed the first time she saw Tagaq perform at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto. \"Tanya tells a story and you are transported every time. It is different for everyone.\"\nHere in Ottawa, at the start of her show, Tagaq tells the audience she is a creator, not an interpreter. Her band improvises because she likes the authenticity of each instant as time passes. That said, however, she says, \"It might seem like we've argued for an hour.\" After a beat, she deadpans, \"There are two exits.\" Laughter ripples through the crowd.\nThe set begins with Tagaq and Boine humming and Martin monitoring Tagaq's cues. He drums softly, and 10 minutes later he is bashing away. \"It's like having a conversation with three people,\" Martin explains. \"We leave space for the other person, acknowledge the other person, and we react to the other person. The performance is one piece of art.\"\nMartin's drums and Zubot's violin produce melancholy sounds. Tagaq's voice susurates, soars and roars. It is audible fire. A woman seated nearby is in tears.\nThe next morning, I get a text from Tagaq's PR coordinator. Tagaq is \"still playing catch-up\" after her recent tour in Tasmania, I'm told, and my interview will have to wait \"until she's had the necessary decompression she needs.\" A week later, the PR person alerts me to expect a Skype or phone interview when Tagaq arrives in Yellowknife. I don't hear from anyone again.\nOn Instagram, I see that Tagaq has posted photos of her family fishing, and in one of them she's grinning, clad in head-to-toe camouflage. Another picture shows ice spanning as far as the horizon. It's captioned: \"There's no place like home.\"\nTagaq likes to communicate with fans through social media, and she's great at it, but she's also experimenting with older platforms. Later this year she'll release an audiobook of Split Tooth, reading and singing the passages herself. Indie label Six Shooter Records is also releasing a vinyl version.\nIt's disappointing that I didn't get the chance to have that anticipated great conversation, but still, I've begun to understand why Tagaq does what she does. As she writes in Split Tooth, \"We are the land, same molecules, and same atoms. The land is our salvation\u2026. Ice will crack, blood will flow. Sun in ice. Ice in lung.\"\nFemke Lunchbag Reader - Giant by Aga Maksimowska, postage included\nFemke Magazine - Fall\/Winter 2018, sold on newsstands until February 28, 2019, postage included\nMore Femke Magazine, Volume 1: New Voices\nFrom Moscow, With Love: Brighid Fry and Pascale Padilla, the sounds of Moscow Apartment\nQ&A: Dominique Del Col, botanical alchemist and creator of Wildwood herbal products\nChering: Thoughts on the Dark Lady and how she came into our lives\nMigration Story: Why novelist Aga Maksimowska revisits her Giant\nSupport publishing in Canada\nMake a donation to FEMKE\n\u00a9 2023 Femke Magazine\nFemke Magazine is published in Canada\nby Femke Magazine Inc.\nContact: hello@femkemagazine.com\nhello@femkemagazine.com\nWant to submit to Femke Magazine? Read this first! Click here to link to our guidelines","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Fri, Mar 10, 2017 page1\nMinistry mulls correctional facility reform\nThe Ministry of Justice yesterday said that it was considering changes to prison policies, especially those regarding inmates' families, to better rehabilitate prisoners and facilitate their reintegration into society after their release or parole.\nThe possible reforms include changes to prison facilities, making the parole process more transparent, introducing familial support, increasing the number of rehabilitation volunteers and helping inmates gain skill certificates, Minister of Justice Chiu Tai-san (\u90b1\u592a\u4e09).\nAgency of Corrections Director Huang Chun-tang (\u9ec3\u4fca\u68e0) said overcrowding in prisons would be addressed by expansion projects for Taipei Prison, Taoyuan Prison, Second Yunlin Prison and Bade Prison in Taoyuan.\nMinister of Justice Chiu Tai-san yesterday smiles at a news conference at the Ministry of Justice in Taipei after he announced outlined the ministry's plans for prison reform.\nPhoto: Chien Lee-chung, Taipei Times\nThe expansions are to accommodate a total of 4,755 prisoners in 2.31m2 cells with individual beds, he said.\nTaipei Prison has 51 cellblocks, each about 19m2 to 26m2, meaning that with 16 inmates per block, each prisoner has only 1.65m2 of space, Huang said.\nThe expansion projects aim to eliminate overcrowding in prisons for at least four years, Chiu said.\nMore volunteers would be sought to carry out and improve the efficiency of individual and group rehabilitation efforts, the Ministry of Justice said.\nIn an effort to maintain familial relations \u2014 a key component to aid the reintegration of inmates into society \u2014 the ministry is to launch a project in which prisoners record stories for their children aged six or younger, it said.\nThe recordings would be made available for inmates' family members and social welfare groups to help children cope with their fathers not being present, the ministry said, adding that the program would later be expanded to female inmates.\nA number of academics and experts have been consulted in the drafting of new parole approval criteria, Chiu said.\nThe severity of the crime, the risk of an inmate repeating the offense and their attitude and performance during imprisonment are to be factors taken into consideration when parole applications are reviewed, he said.\nThe ministry said it is considering turning the current review method \u2014 in which victims and general members of the public are asked to review parole applications \u2014 into an alternative process, in which victims and social representatives would be asked to weigh in on applications via telephone or video conference.\nThe ministry is to allocate NT$70 million (US$2.3 million) annually to the corrections agency to have companies and organizations, such as Formosa Plastics Group (\u53f0\u5851\u96c6\u5718) or Rotary International, offer courses at the prison or at alternative locations, it said.\nThe courses would cover more than 26 specialties, including stacker operation, baking, carpentry, pottery, electrical wiring and digital drawing, to teach inmates skills they could use to find employment upon their release or parole, the ministry said.\nCorrectional facilities must not only render just punishment to those who have broken the law, but also proactively re-educate them and ensure their smooth reintegration into society, Chiu said.\nPAPERS, PLEASE: A digital certificate or a printout would return one of three results: green for 'pass,' red for 'not passed' or yellow for 'to be determined,' the CECC said Starting today, people can download a Digital COVID-19 Certificate, with the government now requiring people at night clubs, karaoke bars and other businesses in \"eight major special establishment categories\" to be fully vaccinated and present a vaccination certificate. The eight categories include dance venues, massage parlors, hostess bars and saunas. Customers and service personnel at the venues have a higher risk of contracting COVID-19, as they can neither avoid contact with people nor strictly observe distancing guidelines, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said. As such, both groups are required to be fully vaccinated, meaning that they must have had at least a\nBy Shelley Shan\nPROTECTION: The New Taipei City mayor said a pass could cover stores, but not eateries, while Ko Wen-je said vaccinated people could be exempted from some rules Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (\u67ef\u6587\u54f2) and New Taipei City Mayor Hou You-yi (\u4faf\u53cb\u5b9c) on Saturday proposed implementing a \"COVID-19 pass\" regulation that would allow only vaccinated people into certain areas. New Taipei City is planning to require a \"COVID-19 pass\" for entry to \"vulnerable spaces\" to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Hou said. Non-students entering elementary schools in New Taipei City are required to show their COVID-19 vaccination cards or proof of a recent negative COVID-19 test. This is for the protection of students under the age of 12, who are not eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, city officials have said. The\nLAWMAKERS RALLY: Beijing's unlegislated actions breach international and WTO trade rules, and affect the basic principles of the EU single market, the letter said A group of 41 EU lawmakers on Tuesday condemned China for its political and economic coercion of Lithuania, and called on leaders of the bloc to demonstrate solidarity with Vilnius. The letter was initiated by Slovakian Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Miriam Lexmann, who is cochair of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China. \"We, the undersigned members of the European Parliament, resolutely condemn political and economic coercion of the People's Republic of China's (PRC) against Lithuania,\" the letter said. The letter addressed European Council President Charles Michel, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and\nBy Lin Chia-nan\nSlovenia to establish office in Taiwan\n'GOOD FRIEND': The Slovenian prime minister said he had visited Taiwan four or five times, and that Taiwanese should have the right to determine their future The Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday welcomed Slovenia's plan to establish a representative office in Taiwan, after Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa revealed the plan in an interview with Indian TV station Doordarshan on Monday. Taiwan is a democratic country that respects international democratic standards and international laws, the Slovenian prime minister said in the interview. Slovenia and Taiwan are working on \"exchanging representatives,\" he said. \"Of course, this will not be on the level of embassies. It will be on the same level as many of the EU member countries.\" \"When I spoke with our businessmen who are trading with Taiwan, they","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home . Attorneys . Steve Elder\nselder@elderbray.com\nThe University of Texas School of Law, J.D., with Honors, 1990\nUniversity of Notre Dame, B.B.A. (Accounting), with Honors, 1986\nCertified Public Accountant in Texas (inactive), 1994\nCox Smith Matthews -San Antonio (1990-2012) Shareholder (1997-2012) and Corporate Department Leader (2002-2011)\nSt. Mary's Adjunct Professor \u2013 \"Mergers & Acquisitions\", 2013\n2012 Outstanding Lawyer in Corporate and Securities \u2013 San Antonio Business Journal\nElder Bray & Bankler Founding Shareholder \u2013 2012\nS.A. Scene, \"San Antonio's Best Lawyers- Business and Corporate\nLawyer of the Year, Corporate Law and Business Organizations (LLC's & Partnerships) in San Antonio \u2013 2019\nSteve's practice focuses on representing high-growth and well-established companies in the operation of their businesses, raising capital through private offerings and buying and selling companies and assets.\nSteve has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, representing both private and public companies throughout the U.S. in buying and selling companies. He has also assisted clients in creating joint ventures and partnerships in numerous industries \u2013 including energy, healthcare, and telecommunications. Steve's securities practice includes private placement of equity securities for high-growth businesses and advising Fortune 100 clients on strategic equity investments in connection with commercial relationships. He has also assisted in the complicated division of personal and business assets between spouses. Steve's experience earned him top honors by the San Antonio Business Journal as the Outstanding Lawyer in Corporate & Securities in 2012.\nBusiness Separations\nRepresentation of technology company in multiple acquisitions and sales transactions ranging from $5M to $800M.\nCounseled a public company in its $425M strategic acquisition of convenience stores and related fuel and food distribution businesses.\nRepresented a Fortune 500 media conglomerate in the sale and leaseback of approximately $400M of operating assets.\nAdvised a leading international media and entertainment company in its sale-leaseback transaction of tower properties.\nRepresented a leading international telecommunications company in its acquisition of a company with the technology to enable remote monitoring by homeowners of security, energy consumption, and digital media across multiple devices via a web interface.\nCounseled two related emerging growth pharmaceutical companies in the equity sale to a strategic buyer in Australia. The transaction involved complex earn-out milestones valued at a combined $270M+ over nine years.\nRepresentation of nation's third largest optical retailer in sale of the company to a non-profit insurance company.\nCounseled nation's third largest optical retailer in multiple strategic acquisitions.\nAdvised a leading international elevator service company in acquisition of multiple strategic targets.\nRepresented a regional private equity fund in its acquisition of an environmental engineering firm.\nRepresentation of a regional ambulance company in its joint venture with a national ambulance service provider to provide management services to hospital-based ambulance services.\nCounseled the owner of a privately held aircraft interior refurbishing company in the sale of substantially all of its assets to a national leader in aircraft interior products.\nRepresented a leading international publicly-traded telecommunications company in a joint venture with an Israeli based company to provide satellite television in vehicles.\nAdvised a multinational publicly-traded energy company in connection with joint venture to acquire and process biomass feedstock into cellulosic biofuel.\nCounseled a multinational publicly-traded energy company in the joint venture to build and operate an oil pipeline and related facilities in the Gulf of Mexico.\nRepresented a regional ambulance company in its joint venture with a national ambulance service provider to provide management services to hospital-based ambulance services.\nBusiness Separation\nRepresented a spouse in connection with significant division of community assets, including ownership interest in large energy firm.\nCounseled an emerging growth electricity reliability service company through multiple rounds of debt and equity financings.\nAdvised a management buy-out group in raising equity to acquire San Antonio division of national homebuilding company.\nRepresentation of a leading international telecommunications company in its equity investments in multiple new ventures","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cloning, expression, and one-step purification\/immobilization of two carbohydrate-binding module-tagged alcohol dehydrogenases\nMario Benito, Ram\u00f3n Rom\u00e1n, Garazi Ortiz, Antoni Casablancas, Gregorio \u00c1lvaro, Gloria Caminal, Gloria Gonz\u00e1lez*, Marina Guill\u00e9n\nDepartment of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering\nEnginyeria de Bioprocessos i Biocat\u00e0lisi Aplicada. (ENG4BIO)\nInstitut de Qu\u00edmica Avan\u00e7ada de Catalunya (IQAC)\nBackground: The feasibility of biochemical transformation processes is usually greatly dependent on biocatalysts cost. Therefore, immobilizing and reusing biocatalysts is an approach to be considered to bring biotransformations closer to industrial feasibility, since it does not only allow to reuse enzymes but can also improve their stability towards several reaction conditions. Carbohydrate-Binding Modules (CBM) are well-described domains involved in substrate binding which have been already used as purification tags. Results: In this work, two different Carbohydrate-Binding Modules (CBM3 and CBM9) have been successfully fused to an alcohol dehydrogenase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which has been produced in bench-scale reactor using an auxotrophic M15-derived E. coli strain, following a fed-batch strategy with antibiotic-free medium. Around 40 mg\u00b7g\u2212 1 DCW of both fusion proteins were produced, with a specific activity of > 65 AU\u00b7mg\u2212 1. Overexpressed proteins were bound to a low-cost and highly selective cellulosic support by one-step immobilization\/purification process at > 98% yield, retaining about a 90% of initial activity. Finally, the same support was also used for protein purification, aiming to establish an alternative to metal affinity chromatography, by which CBM9 tag proved to be useful, with a recovery yield of > 97% and 5-fold increased purity grade. Conclusion: CBM domains were proved to be suitable for one-step immobilization\/purification process, retaining almost total activity offered. However, purification process was only successful with CBM9.\nJournal of Biological Engineering\nPublished - 28 Jun 2022\nCarbohydrate-binding module\nOne-step immobilization\/purification\nRegenerated amorphous cellulose\n10.1186\/s13036-022-00295-8Licence: CC BY\nhttps:\/\/www.mendeley.com\/catalogue\/27ad3f56-1ae3-3c6b-84c9-e31065d9dc19\/\nDive into the research topics of 'Cloning, expression, and one-step purification\/immobilization of two carbohydrate-binding module-tagged alcohol dehydrogenases'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.\nPurification Chemistry 100%\nImmobilization Chemistry 100%\nCopurification Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 83%\nCarbohydrate Chemistry 66%\nCarbohydrate-Binding Module Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 66%\nProtein Chemistry 50%\nBiocatalyst Chemistry 33%\nReaction Yield Chemistry 33%\nBenito, M., Rom\u00e1n, R., Ortiz, G., Casablancas, A., \u00c1lvaro, G., Caminal, G., Gonz\u00e1lez, G., & Guill\u00e9n, M. (2022). Cloning, expression, and one-step purification\/immobilization of two carbohydrate-binding module-tagged alcohol dehydrogenases. Journal of Biological Engineering, 16(1), [16]. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13036-022-00295-8\nBenito, Mario ; Rom\u00e1n, Ram\u00f3n ; Ortiz, Garazi et al. \/ Cloning, expression, and one-step purification\/immobilization of two carbohydrate-binding module-tagged alcohol dehydrogenases. In: Journal of Biological Engineering. 2022 ; Vol. 16, No. 1.\n@article{ec84ead535954b828655d5279061c480,\ntitle = \"Cloning, expression, and one-step purification\/immobilization of two carbohydrate-binding module-tagged alcohol dehydrogenases\",\nabstract = \"Background: The feasibility of biochemical transformation processes is usually greatly dependent on biocatalysts cost. Therefore, immobilizing and reusing biocatalysts is an approach to be considered to bring biotransformations closer to industrial feasibility, since it does not only allow to reuse enzymes but can also improve their stability towards several reaction conditions. Carbohydrate-Binding Modules (CBM) are well-described domains involved in substrate binding which have been already used as purification tags. Results: In this work, two different Carbohydrate-Binding Modules (CBM3 and CBM9) have been successfully fused to an alcohol dehydrogenase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which has been produced in bench-scale reactor using an auxotrophic M15-derived E. coli strain, following a fed-batch strategy with antibiotic-free medium. Around 40 mg\u00b7g\u2212 1 DCW of both fusion proteins were produced, with a specific activity of > 65 AU\u00b7mg\u2212 1. Overexpressed proteins were bound to a low-cost and highly selective cellulosic support by one-step immobilization\/purification process at > 98% yield, retaining about a 90% of initial activity. Finally, the same support was also used for protein purification, aiming to establish an alternative to metal affinity chromatography, by which CBM9 tag proved to be useful, with a recovery yield of > 97% and 5-fold increased purity grade. Conclusion: CBM domains were proved to be suitable for one-step immobilization\/purification process, retaining almost total activity offered. However, purification process was only successful with CBM9.\",\nkeywords = \"Alcohol dehydrogenase, Carbohydrate-binding module, Escherichia coli, One-step immobilization\/purification, Regenerated amorphous cellulose\",\nauthor = \"Mario Benito and Ram{\\'o}n Rom{\\'a}n and Garazi Ortiz and Antoni Casablancas and Gregorio {\\'A}lvaro and Gloria Caminal and Gloria Gonz{\\'a}lez and Marina Guill{\\'e}n\",\nnote = \"Publisher Copyright: {\\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s).\",\njournal = \"Journal of Biological Engineering\",\nBenito, M, Rom\u00e1n, R, Ortiz, G, Casablancas, A, \u00c1lvaro, G, Caminal, G, Gonz\u00e1lez, G & Guill\u00e9n, M 2022, 'Cloning, expression, and one-step purification\/immobilization of two carbohydrate-binding module-tagged alcohol dehydrogenases', Journal of Biological Engineering, vol. 16, no. 1, 16. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13036-022-00295-8\nCloning, expression, and one-step purification\/immobilization of two carbohydrate-binding module-tagged alcohol dehydrogenases. \/ Benito, Mario; Rom\u00e1n, Ram\u00f3n; Ortiz, Garazi et al.\nIn: Journal of Biological Engineering, Vol. 16, No. 1, 16, 28.06.2022.\nT1 - Cloning, expression, and one-step purification\/immobilization of two carbohydrate-binding module-tagged alcohol dehydrogenases\nAU - Benito, Mario\nAU - Rom\u00e1n, Ram\u00f3n\nAU - Ortiz, Garazi\nAU - Casablancas, Antoni\nAU - \u00c1lvaro, Gregorio\nAU - Caminal, Gloria\nAU - Gonz\u00e1lez, Gloria\nAU - Guill\u00e9n, Marina\nN1 - Publisher Copyright: \u00a9 2022, The Author(s).\nN2 - Background: The feasibility of biochemical transformation processes is usually greatly dependent on biocatalysts cost. Therefore, immobilizing and reusing biocatalysts is an approach to be considered to bring biotransformations closer to industrial feasibility, since it does not only allow to reuse enzymes but can also improve their stability towards several reaction conditions. Carbohydrate-Binding Modules (CBM) are well-described domains involved in substrate binding which have been already used as purification tags. Results: In this work, two different Carbohydrate-Binding Modules (CBM3 and CBM9) have been successfully fused to an alcohol dehydrogenase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which has been produced in bench-scale reactor using an auxotrophic M15-derived E. coli strain, following a fed-batch strategy with antibiotic-free medium. Around 40 mg\u00b7g\u2212 1 DCW of both fusion proteins were produced, with a specific activity of > 65 AU\u00b7mg\u2212 1. Overexpressed proteins were bound to a low-cost and highly selective cellulosic support by one-step immobilization\/purification process at > 98% yield, retaining about a 90% of initial activity. Finally, the same support was also used for protein purification, aiming to establish an alternative to metal affinity chromatography, by which CBM9 tag proved to be useful, with a recovery yield of > 97% and 5-fold increased purity grade. Conclusion: CBM domains were proved to be suitable for one-step immobilization\/purification process, retaining almost total activity offered. However, purification process was only successful with CBM9.\nAB - Background: The feasibility of biochemical transformation processes is usually greatly dependent on biocatalysts cost. Therefore, immobilizing and reusing biocatalysts is an approach to be considered to bring biotransformations closer to industrial feasibility, since it does not only allow to reuse enzymes but can also improve their stability towards several reaction conditions. Carbohydrate-Binding Modules (CBM) are well-described domains involved in substrate binding which have been already used as purification tags. Results: In this work, two different Carbohydrate-Binding Modules (CBM3 and CBM9) have been successfully fused to an alcohol dehydrogenase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which has been produced in bench-scale reactor using an auxotrophic M15-derived E. coli strain, following a fed-batch strategy with antibiotic-free medium. Around 40 mg\u00b7g\u2212 1 DCW of both fusion proteins were produced, with a specific activity of > 65 AU\u00b7mg\u2212 1. Overexpressed proteins were bound to a low-cost and highly selective cellulosic support by one-step immobilization\/purification process at > 98% yield, retaining about a 90% of initial activity. Finally, the same support was also used for protein purification, aiming to establish an alternative to metal affinity chromatography, by which CBM9 tag proved to be useful, with a recovery yield of > 97% and 5-fold increased purity grade. Conclusion: CBM domains were proved to be suitable for one-step immobilization\/purification process, retaining almost total activity offered. However, purification process was only successful with CBM9.\nKW - Alcohol dehydrogenase\nKW - Carbohydrate-binding module\nKW - Escherichia coli\nKW - One-step immobilization\/purification\nKW - Regenerated amorphous cellulose\nUR - https:\/\/www.mendeley.com\/catalogue\/27ad3f56-1ae3-3c6b-84c9-e31065d9dc19\/\nJO - Journal of Biological Engineering\nJF - Journal of Biological Engineering\nBenito M, Rom\u00e1n R, Ortiz G, Casablancas A, \u00c1lvaro G, Caminal G et al. Cloning, expression, and one-step purification\/immobilization of two carbohydrate-binding module-tagged alcohol dehydrogenases. Journal of Biological Engineering. 2022 Jun 28;16(1):16. doi: 10.1186\/s13036-022-00295-8","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Build Back Better: Business and Human Rights\nJose Augusto Caedo\n\u00a9 FNF Philippines\n\"The primary responsibility to respect human rights rests on states,\" said Focal Commissioner on Business and Human Rights of the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines, Commissioner Roberto Cadiz as he discussed the United Nation's Guiding Principles on BHR.\nThe Friedrich Naumann Foundation Philippines hosted a parallel session on Business and Human Rights on Thursday, November 11, 2021, as part of the 59th Annual Conference of the Philippine Economic Society.\nFour stories concerning human rights in business, written by four journalist scholars of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation Southeast and East Asia Journalism Training Program were featured in this event.\nWho peels your garlic: Inside Manila's informal economy\nBy Geela Garcia\nIn Metro Manila, all sorts of low-income jobs are springing up across the city. With the economy faltering during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Filipino people were forced to take up odd and low-paying jobs. One of these jobs is the garlic peelers of Baseco, women from a community with some of the worst living conditions known to the country. Geela Garcia covered the story, placing her focus on the life of Marites Arendain. Making a measly US$1.60 a day for a whole bag of garlic, she can hardly buy enough food to feed her family. With the smuggled products coming straight from the port area, this gray market is highly in demand because of the low labor cost amongst residents of Baseco.\nWhile conditions in the Baseco area are not looking any more optimistic, Ms. Garcia was pleased to report that people expressed interest in helping after reading her article. With the powerful impact of her journalism, she exposes the deep and underlying problems on the darker side of Metropolitan Manila.\nSingapore: A Solution to maid abuse?\nBy Rachel Genevieve Chia\nGlobal migration is a modern-day trend that sees people move to new countries to pursue work, education, or a better life. In the case of Rachel Genevieve Chia's article, she tackles the striking reality of the job market in Singapore for young and aspiring workers. She sets her sights on Poe Ei San, a 25-year-old Burmese migrant looking to be a nurse in the bustling city of Singapore. Poe was unlucky to find a job as a nurse but then found work as a home cleaner.\nThe issue in Singapore is the rising number of abuse complaints by domestic helpers who work under households in the country. However, through formalizing domestic work as a job, Poe was able to receive benefits and a higher salary, thanks to the Singapore government's initiative. Ms. Chia's article garnered attention and hoped that people's lives could improve through government policies that protect workers and their rights.\nChildren of the deep: Child Labor in the Philippines has sunk even lower to uncharted depths\nBy Marielle Lucenio\nCOVID-19 has affected everyone but those under the poverty line significantly feel the effects. In the region of Camarines Norte, Philippines lies small-scale mining areas, which are reported to be frequented by child labor. Hooked up to a generator and an oxygen hose, children dive up to forty feet under the ground looking for gold. The darkness under the muddy water is a working condition that not even adults should be exposed to, but these children brave it to bring food home to their families.\nMarielle Lucenio reports that an increasing number of children are entering this dangerous and illegal trade, and nothing much is being done to stop it. According to Ms. Lucenio, the pandemic has pushed back to zero anti-child labor efforts of national and local government, non-government organizations and communities. Through her article, she hopes to focus the lenses on this long fight against child labor.\nNew law on sexual harassment in the workplace in Vietnam: Significant but insufficient\nBy Trang Vu\nIn Vietnam, an Amended Labor Code including a clear definition of sexual harassment for the first time is a welcome step to protect women in the workplace from sexual harassment. However, Vietnamese companies are not mentally and technically ready to fully adopt the law. Trang Vu's article exposes the harsh realities of sexual harassment in the workplace.\nWhile both men and women prefer to stay silent instead of speaking out against their superiors and potentially losing their jobs, this article by Ms. Vu sparks a discussion and hopes to trigger an action within the public and private sector.\nAt this point you will find an external content that complements the content. You can display it with one click.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"WikiEN-l November 2011\n----- 2023 ----- January 2023 ----- 2022 ----- December 2022 November 2022 October 2022 September 2022 August 2022 July 2022 June 2022 May 2022 April 2022 March 2022 February 2022 January 2022 ----- 2021 ----- December 2021 November 2021 October 2021 September 2021 August 2021 July 2021 June 2021 May 2021 April 2021 March 2021 February 2021 January 2021 ----- 2020 ----- December 2020 November 2020 October 2020 September 2020 August 2020 July 2020 June 2020 May 2020 April 2020 March 2020 February 2020 January 2020 ----- 2019 ----- December 2019 November 2019 October 2019 September 2019 August 2019 July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 ----- 2018 ----- December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 January 2018 ----- 2017 ----- December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 ----- 2016 ----- December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 ----- 2015 ----- December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 ----- 2014 ----- December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 ----- 2013 ----- December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 ----- 2012 ----- December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 ----- 2011 ----- December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 ----- 2010 ----- December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 ----- 2009 ----- December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 ----- 2008 ----- December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 ----- 2007 ----- December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 ----- 2006 ----- December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 ----- 2005 ----- December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 ----- 2004 ----- December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 ----- 2003 ----- December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 July 2003 June 2003 May 2003 April 2003 March 2003 February 2003 January 2003 ----- 2002 ----- December 2002 November 2002 October 2002 September 2002 August 2002 July 2002 June 2002 May 2002 April 2002 March 2002 February 2002 January 2002 ----- 2001 ----- December 2001 November 2001 October 2001 September 2001\nwikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org\nLinkage bloat\nby Carcharoth\nIs there any chance for progress to be made on this? I recently ran into this problem again at a featured article candidate I was reviewing. It is has a very worthy 'National Historic Landmarks' set of templates at the bottom, but unfortunately this leads to massive template linkage bloat. Of the over 100 articles that link to this article, I estimate that only three links are from within the text of other articles - the rest are from the templates. If I had been able to see at a glance that this article was linked from two other articles, I would have been able to make a suggestion to link back to those articles, and maybe link from other articles. As it was, I was unable to do this and this caused some problems (which it is best not to go into here). So is there anyway to encourage or help with whatever needs to be done here? Carcharoth On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:10 AM, David Goodman <dggenwp(a)gmail.com> wrote: > agreed. The footer templates are the biggest source of linkage bloat. > the templates are useful, and we need some way of keeping track of > what should be in them when we add or delete articles, but they make > working with what links here for any practical purpose extremely > difficult. They'd be much more helpful if they were separated. > > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: >>> On 07\/02\/11 10:56, Carcharoth wrote: >>>> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Magnus Manske >>>> <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Many of these links are due to templates, which I can do little about. >>>> >>>> Can *anyone*, even in principle, do something about that? It really >>>> bugs me that the \"what links here\" function doesn't distinguish >>>> between links arising from templates (often not directly relevant) and >>>> links directly from the article wiki-text. If the answer is something >>>> to do with parsers, please do explain! >>> >>> Yes, it's possible. It was necessary to register links from templates >>> in the pagelinks table so that when a page is deleted or created, the >>> HTML caches can be updated so that the link colour will change. With a >>> schema change and some parser work, it would be possible to flag such >>> links so that they are optional in \"what links here\". >> >> That would be wonderful. It might even get me to create a bugzilla >> account to vote for a bug if there is one open on this...(of course, >> one problem is still that some templates are relevant to article >> content and some are not - the ones that generate distracting links >> are the navigational ones that tend to be at the bottom of pages, the >> footer templates - and I'm not sure if infobox links would count as >> template links or not - they are generated from parsing of a template >> parameter, but don't appear in the template itself, unlike the footer >> navboxes). >> >> [In case anyone is confused, an example is the massive footer >> templates that can lead to Nobel prize winners decades apart linking >> to each other, or diverse topics within a broad area linking to each >> other, though only through templates and not in the text. Oh, and some >> links appear in both footer templates, infoboxes, and the article >> 'text'. Not sure how that is handled.] >> >> Carcharoth >> >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https:\/\/lists.wikimedia.org\/mailman\/listinfo\/wikien-l >> > -- > David Goodman > > DGG at the enWP > http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/User:DGG > http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/User_talk:DGG > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https:\/\/lists.wikimedia.org\/mailman\/listinfo\/wikien-l >\nDeployed today: a new way to respond to feedback from other editors\nby Steven Walling\nHi everyone, I wanted to point English Wikipedians to a cool update for the experimental Feedback Dashboard, and invite you all to try it out and come to our IRC office hours this weekend about it. The full details on the Village Pump: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:VPT#New_functionality_for_our_first\u2026 As far as I am aware, this is the first time that there is a single place on-wiki where you can see new editor feedback appear in real time, filter it based on sentiment, and respond without leaving the page. If you find it interesting, please join our taskforce on this, WP:RESPONSE. Thanks, -- Steven Walling Community Organizer at Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org\nBritish library online newspaper archive\nby Bod Notbod\nHullo, The British Library has put 4 million pages of 19th century newspapers online: http:\/\/pressandpolicy.bl.uk\/Press-Releases\/Murder-mania-and-a-leech-powered\u2026 http:\/\/www1.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk\/ You can try a search and click view which, in my case, gave me a page of the subscription fees. Two day, one month and one year packages are available. Bodnotbod\nBritish newspaper archive\nMay be of interest: http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-15924466 http:\/\/www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk\/ Carcharoth\nWhy Wikipedia Is Important.\nby Marc Riddell\nWithout knowledge, myths are born. With myths, fear is born. With fear, intolerance is born. With intolerance, ignorance is born. With ignorance, nothing is born. MR\nFwd: [Foundation-l] Google Knol is closing\nby David Gerard\n---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com> Date: 23 November 2011 12:20 Subject: [Foundation-l] Google Knol is closing To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, wikiteam-discuss(a)googlegroups.com Dear all; Knol, the Google project described as a rival to Wikipedia, is closing on April 2012. There are many links to Knol from Wikipedia[3] and some of them are free. Lot of content will be lost. People interested on saving Knol content can join to Archive Team[4] on #archiveteam channel on Efnet. Regards, emijrp [1] http:\/\/knol.google.com\/k [2] http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/more-spring-cleaning-out-of-season.h\u2026 [3] https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Special%3ALinkSearch&target=http\u2026 [4] http:\/\/archiveteam.org\/index.php?title=Knol _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https:\/\/lists.wikimedia.org\/mailman\/listinfo\/foundation-l\nKnol is dead (2007-2012); Re: 2 years & 9 months later, Re: 6 months later: Knol update\nby Gwern Branwen\nOn Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, it was pretty abrupt. See Jason Scott on this issue and how it > wasn't even announced but buried in some obscure Yahoo documentation > entry. Google to its credit didn't bury the death notice in help, but they didn't exactly highlight it: http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/more-spring-cleaning-out-of-season.h\u2026 > Knol\u2014We launched Knol in 2007 to help improve web content by enabling experts to collaborate on in-depth articles. In order to continue this work, we've been working with Solvitor and Crowd Favorite to create Annotum, an open-source scholarly authoring and publishing platform based on WordPress. Knol will work as usual until April 30, 2012, and you can download your knols to a file and\/or migrate them to WordPress.com. From May 1 through October 1, 2012, knols will no longer be viewable, but can be downloaded and exported. After that time, Knol content will no longer be accessible. That's surprisingly harsh - when I looked through past shut-downs ( http:\/\/www.gwern.net\/Wikipedia%20and%20Knol#knol-death-watch ), Google seemed to usually preserve *public* material as static files. But in this case, they seem to be saying the Knol content will be completely purged off their servers. (Which is a good lesson that Jason Scott would also appreciate, anyway, about trusting the cloud with your content. Not that trusting your content to Wikipedia is much better, from the long-term point of view.) -- gwern http:\/\/www.gwern.net\nUnscientific survey about Wikipedia of external yet closely related website's users (n=2235)\nby Jorgenev\nI had bigger plans for this, but they might not materialize, so for those interested: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/User:Jorgenev\/research\/Wikipedia_subreddit_use\u2026\nInvitation to join a new taskforce\nHi everyone, I just wanted to invite anyone interested to join an informal taskforce for responding to comments\/questions left by new editors on the experimental Feedback Dashboard (Special:FeedbackDashboard). You can sign up and see some documentation at: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Feedback_Dashboard This feature is still very much a work in progress. In the meantime, I really feel excited about the potential to respond to folks needing help. I've done a few hours of patrolling and I know others have also jumped in and started to leave talk pages messages for these newbies already. I find it fun to try and find the new editors who are working hard to \"get it\", but need a little helping hand. Actively using the dashboard will also help uncover any bugs that need addressing. Using it also helps inform the tech team at the WMF about new functionality it needs to really work well. So don't be shy about using the talk page, please. Let me or Maryana know if you have any questions. (I've signed up for the taskforce with my non-staff account, so I'll be patrolling as well.) -- Steven Walling Community Organizer at Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org P.S. I've left some suggestions for a system of response etc. on the wiki page. These are just suggestions, not marching orders or an edict from the Foundation. ;-)\nFwd: Please test multi-file selection\nby Erik Moeller\nHi folks, we'd appreciate additional testers for the new multi-file selection feature of UploadWizard. Please see link below for more details. This affects every Wikipedian who uploads freely licensed media files, so I thought I'd post it here as well :) Cheers, Erik ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 5:15 PM Subject: Please test multi-file selection To: commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Multi-file selection, perhaps the single most requested feature for UploadWizard, is now ready for testing on a staging wiki. Please see Neil's announcement here: http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Commons:Village_pump#Multi-file_selection\u2026 I'm really excited about this, as it's the first step to making large uploads a lot more manageable without the use of third party tools like Commonist. Other improvements in the next release that you can test now will include a better licensing workflow, including support for custom wikitext licenses, and automatic extraction of file-embedded geographic coordinates and display of those coordinates using a template. -- Erik M\u00f6ller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http:\/\/wikimediafoundation.org\/wiki\/Donate -- Erik M\u00f6ller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http:\/\/wikimediafoundation.org\/wiki\/Donate\nJump to page: 1 2","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"ARION1\nDownload Full Case Study\nProtective transportation of ARION1\nEngineered by the University of Liverpool Velocipede Team (ULV Team), a team of sixteen Master's Degree Engineering students designed and built ARION1, a human powered bicycle, which has broken the British Land Speed Record. This remarkable achievement took place in September 2015 at a location called Battle Mountain in the Nevada Desert. Whilst competing with several other international teams for the world land speed record, the ULV Team broke the existing British Land Speed record by 8mph setting a new record of 83 mph.\nThe time trial extends over 5 miles but it is only the final 200 metres where the speed is measured. The cyclist has to skilfully build up speed and momentum to reach optimum performance with precise timing. Vehicles are not allowed in front of the bicycle, punching a hole into the oncoming air and turbulence \u2013 it is about design, strength, endurance and skill.\nThe ULV Team, which was established in 2013, is the first British University to attempt the land speed record and their success has served only to fuel their appetite to further their achievement. In 2016 they will be competing with female and male cyclists in ARION2.\nARION1 is a carbon fibre monocoque structure, using standard bicycle parts that is human powered. It's 2.7 metres long, weighs just 30 kilogrammes and is described as \"invaluable\" by the ULV Team who have spent thousands of hours outside of studying to; develop, build, project manage, recruit, test and retest ARION1 until they designed the final competitive product.\nHaving spent so many man hours in design, test and development to arrive at the optimum product, the ULV Team needed to ensure secure and safe transport of ARION1 from Liverpool to the Nevada desert \u2013 a round trip of some 10,000 miles. All in the knowledge that it is only the final 200 metres of a speed trap that really counts!\nIn addition, the ULV Team needed to transport three of their recumbent training bikes and tools all of which needed to arrive in good condition and working order \u2013 critical to the whole programme.\nWith so much resting on the capability to deliver a bicycle intact of achieving in excess of 83 mph, no detail was left unturned in producing the final ProCase.\nFor more information visit http:\/\/ulvteam.co.uk\/ and to read about the Land Speed Record attempt, including a high speed crash, visit http:\/\/ulvteam.co.uk\/battle-mountain-round-up\nThe ARION1 ProCase was manufactured from 9mm top-grade Finnish birch plywood, laminated with a non-reflective and abrasive-resistant black vulcanised fibre. All edges were covered with angle protectors fitted with nickel-plated machine driven steel rivets. Heavy duty, recessed butterfly corners and handles were fitted together with zinc-plated knuckle ball corners to ensure maximum protection for the equipment.\nThe case was split into sections so it could be opened long ways, providing easy access to spares, tools and of course to ARION1. Case sections were fitted with a secondary removable floor plate, secured with quick release fasteners, under which was stored spare cycle parts, tools and accessories.\nRead more on ProCase\nValentino Rossi Racing Bike\nApproached by Global Logistics in May 2011, CP Cases were asked to quote for a case for the Ducati Racing Bike which Valentino Rossi rides.\nStryker ProCases\nStryker needs a system to allow surgeons to access the full suite of parts required for an operation.\nSONY Sonaps\nA solution was required that could protect the equipment during transit and then become the mobile studio on deployment.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Students for Sensible Drug Policy announces $50,000 match campaign\nWashington D.C. \u2013 12\/12\/2018 \/AxisWire\/ On December 5th, the 85th anniversary of the repeal of alcohol prohibition in the U.S., Students for Sensible Drug Policyannounced a match campaign to raise $50,000 before the end of the year. All gifts are being matched until they reach $50,000 by Green Lion Partnersand 4Front, both longtime SSDP supporters who are also Esteemed Trustees, their most substantial and prominent supporters.\n\"It's imperative for companies in the cannabis industry to be involved in social advocacy. This is an industry that was built on the backs of advocates, and there are still people in jail for the same thing on which many people are profiting. SSDP does tremendous work combating the drug war, and their ability to mobilize young people for the cause is incredible and remarkably impactful. They're a resourceful organization that transparently puts every dollar donated to efficient and effective use. We encourage those inside and outside of the cannabis industry to get engaged and involved as much as possible.\" Jeffrey M. Zucker; Co-Founder, President; Green Lion Partners.\nSSDP uses grassroots organizing strategies and centers young voices in the growing conversation about cannabis legalization and broader drug policy reforms. They have been working to reform cannabis laws since 1998 and celebrated their 20th anniversary this year.\n\"Students for Sensible Drug Policy is quite literally the ground game for the movement to end the War on Drugs. They not only change laws that save lives, the organization trains and cultivates the next generation of reform leaders and provides an educated and motivated workforce for the emerging cannabis industry. Anyone who cares about ending cannabis prohibition or has an interest in marijuana business should make a donation to this great organization. 4Front is proud to match your donation and support SSDP's important work.\" Kris Krane; Co-Founder, President; 4Front.\nThis fall, SSDP members placed nearly 13,000 phone calls to educate voters in states voting on cannabis reform measures in the midterm elections.\nThey are currently active on 379 campuses in 33 countries worldwide.\nAbout Students for Sensible Drug Policy\nStudents for Sensible Drug Policy is an international grassroots network of students who are concerned about the impact of drug misuse on our communities, but who also know that the \"War on Drugs\" is failing our generation and our society.\nSSDP mobilizes and empowers young people to participate in the political process, pushing for sensible policies to achieve a safer and more just future. SSDP does this while fighting back against counterproductive policies \u2013 in particular, those that directly harm students and youth.\nStudents for Sensible Drug Policy's 5000 members advocate for replacing the disastrous War on Drugs with policies rooted in evidence, compassion, and justice.\nMedia Contact: Zane Bader\nzane@nisonco.com\nStudents for Sensible Drug Policy","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Monday's York-Adams high school sports scoreboard, postponements: Live updates\nPhillips-Hill offering satellite office hours\nState Rep. Kristin Phillips-Hill, R-York Township, announced March satellite office hours at the Hopewell Township building and Citizens Volunteer Fire Co., according to a news release.\nA member of her staff will be at the Hopewell building, at 3336 Bridgeview Road in Stewartstown, 9 a.m.-noon March 9 and at the fire company, at 171 S. Market St. in Fawn Grove, 9 a.m.-noon March 23.\nPhillips-Hill said it's important to offer this service because not everyone can easily reach her district office at 6872 Susquehanna Trail between Jacobus and Loganville.\nResidents also can call Phillips-Hill's office at 717-428-9889 or 1-877-207-2272.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Posted inEducation, The Grade\nRoundup: TFA Staff Cuts, New Pro Opt-Out NY Regent Head\nby Alexander Russo March 22, 2016 January 8, 2022\nTeach for America to cut national staff by 15 percent Washington Post: The two shake-ups will leave Teach for America with approximately 930 national staff members in fiscal year 2017, 410 fewer than it employed in fiscal year 2015, according to the organization. It's a staffing level that the organization expects will be sustainable even if there are fluctuations in the number of new corps members it is able to recruit. See also Atlantic, Teacher Beat.\nRosa, new head of New York education policy: As a parent, 'I would opt out' ChalkbeatNY: Rosa spoke about the need to retool the tests to rebuild trust with parents, and said that families have the right to choose what is best for their children. \"If I was a parent and I was not on the Board of Regents, I would opt out at this time,\" Rosa told reporters Monday, shortly after she was elected chancellor of the Board of Regents.\nProspects for the Next President Keeping John B. King Jr. as Education Secretary PK12: On the Senate education committee, Sanders joined the rest of his Democratic colleagues by voting to advance King's nomination to the full Senate earlier this month. But he is listed as not voting in the full Senate on King's nomination. Generally speaking, if Sanders wins out, there's no reason to believe the unions would significantly alter their political strategy regarding King.\nAlternative education program still in danger after budget restoration Boston Globe: \"I always hated school, to be honest . . . but I had men that I could look up to and get knowledge from,\" Luis Aponte, now a student at Northeastern University, said of the Diploma Plus program in Charlestown.\nKansas Campuses Prepare For Guns In Classrooms NPR: A Kansas law will allow students to carry concealed weapons into their college classrooms, and many teachers aren't happy about it.\nPierre Omidyar helps fund education startup Tinkergarten BBJ: The startup specializes in outdoor early childhood education, helping educators lead activities for kids outside. The activities include \"outsmart a leprechaun\" and \"celebrate the winter solstice.\" Tinkergarten said the company now has classes running across 14 states.\nDonald Trump's War on Food\nIn \"Featured\"\nTrump Sabotaged America's Recovery Even Before COVID-19 Began\nWhat Motivates the Republican Party?\nIn \"Books\"\nAlexander Russo\nAlexander Russo is a freelance education writer who has created several long-running blogs such as the national news site This Week In Education, District 299 (about Chicago schools), and LA School Report. He can be reached on Twitter at @alexanderrusso, on Facebook, or directly at alexanderrusso@gmail.com.\nMore by Alexander Russo","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Chemainus Festival of Murals Society | Archives for Peter Collum\nAll posts by Peter Collum\nAuthor: Peter Collum\nBusy May for Chemainus Murals Society\nHooray, hooray for the month of May, for that's when members of the Chemainus Festival of Murals Society come out to play! Perhaps 'play' isn't exactly the correct word, but the Society, which maintains, restores, and adds murals and artwork to the outdoor art gallery in Chemainus, has two free events planned to help celebrate\u2026 Read More\nIt's membership time in Chemainus folks\nMark your calendars folks, Chemainus Festival of Murals Society's annual general meeting is on Thursday, April 19, at 7 p.m. The gathering will be held at the Best Western Chemainus. You must renew, or get a new membership, at least 30 days prior to the AGM to be eligible to vote. Dear Member: 2017\u2026 Read More\nNew Chemainus mural maps on sale\nChemainus, Canada's Mural Capital\u2122, has new souvenir mural maps fresh off the press! The new maps prepared by the Chemainus Festival of Murals Society, went on sale Sept. 1. They have been produced in a more user-friendly booklet format, with a foldout map, and include all recent additions to the outdoor gallery, including the Society's\u2026 Read More\nChemainus Labyrinth coming this summer\nWaterwheel labyrinth will alleviate stress By Peter W. Rusland Of The Courier CHEMAINUS \u2013 Cowichan's first public, meditative labyrinth should be ready for walking by summer, says Tom Andrews, president of the Chemainus Festival of Murals Society. Site preparation work, donated by Ken Stanton of Castle Cove Buildings, is ongoing on the unique 40-foot diameter\u2026 Read More\nSpring-cleaning time in Chemainus\nWayne Gilmore, of I Can See Clearly Now, will start washing murals and sculptures on April 10, 2017, weather permitting. The Chemainus Festival of Murals Society appreciates your support and regrets any inconvenience that might occur.\nFolks, it's that time of year\nDear Member: 2016 was a productive year for the Chemainus Festival of Murals Society. Members of the Board of Directors were active in many Society endeavours, as well as the continued preservation of 47 murals and numerous sculptures. This included, but was not limited to: \u2013 restoration of Memories of a Chinese Boy by Arthur Cheng;\u2026 Read More\nChemainus, we have a winner!\nA Sandy Clark painting, come to life after many years in storage in Chemainus, Canada's Mural Capital\u2122, has a name at last thanks to Tammy Montgomery. Her entry, Meadow Memories, fits the mural to a T, and was chosen from among 50 or so submissions to the Chemainus Festival of Murals Society's Name the Mural contest. And thanks\u2026 Read More\nMural names now official\nAfter lengthy deliberation, the Chemainus Festival of Murals Society has released the official names of the three Emily Carr-inspired murals unveiled in Chemainus in late summer. They are as follows. KEEPER OF SECRETS \u2013 INSPIRED BY EMILY CARR MURAL EC3 Painted in 2016 by Cim MacDonald The raven is an important symbol in First Nations\u2026 Read More\nWin a Tofino Getaway!\nLike finding a masterpiece stashed in a closet, a Sandy Clark painting has come to life after many years in storage. Clark's painting depicts a teacher and students bathed in sunlight in a field outside their school. This mural\/painting was commissioned by Marg and Al Johnson, prominent Chemainiacs and business owners. They owned the grocery store,\u2026 Read More\nAll hail The Curator!\nTwenty years and counting \u2013 not quite a generation, but close to it \u2013 that's how long Cim MacDonald has been Curator of The Chemainus Festival of Murals Society. That's 20 years of hard work restoring, cleaning and maintaining the appearance of the over 40 murals in the Chemainus outdoor art collection. She helps maintain\u2026 Read More\nEmily Carr would be proud\nThe Chemainus Outdoor Art Gallery grew by three murals this summer, as the town's new Emily Carr-inspired murals were unveiled Saturday to cheers from a small but enthusiastic crowd. The new murals are inspired by Emily Carr paintings and were commissioned by the Chemainus Festival of Murals Society as a continuation of the society's Emily Carr\u2026 Read More\nIconic Chemainus mural to be restored\nWorld-renowned Vancouver artist Arthur Cheng will be returning to Chemainus, Canada's Mural Capital\u2122, to do a complete restoration of his famed Memories Of A Chinese Boy mural, located on the south wall of the building housing Wing's Cafe, on Chemainus Road. Please drop by between Aug. 17 and 23 to say hello, and watch a master at work. Born\u2026 Read More\nChemainus murals in the news\nA hearty thank you to Daphne Goode, of shawtv.ca, for her thoughtful piece on the Willow Street revitalization project in Chemainus, the Rainforest Arts Gallery and the Chemainus Festival of Murals restoration program. Watch it below\u2026\nWhat is behind the Shroud of Chemainus?\nJoin the fun on Saturday, Aug. 20, between 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., and help the Chemainus Festival of Murals Society and Anthem Properties celebrate the unveiling of three Emily Carr inspired murals in the lane between Utopia Bakery and Bonnie Martin Restaurant. The three new murals bring the number of pieces of art\u2026 Read More\n2016 AGM highlights\nBETTER LATE, THAN NEVER Happy Trails to Festival of Murals board members Lynne Landyo, and Mark DuMez, on their retirement from the board at the 2016 Annual General Meeting.\nLynne, co-owner of It's A Small World B&B, served as board secretary for many years. She served two separate stints on the board, starting in\u2026 Read More","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Pomerol's Best\nFlickinger Wines is thrilled to offer a fantastic selection of top Pomerol estates, most in original OWC. While Pomerol may be the smallest of the (major) Bordeaux communes, it is home to some of the world's most sought after wines such as Petrus, Le Pin and Lafleur. Pomerol's renown is rather recent historically speaking, but its history is ancient and the blue clay that is found in the terroir here is truly unique and able to produce some of the world's most mesmerizing wines. Our selection today includes wines from many of Pomerol's greatest ch\u00e2teaux including Conseillante, L'Evangile, Trotanoy and Vieux Ch\u00e2teau Certan. Special mention should be made of the 11 vintages of Ch\u00e2teau Lafleur, including the spectacular 2009 and 2015. This estate is widely considered to be the only true peer of Petrus in most vintages, so don't miss this incredible opportunity to add some to your collection. Cheers!\nThe following are the wines remaining from the offer sent on Tuesday, April 9, 2019. Please enter your desired quantities and click the 'Add' button.\nCh. Clinet 2008 Pomerol ETA 90-120 Days (12x750ML) $1,234.99 1\nWA 94+ (5\/2011): Another resounding success for the vintage, the opaque purple-colored 2008 Clinet (14.4% alcohol) is composed of 85% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. Yields of 38 hectoliters per hectare, while higher than in 2010, were still modest. Another powerful, big, large-scaled effort, the 2008 exhibits an inky\/purple color as well as sweet creme de cassis, blackberry, plum, Asian spice, licorice and incense notes. Layered and full-bodied with stunning purity and a 40+ second finish, this beauty needs 3-5 years of bottle age and should keep for 25-30 years.\n2012 Pomerol ETA 90-120 Days (6x750ML) $521.99 5\nWA 95 (4\/2015): With a dense purple color and gorgeous levels of fruit, especially black raspberry and blackcurrant, this full-bodied, opulent style of wine is another great success for Clinet, a ch\u00e2teau that has been on top of its game for the last decade. This is stunning stuff, and whatever new oak has been used \u2013 and there is plenty \u2013 it is totally disguised by the luxurious and extravagant fruit level. This full-bodied, opulent Pomerol should drink well for 15 or more years.\nVM 95 (1\/2016): A wine of total precision, the 2012 Clinet possesses striking aromatic nuance and delineation. Crushed flowers, sweet raspberries, herbs and mint flesh out effortlessly, with silky, polished tannins that add to the wine's feel of graciousness. The spherical, beautifully textured finish suggests the 2012 will offer a wide drinking window of pure pleasure over the next 15-20 years. This is impressive. The 2012 is 90% Merlot, 9% Cabernet Sauvignon and 1% Cabernet Franc.\nWS 93 (3\/2015): Gorgeous plum cake, melted licorice and steeped currant and blackberry fruit is inlaid with notes of fruitcake and singed vanilla bean. Long and plush through the finish, with a buried charcoal spine that adds needed cut. Best from 2017 through 2027. 3,800 cases made.\nJS 93 (2\/2015): Fabulous nose of orange peel, blueberries and blackberries. Full body, firm tannins and a cocoa, cedar and berry finish. Little austere now but so fine. Truly Outstanding for the vintage. Better after 2016.\n2014 Pomerol (375 ML) ex-Negociant $36 31\nVM 94+ (2\/2017): The 2014 Clinet is powerful, deep and enveloping. Black cherry, smoke, graphite, chocolate and French oak give the wine its intensity and gravitas. Hints of lavender and violet develop in the glass, adding lovely aromatic nuance, but the 2014 remains a big, imposing wine in need of cellaring. This is impressive juice. Tasted two times. Antonio Galloni.\nJS 94 (2\/2017): A tight and subtle wine with very pretty ripe-fruit character and chocolate. Medium to full body. Needs time to open. Better in 2020.\nJD 93 (11\/2017): For whatever reason, Chateau Clinet was not interested in having their 2015 tasted for this report and I was unable to taste it during my trip through the region. I'll do my best to review it from bottle once it's available in the United States. Nevertheless, I purchased a bottle of the 2014 Ch\u00e2teau Clinet locally and it showed beautifully, revealing a deep purple color, loads of plum, cr\u00e8me de cassis, spice-box, dried flowers, and graphite aromas and flavors, full-bodied richness, and a terrific minerality the developed with time in the glass. This is an elegant, balanced, beautifully pure 2014 that's very much in the style of the vintage. It will keep for 20+ years.\nWS 92 (3\/2017): Dark in profile, featuring a steeped core of fig and blackberry fruit that melds with roasted apple wood and ganache notes through the finish. Shows plenty of muscle, but the refined structure leads to a very long finish, boding well for the cellar. Best from 2020 through 2035. 4,750 cases made.\nWA 91 (3\/2017): The 2014 Clinet was a wine that perplexed when I tasted it from barrel and as a consequence, it was one that I went back and retasted three or four times during that primeur campaign. Now in bottle, the bouquet has improved and developed more fruit concentration, armed with red plum, wild strawberry and blueberry scents. The palate is medium-bodied and quite refined, certainly not as opulent as other vintages from the estate, perhaps just missing a persistence on the angular finish. It is not a bad Clinet by a long stretch, it just feels a little constricted, especially compared to say the 2010 or 2015. I tasted this on three occasions, drawing the same conclusion each time.\n2016 Pomerol Futures- ETA TBD (3.0 L) ex-Chateau $419 2\nCh. Conseillante 2005 Pomerol ETA 90-120 Days (12x750ML) $3,154.99 5\nJS 98 (11\/2015): This really does have a wonderful texture that is reminiscent of great pinot noir while remaining obviously cabernet franc and merlot. It shows a seductive nose of cream, berries, chocolate and flowers. It's full-bodied, very intense and seamless in length. Pure class. Drink now and enjoy but will improve for years ahead.\nWA 97 (6\/2015): Displaying spectacular aromatics of mulberry, blueberry and raspberry fruit, a dense ruby\/purple color, and sweet floral notes, in the mouth the 2005 La Conseillante is not as broad and powerful as Petrus, Trotanoy, Hosanna or Lafleur, but it is gorgeously silky, elegant and stylish. This medium-bodied, savory wine is a graceful, provocative and compelling Pomerol to drink now and over the next 25 years.\nNM 97 (2\/2015): The Ch\u00e2teau La Conseillante 2005 has a flamboyant bouquet that just soars from the glass with scents of cr\u00e8me de cassis, blueberry, violets and a hint of black olive. This is far more exuberant than I remember it. The palate is full-bodied with ripe and underpinned by sumptuous tannins. It has extremely well-judged acidity, enormous depth and volume and a complex finish with lightly spice dark cherries, blackcurrant pastilles and minerals. There is a sense of completeness and harmony to this La Conseillante, allied with an audaciousness that is truly compelling.\nWS 97 (3\/2008): This is decadent and wild on the nose, with fresh c\u00e8pe, raw steak and wild berry. Full-bodied, with loads of velvety tannins, yet refined and caressing in every way. A beautiful, balanced red. The best young wine ever from this producer. Best after 2017. 4,165 cases made.\nVM 96 (11\/2015): Tasted after the Clos L'Eglise, the 2005 La Conseillante simply has more of everything. More richness, body and texture, but at the same time, there is a striking element of underlying minerality that confers freshness. The Conseillante is one of the riper wines of the night, yet all the elements are very much in the right place. A host of dark, jammy flavors meld into the effortless, flamboyant finish, where a kick of sweetness from the French oak adds the closing nuances. What a gorgeous wine this is. Antonio Galloni.\n2010 Pomerol ex-Negociant $225 2\nJS 98 (2\/2013): Beautiful nose with cocoa powder, exotic flowers, candied violets and loads of dark berries. Great aromatic complexity. Amazing texture on palate with a superb precision and silky tannins. So beautifully composed showing already great harmony. Difficult to wait! Better in 2018.\nWA 96 (2\/2013): A brilliant effort from this property, known for the sheer elegance and finesse of its wines, the 2010 La Conseillante offers back-to-back monumental efforts, particularly given the remarkable 2009. This estate has been on a hot streak of late. The 2010 is a slightly bigger, richer wine, but without losing its floral, elegant mulberry, black raspberry and sweet kirsch notes. Combine those with some licorice, subtle new oak and a hint of forest floor, and the result is a medium to full-bodied, rich, complex wine that has striking aromatics and perfect balance in the mouth. Forget it for 3-5 years and drink it over the following 30.\nWS 96 (3\/2013): Features substantial but very velvety structure running from start to finish, delivering a muscular feel for now. The hard edges are fully absorbed by the core of plum sauce, steeped blackberry and warm boysenberry reduction notes. The finish offers gorgeous tobacco and ganache accents lurking in the wings, along with flickers of anise and incense that should guide this version to increased elegance with age. Best from 2016 through 2034.\nVM 93+ (8\/2013): Full red-ruby. Rich aromas of plum, raspberry, mocha and chocolate are energized by minerals and peppery spices. A saline, suave, youthfully restrained midweight, with terrific floral cabernet franc lift contributing to the impression of class and focus. Sweetness is leavened by a savory quality and hints of tobacco and underbrush. Tannins are suave but this firmly structured, subtly long Pomerol really needs eight or ten years to express itself fully. Great potential here.\n2010 Pomerol ex-Negociant $229 12\n2015 Pomerol ETA 90-120 Days (6x750ML) $1,136.99 5\nCh. L' Eglise Clinet 2014 Pomerol $179 6\nJD 96+ (2\/2018): One of the more backward wines in the vintage, the 2014 Ch\u00e2teau L'Eglise Clinet is nevertheless packed with potential. A blend of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc brought up in 70% new barrels, this deep ruby\/purple colored beauty boasts vibrant notes of blackcurrants, blueberries, violets, tobacco leaf, and damp earth. With full-bodied richness, bright yet integrated acidity, and fine tannin, it has incredible purity and focus, as well as beautiful richness and depth. Give bottle 4-5 years and enjoy over the following 20-25 years.\nWA 95 (3\/2017): The 2014 L'Eglise Clinet was tasted from a single bottle but from two glasses, each poured at different times before I arrived for the tasting. They were almost identical on the nose but the one poured later was more compact. It has a very pure bouquet with blackberry, myrtle, a touch of iris and a touch of garrigue (actually reminiscent of fynbos, the wild South African shrubland). The palate is medium-bodied with crisp tannin, a silver bead of acidity, wonderful precision and beguiling purity. This is an outstanding Pomerol for the vintage from Denis Durantou, sophisticated and classy, yet the bottom line is quintessentially Pomerol. Bravo Denis.\nVM 95 (3\/2018): The 2014 L'Eglise-Clinet has a gentle, understated bouquet at first that takes time to open, eventually offering black fruit, melted tar, truffle and bay leaf aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with firm tannin, rather masculine and thickset at the moment, lightly spiced towards the finish. Much like the Vieux-Ch\u00e2teau-Certan, this is a little awkward in a blind setting however, it clearly meliorates in the glass and I keep on having to up my score. Tasted blind at the annual Southwold tasting. Neal Martin.\nWS 94 (3\/2017): This has a big ball of raspberry confiture at the core, with dark licorice and warm fruitcake notes. Hedonistic only to a point, as a serious graphite beam runs throughout, giving this serious drive through the finish. This will keep pace with the top dogs in this vintage. Best from 2020 through 2035. 1,835 cases made.\nJS 97 (2\/2017): The purity of fruit is so alluring in this wine. Aromas of crushed berries, lemon rind and flowers follow through to a full body, firm and silky tannins and a long and flavorful finish. All in finesse and texture. So fine and persistent. Try in 2022 but already an inspiration to taste.\nCh. L' Evangile 2008 Pomerol ETA 90-120 Days (12x750ML) $1,512.99 1\nWA 94 (5\/2011): A 2,700-case blend of 88% Merlot and 12% Cabernet Franc cropped at a low 27 hectoliters per hectare (compare that with 39 hectoliters per hectare in 2009 and 31 in 2010), this superb claret was aged 18 months in 75% new French oak. Mulberry, spring flower, black cherry and raspberry characteristics as well as hints of spice and coffee emerge from this full-bodied, opulent, structured beauty. It should age effortlessly for 15-20 years.\nNM 93+ (3\/2012): Fairly deep color. Lovely, open, exotic bouquet is riper, more modern, and slightly less effusive following #1, with a smoky, vanilla, gingerbread, fruitcake quality and a hint of wet wool. Delicious in the mouth, rich and tannic, with sexy fruit, complex acids, concentration, excellent structure, and Outstanding overall balance. It's a wine of vitality and floral elegance, with an extremely long smoky, oaky, gravelly finish. Probably awesome with food. Will improve with cellaring.\nJS 93 (12\/2010): Chocolate and berry and rich with gorgeous nose. Plums and berries. Full and super soft with a lovely velvety texture. Loads going on. Builds on the palate with a lovely depth of fruit and balance. A beauty.\nWS 93 (4\/2011): Fleshy, but pure and elegant, with a gorgeous beam of raspberry ganache, plum sauce and cherry preserve laced with subtle graphite, spice and violet hints. The long finish is persistent, but with some admirable power in reserve. Best from 2013 through 2020. 2,700 cases made.\nVM 91+ (7\/2011): Full, deep red-ruby. Exotic aromas of dark berries, cocoa, underbrush and ink. Thick, broad and full, but with lively acidity giving a light touch to the rich, dense dark fruit, balsamic vinegar and chocolate flavors. Finishes long and oaky, with an opulent, high-alcohol mouthfeel, big tannins and a note of fresh herbs. Stephen Tanzer.\nWA 96-98 (5\/2011): As I have been predicting, the Rothschilds are pushing l'Evangile to the highest level of the Pomerol hierarchy. Composed of 88.8% Merlot and 11.2% Cabernet Franc, the 2010 achieved 14.7% alcohol naturally, making it one of the few 2010s with lower alcohol than its 2009 counterpart (the 2009 had 15% alcohol and the 2008 had 14.5%). Most of that is due to the superb ripeness and the high concentration of Merlot in 2010. The berries were extremely tiny and the drought and cool nights in August and September gave the 2010 a lower pH and higher acidity than the 2009. For example, the 2010's pH is 3.7, the 2009's is higher and in 2000 it was 4.0. The dense purple-colored 2010 exhibits massive levels of black raspberries, Asian plum sauce, truffles and cassis. The wine is unctuously textured and remarkably fresh with a weighty richness (much like the 2009) but greater delineation. A marvelous effort, it, along with the 2009, may turn out to be one of the two greatest wines made by l'Evangile. The 2010 should drink well young yet last for three decades or more.\nWS 94-97 (7\/2011): Gorgeous raspberry ganache, fig and boysenberry fruit is liberally laced with fruitcake and graphite. Superracy, with linzer torte and red licorice taking over the finish. Very long, with lots going on here already. Tasted non-blind.\nJS 94-95 (4\/2011): What a nose, with orange peel, dark berries and blueberries. Full and bright , with super velvety tannins. Acidity is juicy too. Very sumptuous. Creamy tannin texture. 88 percent Merlot and 22 percent Cabernet Franc.\nVM 92-95 (6\/2011): (89% merlot and 11% cabernet franc; 3.75 pH; 14.7% alcohol) Opaque purple-ruby. Deep, rich aromas of black plum, violet, licorice and chocolate. Extremely broad and impressively large-scaled, with almost shocking sweetness to the jammy red and black fruit flavors. This huge, extract-rich Pomerol comes across as dense and luscious, but may prove almost too much for some wine lovers. The long finish features refined, smooth tannins. I did not get to taste the estate's second wine this year, Blason d'Evangile, as only 6,000 bottles were made and it won't be offered en primeur.\nCh. Lafleur 2008 Pomerol ETA 90-120 Days (6x750ML) $4,120.99 1\nJS 96 (2\/2015): The nose to this is fascinating with orange peel, mangoes, stones and hints of blanched walnuts. Full-bodied, yet dense and reserved. It shows amazing length and finesse. The finish shows wonderful, subtle and pure fruit. Breathtakingly subtle and complex. Better in 2018 but I love it.\nVM 95 (1\/2016): The 2012 Lafleur presents a distinctly red-toned profile to match its silky, open-knit personality. Crushed flowers, sweet red cherry, plum, mint and spices are all nicely layered throughout. Medium in body, the 2012 nevertheless possesses lovely depth and pliancy, both of which suggest it will provide readers with a long window of exceptionally fine drinking. Proprietor Baptiste Guinaudeau describes 2012 as a cool vintage of open-knit wines and compares his 2012 to the 2001. This is a superb showing and one of the standouts of the year. Readers will find many terrific 2012s, but Lafleur is distinguished by its soul, something that is not to easy to find in Bordeaux. The 2012 is 55% Cabernet Franc and 45% Merlot. Antonio Galloni.\nWA 94+ (4\/2015): Deep ruby to the rim, the 2012 Lafleur possesses beautiful kirsch, sweet raspberry fruit, ripe tannin, and a lushness and roundness. It is medium to full-bodied and complex, with an exceptional texture and purity \u2013 all hallmarks of this property. This wine should drink well for another 15 or more years.\nNM 94 (1\/2016): Tasted blind at the Southwold 2012 tasting, the 2012 Lafleur has a very well-defined bouquet that is complex and laden with blackberry, granite, cedar and veins of graphite, all with razor-like precision. The palate is medium-bodied with fine delineation and lovely poise. There are plenty of graphite-infused black fruit interwoven into this Pomerol with a cheeky dab of spiciness on the finish that needs to manifest just a little more precision in order that it attains full potential. As usual, Baptiste, Julie and Jacques Guinaudeau have conjured a serious Lafleur destined for long-term ageing.\n2013 Pomerol ETA 90-120 Days (3x1.5L) $2,323.99 1\nJS 97-98 (3\/2015): This is very tight and chewy with polished and intense tannins. Full-bodied with blueberries, blackberries, minerals and fine tannins. This is more Pauillac than many top Pauillac estates. Cabernet franc always makes the quality here and it's 56% this year. Rest is merlot. Superb.\nVM 94-97 (4\/2015): The 2014 Lafleur-P\u00e9trus is one of the most captivating wines of the vintage for the way it marries power and finesse. Soaring aromatics open up in the glass, with scents of sweet herbs, rose petals, juniper berries, mint and raspberries. Huge and resonant on the palate yet with remarkable nuance, the 2014 is all about harmony. The magnificent, layered finish proves to be utterly irresistible. In 2014 the blend is 93% Merlot and 7% Cabernet Franc, taken from the three sites that now constitute the entirety of the property. The combination of mostly gravelly soils with some clay and iron yields a Pomerol of pure pedigree.\nNM 94-96 (4\/2015): The Ch\u00e2teau Lafleur 2014 is a blend of 44% Merlot picked on 25 September and 56% Cabernet Franc picked on 5 and 6 October, the yields coming in at 28 hectoliters per hectare. Bright purple in color, the bouquet is pixelated. It is decidedly neither powerful or voluminous but instead very subtle and reflects its terroir, hints of sous-bois and truffle filtering through with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with very fine, very precise tannin and nigh on perfect acidity. There is the trademark Lafleur structure and sense of \"authority\" here, perhaps a little more salinity emerging towards the finish compared to other vintages with a touch of spice right on the finish. It will require the patience of a saint, at least a decade in the cellar, but it will reward you with something heavenly.\nCh. Trotanoy 2010 Pomerol $299 3\nWA 98 (2\/2013): Think of this wine as the 1998 on steroids! Showing better out of bottle than it did from barrel, this wine has put on considerable weight. It is full-bodied, masculine (as most vintages of Trotanoy tend to be), with loads of earthy, foresty notes intermixed with black and red fruits, a meaty, almost charcuterie note to it, an inky\/purple color, some sweetness on the attack, but then the tannins kick in, making the wine seem at least a decade away from accessibility to most consumers. The texture is layered, the purity impressive, and the overall symmetry, balance and integration of all of the wine's building blocks are flawless. Forget it for 10 years and drink it over the following 35 years. Bravo!\nWS 98 (3\/2013): Dense and slightly chewy, this features girders of charcoal-coated grip running from start to finish, along with bay leaf, smoldering tobacco and warm tar. But don't be fooled\u2014there's also loads of fruit, offering dark plum, blackberry and black currant notes, laced with hints of mulling spice and alder. Terrific old-school grip powers the finish, and should easily pull this through two decades in the cellar. The brick-house Pomerol of the vintage. Best from 2017 through 2040.\nJS 98 (2\/2013): Stunning nose with wild strawberries, vanilla and raspberries. Opens up with a little time in the glass to sweet licorice, blueberries and some graphite. Round and full on the palate with an amazing fruit and refined tannins. Truly superb. Hard not to drink now. Try from 2016.\nVM 96 (8\/2013): Good full red. Great depth and complexity to the aromas of raspberry, strawberry, baked bread, tobacco and black olive. Plush, sweet and remarkably mouthfilling, conveying a compelling creaminess of texture but also a magically light touch and Outstanding finesse. The thick flavors of red fruits, cocoa powder, meat and forest floor are perfectly supported by very smooth but serious tannins. Finishes with great persistence. A real essence of Pomerol: one of the sexiest wines of my tastings this spring but it's hard to believe that this wine won't go through a sullen stage in the bottle.\n2013 Pomerol ETA 90-120 Days (3.0 L) $602.99 1\nCh. Clinet 2001 Pomerol (12x750ML) $1,468.99 Sold Out\n2005 Pomerol (12x750ML) $1,835.99 Sold Out\nCh. Conseillante 2006 Pomerol (12x750ML) $1,558.99 Sold Out\n2011 Pomerol (6x1.5L) $1,362.99 Sold Out\nCh. L' Eglise Clinet 1998 Pomerol (12x750ML) $4,054.99 Sold Out\n2013 Pomerol (6x750ML) $692.99 Sold Out\n2015 Pomerol (6x750ML) $0 Sold Out\nCh. Lafleur 1998 Pomerol (6x750ML) $4,126.99 Sold Out\n2009 Pomerol (6x750ML) $10,118.99 Sold Out\n2012 Pomerol (1.5 L) ex-Negociant $999 Sold Out\n2003 Pomerol (3x1.5L) $0 Sold Out\n2009 Pomerol OWC $329 Sold Out\nLa Violette 2013 Pomerol (3.0 L) $731.99 Sold Out\nVieux Chateau Certan 2011 Pomerol (6x750ML) $948.99 Sold Out","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Brian Poole and The Tremeloes play the Apex later this month\nBrian Poole and Alan Blakley started the Tremilos (the original Tremeloes) in early 1958 while still at school.\nThis was the age of rock and roll and friends wanted them to play at small venues and cinemas asked them to play during the intervals between films. Playing their predominantly Buddy Holly and The Crickets set, with Brian Poole wearing his glasses, they soon had many local fans and word spread further afield. Almost before they realised it, they became one of the top dance hall attractions in Great Britain.\nAlan Blakley, Dave Munden and Brian Poole found that they could harmonise any song beautifully, so developed a style of their own, with all members sharing vocals. Dave, Brian and Alan were also used as a backing vocal session group by Decca Records on many hit records of the time, including Tommy Steele, US Bonds and the Vernon Girls, amongst others.\nIn 1960 they were signed to Decca Records, who notoriously chose them over The Beatles, whom they had auditioned on the same day.\nThey first charted with a version of Twist and Shout (No. 3 in 1963), which owed much to the Beatles' version, followed by a chart topping cover of The Contours' US million-seller Do You Love Me (No. 1 in the same year). Their covers of Roy Orbison's B-side, Candy Man and The Crickets' B-side ballad, Someone Someone entered the UK Singles Chart Top Ten in 1964, with the latter peaking at number two.\nBrian Poole parted company with The Tremeloes in 1966, however they continued their successful hit run with Cat Stevens' Here Comes My Baby, Suddenly You Love Me, Hello World, and My Little Lady, and their enduring cover of an old Four Seasons' B-side Silence Is Golden.\nThe concert sees Brian Poole, Len \"Chip\" Hawkes and Dave Munden taking you back to the Swinging Sixties, in a great evening of nostalgia.\nBrian Poole and The Tremeloes play the Apex, on Sunday, June 25, at 7.30pm.\nPrevious Hapless vacuum cleaner salesman sucked into world of espionage at Theatre Royal\nNext Police chief moves to reassure Suffolk residents following terrorist attack in London","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Using Twitter to follow the political debates\nBy Twitter Inc.\nAs the primaries roll on, so do the political conversations on Twitter. If you want to be the first to hear what's happening on the campaign trail as it unfolds in real time, here's a list of accounts we suggest you follow to get in the middle of the action.\nGetting the latest information and commentary by following candidates, pundits, journalists and other voters is one of the best ways to stay informed. And there's another way to make your voice heard on Twitter, particularly during debates. Twitter gives everyone equal and unprecedented access to many of the most influential players in the election. And we know that when you tweet, they listen.\nTomorrow night, at the Fox News Republican debate in South Carolina, your Tweets will let host Bret Baier, on-air analysts, viewers and candidates themselves know your thoughts during the evening.\nWe've been through this before \u2014 so here's a reminder of how you can have your say:\nWhen a candidate answers a question, tweet that person's name with #answer (if you think they answered the question) or #dodge (if you think they, well, dodged it).\nWatch the live results at live.foxnews.com.\nTo further join the conversation, include the debate's official hashtag (#scdebate) in your Tweets, or search for that hashtag on Twitter.com to see what everyone else is saying.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"HBO Orders Second Season of 'Winning Time' Despite Criticism from Showtime Lakers, Jerry West\nBy Pauly McGuire on May 9, 2022 5 min read\n'Winning Time' \u2014 the HBO series about the rise of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers \u2014 aired its season one finale last night which focused on the Lakers winning the 1980s NA championship during Magic Johnson's rookie season. HBO ordered a second season of 'Winning Time', much to the dismay of their biggest critics \u2014 which included Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Jerry West.\nMagic Johnson (Quincy Isaiah) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Solomon Hughes) in 'Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty' captures Magic's rookie season with the LA Lakers. (Image: HBOMax)\n'Winning Time' is based on true events, but the creators took many liberties when telling the story about the rise of the Lakers dynasty. They hit all the highlights, but filled in the blanks with storylines \u2014 many of which did not happen, or were perverted versions of actual moments. Hardcore Lakers fans might've lost interest when 'Winning Time' did not stick to the facts, but casual fans enjoyed catching a fictionalized glimpse of the earliest days of the Showtime Lakers.\nLet's face it, the current batch the Lakers were utterly awful this season and fans were craving for nostalgia. LeBron James and the Lakers were one of the betting favorites to win the 2022 NBA championship, and they failed to even qualify for the Play-In Tournament. We were among the many trolls who referred to the Lakers as \"Losing Time\" during their ugliest stretch in March and April, which was the antithesis of 'Winning Time' and the Magic and Abdul-Jabbar led Showtime Lakers.\nMagic and Kareem Dis Winning Time\nMagic Johnson claimed he did not watch 'Winning Time', yet claimed it was inaccurate.\n\"I haven't seen it,\" said Magic. \"But of course I know it's not (good) because there's no Lakers around telling that story.\"\nAbdul-Jabbar, the NBA's all-time leading scorer, watched the first episode and did not have kind things to say about the show or his portrayal in an essay in his weekly newsletter.\n\"The characters are crude stick-figure representations that resemble real people the way Lego Han Solo resembles Harrison Ford,\" wrote Abdul-Jabbar. \"Each character is reduced to a single bold trait as if the writers were afraid anything more complex would tax the viewers' comprehension. Jerry Buss is Egomaniac Entrepreneur, Jerry West is Crazed Coach, Magic Johnson is Sexual Simpleton, I'm Pompous Prick. They are caricatures, not characters. Amusement park portraits that emphasize one physical feature to amplify your appearance\u2014but never touching the essence.\"\nAbdul-Jabbar admitted he saw only the first episode. Obviously, it takes time for characters to develop and the story lines to pick up. Winning Time doesn't hit its full stride until the third or fourth episode, but Abdul-Jabbar had a valid case. Even the best documentary or near-perfect dramatization of real events will never match up to what happened in real life.\nHollywood is in the business of entertaining people and no matter what story is told \u2014 whether it's another reboot of a comic book hero, or the rise of your favorite sports team \u2014 viewers only get to watch the story through the lens and perspective of the storyteller. In this instance, we're getting the story of the Showtime Lakers through the creative lens of showrunners Max Borenstein and Jim Hecht, which is based on a book by Jeff Pearlman.\nJerry West Wants to Sue\u2026 Everybody\nJerry West did not like how he was captured in 'Winning Time', and he was so pissed off that he demanded an apology and retraction from HBO.\nIn the first episode of 'Winning Time', we meet West \u2014 played by Australian actor Jason Clarke \u2014 as an unhappy head coach who steps down when Jerry Buss buys the Lakers. West is an ultra-competitive hothead that never got over the fact that the Lakers were never good enough to beat the Boston Celtics during his peak years as a pro baller. He struggles with his post-playing life but flounders as a head coach because he coached a crappy team.\nWest eventually becomes one of the greatest general manager and front office executives in the history of the NBA, but 'Winning Time' captures his gap year between coaching and joining the front office full time.\n\"The portrayal of NBA icon and LA Lakers legend Jerry West in 'Winning Time' is fiction pretending to be fact \u2014 a deliberately false characterization that has caused great distress to Jerry and his family,\" said West's attorney Skip Miller. \"Contrary to the baseless portrayal in the HBO series, Jerry had nothing but love for and harmony with the Lakers organization, and in particular owner Dr. Jerry Buss, during an era in which he assembled one of the greatest teams in NBA history.\"\nThe writing staff took a few artistic liberties in telling the story, but West emerged as one of the best characters on 'Winning Time'. He was involved in some of the best and funniest scenes, yet the real-life hated how he was lampooned.\nHBO defended their showrunners and did not offer an apology to West.\nJerry West \u2013 played by actor Jason Clarke \u2013 sits in his office before he quits as head coach of the LA Lakers before the 1979-80 season. (Image: HBOMax)\nOn Deck: Season 2 of Winning Time\nHBO ordered a second season of 'Winning Time' and the creative team is already working on the next season. Fans are wondering how far they will jump ahead in the timeline, like will it focus on the peak Bird vs Magic years in the mid-1980s, or will it focus on Magic retiring after he contracted HIV?\nIn a interview with Deadline, executive producer Max Borenstein hints at what will happen in the second season. It seems like the next season will pick up right after the Lakers won the 1980 NBA championship.\nIn the 1980-81 season, the Lakers have a falling out with head coach Paul Westhead, who tries to slow down the Showtime Lakers when he tries to put his own imprint on the team. The Lakers get knocked out of the playoffs in the first round, which leads to Westhead's dismissal by Buss. Pat Riley takes over as head coach for the next season in 1981-82 and the rest is history. Riley reverts back to the run-and-gun style originally introduced by Jack McKinney and the Lakers defeat the Philadelphia 76ers to win the 1982 championship.\nIf you're expecting the Bird vs Magic in the NBA Finals, you might have to wait to at least the third season of 'Winning Time'\u2026 if there is a third season. I really cannot wait to see who plays Kurt Rambis, James Worthy, and Byron Scott from the Lakers. Plus, which actors will play other iconic members of the 1980s Celtics like head coach KC Jones, and players like Kevin McHale, Robert Parrish, Dennis Johnson, and Danny Ainge.\nAugust 4, 2022 Basketball\nNBA Season Scoring Average Totals: Harden, Jokic, Doncic, Young, Beal, Morant\nDonovan Mitchell Next Team Odds: New York Knicks, Miami Heat, or Utah Jazz?\nUCONN Star Paige Bueckers Out for Season with Torn ACL Injury","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"University at Buffalo - Nursing Programs\nThe University at Buffalo was founded in 1846 as a private medical school, but since 1962 it has been part of the SUNY system. The University at Buffalo School of Nursing offers three baccalaureate nursing programs, a traditional 4-year track, an accelerated 1-year track, and an RN to BSN program. The traditional program offers enrollment once annually in the fall. Nursing students will complete 700 hours of clinical rotations, and has a unique three week preceptorship at the end of a student's course of study. These are one-on-one experiences with nurses in clinical settings in Buffalo or New York City.\nThe accelerated BSN option is designed for those who already hold a bachelor's degree in a non-nursing discipline. This 12 month program is intensive and demanding, even giving nursing students the ability to earn up to even graduate credit hours. The accelerated program enrolls students annually in the spring. The RN to BSN program has a one-year track and a two-year track in an online learning environment that allows practicing nurses to balance their careers with the advancement of their nursing education. Applications for this program are considered on a rolling basis.\nThe nursing school at University at Buffalo is a public institution located in Buffalo, New York. Its nursing programs are accredited by ACEN, ACME, CCNE and COA.\nDegree types you can earn at University at Buffalo include Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner, Family Nurse Practitioner, Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and Registered Nursing, and the school provides it offerings to students via campus, hybrid and online formats. The level of nursing programs offered to nursing students include Accelerated BSN, APRN Certificate, Bachelor, BSN to DNP, BSN to PhD, Doctor of Nursing, Master, MSN to DNP and RN to BSN level degrees.\nOut of 105 nursing schools in New York, the nursing program at University at Buffalo ranks #3 in the state, and out of more than 1,700 nursing programs nationally, it ranks #75. It's 3-year average NCLEX passing rate is 96.00%, giving the University at Buffalo an overall grade of A.\nNursing Program Stats at a Glance for University at Buffalo\nGrade: A\nNew York State Rank: 3\nNational Rank: 75\nIf you are not finding the right nursing program in Buffalo or want to compare nursing schools from other cities in New York? Compare average NCLEX scores, in-state and out-of-state tuition costs as well as schools with strong alumni networks. The following is a list of cities in with accredited nursing programs in New York: Albany, Alfred, Amherst, Auburn, Batavia, Bayside, Bethpage, Binghamton, Binghamton, Brockport, Bronx, Brooklyn, Brookville, Brookville, Buffalo, Canandaigua, Canton, Corning, Delhi, Dobbs Ferry, Dryden, Elmira, Garden City, Geneva, Hudson, Jamestown, Johnstown, Keuka Park, Loch Sheldrake, Long Island City, Melville, Middletown, Morrisville, New York, Newburgh, Nyack, Old Westbury, Plattsburgh, Poughkeepsie, Queensbury, Rego Park, Rochester, Sanborn, Saranac Lake, Saratoga Springs, Schenectady, Selden, Staten Island, Staten Island, Stone Ridge, Suffern, Syracuse, Troy, Utica, Valhalla, Watertown and Yonkers\n12 Capen Hall, Buffalo, NY - 14260-1660\nPrograms Offered As: Campus, Hybrid and Online\nNCLEX Ranking - BSN\nAvg. NCLEX BSN Passing Rate: 96.88%\nState Rank BSN: 3\nUS Rank BSN Programs: 75\nPrograms Offered: Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner, Family Nurse Practitioner, Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and Registered Nursing\nAward Levels: Accelerated BSN, APRN Certificate, Bachelor, BSN to DNP, BSN to PhD, Doctor of Nursing, Master, MSN to DNP and RN to BSN\nProgram Accreditors: ACEN, ACME, CCNE and COA","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Roadside bombing in Egypt's Sinai kills 2 police\nadmin \u2014 January 2, 2021 6:55 am add comment\nEL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) \u2014 A roadside bomb went off Friday in Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula, killing two members of the country's security forces and wounding five, security and medical officials said.\nAccording to the officials, the security forces were patrolling in the town of Bir al-Abd when their armored vehicle was hit by a remotely-detonated bomb. The wounded were transferred to a military hospital in Sinai's coastal city of El-Arish. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the attacks with the media.\nFriday's bombing was the second in the past three days. On Wednesday, one member of the security forces was killed and three were wounded in a roadside bombing in a village near Rafah, a town on the border with the Gaza Strip.\nGet The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up\nThere was no clear claim of responsibility for Friday's attack, but the Islamic State group posted a statement on Friday, saying it was behind Wednesday's bombing and three other recent attacks. The claims could not be independently verified.\nEgypt has been battling an Islamic State-led insurgency in Sinai that intensified after the military overthrew an Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, in 2013. The militants have carried out scores of attacks, mainly targeting security forces and minority Christians.\nThe conflict has largely taken place out of the public arena, with journalists and outside observers barred from the area. So far, the fighting has not expanded to the southern end of the peninsula, where popular Red Sea tourist resorts are located.\nBut in 2015, an Islamic State bombing brought down over Sinai a Russian passenger plane that had departed from the resort Sharm el-Sheikh, killing all 224 people on board.\nIn February 2018, the Egyptian military launched a massive operation in Sinai and also in parts of the Nile Delta region and the desert along the country's western border with Libya. Since then, the pace of IS attacks has diminished.\nSource Link: https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/roadside-bombing-in-egypts-sinai-kills-2-police\/\nAt odds on Iran and settlements, Netanyahu and Biden can still avoid a brawl\nTwin suicide bombings strike Baghdad, killing at least 32\nSenior health official: UK virus variant putting pregnant women at greater risk","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Windows 10 users must update by this date, or risk putting their PC in danger\n15\/09\/2020 in Security\nWINDOWS 10 users have been placed on alert, with those running a specific version of the market-leading OS having to update their PCs quickly or risk putting their machines in danger.\nMicrosoft has today put scores of Windows 10 users on alert, with those running an older build of the world's most popular desktop OS needing to update ASAP. If you're among the Windows 10 users who still haven't updated from version 1903 (aka the Windows 10 May 2019 update) then you better do so fast as support for the patch will be ending soon. The Redmond-based tech giant has revealed that on December 8 the Windows 10 May 2019 update will be reaching its end of service.\nThis means Microsoft will stop providing technical support for the update from that date and will stop releasing bug fixes for newly discovered issues or security fixes for vulnerabilities.\nSo any Windows 10 users running version 1903 from that date risk opening their PCs up to a range of issues which could end up wreaking havoc on their machines.\nMicrosoft advises that anyone using software which reaches its end of service should upgrade as soon as possible to keep their PCs safe from attacks.\nThe news was revealed in an official post by Microsoft which said: \"Your computer will still work, but it could become more vulnerable to security risks and viruses because you won't receive new security updates or other quality updates.\n\"Microsoft offers complimentary support to ensure that your device has the latest updates installed and requires that your device be up to date before assisting with other technical support issues\".\nMicrosoft has said that support for all Windows 10 1903 editions will finish in December.\nThese editions are as follows: Windows 10 Home, version 1903, Windows 10 Pro version 1903, Windows 10 Pro Education version 1903, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations version 1903, Windows 10 Enterprise version 1903, Windows 10 Education version 1903, Windows 10 IoT Enterprise version 1903.\nThe Windows 10 makers added: \"These editions will no longer receive security updates after December 8, 2020.\n\"Customers who contact Microsoft Support after this date will be directed to update their device to the latest version of Windows 10 to remain supported.\"\nIf you're running Windows 10 version 1903 right now and wish to upgrade then you can do so manually by selecting 'check for updates' via the Windows Update screen.\nUpgrading to the latest version of Windows 10 not only brings with it the latest security fixes but the latest new features for the OS too.\nAnd one of these potential new, inbound features was reported by Express.co.uk earlier this week, with Microsoft testing enhanced video calling in Windows 10.\nThe hidden new feature, called Meet Now, was first spotted by Microsoft developer Rafael Rivera.\nRivera outlined how this feature works, with a shortcut button visible in the Windows 10 Taskbar which lets users quickly access a video call wherever they are in the OS.\nOnce this is clicked a window will then automatically appear asking you to 'create a meeting' or 'join a meeting.'\nTapping the button will then instantly start a call via Skype. The feature has been in testing, with it unclear if or when Microsoft will roll out the functionality to the millions of Windows 10 users around the world.\nWe're Evolve, and we're here to guide your business' digital transformation. With a wealth of experience deploying solutions and managing IT for various firms we are uniquely placed to help your business overcome the challenges posed by the current crisis and look optimistically to the future.\nYou can contact me on LinkedIn @davidatevolve, by telephone 020 8939 8481 or on our Contact Us page\nNews Source: https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Apple App Store downloads pass the two billion mark\nIt's official: the App Store is growing like a weed. This past July, Apple issued an App Store status report of sorts \u2014 stating that its on-device software distribution platform had amassed over 65,000 apps that had been collectively downloaded over 1.5 billion times. Astonishing, especially considering the App Store was only a year old at that point in time. Now, roughly two and a half months later, Apple just announced it has passed the two billion mark where downloads are concerned and its catalog contains over 85,000 apps. To recap, that's 500 million downloads and 20,000 new apps in less than three months. We wonder how many of them are to do lists.\nTags: 3G, 3GS, app store, Apple, Apps, downloads, Games, iPhone, ipod touch\nThis common drug might save people with COVID-19\nHere's why some retired Avengers will return to the MCU after 'Endgame'","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Energy Tech\nPV Inverters\/BOS\nAbout Renewable Energy\nAbout Cogeneration\nAbout Electric Vehicles\nAbout Energy Storage\nAbout Fuel Cells\nAbout Geothermal\nAbout Hydropower\nAbout Marine Energy\nAbout Solar Photovoltaics\nAbout Waste to Energy\neKPI's \u2013 Executive Summary\nWoREA Home\nUnincorporated Associations\nMerger Announcement\nDownload the NEW 2020 Media Kit!\nWORLD OF RENEWABLESHome of The World Renewable Energy Association\nAllBioenergyBlogs & OpinionCogenerationElectric VehiclesEnergy & UtilitiesEnergy StorageEnergy TechGeothermalHydropowerIndustry Press\nBagnall signs share purchase agreement for 100MW Swedish wind farm construction project\nTim Price - January 18, 2021\n15 January 2021: With reference to the release on 6 November 2020, Bagnall Energy Limited (\"Bagnall\") today announces that it has signed a share...\nThe expansion of the Siemens Gamesa 5.X platform picks up speed with 81 MW move into Finland\nSiemens Gamesa has struck an 81 MW deal with long-term customer Suomen Hy\u00f6tytuuli Oy to supply its most powerful onshore wind turbine, the SG...\nBlue World Technologies, developer and manufacturer of methanol fuel cells, is acquiring Danish Power Systems, a 25-year-old HT-PEM material research company\nOn 29 December 2020, the respective general assemblies at Blue World Technologies and Danish Power Systems approved a combination of the two companies, whereby...\nEIB and BPI provide EDP Renov\u00e1veis with \u20ac112 million to construct and operate two wind farms with a total capacity of 125 MW\nThe European Investment Bank (EIB) will provide \u20ac65 million and BPI an additional \u20ac47 million to EDP Renov\u00e1veis S.A. (EDPR), one of the main...\nEurope's first integrated EV charger and telematics solution for fleets\nTim Price - December 16, 2020\nLondon, 14 December 2020 \u2013 EO Charging (EO), the electric vehicle charge-point and charging software developer, announced that it has collaborated with Geotab, a global...\nVehicle Batteries: Abandon Pack, Module or Both, Questions IDTechEx\nThere is a race to 1000km battery-electric vehicles (BEV) and beyond. For aircraft, that means safety and intercontinental travel from the longer possible battery...\nIDTechEx Assesses Five Significant Electric Vehicle Opportunities in 2021\nThe COVID-19 pandemic has caused 2020 to become the pivotal year as the automotive industry goes through a once in a hundred-year transformation. Overall,...\nElectric Trucks Charging Towards Zero-Emission: New IDTechEx Report Forecasts the eTruck Market\nTim Price - November 23, 2020\nIn June 2020, the California Air Resources Board adopted new standards which mandate that 75% of new Class 4-8 ridged truck and 55% of...\neaction from Dr Alastair Martin, founder of Flexitricity, on the Prime Minister's Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution\nFlexitricity pioneered the demand-response industry in Britain, generating tens of millions for its energy partners since its launch in 2004. It is the first...\nClear Route to All Land Vehicles Being Solar, Reports IDTechEx\nTim Price - November 6, 2020\nThe good news keeps coming. The IDTechEx report, \"Solar Vehicles 2021-2041\" explains and forecasts. In October 2020, University of York in the UK, working...\nIDTechEx Explains how Electric Vehicles are Eliminating Rare-Earths\nTim Price - October 29, 2020\nMagnetic materials are key to producing electric vehicles. Many of the electric vehicles on the market use kilograms of magnetic materials to drive their...\nElectric Nation Vehicle to Grid project announces Flexitricity as first energy partner\nThe Electric Nation Vehicle to Grid (V2G) trial, a project of Western Power Distribution (WPD) and CrowdCharge that will demonstrate how electric vehicles (EVs)...\nThe 24 Million Electric Vehicles of 2020, Reveals IDTechEx\nThe electric vehicles market across land, sea and air will be 24 million unit sales this year, which represents a decline of roughly 19%...\nEV Batteries Made From Deep-Sea Rocks Dramatically Reduce Carbon\nTim Price - September 29, 2020\nVancouver, Canada \u2014 As the world rushes to replace fossil fuels with renewable sources of energy, new research shows that polymetallic rocks found on the...\nGresham House Energy Storage Fund adds 35MW further capacity, taking operational portfolio to 350MW\nGresham House Energy Storage Fund plc (LSE: GRID), the UK's largest operational utility-scale battery storage fund, has completed the acquisition of the 25MW Tynemouth...\nWorld's largest solar-powered vanadium flow battery coming to South Australia\nYadlamalka, South Australia will take centre stage in the race to decarbonize our global electricity system when the world's largest solar-powered vanadium flow battery...\nGresham House Energy Storage completes 50MW utility-scale Wickham battery project\nGresham House Energy Storage Fund PLC (LSE: GRID), the UK's largest operational utility-scale battery storage fund, has completed its investment in the 50MW battery...\nAggreko delivers grid stability to Texas with first battery storage system for PEC, nation's largest cooperative utility\nAggreko, the world's leading provider of mobile and modular power solutions, announces that it has completed the installation and commissioning of Pedernales Electric Cooperative's...\nUK'S LARGEST BATTERY READY TO BALANCE THE GRID\nGresham House Energy Storage Fund and flexible energy specialist Flexitricity have announced that the UK's largest battery is now live. Edinburgh based Flexitricity is optimising...\nUtility-scale energy storage system supplied by W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4 helps move Singapore towards a low-carbon energy future\nThe 2.4 MW\/2.4 MWh energy storage system (ESS) supplied by the technology group W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4 for Sunseap Energy Ventures of Singapore under an engineering, procurement...\nAzelio and JET ENERGY in MoU to develop storage projects with solar PV in Africa\nAzelio has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Morocco based JET ENERGY to explore energy storage projects with Azelio's TES.POD in Francophone Africa....\nPowerCell signs cooperation agreement with Soltech regarding fuel cell solutions for solar energy\nTim Price - September 8, 2020\nPowerCell Sweden AB has signed a Nordic cooperation agreement with Soltech Group regarding a joint development of stationary energy solutions based on the two...\nThe Shift to Solid-State Battery Technology is Next, reports IDTechEx\nElectric vehicles are expected to include solid-state batteries as an innovative approach, according to IDTechEx's research report \"Solid-State and Polymer Batteries 2020-2030: Technology, Patents,...\nSherin and Lodgen Represents STAG Industrial in Connection with Rooftop Leasing for Solar Installations in Illinois and Massachusetts\nBoston law firm Sherin and Lodgen LLP announces that its Renewable Energy Group represented STAG Industrial, Inc. in connection with rooftop solar leasing for two solar installations \u2013...\nEY agrees its first zero carbon Power Purchase Agreement in UK with solar energy farm\nTim Price - December 8, 2020\nLondon, Tuesday, 8 December 2020: EY has today announced a 10-year zero carbon Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in the UK. EY's long-term commitment significantly contributes...\nDTEK Kyiv Grids connects Ukraine's largest rooftop solar power system to grid\nDTEK Kyiv Grids has connected Ukraine's largest commercial rooftop solar power system to the grid. The solar project, located in the neighborhood of Troyeshchyna,...\nEvery UK home will be powered by offshore wind by 2030, Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledges\nTim Price - October 6, 2020\nEvery home in the country will be powered by offshore wind within 10 years, Boris Johnson will tell the Conservative conference on Tuesday as...\nU.S. Solar + Wind Grow 16% as Renewable Sources Provide More Electricity Than Either Coal or Nuclear Power\nTim Price - August 27, 2020\nWashington DC \u2013 Renewable energy sources (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) produced significantly more electricity than either coal or nuclear power during the...\nDOUBLE SIDED SOLAR PANELS HAVE ARRIVED AND THEY'RE 35% MORE EFFECTIVE\nTim Price - June 7, 2020\nDouble sided solar panels which collect light on both sides and move to follow the sun's position produce over a third more energy than...\nSolar farms 'on the up' desite lockdown\nTim Price - May 28, 2020\nRenewable energy, particularly solar, is on the up with the UK's clean energy sector looking better than ever. According to the recently released EY...\nHeating technology for the Antarctic: my-PV's power managers provide hot water and heating from solar power\nTim Price - April 6, 2020\nNeuzeug, Austria, 06.04.2020. The engineers at the Princess Elisabeth research station in Antarctica installed five power controllers from my-PV at the end of March....\nWorld's Largest Wind Turbine Can Power A House For Two Days With One Spin\nUS company General Electric has created a wind turbine that is so powerful that it can power a household for two full days with only one spin of its...\nAquila European Renewables Income Fund plc to acquire its first project in Greece\nAquila European Renewables Income Fund plc (\"AERIF\" or \"the Company\"), the London-listed investment company advised by Aquila Capital Investmentgesellschaft mbH, is pleased to announce...\nGWEC AND INFORMA JOIN FORCES TO CREATE WORLD LEADING WIND ENERGY EVENTS\nLONDON, 16 December 2020 \u2013 The Global Wind Energy Council (\"GWEC\"), the trade organisation representing the global wind industry, and Informa Markets, the world's...\nFred. Olsen Renewables granted planning consent for Paul's Hill II Wind Farm in Moray\nFred. Olsen Renewables has welcomed the approval by Scottish Ministers of its application to develop Paul's Hill II Wind Farm in Moray. The six...\nNorway launches major wind power research centre\nDecember 11th, 2020, TRONDHEIM, NORWAY \u2013 Today the Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Tina Bru, announced an investment of 120 million NOK (11.3...\nUK faces tough pricing choices to fill offshore wind supply gaps\nNew content rules for UK offshore wind projects should spur local manufacturing growth but cross-industry collaboration is needed and compliance penalties must not endanger...\nSiemens Gamesa strengthens its partnership with European Energy to supply wind farms in Sweden and Poland\nSiemens Gamesa has signed four contracts with fast growing independent renewable energy company European Energy to install four wind farms in Sweden and Poland...\nGETI 2021: resilient renewables professionals positive for years ahead\nLONDON, UK, 12 January 2021, The fifth annual Global Energy Talent Index (GETI), the world's largest energy recruitment and employment trends report, is released...\nMackie's of Scotland to cut energy use by up to 80%\nA \u00a34.5 million low carbon refrigeration system that will enable an ice cream brand to cut energy use by up to 80% has taken...\nRenewables Are 71% of New U.S. Electrical Generating Capacity Year-to-Date (and 100% June-November)\nTim Price - January 7, 2021\nWashington DC \u2013 According to a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data just released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), renewable...\nSEEIT makes further investment in US portfolio\nSEEIT is pleased to announce that it has acquired an additional 15% interest in Primary Energy, a portfolio of recycled energy and cogeneration projects...\nWORLD OF RENEWABLES\nAllBioenergyBlogs & OpinionCogenerationElectric Vehicles\nRising electricity demand to fuel digital substation market growth over 2019-2025\nFueled by growing electricity needs, that are driving demand for reliable and safe electrical networks, digital substation market is anticipated to undergo a period...\nAs Home Energy Usage Spikes by 30% During Lockdown \u2013 85% of Brits Unaware Of Their Electricity Usage \u2013 SaveMoneyCutCarbon.com Energy & Water Survey...\nAs lockdown measures in the UK persist due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a clear knock-on effect is that people are using more energy and...\nEIB reaffirms commitment to a European battery industry to boost green recovery\nAt a meeting of the European Battery Alliance on Tuesday 19 May, European Investment Bank (EIB) Vice-President Andrew McDowell, confirmed the Bank's commitment to...\nPeterborough council-led partnership to design the largest smart city regeneration project in the UK\nTim Price - February 26, 2020\nPlans for the design of the largest smart city-wide energy system in the UK have been unveiled. The \u00a32m scheme will cut energy bills...\nBarclays backs University of Worcester to deliver its Green agenda\nBarclays has worked with the University of Worcester to agree a \u00a32m Green Asset Finance fund, which will be used to deliver on the...\nAdd My Case Study\nThe future is bright for off-grid renewable energy firm Prolectric Services Ltd following \u00a32.75m investment\nThe UK's largest supplier of off-grid renewable energy solutions is set for a brighter future following a \u00a32.75 million investment. Prolectric Services Ltd is to...\nEIB joins Rockefeller Foundation's call to action to provide sustainable energy for one billion people by 2030\nDevelopment finance, global energy, and multilateral agencies to accelerate electrification as the cornerstone of an equitable, global economic recovery New global coalition to...\nEvents Calendar & Media Partners\nJoin WoREA FREE Today!\nENTSORGA-ENTECO 2009\nBy WoREA Editorial Team\nTop 10 Wind Turbine Manufacturers in India 2019\nRenewable energy projects: The global rise of Proxy Revenue Swaps\nBlogs & Opinion: What are the advantages of virtual power plants?\nCase Study: Stokes Marsh Solar Farm, Gamma Solutions\nWoREA Editorial Teamhttp:\/\/www.worldofrenewables.com\/worea\nThe International Trade Fair for Recycling Management and Environmental Technology in Cologne, from 27 to 30 October 2009\nInternational eco-industry meets up for the business platform of the year in Cologne\nEntsorga-Enteco 2009 brings together all the market participants in international recycling management and environmental technology. International presence never higher, among exhibitors and visitors alike. Topclass supporting programme, dealing with the latest topics.\nThe International Trade Fair for Recycling Management and Environmental Technology in Cologne, from 27 to 30 October 2009, once again offers trade visitors from all around the world a first-class spectacle. After conceptual restructuring with a strong emphasis on environmental technology, which was implemented extremely successfully at the last event in October 2006, ENTSORGA-ENTECO combines \u2013 for the second time \u2013 all sectors of the international recycling management industry and environmental technology in the Cathedral city.\nEntsorga-Enteco reflects the entire market like no other event this year, with offerings under the headings \"Waste Management and Recycling\", \"Incineration and Renewable Energies\", \"Water and Liquid Waste\", Local Authority and Environmental Services\", \"Technology and Logistics\", \"Air Quality Control and Emissions Protection\", \"Health and Safety at Work and Noise Protection\", as well as \"Research and Organisation\". Cologne, located in the heart of North Rhine Westphalia, offers the ideal conditions for this. North Rhine Westphalia has the largest environmental market in Germany. Recycling management and\nenvironmental technology are important economic factors, promoted by economic policy, and are key technologies in the state.\nKoelnmesse, along with the organisers and the conceptual sponsors of ENTSORGA-ENTECO, the Federal Association of the German Waste Disposal Industry (BDE) and the German Engineering Federation (VDMA) Associations for Thermal Processing and Waste Management Technology and General Air-Handling Technology, are committed to extending still further the international relevance and appeal of the event in 2009.\n\"The wide range of products and services makes Entsorga-Enteco the leading event of its type in 2009. By enhancing the international nature of the event we are further extending its role both at home and abroad,\" says Gerald B\u00f6se, CEO of Koelnmesse GmbH. A good four months before Entsorga-Enteco 2009, the event appears ideally set up to assume a trend-setting position in the market once again. Around 800\nexhibitors from over 20 countries are expected in halls 6, 7 and 8, as well as on the Koelnmesse open-air site. Following on from 2006, when Entsorga-Enteco boasted an impressive international presence amounting to about. 25 % among the exhibitors and 30 % on the visitors' side, this year's event already promises an equally good outcome. Groups from the United Kingdom, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Russia and Finland have already announced their intention to attend Entsorga-Enteco 2009. Conversations are currently being conducted with other interested parties from countries such as China, Japan and the Netherlands.\nInternationality is also being expanded on the visitor side. To this end intensive contact has been initiated with influential bodies such as trade associations, chambers of commerce and ministries abroad. Decision-makers from France, Finland, Rumania, Singapore, Kazakhstan, China and Korea have already announced their intention to visit Entsorga-Enteco 2009. \"We are looking forward to another top-quality Entsorga-Enteco, which will provide the market with some important stimuli\", says Matthias Raith, CEO of the BDE. The VDMA is also heading into the finishing straight for Entsorga-Enteco 2009.\n\"Our members are already making intensive preparations for their appearance at the trade fair. VDMA will also once again be heavily involved in the technical supporting programme for Entsorga-Enteco,\" stresses Dr. Gutmann Habig, Chairman of the Association for Thermal Process and Waste Technology in the VDMA. Once again this year we will also be reinforcing the technology side of waste disposal technology and air pollution control, paying special regard to energy efficient solutions\" adds Dr. Thomas Schr\u00e4der, Chairman of the trade association Air-Handling Technology in the VDMA.\nTechnical supporting programme picks up on some new trends. This year's Entsorga-Enteco is for the first time all about two trend topics. These are \"Climate and Resource Protection\" and \"Energy Efficiency in\nEnvironmental Technology\" These themes also form the umbrella for the technical supporting programme. Lectures, forums and special shows, all precisely tailored to the needs of the industry, will supplement the exhibition area and reinforce the attractive range of options at the event. Central piazza combines elements of the supporting programme For the first time a central piazza acting as a special communication platform will combine numerous elements of the supporting programme, such as podium discussions, the special show entitled \"CO2 \u2013 a Substance and its History\" or the \"Speakers' Corner\". An integrated catering area offers the perfect opportunity to exchange ideas and impressions.\nEastern European Environmental Summit\nParticular attention is devoted to the young environmental markets in the new EU member states. The focus here is on market analysis, investment needs and a contact point for interested parties. In addition to which, exhibitor and visitor groups from Eastern Europe are being invited, the development of the Eastern European environmental market will be presented and business matchmaking will be offered in the context of the Eastern European Environmental Summit, which takes place from 29 to 30 October.\nEnvironmental Market UK\nGreat Britain, a powerful partner nation from the west of Europe, will be presenting its own national concept. The UK environmental market brings together supply and demand for necessary technologies and services, offering a platform for making contacts and exchanging ideas. High-ranking British delegations, with representatives from the environmental management sector and politics, are expected in Cologne to offer concrete projects to interested exhibitors and visitors at the trade fair. Environmental Market UK takes place on 28 October.\nVDMA Practical Biomass Processing Days\nFollowing their great success in the context of Entsorga-Enteco 2006, the VDMA will again be presenting its VDMA Preparation Technology Practical Days. On the open-air site of Entsorga-Enteco, the capabilities of the machinery and plant providers will be very clearly demonstrated to guided groups, covering numerous machines such as filtration systems or macerators, in the various stages of biomass processing. Active corporate succession deals with an important topic for the industry.\nThe topic of corporate succession is one of special significance for the recycling management and environmental technology industry, largely made up as it is of medium-sized businesses. In cooperation with HMO Management Consult, Entsorga-Enteco will be offering its exhibitors and visitors a comprehensive range of information on how corporate succession can be handled, throughout the whole exhibition period.\nNumerous trade events and membership meetings at Entsorga-Enteco. Numerous additional association events supplement the Entsorga-Enteco programme and underline its significance as the industry platform of the year. For example, the VKS in the VKU (the association of local authority waste management and town cleaning services in the association of local public enterprises) is once again holding its meeting of members in the course of the trade fair, along with podium discussions and trade events. The EdDE (the waste management cooperative of the German waste management industry), the VBU (the association of company representatives for environmental protection) and the BDE (the German federation of waste management companies) will also be using the opportunity to meet up with their members in Cologne.\nOnline Shop open with immediate effect\nEntsorga-Enteco 2009 will be open from 9 am to 6 pm every day from 27 to 30 October. Visitors enter the halls via the North entrance to Koelnmesse. The entry tickets also act as free tickets for the entire local public transport network in the VRS [Rhine-Sieg] region. Entry tickets can be bought in advance via K\u00f6ln-Ticket, or with immediate effect directly via the Online Shop at www.entsorgaenteco.de.\nFor more information visit: www.entsorga-enteco.de\nentsorga-enteco\nWaste Events\nPrevious articleBiofuel development attracts P83-B investments since 2007\nNext articleCo-develop Proprietary Crop Protection Traits\nsampurl September 22, 2009\tAt\t2:49 pm\nENTSORGA-ENTECO 2009 is an official media partner of WorldofRenewables\nEmail the Association\nEmail us with your general enquiry\nEmail Editorial Team\nSubmit your company news and\/or press release\nJoin The World Renewable Energy Association\nSubmit My News\nNetwork News Feeds\n\u00a9 World Of Renewables | The World Renewable Energy Association","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bill Sullivan, Tampa Tower and TRACON\nOn March 1, 2012, air traffic controller Bill Sullivan was directing a Piper Malibu [PA-46, N377HC] from Tampa Executive Airport to Tampa International Airport (TPA). But shortly after takeoff, the pilot declared an emergency due to flight control problems.\nN377HC: Seven Hotel Charlie we got an emergency.\nSullivan: Seven Hotel Charlie state the nature of the emergency.\nN377HC: I'm losing my controls.\nSullivan: Alright sir, do you need, do you want to land at Tampa International? Do you want to land back at Vandenburg? Or where do you want to go?\nN377HC: You tell me, I'm trying to get my act together.\nRealizing his best plan of action would be redirecting the pilot back to Tampa Executive, Sullivan began giving him the necessary coordinates to return to the airport. At the same time, he began handing off some of his workload so he could focus on the situation at hand and ensure that the service to the other flights he was responsible for would not be degraded.\nThe pilot was in clear distress. His breathing became rapid and he was unable to communicate his situation with Sullivan as he attempted to steer the aircraft in response to the turns being issued.\nSullivan continued directing the pilot until he finally saw the airport.\nN377HC: How much further is this airport?\nSullivan: Seven Hotel Charlie, at your 11-10 o'clock now in about two and a half miles. It's just on the other side of that interstate, sir\u2026\nSullivan worked for several more minutes to assist the pilot in finding the airport, repeatedly pointing out its proximity to the interstate.\nN377HC: Seven Hotel Charlie, got it! Finally!\nSullivan: Okay, sir. You can go ahead and resume navigation to the airport.\nN377HC: Don't leave me; this ain't over.\nSullivan: No, sir. I'll be right here.\nSullivan stayed with the pilot until he landed safely. When the pilot did land, he asked Sullivan for a favor \u2013 could he place an important phone call? The pilot asked if Sullivan could call his wife and let her know that he was no longer going to be at Tampa International and would need to be picked up at Tampa Executive.\nSometimes, being an air traffic controller is more than just directing air traffic. Sometimes you might need to direct someone's wife to an airport.\nA transcript of this recording can be found HERE.\nListen to the highlights of this event:","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Classic and Retro Manchester United Football Shirts\nThe Red Devils seem to have attracted almost as many column inches discussing their kits as they have regarding their football. Even today their kits are in the news as thousands of supporters regularly don replica versions of the yellow and green halved jerseys worn by the team in their Newton Heath days as a mark of protest against the Glazers' continued ownership of the club.But it is United's regular combination of red football shirts, white shorts and black socks that are known and feared throughout football. The club first wore the strip in 1902 which coincided with their name change to 'Manchester United', and apart from, most notably, a five year period in the 1920s when they pulled on all white kit with a large red 'V' on the chest, it has been sported by the Old Trafford side pretty much ever since. The club have always paid great attention to their kit. In 1955 they were one of the first, if not the first, to wear new continental-style lightweight V-neck shirts and the side still regularly switch to black shorts away from home if a shorts colour clash occurs. Of late, under Sir Alex Ferguson's guidance, they have also started wearing white socks in evening games, especially in Europe, with the colour deemed to be more visible under floodlights than black. White is United's traditional away colour, although blue has often also been worn. The club's infamous grey invisible away kit from the 1995-96 season has gone down in kit folklore after Fergie, during a match at Southampton with the Red Devils losing 3-0, claimed that his grey-clad players couldn't see each other on the pitch and demanded that the team switch to their blue third kit at half time. It made no difference and the Saints still won the game. Sharp Electronics were the club's first sponsor in 1982 and remained with the club for an incredible 18 years.\n1982-83 Manchester United Home Shirt S\n1986-88 Manchester United Third Shirt M\n1988-90 Manchester United Home Shirt L.Boys\n1988-90 Manchester United Third Shirt L.Boys\n1990-92 Manchester United Away Shirt L\n1990-92 Manchester United Away Shirt S\n1990-92 Manchester United Away Shirt Y\n1990-92 Manchester United Home Shirt L\n1991 Manchester United European Cup Winners Cup Shirt L\n1991 Manchester United European Cup Winners Cup Shirt M\n1991 Manchester United European Cup Winners Cup Shirt S\n1992-93 Manchester United Away Shirt L.Boys\n1992-93 Manchester United Away Shirt XL\n1992-93 Manchester United Umbro Bomber Jacket L","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"October 24, 2018 Special Sections \u00bb Best of Rochester\nBest Breakfast Sandwich: Fair Pour Caf\u00e9's 'The Jammy Sammy'\nLike most folks, I've had my fair share of breakfast sandwiches. It's a simple, yet tried-and-true concoction that consists of more or less the same ingredients: some sort of bread, meat, egg and cheese. There are dozens of variations and many have their favorites. And now, I have a new one. I tried \"The Jammy Sammy\" at Fair Pour Caf\u00e9 (6 North Main Street, #125 in Fairport) earlier this year while having coffee with my cousin. She ordered it first, and I followed suit, thinking the combination of a Bianca roll, fried egg, goat cheese, triple berry jam and arugula sounded different and intriguing. It wasn't just intriguing \u2013 it was succulently orgasmic.\nOne bite and the runny yolk and jam oozed out of every corner of the crusty roll. The creamy, tangy goat cheese played well against the sweet berry jam and the peppery notes of arugula. It just hit every note of my palate, creating a perfectly rounded and delicious breakfast. It's messy, but worth it. It's one of the few times in my life I've licked the plate (in public). fairpour.com\n\u2014 BY KATHY LALUK\nBest New Rochester Transplant: Other Half Brewing\nThe craft beer movement has exploded over the last decade, and Rochester's rabid fans always seem to be itching for more. Other Half Brewing from Brooklyn witnessed this firsthand, when hundreds lined up before sunrise on a cold, wintery Saturday morning in March for a mobile can release at Tap and Mallet in the South Wedge. The brewers sold out of 400 cases of their product by noon.\nThen in July, it was announced that Other Half had bought the space formerly occupied by Nedloh Brewing Co. (which closed last fall) at 6621 Routes 5 and 20 in East Bloomfield and planned to open up shop here, bringing with them their hoppy IPA's that drives beer nerds wild. It's not to say the Rochester area doesn't have a strong craft beer scene already (it does), but I don't think adding another option is something craft beer fans will object to (I don't). Other Half's expected open date is as hazy as its brews, and is dependent somewhat on state and local permit approvals, but when it does crack open, I expect drinkers will welcome this new Rochester transplant with open arms and a hearty \"Cheers!\" otherhalfbrewing.com\nBest Bait & Switch of 2018: Downtown Parking Meter Prices\nRochester leaders have long aimed to bring more people downtown to boost business and tourism. But parking is usually an issue. I've heard people complain there simply isn't enough parking, or that it's too expensive. So it caught many downtown businesses off guard when in late June, the city extended metered parking times by two hours to 8 p.m. The city's reasoning? It needed the extra revenue. That's understandable. But many business owners were outraged, complaining that customers wouldn't come downtown for dinner or other evening activities because of it, or they'd simply give their money to Uber or Lyft instead.\nBy late August, city leaders had seemingly bent to the pressure, and the metered parking times went back to its original hours (8 a.m.-6 p.m. on weekdays), but with a higher rate of $2 an hour instead of $1.50. I don't know if the extra 50 cents an hour will still be a deterrent to people coming downtown. I don't know if it'll help the city make up the difference in the budget. I don't know if this was the city's plan all along. What I do know is that it's an awfully convenient way to quiet the noise, at least in the short run.\nBest Long-Overdue Decision: Settling on a new DMV location within city limits\nA major piece that gets lost in the talk of Rochester's urban renewal is livability: maintaining a safe place to work, play, live, learn, mingle, and manage basic needs. Rochester has a long way to go on this issue, but it's worth noting a small, easily forgettable decision that made many Rochesterians' experience a bit more livable. A permanent Department of Motor Vehicles office in downtown Rochester has at last been opened. For 15 years, city residents had to guess or Google where to complete mandatory, mundane tasks like renewing a license or ID, surrendering plates, or applying for a driver's permit.\nDMVs existed in Irondequoit, Greece, Henrietta and other suburbs. The city of Rochester was covered by a roving unit with limited hours, shuffling from location to location \u2013 much to the detriment of the region's 16,000-plus bus riders, the poor, and anyone who didn't want to go to a strip mall to update their registration. More than a Morton's The Steakhouse, another brewery, coffeehouse or bar named after a verb, this addition is a plus for most of Rochester.\n\u2014 BY JAMES BROWN\nBest Resource for Aspiring Filmmakers: Animatus Studio\nIn a building tucked back slightly from the road at 34 Winthrop Street in downtown Rochester, Animatus Studio has an unassuming appearance, in keeping with its status as one of the more unsung institutions of the city's film culture. And inside, Animatus is a veritable hive of creativity. Founded by filmmaker Fred Armstrong, the studio is brimming with ephemera from animation history, including an entire room devoted to The Beatles' \"Yellow Submarine,\" the film that first opened Armstrong's eyes to the more unconventional possibilities of the medium.\nIn addition to being a full-service animation studio, Animatus offers workshops for aspiring movie-makers throughout the year, providing training in traditional, paper cut-out, and clay animation techniques. Over the years, the studio has produced some impressive alumni, Oscar-winning Disney animator Brian Menz (\"Frozen,\" \"Big Hero 6\") being just one example. Animation is Armstrong's calling, and through Animatus \u2013 celebrating its 30th anniversary this coming year \u2013 he continues to spread that passion by inspiring a new generation of young filmmakers. animatusstudio.com\n\u2014 BY ADAM LUBITOW\nBest Smile: Ruby Sparkles\nRuby Sparkles is Rochester's premier peeler-and-squealer, a buxom stripteaser who, as everybody knows, likes to dispose of her clothes on the bandstand. Of all the burlesque practitioners in Rochester, Ruby Sparkles is the most traditional performer, carrying the torch of those who shimmied and shook generations before her \u2013 legends like Blaze Starr, Tempest Storm, and Dixie Evans. But it's not her legs as she prances just out of reach. Nor is it her pasties as she spins them like twin lawn-mower blades. No, it's her infectious smile: like a come-hither kiss, a silent laugh that as a topper to her performance, all adds up to WOW.facebook.com\/SirensStilettosCabaret\/\n\u2014 BY FRANK DE BLASE\nBest Concert Trend\/Overkill: Tribute Shows\nTribute shows have taken hold in the Rochester music scene, with no signs of easing up. Did it happen overnight? Seemingly, there isn't a week that goes by without a local band playing a classic rock album live, in its entirety, or a collective of musicians paying homage to an influential musical legend with a set wholly populated by covers. I don't mean to go full-curmudgeon. I've toyed with the idea of planning a Jeff Buckley tribute show myself. Great music and the consequential artists who've created it deserve to be celebrated. And if concertgoers clamor for it, and the hosting venues and promoters benefit from increased traffic and revenue, I say \"Godspeed.\nBut there are such things as diminishing returns, and I worry that if the local scene is consistently saturated with such concerts, it could dilute the meaningfulness of such events in the future. Additionally, more time and value given to the performance of covers mean Rochester musicians have less opportunity to showcase their own songs. But I'm a naysayer with solutions. What if artists performed covers of an icon alongside originals inspired by that artist? I'm just sayin'.\n\u2014 BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER\nBest Road for International Food: Clinton Avenue\nRochester's cultural diversity is one its greatest qualities, and it's abundantly clear from the plethora of international cuisine options in the city. To get a flavor for foods from a wide swathe of cultural traditions, a tour of Clinton Avenue may be your best bet. On South Clinton Avenue, just past South Goodman Street, a veritable cornucopia awaits.\nIndia House, at 998 South Clinton Avenue, is a mainstay; a bit farther south on the road, Ming's Noodle at 1038 South Clinton Avenue offers a variety of hearty Asian soups, including pho. For first-rate sushi, Shiki is mere steps away at 1054 South Clinton Avenue. And Ethiopian food is your jam, you can choose between Zemeta, 1009 South Clinton Avenue, and Addis Ababa, nearby at 752 South Goodman Street. There are plenty of choices on North Clinton Avenue as well. Sobrinos, at 1456 North Clinton Avenue, serves traditional fare from multiple Hispanic culinary traditions; meanwhile, on 973 North Clinton Avenue, El Pil\u00f3n Criollo focuses on mouth-watering Puerto Rican foods. Atlas Eats, located at 2185 North Clinton Avenue, features influences spanning from the Mediterranean to the Korean peninsula. Whether you're headed north or south, no street in Rochester is more densely populated with varied restaurants featuring dishes from all over the world than Clinton Avenue.\nTags: Best of Rochester\nMore Best of Rochester \u00bb\nBest of Rochester\nWere you there? Photos from the Best of Rochester 2018 party\nCITY Newspaper held its Best of Rochester party in the Village Gate atrium on Tuesday night, October 23. Nominees gathered to celebrate, dance, and mingle while sampling some of the finest food and drink that Rochester has to offer.\nBEST GOODS AND SERVICES\nBEST BIKE SHOPPark Ave Bike 600 Jay Scutti Boulevard, (585) 427-2110; 3400 Monroe Avenue, (585) 381-3080. parkavebike.com\nBy Ryan Williamson Oct 24, 2018\nBEST NEW BAR\/CLUB The Spirit Room 139 State Street. (585) 397-7595; facebook.com\/TheSpiritRoomRochester\nBEST LOCAL COLOR\nBEST LOCAL ACTIVIST GROUPOut Alliance 100 College Avenue. (585) 244-8640; gayalliance.org\nBEST FOOD & DRINK\nBEST PIZZA Pontillo's Pizzeria Many area locations. pontillospizza.com\nHello, CITY readers. It's time to reveal the results for Best of Rochester 2018, our own \"Showcase Showdown,\" if you will. It's been quite the contest to get this far: More than 12,000 contestants gave us their best and final answers in our Best of Rochester readers' poll, spanning 100 different categories.\n[ OUTTAKES ] BY CITY READERS Off-the-cuff, sometimes off-color responses to our Best of Rochester 2018 Primary Ballot WE'RE AWARE (Best Source of Rochester Pride) \"You know it's Wegmans.\"\nBy City readers Oct 24, 2018\nBEST ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT\nBEST LOCAL ORIGINAL BANDJoywave @joywavemusic; joywavemusic.com Stavo | The Stedwells | Teagan and the Tweeds\nLatest in Best of Rochester\nExplore the Best of Rochester\nBest Goods & Services\nVOTE NOW: Best of Rochester 2018 Primary Ballot\nVOTE NOW: Best of Rochester 2018 Final Ballot","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"About Hi Tech Wiki\nHiTech Wiki\nHome Entertainment More beautiful life: Cauet furious of the episode on Jean-Paul Belmondo?\nMore beautiful life: Cauet furious of the episode on Jean-Paul Belmondo?\nOnlee Monie\nCauet has big. The radio host confided that he was furious at the episode of Plus belle la vie devoted to Jean-Paul Belmondo.\nS\u00e9bastien Cauet is angry. The radio host said he found shameful the tribute episode dedicated to Jean-Paul Belmondo in Plus belle la vie. MCE TV tells you more.\nCauet does not appreciate the homage paid to Jean-Paul Belmondo\nFrench actor Jean-Paul Belmondo has therefore passed away. At the age of 88. So this Thursday, September 9, a tribute will be paid to him. Aux Invalides. AParis.\nSince the announcement of his death, messages of love and support have therefore multiplied. On social networks. The series Plus belle la vie even decided to organize a special episode to honor his memory.\nAnd among the personalities to have given him back a last tribute, we quote Cauet. The host of NRJ radio wanted to pay him a last tribute on Instagram.\n\"I am so honored to have met you\u2026 Goodbye Mr. Belmondo\", he wrote via his Instagram account. A liked message thousands of times on Instagram.\nYesterday, the radio host thus confided that'he hadn't liked the tribute at all returned to Jean-Paul Belmondo. In the series Plus belle la vie. According to him, this episode was not up to par. Oh no.\nThe 49-year-old host could not contain himself while watching the episode of Plus belle la vie. \"It's bad, and very badly played. And besides, it's an absolute disgrace. It's shameful, it doesn't mean anything \", he said.\nMore beautiful life Cauet furious of the episode on Jean-Paul Belmondo?\nTributes to Jean-Paul Belmondo multiply\nFan of the actor, Cauet therefore did not appreciate the scenes where the actors remember the filmography of the actor. So that didn't stop him from pay tribute to him on Instagram. He is not the only one.\nThis Thursday, September 9 must therefore be held the farewell ceremony to the actor. The ceremony should start at 4:30 p.m.. In the main courtyard of the H\u00f4tel des Invalides.\nSeveral hundred people are therefore expected. Among them, the family of Jean-Paul Belmondo. His relatives. But also the President of the Republic. Emmanuel Macron. But also Brigitte Macron.\nWe therefore learn via France Info that several members of the government and the political class, as well as French actors, will therefore make the trip. For this ceremony. Just that.\n\"Behind them, under the arcades. There will be audiences. 1000 people. They will have been able to return without prior invitation. But by presenting a health pass. \", do we learn via France Info.\nRegarding the homage in question, it is expected thatEmmanuel Macron therefore makes a speech. To salute the life of Jean-Paul Belmondo. The Marseillaise will sound, just after the minute of silence.\nIn the special episode of Plus belle la vie, the actors took turns to quote the various films in which Belmondo starred.\nMirta Torres and La\u00ebtitia Belesta, two characters from Plus belle la vie, have therefore made cinematographic references by evoking in particular L'As des As, Breathless Where The professional. \"Bebel is therefore gone\", Kevin's mom then launched. And Mirta and Boher answer respectively: \"We can therefore say that he had the itinerary of a spoiled child. \", \" The magnificent \".\nTags : cauet \u2013 episode \u2013 France 3 \u2013 tribute \u2013 Jean-Paul Belmondo \u2013 Plus Belle La Vie \u2013 series\nPrevious articleSteam Deck: Valve's portable console will ship at the end of February\nNext articlewith this trick, Cdiscount explodes its price for sales\nSquid Game: this clue proves that In-ho is not a real villain!\nTomorrow belongs to us: Lizzie makes a declaration of love to Dorian!\nHarry Potter: These Facts Prove Dumbledore Is A Real Villain!\nFantastic Beasts 3: title, new release date and official synopsis\nAfter several months of chaos following the affair between Johnny Depp and his ex-wife, we know more about the third installment of the Harry...\n17 studios are working on first-party PS5 games\nWe're running out of consoles, but we're not going to run out of games While it is always complicated to obtain a new generation console,...\nThe best Warzone class of QBZ-83: accessories, assets\u2026\nA size hint just revealed that the character of In-ho in Squid Game might not be a villain in the story.Analysis of the series...\nAgainst viruses and ransomware, this Mac antivirus offers top security (-65%)\nDead Cells: The Queen and the Sea gets an animated trailer release\nMotion Twin's excellent Dead Cells receives today a new DLC titled The Queen and the Sea. To celebrate the release, the studio is...\nHere we are ! In the series Tomorrow belongs to us, Lizzie will make a beautiful declaration of love to Dorian. MCE...\nGuide Amphinobi (Greninja) Pok\u00e9mon Unite | Capacities, build \u2026\nFind out how to play the mysterious Amphinobi in Pok\u00e9mon Unite. Follow our guide to choose the best items and abilities to drown...\nHigh end technology is the future and while research in these fields happen around closed doors, HiTechWiki.com is your window to those behind the closed doors areas as we bring to you the latest in greatest in Hi-Tech, Sci-Tech from around the world.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Canada Dance Mapping Study: Literature Review\nCanada Dance Mapping Study: Literature Review2013-07-242013-07-24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hill-strategies-white-bg-3.pngHill Strategies Research Inc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hill-strategies-white-bg-3.png200px200px\nJuly 24, 201324 July 2013\nInformation about arts disciplines \u2013 dance, orchestras, documentaries\nhttp:\/\/www.canadacouncil.ca\/en\/dance\/dance-mapping-study\nA component of the Canada Dance Mapping Study \u2013 which seeks to provide a comprehensive profile of the breadth and dance activity across Canada \u2013 this literature review examines a number of research sources regarding the state of dance in Canada, including professional, non-professional, and social dance. The report also identifies gaps in the research literature regarding dance. In fact, the report indicates that there is a \"lack of literature and documentation that captures the full scope and breadth of dance\". In particular, the report notes that the non-professional dance area is poorly covered by existing research.\nThe literature review is organized around six key themes: dance policy, economics, ecology, social aspects, digital technologies, and artistic expression. Regarding dance policy, the report outlines cultural policy orientations at the federal and provincial levels, including copyright legislation, the impact of digital technologies, \"streamlining of funding support\", emphasis on quality of life, arts education, professional development, and \"the importance of foreign markets for artists and arts organizations\". The report also notes that there has been a \"historical lack of access to programs by culturally diverse artists\".\nRegarding the economic situation of dance, the report indicates that there has been a \"globalization of the dance economy\". In Canada, the report points out that \"there are no specific studies that provide an analysis of the contribution of the dance field to the creative and general economy\". The report highlights the \"lack of growth in public funding to the professional dance sector\" in a context of a \"doubling of the number of companies funded\" by public funders. The literature review indicates that, despite increases in earned and private sector support, this situation has led to a lack of stability, with dance organizations struggling \"to plan ahead, maintain quality, and attract and retain talented staff\".\nThe dance ecology is comprised of more than 100 professional companies in Canada, although this number probably excludes \"many emerging and 'micro' companies\" as well as some new dance styles and some companies expressing diverse and Aboriginal cultures. The number of professional dancers is estimated to be over 7,300, and they have, on average, over eight years of professional training. Despite this level of training, dancers typically have \"very low wages and primarily contract work or self-employment\". The literature review notes that the dance infrastructure (defined to include facilities, personnel, and other systems supporting professional dance) \"is the least developed of all the performing arts\".\nAccording to the study, the social aspect of dance is not well documented, although there do \"appear to be many avenues for Canadians to engage with dance socially\", including opportunities to take lessons, attend presentations, and participate in competitions. One of the areas where a report does exist relates to Aboriginal dance participation, where the report cites \"a large number of dance groups and great uptake by powwows and in the schools\".\nThe literature review indicates that \"new digital technologies have had an enormous impact on dance in Canada\", with many artists integrating video and animation into dance creation. Overall, \"Canadian dance artists are recognized pioneers in the development and integration of interactive computer applications to dance making\". Dance is accessible on television competitions and via digital distribution of dance videos.\nRegarding artistic expression, the report cites the wide range of dance practices in Canada, but research sources reviewed in the report indicate that there is a \"lack of resources to sustain innovation for the benefit of Canadian and international audiences\". Key factors in the development of dance expression include \"opportunities for risk-taking and creative renewal\", critical discourse, access to foreign markets, \"opportunities for touring and cultural exchanges\", as well as the further integration of digital technologies into dance works.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Heavenly Hotels\nIrish Living in France\nMy France\nTake Five: Places to Visit in 2014\nJanuary 6, 2014 Updated: 03:38:00\nAs another year is upon us, thoughts are turning already to the summer and to dreams of destinations sunnier. Tootlafrance.ie takes a look at some up-and-coming destinations in France which any visitor to France should target in 2014.\n1. Cherbourg \u2013 Missing you Already\nHundreds of thousands of Irish people drive off the ferry at Cherbourg and keep driving for several hours more. This is a pity because for anyone going on holiday to France in 2014 \u2013 whether it is on family holiday to France on booze-cruise or other, Cherbourg is well worth a detour. It is one of those French cities that has transformed itself in recent years, taking a big budget, rolling up its sleeves and reinventing itself with panache and verve as only French towns do.\nStroll along the elegant quays, whose charm may just surprise you and where great restaurants won't bite your hand and your wallet off or take one of the local \u20ac3 bus trips that take you around the coastal districts of Cherbourg to discover some of its heritage with jovial locals. Check out the Italianate Theatre or bring the family to see the Cit\u00e9 de la Mer.\n2. Grenoble \u2013 Alpine Rugby Town\nEven if the growing Irish contingent in the local top-flight rugby team here (two coaches and two players) doesn't convince you to visit Grenoble this year, then prepare to be seduced by its city centre full of meandering streets with their mixture of Savoyard and French 19th-century architecture and through which its trams and trolley-cars snake through, dinging their bells like so many Alpine cows.\nThis is one of the most dynamic cities in France and in the whole world for that matter. Science and tradition have gone hand in hand in this city for several decades and its energy is infectious no matter how short or long your stay. If you're around for the 14th of July, the fireworks display from the citadel high above the old city centre is one of the best in France.\n3. Bordeaux \u2013 Wine Geese and Wide Rivers\nWith its regular air link through Aer Lingus, there is really no excuse not to go down to Bordeaux in 2014. There is no other city that has such a wide bright and brilliantly elegant river front, where room has been created for fun as much as for culture fans. You're unlikely to find a more family-friendly city centre anywhere else in Europe.\nAnother reason to go to Bordeaux this is the fact that the bi-annual Wine Fair is happening this year at the end of June. For those who might have visited Bordeaux ten years ago or more, be advised that the city has received a major revamping and the once sombre city by the Gironde now gleams and grooves in a thoroughly bright fun and elegant way.\n4. Lille \u2013 Northern Heartland of the Great War\nThe capital of French Flanders is another city that suffered from post-industrialization blues, but it's all go for 2014 in this city that finds itself in the heart of WWI Country. For the year that's in it, millions are expected to flock to the area to explore the heritage of the Great War in a series of commemorations that will continue over the next four years (well, it's better than a real war, isn't it?)\nThe revitalization of the city is impressive and the vibrant local tourism organisation offers some neatly-packaged packages that will suit all visitors to Lille \u2013 from the \"hidden\" Lille of exploring the river and the lesser-known streets to the gastronomic wealth of the city to the tour of flea markets and traditional markets.\n5. Perpignan \u2013 Catalan City, Mediterranean Heart\nGiven the continued number of flights not only directly to Perpignan itself but to so many other cities nearby, this russet city \u2013 permanently bathed in the red-and-yellow flags of Catalonia \u2013 is destined to become even more popular with Irish visitors in 2014.\nMunster people have already discovered it over the years, after countless victorious raids from its own red army of rugby warriors. They don't mind down here because they're friendly outdoors-type folk. This summer, look out for the Thursday nights, which are mediaeval re-enactment nights or explore its atmospheric streets with the aid of new mobile app that gives you a personal tour guide.\nPrevious Previous post: Dieudonn\u00e9 Affair Refuses to Melt Away\nNext Next post: Secondary School used as Adult Film Location\n1 Reply to \"Take Five: Places to Visit in 2014\"\nI think visiting Paris is a nice idea\nToot-toot Connect!\nCannes 2014 \u2013 Day 8\nDriving South Through France \u2013 Just How Far is Enough?\nJanuary 17, 2014 Updated: January 16, 2014 22:31:47\nTweet la France\nTweets by @tootlafrance\nTootlafrance\nTootlafrance is Ireland's fresh new eyes on France, bringing you the latest news, exclusive celebrity interviews, political analysis, cultural events, property news and, of course, travel features written by top Irish journalists.\n\u00a9 2013-2019 Tootlafrance.ie. All rights reserved.\nPublished by Three Good Boys Publishing, Durrus, Co. Cork, Ireland. 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{"text":"The Advice of International Organisations for Social Policy Reforms in the post-Soviet Region\nA dataset of 3,873 documents of four major international organisations, which advised post-Soviet states in reforming their healthcare systems after 1991\nAndreas Heinrich\nDonor-State-Civil Society Interaction and Sustainability of Primary Healthcare, HIV\/AIDS and Tuberculosis Programs in Armenia and Kyrgyzstan\nMetadata only v1.0\nGulnaz Isabekova\nHealth aid to the post-Soviet countries: the projects financed by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria\nCompilation of economy-related country rankings\nCountry rankings related to economic systems, socio-economic development and business environments covering the post-Soviet region since 1992 (or earliest available dates)\nEconomic History and Economics\nMass Demonstrations and Mass Violent Events in the Former USSR, 1987-1992\nMark Beissinger\nNon-Academic Political Regime-Related Country Rankings 1992-2017\nCompilation of non-academic country rankings related to political regimes and sub-categories of political regimes covering the post-Soviet region since 1992 (or earliest available dates)\nNumber of meetings between representatives of IMF and the national state executive: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Ukraine 1992-2018\nThe National Healthcare Reform Program of the Kyrgyz Republic 'Den Sooluk' (2012-2018)\nA qualitative dataset of 543 documents produced by the national and international actors involved in the program\nCountries: Kyrgyzstan\nMethods Of Data Collection: \u2013","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home featured NASA Planets Space Titan NASA's Quad-copter Drone Will May Soon Explore The Titan\nNASA's Quad-copter Drone Will May Soon Explore The Titan\nNASA is exploring a plan that could see a drone-like quadcopter buzz above the surface of Saturn's largest moon Titan, scientists say. The Dragonfly project would take advantage of Titan's dense, calm atmosphere to fly from site to site as it measures and analyses the massive moon's chemistry, geology, and potential for life. \"There Is something very 'simple' about having a little drone flying around Titan,\" said Catherine Neish, a professor at University of Western Ontario in Canada.\n\"It's clever in a way that people were not expecting and, I think, it is audacious and exciting - and realistic,\" said Neish, part of a team led by Elizabeth Turtle at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in the US. Turtle's proposal for a rotorcraft to investigate Titan was recently selected by NASA as one of two finalists for the US space agency's next New Frontiers mission, the researchers said.\nThe craft is modeled after drones on Earth, and would have four pairs of stacked rotors that would enable it to zip across Titan geography that has intrigued and mystified scientists for decades. Unlike conventional, slow-moving rovers on Mars, Dragonfly would be able to explore across hundreds of kilometers, researchers said. It will scout for geologic points of interest and take valuable measurements of surface, sub-surface and atmospheric conditions, they said.\nThe team said Dragonfly would be about two meters long, with multiple rotors that enable good control of the vehicle and built-in mechanical redundancies. For many years, people thought to explore Titan by balloon, rover or small airplane but each has limitations that include mobility, durability, range and effective control. The atmospheric conditions of Titan - with its orange-brown haze of methane and nitrogen - obscure high-resolution views and have made the moon largely inscrutable.\nThe veil lifted only in part in 2005 when the Huygens probe (part of the Cassini mission) produced some images of the surface. Those were enough to tantalize researchers but not enough to show more than a glimpse of the whole. With solar power unavailable because of both Titan's distance from the sun and its dense atmosphere, Dragonfly would be plutonium-powered, using a Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator.\nThat is the same power source as used by the Mars Curiosity rover and the Cassini space probe. It could fly several kilometers on a single 'Titan overnight' charge and potentially cover hundreds of kilometers during a Titan day (equivalent to 16 Earth days). Dragonfly would spend less time flying than taking science measurements during its two-year mission.\nIts main tasks would be sampling for organic chemistry and habitability; monitoring atmospheric and surface conditions; shooting and transmitting images of landforms; and conducting studies of the moon's seismology, researchers said.\nNASA's Quad-copter Drone Will May Soon Explore The Titan Reviewed by News Desk on Monday, April 23, 2018 Rating: 5\nTags : featured NASA Planets Space Titan","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"apexart :: Davy Rothbart :: Kick My Heart's Ass: Short Films About Love\nKick My Heart's Ass: Short Films About Love\nCurated by Davy Rothbart\nFebruary 11 - March 21, 2009\n291 Church St. New York, NY 10013\nOpening reception:\nWednesday, February 11, 6-8 pm\nWith projects by Akay, Kyle Alvarez, damali ayo, Rachel Dengiz, Shaina Feinberg, Chelsea Hodson, Marc Israel, Sarah Locke & Ghostshrimp, Brett Loudermilk, Chris K, David Meiklejohn, Carson Mell, Amber Morris, Kel O'Neill & Eline Jongsma, Scott Patterson, Jessica Sanders, Dan Tice, Nicky Verdoodt, AJ Wilhelm & Jason Orfanon, Lev Yilmaz, Jenny Owen Youngs\napexart welcomes Brett Loudermilk, one of today's top sideshow performers and authority on the strange, the odd and the bizarre.\nRead Time Out New York review of Event\nSee videos from the exhibition at\nwww.kickmyheartsass.com\ndownload exhibition brochure\ndownload exhibition checklist\nGothamist interview\nArtinfo.com review\nArtSlant review\nABC.com mention\nIt's six A.M. I've just spent the last four hours holed up in my bedroom in my house in Ann Arbor, watching old, battered VHS tapes of myself, thirteen years ago, holed up in a bedroom in another house in Ann Arbor maybe twenty blocks from here, crying over two girls (depending which tape is playing), one named Rachel, one named Maggie. In these tapes, I'm not only crying, I'm... well, it's a little embarrassing... my twenty-year-old self is sobbing, staring deep into the camera\u2014looking directly at myself right now\u2014and singing along to a song on the radio: Ozzy Osbourne's \"No More Tears.\" Watching these old, forlorn tapes is deeply eerie and painful and uncomfortable; there's also something weirdly captivating and pretty fucking funny about it all. Even though I've been logging these tapes all night, it's hard to tear myself away.\nBut let me back up a second. I never planned to make a movie about love, especially a personal documentary about my own love life. What happened, though, was this: I invited my friend David Meiklejohn along with me and my brother Peter for a couple of our cross-country FOUND Magazine tours in the fall of 2005 and spring of 2006, and asked him to bring his video-camera along, with the idea of taping some of our FOUND events and other adventures on the road. Like any dutiful documentary filmmaker, David kept the camera running, even when the FOUND shows were over. We ended up with 150 hours of footage, the lion's share, it seemed, revolving around my continual struggles with love and relationships. As we pored through the tapes, we realized that what we had was not a documentary about FOUND, but a documentary about my fucked-up love life. We decided to call the movie My Heart Is An Idiot, and got to work editing it.\nBut it was harder than I'd thought to work on a personal documentary when the people featured in the film were an ongoing part of my life. My relationships continued to shift and evolve; the story kept changing. The project itself became an issue in my relationships. For a while, it was easier to focus on other work that wasn't so damn intertwined with everything.\nThen one night, digging through the attic of my parents' house, I found an old box filled with VHS tapes\u2014World Series games from 1987, James Bond movies taped off of TBS, and a bunch of unmarked tapes, which I soon discovered held dozens of hours of footage I'd shot during high school and college\u2014footage of me, for the most part, sitting alone in the basement of my parents' house, or in a sad dorm room or college apartment, bawling my eyes out over a girl (okay, a couple of girls). It struck me that I'd been documenting my struggles with love for nearly two decades, and that there was something in this old, bedraggled footage that was critically linked to the stuff that David had shot with me recently. I began sifting through the tapes one at a time, logging each strange, haunting moment in a little composition book. Yeah, I've got good friends who teach at inner-city schools, work as public defenders, and fight for environmental justice across the globe, and here I am, every night, watching ancient videotapes of myself crying and taking notes. It's one thing to spend your nights staring at pictures of an ex-girlfriend, it's another thing to spend your nights watching decade-old videotapes of yourself staring at pictures of an ex-girlfriend.\nAnd yet I've become oddly transfixed. I can't look away. There's something disconcertingly similar between the footage of me crying over girls in 1993 and crying over girls in 2006. You think you learn something as you get older, but shit, not so much.\nAt some point, I end up sharing some of the old tapes with David, and we agree that bits of them belong in My Heart Is An Idiot. One phenomenon I notice: when I watch the VHS tapes alone, they seem really sad; when I watch them with David, they seem really funny. In fact, we discover a few favorite, strangely hilarious crying moments within the river of tears\u2014moments when my crying is momentarily derailed by some other thought or something in the room. There's a moment from 1992, an early morning in my freshman dorm room, where I'm crying over Rachel, my high school girlfriend; in the background, my clock radio is grinding out traffic reports and blizzard warnings from an AM talk station. Then, mid-sob, I suddenly take notice of some cornball pun from the morning DJ, and seize into a smile, then immediately resume crying. It's a small but amazing little moment. There's another one from 1995: I'm on the sofa in my parents' living room, wailing\u2014I mean flipping the fuck out\u2014still over Rachel (we'd gotten back together and broken up several times). I'm beating my chest, pounding sofa cushions, screeching, when all of a sudden I pick up a copy of Sports Illustrated and stop crying just like that; I flip through the thing for about thirty seconds, then drop it and start crying again as though I'd never stopped. It's good shit, no doubt, another golden moment. Then, in our recent footage from the FOUND tours, there's a matching sort of moment: A relationship of mine has just come to a surprising and devastating end, and I'm stumbling with David down a weedy, overgrown street in Baton Rouge, sobbing so hard I can barely breathe. Then all at once I spot something in the distance and wade free of the darkness for a second. \"See that tower?\" I say to David. \"That's the only non-domed State Capitol building in the country.\" \"What?\" David asks. \"Did you say that's the only non-domed Capitol in the country?\" \"Yes,\" I manage, melting back into tears. It's horribly sad and at the same time fucking hilarious.\nWhy, though\u2014why did I fill so many videotapes in my late teens and twenties, filming myself crying? Who was I crying to? A lot of the time I'm addressing Rachel or Maggie, begging them to come back to me, or to understand that we're meant for each other. But there was no fuckin' way I was ever gonna share those tapes with them. And yet, there must have been some kind of comfort, some kind of sympathy that the camera was doling out\u2014a sense that I wasn't crying alone in bed, but crying to someone, even if I didn't know who that someone would be. And now it's come full circle. The person watching those tapes\u2014the person I'd turned out to be crying to all those years\u2014was me. And maybe even back then some part of me suspected that this would be the case. Maybe staring into the camera's dark eye, I'd sensed that gentle, compassionate, sympathetic presence of myself, ten or fifteen years later, barely\u2014but noticeably\u2014wiser, a bit more stable, and definitely healed of the heartbreak of that time, if not of all the heartbreak that's socked me in the years since. Watching the tapes, I hurt for the crushed kid I was back then, and reach out a hand of love and support. And I know I felt that inexplicable wave of comfort even back then, alone with the camera, because every crying episode caught on tape\u2014no matter how intense\u2014after a time subsides. It's rare that you get a chance to reach into the past and give a gift to yourself; it's almost like the moment in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure when Keanu Reeves hides his dad's jail cell keys for himself to find when he goes back in time.\nMeanwhile, David Meiklejohn and I have continued to plow ahead with our documentary. We're not finished yet, but we're within striking distance\u2014it'll be done this year. Questions never quit popping up\u2014filmmaking questions, and questions about love. If the secrets to finding true love are often elusive, well, so are the secrets to making films about love. How do you inject humor into a film about heartbreak? How do you portray a happy romance without being too saccharine and oversentimental? What's relatable about our own stories? How do we make the personal feel universal?\nI rarely know the answers to these kinds of questions, but I thought if I asked a bunch of my incredibly talented and wonderfully demented friends to produce short films about love, I could learn a lot from the approaches they took and the choices they made. I holla'd at a bunch of folks and gave very few guidelines, simply challenged them to make a 1- to 10-minute movie illuminating some aspect of romantic love. Narrative or documentary, actors, animation, claymation, whatevs\u2014I left it up to them. And the films they came up with\u2014in their beauty, sadness, sweetness and wild variety\u2014are simply stunning.\nAcademy Award-nominated director Jessica Sanders profiles the relationship between actor George Takei (Star Trek's Captain Sulu) and his husband and lifelong partner by chatting with them in bed on a Sunday morning. Singer\/songwriter Jenny Owen Youngs interviews fellow musicians about the practice of injecting stories of their own romances into their songs. Brett Loudermilk, sideshow phenom, discusses love with a pair of death-defying sword swallowers and legendary photographer AJ Wilhelm investigates the cures for a broken heart, while Kel O'Neill and Eline Jongsma trace a love that endures even after death. Carson Mell and Lev Yilmaz contribute striking animations, punk rock wanderer Chris K bumps into the newly-in-love at an American Idol audition, and my friend David Meiklejohn creates a new piece, observing strangers as they plan out the things they want to tell their loved ones but never have. These and a dozen other short films will be featured at apexart in a show we'll call Kick My Heart's Ass.\nWatching these gripping (and often quite funny) films, it's clear: The personal is universal. Other people's stories are our own. The joy and heartbreak that comes through the characters in each of these films is in tune with my own joy and heartbreak. When I extend a hand of comfort to a stick figure cartoon whose relationship's gone belly-up or a gutsy transsexual mourning the passing of her soulmate, I'm really reaching out to myself, because, fuck it, I've been there, too. We've all been there.\nThank you so much for checking out this exhibition. I've been so thrilled by the films that folks made for this show, I've decided to extend a wider invitation to everyone out there: Yup, that's right, I want to see your short film about love. We'll find a way to share it with everyone. Check out www.KickMyHeartsAss.com for lots more details.\nOkay, it's back to work for me\u2014I've got plenty more footage to watch of myself crying, and right now my twenty-year-old self is singing along to Smashing Pumpkins, which means I better sign off. My advice to all the lovers out there: Be brave, never stop falling in love, and if your heart's ass gets kicked, look for the nearest non-domed State Capitol building.\nAnd I'm out.\n\u00a9January 2009\nDavy Rothbart is an author, filmmaker, contributor to This American Life, and the editor\/publisher of Found Magazine. The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas, a collection of Rothbart's short-stories, was published in August 2005 by Simon & Schuster. An Italian edition, Il Surfista Solitario del Montana, was published in 2007 by Coniglio Editore. In 2008, actor Steve Buscemi optioned the book for film adaption, to be developed by Olive Productions. When Fred Rogers of the PBS television program Mister Rogers' Neighborhood died in February 2003, the New York Times ran an Op-Ed by Rothbart about his childhood encounters with Rogers similar to his story on This American Life. Rothbart also writes for GQ, The Believer, SLAM Magazine, and The Sun. His films include the documentary How We Survive about the punk rock band Rise Against, and Easier With Practice, a film based on an article Rothbart wrote for GQ about his life on tour, to be released in 2009. Rothbart is also the subject of an upcoming documentary, directed by David Meiklejohn, called My Heart Is An Idiot. Additionally, he has appeared twice on the television program The Late Show with David Letterman on CBS.\napexart's exhibitions and public programs are supported in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Edith C. Blum Foundation, Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, The Greenwich Collection Ltd., The William Talbott Hillman Foundation, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Physioplus\nScott Buxton\nFollow Scott Buxton\nScott is editor of Physiospot so expect to see his work popping up frequently. Away from the keyboard he is a physiotherapist specialising in geriatrics.\nRead more by Scott Buxton\nEvidence based orthopaedic manual therapy for patients with nonspecific low back pain: An integrative approach.\nPosted on December 11, 2015 by Scott Buxton\nOrthopaedic manual therapy (OMT) should be based not only on the best available evidence but also on patient values and clinician expertise. Low back pain (LBP) is a complex issue as the majority of people who suffer from LBP cannot be given a specific diagnosis based on imaging studies but kinematic analyses appear to be useful to determine dysfunctional patterns. In physical therapy, various forms of OMT are currently used to manage LBP and there is growing evidence for its use. The underlying principles of OMT are to treat neuro-musculo-skeletal disorders, the aim of which is to reduce pain, as well as improve movement and function. Manual physical therapists use a range of treatment approaches including passive techniques (\"hands on\") as well as different active techniques (\"hands off\") and communication skills. Systems of stratification are available for classification of people with LBP into specific sub-groups (with sub-group specific OMT intervention). This approach has been shown to be more efficient than generic treatment, although subgroups are not mutually exclusive. Various mechanisms of action are reported in the literature concerning OMT effects. These effects may be biomechanical, neurophysiological and psychological. Moreover, it is essential that the treatment, regardless of the concept of OMT, is carried out on the basis of a systematic and valid clinical examination protocol aimed to correctly classify LBP. The use of pain provocative tests during combined movement examination provides confidence that examination findings are valid and can therefore be confidently used in clinical practice to manage patient. The integrative approach presented in this article is a mix of previously developed classification systems (i.e. based on pain mechanisms, prognosis, treatment responsiveness) and new tools, as kinematic analyses for LBP, and a novel validated combined movements examinations. As LBP is a complex and multidimensional problem, the integrative approach may help clinicians and researchers to better understand and then to treat patients with non-specific LBP.\nThe efficacy of OMT treatments using an integrative approach in specific patients subgroups should be objectively analyzed according to validated kinematic analyses in future studies.\nHidalgo, B.. Evidence based orthopaedic manual therapy for patients with nonspecific low back pain: An integrative approach.. J Musculoskelet Rehabil 2015; (): . http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/26406198 (accessed 11\/12\/2015).\nRead more in Physiopedia about Non Specific Low Back Pain, Low Back Pain Guidelines, Chronic Low Back Pain and Low Back Pain\nRelated online courses\nData About Terms Privacy Cookies Contact\nPhysioplus Ltd is a private limited company registered in England & Wales no. 07878211\nCopyright \u00a9 2021 Physioplus\nWe use cookies to enhance your user experience. Cookie Policy OK","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.\nLatest Trade\n402.63USD\nAs of on the New York Stock Exchange \u2219 Minimum 15 minute delay\n3M AVG Volume\nShares Out (MIL)\nMarket Cap (MIL)\nDividend (Yield %)\nQ4 2021 Martin Marietta Materials Inc Earnings Release\nMartin Marietta Reports Third-Quarter 2021 Results\nMartin Marietta Increases Quarterly Cash Dividend\nMartin Marietta Buys Lehigh Hanson's West Region Business\nAbout Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.\nMartin Marietta Materials, Inc. is a natural resource-based building materials company. The Company supplies aggregates (crushed stone, sand, and gravel) through its network of approximately 310 quarries, mines and distribution yards in Canada and The Bahamas. In the southwestern and western United States, the Company also provides cement and downstream products and services, including ready-mixed concrete, asphalt, and paving services, in markets that are naturally vertically integrated. The Company has cement plants in Texas, and ready mixed concrete and asphalt operations in Texas, Colorado, and Wyoming. Asphalt operations and paving services are in Colorado. The Company conducts its Building Materials Business through two segments, East Group and West Group. The East Group provides aggregates products only. The West Group provides aggregates, cement, and downstream products. The Company's Magnesia Specialties Business includes magnesia-based chemicals and dolomitic lime businesses.\nConstruction - Raw Materials\n2710 Wycliff Rd\n+1.919.7814550\nhttps:\/\/www.martinmarietta.com\/\nC. Howard Nye\nJames A. J. Nickolas\nChief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President\nCraig M. LaTorre\nChief Human Resource Officer, Senior Vice President\nRoselyn R. Bar\nExecutive Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary\nRobert J. Cardin\nSenior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer, Controller\n2.14 mean rating - 21 analysts\nRevenue (MM, USD)\n2021(E)\nEPS (USD)\nPrice To Earnings (TTM)\nPrice To Sales (TTM)\nPrice To Book (MRQ)\nPrice To Cash Flow (TTM)\nTotal Debt To Equity (MRQ)\nLT Debt To Equity (MRQ)\nReturn on Investment (TTM)\nReturn on Equity (TTM)\nFerrovial sells concrete unit to U.S. group Martin Marietta for $140 mln\nSpanish conglomerate Ferrovial has agreed to sell its U.S. unit Southern Crushed Concrete (SSC) to Martin Marietta Materials for about $140 million, a source with knowledge of the negotiations said on Tuesday.\nMartin Marietta to buy HeidelbergCement's western U.S. assets for $2.3 billion\nConstruction materials supplier Martin Marietta Materials Inc said on Monday it will buy HeidelbergCement AG's assets in California and Arizona for $2.3 billion.\nMartin Marietta to buy HeidelbergCement's western U.S. assets for $2.3 bln\nConstruction materials supplier Martin Marietta Materials Inc said on Monday it will buy Germany-based HeidelbergCement AG's assets in California and Arizona for $2.3 billion in cash.\nU.S. RESEARCH ROUNDUP- Martin Marietta Materials, ONEOK, Superior Energy Services\nWall Street securities analysts revised their ratings and price targets on several U.S.-listed companies, including Martin Marietta Materials, ONEOK and Superior Energy Services, on Friday. HIGHLIGHTS * Apollo Investment Corp : Citigroup cuts to sell from neutral * Martin...\nCORRECTED-U.S. RESEARCH ROUNDUP- Martin Marietta Materials, ONEOK, Superior Energy Services\n(Corrects Apollo Investment Corp item to say BMO cuts price target to $11 from $16 not $6) May 22 (Reuters) - Wall Street securities analysts revised their ratings and price targets on several U.S.-listed companies, including Martin Marietta Materials, ONEOK and Superior...\nQuote and financial data from Refinitiv. Fund performance data provided by Lipper. All quotes delayed a minimum of 15 minutes.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"In place\nI'm digging beneath trellised nasturtium in the garden of someone new. Planting star jasmine in the sun as a rain cloud approaches, but it's the other kind I long to breathe in. The kind of jasmine that gushes over fences, escapes rambling front gardens, permeates shared paths. I pick sprigs of it always, carry it until it wilts. It takes me places.\nSo much has happened and I wanted to tell you. I'm astounded at my capacity to forgive. I've opened my heart to the gently damaged people of this world over and over, let them project their hurt onto me. I get it, but I won't do that anymore. They seek help or not, move back home as I work through, work through, work through. Soil under my fingernails and the smell of almost-rain.\nBut I wanted to say something about the visits home. The places where family live lives I couldn't have predicted and I've decided to tell the truth now. Stop listening to that voice in my head that nags at me to speak aloud the words and just speak aloud the damn words. I've lived long hours in transit, just to reconnect.\nIt seems everything I've ever written has been a metaphor for clouds: looking down on them from planes, watching them roll in darkly from the east, trusting they'll rain themselves empty or just move on. It's always been about clouds. The way they look reflected on the water's surface, distracting me from the reedy depths.\nSeasons change and I let anniversaries pass through me like a southerly at first, but even the wind feels warmer when you look back. The red flag of that first betrayal wilts like picked jasmine, fades in the briefly sunlit garden of someone new.\nSeptember 30, 2017 September 30, 2017 SK\ncloudsconnectionfamilyforgivenessgardeninghomejasminemetaphormoving onnewnostalgiapresentstillnesstruthweather\nThe Lonely City \u2013 Olivia Laing\nA couple of months ago I was looking up my book, Lonesome When You Go (as you do), and was directed to a Loneliness Quiz. It was the end of a tough year having moved to a new country and struggled to make meaningful connections or feel at home. I scored very highly on the quiz and my results suggested I should be concerned for my well-being. It made me feel even sadder, but prompted me to really examine the issue \u2013 what is it that makes me such a solitary creature? Am I okay with it? Will it pass? And why, in this huge city full of writers, musicians, artists and people with similar backgrounds to me have I continued to find connection and friendship so elusive and difficult?\nDuring that tough year I found myself reading about all sorts of things, from Synchronicity to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; books on Mastery, depression, loss, love. Both fiction and non-fiction books seemed to be all about searching for meaning and understanding ourselves and our relationship to others.\nMost pertinent of all of these was The Lonely City by Olivia Laing. With the subtitle 'Adventures in the Art of Being Alone' and a purple night sky cover (a similar image to my phone's background: the sky I snapped on my 35th birthday, as it happens), this book was already a favourite.\nLonesome Moon: The night sky on Saradha's 35th birthday\nLaing ruminates poetically on some of my own queries and, in particular, the nature of loneliness through her own experience of living heartbroken in New York in her mid-thirties. She ponders the way society views loneliness and questions the belief that \"our whole purpose is as coupled creatures, or that happiness can or should be a permanent possession.\" I often hear it said that humans are social creatures, our purpose is to connect with others and thus be fully realised ourselves. The fact that this isn't always possible can be troubling, but I found comfort in Laing's acceptance of this state and discussion on how it can serve a purpose of its own. She asks \"What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately engaged with another human being?\"\nQuoting Virginia Woolf, Laing writes, \"Woolf described an inner loneliness that she thought might be illuminating to analyse, adding: 'If I could catch the feeling, I would: the feeling of the singing of the real world, as one is driven by loneliness and silence from the habitable world.'\" Suggesting that there's more to this feeling than a lack of something. It can perhaps be used to enhance our experience of reality.\nThrough her solo exploration of New York City, Laing focuses on the artists who have walked and documented the same streets. Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, Henry Darger and David Wojnarowicz all feature heavily and are connected through their shared experience of difficult childhoods, being outsiders and making art that examines loneliness felt amid a crowded city. The link between art and loneliness is strong and Laing's fascination turns it into an art form itself.\nSometimes a book comes along that makes you feel better about being the you you are. Just as Susan Cain's Quiet cemented my understanding of my own introversion some years ago, The Lonely City made me feel remarkably less alone; less worried about a state that, whether or not it's fundamental to my very personality, will come and go and always lead to something creative or examinable. I've definitely been working on it, but see it now as less a failure to experience and more an experience all of its own.\n(I just did the quiz again and have gone down from extreme loneliness, to moderate loneliness. I'll be okay.)\nFebruary 6, 2017 SK\nAcceptanceAndy WarholartArtistsconnectionDavid WojnarowiczEdward HopperexpectationsHenry DargerintrovertsLonelinesslonelylonesome when you goNew YorkOlivia LaingrelationshipssocietyThe Lonely CityVirginia Woolf","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Senior Honors Projects\nHonors Projects for English\nThe Dark Prince Of Arus\nYoung Elva.pdf 2.99 MB Adobe PDF View\/Open\nTitle: The Dark Prince Of Arus\nAuthors: Young, Elva\nContributors: English (department)\nPublisher: University of Hawaii at Manoa\nAbstract: One afternoon, over ten years ago, I was watching one of my brothers flipping channels on the TV, looking for something to watch. I had just come home from school--I was either in the sixth or seventh grade--and I wasn't in the mood to do homework just yet. None of the shows he flipped through seemed interesting--until he got to a particular one. It was quite close to five o'clock, so many episodes were starting to wind down. This particular one he had lighted on showed, at that moment, a young, beautiful blonde woman descending a large, steep staircase towards a group of men at the foot. Well, actually, five guys and a young adolescent boy. Four of the guys were obviously college-aged, while the remaining one, holding a candle (it was dark in the room), seemed to be a father figure of some sort. I looked at that young woman, and at the young guys, particularly at the one who seemed to be the leader--and an obsession was born. I figured out what time the show began (quite a feat for an elementary school student) and began watching it religiously. It was interesting, exciting, and fun, with science-fiction gadgets, ships, flashy colors and exciting battles, but what it showed never fully satisfied me. Even at that age, I had a tendency to be more interested in the characters than the plot (which was a generic one anyway--typical Japanese-type action cartoon), and I never got to see as much about the characters' relationships to each other as I would have liked. Specifically, I would have liked to have seen more interaction between the young woman, who turned out to be a princess and the ruler of the planet, and the commander, who, like the other young guys, were from Earth. I wanted them to get together, fall in love, the whole bit. That, of course, was not to be; it was hinted that they had feelings for each other, but that was as far as the show was willing to go.\nPages\/Duration: 120 pages\nRights: All UHM Honors Projects are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission from the copyright owner.\nAppears in Collections: Honors Projects for English","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Campus Reform | Vanderbilt faculty member says 'academic freedom' enables 'racism'\nVanderbilt faculty member says 'academic freedom' enables 'racism'\nWhen contacted by Campus Reform, she made her social media private and removed an anti-police document from her page.\nA scientist at Vanderbilt University recently said that \"academic freedom\" perpetuates racism and \"white supremacy.\"\nIn a blog post, she appeared to sympathize with rioters, saying she understands why people \"want to burn it all down.\"\nAddison Smith | Reporter\nAs instances of rioting, looting, and statue-toppling escalate nationwide, millions of Americans are demanding a police-free country in what they say as a form of racial justice. But Vanderbilt University scientist Heather Caslin Findley says that \"white supremacy, racism, and prejudice\" are also perpetuated by the concept of \"academic freedom.\"\n\"I hope there are a lot of circles in academia having a serious conversation on how 'academic freedom' upholds white supremacy, racism, and prejudice,\" Caslin Findley tweeted June 9. Campus Reform reached out to Caslin Findley asking her to clarify her statements. She immediately made her account private, opting not to respond for comment.\nWhile Caslin Findley has taught courses at Vanderbilt in past years, she currently serves as a Vanderbilt \"Scientist in the Classroom,\" a program that places her as an instructor in K-12 classrooms once a week.\nCaslin Findley has been very outspoken on social media about her beliefs. On May 30, she wrote a blog post titled \"The uncomfortable work behind pulling back the curtain of race and white supremacy: Part 1. My story,\" in which she espoused the same sentiments toward the \"racism\" within the American educational system.\n\"Racism acts through every system we've built including education and healthcare and safety and no one in my life was immune from that,\" wrote Caslin Findley.\n\"I've begun to understand how the very institutions I believe in- like higher education and healthcare and feminism and science- are all built on white supremacy,\" she added. Caslin Findley also addressed the violent riots taking place across the country, writing that she was initially opposed to the 2015 Baltimore riots and was worried for the police officers, but changed her mind.\n[RELATED: Confederate statue vandalized amid nationwide riots]\n\"The single biggest moment in my journey thus far was when Freddie Grey died in custody and the city of Baltimore erupted in riots. I posted about how wrong his death was. But I also posted about how I wanted the cops to be safe too,\" Caslin Findley wrote before expressing she came to change her mind. \"I was scared for the fires, for the rioting, for the storefronts that would need to be rebuilt. That was my 'protest differently,' 'all lives matter,' and 'blue lives matter' moment. I was wrong and I was called out.\"\n\"I understand why black people are tired of seeing racism, talking about racism, living up against racism. I understand why people want to burn it all down,\" she wrote.\nCampus Reform reached out to Caslin Findley a second time for comment on this statement, asking for its context. Caslin Findley then made her Instagram account private and removed from her profile a link to a document about abolishing and defunding the police. The document states that there is no evident \"need\" for policing, and that police reform is not enough.\n[RELATED: Nationwide, colleges face calls to 'defund the police']\n\"[T]he arguments I've seen are that we need police (evidence not really there) and that reform can work (evidence contradictory), however what 'works' means is very subjective,\" the document reads. Originally posted and seemingly written by Caslin Findley, the document provides several arguments for defunding the police, as well as a list of resources that argue for similar policies.\nThe writing details what defunding and abolishing police would look supposedly look like.\n\"Defunding is a long term gradual strategy to strategically reallocate resources, funding, and responsibility away from police and toward community-based models of safety, support, and prevention. Abolishing aims to set the bar higher and the goals longer- to really completely transform policing as we know it by removing many of the 'reasons' we think we need police in the first place. Objectives are to get police-related deaths down to zero and to set in place long term community improvements,\" the document continues.\n[RELATED: College 'deeply sorry' for letting police use restrooms]\nNational Association of Scholars' communications coordinator Chance Layton told Campus Reform Caslin Findley's tweet was \"outright false,\" claiming that academic freedom considers no race or political party.\n\"Academic freedom doesn't count political scores. Its existence is important to the pursuit of truth and therefore the mission of higher education,\" Layton told Campus Reform.\n\"To say that it 'upholds white supremacy, racism, and prejudice' is outright false. It's academic freedom that has protected professors, regardless of race, who have argued for greater accountability of police and within the justice system, especially when the research is unpopular either on-campus or socially,\" he added.\nCampus Reform spoke with Vanderbilt University student and former Tennessee chair member of Young Americans for Liberty Reagan Werner, who argued that Caslin Findley's police-related sentiments are worth considering.\n\"I wholeheartedly agree with the defunding of police. The entire system is extremely corrupt. Racism is just one of the problems that the American police system upholds,\" Werner told Campus Reform. \"Having worked with the Vanderbilt Prison Project, I have read about and even met victims of mass incarceration, criminal profiling, or unjust treatment towards African American people. I've been very happy to see students at my school getting more involved in protesting our corrupt criminal justice system.\"\n\"I would argue that a research university should compel their professors, whom they are paying to research, to be inclusive and study these topics,\" Werner added. \"I don't know much about academic freedom, but I do know that most researchers at Vanderbilt tend to be white, upper-class people who benefit from a lot of privilege. This in itself is not a negative, but it does provide incentive to shirk from the civic responsibility of drawing attention to racism in our country and academic environments.\"\nFollow the author of this article on Twitter: @Addison_Smith49\nAddison Smith\nAddison Smith is a Campus Reform reporter and a junior, studying Business Marketing at Liberty University. Addison is also an Ambassador for Liberty University's Falkirk Center for Faith and Liberty.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Four years down the line, project remains inexistent, ridden apathy\nNov 2015, when Smart City was promised to Jammu\nJAMMU, Nov 15: The Jammu and Kashmir administration is rejuvenation the smart city project for JK's twin capitals that was kept in limbo by the past helmsmen with funs worth crores made to lapse sadistically.\nA senior official in the UT administration of Jammu and Kashmir told Early Times the central government has censured Jammu and Kashmir administration over keeping the vital smart city project in limbo with funds not being utilised and significant features of the proposal left unattended.\nOn November 7, 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had sanctioned a whooping Rs 80K crore package for Jammu and Kashmir's various developmental projects.\nOut of the total sanctioned amount, Rs 500 crore each were sanctioned for smart cities in Jammu as well as in Srinagar. However, four years down the line , as per the official documents, not even one percent of the funds have been utilised on ground- reflecting that the smart city promise was a big joke done to the people of the state.\nIf sources within the government are to be believed, the Smart City proposal was dumped by the government and there were least measures being taken to get the vital project out from the cold storage.\nThe central government, said official sources, recently sought the status report of the smart city proposal and when the dismal progress was found, the JK administration was censured over the inordinate delay being done so far. \"There were political considerations in place in the past. The PDP BJP regime was non- seriousness over making the project a success story and give people all the facilities they deserve in a smart city. Unfortunately, not even a single lane was tuned into a smarter one, leave alone turning a capital in its entirety smart,\" rues an official who wished not to be named.\nHowever, as per the sources, there are chances that the project will see day's light soon as the government at preset is emphasising upon the good governance at the grass roots while expediting the projects that by the past regime was kept in a limbo without any reason and in spite of the plethora of funds in place.\nPertinently, the then State Government vide Order No.1081-GAD dated August 21, 2017 constituted Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) as Companies Limited by shares named as Jammu Smart City Limited and Srinagar Smart City Limited under the Companies Act, 2013 with authorized share capital of Rs 10 lakh, equity share of Rs 10 each and paid up capital of Rs 10 lakh for both the companies for implementation of smart city development projects.\n\"There must be injury held over what happened to the promise of the smart city. Why even when four long years have passed no. forward movement has been witnessed vis-a-vis the implementation of the project. The credibility of the new administration will be at stake if it too fails to get the vital projects out from the cold storages,\" says a senior official within the administration.\nEx-Industries Minister allots projects worth Rs 12 cr to relative without tenders\nNC may lose Pahalgam aide\nMafia creates hurdles in setting up ePDS system in J&K\nMinister asks people to make biryani of insects\nNo leader can ignore aspirations of Jammu people: Munish\nConfusion looms large about proposed official language of union territory of JK\nPanchayati Raj, Local Bodies empowering people on ground level: LG Murmu\nJKAS officers with 13 years may get secretary level posts\nBorder People facing problems due to lack facilities in SDH Mendhar\nKiller roads: Precious lives continue to lose, authorities still in deep slumber","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Feds Query Catholic High School Coach Beating of Philly Gay Couple?\nBy Fern Remedi-Brown on September 19, 2014 9 Comments\nA beating last week of a Philadelphia gay couple by a group that included a Roman Catholic high school coach is now being considered for query through federal investigation. The two victims, whose identities have not been released, were going for pizza on September 11th when they encountered the group in the Center City neighborhood.\nThe alleged attackers included a dozen well-dressed men and women who came into the path of the two men on their way out to dinner and shouted gay slurs, asking one of the members of the gay couple if the other was his \"f\u2014\u2014- boyfriend.\" The group, who were clean-cut and dressed to go out, allegedly included part-time Assistant Basketball Coach Mr. Fran McGlinn of Archbishop Wood High School in suburban Philadelphia. Group members were identified through surveillance video and online postings, including a photo taken while they were out to dinner.\nAccording to police reports, the two men aged 27 and 28 were apprehended, held down and severely beaten. One needed his jaw wired shut and had a broken eye socket. The other sustained a black eye and bruises. The incident has caused outrage among the LGBTQ community in Philadelphia.\nFran McGlinn\nMr. McGlinn was approached by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and they allowed him to resign after he was confronted about being allegedly involved in the crime. In addition, the Archdiocese issued a statement explaining why the coach was relieved of his duties. It described that instilled in Catholic education is a sense of respect for others, regardless of whether or not the faithful agrees with others' beliefs or actions.\nArchbishop Chaput\nArchbishop Charles Chaput stated that, when students graduate from high school, they demonstrate their maturity and their dignity \u2013 or lack thereof \u2013 through their actions. Violence against another person for being who they are cannot be excused and is dissonant with the essence of being a Christian.\nPhiladelphia City Councilman Jim Kenney spoke out on the matter, saying that the number of people who beat the two men as well as the language used against them indicates the level of a hate crime. He sent a strongly worded letter on Thursday to the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. I the letter, he called for a federal investigation under the National Hate Crimes Prevention Act.\nFederal authorities do not usually get involved in matters of the state. However, since there is no hate crime law against lesbians and gays on the books in Pennsylvania, federal law may supersede. The federal government is prepared to query those involved in the beating of the Philadelphia gay couple and the alleged involvement of the Roman Catholic high school coach. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is waiting to hear from the local police before proceeding.\nWhile illegal federally, hate crimes based on sexual orientation are not against the law in Pennsylvania. Only attacks on the basis of race, religion, and ethnicity can be prosecuted as hate crimes. To address this issue, Pennsylvania's first openly gay congressman, Democratic State Rep. Brian Sims of Philadelphia, is pushing to include sexual orientation among the list of hate crimes in state law.\nRep. Sims said that since same-sex marriage is now legal in Pennsylvania following a federal judge overturning a prior ban in the state, he hopes this ruling will lead to great societal acceptance. He believes that the marriage law change will help improve understanding that two people loving each other means that they should also be able to live their lives in safety and without fear.\nLocal officials are continuing their investigation into the incident. When that is complete, federal authorities will be ready to delivery their query into the beating of the gay couple by a now former coach at a suburban Philadelphia Roman Catholic high school.\nby Fern Remedi-Brown\ngay couple, top\nFeds Query Catholic High School Coach Beating of Philly Gay Couple? added by Fern Remedi-Brown on September 19, 2014\nView all posts by Fern Remedi-Brown \u2192\n9 Responses to \"Feds Query Catholic High School Coach Beating of Philly Gay Couple?\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Category: Music News\nPosted on October 2, 2014 April 25, 2018\nDJ Harvey (All Night Long) Thursday 23rd October 2014\nProducts from Amazon.co.uk\nForming a further part of our 15th Birthday celebrations, Red Bull Music Academy has announced that DJ Harvey will be steering his disco-fueled road trip straight into Farringdon on Thursday 23rd October. Fresh from receiving the prestigious 'Outstanding Contribution' Award at this year's Ibiza DJ Awards, Harvey's unfaltering commitment to the beat continues with a tour that sees him perform shows here at fabric in London ahead of dates in Manchester and at Simple Things Festival in Bristol.\nAfter delivering his signature, hypnotic blend of disco, Balearica, rock'n'roll and electro-funk at RBMA stages at Lovebox and Bestival, the allegiance continues with this 3-stop road trip. Kicking off here Harvey inaugurates the tour with an 'all night long' special, taking to the decks for five hours of unadulterated Bassett grooves.\nNever one for resting on his laurels, Cambridge-born, Hawaii-dwelling Harvey Bassett is a man of many talents. Be it bringing legendary New York DJs such as Larry Levan, Kenny Carpenter and Francois Kevorkian to British ears at his 'Moist' night in London; remixing prowess for the likes of Jamiroquai, The Police, Ian Brown and more; his now cult-followed Sarcastic Disco nights in Los Angeles; or his latest venture, a new album under the alias Wildest Dreams, a more instrument-led output inspired by the 'landscape of L.A.' and featuring his own vocals.\nA long-standing supporter of Red Bull Music Academy, Harvey was an early lecturer at the 2005 edition of the Academy in Seattle. In 2012, after a self-imposed exile of over ten years, he made his UK comeback with RBMA at London's Oval Space and as part of the Warehouse Project Series in Manchester, blowing away the crowds at sold-out shows, and affirming his near-mythical status with yet another flawless feat of DJ endurance, echoed shortly afterwards with a stellar headline set at the RBMA stage at SonarDome.\nFULL LISTING:\nThursday 23rd October 2014\nRBMA presents: DJ Harvey\ntickets: fabriclondon.com\ndoors: 10pm \u2013 3am\nprice: \u00a320 advance\nROOM ONE:\nDJ Harvey (All Night Long)\nvia fabric Press Direct\nV\u00f6k will release their Tension\nThe MuseBox Records today announced the signing of Iceland's V\u00f6k . While the young trio and their dreamy electronica pop have held the attention of their native Icelandic press since 2013, international fans are now starting to take notice. This fall V\u00f6k will release\"Tension,\" their debut EP on The MuseBox Records. A tour of the United States in support of the record will follow. More information on V\u00f6k is available on the band's official Facebook page.\nShortly after forming, V\u00f6k won an annual band contest, \"M\u00fas\u00edktilraunir,\" which is the Icelandic version of a battle of the bands. The third member, guitarist \u00d3lafur Alexander, joined the band shortly thereafter. V\u00f6k has since been generating significant hype in the vibrant music scene of Iceland's capital, Reykjav\u00edk. With a sound mainly comprised of soft electronics and melodic vocals, guitar also plays a prominent role in V\u00f6k's sound and places V\u00f6k a bit more in the realm of indie-electro, thus resulting in comparisons to Florence and the Machine, The XX, and The Knife.\nPosted on March 4, 2008 September 9, 2014\nGnarls Barkley Run video\nSee it at MTV \u2013\nhttp:\/\/www.mtv.com\/overdrive\/?vid=212976\nBilly Bragg keeps the faith\nTaken from Billy Bragg's new album 'Mr Love & Justice' (out this week), 'I Keep Faith' is released on 17th March on Cooking Vinyl.\nYou can watch the video here:\nwww.cookingvinyl.com\/video\/i_keep_faith_high.wmv\nwww.cookingvinyl.com\/video\/i_keep_faith_mid.wmv\nwww.cookingvinyl.com\/video\/i_keep_faith_low.wmv\nBilly Bragg is playing tonight at the Roundhouse and he'll also be playing a string of UK dates in April\/May. Here are full dates:\nBilly Bragg (in-store) 03.07.08 LONDON HMV\nBilly Bragg 04.23.08 LONDON Barbican Hall\nBilly Bragg 04.24.08 BRISTOL Colston Hall\nBilly Bragg 04.25.08 BIRMINGHAM Town Hall\nBilly Bragg 04.27.08 GLASGOW ABC\nBilly Bragg 04.29.08 GATESHEAD The Sage\nBilly Bragg 04.30.08 SHEFFIELD City Hall\nBilly Bragg 05.02.08 LIVERPOOL Philharmonic Hall\nBilly Bragg 05.03.08 READING The Hexagon\nBilly Bragg 05.04.08 LINCOLN The Engine Shed\nhttp:\/\/www.mrloveandjustice.net\/\nPosted on February 28, 2008 September 9, 2014\nNeon Neon announce UK debut live date\nFabric \u2013 20th March\nNeon Neon, debut UK live date\nWelsh musical maverick Gruff Rhys and LA based electronic\/hip-hop producer Boom Bip will be lighting up London on 20th March with their first ever Neon Neon UK live date. The headline performance takes place at the capitals Fabric nightclub and with Chrome Hoof, Erol Alkan and Four Tet also on the bill the event promises to be a cracking start to the Easter weekend.\nStainless Style album, out 17th March\nNeon Neons Fabric showcase comes 3 days after the release of their debut album, Stainless Style \u2013 a highly creative slice of conceptual power-pop inspired by the incredible life of the worlds first playboy engineer, John DeLorean. Gruff Rhys and Boom Bip are joined on the record by a host of talented guests, including; Fab Moretti from The Strokes, Yo Majesty, Har Mar Superstar, The Magic Numbers and Spank Rock. The end result was recently described as a terrific collaboration\u009d [4 out of 5] by Q magazine, has caused the NME to forewarn their readers to miss it at your peril\u009d, and been awarded 4 out of 5 reviews by both Uncut and The Observer Music Monthly.\nI Lust U single, out 24th March\nNeon Neons fully polished Stainless Style album will be closely followed by the release of their I Lust U single. An ice cool duet between Gruff and guest vocalist Cate Le Bon, I Lust U is a lovelorn-lament underpinned throughout by Boom Bips stylish, snyth-lead production. The song can be heard here, and the video viewed here.\nNeon Neon are also performing at this years SXSW festival in Austin Texas, and further releases and Neon Neon UK live dates will be announced soon.\nNeon Neon MySpace: www.myspace.com\/neonx2\nMore on John DeLorean: http:\/\/eightiesclub.tripod.com\/id305.htm\nWakestock at Woodstock\n27th \u2013 29th June \/ Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire\n4th \u2013 6th July \/ Abersoch, North Wales\nTICKETS ON SALE: Friday 29th February at 9am\nWakestock 2008, Europe's largest and most successful wakeboard music festival, is proud to announce Groove Armada, The Streets, Supergrass, Funeral for a Friend, The Hoosiers, Hadouken, Young Knives, Metronomy, Jazzie B and Audio Bullys plus a load more are all confirmed to perform this year. Not only this, but Wakestock, sponsored by Relentless Energy Drink, have also announced a second date and a new prestigious location within the amazing grounds of Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, from 27th \u2013 29th June 2008. It is the first time that a contemporary music festival has been held within the grounds of Blenheim Palace and the Wakestock organisers are thrilled to have found such a fantastic venue for their second festival.\nNow in its 9th sell out year, Wakestock Abersoch, North Wales (4th \u2013 6th July 2008) and the new Wakestock Blenheim Palace promise to serve up a double helping of strong rip roaring music, world class wakeboarding, on-site camping and a weekend full of exhilarating on and off water entertainment. Better than that, whichever Wakestock visitors choose this year, the best scenery and the coolest festival sites are guaranteed. Abersoch boasts stunning beaches with some incredible shore breaks, and the site at Blenheim Palace sits within the awe-inspiring Parkland next to the picturesque lakes.\nWakeboarding is the world's fastest growing watersport with over 3 million participants worldwide. Wakeboarding began back in the 1970's when surfers who were bored of waiting for the waves began pulling their boards behind a speedboat with a ski rope. The summer equivalent to snowboarding, wakeboarding has now grown hugely over the past 10 years and is no longer the little brother of the boardsports world. If you add on the wakeskating community you have a boardsports family that outnumber surfers by more then two to one. The riding you see at Wakestock includes an elite selection of some of the world's best riders, you get the opportunity to see them throw down massive tricks, and hit some of the biggest slider rails in any competition right in front of the crowds. The spectators are able to see every slide, every trick and every stack whilst standing only metres away from the action \u2013 wakeboarding at this level is an awesome spectator sport.\n\"2008 is going to be the Year of Wakestock!\" says Wakestock Founder, Mark Durston. \"We've built the festival up over the last 8 years in Abersoch to be a really cool mix of the world's best wakeboarders, bands & DJ's right at the forefront of the live music scene and a lifestyle that is unrivalled by any other festival! With the help of Stuart Galbraith, CEO of Kilimanjaro, to develop the festival and to add a second venue as stunning as Blenheim Palace was an opportunity we've relished. The grounds at Blenheim Palace, as a festival venue, are first class. Add to this a stunning lake sat right in front of the Palace and you have the perfect setting to showcase the coolest sport on water\".\nThe creator of Download and Wireless festivals, Stuart Galbraith, believes Wakestock represents the future of festivals: \"Everyone knows the British festival calendar is getting busier each year and promoters need to deliver more than just a good stage line up. Wakestock combines this package with its programme of world class wakeboarding, music and full on entertainment that music artists have been keen to sign up to\"\nIt's the first time that Blenheim Palace has played host to such a unique event and Chief Executive, John Hoy, believes that the World Heritage setting provides an ideal backdrop for Wakestock \"We are delighted to have the opportunity to add this exciting event to our calendar and to stage an event geared specifically for the younger audience who will attend. We are really looking forward to working closely with the organisers and to welcoming all visitors to the event\".\nTickets will officially go on sale on Friday 29th March at 9am with a \"weekend\" ticket priced at \u00a385 and a \"weekend with camping\" ticket at \u00a3110 (booking fee and P&P not included)\nTicket master: Blenheim 0844 847 2437 Abesrsoch 0844 847 2439\nwww.ticketmaster.co.uk\nMaximo Park for Evolution 07 Festival\nMaximo Park last night announced they will be headlining the first major UK festival of the year, Evolution 07, taking place at Newcastle Gatesheads Quayside \u2026\nThe Bluetones tour, single and album\nThe Bluetones are going on tour ahead of the release of their new single 'Surrendered', out on 19 February, taken from their current eponymous album. \u2026\nMadonna UK tour not sold out\nTickets for the opening night of Madonna's upcoming UK tour have gone on sale and not sold out in record time. In fact, the opening \u2026\nDelia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom \u2013 El Monte\nThe ambient trance of Delia and Gavin blends many influences. There are echoes of seventies sci-fi theme music, Jean Michel Jarre, Mike Oldfield and Vangelis \u2026\n(X) IS GREATER THAN (Y) \u2013 Negative Snow\nFollowing on from last years singles ('S.G.W.' and 'Mirrors And Cameras', both included here) April will see (X) IS GREATER THAN (Y)'s debut album \u2013 \u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Business and Finance \/\nBusiness \/\nCanada Co-working Office Spaces Market - Growth, Trends, COVID-19 Impact, and Forecasts (2023 - 2028)\nMordor Intelligence\nThe Canadian co-working office spaces market is expected to record a CAGR of more than 5.5% during the forecast period. In Canada, the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the co-working office space market. Due to the lockdown restrictions, the companies lost 75% of their customers. People are returning to co-working spaces more than a year and a half later. These changes are proving to be beneficial to co-working spaces, which were growing increasingly popular before the outbreak impacted their economic models. As COVID-19 cases decrease, people seek new ways to work, socialize, and get out after more than a year at home.\nThe co-working trend has evolved into a transformative force in the Canadian corporate scene. New work patterns are in demand, and many flexible office operators are gaining a foothold in the lease market. Co-working real estate alternatives are reshaping other key markets in Canada. Since 2017, the flexible footprints of Calgary, Ottawa, and Vancouver have grown by more than 80%. The Waterloo region competed with Toronto (1.8%) in terms of market penetration of co-working space operations (with co-working accounting for 1.4% of total office supply). Suburban growth has outperformed downtown growth in Edmonton and Waterloo region. The suburban co-working space market in Vancouver grew by 83%.\nThere are currently 617 co-working spaces in Canada, including locations run by major corporations such as Staples. Several large corporations have already stated their intentions, setting the tone for the discourse in North America. JPMorgan Chase asked all of its workers to return to work. In the meantime, Ottawa-based e-commerce company Shopify abandoned its headquarters in favor of a remote-only workforce. However, as vaccine protection improves and the debate over the future of work heats up, some businesses see an opportunity to strike a middle ground by adopting a more \"flexible\" approach to the workplace through co-working.\nCanada Co-working Office Spaces Market Trends\nToronto Driving the Market\nAccording to an industry report, the IT business was responsible for a substantial portion of office leasing during the pandemic. Toronto leads the way in North America for tech job development. According to the survey, which assesses the influence of the IT industry on office demand and rents in Canada's 30 largest tech regions, Toronto saw a 26% increase in job growth from 2019 to 2020. Over the previous five years, high-tech companies have dominated the rental of office space.\nCo-working office spaces real estate operators occupy 3.1 million sq. ft. of office space, or 1.8% of the region's total office stock. The bulk of the space, 2.3 million sq. ft., is downtown, 147 locations out of a total of 216 flexible workspaces across the GTA. Regus\/Spaces is Toronto's largest flexible operator, with a 1.3 million sq. ft. footprint across 56 locations, or 42% of the market by square footage. It plans to add 347,000 sq. ft. over the next two years.\nWith a vacancy rate of 8%, Toronto has the highest downtown Class A rates, at CAD 34.18 per sq. ft. More than 7.5 million sq. ft of new supply are still under development in the city, with about 600,000 sq. ft under construction in the suburbs. However, during Q4 2021, more than 1.3 million sq. ft of downtown office space were absorbed, slightly exceeding by roughly 40,500 sq. ft, the amount of newly completed supply added to the market over the same period.\nIncrease in Supply of Office Space\nFive new spaces sites, totaling 173,500 sq. ft, will launch throughout Canada soon, as demand for co-working spaces grows due to improved labor flexibility. About 83% of businesses are implementing a flexible or hybrid working strategy for their employees, allowing people to work differently than they did before the pandemic. Spaces recently opened a 26,000-sq.ft Zibi Ottawa cross-provincial facility. It is part of the 34-acre Zibi mixed-use complex on Chaudi\u00e8re Island, which connects Ottawa and Gatineau, and is housed in a refurbished four-story former paper mill building at 4 Booth St. It will be joined by the 29,000-sq.ft Spaces Zibi Gatineau is set to open in the spring of 2021. The 42,000-sq.ft Spaces the Permanent, opened in February 2022, occupied five floors at 320 Bay St. in Toronto's financial district.\nOn the first and second floors of a newly built facility at 2 Ralston Ave., in the Burnside Business Park in Dartmouth, NS, Spaces Burnside will offer 60 large and small private offices and fully equipped meeting rooms, dedicated desks, and a collaborative co-working space. It is set to open in May 2022. The 51,500-sq.ft Spaces King George Hub will be the anchor tenant of King George Hub, a mixed-use development at 9850 King George Blvd. in Surrey, B.C. Later in 2022, IWG will unveil Spaces The Shift in Toronto's downtown east and Spaces The Well in The Well mixed-use development.\nCanada Co-working Office Spaces Market Competitive Analysis\nThe Canadian co-working office spaces market is fragmented with the presence of several privately owned co-working spaces. The market is expected to grow during the forecast period due to huge investments and funding received by companies in the industry. Some of the key players in the market include Lab T.O., District 28, La Halte 24\/7, L Atelier Vancouver, BNKR, WeWork, and Regus.\nThe market estimate (ME) sheet in Excel format\n3 months of analyst support\n2 Research Methodology3 Executive Summary\n4 Market Insights and Dynamics\n4.3 Technological Trends\n4.4 Industry Value Chain Analysis\n4.5 Government Regulations and Initiatives\n4.6 Insights on Co-working Startups in Canada\n4.7 Industry Attractiveness - Porter's Five Forces Analysis\n4.8 Impact of COVID-19 on the Market\n5 Market Segmentation\n5.1 By End User\n5.1.1 Personal User\n5.1.2 Small Scale Company\n5.1.3 Large Scale Company\n5.1.4 Other End Users\n5.2.1 Flexible Managed Office\n5.2.2 Serviced Office\n5.3.1 Information Technology (IT and ITES)\n5.3.2 Legal Services\n5.3.3 BFSI (Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance)\n5.3.4 Consulting\n5.3.5 Other Services\n5.4 By Key City\n5.4.1 Vancouver\n5.4.2 Calgary\n5.4.3 Ottawa\n5.4.4 Toronto\n6.1 Market Concentration Overview\n6.2.1 Lab T.O.\n6.2.2 District 28\n6.2.3 La Halte 24\/7\n6.2.4 L Atelier Vancouver\n6.2.5 BNKR\n6.2.6 Wework\n6.2.7 Regus\n6.2.8 Coworker\n6.2.9 Workhaus\n6.2.10 HiVE Vancouver\n6.2.11 Beta Collective\n6.2.12 Acme Works*\n7 Future of the Market8 Appendix\nLab T.O.\nLa Halte 24\/7\nL Atelier Vancouver\nBNKR\nWorkhaus\nHiVE Vancouver\nBeta Collective\nAcme Works*\nGlobal Shared office Spaces Market - Growth, Trends, COVID 19 Impact, and Forecasts (2023 - 2028)\nCoworking Space Global Market Report 2022 by Business Type, End Use, User\nGlobal Coworking Spaces Market 2023-2027\nCoworking Spaces Market Research Report by Business Type (Corporate & Professional Coworking Spaces and Open & Conventional Coworking Spaces), End-User, Region - Cumulative Impact of COVID-19, Russia Ukraine Conflict, and High Inflation - Global Forecast 2023-2030\nCoworking Spaces Market Research Report by Business Type, End-User, State - Cumulative Impact of COVID-19, Russia Ukraine Conflict, and High Inflation - United States Forecast 2023-2030\nThis product is a market research report. 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{"text":"Categories NewsPosted on November 13, 2009 October 20, 2016\nAnother Fire at Parker Tobacco\nSuspicious fires at Parker Tobacco Company in Maysville, Kentucky are claiming the abandoned building.\nA disused warehouse on Elizabeth Street in Maysville, Kentucky caught fire November 6 and resurfaced two days later that totaled the large two-story structure. Portions of the building collapsed onto the adjoining CSX Transportation railroad. The fire, reportedly having started in the basement, is being labeled as \"suspicious.\"\nThis is similar to the fires of 2008, where numerous warehouses either caught fire or were vandalized. One of the causalities of this was Parker Tobacco Company, where the center industrial processing lines were consumed in a three-alarm fire.\nIt was something, watching from the top of Hayswood Hospital and noting a huge plume of dark gray smoke billowing from the general location of Parker Tobacco. I assumed that at first that Parker had caught fire again, but it was a warehouse further east.\nIndustryKentucky\nSherman Cahal\nGlencoe-Auburn Place\nCategory NewsPosted on April 2, 2013 April 22, 2015\nGamble House Is No More\nThe Gamble House was located at 2918 Werk Road in the Westwood neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. The imposing 2 1\/2-story, 13-room residence, was constructed in the Queen Anne style by James Norris Ga\u2026\nContinue reading \"Gamble House Is No More\"\nCategory NewsPosted on May 20, 2014 April 22, 2015\nOld Taylor Revival\nCategory NewsPosted on June 12, 2013 April 22, 2015\nBig Lovely Mountain Rail Trail to Open\nOn June 15, Kentucky's newest rail trail will open between West Van Lear to Royalton along the former Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Dawkins Subdivision. The 18.5 mile Big Lovely Mountain Rail Trail w\u2026\nContinue reading \"Big Lovely Mountain Rail Trail to Open\"\nCategory NewsPosted on February 27, 2013 April 22, 2015\nThe Foundry to be Razed","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Category: Lesbian Short Films\nThe Two of Us, a short film by Franck Tabouring\nThe Two of Us is a sequel of Fast Hearts, another film written and directed by Franck Tabouring. Amanda (Zoey Moses) and Sophia (Marlies Bell) have been consummating their love in an isolated cabin...\nLesbian Short Films \/ Random Clips\nNow and Then, a short film by LVCVA\nFor a young couple in love, a trip to Vegas that starts as just a getaway turns into a life-defining experience. This short film is a promotional work made by LVCVA for the city...\nby Emma \u00b7 Published October 12, 2017 \u00b7 Last modified September 1, 2019\nZaya, a short film by Susanne Serres\nZaya is a french short film about two female dancers, created by Susanne Serres. This is a work promoting love and acceptance. The main protagonist, named Zaya, is a contemporary dancer that just realized...\nThis Is You And Me, a short film by April Maxey\nThis Is You and Me is a crowdfunded short film directed by April Maxey. It's story follows a detached Marie (Alexandra Miller) one night in Auburn, New York. At a bar, Susie (Ellen Toland),...\nby Emma \u00b7 Published February 2, 2017 \u00b7 Last modified February 18, 2017\nKabul, a short film by Lauren Fritz\nKabul is the melancholic sequel of Gallina. This is the second part of a cinematographic diptych designed as a mirror reflecting the influence of a couple's family life on their relationship. The film was written and...\nby Emma \u00b7 Published January 23, 2017 \u00b7 Last modified June 23, 2018\nLong distance relationships, lesbian short films\nThe first and second parts of Long Distance Relationships, two lesbian short films directed by Sarah Rotella and Adrianna DiLonardo, starring Gwen Cumyn and Justine Nelson. The story is about the struggles of a...\nby Emma \u00b7 Published December 2, 2016 \u00b7 Last modified September 10, 2017\nOne Night, a short film by Lydia Smyth\nAfter a successful fund-raising campaign on Kickstarter to present her film at festivals, Lydia Smyth has recently decided to share One Night online via vimeo. As I wanted to watch the movie since quite a while, I think...\nby Emma \u00b7 Published November 17, 2016 \u00b7 Last modified November 18, 2016\nBy your side, L campaign in Greece\nBy your side is a Greece-wide campaign on same-sex partnership created by George Chorevas and Thanasis Tsimpinis. The film is presented in the form of a fary tale narrated by a woman who wants a princess by...\nDocumentaries \/ Lesbian Short Films\nby Emma \u00b7 Published November 10, 2016 \u00b7 Last modified August 15, 2017\nIn the Hollow, a documentary film by Claudia Brenner & Austin Bunn\nIn the Hollow is a documentary film written by Claudia Brenner and Austin Bunn. Its screenplay is based on a true story, more specifically on the testimony of Claudia Brenner in honor & memory of Rebecca...\nby Emma \u00b7 Published November 5, 2016 \u00b7 Last modified December 20, 2016\nSeasons, a short film by Tessa Kennedy and Emmalie El Fadli\nSeasons is a romantic short film written by Tessa Kennedy and directed by Emmalie El Fadli. It tells the story of Spencer (Holly Ashman) and Kit (Tessa Kennedy), two girls who meet in a library before to spend the day...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Transitions with John Digweed\n12:00 am 2:00 am\nThe most important show in the deep house scene\nTagged as House, progressive house\nJohn Digweed's long-standing weekly 2 hour programme is legendary, airing for many years exclusively on Kiss 100 in London but now syndicated around the world. In New Zealand, Anthemz is proud to broadcast the show each week.\nThe most important radio show in the deep and progressive house scene really needs no introduction, but here it goes anyway. John Digweed's long-standing weekly 2 hour programme is legendary, airing for many years exclusively on Kiss 100 in London but now syndicated around the world. In New Zealand, Anthemz is proud to broadcast the show each week.\nBackground wise, John Digweed hosted a weekly two-hour radio show on Kiss 100 in the UK from September 2000 to January 2011, in which he played the first hour of music and a guest DJ played the second hour. Beginning in September 2006, his show was available on all three Kiss radio stations. By that time, the show's name had become Transitions, which was also the name of a four-volume series of mix albums by Digweed that was released every six months during 2006\u20132008. In January 2011, Transitions aired for the last time on Kiss 100, but the show continues to be broadcast on other stations around the world as well as online.\nExpect upfront & unreleased tunes dished up by John Digweed alongside finely tuned guest mixes that are almost always exclusively prepared just for the show.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"GONZAGA LOOKIN' TO TRY ON GLASS SLIPPER AGAIN\nLenn Robbins\nSocial Links for Lenn Robbins\nMarch 16, 2000 5:00am\nTUCSON \u2014 Looking for this year's Gonzaga?\nWhy not the Bulldogs, again?\nGonzaga, the Cinderella of last year's NCAA Tournament, is back in the Big Dance and opens play today against Louisville. As was the case in last year's tournament, the Bulldogs are considered underdogs, pardon the pun, seeded 10th in the West.\nJust why the Zags aren't being considered for the role of Cinderella this year is baffling. They went 24-8 and played a much tougher schedule this season, losing to Cincinnati, Temple, and Oregon, but beating UCLA.\nAnd unlike last season, when Gonzaga made its first trip to the NCAA Tournament since 1995, this year's team has the experience of last year's success. The Zags shocked Minnesota, Stanford, and Florida before losing 67-62 to Connecticut in the West Region.\n\"When the bus pulled up to McKale [Center], we realized what stage we were going to be playing on, but this year we are more prepared and used to the media because of our experiences from last year,\" said guard Matt Santangelo.\nThe Zags lost two starters from last year's team, shooting guard Quentin Hall and center Jeremy Eaton. Coach Dan Monson left for the Minnesota job. But in Santangelo, forward Richie Frahm and underrated forward Casey Calvary, they have a great nucleus.\nAfter losing 64-48 to Temple in the Elite Eight, Owls coach John Chaney said he had never had a team attack his matchup zone defense better than Gonzaga.\nWith Calvary battling inside and Frahm and Santangelo bombing from the outside, Gonzaga has the weapons to upset seventh-seeded Louisville (19-11). The winner of that game faces the winner of the St. John's-Northern Arizona contest on Saturday.\nRead Next GIBBONS LOOMING AS PINCH-SKIPPER\nMike Vaccaro\nThis Kansas City trait can make you feel good about pulling for Chiefs\nTrending Now in Sports","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Register | Member Login\nVision Voice Value\nAGC's BUILD PAC\n\u2190View all Articles\nL&I proposes workers'-comp rate increase for 2017\nThe rate paid for workers'-compensation coverage in Washington would rise by an average of 0.7 percent next year under a proposal released by L&I. For construction risk classification, the proposed 2017 rates range from a 12-percent decrease for the Pile Construction, Wharf Pier & Dock Construction, Diving Operations category to a 12-percent increase for the Painting: Building and Structures Exterior Work category.\nFor a list of proposed rates by risk classification, click here.\nL&I sets workers' compensation rates every fall for the following year. To determine the proposed rate, the agency takes a close look at expected workers'-compensation payouts, the size of the reserve fund, wage inflation and other financial indicators.\n\"We're doing our best to make sure we have a workers' compensation system in our state that's healthy and available for workers and employers today and in the future,\" said L&I Director Joel Sacks. \"By helping injured workers heal and get back to work sooner, we've been able to keep rates steady and predictable.\"\nThe proposed 2017 increase would cost employers an average of about $10 more a year per employee.\nAGC appreciates L&I's efforts to flatten-out rates as well as the need to bolster reserves, and also understands that Washington State's system, because it is based on hours worked rather than wages as is the case in other states, does not have a built-in adjustment. However, AGC also believes that rates could be even lower if the Legislature were to enact additional reforms, such as lowering the age at which workers can negotiate a structured settlement in lieu of lifetime pensions, and common sense improvements to occupational disease rules.\nThe agency will hold a series of public hearings where people can learn about and comment on the proposed rates. The hearings are scheduled for\nVancouver Oct. 26, 9 a.m., Marshal Community Center\nTukwila Oct. 27, 9 a.m., Dept. of Labor & Industries\nEverett Nov. 1, 9 a.m., Everett Community College\nSpokane Valley Nov. 2, 9 a.m., Spokane CenterPlace\nRichland Nov. 3, 9 a.m., Richland Community Center\nTumwater Nov. 4, 9 a.m., Dept. of Labor & Industries Headquarters\nPeople can also comment in writing to Jo Anne Attwood, administrative regulations analyst, P. O. Box 41448, Olympia, WA 98504-4148; or email joanne.attwood@lni.wa.gov.\nAll comments must be received by 5 p.m. Nov. 8, 2016. Final rates will be adopted by early December and go into effect Jan. 1, 2017.\n1200 Westlake Avenue N, Suite 301 \/ Seattle Washington 98109\nPrivacy Policy | AGC of America Website","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Do you know- Why Section 144 has been implemented in Ayodhya?\nNewsPoliticsPopular\nCourt cases in our country have piled up so much that the volume terrifies equally to the people who are aware of it and the ones who have to tackle it. The judicial process in India has been very sturdy & credible making sure that justice is done to the people, however the time it may take. There are many hard facts known to all that, the civil court cases get stretched to years, where generations pass away but the decision is not taken. That's the irony, as the case filed by someone gets to see the light of justice by his grandsons. Ayodhya's case falls under the same category. It's been years that the case is being dragged upon. It is evident that for political reasons or circumstances beyond the control of the administrations, it kept on going endlessly.\nCases that get dragged on like this at times have to face public ire, as we all experienced it rising in 2002 leading to the demolition of the disputed structure at the Ram Janmbhoomi and the turmoil in the country thereafter. Such sensitive cases need very careful and mature handling by the administrators and the Govt. In general, the attitude of the people who are at the helm, responsible for taking decisions, do not do their part and try to avoid and postpone things.\nIt's a welcome change that the court has taken initiative to conduct a regular hearing and attend to the teams from both sides. Uncertainty has gripped the minds of people so much so that nobody knows which way the judgment will tilt. However, as the gossip mongers are at work through social media sites and apps therefore at times situations seem to get tense. Govt has imposed Section 144 till 14th Dec anticipating the unrest and hence incorporating their standard procedure to control trouble.\nEven this proactive step from Govt is being taken as a signal in their favor by both parties. Hindus feel that the judgment would be in their favor and hence the section 144 is to contain the troubles from the opponents not favoring Mandir whereas Muslims feel that they may win and hence section 144 is imposed to check the developments due to the unrest if it may take place when they win the case. Everyone is hoping this time of some result as the case is in progress at the fastest speed possible and there are all chances of it reaching a conclusive end. The CJI Mr. Gagoi is retiring in Nov and it is considered to be a prestigious case for him to give a good convincing judgment on to. His name would definitely be scripted in history, however, the time will tell how will his judgment be accepted by the people of India. The hard work that's going on and the volume of work that is involved in this case makes it an all-time hit amongst people. We only hope that sense prevails in people and they wait patiently for the judgment and accept it wholeheartedly without any trouble.\nIndia is a country where people from decades have been living with the concept of Sarva Dharma Samabhav (Equal weightage to each Religion). Hence we should take the judgment in our stride whichever way it may come and move ahead with life.\nRelated tags : Ayodhya\n\u092a\u093e\u0928\u094d\u0921\u0941\u091c\u0940 \u0915 \u091c\u093e\u0928 \u092c\u091a \u0906\u0908\u2026 Panduji series (10)\nAyodhya case \u2013 Sunni Wakf board to withdraw their case?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"MotionPicturesComics.com by Josh Edelglass\nThe Top 10 Episodes of TV in 2012 -- Part One!\nThe Top 15 Movies of 2012 -- Part One!\nAn Evening with Kevin Smith at the House of Blues in Boston!\nGreat Scott!! Josh is Blown Away by the 25th Anniversary Screening...\nJosh Enjoys Rifftrax Live: Reefer Madness!\nJosh Enjoys Two Sweet New Classic Soundtrack Releases: Back to...\nJosh Reviews the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke!\nLost: The Questions I Need Answered in the Final Season -- Part...\nMartin Wagner, Kevin Smith, Alan Moore, David Lapham, Grant Morrison,...\nCamp Ramah Gets Lost!\nDeath in the Shadow of New Life \u2014 Josh reviews J.J. Abrams'...\nThe Twenty Greatest Episodes of Star Trek\n\"Sorry, we're closed\" -- Josh's Favorite TV Series Finales!\nHan Shoots First! Josh is astounded by Adywan's Fan-Edit of...\n\"He was Some Kind of a Man\" -- An Orson Welles Double Feature\nThird Prize is You're Fired: The Films of David Mamet\nAdventures in Hollywood!\nBrowse Josh's Portfolio and the Comic, Reviews or Blog archive.\nJosh Reviews Star Wars Rebels Season 3\nStar Wars, Star Wars Rebels\nI was dubious about Star Wars Rebels when it first launched. I was still sore over the premature cancellation of The Clone Wars and not that interested in what looked like a very kid-centric new show. But I gave it a try with an open mind, and the early episodes were enough to keep my interest. The final episodes of season one were terrific, and I was thrilled by the involvement of Darth Vader and Ahsoka (a popular character with an unfinished story from The Clone Wars) in season two. There were moments in season two that were as good as Star Wars had been in twenty years, in my opinion. With The Force Awakens and then Rogue One bringing back Star Wars in a big way, I was eager to see where Rebels would go in season three.\nWhile season three does not have the incredible high-points of season two (am I exaggerating to say that Ahsoka's discovery that her master Anakin Skywalker is Darth Vader is one of the greatest moments in the entire Star Wars saga? It's a shocking and heartbreaking scene), it is nevertheless a very solid, very entertaining season filled with some wonderful episodes and exciting connections to and expansions upon the wider Star Wars universe.\nIt's tough to beat using Darth Vader as the main villain of season two, but showrunner Dave Filoni and his team made the perfect choice to use Grand Admiral Thrawn as the villain here in season three. Thrawn was introduced as the villain of Timothy Zahn's novel Heir to the Empire, way back in 1991. Back then, Star Wars was only the original three movies. Mr. Zahn's trilogy of novels was the first attempt at continuing the Star Wars story beyond the events of Return of the Jedi. The success of those novels led to the explosion of Star Wars novels (the \"expanded universe\") and comics and, I am convinced, had a hand in the eventual return of Star Wars to the big screen with the Special Editions and eventually the prequel films. (But don't blame Timothy Zahn for that!!) Mr. Zahn's novels are terrific, and Thrawn was a spectacular villain. So the idea that Thrawn would finally be brought into \"official\" on-screen Star Wars canon was a delicious prospect for fans when this was first announced last year.\nRebels season three did not disappoint. Thrawn looked perfect, and he was wonderfully brought to life by Lars Mikkelsen, who perfectly voices the silky-smooth manipulator. I loved seeing Thrawn popping up throughout the season. While of course his appearances aren't as exciting as those of Vader, the show admirably took the time to develop Thrawn as a patient schemer, just as he was in Mr. Zahn's novels. It takes the whole season for Thrawn to bring his hammer down on the rebels, but when he does, it works. More on this in a moment.\nRebels season three was filled with connections to the broader Star Wars saga. I liked seeing Wedge in \"The Antilles Extraction.\" I loved how the final episodes of the season featured all the famous rebel leaders, from Mon Mothma to Bail Organa to even General Dodonna. (I believe the finale, \"Zero Hour,\" was the first time that General Dodonna's name was actually spoken on screen in any Star Wars iteration!) I loved seeing Tarkin again (who, of course, was also back in a big way in Rogue One.)\nFollowing Rogue One, I was hugely excited that Saw Gerrera (who had first appeared in the animated Clone Wars series) was incorporated into the two-part \"Ghosts of Geonosis\". That was a very cool idea, and I was thrilled that Forest Whitaker, who played Saw in Rogue One, returned to voice the character on Rebels. Unfortunately, that episode was a bit of a disappointment, as they didn't really flesh out Saw the way I had hoped. Still, cool idea. I'd love to see more of Saw next season. (And maybe some other characters from Rogue One like Cassian Andor\u2026??)\nOne of my favorite things about Rebels season 2 was the way Dave Filoni and his team brought back characters from The Clone Wars, as a way to give some closure to fans of that cancelled-before-its-time show. To my delight, Rebels season 3 continued this. I loved the return of Hondo Ohnaka in the premiere, \"Steps into Shadow,\" and then again in \"The Wynkahthu Job\". Hondo was a great character from The Clone Wars, and I like the way Rebels has developed his relationship with Ezra. I also continuing to see Rex this season, and it was fun to see Battle Droids and other Clone Wars style droids and equipment in \"The Last Battle.\"\nThe standout episode of Rebels season 3 was, of course, \"Twin Suns,\" in which Ezra discovers that Obi-Wan Kenobi is still alive and tracks him down to Tatooine, where Obi-Wan and Darth Maul have their final confrontation. This episode is great on so many levels. First of all, it is amazing to see the Alec Guinness version of Obi-Wan. I love the way they designed and animated this older version of Obi-Wan (transitioning from the character's appearance in The Clone Wars and the slightly different look they gave him when the holographic recording of Obi-Wan was featured early in season one), and he was perfectly voiced by Stephen Stanton. The moment in which we see Obi-Wan's lightsaber stance shift from his Episode III style (with two fingers pointed forward) to his Episode IV style (with his lightsaber held back over his shoulder, like a baseball bat), was genius. And then that confrontation with Darth Maul. Wow. I loved that The Clone Wars brought back Maul and was able to flesh him out and give him his due as a villain. It was so painful when Clone Wars was cancelled and Maul's story was left unfinished, so I was thrilled when Rebels brought back an older, broken version of Maul. How perfect that his story ends where it began, in battle with Obi-Wan. I was expecting an awesome fight and so, like everyone, I was shocked that the Maul\/Obi-Wan fight lasted only seconds, but what a perfect choice that was. Of course Obi-Wan could kick Maul's tuchas at that point. I loved that Maul tried to use the move that beat Qui-Gon on Obi-Wan, and I loved that of course Obi-Wan was ready for it. I loved that Maul died in Obi-Wan's arms, just as Qui-Gon did. And I was fascinated by the reference to Luke as \"the chosen one.\" I wrote a lot about that just the other day.\nOne of the most interesting new developments about Rebels season 3, which also featured into my recent blog post, was the Bendu, a mysterious creature who incorporated both the light and dark sides of the force into itself. Voiced by Dr. Who's Tom Baker, I loved this enigmatic new character, and I wonder whether the Bendu isn't a hint as to where the Star Wars saga is heading with The Last Jedi and beyond.\nRebels season three spent a lot of time developing the Mandalorians and the backstory of Sabine. None of this quite landed for me the way I think it was supposed to have. It was all OK, and Sabine is a great character, but I just wasn't as interested in any of the many other Mandalorian characters as I should have been.\nConversely, I loved the way Rebels season 3 continued to develop Agent Kallus, to the point that he was fully accepted by Kanan as a rebel in the final moments of the finale. I've grown to love Kallus, and I can't wait to see where his story goes.\nThe season ended with the very strong two-parter \"Zero Hour,\" in which the rebels assemble as prelude to an effort to liberate Lothal (the planet from which Ezra hails that served as the main location for much of season one), just in time for Thrawn to bring down his hammer in a massive Star Destroyer assault on the rebel base, that smashes the assembled rebel fleet. It's a pleasure to see Thrawn's machinations finally bear fruit, and the episodes features a glorious extended space battle that I adored. The animation was gorgeous and thrilling. I love the way many of the season's story-lines came together, from the use of the stolen shield generator to Sabine and the Mandalorians coming in for a rescue. I loved how Thrawn refused to consider accepting the rebels' surrender. I loved the lightsaber fight on the hull of a starship \u2014 what a cool Star Wars idea! One might argue that, in the end, Thrawn's victory should have been more complete (quite a few rebels do get away from him, in the end), but I can live with it.\nThere were a few weak spots, but over-all Rebels season three was a very entertaining, well-crafted season and a wonderful expansion of the wider Star Wars saga. I can't wait for season four. Let's watch that trailer again, shall we?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Federal 100: Harlin R. McEwen\nBy FCW Staff\nName: Harlin R. McEwen\nTitle: Chairman\nCommunications and Technology Committee\nAgency: International Association of Chiefs of Police\nA force for first responders. McEwen has a talent for bringing together both communities and complex technologies. Through IACP, he worked to integrate various identity, credential and access management frameworks in the public safety community -- an effort that Kshemendra Paul, program manager for the Information Sharing Environment, termed \"hugely successful.\" And as chairman of FirstNet's Public Safety Advisory Committee, McEwen aligned work on the nationwide first responders' emergency communications radio network, which includes the next-generation 911 system and the Department of Homeland Security's efforts to enhance emergency communications.\nClick here for the full list\nNEXT STORY: Why agencies have 'barely scratched the surface' with shared services","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Proof of Concept (PoC) (16) Apply Proof of Concept (PoC) filter\nProject acronym ActiveWindFarms\nProject Active Wind Farms: Optimization and Control of Atmospheric Energy Extraction in Gigawatt Wind Farms\nResearcher (PI) Johan Meyers\nSummary With the recognition that wind energy will become an important contributor to the world's energy portfolio, several wind farms with a capacity of over 1 gigawatt are in planning phase. In the past, engineering of wind farms focused on a bottom-up approach, in which atmospheric wind availability was considered to be fixed by climate and weather. However, farms of gigawatt size slow down the Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL) as a whole, reducing the availability of wind at turbine hub height. In Denmark's large off-shore farms, this leads to underperformance of turbines which can reach levels of 40%\u201350% compared to the same turbine in a lone-standing case. For large wind farms, the vertical structure and turbulence physics of the flow in the ABL become crucial ingredients in their design and operation. This introduces a new set of scientific challenges related to the design and control of large wind farms. The major ambition of the present research proposal is to employ optimal control techniques to control the interaction between large wind farms and the ABL, and optimize overall farm-power extraction. Individual turbines are used as flow actuators by dynamically pitching their blades using time scales ranging between 10 to 500 seconds. The application of such control efforts on the atmospheric boundary layer has never been attempted before, and introduces flow control on a physical scale which is currently unprecedented. The PI possesses a unique combination of expertise and tools enabling these developments: efficient parallel large-eddy simulations of wind farms, multi-scale turbine modeling, and gradient-based optimization in large optimization-parameter spaces using adjoint formulations. To ensure a maximum impact on the wind-engineering field, the project aims at optimal control, experimental wind-tunnel validation, and at including multi-disciplinary aspects, related to structural mechanics, power quality, and controller design.\nWith the recognition that wind energy will become an important contributor to the world's energy portfolio, several wind farms with a capacity of over 1 gigawatt are in planning phase. In the past, engineering of wind farms focused on a bottom-up approach, in which atmospheric wind availability was considered to be fixed by climate and weather. However, farms of gigawatt size slow down the Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL) as a whole, reducing the availability of wind at turbine hub height. In Denmark's large off-shore farms, this leads to underperformance of turbines which can reach levels of 40%\u201350% compared to the same turbine in a lone-standing case. For large wind farms, the vertical structure and turbulence physics of the flow in the ABL become crucial ingredients in their design and operation. This introduces a new set of scientific challenges related to the design and control of large wind farms. The major ambition of the present research proposal is to employ optimal control techniques to control the interaction between large wind farms and the ABL, and optimize overall farm-power extraction. Individual turbines are used as flow actuators by dynamically pitching their blades using time scales ranging between 10 to 500 seconds. The application of such control efforts on the atmospheric boundary layer has never been attempted before, and introduces flow control on a physical scale which is currently unprecedented. The PI possesses a unique combination of expertise and tools enabling these developments: efficient parallel large-eddy simulations of wind farms, multi-scale turbine modeling, and gradient-based optimization in large optimization-parameter spaces using adjoint formulations. To ensure a maximum impact on the wind-engineering field, the project aims at optimal control, experimental wind-tunnel validation, and at including multi-disciplinary aspects, related to structural mechanics, power quality, and controller design.\nProject acronym AF and MSOGR\nProject Automorphic Forms and Moduli Spaces of Galois Representations\nResearcher (PI) Toby Gee\nSummary I propose to establish a research group to develop completely new tools in order to solve three important problems on the relationships between automorphic forms and Galois representations, which lie at the heart of the Langlands program. The first is to prove Serre's conjecture for real quadratic fields. I will use automorphic induction to transfer the problem to U(4) over the rational numbers, where I will use automorphy lifting theorems and results on the weight part of Serre's conjecture that I established in my earlier work to reduce the problem to proving results in small weight and level. I will prove these base cases via integral p-adic Hodge theory and discriminant bounds. The second is to develop a geometric theory of moduli spaces of mod p and p-adic Galois representations, and to use it to establish the Breuil\u2013M\u00e9zard conjecture in arbitrary dimension, by reinterpreting the conjecture in geometric terms. This will transform the subject by building the first connections between the p-adic Langlands program and the geometric Langlands program, providing an entirely new world of techniques for number theorists. As a consequence of the Breuil-M\u00e9zard conjecture, I will be able to deduce far stronger automorphy lifting theorems (in arbitrary dimension) than those currently available. The third is to completely determine the reduction mod p of certain two-dimensional crystalline representations, and as an application prove a strengthened version of the Gouv\u00eaa\u2013Mazur conjecture. I will do this by means of explicit computations with the p-adic local Langlands correspondence for GL_2(Q_p), as well as by improving existing arguments which prove multiplicity one theorems via automorphy lifting theorems. This work will show that the existence of counterexamples to the Gouv\u00eaa-Mazur conjecture is due to a purely local phenomenon, and that when this local obstruction vanishes, far stronger conjectures of Buzzard on the slopes of the U_p operator hold.\nI propose to establish a research group to develop completely new tools in order to solve three important problems on the relationships between automorphic forms and Galois representations, which lie at the heart of the Langlands program. The first is to prove Serre's conjecture for real quadratic fields. I will use automorphic induction to transfer the problem to U(4) over the rational numbers, where I will use automorphy lifting theorems and results on the weight part of Serre's conjecture that I established in my earlier work to reduce the problem to proving results in small weight and level. I will prove these base cases via integral p-adic Hodge theory and discriminant bounds. The second is to develop a geometric theory of moduli spaces of mod p and p-adic Galois representations, and to use it to establish the Breuil\u2013M\u00e9zard conjecture in arbitrary dimension, by reinterpreting the conjecture in geometric terms. This will transform the subject by building the first connections between the p-adic Langlands program and the geometric Langlands program, providing an entirely new world of techniques for number theorists. As a consequence of the Breuil-M\u00e9zard conjecture, I will be able to deduce far stronger automorphy lifting theorems (in arbitrary dimension) than those currently available. The third is to completely determine the reduction mod p of certain two-dimensional crystalline representations, and as an application prove a strengthened version of the Gouv\u00eaa\u2013Mazur conjecture. I will do this by means of explicit computations with the p-adic local Langlands correspondence for GL_2(Q_p), as well as by improving existing arguments which prove multiplicity one theorems via automorphy lifting theorems. This work will show that the existence of counterexamples to the Gouv\u00eaa-Mazur conjecture is due to a purely local phenomenon, and that when this local obstruction vanishes, far stronger conjectures of Buzzard on the slopes of the U_p operator hold.\nProject acronym AgricUrb\nProject The Agricultural Origins of Urban Civilization\nResearcher (PI) Amy Marie Bogaard\nSummary The establishment of farming is a pivotal moment in human history, setting the stage for the emergence of class-based society and urbanization. Monolithic views of the nature and development of early agriculture, however, have prevented clear understanding of how exactly farming fuelled, shaped and sustained the emergence of complex societies. A breakthrough in archaeological approach is needed to determine the actual roles of farming in the emergence of social complexity. The methodology required must push beyond conventional interpretation of the most direct farming evidence \u2013 archaeobotanical remains of crops and associated arable weeds \u2013 to reconstruct not only what crops were grown, but also how, where and why farming was practised. Addressing these related aspects, in contexts ranging from early agricultural villages to some of the world's earliest cities, would provide the key to unraveling the contribution of farming to the development of lasting social inequalities. The research proposed here takes a new interdisciplinary approach combining archaeobotany, plant stable isotope chemistry and functional plant ecology, building on groundwork laid in previous research by the applicant. These approaches will be applied to two relatively well researched areas, western Asia and Europe, where a series of sites that chart multiple pathways to early complex societies offer rich plant and other bioarchaeological assemblages. The proposed project will set a wholly new standard of insight into early farming and its relationship with early civilization, facilitating similar approaches in other parts of the world and the construction of comparative perspectives on the global significance of early agriculture in social development.\nThe establishment of farming is a pivotal moment in human history, setting the stage for the emergence of class-based society and urbanization. Monolithic views of the nature and development of early agriculture, however, have prevented clear understanding of how exactly farming fuelled, shaped and sustained the emergence of complex societies. A breakthrough in archaeological approach is needed to determine the actual roles of farming in the emergence of social complexity. The methodology required must push beyond conventional interpretation of the most direct farming evidence \u2013 archaeobotanical remains of crops and associated arable weeds \u2013 to reconstruct not only what crops were grown, but also how, where and why farming was practised. Addressing these related aspects, in contexts ranging from early agricultural villages to some of the world's earliest cities, would provide the key to unraveling the contribution of farming to the development of lasting social inequalities. The research proposed here takes a new interdisciplinary approach combining archaeobotany, plant stable isotope chemistry and functional plant ecology, building on groundwork laid in previous research by the applicant. These approaches will be applied to two relatively well researched areas, western Asia and Europe, where a series of sites that chart multiple pathways to early complex societies offer rich plant and other bioarchaeological assemblages. The proposed project will set a wholly new standard of insight into early farming and its relationship with early civilization, facilitating similar approaches in other parts of the world and the construction of comparative perspectives on the global significance of early agriculture in social development.\nProject acronym ALCOHOLLIFECOURSE\nProject Alcohol Consumption across the Life-course: Determinants and Consequences\nResearcher (PI) Anne Rebecca Britton\nSummary The epidemiology of alcohol use and related health consequences plays a vital role by monitoring populations' alcohol consumption patterns and problems associated with drinking. Such studies seek to explain mechanisms linking consumption to harm and ultimately to reduce the health burden. Research needs to consider changes in drinking behaviour over the life-course. The current evidence base lacks the consideration of the complexity of lifetime consumption patterns, the predictors of change and subsequent health risks. Aims of the study 1. To describe age-related trajectories of drinking in different settings and to determine the extent to which individual and social contextual factors, including socioeconomic position, social networks and life events influence drinking pattern trajectories. 2. To estimate the impact of drinking trajectories on physical functioning and disease and to disentangle the exposure-outcome associations in terms of a) timing, i.e. health effect of drinking patterns in early, mid and late life; and b) duration, i.e. whether the impact of drinking accumulates over time. 3. To test the bidirectional associations between health and changes in consumption over the life-course in order to estimate the relative importance of these effects and to determine the dominant temporal direction. 4. To explore mechanisms and pathways through which drinking trajectories affect health and functioning in later life and to examine the role played by potential effect modifiers of the association between drinking and poor health. Several large, longitudinal cohort studies from European countries with repeated measures of alcohol consumption will be combined and analysed to address the aims. A new team will be formed consisting of the PI, a Research Associate and two PhD students. Dissemination will be through journals, conferences, and culminating in a one-day workshop for academics, practitioners and policy makers in the alcohol field.\nThe epidemiology of alcohol use and related health consequences plays a vital role by monitoring populations' alcohol consumption patterns and problems associated with drinking. Such studies seek to explain mechanisms linking consumption to harm and ultimately to reduce the health burden. Research needs to consider changes in drinking behaviour over the life-course. The current evidence base lacks the consideration of the complexity of lifetime consumption patterns, the predictors of change and subsequent health risks. Aims of the study 1. To describe age-related trajectories of drinking in different settings and to determine the extent to which individual and social contextual factors, including socioeconomic position, social networks and life events influence drinking pattern trajectories. 2. To estimate the impact of drinking trajectories on physical functioning and disease and to disentangle the exposure-outcome associations in terms of a) timing, i.e. health effect of drinking patterns in early, mid and late life; and b) duration, i.e. whether the impact of drinking accumulates over time. 3. To test the bidirectional associations between health and changes in consumption over the life-course in order to estimate the relative importance of these effects and to determine the dominant temporal direction. 4. To explore mechanisms and pathways through which drinking trajectories affect health and functioning in later life and to examine the role played by potential effect modifiers of the association between drinking and poor health. Several large, longitudinal cohort studies from European countries with repeated measures of alcohol consumption will be combined and analysed to address the aims. A new team will be formed consisting of the PI, a Research Associate and two PhD students. Dissemination will be through journals, conferences, and culminating in a one-day workshop for academics, practitioners and policy makers in the alcohol field.\nProject acronym ANGLE\nProject Accelerated design and discovery of novel molecular materials via global lattice energy minimisation\nResearcher (PI) Graeme Matthew Day\nHost Institution (HI) UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON\nSummary The goal of crystal engineering is the design of functional crystalline materials in which the arrangement of basic structural building blocks imparts desired properties. The engineering of organic molecular crystals has, to date, relied largely on empirical rules governing the intermolecular association of functional groups in the solid state. However, many materials properties depend intricately on the complete crystal structure, i.e. the unit cell, space group and atomic positions, which cannot be predicted solely using such rules. Therefore, the development of computational methods for crystal structure prediction (CSP) from first principles has been a goal of computational chemistry that could significantly accelerate the design of new materials. It is only recently that the necessary advances in the modelling of intermolecular interactions and developments in algorithms for identifying all relevant crystal structures have come together to provide predictive methods that are becoming reliable and affordable on a timescale that could usefully complement an experimental research programme. The principle aim of the proposed work is to establish the use of state-of-the-art crystal structure prediction methods as a means of guiding the discovery and design of novel molecular materials. This research proposal both continues the development of the computational methods for CSP and, by developing a computational framework for screening of potential molecules, develops the application of these methods for materials design. The areas on which we will focus are organic molecular semiconductors with high charge carrier mobilities and, building on our recently published results in Nature [1], the development of porous organic molecular materials. The project will both deliver novel materials, as well as improvements in the reliability of computational methods that will find widespread applications in materials chemistry. [1] Nature 2011, 474, 367-371.\nThe goal of crystal engineering is the design of functional crystalline materials in which the arrangement of basic structural building blocks imparts desired properties. The engineering of organic molecular crystals has, to date, relied largely on empirical rules governing the intermolecular association of functional groups in the solid state. However, many materials properties depend intricately on the complete crystal structure, i.e. the unit cell, space group and atomic positions, which cannot be predicted solely using such rules. Therefore, the development of computational methods for crystal structure prediction (CSP) from first principles has been a goal of computational chemistry that could significantly accelerate the design of new materials. It is only recently that the necessary advances in the modelling of intermolecular interactions and developments in algorithms for identifying all relevant crystal structures have come together to provide predictive methods that are becoming reliable and affordable on a timescale that could usefully complement an experimental research programme. The principle aim of the proposed work is to establish the use of state-of-the-art crystal structure prediction methods as a means of guiding the discovery and design of novel molecular materials. This research proposal both continues the development of the computational methods for CSP and, by developing a computational framework for screening of potential molecules, develops the application of these methods for materials design. The areas on which we will focus are organic molecular semiconductors with high charge carrier mobilities and, building on our recently published results in Nature [1], the development of porous organic molecular materials. The project will both deliver novel materials, as well as improvements in the reliability of computational methods that will find widespread applications in materials chemistry. [1] Nature 2011, 474, 367-371.\nProject acronym ANTINEUTRINONOVA\nProject Probing Fundamental Physics with Antineutrinos at the NOvA Experiment\nResearcher (PI) Jeffrey Hartnell\nSummary \"This proposal addresses major questions in particle physics that are at the forefront of experimental and theoretical physics research today. The results offered would have far-reaching implications in other fields such as cosmology and could help answer some of the big questions such as why the universe contains so much more matter than antimatter. The research objectives of this proposal are to (i) make world-leading tests of CPT symmetry and (ii) discover the neutrino mass hierarchy and search for indications of leptonic CP violation. The NOvA long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment will use a novel \"\"totally active scintillator design\"\" for the detector technology and will be exposed to the world's highest power neutrino beam. Building on the first direct observation of muon antineutrino disappearance (that was made by a group founded and led by the PI at the MINOS experiment), tests of CPT symmetry will be performed by looking for differences in the mass squared splittings and mixing angles between neutrinos and antineutrinos. The potential to discover the mass hierarchy is unique to NOvA on the timescale of this proposal due to the long 810 km baseline and the well measured beam of neutrinos and antineutrinos. This proposal addresses several key challenges in a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment with the following tasks: (i) development of a new approach to event energy reconstruction that is expected to have widespread applicability for future neutrino experiments; (ii) undertaking a comprehensive calibration project, exploiting a novel technique developed by the PI, that will be essential to achieving the physics goals; (iii) development of a sophisticated statistical analyses. The results promised in this proposal surpass the sensitivity to antineutrino oscillation parameters of current 1st generation experiments by at least an order of magnitude, offering wide scope for profound discoveries with implications across disciplines.\"\n\"This proposal addresses major questions in particle physics that are at the forefront of experimental and theoretical physics research today. The results offered would have far-reaching implications in other fields such as cosmology and could help answer some of the big questions such as why the universe contains so much more matter than antimatter. The research objectives of this proposal are to (i) make world-leading tests of CPT symmetry and (ii) discover the neutrino mass hierarchy and search for indications of leptonic CP violation. The NOvA long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment will use a novel \"\"totally active scintillator design\"\" for the detector technology and will be exposed to the world's highest power neutrino beam. Building on the first direct observation of muon antineutrino disappearance (that was made by a group founded and led by the PI at the MINOS experiment), tests of CPT symmetry will be performed by looking for differences in the mass squared splittings and mixing angles between neutrinos and antineutrinos. The potential to discover the mass hierarchy is unique to NOvA on the timescale of this proposal due to the long 810 km baseline and the well measured beam of neutrinos and antineutrinos. This proposal addresses several key challenges in a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment with the following tasks: (i) development of a new approach to event energy reconstruction that is expected to have widespread applicability for future neutrino experiments; (ii) undertaking a comprehensive calibration project, exploiting a novel technique developed by the PI, that will be essential to achieving the physics goals; (iii) development of a sophisticated statistical analyses. The results promised in this proposal surpass the sensitivity to antineutrino oscillation parameters of current 1st generation experiments by at least an order of magnitude, offering wide scope for profound discoveries with implications across disciplines.\"\nProject acronym APGRAPH\nProject Asymptotic Graph Properties\nResearcher (PI) Deryk Osthus\nHost Institution (HI) THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM\nSummary Many parts of Graph Theory have witnessed a huge growth over the last years, partly because of their relation to Theoretical Computer Science and Statistical Physics. These connections arise because graphs can be used to model many diverse structures. The focus of this proposal is on asymptotic results, i.e. the graphs under consideration are large. This often unveils patterns and connections which remain obscure when considering only small graphs. It also allows for the use of powerful techniques such as probabilistic arguments, which have led to spectacular new developments. In particular, my aim is to make decisive progress on central problems in the following 4 areas: (1) Factorizations: Factorizations of graphs can be viewed as partitions of the edges of a graph into simple regular structures. They have a rich history and arise in many different settings, such as edge-colouring problems, decomposition problems and in information theory. They also have applications to finding good tours for the famous Travelling salesman problem. (2) Hamilton cycles: A Hamilton cycle is a cycle which contains all the vertices of the graph. One of the most fundamental problems in Graph Theory\/Theoretical Computer Science is to find conditions which guarantee the existence of a Hamilton cycle in a graph. (3) Embeddings of graphs: This is a natural (but difficult) continuation of the previous question where the aim is to embed more general structures than Hamilton cycles - there has been exciting progress here in recent years which has opened up new avenues. (4) Resilience of graphs: In many cases, it is important to know whether a graph `strongly' possesses some property, i.e. one cannot destroy the property by changing a few edges. The systematic study of this notion is a new and rapidly growing area. I have developed new methods for deep and long-standing problems in these areas which will certainly lead to further applications elsewhere.\nMany parts of Graph Theory have witnessed a huge growth over the last years, partly because of their relation to Theoretical Computer Science and Statistical Physics. These connections arise because graphs can be used to model many diverse structures. The focus of this proposal is on asymptotic results, i.e. the graphs under consideration are large. This often unveils patterns and connections which remain obscure when considering only small graphs. It also allows for the use of powerful techniques such as probabilistic arguments, which have led to spectacular new developments. In particular, my aim is to make decisive progress on central problems in the following 4 areas: (1) Factorizations: Factorizations of graphs can be viewed as partitions of the edges of a graph into simple regular structures. They have a rich history and arise in many different settings, such as edge-colouring problems, decomposition problems and in information theory. They also have applications to finding good tours for the famous Travelling salesman problem. (2) Hamilton cycles: A Hamilton cycle is a cycle which contains all the vertices of the graph. One of the most fundamental problems in Graph Theory\/Theoretical Computer Science is to find conditions which guarantee the existence of a Hamilton cycle in a graph. (3) Embeddings of graphs: This is a natural (but difficult) continuation of the previous question where the aim is to embed more general structures than Hamilton cycles - there has been exciting progress here in recent years which has opened up new avenues. (4) Resilience of graphs: In many cases, it is important to know whether a graph `strongly' possesses some property, i.e. one cannot destroy the property by changing a few edges. The systematic study of this notion is a new and rapidly growing area. I have developed new methods for deep and long-standing problems in these areas which will certainly lead to further applications elsewhere.\nProject acronym APHIDHOST\nProject Molecular determinants of aphid host range\nResearcher (PI) Jorunn Indra Berit Bos\nHost Institution (HI) THE JAMES HUTTON INSTITUTE\nSummary Many aphid species are restricted to one or few host plants, while some aphids, many of which are of agricultural importance, can infest a wide range of plant species. An important observation is that aphids spend a considerable time on nonhost species, where they probe the leaf tissue and secrete saliva, but for unknown reasons are unable to ingest phloem sap. This suggest that aphids, like plant pathogens, interact with nonhost plants at the molecular level, but potentially are not successful in suppressing plant defenses and\/or releasing nutrients. To date, however, the plant cellular changes and the involvement of immune response, such as ETI and PTI, in aphid-host and -nonhost interactions remain elusive. The aim of the proposed project is to gain insight into the level of cellular host reprogramming that takes place during aphid-host interactions, the cellular processes involved in aphid nonhost resistance, and the role of aphid effectors in determining host range. We will compare interactions of two economically important aphid species, Myzus persicae (green peach aphid) and Rhopalosiphum padi (bird cherry oat aphid), with host and nonhost plants. We will investigate local changes in plant cellular processes during aphid-host and -nonhost interactions using microscopy and biochemistry approaches. We will apply a comparative transcriptomics approach and functional assays to identify aphid effectors as potential determinants of host range. Herein we will specifically looks for aphids-species specific effectors and those that are expressed in specific host interactions. To gain insight into molecular mechanisms of effector activities we will identify host targets and investigate the contribution of effector-target interactions to host range. The expected outcomes of the project will, in the long term, contribute to the development of novel strategies to control infestations by aphids and potentially other pests and pathogens, thereby improving food security.\nMany aphid species are restricted to one or few host plants, while some aphids, many of which are of agricultural importance, can infest a wide range of plant species. An important observation is that aphids spend a considerable time on nonhost species, where they probe the leaf tissue and secrete saliva, but for unknown reasons are unable to ingest phloem sap. This suggest that aphids, like plant pathogens, interact with nonhost plants at the molecular level, but potentially are not successful in suppressing plant defenses and\/or releasing nutrients. To date, however, the plant cellular changes and the involvement of immune response, such as ETI and PTI, in aphid-host and -nonhost interactions remain elusive. The aim of the proposed project is to gain insight into the level of cellular host reprogramming that takes place during aphid-host interactions, the cellular processes involved in aphid nonhost resistance, and the role of aphid effectors in determining host range. We will compare interactions of two economically important aphid species, Myzus persicae (green peach aphid) and Rhopalosiphum padi (bird cherry oat aphid), with host and nonhost plants. We will investigate local changes in plant cellular processes during aphid-host and -nonhost interactions using microscopy and biochemistry approaches. We will apply a comparative transcriptomics approach and functional assays to identify aphid effectors as potential determinants of host range. Herein we will specifically looks for aphids-species specific effectors and those that are expressed in specific host interactions. To gain insight into molecular mechanisms of effector activities we will identify host targets and investigate the contribution of effector-target interactions to host range. The expected outcomes of the project will, in the long term, contribute to the development of novel strategies to control infestations by aphids and potentially other pests and pathogens, thereby improving food security.\nProject acronym ARCHOFCON\nProject The Architecture of Consciousness\nResearcher (PI) Timothy John Bayne\nHost Institution (HI) THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER\nSummary The nature of consciousness is one of the great unsolved mysteries of science. Although the global research effort dedicated to explaining how consciousness arises from neural and cognitive activity is now more than two decades old, as yet there is no widely accepted theory of consciousness. One reason for why no adequate theory of consciousness has yet been found is that there is a lack of clarity about what exactly a theory of consciousness needs to explain. What is needed is thus a model of the general features of consciousness \u2014 a model of the 'architecture' of consciousness \u2014 that will systematize the structural differences between conscious states, processes and creatures on the one hand and unconscious states, processes and creatures on the other. The aim of this project is to remove one of the central impediments to the progress of the science of consciousness by constructing such a model. A great many of the data required for this task already exist, but these data concern different aspects of consciousness and are distributed across many disciplines. As a result, there have been few attempts to develop a truly comprehensive model of the architecture of consciousness. This project will overcome the limitations of previous work by drawing on research in philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, and cognitive neuroscience to develop a model of the architecture of consciousness that is structured around five of its core features: its subjectivity, its temporality, its unity, its selectivity, and its dimensionality (that is, the relationship between the levels of consciousness and the contents of consciousness). By providing a comprehensive characterization of what a theory of consciousness needs to explain, this project will provide a crucial piece of the puzzle of consciousness, enabling future generations of researchers to bridge the gap between raw data on the one hand and a full-blown theory of consciousness on the other\nThe nature of consciousness is one of the great unsolved mysteries of science. Although the global research effort dedicated to explaining how consciousness arises from neural and cognitive activity is now more than two decades old, as yet there is no widely accepted theory of consciousness. One reason for why no adequate theory of consciousness has yet been found is that there is a lack of clarity about what exactly a theory of consciousness needs to explain. What is needed is thus a model of the general features of consciousness \u2014 a model of the 'architecture' of consciousness \u2014 that will systematize the structural differences between conscious states, processes and creatures on the one hand and unconscious states, processes and creatures on the other. The aim of this project is to remove one of the central impediments to the progress of the science of consciousness by constructing such a model. A great many of the data required for this task already exist, but these data concern different aspects of consciousness and are distributed across many disciplines. As a result, there have been few attempts to develop a truly comprehensive model of the architecture of consciousness. This project will overcome the limitations of previous work by drawing on research in philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, and cognitive neuroscience to develop a model of the architecture of consciousness that is structured around five of its core features: its subjectivity, its temporality, its unity, its selectivity, and its dimensionality (that is, the relationship between the levels of consciousness and the contents of consciousness). By providing a comprehensive characterization of what a theory of consciousness needs to explain, this project will provide a crucial piece of the puzzle of consciousness, enabling future generations of researchers to bridge the gap between raw data on the one hand and a full-blown theory of consciousness on the other\nProject acronym ARSEM\nProject LANGUAGE\u2013PHILOLOGY\u2013CULTURE: Arab Cultural Semantics in Transition\nResearcher (PI) Kirill Dmitriev\nSummary This project aims to study: \u2022 the semantic development of the vocabulary of the Arabic language, \u2022 philological discourses on the semantic changes in the language in the classical Arabic philological tradition (8th-10th centuries A.D.), and \u2022 the impact of Arabic philology in the wider historical and cultural context of the Judaeo-Arab neo-classical heritage (12th-13th centuries A.D.) and Christian-Arab intellectual history on the eve of modernity (19th century A.D.). The project will explore the universal cultural significance and the pivotal role of language consciousness in the history of Arab culture. It will introduce a new dimension into the existing research on the Arabic language and Arabic philology, which until now have been studied without any comprehensive cultural and social contextualisation. The project will focus on the process of the transmission of Arabic poetry, which provides detailed evidence of the development of Arabic philological thought and its universal significance for the theological, philosophical, historical and linguistic discourses of Arab intellectual history. This project will document the transmission of early Arabic poetry and analyse its vocabulary in a systematic way for the first time. For this purpose it will create an Analytical Database of Arabic Poetry. This publicly accessible database will represent a ground-breaking contribution to European research on the Arabic language and the Arabic philological heritage, which so far lacks even such fundamental tools as an etymological dictionary of the Arabic language or a complete dictionary of Classical Arabic. The database will implement comprehensive analytical tools and will serve as a reference work for wider research on Arabic literature, history and culture. Thus, the project will create an integrative research platform for the history and semantics of the Arabic language\u2014a subject indispensable for understanding the foundations of Arab culture past and present.\nThis project aims to study: \u2022 the semantic development of the vocabulary of the Arabic language, \u2022 philological discourses on the semantic changes in the language in the classical Arabic philological tradition (8th-10th centuries A.D.), and \u2022 the impact of Arabic philology in the wider historical and cultural context of the Judaeo-Arab neo-classical heritage (12th-13th centuries A.D.) and Christian-Arab intellectual history on the eve of modernity (19th century A.D.). The project will explore the universal cultural significance and the pivotal role of language consciousness in the history of Arab culture. It will introduce a new dimension into the existing research on the Arabic language and Arabic philology, which until now have been studied without any comprehensive cultural and social contextualisation. The project will focus on the process of the transmission of Arabic poetry, which provides detailed evidence of the development of Arabic philological thought and its universal significance for the theological, philosophical, historical and linguistic discourses of Arab intellectual history. This project will document the transmission of early Arabic poetry and analyse its vocabulary in a systematic way for the first time. For this purpose it will create an Analytical Database of Arabic Poetry. This publicly accessible database will represent a ground-breaking contribution to European research on the Arabic language and the Arabic philological heritage, which so far lacks even such fundamental tools as an etymological dictionary of the Arabic language or a complete dictionary of Classical Arabic. The database will implement comprehensive analytical tools and will serve as a reference work for wider research on Arabic literature, history and culture. Thus, the project will create an integrative research platform for the history and semantics of the Arabic language\u2014a subject indispensable for understanding the foundations of Arab culture past and present.\nProject acronym BACKTOBACK\nProject Engineering Solutions for Back Pain: Simulation of Patient Variance\nResearcher (PI) Ruth Wilcox\nSummary Back pain affects eight out of ten adults during their lifetime. It a huge economic burden on society, estimated to cost as much as 1-2% of gross national product in several European countries. Treatments for back pain have lower levels of success and are not as technologically mature as those for other musculoskeletal disorders such as hip and knee replacement. This application proposes to tackle one of the major barriers to the development of better surgical treatments for back pain. At present, new spinal devices are commonly assessed in isolation in the laboratory under standardised conditions that do not represent the variation across the patient population. Consequently many interventions have failed during clinical trials or have proved to have poor long term success rates. Using a combination of computational and experimental models, a new testing methodology will be developed that will enable the variation between patients to be simulated for the first time. This will enable spinal implants and therapies to be more robustly evaluated across a virtual patient population prior to clinical trial. The tools developed will be used in collaboration with clinicians and basic scientists to develop and, crucially, optimise new treatments that reduce back pain whilst preserving the unique functions of the spine. If successful, this approach could be translated to evaluate and optimise emerging minimally invasive treatments in other joints such as the hip and knee. Research in the spine could then, for the first time, lead rather than follow that undertaken in other branches of orthopaedics.\nBack pain affects eight out of ten adults during their lifetime. It a huge economic burden on society, estimated to cost as much as 1-2% of gross national product in several European countries. Treatments for back pain have lower levels of success and are not as technologically mature as those for other musculoskeletal disorders such as hip and knee replacement. This application proposes to tackle one of the major barriers to the development of better surgical treatments for back pain. At present, new spinal devices are commonly assessed in isolation in the laboratory under standardised conditions that do not represent the variation across the patient population. Consequently many interventions have failed during clinical trials or have proved to have poor long term success rates. Using a combination of computational and experimental models, a new testing methodology will be developed that will enable the variation between patients to be simulated for the first time. This will enable spinal implants and therapies to be more robustly evaluated across a virtual patient population prior to clinical trial. The tools developed will be used in collaboration with clinicians and basic scientists to develop and, crucially, optimise new treatments that reduce back pain whilst preserving the unique functions of the spine. If successful, this approach could be translated to evaluate and optimise emerging minimally invasive treatments in other joints such as the hip and knee. Research in the spine could then, for the first time, lead rather than follow that undertaken in other branches of orthopaedics.\nProject acronym BALDWINIAN_BEETLES\nProject \"The origin of the fittest: canalization, plasticity and selection as a consequence of provisioning during development\"\nResearcher (PI) Rebecca Kilner\nSummary \"A major outstanding challenge for evolutionary biology is to explain how novel adaptations arise. We propose to test whether developmental plasticity initiates evolutionary change in morphological, behavioural and social traits, using laboratory experiments, fieldwork and comparative analyses. Using burying beetles Nicrophorus spp as our model experimental system, we shall: 1) Test whether variation in parental provisioning during development induces correlated phenotypic change in adult body size and a suite of life history traits; whether these phenotypic changes can be genetically accommodated under experimental evolution (the Baldwin Effect); and whether changes induced by experimental evolution mimic natural variation in adult body size and life history strategy among Nicrophorus species; 2) Test whether parental provisioning has a canalizing effect on the developmental environment, potentially storing up cryptic genetic variation which might then be released as random new phenotypes, if offspring are exposed to a new developmental environment; 3) Investigate whether developmental trade-offs, induced by under-provisioning from parents, provide the first step towards the evolution of a novel interspecific mutualism. Is a second species recruited in adulthood to carry out the function of a structure that was under-nourished during development? 4) Using comparative analyses of data from the literature on insects, frogs, birds and mammals, we shall test whether the evolution of parental provisioning in a given lineage is positively correlated with the number of species in the lineage. Our proposal is original in focusing on developmental plasticity induced by variation in parental provisioning. Given the diverse and numerous species that provision their young, including several whose genomes have now been sequenced, this potentially opens up a rich new area for future work on the developmental mechanisms underlying evolutionary innovations.\"\n\"A major outstanding challenge for evolutionary biology is to explain how novel adaptations arise. We propose to test whether developmental plasticity initiates evolutionary change in morphological, behavioural and social traits, using laboratory experiments, fieldwork and comparative analyses. Using burying beetles Nicrophorus spp as our model experimental system, we shall: 1) Test whether variation in parental provisioning during development induces correlated phenotypic change in adult body size and a suite of life history traits; whether these phenotypic changes can be genetically accommodated under experimental evolution (the Baldwin Effect); and whether changes induced by experimental evolution mimic natural variation in adult body size and life history strategy among Nicrophorus species; 2) Test whether parental provisioning has a canalizing effect on the developmental environment, potentially storing up cryptic genetic variation which might then be released as random new phenotypes, if offspring are exposed to a new developmental environment; 3) Investigate whether developmental trade-offs, induced by under-provisioning from parents, provide the first step towards the evolution of a novel interspecific mutualism. Is a second species recruited in adulthood to carry out the function of a structure that was under-nourished during development? 4) Using comparative analyses of data from the literature on insects, frogs, birds and mammals, we shall test whether the evolution of parental provisioning in a given lineage is positively correlated with the number of species in the lineage. Our proposal is original in focusing on developmental plasticity induced by variation in parental provisioning. Given the diverse and numerous species that provision their young, including several whose genomes have now been sequenced, this potentially opens up a rich new area for future work on the developmental mechanisms underlying evolutionary innovations.\"\nProject acronym BIOFINDER\nProject New biomarkers for Alzheimer's & Parkinson's diseases - key tools for early diagnosis and drug development\nResearcher (PI) Oskar Hansson\nSummary Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are common in elderly and the prevalence of these is increasing. AD and PD have distinct pathogenesis, which precede the overt clinical symptoms by 10-15 years, opening a window for early diagnosis and treatment. New disease-modifying therapies are likely to be most efficient if initiated before the patients exhibit overt symptoms, making biomarkers for early diagnosis crucial for future clinical trials. Validated biomarkers would speed up initiation of treatment, avoid unnecessary investigations, and reduce patient insecurity. AIMS: (1) identify and validate accurate and cost-effective blood-based biomarkers for early identification of those at high risk to develop AD and PD, (2) develop algorithms using advanced imaging and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for earlier more accurate diagnoses, and (3) better understand the underlying pathology and early progression of AD and PD, aiming at finding new relevant drug targets. We will assess well-characterized and clinically relevant populations of patients and healthy elderly. We will use population- and clinic-based cohorts and follow them prospectively for 4 year. Participants will undergo neurocognitive evaluation, provide blood and cerebrospinal fluid, and have brain imaging using advanced MRI protocols and a newly developed PET-tracer visualizing brain amyloid. Sample will be analyzed with quantitative mass spectrometry and high sensitivity immunoassays. New biomarkers and brain imaging techniques will aid early diagnosis and facilitate the development of disease-modifying therapies, since treatment can start earlier in the disease process. New methods to quantify relevant drug targets, such as oligomers of \u03b2-amyloid and \u03b1-synuclein, will be vital when selecting drug candidates for large-scale clinical trials. By improving both diagnosis and therapies the social and economic burden of dementia might be reduced by expanding the period of healthy and active aging\nAlzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are common in elderly and the prevalence of these is increasing. AD and PD have distinct pathogenesis, which precede the overt clinical symptoms by 10-15 years, opening a window for early diagnosis and treatment. New disease-modifying therapies are likely to be most efficient if initiated before the patients exhibit overt symptoms, making biomarkers for early diagnosis crucial for future clinical trials. Validated biomarkers would speed up initiation of treatment, avoid unnecessary investigations, and reduce patient insecurity. AIMS: (1) identify and validate accurate and cost-effective blood-based biomarkers for early identification of those at high risk to develop AD and PD, (2) develop algorithms using advanced imaging and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for earlier more accurate diagnoses, and (3) better understand the underlying pathology and early progression of AD and PD, aiming at finding new relevant drug targets. We will assess well-characterized and clinically relevant populations of patients and healthy elderly. We will use population- and clinic-based cohorts and follow them prospectively for 4 year. Participants will undergo neurocognitive evaluation, provide blood and cerebrospinal fluid, and have brain imaging using advanced MRI protocols and a newly developed PET-tracer visualizing brain amyloid. Sample will be analyzed with quantitative mass spectrometry and high sensitivity immunoassays. New biomarkers and brain imaging techniques will aid early diagnosis and facilitate the development of disease-modifying therapies, since treatment can start earlier in the disease process. New methods to quantify relevant drug targets, such as oligomers of \u03b2-amyloid and \u03b1-synuclein, will be vital when selecting drug candidates for large-scale clinical trials. By improving both diagnosis and therapies the social and economic burden of dementia might be reduced by expanding the period of healthy and active aging\nProject acronym BIOSYNCEN\nProject Dissection of centromeric chromatin and components: A biosynthetic approach\nResearcher (PI) Patrick Heun\nSummary The centromere is one of the most important chromosomal elements. It is required for proper chromosome segregation in mitosis and meiosis and readily recognizable as the primary constriction of mitotic chromosomes. Proper centromere function is essential to ensure genome stability; therefore understanding centromere identity is directly relevant to cancer biology and gene therapy. How centromeres are established and maintained is however still an open question in the field. In most organisms this appears to be regulated by an epigenetic mechanism. The key candidate for such an epigenetic mark is CENH3 (CENP-A in mammals, CID in Drosophila), a centromere-specific histone H3 variant that is essential for centromere function and exclusively found in the nucleosomes of centromeric chromatin. Using a biosynthetic approach of force-targeting CENH3 in Drosophila to non-centromeric DNA, we were able to induce centromere function and demonstrate that CENH3 is sufficient to determine centromere identity. Here we propose to move this experimental setup across evolutionary boundaries into human cells to develop improved human artificial chromosomes (HACs). We will make further use of this unique setup to dissect the function of targeted CENH3 both in Drosophila and human cells. Contributing centromeric components and histone modifications of centromeric chromatin will be characterized in detail by mass spectroscopy in Drosophila. Finally we are proposing to develop a technique that allows high-resolution mapping of proteins on repetitive DNA to help further characterizing known and novel centromere components. This will be achieved by combining two independently established techniques: DNA methylation and DNA fiber combing. This ambitious proposal will significantly advance our understanding of how centromeres are determined and help the development of improved HACs for therapeutic applications in the future.\nThe centromere is one of the most important chromosomal elements. It is required for proper chromosome segregation in mitosis and meiosis and readily recognizable as the primary constriction of mitotic chromosomes. Proper centromere function is essential to ensure genome stability; therefore understanding centromere identity is directly relevant to cancer biology and gene therapy. How centromeres are established and maintained is however still an open question in the field. In most organisms this appears to be regulated by an epigenetic mechanism. The key candidate for such an epigenetic mark is CENH3 (CENP-A in mammals, CID in Drosophila), a centromere-specific histone H3 variant that is essential for centromere function and exclusively found in the nucleosomes of centromeric chromatin. Using a biosynthetic approach of force-targeting CENH3 in Drosophila to non-centromeric DNA, we were able to induce centromere function and demonstrate that CENH3 is sufficient to determine centromere identity. Here we propose to move this experimental setup across evolutionary boundaries into human cells to develop improved human artificial chromosomes (HACs). We will make further use of this unique setup to dissect the function of targeted CENH3 both in Drosophila and human cells. Contributing centromeric components and histone modifications of centromeric chromatin will be characterized in detail by mass spectroscopy in Drosophila. Finally we are proposing to develop a technique that allows high-resolution mapping of proteins on repetitive DNA to help further characterizing known and novel centromere components. This will be achieved by combining two independently established techniques: DNA methylation and DNA fiber combing. This ambitious proposal will significantly advance our understanding of how centromeres are determined and help the development of improved HACs for therapeutic applications in the future.\nProject acronym BODILY SELF\nProject Embodied Minds and Mentalised Bodies\nResearcher (PI) Aikaterini (Katerina) Fotopoulou\nSummary How does our acting, sensing and feeling body shape our mind? The mechanisms by which bodily signals are integrated and re-represented in the brain, as well as the relation between these processes and body awareness remain unknown. To this date, neuropsychological disorders of body awareness represent an indispensible window of insight into phenomenally rich states of body unawareness. Unfortunately, only few experimental studies have been conducted in these disorders. The BODILY SELF will aim to apply methods from cognitive neuroscience to experimental and neuroimaging studies in healthy volunteers, as well as in patients with neuropsychological disorders of body awareness. A first subproject will assess which combination of deficits in sensorimotor afferent and efferent signals leads to unawareness. The second subproject will attempt to use experimental, psychophysical interventions to treat unawareness and measure the corresponding, dynamic changes in the brain. The third subproject will assess how some bodily signals and their integration is influenced by social mechanisms. The planned studies surpass the existing state-of-the-art in the relevant fields in five ground-breaking ways, ultimately allowing us to (1) acquire an unprecedented 'on-line' experimental 'handle' over dynamic changes in body awareness; (2) restore awareness and improve health outcomes (3) understand the brain's potential for reorganisation and plasticity in relation to higher-order processes such as awareness; (4) understand how our own body experience is modulated by our interactions and relations with others; (5) address in a genuinely interdisciplinary manner some of the oldest questions in psychology, philosophy and medicine; how embodiment influences the mind, how others influence the self and how mind\u2013body processes affect healing.\nHow does our acting, sensing and feeling body shape our mind? The mechanisms by which bodily signals are integrated and re-represented in the brain, as well as the relation between these processes and body awareness remain unknown. To this date, neuropsychological disorders of body awareness represent an indispensible window of insight into phenomenally rich states of body unawareness. Unfortunately, only few experimental studies have been conducted in these disorders. The BODILY SELF will aim to apply methods from cognitive neuroscience to experimental and neuroimaging studies in healthy volunteers, as well as in patients with neuropsychological disorders of body awareness. A first subproject will assess which combination of deficits in sensorimotor afferent and efferent signals leads to unawareness. The second subproject will attempt to use experimental, psychophysical interventions to treat unawareness and measure the corresponding, dynamic changes in the brain. The third subproject will assess how some bodily signals and their integration is influenced by social mechanisms. The planned studies surpass the existing state-of-the-art in the relevant fields in five ground-breaking ways, ultimately allowing us to (1) acquire an unprecedented 'on-line' experimental 'handle' over dynamic changes in body awareness; (2) restore awareness and improve health outcomes (3) understand the brain's potential for reorganisation and plasticity in relation to higher-order processes such as awareness; (4) understand how our own body experience is modulated by our interactions and relations with others; (5) address in a genuinely interdisciplinary manner some of the oldest questions in psychology, philosophy and medicine; how embodiment influences the mind, how others influence the self and how mind\u2013body processes affect healing.\nProject acronym BP-CarDiO\nProject Investigating the therapeutic potential of manipulating the IGF-IGFBP1 axis in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity\nResearcher (PI) Stephen Bentley Wheatcroft\nSummary More than 30 million people are living with diabetes in the EU, with a prevalence expected to grow to over 10% of the adult population by the year 2030. Type 2 diabetes is a major cause of cardiovascular disease related death and disability, substantially increasing the risk of myocardial infarction, stroke and peripheral arterial disease. Recent landmark trials, showing that intensive glucose control does not improve cardiovascular outcomes and may increase mortality in some circumstances, provide a compelling rationale for intense research aimed at developing novel therapeutic strategies. Type 2 diabetes is underpinned by resistance to the effects of insulin, which I have shown in endothelial cells causes reduced bioavailability of the anti-atherosclerotic molecule nitric oxide and leads to accelerated atherosclerosis. The cellular effects of insulin are mirrored by insulin-like growth factor factor-1, the bioavailability of which at its receptor is in turn is regulated by a family of high affinity binding proteins (IGFBP). Epidemiological studies demonstrate and inverse association between one of these binding proteins, IGFBP1, and diabetes-related cardiovascular risk. I have recently demonstrated that IGFBP1 when expressed in mice can ameliorate insulin resistance, obesity and atherosclerosis. In endothelial cells, I showed that IGFBP1 upregulates the production of nitric oxide indepenedently of IGF. These findings suggest that IGFBP1 may be a 'protective' endogenous protein and that increasing circulating levels may be a therapeutic strategy to prevent development of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. In this proposal I will address this hypothesis by employing state of the art studies in cells and novel gene modified mice to unravel the molecular basis of the protective effects of IGFBP1 and to investigate the possibility of exploiting the IGF-IGFBP axis to prevent cardiovascular disease in the setting of diabetes and obesity.\nMore than 30 million people are living with diabetes in the EU, with a prevalence expected to grow to over 10% of the adult population by the year 2030. Type 2 diabetes is a major cause of cardiovascular disease related death and disability, substantially increasing the risk of myocardial infarction, stroke and peripheral arterial disease. Recent landmark trials, showing that intensive glucose control does not improve cardiovascular outcomes and may increase mortality in some circumstances, provide a compelling rationale for intense research aimed at developing novel therapeutic strategies. Type 2 diabetes is underpinned by resistance to the effects of insulin, which I have shown in endothelial cells causes reduced bioavailability of the anti-atherosclerotic molecule nitric oxide and leads to accelerated atherosclerosis. The cellular effects of insulin are mirrored by insulin-like growth factor factor-1, the bioavailability of which at its receptor is in turn is regulated by a family of high affinity binding proteins (IGFBP). Epidemiological studies demonstrate and inverse association between one of these binding proteins, IGFBP1, and diabetes-related cardiovascular risk. I have recently demonstrated that IGFBP1 when expressed in mice can ameliorate insulin resistance, obesity and atherosclerosis. In endothelial cells, I showed that IGFBP1 upregulates the production of nitric oxide indepenedently of IGF. These findings suggest that IGFBP1 may be a 'protective' endogenous protein and that increasing circulating levels may be a therapeutic strategy to prevent development of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. In this proposal I will address this hypothesis by employing state of the art studies in cells and novel gene modified mice to unravel the molecular basis of the protective effects of IGFBP1 and to investigate the possibility of exploiting the IGF-IGFBP axis to prevent cardiovascular disease in the setting of diabetes and obesity.\nProject acronym BrainGutTalk\nProject Brain-gut interactions in Drosophila melanogaster\nResearcher (PI) Irene Miguel-Aliaga\nSummary The gastrointestinal tract is emerging as a key regulator of appetite and metabolism, but studies aimed at identifying the signals involved are faced with daunting neuroanatomical complexity: there are as many as 500 million neurons in the human gut. Drosophila should provide a simple and genetically amenable alternative, but both its autonomic nervous system and the signalling significance of its digestive tract have remained largely unexplored. My research programme will characterize the signals and neurons mediating the interaction between the nervous and digestive systems, and will establish their significance both in the maintenance of metabolic homeostasis and in response to nutritional challenges. To achieve these goals, we will capitalize on a multi-disciplinary approach that combines the genetic manipulation of defined neuronal lineages, a cell-biological approach to the study of enterocyte metabolism, and our recently developed physiological and behavioural readouts. Our work will provide new insights into the signals and mechanisms modulating internal metabolism and food intake: processes which, when deregulated, contribute to increasingly prevalent conditions such as diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity. Our recent finding of conserved mechanisms of autonomic control in the fruit fly makes us confident that the signals we identify will be relevant to mammalian systems.\nThe gastrointestinal tract is emerging as a key regulator of appetite and metabolism, but studies aimed at identifying the signals involved are faced with daunting neuroanatomical complexity: there are as many as 500 million neurons in the human gut. Drosophila should provide a simple and genetically amenable alternative, but both its autonomic nervous system and the signalling significance of its digestive tract have remained largely unexplored. My research programme will characterize the signals and neurons mediating the interaction between the nervous and digestive systems, and will establish their significance both in the maintenance of metabolic homeostasis and in response to nutritional challenges. To achieve these goals, we will capitalize on a multi-disciplinary approach that combines the genetic manipulation of defined neuronal lineages, a cell-biological approach to the study of enterocyte metabolism, and our recently developed physiological and behavioural readouts. Our work will provide new insights into the signals and mechanisms modulating internal metabolism and food intake: processes which, when deregulated, contribute to increasingly prevalent conditions such as diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity. Our recent finding of conserved mechanisms of autonomic control in the fruit fly makes us confident that the signals we identify will be relevant to mammalian systems.\nProject acronym BrainReadFBPredCode\nProject Brain reading of contextual feedback and predictions\nResearcher (PI) Lars Muckli\nSummary We are currently witnessing a paradigm shift in our understanding of human brain function, moving towards a clearer description of cortical processing. Sensory systems are no longer considered as 'passively recording' but rather as dynamically anticipating and adapting to the rapidly changing environment. These new ideas are encompassed in the predictive coding framework, and indeed in a unifying theory of the brain (Friston, 2010). In terms of brain computation, a predictive model is created in higher cortical areas and communicated to lower sensory areas through feedback connections. Based on my pioneering research I propose experiments that are capable of 'brain-reading' cortical feedback\u2013 which would contribute invaluable data to theoretical frameworks. The proposed research project will advance our understanding of ongoing brain activity, contextual processing, and cortical feedback - contributing to what is known about general cortical functions. By providing new insights as to the information content of cortical feedback, the proposal will fill one of the most important gaps in today's knowledge about brain function. Friston's unifying theory of the brain (Friston, 2010) and contemporary models of the predictive-coding framework (Hawkins and Blakeslee, 2004;Mumford, 1992;Rao and Ballard, 1999) assign feedback processing an essential role in cortical processing. Compared to feedforward information processing, our knowledge about feedback processing is in its infancy. The proposal introduces parametric and explorative brain reading designs to investigate this feedback processing. The chief goal of my proposal will be precision measures of cortical feedback, and a more ambitious objective is to read mental images and inner thoughts.\nWe are currently witnessing a paradigm shift in our understanding of human brain function, moving towards a clearer description of cortical processing. Sensory systems are no longer considered as 'passively recording' but rather as dynamically anticipating and adapting to the rapidly changing environment. These new ideas are encompassed in the predictive coding framework, and indeed in a unifying theory of the brain (Friston, 2010). In terms of brain computation, a predictive model is created in higher cortical areas and communicated to lower sensory areas through feedback connections. Based on my pioneering research I propose experiments that are capable of 'brain-reading' cortical feedback\u2013 which would contribute invaluable data to theoretical frameworks. The proposed research project will advance our understanding of ongoing brain activity, contextual processing, and cortical feedback - contributing to what is known about general cortical functions. By providing new insights as to the information content of cortical feedback, the proposal will fill one of the most important gaps in today's knowledge about brain function. Friston's unifying theory of the brain (Friston, 2010) and contemporary models of the predictive-coding framework (Hawkins and Blakeslee, 2004;Mumford, 1992;Rao and Ballard, 1999) assign feedback processing an essential role in cortical processing. Compared to feedforward information processing, our knowledge about feedback processing is in its infancy. The proposal introduces parametric and explorative brain reading designs to investigate this feedback processing. The chief goal of my proposal will be precision measures of cortical feedback, and a more ambitious objective is to read mental images and inner thoughts.\nProject acronym BRAVE\nProject \"Bicuspid Related Aortopathy, a Vibrant Exploration\"\nResearcher (PI) Bart Leo Loeys\nHost Institution (HI) UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN\nSummary \"Bicuspid aortic valve, a heart valve with only two leaflets instead of three, is the most common congenital heart defect with an estimated prevalence of about 1-2%. The heart defect often remains asymptomatic but in at least 10% of the bicuspid aortic valve patients, an ascending aortic aneurysm develops as well. If not detected in a timely fashion, this can lead to an aortic aneurysm dissection with a high mortality. In view of the prevalent nature of this heart defect, this implies an important health care problem. Historically, it was always hypothesized that abnormal blood flow across the bicuspid aortic valve led to aneurysm formation. However in recent years, the importance of a genetic contribution has been suggested based on the high heritability and it is currently believed that the same genetic factors predispose to the developmental valve defect and the aortic aneurysm formation. The inheritance pattern is most consistent with an autosomal dominant disorder with variable penetrance and expressivity. Until now, the latter have significantly hampered the causal gene identification but the era of next generation sequencing is now offering unprecedented opportunities for a major breakthrough in this area. Through detailed signalling pathway analysis, miRNA profiling and next generation sequencing, this project will contribute significantly to resolving the genetic causes of bicuspid related aortopathy, provide critical knowledge on the pathogenesis of aortic aneurysmal disease and deliver a mouse model for future therapeutical trials.\"\n\"Bicuspid aortic valve, a heart valve with only two leaflets instead of three, is the most common congenital heart defect with an estimated prevalence of about 1-2%. The heart defect often remains asymptomatic but in at least 10% of the bicuspid aortic valve patients, an ascending aortic aneurysm develops as well. If not detected in a timely fashion, this can lead to an aortic aneurysm dissection with a high mortality. In view of the prevalent nature of this heart defect, this implies an important health care problem. Historically, it was always hypothesized that abnormal blood flow across the bicuspid aortic valve led to aneurysm formation. However in recent years, the importance of a genetic contribution has been suggested based on the high heritability and it is currently believed that the same genetic factors predispose to the developmental valve defect and the aortic aneurysm formation. The inheritance pattern is most consistent with an autosomal dominant disorder with variable penetrance and expressivity. Until now, the latter have significantly hampered the causal gene identification but the era of next generation sequencing is now offering unprecedented opportunities for a major breakthrough in this area. Through detailed signalling pathway analysis, miRNA profiling and next generation sequencing, this project will contribute significantly to resolving the genetic causes of bicuspid related aortopathy, provide critical knowledge on the pathogenesis of aortic aneurysmal disease and deliver a mouse model for future therapeutical trials.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Title & authors Similar articles Cited by LinkOut - more resources\nCan Child Adolesc Psychiatr Rev\nSuicidal Ideation Reports From Pediatric Trials for Paroxetine and Venlafaxine\nNormand Carrey 1 , Adil Virani Pharm\n1 Maritime Psychiatry, IWK Health Centre, Dalhousie University.\nNormand Carrey et al. Can Child Adolesc Psychiatr Rev. Nov 2003\nClinical Response and Risk for Reported Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempts in Pediatric Antidepressant Treatment: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials\nJA Bridge et al. JAMA 297 (15), 1683-96. 2007. PMID 17440145. - Meta-Analysis\nRelative to placebo, antidepressants are efficacious for pediatric MDD, OCD, and non-OCD anxiety disorders, although the effects are strongest in non-OCD anxiety disorder \u2026\nPilot Randomized Clinical Trial of an SSRI vs Bupropion: Effects on Suicidal Behavior, Ideation, and Mood in Major Depression\nMF Grunebaum et al. Neuropsychopharmacology 37 (3), 697-706. Feb 2012. PMID 21993207. - Randomized Controlled Trial\nRandomized controlled trials in depressed patients selected for elevated suicidal risk are rare. The resultant lack of data leaves uncertainty about treatment in this pop \u2026\nClinical and Genetic Correlates of Suicidal Ideation During Antidepressant Treatment in a Depressed Outpatient Sample\nN Perroud et al. Pharmacogenomics 12 (3), 365-77. Mar 2011. PMID 21449676.\nIncreasing suicidal ideation might be an adverse effect of antidepressants. The involvement of FKBP5 indicates that dysregulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal ax \u2026\nEvaluation of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Children and Adolescents Taking Paroxetine\nA Apter et al. J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 16 (1-2), 77-90. Feb-Apr 2006. PMID 16553530. - Review\nAdolescents treated with paroxetine showed an increased risk of suicide-related events. Suicidality rating scales did not show this risk difference. The presence of uncon \u2026\nThe Role of Venlafaxine in the Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder\nNJ Phelps et al. Ann Pharmacother 39 (1), 136-40. Jan 2005. PMID 15585743. - Review\nAlthough the relative scarcity of data precludes definitive conclusions, available evidence suggests that venlafaxine is effective and well tolerated in the treatment of \u2026\nPracticing Child Psychiatry: Life in the Clinic Since June, 2003\nMK Nixon. Can Child Adolesc Psychiatr Rev 13 (4), 95. Nov 2004. PMID 19030485.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"AP's New Policy: If They Speak To You, They Can Reprint Anything For Free?\nHow Many 'Significant Blows' Against File Sharing Will It Take For File Sharing To Actually Decrease?\nUK Hairdresser Fined For Playing Music Even Though He Tried To Be Legal\nNewspapers Doing Well With Membership Clubs Instead Of Paywalls\nThe Lack Of A 'Golden Ticket' Business Model Doesn't Mean You Give Up And Go Home\nfrom the how-do-these-people-keep-their-jobs? dept\nWed, Jul 7th 2010 8:23am \u2014 Mike Masnick\nThis one is a bit surprising. Following the recent nutty statements from Prince, Kara Swisher has decided to take the contrarian position to explain why Prince might not be so crazy after all. Her reasoning is that she's spent several days down in LA talking to entertainment industry execs (her first mistake), and they seem to agree with Prince that the internet is a darned problem. Of course, to some extent, that's like asking the leading buggy whip makers their feelings on automobiles. Just because they haven't figured out a way to thrive doesn't mean that the automobile revolution is \"over.\"\nAfter spending several days here in Los Angeles this week, talking to execs, talent and others who toil in the entertainment industry--I can't say what I am hearing is that much different in terms of the continuing frustration with the lack of decent business models to replace the ones that have worked for so long and been so lucrative for the entertainment and media industry.\nThis is how disruptive business models work. The disrupted whine and complain about how the disruptors haven't shown them how to continue making the same monopoly rents they made in the past. But that, of course, ignores the nature of disruption. Disruption doesn't work by having someone come along and show the legacy players how to exactly replicate their old profits. It's the exact opposite of that. Disruption is when others figure out how to break down the barriers to do something more efficiently, and undercut the old business model. But that doesn't mean that there's anything wrong for the underlying benefit that people get.\nMore entertainment content -- movies, music, books -- are being made today than ever before. Anyone bitching and complaining about how the internet is \"destroying\" the industry isn't paying attention. What they should be focused on are all of the massive new opportunities created by this sudden glut of content, combined with massively more efficient (and often free) methods for content creation, distribution and promotion.\nFrom music to movies to television, the biggest minds here still sound perplexed as to what will finally be the golden ticket to carry them through to the inevitable next era of digital distribution.\nThat single sentence basically describes the problem. These guys are sitting back and waiting for someone to hand them a golden ticket that replicates the old ways of doing things. That's not how it works. No one gave the buggy whip makers a golden ticket that let them keep their old lines of business going.\nBut the lack of a golden ticket most certainly does not mean there are no business models. Those who are embracing new business models are finding plenty of opportunity to do amazingly well (in fact, better than they did before). But, for the most part, it involves hard work and multiple streams of revenue. It's not the old \"sit back and let the cash roll in\" model that the industry is used to. But, some of us think that's a good thing.\n\"Why is the consumer always right?\" said one exec to me this week in a typical statement. \"You can't have a business if there is no business model.\"\nIt's a good thing the exec who said that did so anonymously, because otherwise his or her board of directors should be calling for him to be fired. The consumer is always right in a competitive marketplace because if you don't serve them, your competitors will. That there are still entertainment industry execs who don't get this is scary. And, saying there are \"no business models\" is so wrong that it again seems troubling that this exec still has a job in the industry. We spend a lot of time pointing to all sorts of working business models every day. They may not be the \"golden ticket\" that this exec wants where he gets to sit back and relax and see the cash flow in, but they can actually bring in a lot more money by leveraging a more efficient system, connecting better with fans, and giving them a real (scarce) reason to buy, rather than trying to bully them into paying through artificial scarcities.\nFrom there, Swisher reverts back to Prince's statements:\nIf you remove the sillier parts of his quote that preceded it, such a statement is not unreasonable from an artist who wants to be paid for his creative efforts.\nThus, instead of mocking that sentiment, perhaps it is time for tech leaders to figure out a way to keep talent from being dragged into the future without so much kicking and screaming.\nThe role of the disruptor is not to make life easy for the disrupted. Swisher and these execs seem to be confusing the role of certain folks in the legacy industry with the overall entertainment industry itself. As noted, the entertainment industry is thriving. More movies, music and books are being created. More money is being spent. It's just that it's going to different players. There's no reason to \"figure out a way to keep talent from being dragged into the future.\" The opportunities and wide open path are there. The problem isn't that tech leaders haven't made it easy for them. They have. It's that these guys are so myopically focused on the way they used to make money they don't realize that the new opportunities are already there and have been embraced widely by others.\nFiled Under: business models, disruption, entertainment industry, prince\nTechdirt Podcast Episode 262: An Open Protocol For Web Monetization\nTechdirt Podcast Episode 259: A New Model For Independent Journalism, With Casey Newton\nOur New Monetization Experiment: Coil & The Web Monetization Protocol\nWhy Are There Currently No Ads On Techdirt? Apparently Google Thinks We're Dangerous\nSenator Hawley's Latest Dumb Anti-230 Plan Would Wipe Out The President's Advantage On Facebook\nMike C. (profile), 7 Jul 2010 @ 8:16am\nNew business model\nThe whole time I'm reading this post, I kept thinking back to a recent Wil Wheaton blog post (new window). It contains a link to a video of an interview he did while up in Portland, OR this week.\nThe part that gets me is when he talked about Twitter and the w00tstock shows he's been part of with Adam Savage and 'Paul and Storm'. He points out that there has been no official marketing of the events, merely hype via Twitter, blog posts and word of mouth. And yet, even with the lack of \"official\" marketing, every show has been sold out.\nObviously, this won't work for everyone, but it is a great example of \"you never know what will actually work\".\nJon Lawrence (profile), 7 Jul 2010 @ 8:59am\nTake this business model for free\nHere, I've got one for our (content) business:\nhttp:\/\/prezi.com\/oe45kg2noinq\/the-socially-enabled-theater\/\nI'm getting sick of hearing producers (disclosure: I'm a Producers Guild member), bitch and moan about our business in one breath, and in the other breath talk about how creative they are.\nWell, if we're so damn creative, why aren't we talking about new business models and making them work? Everytime I bring up the topic, eyes glaze over.\nWere there *any* buggy whip makers that made a successful transition to the automobile business?\nMike Harmon (profile), 7 Jul 2010 @ 10:00am\nRe: Take this business model for free\nhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Studebaker\nthere was this one at least, not a whip maker but a buggy maker did make it into auto manufacturing.\nit also reminds me of when seiko started making quartz watches after the watch manufacturing industry turned it down.\nHephaestus (profile), 7 Jul 2010 @ 9:08am\n\"From music to movies to television, the biggest minds here still sound perplexed as to what will finally be the golden ticket to carry them through to the inevitable next era of digital distribution.\"\nThere will be no golden ticket for digital distribution. Efficiencies, and competition have entered your industries. The cost of all media will go to zero for the consumer.\n\"Why is the consumer always right?\"\nThis guy really does come from a monopoly business if he is even thinking this.\n\"Who will pay for the high upfront production costs of most major entertainment projects?\"\nLOL ... in a business with no competition people can charge as much as they like. That is the only reason why your upfront costs are so high. Competition will drive those costs down.\n\"Can costs come down enough to make up the difference?\"\nYes, but so will salaries. Are you ready for it? probably not, you dont want to see your salary go from the multi million dollar range down to 100k a year or less.\ninterval (profile), 7 Jul 2010 @ 9:36am\n@Hephaestus: \"There will be no golden ticket for digital distribution.\"\nHas there ever been a \"golden ticket\" for anything other than lottery winners? These guys (so-called music industry execs) appear to have either never learned or forgotten what its like to work for a living, so used to the days when they could print money by pressing records and cds, so they're taking to robbery (in the form of malevolent and onerous licensing mechanisms). I think the last golden ticket business was Hughes Tool & Die, wasn't it? I mean, how many businesses are there that actually believe the world owes them a living? Don't answer that. But the world really needs disease cures, so I can give some pharmaceutical companies a pass. Who the hell really needs record license holders to thrive? Bastards.\nHephaestus (profile), 7 Jul 2010 @ 12:27pm\n\"These guys (so-called music industry execs) appear to have either never learned or forgotten what its like to work for a living, so used to the days when they could print money by pressing records and cds, so they're taking to robbery (in the form of malevolent and onerous licensing mechanisms).\"\nIsn't it cool !!! They are painting themselves into a corner. Creating a structured set of rules, agreements, and licensing mechanisms that will be their only source of income in a few years. Until someone decides to only play free or CC stuff on a major station as a cost cutting measure and it spreads.\nIt is my belief they are attempting to remove the public domain entirely to prevent the above scenario. They going after the CC, PKI, EFF, etc to paint them as the bad guys to this end.\n\"But the world really needs disease cures, so I can give some pharmaceutical companies a pass.\"\nActually this is being looked at from various angles due to a ??WHO?? report showing ??50?? million people worldwide have died due to lack of access to modern pharmaceuticals. Mainly due to cost, and lack of production licensing options.\n\"Who the hell really needs record license holders to thrive?\"\nthe record license holders themselves ... ;)\nchris (profile), 7 Jul 2010 @ 10:23am\nthat's the real issue. the legacy players see the problem like this:\ni make millions dollars per year. tell me how am i supposed to keep making that much money giving stuff away for free?\nthe answer is easy. you can't. and to make matters worse, there are creators out there that would be overjoyed to make less than 100k per year making their entertainment products.\nit reminds me of clay shirky's collapse of complex business models:\nDr. Amy Smith is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where she runs the Development Lab, or D-Lab, a lab organized around simple and cheap engineering solutions for the developing world.\nAmong the rules of thumb she offers for building in that environment is this: \"If you want something to be 10 times cheaper, take out 90% of the materials.\" Making media is like that now except, for \"materials\", substitute \"labor.\"\ncompare that to this article about the drama surrounding the screen writers for the new \"A Team\" movie:\nThe pic comes out Friday following almost 10 years in development, millions of dollars in script costs, all for a movie version of a forgotten TV show that 20th Century Fox already is predicting to reporters may not gross more in its opening weekend than the recent 4th installment of the Die Hard franchise. Not since examples like Sister Act and Armegeddon and G.I. Joe have so many screenwriters labored so much to produce so little...\n...What wasn't to the writers' liking was an executive so arrogant that on several occasions he actually \"ran the script through his own typewriter,\" one scribe tells me. \"I'm not kidding. He wrote pages.\" And another source confirms to me, \"he was rewriting stuff personally.\" Still another tells me: \"He micromanages scripts (down to insulting writers about grammar, which he's often wrong about), he rewrites scripts himself in violation of every guild rule, and along with fancying himself a screenwriter, he considers himself a story genius \u2013 without realizing that most of ideas are clich\u00e9s he comes up with are all the latest clich\u00e9s from the movie he saw last weekend.\"\nso you have an industry with high labor costs, thanks to its elaborate system of guilds, that is now facing competition from content creators with potentially zero labor costs. oh, and the finished product of this exorbitant labor is often a product that stinks.\nthe issue isn't a business model problem, it's a product problem. the product they want to sell simply costs too much to sell for the going rate.\n\"it reminds me of clay shirky's collapse of complex business models:\"\nI hadn't read that before but it reminds me of when things under go a Catastrophic Failure especially the part ...\n\"Tainter's thesis is that when society's elite members add one layer of bureaucracy or demand one tribute too many, they end up extracting all the value from their environment it is possible to extract and then some.\"\nIn the case of the current media companies its not that they have reached the point where they would collapse under their own bureaucratic weight. You hit it on the head with ...\n\"so you have an industry with high labor costs, thanks to its elaborate system of guilds, that is now facing competition from content creators with potentially zero labor costs.\"\nCompetition from external sources, high internal costs due to never needing to compete, and a total failure to realize they cant resell the same content to people over and over any longer, a failure to meet customer demands.\nWe could go on for hours naming the inefficiencies of the record labels and movie studios.\n\"the issue isn't a business model problem, it's a product problem. the product they want to sell simply costs too much to sell for the going rate.\"\nAgreed... especially when people are now producing web only series at no and low cost. \"Pioneer one\" , a 5 minute short for under 500 dollars.\nThese low and now cost shows are going to cause a reduction in what people charge for content making the survivability of the TV and Movies studios unlikely as they will not be able to compete.\nAnonymous Coward, 8 Jul 2010 @ 7:52am\n\"Agreed... especially when people are now producing web only series at no and low cost. \"Pioneer one\" , a 5 minute short for under 500 dollars. \" - actually, when you calculate the costs of peoples time to do this, you know the cost isnt $500, but tens of thousands of dollars.\nwhen you calculate the costs of the equipment uses, the time spent, and so on, it wasnt made for $500.\nfurther, and this is the key, these people are not going to give up their day jobs to do this for long, unless you want to accept the socialist concept that the state should pay time (welfare) so they can stay home and make movies.\nso which would you like?\nchris (profile), 8 Jul 2010 @ 8:43am\nactually, when you calculate the costs of peoples time to do this, you know the cost isnt $500, but tens of thousands of dollars.\nso they are lying about their costs? if so, why would they do that? why are they using the DISCO to promote and distribute it for free when they invested tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket?\nthese people are not going to give up their day jobs to do this for long, unless you want to accept the socialist concept that the state should pay time (welfare) so they can stay home and make movies.\nhow much would it really cost then? how much money would they need?\ni don't think it's necessary to accept socialism and demand payment from the state. it could be something simple, like people do stuff because they want to. or that people make stuff because it's fun and want to share it.\nhow much do their day jobs pay? how much value is there in being able to make the things you want to make full time?\ni can't speak for the VODO guys, but if i could make enough to pay the bills by having fun and making cool things, i would gladly sacrifice many luxuries to enable that pursuit.\nAnonymous Coward, 7 Jul 2010 @ 10:31am\n\"The consumer is always right in a competitive marketplace because if you don't serve them, your competitors will.\" - in the music business, this concept is a \"fail\". the only real competition in the music business is people who dont pay for the same content, and distribute it anyway. if the companies that actually make the content go out of business, both sides lose, and in the end, the consumer was wrong.\nshort term thinking makes the consumer right. longer term thinking means that the consumer will lose most of their choices, and be mad because they lost them.\nIf the \"free\" music industry actually made enough quality new music (the type the public wants) there might be competition. right now, both sides get their supply from the same place, but only one is paying for it.\ndisruptive indeed, especially for the freeloaders.\nJohn Fenderson (profile), 7 Jul 2010 @ 10:42am\n\"the only real competition in the music business is people who dont pay for the same content, and distribute it anyway\"\nNope. The real competition is from artists who leverage modern tools to produce and sell quality work. They're increasingly realizing that they can make as much, if not more, money from their work (and retain ownership and control of it -- no small thing) by bypassing the middleman of the established record labels.\nSure, they're unlikely to make millions, but in trade they are more likely to make a living than they were under the old system.\nnot only are the unlikely to make millions, they are also unlikely to give up their day jobs. they only represent a very, very small fraction of a percent of music consumption in the us alone. that tail is not going to wag the dog.\nthe real issue is that record labels are competing with torrent sites \/ file traders on an unequal basis. they each have the same product, but only one paid for it. so only one can suffer a loss. competing by giving the content away as well is not working, while mike doesnt want to address it, concert tours are turning to dust this summer as people refuse to pay inflated ticket prices. guess what, there is a limit to what people will pay for the transient joy of a concert.\n\"as people refuse to pay inflated ticket prices\"\nWell there's your problem. Make the ticket price relative to the value of the performance.\nSuccess in the market is not raking in millions. It is raking in enough to do it again tomorrow with a little left over to spend on improvements.\nAnonymous Coward, 7 Jul 2010 @ 12:33pm\n\"Well there's your problem. Make the ticket price relative to the value of the performance.\" - right. the problem is people are discovering that there is little value in paying enough to make up for the money being lost on the music sales side. mikes entire deal the last few years is that live ticket sales are making up for what is lost in recorded music sales. mostly it was done through much higher ticket prices ($500 for bon jovi anyone?), rather than through increases in touring or significant increases in tour dates.\nthat current large tours and cancelling out, shrinking, canceling dates, and so on is an indication that people are no longer willing to pay the price. personally, i blame free music, which has in turn taught people that even performing music has little actual value. when tickets for two, parking, a couple of beers and maybe dinner is higher than the average rent in most cities, there is a problem. the temporary trend in ticket sales stops working when people realize they are paying way over the value for something, mostly to support other parts of the business being ripped apart by freeloaders.\n\"Wahhhh, business is hard.\" - TAM\nRe: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:\ngod, you arent even a good troll (and you are trolling the wrong name). sorry, but it isnt that business is hard, it is that mikes entire concept of selling scarcity only works when people are flush and rich, not during normal times. scarcity, especially transient scarcities (such as concerts or meet and greets) are lost money. they are things that you do, the money is done, and you have no real retained value except memories. people can do this when they are floating in cash, but when things get even marginally tight, all of this stuff goes out the windows.\nthat the entire music industry is suppose to \"give away the infinite, sell the scarce\" and the public cant afford the scarce pretty much sticks a fork in the business model. its done and disproven by events.\nit goes back to the reason why you sell recorded music for a reasonable price - because people could justify that, because they listen to the music all the time (and get value over and over again for their purchase).\nit is amazing to see real life shoot down mikes master thesis.\nRe: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:\nit is that mikes entire concept of selling scarcity only works when people are flush and rich, not during normal times. scarcity, especially transient scarcities (such as concerts or meet and greets) are lost money.\ngo lurk the new kids on the block message boards and see how much money women have \"lost\" over the last three years attending their events.\npeople can do this when they are floating in cash, but when things get even marginally tight, all of this stuff goes out the windows.\nif times are tough, maybe you should reduce expenses so you can lower prices.\nso we the world should just pretend that this superior way to promote and distribute content doesn't exist? good luck getting that genie back in the bottle.\nthat's a good idea, except for the fact that the going rate for recorded music is $0. other than that, though, it's a really good idea.\nMike Masnick (profile), 8 Jul 2010 @ 10:15am\nYet, when times are tough people buy CDs? Huh?\nHa! One poorly organized, poorly planned out event does bad, and it disproves the entire history of economics?\nBy that reasoning, the fact that CDs aren't selling as well as they used to proves your argument (people just want to buy music) is \"done and disproven by events.\"\nExcept, of course, real life still agrees with me and makes you look confused about economics yet again.\nright. the problem is people are discovering that there is little value in paying enough to make up for the money being lost on the music sales side. mikes entire deal the last few years is that live ticket sales are making up for what is lost in recorded music sales.\nthat's your disconnect. people still pay for stuff, they just don't pay what they used to. that's a shift in the market. the 90's are over and they're not coming back, no matter how desperately you want them to.\nif you want to continue in the content business, you have to be able to deliver a product that turns a profit at the going rate. the going rate is significantly lower than it used to be. to quote marsellus wallace from pulp fiction:\nNow that's a hard motherfuckin' fact of life, but it's a fact of life your ass is gonna have to get realistic about.\nif the going rate is X your production costs are Y, your profit is equal to X - Y.\nif Y is greater than X, you can shake your fist at X all you want, but you should really focus on bringing Y down to a sustainable level if you want to continue in the entertainment business. if you can't fix Y, maybe you should go into something else.\nthat current large tours and cancelling out, shrinking, canceling dates, and so on is an indication that people are no longer willing to pay the price.\nindeed. the market changed and the established players have to change with it or go under.\npersonally, i blame free music, which has in turn taught people that even performing music has little actual value.\nyou can blame whomever you want. that doesn't change the fact that music is free and people that want to make music for a living have to find new and creative ways to make money.\nthe temporary trend in ticket sales stops working when people realize they are paying way over the value for something, mostly to support other parts of the business being ripped apart by freeloaders.\npeople don't pay to support businesses. they pay for value. end of story. there are two golden tickets: 1) increase value or 2) reduce costs.\nanytime something is overvalued, there is a market collapse. this happened when people realized that tech start-ups were overvalued, it happened again when people realized that real estate was overvalued, and it will happen again when people realize that intellectual property is overvalued.\nbut have no fear, people still buy technology even though the tech sector imploded, people still buy houses even though the housing market collapsed, presumably people will still be paying for entertainment once the entertainment market corrects itself.\nJC, 7 Jul 2010 @ 1:51pm\nthey each have the same product\nThat is the constant flaw with your arguments. The record labels DO NOT have the same product. Even iTunes doesn't have the breadth of selection available on most file sharing networks.\nThe \"studios\" have never really released the product people are willing to buy - high quality, DRM free recordings of all music they have ever produced.\nYour BS about concerts is just that, BS. Call me when you have some evidence about ticket prices going down.\ni think AC has a point. file sharing networks do distribute the same products as the content industry. the fact that the number of offerings on file sharing networks eclipses what is available for authorized downloads supports that idea.\nwhat AC fails to realize is that file sharing networks share what's popular, regardless of its origin. if the studios stop producing content, it won't affect file sharing in the least.\nin fact, once major studio content is no longer available, file sharing will increase in value since that's the only way for consumers to get their hands on that legacy content.\nwhatever comes in to fill the void left by this theoretical studio collapse will also be distributed via file sharing. hopefully, for sustainability reasons, this new crop of producers knows how to leverage file sharing to their advantage since fighting file sharing is such a futile activity.\nnasch (profile), 7 Jul 2010 @ 12:54pm\nif the companies that actually make the content go out of business, both sides lose, and in the end, the consumer was wrong.\nCompanies don't make art, people do. So you're saying that companies (music labels, movie studios, whatever) will go out of business, and (some of) the people those companies were paying to make art will stop doing it. My response is: fine. We don't need that \"art\" anyway. We'll get it from people who are going to make art no matter what.\nI hope these companies just hurry up and go out of business or adapt, so we can all see who is right and who is wrong, but I think it's going to take a while.\nFinally: you're crazy if you think movies, music, and art will stop being produced in the absence of the currently dominant businesses. Art is part of human nature, and cannot be stopped.\nout_of_the_blue, 7 Jul 2010 @ 10:34am\nVarying \"models\" with same old *premises* = bad results.\n\"We spend a lot of time pointing to all sorts of working business models every day. They may not be the \"golden ticket\" that this exec wants where he gets to sit back and relax and see the cash flow in, ...\"\nWell, you're assuming that the \"content\" chain still *needs* executives of that sort at all. A good deal of middle-men, hangers-on, various parasites can *definitely* be cut out of the process now, and because those types *know* that they have been and are useless, they've a big incentive to use existing power and money to keep themselves in cushy positions. -- I think they'll be able to do so, in contrast to the more idealistic, because this isn't like the problem of buggy whip makers: the \"product\" is mere data, and there are already existing protective \"laws\" for them to leverage further.\n\"... but they can actually bring in a lot more money by leveraging a more efficient system,...\"\nAgain, this is pre-loading with *your* values. Existing executives don't care beans about efficiency, or the quality of the content. They have a nice cushy place and are willing to bend the rest of society to any degree required in order to *keep* it. In fact, if current trends continue, they'll be set even better, practically in control of governments.\n\"... connecting better with fans, and giving them a real (scarce) [new] reason to buy, rather than trying to bully them into paying through [old] artificial scarcities.\"\nI don't understand how *all* scarcity isn't artificial in this area. You've outlined putting some parts behind a pay barrier, so I think that it only makes sense with the editorially bracketed \"[...]\" words added.\n>>> Overall, I think the \"model\" that *must* fall is getting ridiculous incomes from producing entertainment for *mass* distribution. Simply put, these people want to get filthy stinking rich in an entirely *material* way from a product that doesn't add anything to material wealth. Psychic rewards simply don't count with even the performers. Their efforts are intentionally \"designed\" for widest demographics (\"rebellious\" youth, mostly), rather than for excellence of art. Therefore, they don't *deserve* much in the way of rewards, and rest of society needs to work out a way to see that incomes fall in line with *value* to society. (That's EASY: either explicit limits on sales income per person per song, OR steeply progressive income tax rates, either of which can be implemented *without* harm to the ordinary person.)\n(Some sort of error occurred 1st attempt.)\nnasch (profile), 7 Jul 2010 @ 1:03pm\nRe: Varying \"models\" with same old *premises* = bad results.\nTherefore, they don't *deserve* much in the way of rewards, and rest of society needs to work out a way to see that incomes fall in line with *value* to society. (That's EASY: either explicit limits on sales income per person per song, OR steeply progressive income tax rates, either of which can be implemented *without* harm to the ordinary person.)\nWhy not just let the market decide how much they deserve like we do with most industries?\nOur economy can only support so many artisans. If you can't make a living as a performer, then you are not one of them and it is time to get a job to supplement your hobby. You are not entitled to success.\nTo clarify: if you cannot make money in the current market, then one of two things has happened:\n1) You have failed to utilize the market properly\n2) Your art is not as good as you think it is\nThere is nothing wrong with the market and there is nothing wrong with consumers. Coming to terms with the fact that 1 or 2 is the reason why you are not successful is an important part of growing up.\nBob, 7 Jul 2010 @ 1:06pm\nEcho chamber\nUnfortunately the comments section seems to be mostly an \"echo chamber.\" I am against very long term copyright policies, however, copyright, as a method for encouraging content production, is something that has been around a long time. What is so wrong with copyright? I don't mean copyright as currently practiced in America, but copyright in general? Its purpose is rather clearly defined in the US Constitution, and I believe its purpose is worthy. Promotion of content creation is a worthy objective, and if the monopoly on that content can provide it, what is the problem?\nIt is difficult to extract the egregious behavior of current copyright holders, from the true benefit of copyright. But copyright is the method currently used to help create and sustain a market. I agree that it is not the only way, but it is a legally sanctioned way.\nLets think of music artists. If you were one, which method would you rather have to make money. Create music that people like, copyright it, and distribute it for $1 a song. The better your music, the more money you will make (theoretically), which should push people to make better music if they want to make more money. Alternately, you could decide that this was the best music you will ever make, and you will accept however much money comes from selling the music for $1 a song.\nOr would you rather create music that people like, give it away free, and have to hustle selling something else, or giving concerts? I would propose that the first way is easier and the second way is harder. But what if you're agoraphobic? There is no way that you could give concerts. The amount of money that you will make from posters and donations from conscientious listeners will not provide you enough money to live on. You stop making music in order to get some other job. The art world and the culture of the society could lose out because musicians can not support themselves.\nThe benefit of copyright is very nicely summed up on the US Constitution. If we wish to support arts and progress, some method to allow people to support themselves by their artistic endeavors is needed. Your argument about disruption and that nobody is entitled to keep their business model, is well taken. Except that in this case, art is not just about business. There are socially important reasons for promoting creation of art. In the society in which you wish to live, having professional art may not be important. However it was seen as important by the \"founding fathers\" to include it as part of the law of the land.\nHow about just one more idea: If there was no copyright, and a musician created an album that was wildly popular. In order to recoup the cost and the personal labor of producing the album, the musician decides to give (and charge for) concerts. However, the musician is not a very good show man. I come along (who is a very talented show man) and I produce a fabulous show using all of the songs from the musician's album. Because I put on a great show, the original musician can no longer gain enough audience for his concerts. Will this musician be likely to try to produce music in the future? I would highly doubt it. But if you say that musicians can no longer expect to produce music once and sell it as many times as it will sell (which means dismantling copyright), you cannot say that the musician can make it up with a different business model. All of the other business models that I have heard here require, or heavily depend upon, copyright. If a musician can have monopoly to hold concerts, why can't they have a monopoly to sell CDs?\nBigKeithO (profile), 7 Jul 2010 @ 1:30pm\nRe: Echo chamber\nI've never once heard this blog call for getting rid of copyright at all. I think you are arguing something that never happened. There are calls to restrict copyright to something a little more reasonable than it currently is and to embrace things like Creative Commons (which also depends on copyright) but not to get rid of it.\nThis blog supports finding smart new business models that can flourish and thrive by embracing file sharing. I think it can be summed up by saying file sharing isn't going away any time soon, so instead of wasting so much time and money fighting it learn to embrace what it allows and make money. No where does it say get rid of copyright and hope for the best, in fact I can think of a lot of posts that say this is a silly idea.\nUnfortunately, most of what you have written is irrelevant to the real issues. This is not intended as an insult; I've talked with many people about the whole issue of copyright and it is a very difficult conversation to have meaningfully.\nYour discussion hinges primarily on this statement: which method would you rather have to make money.\nThe point of this blog is simple - you don't have a choice about how you make money. The only person who has a choice about how money is made are the consumers.\nYou can choose to TRY making money in a variety of different ways (i.e. selling recordings, giving away music and selling t-shirts, touring, working in a factory). But ultimately you do not get paid because you want to, or because you work hard, or because you deserve it - you get paid because someone else makes the choice to pay you. Once you really fundamentally understand that fact, this blog starts to make a lot more sense.\nGood responses to your post, but I'll add more.\nI would propose that the first way is easier and the second way is harder.\nI'm sure few would disagree, however, the purpose of copyright law is not to ensure that creators can make money easily, or even at all.\nIf we wish to support arts and progress, some method to allow people to support themselves by their artistic endeavors is needed.\nPerhaps. It's also possible there would be plenty of progress of science and useful arts without copyright, in which case it's not serving its Constitutional purpose. But as mentioned before, I think most of us wouldn't mind reasonable copyright laws.\nIf there was no copyright, and a musician created an album that was wildly popular. In order to recoup the cost and the personal labor of producing the album, the musician decides to give (and charge for) concerts. However, the musician is not a very good show man. I come along (who is a very talented show man) and I produce a fabulous show using all of the songs from the musician's album. Because I put on a great show, the original musician can no longer gain enough audience for his concerts. Will this musician be likely to try to produce music in the future? I would highly doubt it. But if you say that musicians can no longer expect to produce music once and sell it as many times as it will sell (which means dismantling copyright), you cannot say that the musician can make it up with a different business model.\nYou have set up a false dichotomy: give concerts or sell recordings. There are always other choices. In your example, a partnership with the showman would be the most obvious possibility to me. He enjoys performing your music and is good at it. Offer to write music for him to perform in exchange for a percentage of his earnings. Since you're both getting paid already, you can release your recorded music for free to build popularity. Everybody wins: writer, performer, and fans.\nI would also like to point this out as an example of how reasonable disagreement is handled around here. Bob posted some reasonable thoughts about copyright and explained why he holds his opinions. A few people then posted disagreement and indicated (cordially) exactly what they disagree with and why. There is no shouting down or any of the other crap that this forum is accused of.\nThe previous paragraph is not directed at you Bob. I hope you'll continue the conversation and feel welcome.\n(sorry if this double posts)\n(sorry if this is too long)\n(sorry if these parenthetical comments are what makes this too long)\nMike Masnick (profile), 7 Jul 2010 @ 5:24pm\nUnfortunately the comments section seems to be mostly an \"echo chamber.\"\nHi Bob. The comments here really are not very much of an echo chamber. If you look, nearly every single set of comments on the site has people taking all sorts of different positions.\nAnd, in fact, the people who agree with me on one post will often disagree with me on others.\nHowever, if someone states something that is not backed up by evidence or fact, people may challenge them on it. It is full contact commenting, but hardly an echo chamber.\nWhat is so wrong with copyright? I don't mean copyright as currently practiced in America, but copyright in general? Its purpose is rather clearly defined in the US Constitution, and I believe its purpose is worthy. Promotion of content creation is a worthy objective, and if the monopoly on that content can provide it, what is the problem?\nIt is the \"if\" statement you mentioned. \"If the monopoly on that content can provide it,\" then we agree with you. I've stated over and over again that I'm in favor of overall economic and cultural progress. My problem is the lack of any evidence that copyright does this. In fact, all of the actual evidence shows the opposite. That's our concern.\nBut copyright is the method currently used to help create and sustain a market. I agree that it is not the only way, but it is a legally sanctioned way.\nIndeed. But what if it's also the way that is used to actually stifle creativity and hold back progress? Wouldn't that be an issue.\nFirst of all, copyright is not about making the best system for musicians. If that were the case, then it would set up a welfare system. After all, isn't that even better than what you describe? How about if you're a musician the gov't automatically pays you $500,000 per year. That seems even easier than copyright!\nThe fact is that, as you noted, copyright is supposed to promote the progress, not set up the easiest possible business model for musicians.\nOr would you rather create music that people like, give it away free, and have to hustle selling something else, or giving concerts?\nIf that makes the artist more famous and allows them to make more money, make more music and spread their content around to more people then... um... yes? Isn't that better?\nAgain, nothing in copyright law is about making anyone's lives easier. But if we're using \"easier\" as the standard, then I'm afraid you're argument also falls apart. After all, the original purpose of copyright is to help the public get more content (not to help artists). So, let's look at it from the perspective of the public. In your two scenarios which one is \"easier\" for the public? I'd argue the latter.\nBut what if you're agoraphobic? There is no way that you could give concerts.\nBut there are tons of business models that don't rely on concerts. We've described how big artists (Reznor) and small artists (Motoboy, Matthew Ebel) made lots of money from models that didn't involve concerts (they did *also* use concerts, but that was not their core money making method).\nThe amount of money that you will make from posters and donations from conscientious listeners will not provide you enough money to live on.\nWhy do you say that? The evidence does not suggest that's true at all. I mean, no one is saying every musician can make a living without concerts, but plenty of them can and do.\nThe art world and the culture of the society could lose out because musicians can not support themselves.\nThen you should rail against current copyright laws that for years concentrated all power in music making to a small group of gatekeeper labels, keeping everyone else out.\nIf you didn't fit into what they wanted, you weren't able to make a living. Now, however, any artist can take control over their own career.\nThe benefit of copyright is very nicely summed up on the US Constitution.\nNo, that's not the benefit. That's the purpose of copyright. It is an open question as to whether or not such monopolies really do promote the progress. The evidence, to date, suggests it does not.\nExcept that in this case, art is not just about business. There are socially important reasons for promoting creation of art.\nIndeed. Which is why you should be happy to know of the recent Harvard study that showed that as copyright laws are more ignored, more art has been created. Celebrate!\nHowever it was seen as important by the \"founding fathers\" to include it as part of the law of the land.\nThe history of how it was included in the Constitution is fascinating. It had nothing to do with protecting artists, of course. Initially it was entirely about promoting *learning* -- which is why it did not cover things like plays and entertainment. Also the founding fathers were very concerned about how the \"bad\" side of monopolies could outweigh the \"good.\" They would likely want to see the evidence that is present today which suggests they were right, and reconsider whether or not it made sense.\nHow about just one more idea: If there was no copyright, and a musician created an album that was wildly popular. In order to recoup the cost and the personal labor of producing the album, the musician decides to give (and charge for) concerts. However, the musician is not a very good show man. I come along (who is a very talented show man) and I produce a fabulous show using all of the songs from the musician's album. Because I put on a great show, the original musician can no longer gain enough audience for his concerts. Will this musician be likely to try to produce music in the future? I would highly doubt it. But if you say that musicians can no longer expect to produce music once and sell it as many times as it will sell (which means dismantling copyright), you cannot say that the musician can make it up with a different business model.\nYou have a hypothetical. I could easily create a different hypothetical that works just as well. So, for example you put on better shows, and this musician writes better music. Well, basic efficiency suggests the two of you team up. You pay him to write you the songs, and then you perform them live: and you both benefit. No copyright necessary.\nAll of the other business models that I have heard here require, or heavily depend upon, copyright.\nThat's simply not true. Almost all of the business models we describe do not rely on copyright at all.\nIf a musician can have monopoly to hold concerts, why can't they have a monopoly to sell CDs?\nBecause concerts are a true scarcity -- there is only so much room in a venue. Music is not. It can be replicated for free infinitely. And that's where economics of supply and demand come into play.\nRe: Re: Echo chamber\n\"Because concerts are a true scarcity\" - and one people are less and less interested in paying for. mike, are you ever going to address the issues of all of the concert tour cancellations, cut backs, and such? it is important to look and see that perhaps the scarcity model you are pushing only works when people are flush with cash and can make expensive optional purchases of transient scacities.\notherwise, we risk spending more time in the aptly spotted \"echo chamber\".\nWhat is so wrong with copyright? I don't mean copyright as currently practiced in America, but copyright in general?\nthat it gets abused to the point of becoming the current american practice. also, those who benefit from the current american practice i are doing their best to spread that practice to the rest of the world.\nIts purpose is rather clearly defined in the US Constitution, and I believe its purpose is worthy. Promotion of content creation is a worthy objective, and if the monopoly on that content can provide it, what is the problem?\nthe problem is that the monopoly is not used to promote the progress, but as a cudgel to stifle free speech, fair use, innovation, culture, and in some cases, even privacy. that stuff is always way more important than revenue, and if creative types have to sacrifice some wealth to protect people's basic freedoms, then so be it.\nOr would you rather create music that people like, give it away free, and have to hustle selling something else, or giving concerts? I would propose that the first way is easier and the second way is harder.\nthat's great, but the first way is guaranteed to fail with mathematical certainty, and the second way has a chance of succeeding. the first way is not grounded in reality and the second way is. profit in the entertainment industry is not, should not and will never be a guarantee.\nIf... a musician created an album that was wildly popular... However, the musician is not a very good show man. I come along... and I produce a fabulous show... the original musician can no longer gain enough audience... Will this musician be likely to try to produce music in the future?\na lot of copyright types often assume that once someone \"takes\" something, that it's gone forever. that if someone copies your stuff, you can't copy your own stuff back.\nto render your current show obsolete, all the originator has to do is feature new original content. to me, that sounds like a real incentive to create more content.\nhow quickly can you put your tour together once you decide to do this guys music? how quickly could you put together a new show if the originator makes new stuff? the originator automatically has the \"first mover\" advantage because he gets first crack at original content. even if your shows are better, they will always be behind his in terms of originality.\nplus, the originator can use your success with his old content to promote and endorse his new content.\nso, if you are smart, you will pay the originator to write for you, so you get to bolster your showmanship with his first mover advantage.\nalso, without copyright, your awesome shows are fair game for the originator. assuming the real value is showmanship and not the quality of the content, the original artist can take what works from your show, and other popular shows, and incorporate it into his next series of concerts with new content that he\/she created. you benefited from copying the originator, but he then benefits from copying you in return, and in the end, the best show makes the most money, again, assuming the value in mostly in showmanship which may not be the case.\nor, the originator can connect with those who currently enjoy his concerts, and give them even more of what they want to see, leaving you to do your shows that appeal to your audience.\nwhen there is no intellectual monopoly, there is nothing stopping brutal competition to deliver the absolute best product.\neveryone has a natural monopoly on their performances, because only they can perform as themselves. this doesn't automatically invalidate originality. you pay to watch a comedian perform, not to hear his jokes, but if that comedian only tells jokes you've heard before, it hinders the performance.\nJason Lotito, 8 Jul 2010 @ 7:05am\nOnline Entertainment Industry is doing well\nWhat I find odd is the assertion that it's hard to find business models for online entertainment, when the truth is, for more than a decade, online entertainment has been surviving and thriving.\nThe issue isn't finding a workable business model for online entertainment. Rather, it's accepting that your old model needs to change, and your new model needs to provide real value. You can't just copy\/paste an old model into a new system and expect it to work.\nThis has been proven time and time again throughout history. Heck, the music industry grew because it was able to find a business model using new technology. So did the movie industry.\nThey were disruptive and innovative back in their day. But they've forgotten that.\nNo, the online entertainment world is doing just fine. It doesn't need you. You need it.\nphil28, 8 Jul 2010 @ 7:06am\nKara Swisher not the brightest bulb\nIf it weren't for Mossberg Kara would still be reviewing vacuum cleaners for her old column in the WSJ. And don't forget, she's now in bed with Rupert Murdoch, and apparently is influenced by his equally wacky opinions.\ncalmo (profile), 8 Jul 2010 @ 10:12am\nthat golden ticket...\nThese guys are sitting back and waiting for someone to hand them a golden ticket that replicates the old ways of doing things. I don't think so. They know the old way of doing things is on a short rope. Throwing energy at ways to replicate the old way is just trying to stretch that rope by obstructing the disruption *until they can retire*, whereupon it becomes someone else's problem.\nRichard (profile), 9 Jul 2010 @ 5:16am\nRe: that golden ticket...\njust trying to stretch that rope by obstructing the disruption *until they can retire*\nYou might be on to something there.\nOtherwise, all they're doing is waiting for something new to come along and show them what to do whilst at the same time killing everything new that comes along. It's like waiting for the second coming by killing every newborn.\nblinddrew, 8 Jul 2010 @ 11:54am\n2 problems with Ms Swisher's article\nFirstly she hasn't spoken to either the creator or the consumer, she's spoken to the middleman. Secondly she hasn't done her research on the alternatives.\nNow i don't have a business model that works (i sure wish i did) but i know full well that the major label one is broken.\nIf they are to survive their top people need to start earning their money.\nIf Intellectual Property Is Neither Intellectual, Nor Property, What Is It?\nSaying You Can't Compete With Free Is Saying You Can't Compete Period\nAnother Day, Another Location Data Privacy Scandal We'll Probably Do Nothing About","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Julius Zebra Quiz Book: (Julius Zebra)\nGary Northfield (Author) Gary Northfield (Illustrator)\nAlso available on eBook for \u00a34.79. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo\nThe Champion of Rome returns, with a compendium of quiz questions! The Zebra-themed quiz book we have all been waiting for! Full of Roman, Greek and Egyptian ancient history, join Julius and the gang for a trivia tour of the ancient world, and impress parents and friends alike with over 100 fascinating facts. And of course, in true Julius Zebra style, there's heaps of humour to lighten the load of all that learning. How did the Romans transport the water for the baths? a) Viaduct b) Aquaduct or c) Via a duck\nGary Northfield is an award-winning and bestselling author and illustrator of children's books and comics. His popular Julius Zebra series has now been translated into several languages worldwide and includes five books: Julius Zebra: Rumble with the Romans!; Julius Zebra: Bundle with the Britons!; Julius Zebra; Entangled with the Egyptians!; Julius Zebra: Grapple with the Greeks! and the Julius Zebra Joke Book Jamboree! Julius Zebra: Rumble with the Romans! won the 2017 Spellbinding Book Award voted for by children. Gary's other books include The Terrible Tales of the Teenytinysaurs! and Gary's Garden. Gary's work is also published in The Beano, The Dandy and National Geographic Kids among many other magazines. He lives with his dog Stan, partner Nicky and young twins. Find Gary online at garynorthfield.com, on Twitter as @garynorthfield and Instagram as @stupidmonster.\nContributor: Gary Northfield\nImprint: Walker Books Ltd\nPackaged Dimensions: 129x198x6mm\nPackaged Weight: 93\nPublisher: Walker Books Ltd\nSeries: Julius Zebra\nBiography: Gary Northfield is an award-winning and bestselling author and illustrator of children's books and comics. His popular Julius Zebra series has now been translated into several languages worldwide and includes five books: Julius Zebra: Rumble with the Romans!; Julius Zebra: Bundle with the Britons!; Julius Zebra; Entangled with the Egyptians!; Julius Zebra: Grapple with the Greeks! and the Julius Zebra Joke Book Jamboree! Julius Zebra: Rumble with the Romans! won the 2017 Spellbinding Book Award voted for by children. Gary's other books include The Terrible Tales of the Teenytinysaurs! and Gary's Garden. Gary's work is also published in The Beano, The Dandy and National Geographic Kids among many other magazines. He lives with his dog Stan, partner Nicky and young twins. Find Gary online at garynorthfield.com, on Twitter as @garynorthfield and Instagram as @stupidmonster.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"TVLine Items: General Hospital Exit, Titans Casts Rose Wilson and More\nBy Vlada Gelman \/ March 22 2019, 11:22 AM PDT\nGeneral Hospital is down a doc: Matt Cohen is exiting the ABC daytime soap after playing neurosurgeon Dr. Griffin Munro for three years, TVInsider.com reports.\n\"It was a great time, and I had great fun playing the character, but I'm a guy who gets uncomfortable when he gets comfortable,\" Cohen tells the site. \"I need to give Griffin a little rest right now.\" After talking to executive producer Frank Valentini, Cohen decided to move on and pursue directing projects. But his exit from GH is \"very open-ended,\" the actor adds. \"There's always the chance I'll come back.\"\nCohen's last episode airs today.\nReady for more of today's newsy nuggets? Well\u2026\n* Chelsea T. Zhang (Andi Mack) has joined Season 2 of DC Universe's Titans in the series-regular role of Rose Wilson, aka the Ravager, our sister site Deadline reports.\n* Jack Davenport (Smash) will play the husband of Lucy Liu's '80s socialite in CBS All Access' forthcoming series Why Women Kill, per Deadline.\n* Ryan Murphy's first Netflix original series The Politician, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Tony winner Ben Platt, will premiere on Friday, Sept. 27.\nA post shared by Ryan Murphy (@mrrpmurphy)\n* Kristin Cavallari will serve as the host of Fox's Paradise Hotel revival, which will premiere Thursday, May 9 at 8\/7c.\n* Starz has made the full first season of Now Apocalypse available to stream on all of its non-linear platforms, and has also put the series premiere up for free on Starz.com, YouTube, Reddit and Pride Media platforms. (Season 1 will continue to air Sundays at 9\/8c.)\nWhich of today's TVLine Items pique your interest?\nTAGS: Chelsea T. Zhang, General Hospital, Jack Davenport, Kristin Cavallari, Matt Cohen, Now Apocalypse, Paradise Hotel, The Politician, Titans, Why Women Kill\nGET MORE: Casting News, Scheduling News, TVLine Items","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Posts from 20th November 2000\nPOP-EYE 19\/11\/00\nPete Baran \u2022 New York London Paris Munich \u2022 Pop \u2022 Post a comment \u2022 198 views\nLet us start with a poser for you. This weeks top six records are all newcomers to our chart, all except one. What \u2013 dear readers and lucky not to be listeners \u2013 can that record be? Surely one of the combatants in last weeks battle of the boy bands? Perhaps those Tweenies, inexorably making their way to \"Number 1\"? I'm not telling you till the end, though if you can't guess frankly you have not been reading Pop-Eye, looked at the charts but you might possibly have been listening to Radio One \u2013 since the snobs there won't play the nations number three.\nBut to the top of this weeks no mark charts. Its like a chart-wise personification of the Paula Abdul\/MC Skat Kat classic \u2013 as at the top opposites certainly attract. Daft Punk's relatively weak for them \"One More Time\" is still an awful lot better than anything else employing a vocoder in the charts. Of course, post Cher's \"Believe\" this is pretty much every tune in the forty. One More Time has been over the radio like a rash, and its a nagging song which certainly needs an itch or two. Unfortunately it just develops you that involuntary shoulder twitch, which is the sign of good insidious dance. Would have made a good number one, in the way that bands best tunes never make the top.\nThe same could be said about this weeks actual chart topper. Except \"Can't Find The Moonlight\", is no better or worse than LeAnn Rimes' other Jerry Bruckheimer film collaborations (\"How Do I Live\" being about as bad as John Malkovitch in Con Air). CFTM is ripped still-born from the female Cocktail \"Coyote Ugly\" \u2013 a concept the world had been clamouring for \u2013 and is altogether as bad as the film. LeAnn is a ridiculous name, and I shall not comment any further except for in a year of forgettable number ones, this may well top them. Because I heard it last night and I'm damned if I can remember how it goes. Some pop columnist I am, but this says more about the tune than me taking the piss out of her surname. (She does, to her credit, Rime).\nWhat can number three be?\nArtful Dodger's two old geezers are back with possibly Linford Christie in tow. Sorry, that's Lifford. Pretty standard garage fare from the Dodgsters, direct, fun and four million times more interesting than MJ Cole. Five is Finnish, so the less said about that the better (I don't do Scando-pop\/dance). And finally we get to six, the best of the top five and a stirling return to form from the Wu-Tang Clan.\nOf course, this isn't really a return to form chart-wise, as the Wu's have never had a UK top twenty hit before. Not on their own. The beauty of their cluster-bomb stealth like attack on the music biz is that they can get ten hits at any one time. The down side is that casual observers may never have heard of them. But who cares about casual observers? A grimy piece of production, lots of dark rhymes and the WTC return to stake their territory from Johnny come latelies. Like the Bomfunk MC's.\nSo A1 plummet from 1-8 \u2013 serves them right. Tweenies outlast them at 7, because its a better song. So its boyband central at the bottom of this area, which at least keeps Toploader out of the top ten with the third release of \"Dancing In The Moonlight\". This record is rubbish, and each release shows how rubbish it is. The seventies original was a hideous stab of rockism, and Toploader \u2013 named after a washing machine fer'chrissake \u2013 make it so much worse. Same cannot be said for Badly Drawn Boy's pointless re-release of \"Once Around The Block\" \u2013 which has already been once around the block and did as poorly in this chart as it did originally (27). Its a good record, but familarity is starting to breed contempt.\nSo what else of note? Richard Blackwood shy of the twenty (phew). Savage Garden bore for Australia. And the Devil rocks in with a number of the beast statement of intent. All in all PJ Harvey must count it as \u2013 ahem \u2013 \"Good Fortune\" to miss out on being in this unpleasant top forty altogether. There is nothing obvious trendwise here and most of those top ten entries will drop out of the charts in two weeks. Except of course our number three. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back the sticking like glue. The Baha Men's \"Who Let The Dogs Out\". An uncharitable man may also ask, how did she get to number one?\nDaft Punk \u2013 \"One More Time\" (2)\nThe Baha Men \u2013 \"Who Let The Dogs Out\" (3)\nThe Wu-Tang Clan \u2013 \"Gravel Pit\"(6)\nThe Tweenies \u2013 \"Number 1\" (7)\nBadly Drawn Boy \u2013 \"Once Around The Block and long in the tooth\"(27)\nTHE VERVE \u2013 \"The Drugs Don't Work\"\n23 Mar 2014 #773, 13th September 1997 \"Whenever we played that live there would be rows of grown men crying. It was almost like these guys couldn't cry when they needed to cry, but that song operated like a pressure valve for them and it was okay for them to cry at a big rock concert.\" \u2013 Richard [\u2026]\nPop World Cup 2018: Group A Match 1\n17 Jun 2018 It's here! The opening game of the Pop World Cup finds the four teams of Group A raising the curtain on the tournament. Pop football veterans Russia and Uruguay meet two Arab states \u2013 Egypt and Saudi Arabia \u2013 with less of a record at this level. Who will prevail? You decide. Spotify playlist and [\u2026]\nIn search of Squirrel \u2013 Part two\n3 Oct 2004 In search of Squirrel \u2013 Part two (warning, contains graphic images) Some of you may remember this article I wrote some time ago about my \"failure\" as a vegetarian and my quest for the different. Well, I've done it. Squirrel had become a bit of an obsession, I'd chased up all sorts of alleys (Julian [\u2026]\nWHITE TOWN \u2013 \"Your Woman\"\n4 Feb 2014 #757, 25th January 1997 In 1997, talking about music on the Internet means USENET, a Gormenghast of diverging and reconnecting fora whose goblin tribes gleefully rampage through each other's chosen lairs: a thread will start on alt.music.prodigy, then careen into alt.music.spice-girls via alt.music.misc, while Discordians and trolls plot to spread it still further. Still, there [\u2026]\nHow clean is your band?\n11 Oct 2006 The discerning televisual fan will be aware of the vacuum currently residing in the schedules between the 7.30pm end of Hollyoaks First Look and the 9pm commencement of Ghost Whisperer. There are only so many times one can flick between Puff Daddy jiggling next to the Lead Pussycat on TMF and the startlingly abhorrent animated [\u2026]\nThe Freaky Trigger Top 100 Tracks Of All Time: No. 57 ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS \u2013 \"Oliver's Army\"\n20 Jul 2007 I semi-remember just two lines from the NME's (Charlie Shaar Murray's?) review of \"Armed Forces\" (secret unused title \"Emotional Fascism\"). One was that one of the other songs resembled ELP \"jamming in the bottom of an oil drum\"! The other \u2014 more germane to this post, as well as being true \u2014 is that \"with [\u2026]\nThe FreakyTrigger Top 25 Brands: 22: TARMAC\n24 Nov 2006 Tarmac? What kind of a brand is that, its just the pavement, right? Wrong my friends. Tarmac is a brand and an awe-inspiring dominant one at that. I love brands whose names are synonymous with their main product, it shows an awesome degree of brand dominance when the brand name becomes subsumed into language. But [\u2026]\nClive Dunn - \"Grandad\"\nGeorge Harrison - \"My Sweet Lord\"\nMungo Jerry - \"Baby Jump\"\nT Rex - \"Hot Love\"\nDave And Ansel Collins - \"Double Barrel\"\nTony Orlando And Dawn - \"Knock Three Times\"\nMiddle Of The Road - \"Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep\"\nT Rex - \"Get It On\"\nDiana Ross - \"I'm Still Waiting\"\nThe Tams - \"Hey Girl, Don't Bother Me\"\nRod Stewart - \"Maggie May\"\nSlade - \"Coz I Luv You\"\nBenny Hill - \"Ernie, The Fastest Milkman In The West\"\nNone of them!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Fundraiser for slain teen shatters expectations\nA crowdfunding campaign for the family of a Mississauga teen who was shot and killed in a hail of bullets Saturday has soared past expectations, raising over $18,500 in just a day.\nSelma Alincy, a friend of 17-year-old Jonathan Davis's family, launched an online fundraiser with a goal of collecting $15,000 on Monday. By Tuesday afternoon, it had raised over $3,500 more than its stated target.\n\"A huge thank you to everyone for their donations and sharing this page,\" Alincy wrote on her GoFundMe page. \"The goal has not only been met but it has been exceeded in less than 24 hours.\n\"I am extremely grateful and humble to see a community come to together to help Jonathan's family. I never expected such [an] immediate and overwhelming response,\" she added.\n\"The family is truly thankful and appreciative for everyone's support. This contribution will be a big help to the family to make funeral preparations for him in this difficult time.\"\nDavis, who was just weeks into his final year of high school, was killed in what police are calling a \"brazen\" act of violence outside an apartment complex on Darcel Avenue near Morning Star and Goreway Drive, west of Toronto.\nInvestigators have said the teen was not involved in the violence in any way.\nAlincy, a friend of Davis's mother for more than 20 years, told CBC News in a previous interview that the teen was a \"respectable young man,\" who was quiet, loved video games, was great with electronics and always there to help his father who, she said, has been losing his eyesight.\nOn GoFundMe, she thanked the community for its contributions.\n\"Everyone's generosity is a huge blessing,\" she said.\nRedes Sociais - Coment\u00e1rios\n#toronto FUNDRAISER FUNERAL JONATHAN DAVIS MISSISSAUGA SHOOTING\nFacebook Twitter LinkedIn Tumblr Pinterest Reddit VKontakte Odnoklassniki Pocket Partilha via e-mail Imprimir\nDiscount for GO Transit, TTC riders ends March 31 after province pulls funding\nFord government appoints new human rights commissioners\nN\u00e3o perca tamb\u00e9m\nDeveloper unveils plans to create whole new city centre in Mississauga\nVictims of Bruce McArthur honoured 2 years after his arrest","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"'America's Rabbi' to Headline SUU's Commencement\nPublished: April 12, 2013 | Category: Special Events\nSouthern Utah University is proud to announce \"Rabbi Shmuley\" as its keynote Commencement speaker. Shmuley Boteach, an international leading relationship and values expert, is also one of the nation's most prominent religious leaders and entertainment icons. He will speak to the graduates and guests of the Class of 2013 on Friday, May 3, at noon in the Centrum Arena.\nHailed as one of the world's most gifted public speakers, Boteach's insightful, direct and witty social commentary and ongoing efforts to encourage and uplift speak far beyond a Rabbi's usual audience. Labeled \"a cultural phenomenon\" by Newsweek magazine and \"the most famous rabbi in America\" by The Washington Post, Boteach has been named one of the ten most influential rabbis in America, and his 29 books have all been international best-sellers, translated into 20 languages.\nOf selecting Boteach to speak in this year's Commencement, SUU President Michael Benson said, \"Rabbi Shmuley has distinguished himself through his books, television appearances, weekly articles, and speeches as one of America's leading social and political commentators. His recent run for Congress \u2014 and his bid to become America's first rabbi in the U.S. House of Representatives \u2014 is evidence of his commitment to addressing important issues facing our society today.\"\nWhile his unabashed nature has earned both praise and criticism, Boteach's work is prolific and speaks to a life devoted to faith, family and traditional values.\nHe is a highly sought-after television and radio guest and has appeared on shows ranging from The Today Show to The O'Reilley Factor to Dr. Phil, and everything in between, including regular appearances on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. He was also the subject of a full-length BBC documentary, \"Moses of Oxford,\" and has been profiled in many of the world's leading publications, including Time Magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times, The London Times, The L.A. Times, the Chicago Tribune and The Washington Post.\nPraised by Dennis Prager as \"possessing one of the most fertile minds of our generation,\" Rabbi Shmuley most recently published The Fed-Up Man of Faith: Challenging God in the Face of Suffering and Tragedy, tackling timeless questions of the nature of defeat and adversity. Prager wrote, \"Shmuley Boteach has written many important books. This one may be his most courageous \u2014 and most influential, in that it may change the way more people think than any of his other already influential books, or, for that matter, than any book by almost anyone else writing today.\"\nIn just over two decades, Boteach has written 28 other best-selling books, a sampling of which speaks to long-time study and thought on a great many modern social and religious constructs: Renewal: A Guide to the Values-Filled Life; The Broken American Male: And How to Fix Him; Hating Women: America's Hostile Campaign Against the Fairer Sex; The Kosher Sutra: Eight Sacred Secrets for Reigniting Desire and Restoring Passion for Life; Face Your Fear: Living with Courage in an Age of Caution; Judaism for Everyone; and his review of Oxford history and life, Moses of Oxford, Vols. I & II.\nHis book Why Can't I Fall in Love was a finalist for the 2002 Books for a Better Life Award, and writings focused on the American family, Parenting With Fire and Ten Conversations You Need to Have With Your Children, were both launched on Oprah's television show.\nBoteach is one of the principal contributors to the home page of The Huffington Post, is a weekly columnist in The Jerusalem Post and The New Jersey Jewish Standard, and makes regular contributions to The Wall St Journal, the Washington Post, and many other leading publications.\nHe was host of The Rabbi Shmuley Show, a daily national radio program on Oprah & Friends, XM Satellite Radio, and was also host of the award-winning national reality TV show, TLC's Shalom in the Home, for which he received the National Fatherhood Initiative's most prestigious award, recognizing his efforts to promote the importance of a caring father in the contemporary family.\nRabbi Shmuley first came to world attention through his founding of the Oxford University L'Chaim Society, an organization of Oxford students that within three years of its founding in 1988 had become the second largest student organization in Oxford's history.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"2 Kings 25:1\u201330\nThe Final Invasion of Nebuchadnezzar\n25 It happened that in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem. He encamped against it and built siege works against it all around. 2 So the city came under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 3 In the ninth month, the famine became severe in the city, and there was no food for the people of the land. 4 Then the city was breached, and all of the men of war entered by night by way of the gate between the wall which was by the garden of the king, and the Chaldeans were against the city all around, so hea left by the way of the Arabah. 5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they overtook him in the Arabah of Jericho, and all of his army scattered from him. 6 So they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and \u230athey passed sentence on him\u230b.b 7 They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; then they blinded the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon.\nJerusalem Is Sacked and the Temple Burned\n8 In the fifth month, on the seventh of the month, that is, the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, a commander of the imperial guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. 9 He burned the temple of Yahweh, the palace of the king, and all of the houses of Jerusalem; every large house he burned with fire. 10 And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the commander of the imperial guard tore down the walls of Jerusalem all around. 11 The remainder of the people left in the city, the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the remainder of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the commander of the imperial guard deported.\n12 But the poor of the land the commander of the imperial guard left for the vineyards and for tilling.\nPlunder Taken by the Chaldeans\n13 The bronze pillars that were in the templec of Yahweh, and the water carts, and the bronze sea that was in the templed of Yahweh, the Chaldeans broke into pieces and carried their bronze to Babylon. 14 The pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the dishes, and the vessels of bronze with which they served there, they took. 15 The firepans and the basins, whatever was gold, the commander of the imperial guard took for the gold and whatever was silver, for the silver. 16 The two pillars, the one sea, and the water cart that Solomon had made for the templee of Yahweh, there was no weighing to the bronze of all of these vessels. 17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; a bronze capital was on it, with the height of the capital being three cubits. The latticework and pomegranates on the capital all around were bronze, and likewise on the latticework for the second pillar.\n18 Then the commander of the imperial guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and three of the threshold keepers. 19 From the city he took one court official who was chief officer over the men of war, five men \u230afrom the king's council\u230bf who were found in the city, the secretary of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men from the people of the land being found in the city. 20 Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 21 Then the king of Babylon struck them down and killed them at Riblah in the land of Hamath; thus Judah was removed from its land.\nGedaliah Appointed Governor\n22 Now as far as the people left in Judah whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon left behind, he appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan over them. 23 When all of the commanders of the troops heard, they and the men, that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan the son of Kareah, Seriah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men. 24 Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and he said to them, \"You must not be afraid because of the Chaldeans. Settle in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and may it go well with you.\" 25 But it happened in the seventh month that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama from the offspring of the kingship came, and ten men with him, and they struck down Gedaliah so that he died with the Judeans and with the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah. 26 Then all the people, from youngest to oldest, and the commanders of the troops, went to Egypt, for they were afraid of the presence of the Chaldeans.\nElderly Jehoiachin Cared for in Babylon\n27 It happened in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month on the twenty-seventh of the month, lifted Evil-Merodach king of Babylon in the year that he became king, the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah from the house of imprisonment. 28 He spoke \u230akindly\u230bg to him, and he gave him a better seat than the seat of the kings who were with him in Babylon. 29 So he changed the clothes of his imprisonment, and he ate food continually in his presence all the days of his life. 30 His allowance was continually given to him from the king, \u230aa portion every day\u230bh all the days of his life.\nThat is, Zedekiah\nLiterally \"they spoke justice with him\"\nOr \"house\"\nLiterally \"from those who saw the face of the king\"\nLiterally \"good things\"\nLiterally \"a thing of day on his day\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hybrid work model: 4 tips for teams in 2022\nThe hybrid work model is likely to become standard in 2022 and beyond. If you're still shaping a hybrid work strategy, consider these tips to ease the process\nIlkka M\u00e4kitalo\nDecember 21, 2021 | %t min read\nIn 2022, the hybrid work model will be called, simply, \"work.\" Until it's the norm, teams will have growing pains making the adjustment. While there is no cookie-cutter approach for all people, roles, or projects, consider these tips to smooth the transition.\n1. Co-create the hybrid work model with your organization\nThere's no one-size-fits-all hybrid work model for each organization \u2013 ultimately, it needs to fit your organization's culture and people. Co-creating that model with everyone in your company is the key to success.\nBecause of how it directly affects the people in your organization, avoid making top-down decisions. Ask employees what their preferences are and try to accommodate those. Otherwise, you'll end up with frustration and resentment, which can quickly fracture culture and morale.\nAgree within the organization on what purpose the office has in the hybrid environment.\nConsider together which types of structures work best for the people in your team. Look after your team, and they'll look after your customers and organization. Popular hybrid work structures include a remote-first approach with occasional office days or office-first with employees working remotely on set days. Some companies meet in person at the office only once a month.\nAgree within the organization on what purpose the office has in the hybrid environment. Is it to enhance collaboration or to foster building relationships? Gather thoughts and ideas from everyone, and don't just resume office attendance because that's how it was previously done. Your annual budget might also be thankful if you can find alternatives to your large, empty office.\n[ Want more advice on hybrid work? Read also: What is a hybrid work model? and Hybrid work model: 5 advantages. ]\n2. Trust your employees\nLet employees work the way they feel is best for them, and the result will be happier and better-performing team members.\nUse milestones and deadlines to gauge your team's progress instead of tracking time. One challenge of remote work is \"appearing\" to be productive and present to the management team. However, measurement should not be seen as a punitive exercise to catch people out \u2013 it should guide employees toward completing their goals.\nMost workers don't work the entire eight hours they're in the office either, as they're often engaging in spontaneous meetings and meaningful moments of connection with colleagues. Managers should disregard time as a measure of productivity and trust their employees to do their job to the best of their ability. If goals are being met but the employees feel distant because they don't need to collaborate as much or that they need to \"appear busy,\" then the goals are too easy and need to be readjusted.\nBe careful to keep engagement and communication high \u2013 otherwise, you can end up with the \"watermelon effect\" \u2013 good \"green\" performance, but below the surface, there's a big chunk of red, which represents a poor employee experience. In such cases, employees might discuss problems with each other at the (virtual) water cooler, but not necessarily with management.\n3. Rethink meetings\nTo find new ways of working, adopt a facilitator's mindset.\nWe need to learn new ways of working so that not all working hours are spent in back-to-back meetings and the \"real work\" is done on weekends and evenings. This means we need to incorporate more asynchronous work.\nTo find new ways of working, adopt a facilitator's mindset \u2013 focus on understanding how human relationships work and designing the work to best suit these habits and needs.\nAlso, keep the social aspect in mind for all meetings by asking check-in and check-out questions. Having off-topic conversations and connecting as individuals rather than always having an official agenda is essential.\n4. Create opportunities for connection and interaction\nThink beyond Zoom coffee chats and happy hours, and consider approaches like walk & talks, virtual coworking, music quizzes, open office hours, and buddy systems.\nA \"work buddy\" acts as a mentor to new employees and has regular one-to-one meetings during their first weeks or months at the company to ensure that their integration goes smoothly. This creates opportunities for information-sharing and learning, even during remote work, which has typically been a struggle for younger employees who are looking to older employees for information.\nHave walking meetings or catch-ups with your team and encourage your team members to book these with each other. Walk & talks help you achieve two important goals: exercise and social connection. Plus, they help combat the Zoom fatigue we've all experienced.\nTo help foster more spontaneous conversations in a way that doesn't disturb people's work, leaders and employees can add open (virtual) office hours to their calendars or status bars. During designated time slots, anyone can then jump on a call with that person to bounce ideas off each other, talk through a challenge they're facing, or just have a friendly check-in.\nVirtual coworking is a way for individuals to work synchronously, but on their own projects. People can join a group video call to each work on their own projects. By keeping cameras and microphones on, people get the sense that they're sharing the space with others, and it can help some people to boost accountability and productivity.\nMore on remote and hybrid work\nRemote work exhaustion: 13 tips to reduce fatigue\nWhat is a hybrid work model?\nHybrid work model: 5 advantages\nWorkbook: Transformation takes practice\nEbook: The automated enterprise\nHaving the right tools goes a long way to ensuring that collaboration is smooth and employees are happy. Most dissatisfaction in our day-to-day lives comes from using a tool when a) we don't understand the purpose behind its use, and b) the tool doesn't contribute positively to helping our workflows and productivity.\nAlso, it is important that the tools fit seamlessly within the context of synchronous and asynchronous work. Tools and admin for the sake of it are inherently detrimental, so putting the right tools in the hands of people goes a long way, and hearing their feedback is important. If, after a significant test period, tools are not helping, kill them off. Don't use them because that's how it's always been done.\nConsidering that people have different energy levels when it comes to social interaction, balance is key here. As a leader, you don't want employees to feel completely drained or utterly isolated. By taking these tips into consideration, you can help your workforce transition to the hybrid model in such a way that it'll feel so natural, you'll be calling it just work in the near future.\n[ Get exercises and approaches that make disparate teams stronger. Read the digital transformation ebook: Transformation Takes Practice. ]\nIlkka M\u00e4kitalo, CEO and co-founder of Howspace, is also the father of the Howspace digital platform. Ilkka's passion is in participative leadership, digitally facilitated organizational development programs, and the future of work.\nDigital transformation: 5 real-world examples\nCIO role: 5 strategies for success in 2023","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Kris S. (USA)\nRoberto (USA) x Sharp Queen (USA), by Princequillo (IRE)\nFamily 10-a\nKris S. was clearly bred for classic stamina but never had the chance to display his full ability as he was felled by injury after only five starts. His stallion career suggests that he was cut out to be a good one as he became a successful sire who reliably transmitted staying power.\n5 starts, 3 wins, 1 second, 0 thirds, US$53,530\nWon Bradbury Stakes (USA, 8.5FD, Santa Anita)\nRated at 116 pounds on the Daily Racing Form's Free Handicap for American 3-year-old males of 1980, 10 pounds below champion Temperence Hill.\nA dark bay or brown horse, Kris S. stood 17 hands. He was a massive, coarse, big-boned horse with an excellent shoulder. He could be faulted for having his hocks out behind him.\nKris S. led the American general sire list in 2003 according to Thoroughbred Times' rankings; he was fourth behind A.P. Indy according to The Blood-Horse. According to statistics kept by The Jockey Club, he sired 572 winners (66.2%) and 88 stakes winners (10.2%) from 863 named foals; The Blood-Horse credits him with 93 stakes winners (10.8%). His progeny typically had good bone and stayed well.\nNotable progeny\nAction This Day (USA), Arch (USA), Brocco (USA), Cheval Volant (USA), Evening Kris (USA), Dr. Fong (USA), Hollywood Wildcat (USA), Kicken Kris (USA), Kissin Kris (USA), Kris Kin (USA), Kudos (USA), Lucky Story (USA), My Renee (USA), Prized (USA), Rock Hard Ten (USA), Soaring Softly (USA), Stocks Up (USA), Symboli Kris S. (USA), Vertigineux (USA), You and I (USA)\nFoaled in Florida, Kris S. was bred by John Brunetti's Red Oak Farm. He was owned by the Estate of Schunemann & Scully & Yan. He was trained by G. James Sacco. Kris S entered stud in Florida in 1981 at Meadowbrook Farm and was moved to Prestonwood Farm (now WinStar Farm) in Kentucky following the 1993 breeding season. He was pensioned in February 2002 and was humanely destroyed May 7, 2002. due to complications from chronic neurological issues in his neck.\nKris S. is inbred 5x4 to Bull Dog. He is a full brother to Ann's Roberto, dam of stakes winner Abduct (by World Appeal). His dam Sharp Queen is a half sister to Landing Bridge (by First Landing), dam of stakes winners Susans Turn (by On to Glory) and Cowgirl Gone Wrong (by Upper Case) and to Tutasi (by Native Dancer), dam of Group I-placed multiple English stakes winner Mansingh (by Jaipur)\nBridgework (by Occupy), the dam of Sharp Queen, won the 1957 Sorority Stakes. Produced from the Gold Bridge mare Feale Bridge, she is a half sister to Ouragan Connie (by Djeddah), dam of stakes winner Ill Wind (by Blue Prince) and second dam of Grade II winner Windtex.\nKris S. entered stud at an initial stud fee of US$3,500. At his peak, the stallion commanded US$150,000 for his services.\nKris S. was buried on the WinStar Farm grounds in a handcrafted casket painted with the farm's logo.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Guards blinded by chili in Indonesian jailbreak\nPrisoners in an Indonesian jail escaped after blinding guards with a liquid laced with fiery chili peppers, an official said Tuesday.\nAug. 22, 2006, 6:50 AM UTC \/ Source: Reuters\nPrisoners in an Indonesian jail escaped after blinding guards with a liquid laced with fiery chili peppers, a police official said on Tuesday.\nEighteen prisoners escaped from the Pematang Siantar Penitentiary in North Sumatra province on Sunday, with 15 later recaptured and three still on the run, said Aspan Nainggolan, a police spokesman.\nAfter being let out of their cells for breakfast, a group of prisoners attacked four guards using chili liquid held in a plastic water bottles and grabbed their keys.\nA prison official said that the jail, housing more than 800 prisoners and located about 30 miles from the provincial capital Medan, had never had a break-out like it.\nAs in many other Asian countries, Indonesians season most meals with chili or use hot chili sauce.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"joe moody, visitors' contributions\nA Cosmic Shift, the Divine Mother, and a Novel Idea\nJuly 4, 2019 Joe Moody\tLeave a comment\nMost remember back in 2012 before the Mayan calendar ended, some predicted an apocalypse (humans' first response is usually to be afraid of anything they don't understand). I didn't pay it much mind, already living through other apocalyptic scares, Y2K among them.\nBut what I didn't know would surprise me later. Many said 2012 wasn't actually the end of the world, but the beginning of a \"feminine shift\" in world consciousness, ushering in a new age of unity, open communication and compassion toward Mother Earth.\nIn the summer of 2012, clueless about any feminine shift, I awoke in the middle of the night with an idea for a short story: \"What if women ruled the world?\"\nAs I got to writing, I realized it was more than a short story, and it grew into a full-sized novel. Finally, in 2017, my wife told me about this feminine shift in consciousness that was supposed to begin in 2012, right when I started the book.\nIt made me start to wonder, \"Did I write the book, or did the book write me?\"\nQuandaries aside, the idea behind this predicted cosmic change in consciousness is that Earth has reached a tipping point due to mankind's aggression and greed, but will be saved by restoring the values of the once banished Divine Mother, realizing it's our only choice for survival.\nThe story I wrote eventually became The Last Leader, featuring a female president who represents the rise in female power, fierce at first to match the aggressive levels of masculine energies. The story wrestles with such themes against a futuristic backdrop, delving into the effect of this shift on men, and glimpsing the possibility of ultimate balance.\nAs we look out at a world polluted by the excesses of humanity, we see a desperate need to restore the values of the Divine Mother, by showing compassion toward our planet and each other, standing down injustice and using intuition to solve what may seem unsolvable.\nSince 2012, there are signs of the shift both real and imagined: On a large scale, 2018 became the \"Year of the Woman\" with a record number of 117 women sent to Congress, many focused on healing Mother Earth. On a small scale, in 2019, I published my first novel that asked the question, \"What if women ruled the world?\"\nLink for more info about the book is here: www.joemoody.com\nthe last leader\nExcerpt from The Last Leader (Chapter 13) by Joe Moody\nThe Milky Way marched toward the moon like a procession of candle bearers. Atop the Pink House, the face of the moon reflected upon the glassy surface of a koi pond. A sobbing, swooning tune radiated from a golden harp.\nEmperia strummed the harp with eyes closed, creating melodies of pining and regret. She wore a silk gown inspired by the American flag, with silvery stars and red stripes draped down her leg. White flowers adorned her hair like a crown.\nDeliberately, her fingers swept the strings as the despondent dirge took form. She swooped up the scale as the pace quickened, plucking with rapid-fire precision, stomping the harp's pedals like weapons of war. At the climax, the pond's surface rippled in cascading circles, and the koi jumped and danced. Finally, with a gentle sweep of the strings, she drifted down to the resolution where chords lingered like clouds. The pond became still again as she returned to the melancholic opening, notes evoking deep violet and blood red hues that gave the moon its howling face.\nWhen she stopped playing, she gazed skyward, her powderwhite skin glowed under the stars. Her red lips quivered as she whispered. \"My father, why did you leave me?\"\nOnly silence answered, until the gentlemanly voice of Vincent lifted the mood. \"Pardon me, Madam President.\" He stood in the arched gateway of the rooftop garden in his metallic tuxedo. \"I bring good news.\"\nThe presence of her robotic confidant pierced through her inner fog like a sunbeam. \"Yes, Vincent?\"\n\"We made progress in our search for the rebels. Underwater drones tracked an unidentified submarine that made a brief stop at an island in the Caribbean Sea. There is a high probability we located our runaway vice president, and perhaps a rebel base too.\"\nEmperia's gaze sharpened. All sadness left her body. Confidence bloomed in her expression. She stood up from the harp, straight as a pillar, clasping her hands. \"Prepare three warships. Let's show the world what happens to traitors.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Province thumbs nose at courts\nExpositor Readers\nMore from Expositor Readers\nPublished on: September 11, 2018 | Last Updated: September 11, 2018 6:34 PM EDT\nRe: Ford fights back against ruling (Sept. 11)\nWhat an example our provincial government is prepared to set. It's acceptable to ignore the law, and thumb your nose at the courts.\nBrian Moore\nRespect most vulnerable\nRe: Editorial cartoon offensive (Letter, Sept. 11)\nThe writer is offended that the appointment of a U.S, Supreme Court Justice will have lifelong repercussions and that people will die if Roe v. Wade is repealed That is unfortunate but what about the millions of babies lost already. Apparently that doesn't matter. The letter calls for putting sanity back into politics and restoring order. We all want that but it can only start when we, as a society, respect the most vulnerable among us.\nJerry Bekendam\nBrant SPCA deserves better\nRe: 'We are in desperate need' (Sept. 10)\nBrantford SPCA has been providing an essential service for over 50 years under extreme conditions in its current location. The city donated land at 10 Kraemer's Way as well as $600,000 from the casino legacy fund in 2014 for a new home for the SPCA. Then city council decided to withdraw the donated land and revenue and required the SPCA to purchase a smaller portion of the land for $225,000. The city told the SPCA they it will build its own municipal pound. This will mean a substantial increase in taxes with no clear understanding as to why this decision was made. I have reached out to my councillors and the mayor with no reply. This means a new municipal building to maintain and new employees. My decision will be made at the ballot box and I encourage people to investigate this decision on their own. The SPCA needs to be treated a lot better than this by the city and its elected officials.\nL. Walker\nSeniors should be priority\nRe: Ottawa asked to take over basic income pilot (Sept. 11)\nBrantford Mayor Chris Friel and others want Ottawa to take over the basic income pilot being cancelled by the province. They use the excuse that this program was never given a chance. Why is it that Canadian politicians always feel that programs that have failed in other countries will work here? Such a program, after many years, was just cancelled in a Scandinavian country. I suggest these mayors rethink their position. Many seniors are living under the poverty line and the federal government has still done nothing about its promise to raise the old age pension. That should be the priority.\nSteve Whines\nBrantford Expositor 2018 \u00a9\nDoc screening launches lecture series\t Jr. A 99ers look for two straight","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'Triage': Kathleen Robertson Joins ABC Medical Drama Pilot\nEXCLUSIVE: Kathleen Robertson (Murder in the First) is set as a lead opposite Parisa Fitz-Henley and Michael Ealy in Triage, ABC's second cycle medical drama pilot from David Cornue, Erica Messer, Jon M. Chu and 20th Television.\nCreated by Cornue, Triage is a character-driven medical drama that follows pioneering surgeon Finley Briar (Fitz-Henley) over three distinct decades at the same hospital. With the evolution of medicine as the backdrop, the show explores the interconnected careers, friendships and romances of Finley and her colleagues, and their tenuous relationship with time.\nRobertson will play Virginia Sawyer, the Chief of Surgery at New York Trinity. She is fiery, strong-willed, and laser-focused on fast-tracking her daughter's career, so she has her daughter study under Dr. Finley Briar (Fitz-Henley).\nCornue executive produces alongside Messer who serves as showrunner. Chu will executive produce and direct. Steven Marrs and Courtney Hazlett of OutEast Entertainment also executive produce alongside Caitlin Foito.\nRobertson just wrapped production on Lionsgate's contemporary series update of George Huang's 1994 film, Swimming with Sharks. Robertson wrote, produced and appears in the series, which stars Diane Kruger and Kiernan Shipka. Under her first-look development deal with UCP, Robertson is working on feature film adaptations of Chris Cleave's novel Little Bee, Kaui Hart Hemmings' The Possibilities and Dark Horse's Lady Killer comics.\nTriage marks Robertson's first return to series television since her starring role in Netflix's family drama, Northern Rescue. She's repped by Untitled Entertainment, CAA, attorney Jamie Feldman, as well as NCA Talent and Play Management in her native Canada.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Penilee in Wartime\nFinnieston Crane\nMedical Ward\nRoyal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Glasgow Royal Infirmary\nA medical ward in the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, late 19th century. The medical wards were located in the Royal's old Adam building until its demolition in 1912.\nWhen Joseph Lister arrived at the Royal in 1861 there were only forty-four nurses, mostly elderly and poorly trained, whose duties included scrubbing the floors and washing clothes as well as providing elementary patient care. Pay, training and conditions improved during the 1870s, and in 1879 each nurse was provided with a uniform. A systematic course of training for nurses was designed by the famous surgeon, Sir William Macewen (in collaboration with the matron, Rebecca Strong) and inaugurated in 1893.\nReference: RCPSG 28\/25\nAdam Building, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, hospital wards, infirmaries, nurses, nursing, patients, uniforms, voluntary hospitals","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Habtoor Polo Makes it to the Semifinals of the Julius Baer Gold Cup 2019\n(Sports Contributor: Rupert Lewis | Photo: George Arbid | More Julius Baer Gold Cup 2019 Photos)\nThe last day of the qualification matches of the Dubai Open 2019 concluded with an exciting match between Habtoor Polo and Ghantoot Polo teams and with a final score of 11 goals to 7.\nThe afternoon opened with a match between Zedan Polo and Dubai Wolves Polo teams. Zedan had the lead on its opponent from the start of the game, and it was one-sided until the end of the fifth chukker at 10 goals to 3.\nZedan - 3 - 0 | 5 - 0 | 6 - 1 | 9 - 1 | 10 - 3\nTop scorers of the match: Santiago Laborde & Raul Laplacette, 4 goals each\nHabtoor Polo took control of the second game with a flurry of goals from Facundo Sola during the second chukker. This gave the team a 4 goal advantage by halftime with Ghantoot barely catching up through the end of the fourth chukker with 10 goals to 4. Ghantoot was not able to recover from the significant lead Habtoor had over them in spite of the successive goals from Ali Al Mheiri and Juan Gris Zavaleta and the match ended at 11 goals to 7 with Habtoor Polo securing their slot at the semifinals.\nHabtoor Polo team: 1 - 2 | 5 - 2 | 7 - 3 | 10 - 4 | 11- 7\nTop scorer of the match: Facundo Sola, 9 goals\nThe Julius Baer Gold Cup, an 18-goal handicap tournament continues with its Quarter Finals on 01st March 2019 at the Al Habtoor Polo Resort and Club. Abu Dhabi Polo will face Zedan Polo at 14:00 at at 16:00, Ghantoot Polo will compete against Desert Palm.\nAbout the Dubai Polo Gold Cup Series\nThe Dubai Polo Gold Cup Series held in the UAE is one of only five tournaments in the world played in the WPT Championship Cup category, on a par with world-class events held in Argentina, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States. It was founded by its Chairman Mohammed Al Habtoor in 2009. The Silver Cup and the Dubai Challenge Cup falls under the World Polo Tour (WPT) Challenge Cup Category awarding the winners of the Silver Cup with 50 points, the finalists with 25, semi-finalists with 10 and the rest of the players with 5 points; and Dubai Challenge Cup winners with 20 points. The Gold Cup is under the WPT Championship Cup \u2013 the highest competition in terms of points, awarding its winners with 80 points.\nThe Al Habtoor Polo Resort & Club a state-of-the-art polo and equestrian community devoted to equine sports is the home ground of the Dubai Polo Gold Cup Series. Check out the Polo Calendar 2018-2019 for upcoming international-standard polo tournaments or contact +97144362222 | info@dubaipologoldcup.com | contacts@alhabtoorpoloclub.com for more information on other events scheduled at the Club.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War\nAbout Fred Kiger\n12 - The Gibraltar Of The Confederacy - Fort Fisher\nAbout this episode:\nBy late December of 1864, dark waters were closing over the Confederacy. Back in August, David Farragut's fleet successfully bottled up Mobile Bay. Two months later, up in the Shenandoah, federal victory at Cedar Creek opened the valley to fire and desolation. In November, William Sherman marched his army across Georgia, and as he entered Savannah in December, he envisioned a similar path of destruction north through the Carolinas. That same month, over in Tennessee, George Thomas won a decisive victory at Nashville, and in Virginia, U.S. Grant continued to pin down Lee's army at Petersburg. Though the noose was being tightened round the neck of the Confederacy, there was still one major supply line and portal from which the shrinking Confederacy could count on supplies from the outside world. That railroad line was so vitally important Robert E. Lee tabbed it \"the lifeline of the Confederacy.\" It ran from Petersburg south to Weldon, North Carolina and then down to the port city of Wilmington. This is the story of the massive fort that protected that city; that lifeline. Fort Fisher: The Gibraltar Of The Confederacy.\nHistory is, indeed, a story. With his unique voice and engaging delivery, historian and veteran storyteller Fred Kiger will help the compelling stories of the American Civil War come alive in each and every episode. Filled with momentous issues and repercussions that still resonate with us today, this series will feature events and people from that period and will strive to make you feel as if you were there.\nHave a question or comment for Fred Kiger? Email us at fredkigerthreadspodcast@thirdwheelmedia.com\nCopyright Fred Kiger","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Company |\nLOBO Difference |\nEvent Service |\nInstallation |\n> Event Service\nMega Events |\nOutdoor Show |\nLaser Shows |\nMultimedia |\nLaser Beams |\nMega Events\nMuscat Festival 2011, Oman\nAs the highlight of the festivities celebrating 40 years of reign of Sultan Qaboos, LOBO staged a 28-days multimedia spectacle for the 2 million vistors of the Muscat Festival on the huge artificial lake of Qurum Park. LOBO installed 7 ultra-bright laser systems, 24 fog generators with wind machines, a generous set of special outdoor laser mirrors and 4 video systems. In addition 3 Water Screens, one of the largest mobile fountain systems consisting of 66 individually controllable water jets with a height of up to 35 meters, as well as 20 fire effects, while approx. 90 high-powered searchlight-type light fixtures, fireworks and 40 line array sound systems all around the lake transformed the lake into an ever changing dream world.\n>> Pictures >> Link\nNew Year Show 2009, Bucharest\nIt was the most spectacular use of the new \"sparks\" laser technology, so far: The 30 minutes New Year Show, directed by Jerry Appelt, in front of the second-largest building of the world. Approx. 100 meters above the stage, a sparks system projected the countdown into the new year onto the facade of the 275 wide Palace of Parliament and created mirror effects during the subsequent show, while 5 additional projectors have been installed to create athmospheric beam effects in front of the spectators. Thanks to the extraordinary beam quality and a power of 17 Watts per sparks system, the laser effects could be regonized very well in spite of the extremely bright background created by fireworks and 60 Space Cannons.\nAsian Games, Doha\nA slim aluminum pillar with a little boy on its top rises from a a cloud of fog right in the center of Khalifa Stadium. Suddenly he rises his hands and is surrounded by thousands of laser beams. The platform he is standing on directs multi-color laser beams to all direction, finally covering the field of play with a surface of light. This dream sequence has been made possible thanks to a laser system with a total whitelight power of 94 Watts feeding a total of 5 projectors on top of the pillar by means of glass fibers.\nHungarian National Holiday, Budapest\nA laser show of the superlative over the city of Budapest with more than 1.2 mio. spectators on-site. 9 laser systems, spread all over the city and its surrounding elevations, are synchronized to a magnificent fireworks display on Gellert Hill with the sound, being broadcast live on two radio stations.\nOlympic Games, Barcelona\nAn animated laser displays with a \"Hommage to Miro\" fascinate the visitors of the Olympic Summer Games 1992 in Barcelona.\n75 Years Turkey, Ankara\nHighlight of the festivities for the 75th anniversary of Turkey in front of the houses of parliament in Ankara, using a large-scale mobile laser system of the Laser Truck\u00ae series, additional independent multi-color laser systems, fireworks and a Jet Water Screen\u00ae.\nMillennium Celebration, Berlin\nLOBO creates the official start of Germany into the year 2000 at the Brandenburg Gate Berlin, the central landmark of the re-unified country in. The show was covered live by 56 TV stations and seen by approx. 2 billion TV spectators and 2 mio. spectators around the festival mile of the Gate. The show in Berlin is synchronized with laser shows in Trier, Koblenz and Austria.\nMedina Festival, Saudi Arabia\nIt took an internationally very experienced partner for the Saudi Royal family to stage the very first entertainment show of the traditional country in the Medina Stadium. Large-scale laser systems, also creating projections on a giant Jet Water Screen\u00ae as well as tons of fireworks, hundreds of performance make this vision happen which covered live on TV.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\"The Leonardo da Vinci of Data\"\nTUFTE, Edward.\nA complete set of the first editions of the five books of Edward Tufte, including The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1983); Envisioning Information (1990); Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative (1997); Beautiful Evidence (2006); and Seeing with Fresh Eyes. Meaning, Space, Data, Truth (2020).\nFive vols. All large 4to, orig. bindings, all with pictorial dust-jackets, all as issued. Each in the original publisher's cardboard mailing box. In very fine and fresh condition. All Cheshire, Connecticut: Graphics Press.\nFirst editions, each signed by Edward Tufte on the half-titles. Copies of the original first editions of Edward Tufte's highly influential works have grown increasingly scarce. A set of just the first four volumes, first printings and all signed by Tufte, sold for $8125 in the auction of his library in 2010 (Christie's New York, 2 December 2010, lot 155).\n1. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1983):\n\"A classic reference. The overall intention and power of the book is stunning.\"\u2013Optical Engineering.\n\"A visual Strunk and White.\"\u2013Boston Globe.\n\"Original, beautifully presented, sharp and learned, a work of art. The art here is cognitive art, the graphic display of relations and empirical data, now an indispensable tool of science and engineering.\"\u2013Scientific American.\n\"One of the best books you'll ever see.\"\u2013Datamation.\n\"A beautiful, brilliant book.\"\u2013American Mathematical Monthly.\n2. Envisioning Information (1990):\n\"A remarkable range of examples for the idea of visual thinking with beautifully printed pages. A real treat for all who reason and learn by means of images.\"\u2013Rudolf Arnheim.\n\"An incredibly beautiful, true, refined, and luscious book.\"\u2013Denise Scott Brown & Robert Venturi.\n\"Buy this book. Keep it with the few others you have that you'll pass on to the next generation. It is a passionate, elegant revelation of how to render the three dimensions of experience into the two dimensions of paper or screen. As in his previous classic, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Tufte is promoting a new standard of visual literacy. This latest book (immaculately printed in 23 colors) is a lyrical primer of design strategies for reading and creating messages in 'flatland.' No other book has been so highly recommended to us by so many varieties of professional architects, teachers, technicians, hackers, and artists.\"\u2013Kevin Kelly, Whole Earth Review.\nEnvisioning Information received 14 awards for content and design, including the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science and Best Graphic Design of the Year from ID International Design.\n3. Visual Explanations (1997):\n\"If this book were a house, it would have been designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.\" \u2013ONLINE.\n\"The Leonardo da Vinci of data.\"\u2013The New York Times.\n\"A truly monumental exploration of information design; not only written but also designed and published by Tufte himself\u2026with intelligence, erudition, and grace.\"\u2013Print.\n4. Beautiful Evidence (2006):\n\"The world's leading analyst of graphic information.\"\u2013Martin Kemp, Nature, 2006.\n\"The Galileo of graphics has done it again. Its not often an iconoclast comes along, trashes the old ways, and replaces them with an irresistible new interpretation. By teasing out the sublime from the seemingly mundane world of charts, graphs, and tables, Tufte has proven to a generation of graphic designers that great thinking begets great presentation. In Beautiful Evidence, his fourth work on analytical design, Tufte digs more deeply into art and science to reveal very old connections between truth and beauty all the way from Galileo to Google.\"\u2013Business Week.\n5. Seeing with Fresh Eyes. Meaning, Space, Data, Truth (2020):\n\"Edward Tufte is the revelatory retina of our time, ever connecting eye and brain in enlightening new ways. He creates masterpieces about design that are themselves masterpieces of design. Seeing with Fresh Eyes. Meaning, Space, Data, Truth takes all that he knows into a yet deeper level of wisdom and wider realm of inquiry. A completely delicious work.\"\u2013Stewart Brand, creator of the Whole Earth Catalog.\nSee all items in Arithmetic, Color Theory, Geometry, Graphic Arts, History, Instruments, Perspective, Statistics, Technology, Textbooks, Trigonometry\nSee all items by Edward TUFTE\nDISRAELI, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield.\nThe complete autograph working manuscript...\nMoreThe complete autograph working manuscript of Disraeli's novel Alroy, 397 leaves, paper of...\nSHIBATA, Zeshin & UTAGAWA, Yoshiiku...\nKumanaki kage [trans.: Shadows Everywhere...\nMoreKumanaki kage [trans.: Shadows Everywhere or Shadows without Shade\nFOURMONT, \u00c9tienne.\nCatalogue des Ouvrages de Monsieur...\nMoreCatalogue des Ouvrages de Monsieur Fourmont l'ain\u00e9, Professeur en Langue Arabe au...\n(AUCTION CATALOGUE: BULTEAU).\nBibliotheca Bultelliana: seu Catalogus Librorum...\nMoreBibliotheca Bultelliana: seu Catalogus Librorum Bibliothecae...Caroli Bulteau, Regi a consiliis...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Trump supporters stand on top of a police vehicle, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington. As Congress prepares to affirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory, thousands of people have gathered to show their support for President Donald Trump and his claims of election fraud.\nJulio Cortez \/ AP Photo\nHouse votes to impeach Trump for 'incitement of insurrection' \u2014 Pa. delegation split\nKatie Meyer\/WHYY\nKatie Meyer is WHYY's political reporter. Prior to coming to Philadelphia, Katie was WITF's Capitol bureau chief, and covered all things state politics for public radio stations throughout Pennsylvania.\nKatie came to Harrisburg by way of New York City, where she worked at Fordham University's public radio station, WFUV, as an anchor, general assignment reporter, and co-host of an original podcast. A 2016 graduate of Fordham, she won several awards for her work at WFUV, including four 2016 Gracies.\nKatie is a native New Yorker, though she originally hails from Troy, a little farther up the Hudson River. She can attest that the bagels are still pretty good there.\nJanuary 13, 2021 | 1:53 PM\nUpdated: January 13, 2021 | 5:51 pm\n(Philadelphia) \u2014 The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Donald Trump for the second time.\nThere were few surprises from Pennsylvania's evenly split congressional delegation. All nine Democrats voted to impeach the president on a charge of \"incitement of insurrection,\" and all nine Republicans voted against Trump's removal. The partisan split held in New Jersey and Delaware as well.\nThe final tally was 232-197, with all Democrats and 10 Republicans supporting impeachment.\nTwo extremely different interpretations emerged Wednesday of the violent pro-Trump mob that attacked the Capitol last week, and of the president's words to members of that mob before they stormed the building.\nSome Republicans argued that Trump didn't directly incite violence that ended with five people dead, and that impeaching him now would be needlessly divisive. Democrats argued that Trump's refusal to accept the results of the election, baseless allegations of fraud, and calls for supporters to \"be strong\" and \"take back our country\" clearly prompted the mob to riot.\nA few representatives, like Scott Perry (R, PA-10) went a step further than many members of his caucus \u2014 baselessly insinuating that Democratic leaders purposefully ignored signs that a violent insurrection was coming.\n\"What did the Speaker know, and what did other legislative leaders know and when did they know it?\" he asked. \"Maybe [there's] a rush to impeach the president so we'll never know what legislative leaders knew.\"\nPerry is one of Trump's most ardent supporters in the Pennsylvania delegation, and is the member who formally contested the commonwealth's election results, after winning his own competitive race in November.\nEvan Vucci \/ AP Photo\nFILE PHOTO: President Donald Trump, second from right, speaks with from left, Rep. Fred Keller, Rep. Dan Meuser, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, Rep. Scott Perry after arriving at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Allentown, Pa., Thursday, May 14, 2020.\nGuy Reschenthaler (R, PA-14), opted for the more standard GOP party line argument against impeachment.\n\"President Trump has committed to a peaceful and uninterrupted transfer of power, but that's not good enough for my colleagues,\" he said.\nDemocrats quickly rebutted that the past week had been decidedly not peaceful, and said they believe Trump directly incited the violence that drove them all out of session and into hiding deep in the Capitol.\nCongresswoman Madeleine Dean, who House Speaker Nancy Pelosi named as one of the chamber's impeachment managers, summed up most Democrats' positions in a post on Twitter, saying last week's tragedy \"must have consequences.\"\nI am honored to serve as an impeachment manager among my esteemed colleagues \u2014 it is for the sake of our country, not hate of one man or anyone, but for the love of our country and constitution. https:\/\/t.co\/V9hAEZObRI\n\u2014 Congresswoman Madeleine Dean (@RepDean) January 13, 2021\nShe continued that argument on the floor Wednesday, telling fellow members she believes impeachment is the only appropriate response to Trump's \"dangerous lies.\"\n\"Removing Donald Trump is the beginning of restoring decency and democracy,\" she said. \"What happened last week will not be forgotten, and what we do this week will long be remembered.\"\nReschenthaler and Perry were two of eight Pennsylvania congressmen who, in the hours after the mob seized the Capitol, voted against certifying the commonwealth's election results. None of those eight have expressed any regrets for their vote, and are all expected to oppose impeachment.\nThe ninth Republican in the commonwealth's House delegation, southeastern moderate Brian Fitzpatrick, did not vote against Pennsylvania's results.\nOn Tuesday, he signed on to a bipartisan resolution to censure Trump for \"for attempting to unlawfully overturn the 2020 Presidential election and for violating his oath of office on January 6th, 2021,\" but he argued that impeachment isn't realistic.\n\"President Trump's attempts to undermine the outcome of the 2020 election have been unconscionable \u2026 His actions threatened the integrity of our democracy, Congress, and his own Vice President,\" Fitzpatrick wrote. \"President Trump's actions, behavior, and language are unacceptable and unbecoming of the office he holds for the next eight days.\"\nThe authors of the resolution said they think impeachment will result in a second acquittal for Trump, which would \"further divide and inflame tensions in our nation.\"\nUltimately, Fitzpatrick voted against impeachment.\nThe nine Democrats in Pennsylvania's House delegation voted for impeachment. U.S. Sen. Bob Casey supports the idea as well.\nSome got on board more quickly than others. Congresswoman Susan Wild, a moderate Democrat in a swing district, said late last week that she wanted to remove Trump, but wasn't sure if impeachment was reasonable given the time constraints. She has since decided to back impeachment.\nThe one true toss-up remaining in Pennsylvania's congressional delegation is Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, who is not running for reelection.\nSarah Silbiger \/ The Washington Post via AP\nSen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday Dec. 10, 2020.\nThe Senate is not expected to launch its hearings on whether to convict Trump of inciting insurrection until after the president leaves office, and President-Elect Joe Biden is inaugurated. Two-thirds of the Senate must vote for removal, and at that point, it would essentially just ensure Trump can't receive his post-presidential pension.\nThe Senate could also vote separately, by a simple majority, to bar Trump from holding the presidency again.\nToomey, who has always been considered a very conservative Republican, has not officially said he'll vote to convict Trump \u2014 as, for instance, fellow conservative Congresswoman Liz Cheney did this week.\nHowever, Toomey did say he believes Trump committed \"impeachable offenses,\" and has already called on the president to resign.\nHe also spoke out in strong opposition of overturning Pennsylvania's election results, arguing that the election was sound, and that Trump \u2014 who he supported in the election \u2014 is acting like a \"demagogue\" and has spread lies about the process.\narticles of impeachmentDonald Trumpinsurrection\nGOP proposal to elect judges by zone advances by single vote","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"For the first time in Sri Lanka, eZ Cash Launches 'Top-up' via Bank accounts\nSri Lanka's first and largest Mobile Money and Payment Service, eZ Cash, announced the launch of a new feature that enables customers to top-up their eZ Cash wallets via bank accounts on its cutting edge eZ Cash app. The Bank top up feature supplements the recently introduced QR Scan and pay option which enables smart and convenient money transfer amongst eZ Cash customers or payments across the expansive eZ Cash Merchant network.\nThis feature will be available via the eZ Cash app on any smartphone, and enable eZ Cash customers to use their current and savings bank accounts to top-up the eZ Cash wallet at no transaction fee. The new feature enables enhanced convenience, providing customers access to top-up anytime, anywhere. Customers are required to select the 'Top-up from Bank Account' icon on their eZ Cash app interface, verify bank details and register, enter the amount and simply Top-up their digital eZ Cash wallet. Currently all banks integrated with JustPay platform of Lanka Clear will be accessible for eZ cash top-up. The feature is facilitated by LankaClear, a company co-owned by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) and all Licensed Commercial Banks operating in Sri Lanka.\nMr. Channa de Silva, General Manager\/CEO \u2013 LankaClear stated, \"In an era where digital payment modes are gaining popularity worldwide, LankaClear has laid the foundation by establishing LankaPay National Payment Network to support platforms such as eZ Cash to move Sri Lanka towards a less cash society. Dialog has enabled the JustPay payment mode of LankaClear for all eZ Cash subscribers, thus, providing further convenience and ease of access for top-up, anytime, anywhere for all its customers. Further, added security for all electronic transactions is ensured via the digital certificates issued by LankaSign Certification Service Provider (CSP) managed by LankaClear.\"\nTransactions via eZ Cash will conform to the highest level of Mobile Payment security standards. All transactions will be PIN protected and secured by Triple Data Encryption Algorithm widely known as 3DES authentication and transaction security protocols. Top-ups will be further validated via a confirmation SMS being transmitted instantly to customer.\nCommenting on the new Top-up feature, Fariq Cader, Vice President - Digital Services, Dialog Axiata PLC said, \"eZ Cash has been at the forefront of all mobile payments in Sri Lanka and will continue to innovate Sri Lanka's payment eco system. The recently launched QR Code is gaining immense popularity amongst our subscriber base, whilst transforming the mobile payments landscape in Sri Lanka. Leveraging mobile technology, the Top-up feature greatly enhances convenience for subscribers and we look forward to JustPay onboarding more banks in future.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Exhibition I Wanna be Adored\nMOTS - WORDS\nLes Vestiges d'Alice\nTales of Misty Boys\nPortrait onirique\nOutlandish \/Room\/\nAlt For Norge\nThe Black Fawn\nTHE BLACK FAWN - EXHIBITIONS\nI WANNA BE ADORED, by Chris Von Steiner\nMAY 08 - MAY 18, 2015 --- 12 A.M. - 5 P.M.\nVERNISSAGE - MAY 08, 6 P.M.\nTHE BLACK FAWN - MARKVEIEN 20, OSLO\nBlind Choices\nNaked Mirage\nI WANNA BE ADORED\nFacebook, Instagram, dating websites\u2026 We're all picking and choosing bits of our real selves to represent online an optimised, socially desirable, often hypersexualised, self-edited version of who we are. Since our digital lives are now just as impactful as what happens outside of them, our heart can skip a beat in an IM chat and we can get it broken on Facebook, because in the end, just like in real life, it's all about attention, recognition and love.\nIn his new series of works entitled 'I Wanna Be Adored', Chris von Steiner shares his personnal view on these virtual intimacies, sometimes in a quite self-referential way, including some themes and symbols taken from his previous series of works.\nThe Black Fawn (Oslo) will be the very first space to host 'I Wanna Be Adored' in May 2015.\nCHRIS VON STEINER\nBorn in France in 1965, art director, graphic designer, writer and digital artist Chris von Steiner (aka Christophe Austruy) currently works and lives in Brussels. After several years of working for advertising in Paris, he has published two novels in France: 'Un panda dans l'escalier' (2001) and 'Je veux te voir nu' (2002) and one in USA : 'Switch' (2007) in a collection assembled by Dennis Cooper. Since 2000, his works have been exhibited throughout Europe (Paris, London, Berlin, Rome, Brussels, Oslo) and the United States (New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco). His work has been featured internationally various publications, including Toh!(IT) , Kee Magazine (HK), Du&Ich (DE), Attitude (GB) and Last Gasp Publishing (US). In fall 2015, more than 40 of his works spanning 15 years will be shown for the first time in Rio De Janeiro.\nwww.chrisvonsteiner.com\nBLIKK (NORWEGIAN)\nCopyright Marc Kiska \u00a9 All Rights Reserved","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sami Hymeti\nTaking his career to new heights\nGrowing up in Albania, Sami's passion in aviation was sparked from a young age. Despite the country's limited access to air transportation \u2014 one airport in the nation \u2014 he maintained a fascination with airplanes and air travel.\nSami's family subsequently settled in New York City, where Sami was given a unique opportunity to pursue this interest when he was admitted to Aviation Career & Technical Education High School in Long Island City, Queens. Aviation High School is the only public school in the country that offers the opportunity to obtain Airframe and Power Plant FAA certificates.\nSami now jokes that he initially thought it was a pilot trainee program, but explained that \"Aviation High School is more of a hands-on technical school.\" Through its FAA-certified program, students can obtain a mechanic's airframe or power plant certificate via extra shop classes each week. In order to gain both certificates, however, students must commit to an additional year of high school with extended hours of instruction per day.\nFor those who stay with the program, it proves to be rewarding and worthwhile. Sami describes having the chance to work in the school's hangar, on a functional 727 aircraft donated by FedEx and as an intern technician with Delta Airlines at JFK International Airport during his fifth year.\nSubsequently, he learned more about Pratt & Whitney's engines and had the chance to meet Pratt & Whitney recruiters. \"Delta was actually offering a comparable position,\" Sami remembers, \"but fortunately, I realized the wide range of benefits that being part of UTC had to offer.\" Attracted to the company for its world-class product base coupled with its outstanding employee scholar program, Sami ultimately made the move to Pratt & Whitney as an engine mechanic at the main Engine Center Facility in Middletown, Connecticut.\nIn the years that followed, Sami obtained a bachelor's degree in business, participated in multiple lean initiatives which helped the Engine Center obtain ACE Silver certification, transitioned from an engine mechanic into a salaried position in Quality Assurance supporting both military and commercial product lines, and obtained an MBA \u2014 gaining both degrees with the help of UTC's employee scholar program. He was also accepted into UTC's Operations Leadership Program, which allowed him to gain hands-on experience with a broader range of UTC's products and services, along with an opportunity to see different parts of the country and the corporation: UTC Aerospace Systems in Arizona, Sikorsky in Connecticut, and his final rotation at the UTC Climate, Controls & Security division in Tennessee \u2014 where, as a Business Unit Manager, he led a team of nearly 400 hourly employees and 10 supervisors.\nSami celebrated 10 years with the corporation in December 2015. \"I feel like I grew up at UTC,\" he explained. \"When I joined, I did not realize that Pratt & Whitney was part of something so much bigger. Now I could see myself retiring from UTC because of the countless opportunities for growth and development across the different business units.\"\nToday, Sami resides in San Diego, California with his fianc\u00e9 while working at UTC Aerospace Systems as an Operations Strategy Manager. What does the future hold for him? He might stay in operations or move into program management, with the ultimate goal of one day becoming the general manager of a plant. Until then, Sami remains an active member of the recruitment teams searching for the future talent of UTC.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Getting Started - Artists\nHow do I claim my artist's page on Bandsintown?\nTo Sign Up for Bandsintown for the first time:\n1. Go to https:\/\/artists.bandsintown.com\/ and Sign Up or Login.\n2. Click the \"Claim Artist\" button on the right. If you see your artist in that list, click the Claim Artist button. You can also enter the bandsintown.com page URL of your artist (e.g. https:\/\/www.bandsintown.com\/a\/0123456789).\n3. Then you will be asked to verify your connection with this artist. If you are an admin of your artist's Facebook page you can click Verify with Facebook and click the Facebook page that you manage that is connected to that artist. If you have access to the artist's Twitter account then you can also verify by clicking Verify with Twitter and logging into the artist's Twitter account. These are the easiest and fastest ways to verify.\n4. If you do not have access to the artist's Facebook or Twitter please click on the Contact Us button. Then select your relation to the artist and enter your professional email address, the name of your company, and the link to your artist's website or social media page that shows your name and email address and that you manage your artist. Then click Submit. After you click Submit an email will be sent to the Support team to review and determine if you qualify to manage that artist.\n5. You should receive an email back from them about your status within 2-3 business days of submitting the request, thanks for your patience. Until we approve or deny your verification, you will see the artist in your list with the words Pending Verification below.\n*Please note: if you receive an error message when adding your link it may be because you did not add your email address to your profile. In this case you just need to go back to the My Account page and add your email address so we can notify you about your verification status.\n*Please note - Once you reach at least 100 trackers on Bandsintown the verified badge will appear on your artist page.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Elizabeth Ann Hazeldine\nName Elizabeth Ann Hazeldine\nBirth 1867 Stockport, Cheshire, England [1, 2]\nElizabeth Ann Hazledine\nResidence 2 Apr 1871 Stockport, Cheshire, England [3]\n7 Carrington Field\nOccupation 5 Apr 1891 [1]\nResidence 31 Mar 1901 Stockport, Cheshire, England [5]\nSouthwood Road\n27 Moorland Road\nDeath 1952 Stockport, Cheshire, England [7]\nFather Samuel Hazeldine, b. Between 1829 and 1830, Bramhall, Cheshire, England d. 18 Jan 1904, Stockport, Cheshire, England (Age 75 years)\nMother Elizabeth Smith, b. Between 1832 and 1833, Bramhall, Cheshire, England d. 1904, Stockport, Cheshire, England (Age 72 years)\nMarriage 30 Jul 1854 Heaton Norris, Lancashire, England\nFamily Harold Bromley Turton, b. 1872, Bolton, Lancashire, England d. 21 Dec 1905, Stockport, Cheshire, England (Age 33 years)\nMarriage 1898 Stockport, Cheshire, England [8, 9]\n1. Edna Muriel Turton, b. 15 Apr 1899, Bramhall, Cheshire, England d. 1984, Warrington, Lancashire, England (Age 84 years)\n2. Marjorie Turton, b. 15 May 1900, Bramhall, Cheshire, England d. 1977, Stockport, Cheshire, England (Age 76 years)\n3. Leslie Elliott Turton, b. 25 Sep 1901, Stockport, Cheshire, England d. 1986, Stockport, Cheshire, England (Age 84 years)\nBirth - 1867 - Stockport, Cheshire, England\n7 Carrington Field - 2 Apr 1871 - Stockport, Cheshire, England\nMarriage - 1898 - Stockport, Cheshire, England\nSouthwood Road - 31 Mar 1901 - Stockport, Cheshire, England\n27 Moorland Road - 2 Apr 1911 - Stockport, Cheshire, England\nDeath - 1952 - Stockport, Cheshire, England\n[S17] 1891 Census (Ancestry) England, RG12-2799-89-50.\n[S116] UK BMD (FreeBMD), 1867 December Stockport 8a 52.\n[S16] 1881 Census (Ancestry) England, RG11-3478-154-29.\n[S8] 1911 Census (FindMyPast) England and Wales, (The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey), RG14PN21384 RG78PN1271 RD443 SD4 ED36 SN145.\n[S115] General Register Office (England and Wales), UK BMD (FindMyPast), 1952 December Stockport 10a 534.\n[S114] UK BMD (CheshireBMD), Stockport : ST19\/3\/190 (Stockport, St Thomas).\n[S116] UK BMD (FreeBMD), 1898 September Stockport 8a 132.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Found Footage Appears at Another Hole in the Head Film Festival in San Francisco\nYes, it's that time again! For the next two weeks, the New People Cinema will be teaming with horror, sci-fi, and indie film nerds, all excited to catch the programming of the 15th annual Another Hole in the Head Film Festival. As usual, it's an eclectic lineup with a lot of horror, but the screenings I'm especially excited for are more specific than that. And one of them is tonight...\nThe Phoenix Incident (2015)\nFriday 30th @ 7pm (1hr 22min)\nMystery\/ Sci-Fi\/ Thriller (IMDB)\nOn March 13, 1997 thousands of people claimed to have simultaneously witnessed unexplainable lights in the Phoenix, Arizona night sky. What were the lights? To this day it remains a mystery and footage of the incidents has been used in documentaries on the subject of UFOs. The Phoenix Incident is a fictionalized heart-pounding thriller based on this real-life event. Written and directed by gaming talent director Keith Arem (Call of Duty, Titanfall) and starring Troy Baker (famed gaming actor) this one-night event uses whistleblower testimony, recovered military footage and eyewitness accounts to create a sci-fi thriller that examines the US military's alleged engagement of alien spacecrafts. In addition to being able to experience this exciting film, event attendees will be exposed to an exclusive 5-minute documentary about UFO sightings and government cover ups and a special panel discussion previously captured at this year's UFO congress.\nWe are currently congregating the found footage faithfuls and will be dispatching to see this momentarily. Next weekend, it will be followed up by a film we had the pleasure of scaring our audience with earlier this year...\nThe Fear Footage (2018)\nSaturday 8th @ 9pm (1hr 11min)\nOn April 19th, 2016, Deputy Leo Cole vanished. The next morning, his body camera was found.\nYou can check out the full review HERE.\nAs I said in my review, this is a total creeper. The less you know about it the better, but one thing I can confirm is that it's a found footage horror anthology. I waited months to watch it and I'm pretty excited to see it again. And this time, the an unidentified Overlook creature will be introducing the film. So you guys better come out!\nBluray Tuesday Featuring: Searching, The Critters Collection & What Keeps You Alive\nThe last Bluray Tuesday of November is here. This week is filled with thrillers, foreign horror and a few titles released for the first time on Bluray. First up from Scream Factory is my favorite release of the day, The Critters Collection. This boxset includes all 4 films released from 1986 - 1992 with new scans and bonus material. Also from Scream Factory, indie thriller What Keeps You Alive and the Munchies \/ Munchie double feature are released today. Searching finally arrives on Bluray this week, I felt like I saw this a really long time ago. It's definitely thrilling and keeps you guessing to the very end. The Little Stranger is a slow burn mystery as well, it wasn't too bad of a film but I'd recommend a rent on this one. And pay attention to everything. Rounding out the week is mini series Picnic at Hanging Rock, Lucio Fulci's Zombie with 3 covers and HBO's Sharp Objects. So what will you buy, rent or skip this week? Let us know in the comments. Until next week!\nSearching: Amazon - $19.99\nAfter his 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a desperate father breaks into her laptop to look for clues to find her. A thriller that unfolds entirely on computer screens.\nWhat Keeps You Alive: Amazon - $14.99\nMajestic mountains, a still lake and venomous betrayals engulf a female married couple attempting to celebrate their one-year anniversary.\nThe Critters Collection: Amazon - $57.99\nThey're back and ready to devour your Blu-ray player The terrifying and tiny menaces are out in full force with this four-film collection packed with enough Special Features to make any fan's mouth water! In Critters, the terrified Brown family are trapped in a deadly nightmare and must fight for their lives against a litter of extraterrestrial, bloodthirsty monsters. But it's a losing battle until two intergalactic bounty hunters arrive, determined to blow the creatures off the planet! In Critters 2: The Main Course, some eggs have survived and are popping open, bringing another horde of the little creatures! Brad Brown (Scott Grimes) returns to fight them along with three bounty hunters. Critters 3 stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Josh, a beleaguered Angelino who must lead the fight against the little monsters as they invade an L.A. apartment building. In the final film, Critters 4, a super strain of genetically engineered monsters are designed to take over the universe. This time, Brad Dourif and Angela Bassett must battle the little bloodthirsty hairballs.\nPicnic at Hanging Rock: Amazon - $27.99\nThree schoolgirls and their governesses mysteriously disappear on Valentines Day in 1900.\nZombie (1979): Amazon - $33.99\nStrangers looking for a woman's father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately searches for the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.\nGosford Park: Amazon - $20.99\nThe lives of upstairs guest and downstairs servants at a party in 1932 in a country house in England as they investigate a murder involving one of them.\nAlmost Human: Amazon - $18.99\nA psychotic small-time criminal realizes that the everyday robberies, rapes and murders he commits aren't making him all that much money, so he figures to hit the \"big time\" by kidnapping the daughter of a rich man.\nSharp Objects (Season One): Amazon - $34.99\nA reporter confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to cover a violent murder.\nMunchies \/ Munchie: Amazon - $24.99\nSimon Watterman, a space archaeologist, discovers the \"Munchies\" in a cave in Peru. Cecil Watterman, Simon's evil twin brother and snack food entrepreneur, kidnaps the creature. What Cecil does not know is that the creature, when chopped up, regenerates into many new creatures -- and are they mean!\nThe Little Stranger: Amazon - $22.99\nTells the story of Dr Faraday, the son of a housemaid, who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. During the long hot summer of 1947, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. The Hall has been home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries. But it is now in decline and its inhabitants - mother, son and daughter - are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life. When he takes on his new patient, Faraday has no idea how closely, and how terrifyingly, the family's story is about to become entwined with his own.\nBasic Instinct 2: Amazon - $22.99\nShe captivated moviegoers with her raw sensuality and steel heart. Now Sharon Stone is back as the notorious crime novelist, Catherine Tramell. This time she proves to be respected criminal psychologist Dr. Michael Glass' (David Morrissey) deadliest challenge. With professional boundaries blurred by obsession, Dr. Glass is lured into a murderous web of lies and deceit and begins a torrid affair with Tramell that takes him to the point of no return. As their passions rise, so does the body count - and Dr. Glass faces a choice that will change his life forever.\n- The Impostor\nPosted by The Impostor at 10:15\u202fAM No comments:\nScreenings in the Bay (Monday to Sunday): The House That Jack Built, The Possession of Hannah Grace, Another Hole in the Head Film Festival\nLooks like the smoke is gone and we're about to get all the rain we've been asking for in the bay area. And that's great! Both for the state and because you could basically spend this whole week at the movies. There are several long awaited things taking place over the next six days: The Possession of Hannah Grace opens in theatres everywhere, The House That Jack Built screens is all of it's director's cut glory for one special day, and ...\nAnother Hole in the Head Film Festival returns to the New People Cinema for its fifteenth year! Opening night is this Wednesday the 28th, so if you're not interested in a two and a half hour long serial killer film, you should check out what they have on their calendar.\nThis Saturday, the Castro Theatre hosts A Day of Silents, the Alamo Drafthouse presents the 4K restoration of Zombi 2, and Perfect Blue returns the the big screen at the Clay Theatre's Midnight Madness at the end of the week!\nThe Possession of Hanna Grace (2018)\nEarly Screeings Thursday 29th (1hr 25min)\nOpens Friday 30th\nHorror\/ Mystery\/ Suspense (Rotten Tomatoes)\nA shocking exorcism spirals out of control, claiming the life of a young woman. Months later, Megan Reed (Shay Mitchell) is working the graveyard shift in the morgue when she takes delivery of a disfigured cadaver. Locked alone inside the basement corridors, Megan begins to experience horrifying visions and starts to suspect that the body may be possessed by a ruthless demonic force.\nThe House That Jack Built (2018)\nWednesday 28th ONLY (2hrs 32min)\nDrama\/ Horror\/ Suspense (Rotten Tomatoes)\nBoundary-pushing cinematic visionary Lars von Trier (Antichrist) returns with one of his most daring, masterfully provocative works yet. In five audacious episodes, failed architect and arch-sociopath Jack (Matt Dillon) recounts the elaborately orchestrated murders-each, as he views them, a towering work of art-that define his \"career\" as a serial killer. Mixing pitch black humor, transcendent surrealism, and renegade musings on everything from history to architecture to cinema, von Trier fashions a radical, blazingly personal inquiry into violence, art, and the twin acts of creation and destruction. With Uma Thurman, Riley Keough, and Bruno Ganz.\nDirector's Cut will ONLY be screening on Wednesday 28 in select theatres!\nThe Favourite (2018)\nScreening All Week (1hr 59min)\nDrama (Rotten Tomatoes)\nEarly 18th century. England is at war with the French. Nevertheless, duck racing and pineapple eating are thriving. A frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) occupies the throne and her close friend Lady Sarah Churchill (Rachel Weisz) governs the country in her stead while tending to Anne's ill health and mercurial temper. When a new servant Abigail Masham (Emma Stone) arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah. Sarah takes Abigail under her wing and Abigail sees a chance at a return to her aristocratic roots. As the politics of war become quite time consuming for Sarah, Abigail steps into the breach to fill in as the Queen's companion. Their burgeoning friendship gives her a chance to fulfill her ambitions and she will not let woman, man, politics or rabbit stand in her way.\nZombi 2 (1979)\nTuesday 27th @ 10:05pm (1hr 31min)\nHorror (Rotten Tomatoes)\nThis audaciously disgusting spectacle from the late master of gruesome horror, Lucio Fulci, was posited as a semi-sequel to George Romero's Dawn of the Dead, which was released in Italy as Zombi. Tisa Farrow and a group of vacationing tourists travel to an island where they find a doctor (Richard Johnson) who is attempting to cure a condition that reanimates the dead. Things quickly get out of control as undead Spanish conquistadors crawl from their graves hungry for human flesh.\nSchlock (1973)\nWednesday 28th @ 10pm (1hr 20min)\nComedy\/ Horror\/ Sci-Fi (IMDB)\nSouthern California is being terrorized by a mysterious murderous monster living in a cave. As the bodies pile up -- with incriminating banana peels always near by the crime scene -- a group of teens stumble on the guilty party: a 20-million-year-old Schlockthropus, an ape-like creature with a sense of the absurd. Schlocky moves easily through a strangely stupid suburban society, the members of which don't seem to see him as a hairy menace. Young Mindy Binermen (Eliza Garrett), blind for the last three years, falls in love with him thinking he's a dog. When an operation to restore her eyesight proves successful, she discovers her pet is a lovesick gorilla being chased by the National Guard.\nSF Silent Film Festival Presents\nA Day of Silents\nSaturday 1st @ 10am\nOne glorious full day of live cinema (six programs!) at San Francisco's landmark movie palace Castro Theatre. Beautiful images from the silent era set to superb live musical accompaniment\u2014you won't want to miss it!\nLandmark Clay Theatre\nPerfect Blue (1997)\nFriday 30th & Saturday 1st @ 11:55pm (1hr 21min)\nHorror\/ Anime (IMDB)\nMima was a pop idol, worshiped by the masses until fashion dictated otherwise. In order to salvage her career, she is advised to drop music and pursue acting. A soap opera role is offered but Mima's character is less clean cut than desired. Regardless, she agrees and events take a turn for the worse. She begins to feel reality slip, that her life is not her own. She discovers (imagines) her identical twin, a mirror image that hasn't given up singing. Internet sites appear describing every intimate detail of her life and a figure stalks her from the shadows. Her friends and associates are threatened (and killed) as Mima descends into a dangerous world of paranoid delusion. She fears for her life and must unravel fact from illusion in order to stay alive. Perfect Blue represents a major change from traditional anime subject matter, analyzing the pop icon phenomenon, fame and its psychological impact on the performer.\nFestival of the Moving Image (2018)\nWednesday 28th @ 6:30pm (\nThe 8th Annual Festival of the Moving Image highlights emerging talent from City College of San Francisco's Cinema, Visual Media Design and Broadcast Electronic Media Arts Departments in a combined festival program.\nNever on a Sunday (1960)\nSunday 2nd @ 4pm (1hr 37min)\nComedy\/ Drama\/ Romance (IMDB)\nA philosophical comedy about a Greek prostitute who agrees to spend two weeks with an American intellectual improving her mind. The conservative American tries to educate the harlot, much to the dismay of family and friends. The bouzouki music of the instrumental title track was an international hit.\nScreenings in the Bay (Monday to Sunday): Burning, The Manitou, Pan's Labyrinth\nHappy Thanksgiving week! I hope that means a short workweek for you guys, if nothing more. Although this week is a little bare, we are on the cusp of some very cool events that will be happening in San Francisco. One of them is opening night of the 15th annual Another Hole in the Head Film Festival, which returns to the New People Cinema next week! The second, which lands on the same day, is the one time screening of Lars von Trier's new film The House That Jack Built in its director's cut glory on the big screen!\nBut before I get ahead of myself, this week still has several days left, and in that time we're getting a 35mm print of The Manitou, the ritualistic midnight screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and a sporadic of Pan's Labyrinth. And if you're in the mood for a mystery, Burning opens this Friday and it stars a familiar face...\nBurning (2018)\nOpens Friday 23rd (2hrs 28min)\nScreening All Weekend\nDrama\/ Mystery (IMDB)\nBURNING tells the story of three individuals and a mysterious incident they experience. Jongsu bumps into an old friend, Haemi, on a part-time delivery job. Haemi asks Jongsu to take care of her cat while she leaves on a trip to Africa. When she returns, Haemi introduces Jongsu to Ben, a man she met in Africa. One day, Ben and Haemi pay Jongsu a visit, and Ben reveals his secret interests to Jongsu.\nThe Manitou (1977)\nTuesday 20th @ 9:45pm (1hr 44min)\nHorror\/ Sci-Fi (IMDB)\nA psychic's girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400 year-old demonic Native American spirit.\nMiami Connection (1987)\nWednesday 21st @ 10:10pm (1hr 23min)\nAction\/ Crime\/ Thriller (IMDB)\n\"A martial arts rock band goes up against a band of motorcycle ninjas who have tightened their grip on Florida's narcotics trade.\"\nRocky Horror Picture Show (1975)\nSaturday 24th @ 11:55pm (1hr 41 min)\nComedy\/ Scifi\/ Horror\/ Musical (Rotten Tomatoes)\nThis low-budget freak show\/cult classic\/cultural institution concerns the misadventures of Brad Majors (Barry Bostwick) and Janet Weiss (Susan Sarandon) inside a strange mansion that they come across on a rainy night. After the wholesome pair profess their love through an opening song, their car breaks down in the woods, and they seek refuge in a towering castle nearby. Greeting them at the door is a ghoulish butler named Riff Raff (Richard O'Brien), who introduces them to a bacchanalian collection of partygoers dressed in outfits from some sort of interplanetary thrift shop. The host of this gathering is a transvestite clad in lingerie, Dr. Frank N. Furter (Tim Curry), a mad scientist who claims to be from another planet.\nPan's Labyrinth (2006)\nSaturday 24th @ 9pm (1hr 59min)\nDrama\/ Horror\/ SciFi (Rotten Tomatoes)\nSet against the backdrop of the a post-Civil War Spain, PAN'S LABYRINTH is a visually stunning Spanish-language fairy tale with a dark heart. In 1944, a young girl named Ofelia avoids a bleak home life\u2013including an ill, pregnant mother and a new, murderous military step-father\u2013by retreating into an imaginative world of fairies and monsters. After ignoring a warning against entering the mysterious labyrinth near her new home, Ofelia meets a faun who sends her off on a wonderfully eerie journey. According to the faun, Ofelia must complete three tasks to resume her position as the long-lost Princess Moanna, a seemingly perfect offer in contrast with Ofelia's grim waking life. When tragedy strikes and Ofelia finds her way deeper into a dark fantasy world, del Toro's mesmerizing production and a haunting score by Javier Navarette take over, culminating in an unforgettable conclusion.\nBluray Tuesday Featuring: Candyman, Urban Legend & Luciferina\nThis weeks ends with Black Friday, which has many cool deals on Bluray's but there are still some cool collection worthy titles released today to potentially add to our growing collections. First up is Scream Factory's releases of Candyman and Urban Legend both with new scans, bonus material and artwork as the most recent editions to their collector's edition lines. Urban Legends Final Cut is also released for the first time on bluray from Scream Factory to go along with the original. I'm looking forward to owning all three of these after the Black Friday madness because I love these films. Next up is a newer release from Artsploitation Films, Luciferina. This title seems really interesting and screened at PUFF 3 just a couple of months ago, so several Overlook creatures got to see it on the big screen then. Rounding out the week is sci-fi action film Kin, comedy box office success Crazy Rich Asians, and well reviewed Blindspotting. So what will you buy, rent or skip this week? Let us know in the comments. Have a great Thanksgiving week!\nCandyman: Amazon - $34.99\nA children's story comes to terrifying life in this gut-wrenching thriller about a graduate student whose research into modern folklore summons the spirit of the dead. Helen Lyle scoffs at superstition, but when she hears about Candyman, a slave spirit with a hook hand said to haunt a notorious housing project, she has a new twist for her thesis. To prove Candyman doesn't exist, Helen heads to the site of a brutal murder to call for him by saying his name five times. To her horror, he appears, igniting a string of gruesome murders. But the police don't believe in monsters, and Helen is charged with the grisly crimes. Only one person can set her free: Candyman.\nUrban Legend: Amazon - $34.99\nWhen a series of strange deaths occurs on campus, beautiful and assertive student Natalie suspects that they are murders based on urban legends. Her classmates, loyal Brenda, ambitious journalism major Paul, and school practical joker Damon, insist the deaths are just coincidences. When Natalie gets too close to discovering how the deaths are connected, she realizes she's the killer's next victim.\nUrban Legends: Final Cut: Amazon - $29.99\nAt Alpine University, one senior student will be awarded the prestigious Hitchcock Award for best thesis film, virtually guaranteeing the winner a film career in Hollywood. Amy, Travis and Graham are student filmmakers who would love to make it big in Hollywood. But first they've got to survive their last semester at Alpine, a renowned film school where the competition is killer -- and someone is killing the competition.\nLuciferina: Amazon - $10.99\nNatalia is a nineteen-year-old novice who reluctantly returns home to say goodbye to her dying father. However, when she meets up with her sister and her friends, she decides instead to travel the jungle in search of a mystical plant.\nThe Last Supper: Amazon - $24.99\nIn the heartland of Iowa, five grad school liberals share a house, a left wing outlook, and Sunday suppers filled with conversation and social criticism. But when a redneck trucker threatens one of their own, he inadvertently puts them on the radical road to serial murder.\nKin: Amazon - $14.99\n4K: Amazon - $17.99\nWhile scavenging for copper wire, Detroit teenager Eli Solinski stumbles upon a high-tech gun that holds special powers. When his brother, Jimmy, lands in trouble with a local crime boss, the two siblings take the mysterious weapon and go on the run. Eli and Jimmy now find themselves in a life-and-death battle against an army of thugs and two heavily armored, futuristic soldiers who want their gun back.\nSteelbook: Best Buy - $19.99\nOrgies of Edo: Amazon - $22.99\nA collection of stories dealing with punishment towards women.\nBlindspotting: Amazon - $14.99\nCollin must make it through his final three days of probation for a chance at a new beginning. He and his troublemaking childhood best friend, Miles, work as movers and are forced to watch their old neighborhood become a trendy spot in the rapidly gentrifying Bay Area. When a life-altering event causes Collin to miss his mandatory curfew, the two men struggle to maintain their friendship as the changing social landscape exposes their differences.\nCrazy Rich Asians: Amazon - $22.99\nAmerican-born Chinese economics professor Rachel Chu accompanies her boyfriend to Singapore for his best friend's wedding only to get thrust into the lives of Asia's rich and famous. She discovers that her boyfriend comes from a wealthy family with a dark past and that every woman wants him. Based on the novel by Kevin Kwan.\nThe Last Seduction: Amazon - $19.99\nA devious sexpot steals her husband's drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme.\n2001 Space Odyssey (4K Steelbook): Best Buy - $29.99\nA mysterious black monolith appears on Earth in prehistoric times, changing the course of human evolution. When it reappears on the Moon in 2001, astronauts embark on an ill-fated interplanetary voyage to discover.\nSome Like It Hot: Amazon - $22.99\nTwo down on their luck jazz musicians find themselves on the run after the police raid the speakeasy they perform in. With nowhere to hide, a gig with Sweet Sue and her Society Syncopators at a beach resort seems like the perfect getaway. There's just one problem: the Syncopators are an all-female band, and Joe and Jerry aren't women \u2014 yet. Armed with some dodgy wigs and wobbly falsettos, they manage to join the Syncopators and meet Sugar Kane: a hooch-swilling, ukulele-playing knockout with a soft spot for saxophone players. Things start to go off the rails when they begin to attract unwanted attention from lecherous millionaires and some familiar faces show up at their hotel for a gathering of the country's most dangerous criminals.\nPosted by The Impostor at 6:31\u202fAM No comments:\nFound Footage Appears at Another Hole in the Head ...\nBluray Tuesday Featuring: Searching, The Critters ...\nScreenings in the Bay (Monday to Sunday): The Hous...\nScreenings in the Bay (Monday to Sunday): Burning,...\nBluray Tuesday Featuring: Candyman, Urban Legend &...\nBluray Tuesday Featuring: The Meg, Single White Fe...\nScreenings in the Bay (Monday to Sunday): The Clo...\nBay Area Punk-Metal Flea Market comes to Oakland M...\nBluray Tuesday Featuring: Sleepwalkers, Mara & Inc...\nScreenings in the Bay (Monday to Sunday): Overlord...\nThe Overlook Hour Guest Profile: Brett Cameron Gla...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Fifty Shades of FDE\nPress Release: Bruiser Industries\nSeptember 21, 2018 September 21, 2018 fiftyshadesoffde 0 Comment gear reviews\nMy good friend Joe, a fellow writer at Breach Bang Clear, just retired from 14 years of service with the Navy and is now onto his next venture in the civilian sector. Here is the full scoop:\nCPO Joe Dawson, USN\/NSW (RET) is John Darwin No Longer\n(Salem, OR) September 21, 2018\nSeveral tactical-outdoor companies and publications are happy to share the news that Joseph \"Joe\" Dawson, USN has retired. Dawson spent the last 14 years serving in various Naval Special Warfare (NSW) billets. During much of that time he has written under the nom de plumes \"John Darwin\" and \"Joe\" for Modern Service Weapons, RECOIL Magazine, and Breach-Bang-Clear.\nHe is now medically retired as a CPO (SOC) and free to write, instruct, and consult under his real name.\n\u26a0\ufe0f Dawson promises never to write a non-fiction book. Nor to pen any exaggerated exploits and tales of derring-do disguised as an autobiography. Certainly nothing with colors, shapes, or the word HEROES in the name. \u26a0\ufe0f\nJoe Dawson is the son of a law enforcement family, an avid reader (Jack London to Jim Butcher and all points between). He is a hopelessly dedicated father and greasemonkey\/gearhead who enjoys turning wrenches with a fierce and terrible love. Dawson has been shooting competitively for several years now, as his schedule permitted, enjoying primary PRS and USPSA but also dabbling in 3 Gun and IDPA.\nDuring his Navy career, Dawson deployed to Iraq Afghanistan and different AOs in the Pacific. From 2011 to 2013 he was the lead Petty Officer in charge of Land Warfare Training. For the last three years, he served as the Course Supervisor and Course Manager for the NSW Sniper School (a DoD LV1 Sniper program), concurrently filling both billets.\nDawson's qualifications are, he advises, \"\u2026about what you'd expect.\" He was static-line and HAHO\/HALO qualified, served as a sniper, lead breacher, HRST Cast Master, Navy Dive Supervisor, Navy Master Training Specialist, and Master Training Specialist Mentor, and an Athlete's Performance SOF Tactical Military Mentor. He was a longtime NSW RSOIC, working small arms, demolitions, indirect fire, CQB, Ground Mobility Vehicle, and other ranges.\nHe recently graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BA in Business Administration and is a member of the Alpha Lambda Honor Society. He continues to write as a freelancer as time allows.\n\"Lots of dudes went to Afghanistan and Iraq,\" says Dawson. \"Many of them did more than I did, many did less. Most all of them did what they sent out to do, same as me. Having some deployments under your belt isn't some validation of incredible heroism or mythic skill as a warfighter. I'm proud of my service. I was pretty good at my job. I'll never forget the incredible teammates I served with. But now I'm ready to get my civilian on.\"\nDawson will continue to write and work as an SME\/consultant for a handful of companies of good character, with good products, and hopes to freelance for other publications. He will also still be teaching on occasion through the auspices of Bruiser Industries and will, once he gets settled into his new household billet, be back out competing as much as possible.\nConnect with Joe Dawson professionally on Instagram, @bruiserindustries, or personally as @joe.dawson45. He is also on Facebook, \/BruiserIndustries\/ and \/Joe.Dawson45\/. Bruiser Industries can be found at BruiserIndustries.com. Private consults and closed training sessions are available.\n\u2190 Presscheck Consulting Fall\/Winter Schedule Updated\nPalmetto State Armory \u2192\nWild Things Gear. SHOT Show 2020\nA Lasersaddle for the TAC14\n10% off at Cloud Defensive!\nBlack November Sale at Cloud Defensive!\nStreamlight TLR-7A\n\u00a9 2020 Fifty Shades of FDE. All rights reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"What Central Minnesotans Need to Know About Cinco de Mayo\nSaturday is a major Mexican holiday that will be celebrated all over the place around central Minnesota. If you're going to join in on the festivities, you should know the facts about Cinco de Mayo.\nMost Americans look at May 5th's celebration as a reason to go out and party and be colorful for Cinco de Mayo, but a majority have no clue what this holiday is a celebration of. It's not the day of Mexico's independence, which is what 90% of us think it is. Here are the facts about it...\nNational Today surveyed 1000 Americans and asked them what they thought Cinco de Mayo was. There were 5 possible answers and 90% of those surveyed actually got the right answer. It's very possible it was just a lucky guess with some of them!\n39% said it's Mexican Independence Day, which is actually on September 16th.\n26% said it's just a general celebration of Mexican-American culture.\n13% said it's all about DRINKING.\n13% admitted they just had no idea.\nOnly 10% said it's the anniversary of Mexico's victory over France, which is the CORRECT answer. The Battle of Puebla happened on May 5th, 1862.\nSo how does most of central Minnesota celebrate? Eating Mexican food, drinking margaritas, and doing something to celebrate Mexican culture will be happening all over this area. As always, drink in moderation and DON'T drink and drive. You can guarantee there will be extra patrols on the roads Saturday night, so keep safe out there.\nFiled Under: Cinco De Mayo, Mexico\nCategories: Holidays, Minnesota","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Fox undermines parents trying to protect their kids\nJune 2, 2010 by Erin\nFox emphasizes parental responsibility over government regulation, but then goes around parent choices in its advertising\nLast week, Fox Broadcasting Company aired an ad with a drawing depicting sexual bondage during The Simpsons, a show that I allow my kids to watch. What I don't allow them to watch is Family Guy, which is where the image came from. The image showed a woman in a black push-up S&M-type laced up corset and black high boots or stockings, and gloves, and a weird little-old-man baby in a diaper that was chained to a wide board by ankles and wrists. It was only on screen for a few seconds, but I found a similar image online. I wrote a quick post, and filed a complaint with the FCC. But I think the subject deserves a closer look.\nFox has been airing objectionable promos for its other shows during the Simpsons, as well as sporting events, for years. In 2005, I complained to the FCC about graphic promos for violent and frightening shows aired during the Red Sox games. Another writer wrote about promos for Family Guy in 2006.\nFox is a member of TV Watch, a coalition that opposes government regulation of TV programming. The site promotes parental responsibility for what their children watch, and tells parents how to use technology on their television sets to block shows based on their ratings. Fox links to TV Watch on its site \u2013 see the link called Help for Parents at the bottom of the page.\nHowever, the blocking technology does not block promos for the shows that parents exclude. Just as it didn't block the ad that my children saw.\nI asked Fox Broadcasting Company about their policy on ads. I also asked, \"When you show scary, gruesome, violent or sexual images in promos for your tv shows during other shows, does that undermine parents' ability to decide for themselves what is best for their children to view?\"\nElissa Johansmeier, vice president of publicity and corporate communications for Fox Broadcasting, sent this reply by email:\n\"All programming and promotional spots that air on FOX are vetted by our Broadcast Standards & Practices department for the appropriateness of their content.\"\nShe said Fox does not discuss BS&P policies with the media.\nMs. Johansmeier said the decision to air this particular ad was made by the Fox affiliate in Boston. I asked her if Fox expects affiliates to follow the national policy on ads, if there is one. She also did not answer that question.\nThe Fox affiliate in Boston referred my questions to a New York-based media relations person who speaks for 26 affiliate stations. That person has not returned my calls.\nTV Watch did not respond to emailed requests for an interview, and provided no phone number on the site. I called a number of the individuals and organizations listed as members of the coalition, and got a call back from Jack Myers, a media economist and founder of M.E.D.I.Advisory Group.\nI asked Mr. Myers if showing objectionable images to promote a network's other shows during broadcasts undermines parents ability to monitor what their children watch.\n\"I agree it's a concern,\" he said. \"I agree you have a legitimate question. Unless the network promotional department is particularly sensitive to that issue, I'm not aware of what your alternative is, other than what you are doing, which is to comment and complain.\"\nCaroline Knorr, parenting editor at Common Sense Media, an organization that provides reviews and education on media for parents, recommends that parents use a DVR if they have one. \"That allows you to fast forward through the commercials.\" If you don't record, she also recommended muting commercials. Even if the image is problematic, without sound children are less likely to pay attention, she said.\nMarisa Connolly, communications manager at Common Sense Media said they refer to such as experience as being \"blindsided.\" \"You can't really prepare yourself for what's going to happen in marketing or promotions,\" she said. Ms. Connolly directs parents to the organization's site where parents can find tips for turning such experiences in teachable moments.\nIt will be tough, though, for parents to discuss an image such as the one Fox showed, an image of a sexual bondage scene involving a baby. It's even worse if the kids are familiar with the show. Then they would know that the woman in the picture is the baby's mother. I can't imagine that my 14-year-old is ready for a discussion about S&M, let alone my 11-year-old. What does a parent say to a 6- or 7-year-old?\n\"They don't have any context,\" said Sharon Maxwell, clinical psychologist and author of The Talk. \"There is a certain age at which we can have a conversation. But there is a certain age at which they are way too young for this conversation, but it becomes part of their (developing) brain.\"\nAs long as Fox wasn't answering questions, I asked them if Fox also recommends that parents record the shows and then fast forward through the commercials during playback. Their advertisers wouldn't be too happy with that recommendation. As expected, no answer.\nFiled Under: boys and men in media, FOX, girls and women in media, health issues, marketing to children, media gone too far, Sexualization of children\n\u00ab Take the TV out of the kids' bedrooms\nFox TV, pornification, boys \u00bb\nThank you for this post and blog. I have have just stumbled upon your site and have many of the concerns you have while viewing tv with my children. I was watching a ice skating event one Sunday a few years ago with my 2 year old never thinking there would be inappropriate commercials. There was a scary trailer for a horror movie? I generally only watch recorded shows with my kids now because the advertising for adult shows and movies is a real problem for me. I don't want my kids little minds imprinted with the dark images of horror movies 30 seconds at a time. Thanks for your blog.\nI appreciate the research you did on this topic. I don't want to rely on a DVR in order to watch television. I do happen to tape a lot of shows, but could not possibly have this feature set for everything that is being watched on my TV.It's impractical and a ridiculous suggestion. \"Ms. Connolly directs parents to the organization's site where parents can find tips for turning such experiences in teachable moments.\" Ms. Connolly should realize some of these ads\/images create no benefit from a teachable moment \u2013 only more confusion. I would love to hear the teachable moment recommended re: the ad with the baby and his mother in an S&M situation. I would like to watch TV with or without my family and not be barraged my offensive or terrifying images.\nFox's behavior is outrageous \u2013 and depressing. The same standards that prevent airing TV shows at certain times obviously should apply to the ads that promote those shows! I know that parents have the most critical role to play in deciding what programming their children can watch, but Fox is making it virtually impossible for individual parents to exert the control they deem appropriate. Sitting next to my sons and fast-forwarding through commercials every time they watch TV is not a solution. Fox, please reconsider these insidious practices.\nMy parents didn't allow a TV in the house until I was 6 years old-maybe this was part of the reason. However since TV is a prevailing part of our culture I would say that while watching TV never presume that a for profit organization would do anything but try to make a profit. Fox TV panders to the conservative right wing, probably because there is a market there for them-ie profit. Don't expect for one minute that they really care about kids-there is no incentive to do so. I like American Idol in the final stages, but I would never watch Fox or any other TV station because I thought that they had my child's best interest in mind. Our kids are bombarded with violent and sexual images in every form of media. Should it be allowed? Probably not. If there are guidelines for TV shows then all the advertising\/show promos should adhere to those guidelines. If they don't they should be fined and that money should go to a competitor who is not violating the standards.\ngreat blog post! i'm a little suprised and confused by the comments of people who \"refuse\" to do things like fast forward thru commercials or dvr. um\u2026you could just not watch it, if you are that bothered by it. (as you should be!)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"How the cast of 'Beetlejuice' has changed over the years\nBy Mariel Turner 8:19am PDT, Mar 28, 2018\nBelieve it or not, it's been three decades since \"Beetlejuice\" hit theaters (crazy, right?!). The 1988 Tim Burton flick was a critical and commercial success that audiences still love today. In celebration of its 30th anniversary on March 30, 2018, Wonderwall.com is taking a look at what the \"Beetlejuice\" cast is up to today. Keep reading to see how its stars' lives have changed over the years\u2026\nRELATED: Disney stars: Where are they now?\nMichael Keaton starred as the titular rude and mischievous ghost in 1988's \"Beetlejuice.\"\nRELATED: \"Game of Thrones\" cast: How their lives have changed\nMichael Keaton dominated Hollywood after making \"Beetlejuice.\" The actor starred in some of the biggest and best films released over the last three decades including \"Batman,\" \"Much Ado About Nothing,\" \"Jackie Brown,\" \"The Other Guys,\" \"Cars,\" \"Toy Story 3,\" \"Spider Man: Homecoming\" and \"RoboCop.\" Plus Michael was nominated for an Oscar, a SAG Award, a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe for his performance as Riggan Thomson in 2014's \"Birdman\" (he took home the Globe). Michael split with his wife, \"Benson\" actress Caroline McWIlliams \u2014 the mother of his songwriter-producer son, Sean Douglas \u2014 in the late '80s and went on to date quite a few A-list actresses including Courteney Cox and Michelle Pfeiffer.\nRELATED: \"Pacific Rim Uprising\" cast: Who's who\nGeena Davis starred as Barbara Maitland, a ghost who's unable to leave her Victorian-style country home, in 1988's \"Beetlejuice.\"\nGeena Davis grew into an acclaimed Academy Award-winning actress after her time in \"Beetlejuice.\" The beauty went on to star in \"Thelma & Louise,\" \"A League of Their Own,\" \"The Long Kiss Goodnight,\" \"Stuart Little,\" \"The Accidental Tourist,\" \"Grey's Anatomy\" and more. She earned two Oscar nominations for her work in \"Thelma & Louise\" and \"The Accidental Tourist\" and took home a best supporting actress trophy for \"Tourist.\" She also won a Golden Globe in 2005 for her performance on television's \"Commander in Chief.\" In addition to her phenomenal acting career, Geena found long-lasting love. After divorces from Richard Emmolo, Jeff Goldblum and Renny Harlin, in 2001, Geena married craniofacial surgeon Reza Jarrahy, with whom she has three kids.\nIn 1988's \"Beetlejuice,\" Alec Baldwin starred as Barbara's husband, Adam Maitland, a ghost who's stuck in their old home after they die in a car accident.\nLike many of his \"Beetlejuice\" co-stars, Alec Baldwin has achieved major fame and recognition since the film's 1988 release. Alec went on to star in \"The Hunt for Red October,\" \"The Shadow,\" \"The Aviator,\" \"The Departed,\" \"The Cooler,\" \"30 Rock\" and \"Saturday Night Live.\" He's received 10 Golden Globe nominations, 17 Emmy nominations, one Academy Award nomination and 20 SAG Award nominations, winning a record seven SAG Awards (he has more than any other male performer) as well as three Emmys and three Golden Globes! Alec, who's currently lauded for his gig impersonating President Donald Trump on \"SNL,\" also managed to marry and divorce Kim Basinger, survive an angry voicemail scandal involving their daughter, Ireland Baldwin, marry yoga instructor Hilaria Thomas and welcome three more children, with a fourth due in 2018.\nWinona Ryder starred as Lydia Deetz, a goth girl who moved into Adam and Barbara's old home with her parents, in 1998's \"Beetlejuice.\" In the film, Beetlejuice plans to marry Lydia so he can return to the world of the living.\nAfter her time in \"Beetlejuice,\" Winona Ryder went on to become one of the biggest stars of the '90s before taking a break from Hollywood and making a major comeback in the 2010s. She starred in some of the most successful movies of the '90s including \"Mermaids,\" \"Edward Scissorhands,\" \"The Age of Innocence,\" \"Little Women,\" \"Reality Bites,\" \"Alien Resurrection\" and \"Girl, Interrupted.\" During this time, Winona was nominated for two Golden Globes and two Academy Awards for best actress. She was also engaged to '90s heartthrob Johnny Depp and dated \"It\" boy Matt Damon following her breakup with Johnny in 1993. Winona hit a rough patch during the early 2000s after a shoplifting conviction but turned her life around a few years later. Today, the actress is starring on Netflix's critically acclaimed \"Stranger Things.\" She's been dating Loomstate CEO Scott Mackinlay Hahn since 2011.\nCatherine O'Hara played Delia Deetz, a sculptor who's Lydia's stepmother, in 1988's \"Beetlejuice.\"\nEmmy winner Catherine O'Hara is just as successful \u2014 if not more successful \u2014 today than she was in 1988. After \"Beetlejuice\" wrapped, the actress went on to star in \"The Nightmare Before Christmas,\" \"Frankenweenie,\" \"For Your Consideration,\" \"Where the Wild Things Are,\" \"Pippi Longstocking,\" \"Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events,\" \"Schitt's Creek\" and \"Six Feet Under.\" However, Catherine might be best known for her work as Kate McCallister in the classic movies \"Home Alone\" and \"Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.\" Catherine has been happily married to production designer Bo Welch for more than 25 years! In fact, the couple, who share two sons, met on the set of \"Beetlejuice.\"\nJeffrey Jones starred as Lydia's father, Charles Deetz, a former real estate developer, in 1988's \"Beetlejuice.\"\nJeffrey Jones' life and career have taken quite a turn since his \"Beetlejuice\" days. The actor starred in \"Ed Wood,\" \"Sleepy Hollow,\" \"Dr. Dolittle 2,\" \"The Crucible\" and \"Deadwood,\" the latter of which earned him an ensemble SAG Award nomination. He seemed to be well on his way to achieving major stardom when he was arrested for possession of child pornography and accused of soliciting a 14-year-old boy to pose for nude photographs in 2002. Jeffrey pleaded no contest, registered as a sex offender, was sentenced to five years of probation and has only starred in two movies and one TV program in the 16 years since. He has a son with former partner Lloy Coutts.\nGlenn Shadix (far right) starred as Otho, an interior designer who helps Delia Deetz transform her family's new Victorian-style country home, in 1988's \"Beetlejuice.\"\nGlenn Shadix built quite a career for himself during his 30 years in Hollywood. The \"Beetlejuice\" actor starred in \"The Nightmare Before Christmas,\" the 2001 remake of \"Planet of the Apes,\" \"Cheers,\" \"Roseanne,\" \"Seinfeld, \"Teen Titans\" and \"Carniv\u00e0le\" before retiring to his Bessemer, Alabama, hometown in 2007. Glenn, who was openly gay for most of his life, died in 2010 at age 58 after falling in his kitchen and hitting his head. His sister later shared that Glenn had mobility problems and was in a wheelchair at the time of his death.\nSylvia Sidney played Juno, the Maitlands' afterlife caseworker, in \"Beetlejuice.\"\nSylvia Sidney was a Hollywood icon before she starred in \"Beetlejuice\" and continued to be so after her appearance in the film. The mother of one took on dozens of leading roles in the 1930s, appearing opposite legends like Cary Grant and Spencer Tracy. Sylvia, who was nominated for an Academy Award in 1973, appeared in \"Used People\" and on \"Fantasy Island,\" \"The Equalizer\" and \"Thirtysomething\" after \"Beetlejuice\" wrapped. Her final film role was in another Tim Burton-directed movie, \"Mars Attacks!\" Sylvia died in July 1999, one month before her 89th birthday.\nDick Cavett played Bernard, Delia Deetz's agent, in \"Beetlejuice.\"\nDick Cavett might have dabbled in acting, but the octogenarian built his career as a talk-show host and comedian. After he finished filming \"Beetlejuice\" in 1988, Dick went back to hosting his long-running TV program, \"The Dick Cavett Show.\" The show had been broadcast on various networks including ABC and CBS since 1968 and finally came to an end in 2007 after nearly 40 years on the air. Dick \u2014 who's been nominated for 10 Emmy Awards and won three \u2014 was also a loving husband to actress Carrie Nye for 42 years until her death in 2006. He married author Martha Rogers four years after Carrie's passing.\nRobert Goulet played Maxie Dean, Charles Deetz's boss, in 1988's \"Beetlejuice.\"\nRobert Goulet was already a Tony and Grammy winner when he briefly appeared in \"Beetlejuice.\" The singer and actor first came to fame starring in the 1960 Broadway musical \"Camelot\" opposite established stars Richard Burton and Julie Andrews. After Robert finished filming \"Beetlejuice,\" he starred in \"Scrooged,\" \"Mr. Wrong,\" \"Toy Story 2,\" \"Boy Meets World\" and \"Recess.\" His last public performance was on the PBS TV special \"My Music: '50s Pop Parade,\" which was broadcast in August 2007. Robert, who had a daughter and two sons with his ex-wives, died from pulmonary fibrosis on Oct. 30, 2007, at age 73.\nMaree Cheatham starred as Sarah Dean, Maxie Dean's wife, in 1988's \"Beetlejuice.\"\nMaree Cheatham went on to have a long and fulfilling career after \"Beetlejuice.\" The actress starred in \"Rumor Has It\u2026,\" \"Cold Case,\" \"Mr. & Mrs. Smith,\" \"The West Wing,\" \"America's Sweethearts,\" \"Sam & Cat\" and \"The Wedding Singer.\" She is best known for her performances on the daytime soap operas \"Days of Our Lives,\" \"Search for Tomorrow\" and \"General Hospital.\" Maree has been married to singer-songwriter Robert Staron since 1998.\nWarner Bros.\/Photofest\nDia Dipasupil \/ Getty Images\nGeffen\/Warner Bros\/Kobal\/REX\/Shutterstock\nRob Latour\/REX\/Shutterstock\nLower\/SilverHub\/REX\/Shutterstock\nRex USA\nPhotofest\/Warner Bros. Pictures\nBarry King \/ WireImage\nWarner Bros. 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{"text":"Van Dyke pages\narticles bibliography\nHarry Van Dyke is Professor Emeritus in History at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ontario, and Director of the Dooyeweerd Centre for Christian Philosophy. He studied under H Evan Runner and M C Smit (1911-1981). His doctoral dissertation was on Groen van prinsterer and supervised by A. Th. van Deursen.\n1998. 'Abraham Kuyper 23 October 1837 - 8 November 1920'. Many-to-Many (Dec): 7-8.\n1998. Abraham Kuyper: heir of anti-revolutionary tradition. Paper presented at International conference 'Christianity and Culture: The Heritage of Abraham Kuyper on Different Continents' held on 9\u201311 June 1998, Free University, Amsterdam.\n1989, 2000. Groen van Prinsterer's Lecturers on Unbelief and revolution: A series of Lectures in History.\nAbridged and translated by Harry Van Dyke \u00a9 1989, 2000 (Jordan Station, ON: Wedge)\nLecture I: Introduction\nLecture II: The Wisdom of the Ages\nLecture III: The Anti-Revolutionary Principles\nLecture IV: Historical Governments\nLecture V: Abuses\nLecture VI: The Perversion of Constitutional Law\nLecture VII: The Reformation\nLecture VIII: Unbelief\nLecture IX: Unbelief (continued)\nLecture X: The Conflict with Nature and Law\nLecture XI: First Phase - Preparation (till 1789)\nLecture XII: Second Phase - Development (1789-94)\nLecture XIII: The Reign of Terror\nLecture XIV: Overview - 1794-1845\nLecture XV: Conclusion\n2006. 'Kuyper the politician' Outline for a lecture in the Ethics class of Professor Max Stackhouse, Princeton Theological Seminary, Feb. '06\nAbraham Kuyper on Separate organizations Pro Rege, or the Kingship of Christ (Kampen: Kok, 1912), 3:184\u201394 (\u00a7 XIX) Translated and abridged by Harry Van Dyke\n2011. Slaying Goliath: The genesis of Reformational philosophy - paper presented at WYSOCS, Leeds August 2011.\n1988. 'Kuyper in Post-War Canada: An Interim Inventory.' R.E.S. Theological Forum XVI.2 (June 1988): 34\u201340.\n1989. A slide into the pit. The Banner (13 Nov) 124: 6-7.\n1989. Groen van Prinsterer's Lectures on Unbelief and Revolution. Jordan Station, ON: Wedge, 1989.\nContains a translation (abridged) of Unbelief and Revolution at pp. 293\u2013539 as well as a sketch of Groen's life and time at pp. 1\u201383.\n1998. 'How Abraham Kuyper Became a Christian Democrat.' Calvin Theological Journal 33 (1998): 420\u201335. In Bishop and Kok 2013.\n1998. \"Abraham Kuyper: heir of anti-revolutionary tradition.\" Paper presented at International conference 'Christianity and Culture: The Heritage of Abraham Kuyper on Different Continents' held on 9\u201311 June 1998, Free University, Amsterdam. In Bishop and Kok (2103).\n2000. Western civilization or world history: a true dilemma. Pro Rege 28 (June) 22-33.\nToward a Christian conception of history by M.C. Smit. edited and translated by Herbert Donald Morton and Harry Van Dyke. Toronto, Lanham, Md.: Institute for Christian Studies\/ University Press of America.\n2001. Standing in the Kuyperian tradition. In Marginal Resistance: Essays Dedicated to John C. Vander Stelt. Sioux Center, IA: Dordt College Press.\n2004. H. Evan Runner & the Groen Club. Comment.\n2006. Neo-calvinism... Yes: do we have a choice? Comment\n2006. Professing God in history class. Contact: newsletter of the International Association for the Promotion of Christian Higher Education (February) Sioux Center, Ia.: IAPCHE Secretariat, Dordt College.\n2006. Review of: Herbert Butterfield and the interpretation of history, by Keith C. Sewell. Pro Rege 34(3):29-31.\n2007. Groen van Prinsterer's appreciation of classical antiquity. In the Phrygian Mode: neo-Calvinism, Antiquity and the Lamentations of Reformational Philosophy edited by Robert Sweetman. Lanham, Md.: Institute for Christian Studies and University Press of America.\n2011. \"Abraham Kuyper and the continuing social question.\" Journal of Markets & Morality 14(2): 641-646.\n2012. \"Groen van Prinsterer: godfather of Bavinck and Kuyper.\" Calvin Theological Journal 47(1): 72-.\n2013. \"Abraham Kuyper: heir of an anti-revolutionary tradition.\" In Steve Bishop and John H. Kok (editors) On Kuyper: A Collection of Readings on the Life, Work & Legacy of Abraham Kuyper. Sioux Center: Dordt College Press.\n2013. \"How Abraham Kuyper Became a Christian Democrat.\" In Steve Bishop and John H. Kok (editors) On Kuyper: A Collection of Readings on the Life, Work & Legacy of Abraham Kuyper. Sioux Center: Dordt College Press.\nVolume 14, Number 2 (Fall 2011): 641\u2013646\nItems translated by Harry Van Dyke\nAll \u00a9Translation by Harry Van Dyke\n1879 Dr. A. Kuyper, Het heil in ons (1879; repr. Kampen: Kok, 1910), pp. 165\u2013225.\n1890. \"Lecture on missions.\" Given at the mission conference, Amsterdam, Jan. 28\u201330, 1890.\n. Translated and annotated by Harry Van Dyke.\n1901. \"Catholic Voters of District VIII\" Source: Kuyper-archief, Historisch Documentatiecentrum VU, nr.6460.\n1909. \"Kuyper on political cartooning.\" From the Foreword to Dr. Kuyper in de Caricatuur. (Amsterdam: Van Holkema & Warendorf, 1909)\n1909. \"Kuyper on coalitions and antithesis.\" From Wij, Calvinisten . . . (Kok, Kampen, 1909), 11\u201318. Selection from an address to the 17th National Assembly of Anti-Revolutionary Party delegates, convened in Utrecht on 22 April 1909, in preparation for the coming general elections\n1909. \"Kuyper on Calvin\" From Wij, Calvinisten . . . (Kok, Kampen, 1909). Extract from Abraham Kuyper's address to the 17th National Assembly of Delegates of the Antirevolutionary Party, gathered at Utrecht, 24 April 1909, in preparation for the upcoming general election campaign. This translation of pp. 149\u201352.\n1912. Abraham Kuyper on separate organizations Pro Rege, or the Kingship of Christ (Kampen: Kok, 1912), 3:184\u201394 (\u00a7 XIX)\n1937-8. \"Some third-hand information about Kuyper's conversion.\" Letter from P. H. A. van Krieken to H. Colijn.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bradley: Library honors long-time trustee\nThe Gaston County Public Library staff, the Library Board of Trustees, the Friends of the Gaston County Public Library, family, and friends gathered on June 18 in the library board room to surprise Ralph S. Robinson Jr. and honor him for his many years of service to the community and the library.\nWhen he arrived for the Board of Trustees meeting, Board Chair J. Brett Keeter and Library Director Laurel Morris presented Robinson with a plaque that officially named the newly renovated Board room as the \"Ralph S. Robinson Jr. Board Room.\"\nRobinson is and always has been a longtime library supporter through advocacy and fundraising. Through the sponsorship of the Robinson Family Foundation, the Community Foundation, and the Pearl D. Balthis Foundation, he helped makeit possible for the library to present hundreds of community programs featuring artists, musicians, actors, and authors, over the past 36 years. He also continues to work to encourage literacy throughout the Gaston County community.\nRobinson was appointed to the Gaston County Library Board of Trustees 36 years ago in 1983, and he has served all that time. Robinson served as vice chair in his first year on the board (1983-1984) and in 1984, he was appointed chair and served in that capacity until 2013. During his tenure, Robinson pulled double duty by also serving on the Gaston-Lincoln Regional Library Board of Trustees for 25 years. He served as Vice Chair (1988-2003) and Chair (2003-2012) of the regional board.\nIn 1995, the North Carolina Public Library Directors Association named Robinson its Trustee of the Year, and in 2002, he received the William Gaston Award from the Gaston County Board of Commissioners. This award acknowledges the involvement, commitment and dedication of citizens who volunteer their time and talents to community service. Under his guidance and leadership on the Library Board of Trustees, in 1996 the library received the North Carolina Governor's Business Award in the Arts & Humanities, and in 1997 the library received the United Arts Council of Gaston County's Encore Award.\nIn his 36 years on the Gaston County Public Library Board of Trustees, Robinson has seen a great many changes. For starters, he has worked with three out of the six library directors: Phil Ritter, Cindy Moose, and Laurel Morris. Robinson was there when six branch libraries underwent renovations back in the 1980s to add meeting rooms. He witnessed the construction of the Lowell Branch Library (1989-1990) and the opening of the Ferguson Branch Library at Erwin Center in 1991. In 2000, Robinson watched as crews built the Union Road Branch Library in South Gastonia.\nBeginning in 2015, Robinson has watched as crews renovated the main library, which included the children's room, new teen area, new skylight, circulation desk, and most recently, in 2018-2019, the ADA renovations in the lobby restrooms and parking lot, as well as new paint and carpet on the administration level. He attended the ribbon cutting ceremonies held after the completion of the renovations at the new makerspace library branches: TECH@Lowell (2016) and Builders & Creators at Bessemer City, or BC@BC (2018). He was also there to see the renovations at the Belmont and Cherryville Branch Libraries in 2018 and 2019.\nDuring his tenure with the Gaston County Public Library Board of Trustees, Robinson has observed many changes over the years, new constructions, new renovations, computer system upgrades, new community partnerships, author presentations, and much more. However, what has never changed is his resolve to ensure that every citizen in Gaston County has access to the library and all its services. Mr. Robinson's commitment to serving the community remains strong and his legacy will live on as a permanent space at the Gaston County Public Library in the \"Ralph S. Robinson, Jr. Board Room.\"\nDandria Bradley is program coordinator for the Gaston County Public Libary.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ontario begins rolling out new condo-board regulations\n8\/1\/2017 | SHARE\nPosted in Ontario Real Estate by Ron Hyde| Back to Main Blog Page\nNames of Ontario condominium directors will be listed in a public database under new regulations unveiled this month, as the province begins to implement a new law to protect unit owners in the booming sector.\nMore transparent access to the identity of directors will make it easier to detect problems such as the scheme first reported by The Globe and Mail last May, in which a group of people tried to seize control of at least six Toronto condo boards and their multimillion-dollar budgets.\nSpotting such electoral patterns was difficult because, currently, obtaining the names of directors of a condo where one does not reside requires purchasing a status certificate at a cost of $100.\nThe province is also rolling out two new administrative authorities this fall, with a tribunal to settle disputes about access to condo records, mandatory training for board directors and a licensing plan for property managers.\n\"The changes will improve condo governance,\" Government and Consumer Services Minister Tracy MacCharles said on Tuesday.\nThe overhaul of Ontario's Condominium Act was enacted in 2015, but only now are its regulations and administrative bodies being set up.\n\"Until this point, if you wanted to find out who is the director of a condo corporation, it's very difficult. It's not like business corporations that have filings,\" said lawyer Denise Lash, whose Toronto firm specializes in condo law.\nEven unit owners seeking records from their own building could face resistance from unco-operative managers or boards, said Jennifer Campbell, one of the new directors elected this month at Toronto's Five Condos tower. The previous directors left amid allegations of proxy irregularities, overspending and poor management.\n\"Residents should have full access to all material corporate records without undue restrictions or delay \u2013 this is a failing of the current legislation which does not impose specific timelines or streamlined requirements,\" Ms. Campbell said, adding that \"sunlight is the best disinfectant.\"\nMs. Lash said the regulations \u2013 which would require condo corporations to file four different types of reports, called returns \u2013 will create more responsibilities for property managers and may result in higher fees.\nThere will also be a $12 annual fee per unit to finance the new Condominium Authority of Ontario (CAO), the body that will help owners and will manage the registry database of condo corporations.\nWhile unit owners will face higher fees, \"it's going to save their investment,\" Ms. Lash said.\nThe CAO is expected to be in operation by September. The other administrative body, the Condominium Management Regulatory Authority of Ontario (CMRAO), which will license condo managers, is scheduled to be operational by November.\nAlso starting in November, directors will have to complete a mandatory online education program, Ms. MacCharles said.\nWith more than 1.5 million Ontarians now living in condos, better corporate governance doesn't just benefit unit owners, it's \"a massive step to doing things correctly to protect our cities and communities,\" said Stephen Ilkiw, founder of the consultancy CondoHive.\nSource: The Globe and Mail\nCondo Buyers, Condo Owners, Condos, Ontario, Ontario Real Estate, Ontario Real Estate News","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"central-office love\ncentral-office\nDue to seniority rules, 158 central-office personnel, some of whom haven't been in a classroom in some time, will be moved into classrooms in the fall.\nBack to School for Newark's Booker\nShe gained the right to fire central-office employees and then axed 98 of them.\nThe Lightning Rod\nShe has gotten legislative authority to reclassify hundreds of nonunion central-office employees in a way that makes them easier to remove.\nD.C. Schools Chief Scores Gains, Ruffles Feathers\nSo far, in her quest to turn around the public school system, she's taken on the unions, the city council and, most recently, hundreds of angry central-office workers.\nTo free up funds for his special-education overhaul -- which initially focused on elementary-school reading -- Mr. Gaetz began by making deep cuts in central-office spending.\nHow a School in Florida\nOne of the few valid criticisms made of the previous central-office administration were the top-heavy nature of the structure.\nProposed School Budget Received Badly at cvillenews.com\nIn the case of the plan to reclassify the 545 central-office workers as \"at will\" employees, Ms. Rhee's plan for reform is on delicate ground with the city's powerful public-sector unions.\nProvides telephone information from cord or cordless central-office switch-board.\nDiscover What You're Best At","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Case studies\u00bb Covering all the bases in fire station PFI scheme\nCovering all the bases in fire station PFI scheme\nWe acted for the lenders in the financing of a local authority PFI scheme for the design and construction of four new build fire stations and five refurbished fire stations in Suffolk.\nAs part of the bank's security for the financing, we carried out a detailed review of the draft project agreement, construction contract and facilities management agreement as well as the other draft project documents in order to advise on the terms of direct agreements and collateral warranties to be provided by the contractor, FM provider and each of the design consultants.\nWe ensured that the project company had adequately stepped down to the contractor all the construction risks arising under the project agreement and advised the bank to insist on changes to the project documents so that the borrower's risks were adequately covered. Our team advised on and negotiated the terms of the performance bond (with adjudication provisions) which was to be assigned by the project company to the lenders.\nSubsequently, we advised on a variation to the scheme to substitute a new build fire station (on a brown field site) for a refurbished fire station. This resulted in the need for significant amendments to the documentation, the drafting of which we negotiated and agreed with the other parties.\nReturn to case studies\nContact an office\nLondon (Head office)\nLondon (Minories)\nMarine, trade and energy\nCourt of Protection and deputyships\nHoliday accident claims\nPrivate client and tax\nResidential property and conveyancing\n\u00a9 2021 Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP.\nWebsite design by Frontmedia \/ Dynamic Pear\nPenningtons Manches Cooper LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales with registered number OC311575 and is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home World US plans to designate Yemen's Houthi movement as foreign terrorist group -...\nUS plans to designate Yemen's Houthi movement as foreign terrorist group \u2013 Times of India\nRIYADH\/WASHINGTON: The United States plans to designate Yemen's Houthi movement as a foreign terrorist organization, secretary of state Mike Pompeo said, a move that diplomats and aid groups worry could threaten peace talks and complicate efforts to combat the world's largest humanitarian crisis.\nThe decision to blacklist the Iran-aligned group comes as the administration of President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take over from the Trump administration on Jan. 20.\nA Houthi leader said in a Twitter post that the movement, which has been battling a Saudi-led coalition in Yemen since 2015, reserved the right to respond to any designation.\n\"The Department of State will notify Congress of my intent to designate Ansar Allah, sometimes referred to as the Houthis, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization,\" Pompeo said in a statement late on Sunday.\n\"I also intend to designate three of Ansar Allah's leaders, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, Abd al-Khaliq Badr al-Din al-Houthi, and Abdullah Yahya al Hakim, as Specially Designated Global Terrorists\", he said.\nThe Trump administration has been piling on sanctions related to Iran in recent weeks, prompting some Biden allies and outside analysts to conclude that Trump aides are seeking to make it harder for the incoming administration to re-engage with Iran and rejoin an international nuclear agreement.\n\"The policy of the Trump administration and its behaviour is terrorist,\" the Houthi official Mohammed Ali al-Houthi tweeted. \"We reserve the right to respond to any designation issued by the Trump administration or any administration.\"\nIn Tehran, when asked about the US move, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told a weekly news conference: \"It is likely that the bankrupt US government might try to further tarnish the United States' image in its remaining days and poison the American heritage.\"\nAid groups and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had warned against a possible designation, saying Yemen was in imminent danger of the worst famine the world has seen for decades.\nPompeo said the United States planned to put in place measures to reduce the impact of the step on humanitarian activity and imports into Yemen, where 80% of the population needs help.\nThe foreign ministry of Yemen's Saudi-backed government, which the Houthis ousted from power in the capital, Sanaa, in late 2014, supported the designation and called for further \"political and legal pressure\" on the Houthis.\nSaudi Arabia, which has been attacked by cross-border Houthi missiles and drones, has yet to comment.\nUN officials are trying to revive peace talks to end the war as the country's suffering is also worsened by an economic and currency collapse and the Covid-19 pandemic.\nOxfam America's humanitarian policy lead Scott Paul, describing the US move as \"counter-productive and dangerous\", urged President-elect Joe Biden to revoke the designation immediately upon taking office.\nThe Norwegian Refugee Council called for \"unambiguous safeguards and guarantees\" to ensure sanctions did not prevent food, fuel and medicines from being delivered across a country \"in the middle of a full-blown humanitarian catastrophe\".\n\"We call on \u2026 Biden to act upon taking office to ensure Yemeni civilians can still receive life-saving aid,\" it said.\nPompeo said that with the implementation of these designations on Jan. 19, the U.S. Treasury Department would provide licences that would apply to some humanitarian activities conducted by non-governmental organizations in Yemen and to certain transactions related to critical commodities exports such as food and medicine.\nThe Treasury Department has previously issued such special licences to humanitarian groups for heavily sanctioned countries, but international relief officials have said such measures often failed to unblock aid flows as banks and insurance firms worry about running afoul of sanctions.\nThe designation has been the subject of weeks of fierce debate within the Trump administration. Internal disagreements over how to carve out exceptions for aid shipments held up a final decision on the blacklisting, multiple sources said.\nThe Houthi group is the de facto authority in northern Yemen and aid agencies have to work with it to deliver assistance. Aid workers and supplies also come in through Houthi-controlled Sanaa airport and Hodeidah port.\n\"This serves no interest at all,\" Ryan Crocker, a retired U.S. ambassador who served in the Middle East, said of the designation. \"The Houthis are an integral part of Yemeni society\u2026This is making a strategic enemy out of a local force that has been part of Yemen for generations.\"\nThe Houthis deny being puppets of Iran and say they are fighting a corrupt system.\nhouthi foreign terrorist organization\nus iran houthi\nyemen houthi\nyemen houthi iran\nyemen houthi pompeo\nPrevious articleCovid: South Korea to vaccine its 52m people for free \u2013 Times of India\nNext articleCovid disturbs traditions: In a first, Budget to go paperless \u2013 Times of India\nPakistan approves Chinese Sinopharm Covid -19 vaccine for emergency use \u2013 Times of India\nISLAMABAD: The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) on Monday approved Chinese state-owned firm Sinopharm's Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, the second vaccine...\nBiden team says US will not lift travel bans, despite Trump statement \u2013 Times of India\nWASHINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden's spokeswoman quickly dismissed Donald Trump's announcement Monday that a Covid-19 ban on travelers arriving from much of Europe...\nTaiwan military stages drill aimed at repelling China attack \u2013 Times of India\nHSINCHU: Taiwanese troops using tanks, mortars and small arms staged a drill Tuesday aimed at repelling an attack from China, which has increased...\nCBSE topper from Gorakhpur invited to witness R-Day parade \u2013 Times of India\nGORAKHPUR: Divyangi Tripathi, the CBSE topper, has been invited to witness the Republic Day parade from the Prime Minister's Box in Delhi, along...\nCoronavirus long term symptoms: 76% of COVID patients experience symptoms even after 6 months of recovery, claims research\nLifeStyle Sahil - January 19, 2021 0\nWhile some of the most common symptoms of COVID-19 include fever, dry cough and loss of sense of smell and taste, people suffering...\nWorld Sahil - January 19, 2021 0\nSC agrees to hear plea challenging All India Bar Examination Rules 2010 \u2013 Times of India\nNEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Monday sought responses from the Centre and the Bar Council of India (BCI) on a plea challenging the...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"With: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Gina Gershon, Dominique Swain, Margaret Cho, Alessandro Nivola, Nick Cassavetes, Harve Presnell, Colm Feore\nWritten by: Mike Werb, Michael Colleary\nDirected by: John Woo\nFace\/Off (1997)\nGiving Them 'Face'\nI saw Face\/Off on June 30, 1997, the day China took overcontrol of Hong Kong from Great Britain. This impending changeover is whatcaused director John Woo and many other film artists to come to the US. I don't know what Hong Kong's future will be like, but watching Face\/Off on thatday, I can only say how lucky we are to have a great director like JohnWoo living and working among us.\nI had feared, after his mediocre American films Hard Target (1993) and Broken Arrow (1996), that Woo would never fit in to the rigid, greedy, product-oriented Hollywood system, and be able to make films like he did in Hong Kong. Films like The Killer (1989), Bullet in the Head (1990), and Hard-Boiled (1992) are so damn good that Hollywood would never allow their like to be made again. But, while watching Face\/Off, I was reminded again and again of the great artist who made those great Hong Kong films. Woo has found a new home, and the audience wins.\nFace\/Off concerns a good guy, Sean Archer (John Travolta), and a bad guy, Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage). They've been after each other for years, and they know each other inside and out. This super-intense relationship harkens back to The Killer and Hard-Boiled. American films rarely hit this level of character conflict (usually a two-dimensional villain is good enough). Cage plants a biological bomb somewhere in the city limits, then goes into a coma. In order to find the location of the bomb, Travolta must take Cage's face, and go undercover in jail, hoping Cage's brother will spill the beans. Before Travolta can get out, Cage wakes up and takes Travolta's face. From this point on, when you see Travolta, it's really Cage, and when you see Cage, it's really Travolta. The two actors do an amazing job of capturing the other's quirks and personality traits. On top of that, Woo creates an atmosphere of heightened senses and drama, where the actors plumb the depths of their feelings, much more so than in any American action picture I've ever seen. Cage and Travolta are both unleashed, and their skills and emotions run wild.\nIf that were all, Face\/Off would already be an extraordinary movie. But Woo shows us again and again why he is the best. The photography in the quiet scenes makes you gasp, and the action scenes make your guts clench up. If this material were handled by any other director (say, Jan de Bont, Simon West, or Joel Schumacher) it would be unconvincing and annoying. Woo perfectly, poetically, completely absorbs his material and shines it back out to us to take in with new eyes. There are so many small touches and single moments of excellence, that I would almost like to list them all here, but I would rather everyone see this movie for themselves.\nMake no mistake--those who are looking for the next Orson Welles, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, he is here, and his name is John Woo. Face\/Off ranks among his finest work. It is one of 1997's best films. I want to see it nominated for a whole rack of Oscars, especially two Best Actors, and a Best Director. (Cage did not deserve his award for Leaving Las Vegas like he deserves an award here.)\nFace\/Off also stars Gina Gershon, Joan Allen, Dominique Swain, and Margaret Cho, who are all admirable in small roles.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"259,1. The captors, however, to assure themselves of their reward from the queen, cut off the head from the slain Waltar, wrapped it in a cloth and brought it to the queen.\n259,2. She was shocked at first at the sight of the head; but soon recovered and said to the captors:\n259,3. \"Your loyalty has been proven! You have destroyed my greatest enemy; the enemy of my love you have killed and have deserved your reward! Here are a hundred pounds of gold; take it as your well-deserved reward!\n259,4. But take the head with you and bury it somewhere in the garden of the beauty goddesses; there he can gaze forever at those who were more to him than I!\n259,5. If you have buried the head, then go to the seven women who still live here in a lower part of the palace and bring them here, together with the fourteen sub-wives!\n259,6. What then has to be done, you will be told at the hour! Do your job well and the reward will not fail!\"\n259,7. Here, the captors took the head and did with it according to the commandment of the queen.\n259,8. But the beauty goddesses who saw the burial of the head, were mightily terrified and said among themselves: \"This is a bad omen for all of us! It will be better to quickly escape from this place, rather than following this head and be buried under in the ground!\"\n259,9. But some wished to speak to the general chief priest. He, though, was too busy with plans to make the king mistrustful towards Agla, and therefore was not available; for his anger towards the queen was too great. Thus the goddesses had to wait anxiously for the things to come.\n259,10. Already the very next day the captors went and brought the seven women of Waltar together with the fourteen sub-wives, to the queen.\n259,11. When they came before the queen, she asked them: \"Are you not mourning Waltar who has been killed by my power?\"\n259,12. Here the women began cry and lament.\n259,13. And the queen said: \"Thus, your love for Waltar was great, because you mourn his certain death?! Behold, also my love was great for him; because out of love I had him killed, so that he should not be yours!\n259,14. But I can see now that you suffer because of his loss; therefore I want to put an end to your suffering! Stripp all the women and tie them naked to the columns of this my royal hall!\"\n259,15. And the captors did so that once.\n259,16. When the women together with the sub-women were tied naked to the columns, Agla herself took a sharp pointed dagger and walked to the tethered wives and spoke to one as to the other, probing their bodies in the region of the heart: \"So there throbs the heart that loved my brother?\"\n259,17. Then she pushed the dagger into the heart of the bound woman and said: \"This is your reward, you wretch!\"\n259,18. Thus Agla herself killed with her own hand the wives of her brother out of revenge.\n259,19. And the king, although learning about it the next day already, did not dare to say to her: \"Woman! What have you done?\"; because he loved and feared Agla.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Google set to drive cars of the Future\nLast updated: 9 Aug 2020 \u2022 1 min read\nForget the human at the wheel, says Google. The search engine giant revealed that it has been test-driving cars sans drivers for months in the streets of California, a rumour which was doing its rounds.\nNot a typical project from Google, these self-driving cars has been tested\nOn 140,000 miles (ca. 225,308 km) of California road, from Silicon Valley to Santa Monica. These automated Toyota Prius cars use cameras, radar sensors and lasers to scan the roads ahead and gather information on other cars. They also use detailed maps collected by manually driven vehicles.\nAll this data is then sent to Google's data centre, which processes it allowing the car to drive itself automatically. The project is the passion of Sebastian Thrun, the director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and creator of Google's Street View who has been working on building a self-piloted car since at least 2005.\nThough these automated cars have successfully driven over 1000 miles (ca. 1,609 km) at a stretch, they are not left unmanned. One person sits in the driver's seat, ready to take control of the vehicle in case something goes wrong along with an engineer who analyses the car's software operations on the passenger seat.\nApart from the safety part which the computer driven vehicle can handle better than human drivers, its quick reaction time and 360-degree awareness would allow them to drive closer together on the main road than humans can, reducing traffic congestion.\nThere was only one accident reported, when the auto-pilot car was hit from behind while stopped at a light, an obvious human error. Google authorities said that they have briefed the police Dept. regarding their tests but still executing this technology in day-to-day life is a matter of feasibility as it contains law tribulations.\nhttp:\/\/www.siliconindia.com\/shownews\/Will_Google_drive_cars_of_the_future-nid-72536-cid\u2013sid-.html","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Listen To \"Here It Is\" by Pinemarten\nRaj Rudolph January 9, 2012\nMore Hot than HOT 0\nby Jordan Meehan\nFollowing shortly after the release of his debut album \"If You Thought There Was Any Doubt,\" Pinemarten has given us a follow up 3 track EP, \"Here It Is\". This new EP is loaded with what makes Pinemarten so unique and great: swirling, romantic synths and driving beats that, when combined, fill the listener with a feeling of somewhat beautiful melancholy that you just can't get enough of.\nWhat makes the title track in general so powerful is it's ability to do this without words. Using simply an array of sweeping synths, Pinemarten delivers a track that seamlessly evokes strong emotions and takes you by the hand on a journey of what seems to be melancholy romance. \"Here It Is\" definitely proves to be a wonderful follow up to the debut album. Listen below:\nHere It Is by Pinemarten\nRaj Rudolph\nFounder\/Editor-In-Chief\nRaj Rudolph has been an electronic pop music obsessive ever since he heard Madonna's iconic debut album. When he couldn't stop playing \"Music For The Masses\" by Depeche Mode, he instantly knew that electronic and pop music would be his life-long passion. Raj is American born, but has lived in London since 2000. He created EQ Music Blog as a passion project from the ground up having interviewed some of the biggest names in pop like Gaga, Sia, Mika, Kelis, Robyn and every member of the Scissor Sisters. EQ Music is one of the UK's longest running influential pop blogs, regularly hosting showcase nights for emerging and established pop acts in the British capital. Raj is also a digital professional working for the likes of WarnerMedia, MTV, Google, Huffington Post, Vogue, GQ and WIRED.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Gateacre District\nThread: Gateacre District\nScousemouse\nGateacre Time Capsule\nA time capsule placed above a doorway by two young boys in 1881 has been found during demolition work in Gateacre village.\nThe bundle of documents was discovered by a demolition team working at the site of the Gateacre Hall Hotel on Halewood Road. The time capsule had been hidden above the lintel of a door when the building was undergoing building work in the late 19th century.\nErmine tastes much the same as sackcloth when there's nothing left to eat.\nI read this SM a few days ago, an excellent find and clues to out past.\ngarstonlad75\nGarston, Liverpool\nI saw it on the news last night. Thought it was brilliant.\nThe two kids who left it must have really had their heads screwed on, they filled it with so much information.\nGateacre and Woolton Villages\nTHE go-ahead to convert the closed-down flock and felt works in historic Gateacre village into new homes has won approval from Liverpool planning committee.\nThe decision angered local residents who had battled for months against the proposals.\nThe Grade Two-listed factory building, originally a brewery, dating back to the 1860s, will be refurbished using income from two new apartment blocks at the rear of the site in Gateacre Brow.\nThe committee approved the scheme for 22 new apartments after visiting the site to see for themselves the likely impact.\nThe felt and flock factory has been in the ownership of the Clegg family for three generations, but finally closed in the 1990s.\nLocal residents complained that the development would cause traffic chaos in narrow Sandfield Road, which will be used as an exit point for the new residents.\nThe scheme will mean the demolition of two empty buildings next to the landmark original brewery which fronts the street.\nIt would also see the main brewery building converted into flats and number 42, Gateacre Brow, once the site manager's house, refurbished, and held by the Clegg family.\nSome protesters said the proposed three-storey apartment blocks would over-dominate the site and cause a loss of privacy.\nObjections were lodged by Garston MP Maria Eagle, local councillors Barbara Mace and Barbara Collinge, the local neighbourhood committee, and Liverpool Save Our City Campaign group.\nConcern was also raised by The Gateacre Society about the number of proposed residential units, 22 in total, that will be created on site.\nThe committee was told that the scheme to restore the former brewery would only be viable if the flats were built at the rear.\nEdward Evans, of Dale Mews, said the scheme would pose a danger to life because of the extra traffic it would create.\nHe said: \"There is so much opposition to this scheme and we just cannot believe they have given it the go-ahead. I was told there is no way we can appeal against the consent being given.\"\nThe scheme will enable residents to enter the new homes site through the traditional gateway to the works close to the Gateacre Brow junction. But they\nwill exit into Sandfield Park. The building's owner, Mike Friar, son-in-law of feltmaker Rex Clegg, has been unable to find a buyer for the site. The family drew up a compromise plan, that will secure the one-time brewery.\nCommittee chair Cllr Lady Doreen Jones recommended that the plans should be approved, with a scheme to ensure a friendly-neighbour approach by the builders.\nlarryneild@dailypost.co.uk\nshytalk\nPocahontas.Arkansas. U.S.A.\nWhen I was a kid, I lived at Coxhead Farm Gateacre, it stood about where they built the Cats Whisker pub.\nMy Saturday treat was a visit to the Woolton Pics. Deadwood D i c k was the hero, what a cliffhanger that was. There was a shop in the village that sold penny ly ices so that was my treat while walking home down Kings Drive.\nThis is a picture of the end of the farmhouse, it is the only one I have, I got it from John Williams the MERSEYMOUTH, hia aunt was the caretaker there in later years.\nhttp:\/\/i25.photobucket.com\/albums\/c8...alicesfarm.jpg\nThis is his website, well worth a read.http:\/\/www.liverpooltales.com\/opinion.htm\nLast edited by shytalk; 08-03-2006 at 04:52 AM. Reason: porn filter caught the word ****, it is a name\nQuick Navigation Liverpool South Top\n\u00ab Special school go-ahead | Building at corner of Seddon Rd. \u00bb\nChildren's home in Gateacre in the 70's\nBy DLNY in forum Liverpool People Discussion\nSt Gregory?s House in Gateacre\nBy Kev in forum Buildings and Structures\nGateacre comprehensive and Hope special school\nBy Kev in forum Liverpool City Suburbs\nBlack Bull Pub In Gateacre\nBy Max in forum Buildings and Structures\nMorans In Gateacre\nBy Max in forum Liverpool Firsts, Facts and Achievements\ndemolition, discovered, gateacre, hall, images, liverpool, team, time, village, working","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Kylie Jenner Admits to Using Lip Fillers\nShe's been questioned about her plump lips for quite some time.\nByMICHAEL ROTHMAN\nKylie Jenner is pictured in Los Angeles on March 25, 2015.\nGonzalo\/Getty Images\n\u2014 -- The debate and speculation is over -- Kylie Jenner has finally admitted to using fillers in her lips.\nDuring a cameo for \"Keeping Up With the Kardashians,\" Jenner, 17, speaks to the camera in a testimonial and was asked about her \"beautiful lips.\"\n\"I have temporary lip fillers, it's just an insecurity of mine and it's what I wanted to do,\" she said.\nRead: Teens Attempt DIY Kylie Jenner Pout With Potentially Dangerous Results\nShe continues, \"I'm just not ready to talk to reporters about my lips yet because everyone always picks us apart.\"\nShe then gives the reporter a vague answer about using different colors.\nIn another clip, Kylie's sister Khloe Kardashian says, \"Kylie decided to plump her lips and I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I think if you've done something though, it is right to cop up to it.\"\nShe advises her sister not to talk around it because she'll \"look like a liar.\"\nLast Month Jenner responded to girls taking a challenge that involved sucking on a water bottle or shot glass to make their lips expand and look like the reality star.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Trial against alleged Somali pirate kingpin begins\nThe trial of an alleged Somali pirate kingpin has begun in the Belgian city of Bruges. Following his spectacular arrest, Mohamed Abdi Hassan was charged with hijacking a Belgian ship and leading a criminal organization.\nKnown as \"Afweyne,\" or \"Big Mouth,\" and allegedly the most influential leader of a Somali pirate network, Mohamed Abdi Hassan was missing from the benches behind the defense as the trial against him opened at the criminal court in Bruges, Belgium.\n\"We have decided not to appear because the prosecution has added 2,500 pages to the dossier and we were only notified of this two days ago,\" defense attorney Hans Rieder said. \"But these new documents are very important because they challenge Mr. Hassan's alibi.\"\nVia: http:\/\/www.dw.com\/","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Evil in Us\nTags : Evil in Us\nAll Love Horror's Five FrightFest Facts From FrightFest 2016\nAlex Humphrey September 1, 2016\nThis year we decided to do something a little different with our interviews at FrightFest 2016 and offered a selected set of talented writers, directors and producers the chance to answer our fun informative list of Five FrightFest Facts.Read More\nFive FrightFest Facts From Dalj Brar Producer of Evil in\nAlex Humphrey August 30, 2016\n1. Tell us about your film? Dalj Brar: The Evil in Us is an independent horror film that adds an element of the thriller genre to make it stand out amongst the plethora of horror films. It is 3 storylines interwoven to give the audience a sense that there is some sort of connection between [\u2026]Read More\nFive FrightFest Facts From Jason William Lee Director of Evil\n1. Tell us about your film? Jason William Lee: Well it's your typical feel good romp about a group of friends who venture to a cabin in the woods where they are somehow transformed into ravenous cannibals thirsting for death and mayhem. Making it was one of the best experiences of my life and I [\u2026]Read More","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Middle East & Africa, Opinion, Saudi Arabia, Shariah Issues\nWomen in Saudi Arabia's Shura Council, what next?\nPosted on 19\/10\/2011 19\/10\/2011 by salama\nBy Samar Fatany\nGlobal Arab Network \u2013 Saudi Arabia \u2013 The recent decision by Saudi King Abdullah to allow women to run and vote in municipal elections and become members of the Shura Council, a parliament that acts as an advisory council to the King but has no legislative powers, has huge implications for the status of women in Saudi Arabia and has provided them with hope for what they may accomplish with their new roles.\nIn his 26 September inaugural speech at the Shura Council, King Abdullah rejected the marginalisation of women in all sectors and encouraged their participation in political life. Citing examples of prominent women throughout Islamic history, his speech showed great determination to empower Saudi women and end attempts to undermine their role in the name of Islam. The King stressed the need to modernise society and attacked those who opposed the inclusion of women in decision-making processes.\nKing Abdullah's decision has followed several statements in which he publically supported the integration of women into the workforce and welcomed the contributions of women to the economic prosperity of the country.\nLegalised discrimination against women in Saudi Arabia has continued over several decades due to the influence of religious hardliners who misinterpret Islamic concepts. Some decision makers have used distorted Islamic rulings to support their conservative ideas, for example that women should not participate in nation-building, should remain inside their homes and should not have any role in the country's future.\nBut the participation of women in the Shura and municipal councils will finally provide women with the opportunity to end the discrimination against them in the public and private sectors.\nThey will be able to exert pressure on the government through their lobbying within the Shura, and provide official recommendations addressing the challenges that have hindered their progress, such as the ban on women driving, the reluctance of the public to support women in leadership positions, the strict culture of segregation within society, the niqab (a face veil worn in addition to the headscarf) which can compromise the level of efficiency and professionalism of women's careers, and discriminatory policies at some workplaces.\nWomen in the Shura can also serve the interests of women currently in the workforce by pushing for adequate maternity leave, reasonable working hours, onsite nurseries and equal pay.\nWomen council members could also promote the advancement of women's status in society by the very fact that they will demonstrate that women can participate in and shape public life. Their newly recognised positions could promote a greater respect for women as they face the challenges of modern life.\nMany Saudi women hope that women in the Shura will be able to challenge extreme religious rulings that are incompatible with Muslim women's realities in today's world. Among the issues that they could raise would be the need for a codified system to ensure a uniform application of Islamic laws. This would allow women to become familiar with their legal rights in Islam and not be at the mercy of the whims of family court judges, some of whom sanction domestic abuse or deliberately rule in favour of an abusive male guardian simply because he is a man.\nAs a first step, the women in the Shura will be expected to call for the elimination of laws governing legal guardianship, which give men rights over their wives, daughters, etc., and to address the injustices toward women in cases of unjust or disproportionate jail sentences, floggings, child marriages, domestic abuse, child custody or divorce.\nThe women in the Shura could also have a significant impact by advocating women's participation in governmental and managerial positions. Together with other parts of civil society, such as the chamber of commerce or human rights organisations, the female council members could also inform male politicians and managers about the realities of women who suffer from discrimination and encourage them to work for change.\nThe challenges facing women are still overwhelming. And it may take another generation \u2013 or even two \u2013 to achieve the shift in the role of women in Saudi society that many of us have long desired. However, the inclusion of women in the Shura Council is a significant first step towards a society where women can assume leadership positions in public life and achieve proper justice.\nGlobal Arab Network\n* Samar Fatany is a chief broadcaster and journalist in the English service of Radio Jeddah and a social activist who has been involved in fighting extremism and enhancing the role of women and youth in Saudi society. She is also a columnist for Arab News and the author of three books. This article was written for the Common Ground News Service (CGNews).\nSaudi Arabia: Saudi International Halal Expo moved to 7-9\u2026\nSaudi International Halal Expo 2022, to take place in the\u2026\nSaudi Arabia: Foodex Saudi 2020 scheduled to 15-18 November\u2026\nThis entry was posted in Middle East & Africa, Opinion, Saudi Arabia, Shariah Issues. Bookmark the permalink.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Toronto Ambitious Ontario full-day kindergarten plan met with skepticism from school boards\nAmbitious Ontario full-day kindergarten plan met with skepticism from school boards\nLibrarian Lindsay Keith, left, helps teacher Stephanie Hammond, right, prepare her classroom at Fraser Mustard Early Learning Academy, which expects 685 students at the all-kindergarten school, in Toronto on Aug. 29, 2013.\nCaroline Alphonso Education Reporter\nEDUCATION REPORTER\nPublished August 30, 2013 Updated May 11, 2018\nAn ambitious commitment by the Ontario government to roll out full-day kindergarten across the province by next fall is being met with skepticism from school boards where student enrollment is growing.\nHowever, the man charged with implementing the program says the government will not waver from its pledge to offer all-day kindergarten to every student by September, 2014.\n\"The commitment has been five years. I know it's a struggle for some boards to meet that, and so they'll have to find ways to accommodate while they're in the process of building,\" Jim Grieve, assistant deputy minister of the early learning division, told The Globe and Mail in an interview.\n\"Regardless of whether the construction is finished, the children will be in full-day kindergarten, and boards will make that accommodation. That's the expectation, and they know it.\"\nTwo school boards, Peel District School Board and Halton District School Board, say they cannot guarantee kindergarten classes will be ready for four- and five-year-olds under the strict timeline set out by the province.\nSchool boards saved their most difficult projects for the last year of the rollout, and construction cost overruns and an unexpected jump in enrollment, despite the best projections, would easily set them back. Halton, for example, has seen kindergarten enrollment climb 70 per cent between 2008 and 2012, and it is not projected to slow down.\nAlready, the Peel Region District School Board has faced challenges with escalating construction costs and a shortage of government dollars, not to mention enrollment exceeding the number of classes funded by the Ministry of Education.\n\"It is worrying, because as a board that needs to be fiscally responsible, we're not going to rob from one program to pay for another program,\" said Shirley-Ann Teal, Peel's co-ordinating superintendent for instructional support services. \"Will we be ready for Year 5? I hope so, but we can't guarantee that.\"\nMark Zonneveld, the superintendent responsible for implementing full-day kindergarten in Halton, said while the board anticipates being ready, \"we can't make any guarantees because of factors outside our control related to the construction industry.\"\nThe full-day kindergarten program is being rolled out in phases. The government is spending more than $1.45-billion in capital costs to expand and retrofit schools, on top of millions in operating dollars. Early evidence from Ontario shows that students in the program are getting a leg up, especially in reading, vocabulary and phonetics. But it will be years before taxpayers know whether full-day kindergarten delivers on its promise of higher graduation rates and improved academic outcomes. Across the country, British Columbia and Prince Edward Island recently introduced all-day kindergarten programs. Quebec has had full-day kindergarten for years.\nSince the Ontario government introduced it in the fall of 2010, full-day kindergarten has been popular with parents. Critics, however, characterize it as an expensive form of government-backed daycare. A recent Drummond Report recommended either cutting the program to save $1.5-billion a year, delaying the rollout until 2017 or reducing staff to make it more affordable.\nThe Liberal government has vowed to continue to fund the program. Still, Mr. Grieve said that the government is not putting any more money into capital or operating funds, and any cost overruns would have to be shouldered by school boards.\nAmong the 900 schools offering full-day kindergarten this fall is the Fraser Mustard Learning Academy in north Toronto \u2013 one of the largest all-day kindergarten schools in North America. The school will welcome about 685 students next week.\nThe school is next door to Thorncliffe Park Public School, which is bursting with more than 1,400 children in Grades 1 to 5. The area is a dense pocket of buildings that serves as a landing pad for many recent immigrants.\nPrincipal Catherine Ure and school officials gave the media a tour of the school Thursday. Teachers were setting up their classrooms, despite last-minute construction. Of the first day of school, Ms. Ure said: \"It's going to be pretty overwhelming for 700 [kindergarten students]. I don't think there will be too many kids crying. I think there will be anxious parents. But I have very good teachers who have done a lot of research and a lot of workshops around the early years and how to support young learners.\"\nFollow Caroline Alphonso on Twitter @calphonso","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Welcome to Yorkshire is redundant thanks to Channel 5 showcasing county \u2013 Yorkshire Post Letters\nArena sitting pretty as top acts set to rock new venue\nBOSSES at the new Leeds Arena are on the verge of luring some of the world's top entertainment acts to the \u00a360m venue.\nSaturday, 14th July 2012, 7:00 am\nJohn Knight, regional vice president of arena operator SMG Europe, yesterday said \"advanced talks\" were under way with concert promoters.\nHe also revealed that an announcement on the initial clutch of acts confirmed to play the 13,500-capacity venue was due in the very near future.\nMr Knight was speaking at the start of a new phase in the arena scheme, with the first seats being fitted into position at the Clay Pit Lane site.\n\"We are in advanced talks with promoters and agents who are adding Leeds to the touring schedules of some of the world's biggest artistes,\" he said.\nBuilding work on the Leeds City Council-backed project is being carried out by BAM Construction. Its project construction manager, Gordon Alexander, said: \"It will be an outstanding, high-quality building and one of the finest entertainment venues to be built in recent years.\"\nExperts estimate the arena will create more than 450 jobs and generate around \u00a325m a year for the Leeds economy.\nThe venue should be complete and capable of staging its first gigs by next June.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Changin' Times\nI'm beating a dead horse. Nearly every one of my posts has me saying that times are changing. Fair warning, this post isn't going to be any different.\nBack in 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew from New York to Paris, becoming the first person to complete a transatlantic flight. That's nothing says Andr\u00e9 Borschberg, Swiss businessman and founder of Solar Impulse.\nBorschberg has set out on a fight around the world in his solar plane. This plane, with a jumbo jet's wingspan size and a top speed of only 50 miles per hour, set off for its global voyage this past week in Abu Dhabi.\nThe ultra-light plane seats only one. Borschberg and Solar Impulse co-founder Bertrand Piccard will both trade off during layovers.\nKnock on wood, we will be watching the news of his completed journey on TV, instead of hearing it on the radio as we would've in Lindbergh's day.\nSimilarly to how media preferences (from radio to TV) changed from the 1920's to 1950's, there's a change happening right now.\nDuring 2013, 36% of households used only streaming services instead of cable as their main source of viewing entertainment. That number is up to 40% this year and shows no sign of slowing in growth.\nNeedless to say (I'm gonna say it anyway), cable companies aren't happy because TV rating are falling.\nWhat's more, HBO Now is only going to be available on Apple devices as of April. No longer would you need a cable package to watch HBO.\n\"And the first one now\/ Will later be last\/ For the times they are a changin'\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Batmobile tackles tanks in this new Batman: Arkham Knight trailer\nJeff Spry\nTag: Batman: Arkham Knight\nTag: games\nHere's part two of the Ace Chemicals Infiltration gameplay trailer for next year's Batman: Arkham Knight that we first showed you last week, and this middle child of the teaser trilogy fires up the afterburners on intense action. One of the coolest additions to Rocksteady's latest Batman gaming incarnation is the ability to strap yourself into the cockpit of the armored Batmobile and drive around Gotham City doing maximum damage -- a fantasy many of us have indulged in over the years!\nIn this segment, Batman pilots the Batmobile into a brutal battle with a squad of enemy drone tanks using his mini-gun, light artillery and a deadly salvo of rockets. Enter the fray and remember to check back on Saturday for the final Ace Chemicals chapter.\nMore Batman: Arkham Knight\nThe 12 best superhero video games you can play right now\nThe Joker goes down in flames in this new E3 footage for Batman: Arkham Knight\nCheck out Arkham Knight's official synopsis:\nIn the explosive finale to the Arkham series, Batman faces the ultimate threat against the city he is sworn to protect. The Scarecrow returns to unite an impressive roster of super villains, including Penguin, Two-Face and Harley Quinn, to destroy The Dark Knight forever. Batman: Arkham Knight introduces Rocksteady's uniquely designed version of the Batmobile, which is drivable for the first time in the franchise. The addition of this legendary vehicle, combined with the acclaimed gameplay of the Batman Arkham series, offers gamers the ultimate and complete Batman experience as they tear through the streets and soar across the skyline of the entirety of Gotham City.\nBatman: Arkham Knight is set to launch worldwide on June 2, 2015, on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. Will you be ready to get behind the Batmobile's wheel?\n(Via Gamma Squad)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"MYTOPSCHOOLS\nTop Schools Everywhere & Anywhere in The World\u2026.\nTOP 10 SCHOOLS\nEDU Nigeria\nTop 10 Universities In Australia 2019\/2020 | Australian Universities Ranking 2019\/2020\nJanuary 20, 2019 Jabulani Imka TOP 10 SCHOOLS\n1 Top 10 Universities In Australia 2019\/2020 | Australian Universities Ranking 2019\/2020\n1.1 Top 10 Universities In Australia 2019\/2020 | Australian Universities Ranking 2019\/2020\n1.1.1 AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY\n1.1.2 UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE\n1.1.3 UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY\n1.1.4 UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES\n1.1.5 UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND\n1.1.6 MONASH UNIVERSITY\n1.1.7 THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA\n1.1.8 UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE\n1.1.9 UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEY\n1.1.10 UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE\n1.1.11 OTHER TOP TEN SCHOOLS\nWe are aware at mytopschools that several individuals have been searching for Top 10 Universities In Australia 2019\/2020 | Australian Universities Ranking 2019\/2020, australia university ranking 2019, australia university ranking 2019, australia university ranking by subject, top universities in sydney, top universities in the world, university of melbourne australia, top universities in australia for engineering, best medical universities in australia and we have decided to ensure we totally satisfy your curiousity by writing on the subject above.\nAustralia is one of the most developed country in the world, in the continent of Australia and Oceania, Australia has 43 Universities (40 Australian, 2 international, and one private owned). Education is taken very seriously in Australia they have high rate of educated people. They also have Universities that are ranked amongst the best globally.\nThese are the top 10 Universities in Australia:\nAustralian National University was Established in 1946, it is a public higher education institution located in the small city of Canberra (population range of 250,000-499,999 inhabitants), Australian Capital Territory.\nIt was officially endorsed by the Department of Education and Training, Australia, Australian National University (ANU) is large having an enrollment range of: 20,000-24,999 students. Australian National University (ANU) is ranked 24th in the world in 2019 and claims one of the country's highest scores for research impact (citations per faculty member) and percentage of international student indicators. See ANU's degree levels and other areas of interest with this link http:\/\/www.anu.edu.au\/.\nThe University of Melbourne was Established in 1853, it is a public higher education institution located in Melbourne (population range of 1,000,000-5,000,000 inhabitants), Victoria. It was officially endorsed by the Department of Education and Training, Australia, The University of Melbourne (UNIMELB) is very large having an enrollment range of over-45,000 students. The University of Melbourne achieved positions in the global top 20 for its reputation with both academics and employers. The university has a very diverse student body, with nearly 40 percent of its 50,270 students coming from outside Australia. See Melbourne's degree levels and other areas of interest with this link http:\/\/www.unimelb.edu.au\/.\nThe University of Sydney was Established in 1850, it is a public higher education institution located in the city of Sydney (population range of 1,000,000-5,000,000 inhabitants), New South Wales. It was officially endorsed by the Department of Education and Training, Australia, The University of Sydney (USYD) is very large having an enrollment range of: over-45,000 students.\nThe University of Sydney (USYD) offers courses climbed eight places to rank 42nd in the world in 2019, and is the oldest of these top Australian universities , Sydney was Australia's highest-ranked entrant in the QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2018 at fourth in the world. See USYD's degree levels and other areas of interest with this link http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/\nThe University of New South Wales was Established in 1949, it is a public higher education institution located in Sydney (population range of 1,000,000-5,000,000 inhabitants), New South Wales. It was officially endorsed by the Department of Education and Training, Australia,\nThe University of New South Wales (UNSW) is very large having an enrollment range of: over-45,000 students.\nThe University of New South Wales (UNSW) is 45th in the World University Rankings in 2019, and is a founding member of the Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensive universities. See more on University of New South Wales with this link http:\/\/www.unsw.edu.au\/.\nThe University of Queensland was Founded in 1909, it is a public higher education institution located in St Lucia (population range of 10,000-49,999 inhabitants), Queensland.\nThis institution has other campuses at Ipswich and Gatton. It was officially accredited by the Department of Education and Training, Australia, The University of Queensland (UQ) is ranked 48th in the world 2019 recent rankings. UQ is mainly based in state capital Brisbane and has been responsible for a number of recent research innovations, such as the cervical cancer vaccine.\nIt is very large having an enrollment range of: over-45,000 students. See more vital and interest information on The University of Queensland (UQ) with this link http:\/\/www.uq.edu.au\/ .\nMonash University was Founded in 1958, it is a public higher education institution located in Clayton (population range of 10,000-49,999 inhabitants), Victoria.\nThis institution has 5 campuses in Victoria and it is mainly based in Melbourne, and has two campuses overseas (in South Africa and Malaysia). It was officially endorsed by the Department of Education and Training, Australia, Monash University (Monash) is very large having an enrollment range of: over-45,000 students. See Monash University's degrees, levels and other areas of interest with this link http:\/\/www.monash.edu\/ .\nThe University of Western Australia was Founded in 1911, it is a public higher education institution located in Perth (population range of 2,500-9,999 inhabitants), Western Australia. It was officially endorsed by the Department of Education and Training, Australia,\nThe University of Western Australia (UWA) is 91st in the world recent rankings in 2019, achieving the strongest score out of these top 10 Australian universities for its percentage of international faculty members it is large having an enrollment range of: 25,000-29,999 students. See more on The University of Western Australia with this link http:\/\/www.uwa.edu.au\/.\nUNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE\nThe University of Adelaide was Founded in 1874, it is a public higher education institution located in Adelaide (population range of 1,000,000-5,000,000 inhabitants), South Australia. It was officially endorsed by the Department of Education and Training, Australia,\nThe University of Adelaide (UofA) is recognized for its innovations in various areas of research by the Excellence in Research Australia (ERA), a national research evaluation framework conducted by the Australian Research Council (ARC). This institution is large having an enrollment range of: 25,000-29,999 students. See university of Adeliade's degrees, levels and other areas of interest with this link http:\/\/www.adelaide.edu.au\/.\nUNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEY\nUniversity of Technology Sydney was Established in 1965, it is a non-profit public higher education institution located in Sydney (population range of 1,000,000-5,000,000 inhabitants), New South Wales.\nIt was officially recognized by the Department of Education and Training, Australia, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is one of the youngest top Australian University, it is very large having an enrollment range of: 40,000-44,999 students. See UTS's degrees, levels and other areas of interest with this link http:\/\/www.uts.edu.au\/.\nUNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE\nThe University of Newcastle was Founded in 1965, it is a public higher education institution located in Callaghan (population range of 250,000-499,999 inhabitants), New South Wales.\nThis institution has other campuses in Ourimbah, Port Macquarie, Singapore and Sydney. It was officially accredited by the Department of Education and Training, Australia, The University of Newcastle (UoN) is very large having an enrollment range of: 20,000-30,000 students. 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{"text":"CFL Cancels 2020 Season\nThe CFL have announced the cancellation of the 2020 season. This follows a prolonged period of speculation.\nThe league had been trying to negotiate a loan from the federal government. Different figures were bandied about at different times. From talk of a $150 million loan rquest in May. In July the headline loan request figure had fallen substantially to $44 million.\nAll the way to the latest negotiations for a $30 million dollar loan for a shortened season. It was because of the refusal of the latter that ultimatley signalled the shuttering of the league for this season.\nCFL Faces losses\nThe League faces losses through all of this. With no football in 2020, a source 'familiar with the situation' said the league will lose between $60 and $80 million this year, as reported by AFI Review.\nAnother requirement for an abbreviated season was the league and the CFL Players' Association to agree on an amended collective bargaining agreement. The CFL said it was close to a deal when it called off the season on Monday.\nFor some players they will have unwittingly played their last down in the CFL. Others may now opt to walk away. Whilst others may look to see where there is a market for their talents.\nTrying to stay positive\nCFL comissioner Randy Ambroise is walking a difficult tightrope right now. He has to be the face of this. Meanwhile boards of governors and owners will have their own agendas.\nHe has tried to portray some positives looking forward to 2021. Including stating that \"the league and its teams are working together on a new initiative that will allow fans to show their pride in the CFL's storied history at the same time they pledge their support for the future, which will be unveiled in the coming days\".\nThe CFL finds a way\nThe CFL may want to look at its business plan. A ticket driven league is difficult to sustain in the early 21st Century. Plus they need to improve their social connections in some areas.\nBut this is also an opportunity. The CFL now has a year to look at its own strengths and weaknesses and work out what is best.\nRevenue sharing? Team or league shares? Putting all kinds of ideas on the table? Now is the time. Because now is not only a sad moment but also an opportunity. An opportunity to solidify the base of the 3 down game.\nBig challenges are not new to the CFL\nI believe the CFL has survival woven into its genes. This league has stared into the abyss more than once. And survived.\nThe past decade and a half has seen stadium improvements and a return to nine teams. That is something the league needs to aim to maintain.\nIn 1986 a 'Save our Stamps' campaign helped keep the Calgary Stampeders in business. In 1987 Saskatchewan ran a 'Save the Roughriders' telethon. Both teams are still here and integral to the CFL.\nAfter losing susbstantial advertising revenue and a TV contract in the 90's, the league used the fabled 93-5 American expansion period to bounce back.\nIn 1996 the Ottawa Rough Riders folded. In 2005 the Ottawa Renegades wound up too. But the RedBlacks are back in town. And have been a success.\nIn 2003 the Toronto Argonauts and Hamilton Tiger-Cats played in what became known as the 'Bankruptcy Bowl' because neither team had an owner. Both are still here.\nBut through all of this the league has endured. The Grey Cup last wasn't presented in 1919. 101 years later it won't be again. That century of history won't be lost though. Because this league, its fans, the teams \u2013 they find a way.\nSo let's hope the league seizes this chance. To rebuild. To refresh. And to be ready to add to its own long and illustrious history.\nBanner image: niagrafallsreview.ca\nCFLCFL Season\nGreat CFL Pivots: Ron Lancaster\nGreat CFL Pivots: Tom Wilkinson\n7 thoughts on \"CFL Cancels 2020 Season\"\nPingback: CFL teams release selected negotiation list names - Ninety-Nine Yards: American Football\nPingback: The Thundering Herd: Marshall's Rise by Gareth Evans - Ninety-Nine Yards: American Football\nPingback: Grey Cup History: The 1970 Game - Ninety-Nine Yards: American Football\nPingback: Grey Cup History: The 2000 Grey Cup Game - Ninety-Nine Yards: American Football\nPingback: Famous Five - Ranking the five Grey Cup games shown in the UK. - Ninety-Nine Yards: American Football\nPingback: Montreal are making moves - Ninety-Nine Yards: American Football","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hero's Rest\nBut now the scene is changed: peace crowns the sylvan shade.\nThe Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon\n(Filson's Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke, Appendix, p61)\nDaniel Boone's grave in Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Kentucky.\nEvery American schoolchild knows the name of Daniel Boone. Not for me then to give you the story of his life: how this Pennsylvanian spent most of his life exploring the new West and blazing trails into it from the old colonies, including the Cumberland Gap which for many years would be the gate to American continental expansion, pushing ever westward. (The details of his story are beautifully and accurately told by Constance Skinner in Pioneers of the Old Southwest, chapters 5 and 11.)\nTrue to himself then, late in life \u2014 finding his new home state \"crowded\", with fewer than two hundred thousand people spread over more than a hundred thousand square kilometers! \u2014 he emigrated to Missouri, to die there in 1820 at the age of 85; and so was buried there, on his new farm near Marthasville.\nYet Dan Boone had become identified with Kentucky. Much of his life had been spent there, exploring, fighting Indians during the Revolutionary War, surveying, farming, and publicizing it in one of the most successful pieces of literary boosterism in American history. It was only natural that he should be buried here, in the state capital of Kentucky; and so his remains were brought to Frankfort in 1845, along with those of his wife Rebecca who had died in 1813. Or at least, maybe they were: in the best Old World tradition, where his relics really lie is a matter of doubt and maybe deceit; the studious reader will find the confusing details in the websites linked below.\nThe four white marble high-relief panels, seen here clockwise starting with the front of the monument on the west side, seem to be more in the nature of generic vignettes than episodes of a specific story; this by way of confessing that if they do tell a story, I don't know what it is:\n(No, you don't need to squint: each panel expands with a click.)\nThe color differences are an artifact of the lighting at the time I took these pictures; the south and west sides were in the sun, the north and east in the deep shade of approaching sunset. As it turns out though, the vigorously lit sides tell of conflict \u2014 the huntsman kills a deer, he fights an Indian \u2014 and those in shadow depict peaceful subjects: a conversation, and Rebecca Boone milking a cow.\nThe monument was erected in 1880, and these reliefs were carved around that time; but the carving has already had time to wear differently depending on its exposure: the contrast between the west panel, which fronts onto the windy cliff, and the much more sheltered east panel, is particularly noticeable in the details of the foliage.\nEven more noticeable to some will be the famous coonskin cap, shown three times in these reliefs. Yet historians repeatedly set us on our guard: that cap was the trademark of Davy Crockett, not of Daniel Boone; but by 1880 the confusion had already set in.\nNeedless to say, if you have good information to fill in my gaps, I'd be happy to hear from you.\nThus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished by nature, now become the habitation of civilization.\n(Filson, Appendix, p39)\nThe view from Daniel Boone's grave on the cliff,\nonto the Kentucky River, the city of Frankfort,\nand the barely visible gray dome of her capitol building,\nand into the setting sun.\nHome OFF\nPage updated: 27 Dec 14","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Kyrgyzstan: Labor force: percent female\nLabor force, percent female\nFor that indicator, we provide data for Kyrgyzstan from 1990 to 2021. The average value for Kyrgyzstan during that period was 42.92 percent with a minimum of 38.56 percent in 2020 and a maximum of 45.65 percent in 1995. The latest value from 2021 is 38.7 percent. For comparison, the world average in 2021 based on 180 countries is 41.25 percent. See the global rankings for that indicator or use the country comparator to compare trends over time.\nDefinition: Female labor force as a percentage of the total show the extent to which women are active in the labor force. Labor force comprises people ages 15 and older who supply labor for the production of goods and services during a specified period.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Next:INDONESIA: A Little War Over Nothing in the Middle of Nowhere\nAlgeria: Terrorists Trying to Bring Back the Bad Old Days\nMarch 9, 2007: Terrorist violence was down slightly in February, with 18 dead and 15 wounded, compared to 21 dead and three wounded in January. The few remaining Islamic terrorists in northeastern Algeria, appear determined to go down fighting and killing. Since the GSPC announced its merger with al Qaeda last year, there has been an increase in bombings, and a decrease in the traditional massacre of civilians with knives and guns. Apparently, al Qaeda convinced the GSPC terrorists that they would anger fewer Algerians if they blew people up, rather than slitting their throats. A decade ago, the GSPC was killing up to a hundred people a day, but now, it takes up to six months to cause that much mayhem.\nMarch 4, 2007: East of the capital, Islamic terrorists ambushed a police patrol, killing five police and destroying three vehicles. March 3, 2007: Islamic terrorists ambushed some foreign oil workers, and killed a Russian engineer. March 1, 2007: Islamic terrorists made ten attacks on security personnel east of the capital, but only two people were wounded, and the terrorists were driven away. Another clash with Islamic terrorists, 200 kilometers south of the capital, left three policemen dead.\nATTRITION: Bonus Time and the Bean Counters\nINDONESIA: A Little War Over Nothing in the Middle of Nowhere\nAlgeria: Current 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 ","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Grants & Open Calls\n+ Follow Black Women\nBlack Women Photographers Open Call for Sponsored Websites\nAn opportunity for up to 30 freelance visual journalists & professional photographers who are members of Black Women Photographers who do not have a personal website and would like to have one.\nThirty members will receive each a Lifetime Plus membership on Visura to build one personal website connected to a global community of visual storytellers, including photo editors, creative directors, producers, and publishers looking to hire and license visual content.\nPhotographers working on stories but not limited to climate change, environmental justice, gender equality, racial justice, and human rights will be considered. This opportunity is for photographers who focus on visual journalism, portraiture, documentary, photojournalism, stills, creativity, fine art, videos, and short film.\nAccepting submissions: December 20 to December 31, 2021\nDecember 31, 2021 (11:59pm, EST)\nSubmissions are closed.\nThere is no application fee.\nAll submissions are made via a Story created from the Visura dashboard\nStories may be ongoing or recently completed personal story\nImage size: 2200px on the longest dimension. (11 inches @ 200 dpi, jpg format)\nInclude a written Statement, in first person, saved as the Story text.\nStories may be 'published' or 'private' within the Visura system.\nThe goal of this sponsorship is to support freelance visual journalists, photojournalists, photographers, filmmakers, visual fine artists, portrait photographers, still photographers, and journalists who do not have a personal website and would like to have one.\nThis sponsorship is possible thanks in part to Robertson Realty & Visura.\nApplications will open starting on December 20, 2021, and will close on January 31, 2022. Applicants must be freelance visual journalists, photographers, filmmakers, photojournalists from anywhere in the world.\nThe deadline for applications is January 31, 2022, at 11:59 pm (Eastern Time).\nApplicants must submit their Visura Profile with a link to a visual story, or your Instagram page as part of the grant application.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"BRUINS ALUMNI REPORT: Playoff time in College Hockey\nMarch 8, 2016 August 16, 2016\nPhoto credit: Austin Daily Herald\nECHL: Keegan Asmundson (Bruins '10-11) made 30 saves on 32 shots in his third appearance as a member of the Indy Fuel, but was saddled with a loss as Toledo picked up a 2-1 win on Sunday. February 28th.\nNCAA DI: Eamon McAdam (Bruins '10-11) was nominated for the Mike Richter award last week, which recognizes the NCAA's best goaltender. He made 26 saves in a 2-1 win over Wisconsin on Friday. McAdam has posted an 11-4-1 record in 16 starts with a 2.43 goals against average and a .928 save percentage, leading the Big-10 in both categories. C.J. Smith (Bruins '11-13) scored a goal in U-Mass Lowell's regular season finale, a 3-1 home win over Boston College on Friday, 2\/27. Smith finishes the regular season leading the River Hawks in points with 33 (14 goals, 19 assists). They'll take on Boston University in the Hockey East Quarterfinals starting Friday. Johnny Simonson (Bruins '11-13) had a pair of assists in North Dakota's 4-1 win on Saturday, 2\/28 at Nebraska-Omaha. They'll host Colorado College in the NCHC Quarterfinals, also starting Friday.\nNCAA DIII: Charlie Adams (Bruins '10-12) sits 2nd among all DIII players in points with 49 (21 goals, 28 assists), behind only Hamline teammate Brandon Zurn. Adrian College rolled to the NCHA Championship and into the NCAA Tournament after a pair of 4-2 wins over St. Scholastica followed by a 4-1 victory against St. Norbert. Brian Bachnak (Bruins '13-15) opened the postseason scoresheet for the Bulldogs 2:28 into the first game, with some help from a Cory Dunn (Bruins '13-15) assist. Trevor Boyd (Bruins '13-15) also scored two goals including the game winner in the same game. Bachnak scored the game-winner in game two, with Dunn picking up two more assists. Dunn would add one more helper in the championship game. Adrian will take on Wisconsin-Stevens Point in the NCAA Quarterfinals on Saturday, March 19th. Jeremy Finger (Bruins '10-12) and his UMass-Boston Beacons won the NEHC Championship with a 3-2 OT victory over Babson on Saturday. They'll take on Trinity in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday.\nACHA DI: Former Bruins Colton Kramer (Bruins '11-13), Kody Reuter (Bruins '11-14), Jake Arroyo (Bruins '12-15), and Tony Uglem (Bruins '14-15) all suited up for the Iowa State Cyclones in a 2-1 loss to Lindenwood in the ACHA DI National Championship on Tuesday night. Reuter scored the lone goal for the Cyclones. Uglem had a goal and four assists in the tournament to lead the team.\nUSHL: Jake Kielly (Bruins '14-15) registered a 26 save shutout as Tri City blanked Omaha 4-0 on Friday night. Kielly got Saturday off as a Bruins alumni-powered attack for Sioux City got two goals from Trey Dodd (Bruins '13-15) and the game winner from Josh Wilkins (Bruins '14-15) in a 4-3 triumph over the Storm.\nCaptain Clutch: Miller's late goal lifts Bruins over Blizzard\nWEEKEND PREVIEW: Bruins battle Bobcats in Barometer Series","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"lAll (6)r\nlAntiquarian (0)r\nlNew (6)r\nSubject\/Author\/Title Author Title Highest Price Lowest Price Most Recent Publisher Newest Published Oldest Published\nkeywords: SERIESPN\nHinks, John and Catherine Armstrong (editors).\nBOOK TRADE CONNECTIONS FROM THE SEVENTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURIES.\nDelivered at the Twenty-second Conference on the History of the British Book Trade Birmingham, July 2005\nNew Castle, Delaware and London, England: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2008. 6 x 9 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 281 pages. Delivered at the Twenty-second Conference on the History of the British Book Trade Birmingham, July 2005. First edition. This ninth volume of the Print Networks series contains twelve exciting chapters from scholars working on the connections between the parties involved in the production of print artifacts; from author to printer, publisher, bookseller..... READ MORE about BOOK TRADE CONNECTIONS FROM THE SEVENTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURIES\nHinks, John and Matthew Day (editors).\nFROM COMPOSITORS TO COLLECTORS: ESSAYS ON BOOK-TRADE HISTORY.\nNew Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2012. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 400 pages. The essays in this collection trace texts from their creation and printing through to their publication, dissemination, and collection. In doing so, they show how production processes change texts and how collectors subsequently appropriate them for their own ends. By examining the diverse activities of those involved in both textual creation and collection..... READ MORE about FROM COMPOSITORS TO COLLECTORS: ESSAYS ON BOOK-TRADE HISTORY\nOrder nr. 105524\nHinks, John and Victoria Gardner (editors).\nTHE BOOK TRADE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND: PRACTICES, PERCEPTIONS, CONNECTIONS.\nNew Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2014. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 256 pages. This twelfth volume in the Print Networks series comprises a range of papers from recent conferences on the early modern book trade. Collectively, they explore the practices and perceptions of print production, the circulation of texts and connections between book-trade personnel in Britain and Europe between the late fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries..... READ MORE about THE BOOK TRADE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND: PRACTICES, PERCEPTIONS, CONNECTIONS\nHinks, John, Catherine Armstrong, and Matthew Day (editors).\nPERIODICALS AND PUBLISHERS: THE NEWSPAPER AND JOURNAL TRADE, 1740-1914.\nNew Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2009. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 256 pages. This tenth volume of the Print Networks series contains eleven original contributions by scholars working on periodicals and newspapers in the British Isles, outside London. The essays focus on the period between 1740 and 1914, including some case studies of individual publishers and their experiences in the print market. This volume demonstrates the cultural and..... READ MORE about PERIODICALS AND PUBLISHERS: THE NEWSPAPER AND JOURNAL TRADE, 1740-1914\nIsaac, Peter and Barry McKay (editors).\nHUMAN FACE OF THE BOOK TRADE: PRINT CULTURE AND ITS CREATORS.\nNew Castle, Delaware and Folkestone, England: Oak Knoll Press and St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1999. small 8vo. Hardback printed covers. x, 228 pages. First edition. These thirteen scholarly essays on the history of the book trade are the third volume in the PRINT NETWORKS series of publications. The original papers were presented at the annual \"Seminars on the British Book Trade.\" The essays covered include Paul Morgan's \"Henry Cotton and W. H. Allnutt: Two Pioneer Book-Trade..... READ MORE about HUMAN FACE OF THE BOOK TRADE: PRINT CULTURE AND ITS CREATORS\nTHE MIGHTY ENGINE: THE PRINTING PRESS AND ITS IMPACT.\nNew Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. 8vo. Hardback printed covers. 218 pages. This fourth volume in the Print Networks series salutes the impact of the printing press. Taken from the proceedings of the Seventeenth Seminar on the British Book Trade held in Aberystwyth in July 1999, this collection of scholarly essays covers the regulation of printed matter and its distribution, the preservation of Welsh language and culture in print, and various aspects of printing..... READ MORE about THE MIGHTY ENGINE: THE PRINTING PRESS AND ITS IMPACT","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Classic Film Review: The Breakfast Club\nPhoebe Emily Barton\n\u2013 October 14, 2017Posted in: Film, Reviews\nLet me take you to 1980s America: the school corridors are heaving with baggy sweatshirt wearing kids who are running around in their Nike Jordan trainers, getting wedged in between door frames due to their abnormally wide shoulder pads. Girls' jeans are so high waisted they're basically wearing a jumpsuit, and humongous neon hoops hang from their ears, peaking through their wildly teased hair.\nPlease Like us on Facebook to continue reading.\nI'll admit that all sounds rather outdated, but this does not mean everything from the 80s is past its sell-by date. The Breakfast Club is a classic film centring around five teenagers (Andrew, Bender, Claire, Allison, and Brian) whose lives intertwine during a Saturday detention at school. Although it was released in 1985, the film is just as relevant today as it was 30 years ago. Our five protagonists are all very different from each other, perfectly fitting into stereotypes that we're all familiar with from our high school days. They are a jock, a princess, a basket case, an athlete, and a brain.\nIn a world where people judge and criticise each other, we could all do with a little reminder once in a while that we are all in fact not so different to the person on our left, and the person on our right. The Breakfast Club is the perfect example of this. Five strangers enter that detention hardly knowing a thing about the other and yet are willing to judge them. They assume they know each other's stories \u2013 oh, how wrong they are.\nAs events unfold, our ferocious five form an alliance against their teacher (played by Paul Gleason). They work together to make sure they aren't caught when causing trouble, but also rely on one another to have some fun. In one particularly emotional scene, all five open up about their lives, revealing their deep dark secrets that no one outside that building knows. There is something beautiful about the way they let their guard down; it is such an intimate and raw scene that you as a viewer feel like an intruder. You are a part of their secret circle; you feel you must take their secrets to the grave.\nIn one hour and 30 minutes, director John Hughes creates a number of classic scenes that have gone down in cinematic history. The final scene of the film is perfection. I'm telling you now you'll find it hard not to shed a tear as Bender strides across that football field as Simple Minds 'Don't You (Forget About Me)' blasts. If you're after a classic feel-good film with a bit of everything in it, you've found it.\nTags: classic film review the breakfast club\nAbout Phoebe Emily Barton\nPhoebe Barton, 21, a third year journalism student at UCLan. I'm originally from the Wirral and aspire to be a film journalist.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Location of the Basingstoke Canal\nThe Basingstoke Canal is located in the south of England, to the southwest of London. The navigable section runs from West Byfleet in Surrey to the east, following a course of 32 miles through Woking, Brookwood, Mytchett, Ash, Fleet and Crookham, then Odiham, finally ending up at Greywell in Hampshire to the west. Though the Canal originally continued to Basingstoke (a total distance of 37 miles), it has not been navigable beyond the tunnel at Greywell since the early 1900's, and access to the original destination was finally prevented by the Greywell tunnel collapse in 1932.\nFor a recently re-published pictorial guide to the whole of the Canal, see here.\nThe section from the west of the Greywell tunnel to Basingstoke is referred to as \"The Last 5 miles\". The original course of the Canal can be seen along much of this stretch, though in parts it has been erased from the landscape by the construction of the M3 and A30, some houses, and of course by the Festival Place and surrounding developments in Basingstoke which were built upon the original canal terminus.\nNext: History >>\nLast updated by Craig Shanks on 31 December, 2018","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ghana plans to mine Atewa Forest despite its ecological importance\nBy Zach Fitzner\nThe Atewa Forest in Ghana is considered by many to be a key biodiversity hotspot. Global Wildlife Conservation reports that the forest is habitat for at least 50 mammal species, 1,000 plant species and over 570 butterflies, representing 77% of Ghana's total butterfly species. The organization also reports that the Atewa is home to the headwaters of 3 major rivers, supplying water to 5 million people in Ghana.\nThe forest itself is dominated by a ridge covering 258 square kilometers of land, ranging from 230 to 845 meters above sea level in elevation. The gradient of elevation increases the biodiversity of the place by fostering different habitats at different elevations and supporting a rare upland ecosystem.\nGhanaWeb reports that earlier this month, groups of civil organizations and other citizens engaged in peaceful protests in Accra, the capital of Ghana. The demonstrations were to protest the government's plan to mine bauxite inside Atewa Forest. Signs protesters carried had slogans like, \"Water Pollution Will Cost Ghana More\" and \"Save Water, Secure the Future\". The bauxite mine plan includes investment money from the Chinese government, which protesters are planning to also petition if need be.\nAtewa was made a designated forest reserve in 1926 but through a convoluted series of designations, protection has been increased but not yet reached the level of National Park activists are calling for. In 1994, Atewa became a 'Special Biological Protection Area', in 1995, a 'Hill Sanctuary'. In 1999, Atewa was declared one of Ghana's 30 Globally Significant Biodiversity Areas and it's also been recognized as an important bird area.\nDespite these designations, Atewa is still plagued with unmanaged logging and hunting, small scale gold mining and the haunting threat of large scale mining development.\nIn a recent press release, Global Wildlife Conservation reported on developments that suggest the government of Ghana is preparing to allow bauxite mining within the Atewa forest despite outcry from environmentalists and concerned local citizens. Trees are already being cleared to create mining roads into the forest. President Nana Akufo-Addo for his part claims that new technology involved in the planned bauxite mine will not harm the environment. Business Insider reports that skeptical environmentalists have asked him to prove that claim, so far he has yet to persuade skeptics.\nA Rocha Ghana is leading the fight to protect the Atewa forest with a tagline unusual for an environmental group, \"Caring for God's Creation\". The organization has released a special report on the biodiversity of Atewa, which also includes a history and geography of the region.\nAtewa forest is part of the Upper Guinea forest ecoregion, an area of humid west African forests high in endemic species. The USGS reports that due to habitat loss, the Upper Guinea eco-region contains all of west Africa's lowland forests. Originally the Upper Guinea eco-region consisted of 680,000 square kilometers.\nBy 1920, there was only 216,000 square kilometers of dense healthy forest left in the ecoregion. By 1975, 84% of the original forest was destroyed. In recent years, destruction of the Upper Guinea eco-region forests has significantly slowed but it hasn't stopped. Within a unique eco-region, Atewa itself is special, being one of only two upland evergreen forests in Ghana.\nDuring a 2006 survey by Conservation International, 8 new species of katydid were found. Katydids are ubiquitous in the tropics, similar to grasshoppers or crickets but with incredibly long antennae and sometimes adapted to look like a leaf. 6 species of non-human primates were found, 10 large mammals of conservation concern, 314 species of plant. This is just a sample of the rich biodiversity of Atewa as part of a larger eco-region and on a larger scale the world. Atewa is home to 20% of Ghana's threatened species.\nThe beauty of the Atewa Forest has gained famous supporters in Ghana as well. In 2017, musicians famous in Ghana releases the song 'Atewa 'till Eternity\" in response to a visit to the forest. The work was promoted by Green Beat Performers, a collaboration between musicians and conservationists. The project also received collaboration from IUCN and of course, A Rocha. IUCN reports that even the process of creating the music video in Atewa helped garner support to conserve the special forest.\nUnfortunately, the mining interests have strong influence in Ghana as well.\nWest Africa supplies approximately 11.5% of all the world's bauxite, according to a 2019 Research and Markets report. 30% of profits from bauxite mining in nearby Guinea is collected by the government for distribution among the people, according to Mining in Africa. Africa as a continent is set to expand its bauxite operations as well with a new aluminum manufacturing plant in South Africa with the capacity to manufacture 1.2 billion drink cans open in 2016. Often these developments are pointed to as signs of positive progress in Africa, a continent plagued with general widespread poverty.\nIn a report from 2007, International Rivers questions whether bauxite mining and the aluminum produced from it is really helping much of Africa. Aluminum is the world's second most used metal and the industry is made of very powerful companies. Often bauxite mining and aluminum production often gain great support from governments in Africa (and elsewhere) because of their political clout and perceived economic benefits. This support comes at a cost of large amounts of resources. Aluminum production uses more electricity than any other industry and is often the largest user of electricity in a country. That is a stark contrast to everyday Africans in 2007, when less than one out of every four residents of sub-Saharan Africa had access to electricity.\nBetween 1961 and 1965, the president of Ghana supported construction of a hydroelectric dam to support industry including aluminum production. In 2007, the dam supplied two-thirds of the electric power in Ghana, despite the fact that less than half of the population had access to electricity. The difference between industry and the quality of life for the average person can be quite striking in many parts of Africa. One thing is certain, when forests like Atewa are pillaged, the spoils only go to the rich while the poor suffer from the pollution.\nBy Zach Fitzner, Earth.com Contributing Writer\nImage Credit: Jeremy Lindsell\/Global Wildlife Conservation","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Benson Brothers Working On An Earthbound Documentary\nAestevalis\nFiled to: EarthboundFiled to: Earthbound\nTayclassic\nAfter the success of Earthbound Saga, brothers Jeff and Robbie Benson, are back with a new production centered around the SNES cult classic game of Essayist Shigesato Itoi: Mother 2 better known as Earthbound in the west. This time, the goal is to produce a a documentary about the cult following the game gathered in the US, and about all the different fan communities that have surged in the west to pay tribute to this SNES game.\nThe documentary will be called Earthbound USA, the project was being carried in secret and details were scarce until now, but a recent tweet by Itoi has force the team to bring the work to light thanks to the big impact it created.\nI just finished an interview with some American fans of Mother 2 that paid me a visit. Some of them were on elementary school when they played the game, but now they are married with children, but they're still in love with the game. I have been involved in many projects in my life, but this game, without a doubt, is something special\"\nBesides the interview with Itoi, the documentary will also include some testimonies and stories of users of the forum Starmen.net, the main platform dedicated to this trilogy of games by Nintendo. The brothers are expecting to release the project on 2015 and they will be launching a Kickstarter campaign very soon.\nOtakomu via Anait Games\nRecent from Aestevalis\nTAY: Open Forum\nGraveyard Shift - Getting Back To It\nOP\/ED A Day: Sore ga, Ai deshou?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Scroll down to: [Performances & Results] [Summary]\nThis page contains general information about the song \"Drift Away\". For information on a particular performance of this song, click on a performance link in the table below.\nPrimary Artists:\nDobie Gray (1973)\nUncle Kracker (2002)\nGenre: R&B\nFamiliarity: Medium-High\nStd. Deviation: 21.0 (High)\nOverall: 100.0%\nwith Voters Only: 100.0%\nRepeat Trend: +27.50\nClark CoreyCorey Clark\nLewis Jon PeterJon Peter Lewis\n38404 Top 24 Guys\nBice BoBo Bice\nOn a superficial level, Dobie Gray's 1973 hit offers something for everyone: a country-tinged R&B song by a soul singer in praise of rock and roll. But at its heart, \"Drift Away\" is a triumph of songwriting, a ballad which builds a layered progession of hooks leading to one of the catchiest and best-known choruses in pop history (even if millions of listeners mistakenly think the first line is \"Gimme the Beach Boys...\") Gray's superb vocals were just icing on the cake. Uncle Kracker's successful 2002 revival means that virtually every American Idol viewer, from 8 to 80, can sing along.\n\"Drift Away\" provided Jon Peter Lewis with his highest-rated performance and made Bo Bice's Idol debut a 5-star one. Only Corey Clark fared relatively poorly with it; some reviewers complained that he was skirting the country-rock theme, but most simply believed he didn't sing it all that well.\nWhat We Thought\nEarly on, \"Drift Away\" was one of the safest songs in the Idol catalog for a male singer. It offered Lewis a means of showing a serious side after his off-the-wall A Little Less Conversation, and allowed the long-haired Bice to make an outstanding, non-threatening first impression on America. After three performances, including a 5-star one, it might be time to retire it from the competition...unless, that is, you feel you can either out-sing Bice (good luck there) or put a different and clever spin on it. Keep in mind that the latter path comes with more than a little risk: if you butcher this enormously popular song, America will never forgive you.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"PM consults predecessors on India visit\nSureis\nPublished: 12:27 pm Apr 05, 2018\nPrime Minister KP Sharma Oli issuing instructions to secretaries and chiefs of security agencies, in Kathmandu, on Sunday, March 18, 2018. Photo: THT\nKathmandu, April 4\nPrime Minister KP Sharma Oli today held consultation with former prime ministers on his upcoming state visit to India slated for April 6 to 8.\nDuring the meeting at his official residence in Baluwatar, PM Oli said the goodwill visit to India would focus on strengthening bilateral relations and discussions would be held keeping in mind national interest.\n\"No agreements will be signed during this visit. No activities will be carried out against national interest. Implementation of past agreements will be stressed,\" said PM Oli, who is paying a state visit to India at the invitation of Indian PM Narendra Modi. He added that his visit would play a crucial role in further strengthening Nepal-India bilateral relations.\nThe meeting was attended by former prime ministers Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Madhav Kumar Nepal, Jhalanath Khanal, Sher Bahadur Deuba, Lokendra Bahadur Chand and former chairman of the Council of Ministers Khil Raj Regmi. Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali, members of Eminent Persons Group on Nepal-India Relations Bhesh Bahadur Thapa, Nilambar Acharya and Suryanath Upadhyay were also present.\nThe former prime ministers wished PM Oli a successful visit and suggested that the conventional mindset should be dropped while pursuing international relations in this globalised world.\nFormer PM Dahal said Nepal-India relations, which had faced some difficulties after promulgation of the new constitution of Nepal and the border blockade, were now improving. \"We should convey to India that there is no problem in Nepal as the constitution was being enforced,\" he said.\nFormer PM Madhav Kumar Nepal suggested that Prime Minister Oli stand firm on his stance. \"There should not be brotherly, but friendly Nepal-India relations,\" he said.\nFormer prime minister Deuba said PM Oli should focus on reducing the huge trade deficit between Nepal and India.\nDuring his three-day India visit, Oli will hold delegation-level and personal-level talks with Indian PM Modi. He will also pay courtesy calls on Indian President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice-president M Venkaiah Naidu, besides holding meetings with Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and other ministers and high-level officials. He is also scheduled to hold separate interactions with the Indian business community, Nepali community in New Delhi and the intellectual class.\nBesides official engagements in New Delhi, PM Oli will also attend a programme at GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology at Pantnagar in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.\nAddressing the Parliament yesterday, PM Oli had said the starting point of Nepal's foreign and neighbourhood policy was 'friendship', and his India visit was part of the government's endeavour to make neighbouring countries partners in Nepal's development drive.\n\"To realise our national goals of development and prosperity, we'll maintain harmonious, balanced and friendly relations with our neighbours based on mutual benefit, mutual respect, equality, non-interference, UN charters, principles of non-aligned movement and the five principles of peaceful coexistence,\" said PM Oli.\n#India #India visit #Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli #PM's India visit\nRuling NCP's Dahal-Nepal faction expels Oli from general membership","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Microsoft boosts Windows Azure security with multi-factor authentication\nMicrosoft has added an additional layer of security, called multi-factor authentication, to its Windows Azure public cloud platform\nArchana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor\nPublished: 30 Sep 2013 13:25\nMicrosoft has added an additional layer of security, called multi-factor authentication, to its Windows Azure public cloud platform to provide increased access security and convenience for IT and users while accessing cloud applications.\nThe security tool provides Microsoft cloud users with secure access to on-premises and cloud applications from anywhere in the world. In addition to a user name and password, Windows Azure users will be able to authenticate via a mobile phone app, an automated voice call or a text message with a passcode, said Steven Martin, general manager of Windows Azure at Microsoft.\n\"Identity and access management is an anchor for security and top of mind for enterprise IT departments. It is key to extending anytime, anywhere access to employees, partners and customers,\" Martin wrote on Microsoft's official blog.\nThe multi-factor authentication feature can be configured by IT for cloud applications and \"meets user demand for a simple sign-in experience\", he added.\nThe cloud computing sector is forecast to grow at a pace of 36% every year, reaching revenues of $20bn (\u00a312.7bn) by 2016. But a recent Gartner report revealed that users of cloud services \u2013 especially Software as a service (SaaS) \u2013 are finding security provisions inadequate.\nAmbiguous terms around data confidentiality, data integrity and recovery after a data breach lead to dissatisfaction among cloud services users, Gartner analysts found. As a result, they called for more transparency and better risk management in cloud services.\nMeanwhile, research by Ponemon Institute in March 2013 revealed that half of IT leaders are concerned about the security of cloud computing resources.\nBy deploying the authentication server on existing hardware or in a Windows Azure virtual machine, users will be able to synchronise with their Windows Server Active Directory for automated user setup and secure access to on-premises virtual private networks (VPNs) and web applications, according to Microsoft.\nThere are two billing options for Windows Azure multi-factor authentication \u2013 per user and per authentication. From 1 November 2013, it can be purchased for $2 per user per month for any number of authentications or $2 a month for 10 authentications.\nUsers can also set up multi-factor security for other Microsoft cloud services such as Office 365, and Dynamics CRM.\n\"Windows Azure multi-factor authentication is a managed service that makes it easy to securely manage user access to Windows Azure, Office 365, Intune, Dynamics CRM and any third-party cloud service that supports Windows Azure Active Directory,\" said Scott Guthrie, corporate vice-president for Windows Azure.\nThe security feature can be also used to control access to IT's custom applications that have been developed and hosted within the cloud platform.\nRead more on Datacentre disaster recovery and security\nWhy you should plan to upgrade to Azure AD Connect v2 soon\nBy: Reda Chouffani\nHow to choose between Azure Files vs. an on-prem file server\nBy: Brian Kirsch\nAzure MFA NPS extension boosts authentication capabilities\nBy: Liam Cleary\nAzure AD Premium P1 vs. P2: Which is right for you?\nBy: Adam Fowler\nMicrosoft Windows Azure Active Directory (Windows ... \u2013 SearchWindowsServer\nHow to use Azure Active Directory differently than ... \u2013 SearchWindowsServer\nMultifactor authentication in the cloud: Assessing ... \u2013 SearchCloudSecurity","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Myth and orality are ___________ in Africa: the former is ubiquitous in the African oral literary tradition, while the latter is almost always based on the former.\nZiegler has long been seen as a model of ____________, but Gunther, in her biography of Ziegler, comes to a very different conclusion: that Ziegler caused far more harm than good to the people she purported to serve.\nScientists have assumed that certain seabirds eat plastic debris because it looks to them like their natural prey, but a new study suggests that what ____________ them is an odor the birds associate with food.\nJulius Caesar made a display of ____________cruel retribution against fellow Romans, but only if these Romans gave up their opposition to him.\nThe answer to which of the following questions would most help in evaluating the argument?\nThe passage suggests which of the following about \"stone art\"?\nThe author mentions \"monumental architecture\" primarily to\nThe passage implies the author's agreement with which of the following statements about changes in how childhood was viewed?\nThe author indicates that the shift in attitudes about childhood involved which of the following?\n0 < s < t\nQuantity A\n$$\\frac{s}{t}$$ +0.4\nQuantity B\n$$\\frac{5s+2t}{5t}$$\nThe average (arithmetic mean) of the 4 integers q, r, s and t is 0.\nThe average of the 4 integers q+10, r, s and t\nThe average of the 5 integers q, r, s, t, and 10\nThe circumference of a circle with radius 3 is divided into 4 areas of lengths w, x, y, and z, as shows.\nThe average (arithmetic mean) of w, x, y, and z\n2\u03c0\nLine segment QT has length 28. Point P is on QT, and line segment PT has length 15. Point X is also on QT, and line segment XP has length 3.\nThe length of line segment QX\nThe length of line segment QP\nJim paints 1\/5 of a garage, and Katrin paints 1\/6 of the remainder of the garage.\nThe fraction of the garage not painted by Jim and Katrin\nIt costs d dollars to buy s sandwiches. At this rate, what is the cost of s+2,850 sandwiches, in dollars?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Rep. Devin Nunes tells Fox & Friends that the Mueller report should be burned\nNunes: \"We can just burn it up. I mean, it is a partisan document\"\nWritten by Media Matters Staff\nPublished 03\/24\/19 11:37 AM EDT\nFrom the March 24 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends Sunday:\nED HENRY (CO-HOST): So should investigating the investigators also now include what really happened with the [special counsel Robert] Mueller probe? If Democrats say, \"We want to see all the documents,\" what kind of documents do you want to see then about how we got to this investigation in the first place?\nREP. DEVIN NUNES (R-CA): Well that's a great question, and I don't really care what the Mueller report says. The Mueller special counsel should have never been appointed, and I say that and we can take any part of this investigation and we can show you how fraudulent it is, but I think the most important item that comes to mind is our congressional investigation was obstructed by the Department of Justice and the FBI. That is a crime. So that's one of the first things that they should look at and you can start with, among many things, the [former FBI acting director Andrew] McCabe text messages that just broke on Friday, that weren't given to the Congress, which are extremely critical, because it shows that they knew that one of their sources that they had submitted to the FISA Court was not credible, which is what we've been saying forever, and somehow, McCabe text messages escaped Congress. And you've seen that over and over again, things have been redacted. It's a lot like this whole thing looking for collusion, it was all a lie and a myth.\nKATIE PAVLICH (CO-HOST): OK so congressman you talk about being obstructed by the Department of Justice, the FBI, and your investigation of the situation but what about President Trump's ability to declassify all of the documents that you are in pursuit of? He has the ability to do that, he has not done it. Do you think he still should?\nNUNES: Absolutely. So the Mueller report -- a lot of people, \"Oh what does it say?\" We can just burn it up. I mean, it is a partisan document, so there's going to be a lot of calls for that and the Democrats say, \"We've got to see the underlying information.\" What we really need to see is what was the FBI's involvement with Fusion GPS? Who were they, who did they know about? What -- and I'm sorry I don't want to gloss over this for the viewers but Fusion GPS was essentially the Hillary Clinton campaign. They were hired by the Clinton campaign, so we need to see all of that, we need the FISA fully disclosed. We need everyone that Mueller talked to, including his interactions with Jerome Corsi, who you just had on the show. Look, I can't imagine why they would bring Jerome Corsi in to interview with the special counsel. Jerome Corsi is just a long time kind of press guy. You know, I think you guys have known him for a long time. You know, he had every right to call Julian Assange or anybody else that he wants to. Now look, I don't agree with that, I wouldn't call Julian Assange. But press people do that all the time. That's part of our First Amendment rights.\nPETE HEGSETH (CO-HOST): Congressman, so some have called for a second special counsel, someone to look into what was done to surveil this president, what processes were violated. How far should you and other Republicans go or other just Americans go to get to the truth of what happened here?\nNUNES: You know, a second special counsel would have been great about a year and a half, two years ago. It would have been better to not have a need for a second special counsel because we wouldn't have had an investigation in the first place, but I do have faith in the new attorney general. I think he knows that it's critical for the American people to have confidence in the FBI and the Department of Justice. It's clear that this was not a widespread plague across the entire Department of Justice. It was a few really really bad apples, so I think that if they start to put out the critical information, who talked to who when, it'll be pretty simple to have an investigation run by just an independent-type of investigator, U.S. attorney or someone, and we're going to make a criminal referral, the Republicans on the House intelligence committee, that we've been waiting until this Mueller report comes out.\nHere are the right-wing media figures using the Nunes memo to attack Rosenstein and Mueller\nShep Smith points out Rep. Devin Nunes' history of pushing baseless partisan propaganda\nFox plays defense for Rep. Devin Nunes' lawsuit against Twitter\nConservatives want everyone to know that they're the real victims of the January 6 insurrection\nArticle 01\/17\/21 8:30 AM EST\nLaura Ingraham criticizes National Guard presence following deadly insurrection as \"an obscene move by Democrats to militarize Washington\"\nVideo & Audio 01\/15\/21 10:22 PM EST\nNewsmax host warns Democrats will \"round up all the Republicans\" into \"COVID internment camps\"\nVideo & Audio 01\/15\/21 9:38 PM EST\nRight-wing media use loner activist's arrest to revive conspiracy theories about \"antifa\" at the January 6 insurrection\nArticle 01\/15\/21 8:46 PM EST\nFox contributor on Biden presidency: \"We also need to be ready to push back against the ungodly policies that are sure to come\"\nShare Count\nFox News begins new scare campaign against Biden pandemic relief plan\nAfter insurrection, Fox host asks GOP: \"You had no problem with President Trump up until this week. So what happened?\"\nVideo & Audio 01\/13\/21 11:19 AM EST\nFox host attacks Mitch McConnell for dividing the GOP with potential impeachment support","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Scientific Studies on Vibrational Sound Therapy\nAlbert Einstein proved that: \"What we have called matter is just energy whose vibration has been so lowered so as to be perceptible to the senses.\"\nNikola Tesla said: \"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.\" Sound is all of that.\nThe Science behind Vibrational Sound Therapy and Healing is astounding! I am happy to share here just a few of the notes on studies, discoveries, and ancient truths about our bodies and our world that fascinated me, prompted me to learn more, and helped to form the basis of The Alexander Method\u2122 of Vibrational Sound an Energy Therapy.\nAccording to Dr. John Beaulieu, ND, PhD, composer, mental health counselor and expert on stress science, \"A fundamental principle of sound healing is that physical, emotional, and mental symptoms are being generated by an underlying energy field. Thus, if we change the energy field, then the physical, emotional, and mental behavior patterns will also change.\" The Universal Energy Field exists in all things.\nAs Einstein proved, an electron can operate as a particle or a wave. The wave is made up of vibrations that spread out like a ripple on the water. Modern physicists theorize that the universal energy field is composed of thousands of microscopic strings. These strings vibrate which create patterns that unite and orchestrate the universe. Solid objects, or matter, is actually the result of vibrating tones. This concept of the universal energy field is not new. Three thousand years ago the Egyptians portrayed the world as vibrating strings as played by a blind harpist. The harpist vibrated the universe into patterns.\nThe great Arab Philosopher, Al Farabi, (872-950 CE) was a renowned philosopher, scientist, doctor, music theorist, and metaphysician who closely followed and translated much of the writings and work of the ancient Greeks like, Socrates and Aristotle. Al Farabi understood the interaction of sound and healing and said \"All doctors should be musicians and all musicians are doctors.\"\nDr. Andrew Weil, M.D. in his book Self Healing with Sound & Music tells us that sound therapy as a modality has been very effective in treating a range of health issues including but not limited to heart disease, stress, arthritis, emphysema, mental and emotional challenges and more.\nScientifically, sound waves are measured in cycles per second. These cyclical waves are measured in hertz (Hz). The measurement of sound is called its frequency. One cycle per second is written as 1Hz. The human body has the ability to hear frequency from about 16Hz to 16,000Hz, young children even more. Since we have already established that everything is sound, and that everything in the universe is in a state of vibration creating that sound, whether or not we can hear these sounds is another story. And whether or not we can hear these frequencies, they are affecting us every day in every way.\nA fascinating study: \"Vibrational Sound Therapy Induced Relaxation; Down Regulating Stress Processes and Pathologies,\" by Elliot Salamon, Minsun Kim, John Beaulieu and George B. Stefano indicates that the nitric oxide molecules released by the cells of the body is mainly responsible for the relaxation of the psychological effects of stress. This study defines stress and cites past data that documents the detrimental effects of stress. It explains that the \"emotional centers within the limbic system are activated along the path from where the cochlear nerve fibers enter the brainstem and are routed through the thalamus to the auditory cortex.\" This neuronal pathway was discovered to be mediated by nitric oxide. Furthermore, this study explains that the NO release after a vibrational sound therapy has the ability to \"protect an organism from microbes and physiologic disorders such as hypertension.\"\nResearch often demonstrates that one of the main causes of our physical illnesses is stress. Hundreds of billions of dollars a year are spent on stress related treatments, office visits, and prescriptions. More so than any other diagnosis, anxiety and stress has become an epidemic. More prescriptions are written to control anxiety, stress, depression, and sleep disorders than anything else.\nAccording to a study by the AMA (American Medical Association), 90-95% of doctor visits are stress related. 42 billion a year is spent in the US on anxiety related disorders. A 2013 stress study in the UK reported that 8 million pound sterling is spent yearly on anxiety\/stress in medications. These figures alone suggest stress disorders are an epidemic.\nAs more and more research and studies are demonstrating the relaxing effect of the right kind of sounds and music to reduce stress and hospitals and treatment centers are integrating sound therapy into treatments; it is clear the time is right to consider the benefits of this incredible, natural science. If you would like to learn more, I recommend the resources below. We've only touched on a fraction of the science and research behind vibrational sound therapy here. In recent years more and more discoveries have been made, and continue to be made. A more in depth and thorough training on this and more is contained in the Level One of The Alexander Method\u2122 of Vibrational Sound and Energy Therapy.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Post-Covid Era: a New Age of Decadence?\nSource: MTI\nThe last week of April was the beginning of the first phase of the easing of restrictions as more than 40 per cent of the country's population had received their first dose of vaccination. But will the euphoric feeling hold on, and if so, what would the social consequences be?\nTam\u00e1s Orb\u00e1n\nAs vaccination programmes began in the West, many journalists predicted that we were set to enter a second \"Summer of Love\" or perhaps a brand-new decade of the \"Roaring Twenties\". After Hungary started lifting its restrictions, the scenery that followed clearly shows that there is something to these arguments. But will the euphoric feeling hold on, and if so, what would the social consequences be?\nThe last weekend of April was certainly something to remember, especially for those fortunate enough to have taken a walk through downtown Budapest. It was the beginning of the first phase of the easing of restrictions as more than 40 per cent of the country's population had received their first dose of vaccination. Among the new regulations, there was one that especially gave way for wider celebration: the opening of pubs, bars and entertainment facilities, as long as they could set up outdoor seating areas or terraces.\nAs soon as the decree came into effect, a wave of euphoric joy swept over the country,\nand quite understandably so. Bars were more or less closed for over a year now and people\u2014especially the younger generation\u2014were craving a beer in the company of their friends and outside their homes. So, on Saturday\u2014despite the still relatively high number of infections\u2014downtown Budapest has resembled one giant festival \u2013 with every terrace packed with cheerful young people dressed in colourful clothes and different kinds of music infused with the constant clanking of glasses coming from every direction.\nIt certainly was a sight to see! As young people flocked to the more popular outdoor bars, I could not help but notice some patterns I felt were new to me. Of course, this feeling of novelty must be attributed to a certain degree to the fact that we all became accustomed to the lockdown measures, but it quickly became apparent that something did change during this year of involuntary recess. At first glance, the general atmosphere seemed different, and in a more positive way.\nA sense of relief and excitement could be felt everywhere I went. People seemed more open, outgoing and cheerful than I remembered. Even the larger groups were eager to interact with each other: everybody was ready to make new friends. Fashion also seemed to have undergone certain changes, as more people whom I talked to have noted. Tight jeans and shirts have all but disappeared from the wardrobes of young adults and were replaced by wide bottom jeans, colourful harem pants with baggy shirts and oversized tees. Likewise, the solid colours we were used to were nowhere to be found, but instead, people opted for the more vivid and bright pieces. And because they had no occasion to show off their style this past year, everyone was also sporting some kind of unique accessory on top of that. A city-wide fashion show, it seemed.\nThe excessive drinking was in no way anything surprising, as these people have gathered to do just that. However, the constant smell of weed near almost every pub made me wonder a bit. The substance is still highly illegal in Hungary and before the Covid-19 pandemic, people\u2014fearing the authorities\u2014would generally restrain themselves from smoking it publicly. This time it was different: one could easily see multiple lit joints being passed around at any given time, if the smell itself wasn't making it obvious enough.\nThis scenery immediately reminded me of pictures from the late sixties, the golden age of the hippie movement in the US and Western Europe. The specific clothing choices and the overt use of light drugs are not the only factors contributing to this comparison, merely the most apparent ones. There is also the general idea of seeking fun like there is no tomorrow. Judging from this, when indoor clubs join the bars and open up their doors for the depraved party-goers, it is quite possible that another 'Summer of Love' is going to erupt in most Western countries, drowning the unpleasant memories of the pandemic in cheap beer and dubious party drugs.\nThe other comparison I have seen being brought up over and over is of course about the \"Roaring Twenties\" of the last century, which is quite fitting as we just entered our Twenties last year. The argument here, made by The Guardian among others, is that this celebration-like atmosphere we have just witnessed in Hungary could drag on for years, laying down the social character of the whole decade. The 1920s, indeed, were a time of splendour, champagne and social gatherings of grandiose scale, all symptoms of a sense of relief only terrible global crises could leave. The First World War and the subsequent Spanish Flu pandemic were more than enough to evoke such a reaction, and one could say we are in quite a similar position now. After all, the pandemic part is quite an obvious parallel. But is it enough?\nZack Stanton, editor of POLITICO, the American political news journal, argues that it may not be the case this time.\nAs he writes, 'behind the flappers, bootleggers and Gatsbyesque decadence was a hard-won fatalism that came from the level of loss and devastation wrought by the war and the flu, which\u2013unlike Covid\u2013disproportionately killed younger Americans, contributing to a sense among some who survived that since they could die young, they might as well live hard.' In 2021 there is an unquestionable sense of relief, but we are nowhere near the \"fatalism\" Stanton described. There was no devastating global war and the death rate of COVID-19 is not even comparable to that of the Spanish Flu, thanks to advanced tools of crisis management and effective vaccinations. Of course, I would never try to downplay the traumatic experiences of those who had lost loved ones to Covid (myself being among them), but our society as whole did not have to go through as brutal hardships as people in the 1910s did. I mean, no one is going to write another \"In Flanders Fields\" about the horrors of toilet paper shortages and bad connections during Zoom-meetings. Hence, I think Stanton's right and chances for a decade long drunken celebration are rather small.\nStill, I can easily see this summer being the extended version of the above described weekend in Budapest. A months-long festival of the free and careless. And while it sounds great in theory, it could also have some unpleasant consequences. The famous \"Summer of Love\" of 1967 (and its legacy carried on for years) had quite an infamous dark side to it as well. Alcohol poisoning and drug overdoses were part and parcel of the hippie culture and the events associated with it, and so were the skyrocketing of STD cases. As Dr David Smith, founder of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic described the period, 'there was a lot of drug use, group sex, communal sex. It would be an understatement to say there was a spike in STDs. That's like saying a hurricane is a strong wind.'\nSince the last season was cancelled and young adults had to stay indoors ever since, most of them want nothing more than to go to as many parties and festivals as they can this summer. It is safe to assume that this year's festivals will be especially wild, inducing some of the negative effects seen in 1967, even if on a smaller scale. I would be not surprised if instead of COVID-19 patients, the hospitals would be full of kids awaiting detoxication.\nBut to end this article on a happy note, I think we may need these parties after all, to properly put the pandemic behind us. And as far as it goes, we really do have reasons to celebrate once herd immunity is reached in the coming weeks throughout the West. Until then, we might as well purchase a pair of baggy pants and remember not to accept drinks from strangers. Just in case.\nTam\u00e1s Orb\u00e1n, columnist and political analyst, currently working as a senior research fellow at the Budapest-based think tank, the Danube Institute. He graduated in contemporary history and international relations from Babe\u015f\u2013Bolyai University in Kolozsv\u00e1r (Cluj-Napoca, Romania). His main areas of interest are American domestic affairs and geopolitics.\nTags: coronavirus, Hungary, reopening","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Christian Politics\n\u4f5c\u8005:Ely Bates\npears the importance of attending t$ usual forms of civility among beings so ready to give and to take offence. Of this the Chinese are so sensible, that at Pekin there is a court established for regulating the ceremonial of the empire, both among natives and strangers. This punctilious regard to manners is strongly marked in one of their volumes, which contains, as we are told, no less than three thousand rules for the behaviour of persons of every rank, and upon every occasion.\nNow, though all these regulations could in every instance be reduced exactly to practice, which is evidently impossible, there would yet remain, as will easily be conceived, numberless ways of conveying insult, which the formality of respect would only render still more provoking. Human nature is a Proteus that cannot be held by any merely outward constraint: nothing short of a moral revolution, in which pride gives place to humility, and selfishness to benevolence, can produce a genuine and uniform civility of manners.\nLet there be light, and there was light*. Ir* respect to all other beings, their volitions are only efficient within a certain sphere marked out by their Creator.\nAs man apparently holds the lowest place in the scale of rational existence, it is probable his liberty corresponds to his situation, and is consequently of less extent than what naturally belongs to the other orders of intelligences; of whom the least, for any thing we know to the contrary, may be able to wield these elements at his pleasure, over which the most powerful combination of human strength and skill has so little command.\nWhatever then is naturally beyond the sphere of human power, is no object of human liberty; no one, lor instance, is free to walk across the ocean, or fly to the moon; to control the bourse of the winds, or the tides of the ocean -f-; and in innu\n* Ps. xxxiii. 9. Gen. i. 3.\nf \"Canute was the greatest and most powerful prince i of his time. Some of his flatterers breaking out one day in admiration of his grandeur, exclaimed that every\nmerable cases, within the natural limits, liberty may be wanting: how often is a man unable, and therefore not at liberty to gratify his ambition, his appetites, or his interest, however willing he may be to do it, merely for want of occasions and opportunities!\nThus we see the narrow boundaries of the liberty of man. The cases are comparatively few in which he is able to act as he will, and this inability is one of the happiest circumstances of his condition; since, in his present state of depravity, power generally serves him to no other end than to do mischief to himself, to disturb the regular course of nature, or the order of political and social life.\nIndeed an unrestrained liberty would be\nit is said, ordered his chair to be set on the sea-shore; and as the waters approached, he commanded them to retire. But when the sea still advanced, and began to wash him with its billows, he turned to his courtiers, and remarked to them, that every creature in the universe was feeble and impotent, and that power resided only with that Being who could say to the ocean, Thus far shalt thou go and no further.\" See Hume's Hist, of England.\nof our country with insolence or scurrility, or even as subjects of mere disputation, is manifestly an offence to public decency; although such grave discussion as may serve to their correction or improvement, is not only consistent with the regard we owe them, but may proceed from it. How to suppress the former without discouraging the latter, is a difficulty to which no policy is equal. There have been periods when prescription was reason, and when time gave a sanction to the grossest usurpations upon the persons and property, the understandings and consciences of men; there have been periods too in which a wild and lawless spirit has gone forth, and boldly called in question every opinion consecrated by the veneration, and every institution confirmed by the practice, of former ages. If men could have been taught wisdom by past example, by this time they would have learned, first, in respect to truth, to have sought it, though without a superstitious attachment, yet not without a becoming deference to ancient opinions;\nrulers would have learned to act for the people, and the people to submit cheerfully to lawful and moderate government. The fact is, that, till some great revolution take place in human nature, the world will go on at its old rate, will continue to be swayed by its interests and passions, and perpetually be vibrating between truth and error, tyranny and licence, in spite of all the efforts of patriots and philosophers.\nFifthly, by incivility. It has been often justly observed, that the miseries of the present life arise not so much from great calamities, which but seldom happen, as from a succession of small vexations, which fret a man's spirit, exhaust his patience, and so bring him into a state of perpetual irritation. Whatever therefore tends to obviate these petty evils, highly deserves the attention of every one who either values his own quiet or that of others. On this account civility is an object of important consideration, as it serves to prevent those minute offences which are so apt to disturb our friendly intercourse, and frequently to","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Palm Beach Film Festival Winner Highlights Announced\nThe 21st Palm Beach International Film Festival ended dramatically last night by presenting its coveted Jury Award for Best Feature Film to PO directed by John Asher.\nWinner of the festival's first ever horror film competition was The House at the End of Time directed by Alejandro Hidalgo from Venezuela and best documentary went to When Elephants Were Young directed by Patricia Sims from Canada.\nThe winner of the Jury Award for Best Short Film was Randy directed by Shawn Ryan.\n#PBIFF2016 @PBIFF\nPBIFF President and CEO Jeff Davis and Director of Programming Larry Richman said this year the festival welcomed a record number of more than 150 filmmakers and actors from around the world to present their outstanding works and for the first time winners in the various categories received not only a trophy but a cash prize of $2,000, a sign the Festival is spreading its silver screen wings.\nThe festival awards included presentation of the first Flossy Award for Lifetime Achievement to Yvonne S. Boice, PBIFF Chair Emeritus, for her years of dedication to making PBIFF one of the world's most respected film festivals. The award created by celebrated artist Yaacov Heller was presented to Boice on opening night.\nImage provided by PBIFF press office.\nGiaOnTheMove\nFilm & Television, Media\nawards, film festivals","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Gabriel Jesus Extends Mastery of Everton In Manchester City's Win\nPosted by Dafabet Sports on January 3, 2020\nGabriel Jesus has now scored 7 times in his last 5 national games including Everton, who must be tired of watching him hitting goals. Pep Guardiola the manager saluted Manchester City's fighting spirit as Jesus added to his notable records against Everton 2-1 win on 1st Jan 2020. Jesus was given the start as City's manager Guardiola rested Sergio Aguero.\nThe choice to select the Brazilian forward rather than club's record goal-scorer could have been encouraged by his mastery of analysing Everton. Paying his manager's confidence, Jesus broke-through Everton defence once again.\nJesus has now scored 7 times including his last 5 games against the Merseyside club, who must have predicted the excellence of him. Guardiola was delighted the way game turned out in midst of a hard time. He also slipped in saying just with 3 more to the board to close Leicester.\nThe City remains 3rd in the Premier League after a 2nd consecutive win which leaves them only with 11 points behind Liverpool, who have games to be played in the champions. The Man City manager said that even if they are close to the 1st position this was an important win so they cannot rest especially having FA Cup and EFL Cup in the list.\nEverton's Richarlison got one for the team, however, it was the 1st downfall for the new boss Carlo Ancelotti, who had mastered wins over Burnley and Newcastle. There would be no duplication against the City side with the evidence of establishing wins of 2019. Manchester City won ten trophies, including 4 Premier League titles, in the decade that just closed.\nPep Guardiola highlighted that Liverpool's extraordinary performance in the last eighteen months is to be considered a very serious threat to the teams growing ranks. The manager has already agreed that the City has less chance of catching up with Liverpool this season. Instead, his sights were set on the upcoming matches and their challenges to be faced by them and admitting that they do need to play better and pray.\nAlthough a need for divine intervention against Everton team players is doubtful with Aguero, Raheem Sterling and Kyle Walker in the teams led by Guardiola. The crowd nearly held their breath of shock when Seamus Coleman of Everton's goal was a hard one-handed save from Claudio Bravo Man City's goalkeeper.\nEFA Champions League: Chelsea thrash Juventus 4-0 to reach Champions League last-16\nRohit Sharma presented with customised Real Madrid Jersey\nFrench midfielder Christopher Nkunku ruled out of World Cup after a wild tackle\nTopics: bet on football online india, dafabet sports, football satta bazar online, free football betting tips, online football satta bazar india, online gambling sports betting, online sports betting, rate football satta bazar\nSri Lanka Name 16-Member Squad for T20I Series Against India\nIndian table tennis team to train with German counterparts","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Peter Laviolette\nhttps:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/peter-laviolette\nAndrew Mangiapane scores twice, Flames beat Capitals 5-2\nDecember 4, 2022 GMT\nCALGARY, Alberta (AP) \u2014 Andrew Mangiapane scored twice, Adam Ruzicka had a goal and two assists and the Calgary Flames beat the Washington Capitals 5-2 on Saturday night.\n\"Sometimes, pucks just don't go in for whatever reason.\nOvechkin ties Howe's mark, Red Wings beat Capitals 3-1\nBy LARRY LAGENovember 4, 2022 GMT\nDETROIT (AP) \u2014 Alex Ovechkin tied Gordie Howe for the most goals scored for one NHL team, fittingly reaching the milestone in the same city Mr.\nOvechkin scores 783rd goal as Capitals beat N.J. Devils 6-3\nBy TOM CANAVANOctober 25, 2022 GMT\nNEWARK, N.J. (AP) \u2014 Alexander Ovechkin took a spot from the great Gordie Howe in the NHL record book and closed in another.\nOvechkin scored his 783rd career goal in a big second period and the Washington Capitals beat New Jersey 6-3 Monday night, ending the Devils' three-game winning streak.\nOshie, Capitals beat Canadiens 3-1 for first win of season\nBy SAMMI SILBEROctober 16, 2022 GMT\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 T.J. Oshie had a goal and an assist and the Washington Capitals beat the Montreal Canadiens 3-1 on Saturday night to avoid their first 0-3-0 start since the 2012-13 lockout season.\nCapitals' Hagelin has surgery on eve of NHL opening night\nBy STEPHEN WHYNOOctober 11, 2022 GMT\nARLINGTON, Va. (AP) \u2014 Carl Hagelin is out indefinitely after undergoing hip surgery, leaving the Washington Capitals without three veteran forwards as the season begins.\nPredators extend coach John Hynes, assistants through 23-24\nBy TERESA M. WALKERMay 19, 2022 GMT\nNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 The Nashville Predators have extended the contracts of coach John Hynes and his assistants through the 2023-24 season, trying to build on a season with several individual successes for a franchise that wound up being swept in the playoffs for the first time.\nInjuries could tip balance of some NHL first-round series\nBy STEPHEN WHYNOMay 7, 2022 GMT\nThere was a 6-foot-4, 220-pound hole in the Washington lineup in Game 2 against the Florida Panthers.\nTom Wilson's injury is one of many around the NHL playoffs that could tip the balance of a series.\nCapitals rally late, stun top-seeded Panthers 4-2 in Game 1\nBy TIM REYNOLDSMay 4, 2022 GMT\nSUNRISE, Fla. (AP) \u2014 T.J. Oshie didn't see his go-ahead goal get into the net. The Florida Panthers didn't see this coming, either.\nAnd right away, the top overall seed in the Stanley Cup playoffs finds itself in some trouble.\nCapitals lose 4-1 to Islanders, fail to move up in standings\nBy STEPHEN WHYNOApril 27, 2022 GMT\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Peter Laviolette couldn't explain why his Washington Capitals fell flat in a 4-1 loss to the New York Islanders on Tuesday night with a chance to move up in the standings and improve their playoff positioning.\nOvechkin injury clouds Capitals' outlook week from playoffs\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Alex Ovechkin missed a game because of injury for just the 25th time in his 17-year NHL career.\nAll of those have come in the regular season. He has never missed one in the playoffs.\nOvechkin injured as Capitals lose to Maple Leafs in shootout\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 There's much for the Washington Capitals to evaluate after a tough loss late in the season and an injury that could cloud their entire playoff outlook.\nAlex Ovechkin was injured early in the third period of a 4-3 shootout loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Sunday night, crashing into the boards and getting ruled out with an upper-body injury.\nMantha scores twice in 34 seconds, Capitals rout Canadiens\nApril 17, 2022 GMT\nMONTREAL (AP) \u2014 Anthony Mantha scored twice in a 34-second span midway through the second period and had two assists in the Washington Capitals' 8-4 victory over the Montreal Canadiens 8-4 on Saturday night.\nStaal's hat trick carries Hurricanes past Ducks 5-2\nBy BOB SUTTONApril 11, 2022 GMT\nRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Nearly a decade passed since Jordan Staal had a hat trick. The Carolina Hurricanes captain liked the idea of ending that drought.\nStaal capped his fourth career hat trick with an empty-net goal and the Hurricanes settled in defensively after an offense-filled first period to beat the Anaheim Ducks 5-2 on Sunday night.\nBackstrom has goal, assist as Capitals beat Devils 4-3\nBy IAN NICHOLAS QUILLENMarch 27, 2022 GMT\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Nicklas Backstrom scored the go-ahead goal and then added an assist on the night Washington celebrated his 1,000th career point, and the Capitals beat the New Jersey Devils 4-3 on Saturday night.\nOvechkin seals Capitals' 4-3 shootout win over Sabres\nBy JOHN WAWROWMarch 26, 2022 GMT\nBUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Capitals coach Peter Laviolette said it's no secret how every team has its share of set plays following offensive zone faceoffs.\nOvechkin ties game, scores in shootout as Caps top 'Canes\nBy BOB SUTTONMarch 19, 2022 GMT\nRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Alex Ovechkin tied the game late in the third period and scored the winner in a shootout as the Washington Capitals beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4-3 on Friday night.\nEvgeny Kuznetsov and John Carlson also scored in regulation for Washington, which has an eight-game point streak to match its longest stretch of the season.\nCaps' Ovechkin ties Jagr for 3rd on NHL career goals list\nMarch 9, 2022 GMT\nCALGARY, Alberta (AP) \u2014 Alex Ovechkin scored twice and moved into a tie for third place on the NHL's career goals list, and Nic Dowd scored the go-ahead goal as the Washington Capitals rallied in the third period to beat the Calgary Flames 5-4 on Tuesday night.\nOvechkin scores 763rd goal, Caps beat Canes 4-0 to snap skid\nBy STEPHEN WHYNOMarch 4, 2022 GMT\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Fans chanted Alex Ovechkin's name after a goal, much as they have for almost two decades.\nFor the first time in more than a month, they went home happy.\nOvechkin and Evgeny Kuznetsov scored on the power play, Vitek Vanecek stopped all 36 shots he faced and the Washington Capitals snapped a three-game losing streak by beating the Eastern Conference-leading Carolina Hurricanes 4-0 Thursday night.\nCapitals winger Carl Hagelin out long term with eye injury\nARLINGTON, Va. (AP) \u2014 Washington Capitals winger Carl Hagelin is expected to miss an extended period of time with what the team is calling a serious eye injury.\nHagelin was struck in the left eye with an errant stick during practice Tuesday.\nMaple Leafs hand Capitals sixth consecutive home loss 5-3\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Peter Laviolette didn't sugarcoat the feeling around the Washington Capitals after losing a third consecutive game in regulation and sixth in a row at home.\n\"I think guys will probably leave the rink angry,\" Laviolette said.\nLafreni\u00e8re, Zibanejad lead Rangers to 4-1 win over Capitals\nBy VIN A. CHERWOOFebruary 25, 2022 GMT\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re and Mika Zibanejad each had a goal and an assist, and the New York Rangers beat the Washington Capitals 4-1 on Thursday night.\nChris Kreider and Barclay Goodrow also scored and Igor Shesterkin stopped 36 shots to help New York win for the fifth time in six games.\nHathaway scores twice late to lead Caps' comeback vs. Flyers\nBy AARON BRACYFebruary 18, 2022 GMT\nPHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 With star Alex Ovechkin shut out on the scoresheet, the Washington Capitals turned to their fourth line when they most needed offense.\nGarnet Hathaway scored two goals in a span of less than two minutes late in the third period and the Capitals rallied late to defeat the Philadelphia Flyers 5-3 on Thursday night.\nOvechkin scores twice in Capitals' 4-1 win over Predators\nBy JIM DIAMONDFebruary 16, 2022 GMT\nNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Alex Ovechkin scored a pair of goals, including his 30th of the season, to lead the Washington Capitals in their 4-1 victory over the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night.\nJoe Snively and Nick Jensen also scored, and Ilya Samsonov made 33 saves for Washington, which has won two of their last three.\nOvechkin to miss All-Star Game after entering protocols\nBy RICH DUBROFFFebruary 2, 2022 GMT\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin will miss the NHL All-Star Game in Las Vegas on Saturday after entering the league's COVID-19 protocols Wednesday.\nOvechkin was going to play in his eighth All-Star Game.\nCapitals beat Stars, former teammate Holtby 5-0\nJanuary 29, 2022 GMT\nDALLAS (AP) \u2014 Nicklas Backstrom had a goal and two assists and Vitek Vanecek had 30 saves for his second shutout of the season as the Washington Capitals beat former teammate Braden Holtby and the Dallas Stars 5-0 on Friday night.\nOvechkin, Backstrom rally Capitals past Senators 3-2 in OT\nBy IAN NICHOLAS QUILLENJanuary 23, 2022 GMT\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Alex Ovechkin scored his 28th and 29th goals of the season in the third period, Nicklas Backstrom pounced on a turnover to get the winner 1:13 into overtime and the Washington Capitals rallied for a 3-2 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Saturday night.\nOvechkin scores two 3rd period goals in Caps 3-1 win\nBy DANA GAURUDERJanuary 1, 2022 GMT\nDETROIT (AP) \u2014 Alex Ovechkin had two goals in the third period, including the go-ahead score with 2:51 remaining, and the Washington Capitals topped the Detroit Red Wings 3-1 on Friday night.\nThe game-winner was his 275th career power play goal, a new NHL record.\nCaps beat Winnipeg 5-2, spoil Lowry's debut as Jets coach\nDecember 18, 2021 GMT\nWINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) \u2014 Vitek Vanecek made 40 saves and the Washington Capitals beat Winnipeg 5-2 Friday night to spoil the debut of new Jets coach Dave Lowry.\n\"Vitek was really good,\" Washington coach Peter Laviolette said.\nCapitals F Nicklas Backstrom returns from left hip injury\nCHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Nicklas Backstrom is in for the Washington Capitals. Evgeny Kuznetsov is out.\nBackstrom made his season debut Wednesday night against the Chicago Blackhawks after being sidelined by a left hip injury.\nCarlson comes up big in Caps' 4-3 shootout win over Ducks\nBy IAN NICHOLAS QUILLENDecember 7, 2021 GMT\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 John Carlson tied the game late in the second period and then scored Washington's third and final shootout goal to give the Capitals a 4-3 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Monday night.\nKuznetsov, Ovechkin lead Caps over Canadiens 6-3\nBy IAN NICHOLAS QUILLENNovember 25, 2021 GMT\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Evgeny Kuznetsov scored his seventh goal and added an assist, Alex Ovechkin had three assists in a game for the first time in nearly four years, and the Washington Capitals cruised to a 6-3 win over the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday night.\nOvechkin scores 742nd in Capitals' 4-3 win over Blue Jackets\nBy NICOLE KRAFTNovember 13, 2021 GMT\nCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) \u2014 Alex Ovechkin got his 742nd career goal, Conor Sheary scored with 1:22 left and the Washington Capitals beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-3 Friday night.\nGarnet Hathaway scored twice to help Washington get its third straight win.\nCapitals hand Coyotes 8th consecutive loss to start season\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 John Carlson scored a long-awaited power-play goal, Alex Ovechkin added an empty-netter and the Washington Capitals beat Arizona 2-0 Friday night, handing the Coyotes their eighth consecutive loss to start the season.\nCapitals' T.J. Oshie 'week to week' with lower-body injury\nOctober 28, 2021 GMT\nARLINGTON, Va. (AP) \u2014 Washington Capitals winger T.J. Oshie has been listed as week to week with a lower-body injury.\nOshie took a shot from Detroit's Danny DeKeyser off the outside of his right foot during the third period of the Red Wings' 3-2 overtime win Wednesday night.\nCapitals' Sprong has goal, assist in 4-1 win over Devils\nNEWARK, N.J. (AP) \u2014 The Washington Capitals had the New Jersey Devils' number last season, winning all eight games. Nothing seemingly has changed this season.\nDaniel Sprong set up the Capitals' first goal and scored on a second-period breakaway in one-sided 4-1 victory over the Devils on Thursday night.\nAlex Ovechkin questionable for Capitals opener vs. Rangers\nARLINGTON, Va. (AP) \u2014 Alex Ovechkin is questionable to play in the Washington Capitals season opener against the New York Rangers on Wednesday night.\nOvechkin took part in an optional practice Tuesday after skating several laps around the ice to test out his unspecified lower-body injury.\nAlex Ovechkin injured in Capitals' preseason finale\nBy STEPHEN WHYNOOctober 9, 2021 GMT\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Alex Ovechkin left the Washington Capitals' preseason finale against Philadelphia on Friday night with what the team called a lower-body injury and is set to be examined further Saturday.\nCapitals beat Sabres 6-4; Laviolette wins Washington debut\nBy The Associated PressJanuary 15, 2021 GMT\nBUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 T.J. Oshie had a goal and two assists and Washington made a winner of coach Peter Laviolette in his Capitals' debut, beating the Buffalo Sabres 6-4 on Thursday night...\nRuff hired as NJ Devils coach, Fitzgerald stays on as GM\nBy TOM CANAVAN and STEPHEN WHYNOJuly 9, 2020 GMT\nLindy Ruff impressed the New Jersey Devils with his experience from decades of coaching. Tom Fitzgerald wowed ownership with his moves in a few short months as general manager...\nNashville Predators fire coach Peter Laviolette\nBy TERESA WALKERJanuary 7, 2020 GMT\nNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Nashville general manager David Poile thought he made the key moves to","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home>Articles>Moroccan journalist missing as Zafzafi 'hirak' protests continue\nMoroccan journalist missing as Zafzafi 'hirak' protests continue\nBy AT editor - 30 May 2017 at 11:42 pm\nIn the wake of weekend demonstrations across Morocco, the North African affiliate of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has expressed concern over the whereabouts of Mohamed El Asrihi of the Rif24 news site. The news outlet directed by El Asrihi has been shut down since Rif24 was providing coverage of the massive protests, including video footage on Friday of emerging activist leader Nasser Zafzafi.\nThe Moroccan news site Le Desk described the Rif24 site as among the most active in covering Al Hoceima and the Rif province's vocal \"hirak\" popular movement \u2013 an abbreviation for Al-Hirak al-Shaabi \u2013 but it had been offline at the weekend. That was still the case on Tuesday night, although the social media-driven Rif24's Facebook page was accessible.\nLe Desk said its reporters were in contact with El Asrihi's brother Wael, who confirmed he had not seen him since Friday. His journalistic colleagues also said he was missing, and feared to have been arrested.\nThe RSF has been monitoring arrests associated with last week's massive rallies in Al Hoceima following Zafzafi's disruption of Friday prayers at a mosque. A warrant was issued for his arrest and he was subsequently taken into custody, but not before successfully calling on his supporters to take to the streets. Solidarity protests spread to other cities including Rabat, Casablanca and Tangier.\nSmaller protests in Morocco continued in Imzouren and elsewhere as people called for the release of those arrested. According to RSF, in addition to El Asrihi's status, the arrested include photographer Hossein El Idrissi with another Rif-based news outlet, journalist Rabiaa El Ablak of the news site Badil, and Jamal Alilat, an Algerian reporter with El Watan who was detained and removed from Morocco on Tuesday.\nAl Hoceima has been at the center of Morocco's unrest since the October 28 death of Mohcen Fikri. The fish market vendor was crushed to death in a trash truck while trying to salvage his wares after police threw out his market goods. Some on social media have been calling the latest wave of widespread demonstrations the \"new February 20,\" referring to the movement of 2011 in a region that was at the heart of Morocco's Arab Spring.\nImage: Rif24\/Mobile Ref\nAl-Hirak al-Shaabi\nhirak\nMohamed El Asrihi\nZafzafi","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > Blog > Family Festival a Big Hit!\nFamily Festival a Big Hit!\nMountain View Adventist College held its first Family Festival in 20 years on Sunday 23 April 2017. The event was attended by over 1000 people on the day which kicked off at 3pm and finished at 8pm.\nFestival Goers were able to enjoy carnival rides including Dodgem Cars, Roundup, Swinging Pirate Ship, Spinning Cups & Saucers, Pony rides, Jumping Castles and more! Other experiences on the day included Food Trucks, Market Stalls, Face painting, a petting zoo and live entertainment.\n\"It was great to have some of our students perform live at the Festival\" Music Teacher Mr Steve Erceg said. \"We have some very talented people at the College and it was a wonderful experience for them to perform in front of such a large crowd.\" We were also entertained by the Sydney Tongan SDA Brass Band which is always a crowd pleaser.\nThe Rat Finks Hot Rod and Custom Club Australia had 20 cars on display for the car enthusiasts. Cars ranged from Customised Hot Rods through to original condition classic cars \u2013 there was something for everyone to see. \"We attend a lot of events and I can say that what Mountain View has put on today is the biggest school event that we have attended which was professionally organised\" said Peter Green, President of the Rat Finks Hot Rod Club. \"We look forward to attending again next year.\"\nThe night ended with a spectacular 10 minute fireworks display. \"It was a great day topped off by brilliant fireworks that far exceeded our expectations,\" says Mountain View Business Manager Craig Dwyer. \"We were particularly encouraged by the attendance of members of the local community. One of the main intentions of the event was to engage more with our local community. We look forward to holding other events in the future and would love to see the community there too!\"\nOne Festival Goer, Sue said \"It was a wonderfully put together event. There were great market stalls, a good variety of food, rides for the kids and the entertainment was wonderful. There was something for everyone\".\nTags: family festival\nPlease add a comment\nYou must be logged in to leave a reply. Login \u00bb\nCollege News, College Newsletter, Events, Wellbeing\nNewsletter, NAPLAN, ACARA, Prep Centre, Event, family festival, Exams, College Life, Road to Bethlehem, Reading Workshop, Life Skills, Help your Child, Wellbeing, iNight, Fundraiser","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Camila Cabello and Ryan Seacrest Make a Visit to Children's Hospital\nDuring the sweet visit, the singer performed her hit track 'Havana' to the patients and staff.\nAceShowbiz - Camila Cabello and Ryan Seacrest made dreams come true in a visit to a children's hospital.\nThe 21-year-old singer, and the TV presenter, 43, were greeted by stunned patients during the event hosted by The Ryan Seacrest Foundation at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia on Friday, July 13.\nCabello, who was in the city to perform later that day at the Lincoln Financial Field as one of the support acts at Taylor Swift's Reputation World Tour, was given a tour o the hospital's media centre, Seacrest Studios.\nThe singer performed her hit track Havana to the patients and staff, and later shared photos from her visit on Instagram.\n\"The Ryan Seacrest Foundation does a beautiful thing for the kids in Philly's Children's Hospital,\" Cabello wrote. \"Kids that are being treated at the hospital get to be themselves, express their dreams and voices, and have something fun to look forward to so they don't feel defined by what's going on in their lives at this moment.\nthe Ryan Seacrest foundation does a beautiful thing for the kids in Philly's Children's Hospital. kids that are being treated at the hospital get to be themselves, express their dreams and voices, and have something fun to look forward to so they don't feel defined by what's going on in their lives at this moment, by taking care of their hearts as well as their bodies and having activities, positive music, games, and competitions in the Ryan Seacrest studio downstairs- seeing their smiles, their spirit, and their positivity only makes it clearer to me that the most valuable lessons we can learn come from kids, today I heard a conversation between parents of a little girl at the hospital and @ryanseacrest , the parents told him how much the foundation helped their child - instead of talking about doctors and treatments, she was talking about how excited she was for the next karaoke competition at the studio downstairs- so thankful for foundations like these that make lives so much better, so thankful for kids like these - with so much talent, spunk, knowledge, and spirit in spite of their everyday battles - thank you @ryanseacrest @ryanfoundation for having me\nA post shared by camila (@camila_cabello) on Jul 13, 2018 at 1:31pm PDT\n\"Today I heard a conversation between parents of a little girl at the hospital and @ryanseacrest, the parents told him how much the foundation helped their child \u2013 instead of talking about doctors and treatments, she was talking about how excited she was for the next karaoke competition at the studio downstairs,\" she continued. \"So thankful for foundations like these that make lives so much better, so thankful for kids like these \u2013 with so much talent, spunk, knowledge, and spirit in spite of their everyday battles \u2013 thank you @ryanseacrest @ryanfoundation for having me.\"\nThe American Idol host launched his non-profit organisation, The Ryan Seacrest Foundation, in 2010, and his Seacrest Studios now feature in children's hospitals across the U.S., including Atlanta, Los Angeles, Boston and Colorado.\nA really special day at @ChildrensPhila #SeacrestStudios! Thanks for surprising the kids @Camila_Cabello :)\nA post shared by Ryan Seacrest (@ryanseacrest) on Jul 13, 2018 at 1:38pm PDT\nSeacrest said back in 2016 that he wanted to create a useful distraction for kids who were receiving treatment in the hospital.\nGot to spend time with these rock stars - love seeing the kids this happy :) Thank you to our @ryanfoundation interns, volunteers, studio manager Kent, @childrensphila staff, parents\/families, and of course @camila_cabello for making today so special. #SeacrestStudios\n\"It's remarkable to see how when the kids are talking to some of their favourite stars, creating their own shows, doing their own interviews, they really forget some of the tough stuff that's happening in the hospital,\" he told People.\nKatherine Waterston Hated Her Character's Heavy 'Fantastic Beasts' Coat\nScarlett Johansson Praised by Transgender Community for Exiting 'Rub and Tug'\nCamila Cabello Gushes Over 'Normal' Shawn Mendes Amid Dating Rumors\nCamila Cabello Is a Blonde Femme Fatale in 'Find U Again' Music Video\nArtist of the Week: Camila Cabello\nCamila Cabello Begs Fans to Stop Sending Hateful Messages After Matthew Hussey Split\nCamila Cabello Calls It Quits With BF Matthew Hussey After 1 Year of Dating","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"World \u2013 City Explorer Pass\nBeer Tours\nDrink Tours\nPop-Up Tours\nIn Focus Tours\nNew York Times Tours\nCreate Your Own Tours\nBlog > How to escape the clich\u00e9 in LA\nHow to escape the clich\u00e9 in LA\nJennifer Foden\n\"Jen, for real, I just saw Jack White,\" my 13-year-old sister said this while standing in line for pizza at Los Angeles' LAX airport.\n\"Okay, Steph,\" I said, rolling my eyes, definitely not believing her.\nSeconds later, the lead singer of The White Stripes walked in for a slice. I quickly grabbed my mom to snap a picture of us. He happily obliged.\nBut in typical mom form, our mother pointed the camera at the three of us and shouted, \"Okay, now say bologna!\" Face palm.\nFast forward 12 years later. I was in Australia, about to fly to New Zealand, when someone told me over a few pints (I mean schooners \u2014 sorry Aussies) that I wouldn't be let into their neighbouring country unless I had an outgoing flight booked. With no current plan in mind, I made a spur-of-the-moment decision to meet up with my Toronto bestie Jenn in Los Angeles and hang out with LA-based friends we had met the year before while competing on the fake Amazing Race (that's a whole other story).\nI had only been to Los Angeles once prior (the previously mentioned cheesy mom incident) and to be honest, wasn't the biggest fan. To be fair, it was 2003 and I was an angsty dealing-with-my-parents'-divorce teenager with awful blonde punk rock hair and an attitude problem. Looking back, my mom truly did try to make that trip great. She rented a red Mustang and drove my kid sister and me around to the Hollywood sign, Disneyland, and Walk of Fame. But still, my idea of the City of Angels was driving, traffic, and clich\u00e9 Hollywood crap. I'm sure the embarrassing airport photo didn't help.\nHate LA? Hint: you're doing it all wrong.\nSo when I arrived last year to visit my friends, I already had an idea of the city in my head. Spoiler alert: my opinion quickly changed. And I owe it to a few locals who showed me there's far more to LA than the Walk of Fame and celebrity selfies. To prove how great their city was, on our first day, our friends sent us out on a city scavenger hunt to discover their favourite spots.\n\"This is what you need to see,\" they insisted, excitedly writing down instructions.\nThe Fountain Coffee Room\nThe Fountain Coffee Room, a coffee shop and diner in the basement of the famous Beverly Hills Hotel, will make you feel like you've been transported back in time (it has been opened since the late '40s). Instructions: walk in, sit up at the retro bar, order a coffee (and the life-changing waffles), and imagine yourself sitting next to Marilyn Monroe or Audrey Hepburn.\nLocated on the corner of Walden Drive and Carmelita Avenue, smack in the middle of a modern-day residential neighbourhood, is the Spadena House (first owned by the Spadena family in the 1920s), a storybook home that legit looks like something out of Hocus Pocus (it's also been called the \"quintessential Hansel and Gretel house\").\nGo ahead, channel your inner Sarah Jessica Parker a la Hocus Pocus\nOkay, I must admit this is kind of touristy, but we were in Los Angeles! We had to do something that screamed Hollywood. Channel your inner '90s soap opera star, swipe your credit card at some of the trendy, eclectic shops, and snap your photo under the iconic street sign. Also, fun fact: the street is only four blocks long.\nThe Original Farmers' Market at Third and Fairfax (and next to The Grove outdoor shopping mall) should be a destination for any foodie. Seriously, the food there is some of the best I had while in LA. I'm still having visions of the pulled pork sammie.\nBook Soup and Mystery Pier Books\nOur friend Kenny, an author, and fellow word nerd like Jenn and myself (who met in publishing school) sent us to his two favourite bookstores: Book Soup (fun vibe, huge selection) and, located in an alley next door, Mystery Pier Books, a first edition book shop (magical).\nApparently we had \"just missed\" Johnny Depp shopping at Mystery Pier. We laughed en route to our bonus, sixth scavenger hunt location (the Los Angeles County Museum of Art) and Jenn asked me who would be the one celebrity I'd want to meet in LA. Funny man, Jason Segel, obv.\nWant to guess who we met 20 minutes later?\nI'm sorry, dear Urban Adventures readers, I have no photo evidence, so you'll just have to trust me on this one (he was on a date, and I felt rude asking). But, I did say, \"Jason, we love you!\" probably a bit too loudly, as (a) we were in a museum and (b) he was standing two feet from me. But, he did say, \"thank you very much,\" so I consider that a success.\nI don't know what the message here is, other than:\nAll cities deserve a second chance.\nDig a little deeper.\nStay with friends, or ask locals where to go.\nDon't get your mom to take a photo of you with Jack White.\nLA is so, so great, and much more than cheesy Hollywood.\nSecond time's a charm, especially when you meet Jason Segel.\nWant to embark on your own scavenger hunt of local LA? Hop on one of our tours for a clich\u00e9-free day in the City of Angels!\nThe 10 Most Romantic Tours in North America\nBest Street Food in Detroit: Khana\nBest Street Food in Los Angeles: Villa Moreliana\nThe Unsung Women of New York City\nUA's sustainability-focused Philadelphia tours have arrived\nSign up for our newsletter & get $10 off your first tour\nLocals on Tap\nJobs at Urban Adventures","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Did Hillary Clinton Have Another 'Medical Episode' at a Campaign Event?\n11:00AM EDT 9\/21\/2016\t Bob Eschliman\nDemocratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton surprisingly canceled a $2,700-a-plate fundraiser in North Carolina on Tuesday, just hours after a new video emerged that put her health in question once again.\nThe video, released by The American Mirror, shows that her eyes weren't tracking together\u2014a sign of potential neurological distress\u2014during her speech in Philadelphia on Monday night. This condition is one medical professionals look for as a sign of stroke or a possible brain tumor.\nThe associated article still appears on The American Mirror's homepage of its website, but the article itself is currently inaccessible. \"Hacktivists\" supporting Clinton's campaign have been known to attack alternative news websites that release information that is damaging to her campaign.\nClinton's fundraiser in Chapel Hill, North Carolina\u2014another key \"battleground\" state where her opponent, Republican Donald Trump, appears to have taken the lead in the polls\u2014was billed as \"lunch with Hillary Rodham Clinton.\" It had four donation levels ranging from $100,000 for \"chair reception with Hillary\" to the minimum of $2,700 just to attend.\nTrump responded to the news with a tweet to his Twitter followers:\nHillary Clinton is taking the day off again, she needs the rest. Sleep well Hillary\u2014see you at the debate!\nThe video evidence once again suggests there's more wrong with Clinton's health than just a case of pneumonia. She was scheduled to speak again Wednesday in Orlando, Florida. The event, which was scheduled for 2 p.m., had not been postponed or canceled as of this writing.\nRelated topics: 2016 Elections | Caucus Elections | Health | Hillary Clinton","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Our 2022 Annual Plan identifies goals and action steps for the year. Each goal is rooted in our Strategic Plan and represents concrete steps toward our long term objectives. Our 2022-2024 Strategic Plan identifies five focus areas that will allow us to respond to the needs of our stakeholders and position Hamilton County DD Services for the future. You can see our Strategic Plan here.\nGuidance Through Life Stages\nPeople served and their families will experience confident, seamless transitions from one life stage to the next \u2014 from babies to school-age children to adults to senior citizens\nEmpowerment of People with Developmental Disabilities, Families, and Staff\nPeople with developmental disabilities, their families, and their HCDDS and provider staff will be empowered to reimagine, strengthen, and modernize supports for a good life. People with DD and their families will have increased access to technology and advocacy opportunities to foster independence. HCDDS and provider staff will have the support, skills, technology and training that promote engagement, confidence, and competence.\nCommunity Engagement and Equitable Access\nIdentify opportunities and address common barriers so all people with DD have better access to transportation, housing, medical care, mental health, and inclusive neighborhoods. HCDDS will engage diverse community allies to partner in key initiatives for equitable access and good quality of life for people with DD and other Hamilton County citizens. Direct HCDDS funding to support these community initiatives.\nLong-term Sustainability of High-Quality Support\nHCDDS will be thought-leaders and policy drivers to promote sustainable, high-quality support. This includes streamlining internal HCDDS processes, investing in skilled staff, and assuring fiscal health and responsibility. We will collaborate with regional and state partners on systemic solutions to DSP workforce concerns, leverage partnerships to reduce overlap and inefficiencies, and pilot bold, innovative approaches to address existing problems in a new way.\nEngagement & Access\nSustainability of Support","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"China-Underground Movie Database > Movies > Andrew Lau > The Storm Riders\nThe Storm Riders\nThe Storm Riders (1998)\n\u2014 128 min - Fantasy, Action, Adventure - 18 July 1998\nBased on a comic book called Fung Wan (or Tin Ha), the movie stars Ekin Cheng as Wind and Aaron Kwok as Cloud. The plot involves two children, Whispering Wind and Striding Cloud, who become powerful warriors under the evil warlord Conquer's tutelage. They grow up serving as his subordinates, but a love triangle and an accident leads to a quest for retribution.\nDirector: Andrew Lau\nStars: Aaron Kwok, Ekin Cheng, Sonny Chiba, Kristy Yang, Michael Tse Tin-Wah, Lawrence Cheng, Wayne Lai, Jason Chu, Shu Qi, Vincent Wan Yeung-Ming, Roy Cheung, Alex Fong Chung-Sun, Yu Rong-Guang, Christine Ng, Xu Jinglei\nCollections: Andrew Lau\nGenres: Fantasy, Action, Adventure\nLanguage: \u666e\u901a\u8bdd\nProduction Companies: Golden Harvest Pictures, Centro Digital Pictures Ltd., BoB and Partners Co. Ltd\nAn ambitious attempt to replicate a popular martial arts manga on the bigscreen with elaborate CGI work and location shooting in China.\nThe Storm Riderslargely succeeds on the tech front but, like many pics in the genre, hits problems compressing its complex story down to feature lenght. Heavily promoted, star-laden pic got off to a good start in Hong Kong, where it set a new opening-day record July 18, beating out those set by Titanic and The Lost World. On the strength of helmer Andrew Lau's name (Young and Dangerous), this entertaining extravaganza should roll into fantasy-fest slots. Opening 20 minutes pack in a lot of plot, with martial arts king Lord Conqueror (Japanese vet Sonny Chiba) informed by cringing acolytes that he can remain invincible for the first half of his life by adopting two young disciples, Wind and Cloud, currently young kids. They will help him, 10 years hence, in a duel with his only remaining threat, the Sword Saint. Lau brings visual elan to much of the pic, and both Kwok and Cheng, with their flashing-eyed looks, long hair and designer leather duds, impressively incarnate the spirit of the manga heroes. Lau himself takes on lensing chores as well.\nDerek Elley\nThanks to Far East Film Festival","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Midterm Elections: The Day After\nAndrew Weeks\nAndrew Weeks Published: November 7, 2018\nPhoto by Andrew Weeks\nTWIN FALLS, Idaho (KLIX) \u2013 County officials were experiencing \"election hangover\" on Wednesday. A busy turnout at the polls kept them up until late Tuesday night.\nMore than 24,000 voters came to the polls in Twin Falls County. Many registered at the polling stations, said Elections Director Valerie Varadi, and several precincts ran out of register cards.\nShe said running out of cards was really the only hiccup that some officials saw on Tuesday.\n\"The turnout was fantastic. It was a really good day,\" she said. \"We knew the turnout was going to be good.\"\nVaradi said the big issues that brought people out was the governor's race and the two propositions.\nIn the governor's race, Brad Little beat Democrat contender Paulette Jordan, 60 percent statewide to Jordan's 39.7 percent, according to the Associated Press. The ballot measures saw that 53.4 percent of voters said no to Proposition 1, which would have authorized betting on historical horse racing in the Gem State. Voters were more kind to Proposition 2, which expands Medicaid coverage, with 60.4 percent casting their ballots in favor of the measure.\nVisit IdahoVotes to view statewide and county election results.\nVaradi said that during the last midterm elections in 2014 Twin Falls County had 32,393 registered voters, of which 55 percent turned out at the polls. \"This election we had a 70 percent turnout,\" she said, or 24,888 out of 35,071 registered voters who cast their ballots. (During the presidential election in 2017 the county saw 76 percent voter turnout.)\nJerome County officials also had a late night as election volunteers kept busy at the precincts, said Elections Supervisor Cy Lootens.\n\"It went late into the night, but everything went well,\" Lootens said. \"We didn't have any issues.\"\nHe said more ballots were cast in this midterm election than the last one, but the percentage of voters who turned out at the polls Tuesday was about the same as it was in 2014 because there are more registered voters this time. That year the county had some 5,300 registered voters and 67 percent turnout. This year there was around 8,500 registered voters.\nA lot of people registered on Election Day, Lootens said.\n\"There were a lot of unopposed races and that probably didn't help much,\" he said. \"But a lot of people came out because they were interested in the governor's race and two propositions.\"\nFiled Under: idaho, jerome county, Politics, twin falls county\nCategories: Magic Valley News, Twin Falls News\nMore From 95.7 KEZJ\nWhy Many New Businesses Have Opened in Idaho the Last Few Years\nMoose Shot and Killed After Charging Man in Idaho Residential Area\n10 Silly Meanings Of Idaho Town Names According To The Urban Dictionary\nWhy Idaho is Dropping the Ball in Politics Compared to Other States\nShoshone Woman Killed in Crash on U.S. 93\nNew Case of Bird Flu Found in Twin Falls County\nPowerline Fire North of Twin Falls\nMagic Valley Task Force Investigating Friday High Speed Chase\nJerome County Prosecutor to Resign","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Terracotta Clusters Apache Tomcat for Free\nTerracotta Sessions for Tomcat delivers Java clustering within 30 minutes; covalent partnership bolsters sales and marketing efforts\nSAN FRANCISCO -- May 8, 2006 -- Terracotta, Inc., a developer of solutions for Java scalability, today announced Terracotta Sessions for Tomcat, the industry's first drop-in clustering solution for the Apache Tomcat application server.\nThe move gives organizations a free clustering solution that meets their need for load-balanced Tomcat application servers. It also helps lower costs by eliminating performance tuning from the development lifecycle.\nAccording to a survey by Forrester Research, Inc., Apache Tomcat is the most widely used open source servlet engine and was mentioned by 51 percent of respondents for current or planned usage.*\nTypically, Tomcat users can spend weeks or months writing clustering code by hand to make Java applications in production cluster and scale efficiently. Beginning on May 16, developers can visit the Terracotta website, download and install Terracotta Sessions for Tomcat, and get their Java applications clustered within 30 minutes.\n\"We're changing the way people build apps. We're eliminating application tuning, while providing linear scale and total fault tolerance. And, we're doing it for free,\" said Ari Zilka, founder and CEO of Terracotta. \"Terracotta Sessions for Tomcat is the first of many solutions that will use Terracotta's clustered JVM technology to solve point problems for customers in 30 minutes or less.\"\nTerracotta Sessions for Tomcat will be available for download beginning May 16 from the Terracotta Web site. Terracotta Sessions licenses are free for all platforms for four JVMs and under. Production licenses are available directly from Terracotta. For more information, interested parties can call 888-30 TERRA, email sales@terracottatech.com, or visit http:\/\/www.terracottatech.com.\nAbout Terracotta, Inc.\nTerracotta, Inc. delivers plug-in capacity and availability for enterprise Java at runtime with no application code changes. Terracotta gives application developers and operators substantial advantages in development, deployment, and management that translate directly to faster time to market, increased return on investment, and lower total cost of ownership.\n* \"Open Source Usage Is Up, But Concerns Linger\", Forrester Research, Inc., June 2005\nTerracotta, Inc., Terracotta, and the Terracotta stylized \"T\" logo are trademarks of Terracotta, Inc. Java and all Java-based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Other marks are the property of their respective owners and are used here only for identification purposes.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'Don't come near me': Wesley Savadao defends himself after being accused of 'stardom'\nKaren Boyd May 15, 2022 2 min read\nSinger Wesley Savadao has been accused of \"stardom\" after refusing to take a picture with a fan as he walked to stage for a show in S\u00e3o Louis, Massachusetts, on Saturday (14). In the video, which spread on social media, the artist asks not to touch him.\n\"Don't touch it, don't come near me,\" says Wesley Savadao. At the same moment a fan can be heard asking for a photo with the singer. However, the artist explained in a series of stories published on Instagram that the phrase was directed at a security guard standing behind him.\n\"Don't stop, don't come near me,\" Wesley Savadao said.\nThe phrase was to be said to the masses. The L\u00e9o Dias column called the WS staff: \"He always helps everyone on his way from the dressing room to the stage or anywhere else. Anyone who knows him knows that.\" pic.twitter.com\/u8lMxXmGcr\n\u2013 RD1 | Celebrity and Television Network (@rd1official) May 15 2022\nIn another moment video, posted by the singer, a security guard is seen supporting Wesley Savada's shoulder and immediately telling him not to touch it. According to the artist, he had previously asked the team to loosen the security cordon that accompanied him.\nWesley safad\u00e3o is a love person and he will never treat fans that way, on the contrary in the video he was referring to the security guard not touching him just to make way for fans to meet pic.twitter.com\/2DFeE2vbDf\n\u2013 Tom WS\u26a1\ufe0f Releases (@AlmadaRomilson) May 15 2022\n\"As soon as I leave [do camarim] When I say 'I don't want people near me', I'm referring to the security guards standing behind me, and soon after, I take pictures and go to the stage,\" Savadao explained.\nDespite the misunderstanding, the singer apologized to the fan. \"I apologize to the girl who made this video if I was offended. The artist said this wasn't for you, this wouldn't be for you.\nLater, Safad\u00e3o made another recording lamenting the way the video had gone viral. \"Things get distorted very quickly. I went to sleep happy and when I wake up, a video like this went viral, and the intention was completely different,\" he said.\nInstagram will load in the front end.\nKaren Boyd\n\"Social media pioneer. Pop culture expert. Very humble internet enthusiast. Author.\"\nSee also In the Pantanal, Jove's craving hurts more than Jove's snakebite: 'Love' TV news\nPrevious Juma joins Alcides to avenge the deaths caused by Ten\u00f3rio TV News\nNext Summary of chapters from 5\/23 to 5\/28\nAmerican Horror stories season 2: Everything you need to Know\nJuly 27, 2022 romanspear\nWhat will happen in Animal Kingdom Season 6 Episode 9 Gethsemane\nYellowjackets season 2: What might happen in the upcoming season","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"This Is What CNN Focused On For 13 Hours Straight\nPeter Hasson Senior Reporter\nJust days after being singled out on Twitter by President Trump, CNN centered its coverage around a pair of tweets from the president on Thursday morning, presenting Trump's personal attacks on MSNBC hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough as the driving issue of the day.\nTrump referred to the two hosts as \"Low I.Q. Crazy Mika\" and \"Psycho Joe,\" and claimed he refused to hang out with Brzezinski on multiple occasions shortly before New Years Eve because, \"she was bleeding badly from a face-lift.\" Trump's tweets followed a \"Morning Joe\" segment where Brzezinski and Scarborough mocked the size of Trump's hands. (RELATED: CNN's Month-Long Nightmare)\nTrump sent out the two tweets out shortly before 9 a.m. For the rest of the day, those tweets dominated CNN's news coverage.\nIt didn't take CNN long to make Trump's tweets the lead of its website. The site's banner read: \"The President of the US tweeted this,\" and featured a picture of Trump's tweet as the featured image.\nThe tweets were bad, but this seems like a bit of an overreaction by https:\/\/t.co\/Ri0Erb16tb pic.twitter.com\/9AqjkoEeSv\n\u2014 Leon Wolf (@LeonHWolf) June 29, 2017\nCNN's online coverage Thursday afternoon led with Republican criticisms of Trump's tweets, along with Brian Stelter's original story on the tweets describing them as a \"shocking assault,\" editor-at-large Chris Cillizza's analysis of the tweets \u2014 which he described as \"bullying\" that \"crosses a big line,\" a Cillizza podcast on Trump's tweets, a story about first lady Melania Trump's spokesperson's reaction to the tweets and a video of a CNN panel debating Trump's tweets.\nCNN.com's lead stories 13 hours after Trump's tweets (Screenshot\/CNN)\nCNN, which Trump labeled \"fake news\" just two days prior, cycled fresh articles about Trump's tweets onto its front page throughout the afternoon and evening, including a Jake Tapper monologue about Trump's penchant for tweeting about the media, a story about J.K. Rowling taking a shot at Trump over Twitter, an explainer on why Trump hasn't gotten kicked off Twitter, a recap of disparaging remarks Trump has previously made about women (including on Twitter), another Chris Cillizza analysis on Trump's tweets (this time on deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders' defense of them) and another opinion article that said Trump's tweets captured \"the essence of sexism.\" All of those stories were at one point prominently featured, either as CNN's lead story or just below it, during CNN's marathon coverage of the two tweets.\nCNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta appeared to demand an apology for the tweets at the end of White House Sanders's press briefing Thursday afternoon. \"No apology from the president, Sarah?\" Acosta asked as Sanders walked away from the podium.\nCNN's TV coverage was no less intense. Beginning with the 9 a.m. hour, the network covered the tweets in depth every hour as anchors, panelists and guests expressed their outrage that the tweets.\nCNN media reporter Brian Stelter took New York City councilman Joe Borelli \u2014 who appeared to be the token Trump supporter on one panel \u2014 to task for not condemning the president's tweets, before saying that \"everyone in the media should be standing up today and saying that it's inappropriate for the president to behave this way.\"\nIt's unpresidential. I asked Trump supporter @JoeBorelliNYC: \"Why can't you just say it's unpresidential?\" https:\/\/t.co\/Kcn0UKEWmQ\n\u2014 Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 29, 2017\nCNN's John King similarly expressed his outrage at the tweets, saying, \"This isn't just some boorish, sexist guy in a bar making an ass of himself. This is the president of the United States.\"\nAnchor Wolf Blitzer used the tweets as an excuse to roll out 25 seconds of an old Hillary Clinton campaign ad that portrayed Trump as a sexual predator. Throughout the day he discussed the tweets in-depth with critical guests. In one such segment on Blitzer's show, CNN commentator Ana Navarro claimed Trump was \"acting like a mean girl.\"\nAna Navarro to President Trump: Start acting presidential and \"stop acting like a 'mean girl'\" https:\/\/t.co\/Qys3UcQB0O pic.twitter.com\/6MTmtTQ0D1\nIn another, CNN chief political analyst expressed alarm about the tweets, wondering: \"I have a six-year-old boy. How do I explain to him that you can't say things like this?\"\n.@DanaBashCNN \"I have a 6 year old boy. How do I explain to him that you can't say things like this\u2026\" https:\/\/t.co\/8RHuNA0AZX\n\u2014 Abigail Crutchfield (@ACrutchfield14) June 29, 2017\nCillizza similarly appealed to the innocence of children in expressing his outrage during a panel on Trump's tweets that led off CNN's 3 p.m. news hour.\n\"I know asking people to take their partisan hat off won't happen, but there is no way you look at that and you say, this is the kind of behavior that I am okay with in a society in which we are trying to raise our children, in which we are trying to say this is how you act and this is how you don't act,\" Cillizza said. Another panelist, liberal Sally Kohn, said the tweets made her \"feel so sad for my country today\" before calling Trump's media attacks \"totalitarianism\" and \"scary.\".\nAnchor Jake Tapper led off his 4 p.m. show by continuing the network's coverage of Trump's tweets, and tied them to Trump's promotion of the birther conspiracy theory surrounding Barack Obama's birth certificate. Tapper then broke down Trump's tweets by the numbers, noting the quantity of tweets Trump has sent about the media since inauguration day. (That monologue would later be prominently featured on CNN.com's home page.) Tapper's show then followed up by bringing up Trump's history of crass comments about women. Tapper spent the first twenty minutes of his hour-long show addressing Trump's tweets and then returned to the subject while interviewing Republican Senator Pat Toomey about health care later in the show.\nBlitzer repeatedly brought up the tweets during the 5 p.m. news hour, at one point asking political analyst Dana Bash about the tweets, \"is gender and sexism an issue here?\"\n\"Of course,\" Bash replied, noting in her answer that \"it's the same kind of language he used against Megyn Kelly. It's the same kind of thing that he said when he wants to criticize a woman, he criticizes their appearance, Carly Fiorina, and so, the list goes on.\"\nCNN similarly covered the president's tweets throughout the 7, 8 and 9 p.m. broadcasts.\nAnd, at 10 p.m. \u2014 more than 13 hours after the president sent out the insults \u2014 CNN's online coverage was still dominated by stories about the two Trump tweets.\nScreenshot\/CNN\nTags : brian stelter chris cillizza cnn donald trump jake tapper jim acosta joe scarborough mika brzezinski morning joe twitter\nPeter Hasson\nFollow Hasson on Twitter @PeterJHasson","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"EXCLUSIVE: Robert Guillaume Was Initially Hesitant to Play 'Benson': 'It Thrusts You Back in Time'\nMost actors are thrilled to land a hit TV show, and even more so to get their own spin-off, but for Robert Guillaume, the part of Benson DuBois on Soap and the ensuing spin-off named for his character, came with the weight of controversial feelings about his role, a black butler for a wealthy white family.\n\"When I got the role of Benson, I was not the happiest camper,\" Guillaume reveals on Saturday's Oprah: Where Are They Now?, in ETonline's exclusive sneak peek. \"I had reservations, 'cause you're serving food, you're serving the family, and all that sort of thing.\"\nTV: 9 Black Sitcoms from the '90s We Need on Netflix Now\nGuillaume, who got his start as a stage actor, played the part of DuBois on Soap from 1977-79, until his character was spun off on Benson, a sitcom that ran on ABC until 1986. Initially, however, he worried that the character might be counter-productive.\n\"It thrusts you back in time,\" the actor, now 88, reveals of his thoughts upon landing the role as the Tate family's butler and cook. \"It's as though nothing has changed since 1800.\"\nWATCH: Binge-Watching 'A Different World': 17 Things You Totally Forgot About This Guilt-Free 'Cosby Show' Spin-Off\nGuillaume went on to star as Rafiki in The Lion King and as managing editor Isaac Jaffe on Sports Night -- Aaron Sorkin's first foray into television -- and also had an extensive stage career. He says that the more he \"examined\" the character and the script, the more he came to terms with Benson, a role that ultimately won him two Emmy Awards.\n\"I figured out a way to take some of the stench off the idea,\" he says.\nOprah: Where Are They Now? airs Saturdays at 10 p.m. ET\/PT on OWN.\nWATCH: Dick Van Dyke Says He and Mary Tyler Moore Had a 'Teenage Crush' on Each Other\nEXCLUSIVE: Dick Van Dyke Reveals He Had a Crush on Mary Tyler Moore","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Deputy Head of Mission of Afghanistan to Pakistan Visits COMSATS Secretariat\nHome \/ Deputy Head of Mission of Afghanistan to Pakistan Visits COMSATS Secretariat\nH.E. Mr. Zardasht Shams, Deputy Head of Mission of Afghanistan to Pakistan, visited COMSATS Secretariat on 31st October 2017 on invitation from the Executive Director COMSATS, Dr. S.M. Junaid Zaidi. The visit was a part of COMSATS membership campaign. His Excellency was accompanied by Mr. Daud Mohseni (First Secretary), and Mr. Hamayun Ali (Education Attach\u00e9). Senior officials of COMSATS were also present during the meeting.\nAfter a formal welcome, Dr. Zaidi thanked His Excellency for his visit to COMSATS Secretariat and shared his views on potential cooperation between Afghanistan and COMSATS. Dr. Zaidi expressed his desire to develop a research institute or university in Afghanistan in line with country's needs.\nHe introduced COMSATS as a unique intergovernmental organization working for science-led sustainable growth in the South with 25 Member States and a network of 21 International Centres of Excellence. The organization, he noted is helping to accomplish its goals by providing essential scientific and technological resources. He highlighted the flagship projects of COMSATS including COMSATS' Telehealth, COMSATS Internet Services (CIS), and COMSATS Institute of Information and Technology. Dr. Zaidi hoped that Afghanistan would benefit more from COMSATS by joining the organization.\nDr. Zaidi shed light on Tele-health project and shared a concept paper with the Ambassador in this regard. Dr. Zaidi noted that tele-health is the mutual interest area for Afghanistan and COMSATS. Telehealth centres can be operated from Kabul to provide immediate and best health services to the remote areas in Afghanistan. The Ambassador showed great interest in learning more about this project. Dr. Zaidi also mentioned the benefits of joining COMSATS as a member state. His Excellency was also briefed about the AMC (Annual Membership Contribution) and was informed that these funds are kept separate and are used only for the contributing member country.\nThe Ambassador thanked Dr. Zaidi for his invitation and appreciated the efforts made by COMSATS to enhance international collaboration. He explained the transition period of development that Afghanistan is undergoing and hoped that the country continues to grow in future. He was willing to know which ministry would help in correspondence and collaboration between Afghanistan and COMSATS. Dr. Zaidi informed the Ambassador that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs may be appointed as a focal point of correspondence and collaboration between Afghanistan and COMSATS. His Excellency was keen to share all the information with relevant officials of Afghanistan to open new doors of collaboration between the two.\nSpeaking on the occasion, a senior official of COMSATS, Dr. Abdul Aziz Khan, delineated on benefits of joining COMSATS. He noted that any researcher or scientist from Afghanistan can join the International Thematic Research Groups (ITRGs) established by COMSATS. It will enhance their capacities by attending the annual meetings, and seminars and workshops that are organized by COMSATS. His Excellency suggested to invite the experts of relevant fields from Kabul to COMSATS for discussion and future policy, at later stages of correspondence.\nMr. Tajammul Hussain, Advisor (Programmes), further added that joining COMSATS as a Member State will be beneficial for Afghan students and scientists as many scholarships are offered by COMSATS Centres of Excellence.\nThe meeting concluded with the handing over of promotional documents of COMSATS to Deputy Head of Mission of Afghanistan.\nInternational Congress on Viruses and Vaccines in Tropical Areas held in Gambia\nNew Batch of Interns Joins COMSATS","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Friends hope to raise funds and awareness\nMembers of the 'In your pace Parkinson's' group who will be taking part in the Belfast Marathon Relay in May.\nRussell Keers\nA group of friends have banded together to raise much needed funds for charity, while also raising awareness of a neurological condition.\nThe group, made up of local residents, is taking part in a number of fundraising events in aid of Parkinson's UK.\nThe fundraising effort has been organised after Carnmoney man, Niall Barton was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease last year at the age of 45.\nIt has been a difficult year for Niall as he attempts to come to terms with the diagnosis .\nTo show their support for Niall and to raise both funds and awareness, the team is embarking on a number of charity activities.\nA spokesperson for the group of friends said: \"There is so little knowledge of the illness amongst the public out there and how more young people are being diagnosed with it.\n\"We just want to raise awareness of the condition and raise funds which will hopefully help to find a cure as well as offering support to people diagnosed with Parkinson's.\"\nThe group recently held a successful charity disco in the Whiteabbey Royal British Branch and Club, while coffee mornings and other charitable events are also set to take place.\nA team of 20 people will be putting their best foot forward as they each run a leg in this year's Belfast Marathon.\nThe team consists of runners who have never competed in an event before. They are currently preparing for the relay event on Monday, May 1.\nJeanette, Glen, Elaine and Gary from the close network of friends also participated in the Larne Half Marathon on Saturday, March 18.\nIf you would like to make a donation to Parkinson's Uk in support of the local fundraising effort, go to www.justgiving.com\/fundraising\/IN-YOUR-PACE-PARKINSONS\nBikers to pay tribute to Darren Keys","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Supporting children with Autism through the NDIS\nI am delighted that Abacus Learning Centre in Hastings has become one of the first providers on the Mornington Peninsula to offer assistance under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).\nAbacus is a not-for-profit organisation that provides intensive early intervention therapy for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), assisting them to reach their potential.\nI have seen first-hand the difference Abacus can make in a child's life and know how valuable this therapy is in giving children with Autism the best start in life.\nThe therapy provided by Abacus is held in such high esteem that families travel from as far away as Torquay to access the service.\nAbacus is one of only two providers on the Mornington Peninsula that has been approved as a registered provider of the NDIS; the other provider is Lifestyle Centred Services in Mornington.\nThe NDIS is about value for money support for people with a disability. Government investment in the NDIS is directed to high-quality services for Australians with disability and Abacus is a fantastic example of this.\nAbacus executive director Lauren Moore said it was brilliant to be one of the first registered providers through the NDIS on the Mornington Peninsula.\n\"Abacus is the first Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) therapy centre in the Southern Metropolitan area to be registered under the NDIS to provide early intervention therapy for children with ASD,\" she said.\n\"This means that when the NDIS is rolled out to the Mornington Peninsula, local children with ASD will be eligible for assistance such as assessment, ABA therapy and school integration assistance through the scheme.\"\nMedia contact: Samantha Robin on 03 5979 3188 or 0427 787 166\nI encourage local families who have a child diagnosed with autism to contact Abacus on 5979 8891 and enquire about the assistance they can provide.\nDownload the related file: 120314 Media Release \u2013 Abacus.pdf\nPreviousPrevious post:Submissions open for the Dorothea Mackellar Poetry AwardsNextNext post:Local Sporting Champions grants open","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"One last hurrah: Dale Faber coaching his last season as Friends' men's basketball coach\nby: Taylor Rocha\nPosted: Jan 7, 2021 \/ 04:54 PM CST \/ Updated: Jan 8, 2021 \/ 07:34 AM CST\nWICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) \u2013 Beginning with the 2003-04 season, Dale Faber arrived on campus as the Friends University head men's basketball coach. Eighteen seasons and 294 wins later, Faber has decided that the 2020-21 campaign will be his last at the helm for the Falcons, as he will retire from coaching before transitioning into a fundraising role within the athletic department.\n\"We have been looking at a fundraising role for a while and am grateful for the support of Dr. Carey to start it,\" said Dr. Rob Ramseyer, Friends University Director of Athletics.\n\"Dale has had great success fundraising for our basketball program and we are confident he will do the same for the department. We congratulate Dale on a long and successful coaching career and are glad that he will stay with us in this new role.\"\nFaber has been a staple on the bench for the Falcons, bringing a fun coaching style and sense of humor that has made his tenure at Friends feel special.\nSuccess on the court felt like a given with Faber manning the sidelines, as the Falcons won a pair of KCAC regular season championships along with four conference tournament titles.\nThe wins resulted in Faber being named the KCAC Men's Basketball Coach of the Year on two occasions (2010, 2014).\nPostseason appearances were also a regular occurrence under Faber, as he has guided the program to seven NAIA National Tournament appearances.\n\"For the past 18 years I have been lucky enough to be the Friends University Men's Basketball Coach,\" Faber said. \"Today I am announcing my retirement from coaching effective at the end of this current basketball season. We will strive to be the best we can be as a team the rest of the year and hopefully gain a berth in the National Tournament.\"\n\"I never took the title of Friends University basketball coach lightly and never felt I was entitled to continue to be that person. It has been an absolute blessing to do what I believe I was meant to do. Wow, how many people get to say that about their careers? I will never forget that I never had to say, I wish I didn't have to go to \"work\" today. To stay in the coaching profession for almost 40 years in my home town, coach at every level from kindergarten to D1, and never have to relocate is the biggest win. Myself, my wife Stacey, and our daughters Kelsey and Lia never had to relocate. I mean that doesn't happen. Blessed for sure.\"\nFaber has also coached and developed three KCAC Players of the Year, a pair of Defensive Players of the Year and one Freshman of the Year.\nHis two best seasons arguably came in the 2009-10 season and the 2013-14 campaign when he was tabbed as the league's top coach. During the 20019-10 season, Faber led the Falcons to a 25-7 mark and a 17-1 conference record that was good enough for first in the KCAC.\nIn 2013-14, the Falcons also won the KCAC with a 15-3 record along with a 25-7 overall tally. Behind KCAC Player of the Year Joe Mitchell, Friends also won an NAIA Tournament game over Cornerstone University.\nAnthony White, in his seventh season as Faber's assistant coach, was the league's top defensive player in the 2012-13 season playing under Faber.\n\"Not many can say they have done it the right way, for the right reasons,\" White said. \"It's hard to truly grasp the positive impact that Coach Faber has had on a program, university and community. He epitomizes what it means to be a Falcon; second-to-none work ethic, consistency and understanding what needs to be accomplished day-in and day-out.\"\n\"Perhaps the biggest trait that he possesses is the love he has for every single student-athlete that has walked in his program. Grateful to even have met this man, let alone play and coach alongside him. Hope he realizes how many lives he's impacted and the amount of love so many people have for him. Truly, none better!\"\nA Wichita State University graduate, Faber sports a career record of 294-242 during his time at Friends, with a 202-127 mark in the KCAC.\n\"Of course all of the players deserve a giant thank you,\" Faber said. They all deserve to be recognized individually. Thanks guys for letting me be a part of your lives. Thanks to all of our assistant coaches over the years starting with Coach Matt O'Brien and all the way to current assistant Anthony White. I will never forget the sacrifices you made to our program. I can't forget the biggest boosters of this program, my family. My mom and dad were at almost every home game and many on the road. It is amazing how great of a coach I was and how bad the referees were. I didn't notice those things of course but my mom sure let me know.\"\n\"I am sad in a sense but energized by the new opportunity here at Friends. Thanks again Dr. Carey and Dr. Ramseyer! As Charlie Brown once said \"What if today we were just grateful for everything?\" Today is that day. Dr. Biff Green hired me at Friends University. He took a chance with me and I hope he feels it was a good decision. I am excited and so thankful to still get to be a part of Friends University Athletics.\"\nMore Competitive Drive Stories\nCompetitive Drive: Tracey Mason Sr. uses boxing to inspire area youth\nby Chris Arnold \/ Jan 15, 2021\nWICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) - Condition, hear, discipline or CHD.\nThose are words Tracey Mason Sr. lives by and a way of life that he is trying to instill in Wichita's youth through the sport of boxing.\nCompetitive Drive: Julius \"Juice\" Bolden ready to be on the loose at the next level\nby Chris Arnold \/ Jan 1, 2021\nWICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) - Julius Bolden remembers the first touchdown he ever scored like it was yesterday.\nHe says it came in the first grade on an inside handoff. He would bounce it outside for a 60 yard run to the endzone.\nCompetitive Drive: Adriel Smith's game lifting off in Rose Hill\nby Chris Arnold \/ Dec 28, 2020\nWICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) - Sometimes a change of scenery can make all the difference.\nFor Adriel Smith, he chose to leave Wichita East for Rose Hill High School last spring. In the process, Smith is seeing his talents on the hardwood take off for the Rockets this season.\nCOVID-19 may eventually be no worse than childhood cold, study finds","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Seventh Circuit Vacates Sentence Because Government Failed to Meet Its Burden to Support Uncharged Drug Quantity Under Rule 32\nLoaded on Aug. 9, 2022 by Douglas Ankney published in Criminal Legal News August, 2022, page 20\nFiled under: Burden of Proof, Drugs - Determination of.\nby Douglas Ankney\nThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit admonished that \"sentencing proceedings are not a free-for-all\" and vacated Edward Gibbs' sentence where the requirements of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32 (\"Rule 32\") were not followed when determining the amount of methamphetamine (\"meth\") attributable to Gibbs for sentencing purposes.\nGibbs pleaded guilty to conspiring with intent to distribute \"500 grams or more of a substance\" containing meth in violation of 21 U.S.C. \u00a7\u00a7 846 and 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(A). The charges stemmed from 0.839 kg of meth found in Gibbs' vehicle and from conspiracies with Hernany Quintana to purchase 0.907 kg of meth on two separate occasions for a total of a little more than 2.6 kg of meth (0.839 + 0.907 + 0.907 = 2.653 kg).\nAt the guilty plea hearing, the Assistant U.S. Attorney (\"AUSA\") asserted for the first time that the conspirators had distributed more than 4.5 kg of meth during the charged period. Gibbs refused to agree to that portion of AUSA's account and admitted only to his role with respect to the 500-gram quantity alleged in the indictment. Following the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana's acceptance of the guilty plea, the U.S. Probation Office prepared a Presentence Investigation Report (\"PSIR\") pursuant to Rule 32(c)(1)(A). The PSR described Gibbs' offense conduct to include the 0.839 kg of meth retrieved from his vehicle and the two unsuccessful conspiracies with Quintana to purchase 0.907 kg on two separate occasions. But the PSIR also stated, without any explanation, that \"at least between October 1, 2017, and August 28, 2018, Quintana distributed over 4.5 kilograms of methamphetamine ice to members of the charged conspiracy.\"\nBased on the assumption that the conspiracy involved 4.5 kg or more of meth, the PSR calculated an advisory Guidelines sentencing range of 235\u2013239 months in prison. However, if Gibbs had been sentenced for a conspiracy involving 2.5 kg of meth, his Guidelines range would've been 188\u2013235 months' imprisonment. Gibbs objected to the PSR's use of 4.5 kg, but the AUSA failed to respond with any evidence.\nIt wasn't until Gibbs' subsequent sentencing hearing that, for the first time, the AUSA attempted to provide a basis for the alleged conspiracy to distribute 4.5 kg of meth. The AUSA told the district court that Gibbs had admitted to receiving more than 36 pounds (roughly 16 kg) of meth from Quintana during an unrecorded proffer session in July 2019. This was the first time in the two-and-a-half-year history of the case that the Government asserted that Gibbs had confessed.\nThe AUSA had not personally attended that proffer session but claimed he had received this information from the prosecutor who had initially prosecuted the case and from the notes of a law enforcement officer who had allegedly attended the proffer session. But neither the prosecutor nor the officer was called to testify at the sentencing hearing, and the purported notes of the officer were never provided to the defense.\nThe AUSA then added that Quintana had also provided a proffer statement in which \"he made at least 15 trips, receiving approximately 3 pounds of crystal methamphetamine for each trip.\" It was unclear from the transcript whether the \"he\" to which the AUSA referred was Quintana or Gibbs.\nHowever, defense counsel objected, stating that he had personally attended the proffer session; that he had no recollection of Gibbs ever making any such confession; and that had Gibbs confessed to such a substantial amount of meth then it would have certainly been included in the sentencing memoranda from the defense and the Government.\nThe district court overruled Gibbs' objections to the drug quantity based on three reasons: (1) it accepted the AUSA's representations as evidence that Gibbs received 36 pounds of meth for distribution, (2) it noted that Gibbs' co-defendants had pleaded guilty to a conspiracy involving 4.5 kg or more of meth, and (3) the court attributed to Gibbs a statement to the effect that he had made 15 trips to Kansas and picked up 3 pounds of meth each time (even though that statement may, in fact, have been made by Quintana). Relying on its finding that Gibbs was involved in a conspiracy to distribute more than 4.5 kg of meth, the district court sentenced Gibbs to 200 months' imprisonment based upon the higher sentencing Guidelines range. Gibbs appealed.\nThe Seventh Circuit observed that \"[u]ncharged drug quantities that 'foreseeably fall [ ] within the scope of jointly undertaken criminal activity' may be considered in assessing a defendant's relevant conduct and sentence.\" United States v. Bautista, 532 F.3d 667 (7th Cir. 2008). However, criminal defendants have a right to be sentenced on the basis of accurate information and the Government bears the burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence that uncharged drug quantities are attributable to the defendant. See United States v. Helding, 948 F.3d 864 (7th Cir. 2020). While district courts are permitted to consider evidence that would not be admissible at trial, United States v. Clark, 538 F.3d 803 (7th Cir. 2007), such evidence is required to be well-supported and reliable. United States v. Johnson, 489 F.3d 794 (7th Cir. 2007). These principles are enshrined in Rule 32, the Court stated.\nUnder Rule 32, the burden shifts to the government to prove any drug quantity associated with uncharged conduct. United States v. Noble, 367 F.3d 681 (7th Cir. 2004). The U.S. Probation Office is charged with preparing a PSIR that calculates the defendant's offense level and Guidelines range. Rule 32(c). The sentencing judge may rely on the PSIR if it is \"well-supported and appears reliable.\" United States v. Marks, 864 F.3d 575 (7th Cir. 2017). If the PSIR meets the foregoing criteria, the burden shifts to the defendant to come \"forward with facts demonstrating that the information in the PSIR is inaccurate or unreliable.\" Helding.\nBut if a PSIR \"asserts nothing but a naked or unsupported charge,\" the Court stated that a defendant's denial is sufficient to \"cast doubts on its accuracy.\" Helding. Likewise, if the PSIR \"omits crucial information,\" then the defendant's denial alone can shift the burden of proof back to the government. United States v. Moreno-Padilla, 603 F.3d 802 (7th Cir. 2010). While a district court may accept an undisputed portion of the PSIR as fact under Rule 32(i)(3)(A), any portion of the PSR that is disputed and relevant to sentencing must be ruled upon by the court. Rule 32(i)(3)(B); see also Helding. \"[W]here a district court relies on evidence that substantially increases drug quantity, it must take care in determining the accuracy of that evidence.\" Helding.\nTurning to the present case, the Court stated that the PSIR and the district court's reliance on it did not satisfy the requirements of Rule 32 because \"when contested facts are material to the judge's sentencing decision,\" Rule 32 requires the court to make factual findings based on evidence. United States v. Dean, 414 F.3d 725 (7th Cir. 2005). To do so, the court is required to determine whether the underlying facts used to by the government are true, the Court explained. Id. But the Court pointed out that the district court wasn't presented with any evidence backing up the AUSA's representations about what the evidence would show, so there was no evidence to resolve the dispute regarding the drug quantity.\nAt sentencing, the AUSA represented that he could call as a witness a law enforcement officer who was present when Gibbs allegedly confessed to the drug quantity and who had kept notes. But neither that officer nor the notes was ever produced. Ultimately, the only thing in the record was the AUSA's statement, which the Court declared is not \"proof.\" Thus, without any evidence to substantiate the AUSA's statement regarding drug quantity, the Government failed to satisfy \"its burden to prove the uncharged conduct by a preponderance of the evidence,\" the Court ruled.\nThe Court stated that since the PSIR attributed an unsupported drug quantity to Gibbs, his denial was sufficient to shift the burden back to the Government. See Helding. And the Court concluded that the Government failed to carry its burden to prove that the Guidelines error \"did not affect the district court's selection of the sentence imposed.\" See United States v. Abbas, 560 F.3d 660 (7th Cir. 2009).\nFinally, the Court instructed: \"Although sentencing proceedings are more informal than trials, that does not mean they are a free-for-all.\" And when \"the government fails to meet its burden to support uncharged drug quantities, 'the government is not permitted on remand to try again and submit new evidence in a belated effort to carry its burden.'\" Noble. The government gets only one chance to present this evidence.\nThus, the Court ruled that Gibbs is entitled to be resentenced using the 188\u2013235 months Guidelines range.\nAccordingly, the Court vacated the judgment and remanded the case for resentencing consistent with the Court's opinion. See: United States v. Gibbs, 26 F.4th 760 (7th Cir. 2022).\nUnited States v. Gibbs\n26 F.4th 760 (7th Cir. 2022)\nAppeals Court Edition\nF.4th\nUnited States v. Helding\nF.3d\nUnited States v. Abbas\nProsecutorial Extortion: Alleged Drug Dealer Agrees to $300,000 Seizure in Face of Charges Threatened Against Entire Family, by David Reutter\nSeventh Circuit Vacates Sentence Because Government Failed to Meet Its Burden to Support Uncharged Drug Quantity Under Rule 32, by Douglas Ankney\nDrug Detection Dogs Are Unreliable and Reflect the Vicious Heritage of Their Slave-Hunting Dog and Police-Dog Predecessors, by Matthew Clarke\nTexas Court of Criminal Appeals Clarifies Prejudice Standard for IAC Based on Faulty Probation Eligibility Advice Is an Effect on Defendant's Decision Making, Not Different Outcome, by Mark Wilson\nEverybody's Guilty: To the Police State, We're All Criminals Until We Prove Otherwise, by Nisha Whitehead, John W. Whitehead\nColorado Supreme Court Announces 'Reasonable Likelihood' Framework for Determining Whether Trial Court's Comments to Prospective Jurors Lowered Prosecution's Burden of Proof, by Douglas Ankney\nIowa Supreme Court: Warrantless Entry Into Home for Misdemeanor Arrest Violates Both U.S. and Iowa Constitutions and Requires Suppression of Evidence, by Mark Wilson\nPolice Often Use 'Cover Charges' to Mask False Arrests and Police Brutality, by Casey Bastian\nEighth Circuit: Government Breached Plea Agreement by Relying on Pre-Plea Conduct to Dispute Acceptance of Responsibility Despite Acknowledging Defendant Qualified for Credit in Agreement, by Richard Resch\nCalifornia Supreme Court Announces Uncharged Lesser Firearm Enhancement May Be Substituted Under \u00a7 12022.53, by Mark Wilson\nCalifornia Court of Appeal: Gang Enhancements Remanded for Retrial Under AB 333; Sameness Requirement Satisfied\nMaryland Court of Appeals: Kazadi Applies to Cases Where Issue Was Preserved at Trial but Appeal Not Yet Noted at Time Kazadi Decided, by Douglas Ankney\nThird Circuit Suppresses Evidence Found After Police Created Safety Concern to Justify Prolonging Traffic Stop, by Anthony Accurso\nFifth Circuit: District Court Miscalculated Sentencing Guidelines Range by Implausibly Finding Defendant Would Use All Cash Proceeds of Drug Sales Seized to Purchase More Meth to Resell, by Douglas Ankney\nCalifornia Supreme Court Announces Conspiracy to Commit Home Invasion Robbery Not Subject to Enhancement to Indeterminate Life Sentence Under Penal Code \u00a7 186.22(b)(4), by Matthew Clarke\nCommentary: Exploring Implications of the Supreme Court's Expansion of Second Amendment Rights, by Professor Douglas A. Berman\nThird Circuit: District Court's Focus on Substance of Defendant's Meritless Arguments in Denying Request to Represent Himself Resulted in Inadequate Inquiry Prior to Denial in Violation of Sixth Amendment, by Matthew Clarke\nFourth Circuit: South Carolina Marijuana Law Not a Categorical Match to Federal Law for ACCA Sentencing, by David Reutter\nHawai'i Supreme Court Holds Randomness and Violent Nature of Crime Alone Insufficient to Establish Exigent Circumstances for Warrantless Entry Into Suspect's Home, by Anthony Accurso\nTenth Circuit: Guilty Plea Not Knowing and Voluntary Because Sentencing Court Failed to Ask Follow Up Questions After Defendant Said He's Off His Medication and 'Mind Isn't Right', by David Reutter\nSixth Circuit: COA Not Required to Appeal Order Denying Rule 4(a)(5) Motion for Extension of Time to File Notice of Appeal, by Douglas Ankney\nPennsylvania Supreme Court Clarifies Ex Post Facto Analysis Focuses on When, Not Where, Crime Occurred and Does Not Require Showing of Disadvantage to Defendant, by Douglas Ankney\nThe War in Ukraine Raises Awareness About Secure Communications During a Crisis, by Douglas Ankney\nInflation Transforming Petty Offenses Into Felonies, by Douglas Ankney\nOhio Justice Calls for Plea Bargaining Reform to End 'Sentencing by Ambush', by David Reutter\nYour Data Is For Sale and Anonymization Is Meaningless, by Anthony Accurso\nMichigan Supreme Court Announces Punishment for Second-Degree Murder and Involuntary Manslaughter When Based on Same Conduct Violates Prohibition Against Double Jeopardy, by Anthony Accurso\nNYPD Continues Its Longstanding Tradition of Thwarting Misconduct Investigations and Evading Accountability, by Douglas Ankney\nFBI's 'Rich Neighborhood' Breach Practice, by Jayson Hawkins\nNebraska Company Providing Digital Wiretaps of Messaging Platforms to Law Enforcement Agencies, by Anthony Accurso\nQuattrone Center Reveals Lack of Transparency Concerning Prosecutorial Misconduct Claims Report identifies over 7,000 instances of state attorney conduct that 'did not comport' with ethical, procedural, or legal rules, by Casey Bastian\nChicago PD Emphasizing Facial Recognition for Investigations, by Anthony Accurso\nIllinois Limits Police Access to Data Stored by Third Parties, by Anthony Accurso\nBorder Patrol Agents Track and Spy on U.S. Journalists and Unidentified Members of Congress, by Douglas Ankney\n'Freedom Commons Academy' Provides Former Prisoners Housing and Structured Re-entry Services in Syracuse, by Casey Bastian\nMaine's Law Enforcement Agencies, Like Those of Most States, Don't Track Complaints Against Police Officers, by Douglas Ankney\nProsecutor's Sentencing Message to Defendant: Insist on Trial, Pay with Your Liberty, by David Reutter\nMore from Douglas Ankney:\nCalifornia Court of Appeal: At Felony-Murder Resentencing Hearing, Court May Not Deny Relief Based on Findings That Are Inconsistent With Previous Acquittal, Jan. 15, 2023\nFifth Circuit: 'Nonsubstantial Overcrowding' of Vehicle Used in Transporting Illegal Aliens Insufficient for Imposition of Sentencing Enhancement Under Guidelines \u00a7 2L1.1(b)(6), Jan. 15, 2023\nMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court: Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Where Trial Counsel Believed, Erroneously, He Had Ethical Duty to Tell Prosecution Location of Key Incriminating Evidence Not in Counsel's Possession, Jan. 15, 2023\nNinth Circuit Suppresses Evidence as Fruit of the Poisonous Tree Where Officer Lacked Probable Cause to Arrest Man Who Displayed Handgun in Open Carry State, Jan. 15, 2023\nCalifornia Court of Appeal Announces the People Are Not Entitled to Have Privately Retained Psychological Expert Testify at Trial of SVPA Petition, Jan. 15, 2023\nConnecticut Supreme Court Announces 'John Doe' Warrant Based on Suspect's General Description and Partial DNA Profiles, Which May or May Not Include Suspect's DNA, Fails to Satisfy 'Particularity Requirement' of Fourth Amendment, Jan. 15, 2023\nTenth Circuit: Prisoner Convicted of Covered Drug Offense but Sentenced to Mandatory Life Sentence Via Cross Reference for Murder Under Pre-Booker Guidelines Has Standing to Request First Step Act Sentence Reduction, Jan. 15, 2023\nPeople Convicted of Sex Crimes Remain Incarcerated 25 Years After Completing Their Prison Sentences, Jan. 15, 2023\nNinth Circuit Announces District Courts May Consider First Step Act's Non-Retroactive Changes to Sentencing Law When Deciding Motion for Compassionate Release, Dec. 15, 2022\nAcross the Nation, Cops Use 'Fog Reveal' to Track More Than 250 Million Mobile Devices, Dec. 15, 2022\nOhio Supreme Court: Amendment to Statute That Shifts Burden of Proof to State Regarding Self-Defense Applies to All Pending and New Trials After Effective Date, Regardless of When Alleged Crime Occurred, Sept. 15, 2022. Retroactivity, Burden of Proof.\nMeth \"Kiss of Death\" Kills Tennessee Prisoner; Girlfriend Charged with Murder, Sept. 7, 2022. Wrongful Death, Drugs - Determination of, Methamphetamine.\nColorado Supreme Court Announces 'Reasonable Likelihood' Framework for Determining Whether Trial Court's Comments to Prospective Jurors Lowered Prosecution's Burden of Proof, July 15, 2022. Jury Instructions in Jury Room, Burden of Proof, Improper Comment.\nTexas Court of Criminal Appeals Announces Coty's 'Inference-of-Falsity' Framework Extended to Apply to Police Officers With Established History of Falsifying Evidence in Drug Cases, June 15, 2022. Police\/Govt Misconduct, Drugs - Determination of, Fabrication of Evidence, False Exculpatory Statements.\nSouth Carolina Supreme Court Rejects U.S. Supreme Court's Shifting of Burden to Defendant to Prove Absence of Exigent Circumstances in DUI Cases, June 15, 2020. Exigent Circumstances, Warrantless Searches, Burden of Proof.\nFifth Circuit Finds IAC for Failure to Object to Court's Jury Instructions that Constructively Amended Indictment by Lowering Government's Burden of Proof, May 15, 2020. Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Jurors and Juries, Burden of Proof.\nLobbins v. U.S., No. 15-6386 (6th Cir.) (900 F.3d 799) (August 21, 2018) (Judge Raymond M. Kethledge), Dec. 17, 2018. Punch And Jurists, Burden of Proof.\nU.S. v. Shephard, No. 17-4148 (4th Cir.) (892 F.3d 666) (June 15, 2018) (Judge Albert Diaz), Aug. 20, 2018. Punch And Jurists, Burden of Proof.\nU.S. v. Simmons, No. 13-6273 (6th Cir.) (797 F.3d 409) (August 14, 2015) (Judge R. Guy Jr. Cole), Nov. 23, 2015. Punch And Jurists, Burden of Proof.\nU.S. v. Thum, No. 13-50176 (9th Cir.) (749 F.3d 1143) (April 25, 2013) (Judge Milan D. Jr. Smith), Nov. 3, 2014. Punch And Jurists, Burden of Proof.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Uber's carpooling saved China riders 120 trips around the earth in first 100 days\nMichael de Waal-Montgomery@michaeldwm\nImage Credit: Shutterstock \/ Lyu Hu\nJust over three months ago, Uber launched its carpooling service, UberPool, in its single most important city in the world: Chengdu, the capital of southwestern China's Sichuan Province. In those first 100 days, Uber said it has saved commuters in the city nearly 4.8 million kilometres \u2014 or the equivalent of going 120 times around the earth.\nAll those saved rides help to free up roads and reduce congestion, but there is another obvious benefit: Uber said it cut 885 tons of CO2 emissions by helping commuters traveling along the same routes share rides, instead of taking their own individual Ubers.\nThe emissions savings is something that anyone who has been to one of China's major cities should be glad to hear about\u2013 China has among the worst levels of air pollution anywhere in the world.\nIn truth, 885 tons is nothing to shout about in the grand scheme of things. Emissions from the global shipping industry, for example, are said to amount to around 1 billion tons per year. But cars and trucks still account for nearly one-fifth of all emissions in the U.S., and those numbers are likely even higher in fast-growing countries like China.\nRemember, this is just one city (albeit China's fourth-largest, with a population of more than 14 million). The numbers really start to add up when accumulated across hundreds of cities around the world, especially if you take into account huge emerging markets like India.\nUber said its carpooling service, known as \"People's Uber+\" in China, averaged about 36,000 requests per day in Chengdu. That's a big number, and doesn't include its other services. By comparison, the total rides delivered per day across all of Uber's services in New York City stand at about 82,000, as of May. While Uber is already in 340 cities globally, UberPool is in just 12.\nIn general, Uber continues to face a tough fight to steal and hold market share in China. Just yesterday, news broke that it may have a new (smaller) rival in the country. Private-car service Yidao Yongche is said to be raising $700 million, which would value it at over $1 billion.\nBut Uber's real rival, and the market leader, remains Didi Chuxing (formerly Didi Kuaidi), which officially launched its bus-booking service on Monday, and just beat Uber to land China's first Internet car-booking license. Uber isn't intimidated though: It continues to plow money into the country while doing its best to be seen to be working closely with government and regulators.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A Wanted Man\nChild, Lee.\nFormat: Eaudiobook\nDescription: 1 sound file (14 hr., 12 min.) : digital.\nFour people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories that don't add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And next to her, a huge man with a broken nose, hitching a ride east to Virginia. An hour behind them, a man lies stabbed to death in an old pumping station. He was seen going in with two others, but he never came out. He has been executed, the knife work professional, the killers vanished. Within minutes, the police are notified. Within hours, the FBI descends, laying claim to the victim without ever saying who he was or why he was there. All Reacher wanted was a ride to Virginia. All he did was stick out his thumb. But he soon discovers he has hitched more than a ride. He has tied himself to a massive conspiracy that makes him a threat--to both sides at once.\nSeries: Child, Lee. Jack Reacher novel (Books on Tape, Inc.)\nHill, Dick.\nReacher, Jack (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.\nISBN: 9780307749635 (electronic audio bk.)\nMain (Downtown) In\nMain (Downtown) Out (Due: 1\/16\/2021)\nDuration: 14:12:00.\nElectronic resource.\nRead by Dick Hill.\nRequires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 204073 KB).\nMore By Child, Lee.\nThree Jack Reacher novellas\nChild, Lee, author, narrator.\nThe affair : [a Reacher novel]\nDie trying : a Jack Reacher novel\nThe enemy : a Jack Reacher novel\nPersuader\nNothing to lose : a Jack Reacher novel","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"All eyes on popstar Rosalia at extravagant Louis Vuitton show\nShow Louis Vuitton menswear FW23, Credit: Launchmetrics, Spotlight\nPop superstar Rosalia grabbed all the attention at the Louis Vuitton show in Paris on Thursday, almost to the point of distracting from the clothes.\nThe French label spared no expense for the most anticipated show of menswear fashion week, with a vast hangar constructed alongside the Louvre, containing a stage made up like an open-plan house for the models to saunter through.\nBut the audience struggled to keep their eyes off the Spanish star, who delivered a blistering set of flamenco, rap and pop while parading around the set, lounging in its bed and clambering on top of a car.\nLouis Vuitton is still searching for a successor to designer Virgil Abloh, who died aged just 41 from cancer in late 2021.\nThursday's show was given over to a collective, including Colm Dillane, the wunderkind behind hot new brand Kidsuper, and Ibrahim Kamara from Abloh's own label Off-White.\nGuests, who included singers J-Balvin and BTS's J-Hope, were given a movie clapper-board for their invitation, and the show was kickstarted by a short film co-directed by Michel Gondry (\"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind\").\nSomewhere among all this showbiz were some clothes, and those who were able to pay attention got a rich and colourful collection, ranging from high-fashion pieces that evoked the label's recent tie-up with Japanese polka-dot artist Yayoi Kusama, glittering jackets, huge puffy versions of its iconic bags, and a hat-and-suit combo that seemed to be made from sheets of writing paper.\nA few names are circulating to succeed Abloh, including Grace Wales Bonner, a Brit who gave a strong showing with her first physical show at Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday.\nBut Louis Vuitton seems happy to ride the wave created by Abloh, a former Kanye West collaborator who brought an uber-cool edge of US street culture to the fabled French house.\n\"Abloh put a very strong spotlight on the Vuitton men's streetwear universe,\" Arnaud Cadart, of PR firm Flornoy Ferri, told AFP.\n\"Vuitton can afford to continue on this path as long as there isn't a challenger who jostles them.\"\n\"They don't urgently need a replacement,\" agreed Benjamin Simmenauer, a professor at the French Fashion Institute.\n\"We haven't forgotten Virgil Abloh -- we continue to celebrate him, which is rare in the world of fashion where everything goes extremely fast,\" he said.(AFP)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Obama's inner circle seen as awkward fit for Flournoy\nFormer frontrunner for top Defense job could be holding out for a Clinton administration\nMichele Flournoy\nWitnesses testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 14, 2010, about U.S. policy toward Iran's nuclear program are, from left to right: Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy, Undersecretary of State for ... more >\nBy Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times - Wednesday, November 26, 2014\nPassing muster in President's Obama's protective inner circle could have been daunting for Michele Flournoy, whose ranking as defense secretary frontrunner collapsed in 24 hours.\nFor one, the think tank Mrs. Flournoy founded in 2007 harshly criticized Mr. Obama's Pentagon budgets a few months after she left the Defense Department in 2012 as its undersecretary for policy.\nBut perhaps more pointedly, she signed onto an independent panel's assessment in July that said Mr. Obama's four-year plan for the military, known as the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), is too weak and should be rewritten.\nMrs. Flournoy let it be known soon after Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced his resignation on Monday that she did not want to be considered as his successor.\nA source familiar with her thinking said she bowed out for family obligations.\nSpeculation inside the Pentagon is that she is waiting for a chance at the job from a President Hillary Clinton, with whom she has close ties. Being a new defense secretary in a new administration has its advantages over finishing Mr. Hagel's two years with a White House guard that did not like the current secretary's internal criticism of Syrian policy.\n\"We are better served with her at the start of an administration,\" a military officer at the Pentagon said.\nMrs. Flournoy, and fellow Democratic Party loyalist Kurt Campbell, rolled out their new think tank in 2007. And who was there prominently to deliver the keynote address: then-Sen. Clinton, who went on to become secretary of state.\n\"Hillary Clinton and Michelle Flournoy have spent a lot of time together in the White House Situation Room,\" said P.J. Crowley, who was Mrs. Clinton spokesman at the State Department. \"They know each other well and share a mutual admiration. Given her strategic mind, I believe she would be an outstanding secretary of defense.\"\nMrs. Flournoy is back at the Center for a New American Security as its chief executive officer.\nShe initially returned to CNAS from the Pentagon in February 2012 as a member of the board of directors. That May, the center issued a tough-talking paper on the drawbacks of Mr. Obama's defense budget \u2014 a plan she helped write on the inside.\n\"The Pentagon still has not enacted the types of reforms that we believe are necessary to sustain U.S. military pre-eminence into the future,\" said the report, \"Sustainable Pre-Eminence: Reforming the U.S. Military at a Time of Strategic Change,\" written by four think-tank scholars.\n\"Too many [Department of Defense] structures, processes, programs and operational concepts are legacies of the past, which create unnecessary redundancies, waste valuable resources and encourage unproductive competition among the services, rather than cooperation. These practices are no longer acceptable in the current fiscal environment.\"\nThe scholars, including a retired three-star Army general, called for slashing buys of the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps F-35 multi-role fighter.\nA spokesperson at the time said the report, which carried the center's banner, represented the views of the four authors.\nMrs. Flournoy had a more direct role in another study that took apart Mr. Obama's and Mr. Hagel's four-year military plans.\nShe sat on the independent 10-member National Defense Panel, a group of ex-military officers, politicians and civilian policy makers appointed by the Pentagon and Congress to review the 2014 QDR. The QDR sets the military's overall structure of troops and weapons based on global threats.\nThe panel called Mr. Obama's force structure \"inadequate given the future strategic and operational environment.\"\nMore broadly, the panel said Mr. Obama should retract the QDR's overriding theme which reduced the military's global capacity from being able to defeat two enemies nearly simultaneously to defeating one and denying the objectives of a second.\n\"The international security environment has deteriorated since then,\" the report said in July. \"In the current threat environment, America could plausibly be called upon to deter or fight in any number of regions in overlapping time frames.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Return to BDN Connection Sports Page\nSports Men's basketball Men's sports Basketball Men's college basketball College basketball College sports School athletics Education Social affairs\nKentucky SEC\nCalipari signs $86 million, 10-year extension with Kentucky\nLEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) \u2014 Kentucky coach John Calipari has signed a 10-year contract extension through 2029 worth $86 million that includes an option in the sixth year to step down and become a special assistant to the athletic director or university representative.\nThe 60-year-old Calipari and the school previously announced an agreement to a long-term deal in April. The 11th-year coach will earn $8 million each of the next two seasons before his salary increases to $8.5 million annually in 2021 and $9 million annually in 2025. Beginning with the 2024-25 season, Calipari has the option to step down and into the university position that will pay $950,000 annually.\nThe Hall of Fame coach is 305-71 at Kentucky and won the 2012 NCAA championship among four Final Four appearances. Calipari thanked AD Mitch Barnhart and others in a release on Thursday and added, \"There is no other place I want to be.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"< Back to Gallery\nHunting Owl\nSpringstone (Serpentine)\n67cm (h)\n42cm (w)\n23cm (d)\nJohn Takawira\nThe owl was a frequent choice of inspiration for John, as it symbolises wisdom. This powerful bird glares out, as if challenging the viewer to disagree. The mournful face of its prey peeps out from under its talons.\nThis is a genuine work by John Takawira from 1988, and has the key elements sought by a collector of his work \u2013 the intelligent use of the rough surface of the raw stone, the cultural and spiritual significance of the subject matter, and the substantial form and presence of the work.\nIt is accompanied by full documentation from the original gallery in Zimbabwe.\nWorks by either John or his brother Bernard Takawira are very rare on the secondary market. This piece has his characteristic feather-like touch \u2013 the majority of the sculpture comes from the texture and form of the raw material and his chisel made superficial marks that release the sculpture within, that suddenly reveals itself to the viewer, while Takawira saw it all along.\nIf you like this, then you may also like...\nPowerful Woman","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\/The Causes and Effects of the...\nThe Causes and Effects of the French Revolution\nEssay by Jaspreet Kaur \u2022 April 26, 2018 \u2022 Essay \u2022 599 Words (3 Pages) \u2022 457 Views\nEssay Preview: The Causes and Effects of the French Revolution\nThe French Revolution was a very impactful revolution. The French Revolution was caused by the French people having major doubts in the hierarchy due to the ideas in the Enlightenment. The French Revolution made a huge impact on France and the rest of the world.\nThe French Revolution was caused by many problems in France. New ideas inspired the French to want a better government. Due to wars like the War of 27 years, War of the Spanish Succession, and the War of the Polish succession, France spent a large sum of money on war (Hickman, Kennedy). The monarchs of France also tended to live in a luxurious manner which cost a large amount of money. Top of these financial problems France had a imperfect harvest. Thus, the poor people, the commoners, were paying a large amount of taxes and going hungry due to a lack of food. King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were the monarchs at the start of the revolution. King Louis XVI was aware of the hunger problem in France but continued to live a luxurious life with his wife. Louis XVI even dismissed the reform that financial ministers tried to bring about, that would have benefited the starving French people. Therefore, the luxurious life lead by the monarchs, the expensive wars France had engaged in, and the imperfect harvests had caused a large reason for the people of France to rise (Spooner, Anna).\nAlso to the political and financial problems in France, the social classes of France were not equal or fair. Before the French Revolution there were three social classes in France, these social classes were a major cause of the revolution. Above all of the social classes in France was the king, who was believed to be chosen by god. The other highest social class in France was the clergy. The clergy worked for the church, owned 10% of the land, and made up 1% of the population. The nobles were the wealthy landowners who made up 2% of the population and owned 25% of the land. The commoners were the lowest of the social classes in France (Schwartz and O'Connor 11) The commoners made up 98% of the population, owned 65% of the land, and paid 100% of the taxes (Jackson J. Spielvogel 14). This lack of balance combined with the financial state of France lead to the French people rising against the government that they began to doubt. Another cause of the French Revolution was the influence of the Enlightenment and the American Revolution. The success of the American Revolution evoked some thought from the French people who were unhappy with the state of the France (Spooner, Anna). The Enlightenment was also another cause of the French Revolution. The Enlightenment was a philosophical period during the 1700s and 1800s where ideas like reason, liberty, and the scientific method were talked about in different pieces of work by philosophers. The Enlightenment ideas like Rousseau's Social Contract\nDownload as: txt (3.4 Kb) pdf (45 Kb) docx (11 Kb)\nContinue for 2 more pages \u00bb\n(2018, 04). The Causes and Effects of the French Revolution. AllBestEssays.com. Retrieved 04, 2018, from https:\/\/www.allbestessays.com\/essay\/The-Causes-and-Effects-of-the-French-Revolution\/69836.html\n\"The Causes and Effects of the French Revolution\" AllBestEssays.com. 04 2018. 2018. 04 2018 <https:\/\/www.allbestessays.com\/essay\/The-Causes-and-Effects-of-the-French-Revolution\/69836.html>.\n\"The Causes and Effects of the French Revolution.\" AllBestEssays.com. AllBestEssays.com, 04 2018. 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Each revolt had different causes and outcomes,\nThe Inequality of Human Rights During the French Revolution\nThe French Revolution is often regarded as a time of immense enlightenment, when the Western world first began to realize the basic human rights that\nTo What Extent and in What Ways Was the French Revolution During the Period 1789 Through the Reign of Terror (1794) an Attempt to Create a Government Based on Enlightenment Ideals?\n2. To what extent and in what ways was the French Revolution during the period 1789 through the Reign of Terror (1794) an attempt to\n4. Discuss the legacies of the French Revolution, or of Napoleon (or both, if you prefer.) To what degree was the world a different place\nThe French Revolution, from the beginning to the end of the Terror, sought to radically transform France from a feudal, aristocratic kingdom into a liberal,\nFrance was in huge amounts of debt. It borrowing from banks which lead to a financial crisis. 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{"text":"The View from the Trenches\nPublished by the Cal Alumni Association\nSearch California Magazine\nA discussion with Berkeley public health experts two years into the pandemic\nby Glen Martin and Photos by Marcus Hanschen\nTwo years into the pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 continues to defy predictions. At the date of this writing, the Omicron variant\u2014as contagious as ultra-transmissible viruses such as measles, if somewhat less severe than earlier COVID variants\u2014continues to spread rapidly. While the surge appears to be ebbing in some areas of the United States, hospitalizations remain high and, nationally, about 2,500 deaths are reported daily.\nWhile the pandemic has affected every sector of society, none have been under more pressure than those in medicine and public health. Practitioners have endured high risk of infection and long shifts under crisis circumstances while public health authorities, as the bearers of bad news and champions of often unwelcome measures, have had to withstand denunciations and even death threats.\nSo how, we wondered, are epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists holding up, and what are they thinking at this point in the planet's most serious infectious disease outbreak since the influenza of 1918? To find out, California contributor Glen Martin talked via Zoom with three of Berkeley's leading public health experts: Arthur Reingold, professor of epidemiology; Lee Riley, professor of epidemiology and infectious diseases; and John Swartzberg, a clinical professor emeritus in infectious diseases and vaccinology.\nThis pandemic has been long and arduous for everyone and, given your professions, you've been in the thick of it. In some ways, your role seems analogous to that of career military officers during wartime. What has the experience been like for you?\nReingold: If you use that analogy of a career military officer, your reaction would depend on whether you're 35 and at the beginning of your career or 65 and near the end. For someone who was sort of hoping to glide into oblivion, well, it's kept me busier than I thought I would be at this stage of life.\nSwartzberg: It's been a full-time job, and it's been both exhilarating and depressing. You know, our careers have been bookended by public health crises. The first was in the early '80s, with HIV. And now my career appears to be concluding with SARS-CoV-2.\nCan you characterize the differences between those two health crises\u2014AIDS and COVID-19?\nReingold: Well, obviously, for HIV there's a very long incubation or latency period. AIDS takes years to develop, while it's a matter of days with COVID, so things unfold in a very different time frame. Clearly, the public health response to COVID has been more rapid.\nSwartzberg: But interestingly, public health in general was a more robust institution [at the advent of the HIV epidemic].\nReingold: Quite right. Over the past 20 years, there has been a steady erosion in the capabilities of state and local health departments.\nSwartzberg: But there were similarities in the political response. Reagan wouldn't even mention the acronym AIDS until his second term. And now we've seen this bizarre politicization of an infectious disease that defies all rational thinking. COVID came at a time when our society was already split, and [the virus] has just aggravated that to no end and for no good reason.\nAnd psychologically for me, as a clinician, AIDS and COVID have been very different. I was a lot younger during the AIDS epidemic, and while there are real stresses when you're taking care of patients, it didn't feel very threatening to me personally. I felt more invincible than I do now in my mid-seventies. Now, I wonder every time I go out the door, \"Am I going to get infected today?\"\nDr. Anthony Fauci has endured ongoing ad hominem attacks and even death threats throughout the pandemic, and other public health officials have also been harassed and threatened. Could you share any thoughts on that, and have you encountered similar abuse?\nRiley: It's really sad to see that kind of animosity, but I think it's a small segment of the U.S. population that's responding this way. I haven't experienced any hostility, but I know some of my colleagues have had issues.\nSwartzberg: I've gotten maybe a dozen or so emails that were threatening\u2014some very threatening. Some were anti-Semitic. That's been about the extent of it.\nReingold: The only thing I've faced along those lines was about 15 years ago. I had a brilliant student who firmly believed vaccines cause autism, and he took great exception to my views to the contrary. He was in fact manic-depressive and unmedicated. He had a psychotic break, and he went to my office during office hours with a large hammer, presumably intending me bodily harm. The one mistake he made was assuming a Berkeley professor would be in his office during office hours. [Laughs.] I happened to have been in Geneva. I like to say it's one of the few times that a meeting in Geneva saved a life.\nSo, no, I've never experienced anything like what my colleagues in local public health have experienced, which is very upsetting. Unlike the guy who intended me harm, most people protesting outside officials' homes or sending threatening emails don't have a psychiatric diagnosis; they just have a very different understanding of life than I do.\nHave you arrived at any kind of sympathy for, or understanding of, that worldview?\nReingold: The quick answer is \"no.\"\nThe virus itself has considerable say in this. It is selecting and will continue to select unvaccinated people.\"\nLee riley\nSwartzberg: For years, I've taught a class on vaccine hesitancy in which we try to wrap our heads around it. We have people like Art and Lee as guest lecturers. We have anthropologists, philosophers, English professors, and really, the whole university community coming at it from multiple directions. And after several years of teaching this class, it's still a very tough nut to crack. And I think that's because there are multiple reasons people have for resisting vaccines.\nRiley: There has always been a certain resistance to vaccines and modern medicine generally, but I think it's really been exacerbated by social media. Before we had the internet, you couldn't disseminate misinformation at anything close to the current scale. To really be responsive to these kinds of pandemics, we need to change the culture. I'm not advocating an autocratic government to enforce policy, of course, but you can't just be completely individualistic. You have to be mindful of other people. Individualism is good in certain situations, but in terms of pandemics and public health, it can result in widespread infections, hospitalizations, and deaths.\nBut the virus itself has considerable say in this. It is selecting and will continue to select unvaccinated people.\nReingold: One of the things I've found particularly distressing is debates I've had with [some members of] the California Nurses Association around mandatory influenza vaccination for health care providers. Many nurses violently object to mandatory vaccination. My point is that education is not the only issue. It may be part of the issue, but in terms of the general population, we are never going to achieve a higher level of biological and medical education than exists among nurses. Yet many remain adamantly opposed. I can argue with them until I'm blue in the face, and it doesn't change anything. I find that really depressing.\nArthur Reingold\nOne achievement from this pandemic has been the rapid development and deployment of effective mRNA vaccines. How significant is that?\nRiley: It's the biggest development in vaccines we've seen in a very long time, although it didn't start with SARS-CoV-2. An mRNA vaccine had been developed against Ebola during the last big outbreak, in fact, but by the time they were ready to do clinical trials, [the epidemic] had largely disappeared, so they could never demonstrate efficacy. But our experience with the COVID vaccines shows they're safe and highly effective.\nReingold: It may well revolutionize vaccine production, and I hope that people resisting the COVID vaccines will lose their fear because at the moment, some say the reason they're afraid of them is because they're produced by \"new\" technology.\nSwartzberg: The most important advance in the biological sciences in many years is CRISPR, but I'd put mRNA vaccines right up there. We've been working [with mRNA vaccines] for quite a long time, and it was fortuitous that it all came to fruition at the same time as the pandemic. There was a recent paper in the New England Journal of Medicine about developing a pan-coronavirus vaccine [which could include cold viruses] with mRNA technology. And what about a pan-influenza vaccine? Both possibilities are very realistic, and people are working on them right now. So, yes, it is huge.\nRiley: And there are many other mRNA vaccines we're thinking about, including one for urinary tract infections, which currently is the most common bacterial infection among women. One thing with the COVID pandemic and mRNA vaccines: We somehow got focused on the concept that two doses would be all we needed. And there was some confusion and maybe resentment when the booster was recommended later. I think we're going to have to approach this as we do influenza. It's likely we'll need to be vaccinated annually, or maybe even semi-annually. It all depends on the severity of the epidemic. That's going to be the norm, I think, and we're just going to have to accept the concept that there's not going to be any \"right\" vaccine dose.\nOne of the things they teach in medical school is that you are not the patient\u2014you need to maintain a certain emotional distance to treat serious illnesses and injuries. Has that concept applied to your experience with this pandemic?\nReingold: Well, I left clinical medicine after finishing my residency and went into public health because I just found clinical medicine too depressing. Treating a 35-year-old woman dying of breast cancer, or a 16-year-old boy with lymphoma\u2014it was just very difficult emotionally, and I was far more comfortable in public health and prevention, where we're operating at population levels.\nRiley: Like Art, I'm in public health rather than the clinical side these days, and I haven't seen patients in many years. But even those of us in research and teaching have seen some burnout, particularly among the older faculty. Some of us are reluctant to accommodate in-person teaching, either due to personal concerns or concern for the health of family members. There's also the frustration caused by not being able to teach in-person because that's our profession; it's something we take pride in and enjoy.\nI also run a laboratory research group, and the shutdowns and gradual reopenings have been very stressful for my students. Their work and research have really been set back by all of this. These people need to graduate and get their Ph.D.s, and get out there and work, and the pandemic has hindered all that and put a great deal of strain on them.\nFor that matter, I've been stressed by the supply chain impacts the pandemic has imposed. It now takes many months just to obtain simple things we need for research.\nSwartzberg: Having had a foot in both sides, public health and clinical medicine, I'm glad I'm in public health right now. As Art says, it's more comfortable to sit back and think about things rather than confront the crisis directly on a day-to-day basis.\nJohn Swartzberg\nHas the pandemic taught us any lessons that will make our public health response stronger going forward?\nSwartzberg: We've clearly learned that we've underfunded public health for too long. We need to stop thinking in terms of five-year packages for our public health infrastructure and demand robust funding on a continual basis. We can't afford short-term thinking, given we're dealing with SARS-CoV-2 now, and could very well face SARS-CoV-3, or -4, or -28, or -35, and so on. And there are some influenzas that are also a threat. So, I hope we come away with the fundamental message that strong public health support must be a fundamental part of not just American society, but global society.\n\"I'd say our science has accelerated 10 years beyond where we would be without COVID. So, I think that's the good news.\"\nJohn swartzerg\nReingold: I would say I do think the pandemic will accelerate and augment some improvements to public health infrastructure, particularly on the technology end\u2014better computers and so forth. And I think that's to the good, but unlike many countries, health care is primarily a state rather than a federal matter in the United States, and we're going to continue to be a very fractured country in that regard. I don't see much interest in many states, including California, in funding health care at a robust and ongoing level. So I don't know how that will turn out.\nSwartzberg: On the other hand, we're also seeing what's been termed the Fauci effect: Medical school applications are way up, and applicants are expressing a tremendous interest in public health. A lot of people want to matriculate into public health, so there's certainly a growing societal awareness of its importance.\nRiley: We've had a huge increase in the number of applicants to our infectious disease Ph.D. program\u2014I think it's doubled over the last year.\nReingold: As is true with every disease, with a few exceptions, COVID has clearly pointed to the social class disparities in health care and health outcomes. Often that appears in the form of race and ethnicity, but it remains largely a question of economics and social class in the absence of a national health care system. And I don't think that's going to be fixed anytime soon, frankly.\nSwartzberg: I'm going to put a positive spin here: I think COVID has accelerated our basic knowledge about biological sciences in general and infectious diseases in particular. Just guessing, I'd say our science has accelerated 10 years beyond where we would be without COVID. So, I think that's the good news.\nHow concerned are you that a virus worse than SARS-CoV-2 could be coming down the pike? And how ready are we socially and medically for something like that?\nRiley: I think COVID is a wake-up call for the whole world. This is the third coronavirus pandemic that we've seen in this century\u2014and obviously, this isn't going to be the last one. But until recently, we weren't really worried much about coronaviruses. The first one, I think, was discovered in the 1960s, and they were typically associated with common colds and mild respiratory illnesses. But SARS, in 2003, came out of the blue\u2014no one expected a coronavirus to do anything like that. And then it disappeared on its own after six months. We know these viruses circulate in animal reservoirs, and as we encroach on wild habitats, people can get infected, and you can eventually get something that's transmitted person-to-person. And if it's a highly virulent virus, you can get a pandemic along the lines of what we're seeing now\u2014or worse.\nReingold: So if \"it\" turns out to be something like smallpox or Ebola, are we in trouble? Yes. Or if you have [a coronavirus] as equally transmissible as SARS-CoV-2 but instead of causing a tiny fraction of the people to become sick or die, it's more like 30 percent, then sure, it's going to be very serious. But anyone who says they can predict when something like that is going to happen\u2014they're just guessing. I don't care if they're a Nobel Prize\u2013winning biologist or animal ecologist or epidemiologist or infectious disease specialist, it's all a guess.\nSwartzberg: But we should absolutely plan for it.\nReingold: I agree with that.\nSwartzberg: From my perspective, we were all born in a very blessed time in human history. From the earliest civilizations, there were endemic diseases that were killing people right and left, all the time. But the world we've lived in for the past few generations has been far safer. And perhaps it will turn out that this has been the exception. Maybe the future will be more like the world we lived in before modern medicine, including vaccines. I know it's anathema to think that, but it could be the case.\nYou mentioned the importance of better funding for public health, but what does that look like? What can we do with more money?\nReingold: Some of it is just about having the appropriate number of people with appropriate training and paying them salaries that are reliable and competitive. You have to think about the needs at the state and local levels. Some of it is maintenance, some of it is better technology and better communication. And it's also about consistency\u2014just ensuring that state and local infrastructure is reliable, that it's going to always be there.\nSwartzberg: I agree, and I'd just double underline \"consistency.\" It doesn't do any good to just fund a five-year program. You need to have people in positions who understand the system, and you need to have them long term: people who've had 20 years of experience, so they understand what to do when the next pandemic hits. You can't depend on filling in with new hires when there's a crisis.\nRiley: When I worked at the Centers for Disease Control, I was in a program that was essentially an intelligence service. We were sent out to investigate outbreaks. I was sent out all over the world, part of a tiny army of people who do that kind of work. I think it's time we greatly expanded that program, including domestically. We need this kind of resource at the state level, not just the federal level. I think this pandemic reveals that our current public health system is totally ineffective\u2014but we now have the opportunity to do something about it.\nIn a more positive light, I think the CDC will regain its reputation at some point. In the past, the CDC was highly respected and recognized as an important public health organization by a large segment of the U.S. population. They did a very good job with the 2001 anthrax scare and the emergence of the Zika virus, for example. Sometimes the problem is that when there's nothing going on, the CDC and other public health organizations are invisible, but the reason they're invisible is because they're doing their jobs. Then when something happens, the response can be negative.\nReingold: A really fundamental problem is that there is no political support\u2014or even support in the general population\u2014to empower public health to do the important and necessary things that would allow it to effectively address or avoid pandemics.\nAnd does that imply ensuring that government has the power to enforce mandates?\nReingold: Mandates are part of it. There are other ways to get things done, but at the end of the day, public health is intrinsically political, and laws and enforcement are a part of that entire process. Thankfully, SARS-CoV-2 is not preferentially killing young adults and children. But do you think the response would be radically different if that were the case?\nMy friends in gerontology and geriatrics have a real concern about ageism with this pandemic\u2013the attitude that, \"You're old and we really don't care if you die or not.\"\nSwartzberg: You know, I spoke to some young people recently. They were in their late teens, and their take was this doesn't seem so serious, let's just get it and get it over with. And that struck me as analogous to our approach as a nation\u2014that as long as we're protected, as long as we're vaccinated and get the number of infections down, we're okay. And we're seeing that somewhat selfish approach to the pandemic breaking along age differentials as well. They're wondering why they should curtail things they want to do to protect other people. It points to still another fracture line in our society, this one based on age.\nReingold: My friends in gerontology and geriatrics have a real concern about ageism with this pandemic\u2014the attitude that, \"You're old and we really don't care if you die or not,\" or, \"Too bad for you, you've had a good life, so get over it.\" And that outrages my friends, who are committed to taking care of all people of all ages. You know, this country mobilized itself to get rid of polio because there were children paralyzed and in iron lungs. But the fact is that only 1 in 200 children infected with the poliovirus developed paralysis. The other 199 were either asymptomatic or had very mild or limited illnesses. But we went to a great deal of trouble to prevent those incredibly uncommon but very serious illnesses because they were horrible, and we weren't willing to say, \"Well, let's just let the poliovirus rip through the population and get it over with.\"\nGlen Martin is a longtime contributor to California.\nSmooth Sailing? A Public Health Expert Is Hopeful About the Vaccine Rollout\nCalifornia periodically touches base on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic with John Swartzberg, a UC Berkeley Public Health Clinical Professor Emeritus and an international authority on infectious diseases and vaccinology. In October, Dr. Swartzberg was hopeful that forthcoming vaccines would be at least 70 percent effective; as it turned out, they far surpassed that figure, with both [\u2026]\nImage source: The Spanish Influenza. Emergency military hospital during influenza epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas, United States. \/\/ Creative Commons\nHow Will it End? A Q&A on Pandemics, Past and Present\nHealth and medicine historian Elena Conis puts coronavirus into perspective. Elena Conis is a historian of U.S. public health and medicine, with a special focus on the history of infectious disease, environmental health, and vaccines. She is also the director of the joint graduate program in public health and journalism at Berkeley. The current COVID-19 [\u2026]\nAs the Pandemic Rages on, a Conversation about Stress and Coping\nCalifornia Surgeon General and Berkeley alumna, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, talks long-term health impacts of the pandemic. As California's first-ever surgeon general, how do you hope to shape the position? Dr. Nadine Burke Harris: Governor Newsom established the position of California Surgeon General with the understanding that some of the most pernicious, but least-addressed health [\u2026]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cheerleaders at Arkansas high school under fire for 'Make America Great Again' banner\nHope Schreiber\nYahoo Lifestyle September 16, 2019\nA public school in Arkansas is under fire after cheerleaders held a sign that read, \"Make America Great Again, Trump the Leopards\" during a football game against a school with a high percentage of black students. (Photo: Twitter)\nA public high school in Arkansas is under fire after cheerleaders lifted a banner at a football game that read, \"Make America Great Again.\"\nOn Friday, cheerleaders from Lake Hamilton High School in Pearcy, Ark., displayed a banner featuring President Donald Trump's campaign slogan with the words \"Trump the Leopards\" at a football game against Malvern High School.\nAccording to State Sen. Joyce Elliott, who tweeted an image of the poster on Saturday, the sign was \"totally inappropriate\" for a public school.\nRelated Video: NC Cheerleaders on Probation After Posing With Trump Sign\n\"We are all entitled to our politics of choice but not to using public entities to advance our politics,\" the senator wrote.\nIf this is a public school, this is totally inappropriate. If it's a private school, it's poor judgment. We are all entitled to our politics of choice but not to using public entities to advance our politics. pic.twitter.com\/sOUrapPIkT\n\u2014 Joyce Elliott (@xjelliott) September 15, 2019\nHours later, State Rep. Aaron Pilkington responded to Elliott's tweet, telling her to \"chill out.\"\n\"It's a play on words,\" Pilkington wrote. \"God forbid kids use political slogans to make a joke about beating a team in football.\"\nChill out, it's funny. It's a play on words. God forbid kids use political slogans to make a joke about beating a team in football \ud83d\ude44 https:\/\/t.co\/pATGyzuUN5\n\u2014 Rep. Aaron Pilkington (@pilkingtonforar) September 15, 2019\nWhile Pilkington regards the banner as a joke, others in the Malvern community believe the message to be racially-motivated, as Trump's campaign slogan is considered racist-coded language by some critics.\n\"Lake Hamilton this is not a good look, the bad part is that you went to a majority African American\/Hispanic School District with this,\" one person wrote on Facebook.\nAnother commented: \"Lake Hamilton High tried to be slick and use a play on words to support their team. It would've flown under the radar if this game was at Lake Hamilton. But they did it in MALVERN for a reason because of the demographics in that city and school. It was a low underbelly political message.\"\nAccording to the Arkansas ADE Data Center, Malvern High School's student body is more than 30 percent black, while 3.4 percent of Lake Hamilton High School's student body is black.\nWhile Lake Hamilton School District did not immediately respond to Yahoo Lifestyle's requests for comment, the following statement was provided to KFSM: \"The Lake Hamilton School District believes that all school activities should be conducted in an environment where good sportsmanship and respect are shown. The banner displayed at the football game this past Friday was not intended to make a political statement or endorsement. The district has taken steps to ensure that all future banners do not mention or reference political or controversial issues.\"\nRead more from Yahoo Lifestyle:\nWoman fights to keep her 3 emotional support monkeys: 'They are not dangerous animals'\nWoman accidentally swallows engagement ring while sleeping\nJonathan Van Ness, Laverne Cox and more worked the red carpet at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards\nFollow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter for nonstop inspiration delivered fresh to your feed, every day.\n#racist\n#pearcy,-arkansas\n#racism\n#aaron-pilkington\n#donald-trump\n#lake-hamilton-high-school\n#lake-hamilton-school-district\n#malvern-high-school-arkansas\nTerry Crews Criticized For 'AGT' Comments Referring To Gabrielle Union's Ouster","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"What To Do This Weekend in Frankfort?\nFrankfort Area Chamber of Commerce\nBe Local, Buy Local Frankfort\nLifestyle Columnist, Lyndsey McGaha (Miss Elle Scoop)\nAbout Capital Living\nBook a Photographer\nDownload Back Issues of Capital Living\nCapital Living\n~ Covering Frankfort's Social Scene\u2026Be Seen By Capital Living!\nGovernor's Prayer Breakfast featured Basketball \"Royalty\"\nPosted by Capital Living in News\n50th Governor's Prayer Breakfast, AcoUstiKats, Clark Davis, Coach Calipari, Frankfort, Frankfort Convention Center, Governor, Governor Matt Bevin, Govnernor's Prayer Breakfast, John Calipari, Kentucky, Matt Bevin, Miss Kentucky, Miss Kentucky Clark Davis, My Old Kentucky Home, Nerlens Noel, Prayer Breakfast, UK, University of Kentucky\nThe 50th Governor's Prayer Breakfast brought out hundreds and some basketball heavyweights too! On Tuesday morning, hundreds filed into the Frankfort Convention Center to celebrate their respective faith under one roof. Breakfast was fixed for nearly 1,000 people. The convention center floor maxed out with tables and chairs with a waiting list of 25 more tables desired! The general public was also invited to participate in this momentous event. This was Governor Matt Bevin's first time out in leading this annual worship service. The nondenominational faith based breakfast is a chance for all to come together and worship under the same principles with propelled our nation to it's freedom.\nMany may have come to see the guest speaker, some highfalutin men's college basketball coach from some nearby nationally recognized athletic program from Lexington. We'd hardly heard of the man until this day. Perhaps you've heard of him? Coach John Calipari was the gust speaker at this year's event. He opened up with a great one-liner that had everyone in the room going. He said, \"I'm going to try to give you more time than I coached that last game,\" a reference to his quick ejection from the Wildcats game Saturday at South Carolina. He went on talk about why he attends services on a regular basis, \"Because I'm a sinner\". Driving home the fact that, no matter how much money you make or what background you come from, we are all human and make our fair share of mistakes.\nCalipari was inspiring as he pointed out former UK player Nerlens Noel in the audience, who now plays for the Philadelphia 76ers. He believes in treated each person as an individual. And that belief came through strong in his words and stronger in his daily actions of giving back, \"Would I like to coach kids more than one year? Yeah, I'd like to have teams for four years and win every game and win every national title, and we'd all be happy. But I always say, you've got to do what's best for these young people.\" He inspires his players to give back as well. Noel was not scheduled to speak at the breakfast. But was gracious enough to stay afterwards take photos with fans and sign autographs.\nDuring the prayer breakfast, Bevin gave the William Cooper Faith and Community in Action Award to Barb and Hilton Duncan of Integrated Community Ministries of McCreary County for serving the needy in Eastern Kentucky for nearly 17 years. It's been said that this county is the poorest county in the United States.\nWilliam Cooper, the namesake of the award, was inspired to begin a prayer breakfast in Kentucky after having the privilege of attending several Presidential Prayer Breakfasts in Washington, D.C. With Cooper's vision and under Gov. Bert Combs, Kentucky hosted its first Governor's Prayer Breakfast in 1965.\nThe William Cooper Faith and Community in Action Award was established in 2009 in honor of the Rev. William Jefferson Cooper, Sr., of West Port, Kentucky. 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{"text":"And so cricket is back. After more than four months of no international cricket \u2014 the longest period without international cricket since World War 2 \u2014 England played the West Indies in Southampton. And, as if they wanted to remind their fans of what the normal, pre-COVID world was like, England capitulated in both the first and second innings, losing yet another first Test match in a series.\nThat's not to say that the West Indies didn't deserve the victory. They mostly certainly did. They dug in and got the runs and wickets they needed, and while England were guilty of poor play at times, a great deal of that was down to the pressure put on them by the West Indies' batters and bowlers. It was a great Test match, and I think one that we all sorely needed.\nI will admit that I didn't watch a great deal of it. Work is super busy and my mornings just kept getting away from me. But on Sunday I was able to belly up to Willow TV and take it all in. I had a coffee, and the match streaming on the big TV in the living room. It was sunny but cool outside, and the windows were open to the world. And the match quietly paced itself out in front of me, lulling me into perfect contentment. More than once I thought to myself: :\"holy macaroni do I love this game.\"\nFor the most part, I was able to nearly forget all about about the pandemic. Sure, the stands were empty, but cricket of all games probably suffers the least from the empty stadiums. I mean, we've all watched some great cricket matches in some very empty arenas. The one moment of incongruity was when a wicket was taken, and the only roar heard was that from the players on the field. There wasn't a peep from the galleries. It was a stark reminder of the world we all now live in.\nBut other than that, it felt like old times. Times that a few weeks ago I thought were gone forever.\nI have watched other sports in the last few weeks. Primarily soccer. But there is something a little more dystopian about that. Something about the juxtaposition of the piped in crowd noise against the empty stadium. It feels like watching a video game. And in soccer the stands are shown all the time, just because of the location of the cameras and the movement of the game. But in cricket, the stands are more or less never shown during the game play \u2014 especially in a Test match where sixes are more of a rare commodity.\nMaybe I am being a bit over dramatic. But there was something yesterday in those few hours I was able to spend watching cricket that made me like everything was going to be okay. If there can something so almost unbearably normal in this oh-so-abnormal world, something so utterly familiar, something like a Test match, then maybe there really is another side to this. Where life goes on. And there are concerts and movies and full stadiums cheering wickets.\nWhen I turned off the TV, the moment was gone. I put on my mask and packed hand sanitizer and biked to a friend's house where we sat socially distanced in his back yard and watched Arsenal lose to Tottenham and, of course, talked about the pandemic: grocery shopping and politics and getting tested. It was nice to hang out, but it still felt so different.\nAnd that seems to be the case with most with most everything else that's coming back from the \"before times:\" to entertain and distract us. It all feels so dystopian. The empty soccer stadiums. The NBA and their bubble, where the talk is not about sports but about how the virus is raging in Florida. The restaurants with quickly converted patios and the servers in gloves and masks. The live streamed concerts in empty venues. All of it is fine, but none of it takes you far enough away from the virus to where things feel even slightly normal again.\nBut cricket was different. At least, yesterday was different. It felt normal. Virus-free. A relic from a recent past now long gone, but a relic without rust, that maintained its shine.\nA few days ago I humbugged the idea of the importance of sport. That it needs to come back in order for our world to heal. A load of nonsense is what I thought of that. They are just games. If it's not safe, then we shouldn't do it. But after yesterday I am not entirely sure. The cricket and the breeze through the windows and the iced coffee and the drone of the commentators and the sound of the run up and the chatter of the fielders all felt so normal that I couldn't help but be comforted by it. The virus never completely left my brain, of course, but the taste of normalcy gave me some hope that there is another side of this.\nRight now, we don't know what that other side will look like, nor when this will be over. It's going to be months and months, and it's going to be a slow unwinding with stops and starts and two steps forward and three steps back and that can be so distressing and upsetting, all that time and hardship yet to come. But yesterday I was reminded that, one day, this will end. And that while it will be different, it will still be the same, the world that we used to know. It was a comfort that so far nothing else in this big broken world has been able to provide me.\nI don't think this means that we should have sports at all costs, but maybe it is a reminder of the importance of even a hint of normalcy. We should not pretend that nothing is wrong, we need to stay vigilant, but we also need to remember the rewards of the maintained vigilance: cricket, on a Sunday morning, with the windows open, and the crowd rising as one in celebration of a wicket well earned.\nPrevious PostPrevious 'To the sounds of cricket bows'\nNext PostNext You're finally here and I'm a mess","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ford's $2.6 billion Valencia investment\nBy aladmin2015-02-05T10:31:39+00:00\nSpain \u2013 An initial $1.25 billion was announced in 2011, followed by a further $1.37 billion since 2013. The OEM says that Valencia is now one of the \"most advanced, flexible and productive\" automotive plants worldwide, and will be the sole European source for all six Ford nameplates assembled there.\nA new, 89,000 sq.m bodyshop constructed over the course of eight months will raise the plant's daily output to 2,000 vehicles. Retooling will enable production of the Mondeo and Mondeo Hybrid using hydro-formed high-strength steel. Over 900 robots now operate in the bodyshops at Valencia.\nAn extra paintshop has also been built, featuring automated processes which remove the need for drying between paint applications, plus dirt detection technology. This will improve quality, energy use and productivity.\nIn assembly, new processes have been implemented to accommodate a more complex model mix than any other Ford facility in Europe. In line with the Ford Production System, all components will now be transported alongside the vehicle in a pre-assembled kit. There are now 34 robots in the final assembly area.\nAs a result of the upgrade, Valencia will increase its output this year by about 40% to 400,000 vehicles; it will have the capacity to build up to 450,000 per annum. The plant now employs 8,000 personnel, up from just under 5,000 in early 2013, while suppliers supporting the operation have increased their employment by 1,500. Furthermore, the number of parts handled at the facility will increase from 7,000 to 18,000 with production of the Mondeo, S-MAX and Galaxy.\nValencia currently builds the new Mondeo wagon, five-door, and four-door including the Mondeo Hybrid, Kuga SUV, Transit Connect light commercial vehicle and Tourneo Connect people-carrier. The new S-MAX MPV, Galaxy seven-seat people-carrier and the Vignale Mondeo will go into production later this year.\nwww.ford.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Dozens of Central Texas schools and districts will be closed Thursday | Check your district\nMassive winter storm knocks out power to more than 200K Central Texas customers | Check your provider\nWeathercams\nConcordia University Brandon\nConcordia University Annette\nAustin, TX \u00bb\nForever Families\nAntiviral clinical trial underway for new COVID-19 treatment\nAt St. David's South Austin Medical Center, some patients are being enrolled into a study for a new antiviral drug called Merimepodib.\nAuthor: Luis de Leon\nPublished: 9:31 PM CDT July 21, 2020\nUpdated: 9:32 PM CDT July 21, 2020\nAUSTIN, Texas \u2014 While the world waits for a COVID-19 vaccine, doctors are working to find ways to better treat patients for the virus.\nAt St. David's South Austin Medical Center, some patients are being enrolled into a study for a new antiviral drug called merimepodib, for the treatment of advanced COVID-19 in adult patients.\nSt. David's is currently the only medical center in Texas participating in the study.\n\"I think it's very needed,\" said Dr. Matthew Robinson, the medical director of infectious disease at St. David's South Austin Medical Center. \"I think, you know, we're still struggling to find effective therapies that I think truly, you know, impact the outcomes of this illness.\"\nDr. Robinson told KVUE Tuesday that they've enrolled close to 10 patients so far.\nCredit: Staff\nWhat is Merimepodib?\nDr. Robinson said that Merimepodib is an investigational antiviral medication that has been evaluated in the lab and shown to be active against the SARS-CoV-2, which is the virus that causes COVID-19.\n\"It was also shown to enhance the activity of another antiviral called Remdesivir, which is presently the standard of care from an antiviral standpoint with regard to treating patients with this,\" Dr. Robinson said. \"And so, this study is designed to evaluate this in humans and determine whether this is actually an effective therapy and is beneficial to patients that are suffering from COVID-19.\"\nThe medication itself would be dissolved into liquid. As far as side effects, Dr. Robinson said the most common could be upset stomach or loose stool.\nWhile it's not being used to fight other illnesses, Dr. Robinson said he feels it is safe as it has been studied enough.\n\"There is a fair amount of human data with regard to this medication because it has been investigated in other viral infections. And so, you know, the preponderance of the data suggests that it is a safe medication to administer. So far, my anecdotal experiences would include the same,\" Dr. Robinson said.\nA potential antiviral tag-team\nDr. Robinson added that Merimepodib was shown to work well with Remdesivir.\n\"The reason to have optimism with this medication is because of its effect that was shown with regard to this inhibiting this virus in a laboratory cell culture,\" Dr. Robinson said, referring to Merimeodib. \"But also it was shown in concert with Remdesivir that those cells that were infected with the virus in the lab were exposed to Remdesivir and the Merimepodib at the same time, and it seemed to enhance the activity of Remdesivir beyond what one would expect. And so, there was hope from that standpoint that it may actually \u2013 the combination of the two may, in fact, be quite beneficial.\"\nOverall, it could be a way of evaluating combination therapy, according to Dr. Robinson.\nHe said he encourages patients that have an opportunity to be part of a trial like this to think about it.\n\"This is how we make these important discoveries that go towards better treatments,\" Dr. Robinson said.\nOther methods of treatment\nOther methods of treatment doctors have been using include convalescent plasma, which is plasma from patients who recovered from COVID-19.\nDr. Robinson also brought up a type of steroid that could work well with current antiviral medications like Remdesivir.\n\"From an antiviral standpoint, Remdesivir is really considered the standard of care at this point. There are a few other things. Dexamethasone, which is a corticosteroid, was recently shown in another randomized trial to be effective at reducing mortality in patients with COVID 19,\" Dr. Robinson said.\nWATCH: Convalescent plasma therapy shows hope as COVID-19 treatment\nMORE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE:\nDemand for nurses still high despite a plateau of COVID-19 cases\nAustin announces $17M for emergency COVID-19 rent assistance\nGov. Abbott adviser: Hospital capacity 'incredibly well,' but in need of testing reagents\nDefenders Q&A: Has the pandemic impacted the Rainy Day Fund?\nUIL releases updated schedule for 2020 fall sports in Texas\nNumber of new COVID-19 cases in Austin area are on a 'downward trend,' Dr. Escott says\n\u00a9 2023 KVUE-TV. All Rights Reserved.\nKVUE would like to send you push notifications about the latest news and weather.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Theater on Film\nExpect Great Things\nHouston audiences get a chance to see the Great Expectations adaptation currently thrilling London's West End\nBy Michael Hardy April 1, 2013\nImage: Courtesy SpectiCast\nOne of the most exciting trends in the performing arts over the past decade has been the increasing presence of opera and theater at the multiplex. Traditionally, if you wanted to see world-class performers you had to spend the time and money to visit a venue like Jones Hall or the Wortham Theater Center. While there's still no substitute for live theater or classical music, the next best thing is probably watching the performance in a state-of-the-art cinema auditorium, especially if you don't live in a city as blessed with performance spaces as Houston. One of the pioneers of this new distribution model is New York's Metropolitan Opera, whose Live in HD program beams masterpieces by Wagner, Verdi, and Puccini to 1,700 screens in 50 countries each season. People who have never been to New York and have never seen an opera can now watch La Traviata in the same place they just watched the latest Tom Cruise film.\nOf course, opera is only one of the possibilities offered by new digital distribution technology. The Alamo Drafthouse, never slow to jump on a trend, has teamed up with the Philadelphia-based distribution company SpectiCast to offer Houston an exclusive HD screening of Great Expectations, a new play adapted from the Dickens novel by Jo Clifford and currently winning rave reviews on London's West End. How often do you get to see a cutting-edge London production from the comfort of your local movie theater? With nachos and a beer (since this is the Alamo, after all)?\nAlthough the play won't be broadcast live\u2014it was taped on February 7\u2014this is as close as you'll get to the West End without buying a ticket to Heathrow. Adding to the screening's interest is the fact that Dickens's novel, although it has been turned into two films (David Lean's 1946 adaptation and the Mike Newell version last year), has never been produced on Broadway or the West End, and was generally considered unadaptable for the theater. So come celebrate the 200th anniversary of Dickens's birth at the Alamo in the company of Miss Havisham, Pip, Magwitch, and the other denizens of what many consider the author's finest work.\nTuesday, April 2 at 7:30\nAlamo Drafthouse Vintage Park\n114 Vintage Park Blvd, Bldg H, Ste J\ndrafthouse.com\/houston","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"County schools' lunch prices to increase next year\nBy Sharon Myers The Dispatch\nJun 5, 2017 at 10:43 PM Jun 5, 2017 at 10:43 PM\nAt its regular meeting on Monday night, the Davidson County Board of Education voted to increase the amount for lunches at the middle and high schools by 25 cents for next school year.\nSchool lunch prices at the elementary schools will remain at $2.75, but the price will increase to $3 for middle and high schools, for a monthly revenue increase of $7,732.75.\nKristen Bealler, director of school nutrition for Davidson County Schools, gave a presentation to the board explaining the proposed meal price increase was due to a requirement by the federal Healthy-Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010 that school lunch prices must be increased until the average meal cost for paid lunches is equal to or exceeds the difference of free to paid lunch reimbursement rates, which is currently $2.86 per meal.\nAlan Beck, chairman of the board, said that it is not a decision that the board likes to make but it is one that has to be made due to the circumstances.\n\"Over time these increases come up just like everything else,\" Beck said. \"We don't ask for increase in lunch prices often, but when we do it is because it is a necessity.\"\nSince the implementation of the new federal standards, the average months' operating balance for school nutrition program has been steadily declining.\nOther options presented to the board, were to increase school lunch prices to $2.85 for all schools; to keep prices at $2.75 for elementary students and increase the price to $2.95 for middle school and high school students or for the school board to supplement the current meal prices for 10 cent per paid meal at approximately $60,423 for the year.\nAlso during the meeting, the school board unanimously voted to change honors designation for graduates, eliminating the designation of valedictorian and salutatorian by using class rank as means of recognizing academic achievement.\nTabitha Broadway, director of secondary education for Davidson County Schools, gave a presentation to the school board explaining that since the North Carolina School Board changed the grading system to a 10-point scale, where a 90 percent grade has the same weighted point as a 100 percent score, many students have the same grade-point average.\nBroadway said that many of the school systems' current 10th-grade students have the identical grade-point average, making it impossible to identify one student as valedictorian and one as salutatorian. She said that currently three high schools have three students tied at number one rank and up to 14 tied for the next highest ranking.\n\"All six high schools have multiple students tied to the top ranking as well as the next GPA ranking,\" Broadway said. \"We are seeing lots of ties and we expect these ties will only increase\u2026This is in no way an attempt to diminish the recognition of our students. Logistically, the changes at the state level will make it impossible to select on valedictorian and one salutatorian.\"\nShe said the ranking has also been impacted by the change in weighted honors from a one-point scale to a half-point scale and that AP course and college promise courses carry the same additional weight.\nBilly Hunt, principal of West Davidson High School, said all the principals in the Davidson County School system want to develop a committee to determine speakers at graduation.\n\"We are proposing to develop a committee to develop options for the board of education to consider on how to select speakers at graduation,\" Hunt said. \"We want to include administrators, teachers, parents and students. It is extremely important to get all of our stakeholders involved in the process.\"\nAngie Kieger, principal at North Davidson High School, said the changes are not to prohibit recognition students, but is a logistical necessity.\n\"It has become impossible to choose one person as valedictorian,\" Kieger said. \"We still want to recognize our honor students in any way possible way that we can.\"\nBroadway said the school systems will still be recognizing the Latin honors including, summa cum laude, magna cum laude and cume lade as well as club, band, chorus and other awards.\nSharon Myers can be reached at (336) 249-3981, ext. 228, or at sharon.myers@the-dispatch.com. Follow Sharon on Twitter: @LexDispatchSM","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"America Movil\nReliance Jio Infocomm\nTelia Company\nRegulatory policy and implications\nNext generation mobile services\nBroadband build-out\nNetwork operators' competitive challenges\nTelenor to sell remaining 90m common shares in Veon\nSeptember 21st 2017 | Multiple countries | Fixed | Multiple companies\nOn September 21st Telenor ASA said that it had offered to sell its remaining 90m common shares in Veon Ltd, a Dutch operator. Priced at US$4.2per share, the 5.1% stake sale is expected to rake in US$365m for Telenor.\nThe Norwegian telecoms company has been divesting its stake in Veon since 2016, following allegations that the Dutch company was involved in a bribery scandal in Uzbekistan. Telenor sold off a 4% stake in April this year and a 24.5% stake in September 2016. The company has so far earned US$2bn from its divestment in Veon.\nFollowing the latest sale, Telenor will be left with about 256.7m American Depository shares in Veon, amounting to about 14.6% of the latter company's outstanding common shares. Telenor will sell the remaining stake, which is tied to an exchangeable bond, when it becomes due in 2019.\nThe current offering is likely to close by September 25th. The sale amount is expected to be accrued to the state-controlled company's cash flow statement for the third quarter of fiscal year 2017.\nVeon withdraws offer to take over Global Telecom\nDemand from emerging markets drives VimpelCom to Q3 profit\nTelenor sheds its stake in VimpelCom","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Tags Posts tagged with \"milan shooting\"\nmilan shooting\nMilan shooting: Gunman Claudio Giardiello arrested after killing three people\nSuspect Claudio Giardiello has been arrested in Milan, Italy, after he shot dead three people at the Palace of Justice.\nA fourth person was found dead at the court, from an apparent heart attack.\nClaudio Giardiello was reportedly a defendant in a bankruptcy case. He was arrested in a Milan suburb after fleeing the scene on a motorbike.\nThe dead are said to include his former lawyer and a bankruptcy court judge. The shooting has prompted scrutiny of security procedures at the courthouse.\nQuestions are being asked about how Claudio Giardiello managed to smuggle a weapon into a well-guarded building, use it several times and escape.\nHe was arrested by carabinieri officers in Vimercate, about 15 miles north-east of central Milan, near the town of Monza.\nInterior Minister Angelino Alfano said the \"presumed assassin\" was now being held at a military police barracks in the Milan area.\nCiting officials and witnesses, the newspaper La Repubblica reported that Claudio Giardiello had been attending a bankruptcy hearing when a fight broke out inside the third floor courtroom.\nClaudio Giardiello pulled out a weapon and shot the lawyer, named as Lorenzo Alberto Claris Appiani, as well as another man, who is said to have been a co-defendant in the case.\nAccording to La Repubblica, Lorenzo Alberto Claris Appiani was a former lawyer for Claudio Giardiello who was acting as a witness in the case.\nThe gunman then left the courtroom and headed to the office of appeals court judge, Fernando Ciampi, shooting him dead.\nIt is not known if Claudio Giardiello had any links to the judge.\nA fourth person was found dead inside the building after apparently suffering a heart attack.\nAnother two people were wounded and are being treated at a hospital.\nAfter hiding inside the Palace of Justice for more than an hour, Claudio Giardiello fled on a motorbike, according to La Repubblica.\nClaudio Giardiello was described as \"aggressive\" and \"a little paranoid\" by his former lawyer, Valerio Maraniello, in comments quoted by AFP news agency.\nVisitors to the Palace of Justice have to pass through metal detectors.\nLawyers and courthouse employees with official identification are, however, regularly waved through, according to the Associated Press.\nANSA reported that one of the metal detectors was broken on April 8.\nItalian PM Matteo Renzi described the attack as \"a moment of great pain, of sadness\".\nMatteo Renzi praised the police who arrested the gunman but said it was \"unthinkable\" that someone could enter a court with a weapon, and promised an inquiry into the incident.\nThe Palace of Justice is in the centre of Milan, only a few streets away from the city's cathedral and main shopping district.\nMilan shooting: At least two people shot dead inside Palace of Justice\nAt least two people, including a judge, have been shot dead by a gunman at Milan's Palace of Justice in Italy, officials say.\nAppeals court judge Giovanni Canzio told the official ANSA news agency that a defendant in a bankruptcy case opened fire at the entrance to a courtroom.\nBankruptcy court judge Fernando Ciampi was one of those killed, ANSA reported.\nThe gunman has been identified as Claudio Giardiello.\nHe is believed to still be at large inside the Palace of Justice.\nThe building was being evacuated, with women allowed to leave first, the Associated Press reported. Men are being let out after having their identification checked.\nThe sound of gunfire inside the Palace of Justice reportedly sparked panic, with hundreds of people pouring down stairways towards the exits while police and military police officers searched for the gunman.\nSky TG24 reported that the gunman was barricaded in an upper-floor room.\nIt was unclear how he managed to bring a weapon into the Palace of Justice, as visitors have to pass through metal detectors.\nThe building is in the centre of Milan, only a few streets away from the city's cathedral and main shopping district.\nVatican launches St Peter's Cricket Club to encourage interfaith dialogue\nThe Vatican has announced today it is launching its own official cricket club as part of efforts to encourage interfaith \u2026Read More \u00bb\nCoronavirus: Mount Athos Closes for Pilgrims and Visitors until March 30\nAs part of measures to fight the coronavirus pandemic, the Holly Mount Athos, Greece, announced on March 19 that it \u2026Read More \u00bb\nHow the Body Copes with Extreme Heat\nHuman body's normal core temperature is 37-38C (98.6 \u2013100.4F). If it heats up to 39-40C (102.2-104F), the brain tells the \u2026Read More \u00bb\nDumex: Danone baby food unit accused of bribery in China\nDumex \u2013 Danone baby food unit \u2013 said it is investigating claims the company bribed hospital staff in China to \u2026Read More \u00bb\nEgypt awaits for constitutional referendum official results\nEgyptians are awaiting the official results of a referendum on a controversial draft constitution. Early unofficial results suggested more than \u2026Read More \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Alexander \"Howard\" Dumble, legendary amp builder of Dumble Amps, has passed away\nNewsGear\nPaul Cochrane teases a new Tim overdrive: \"With luck I'm hoping it'll be ready by the end of winter\"\nThe effects builder revealed he tried to release the pedal back in 2016.\nBy Daniel Seah\nImage: Paul Cochrane via Facebook\nVersion three of the revered Tim overdrive pedal appears to be coming soon, as builder Paul Cochrane shows off a new prototype of the dual-footswitch stomper online.\nREAD MORE: Jargonbuster: Overdrive \u2013 how to understand your overdrive pedal\nIn a Facebook post last week (2 December) Cochrane revealed that he had intended to release the third iteration of the Tim back in 2016, but that the \"stars wouldn't align.\" Five years has given him time to work on a new prototype, however, which will soon be ready for release after a few more circuit and enclosure tweaks.\n\"It's a shorter box than the old one with all the pots on top and all the jacks on back,\" Cochrane wrote in his post. \"The three-way clipping switch has the same top and middle settings but with a new, more 'open' asymmetrical third setting.\"\nHe added: \"A three-way 'Hi-Cut' switch is added which helps it sit better with brighter amps\/speakers. It's flat in the middle with -3dB at 5khz, and -3dB at 2khz settings. The FX loop is now tied in with the boost for added flexibility in that mode [\u2026] with luck I'm hoping it'll be ready by the end of winter and not another 5 years.\"\n5 years later\u2026 I tried to bring this out in 2016, but the stars wouldn't align\u2026 This is a new proto of the Tim V3!\u2026\nPosted by Paul Cochrane on Thursday, December 2, 2021\nLast year, Cochrane partnered with MXR to launch a mini-version of the beloved Timmy overdrive. Unlike the mass-manufactured mini-stomper however, the Tim V3 will be hand-built.\nEssential Guides 18th January 2022","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Ideas Education & Workforce Development WWBIC Growth Accelerator providing entrepreneurship training in Sturtevant\nWWBIC Growth Accelerator providing entrepreneurship training in Sturtevant\nWEDC funds resurrect Launch Box program\nMolly Dill\nAlex Upendo, center, of Build-a-Bow won the Launch Box pitch competition in 2017.\nWhen Gateway Technical College announced in August that it would close its Launch Box co-working space in Racine by the end of November, Launch Box director Thalia Mendez sought out alternative avenues to provide entrepreneurship training in the area.\nMendez, second from left, with a cohort of Launch Box entrepreneurs at their pitch competition in 2017.\nShe partnered with the Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corp., which secured an $80,000 matching grant from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. to keep the programming going in a new form: the WWBIC Growth Accelerator.\nLaunched last week, the first cohort of the 10-week accelerator class has five entrepreneur teams who will pitch their businesses at Demo Day on Feb. 14 from noon to 2 p.m. at Gateway's SC Johnson iMet Center in Sturtevant. Mendez is keeping their identities under wraps until that day.\nMendez leads the classes mainly at the iMet Center. The program is aimed at entrepreneurs in Kenosha, Racine and Walworth counties.\n\"It's really exciting that WWBIC was able to keep this going, because Gateway got out of the entrepreneurship community and I went to Wendy (Baumann) and said, 'What do you think?'\" Mendez said. \"The mentors, everybody is really happy to see that it's continuing.\"\nBaumann, president and chief visionary officer at WWBIC, was on board.\nWendy Baumann\nCredit: Kat Schleicher Photography\n\"We've been a strong partner in numerous accelerators, specifically the one that Thalia was engaged with with Gateway,\" Baumann said.\nThe accelerator provides avenues to growth for small businesses, microbusinesses and Main Street entrepreneurs, she said. And Mendez is certified as an accelerator facilitator.\n\"We felt that there was a gap there. We were worried about clients we were working with not having access to something like this,\" Baumann said.\nThe WWBIC Growth Accelerator will help teams develop their business models by conducting consumer testing, gathering customer input, receiving mentorship and meeting with potential investors, according to the WEDC.\nThe Demo Day will be a friendly pitch event to review the progress entrepreneurs make in the program, Baumann said. And entrepreneurs will receive a seed grant of between $2,500 and $5,000 to help them on their way.\n\"At WWBIC, we don't like the term 'shark tank.' We use the term 'dolphin pool,'\" she said.\n\"The state has a significant interest in supporting entrepreneurship and the development of new businesses for the purpose of long-term economic growth,\" said Aaron Hagar, vice president of entrepreneurship and innovation for WEDC, in a release. \"Under the leadership of WWBIC, this accelerator program will play a critical role in filling funding gaps and providing startups with the technical and financial assistance they need to become successful.\"\nAnother cohort of the WWBIC Growth Accelerator is set to begin in January. WWBIC is working to raise matching funds for the $80,000 grant from WEDC's Seed Accelerator program, and hopes to offer the program quarterly in 2019, Baumann said.\nMolly Dill, former BizTimes Milwaukee managing editor.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"BOARDING YOUR DOG\nSPA & GROOM ROOM\nBOARDING YOUR CAT\nCall us today to make a booking\u200b\nThe kennels and cattery are open 365 days a year and are set in a landscaped and fenced one-acre site. Both units are completely enclosed and fully heated throughout the colder months. Our aim is to provide a home-from-home service, combining a friendly atmosphere with high standards of care. We work hard to ensure that all the pets enjoy their stay and pride ourselves on providing our guests with one-to-one attention. All dogs are exercised at least once every day and, weather permitting, are housed in our outside covered pens during daylight hours.\nSince taking ownership in 2013, we have made significant changes to the existing kennels bringing it up to date with today's modern standards, having invested over \u00a360,000 offering new outside covered runs, new covered drainage system and a polycarbonate bronze roof. Furthermore we have replaced all of the inside kennels, fitted a new roof on the existing kennels, which also incorporates solar panels, as well as new lighting and insulation. We have installed storage heaters which heat the entire building in the colder months and we repaint the kennels and water proof the kennel areas yearly. We also built a brand new Cat Hotel in April 2022 that is now up and running. Please see photos in our Cat Gallery.\nAll guests are provided with music, bedding and toys and their own particular taste in food is catered for to ensure their stay is comfortable and happy. There is plenty of activity in the newly landscaped gardens for the dogs to see and keep them interested and occupied during their time with us.\nView our Terms and Conditions\nView our licence\n- Dog Boarding\n- Cat Boarding\n- Dog Daycare\n- Medicines Administered\n- On Site Shop\n- Dog Grooming and Spa\nEvery Day excluding Sunday\nEvery Day excluding Tuesday\nConifer Kennels & Cattery\n1 Chellaston Cottages\nSwarkestone Road,\nWeston-On-Trent\nDerby. DE72 2BU\nMail: info@conifer-kennels.com\n\u00a9 2021 Conifer Kennels","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Case Study: Upgrade Optimization For Pediatric Care Center\nPublished on July 9, 2019 by Solvaria\nOrganization Description\nThis nationally recognized organization honors a mission that goes back more than a century: to bring health and well-being to all children. Their mission is the core reason they are now recognized as the premier pediatric care center in the Washington, DC area, and have seen more than 219,000 children from DC, Virginia and Maryland as well as from across the country and around the world in just the past year.\nDespite having a full staff of dedicated DBAs, a pediatric care center was in need of a better visualization for their database environment as they prepared for an upgrade. Their current staff was unable to handle the additional support the organization needed, including determining which systems would be ready for an upgrade and taking inventory of their machines to ensure they had adequate hardware. IT leaders at the organization realized they did not have enough staff to be able to perform an upgrade of that magnitude and reached out to Solvaria for supplemental support. We partnered with Microsoft and a regional infrastructure provider to ensure that the databases, software, and infrastructure were properly classified and evaluated.\n\"Their current staff was unable to handle the additional support the organization needed, including determining which systems would be ready for an upgrade and taking inventory of their machines to ensure they had adequate hardware\"\nSolvaria captured the necessary data from the organization's 20 servers and 75 instances using a combination of automated scripts and manual query execution. Our senior DBAs integrated directly with the organization's current team to gather the information needed for the upgrade and provide recommendations on which servers could be upgraded and which needed more hardware. Solvaria and Microsoft created a set of best practices and recommendations that laid out a road map detailing:\nUpgrade schedules\nEnhancements needed\nRecommended tuning\nBy following these standards and guidelines, the organization was able to achieve a more optimized SQL server environment with improved performance, security, and stability.\nOur senior DBAs created a document that guided the organization through all areas of the SQL Server environment that needed improvement or could benefit from applying best practices and recommendations. Then, a full diagnostic of the current organization's systems was provided. Finally, the Solvaria team provided recommendations for a New Enterprise Architecture and configuration to leverage Microsoft SQL server 2012 for future performance, capacity, and planning.\nBoth the client and Solvaria agreed the project ran smoothly due to Solvaria's expertise in both Oracle and SQL Server, and stayed on track thanks to our DBAs senior-level management skills.\nInterested in becoming a Solvarian? Check out our latest job openings\nVirginia Office\ninfo@solvaria.com\n11243 Nuckols Road Suite 150\n3420 Pump Road #406\n\u00a92019 Solvaria. All Rights Reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"qCHANGE\nMy 'Aha' SYR Moment\nI finally got it. At 5:00 a.m. on the last day of the Copenhagen plenary approval session for the IPCC Synthesis Report (SYR), I understood what synthesis is all about. It struck me during a hot cocoa break in the hotel lobby, watching sleep-deprived co-authors and delegates continue discussions in a last-ditch effort to reach agreement on contentious text. I realized that synthesis is a process, not an outcome.\nLike many members of the Core Writing Team for SYR, I was committed to producing a document that would present something new \u2014 the whole story on climate change. After all, a synthesis is by definition a process of combining diverse parts or concepts into something that is larger and more coherent. Our \"something\" was supposed to be a short, readable report bringing together findings from all three IPCC Working Groups, pulling together the output of thousands of hours of collaboration among hundreds of scientists. The SYR was to explain to the world why we need to care about climate change, and why it truly matters.\nThe SYR Outcome: A Report\nWith a focus on a synthesis product, I co-facilitated the topic on \"Transformations and Changes in Systems.\" This was easier said than done. Transformation as a concept is largely invisible in the underlying reports, and not surprisingly it fell through the cracks in the synthesis report. From the start, we had trouble collectively seeing how transformation related to the findings of the IPCC reports, and it was thus difficult to create a coherent narrative around it.\n\"The ability to knit together information from disparate sources into a coherent whole is vital today.\"\nHoward Gardner, 2008: 46\nMany people are understandably skeptical of using a concept that is both powerful and political, and wary of its implications. Yet when discussing climate change and the potential impacts of 1.7 to 4.8\u00b0C warming on natural systems and human systems in this century, we are in fact talking about transformations, especially in relation to food systems, urban populations, livelihoods, ecosystems, and human security. Likewise, when we are debating substantial reductions of greenhouse gas emissions to limit warming and minimize sea level rise and ocean acidification, we are talking about transformations. Even when planning how to adapt to the changes that are expected to occur over the next decades as a result of past emissions, we are often talking about transformations. Every climate change policy and action is inevitably about the type of transformations that are we willing to live with, and which ones we choose to pursue.\nThe Synthesis Report topic about strategic perspectives on climate responses was eventually more appropriately renamed \"Future Pathways for Adaptation, Mitigation and Sustainable Development,\" and with the exception of a bullet point on transformations and transformational adaptation, the report avoided direct mention of the word transformation. Many other words were used to describe the risks and the options we have to avoid \"severe, widespread and irreversible\" impacts of climate change. Yet with transformation absent from the synthesis product, it seemed to me that we were missing the bigger picture.\nThe SYR Process: Transformation\nUntil my \"hot cocoa\" moment, I did not relate the synthesis process itself to a larger, ongoing transformation. Bringing together new data, information, and understandings based on a diversity of perspectives slowly penetrates our thinking, disrupts the stories that we tell ourselves, and challenges us to expand our individual and shared identities. The struggle to hold on to current identities and interests was voiced throughout the plenary approval sessions, but so were concerns about the future. What is our future as a small island state, as sea levels rise? How will we feed our people when climate change is leading to more extreme, extraordinary events? As an oil exporting nation, where will our income come from with substantial mitigation? What can we do as a small but capable country to influence future pathways?\nIdentities do not transform easily, and it is not surprising that delegations wanted the report to better emphasize their own stories. Yet after five days of intense discussion and debate, the topic headline still conveys the clear message that \"substantial emissions reductions over the next few decades can reduce climate risks in the 21st century and beyond, increase prospects for effective adaptation, reduce the costs and challenges of mitigation in the longer term, and contribute to climate-resilient pathways for sustainable development.\" This may not be considered a \"new\" headline by everyone, but it captures in a nutshell why our strategic choices make a difference.\nThe Synthesis Ahead\nThe Synthesis Report is done, but the synthesis process continues. Transformation will occur as people hear the key messages and relate them to their own contexts. Unlike a mere summary that can be formed by cutting and pasting from what we already know, the synthesis story is still being written \u2013 the coherent whole is continuously being formed in our heads and hearts. Synthesis is transformation. Following on SYR, we are now challenged to move beyond \"business as usual,\" pull together information from disparate sources, and synthesize climate change into a successful story of transformation.\nBack to Perspectives.\n\u21d0 The Oslo Extreme Dialogue\nIPCC Synthesis Report \u21d2\nKaren O'Brien\nPowered by Runbox","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Irish Americans can now apply for their Irish passport online\nIrish citizens living in the US, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand are now, for the first time, able to apply for their first Irish passport online.\nIrish citizens in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the US can now apply for their first Irish passport using Passport Online. Getty Images\nFrom today, June 7, on, Irish Americans can apply for their Irish passport online instead of going through Irish consulates, the Irish government has announced.\nIrish citizens in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States of America can now apply for their first Irish passport using Passport Online, Ireland's Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence, Mr. Simon Coveney, T.D. has announced.\nMinister Coveney said: \"I am delighted to announce that Irish citizens in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the US can apply for their first Irish passport using our Passport Online service.\"\nCoveney said: \"The online service is extremely easy to use. It has won awards for its user-friendly process, including a NALA award for the use of plain English.\n\"Passport Online is for everyone from newborn babies to one hundred-year-olds. I appreciate that some applicants may not be familiar with using a computer. In such cases, a friend or relative with basic computer skills can help them to apply \u2013 the process only takes 10 minutes to complete.\n\"The processing of a simple adult renewal Passport Online application is up to four times as fast as a paper application. Simple adult renewals continue to have a ten-day turnaround time. In addition, the cost of renewing a passport online is cheaper than alternative methods.\nMinister Coveney added: \"This timely expansion of Passport Online is part of the ongoing passport reform process. This programme is delivering major upgrades to passport service technology platforms and business processes as well as making significant customer service improvements to the Passport Service.\n\"A strong take-up of Passport Online will greatly improve the capacity of the Passport Service to manage application volumes. Efficiencies in the online system mean that staff resources can be redeployed towards the processing of more complex applications, protecting the integrity of the Irish passport and enhancing the customer service we offer to citizens.\"\nPassport Online is open to all applicants, including children, renewing their passports and those applying for their first passport who are resident in Ireland, Northern Ireland, Great Britain, Europe, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA. If you are resident in a country where Passport Online is not available, contact your local Irish Embassy or Consulate.\nYou must be an Irish citizen in order to obtain an Irish passport. According to Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs, you are automatically an Irish citizen if you were born on the island of Ireland before 2005 or if you were born abroad to a parent who was born on the island of Ireland before 2005.\nFurther information on Irish citizenship can be found here.\nRelated: Immigration, Australia, Canada, Irish American\nFDNY hero gives gift of life to Irish American fellow firefighter\nIrish charity aims to make Ireland \"the best place in Europe to be LGBTQI+\"\nIrish company InflightFlix teams up with Aer Lingus for inflight entertainment","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Marcell Cassanova - Performing \/ Recording Artist\nThursday 14 February 2019 - 14:22:37\nMarcell 'Talent' Cassanova is a talented Singer, Producer, & Songwriter. From acappella to Hip Hop; there aren't many genres of music which he has not explored or, been a part of. Born in Atlanta and growing up in Houston Texas, he recalls music as being a part of his everyday life. At the age of 16, Marcell began writing songs which, were later featured on major commercial releases.\nWhen asked if music was his first choice for a career, Marcell replied, \"No, I thought I was going to be a basketball star.\" Marcell went on to say, \" music was a part of my family but, I thought it was for them, I just wanted to play basketball. \"\nWhen Marcell was asked: which he is better at, music or basketball? He wittingly replied, \" music right now.\"\nThat's understandable: after all, Marcell Cassanova has developed his passion for music through college studies, dedication and, hard work. It wasn't long after graduation, that Marcell had become fully immersed in the art of music. He began performing solely under the alias \"Talent\". As 'Talent,' he collaborated in a group known as, MLM. The group released their first single, \"When We Swang\" ft Billy Cook.\nLocal networking opportunities introduced Marcell to other aspiring recording artists. With this connection, he acquired several more years of actively recording, as well as; releasing his official solo debut album \"Hidden Talents\", under KMJ Records.\nMs Ssugah: \"Why the name change?\"\nMarcell Cassanova: \" Well for one thing, there are so many artists out there using that name. I want people to be able to find me, and know it's me. I guess you can say, it's for branding reasons and it's my name. \"\nMs Ssugah: \"Since music wasn't your first love; is it something you will continue to pursue.\"\nMarcell Cassanova: \"Yes, I will always do music. It wasn't my first love then, but it is now.\"\nHe's recently spent the past few years promoting his 2016 album \"Feel Good Music\", which featured the catchy tunes, Gumbo and Texas. The project was a collaboration with Billy Cook, Beanz & Kornbread, Christyle Trakz and Charles 'Kizzo' Kizzee.\nNow...as \"Marcell Cassanova\", he's back with a new sound. He is currently promoting his latest single titled \"Country\", featuring rising artist Trilly Polk along with [Mr. \"Cupid Shuffle\"]; aka New Cupid.\nMs Ssugah: \"Country...did you give it this title because you're country? \"\nMarcell Cassanova: (smiling) \" Yes I am. I wanted something a lot of people could relate to. If you ever lived on a county road, you're country. So yes....I'm country.\"\nMs Ssugah: \"This song sounds a bit different, than your others. Which category do you place your music in?\"\nMarcell Cassanova: My category is ' Feel good Music.\" that's it...I make music that makes you feel good.\" If you're feeling good when you play it, you'll feel better. If you're feeling bad, it takes you where you want to go; and you feel better about your situation. Just Feel Good Music!\"\nWe will update the readers on new releases or other projects from Marcell Cassanova. This is another great performing & recording artist to keep your eyes on.\nSubmitted by: Ms Ssugah of Sinecure44 & S.F.T.S\nTAGS: music, indie, performing artist, recording artist, soul music, live entertainment, marcell cassanova\nMarshall - Rocks Country","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Korematsu, Hirabayashi, and the Second Monster\nEssay - by Eric L. Muller - Issue 4\nIt is a trope at least as old as Beowulf: the unexpected second monster. Beowulf arrives in Heorot to take on Grendel, the demon who has been terrorizing the Ring-Danes' mead-hall. He bests the monster in battle and Grendel slinks off, one-armed and bloodied, to die. The Ring-Danes honor Beowulf with a great banquet; he has slaughtered their nemesis and there is much to celebrate. Full of mead and a newfound sense of safety, the revelers drift off to sleep. That is when a terrible new monster bursts upon the scene\u2014Grendel's mother, the beast that brought Grendel into the world. The Ring-Danes will suffer further death and havoc until Beowulf can subdue her.\nUnexpected second monsters can appear in real life as well, and the Supreme Court's recent opinion in Trump v. Hawaii[1] may have set us up for one. In his opinion for the Court, Chief Justice Roberts put the long-enfeebled precedent of Korematsu v. United States[2] out of its\u2014and our\u2014misery. Of that notorious decision upholding the mass removal of Japanese-Americans from the West Coast, the Chief Justice said this: it \"was gravely wrong the day it was decided, has been overruled in the court of history, and\u2014to be clear\u2014'has no place in law under the Constitution.'\"[3]\nA nemesis has been slaughtered and there is much to celebrate.[4] But this is not a moment for mead and peaceful slumber. Around the corner awaits another monster, a bigger threat than Korematsu itself. I am referring to Hirabayashi v. United States,[5] the Supreme Court's 1943 decision unanimously upholding the dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed on Japanese-Americans a few weeks before the mass removal orders of Korematsu. The Hirabayashi decision preceded Korematsu by eighteen months and did the doctrinal work necessary to support the military's actions; the Justices in the Korematsu majority made clear that they felt constrained to uphold mass removal \"in light of the principles we announced in the Hirabayashi case.\"[6] Hirabayashi was Korematsu's progenitor as Grendel's mother was Grendel's.\nYet Hirabayashi has gone unnoticed. In the decades after the war, Korematsu drew all of the attention, perhaps because the burdens it endorsed were the more extreme, or perhaps because it formulated its legal rule a bit more crisply, or perhaps because it\u2014rather than Hirabayashi\u2014was the case that generations of law students encountered in their constitutional law casebooks. Until Trump v. Hawaii, we were ominously reminded time and again in the literature that Korematsu had \"never actually been overruled.\"[7] We find no such reminder in those pages about Hirabayashi. This is troubling on its own, and even more so because judges and lawyers have continued to cite Hirabayashi without evident shame.[8]\nThis Essay is a warning. Some today are celebrating Korematsu's demise; others maintain that Trump v. Hawaii actually revived it. But all of that is a distraction. While the debate swirls, the dangerous Hirabayashi decision hides in plain sight, its reasoning unexamined and its holding unassailed. We should attend to Korematsu's mother now, lest she attend to us later.\nI. Enter the First Monster\nKorematsu v. United States was a constitutional challenge to an Army-imposed order on all West Coast people of Japanese ancestry under the authority of President Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066.[9] The order required them to leave military zones the Army established along the coast after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor\u2014effectively the whole of the three states bordering the Pacific Ocean along with a slice of Arizona.[10] Fred Korematsu, a twenty-three-year-old American citizen of Japanese ancestry, defied the order by going into hiding in early May of 1942 rather than presenting himself for removal.[11] Later that month he was apprehended on a street in San Leandro.[12] The federal prosecutor charged him with the federal misdemeanor[13] of \"knowingly . . . remain[ing] in th[e] . . . [m]ilitary [a]rea . . . which all persons of Japanese ancestry are excluded from.\"[14] A different Army order required people of Japanese ancestry to submit to detention at what the government euphemistically called \"assembly centers,\"[15] but the prosecutor did not charge Korematsu with violating that order.[16] A trial in a San Francisco federal district court in September 1942 resulted in his conviction.[17]\nAfter a first trip to the Supreme Court in 1943 on a procedural question,[18] Korematsu's challenge to his conviction went before the Supreme Court in oral argument on October 11 and 12, 1944.[19] Korematsu attacked the constitutionality of not only the order excluding him from his home but also the order requiring him to report for detention; the two, he argued, operated in tandem.[20] Excluded Japanese-Americans could not wander where they wished, he argued; they could only submit to detention.[21] The government, on the other hand, urged the Court to address only the misconduct that was charged in the information\u2014his defiance of the exclusion order.[22]\nOn December 18, 1944, by a 6\u20133 vote, the Court upheld the constitutionality of the exclusion order,[23] breaking off the question of detention for resolution in a different case on the same day, Ex parte Endo.[24] Justice Black's opinion for the Court opened with the words that would ensure its spot in generations of law school case books: \"It should be noted . . . that all legal restrictions which curtail the civil rights of a single racial group are immediately suspect . . . [and] courts must subject them to the most rigid scrutiny.\"[25] This was something new, at least in linguistic formulation\u2014the first appearance of what would come to be called \"strict scrutiny.\" One might see this as the moment when the Court made good on its famously footnoted hint of six years earlier that a \"more searching judicial inquiry\" might be appropriate in cases challenging government action \"directed at particular . . . racial minorities.\"[26]\nBut it was all downhill from there. Korematsu argued, among other things,[27] that Congress had not \"authorize[d] the military commander to select citizens upon an ancestral basis for removal from military areas, to segregate and quarantine them and to detain them in concentration camps,\"[28] that the exclusion order did not provide even the rudiments of fair process,[29] and that the order embodied racial discrimination barred by the equality norms of due process.[30] He pointed out to the Court that there were no Army orders excluding American citizens of German or Italian ancestry from any zone, even though the nation was at war with Germany and Italy.[31] And he emphasized that there was no valid reason to cast indiscriminate suspicion of disloyalty and subversiveness on every Japanese-American.[32]\nThe \"most rigid scrutiny\" promised by the Court turned out to be anything but. Justice Black could not find a government assertion about the necessity of the exclusion order that he would not credit. There was, according to military authorities, \"an unascertained number of disloyal members of the group\"[33] along the coast, and \"it was impossible to bring about an immediate segregation of the disloyal from the loyal.\"[34] \"[B]ecause the properly constituted military authorities feared an invasion of our West Coast,\"[35] Black reasoned, the \"exclusion of the whole group was . . . a military imperative.\"[36] \"[W]ere [Korematsu] a case involving the imprisonment of a loyal citizen in a concentration camp because of racial prejudice,\" he said, the Court's \"task would be simple\" and its \"duty clear.\"[37] But the case was about exclusion, not detention, and \"Korematsu was not excluded . . . because of hostility to him or his race.\"[38] Rather, said Justice Black, he was excluded because we were at war with Japan, military authorities \"feared an invasion of our West Coast,\" and \"military urgency . . . demanded that all citizens of Japanese ancestry be segregated from the West Coast temporarily.\"[39]\nIt was a blunt syllogism: Race implied danger; time was short; danger and time pressure permitted exclusion, or, as Justice Jackson put it in dissent, \"transplanting American citizens.\"[40] If the peril in the majority's reasoning was lost on any reader of Black's opinion, Jackson's dissent remedied that quickly. Racial discrimination and mass uprootings, he pointed out, were things that the Court \"validated\" not just for the specific moment but \"for all time.\"[41] Thus endorsed, \"The principle [would] lie[ ] about like a loaded weapon ready for the hand of any authority that can bring forward a plausible claim of an urgent need.\"[42]\nThus did the first monster strike.\nII. The First Monster Is Slain\nAs things turned out, the monster would not strike again. The reasoning supporting Korematsu's endorsement of the mass exclusion of Japanese-Americans never served as the foundation for any future Supreme Court judgment.[43] The likely reasons are many. The most obvious is that the government never again uprooted and relocated a racial group, so no case \"on all fours\" ever materialized. Scholarly assessment of the Korematsu decision started out critical\u2014in 1945, Eugene Rostow called it \"a disaster\" in the Yale Law Journal[44]\u2014and it only grew worse from there.[45] The excesses of the Second Red Scare eroded public support for the arrest and detention of American citizens on national security grounds.[46] A 1980s congressional commission examining the wartime removal and detention of Japanese-Americans harshly condemned the Korematsu ruling.[47] And of course the whole fabric of equal protection law was rewoven and tightened in the decades after the war, leaving the Korematsu Court's oddly lenient application of strict scrutiny ever more peculiar.[48]\nAnother blow came late in 1983, when a federal district court granted Fred Korematsu a writ of error coram nobis invalidating his 1942 conviction.[49] Intrepid archival work by activists and historians revealed that in litigating the case in the Supreme Court, the Department of Justice suppressed information casting doubt on some of its evidence that Japanese-Americans posed a security risk.[50] In particular, a key government report justifying exclusion alleged that Japanese-Americans had been involved in ship-to-shore signaling with Japanese submarines; the Justice Department had evidence that this was erroneous but did not alert the Supreme Court.[51] As well, the government failed to inform the Court that an anonymously published intelligence report asserting that Japanese-Americans were overwhelmingly loyal was actually a product of the Office of Naval Intelligence.[52] On the strength of these deceptions, Judge Marilyn Hall Patel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California concluded that Korematsu's conviction must be set aside.[53] The government did not appeal. Of course, the coram nobis writ could wipe away only Fred Korematsu's criminal conviction from 1942, not the Supreme Court's 1944 decision affirming it. But there is little doubt that the disclosures of government misconduct underlying the coram nobis writ had the effect of further sapping the Supreme Court opinion of vitality.\nKorematsu's authority continued to wane in the 1990s and the early 2000s. In 1998, President Bill Clinton awarded Fred Korematsu the Medal of Freedom.[54] Senators on the Judiciary Committee regularly began probing Supreme Court nominees for their views on whether Korematsu was still good law.[55] And in 2011, Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal issued a \"Confession of Error\" owning up to the deceptions practiced by the wartime Solicitor General's Office in the Japanese-American cases.[56]\nThe death blow to Korematsu finally came in June 2018 when the Supreme Court decided Trump v. Hawaii, the challenge to the so-called \"travel ban\" on entry to the United States that the Trump Administration imposed on noncitizens from certain mostly Muslim-majority nations. After a campaign featuring frequent unabashed calls to end immigration by Muslims, President Trump signed an Executive Order banning entry into the United States by, among others, all noncitizens arriving from seven Muslim-majority countries.[57] A massive public outcry and a federal district court decision enjoining the enforcement of the order on Establishment Clause and other grounds led government lawyers back to the drawing board.[58] Over the succeeding months, they placed revised orders and proclamations on the president's desk to supplant the original order. These added several non-Muslim-majority countries to the list, removed an exception for members of Christian minorities in majority-Muslim lands, and otherwise enhanced the surface neutrality of the program.[59]\nA five-Justice majority upheld the revised program over objections that it exceeded presidential statutory powers and violated the First Amendment. The majority, emphasizing the enormity of the President's powers over immigration and the facial neutrality of the program, rejected the idea that President Trump's actions warranted strict judicial scrutiny.[60]\nThe four dissenters questioned the correctness of applying only \"rational basis\" scrutiny to the President's actions, either explicitly in the case of Justices Sotomayor and Ginsburg[61] or implicitly in the case of Justices Breyer and Kagan.[62] Justice Sotomayor went further, waking the sleeping monster of Korematsu, at least for purpose of display. The majority's holding, she argued, was \"troubling given the stark parallels between [its] reasoning . . . and that of Korematsu.\"[63] She ticked off a list of those parallels: (a) approving odious racial discrimination in an executive order; (b) accepting stereotypes about a minority group's supposed inability to assimilate; (c) permitting the government to rely on a vaguely stated national security threat without revealing the intelligence supporting it; and (d) ignoring \"strong evidence that impermissible hostility and animus motivated the Government's policy.\"[64] The majority, she asserted, was \"redeploy[ing] the same dangerous logic underlying Korematsu and merely replac[ing] one 'gravely wrong' decision with another.\"[65]\nThis provocative attack led Chief Justice Roberts to take out a sword to finish off the monster of Korematsu. The Chief Justice parried Sotomayor's analogy of the travel ban to the military orders affecting Japanese-Americans. Korematsu, he argued, was a case about \"forcibl[y] relocat[ing] . . . U.S. citizens to concentration camps, solely and explicitly on the basis of race,\" an action that was \"objectively unlawful and outside the scope of Presidential authority.\"[66] Trump v. Hawaii, by contrast, was a case about \"a facially neutral policy denying certain foreign nationals the privilege of admission\" to the United States, an act \"well within executive authority.\"[67] Despite the dissimilarities, though, the Chief Justice seized the opportunity to \"make express what is already obvious\": the Korematsu decision was \"gravely wrong the day it was decided, has been overruled in the court of history, and\u2014to be clear\u2014'has no place in law under the Constitution.'\"[68]\nThus was the monster slain, without a hint of hesitation from any of the Court's four other conservatives who joined the Chief Justice's opinion.\nIII. Yes, the First Monster Is Dead\nWhen Grendel was slain, the Ring-Danes burst into feasting and celebration. One might have expected the same reaction to Trump v. Hawaii\u2014that after decades of decrying the fact that Korematsu had never been overruled, critics would thrill at its overruling. Oddly, the reaction to the death of Korematsu has not been joyful. In fact, many critics maintain that Korematsu did not really die, but just shape-shifted to a new form in Trump v. Hawaii.[69]\nThis is not a fair characterization of either Trump v. Hawaii or Korematsu. The Korematsu decision now stands overruled. Perhaps the best evidence for this proposition comes from Justice Sotomayor, who woke the monster in the first place. She had every opportunity to contradict the majority's assertion that it had successfully overruled Korematsu. Yet she did not. She did the opposite. \"Today,\" she wrote, \"the Court takes the important step of finally overruling Korematsu.\"[70] \"This formal repudiation of a shameful precedent,\" she added, \"is laudable and long overdue.\"[71] Those are not the words of someone who doubts the death of Korematsu.\nMore importantly, there are just too many differences between President Trump's 2017 immigration orders and Lieutenant General John DeWitt's 1942 exclusion orders to characterize Trump v. Hawaii as a stealth revival of Korematsu. The Korematsu case was about the power of the federal government over citizens;[72] Trump v. Hawaii was about the power of the federal government over noncitizens. Korematsu was about what the government can do to people who are lawfully within United States territory; Trump v. Hawaii was about what the government can do to people who are outside the United States. Korematsu was about government orders whose plain language singled people out because of their ancestry, making their invidious motivation well-nigh uncontestable; Trump v. Hawaii was about government orders whose language did not mention any religious group, and insofar as they mentioned specific nations, specified only a relatively small subset of those around the globe with sizable Muslim populations.[73] The orders in Korematsu inflicted the upheaval and trauma of forced uprooting and relocation on each and every person they touched; Trump v. Hawaii was about a bar to entering the United States from abroad that applied equally to a person arriving for crucial medical care and a person arriving for a vacation.[74] Each of these is a meaningful distinction.[75]\nIn short, it is easy to imagine a world that rationally distinguishes the government's ability to push a citizen from place to place inside the country from its ability to prevent a noncitizen from entering the country. We can differentiate the two without relying on Korematsu's endorsement of the mass exclusion of American citizens from the West Coast.\nIf there is a disturbing point of connection between Korematsu and Trump v. Hawaii, it lies not in the language of the challenged orders or the nature of the burdens the orders impose, but in the Court's trusting posture toward the Executive on national security matters.[76] There is a troubling credulity to the majority opinions in both cases. In Korematsu, the government offered none of its own surveillance data on the supposed dangers Japanese-Americans posed and no actual military data about the nature of the looming military threat to the U.S. mainland. Instead, the government simply asked the Court to take judicial notice of a range of public records and statements purporting to document those things.[77] And the Court agreed\u2014something it would later come to regret when archival research a generation later revealed that the Justice Department had not been candid.[78] Similarly, in Trump v. Hawaii, the Court looked only at the veneer of neutrality that government lawyers tacked on to the President's oft-stated and oft-tweeted confessions of animus against Muslims.[79]\nIn this one way, Trump v. Hawaii does extend the spirit, if not the letter, of Korematsu. But that is not the same thing as saying that the former fails to overrule the latter. On this point\u2014credulity in the face of cursory and unsubstantiated allegations of threats to national security\u2014Korematsu does not stand alone. Far from it. In many cases the Supreme Court has accepted government representations about national security threats rather than demanding the underlying data.[80] In national security contexts the executive often cannot open its records to scrutiny and its agents to examination without endangering people, strategy, tactics, and even the well-being of the country itself.[81] The majority's credulity in Trump v. Hawaii, however blinkered it may be, has roots in many cases, not just Korematsu.\nSo yes, the first monster has been slain.[82] Korematsu has been overruled. Never again can a government lawyer cite it to support a decision to force a racial, ethnic, or religious group away from the place it calls home.[83]\nThere is, however, something odd\u2014and importantly so\u2014about the way in which Chief Justice Roberts went about the task of overruling Korematsu. Yes, the Chief Justice said that Korematsu was gravely wrong the day it was decided. But why? What exactly was wrong with it?\nIf one were to ask this question to any law school graduate of the last forty or fifty years, she would say that the Court's error was to promise a rigorous form of scrutiny of the military's exclusion orders and then use a tepid one. \"[A]ll legal restrictions which curtail the civil rights of a single racial group are immediately suspect,\" said Justice Black right out of the gate; \"courts must subject them to the most rigid scrutiny.\"[84] This form of judicial review insists that the government can draw racial lines to address only the most pressing of public problems and to affect only those people who are causing them. This, surely, was the Court's error in Korematsu. Protecting the country from an invasion by hostile forces was, of course, a pressing need.[85] But even if we stipulate that some American citizens of Japanese ancestry posed a threat of espionage or sabotage,[86] we can be confident that they did not include the ill Japanese-Americans transported to the camps on stretchers from West Coast hospitals[87] or Japanese-American soldiers serving with distinction in the armed forces.[88] Neither, we can say with confidence, did they include the Japanese-American children who were shipped from Los Angeles orphanages to the so-called \"Children's Village\" at the Manzanar Relocation Center.[89] In the jargon of strict scrutiny, the exclusion orders were outrageously overinclusive: they touched people they didn't need to touch.\nThey were also outrageously underinclusive. If we are to stipulate that some Americans of Japanese ancestry posed a threat of espionage or sabotage, we must also stipulate that some American citizens of German or Italian ancestry posed a similar threat. Yet the Army never ordered the mass exclusion of American citizens of German or Italian ancestry from one square inch of U.S. territory.\nIf one were now to ask the same law student to read Chief Justice Roberts's language overruling Korematsu in Trump v. Hawaii, she would end up scratching her head. The problem in Korematsu was that \"[t]he forcible relocation of U.S. citizens to concentration camps, solely and explicitly on the basis of race, [was] objectively unlawful and outside the scope of Presidential authority.\"[90] This contrasted with President Trump's action, which was \"well within executive authority and could have been taken by any other President.\"[91] The Chief Justice made no mention of strict scrutiny and no mention of fatal overinclusion or underinclusion. He transformed Korematsu into a case\u2014and a mistake\u2014about the boundaries of the powers of the President. The Chief Justice did not explain why presidential power does not extend to relocating racial, ethnic, or religious groups of American citizens during wartime. He merely asserted it.\nThe trouble is not that that proposition is erroneous; in fact it seems quite salubrious. The trouble is that the proposition misses what decades of analysis suggested was the point. The Court's crucial error in Korematsu was to tolerate racial line-drawing where it should have been\u2014and pretended to be\u2014demanding. The error was promising to test racial action in the name of national security with vigor and then doing it with indulgence. The reason to overrule Korematsu was to correct that mistake, to make clear that strict scrutiny means strict scrutiny even in a national-security context involving racial distinctions.[92]\nIV. Enter the Second Monster\nTo the Ring-Danes, it mattered little exactly how Beowulf killed Grendel\u2014with which blade, or with what sort of swing of the arm. What mattered was that Grendel was dead. In that spirit, this parsing of Chief Justice Roberts's rationale for overruling Korematsu in Trump v. Hawaii might seem like pointless perseveration: Korematsu has been overruled, and that is all that really matters.\nBut it matters a great deal. There is a second monster out there, a Grendel's mother, just as menacing as Korematsu, perhaps more. It has been in the shadows since World War II, but we have paid it no mind. If it should strike\u2014and there is reason to fear it could\u2014we will want to know that Korematsu was overruled for the right reasons. Those reasons might prove our only protection.\nThe new monster facing us is Hirabayashi v. United States. Hirabayashi was a constitutional challenge to another army order entered against Japanese-Americans pursuant to Executive Order 9066.[93] It imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on all people of Japanese ancestry along the West Coast\u2014citizens and noncitizens alike\u2014and came a few weeks before the exclusion order that Fred Korematsu fought.[94] It imposed no such curfew on American citizens of German or Italian ancestry.[95] At the time the Army imposed the order, Gordon Hirabayashi was a twenty-four-year-old American citizen of Japanese ancestry living in Seattle.[96] He defied the curfew and refused to report for exclusion and was prosecuted in federal court for the two acts of defiance in separate counts, one for the curfew violation and one for the exclusion violation.[97] He was tried and convicted in federal district court in Seattle in October 1942 and challenged his conviction up to the Supreme Court. Due to a quirk of appellate criminal procedure,[98] the Court addressed only Hirabayashi's challenge to the curfew, leaving the challenge to exclusion for another day.[99]\nThe Supreme Court unanimously affirmed Hirabayashi's conviction in June 1943. The Court began its analysis of his equal protection challenge with an even harsher indictment of racial discrimination than it would pen a year and a half later in Korematsu: \"Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.\"[100] Such distinctions, said Chief Justice Stone, had \"often been held to be a denial of equal protection\"\u2014and would be such a denial in Hirabayashi were it not for the fact that \"the danger of espionage and sabotage, in time of war and of threatened invasion, calls upon the military authorities to scrutinize every relevant fact bearing on the loyalty of populations in the danger areas.\"[101]\nThe Court undertook a lengthy account of \"the conditions with which the President and Congress were confronted in the early months of 1942, many of which . . . were then peculiarly within the knowledge of the military authorities.\"[102] Those conditions were both external\u2014the threat facing the country from without\u2014and internal\u2014the threat facing the country from within. Relying on information fed to it by the Solicitor General, the Court reported that at the time the Army imposed the curfew, it was \"fac[ing] the danger of invasion\"[103] of the West Coast by the Japanese military, an area densely dotted with military bases and war manufacturing plants.[104] Along the coast, Chief Justice Stone noted, were some 112,000 people of Japanese ancestry, two-thirds of them U.S. citizens, a group purportedly marked by their \"solidarity\" and their failure to assimilate.[105] Noncitizen parents sent their citizen children to Japanese language after-school programs where, according to the Court, they imbibed \"Japanese nationalistic propaganda\" that \"cultivat[ed] allegiance to Japan.\"[106] The noncitizens maintained contacts with Japanese consulates, which, the Court related, had \"been deemed a ready means for the dissemination of propaganda and for the maintenance of the influence of the Japanese government.\"[107] All of this left the Japanese\u2014citizens and noncitizens alike\u2014cut off from the white population, and probably \"irritat[ed]\" by the isolation they felt.[108] This, in turn, \"may well have tended to increase . . . their attachments to Japan and its institutions.\"[109]\nHaving drawn this bleak landscape of possibly imminent invasion and this cloak-and-dagger caricature of isolated and bitter Japanese-Americans, the Court made quick work of Hirabayashi's equal protection claim. The government, \"in the crisis of war and of threatened invasion,\" had adopted public safety measures\u2014including a curfew\u2014\"based upon the recognition of facts and circumstances which indicate[d] that a group of one national extraction may menace that safety more than others.\"[110] That curfew was \"not wholly beyond the limits of the Constitution and [was] not to be condemned merely because in other and in most circumstances racial distinctions are irrelevant.\"[111]\nThe Hirabayashi opinion had little chance to reverberate because Korematsu came along promptly and, in a sense, supplanted it. There was little reason to pay attention to a case permitting the military to confine people to their homes once there was a case allowing it to drive people from their homes. There was irony in Hirabayashi's disappearance from the scene, because Korematsu itself leaned all over it. It was \"[i]n the light of the principles we announced in the Hirabayashi case\"[112] that the Korematsu Court validated mass exclusion. Fred Korematsu sought to contest the various factual assumptions that animated the Court's opinion in Hirabayashi, but the Court simply repeated and readopted them.[113] Justice Frankfurter, \"unable to see how the legal considerations that led to the decision in Hirabayashi . . . fail[ed] to sustain the military order\"[114] commanding mass racial exclusion, confirmed Hirabayashi's status as Korematsu's progenitor.\nAs the decades passed and the criticisms of Korematsu piled up, Hirabayashi slipped by virtually unnoticed. Gordon Hirabayashi saw his conviction vacated on a coram nobis petition in 1986[115]\u2014much like Fred Korematsu had in 1984, and on much the same grounds\u2014but that impugned only his criminal conviction. It did not\u2014indeed, could not\u2014invalidate the Supreme Court's decision approving the curfew. Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal included Hirabayashi alongside Korematsu in his \"Confession of Error\" in 2011, which made clear that the deceptions marring the litigation of Korematsu infected the Hirabayashi litigation too.[116] But that has been the extent of the criticism.[117]\nIt is actually more worrisome than that. Unlike Korematsu, which by the 1980s had become a case no judge would mention in polite company, Hirabayashi has retained a modicum of vitality as precedent. In 2004, Justice Thomas cited the case in his dissent in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld[118]\u2014and not for a salutary idea like the \"odious[ness of racial classifications] to a free people,\"[119] but for the darker notion that courts owe extreme deference to executive factfinding.[120] That such deference had run the Court aground in Hirabayashi itself seemed not to faze him. Other Justices cited the case without evident disdain in 1963,[121] 1967,[122] 1971,[123] and 1978.[124] The Solicitor General cited Hirabayashi approvingly in a merits brief defending preventive pretrial detention in the Supreme Court in 1986.[125] And as recently as June of 2018, the case materialized in a brief filed by Department of Defense lawyers in a case pending before a military commission at Guantanamo Bay.[126]\nStill alive and on the prowl, Hirabayashi can do real damage. Compared to wholesale ouster from an entire chunk of the continent, a curfew is a pretty modest imposition. Korematsu was about the trauma of departure: rapacious buyers pawing through their departing Japanese neighbors' belongings at hastily arranged \"evacuation sales,\" panicked families trying to fit their lifetimes into a few pieces of luggage, farmers leaving their crops unattended to rot in the fields, anxious parents calming frightened children, tearful children saying goodbye to family pets. Hirabayashi, by contrast, was about making it home before dark and not leaving the house too early in the morning. The intrusion on people's lives Korematsu ratified was among the greatest imaginable: a forced internal mass exile of a kind unseen in America since perhaps the Trail of Tears. Curfews, on the other hand, happen all the time, at least comparatively speaking; they're enforced in the wake of natural disasters and civil unrest. Many local governments have juvenile curfew laws on the books.[127]\nThis is not to say that the curfew on Japanese-Americans did not inflict indignities on all, or grave harms on some\u2014for example, night shift workers, or people suffering nighttime health crises who had to defy the law to go to the hospital. It is simply to say that a huge gulf of suffering and trauma separates curfew from exclusion. The cases are, as we like to say, distinguishable. It is not difficult to mentally sketch out a brief that would argue the distinction, or a judicial opinion that would endorse it.\nThe consequences of that thought experiment are concerning. One can imagine an array of race- or religion-based government intrusions and impositions that are an order of magnitude milder than mass exclusion. Mass surveillance; mass registration; mandatory identity cards; mass federal job layoffs; mass loyalty inquests\u2014the list can expand to the limits of a person's ability to imagine the fear and anger of a nation reeling from a terror attack. All of these would have a potential constitutional pedigree in a world where Korematsu is dead but its mother, Hirabayashi, survives.\nV. Slaying the Second Monster\nWhen Grendel's mother appeared at the mead hall to avenge her son's death, the Ring-Danes were sleeping off the aftereffects of their banquet revelry. Assuming the mead hall safe, Beowulf had departed and was slumbering elsewhere. This gave Grendel's mother the chance to wreak havoc, killing a Danish prince and making off safely to her underwater lair. Beowulf had no choice but to dive into the lake and challenge her on her turf, with a blade forged for a giant. Only after an epic struggle did Beowulf kill Grendel's mother.\nHirabayashi is still on the prowl, and we have been sleeping. If the case is to be overruled, how might it be accomplished?\nSpeedily, one hopes. When the Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson's[128] separate-but-equal doctrine in Brown v. Board of Education,[129] the only thing that was clear was that the Equal Protection Clause would no longer tolerate racial segregation in public education. Segregation by law, though, was a pervasive practice across the American South. Uncertainty briefly reigned, as people puzzled over whether segregation at other public facilities might survive. The Court put the matter quickly to rest, condemning segregation at golf courses[130] and beaches[131] in per curiam opinions that did nothing more than cite Brown. The message was clear: Brown did not state a rule about public education only. It stated a broad legal principle about the categorical invalidity of state-sponsored racial segregation wherever it cropped up.\nIn the follow-through to overruling Korematsu, the Supreme Court would do well to follow the Plessy example by announcing that Hirabayashi is also dead. The Court should make clear that Korematsu wasn't just wrong on its facts but embodied a broadly illegitimate rule.\nAnd what is that rule? This is where the oddity of Chief Justice Roberts's language in Trump v. Hawaii really matters. The Chief Justice said that Korematsu was wrong because the mass exclusion order was \"outside the scope of Presidential authority.\"[132] But that is not why Korematsu was wrong, or at least it is not the most important reason. Korematsu was wrong because it upheld a government order that cavalierly and needlessly impacted Japanese-American orphans, tubercular patients in sanitaria, and soldiers in the U.S. Army, while leaving American citizens of German and Italian ancestry untouched. It was wrong because it made a mess of strict scrutiny, tolerating absurd over- and under-inclusion when it ought to have tolerated none, or almost none.\nHirabayashi is wrong for just the same reasons. The orphans and the hospital patients and the soldiers were just as needlessly placed under curfew as they were later excluded, while American citizens of German and Italian ancestry remained free to stroll the nighttime streets. The essential problem of Hirabayashi, just as with Korematsu, is not that the orders against Japanese-Americans fell outside the scope of presidential power. To frame the problem as a flaw of government structure, a president straying outside the boundaries of his authority, is to imply that the other branch\u2014Congress\u2014could do what the president could not. But that cannot be right; surely a statute directing racial curfew and exclusion would have had the same constitutional defects as an executive or military order. No, the problem in the cases is not one of transgressed powers in branches of government; it is one of individual rights.\nThere is reason to believe that the Court that decided the two Japanese-American constitutional cases of World War II would agree that overruling one entails overruling the other. Justice Black worked hard to tie Korematsu to the earlier Hirabayashi case, essentially adopting the Hirabayashi Court's findings about the internal threats posed by Japanese-Americans and the external threats posed by the Japanese military. Justice Black thought he was doing no new doctrinal work in Korematsu; he was simply upholding exclusion \"[i]n the light of the principles we announced in the Hirabayashi case.\"[133] One could therefore argue that the overruling of Korematsu in Trump v. Hawaii forcefully implied the overruling of Hirabayashi.\nBut we do not have a doctrine of silent overruling by inference. The Court has to come out and say it, and it should do so. Regrettably, the fate of Hirabayashi is uncertain in the wake of Trump v. Hawaii. We are living in a time when a domestic terror attack\u2014another September 11\u2014might at any moment be seconds away. That is an inauspicious moment for uncertainty about whether racial or religious discrimination short of internal exile violates equal protection. We recently learned that in the immediate wake of the September 11 attacks, high-ranking Justice Department lawyers debated reviving Korematsu in service of racial profiling at airports.[134] That frightening fact alone should prompt action on Hirabayashi.\nThe first monster is dead, but the second one lives. At any moment she might be upon us as we slumber. The time to strike is now.\n*For offering comments on drafts of this Essay, I thank Bill Marshall, Joe Kennedy, Carissa Hessick, Manoj Mate, Geoffrey Stone, and participants at the October 2018 meeting of the Western Law Professors of Color and the Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty. I'm deeply indebted to Will Cauley for outstanding research assistance.\n.Trump v. Hawaii, 138 S. Ct. 2392 (2018). \u2191\n.323 U.S. 214 (1944). \u2191\n.Trump, 138 S. Ct. at 2423 (quoting Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214, 248 (1944) (Jackson, J., dissenting)). \u2191\n.As will be noted, not everyone's mood has been celebratory. See infra note and accompanying text. \u2191\n.320 U.S. 81 (1943). \u2191\n.Korematsu, 323 U.S. at 217. \u2191\n.See Comm'n on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, Personal Justice Denied 239 (Univ. of Wash. Press 1997) (relating to the government's own findings of lack of military necessity); David A. Harris, On the Contemporary Meaning of Korematsu: \"Liberty Lies in the Hearts of Men and Women,\" 76 Mo. L. Rev. 1, 12 (2011) (noting \"Korematsu remains 'good law'\"); Dean Masaru Hashimoto, The Legacy of Korematsu v. United States: A Dangerous Narrative Retold, 4 Asian Pac. Am. L.J. 72, 84 (1996) (\"The celebration of the end of Korematsu's reign is premature; Korematsu lives.\"); Sandra L. Lynch, Constitutional Integrity: Lessons from the Shadows, 92 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 623, 635\u201336 (2017) (suggesting that a mere \"confession of error\" by a Solicitor General \"does not overrule a case that was wrongly decided\"); see also United States v. Chalk, 441 F.2d 1277, 1283 (4th Cir. 1971) (citing Korematsu to support the proposition that \"freedom of travel like freedom of speech may be subject to reasonable limitations as to time and place\"). \u2191\n.See infra notes 119\u2013 and accompanying text. \u2191\n.Exec. Order No. 9066, 7 Fed. Reg. 1407, 1474 (Feb. 19, 1942). \u2191\n.See Korematsu, 323 U.S. at 214, 220 (referencing \"Civilian Exclusion Order No. 34\" as the order violated by Fred Korematsu). \u2191\n.Peter Irons, Justice at War 93\u201396 (1983). \u2191\n.Id. at 93. \u2191\n.Act of Mar. 21, 1942, Pub. L. No. 77-503, 56 Stat. 173. This statute made it a federal offense for a person to knowingly defy an Army order entered pursuant to Executive Order 9066. \u2191\n.Docket Filing 1 at 1\u20132, United States v. Korematsu, No. 27635W (N.D. Cal. filed June 12, 1942), https:\/\/\u200ccatalog.archives.gov\u200c\/id\u200c\/296048 [https:\/\/\u200cperma.cc\u200c\/J5KS-6RWB?type=image]. \u2191\n.Civilian Restrictive Order No. 1, 8 Fed. Reg. 982 (Jan. 21, 1943). \u2191\n.See Docket Filing 1, supra note , at 1\u20132 (charging Korematsu with a violation of a different order, \"Civilian Exclusion Order No. 34\"). \u2191\n.Irons, supra note , at 152\u201353. \u2191\n.Korematsu v. United States, 319 U.S. 432, 435\u201336 (1943). The procedural question was whether an order imposing a sentence of probation was \"final and appealable.\" The Court held that it was. Id. at 436. \u2191\n.Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944). \u2191\n.Brief for Appellant at 30\u201331, Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944) (No. 22). \u2191\n.Id. at 28\u201330. \u2191\n.Brief for the United States at 28\u201329, Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944) (No. 22). \u2191\n.323 U.S. 283 (1944). The Endo Court held that the War Relocation Authority had no statutory power to continue to detain loyal Japanese-Americans in the camps. Id. at 297. Though one often hears it said that the Supreme Court upheld the \"internment\" of Japanese-Americans in Korematsu v. United States, that is mistaken. Korematsu said nothing about the constitutionality of detention, and when the Court did address detention, it disapproved of it on non-constitutional grounds. Korematsu, 323 U.S. at 222\u201323. \u2191\n.United States v. Carolene Prods. Co., 304 U.S. 144, 153 n.4 (1938). \u2191\n.Korematsu's attorney unleashed a barrage of constitutional claims in his brief, most of which were spurious. See Brief for Appellant, supra note 20, at 46\u201350 (arguing, among other things, that the exclusion order amounted to slavery and cruel punishment in violation of the 8th and 13th Amendments). \u2191\n.Brief for Appellant, supra note 20, at 42. \u2191\n.Id. at 48. The \"reverse incorporation\" of the equal protection clause\u2014making it applicable to the federal government through the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment\u2014was still ten years away. See Bolling v. Sharpe, 347 U.S. 497, 500 (1954) (\"[R]acial segregation in the public schools of the District of Columbia is a denial of the due process of law guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.\"). \u2191\n.Brief for Appellant, supra note 20, at 57, 64. \u2191\n.Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214, 218 (1944). \u2191\n.Id. at 219. \u2191\n.Id. \u2191\n.Id. at 246 (Jackson, J., dissenting). \u2191\n.The most it received was mentions in passing. E.g., Ziglar v. Abbasi, 137 S. Ct. 1843, 1884 (2017) (Breyer, J., dissenting); Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306, 351 (2003) (Thomas, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part); Fullilove v. Klutznick, 448 U.S. 448, 507 (1980) (Powell, J., concurring); Poe v. Ullman, 367 U.S. 497, 541 (1961) (Harlan, J., dissenting); Greene v. McElroy, 360 U.S. 474, 516 (1959) (Clark, J., dissenting); Trop v. Dulles, 356 U.S. 86, 107 (1958) (Brennan, J., concurring); Kent v. Dulles, 357 U.S. 116, 128 (1958); Shaughnessy v. United States ex rel. Mezei, 345 U.S. 206, 222 n.5 (1953) (Jackson, J., dissenting); Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579, 661 n.3 (1952) (Clark, J., concurring in judgment); Harisiades v. Shaugnessy, 342 U.S. 580, 589 n.16 (1952); Terminiello v. Chicago, 337 U.S. 1, 34 (1949) (Jackson, J., dissenting). \u2191\n.Eugene V. Rostow, The Japanese-American Cases\u2014A Disaster, 54 Yale L.J. 489 (1945); see also Nanette Dembitz, Racial Discrimination and the Military Judgment: The Supreme Court's Korematsu and Endo Decisions, 45 Colum. L. Rev. 175, 183 (1945) (calling Korematsu a \"dangerous opinion . . . not in fact justified by considerations of sound policy lying either within or without the issues of the case\"). \u2191\n.See generally Roger Daniels, The Japanese American Cases (2013) (discussing how the Supreme Court neglected its duty to interpret the Constitution, thereby allowing racism and fear to fuel a national tragedy); Jerry Kang, Denying Prejudice: Internment, Redress, and Denial, 51 UCLA L. Rev. 933 (2004) (exploring the Judiciary's role in the imprisonment of Japanese-Americans and its failure to accept responsibility for that tragic mistake); Jonathan M. Justl, Note, Disastrously Misunderstood: Judicial Deference in the Japanese-American Cases, 119 Yale L.J. 270 (2009) (suggesting that the Supreme Court exercised little perception deference and complete means deference with regard to the Japanese-American cases). \u2191\n.By passing the Non-Detention Act in 1971, 18 U.S.C. \u00a7 4001(a), which repealed the McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950 and forbade the federal detention of a citizen except pursuant to an Act of Congress, legislators invoked the memory of the removal and imprisonment of Japanese-Americans. 117 Cong. Rec. 31, 541 (1971). \u2191\n.Comm'n on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, supra note , at 237\u201339. \u2191\n.See Donald W. Jackson, Even the Children of Strangers: Equality under the U.S. Constitution 83 (1992) (noting that \"[t]he wartime Japanese-American cases aside,\" the Supreme Court was coming to view race as an \"inappropriate basis for treating people differently\"). This was the case even before Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954). \u2191\n.Korematsu v. United States, 584 F. Supp. 1406, 1420 (N.D. Cal. 1984). \u2191\n.Irons, supra note 11, at 202\u201306. \u2191\n.See id. at 282\u201384, 286. \u2191\n.It is often said that the government \"suppressed\" the report itself, but that is misleading. The report was published as an article in Harper's in October of 1942 as the work of an anonymous intelligence officer who had permission from the military to go public with it. The Japanese in America: The Problem and the Solution, Harper's Mag., Oct. 1942, at 489\u201390. Two amicus curiae briefs brought the Harper's article to the Supreme Court's attention, so the report itself was not in any meaningful sense \"suppressed.\" Brief for the ACLU as Amicus Curiae Supporting Petitioner at 23 n.11, Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944) (No. 22); Brief of Japanese American Citizens League as Amicus Curiae Supporting Petitioner at 107\u201308, Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944) (No. 22). The Solicitor General failed to alert the Court that the report was authentic and the work of a well-regarded officer in the Office of Naval Intelligence, Kenneth Ringle. Irons, supra note 11, at 202, 205\u201306. \u2191\n.Korematsu, 584 F. Supp. at 1420. \u2191\n.Neil A. Lewis, President Names 15 for Nation's Top Civilian Honor, N.Y. Times (Jan. 9, 1998), https:\/\/\u200cwww.nytimes.com\u200c\/1998\u200c\/01\u200c\/09\u200c\/us\u200c\/president-names-15-for-nation-s-top-civilian-honor.html [https:\/\/\u200cperma.cc\u200c\/W64R-QLV9]. \u2191\n.See Adam Liptak, Path to Supreme Court: Speak Capably, Say Little, N.Y. Times (July 11, 2009), https:\/\/\u200cwww.nytimes.com\u200c\/2009\u200c\/07\u200c\/12\u200c\/us\u200c\/politics\u200c\/12judge.html [https:\/\/\u200cperma.cc\u200c\/6P9C-GNSU] (reporting that the \"basic script\" for Justice Sotomayor's confirmation hearing would involve rebuking Korematsu). \u2191\n.Neal Katyal, Confession of Error: The Solicitor General's Mistakes During the Japanese-American Internment Cases (May 20, 2011), https:\/\/\u200cwww.justice.gov\u200c\/archives\u200c\/opa\u200c\/blog\u200c\/confession-error-solicitor-generals-mistakes-during-japanese-american-internment-cases [https:\/\/\u200cperma.cc\u200c\/X7PV-8XPG]. \u2191\n.Exec. Order No. 13769, 82 Fed. Reg. 8977 (Jan. 27, 2017); Michael D. Shear & Helene Cooper, Trump Bars Refugees and Citizens of 7 Muslim Countries, N.Y. Times (Jan. 27, 2017), https:\/\/\u200cwww.nytimes.com\u200c\/2017\u200c\/01\u200c\/27\u200c\/us\u200c\/politics\u200c\/trump-syrian-refugees.html [https:\/\/\u200cperma.cc\u200c\/5NKY-KEDC]. \u2191\n.Eli Rosenberg, Protest Grows 'Out of Nowhere' at Kennedy Airport After Iraqis Are Detained, N.Y. Times (Jan. 29, 2017), https:\/\/\u200cwww.nytimes.com\u200c\/2017\u200c\/01\u200c\/28\u200c\/nyregion\u200c\/jfk-protests-trump-refugee-ban.html [https:\/\/\u200cperma.cc\u200c\/89CJ-Z5HY]; see Washington v. Trump, No. C17-0141JLR, 2017 WL 462040, at *2 (W.D. Wash. 2017) (holding that the States showed that they were \"likely to succeed on the merits of the claims that would entitle them to relief\"); Motion for Temporary Restraining Order at 5, 11, 14, Washington v. Trump, 2017 WL 462040 (No. 2:17CV00141) (arguing that the States were likely to succeed on the merits of their claim on a combination of Equal Protection Clause, Establishment Clause, and Due Process Clause grounds). \u2191\n.Exec. Order No. 13780, 82 Fed. Reg. 13209 (Mar. 6, 2017); Proclamation No. 9645, 82 Fed. Reg. 45161 (Sept. 24, 2017); Proclamation No. 9723, 83 Fed. Reg. 15937 (Apr. 10, 2018); see also Trump v. Hawaii, 138 S. Ct. 2392, 2436\u201338, 2442 (2018) (summarizing the revised orders and proclamations that supplanted the original order). \u2191\n.Trump, 138 S. Ct. at 2418\u201320 (discussing how Supreme Court precedent mandates the use of a rational basis standard of review when an executive action is facially neutral). \u2191\n.See id. at 2441 (Sotomayor, J., dissenting) (noting that in other Establishment Clause cases the Court has imposed a higher level of scrutiny than rational basis). \u2191\n.See id. at 2429\u201333 (Breyer, J., dissenting). While the Breyer dissent does not speak the language of scrutiny levels, the analysis to which it subjects the immigration program under review has all the markings of heightened scrutiny. \u2191\n.Id. at 2447 (Sotomayor, J., dissenting). \u2191\n.Id. at 2448 (quoting the majority's admission that Korematsu is \"gravely wrong\"). \u2191\n.Id. at 2423 (majority opinion). \u2191\n.Id. (quoting Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214, 248 (1944) (Jackson, J., dissenting)). \u2191\n.See Neal Kumar Katyal, Trump v. Hawaii: How the Supreme Court Simultaneously Overturned and Revived Korematsu, 238 Yale L.J. F. 641, 648 (2019), https:\/\/\u200cwww.yalelawjournal.org\u200c\/forum\u200c\/trump-v-hawaii [https:\/\/\u200cperma.cc\u200c\/4YD3-BMGZ] (\"Taken together, the opinions in Hawaii read like a modern-day adaptation of Korematsu.\"); Quinta Jurecic, The Travel Ban Decision and the Ghost of Korematsu, Lawfare (June 28, 2018, 8:19 AM), https:\/\/\u200cwww.lawfareblog.com\u200c\/travel-ban-decision-and-ghost-korematsu [https:\/\/\u200cperma.cc\u200c\/KZW7-9KEC] (\"Now that the opinions are written, however, the connection is clear enough, and both the majority and the dissenters draw it.\"); Anil Kalhan, Trump v. Hawaii and Chief Justice Roberts's \"Korematsu Overruled\" Parlor Trick, ACSLaw: Expert Forum (June 29, 2018), https:\/\/\u200cwww.acslaw.org\u200c\/acsblog\u200c\/trump-v-hawaii-and-chief-justice-robertss-korematsu-overruled-parlor-trick\u200c\/ [https:\/\/\u200cperma.cc\u200c\/2DA2-V58V] (\"Instead, Roberts engaged in a cheap parlor trick: purporting to 'overrule' a narrow, distorted version of Korematsu while simultaneously embracing and replicating that decision's actual logic and reasoning in the course of his own decision-making.\"); Anita Sinha, The Supreme Court's Travel Ban Ruling\u2014Replacing, Not Overruling Korematsu, Hill (July 1, 2018, 4:00 PM), https:\/\/\u200cthehill.com\u200c\/opinion\u200c\/judiciary\u200c\/395087-the-supreme-courts-travel-ban-ruling-replacing-not-overruling-korematsu [https:\/\/\u200cperma.cc\u200c\/7VYX-KGD5] (\"The Court in Trump v. Hawaii ultimately extended this good faith presumption of truth to accept the executive's contention that, despite evidence suggesting the travel ban is a discriminatory policy motivated by animosity, the government ordered the ban in the name of national security.\"). \u2191\n.Trump, 138 S. Ct. at 2448 (Sotomayor, J., dissenting). Sotomayor might have quibbled with the majority's statement in a different way; she might have argued that the majority's \"overruling\" of Korematsu was ineffective because it was dictum. This would have been an obvious point for her to make. Chief Justice Roberts could not have been clearer that he did not see the travel ban case as presenting the same constitutional issue as Korematsu, which makes his words about Korematsu dictum by definition. Id. at 2423 (majority opinion). That neither Justice Sotomayor nor any other Justice raised this concern implies that they all view the blow inflicted on Korematsu as genuinely lethal. \u2191\n.Jamal Greene, Eric Yamamoto, and Rachel Oyama note that the exclusion order in Korematsu applied to citizens and noncitizens alike. See Jamal Greene, Is Korematsu Good Law?, 128 Yale L.J. F. 629, 634 (2019), https:\/\/\u200cwww.yalelawjournal.org\u200c\/forum\u200c\/is-korematsu-good-law [https:\/\/\u200cperma.cc\u200c\/29SU-Y5BN] (\"The exclusion order also, and pointedly, did not distinguish between U.S. citizens and noncitizen Japanese nationals.\"); Eric Yamamoto & Rachel Oyama, Masquerading Behind a Facade of National Security, 128 Yale L.J. F. 688, 714 (2019), https:\/\/\u200cwww.yalelawjournal.org\u200c\/forum\u200c\/masquerading-behind-a-facade-of-national-security [https:\/\/\u200cperma.cc\u200c\/8NY4-PYTN] (\"Second, the forced removal, like Trump's exclusion orders, targeted foreign nationals, too. Korematsu was not only about abuse of 'U.S. citizens.'\"). They appear to suggest that the Trump Court, in casting Korematsu as a case about the exclusion just of citizens, may have misapprehended the reach of the Korematsu holding and implicitly left the door open to the racial classification of noncitizens. But if that door is open, it is not Korematsu that opened it. Korematsu was plainly about the exclusion of people in the position of Fred Korematsu\u2014citizens\u2014and not about noncitizens, even though the military order applied to both. In his opinion for the Court, Justice Black said:\n[W]e are not unmindful of the hardships imposed by [the military order] upon a large group of American citizens. Cf. Ex parte Kawato, 317 U.S. 69, 73. But hardships are part of war, and war is an aggregation of hardships. All citizens alike, both in and out of uniform, feel the impact of war in greater or lesser measure. Citizenship has its responsibilities as well as its privileges, and in time of war the burden is always heavier.\nKorematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214, 219 (1944) (emphasis added).Justice Black's \"cf.\" citation to his opinion for the Court in the 1942 Kawato decision is significant because it concerned the wartime rights of Japanese aliens; the citation signals that the Korematsu Court understood the situation of noncitizens to present distinct issues. Later, continuing his emphasis on citizenship, Justice Black added that the Court's \"task would be simple, our duty clear, were this a case involving the imprisonment of a loyal citizen in a concentration camp because of racial prejudice.\" Id. at 223 (emphasis added). The dissenting opinions of Justice Roberts and Justice Jackson similarly focus closely and repeatedly on the order's application to citizens. See, e.g., id. at 229 (Roberts, J., dissenting) (\"The obvious purpose of the orders made, taken together, was to drive all citizens of Japanese ancestry into Assembly Centers within the zones of their residence, under pain of criminal prosecution.\") (emphasis added); id. at 242 (Jackson, J., dissenting) (\"Korematsu was born on our soil, of parents born in Japan. The Constitution makes him a citizen of the United States by nativity . . . .\") (emphasis added). That the Court treated the case as posing a question about the exclusion of citizens and not noncitizens is not surprising; that is exactly how Korematsu's attorney framed it. See Brief for Appellant, supra note 20, at 5\u20136 (\"[Korematsu] has no dual citizenship. He is a loyal citizen who has exercised the rights and performed the duties of citizenship. . . . More could not be asked or expected of any citizen.\") (emphasis added). The Trump Court should not be faulted for understanding Korematsu as a case about the rights of citizens because that is what it was. This is not to say that the question of the rights of noncitizens is unimportant or that classifying them on racial lines is or should be permissible. It is simply to note that the holding of Korematsu does not resolve that question. \u2191\n.To be sure, Donald Trump said reprehensible things about Muslims on the campaign trail and after becoming President, things that leave little doubt about his own invidious sentiments. See, e.g., Jenna Johnson & David Weigel, Donald Trump Calls for \"Total\" Ban on Muslims Entering United States, Wash. Post (Dec. 8, 2015), https:\/\/\u200cwww.washingtonpost.com\u200c\/politics\u200c\/2015\u200c\/12\u200c\/07\u200c\/e56266f6-9d2b-11e5-8728-1af6af208198\u200c_story.html?noredirect=on&utm\u200c_term=.9bbe702e8ddc [https:\/\/\u200cperma.cc\u200c\/B5FN-FMW7]. The Executive Order that the Court considered, however, was neutral on its face, and the Supreme Court has a long history of drawing sharp distinctions between laws that draw explicit racial or religious lines and laws that do not. Indeed, the Supreme Court even has a history of setting aside concerns about invidious motivation for facially neutral actions. See Palmer v. Thompson, 403 U.S. 217, 225 (1971) (\"It is difficult or impossible for any court to determine the 'sole' or 'dominant' motivation behind the choices of a group of legislators.\"). \u2191\n.This is not to say that a bar to entry does not cause harm to individuals\u2014even great harm to those kept from joining family in the United States. It is simply to say that all Japanese-Americans experienced a baseline of extreme harm by being kicked out of their homes, whereas the harms suffered by those excluded by the travel ban were variable, and in some cases, such as those seeking to enter the United States for tourism, comparatively minor. \u2191\n.Aziz Huq rejects the idea of a meaningful distinction between the impact of the military orders in Korematsu and the impact of the travel ban on a person seeking entry to the United States. See Aziz Huq, Article II and Antidiscrimination Norms, 118 Mich. L. Rev. 47, 90\u201393 (2019). Both, he points out, eventuated in detention, or at least were capable of doing so, which makes the distinction \"less crisp than first appears.\" Id. at 91. The key trouble with this position is that by focusing on the fact or risk of detention, it significantly underdescribes the impacts of the orders. The military order in Korematsu forced people to abandon their homes and displaced them by hundreds of miles to places they never wanted to be. The ban in Trump v. Hawaii applies to people who choose to leave their homes and choose to travel to a place they do want to be. Of course, in neither context did or do the impacted people choose the detention at the end of the line. But the only way to avoid a meaningful distinction between the overall impact of the government's actions in the two contexts is to ignore everything about the affected person's experience before detention. \u2191\n.Neal Katyal makes this point comprehensively. Katyal, supra note 69, at 649\u201355. \u2191\n.Brief for the United States, supra note , at 11 n.2. \u2191\n.See Trump v. Hawaii, 138 S. Ct. 2392, 2409\u201310, 2420\u201321 (2018) (justifying the travel ban on rational basis grounds). \u2191\n.See Robert M. Chesney, National Security Fact Deference, 95 Va. L. Rev. 1361, 1363 (2009) (examining national security fact-deference claims). \u2191\n.See United States v. Reynolds, 345 U.S. 1, 7 (1953) (establishing the evidentiary state-secrets privilege); Totten v. United States, 92 U.S. 105, 107 (1875) (establishing the categorical state-secrets bar to suit); United States v. Abu Ali, 528 F.3d 210, 225 (4th Cir. 2008) (demonstrating the use of the \"silent witness\" rule to protect classified information); see also Classified Information Procedures Act, 18 U.S.C. app. III \u00a7\u00a7 1\u201316 (2018) (codifying procedures regarding classified information). \u2191\n.I do not mean to suggest that the Trump v. Hawaii decision is not itself a monster of a different sort\u2014a dangerous precedent in immigration law, perhaps a revival of the troubling-but-never-overruled decision of Chae Chan Ping v. United States, 130 U.S. 581 (1889), also known as the Chinese Exclusion Case. This is a point that many are making in the literature. See Michael Kagan, Is the Chinese Exclusion Case Good Law? (The President Is Trying to Find Out), 1 Nev. L.J. F. 80, 80 (2017), https:\/\/\u200cscholars.law.unlv.edu\u200c\/cgi\u200c\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&\ncontext=nljforum [https:\/\/\u200cperma.cc\u200c\/S26Q-QS4Z] (drawing parallels between the two cases); Garrett Epps, The Ghost of Chae Chan Ping, Atlantic (Jan. 20, 2018), https:\/\/\u200cwww.theatlantic.com\u200c\/politics\u200c\/archive\u200c\/2018\u200c\/01\u200c\/ghost-haunting-immigration\u200c\/551015\u200c\/ [https:\/\/\u200cperma.cc\u200c\/3DA4-L6VF] (raising concerns about the revival of the Chinese Exclusion Case). That, however, is not what this Essay is about. \u2191\n.But cf. infra note and accompanying text (discussing Korematsu's surprising resilience in intra-governmental policy discussions in the post-9\u200c\/11 era). \u2191\n.But see infra note and accompanying text (noting that the Solicitor General misrepresented the threat of invasion in presenting the Hirabayashi case to the Supreme Court). \u2191\n.This is arguably a counterfactual assumption, as the government never arrested an American citizen of Japanese ancestry on charges of espionage or other forms of subversion. See David Cole, Enemy Aliens 97 (2003) (\"None of the interned Japanese was ever charged with, much less convicted of, espionage, sabotage, or treason.\"). But see Eric L. Muller, Betrayal on Trial: Japanese-American \"Treason\" in World War II, 82 N.C. L. Rev. 1759, 1794 (2004) (relating the story of the prosecution of three Japanese-American sisters for treason for assisting the escape of German prisoners of war in Colorado in 1943). \u2191\n.See, for example, a photograph of a physician examining an elderly patient in a War Relocation Authority emergency hospital for evacuees of Japanese ancestry, Clem Albers, Manzanar, Calif.\u2014Dr. James Goto, Online Archive of Cal. (Apr. 2, 1942), https:\/\/\u200coac.cdlib.org\u200c\/ark:\u200c\/13030\u200c\/ft0580021n\u200c\/?brand=oac4 [https:\/\/\u200cperma.cc\u200c\/YW3B-KYXV]. \u2191\n.See generally C. Douglas Sterner, Go For Broke (2008). \u2191\n.Renee Tawa, Childhood Lost: The Orphans of Manzanar, L.A. Times (Mar. 11, 1997, 12:00 AM), http:\/\/\u200carticles.latimes.com\u200c\/1997-03-11\u200c\/news\u200c\/mn-37002\u200c_1\u200c_manzanar-orphans [https:\/\/\u200cperma.cc\u200c\/P2WM-EZBV]. \u2191\n.Trump v. Hawaii, 138 S. Ct. 2392, 2423 (2018) (emphasis added). \u2191\n.Jamal Greene's thoughtful and detailed elaboration of this and related ideas about the ambiguities of what in Korematsu the Trump Court might have overruled is valuable. See generally Greene, supra note (discussing how the Supreme Court's claim that the infamous Korematsu decision was overruled is \"both empty and grotesque\"). \u2191\n.Hirabayashi v. United States, 320 U.S. 81, 83, 85\u201386 (1943). \u2191\n.Proclamation No. 3, 7 Fed. Reg. 2543 (Mar. 24, 1942). \u2191\n.See id. (declaring and establishing that the order applies to \"all alien Japanese, all alien Germans, all alien Italians, and all persons of Japanese ancestry\"). \u2191\n.See Irons, supra note 11, at 89\u201390 (stating that Hirabayashi, at the age of twenty-four, had just started his senior year at the University of Washington in Seattle when the curfew became effective). \u2191\n.See id. at 91\u201392 (\"[T]he federal grand jury in Seattle returned an indictment that charged Hirabayashi with two violations of Public Law 503, the first for failure to report for evacuation and the second for curfew violation.\"). \u2191\n.The quirk of criminal appellate procedure is called the \"concurrent sentence doctrine.\" It says that a federal court will decline to consider questions on counts of conviction if it finds at least one valid count of conviction resulting in a concurrent sentence. See Benton v. Maryland, 395 U.S. 784, 787\u201389 (1969) (discussing the history of the Court's \"concurrent sentence doctrine\" jurisprudence); see also Kang, supra note , at 944\u201345 (indicating that Chief Justice Stone utilized the concurrent sentence doctrine to avoid the exclusion issue in Hirabayashi). \u2191\n.That day would turn out to be Korematsu v. United States in December 1944. \u2191\n.Hirabayashi v. United States, 320 U.S. 81, 100 (1943). \u2191\n.Id. at 224 (Frankfurter, J., concurring). \u2191\n.Hirabayashi v. United States, 627 F. Supp. 1445, 1457 (W.D. Wash. 1986), aff'd, 828 F.2d 591 (9th Cir. 1987). \u2191\n.Katyal, supra note 56. Katyal might have gone even further in condemning Hirabayashi, as then-recent research had established that the Solicitor General's Office committed even more misconduct in that case than it later did in Korematsu. In Hirabayashi, the Solicitor General repeatedly insisted that in March 1942 the Army was preparing specifically for a \"Japanese invasion\" of the West Coast, but archival evidence demonstrates that the Army was in fact preparing for no such thing and Justice Department lawyers almost certainly knew it. Eric L. Muller, Hirabayashi and the Invasion Evasion, 88 N.C. L. Rev. 1333, 1336\u201338 (2010). \u2191\n.Dennis Hutchinson's careful excavation of Justice Jackson's unpublished concurring opinion in the Hirabayashi case is illuminating, but it does not address the merits or demerits of the Court's Hirabayashi opinion. Dennis J. Hutchinson, \"The Achilles Heel\" of the Constitution: Justice Jackson and the Japanese Exclusion Cases, 2002 Sup. Ct. Rev. 455. \u2191\n.Hamdi, 542 U.S. at 584 (Thomas, J., dissenting). \u2191\n.Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez, 372 U.S. 144, 160 n.12 (1963); id. at 213 (Stewart, J., dissenting). \u2191\n.United States v. Robel, 389 U.S. 258, 270 (1967) (Brennan, J., concurring in the judgment). \u2191\n.N.Y. Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713, 722 (1971) (Douglas, J., concurring). \u2191\n.Regents of the Univ. of Cal. v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265, 287 (1978); cf. Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena, 515 U.S. 200, 214 (1995) (referencing Hirabayashi's \"most unfortunate results\"). \u2191\n.Brief for the United States at 17, United States v. Salerno, 481 U.S. 739 (1986) (No. 86-87), 1986 WL 727530, at *17. \u2191\n.Nicole Goodkind, Trump Administration Uses Japanese Internment Example to Deny Rights to Detainees, Newsweek (June 15, 2018, 5:14 PM), https:\/\/\u200cwww.newsweek.com\u200c\/guantanamo-bay-donald-trump-japanese-internment-980049 [https:\/\/\u200cperma.cc\u200c\/3NNY-W93A]. \u2191\n.For just one example, see Dallas, Tex., Code \u00a7 31-33(b) (2019), http:\/\/\u200clibrary.amlegal.com\u200c\/nxt\u200c\/gateway.dll\u200c\/Texas\u200c\/dallas\u200c\/cityofdallastexascodeofordinances\u200c\/volumeii\u200c\/\nchapter31offenses-miscellaneous\u200c\/articleigeneral2?f=templates$fn=default.htm$3.0$vid=amlegal:\ndallas\u200c_tx$anc=JD\u200c_31-33 [https:\/\/\u200cperma.cc\u200c\/XS28-V8FA]. \u2191\n.Holmes v. Atlanta, 350 U.S. 879 (1955) (per curiam). \u2191\n.Mayor of Baltimore City v. Dawson, 350 U.S. 877 (1955) (per curiam). \u2191\n.Trump v. Hawaii, 138 S. Ct. 2392, 2423 (2018). \u2191\n.Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214, 217\u201318 (1944). \u2191\n.See Email from Helgard C. Walker, Assoc. White House Counsel, to Alberto Gonzales, White House Counsel (Jan. 17, 2002, 10:12 AM), https:\/\/\u200cwww.judiciary.senate.gov\u200c\/imo\u200c\/media\u200c\/doc\u200c\/08-21-18%20GWB%20Document%20Production%20-%20Leahy,%20Coons,%20Blumenthal,%\n20Booker%20(Released%2009-06-18).pdf [https:\/\/\u200cperma.cc\u200c\/GA8L-XRPZ] (theorizing that racial profiling at airports could be legal under principles derived from Korematsu). \u2191","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Attack by Chinese hacker group targeted high-profile individuals around the world\nJuly 9, 2019 by Joseph Fitsanakis 2 Comments\nA hacker attack of impressive magnitude targeted specific individuals of interest to the Chinese government as they moved around the world, in what appears to be the first such operation in the history of cyberespionage. The attack was revealed late last month by Cybereason, an American cybersecurity firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. Company experts described the scope and length of the attack, dubbed Operation SOFTCELL, as a new phenomenon in state-sponsored cyberespionage. Cybereason said SOFTCELL has been in operation since at least 2017, and identified the culprit as APT10, a hacker group that is believed to operate on behalf of China's Ministry of State Security.\nThe operation is thought to have compromised close to a dozen major global telecommunications carriers in four continents \u2014the Middle East, Europe, Asia and Africa. According to Cybereason, the hackers launched persistent multi-wave attacks on their targets, which gave them \"complete takeover\" of the networks. However, they did not appear to be interested in financial gain, but instead focused their attention on the call detail records (CDRs) of just 20 network users. With the help of the CDRs, the hackers were able to track their targets' movements around the world and map their contacts based on their telephone activity. According to The Wall Street Journal, which reported on Cybereason's findings, the 20 targets consisted of senior business executives and government officials. Others were Chinese dissidents, military leaders, as well as law enforcement and intelligence officials.\nAn especially impressive feature of SOFTCELL was that the hackers attacked new telecommunications carriers as their targets moved around the world and made use of new service providers. The attacks thus followed the movements of specific targets around the world. Although this is not a new phenomenon in the world of cyberespionage, the geographical scope and persistence of the attacks are unprecedented, said The Wall Street Journal. Speaking last week at the 9th Annual International Cybersecurity Conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, Lior Div, Cybereason's chief executive officer and co-founder, said SOFTCELL attacks occurred in waves over the course of several months. The hackers used a collection of techniques that are commonly associated with identified Chinese hacker groups. If detected and repelled, the hackers would retreat for a few weeks or months before returning and employing new methods. The Cybereason security experts said that they were unable to name the targeted telecommunications carriers and users \"due to multiple and various limitations\".\n\u25ba Author: Joseph Fitsanakis | Date: 09 July 2019 | Permalink\nFiled under A specialized intelligence website written by experts Tagged with APT10, China, Cybereason, cyberespionage, cybersecurity, News, Operation SOFTCELL, telecommunication service providers\nIran spied on ISIS supporters through fake phone wallpaper app, say researchers\nSeptember 14, 2018 by Ian Allen 1 Comment\nSupporters of the Islamic State, most of them Persian speakers, were spied on by the government of Iran after they downloaded a fake smartphone application with wallpaper images, according to an online security firm. Iran is a major adversary of the radical Sunni group Islamic State. The latter considers Shiism (Iran's state religion) as an abomination. Not surprisingly, therefore, the Islamic State, which is also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), relies largely on supporters from the Arabic-speaking regions of the Levant. But according to estimates, Sunnis constitute about 10 percent of Iran's population, and ISIS has found some fertile ground among Iran's 8 million-strong Sunni minority. As a result, the government in Tehran is highly mistrustful of Iranian Sunnis, many of whom are ethnic Kurds, Baluchis, Azeris or Turkomans, and systematically spies on them.\nAccording to the Israeli online security firm Check Point Software Technologies, one way in which Tehran has spied on Persian-speaking ISIS supporters is through fake smartphone applications. In an article published last week, the company said it had uncovered a state-sponsored surveillance operation that it had codenamed \"Domestic Kitten\". The Check Point article said that the operation had gone on for more than two years, but had remained undetected \"due to the artful deception of its attackers towards their targets\". The surveillance of targeted phones was carried out with the help of an application that featured pro-ISIS-themed wallpapers, which users could download on their devices. Yet another program linked to the same vendor was a fake version of the Firat News Agency mobile phone application. The Firat News Agency is a legitimate Iranian information service featuring news about Iran's Kurdish minority. But both applications were in fact malware that gave a remote party full access to all text messages sent or received on the compromised phones. They also gave a remote party access to records of phone calls, Internet browser activity and bookmarks, and all files stored on the compromised phones. Additionally, the fake applications gave away the geo-location of compromised devices, and used their built-in cameras and microphones as surveillance devices.\nCheck Point said that the majority of compromised phones belonged to Persian-speaking members of Iran's Kurdish and Turkoman minorities. The company stressed that it was not able to confirm the identity of the sponsoring party with absolute accuracy. However, the nature of the fake applications, the infrastructure of the surveillance operation, as well as the identities of those targeted, posed a strong possibility that \"Domestic Kitten\" was sponsored by the government of Iran, it concluded. Last July, the American cyber security firm Symantec said that it had uncovered a new cyber espionage group called \"Leafminer\", which was allegedly sponsored by the Iranian state. The group had reportedly launched attacks on more than 800 agencies and organizations in in countries such as Israel, Egypt, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan and Azerbaijan.\n\u25ba Author: Ian Allen | Date: 14 September 2018 | Permalink\nFiled under A specialized intelligence website written by experts Tagged with cellular telephony, Check Point Software Technologies, cyberespionage, cybersecurity, Domestic Kitten, Iran, Islamic State, News\nResearchers uncover 'ambitious' Iranian hacker group that targets the Middle East\nJuly 26, 2018 by Joseph Fitsanakis 1 Comment\nAn American cyber security firm has reported the discovery of a previously undetected, \"highly active\" Iranian cyber espionage group, whose extensive target list consists mainly of large organizations and companies in the Middle East. The cyber security firm Symantec, makers of Norton antivirus software, which uncovered the cyber espionage group's existence, has dubbed it \"Leafminer\". It said the group has been active since the beginning of 2017, but has \"significantly ramped up its activities\" in 2018 and is currently involved in dozens of ongoing attacks.\nIn a report published on Wednesday, Symantec said that its security experts managed to obtain what appears to be Leafminer's master list of targets. The list is written in the Farsi language and contains just over 800 organizations, which according to Symantec researchers is \"an ambitious goal\" for any cyber espionage group. The organizations listed on the target sheet come from a variety of sectors, including government, transportation, the financial sector, energy and telecommunications. But the majority of the group's targets appear to be in the petrochemical and government sectors. Additionally, virtually all of Leafminer's targets are located in the Middle East and North Africa, in countries such as Israel, Egypt, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. Some of the group's targets are located in Afghanistan and Azerbaijan.\nSymantec said its researchers observed the Leafminer hackers execute attacks in real time on at least 40 targets in the Middle East, including on the website of an intelligence agency in Lebanon. According to the cyber security company, Leafminer uses a variety of hacking tools, including custom-designed malware and some publicly available software. The group's operational sophistication is also varied, and ranges from complex, multilayered attacks to brute-force login attempts. Symantec said it concluded that the cyber espionage group originates from Iran because its master target list is written in Farsi and because Iran is virtually the only country in the Middle East that is missing from the target list. However, it said that it did not have sufficient evidence to link Leafminer to the Iranian government. In a separate development, Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), said this week in its annual report that the government of Iran has significantly expanded its cyber warfare capabilities and \"poses a danger to German companies and research institutions\".\nFiled under A specialized intelligence website written by experts Tagged with computer hacking, cyberespionage, cybersecurity, Iran, Leafminer, News, Symantec Corporation\nDutch spies identified Russian hackers who meddled in 2016 US election\nJanuary 29, 2018 by Joseph Fitsanakis 1 Comment\nDutch spies identified a notorious Russian hacker group that compromised computer servers belonging to the Democratic Party of the United States and notified American authorities of the attack, according to reports. In 2016, US intelligence agencies determined that a Russian hacker group known as Cozy Bear, or APT29, led a concerted effort to interfere in the US presidential election. The effort, which according to US intelligence agencies was sponsored by the Russian government, involved cyber-attacks against computer systems in the White House and the Department of State, among other targets. It also involved the theft of thousands of emails from computer servers belonging to the Democratic National Committee, which is the governing body of the Democratic Party. The stolen emails were eventually leaked to WikiLeaks, DCLeaks, and other online outlets. Prior descriptions of the Russian hacking in the media have hinted that US intelligence agencies were notified of the Russian cyber-attacks by foreign spy agencies. But there was no mention of where the initial clues came from.\nLast Thursday, the Dutch current affairs program Nieuwsuur, which airs daily on Holland's NPO 2 television, said that the initial tipoff originated from the AIVD, Holland's General Intelligence and Security Service. On the same day, the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant published a detailed account of what it described as AIVD's successful penetration of Cozy Bear. According to these reports, AIVD was able to penetrate Cozy Bear in mid-2014, before the hacker group intensified its campaign against political targets in the US. Citing \"six American and Dutch sources who are familiar with the material, but wish to remain anonymous\", De Volkskrant said that the AIVD was able to detect the physical base of the Cozy Bear hackers. The latter appeared to be working out of an academic facility that was adjacent to Moscow's Red Square. The AIVD team was then able to remotely take control of security camera networks located around the facility. Eventually, the Dutch team hacked into another security camera network located inside the buildings in which the hackers worked. They soon began to collect pictures and footage of Cozy Bear members, which they then compared with photos of \"known Russian spies\", according to De Volkskrant.\nThe paper said that the AIVD team continued to monitor Cozy Bear's activities until at least 2017, while sharing intelligence with the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency in the US. The intelligence was allegedly instrumental in alerting US spy agencies about Russian government-sponsored efforts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election. Several newspapers, including The Washington Post in the US and The Independent in Britain, contacted the AIVD and the MIVD \u2014Holland's military intelligence agency\u2014 over the weekend. But the two agencies said they would not comment on reports concerning Cozy Bear.\n\u25ba Author: Joseph Fitsanakis | Date: 29 January 2018 | Research credit: E.J. & E.K. | Permalink\nFiled under A specialized intelligence website written by experts Tagged with 2016 US presidential election, AIVD (Holland), APT29, computer hacking, Cozy Bear, cybersecurity, Holland, News, Russia, United States\nRussian hackers behind US election attacks also targeted hundreds of journalists\nDecember 26, 2017 by Ian Allen Leave a comment\nThe Russian hacker group that targeted the United States presidential election in 2016 also attacked hundreds of reporters around the world, most of them Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows. The group is often referred to in cyber security circles as Fancy Bear, but is also known as Pawn Storm, Sednit, APT28, Sofacy, and STRONTIUM. It has been linked to a long-lasting series or coordinated attacks against at least 150 senior figures in the US Democratic Party. The attacks occurred in the run-up to last year's presidential elections in the US, which resulted in a victory for Donald Trump. The hacker group's targets included Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her campaign chairman John Podesta. But its hackers also went after senior US diplomatic and intelligence officials, as well as foreign officials in countries like Canada and the Ukraine.\nNow a new investigation by the Associated Press news agency, based on data collected over a period of two years by the cyber security firm Secureworks, appears to show that Fancy Bear also attacked journalists. In a leading article published last week, the Associated Press said that journalists appeared to be the third largest professional group targeted by Fancy Bear, after politicians and diplomats. The investigation shows that nearly half of all journalists that were systematically targeted by the hacker group worked for a single newspaper, The New York Times. At least fifty Times reporters feature on the hacker group's target list. The latter includes another 50 reporters working for Russian outlets that known to be critical of the Kremlin, and dozens of Eastern European reporters based in the Baltics, Moldova, Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine.\nThe Associated Press said that prominent names on the Fancy Bear target list include The Washington Post's Josh Rogin, The Daily Beast's intelligence correspondent Shane Harris, CNN's security correspondent Michael Weiss, and Ellen Barry, the former Moscow bureau chief for The New York Times. The report also said that some American journalists were not only targeted online, but also physically. One of them, The New Yorker's Masha Gessen, claims that she was routinely followed by Russian-speaking men in the period leading up to the 2016 presidential election. In April of this year, a study by the Tokyo-based cybersecurity firm Trend Micro showed that Fancy Bear was behind systematic efforts to subvert recent national elections in France and Germany. And a few weeks ago, Russian media reported that Konstantin Kozlovsky, a member of the prolific Russian hacker group Lurk, alleged that he had been hired by the Kremlin to help target the US Democratic Party.\n\u25ba Author: Ian Allen | Date: 26 December 2017 | Permalink\nFiled under A specialized intelligence website written by experts Tagged with APT28, computer hacking, cybersecurity, Fancy Bear, News, Russia, Sednit, Sofacy, STRONTIUM\nRussian hacker claims he was hired by Kremlin to target US Democratic Party\nDecember 15, 2017 by Ian Allen 3 Comments\nA member of a prolific Russian hacker group reportedly stated in court that he was hired by the Russian government to break into the computer systems of the Democratic Party in the United States. The hacker, Konstantin Kozlovsky, operated online as a member of Lurk, a notorious hacker group whose members are believed to have stolen in excess of $45 million from hundreds of companies since 2011. Most of the group's members were apprehended in a wave of 50 arrests that took place throughout Russia in the summer of 2016. The group's nine most senior members, Kozlovsky being one of them, were put on trial earlier this year.\nLast Monday, Russian website The Bell reported that Kozlovsky said during his court testimony in August of this year that he was hired by the Kremlin to hack into the computers of the Democratic Party in the US. The website claimed that he and his fellow Lurk hackers regularly worked for the FSB, Russia's Federal Security Service. For nearly a decade, said Kozlovsky, he and other hackers \"performed different tasks on assignments by FSB officers\". In his testimony of August 15, Kozlovsky reportedly said that some of the tasks performed by Lurk on behalf of the FSB included hacking into the computers of the Democratic National Committee, which is the governing body for the Democratic Party in the US. He also claimed that he and his fellow hackers stole emails belonging to the Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.\nThe Bell published Kozlovsky's claims on its website in both Russian and English. According to to The Times of London, the website also posted minutes from the court hearing, as well as a recording of Kozlovsky's testimony, on its page on Facebook. Kozlovsky also claimed that the FSB recruited him in 2008, when he was 16 years old, and that he worked under the supervision of Dmitry Dokuchaev, a notorious criminal hacker known as 'Forb', who was arrested and subsequently recruited by the FSB. Kozlovsky added that he participated in \"very serious military enterprises of the United States and other organizations\" under Dokuchaev's supervision.\nFiled under A specialized intelligence website written by experts Tagged with cyberespionage, cybersecurity, Democratic National Committee, Dmitry Dokuchaev, FSB, Konstantin Kozlovsky, Lurk (hacker group), News, Russia\nIsrael reportedly behind discovery of Russian antivirus company's spy links\nOctober 11, 2017 by Joseph Fitsanakis 1 Comment\nIsraeli spy services were reportedly behind the United States government's recent decision to purge Kaspersky Lab antivirus software from its computers, citing possible collusion with Russian intelligence. Last month, the US Department of Homeland Security issued a directive ordering that all government computers should be free of software products designed by Kaspersky Lab. Formed in the late 1990s by Russian cybersecurity expert Eugene Kaspersky, the multinational antivirus software provider operates out of Moscow but is technically based in the United Kingdom. Its antivirus and cybersecurity products are installed on tens of millions of computers around the world, including computers belonging to government agencies in the US and elsewhere. But last month's memorandum by the US government's domestic security arm alarmed the cybersecurity community by alleging direct operational links between the antivirus company and the Kremlin.\nOn Tuesday, The New York Times reported that the initial piece of intelligence that alerted the US government to the alleged links between Kaspersky Lab and Moscow was provided by Israel. The American paper said that Israeli cyber spies managed to hack into Kaspersky's systems and confirm the heavy presence of Russian government operatives there. The Times' report stated that the Israelis documented real-time cyber espionage operations by the Russians, which targeted the government computer systems of foreign governments, including the United States'. The Israeli spies then reportedly approached their American counterparts and told them that Kaspersky Lab software was being used by Russian intelligence services as a backdoor to millions of computers worldwide. The Israelis also concluded that Kaspersky's antivirus software was used to illegally steal files from these computers, which were essentially infected by spy software operated by the Russian government.\nIt was following the tip by the Israelis that he Department of Homeland Security issued its memorandum saying that it was \"concerned about the ties between certain Kaspersky [Lab] officials and Russian intelligence and other government agencies\". The memorandum resulted in a decision by the US government \u2014overwhelmingly supported by Congress\u2014 to scrap all Kaspersky software from its computer systems. Kaspersky Lab has rejected allegations that it works with Russian intelligence. In a statement issued in May of this year, the company said it had \"never helped, nor will help, any government in the world with its cyberespionage efforts\".\n\u25ba Author: Joseph Fitsanakis | Date: 11 October 2017 | Pemalink\nFiled under A specialized intelligence website written by experts Tagged with computer hacking, cybersecurity, Israel, Kaspersky Lab, News, Russia, United States, US Department of Homeland Security","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"How to roast a chicken: Climate change and farming in Nigeria\nExtreme heat is worsening economic inequality among African farmers - and raising the spectre of future food shortages.\nUS calls for investigation into Shiite deaths in Nigeria\nMembers of Islamic Movement of Nigeria wave flags and chant slogans as they take part in a demonstration to protest against the imprisonnement of a Shiite, in Abuja. (AFP)\nThree dead in Nigeria after Shiites and army clash\nNigerian Shiites bury dead after clashes with security forces\nNigerian group says troops shot, killed 27 Shiite Muslims\nThe United States embassy in Nigeria said on Thursday it was \"concerned\" and called for an investigation after supporters of an imprisoned Shiite cleric were killed in clashes with security forces.\nThe Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) said 49 of its members were killed this week after the army and police fired live bullets at crowds who marched near and in the capital Abuja, calling into doubt the military's official death toll of six.\n\"The United States embassy is concerned by the deaths resulting from clashes between Nigerian security forces and members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria in areas surrounding Abuja,\" said the US embassy in a statement.\n* Sign up to News24's top Africa news in your inbox: SUBSCRIBE TO THE HELLO AFRICA NEWSLETTER\nFOLLOW News24 Africa on Twitter and Facebook.\n\"We urge government of Nigeria authorities to conduct a thorough investigation of the events and to take appropriate action to hold accountable those responsible for violations of Nigerian law. We urge restraint on all sides,\" it added.\nAmnesty International said on Wednesday it had \"strong evidence\" that police and soldiers used automatic weapons against IMN members and killed about 45 people.\n\"We have seen a shocking and unconscionable use of deadly force by soldiers and police against IMN members,\" said Amnesty's Nigeria director Osai Ojigho.\nNigeria, Africa's largest economy, is almost evenly split between a mostly Muslim north - which is predominantly Sunni - and a largely Christian south.\nExperts have warned the government that a heavy-handed response to the group risks sparking conflict in a volatile region where poverty is widespread.\nIMN leader Ibrahim Zakzaky has been in custody since 2015, when an army crackdown killed 300 of his supporters, who were buried in mass graves, according to human rights groups.\nZakzaky is facing a culpable homicide charge in connection with the 2015 violence, and is in jail despite a court order granting him bail.\nRead more on: nigeria | west africa\nFirst Ebola patient has died in DR Congo city - governor","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Kim Kardashian Reveals the Truth About Having More Kids\nStefan Preston\nKim Kardashian and Kanye West seem to have a perfect life. They both have thriving careers, an impressive level of fame, and a beautiful family. Kardashian, in particular, is at an all-time career peak. The reality star is studying law and managing her beauty line, in addition to working on her TV show, Keeping Up with the Kardashians.\nShe's got a very busy schedule. Still, fans can't get enough of her, or of learning more about her adorable kids. Recently, Kardashian opened up on social media, explaining her future family plans to curious followers.\nHow many kids does Kim Kardashian have?\nNEW YORK, NY \u2013 JUNE 04: Kim Kardashian West attends the 2018 CFDA Fashion Awards at Brooklyn Museum on June 4, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Jared Siskin\/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)\nKardashian and West first started dating in 2012 and didn't wait long to start their family. They welcomed their eldest daughter North West in June 2013, their son Saint West in December 2015, their second daughter Chicago West in January 2018, and their second son Psalm West in May 2019.\nKardashian isn't shy about showing off her kids on social media, and they are featured fairly regularly on Keeping Up with the Kardashians. She has said in the past that she loves having a large family and even likes to talk about her kid's different personalities and how they all mesh together.\nKardashian recently claimed that North is West's \"twin,\" sharing much of his creative energy and gift of expression, while she believes that Saint definitely resembles her more. Chicago definitely takes after Kardashian in terms of looks, while the reality star states that it's a little early to tell what Psalm's personality will be. Although, she posted on Instagram that he's by far the calmest of all her babies.\nRecently, she posted a picture of all four of her children on Instagram, writing a caption that revealed how \"impossible\" it is to try and get a picture of all four young kids.\nDoes Kim Kardashian want more children?\nMy little man is the sweetest ever! He's honestly the best baby. Sleeps through the night and by far my most calm. How did I get so lucky\nA post shared by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on Aug 25, 2019 at 9:04pm PDT\nKardashian loves to interact with her followers on social media and does so fairly often. She recently did an \"ask me anything\" session on Instagram, where she invited all of her fans to ask her any questions that they have been dying to know the answer to.\nOne of the questions was whether or not Kardashian wanted more children. While many celebrities don't like to share their reproductive plans, Kardashian responded to the curious fan. She stated that while she loves her babies, she doesn't think she can handle any more than four children, especially with how busy she is. Kardashian said that she likes to give each of her kids an equal amount of attention and she also thinks it's important to give her husband a good amount of attention as well.\nThe Q\/A session wasn't the first time that Kardashian hinted that she would stop after four kids. She suffers from a pregnancy condition called placenta previa, which made it unsafe for her to get pregnant after the birth of her son Saint \u2014 both Chicago and Psalm were born via surrogate.\nKardashian has been one of the most vocal celebrities to advocate for surrogacy and has even featured the surrogate, with her face blurred for privacy reasons, on her family's reality show.\nWhat's next for Kim Kardashian?\nMe and my Chi Chi\nA post shared by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on Aug 25, 2019 at 9:49am PDT\nFans can continue to keep up with Kardashian and her large, busy family when Keeping Up with the Kardashians returns in September. As for Kardashian's other plans, she will be busy pursuing her law career and spending time with her family.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ingersoll [ 44 ]\n1,283 \/ km\u00b2\nIngersoll is located in Ontario. In Ingersoll the majority of the population are Married (and not separated) and have children living at home between the ages of 6 to 14 years. The top three occupations people in Ingersoll are in employed in are Sales and service occupations, Trades, transport and equipment operators and related occupations and Occupations in manufacturing and utilities. The average personal gross income in Ingersoll is $37,286 per year while the average after-tax income is $32,071 which means the average personal income tax rate is 13.99%. Most of the population in Ingersoll lives in Single-detached house and the average home value is $215,763. The majority of the homes in Ingersoll were constructed 1960 or before. The the most predominant religious faith is Christian. The majority of the population who live in Ingersoll are Canadian citizens. The most common non-official languages spoken in Ingersoll are Dutch, Spanish and Italian. The most predominant continent of origin for most migrants to Ingersoll is Europe.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"> Hotels & Lodging\nOAG Lawsuit Against Marriott for Resort Fees Could Affect Traveling Teams\nBy: Mary Helen Sprecher\nWith its lawsuit against Marriott for resort fees, the Washington, D.C. Office of the Attorney General is proving that what you don't see is more dangerous than what you do \u2013 at least from a cost\/benefit standpoint. The question, of course, is this: What do planners need to know about the court action \u2013 and the fees themselves?\nThe lawsuit, filed by OAG Karl Racine just after the busy July 4th weekend, cites the hotel chain for hiding the true price of guest rooms from consumers and charging hidden resort fees to increase profits. The OAG allegation states that \"Marriott's deceptive and misleading pricing practices and failure to disclose fees harmed consumers and violated the District's consumer protection laws. OAG's lawsuit seeks to force Marriott to advertise the true prices of its hotel rooms up-front, provide monetary relief to tens of thousands of harmed District consumers, and pay civil penalties.\"\nThe lawsuit in D.C. follows an investigation into the hotel industry's pricing practices by the Attorneys General in all 50 states.\n\"To lure consumers, Marriott advertised daily room rates lower than the true total price for a room,\" Racine stated in a Twitter thread. \"Then, during booking, mandatory fees were added on top of advertised rates, which allowed Marriott to increase profits without appearing to raise prices.\"\nRacine explained that Marriott's resort fees ranged from $9 to as much as $95 per room per day. \"Discovering these charges only after a consumer has started to book a room makes it extremely difficult to compare prices and make informed choices,\" he noted. \"In some instances, Marriott led consumers to believe the resort fees were government-imposed charges, rather than additional daily charges paid to Marriott. This kind of bait-and-switch advertising and other forms of deceptive pricing are unfair and illegal.\"\nThe Office of the Attorney General (whose full documentation is available here) is seeking a court order in order to force the multinational hotel brand to advertise the true prices of its hotel rooms up front; pay monetary relief for DC consumers who were charged deceptive resort fees; and pay civil penalties for violating DC's consumer protection laws.\nConsumer Reports notes that the so-called hidden fees are becoming worse, and have been the source of hundreds of complaints to the magazine. In fact, the article states, the hotel industry raked in a record $2.9 billion in resort fees and other fees and surcharges in 2018, with even more expected for 2019, according to Bjorn Hanson, Ph.D., a hotel consultant and clinical adjunct professor at the Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality at New York University.\nIt isn't the first time the issue of resort fees has been in the legal spotlight \u2013 it's far from the first time people have complained about them. The travel blog, The Points Guy, notes, \"Resort fees have long been a bane of existence for travelers. After many years of seeming powerlessness against the relentless increase of additional costs \"hidden\" in plain sight, consumers and third-party booking agencies have begun fighting back. With some hotel loyalty programs (Hilton and Hyatt, for example), using points is a way to avoid paying resort fees, though that option does not work with Marriott who charges resort fees on both paid and award bookings (occasionally even charging per person instead of per room).\"\nSeveral years ago, the FTC considered sanctioning the controversial charges, but ultimately found they were not required to be included on advertised hotel rates. This is a direct contrast to airlines and travel agents, both of which are required to disclose all incremental fees in their final advertised prices.\nPlanners who are negotiating with hotels should ask for a breakdown on room charges and should ascertain that individuals who are making their reservations will not encounter unexpected fees. Housing bureaus may also be able to create safeguards against individuals being hit with surcharges.\n\"Resort fees and other fees can be negotiated in every hotel contract, depending on the size and scope of the particular event you're negotiating,\" says Nicholas Collins of HBC Event Services. \"It helps when you are contracting a larger block of rooms and even more so if you intend on utilizing food and beverage at the hotel. It also depends on the availability in the area, the demand at the time and how willing the hotel will be to work with you on your requests. It is very easy, for example, to receive discounted resort fees at hotels in Las Vegas for larger blocks of rooms. There are plenty of factors but negotiation is always possible.\"\nThose who are charged resort fees in a city where they have not negotiated the housing may still have some recourse; Frommer's includes this list of actions travelers can take that may help them get out of some or all of the surcharges.\nSDM will continue to follow the developments in this lawsuit.\nMary Helen Sprecher\nAbout Mary Helen Sprecher\nContent written by Mary Helen Sprecher","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Browsing: Evan Cagle\nPREVIEW: Detective Comics 2022 Annual\nThere's only one more month left in the year, which means its Annual time at DC Comics. This week we have a sneak peek at Detective Comics 2022 Annual by Ram V and Christopher Mitten.\nPREVIEW: Detective Comics #1065\nThe Orgham family has dramatically arrived after traumatic events at the docks in Gotham, and they are ready to reclaim the land that belongs under their name in this sneak peek at Detective Comics #1065 from DC Comics.\nBruce Wayne and Harvey Dent share a moment in this week's Detective Comics #1063 from DC Comics.\nA new story kicks off in this week's Detecive Comics #1062, and we have a sneak peek from DC Comics, after the jump.\nPREVIEW: Dune: House Atreides #10\nLeto, the newly crowned Duke of House Atreides, finally unearths the plot behind his father's untimely death in Dune: House Atreides #10 from BOOM! Studios.\nPREVIEW: The Many Deaths of Laila Starr #4\nThe mortal incarnation of Death, Laila Starr, must confront the cruel nature of her role in the universe in this sneak peek of The Many Deaths of Laila Starr #4 from BOOM! Studios.\nPREVIEW: Dune: House Atreides #8\nDuncan Idaho has a bad feeling about the upcoming celebration at Castle Atreides, but will anyone listen to the young boy? Take the jump for a sneak peek of Dune: House Atreides #8 from BOOM! Studios.\nPREVIEW: Catwoman #32\nThe greatest heists of Selina Kyle are revealed in this week's Catwoman #32 from DC Comics.\nPREVIEW: Dune House Atreides #7\nLeto has narrowly escaped death after an unexpected revolt on Ix in this sneak peek of Dune House Atreides #7 from BOOM! Studios.\nBOOM! Studios sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek of Dune House Atreides #6 that arrives in stores on Wednesday.\nWe are almost at the mid-point of BOOM! Studios' Dune: House Atreides #5. The issue arrives on Wednesday, but we have a sneak peek \u2013 today!\n[Preview] Strange Skies Over East Berlin #2\nThe Cold War Alien Invasion story continues this week in Strange Skies Over East Berlin #2 from BOOM! Studios. Take the jump for a sneak peek of what happens when everyone comes face to face with the mysterious being from beyond!\nMANKIND MADE IT TO SPACE. AND NOW SPACE HAS FOLLOWED THEM BACK! Take the jump for this sneak peek of Strange Skies Over East Berlin #1 from BOOM! Studios.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Prince Baudouin of Belgium\nTitle: Prince Baudouin of Belgium\nSubject: Albert I of Belgium, Baudouin of Belgium, Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Leopold III of Belgium, Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium\nCollection: 1869 Births, 1891 Deaths, Belgian Royal Princes, Burials at the Church of Our Lady of Laeken, Deaths from the 1889\u201390 Flu Pandemic, House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Belgium), People from Brussels, Princes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha\nPrince Baudouin\nFrench: Baudouin L\u00e9opold Philippe Marie Charles Antoine Joseph Louis\nDutch: Boudewijn Leopold Filips Marie Karel Antoon Jozef Lodewijk\nEnglish: Baldwin Leopold Philip Marie Charles Anthony Joseph Louis\nHouse of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha\nPrince Philippe, Count of Flanders\nPrincess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen\n(1869-06-03)3 June 1869\nPrince Baudouin of Belgium (3 June 1869 \u2013 23 January 1891), born in Brussels, was the first child and eldest son of Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders and his wife, Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.\nBaudouin was the nephew of Leopold II of Belgium. Upon the death of his eldest son, Leopold, Duke of Brabant, in the January before Baudouin's birth, the king was left with only one person in the line of succession \u2013 his younger brother, the Count of Flanders. Baudouin's birth that June was celebrated throughout the country. He was second in line to the throne at the time of his birth. King Leopold would have only one more child, another daughter, Cl\u00e9mentine. Baudouin was thus groomed to eventually succeed his uncle as king.\nGrave of Prince Baudouin with Guard of Honour\nBaudouin died in Brussels on 23 January 1891, a day after the anniversary of his cousin L\u00e9opold's death. Baudouin had been visiting his sick sister, Henriette. The prince, who had been suffering a bout of influenza, insisted on staying with his sister. Rumours circulated after his death that foul play had been involved, including a suggestion that Baudouin's death was copy of the suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria; Rudolf was the husband of Baudouin's cousin, St\u00e9phanie. Baudouin was, at the time of his death, soon to be betrothed to his cousin, Cl\u00e9mentine.[1] Upon the death of Prince Baudouin, the Belgian Parliament was adjourned and theatres and public institutions were closed until after the funeral. Baudouin's body was interred at the royal vault at the Church of Our Lady of Laeken in Brussels.\nAfter Baudouin's death, his younger brother, Albert, eventually became heir presumptive after the death of their father, and later succeeded their uncle Leopold as Albert I of Belgium.\nHis Royal Highness Prince Baudouin of Belgium, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony (1869\u20131891)\n^ Belgium in Mourning; Death of Prince Bandouin -- the heir to the throne, New York Times\nBilteryst Damien, Le prince Baudouin, fr\u00e8re du Roi-Chevalier, Bruxelles, Editions Racine, 2013, 336 p. 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{"text":"IU O-line feels back on track\nSeptember 11, 2018 Mike Miller Football One comment\nWhen Indiana's offensive line didn't play to coach Tom Allen's expectations in the season opener, they heard about it.\nThen, leading into last week's game against Virginia, they did something about it.\nIU's O-line responded with a much more encouraging effort in Saturday's 20-16 win over the Cavaliers, paving the way toward a banner performance from freshman running back Stevie Scott, who posted 204 yards and one touchdown on 31 carries.\nThere's still more improvements to be made up front for the Hoosiers, but after last week's success. IU feels it's on the right course.\n\"We're the (most) mature group on the team and we didn't play the way we needed to in Week 1,\" senior left guard Wes Martin said. \"We played good enough to get the win, but didn't play up to the standard we've set in our room. And we knew that. We took that personal. Coach (Allen) reinforced that. So going into Week 2, we knew we had to get back up to the standard we had set for ourselves.\"\nAll off-season, Indiana's offensive line drew praise for their approach toward authoring a comeback campaign after injuries and inconsistency plagued the group in 2017. IU's linemen were lauded as the top performing group in the weight room and emerged healthy from fall camp, bringing a combined 125 career starts into the first game of the year.\nWhile the opener at Florida International saw a decent performance from the O-line, it didn't contain the attention to detail that Allen and position coach Darren Hiller wished to see. Allen, in particular, was displeased with IU's struggles to convert a couple of key third-and-short situations at FIU.\nBut this week, with Allen demanding his linemen do a better job finishing blocks, the Hoosiers fared much better. Perhaps most pleasing to Allen, they helped convert five of offense's seven opportunities on third down with four or fewer yards to go.\n\"I really challenged our offensive line a week ago after our first week performance about finishing blocks and finishing the plays off and really being the strength of our team and they did,\" Allen said. \"They were good Week 1, but they weren't great, and I felt like they responded.\"\nIn doing so, Allen named the entire line \u2014 Martin, left tackle Coy Cronk, center Hunter Littlejohn, guard Simon Stepaniak, tackle Brandon Knight, center Nick Linder and guard\/tackle Delroy Baker \u2014 as IU's Offensive Players of the Week.\n\"That's awesome and kudos to the kids,\" Hiller said, \"but at the end of the day, we're on scholarship for a reason. That's our job. I tell the offensive line it's awesome and I'm happy for them and all that, but what we can't do is feel too good about ourselves from that perspective. It's all about mindset and mentality.\"\nThis week, the focus is repeating that performance against Ball State.\nWith its odd front, Virginia presented a new look for IU's offensive line in this past weekend's game. The Hoosiers also expect to see some similar fronts from the Cardinals on Saturday.\nEarly this week, the Ball State defense seemed to have IU's full attention after an impressive defensive performance in last week's 24-16 loss at Notre Dame. The Cardinals posted four sacks and 10 tackles for loss, harassing Irish quarterback Brandon Wimbush for much of the afternoon.\n\"We have to continue with our assignments,\" Hiller said. \"Virginia created a whole new animal for us with an odd front. I thought, from an assignment standpoint, we were really good. From a technical standpoint, there's still things that we've got to get fixed. But they're coming around in that regard.\"\n\"\u2026 Leading into Game 3, it's Ball State, a scrappy football team that plays extremely hard. Lot of odd front stuff. They mix it up a little bit, so we have to be even better with our assignments and knowing what to do.\"\nPrevious Post:NOTES: IU's plan was to play Penix\nNext Post:Hoosiers hopeful Davis will be ready to practice next month\nvesuvius13 says:\nThe OL is much better this year but far from being a dominate OL in the B1G. They need to get better at driving DL off the LOS at the point of attack. The other thing still needing improvement is the ability to stay on blocks and finish. No OL is perfect and this OL is much better and does a good job making the offense successful so far this year.\nThe OL has kept our QB clean most of the time and open holes for the RBs averaging\n225 yds\/game. This is a very good start to the season but the challenges are going to step up in the B1G. The season is set up for the OL to make steady improvements heading into the teeth of the B1G.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Commanders' red-zone offense takes a step forward but still has work to do\nAnalysis by Sam Fortier\nUpdated November 28, 2022 at 9:57 a.m. EST|Published November 28, 2022 at 8:30 a.m. EST\nCommanders tight end John Bates lands in the end zone for a 16-yard touchdown catch during the third quarter of Sunday's win over the Falcons.\nLate in the third quarter Sunday, Washington Commanders tight end John Bates took off from the 16-yard line on the second in a three-route combination: post, corner and flat. Before the snap, he had seen the Atlanta Falcons in a single-high-safety defense, so when the linebackers bit on the run action and wide receiver Jahan Dotson broke inside toward the safety, Bates figured quarterback Taylor Heinicke would read from the post (Dotson's route) to the corner (his).\n\"I had a pretty good idea that it was probably going to be coming to me,\" Bates said, smiling.\nAs Bates broke outside, Heinicke slung the ball his way. The touchdown gave the Commanders the lead for good in a 19-13 victory, their third in a row. But perhaps the most notable part of the play was that they had scored a touchdown in the red zone.\nSince Week 7, when Heinicke took over for the injured Carson Wentz, Washington has relied on a formula predicated on running the ball. The offense has sustained lengthy drives, dominated the clock and scored points with regularity, but it often has stalled out in the red zone. Under Heinicke, Washington ranks 12th in red-zone drives (18), sixth in scoring on those drives (94 percent) and 21st in red-zone touchdown rate (50 percent), per TruMedia.\nAn inability to finish drives is particularly dangerous for an offense such as Washington's, which isn't as explosive as a pass-first scheme and doesn't often create separation from its opponent. The liability was highlighted against Atlanta, another ball-control team that forces opponents to maximize their limited possessions. Washington was more efficient Sunday, scoring two touchdowns and kicking a field goal in three red-zone trips, but if cornerback Kendall Fuller hadn't made a game-sealing interception in the end zone, the Commanders leaving four points on the field would've been an issue.\nJohn Bates with his first TD of 2022\u203c\ufe0f\u203c\ufe0f\nCommanders lead 16-10 in the 3rd\ud83c\udfc8pic.twitter.com\/11EkYesDqZ\n\u2014 NBC Sports Commanders (@NBCSCommanders) November 27, 2022\n\"A little better,\" Coach Ron Rivera said of Sunday's red-zone offense, citing Bates's touchdown. But he quickly pointed to one of the Commanders' earlier chances. In the second quarter, they churned to the Atlanta 14. From there, Heinicke threw incomplete for Bates, running back Antonio Gibson was stopped after a two-yard gain, and Heinicke couldn't hit wide receiver Terry McLaurin on a short throw to the right. Washington settled for a 30-yard field goal by Joey Slye and a 10-10 tie.\n\"We got to punch it in,\" Rivera said.\nSvrluga: Commanders have found a fragile and frightening but winning formula\nThe red zone has been a problem for Washington all season. In the first six weeks with Wentz, the team got to the red zone on 14 of 74 drives, the worst rate in the NFL (18.9 percent), and scored only 71.4 percent of the time, the second-worst rate. But the offense overcame the problem at times because it was explosive enough to score from outside the red zone. In Week 5 against Tennessee, for example, Wentz threw two touchdown passes outside the red zone \u2014 before tossing a game-losing interception in it.\nSince Heinicke has taken over, Washington has had an explosive play \u2014 a rush of 12 or more yards or a pass of 16 or more \u2014 on just 9.2 percent of its plays, which ranks 26th in the NFL. This heightens the importance of the Commanders making the drives they can sustain count.\nLast week, Rivera suggested his team's struggles are tied to less effective play on first down. It's unclear whether the data supports that notion, but it's possible Rivera sees problems because his team is more predictable in the red zone. Washington runs 58.9 percent of the time there, the eighth-highest rate in the league. If the opposing defense doesn't fear Heinicke's arm or believe coordinator Scott Turner will call a pass, it can put more players in the box and stuff the run.\nCommanders RB Brian Robinson Jr. racks up big yards and wears a big hat\nAnother factor could be the tight ends. The top three receivers at the position \u2014 Logan Thomas, Cole Turner and Armani Rogers \u2014 haven't been consistently healthy. And Thomas, when he did get on the field, didn't look like himself until Week 11. At 6-foot-6 and 250 pounds, Thomas was one of the league's best red-zone threats in 2020 before struggling with injuries in 2021 and 2022.\n\"I think [tight end health is] a little bit of it,\" Rivera said. \"We really haven't had the continuity of that position. \u2026 That is a big position in the red zone for us, especially in this offense.\"\nThat context heightens the importance of Bates's touchdown catch. Thomas and Turner were active Sunday, but if the 6-6, 259-pounder can become a reliable red-zone target, it would be a boon for the offense.\nIn its win at Houston, Washington scored one touchdown and kicked two field goals on three red-zone trips (discounting a fourth on the final possession, when the game's outcome was settled and the Commanders ran out the clock). One of the field goals raised the question of whether Washington's floundering is tied to play-calling, Heinicke's arm or some of both. Near the end of the first half, the Commanders marched deep into Texans territory and took their final timeout at the 6-yard line with 22 seconds left.\n\"Obviously, in that situation, you can't run the ball,\" Heinicke said.\nOn the next two plays, Heinicke threw incomplete passes. The reason those passes didn't work, Heinicke said, was that Houston played cover-two, \"and the couple plays that we called just didn't have that cover-two beater on it. So it's just one of those things.\"\nDespite Sunday's step forward, Rivera, Heinicke and others spoke about the red zone as they have other facets of this successful stretch. The Commanders are having success but still have to improve.\n\"We could have been better in the red zone, clearly,\" left tackle Charles Leno Jr. said. \"When you get into the red zone, you want to get touchdowns, and that's what our emphasis will be moving forward.\"\nYouth, 15, admits killing teen, trying to rob Commanders running back\nCommanders DBs coach Chris Harris to join Titans as passing game coordinator\nOwnership concerns, an unproven QB could hamper Commanders' OC search\nD.C.'s expansion Major League Pickleball team has a target on its back","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"AFF \u2013 The Official Website Of The Asean Football Federation\nAsean Football Federation News Portal\nSOUTH EAST ASIAN GAMES\nAFF U22 CHAMPIONSHIP\nAFF U18\/U19 CHAMPIONSHIP\nAFF WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP\nAFF U16 GIRLS' CHAMPIONSHIP\nAFF FUTSAL CHAMPIONSHIP\nAFF FUTSAL CUP\nAFF BEACH SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIP\n\ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\uddf1 Timor Leste\nCategory \"Latest News\"\nAll Thai League matches postponed\n2020, Latest News, ThailandBy Editor AFF March 3, 2020\nBANGKOK (3 March 2020) \u2013 Thai League \u2013 the organisers of the Thai League One to Thai League Four \u2013 have decided to postponed all matches until next month. This follows the advisory from the Thai Ministry of Health for the masses to avoid concerts and big gatherings like football matches so as to prevent\u2026\nAFC calls for emergency meetings\n2020, Latest News, MalaysiaBy Editor AFF March 2, 2020\nKUALA LUMPUR (2 March 2020) \u2013 The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is to call further emergency meetings with the representatives of MAs and its Leagues from both the East and West regions next week as the AFC continues to manage the worldwide impact of the Covid-19 outbreak. The meeting of the East Zone representatives will\u2026\nViphet wins third term as LFF President\n2020, Laos, Latest NewsBy Editor AFF March 2, 2020\nVIENTIANE (2 March 2020) \u2013 Viphet Sihachakr has won a third term as the President of the Lao Football Federation (LFF) following the Extraordinary Congress that was held in Vientiane yesterday. 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{"text":"Launch of All Faiths Trip October 2021\nWe are delighted to announce the launch of our next All Faiths Trip to Wahat al-Salam-Neve Shalom. Led by our trustees the Rev Keith McNicol and Jenny Nemko, the trip will be a unique opportunity to see the work of the village firsthand. Our events page gives further details on the trip and how to reserve your place.\nUpdated: 1st May, 2020\nAuthor: Jack Omer-Jackaman\nFestive fun in the village\nStaff and school children mark the festive season by decorating olive trees.\nThe 12th Annual Rueff Lecture with Professor Philippe Sands QC\nWe are delighted to bring you a recording of October's enthralling lecture from Professor Sands\nAutumn at the School for Peace\nIn August we brought you news of the busy summer being enjoyed by the Neve Shalom-Wahat al-Salam School for Peace. With winter just around the corner we are now delighted to bring you an update on the school's autumn activities.\n12th Annual Rueff Lecture with Professor Philippe Sands QC\nOasis of Peace UK supports the Educational Institutions of NSWaS - a unique intentional community of Jewish and Palestinian-Arab Israeli citizens, located midway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.\nNew starters and familiar faces; we can't wait to introduce them to you!\nThe ethical background of the community was to create a place of peaceful co-existence between Palestinian and Jewish Israelis of the three Abrahamic faiths.\nDevastating Fire Hits School For Peace\nIt is with great sadness that we share the news that during the night of Monday 31st August the School for Peace at Neve Shalom-Wahat al-Salam was devastated by fire.\nIn 1972 Father Bruno Hussar's dream of a place for the co-citizens of Israel to exist in harmony became a reality when the first couple came to join him on a barren and waterless hillside.\nThe School for Peace (SfP) assimilates the principles upon which WaSNS was founded in conducting courses and seminars for Arab and Jewish youth and adults in Israel and the Palestinian Autonomy.\nStatement from Rita Boulos on Recent Events in Israel-Palestine\nWe are pleased to bring you this statement on recent events from the chair of the municipal council.\nRecording of the 11th Annual Rueff Lecture with Bishop Rose Hudson-Wilkin\nWe are pleased to bring you the recording of Bishop Rose Hudson-Wilkin's Oasis of Peace UK 2020 Rueff Lecture","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Pride final performance leaves skipper Holder stumped\n26th January 2016 Comments Off on Cricket boss praises Red Force effort Views: 1201 News\nCricket boss praises Red Force effort\nThe T&TCB has praised the performance of the national cricket team following their emphatic victory over Barbados on Saturday night in the final of the 2016 Nagico Super50 regional tournament at the Queen's Park Oval, Port-of-Spain.\nOn the back of an innings of 97 runs by star batsman Darren Bravo, and an all-round bowling performance led by Rayad Emrit's three-wicket haul, the Red Force clinched their second consecutive Super50 crown with a 72-run win in front of more than 7,000 home fans.\nOn Monday, president of the TTCB, Azim Bassarath, said that the cricketers should be complimented for their hard work, focus and commitment during the entire two-week competition during which they did not let their guard down.\nHe said the Super50 victory was a result of teamwork when everyone pulled together for the greater good of supporting each other and representing their nation with their best effort on the field.\n\"Words cannot adequately describe how proud the Red Force team has made cricket fans and the entire nation with their show of cricket excellence. The public too has been exceptional in their support during this campaign,\" said Bassarath.\nLeft-hander Bravo was duly named Man-of-the-Match in the final for his superb knock, after joining the team last weekend following the West Indies tour of Australia. In this three innings for the team he scored 274 runs comprising scores of 82, 95, and 97 for a phenomenal average of 91.33.\nAlso singled out was Red Force debutant Jon Russ Jaggesar, an off-spinner who bagged 14 wickets, second in the tournament only to Sulieman Benn of the Barbados Pride, and who was instrumental in keeping the opposing batsmen in check throughout the series.\nBassarath said that despite the fact that the national squad was depleted because of injury and the unavailability of several key players, the team showed the depth of talent that currently exists in the national set-up. He said Bravo and wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin joined the squad in the last week of the tournament, after the Test tour Down Under, and made an invaluable contribution in every match they played.\n\"I was impressed by the way the senior players pulled their weight and led by example as they did not disappoint in keeping the momentum going which had been established earlier in the tournament,\" said Bassarath.\nHe said that the leadership qualities shown by Jason Mohammed should also be commended, as he did not shun his responsibilities and did put his best foot forward in the prevailing circumstances.\nThe cricket chief said the skipper was also given invaluable support by allrounder Rayad Emrit, who was one of the stand-out fast bowlers of the tournament, who along with opening batsman Evin Lewis showed that they had stepped up their game following a stint in the Bangladesh Premier League T20 prior to the Nagico Super50.\nBassarath also had encouraging words for Barbadian opening batsman Kyle Hope, selected by the Red Force as a franchise player and who fitted in perfectly with his adopted team, and never flinched even it was against his island of birth in the final.\nAlso coming in for high praise was the technical team comprising senior coach Gus Logie, a former outstanding West Indies player, his assistant Kelvin Williams, and no-nonsense manager Roland Sampath who all ensured that everything was done according to the book and the objectives of the team were realised.\nHe said not to be forgotten were stand-in wicketkeeper Stephen Katwaroo who also had an exceptional tournament behind the stumps.\nTaken from the Trinidad Guardian","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Dodge Ram 1500 4X4\nDodge Business coupe\nDodge Ram 250 Conversion\nDodge Dakota RT\nDodge Classic Hot Rod\nDodge Charger SE\nDodge Charger SRT-8\nDodge RAM 2500 Van\nAudi \/ Audi A4 Avant 18T\nStart Slideshow More Photos\nAudi A4 Avant 1.6\n2004\u20142008 5 s., manual 102 Hp, petrol\nAudi A4 Avant 1.8 T\nAudi A4 Avant 1.9 TDIe\n2007\u20142008 6 s., manual 115 Hp, diesel\n1999\u20142001 4 s., automatic 101 Hp, petrol\nAudi A4 Avant 1.8 5V\nAudi A4 Avant 1.8 TFSI\n6 speed manual 120HP (88 kW) @ 3650 rpm\nmanual 160HP (117 kW) @ 4500 rpm\n5 speed manual 150HP (110 kW) @ 5700 rpm\nAudi A4 Avant 1.9 TDi\nmanual 130HP (96 kW) @ 4000 rpm\nAudi A4 Avant 1.8T\nAudi A4 Avant 1.9 D\nAudi 75 L\nmanual 76HP (55 kW) @ 5000 rpm\nAudi 75 L Variant\nAudi C14\/35 Alpensieger\nAudi Nuvolari quattro\nn\/a 599HP (440 kW) @ 0 rpm\nAudi Roadjet Concept\nautomatic 300HP (220 kW) @ 7000 rpm\nAudi Variant\nAudi Variant 1.7\nGEO Interests\nVideos \/ Audi A4 Avant 18T\nAudi A4 Avant USP 1.8T Milltek exhaust 034 HFC\nLaunch practice: 1999 Audi A4 Avant 1.8t Quattro Manual Gt2871r turbo\nFord Fiesta Metal & Audi A4 Avant 1.8T\nRPM TV - Episode 197 - Audi A4 Avant 1.8T\nAudi A4 Avant 18t: the executive Porsche for the corporate class of people\nThe Audi A4 Avant 18t represents the compact range of executive cars and is manufactured by the German company Audi which is a subunit of the Volkswagen. The vehicle is based chiefly on the B platform of Volkswagen.The Audi 80 belonged to the first generation. The designer B5 model had its seats linearly arranged and internally numbered. The Volkswagen model shared the same version with the other Porsche of the same series. The longitudinal orientation of the front engine along with the trans axle type of transmission comprised the layout of the automobile. The A4 also has striking similarities with the sedan range. The convertible versions of the later generations turned out to be a variant species of the Audi A5 and were successful in replacing the coupe segment. The manufacturing units of Germany, China and Japan are responsible for the assemblage of the vehicle parts. The front engine of the car makes use of the four wheel driving method.\nThe body types of the various models of the same range differed widely. The sedan had the most elegant and classy appearance and was the first to come into the limelight. It became popular amongst the car lovers especially after featuring in the Frankfurt Motor Show. The Avant was revealed to the public through the General Motors Show in Geneva. The A4L with its long wheelbase gained momentum in the Chinese car market. The launching models possessed the 2.0 and 3.2 FSI and generated an average horsepower of about 180. The Quattro model had a much higher ground clearance with a distinct grill radiator. Roof rails and a stainless steel body are its outlining features.\nDaytime LED lights, a multimedia interface that keeps the driver connected with all forms of entertainment systems, an electronic hand brake and a sensitive power steering are the technological equipment on board. There is also the lane departure warning method that provides the lane assists. The adaptive cruising controls and the headlights are some of the alternative options. The reverse camera options allow for smart parking assistance.\nPresent Facelift and engine\nThe Audi A4 Avant 18t featured in the Frankfurt Motor Show. The 30 valve V6 engine with a capacity of 2.8 litres was replaced with advanced 12 valve engines that were of the same capacity. The diesel engine made use of the direct injection technology and were turbo charged. It generated about 148hp as a standard. The mechanical gearbox was a part of the accessories line up. The rear lights, door handles, headlights and subtle changes in the interior are all part of the modification that was made to the recent models. The turbine turbo charging technique was also changed in order to minimise cracking caused by heat. Most of the cosmetic changes impacted the other components of the car like the centre console and the bumpers. While the petrol engine vehicles of the series used the fuel injection method, the diesel engines were directly injected with fuel. The different engine specifications imply a significant difference in parameters like maximum power, torque, top speed and emissions.\nAbout Audi A4 Avant 18T","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Emrullah Acar\nBeats Covered:\nLocal or Foreign:\nFreelance:\nSentence:\nReported Health Problems:\nType of Death:\nSuspected Source of Fire:\nImpunity:\nTaken Captive:\nTortured:\nThreatened:\nEmrullah Acar, a reporter for the pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya News Agency (MA), was one of 10 journalists detained for alleged terrorist links in various Turkish cities in October 2022. He was detained in the southeastern city of Urfa and is being held in Ankara's Sincan prison awaiting trial. The reason for the mass arrest remains unclear, but lawyers representing the journalists told CPJ that all of them have denied any connection with a terrorist group.\nEmployees of MA, which supports the political and cultural rights of Turkey's ethnic Kurdish citizens, have been subject to frequent prosecution, as the Turkish authorities associate them with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an armed group that has clashed with Turkey over Kurdish independence for decades. Acar was briefly detained in Urfa in November 2021 on suspicion of \"being a member of a [terrorist ] organization\" before his release without charge by a local court.\nOn October 25, police simultaneously raided several homes and one newsroom in the cities of Ankara, Diyarbak\u0131r, Istanbul, Mardin, Urfa, and Van as part of an investigation led by the Ankara chief prosecutor's office, arresting 10 journalists perceived as pro-Kurdish. One, Zemo A\u011fg\u00f6z, was released the next day on house arrest to care for her newborn baby.\nThe remaining detainees were questioned on suspicion of \"being a member of a [terrorist] organization,\" and about their journalistic activities; they were placed under arrest though they have not been officially charged, according to news reports. Acar, who started his journalism career with MA in 2019, was asked about the agency's reporting and his social media posts, as well as an anonymous witness testimony saying he was a terrorist, which he denied, according to documents provided to CPJ by his lawyer.\nMA reported that police officers manhandled and threatened the journalists, handcuffing them for up to 15 hours during the transfer to Ankara and refusing to provide a medical assessment to confirm that some of them had been injured in custody. Some were kept in solitary confinement or given insufficient water, according to MA. Emrullah Acar, an MA reporter among the detainees, told colleagues from prison that Sincan does not provide reading materials in Kurdish, and denied inmates personal letters and healthcare.\nCPJ emailed the Turkish Ministry of Justice in November 2022 for comment, but did not receive any reply.\nAt least 11 journalists in custody after police raids in Turkey\nDeaths by Type Worldwide Since 1992\nIn Crossfire \/ Combat\nOn Dangerous Assignment\nAll Deaths\nImpunity\nUnsolved Murders\nGlobal Campaign Against Impunity\nAttacks on the Press in 2022\nMore CPJ Research\nJournalists Missing\nImpunity Index\nDownload this database\nFAQs on CPJ data","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Book learning November 19, 2009\nPosted by dolorosa12 in books, childhood, fangirl, memories.\nTags: a little princess, adele geras, amelie, books, buffy, childhood, fangirl, john marsden, joss whedon, memories, nostalgia, pagan chronicles, philip pullman\nThe only wars my family waged were with pen and paper.\nMadhur Jaffrey, Seasons of Splendour.\nAs someone who lives a little too vicariously through books (and the occasional film or television series), the idea that a person might fight his or her battles on the page really resonates with me. For me, books have always provided if not guidance then at least aspirations. For almost as long as I can remember reading, I have latched on to particular characters and attempted, with varying degrees of success, to emulate them. There have been a lot of articles and posts recently about female role-models in literature (prompted in part by the upcoming release of the New Moon film and the inevitable bout of hand-wringing about the message Bella Swan sends to impressionable young women) and this post is prompted, in part, by these articles. I'll do a links round-up over at Livejournal so you can see the sorts of things that are being said, if you're interested.\nI'm quite proud of my literary role models, on the whole.\nThe first character I can remember pretending to be, was, fittingly, Sara Crewe from A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. (I had spent many years pretending to be fairytale princesses before that, but I choose to ignore that as I feel my identification with these princesses was more due to the fact that they wore pretty dresses and jewellery.) For those of you not familiar with the character, Sara is the daughter of an English soldier who lives in India as part of the colonial administration. She grows up pampered in a London boarding school run by the cartoonishly vile Miss Minchin, until her father's death, which leaves her penniless. Miss Minchin, who spoiled Sara because she hoped to get rewarded by the wealthy Captain Crewe, finds herself responsible for a girl she detests. Overnight, Sara's life changes. Instead of being the favoured student at the school, she is now a drudge teaching the younger students. She has to move out of her luxurious rooms into a cold attic, eating scraps where before she had dined on delicacies.\nWhat I loved about Sara was not so much the grace with which she endured this change in circumstances but the way she chose to endure them. You see, Sara was a reader. ('She doesn't just read books, Miss Minchin, she devours them,' her father says.) More importantly, she was a storyteller. The thing that kept me covering wooden crates with red crepe paper (to make them look like Sara's 'battered red footstool') and drawing fireplaces on bits of paper in order to stick them on my wall to recreate Sara's attic bedroom was the power of Sara's imagination. 'Suppose,', she would say, meaning, 'Imagine something better than here'.\nA Little Princess was an early lesson for me in the power of the imagination to overcome the most horrendous circumstances. The book articulated something I'd only just begun to understand: that books offered readers another, infinitely more wonderful world.\nThe next book to set my imagination on fire to such an extent was Ad\u00e8le Geras' wonderful The Girls in the Velvet Frame. What, you might ask, did a story about five Jewish sisters growing up poor in pre-Israel Jerusalem have to do with a seven-year-old middle-class Canberran in the early 90s? For me, it was two things: the warmth of the sisters' relationship (and their relationships with their widowed mother Sarah and unmarried, ageing aunt Mimi), and the perfection of Geras' characterisation.\nI loved the matriarchal world of the Bernstein sisters, as I saw (and valued) a similar quality in my own family (which is made up of very strong women with very close relationships). And I loved, in particular, two of the sisters: dreamy Naomi, who saw the world through rose-coloured glasses and used storytelling to occupy her two younger sisters, and practical, cynical Chava ('I always expect bad things to happen, because then bad things don't disappoint me and the good things come as a nice surprise'). There's a lot of Naomi and Chava in me, and there is a lot of stubborn, determined Dvora in my younger sister Mimi. I recognised this even then, and I identified passionately with Geras' characters.\nWhen I was ten, along came one character who would blow them all away with sheer awesomeness. I'm referring, of course, to Pagan Kidrouk, from Catherine Jinks' Pagan Chronicles. I read these books initially as I was invited to a talk given by Jinks at the sadly now defunct Griffith Library, and I fell in love with the snarky, sarcastic, scarily intelligent hero. It's been a life-long love affair: if Pagan were to walk out of the pages of the books today, I would follow him to the ends of the earth, even if all he did was make disparaging remarks about my intelligence and rage at the stupidity of mankind.\nPart of the appeal of Pagan lay in his identity as a literate intellectual in a largely illiterate, anti-intellectual world (the books are set during the Third Crusades). He was irresolutely bookish, with a rich, if angry, intellectual life going on in his head. He has always appealed to my book snobbery, which in my preteen days was even more fierce than it is today. I read, therefore I am would've been my motto if I'd heard of Descartes. Pagan made even the illiterate characters recognise the value of reading: Lord Roland, the knight whom Pagan serves, remarks (giving me a quote that has always resonated with me), 'People who read are always like you. You can't just tell them, you have to tell them why.' I swooned, and I'm still swooning today.\nThe Tomorrow series by John Marsden also provided me with a set of inspirational characters. After briefly cheating on Pagan with Lee (haha), I settled down into a more sedate appreciation of this classic Australian series. I honestly think it was one of the most important cultural artefacts of my generation. For about five years, everyone was reading these books. When a new one came out, we'd all be discussing them on the playground, speculating about who would live and who would die. They were, for my generation, bigger than Harry Potter, and for that they'll always have a special place in my heart: although I loved being a reader because it set me apart, I also enjoyed it when my classmates and friends read so that we could discuss books.\nI also adored the characters because they rang so true. Not one of them is a stereotype or a cardboard cut-out placed in the book as a mouthpiece for Marsden's views (which happens so often in so many YA books). Oh, sure, it was very clear what Marsden's views were, but he let them seep through organically, whispering at the margins of one of the most gripping plots I've ever had the pleasure to read. Marsden's teenage characters, from Ellie the tomboyish, self-reliant narrator to Fi the sheltered princess, from Robyn the pacifist Christian to Lee the depressed, revenge-obsessed artist, taught me how to be brave. They taught me that war was hell and that I had a moral obligation to do all that I could to prevent it, and they taught me that teenagers were the most powerful, most adaptable, most resilient and most resourceful creatures on the planet.\nThe next author to play such a significant role in my moral and intellectual development was the wonderful, eloquent, word-weaving Philip Pullman. He gave me such great gifts: the character Lyra, from his His Dark Materials series, who is probably my favourite fictional heroine, and is definitely the most heartbreakingly human character ever to stalk the pages of a book, and the book The Tiger In the Well, which gave me a speech which has informed my political beliefs to this day. These books didn't exactly change my beliefs (I was an atheist already, I was in favour of knowledge and consciousness and life, I was a social democrat, I was appalled by unchecked capitalism) so much as confirm them and articulate them in a way that I could not have done myself. No books have ever meant more to me than His Dark Materials and nothing has ever had, or will ever have, such a profound effect on my life.\nIn His Dark Materials, the idea that a very small event has the potential to create millions and millions of universes is a crucial theme. Well, the fact that my sister overheard me complaining about lack of books (I was put off by the cover of Northern Lights, which had animals on it: I've never been particularly interested in stories about animals) and forced Northern Lights into my hands utterly changed my life. I would not be at Cambridge without Philip Pullman.\nThere are several other book, film and television characters who are important to me: Amelie from the movie Amelie (who gave me unrealistic expectations about life, but introduced me to the joys of quirkiness and serendipity), Sulien ap Gwien from Jo Walton's Tir Tanagiri Saga (who showed me that one could have a fulfilled life without romantic realitionships), Una from Jo Walton's Romanitas series (whose intense introversion and observation of other people is something with which I identity strongly) and the characters in Joss Whedon's television shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly (who taught me that the family that you choose for yourself, united, can never be defeated, and that misfits can save the world).\nThese characters are in some ways more important to me than the themes of the texts in which they appear. As I took on all these characters and integrated them into my identity, they ceased to be the creations of their respective authors and became something different. I hesitate to say that they taught me how to be, since of course I am not as stoic as Sara Crewe, as resilient as Naomi and Dvora Bernstein, as intelligent as Pagan Kidrouk, as brave as the teenagers in the Tomorrow series or as all-around awesome as Lyra. I don't have the courage of my convictions of Dan Goldberg and Sally Lockhart, I don't brighten the lives of those around me as much as Amelie Poulain, I'm not as loyal as Sulien, I'm not as determined as Una and I'm not as good a friend as the characters in Joss Whedon's shows. But all these characters taught me who I wanted to be, and how I wanted to live. Although I do not live up to their standards, that I value these standards says something essential about my identity.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Attend a Live Taping\nGuest Suggestion\n33.8\u00b0FNew York\nThe David Feldman Show\nCategory: Journalists\nHow ExxonMobil Runs Trump's White House\nJanuary 17, 2017 - Activists, David Feldman Radio Show, David Feldman Show, Journalists\nJenny Rowland on her latest article How Exxon Won the 2016 Election.\nJenny is the Research and Advocacy Associate for the Public Lands Project at Center for American Progress.\nYou can read her latest on ExxonMobil and Trump here:\nThe interview with just Jenny is above on You Tube. You can listen to the entire show as a podcast below:\nNostalgia For George W. Bush\nJanuary 17, 2017 - Activists, Authors, Comedians, Comedy Writers, David Feldman Show, Full Interviews With Our Guests, Journalists, Our Podcast\nComedy writers David Sirus and Bob Powers get nostalgic for the Bush administration, Trump's commitment to ignoring the truth, John Lewis, repealing Obamacare, the message Democrats should be sending to working class voters and Bill Kristol.\nThen Jenny Rowland on her latest article How Exxon Won the 2016 Election.\nThen Mattathias Schwartz from The Intercept joins us from Capitol Hill to discuss Trump's pick for Secretary of Defense, General Mattis, and tells us why civilian rule of the military is enshrined into our constitution.\nThe Mattis Waiver\nJanuary 10, 2017 - David Feldman Radio Show, David Feldman Show, Journalists\nWhat is the Mattis Waiver? In order for General James Mattis to be confirmed for Secretary of Defense both houses of congress must pass a law reducing the number of years an officer must be away from the military in order to run the pentagon. Mattathias Schwartz from The Intercept joins us from Capitol Hill to tell us why civilian rule of the military is enshrined into our constitution.\nWhat's It Like Working on The Celebrity Apprentice 2017?\nDecember 27, 2016 - David Feldman Radio Show, David Feldman Show, Journalists\nThe climate of fear and reprisal in Hollywood. We talk with David Dayen who writes for The Intercept. David Dayen is a contributor to The Intercept, and also writes for Salon, the Fiscal Times, the New Republic, and more. His first book, Chain of Title, about three ordinary Americans who uncover Wall Street's foreclosure fraud, will be released in May 2016.\nGreg Fitzsimmons On Women Who Voted Trump\nDecember 13, 2016 - Authors, Comedians, Comedy Writers, David Feldman Radio Show, David Feldman Show, Journalists, Most Recent\nJudah Grunstein, editor-in-chief of World Politics Review, on Trump and the rise of nationalism in Europe. David defends the politics of personal destruction and why anyone who supports Trump needs to be humiliated and shamed.\nSaying No To Trump\nDecember 9, 2016 - Activists, Actors, Authors, Comedians, Comedy Writers, David Feldman Radio Show, David Feldman Show, Full Interviews With Our Guests, Journalists\nFirst, Pat Dixon and Dave Sirus discuss the intricacies of relationships, marriage and sex. Then, David talks to Professor David Faris about the Democrats fighting dirty. And finally, David is joined by John Egan, the publisher of the Burrard Street Journal, to examine the dangers of fake news.\n\"What I love about 'The David Feldman Show' is I'm listening to a middle-aged guy getting radicalized, but he still can't stop telling dick jokes with his comic friends from the '80s.\"\n\u2013 Michael Brooks, The Michael Brooks Show\n\"I love how David gives both sides of a story: profound and anti-found.\"\n\u2013 Congressman Alan Grayson\n\"A podcast for folks who believe that strong political convictions and a sense of humor do not have to be mutually exclusive.\"\n\u2013 Nathan Rabin, The AV Club\nAs long as you're here, we could use your help. This show is a labor of love and nobody is getting rich from it. There are a lot of ways you can help out, please click here to find out more.\nMerch is Coming\nWe need your help. Please take our survey to help us decide what kind of merch we offer. We're working with a union shop to offer quality, made-in-America merch, but want to hear from you about it first.\n\u00a9 2021 DavidFeldmanShow.com.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Complex Medical\nEndocrinology\/Diabetes\nPulmonary Medicine & Rehabilitation\nPulmonary Medicine & Respiratory Care\nAdult Day Health Program\nView our Full List of Services\nDoctorFinder\u2122\nMaking an appointment with any of our doctors at any of our facilities is easy. Whether you need a doctor who speaks a second language or need an appointment close to home or work, we can help.\nYour Patient Experience\nPatient Satisfaction Hotline: 781-297-1233\nMedia & Press: [email protected]\nPatient Portal Sign In\nVisiting Hours Family and friends may visit a patient at any time during their hospital stay. The only restrictions on visiting hours would be based on a patient's medical condition, or if limitations are set by their physician.\nNew England Sinai Hospital\nStoughton, MA 02072\nStewardConnect Patient Portal\nOur patient portal allows you to exchange messages with your health care team, review and pay billing statements, request appointments, research health topics, review personal health information, and update your profile and contact information.\nAbout New England Sinai Hospital\nNew England Sinai Hospital is a 182-bed, long-term acute care hospital offering state-of-the-art medical technology and a highly skilled staff. We are recognized as a premiere regional specialty hospital, delivering quality pulmonary and complex medical care, as well as ambulatory services and outpatient rehabilitation services to residents of southeastern Massachusetts.\nNewsroom & Media\nAbout Steward Health Care\nSteward Health Care is the largest private, tax-paying physician-led health care network in the United States. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Steward operates 37 hospitals in the United States and the country of Malta that regularly receive top awards for quality and safety. The company employs approximately 42,000 health care professionals. The Steward network includes multiple urgent care centers and skilled nursing facilities, substantial behavioral health services, over 7,900 beds under management, and approximately 2.2 million full risk covered lives through the company's managed care and health insurance services.\nWhy do we have Interpreters?\nNew England Sinai Hospital is committed to providing linguistically and culturally appropriate services to our patients and families. We have an experienced team of trained medical Interpreters on staff. In the medical setting, it is essential that patients actively participate in a dialogue with their health care providers. The need to understand information, diagnoses, and directions accurately is crucial before making medical decisions that affect one's own treatment or that of a loved one. While many of our Limited English Proficiency (LEP) patients and their families use English in other settings, it may not be the language they prefer to utilize for medical care. In addition, feelings of anxiousness or fear about a diagnosis or illness can affect communication. This often happens in emergency situations when a person may be too nervous to communicate clearly in anything other than his\/her primary language. Interpreter services bridges linguistic and cultural gaps that may exist between a patient and the medical provider while maintaining strict patient confidentiality.\nRead the latest issue of Cultural Connection.\nInterpreters are available 24 hours per day\nPor favor clique na gravura do alto falante para ouvir uma mensagem de servi\u00e7o p\u00fablico do Departamento de Sa\u00fade P\u00fablica de Massachusetts.\nPor favor haga clic sobre el s\u00edmbolo de la bocina para escuchar un mensaje de audio del servicio p\u00fablico de Massachusetts Department of Public Health.\n\u8acb\u9ede\u64ca\u63da\u8072\u5668\u6309\u9215\u4ee5\u6536\u807d\u7531\u9ebb\u5dde\u516c\u773e\u5065\u5eb7\u5c40\u63d0\u4f9b\u7684\u8a9e\u97f3\u8cc7\u3002\nXin h\u00e3y b\u1ea5m v\u00e0o n\u00fat h\u00ecnh c\u00e1i loa \u0111e nghe th\u00f4ng tin t\u1eeb B\u1ed9 Y T\u1ebf C\u00f4NG C\u1ed9NG c\u1ee7a Ti\u1ec3u Bang MA.\n\u0644\u0637\u0641\u0627\u064b \u2013 \u0623\u064f\u0646\u0642\u0631 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0623\u064a\u0642\u0648\u0646\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0651\u0645\u0627\u0639\u0629 \u0644\u0633\u0645\u0627\u0639 \u0631\u0633\u0627\u0644\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062e\u062f\u0645\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0643\u0648\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0645\u0646 \u0625\u062f\u0627\u0631\u0629 \u0645\u0627\u0633\u0627\u0634\u064a\u0648\u0633\u062a\u0633 \u0644\u0644\u0635\u0651\u062d\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0627\u0645\u0629\nTanpri peze klik\u00e8 ya pou-w kapab tande mesaj Depatman Sante Piblik Massachusetts lan.\n\u041d\u0430\u0436\u043c\u0438\u0442\u0435, \u043f\u043e\u0436\u0430\u043b\u0443\u0439\u0441\u0442\u0430, \u043a\u043d\u043e\u043f\u043a\u0443 \"\u0414\u0438\u043d\u0430\u043c\u0438\u043a\" \u0438 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0441\u043b\u0443\u0448\u0430\u0439\u0442\u0435 \u0441\u043e\u043e\u0431\u0449\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0423\u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0437\u0434\u0440\u0430\u0432\u043e\u043e\u0445\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0448\u0442\u0430\u0442\u0430 \u041c\u0430\u0441\u0441\u0430\u0447\u0443\u0441\u0435\u0442\u0442\u0441.\nInterpreter services are provided at no cost to patients, family members and companions involved in patient care. You do not have to bring your own interpreter. If you prefer to have a family member or friend interpret on your behalf, we will respect your preference. Be aware that minors are legally prohibited from interpreting for both patients and family members. You may change your mind and request a trained medical interpreter at any time. If you would like to have a medical interpreter throughout your upcoming appointment, you will need to request this service from our patient registration staff, notify your provider's office when scheduling the appointment, or simply let your health care team know at any time.\nHow to reach an interpreter at New England Sinai Hospital:\nNew England Sinai Hospital's team of health care providers and support staff work closely with interpreter services to ensure that our medical interpreters are prepared to support your care. In the event that you need to reschedule your appointment or have questions related to ongoing care, contact interpreter services or your provider's direct number to discuss your situation. Contact information for our department is listed below.\nCape Verdean Creole: 508-427-3023, press \"2\"\nPortuguese: 508-427-3023, press \"2\"\nHaitian Creole: 508-427-3023, press \"3\"\nSpanish: 508-427-3023, press \"4\"\nEnglish\/Other: 508-427-3023, press \"1\"\nFeatured Interpreter\nAmy Kopchell\nManager, Interpreter Services\nAmy Kopchell was born in the Azores, Portugal and moved with her family to Cambridge as a young child. She later relocated to southeastern Massachusetts to start her own family. Amy has held prior management and administrative positions in health care, software and finance. Fluent in both Portuguese and English, Amy has trained her team to support both patient registration and financial counseling in addition to medical interpreting. Amy can be reached at\n508-427-3230 or [email protected].\nIn emergency or short-notice situations, when an in-person interpreter is not immediately available for a specific language, we may utilize telephonic and\/or video remote interpretation. New England Sinai Hospital has invested in the latest communications technology in order to ensure that our LEP patients always receive an equivalent standard of care compared to non-LEP patients. Our services include customized wireless conference phones and dual-handset phones stationed at key hospital departments with access to both staff and outside Interpreters in 200 languages and dialects. We offer video remote interpreting supported with a computer and webcam when assisting deaf patients through American Sign Language (ASL) to supplement in-person ASL Interpreters requested from the Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (MCDHH). We also support video remote interpretation for a number of our most frequently requested languages.\nPulmonary Med.\nAdult Day Health\nVisitorsVisitor Information\nOur Policies Privacy Policy\nO\/P Services:\nDiabetes CTR:\nPatient Hotline:\n150 York St., Stoughton, MA 02072\nNews Room & Media\nStewardToday Receive the latest news from StewardToday!\nBy submitting your details, you are agreeing to receive occasional communications about Steward Health Care resources, events, or services. You also acknowledge that you have read and understood our Privacy Statement.\nCopyright \u00a9 2020 Steward Health Care","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"NRCC's Cole puts more pressure on House Democrats over FISA than the White House.\nWhite House Not Tough Enough on FISA\nNRCC's Cole puts more pressure on House Democrats over FISA than the White House.\nAfter breakfast on Monday with National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R.-Okla) and the gaggle (early morning press briefing) with White House Press Secretary Dana Perino Tuesday morning, I couldn't help but reach one conclusion: when it comes to what Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrats are doing with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Cole is a lot clearer in his response than is Perino in hers.\nIn taking after Pelosi and Company on key issues, Cole repeatedly underscored the fact that \"they are fighting us on FISA.\" House Democrats bottling up a Senate version of the legislation that includes retroactive immunity for telecom companies that assist in surveillance (the measure passed the Senate resoundingly, by a vote of 68-to-29), Cole said, \"has more to do with trial lawyers than national security.\" He explained that few, if any, telecom companies would assist in surveillance if they did not receive retroactive immunity and thus be saved from lawsuits spearheaded by among the largest of Democratic contributors, the trial lawyers.\nThe following morning, when I asked Perino if she agreed with Cole's assessment, the President's top spokesman told me she \"was not ascribing that motivation\" but that it would \"not help the intelligence community.\" She went on to say that failure to pass the measure that includes retroactive immunity could \"line the funds of trial lawyers.\"\nThe Power of a 'Comeback'\nObama's Halo Not Attached with Superglue","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Click to play our newest game, yahtzee!\nHow to Sing Like John Lennon\nWeb Minesweeper - Play Free Minesweeper online\nJohn Lennon is truly an iconic figure in music history. He started off in the Beatles, and became a voice for peace and harmony in his life and song. With a pure, clear voice he sang about love, life and an end to war. Read on to learn how to sing like John Lennon.\nSing from the heart. One definitive way to get a feel for how John Lennon sings, is to sit down and listen to his words and the feelings behind them. There is always a strong sense of sincerity in his voice, and in order to sing like John Lennon you must find a way to incorporate the deepest sincerity into your songs.\nLeave the trills and runs behind. It is popular today to hit every note on the musical scale and trill at length. Though this is a valid way of using one's voice, to sing like John Lennon you must leave all of these out of your repertoire.\nScream when it is called for. Though most of John Lennon's later songs were very low key, even when his anger is communicated, he knew when to use a good scream when the song called for it. In many of the Beatles' earlier angrier songs, you will hear John Lennon's signature scream, but you will notice that it is nothing like a death metal growl.\nUse your vibrato. For intensity that does not require a raucous shout, use a slight tremor in your voice to convey meaning. John Lennon had a style of singing which left most conventions behind and incorporated slight emotional changes to give him songs beauty and melody.\nSing with a slight falsetto. Falsetto is a very high pitch in the vocal range, and though it should be used sparingly, to sing like John Lennon you will have to use it to add to the melody of more emotional songs.\nHow to Sing Like Steven Tyler\nHow to Write Songs Like Tupac\nWhat Is a True Contralto?\nMale Black Vocalists of the 1930s & 1940s\nHow to Write an A Cappella Song\nHow to Sing Like John Mayer","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"passing through the country, and could be brought together when there was some important point to attack.\nThe best point to redizvous would be at La Casa Blanca on the Nueces; where there is an abundance of the very best pasturage for horses and cattle, good water and a healthy region.\nI am so little acquainted with the military tallent of that country, that it would be difficult for me to select a leader. The man is not in my knowing who possessess sufficient qualification to command such an expedition as is in contemplation -- he must be a good tactician, a good disciplinarian, affable and courtious, possessed of much firmness, great energy, quick of apprehension, and much reflection. Find such an one and he will lead 5,000 men through the Mexican Republic.\nAgain, in February 1842, it was reported at Corpus Christi and San Patricio that the Mexicans to the number of three hundred were collecting at a point some thirty miles below the Nueces. An express was sent to Victoria for aid, but none was forthcoming.[88] In the meantime, a hunter came in to Kinney's rancho to report seeing thirty Mexicans cross the Nueces, going east. Cairns and a few of his men were still around, although he had discharged his company some time previous to this. Cairns and six companions headed up the Nueces River about March 1 on a reconnaissance and ran into trouble.\n\"It is believed here,\" wrote the President on February 15, shortly after his arrival in Houston, \"and I do not doubt the truth of the assertion, that Santa Anna intends, and will if he can, send a large force, and station it upon the R\u00edo Grande,\" from which cavalry parties will be sent out to \"annoy\" and \"assail all frontier points.\" The predatory incursions may be expected to \"bear off such goods and citizens, as they may think will do us greatest injury. If this should not be done within one year,\" he informed his private secretary, \"I'll answer, that we shall have peace upon our R\u00edo Grande border!\"[89]\nLet the battalions of the redoubtable Santa Anna come, declared the President's private secretary, \"they will be the heralds of their own destruction. Their presence on our soil will but precipitate their in-\n88. Goodman, \"A Statement of Facts, Washington, Feby 10, 1843,\" in W. D. Miller Papers, 1833-1860, ms.\n89. Houston to Washington D. Miller, Houston, Feb. 15, 1842, in Writings of Sam Houston, II, 484-485.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"You are at:Home\u00bbWorld\u00bbElectric buses go mainstream\nElectric buses go mainstream\nBy Agency Staff\t 24 April 2018 No Comments\nElectric buses were seen as a joke at an industry conference in Belgium seven years ago when the Chinese manufacturer BYD showed an early model.\n\"Everyone was laughing at BYD for making a toy,\" recalled Isbrand Ho, the Shenzhen-based company's MD in Europe. \"And look now. Everyone has one.\"\nSuddenly, buses with battery-powered motors are a serious matter with the potential to revolutionise city transport \u2014 and add to the forces reshaping the energy industry. With China leading the way, making the traditional smog-belching diesel behemoth run on electricity is starting to eat away at fossil-fuel demand.\nFor every thousand battery-powered buses on the road, about 500 barrels a day of diesel fuel will be displaced from the market\nThe numbers are staggering. China had about 99% of the 385 000 electric buses on the roads worldwide in 2017, accounting for 17% of the country's entire fleet. Every five weeks, Chinese cities add 9 500 of the zero-emissions transporters \u2014 the equivalent of London's entire working fleet, according Bloomberg New Energy Finance.\nAll this is starting to make an observable reduction in fuel demand. And because they consume 30 times more fuel than average-sized cars, their impact on energy use so far has become much greater than the than the passenger sedans produced companies from Tesla to Toyota.\nFor every thousand battery-powered buses on the road, about 500 barrels a day of diesel fuel will be displaced from the market, according to BNEF calculations. This year, the volume of fuel buses take off the market may rise 37% to 279 000 barrels a day, about as much oil as Greece consumes, according to BNEF.\n\"This segment is approaching the tipping point,\" said Colin Mckerracher, head of advanced transport at the London-based research unit of Bloomberg. \"City governments all over the world are being taken to task over poor urban air quality. This pressure isn't going away, and electric bus sales are positioned to benefit.\"\nChina leading\nChina is ahead on electrifying its fleet because it has the world's worst pollution problem. With a growing urban population and galloping energy demand, the nation's legendary smog was responsible for 1.6m extra deaths in 2015, according to non-profit Berkeley Earth.\nA decade ago, Shenzhen was a typical example of a booming Chinese city that had given little thought to the environment. Its smog became so notorious that the government picked it for a pilot programme for energy conservation and zero emissions vehicles in 2009. Two years later, the first electric buses rolled off BYD's production line there. And in December, all of Shenzhen's 16 359 buses were electric.\nBYD had 13% of China's electric bus market in 2016 and put 14 000 of the vehicles on the streets of Shenzhen alone. It's built 35 000 so far and has capacity to build as many as 15 000 a year, Ho said.\nBYD estimates its buses have logged 17bn kilometres and saved 6.8bn litres of fuel since they started ferrying passengers around the world's busiest cities. That, according to Ho, adds up to 18m tons of carbon dioxide pollution avoided, which is about as much as 3.8m cars produce in each year.\n\"The first fleet of pure electric buses provided by BYD started operation in Shenzhen in 2011,\" Ho said by phone. \"Now, almost 10 years later, in other cities the air quality has worsened while \u2014 compared to those cities \u2014 Shenzhen's is much better.\"\nOther cities are taking notice. Paris, London, Mexico City and Los Angeles are among 13 authorities that have committed to only buying zero-emissions transport by 2025.\nLondon's network draws about 1.5m barrels a year of fuel. If the entire fleet goes electric, that may displace 430 barrels a day of diesel for every thousand buses going electric\nLondon is slowly transforming its fleet. Currently four routes in the city centre serviced by single-decker units are being shifted to electricity. There are plans to make significant investments to the clean its public transport networks, including retrofitting 5 000 old diesel buses in a programme to ensure all buses are emission-free by 2037.\nTransport for London, responsible for the city's transport system, declined to comment for this article because of rules around engaging with the media ahead of May local government elections.\nThose goals will have an impact on fuel consumption. London's network draws about 1.5m barrels a year of fuel. If the entire fleet goes electric, that may displace 430 barrels a day of diesel for every thousand buses going electric, reducing UK diesel consumption by about 0.7%, according to BNEF.\nAcross the UK, there were 344 electric and plug-in hybrid buses in 2017, and BYD hopes to be picked to supply more. It has partnered with a Scottish bus maker to provide the batteries for 11 new electric buses that hit the city's roads in March.\nFalkirk-based manufacturer Alexander Dennis began making electric buses in 2016 and has quickly become the European market leader with more than 170 vehicles operating in the UK alone.\nMore work is on the horizon, with London's transport authority planning a tender to electrify its iconic double-decker buses, Ho said.\n\"The tech is ready,\" Ho said. \"We are ready, we have our plants in China, and Alexander Dennis in Scotland is geared up for TfL. Once we're given the word, we are ready to go.\" \u2014 Reported by Jeremy Hodges, (c) 2018 Bloomberg LP\nAlexander Dennis BYD Tesla top Toyota Transport for London\nPrevious ArticleSuspected poor iPhone X sales a bad omen for Apple\nNext Article Backspace: 'Sars and bitcoin'\nBitcoin tumbles again as US scrutinises libra\nElon Musk hopes to put brain-reading implant in human by 2020","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Article APPARENTLY THE GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN ILLEGALLY APPOINTING PATENT JUDGES SINCE 2000.\nAPPARENTLY THE GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN ILLEGALLY APPOINTING PATENT JUDGES SINCE 2000.\nby Sam Boyd\nA law professor noticed recently that a 1999 law gave a government official the power to appoint patent judges even though the constitution clearly states that they must be approved by the Senate (the Constitution says \"inferior officials\" must be confirmed and the Supreme Court ruled in the early 90s that patent judges are inferior officials). Somehow this made it through the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel which vets proposed bills for constitutional issues and so, once the bill was passed, the administration unwittingly went on its merry way -- appointing judges illegally (given that this happened in 2000 we can't blame it on Bush).\nProblem is, now that the problem has come to light, most of the decisions on patent cases in the last eight years are invalid since, if the judge wasn't properly appointed, the losing party can now appeal. Given how controversial patents have become, it's a good thing that the Senate will now have the power to confirm patent judges, but we still should figure out exactly how something like this happened and ask if the OLC has enough staff and resources.\n--Sam Boyd\nSam Boyd\nSam Boyd is a former assistant web editor at the Prospect.\nRead more by Sam Boyd","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Saga Communications Inc\nSGHB:FRA\nSGA:NMQNASDAQ\nSGHB:FRAFrankfurt Stock Exchange\nSGHB:DEUGerman Composite\nToday's Change-0.20 \/ -0.89%\nShares traded0.00\nOn Friday, Saga Communications Inc (SGHB:FRA) closed at 22.20, 17.72% above the 52 week low of 18.86 set on Feb 07, 2022.\n18.86Feb 07 202230.20Dec 12 2022\n148.47m USD\nSaga Communications, Inc. is a broadcast company that is primarily engaged in acquiring, developing and operating broadcast properties. The Company owns approximately 79 frequency modulation (FM), over 34 amplitude modulation (AM) radio stations and approximately 79 metro signals serving over 27 markets, including Asheville, Bellingham, Brattleboro, Bucyrus, Champaign, Charleston, Charlottesville, Clarksville, Columbus, Des Moines, Greenfield, Harrisonburg, Hilton Head Island, Ithaca, Jonesboro, Keene, Manchester, Mitchell, Norfolk, Ocala, Northampton, Portland, Spencer, Springfield and Yankton. Its radio stations that it owns and\/or operates employ a variety of programming formats, including classic hits, adult hits, Top 40, Country, Country legends, mainstream\/hot\/soft adult contemporary, pure oldies, classic rock and news\/talk. Its stations broadcast primarily in small to midsize markets.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura condemns the continued use of indiscriminate weapons in civilian areas in Syria. \"The shelling of Damascus neighborhoods and suburbs, as well as other areas in Syria, which continues to indiscriminately kill and injur civilians, has no justification, but only further terrorizes the population,\" Mr. de Mistura stressed.\nHe expresses his sincere condolences to the families of the bereaved and wishes speedy recovery to the injured. Mr. de Mistura renews his call on all the warring parties in Syria to immediately cease attacks affecting any civilian. \"Instead, all Syrian efforts should now be focused on finding a political solution to the unacceptable situation in their homeland,\" he added.\nThe United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura ended his visit to Cairo where he met with the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs His Excellency Mr. Sameh Shoukry and the National Security Adviser Mrs. Fayza Aboulnaga.\nThe discussions revolved around the way forward to support Syrian parties in their search of a political solution to the conflict and the relevance of all international efforts exerted to put an end to the suffering of the Syrian people.\nMr. de Mistura also met with several members of the Syrian opposition who were present in Cairo.\nThe Special Envoy will be continuing his consultations with Member States in the region in the coming few days.\n11 July 2015, Cairo\n\u0623\u0646\u0647\u0649 \u0645\u0628\u0639\u0648\u062b \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0645\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062a\u062d\u062f\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062e\u0627\u0635 \u0644\u0633\u0648\u0631\u064a\u0627 \u0633\u062a\u064a\u0641\u0627\u0646 \u062f\u064a \u0645\u064a\u0633\u062a\u0648\u0631\u0627 \u0632\u064a\u0627\u0631\u062a\u0647 \u0625\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0642\u0627\u0647\u0631\u0629 \u062d\u064a\u062b \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0642\u0649 \u0645\u0639 \u0648\u0632\u064a\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u062e\u0627\u0631\u062c\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u0631\u064a \u0633\u0639\u0627\u062f\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u064a\u062f \u0633\u0627\u0645\u062d \u0634\u0643\u0631\u064a \u0648\u0645\u0633\u062a\u0634\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0642\u0648\u0645\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0633\u064a\u062f\u0629 \u0641\u0627\u064a\u0632\u0629 \u0623\u0628\u0648 \u0627\u0644\u0646\u062c\u0627.\n\u062a\u0645\u062d\u0648\u0631\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0646\u0627\u0642\u0634\u0627\u062a \u062d\u0648\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0637\u0631\u064a\u0642 \u0625\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0645\u0627\u0645 \u0644\u062f\u0639\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0637\u0631\u0627\u0641 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0648\u0631\u064a\u0629 \u0641\u064a \u0628\u062d\u062b\u0647\u0645 \u0639\u0646 \u062d\u0644 \u0633\u064a\u0627\u0633\u064a \u0644\u0644\u0635\u0631\u0627\u0639 \u0648\u0623\u0647\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0643\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u062c\u0647\u0648\u062f \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0648\u0644\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0628\u0630\u0648\u0644\u0629 \u0644\u0648\u0636\u0639 \u062d\u062f \u0644\u0645\u0639\u0627\u0646\u0627\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0639\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0648\u0631\u064a.\n\u0643\u0645\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0642\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u064a\u062f \u062f\u064a \u0645\u0633\u062a\u0648\u0631\u0627 \u0623\u064a\u0636\u0627 \u0645\u0639 \u0639\u062f\u062f \u0645\u0646 \u0623\u0639\u0636\u0627\u0621 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0639\u0627\u0631\u0636\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0648\u0631\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0630\u064a\u0646 \u0643\u0627\u0646\u0648\u0627 \u0645\u0648\u062c\u0648\u062f\u064a\u0646 \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0642\u0627\u0647\u0631\u0629.\n\u064a\u0648\u0627\u0635\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0628\u0639\u0648\u062b \u0627\u0644\u062e\u0627\u0635 \u0645\u0634\u0627\u0648\u0631\u0627\u062a\u0647 \u0645\u0639 \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0648\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0639\u0636\u0627\u0621 \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0646\u0637\u0642\u0629 \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0623\u064a\u0627\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0642\u0644\u064a\u0644\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0642\u0627\u062f\u0645\u0629.\n11 \u064a\u0648\u0644\u064a\u0648 2015\u060c \u0627\u0644\u0642\u0627\u0647\u0631\u0629","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Car Reviews \u00bb Tesla Stops Taking New Model S\/X Orders Outside North America\nTesla Stops Taking New Model S\/X Orders Outside North America\nTesla has stopped taking orders for the refreshed Model S and Model X for markets outside North America.\nThe company emailed people who have Model S and Model X vehicles on order in Europe to say it is not accepting any new orders from outside North America for the time to speed up the delivery of existing orders.\n\"In order to expedite the delivery of existing orders, including your Model X order, as much as possible, we are currently no longer accepting new orders for the Model S and Model X from markets outside North America.\"\nThis is likely Tesla's way of trying to cope with the large backlog of orders in Europe and other markets, where there have been no new Model X and Model S shipments in almost a year.\nGallery: 2021 Tesla Model X\nIn January 2021, Tesla stopped making its flagship EVs to update them. Since then, the company kept taking new orders but production got delayed. The refreshed Model S only started to roll off the assembly line in Fremont in June, while production of the new Model X began in October.\nTesla is currently prioritizing orders from North America but is still catching up to the backlog in its home region. Meanwhile, orders from Europe and Asia keep coming.\nApparently, that's no longer the case, according to this email that also says the first Model S and Model X deliveries to Europe will happen in the second half of 2022\u2014a year and a half since the last deliveries took place.\nCheck out the email in full, courtesy of Electrek.\nHello [redacted],\nWe are contacting you regarding the timing of your Model X order. As we expand production capacity, the launch dates for markets outside of North America have been postponed. We will inform you of the delivery times through your Tesla account when production begins.\nYour Model X is getting closer to delivery. We currently expect shipments outside of North America to begin in the second half of 2022.\nThe price of your Model X will continue to be the same as it was when you placed your order, unless your vehicle configuration has been changed. To apply your order fee to another model, or to receive a full refund, request a call to speak directly to a Tesla representative.\nWe apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.\nYour Tesla Team\nSpy Shots Reveal How The New 2021 BMW M3 Looks In Real Life\nShell converts Fulham fuel station into EV charging hub\n2022 Lexus IS500 First Look: F Sport Performance, V-8 Engine\nFormer Aston Martin CEO Warns Local Battery Production Is Vital For The UK\ncannery casino movies\ngrand lodge casino\nst lucia casino\nblack lotus casino\nharrah's hotel and casino las vegas","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2)\nJournal of Plasma Physics (1)\nCambridge Contemporary Astrophysics (1)\nCorentin Herbert, Raffaele Marino, Duane Rosenberg, Annick Pouquet\nJournal: Journal of Fluid Mechanics \/ Volume 806 \/ 10 November 2016\nPrint publication: 10 November 2016\nWe study the partition of energy between waves and vortices in stratified turbulence, with or without rotation, for a variety of parameters, focusing on the behaviour of the waves and vortices in the inverse cascade of energy towards the large scales. To this end, we use direct numerical simulations in a cubic box at a Reynolds number $Re\\approx 1000$ , with the ratio between the Brunt\u2013V\u00e4is\u00e4l\u00e4 frequency $N$ and the inertial frequency $f$ varying from $1\/4$ to 20, together with a purely stratified run. The Froude number, measuring the strength of the stratification, varies within the range $0.02\\leqslant Fr\\leqslant 0.32$ . We find that the inverse cascade is dominated by the slow quasi-geostrophic modes. Their energy spectra and fluxes exhibit characteristics of an inverse cascade, even though their energy is not conserved. Surprisingly, the slow vortices still dominate when the ratio $N\/f$ increases, also in the stratified case, although less and less so. However, when $N\/f$ increases, the inverse cascade of the slow modes becomes weaker and weaker, and it vanishes in the purely stratified case. We discuss how the disappearance of the inverse cascade of energy with increasing $N\/f$ can be interpreted in terms of the waves and vortices, and identify the main effects that can explain this transition based on both inviscid invariants arguments and viscous effects due to vertical shear.\nRestricted equilibrium and the energy cascade in rotating and stratified flows\nCorentin Herbert, Annick Pouquet, Raffaele Marino\nMost turbulent flows appearing in nature (e.g. geophysical and astrophysical flows) are subjected to strong rotation and stratification. These effects break the symmetries of classical, homogenous isotropic turbulence. In doing so, they introduce a natural decomposition of phase space in terms of wave modes and potential vorticity modes. The appearance of a new time scale, associated with the propagation of waves, hinders the understanding of energy transfers across scales. For instance, it is difficult to predict a priori whether the energy cascades downscale as in homogeneous isotropic turbulence or upscale as expected from balanced dynamics. In this paper, we suggest a theoretical approach based on equilibrium statistical mechanics for the ideal system, inspired by the restricted partition function formalism introduced in metastability studies. We focus on the qualitative features of the inviscid system, taking into account either all the modes or just the slow modes. Specifically, we show that at absolute equilibrium, i.e. when all the modes are considered, no negative temperature states exist, and the isotropic energy spectrum is close to equipartition. By contrast, when the statistics is restricted to the contributions of the slow modes, we find that in the presence of rotation, there exists a regime of negative temperature featuring an infrared divergence in both the isotropic and the axisymmetric average energy spectrum, characteristic of an inverse cascade regime. Such regimes are not allowed for purely stratified flows, even in the restricted ensemble, because the slow manifold then partitions into modes that carry potential vorticity on the one hand, and hydrostatically balanced but vorticity-free modes, the so-called vertical shear horizontal flows, on the other hand, which forbid the appearance of negative temperatures.\nLack of universality in MHD turbulence, and the possible emergence of a new paradigm?\nAnnick Pouquet, Marc-Etienne Brachet, Ed Lee, Pablo Mininni, Duane Rosenberg, Vadim Uritsky\nWe review some of the recent results obtained in MHD turbulence, as encountered in many astrophysical objects. We focus attention on the lack of universality in such flows, including in the simplest case (no externally imposed magnetic field, no forcing, unit magnetic Prandtl number). Several parameters can foster such a breakdown of classical Kolmogorov scaling, such as the presence of velocity-magnetic field correlations, or of magnetic helicity and the role of the interplay between nonlinear eddies and Alfv\u00e9n waves. A link with avalanche processes is also discussed. These findings have led to the conjecture of the emergence of a new paradigm for MHD turbulence, as a possibly unsettled competition between several dynamical phenomena.\nEnergy transfer in Hall-MHD turbulence: cascades, backscatter, and dynamo action\nPABLO D. MININNI, ALEXANDROS ALEXAKIS, ANNICK POUQUET\nJournal: Journal of Plasma Physics \/ Volume 73 \/ Issue 3 \/ June 2007\nScale interactions in Hall magnetohydrodynamics (MHDs) are studied using both the mean field theory derivation of transport coefficients, and direct numerical simulations in three space dimensions. In the magnetically dominated regime, the eddy resistivity is found to be negative definite, leading to large-scale instabilities. A direct cascade of the total energy is observed, although as the amplitude of the Hall effect is increased, backscatter of magnetic energy to large scales is found, a feature not present in MHD flows. The coupling between the magnetic and velocity fields is different than in the MHD case, and backscatter of energy from small-scale magnetic fields to large-scale flows is also observed. For the magnetic helicity, a strong quenching of its transfer is found. We also discuss non-helical magnetically forced Hall-MHD simulations where growth of a large-scale magnetic field is observed.\nAn Introduction to Compressible MHD Turbulence\nBy Annick G. Pouquet, CNRS, Observatoire de la C\u00f4te d'Azur, B.P. 4229, Nice F06304 Cedex 4, France\nEdited by Jose Franco, Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico, Alberto Carraminana, Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica, Tonantzintla, Mexico\nBook: Interstellar Turbulence\nPrint publication: 28 May 1999, pp 87-94\nCombining together the complexity of a turbulent flow, that of a conducting flow and of a compressible (supersonic) flow seems an impossible challenge, yet we are compelled by observations of the Interstellar Medium (ISM) to at least delineate the problem.\nIs the core difficulty in the so-called convective term of the equation, i.e. in the simple fact that moving matter is self-advected? In which case, the understanding of threedimensional (3D) incompressible turbulence would be the key to our own case of compressible MHD turbulence (CMT). Or will the many added features \u2013 such as Alfv\u00e9n and magnetosonic waves and a preferred direction in the presence of a strong uniform magnetic field \u2013 change the behavior of CMT flows altogether? How far does the concept of universality carry out? This is one of the questions that the detailed observations of astrophysical flows can help settle. In this short review, I shall begin by giving the humongus list of parameters that have to be considered a priori, the rule of the game being to determine which parameters are relevant and which can be ignored. In the next Section, some of the key features of the temporal and spatial development of compressible flows and MHD flows will be recalled. Section 4 is devoted to the formation of large scales (as opposed to small scales), the agent being here the magnetic helicity and Section 5 deals with intermittency and its measure through high-order structure functions.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u2014 Biographies\nAbraham Baer\nAbraham Baer was born in Wielen, Poland. He worked as a cantor and teacher in several communities throughout western Prussia before settling as a cantor at the Goteborg Synagogue in Sweden in 1857. During his tenure there, along with organist Joseph Czapek, he published Muisk till sangerna vid Gudstjensten (1872), a two volume collection of hymns made up primarily of Salomon Sulzer's liturgical compositions and arrangements.\nAbraham Baer's magnum opus was entitled Baal T'fillah: Oder, Der practische Vorbeter: Vollst\u00e4ndige Sammlung der gottesdienstlichen Ges\u00e4nge und Recitative der Israeliten nach polnischen, deutschen (aschk'nasischen) und portugiesischen (sephardischen): Weisen nebst allen den Gottesdienst betreffenden rituellen Vorschriften und Gebr\u00e4uchen. Baal Tfilla includes original compositions, as well as music borrowed from Salomon Sulzer, Louis Lewandowski and Samuel Naumbourg, covering the liturgy of the entire Jewish calendar year. This major anthology by Baer, cantor in G\u00f6thenburg, Sweden (where he served from 1857 until his death), a minor corner of the German-speaking Jewish world by all accounts, had everlasting effects. Four European editions of Baal T'fillah appeared (G\u00f6thenburg, c. 1877; Frankfurt A\/M, 1883; Frankfurt A\/M, ca. 1900; N\u00fcrnberg, 1930) attesting to a continuous demand well into the early 1930s. The remarkable list of congratulatory notes by cantors and musicians from the four corners of the Jewish world, which appeared in the opening of the second edition, is indicative of the impact and status that this anthology instantly acquired.\nBaer's anthology eventually became an authoritative source in the new schools for training cantors established in the USA by the Reform and Conservative Jewish movements in the 1950s: the Cantor's Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (now the H. L. Miller Cantorial School; see N. Levin 1997); and the School of Sacred Music of Hebrew Union College. A testimony to the canonical standing of Baer in the eyes of these educators (Europeans in origin) was its selection as the opening volume of the massive 35-volume collection, Out-of-Print Classics of Cantorial Liturgy, published by the Sacred Music Press (an operation of the Hebrew Union College) in 1953 (and again in 1985). The American reprints of Baer's work are of emblematic significance because this indicated the acceptance of this written source over the orally-transmitted traditional improvisation of the liturgical lore. Although this phenomenon had already taken root in Western European cantorial circles, the reliance on a written musical text by their American progenies was certainly more sweeping.\nFor additional information about the life of Baer, see Hammarlund, Anders. A Prayer for Modernity: Politics and Culture in the World of Abraham Baer (1834-1894). Stockholm: Svenskt visarkiv\/Statens musikverk, 2013, available online.\nCantorate\nAbraham Baer was born in Wielen, Poland. He worked as a cantor and teacher in several communities throughout western...\nMarcus Hast\nBorn in Praga (near Warsaw). After serving as a cantor in Poland and Germany, he moved to London, and worked there as a cantor until his death. Among his compositions are oratorios, cantatas and...\nJewish Liturgy: A Comprehensive History\nTranslation of \"Juedische Gottesdienst in seiner geschichtlichen Entwicklung\". \"Based on the original 1913 German edition, and the 1972 Hebrew edition, edited by Joseph Heinemann, et al.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"FCC Plans to End NFL TV Blackout Rules\nThe commission will vote later this month to lift the rules despite objections from the NFL.\nBy Brendan Sasso and National Journal\nThe head of the Federal Communications Commission wants to make sure NFL fans can watch their favorite teams on TV this season.\nFCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announced Tuesday that he plans to scrap his agency's rules that support TV blackouts of live sports events.\n\"Today, we are blowing the whistle on this anti-fan practice,\" Wheeler wrote in an op-ed in USA Today. \"The NFL should no longer be able to hide behind government rules that punish loyal fans.\"\nWheeler shared his proposal with the four other FCC commissioners on Tuesday and has scheduled a final vote on the issue for Sept. 30. Ajit Pai, the senior Republican on the commission, has also called for an end to the blackout rules.\nThe rules, first adopted in 1975, prohibit cable and satellite TV providers from showing a sports event in an area if the game is blacked out on broadcast television stations such as Fox or CBS.\nDropping the rules would have the biggest impact on the NFL, which requires broadcast stations to black out games if the local team does not sell out the stadium.\nThe NFL argues that the rules are necessary to keep games on local broadcast channels, which are free to access over the air. The league also says the rules boost local economies by ensuring that more fans attend the game in person.\nBut in his op-ed, Wheeler argued that the blackouts just allow wealthy team owners to squeeze extra money out of loyal fans. The NFL pulls in billions of dollars every year and doesn't need the government's help anymore, Wheeler wrote.\n\"To hear the NFL describe it, you would think that putting a game on CBS, NBC, or Fox was a money-losing proposition instead of a highly profitable multibillion-dollar business,\" Wheeler wrote. \"If the league truly has the best interest of millions of American fans at heart, they could simply commit to staying on network television in perpetuity.\"\nThe FCC chairman said it was particularly \"egregious\" that a playoff game in Green Bay, Wis., was nearly blacked out last season when the weather forecast predicted a low of minus-15 degrees. The NFL was forcing fans to buy expensive tickets and freeze, or risk having the whole community lose access to the game on TV, Wheeler wrote.\nLynn Swann, a Hall of Fame receiver who is working as a spokesman for the NFL on the issue, pointed to the thousands of fans who have signed the league's petition to preserve the rules.\n\"Fans know and appreciate that the NFL is unique among major professional sports leagues in making available every game\u2014 both regular season and playoffs\u2014 on free, over-the-air television,\" Swann said in a statement. \"They do not want the FCC to needlessly make a rule change\u2014 based on theory and speculation\u2014 that jeopardizes their ability to follow football on free TV.\"\n\u2014This article has been updated with a response from the NFL","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Col. Wrightstill Avery\nDraper Manuscripts\nN.C. Series\nSeries KK V.1\nWisconsin State Historical Society\nLDS Film # 0889173\nTranscribed and submitted by Sloan S. Mason\np. 1-4\nCopy of Jn. T. AVERY'S Sketch of Col. Wrightstill AVERY- (letter to Draper)\nCol. Wrightstill AVERY was the son of Humphrey AVERY, of the county of New London, township of Norwich or Groton, Conn. We have no record of his birth, supposed to have been born about 1745. He was one of nine brothers who lived to manhood, they had one sister who married an AVERY-they removed & settled in Tioga Co., N.Y. Of the brothers, 2 were killed at Wyoming and 1 at the storming of Ft. Griswold. I believe sometime of twelve of the name fell there.\nI - write this a certificate of this trustees at N. Jersey (Princeton College) from which it could appear that he was a tutor before he graduated. On leaving college he removed to Somerset Co, Maryland, taught a grammar school & studied law with Littleton DENNIS, & from there emigrated to N.C. He settled in Mecklenburg Co, lived with Hezekiah ALEXANDER. He assisted in founding a library and establishing a Classical school in Charlotte-both perhaps, among the first in the state.\nAt the breaking out of the Revolution, he seems to have been occupied with business, often Council of Safety. He went to Charleston, and obtained from the Council the first powder and lead ever brought into a Province for Revolutionary purposes, was sent with orders to Gen. WILLIAMSON, subsequently wrote orders to Gen. RUTHERFORD in the Cherokee nation; was appointed by Gov. MARTIN, with Gen. LENOIR and MCDOWELL, to hold a treaty with the Indians, which the breaking out of hostilities, prevented; he was subsequently appointed with SHARPE & WINSTONto hold and did make, the treaty of the Long Islands of the Holston. He was subseq. App. Attorney General which he resigned in consequence of ill health. My maternal grandmother's name was LANE. She lived at Snow Hill, in Maryland; mariner the Captain of a Ri--- arrived a vessel, a Welshman names Yelverton Peyton PROBART, he had 3 daughters and 1 son. My grandmother while the children were young married a Mr. COLLIER of New Bern or its vicinity, & brought the familyto N.C. My mother married Martin FRANKS & settled at White Rock on the Trent River, ten miles from New Bern. Mr. FRANKS died without issue; & my father while a member of Legislature at New Bern, became acquainted with mother & married her in 1778, resided there; was commissioned as Colonel of Jones Co. by Gov. CASWELL, was a short time in service. While he resided in Jones Co. the British took Charlotte, and burned his library-about all he had realized by his practice.My mother's 2 sisters, were married, 1 to a man named CLARKE and another to LAVENDER. They were taken prisoners at Brier Creek, carried to Bermuda and died there. My father and mother took the LAVENDER children and raised them. Mr. COLLIER the CLARKE children, the son PROBART, went to England to procure under the laws of primogeniture the estate of one Welsh ancestor and found a very pretty estate in the possession of 2 old maids; but he had neither the mind nor the means to got to law for it. His Uncle LANE of Maryland, died a bachelor, and gave his oldest son William Yelverton PROBART an estate worth $100,000 dollars, and it ruined him. He was a good fellow and it made him a fool, and he spent it in a very short time.\nI know but little of my maternal kindred. There is a family of LANES near Wilmington that are relatives, some of the COLLIERS I have seen---- Governor of Alabama I believe of that stock.\nOf course, I do not expect you to publish any of this, and would not write it to any person but you; but believing you to know more about the private history and families of that state than any man in it since had a Cameron'? Death?, I thought I would add my mind? To the general stock you posses.\nWrightstill AVERY'S children:\nMrs. Polly M.? SUMMY? Was born 3 Oct. 1779\nMrs. Eliz. LENOIR, relict of Wm. B. LENOIR, August 1782\nIsaac T. AVERY born 22 Sept. 1785.\nSelina Lenoir born Oct. 1788.\nAll living at the last accounts.\nCol. Wrightstill AVERY died 16 March 1821.\nMrs. Leah AVERY, consort of W. AVERY, died 20 Jan. 1832, in the 84th year of her age.\nIt was BLANCHARD, a nephew of Martin FRANKS who lived with my mother who was taken in the night, with a highly respectable neighbor within a house he was spending the night, for mutual safety, as they thought, and they were both shot by the Tories within half a mile of the house. (No date)\np.4-6\n(copy)Burke Co, N.C.-7 July 1833\nYou were kind to favor me with a copy of your address to the Historical Society. I believe I mentioned to you that day I had the pleasure to see you in Morgantown, that I had the day I read the address, chanced on an old letter from Col. James ROBERTSON carrying the personal history of N. Carolina? --- to the 17th of October, 1777-that letter I enclose.\nIn looking for ROBERTSON'S letter today, I opened a file of letters from my Uncle Sam'l AVERY, extending from 1769 through several years. Chancing to pen one dated in April 1775. I was struck with some passages in it, and enclose it to you, to see if you take the same view that I do. I had not ---- from ------ my publications or subsequent history that the extortions of the Kings clerks or magistrates had produced? In the other provinces the same scenes of violence bloodshed & had supposed the Regulators were exclusively N. Carolinians. It would seem from the expressions alluded to, that except the actual rising in arms, the same violence existed at the North, and was even came farther.\nIsaac T. AVERY\n(Gov. SWAIN)\nP.12 (COPY)\nNassau Hall, June 6, 1767\nThis may certify all and whom it may concern.\nThat Wrightstill AVERY, the bearer hereof, has been employed in teaching a school in the college, from Sept. 1766, til April 1767. The specimen he gave in this station of his abilities in governing and instructing youth, together with the proficiency he has made in the arts, sciences, and learned languages, and also his prudent, discreet and modest behavior and unblemished moral character, induce us to join in recommending him as a person well qualified to instruct youth and to guide their morals.\nJas. HALSEY\nJos.? EDWARDS\nTutors of the College of New Jersey\nCopied from the original letter loaned me by Mrs. Mary A. CHAMBERS, of Morgantown, N.C, grand daughter of W. AVERY.April 20th, 1880L.C. DRAPERp.16-17\nTryon County\nPersonally appeared before me, the subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said County, James HENDERSON, and made oath, that about the close of November last, he happened to be at a meeting at the house of Robert ALEXANDER, when the said ALEXANDER as a Captain desired of his men to go out into S.C. to the assistance of Col. RICHARDSON against the insurgents against American Liberty there, when Wm. MOORE, Esq. Came in company, and did all he could to dissuade the people from going, and told them that they had not surety for their pay; and when he was told that Col. GRAHAM would be obliged to be surety for their pay, he replied that said GRAHAM was no Colonel; and that they had no right to give commissions that gave him his commission; and that there was no regular Congress held at Hillsborough, but hat they were a pack of rogues and ruining the county, and likewise told the people who would have enlisted as minute men, that he could not see how they would count on their pay, as there was no regular Committee or Congress, and thereby prevented the people from enlisting and also in talking said that Col. MARTIN was a rogue and a fool, and ruining the country by virtue of his present proceedings as a Colonel for Liberty; and told the people that if they took none of the public money, they would have none of it to pay.\nSworn and subscribed before me this 29th day of March 1776\nJames HENDERSON\nDavid JENKINS\nTranscribed from the original among the mis. Papers of Wrightstill AVERY, of N.C.\nL.C.D.\nEndorsed:\" Arthur GRAHAM, compt.? Vs. Wm. MOORE, Esq.\nTryon Co.\nState of North Carolina\nSalisbury Superior Court\nSeptember Term 1779\nThis is to certify that the following persons who were tried at the said Court, and capitally convicted of High Treason, were by the several Petit Jurors who posed? on their said Trials,, humbly ---- --- to Mercy (to wit)\nWilliam ADAMS\nMoses CHEETWOOD\nShadrick CHEETWOOD\nMichael SITES?\nFrederick WISE\nTest: H. GIFFARD, C.S.C.\nCert'd persons recommended to Mercy by Jurors, Salisbury Co., Sept. Tern, 1779\nCopied from original among personal papers of Wrightstill AVERY.\nSilas McDOWELL Papersp.50 Surname Projects A-L","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'The Life of Pablo' Album Review\nPicture courtesy of theboombox.com\nKyle Tremblay, Contributor\nKanye West is easily one of the most controversial and interesting pop culture figures of today. Despite his music often being as provocative as he is, West is one of the most critically acclaimed artists of the genre that he has redefined time and time again.\nKanye originally planned on releasing a follow-up to 2013's Yeezus sometime in late 2014, yet it ended up being pushed back significantly, due in part to his increased commitment to his fashion lines, his desire to innovate on a sonic level, and his duties of fatherhood.\nKanye West's seventh solo album, The Life of Pablo ended up being released in February, following an unorthodox unveiling at a sold-out Madison Square Garden.\nOne of the main talking points in the days leading up to the release surrounded which Pablo West is referring to in the album title. Could it be Pablo Picasso, a man to whom Kanye has compared himself? There are certainly many similarities between the two. Could it be Pablo Escobar, who has always had a role in hip-hop culture? However, West proved both speculations wrong when he revealed he was referring to Saint Paul the Apostle.\nThe Life of Pablo album cover(Picture courtesy of kanyewest.com)\nA reference to Saint Paul can be found in the album's first song, \"Ultralight Beam,\" when Saint Paul, known as Saul at the time, was blinded by a vision of Jesus that ultimately caused him to cease persecuting Christians and convert to Christianity. \"Ultralight Beam\" is essentially a twelve years delayed sequel to West's career defining single \"Jesus Walks,\" and properly sets the tone for what Kanye himself described as a \"gospel album.\"\nThe status of The Life of Pablo being a gospel album is in jeopardy by the time the next song, \"Father Stretch My Hands,\" rolls around. While Part 1 of the song describes an interaction with a model in a way that only Kanye could, his overall message falls back on the idea of battling his ego and surrendering to God's will.\nPart 2 is less raw but equally powerful as Part 1, taking listeners on a journey through the struggles of Kanye's personal life: his parents' divorce, his near-fatal car accident, his workaholic nature, his mother's death and his depression that followed. Featuring a sample from Desiigner's hit \"Panda,\" Kanye makes it clear he desires to not repeat the same mistakes his own father made.\n\"Famous\" is Kanye's so-called break-up song with fame and the troubles it's caused him, but not without a line that rekindles the Taylor Swift feud. \"Highlights\" is a reflection of Kanye's successes, while continuing on with the symbol of light that has been prevalent in his last few albums.\n\"I Love Kanye\" is undoubtedly one of Kanye's most comical songs, as he mocks the very criticism that have been laid upon him, a cappella style.\nHowever, comedy has vanished by the time \"FML\" comes on. A strong hook by the Weeknd separates Kanye's first verse about staying faithful to his wife and focusing on his mission and his second verse describing a hypomanic episode when he is off his anti-depressant.\n\"Real Friends\" finds Kanye in a very dark place. Lyrically, he expresses himself as a \"deadbeat cousin\" who is constantly out of touch with his family and friends and is more of a nuisance than anything else.\n\"Wolves\" might just be one of Kanye's best songs of all time. Themes of depression, suicide, fear, hope, and love are conveyed over eerie background music that is reminiscent of howling wolves. As he's had with several other songs on the album, Kanye is reflective of his past troubles and desperation, but concludes his final verse with comparing himself to Joseph while wrapping his children in swaddling clothes.\nKanye at The Life of Pablo unveiling at Madison Square Garden(Picture courtesy of the New Yorker)\n\"No More Parties In L.A.\" (featuring Kendrick Lamar) silences any critics who say Kanye can no longer rap with intensity, and in just under one hour The Life Of Pablo closes out with \"Fade,\" which barely even features Kanye vocally.\nGiven that Kanye's music has always been both highly acclaimed and controversial, there have been mixed reviews of The Life of Pablo. Some say that this album sounds unrefined and choppy, while others maintain that Kanye is still at the top of his game.\nIn all truth, I believe that Kanye is still at his best in The Life of Pablo, even though this is probably not his best album. The College Dropout became an instant classic while My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is one of the most critically acclaimed albums of all time.\nJust like every other Kanye album, The Life of Pablo is vastly different in style than its predecessors. Yet what sets this album apart from his others is the notion that The Life of Pablo is unlikely to inspire a new wave of artists nor redefine the rap genre, unlike his previous six albums.\nThe messages and themes Kanye explores in this album are similar in many ways to his past music: his deep Christian faith, the void in his life due to his mother's death, depression, arrogance, and the battle between the devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other. However, in The Life of Pablo, light triumphs over darkness and the angel is victorious more often than it has been in his past few albums.\nJayson Greene of Pitchfork reveals a biblical verse that Kanye might have hinted at over the course of this album, Corinthians 13:2 (\"If I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing\"). In The Life of Pablo, Kanye seems to have that love for the first time in a long while.\nJingle Jangle: A New Holiday Movie That Is Sure To Become A Classic\nWhy The Polar Express is Bad and We All Pretend to Like It\nSuper Nintendo World Opening in Osaka, Japan\nIn Our Homes and In Our Hearts- Saying Goodbye to Alex Trebek\nA review: Borat Subsequent Movie Film\nThe Craft Corner: Music Plaques\nPot It Like It's Hot: The Bear Paw Succulent\nFrom Streaming Services to the Pandemic, Movie Theatres Struggle to Stay Open\nNew Netflix Movie, Enola Holmes, Is Worth The Watch","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Arcadia Sanctorum\nThe Arcadia Sanctorum is a place to learn about comics and comic book collecting. We find lesser-known stories from the comic book universe. We teach collectors how to grow, sell, and preserve their collections. And we share news and insights about the contemporary comic book artform. Enter and discover.\nCreator Spotlight: Jack Kirby, The King\nTalk to a casual fan of comic books and the name Stan Lee will come up eventually as the guy who made comics what they are today. But talk to any real comic book fan \u2014 or comic book writer, or comic book artist, anyone who lives, breathes, and dreams comic books \u2013 and they will tell you that Jack Kirby is the King.\nJack Kirby is one of the most influential comic book creators of all time. His creations have been inspiring awe since the 1940's, and his art is still influencing comic artists to this day. But what do we know about the man?\nThe King himself\nIt seemed only fitting for us to do some research into the man, the myth, the king; Jack Kirby.\nJack Kirby was born Jacob Kurtzberg on the Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City on August 28, 1917. His parents were poor Jewish immigrants from Austria, and Kirby grew up in a very rough neighborhood. He would escape the violence around his house and run errands for local newspaper reporters from Daily News and Hearst News companies. Kirby later talked of this time as when he found love for comics. He would read the comic strips like Prince Valiant by Hal Foster and trace the pictures over and over again, until he began to design his own creations.\nEarly Comics Work\nIn 1936,Kurtzberg found his way into drawing cartoons for the Lincoln Newspaper Syndicate, where he worked until 1939. He left to work for a new animation studio, Fleischer Studios. hand drawing the animations for Popeye. Jack left that job quickly, stating that the company was a picture factory, not a place to create art.\nHe moved on to work at Eisner & Iger, a company that was formed by the great Will Eisner and Jerry Iger to meet the growing demand for comic books that was sweeping through American popular culture. Kirby drew and wrote comic strips for Eisner & Iger under several pseudonyms such as Jack Curtis and Ted Grey, among others, before settling on Jack Kirby, which reminded him of his favorite actor, James Cagney.\nJack Kirby and Comic Books\nKirby moved on to work at Fox Feature Syndicate drawing and writing comic strips once again. He created and wrote his first superhero character with Fox, The Blue Beatle (bought by DC comics in 1983), and wrote the character for three months. It was at Fox that he met the legendary Joe Simon, and the two became fast friends.\nJack Kirby's famous cover of Captain America\nKirby left Fox to draw the premier issue of Captain Marvel for Fawcett comics, the character had been introduced some time before, but his popularity had earned him his own title. Kirby left the project because he had been told to mimic the art of CC Beck, something he wasn't comfortable with.\nJoe Simon hired Kirby to help him create a new character for Timely Comics (later to be known as Marvel Comics). Their task was to create a patriotic character that people could get behind. With World War II on the horizon, the duo created one of the most popular comic book characters of all time: Captain America. The first issue sold out in the first day, and over 1 million copies were eventually reprinted to reach the demand, and it established Simon and Kirby as some of the biggest names in the industry.\nNational Comics\nKirby and Simon felt that they were being treated unfairly at Timely Comics, and moved to one of their competitors, National Comics (later known as DC Comics). There they were given a substantial raise, and the creative freedom to produce whatever they wanted. The duo created Martian Manhunter, and revamped the character Sandman into a fighter of Nazi's. Their most popular creation for National Comics was the Boy Commando's, about a group of young kids fighting against Nazi's.\nDuring this time Kirby was drafted into the United States war effort, and upon hearing that he was a comic book artist, his commanding officer made him a scout. He was sent into enemy territory to draw maps for his division. He was discharged due to Trench foot, and returned from the war in January of 1945. Kirby went back to comics.\nThe Silver Age and Marvel Comics\nJack Kirby helped create some of Marvel's greatest characters\nSkipping ahead a bit, Kirby really hit his stride in the Silver Age. Kirby began creating characters with Stan Lee in an effort to save the failing company, Atlas Comics (another precursor to Marvel). The two were given free reign to create whatever they wanted to. It was during this time that they created some of the most recognizable characters to have ever been featured on the pages of comic books. Between 1960 and 1970 the two created The Fantastic Four, Galactus, the Silver Surfer, Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, the original X-Men, Doctor Doom, Uatu the Watcher, Magneto, Ego the Living Planet, the Inhumans, and comic books' first black super hero, the Black Panther.\nThe Bronze Age and DC Comics\nGrowing ever more dissatisfied with Marvel Comics, Jack Kirby decided it was time to move on. He went on to create at DC Comics, and create he certainly did. The Fourth World Saga is an enduring love letter to mythology and science fiction. Touching on many of the same themes that he had developed in his Thor comics, Kirby created the New Gods, Darkseid, and Mister Miracle. He told stories of revenge, war, and revolution on a cosmic scale. For his Fourth World Saga, Jack Kirby developed the idea to combine them into collected editions to be sold as a single story, creating the first trade paperbacks.\nOne of Jack Kirby's greatest creations\nWhile at DC Kirby created other characters such as; OMAC, Kamandi, and The Demon Etrigan.\nReturn to Marvel\nIn 1976, Kirby found himself in the room at Marvel Comics once again. He wrote and drew on the new Captain America title, as well as several others. During this time, he also created the Eternals. Diving back into the cosmic mythology that he loved to create, the Eternals were a new reimagining of the gods, and Kirby pitched them into a never ending battle against the Celestials. He also created characters like Machine Man and Devil Dinosaur, adding them to the list of characters that have continued to find themselves represented in the pages of Marvel comics.\nJack Kirby's Final Years\nJack Kirby left Marvel again in 1978. He worked on several cartoons, including on the Fantastic Four with Stan Lee, and worked on more comic books under several different publishers. His career continued on for several years, until on February 6th, 1994, The King of Comic Books died in his home due to heart failure. He was 76.\nJack Kirby and his Family\nThe Kirby Family\nJack Kirby met his wife, Rosalind \"Roz\" Goldstein, in the early 1940's. The two married in May of 1942 and had 4 kids together.\nJack Kirby may not have lived to see his creations become the massive stars that they have become, but his legacy continues on. The characters that he created throughout his years at Marvel and DC continue to be some of the most popular fictional characters of all time. Stan Lee may be one of the most known faces in the comic book industry, but without his partnership with Jack Kirby, those characters may never have been what they are now. We are certainly glad that Jack Kirby was given the opportunities that he was. All hail the King.\nThe Best Star Wars Comics\nStar Wars Comics: A History Lesson\nWe're still in the bat cave.\nStay tuned to learn how you can start selling your comics or growing your collection.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Today the Russian national team is actively preparing for the World Championship, as well as for the next stage of the European Championship. There are less than two weeks left before the games start. The 2021 Championship will be held in Riga. The first match for the team will be held on May 21st. On this day, the Russian team will meet with the Czech team. The group stage will also be marked by a match between Bragin's players against the following teams:\nSwitzerland;\nSweden;\nDenmark;\nSlovakia;\nBelarus;\nTeams from Kazakhstan, Finland, Canada, USA, Latvia, Germany, Italy and Norway will fight in the next qualifying group. The quarterfinals are still scheduled for June 3rd. Two days later, the semifinals will take place, and on June 6th, the final games of the national teams will be held in the Baltic country, during which the teams will fight for the gold and bronze.\nRussian IHF has already developed a new version of the uniform of the national team for the World Championship 2021 in Latvia. It will definitely depict fire and rings related to the main symbols of the Russian Olympic Committee.\nIs the Russian national team ready for the championship?\nToday, many hockey experts agree that the main team of Russia is not doing well. Thus, recently the defender Yuri Pautov and the forward Pavel Kukshtel were out of action. Their performance was objectively evaluated, and specialists came to the conclusion that it is too early for both players to participate in the major championship.\nAnother long-overdue question, actively addressed by the coaching staff, is who will become the goalkeeper of the national team? Its leader, most likely, doesn't see Igor Shestyorkin in this role. But, nevertheless, the goalkeeper regularly participates in matches, though it should be noted that recently his game hasn't brought good luck to the team. Perhaps he himself should have defined his position on participation in the world championship. It's no secret that Igor always wanted to play for the national team.\nIf Shestyorkin wouldn't be approved, he will most likely be replaced by one of reserve goalkeepers, either Alexander Georgiev or Ivan Prosvetov. However, the latter has a big question mark next to his name. In the next match of the Pacific Division of the AHL he will most likely play for Tucson. But this team is an outsider and its further participation in the championship is unlikely. There are very few other contenders from the AHL.\nDaniil Tarasov's participation would be a good decision, while Anton Khudobin will most likely be free from the NHL.\nPrevious Edmonton beats Montreal in overtime\nNext What's new in the NHL? Overview of the championship","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"COS 74-9\nCauses, extent, and consequences of an apparent host range expansion of emerald ash borer in North America\nWednesday, August 12, 2015: 10:50 AM\nDon Cipollini, Department of Biological Sciences, Wright State University, Dayton, OH\nEmerald ash borer is an invasive Asian pest of ash species in North America. I recently discovered that emerald ash borer was capable of using white fringetree (Chionanthus virginicus L. (Oleaceae), a native North American species, as a larval host in the field. The full extent of the susceptibility of this species to EAB remains to be determined, as is the susceptibility of close relatives that are exposed to this beetle. Studies have revealed that Asian ashes, such as Manchurian ash, are more resistant to attack than are North American ashes. Like Manchurian ash, Chinese fringetree (Chionanthus retusus) has a native distribution that overlaps with EAB in Asia and it may prove to be more resistant to EAB than white fringetree due to its shared evolutionary history and possession of effective defense mechanisms. The degree of susceptibility of Chinese fringetrees to EAB attack relative to white fringetree has never been studied, nor has the comparative susceptibility of either host to other wood borers. I examined ornamental white and Chinese fringetrees planted in Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum in Cincinnati, Ohio for evidence of attack by EAB and lilac borer, a native wood borer. I also examined the performance of EAB larvae on these and related hosts in the laboratory.\nNine of the 28 white fringetrees examined possessed one or more exit holes characteristic of EAB and also had feeding galleries characteristic of EAB larvae when examined further. Most of the trees were showing some branch dieback and epicormic sprouting as a result of borer attacks. Attacked trees were distributed fairly randomly across the cemetery and had significantly larger basal stem diameters than unattacked trees. Nineteen of 28 white fringetrees exhibited evidence of lilac borer attack, and attacked trees were again larger on average than unattacked trees. Eight of nine white fringetrees with EAB attack also had lilac borer attack. None of the 11 Chinese fringetrees examined showed evidence of attack by either EAB or lilac borer. In the laboratory, EAB larvae penetrated all species initially, but their survival and performance was significantly greater in white than in Chinese fringetree. White fringetree is proving to be an acceptable host to EAB across a wide geographic range in the field, but coevolved species, like Chinese fringetree appear to be resistant. Other as yet unexamined, but closely related species in the Oleaceae are worthy of attention.\nSee more of: Plant-Insect Interactions II","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Phnom Penh Post - Cambodia to hold larger military drills with Chinese army\nCambodia to hold larger military drills with Chinese army\nMech Dara | Publication date 27 September 2018 | 09:05 ICT\nA new military vehicle is taken through its paces during Golden Dragon military exercises in 2016. Heng Chivoan\nThu, 27 September 2018\nThe Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) and China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) are to launch larger 2019 Golden Dragon military exercises in order to strengthen and extend military relations and cooperation, the defence minister has said.\nDefence Minister Tea Banh told The Post: \"We are holding these exercises in order to improve the army's capability.\n\"It is normal that when we work with one another, we will get to understand each other better.\"\n\"The relationship also becomes closer because we have talked and worked together,\" he added.\nGeneral Eth Sarath, deputy commander and chief of staff of the RCAF, and Colonel Sheng Yunlai of the PLA, at general command headquarters on Tuesday promised to continue the Golden Dragon military exercises next year but increase their scope in order to enhance military cooperation between the two armies.\nCambodia cancelled some important military exercises with the US last year.\nThis year, the Cambodian army and the PLA held the first Golden Dragon military exercises, which focused on counter-terrorism, rescue techniques and live-fire training.\nTwo-hundred and eighty Cambodian soldiers and 190 Chinese soldiers took part in this year's exercises, in which sophisticated modern weapons such as Z10 helicopters, equipped with rockets, and armoured vehicles were used.\nMine detection, unexploded ordnance detonation, chemical neutralisation, chemical bomb disposal and anti-tank combat were practised, as well as hostage rescue and other humanitarian activities.\nKampot proposes live fire grounds\nBanh: Military drill leaves strong mark on cooperation\nSino-Cambodian military drill begins\nVN, Cambodia hold drills for disaster preparedness\nPreparations begin for Sino-Cambodian drills\nBeijing proposes drills with SE Asia\nChina wants to stage joint military exercises with Southeast Asian nations in disputed waters, according to a draft document, but insists other countries should be\nNorth Korean submarine missile threat prompts US-led military drills","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > Platforms > Southeast Europe Anti-Corruption Platform > Romania > Romanian Academic Society (RAS)\nRomanian Academic Society (RAS)\nWebsite: sar.org.ro\nFocal Point: Andrei Macsut, Researcher\nTel: +4021 211 14 77; +40723 597 850\nRAS aims to create an evidence-based policy-making framework by engaging with both the state and other civil society actors via informed debates, public policy analysis seminars, original research projects and contributions to the European integration of Romania, the Western Balkan countries and the Republic of Moldova. This is achieved through best practices transfer as well as enhancing the contribution of independent research institutes to the policy formulation process and the revitalization of applied social sciences in Romania and South-Eastern Europe.\nGeneral description of the CSO work in the anti-corruption area\nRAS is one of the leading think tanks in Romania, with a proven track record as a watchdog organization and leader in a number of innovative anti-corruption initiatives. We are involved in two types of activities. First, we act as a watchdog and monitor vis-\u00e0-vis certain policy areas; such as the quality of governance and the rule of law, public administration transparency, public procurement, media freedom and policies, local government and, in general, policies that imply a territorial redistribution of resources. We have gradually developed original quantitative instruments to monitor the quality of governance, political and administrative integrity and have been local collaborators in well-known international monitoring projects. Second, we act constructively as an expert and advocacy group that not only formulates policy recommendations, but also promotes their incorporation into official state policies.\nSpecific description of the CSO work in relation to the UNCAC\nRAS is not directly involved in implementing UNCAC-linked activities. However, RAS has a very long and rich experience in the field of anti-corruption that is closely related to UNCAC's themes. For example, from 2005 onwards, an RAS-led coalition of CSOs addressed the issue of transparency of public contracts by advocating to make it legally binding that any public procurement contract, public-private partnership, concession, privatization etc. automatically be made public after it is signed; thus excluding any confidentiality clauses. We established in 2010 an informal, bottom-up, grassroots monitoring coalition and online dissemination platform entitled the Alliance for a Clean Romania (ACR) which includes a network of student and professional organizations, business communities and media outlets and constantly aims to aggregate local initiatives and promote anti-corruption tools for local monitoring. At regular intervals we assess, on the one hand, the level of transparency of websites of a number of national and local public institutions and, on the other hand, their degree of responsiveness, by sending FOIA requests asking for specific information. The latter activity has also aimed at a \"naming and shaming\" process in order to push the transparency agenda. As a result, the platform has seen a steady growth in both audience and influence in generating responses from public authorities. Another important component of RAS's work is strategic litigation. In 2011, the ACR spearheaded a major success for civil society and transparency efforts in Romania by winning court decisions to fine public sector executives who denied access to dubious contracts. Our centralized watchdog activity continued, but we constantly encouraged local-level monitoring from journalists, (non)institutionalized civil society groups as well as citizens.\nSpecific description of the CSO work in relation to the review mechanism of the UNCAC\nRAS has been an active participant in drafting Romania's National Anti-corruption Strategies (NAS) together with other CSOs. Our contribution has been to provide statistical information and findings drawn from scientific research on the state of corruption in Romania, the success or failure of certain anti-corruption practices and to provide feedback and suggestions for improving public integrity. In 2016, RAS's list of minimal transparency requirements for state owned companies was adopted in full as an annex to the NAS (2016-2020). Such information was obtained by RAS in the past only through lawsuits. Also, RAS is one of the CSOs involved in the Open Government Partnership and regularly attends meetings and debates on issues related to open data and transparency of public institutions. Our contributions thus far have included proposing open data commitments in sensitive sectors such as state-owned companies and energy, forwarding recommendations on which data should be publically and openly accessible, as well as recommendations and red flags, particularly in the area of public procurement. Furthermore, since 2007 RAS, together with other CSOs and student associations within the Coalition for Clean Universities, has been periodically involved in monitoring and assessing the degree of integrity and good governance in public universities, coming up with policy solutions and publicly exposing irregularities. Our evaluation activities in the higher education sector concluded that, even though there is a trend of increasing transparency, plagiarism and a favouritism-based system continue to prevent a normal development.\nUNCAC Coalition Newsletter for the SEE Region\nUNODC Country Profiles\nCountry Profiles and Self-Assessments by States Parties under Review","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Arijit Singh at Gila River Arena\nArijit Singh Tickets\nIndian singer and one of the most loved artists of the Asia region, Arijit Singh, is ready to deliver another soulful performance at Gila River Arena on Sunday 5th June 2022. The artist is on a short North American tour with only five shows on the road. The first performance will be in Vancouver on 3rd June, and his last show will take place in Detroit on 12th June. The hit Bollywood artist is most recognized for his incredible voice, and he has sung for plenty of Bollywood films. He is currently a top musician in India, with a global fan following. Catch Arijit Singh live in concert at the Gila River Arena on 5th June 2022. Make sure you buy your tickets right now before they are sold out!\nArijit Singh mostly sang in Hindi and began playing music at a very young age. His family has a considerable classical music influence and he learned the basics from the start. In 2005, when he was just 18, he got his first break with a performance on the singing reality shows Fame Gurukul. He finished sixth in that show, but he caught a few eyes identifying his real talent. His biggest breakthrough came with the Bollywood movie \"Aashiqui 2\". His hit singles \"Tum Hi Ho\" and \"Chahun Main Ya Naa\" topped charts throughout Asia, and Arijit Singh became a predominant force in Indian music.\nHe has collaborated with some of the industry's biggest names, including Sajid-Wajid and globally acclaimed composer A.R Rahman. His fan base exists throughout South Asia, including Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh. He is referred to as the \"King of Playback Singing\" and has performed in several other Indian languages too. In 2020 and 2021, he was the most-streamed Indian artist on Spotify as well as the most followed Asian soloist on the hit music streaming platform. His soulful performance is a thing to remember, and people are often reduced to tears because of the emotion he brings with his songs. Get your tickets right now and watch Arijit Singh live in concert. Get them ASAP before they are sold out!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'My son needs me so I will be with him': The children too sick to flee the Russian bombs\nClinging to his mother in the basement of Kyiv's main children's hospital, the four-year-old boy ground his teeth, making a scratching sound.\nNikita Synytsky, who has leukemia and Down's syndrome, started making the noise when Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine last week, causing his life even more trauma.\n\"We are very nervous,\" said Tatiana Pakhaliuk, his tired-looking mother, holding him tight.\n\"My son \u2013 you see the voice [sound] of teeth, he pushes his teeth,\" she said.\nNikita, along with a group of other seriously ill, infant inpatients, relies on life-saving treatment at the hospital.\nIt cannot stop even when Russian missiles and bombs started falling.\nInstead, each child, typically accompanied by a parent, has had to move to the basement of the multi-storey building, where they are better protected from airstrikes and gunfire.\nMore on Ukraine\nUkraine-Russia news live: Peace talks end with more expected in coming days\nRead more: Ukraine invasion \u2013 key questions answered\nBut it is not only the gravely sick this hospital is trying to help.\nMedics set up an emergency department within the first 24 hours of the war to treat children \u2013 and adults \u2013 in the city who suffer injuries in the fighting.\nDr Andrey Vysotskyi, 34, the head of the emergency unit, has barely slept in the five days since the war began.\nThis \"was the quiet place with just kids, with scheduled operations,\" he said, gesturing around what has become a busy triage area where patients are initially assessed.\n\"Now, in one moment, it changes. So, okay, this is war. We are f***d.\"\nRead more: Three children among nine dead as footage shows Kharkiv apartment block hit\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine mapped \u2013 what happened on day five\nThree children have so far been brought to the facility \u2013 all with gunshot injuries. They all appeared separately on the night of Friday into Saturday.\nOne of the infants, a ten-year-old boy, died en route.\n\"They were in the ambulance and also the ambulance was under gunfire,\" the doctor said.\nA 14-year-old boy suffered injuries to the face, back and legs.\nHe was on the operating table for more surgery on Monday but was described to be stable.\nThe third victim was a girl who suffered a gunshot wound to a finger.\nShe is okay. \"Surgeons took out a bullet from her finger and performed reconstructive surgery,\" the doctor said.\nHe continued: \"Two days ago we have the gunfights all around the block, with the artillery fights etc etc, but this night was a little bit calm. And the war changes the priority, so now if you can take a shower and take a coffee, it is luxury [smiles at camera].\"\nDr Andrey Vysotskyi says a shower and a coffee are now luxuries\nFor Nikita, when it is time to receive treatment or an assessment, his mother has to climb several flights of stairs to the ward where they usually stay.\nAsked how she felt, she said: \"Hands are trembling, legs are like in fitness because \u2026 10,000 steps a day \u2013 up and down, with children with bags.\"\nShe looked exhausted.\nNikita needs chemotherapy and blood-transfusions, but with a war on blood is in short supply.\n\"As parents, we try to give our blood and change between parents and give blood for our children,\" his mother said, underlining the desperate situation they are in.\nShe would love to be able to take him across the border to the safety of Poland but such a journey \u2013 difficult for any family with the country until attack \u2013 is even harder for children like Nikita who need constant care.\n\"Our children can't live without a hospital, without medical treatment,\" Ms Pakhaliuk said.\n\"If we will go to another country we should cross the border with a doctor\u2026 [and] the police or someone else to cross quickly and safely.\n\"Our children can't stop and stay in a traffic jam because it is very dangerous for their life.\"\nShe seemed resigned to staying in the hospital basement but is also worried about her two other children \u2013 daughters, aged 14 and six.\nThey are with the father, sheltering in the carpark of the family apartment block. He cannot drive them across the border into neighbouring Poland because he does not have petrol in his car. So the mother has reached out to strangers on social media to ask for help.\nA family in Poland responded and has offered to let the girls live with them.\n\"I don't know these people but I'm very thankful,\" the mother said.\n\"I am afraid to give my children to people I don't know but I think that is the best thing for me as a mother as my daughters should be alive\u2026 My son needs me so I will be with him.\"\nGoogle CEO defends job cuts in animated town hall as employees demand clarity on process\n'Heart goes out to loved ones' \u2013 10 people killed in gun attack near Los Angeles\n'A night of icons': Beyonce performs in first concert since 2018 for Dubai hotel launch","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"NEW YORK TIMES --De Blasio's Pick for Planning Puts Focus on Housing\nFrom its perch as overseer of New York City's growth, the City Planning Commission has helped mayors put their own stamp on the landscape, whether with luxury Midtown towers or a revitalized waterfront. But Mayor Bill de Blasio mostly sees the realm of zoning and land use as another means to address economic inequality.\nOn Friday, the mayor turned to a seasoned government and development expert, Carl Weisbrod, to lead the City Planning Commission. But Mr. de Blasio said Mr. Weisbrod, whose public service dates back to the Lindsay administration, would take a novel approach: one that looks beyond aesthetics to use the planning process to create housing and jobs and to help solve what Mr. de Blasio calls the city's crisis of affordability.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Mitt Romney's campaign tweets had to be approved by 22 different people\nBy Andrew Prokop Dec 5, 2014, 1:40pm EST\nShare All sharing options for: Mitt Romney's campaign tweets had to be approved by 22 different people\nRomney and spokesperson Kevin Madden, during the 2012 campaign.\nJustin Sullivan \/ Getty\nWhen Mitt Romney's digital team wanted to send out a tweet during the 2012 campaign, it wasn't easy for them. A new paper by Daniel Kreiss, an assistant professor at UNC Chapel Hill (and flagged by Brendan Nyhan on Twitter), finds that, late in the campaign, as many as 22 people had to sign off on the language of each tweet from the @MittRomney feed. That's according to Romney's digital integration director Caitlin Checkett, who said:\nCHECKETT: \"So whether it was a tweet, Facebook post, blog post, photo \u2014 anything you could imagine \u2014 it had to be sent around to everyone for approval. Towards the end of the campaign that was 22 individuals who had to approve it. ... The digital team unfortunately did not have the opportunity to think of things on their own and post them.\"\nRomney's digital director Zac Moffatt concurred, telling Kreiss the campaign had \"the best tweets ever written by 17 people ... It was the best they all could agree on every single time.\"\nIn contrast, Kreiss finds that Obama's digital team had \"more autonomy,\" which made it easier for staffers \"to respond to political events in the moment and in a communicative style that accords with the norms and expectations of networked publics on Twitter.\" He cites a humorous tweet from the @BarackObama feed responding to Clint Eastwood's \"empty chair\" Republican convention speech earlier that night.\nPoliticians and their staffers are generally very cautious with official tweets, and that's understandable. There's little upside from most campaign tweets, and potentially a lot of downside from a Twitter blunder dominating the headlines. Still, having 17 to 22 people vet each tweet seems like a bit of an overcorrection, and makes one wonder what Romney's management style would have been like in the White House.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"TPGIMAGES\nKansas Bureau Of Investigation Director To Retire In January\nTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) \u2014 Kansas Bureau of Investigation Director Kirk Thompson said Thursday he plans to retire in January after more than a decade of leading the state's largest criminal investigation agency.\nNewly elected Attorney General Kris Kobach, a Republican, will name Thompson's replacement, who will need to be confirmed by the Kansas Senate.\nThompson was appointed as KBI director by outgoing Attorney General Derek Schmidt in July 2011. He has served more than 46 years in Kansas law enforcement and joined the KBI in 1979.\nThe KBI said in a news release that Thompson had been considering retirement for several months and agency employees were formally notified in late November. His retirement is effective Jan. 10.\n\"Several well-qualified candidates have expressed interest in the position over the past few months and we are reviewing those options to find the right fit and experience to guide the agency into the future,\" said state Sen. J.R. Claeys, a Salina Republican and a member of Kobach's transition team.\nThompson is the second state agency leader to announce their departure this week. Kansas Department of Transportation Secretary Julie Lorenz said Tuesday that she would step down this month ahead of Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's second term.\nKansas Department of Transportation\nDerek Schmidt\nKris Kobach","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Foreign Language Immersion Online\nBy Yassir Sahnoun\nDual Subtitles: How Language Learning Can Be Twice as Nice\nGive me a foreign language video and subtitles to match and I will learn that language. \u2013 Archimedes, probably\nSubtitles are the unsung heroes of language learning.\nBut you're not here to hear about plain old ordinary subtitles.\nBecause as helpful as those can be, it gets much better.\nYou're here to make use of what seems like it should be such a simple, effective language learning hack but is surprisingly rarely used: dual language subtitles for authentic video content.\nMaybe you thought of this concept yourself.\nMaybe it just popped into your mind while you were watching a vlog in the language you're learning and for the umpteenth time found yourself in the position of switching back and forth between two sets of subtitles that weren't even necessarily accurate.\nOr maybe you snuck a glance at a video on someone else's phone that was running dual subtitles and thought to yourself, \"What is this wizardry?\"\nWell, good news: Having the option of not just one, but two sets of subtitles working for you\u2014one in a language you know and another in the language you're learning\u2014as you watch the kind of content that's intended for native speakers of your target language is not an impossible dream.\nIn this post, we'll show you how it's possible.\nAnd we won't just show you how to have instant translations for all the content in movies or videos you watch, but also how to use this tool to fully grasp the structure, grammar and writing of your target language.\nWithout further ado, let's dive in.\nHow to Set Up Your Own Dual Subtitles Home Theater\nNow that you know dual subtitles are possible, you may be champing at the bit to get started. However, using dual subtitles is a little tricky, and requires a little bit of technical literacy and patience to get right. There's no such thing as a free lunch!\nOr is there?\nA Really Easy Option: Just Sign Up for FluentU\nActually, if you're not tech-savvy and would rather not mess around with video and subtitle files on your computer, there's a super simple solution for obtaining dual subtitles on a huge number of select authentic videos: FluentU.\nThe minds behind FluentU have chosen authentic and interesting native content and turned it into personalized language lessons that include painstakingly-created dual-language subtitles just for you. You'll find all kinds of content on FluentU\u2014like movie trailers, music videos, news, commercials, vlogs, cartoons and inspiring talks.\nWith FluentU, you hear languages in real-world contexts\u2014the way that native speakers actually use them.\nJust a quick look will give you an idea of the variety of FluentU videos on offer:\nFluentU really takes the grunt work out of learning languages, leaving you with nothing but engaging, effective and efficient learning. It's already hand-picked the best videos for you and organized them by level and topic. All you have to do is choose any video that strikes your fancy to get started!\nEach word in the interactive captions comes with a definition, audio, image, example sentences and more.\nAccess a complete interactive transcript of every video under the Dialogue tab, and easily review words and phrases from the video under Vocab.\nYou can use FluentU's unique adaptive quizzes to learn the vocabulary and phrases from the video through fun questions and exercises. Just swipe left or right to see more examples of the word you're studying.\nThe program even keeps track of what you're learning and tells you exactly when it's time for review, giving you a 100% personalized experience.\nStart using FluentU on the website with your computer or tablet or, better yet, download the FluentU app from the iTunes store or Google Play store.\nA Still-not-too-hard Option: Setting Up Dual Subtitles for Video Files on Your Computer\nBut maybe you already have FluentU, and in addition you want to be able to watch full movies and TV shows in a dual-subtitle format. Or you're learning a language that's not yet available. Or you just want to geek out over as many options as possible.\nNot a problem!\nHere's a short tutorial on getting and using dual subtitles with the video files on your computer:\nFirst, you'll want to download subtitle files from OpenSubtitles.org. There are a few different sites where you can download subs, but OpenSubtitles is the oldest and most respected. The collection is enormous, spanning around 50 languages and thousands of films and TV shows.\nThey even have their own forum and blog for advice. But all you really need to do to get started is search for the name of the movie or show you want.\nThen, select the language of the subtitles and download the SRT files you need. One SRT file is one set of subtitles\u2014simple!\nPut the SRT files in the same folder as your video file, and make sure they have a similar name. For example, if you're watching \"Toy Story,\" maybe your video file is toy-story.mp4, your English subs are toy-story.en.srt, and your Spanish subs are toy-story.es.srt.\nNext, make sure you have or download a good media player, like KMPlayer, VLC or Kodi, that will automatically allow you to choose between your sets of subtitles when you play the file. In the \"Toy Story\" example, you'll see options for subtitles in English and Spanish.\nBut how to play them at the same time? Some players already include options to play more than one file at once, but you can also take the additional step of combining two sets of SRT files into one using a free service like DualSub.\nDepending on your media player, you may get smoother results by combining your two SRT files into one ASS file.\nEnjoy your dual subtitles!\nNow, let's look at what you can do with them.\nHow to Use Dual Subtitles to Learn Languages\nUse Dual Subtitles to Improve Your Listening Comprehension\nFirst off, let me be clear that all dual subtitles all the time aren't for everyone. This is why both of the options we recommended above can easily be adjusted to accommodate single-subtitle or no-subtitle watching. If you're advanced enough in your studies, you may not need subtitles anymore at all. Just watch and understand and enjoy your hard-earned fluency.\nBut for the rest of us, when a native speaker opens their mouth in a target-language video, it can be overwhelming.\nSimply listening along with a transcript is one of the best ways to get used to natural speech. But if you listen just one time, it might be tough-going.\nListening multiple times and following along with the subtitles or a transcript will bake those language patterns and vocabulary words into your brain in no time.\nUse Dual Subtitles to Learn Foreign Alphabets and Tough Spelling Systems\nDid you know that same-language subtitling can boost literacy?\nThe applications for second-language learning are enormous. If you're struggling to get your head around unfamiliar writing systems or complicated spelling, take a break from laboriously copying out the alphabet.\nSwitch on some videos with dual-language subtitles and just concentrate on the sounds and the writing. You can use the translations for understanding, but it's the target language you'll want to mainly be focusing on. Then go back to your instructional materials and watch as you make astonishing progress in reading your target language.\nUse Dual Subtitles to Check Your Understanding\nWhen you watch a video in your target language, you may think you understand everything.\nAnd when you read the target-language subtitles, you may also believe you're following along perfectly.\nBut what dual subtitles bring to you is a way to instantly check if you're actually understanding your target language or just getting the gist.\nCover up or turn off the \"answer\" (your native language) and play a short section of the video. Rewind and check to see if you got it right. It's that simple! (With a FluentU Plus plan, Quiz Mode takes care of this part for you\u2014and keeps track of the vocab you're learning so it knows when you need to review something.)\nThen repeat over and over. With hundreds of lines of dialogue in any film or TV show (and so many YouTube videos in existence!), this might be the most efficient and convenient listening practice exercise out there.\nBut what else can you achieve with dual subtitles?\nUse Dual Subtitles to Compare Two Foreign Languages at Once\nLots of language learners like to double things up and study more than one foreign language at the same time.\nThat's great, and I'm all for it. Learners like this have a special way to benefit from dual subtitles\u2014listening to content in their native language and comparing two different translations.\nLet me explain: You'll hear your native language, which is effortless to understand. Then you'll see translations of what was just said in both of the languages you're studying.\nThis way you can get reading practice in both target languages and see where they might differ in terms of vocabulary.\nNorwegian and Danish, for instance, are very similar in their written form.\nBy comparing the subtitles line by line, you can get a sense for where they do differ and strengthen both at the same time. Talk about efficiency!\nUse Dual Subtitles to Understand Nuances in Target Language Content\nHere's another tip that can work for multi-language learners.\nImagine you're watching a film in one of your target languages and you understand it at a high intermediate level.\nYou know what the characters are saying, what they're thinking and how they relate to each other.\nIf you put on subtitles in your native language, you'll understand the meanings of the lines.\nBut if you add subtitles in a different language that you also understand, you'll see how another translator from a different background rendered those lines, too.\nThis can actually add a lot of depth to your understanding of the film and the language.\nOftentimes films from other cultures have nuances that are hard to appreciate from the outside.\nLet's say you're watching a film in Italian, and you understand French well, too. By comparing French and English subtitles for the film\u2014you'll see how the Italian lines were understood by two different translators and interpreted for two different audiences.\nWith a second opinion on the language used in the film, your understanding will be a lot more complete.\nHowever, even if you don't have a third language or set of subtitles for this extra context, you'll still gain understanding of a lot of nuance from comparing a target-language transcript that you already understand to a full translation your native language. This is one way that advanced learners can still benefit from translations, and it also shows the value of another simple exercise: Working out a translation yourself and then comparing it to someone else's translation.\nOf course, there are a million and one ways to learn a language.\nWhatever gets you thinking in and thinking about the language\u2014that's the best way to study.\nDual subtitles are just one of many tools available to you, but they're one of the best.\nTry them out today and see how they work for you!\nIntroducing the Brand New FluentU Android App!\nOur Prescribed 5 Most Useful Languages to Learn for Medicine\nThe Simple Secret to Foreign Language Fluency\n5 Killer Language Learning Strategies Guaranteed to Help You Make Time\nHow to Learn a New Language Fast: 5 Tips That Actually Work\nThe Best Way to Learn a Language: Playing Games!\n8 Ways to Get Daily Language Practice on Your Coffee Break\nHow to Learn a Language by Yourself: 5 Rockstar Tips for Success\nLevel Up Your Language Learning with Spaced Repetition (SRS)\n37 Amazing Polyglots Who Are Happy to Show You How They Do It\nBeginning Language Learning (77)\nFluentU (14)\nLanguage Learning Resources (184)\nLanguage Learning Tips (184)\nLanguage Learning 101: Top Strategies and Tools\nMango Languages Review: A Practical and Comprehensive Look at the Program\nIt's Showtime: Learn a Language by Watching TV in 8 Simple Steps\nHow to Learn a Language by Watching Movies with Your 7 Favorite Websites\nInnovative Language Review: Is It Worth the Cost?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"New rules for house, bedroom rentals?\nBrown County regulators eye short-term rentals of houses and spare bedrooms.\nNew rules for house, bedroom rentals? Brown County regulators eye short-term rentals of houses and spare bedrooms. Check out this story on packersnews.com: http:\/\/pck.rs\/2791EBT\nRichard Ryman, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 6:06 p.m. CT May 9, 2016 | Updated 10:29 a.m. CT May 10, 2016\nThis house on Stadium Drive is one of two approved transient residential facilities in Ashwaubenon.(Photo: Richard Ryman\/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)\nShort-term residential lodging rentals might seem an easy way to make extra income from an unoccupied bedroom or empty house near Lambeau Field, but that doesn't mean landlords will escape regulation.\nIt is an issue proliferating across the country, though not an especially new one. Winnebago County addressed unlicensed lodging providers two years ago in relation to EAA AirVenture. Property owners often use such websites at Airbnb and HomeAway to market availability, but those that do so under the radar are drawing scrutiny.\nThe Brown County Room Tax Commission wants municipalities to crack down on unlicensed transient residential facilities (TRFs) and is planning an all-hands meeting to help them do so.\n\"It's our job to ensure things are being reported and collected,\" said Jason Hager, commission chairman and general manager of Tundra Lodge Resort in Green Bay.\nA check of websites Airbnb and HomeAway indicated about 130 TRFs in the Green Bay metro area. Ashwaubenon, which now is wrestling with how to regulate TRFs, approved two houses, but identified a handful of others listed online.\nHotels and motels are concerned about unfair competition, governments about uncollected taxes and potentially unsafe conditions, and neighbors about what might be happening next door. Unlicensed TRFs have a range of issues, including insurance coverage, and potential safety and health problems.\n\"We've talked to people who assumed homeowner's insurance covered them,\" said Brad Toll, president and CEO of the Greater Green Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau. \"Homeowner's insurance will run the other way.\"\nAshwaubenon President Michael Aubinger said municipalities will be held accountable.\n\"The first B and B that burns down and somebody gets hurt, it's going to be 'where was the municipality?'\" Aubinger said.\nBrown County Executive Troy Streckenbach recommended that conditional-use permits for TRFs require a county health inspection and permit, which is something each municipality would have to individually write into its ordinances. One of the goals of the Room Tax Commission's summit meeting would be to provide municipalities with a template for doing so.\nRestricting TRFs might create issues of fairness. Ashwaubenon trustee Gary Paul said people should be able to sell their homes when they receive good offers, but neighboring homeowners also should know what they are waking up to every morning.\n\"You can't just say yes to one and no to the one next door. That's very hard to do,\" trustee Ken Bukowski said.\nSeveral residents at a recent Ashwaubenon Plan Commission meeting asked not to be left out if TRF proposals come calling.\n\"Our options have changed now because of the (Titletown District),\" said Carolyn Waring, who lives on Blue Ridge Drive.\nAubinger said if an area is zoned for TRFs, it soon will fill up with them. Waring said if TRFs are approved on a case-by-case basis, \"you're going to get a public hearing and everyone is going to come up against it without hearing all the discussion.\"\nCommunities define \u2014 and even name \u2014 TRFs differently. In Ashwaubenon, they are sometimes confused with Packers Party Houses, which are for their owners' personal use. TRFs are not necessarily near Lambeau Field.\nAubinger said the Green Bay Packers' Titletown District and more events in the area will increase demand for TRFs.\n\"This will grow and morph into something much bigger than what it is now,\" he said. \"You have to think of the future and this could become very large.\"\nContact rryman@greenbaypressgazette.com and follow him on Twitter @RichRymanPG, onInstagram at rrymanpgor on Facebook at Richard Ryman-Press-Gazette. Or call him at (920) 431-8342.\nRead or Share this story: http:\/\/pck.rs\/2791EBT","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Latest News La Liga Zinedine Zidane puts Real Madrid future in doubts\nZinedine Zidane puts Real Madrid future in doubts\nZinedine Zidane has cast doubts over his future as Real Madrid manager.\nMadrid were crowned Spanish La Liga champions on Thursday following their 2-1 win over Villarreal at the Alfredo Di Stefano Stadium.\nThe Frenchman has two years left on his current deal at the Santiago Bernabeu, but has refused to make any assurances of continuing on as the gaffer beyond this season.\n\"I have a contract here but you never know what will happen,\" said Zidane. \"I am not talking about what's going to happen next season or the following year. I have a contract, I am happy here, and I am happy with what I am doing but you never know what will happen in football.\n\"That's why I feel so relaxed with my future because in the world of football things could change overnight. I don't know what's going to happen in the future. I am happy with what I am doing here and we will see for how long.\"\nThe former Madrid midfielder also urged his squad to remain focused on their last game of the La Liga campaign against Leganes, who are fighting to escape the drop this term.\n\"We have to find that motivation. It's a league game. When we put on the Real Madrid shirt, we want to win all the games,\" he said. \"That's the DNA at Real Madrid. It's a league game, not a friendly, and we want to play well. I don't think we've got anything to prove. We just want to maintain this positive momentum. We want to keep winning.\n\"We have another big game. We said there were 11 finals. There were 10 and we won the league, but we want to finish in the best way possible.\n\"We want to keep pushing and testing ourselves until the very end of the season. There will be a few days' rest after the game against Leganes, but the season continues. We will be back training and preparing for City after the game against Leganes.\"\nZidane also admitted he would love to see Karim Benzema, who netted all two goals against the Yellow Submarine to get his hands on the Pichichi Award. The Frenchman is two shy of Barcelona's Lionel Messi who has 23 goals.\n\"I'd love for Benzema to get the Pichichi,\" said Zidane. \"But I'm not going to say who's going to play. He's a player whose done a great job and deserves to end the season as the top goalscorer, but it's going to go down to the final game of the season. Let's see what happens on Sunday.\"\nLatest Karim Benzema News | Transfer News | Injury News and Update\nPrevious articleLeganes vs Real Madrid: Time to give fringe players the chance?\nNext articleFive Real Madrid players make it to La Liga's TOTY\nZinedine Zidane: \"The game should have been postponed\"\nOsasuna 0-0 Real Madrid: Zinedine Zidane's side drop two points | La Liga 2020\/21","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Arts & CultureBooksSpring Literary Review 2020 issue\nThe Catholic Book Club: From contemporary poetry to a study of Mary Magdalene\nJames T. KeaneApril 24, 2020\n(Photo by Susan Yin on Unsplash)\nThe Catholic Book Club passed another happy milestone this past fall, when our Facebook discussion group gained its 4,000th member (our weekly Catholic Book Club newsletter has also grown, and now has almost 11,000 subscribers), proving that the written word stubbornly retains its allure even amid new platforms and methods of communication. After three years of sharing our thoughts on different books from a broad variety of genres, we have run the gamut from novels to historical biographies to sociological studies to memoirs to short story collections to poetry.\nSt. Peter's B-Listby Mary Ann B. Miller (editor)\nAve Maria Press. 288p, $15.95\nThe Magdalene in the Reformation by Margaret Arnold\n312p, $29.95\nDe gustibus non est disputandum, as the Romans were wont to say (we might render it \"different strokes for different folks\"). We have found that different genres and authors inspire different readers and broad variations in discussion, another reason to mix it up a bit in terms of genres and styles.\nOur two most recent selections have been no exception. Our fall 2019 selection was a poetry anthology, St. Peter's B-List: Contemporary Poems Inspired by the Saints, edited by Mary Ann B. Miller, and our winter 2020 selection was an academic text on a fairly specific topic: The Magdalene in the Reformation, by Margaret Arnold. In both cases, our conversation was spurred and informed by the literary and cultural insights of the Catholic Book Club moderator, Kevin Spinale, S.J., who wrote interpretive essays to introduce the books to the readers and to further the discussion.\nDe gustibus non est disputandum, as the Romans were wont to say (we might render it \"different strokes for different folks\").\nSt. Peter's B-List: Contemporary Poems Inspired by the Saints\n\"Perhaps some regard 'poetry'\u2014the word or form is a put-off\u2014as a nasty little inaccessible form of writing to be avoided,\" wrote Father Spinale in his introductory essay to St. Peter's B-list. \"Perhaps many members of the Book Club still have scars from reading Alexander Pope or feel revulsion after having to stomach some lumpy, middle-aged English teacher passionately screaming, 'Seize the day!' while telling you what Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken' really means.\"\nPart of the problem, according to Father Spinale, is that \"English teachers excel at telling their students what poems mean\u2014perhaps this is why we rarely read poetry. Perhaps we think we need someone to tell us what it means.\" But he did not find that to be the case with St. Peter's B-List: \"The poetry in this collection is very different. We can read it without anyone telling us anything. The experiences of the poets penetrate our own and expand them; these poets make our experiences richer\u2014inflected in a different key.\"\nPoets in the volume include such well-known Catholic writers as the late Brian Doyle, Mary Karr, Dana Gioia, Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, Paul Mariani and Kate Daniels but also many less familiar names. Of the 70 poems in the anthology, Father Spinale wrote: \"Many are extraordinarily funny. Many are heart-wrenching and render the reader silent. All are Catholic. All of them, I think, can contribute to prayer.\"\n\"I think for me the most powerful aspect of this book was not necessarily always the poems written by others (although I appreciated the imagery and reflections found in many of them),\" wrote reader Mary Virginia Bunker.\n\"I think for me the most powerful aspect of this book was not necessarily always the poems written by others (although I appreciated the imagery and reflections found in many of them),\" wrote reader Mary Virginia Bunker:\nI found that reading the poetry in the book provided me with a personal challenge to try and articulate my own feelings, emotions and experiences\/memories related to some of the saints that have deeply impacted my own spiritual journey and practices. I found that reading the book inspired me to do some of my own journaling (free-form verse, personal prayer, reflections, narrative and questions) and artwork around the qualities and stories of the saints that have touched me and people I have loved.\nThe online conversation on our C.B.C. Facebook page also benefited from conversation with some of the poets in the volume, including Angela Alaimo O'Donnell. \"It is fascinating to see the ways in which what we bring to a poem shapes (in some measure) what we see in it. This is why poetry is so multiple in its meanings. A poem has as many readings as there are readers,\" she wrote.\nAngela Alaimo O'Donnell: \"It is fascinating to see the ways in which what we bring to a poem shapes (in some measure) what we see in it. This is why poetry is so multiple in its meanings. A poem has as many readings as there are readers.\"\nThe Magdalene in the Reformation\nThroughout 20 centuries of Christianity, the story of Mary Magdalene has been a convoluted one\u2014as well as one that has often shown the worst patriarchal and sexist elements at work within church pieties and teaching. The first apostle to see the risen Lord\u2014known, in fact, because of this as the apostola apostolorum\u2014she nevertheless found her reputation over the centuries slowly turned to that of a prostitute or a woman possessed, in large part because interpreters of Scripture made an amalgam of several women mentioned in the New Testament and presented them all as the Magdalene.\nIn his introductory essay for our discussion of this book, Father Spinale asked if readers had a pre-existing devotion to Mary Magdalene and what their understanding of the saint was before they read this book. A surprising number of readers said they had long held her in high esteem. \"Never have I associated her with prostitution or possession. She may at times, in my mind, have been a compilation of the various Marys mentioned in Scripture, but for the most part, I considered her a woman with a mission,\" wrote Sally Meyers. \"She was 'ahead of her time,' unappreciated in a male-dominated culture both then and now. Her belief, her love and her strength drew me to her.\"\n\"The reformers understood in Mary an intimacy with Christ and a mission that they can replicate in their own lives,\" Father Spinale wrote. \"Such an intimacy licenses public witness to Jesus Christ on the part of lay men and women.\"\n\"Mary Magdalene's character draws others to her and clearly excites connections and comparisons among those who contemplate her witness to the risen Christ,\" Father Spinale wrote. \"The reformers understood in Mary an intimacy with Christ and a mission that they can replicate in their own lives. Such an intimacy licenses public witness to Jesus Christ on the part of lay men and women,\" he continued. \"For early modern Catholics, such an intimacy is afforded one who empties oneself in contrition for sin and enacts love in the all-consuming, often contemplative and unitive way that Mary loves Jesus.\"\nMargaret Arnold's words in The Magdalene in the Reformation support his contention, as she notes the many ways in which Mary Magdalene allowed people to access the entire story of salvation history, including often in pairs with other saints. \"Over the centuries, Mary was made to speak not only her good news but also her whole story, a chronicle of sin and redemption that contains within it humanity's fall and salvation,\" Arnold writes. She continues:\nThere's something about Mary Magdalene\nKevin Spinale\nUnpacking 'St. Peter's B-List': Poems on faith, laughter, guilt, anguish and hope\nHer progress from sinner to penitent, from prodigal to ascetic, from witness to missionary, describes the arc of the church's founding narrative. The varying emphases that can be found in different versions of her story point to the preoccupations of those who gave her voice, to the questions that interested, inspired, and infuriated them.\nFurther, because the different images of Mary Magdalene inspired other women to argue for authority, to show holiness, to argue for a closer intimacy with Christ, \"[a]n army of eloquent Magdalenes has carried the message of the Gospel through the centuries,\" Arnold concludes, \"despite facing violence, oppression, insult, and mockery. The church owes them its life.\"\nTo offer the broadest possible range of quality books with spiritual and intellectual heft, we are always interested in suggestions for what to choose next. Are you interested in reading and discussing with us? Join the Catholic Book Club at americamagazine.org\/catholic-book-club or on Facebook at facebook.com\/groups\/americacbc. Happy reading!\nThis article also appeared in print, under the headline \"Contemporary poetry to a study of Mary Magdalene,\" in the Spring Literary Review 2020, issue.\nMore: Literature \/ Books \/ Saints \/ Poetry \/ History\nJames T. Keane is a senior editor of America.\nProvide feedback on this article\nWe don't have comments turned on everywhere anymore. We have recently relaunched the commenting experience at America and are aiming for a more focused commenting experience with better moderation by opening comments on a select number of articles each day.\nBut we still want your feedback. 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{"text":"Corporate Social Responsibility in Emerging Markets: Getting it right the first time?\nPublished: Thursday, April 03 rd, 2014\nBy Naomi Rosenthal\nThe concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) continues to evolve rapidly, and the majority of global corporations now undertake CSR activities. The term was coined in the 1950s, including in Bowen's groundbreaking work \"Social Responsibility of Businessmen.\"[1] Bowen's work marked a turning point, as it highlighted the fundamental requirement that companies pursue activities in an ethical manner in order to maintain their social license to operate. This notion underscores how we at Clarmondial, and many experts globally define CSR today:\nCSR encompasses the legal requirement for companies to adhere to social and environmental governance practices, and the opportunities for excelling beyond these basic requirements in order to gain a competitive advantage through improved understanding of the risks and opportunities of ESG considerations.\nCritically, however, the notion raised by Bowen was groundbreaking for its time. After all, it was a time where colonialism was still rife and most transnational corporations sought to maximize profits in the short run.\nIndustry as a whole did not give this early work much notice. It was not until the mid 1980s and early 1990s that companies began to really consider how their environmental and social governance might influence their bottom line. This realization came largely through a number of corporate scandals, including the Nestl\u00e9 baby milk formula scandal, the Nike child labor campaigns and major Shell Oil disasters including the Brent Spar oil platform and speculation surrounding their involvement in the execution of Ken Saro Wiwa in 1995. While early reactions to these events were purely motivated by public relations, and avoiding false press, it formed the origin of a movement towards understanding the responsibility of a company to behave ethically. Indeed, it is no surprise that Shell has been credited as the first major company to complete a CSR report, in 1998.[2]\nThis growing concern led to an industry movement to better appreciate companies' responsibilities with respect to their social contract, and to understand and address material social and environmental issues. This has led to the creation of a multitude of standards, reporting guidelines, supply chain codes of conduct, business associations, policy frameworks, employee associations, and international watchdogs. All this to address the many fundamental questions that consumers, governments and business leaders face, including:\nHow can corporations develop profitably while still adhering to basic social and environmental practices?\nTo whom are corporations accountable?\nWhat types of environmental and social issues must they consider?\nWhose responsibility is it to monitor these actions and what can be done when the behavior of corporations violates basic ethical considerations?\nOver time, the notion, also referred to by now as corporate responsibility, social responsibility, or environmental and social governance considerations, has grown to encompass much more than public relations \u2013 CSR is the political economy of companies.\nDespite the growing importance of CSR, the concept continues to be more widely used in large consumer facing companies from developed economies. There are several reasons why Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs), companies within the B2B (business to business) sector and companies from emerging economies are less likely to report on their CSR activities. For example, these companies are less likely to be targets of civil society anti-corporation backlash campaigns. They are also less likely to have the resources to undertake and prioritize complex and additional analysis and reporting, including in-depth supply chain analyses and to conduct voluntary reporting. They may also believe that their small scale is likely to have a small impact, which does not justify such an investment.\nNevertheless, research has shown that there is a growing trend towards CSR activities in emerging economies, and the GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Internationale Zusammenarbeit) publication Fast Growth and Big Impacts: How Emerging Market Multinationals are advancing sustainable development argues that due to their proximity to pressing Environmental and Social Governance (ESG) issues, many larger corporations from emerging economies actually have improved environmental and social governance compared with their developed economy peers. This publication highlights an important point: companies that are at the forefront of these issues can use their proximity to have a greater impact where it is most needed, and similarly harness the associated economic opportunities. For this reason there are a number of international initiatives to support CSR within SMEs, companies in emerging markets and companies within the B2B sector. Such initiatives are particularly important as they support the companies that are generally considered the driving force of emerging market economies.\nCSR is likely to continue to grow and evolve in the future, and building successful companies through 'doing well by doing good' in emerging markets will be an interesting challenge, in particular amongst SMEs. Fostering this type of corporate development presents a great opportunity within the impact and development aid arenas, and a space that we are excited to be a part of. Some ways that we see this could be supported even further include:\nAccess to concessional financing or other financial incentives for organisations that are properly considering and accounting for material issues. For example lower-interest debt, tax incentives, fast-track business administration processes or tariff reductions.\nGrant facilities to assist in materiality evaluations within specific localized sectors, and support to identify profitable opportunities, including technology-matchmaking.\nStakeholder engagement opportunities, such as opportunities for investors who consider social and environmental considerations to connect with leading SMEs within this space.\nRecognition of best practices and development of case studies that guide SMEs.\nImproved regulatory frameworks, requiring compliance, such as 'report or explain' requirements for stock exchanges.\nAccounting firms developing mechanisms to incorporate ESG considerations into reporting practices for SMEs.\nCapacity building programs for CSR within emerging markets (an example of this includes the Global CSR Retreat, which Naomi developed at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, UNCTAD).\nAs the sector continues to evolve we are excited to see new and interesting ways to work with partners to support SMEs in emerging economies that want to make CSR integral to the success of their business.\n[1] See for example \"Corporate Social Responsibility, Evolution of a Definitional Construct\" by Archie B. 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{"text":"Slack wins $1,000 teaching scholarship\nby K.C. Jaehnig\nCARBONDALE, Ill. -- Melissa D. Slack of Arcola (736 Dogwood Drive.), a junior at Southern Illinois University Carbondale majoring in education, has won a $1,000 scholarship through a program aimed at producing math and science teachers.\nCo-sponsored by SIUC's College of Education and Human Services and its College of Science with funding from the Boeing Foundation, the Teaching Excellence in Mathematics and Science initiative each year presents scholarships to as many as 20 aspiring teachers with grade-point averages of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale.\n\"These students represent some of the best and brightest students at SIUC and represent a positive future for our schools,\" said project director Trudi L. Volk.\nSlack, the daughter of Chris D. and Cindy L. Slack, plans to teach elementary school science.\nStrengthening the undergraduate scholarship program is among the goals of Southern at 150: Building Excellence Through Commitment, the blueprint the University is following as it approaches its 150th anniversary in 2019.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tickets for UFC 94: ST-PIERRE VS. PENN 2 priced at $750, $500, $300, $200, $100 and $50, not including applicable service charges, go on sale Sunday, Nov. 16 at 10 a.m. at all Las Vegas Ticketmaster locations (select Smith's Food and Drug Centers and Ritmo Latino). Ticket sales are limited to ten (10) per person. To charge by phone with a major credit card, call Ticketmaster at (702) 474-4000. Tickets also are available for purchase at www.ufc.com, www.mgmgrand.com or www.ticketmaster.com.\nUFC\u00ae Fight Club\u2122 members will have the opportunity to purchase tickets to this event Thursday, November 13 at 10 a.m. PT via the website ufc.com. A special Internet ticket pre-sale will be available to UFC newsletter subscribers Saturday, November 15 starting at 10am PT. To access this presale, users must register for the UFC newsletter through ufc.com.\nUFC 94: ST-PIERRE VS. PENN 2 will be available live on pay-per-view at 10 p.m. EST\/7 p.m. PST on iN DEMAND, DIRECTV, DISH Network, TVN, Bell ExpressVu, Shaw Communications and Viewer's Choice Canada for a suggested retail price of $44.95 for standard definition or high-definition broadcasts (where available).\nOne of the sport's most dynamic athletes, Georges St-Pierre (17-2) will be prepared to go five rounds to defend his UFC welterweight championship. The Montreal, Canada native has won his last four fights and nine out of his last 10. Most recently, the popular champ defeated number one contender Jon Fitch in a five round war, and at 27, he is in the prime of his brilliant fighting career and looking to send Penn back to the 155-pound weight class.\n\"I'm very honored to fight BJ Penn and very excited because it's the fight that everybody wants to see, including myself,\" said St-Pierre. \"It will be one of the most anticipated fights in UFC history, and I'm glad and humbled to be a part of it.\"\nThe welterweight division is old hat for Hilo, Hawaii's BJ Penn (14-4-1). The current UFC lightweight champion earned the welterweight title in 2004 with a submission victory over UFC legend Matt Hughes. But Penn has been even more untouchable since moving back to the lightweight division. The Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt has won his last three fights against three world-class foes in Jens Pulver, Joe Stevenson and Sean Sherk. But the only thing on Penn's mind right now is a return to the welterweight division for a healthy dose of revenge.\n\"For that fight, I was at a point in my career where I didn't prepare as well as I should have,\" Penn said. \"During the second and third round I realized that I ran into someone that wanted it more than I did\u2026Now, I'm very prepared to go five rounds.\"\nAbout The Ultimate Fighting Championship\nThe Ultimate Fighting Championship is the world's leading professional mixed martial arts organization and offers the premier series of MMA sports events. Owned and operated by Zuffa, LLC, and headquartered in Las Vegas, Nev., UFC produces over twelve live pay-per-view events annually that are distributed residentially through North American cable and satellite providers including iNDEMAND Networks, DIRECTV, DISH Network, TVN Entertainment, Shaw Pay-Per-View, Bell ExpressVU, Viewers Choice, SaskTel Max\u2122 and via the Internet worldwide on Yahoo! Sports, and commercially through Joe Hand Promotions in the U.S. and Canadastar in Canada. In addition to its North American distribution, UFC programming is distributed in over 100 countries and territories throughout the world. For more information, or current UFC fight news, visit ufc.com or uk.ufc.com or ufcespanol.com.\nUltimate Fighting Championship, Ultimate Fighting, UFC, The Ultimate Fighter\u00ae, Submission\u00ae, As Real As It Gets\u00ae, Zuffa\u2122, The Octagon\u2122 and the eight-sided competition mat and cage design are registered trademarks, trademarks, trade dress or service marks owned exclusively by Zuffa, LLC in the United States and other jurisdictions. All other marks referenced herein may be the property of Zuffa, LLC or other respective owners.\nLesnar on ESPN's E:60\nThe Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs Team Mir - Episode Nine Recap","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Why Are There So Many Tornadoes Right Now?\nThis has been a spring of angry weather across the U.S. as heat, flooding, and hail pummel the eastern half of the country. But along with the garden variety suffering, devastating tornadoes have also spread across the U.S. from Texas to Pennsylvania.\nTwisters have ripped through communities across the U.S., killing at least three in Missouri last week, injuring nearly 100 on Monday in Ohio, and upending thousands of people's lives. On Thursday, nearly 78 million Americans still faced increased odds of tornadoes touching down, according to the Storm Prediction Center, including major metro areas like New York, Washington, D.C., and Nashville.\nThe outbreak of twisters over the past two weeks has already put U.S. tornado numbers well above average for this time of year. And the same pattern that has helped spawn so many tornadoes could still be with us through the end of the week. Though they didn't see exactly where each tornado would touch down, researchers have been eyeing this pattern weeks ahead of time thanks to an area of strong thunderstorms thousands of miles away in the tropical Pacific.\nMay is prime time for tornadoes to hit the U.S. as storms come rumbling out of the Rockies and warm, moist air gets sucked up out of the Gulf of Mexico. But even by May standards, the number and especially the geographical extent of where tornadoes have touched down has been notable.\n\"We've had one of the most active stretches on recent record,\" John Allen, a tornado researcher at Central Michigan University, told Earther. \"Thirteen days is pretty impressive.\"\nIndeed, the U.S. has seen roughly 600 tornadoes reported since the start of May with most of them coming in the last two weeks of the month. Some of those reports are duplicates, and it will take the National Weather Service some time to sort out a likely lower official final count. But regardless, scientifically speaking, there have been a crap ton of tornadoes.\nHarold Brooks, a senior scientist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory, told Earther that while the final tornado count is still a ways away, the late April 2011 and May 2003 outbreaks are likely good analogs. He said the former was bigger overall while the latter had a more active peak day, but they're a rough \"a comparison of apple varieties.\"\nThere is some research suggesting that these types of tornado outbreaks could become more common as climate change destabilizes the atmosphere. Signs that the rapid warming in the Arctic is messing with the jet stream are also a cause for concern. But attributing individual tornado outbreaks\u2014let alone individual twisters\u2014to climate change is still largely in the realm of highly speculative research. That's not to say climate change doesn't play a role in severe weather outbreaks like this one, but rather that scientists still have a lot to learn to firm up those connections. But there are clear indications that natural climate shifts did help shape this outbreak that researchers have been watching for weeks.\nOne has been an abnormally warm, moist mass of air in the Gulf of Mexico that was just kind of sitting around like a pile of tinder. But Allen said, \"you needed something else to spur [severe weather] system development.\"\nThat something else is what's going on in the tropical Pacific. One factor is El Ni\u00f1o, a climate phenomenon characterized by a blob of warm water in the eastern tropical Pacific, that's been clinging on for dear life since February. Normally El Ni\u00f1o slows down the onset of severe weather season, and this year's late May burst of activity fits with that pattern. But there's another climate phenomenon in the region Allen also pointed to as being key to this May's tornado drama: the Madden Julien Oscillation (MJO).\nThe MJO is an area of thunderstorms that meanders over the western Pacific and Indian oceans. Earlier this month, it became very active over the Indian Ocean. Think of the jet stream as a rope; that increase in thunderstorm activity was like the snap of a wrist sending waves of energy rippling down the rope. And that added energy is the real oomph needed to kick severe weather into high gear across the U.S.\n\"This was the poster child example,\" Brooks said of the conditions priming the big tornado outbreak.\nAllen is part of a team of researchers working on what they call extended range tornado activity forecasts, and their forecast picked all this up three weeks ago.\n\"We're dealing with a board full of knobs, and they're all weighted in different directions,\" he said. \"We had a pretty good handle that there was going to be sustained activity as early as April.\"\nThis type of forecasting effort is both a cool science project and one that can have very real benefits for disaster managers who could use it to position supplies or get line crews ready so power doesn't stay out for long after storms. (Unfortunately, the forecasts are not granular enough to help people avoid tornados altogether.) Some research does indicate that climate change will make conditions for severe weather and tornadoes more common, giving this type of 2-3 week forecast even more value.\nIt also could help people in the eastern half of the country breathe a sigh of relief: The next two weeks are expected to simmer down, at least a bit.\nEartherExtreme Weather","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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This book is a collection of the four novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet (1887), The Sign of the Four (1890), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) and The Valley of Fear (1915). Featuring the timeless detective Sherlock Holmes, these novels have been successfully engrossing readers for more than a century now.\nDon't Fall Through the Cracks!:Paperback (ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-9353339449)FREE post USA.UK.CANADA\nDon't Fall Through the Cracks!:Paperback (ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-9353339449)\nCivilization is a race between education and catastrophe.' \u2014H.G. Wells\nThis is an unsparing dissection of the current education system by someone who has managed to wade through it, comparatively unscathed.\nUnbroken and unshaken by a system that believes largely in the status-quo, writer Sid Sanghvi lays bare the truths about learning and the paradoxes in the 'system' of education. 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How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.\nRecently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life's challenges \u2013 how to get relative with the inevitable \u2013 you can enjoy a state of success I call 'catching greenlights.'\nSo I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. 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And herein lies the greatest paradox because there is no lack of perseverance in this journey. The miraculous manner in which things fall into place naturally, like pieces of a pre-ordained puzzle with the universe acting as the 'sutradhar', is the fulcrum around which the joy of this remarkable journey is built.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \/ History \/ The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America\nThe Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America\nDownload The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America written by Brian P. Levack in PDF format. This book is under the category History and bearing the isbn\/isbn13 number 0199578168; 0198723636\/9780199578160\/ 9780198723639. You may reffer the table below for additional details of the book.\nThe Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America quantity\nSKU: dc513ea4fbda Category: History Tags: 9780198723639, 9780199578160\nBrian P. Levack\nOxford University Press; 1st edition\n9780199578160\/ 9780198723639\nThe essays in this Handbook; titled 'The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America';(PDF) are written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies; explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries. During these years witches were thought to be evil people who used magical power to inflict physical harm or misfortune on their neighbours. Witches were also believed to have made pacts with the devil and sometimes to have worshipped him at nocturnal assemblies known as sabbaths. These beliefs provided the basis for defining witchcraft as a secular and ecclesiastical crime and prosecuting tens of thousands of women and men for this offence. The trials resulted in as many as fifty thousand executions.\nThese essays study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingdoms and territories of Europe and in English; Spanish; and Portuguese colonies in the Americas. They also relate these prosecutions to the Catholic and Protestant reformations; the introduction of new forms of criminal procedure; medical and scientific thought; the process of state-building; profound social and economic change; early modern patterns of gender relations; and the wave of demonic possessions that occurred in Europe at the same time. The essays survey the current state of knowledge in the field; explore the academic controversies that have arisen regarding witch beliefs and witch trials; propose new ways of studying the subject; and identify areas for future research.\nBe the first to review \"The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America\" Cancel reply\nVoyage of Discovery: A Historical Introduction to Philosophy (4th Edition)\nGive Me Liberty! An American History (Seagull Fifth Edition) Vol. 1 by Eric Foner\nLouise Brigham and the Early History of Sustainable Furniture Design\nThe West: A Narrative History; Volume 1: To 1660 (3rd Edition)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb For a Muse of Fire\nFor a Muse of Fire\nBy Heidi Heilig\n\u2757\ufe0fMany publication dates have moved recently and may not be up to date. \u2757\ufe0f\nAvailability: Usually arrives within 5-10 days Pre-orders ship after the publication date.\nAges 13 And Up, Grades 8 And Up\nA young woman with a dangerous power she barely understands. A smuggler with secrets of his own. A country torn between a merciless colonial army, a terrifying tyrant, and a feared rebel leader.\nThe first book in acclaimed author Heidi Heilig's Shadow Players trilogy blends traditional storytelling with ephemera for a lush, page-turning tale of escape and rebellion.\nIn a starred review, School Library Journal called For a Muse of Fire \"[A] must-have story with an inclusive cast, high stakes, and an intense cliff-hanger.\"\n\"Be prepared to stay up late with this one.\"\u2014NPR.org\nJetta's family is famed as the most talented troupe of shadow players in the land. With Jetta behind the scrim, their puppets seem to move without string or stick\u2014a trade secret, they say. In truth, Jetta can see the souls of the recently departed and bind them to the puppets with her blood.\nBut ever since the colonizing army conquered their country the old ways are forbidden, so Jetta must never show, never tell. Her skill and fame are her family's way to earn a spot aboard the royal ship to Aquitan, where shadow plays are the latest rage, and where rumor has it the Mad King has a spring that cures his ills.\nBecause seeing spirits is not the only thing that plagues Jetta.\nBut as rebellion seethes and as Jetta meets a young smuggler, she will face truths and decisions that she never imagined\u2014and safety will never seem so far away.\nHeidi Heilig creates a vivid, rich world inspired by Southeast Asian cultures and French colonialism. Her characters are equally complex and nuanced, including the bipolar heroine.\nTold from Jetta's first-person point-of-view, as well as chapters written as play scripts and ephemera such as telegrams and letters, For a Muse of Fire is an engrossing journey that weaves magic, simmering romance, and the deep bonds of family with the high stakes of epic adventure.\nKirkus said, \"Readers will be rewarded with vividly drawn settings reminiscent of Hawaii and Southeast Asia, exciting action scenes, and a complex protagonist. . . . compelling.\"\nSix of Crows 01\nGirls Made of Snow and Glass","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Collin County Judge Chris Hill warns 'agitators' to avoid illegal activity during protests over the death of Marvin Scott III\nHe and other elected officials have received complaints from residents about how law enforcement handled a recent protest.\nRenee White presses a photo of Marvin Scott III on the windows of the Collin County Courthouse while demanding the officers present arrest the officers involved in Scott's in-custody death after a press conference on April 28, 2021.(Shelby Tauber \/ Special Contributor)\nBy Chloe Bennett\n2:13 PM on May 17, 2021 CDT\nCollin County Judge Chris Hill sent constituents a letter last week denouncing a recent protest in which he said demonstrators blocked a Plano intersection.\nThe event was one of the near-daily protests that have taken place since March, when Marvin Scott III died in custody at the Collin County Jail.\nScott, 26, died of \"fatal acute stress response in an individual with previously diagnosed schizophrenia during restraint struggle with law enforcement,\" according to the county medical examiner.\nSince his death, organizers around the county have called for further repercussions for the detention officers who were involved. Seven were fired and one resigned, and one was reinstated through the civil service process.\nIn his letter, Hill said protesters who \"cross the line into illegal activity\" are at risk of arrest. According to state law, a person commits an offense by knowingly obstructing a public road, highway or street or disobeying a \"reasonable request or order to move.\"\n\"The individuals who engaged in this behavior knowingly and volitionally disregarded the law and endangered others to further their own objectives,\" Hill wrote. \"Like a school yard bully who torments others for his own amusement or profit, these agitators intentionally provoked conflict so that more people will pay them attention.\"\nDuring the May 2 protest at Preston Road and State Highway 121, near the border of Plano and Frisco, a man angrily confronted the protesters and now faces a misdemeanor assault charge for his actions, which were captured on a video that went viral.\nHill and other elected officials have received complaints from residents about how law enforcement handled the event. During a May 3 Collin County Commissioners Court meeting, a speaker complained about how law enforcement handled the angry motorist and asked for more police protection for protesters.\nDuring a Plano City Council meeting last week, speakers said they are worried the city's response was not assertive enough and could encourage activists or provocateurs to riot and cause extensive damage and chaos.\nHill said in his letter that although he supports peaceful protests, he offers \"no sympathy and no support for those who break the law, those who abuse others, those who create conflict and destruction, and those who terrorize our communities.\"\nPolice should arrest officers in Marvin Scott's death, protect protesters, speakers tell Collin County officials\nBy Chloe Bennett and Brandi Addison\nOn May 5, civil rights attorney Lee Merritt, who is representing Scott's family, wrote Hill a letter that said protesters will consent to arrest if they believe it will help ensure an equal justice system.\n\"Peaceful protesters understand that in an act of civil disobedience, such as blocking a roadway, they're willing to submit themselves to arrest,\" he said.\n\"They're highlighting the fact that we can arrest protesters, so we can also, hopefully, arrest counter-protesters, and we can arrest state agents, like the seven officers involved with Marvin Scott III,\" he added.\nSpecial contributors Brandi Addison and Teri Webster contributed to this report.\nChloe Bennett, Special Contributor. Chloe Bennett is a freelance journalist covering Garland and Mesquite. Originally from Carrollton, she graduated from the University of San Francisco in 2019. You can find her previous work in several outlets, including KUT public radio, Dallas Innovates, and the Plano Star Courier.\nchloebwrites@gmail.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Kings Re-Sign Two Forwards\nJames Wilson Monday, July 11, 2022 Los Angeles Kings\nThe Kings are re-signing forwards Carl Grundstrom and Lias Andersson.\nHow Swede it is! \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddea\nWe've signed @CarlGrundstrom & @liasandersson to contract extensions.\n\u2014 LA Kings (@LAKings) July 11, 2022\nGrundstrom is being re-signed to a two-year, $1.3 million AAV contract extension, while Andersson is receiving a one-year extension, worth $700K.\nThis past season Grundstrom scored nine goals and six assists for 15 points in 54 games. All career highs for the twenty-four year old.\nAndersson only played 20 games for the Kings this season, scoring 1 goal and 1 assist. The former seventh overall pick of the 2017 Draft will get another shot in Los Angeles this coming season.\nThis marks the third re-signing of restricted free agents for the Kings this offseason, with the team locking up Adrian Kempe last week.\nPhoto Credit: Perry Nelson-USA TODAY Sports","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Search in titles only Search in All Other NFL Topics only\nAll Other NFL Topics\nShame on you!\nHndRkyaBong34\nJerry Jones and the Dallas organization for letting this loser Greg Hardy play in the NFL.. You are a pathetic organization for turning a blind eye to such a despicable Person....\nSorry, I just had to put it out there....What a loser... \u200b\nLast edited by HndRkyaBong34; 11-09-2015, 07:46 PM.\nI think his signing and a few other underhanded things that Jones has done is why they are having such \"bad luck\" this season. I still think he had something to do with La'el Collins not being drafted. I think it will come out in time that it was a false report and the Cowboys were behind it. I think that Jones had a behind the scenes, illegal deal with Peterson's agent and that is why he appeared to be so abnormally confident allowing Murray to go to the Eagles, a division rival, without having a Plan B, Plac C or any plan of any kind. I think Jones thought his illegal Peterson deal was as good as done and he was going to have the last laugh. JMO\nAquaXI\nDallas ConBoys!\nThe happiness of the Dolphin is to exist.... Jacques Cousteau.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"R e s e a r c h\nT h e B O A C L a b r a d o r s i g h t i n g of J u n e 2 9, 1 9 5 4\nMartin SHOUGH & Wim VAN UTRECHT\nSimilar reports - \"The Dark Blob Catalogue\"\nCase #19\nAntofagasta, Chile - October 1978\nThe earliest source we located for this radar\/visual incident is an article in the July-August 1979 issue of the British Flying Saucer Review (FSR Vol. 25, No. 4, p. iii). In essence, this item is an English translation of a Spanish account published in June 1979 (exact date unknown) by the Chilean newspaper La Tercera. Here's the translated text of this news article as it was published in FSR:\nChilean Air force Squadron Leader Capt. Danilo Catalan Farias, Flight Instructor of area F.5.E at the Cerro Moreno Base at Antofagasta, who affirmed having seen a gigantic UFO, has now added further details about the sighting he had while on a flying mission.\nCapt. Catalan has been flying combat aircraft for 11 years, and has a brilliant service record. He says: \"We were about to conduct a flying class, and took off normally round about 12.00 noon near the coast of Antofagasta in a south-westerly direction, and going through all the routine procedures, when ground control called to warn that a UFO had appeared on their radar. In this area there is traffic whose 'fly-over' permission usually arrives later, so we are quite used to referring to these as 'UFOs' or 'unidentified aircraft.' When we received the communication, my companion in another plane was ordered to seperate from us and head north. We calculated the object was doing a good speed, about 0.92 mach. which is near the speed of sound. As my companion to the north could not overtake the object, I, who was a bit more to the south, was ordered to pursue. I accelerated to 1.3 (above the speed of sound) at a height of 37,000 feet, then on the radar I had it at 20 miles distance, and its blip was a bit bigger than a normal plane's. I continued accelerating and at some 10 miles to the south I made visual contact, but suddenly there it was \u2013 only 2 miles away. I looked and saw a cloudy form.\n\"A pilot, at two miles distance is accustomed to identify a plane perfectly, even at 10 miles weather conditions permitting. I began relaying to ground control what I was seeing. I was very excited as this was an unexpected experience. I was unable to define what type of apparatus this was. I tried positioning myself parallel to it and so was able to make out some kind of black triangle with two small tails. When I came to within a mile and a half of it (which was quite near) the UFO veered off and accelerated violently.\n\"This manoeuvre was observed on radar by ground control. I calculated that it deviated at a speed more than 3 times that of sound. At this moment I thought this must be something unreal. I used to be a disbeliever \u2013 not now.\"\nMore details about this case were found in two separate interviews with retired Chilean Air Force General Hernan GABRIELLI ROJAS, the pilot of the second F-5 plane involved in the incident. The first interview with the general was conducted in December 2002; The second in August 2003. The original transcripts are in Spanish and were published respectively in Inexplicata (January 2, 2003) and in Revista TOC - Tecnolog\u00eda, OVNIs y Ciencia (August 31, 2003). The quotes below are from an English translation published at ufoevidence.org.\nExcerpt from the December 2002 interview with Gen. GABRIELLI ROJAS:\nRETIRED CHILEAN GENERAL DISCUSSES HIS ENCOUNTER WITH A GIANT UFO\nSOURCE: Ovnivisi\u00f3n (Chile) [Ovnivisi\u00f3n is a long-time UFO research group - WVU]\nSANTIAGO DE CHILE.- In an interview with Terra.cl. [\"Terra.cl.\" or Terra Chile is an Internet multinational company with headquarters in Spain - WVU], retired general Hernan Gabrielli Rojas mentioned that he had squared off against a gigantic UFO while engaging in a training flight in the skies of northern Chile.\nAccording to the military man, the object was the size of 10 or 15 aircraft carriers, and its presence was picked up by the radars aboard two F-5 jet fighters as well as the Cerro Moreno airport in Antofagasta.\n- What do you remember about your contact with the UFO?\nOver 20 years have gone by (this was in 1978). I was a captain and was flying a mission with two F-5 fighters. It was noon and I was flying with captain Danilo Catal\u00e1n - we were both flight instructors. Accompanying us was Fernando Gomez, an avionics tech, and another trainee. The F-5 is radar-equipped, and a line appeared from side to side - in other words, a trace throughout the bottom side of the screen. A trace for a surface ship, a cruiser, is approximately one centimeter long, but this line went from one side [of the screen] to another. I assumed the radar scope had failed, and told Danilo Catal\u00e1n, but his radar also \"failed\". I then advised the ground radar at Antofagasta and they also picked up the line. We were engaged with these details when we looked toward the east: we were flying from north to south in the vicinity of Mejillones, and saw a deformed cigar-shaped object. Deformed, like a plaintain banana. It was swathed in smoke.\n- What was the object's size?\nIt was large and must have been some 15 to 20 miles away. It moved in the same direction as us. We had no missiles, guns or anything. As you can imagine, the fright was more or less considerable. We could see a large thing surrounded in smoke, and from which a vapor issued. All of this situation must have lasted some five minues. We approached the UFO but it was motionless. It neither approached nor retreated - it merely sailed parallel to us. It was quite impressive, because it was truly something strange, and something could be seen in concealment behind the smoke.\n- What happened later?\nThe object then disappeared toward Easter Island at an impressive rate of speed. The sky cleared and the lines on the radar vanished. However, there had been an object physically flying there. It's not a yarn, let me tell you. It's my only experience with UFOs.\nExcerpt from the August 2003 interview with Gen. GABRIELLI ROJAS:\nFORMER AIR FORCE COMMANDER DISCUSSES UFOs\n[Interview conducted by Alejandro Guillier; transcription by Rodrigo Cuadra Salazar]\nAlejandro Guillier (journalist): UFOs, well...nothing better than to ask a war pilot about the experiences he's had if he's seen anything, but it turns out that I've heard talk about there being a military pilot in Antofagasta who toward the late Seventies -- '78 -- had been flying and ran into a very strange thing. It also turns out that the pilot became a general, retired general Hernan Gabrielli, and we're going to talk to him about this rather interesting experience. How do you do, general? Good morning.\nHernan Gabrielli Rojas (General-Ret.): Hello, Alejandro. Good morning to you.\nAlejandro Guillier: This occurred in '78, according to one version, but what is the story about your running into a UFO while flying a warplane?\nHernan Gabrielli: We were two F-5s, dual training craft, and we were returning to base after completing our mission, Cerro Moreno, noon. From Mejillones to Antofagasta, at an altitude of some 35,000 feet - 40,000 feet. I suddenly detected a radar fault and saw a line that ran side to side on the scope, and my student, Danilo Catal\u00e1n, also detected the same, and curiously enough it was the ground radar, which has a large screen, that also indicated a radar fault. At that time we looked toward [the part of the sky indicated on the radar screen] and we saw that UFO.\nAlejandro Guillier: What was it exactly? What was it you managed to see? Can it be described?\nHernan Gabrielli: It was visualized as a smoke-covered, half- deformed banana, very large, in other words, very large in plain sight. We were between 15 or 20 miles away. It was tremendously large and surrounded by a fumarole which moved in our very same direction and at the same speed as our aircraft.\nAlejandro Guiller: ...and you felt tempted to check it out.\nHernan Gabrielli: We approached it carefully and...but those were good instructions. We were heading back from Attack 1, which is a combat tactic involving gun cameras, no cannon, missiles or anything else. So we approached it with caution. Unfortunately the UFO did not go away toward a single minute, so we arrived in an instant.\nAlejandro Guillier: But I understand that you had to ascend.\nHernan Gabrielli: No...\nAlejandro Guillier: In order to approach, what was your position? Going upward..\nHernan Gabrielli: No...we shared the same altitude, between 30,000 and 35,000 feet.\nAlejandro Gabrielli: But F-5s are swift airplanes. When you got near it scurried way so...\nHernan Gabrielli: Of course. It's a fighter that covers 10 nautical miles a minute, in other words, 20 kilometers a minute. That is the normal speed for that aircraft.\nAlejandro Guillier: And this object you saw, how soon did it vanish? At what speed?\nHernan Gabrielli: Unimaginable, in other words, thousands of nautical miles a minute, because it toward the west suddenly and the screen cleared up. In other words, all three radar screens--the ground radar, mine and Danilo's -- were operating normally; it wasn't just a visual experience but a physical one as well, a material one, that materialized on the screen. Now, if you ask me what it is, where it comes from, don't ask me. I haven't the slightest idea.\nTranslation (C) 2003 Scott Corrales Institute of Hispanic Ufology\nComment - The visual characteristics of the phenomenon (\"a plaintain banana\" according to Gen. GABRIELLI ROJAS; a \"cloudy form\" in the shape of \"a black triangle with two small tails\" according to Capt. CATAL\u00c1N FARIAS) bears a strong resemblence to Capt. HAROLD's description of the object seen over Labrador (a \"delta-wing appearance\" that \"started to flatten down, stretching out, until it was now like a giant telephone receiver lying on its back in the sky\". There are also similarities with the 1956 Billings case, in which an object resembling a \"cartoonist's version of a dog-bone\" was seen, and with the 1992 Heathrow case that mentions a black \"inverted boomerang shape\".\nAn object \"swathed in smoke\" or with \"vapour issuing from it\" is not unlike the image of a mirage affected by a turbulent air stream. Smoke\/vapour is also mentioned in the following cases: 1952 Ennis, 1972 Kempsey, 1976 Lisbon and 1978 Okayama.\nThe sighting took place when the planes were flying on a North-South course over the Atacama Desert. The pilots were looking to the East, i.e. towards the Andes mountain range with peaks between 4,000 and 4,500 m (16,400 ft) at a distance of roughly 250 km (155 miles) from the Chilean coast. Possibly this is where to look for a target for a mirage.\nThe \"unimaginable fast\" disappearance at \"thousands of nautical miles a minute\" reminds of other dark blob reports in which the phenomena are said to have disappeared at fantastic speeds, and here too there are some descriptive elements that create doubt as to whether or not the phenomenon was actually seen to move from one part in the sky to another. According to Capt. CATAL\u00c1N FARIAS the object \"veered off and accelerated violently\" deviating \"at a speed more than 3 times that of sound\", a manoeuvre that was reportedly confirmed by ground control radar, but apparently neither pilots nor ground personel noticed a sonic boom. Gen. GABRIELLI ROJAS reported that the object \"vanished toward the west\", \"towards Easter Island\". Since the object was first seen in the East where it \"was motionless\" and \"neither approached nor retreated\" but \"merely sailed parallel to us\", this would mean that before shooting off to the west it crossed the path of his F-5. It is not told if this occurred in front of the airplane or behind. If the object was a mirage, we could speculate that a sudden upward movement or an increase in size of the mirage image created the impression of an object suddenly moving towards the plane. But if Gen. GABRIELLI ROJAS' description of the object disappearing in a westward direction is correct, this would require a second mirage shrinking in size on the other side of the plane. Possible targets for a westward mirage would be Isla San Ambrosio and Isla San F\u00e9lix, respectively 920 km (572 miles) and 950 km (590 miles) from the Chilean coast (Easter Island itself being some 2.485 miles from the coast and therefore too far away for a candidate mirage target).\nA clear discrepancy is noted with regard to the radar images. Screen-wide \"lines\" appearing on both the F-5 radars and the ground radar at Cerro Moreno Airport are mentioned by Gen. GABRIELLI ROJAS, but Capt. CATAL\u00c1N FARIAS describes the image on his screen as \"a blip (...) a bit bigger than a normal plane's\". Could these unusual radar registrations have been caused by a strong temperature inversion rather than a physical object, as we suggested in the 1976 Lisbon case?\nIn summary there are too many uncertanties to construct solid arguments for any theory. As Don LEDGER put it in a message at UFO Roundup Vol 8, No. 2:\nInteresting speculation, but I wonder if something that appears as a mirage to the jets (...) would also affect the ground radar, assuming that the ground radar actually did pick up a 'line' target in the same direction as did the aircraft.\nUnfortunately there is really not enough info here to make a good decision as to whether or not the sighting could be a result of natural causes. Had all the details been recorded at the time (sightings directions, tracks of the aircraft, exact direction of the \"object\" from the aircraft, exact direction of the supposed coincident target from the ground, grand radar distance, etc.) a decision probably could have been made.\nThe authors look forward to receiving additional reports and\/or comments which may help assess the soundness of the mirage theory for this particular type of UAP sightings (to contact us, see our e-mail address on the contact page).","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Parents \u00bb Parental disapproval contributes to racial, ethnic differences in prescription drug misuse by teens\nParental disapproval contributes to racial, ethnic differences in prescription drug misuse by teens\nParents' attitudes toward substance use may help to explain observed racial\/ethnic variations in prescription drug misuse among teens, reports a study in the May Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, the official journal of the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.\n\"Our findings add support to growing evidence that parents continue to remain a vital part of adolescents' decision-making, particularly regarding potentially risky behaviors,\" according to the new research by Brigid M. Conn, MA, and Amy K. Marks, PhD, of Suffolk University, Boston.\nParent Disapproval Linked to Lower Rate of Drug Misuse\nThe researchers analyzed data on prescription drug misuse from a national survey of more than 18,000 adolescents. \"Misuse and abuse of prescription drugs is one of the fastest growing drug epidemics in the United States,\" the researchers write.\nAs in previous studies, Caucasian teens had the highest rates of prescription drug misuse. For example, 3.4 percent of Caucasian adolescents misused tranquilizers, compared to 2.9 percent of Hispanic and 0.9 percent of African American youth.\nIn contrast to previous studies, teens from higher-income families had lower rates of prescription drug misuse. Rates were also higher in older adolescents, and in girls compared to boys.\nThe teens were also asked about their parents' and peers' attitudes toward specific types of substance use. Parental disapproval was associated with lower rates of prescription drug misuse\u2014although this effect varied by race\/ethnicity. Even though Caucasian teens had the highest rates of prescription drug misuse, those whose parents strongly disproved of all types of substance use were at lower risk than teens in the two minority groups.\nStrong parental disapproval of alcohol use was linked to lower rates of prescription drug misuse in African American teens, while parental disapproval of marijuana use was a stronger factor for Hispanic teens. Dr. Marks comments, \"No matter what the ethnic\/racial background of the family, parents' disapproving attitudes about misusing substances in general\u2014whether alcohol, marijuana, or tobacco\u2014play a strong role in protecting their adolescents from misusing prescription medicine.\"\nStep toward Understanding 'Culture-Specific' Factors in Substance Abuse\nCaucasian teens whose close friends disapproved of substance use had lower rates of prescription drug misuse, although peer attitudes had little impact for African American or Hispanic teens. Dr. Marks adds, \"Parents can also help their adolescents navigate toward friends with shared substance use disapproval attitudes.\"\nThe study confirms racial\/ethnic variations in substance use by adolescents. It also provides initial evidence that disapproval by \"important socialization agents\"\u2014especially parents\u2014has a significant effect on prescription drug misuse.\nThat result may provide clues as to how the racial\/ethnic variations arise. Past studies of substance use in teens have typically used race as an \"explanation\" for observed differences.\nMore recently, researchers are focusing on values and other \"culture-specific factors\" that may explain risk behaviors, rather than generalizing across groups. \"We're already working on new studies to understand some of the unique socializing factors or agents which seem to be protective for Hispanic and African American adolescents, beyond parental disapproval,\" says Dr Marks.\nShe adds, \"As we learn more about what kinds of socializing messages matter most to which cultural groups, clinicians, teachers, social workers, and parents alike can help keep steering their adolescents in meaningful ways to make healthy behavioral choices when it comes to prescription drugs.\"\nSource: www.medicalxpress.com May 2014","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"McKee Garden to feature 25-foot Seward Johnson sculpture\nSeward Johnson's 'Embracing Peace,' which captures an iconic moment announcing the end of World War II, will be part of a show McKee Botanical Garden.\nMcKee Garden to feature 25-foot Seward Johnson sculpture Seward Johnson's 'Embracing Peace,' which captures an iconic moment announcing the end of World War II, will be part of a show McKee Botanical Garden. Check out this story on tcpalm.com: https:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/story\/specialty-publications\/your-news\/indian-river-county\/2018\/12\/03\/iconic-seward-johnson-statue-go-display-mckee-garden\/2113519002\/\nConnie Cotherman, YourNews contributor Published 8:46 a.m. ET Dec. 3, 2018\n'Embracing Peace' by Seward Johnson(Photo: Contributed by McKee Botanical Garden)\nVERO BEACH -- McKee Botanical Garden will install on Dec. 11 the dramatic \"Embracing Peace\" bronze sculpture of a sailor and a nurse, by renowned artist Seward Johnson.\nThe sculpture, which is 25-feet tall and weighs over 15 tons, will arrive on a flatbed semi-trailer and then be hoisted into the Royal Palm Grove of the Garden by a crane.\nVisitors and McKee members will be able to admire the artwork beginning Dec. 12. This is the first sculpture to be displayed throughout the Garden during this year's exhibition which also includes 20 bronze sculptures from Seward Johnson's Celebrating the Familiar series, which begins Jan. 5, 2019 and runs through April 28.\n\"Embracing Peace,\" the centerpiece of this exhibition, is Johnson's most renowned sculpture, which honors the moment in New York City on V-J Day, August 14, 1945, that captured the jubilance of Americans when the end of World War II was announced.\nThis artwork honors the memory of the past, reminding us of the sacrifice of a nation, and awakening younger generations to the heroic stories of the preceding generations.\nThe sculpture has been featured in various cities across the United States from Florida to California, as well as in Times Square, NYC, Rome, and Civitavecchia, Italy. A casting of the sculpture has also been on display in Normandy, France, and is currently at the Bastogne War Museum in Belgium.\nOften associated with his works of art, Johnson's passion for detail features an uncanny realism and spontaneity of the original pose. He is well known for recreating lifetimes in vividly realistic bronze.\n\"We are so excited about having this iconic sculpture in the Garden and hope the community will visit us to admire its incredible stature and detail, which honors the service and sacrifice of the veterans of World War II,\" said executive director Christine Hobart.\nFollowing an early career as a painter, Johnson, 88, turned his talents to the medium of sculpture, both life-size and monumental. Since that time, more than 450 of his life-size bronze figures have been featured in private collections and museums throughout the world.\nThis project is sponsored in part by the Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture and the State of Florida.\nRead or Share this story: https:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/story\/specialty-publications\/your-news\/indian-river-county\/2018\/12\/03\/iconic-seward-johnson-statue-go-display-mckee-garden\/2113519002\/","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ekin Cheng On What Chan Ho Nam, His Iconic Young And Dangerous Character, Would Be Up To In 2019\nThe 52-year-old actor-singer will be holding his first full-fledged concert in Singapore in 21 years this December.\nBy Jonathan Fam\nUpdated 28 Nov 2019 22:10\nIt's not every day that you get a star who serenades the media at a press conference. Usually, the star shows up, answers some questions from the host and then goes on to have more in-depth interviews with the journos. So it's such a pleasant surprise to 8days.sg when Ekin Cheng decides to sing not one, but two of his biggest Cantonese hits 'Love You Only In My Lifetime' and 'Age Of Friendship' when the 52-year-old was in town on Monday (Nov 26) to promote his upcoming Along concert at the Singapore Indoor Stadium next month.\nEkin with Chan Kwong Wing\nIf this display of showmanship \u2014 he's accompanied on guitar by his long-time collaborator, music composer Chan Kwong Wing \u2014 is to let us know that Ekin can sing and sing live at that, well, then consider it mission accomplished. Now we can't wait for his December 28 gig, which he says will be \"like a movie\" and will weave in iconic movie scenes as \"a lot of [his] music comes from films\".\nAlong With Ekin will be the star's first full-fledged concert in Singapore in 21 years. His 1998 concert at the Indoor Stadium wasn't the last time he performed here though. That would be the 45-minute showcase he gave at the now defunct Clarke Quay club Lunar in 2009, a good decade ago, when he was here to promote The Storm Warriors, the sequel to his classic wuxia movie The Storm Riders.\nIt's easy to forget that Ekin first found fame when he took part in TVB's International Chinese New Talent Singing Championship in 1986. But he would go on to achieve a lot more success, first as a TV actor then as a movie star. Talk about Ekin to anyone above the age of 25 and it's his iconic role as Chan Ho Nam, the gangster who was the epitome of cool and brotherhood in the Young And Dangerous films of the '90s, that they'll bring up and start swooning over.\nEkin with his wife Yoyo Mung\nFor the past six years, Ekin has been married to Hongkong actress Yoyo Mung, 46. The couple famously don't want children. When a journo during our group interview asks Ekin if he and Yoyo intend to have kids since his pal Jordan Chan is a father, the actor immediately blurts out \"[He's] so stupid\" before bursting out in laughter. He's joking of course. Well at least about Jordan being stupid. \"For me and my wife, we have the same way of thinking,\" he adds. \"There's a lot of things in this world that we cannot control. And we don't think we have the ability to take care of our next generation. So that's our opinion and they [Jordan and his wife Cherrie Ying] have their opinion.\"\nPoster boy\nWhile many things have changed over the two decades since his last Indoor Stadium gig, there are some things that haven't. Like his trademark long, layered locks. In fact, the man responsible for the star's iconic hairstyle is here at the press con held at the Grand Hyatt Singapore and Ekin happily introduces him to everyone. Also at the press con are some 20 members of his devoted fan club, all of whom are dressed in orange windbreakers emblazoned with their idol's name.\nAnother thing that didn't change? Ekin's still not fluent in Mandarin. In fact, he would have preferred to do this interview in Cantonese. \"It's okay, I'll try my best to answer your questions well in Mandarin,\" he says when a journo expresses her inability to fully comprehend Cantonese at the start of our 15-minute group chat. And so Ekin would go on to reply us in his trademark Cantonese-accented Mandarin, that may be hard to decipher, but also completes the whole Ekin Cheng experience.\n8 DAYS: The last time you had a concert at the Indoor Stadium was in 1998. So why is 2019 the year to make a comeback?\nEKIN CHENG: I think since my last performance here 10 years ago, I also slowed down music-wise. A decade later, I didn't really have the confidence to hold a concert in Hongkong but when I did, I realised that the whole world is different already. Right now, the only thing that you can't take away is live performances. When it comes to music, a lot of it you can find easily online. But not live performances. And that's how it started to take shape until now. Also, I feel a lot more mature now on stage. You can say that before this I was still trying things out. Before this tour, I went on a concert tour with my [Young And Dangerous] brothers, like Jordan Chan, and we thought of how we could change the formula of a concert and that's how we came up this.\nEkin and Yoyo on their wedding day in 2013\nWill your wife be accompanying you for your Singapore gig?\nOh I don't know\u2026. Maybe? I've not asked her. She usually only decides at the last minute anyway.\nSince your concert is on December 28, you reckon you'll be spending New Year's here?\nOh, we'll be back home in Hongkong for New Year. So [actually] I don't think she will come. Plus Christmas will be over by then. And you know there are a lot of things going on in Hongkong now, so we won't be celebrating anything. We just want to spend it quietly and peacefully.\nWhat sort of wife is she?\nShe's very suitable for me. She's like a guy. I trust her to do her own things. I think when two people are together, the most important thing is for them to be themselves. A lot of people when they get married, they'll say, \"Oh, we changed a lot for each other\". But I'm me and she is she. She does her own things. Like when I work, she very seldom offers her opinions 'cos she knows that me and my team have been working together even before I knew her. So she won't interfere. She also goes her own holidays. That's her own personality. That's what I like about her. Her independence.\nDo you all have disagreements?\nI usually give in first. If you're smart person, you' do that (laughs). Isn't that right? If you want things to [blow over] fast, you should do that. Life is short, you shouldn't waste time on unnecessary things.\nEkin as Chan Ho Nam in 1996's Young and Dangerous\nThere's no doubt that the character audiences associate you with most after all these years is Young and Dangerous' Chan Ho Nam. What do you think Chan Ho Nam would be up to in 2019?\nI think he would have quit the underworld (laughs). It would have happened long ago 'cos the world is even messier now. He would have left already.\nWhere would he go?\nI think he would have gone to a very faraway place. He wanted to do that in the first movie but he stayed on 'cos of certain things. So yeah, I think he would have gone to some underdeveloped country.\nThe Young And Dangerous brothers (left:) Jerry Lamb, Chin Ka Lok, Michael Tse, Ekin and Jordan Chan\nOne of your most famous songs 'Age of Friendship is about undying friendship. Now that you're 52, has your view on friendship changed?\nNo. Like with my Young and Dangerous brothers\u2026 we have respect for each other. It's not a one-sided thing. It's a [friendship] where everyone reciprocates.\nWho among your Young and Dangerous gang are you closest to?\nActually\u2026 we're all just as close 'cos we're always together. And our tempers are equally bad (guffaws). We're like the [five Chinese elements] Gold, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth. We work well together. It's very interesting. Like sometimes, I wouldn't get along with this person but somehow when we all get together, it won't go wrong.\n(Pauses)\u2026 If he has the worst temper, all the more I cannot say (laughs)\nCatch Ekin Cheng in his Along with Ekin concert at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on Dec 28, 8pm. Tickets go $108 to $228. For more details go to www.sportshub.com.sg.\nPhotos: AC Orange\nThese Celeb Couples Don't Want Kids, And Here's Why\nThe Cast of 'Young & Dangerous' Reunite For Heist Thriller 'Golden Job'\nA Fan Snapped A Selfie With Julian Cheung Using A Beauty Cam App And It Didn't Turn Out Well\nHongkong Actor Anthony Wong Posts Emo Farewell Note: \"I'm Tired. Goodbye.\"\nSimon Yam Opens Up About Stabbing Incident; Says His \"Mind Went Blank\" When It Happened\nFrancis Ng's Relationship With His Son Is So Sweet And So Funny\nHK Actor Jazz Lam Just Shamed Someone For Giving Him A $51 Wedding Ang Pow\nEdison Chen Loses His Cool After Getting Harassed By Vlogger... 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{"text":"Take another Little Piece of His Heart\nThe sermon title might sound familiar to you. It's a paraphrase from a song first recorded by Erma Franklin (Aretha's older sister) in 1967. The song really gained a following when Janis Joplin recorded it in 1968. You, however, might know it from the Faith Hill version of 1993 or by the 2005 version of Melissa Etheridge or the 2006 recording by Beverly Knight.\nWhat does a line from \"Piece of My Heart\" have to do with our text? The energy, the passion, and the guttural emotion heard in that song are found in this text. You should hear, feel, experience, see, know that when our text says Jesus had compassion it comes with all the force, depth, and emotion conveyed by that song. And even if you don't know that song, you can still know what I mean when I say, \"Take another little piece of His heart.\"\nWe need to take just a little piece of Jesus' heart to bring us to see how wretched, fallen, and sinful we are when we dare to act like He doesn't care. When we do that, we're out of touch with the Lord Scripture calls on us to cast our cares on \"because He cares for you.\" We've got to be out of step with the Lord Scripture says leads us through the valley of the shadow of death when we are convinced we're alone and stuck there. We've got to be out of tune with the Lord Scripture hymns as having \"delivered my soul from the depths of the grave\" when we feel and fear we're at the mercy of merciless death.\nLook at our text. See Jesus having compassion on His overworked apostles. It's worth thinking about that this is the only time Mark calls the 12 apostles.' The Holy Spirit wants that noted. They've just returned from their first mission apart from Jesus, and like kids home from camp they're bursting with stories. They \"reported to Jesus all they had done and taught.\" They told of casting out that demon, healing that sick person. How they taught here and taught that. Remember they had gone out two by two, so they were sharing with each other these things for the first time too.\nEvidently news of what they had been doing followed them back to Jesus and people were coming and going, so much so that our text reports, \"They did not even have a chance to eat.\" They \"were running on empty;\" they were in hurry to get things done; they rushed and rushed till life was no fun. You've been there; you've done that. And when what you're doing is for someone else, when you know it is in service to the Lord, you don't feel right about calling stop. So Jesus did it for the apostles. \"Come with Me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.\"\nJesus had compassion for the physical needs of the apostles. This is the only place in the Gospels where the idea of physical rest occurs. The fact that the need to rest from work shows up just this once tells you it's not nearly as big of a theme as our world makes it. The fact that Jesus suggests it shows you that He has compassion when we're physically stressed. Take another little piece of such a heart.\nBut what's this? The physically stressed disciples go away with Jesus only to find the crowds waiting from them at the retreat center. Mark doesn't tell you but John does \"many followed because they saw the signs which Jesus did on those who were diseased.\" They're miracle mongers! They seek Jesus for physical relief! And yet what does the text say, \"He had compassion on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd.\"\nThere's a lesson here. Jesus does care for your physical needs but He cares more for your spiritual. Yes, He came into this world to bear your griefs and carry your sorrows, but first and foremost He came to keep the Law that can only and always accuse you and He came to pay for your sins against that Law. He didn't enter your flesh and blood, so that your flesh and blood would never suffer. If He did, He was a failure, wasn't He? God the Son took on your flesh and blood to redeem you from all sin, from Death, and from the power of the Devil. As great as His is compassion for physical afflictions, He has exponentially more compassion for spiritual afflictions.\nTake another big piece of His heart this time because this is going to hurt. First let's look at the word compassion.' In English it's rather a sweet word. In Greek, it's not. I've told you many times it means to be moved in the nobler organs. The spleen is the noun form of this verb. In the Gospels it's only used of Jesus or of a character in a parable representing Him. It is a blunt, forceful word. It's Janis Joplin offering up another piece of her heart. It's Dusty Springfield insisting to \"come on take it.\" Here's what the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament says about the word, \"This rather rough term seems none too well adapted to express Christian virtue or the divine dealings\" (VII, 549).\nCompassion isn't a syrupy term but a stout one. Add to this that spiritual needs trump physical ones, and you have the compassionate all loving Lord, piercing His own mother with a sword; Job, the apple of God's eye, treated like a rotted core; Joseph for whose sake the Lord favored so many others languishing in prison for more than a decade. And we have you. Health problems, family troubles, job difficulties, life unraveled. But the Lord does nothing. You pray like Mary did at the foot of cross, like Job on his ash heap, like Joseph in prison. You pray for this thorn of Satan to be taken out of your flesh, but not only isn't it removed: it festers, gets infected, and hurts all the more.\nBehold the compassion of your Lord! Behold the compassion of the Lord who endured the hellish Passion for the sake of sinners. I think 17th century protestant pastor John Donne misses this mystery. He asks in wonder, \"Was not Thy Passion enough, but Thou must have compassion\" (Sermon CXV\"? He's right; the Scriptures clearly say the One who suffered for us and our salvation is the same one who has compassion. But in the depths of physical suffering don't you think, \"If Thou was willing to take on my Passion where is Thy compassion now?\" I do.\nRemember, Jesus' compassion is rough, forceful and focused on eternal spiritual things not fleeting earthly. If our Lord dealt with us a cruel torturer, we could plead and beg and might get Him to relent or remove our physical suffering. But we're in the hands of divine surgeon who has only good intentions in mind. The kinder and more faithful a human surgeon is the more he will go on cutting no matter how much physical pain this will lead to. If a surgeon gives in to our pleadings before the operation is completed, all the pain up to that point would be useless and all the pain that is to follow would be pointless (Grief Observed, 50).\nSo take another little piece of His heart; bite down on it the way they do in Westerns when a bullet is being removed. Bite down on your Baptism where earthly water gives you eternal blessings. Bite down on your Absolution where in the words spoken by a man on earth you hear the God of heaven forgive you. Bite down on the Body and Blood of Jesus given and shed for you on earth to give you heavenly life. Repent and return to the cross where you see earthly suffering has eternal benefits. Repent of acting like your Good Shepherd doesn't care, and repent of acting like a shepherdless sheep.\nSheep without a shepherd are scattered by wolves, storms, physical afflictions. You're not a shepherdless sheep. Every single Sunday the Good Shepherd calls you to hear and feed on His Words and Sacraments. Every Sunday He calls you to this sheepfold. When you stay away, when you sleep in, when you have better things to do, you're acting like a shepherdless sheep. And beware, be warned, you can easily get use to that. The worst thing is that shepherdless sheep almost always feel that they're still sheep. Even though they're don't hear the voice of the Good Shepherd as Jesus says all His sheep do, they still think they're sheep. But it doesn't matter what they think or what I think; it matters what the Good Shepherd thinks.\nJesus thinks you need teaching. Don't act like a sheep without a shepherd and shun the teaching of the Good Shepherd. When Jesus sees the crowd that we know is looking for physical things, He says their real problem is they are like sheep without a shepherd and then how does He remedy that problem? Heal them? Feed them? No \"He began teaching them many things.\" He had Bible class for them.\nTake another little piece of His heart and see that Jesus has so much compassion for you that He refuses to leave you like sheep without a shepherd and so sends an under-shepherd to teach you. Teach me what? The Holy Spirit just says \"many things.\" What's that? Go to the Epistles; go to those whom Jesus opened their minds to teach them all things about Himself. Go to Holy Scripture which is God's lamp and light to you. The many things Jesus taught them were things like you heard in the Epistle: He abolished in His flesh the Law with its commandments and regulations. He has made peace between you and God through His cross.\nYou are not shepherdless sheep: you are called, gathered, and enlightened here each and every Sunday by God's Words and His Sacraments. And you're not afflicted. Jesus saying they were like shepherdless sheep didn't come out of thin air. Several times in the Old Testament this idea comes up. One place is Zechariah 10:2. It says, \"The people wander like sheep; they are afflicted because there is no shepherd.\" Well you have a Shepherd in Jesus Christ; therefore, you aren't afflicted.\nHow's that? Of course I am afflicted; I've got this, that, and this going on and it hurts. But compared to the heavenly weight of glory Paul says such afflictions are only light and momentary. And with even just a little piece of Jesus' heart the one that for you was overwhelmed unto death, pierced by a spear, and filled the font with water and the chalice with Blood it's not affliction at all; it's surgery. Amen\nNinth Sunday after Pentecost (20120729); Mark 6: 30-34","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}