{"text":"Home \u00bb Southwest flight attendant attacked by passenger, loses 2 teeth\nSouthwest flight attendant attacked by passenger, loses 2 teeth\nA Southwest spokesman said the incident happened Sunday morning after a flight from Sacramento landed in San Diego.\nDALLAS \u2014 San Diego authorities charged a 28-year-old woman with felony battery after an attack on a Southwest Airlines plane in which a flight attendant lost two teeth and suffered other injuries to her face.\nThe incident marked an escalation in unruly behavior by airline passengers and led the president of the flight attendants' union to ask for more federal air marshals on planes.\n\"Unfortunately, this is just one of many occurrences,\" said the union president, Lyn Montgomery. She said there were 477 incidents of \"misconduct\" by passengers on Southwest planes between April 8 and May 15.\nThe incident happened during a flight from Sacramento to San Diego on Sunday morning. San Diego Harbor Police said Tuesday that they arrested Vyvianna Quinonez, and charged her with battery causing serious bodily injury. The Sacramento Bee reported that Quinonez lives in the Sacramento suburb of Antelope.\n\"The passenger repeatedly ignored standard inflight instructions and became verbally and physically abusive upon landing,\" said Southwest spokesman Chris Mainz.\nThe flight attendant was not identified. Paramedics took her to a hospital for treatment, and she was later released. Southwest flew a friend to San Diego to be with her.\nThe Federal Aviation Administration said Monday that airlines have reported 2,500 incidents of unruly passengers this year, including 1,900 cases in which passengers refused to wear face masks, which are required by federal rule. The FAA provided those numbers as it announced it was seeking civil penalties totaling $54,500 against five passengers for behavior ranging from refusing to wear a mask to assaulting flight attendants.\n\"I've been in the industry since 1992, and this is the worst ever,\" Montgomery said in an interview. \"People seem to be more angry. When they're asked to do something, compliance seems to be more difficult.\"\nSouthwest and most airlines train flight attendants to de-escalate tense situations with unhappy travelers. Montgomery said those tactics are growing less effective and a small number of passengers are becoming bolder in challenging the authority of crew members.\nMontgomery, the president of Local 556 of the Transport Workers Union, wrote about the weekend attack in a letter to Southwest CEO Gary Kelly.\nMontgomery asked Kelly to lobby federal officials for more federal air marshals on flights and to ban passengers who violate rules instead of putting them on another flight. She said flight attendants are concerned about Southwest's plan to resume selling alcohol on board planes. Many recent cases that have caught FAA's attention involving passengers who were drinking.\nChris Hemsworth Jokes He's Glad For Other Kids As Son Wants To Be Superman\nBethesda's Dishonored 2 Will Leave PS Now On June 1st","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Even Washington, D.C. is done with Biden's COVID-19 drama as residents grow tired of lockdowns\nAfter more than a year and a half, some blue state politicians are growing sick of the corner they've painted themselves into.\nAnd, as Joe Biden's popularity sinks in the polls, it's increasingly clear many Democrats are no longer buying what he's selling.\nBut the most awkward news comes from the city Biden temporarily calls home.\nThis week Washington, D.C.'s mayor announced that it will start lifting mask restrictions.\nThe White House quickly came back with a snippy response.\n\"The White House follows CDC guidance which recommends masking in areas of high or substantial transmission,\" White House Assistant Press Secretary Kevin Munoz told Fox News.\n\"We are encouraged by the numbers that have opted into vaccination now, some of them encouraged by mandates,' Bowser said. 'There may even be an increase in cases . . . but what we haven't seen is an increase in hospitalizations and deaths. That is the promise of vaccination.\" Mayor Muriel Bowser is quoted as saying in a Daily Mail article.\nThe article went on to say, \"Mayor Bowser has repeatedly described mask requirements as a sort of thermostat-style dial that can be turned up or down based on shifting conditions.\"\nThe real question is whether the \"heat\" in Washington, D.C. has anything to do with Biden's popularity.\nOf course, as one of the bluest areas in the U.S., plenty of restrictions will remain in place even after the sweeping indoor mask mandate is lifted.\nPrivate businesses can still require masks.\nOf course, businesses always had the right to do that, but it probably boosts the politicians' egos to think they are running the whole show.\nMasks will also still be required for using public transportation, attending or working in schools, and inside childcare facilities.\nThey will also be required in shelters, dorms, nursing homes, and District of Columbia government buildings where employees work with the public directly.\nIt's also likely the city will pursue a policy that creates two classes of citizens: the vaccinated and the unvaccinated.\nBowser mentioned on Twitter that, \"risk levels will primarily be tied to a person's vaccination status.\"\nBut it's still significant to have COVID-19 hysteria turned down a notch right at Biden's front door.\nAccording to BizPac Review, the District of Columbia is one of the last areas in the U.S. to officially loosen up on mask mandates.\nThe six states that still have sweeping mandates, which include private businesses include: Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington.\nMuriel Bowser\nPrevious articleOne Democrat-controlled city has an infuriating response to its latest crime spike\nNext articleChicago doubled down on efforts to ditch this police union rep who refuses to back down","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Roots, Mario Batali Weather NYC Thunderstorm for Red Charity Dinner\n2:32 PM PDT 6\/1\/2015 by Adrienne Gaffney\nThe dinner launched the Bono-led charity's monthlong fundraising campaign for AIDS relief.\nMilli Vanilli's \"Blame It on the Rain\" was blasting from the speakers as 1,000 sopping-wet guests arrived at New York's Pier 26 on Sunday for the Red Supper, a dinner launching the Bono-led charity's monthlong fundraising campaign for AIDS relief. A monstrous thunderstorm had presented additional logistical obstacles for the event's host, Mario Batali, and the chefs he'd enlisted to prepare an outdoor meal for the masses in NYC.\n\"Nothing's insurmountable,\" Batali said, sipping a berry cocktail and sampling an appetizer. \"You go back and you look at them and they're all happy. Maybe the rain has been dumped onto their grill or their fryer isn't really hot right now but it will be in a minute. Working under slight adversity is how you can really tell a great chef from a pretty good chef.\"\nTeamwork, the kind needed to eradicate AIDS and the kind that makes for a great meal, was the theme of the evening. Each of the 10 chefs were assigned to two-person teams that would create four-course menus served to guests, who included SNL's Vanessa Bayer, actress Carmen Ejogo and DJ Hannah Bronfman. Among the highlight dishes were a grilled lobster created by Del Posto's Mark Ladner and Elizabeth Falker (formerly of Orson in San Francisco), a dry-aged strip steak with ramps from Barbuto's Jonathan Waxman and Cleveland chef Michael Symon, and The Spotted Pig's April Bloomfield and Little Owl's Joey Campanaro's seafood boil.\nFoodlover Questlove was on hand with The Roots \u2014 not long after the Roots Picnic wrapped \u2014 for a concert that was brief (Batali commented that it was one of the world's shortest) but mighty and included their dance favorites like their classic \"The Seed\" and Charles Wright's \"Express Yourself.\" The band has a loyal fan in Batali, who insisted, \"There's no more exciting, funky, juicy, jam-inducing group than The Roots right now.\"\nWhile the majority of attendees eagerly, obsessively chronicled their meals, others \u2014 like longtime Red supporter and chairman of the board of its sister organization One Tom Freston, who admitted his palate skewed more toward McDonald's than fine dining \u2014 were just excited for whatever the great minds came up with. \"My favorite thing to eat is anything anyone else makes, so I'm very much looking forward to having something somebody else makes tonight,\" laughed Batali. \"I'm not cooking. I'm here to just shake hands, kiss babies and run for mayor.\"\nThis story first appeared on Billboard.com.\nAdrienne Gaffney","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"IssuesLocalPolitics\nAhead of presidential run-off\u2026\nSLAJ frowns at hate speech, tribal slants\nMarch 19, 2018 By Ibrahim Tarawallie\nSLAJ President Kevin Lewis\nThe Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) has expressed grave concern about the increase in hate speech and tribal slants making its way into the campaign ahead of a crucial presidential run-off slated for March 27.\nHours after the official announcement of the presidential result by the National Electoral Commission (NEC), supporters of the two traditional political parties \u2013 All People's Congress (APC) and Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) \u2013 started trading tribal divide on social media and other platforms.\nSome members of the public, including civil society organisations, are of the view that the sudden change in political messages and campaigns of the two parties and their supporters may course mayhem and divide the country along tribal lines, if not nip in board as quickly and possible.\nIn a press release issued last Friday, March 16, SLAJ said they view the trend of political discourse as ugly for the country's nascent democracy, and that its potential to undermine the peace and stability of Sierra Leone cannot be overemphasised.\n\"Sierra Leone is hugely admired across the world for its ethnic and religious tolerance which is deeply rooted in its culture. Any attempt to tamper with this enviable attribute will spell doom for our nation and generations yet unborn,\" the release stated.\nThe association strongly condemned any politician and political party who is playing the tribal card and ethno-regional sentiment in their campaigns to secure votes in the presidential run-off election.\nWhile condemning and dissociating itself from any journalist who peddles hate speech and preach tribalism in their publications\/commentaries\/analyses on the elections, SLAJ called on all journalists and their media houses to resist any attempt by politicians to use them to promote divisions among people.\nSLAJ President, Kelvin Lewis said: \"This country belongs to all of us, we should stop this nonsense about tribe or region and begin to show love for this land that we love, our Sierra Leone.\"\n\"As evident in the National Dialogue Series in the run up to the elections and the 2018 presidential debate, SLAJ encourages politicians, political parties and their supporters to focus on issue-based discourse around the elections rather than personalities or tribal\/regional sentiment,\" the release concluded.\nPrevious article'Individual personality paramount in run-off poll'\nNext articleInternational Partners concern about reports of violence","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"CMA Awards Winners 2019: Kacey Musgraves, Blake Shelton & More \u2014 Updating Live\nThe votes are in and the winners from the 2019 CMA Awards have been revealed! From Kacey Musgraves to Lil Nas X, here's who took home the honors this year.\nThe biggest stars in country music are honored at the Country Music Association Awards, and the show's 53 annual ceremony took place on Nov. 13, 2019 at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. The main attraction of the event is always the star-studded performances, but there are plenty of awards to give out, as well! At this year's show, Maren Morris was the most-nominated star, with SIX nominations to her name. After the success of her sophomore album, GIRL, earlier this year, this certainly came as no surprise.\nThis year's CMA Awards are honoring women in country music, and there are females nominated in every single category of the event for the first time EVER (aside from Male Vocalist of the Year, of course). Carrie Underwood, who is hosting the show, is the only woman vying for the Entertainer of the Year Awards, but she and Maren are both up for the highly-coveted Album of the Year. Check out the list of winners, who are BOLDED on the list below!\nEntertainer of the Year\nFemale Vocalist of the Year\nMaren Morris\nMale Vocalist of the Year\nCenter Point Road \u2013 Thomas Rhett\nCry Pretty \u2013 Carrie Underwood\nDan + Shay \u2013 Dan + Shay\nDesperate Man \u2013 Eric Church\nGirl \u2013 Maren Morris\nVocal Group of the Year\nVocal Duo of the Year\nBrothers Osborne\nCarly Pearce\nSong of the Year (to the songwriter)\n\"Beautiful Crazy\" \u2013 Luke Combs\n\"God's Country\" \u2013 Blake Shelton\n\"Rainbow\" \u2013 Kacey Musgraves\n\"Tequila\" \u2013 Dan + Shay\n\"Burning Man\" \u2013 Dierks Bentley ft Brothers Osborne\n\"Millionaire\" \u2013 Chris Stapleton\n\"Speechless\" \u2013 Dan + Shay\nMusic Video of of the Year\n\"Burning Man\" \u2013 Brothers Osborne & Dierks Bentley\n\"Some Of It\" \u2013 Eric Church\nMusical Event of the Year\n\"All My Favorite People\" \u2013 Maren Morris ft Brothers Osborne\n\"Brand New Man\" \u2013 Brooks & Dunn with Luke Combs\n\"Diver Bar\" \u2013 Garth Brooks & Blake Shelton\n\"What Happens In A Small Town\" \u2013 Brantley Gilbert & Lindsay Ell\nJenee Fleenor\nMac McAnally\nIlya Toshinsky\nDerek Wells\nThis year's CMA Awards includes performances from stars like Carrie, Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton, Kelsea Ballerini, and more. The show airs on Nov. 13 at 8:00 p.m. on ABC, and is hosted by Carrie, along with Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton.\nSource : Alyssa Norwin Link\n2019 \u2022 Awards \u2022 Kacey \u2022 Musgraves \u2022 Winners\nKacey Musgraves & Willie Nelson Move Country Fans To Tears With Powerful CMAs Performance: Watch Madison Square Garden To Spin 100% Of Its Entertainment Business \u2013 Forbes\nWhat to Watch in the Impeachment Trial on Wednesday\nLawyer: Probe into claims Trump club had undocumented workers\nNo plans for safety measures after University of Texas mascot lunges at crowd\nCalifornia utility PG&E could cut power to 850,000 households over 'historic wind event'\nGreg Walden, Veteran Republican Representative, Won't Seek Re-election in 2020\nAOC responds to Trump's racist attacks: 'You cannot accept that we don't fear you' \u2013 CNN\nMcConnell: Senate will vote next week on Trump plan \u2013 Washington Examiner","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"GLORIOUS 'OLIVER'\nBILL VON MAURER Special to the Sun-SentinelSUN-SENTINEL\nA cast of 37, 16 of them juveniles; enough costume changes to put wardrobe on overload; a multitiered, costly looking set; and a wide range of choreographic and vocal displays.\nThat's Actors' Playhouse's bold and colorful start for its seventh (1993-1994) season. The cause of the commotion is a revival of Oliver!, an award-winning musical from the distant '60s.\nOliver!, of course, is based on the classic by Dickens, who did not have a Broadway musical in mind. As it is, the musical takes a frivolous look at juvenile crime, a sensitive issue these days. At the same time, it retains the more dire aspects of Dickens' novel, i.e. the fatal bludgeoning of a young woman with a good heart and the death of a criminal (Bill Sykes), shot by police while attempting to kidnap the frightened Oliver. All of this in the second act.\nParents of very young children may want to ponder some of these events, although Oliver! is considered family entertainment. Or think about this: Take the tots to enjoy the first act and have someone pick them up at intermission. It's worth it and the young ones no doubt will be enthralled. Besides, the squirm factor probably will begin to set in by then.\nIt is David Arisco's job as director to harness this massive musical and maneuver it around the Playhouse stage. He succeeded with panache despite a rash of stage fright on opening night. After all, those 16 adolescents aboard were hardly show-biz veterans. Especially Manuel E. Pascual, the 11-year-old in the spotlight's glare as Oliver. He is confronted almost at once with the difficult song Where Is Love. He can only get better once, gulp, the bugbear of an audience becomes less intimidating.\nArisco has rounded up a cast that proves South Florida is a trove of talent. It is hard to know where to begin. Michael O. Smith as Mr. Bumble and Carol A. Provonsha as the widow Corney are good for starters. They can sing and they know comedy, which they put neatly together for one of the evening's highlights. So do another couple, David Martinek and Elizabeth A. Nemeth, as a pair of grasping undertakers. Then there is William Neal as the agile, limber, dancing Artful Dodger. Plus Meghan Colleen Moroney as the tragic Nancy who puts so much heart into the beautiful ballad As Long as He Needs Me. Another plus is Steven Harad, whose booming voice and physical prowess make Bill Sykes a chilling presence.\nWhich brings us to Harvey Phillips as the rascally Fagin, exploiter of his crew of thieves and pickpockets in 1850s London. Look out, juveniles. Phillips is out to overturn the traditional, surefire appeal dewy performers have for any audience. Wily, sly and playful, he is as skillful a thief as his young charges when it comes to stealing scenes. His Pick a Pocket or Two only compounds the theft. There are many more who deserve credit, but that would turn this review into a roll call. The Playhouse's Oliver! is as close as we come to spectacle in area theater. The production is uneven and at times it bumps along. Things are bound to smooth out to give us a musical feast as appetizing as the opening song, Food Glorious Food, sung by the workhouse boys. Robert Deleon is responsible for the supercharged choreography; Jeff Quinn for the soaring, impressive set. And Chuck Batchelor got all those costumes together. Dagmar Bergan and three other musicians keep right in step with Lionel Bart's music and lyrics, which include such memorable hits as It's a Fine Life, Who Will Buy, I'd Do Anything and many others.\nBill von Maurer covered theater for more than a decade for The Miami News and is a frequent contributor to the Sun-Sentinel.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bronze bell\u00ad-shaped incense burner\nJapan, late Meiji to Showa period, 1902 \u00ad- 1942\nHeight: 4 3\u20448 inches, 11 cm\nWidth: 2 3\u20444 inches, 7 cm\nA bronze incense burner in the shape of a temple bell, with a flat base, the sides tapered toward the domed lid, which has a looped finial in the form of a makara. The body is optically divided into sections, the upper part is adorned with a band of raised bosses. The lower part of the body is cast with two flowers on either side that are connected by linear bands. The lid is pierced with four apertures of cloud shape. One long panel on the side is cast with an eight\u00ad-character inscription.\nThis incense burner is shaped as a miniature of the Shitenn\u014d \u00adji Temple Bell and may have been produced as a memento for worshippers who visited the temple. Although the original bell no longer exists, it has been recorded in printed materials, notably a postcard dated to 1908 (see Fig. 1). The eight\u00adcharacter inscription reads: Sh\u014dtoku k\u014d taishi (Prince Sh\u014dtoku) Shoutoku Shou (bell of praising the virtues). Prince Sh\u014dtoku (572 -\u00ad 622) was a legendary figure in the history of Japan for his support and introduction of Buddhism to Japan. He established the Shitenn\u014d \u00adji temple in Osaka in 593, the first Buddhist and oldest officially administered temple in Japan. In 1902, the newly cast 114-\u00adton Shitenn\u014d \u00adji Temple Bell was hung and was considered the heaviest functioning bell in the world from that year until 1942, when it was melted down for its metal to assist with the then ongoing World War II effort.[1]\nPrice, P. Bells and Man, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1983, pp. 264\u2013273\nBronze hibachi by Nishimura D\u014dya active c. 1678 -\u00ad 1730 \u2192\u2190 Hexafoil wood stand by Bunroku","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"With Derek Fisher as new head coach, the Knicks are hoping the change will lead to another playoff appearance.\nGames\tNear New York, NY (3)\nNew York Knicks vs. Boston Celtics\nTue, Jan 12 at 7:30PM\nMadison Square Garden in New York, NY\nBrooklyn Nets vs. New York Knicks\nWed, Jan 13 at 7:30PM\nBarclays Center in Brooklyn, NY\nNew York Knicks vs. Philadelphia 76ers\nMon, Jan 18 at 1:00PM\nSorry\u2026 Looks like there aren't any games.\nIf you haven't already, tap the follow button above. We'll notify you immediately once new games are announced! In the meantime, find other games you might like to go to!\nA New York Knicks Fan? You'd probably like\u2026\nNever overpay for New York Knicks tickets again. 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Here's why he fits.\nReport: Steve Kerr Spurns Knicks, Will Coach Warriors\nDavid Aldridge is reporting that Kerr will surprise everyone and accept the Golden State job.\nKnicks Fire Mike Woodson, Entire Coaching Staff\nAfter a disappointing 37-45 record, Phil Jackson is making wide-sweeping changes in the organization.\nKeys to Tonight's Knicks\/Nets Game\nThe Nets have already clinched a Playoff berth, but the Knicks destiny is still very cloudy.\nMore About New York Knicks\nKnicks Tickets Information\nArena: Madison Square Garden\n4 Pennsylvania Plaza, New York, NY 10001\nNBA Championships: 2 (1970, 1973)\nNotable Players: Carmelo Anthony (F) , Andrea Bargnani (F), Jose Calderon (PG), Tim Hardaway, Jr. (G)\nRivals: Boston Celtics, Brooklyn Nets, Miami Heat, Indiana Pacers, Chicago Bulls\nWith Carmelo Anthony committed to the Knicks and in the fold after signing a long-term deal this summer, the Knicks will begin the task of building a championship contender around their star forward. While many expect this to be a transition season following the off season trade of starting center Tyson Chandler to Dallas, the Knicks will look to improve themselves any way they can. The Eastern Conference would appear to be pretty wide open across the board with Lebron James heading to Cleveland and the Chicago Bulls having to adjust to life with Derrick Rose once again. Factor in Paul George's devastating injury and its effect on the Indiana Pacers and you'd have to think that the top of the conference will be in flux. Can the Knicks rebound after an injury-filled 2013-14 and reclaim the Atlantic Division? With Anthony as the center piece it's a definite possibility. Make sure you get your Knicks tickets to see the team in action!\nNew York Knicks Schedule 2014\nCan the Knicks protect home court at the World's Most Famous Arena? 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{"text":"Oliver Mangan\nBrian Keegan\nJohn Whelan\nKyran Fitzgerald\nEamon Quinn\nGeoff Percival\nRuth Doris\nNick Charalambous\nAlan McQuaid\nConall MacCoille\nDermot O'Leary\nPhilip O'Sullivan\nRuth McCarthy\nMandy Johnston\nDavid Horgan\nConor OConnell\nHome\u00bbbusiness\nSisters of Dublin cinema businessman Paul Ward suing him for \u20ac31.5m\nBy Ann O'Loughlin\nTuesday, January 14, 2020 - 03:20 PM\nThe sisters of Dublin cinema businessman Paul Ward are suing him for \u20ac31.5m over payment for the acquisition of shares in various companies.\nJean Kennedy, a company director of Spawell House, Templeogue, Dublin, and Carol O'Riordan, a retired director of Temple Gardens, Rathmines are suing Mr Ward, of Mount Merrion Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin in the Commercial Court.\nAndrew O'Riordan, who holds enduring power of attorney for Ms O'Riordan, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease, has been joined as a third plaintiff by virtue of his capacity as a donee of the power of attorney.\nTheir action against Mr Ward was admitted to the High Court's fast track commercial list after Mr Ward did not object to the application. Mr Justice David Barniville fixed a hearing date for the sisters' application for summary judgment for \u20ac31.5m for next March.\nIn their action, the sisters say that in April 2019 the parties entered into a binding \"heads of terms\" agreement whereby they would resolve their differences in relation to matters connected with various companies.\nThe heads of terms provided, among other things, that Mr Ward would procure the acquisition of certain shares owned directly or indirectly by his sisters for a total of \u20ac31.5m. Some \u20ac25m was to be payable by October 31, 2019.\nThe parties agreed to use their best endeavours to ensure all sums paid to the sisters would be structured in a tax efficient way.\nIt was also agreed if the money was not paid in accordance with the terms that Mr Ward would consent to judgment for the outstanding balance.\nThe sisters, in their claim, say their brother proposed to use funds from the \"the very companies\" related to share acquisition.\nThis, his sisters complained, would entail \"a significant risk\" to them as they would have to pay income tax on a large portion of the monies rather than capital gains tax which, at just 33 per cent, is considerably lower than what would be paid in income tax.\nDespite being given an extension of time to make the \u20ac25m payment, it was not made and a letter of demand for the full \u20ac31.5m was sent to his solicitors threatening proceedings if it was not paid.\nMr Ward responded through his lawyers that he was willing to complete the purchase of the shares for \u20ac25m but would not be paying \u20ac31.5m. He was also agreeable to the matter going before the Commercial Court.\nOn December 5 last, without any advance notice, \u20ac12.5m was lodged directly into Ms Kennedy's bank account, \u20ac8.8m of which had come from companies whose shares were to have been bought from the two sisters, it is claimed. On December 17, another \u20ac6m was paid into Ms O'Riordan's bank account, apparently with \u20ac3.1m of it coming from the companies, it is further claimed.\nThe sisters say Mr Ward is not entitled to any reduction to what is owed because the purported payments did not comply with the heads of terms agreement.\nAs a result, they are seeking judgment for the full \u20ac31.5m.\nWhat issues will dominate the 2020 General Election campaign?\nMay trial scheduled for councillor accused of blacking out Queen Victoria-related street names in Cork\nPatricia O'Connor suffered 'violent death' before remains were found in Dublin and Wicklow mountains\nSupreme Court to hear State appeal over striking down of law affecting recognition of refugee marriage\nDeveloper O'Flynn disagrees Cox worked outside group structure\nCourtCourt caseCinemaTOPIC: Court case\nSajid Javid issues post-Brexit warning to business leaders\nMarkets jump despite fresh US-China concerns\nAlexa privacy fears prompt action from EU data chief\nWicklow County Council puts brakes on Se\u00e1n FitzPatrick's Greystones house-build plan\nWIT back in Fitzgibbon quarter-finals","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Rudimentary Peni \u2013 London Musicians Collective Camden London NW1 \u2013 20\/05\/82\nPosted on March 10, 2011 March 11, 2011 by Penguin\nBlind Dogs \/ Dead Living \/ B-Ward \/ Zero Again \/ Inside \/ Media Person \/ Sacrifice \/ Only Human \/ Teenage Time Killer \/ The Gardener \/ Hearse \/ Tower of Strength \/ Dutchmen\nIndebted to Nick Hydra for sending this material over to Penguin Towers, a Rudimentary Peni performance to go along with the other ones uploaded onto this KYPP site which were all uploaded from the original cassette tapes. This performance was recorded somewhere in the crowd at the L.M.C and is of a decent quality although a little tinny, but still, it is Rudimentary Peni and any tapes by this band are rare enough. Welwyn Garden City Ludwick Hall May 1982 was the only time I saw this band and as most people in the hall were waiting for Subhumans to come on stage Rudimentary Peni were largely ignored. Of course now the band have been elevated to mythical status and are still producing some great material in a beautifully sporadic way.\nThe text below outlining some of the centres that Rudimentary Peni performed at on a semi regular basis (ie more than once!) including the L.M.C. has been wrenched violently, kicking and screaming, from John Eden's excellant uncarved.org site.\nThe Autonomy Centre, Wapping, London E1: August 1981 \u2013 March 1982\nOrganized by the London Autonomists and friends (some of whom disliked each other intensely) including Vince Stevenson, Charlotte Baggins, Martin Wright, Dave Couch, Ronan Bennett, Iris Mills and Fabian Thomsett with assistance from Andy Martin, Tony D, Trevor, Luggy, the people that later formed the Black Sheep Co-op and the Kill Your Pet Puppy Collective, Rob Challice, Rob Vex. Terry Watson, Mitch, John Apostle, Grant Matthews from Rudimentary Peni, various Hagars, Dagenham Pete, Rachel, Mark Ripper and Fod were regulars at the centre and helped out on occasions. Some of the money for the centre came from a benefit concert that UB40 played in Woolwich, along with the profit that came from the sales of the Crass \/ Poison Girls 7\u2033 single. The bands that played there were numerous but those who appeared regularly included: Rudimentary Peni, Part 1, The Mob, The Sinyx, Anthrax, Conflict, Crass, The Apostles, Cold War, The Eratics, Amsterdamned, What Is Oil, Twelve Cubic Feet, The S Haters, The Boiled Eggs and many more whose names have become immersed in the mists of time. Apart from live concerts there were book fairs, fanzine conventions, discussion groups, films, debates and political workshops.\nThe Centro Iberico, Westbourne Park, London W8: April 1982 \u2013 August 1982\nOrganized by The Mob (especially Mark Wilson) and JC who set everything up with the Spanish Anarchists who were already resident there. It was JC that got the electricity turned on \u2013 the Spanish Anarchists generosity was appreciated by sadly only a small minority of the hundreds of folk who attended the events \u2013 so to Isabel Anderson, Miguel Garcia and friends goes out a rather belated thank-you. All the people involved in The Autonomy Centre were involved here although by now Crass and Conflict were involved in their own problems (especially legal ones due to their records \u2013 police ones included) and the ubiquitous Kill Your Pet Puppy Collective occasionally took over completely which meant there was less actual organization, far too much chaos but generally more fun! The bands who played there were similar to those who played The Autonomy Centre but were perhaps a little more varied in idiom: Rudimentary Peni, The Mob, Part 1, The Sinyx, Rubella Ballet, Twelve Cubic Feet, Cold War, The Apostles, UK Decay, Dirt, Assassins Of Hope, The Cult Of The Supreme Being, Conflict, Riot\/Clone, Blood & Roses, Youth In Asia and many more. Nearly all the events here were concerts although there were two film shows and a few theatre events which were very amateur but none the worse for that. There were, of course, continual theatre performances but since these were often part of the usual behavior of the audience they don't really count!\nThe LMC, Camden, London NWI: September 1982 \u2013 February 1983\nOrganized by The Apostles and East London Workers Against Racism, this was more an alternative venue than a club. The organization here was minimal and suffered from a lack of PA equipment, an abundance of people who shouldn't really have existed in a society that had long ago discovered penicillin and a financial situation strictly from Rab C Nesbit. The bands who played here were, though, committed and varied: The Replaceable Headz, The Mob, 4 Minute Warning, Zounds, Rudimentary Peni, Cold War, Twelve Cubic Feet, The Apostles, Flux Of Pink Indians, The Good Missionaries, Youth In Asia, Fallout, New 7th Music and a variety of poets and performance artists plus many other punk bands. Music events were the only things on offer here as bills had to be paid and the hall had to be hired. People have a tendency not to rush out to Camden from Gravesend and pay \u00a31.50 to debate the politics of determinism versus free will\u2026 a pity really.\nThe Recession Club. Hackney, London E8: April 1983 \u2013 January 1984\nOrganised by The Apostles and Larry Peterson. The hall was attached to the recording studio used by The Apostles who were responsible for the hire of it and the equipment while Larry Peterson was responsible for the bands that actually played there. An amusing facet of The Recession Club was that the members of the audience were often better known than the bands booked to perform there! Those who did play have either disappeared into obscurity or are now very famous indeed: The Apostles, The Nocturnal Emissions, Attrition, Coil, The Unkommuniti, Peter North, The Invisible Band, New 7th Music, Hagar The Womb, In The Nursery, The June Brides, Pus, Napalm Death, Verbal Warning, Bet Lynch, The Replacement Headz, The Paramedic Squad, Youth In Asia, and a variety of poets, performance artists and other industrial \/ electronic groups. There were no events other than live music and most of the bands that played were not punk bands, largely due to Andy Martin's impatience with and ambivalence towards such people who he considered to have become pass\u00e9 and to have outlived what little usefulness they ever had. He goes on to say that \"the industrial music scene had taken over and it was here that the original punk spirit had begun to grow and mutate into some huge, many tentacled but often beautifully subtle intelligence network only occasionally marred by poseurs and butterfly collectors\".\nAndy Martin from SMILE Magazine issue 12, 1994\nGraham Burnett\nI remember being at this gig \u2013 the only time I ever went to the LMC in fact, although I always enjoyed reading 'Musics' magazine that was based around the LMC, which mainly covered the free improvisation\/avant garde jazz scene.\nplease donate to japan please go to http:\/\/www.paypal.com you may just save a life.\nhuman perculator\nthis gig here was released on 7\u2033 in america back around '85 lame artwork not done by nick. nick blinko had a HUGE effect on my adolescent brain. turned on around '82\/'83. instantly became intrigued. after death church came out peni disappeared for a while. over here in the states there were rumours that nick died of throat cancer, stomach cancer, suicide, total mystery. i started collecting that shit as soon as i saw it hit the shelves. i now have 3 \u2013 4 live bootlegs, a video, the magits 7\u2033 , the magits zine, as well as a copy of a flyer. i also have a copy of the death church demo (click track with no vocals). i've always wanted to send the almighty power trio a box of copies as well as some original artworks. maybe one day it will be.\nI may have been at this gig. I saw Peni as the first act on in a line-up that included the Subhumans, Flux of Pink Indians, Annie Anxiety plus 1 other (may have been the Mob). I remember the gig was in a disused Laundry in Camden with a pub on a corner opposite the venue. It was blisteringly hot \u2013 the night before we'd seen the very average Anti-Nowhere league & Chelsea at the Lyceum but it wasn't a patch on this gig\nDai morg\nLast June 7th went to the location of the Music Collective all alone and in the rain (knocked down now) to the pub opposite (now a gastro bar) 30 years to the day, Stig Icons Of Filth (R.I.P) showed me a trick on how to scam drinks off the bar, had to, hitched there with the arse end of my giro, and it was so hot in the gig, no one could breath, packed together, a sauna. Rudimentary Peni were over in a blur, muted response from most as they were a bit of an unknown entity. So back to rainy day at the gastro pub I tried the bar scam again, it worked a treat, good old Stig.\nThe only time I attended the LMC was a gig with about five or six bands including The Mob, Flux,Peni. The thing I remember most though was waiting in the queue outside and a few places in front was John Jacobs who was or had been in the 4Skins. It made me think..\nJohn jacobs was breifly in Conflict","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"By: Amy\nAbortion ends a pregnancy before birth takes place. When an embryo or fetus dies in the womb and is expelled by the body, it is called spontaneous abortion or miscarriage. When a woman decides to end her pregnancy voluntarily, she has an induced abortion. When a fetus is dead at birth, it is called a stillbirth. Most people support abortion in one of two ways, either as pro-life or pro-choice. Pro-life supporters believe that human life begins at conception and that abortion is the intentional killing of a human life. Opposing this belief is the pro-choice members who believe that it is the woman's right to choose to continue or end a pregnancy. Pro-choice supporters also argue that legal abortion is safer than illegal abortion and that it relieves the psychological and social problems associated having an unwanted child. Being pro-choice myself, I believe that it is the woman's right to decide if she wants to have a child or not. Some women who become pregnant are not mentally, physically, or financially stable enough to raise a child. If this is the case, I believe that a child should not be brought into the world because it will then have an unhealthy life style. If a woman becomes pregnant from rape or incest then it should be okay for her to have an abortion. For whatever reason, if a woman decides to have an abortion, then it should be her choice, no one else's. Abortion is safe. In fact, it has been proven that having an abortion is twice as safe as having your tonsils taken out, and eleven times safer than giving birth. Just because a woman decides to have an abortion, that does not make her a \"bad\" person. It simply states that she was not ready to have a child. I respect women who choose to have abortions because they are not only thinking of their lives, they are thinking about the child that would be involved. Having a child is a huge responsibility, and if you cannot handle that responsibility, then you should not bring a child into the world. Sometimes women choose to have an abortion due to health risks. If the child or woman will be endangered during or after birth then most doctors will suggest an abortion early in the pregnancy. Many pro-life supporters believe that abortion is a sin. Although, there is nothing in the Bible to even suggest that. Psalms 139:13-16 is often used to prove that human life begins at conception, although there is nothing there that even suggests that. Abortion is not a sin. No simple act of man can repeal the fact that only God endows life, by giving the fully formed body and breath. Declaring that human life begins at conception is counter to the claims of the word of God and is a sin. It is doubly a sin because this degraded belief leads others to sin. Those that kill clinic workers, clients, and attempt to legislate this wayward belief lead innocent believers down a road to murder and corruption. Most people in the world have freedom, including women. Freedom meaning that a woman must be free to choose self or to choose selfishly. Certainly a woman with fewer economic and social choices- for instance, a woman struggling to finish her education, without which she would have little hope of a life worthy of her talents- there can indeed be an obligation to choose self. There is no easy way to deny the powerful argument that a woman's equality in society must give her some remaining rights unique to her biology, including the right to take the life within her life. War is legal; it is sometimes even necessary. Letting the dying die in peace is often legal and sometimes even necessary. Abortion should be legal; it is sometimes necessary. Sometimes the mother must be able to decide that the fetus, in its full humanity, must die. It is never right or necessary to decrease the value of the lives involved or the sacrifices incurred in letting them go. Only if we up hold abortion rights within a list of individual morals, satisfaction and responsibility can we both correct the logical and ethical senselessness in our situation- and bring together the support of abortion. Abortion Facts Abortion is one of the safest types of surgery. 1.6 abortions are preformed each year. Only 7% of all abortions preformed each year are because of rape, incest or health problems. In America, one baby dies every 22 seconds. There have been over 36 million abortions since 1973. 3,900 abortions are preformed each day in America. Induced abortion is safer than childbirth. The serious complication rate is less than one percent. At least 30% of all pregnancies are now ended by abortion. 81% of pregnancies to unmarried women are aborted. 41%-46% of teenage pregnancies is aborted. 42.9% of women have repeated abortions. 46% of American women over the age of 45 have had an abortion. 95% of abortions are done because of social reasons. Women who are separated from their partners are more likely to have an abortion than other women are. More than two thirds of women who seek abortions have jobs. Nearly one third of the women who seek abortions are still in school. More than two thirds of women who have abortions plan to have children in the future. Approximately 6 million women in the United States become pregnant each year. Nearly half of these pregnancies are unintended. In most pregnancies, birth control was used, but the method used failed. The risk of having serious complications from abortion increases the longer a pregnancy goes on. Most Common Reasons Given For Abortion She is not ready to become a parent. It would be hard to keep her job. It would be hard to continue her education. She cannot afford a baby now. She does not want to become a single parent. She is not ready for the responsibility. She does not want anyone to know that she is sexually active or pregnant. She is too young or immature to have a child. She has all the children she wants. Her partner or parent wants her to have an abortion. She or the fetus has a health problem. She was a victim of rape or incest.\nAdler, N.E., et al. \"Psychological Factors in Abortion: A Review.\" American Psychologist. 1992. 47: 1194. Alabama Physicians For Life, Inc. \"Abortion Related Statistics.\" It's a Matter of Life. 1993: P.9. Clark, Charles S. \"Abortion Clinic Protests.\" The CQ Researcher. 7 April 1995: P.297-320. Fein, Elaine. \"The Facts about Abortion.\" Harper's Bazaar. May 1980: P. 75-76 Gold, R.B. \"Abortion and Women's Health\". New York: Alan Guttmacher Institute. 1990. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. \"Planned Parenthood Fact Sheet.\" 1990. Tietze, C. & Henshaw, S.K. \"Induced Abortion: A World Review.\" 1986. New York: Alan Guttmacher Institute. 1986.\nSssssssss\nSatan a seducer (paradise lost\nSummarise The Most Powerful And Persuasive Argumen\nAdoptive v birth parents legal rights\nBias in printmedia\nProblem With The Media\nThe Blaze Of Life \u2192\n\u2190 Polonius Is Folish","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Creating a Winning Bond Strategy\nIlana Polyak May 1, 2005 December 3, 2008 165\nWhile shopping for mortgages to refinance her three-bedroom, loft-style home in a Los Angeles suburb and her vacation condo in Nevada, Karen Ellis couldn't find anything better than a 5.8% interest rate on a 30-year fixed loan. That's lower than the 7.25% rate she now carries, but hardly the giveaway she could have gotten in 2003 when mortgage rates fell below 5%. It's important for Ellis, a 57-year-old pathologist, to trim as much cost as she can now because her expenses are rising in a number of areas. She's seen gas prices spike in the last year, which had her shelling out $45, which is 50% more than the year prior, each time she filled the tank of her Lexus sedan.\nA conversation with her financial adviser, Alfred McIntosh of McIntosh Capital Advisors L.L.C., hipped Ellis to the fact that interest rates were rising and she needed to make some adjustments. With roughly 40% of her investments in bonds, Ellis' portfolio could suffer if rates go even higher. Since Ellis wants to retire from her job at a local hospital by 2009, it's important that she prevent her principal from taking a major hit before then.\nMcIntosh helped Ellis come up with a solution. They moved a portion of Ellis' bonds to shorter maturities\u2014the date when the bond's value should be paid\u2014because they are less sensitive to interest rate swings. High-yield bonds, better known as junk bonds because of their low credit rating and low sensitivity to interest rates, were added, with a smattering of mutual funds that invest in bonds overseas. Finally, McIntosh recommended church bonds: debt issued by houses of worship that pay higher rates. Church bonds with a 61\/2-year maturity yield between 5.2% and 5.9%. Bonds with a 91\/2-year maturity yield between 6.2% and 6.9%.\nWhile most investors have been focusing on the equity portion of their portfolios, conscientious investors like Ellis are tweaking their bond portfolios in light of today's economic forecast. Bonds should be an important part of everyone's investment strategy. \"I'm afraid that interest rates are going higher,\" says Ellis, \"that's why I have diversification in my bonds, so they provide more security in my portfolio.\"\nIf interest rates rise, some bond holdings could take a hit that individual investors wouldn't expect from such safe instruments. Bonds are supposed to be that portion of every investor's portfolio that helps them sleep at night. You're not likely to get rich, but you're not likely to lose your shirt either. That's not to say that there isn't any risk.\nFor the last five years, the average bond portfolio has returned a cumalative 46.4%. The same investment in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, however, has produced a 8.6% loss. Even though bonds have performed better than equities in the last five years, long-term interest rates are now at 40-year lows. Bond prices drop when interest rates rise because investors aren't willing to pay premium prices for older, lower-yielding bonds when new ones pay more.\nGoing forward, industry observers are predicting that\nIn High Spirits\nBush Slashes Funds For Key Programs\nIlana Polyak","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Dr Louise\n84-year-old man masters make-up skills to help partially blind wife\nDes and Mona Monahan. (PHOTO: CATERS\/WWW.MAGAZINEFEATURES.CO.ZA)\nDes Monahan, from Britain, was determined to ensure that his wife, Mona (83), always felt and looked her best \u2013 and wasn't going to allow her deteriorating eyesight to get in the way.\n\"We don't know when Mona will lose her sight completely but we didn't want to wait around for it to happen,\" says Des.\nAfter meeting make-up artist Rosie O'Driscoll at their local Debenhams retail store, Des diligently began practising how to apply a full face of make-up.\n\"After asking Rosie to do [Mona's] make-up when we visited the Benefit [Cosmetics] counter I just picked up the brushes and started asking how to do it.\n\"Mona's eyesight is deteriorating and she won't be able to do her make-up in the future so I thought the quicker I learned the better.\n\"Rosie has been a great friend to us and we go in daily to see her and so I can get more tips,\" he says.\nThe 84-year-old has taken regular lessons since last year October, and can now apply his wife's make-up in the comfort of their home.\nIn fact, Des claims he's so good that he'd be able to teach his own make-up masterclass.\n\"It all started last October but I am now so confident with using make-up that I could even teach my own class,\" he says.\nRosie is thrilled to have helped the couple and says the adoring husband can now confidently draw on eyebrows and apply bronzer as well as lipstick and mascara.\n\"I'm thrilled that Des now has the confidence to start trialling new looks,\" says Rosie.\n\"When we first started he had no idea what brushes to use for each part of the face but now he's an expert.\n\"We have such a laugh when they come to the counter but we are friends outside of Debenhams too.\n\"I have been over to their house for a cup of tea and they come into the store most days for a catch-up.\n\"Des and Mona's story shows that no matter your age or gender there are always new skills that can be learned.\n\"If Des doesn't like a certain lipstick colour on Mona he'll tell me straight away.\n\"He prefers using a pencil to draw in her brows and is very particular with the looks we try on his wife.\"\nMona is so thankful to her husband who's more than able to apply her make-up every day.\n\"Des uses eyeliners and lipsticks I wouldn't be able to use myself,\" says Mona.\n\"I struggle to see the colours of different shades now but thanks to Des I know my make-up will always look great.\"\nSource: Magazine Features\nNext on You\nHow to cope with car sickness on your long-weekend road trip\nwifebeautymakeup\nThis guy is so tall he was kicked off a plane for not fitting into his seat!\nCher reveals her fitness routine \u2013 and it's not for the fainthearted\nMeet the North West twins who have an impressive collection of 7 500 pens\nSplit tongue, titanium horns and tattoos galore: the lawyer who transformed herself into 'Vampire Woman'\n'Cars talk to me in a unique way': meet the Hartenbos 'car whisperer'\nLATEST YOU\nRead your favourite magazine in a convenient PDF form.\nYou Food \u2013 Weekly\nSubscribe to YOU's weekly food newsletter and get delicious, easy-to-whip-up recipes.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Experience Norway's cities & stunning scenery\nTravel through Norway on the scenic Dovre and Bergen Railways\nRide the stunning Fl\u00e5m Railway\nCruise along the Sognefjord\nExplore Trondheim, Bergen and Oslo\n9 Days from \u00a31,810pp\nThis Tailored Rail tour to Norway was created for a Scottish couple who wanted to experience the country's top sightseeing highlights. We arranged convenient flights from their nearest airport, Aberdeen to Trondheim, to keep road travel to a minimum. This tour combines travel through Norway's stunning landscapes by train with city sightseeing to capture a taste of the interesting history and culture of the Scandinavian country.\nRequest a quotation with flights from your regional airport.\nDay 1 \u2013 Flight to Trondheim\nAfternoon flight from Aberdeen Airport, with one change at Stavanger Lufthavn Sola, before arriving at Trondheim Lufthavn Vaernes in the evening. Shared bus transfer from the airport to the city's railway station, for a 2-night stay at the nearby Scandic Nidelven.\nDay 2 \u2013 Trondheim at Leisure\nThe Scandic Nidelven is built on the Nidelva River, just 5 minutes' walk from Trondheim Central Station and Solsiden Shopping Centre, a perfect base from which to explore the city. Highlights include the magnificent Nidaros Cathedral, built over the grave of St. Olav and dating back to 1070. Other 'must see' landmarks include the Old Town Bridge, the Wharves, the island of Munkholmen and the modern Rockheim Museum, a national centre of pop and rock.\nDay 3 \u2013 By Rail to Oslo\nA morning departure by train to Oslo on the scenic Dovre Railway, which runs between Oslo and Trondheim. The railway line, which opened in 1921, passes through the stunning Gudbrandsdalen valley and across the mighty Dovrefjell mountain range - Norway's best national parks, mountains and scenic attractions. The 548km journey takes about 7 hours, arriving mid-afternoon into Oslo. Accommodation for the next three nights is at the Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel located in Oslo's bustling city centre.\nDays 4 & 5 \u2013 Oslo at Leisure\nUsing the Oslo Tourist Bus you are free to explore all that Scandinavia's oldest and sunniest capital has to offer. A full round trip takes 90 minutes and a ticket is valid for 24 hours, allowing plenty of time to stop at many of Oslo's many attractions at a cost of \u00a339 per person. The 72 hour Oslo Pass also gives you free entry to 30 museums and attractions, free travel on all public transport, free entry to public swimming pools, free walking tours, discounts on sightseeing, Tusenfryd Amusement Park, concert tickets, climbing, ski hire, and special offers in restaurants, shops and leisure venues and costs \u00a392 per person. Additional walking tours, cruises and more can also be arranged by Ffestiniog Travel. A boat trip across the harbour to the Viking Ships and Kon-Tiki museums is a must.\nDay 6 \u2013 By Rail to Bergen\nA morning departure by rail to Bergen arriving mid-afternoon.The Bergen Railway or Bergensbanen again travels through some of the most beautiful landscapes in Norway. It is Northern Europe's highest railway and travels through stunning mountain scenery and a fjord coastline which gives way to the mountainous interior with high barren peaks, lakes and waterfalls. Accommodation in Bergen for three nights is at the Bergen B\u00f8rs Hotel, located in an old stock exchange building and just 700 metres from Bergen Railway station.\nDay 7 \u2013 Norway in a Nutshell & Fl\u00e5m Railway\nA full day's trip to see the very best of Norway. Morning train to Voss and onward bus journey to Gudvangen to cruise up the beautiful Sognefjord to Fl\u00e5m, passing stunning fjord scenery. On arrival in Fl\u00e5m, board the unforgettable Fl\u00e5m Railway on a 12 mile journey to Myrdal, which climbs to a height of 2,845ft to deliver amazing views. Return late afternoon from Myrdal to Bergen by train.\nDay 8 \u2013 Explore Bergen\nExplore this UNESCO World Heritage city by Bergen Tourist Hop On-Hop Off Bus. This open-top bus tour is ideal for getting to know Bergen's compelling history and tradition and offers the opportunity to hop on and off at conveniently located bus stops. You can be sure to capture the rich history of this 1000-year-old destination, Norway's most international city, situated on the beautiful west coast. This 60-minute tour is valid for 24-hours, allowing you to hop on and off at your leisure at a cost of \u00a339 per person.\nDay 9 \u2013 Return Home\nTake an afternoon airport bus to Bergen Lufthavn Flesland for a flight to Stavanger Lufthavn Sola to connect with a flight to Aberdeen, arriving early evening.\nScandic Nidelven, Trondheim\nRadisson Blu Plaza Hotel, Oslo\nBergen B\u00f8rs Hotel, Bergen\nPlease note - hotels can be subject to change\nFlights with Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) in Economy class with one item of hold luggage per person\nEight nights' accommodation in good, quality hotels on a bed and breakfast basis\nRail travel as specified\nShared airport bus transfers\nNorway in a Nutshell round trip from Bergen\nFrom \u00a31,810 per person","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Maniac Monday Review: Hellraiser\nOctober 24, 2016 Jeremie Sabourin\nBy the time 1987 arrived, countless horror classics had already been released. Night of the Living Dead, The Exorcist, Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and numerous others shocked and thrilled audiences with their respective spins on the genre. They all offered a little something new and furthered expectations. On top of that, many popular franchises had started to pump out an endless supply of sequels. Therefore, when Clive Barker's Hellraiser finally hit theaters, it was something different and fresh yet captured the best parts of all things horror up to that point.\nBarker's film was an adaptation of his own novella, The Hellbound Heart. He wrote the screenplay for the film version although there are some differences between the two. Hellraiser was also Barker's first foray in the director's chair and, just like his film, he exceeded expectations. The film is gory and disturbing while also being chillingly beautiful and sophisticated. It's a strange mix of styles that results in a perfect storm of horror gold.\nThe film follows a group of characters who all have their own roles to play in the events that transpire. Frank Cotton (Sean Chapman) is a pleasure seeker who solves a puzzle box that opens a metaphorical doorway of pain and suffering. The Cenobites, headed by their dignified leader, the Lead Cenobite, or Pinhead as he'd be known as later in the franchise, played by Doug Bradley, come to take Frank back to Hell.\nAfter Frank's brother, Larry (Andrew Robinson) and his wife, Julia (Clare Higgins), move into the house Frank had been staying at, Larry suffers an accident in which his blood drips onto the floor and resurrects Frank as a skinless monster. Julia, who previously had relations with Frank, agrees to help him. She lures men to the house and allows Frank to consume them to regenerate his body. Meanwhile, Larry's daughter, Kirsty (Ashley Laurence) discovers Frank. Then, she eventually makes a deal with the Cenobites to return him to them.\nThere's a lot of moving parts of the film but it really isn't hard to follow. Barker does a great job of showing viewers how each event gets to its boiling point and how the characters all use each other. For the most part, Hellraiser is much more about the people than it is about monsters. Yes, Skinless Frank looks and acts like a monster but, having escaped the Cenobites, he's trying to appear human once again. Kirsty and Larry are the two most likable characters of the film and remain innocents throughout the plot. Kirsty stumbles upon the puzzle box to summon the Cenobites on total accident yet pays a dear price for it.\nThe true villains of the film are Frank and Julia. Most would assume that Pinhead and his crew are the main antagonists but they are merely intermediaries. They don't seek victims even if they're more than willing to take them. It's people like Frank that search for them. Pinhead himself is eloquent, impartial, and somewhat aristocratic. Again, the Cenobites oblige the pleasure seekers that come looking for them. It's not the other way around.\nThe best thing about Hellraiser is its usage of gore. Like David Cronenberg's The Fly, Hellraiser can be lumped into the body horror sub-genre. There are some gruesome depictions of mutilation as a form of enjoyment by the characters. The most obvious example of gore is Skinless Frank. As the body count rises, Frank's bones, muscles, and soft tissue regenerate. The practical effects used in this film are unbelievable. Blood and slime constantly drip off of Frank's body which is just awesomely disgusting. A simple word of warning to not eat during this film should be taken seriously.\nAnother highlight of the film is Christopher Young's score. Originally, Barker wanted the electronic group, Coil, to do the soundtrack but producers insisted on Young. He had previously scored A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge. There's a recurring recognizable theme in the music. While it may not be as iconic as the themes from The Exorcist or Halloween, it's distinct in its own right and has a gothic feel that fits perfectly with Barker's terrifying imagery and unnerving plot. When you hear the theme, it's a certainty that something awful is on its way.\nWhile Hellraiser certainly isn't perfect, its issues are quite minor. There's some choppy editing that could be cleaned up a bit. Also, while the practical effects are excellent, there are some hand drawn effects towards the end of the film that are kind of hokey for the time. In all fairness to Barker, though, funds were extremely limited so he and a \"Greek guy\" supposedly consumed large amounts of alcohol and animated the scenes over one weekend.\nHellraiser isn't often noted as a franchise on par with Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street in terms of popularity. However, Pinhead is one of the most recognizable horror characters of all time. In fact, his inclusion in the film spawned eight sequels all of which, except for Hellraiser: Revelations from 2011, feature Doug Bradley in the role. Unfortunately, the majority of the sequels are extremely different than Barker's original film. Nonetheless, even with its faults, the original Hellraiser is a horror masterpiece. It's psychologically damning, purposefully gory, and shows just how easily humans can be bigger monsters than the real ones themselves.\nReviewsAndrew Robinson, Ashley Laurence, Christopher Young, Clare Higgins, Clive Barker, Doug Bradley, Hellraiser, Sean Chapman, The Hellbound Heart\nICYMI Review: The Cabin in the Woods\nIn Theaters Review \u2013 Ouija: Origin of Evil","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"OVERVIEW FROM THE\nEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FAQ FOUNDER,\nFREDERIC B. VOGEL THE ROBERT\nWHITEHEAD AWARD CTI POLICIES\nBroadway Profiles \u2013 A Serial Interview with Jack Viertel Part Three\nCTI is delighted to present another in-depth conversation with Jack Viertel, this time discussing the evolution of theater criticism, the overlap between the commercial and non-profit worlds, and the various duties of a dramaturg.\nContent has been edited for brevity and clarity\nI'm curious to hear your thoughts on this, as you've had experience as both a commercial producer and a theater critic. I've noticed that more and more, the reviews are not always in line with popular opinion and have heard that the world of theater criticism is shrinking. Why do you think that is?\nI think there are a few answers to that. Probably the most important reason that theater criticism isn't as powerful as it once was isn't that the theater critics are less good \u2013 which is a debatable point that one could have any number of opinions about \u2013 but that the audience is now so broad and from so many different places that they're not buying tickets based on reviews anymore. Someone planning a trip from across the country \u2013 or the world \u2013 decides what shows to see based on various kinds of marketing, including social media and advertising, and they don't really know whether the critics liked the show.\nWhen I was young, back in the early 60s, the audience was still largely based in New York and its suburbs. Everyone read the reviews and cared about what the critics said because there was no alternative information. There was no social media or ads on television, for example; the critics were kind of it. Even the advertising that was done marketed the show through quotes from the critics. They were the only real taste-makers. Now, theater criticism has to compete with an ever-broadening audience and an ever-broadening way of distributing information. It remains powerful for certain kinds of theater where there's still a New York-centric audience, but that's no longer the lion's share of theater-goers on Broadway, so Broadway primarily produces for international and national audiences. And this isn't just an issue for theater criticism, of course, it's a problem for journalism everywhere. Newspapers are disappearing \u2013 my old alma mater, the Herald Examiner, hasn't been around for a long time. We don't expect the paper to hit the driveway in the morning \u2014 we turn on our phones and can check out a half-dozen news sources on the same screen at the same time.\nI think as a result, many theater critics feel empowered to write in a way that is less about reporting what they saw on stage last night (and having an opinion about what was good and what was bad about that) than it is about trying to push the art form in one direction or another depending on their own aesthetics. I'm not saying that's an invalid thing to do, but it's different than what Walter Kerr and Brooks Atkinson were doing, which was essentially a reporting job with opinion added. There isn't as much reporting in today's theater criticism, but there's a lot of opinion. A lot of the opinion is about the show but just as much is also often about what the production represents in terms of where the theater is going. I think that becomes a slightly inside baseball argument among people who want to talk about the aesthetics of an art form and much less a general interest piece of writing about whether to attend a show. It seems that many critics have taken on the responsibility of helping establish where the art form goes.\nAnd of course, politics have always been relevant in theater and art, but it seems that we are seeing an extreme increase in the infiltration of politics both in productions and within theater criticism.\nYes. It's geopolitics, but it's also sexual politics and racial politics and I think it works in both directions. Critics can be, to me, overly critical of shows that are not involved in politics or revivals of older shows whose sexual or racial politics feel outdated, but they can also give a pass to some shows that are not particularly well done but are passionately making a contemporary point. Now, this is only my opinion and not necessarily the next person's opinion, but that's what I sense; many critics are driven toward or away from certain pieces based on things other than \"I had a good time\" or \"I didn't have a good time.\"\nWould you say that this evolution of theater criticism is having an impact on the industry and the kind of work that is being produced?\nI think it may be having an impact on the non-profit part of the industry more than the commercial. In my opinion, the commercial part of the industry is heat seeking toward an audience and they're not worrying too much about the critics. When you look at the evidence of shows like Wicked, which was not well-reviewed for the most part and has run for decades anyway, (or shows that got wonderful reviews and didn't run because there was no real commercial audience for them) I think most Broadway producers view critics as an adjunctive entity that comes with opening a show. The critics are smart, so it's nice to get good reviews, but from a marketing point of view, it's less essential than it once was.\nYou have extensive experience in both the non-profit and commercial world. Is there any overlap between the two, or have they become polar opposite worlds?\nI think they've become partners in a way. It's like a Venn Diagram; there is a big chunk of work in which only non-profit or commercial producers would be interested, but there's a certain amount in which both would be interested. In that overlapping portion, the worlds can work together. For example, many commercial producers will give enhancements to non-profit theaters to try out their shows. The non-profit and commercial producers can talk to each other about where the theater's going, where it's been, what's good, and what's bad. But each also has their own work that they're doing for their own mission and interests.\nI'm changing topics a bit here. When looking through your bio, I noticed that you credit yourself as both a dramaturg and a creative consultant. Is there a difference between them?\nThere is in the sense that as a creative consultant, you might be called upon to help a producer refine a list of directors or composers, for example, to hire for a project. I don't consider that dramaturgy. But once a project is started, I think creative consultant is just an American way of saying dramaturg. So, I don't particularly distinguish between them once that process has begun.\nWould you say that dramaturgs are more prevalent in the non-profit arena than the commercial? I rarely see a dramaturg credit in a Broadway playbill.\nYes, and also in European theater (which is largely non-profit). In these worlds, it's actually a defined job, rather than just associate to the producer. Dramaturgs do research for the cast and director and write program notes; they're involved in the semi-academic side of surrounding the production with knowledge. They aren't necessarily tasked with helping a production creatively or working on the script, as a lot of the shows are classics, but they provide research and facts which help the audience appreciate whatever they're seeing. In commercial theater, I think, we use the term more to mean someone who's working to help the creators make a better show.\nWant to hear more about CTI? Sign up for our eblasts now!\n\u00a9 2021 Commercial Theater Institute.\nPrivacy SettingsWE CARE ABOUT YOUR PRIVACY\nYour choices on this site will be applied globally. This means your settings will be available on other sites that set your choices globally. You can change your settings at any time, including by withdrawing your consent, by clicking on the cog icon in the bottom right hand corner.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"FWD Group launches first-ever podcast series aiming to change the way people feel about insurance\nBy Chinmay Low (May) | 08 Jan 2021\nAsia Property & Casualty Technology Life & Health\nNew Asia-wide study recommends increased public-private cooperation to maximise the benefits of digital health technologies\nAIA and ZA Tech forge regional digital technology partnership\nAsia Pacific:Stable outlook for insurers as demonstrated by resilient performance\nPIAM names new CEO designate\nFWD Group has launched its first-ever podcast series: Changing the way people feel about insurance... with FWD. The podcast will offer insights into FWD's innovative approach and areas of expertise as well as the exciting trends in Asia's dynamic insurance industry.\nEach episode in the podcast series will showcase a member of FWD's highly experienced leadership team in Asia.\nThe first episode features FWD Group CEO Huynh Thanh Phong. As one of the most experienced and well-respected leaders in Asia's insurance industry, Phong explains the personal philosophy that inspires his work, reveals what his customers have taught him, and describes how FWD is taking a bold new approach to a legacy industry. The following episodes will be released fortnightly.\nEach episode will feature FWD leaders from a diverse range of areas within the business. The entertaining and enlightening conversations are designed to appeal to, and inform, FWD's customers, business partners, and employees and will cover topics ranging from FWD's brand and culture, to its customer-led approach, to innovative technologies and industry trends that are driving business initiatives.\nAzim Mithani, FWD Group Chief of Staff, commented, \"We're delighted to announce our first-ever podcast series which is designed to bring powerful stories and helpful insights and information to our customers, partners, and employees located all across Asia. FWD is a digital-first insurer that prides itself on innovation, so launching a unique and educational podcast is a very logical step and aligns with our ambition to engage and inspire our customers in new and exciting ways.\n\"Today's audiences are looking for original, on-demand content that sheds new light on old topics. This is exactly what our new podcast series is all about and we hope it will allow us to illuminate trends and leading-edge solutions in insurance to our audiences throughout Asia.\"\nBernadette Stevens, FWD Group Vice President, Brand & Marketing, said, \"Our new podcast series will enable us to start a fresh conversation in what is a largely unoccupied space in the Asian insurance industry. Our aim is to stimulate interest in insurance and explain complicated subject matters in a creative and accessible way.\n\"At the same time, we are providing access to deeply candid conversations with FWD executives that illustrate exactly why we're different and ahead of the curve, and ultimately changing the way people feel about insurance.\" The podcast is available on all major platforms including Apple podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify with options to follow or subscribe.\nStay in the know via our complimentary weekly newsletter\nWe DO Well Together: Prudential collaborates with K-pop band SuperM\nNotJustAnotherJob:A dream career awaits if you look beyond the surface","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Editing BBTag\/Nine the Phantom (section)\nWe currently allow ANYONE to edit the wiki after they pass a dustloop specific spamcheck after each edit.\nOnly registered users are allowed to upload images and other files.\nIf you'd like to register for a wiki account please contact the dustloop staff and include your desired username and a valid email address.\nFollow the guidelines for writing Help:Writing Character Pages and Help:Writing System Explanations\nAfter Editing, remember to update the BBTag Roadmap once you achieve a big milestone!\n===Backstory=== Konoe Ayatsuki Mercury, more commonly known as Nine the Phantom, is one of the main antagonists of BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Jubei's estranged wife, and one of the few wielders of true Magic in her home series. A member of the Six Heroes and Ten Sages; Nine's work on creating the Nox Nyctores, weaponry derived from the true Magic she held mastery in, allowed her and her colleagues to stave off the world ending calamity known as \"The Black Beast\". While victorious in her endeavors at fighting the monster back, a traitor amongst the Six Heroes' ranks caused her death and subsequent descent into madness. Having been brought back to life years later with the knowledge of her world's endless cycles of life and death, Nine would fight with the fervor of a wrathful phantom so that she might burn it all to ash for the sake of creating it anew for her and her little sister. All those who don't fall in line with her plans would be incinerated like the rest.\nPlease note that all contributions to Dustloop Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.\nYou are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Dustloop Wiki:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!\nIn a 60fps game, how long is a frame in seconds?\nRetrieved from \"https:\/\/www.dustloop.com\/wiki\/index.php?title=BBTag\/Nine_the_Phantom\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Chlorine is in the country\nSaturday July 13, 2019\tWritten by\tRashneel Kumar Published in Health\nDeputy PM Mark Brown said he had been talking about water disinfection, and he did not expect to be briefed on chlorine shipped in for the pipeline contractors.\nGovernment is ready to spend $500,000 a year on 100 tonnes of chlorination chemicals. The public has been kept in the dark about chlorination chemicals already shipped into the country for the pipeline project.\nAuthorities say no chlorine has been released into the water supply network.\nIn the past week, water authority To Tatou Vai, the Prime Minister's Office and Deputy Prime Minister Mark Brown had all insisted there was no chlorine in the country yet.\nBrown last week assured the Cook Islands News that no chlorine had been purchased. \"We haven't gone through the procurement process,\" he said. \"We don't even have the chemicals here for the sedimentation ponds.\"\nIn fact, it was purchased by April \u2013 and officials now admit they had not even told Brown.\nLast night, Brown said he had been talking about water disinfection, and he did not expect to be briefed on chlorine shipped in for the pipeline contractors.\nFinancial secretary Garth Henderson also said he would not expect to brief the minister on \"such a relatively small technical detail\".\nCook Islands News has obtained the full government tender document seeking supply of water treatment chemicals. The document, dated May 2, states \"an initial 'one-off' supply of these chemicals had been secured for operation under the Te Mato Vai project.\"\nThis week the government's Project Management Unit confirmed disinfection chemicals (calcium hypochlorite and polyaluminium chloride) had been procured by pipeline construction agency Te Mato Vai, and were being held in a secure facility.\nAnti-chlorination group Te Vai Ora Maori chairperson Ana Rasmussen criticised the government for keeping the public in the dark.\n\"It shows there is no transparency in government. It shows the government has lied to us,\" Rasmussen said. \"We demand them to be honest with the people they represent. This makes the issue political, what we want is a proper negotiation and transparency in this matter.\"\nHenderson said the chemicals has been provided to the contractor for the purposes of commissioning and testing the filtration and potential disinfection systems for Te Mato Vai project.\nAt no stage during this commissioning process would the public be provided with disinfected or chlorinated water as all testing would be offline.\n\"This is normal, established construction contract practice that ensures that the government can be confident that the Te Mato Vai project will function properly and reliably in the future.\"\nAccording to the tender documents, government is seeking 75 to 100 tonnes of polyaluminum chloride and 8 to 10 tonnes of calcium hypochlorite, annually, to disinfect Rarotonga's water \u2013 a contract valued at $350,000 to $500,000.\nThe Prime Minister put the tender process on ice last week, pending Cabinet sign-off for chlorine disinfection expected later this month","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"In new video, Arkansan shares story of life after an abortion\nUSCCB, Project Rachel will use 13 videos to spread word of post-abortion healing ministry\nBy Aprille Hanson Spivey\nScreenshot, USCCB video\nHelen Evans, of Little Rock, is seen in a Project Rachel ministry video, recorded in Washington, D.C., in October by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. She was one of four women chosen to share her story of healing from abortion for national videos.\nHiring and healing\nThe Respect Life Office is seeking a part-time Project Rachel ministry coordinator who has \"a heart for this ministry,\" said Catherine Phillips, diocesan respect life director. But despite the vacancy, the ministry continues to offer several opportunities for healing, with more information available at dolr.org\/respect-life\/project-rachel.\nA 12-week virtual Bible study starts March 15 for women who have been wounded by abortion. \"Virtual bible study is great because it allows you to participate from your own space and you can have privacy,\" including not sharing their video and choosing an anonymous screen name. Phillips said things related to an abortion are discussed, including forgiveness and grieving, but it is not addressed as directly as in retreats. No one is obligated to share. They plan to offer another Bible study later in the year as well.\nA Day of Prayer and Healing, one-day retreats, are held on the second Saturday of a month, usually three times a year for women, once for men and in English and Spanish. Retreats typically take place in May, July, August and November and the locations are confidential. The retreat includes Mass, adoration and confession.\nThe annual weekend retreat for women or couples typically is offered the first weekend in December in Northwest Arkansas. It is for post-abortive healing as well as general healing.\nAn eight-week healing group will be offered in the fall. Phillips said the group \"unpacks the trauma of abortion.\" The locations vary, but most of the time the group meets in central Arkansas.\nFor more information, contact Phillips at cphillips@dolr.org or call\/text the confidential Project Rachel line (501) 663-0996.\nA Little Rock Catholic is helping the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops spread the word about Project Rachel, a post-abortion healing ministry.\nHelen Evans, a longtime volunteer and former coordinator for Project Rachel for the Diocese of Little Rock, was one of four women chosen to share her story in a national video. She said she found hope and healing thanks to the ministry about 20 years after her abortion in 1979.\n\"God was so gracious, look at what he's done: He's healed me. I'm set free. And we go share our story,\" the 70-year-old parishioner of Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Little Rock said. \"That's what we're supposed to do, love and serve the Lord. This is one way to do it and praise be to God.\"\nThirteen USCCB videos, with Evans featured in several, are available free to dioceses who have Project Rachel ministries. For a cost, videos are also customizable, allowing ministries to put their direct confidential contacts for their ministries in the video.\n\"I want people to know Jesus is the healer \u2026 that God loves us,\" Evans said.\nThe diocesan Respect Life Office, which oversees the Project Rachel ministry, will have five videos customized in English and Spanish for $800, thanks to donations, said respect life director Catherine Phillips.\nThe videos, which include interviews with women who have had an abortion and with priests, can be used in multiple ways, including on the diocesan website, dolr.org, and in clips on social media.\n\"This was a collaborative process that was many years in the making,\" Phillips said.\nEvans traveled to Washington D.C., in October to record the footage at St. Teresa of Avila Church.\n\"I want people to know Jesus is the healer \u2026 that God loves us,\" Evans said, adding she was \"imprisoned in this shame\" for about 20 years.\nOn the day of her abortion she remembers saying, \"I killed my baby.\"\n\"How long can you live with that kind of secret?\" and while she promoted the idea of \"my body, my choice\" at the time, \"that was just me trying to ease my conscience.\"\nHer courage to again share her story, this time nationally, goes back to seeing a woman named Mary speak about her abortion at a healing conference in Arkansas around 1998.\n\"I saw Mary and thought, 'I want to be in that place of peace. I want to be free. I want to pick up my mat and walk. I don't want to be paralyzed,'\" Evans said.\nShe saw a Project Rachel ministry brochure about a week later and went through a retreat. It changed her life.\nThough the videos do not specify that Evans is from Arkansas, it speaks to the quality of the Project Rachel ministry in the state.\n\"I'm so proud of Helen, so proud of our ministry and so proud of our diocese and the foundation Anne (Dierks, who founded the diocese's Project Rachel) laid that has continued all these years. \u2026 We are blessed,\" Phillips said.\nThe ministry has expanded and continues to have a multifaceted approach, with days of healing, retreats, Bible studies, support groups (see sidebar), but most importantly accompaniment for any woman or man (speaking English or Spanish) who has been wounded by abortion. Calls and texts are answered on a direct confidential line, (501) 663-0996.\n\"Having a person to be there for you, to listen to you, to walk with you, to direct you to resources, prayers, Scripture, priests,\" Phillips said.\nBishop Taylor wants you to know more about your faith and the Church: Sign up for Arkansas Catholic's free digital edition.\nPro-life movement experiencing post-Roe paradigm shift\nWriting decision to overturn Roe an 'honor,' says Justice\nStrategies change for pregnancy resource centers post-Roe\nU.S. Supreme Court votes 6-3 to overturn Roe v. Wade\nBreaking News: SCOTUS overturns Roe, Casey in ruling","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Posts tagged Small businesses\nCoronavirus Cover Story\nPandemic Tests the Mettle of the Region's Small Businesses\nOver the course of this long, trying year, BusinessWest has offered a number of what we call 'COVID stories.' These are the stories of small-business owners coping with a changed world and challenges they could not possibly have foreseen a year ago. As this year draws to a close, we offer more of these sagas. Like those we documented before, they put on full display the perseverance, imagination, and entrepreneurial will that has defined the business community's response to the pandemic.\nHot Oven Cookies Seizes Growth Opportunities During Pandemic\nCOVID Tails\nPandemic Has Forced This 'Pet Resort' to Consolidate and Pivot\nGreenfield Recorder Stays Locally Focused on Pandemic \u2014 and Everything Else\nAt Hadley Printing, the Presses Have Started Rolling Again\nFor This Dental Practice, COVID Has Brought Myriad Challenges\nMore Business Dreams Are Dying\nBy Editorial December 22, 2020\nWhile the arrival of vaccines is fostering some optimism across this country and we're hearing phrases like 'beginning of the end' (for the pandemic) and 'light at the end of the tunnel,' the sad fact is that relief won't come soon enough for some businesses in this region.\nThe latest victim of the COVID-19 crisis is Gateway City Arts in Holyoke. Owners Lori Divine and Vitek Kruta announced they can longer continue operating their cultural-arts center, which had become such a critical part of Holyoke's resurgence, and will now attempt to sell the complex.\nTheir message to the community sums up the plight of so many businesses in this region and the frustration that has accompanied the restrictions, shutdowns, and general lack of support from state and federal officials.\n\"We have reached the point where we just don't have the resources and energy to try to survive,\" they wrote, echoing the sentiments of many who have been trying, unsuccessfully, to hang on. \"It took us 10 years to start feeling that we could make it, and then COVID took it all away.\"\nThe two went on to talk about life just before they were forced to close their doors. There was a sold-out concert with more than 500 people in the Hub (and an impressive upcoming slate of big-name artists), a theater production with more than 100 people, and a full house in Judd's restaurant. And in the veritable blink of an eye, it was all gone.\nLike most small businesses in this region, Gateway City Arts received a PPP loan last spring. It was intended to provide eight to 10 weeks of support and keep people paid \u2014 and that's exactly what it did. The problem, as everyone knows, is that the pandemic has lasted far longer than a few months. No further relief, other than a GoFundMe campaign, was forthcoming, and with no end to this crisis in sight, Divine and Kruta had to let their dream die.\nAs we all prepare to turn the calendar to 2021, many businesses are some state of peril \u2014 and many more dreams may have to die. If there is a lockdown or further restrictions, as many fear is possible, if not imminent \u2014 or even if the status quo continues \u2014 many more small businesses will be forced to close their doors.\nYes, the vaccines are coming, and yes, there just might be some light at the end of this incredibly long, exceedingly dark tunnel. But for many, it won't come soon enough. As this issue was going to press, Congress was making some progress toward a new stimulus package, one we have to hope will include some relief to embattled small businesses.\nBut these companies need more than that. As we've written on many occasions, they need the support of the community, in any way it can come, to get through this.\nWe were encouraged to see that a number of businesses were stepping up during the holidays to help. Indeed, instead of sending the traditional gift basket or tray of cookies to an office where few if any people are working anyway, some businesses have sent gift certificates or even small, pre-paid credit cards, with instructions to use them to support local businesses.\nLikewise, instead of having that holiday party at a local venue, some businesses are instead giving employees gift certificates for local restaurants, a step that shows appreciation not only for valued workers, but for the local eateries that have been devastated by this pandemic.\nIt's unlikely that such steps would have saved Gateway City Arts, a intriguing, potential-laden business that was just hitting its stride when the rug was pulled out from under it. Unless the region rallies around the still-surviving small businesses, other dreams may die as well.\nSmall Businesses Need Support\nBy Editorial August 4, 2020\nThe recent news that two small businesses located in the Shops at Marketplace in downtown Springfield \u2014 Serendipity and Alchemy Nail Bar \u2014 will be closing permanently due to a sharp decline in business from the pandemic provides more direct evidence of the damage being done to the business community from this crisis.\nA number of small businesses have already closed over the past four and a half months, and those numbers will surely rise as the pandemic continues to keep people in their homes. Many of these closings are seemingly unavoidable \u2014 they involve businesses, such as event venues, bars, and restaurants, where people gather in large numbers indoors, something the pandemic has made all but impossible if people want to stay safe.\nBut some could be avoided if the residents of this area find ways to provide needed support. Many are already doing that, but these numbers need to grow if the Western Mass. business community is to avoid losing more of its valued members.\nAnd we say valued, because that's exactly what they are. Businesses are not simply establishments that occupy space in buildings and provide goods and services. They are part of the community, and often a big part.\nThey employ people. They pay taxes. They support organizations like the United Way and the Chamber of Commerce. Their employees often serve on boards and commissions and lend their support to local causes.\nWhen a business closes, we lose a lot more than a place to buy shoes. When a restaurant closes, we lose more than our favorite pizza joint. When a tourist attraction shuts its doors, we lose more than a place to take the kids on a Saturday.\nSupporting local businesses has always been important, but it is even more so during this crisis because so many of them are imperiled. As we have chronicled over the past several months, ventures in every sector of the economy have been rocked by this pandemic.\nIndeed, companies recording sales of 60% or 70% of last year's totals are having a good year. And most are not in that category, with declines of 70%, 80%, or even 90% over last year. Many of these businesses have been helped by assistance from the federal government in the form of PPP loans, SBA loans, and small grants from individual cities and towns. But many have exhausted those funds, and the pandemic shows no signs of letting up.\nIt doesn't take someone with a degree in accounting to understand that most businesses simply cannot sustain losses like this for much longer. And some have already concluded that they can't sustain them any longer.\nWith each headline like the one about Serendipity and Alchemy closing, there is regret about what we've lost. And as mentioned earlier, we lose more than a shop that sells an item or makes good Italian food. We lose tax dollars, and we lose a piece of our community.\nThere are many ways to support a business even if you can't visit it in person \u2014 from buying a gift certificate to getting takeout to buying online. And by exercising these options, we can perhaps avoid losing some of the businesses that still call Western Mass. home.\nCloud Voice Makes Small Companies Look Like Big Businesses\nBy Columnist March 3, 2020\nAir Apparent\nBy Sean Hogan\nSmall businesses have been drawn to VoIP technology because of the substantial cost savings they gain when making the switch. However, as VoIP has continued to evolve over the years and moved into the 'cloud,' small businesses have begun to leverage VoIP in new ways to gain competitive advantages in their respective industries.\nThe growth of virtual companies and remote workforces has brought everyone to the same playing field, and customers across every industry are looking to work with credible, prestigious, large companies. Here are some ways in which cloud voice can make your business look bigger than it is today.\nYour office just got a receptionist you don't have to pay for. Cloud-based phone systems today include features that completely eliminate the need for a receptionist. Systems can be configured in order to route calls directly to the intended employee via a unified auto-attendant. Also, if your office doesn't have a receptionist, systems can distribute incoming calls among specific groups.\nThis goes beyond simply sending sales calls to salespeople and admin calls to support employees. For example, you can use caller ID to send specific accounts directly to the CEO's cell phone. Or if none of the salespeople answer an incoming call, it goes to the sales manager's cell phone.\n\"Small businesses have begun to leverage VoIP in new ways to gain competitive advantages in their respective industries.\"\nUnlimited locations, one office number. With the rampant growth of startups and virtual companies, many businesses need to have a communications system that supports both in-house and remote workers while maintaining a professional image across the board. With cloud voice, calls to the main office can be sent out anywhere simply by asking the customer to dial an extension, just like how large corporations are doing.\nSeamless conference calls and lightning-fast voicemails. Conference calls or online meetings are often a source of frustration for most companies. Cloud voice solutions enable businesses to host conferences during meetings so you can be face to face, even when you can't be in the same location.\nFurthermore, all technology is hosted through a single solution, so when it's time to host a meeting, businesses can rest assured that the technology will perform as promised. Another way in which cloud voice accelerates collaboration is through its ability to convert voicemails into MP3 files, which can be sent as e-mail attachments. Additionally, voice calls can be converted to text and vice versa for easier retrieval and communication.\nCollaborate on the fly. Today's employees need to be constantly connected. Collaboration can't always be planned out in advance, and when a good idea strikes, everyone needs to be in the loop. Cloud technology has made it easy for employees to see from their desktop what their co-workers are doing and how to best access them (e.g. instant message, voice, or e-mail) so communication can happen immediately.\nThere are many advantages to moving a company to cloud voice. For small business, the rewards are plentiful because they can utilize the same technology as large enterprises for a fraction of the cost and make them look just as big.\nSean Hogan is president of Hogan Technology.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tuesday, June 21, 1870.\nWm. Goat and his numerous family from the mountains, had possession of the square yesterday morning. This family, 1,000 in number, were being sold at from three to ten dollars each.\nA verdant youth whose ambition to become a brakeman was uncontrollable, got in a situation yesterday on the H. & St Joe R. R. He coupled one coupling and left a couple of his fingers there. He has quit railroading.\n\"Shoo Fly\" is in everybody's mouth and it's a wonder it don't make 'em sick; any other kind of fly would.\nBishop Robinson, of this Diocese, will preach at St. Luke's church next Sunday.\nWe have now on a visit to our city a gentleman from the East, of some capital, and an experienced business man, who is desirous of forming connection with an established house, or with a party acquainted with the Western trade. He is a gentleman of high character and ability with a large connections in the East. Address, P. O. Box 1413, Kansas City.\nThe coolest thing of the season is ice cream, and it is in a \"melting mood.\"\nThe \"bold Britons\" who are this far from the white cliffed shores of Albion, had a meeting at Turner Hall last night.\nBiggor's slaughter-house is a stench in the nostrils of the Bottomites. They say \"it smells to heaven,\" and it does, at least as near there as we can speak from personal experience.\nThe wreck of a lost bark is lying at the corner of Fourth and Delaware streets. Some one ought to remove it, it smells bad. Anyone doing so will doubtless be entitled to full salvage. In plain words that dead dog lying there in the summer sun is an unmitigated nuisance that ought to be abated.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"1. The Cuillin of Skye\n1a. South Skye Landscapes\n2. The Peaks of the Three Stars\n3. Canigou and Bugarach\n3a. Cardou, Rennes-les-Bains and River Salz\n4. Tree Woven Lands\n5. Andorra suite 2015-2016\n6. The Sacred River ran\n6a. Gorges de l'Aude\n7. Pyrenees Orientales\n8. The Wonder Tales\n8a. Creation of the Unicorn\n9. The Gods and Heroes\n10. From North to South: Painting as Ecology\n11. The Look that has Seen\n12. The Painter John Slavin\nprofile history\ncomments from exhibition guests\nJohn Slavin Art\nPortfolio: 10. From North to South: Painting as Ecology\nJohn Slavin's Art by Monika Kostera\nMoving Mists Eilean a'Cheo\nLoch na Beiste\nThe North Atlantic Island Skies\nThe Road to Montsegur\nBugarach from the Devil's Armchair\nAutumn Rain River Salz\nThe following excerpt is from Professor Monika Kostera (Jagiellonian University), in Occupy Management (Oxford: Routledge, 2014) pp 193-4.\n'When I met him last winter, John Slavin told me his story of finding the right landscape to paint. He is intuitively drawn towards a type of scenery and stays in it for some time to paint it. As it happened, the journey is leading him to the South, perhaps because of the light and shadow. In his view, light and shadow belong together, they are intertwined and cannot be separated. To see it and to paint it is for him more than enough, he does not long for any cultural references or echoes of human civilization. Shadows and light can best be enjoyed in nature, and recently it is the deeper tones and sharper contrasts he is interested in, rather than the greys of North Scotland, which fascinated him a few years ago. His paintings of the Isle of Skye depict cliffs and mountains, the colours are foggy, dark, the greyscale dominating over some accents of green and blue, the lines firm but rounded.\nMoving Mists, Eilean a' Cheo shows the primordial power of the Earth, where the mountain protruding from the sea is still in movement, among the water and the black forest in the foreground, it is the moment of the birth of a mountain. We see the moment from the point of view of the Earth: millions of years, measured by the clock of the movement of tectonic plates, a rhythm beyond human imagination. Loch na Beiste shows the rivalry of three elements: rock, air and water, locked in a battle for dominance, entangled in a brotherly but lethal embrace. They are, perhaps, fighting for Gaia's attention, at heart not all that much concerned about power for and by itself, but they know that the mightiest of them will win her interest. The North Atlantic Island Skies shows a scene where the mountains and the water are seemingly at peace, but this is just a moment of dreaming, the cliffs look as if they were purring, caressed by the white clouds, leaning over them from a blue sky. Upmost there is a suggestion of menace, a presentiment of the violent awakening that is awaiting the sleeping landscape.\nJohn Slavin's southern landscapes show another face of Gaia. Here she is more of an indulgent mother, she seems to be smiling at her offspring playing in the sun. The colours are lively and bright, vibrant yellows, reds and oranges springing out from the frames, entwined with deep greens and blues, with very active contrasts and intense lines. The Road to Montsegur has a mountain as its main scene, happily allowing trees and moss to play in its lap. Only the way it holds its back against the sky shows how powerful it really is, an old giant secure in its skin. Bugarach from the Devil's Armchair is about chestnut trees, with the mount Bugarach visible in the distance, through their entangled branches. Their pulse is so much more rapid than the mountain's they must appear to it as a bunch of rowdy children. There is, however, an aura of infinite patience emanating frm the wizened cliff. Not that it in any way is able to mitigate the mischievous trees: they are losing themselves in the game they are playing, one excluding everyone else outside. Autumn Rain River Salz portrays a vibrant river, cascading through a hilly landscape, among trees and bushes that seem to be longing to get in tune with her. Out of the shadows there radiates a desire, maybe to fuse with her, maybe just to grasp and hold her. In the distance a mountain lives at its own pace, it could not care less for the tomfoolery of the young ones.\nThe paintings convey an understanding of Nature, her energies, rhythms and moods more than any other artworks I have encountered, they seem to spring from a profound link between the Earth and the artist. As John himself has written, \"I feel I am open enough to channel the harmonious universality of nature through brush work. My surname 'Slavin' is probably of Old Irish origin denoting sliabh, a mountain. Without a doubt, the splendid stature and magnificent bearing of the Scottish Highlands, home of my ancestors, finds heartfelt expression in the core of my work.\"'","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Thank Folk It's Friday \u2013 10th January\nJanuary 10, 2014 at 14:17\t(News, Week in Review)\nTags: afenginn, bandito folk, ben stephenson, communion melbourne, emily and the woods, emily smith, folk music, forginia, glen hansard, inside llewyn davis, jack carty, james vincent mcmorrow, jimeoin, jordan millar, lisa o'neill, redvers, the beez, trouble in the kitchen\n\u2013 Stream the self-titled debut album for Sydney brother duo Forgonia. Details here\n\u2013 James Vincent McMorrow wrapped up his Australian tour this week and released his new video \"Red Dust\". Details here\n\u2013 After you listen to the Redvers track \"Impressions\" make sure you reach out to the man himself for an exclusive stream of his new album. Details here\n\u2013 Danish ethnopunk band Afenginn are in the country and have a bunch of shows around the place that you need to get to. Details here\n\u2013 To showcase his upcoming album Jack Carty is heading out on a national house concert tour from this week. Details here\n\u2013 London's Emily and The Woods released their new single \"Helios\". Details here\n\u2013 Today marks the release of Sarah Blasko's new live album I Awake Live at Sydney Opera House. Details here\n\u2013 Brisbane five-piece Bandito Folk released their new video for the track \"Don't Wanna Be Like You\". Details here\n\u2013 Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard has announced Australian dates in March with Lisa O'Neill in support. Details here\n\u2013 It may be a shameless cash-in on the buzz surrounding Inside Llewyn Davis but the upcoming compilation Greenwich Village in the '60s has a pretty impressive track listing. Details here\n\u2013 Jordan Millar has released his new single \"If Only\u2026\" which he's offering as a free download. Details here\n\u2013 Scottish singer Emily Smith has released the video for her new single \"My Darling Boy\". Details here\n\u2013 Following the sad news that The Staves have cancelled their Australian tour due to illness, Communion Melbourne have added Ainslie Wills and Tigertown (DJ set) to their January lineup. Details here\n\"It's great to get away from a Berlin winter and if work is slow, you might as well be able to visit your friends and family, be in good weather, and actually have some work to do\" \u2013 Peter D'Elia from The Beez chats to Bill Quinn. Interview here\nI Awake Live at Sydney Opera House \u2013 Sarah Blasko\nJB HiFi\nTimber and Steel Recommends \u2013 Go To This Gig\nArguably the best mandolinist in the world, Chris Thile returns to Australia in solo mode with his new album Bach: Sonatas & Partitas Vol. 1 in tow. Thile will reportedly be dipping into his back catalogue along with his new album which will make for some pretty special shows\nTuesday 14th January \u2013 The Spiegeltent, Sydney, NSW\nWednesday 15th January \u2013 The Spiegeltent, Sydney, NSW\nThursday 16th January \u2013 Riverside Theatre, Parramatta, NSW\nFriday 17th January \u2013 MONA FOMA, Hobart, TAS\nAfenginn\nFriday 10th to Sunday 12th January \u2013 Cygnet Folk Festival, TAS\nMonday 13th January \u2013 MONA, Hobart, TAS\nTuesday 14th January \u2013 Lizotte's, Newcastle, NSW\nWednesday 15th January \u2013 Lizotte's, Central Coast, NSW\nThursday 16th January \u2013 The Basement, Sydney, NSW\nFriday 17th to Saturday 18th January \u2013 Illawarra Folk Festival, Bulli, NSW\nFriday 10th January \u2013 The Merry Muse, Southern Cross Club, Canberra, ACT\nSaturday 11th \u2013 Katinya Environmental Centre, Moruya, NSW\nSunday 12th \u2013 Cobargo Folk Club, Cobargo, NSW\nFriday 17th to Sunday 19th January \u2013 Illawarra Folk Festival, Bulli, NSW\nCygnet Folk Festival\nFriday 10th to Sunday 12th January \u2013 Cygnet, TAS\nSaturday 11th January \u2013 Circus Ronaldo Tent, Sydney, NSW\nSunday 12th January \u2013 Circus Ronaldo Tent, Sydney, NSW\nMonday 13th January \u2013 Sky Terrace at The Star, Sydney, NSW\nTuesday 14th January \u2013 Sky Terrace at The Star, Sydney, NSW\nIllawarra Folk Festival\nThursday 16th to Sunday 19th January \u2013 Bulli, NSW\nJack Carty\nWednesday 15th January \u2013 House Concert, Thornlands, QLD\nThursday 16th January \u2013 House Concert, Fig Tree Pocket, QLD\nFriday 17th January \u2013 House Concert, Brisbane, QLD\nJohn Grant and John Murry\nThursday 16th January \u2013 Sydney Town Hall, Sydney, NSW\nJordan Millar\nFriday 17th January \u2013 Name This Bar, Sydney, NSW\nKaurna Cronin\nWednesday 15th January \u2013 The Moon Cafe, Perth, WA\nFriday 17th January \u2013 White Star, Albany, WA\nKim Churchill\nThursday 16th January \u2013 Solbar, Maroochydore, QLD\nFriday 17th January \u2013 The Sound Lounge, Gold Coast, QLD\nMat McHugh\nFriday 10th January \u2013 Hoey Moey, Coffs Harbour NSW\nSaturday 11th January \u2013 Great Northern, Byron Bay, NSW\nThursday 16th January \u2013 Live at Lizottes, Lambton, NSW\nFriday 17th January \u2013 Entrance Leagues Club, Bateau Bay, NSW\nFriday 17th January \u2013 Spotted Mallard, Melbourne, VIC\nSarah Blasko\nTuesday 14th January \u2013 St Stephen's Uniting Church, Sydney, NSW\nWednesday 15th January \u2013 St Stephen's Uniting Church, Sydney, NSW\nThursday 16th January \u2013 St John's Cathedral, Brisbane, QLD\nTamar Valley Folk Festival\nFriday 17th to Sunday 19th January \u2013 George Town, TAS\nTamworth Country Music Festival\nFriday 17th to Sunday 26th January \u2013 Tamworth, NSW\nThe Beez\nSaturday 11th January \u2013 Camelot Lounge, Sydney, NSW\nSaturday 11th January \u2013 Crown and Anchor Hotel, Adelaide, SA\nThursday 16th to Sunday 19th January \u2013 Illawarra Folk Festival, Bulli, NSW\nThredbo Blues Festival\nFriday 17th to Sunday 19th January \u2013 Thredbo, NSW\nTom Dockray\nSaturday 11th January \u2013 The Vic Hotel, Sydney, NSW\nUnpaved Sessions feat. Samantha Stephens, Trevor Shard, Sophie Rose, Leo Kahans, Kaidee Grzankowski\nMonday 13th January \u2013 The Old Bar, Melbourne, VIC\nZoe Elliot\nFriday 10th January \u2013 The Merry Muse, Canberra, ACT\nMonday 13th January \u2013 Smiths Bookshop, Canberra, ACT\nFriday 17th January \u2013 Limonata, Grafton, NSW\n\"Untitled\" \u2013 Ben Stephenson (Trouble in the Kitchen)\nA couple of years ago the National Museum of Australia put together a series of videos on Youtube, hosted by Jimeoin, on Irish Music in Australia. In this clip Ben Stephenson from Trouble in the Kitchen talks about his research into Irish music at the National Library of Australia and plays an untitled jig he learnt from a recording of box and harmonica player Sally Sloane. You can link to the full series of videos here.\nInterview: The Beez (Germany) 2014 Australian Tour\nJanuary 6, 2014 at 11:43\t(Interviews, Tour News)\nTags: folk music, the beez, tour\nImage Courtesy of The Beez\nThe Beez are one of many international folk bands who make Australia a regular part of their touring itinerary. In 2013, they toured as here as a duet with the Don't Mention The Wall show, but are returning with the full band in January to bring their pop\/folk\/originals\/parody repertoire down under again.\nBill Quinn spoke with Peter D'Elia from Berlin on the eve of the tour about what Australian audiences can expect.\nBill Quinn: You're heading back to Australia; it's been a regular visit for you over the years, hasn't it?\nPeter D'Elia: Yes, it's my fifth time and it's the sixth time for the band. Rob Rayner (guitar and vocals) is from North Sydney. He likes to get back home, and what's a better way to visit your home than to mix it with your work? Which is hopefully your pleasure!\nBQ: So it's more than just trying to get away from a Berlin winter!\nPD: Our work here does get slow in the winter. So yes, it's great to get away from a Berlin winter and if work is slow, you might as well be able to visit your friends and family, be in good weather, and actually have some work to do.\nBQ: Going back to 2013, it was an unusual year for The Beez in terms of line-up, wasn't it?\nPD: Yes, we had 'Sweet Felicia' [filling in on bass for new mother, Ulischka], originally from Queensland and now living in Victoria. It was a lot of fun, and very different to have a different member.\nShe had to learn a lot, different kinds of ways of singing and melodies. As a blues musician, she was definitely pointed in another direction with our intricate four-part harmonies.\nAnd for us, it was great fun to do a lot of blues songs. I have another guitar now \u2013 a slide guitar \u2013 and I was doing a lot of slide playing on her songs, so that was fun for me and for everyone. Definitely for Rob, who loves a lot of rock and blues. For all of us, it was just a different experience, which is good to have sometimes.\nBQ: You've got a loyal following in Germany. How did they react to having a new member of the band?\nPD: It was always positive. Felicia's a very strong performer; she wins a crowd over.\nBQ: It was a temporary fill-in because of Jule\/Julishka.\nPD: Yeah, her son will already be a year old in February.\nBQ: And you've been performing in Germany and Europe with the baby on tour?\nPD: We've had two tours. He's definitely not crazy about too many hours in the car. So you've got to take some breaks, and keep him moving around.\nHe loves music; he reacts very positively to music.\nBQ: He'd have to with those parents [Beez bass player Jule plus sound man and musician Georg].\nPD: Two bass player parents! I'm voting him to be more of a drummer, maybe. But some people think he's going to follow in his parents' bass-playing steps.\nBQ: You're out here for just short of four months. In the past, you haven't always had the best experiences in terms of venues, have you?\nPD: There was one tour that wasn't what should have been the next stepping stone. Had it been our first tour we would have been fine with it, but on one tour we were promised some venues that did not happen. It was still enjoyable to be there, but as a band that wants to progress every tour, it was not the stepping stone that it should have been.\nEvery other tour's been positive.\nWe're doing about five festivals on this tour. Every weekend is busy except the Easter weekend, and I'm sure other things will creep up while we're there.\nBQ: Four months travelling with a very small child \u2013 are you all going to be friends at the end of it?\nPD: We will! We will!\nBQ: And you're looking forward to going back to some favourite venues and towns?\nPD: Yeah, our first show is at Camelot Lounge the night after we arrive and I'm really excited about that. I love that place. They have so many great bands there. My memory of it last time: all the staff there were really great people.\nAnd of course Illawarra Folk Festival's the next thing. We've been there so many times, it's just like going back to see our friends on the other side of the hemisphere.\nFull list of tour dates for The Beez:\nMonday 20th to Saturday 25th January \u2013 Tamworth Country Music Festival, NSW\nSaturday 1st Febraury \u2013 Tilba Winery, NSW\nSunday 2nd February \u2013 The Artists Shed, Queanbeyan, NSW\nThursday 6th February \u2013 Braidwood Folk Club, NSW\nFriday 7th to Sunday 9th February \u2013 National Multicultural Festival, ACT\nFriday 14th February \u2013 Newcastle and Hunter Valley Folk Club, NSW\nSaturday 15th February \u2013 Blackheath, NSW\nSunday 16th February \u2013 Bundanoon, NSW (house concert)\nWednesday 19th February \u2013 Smith's Alternative Bookshop, ACT\nSaturday 22nd February \u2013 George Kerford Hotel, Beechworth, Vic\nSunday 23rd February \u2013 Gerogary, VIC\nFriday 28th February \u2013 The Piping Hot Chicken Shop, Ocean Grove, Vic\nSaturday 1st March \u2013 Bendigo Folk Club, Vic\nSunday 2nd March \u2013 Mildura Arts Festival, Vic\nFriday 7th to Sunday 9th March \u2013 Burke and Wills Festival, Mia Mia, Vic\nFriday 14th March \u2013 Old Mill Flour Gallery, Mildura, Vic\nSaturday 15th March \u2013 Richmond, Vic\nSunday 16th March \u2013 Burrinja Caf\u00e9, Upwey, Vic\nFriday 21st to Sunday 23rd March \u2013 Yackandandah Folk Festival, Vic\nFriday 28th March \u2013 Taste Canowindra, NSW\nSunday 30th March \u2013 Tamworth, NSW (house concert)\nSaturday 5th April \u2013 Wauchope Arts, NSW\nSunday 6th April \u2013 The Royal Exchange, Newcastle, NSW\nTuesday 8th April \u2013 Newcastle University, NSW\nFriday 11th April \u2013 Candelo Arts Society, NSW\nFriday 25th to Sunday 27th April \u2013 Mount Beauty Music Festival, Vic\nIllawarra Folk Festival Reveals Full 2014 Lineup\nOctober 18, 2013 at 08:26\t(Festival News, News)\nTags: andy irvine, chaika, dom flemons, folk music, handsome young strangers, illawarra folk festival, jane aubourg, martin pearson, oh pep, sarah humphreys, the beez, the miss chiefs, the timbers, the whitetop mountaineers\nImage Courtesy of Sarah Humphreys\nJust a week or so after revealing their first lineup for 2014 the Illawarra Folk Festival has gone the whole hog and given us every single artist for the event. We could call out a bunch of Timber and Steel favourites that have just just joined the lineup \u2013 like Martin Pearson, Sarah Humphreys (above), Handsome Young Strangers, Jane Aubourg, Oh Pep! and Chaika \u2013 but instead we though we'd bring you one full list of all the musical acts:\nAfenginn, Andy Irvine, Dom Flemons, Gordie MacKeeman and His Rhythm Boys, Harry Manx Band, Jaaleekaay, John John Festival, Klezmorim, London Klezmer Quartet, The Beez, The Hollands!, The Latchikos, The Underscore Orkestra, The Whitetop Mountaineers, Astro Cobalt, Bitchpick, Harman and Hellens, Cassidy's Ceili, Enda Kenny Band, Riogh, Ange Takats, Another Train, Australian Union Choir, AZ-I-AM, Belle Jar, Bernard Carney, Bygone Error, Chippo Days, Chloe & Jason Roweth, Fly With Me, Graeme Morrison All Stars, Greg Champion, Jim Green, Kavisha Mazzella, Lola Wright's Keg Night, Martin Pearson, Matthew Fagan \"Lord of the Strings\", Merryweather, Rough Red, Sally Harris & Little Big Smoke, Sarah Humphreys, Solidarity Choir, Swingaleles, The Three Sisters, Tia Juana, Wongawilli, Bazinga!, Big Erle, Bruce Mathiske, Frank Povah and Chris Cruise, Funkier Than Alice (and Friends!), Glenn Skuthorpe, Graeme Morrison All Stars, Handsome Young Strangers, Jane Aubourg, Kay Proudlove, Kenny Bartley\/Super Kenny, Love In The Jungle, My Secret Window, Oh Pep!, Pete Thomas & Blue Salt Band, Shellie Morris, Smokehouse, The Lazy Farmer's Sons, The Ribbon Gang, The Timbers, Tracey Bunn, Alison Johnston, David Beniuk, Gemma Glendenning, Glenn Skuthorpe, Kavisha Mazzella, Merryweather, My Secret Window, Patrick Lyons & The American Creek Band, Robbing Steve, Shellie Morris, The Lazy Farmer's Sons, The Littlest Fox, The Miss Chiefs, The Ribbon Gang, Tracey Bunn, Another Train, Bob Campbell Band, Bush Music Club 'URBAN SCRUB', Bygone Error, Chloe & Jason Roweth, Chord-eaux, Christiaan Dolislager, Denis McKay, Franklyn B Paverty, Good Tunes Session, Illawarra Pipe Band, Kavisha Mazzella, Lola Wright's Keg Night, Louisa Lawson Tribute, Songs you do not sing to children!, The Raglins, The Roberts Family Reunion, Ayanamsha, Beatmeisters, Belle Jar, Chaika, Dall' Italia All' AUstralia, I Viaggiatori, Mat Brooker, Mr Cuttlefish, Rapskallion, Ruido, SingGongGo, Somesing Laik Zat, Spirit of Serpentine, Spyglass Gypsies, Taiko no Wa, The Con Artists, Zumpa, Alison Johnston, Caitlin James, Harry O'Brien, Lucette, Melanie April, Nyssa and Alex, Paddy & The Wonderband, Rosie and the Bluesters, Shalani Thomas, Tim Lukey, and many more\nThe Illawarra Folk Festival will take place from the 16th to 19th January next year \u2013 for more information on the festival including how to get your hands on early bird tickets check out the official site here.\nIllawarra Folk Festival Drops First 2014 Lineup\nTags: andy irvine, dom flemons, folk music, illawarra folk festival, the beez, the miss chiefs, the timbers, the whitetop mountaineers\nImage Courtesy of Dom Flemons\nThe Illawarra Folk Festival, held in January each year in Bulli near Wollongong, NSW, last night announced a very exciting selection of international artists for 2014. The international artists announced so far include Afenginn (Denmark), Andy Irvine (Ireland), The Beez (Germany), Dom Flemons (USA), Gordie MacKeeman and His Rhythm Boys (Canada), Harry Manx Band (Canada), The Hollands! (USA), Jaaleekaay (Gambia), John John Festival (Japan), Klezmorim (Brazil), London Klezmer Quartet (UK), Underskore Orchestra (USA) and Whitetop Mountaineers (USA).\nAlong with that pretty impressive group of musos the Illawarra Folk Festival has also announce a bunch of national acts including Belle Jar, Bernard Carney, Bruce Mathis ke, Dave de Hugard, Enda Kenny Band, Frank Povah, Glenn Skuthorpe, Greg Champion, I Viaggiatori, Kavisha Mazzella, The Miss Chiefs, Rapskallion, Rough Red, Shellie Morris, Spyglass Gypsies, Tai ko no Wa, The Timbers, The Wollemi Band and about 100 more to come.\nInterview: Don't Mention The Wall!\nJanuary 2, 2013 at 09:04\t(Interviews)\nTags: don't mention the wall, folk music, the beez\nBerlin folk pop band The Beez have been frequent visitors to Australia in recent years with their latest tour taking place at the start of 2012. The band is now taking a short break at the start of 2013, however, band members Rob and Deta Rayner will be coming to Australia very shortly with a new show: Don't Mention The Wall! \u2014 songs and stories from the fall of the Berlin Wall and beyond.\nOn a variously muggy mid-summer's Australian morning or frosty Berlin midnight hour, depending on your hemispherical perspective, Bill Quinn (Overheard Productions) spoke with Rob Rayner about the show.\nBill Quinn: The Beez left our shores back in April, was it?\nRob Rayner: It was May. It was the epic tour of four months. We never thought we'd get through four months but we did. AND the amazing thing is that we're still talking to each other!\nBQ: I was going to ask how that went after four months on the road!\nRR: You probably thought, \"Ooooh, they're having a break; there must be some sort of internal disputes or musical differences\", but there weren't.\n[Acoustic bass player] Jule's having a baby. She's the big mama!\nBQ: How has the rest of 2012 been going for The Beez\nRR: It's been really good. The funny thing was that we were supposed to release the record [Freischwimmer] when we came back [to Germany] and then there was all this umming and ahh-ing because our record company said, \"Well, perhaps we might get to 'Stage B' on the steep curve to the top\" (us having been at 'Stage A' for the last 20 years or so).\n\"Why don't we just spend a little bit of money, promotion and maybe we can get you to 'Stage B'.\"\nSo we talked about that. We talked about various modes and how we were going to do the whole thing.\nThe practical upshot of that is that now that the CD is officially coming out in April or March 2013. So, it's taken all up a year and a half which is a lesson for all of us.\nBQ: That is a bit of a break considering that you ostensibly launched it in Australia on your tour in 2012.\nRR: Yeah, well we did. And it was released on iTunes.\nBQ: So what happens now that one of your members is great with child?\nRR: Well, we have Sweet Felicia. She's a wonderful bass player and a really gutsy blues singer who has played with\/for, amongst others, Chris Wilson for many years. And she was over in Germany this year with a blues band doing a couple of festivals, and we met her with Chris Wilson.\nAnd she will be filling in for Jule from April to November.\nAnd it's really good because it's a completely different feel, a different personality. It's not a competition thing; it's two completely different people. And The Beez will be a different band for six months.\nWe're really happy, Jule's really happy because she and Felicia get on really well, and we really love Felicia.\nShe played in May here at Commusication, which is the show that we have every month, and she just went down a treat. The Germans loved her. She's just great. Look her up.\nBQ: Moving on to the duo project, tell us all about Don't Mention The Wall!\nRR: We [Deta and Rob] were going to have a holiday because of the pregnancy break \u2013 'maternity leave' is the official designation for what's happening. Deta and I thought we'd come out for a little holiday.\nAnd then we thought because I want to come back to Australia in the next ten years and we figured we'd probably spend the twilight of our careers wandering around as a duo or we'd pick up other musicians. We'd love to do it with The Beez, but we can't reasonably expect Jule and Peter to hang on for that long and spend that much time with us.\nSo we thought, why don't we give it a shot and see what happens with just the two of us. And we had this idea about doing a show about the Berlin Wall. Because we were both here \u2013 I got to Berlin about six months before the wall came down, and Deta being a native Berliner, it's something close to our hearts.\nSo we're doing a show with songs and stories. And pictures.\nWe talked about different ways of doing it, and thought of getting a collection of songs together to do with the wall. And we were running with that for a while until about two months ago when I thought, 'No, this is not working'.\nBecause we're coming to Australia with a bunch of songs that don't really have that much to do with the wall when we're purporting to do a show that's all about the wall.\nAnd I thought this is not good, so I'm going to have to write some songs. And really specifically address all the issues.\nNow we're in headless chicken mode.\nBecause I wrote all these songs and we have to rehearse them and we're recording them so we can get an album out so we can bring them on tour!\nIt's just a total schmozzle!\nAnd we know we're going to do a multi-media show. Well, a 'multi-media show' \u2013 what does that mean? Just having a few nice slides from our chequered past.\nSo we're at our wits' end at the moment.\nBQ: I can see that concept working well in a festival setting. Do you think it will go as well in smaller venues?\nRR: Yeah, probably pretty well. Because they're first-hand stories; we're not making a big thing of it. There'll be a couple of dramatic little bits there, but it's mainly anecdotal, and an intimate look into a historical event. Because we were both there.\nBut not wanting to make a big thing of it because it's a very personal thing. There's a little bit of historical background, but it's just really personal stories, anecdotes and photos and songs. And there's really funny things in there, and probably some pretty moving ones as well.\nI think it's going to be good and with the smaller gigs we'll be able to do the slideshow as well, and with the festival gigs, we'll just be doing the songs and a few stories.\nBQ: Is it something that you'd see yourselves taking back to Berlin? Would you play it back to\u2026\nRR: No. [Laughs loudly.] Not at all!\nNo one would be remotely interested in it. This is not something you could do in Germany. On the other hand, the songs speak for themselves and as they're all in English and there are a lot of good pop songs and don't all deal with the Berlin wall. Not like:\nOh, I got to Berlin and I saw the wall\nAnd I was very impressed\nOh, the wall; oh, the wall\nNo, we do some different things about the rise of racism, a song about German white trash \u2013 which is a fun little song.\nThere's a song in three and a half minutes about how the wall was built, because there was a famous quote from the leader of the SED, the ruling party in East Germany at the time. He said \u2013 and this was three months before the wall was built \u2013 \"Nobody has the intentions of building a wall here to divide East and West Germany\".\nAnd the wall was up three months later. The song's called, \"No One Has Intentions Of Building A Wall\".\nAnd there's a song about a friend of ours who escaped from East Germany, got to West Germany, and was actually kidnapped by a Stasi spy and taken back into the east.\nSo there's lots of dramatic and amusing stuff. It's a real roller-coaster ride.\nBQ: And there'll be an album too. Gott-willing!\nRR: There will! We're just in the process of doing it \u2013 a very spontaneous thing. Almost all original songs and a couple of rather surprising cover songs. One from Deep Purple, if you can imagine that. And I can tell you it's not 'Smoke on the Water'!\nBQ: I'm so glad to hear it!\nRR: I bet you are! I'm glad to hear it as well.\nBQ: We shall wait with bait on our breaths for your arrival!\nFull list of tour dates for Don't Mention The Wall featuring Rob and Deta Rayner:\nThursday 17th January \u2013 Camelot Lounge, Sydney, NSW\n18th to 20th January \u2013 Illawarra Folk Festival, Bulli, NSW\n21st to 26th January \u2013 Tamworth Country Music Festival, NSW\nSunday 27th January \u2013 Dubbo Folk Club, NSW\nSaturday 2nd February \u2013 Mildura Arts Centre, Vic\nFriday 8th February \u2013 Gunnedah, NSW\nSaturday 9th February \u2013 Uralla Arts, NSW\nSunday 10th February \u2013 Bellingen, NSW\nThursday 14th February \u2013 Congo, NSW (house concert)\nFriday 15th February \u2013 River Music Folk, Nowra, NSW\nSaturday 16th February \u2013 Nerrigundah Hall, NSW\nSunday 17th February \u2013 Tilba Valley Wines, Tilba Tilba, NSW\nThursday 21st February \u2013 Braidwood Folk Club, NSW\n22nd to 24th February \u2013 Cobargo Folk Festival, NSW\nFriday 1st March \u2013 Tara Guest House, Sydney, NSW\nSaturday 2nd March \u2013 The Shack, Narabeen, NSW\nFriday 8th March \u2013 Humph Hall, Allambie Heights, NSW\nSaturday 9th March \u2013 Artists Shed, Queanbeyan, NSW\nSunday 10th March \u2013 Wongawilli Hall, NSW\n15th to 16th March \u2013 Beechworth, Vic\nFriday 22nd March \u2013 Springwood, NSW (house concert)\nThursday 28th March \u2013 Newcastle University, NSW (lunchtime show)\nReview: Blue Mountains Music Festival\nMarch 26, 2012 at 15:23\t(Festivals, Reviews)\nTags: abigail washburn, blue king brown, blue mountains music festival, claude hay, eric bibb, folk music, fred smith, frencham smith, harry manx, judy collins, liz frencham, my friend the chocolate cake, the beez\nImage Courtesy of the Blue Mountains Music Festival\nTo start, an admission: I'm a terrible festival attendee. My handful of must-sees quickly gives way to a fickle drifting, distracted eyes and ears rarely attentive for a whole set. I'm also, as you'll quickly discover, musically illiterate yet fascinated and enthralled by a language I don't understand. Lyrically, I feel adept to make comment; instrumentally I flounder and use inappropriate and often incorrect words. You've been warned: what follows is a review of the beautiful Blue Mountains Folk, Roots and Blues Music Festival by a musical illiterate with a deep love and appreciation for what she hears.\nThanks to Timber and Steel's Editor in Chief Evan Hughes plans to marry one of my oldest (very youthful) friends, the lovely Sarah Tuz, and my convenient home in the misty, mystical Blue Mountains, I'm writing my first review for Timber and Steel.\nLike many fellow festival attendees, I spent the preceding week checking the weather forecast, anticipating a repeat of last year's perpetual rain and shin-deep mud bath (not atypical in the Bluies). Yet I also knew, as you can read in Evan's review of last year's festival, that the residents of the Blue Mountains and those attending from afar, are resilient and undeterred by a bit of soggy trudging between venues, and well-equipped with assorted gumboots and waterproof parkas.\nThe seventeenth Blue Mountains Musical Festival was, as the program described, the usual motley affair of folk, roots, blues, latin, world, jazz, bluegrass, Indie, reggae, blessed with artists from the quirky, theatrical The Beez, to the determined and socially conscious Blue King Brown. Young local musicians such as the passionate young Claude Hay played just metres away from the iconic Judy Collins, tackling themes from the intimate to the comical to the political and everything in between.\nA \"favourite five\" glimpse of what we saw:\nFred Smith and Liz Frencham\nFred Smith is a songwriter of 15 years. He's also an Australian diplomat who has been posted to far corners of the earth \u2013 from Bouganville to Uruzgan. Skilfully, he combines these two personas as a master storyteller, conjuring hope, despair and laughter in his audience. I was suitably curious to see him on both Friday and Saturday evening.\nFred began his collaboration with the beautiful, cheeky, passionate Liz Frencham at the National Folk Festival in 2002. Liz on vocals and cello brought balance and intimacy to Smith's performance on Friday night, enthralling the audience with her vivacious enjoyment of her instrument, balancing Fred's dry humour with a distinctly feminine presence onstage. The evening mixed the political \u2013 such as \"Blue Guitar\", reflecting on his time in the Solomon Islands, to the everyday and personal, such as \"In My Room\".\nThroughout Saturday evenings Dust of Uruzgan (the title of his new album) performance, Smith used a combination of story, song and multi-media to tell of his time posted in the Uruzgan province of Afghanistan. What left the audience hopeful, despite his often tragic stories of distrust and fear, was Smith's wry yet playful sense of humour, and his overt belief that in spite of the everyday horrors he witnessed, peace is still possible.\nLiz Frencham and the rest of the band served as instruments by which Smith added life to his stories. Smith gave voice to the men and women of the armed forces in the province, describing the monotony of constant threat, the loss and death and ceaseless dust. It was not all bleak- from within the reality of war; Smith described uplifting friendships, a spot of 'Schwafelen' (brush up on your Dutch to translate this one) and plenty of laughter. A memorable and poignant experience.\nAbigail Washburn and Kai Welch\nAbigail Washburn's sweet drawl and croaky laugh is just as compatible with Bluegrass as with traditional Chinese folk songs (hand gestures included). Vivacious, Nashville-based Washburn, complimented by co-writer and singing partner Kai Welch, blessed their Blue Mountains audience with some ramblin' afternoon tunes, from the delicate \"Dreams of Nectar\" to the traditional Chinese folk song whose title (ironically for the weekend) translates 'The Sun Has Come Out and we are so Happy'. Some soul-quietening, smile-delivering entertainment to bring in the Saturday evening.\nMy Friend the Chocolate Cake\nAptly described by our MC as 'fizzy and effervescent pop', My Friend the Chocolate Cake played us a range of tunes from their 21 years at the forefront of Australian Music.\nPianist and vocalist David Bridie started us on a melancholy note with \"Strange Crumbs From the Suburban Fringe\", quickly swinging between the carnival and the cinematic in a set filled with songs you recognise but can't quite place \u2013 probably from their presence on a plethora of Australian film and TV soundtracks.\nHaving never seen them before, I'm unsure if this is typical, but apart Bridie steering the show, and quirky Hope Csutoris on Violin, the rest of the band played along unobtrusively as if willing the audience to ignore the band and draw upon and use the music to conjure up their own images and memories. Bridies' lovely shy young daughter joined the band on vocals for a rollin' rendition of \"25 Stations\", as My Friend the Chocolate Cake used suburban symbols integral to the Australian identity, music like the voice of a familiar and comfortable old friend.\nHarry Manx, Judy Collins, Claude Hay\nBringing in Saturday evening, living up to my wandering tendencies our 7pm timeslot was filled with three very different artists I was very curious to see.\nFirstly, a storytelling session with the diverse and bewitching Harry Manx accompanied by the extraordinarily talented and energetic virtuoso Hammond Organ musician Clayton Dooley. I sat, mesmerised as Manx minimised talk between songs, telling tale after tale, fusing eastern musical traditions with the Blues. Disappointingly, our time was cut short by the desire not to miss out on the legendary Judy Collins.\nWe skilfully edged into the jam-packed Big Top tent for a glimpse of Judy Collins, looking radiant, relaxed and all decked out in glitter and grin. At 71, Judy's career spans more that half a century, and judging by the composition of the audience, attracts fans spanning many generations and backgrounds. The air was thick with nostalgia, and the voices of hundreds of festival attendees reminiscing in unison. The lyrics of Bob Dylans' \"Mr Tamborine Man\" could no doubt be heard halfway up Katoomba St, Judy leading the crowd. Unfortunately, due my partner's sore foot (see below paragraph), we hobbled across to the RSL stage where we discovered a whole generation perhaps untouched by Judy Collins.\nClaude Hay had a collection of Blue Mountains youth dancing furiously to his Blue and Roots tunes. Feeling strangely old (especially compared to the rest of our time at the festival), we sat and watched the 'young people' shake and groove and chant along to defiant lyrics, while we polished our dentures and moaned about our arthritis.\nA beautiful conclusion to my second Blue Mountains Music Festival. Eric Bibb, accompanied by Swedish guitarist Staffan Astner, bestowed upon the audience an exceptional set of traditional and contemporary folk-blues tunes. It was Erics' fourth Blue Mountains Festival, and second time visiting the Mountains in the space of a year- he played at Blackheath Community Centre in April 2011.\nEverything about Eric contrasted with the pervasive fog outside the tent, from his bright orange shirt to his infectious and radiant smile. Staffan, dressed in black, hat obscuring his eyes and occasionally bemused smile, was Eric's quiet yet brilliant shadow. From \"Stagger Lee\", \"Floodwater\", \"Troubadour\", \"Tell my Baby\" and \"Going Down the Road Feeling Bad\", Eric played a mixture of covers and originals which created a warm and contented audience, pleased to be sharing the moment and the music with hundreds of others in the Big Top, rather than outside in Katoomba's best mist and drizzle.\nThe Pigs, The Beez and Mustered Courage Join Forces for a One Off Melbourne Gig\nFebruary 9, 2012 at 13:36\t(News, Timber and Steel Events, Tour News)\nTags: bluegrass, folk music, mustered courage, the beez, the pigs\nImage Courtesy of The Pigs\n***UPDATE: The Double Pass Has Been Claimed. Stay Tuned For More Giveaways Soon***\nMelbourne get your pickin' fingers ready, you're in for an absolute treat this March. Three of folk\/bluegrass' favourite bands, The Pigs (above), The Beez (Germany) and Mustered Courage have announced a massive show at the Thornbury Theatre on the 8th March.\nTickets are a mere $18.50 and are available here. And if you're lucky we have a double pass to give away! All you have to do is be the first to e-mail us at timberandsteelaustralia@gmail.com with your name \u2013 but get in quick, this is bound to go quick.\nIllawarra Folk Festival Announces 2012 Program\nDecember 12, 2011 at 08:02\t(Festival News, News)\nTags: andrew winton, big erle, cj shaw, dougie maclean, evelyn's secret, folk music, george kamikawa, get folked, illawarra folk festival, jack flash, jane aubourg, lucy wise & the b'gollies, martin pearson, quarry mountain dead rats, skipping girl vinegar, the bearded gypsy band, the beez, the fagans, the string contingent, the woohoo revue, wongawilli\nImage Courtesy of The Quarry Mountain Dead Rats\nWhile the summer months see some of the nation's biggest festivals strut their stuff it's the little regional folk festivals that really shine in our books. One of our favourite regional festivals roles around every January \u2013 The Illawarra Folk Festival in Bulli just north of Wollongong, NSW.\nBeing within spitting distance of both Sydney and Canberra the Illawarra Folk Festival manages to attract some amazing national and international talent and is set in one of the most beautiful parts of the country. The 2012 festival will be held from the 12th to the 15th January and boasts a program featuring the likes of Dougie Maclean, George Kamikawa & Noriko Tadano, The Beez, Andrew Winton, Cj Shaw, Evelyn's Secret, Get Folked, Jack Flash, Lucy Wise & The B'Gollies, Margaret & Bob Fagan, Martin Pearson, The Quarry Mountain Dead Rats (above), Skipping Girl Vinegar, The Bearded Gypsy Band, The String Contingent, The Woohoo Revue, Big Erle & the Limb Looseners, Jane Aubourg and of course Wongawilli.\nThe program for the event has just been released and is available on the official Illawarra Folk Festival web site \u2013 which is also where you can get the full lineup and all the information on how to get tickets. Looks like our January is planned then.\nBlue Mountains Music Festival Announces First Artist Lineup\nTags: abigail washburn, afro mandinko, ahab, alwan, april verch, ben sollee, beoga, blue king brown, blue mountains music festival, cass eager, chris wilson, claude hay, daniel champagne, eddi reader, fiona boyes, folk music, fred smith, frigg, george kamikawa, harry manx, judy collins, krystle warren, my friend the chocolate cake, noriana kennedy, noriko tadano, peter rowan bluegrass band, phil davidson, pierre bensusan, rescue ships, shane howard, staffan astner, the beez, the buddy knox blues band, the quarry mountain dead rats, the simpson 3, tonks green, truckstop honeymoon, while and matthews\nImage Courtesy of Beoga\nThe Blue Mountains Music Festival was by far one of our favourite events on this year's music calendar (despite the torrential rain \u2013 check out our review here) so we got pretty excited this morning when the first round of artists for next years event landed in our inbox. The Blue Mountains Music Festival celebrates music from a variety of genres but it definitely always has a strong folk, roots, blues and bluegrass contingent on its roster and next year is no different.\nRather than try and single out our favourites from the first announcement we though we'd just give it to you in one hit and let you see just how good it is. Ready? Here we go:\nJudy Collins (USA), Abigail Washburn (USA), Harry Manx (UK\/Canada), Pierre Bensusan (French Algeria), Staffan Astner (Sweden), Krystle Warren (USA), Ben Sollee (USA), Blue King Brown, The Shane Howard Band, Fred Smith, Eddi Reader (Scotland), April Verch (Canada), Noriana Kennedy (Ireland), Truckstop Honeymoon (USA) While and Matthews (UK), My Friend the Chocolate Cake, Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band (USA), The Beez (Germany), Frigg (Finland), Beoga (above \u2013 Ireland), ahab (UK), Afro Mandinko, The Buddy Knox Blues Band, Alwan, The Quarry Mountain Dead Rats, Chris Wilson, Fiona Boyes, Rescue Ships, Claude Hay, George Kamikawa and Noriko Tadano, Cass Eager, Phil Davidson, Daniel Champagne, Tonks Green, The Simpson 3 and more.\nPretty impressive eh? The Blue Mountains Music Festival is held in Katoomba, NSW from the 16th to the 18th March. Earlybird tickets are available from now until the 31st December. 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{"text":"Home\/Habitat\nUS Symbols of Liberty\nUS Colonial History\nUS Historical Documents\nUS Historical Places\nUS Electoral Process\nImmigrants \/ Immigration\nMexican American War\nJapanese-American Internment\nPersian Gulf War\nPresidents of the US\nThree Branches of Government\nUnited States Electoral Process\nAn election is the process by which citizens select the thousands of men and women they want to run their government--at all levels. In a democracy, government officials are chosen by the people and serve for a specific time called a term of office. Depending on state laws, an official may run for reelection once the term is over. Our system of government is called a representative democracy. American citizens do not directly make governmental decisions. They elect officials to govern for them. Most elections in our country are held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. But elections for public offices may be held at any time, depending on state law.\nWhen the Constitution was written in 1787, it basically left the decision to each state as to who could vote in elections. Most states did not at first give the right to vote to women or African Americans.\nIn 1870, five years after the end of the Civil War, the 15th Amendment was passed. This amendment guaranteed the right to vote to male African Americans. However, it took another 100 years for African Americans to be able to fully exercise this right.\nAmerican women were not allowed to vote at the national level until 1920. The 19th Amendment to the Constitution was passed that year, and the following November millions of American women voted in the presidential election for the first time.\nThe 26th Amendment to the Constitution, adopted in 1971, says that anyone over 18 is allowed to vote.\nIn 1965, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act. This law guaranteed that the federal government would intervene if any state attempted to deny a citizen's voting rights because of race. As a result of this act, millions of African Americans in the South were allowed to register to vote for the first time.\nOn the average, about 60% of voting-age Americans vote in presidential elections. For local elections, voter turn out is usually much lower.\nNo political parties officially existed when the U.S. Constitution was written in the late 1780s. The founders of the country actually felt that political parties were not a good thing and that they would divide people against each other and harm the democracy. However within 10 years after the Constitution was written, the U.S. had two major political parties--the Federalist party that was a proponent of a strong central government--and the Democratic-Republican party (also called the Anti-Federalist Party) that supported strong state governments. The Democratic-Republican party eventually became known as the Democratic party. The Whig party developed in the 1830s in opposition to President Andrew Jackson and his policies. The Whig party eventually split apart, mainly over the issue of slavery. Proslavery Whigs rejoined the Democratic party and many antislavery Whigs formed a new party in 1854 called the Republican party. Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president.\nToday, the Democrats and Republicans remain the two leading parties in our country. However, there are other political parties such as the Independent Party, the Reform Party, the Libertarian Party, the Green Party, the Socialist Party, the Populist Party, and others.\nWhen you vote for a mayor, senator, a member of the House of Representatives, a judge, etc. you are voting directly for that person. However, when you vote for president, you are really voting for an elector who has pledged to represent that candidate. The electors chosen by each state are called the electoral college. They are a group of people who officially elect the president and vice president. Each state has as many votes in the electoral college as it has senators and members of the House of Representatives. For example, Utah has 2 senators and 3 members of the House of Representatives--so it has 5 electoral votes. Large states like California have more than 50 electoral votes. States small in population like Alaska only have 3 electoral votes. To be elected, a presidential candidate must put together enough states in the election to get a majority (more than half of the total) of the electoral college. Even though the American public knows the winner of the presidential election on the actual day of the election in November, that winner is not really yet official. The electoral college meets officially in December. Its votes are sealed and sent to the U.S. Senate. When the Congress meets in January, the current vice president of the United States unseals the envelope and announces the results to the Senate. This is the official moment at which the president and vice president are really elected.\nSample some of the following activities to learn more about the electoral process.\nPlaces To Go People To See Things To Do Teacher Resources Bibliography\nThe following are places to go (some real and some virtual) to find out about the electoral process.\nVisit Democratic headquarters and find out about their candidates, their voter outreach, and the latest Democratic news.\nElections Around the World\nTravel around the globe and find up-to-date election information for worldwide countries.\nVisit the Republican National Committee headquarters and find out about their platform, their party history, and their elected officials.\nPeople To See\nDemocratic National Leader\nDemocrats.org is the official web site for House Democratic Leader.\nElmo Burns Roper, Jr.\nElmo Burns Roper, Jr. was one of the early developers of public opinion polls. One of his biggest mistakes was his forecast that New York Governor Thomas Dewey would defeat Harry Truman for president in the 1948 election.\nThis site is a source for information about the President, White House news and policies, White House history, and the federal government.\nThis site offers unbiased political information on current elected officials as well as candidates in upcoming elections.\nRepublican National Chair\nMeet the Republican National Chair. Find all the information involving the Republican National Committee (RNC). Learn about the latest news about the GOP.\nThomas Alva Edison\nIn 1868, Thomas Edison invented the first machine that recorded votes. He tried to sell his machine to the U.S. Congress for when they voted on bills and resolutions. It would have speeded up the process of voting out loud. But the lawmakers rejected it because it was too fast!\nBull Moose Party\nThis party came about after the Republican nomination of William Howard Taft in the 1912 election. Some Republicans who felt that Taft was too conservative formed a new party called the Progressive party and nominated former president Theodore Roosevelt as their candidate. When Roosevelt said that he was as strong as a bull moose, the party became known as the Bull Moose party.\nCampaign & Elections\nCampaigns & Elections magazine educates, informs, entertains and connects all those who touch politics, from high-profile players to political junkies and casual observers. The magazine is published twelve times per year by Political World Communications, LLC.\nThe Center for Voting and Democracy\nFind out how redistricting can affect election results.\nCNN AllPolitics\nFind current political news.\nSuggest topics for the presidential and vice-presidential debates.\nLearn about the origins of the Democratic party. It was originally called the Democratic-Republican party or Anti-Federalist party. The Anti-Federalist party favored a weaker central government and strong state governments. It was allied with small farmers rather than business people. Thomas Jefferson was a member of the Anti-Federalist party. Are the original tenents of this party still at the core of the Democratic party today?\nFind out the history of the electoral college and how it works. In order to be elected, the person running for president must have a majority of the votes of the electoral college. If no candidate receives a majority of the Electoral College votes, the president is then chosen directly by the House of Representatives. If this happens, each state gets just one vote.\nHave students find out what the duties of this commission are. What is their role in campaign financing and expenditures?\nFederalist Party\nLearn about the Federalist party, the first major political party in the United States. At its core was a belief in a strong central government. It was an advocate for many merchants, bankers, and business people. John Adams and Alexander Hamilton were Federalists.\nInaugural Quiz\nTake this interesting 10-question quiz about the inauguration of presidents. When was the first televised inauguration?\nFind teacher's guides and student activities. The goal of this site is to educate and involve youth in the election process today.\nLeague of Women Voters: Making Democracy Work\nUse this resource to find voter and candidate information.\nLibrary of Congress: Elections in American Memory\nLearn about the American system of elections.\nMechanical Lever Machines\nCheck out voting machines. Today, most votes are cast electronlically. But for many years mechanical voting machines were used. The first voting maching was used in an election in Lockport, New York in 1892. The United States was the first country to use voting machines.\nYouth Voting Initiative\nInform students about the election process and citizenship responsibilities.\nPolitical Memoribilia\nCheck out all the doodads that go with political conventions and elections--buttons, pins, watch fobs, ribbons, etc.\nLearn how this party got its start. It had its roots in the opposition to slavery. The first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln.\nSpeak your mind, participate, raise your voice, volunteer.\nVoteUtah\nDiscover non-partisan voter resources, an in-depth examination of Utah's candidates, information about election issues and proposed initiatives, and more at this website specifically designed for Utah voters.\nThe Whig Party\nFind out why this political party was called the Whigs. When Andrew Jackson, a member of the Democratic party, became president in 1828, he made many enemies during his eight years in the White House. Opponents to President Jackson developed the Whig party which opposed the ideas of a pwerful presidency. Instead, they wanted Congress to be the strongest branch of government.\nLesson Plans\/Webquests\nBeing President Webquest\nC-Span Classroom Deliberations\nEducation World Election, Primaries, Voting Lesson Plans and Activities\nElection Lessons\nThe Elections and Citizenship: Your Complete Guide\nEdutopia: Election 2016 Lesson Plans\niCivics: The Electoral Process\niCivics: Mock Election\nGutman, Dan. Landslide!: A Kid's Guide to the U.S. Elections. New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, c2000.\nHenry, Christopher E. The Electoral College. New York: Franklin Watts, c1996.\nIsrael, Fred L. Student's Atlas of American Presidential Elections, 1789-1996. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, c1997.\nPlissner, Martin. The Control Room: How Television Calls the Shots in Presidential Elections.New York: Free Press, c1999.\nScher, Linda. The Vote: Making Your Voice Heard. Austin, Tex.: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, c1993.\nSobel, Syl. Presidential Elections: And Other Cool Facts. Hauppauge, N.Y.: Barron's Educational Series, c2000.\nWayne, Stephen J. The Road to the White House, 2000: The Politics of Presidential Elections. New York: Bedford\/St. Martin's, c2000.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"CARROL STOCKYL\nCarrol Dean Stockl, age 80, of Sandwich, passed away quietly into the arms of her Savior, Thursday, December 16, 2021.\nShe was born March 23, 1941, in Brosley, MO, to loving parents, Arvel and Lossie (Taylor) Weathers.\nCarrol grew up in Brosley and attended nearby Fisk schools.\nWhen she was only 17 years old, Carrol came to IL to help her sister-in-law with a new addition to the family and ended up staying. She found not only work at Burgess Norton in Geneva, but a future husband as well. Frank Stockl caught her eye and stole her heart. He eventually led her down the aisle in June of 1970. They began their new life together in Elburn while building a house in Virgil. They moved shortly after its completion and spent the next 11 years filling it with love and laughter. Frank was called home to his Lord in 1981, and although she continued to make memories in their home, Carrol made her way to St. Charles. In 1995, she made the move to Sandwich until recent years.\nCarrol loved to fish, especially at her favorite place in Chetek, WI, in which the number of fish and the number of stories competed on every trip. When the snow fell, you could find Carrol riding like the wind on her snowmobile make memories as fast as she was making tracks. At home, Carrol felt most at home in her garden where tomatoes, cucumbers, green beans and host of other vegetables came in with every harvest. You could help her with her garden if you liked, but nobody messed with Carrol when it came to mowing her yard. The lines she made with her push mower were always straight as an arrow and with the grass no more than 2 inches tall. Though she never had any children of her own, her nieces and nephews (not to mention her great-nieces and nephews) were the light of her life.\nShe is survived by her sister, Faye \"Sandy\" (Don) Bass; many nieces, nephews, cousins and a family of friends.\nShe is preceded in death by her parents, Arvel and Lossie Weathers, her loving husband Frank; three brothers: Bud, James and Bill Weathers and one sister, Imogene Norden.\nVisitation will be from 1:30-2 p.m., Thursday, December 23, 2021, at Conley Funeral Home, 116 W. Pierce St., Elburn, IL 60119. A funeral to celebrate her life will follow at 2 p.m. with interment at River Hills Memorial Park, Batavia.\nIn lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Alzheimer's Association at https:\/\/act.alz.org. Memories and tributes may be left on the Conley Funeral Home Facebook Page, or at www.conleycare.com.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"5:13AM ( 9 hours ago ) Weather Alert\nPosted 3:20PM on Saturday 12th December 2020 ( 1 month ago )\nVerstappen takes stunning pole position for Abu Dhabi GP\nRed Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands ireacts after qualifying at the Formula One Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2020. (AP Photo\/Kamran Jebreili, Pool)\nDarlington moving NASCAR throwback to Mother's DayBottas leads 2nd practice while Raikkonen puts out flamesMontoya to return to Indy 500 in 3rd Arrow McLaren entryFall Legends Series concludes on AMS Thunder Ring\nYAS ISLAND, Abu Dhabi (AP) \u2014 Red Bull driver Max Verstappen produced a stunning last lap and beat both Mercedes cars to take pole position on Saturday for the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.\nHe was .025 seconds ahead of Valtteri Bottas and .086 clear of world champion Lewis Hamilton for his first pole of the season and third of his career.\n\"Mega, mega lap!\" Red Bull team principal Christian Horner yelled over the radio when Verstappen crossed the line under floodlights at the Yas Marina circuit.\n\"It's a long season for everyone and this was a great final qualifying for the whole team,\" Verstappen said. \"We are all very happy and it's great to finally get there after being close many times in 2020.\"\nBottas led Verstappen and Hamilton after their first attempts in Q3, the final section of qualifying, and Hamilton then appeared on course for a record-extending 99th career pole as he led the split times on their second and final attempts.\nBut Verstappen showed why he is touted as a future world champion, while Bottas found some extra speed to score a rare victory over his illustrious teammate.\n\"Very happy with that. It was a tricky qualifying at the beginning to get laps in. In the last sector there are so many corners you can make a mistake,\" Verstappen said. \"Luckily everything came together in that final lap.\"\nHamilton, who has an F1 record 95 wins, was quick to praise Verstappen, who will aim for his second win of the season on Sunday and 10th overall.\n\"I gave it my all, congrats to Max. It is a great way for him to seal a year of great performance. We will give them a good run for their money tomorrow,\" Hamilton said. \"It is always nice to start first but this makes it even more exiting. I am definitely excited to see how I can turn it around.\"\nHamilton went well wide in Q1 and went over the curb, while Verstappen complained over the radio that his hand had got stuck inside the cockpit.\nHamilton fared better in Q2, topping the charts. But Sebastian Vettel's final qualifying session for Ferrari saw him among the five drivers eliminated from it, along with Renault drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Esteban Ocon.\n\"We don't really know why we struggled, it was a surprise for sure,\" said Ricciardo, who has two podium finishes this season. \"There is frustration that we could not do any better.\"\nRacing Point driver Sergio Perez starts what could be his last F1 race from a lowly 15th.\nThe popular Mexican driver won last Sunday's dramatic Sakhir GP in Bahrain for the first win of his career and 10th podium finish. But he does not have a seat for next year after being replaced by Vettel, when Racing Point is renamed Aston Martin following a takeover.\nEarlier, Verstappen was fastest ahead of teammate Alexander Albon in the third and final practice. He led Albon and Ricciardo, who is competing in his last race for Renault before joining McLaren next year.\nHamilton has won 11 races this year but missed last Sunday's Sakhir GP in Bahrain as he recovered from the coronavirus. This denied the seven-time F1 champion the opportunity to equal Vettel's single-season record of 13 wins, set with Red Bull in 2013.\nSpeaking after qualifying, Hamilton said he is still feeling side effects, including lower energy levels than before.\n\"I still have some feelings in my lungs, but I would drive if one of my arms were hanging off. That's what we do as racing drivers. It won't be the easiest race but I will manage,\" he said. \"One of the symptoms is it really drains you. I have been trying to sleep as much as I can, but recharging is not as easy as it has been in the past.\"\nHe has also lost weight.\n\"I am not 100% the same as I was last time I raced,\" he said. \"But it is in no way going to get in the way of me giving it my all.\"\nAssociated Categories: NASCAR News, Other Motorsports\nAssociated Tags: motorsports, Open Wheel, Auto Racing, Asphalt, road course, F1, Formula One\nRed Bull driver Max Verstappen produced a stunning last lap and beat both Mercedes cars to take pole position on Saturday for the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.\nDarlington moving NASCAR throwback to Mother's Day\nNASCAR's popular throwback weekend celebration at Darlington Raceway is moving from Labor Day weekend to Mother's Day.\nWhile Valtteri Bottas enjoyed the fastest time in the second practice for the Formula One season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Friday, the ice-cool Kimi Raikkonen was busy putting out flames.\nMontoya to return to Indy 500 in 3rd Arrow McLaren entry\nFall Legends Series concludes on AMS Thunder Ring\nNASCAR moves Fontana races to Daytona road course\nChandler Smith to run full NASCAR Truck schedule for KBM\nPODCAST: Hard Left Turn - Off-season news, notes and more\nTy Majeski finally captures Snowball Derby win at 5 Flags\nPerez stays calm to win chaotic Sakhir GP for 1st F1 win\nJohnson wins Snowflake 100 after Nasse is penalized\nElliott makes Snowball Derby with Last Chance Race win\nA man on fire, Chase Elliott would not be denied another shot at immortality. Elliott, two-time Snowball Derby champion and the reigning NASCAR Cup Series champ, was dominant...\n12:52AM ( 6 days ago )\nBottas takes pole position for Sakhir GP ahead of Russell\nMercedes driver Valtteri Bottas took pole position ahead of temporary teammate George Russell for the Sakhir Grand Prix on Saturday.\n3:42PM ( 6 days ago )\nThorn scores Snowball pole, Elliott to Last Chance Race\nAs always, qualifying for the 53rd annual Snowball Derby was a sweat. The most anxious 90 minutes of Derby week isn't always the 300-lap race, but qualifying night at Five Flags Speedway...\n2:04AM ( 1 week ago )\nJohnson part of all-star Action Express lineup for Rolex 24\nReplacement driver fastest in practices for Sakhir GP\nGrant Thompson takes Pro Truck Snowball win at 5 Flags\nRussell gets chance to shine for Mercedes at Sakhir GP\nMagnussen to race American sports cars for Ganassi in 2021\nGanassi excited to Rejoin IMSA in 2021 with Cadillac DPi\nARCA Series 2021 schedule features 20 races at 19 tracks\nBy Jerome Pugmire - AP Sports Writer\nTwo-time Indianapolis 500 winner Juan Pablo Montoya will return to the iconic event next year driving for Arrow McLaren SP. Montoya last raced the Indy 500 in 2017.\nLegends and Bandolero racers squared off on Atlanta Motor Speedway's Thunder Ring for the final time in 2020 on Saturday, as the Fall Five series wrapped up for the season.\nBy Dustin Bixby\n12:00PM ( 3 days ago )\nThe NASCAR race weekend slated for Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California on February 27-28 has been moved to Daytona International Speedway's infield road course.\nBy NASCAR Media","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Subscribe to HRSA's Posts\nBy Jacob Mattinson, Teal Trujillo and Judith Wethall on Jan 14, 2022\nPosted In Employee Benefits, Employment, Health and Welfare Plans\nIn response to a directive from the White House, based on provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act that eliminated cost sharing for COVID-19 diagnostic testing, three federal government departments\u2014the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the US Department of Labor (Labor) and the US Department of the Treasury (Treasury)\u2014issued guidance in the form of frequently asked questions (FAQs) that states group health plans and insurers must also cover over-the-counter (OTC) COVID-19 diagnostic testing. This guidance is effective beginning January 15, 2022.\nIn addition, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) updated the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) comprehensive preventive care and screening guidelines for women and children to cover additional services and supplies without a copay or deductible, effective 2023.\nCOVID-19 AT-HOME TESTING COVERAGE\nOn January 10, 2022, HHS, Labor and the Treasury together issued FAQs that elaborated on prior guidance and indicated that group health plans and insurers are required to cover OTC COVID-19 diagnostic tests without cost sharing. Because of the recent spike in COVID-19 cases resulting from the rapid spread of the Omicron variant, the guidance will continue for the duration of the public emergency.\nMost consumers with private health coverage will be able to buy OTC COVID-19 tests and either have the cost covered upfront or be reimbursed later by submitting a claim to their health plan. The new requirement only applies to \"diagnostic\" OTC COVID-19 testing. It does not include the treatment of COVID-19 or testing that is for employment purposes.\nThe guidance provides that health plans and insurers must cover at least eight OTC COVID-19 diagnostic tests per covered individual per a 30-day period. Insurers will be able to set up networks of preferred suppliers to provide OTC COVID-19 tests directly to participants without upfront costs. Insurers must still reimburse OTC COVID-19 tests purchased outside the direct coverage program, however, the reimbursable amount is limited to $12 per test if the health plan also provides tests through its preferred pharmacy network and through a direct-to-consumer shipping program without upfront costs.\nBesides the risk of increasing the average cost of OTC COVID-19 tests, the new initiative raises concerns over fraud and abuse. For health plans and insurers to protect themselves, the FAQs provide several examples of permissible activities to prevent fraud and abuse, like requiring proof of purchase or an attestation that the test was purchased for proper purposes (i.e., is being used by the covered individual, is not being reimbursed by another source, is not being resold and is not for employment purposes).\nHRSA UPDATES ACA PREVENTIVE HEALTHCARE GUIDELINES\nOn January 11, 2022, HRSA announced that it updated the preventive health and screening guidelines for women, infants, children and adolescents. Under the ACA, certain group health plans and insurers must provide coverage with no out-of-pocket costs for preventive health services within these HRSA-endorsed comprehensive guidelines.\nHRSA accepted the updates recommended by the Women's Preventative [...]\nBy McDermott Will & Emery on Nov 5, 2015\nOn October 23, 2015, the U.S. Departments of Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS) and Treasury issued frequently asked questions (FAQs) on the implementation of preventive care and wellness provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and mental health parity disclosure, adding to the existing list of 28 previous editions of FAQs on the implementation of ACA.\nNew Guidelines Issued on Preventive Services for Women, Including Religious Employer Exception\nBy McDermott Will & Emery on Aug 2, 2011\nPosted In Benefit Controversies, Health and Welfare Plans\nby Amy M. Gordon, Susan M. Nash and Jamie A. Weyeneth\nThe U.S. Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services recently released joint guidance regarding mandatory coverage of contraceptive services for women under the preventive services requirements of health care reform. The new guidance coincides with the issuance of expanded preventive care coverage requirements for women released by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).\nHealth care reform requires non-grandfathered group health plans and health insurance issuers to provide first-dollar coverage of certain preventive services furnished by in-network providers. The preventive services coverage requirements are based on recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and HRSA. In addition, HRSA was charged with developing additional preventive care and screening guidelines for women. HRSA commissioned the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to help to identify gaps in preventive care services already required under health care reform.\nWhen the IOM released its recommendations in mid-July 2011, concerns about the inclusion of contraceptive services were raised by religious organizations. The regulators determined it would be appropriate to take into account the religious beliefs of religious employers and issued guidance providing for limited religious accommodation. Specifically, the interim final regulations on mandatory preventive care were revised to permit HRSA to create an exception for group health plans established or maintained by religious employers with respect to any requirement to cover contraceptive services. A religious employer is one that has the inculcation of religious values as its purpose; primarily employs persons who share its religious tenets; primarily serves persons who share its religious tenets; and is a nonprofit organization under Section 6033(a)(1) and Section 6033(a)(3)(A)(i) or (iii) of the Internal Revenue Code. The regulators noted this approach is consistent with most states that require coverage of contraceptive services under state insurance laws. The final guidelines released by HRSA on August 1, 2011, include this exception for religious employers.\nClick here to view the new women's preventive services guidelines issued by HRSA. Recommended preventive services issued after September 23, 2009, are effective as of the first day of the first plan year\/policy year beginning on or after the one-year anniversary of the date the recommendation is issued. Therefore, these new guidelines (including the religious employer exception) will apply for plan years\/policy years beginning on or after August 1, 2012.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"ITME - Marine Habitats of Dominica Version 2008\nOligospecific Coral Assemblages\nThe branching coral Madracis mirabilis occasionally forms large thickets. These assemblages can be well over 500m2. The architecture of these branching corals leads to sediment falling out between their branches. Any structure in the path of water flow will slow down the water flow, thus increased the amount of sediment trapped between the branches. Over time, this process starts burring the corals. These in turn keep growing and as long as the growth rate outruns the sedimentation rate the reef continues to grow.\nAlthough dominated by M. mirabilis, Porites porites is another common branching species interspersed in these ologi-specific aggregations. The largest and most impressive ones run perpendicular to the shoreline near Mero where individual ridges reach dimensions of up to 1000 m2. The local dive site where these reefs are found is called Maggie's Point. Smaller formations are found throughout the west coast where reef accretion has take place. At Cachacrou (Scott's Head) only a few remnants of large formations of this kind are alive, due to the heavy use of this reef. In 2007 our survey team also identified small patches of up to approx. 25m2 in the southern region of Dominica near Fond Saint Jean.\nThe 2005 bleaching episode severely affected the abundance of P. porites, which in 2006 had virtually disappeared from many sites. This was also very evident in the M. mirabilis assemblages, previously containing substantial amounts of P. porites.\nSCCS1107\nM.mirabilis assemblages\nCLICK HERE FOR DISTRIBUTION MAP\nINDEX | INTRODUCTION |REGIONS | HABITATS | SPECIES | STATUS | CONTRIBUTORS | REPORTS\nITME Inc. \u00a9 2007 - 2022\nInstitute for Tropical Marine Ecology ITME Inc., P.O. Box 36, Roseau, Commonwealth of Dominica.\nITME is a not-for-profit institution for environmental education and research.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Powerful Chile Earthquake \"Not The Big One\"\nAn enormous 8.2-magnitude earthquake struck Chile on Tuesday evening, creating landslides and cutting off power to thousands, with a possible tsunami to follow.\nThe earthquake was so powerful it was felt 300 miles away from its center in Bolivia's capital, CBS News' Vicente Arenas reports.\nThe quake hit at 8:46 pm, local time, and was located about 60 miles northwest of the town of Iquique.\nThere were five deaths directly related to the quake, four men and one woman \u2013 three were crushed, and two died from heart attacks, said Interior Minister Rodrigo Penailillo.\nDue to the threats of a tsunami, thousands were evacuated from low-lying areas, but most began to return home as the Chilean tsunami alerts were lifted.\nAbout 300 inmates escaped from a women's prison in the city of Iquique, forcing the closure of the border with Peru, Penailillo said.\nChile previously experienced an 8.8-magnitude earthquake on February 27, 2010, when nearly 500 people were killed, which had residents on edge.\n\"Many people are fearful after experiencing the powerful earthquake in 2010, so they immediately fled for higher ground when they heard the tsunami warning,\" said Fabrizio Guzman, World Vision emergency communications manager in Chile.\n\"There have been multiple aftershocks and communications have been cut off in many of the affected areas. So people are waiting in the dark hills not knowing what is to come, and hoping they will be able to return to their homes safely.\"\nThe Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued many tsunami warnings, but they were all canceled by early Wednesday.\nThe town of Iquique, with a population of more than 200,000, did see 7-foot waves.\n\"The fact is, we will know the extent of the damage as time goes by and when we inspect the areas in the light of day,\" Chile's President Michelle Bachelet said early Wednesday. \"The country has faced these first emergency hours very well.\"\nWhat is most frightening is that Caltech has warned this isn't the big one expected in Chile.\n\"This magnitude 8.2 is not the large earthquake that we were expecting in this area,\" said Mark Simons, a geophysicist at Caltech in Pasadena, California. \"We're expecting a potentially even larger earthquake.\"\nIt is expected, but it could be tomorrow or in the distant future. \"We do not know when it's going to occur,\" he said.\nChile sits on an arc of volcanoes and fault lines circling the Pacific Ocean known as the \"Ring of Fire.\" This area sees frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, however, there is an area that hasn't been active lately and is expected to release some steam in the near future, explained Simons.\nThe area to the north and south of Tuesday's quake \"did not rupture in this event,\" Simons said. And it's \"still an area that hasn't ruptured in 140-odd years.\"\nGiven that it's an area of frequent quakes, and frequent ruptures, it may only be a matter of time.\n\"We expect another 8.8-8.9 earthquake here sometime in the future,\" Simons said.\nThe U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center scrambled on Tuesday trying to determine the level of danger for the west coast so that early warnings could be issued, those areas possibly affected were: Alaska, Washington, Oregon and California, as well as Canada's British Columbia.\nThe Pacific Tsunami Warning Center's spokesman Gerard Fryer told CNN there is \"clearly not going to be any hazards to the coastline of North America.\"\nThe Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did issue a tsunami warning for Hawaii, saying strong currents may pose a hazard to swimmers and boaters.\nTags Chile big one chile earthquake Chile ring of fire chilean tsunami\nWiz Khalifa Talks Being Weed Pals With Miley Cyrus\nSev Zero Is The First Exclusive Amazon Fire TV Game\nApple Analyst: I'm Positive About Foldable iPad in 2024 January 30, 2023","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Lim Chong BoonProbate Lawyer\nDivorce Lawyer Singapore\nCommon Divorce Questions\nWhat are the requirements for divorce?\nIn order to get a divorce, the applicant must satisfy 3 requirements.\nThe first requirement to be fulfilled is to have been married for at least 3 years, unless it can be proven that the applicant has suffered exceptional hardship, or the applicant's spouse has been exceptionally unreasonable and cruel. In this regard, while there is no clear legal definition for these extreme circumstances, examples may include:\n1. Extreme cases of mental or physical abuse;\n2. Exceptionally severe mental distress;\n3. Homosexuality;\n4. Extremely cruel adultery; and\n5. Pregnancy caused by adultery.\n.The second requirement is for either party to (1) be a Singapore Citizen or Permanent Resident (PR), (2) have been domiciled in Singapore at the beginning of the divorce process, or (3) have lived in Singapore for the 3 years immediately preceding the divorce application.\nThe third requirement is to have an \"irretrievable breakdown\" of the marriage. This will be covered in the section below.\nWhat are the grounds for divorce?\nThere is only 1 ground for divorce, which is to prove \"irretrievable breakdown\" of the marriage. However, establishing \"irretrievable breakdown\" requires the applicant to prove one of the following 5 scenarios:\n1. Adultery;\n2. Unreasonable behaviour;\n3. Desertion for 2 years;\n4. Separation for 3 years (with consent to live apart); and\n5. Separation for 4 years (without consent to live apart).\nThese shall now be covered in turn.\nA. Adultery\nAdultery will require proven consensual sexual intercourse between the applicant's spouse and the third party, who must be named in the proceedings. Behaviour falling short of sexual intercourse will not suffice, no matter how intimate. In addition, the applicant must find it intolerable to live with his or her spouse. If the applicant continues to live with his or her spouse for more than 6 months after finding out about the adultery, he\/she will not be able to rely on the adultery.\nB. Unreasonable behaviour\nThis is the reason most commonly cited for causing \"irretrievable breakdown\" of a marriage. In this case, the applicant must find it intolerable to live with his or her spouse due to the cumulative effect of the spouse's behaviour. From the reasons provided, the Court will then decide whether the applicant can be reasonably expected to live with his or her spouse, considering factors such as both parties' personalities.\nC. Desertion for 2 years\nTo prove desertion, the deserting spouse must have decided to walk away from the marriage without providing reasonable justifications. Under desertion, no consent would have been given by the deserted spouse.\nD. Separation for 3 years (with consent to live apart)\nIf the parties have continuously lived apart for 3 years prior to the commencement of the divorce process with consent, they will be allowed to divorce. In this regard, separation does not require parties to live in different places or to not be in close physical proximity with each other. As long as the parties live separate lives without interacting with each other as husband and wife, that is enough to show separation.\nE. Separation for 4 years (without consent to live apart)\nAlternatively, if parties have continuously lived apart for 4 years prior to the commencement of the divorce process, no consent is required.\nWhat is a \"simplified\" or \"uncontested divorce\"?\nA \"simplified\" or \"uncontested divorce\" is one where both parties agree to a divorce and all ancillary issues. Main areas for agreement to be reached include the reason for divorce, the party who will obtain care and control of the children, how the assets are to be divided, and what would be a reasonable amount of maintenance.\nUnder a \"simplified\" or \"uncontested\" divorce, interim judgment will be issued after 4 weeks, before final judgment is given 3 months from the date of obtaining the interim judgment.\nCan I get a divorce if my spouse cannot be found?\nA divorce can still occur when a spouse cannot be found, although it must then be shown that the applicant has used all reasonable means to contact or locate his\/her missing spouse.\nThe applicant may submit documents for a dispensation of service, which must include proof of the applicant's attempts to locate his\/her missing spouse. Examples of such attempts include contacting his\/her spouse's known family members and friends, as well as searching for his\/her spouse at alternate addresses or known locations.\nIf a dispensation of service is granted, procedural requirements will be waived.\nAlternatively, if it can be proven that the applicant was deserted by his\/her spouse with the intention to do so and this was against the applicant's will, the divorce may proceed based on desertion.\nCan I get a divorce if my spouse refuses a divorce?\nEven if one's spouse is not agreeable to the divorce, one may still proceed to file for divorce, although this will be considered a contested divorce. Regardless of your spouse's decision, the Court still possesses the authority to decide.\nHowever, the downside to having a contested divorce is that it is often more time-consuming and expensive for both parties. As such, parties should strive to come to an agreement with each other on the outstanding issues.\nWhat is adultery?\nWithin a legal context, adultery has a very narrow meaning. In essence, it refers to having consensual sexual intercourse with someone outside of your marriage.\nAs mentioned above, adultery will require proven consensual sexual intercourse between the applicant's spouse and the third party, who must be named in the proceedings. Behaviour falling short of sexual intercourse will not suffice, no matter how intimate.\nIn addition, the applicant must find it intolerable to live with his\/her spouse. If the applicant continues to live with his\/her spouse for more than 6 months after finding out about the adultery, he\/she will not be able to rely on the adultery.\nDoes adultery or unreasonable behaviour affect the court's decision in deciding division of assets or children custody?\nNo, adultery and\/or unreasonable behaviour do not affect the division of assets or custody of children. Adultery and\/or unreasonable behaviour are merely factors that the Court will consider when deciding whether to grant the divorce, and is separate from the later decision pertaining to these ancillary matters.\nWhen deciding on issues such as division of assets, the Court will look at the respective parties' contributions to the marriage. For short marriages, direct financial contributions will be more important in deciding how the assets will be split, while in long single-income marriages, the trend is towards an equal share for both parties.\nAs for custody of the children, the Court will treat the welfare of the child as paramount. In Singapore, it is common for joint custody to be granted so as to include both parents in the decision-making process for the child, while care and control will be given to the parent that the Court deems most fit to carry out the duty.\nHow long is the divorce process?\nThe length of divorce proceedings will depend on whether parties are going for an uncontested or contested divorce.\nFor an uncontested divorce where parties agree about the reasons behind the divorce as well as how to settle the outstanding ancillary matters, interim judgment will take about 1 month to obtain, before final judgment will be received 3 months from the date of the interim judgment.\nFor a contested divorce, the length of proceedings will largely depend on the complexity of the case. Most cases will take between 6 months to 1 year to complete, while certain contentious cases may last more than a year.\nAbout PKWA Law Practice\nAt PKWA, our team of dedicated family lawyers will strive to deliver premium service at readily affordable prices. We fully understand that our clients are going through difficult times, and we promise to not only treat every client with the care and respect that he or she deserves, but also do our utmost best to deliver results that are closely tailored to each client's needs.\nOur guiding principles have led to us being consistently named as leading Singapore family lawyers by renowned independent legal publications such as Asian Legal Business, Singapore Business Review, Global Law Experts, and Doyle's Guide to Singapore Family Lawyers.\nIf you need us, we are here to help.\nContact us at +65 6854 5336 for a free first consultation.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Did Edison refuse to pay Tesla, saying \"You don't understand our American humor\"?\nThe story that Edison scammed Tesla out of his payment for services he was hired for is widely spread on the Internet. The story was featured on this The Oatmeal webcomic, which is excerpted below:\nThe Wikipedia citations cannot easily be checked (since they are all in hard copy books).\nHowever, I managed to access one of the citations (Tesla: Man Out of Time) via its Google Books preview. It also makes a far weaker version of the claim, since it also quotes Edison's supporters denying that he had made that statement, instead saying that the payment was in exchange for purchasing one of Tesla's patents. The citation given (Citation 10) was inaccessible through the Google Books preview.\nThis unsourced Reddit comment also asserts that he could not find citations that Edison actually scammed Tesla while making that quote.\nThere is no mention of Edison uttering 'you dont understand american humor', or at least I cant find any. It should be important to note that Edison, while being an inventor, ran a business. Most of his actions (that have polarized views right now) as a result, need to take this into account.\nA later comment in the same thread claims that it was not Edison, but a manager at the company who made that statement.\nAgain, this ascription was never made by Tesla himself in any recorded medium. He names only \"The Manager,\" whom people took to be Edison. But Edison wasn't the manager; as I point out every time this comes up, Samuel Insull was in fact though Charles Batchelor had the title. Insull really, really disliked Tesla, and such a thing was within his personality; Edison expressed no such animus.\nDid Edison refuse to pay Tesla, and did he make that statement (or any other similar comments)?\nquotes thomas-edison\nAndrew Grimm\nMarch HoMarch Ho\nDownvote because of Comic Sans.\n\u2013 Martin Schr\u00f6der\n@MartinSchr\u00f6der As someone who greatly dislikes misused Comic Sans, 1: the font used is obviously not Comic Sans, and 2: even if it were, it is being used in an appropriate context.\n\u2013 March Ho\nThe question currently doesn't have any downvotes - maybe Martin was joking, unless he downvoted and then retracted.\nThe source of the quote is John J. O'Neill's Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla (1944). The story essentially claims what The Oatmeal says: that Tesla went so far as to see machines built with his improved parts before Edison denied him his money.\nThere, I am afraid, the trail ends. O'Neill was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, but he did not explain where he heard this particular quote.\nThis is what Tesla himself had to say:\nFor nearly a year my regular hours were from 10:30 a.m. until 5:00 a.m. the next morning without a day's exception. Edison said to me, \"I have had many hard-working assistants but you take the cake.\" During this period I designed twenty-four different types of standard machines with short cores and of uniform pattern which replaced the old ones. The Manager had promised me $50,000 on the completion of this task but it turned out to be a practical joke. This gave me a painful shock and I resigned my position.\nThe footnoted counterpoint that you offer in the question is apparently dubious. (see following source) But it should be noted as well that there is evidence Tesla was embellishing his own autobiography. He worked for Edison for six months, which is not \"nearly a year,\" and the direct cause for Tesla's resignation was not this incident but rather when Edison tabled another invention of his, in favor of making a mutually beneficial business deal with another company instead. (source and details)\nSo this boils down to precisely what Reddit says it does. It's Tesla's word against the word of Edison's supporters, and O'Neill's biography is responsible for making Edison himself the villain. We can no longer know today what actually happened between Tesla and \"the manager\" or who \"the manager\" really was.\nI think it is plausible to say that O'Neill took Tesla's story and misread it in a way beneficial to imagining Tesla and Edison as direct rivals. Samuel Insull is a likely better candidate for the manager.\nAveryAvery\nInteresting! Of course converting the claimed working hours into regular working weeks (of the time) we would get much closer to 'nearly a year'.\n\u2013 TaW\n+1, but the last paragraph seems a bit dubious \u2014 \"In the 1940s it was entirely common to embellish on stories you read elsewhere, even when writing non-fiction biographies.\" Really? My impression is that standards of scholarship in popular non-fiction then were much like today: some authors were careful, many others were sloppy or sensationalist. Is what you write based on anything more specific, or similarly just a general individual impression?\n\u2013 PLL\nI deleted that aside since you did get 2 upvotes, but it is my individual impression that this sort of thing was more acceptable in that time period.\n\u2013 Avery\nNot the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged quotes thomas-edison .\nDid Thomas Edison steal inventions?\nDid Einstein say \"if you can't explain it simply you don't understand it well enough\"?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Internal Affairs Policies in New Jersey\nInternal affairs policies and procedures in New Jersey are policies which assist the state law enforcement agencies to investigate, receive and resolve all complains from citizen in regards to the police misconduct. This policy is intended to improve the services offered by the police service to the Ney Jersey citizens. These policies and procedures were published in\n1991 and updated in 1992.This section of the internal affairs in New Jersey has become a very sensitive area that is under the watchful eyes of the media, courts and the residents in\nNew Jersey. These policies and procedures have been adopted in the courts particularly in the federal courts in New Jersey. The statute states that ''every law enforcement agency shall adopt and implement guidelines which shall be consistent with the guidelines governing the internal affairs policies and procedures of the police management manual promulgated by the police bureau of the division of criminal justice in the department of law and public safety, and shall be consistent with tenure or civil service law, and shall not supersede any excising contractual agreement.''\nPolicies and Procedures in Ney Jersey\nThe policies and procedures in New Jersey are designed to assist and help the police and the other law enforcement agencies through the necessary steps in their efforts to work with the laws and functions that govern the internal affairs in New Jersey. These policies and procedures are very essential in New Jersey and require that all the counties and law enforcement agencies recognize that as they conduct investigations in the internal affairs of New Jersey, they are under the supervision of the Attorney General in New Jersey. (Walker, 2005)\nAccording to N.J.S.A 52: 17B- 98, the Attorney general is the overall supervisor and is responsible for the supervision of the state laws enforcement agencies. The police from the county and municipals have a responsibility to cooperate with the Attorney general's office in order to adhere to the policies and procedures. County and municipal law agencies must also follow the instructions given by the prosecutor on the critical points in the investigation process. These policies many laws and mandates which at the direction of the Attorney General, are implemented by the law enforcement agencies. However, these laws can only be implemented on a decision by a particular law enforcement agency. The decisions by these agencies are based on the characteristics of the jurisdiction of those specific law enforcement agencies. This simply means that every agency has its own internal affairs function. (Kenneth, 2005)\nHiring requirements of Policies in New Jersey\nInternal affairs policies and procedure are determined by the Attorney General if they are critical in nature. In case they are critical, they are enforced by every law enforcement agency. The requirements of these policies and procedures are;-\nAll law enforcement agencies from all counties and municipalities must establish their own written policies in regards to the internal affairs function of the individual law enforcement agencies. This is because not all law enforcement agencies have the same internal affairs function. Note that the internal affairs function differ from county to county and from municipality to municipality.\nThe other policy requirement is that all enforcement agencies must accept without any complains the reports of any officer misconduct from any person form New Jersey without compromise and complains on the same.\nThe other requirement is that the prosecutor must be notified if the initial investigation indicates the slightest possibility of any criminal act on the part of the specific officer who is accused. It is important to note that at this point no action should be taken against the specific officer until directed otherwise by the prosecutor.\nThe prosecutor must always be updated on the different levels of investigations. The prosecutor must also be notified immediately excess force that leads to death or injury is used against a suspect of any citizen or resident in New Jersey.\nThe investigations on the specific officer, who is being accused, must be done thoroughly and completely.\nThe other requirement of these policies is that the officer and the officer in question must be notified of complains made against them or against one of them.\nThe other requirement is that the complainant must be notified of the outcome of the investigations. The complainant must also be updated on the progress of the investigations and not kept in the dark concerning the same.\nAn internal affairs record is very important. It must be kept by all law enforcement agencies. This is because the record system will help in the filing and record keeping of all documents and records in an organized manner.\nThese policy requirements represent a very important performance standard which should be implemented by municipal and counties law enforcement agencies in New Jersey. These requirements also ensure that the law enforcement officers will be accountable for all their actions to the agency, community and country at large. Therefore, every law enforcement agency should make the internal affairs function a priority if the policies are to be successful. If this system fails it will cost the law enforcement agencies, states criminal justice system their reputation, respect and support from the community. Many procedures are set forth in the policies. These procedures are aimed or intended for the implementation by the municipalities and the counties in New Jersey. (Mckinney, 2003)\nHiring requirements in Procedures in New Jersey\nAn informed decision can only be made after thorough investigations have been carried out. This will help to support and boost the credibility of the law enforcement agencies in the community and in New Jersey. The law procedures are used in the gathering of all the necessary information in regards to the case at hand. This is very important since it helps to create a clear way for the procedures to be followed. Inadmissible information can cause improper results in the investigations of the cases, it may also cause poor management of the case by the investigators thus tempering with the investigation and the results of the information. Failure to follow these procedures can result to gathering of inadmissible information. These lawful procedures require that; all complains should be investigated professional, objectively and completely. This will ensure that the information gathered will be of a proper disposition with no falsified information. This will also ensure that the information will be used in the court procedures against the misconduct of the law enforcement officer. The lawful procedures also require that the entire internal affairs investigator should only use lawful investigative techniques to question witnesses, inspect the public records, interview the officer in question and question any agency employee or any other witness. This is to ensure that the investigation process and management is put on check and is fairly and justly done.\nThese procedures recommend that any complainant ant the witness should be interviewed before the agency members are interviewed. This help in avoiding reputation of interviews with the witness and the agency member. It will also ensure a clean and transparent procedure by the law enforcement investigators. (Pierce, 2003)\nDuties and Responsibilities of the Internal Affairs Unit\nThe Internal Affairs unit is established and designed for receiving complains, carrying out investigations on complains and resolving complains of the officer's misconduct. The reason why the Internal Affairs unit carries out these duties and responsibility is to maintain the integrity of the department in question and the state criminal law as well. It is also to ensure that justice is done in fairness. The Internal affairs unit conducts the investigations on its members from allegations of misconduct made against them. However, the main question has always been if the investigations will be just and fair. This is in consideration of the fact that the Law enforcement agencies will be investigating one of their own. This has however been answered by the law enforcement agencies who suggest that the rules and regulations govern and ensure that the investigations are carried out in a just and fair process. The internal affairs unit also coordinates administrative investigations, which involves the non training of the discharge of firearms by the personnel and the use of excessive force or other misconducts by the law enforcement officers. This unit has a mandate and obligation to carry out investigations and review all allegations of misconduct by the employees. This is because such allegations are a serious violation of the rules put down by the agencies. The internal investigations could also be carried out by the internal affairs unit on their own initiative as permitted by the departments' policies and procedures. These investigations are as important as any other criminal investigations and must be deemed recognized as important by the involved parties. It is important to note that the law enforcement accused for the corruption complains canonly be charged after the investigations have been completed and it has been proven that the officer in question is guilty as charged. The members of the internal affairs unit must have the authority to question and interview every member of the agencies with no exclusions. The rank of the officer or law enforcement officer should not determine the level or the extent of the investigations to be carried out. They must also have the authority to independently review the records and the reports of the agency. It is important to note that the internal Affairs unit acts on behalf of the executive in all the investigations and affairs of the same. The professional commitment and the personal loyalties must be balanced appropriately by the internal affairs unit investigators. The investigations must be carried out in an open way. The investigations should be imposed for the sole reason of imposing discipline amongst the officers. (Rao, 2003)\nIt can also be carried out for initiating an investigation for ac criminal prosecution. In this regard the internal affairs unit investigator should be trained in all the areas of criminal law, in all the rules of evidence, in the use of technical equipments, court procedures and administrative procedures. The investigators must also be trained on disciplinary procedures among many other areas.\nWho do the Internal Affairs Unit Investigators work under?\nThe criminal justice act of 1970 designated the Attorney general as the enforcer officer of the state of the state law. This simply means that the Attorney general is responsible for the supervision of all the state laws including the law enforcement agencies. The county and municipal agencies report to the prosecutor and must inform the county prosecutors of any misconduct or any potential criminal conduct. All policy requirements which the Attorney General has determined to be critical are implemented by the law enforcement agencies.\nThe law enforcement executive must focus on the practices of the organization of policies. The executive is responsible for the defining of the objectives and goals of the internal agency units. The executive must also establish and monitor the performance of the internal unit agencies. This will allow for and effective and efficient system that will be fair and just. It will also help to clearly define the duties and responsibilities of the subordinates. However, these policies, rules and regulations must be workable and achievable. The executive must not define and establish goals and objectives that that are impossible to reach or achieve. This management system services as the foundational system for the internal affairs agencies. This is because it ensures that the system is designed in an organized manner and it ensures that the goals are set in a high standard which can allow the achievement of the same. Therefore, the management system should have rules and regulations. These rules and regulations help to govern the acceptable b behavior and conduct. It is important to note these rules and regulations are issued by or from the appropriate authorities and delegated or designated according the management system. (Rao, 2003) The procedures or the standard operating procedures are very essential and therefore should be incorporated in to the management system. These procedures provide guidance and direction to the different performing law enforcement agencies. The management system should be clear to the entire employee. This will ensure that the environment and the management of the activities of the law enforcement agencies will be workable.\nMany court orders have involved internal affairs corrupt police officers. These cases include the charges against the ex Brunswick internal affairs cops. The other case was the ACLA whines cases. This case involved the local justice police force. More than 100,000 complaints were made about the police misconduct. According to the ACLA report, the internal affairs help to protect the rights and safety of the citizens of New Jersey. This report also states that 63 percent of the local law enforcement agencies do not accept anonymous complains. This complains are never investigated at all. The report also states that 79 percent of the law enforcement agencies have violated the rules and regulations of the internal affairs units. It is important to note that the New Brunswick city is known for its activities of reaching out for the community. The purpose for this is to connect of aid the communication between the citizen and the police force. This was because of the arrest of a police officer who was charged with including false documentation into the internal affairs records. The process in New Brunswick is to aid the people who feel that their complains were not listened to or acted upon. Rowe was accused of tampering with public records and obstructing the administration of justice. This is because he made the false entire knowingly with the intention of covering up specific information and replacing the information with false information. This case was awake up call for the internal police. This is because after the hearing of this case the police changed their internal system and management of records. (Mckinney, 2003)\nOn May 19th 2011 a case was filed against the internal affairs of the complaint of states Trooper Scot Sanders. These complain were as result of the decision by the superior court in New Jersey which found Sanders guilty of conducting an improper and warrantless search of a motor vehicle. This was despite the fact that the search was found by an appellate court to have been illegal. Thus it was a violation a person's right. However, the state police captain asserted that there was no violation on Saunders part, citing that Sanders did not in any way violate the internal laws of the state of New Jersey. This led to the perfunctory dismissal of the NJLP internal affairs complain. In the matter of Michael Sottilare, on 1st June 2010.Michael went through corrections for over 10 years. He also received four preliminary notice of disciplinary action from his superior. The finals incident resulted to the dismissal of the officer. After the dismissal, Michael made a call to the police local association to help him with the case. In this case the termination of the officer who disclosed pending investigations was affirmed. There are many other cases that arise from complains made by the public that have been investigated and tried. This proves that the internal affairs management system is a success and will continue to improve as time goes by and as revisions on the policies continue to be made.\nHow the Internal Affairs Policies and Procedures are recently updated\nThe internal policies and procedures were originally published in 1991.It was then updated in 1992. This was the updated version of the original internal affairs policies and procedures. The main purpose of this policy was mainly to oversee the state office enforcement agencies in the receiving of complains, investigations of complains and the cases plus making resolutions to complains made about the misconduct of the police. This process has however come under a lot of scrutiny since the year 1992.This is because it helps to govern the internal affairs of the law enforcement agencies. The New Jersey has and will always recognize the internal policies and procedures of this policy which was enacted in 1996.It is important to note that this policy focuses on the internal affairs of the courts especially in the federal courts. In regards to the entire attributes concerning this policy, the Attorney General issued a revised version of the internal affairs policy and procedure .The Attorney General did this through the division of criminal justice. The revisions were aimed at helping and assisting the law enforcement agencies to fully and completely comply with the all the emerging legal procedures in the management of the internal agencies activities and functions. All the counties and law enforcement agencies, carry out the internal investigations under the supervision of an executive. This executive is the Attorney General. The criminal justice Act of 1970 designates the executive, who is the Attorney General as the general supervisor. This simply means that the Attorney general supervises all the functions, policies and procedures of the internal functions of the state office. The newly revised policy contains several rules and regulations that govern it. These rules and regulations must be enforced by all law enforcement agencies. However, in order to achieve the fundamental results of the internal affairs function, there needs to be discipline in the same. Instilling discipline in the law enforcement agencies is a very challenging function and responsibility of the executive but is a very positive step to the achievement of the desired results. The policy management process must have directive order which is documents with outlined details of the performance and basic methods of operations for the internal affairs of the law enforcement agencies. It should also have written statements to give directions to the law enforcement agencies performance and activities. The other requirements are the rules and regulation which govern the activities and functions of the internal affairs of the law enforcement agencies. The rules and regulations are designed to investigate different types or kinds of misconducts. These categories can be classified as; crimes, use of excessive force by the law enforcement officer, unlawful and improper arrest, improper entry into a building by use of excessive force, improper search without a search warrant and use of inappropriate language among many other categories. Itt is important to note that instilling discipline to the law enforcement officers can be done in stages.\nThese stages may include; Counseling, transferring the officers, monetary fines, suspension without pay, officers can loose a promotion, demotion, performance notice, written warning among many others. This will help the executive to instill discipline on the law enforcement officers. This will also help to ensure that all the policies and procedures are adhered to by the law enforcement agencies and police officers. The statutes in relation to the '' substantially identical' which refers to the provision of the states assault fire arms law was updated in August 1996.On the other hand the bias incident investigation standard was enacted in 2002.The guidelines that were revised for negotiating the cases under the N.J.S.A were effective for the offences committed from 15th September 2004.The guidelines for the enforcement of out of state restraining order of protection in domestic violence cases was updated on September 2000.Guidance for investigating all the domestic violence was updated in the year 2009.Drug enforcement narcotics action plan was updated in March 1993.Law enforcement drug testing policy was updated on the updated and revised in May 2003.The graves Act was enacted following the Attorney Generals directives on 23rd October 2008.The guidelines on immigration , according to the Attorney generals directions ( AG directives 2007 \u2013 3 guidelines to establish the manner in which local counties and state law enforcement agencies shall interact with the federal immigration authorities.)Was updated in 2007.The executive order Number 11 was updated in November 1974.This executive order entails the records of the police department. (Kenneth, 2006) The directive number 2002 -2 entails the approval of the search warrant applications, the execution of the search warrants , and all the procedures used to coordinate all the law enforcement agencies. (Mckinney, 2003)\nThis Act was updated on 8th August 2002.The directive number 2002 \u2013 2 on Memo and form, entails search warrants application forms and was updated on 3rd August 2002. The Attorney general has helped to substantially strengthen the states internal affairs policies by updating these Acts and policies. This will ensure that all the complains against the police officers in New Jersey will be not only be handled properly but will also be monitored and reported. The revised policies provide stricter mandates and requirements for the law enforcement agencies. These policies require the law enforcement agencies to regularly report to the county prosecutors and the residents or citizens in New Jersey. The law enforcement agencies should report all complains received about the misconduct of the police officers in the agencies. They should also report to the county prosecutor and the citizens of New Jersey regarding the nature of all the allegations and the disposition of all the cases there in.\nIt is important to note that the Attorney Generals internal affairs policy was updated and revised in November 2004.The Attorney General also formed and internal affairs policy group that made up the law enforcement leaders to scrutinize and make effective changes to the older draft of the same in order to strengthen it. (Kenneth, 2006) This lead to the identification of priority items such as the enhancing of the internal prosecutors and monitoring the internal affairs cases. However, the Attorney General stated that the police needed to be trusted in order to perform their work efficiently and effectively. He asserted that the police often put their lives on the line to serve the public and therefore should be given the benefit over the doubts. The revised and updated versions of the policies had many mandates and requirements. These requirements included;-\nAll the police officers who were assigned to the internal affairs function or agencies had to complete training as required or mandated by the Division of criminal justice in New Jersey.\nThe other requirement was that each law enforcement agencies were required to track the number of complaints filed with the agencies and with the individual police officers in the agencies. The revision of these policies has made the tracking and monitoring of all complains a mandate or a requirement for each agency in New Jersey.\nThe other requirement is that every law enforcement agency must evaluate all complains they have received. This is in order to determine if the practices of misconduct are increasing in the law enforcement agencies.\nThese revised policies also require the county prosecutors to establish and maintain a schedule for the law enforcement agencies.\nThe law enforcement agencies are required to regularly make public all complains against the police officers and the results of the investigation. They are also required to make public the penalty the individual officers have been accorded.\nThe revised policies also require all complains made against the law enforcement officers not to be sustained. However, this should be done in writing with an explanation on why it was not sustained. The other requirement is that the entire internal affairs unit should investigate all the cases in the municipal and the Supreme Court.\nAll the law enforcement agencies must notify the prosecutor's office of any reason to questions an officer's credibility. This can be based upon a false report, a pending court complain, a pending court conviction or a judicial finding.\nAccording to the revised citizens rights for internal affairs investigations, every law enforcement agency must accept the reports of the misconduct of officers at all times regardless of the day , the time or the situation surrounding the accusations. The revised citizen's right for internal affairs also requires that every law enforcement agency must have a policy which is consistent with the Attorney generals internal affairs policies and procedures. The Attorney General's internal affairs policies provide that all complains that involve the misconduct of the police are accepted and fully investigated. It is important to note that the police have a duty and a mandate to completely investigate all the cases brought forward to them. However, the citizens in New\nJersey who is filing for complains should do so in a courteous and professional manner. The police forces must also be courteous and professional while handling all the cases.\nThe revised citizen's right for internal affairs investigations stipulates that the public has the right to make complains at any time of the day. It also stipulates that if the complainant cannot come to the police station reasons, the police should meet the complainant at his home, office or the area specified by the complainant. This simply means that the police must take the necessary steps to ensure that they receive complains and investigate the same. This Act also stipulates that a member of the public has a right to make complains anonymously. The identification of the complainant can be concealed if the complainant wants it to be concealed. (New Jersey. Division of Criminal Justice, 2000)\nThis simply means that the wishes of the complainant should be respected at all times. The Act also stipulates that juveniles also have a right to make complains against the misconduct of the police officers. These complaints can be made in the presence of their parents or in the absence of the same. This is to ensure that the citizen feel free to make complains at the police station without fear or duress.\nThe Internal Affairs Unit\nThe internal affairs unit is charged with many responsibilities. These responsibilities include the conducting of each and every internal investigation in regards to complains made against individual officers in the law enforcement agencies. The internal affairs unit ensures that the internal affairs and procedures are followed to the later. This unit also ensures that the internal policies and procedures are followed by the law enforcement agencies in each county. It is important to note that all the law enforcement agencies maintain separate internal affairs section. This is determined by the particular law enforcement agencies. Therefore all complains against the officers are made to the specific section of the agencies. For effective work performance in the internal affairs unit, the policies and procedures must be followed and adhered to. The internal affairs unit must also be dedicated and committed to carrying out their duties and responsibilities as stipulated in the revised policies and procedures. This is the only way that the internal affairs unit can be successful in their mandate.\nThis paper has studied in depth the internal affairs in policies and procedures in New Jersey. It has touched on the hiring requirements in the internal affairs unit. The paper has widely covered who the law enforcement agencies work under citing a few cases that involved internal affairs corrupt police. It has also touched on the information on why and how the internal affairs policies were recently updated. In conclusion these management policies can achieve good results other countries that are challenged in the internal affairs policies and procedures.\nFree Essay Sample \u00abInternal Affairs Policies in New Jersey\u00bb\nThe Selendang Ayu Oil Spill\nChilds v. Desormeaux\nWomen in Combat","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Galileo Wills\nWhat Makes a Will Valid?\nIn a world of digital communication, South African law has been playing catchup to keep current with new technologies. Only as recently as 2002, under the Electronic Communications and Transaction Act, has electronic signatures been recognised. Unfortunately, the law of succession has lagged behind and the requirements for a valid Will have remained relatively unchanged since the Wills Act 7 of 1953 as amended from time to time ('the Wills Act\"). Further, the Master of the High Court still requires an original valid Will when reporting the estate.\nA Will is valid only when it complies with the formalities set out in the Wills Act. If Will does not follow the formalities, there is a 'rescue provision' which enables the High Court to find that document to be a valid Will. The court, however, applies a strict and narrow approach to what is allowed. All the requirements for a valid Will shall not be worked through here, rather three requirements will be briefly focus on prevents an email, electronic document, voice note or instant message from being accepted as a valid Will. Further the need for an original physical Will to be kept in storage will be stated.\nThe Will must be a written document\nThe Wills Act does not expressly require that the document be written and in physical form, it is however, implied from the requirements that the document must be signed in certain places by the testator and witnesses together with the reference to pages. Further at the time of the drafting of the Wills Act electronic written documents did not exist. This unfortunately results in a narrowing of what will be normally be considered a valid Will to a written document in physical form.\nThe Will must be signed and witnessed\nThe Wills Act requires that a document purporting to be a Will must be signed[1] first by the testator and then by two witnesses who are all present at the same time. Each page of the Will must be sign by the person executing the Will together with the two witnesses. Furthermore, the Will must be signed at the end by the testator and two witnesses to be valid. This has the result of precluding voice notes, instant messages, and emails from being accepted by the Master of the High Court, as they cannot be executed and witnessed in the require way.\nThe Will must be original\nIf the original version of your Will cannot be located it will be presumed that you died without a valid Will. This means that the laws of intestate succession shall apply. This precludes an electronic copy of your Will from being accepted by the Master. If there is an electronic copy of the original Will, the High Court must be convinced that the document is in fact a true copy your latest valid Will. Therefore, the storage of your original Will is important, and you loved ones should know where it is located. For this reason, GalileoWills securely stores your original Will once the courier delivers it to our offices.\nIn conclusion, the requirements for a valid Will as set out in the Wills Act does not make provision for an email, electronic document, voice note or instance message to be accepted as a Will or to give direction to how your estate is to be administered. The requirement for an original physical Will by the Master means that your Will, after being executed, will need to be kept in safe storage.\n[1] The use of a mark or fingerprint has its own requirements alongside the general requirements for a signature.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Zoo celebrates the new births of 12 critically endangered red wolf pups\nHome \u00bb Zoo celebrates the new births of 12 critically endangered red wolf pups\nFor a zoo, the birth of any new animal is a special occasion. There's nothing sweeter than seeing an adorable baby animal enter the world.\nBut it's even more special when that animal is part of an endangered species. Many zoos are part of programs to repopulate species in danger of extinction, and every new birth is an exciting step forward.\nAnd recently, the North Carolina Zoo got great news when a litter of 12 red wolf pups, a critically endangered species, were born.\nPosted by North Carolina Zoo on Monday, May 17, 2021\nThe zoo announced their births on Facebook yesterday, saying that three litters were born over three days in late April.\nIt's a big deal because the red wolf is the rarest member of the dog family in the world, listed as \"critically endangered\" by the IUCN Red List. The once-populous species was driven nearly to extinction by the 1960s before receiving protection status.\nThere are now fewer than 20 red wolves left in the wild. The North Carolina Zoo is part of a program to breed and repopulate the struggling species.\nThe new litters brings their total number of red wolves to 36, according to WRAL, making them the second-biggest red wolf pack in the country. They have successfully bred 48 wolves since 1994.\n\"Congratulations to the North Carolina Zoo for playing an essential part in the survival of this critically endangered species,\" Secretary Reid Wilson of the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources said in a press release, according to WRAL.\n\"These births are important because many of our wolves, once matured, have been moved to other breeding packs to continue to help bring this species back from near extinction. Our hope is that more and more red wolves can soon be placed into the wild.\"\nIn a rare moment, the zoo says one of the litters arrived in the public red wolf habitat, giving visitors a chance to see the newborns.\nThe young wolves are currently in their den, but will start to venture out sometime in June, and will be available for viewing.\nThe pups are currently unnamed, but the zoo will hold a poll to name them next month.\nThese newborns are a great sign of hope for this critically endangered species, and they're adorable, too! Congrats to the North Carolina Zoo on this amazing achievement!\nShare this incredible news!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bosnia's Last Best Hope\nHow an Unlikely Peacekeeping Duo Can Hold the Balkans Together\nBy Kurt Bassuener\nKURT BASSUENER is co-founder of the Democratization Policy Council, a Berlin-based think tank. A Fulbright scholar, he is currently completing his Ph.D. at the University of St. Andrews.\nRead more by Kurt Bassuener\nA woman prays near the grave of her family members near Srebenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, March 2019 Dado Ruvic \/ Reuters\nIt's been almost a quarter century since the Dayton peace accords ended the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which approximately 100,000 people were killed. The agreement mandated that a \"safe and secure environment\" be maintained in the country. NATO first shouldered that responsibility; later, at the end of 2004, the European Union took it on. Over the next decade and a half, implementation of the peace accords stalled. Yet the EU's force, initially 7,000 strong, withered to an institutional fig leaf of 600 troops, a shockingly small presence that advertises the EU's lack of resolve. This force can't defend itself against mounting security threats, much less fulfill the mandate of the Dayton accords.\nWeakness invites challenge, particularly in the Balkans. Illiberal actors such as China, the Gulf states, Turkey, and Russia have all rushed in to fill the vacuum left by Western listlessness. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serb-majority entity, Republika Srpska (RS), has fallen under Moscow's influence to an even greater extent than neighboring Serbia, reinvigorating the Bosnian Serb secessionist movement. Without a liberal, countervailing force to restrain them, Bosnia's unaccountable leaders grow ever bolder in their ethnic brinkmanship, making renewed conflict more likely and the potential consequences more dire. Bosnia is experiencing a failure of deterrence that only liberal democratic powers have the ability to redress.\nDERELICTION OF DUTY\nBosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, now chairing Bosnia and Herzegovina's tripartite presidency, has long advocated for the country's dissolution so the RS can either become an independent state or unify with Serbia. Bosnian Croat leaders openly support him, and NATO-member Croatia does so tacitly, since its ruling party expects to benefit politically from renewed ethnonational strife. Russia's deepening engagement in the region has only strengthened Dodik's hand. After he applauded Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 as an expression of \"self-determination,\" the Russian ambassador rewarded him with a visit. Later, he told Serbia's then prime minister and now President Aleksandar Vucic that he had Russian\nHow America Lost Faith in Expertise\nAnd Why That's a Giant Problem\nTom Nichols\nCan Greenland Win Independence By Selling Melted Ice?\nThe World's Biggest Island Taps a Resource It's Always Had\nBosnia & Herzegovina Peacekeeping\nIn-depth analysis delivered weekly.\nCyber Week in Review: July 19, 2019\nby Adam Segal","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Child removal: The Stolen Generations continue\u2026\nIn light of current practices, it is possible that the Stolen Generation may span across multiple generations, affecting the children of today. Tiarne Shutt writes about the lack of knowledge surrounding incidences of the removal of Indigenous children from their families.\nby Tiarne Shutt\nOne of Rudd's first actions in office under the Labor government was to formally apologise to the members of the Stolen Generation and to all who were affected. Prime Minister Rudd made his historic 'Sorry' speech on the 13th of February 2008 stating that \"the injustices of the past must never, never happen again\". These powerful words instilled hope within the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, however they were but empty meanings. It is time that the atrocities still occurring throughout Australia today are exposed, the current rate of child removal soaring higher than at the time of the Stolen Generation, with numbers continually climbing.\nAustralia's racist foundations have infected our country's entire history. The paternalism evident in the 'protection-era' saw thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families ripped apart, cultures erased, kinship ties destroyed, languages molded, merged or altogether dissipated and countless individuals robbed of their sense of identity.\nThe 1997 'Bringing Them Home' report revealed that as many as 50,000 Aboriginal children and families experienced child removal. These children were taken from their families and placed on missions, rural stations (where they worked as slaves) and in out-of-home care, where many were abused. The report identified this process of removal as genocide.\nAs a nation, we appeared to have moved on from this dark era of our history. However, this is not the case. As of 30 June 2013, 14,267 Indigenous children had been removed from their families. This figure places the current rate of removal five times higher than the rate at the time 'Bringing Them Home' was published.\nNSW tops the rate of removal, with 8% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children already taken from their families. This has prompted a comparison of Australia's current situation to the Stolen Generation. Nationally, 55.1 in every 1000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are in out-of-home care, compared to 5.4 per 1000 non-Indigenous children, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Indigenous children are 8 times more likely than non-Indigenous children to be placed in out-of-home care, representing more than a third of all children in this situation. However, Indigenous children comprise just 3% of this population, indicating a gross over representation in these figures.\nThe 2013 Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care ('SNAICC') conducted a forum, discussing the alarming rates of Indigenous child removal. They urged the government to reduce these figures by 2018, describing this as \"our national shame\".\nWhen asked about the current incidence of child removal, Aunty Lorraine Peeters, founder of Marumali Healing and member of the Stolen Generation laments \"I feel really sick in the stomach every time I look at the stats''.\nHowever, positive steps have been made by the government to ensure a smoother transition for Indigenous children subjected to removal, also identifying removal as a last resort. The Aboriginal Child Placement Principle, an instructive guide for the government, recommends that Indigenous children should be placed with Indigenous families\/caregivers. This recommendation was prompted by reports of the 217 of the 271 Indigenous children removed in Victoria in 2002 being placed in non-Indigenous homes. While there have been improvements, the SNAICC forum in 2013 found that 31% of Indigenous children were still not placed with their kin.\nThe Northern Territory Chief Minister, Mr Adam Gillies took the view that policies regarding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child removal should move towards permanent adoption situations where the reason for removal is neglect. However, the term 'neglect' is ambiguous. History has shown us that failing to understand Indigenous cultures and their sense of community has created a one-way dialogue, in which only the government can speak and make decisions. In many Aboriginal communities, for example, it is the responsibility of the community as a whole to raise children and support them. This can mean that birth parents move their children to other members of the family. This is not seen as creating an inconsistency within the child's upbringing, but gives that child a sense of community and kinship that their culture values. Unfortunately, this can be viewed as 'neglect' through the eyes of the government, exposing a disregard for Indigenous culture and values.\nSNAICC held the government accountable for looking to child removal in the first instance, rather then a last resort, as recommended by the Aboriginal Child Placement Principle. They found that views like Mr. Gillies' exhibit a misunderstanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. SNAICC reported that the government's role should be focused towards removing the source of harm, instead of removing the child.\nIndigenous Australians have continually been blamed for the conditions in which they live. Poverty and social disintegration is an evident factor in many rural Indigenous communities, the cause of these elements often attributed to the communities themselves. This leads to poor circumstances for Indigenous children, therefore leading to abuse. SNAICC contends that support is key and that a lack of available resources is a disservice to remote Indigenous communities who would otherwise be able to care for children adequately.\nIn 2012, the Northern Territory coordinator for remote services, Olga Havern released a report stating that almost $80m was spent on the surveillance and removal of Indigenous children, with only $500,000 dedicated to supporting impoverished families. \"The primary reasons for removing children are welfare issues directly related to poverty and inequality. The impact is just horrendous because if they are not reunited within six months, it's likely they won't see each other again. If South Africa was doing this, there'd be an international outcry,\" she stated.\nA tape recently came to light, exposing footage of a child removal. It featured a mother witnessing her infant being taken away. \"There is nothing wrong with my baby! Why are you doing this to us?\" She cried. \"I would've been hung years ago, wouldn't I? Because [as an Aboriginal Australian] you're guilty before you're found innocent\u2026their stealing of our kids is happening all over again!\" The mother is then met by a welfare official, who offers only this: \"I'm gonna take him, mate.\"\nThe video features an official claiming to be conducting a mere \"assessment\".\nHowever, prior to the arrival of the official, two police officers warned two mothers, including the lady concerned to \"get out of here quick\". The women fled, with both children eventually being seized and both mothers unaware of the location of their children.\nForced adoption and 'guardianship' will soon be an issue to be debated in the New South Wales parliament. It is possible that infants removed from their family for more than six months will soon be adopted into new families. Greens MP David Shoebridge commented on the proposal, acknowleded that \"it's setting up Aboriginal families to fail\".\nIn Indigenous affairs, wilful ignorance seems to be acceptable even when it 'kicks a person when they're down'. Perhaps it is time that we as a nation take action to help that person up off the ground and give our Indigenous people a little support.\nNOTE: This article in no way suggests that Indigenous children should remain with caretakers\/families\/guardians in circumstances of factual neglect or abuse, but merely contends that more emphasis should be placed on supporting Indigenous communities and providing them with the tools to overcome barriers to optimal child rearing. The focus should be placed on providing children with support, with a view to achieving positive and just outcomes for all.\nchild removal\nindigenous honi","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Predictive Assessments\nRestorativ Tools\nRestorativ is opening its Coltswold, UK office\nChris Twyman\u00b7\u2013 May 29th, 2021\nThe Restorative team is opening its UK office right in the middle of the UK in the gorgeous Cotswolds.\nWe are very excited to locate our UK Headquarters close to some very important Restorative Justice organisations:\nRestorative Gloucestershire is committed to promoting the use of Restorative Practices through facilitation, advice and by supporting others to use and develop restorative skills. Restorative Gloucestershire is a group of statutory, non statutory and voluntary sector partners that have joined with the aim of offering all people who come into contact with the criminal justice system (CJS) or who come into conflict in the community an opportunity to participate in a restorative intervention.\nhttp:\/\/www.restorativegloucestershire.co.uk\/\nRestorative Justice (RJ) gives victims of crime the opportunity to have a voice.\nRJ facilitates some form of communication between a victim and offender to hopefully address the feelings and consequences that have arisen from the offence.\nVictims of crime include family members, witnesses and anyone else affected by the crime.\nRJ is designed to allow victims to have their harm or loss acknowledged, their questions answered and some amends made if that is what they wish.\nOffenders have the opportunity to take responsibility, acknowledge the impact of their actions and to try and make amends.\nTogether, they can work towards some form of understanding and find a positive way forward to allow the victim some sense of closure to allow them to move on.\nhttp:\/\/tvrjs.org.uk\/index.html\nRestorative Justice is about victims and offenders communicating in a supported environment to discuss the harm that has been caused and how to find a way to repair that harm.\nFor victims, meeting the person who has harmed them can be a huge step in moving forward and recovering from the crime.\nFor offenders, the experience can be very challenging as it confronts them with the personal impact of their crime.\nhttps:\/\/restorativejustice.org.uk\/service-providers\/10258\n\u00a9 Restorativ","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home English Somali Inter-state football tourney shifted to Mogadishu\nsawirro\nSomali Inter-state football tourney shifted to Mogadishu\nThe 2nd edition of Somali Inter-State football tournament has been shifted from would-be hosts, The Jubba land state to the capital Mogadishu, Somali Football Federation confirmed.\nFollowing a letter from the southern Jubba Land State dated on 29th of November which stated that the regional state was unable to host this year's event due to lack of adequate resources, Somali minister for youth and sports, Honorable Khadija Mohamed Diriye, SFF president Abdiqani Said Arab and sports ministers from the federal states convened at a lengthy meeting on the evening of Wednesday November 29 and finally agreed that the tournament be hosted at the FIFA-refurbished Stadium Banadir in the capital Mogadishu.\nSomali Football Federation president, Abdiqani Said Arab, said in a statement on Thursday that it has been agreed that the opening festival for the tournament be held on December 7 and the first match of the competition will be played on December 10 2017.\n\"The competition will gather six states and all teams are expected to be ready in Mogadishu on December 3. The inaugural edition of the competition was held in July last year and this will be the second year running we are organizing this very interesting football event\" SFF president, Abdiqani Said Arab, said in his statement.\n\"The organization of such tournament is not an easy thing. We are getting a full help from the ministry for youth and sport. The cooperation between the SFF and the ministry for youth and sport makes a huge sense for us. Thanks to our minister Honorable Khadija Mohamed Diriye, who is giving us the assistance we need, because she is fully satisfied with the work we are doing in the country\" Somali Football Federation president, Abdiqani Said Arab, said in his statement on Thursday.\nThe president explained why it was important for the SFF to organize the tournament. He said that hunting talented players from the participating teams, peace building, football development across the country and encouraging nationwide youth integration, are some of the main objectives for the organization of the competition.\nOn her side, Somali minister for youth and Sport, Honorable Khadija Mohamed Diriye, said that her ministry has done everything possible to have a beautiful competition done.\n\"As a minister, I am here to play a key role in the development of our sport. The leader of the country, President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and Prime Minister Hassan Ali Kheyre are passionate about the game and are always on our side in all our endeavors towards the development of sport and youth empowerment in Somalia\" Honorable minister Khadija Mohamed Diriye, said in anther release. \"I would like to thank TIS+ for its full support\" the minister said.\nHowever, so far it has been confirmed that this year's edition of the tournament will be shown live on the Somali National Television (SNTV) and two privately-owned sports news broadcasters: Astaan Sports and Mogadishu Cable TV.\nBy Shafi'i Mohyaddin Abokar\nCECAFA Media Committee\nPrevious articleWHO iyo Wasaaradda Caafimaadka Soomaaliya oo wada qabtay tababar ku saabsan maareynta nafaqo-xumida.\nNext articleMaamulka G\/Banaadir oo soo saaray amarro Amniga Muqdisho ku saabsan.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)\nHome > Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)\nTHC Editorial Team December 29, 2020\nCharles Warren Eaton, Woods in Winter, 1886, Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington\nSymptoms of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)\nCauses and Risk Factors of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)\nHow Is Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) Diagnosed?\nTreatments for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)\nWhat Is Major Depressive Disorder?\nAccording to the American Psychiatric Association, major depressive disorder (MDD) is a serious illness that is common and treatable. Major depression negatively impacts how someone thinks, feels, and acts and is characterized by feelings of sadness or loss of interest in activities that they once enjoyed.1,2\nDepression affects hundreds of millions of people around the world. It occurs along a continuum of severity that ranges from relatively mild episodic states of depressed mood to serious, long-term depressive symptoms that can greatly impact the quality of a person's life. When someone experiences chronic, severe symptoms that require professional treatment, their disorder will typically be referred to as major depressive disorder or clinical depression.\nMajor depressive disorder is a prevalent condition. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, approximately 17.3 million adults in the United States experienced an episode of major depressive disorder in 2017 alone. Furthermore, 13.1% of people between the ages of 18 and 25 experienced an episode of major depressive disorder, a higher percentage than in any other age group. Women were likelier than men to have experienced an episode (8.7% versus 5.3%).1\nMajor depressive disorder can affect people of all ages. Also known as unipolar depression, it is one of several types of depression defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th edition; DSM-5). Another disorder defined in the DSM-5 is bipolar disorder, in which one criterion is the occurrence of a major depressive episode.\nWhat Are the Symptoms of Major Depressive Disorder?\nAccording to Harvard Medical School, the symptoms of major depressive disorder are much more severe than simply feeling sad or having a bad day; they are chronic and serious, and they last for 2 weeks or longer.3 In many cases, people who suffer from major depressive disorder experience symptoms for years. Although symptoms vary from person to person, most people experience some combination of the following:\nmood that is distinctly depressed or irritable\nloss of the ability to experience pleasure or loss of interest\ndecreases or increases in weight or appetite\nincreases or decreases in sleep\nnoticeable agitation or slowness\nfatigue, tiredness, and loss of energy\nfeelings of worthlessness or guilt\ninability to concentrate or difficulty making decisions\nsuicidal thoughts, persistent thoughts of death, or suicidal plans and attempts\nCauses and Risk Factors of Major Depressive Disorder\nSeveral risk factors for major depressive disorder have been identified. The National Institute of Mental Health reports that research indicates depression may be caused by environmental, genetic, biological, and psychological factors.4\nFor example, research published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal looked at the neurobiological basis of major depression and the role of monoamines\u2014types of neurotransmitters including norepinephrine and serotonin\u2014in the etiology of the disease. Although many people have low levels of norepinephrine and serotonin in their systems, the researchers found that lower levels of these monoamines do not result in depression in all people. The researchers believe that genetic variations responsible for how monoamines are metabolized, combined with other factors, might play a role in the development of depression.5 Other research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that a biochemical imbalance of neurotransmitters in the brain may be a risk factor for depression.6\nAdditional identified risk factors for the development of major depressive disorder include having a chronic illness, having a personal or family history of depression, or undergoing major life changes, stress, or trauma.\nHow Is Major Depressive Disorder Diagnosed?\nMajor depressive disorder is normally diagnosed by a mental health professional or a medical doctor through a clinical interview. In this process, the doctor or mental health professional may ask about the patient's symptoms and medical history and then use the information to check the diagnostic criteria as outlined in the DSM-5.\nThe Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reports that medical professionals may diagnose major depressive disorder according to the DSM-5 if a patient has experienced associated symptoms every day for 2 weeks or longer and meets five or more of the listed criteria\u2014which must include either a persistent, depressed mood or a loss of interest in previously enjoyed activities.7 Although the symptoms previously listed can be indicators of major depressive disorder, the individual must meet specific criteria for major depressive disorder to be officially diagnosed. These criteria include the following:\nan unintentional and significant weight loss or weight gain of at least 5% in the past month or a loss of or increase in appetite\ndisturbance of sleep, including insomnia or hypersomnia\nsevere, observable psychomotor changes\nfatigue, loss of energy, tiredness, or reduced efficiency during routine tasks\nfeelings of worthlessness or excessive and inappropriate guilt\ndifficulty concentrating, thinking, or making decisions\nsuicidal ideations, persistent thoughts of death, or suicide attempts\nsignificant impairment or distress in work-related, social, or other important areas of functioning as a result of the symptoms\nlack of a previous manic or hypomanic episode\nA medical doctor should evaluate a person who is suspected of having major depressive disorder to ensure that the symptoms are not the result of a different psychiatric condition (e.g., a psychotic disorder or schizophrenia), a medical condition, or a medication.\nTreatments for Major Depressive Disorder\nMajor depressive disorder is common; many people experience at least one episode of depression during their lives. Fortunately, depression responds well to treatment, which allows patients to move forward and to enjoy happier, healthier lives.2\nHarvard Medical School reports that the most effective treatment approach for major depressive disorder is a combination of psychotherapy and medication. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, are often prescribed and take 2\u20136 weeks for patients to begin experiencing improvements. Several psychotherapeutic approaches may be used, including cognitive behavioral therapy or psychodynamic therapy. In severe cases in which people do not respond to other treatment, electroconvulsive therapy may be used.3\nAmerican Psychiatric Association. (2020). What is depression?\nhttps:\/\/www.psychiatry.org\/patients-families\/depression\/what-is-depression\nNational Institute of Mental Health. (2019). Major depression. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health.\nhttps:\/\/www.nimh.nih.gov\/health\/statistics\/major-depression.shtml#:~:text=Prevalence%20of%20Major%20Depressive%20Episode%20Among%20Adults,-Figure%201%20shows&text=An%20estimated%2017.3%20million%20adults,compared%20to%20males%20(5.3%25)\nHarvard Health Publishing, Harvard Medical School. (2018, December). Major depression.\nhttps:\/\/www.health.harvard.edu\/a_to_z\/major-depression-a-to-z\nNational Institute of Mental Health. (2018). Depression. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health.\nhttps:\/\/www.nimh.nih.gov\/health\/topics\/depression\/index.shtml#part_145396\naan het Rot, M., Mathew, S. J., & Charney, D. S. (2009). Neurobiological mechanisms in major depressive disorder. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 180(3), 305\u2013313.\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1503\/cmaj.080697\nWeissman, M. M., Berry, O. O., Warner, V., Gameroff, M. J., Skipper, J., Talati, A., Pilowsky, D. J., &Wickramaratne, P. (2016). A 30-year study of 3 generations at high risk and low risk for depression. JAMA Psychiatry, 73(9), 970\u2013977.\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamapsychiatry.2016.1586\nSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2016). DSM-5 changes: Implications for child serious emotional disturbance.\nhttps:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/books\/NBK519712\/table\/ch3.t5\/\nRecurrent Depressive Disorder\nPersistent Depressive Disorder (PDD)\n\"Depression and anxiety are downward spirals: patterns of negative, unhealthy activity and reactivity that the brain ends up stuck in\u2026 Recent research has uncovered the power of the upward spiral: the fact that small positive life changes lead to positive brain changes in its electrical activity, its chemical composition, and even its ability to grow new neurons\u2026 Upward spirals can reverse the downward patterns of depression and anxiety\u2026\"\n\u2014 Alex Korb\n\"Depression hurts. It's the \"black dog\" of the night that robs you of joy, the unquiet mind that keeps you awake. It's a noonday demon that only you can see, the darkness visible only to you.\"\n\u2014 Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel V. Segal, and Jon Kabat-Zinn\n\"\u2026 by making small changes in your thoughts, actions, interactions, and environment, it's possible to change the activity and chemistry of the key brain circuits underlying depression and anxiety.\"\nRelated Books & Audios\nby Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel V. Segal, and Jon Kabat-Zinn\nLifting Depression\nby Kelly Lambert\nThe Depths\nby Jonathan Rottenberg\nby Alex Korb\nThe Complete Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner\nby Arthur E. Jongsma Jr., L. Mark Peterson, Timothy J. Bruce\nThe Resilience Workbook\nby Glenn R. Schiraldi\nAnxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA)\nNational Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)\nAmerican Psychology Association\nAmerican Addiction Centers\nSadness, Grief and Despair\nGeneralized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sun. Aug 15th, 2021\nUproar over newborn's death in TMC: Relatives allege \u2013 there was a cut mark on the child's head with tools\nAug 15, 2021 dainikbhaskar\nKangra3 hours ago\nThe newborn child died in Dr Rajendra Prasad Tanda Medical College (TMC). The attendants allege that no senior doctor even came to the labor room to see his wife and child. Thakur Neeraj Rana told that he admitted his wife for delivery at Tanda Hospital on 5 August. At 11 pm, his wife started having labor pains. After this his wife was taken twice in the night for delivery in the labor room.\nThe staff kept his wife there and sent it to the rest of the family members and said \u2013 they are not feeling the pain right now. His wife was in pain. The nurses took his wife to the labor room again at 9.30 the next day due to severe pain. At 1.30, her husband was called inside and his wife was vaccinated. At 4 pm again a woman from his family was called.\nHe asked the pregnant woman to insist. While the woman was not feeling pain due to the vaccination. After that the child was pulled out by the trainee doctor with the help of tools. He had a boy. Then in the ICU ward, the doctor told him that the condition of the child is very bad and it is difficult to survive. He saw that a big cut mark was seen on the child's head. A lot of blood had also come out. Then the doctor put about 7-8 stitches on the child's head. His child did not survive.\nPrincipal Dr Bhanu Awasthi said that on the basis of the complaint, orders have been issued for investigation to MS Tanda. Investigation is going on. Now it is to be ascertained from where and from whom the negligence in this matter has happened.\nCar fell uncontrollably in BBMB canal in Mandi: Car driver came out as soon as he got the chance, saved his life by swimming\nCorporation strike: Due to the strike of the garbage collectors, door-to-door garbage was not picked up in the city for the second day\nAug 15, 2021 gyan24hrs\nCM inaugurated development works: Inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of 14 development projects worth 84 crores in Banjar; Jal Shakti Subdivision transferred from Shamshi to Bajaura\nIndia of my dreams: Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur said that our participation should be in all major institutions including knowledge, science, defence, environment protection, sports\nLatest Updates Select Month August 2021 (896) July 2021 (3483) June 2021 (15691) May 2021 (8229) April 2021 (1816) March 2021 (1) August 2019 (2)\nCorona Update: 1 in the city, two cases came in the rural, four were cured\nComplaint: Mother-in-law accused in-laws of killing married woman\nMining in Swan River: After the rain, the committee will check the mining leases in Swan river","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"You are at:Home\u00bbCategory: \"War on Terror\"\nBrowsing: War on Terror\nNavy Times' front page for beginning of war in Iraq\nBy Jacqueline Klimas on\t March 19, 2013 Carriers, Combat, Historical, Iraq, Navy, War on Terror\nEarlier today, BuzzFeed posted a snapshot of the front page of 51 newspapers around the country ten years ago on March 20, 2003, the first day of the Iraq War. As a weekly publication, Navy Times didn't publish the first day of the war, but the following Monday, this was our front page: We had a special 12-page section, titled the \"War on Iraq.\" The collection of six articles told the stories of the first missiles launched from ships in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, oil well fires started by Iraqis and airstrikes taking off from the flight decks\u2026\nNavy SEAL and Bin Laden's 'shooter' telling his story?\nBy Gidget Fuentes on\t February 11, 2013 Afghanistan, Navy, Navy SEALs, SEALs, War on Terror\n[HTML1] The March issue of Esquire magazine \u2013 it's due to hit the newsstands Feb. 19 \u2013 has a lengthy story about the plight of the Navy SEAL who claims he fired the three shots that killed terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. The former SEAL, whose identity the magazine did not reveal, is referred to as \"The Shooter\" in an article written by San Francisco-based investigative journalist Phil Bronstein. The magazine's cover image screams \"The Man Who Killed Osama Bin Laden\u2026Is Screwed.\" Bronstein took to NBC's \"Today\" show earlier today to talk about the article and the SEAL who\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"SMALL ESTATE AFFIDAVITS\nCary A. Lind, P.C.\nThe Estate Department\nBreach Of Fiduciary Duty\nClient Central\nBy Cary A. Lind\nTrue or false: If a decedent's estate is less than $100,000, you can use a small estate affidavit to avoid Probate? Answer: Not necessarily.\nSituations in which you cannot avoid Probate.\nIf the \"Probate assets\" are greater than $100,000.00, you must go through Probate.\nThe small estate affidavit can only be used to transfer personal property. There are some ways to transfer real estate without Probate. Those techniques will be addressed in a future article. In most cases, however, \"If you have real estate, you must Probate.\"\nIf any interested party, including a creditor, petitions for Probate, the court will appoint a representative. A Probate proceeding is not like a lawsuit which the court can readily dismiss. The mere fact that a small estate affidavit can be used does not mean it may be used. Every interested party is entitled to his or her day in court.\nIf there is a dispute as to almost anything, Probate is necessary, even if the amount in issue or in the estate is relatively small.\nThe small estate affidavit.\n\u00a725-1 of the Probate Act sets out the form for the small estate affidavit. While much of the information is basic and factual, there are some particular issues.\nParagraph 9 states the surviving spouse and dependent child awards. The minimums are easy to determine from the statute. What if more than the minimums are sought? If everyone agrees, that is fine. If not, Probate may be required.\nWhere the decedent did not leave a will, Paragraph 10(a) requires the name, address, and the \"portion of the estate\" of each heir. Considering the frequent errors that are made in heirships in court, that may not be an easy task. Issues of adoption, illegitimacy, relationships by the half-blood, etc., can complicate determination of the \"heirs\" and each heir's share of the estate.\nIf there is a will, Paragraph 10(b) requires that the affiant swear that the decedent's will is filed with the clerk of an appropriate court and that a certified copy of the will is attached to the affidavit. I have never had any third party actually require a copy of the will, let alone a certified copy. However, the original will must in fact be filed with the court.\nParagraph 11 \u2013 Payment.\nParagraph 11 of the small estate affidavit directs the third party how to pay the assets held. If all of the assets are held by one third party, it may be easy to direct separate payments for spouse and child awards, expenses, and distributions. However, what if you do not know the precise amount to be received from each third party? What if there are several third parties? How can you handle the logistics?\nThe statute provides a mechanism. \u00a725-1(a) allows payment of the assets to an appointed agent. \u00a725-1(c) gives the agent \"power, without court approval, to gain access to, sell, and distribute the property for the benefit of all persons named in paragraph 11 of the affidavit.\" For the protection of everyone and to comply with the statute, the authorizations must be given by everyone named in paragraph 11 and must be in writing. The statute does not authorize designation of an agent to pay estate bills. However, some parties and attorneys do directly specify payment of bills in the small estate affidavit. In a recent posting to the ISBA Online Discussion Group, an officer of a bank who frequently deals with small estate affidavits said that his bank is often asked in Paragraph 11 to pay bills directly. The bank issues separate checks for the requested expenses.\nParagraph 8 \u2013 Claims.\nParagraph 8 states that \"[t]here is no known unpaid claimant or contested claim against the Decedent, except as stated in Paragraph 7.\" Paragraph 7 deals only with the decedent's funeral expenses. If there are any other claims, then what?\n\"Contested\" claims are relatively easy to spot. If there are any, there will be Probate. However, virtually no estate will have no \"known unpaid claims.\" Who dies without at least one unpaid bill? Does a $15.00 ComEd bill mean that a small estate affidavit cannot be used? Even if claims are paid or settled before preparation of a small estate affidavit, those who paid them are entitled to reimbursement, and those rights are also \"claims.\" Looking at the literal language of the statute, no one could ever sign a small estate affidavit without potentially running afoul of Paragraph 8. In the end, if the \"claims\" will be paid, no one will be left to complain, and a small estate claim can be used (see below).\nPractical suggestions:\nIn order to use the small estate affidavit, you may have to \"ignore\" the requirement of Paragraph 8 that there are no \"known unpaid claimants.\" If you cannot or will not do that, then you cannot use the procedure.\nIn general, where there are a limited number of interested parties who are working together and limited other issues, the small estate affidavit can work well. As the number of parties, third parties, complications, and difficulties increase, use of the small estate affidavit becomes more problematical.\nApart from the Paragraph 8 issue, in dealing with the small estate affidavit, I ask myself who can complain if the small estate affidavit rules or requirements are \"bent.\" I realize that the affidavit is sworn to under penalties of perjury. As much as clients would like to avoid Probate, perjury is not a viable alternative. However, if the only issue is claims, if all claims will be paid, and if there is no one to complain, then why not avoid Probate? You cannot do so if Probate cannot be avoided for other reasons (see above). However, I consider cutting corners where all interested parties have consented in writing and where there is no one to complain against my client or me.\nThe apparently simple small estate procedure can in fact be potentially complicated, and there is no meaningful case law on its use. As attorneys, we are left to figure things out on our own and to fill in the blanks. If we choose to be literal and strict in interpreting the statute, we may find that we can never use a small estate affidavit. In the alternative, if we interpret the statute too liberally and go too far afield, we and our clients can be exposed to liability. It would be helpful if the Illinois legislature would clarify or modify the claims issue. The statute should provide that all known or reasonably ascertainable claims will be paid pursuant to the Probate Act and before any distribution is made. That language would track the requirements of the Probate Act itself and would make the end result the same with or without Probate. It would also allow us to use the small estate affidavit in more situations rather than less and as a truer \"alternative\" to Probate.\n\u00a9 2002 by Cary A. Lind, all rights reserved\n1655 N. Arlington Hts. Rd.\nSuite 100-East\nCary A. Lind, P.C., is in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and serves clients in places including Arlington Heights, Prospect Heights, Schaumburg, Park Ridge, Rolling Meadows, Barrington, Buffalo Grove, Mount Prospect, Palatine, Wheeling, Elk Grove Village, Cook County, Lake County and DuPage County.\n\u00a9 2023 Cary A. Lind, P.C. \u2022 All Rights Reserved","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Local WHO denounces rush of rich countries for Covid vaccine recalls \u2013 .\nWHO denounces rush of rich countries for Covid vaccine recalls \u2013 .\nGeneva (AFP)\nThe World Health Organization on Wednesday condemned the rush by rich countries to provide COVID vaccine boosters, when millions of people around the world have yet to receive a single dose.\nSpeaking before U.S. officials announced that all vaccinated Americans would soon be eligible for additional doses, WHO experts insisted there was not enough scientific evidence that reminders were needed.\nProviding them while so many people were still waiting to be vaccinated was immoral, they argued.\n\"We plan to distribute additional life jackets to people who already have life jackets, while we let others drown without a single life jacket,\" the emergency director of the WHO, Mike Ryan, speaking from UN agency headquarters in Geneva. .\n\"The basic ethical reality is that we are handing out life jackets while leaving millions and millions of people with nothing to protect them. \"\nEarlier this month, the WHO called for a moratorium on booster injections of the Covid vaccine to help alleviate the drastic inequality in the distribution of doses between rich and poor countries.\nThat hasn't stopped a number of countries from moving forward with plans to add a third jab, as they struggle to thwart the Delta variant.\n\u2013 First 'critical' hit \u2013\nU.S. officials, warning that the effectiveness of the Covid-19 vaccination worsened over time, said on Wednesday that they had authorized vaccine boosters for all Americans starting September 20. They will start eight months after an individual has been fully vaccinated.\nWhile vaccines remain \"remarkably effective\" in reducing the risk of serious illness, officials said, hospitalizations and deaths from the effects of Covid, protection could wane in the coming months without enhanced vaccination.\nWashington had already authorized an additional dose for people with weakened immune systems.\nIsrael has also started giving third doses to Israelis aged 50 and over.\nBut WHO experts insisted the science was still on the boosters and stressed that it is much more important to ensure that people in low-income countries where immunizations are late receive vaccines.\n\"What is clear is that it is essential to fire the first shots and protect the most vulnerable before the deployment of boosters,\" WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday in a statement. press conference.\n\"The gap between the haves and have-nots will only widen if manufacturers and policymakers prioritize booster injections over sourcing low and middle income countries,\" he said. .\n\u2013 \"Shame on all mankind\" \u2013\nTedros expressed outrage at reports that the single-dose J&J vaccine currently being finalized in South Africa was being shipped for use in Europe \"where virtually all adults have been offered vaccines at this point\".\n\"We urge J&J to urgently prioritize the distribution of their vaccines in Africa before considering supplies to rich countries that already have sufficient access,\" he said.\n\"The injustice of vaccines is a disgrace to all mankind and if we do not tackle it together we will prolong the acute phase of this pandemic for years when it could be over in a matter of months. \"\nSouth African NGOs have denounced the shipments from South Africa as \"vaccine apartheid\" when less than two percent of the 1.3 billion Africans have been fully immunized so far.\n\"Millions of doses\" produced there have been exported since March to Europe and the United States, several NGOs said in a statement on Tuesday.\n\"J&J are complicit in vaccine apartheid, diverting doses from those who really need them to the richest countries on the planet,\" Fatima Hassan, from the South African NGO Health Justice Initiative, told AFP. .\n\"It's colonialist extraction, plain and simple,\" Hassan said.\nDoses are assembled and packaged in South Africa by pharmaceutical giant Aspen in Gqeberha, formerly known as Port Elizabeth.\n\"Global vaccine allocation is currently not done by public health officials but rather by a handful of business leaders, who consistently prioritize Europeans and North Americans over Africans,\" he said. said Dr Matthew Kavanagh of the Health Law Institute at Georgetown University.\ndenounces\nPrevious articleThe new Genesis GV60 is the premium brand's first bespoke electric vehicle \u2013 .\nNext article'Danger!' 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{"text":"History First\nPresidential stories, history, and trivia\nThe History First Podcast\nA History of the First Iowa Caucus (and why winning in Iowa may not matter)\nBy Kaleena Fraga\nAnd they're off! After years (years) of political posturing by the Democrats, the campaign of 2020 will begin in earnest today, in Iowa.\nWhat did the first Iowa caucus look like? And does winning in Iowa even matter in the general election?\nIowa Caucus of 1972: The Players\nParticipating in primaries became newly important after the chaotic campaign of 1968. In 1972 the Democrats gathered in Iowa to give this form of politicking a serious try.\nTheir goal? To excise the ghosts of 1968 and to make Richard Nixon a one-term president. (They would fail\u2014Nixon's sweeping reelection victory gave him every state but Massachusetts.)\nAnd in fact the election of 1972 contained significant echoes of 1968. Three of the '68 candidates, Eugene McCarthy, Hubert Humphrey, and George McGovern, had decided to run again. \"Run\" is a tricky word here. Of the three, only Eugene McCarthy had participated in the '68 primaries. Humphrey joined the race in April, too late to participate, and McGovern didn't join the campaign until after the assassination of Bobby Kennedy.\n(This time, there would be no Kennedy in the race. In July of 1969, Ted Kennedy had driven his car off a bridge, killing his passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne. \u200eKennedy would run for president in 1980, unsuccessfully.)\nHumphrey had won the nomination in 1968. It was a tough victory, marred by Kennedy's assassination in June, the riots at the Chicago Democratic Convention, and Humphrey's association with an unpopular president, Lyndon Johnson. Still, he'd lost the general election by less than 1% of the vote and wanted another go.\nIn 1972, the alums of the 1968 election were joined by Edmund Muskie, a Senator from Maine.\nWho won the Iowa caucus in 1972?\nAs to who would win the day in Iowa? Drumroll, please\u2014\nTechnically, Muskie won with 35.5% of the vote. But 35.8% of Iowa voters signaled that they were uncommitted.\nMuskie had a healthy lead over the runner up, George McGovern, who earned 22.6% of the vote. Fascinatingly, Muskie fell into a common pitfall of Iowa victors: The win wasn't enough. In fact, it was a bad sign. The New York Times noted:\nBut the victory of the Maine Democrat, widely considered the front\u2010runner for his party's Presidential nomination, was clouded by the unexpectedly strong showing of Senator George McGovern of South Dakota.\nThe real victory, wrote the Times belonged to McGovern:\nFor Mr. McGovern, who has struggled since January, 1970, to convince the press and the public that he is something more than a fringe candidate, the Iowa results provided a lift in the final weeks before the New Hampshire primary on March 7.\nMcGovern's campaign manager, Gary Hart, called McGovern's victory a \"moral\" one.\nAll of this goes to show how tricky Iowa can be. A victory is not a victory; a defeat is not a defeat. Beating expectations is often more powerful than an outright win.\nOf course, losing can be tricky, too. Just ask Howard Dean.\nWhat does a victory in Iowa mean? Not much\nIn fact, many candidates who win in Iowa find defeat further down the trail. Muskie's campaign would fall apart in New Hampshire, when he was accused of crying in front of the press. (Muskie blamed snow on his face.)\nGerald Ford won the Republican's first Iowa caucus in 1976, but lost in the general election to Jimmy Carter. The trend started by Ford and Muskie, of winning in Iowa only to lose later on, was continued by Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Walter Mondale, Dick Gephardt, Bob Dole, Tom Harkin (the eventual nominee, Bill Clinton, got less than 3% of the vote), Al Gore, John Kerry, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, Hillary Clinton, and Ted Cruz. In Iowa, victory is often-short lived.\nThose who won Iowa and then the presidency are a smaller group: Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama won both in Iowa and in the general election.\nSo what does the Iowa caucus really mean? Nothing\u2014and everything. Since 1972, we've certainly seen that anything can happen. And anything can mean anything, depending on how you can spin your results.\nAuthor kaleenafragaPosted on February 3, 2020 February 3, 2020 Categories Campaigns, On this dayTags Iowa caucus\n2 thoughts on \"A History of the First Iowa Caucus (and why winning in Iowa may not matter)\"\npfhwhidbey says:\nAnd now with the precinct reporting meltdown last night, they mean even less.\nTippy Gnu says:\nHeh-heh. With all the money, time, and effort they put into this debacle, your post is a cheeful ray of sunshine. 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{"text":"From Missouri Digital News: https:\/\/mdn.org\nMDN Menu\nMDN Home\nJournalist's Creed\nMDN Help\nMDN.ORG: Missouri Digital News\nMDN.ORG Mo. Digital News Missouri Digital News MDN.ORG: Mo. Digital News MDN.ORG: Missouri Digital News\nSafe Schools Passes Senate\nBy: Elizabeth McKinley\nState Capital Bureau\nJEFFERSON CITY - The Missouri Senate has restored to the \"Safe Schools\" bill the governor's proposal to create a special crime of assaulting a teacher.\nThe criminal penalty was one of 37 amendments the Senate stuck onto the House-passed bill that is designed to keep disruptive students from bothering others in their classrooms, despite a plethora of amendments.\nThe measure now goes back to the House for review of the Senate changes.\nThe bill's sponsor expressed confidence the differences could be worked out before the May 17 adjournment - despite the long list of Senate amendments.\n\"I think the Senate changes have been improvements that don't change the content of the bill,\" said Steve McLuckie, D-Kansas City.\nAmong several provisions of the safe schools bill are measures mandating communication between the school and juvenile authorities, records following the student who transfers, state-wide expulsions and state funding for alternative schools. Alternative schools are for students who do not function well in a traditional classroom.\nMissouri Digital News is produced by Missouri Digital News, Inc. -- a non profit organization of current and former journalists.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Study Identifies Predictors of Poor Outcome in Patients with SSc at Risk for Pulmonary Hypertension\nby Janet Stewart, MSc | October 16, 2018\nA study identified predictors for hospitalization due to lung and heart problems and mortality in systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients at risk for pulmonary hypertension (PH).\nBeing a man, having a reduced capacity to clear carbon monoxide in the lungs, and having pericardial effusions (accumulation of fluids around the heart) were among the predictors found.\nThe results were described in the article \"Risk Factors for Mortality and Cardiopulmonary Hospitalization in Systemic Sclerosis Patients At Risk for Pulmonary Hypertension, in the PHAROS Registry,\" published in the Journal of Rheumatology.\nSSc patients may develop several types of lung disease. In fact, pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and interstitial lung disease (ILD) are the leading causes of death among SSc patients.\nIn order to better understand disease progression and mortality among SSc patients at risk of PH, researchers analyzed data from the Pulmonary Hypertension Assessment and Recognition of Outcomes in Scleroderma registry (PHAROS, NCT00377949). The multicenter study assesses SSc patients in the United States who are at high risk of developing PH, as well as those with newly diagnosed PH.\nMedical records from 236 patients at risk for PH were analyzed. Of these, 35 patients developed PH.\nResults showed that being a man increased the risk of overall mortality 4.72 times.\nHaving low %DLCO (reduced capacity to clear carbon monoxide in the lungs; a measure of lung function) and exercise oxygen desaturation (a drop in the blood's oxygen level during exercise) also increased the mortality risk 2.07 and 5.39 times, respectively, in SSc patients at risk for PH.\nAnemia and pericardial effusion were associated with a 3.76 and 5.32 times increased risk of death, respectively.\nThe risk of hospitalization due to lung and heart problems was found to be associated with an increase in dyspnea (shortness of breath) and pericardial effusions, although PH patients with a DLCO score of less than 50% had the highest risk of hospitalization.\nResults also showed that SSc patients at risk for PH had similar risk factors of poorer outcomes as those already diagnosed with PH or PAH.\n\"Risk factors for worse outcome in those patients with SSc at risk for PH were similar to others with confirmed SSc-PH and SSc-PAH. Male sex, %DLCO less than 50%, exercise oxygen desaturation, and the presence of pericardial effusions in those at risk for PH were independently associated with higher mortality,\" the team concluded.\nAccording to the team, \"patients with these risk factors should undergo RHC [right heart catheterization] and receive appropriate intervention if PH is confirmed.\" RHC can provide a definite diagnosis of PH.\nJanet Stewart, MSc Janet Stewart is a life sciences writer and editor, who completed both PhD course work and oral examinations in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at McGill University, and holds an M.Sc. in Virology and Immunology.\nhospitalization, mortality, PH, PHAROS, pulmonary hypertension, risk","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"UCLA is No. 1 seed for 1st time in NCAA baseball tournament\nOMAHA, Neb. (AP) \u2014 UCLA coach John Savage didn't expect his Bruins to be down for long after they went from being national champions in 2013 to finishing five games under .500 in 2014.\nThe Bruins' dominance in the Pac-12 this spring impressed the Division I Baseball Committee so much that on Monday they were awarded their first No. 1 national seed for the NCAA tournament.\n\"We knew we were going to have a good team,\" he said. \"We knew we had some players back, and we knew we were healthy. But to go from the top of the mountain in '13 to the bottom in '14 and then back in '15, at least to this point, feels pretty good.\n\"The Pac-12 coaches predicted us to win the league. I think that's kind of a telling sign. You still have to go out and do it and have things go your way.\"\nThe Bruins (42-14) edged out Southeastern Conference regular-season champion LSU (48-10) even though they lost two of three at Oregon in their last series.\n\"UCLA has been there for much of the season. LSU is an outstanding club as well. There's such a fine line between the two,\" said committee chairman Dave Heeke, athletic director at Central Michigan.\n\"UCLA did not lose a series until that last weekend. They were a powerful group throughout the entire year. Ultimately, it was very close, but they were deemed to be our No. 1 overall seed.\"\nThe other six national seeds, in order, are: Louisville, Florida, Miami, Illinois, TCU and Missouri State.\nThe tournament opens Friday with 16 four-team, double-elimination regionals. Best-of-three super regionals are next week, with those winners moving to the College World Series in Omaha.\nNational seeds that win their regionals play at home in super regionals. Since the NCAA went to its current tournament format in 1999, only one No. 1 national seed \u2014 Miami in 1999 \u2014 has won the championship.\nUCLA didn't even make the tournament last year, following its championship with an injury-riddled 25-30-1 season.\nThe Bruins have bounced back on the strength of a pitching staff that leads the nation with a 2.16 ERA and a much-improved offense that's batting .285 and averaging better than six runs a game.\nThis is the third time since 2010 that UCLA has earned a national seed. UCLA starts the tournament in Los Angeles against Cal State Bakersfield. Maryland and Mississippi also are in the Bruins' regional.\nLSU coach Paul Mainieri's team has been the consensus No. 1 team in the major polls for a month. He said he had no problem with the selection committee's decision on national seedings.\nThe Tigers have one of the country's most powerful offenses, batting .320 and scoring 7.2 runs a game. They lost to Florida in the semifinals of the SEC tournament.\n\"A lot was made of, 'Are we going to be the No. 1 overall seed?' I wasn't the least bit concerned about it,\" Mainieri said. \"UCLA is very deserving of that honor. We would have been deserving as well. It really doesn't matter.\"\nDefending national champion Vanderbilt was among a group of teams considered for one of the last two national seeds. The Commodores, runners-up to Florida in the SEC tournament, start the NCAA tournament at home against Lipscomb.\nThe Atlantic Coast Conference and SEC tied for most qualifiers with seven apiece. The Pac-12 has six teams in the tournament, and the Big Ten set a conference record with five NCAA teams.\nTeams making their first appearances are conference tournament champions Radford (Big South) Florida A&M (MEAC), Houston Baptist (Southland) and Cal State Bakersfield (WAC).\nTwo teams got in with losing records, Northeast Conference champion Sacred Heart (23-30-1) and Patriot League champ Lehigh (25-29).\nTwenty-seven of the 64 teams were in the field last year.\nMiami is in the tournament for a record 43rd consecutive year. Florida State qualified for a 38th year in a row.\nAccording to the selection committee, the last four teams in the field were Maryland, South Florida, Oregon and Clemson. The first four out were North Carolina, Missouri, Michigan State and Southern Mississippi.\nPosted on Tue, May 26, 2015 by ERIC OLSON, AP Sports Writer","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Travel-related measures in the early stage of the epidemic. (A) Probability distribution of the arrival time (date of arrival of the first symptomatic case) in Germany for different values of traffic reduction, \u03d5. The vertical dotted line indicates the observed arrival time in the country, as obtained from official reports, and the vertical solid line indicates the starting date of the travel restrictions (25 April, 2009), which was the day after the international alert. The probability distributions were obtained from 2,000 stochastic realizations, and data were binned over 7 days. (B) Cumulative probability distributions of the first seeding event from Mexico to Germany for different values of traffic reduction \u03d5. We considered any source of infection in the seeding event, including symptomatic cases and non-detectable infected cases, such as latent and asymptomatic. (C) Delay in the case importation from Mexico to a given country compared with the reference stochastic forecast output (SFO) as a function of the travel reduction \u03d5. The delay was measured in terms of the date at which the cumulative distribution of the seeding from Mexico (B) reached 90%.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Chris Perri\nChris Perri Law\nAustin,\nAn award-winning attorney with over 15 years of experience practicing criminal law, Chris Perri has dedicated his life to fighting for justice and freedom. As the child of a doctor and nurse, he learned early on the value of helping others, a value he now tries to instill in his son. Although he took a different path by pursuing law, Chris chose to become a criminal defense lawyer so that he could help people in their times of trouble and need. Just like his parents to their patients, Chris strives to be a caring, knowledgeable, hardworking, and successful advocate for his clients, regardless of the charges they may face.\nChris Perri says, \"My goal is to provide personalized service to each client, where I give each case my fullest attention. That's the only way to ensure that you achieve the best possible outcome.\"\nUNLIKE MOST CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEYS IN AUSTIN, CHRIS PERRI IS LICENSED TO PRACTICE LAW AT BOTH THE TEXAS STATE AND FEDERAL LEVELS.\nUnlike most criminal defense attorneys in Austin, Chris Perri is licensed to practice law at both the Texas state and federal levels. He has extensive experience helping clients win trials, overturn convictions, get cases dismissed or reduced, and expunge criminal records. Dependent on the details of your situation, Chris Perri will develop a tailored strategy to ensure the best possible outcome for your particular case.\nThrough his expertise in legal research, Chris Perri will ensure that the government respects your constitutional rights, and he'll fearlessly challenge the police and prosecution if they fail to do so. Moreover, his jury trial experience ensures that if plea negotiations falter, you will have someone by your side with a proven track record of success. In addition to his law degree from the University of Texas, Chris Perri earned a Master's Degree in Economics in order to hone his logical thinking process. As a result, you can rest assured that he won't fall into any surprise holes once he has thoroughly analyzed your case.\nPut simply, no matter the situation at hand, Chris Perri is ready to fight for you\u2014and win.\nTHERE IS A REASON WHY AUSTIN MONTHLY MAGAZINE NAMED CHRIS PERRI AS ONE OF AUSTIN'S TOP ATTORNEYS.\nIn addition to running his own law firm, Chris Perri is a leader in the criminal defense community. Since 2014, he has served as a founding and supervising attorney for UT Law's pro bono Texas Expunction Project. In 2016, UT's Texas Law Fellowships program awarded Chris the Excellence in Public Interest Award based on his pro bono work as a private-practicing attorney.\nChris is a member of the Austin Bar Association, Texas NORML, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Austin Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, where he served on the board of directors from 2014 to 2019, and is a graduate of Leadership Austin's Emerge program. He is also a member of the National Trial Lawyers Association, which recently recognized Chris as one of the top criminal defense trial attorneys in the region.\nFurther, Chris is a sought-after legal thinker, often leading educational seminars for fellow defense lawyers and college students as well as penning powerful articles focused on criminal justice. You can read some of his publications listed further below. He's guest-appeared on several podcasts and co-hosts a weekly web series called The Budding Report, which explores all things cannabis. His priority on the show is to ensure that everyone knows their rights when it comes to the ever-changing drug laws.\nThere is a reason why Chris Perri was selected to the premiere 2022 Texas SuperLawyers List and that Austin Monthly Magazine named him one of Austin's Top Attorneys in both 2021 and 2022. Yes, he's a legal expert in criminal defense at both the trial and appellate levels, but, perhaps more importantly, he cares about the person behind the criminal allegation. With our firm by your side, you can rest assured that you'll receive the best possible defense from someone who sees you as more than your criminal charge.\nThere's no substitute for personalized service from a dedicated, energetic, and meticulous defense lawyer who consistently gets the best results. If you or someone you know is in trouble in Texas, contact Chris Perri at (512) 883-4633 for a FREE consultation today.\nSELECT PUBLICATIONS, MEDIA, AND AWARDS\n\"A Form of THC Is Now Legal\u2014Wait, What?\" Do512. 11 June 2021\n\"How to Handle a Criminal Record When Applying for Jobs.\" Do512. 9 April. 2021\n\"Magic Mushrooms and The Law: What You Need to Know.\" Do512. 24 Feb. 2021\n\"The Case of Rosa Jimenez and the Uphill Battle of Freeing the Wrongfully Convicted.\" Jurist News. 4 Feb. 2021\n\"Three Ways The Progressive New D.A. Could Transform Austin.\" Do512. 22 Jan. 2021\n\"How to Help a Friend Facing DWI Charges in Travis County.\" Do512. 15 Dec. 2020\n\"What the \"Green Wave\" Might Mean for Texas.\" Do512. 20 Nov. 2020\n\"Know Your Voting Rights.\" Do512. 14 Oct. 2020\n\"A Word Every Longhorn Should Know: Expunction.\" The Daily Texan. 11 Oct. 2020\n\"We Should Reimagine the Legal Process to Overturn Faulty Convictions.\" Austin American-Statesman, 31 July 2020\n\"Austin's Marijuana Laws: Explained.\" Do512, 29 July 2020\n\"Know Your Rights When Interacting with the Cops.\" Do512, 6 June 2020\n\"The Trial of Joe Biden in the Court of Public Opinion.\" Jurist News. 14 May 2020\n\"Because of COVID-19, It's Less Safe Behind Bars. Here's How Federal Prisoners Can Petition to Get Their Sentences Reduced.\" Austin Chronicle, 24 April 2020\n\"How Making a Murderer Exposes America's Flawed Jury System.\" Austin American-Statesman. 4 Sept. 2016\n\"Expunction for DWI Arrest? Texas Law: Obtaining an Expunction.\" Austin Chronicle: The Common Law. 3 Oct. 2014\n\"Does An Old Arrest Show Up on a Criminal Background Check? What's Best to Do After a Case Gets Dismissed\" Austin Chronicle: The Common Law. 5 Sept. 2014\n\"Abortion in Texas: Where the Law Stands Now.\" Do512 29 July 2022\n\"Boating While Intoxicated: What You Need to Know.\" Do512. 1 July 2022\n\"Deterioration of Due Process for the Wrongfully Convicted.\" Jurist News. 24 June 2022\n\"Criminal Records and Dating Apps: What You Need to Know.\" Do512. 2 June 2022\n\"What Are My Options If Arrested for Drug Possession in Austin?\" Do512. 14 April 2022\n\"Ten Tips on How to Avoid a Criminal Arrest This Holiday Season.\" Do512. 7 Dec. 2021\n\"APD's No Refusal Initiative: What You Need to Know.\" Do512. 8 Oct. 2021\n\"Pleading the 5th: Everything to Know About Your Rights and the 5th Amendment in Austin.\" Do512. 10 Sept. 2021\n\"Can You Be Arrested for Alcohol and Drugs While Camping and Hiking Near Austin?\" Do512. 9 Aug. 2021\nWeekly co-host of The Budding Report\n\"Wild Card.\" Orange Tree Podcast, The Drag Audio Production House at The University of Texas at Austin, 4 Aug. 2020\n\"Innocent Until Proven Guilty.\" The Foundation Podcast, Texas Public Policy Foundation, 28 Aug. 2018\nInterview regarding DNA testing errors in Austin. KXAN. 14 Oct. 2015\n\"Top Lawyers: Chris Perri of Chris Perri Law On The 5 Things You Need To Become A Top Lawyer In Your Specific Field of Law\" interview. Authority Magazine. Oct. 2021\nNamed one of Austin's 2021 Top Attorneys by Austin Monthly Magazine\nSelected to the exclusive and research-driven 2021 Super Lawyers Texas Rising Stars List\nRecognized as one of the top 100 trial lawyers in the region by the National Trial Lawyers Association\nReceived the Avvo 2020 Clients' Choice Award\nAwarded with the 2016 Excellence in Public Interest Award, put forth by the University of Texas Law Fellowships Program\nSelected to the premiere 2022 Texas SuperLawyers List\nRecognized by Expertise.com as one of the 2022 Best Criminal Defense Attorneys in Both Austin and Rock Rock","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"UK biotech PhoreMost to work with Otsuka on gene therapy projects\nSMi's Pharma Microbiology in Boston 2-day event what to expect\nJanssen's Darzalex approved in EU for newly-diagnosed multiple myeloma\nAZ buys cut price priority review voucher, but for what?\nAstraZeneca has bought a priority review voucher (PRV) from Swedish biotech Sobi for $95 million, but isn't revealing just yet what it intends to use it for.\nA PRV can be used to reduce an FDA regulatory review by four months to six months, and there has been a thriving trade in them over the last few years driven by companies that feel there is a significant benefit from reducing the time to market for a new drug product.\nDrug developers are awarded PRVs from the FDA as a reward for bringing orphan drugs for diseases with significant unmet need to market, and this one was awarded to Novimmune when it got approval for Gamifant (emapalumab) for hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) from the FDA last November.\nStockholm-based Sobi claimed rights to Gamifant \u2013 and the PRV \u2013 when it acquired the business from Novimmune in a $518 million deal in June.\nThe price paid by AZ suggests that the going rate for PRVs continues to slide, however, having reached a peak when AbbVie paid a whopping $350 million for one awarded to United Therapeutics in 2015. In 2017 the deal values were still generally above $100 million, but since then have slipped below that threshold.\nAt the time only a handful of vouchers had been granted by the FDA, but the drive by biopharma companies into rare diseases has made them more common. That may explain why prices are on the slide, and it may also be that with a fairly fertile fundraising environment smaller biotechs are hanging onto them in case they can benefit from them in the future.\nThere were six PRVs awarded in 2017, seven in 2018 and so far 2019's tally has reached five with four months of the year still to go.\nSpeculation on the motivation for AZ's purchase is focusing mainly on two late-stage projects which could both benefit from a head start in the market.\nOne is Fibrogen-partnered HIF-PHI drug roxadustat for anaemia associated with chronic kidney disease, which is already approved in China \u2013 picking up an additional approval for a broader patient population just this week. It is in a race to market with GlaxoSmithKline's daprodustat in the US, Europe and other world markets including Japan.\nRoxadustat is tipped to become a $2 billion product in 2023, according to Clarivate forecasts, and with GSK hard on its heels with data that looks comparable a few months' lead could make it easier to claim dominance in the emerging HIF-PHI market.\nAnother is HER2-targeting antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) trastuzumab deruxtecan (DS-8201) for breast, gastric and other solid cancers, which AZ licensed from Daiichi Sankyo earlier this year in a massive deal that included $1.35 billion upfront and another $5.55 billion in potential follow-up payments.\nDS-8201 is currently in phase 3 testing for HER2-positive breast cancer, including a head-to-head trial with Roche's $1 billion-a-year HER2-targeting ADC Kadycla (trastuzumab emtansine) and importantly another late-stage study in advanced breast cancer patients with lower levels of HER2 expression.\nDon't miss your daily pharmaphorum news.\nSUBSCRIBE free here.\nFacebookTwitterLinkedinPinterestDiggStumbleuponRedditXingMailPrintWhatsappTumblr\ntrastuzumab deruxtecan\nAZ and MSD's Lynparza gets fast prostate cancer FDA review\nCase Study: How AstraZeneca evolved its digital supply chain\nExclusive Interview with AstraZeneca's Former VP, Medical Evidence & Observational Research","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Paul Clermont\nPaul Clermont is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Business Technology & Digital Transformation Strategies practice. He has been a consultant in IT strategy, governance, and management for 30 years. His clients have been primarily in the financial and manufacturing industries, as well as the US government. Mr. Clermont takes a clear, practical view of how information technology can transform organizations and what it takes to direct both business people and technicians toward that end. His major practice areas include directing, managing, and organizing information technology; reengineering business processes to take full advantage of technology; and developing economic models and business plans.\nMr. Clermont is known for successfully communicating IT issues to general managers in a comprehensible, jargon-free way that frames decisions and describes their consequences in business terms. In his consulting engagements, he follows a pragmatic approach to the specific situation and players at hand and is not wedded to particular models, methodologies, or textbook solutions.\nBefore going into individual practice, Mr. Clermont was a Principal with Nolan, Norton & Co., a boutique consultancy that became part of KPMG. Before joining Nolan, Norton & Co., he directed IT strategy at a major Boston bank and launched its IT executive steering committee. Mr. Clermont has spoken and written about the challenges of getting significant and predictable value from IT investments and has taught executive MBA courses on the topic. His undergraduate and graduate education at MIT's Sloan School of Management was heavily oriented toward operations research. He can be reached at consulting@cutter.com\nMore from Paul Clermont\nThe Rich World of Unintended Consequences\nWho Knew THAT Would Happen?\nMassive Job Loss: AI's Real and Present Danger?\nLiving at the Frontiers of Automation\nPrivacy Issues and AI Forecast\n...The task for building such an information system under strict time and budgetary constraints is daunting, but has been ameliorated by exploiting our \"access to Cutter experts\" during all phases of project planning and implementation. One critical element for success is having access to the Cutter body of knowledge and its expertise.\nArturo Cervantes\nDirector General of Information Services for Evaluation Results, National Institute for Educational Evaluation, Mexico","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Interviews Music TV shows News\nFrom Russia with love \u2013 LP as a guest star of contest 'New Wave 2017' in Sochi\nby Anna \/ September 8, 2017\nOn September 8th, LP arrived to Russia. Her day started with promo stuff, including interview for Life \u041d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438, that was streamed live via Facebook. You can still watch it by clicking here. On her arrival to Russia, LP also announced tour for Russia that will take place in March 2018, for dates check 'Dates' section on the blog.\nphoto via @kartina.tv via Instagram\nLater tonight LP was a guest star at a gala concert opening contest 'New Wave 2017' at a New Wave Hall in Sochi. New Wave (Russian: \u041d\u043e\u0432\u0430\u044f \u0432\u043e\u043b\u043d\u0430) is an international contest for young performers of popular music founded in 2002 by the Russian composer Igor Krutoy and Latvian pianist and composer Raimonds Pauls and later enhanced by the Russian superstar Alla Pugacheva.\nphoto via @starhit.ru Instagram \u2013 LP with Olga Buzova\/\u041e\u043b\u044c\u0433\u0430 \u0411\u0443\u0437\u043e\u0432\u0430 (@buzova86)\nFor many years, the 'New Wave' International Contest of Young Pop Singers has been a major event on the cultural scene of Russia, in neighboring countries and beyond. The great interest of millions of viewers cheering for Contestants and the Contest's concert programs is the indication that the New Wave has become a highly anticipated annual international music award. For full history of the contest click here.\nPrint screen of live video\nIn 2017, the Contest Organizing Committee received more than 12,000 applications. Professional Jury had selected 14 finalists from 9 countries of the world after the semi-finals, and these finalists came to Russia to fight for their victory from September, 8 to 14. Finalists will be judged by the professional jury. The Jury is presided by People's Artist of Russia, composer Igor Krutoy.\nphoto via @arsenairapetov Instagram\nTonight, as a special guest (and the most fashionable one) LP sang 4 songs in total. She started with 'Other People', followed by 'Suspicion' along with 'When We're High'. LP finished with her biggest hit (so far) \u2013 'Lost On You'. Arsen (@arsenairapetov), streamed live LP's set via Instagram, and again I've managed to save it and you can watch it by clicking here. Or you can go to his Instagram account and view it there, though it will be deleted after 24 h, as it is with lives & insta-stories.\nNow, I would also like to mention Alia, little girl, who was travelling to Sochi with a big dream: \"Dear LP, I want to hug you, give you flowers, I'll sing with you. I can not wait to see you, I'll come to Sochi just for you!!!! Your voice is very beautiful. I also sing at my music lessons. I also dream of becoming a star like you. My biggest dream is to sing with you. And I'm sending you kisses!!! Wish you a strong health, a lot of songs, and always stay beautiful as you are!!!!\" ??????????????????\".\nphoto @olga.norova via Instagram\nThanks to good souls of Evgenia \/ FB page Letters to LP \/Instagram: @allstraaange; as well as Instagram magic with help of @iamlp_fan_ru, LP did notice this wish, as she wrote: \"I want to meet her tonight!!\", and she made Alia's dream come true! Very happy for Alia! I'm sure her mum @olga.norova is very proud of her little girl.That's all for now. I will be looking for some official videos of LP's concert and hopefully some photo-gallery of pictures. I will be updating my post tomorrow.\nphoto by @_humpa via Instagram, posted with kind permission\nUpdate: Interview with LP conducted before her concert can be found here. It's in Russian, so some of you will need help of translator. Gallery of images here, here, here & here \u2013 this one has also short video reportage. HQ video of LP performing 'Lost On You' is here. Another interview with LP can be found here. And here's really great gallery of images from the gala concert.\n\u2665100 1867\n'Live on the Green' in Nashville & round up of LP's news \u2013 ncluding new interview!\n'Together Here We Are' \u2013 LP as a special guest of Elisa Toffoli & LP Italia's 'Lost in Arts'\nLos Angeles LGBT Center 50th Anniversary Celebration at the Historic Greek Theatre\nAbout that record that never saw the light of day\nNorth American Tour \u2013 Day 29, Cannery Ballroom in Nashville, Tennessee","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"U.N. Publicly Rejects Russia's Call for Secret Vote on Ukraine\n(Reuters) - The United Nations General Assembly voted on Monday to reject Russia's call for the 193-member body to hold a secret ballot later this week on whether to condemn Moscow's move to annex four partially occupied regions in Ukraine.\nThe General Assembly decided, with 107 votes in favor, that it would hold a public vote - not a secret ballot - on a draft resolution that condemns Russia's \"illegal so-called referenda\" and the \"attempted illegal annexation.\" Diplomats said the vote on the resolution would likely be on Wednesday or Thursday.\nOnly 13 countries on Monday opposed holding a public vote on the draft resolution, another 39 countries abstained and the remaining countries - including Russia and China - did not vote.\nRussia had argued that Western lobbying meant that \"it may be very difficult if positions are expressed publicly.\" During the meeting on Monday Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia questioned the push to condemn Moscow.\n\"What does this have to do with peace and security or trying to settle conflicts?\" said Nebenzia, describing it as \"yet one more step towards division and escalation, which I'm sure is not something the absolute majority of states in this room need.\"\nAfter the General Assembly decided on Monday that it would hold a public vote on the draft resolution, Russia immediately tried to get the body to reconsider the issue, but it overwhelmingly failed.\nMoscow has moved to annex four partially occupied regions in Ukraine - Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia - after staging what it called referendums. Ukraine and allies have denounced the votes as illegal and coercive.\nThe draft U.N. General Assembly resolution calls on states not to recognize Russia's move and reaffirms the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.\nOnly 13 countries on Monday opposed holding a public vote on the draft resolution\nUkraine's Interior Minister among 18 Dead in Helicopter Crash\nRussia Blames Its Soldiers' Mobile Phone Use For Deadly Missile Strike","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u00ab The Ottoman Medical Service in the Crimea\nThe other Cold War \u00bb\nTHE OTHER SIDE OF MACAU\nFrom fusion cuisine to spectacular performances to a colorful blend of history, the peninsula has more than one way to hit the jackpot.\nLOCATED ON THE SOUTHEAST coast of mainland China and with a history that includes centuries as a Portuguese outpost, Macau is a curious blend of cultures. Now though it is probably best known for its glitzy Las Vegas-like casino scene and grand hotel complexes including the Sheraton Macao Hotel (the largest Sheraton in the world) and the Conrad Macao. And the boom doesn't seem to be ending soon, new projects planned for the near future include the Wynn Macau casino and hotel, and Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott hotels. But beyond all of the dazzling neon lights, Macau still retains its rich past and boasts a number of great ways to spend your time away from the tables.\nGet A Taste\nMacanese cuisine was created when colonists arrived here from other Portuguese outposts such as Angola, Brazil, and Goa, blending their cooking styles with the local Chinese fare. To sample some of these fusion cuisine front-runners head to Restaurante Litoral. The restaurant specializes in hard-to-find Macanese dishes such as beef pork with shrimp paste and tacho, a Macanese meat stew.\nBe sure to save some room for Taipa's Kwun Ya Kai, a popular street-food area where hawkers sell something for every taste including almond cookies, hundreds of variations on meat jerkies, durian ice cream, and egg tarts. But if you want the original egg tart, follow the crowd to Lord Stow's Bakery. Opened in 1989. this egg-custard creation or pastel de nata in Portuguese, quickly became a national dish. There are a number of different outlets now across Macau and in Asia, but the original bakery is in the Coloane Town Square on Rua Do Tassara.\nStep Back to the Past\nThe historic center of Macau was named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2005 and inside you will find a mix of residential, public, and religious Chinese and Portuguese buildings. The old buildings are numerous, but there are some can't-miss stops in the area. The large crimson A-Ma Temple is the oldest Taoist temple in Macau, built in 1488, and is still a popular worship site today. Perhaps Macau's best-known historical site, the ruins of St. Paul's Cathedral are also located in the area. The cathedral, built by Jesuits in 1602, used to be one of the largest Catholic complexes in Asia but it was abandoned and the building was destroyed by a fire during a typhoon in 1835. Although only the imposing and ornate facade remains, the Museum of Sacred Arts is located behind it in what was formally the cathedral's crypt.\nYou can see excellent examples of Portuguese influence at Senado Square and St. Dominic's Church. Both display trademark design elements from the country. In the early 1990s. Portuguese experts were brought in to pave the 3.700-square-meter square with a wave-patterned mosaic of colored stone in a manner popular in Portugal. The church, whose current structure dates back to the 17th century, boasts a bright pastel facade that is in a classic Portuguese style.\nThe second section of the historic center comprises the sprawling Guia Fortress. This popular tourist site is a great example of Western and Chinese cultures blending in Macau. Sitting on the highest point on the peninsula, the fortress was built after the Dutch unsuccessfully tried to take Macau. The compound also holds the first Western-style lighthouse built on the East Asian coast as well as the Chapel of Our Lady Guia. which retains nearly all its original features including frescos discovered in 1998 that show both Western and Chinese themes.\nWith the hustle and bustle of Macau's glittering casino scene it can be easy to forget that the peninsula also has a natural side. For a change of pace head to the southern island of Coloane There are two beaches on the island; the golden-sand Cheoc Van is the smaller but more beautiful of the two.\nColoane's mountainous terrain makes for interesting and visually captivating biking and hiking adventures. The island's center is crisscrossed with unpaved routes that vary in length and difficulty.\nColoane is also home to one of two golf courses in Macau, the 18-hole Macau Golf and Country Club, which has hosted the Macau Open and players like Nick Faldo, Lee Westwood, and John Daly since 1998.\nDaily Amusements\nDon't forget to take in a show while in Macau. The US$257-million House of Dancing Water is a record-breaking production created by former Cirque du Soleil director Franco Dragone. The show has everything: high-flying aerials, more than 250 embedded fountains, 77 performers from 18 different counties, water stunts, and more all performed in the world's largest commercial pool, built especially for the production.\nMacau has a number of action-packed activities for the whole family starting with Macau Tower, which has a 360-degree observation deck 223 meters above ground level for unparalleled views of the island. From the deck, Skywalk X offers a couple of activities not for the faint-hearted; take a walk around the outer rim of the deck on a 1.8-meter platform or take the plunge with a bungee or Sky fall jump.\nFor amusements on firm ground, Fisherman's Wharf is an 11-hectare theme park that is open 24 hours a day with free admission. Inside, you will find a hodgepodge of structures and attractions including replicas of Tang Dynasty towers, a 40-meter man-made volcano, and a Roman amphitheater. There is also a large shopping center, video-game arcade, and water-performance space.\nMacau also has a collection of museums dedicated to the peninsula's colorful past. The Macau Museum is probably the most comprehensive with three floors dedicated to the beginnings of Macau, popular arts and traditions, and to contemporary Macau and its portrayal in literature and arts. Additionally, the Museum of Taipa and Coloane History is a notable stop for those interested in archeology and history as it holds the findings and some artifacts from five excavations in the Hac-Sa area of Coloane Island that span from 1973 to 2006. Comprised of five green houses built in 1921 in the traditional Macanese style with strong Portuguese influences, the Taipa Houses Museum gives visitors a historical and intimate look at everyday life in Macau.\n\u041e\u043a\u0442\u044f\u0431\u0440\u044c 25th, 2016 | Tags: built, Macau, other, Portuguese, side | Category: All news","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Whitehouse extending facemask requirement until January 18, 2022\nPosted on August 17, 2021 by Daniel Gillaspia\n8\/17\/21 Update:\nIt looks like the Biden Administration is going to extend the mask requirement until January 18, 2022.\nBack in April when the mask requirement was extended to September 13, 2021, a lot of us thought there may be an end to masks on planes by mid September but with the outbreak of the Delta variant this summer I think a lot of us saw the writing on the wall.\nUnfortunately, this probably means a lot more unruly passengers as mask usage seems to be a major correlative factor for that type of behavior. In fact, according to the FAA, out of 3,889 unruly passenger reports this year about 74% of them related to violations of airline mask policies.\nThere has been talk about mandating vaccines for air travel and indeed that is already going to happen in Canada. Indeed, most Americans support mandating vaccine passports for domestic air travel and some major US airlines (United Airlines, Frontier Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines) now require their employees to be vaccinated.\nHowever, based on comments made from airline executives and top government officials it does not seem like vaccines will be mandatory for domestic air travel in the US. It could happen but it doesn't seem very likely at this point.\nTSA is extending the facemask requirement for everyone across all transportation networks throughout the United States, including at airports, onboard commercial aircraft, on over-the-road buses, and on commuter bus and rail systems through September 13.\n\"The federal mask requirement throughout the transportation system seeks to minimize the spread of COVID-19 on public transportation,\" said Darby LaJoye, the Senior Official Performing the Duties of the TSA Administrator.\n\"Right now, about half of all adults have at least one vaccination shot and masks remain an important tool in defeating this pandemic. We will continue to work closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to evaluate the need for these directives and recognize the significant level of compliance thus far.\"\nTSA notes that \"[t]he extension of the face mask requirement is consistent with this most recent CDC guidance.\"\nThis is true but many people including myself are starting to question the guidance from the CDC.\nFirst, there is the long list of reversals that the CDC has made on issues such as mask wearing that make many people skeptical about CDC recommendations in general.\nBut that aside, early reports are showing that vaccinations are effective not just at preventing infection but also transmission.\nIn other words, vaccinated individuals likely have a very low risk of spreading the coronavirus to anyone.\nThis likely means that others would only benefit a very small (perhaps negligible) amount from a vaccinated person wearing a mask. Basically, I suspect that if you do get vaccinated, wearing a mask is simply not needed or at least not worth the burden.\nAnd if you still do need the mask even after getting vaccinated then I guess masks are now a permanent fixture?\nNow I am not a medical professional so don't take any of this advice too seriously but I think a lot of people share this same viewpoint that the CDC cost\/benefit analysis is out of whack post-vaccinations.\nVaccines have now been available to virtually everyone in the country for a couple of weeks and so within another couple of weeks virtually everybody will have had a chance to get fully vaccinated.\nTo me, logic would dictate that mask wearing (for vaccinated adults) would not be needed much sooner than September. By the end of May, full immunity will have kicked in for just about everybody who wanted the vaccine and it would seem that masks for vaccinated people don't make sense beyond that date.\nBut I understand that governments like to play things conservatively so it really is no surprise that the extension has been made until September.\nPerhaps they feel that if they remove the mask mandate now then a lot of the non-vaccinated individuals will stop wearing them and contribute to the spread of the virus among the non-vaccinated which includes children. New strains of coronavirus might be spreading to more children so there could be legitimate concern there.\nAt some point we just have to accept that there's going to be a risk to people who are not vaccinated and just get on with life, though. As of two weeks ago, half the country's adults had at least one vaccine shot so I think that day should be here pretty soon.\nI will give TSA credit for at least establishing a specific date as that shows that they are interested in this all coming to an end at some point.\nStill, it's going to be weird when there is a mask requirement in the middle to late summer when the virus is likely posing virtually no threat in the US.\nWorth noting: the existing civil penalty fine structure will also remain in place which starts at $250 and rises to $1,500 for repeat offenders who violate this face mask requirement.\n\u00ab 25 Best Things to Do in Yosemite National Park [2021]\nCan You Write A Check to Yourself? [2021] \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"zz_Free\nNews Corp.'s Hulu hope: more commercials\nBrian Steinberg, AdAge.com\nAs it negotiates its next contract with Hulu, News Corp. is pushing for the ability to run a greater number of ads in a portion of the Fox programs available on the site\u2014a shift for Hulu, which since its launch in 2007 has touted significantly lighter ad loads than what viewers get on TV. And a growing number of ads in Hulu could signal a shift for the wider online video world as well.\nUnder the terms being discussed, Fox hopes to add more commercials to the Hulu inventory it's already allowed to sell to its own ad clients, according to people familiar with the negotiations. The talks may not result in any concrete changes, and Fox would likely step gingerly into the effort, taking consumer and advertiser reaction into account, these people suggested.\nThe idea is for Fox to be able to sell advertisers the ability to hawk their wares across all platforms\u2014including Hulu.\nTo do so, it needs to get Hulu to agree to allow more ads, narrowing the gap between ad loads on Hulu and TV. The Hulu ad load, however, will likely not mirror the TV ad load.\nThe talks spotlight one of the most-fevered taffy pulls of the modern media age. Digital outlets covet network TV programs because they're often among the most-watched pieces of content. Yet letting those shows run online with a reduced ad load doesn't always make financial sense. Losing viewers to the Web or a mobile device can mean a drop in TV ratings, still the largest driver of ad revenue for the TV business.\nFor Hulu, which has been in recent talks with all three of its media owners\u2014News Corp., Walt Disney and NBC Universal\u2014over a variety of issues related to access to programming, accommodating News Corp. could have a business effect. Hulu has stood out because of its ease of use and its sparse, streamlined design, of which the small ad load is no small part. Hulu in some cases even lets users choose the ad they'd prefer to see.\n\"Hulu and the networks are starting to step on each other's toes,\" said Michael Bologna, managing partner and director-emerging communications at WPP's Group M. While Hulu sells much of its own inventory, the networks are allowed to sell some as well. As Mr. Bologna understands the situation, Fox hopes to offer advertisers the opportunity to place ads on Hulu and Fox.com as a way to bolster their TV buy and reach a broader audience around such programs as Family Guy and Fringe. Last year Fox did something similar with the slice of Hulu advertising under its control, using the Hulu stash to offer \"make-goods,\" or ad inventory used to make up for TV-ratings shortfalls, to its advertisers. Such a move could easily undercut Hulu's own ad-sales efforts.\nFox offered brief detail about its venture at its recent upfront presentation, where Toby Byrne, the network's president-sales, said Fox planned \"to extend the ability of your ads to travel with our content across screens to create a unified audience experience regardless of platform.\" Fox's ad-sales staff, he added, \"will provide the one-stop shopping solution for your ads to run on-air as well as online with scale on Hulu. \"\nA Fox spokeswoman said Mr. Byrne was not available for further comment. A Hulu spokeswoman said the company would not comment.\nFox has reason to test these waters. The streaming-video site for the CW network, owned jointly by Time Warner and CBS Corp., last year upped its ad load close to matching the number of ads shown on TV. Despite the increase in ads, unique viewers of full episodes on CWTV.com increased 55% season to date as of May 19; the amount of time viewers spent watching online shows increased 175% this season; and 94% of the ads in full episodes streamed online were watched to completion.\nMore TV outlets could make this push as well. Nielsen has been preparing to measure ratings across TV and the Web, as long as commercials shown online mirror those shown when a program aired on TV. That way, Nielsen can continue to provide so-called \"commercial ratings,\" which measure the average viewership of commercial breaks.\nChilly fall season on Broadway\nNews Corp. to disclose political giving\nJude Law is first News Corp. phone-hacking case\nNBC's 'The Voice' scores post-Super Bowl slot\nLaw & Over? TV's crime procedurals losing traction\nNBC retains Olympic rights for 4 games\nEconomic echoes of 2008\nIs it time to devalue the Euros?\nSponsored Content: The business case for work-life balance\nBreaking News - Delivered as it happens\nDaily Alert - Delivered by 4pm, M-F\nMorning 10 - Delivered by 8am, M-F\nSmall-Business Alert - Delivered Wed.\nEditor's Picks - Delivered Sat.\nReal Estate Daily - Delivered by 2pm, M-F\nHealth Pulse - Delivered by 6am, M-F\nCrain's Events Calendar\nPeople on the Move - Delivered Fri.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ariel Winter's Sister -- Money isn't the Motive ... Because She's Loaded\nAriel Winter's Sister Money Isn't the Motive ... Because She's LOADED\n11\/22\/2012 8:00 AM PT\nAriel Winter's sister may have declared bankruptcy more than a decade ago, but her fortunes have changed dramatically ... as in there is no way in the world she needs Ariel's money ... TMZ has learned.\nShanelle Gray is married to David Barry Gray ... who is an heir to the Pepsi fortune. His grandfather was one of the founding members of Pepsi Cola.\nDavid's grandfather, Philip Rubenstein, owned 23 of the original Pepsi plants and, with the help of a guy named Al Steele, took the company nationwide. Rubenstein served as the President of Pepsi Cola in the 1950s and amassed a fortune.\nAs for what happens to the untold millions of dollars ... Rubenstein died in 1997 and was survived by his wife, 2 daughters and 6 grandchildren, one of whom is David. Rubenstein's wife died in 1998. Short story -- David -- an actor who played the role of Todd Palin in the Emmy-winning HBO movie \"Game Change\" -- is in line to inherit a big chunk of the family money.\nFamily dough aside, Shanelle and David are doing well with their 2 acting businesses -- Gray Studios in L.A. and Gray Studios in Orange County. The business is so successful, it's expanding to NYC next year.\nAnd Shanelle -- who gave up a fairly successful acting career to raise their 2 daughters -- is now back in the acting game and getting gigs.\nShort story -- it seems Chrystal Workman, the mother of Ariel and Shanelle -- doesn't know much about her older daughter, who was taken away from her years ago and placed in foster care. It would seem she has no idea Shanelle is more financially secure than the entire cast of \"Modern Family.\"\nAriel Winter's Sister Hit the Skids in the Money Dept.\nAriel Winter Case -- Children Services Says Mom Should Lose Custody\nAriel Winter's Brother Flip Flops -- She Belongs with My Dad\nShanelle Workman Ariel Winter Chrystal Workman CELEBRITY JUSTICE \u2122 Kids Ariel Winter Family Drama Modern Family Exclusive","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"What do the Units of Measure in the Product Edit Window mean?\nEach product has a Stocking Unit which is the base unit of measure (UOM) for all transactions. Conversions to other UOM are created for use throughout the application. These can then be set as a default Sales, Purchasing, or Packaging unit.\nAcctivate supports multiple, related units of measure per product. There are many configuration options for units of measure and there are no limits to the number of units that can be defined. For example, this allows an item stocked by Each to be purchased by Case, sold by Dozen, and packaged\/shipped by Box.\nFor more information, review our training page.\nUnit of Measure: Unit of measure is configured in Configuration Manager > Inventory > Unit of Measure\nView\/Edit Alternates button: When not in edit mode, this button will say View Alternates. When in edit mode, this button will say Edit Alternates.\nThere can be virtually unlimited multiple related units of measure per product. This button opens a data entry grid for viewing and entering additional related units. To hide this data grid, click the Hide Alternates button.\nStocking Unit\nThe product stocking unit of measure is used to count the warehouse quantity.\nEach product must be stocked in a single unit of measure. This is required since all transactions will be converted to this Stocking Unit for inventory valuation and the Transactions tab of the Product Information window.\nAll units of measure are available for the Stocking Unit, but the Sales, Purchasing and Packaging Unit drop-downs only contain those related to the Stocking Unit.\nNOTE: Once a product has been included in a transaction, users are unable to change the Stocking Unit. For more information on how to accomplish this, see our article on changing the Stocking Unit of Measure.\nProduct Alternate Unit Quantity\nThe quantity of Stocking Units contained in a single Alternate Unit often varies. A good example of this is the Each-to-Case quantity. The Case quantity for one item may be 12 Each, while it's 20 Each for another product.\nA box will appear to the right of the Alternate Unit (e.g. Purchasing Unit) if the Unit of Measure relationship is Product Specific.\nA View Alternates (or Edit Alternates when in edit mode) is also available to view and edit Product Specific unit quantity relationships (factors). Changes to the Alternate Unit quantity only affect new transactions.\nThe sales unit of measure relates to the stocking unit of measure. This will be used as the default unit of measure for sales orders. If related units exist (that are defined in the Configuration Manager) they will be in the provided drop-down.\nIf a related unit is selected that is defined as having a product-specific relationship (the stocking unit quantity varies by product) with the stocking unit, then the field to the left of the unit of measure will allow you to enter a quantity for the related unit in relation to the stocking unit.\nPrice Unit must be for all prices, which allows you to enter all sales orders in the single Sales Unit, regardless of customers' special pricing.\nThe purchasing unit of measure relates to the stocking unit of measure. This will be used as the default unit of measure for purchase orders. If related units exist (that are defined in the Configuration Manager) they will be in the provided drop-down.\nThe Purchasing Unit is only used when a Vendor Price (or prior PO) doesn't exist for the item. Acctivate prefers using the Unit from the Vendors tab.\nThe packaging unit of measure (used with the Packaging Manager and EDI Manager add-ons) relates to the stocking unit of measure. This will be used as the default unit of measure for packaging. If related units exist (that are defined in the Configuration Manager) they will be in the provided drop-down.\nThe Packaging Unit is used to determine how many cartons should be created when using the Packaging Manager for Standard Pack Cartons.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"PAST THINK TANK: THINK TANK V\nPETER E. TARLOW PhD\nTitle: Disaster Management: Exploring Ways to Mitigate Disasters before they Occur\nPeter E. Tarlow is a sociologist specializing in the impact of crime and terrorism on the tourism industry and also in tourism and economic development. Tarlow earned his Ph.D. in sociology from Texas A&M University. He also holds degrees in history, in Spanish and Hebrew literatures, and psychotherapy. In 1990, Tarlow introduced one of the nation's first courses on the Sociology of Tourism, and in 1994; Tarlow designed and taught a groundbreaking course on Tourism, Crime & Security. Since 1997, Tarlow has also taught tourism security courses for the International Association of Chiefs of Police.\nTarlow is a member of the Distance Learning Faculty of \"The George Washington University\" in Washington. DC, and he is an adjunct faculty member of Colorado State University and a honorary professor at the Universidad de Especialidades Turisticas (Quito, Ecuador) and of the Universidad de la Policia Federal (Buenos Aires, Argentina). He lectures at numerous other universities around the world including universities in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East.\nIn 1996, Tarlow became Hoover Dam's head advisor for tourism development and security. In 1998, Tarlow's role at the Bureau of Reclamation expanded. He was promoted to head advisor on tourism security for all Bureau of Reclamation properties and visitor centers. In 1999, Tarlow was also asked to work with US Customs agents in the area of customer service and cultural awareness and custom's impact on tourism. In 2000 Tarlow, due to interagency cooperation on the part of the Bureau of Reclamation, helped to train security personnel for the FBI in preparation of the Salt Lake City 2002 Olympics.\nEarly in 2001 Tarlow was made part of the senior security team of the Bureau of Reclamation (Department of the Interior) and is a member of its critical infrastructure committee. In this capacity, Tarlow works with other government and international agencies such as the US Park Service at the Statue of Liberty, The Smithsonian's Institution's Office of Protection Services, the FBI, The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the World Tourism Organization, and police departments around the world.\nSince the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the United States, Tarlow has had to travel throughout North America representing the US government. He speaks on issues such as: the sociology of terrorism, its impact on tourism security, how the US government can help local agencies to recover, and how communities must face a major paradigm shift in the way it does business. Tarlow has trained numerous police departments in both the US and Mexico in TOPS (Tourism Oriented Policing Skills) and offers certification in this area.\nTarlow's fluency in many languages enables him to speak throughout the world (United States, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and Africa). Tarlow lectures on current and future trends in the tourism industry, rural tourism economic development, the gaming industry, issues of crime and terrorism, the role of police departments in urban economic development, and international trade. Tarlow has done extensive research on the impact of school calendars on the tourism industries, on tourism crime, and on terrorism. Tarlow is also well known in the area of rural tourism having lectured on this subject in numerous states throughout the United States. Tarlow publishes extensively in these areas and writes numerous professional reports for US governmental agencies and for businesses throughout the world.\nTarlow speaks at numerous governors' conferences and international meetings on tourism, and its economic and sociological impact. Tarlow has appeared on National televised programs such as Dateline: NBC and on CNBC. Tarlow organizes conferences around the world dealing with visitor safety and security issues and with the economic importance of tourism and tourism marketing. He also works with numerous cities, states, and foreign governments to improve their tourism products and to train their tourism security professionals. John Wiley & Sons published Tarlow's new book on event risk management, Event Risk Management and Safety in July of 2002, and his new book on Tourism Safety is to be published by the US Government Printing office Department of the Interior.\nTarlow is a founder and president of Tourism & More Inc. (T&M). He currently is the president of the Texas Chapter of the Travel and Tourism Research Association (TTRA). Tarlow is a member of the International Editorial Boards of \"Turizam\" published in Zagreb, Croatia, \"Anatolia: International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research,\" published in Turkey, \"Turismo: Vis\u00e3o e A\u00e7\u00e3o\" published in Brazil, and \"Estudios y Perspectivas en Turismo,\" published in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Tarlow co-edited the special August 1999 edition of the Journal of Travel Research on \"War, Terrorism, and Tourism.\" Tarlow is a member of the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS).\nTarlow writes and publishes \"Tourism Tidbits,\" an electronic newsletter on tourism and travel. Tidbits is read monthly in its English, Spanish and Croatian language editions by thousands of tourism and travel professionals around the world. Tarlow is a member of the national and Texas Chapters of ASIS.\nDAVID BEIRMAN PhD\nTitle: Marketing Tourism Destinations from Crisis to Recovery: A Strategic Marketing Approach.\nDavid Beirman is the founding Director of the Israel Tourism Office Australasia & SW Pacific and the first non-Israeli contracted by the Israel Ministry of Tourism to run an Israel Tourism office. He has held the position since 1994. He is also the founder and inaugural Chairman of the Eastern Mediterranean Tourism Association (Australia) which was established in 2001 to market and promote the eleven countries between Italy and Jordan to the travel industry and public. He is a Board member of ANTOR (Association of National Tourist Office Representatives Australasia) and a member of the Australian Travel Industry Advisory Committee to DFAT which negotiated the Charter for Safe Travel, the first of only two agreements in the world between a government and its travel industry. David has been professionally active in the travel industry for 24 years including ten years working for Jetset Tours in a variety of roles ranging from travel consultant to personnel and in-service training manger. Since 1989 he has been the principal of his own training and management consultancy firm Struan & Associates specialising in the travel industry.\nDr. Beirman has extensive university lecturing experience in the fields of Tourism, Market Research, Middle East Studies and Sociology. He has lectured At the University of Technology - Sydney, University of Sydney, University of NSW and has guest lectured at many schools of tourism and professional and academic conferences and symposia in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada, Kenya, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand and Israel. His articles on tourism crisis management have been published by international publications including the International Journal of Vacation Marketing, AFTA Traveller and PATA's publication Compass. His first book, Restoring Tourism Destinations in Crisis-A Strategic Marketing Approach was published in April 2003 by Allen & Unwin Australia for Australasian distribution and CABI Publications globally.\nAs a direct result of the book Dr. Beirman was invited by the leadership of the Kenyan tourism industry to go to Kenya in May 2003 to develop and implement a strategy to manage Kenya's tourism industry marketing crisis which arose from negative travel advisories in April 2003. In May and June 2003 Tourism NSW invited him to assist regional tourism associations in developing marketing recovery strategies following drought and bushfires. In July 2003 Dr Beirman was the keynote speaker at the Asia-Pacific Tourism Association Conference, the region's premier gathering of tourism academics. In September 2003 he was keynote speaker at the annual conference of the Philippines tourism industry. In January 2004 he was a speaker at the Prime Minister's Conference on Tourism in Israel and in late September and October 2004 he was keynote speaker at the ABACUS Conferences \"Rewarding Partnerships\" held in Hanoi, Vietnam and Bangkok Thailand. Beirman is frequently consulted by tourism professionals, academics and the media on the field of managing a wide range of crises including war, terrorism, epidemic, natural disasters and crime waves which impact on global and Australian tourism. He is based in Sydney.\nContacts: Tel: 61 2 9328 1722, Fax: 61 2 9326 1676\ndavid@aicc.org.au\nSCOTT K. CUNLIFFE PhD\nTitle: Tourism Risk Management for Small and Medium Enterprises\nA consultant to government and the private sector throughout the Asian region, Mr. Cunliffe specializes in strategic planning and risk management for sustainable tourism whilst living in South East Asia, the USA and Europe for the last fifteen years.\nHis recent PhD research focused on tourism risk management for coastal tropical areas, which developed a comprehensive approach to sustainable tourism with risk management at the core. Milestone projects include: the introduction of the Main Street urban revitalization process to community and business development in Australia; cultural heritage and conservation planning for the ancient city of Angkor in Cambodia; Team Leader for the Asian Development Bank longterm tourism development plan for the Greater Mekong Sub-region, and tourism development strategies in more than a dozen Asian countries and regions for the World Tourism Organization.\nTrained as an architect and urban planner, his first project for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Vietnam in 1985 nurtured a growing interest in risk management, strategic planning and long-term forecasting. His current professional activities are focused on introducing risk management methodologies to mitigate the impacts of disaster and catastrophes affecting communities and tourism businesses in coastal areas.\nThe presentation initially presents some recent research on risk models, their origins and their adaptation to tourism businesses. Risk management is a critical sustainable tourism working tool that can minimize losses of all kinds resulting from both natural and anthropogenic hazards. A few practical templates will illustrate the application of risk management methodologies that respond to the needs of the tourism industry small and medium enterprises in coastal tropical areas. The approach adopts the term 'Total Risk' to describe what is needed to provide small businesses with a means to minimize future losses\nSecondly, the presentation will look at some existing examples of the inclusion or not of using risk management as a sustainable tourism planning tool. One such example is how the tourism sector of the economy was considered in the initial response to the recent Indian Ocean tsunami in examples of macro-economic recovery planning. The evidence is dismal, apart from the tourism industry response illustrated in the Phuket Action Plan draft from February 2005.\nThirdly, the presentation will take the 'Total Risk' approach to describe a few essential components of what is termed 'Critical Risk Infrastructure' including risk financing, which needs urgent attention. Finally, the presentation will suggest a possible approach for integrating risk management into sustainable tourism that may require a paradigm change to include risk analyses in a comprehensive approach to minimizing future loss potential of small and medium tourism businesses. The future of sustainable tourism must necessarily account for the uncertainties of disaster and catastrophe and we possess the tools to act responsibly.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"North America Travel Guide North America Trips Spooky Destinations Around The World\nSpooky Destinations Around The World\nBy passport2pretty\nCatacombs of Paris\nSt Louis Cemetery\nAs much as I love travel there are some places that I just won't go!\nXochimico is just south of Mexico City, you'll find \"The Island of the Dolls.\" Don Julian Santana Barrera once found a little girl in the river who had drowned, and awhile after her death he found a floating doll in the river. To honor her, he hung the doll in the tree, and over the years he found more dolls, convincing him that each one held the spirit of a dead little girl. Im totally creeped out!\nCatacombs in Paris, an underground ossuary in Paris that holds the remains of about 7 million people. Part of the city's efforts to store human remains from its overcrowded cemeteries, the tunnels run for more than 150 miles below ground, but only 1 mile is open to the public. No thanks!\nNew Orleans is easily one of my favorite US cities, but I nearly dropped my beignet\u2026note I said nearly! Saint Louis Cemetery is the name of three Roman Catholic cemeteries in New Orleans, Louisiana.The renown Voodoo priestess Marie Laveau is believed to be interred in the Glapion family crypt. Baybee naw!\nHave a safe trip\u2026.or NAH?!\nIm totally creeped out!\nPart of the city's efforts to store human remains from its overcrowded cemeteries, the tunnels run for more than 150 miles below ground, but only 1 mile is open to the public. No thanks!\nSaint Louis Cemetery is the name of three Roman Catholic cemeteries in New Orleans, Louisiana.The renown Voodoo priestess Marie Laveau is believed to be interred in the Glapion family crypt. Baybee naw!\n##Ghost##spooky##Adventure##Travel##Explore#Spooky","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sri Lanka imposes 10-hour countrywide power cuts amid economic crisis\nSince the beginning of March, there had already been seven-hour power cuts in the island nation.\nMar 30, 2022 \u00b7 01:37 pm Updated Mar 30, 2022 \u00b7 03:00 pm\nA food vendor prepares food at his shop after a power cut in Colombo. | Ishara S Kodikara\/AFP\nThe Sri Lankan government imposed 10-hour daily power cuts across the country on Wednesday amidst a severe economic crisis, PTI reported.\nSince the beginning of March, there have been seven-hour power cuts in the island country. The duration has now been increased by three hours.\nJanaka Ratnayaka, the chair of the Public Utilities Commission, said that there was a shortage of 750 megawatts of electricity as fuel to generate thermal power was not available.\nOfficials also said that most water reservoirs in the country are running dangerously low because of deficient rainfall, AFP reported. Sri Lanka generates over 40% of its electricity from hydrological sources.\nI belong to group Q. If the 10 hour power cut is scheduled for Wednesday, I will not have electricity from 2pm till midnight. How do we work ! How to do we manage our kids !\nEven using the worst possible language against the leadership is an utter waste.\nThey need to be ousted pic.twitter.com\/tvE8ZrDps5\n\u2014 Lihini Fernando (@LihiniFernando) March 29, 2022\nMeanwhile, the state-owned Ceylon Petroleum Corporation said that diesel will not be available in the country for a minimum of two days. It urged people waiting in queues at fuel stations to leave, and come back only when imported diesel is distributed.\nSince the beginning of the year, petrol prices in Sri Lanka have increased by 92% and diesel by 76%, according to the agency.\nSri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948 as the island's foreign exchange reserves have hit rock bottom. The country had declared an emergency in August last year. Sri Lankans are now facing shortages of milk powder, cooking gas, kerosene and other essential items.\nGovernment-run hospitals are also running out of life-saving medicines due to a shortage of foreign exchange needed for imports, according to AFP.\n\"The situation is very grave and we need a disaster management initiative to deal with the worsening situation,\" said Ravi Kumudesh, chief of the Medical Laboratory Technologists Association.\nThe government said it has permitted suppliers of medical devices to increase prices by 30%. This applies to suppliers of stents to heart patients as well.\n'India working overtime to extend help to Sri Lanka'\nUnion External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday said that India was working overtime, and has stepped up its efforts to support Sri Lanka during its crisis.\n\"In a situation like this, things cannot be done at a normal pace,\" said Jaishankar, according to The Hindu. \"Everything must be fast-tracked. Our system is working overtime. What would have taken weeks earlier is now taking days.\"\nJaishankar's remarks came on the last day of his visit to Colombo where he was attending the three-day Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation, or BIMSTEC summit.\n\"We are approaching it [Sri Lankan crisis] like a sensible, good neighbour, keeping politics out of it,\" he said.\nOn Monday, the Sri Lankan central bank said it has sought an additional line of credit of $1.5 billion, or over Rs 11,396 crore, from India to import essential supplies.\nOn March 18, New Delhi had extended a line of credit worth $1 billion, or over Rs 7,600 crore, to support Colombo to manage the economic meltdown. In January too, India had offered an assistance of $1.4 billion, over Rs 10,661 crore, to Sri Lanka.\nOn March 16, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had said that the country was in discussions with the International Monetary Fund and foreign countries on deferring loan payments, according to the Associated Press.\nHe had urged people to limit electricity and fuel consumption in order to deal with the crisis.\nCeylon Petroleum Corporation\nJanaka Ratnayaka\nSri Lanka economic crisis\nGotabaya Rajapaksa\nNepal Supreme Court orders release of serial murderer Charles Sobhraj on health grounds","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"\"Tragic:\" Medical examiner says driver sped off after spotting squad car; cousins killed\nBy Derica Williams\nMedical examiner says driver sped off after spotting squad car; cousins killed\nMILWAUKEE -- Speed is believed to have led to a crash that killed two cousins early Monday morning, April 3rd near 70th and Marion in Milwaukee, and loved ones -- hundreds of them -- gathered in the rain to pay tribute to the two young men on Monday evening.\nThe crash happened around 2:00 a.m.\nThe medical examiner on Monday night identified the victims as 29-year-old Quincy Brown and 22-year-old Kelvin Jones.\nAccording to the medical examiner's report, Milwaukee police noted the vehicle Brown and Jones were in was \"driving recklessly.\" The report says \"when the driver of the vehicle saw the police squad, he took off at a high rate of speed, headed south on 70th Street.\"\nThe driver then lost control of the vehicle, and hit a curb before hitting a light pole -- taking it completely out of the ground and hitting a tree on the passenger side before coming to rest.\nBrown, who was driving, and Jones, who was a passenger, were pronounced dead at the scene.\nVigil for Quincy Brown and Kelvin Jones, killed in crash near 70th and Marion\nThe medical examiner's report notes there was no evidence of alcohol use or illegal drug use noted at the scene.\nThe posted speed limit in the area is 25 miles-per-hour.\nAll day long loved ones stopped at the scene to pray for the lives lost.\n\"It's just tragic,\" said Marques Green.\nQuincy Brown and Kelvin Jones\nGreen said the family members and friends of Quincy Brown and Kelvin Jones are having a tough time coping with this loss.\n\"Everybody is in shock and still in disbelief due to the fact that these are two good people,\" said Green.\nThe men were killed after a night out together with Jones' dad.\n\"When we separated last night, he said 'Dad, I'll see you later.' I said 'I'll see you tomorrow, son' -- and just to wake up, preparing myself to work, to hear the news. That's the worst news you ever want to receive -- saying that your child has passed away,\" Jones' father said.\nNeighbors said they heard a loud 'boom,' and then looked out to see a mangled vehicle that had collided with a light pole and tree early Monday.\n\"It was a loud roar, is all I can say,\" a neighbor said.\nFatal crash at 70th and Marion\nOn Monday evening, rain fell as tears welled in many eyes during a vigil in the men's honor.\n\"Hopefully we can get the word out here about speeding. There's a lot of it going on here in the city of Milwaukee. We just need to slow down,\" Jones' father said.\n\"These are people who are loved in the family,\" Green said. \"Everyone knows Quincy. He's a good man. He provides for a lot of people. Make sure his children and family he's around going somewhere in life. Kelvin is good-spirited guy. He does a lot for his kids and his cousins. It's a tight-knit family. These are two individuals who are going to be sadly missed.\"\nMonitor FOX6 News and FOX6Now.com for updates on this developing story.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The XIX\nElectromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference\nThe 19th Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference (ELS-XIX) will be held at the ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia, on 13-17 July 2020.\nIt will build on the remarkable success of the previous ELS conferences held in Amsterdam, Helsinki (twice), New York, Vigo, Halifax, Gainesville, Bremen, Salobre\u00f1a, St. Petersburg, Bodrum, Hatfield, Taormina, Lille, Leipzig, College Park, College Station, and Hangzhou. The main objective of the conference is to bring together scientists and engineers studying various aspects of light scattering and to provide a relaxed academic atmosphere for in-depth discussions of theoretical advances, measurements, and applications.\nThe specific topics that will be covered include (but are not limited to) the following:\nnew theoretical developments, numerical simulations, and laboratory measurements of light scattering by nonspherical and morphologically complex particles and particle groups\ndetection and characterization of atmospheric particulates using laboratory, in situ, and remote sensing techniques\nscattering of light by terrestrial aerosols and clouds\nscattering of light by oceanic particulates\nscattering of light by solar system objects, exoplanets, and exoplanetary environments\nscattering of light by various astrophysical objects\napplications of light scattering methods in biology and biomedicine\nlight scattering in densely packed particulate media\nnear-field and coherent effects in light scattering, optical trapping, and manipulation\nlight scattering methods to control material properties and technological applications\nPlease e-mail your abstract by 15 March 2020 to nadezhda.zakharova@nasa.gov with a copy to michael.i.mishchenko@nasa.gov. Only Word files will be accepted. Please use the following Word template.\nConference conveners\nAlexey Shcherbakov, ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia Michael Mishchenko, NASA GISS, New York, USA Matthew Berg, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA\nLocal committee\n(ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia)\nAlexey Shcherbakov, Chair\nAnastasia Kaptsova, Secretary\nPavel Belov, ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia\nAnatoli Borovoi, Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Tomsk, Russia\nSharon Burton, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA\nAnthony Davis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA\nG\u00e9rard Gouesbet, National Institute of Applied Sciences, Rouen, France\nJoop Hovenier, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands\nEvgueni Kassianov, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA\nNikolai Khlebtsov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saratov, Russia\nGerhard Kristensson, Lund University, Sweden\nEric Le Ru, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand\nJames Lock, Cleveland State University, OH, USA\nHal Maring, NASA HQ, Washington, DC, USA\nAlexander Marshak, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA\nM. Pinar Meng\u00fc\u00e7, Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey\nKarri Muinonen, University of Helsinki & National Land Survey, Finland\nTimo Nieminen, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia\nElena Petrova, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia\nChristopher Sorensen, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA\nKnut Stamnes, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA\nGorden Videen, Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, USA\nThomas Wriedt, University of Bremen, Germany\nPing Yang, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA\nMaxim Yurkin, Novosibirsk State University, Russia\nregularly updated\nSpeaker Talk\nAlbert Ansmann Recent progress in polarization lidar applications to aerosols and clouds\nLei Bi A review of electromagnetic scattering by super-spheroids: methods and applications\nAdrian Doicu Electromagnetic scattering by discrete random media\nOleg Dubovik Advancements in solving inverse problems: utilisation of multiple a priori constraints in atmospheric remote sensing\nYuri Eremin Discrete Sources Method: outline, plasmonic applications, and non-local effects\nNikolai Khlebtsov Plasmonic SERS tags for biomedical applications\nDaniel Mackowski TBD\nHal Maring Programmatic approach and progress in the preformulation study for NASA's Aerosol, Cloud, Convection and Precipitation (ACCP) observing system\nM. Pinar Meng\u00fc\u00e7 TBD\nHans Moosmg\u00fcller TBD\nKarri Muinonen Scattering and absorption in discrete random media of densely-packed particles\nEric Le Ru TBD\nChristopher M. Sorensen and Justin B. Maughan New perspectives on light scattering by particles of arbitrary morphology\nPing Yang TBD\nMaxim Yurkin The discrete dipole approximation: from Maxwell's equations to practical applications\nRegular 22 000 RUB (or 350 USD)\nStudent 14 000 RUB (or 220 USD)\nThe conference proceedings has been published in the AIP Conference Proceedings journal and are available online\nPlease print your posters in color on the paper of A1 or A0 (preferred) format.\nThe conference venue is ITMO University located at Lomonosova str. 9, St. Petersburg. The ITMO University is located in the historical center of St. Petersburg. The city was thoroughly refurbished for the World Cup held in Russia in 2018 and has by now become the No. 1 tourist destination in Europe.\nLate June - early July is a beautiful time of year, famous for its \"White Nights\". The weather is usually nice, with temperatures around 18-19 C.\nGiven the extreme popularity of this destination in June\/July, it is very important to start your planning now and reserve a hotel as early as possible.\nThere will be three Elsevier awards presented at the conference:\nThe 2020 Hendrik C. Van de Hulst Award presented to a senior scientist who has made landmark original contributions to the research field of electromagnetic scattering and its applications (see announcement).\nThe 2020 Peter C. Waterman Award presented to an early career scientist in the category of electromagnetic scattering (see announcement).\nThe 2020 Richard M. Goody Award presented to an early career scientist in the category of atmospheric radiation and remote sensing (see announcement).\nTopical issue of JQSRT\nFollowing the highly successful ELS practice, we will be soliciting papers for the ELS-XIX Topical Issue of the Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (JQSRT) and hope that you will want your state-of-the-art research to become part of yet another benchmark collection of papers on electromagnetic scattering and its applications. This Topical Issue will consist only of full-size papers documenting research either reported at the conference or pertaining to the main topics of ELS-XIX. Extended abstracts of conference presentations will not be considered. Each submission will be thoroughly reviewed by at least two independent referees to ensure that all accepted manuscripts satisfy the highest standards of scientific quality adopted for JQSRT. Again, this will be a topical issue of JQSRT rather than a conference proceedings volume.\nTo expedite the communication of your research results to the scientific community, each paper will be officially published (including the year, volume, and page numbers) as soon as it has been accepted, typeset, and proof-read. In other words, the authors of accepted manuscripts will see their papers officially published without having to wait for the rest of the manuscripts to get accepted. This accelerated publication protocol is a recent improvement in the JQSRT production process.\nThe paper submission deadline is 30 September 2020.\nPlease notify Alexey Shcherbakov and Anastasia Kaptsova as soon as possible if you need an official invitation in order to apply for Russian visa.\nA foreign citizen traveling to Russia must have a valid passport (expiry date must be no sooner than 6 months after the date of departure from Russia) and a visa (for almost all foreign visitors, please see the details below).\nThe deadline for the visa support from the conference organizers is April 31, 2020.\nThe visa application rules are different depending on the citizenship of the applicant:\nStarting from October 1, 2019, nationals of 53 foreign states (please see the list of the countries) may be granted an e-visa to enter the Russian Federation through air, naval, automobile, and pedestrian checkpoints located in the territory of Saint Petersburg and the Leningrad region. With the e-visa you will be able to stay only in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region for 8 days (the eVisa will be valid for 30 days to use) if your arrive at Pulkovo airport or other checkpoints in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region (please see the list here).\nYou can apply for the e-visa via this link.\nI. VISA-FREE\nFor citizens of the following countries: Azerbaijan, Argentina, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Venezuela, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Colombia, Cuba, Moldova, Nicaragua, Peru, Serbia, Tajikistan, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Uruguay, Montenegro, Chile, South Korea no visa is needed.\nNevertheless, we kindly ask you to contact the Organizing Committee to receive a letter from the organizers confirming the purpose of your visit to Russia (you might be asked at the Russian customs).\nII.VISA NEEDED\nCitizens of the countries not eligible for the e-visa has to submit to a Russian Embassy or Consulate a visa invitation letter issued either by ITMO University (takes about 5-10 working days to process) or by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (takes about 25-30 working days to process).\nPlease, apply for a visa as soon as possible after receiving the invitation letter to ensure that the visa is issued timely and also check that you have a valid medical insurance.\nNECESSARY DATA FOR VISA APPLICATION (Required during visa application at the local Russian Embassy)\nName of the organization: ITMO University\nAddress: 49 Kronverksky pr., St.Petersburg, 197101, Russia\nTIN: 7813045547\nFurther information: Alexey Shcherbakov\nNASA contact: Michael Mishchenko\n199034, Russia, St. Petersburg, Lomonosova str. 9\nMetamaterials and Nanophotonics Department\nPolicy on personal data processing (in Russian)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Fill'er Up, The Glory Days of Wisconsin's Gas Stations\nBy Jim Draeger and Mark Speltz The authors visit 60 Wisconsin gas stations that are still standing today and chronicles the history of these humble yet ubiquitous buildings. The book tells the larger story of the gas station's place in automobile culture and its evolution in tandem with American history, as well as the stories of the individuals influenced by the gas stations in their lives.\nArved Ojamaa Ashby was born in Estonia on the Finnish Sea on August 8, 1922. Soviet armed forces brutally occupied his home country in 1940, and a carefree and idyllic life gave way to a time of uncertainty, fear, and death. He evaded the Russian draft in 1941 before he joined the military forces that liberated his home country. In 1943, he started his medical studies at the University of Tartu in Estonia. He fled to Finland to escape the German military draft, and fought the Russians as part of the Finnish army. Ashby moved with his young family to Wisconsin, where he opened his medical practice in 1960, at the Sheboygan Clinic. He retired in December 1989, having delivered thousands of babies.This book, a reprint of the two memoirs Capful of Wind and The Wind at my Back, tells Ashby's traumatic but ultimately successful story \u2013 a coming of age story, and a story of emigration and survival. It is an immigrant story like no other.\n\"Cedar Grove, Wisconsin, 150 Years of Dutch-American Tradition,\" has been updated and reprinted. Three new chapters entitled, \"Historical Update, Old News and The Royal Visit\" have been added. The new publication will be available for sale at a discounted price during the festival at the following locations: Holland Festival Souvenir Stand, Het Museum, Te Ronde House Museum, Oma's on Main Restaurant, Cedar Grove Library and the Union Dollar General Store.\nSheboygan County Connection IV, From Vollrath Park Zoo to Wisconsin's Oleo Wars\nThis is a compilation of articles run in the Sheboygan Press during late 2016 and early 2017. Story titles include: What we used to do at Sheboygan's zoo Remembering Sheboygan County's forgotten places Interurbans' meteoric rise, then fall Remembering American wars from the Home Front Memories from a town of Mitchell farm Recalling Sheboygan's unsavory 1920s, 1930s Quirky forgotten laws abound in Sheboygan When bootleggers smuggled margarine Pinehurst Farms boasts rich history Letters to Santa offer look into kids' lives Discovering stories of lost places in Sheboygan County Remembering the architectural trend of octagon houses Appreciation of Grassroots art emerges in recent decades Advertisements reflect culture, paint picture of past Passengers on Orphan Train found home in Sheboygan Dozens of brothels housed in county in early 1900s How Sheboygan cleaned up after hosting brothels\nGreat Surveys and Surveyors of Sheboygan County\nBy Edgar Harvey Jr.\nThis book deals with many of Ed Harvey's predecessors as Sheboygan County Surveyors. Harvey, after years of research, found that they included men of great character, and others whom we could term \"shysters\". They included some pretty unremarkable individuals and others of great genius. Although they were humble surveyors while they worked in Sheboygan County, some of these men invented great things, or were otherwise involved in major events which changed the history of the entire nation or the world. One man worked on the Brooklyn Bridge project. Another worked on the Panama Canal. At least two of these men prepared maps which shaped the boundaries of nations. With all the same care, the same men prepared surveys which depicted the boundaries of comparatively small, private properties in Sheboygan County; An interesting and fresh way of analyzing Sheboygan County History.\nRemembrances of Ada\nBy Howards Grove Historical Research Group, Doris Henschel.\nAda was one of four small trading places (Howard, Franklin, Edwards and Ada) in the township in 1912. Ada consisted of a hotel, cheese factory, store and blacksmith. The population of town Herman in 1910 was 1,913, the majority of whom were Germans. This hamlet, located on the old Calumet-Sheboygan Plank Road twelve miles northwest of Sheboygan has a name of unknown origin. The post office was established on January 13, 1868, with Anton Goepfert acting as the first postmaster. Operations were discontinued on November 18, 1873. It was re-established on August 31, 1877, and once again discontinued permanently on April 30, 1909. William Maurer was the last postmaster. The book is full of history and wonderful memories.\nImages of America, Plymouth\nBy Plymouth Historical Society and SCHRC\nPlymouth, originally considered a \"hub\" city because of the hub and wheel factory located there, it has also earned that moniker because of its central location between Milwaukee and Green Bay. Tourists flock to Plymouth year round to visit the variety of shops, to golf, swim and ski, or explore the beautiful Kettle Moraine State Forest. Residents are proud of their heritage, which can be seen at sites throughout the city. Visit Plymouth through this wonderful tribute using historic photographs.\nBy Robert Spatt On the Home Front is a chronological account of daily life for Sheboygan residents and how it changed dramatically during WWII. The story is told by way of actual headlines, story excerpts, photographs, editorials and advertisements as published in Sheboygan County newspapers at that time.\nMillersville, Wisconsin\nBy Millersville Historical Research Group\nThe history of the area dates back to 1846 when the first immigrants found their way along the Pigeon River and settled in the area. At first the two settlements were known as Howards and Mueller Villa, later becoming Howards Grove and Millersville.\nBut in 1967, the two communities incorporated as Howards Grove-Millersville, becoming Sheboygan County's 10th village, the fourth largest. It also brought the village fame with its cumbersome 24-letter title, the longest in the state. Eventually, the city dropped Millersville and took Howards Grove as its proper name. This book follows the history of just the Millersville portion of the area.\nLandverhuizers or The Immigrants\nBy Pieter J. Risseeuw\nA historical novel, originally published as a trilogy, of Dutch immigration of the mid-nineteenth century. This English translation is made available for the first time by permission of the original publisher and supported by Netherland-America Foundation of New York. Originally published in Dutch in 1947, the novel discusses the trials and tribulations of immigration and the establishment of the Dutch churches and colonies in Iowa and Michigan.\nA History of Schools in the Village of Oostburg\nThis book covers Oostburg school history from 1899-2005. A great timeline gives the reader a wonderful overview of what happened educationally and socially in Oostburg, Wisconsin. Class photos and memories and reflections are included.\nBy Bill Wangemann\nThis second book of Bill's is a compilation of articles that appeared in the Sheboygan Press during 2004. Many are based on activities of the 1950s\nBy James E. Schultz. More than a history about Schultz's great grandparents, this book features:\nthreads of our German heritage, including food, wine and beer, language, religion, music, dance, and customs woven into the family history and indexed;\nsections devoted to \"Why they came\", \"Today's German Attitudes\", and \"People and Places\";\na \"Special Find\" for each of the eight featured ancestors, a genealogical gem that I uncovered;\na wide variety of church, government, military, personal, and other resources, with a list of 40 resources cataloged as an appendix; and,\na section called \"Challenges, Tips, and Surprises\" that provides helpful pointers for finding information.\nby Peter Fetterer\nThe railroads of Sheboygan County have left behind a legacy of stories \u2026 some tragic, some humorous, and some almost unbelievable. The stories bear testimony to the men and women who worked on the early rail lines that served the county \u2026 the engineers, firemen, brakemen and conductors who ran the trains \u2026 the shop men and track gangs who kept them running \u2026 the station agents, freight handlers and railroad officials supporting the operations, and the passengers and hobos who rode the rails.\nThe railroaders working these lines for nearly 150 years and the passengers riding their trains have been an integral part of our history. These are some of their stories \u2026 tales from the rails of Sheboygan County.\nSheboygan County Connection III is the continuing record of the lives of Sheboygan County residents and their adventures in history. Read about dozens of historic happenings experienced by residents from the death and autopsy of victims of Ed Gein to the mysteries of Sheboygan's Rancho de las Flores, refugees of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the architect for the construction of the first Mormon Temple at Nauvoo, Illinois and history of outhouses. These stories ran in the Sheboygan Press from November 2015 to October 2016.\nDays Gone By The Falls - Growing up in small town Wisconsin is John Wirth's poignant, colorful account of growing up in Sheboygan Falls in the 1950s and 1960s. The book features a collection of 39 newspaper columns, which have appeared on a regular basis in The Sheboygan Falls News since 2007. The book takes readers back to a time when imagination, creativity and the pursuit of good, clean fun ruled the lives of youngsters long before the clutches of modern technology swooped in to stifle such endeavors. Wirth paints a vivid portrait of an era in time when people worked hard without question and played hard without considering the possible dangers of youthful exuberance. Readers will meet several colorful characters who inhabited many memorable locales in the quant, picturesque, Midwestern city of Sheboygan Falls. Whether you have your own memories of the 1950s and 1960s or are looking to find out what all the fuss was about, buckle in and enjoy the twists and turns of a real-life, small-town adventure ride going on 60 years in the making.\nA Time for Reflection 1892-1992 This booklet was prepared for a centennial celebration of the arrival of the first Volga Germans in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. That small group of seven, unsure of their destination or what they would do when they arrived, was followed by many other relatives and friends. Today, thousands of people who live in Sheboygan - or who lived there at one time - are descendants of German Russian immigrants. \"A Time for Reflection\" is our anniversary theme, for now is an appropriate time to reflect on our ancestors' lives and to count the many blessings we have received as a result of their courage and sacrifice. With a new government in power, many Russian people of German descent will be searching for relatives and acquaintances in the West. Many Americans, too, want to be reunited with lost kin. We want to be ready to help each other. The history, chronology, and maps in this booklet represent only a small part of our unique heritage. Here is a brief look at the Volga Deitsch, how they got to Russia and why they came to America, and then to Sheboygan. It is a tale of more than 200 years of travel, hardship and joy endured by our ancestors. Older generations might recall the good times as well as the not-so-good when they read about old customs and practices. Younger people may learn a history they did not know existed. This 2016 update adds extra photos and more history.\nThe Sheboygan County Connection is a collection of forty-one stories about the way folks from Sheboygan County are connected to the greater world. Most were seen as Sheboygan County History columns in the Sheboygan Press from February to October 2014. Extra information and photos have been added. Topics range from ice fishing and the brutal winter of 1936 to the advent of Rocky Knoll and citizens' participation in the Manhattan Project.\nBy Bernard Michaels\nThe poignant story of immigration and settlement of the Irish in Sheboygan County, this book gives an account of the Byron-Lima Settlement, a span of some thirty miles in which over 600 Irish families settled. The community's irregular borders ran from Kennedy's Corners in Lima to the frame church of Byron's St. John. The town of Mitchell, Sheboygan County is at the heart of this story.\nBy Mary Risseeuw\nThese letters, memoirs and travel journals span a hundred year period (1847-1959) and offer a fascinating view into the lives of the immigrants and their families. Some provide remarkable detail about their journey to America and their struggles to establish a new life. Others offer little beyond the basics: weather, health, crops, births and deaths. Most are grateful for the blessings of God and the fact that they are still 'fresh and healthy' (alive and well, in more modern terms!). The criterion for selecting the contents of this book was to present an overview of different settlements in Wisconsin and to provide a glimpse into the differences and similarities between the various immigration waves. There are vivid tales of crossing the Atlantic Ocean and personal glimpses into the Civil War, World War I and World War\nBy Elmer Koppelmann The village of Howards Grove began as two separate villages, Howards Grove and Millersville. Not until 1967 did the two unite into one incorporated village. The first European settlers to settle in the town of Herman (originally named Howard) were the \"Lippers\"- a group of 13 families and seven orphaned young people from Lippe-Detmold, Germany. The year was 1846, and the group's leader was Friedrich Reineking. They settled on the land that is now Lakeland College. This volume brings the history of the area back to life, and documents the families and businesses that, today, make up Howards Grove.\nA History of Schools in Towns of Herman and Mosel\nBy Roland Schomberg\nOriginally published 1994, this 2008 update provides the reader with a look at the schools in the towns of Herman and Mosel from the town's earliest history. Schools covered: Millersville, Howards Grove, Green Bay Road, Washington, Franklin, Pinehurst, Schwartzwald, Elm Grove, Haven, Champion, and Lakeview.\nStories Told in Granite and Glass\nAcross time, cemeteries have acted as places of burial and remembrance, but they also provide vivid records of community history. Whether large or small, well maintained or neglected, historic cemeteries are an important part of our cultural landscape. The vast richness of expression through form, decoration and materials inform our understanding of the individuals buried in historic cemeteries and their cultural significance. The very stones that mark the graves form a museum of their own.\nA church's stained glass windows, to some degree, play much the same role to a community. They tell the story of some element important to the life of parishioners. They uplift, beautify and instruct.\nThis volume will introduce readers to some of the most interesting and beautiful stained glass windows and cemetery monuments in the county. We'll discuss the background and history of each form of expression and much more. Consider this a primer to Sheboygan County's treasures.\nHistoric Sheboygan County\nBy Gustave Buchen\nConsidered the quintessential book on Sheboygan County history, this volume by Gustave Buchen, was written in 1944, when many of the original settlers were still alive. The information is well documented and tells the story of Sheboygan County's first years. The book includes an index, maps of early Sheboygan County and drawings. 2015 Reprint.\nBy Robert Spatt. The City of Sheboygan has many interesting and important \"Firsts\". This book documents many of those items. There is bound to be a chapter for every interest and although residents of Sheboygan will know many of these firsts, there are a lot of surprises. Some of the firsts are obscure such as the first bratwurst stand, the first department store, the first female principal of a school, the first baby born in Sheboygan; Others, such as the city founder, Farnsworth, and many of the sporting events, maybe remembered by many. The final chapter is entitled \"Et Cetera.\" Here are little known firsts that don't fit into any category \u2013 Peter Dinkel and his canaries, Clemens Reiss the first to cross the city's new Eighth Street Bridge in 1923, the street sprinkler who sprayed water on the dusty dirt streets and other obscure first facts. A book to pick up and read a chapter at a time then casually sprinkle conversations with a \"did you know that\u2026.\"\nTales from the Rails of Sheboygan County\nAn entertaining compilation of great newspaper articles following the history of the railroad in Sheboygan County. Some are humorous, some are serious, and some are downright shocking. Great reading for the railroad enthusiast and amateur alike. 2016 Reprint.\nRebuilding a Railroad in the 21st Century: Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, documents the rebuilding of an 11-mile rail line in Sheboygan County, after being dormant for nearly 30 years. This was more than just a fix-it-up job, but the replacement of the entire line from the ground up with new track built to modern standards to handle heavy loads. It also required one trestle to be completely replaced and others reinforced. Adding to the generous amount of photos, there are \"before\" and \"after\" photos taken at dozens of locations, and it won't seem possible that these photos were taken at the same location. Also included is the history of this line from the pre-civil war era to current times. Old rail dating back over 150 years was found and included is the story that these old rails tell.\nLipper's Mills: Starting Life Over in a Foreign Land","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"LaDonna Zall's compassion, decades of service to Heart Mountain remembered\nBy CJ Baker\nSam Mihara spent three awful years incarcerated at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center during World War II, among the tens of thousands of Japanese Americans confined to prison camps by suspicious \u2026\nJoyce Harkness speaks about her partner, the late LaDonna Zall (shown smiling on the screen), during the annual Heart Mountain Pilgrimage on Saturday. Zall spent decades helping to tell the stories of the Japanese Americans who were incarcerated at the former relocation center between Powell and Cody.\nTribune photo by CJ Baker\nPete Simpson (center), the recipient of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation's 2021 LaDonna Zall Compassionate Witness Award, poses for a photo with fellow foundation board members and former incarcerees Sam Mihara (left) and Prentiss Uchida (right) during last week's Heart Mountain Pilgrimage.\nPhoto courtesy Darrell Kunitomi\nPosted Thursday, July 29, 2021 8:25 am\nLaDonna Zall\nSam Mihara spent three awful years incarcerated at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center during World War II, among the tens of thousands of Japanese Americans confined to prison camps by suspicious federal officials.\nThere were the armed guards, the terrible food, the awful weather and the cramped, uncomfortable accommodations at the camp, while Mihara's father went blind and his grandfather died.\n\"But the worst experience,\" Mihara said, \"was going to downtown Cody.\"\nWhen he and other Japanese Americans from the camp eventually got a chance to visit the city, Mihara said about every third store was posted with a sign saying \"No Japs.\" And inside the businesses that were open to the incarcerees \"everyone was frowning,\" he said, \"not a single smile.\"\nMihara ultimately decided that he wanted nothing to do with Wyoming or its people. Nearly 50 years later, however, he passed through Cody as part of a trip to Yellowstone National Park. He inquired about touring the former camp site and was told to meet a woman in the shade of a pair of cottonwood trees just off U.S. Highway 14-A.\n\"I went up to her, and she smiled,\" Mihara recalled. \"It was the first person from Wyoming who smiled at me. And I went, 'Oh my gosh, this is a different person.' And she said, 'I'm LaDonna, and I'm going to help you out.'\"\nThe woman, the late LaDonna Zall, then guided Mihara through a farm field and right to the spot where he'd once lived. The memories came flooding back in a kind of homecoming.\n\"I really thank her for what she did,\" Mihara said.\nHe was just one of hundreds of people that Zall led around the site \u2014 and the tours were just one of the many things that she did to help preserve the former camp and the stories of those who were held there.\nZall, a longtime Powell area resident, died last month at the age of 87; at a Saturday memorial service hosted by the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, speakers recalled and honored her more than three decades of service.\n\"LaDonna was in many very real ways the essence and the soul of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation,\" said Doug Nelson, the nonprofit's vice chair, \"and for me it's hard, at least right now, to imagine this foundation without her.\"\nAs an 11-year-old, Zall cried as she watched the final traincar of incarcerees leave Heart Mountain in November 1945, as the U.S. government freed the last of the Japanese Americans.\n\"She was filled with sadness at what, as a little girl, she instinctively knew had been hurtful and wrong,\" Nelson said. \"And that empathy, years later, led her to try, in so many different ways, to set things right.\"\nIn 1989, Zall became involved in what would become the Heart Mountain foundation. She quickly became the first registrar and curator of the materials that would eventually form the basis of the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center; she also donated faithfully to the foundation and inspired others to support the nonprofit as well.\n\"She always wanted to do everything for the program,\" said Zall's life partner, Joyce Harkness.\nIn her book, \"Tales of Heart Mountain,\" Zall wrote that she had \"the best job of all.\"\n\"I get to meet nice people, hear their stories and see the wonderful artifacts that they permit us to care for,\" she wrote.\nAlthough the pandemic hindered her efforts, Zall had been helping to index all of the names that appeared in the camp's newspaper, the Heart Mountain Sentinel, so a search for a person turns up all of the articles in which they are mentioned. That work is expected to wrap up in the coming months.\nNelson said there was no way to measure all of the contributions Zall made to the foundation, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and the interpretive center, which is marking its 10th.\n\"But it's not those contributions alone, which we are missing today: We are also mourning the loss of one extraordinary human being,\" Nelson said, praising Zall's authenticity, honesty, courage, warmth, kindness and compassion.\nThe Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation issues an annual LaDonna Zall Compassionate Witness Award, which recognizes \"individuals whose families were not incarcerated during World War II, but who nonetheless have worked to expand awareness of the Japanese American incarceration.\"\nThis year's recipient was Pete Simpson of Cody, a member of the foundation's board of directors, historian and educator. Board chair Shirley Ann Higuchi said Simpson \"has long been an icon and representative of what Wyoming is great for.\"\nIn selecting Simpson, the board specifically noted how he's supported the mission to educate the public about the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans; inspired thousands of Wyoming residents to seek higher education and public service; and helped inspire the creation and development of the foundation.\nSimpson called the award the best and most important he's ever received, though he said no one carried out the mission of preserving the memory of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center better than Zall.\n\"This place wouldn't be here without love \u2014 and that's who brought it, right there,\" he said, pointing toward a smiling photograph of Zall on display. \"She loved what she did, she had empathy for it and she didn't seek self-aggrandizement for it.\"\nWhile Zall often spoke of the emotion she felt while watching the last train leave, Simpson recalled a visit to the camp with his Boy Scout troop. He shared a specific memory of throwing a football around with a Japanese American boy and being invited inside the boy's small tarpaper shack, where his mother offered a cup of hot cocoa.\nThe gesture impacted Simpson in a way that still moves him today.\n\"All of us carry with us \u2014 all of the incarcerees and their descendants ... \u2014 carry this emotion as a part of what we do,\" he said, \"to make sure nothing like that can occur again.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Haniyeh addresses the ceremony.\nQatari-funded Gaza neighborhood advances\nIsmail Haniyeh marks the beginning of the second phase of the Hamed City project, which will build a new neighborhood in Khan Yunis; Qatar also pledges a further $30 million for electricity infrastructure.\nLiad Osmo & Elior Levy|Published: 02.11.17 , 21:21\nA new neighborhood in Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip was inaugurated on Saturday morning as the second phase of the Hamed City project, funded by Qatar, which includes 1,060 homes.\nThe ceremony was attended by senior Palestinian official and former Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. He told the crowd that the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, will transfer an additional $100 million to help rebuild the strip. A quarter of that sum will be dedicated to building a hospital in Rafah. A tenth of the total sum is earmarked for erecting a hospital for special-needs patients in Gaza City.\nHamed City project\nHaniyeh speaking at the ceremony\nAddressing the electricity crisis in the strip, Haniyeh said that the Qatari emir will donate $30 million to establish electricity infrastructure. This is in addition to the $12 million that he has already pledged over the next three months to be used to buy fuel for Gaza's power station. Haniyeh stated that Turkey was also helping with the crisis.\nThe Hamed City project involves the construction of a new neighborhood in Khan Yunis that will include two schools, a mosque and parks. Its first phase began a year ago.\nSee all talkbacks \"Qatari-funded Gaza neighborhood advances\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Share on Facebook(2.3k) Tweet Share Share Email\nKellyanne Conway Calls Out Joe Biden's Lack of Sympathy over Accusations\nBy Evie Fordham\nWhite House counselor Kellyanne Conway asked why former vice president Joe Biden can apologize \"to Anita Hill for his role in the Clarence Thomas hearings\" but not a woman who accused him of inappropriate touching during an appearance on \"Fox News Sunday\" with Chris Wallace.\n\"Joe Biden this week was apologizing to Anita Hill for his role in the Clarence Thomas hearings,\" Conway said Sunday.\n\"Why didn't he apologize to Lucy? Why didn't he apologize to this woman? They never apologize to the individual, and I think the way the media covered everything from collusion to Kavanaugh to the Covington kids means they are to be able to cover issues like this.\"\nFormer Democratic Nevada Assemblywoman Lucy Flores accused Biden of sniffing her hair and kissing the back of her head without her consent in 2014. Biden was campaigning for her at the time.\n\"First of all, this woman Lucy is very bold to come forward, and I would remind the audience that she shares Joe Biden's political party. I think Joe Biden has a big problem here, because he calls it affection and handshakes.\n\"His party calls it completely inappropriate,\" Conway said on \"Fox News Sunday.\"\nFlores detailed the alleged experience in \"An Awkward Kiss Changed How I Saw Joe Biden\" in New York Magazine on Friday.\n\"I felt him get closer to me from behind. \u2026 He proceeded to plant a big slow kiss on the back of my head. My brain couldn't process what was happening.\n\"I was embarrassed. I was shocked. I was confused.\"\n\"There is a Spanish saying, 'tragame tierra,' it means, 'earth, swallow me whole.' I couldn't move and I couldn't say anything. I wanted nothing more than to get Biden away from me,\" she wrote.\nBiden responded to Flores's claims in a statement Sunday.\n\"In my many years on the campaign trail and in public life, I have offered countless handshakes, hugs, expressions of affection, support and comfort. And not once \u2014 never \u2014 did I believe I acted inappropriately.\n\"If it is suggested I did so, I will listen respectfully. But it was never my intention,\" Biden said according to The Associated Press.\nDo you agree with Kellyanne Conway?\nCompleting this poll entitles you to The Western Journal news updates free of charge. You may opt out at anytime. You also agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.\nYou're logged in to Facebook. Click here to log out.\nBiden is considered a front-runner in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary despite not having formally entered the race.\nRELATED: Trump Set To Make Announcement from the White House\nFlores's accusations could change that. Biden has claimed he would be the \"most progressive\" Democrat in the 2020 field should he choose to jump into the race.\nA version of this article appeared on The Daily Caller News Foundation website.\nEvie Fordham\nFounded by Tucker Carlson, a 25-year veteran of print and broadcast media, and Neil Patel, former chief policy adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, The Daily Caller News Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit providing original investigative reporting from a team of professional reporters that operates for the public benefit.\nSidney Powell Drops Lawsuit Alleging 'Massive Election Fraud' in Georgia\nPolitical Insider Charged with Spreading Iranian Propaganda in the Pages of Major US News Outlets\nPolice Union Head Calls Out Critics in Fiery Letter: 'Our Noble Profession Has Been Demonized'\nUS Gov't Releases Alarming New Intel on Wuhan Virus Lab, 'Secret Projects' with Chinese Military\nTags: Campaign, Chris Wallace, Clarence Thomas, Joe Biden, Kellyanne Conway, Nevada, politics, WJ Wire","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Closed Support our Montessori School as School for everybody\nA project from Montessori G\u00fcnzburg e.V.\nin G\u00fcnzburg, Germany\nDonate nowAdministration\nWe are living a School that is on par with the latest requirements of modern education. However, how ist it possible to offer this level of educational performance to all levels of society when government and state funding is not sufficient\nA. Frank |\nWe are living a School that is on par with the latest requirements of modern education\nNetwork learning in interactive and interdisciplinary small Teams, working on ones own learning Speed and individually designed educational path on a high Level of Performance. that is the core of our educational program where teachers are closely interconnected in small Teams and develop individual education programs for each one of their students. that is exactly the Point where public and traditional schooling Fails considerably to educate knowledgeable and responsible human beings.\nHowever, how ist it possible to offer this level of educational performance to all levels of society when government and state funding in Germany does not support innovative private education programs sufficiently?\nplease help us to continue with our work that has started 25 years ago and after troubled Waters has achieved a Turnaround in Quality and Student numbers over the lat 4 Years. However, our main public funding lacks 2 years behind our development which leads us in to a 130,000 \u20ac deficit that Needs to be covered for the next two years in order to keep tuition on ist current level and open our School to all Levels of Society.\nbesides our talented staff all other work at the School is covered by our students' families in their spare time and we want to Keep up with their excellent work for our Kids\ndiversity and righteousness in Society starts with strong, educated and powerful minds\nMontessori School G\u00fcnzburg offers the room for growing those minds\nUpdated at 18. March 2020","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Three more affiliates from three countries join the growing number of public organisations committed to independent monitoring of their electronics supply chain\nNottingham Trent University (UK), the City of Sant Boi de Llobregat in Catalonia (Spain), and Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen (Netherlands), are the latest public institutions to affiliate to Electronics Watch, bringing the total number of 'founding members' up to 15.\n2016 Mar 1\nThe Mobile Social Congress discusses a fairer electronics industry\nThe Mobile Social Congress, an alternative congress promoting a fairer electronics industry, took place on Tuesday 23 February in the afternoon at Casinet d'Hostafrancs in Barcelona. It is an initiative led by SETEM, Electronics Watch's partner in Spain, in collaboration with several organizations, including Amnesty International Catalonia, the Catalan network of organisation for the Democratic Republic of Congo, Fairphone, the telecommunications cooperative Eticom, the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and the open telecommunications network Guifinet.\nFind us in Vienna, Warsaw and Washington DC\nElectronics Watch will be present at the following events in March and May - if you're in the area, why not look us up!\nA brief introduction to the Electronics Watch staff\nElectronics Watch is delighted to introduce you to its new staff team\nThe City of Barcelona makes a social and environmental commitment to the workers of the electronics industry\nThe City of Barcelona has affiliated to Electronics Watch, making a social and environmental commitment to the workers of the electronics industry. The City made its announcement during the the Mobile World Congress, an annual gathering for the mobile industry and related industries, held in Barcelona, the Mobile World Capital.\nMajor Public Transport Organisation Joins Electronics Watch\nTransport for London (TfL) has become the first public transport organisation to affiliate to Electronics Watch, providing \u20ac60,000 a year to fund long-term monitoring and improvement of factories, and gain access to intelligence from Electronics Watch partnerships with monitoring organisations based in the areas of electronics production used by the public sector. TfL already has a strict ethical procurement process in place to encourage and support its suppliers to provide good and fair working conditions.\nThe University of Barcelona \u2013 committed to improving workers' rights in the global electronics sector\nThe University of Barcelona will become the first public institution of Spain to join Electronics Watch. The \u200bpublic higher education institution invests substantially in electronic equipment such as desktops, laptops and other electronic devices. Now, in this collaboration with Electronics Watch and the rest of the European affiliates, the University of Barcelona will use its purchasing power to have a real impact on working conditions in the global electronics sector.\nElectronics Watch events around Europe\nAutumn has been a very busy time for Electronics Watch. We have participated in conferences across Europe, including...\nUniversity of Leicester joins growing number of European public institutions to work towards better labour conditions for workers\nThe University of Leicester has affiliated to Electronics Watch, joining a growing number of public bodies who share concerns over poor labour standards in the ICT supply chain. By joining Electronics Watch, The University of Leicester are pushing for better conditions for workers in the supply chains of the brands it has contracts with, and support monitoring of the factories they use.\n2015 Oct 5\nForced labour in European universities' servers and ICT equipment\nGood Electronics in collaboration with a group of European NGOs released an investigation today showing that forced labour is used in the production of servers bought by European Universities.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"What is a Carp\nScrewball Looks, Lonely Places\nby Zach Matthews\nStill not convinced that fly fishing for carp is any great shakes? In truth, sight-fishing for carp can challenge your stalking and presentation skills in ways that few other types of fly fishing can.\nTEN YEARS AGO, maybe even fifteen, you'd have gotten a strange look if you mentioned flyfishing for carp anywhere this side of the Atlantic. Since then, carp seem to have become the species everyone feels obliged to mention at least once. You see carp in magazines, in books, even on the occasional flyfishing television show.\nAlthough some of these articles and books have been very good, carp have still managed to slip under the radar of the American angling public. In Europe, carp fishing is an established and expanding sport. Whole magazines are dedicated to the species and anglers routinely make the local newspapers gripping-and-grinning these fish like they know something we don't. After all, here in the United States the average angler would rather be photographed knee-deep in his sinking drift boat than be discovered to have hooked a carp, much less to have caught it and looked proud about doing so. Sure, some enlightened anglers have begun to target carp \u2014 usually out of curiosity or boredom with still more trout. But if you asked a guy on the street to tell you about carp, he'd give you a funny look and inform you, sonny, that carp are widely known to be the nastiest, slimiest, plug-ugliest, bottom-dwelling-est fish on the continent. So before I get into why I not only respect the species but actively seek to embarrass myself by catching them, maybe a brief review of the carp's less-than-noble history in the United States is in order.\nHow Did an Overgrown Asian Goldfish Get in My Trout Stream?\nThe common carp, cyprinus carpio, is nothing more and nothing less than the largest minnow in the world. (Before your prejudices are confirmed, look into the noble tarpon's not-so-prestigious relationship with the common herring, the silver king's 'other side of the sheets' little brother). Although the carp is native to central Asia, it was intentionally introduced in the United States in the 19th century, as (you guessed it) a fast growing, cheap and potentially abundant source of food for the expanding nation. Unfortunately, the carp's greatest strength, its superhero tolerance for pollutants and poor living conditions, turned out to be its Achilles' heel. Compare, for example, late 20th century tests of the 1600 most common pollutants in United States waters (of which only 135 were found to be fatal to carp) with the many ways one can kill an average rainbow trout. Trout roll over like kryptonite was dumped in the stream if a heavy rain falls in the neighboring county. Yet, it is this very tolerance that has given carp such a bad name. After all, who wants to catch a fish that lives in the cesspool behind the office parking lot, casting between Styrofoam cups? Ah, but correlation does not equal causation, my friend.\nJust because a carp can live in the worst conditions does not mean all carp do live in the worst conditions. The two best places to catch carp in my home area are the local trout stream and the local lake, a source of drinking water for the city. Moreover, few practical fly-fishing locales are likely to be as polluted as that storm drain behind the office complex. Remember that a carp's tolerance range includes the beautiful as well as the ugly, and that clean rivers make for clean fish.\nOk, Assuming I Might Want to Catch Them, How Do I Do It?\nThe most common misconception about carp fishing is that it is easy. It isn't. People assume that carp are easy to catch for the same reason they assume all carp are diseased: nothing that ugly could be difficult to trick. Fortunately, this second belief is just as flawed as the first. Carp are, in all likelihood, the spookiest, trickiest, smartest fish found in the waters of the United States. They have phenomenally sensitive mouths equipped with chemically receptive cells which allow the carp to distinguish food from foe in an instant. In addition, carp actually have nostrils, small holes near the eye sockets which flush in water and allow the carp to sample its surroundings like a lizard testing the air with its tongue. Once spooked, a carp emits an alarm pheromone which alerts other carp to the danger. Thus, one shot is often all you get, even in waters where the carp experience no fishing pressure.\nThe best thing about carp fishing in the United States is the availability of fish and water. Ever wonder what trout fishing in the early 17th century would have been like? Visions of empty water chock full of uneducated fish swim before the eyes; the angler versus the fish with only the fish's native wiliness to avail it. Those days are gone, friend. If there's a trout inside the United States that has yet to see a wooly bugger it either lives inside a volcano or it will soon be riding in a hatchery truck. Carp, however, may as well be new to this earth.\nEurope, as mentioned, has organized carp angling which selects for educated fish, mimicking the arms race that has already occurred between North American anglers and salmonids. Carp, with such an impressive biological arsenal already at their command, are certain to quickly reach new levels of uncatchability once angling pressure begins in earnest. And, just as saltwater fishing opened up in the previous decades, so too will carp fishing in the coming years. The nature of our expanding population and diminishing trout resources practically make a growing carp fishery inevitable, and if you don't yet believe it, look to Europe.\nThe tools for catching carp were largely developed in the great saltwater laboratories of the past decade or so. Although blind fishing is an option, the thrill of catching carp is in the stalk, just as it is with redfish and bonefish, so I focus on sight-fishing alone. Carp in common conditions can easily cross twenty pounds, so be prepared with strong tackle appropriate to the situation. Eight weights with high-end reels are appropriate for river situations, but consider scaling up to a ten weight if you target carp in waters deep enough for them to sound. Horsing a carp out from under a dock is particularly difficult. Pay close attention to the terminal tackle. Most modern saltwater lines are merely adequate for carp fishing, which often demands trout-like presentations with larger food sources. Avoid bass bugs and other tapers which might turn a fly over too aggressively. Use tapered leaders at least as long as the rod, but use the strongest leader material you can get away with. Ten pound Climax fluorocarbon is my usual tippet.\nFlies range from my personal favorite, the Crazy Charlie in whatever color matches the stream bottom, to orange-headed wooly buggers in white and olive, and egg-patterns colored to resemble mulberries, corn, or trout eggs. Choose patterns based on the vegetable as well as animal sides of the menu, because carp are omnivorous. Additionally, have a look around the web. Carp fishers are scattered widely enough for some real regional varieties to develop in fly selection, and most of the best patterns aren't commercially available.\nCarp are at their trickiest, and most rewarding, when the sun is high and the water is slick. Although I am not above chumming up some lake carp for a quick evening of bulldogging some fish, I find the early afternoon carp stalk to be among the most entertaining forms of fly-fishing I have experienced. Wear polarized sunglasses and locate a section of your local carp water, whether river or lake, which allows for shallow wading. Even granddaddy carp will tail in less than six inches of water. Begin your stalk upriver (or upwind in still water), with the sun wherever you can see ahead of you best. I find it helps to use the reflections of trees or nearby hills to cut some of the glare off the water. Again, polaroids are absolutely not optional: you need them avoid wasting your time. Carp will skim across the flats seemingly at random, sometimes holding in predictable patterns and sometimes meandering about. Usually they are looking for food, which they attack by hoovering up the sediment and filtering out crustaceans, plant matter, and bugs. Just as a bonefish puffs away at the bottom, so will a carp root for his dinner. In deeper water, carp will sip debris lines just like trout, picking mayflies, caddisflies, or seedpods off the surface with an audible slurp.\nOn the flat, approach the carp from \"over his shoulder,\" and carefully wade as close as necessary for a really clean cast. For the best results with a ten-pound carp (my target size with an eight weight) you will want to be able to hit a three-inch target thirty feet away. That three-inch strike zone is usually immediately \"behind his ear,\" or in the slot just between his pectoral fin and his eye, approximately six inches away from the fish. Cast for distance first as the fish are not line shy, then lay the fly in with an audible plop (but not a splash). If you are lucky, the carp will turn to see a potential food source drifting down and will grab before the adage about being too good to be true finishes flashing before his eyes. This cast usually gets me about 50-50 results when I nail it. Some carp will blow out of the pool the minute the fly makes contact. Because of those chemical signals, the best bet is to wade to the bank and start over a couple hundred feet away.\nAnother approach makes use of the carp's feeding proclivities. Like a bonefish, carp often spot prey by the puffs of sediment the critters send up when scurrying away from danger. When you see a carp prowling for food, lead your fishy receiver like a quarterback by just a few yards and give your fly time to sink. I particularly enjoy this method with a Crazy Charlie or similar hook-upwards pattern. Let the fly settle, then when the carp comes in range, twitch it just enough to stir up some dust. Usually, the carp will be on you like a duck on a June bug.\nEat the Wind Out of His Sails\nCarp are dogged, never-say-die fighters. On light saltwater tackle, in a river, you have a good chance of landing even a large specimen. In open water, plan for some power-cleaning. The first time I fair hooked a carp, no chum and all hands aboveboard, was on a cane 5 weight with an outdated Orvis Battenkill 5\/6 disc drag reel. I broke him off just as he was getting up to plane \u2014 thirty feet into my backing! Two other jumbo specimens played me the same song that day, but I came back better armed with an eight weight and a saltwater-class reel. Dial your drag up to 'never say die' and lean into the fish.\nCarp fight like a cross between a redfish and a bonefish \u2014 hard, jagged runs, one after another, and a net-run at the finish for certain. Nothing short of a full grown striper will pull like that in most rivers where carp are found.\nIn a river, play the carp like you would a really big trout, turning his head at the end of a run and working him against the current. If you don't have a buddy with a really big net handy, let him waterski himself across the current and right out onto the bank, where you can subdue him. As Lefty Kreh says, \"don't burn your golf balls\" \u2013 treat the fish right and release him with as much care as you would a baby brookie. Besides taking natural selection and the inevitable arms race out of the picture, it is just the decent thing to do. If you want to try eating a carp, be my guest. I may be enlightened but some cooties really stick.\nThis Ain't No Beauty Contest\nI may have referred to carp as 'plug ugly' a time or two in the past. I did this before I really came to know them. No carp I have landed to date has been anything short of elegant. If redfish with their beauty spots and bonefish with their sucker mouths can grace the covers of our finer fishing magazines, carp deserve their shot too. This is a pleasure that is certain not to last. The golden days of empty rivers and screwball looks can only last so long, friends, and though I drive in a nail by saying so, you really must try this.\n~ ref: http:\/\/www.midcurrent.com, Aug 2010, by Zach Matthews a writer and photographer from East Tennessee. He edits The Itinerant Angler (www.itinerantangler.com) and is a regular contributor to American Angler magazine. Article copyright \u00a9 2006 by Zach Matthews.\nGet our most recent Deals\/Discounts, Videos, tutorial, and articles in our newsletter.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Yellowstone Historic Center\nExplore the Heritage of Travel to Yellowstone\nMuseum of the Yellowstone\nTickets & Hours\nThe Story of West Yellowstone\nThe Historic District\nHistory of Travel to Yellowstone\nAnnual Heritage Celebration!\nNews & History Blog\nSupport YHC\nArchive Project\nWays to show your Support\nDonate to the Yellowstone Historic Center\nPurchase a Limited Edition Gary Carter Print, \"West Yellowstone 1916\"\nJoin YHC\nPersonal Memberships\nYellowstone History Journal\nJobs with the Yellowstone Historic Center\nPolicies & Terms of Use\nAbout the Museum Gift Shop\nThe Museum Store, located in the lobby of the Yellowstone Historic Center Museum, features an assortment of Union Pacific and train memorabilia, apparel, DVD's, vintage prints and post cards, toys, and more. We also carry a first-class selection of historical non-fiction, fiction, children's, and reference books. You can feel good about shopping with us because every purchase from the Museum Store helps to support the Yellowstone Historic Center and our ongoing programs, education and outreach, preservation efforts, and Museum operations.\nYHC members receive a 15% discount off regularly-priced merchandise.\nTo place an order, contact us at info@yellowstonehistoriccenter.org. We will be able to tell you if the items you are interested in are currently in our stock or not. We accept both check and credit card (Mastercard\/Visa).\nPrices for shipping may vary due to number of items and location to be shipped. Please contact us for more information. All returned items must be undamaged and include a sales receipt. A $10.00 restocking fee will be charged for returns.\nSinging in the Saddle\n\"After finding traces of Yellowstone Chip's writing at the historic OTO Dude Ranch north of Yellowstone National Park, Nan Weber tracked Chip's history. In the course of her research, she found Chip's memoirs, his music, his cartooning, and his family. Chip's story follows his travels from his Illinois childhood home to the majesty of the Western United States. His lively journey encompasses music, cowboy life, and, most of all, people. His is the story of a true singing cowboy.\" \u2013 Book Synopsis\nYellowstone Has Teeth\n\"Few people have experienced Yellowstone National Park like Marjane Ambler. She and her husband lived in a tiny community near the shores of Yellowstone Lake, deep in the park's interior. The natural beauty was magnificent, but Ambler and her neighbors discovered that Yellowstone \"had teeth.\" It could be an unforgiving place where mistakes mattered. In this well-constructed narrative, Ambler reveals a hidden Yellowstone, a place where delight and danger are separated by the slimmest of margins: a degree of pitch on an avalanche slope, a few inches of a buffalo's horn, a moment during a deadly wildfire.\" \u2013 Back Cover\nHo! For Wonderland: Travelers' Accounts of Yellowstone, 1872-1914\n\"Since it became the world's first national park in 1872, Yellowstone has welcomes tourists from all corners of the globe who returned to their hometowns and countries with reports of this American wonderland. Stories from the park's earliest visitors began to spread so rapidly that by 1897 Yellowstone became solidly established as a successful tourist destination with more than ten thousand tourists passing through its entrances. Travelers in the park's first years faced long, dusty, and tediously slow stagecoach trips and could choose only between rather primitive hotels and tent camps for their overnight accommodations. Devoured by nineteenth-century readers, many of the narratives from this era are long forgotten today and are only gradually being recovered from historical archives. Park historians Lee Whittlesey and Elizabeth Watry have combed thousands of firsthand accounts, selecting nineteen tales that offer unique and engaging perspectives of visitors during Yellowstone's stagecoach era.\" \u2013 Back Cover\nYellowstone Summers: Touring with the Wylie Camping Company\n\"In 1872 Congress established Yellowstone National Park, and its vast wonders soon mesmerized early sightseers. One of them, school superintendent William Wallace Wylie, visited in July 1880 and was immediately smitten, arranging his fist tour group a few weeks later. His initial effort evolved into a full-fledged business, and from 1896 to 1905 the Wylie Camping Company fed, sheltered, and guided thousands of Victorian vacationers through relaxed week-long tours of geysers, hot pools, waterfalls, and trails.\" -Back Cover\nA Ride to the Infernal Regions: Yellowstone's First Tourists\n\"A little-known and previously unavailable account of the first tourist party to Yellowstone National Park. In 1871, inspired by sketchy reports of Yellowstone's wonders, six Montanans made a horseback trip to see the park's geysers, lakes, and canyons. Lively and well-written with a detailed introduction and narrative footnotes. Yellowstone National Park Historian, Lee Whittlesey, say Great Job! An outstanding publication that fills a big void.\" \u2013 Book Synopsis\nAdventures in Yellowstone: Early Travelers Tell Their Tales\n\"After its establishment in 1872, Yellowstone National Park was sufficiently famous that a surprising number of people risked bear maulings, Indian attacks, and geyser burns just to glimpse its wonders. Many of those who survived wrote about their adventures. The best of those stories are collected here, in \"Adventures in Yellowstone.\" This compilation includes a dozen narratives \u2013 journal entries, letters, and diaries \u2013 with individual introductions as well as historic photographs, postcards, and woodcuts.\" \u2013 Back Cover\nRough Trip Through Yellowstone\n\"In the winter of 1894, the magazine Forest and Stream sent one of its most talented writers, Emerson Hough, to Yellowstone National Park to document the decline in bison. Under the tutelage of legendary guide Billy Hofer, Hough learned to ski on 12-foot-long wooden slats. He witnessed the arrest of notorious poacher Ed Howell caught red-handed skinning a bison and met pioneering photographer F. Jay Haynes. Undertaking a tough, 200-mile trip on skis, Hough, Haines and Hofer came up with the best census of the park s bison and elk that anyone had yet achieved. Hough wrote up the expedition in a series of 14 articles. The series motivated the United States Congress to pass the anti-poaching Lacey Act and helped turn public opinion against a proposed railroad through the park. \" \u2013 Back Cover\nDeath in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park, 2nd Edition\n\"The chilling tome that launches an entire genre of books about the often gruesome but always tragic ways people have died in our national parks, this updated edition of the classic includes calamities in Yellowstone from the past sixteen years, including the infamous grizzly bear attacks in the summer of 2011 as well as a fatal hot springs accident in 2000. In these accounts, written with sensitivity as cautionary tales about what to do and what not to do in one of our wildest national parks, Whittlesey recounts deaths ranging from tragedy to folly \u2013 from being caught in a freak avalanche to the goring of a photographer who just got a little too close to a bison. Armchair travelers and park visitors alike will be fascinated by this important book detailing the dangers awaiting in our first national park. \" \u2013 Book Synopsis\nWomen in Wonderland: Lives, Legends, and Legacies of Yellowstone National Park\n\"With the publication of Peter Nabokov's \"Restoring a Presence: American Indians and Yellowstone National Park\", the narrative of Yellowstone's cultural history has become more inclusive in recent years, but it is still missing an important component \u2013 the contributions of women. It is my sincerest desire, with this volume, to remedy that omission by giving women of Yellowstone a voice that will be heard through centuries. Like much of America's history, Yellowstone's historical narratives contains numerous stories of adventures, heroics, and contributions of men, while the contributions of women have become invisible and largely forgotten. As there are far more women whose lives were influenced and shaped by their experiences in the park than \"Women in Wonderland\" encompasses, this book represents merely the beginning of reclaiming Yellowstone's women from obscurity.\" \u2013 Section from Introduction\nJohn Colter: His Years in the Rockies\n\"John Colter was a crack hunter with the Lewis and Clark expedition before striking out on his own as a mountain man and fur trader. A solitary journey in the winter of 1807-8 took him into present-day Wyoming. To unbelieving trappers he later reported sights that inspired the name of Colter's Hell. It was a sulfurous place of hidden fires, smoking pits, and shooting water. And it was real. John Colter is known to history as probably the first white man to discover the region that now includes Yellowstone National Park. In a classic book, first published in 1952, Burton Harris weighs the facts and legends about a man who was dogged by misfortune and 'robbed of the just rewards he had earned.'\" \u2013 Back Cover\nThrough Early Yellowstone\" Adventuring by Bicycle, Covered Wagon, Foot, Horseback, and Skis\n\"An anthology of entertaining accounts of travel through Yellowstone, this book takes readers back to 1871, before it was a tourist destination, through the time when autos were allowed into the park. The adventurers include an intrepid mother who posted the sign \"Park or Bust\" on her family's covered wagon, a strong cyclist and a hiker who traversed the whole park for fun, an expert guide on skis, and a New York horsewoman who presented park management with a plan for an interconnected circuit of bridle trails. Along with numerous historical photos and artwork, the book features a color gallery of watercolor paintings by Thomas Henry Thomas from 1884 and have never been seen outside of Wales.\" \u2013 Book Synopsis\n104 Yellowstone Avenue\nWest Yellowstone, MT\nMuseum: 406.646.1100\nVisit our Museum\nCurrent Museum Exhibits\nHosted by Gallery Web Host","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Sports Klopp speaks on Liverpool winning Premier League, Champions League this season\nKlopp speaks on Liverpool winning Premier League, Champions League this season\nLiverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp, has said he is not \"good enough\" to decide, whether he will prioritise winning the Premier League over retaining Liverpool's Champions League title this season.\nKlopp won his first European title last term, with victory against Tottenham in Madrid.\nBut the Reds had finished one point behind Manchester City in the league.\nLiverpool have not won the league title since 1989\/1990, but Klopp is refusing to set any specific targets at this stage of the campaign.\n\"Unfortunately I am not good enough to decide that! I have to take what I can get. That is how it is.\n\"We didn't decide last year that we would go for the Champions League and ignore the Premier League obviously so we just try to win the next football game.\n\"That is [Wednesday] night and that is difficult enough. I am not a genius so I have to take what I can get.\n\"Last year thankfully we won something, celebrated it, so now let's carry on,\" Klopp told the media ahead of the Super Cup match against Europa League winners Chelsea in Istanbul on Wednesday.\nPrevious articleGhana: 'Casual Workers Must Join Labour Unions'\nNext articleUNIFIL GHANBATT 86 commemorates GAF women at 60\nYahaya Mohammed sets sight on breaking GPL Goal king record this season\nHow will Jeffrey Schlupp affect Crystal Palace's chances for the 2020 Premier League?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"WOMEN WHO RULE: Why We Are Obsessed With TV's Most Formidable Females\nRight now there's a revolution going on in television land. Some of the biggest shows - attracting massive male and female audiences worldwide - feature strong, empowered women in the lead roles.\nAnd by empowered we don't mean ballsy, women-acting-like-men characters. We are talking about women who are multi-dimensional, intriguing and flawed. Some are leading the nation, some are barely surviving - all are real and absolutely compelling to watch. Here's our list of TV women who rule:\nMadeline Martha Mackenzie (Reese Witherspoon) Big Little Lies\nShe's smart, forthright, educated and confident. And when she's passionate about something, get out of her way. If Madeline Mackenzie has a cause to champion she will fight for it to the death. She's also loyal and bitingly funny, the kind of person everyone wants to hang out with. Time to make her your new best friend.\n\"I only do 20 hrs a week max. Between you and I, I try and maintain my full-time mommy status, so I can lord it over women like Renata and the other career mommies.\"\nSelina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) Veep\nBeing the first female president of the United States means you have to be doing something right. And in Selina Meyer's case, it's whatever is right for herself. Arrogant and entitled, she has defied the female odds and clawed her way to America's highest office. She can browbeat any congressman into line but she's way from perfect as a world leader \u2013 actually rather incompetent, which just makes this Emmy smash hit more realistic and hilarious. For a woman that packs the perfect political punch-line, we Vote1 Selina Meyer in Veep.\nSansa Stark (Sophie Turner) Game of Thrones\nYou could be forgiven for questioning Sansa's inclusion in our list of \"Women who Rule\" if you had only watched her in the first season of Game of Thrones. Back then she was naive, idealistic and foolish. But Sansa has undergone one of the most complex character growths of this ground breaking series. The teen royal who endured unspeakable trauma has transformed into a shrewd, politically-savvy woman. Now unafraid to deliver ice-cold insults to Peytr Baelish or challenge her brother, the King in the North, Sansa is, above all things, a survivor. Something she will need now that Winter is here.\nCeleste Wright (Nicole Kidman) Big Little Lies\nWhen everyone admires your beauty, your hot husband, your perfect children and your luxurious lifestyle, the last thing you want to do is reveal the ugly truth, or worse, admit it to yourself. Instead Celeste focuses on her family's happiness and her friends' needs, supporting them generously and lovingly. This is a woman as complex as the predicament in which she finds herself. No one would want to step into her shoes but every viewer wants to walk alongside her...\nDolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood) Westworld\nLike Sansa Stark, Dolores Abernathy knows what it is to be at the mercy of men, particularly those who know nothing of such a virtue. Dolores is shy, passive and been subjected to untold suffering. Yet instead of it destroying her, Dolores discovers the strength and courage she needs to take control of her destiny. This is female empowerment at its best. Dolores Abernathy will no longer be defined by her past because now, she is the one taking control and seeking revenge.\nJane Chapman (Shailene Woodley) Big Little Lies\nWhen 24-year-old single mum Jane Chapman arrives in money-soaked Monterey there seems nothing particularly remarkable about her. Yet that is precisely what makes her so interesting. And as we witness her trauma-riddled flashbacks, we discover that Jane is carrying a harrowing burden she has never shared with anyone. Hiding such a secret is not surprising but how Jane copes with it is honest, thought-provoking and undeniably great TV.\nBrienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie) Game of Thrones\nHow good would it be to have a friend like GOT's Brienne of Tarth? Loyal beyond comprehension, brave and a total gun in any fight, physical or verbal, Brienne of Tarth is a woman you want on your side. Just ask Jaime Lannister, who developed unexpected feelings for her. While he had only ever had eyes for Cersei, Jaime saw in Brienne the qualities that elevate her above so many others: honour, kindness, integrity and utter fearlessness.\n\"All my life men like you have sneered at me. And all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust.\"\nTV shows you may like\nBig Little Lies Season 1\nVeep Season 5\nWestworld Season 1\nThe Coolest Cliffhangers in TV History\nCliffhangers- they can be agony, they can be ecstasy \u2013 but they work. They keep us glued to the screen, chatting afterwards and coming back for more the next season.\nWhich Hollywood legend are you\nAre you a die-hard glamour puss, a woman who finds it easy to make people laugh \u2013 or a leading lady who's all about keeping it classy?\nJulia Roberts' greatest roles\nJulia Roberts is perfect (obvs). But what are her greatest roles ever?\nI'd like to receive exclusive offers, competitions & entertainment news from Village Roadshow Group. I have read the Privacy Policy.\nThanks. We'll be in touch soon.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"0 Elizabeth Wein, author of A THOUSAND SISTERS, on when a story falls perfectly into place\nWe're excited to have Elizabeth Wein stop by to share more about her latest book, A THOUSAND SISTERS: THE HEROIC AIRWOMEN OF THE SOVIET UNION IN WORLD WAR II.\nElizabeth, what was your inspiration for writing A THOUSAND SISTERS?\nI've known about these incredible aviators for at least ten years, and even included a fictional Soviet fighter pilot named Irina Korsakova as a minor character in my 2013 novel, Rose Under Fire. I've always wanted to write about these women, but felt that I didn't know enough about Russian culture and Soviet history to be able to get inside the head of a viewpoint character in a novel.\nSo when Kristin Rens asked if I'd be interested in working on a non-fiction volume about these aviators, I loved the idea. I thought it would be a good way to write about them without having to fully immerse myself in their emotional and mental background \u2013 although, as I did the necessary research, I ended up immersed in it anyway! (And as a result, I did after all write some fiction about a Soviet woman pilot: a short YA novel called FIREBIRD, published in 2018 by Barrington Stoke in the UK.)\nThe hardest part of this book to write was the prologue \u2013 it got written after all the rest of the book was finished. My editor Kristin and I talked about the need for a strong introduction, something that would draw in young readers and help them to relate to the work's very unusual and alien material \u2013 something to shoehorn readers into the world of these young women battling on the other side of the globe in 1943.\nThat \"shoehorn\" was the screenplay written by the American novelist William Faulkner for an unfilmed Hollywood epic called BATTLE CRY. A large part of the BATTLE CRY script is devoted to a segment about a pair of Soviet women bomber pilots, based on a radio play from a patriotic series broadcast during wartime. When I uncovered the background for this segment of the film, it seemed the perfect way to make the story accessible. Hollywood in wartime! A Nobel prize-winning American novelist! A-list actors! A possible enemy chemical weapons attack in Los Angeles! It was so fascinating that the true story felt magical \u2013 heaven-sent.\nI spent a solid week drafting the prologue, sent it off with trepidation, and Kristin loved it. It was exactly what the book needed and worked perfectly.\nI am proud of it and also kind of amazed that it exists \u2013 that the story fell into place so perfectly.\nGwen Katz has written a thoroughly researched and moving novel for young adults about one of these Soviet regiments \u2013 her book is called AMONG THE RED STARS. It's about a young female night bomber pilot and a daring rescue.\nFor a terrific novel about a young American woman flying in World War II, try FLYGIRL by Sherri L. Smith. The heroine is an African American teen who has to pass as white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP).\nIf you want to learn more about the Soviet Union in World War II, M.T. Anderson's young adult non-fiction SYMPHONY FOR THE CITY OF THE DEAD tells a breathtaking story of the tragic siege of the Leningrad, intertwined with a moving biography of the composer Dmitri Shostakovich.\nHow long did you work on A THOUSAND SISTERS?\nI began research for the book in June 2016, wrote the main body of the text in stages during 2017, and completed the prologue (see above!) in January 2018. I spent most of 2018 revising, fact-checking, and creating end notes and a bibliography for the book. So \u2013 about two-and-a-half years altogether.\nI found it an unexpected pleasure to be working on non-fiction \u2013 something that I wasn't making up. I still had to figure out how to tell the story, much as I do when I'm writing fiction, but the plot wasn't up to me. It didn't actually make it easier \u2013 more like a puzzle that had to be solved. I enjoyed that and wouldn't mind doing it again.\nI was also surprised at how invested I became in learning about Soviet history, a thing I never imagined I would take an interest in. Now I am genuinely fascinated by it.\nWas there an AHA! moment along your road to publication where something suddenly sank in and you felt you had the key to writing this book? What was it?\nNot so much the key to writing a book in general, but I did have an \"AHA!\" moment over how to end A THOUSAND SISTERS and tie everything together. I was watching a production of Sting's musical THE LAST SHIP at Northern Stage in Newcastle, England, and the show ended with a \"call to action\" as the narrator challenged the audience to go out into the world and create positive change. I realized that in many ways this was also the message of A THOUSAND SISTERS \u2013 that one individual can make a difference. So I tried to make a similar challenge at the end of the book. Indeed, the last sentence urges the reader to \"Go out and change the wind.\"\nThere are so many ways we can shape our world \u2013 I hope that this book inspires readers to fly!\nA Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II\nIn the early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made the Soviet Union the first country in the world to allow female pilots to fly in combat. Led by Marina Raskova, these three regiments, including the 588th Night Bomber Regiment\u2014nicknamed the \"night witches\"\u2014faced intense pressure and obstacles both in the sky and on the ground. Some of these young women perished in flames. Many of them were in their teens when they went to war.\nThis is the story of Raskova's three regiments, women who enlisted and were deployed on the front lines of battle as navigators, pilots, and mechanics. It is the story of a thousand young women who wanted to take flight to defend their country, and the woman who brought them together in the sky.\nPacked with black-and-white photographs, fascinating sidebars, and thoroughly researched details, A Thousand Sisters is the inspiring true story of a group of women who set out to change the world, and the sisterhood they formed even amid the destruction of war.\nPurchase A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II at Amazon\nPurchase A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II at IndieBound\nView A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II on Goodreads\nElizabeth Wein has lived in Scotland for over 10 years and wrote nearly all her novels there. Her first five books for young adults are set in Arthurian Britain and sixth-century Ethiopia. The most recent of these form the sequence The Mark of Solomon, published in two parts as THE LION HUNTER (2007) and THE EMPTY KINGDOM (2008). THE LION HUNTER was short-listed for the Andre Norton Award for Best Young Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction in 2008. Elizabeth also writes short stories.\nElizabeth's latest novel for teens is a departure in a totally new direction. CODE NAME VERITY is a World War II thriller in which two young girls, one a Resistance spy and the other a transport pilot, become unlikely best friends. A companion novel, ROSE UNDER FIRE, won the 2014 ALA Schneider Family Book Award for Teens.\nHave you had a chance to read A THOUSAND SISTERS yet? Have you tried writing nonfiction? What type of \"call to action\" would you put at the end of your current WIP? 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{"text":"Caring & Giving Employee Spotlight\nThis Unique Johnson & Johnson Program Lets Employees Take Paid Time Off Work to Do Good\nWe're spotlighting four staffers who've taken advantage of the company's Extended Volunteer Leave Policy to help people in need.\nBy Alice Oglethorpe April 23, 2017\nFor most people, volunteering gets squeezed into free evenings or weekends.\nBut for Johnson & Johnson employees, there's another option. Thanks to the Extended Volunteer Leave Policy, eligible individuals can take up to two weeks away\u2014one paid\u2014from their jobs to volunteer at a non-profit, using their skills and expertise to help make a difference in the world.\n5 Stories of Employees Giving Back: \"The Six-Month Assignment That Changed My Life\"\nThe policy puts Johnson & Johnson in a small but growing group of companies that allow workers to truly immerse themselves in a volunteer project for an extended period of time, enabling them to make even more of an impact.\nSo for National Volunteer Week, we spoke to four Johnson & Johnson staffers who took advantage of the program to spend time off from work not on a vacation, but on a mission to help impact the lives of others\u2014and their own, too.\nGiving Guatemalan Children a Reason to Smile\nReinhard Juraschek, Ph.D., Associate Director of Research & Development, Ethicon\nEvery February for the past six years, Reinhard Juraschek has taken advantage of the Extended Volunteer Leave Policy and boarded a plane bound for the Guatemalan highlands. In a small town with little access to healthcare, he joins the Rotary International's Iowa MOST (Miles of Smiles) team, which performs cleft lip and palate surgeries on children.\nWhat It's Like to Go on an Operation Smile Mission\nCleft lips and cleft palates are birth defects in which a piece of the lip or palate (the soft tissue at the top of the mouth) is missing. In places like the U.S., such birth defects are operated on immediately, but that's not the case in the highlands of Guatemala.\n\"The kids born with this defect grow up being stigmatized and not accepted in society,\" says Juraschek, who lives in New Jersey. \"It also impacts speech\u2014they aren't able to enunciate certain sounds, which makes them sound unintelligent.\"\nIt's so rewarding when a kid runs his tongue over his lip and can't believe it's been fixed. This was a way to do something with my skills and background that was completely, undoubtedly good.\nThat's where Juraschek and his team come in: One week every year, they return to the region and perform much-needed surgeries to fix the birth defects.\nJuraschek on one of his trips to Guatemala\n\"At Johnson & Johnson, I do research and development for plastic and reproductive surgery,\" Juraschek says. \"I was worried I wouldn't be helpful because I'm a scientist, not a surgeon, but it turns out there are a lot of things for me to do.\"\nTo wit, he's helped out as a nurse in the recovery room, where he sang to kids as they woke up; helped streamline processes and improve procedures on-site; and even developed additional side missions, like fixing kids' teeth with help from volunteer dentists.\n\"It's so rewarding when a kid who is 12 or 14 runs his tongue over his lip and can't believe it's been fixed, or a parent sees their little one after the surgery,\" Juraschek says. \"This was a way to do something with my skills and background that was completely, undoubtedly good.\"\nElevating Education and Opportunities for Kenyan Girls\nCarrie Arndt, Director, Quality Engineering, Advanced Sterilization Products\nThere was an unlikely source for Carrie Arndt's passion for volunteering: her son.\n\"He was a freshman at Duke University in a global health program when he learned about the challenges facing girls in Africa,\" Arndt explains. \"He called me up asking if I could help out with corporate contributions, but I wanted to do more than that.\"\n7 Women Who Are Helping to Change the World for Women\nThat was 10 years ago. Since then Arndt has been deeply involved with the Women's Institute for Secondary Education and Research (WISER), which runs a boarding school in Kenya that not only educates girls but teaches them the life skills they need to be successful and independent adults, like how to interview for a job or stay on top of their personal finances.\nWhat makes these trips even better is that I go with other Johnson & Johnson employees. To be able to come home and work with people who have gone with me is incredibly enriching.\n\"The community had no running water, no electricity and very primitive latrines,\" she recalls of her first trip to the country in 2008. \"And yet the people there were so optimistic and positive in the midst of having so little. It was humbling.\"\nArndt and a boarding school student in Kenya\nArndt, who lives in California, has now taken six trips to Kenya\u2014using the Extended Volunteer Leave Policy three of those times\u2014including trips to help officially open the school in 2010, and to attend the first class's graduation in 2014.\n\"I helped select the 30 students for that first class,\" she says. \"Many of them couldn't even talk about what they wanted for their future. They had never thought about aspirations because it was assumed they would just get married and have kids. That first class was full of pioneers\u2014they forged the path and motivated the girls who came after them.\"\nAnd the results have been amazing: Of the 120 girls who have graduated thus far, each one has passed the high school exit exam, and more than 90% of graduates go on to receive further education.\n\"What makes these trips even better is that I go with other Johnson & Johnson employees,\" Arndt says. \"To be able to come home and work with people who have gone with me is incredibly enriching.\"\nRebuilding Homes for South Carolina Residents\nMichael Blocker, Staff Process Engineer\/Technical Operation, Janssen Pharmaceuticals\nWhile many people take summer trips to the beach or a lake house, Michael Blocker heads for Dillon, South Carolina. His mission: lead a team of kid and adult volunteers as they fix up houses for people in need. Throughout the week, the volunteers work on eight houses that have fallen into disrepair because their owners lack either the financial means or physical ability to maintain them.\nAfter his first stint volunteering with Salkehatchie Summer Mission in 2011, Blocker was hooked, returning every year as a site leader, and taking advantage of the leave policy four times. In his role as a site leader, the Georgia resident helps pick the houses that get fixed up, teach the volunteers about job site safety, and keep the project on time and on budget.\nA few years ago, we fixed up the houses of two ladies in their 90s and it was so great to hear their life stories. I always get more out of it than what I put into it.\nBlocker (far right) with fellow volunteers in South Carolina\n\"We aren't just doing a little landscaping or putting on a fresh coat of paint,\" Blocker says. \"We are ripping out rotted floors, replacing roofs and fixing plumbing\u2014this is hard work! There's always a moment in the middle of the week when we wonder if we bit off more than we can chew, but everyone puts their noses to the grindstone to finish.\"\nWhile laboring under the hot South Carolina sun can be taxing, Blocker loves every minute of it.\n\"You make connections with the other volunteers and the families who live in the homes. A few years ago, we fixed up the houses of two ladies in their 90s and it was so great to hear their life stories,\" he says. \"It's all about leaving behind something that's better than when we showed up. That's why I always get more out of it than what I put into it.\"\nHealing a Haitian Community\nLucille Ferrante, M.D., Medical Director, Hematology, Janssen Scientific Affairs\nEven before she joined Johnson & Johnson, Lucille Ferrante had always wanted to go on a medical mission. \"I started out my career as a practicing physician and felt a higher calling to help those who didn't have access to care,\" she says. \"But it's so hard to take time off when you're practicing, and if I did, it was always to spend time with my family.\"\nSo when she got to Johnson & Johnson, and the opportunity arose to help people in Haiti still struggling after the 2010 earthquake, Dr. Ferrante knew she had to go.\nI heard about a group called Poverty Resolutions that worked to help people in Arcahaie, a very poor community outside of Port-au-Prince. I felt like a door was opening for me and I had to walk through it.\n\"I heard about a group called Poverty Resolutions that worked to help people in Arcahaie, a very poor community outside of Port-au-Prince,\" she says. \"I felt like a door was opening for me and I had to walk through it.\"\nDr. Ferrante tends to a young Haitian child's wound\nLast September, she took advantage of the Extended Volunteer Leave Policy and left her home in Pennsylvania for Arcahaie. \"Poverty Resolutions was starting a clinic and needed help getting it up and running,\" Dr. Ferrante says. \"With my background as a physician, I became their medical advisor.\"\nWhile there, she networked with existing clinics, and after meeting with a pediatric residency program in Port-au-Prince, she helped paved the way for Arcahaie to develop its own pediatric clinic.\n\"I was even able to do health assessments for kids who are in Poverty Resolution's child development program,\" she says. \"As a doctor, it felt so good to see patients again.\"\nDr. Ferrante is planning to return to Haiti in the fall, using the leave policy. \"This has really pushed me outside of my comfort zone,\" she says. \"It's scary in the moment, but then you see the significant growth and it's quite liberating.\"\nPoverty Resolutions\nIowa MOST","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Stoke is fired up for renewal\nJackie Sadek 28\/02\/2017 | Investment\/finance | EnglandPrintDownload\nI had a truly excellent meeting with the Northern Gateway partners and Sir Ed Lister of the Homes and Communities Agency and his team from HCA and Communities and Local Government first thing yesterday.\nWe are developing a very exciting project together, which Stoke will lead for the whole Northern Gateway Development Zone. It is radical. It is bold. It is disruptive. But my lips are sealed. You'll need to wait till MIPIM to hear any more about it.\nSir Ed was on great form. He will be much in evidence at MIPIM and you can judge for yourself, but from where I'm sitting he is clearly well into his stride at the HCA. Under his stewardship the agency is shifting significantly in response to the Housing White Paper, with the new HCA chief executive joining this week, some new board members (clearly selected in the main to try to crack the tough London situation) and certainly a more streamlined relationship between the HCA and CLG. All to the good I reckon. There is much work to do.\nThe lovely Stoke people in the Northern Gateway Partnership are clearly a bit weary after the travails of last week, but they still got themselves into Westminster for 9am on a Monday morning, bright eyed and raring to go. You can't fault the commitment. And it gave the lie to the demoralised image of Stoke painted by the press last week, with their lazy one-dimensional treatment of this proud city, hell bent on labelling Stoke as \"the Brexit Capital of Britain\" (clearly entirely down to the fact that the UKIP chap had a chance of winning, which he did NOT).\nThe Stoke I know is progressive and changing, it is go-ahead and creative. You just could not recognise it in the election coverage fixated on the \"left behind\" working class, the aftershocks of the referendum, and the contrast between the city's glorious industrial past and its supposedly grim present.\nHardly any of the press accounts proffered any recognition of Stoke's collective push for regeneration and renewal. So it was hardly surprising that local people greeted the press reports with a mixture of anger and anxiety. As our friends at the Stoke Sentinel commented \"It's hard not to conclude that most commentators do little more than make a quick leap off and on the train while searching out a small corner of bleakness that confirms views purloined from other idly compiled articles of a similar ilk,\".\nClearly, Stoke-on-Trent (with its six constituent towns of Hanley, Burslem, Fenton, Longton, Stoke and Tunstall) has some serious social and economic difficulties. These are difficulties that we all collectively, central government, local government, local business, the community \u2013 and not least the Northern Gateway Partnership of course (on the back of the HS2 investment) \u2013 are determined to address.\nThe forces of good are seriously being mobilised. Stoke is a classic urban regeneration project, with a rich industrial heritage and the symptoms of subsequent urban decline, notably too many empty buildings and low-paid jobs. But a new-found ambition is being nurtured. The fretful portrayals of hopelessness and despair that we have seen in the media have precious little to do with Stoke's reality. The city is moving on. There is everything to play for. As you will see at MIPIM in a couple of weeks. Stoke is radical. Stoke is bold. Stoke is prepared to be disruptive.\n\u2022 To send feedback, e-mail jackie.sadek@ukregeneration.org.uk or tweet @jackiesadek or @estatesgazette","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"O-Wrap: Two more freed in gang trial\u2026 Inflation falls... England beat Sunshine Girls 11:38 am\nGovernment restrictions on religion increasing worldwide 7:10 pm\nForex: J$136.25 to one US dollar 11:37 am\nWarriors snap 9-game Houston win streak, avoid sweep\nWASHINGTON, United States (AFP) \u2014 Playing without injured Kevin Durant, the Golden State Warriors snapped Houston's nine-game win streak and avoided being swept this season by the Rockets with a 106-104 road victory Wednesday.\nKlay Thompson scored a game-high 30 points while DeMarcus Cousins netted a season-high 27 points plus team-highs of eight rebounds and seven assists and Stephen Curry contributed 24 points in a crucial victory for the defending champions.\n\"When Kevin is out, we don't have the luxury of throwing to him and getting 30 points,\" Thompson said. \"We had to throw it to 'Boogie' (Collins) in the post and he came through for us in a big way. He propelled us to a victory tonight.\"\nDurant, a two-time NBA Finals Most Valuable Player, was sidelined by a right ankle sprain suffered in a Sunday loss to Phoenix.\nBut the Warriors, a Western Conference-best 46-21, bounced back behind 3-point sharpshooter Thompson, who hit 12-of-23 from the floor including 5-of-10 from beyond the arc.\n\"Whether Kevin is out here or not, I play the same way,\" Thompson said. \"I try to keep moving and being a force.\"\nCousins, signed as an injured free agent in July, has had to blend with the Warriors powerhouse line-up since returning in January from a ruptured Achilles tendon.\nBut Cousins established himself as a physical inside force who could give Houston fits in a play-off series.\n\"We made a concerted effort to feed him in the post,\" Curry said. \"Nothing he does out there should surprise anybody.\"\nHouston, which led Golden State 3-2 in last year's Western Conference finals before falling in seven games, had won the first three meetings of the season with Golden State but could not become the first team to sweep the Warriors since Steve Kerr became coach of the club and their run of four consecutive NBA Finals runs began.\n\"It's a good win for us,\" Kerr said. \"We've got 15 games left for us to figure out the combinations. This was a good night.\"\nNBA scoring leader James Harden netted 29 points and added 10 assists to lead the Rockets (42-26), who also got 24 points from Chris Paul and 13 points and 13 rebounds from Clint Capela.\nPaul sank two free throws with 47 seconds remaining to pull Houston within 104-100, then completed a 3-point play after being fouled by Andre Iguodala to pull the Rockets within 104-103 with 10 seconds remaining.\nCurry sank two free throws with eight seconds to play to boost the lead and the Warriors fouled Harden to send him to the free throw line.\nHarden sank the first to create the final margin, but missed the second only to have Iguodala chase down the rebound and tap the ball to unguarded Thompson, who tossed it in the air as the final horn sounded.\nRussell Westbrook unleashed his 26th triple double of the season and led a second-half surge that lifted the Oklahoma City Thunder over visiting Brooklyn 108-96.\nWestbrook finished with 31 points, 12 rebounds, 11 assists and three steals while the Thunder's Paul George and Brooklyn's Spencer Dinwiddie each added 25 points.\nThe Nets led 52-42 at half-time but could not silence the Thunder in the second half.\n\"My job is to bring the energy every night. It was my fault in the first half,\" Westbrook said. \"I knew I needed to pick it up in the second half.\"\nJustise Winslow scored 16 points to lead seven double-figure scorers for Miami in a 108-74 rout of visiting Detroit.\nThe Pistons, led by 13 points from Blake Griffin, were outscored 33-8 in the third quarter, the Heat opening the second half with a 21-0 run.\nMiami improved to 32-35, tightening the Heat's grip on the eighth and last Eastern Conference play-off berth to two games over Orlando and Charlotte with Washington 3.5 adrift.\nBradley Beal scored 23 points and Thomas Bryant came off the bench to add 21 points and 10 rebounds as the Washington Wizards beat visiting Orlando 100-90.\nAtlanta's John Collins scored 27 points to lead the Hawks over visiting Memphis 132-111 while Donovan Mitchell scored 26 points to lead Utah's 114-97 victory at Phoenix.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"CNBC Full Episodes\nFutures Now\nCrude nearing key inflection point: Technician\nPublished Wed, Jun 17 20158:43 AM EDT\nAmanda Diaz@CNBCDiaz\nKey level for crude: Technician\nAfter a torrid run from its bottom, crude oil has settled into the tightest range we've seen in a year. But according to one highly regarded technician, the commodity is heading into a key inflection point.\n\"If you look back to 1984, you see that [the summer months] are some of the best times of the year to be invested in oil,\" technical analyst Ari Wald said Tuesday on CNBC's \"Futures Now.\"\nWald noted that traditionally, the time between July and September tend to be the three best-performing consecutive months for oil in the past 30 years. By his chart work, oil has rallied an average of 1.5 percent in the month of July, 3 percent in August and 2 percent in September.\nAnd while he does see the potential for oil to trade as high as $67 a barrel in the near term, he noted some troubling signs on the chart that tells him the primary trend for oil remains lower. \"We have a falling 200-day moving average which indicates that the trend is still down,\" said Wald, head of technical analysis at Oppenheimer. \"There's also a very important retracement level for oil going back to last year. And I think that's going to curb the upside.\"\nRead More Oil prices rise on strong US demand\nAccording to Wald, once the seasonality fades the oil decline could resume, sending the commodity back into the $40 range. \"Investors should trade in the direction of the trend,\" he advised. \"I think a test of the lows that we saw earlier this year is not without question.\"\nBut Wald stressed that trouble for crude does not necessarily mean the pain could hit the equity market. \"Historically, these range-bound commodity markets have been very good for stocks,\" he said. \"If you look back at the ranges for commodities back in the '50s, '60s, '80s and '90s, they coincide with the secular bull markets in the S&P 500.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Diamond Stocks Articles\nMore than 300 workers at risk of temporary layoffs at Ekati diamond mine\nJul. 4, 2016, 7:57 PM \/ CBC News\nMore than 300 Dominion Diamond employees and contract workers are at risk of being laid off at the Ekati diamond mine after a fire at the mine's processing plant on June 23.Operations at some of the open pits are expected to be temporarily shut down to cut costs while the processing plant is being repaired.Read moreRead More\nPetra sells 121.2- carat diamond for $6 million\nJul. 1, 2016, 6:05 AM \/ Cecilia Jamasmie\nLondon-listed Petra Diamonds (LON:PDL) has sold its recently found 121-carat white diamond for $6 million as part of its June sales process in Johannesburg.The diamond was found at Petra's Cullinan mine in South Africa, which has yielded several massive gems, including the largest rough gem diamond ever discovered.The stone, a Type II unearthed from the company's Cullinan mine in South Africa, was...Read More\nBotswana's economy needs more than diamonds to shine\nJul. 1, 2016, 12:15 AM \/ National Public Radio (NPR)\nSotheby's attempted Wednesday to auction the largest diamond discovered in over a century - a hunk of transparent rock the size of a tennis ball. It was found last November at an open-pit mine in the southern African country of Botswana. At 1,109 carats it's second in size only to the storied \"Cullinan\" diamond found in South Africa in 1905 and cut down into nine of the gems in the United Kingdom'...Read More\nAlrosa gets own security force\nJun. 30, 2016, 3:11 PM \/ Frik Els\nDiamond giant PJSC Alrosa announced this week that the Russian government has authorized it to establish a departmental security service to protect the company's production facilities in the country.Alrosa, together with energy giants including Rosneft and Gazprom, is on a list of strategic enterprises under the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation. According to Rinat Gizatulin, Alro...Read More\nALROSA to establish own security service\nJun. 30, 2016, 9:32 AM \/ ALROSA\nMoscow, June 29, 2016 - PJSC ALROSA, the world leader in diamond mining, has announced that it was authorized to establish a departmental security service to protect the Company's production facilities.Based on the amendments to Article 8 of the Federal Law of April 14, 1999, No. 77-FZ On Departmental Security Service approved today by the Council of the Federation, ALROSA's relevant subdivisions...Read More\nDespite the hype world's second-largest diamond ever found fails to sell\nJun. 29, 2016, 12:15 PM \/ Cecilia Jamasmie\nA three-billion-year-old diamond the size of a tennis ball found by Canada's Lucara Diamond (TSX:LUC) last year failed to sell at a Sotheby's auction in London on Wednesday as bids fell short of the minimum reserve price.Shares in the Vancouver-based miner collapsed on the news and were trading more than 16% down in Toronto at 3:50 pm ET.Image courtesy of Lucara Diamond.Lucara said it will keep th...Read More\nKP Chair visits Angola and South Africa\nJun. 29, 2016, 9:30 AM \/ Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS)\nKP Chair, Ahmed Bin Sulayem with Jos Eduardo dos Santos, President of AngolaIn the second phase of his Africa Initiative, (with a tour of the Central African Republic already completed) the KP Chair, Ahmed Bin Sulayem has visited Angola and South Africa, the two founding countries of the Kimberly Process, to discuss first-hand the progress that diamond producing nations are making to comply with K...Read More\nWorld's largest diamond found in 100 years goes under the hammer\nJun. 28, 2016, 9:05 AM \/ Cecilia Jamasmie\nA now famous three-billion-year-old diamond the size of a tennis ball found by Canada's Lucara Diamond (TSX:LUC) last year could fetch more than US$70 million (or about Cdn$90M) when it goes under Sotheby's hammer this Wednesday in London.The giant 1,109-carat rock, known as \"Lesedi La Rona\" or \"our light\" (in the Tswana language spoken in Botswana), was unearthed in November at Lucara's Karowe mi...Read More\nDominion shares tank as fire shuts Ekati plant\nJun. 27, 2016, 12:25 PM \/ Frik Els\nDominion Diamond Corporation (TSX:DDC, NYSE:DDC) announced on Monday it is still assessing damage after small fire halted processing operations at its ageing Ekati diamond mine in Canada's far north last week.Dominion said in a statement the fire that broke out on Thursday last week was extinguished the same day and all personnel were safely evacuated from the plant and no injuries have been repor...Read More\nGemfields Unveils:Ruby Inspired Stories\nJun. 24, 2016, 8:06 AM \/ Gemfields\nLondon, 22nd June 2016 - Gemfields, a leading supplier of responsibly sourced coloured gemstones, is proud to unveil Ruby Inspired Stories', a triptych of films featuring up-and-coming global female talent, each exploring the hidden meaning behind these captivating gemstones.A long-established part of myth and tradition, and true to Gemfields' core belief that there is A Story in Every Gemstone',...Read More\nSecond Latin American Diamond and Jewelry Weekopens at the World Jewelry Hub in Panama City\nJun. 22, 2016, 8:10 AM \/ World Jewelry Hub (WJH)\nAli Pastorini (third from right), WJH Senior Vice President, and Judy Meana (third from left), WJDH Vice President, flanked by ladies in traditional Panamanian dress, welcoming guests to the Second Latin American Diamond and Jewelry Week at the World Jewelry Hub yesterday.PANAMA: JUNE 22, 2016 - The Second Latin American Diamond and Jewelry Week opened yesterday at the World Jewelry Hub in Panama...Read More\nRio Tinto may be planning a $9bn spinoff a la BHP\nJun. 21, 2016, 10:27 AM \/ Cecilia Jamasmie\nTogether with announcing a major management reshuffle and division reorganization, Rio Tinto (ASX, LON:RIO) revived Tuesday rumours of an incoming $9 billion BHP-style spinoff.Soon-to-be Rio's chief executive, Jean-Sbastien Jacques, overhauled the group business divisions, leaving its least loved units - coal, uranium salt, borates and its Iron Ore Co. of Canada - under a new umbrella branded as t...Read More\nPetra finds another massive diamond at its Cullinan mine\nLondon-listed Petra Diamonds (LON:PDL), already known for its major findings of recent months, has just unearthed a 121.26-carat white rock from its Cullinan mine in South Africa.The gem is a Type II diamond \"of exceptional colour and clarity\", the company said, and is \"an outstanding example of the large, high quality diamonds for which the mine is known.\"The 121.26-carat white diamond, along wit...Read More\nRio Tinto to boot iron ore chief in fresh management shake-up\nRio Tinto's iron ore will now focus only on the firm's operations in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Image of the Paraburdoo operation, in the Pilbara, courtesy of Rio Tinto)Ten days before officially assuming as the new chief executive officer of Rio Tinto (ASX, LON:RIO), Jean-Sbastien Jacques has begun making major changes at the top level in an effort to improve the company's balance s...Read More\nAlrosa unearths 241.21-carat diamond, one of largest ever found in Russia\nThe diamond was found the Nyurbinsky open-pit mine, in Nakyn. (Image courtesy of ALROSA)Russia's Alrosa (MCX:ALRS), the world's top diamond producer by output in carats, has unveiled the discovery of a 241.21-carat rough diamond at its Nyurbinsky open-pit mine.The diamond is one of the largest ever recovered in Russia.The precious rock, said the company, is one of the largest rough diamonds ever r...Read More\nALROSA prepares vehicles for the development of Verkhne-Munskoe deposit\nUdachny, June 15, 2016 - PJSC ALROSA, the world leader in diamond mining, has announced that new motor vehicles were accepted into service in the run-up to the development of Verkhne-Munskoe deposit.Three new Scania road trains with up to 90t payload capacity each, and Tonar semitrailer with up to 130t payload capacity, proceeded to the delivery of diamond-bearing ore from the Zarnitsa pipe to the...Read More\nWorld's largest diamond found in 100 years could fetch over $70M\nA now famous three-billion-year-old diamond the size of a tennis ball found by Canada's Lucara Diamond (TSX:LUC) last year could fetch more than US$70 million (or about Cdn$90M) when it goes under Sotheby's hammer at the end of the month.The giant 1,109-carat rock, known as \"Lesedi La Rona\" or \"our light\" (in the Tswana language spoken in Botswana), was unearthed in November at Lucara's Karowe Min...Read More\nCHART: Metals, mining stocks outperforming all others\nAfter three years of steep declines, investors in the mining and metals finally caught a break in 2016.In his weekly report Frank Holmes of US Global Investors includes a chart that shows just how well investors in the sector are faring by highlighting the 10 best performing industries for the year: \"Interestingly enough, metals and mining companies, particularly those involved in the gold space,...Read More\nThe Government of Guinea authorizes formation of the Diamond and Gold Bourse of Guinea (DGBG) in joint venture with Canadians\nJun. 13, 2016, 11:55 AM \/ Embee Diamonds\nPrince Albert, SK. Monday, June 13, 2016: Mr. Saramady Tour, the Guinean Ambassador to Canada, has announced the signing of a government decree by President Professor Alpha Conde, President of the Republic of Guinea for the establishment of the Diamond and Gold Bourse of Guinea Group (DGBG). The Guinea Embassy under the leadership of Ambassador Tour was instrumental to have the Government of Guine...Read More\nMassive Cullinan Dream blue diamond fetches over $25m at auction\nThe Cullinan Dream in the rough.A 24.18-carat intense blue diamond known as The Cullinan Dream has just sold for $25.4 million at Christie's Magnificent Jewels auction in New York, breaking all records and becoming the most expensive gem of its kind ever sold at auction.The diamond, cut from a 122.52-carat rock found at Petra Diamond's (LON:PDL) Cullinan mine in South Africa in 2014, is the larges...Read More","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Published Tender BulletinsCurrently selected\nGovernment Printing Works > Media of Interest > Published Tender Bulletins\n\u200bpublished tender bulletins\nTender Bull\u200betin GPW-2021\/22-19\u200b\u200b\nRequest for Tender for Appointment of a supplier for manufacturing and\/or supply and delivery of fine graphic paperboard and 80gsm bond reels and various sheet papers, to the Government Printing Works, Republic of South Africa for a period of three (3) years.\u200b....\u200b\u2026read m\u200bo\u200bre\u200b\u200b\nTender Bull\u200betin GPW- 2021\/22-18\nInvitation to Tender for Appointment of a panel of suppliers to supply, deliver and install furniture to Government Printing Works for a period of three (3) years.....\u200b\u2026read m\u200bo\u200bre\u200b\u200b\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u200b\nTender Bull\u200betin GPW- 2021\/22-17\u200b\nInvitation to Tender for Appointment of a panel of printing service providers to provide printing service and deliver printed material to Government Printing Works for a period of five years....\u200b\u2026read m\u200bo\u200bre\u200b\nInvitation to Tender BID for the Drawing and Installation of Fire Emergency Evacuation floor plans for the Government Printing Works....\u200b\u2026read m\u200bore\nInvitation to Tender\u200b Appointment of the Service Provider for Mapping and Development of ISO 18788 Security Operation Management System (SOMS) processes and provisioning of ISO 18788 SOMS training to the Security Management personnel at Government Printing Works....\u200b\u2026read m\u200bore\nTender Bull\u200betin GPW-2021-22-14\nInvitation to Tender for the Manufacturing and supply of high security paper substrates, to the Government Printing Works, Republic of South Africa, for a period of five (5) years....\u200b\u2026read m\u200bore\nInvitation to Tender for the Appointment of a service provider for supply, delivery, commissioning, testing and maintenance of security X-Ray machine units and walk through metal detector units on lease basis for a period of thirty-six (36) months for the Government Printing Works...\u200b\u2026read m\u200bore\nInvitation to Tender for the Appointment of a service provider to supply and deliver firearms, firearm safe and facilitation of accreditation of firearms with central firearm registry for use by in-house security officers at Government Printing Works..\u200b\u2026read m\u200bore\nInvitation to Tender for the Appointment of a service provider for supply, delivery, installation and maintenance of security visitor management solution at Government Printing Works buildings for a period of three (3) years..\u200b\u2026read m\u200bore\nInvitation to Tender for the Appointment of a service provider for provisioning of maintenance, repairs, upgrading and Installations of the Electronic Security System at Government Printing Works Facilities in Pretoria (Visagie, Bosman and Building 88, CSIR building 30 and Regional Offices (Mafikeng and East London) for a period of three (3) consecutive years..\u200b\u2026read m\u200bore\nTender Bull\u200betin GPW-W 2021\/02\u200b\u200b Erratum\nKindly be informed there was a typing error in the TOR page 31 point 5 on the Term Sheet with regard to appointment. GPW apologises for inconvenienced caused on the below mentioned tender advertised on 27 August 2021.\u200b\u2026read more\nTender Bull\u200betin GPW-W 2021\/02\u200b-09\nInvitation to Tender BID for Appointment of a Service Provider to render Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for a period of three years\u2026read more\nInvitation to Tender BID for the Development of the Knowledge Management Strategy and Implementation Plan for the Government Printing Works, including Testing of the Implementation Plan...read more\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u200b\u200b---\nInvitation to Tender for Rendering of a Cleaning Services at the premises of the Government Printing Works, for a period of twelve (12) months\u200b.....read m\u200b\u200bore\nTender Bull\u200betin \u200bGPW -2021\/22- 08\nTender Bull\u200betin \u200bGPW-C 70\nInvitation to Tender for Appointment of a Service Provider to render Hygiene Service 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Masada Building, Eendracht Laerskool parking, Zandfontein Warehouse, Absa Buildining; Building 88 Visagie and Regional Offices: Polokwane, East London & Mafikeng, for a period of thirty-six (36) months commencing 01 december 2020 and terminating 30 november 2023....\u200bread more\nThis tender is for the provision of multi-disciplinary construction services under reference GPWPAV3\/2013.\nThe below vendors were shortlisted by the Government Printing Works.\nTender Bulletin GPW-M 336\n\u200bManufacturing, supplying and commissioning of a document gathering machine and a perfect binding machine to the Government Printing Works, Republic of South...read more","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"A farm survey on the presence of dioxins and dl-PCB in beef production systems in Switzerland\nDownload(s): 35 (1 ULi\u00e8ge)\nHans Dieter Hess & Michel Geinoz\nIn 2006, new maximum levels for the concentration of dioxins (PCDD\/F) and dioxin-like PCB (dl-PCB) in food entered into force in the European Union [Regulation (EC) No 199\/2006]. The Swiss Confederation decided to adopt these values from the 1 January 2009 on (RS 817.021.23). A previous appraisal showed that beef from extensive production systems in Switzerland may exceed the new maximum level of 4.5 pg WHO97-TEQ\u00b7g-1 fat. In order to identify the reasons of the presence of dioxins (PCDD\/F) and dioxin-like PCB in Swiss beef, a detailed survey was conducted on eight farms in 2008. Depending on the production system, on each farm several suckler cows and their calves or fattening bulls and heifers were selected and followed over several months. Samples of soil, milk, forages, concentrates and meat were taken and analyzed according to standard protocols. The sum of PCDD\/F and dl-PCBs in soil averaged 1.4 pg WHO97-TEQ\u00b7g-1 dry matter (DM) across all farms. The mean value found in feed samples was 0.25 pg WHO97-TEQ\u00b7g-1 feed (88% DM), which is considerably lower than the legal maximum level of 1.25 pg WHO97-TEQ\u00b7g-1 feed. The mean value of milk from suckler cows was 2.75 pg, and the one of milk from dairy cows was 2 pg WHO97-TEQ\u00b7g-1 fat. Although two individual beef samples (out of 36) slightly exceeded the legal limit of 4.5 pg WHO97-TEQ\u00b7g-1 fat, the mean value of all beef samples was 2.3 pg WHO97-TEQ\u00b7g-1 fat. The results did not allow to establish direct relationships between the presence of contaminants in feeds and milk or beef and they showed that variation in PCDD\/F and dl-PCB contamination of meat within the same farm was very high. It can be concluded that the situation in Switzerland seems not to be alarming and that no particular measures have to be taken. Nevertheless farmers should be aware that extensive production coupled with absence of delay between weaning and slaughtering may induce some risk for producing non compliant beef.\nKeywords : milk, beef, dioxins, PCDD, PCDF, dl-PCB, suckler cows, Switzerland\n4.1. Feed\n4.2. Milk\n4.3. Meat\n4.4. Effect of the production system\n1Dioxins cover a group of 75 polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin (PCDD) congeners and 135 polychlorinated -dibenzofuran (PCDF) congeners, which are summarized under the abbreviation PCDD\/F. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) are a group of 209 different congeners which can be divided into two groups according to their toxicological properties. A small number exhibit toxicological properties similar to dioxins and are therefore termed dioxin-like PCB (dl-PCB). The majority does not exhibit dioxin-like toxicity but has a different toxicological profile. Each congener of PCDD\/F and dl-PCB exhibits a different level of toxicity. Over all only 17 congeners of PCDD\/F and 12 congeners of dl-PCB are of interest due to their toxicity. In order to be able to sum up the toxicity of these different congeners, the concept of toxic equivalency factors (TEF) has been introduced. This means that the analytical results relating to all the individual PCDD\/F and dl-PCB congeners of toxicological concern are expressed in terms of a quantifiable unit, the toxic equivalent (TEQ).\n2In the environment, these compounds decompose very slowly and due to their liposolubility they accumulate in the food chain and represent a serious hazard for human and animal health. In 2006, new maximum levels for the concentration of PCDD\/F and dl-PCB in food entered into force in the European Union [Regulation (EC) No 199\/2006]. With regard to these changes, the Federal Office of Public Health, the Federal Veterinary Office and the Research Station Agroscope Liebefeld-Posieux (ALP) conducted a preliminary appraisal to assess the current level of PCDD\/F and dl-PCB contamination of beef in Switzerland (BAG, 2008). The results of this appraisal showed that part of the beef samples originating from extensive production systems exceeded the new maximum level of 4.5 pg WHO97-TEQ\u00b7g-1 fat. As the Swiss Confederation had decided to adopt this value from the 1 January 2009 on (RS 817.021.23), a subsequent study was conducted by ALP in collaboration with the Federal Office of Public Health, the Federal Veterinary Office, the Federal Office for Agriculture and the Federal Office for the Environment to identify the reasons of these exceedances and to give advice to farmers about possible measures to respect the new regulations.\n3Based on the results of the preliminary appraisal (BAG, 2008), eight farms were selected. The farms were located in the north-western, the western and the central part of Switzerland. Six out of the eight farms were grouped by couples. The farms of a couple were located close to each other. In the previous study, one farm of each couple had presented a value above the new maximum level and the other one below. This arrangement was made in order to identify possible local sources of contamination. A further farm was selected because of its special production system. On this farm, calves were exclusively fed with milk from suckler cows, complemented with hay and cereals until slaughtering. The farms were visited once per month from April to November 2008. Depending on the production system, on each farm several suckler cows and their calves or fattening bulls and heifers were selected and samples of soil, feed, milk, and beef were taken during this period.\n4Soil samples were taken from the pastures and grazing areas by means of a manual bucket auger from points distributed along a transect within the farm area. The first 10 cm of the soil cores obtained were air-dried, ground with an electric mortar and homogenized. A subsample of 300 g of soil per farm was taken for subsequent analyses. On the farm where calves only consumed milk from suckler cows and cereals, no soil sample was taken, because soil was not considered as a potential source of contamination. Consequently only 7 soil samples were analyzed in this survey.\n5Samples of forages and other diet ingredients were taken separately, oven-dried, ground in a laboratory mill and homogenized. Subsequently samples were mixed according to the proportion of the individual diet ingredient in the total daily ration of the animals (i.e. only one diet sample was analyzed per farm and sampling period). Since diet composition varied during the survey period, samples were taken at monthly intervals. Overall 45 feed samples were analyzed.\n6Samples of milk from suckler cows were taken at monthly intervals until the calves were weaned. On the farms, where calves received milk from dairy cows or milk replacer, samples of these feeds were taken. Prior to analyses, samples of milk (500 ml) were lyophilized, ground and homogenized. All in all 59 milk samples were analyzed.\n7Meat samples were taken at the moment of slaughtering. For this purpose 500 g of the right hind leg were cut and immediately frozen. A total of 36 meat samples were analyzed.\n8All samples were sent to the laboratory of Eurofins at Hamburg (Germany) and analyses were conducted according to the Commissions regulation (EC) No 1883\/2006 concerning methods of sampling and analysis for the official control of levels of dioxins and dioxin-like PCB in foodstuffs. All results given in this study are upper-bound levels.\n9In addition a questionnaire was developed for collecting information on farm history, production system, feeding system (e.g. forage production, diet composition), factors related to the calf (breed, date of birth, date of weaning, date of slaughtering, body condition score at slaughtering), factors related to the cow (breed, age, number of lactation, month of lactation), and potential local sources of contamination. A summarized description of the production and feeding systems of the selected farms is given in table 1.\n10Statistical analyses were performed considering the fact that data on PCDD\/F and dl-PDB were not normally distributed. The tests used to identify significant relationships or differences were the Spearman's rank correlation, the Kruskall-Wallis-test and the Mann-Whitney-test.\n11The sum of PCDD\/F and dl-PCB in soil varied between 0.7 and 2.0 pg WHO97-TEQ\u00b7g-1 dry matter (DM), and no influence of the geographical location was apparent. No relationship between farms of the same couple could be found. The median value of the sum of PCDD\/F and PCB was 1.4 pg WHO97-TEQ\u00b7g-1 DM. In all samples the concentration of PCDD\/F was clearly higher than the concentration of dl-PCB.\n12In the daily rations, the concentration of PCDD\/F did not vary between the production systems. By contrast, the dietary concentration of PCB and the sum of PCDD\/F and dl-PCB was clearly lower (P < 0.01) in intensive systems than in extensive systems (Figure 1). The median value of the sum of PCDD\/F and dl-PCB was 0.25 pg WHO97-TEQ\u00b7g-1 of diet (88% DM). Concentrations of PCDD\/F and dl-PCB in grass samples did not vary much and no effects of the location or relationships between farms of the same couple could be seen. Contrary to the soil samples, in feed the concentration of PCDD\/F was lower than the concentration of dl-PCB.\n13The sum of PCDD\/F and dl-PCB in individual milk samples ranged from 1.1 to 7.9 pg WHO97-TEQ\u00b7g-1 fat and varied heavily within farm (Figure 2). Despite this large within-farm variation a certain effect of the cow type could be observed. Milk from dairy cows showed a lower (P < 0.05) concentration of PCDD\/F and dl-PCB than milk from suckler cows (2.00 vs 2.75 pg WHO97-TEQ\u00b7g-1 fat). Number or month of lactation had no effect (P > 0.05) on the contamination with PCDD\/F and dl-PCB.\n14In meat, the concentrations of PCDD\/F and dl-PCB varied considerably between and within farms. The sum of PCDD\/F and dl-PCB of individual samples ranged from 0.76 to 5.7 pg WHO97-TEQ\u00b7g-1 fat. Meat from intensively managed cattle (farms No 1 and 2) showed lower (P < 0.01) levels of contamination than meat from all other production systems (Figure 3). Despite the relatively intensive production system on farm No 3 (calves semi-intensive), the meat produced on this farm presented similar levels of contamination as the meat produced in extensive systems (cattle extensive and calves from suckler cows on pasture, farms No 4-8). Overall two individual meat samples (out of 36) slightly exceeded the legal limit of 4.5 pg WHO97-TEQ\u00b7g-1 fat for the sum of PCDD\/F and dl-PCB. The median value of all meat samples was 2.3 pg WHO97-TEQ\u00b7g-1 fat. The duration of the period between weaning and slaughtering had a significant effect on the contamination with PCDD\/F and dl-PCB (Figure 4). Meat from animals which consumed milk from suckler cows until slaughtering showed considerably higher levels (P < 0.05) of contamination than meat from animals which had been weaned several months before slaughtering. No effect (P > 0.05) of breed or number of lactation of the mother on the contamination with PCDD\/F and dl-PCB was found.\n15One objective of this study was to identify possible local sources of contamination. Therefore farms which were located close to each other and had presented contrasting levels of contamination in the previous study were grouped by couples. The present study did not confirm the previous results and no systematic difference or relationship between farms of the same couple could be identified. Within-farm variation in the concentration of PCDD\/F and dl-PCB in milk and meat was considerable and in part even higher than differences between farms. Furthermore contamination of soil samples was not influenced by the geographical location and had no apparent effect on the contamination of feed, milk or meat. No important local sources of PCDD\/F or dl-PCB could be identified. Thus the grouping by couples resulted to be inappropriate and was not further considered in the interpretation of the results.\n16The composition of the daily rations varied according to the production system of the farms. On the extensively managed farms, between May and October 2008, fresh forage represented the most important diet ingredient (approximately 90% of DM). By contrast, on the intensively managed farms, animals only received silage or hay, and the forage proportion in the daily ration was much lower than on the extensively managed farms. As shown in previous studies (Andr\u00e9 et al., 2003; Czub et al., 2004; Rychen et al., 2008), fresh forage is the most important source of PCDD\/F and dl-PCB for ruminants. This suggests that the considerably higher PCDD\/F and dl-PCB contamination of the daily rations on extensively managed farms mainly resulted from the higher proportion of fresh forage in the diet.\n17Excretion of milk fat is an important way of elimination of PCDD\/F and dl-PCB from the body (Perry et al., 1981). In cattle, a significant proportion of dl-PCB and PCDD\/F consumed with the forage is transferred to the milk fat (Ruoff et al., 2007). In general, suckler cows produce clearly less milk and excrete less milk fat than dairy cows. On the other hand the amounts of PCDD\/F and dl-PCB to be excreted per day, are similar or even higher in suckler cows, due to the higher proportion of roughages in the diet. Consequently, these substances are more diluted in milk from dairy cows than in milk from suckler cows. This relation was confirmed by the observations made in the present study.\n18Compared to other feeds, milk from suckler cows presented relatively high levels of contamination. Thus large consumption of milk from such cows, particularly when they are grazing on extensively managed pastures, may lead to an accumulation of these contaminants in the body fat of calves.\n19The results of this study showed, that the contamination with PCDD\/F and dl-PCB may vary heavily from one animal to another within the same farm. On one farm, where cattle were extensively managed, the sum of PCDD\/F and dl-PCB ranged from 2.1 to 5.7 pg WHO97-TEQ\u00b7g-1 fat. Nevertheless, it was evident that animals which consumed milk from suckler cows until slaughtering were more contaminated than animals which were weaned several months before slaughtering.\n20During gestation, PCDD\/F and dl-PCB present in body tissues of the cow may be transferred directly to the fetus. After birth, these contaminants are transferred via milk to the new born and suckling calf (Peterson et al., 1983; Hirako, 2008). Consequently young bovines may be more contaminated than older ones. The contamination may be particularly high, when milk from suckler cows represents the main component in the diet of calves. In the present study this was the case in the semi-intensive system, where calves were fed mainly with milk from suckler cows and some hay and cereals until slaughtering. These animals showed higher levels of contamination than animals which received milk from dairy cows and were weaned several months before slaughtering.\n21Independent of the production system, younger animals tended to be more contaminated than older ones. Furthermore the level of contamination was reduced, when animals were weaned several months before slaughtering. This indicates that the amounts of PCDD\/F and dl-PCB which had been accumulated during milk consumption were diluted by increasing the amount of body fat. This is in good agreement with Peterson et al. (1983) who showed that calf meat is more contaminated during the suckling period than after weaning.\n22In summary, these results showed that the meat with the lowest contamination level was found in the intensive cattle production system. In this system, animals received feed with low levels of PCDD\/F and dl-PCB (milk replacer or milk from dairy cows, silage, hay and concentrates). This agrees well with the observation made in the previous study (BAG, 2008). In the extensive cattle production system, the level of contamination was slightly higher but still clearly below the legal maximum level. Although these animals consumed milk from suckler cows with high levels of dl-PCB, the time period between weaning and slaughtering was apparently long enough to result in a dilution of these contaminants in the body. This is supported by the results of the calves from suckler cows on pasture. These animals consumed milk from suckler cows until slaughtering, which resulted in the highest rate of contamination.\n23The results of this study did not allow the identification of specific factors or local sources of contamination with PCDD\/F and dl-PCB. Nevertheless they gave certain indications about why meat samples originating from certain production systems may exceeded the maximum level of 4.5 pg WHO97-TEQ\u00b7g-1 fat. On average, meat samples from extensive productions systems showed a higher contamination (2.7 pg WHO97-TEQ\u00b7g-1 fat) compared to samples from intensive systems (1.4 pg WHO97-TEQ\u00b7g-1 fat). Furthermore, meat from animals that were fed with milk from suckler cows until slaughtering was more contaminated than meat from animals that had been weaned several months before slaughtering. Although two individual beef samples (out of 36) exceeded the legal maximum level, the mean value of all beef samples was 2.3 pg WHO97-TEQ\u00b7g-1 fat. The results did not allow to establish direct relationships between the presence of contaminants in feeds and milk or beef and they showed that variation in PCDD\/F and dl-PCB contamination of meat within the same farm was very high. Therefore, no conclusion about an entire farm should be made based on the analysis of a single beef sample. It can be concluded that the situation in Switzerland seems not to be alarming and that no particular measures have to be taken. Nevertheless farmers should be aware that extensive production coupled with absence of delay between weaning and slaughtering may induce some risk for producing non compliant beef.\n25This paper is based on a presentation given at the 3rd International Feed Safety Conference \u2013 Methods and Challenges, 6-7 October 2009, Wageningen, The Netherlands, and was supported by Feed for Health, COST Action FA0802 (www.feedforhealth.org). The Swiss Government provided the financial means for conducting the study.\nAndr\u00e9 F. et al., 2003. Incin\u00e9rateurs et sant\u00e9, exposition aux dioxines de la population vivant \u00e0 proximit\u00e9 des UIOM. Saint-Maurice, France : Institut de Veille Sanitaire.\nBAG (Bundesamt f\u00fcr Gesundheit), 2008. Dioxine und PCB in Schweizer Lebensmitteln. Bern: Bundesamt f\u00fcr Gesundheit, http:\/\/www.bag.admin.ch\/themen\/lebensmittel\/04861\/04911\/index.html, (December 2010).\nCzub G. & McLachlan M.S., 2004. A food chain model to predict the levels of lipophilic organic contaminants in humans. Environ. Toxicol. Chem., 23, 2356-2366.\nHirako M., 2008. Transfer and accumulation of persistent organochlorine compounds from bovine dams to newborn and suckling calves. J. Agric. Food Chem., 56, 6768-6774.\nPerry T.W. et al., 1981. Dietary aroclor 1254 in the milk fat of lactating beef cattle. J. Dairy Sci., 64, 2262-2265.\nPeterson L.A., Ross P.F., Osheim D.L. & Nelson H.A., 1983. PCB residues in a lactating beef cow and calf. Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol., 31, 263-266.\nRuoff U., Walte H.G., Teufel P. & Bl\u00fcthgen A., 2007. Zum Eintrag chlororganischer Umweltkontaminanten aus Futtermitteln in die Milch und M\u00f6glichkeiten des Gegensteuerns durch Massnahmen der Futtermittelsicherheit. Kieler Milchwirtschaftliche Forschungsberichte, 1, 5-54.\nRychen G., Jurjanz S., Toussaint H. & Feidt C., 2008. Dairy ruminant exposure to persistent organic polluants and excretion to milk. Animal, 2, 312-323.\nHans Dieter Hess & Michel Geinoz, \u00abA farm survey on the presence of dioxins and dl-PCB in beef production systems in Switzerland\u00bb, BASE [En ligne], Volume 15 (2011), num\u00e9ro sp\u00e9cial 1, 31-37 URL : https:\/\/popups.ulg.ac.be\/1780-4507\/index.php?id=6849.\nAbout: Hans Dieter Hess\nAgroscope Liebefeld-Posieux Research Station (ALP). Federal Department of Economic Affairs (FDEA). P.O. Box 64. CH-1725 Posieux (Switzerland). E-mail: dieter.hess@alp.admin.ch\nAbout: Michel Geinoz\nAgroscope Liebefeld-Posieux Research Station (ALP). Federal Department of Economic Affairs (FDEA). P.O. Box 64. CH-1725 Posieux (Switzerland).","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Celebrity Did OJ Simpson Confess to \"Man on a Ledge\" Writer?\nDid OJ Simpson Confess to \"Man on a Ledge\" Writer?\nby Roger Friedman - January 27, 2012 9:07 am\nThis week's main offering at the movies is \"Man on a Ledge\"\u2013described as \"ludicrous\" by some critics and certainly not an Oscar nominee. (It was a lowly 20% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is like an F.) It's January, of course, and if you couldn't release a movie by December 31st, you know what January means. But \"Man on a Ledge\" has another reason of interest. Its screenwriter is Pablo Fenjves. Don't recognize his name? He ghost wrote O.J. Simpson's infamous confessional book, \"If I Did It,\" which outlined how O.J. murdered in cold blood his ex wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman.\nThe ironic part of that is that Fenjves, creepily, was a witness in the Simpson murder trial. He was the neighbor who testified he'd heard a dog's plaintive wail near Nicole Brown's house in Brentwood. Did OJ do it? Well, a civil jury said he did, and of course OJ is in jail for something else. Is he metaphorically the man on the ledge in the new movie? Deciphering hidden meanings may be the only reason to see this film, which I keep confusing with a mostly unreleased film from last year called \"The Ledge.\"\nHere's my exclusive 2007 interview with Fenjves:\nPablo Fenjves, author of O.J. Simpson's controversial book, \"If I Did It,\" says the book's original publisher told him it was a confession.\nFenjves writes in a prologue to the book, obtained by this column exclusively, that Judith Regan, then of ReganBooks\/HarperCollins, told him:\n\"He wants to confess, and I'm being assured it's a confession. But this is the only way he'll do it.\"\nThe book, which was canceled by HarperCollins and is today being published by Beaufort Books after a court battle, now belongs to the family of Ronald Goldman. A civil jury found Simpson responsible for the 1994 slayings of Goldman and Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson. A criminal jury acquitted him of murder charges.\nBlood, Pregnancy and Dan Rather: Click Here for More Shocking Details From \"If I Did It.\"\nIronically, Fenjves, who was hired by the publisher to write the book with Simpson, had been a witness in the murder case. He was one of Nicole's neighbors, and had heard what he describes as the \"plaintive wail\" of her dog that night after the murders occurred.\nThe book, which hit stores Thursday, is approximately 60,000 words long. But readers will be mostly interested in a 10,000-word section in which Simpson describes with brutal detachment how \u2014 \"if\" he did it \u2014 he killed the pair in cold blood while a companion, named \"Charlie,\" stood by and watched.\n\"Charlie,\" if Simpson is telling truth, was a new friend at the time and not his best buddy A.C. Cowlings or anyone else from the parade of clowns who occupied America's TVs and media in 1994-95.\nFenjves writes that he doesn't believe there was a \"Charlie\" and that Simpson was alone on the night in question.\nWhile Simpson's account lines up pretty well with evidence presented in the trial, it's Fenjves' prologue that actually says more about the entire episode.\nAt one point early on in their discussions, Simpson says to the writer, \"I don't know what the hell you want from me. I'm not going to tell you that I sliced my ex-wife's neck and watched her eyes roll up into her head.\"\nThat Simpson could even speak so dispassionately and violently about his ex-wife and mother of two of his children should sound alarms for those who think \"If I Did It\" is fiction or a hypothesis.\nWhat's really alarming is that those two children, Sydney and Justin, now in their late teens, don't seem to care or understand what their father did to their mother.\nWhen Simpson first was going to sell the book and make money from it, they signed off on an agreement to form a dummy corporation in which they would profit from the proceeds.\nFenjves recalls in his prologue that at one point, Simpson wanted the chapter about the murders to come out of the manuscript. \"I hate that f\u2014ing chapter,\" he told the writer, but was reminded that it was the reason he'd sold the book. Fenjves observes that Simpson never said it was untrue or imagined.\nSimpson did ask for one detail to be removed, however. He originally told Fenjves that Nicole's Akita, named Kato for their perennial houseguest Kato Kaelin, had wagged its tail when O.J. saw it greet Goldman moments before the murder.\nIt was a telling detail, Fenjves thought, that Simpson had noticed the dog was familiar with Goldman. No one had ever heard anything like that before. Simpson must have realized that, too.\nThe ex-football superstar wasn't stupid, though. He told Fenjves after the manuscript was completed that he'd made some mistakes on purpose in the telling of the murders.\n\"I treated it as fiction,\" he said. \"I purposefully didn't correct some of the mistakes, because if the time comes that I have to defend myself, I can say, 'Hey look, it can't be me because that couldn't have happened.'\"\nFenjves says Simpson cited removing his shoes but not his socks, the fact that he would have had to scale a 10-foot chain-link fence to get from the tennis court to the guesthouse and that no one had ever seen him on a golf course with a knit-cap and gloves.\nHe also told Fenjves he'd never known any \"Charlie.\" The author felt at this point that Simpson was backtracking, and reading to him over the phone from a prepared script.\nIt didn't matter. The book was written, and HarperCollins was set to publish it. Of course, that didn't happen. The book was cancelled and the Goldmans went to court and won the rights to it as part of their civil judgment against Simpson.\nThursday, with obvious reluctance and distaste, Oprah Winfrey interviewed Ron Goldman's dad, Fred, and his sister, Kim, on her show. According to sources, she was supposed to discuss this prologue and also an afterward written by Dominick Dunne.\nNone of that came up. Instead, Oprah appeared to be angry with the Goldmans for publishing the book. In a later segment, she told Nicole's sister Denise Brown that she wasn't even going to read it.\nThe whole thing was very strange, and Oprah \u2014 who is usually on the side of the angels \u2014 came off badly.\nOne thing mentioned on Winfrey's show \u2014 that the Goldmans would see only 17 cents per book from sales. Winfrey was skeptical and asked what kind of book deal they had gotten.\nIn fact, sources tell me that if the Goldmans have figured out their profits to 17 cents, it's because over 13 years they've accrued mounting legal fees and debts for which they were not prepared.\n\"Fred Goldman was never rich,\" says the source. \"He works for Nordstrom.\"\nWinfrey, on the other hand, accepted at face value many of Denise Brown's ridiculous statements. She didn't ask her where all the money has gone from the charity that was set up in her sister's name. She also didn't bat an eyelash when Denise described Nicole as a good mother because she let her kids mess up her brand new Ferrari.\nOne thing about Denise \u2026 she's not good at mustering much sympathy for her late, hard-partying sister.\nRead more: http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,296746,00.html#ixzz1kfQP2Dsi\nRed Tails, Red Hook, Red Dawn-- Red Ink?\nSOPA Surprise: Same Law Firm Reps Pro and Anti Lobbying Efforts\nEmmy Winning \"Mary Tyler Moore\" Star Valerie Harper in Need of Funds for Healthcare, Husband Starts Gofundme Page\nLate, Great Aretha Franklin Gets a Real \"Freeway of Love\" As Michigan Names Part of Detroit Highway for Her\nNo replies to this post\ntelfer cronos\nJune 18, 2013 7:45 pm at 7:45 PM\nRoger, your analysis is strange. You accept uncritically the words of a ghostwriter. The ghostwriter may be completely above board. But we do not do know this. His brief was to write a confession,. i.e. make SImpson look bad. The ghostwriter acknowledged in the book that he had always thought that Simpson was guilty.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Current issue Archive About the Journal Subject Indexing bases College and Council Contact Principles followed by the Editor Statement of the Editor For Authors For Reviewers Reviewers 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2021\nSubject Indexing bases College and Council Contact Principles followed by the Editor Statement of the Editor\nAbout the Journal Subject Indexing bases College and Council Contact Principles followed by the Editor Statement of the Editor\nReviewers 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2021\nPrinciples followed by the Editor\nThe Editor respects the principles of publication ethics in accordance with the recommendations of the COPE - Committee on Publication Ethics (https:\/\/publicationethics.org\/).\n1.\tReliability in science is one of the cornerstones of quality. The Authors of a publication should be transparent and honest, and fairly present the results of their work; regardless of whether they are the direct authors or they used the help of a specialized entity (natural or legal person).\n2.\tThe evidence of a scientist's ethical attitude and of high editorial standards is the disclosure of information on entities which have contributed to the publication (the contribution of knowledge, factual or financial input, etc.). It is a manifestation not only of good manners, but also of social responsibility.\n3.\tTo prevent cases of ghostwriting (a substantial contribution to the creation of a publication without disclosing the participation of one of the authors, and without mentioning this role in the acknowledgments of the publication) and cases of guest authorship (the author's role is scarce or nonexistent, yet she\/he is mentioned as the author or co-author of a publication), the Editors apply appropriate procedures, namely:\na)\tThe Editor requires from Authors the following:\n- the list of Authors should correspond to the actual contributions in the creation of a publication,\n- persons who contributed to the final form of the publication, if not listed as authors, should be honored by acknowledgments,\n- the bibliography should include all publications and articles which inspired the creation of a publication,\n- the Authors should disclose the source of a publication's financing.\nb)\tGhostwriting and guest authorship are signs of scientific misconduct; therefore, any detected cases will be exposed (notification of institutions employing the authors, scientific associations, etc.).\nc)\tEditor will document all forms of scientific misconduct, particularly violations and infringement of the rules applied in science.\n4.\tBasic principles of a publication's peer review:\na)\tFor the evaluation of each publication, at least two independent reviewers are appointed,\nb)\tEditor implements a model in which the Author \/ Authors and Reviewers do not know their identities (the so-called double-blind review process),\nc)\tThe article received for review must be treated as confidential and the information and ideas obtained from the review should not be used for any other purposes,\nd)\tA person who has received a proposal to review a manuscript should refuse the review if she\/he:\n- does not feel a specialist in its subject,\n- finds a conflict of interest in relation to the subject of the article or institutions and persons related to this article,\n- does not declare the performance of the review within the prescribed period.\ne)\tThe Reviewer should pay particular attention to the originality of the reviewed text, and signs of plagiarism should be described in the review, providing the basis for recommending rejection of the publication,\nf)\tThe names of the Reviewers of particular articles are not disclosed. Once a year (latest issue), a list of all reviewers is published.\nOrganization and trade on CO2 emission allowances market\nAnalysis and forecast of oil prices on the international market\nThe uranium and thorium content in Polish and American coals\nAustralia's green energy development strategy\nEconomic and environmental assessment of the use of electric cars in Poland\nEnergy poverty leap during the pandemic: the case of Ukraine","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Alice wins gold at Northern Champs.\nAlice Jennings has catapulted herself to a title-winning grade two clearance in the high jump of 1.56m to win the North of England Under 15 Girls Indoor Championship Alice also reached the 60m hurdles final and finished sixth with a grade three time of 9.97 seconds after posting a personal best of 9.86 seconds for third place in her qualifying heat.\nTraining partner, Abi Williams, of Deeside AAC, claimed a silver medal in the under 15 girls 60m hurdles after equalling her personal best of 9.31 seconds, and she finished fourth in her heat of the 60m with 8.41 seconds.\nLeah Ferrie and Alice McMahon both returned home after pocketing bronze medals.\nLeah secured third position in the under 17 ladies 200m final with a grade two time of 26.3 seconds after winning her qualifying heat in 26.72 seconds, and she added a grade three time of 8.3 seconds in her 60m heat.\nAlice achieved her bronze medal after posting a new personal best grade one time of 8.13 seconds in the under 15 girls 60m final, and she finished fourth in the 200m final with a grade one time of 26.3 seconds after winning her qualifying heat.\nDanielle Erskine posted a new best of 8.35 seconds in the under 17 ladies 60m, and finished eighth in the long jump with 4.68m.\nRichard Farley finished seventh in his 800m heat with 2:19.45, while Dave Donkin posted 60.2 seconds for sixth spot in his under 17 men's 400m heat.\nTom Booth clocked 9.28 seconds for fourth place in his under 17 men's 60m hurdles heat, and rounded his 400m heat in 56.1 for fourth position.\nAidan Stoakley secured a new under 17 men's 200m best of 24.82 for fourth place, and clocked 53.57 seconds for fifth spot in his 400m heat.\nSteve Jones posted a new under 17 men's 60m best of 7.71 seconds in his semi-final.\nLucy Earl posted a new under 15 girls 60m hurdles best of 11.49 seconds for seventh place and 30.72 for sixth place in her 200m heat.\nKelly Baker hit a new under 15 girls shot best of 8.75m for eighth place and a new 200m best of 29.16, while Tom Kellett finished seventh in the under 15 boys shot (7.90m) and was fourth in his heat of the 200m with 26.35.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Finally, Wear OS has a problem that's seemingly random and hard to understand: \"Can't reach Google at the moment.\" Having tested at least a dozen Wear OS watches, we can say that an unexplained failure when using voice commands is the most common negative trait for all of them. It's impossible for the layperson to understand which part of the watch-to-phone-to-Internet relay is falling down, but it can happen at any time, even right after you've used the watch to do something else successfully. When Google Assistant is made the center of Android watches, not being able to reach Google Assistant lowers the value of that watch considerably.\nIn order to find the best smart watch, we looked at text and call features and, of course, design. We dug into tech reviews to separate must-haves from perks. Then, we brought in 19 smart watches to test for call responsiveness, text-ability, app accessibility, and general ease of us. In the end, three watches stood out for their reliable connectivity, gorgeous interfaces, and easy navigation.\nApple Watch Series 3: If you are an iPhone user and generally exist in Apple's ecosystem, it makes sense to get an Apple Watch. The design quality is exceptional and the Watch makes a nice pairing with your iPhone as materials and design elements are common to both. Apple's Health app covers most of the bases when it comes to tracking your essential fitness and activity indicators - nutrition, sleep, physical exercise, but Apple has gone further with HealthKit, which allows health and fitness apps downloaded from the App Store to share data with each other. Apple has committed to Watch, and its attention to practical and eye-pleasing design as well as useful tracking features is commendable. ($529)\nSmart watches are here to change the way you live. Now you can power through your workouts while the latest technology keeps track of your every move, check your calendar and keep an eye on the weather forecast wherever you are. You can also sync your smartphone with your watch, so you can check your texts, see who's calling and receive notifications while keeping your iPhone 6 Plus safely tucked away.\nThe claim to fame on the Ticwatch Pro is battery life. The Pro offers up to 30 days of battery on a single charge. Of course, that all depends on how you use it. Mobvoi's trick to improve battery life comes with the addition of a layered screen that acts as two displays. One is designed for use when the watch is idle, only showing crucial information such as the time to sip power. Under that is a standard OLED display that delivers the full Wear OS experience.\nTo round off the Gear Sport's positives, it has very solid battery life (almost never less than 50 percent of the battery remaining after a full day), it can play offline Spotify playlists (even for free accounts), and if you have a Samsung phone, it integrates easily with most of the apps you have installed there. The Gear Sport is easier to set up with a non-Samsung Android phone than previous versions of the Gear watch, too. It still requires the installation of at least four apps and some regular updating, but it's not the hour-long trial-and-error of other Gear watches we've tested, working reliably in our testing.\nThe Series 4 now has several new health-focused features, which are very intriguing, including the ability to detect when you fall and even alert emergency contacts if need be, as well as an electrical heart rate sensor that works with an app to alert you to heart health issues. The electrocardiogram (ECG) app has been certified by the Food & Drug Administration, but it's not out yet.\nSamsung released its Galaxy Watch, a follow-up to the Gear S3, a prior pick. The Galaxy Watch is available in 42 mm and 46 mm configurations, with either a Bluetooth-only connection or Bluetooth plus LTE from T-Mobile (at launch). The biggest update seems to be the battery life, which the company claims will last for days between charges. The Bluetooth version of the Galaxy Watch is available for $330 for the smaller version and $350 for the larger (46 mm) model; the 42 mm LTE version is available for $380 and the 46 mm is $400.\nNone of these smart watches are necessarily waterproof but they are water-resistant. The Samsung Gear Sport is good to go so long as you don't go any deeper than 50 meters. Same for the Apple Watch. However, the Q Venture is a little more delicate and can only withstand some splashing and momentary submersion in a meter of water. In other words, the Q Venture will survive if you drop it in a sink full of water and you scoop it out almost instantly.\nAt the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show, Razer released the Nabu Watch, a dual-screen smartwatch: integrates an always-on illuminated backlit display, that takes care of some pretty standard features as date and time, and a second OLED screen, which is activated by raising your wrist, allows access to extra smart features.[80] Luxury watchmaker TAG Heuer released TAG Heuer Connected, a smartwatch powered by Android Wear.[81]\nOf the three second-generation Samsung smartwatches, the Gear Fit is the most creative and stylish departure from the original Samsung Galaxy Gear. It's just as much an activity monitor as it is a smartwatch, and it has a markedly new look\u2014slim, sleek, and light. It also has an unconventional sideways display that's unlike any of the other tested watches; it takes a bit of wrist-twisting to view it. (You can opt to view your display vertically, but you'll be reading a lot of truncated words that way.)\nSince the early days of modern smartwatches, we've sought to test as many relevant models as we can and recommend the watches that do the best job of making a smartwatch convenient and useful. We test Wear OS watches by wearing them while they're connected to Android phones. Whenever possible, we ask other people to try out our potential picks to get an idea of how others react to a watch's size, style, interface, and other features.\n\u25bd Your account minimum payment amount is determined by the purchases and balances on your WebBank\/Fingerhut Credit Account. The change in minimum payment amount is based on your account balance at the time it is advertised, and includes an assumption of interest charges and SafeLine fees, as applicable. The change in minimum payment amount does not include subsequent activity on your account such as any purchases, including deferred payment purchases, backordered, unshipped, returned or other pending purchases or exchanges; any payments, including partial, missed or returned payments; any fees, including recurring partner program charges, subsequent interest charges, late fees or returned payment fees. It is also subject to change based on shipping address, shipping method, partial shipments and taxes. Your minimum payment amount will not change and the purchase will not reflect on your statement until the order ships. If you have a balance or are making a multiple item purchase, see the Existing Balance Payment Chart.\nWrist watches have been fashion accessories since they were first invented. The first generation of smartwatches were dull, chunky looking devices, more functional than fashionable. How things have changed. You can select from thousands of watch faces and even design your own. Wrist straps can be swapped out and designers have come up with clever quick-release clasps for them, knowing that the need to charge your watch regularly will see you needing to remove it quickly.\nOur top pick for most people is the Apple Watch Series 4 with GPS (starting at $399), which has a huge display, ultra-fast processor, Raise to Speak Siri, fall detection and a built-in electrical heart rate sensor for taking on-the-go electrocardiograms. It also runs watchOS 5, which makes the watch even more useful with automatic workout-tracking, offline podcast playback and a Walkie-Talkie voice chat feature.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Preeclampsia Linked to Heart Disease Risk | DC Metro Area Medical Malpractice Law Blog\nHome \/ Blog \/ Preeclampsia Linked to Heart Disease Risk | DC Metro Area Medical Malpractice Law Blog\nAccording to studies conducted by British and Norwegian researchers, women with cardiovascular risk factors are at increased risk of developing preeclampsia during pregnancy, and pregnant women who do develop preeclampsia are at higher risk for developing heart disease later in life. Preeclampsia, a condition in which abnormally high blood pressure develops during the second half of pregnancy, affects about 5 percent of all first pregnancies and presents serious risks to both mother and child. The findings of these studies are published in the November 2, 2007 online edition of the British Medical Journal.\nIn the first study, Norwegian researchers found that cardiovascular risk factors that are present prior to pregnancy increase the risk of developing preeclampsia sevenfold. \"This study is the first that confirms the hypothesis that lipid and blood pressure abnormalities before pregnancy are strong predictors of preeclampsia,\" said lead author Elisabeth Balstad Magnussen, a researcher in the Department of Public Health Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim.\nIn assessing the risk of developing preeclampsia, the researchers evaluated nearly 3500 women and documented relevant cardiovascular risk factors, including blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar levels, weight and body mass index, prior to pregnancy. The researchers discovered the following: (1) 133 members of the group developed preeclampsia during pregnancy; (2) women with high blood pressure, high cholesterol and high blood sugar levels before pregnancy were seven times more likely to develop preeclampsia as compared with the others; (3) women with a family history of high blood pressure, heart disease, or diabetes had double the risk of developing preeclampsia; (4) women who were overweight or obese faced an increased risk of developing preeclampsia; and (5) women who had used oral contraceptives had half the risk of preeclampsia as compared with those who never used oral contraceptives.\n\"The findings suggest that preeclampsia and cardiovascular diseases may share a common origin, and that the increased risk of cardiovascular disease subsequent to preeclampsia, at least partly, is due to an underlying biological trait of the woman,\" Magnussen said.\nIn the second study, British researchers reviewed 25 studies that included 3.5 million women worldwide and found that nearly 200,000 had developed preeclampsia while pregnant. The researchers then projected the future risk of heart disease, stroke, hypertension and thromboembolism. \"Women who have had preeclampsia are at a roughly twofold increased risk of cardiovascular disease in later life, compared with women who did not have preeclampsia,\" said David Williams, lead researcher and a consultant obstetric physician at the Institute for Women's Health at Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Obstetric Hospital, University College London. \"Specifically, these women have an almost fourfold increased risk of hypertension, and a doubling of the risk of heart disease, stroke, and venous thromboembolism,\" he added. Further, according to Williams, some of the more extensive studies in the review suggested that the increased risk of heart disease after preeclampsia is independent of other known risk factors and, thus, should become an important factor when assessing a woman's cardiovascular risk.\nAccording to Dr. Richard Levine, a senior investigator at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in the United States, women who develop preeclampsia should be screened for heart disease, diabetes and metabolic syndrome, and women at risk for preeclampsia before becoming pregnant should also try to reduce their cardiovascular risk factors to help prevent the condition.\nFor important information about preeclampsia, please see The Preeclampsia Foundation.\nIf you or a family member believes that you have a case involving the medical care, please contact us on-line at Regan Zambri & Long or call us at (202) 463-3030 for a free consultation. If you would like to receive our complimentary electronic newsletter, please click here.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The ten graphic novels everyone should read\nPaul Gravett is a London-based freelance journalist, curator, lecturer, writer and broadcaster, who has worked in comics publishing and promotion since 1981. He the author of Mangasia: The Definitive Guide to Asian Comics.\nTwo titles on his list of ten graphic novels everyone should read, as shared at the Guardian:\nThe broader sweeps of history have been recorded in graphic memoirs. There is an unparalleled immersive immediacy to the hand-drawn, handwritten, black-and-white, personal stories of the Holocaust and Iran's Islamic regime in Art Spiegelman's Maus (1980-91) and Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis (2000). These accessible and acclaimed autobiographical works \u2013 Maus won a Pulitzer prize; Persepolis was taught to soldiers at the US's West Point Academy \u2013 are essential foundation stones of the modern medium and continue to inspire other works of graphic non-fiction.\nAlso see Ross Johnson's twelve titles for readers new to graphic novels, Brian Boone's ten essential nonfiction graphic novels, Saskia Lacey's five fantastic coming-of-age graphic novels, Ross Johnson's twelve top graphic novels in which the personal is political, Ian Williams's ten top uncanny graphic novels, Max Brooks's seven top graphic novels about war, Robin Etherington's ten top graphic novels, Nicole Hill's five graphic novels for beginners, Mary Talbot's top ten graphic memoirs, Rachel Cooke's ten best graphic novels, Lev Grossman's top 10 graphic novels, and Malorie Blackman's top 10 graphic novels for teenagers.\nTen top recent witchy novels\nTop ten cliques in fiction\nSeven of the best books about family dynamics\nTwelve books that capture the sparkle of first lov...\nMimi Swartz's six favorite books about the medical...\nFifteen books to read on a Spanish vacation\nKate Williams's 6 best books\nTen notable books in the history & future of the W...\nFive recent books that explore the secret lives of...\nTop ten books about strange towns\nFive of the best books about the financial market\nFive inhospitable planets\nSeventeen killer schoolgirls in fiction\nSix top instances of dogs in literature\nFive soapy novels about women & money\nTop ten books for fans of \"Eleanor Oliphant is Com...\nTop ten books about Americans abroad\nFive of the best books on self-obsession\nEight intriguing dark fantasy noir novels\nCaitlin Moran's 7 favorite books about youth, musi...\nTen books to read after \"The Handmaid's Tale\"\nTen essential sexy thrillers\nTen books to read before getting divorced\nTop ten novels about riots\nTen of the best book covers of all time\nTessa Arlen's top five historical novels\nFive books about ridiculously powerful wizards\nMaeve Higgins's favorite funny essay collections\nSix books in which the internet helps destroy the ...\nTop ten artificial humans in fiction\nFive of the indisputably best dogs in (contemporar...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The 10 House Rules You Need to Embrace Once and for All This Year\nAs controversial as it seems, we're thinking it's time to instate no shoes in the house.\nBy Lauren Smith McDonough\nIt's so easy to use the excuse \"I'll do it tomorrow.\" But habits aren't made by only embracing your chores every once and awhile. That's why if you decide to not let yourself break these 10 rules all year long, your home life will benefit for it big time in the long run.\nKeep your phone out of the bedroom.\nIf you're like 71% of Americans, you probably tuck your smart phone in bed with you. But if you resist and leave it outside of the bedroom, you'll have an easier time falling asleep, wake up feeling more rested, and more.\nPut clothes away as soon as they're folded.\nEveryone's guilty of leaving a stack of clean clothes out, then pulling from it throughout the week. But all this does is create clutter where it's not needed, which is why we want to break this bad habit once and for all.\nMake your bed every morning.\nIt's so easy to abandon this task when you're running five minutes late, but when you force yourself to make your bed you'll start your day off on the right foot, sleep better at night, and return to a much happier home at the end of the day.\nClean your coffeemaker daily.\nEven though this might feel excessive, it's actually one of the germiest spots in your kitchen. So to ensure your cup of jo isn't contaminated in the morning, wash removable parts after every use and wipe down spills on the outside as needed.\nReplace bed sheets every week.\nSigh, there's nothing like crawling into a bed with fresh sheets \u2014 so why don't we do it more often? Not only is this better from a health perspective (see you, germs), but this will also help your linens last longer and prevent them from losing their shape.\nDon't leave dishes in the sink.\nIt's so easy to say \"I'll do it tomorrow,\" but what this really means is you get stuck doing dishes before you can even start cooking dinner the following night. Give yourself a break and rinse up the night before. Your growling stomach with thank you.\nNo shoes in the house.\nResearch has shown that things like the chemicals you use to treat your lawn or the coal tar that's used on asphalt roads can easily get tracked into your house on your shoes. That, along with the fact that they bring in dirt and ruin hardwood floors, is why you should follow this rule this year.\nSanitize your sponge every week.\nThe good news: You don't have to replace this cleaning tool when it gets germy \u2014 but you do have to clean it more often than you might realize. If you make zapping it in the microwave a habit this year, you can rest assured that your dishes are as clean as can be.\nPack your lunch at night.\nBe honest: If you leave this chore for the morning, chances are it won't happen and you'll just end up buying (again). But if you embrace this rule, you'll also help yourself stick to your budget resolution. Talk about a win-win.\nSqueegee your shower after every rinse.\nBy taking on this one-minute task every time you wash up, you'll save yourself some gross shower experiences and an unpleasant deep clean that would end up taking way longer (and require a lot more elbow grease) in the end.\n30 Things You Need to Do This Month\nLauren Smith McDonough Senior Editor Lauren is a senior editor at Hearst.\nMore From Organizing\nTheses Are the Top 10 Home Organizers in the U.S.\nThis App Makes Organizing Storage Bins SO Easy\n21 Storage Tricks for Small Bedrooms\nMarie Kondo Announces The Container Store Collab\n16 Tricks That Make the Most of a Small Closet\n5 Different Ways to Fold a Shirt\n31 Genius Products to Organize Your Kitchen\nHere's How to Fold a Fitted Sheet\nThese Under-Sink Organizers Will Change Your Life\n10 Smart Ways to Organize Your Linen Closet\nThe 1 Rule Professional Organizers Break\nDecor Rules to Break\n3 Outdated Design \"Rules\" You Shouldn't Follow\n10 Items to Toss From Your Kitchen\n10 Little Things You Need to Clean for Your Guests\nAre Your Cleaning Habits Normal?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Send Flowers for David \"Chris\"\nDavid \"Chris\" Chandler\nSeptember 8, 1951 ~ January 19, 2023 (age 71) 71 Years Old\nDavid Christopher Chandler, age 71, affectionally known as Chris, peacefully passed away at his home in Brighton, CO on January 19, surrounded by loved ones. Chris was passionate about being outside with the warm sun rays on his face, he enjoyed the roar of a classic V8 motor, and was an avid lover of food. Some of Chris's favorite moments were listening to music and rocking in a chair on a porch. Chris had an unwavering faith in Jesus and he is now in the presence of the Lord.\nChris was a friend to everyone he met. To know him was to love him. He is survived by countless friends and family who will miss him dearly.\nA Memorial Service for Chris will be on Friday January 27, 2023 at 11:00am at Harvest Fellowship Church, 11401 East 160th Avenue, Brighton, CO 80602. Reception at Church immediately following the service.\nHarvest Fellowship Church\n11401 E. 160th Ave.\nSend Flowers to David \"Chris\" Chandler's Memorial Service","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Berkeley medical cannabis commissioner faces fraud and extortion charges\nBy Frances Dinkelspiel\nSept. 232015, 9 a.m. Jan. 52017\nDan Rush addresses a group at the Cannabis Workers Rising Symposium in Winchester, Nevada. Photo: Facebook\nThe former chair of Berkeley's Medical Cannabis Commission (MCC) is scheduled to appear in federal court today, Sept. 23, to face extortion, fraud and money laundering charges connected to his dealings with cannabis dispensaries in Berkeley, Oakland and Las Vegas.\nDaniel Rush, who used to serve as the executive director of the cannabis division of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5 until he was fired in August, and who still sits on the MCC, faces more than 70 years in prison and a $1.27 million fine if convicted of the 15 counts with which he is charged.\nIn one of those counts, Rush, 55, is alleged to have offered special treatment to one of the applicants for Berkeley's fourth dispensary spot. In exchange, Rush \"demanded a well-paid job\" from the applicant, according to the indictment filed Sept. 17 in federal court. The applicant is only identified in court papers as \"Company A.\"\nRush's indictment has intensified criticism of Berkeley's dispensary selection process by some applicants who had already been disqualified. But Zach Cowan, Berkeley's city attorney, said the process was not tainted by Rush because he had nothing to do with the early stages of the selection process.\nWhile Rush sits on the MCC, he has not played an active role in winnowing down the applicants to a smaller list, said Cowan. Rush has also promised to recuse himself in the future from any discussion or decision about the fourth dispensary, he said.\n\"It's immaterial because he hasn't been in control of anything yet and he hasn't had a vote on anything yet,\" said Cowan.\nKriss Worthington, the city councilman who appointed Rush to the commission about four years ago, said he does not plan to fire him or ask him to resign.\n\"In the United States, unlike many other places, people are considered innocent until proven guilty,\" Worthington said in an email.\nRush, who has been one of the state's most visible proponents of unionizing cannabis workers, is a powerful force on Berkeley's MCC. As a union organizer who has worked in cities all over the Bay Area, as well as in Nevada, Rush has more experience in the cannabis industry than many of the other commissioners. He has taken a leadership role and was the one who presented models about how to structure a merit-based dispensary selection process, said Charles Pappas, the current chair of the MCC.\nPappas said he and Rush had \"rapport,\" but that Rush's big ego is occasionally a detriment during commission discussions. Rush brings a specific agenda to promote unions and workers to the MCC, and is an an advocate for vertical integration, where one cannabis company controls both the grow operation and the dispensary. Other commissioners are in favor of making sure small operators have a crack at the business, said Pappas. That means he isn't always a great listener, said Pappas.\nHowever, \"I didn't doubt his honesty,\" said Pappas.\nRush was not present at the last MCC meeting, on Sept. 10.\nDan Rush did not attend the Sept. 10 meeting of the Medical Cannabis Commission. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel\nThe federal government first charged Rush in August and amended the charges Sept. 17. Rush has maintained his innocence and posted a letter from his attorney on his Facebook page Aug. 14 that reminded journalists of that fact. \"The accusations in this complaint \u2026 are nothing but allegations; they are unproven by any standard, let alone the criminal standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt, and have never been tested through cross examination in a court of law,\" wrote William Osterhoudt, a San Francisco attorney. \"The charges are based on 'informants' and 'cooperators' who for their own reasons implicated Mr. Rush in alleged wrongdoing. Under the law Mr. Rush is presumed innocent until the contrary is proven to a requisite standard, and no competent proof of his guilt has yet been presented.\"\nAllegations Rush has been taking kickbacks since 2004\nThe federal charges against Rush are complex, date back 11 years, and involve FBI recruitment of his former associates, who agreed to cooperate in exchange for leniency. In short, the U.S. attorney's office alleges that from 2010 to 2014 Rush received payments or other things of value from people who were in a position to hire union workers, which violates the Taft-Hartley Act. In addition, Rush allegedly borrowed $600,000 from a cannabis operator, couldn't repay the loan, and offered to minimize the threat of union organizing in that operator's businesses in exchange for forgiving the loan, among other promises. Rush used the assistance of an attorney to hide the source of the money and its partial repayment, according to federal documents.\nFour of Rush's former colleagues worked with the FBI to tape telephone conversations with Rush, as well as write down notes of conversations. They also told officials about previous kickbacks Rush provided, according to the indictment. They include Marc L. Terbeek, an Oakland attorney who specializes in workman's compensation, real-estate and cannabis law; and Martin Kaufman, a dispensary operator looking to win one of the four new permits issued by Oakland. Kaufman is affiliated with Blum Oakland as well as Medifarm, a group seeking to operate in Nevada. There's also Carl Anderson, a dispensary operator who wanted one of Oakland's permits; and Derek Peterson, a colleague of Kaufman's.\nHere is a timeline of events, according to the federal complaint filed Aug. 10:\nIn March 2010, Rush introduced Kaufman to Anderson, who wanted to open a new dispensary, AMCD, in Oakland. Kaufman gave $50,000 in a paper bag to Andersen as an investment in the dispensary. The next day, Rush showed up at Anderson's office and allegedly said he would be taking half of all the money raised for AMCD. He took $35,000. A few weeks later, Kaufman delivered another $35,000. Rush came later that day and took $10,000.\nRush also demanded a secret interest in AMCD. Anderson had stock certificates made up in Rush's and Kaufman's name. Rush held $51,000 in stock. But Rush complained because he didn't want his name on the stock certificates, so Andersen destroyed them.\nIn January 2010, Kaufman delivered $500,000 in cash to Rush at Terbeek's law offices on International Avenue in Oakland. The money came from Kaufman's involvement in cannabis activities, according to the federal documents. The money was intended for Rush, who wanted to convert his long-time family home at 472 W. MacArthur St. in Oakland into a dispensary. It was supposed to be a five-year loan. A few months later, Kaufman delivered another $100,000 to Rush through Terbeek.\nTerbeek, Kaufman and Rush allegedly tried to hide the nature of the $600,000 loan by depositing it into one of Terbeek's business accounts. The money was quickly used to pay off the loan against Rush's house on MacArthur. Rush also used some of the money to buy the house next door. Rush would then make regular interest payments to Kaufman, but would disguise them as payments for consulting services and even issue a 1099 for tax reporting purposes.\nRush was also the treasurer of Instituto Laboral de la Raza, a nonprofit that advocates for the working poor. Rush encouraged Terbeek to start handling worker's compensation cases and promised to steer some cases his way from the Insituto. In exchange, Terbeek gave Rush a credit card to use, according to court documents. Over the years, Rush put $110,000 in personal expenses on the card, according to the government charges. Much of this money went to Verizon Wireless to pay the bills for Rush's motorcycle friends who belonged to the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club. On February 20, 2015, Rush texted Terbeek, \"Just keep the card going for me.\"\nRush recommended Terbeek's legal services to groups interested in opening cannabis operations in Berkeley, Oakland, and Nevada. In exchange, Terbeek agreed to share fees with Rush.\nIn 2014, Terbeek told both Peterson and Kaufman that Rush was not going to be able to pay back the $600,000 loan by 2015 as previously agreed. This started a series of proposals and actions by Rush and Terbeek to \"substitute labor and tax benefits for the debt,\" according to court documents.\nAround then, a cannabis operation named Medifarm was formed to go into Nevada to try and establish medical cannabis dispensaries. Petersen was the manager and CFO and Kaufman was on the board of directors and was the director of Quality Assurance. Peterson told Rush he wanted union support for Medifarm's application for a license since union support would make the application more attractive to lawmakers. Terbeek then told Peterson that Kaufman should forgive the $600,000 debt in exchange for Rush's union support in Nevada. \"The write-off would go a long way towards doors slamming slamming slamming for other people,\" he said.\nRush then suggested that Medifarm sign a \"toothless neutrality agreement\" that seemed to signal it was open to union representation of its workers, but Rush assured him it wouldn't be enforced and there were tips how to tell workers not to sign up for the union.\nOn May 14, 2014, Terbeek met with Kaufman and told him how the bad debt could be repaid through a tax fraud scheme.\nTerbeeck told federal officials that he had been paying kickbacks to Rush since 2004.\nAs a result of these alleged interactions, Rush was charged with \"honest services fraud,\" meaning he was violating the Taft-Hartley Act by depriving union workers of his honest representation by selling his services and allegiances to their potential employers. Rush posted a $100,000 bond after the first charges were filed in August. The charges were refined and refiled on Sept. 17.\nThe new charges refer to a $550,000 debt, not a $600,000 debt, however. Abraham Simmons, the public relations representative for the U.S. attorney's office, is trying to find out the reason for the discrepancy but didn't have an answer by press time.\nCity Council will review process for selecting fourth dispensary on Sept.29\nIn the meantime, some of the applicants who were disqualified from being selected as one of Berkeley's cannabis dispensaries have raised questions about Rush's role, although none has actually accused Rush or described the process as fatally flawed.\n\"The revelations flowing from the federal indictment of one of the Commissioners on the Medical Cannabis Commission crystallized our feelings with regard to the overall conduct of the dispensary selection process,\" Anh Solis, the public relations manager for Vallejo-based reLeaf, wrote in an email to Berkeley City Council members Sept. 20.\nWhitney Leigh, the attorney for Chris Smith, whose application from Forty Acres to become the fourth dispensary was also disqualified, brought up the Rush situation is a recent complaint filed against Berkeley.\n\"Those involved with the Commission should not have been entirely surprised by Mr. Rush's indictment,\" Leigh wrote. \"Since its formation, the Commission has devoted itself to promoting and sanctioning the illegal, for-profit marijuana industry in Berkeley. Under Rush's leadership, the Commission \u2013 and through ratification of Commission acts the Berkeley City Council \u2013 have fostered a multi-million dollar scheme, through which a coterie of \"authorized dispensaries\", owned and run by a handful of well-connected individuals, have turned the delivery of medical cannabis to Berkeley patients into a illegal, City-protected, profit-making enterprise. Compared to the illegal profits reaped by these illegal dispensaries, Rush's $600k bribe is a pittance.\"\nIn March, 12 groups applied for the license for the fourth dispensary. A few dropped out, two consolidated their application, and a number were disqualified for incomplete applications. Currently, six applicants remain in the running.\nCouncil is scheduled on Sept. 29 to hear appeals from reLeaf and CP4H, a dispensary proposed by Pappas. Both have expressed concern that they were eliminated in haste and the material required for the application kept changing. They are asking the council to reinstate them. A city staff report on the issues said their disqualification, as well as the disqualification of Forty Acres and another applicant, were done after due process and consideration. Staff decisions are final, according to Berkeley law.\nCity staff is due to release a list of five finalists soon. The finalists will hold community meetings to discuss their plans. However, council members may amend the current law Sept. 29 to either increase the final list to six; allow those that were disqualified to reenter the competition; or proceed with five finalists, according to a staff report. However, any changes will delay the selection of a fourth dispensary, the staff report warns.\nRead the complaint against Rush.\nTwelve apply to operate Berkeley's fourth dispensary (03.24.15)\nBerkeley City Council: Let's add fourth cannabis dispensary (06.18.14)\nBerkeley will again consider a 4th cannabis dispensary (06.03.14)\nBerkeley delays decision on fourth dispensary (09.20.13)\nBerkeley to consider 4th medical cannabis dispensary (09.17.13)\nBerkeley delays fourth medical cannabis dispensary (06.13.13)\nFollow Berkeleyside on Twitter and on Facebook where we often break news. Email us at tips@berkeleyside.com. Would you like the latest Berkeley news sent to your email inbox once a day? Click here to subscribe to Berkeleyside's free Daily Briefing.\nFrances Dinkelspiel is co-founder and executive editor of Cityside. Email: frances@citysidejournalism.org.\nCharley PappasForty Acres Medical Marijuana Growers' CollectiveKriss WorthingtonMedical cannabisMedical Cannabis CommissionMedical marijuanaUnited Food and Commercial Workers UnionWhitney LeighZach Cowan\nMost-read in City\nBuilding a cottage in your Berkeley yard? Just make sure to tell the neighbors.\nOmicron surge still rising in Berkeley; expected to peak by end of January\nBerkeley Marina boat dwellers evacuated due to tsunami advisory\nHaving problems ordering your free rapid COVID-19 tests from USPS?\n96-unit senior home with ground-floor retail set to open in West Berkeley","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Reaching America's Legislative Leaders with the Good News of Jesus Christ\nAbout Capitol Commission\nCapitol Commission places a qualified and trained State Minister at the Capitol building to minister to the Legislators and staff. We are a religious organization with no political or lobbying agenda and under no specific denomination.\n\"The gospel proclaimed without an agenda is powerful! As Capitol Commission proclaims and teaches God's Word to state and national leaders across this nation, I see hearts changing and leaders being empowered to seek after righteousness. This ministry needs to advance.\"\n- Brad Harbaugh, President of Capitol Commission\n\"Jesus did not come to take sides but to take over\"\nMost Legislators spend a significant amount of time away from home, especially during Legislative Session. They travel or even have temporary residences close to the Capitol building.\nOur organization recognizes the need for trusted support to these men and women while surrounded by the stresses of politics.\nWe believe consistent presence at the State Capitol provides opportunities like Bible Studies, discipleship, counseling, prayer, and more.\nWatch Our Impact Video\nThe ministry of Capitol Commission is identified by fervent Prayer, a faithful Presence, and a bold Proclamation of the gospel.\nA Significant Need Provides an Opportunity\nA Capitol Commission State Minister is a man your legislator can trust. He proclaims the Word of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ to the governing leaders.\nLearn earn more about your State Minister by using our interactive map.\nFind Your State Minister\nEndorsements From Ministry Partners\n\"Scripture tells us to pray for our leaders and those in authority over us. In fact, the Apostle Paul goes even further to say that our prayers should be evangelistic because God our Savior desires all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. If we are responsible to pray for the salvation and sanctification of our leaders, it follows that we should be engaged in every effort possible to impact them for the gospel. Capitol Commission does just that by placing trained men of God in the state capitols to be effective evangelists and edifiers. We at Grace Community Church wholeheartedly endorse this effort.\"\nDr. John MacArthurPastor of Grace Community Church\n\"I'm excited to commend to you Capitol Commission\u2026a ministry seeking to reach a very particular and important people group-politicians. It is a ministry that is mobilizing people and churches to share the gospel and disciple new believers so that we might have people in positions of influence who will make a Godly impact for our nation\u2026..a ministry that is very vital to the welfare and health of our nation. They hold in their hands the future of our children and our grandchildren. This is a ministry that I believe in, a ministry that I support.\"\nDr. Danny AkinPresident, Southern Seminary\n\"In our world, bringing the transforming influence of the gospel into the halls of power is no small thing. Especially in a political environment where chaos, rivalry and tactics of revenge hamper officials to do their work of bringing peace, safety and security to their citizens. Ultimately, the only way to bring effective change is by changing the lives of our leaders and supporting the officials that lead in the ways of Jesus. Thankfully the ministry of Capitol Commission is busy about changing our political climate, one life at a time! I'm a raving fan!\"\nDr. Joe StowellPresident, Cornerstone University\nYour support strengthens the personal ministry of state missionary pastors and allows us to build new ministries in states without a Capitol Commission presence.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"School corporation receives B grade on Indiana DOE annual performance report\nBy Rebecca Sandlin - Monday, April 15, 2019 7:59 AM\nThe Indiana Department of Education has released its 2018 annual performance report, including indicators used to compute schools' accountability letter grades.\nOn the whole, the Huntington County Community School Corporation received a B grade on its performance-based report, first released by the Indiana Department of Education last fall. Factors such as enrollment and attendance, student test performance, accountability and school personnel data such as teacher salaries were used to score schools.\nEnrollment of the district's 5,169 students counted was weighed in the report, with the attendance rate at each HCCSC school up slightly past the state rate of 95.3 percent. The student-to-teacher ratio was lower than the state average of 13.5 to 1 at Andrews, Lincoln and Salamonie elementary schools and Crestview Middle School. The ratio was higher at Flint Springs and Roanoke elementary schools, Riverview Middle School and Huntington North High School.\nIn the elementary test performance domain, 56.4 percent of students passed the mathematics assessment, below the state average of 59.5 percent; and 67.4 percent of students passed the English\/language arts assessment, above the state average of 65.1 percent.\nIn the high school domain, 33.7 percent of students passed the mathematics assessment, below the state average of 36.2 percent; and 65.4 percent passed the English\/language arts assessment, above the state average of 60.2 percent.\nNo HCCSC school received an A grade for the past year. Schools either stayed the same or went down a letter grade from the previous year, with the notable exception of Lincoln Elementary, which improved from an F grade in 2016-17 to a C grade for 2017-18.\nHere is how each school fared on its accountability grade and performance:\n\u2022 Andrews Elementary \u2013 B, with 64.6 percent passing mathematics and 76.3 percent passing English\/-language arts assessments. Enrollment was 376, with 376 with attendance rate of 96.2 percent. Student-to-teacher ratio was 12.1 to 1.\n\u2022 Crestview Middle School \u2013 B, with 55.6 percent passing mathematics and 68.7 percent passing English\/language arts assessments. Enrollment was 558 with attendance rate of 95.8 percent. Student-to-teacher ratio was 12.4 to 1.\n\u2022 Flint Springs Elementary \u2013 C, with 45.3 percent passing mathematics and 67 percent passing English\/language arts assessments. Enrollment was 437 with attendance rate of 96.3 percent. Student-to-teacher ratio was 13.6 to 1.\n\u2022 Huntington North High School \u2013 B, with 33.7 percent passing mathematics and 65.4 percent passing English\/language arts assessments. Enrollment was 1,516 with attendance rate of 95.4 percent. Student-to-teacher ratio was 13.6 to 1.\n\u2022 Lincoln Elementary \u2013 C, with 45 percent passing mathematics and 50.3 percent passing English\/language arts assessments. Enrollment was 408 with attendance rate of 95.5 percent. Student-to-teacher ratio was 11.3 to 1.\n\u2022 Riverview Middle School \u2013 B, with 54.7 percent passing mathematics and 69.6 percent passing English\/language arts assessments. Enrollment was 651 with attendance rate of 95.9 percent. Student-to-teacher ratio was 14.7 to 1.\n\u2022 Roanoke Elementary \u2013 B, with 66.5 percent passing mathematics and 67.1 percent passing English\/language arts assessments. Enrollment was 350 with attendance rate of 96.8 percent. Student-to-teacher ratio was 14.5 to 1.\n\u2022 Salamonie School \u2013 C, with 67 percent passing mathematics and 66.3 percent passing English\/language arts assessments. Enrollment was 207 with attendance rate of 96.7 percent. Student-to-teacher ratio was 10.8 to 1.\nHorace Mann Elementary School, which re-opened for the 2018-19 school year and was closed last year, did not receive a grade.\nOf the two elementary schools that were closed at the end of the 2017-18 school year, Lancaster Elementary School received a D and Northwest Elementary School was awarded a B.\nComparatively, Huntington Catholic School received a C on its accountability report, with 57.6 percent of students passing mathematics and 63.6 percent passing English\/language arts assessments.\nAnother indicator was Huntington North High School's graduation rate of 95.4 percent, which was above the state average of 88.2 percent listed in the report; while college and career readiness was at 71.6 percent for HNHS, compared to 65.7 percent for the state average.\nChad Daughtery, assistant superintendent for instruction at HCCSC, says improving math scores in particular has been a priority for all students since the grades first came out last fall.\n\"We've also spent some time as well on our reading strategies, and we're in the process of trying to refresh a lot of our reading resources to help teachers meet the needs of students,\" he says. \"We've been really cognizant of trying to give teachers trainings.\"\nThe E-learning program this past year included two \"flex days,\" which allowed all teachers to go through training at the same time without needing to hire substitutes, Daugherty says.\n\"Now when we have our flex days we're able to give teachers training three to five hours at a time,\" he explains. \"That was really beneficial for our corporation, everybody trying to get on the same page with our resources and a lot of our instructional practices.\"\nFlex day instruction also included going over the new ILEARN assessment testing that is coming from April 22 to May 17, and will replace I-STEP.\nTeacher salaries were also considered in the performance report. The annual salary range listed for HCCSC educators in 2017-18 was a minimum of $34,000 to a maximum of $68,954. The state average was between $34,165.70 and $65,536.65. Salary ranges were not listed for individual schools.\nDaugherty notes that Indiana ranks in last place in average change in teacher salary by state between 2002 and 2017, referring to a chart published by Forbes.com. The accompanying article states the average teacher salary in the United States is approximately $60,000.\nStatewide, the IDOE reports that roughly 22 percent of schools improved one or more letter grades in 2017-18, with nearly 9 percent improving their letter grade to an A. Overall, close to 64 percent of schools received an A or B.\n\"Our current accountability grades are an indication of the great education Indiana students are receiving, stated Dr. Jennifer McCormick, Superintendent of Public Instruction. \"Our work is paying off and as a department we will continue to partner with dedicated stakeholders to ensure every school and every student is successful.\"\nDue to differences between federal and state accountability equations and standards, IDOE also released federal accountability grades for the 2017-18 school year. About 67 percent of public schools \u2013 including all HCCSC schools \u2013 received the same letter grade for both state and federal accountability systems, with 31 percent receiving a higher letter grade on the state accountability system.\nThe complete report from the Indiana Department of Education can be accessed online at compass.doe.in.gov\/dashboard\/apr.aspx?type=corp&id=3625.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sorry, this team is full. Please join a different team.\nShort Documentary Films by Goldsmiths Visual Cultures and Fine Art Students\nFriday, 9 May 2014 from 19:00 to 22:00 (BST)\nPrebooked Ticket 6 Tickets Ended \u00a33.00 \u00a30.83\nShare Short Documentary Films by Goldsmiths Visual Cultures and Fine Art Students\nA collection of short films by Visual Cultures and Fine Art students. Each ranging from 10-15mins, exploring aspects of Documentary film making through varying subjects including architecture, protest, community, globalisation and the body.\nDo you have questions about Short Documentary Films by Goldsmiths Visual Cultures and Fine Art Students? Contact Cinema6\nCinema6 is a new neighbourhood cinema for Peckham running for six weeks this spring. Transforming a railway arch into a 40 seat screen, Cinema6 is showing films four times a week, from classic blockbusters and family films to world cinema and the work of local artists. It's a place to watch, discuss and learn about film and film making. We're inviting everyone from the area to be involved in choosing which films to show and to bring ideas for creative uses of the cinema space.\nwww.cinema6.co.uk","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Q&A: How much are billpayers paying for Hinkley and who gets the benefit?\nDamian Kahya\n@damiankahya\nDoug Parr\nChristine Ottery\n@christineottery\n@damiankahya @christineottery\nSo. The French and Chinese state owned nuclear power companies have combined in a deal they hope will pave the way for a new nuclear plant at Hinkley Point, Somerset.\nThe announcement envisages the costs coming in at around \u00a318bn, some way below the EU estimate of \u00a324.5bn that had been bandied about which means that Hinkley may not \u2013 after all \u2013 be the most expensive man made structure on the planet (we don't know).\nAt least to those who are building it \u2013 but what about the consumer? And where will the money go. Here's a quick primer:\nHow much will the consumer pay for Hinkley? (\u00a381bn)\nThere is a difference between the build cost of the project (which has apparently fallen by around \u00a36bn) and the actual cost to the consumer (which remains exactly as it always was). Or put another way, Hinkley just got cheaper \u2013 but they are selling it for the same.\nUnder the \"Contract for Difference\" (CfD) fixed price deal proposed by the Government the owners of Hinkley would take in around \u00a381bn in today's money over the 35 year lifetime of the contract.\nHow much of that is actually subsidy?\nOk. So some of that is just the money the new owners could expect to receive from selling their power in the same way an existing coal, gas or nuclear station does \u2013 on wholesale markets.\nBecause of the complexity of the deal the government has struck the subsidy element is actually impossible to know. Basically the consumer will \"top up\" the amount of money we pay per unit of power generated to bring it to a fixed price.\nLet's start low. If, like the European Union, you factor in the cost of borrowing the money to build the plant (around \u00a317bn) and assume that the wholesale cost of power is either reasonably high or at least stable at where it was a year or so ago then the subsidy element varies between \u00a35 and \u00a317bn which is \u2013 admittedly \u2013 not very low.\nBut under the deal EDF say they have dramatically cut their borrowing cost (by teaming up with the Chinese state and paying for it themselves) and that the total cost of the project will be \u00a318bn, not the \u00a324.5bn the EU estimated. At the same time the cost of power has fallen significantly \u2013 increasing the 'top up' the consumer has to pay.\nSo. By our calculations that leaves the total subsidy at around \u00a341bn. If you want you can take out the financing cost (though they are financing it themselves) which \u2013 using the EU number \u2013 takes you to \u00a324bn.\nSo what does that work out per bill-payer?\nIt works out at around \u00a31.1bn a year or about \u00a315 a household according to our calculations.\nAnd how much profit will go to the two big players?\nAgain it depends who else they get involved but based on what we know now it's possible to work out the profit margin the Chinese and French state are getting on their investment by subtracting the build cost and the cost of maintenance from the amount of money they are being paid.\nHow much is that you say? It works out at \u00a315bn for China and \u00a330bn for France from UK bill-payers.\nAnd who are these Chinese partners anyway?\nChinese state-owned nuclear company China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN) has a 33.5% stake in the development of the Hinkley C reactors \u2013 and also a stake in the Sizewell B and Bradwell B plants. This is the first time CGN is investing in nuclear in the UK.\nAnother Chinese state-owned nuclear firm, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), is a joint venture partner.\nCGN has worked with EDF on projects spanning 30 years, according their site. This includes the joint venture between CGN and EDF Group to build two EPR \u2013 European Pressurised Reactors \u2013 at Taishen in China, which is the same technology chosen for Hinkley Point C. These are not yet operational and HSBC says they are running three years behind schedule.\nThe firm styles itself as the \"largest, most experienced nuclear power reactor operator in China\" and is based in Shenzhen, China.\nIt has two operational nuclear plants, with several under construction and in the pipeline.\nCGN isn't solely a nuclear company, and has many subsidiaries in China that operate a portfolio of mainly wind but also solar farms and hydro projects. In 2014, CGN also bought three windfarms from EDF that it built in the UK.\nIt is not really clear how CNNC is benefiting from the deal at this stage, though they might have a share in CGN's stake, but they are on board for their engineering expertise as the firm specialises in research and development. \"Historically, CNNC successfully developed the atomic bomb, hydrogen bomb and nuclear submarines and built the first nuclear plant\u2026 in China\", according to their website.\nCNNC is under government control but in May the company announced it aimed to raise $2.13 billion in an initial public offering \u2013 the largest in China for four years.\nHow much risk are they taking?\nBecause that's what you get big bucks for right? Big risks.\nThe answer is we don't really know. The government's infrastructure guarantee (which guarantees borrowing for big infrastructure projects so reducing the risk to, well not very much at all) only kicks in if EDF can prove it can build a nuclear plant a bit like Hinkley in France \u2013 which right now isn't going so well (it just got delayed, again).\nThat's been stalling things so today the two partners said they'd fund it themselves, well, to begin with at least, until y'know, they've managed to build the other one. How that breaks down is hard to say.\nThe treasury has already allocated around \u00a317bn to the project (which is, um, only \u00a31bn shy of the build cost). Earlier this year George Osborne announced an initial \u00a32bn in infrastructure guarentees for the Chinese investment. If that is still a goer that should tide them over nicely until things become clearer.\nSo the answer on risk? We have no clue. Some of the risk will lie with the French and Chinese state. Some will lie with the UK taxpayer through the guarantee. Quite how that divvies up we won't know until long after we have committed our \u00a381bn. Oh well.\nHow does all this compare to renewables?\nIt's impossible to say because Hinkley won't come on stream until 2023 (at the earliest) by which time the cost of other technologies will likely have changed. The Hinkley (and possibly Sizewell\/Bradwell) deals is also several times larger than any single renewable contract.\nIn fact by the end of the 35 year contract (double the length of most renewables deals) none of the UK's existing renewable subsidies will any longer be in force.\nHowever right now the government's contracts for onshore wind and solar power \u2013 which are just 15 years \u2013 are both coming in lower than that offered to Hinkley.\nA Bloomberg New Energy Finance analysis says the UK could have six times the power-generation capacity for the same money by investing in wind turbines instead of Hinkley.\nOffshore wind, on the other hand, which is arguably more comparable is still more expensive. Developers expect the cost to fall significantly over the next decade though.\nThe question \u2013 however \u2013 is somewhat moot because the government's push for at least three new nuclear plants (Hinkley, Sizewell and Bradwell) and the sheer size of those contracts is unlikely to leave any money for wind turbines for decades to come.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Portaltunes News\nHome \u00bb Apple\nHow your browser decides exactly what advertising you see\nBy the end of 2021 Google Third Party Cookies wants to abolish for advertising purposes. But while Apple and the Mozilla Foundation simply curtail the possibilities of advertising, that's what Google is not an option. The large advertising konzern and coarse browser manufacturers in the world is true, in the context of his \"Privacy sandbox\"-Project alternatives to create today's tracking-based advertising system.\nThe Group presented the latest proposal at the end of October: Federated Learning of Cohorts \u2013 short \"Floc\". The nuclear ideas of the new advertising system is to have a significant part of personalization to take place directly in the browser. Over techniques of machine learning the browser should automatically form an interest profile, the user \"Cohort\" \u2013 or: \"Flock\" \u2013 Composits.\nTo understand the system, you first have to look at the status quo. Advertising is barely booked on websites, but individually played every user due to the interest profile. This is made possible by programmatic real-time marketplaces, where advertising placements are still auctioned during the charging time in the browser.\nGroup tracking\nTo set up the necessary interest profiles, Third Party Cookies are currently indispensable. If a user visits about a technique website, the browser gives the information by cookie on often dozens of advertising service providers. For thousands of such signals, detailed user profiles are generated, for which, in addition to data such as age and gender of the user, also sensitive information such as diseases or religious convictions can be recorded. Add to that data handlers who combine profile information from numerous sources and unite them with the cookie profiles.\nIn view of the increasing resistance to the all-encompassing targeting, Google now wants to relocate the interest profiles into the browser. Chrome continuously calculates a kind of hash value from the user's browser history and summarizes all surfers with the same value to a cohort. The cohort formation should prevent you from dragging backlusses over individual users. Attached is a minimum grape of 5000 users, which are sufficiently similar. above \"Federated Learning\" If the user profiles are to be adjusted together, without the raw data relying the device of the user.\nImportant also: Every user is only a member of a cohort. Thus, advertisers and Adtech service providers can not retrieve individual attributes such as age or gender and integrate them into their own databases.\nSkeptical advertising industry\nInstead of retrieving exact user profiles, the advertisers had to satisfy themselves with the knowledge of the whole cohort. For advertisers, Google's initiative is not feeling well. However, given the increasing anti-tracking measures, a partial orientation of data is preferable to the complete loss of personalization, made Chetna Bindra, the stated product manager in Google, opposite C't.\nSo that the new system works, Google needs to convince many competitors and partners from change. Therefore, Google provides its proposals on GitHub for public discussion and takes part in the standardization organization W3C on a specialist dialogue, which now has many associations and companies from the advertising industry.\nBut here are rough reservations. The advertising industry does not want to be booted by industry hardwoods such as Google, Apple or Facebook, made the BVDW vice-prassident Thomas Dohr opposite C't. Who enforces with what suggest, must show 2021.\nThis article comes from C't 24\/2020.\nCar loan without schufa\nTwo adults and three small children: which car is the right car for families with 3 children in 2020??\nReliably networked: how to retrofit wifi in your car\nMost reliable cars in the test \u2013 tips for those who value quality\ntwo methods: transfer autocad from one pc to another\nNumber of charging stations: hamburg just ahead\nRusting despite pandemic\nWes craven, take over!\nA little love\n\"For coarse projects you always have to take a certain risk\"\n\u00a9 2023 Portaltunes News","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Live Video James Ham Insider Podcast Schedule Standings Stats Tickets CSN golf rotoworld\nKings Subscribe:\nDe'Aaron Fox ready for leadership role in his third season with Kings\nBy James Ham May 06, 2019 10:57 AM\nKings general manager Vlade Divac was asked after the 2017-18 season a very specific question about leadership and who would take over the team with players such as George Hill and Garrett Temple gone or on their way out.\nDivac made the following succinct statement: \"They can't be young players forever.\"\nDivac had a point. At some point, players mature, and leaders either rise to the top or they don't.\nFor the Kings, they are going to rely heavily on a 21-year-old point guard to take them to the next level.\nFor the Kings to ascend to where they want to be, De'Aaron Fox has to take another step forward in his leadership, which he laid the groundwork for in his sophomore season.\nFox discussed his thoughts on leadership during the latest edition of the \"Road Trippin'\" Kings podcast with Doug Christie, Corey Brewer and Harrison Barnes.\n\"As a leader, just being able to hold everybody accountable,\" Fox explained to the group. \"Everyone always says, those best teams always had confrontation. Players were always conflicting at some point. Everybody can't get along, and everything be fine and dandy and y'all winning games. That's just not how things happen.\"\nIn the discussion, Fox sighted Chris Paul as a player he believes thrives on conflict. The Houston Rockets star holds his teammates accountable on the court, regardless of who they are and what their stature with the team might be.\nIt's a style Fox hopes to implement into how he deals with conflict and accountability with his Kings teammates.\n\"We have to be able to conflict and have to fight each other and be able to set that stuff aside and not take things personal,\" Fox said. \"I think that's a problem with a lot of young groups and young people in general. Someone says something to them, and the next thing it is, they're going to pop off, like it's cool to get mad if someone says something to you.\"\nDuring the previous edition of the Road Trippin' pod, Fox and Buddy Hield had a similar discussion. Hield was very clear: For the Kings to take the next step, they need more of Fox and his voice.\nIt's interesting to hear Fox lay out his leadership ideas. From the moment he walked into the gym last summer, players and coaches were talking about his change in demeanor. They raved about the work he had put in both on the court and in the weight room, but there was something different about the young guard out of the University of Kentucky.\n\"I think that's definitely as a young group and as a young guy trying to be a leader that I have to step up and do,\" Fox said. \"People don't want to conflict, people don't want to fight with their teammates, but I think if you're able to do that and overcome it? I think that makes you better.\"\n[RELATED: Fox, Nike announce May 31 release of \"SWIPA\" Air Max 1]\nGoing into his third season, Fox clearly is the Kings' de facto leader on the court. He'll have players such as Barnes and Hield surrounding him to help with the process, but the player who has the ball in his hands is the one you need running the show.\nWith the Kings still sporting a young squad, it will be interesting to see how Fox's personality is received and how he grows into the leadership role.\nListen to Fox, Christie, Brewer and Barnes on the latest Road Trippin' podcast in the player below, and subscribe here.\nTags: Corey Brewer, Harrison Barnes, De'Aaron Fox, James Ham\nKings 'have a couple All-Stars,' fired assistant Larry Lewis believes\nBy Ali Thanawalla July 14, 2019 7:08 PM\nAmidst all the reshuffling in the Western Conference over the last few weeks, it's easy to forget that the Sacramento Kings are one of the up-and-coming teams in the NBA.\nLed by De'Aaron Fox, Buddy Hield, Harrison Barnes, Marvin Bagley and Harry Giles, the Kings won 39 games last season and have a promising future.\nBut the group of coaches that helped get those players to where they are won't get to see the job through to the finish line. The Kings fired head coach Dave Joerger after the season and let all of his assistants go.\nTwo of those coaches, Elston Turner and Larry Lewis, recently spoke to the Sacramento Bee about their departure and what they are leaving behind.\n\"They have a couple All-Stars,\" Lewis told The Bee. \"I saw a lot of potential in that young, core group. These players have a learning curve, but they were adapting very, very quickly to what was going on. Do they have a lot to learn? Of course, but at the same time, these guys are for real. I would have loved to have been a part of that going forward, but their decision is their decision and I'm at peace with it.\"\nFox and Hield made the biggest jumps this past season. It's clear the work with Lewis, who was a player development coach, paid off.\n\"It was a great experience,\" Lewis told The Bee. \"The players really grew. They really matured a lot. We had a great season. The team got a lot better. The players got a lot better. That's what it's all about.\"\nFrom Year 1 to Year 2, Fox went from averaging 11.6 points per game to 17.3. His field goal percentage improved from 41.2 percent to 45.8 percent, and his 3-point shooting improved from 30.7 percent to 37.1 percent. Those numbers combined with the highlight-reel plays he made were good enough to help him finish third in the NBA's Most Improved Player voting.\nAs for Hield, he blossomed from a spot-starter to a guy that started all 82 games for the Kings this past season. He entered the year shrouded in questions, but answered every single one of them by averaging a career-high 20.7 points per game and sinking a Kings' single-season record 278 3-pointers.\nBagley and Giles, both rookies, showed that they have the potential to be difference-making bigs in the NBA.\n[RELATED: Barkley: Kings won't make playoffs]\n\"You could see the improvement,\" Turner told The Bee. \"A lot of guys got better and Larry was head of the player development department, so he did a hell of a job.\"\nNow it will be up to new head coach Luke Walton and his staff to help the Kings' young core continue their development. If they do, Sacramento will be a force in the Western Conference for years to come.\nTags: Harrison Barnes, Harry Giles, Marvin Bagley, Buddy Hield, De'Aaron Fox, Ali Thanawalla, NBA, Sacramento Kings\nKings agree to contract with forward Tyler Lydon, agency confirms\nThe Sacramento Kings are taking a flier on a former first-round draft pick.\nForward Tyler Lydon and the Kings have agreed on a two-year contract, Priority Sports tweeted on Sunday afternoon.\nCongrats to @Tyler_Lydon14 on his deal with the @SacramentoKings!\n\u2014 Priority Sports (@PrioritySports) July 14, 2019\nESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski, citing a league source, first reported the agreement.\nFree agent F Tyler Lydon has agreed to a two-year deal with the Sacramento Kings, league source tells ESPN.\nLydon all but confirmed the agreement by quote-tweeting Wojnarowski's tweet with crown emojis.\n\ud83d\udc51\ud83d\udc51\ud83d\udc51 https:\/\/t.co\/HDoHpAxun0\n\u2014 Tyler Lydon (@Tyler_Lydon14) July 14, 2019\nThe Kings now have 18 players on the roster, according to ESPN's Bobby Marks.\nSacramento roster is now up to 18 players- including Kyle Guy and Wenyen Gabriel who are on a Two-Way. Forward BJ Johnson is on a $1.4M non-guaranteed contract with no trigger dates for protection.\n\u2014 Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) July 14, 2019\nBack in 2017, the Denver Nuggets used the No. 24 overall draft pick on the Syracuse product. But things didn't work out for Lydon in the Mile High City.\nThe 23-year-old appeared in just 26 games over two seasons with Denver and averaged 0.9 points and 0.7 rebounds.\n[RELATED: Kings have 'preliminary interest' in Koufos]\nDespite using a first-round draft pick on Lydon, the Nuggets declined Lydon's 2019 option, making him a free agent.\nNow, the Kings are hoping they can unlock the potential that made Lydon worthy of being a first-round draft pick.\nTags: Ali Thanawalla, NBA Free Agency, NBA, Sacramento Kings, Tyler Lydon\nKings 'have a couple All-Stars,' fired assistant Larry Lewis believes Kings agree to contract with forward Tyler Lydon, agency confirms NBA rumors: Kings, others have 'preliminary interest' in Kosta Koufos Kings fall victim to Dwyane Wade's retirement jersey swap curse Why Charles Barkley won't pick Kings to make NBA playoffs this year What Kings can learn from end of Thunder after Russell Westbrook trade How Kings' free-agency splurge impacts roster, salary cap position DeMarcus Cousins says he will switch back to No. 15 with Lakers next season Kings' Trevor Ariza excited to reunite with former teammate Luke Walton Kings 'going to the next level' with additions, Vlade Divac believes Harrison Barnes preaching 'culture of family' to young Kings in Vegas Kings elect to sign second-round pick Kyle Guy to two-way contract Kyle Guy heats up in Las Vegas, leads Kings to NBA Summer League victory DeMarcus Cousins' move to Lakers reminder of what could've been for Kings Clippers' Kawhi Leonard move shows no one will hand Kings playoff berth Bend the knee: Kings fans want to rename DOCO Plaza to King's Landing Source: Kings keep Yogi Ferrell hours after waiving Frank Mason III Kings waive point guard Frank Mason after two seasons in Sacramento What Kings learned about these seven players at California Classic NBA free agency: How Kings bolstered their roster through flurry of moves","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"What Happened to Honest Game Trailers? Who is the Great Voice Actor?\nBy Vaibhavi Last updated Dec 19, 2022\nWhat Happened to Honest Game Trailers? For a long time, Honest Game Trailers was a go-to channel for video game reviews on YouTube. The show, which featured humorous and insightful commentary on the games, typically aired on Saturdays and featured new episodes every week.\nThe channel stands out from others making content with a similar aim because of the show's originality and the way it summarises the information. Despite its popularity, Honest Game Trailers has gone silent, with all of its playlist videos being made private.\nAbitex Arrested: What Did Music Promoter Mr. Abbey Musinguzi\u2026\nIs Rakhi Sawant In Jail? More Details on Rakhi Arrest News!\nWhat Happened to Jamie Raskin's Son? How Did His Son\u2026\nYou've come to the right place if you're wondering what became of that channel that brought so much joy and entertainment to so many people.\nWhat are Honest Game Trailers?\nWhat Happened to Honest Game Trailers?\nWho is the Great Honest Trailers Voice Actor?\nWhat is the Most Popular Trailer in the Last 24 Hours?\nThis gaming-centric YouTube channel is a spinoff of the hit comedy series Honest Trailers. In case you were unaware, the Honest Trailers series is a parody review website for movies and TV shows.\nSo, given their success and unique brand of humour, they decided to launch a separate comedy web series devoted entirely to the gaming community.\nThe most ingenious aspect of these videos are the fake trailers they create, in which the hosts humorously highlight the games' flaws. Jon Bailey, an American-born voice actor with a stellar reputation, narrated the majority of the episodes.\nSince its inception on March 8, 2014, more than 350 episodes of Honest Game Trailers have been created and uploaded to the channel.\nFans can quickly and easily get caught up on some of the best content in gaming in as little as three to five minutes per episode.\nFans, on the other hand, appreciate how this review series regularly addresses the development of some of the video game industry's most successful and widely recognised brands.\nRead More \u2013 Demonstration of Dead Island 2 Teases a Weapons List and Bloody Gameplay\nDespite the channel's zenith, production was halted on October 10, 2017, after creators Screen Junkies and Andy Signore were accused of sexual harassment.\nTwo weeks later, on October 24, 2017, the series returned. But under the intense scrutiny of the allegations, both creators had been let go. Production company Defy Media announced its intention to shut down and sell in July of this year.\nThe sale of Honest Game Trailers was not announced until later in 2019. In February, and its new owner was later revealed to be Fandom Games. Fans were already downhearted because they couldn't read their favourite game reviews, and that was before the purchase made everything private.\nOn June 4th, 2019, almost all videos had been successfully transferred to the new channel, with only four being absent. Despite the new owner's best efforts, Honest Game Trailers has seen a decline in its viewership after being sold.\nThe perfect thing about this new product, which premieres a new episode every Tuesday. That is the outstanding Jon Bailey keeps voicing the narration.\nDaft Punk Helmet Is a Hidden Object in New Pokemon Games\nAARP Games: What Are the Best Games at AARP?\nYou've probably heard of Jon Bailey if you have ears. The list of media in which he has appeared and spoken is endless. Honest Trailers, nominated for an Emmy, has an epic voice. In the Transformers Combiner Wars, Optimus Prime is the best.\nTop 24-hour movie trailer debuts as of April 2022. The \"Spider-Man: No Way Home\" (2021) teaser had over 355 million views in the first 24 hours after its release, making it the most-viewed movie trailer in history. This was as of April 2022.\nHello, comrades! Whatever the case may be, enjoy the reading! For those who enjoyed the prior paragraph, in which we questioned What Happened to Honest Game Trailers? you should inform your friends and share this throughout all of your social media platforms. Visit investrecords.com to see articles of a similar nature.\nWith your assistance in spreading the word, we will be able to push ourselves to generate even more engaging articles for you. Leave a comment with your ideas or questions regarding the story. Please leave your opinions in the section below! We appreciate you taking the time to provide us with your feedback, and we guarantee a thorough response. Thanks\nHow Tall is Huggy Wuggy? What is Huggy Wuggy Personality?\nA Storm For Christmas Cast: Ages, Partners, Characters\nAbitex Arrested: What Did Music Promoter Mr. Abbey Musinguzi Do?\nWhat Happened to Jamie Raskin's Son? How Did His Son Die?\nIs Shamu Still Alive? How Much is Shamu Worth?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Every item on this page was chosen by a townandcountrymag editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy.\nTaryn Simon is an Art World Star\nAnd this is your last chance to see her new show.\nBy Kevin Conley Published: Mar 22, 2016\nTaryn Simon's shows always include photographs, which might make you inclined to call her a photographer, although this would be like calling Christo an upholsterer since so many of his works include fabric. There is always a prodigious amount of work leading up to Simon's final products, which document some relic of her research or incident of her exhaustive travels or byproduct of her mysterious obsessions. The unassuming shots, usually taken in a studio, in series that suggest taxonomies, represent her chosen objects or human subjects with near clinical precision but only begin to hint at the deeper motivations that have been driving her projects forward for years.\nAgreement Establishing the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation, Al-Bayan Palace, Kuwait City, Kuwait, May 30, 2006, Paperwork and the Will of Capital, 2015.\n\u00a9 Taryn Simon. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery\nSimon is married to Jake Paltrow\u2014they have two children together\u2014and her gallery and museum openings invariably attract any number of figures from the Paltrow-Danner cinematic-vegetarian complex. It's a glamorous gaggle and she more than holds her own in their company. But don't let the glam factor distract you from her real contemporaries. She comes from a lineage that stretches back to photographic forebears like August Sander, and, along with contemporaries Rineke Dijkstra and Gillian Wearing, she has enlarged the conceptual canvas of photography, bringing in the quirkily academic approach that follows W.S. Sebald as much as it does the Bechers.\nMemorandum of Understanding between the Royal Government of Cambodia and the Government of Australia Relating to the Settlement of Refugees in Cambodia. Ministry of Interior, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, September 26, 2014, Paperwork and the Will of Capital, 201\nHer latest, \"Paperwork and the Will of Capital,\" on view at Gagosian in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood through Saturday, and reappearing in Rome, on the Via Francesco Crispi 16, in April and May, takes flowers as the nominal subject of the works. Simon, with the help of a botanist, painstakingly researched and identified the precise flowers in the arrangements on the tables at formal signing ceremonies for any number of benighted treaties, like the nuclear fuel agreement signed in Iran in 2005 (pink gladiolas, yellow daffodils) or the impact study for a projected Ethiopian dam (Gerber daisies from the Netherlands, tea roses from Ethiopia); soon afterwards, Mohammad Morsi was caught on tape discussing military options for destroying the dam should it ever be built. The straight faced texts accompanying the photos make it clear how far short the signatories have fallen in their various ambitions.\nMore From Town & Country\nBratislava Declaration, Bratislava, Slovakia, August 3, 1968, Paperwork and the Will of Capital, 2015.\nA Guide to Every Film That Won Best Picture\nPoker Face Episode Guide\nWill There Be A Season 9 of Outlander?\nThe Godfather Is Back on Streaming\nHow to Watch the 'Party Down' Revival\nEverything We Know So Far About Lioness\nDaisy Jones & the Six Soundtrack\nSuccession Will Return in Spring 2023\n'Poker Face' Inverts Traditional Murder Mysteries\nHow to Watch Paul Mescal in Aftersun\nThe 50 Best Horror Books\nNewsletterContact UsSubscribeOther Hearst SubscriptionsAdvertise OnlineAbout UsPress RoomCustomer Service\nEvery item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Former NATO Secretary General: Bilderberg Club sets Global Policy\nPrisonplanet.com\nDespite debunkers attempting to claim otherwise, Bilderberg illegally sets the consensus on policies that are subsequently enacted worldwide.\nFormer NATO Secretary-General and Bilderberg member Willy Claes has confounded claims by debunkers that the secret\nFormer NATO Secretary-General and Bilderberg member Willy Claes\norganization which met in Sitges Spain over the last few days does not set policy, admitting during a Belgian radio interview that Bilderberg attendees are mandated to implement decisions that are formulated during the annual conference of power brokers.\nIn a radio interview reported on by the Belgian news website www.zonnewind.be, Claes told host Koen Fillet that Bilderberg does indeed decide policy for the coming year. Claes would certainly be in a position to know, being a two-time Bilderberg attendee as well as the eighth Secretary General of NATO from 1994 until 1995.\nClaes said that Bilderberg guests are normally given around 10 minutes of talk time, after which a report is compiled of their presentation.\n\"The participants are then obviously considered to use this report in setting their policies in the environments in which they affect,\" stated Claes, according to the translated text.\nThe host asked Claes to repeat this astounding admission, before Claes went on to explain that no two guest are allowed to sit next to each other more than once at Bilderberg, to enable the maximum exchange of views on important subjects.\nA Dutch-speaking reader sent us the article and confirms that the translation is accurate. This represents a solid confirmation of what we already knew through witnessing Bilderberg's leaked agenda later play out in the real world time after time \u2013 that the elitist organization does verbally set global policy in a completely undemocratic and illegal manner.\nHowever, despite Claes, who personally attended the 1994 Bilderberg meeting in Helsinki when he was Belgium's Minister for Foreign Affairs, confirming the obvious that Bilderberg does manufacture a consensus amongst its participants, which is then implemented as policy in the real world, during the past few days numerous debunkers have claimed that Bilderberg is just a talking shop that has no impact on the global stage.\nIain Hollingshead of the London Telegraph wrote a sophomoric piece in which he dismissed Bilderberg as \"a group of willy-waggling old men comparing their security details and dreaming of past glories,\" which is a complete misnomer seeing as Bilderberg is routinely attended by active Presidents and Prime Ministers very much in power and very much in a position to have an impact on current events, such as Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who attended this year's conference with his country on the verge of becoming the next Greece.\nHollingshead claims that because the group is becoming more well known, its allure is on the wane, but fails to mention that this is because of the fine work of activists and real journalists who have spent decades trying to get the castrated corporate media to report on the event while people like Hollingshead either made childish jokes about the whole issue or even denied the very existence of Bilderberg.\nOne such \"skeptic\" is Chip Berlet, who works for a group called the Political Research Associates, which is funded in part by the Ford Foundation, founded by Edsel Ford, the son of the notorious Henry Ford, who received awards from Hitler for funding the Nazi war machine with slave labor, which somewhat taints the PRA's stated objectives, which are apparently to track conspiracy theories and the the right-wing while \"advancing an open, democratic, and pluralistic society\".\nThe Ford Foundation is little more than an attack dog which transnational elitists use, through its offshoots like PRA, to demonize any criticism of their agenda as extremist and anti-semitic, which is quite rich considering the history of the corporation.\nBerlet himself has made a career out of characterizing the idea that powerful people might get together and discuss ways of expanding their power as a belief of the lunatic fringe.\nLittle surprise therefore that towards the end of Berlet's appearance on Russia Today, in which he stumbles through a broken record of excuses claiming Bilderberg has no power, he invokes the tired old cliche that anyone who expresses concern about 200 powerful men gathering in secret with no democratic oversight whatsoever behind a wall of security is probably a closet racist.\nBerlet claims the American Free Press was founded by \"one of the biggest anti-semitic, neo-fascist conspiracy theorists in the world,\" which coincidentally is also a pretty apt description of the man who founded the company that now pays Berlet via the Ford Foundation funding PRA receives to spew his propaganda \u2013 Henry Ford \u2013 one of Hitler's biggest supporters.\nBerlet demonizes the notion that the Bilderberg Group has any influence over world affairs or is working towards a new world order as \"a lot of malarkey,\" and \"a hoax carried out by people who believe in an elaborate fairy tale about how power is exercised in the world\".\nHe then completely contradicts himself by admitting \"they talk over policy\" but then claims \"the organization itself has no power\" before stating, \"The policies that are formulated don't hold any power within the nation that people who go to the meeting\u2026.they go back to their country and say hey I heard this at the Bilderberger meeting what do you think? And the national assembly or the powerful people say I think that's a lot of malarkey take it back and shove it someplace, so this idea that this is a plot that is carried out to 30 or 40 countries and implemented is baloney.\"\nReally? So according to Berlet, the Prime Minister of Spain, his Secretary General, and the Queen of Spain, all of whom attended the Bilderberg meeting this past weekend, go back home and are then told to \"shove\" whatever they discussed at Bilderberg by \"the powerful people\". These are the powerful people! These are the people who run the country. Presumably, Berlet believes there are powerful people above the Prime Minister and the Queen of Spain who tell them what to do, which sounds like an even bigger conspiracy theory than the one he is attempting to debunk.\nOf course in reality, Berlet knows that the most powerful people in the world attend Bilderberg and he is either completely ignorant or deliberately lying by claiming that Bilderberg has no impact on policy.\nMerely on the face of it the claim that Bilderberg does not have an influence on policy is patently ridiculous. This would be akin to claiming that a four-day gathering of 200 MLB officials would have no impact on the future of baseball. Despite the fact that many politicians shunned Bilderberg this year because of the group's increasing notoriety as a furtive and insidious front for anti-democratic elitists, just take a look at the list of powerful individuals who did attend.\nTop CEO's like Bill Gates of Microsoft and Eric Schmidt of Google, top bankers like Marcus Agius of Barclays and Peter Sutherland of Goldman Sachs, don't meet with national Presidents, Prime Ministers, big newspaper owners, members of the European Parliament and officials in the U.S. government to talk about tiddlywinks. They don't get together for four days and surround themselves with a security ring of steel to discuss the weather or American Idol \u2013 they're at Bilderberg to come to a consensus and then to implement it in their respective spheres of influence, just as Claes confirms in the radio interview.\nUsing bluff and slimy semantics, apologists like Berlet imply that just because no treaties or laws are signed at Bilderberg, that the group has no power. In reality, Bilderberg sets the global consensus for the agenda that is subsequently implemented in the host countries of the Bilderberg members, a process that holds even more power than signing an individual treaty. Bilderberg sets the consensus for a whole gamut of policy areas, from oil, to the environment, to wars, to the economy.\nThis is confirmed not only by former NATO Secretary-General and Bilderberg member Willy Claes in the radio interview we covered earlier, but it is manifestly evident in the policies that have later come to pass after being formulated at Bilderberg.\nIndeed, Bilderberg chairman \u00c9tienne Davignon last year bragged about how the Euro single currency was a brainchild of the Bilderberg Group.\n\"A meeting in June in Europe of the Bilderberg Group- an informal club of leading politicians, businessmen and thinkers chaired by Mr. Davignon- could also 'improve understanding' on future action, in the same way it helped create the Euro in the 1990s, he said,\" reported the EU Observer in March 2009.\nThe foundations for the EU and ultimately the Euro single currency were laid by the secretive Bilderberg Group in the mid-1950's. Bilderberg's own leaked documents prove that the agenda to create a European common market and a single currency was formulated by Bilderberg in 1955.\nAs we first reported in 2003, a BBC investigative team were allowed to access Bilderberg files which confirmed that the EU and the Euro were the brainchild of Bilderberg\nThe summary report of the 1955 Bilderberg meeting which took place from September 23-25 1955 at the Grand Hotel Sonnenbichl in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany, talks of the \"Pressing need to bring the German people, together with the other peoples of Europe, into a common market.\"\nThe document also outlines the plan, \"To arrive in the shortest possible time at the highest degree of integration, beginning with a common European market.\"\nJust two years later, in 1957, the first incarnation of the European Economic Community (EEC) was born, which comprised of a single market between Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. The EEC gradually enlarged over the next few decades until it became the European Community, one of the three pillars of the European Union, which was officially created in 1993.\nThe 1955 Bilderberg summary outlines a consensus that, \"It might be better to proceed through the development of a common market by treaty rather than by the creation of new high authorities.\" The EEC was duly created via the Treaty of Rome, which was signed on 25 March 1957.\nDebunkers like Berlet will probably still try and claim that the idea of a common European market was floating around in the early 1950's and that Bilderberg were merely debating contemporary political ideas.\nHowever, the same cannot be said for the single European currency, which wasn't even introduced in the form of notes and coins until January 2002, having been first codified in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty. The documents prove that Bilderberg members were pushing for its introduction nearly 40 years earlier.\n\"A European speaker expressed concern about the need to achieve a common currency, and indicated that in his view this necessarily implied the creation of a central political authority,\" states the summary document.\nTrue to form, the single European currency, the Euro, was not introduced until after the creation of a central political authority \u2013 the EU itself.\nThe document also stresses, \"The necessity to bring the German people into a common European market as quickly as possible,\" adding that the future was in danger without a \"United Europe\".\nThese proven examples of Bilderberg formulating some of the biggest policies of the 20th century do not even come from leaks obtained by journalists from within the meetings, they come directly from the mouth of Bilderberg's chairman and Bilderberg's own internal documents.\nHowever, leaks from inside the meetings uncovered by independent journalists have also proven routinely accurate in confirming that Bilderberg has a massive impact on policy decisions.\nIn spring 2002, when war hawks in the Bush administration were pushing for a summer invasion of Iraq, Bilderbergers expressed their desire for a delay and the attack was not launched until March the following year.\nIn 2006, journalists who got leaked information from inside Bilderberg predicted that the U.S. housing market would be allowed to soar before the bubble was cruelly popped, which is exactly what transpired.\nIn June 2008, we learned that Bilderberg were creating the conditions for a financial calamity, which is exactly what began a few months later with the collapse of Lehman Brothers.\nBilderberg has habitually flexed its muscles in establishing its role as kingmaker. The organization routinely selects presidential candidates as well as running mates and prime ministers.\nDespite widespread expectation that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair would be announced as the first European Union President, the former Prime Minister of Belgium, Herman Van Rompuy, was picked for the role just days after he attended a Bilderberg Group dinner meeting.\nBill Clinton and Tony Blair were both groomed by the secretive organization in the early 1990's before rising to prominence.\nBarack Obama's running mate Joe Biden was selected by Bilderberg luminary James A. Johnson, and John Kerry's 2004 running mate John Edwards was also anointed by the group after he gave a glowing speech at the conference in 2004. Bilderberg attendees even broke house rules to applaud Edwards at the end of a speech he gave to the elitists about American politics. The choice of Edwards was shocking to media pundits who had fully expected Dick Gephardt to secure the position. The New York Post even reported that Gephardt had been chosen and \"Kerry-Gephardt\" stickers were being placed on campaign vehicles before being removed when Edwards was announced as Kerry's number two.\nA 2008 Portuguese newspaper report highlighted the fact that Pedro Santana Lopes and Jose Socrates attended the 2004 meeting in Stresa, Italy before both going on to become Prime Minster of Portugal.\nSeveral key geopolitical decisions were made at the 2008 Bilderberg meeting in Washington DC, again emphasizing the fact that the confab is far more than an informal get-together.\nAs we reported at the time, Bilderberg were concerned that the price of oil was accelerating too fast after it hit $150 a barrel and wanted to ensure that \"oil prices would probably begin to decline\". This is exactly what happened in the latter half of 2008 as oil again sunk below $50 a barrel. We were initially able to predict the rapid rise in oil prices in 2005 when oil was at $40, because Bilderberg had called for prices to rise during that year's meeting in Munich. During the conference in Germany, Henry Kissinger told his fellow attendees that the elite had resolved to ensure that oil prices would double over the course of the next 12-24 months, which is exactly what happened.\nAlso at the 2008 meeting, former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice formalized plans to sign a treaty on installing a U.S. radar base in the Czech Republic with Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg.\nRice was joined at the meeting by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who reportedly encouraged EU globalists to get behind an attack on Iran. Low and behold, days later the EU threatened Iran with sanctions if it did not suspend its nuclear enrichment program. For the first time, the majority of Bilderberg members expressed their support for an attack on Iran during this year's meeting in Sitges.\nThere was also widespread speculation that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's \"secret meeting,\" which was accomplished with the aid of cloak and dagger tactics like locking journalists on an airplane to keep them from tracking the two down, took place at the 2008 Bilderberg meeting in DC.\nSo as we can see, there are a plethora of examples of Bilderberg setting a consensus on a particular policy area which later comes to pass at both the national and international levels. To claim otherwise is to be completely ignorant of the manifestly provable fact that Bilderberg has immense power in setting agreements on policy and exercises that power on a regular basis.\nIn light of this, Berlet and Hollingshead are either shoddy journalists who have done no research whatsoever and are merely phoning it in, or they are being paid to deliberately spew biased and completely inaccurate information by the establishment they work for in a futile attempt to convince people that Bilderberg has no power, presumably in an effort to halt growing numbers of protesters who descend on Bilderberg each year, whom Bilderberg members now class as a \"threat\" to their agenda and secrecy.\nFiled under World Tagged with AMerica, anti-democratic, anti-semitic, Banks, Barclays, BBC, belgina, bilderberg, bilderberg club, Bilderberg member, bill gates, Chip Berlet, Corruption, crisis, debunkers, economia, Economy, elite, elitists, Eric Schmidt, espa\u00f1a, estados unidos, euro, Europa, europe, financial, Ford Foundation, Goldman Sachs, Google, government, Hitler, Iain Hollingshead, IMF, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Londown Telegraph, Marcus Agius, nato, nazi, Obama, OTAN, peter sutherland, Political Research Associates, secretary general, Sitges, sophomoric piece, spain, UK, united nations, united states, War, Willy Claes\nBilderberg Gives Green Light to Attack Iran\nThe 2010 Bilderberg agenda has been revealed by veteran Bilderberg sleuth Jim Tucker and it paints a picture of crisis for the\nWar with Iran may be around the corner now that Bilderberg has given the official approval.\nglobalists, who are furious at the increased exposure their gatherings have received in recent years, as well as being dismayed at their failure to rescue both the euro and the failing carbon tax agenda, but more alarmingly according to Tucker, the majority of Bilderberg members are now in favor of military air strikes on Iran.\nAmerican Free Press muckraker Tucker has proven routinely accurate with the information he obtains from sources inside Bilderberg, which makes this year's revelations all the more intriguing.\nAccording to Tucker, Bilderberg luminaries are dismayed at the fact that \"many important people\" are not attending this year because, due to increasing exposure, invitees are \"getting in trouble at home\" and constituents are embarrassing them by asking irate questions such as \"what are you doing with these monsters?\"\n\"All these people are exposing us, we get all this mail and calls,\" Tucker paraphrased Bilderberg members as complaining.\nThis dovetails with the revelations overheard by Guardian journalist Charlie Skelton at the Hotel Dolce Sitges before the meeting began when he heard conference organizers lamenting the fact that protest numbers are growing at Bilderberg events each year and that they represent a \"threat\" to Bilderberg's agenda.\nIn addition, prominent Bilderberg Zbigniew Brzezinski, the man who warned recently that a \"global political awakening\" was threatening to derail the move towards global government, was expected to be in attendance at this year's meeting.\nTucker named his source as an international financial consultant who personally knows Bilderberg members and has done business with them for the past 20 years.\nTurning to Iran, Tucker said that many Bilderberg members, including Brzezinski, were in favor of U.S. air strikes on Iran and were \"leaning towards war,\" although 100 per cent of members were not supportive of an attack.\n\"Some of them in Europe are saying no we shouldn't do it but most of them are in favor of American air strikes on Iran,\" said Tucker, adding, \"They're tilting heavily towards green lighting a U.S. attack on Iran.\"\nAn attack on Iran would provide a welcome distraction to the globalists' failings in other areas and would also allow them to war profiteer, pointed out Tucker.\nOn the subject of the euro, Tucker said that the Bilderberg elitists were determined to save the single currency even as it collapsed to a new 4-year-low at $1.19 against the dollar yesterday afternoon. As we have highlighted, the globalists are panicking at the euro's fall and the ECB keeps intervening to try and hasten its decline. If the euro were to cease to exist, it would all but derail the ultimate agenda for a global currency because the perceived stability of using one currency for a plethora of nations would be discredited.\n\"The euro is important because it's part of their world government program, they're very downbeat because they've fallen so far behind,\" said Tucker, explaining that the globalists had planned by now to have the European Union, the American Union and the Asia-Pacific Union already up and running.\nWith regard to the climate change agenda, on which subject Microsoft founder Bill Gates was personally invited to the conference to discuss, Tucker said that Bilderberg were still intent on pushing it in pursuit of a carbon tax despite the fact that the whole move was massively eviscerated in the aftermath of the Climategate scandal.\nTucker quoted one Bilderberg member as all but admitting defeat on the mission to hoodwink the public into paying taxes in the name of fighting global warming.\n\"On climate change, we're about whipped,\" said one of the elitists in attendance.\nHowever, Tucker said that the globalists were working on putting out more climate change propaganda \"even as we speak\".\nOn the issue of the BP oil spill, the Bilderbergers made it clear that President Obama's apparent \"outrage\" at BP and his threat of criminal procedures against the company was an little more than an act and that British Petroleum, who have been represented at Bilderberg meetings in the past by people like Peter Sutherland, former non-executive chairman of BP, were still \"one of our brothers,\" according to the elitists.\nThe future of oil prices are always an important topic to Bilderberg and the leaks Tucker and other investigators relayed from previous Bilderberg meetings were proven accurate when oil prices hit $150 a barrel in 2008, which was precisely what Bilderberg had called for.\n\"Gas prices are going to be nice and cheap this summer,\" said Tucker, adding that they would start to rise again to the $4 a gallon level around November when artificial scarcity is created.\nOn the march towards anti-democratic global government, Bilderberg members stated that America must be \"Europeanized\" and turned into a giant socialist welfare state with health rationing and higher income taxes.\nTucker said hat Bilderberg were intent on mandating a bank tax paid directly to the IMF to fund global governance and a global treasury department under the IMF, and that this would then merely be passed on to the consumer.\nIn summary, Tucker said that this year's conference was the most downbeat and pessimistic Bilderberg meeting in history, with massive exposure of their agenda acting as a roadblock to the ultimate goal of an authoritarian world government run by the elite, for the elite.\nFiled under World Tagged with agenda, air strike, american free press, american union, asia-pacific union, attack, awakening, barcelona, bilderberg, BP, business, carbon tax scheme, charlie skelton, climate change, climategate, collapse, Consumer, crisis, crude, discredited, dollar, ECB, elitists, euro, European Union, exposing, exposure, failure, financial, gas prices, gathering, global currency, global governance, global government, global warming, globalism, globalists, government, green light, guardian, Hotel Dolce Sitges, IMF, Iran, jim tucker, mail, middle east, monsters, nations, Obama, Oil, peter sutherland, prices, profiteer, rescue, revelations, scarcity, Sitges, source, stability, taxes, War, Zbigniew Brzezinski\nBilderberg drena cofres p\u00fablicos en Espa\u00f1a\nSindicato policial denuncia el \"despilfarro\" en seguridad que conlleva el Club Bilderberg\nTerra.es\nEl Sindicat de Mossos d'Esquadra (SME-CCOO) ha denunciado el 'gran despilfarro' que ha supuesto las medidas de seguridad para la reuni\u00f3n del Club Bilderberg, un grupo privado del que forman parte mandatarios, grandes empresarios o monarcas, y que ha movilizado a centenares de agentes auton\u00f3micos.\nEn un comunicado, el SME ha expresado p\u00fablicamente \"su desacuerdo hacia lo que supone un injustificado despilfarro de dinero p\u00fablico destinado a preservar la seguridad de un acto privado\", cantidad que cifra en \"centenares de miles de euros\"\nRevela este sindicato que, para garantizar la seguridad del encuentro anual del Club Bilderberg, que este a\u00f1o se celebra en un hotel de Sitges (Barcelona), \"el Departamento de Interior ha montado un dispositivo de seguridad formado por centenares de mossos d'esquadra de diferentes especialidades (USC, BRIMO, Tr\u00e1fico, Tedax, Subsuelo, Gu\u00edas Caninos, ARRO, Informaci\u00f3n), as\u00ed como la activaci\u00f3n del helic\u00f3ptero de Mossos\".\n\"No se entiende que en plena crisis, cuando los gobiernos han impuesto un recorte salarial a todos los funcionarios escud\u00e1ndose en la crisis econ\u00f3mica, ahora se dedique a enviar centenares de mossos a cubrir un acto no oficial y a generar un gasto cifrado en centenares de miles de euros que deber\u00e1n pagar los fondos p\u00fablicos\", indica la nota del SME.\nEl sindicato policial tambi\u00e9n denuncia que, para garantizar la seguridad de este acto, \"se hayan tenido que enviar patrullas de otras demarcaciones policiales, con la consiguiente desprotecci\u00f3n de sus territorios\", y que \"se haya forzado a algunos agentes a trabajar 8 fines de semana seguidos\" o que se hayan programado \"servicios continuados de m\u00e1s de 12 horas\".\nEl SME-CCOO entiende que al ser un club privado, el Club Bilderberg, al que tambi\u00e9n se conoce como el \"gobierno del mundo en la sombra\", se deber\u00eda \"hacer cargo de los costes que genera la seguridad de este acontecimiento, y m\u00e1s teniendo en cuenta las cifras millonarias que aglutinan algunos de sus miembros, y no derrochar el dinero p\u00fablico de todos los ciudadanos\".\nFiled under Espa\u00f1ol Tagged with ARRO, barcelona, bilderberg, bilderberg club, BRIMO, costes, d'Esquadra, departamento de interior, despilfarro, desprotecci\u00f3n, dinero publico, empresarions, en sombra, espa\u00f1a, euros, gobierno del mundo, Gu\u00edas Caninos, informacion, millones, monarcas, Mossos, privado, reunion, seguridad, Sindicat, Sitges, SME, SME-CCOO, Tedax, territorio, Tr\u00e1fico, USC\nEugenicist Bill Gates Attending 2010 Bilderberg\nInfowars.com\nWilliam Gates wants to sterilize people as a measure for population reduction.\nMicrosoft founder Bill Gates will join fellow elitists for the first time at the 2010 Bilderberg conference currently taking place in Sitges Spain, after he apparently attempted to pull a bait and switch by pretending to attend another event before being forced to admit to journalists that he will give a speech at the globalist confab.\nGates let slip that he would make his debut at Bilderberg after being asked by journalists from 20 Minutos, a free Spanish newspaper which is published daily in numerous Spanish cities as well as others around the world.\nAccording to the report, Gates told reporters, \"I'm one of those who will be present,\" adding that he will take part in a debate with fellow globalists on the subjects of \"energy and the needs of the poorest,\" as well as climate change, renewable energy and the economic crisis.\nIndicating that he will also give a speech to the Bilderberg elitists, Gates said, \"I hope not to bore.\"\nIt appears as though Gates initially tried to throw reporters off the scent by claiming he was in Barcelona to attend a Global Health Institute conference which was then mysteriously \"cancelled\".\nThe translation of the Spanish report can be read here.\nGates' presence at the elite confab was also confirmed by the German news agency DPA.\nThe Spanish report also confirms that Spain's Prime Minister Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero will attend the conference this afternoon, where he will be joined by Queen Beatrix of Holland, ECB Chairman Jean Claude Trichet as well as former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.\nRumsfeld has sporadically attended Bilderberg meetings in the past but he is not a regular visitor to the annual gatherings. For Gates, this is his first time at the conference although his wife Melinda is a regular attendee.\nBoth Gates and Rumsfeld's presence at this year's event indicates that some very important developments are set to unfold over the course of the next 12 months, particularly with regard to Iran as well as the global warming agenda, which has been on the ropes since the Climategate scandal and the failed Copenhagen summit in December.\nGates' Bilderberg presentation will also likely include information about his eugenicist projects to lower global population figures.\nDuring a recent TED conference, an organization which is sponsored by one of the largest toxic waste polluters on the planet, Gates told the audience that vaccines need to be used to reduce world population figures in order to solve global warming and lower CO2 emissions to almost zero.\nStating that the global population was heading towards 9 billion, Gates said, \"If we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services (abortion), we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 per cent.\"\nQuite how an improvement in health care and vaccines that supposedly save lives would lead to a lowering in global population is an oxymoron, unless Gates is referring to vaccines that sterilize people, which is precisely the same method advocated in White House science advisor John P. Holdren's 1977 textbook Ecoscience, which calls for a dictatorial \"planetary regime\" to enforce draconian measures of population reduction via all manner of oppressive techniques, including sterilization.\nGates' eugenicist zeal is shared by his fellow Bilderberg elitists, many of whom have advocated draconian policies of population control in their own public speeches and writings. Indeed, the Rockefeller family funded eugenics research in Germany through the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institutes in Berlin and Munich. The Rockefeller Foundation praised Hitler's sterilization program in Nazi Germany. David Rockefeller attended the first Bilderberg meeting in 1954 and is now the head of Bilderberg's \"steering committee\".\nA joint World Health Organization-Rockefeller inoculation program against tetanus in Nicaragua, Mexico and the Philippines in the early 1990's was in fact a covert trial on using vaccines to medically abort women's babies.\n\"Comite Pro Vida de Mexico, a Roman Catholic lay organization, became suspicious of the motives behind the WHO program and decided to test numerous vials of the vaccine and found them to contain human Chorionic Gonadotrophin, or hCG,\" writes historian F. William Engdahl in his article, Bill Gates And Neo-Eugenics: Vaccines To Reduce Population. \"That was a curious component for a vaccine designed to protect people against lock-jaw arising from infection with rusty nail wounds or other contact with certain bacteria found in soil. The tetanus disease was indeed, also rather rare. It was also curious because hCG was a natural hormone needed to maintain a pregnancy. However, when combined with a tetanus toxoid carrier, it stimulated formation of antibodies against hCG, rendering a woman incapable of maintaining a pregnancy, a form of concealed abortion. Similar reports of vaccines laced with hCG hormones came from the Philippines and Nicaragua.\"\nGates recently announced that he would be funding a sterilization program that would use sharp blasts of ultrasound directed against a man's scrotum to render him infertile for six months. \"The foundation has funded a new \"sweat-triggered vaccine delivery\" program based on nanoparticles penetrating human skin. The technology is described as a way to \"\u2026develop nanoparticles that penetrate the skin through hair follicles and burst upon contact with human sweat to release vaccines,\" writes health researcher Mike Adams.\nGates is likely to be asked by other Bilderbergers how to get the global warming carbon tax agenda back on track after a drastic plummet in the credibility of climate change alarmists since the Climategate scandal broke.\nPart of Bilderberg's agenda to usher in a \"post-industrial revolution\" revolves around mandating western countries to adopt disastrous \"green economy\" initiatives, which as Spain has painfully experienced at first hand, cost over 2.2 jobs for every \"green\" job created.\nThe carbon tax agenda is also about enforcing a consumption tax which will drastically reduce living standards and leave people more concerned about feeding their families with little time to worry about Bilderberg's undemocratic scheming, something the Bilderberg hierarchy are keen to oversee in an effort to squash the growing global awareness of Bilderberg and the new world order, because they view \"people with income\" as \"a threat\" to their plans for world government.\nWatch Bill Gates' comments on using vaccines to lower global population in the clip below.\nFiled under World Tagged with bilderberg, bill gates, Bill Gates And Neo-Eugenics: Vaccines To Reduce Population, carbon tax agenda, climate change, climategate, david rockefeller, depopulation, Donald Rumsfeld, economic crisis, elite, elitists, emissions, eugenicist, eugenics, global health institute, global warming, globalists, health care, human Chorionic Gonadotrophin, inoculation, Jean-Claude Trichet, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, journalists, kaiser whilhem institute, Melinda Gates, mexico, microsoft, nanoparticles, nanotechnology, phillipines, polluters, population control, populaton control, Queen Beatrix, rockefeller foundation, roman catholic, scrotum, Sitges, spain, tetanus disease, ultrasound, vaccines, WHO, World health organization\nBilderberg 2010 Agenda Leaked\nVeteran Bilderberg researcher and bestselling author Daniel Estulin has once again acquired a copy of the agenda for the annua l meeting of the world's power elite. In an exclusive interview with The Corbett Report earlier today, Estulin revealed what the Bilderbergers will be discussing at this year's confab in Sitges, Spain on June 3-6, 2010.\nAccording to the documents\u2014which Estulin obtained from his sources inside the secretive group\u2014issues to be discussed in this year's formal deliberations are:\n1. Will the Euro Survive?\n2. Development in Europe: Europe's Exit Strategy\u2026On Hold?\n3. Do We Have Institutions to Deal With the World Economy?\n4. Greece: Lessons and Forward-looking Strategies\n5. NATO and Afghanistan: The Practical Agenda for the Alliance\n6. Iran and Russia: Economic and Financial Threats to the Alliance\n7. The Consequences of War Against Terrorism\n8. The Influence of Domestic Issues on American Foreign Policy\n9.The Outlook for Japan's Economy\n10. The Future of the U.S. Dollar: Alternative Scenarios\nThat the Bilderbergers\u2014essentially a talking shop for European and North American power players\u2014are interested in discussing the current meltdown of the European economy should come as no surprise, especially as the group's attendee list includes many of the key financiers and string pullers who helped steer Europe into the crisis in the first place. Past attendees of the meeting include current EU President Herman Van Rompuy who got the job as the first non-elected head of the undemocratic European Union after a special wine and dine session with Bilderberg steering committee members. Last year he heralded the beginning of global government, praising the increased role of G20 in dealing with the global financial crisis. Other key Bilderbergers include Jean-Claude Trichet, who, as head of the European Central Bank, was instrumental in helping to craft the current European bailout which itself is designed to incentivize the bankruptcy of Europe. Trichet, too, also recentlycalled for global government to regulate the world economic meltdown that his fellow Bilderbergers helped to create.\nThose familiar with the Bilderberg group's long-cherished dream of achieving global government through the creation of an international financial framework will be unsurprised to see that a debate on the question \"Do We Have Institutions to Deal With the World Economy?\" is the third order of business at this year's meeting. Nor will it be a surprise when the question is inevitably answered with the standard globalist line that international institutions like the IMF and the World Bank need to be \"strengthened\" and even given enhanced regulatory powers as a result of the crisis they have brought about, exactly as Bilderberg observers have been predicting for years. Indeed, as Estulin himself notes in his latest book, Shadow Masters, former U.S. Undersecretary of State George Ball expressed the ambition of the globalists in an address to the 1968 Bilderberg meeting in Mont Tremblant when he stated that they were interested in developing a \"world company\" to take over the \"archaic political structure of nation states\"\nOther items on the agenda are exactly in line with the issues and plans made at last year's Bilderberg and those ideas debated at last year's G20 Finance Ministers meeting, both of which Estulin was able to infiltrate with his inside sources. The fact that the Iran-Russia alliance is on this year's agenda is doubly telling, not only because a strike against Iran was on the table at this year's Trilateral Commission meeting, but because, as Estulin notes in today's interview, it indicates that the real object of the Bilderbergers' aggression against Iran is the destabilization of Russia, a country that has traditionally been a thorn in the side of the globalists.\nPerhaps the only thing that is surprising about this year's leaked agenda is that the secretive group, which has gone to great length to conceal itself from media and public scrutiny, has failed to take precautions to prevent Estulin and his sources from acquiring the information yet again. \"I'm a little bit disappointed in the Bilderbergers,\" he said on the line from Spain, where he currently resides. \"I would think they would have taken certain precautions and measures, especially coming to my part of the world.\"\nWhile the agenda is only a guide for the larger group discussions and the real decision-making takes place among the core members of the group behind closed doors, it does serve as an indicator of the issues and events that are preoccupying the globalists at this sensitive stage of their operation, just as they begin to realize their dream of instituting global government by manufacturing a global depression. Even as these plans begin to come to fruition, the people of Iceland, Greece, and other developed countries are beginning to rise up en masse to throw off the yoke of financial oppression and key Bilderbergers are openly talking of their fears of a global political awakening.\nThis year's conference marks a new level of exposure and opposition to the Bilderberg group itself. Daniel Estulin will be making an historic speech to the European parliament on June 1st along with Mario Borghezio, Nigel Farage, and other key MEPs. Then Charlie Skelton, reporting once again for the UK's Guardian newspaper, will be taking part in a mass counter-conference where those opposed to the Bilderbergers and their secret proceedings will gather to draw attention to the group.\nFiled under World Tagged with afghanistan, alternative scenarios, American Foreign Policy, annual meeting, bailout, bankruptcy, bilderberg group, charlie skelton, daniel estulin, destabilization, economic, elite, euro, European Central Bank, european development, European Union, Financial Threats, Future of Dollar, G20, George Ball, global depression, global government, globalists, greece, Herman Van Rompuy, Hune 3-6, iceland, IMF, incentive, infiltrate, institutions, international financial framework, Iran, Japan's Economy, Jean-Claude Trichet, mario borghezio, Meltdown, Mont Trmblant, nato, nigel farage, north america, power elite, Practical Agenda Alliance, regulate, russia, secretive group, Shadow Masters, Sitges, spain, strike, Trilateral Commission, UK, War on Terrorism Domestic Issues, World Bank, world economy","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Justia Dockets & Filings Second Circuit New York Northern District Praileau v. The United States et al Filing 17\nPraileau v. The United States et al\nORDER - That the 16 Report-Recommendation and Order is ADOPTED in its entirety. That plaintiff's complaint (Dkt. No. 2) is DISMISSED in its entirety without prejudice, and that plaintiff is permitted an opportunity to amend, and that such amended complaint shall be filed within thirty (30) days of this Order. That, if plaintiff fails to file an amended complaint within the time permitted, the clerk is directed to close this case without further order of the court. Signed by Senior Judge Gary L. Sharpe on 12\/5\/2017. (Copy served via regular mail)(jel, )\nUNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ________________________________ WILLIAM PRAILEAU, Plaintiff, 1:17-cv-836 (GLS\/CFH) v. THE STATE OF NEW YORK, et al., Defendants. ________________________________ APPEARANCES: OF COUNSEL: FOR PLAINTIFF: WILLIAM PRAILEAU Plaintiff, Pro Se 8 East 109th Street New York, New York 10029 Gary L. Sharpe Senior District Judge ORDER The above-captioned matter comes to this court following a ReportRecommendation and Order by Magistrate Judge Christian F. Hummel, duly filed on November 8, 2017. (Dkt. No. 16.) Following fourteen days from the service thereof, the Clerk has sent the file, including any and all objections filed by the parties herein. No objections having been filed, and the court having reviewed the Report-Recommendation and Order for clear error, it is hereby ORDERED that the Report-Recommendation and Order (Dkt. No. 16) is ADOPTED in its entirety; and it is further ORDERED that plaintiff's complaint (Dkt. No. 2) is DISMISSED in its entirety without prejudice, and that plaintiff is permitted an opportunity to amend, and that such amended complaint shall be filed within thirty (30) days of this Order; and it is further ORDERED that, if plaintiff fails to file an amended complaint within the time permitted, the clerk is directed to close this case without further order of the court; and it is further ORDERED that the Clerk provide a copy of this Order to the parties in accordance with the Local Rules. IT IS SO ORDERED. December 5, 2017 Albany, New York 2","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"news world\nWorld Haley slams rights groups after US quits UN council\n22:26 20 june 2018\n22:26 20 june 2018 Source: msn.com\nHaley slams rights groups after US quits UN council 2018-06-20 2018-06-20\nWhen, not if: U.S. poised to quit UN's human rights council\nDiplomats say the United States is about to quit the United Nation's main human rights body, primarily over Washington's claim that the Human Rights Council is biased against Israel. The move would be the Trump administration's latest snub of the international community. The U.S. State Department said Friday no decision has been made to leave.\nUS Ambassador Nikki Haley on Wednesday accused human rights groups of thwarting a US push for changes to the UN Human Rights Council and contributing to Washington's decision to quit the body. In a letter sent to non-governmental organizations, Haley complained that they had played a\nNEW YORK - US Ambassador Nikki Haley on Wednesday accused human rights groups of thwarting a US push for changes to the UN Human Rights Council and contributing to Washington&39;s decision to quit the body. In a letter sent to non-governmental organizations, Haley complained that\n\u00a9 Provided by AFP US Ambassador to the United Nation Nikki Haley, seen here at the State Department June 19, 2018, accuses human rights groups of \"unrelenting bias\" against Israel\nUS Ambassador Nikki Haley on Wednesday accused human rights groups of thwarting a US push for changes to the UN Human Rights Council and contributing to Washington's decision to quit the body.\nIn a letter sent to non-governmental organizations, Haley complained that they had played a \"deconstructive\" role by refusing to support US efforts to take Israel off the council's agenda.\nHaley on Tuesday announced that the United States was quitting the rights council, condemning the \"hypocrisy\" of its members and its alleged \"unrelenting bias\" against Israel.\nU.N. Rights Chief Tells U.S. to Stop Taking Migrant Children From Parents\nZeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, cited the president of the American Association of Pediatrics, saying the practice is \"government-sanctioned child abuse.\" \"The thought that any state would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable,\" Mr. al-Hussein said.His intervention added to an escalating chorus of condemnation from people across the political spectrum in the United States, including the former first lady Laura Bush, who called the separations \"cruel\" and \"immoral.\" But Mr.\nUS Ambassador Nikki Haley on Wednesday accused human rights groups of thwarting a US push for changes to the UN Human Rights Council and contributing to Washington's decision to quit the body. In a letter sent to non-governmental organizations\n\"You should know that your efforts to block negotiations and thwart reform were a contributing factor in the US decision to withdraw from the council,\" said Haley in the letter seen by AFP.\n\"You put yourself on the side of Russia and China, and opposite the United States, on a key human rights issue.\"\nEighteen rights groups including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International wrote to UN member-states in May to express concern that a proposed US draft resolution at the General Assembly could weaken the rights council.\n\"By attacking and blaming NGOs for its own failure, the Trump administration is taking a page out of the book of some of the worst governments around the world,\" said Human Rights Watch's UN director Louis Charbonneau.\nThe rights group had warned that the proposed changes could trigger \"hostile amendments,\" possibly from China and Russia, to undermine the work of the council which monitors human rights crises worldwide.\n\"Such hostile proposals could enjoy broad support and the US might not be able to stop them,\" said Charbonneau.\nHaley had repeatedly threatened over the past year to quit the 47-nation Geneva-based body unless there were reforms to its agenda and to the election of its members, which often run unopposed as a region's candidate, regardless of their rights record.\nUS envoy Nikki Haley goes on inter-faith journey in India .\nNikki Haley, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations, is on an inter-faith journey in India, visiting a Hindu temple, a Sikh shrine, a mosque and a church in old parts of the capital. Born in South Carolina to Sikh immigrants from the northern Indian state of Punjab, Haley rolled breads at the Sikh shrine on Thursday, a religious way of paying obeisance to Sikh gurus.After visiting the Jama Masjid, one of the largest mosques in India, she interacted with a child sitting outside.She is on her first visit to India after taking over as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in 2017.\nUS Threatens to Leave UN Human Rights Council After Israel Criticized\nUS Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said the US is \"reviewing its participation\" in the Human Rights Council over what said is the group's \"chronic ...\nTwo resolutions on the escalation of violence at the Gaza-Israel border have failed at the UN Security Council. Since March, Israeli soldiers have shot dead at ...\nTrump Is Said Ready to Pull U.S. From U.N.'s Human Rights Council\nWhat message does US leaving UN Human Rights Council send to the world?\nTop rights body: Trump no longer 'moral leader of his country or the world'\nThe Latest: UN awaiting formal US notice on quitting council\n'I think I was being sent a message': U.S. warned U.N. official about report...\nUS envoy Nikki Haley goes on inter-faith journey in India\nHaley slams rights groups after US quits UN council\nHaley slams rights groups after US quits UN council | eNCA\nNikki Haley slams rights groups after US quits UN council , United\nUNITED NATIONS (AFP) - US Ambassador Nikki Haley on Wednesday (June 20) accused human rights groups of thwarting a US push for changes to the UN Human Rights Council and contributing to Washington's decision to quit the body.\nHaley slams rights groups after US quits UN council | The Daily Star\nUS quits 'biased' UN human rights council - BBC News\nThe US has pulled out of the United Nations Human Rights Council , calling it a \"cesspool of Announcing the decision to quit the council , Ms Haley described the council as a \"hypocritical and A group of 47 elected countries from different global regions serve for three-year terms on the council .\nUS leaves 'hypocritical and self-serving' UN Human Rights Council\n\"The US is officially withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council ,\" Haley said, calling it a \"hypocritical and self-serving organization \"I call on the United States to immediately end the practice of forcible separation of these children,\" al-Hussein said. While the timing of the US exit from the UN\nFires 'far from over' as storms sweep Australia\nLebanon on 'brink of chaos and anarchy' as peaceful protests turn violent\nCoronavirus Is Spreading Quickly Across China, as Confirmed Cases Triple\n2 more bodies found on Tijuana property owned by missing Garden Grove couple believed dead\nKiller beer: El Chapo 701 craft lager coming soon thanks to drug lord's daughter\nSouth Korea Mulls North Korea Visits Despite U.S. Pushback\nTrump's China deal was pitched as boon for working class, but he celebrated with Wall Street...\n2 more bodies found on Tijuana property owned by missing Garden Grove couple...\nTrump's China deal was pitched as boon for working class, but he celebrated with...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Tag-Along 2 (2017)\nPosted on 26 March 2019 5 April 2019 By AntBit\nThe Tag-Along 2 screens 6.20pm, 5 April 2019 at Curzon Soho as part of London's inaugural Taiwan Film Festival\nIn 2014, a team of men illegally logging at night on Dakeng Hill, Taichung unearths a buried corpse, and then comes under supernatural attack. Nobody notices the absence of three undocumented Thai workers, but the disappearance of their Taiwanese overseer makes the local papers, along with other missing persons, in a collage of clippings that form the opening credits of The Tag-Along 2. The sharp-eyed might even discern, in this mosaic of missing posters, the faces of many characters from the first film, also directed by Cheng Wei-hao.\nStill, one of the attractions of this sequel is the way in which it deviates from the original, finding its own paths through the haunted forest \u2013 indeed, totally remapping its terrains \u2013 before looping back through and around the first film's timeline in a manner that transforms, rather than merely rerunning, its plot. Eventually Yi-chun (Hsi Wei-ning) will return, a broken shadow of the confident, independent-minded DJ from The Tag-Along \u2013 but before that we will meet new characters with their own problems and fates. And if the first film ended with pregnancy, this new one will pick up that motif and run with it, making the fraught relations between mothers and daughters its thematic focus.\nCut to 2016, and young social worker Shu-fen (Rainie Yang) is having to separate 'weird' mother Mei-hua (Francesca Kao) from her young daughter Yong-ching (Isa Lin) who has for a whole year been kept locked away, and covered in hand-written inscriptions, inside their apartment. Meanwhile, Shu-fen is having difficulties with her own daughter Ya-ting (Ruby Chan), a sullen teen seven weeks pregnant by an older boyfriend. Faced with having an abortion that she is not sure she wants, Ya-ting vanishes \u2013 and Shu-fen's increasingly frantic search for her daughter will lead to Ya-ting's boyfriend the animistic exorcist Chun-kai\/'Master Tiger' (Wi Nien-hsuan), to a disused hospital, back to Mei-hua, and eventually to an abandoned amusement park in the forest where another lost daughter \u2013 a little girl in red familiar from urban legend (and from the first film) \u2013 longs to find her own mother.\nThe amusement park setting is key to the wild and bumpy ride along which The Tag-Along 2 is taking its viewers. For in a narrative that violently criss-crosses between past and present, rattling along through unstable, labyrinthine locations where reality and nightmare vie for occupancy, everything is ruled over by irrationality and hallucination, leaving us dizzy with disorientation. Here ancient religious traditions and black magic are brought into conflict with more modern misfortunes, and maternal instincts prove both a toxic, destructive force and the only hope for a better future. As we find out who the little girl in red is, and why she has come to lure damaged people into the woods for the demonic mosien to trap, as in the first film what happens to these characters might be supernatural, but the negative emotions which drive them are all too recognisably real, ensuring that the film's horrors are rooted in grounds as much psychological as haunted. It's a crazy roller-coaster of a film, perhaps too intense to be straightforwardly fun, but nonetheless rammed full of unhinged incident and deranged detail.\nStrap: Cheng Wei-hao's spooky sequel The Tag-Along 2 is both mountain hike and amusement park ride through the fraught dynamic of the mother-daughter relationship.\nThe Last Broadcast (1998)\nDark Nature (2022) at Fantasia 2022\nBring Out The Fear (2021)\nAre We Monsters (2021)\nThe Tag-Along (2015)\nThe Book Of Birdie (2017)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Degree in hand, Funkhouser has no regrets\nBy Jason Beck\nDETROIT -- No, Kyle Funkhouser said. If he had a chance to do it all over again, he wouldn't change anything.A year ago, Funkhouser was in speculation for the Tigers' top pick in the 2015 MLB Draft before going to the Dodgers later in the first round. The 35th overall\nDETROIT -- No, Kyle Funkhouser said. If he had a chance to do it all over again, he wouldn't change anything.\nA year ago, Funkhouser was in speculation for the Tigers' top pick in the 2015 MLB Draft before going to the Dodgers later in the first round. The 35th overall selection was the highest pick not to sign, returning for his senior season at the University of Louisville.\n\u2022 Tigers take heavy dose of pitchers until end of Day 2\nOne year later, the big right-hander is a Detroit draftee, picked in the fourth round on Friday. In terms of the Draft spot, his drop was the Tigers' gain after Detroit gave up its second- and third-round picks as compensation for free-agent signings.\nIn Funkhouser's eyes, he gained a lot out of it, too.\n\"I don't regret a single thing I did last year, coming back,\" Funkhouser said Friday as he prepared for the Cardinals' NCAA Super Regional this weekend. \"I wouldn't change a single thing about it. Coming back here, I had a great experience, a great time, got my degree.\"\nThe degree means more than one might expect for a highly touted pitcher. Funkhouser graduated from Louisville last month with a degree in marketing, which meant as much for himself as it did to his family back home in Chicago. His mom is an accountant, while his dad worked in the printing business. Long baseball career or not, he says having the degree is a relief.\n:: Complete 2016 Draft coverage ::\nFunkhouser also furthered his education about baseball, the game and the business.\n\"I learned a lot, just the game of baseball and kind of the game of life,\" Funkhouser said. \"You don't always have it as bad as you think, but you don't always have it as good as you think. I just feel like I grew up a lot. I just feel like I'm in a much better place mentally than I was last year.\"\nAfter spending his junior season in the spotlight, Funkhouser ceded the attention to a stellar crop of Cardinals juniors. Outfielder Corey Ray, reliever Zack Burdi and catcher Will Smith all went in the first round, followed by infielder Nick Solak.\nFunkhouser was more of a question mark. He had a 5.19 ERA in mid-April and a 4.54 ERA a month ago. He felt good, but the results didn't translate.\n\"Just kind of a hangover from last year,\" he said. \"I threw pretty well, just the stuff was down. I think more than anything it was a mental reset.\"\nHis pitching came together with back-to-back strong seven-inning performances and 18 total strikeouts. Funkhouser pitched out of the bullpen in the ACC Tournament for the first time in three years with two perfect innings. Then he tossed eight innings of one-run ball against Western Michigan in the NCAA Regional. His fastball crept back up, and his command became sharper.\nFunkhouser relaxed a bit, he admitted, once his coursework was over and his degree was complete. Now that his pro-ball direction is set, he said, it's a weight off his back.\n\"The waiting game's kind of over,\" he said. \"It's good to know what's going to happen.\"\nJason Beck has covered the Tigers for MLB.com since 2002. Read Beck's Blog, follow him on Twitter @beckjason and listen to his podcast.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hip Apartments in Adelaide, Australia, You'll Want to Call Home\nAdelaide has several hotels that offer home-from-home apartments | Courtesy of Adina Apartment Hotel Adelaide Treasury \/ Expedia\nJudy Cogan\nAustralia is a huge country, and taking in the best of its beaches, culture and bucket-list attractions in one trip can be a squeeze. That's why holidaymakers ofter overlook Adelaide in favour of Melbourne, Sydney and Cairns. However, the South Australian capital boasts sandy beaches, world-class wineries and a buzzing culinary scene worthy of your attention. It's also a handy place to base yourself before venturing into the otherworldly landscape of the Outback. Here, Culture Trip rounds up the best holiday apartments in Adelaide to do just that.\nAdina Apartment Hotel Adelaide Treasury\nBusinessLuxuryRomantic\nCourtesy of Adina Apartment Hotel Adelaide Treasury \/ Expedia\nThese roomy holiday apartments in Adelaide are contained within the city's former treasury building, now a heritage-listed property in Adelaide's bustling Central Business District (CBD), overlooking Victoria Square. The National Trust runs tours of the old Cabinet Room tunnelling under the building; it was once used for the secure transport of gold. This sense of history is palpable within the apartments, despite the modern comforts and designs that ensure your stay is a comfy one. Conveniently, the airport is a five-minute drive away.\nQuest Port Adelaide\nBusinessFamilyBeach\nCourtesy of Quest Port Adelaide \/ Expedia\nIn Port Adelaide, just 15km (9mi) northwest of the CBD, these hotel apartments are made for business travellers, providing a peaceful base to work from, with high-speed wifi and an in-room desk. You can choose from studios or one-bedroom apartments with kitchenettes, or if you're travelling with colleagues or friends, there are also two- or three-bedroom apartments. The Fishermen's Wharf Market and Birkenhead Bridge are close by, and there are even a few old-world pubs serving top-notch grub that can, in some cases, be charged to your hotel bill \u2013 check where this applies at reception.\nAdelaide Dress Circle Apartments \u2013 Kent Town\nCourtesy of Adelaide Dress Circle Apartments \u2013 Kent Town \/ Expedia\nAdelaide Dress Circle Apartments comprises 42 modern, fully equipped one- and two-bedroom units, all furnished to a high spec. There are some handy essentials provided on arrival, too, including tea and coffee, milk, sugar, washing powder and Aussie Natural Essence toiletries in the bathroom. Large groups are welcome, and extended stays (more than four weeks) are also available. Kent Town is an upcoming suburb, east of the city centre, near Rymill Park (home to Adelaide Fringe Festival) and the Adelaide Botanic Garden.\nSeawall Apartments\nFamilyBeach\nCourtesy of Seawall Apartments \/ Expedia\nUnavailable for the next 3 months\nThe sea-grazing suburb of Glenelg sits in a beautiful sandy bay, just a short tram ride from Adelaide city centre. Here, you'll find spotlessly clean pads, all stylish, contemporary and well looked after by a team of friendly staff. A quiet path will lead you directly to the beach, and the apartments are conveniently located for dolphin-spotting cruises from Holdfast Shores Marina. Enjoy leisurely days spent strolling between quirky organic cafes and seafront indie boutiques before dinner at one of the much-talked-about eateries along Jetty Road.\nNorth Adelaide Boutique Stays Accommodation\nFamilyBusiness\nCourtesy of North Adelaide Boutique Stays Accommodation \/ Expedia\nForget visiting a spa: at North Adelaide Boutique Stays Accommodation, your room is the spa. The spa studio has a queen bed, a deep luxurious spa bath with a wall-mounted TV above it, and an iPod docking station. The spa package includes sparkling wine and chocolates on request, and if you can't bring yourself to leave your self-pampering sanctuary, the property offers home-cooked meals you can warm up in your microwave.\nHume Serviced Apartments\nCourtesy of Hume Serviced Apartments \/ Expedia\nFrom Hume Serviced Apartments, you can hop on the free City Loop bus that stops just outside the door, taking you on a tour of Adelaide's top sights, shops and gardens. The apartments are fully equipped, and there's a supermarket just across the road to keep you stocked up on supplies. The leafy Hutt Street, with its village-like vibes and cute eateries, is also a short walk away, and Coffylosophy, a nearby cafe, is a sure bet for brunch specials such as smashed avo and halloumi, chilli scrambled eggs and hearty burritos.\nHello Adelaide Motel and Apartments\nCourtesy of Hello Adelaide Motel and Apartments \/ Expedia\nWhat this place lacks in frills, it makes up for with smiles. Affordable and comfortable, the Hello Adelaide Motel and Apartments sits in the tiny southeast suburb of Frewville. A major draw is its proximity to Frewville Foodland, an award-winning supermarket that will keep your cupboards generously stocked with organic produce during your stay; you'll also have tasting stations, a cheese bar and a coffee bar to enjoy. You can also rent an apartment long-term if you're paying an extended visit to Adelaide.\niStay Precinct Adelaide\nCourtesy of iStay Precinct Adelaide \/ Expedia\nIf you want to stay in the thick of it, you can't do better than iStay Precinct Adelaide \u2013 unless you took a room in Adelaide City Hall. This hotel sits on Morphett Street just south of Light Square and offers a deluxe range of open-plan one- and two-bedroom apartments, each with a full kitchen and a private balcony. The property also has an indoor heated pool, a spa and a steam room, all of which are welcome luxuries after a day spent exploring the streets of Chinatown and nearby Adelaide Zoo. The craft-beer and cocktail bars of the fairy-light-strewn Peel Street are also close by, giving you plenty to do \u2013 and drink \u2013 in the evening.\nBreakFree Adelaide\nCourtesy of BreakFree Adelaide \/ Expedia\nA stay at BreakFree puts you in the centre of Adelaide's West End \u2013 a lively quarter full of trendy laneway restaurants and rooftop bars showcasing the best of the city's nightlife. The smoke-free apartments are modern, unfussy and fully equipped for comfy self-catering stays. There are some handy extras, too, such as a babysitting service, a massage studio and a gym.\nMiller Apartments Adelaide\nCourtesy of Miller Apartments Adelaide \/ Expedia\nSitting in the city centre, this plush, award-winning property is a great spot to base yourself for exploring Adelaide and the South Australia region. The friendly staff will help you plan day trips out to the beautiful Barossa Valley wine region, the rugged wilderness of Kangaroo Island or the Adelaide Hills. The Executive Apartments are modern, clean and stylishly designed with Bose sound systems and other high-spec amenities and come with late checkout (noon). If you have a car, these Adelaide holiday apartments also offer parking.\nCourtesy of Franklin Apartments \/ Expedia\nThe best way to get to know a city is on foot, and from Franklin Apartments, it's never more than a short walk to some of Adelaide's top landmarks and attractions. Adelaide Central Market is a good place to start; it's been a thriving hub of food and culture since 1869. Rundle Mall, Adelaide Oval and Waymouth Street and its many restaurants are also just a few blocks away. And if you need any extra tips on things to do and places to eat, there will be staff on hand to point you in the right direction.\nMajestic Tynte Street Apartments\nCourtesy of Majestic Tynte Street Apartments \/ Expedia\nFor a comfy, hassle-free stay, make one of these self-contained studios or one-bedroom apartments your base in the buzzy North Adelaide area. Majestic Tynte Street Apartments comes with all the modern conveniences needed \u2013 including kitchenettes, free wifi, flat-screen TVs and sofa beds \u2013 and it's in a great spot for tracing Adelaide's history, too. The South Australian Museum and the Migration Museum are right around the corner, and the Fire Station Inn, which dates back to 1866 and is part of the North Adelaide Heritage Group, is next door.\nplacesToStay \u00b7 Adelaide","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Full Story>>\nGhostlight Theatre Ensemble recognized at the Shellie Awards - 08\/09\/18\nWe've had an amazing season, and look forward to our upcoming shows - Showcase 2019: From the Heart on February 2nd, Festival 10 - A Treasury of 10-Minute Plays on March 30th, and our mainstage production of Honk! in July, along with our Performing Arts Youth Academy show, which will also be performed in July.\nCongratulations to all of our nominees, and to the entire cast and crew for both shows.\nAbout Ghostlight Theatre Ensemble:\nGhostlight Theatre Ensemble is comprised of a seasoned team of performers, technicians and educators with extensive theatrical training and experience. Through its network of support developed with local government, businesses, schools and non-profit organizations, Ghostlight engages community members in its mission, encouraging local talent, backstage personnel and others to create live theater that may be enjoyed on both sides of the lights. Ghostlight Theatre Ensemble is excited to bring the gift of live theatre to East Contra Costa County, and to know that our efforts are keepin' the light on for our community. For more information, and to find out how you can support Ghostlight's efforts, visit www.ghostlightte.org.\nNOMINATIONS FOR A MUSICAL:\nActress in a Musical: Mikayla Thompson, Man of La Mancha\nActor in a Musical: Richard Howarter, Man of La Mancha\nSupporting Actress in a Musical: Hayley Finetti, Man of La Mancha\nSupporting Actor in a Musical: Chris Finetti, Man of La Mancha\nDirector of a Musical: Helen Moore Dixon, Man of La Mancha\nMusic Direction: Jeff Kumagi & Susan Stuart, Man of La Mancha\nChoreography: Kathryn Lopez, Man of La Mancha\nCostume Design of a Musical: Helen Moore Dixon, Man of La Mancha\nScenic Design of a Musical: Shara Main, Man of La Mancha\nLighting Design of a Musical: Shara Main, Man of La Mancha\nOutstanding Musical Production: Man of La Mancha\nNOMINATIONS FOR A PLAY:\nActress in a Play: Helen Moore Dixon, Calendar Girls (BTC)\nActor in a Play: Ron Craven, Calendar Girls (BTC)\nSupporting Actress in a Play: Lisa Luttinger, Calendar Girls (BTC)\nSupporting Actor in a Play: Alex Hoos, Calendar Girls (BTC)\nDirector of a Play: Kal Berns, Calendar Girls (BTC)\nCostume Design of a Play: Helen Moore Dixon, Calendar Girls (BTC)\nScenic Design of a Play: Kal Berns, Calendar Girls (BTC)\nOutstanding Play Production: Calendar Girls (BTC)\nIt was an exciting evening at last night's 40th Annual Shellie Awards, an event founded to recognize outstanding achievement in the performing arts in the Contra Costa \/ Diablo Valley region. Ghostlight Theatre Ensemble was particularly proud to to be honored with the first award of the night, with a win going to Chris Finetti for \"Supporting Actor in a Musical\" for his hilarious and heartwarming portrayal of Sancho in Ghostlight's production of Man of La Mancha. Then, Ghostlight's General Manager, Shara Main, was recognized for her outstanding contributions to the performing arts. The audience was treated to performances from the casts of a host of nominated productions. The cast of Man of La Mancha performed The Impossible Dream, and the cast of Calendar Girls performed an iconic scene from their play.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Personal DevelopmentBy Heart2Heart Leave a comment\nIntegrative Health New Evidence Shows The Active Ingredient In Turmeric May Help Symptoms Of IBD mbg Health Contributor By Jenny Fant mbg Health Contributor Jenny is a San Francisco-based mbg contributor, content designer, and climate & sustainability communications specialist. She is a graduate of the University of California Santa Barbara. An avid open-water swimmer, Jenny\u2026\nBeauty A Full Guide To Type 2C Hair: Tips & Product Recs mbg Assistant Beauty Editor By Hannah Frye mbg Assistant Beauty Editor Hannah Frye is the Assistant Beauty Editor at mindbodygreen. She has a B.S. in journalism and a minor in women's, gender, and queer studies from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.\u2026\nmbg Sustainability + Health Director By Emma Loewe mbg Sustainability + Health Director Emma Loewe is the Senior Sustainability Editor at mindbodygreen and the author of \"Return to Nature: The New Science of How Natural Landscapes Restore Us.\" Image by Julia Volk \/ Stocksy January 22, 2023 Our editors have independently chosen the products listed\u2026\nBy Kesiena Boom, M.S. mbg Contributor Kesiena Boom, M.S., is a sociologist and writer. She has a bachelor's degree in Sociology from the University of Manchester and a master's degree in Gender Studies from Lund University. Image by Diane Durongpisitkul \/ Stocksy January 22, 2023 Our editors have independently chosen the products listed on this\u2026\nmbg Assistant Beauty Editor By Hannah Frye mbg Assistant Beauty Editor Hannah Frye is the Assistant Beauty Editor at mindbodygreen. She has a B.S. in journalism and a minor in women's, gender, and queer studies from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Hannah has written across lifestyle sections including health, wellness, sustainability, personal development,\u2026\n21 Bare Minimum Expectations You Should Have In a Partnered Relationship\nUnfortunately, your relationship isn't evolving as wonderfully as you imagined. Instead of roses and romance, it's Netflix and nachos (of which we're big fans \u2014 just not all the time). If so, you may have landed a minimal-effort guy or gal \u2014 someone who doesn't go out of their way to enrich your relationship but\u2026\nWill He Know If You're \"The One?\" 17 Ways He Realizes He Wants To Put A Ring On It\nWe must admit \u2013 it's easy to tell when a woman has found the man of her dreams. She glows and sparkles; her face lights up when they are together. You can tell she's head over heels and can't help but gush about him whenever there's an opportunity. But what about the man who finds\u2026\n35 Powerful Symbols Of Strength And Courage In Women\nWomen have long been seen as the weaker sex. However, countless brave and powerful women have proven this wrong throughout history. From civil rights activists to competitive athletes, these brave and determined women have inspired us all with their resilience and courage in times of adversity. For example, women like Joan of Arc's battle cry\u2026\nWondering If You Should Text Him? Here Are 17 Rules To Help You Know When You Should And Shouldn't\nAre you stuck in a texting dilemma? Do you want to hit that 'send' button, but you're unsure if it's the right move? Texting can be tricky; what if you come off as too eager or, worse, needy? Well, have no fear because we've got all the answers you need. In this post, we'll cover\u2026\nDatingBy Heart2Heart Leave a comment\nLasting Love is the result of a powerful strategy. Ready to get started? Click here to learn the strategy (it's free) Have you ever said something to a guy you wish you could take back? Usually, this happens when you're STD. Nope, that doesn't stand for what you think it does. S = starving. T\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > News > Montage Health News\nMontage Health News\nGo to Page Page 1 2 3 of 3, showing pages 1-10 of 26\nCommunity Hospital rates the highest in Monterey 12\/21\/2015\nCommunity Hospital again received 4 stars, the most in Monterey County, from patients rating their hospital experiences. The rating system is from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and is aimed at making it easier for the public to make informed decisions when it comes to their healthcare.\nCommunity Hospital rates the highest in Monterey\nCommunity Hospital receives upgrade to AA- rating from Standard & Poor's 12\/8\/2015\nStandard and Poor's upgraded Community Hospital from an A+ to AA- rating on its public debt and an outlook of \"stable\" for the future.\nCommunity Hospital receives upgrade to AA- rating from Standard & Poor's\nCommunity Hospital \"Top Performer\" on six key quality measures 11\/25\/2015\nCommunity Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula has been recognized as a Top Performer on Key Quality Measures\u00ae by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of healthcare organizations in the United States.\nCommunity Hospital \"Top Performer\" on six key quality measures\nCommunity Hospital Gets 'A' for Patient Safety in Leapfrog's Fall 2015 Hospital Safety Score 11\/3\/2015\nCommunity Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula earned an A in this elite national ratings program, recognizing its strong commitment to patient safety.\nCommunity Hospital Gets 'A' for Patient Safety in Leapfrog's Fall 2015 Hospital Safety Score\nSpecial screening of WWII documentary for Veterans Day 10\/27\/2015\nAn award-winning documentary about efforts to give World War II veterans the trip of a lifetime is being shown in a free Veterans Day screening in Monterey.\nSpecial screening of WWII documentary for Veterans Day\nCommunity Hospital provides free health screenings and information at Healthfest 10\/21\/2015\nCommunity Hospital provides free health screenings and information at Healthfest\nHospice Giving Foundation awards $425,000 grant to Community Hospital's Hospice of the Central Coast 10\/2\/2015\nCommunity Hospital Foundation is proud to announce it has received a grant in the amount of $425,000 from Hospice Giving Foundation. Since its inception in 1997, Hospice Giving Foundation has granted more than $22 million to local programs dedicated to strengthening and improving palliative, hospice, and other end-of-life services.\nHospice Giving Foundation awards $425,000 grant to Community Hospital's Hospice of the Central Coast\nIt's back: Football, subs, and prostate screenings at 'guys' night out' 9\/28\/2015\nIt's back: Football, subs, and prostate screenings at 'guys' night out'\nAches, pains, or breaks in your joints or bones? Community Hospital's new Orthopedic Center can help 7\/16\/2015\nHelping community members lead more active, pain-free lives is the mission of Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula's newly formed Orthopedic Center.\nAches, pains, or breaks in your joints or bones? Community Hospital's new Orthopedic Center can help\nMoms, babies gather for global breastfeeding record-setting attempt 7\/15\/2015\nMoms and their babies are invited to Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula Saturday, August 1, 2015, for the Big Latch On, a worldwide effort to set a new record for simultaneous breastfeeding.\nMoms, babies gather for global breastfeeding record-setting attempt","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"8 Rated Books Book Reviews Old School Wednesdays\nOld School Wednesdays Dark Tower Reread: Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King\nOld School Wednesdays presents Thea's epic reread of The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. May we be well-met, fellow traveler. THIS MONTH ON THE DARK TOWER: Wolves of the Calla sees the return of the main storyline as Roland and his tet make their way through a provincial town in All-World\u2026 and face some child thieving wolves.\nOld School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smugglers feature. We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when both Ana and Thea were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and Shiny (and often over-hyped) books. What better way to snap out of a reading fugue than to take a mini-vacation into the past?\nLogo designed by the wonderful KMont\nInspired by the results of our March Old School Wednesdays Idea Poll, starting in March of 2015, Thea is rereading one of her favorite series' of all time: The Dark Tower by Stephen King. Every second Wednesday of the month, the next book in the Dark Tower cycle will be reviewed and discussed here. All readers \u2013 those new to the Dark Tower, and those who have traveled the path before \u2013 are welcome to join the ka tet!\nThe long, twisted road to the Dark Tower continues here, through an alternate version of The Magnificent Seven, in a small town called Calla Bryn Sturgis.\nThe Dark Tower Reviews:\nThe Gunslinger (Dark Tower 1)\nThe Drawing of the Three (Dark Tower 2)\nThe Waste Lands (Dark Tower 3)\nWizard and Glass (Dark Tower 4)\nTitle: Wolves of the Calla\nAuthor: Stephen King\nGenre: Fantasy, Horror, Western, Speculative Fiction\nPublisher: Plume (this revised edition)\nPublication date: First published in 1997 (this edition 2003)\nRoland Deschain and his \"ka-tet\" are bearing southeast through the forests of Mid-World, the almost timeless landscape that seems to stretch from the wreckage of civility that defined Roland's youth to the crimson chaos that seems the future's only promise. Readers of Stephen King's epic series know Roland well, or as well as this enigmatic hero can be known. They also know the companions who have been drawn to his quest for the Dark Tower: Eddie Dean and his wife, Susannah; Jake Chambers, the boy who has come twice through the doorway of death into Roland's world; and Oy, the Billy-Bumbler.In this long-awaited fifth novel in the saga, their path takes them to the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis, a tranquil valley community of farmers and ranchers on Mid-World's borderlands. Beyond the town, the rocky ground rises toward the hulking darkness of Thunderclap, the source of a terrible affliction that is slowly stealing the community's soul. One of the town's residents is Pere Callahan, a ruined priest who, like Susannah, Eddie, and Jake, passed through one of the portals that lead both into and out of Roland's world.\nAs Father Callahan tells the \"ka-tet\" the astonishing story of what happened following his shamed departure from Maine in 1977, his connection to the Dark Tower becomes clear, as does the danger facing a single red rose in a vacant lot off Second Avenue in midtown Manhattan. For Calla Bryn Sturgis, danger gathers in the east like a storm cloud. The Wolves of Thunderclap and their unspeakable depredation are coming. To resist them is to risk all, but these are odds the gunslingers are used to, and they can give the \"Calla-folken\" both courage and cunning. Their guns, however, will not be enough.\nStandalone or series: The Dark Tower Book 5\nHow did I get this book: Bought\nFormat (e- or p-): Print\nWARNING: Spoilers ahoy, baby.\n\"First come smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.\"\nRoland Deschain, of the line of Eld, is the world's last true gunslinger \u2013 but he has his ka tet of Jake Chambers, Eddie Dean, Susannah Dean, and Oy to travel the long dark road to the Dark Tower with him.\nThe tet's journey takes them from the alkali deserts of In World, to the seas and forests and ruined cities of Mid Word; from the Waste Lands outside of Lud, to the storybook town of Calla Bryn Sturgis. Together, they have stood against insane monorails, sorcerers and horrible images in glass \u2013 but the Calla holds secrets and truths more sinister than anything the tet has ever faced before.\nThe Calla is a quiet, peaceful town. It is one of many rural, rice-growing farm towns in the fertile valley that borders Thunderclap (that is, the frightening Mordor near the end of the world).\nFrom Thunderclap, come the Wolves.\nThe Wolves ride gray horses, and come once a generation. With their green cloaks, their silver masks, and their sneetches, the Wolves come a'riding and stealing children. Not just any children, but one of each pair of twins in the Calla \u2013 and twins are born in strong number amongst the people of Bryn Sturgis.\nThe Wolves come riding, and the villagers have no recourse but to let the strange riders take their children\u2026 and return them Roont.\nRoont, that is: their minds gone, reduced to that of small toddlers; their bones grown and stretching to enormous, giant proportions; their likelihood of survival slim (due to the pain of transformation), and lifespan cut down by decades.\nThis time, though, things will be different. When Andy, the Calla's messenger robot (who has developed a kind of personality) tells the good village people that the Wolves are aiming to ride once again, a few village men and women decide to stand against the invaders. Tian and his wife Zalia stand firm against the Wolves and rally the rest of the townspeople with the help of the Old Fella, Father Callahan. Truly, though, for the people and children of the Calla, the solution to their problem comes strolling in from the west.\nGunslingers.\n\"The storybook town has a fairy-tale problem,\" Eddie was continuing. \"And so the storybook people call on a band of movie-show heroes to save them from the fairy tale villains. I know it's real\u2013people are going to die, very likely, and the blood will be real, the screams will be real, the crying afterward will be real \u2013 but at the same time there's something about it that feels no more real than stage scenery.\"\nWolves of the Calla is what I like to think of as \"The Western\" in the Dark Tower cycle. Sure, there are other books in the series that are true westerns (The Gunslinger and Wizard and Glass immediately come to mind as fitting the bill), but no other book is as straightforward, even formulaic as this fifth installment. Wolves of the Calla is the novel that pays homage to John Sturgis's classic ensemble film, The Magnificent Seven.1 The Magnificent Seven isn't the first iteration of this simple tale of hired muscle, beseeched upon by poor villagers to defend their town \u2013 the tale that King borrows from Sturgis came from Kurosawa (Seven Samurai), and has been reimagined in several ways, from Pixar's A Bug's Tale, to the Dark Tower.\nOf all the retellings of this tale, however, Wolves of the Calla might just be my favorite adaptation. I know that earlier in my reread of these books, I said that The Waste Lands (book 3) was my favorite installment\u2026 but I might be wrong. Wolves of the Calla sure as hell gives that novel a run for its money.\nMister, we deal in lead.\nWhy? Because this book not only emulates and science fictionalizes my favorite western, but because it also means that we are entering the end game for Roland and his ka tet. Because it reintroduces a character who literally walks out of another of King's books. Because it shows us how much Roland is a slave to tradition, and showcases the type of peacekeepers and knights that Gunslingers once were during their glory days. Because of Doctor Doom, and Harry Potter, and Susannah and other women of the Calla throwing some sharp-as-hell plates, screaming RIZA, and protecting their young.\nWolves of the Calla is\u2026 well, it's incredible.\nI love the western setting and the familiar setup of the Calla \u2013 this is a story that, as I've said before, has been told a number of times, but King does it to perfection in this novel. We have the frightened villagers, the connivers and opportunists, as well as the ones who will stand true against the invaders who threaten their children. I love that the gunslingers need the help of the villagers to stop the Wolves, and that the folken who help are not the men of the town, but the women \u2013 those who have passed down over generations the skill to throw a plate do hit their mark, every time.\nHe gazed up at her seriously from the dust of the dooryard. He knew that however much she might love him, he would always love her more. And as always when he thought these things, the premonition came that ka was not their friend, that it would end badly between them. If it's so, then your job is to make it as good as it can be for as long as it can be. Will you do your job, Eddie?\nBut beyond the western setup and aesthetic, Wolves of the Calla has a LOT \u2013 and I mean A LOT \u2013 else going for it in the background. This is the book in which we learn about the ill-fated alcoholic priest who lost his way in 'Salem's Lot. It's the book that introduces us to the possibilities of more doors to open portals and parallel universes. It's the story where the stakes are raised \u2013 because Susannah is pregnant, and time runs short to save the tower \u2013 and the tet is tried to its limits because the end game is near. Susannah is one of my favorite characters in the whole series, and while I hate the secret keeping and on occasion the way the others treat her, she grapples with her schizophrenia and the monster-child she bears in this fifth book. (And it's pretty frightening stuff, what Susannah goes through \u2013 she has visions of eating for her \"chap\" and feeding his appetite, and it is not pretty.)\nNever had he seen a man who looked so lonely, so far from the run of human life with its fellowship and warmth. To see him here, in this place of fiesta (for it was a fiesta, no matter how desperate the business that lay behind it may be, only underlined the truth of him: he was the last. There was no other. If Eddie, Susannah, Jake, and Oy were of his line, they were only a distant shoot, far from the trunk. Afterthoughts, almost. Roland, however\u2026 Roland\u2026\nWolves is also a tale that tells us an awful lot more about Roland, too. As a leader, Roland seems almost infallible \u2013 he knows how to work the townspeople, how to dance the commala, how to speak and when to stop and listen. In Wolves of the Calla, readers (and Roland's tet) see the old gunslinger in the role of protector and guardian \u2013 giving aid and succor to those who need it. It also shows us just how old, how utterly alone Roland is.\nFinally, truly, I love Wolves of the Calla because it blends pop culture (like the Fantastic Four and Harry Potter) with the fantasy and horror any travelers have come to expect along the road to the tower. I love this book because it ups the stakes and the tension a hundredfold \u2013 we learn about Father Callahan, vampires, and the slick inky eye of Black 13 (the most horrible of the glasses of Maerlyn's Rainbow). We finally start to understand why New York and a certain lot are so important to the quest for the Dark Tower, and what the gunslingers must do to protect all the worlds. We also better understand the low men and creatures who stand against our tet in their quest \u2013 the villains, the men with crimson eyes, the vampires who suck on the blood and life force of the healthy.\nOh, and the twisted corporation who seems to sit at the rotten, evil heart of corruption destroying the tower and all the worlds. (Hint: they make robots, and NO robots are good robots in Stephen King's books.)\nIn sum: Wolves of the Calla is really, really awesome. It's the book after which everything changes; it's the book that starts the accelerated end to our tet's journey. It is also, if I'm recalling my Dark Tower correctly, the last really great book before all the sadness and handwaving begins.\nIt is, at this point in time, my favorite of all of the Dark Tower books. I love this fifth volume very dearly\u2026 and I'm a little afraid to continue onward because I know what awaits.\nBut continue I must \u2013 and I hope to see you join me next month.\nNext: Song of Susannah on August 12.\nThe name of the town itself, Calla Bryn Sturgis, borrows from both the film's director and its star gunslinger (Chris, played by Yul Brynner). \u21a9\nDark TowerDark Tower RereadDark Tower SeriesFantasyHorrorOld School WednesdaysSpeculative FictionStephen King\nNikki Egerton\nI know what's coming next :'(","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"in: Standards and interfaces\nA standard for signal interconnections, widely used in synthesizers and particularly modular synthesizers. The phone jack standard was, as the name suggests, originally developed for use in telephone switchboards. The male jack is cylindrical with a pointed tip and a grooved band near the tip; it has an insulator that separates the tip area from the barrel of the cylinder (referred to as the \"sleeve\"). In use, interconnection cords or patch cords always have male connectors at both ends, and the equipment being connected always has female connectors.\nThere are actually three sizes of standard phone jacks, but only two are used in synths. The largest size has the male plug with a barrel diameter of 1\/4\" (6.35 mm) and is always referred to as the \"quarter inch\" jack. This size is commonly used for audio inputs and outputs on synthesizers and other musical equipment, and is the standard size for patch interconnection jacks in the Dotcom and MOTM modular synth formats. The next smallest size has the male plug with a barrel diameter of 3.5mm (it is sometimes referred to incorrectly as the \"1\/8 inch\" jack). In synthesizers, this size is used mainly as the standard for patch interconnect in the Eurorack and Frac modular synth formats. (A third size with a male plug barrel diameter of 2.5mm is rarely seen in any musical gear.)\nPhone plugs have the advantages of being inexpensive and fairly reliable for analog signal connections, and quick to connect and disconnect. The 1\/4\" size is known for being very sturdy and tolerating a lot of abuse; the main disadvantage is that the jacks take up a lot of space on a panel. The 3.5mm size takes up less space but tolerates less abuse. A feature of all types is that the female jacks can be arranged so that they have internal normalled connections, which is a \"default\" connection that is in effect when no plug is inserted in the jack.\nPhone plugs and jacks may have two, three, or four separate contact surfaces. The two-contact type is known as \"TS\" (tip-sleeve) and is what is most commonly used with synths. The three-contact type is known as \"TRS\" (tip-ring-sleeve); it is commonly used in studios to support \"balanced line\" connections. Some synths have balanced-line outputs and have jacks that will provide a balanced line when a cord with a TRS plug is used, or a conventional unbalanced line when a cord with a TS plug is used. The four-contact \"TRRS\" type is seldom used in musical equipment.\nStandards and interfaces\nMore Electronic Music Wiki\n1 Goreshit","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"President in on-the-job-training, as North Korea threatens \"war\"\nRed China can target American cities\nCommunist China has America by the throat. North Korea is making new warlike noises. And the Obama White House seems clueless.\nOne obvious reason our enemies are stepping up pressure and possibly preparing for eventual attack on America is that our new president's missteps in his on-the-job training at the White House expose weakness in a dangerous world.\nWhat else can other nations believe when President Obama seems to think he can charm the Taliban? (What? Without his teleprompter at the negotiating table?) No wonder our adversaries see an Achilles' heel when the White House hints at scrapping our missile shield plans for Eastern Europe if only Vladimir Putin (no friend of the U.S.) can somehow persuade Iran (whose regime despises us) to back off its hostile nuclear ambitions.\nThe Asian threat\nAgain, the Chinese seem to have us right where they want us. In one hand, the People's Republic of China (PRC) holds a huge chunk of America's debt. With the other hand, she builds a military machine far beyond what would be required for her defensive needs. China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) sees the U.S. as \"the main enemy,\" believes war with the U.S. is \"inevitable,\" and is building a machine that can target U.S. cities.\nAnd let us not even imagine that China sees us as anything but a pushover, when the president appoints as Chairman of the National Intelligence Council Chas Freeman, who has said China's brutal crackdown on dissenters at Tiananmen Square in 1989 was \"overly-cautious.\" The fact that negative publicity led Freeman to withdraw offers little assurance. With Obama's mindset on foreign policy, future appointees to sensitive positions are likely to hold similar views, albeit without the paper trail. That Obama terrorist pal Bill Ayers or his wife Bernadine Dohrn didn't end up as Homeland Security Secretary may simply mean we barely dodged the bullet.\nOn top of that, North Korea's Stalinist government threatens a war if anyone attempts to shoot down what appears (as of this writing) to be the planned test-firing of a long range missile. The outlaw Red regime once threatened to reduce free South Korea to debris unless it stopped civic groups from dropping anti-Pyongyang leaflets offering moral support to the starving millions in the dictator Kim Jong-Il's slave state.\nWe have been warned\nSenator James Inhofe (R-Okla.) has long warned that China remains America's number one threat.\nGoing back many years and almost forgotten by the general public \u2014 but very much on the radar at the Pentagon and our Space agency \u2014 China blew up her own satellite, whose estimated (by specialists on Inhofe's staff) 150,000 pieces of debris in space are traveling at such a speed that if we put a shuttle up, one of those pieces could cut through our shuttle or the international space station.\nNot old hat\nEven after all these years, Senator Inhofe says, China knows that outer space debris reminds us that they can shoot down a U.S. satellite, as well.\n\"What happens in America if they shoot down our satellites?\" the senator continues, \"That's the power that China has.\" Not only to bring our civilian communications to a halt, but then to leave us in a highly compromised position if we need to defend ourselves.\n\"Every tank that we have, every piece of artillery that is fired from an airplane is tied into this system,\" the Oklahoman \u2014 a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee \u2014 tells this column in an interview. Considering the threats to America, \"you can argue that [this] is the worst possible time to have an Obama in the White House. Right now, the only thing [Obama is] cutting is the military.\"\nAll programs aimed at shielding America from her enemies \"are in jeopardy,\" the senator says.\nAlas, it gets worse\nChina can shoot down our communications satellite, our overhead imagery satellite. The Communist giant can take \"anything out of the sky,\" according to an Inhofe aide, who did not disagree when I suggested that an enemy \u2014 by blowing up a U.S. satellite \u2014 can take us back to the late 18th century. So much of our infrastructure and also our way of life is wired to satellite technology.\nWe take for granted that we can forecast the weather, but if we don't know if or when a hurricane is coming, we would be unable to prepare for that. And then consider that hospitals would not be able to communicate with each other. You can let your imagination run wild in positing the life-threatening scenarios here on earth in these United States.\nAirlines are able to use the Global Positioning System. Take out the GPS \u2014 which is now used to land aircraft, our ability commercially to fly air travelers. Potentially, \"you could run aircraft together or not be able to land at certain locations,\" according to an aide to Senator Inhofe. (The senator himself is licensed to fly commercial aircraft).\nMilitarily, they could \"shut our eyes\" and take out our ability to verify and monitor what it is going on. The Chinese are very secretive. If the U.S. suddenly is without ability \u2014 through satellite technology \u2014 to listen and watch, even a partial advantage would elude us.\nSo where does that leave us?\nChina has been stealing us blind through espionage at our weapons production and lab facilities. Her latest announced military budget is pegged by the Chinese themselves at $70 billion. That's the official figure. But Senator Inhofe's office estimates the actual figure to be about three times that, or more like $200 billion.\nHillary no help\nWith all that staring us in the face, America's top diplomat boldly confronts the Chinese with what amounts to a feather, and intones the diplomatic equivalent of, \"Now, you be nice boys, and don't dirty the air.\"\nNot a word about missing prisoners in China, possibly including Americans. No serious discussion about China's outright mandated butchering abortion practices (No \"pro-choice\" there, right?). Nothing said about the outright hostility inherent in China's security threats to the United States. No, what Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussed with the Chinese was the question of \"realigning\" our relationship on issues such as \"climate change,\" and energy.\nIf that is the Obama administration's idea of the actual extent of our problems with China, then we are in bigger trouble than we imagined. Climate change? That's our \"China problem?\"\nSenator Inhofe shakes his head is despair. \"The argument,\" he says, \"is that if you believe that man-made gasses...are causing global warming \u2014 if you really believe that in your heart, and some nice people do \u2014 then why could you say that we would [counteract it] unilaterally in the United States? Because all this will do is chase our jobs [to] where the energy was \u2014 and that would be China, or Mexico or elsewhere, where they have no concern about their [climate] initiatives [and were not pressured to sign the Kyoto global warming treaty].\"\nSo Hillary tried to convince the Chinese that they need to be worried about CO-2 emissions.\n\"China is laughing at her,\" the senator opines, \"because that's how they [the Chinese] get jobs right now. They're getting all the American jobs [as they are building] \u2014 the last I heard \u2014 a coal-fired plant every week.\"\nRight, and back here in the USA, we have a president who has threatened to shut down our own coal industry, and admits his \"cap and trade\" global warming legislation will cost consumers, as Americans anxiously eye the daily plunge of their retirement portfolios or nest eggs for a hoped-for \"worry-free\" retirement.\nThankful for crumbs of reality?\nAt least Secretary Clinton did not appear to be as naive on North Korea as she is on China. At a news conference with the Japanese foreign minister, she said North Korea's possible missile launch \"would be very unhelpful in moving our relationship forward.\"\nNormally we could cherish the small favor of Mrs. Clinton's brief awareness of danger \u2014 however guarded her expression. But then one remembers how her husband's administration greased the skids for this mess in the first place. The Clinton regime in the nineties, after meetings in Pyongyang, simply pulled a copout by suddenly endorsing (without any agreement on verification) North Korea's solemn word that it would not make dangerous nukes. That was \"unhelpful\" too.\nBut it fit the Clinton era of \"See no evil\"\nSenator Inhofe recalls that in the Clinton era, security badges were eliminated at the Department of Energy under Secretary Hazel O'Leary. And of course, Clinton campaign contributor Barnard Schwartz (of the Loral Corp.) got the green light \u2014 through a waiver granted by President Clinton \u2014 to improve the precision and reliability of Chinese satellites and nuclear missiles. Thus the then-president undermined 50 years of technological export restrictions. It is believed the Chinese are capable of targeting between 13 and 18 U.S. cities. No inside knowledge as to whether they actually have targeted the cities, but the capability is there.\nInhofe: on China's case for years\nSenator Inhofe in 2005 delivered a series of speeches on the floor of the Senate wherein he sounded the warning: \"Some experts believe that China's economic policy is a purposeful attempt to undermine the U.S. industrial base, and likewise the defense industrial base.\"\nDuring the post-Cold War 90s, Inhofe told me, the Clinton administration was content in essence to let the good times roll and sharply cut back on spending for the military. At the same time, the senator adds, the Chinese \"increased their military procurement 1000%.\"\nThe more things change, the more they...\nMore Obama Clintonian d\u00e9j\u00e0-vu : The president's choice for Commerce Secretary is former Washington State Governor Gary Locke. Governor Locke has been tied to the Chinagate scandal that steered money to the Clinton-Gore campaign in the nineties.\n\"No, he [Locke] should not be Commerce Secretary,\" Senator Inhofe replies to our question. In fact, the Oklahoma senator lacks confidence in any of the other Obama cabinet picks, with the exception of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.\nAgain \u2014 China the biggest threat\nSome people say the biggest threat comes from North Korea or Iran. While they are not to be underestimated \u2014 as we noted above with North Korea \u2014 \"I've always said it's China,\" Inhofe says, \"because they have the [military] capability and they have the money.\" Some enemies have one or the other. China has both.\nChina is also making inroads around the world \u2014 arming or in other ways assisting Iran in her nuclear ambitions, but also adding lesser-known rogue states such as Sudan (where China is the biggest arms supplier) and Zimbabwe, whose bloodthirsty dictator Mugabe is destroying his country. China has sold him $240 million in fighter jets. Zimbabwe does not need fighter jets. China is Zimbabwe's largest investor and second largest trading partner. Bolstering these bad guys is an act that is overtly hostile to the United States.\nOn-the-job training costly to the U.S.\nAs our green-behind-the-ears president repeats errors of the past in dealing with threats to America (and then adds a few of his own), he may be learning the hard way that there are some problems no president of the United States can hope to solve with a simple reading of the teleprompter.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Arctic Spirit\nSanta's Lapland\nBOOK ONLINE OR CALL01865 265200Mon-Fri 9am-5:30pm, Sat 10am-2pm\n> Experiences\n> See the Northern Lights\nFinnish Lapland - Swedish Lapland\nJourney deep within the Arctic Circle for a chance to see the Northern Lights\nOne to tick off your bucket list\nWitness the captivating Northern Lights on a holiday deep within the magnificent Arctic Circle\nOne of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, the Northern Lights are a stunning display of swirling, other-worldly lights. It's no surprise seeing this spectacle features high on many travellers' wish-lists: the incredible hues of blues and greens dancing across the night sky certainly make for a memorable holiday. Most people head for Finnish or Swedish Lapland, steering clear of large towns or cities (the more light pollution there is, the harder it is to see them). Essentially, the closer you are to the magnetic north pole, the more chance you have of the lights appearing.\nTransun, along with our local experts, have selected destinations in the region's far north with little or no light pollution to ensure your chances of spotting the Aurora Borealis are high. Sightings are never guaranteed, however, you can time your trip to coincide with monthly cycles and clear weather periods. We have years of experience arranging holidays to see the Northern Lights and use our expert knowledge to book a tour to suit you.\nOur 3 or 4-night Northern Lights tour is incredibly popular, but we also offer 3 or 4-night Festive Lights tours in December or week-long Aurora Hunter holidays from January to March.\nNorthern Lights: The science\nA natural phenomenon that has left us mere mortals stunned for centuries, the Northern Lights are a wonder both to look at and understand. Here's the science behind them.\nThe colours swaying across the sky are caused by solar particles colliding with gases in the Earth's atmosphere. The sun's flares generate these particles. The result is a mish-mash of red, green, yellow and purple shades dancing in the night. Pale green and pink are the most commonly seen. Different types of gas particles colliding cause the range of colours.\nFor example, the pale green colours are caused by oxygen molecules around 60 miles above the Earth's surface. All-red auroras, however, are a result of high-altitude oxygen floating up to 200 miles high.\nActivity peaks every 11 years (often referred to as the solar maximum), with the next peak forecast for 2024. However, they are visible annually above the Arctic Circle from November through to March.\nAn ideal location to see the Northern Lights\nDr Stuart Clark explains why\nSeeing the Northern Lights from the magnificent Arctic landscape of Karesuando only ampifies their beauty. this village is just home to 300 people and is found in Lapland, straddling the border between Finland and Sweden. 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{"text":"Home \u00bb News \u00bb Taiwanese artist Wu Chang-Jung on raising pigs for the art market \u2013 K11 video interview\nTaiwanese artist Wu Chang-Jung on raising pigs for the art market \u2013 K11 video interview\nby joseph on Jul 4, 2014 News | Comments Off on Taiwanese artist Wu Chang-Jung on raising pigs for the art market \u2013 K11 video interview\nLearn how a crash course in animal husbandry inspired Taiwanese new media artist Wu Chang-Jung to discuss themes of life and the world economy in her art.\nIn a short video interview produced by Hong Kong-based K11 Art Foundation, Wu discusses the influences behind the first documentary she ever filmed, Documentary 1 \u2013 Pig Five Flower.\nThis article was written by a participant in our art writing diploma programme. Do you want to write for Art Radar, too? Click here to find out more about our Diploma in Art Journalism & Writing.\nIn 2008, a dramatic increase in the price of raw ingredients, a result of the Asian economic crisis, forced Wu Chang-Jung's parents to rethink their family feed business. Their solution was to raise their own pigs to eat the feed they could no longer sell. Wu moved back to the farm and, with no other help, she and her parents began raising 2000 piglets.\nOver time, she began to notice a relationship between her parent's happiness and healthy pigs. How could she help them to recognise which pigs in the herd were healthy? Wu noticed that the healthy pigs moved around their feeder in a way that reminded her of gazing through a kaleidoscope. As she states in the video interview, inspired by this perspective, the artist decided \"to record the various activities that the pigs engaged in and turn this into a moving kaleidoscope documentary.\" Sick pigs could then be easily recognised and, once identified, they would be covered in a plastic sheet to preserve their body heat. The pig's level of health was then determined largely by listening to the animal's breathing and bodily sounds.\nEast Lobby, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. Wu Chang-Jung, 'Documentary XIII \u2013 The Kaleidoscopig Farm Cuckoo Clock', 2012, video installation, colour, sound. Image by Art Radar.\nCity chic disguise\nIn the video interview, Wu's cool, global city style makes it difficult to imagine that the same person cleaned and fed two thousand pigs in a farm in Taiwan. As she tells this story of family survival, the camera cuts from her artwork to her elegant hands gesturing and flipping through a magazine. It follows her as she walks through the studios of the K11 Art Foundation in Hong Kong.\nIn an artist statement on a wiki managed by AVAT (Association of the Visual Arts in Taiwan), Wu provides some insight into the transformation. \"As a cost-cutting measure, we laid off all of the employees at the pig farm and my mom and dad took on the work of caring for the two thousand pigs on the farm,\" she explains. \"I took off my nail extensions, put on my Wellington boots and pitched in to help out at the pigsty.\"\nFrom pigsty to metropolis\nToday, Wu has traded the farm for Taiwan's capital city, Taipei, where she lives and works. Her most recent solo exhibition, \"Current Sounds Uncovered\" at Project Fulfill Art Space in Taiwan in December 2013, was an audio visual installation that also sprang from her farm experience.\nIn \"Current Sounds Uncovered\", Wu has, according to the gallery statement on the artwork, attempted to extract \"the truth from sounds.\" She used the acute listening skills needed to monitor the breathing and digestion of a sick pig to eavesdrop on the lives of Taiwan's city dwellers. As noted in the gallery statement, \"Each audio-visual work stems from the experience of listening to and contemplating on life, world economy, the real and the imaginary as well as the intangible and indescribable relationships between people.\"\nWu Chang-Jung, 'Lost Taipei', 2013, single-channel video, colour, sound, 4 min. 30 sec., in \"Sounds Uncovered\", Project Fulfill Art Space. Image courtesy the artist and Project Fulfill Art Space.\nMore on Wu Chang-Jung\nWu graduated as an ink artist from the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts, Tainan National University of the Arts in 2008, after which she worked with her parents on their pig farm. Since 2009, Wu has held six solo exhibitions and shown in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, United States, Germany, Britain and Japan. She has exhibited her new media documentaries as well as traditional Chinese ink and oil paintings, sound and video art, and photography.\nBarbara Eadie\nRelated Topics: Taiwanese artists, new media art, art about animals\nVideo art on the rise \u2013 Moving Image announces Istanbul edition \u2013 May 2014 \u2013 Moving Image Istanbul is the first in a series of new emerging market editions for the video art fair Moving Image\nTaiwan's 'Schizophrenia' goes global \u2013 in pictures \u2013 March 2014 \u2013 an exhibition of young and emerging new media artists from Taiwan tours the world\nAsia market perfect for digital art? [s]edition takes on Chinese artists \u2013 December 2012 \u2013 [s]edition, a revolutionary platform selling digital art, now represents Chinese artists\nNew Zealand artist Kerry Ann Lee digs into Taiwan through image and ruin \u2013 July 2012 \u2013 in her Taipei Artist Village residency, Lee questions how images can serve as an entry point into local culture\nChin Chih Yang's roving projections challenge Art Taipei audience: video and interview \u2013 September 2011 \u2013 Taiwan-born, US-based artist Chin Chih Yang was invited by the ICFAC to perform his interactive work Broken Mind at Art Taipei 2011\nSubscribe to Art Radar for more on Taiwanese contemporary art","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"April 1, 2020 March 29, 2020 Cypress Lake Wire\nCecilia Man Awards $135,000 in Scholarships Over 20 Years\nMarina Prestenbach\n@tmarinalee\nJoseph Ivy Jarreau could only afford to attend college by working after high school and paying for his tuition himself. Now, he's worked to provide $135,000 in scholarships to 148 Cecilia Jr. High students.\nJarreau, 72, described his poor childhood in Glynn, Louisiana. Jarreau explained that his family were sharecroppers and understood his family would not be able to afford college. Instead, he worked after high school to save for school himself.\nJarreau took his savings and attended the University of Southwester Louisiana, now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. At the university, he and his wife earned their degrees in education, which they used after moving to Cecilia.\nEventually, Jarreau became principal of Cecilia Jr. High. As principal, he wanted to reward hard working students.\nIn 2000, Jarreau and former Cecilia Jr. High Principal Cleveland Dupuis organized the Cecilia Scholarship Fund Association and awarded the Mona Halphen Dupuis Memorial Scholarship. In 2007, Dupuis died, and the scholarship was renamed the Cleveland and Mona Halpen Dupuis Memorial Scholarship.\n\"Our goal was to provide a scholarship to a Cecilia Jr. High eighth grader that could carry over to where he or she could get a cash scholarship upon graduating high school,\" said Jarreau.\nTheir first recipient was opera star Andr\u00e9 Courville, who appeared at Carnegie Hall. Courville, now 34, still remembers how he used his scholarship award.\n\"I used that money to buy myself a laptop for college. Of course, it was a big help. College is expensive. It's encouraging to win an award like that in eighth grade because I think it motivates people to do well,\" said Courville.\nBut the scholarship isn't the only motivation for Cecilia students, Jarreau also serves as motivation for the students.\n\"Mr. Jarreau is a very inspiring person. And his motto in junior high I remember was 'If it is to be, it is up to me.' He encouraged and empowered everybody to really be in charge of their own future and their own destiny and their own success,\" said Courville.\nAs the years have passed, the number of students awarded the scholarship has increased tremendously. Since 2000, the Cecilia Scholarship Fund Association has awarded 148 scholarships totaling $135,000.\nSince the scholarship's first recipient roamed its halls, Cecilia Jr. High grew by a little over 100 students. Jarreau doesn't believe the student growth will ever outweigh the scholarship's abilities.\n\"It really doesn't concern me that much. As long as the parents and community are active in raising money, we could award 25 scholarships in one year. Last year we did 12, the year before 13. As we generate more funds, we can give more scholarships,\" said Jarreau.\nAccording to Jarreau, more scholarships are a possibility in the future.\nCurrent Cecilia Jr. High Principal Charee Theriot explained the population of students' growth in Cecilia, \"In the nine years that I have been here, we have added over 100 students.\" But according to Theriot, as the population has increased some, the number of students qualifying for the scholarship \"has been pretty consistent.\"\nEligible students must have at least a 3.67 grade-point average, receive a teacher recommendation, and complete community service.\nTheriot said, \"The children who qualify for the scholarship are the top of the top.\"\nAlthough the scholarship creates competition amongst the students, Theriot believes that it is purely beneficial.\n\"For them it's something they want to achieve. They want their name on that wall outside of my office. When we do present the scholarship at the end of the year, the children are generally excited for each other, regardless of who's on top,\" said Theriot.\nThough now retired, Jarreau is still known as a significant role model in his community and serves as a prime example of the rewards that dedication and hard work can give. Even with his success, Jarreau remains the man he always was.\n\"When I was five or 6 years old, I was picking pecans to make a little extra money and last year I picked 1900 pounds of pecans. I haven't quit,\" Jarreau said as he laughed. \"I've been picking pecans for almost seventy years.\"\n\"Just as I continue to pick pecans, I will also continue to raise funds to offer scholarships to CJH students,\" said Jarreau.\nCecilia Jr. High School\nJoseph Ivy Jarreau\nPrevious Updated Lafayette Animal Shelter Set to Open in 2021\nNext Lafayette Based Company Hampr Challenges Traditional Laundry Methods\nMelissa Arnaud says:\nThank you so much for honoring my father with this article! He has taught us so many life lessons and continues to share his love of education with the students of Cecilia.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Medical clearance of the psychiatric patient in the emergency department\nBruce David Janiak, Suzanne Atteberry\nEmergency Medicine and Hospitalist Services\nBackground: As part of the emergency department (ED) evaluation of patients with psychiatric complaints, emergency physicians are often asked to perform screening laboratory tests prior to admitting psychiatric patients, the value of which is questionable. Study Objective: To determine if routine screening laboratory studies performed in the ED on patients with a psychiatric chief complaint would alter ED medical clearance (evaluation, management or disposition) of such patients. Methods: In this retrospective chart review, the patient charts were reviewed for triage notes, history and physical examination, laboratory study results, and patient disposition. The study investigators subjectively determined if any of the laboratory abnormalities identified after admission would have changed ED management or disposition of the patient had they been identified in the ED. Results: Subjects were 519 consecutive adult patients (18 years of age and older) admitted to the Medical College of Georgia's inpatient psychiatric ward through the ED. There were 502 patients who met inclusion criteria, and 50 of them had completely normal laboratory studies. Laboratory studies were performed in the ED for 148 patients. The most common abnormalities identified were positive urine drug screen (n = 221), anemia (n = 136), and hyperglycemia (n = 139). There was one case (0.19%) identified in which an abnormal laboratory value would have changed ED management or disposition of the patient had it been found during the patient's ED visit. Conclusions: Patients presenting to the ED with a psychiatric chief complaint can be medically cleared for admission to a psychiatric facility by qualified emergency physicians using an appropriate history and physical examination. There is no need for routine medical screening laboratory tests.\nJournal of Emergency Medicine\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jemermed.2009.10.026\nSurgical Clearance\nEmergency department (ED)\nPsychiatric patients\nJaniak, B. D., & Atteberry, S. (2012). Medical clearance of the psychiatric patient in the emergency department. Journal of Emergency Medicine, 43(5), 866-870. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jemermed.2009.10.026\nMedical clearance of the psychiatric patient in the emergency department. \/ Janiak, Bruce David; Atteberry, Suzanne.\nIn: Journal of Emergency Medicine, Vol. 43, No. 5, 01.11.2012, p. 866-870.\nJaniak, BD & Atteberry, S 2012, 'Medical clearance of the psychiatric patient in the emergency department', Journal of Emergency Medicine, vol. 43, no. 5, pp. 866-870. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jemermed.2009.10.026\nJaniak BD, Atteberry S. Medical clearance of the psychiatric patient in the emergency department. Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2012 Nov 1;43(5):866-870. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jemermed.2009.10.026\nJaniak, Bruce David ; Atteberry, Suzanne. \/ Medical clearance of the psychiatric patient in the emergency department. In: Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2012 ; Vol. 43, No. 5. pp. 866-870.\n@article{6e605def5b0f4690a02ecdc19bde5068,\ntitle = \"Medical clearance of the psychiatric patient in the emergency department\",\nabstract = \"Background: As part of the emergency department (ED) evaluation of patients with psychiatric complaints, emergency physicians are often asked to perform screening laboratory tests prior to admitting psychiatric patients, the value of which is questionable. Study Objective: To determine if routine screening laboratory studies performed in the ED on patients with a psychiatric chief complaint would alter ED medical clearance (evaluation, management or disposition) of such patients. Methods: In this retrospective chart review, the patient charts were reviewed for triage notes, history and physical examination, laboratory study results, and patient disposition. The study investigators subjectively determined if any of the laboratory abnormalities identified after admission would have changed ED management or disposition of the patient had they been identified in the ED. Results: Subjects were 519 consecutive adult patients (18 years of age and older) admitted to the Medical College of Georgia's inpatient psychiatric ward through the ED. There were 502 patients who met inclusion criteria, and 50 of them had completely normal laboratory studies. Laboratory studies were performed in the ED for 148 patients. The most common abnormalities identified were positive urine drug screen (n = 221), anemia (n = 136), and hyperglycemia (n = 139). There was one case (0.19{\\%}) identified in which an abnormal laboratory value would have changed ED management or disposition of the patient had it been found during the patient's ED visit. Conclusions: Patients presenting to the ED with a psychiatric chief complaint can be medically cleared for admission to a psychiatric facility by qualified emergency physicians using an appropriate history and physical examination. There is no need for routine medical screening laboratory tests.\",\nkeywords = \"Emergency department (ED), Medical clearance, Psychiatric patients, Screening tests\",\nauthor = \"Janiak, {Bruce David} and Suzanne Atteberry\",\ndoi = \"10.1016\/j.jemermed.2009.10.026\",\njournal = \"Journal of Emergency Medicine\",\nT1 - Medical clearance of the psychiatric patient in the emergency department\nAU - Janiak, Bruce David\nAU - Atteberry, Suzanne\nN2 - Background: As part of the emergency department (ED) evaluation of patients with psychiatric complaints, emergency physicians are often asked to perform screening laboratory tests prior to admitting psychiatric patients, the value of which is questionable. Study Objective: To determine if routine screening laboratory studies performed in the ED on patients with a psychiatric chief complaint would alter ED medical clearance (evaluation, management or disposition) of such patients. Methods: In this retrospective chart review, the patient charts were reviewed for triage notes, history and physical examination, laboratory study results, and patient disposition. The study investigators subjectively determined if any of the laboratory abnormalities identified after admission would have changed ED management or disposition of the patient had they been identified in the ED. Results: Subjects were 519 consecutive adult patients (18 years of age and older) admitted to the Medical College of Georgia's inpatient psychiatric ward through the ED. There were 502 patients who met inclusion criteria, and 50 of them had completely normal laboratory studies. Laboratory studies were performed in the ED for 148 patients. The most common abnormalities identified were positive urine drug screen (n = 221), anemia (n = 136), and hyperglycemia (n = 139). There was one case (0.19%) identified in which an abnormal laboratory value would have changed ED management or disposition of the patient had it been found during the patient's ED visit. Conclusions: Patients presenting to the ED with a psychiatric chief complaint can be medically cleared for admission to a psychiatric facility by qualified emergency physicians using an appropriate history and physical examination. There is no need for routine medical screening laboratory tests.\nAB - Background: As part of the emergency department (ED) evaluation of patients with psychiatric complaints, emergency physicians are often asked to perform screening laboratory tests prior to admitting psychiatric patients, the value of which is questionable. Study Objective: To determine if routine screening laboratory studies performed in the ED on patients with a psychiatric chief complaint would alter ED medical clearance (evaluation, management or disposition) of such patients. Methods: In this retrospective chart review, the patient charts were reviewed for triage notes, history and physical examination, laboratory study results, and patient disposition. The study investigators subjectively determined if any of the laboratory abnormalities identified after admission would have changed ED management or disposition of the patient had they been identified in the ED. Results: Subjects were 519 consecutive adult patients (18 years of age and older) admitted to the Medical College of Georgia's inpatient psychiatric ward through the ED. There were 502 patients who met inclusion criteria, and 50 of them had completely normal laboratory studies. Laboratory studies were performed in the ED for 148 patients. The most common abnormalities identified were positive urine drug screen (n = 221), anemia (n = 136), and hyperglycemia (n = 139). There was one case (0.19%) identified in which an abnormal laboratory value would have changed ED management or disposition of the patient had it been found during the patient's ED visit. Conclusions: Patients presenting to the ED with a psychiatric chief complaint can be medically cleared for admission to a psychiatric facility by qualified emergency physicians using an appropriate history and physical examination. There is no need for routine medical screening laboratory tests.\nKW - Emergency department (ED)\nKW - Medical clearance\nKW - Psychiatric patients\nKW - Screening tests\nU2 - 10.1016\/j.jemermed.2009.10.026\nDO - 10.1016\/j.jemermed.2009.10.026\nJO - Journal of Emergency Medicine\nJF - Journal of Emergency Medicine\n10.1016\/j.jemermed.2009.10.026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jerome Boger & Crew\nThese are penalties called by referee crews when Jerome Boger was the head official.\nView Jerome Boger Penalties By:\nPenalties By Week\nNote: Offsetting and Declined penalties are ignored, except where specified.\nPenalty Yards\nHome Count\nHome Yards\nAway Count\nAway Yards\n09\/07\/14 1 Houston Washington 13 115 6 45 7 70 3 2\n09\/14\/14 2 Carolina Detroit 9 78 4 45 5 33 2 2\n09\/22\/14 3 N.Y. Jets Chicago 15 173 6 78 9 95 0 0\n09\/28\/14 4 Indianapolis Tennessee 17 156 11 88 6 68 4 0\n10\/05\/14 5 New England Cincinnati 16 151 12 114 4 37 1 0\n10\/12\/14 6 Tampa Bay Baltimore 13 113 5 43 8 70 1 0\n10\/19\/14 7 Dallas N.Y. Giants 12 86 6 46 6 40 2 0\n10\/26\/14 8 Jacksonville Miami 13 89 6 37 7 52 4 2\n11\/02\/14 9 San Francisco St. Louis 18 127 9 44 9 83 2 2\n11\/16\/14 11 Arizona Detroit 13 115 4 35 9 80 3 0\n11\/23\/14 12 Philadelphia Tennessee 16 125 9 69 7 56 2 2\n11\/30\/14 13 Buffalo Cleveland 16 121 6 45 10 76 5 0\n12\/07\/14 14 Minnesota N.Y. Jets 10 110 6 70 4 40 5 0\n12\/14\/14 15 Kansas City Oakland 21 159 11 84 10 75 3 2\n12\/28\/14 17 Washington Dallas 16 149 9 101 7 48 0 0\nTotals 218 1867 110 944 108 923 37 12","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A sandwiched denitrifying biocathode in a microbial fuel cell for electricity generation and waste minimization\nA. Al-Mamun*, O. Lefebvre, M. S. Baawain, H. Y. Ng\nCivil and Architectural Engineering\nA denitrifying biocathode in a microbial fuel cell was developed to investigate the replacement of the costly Pt-coated abiotic cathodes for electricity generation. The denitrifying biocathode was sandwiched between the dual-anode systems. The study investigated the performance for simultaneous treatment of wastewater on the anode, biological denitrification on the cathode and the potential recovery of electrical energy. Autotrophic biofilms performed denitrification on the cathode using supplied electrons by the biodegradation of organics on the anode. Graphite granules were used as electrodes for biofilm attachment, and nafion membranes were used as separators between electrodes. The system achieved a volumetric power of 7 \u00b1 0.4 W m\u22123 net cathodic compartment (NCC) with the simultaneous removal of 229.5 \u00b1 18 mg L\u22121 COD on anode and 88.9 g m\u22123 NCC day\u22121 nitrogen on cathode, respectively. The columbic efficiency for cathodic and anodic reactions was 98.9 \u00b1 0.57 and 23.54 \u00b1 0.87 %, respectively. This is a combined study for domestic wastewater treatment and biological denitrification in a compact MFC reactor. Further optimization of the system is desired to improve its performance and applicability.\nInternational Journal of Environmental Science and Technology\nAutotrophic biofilms\nBiocathode\nBioelectricity production\nBiological denitrification\nMicrobial electrochemistry\nMicrobial fuel cell\nAgricultural and Biological Sciences(all)\nDive into the research topics of 'A sandwiched denitrifying biocathode in a microbial fuel cell for electricity generation and waste minimization'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.\nAnodic Reaction Engineering 100%\nCathodic Reaction Engineering 100%\nGraphite Earth and Planetary Sciences 100%\nNitrogen Chemical Engineering 100%\nAl-Mamun, A., Lefebvre, O., Baawain, M. S., & Ng, H. Y. (2016). A sandwiched denitrifying biocathode in a microbial fuel cell for electricity generation and waste minimization. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 13(4), 1055-1064. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13762-016-0943-1\nA sandwiched denitrifying biocathode in a microbial fuel cell for electricity generation and waste minimization. \/ Al-Mamun, A.; Lefebvre, O.; Baawain, M. S. et al.\nIn: International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 13, No. 4, 01.04.2016, p. 1055-1064.\nAl-Mamun, A, Lefebvre, O, Baawain, MS & Ng, HY 2016, 'A sandwiched denitrifying biocathode in a microbial fuel cell for electricity generation and waste minimization', International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 1055-1064. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13762-016-0943-1\nAl-Mamun A, Lefebvre O, Baawain MS, Ng HY. A sandwiched denitrifying biocathode in a microbial fuel cell for electricity generation and waste minimization. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology. 2016 Apr 1;13(4):1055-1064. doi: 10.1007\/s13762-016-0943-1\nAl-Mamun, A. ; Lefebvre, O. ; Baawain, M. S. et al. \/ A sandwiched denitrifying biocathode in a microbial fuel cell for electricity generation and waste minimization. In: International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology. 2016 ; Vol. 13, No. 4. pp. 1055-1064.\n@article{e8fa173eadfe4516a912af54a89daaf0,\ntitle = \"A sandwiched denitrifying biocathode in a microbial fuel cell for electricity generation and waste minimization\",\nabstract = \"A denitrifying biocathode in a microbial fuel cell was developed to investigate the replacement of the costly Pt-coated abiotic cathodes for electricity generation. The denitrifying biocathode was sandwiched between the dual-anode systems. The study investigated the performance for simultaneous treatment of wastewater on the anode, biological denitrification on the cathode and the potential recovery of electrical energy. Autotrophic biofilms performed denitrification on the cathode using supplied electrons by the biodegradation of organics on the anode. Graphite granules were used as electrodes for biofilm attachment, and nafion membranes were used as separators between electrodes. The system achieved a volumetric power of 7 \u00b1 0.4 W m\u22123 net cathodic compartment (NCC) with the simultaneous removal of 229.5 \u00b1 18 mg L\u22121 COD on anode and 88.9 g m\u22123 NCC day\u22121 nitrogen on cathode, respectively. The columbic efficiency for cathodic and anodic reactions was 98.9 \u00b1 0.57 and 23.54 \u00b1 0.87 %, respectively. This is a combined study for domestic wastewater treatment and biological denitrification in a compact MFC reactor. Further optimization of the system is desired to improve its performance and applicability.\",\nkeywords = \"Autotrophic biofilms, Biocathode, Bioelectricity production, Biological denitrification, Microbial electrochemistry, Microbial fuel cell\",\nauthor = \"A. Al-Mamun and O. Lefebvre and Baawain, {M. S.} and Ng, {H. Y.}\",\njournal = \"International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology\",\npublisher = \"CEERS\",\nT1 - A sandwiched denitrifying biocathode in a microbial fuel cell for electricity generation and waste minimization\nAU - Al-Mamun, A.\nAU - Lefebvre, O.\nAU - Baawain, M. S.\nAU - Ng, H. Y.\nN2 - A denitrifying biocathode in a microbial fuel cell was developed to investigate the replacement of the costly Pt-coated abiotic cathodes for electricity generation. The denitrifying biocathode was sandwiched between the dual-anode systems. The study investigated the performance for simultaneous treatment of wastewater on the anode, biological denitrification on the cathode and the potential recovery of electrical energy. Autotrophic biofilms performed denitrification on the cathode using supplied electrons by the biodegradation of organics on the anode. Graphite granules were used as electrodes for biofilm attachment, and nafion membranes were used as separators between electrodes. The system achieved a volumetric power of 7 \u00b1 0.4 W m\u22123 net cathodic compartment (NCC) with the simultaneous removal of 229.5 \u00b1 18 mg L\u22121 COD on anode and 88.9 g m\u22123 NCC day\u22121 nitrogen on cathode, respectively. The columbic efficiency for cathodic and anodic reactions was 98.9 \u00b1 0.57 and 23.54 \u00b1 0.87 %, respectively. This is a combined study for domestic wastewater treatment and biological denitrification in a compact MFC reactor. Further optimization of the system is desired to improve its performance and applicability.\nAB - A denitrifying biocathode in a microbial fuel cell was developed to investigate the replacement of the costly Pt-coated abiotic cathodes for electricity generation. The denitrifying biocathode was sandwiched between the dual-anode systems. The study investigated the performance for simultaneous treatment of wastewater on the anode, biological denitrification on the cathode and the potential recovery of electrical energy. Autotrophic biofilms performed denitrification on the cathode using supplied electrons by the biodegradation of organics on the anode. Graphite granules were used as electrodes for biofilm attachment, and nafion membranes were used as separators between electrodes. The system achieved a volumetric power of 7 \u00b1 0.4 W m\u22123 net cathodic compartment (NCC) with the simultaneous removal of 229.5 \u00b1 18 mg L\u22121 COD on anode and 88.9 g m\u22123 NCC day\u22121 nitrogen on cathode, respectively. The columbic efficiency for cathodic and anodic reactions was 98.9 \u00b1 0.57 and 23.54 \u00b1 0.87 %, respectively. This is a combined study for domestic wastewater treatment and biological denitrification in a compact MFC reactor. Further optimization of the system is desired to improve its performance and applicability.\nKW - Autotrophic biofilms\nKW - Biocathode\nKW - Bioelectricity production\nKW - Biological denitrification\nKW - Microbial electrochemistry\nKW - Microbial fuel cell\nJO - International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology\nJF - International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Workstyle Co-working Suites Launch at 3030 Warrenville Road\nWorkstyle Flexible Spaces, an entity of Boxer Property, is excited to announce the 4th addition to their signature Workstyle suites to Chicago.\nLisle Executive Center is conveniently located at 3030 Warrenville Road Suite 450, near the four-way interchange of I-88 and Naperville Road within the East\/West Tollway submarket.\nThe newly constructed flexible and collaborative space brings 10,000 sq. ft. of Workstyle's signature private offices as well as attractive common areas including huddle rooms, lounges, coffee bars, and modern tenant conference facilities with contemporary high-end finishes. Customers can opt for furnished or unfurnished offices all of which include complimentary Wi-Fi as one of the many amenities provided to Workstyle customers.\nSince covid-19, there is a greater emphasis on health, hygiene, and a positive work-life balance, with the demand for flexible offices continuing to surge, playing a crucial role in the gradual 'new normal'. Shared office space has not only gained momentum because of its cost-effectiveness and flexibility, but also for its impact on employee productivity.\nMarc el-Khouri, Director of Workstyle at Boxer Property, is very optimistic about the renovations. He said, \"With our local Workstyle occupancy at 80% and rising, it's necessary to expand our footprint in municipalities on the outskirts of Chicago like Schaumburg and Lisle Naperville. Flexibility of space has been an emphasis at this Workstyle location. The newly created spaces are arranged in pods that can be easily reconfigured from almost 40 individual offices to 3 larger suites of about 3,400 sq. ft. each. This flexibility will allow our customers to prosper and grow in place.\" In Q4 2021 an addition of 18,000 sq. ft. of Workstyle flexible space will be completed in the Chicago metropolitan area.\nWorkstyle flexible and collaborative spaces are Boxer Property's signature hybrid of co- working and private offices that provide startups and small business owners the opportunity to rent individual spaces at a fraction of the cost of traditional office space.\nBoxer Property is celebrating over 29 years as an innovative commercial real estate investment and management company. Boxer Property Management Corporation is a privately held firm based in Houston that manages, leases, and administers retail, medical, hospitality and office properties with over 15 million square feet across more than 140 locations, nationwide. For more information, visit BoxerProperty.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Voucher Code Printable Codes April 2020 For Smile Direct Club\nIn June, the thin, transparent plastic trays that fit over her leading and bottom teeth came in the mail. McKinney is resolving the series slowly, switching the first set for the next, and the next, as her teeth move. It'll take about nine months in all. However after 3 months of using these trays nearly every day and night, McKinney is excited about flaunting her brand-new smile (Voucher Code Printable Codes April 2020 For Smile Direct Club).\nDanny Menendez\/ BuzzFeed News Inside one of SmileDirectClub's New York City locations. SmileDirectClub's business design seems working. Align Innovation\u2013 the business that makes Invisalign, SmileDirect's main rival\u2013 invested $46.7 million to end up being SmileDirect's unique supplier in 2015, and this year invested another $12.8 million, to own a total of 19% of the company.\nMeanwhile, lookalikes have actually launched with similar services: Orthly, launched by 2 University of Pennsylvania trainees, now offers services to consumers in Philadelphia, and Honest Co. released in New york city this summer season. A SmileDirect customer can be matched with among 225 associated dental experts or orthodontists in all 50 states. These dental experts from another location evaluate patient cases and after that develop the aligners that SmileDirect sends in the mail.\nThe business decreased to name any of the doctor within its network, and would not provide information about its monetary relationships with them. \"Essentially they are collecting payments and paying us marketing costs,\" Fenkell said.\"I think that claim is rather phony,\" AAO's general counsel Dillard said. \"The customers do not even see a dental practitioner.\n(SmileDirectClub has a two-star ranking on Yelp.) And many expert dentists are alarmed that customers never see a certified physician prior to or throughout their treatment.\"It blew my mind,\" Casi Stubbs, a Florida orthodontist and member of the American Association of Orthodontists, informed BuzzFeed News. Like common orthodontists, SmileDirect's dental practitioners base their prescriptions on computer system simulations of mouth scans.\n\"The teeth don't move biologically like they do on the computer system,\" Stubbs said. Among her clients, 60-year-old Charlene Burnham, is a SmileDirect client whose too-tight aligners cut her gums, exposing part of her tooth near the root. Burnham told BuzzFeed News she spent a week trying\u2013 and failing\u2013 to speak with a SmileDirect dentist on the phone, then went to Stubbs for help.\"They were bleeding, they were cut to the root,\" Burnham said.\n\"I was appalled.\"A SmileDirect representative told BuzzFeed News by e-mail that company-affiliated dentists \"track the client's progress throughout treatment at routine periods.\"The company \"assists in the communications\" of clients and oral suppliers, the representative said. \"Oral service providers interact directly with patients through the customer portal and via SMS or phone when proper or indicated.\"In a YouTube video that's been viewed over 21,000 times given that June, Baltimore orthodontist Jeffrey Miller warned people away from the service, stating that no orthodontist would ever prescribe aligners without first taking the X-rays that SmileDirect avoids.\n(The video was eliminated after this story published.)Grant Olson, a dental professional in Springfield, Missouri, told BuzzFeed News that the business's item marketing, which compares itself with orthodontist-fitted Invisalign, is misleading. Unlike Invisalign trays, which orthodontists can optimize by sticking unique accessories on a tooth, SmileDirect's product is limited to very small corrections: The aligners can remedy a tilt, however can't move a tooth's orientation or position along with its root.\nHe explained that SmileDirect-affiliated orthodontists only approve cases that are suitable for a remote assessment and do not require follow-up dental visits (Voucher Code Printable Codes April 2020 For Smile Direct Club). Laws for dental practitioners differ throughout states, but there are some common themes in the 36 complaints sent out by the AAO: Some states think about making impressions and providing retainers to be the function of a certified medical professional, but SmileDirectClub normally provides those services.\nAAO general counsel Dillard also told BuzzFeed News that the business's business model incentivizes dentists associated with SmileDirect to recommend the trays even if they aren't required. Danny Menendez\/ BuzzFeed News Although the company hasn't attracted the attention of regulators yet, customer problems abound online. TL; DR: Prepare for a rough ride.\nThe vast majority of clients in these groups resign themselves to handling the snags since there are just no other choices (Voucher Code Printable Codes April 2020 For Smile Direct Club).\"If you can be patient, want a cost effective plan, SDC IS the right way to go! Having a favorable attitude and being patient goes a LONG way,\" Melanie Masso composed to BuzzFeed News.\nFor lots of other clients, the ride is a bust. Seattle resident Melissa Gulick told BuzzFeed News that at the end of almost a year of treatment, the aligners have actually destroyed her bite: Her front teeth touch prior to her molars can make contact (Voucher Code Printable Codes April 2020 For Smile Direct Club). \"I'm quite irritated\u2013 food is tough to chew now and they won't fix it!\"Gulick stated that after grievances to the business, SmileDirectClub concurred to continue treatment for free.\nWhen asked about grievances that the trays messed up customers' bites, a SmileDirect agent informed BuzzFeed News: \"Over 95% of our consumers total treatment and sign off on their finished new smile. It is essential to keep in mind that with any orthodontic procedure, bites will continue to shift up until the treatment is ended up.\"Another client, 24-year-old Drexel University student Kacie Durham, told BuzzFeed News that SmileDirectClub sent her a simulated treatment plan that made her teeth look worse.\"It really made my teeth appear more uneven at the bottom,\" she stated.\nDurham returned her trays and gotten a refund. Later on, an orthodontist not associated with the business told her that her teeth would have to be submitted and shaped before they could be aligned. Durham felt fooled: SmileDirect had approved her for a treatment that would never ever have actually worked.\"If a potential customer is unhappy with the 3d preview of his\/her smile, there is no commitment to purchase aligners,\" the SmileDirectClub agent stated (Voucher Code Printable Codes April 2020 For Smile Direct Club).\nMinelle Tendler, a Boca Raton orthodontist, joined one of the most significant Facebook groups, the 11,800-member SmileDirectClub Assistance, after 2 of her patients asked about the item. In browsing the posts that appear in her Facebook feed, Tendler stated that she's not seen anybody state they've been able to talk to a dentist at the business.\n\"You're asking somebody who has no dental background, 'Is this going to work?'\"More than when, Tendler has actually stopped short of responding to threads on the forum. She rests on her hands because the patients are not hers. \"I'm taking a look at the pictures and thinking, Oh my god, you need to get teeth taken out, don't do it.\"Primarily, she is stressed that individuals who are wooed by SmileDirectClub's low price aren't fully knowledgeable about the disadvantages of skipping a dental check out.\nA previous version of this short article misidentified him as an orthodontist. Align Innovation owns 19% of SmileDirectClub. A previous variation of this story stated it was 17%. Also, SmileDirectClub started running in North Carolina in early October. A previous version of this story, based on an August interview with cofounder Alex Fenkell, said that the business was not operating in North Carolina.\nMail-in aligners may appear like a great choice for a slight fix. But keep in mind you're not the professional on how very little a fix your teeth need. \"It's challenging to go from something that's 90% good to make it 100% best; in my experience, I discover that these are the harder cases,\" Dr.\nThe outcomes of utilizing undetectable aligners can be incredibly unforeseeable, since some individuals react well to them and others won't. \"It's very hard to monitor this by yourself, because\u2013 like whatever in medicine\u2013 not everybody responds the exact same,\" he states. The real problem includes determining how to fix your smile if you're not reacting properly to the retainers, he says.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Interact Conference Updates\nSession Submissions are Open!\nTrudy Melzer Pavlik\nYour Experience is the Heart of Interact!\nHIUG is a true peer-to-peer platform. That means the light shines brightly on YOU! Members want to hear from others that walk in their shoes, not a sales pitch. That's where you come in...we want to hear about your trials, tribulations and successes that you've faced over the last year. Remember, we have members from all experience levels, so if you discovered something new, likely there's others that can benefit as well.\nWe are proud to be back in person! So come share your knowledge, learn from others, network and have fun in the sun. :)\nReleased: November 15, 2021 11:03 AM | Updated: November 15, 2021 11:03 AM\nKeywords: Conference\nJoin us at Interact 2023\nUpdated 10:27AM EDT, Thu Oct 13th, 2022\nIt was so great to see those that were able to attend Interact 2022 at the JW Marriott Miami Turnberry Resort! We received great reviews and some great feedback to help us continue to make Interact 2...\nInteract 2023 - Save the Date!\nPlease Save the Date for Interact 2023! The Interact 2023 conference will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Autograph Collection.\nThe Cosmopolitan of Las V...\nA New Member's Experience Attending the HIUG Interact 2022 Conference\nUpdated 11:46AM EDT, Thu Jul 28th, 2022\nA New Member's Experience Attending the HIUG Interact 2022 Conference By Erin Festerman SCM Systems Support Analyst, UPMC\nI joined UPMC, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, in 20...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"WB v W District Council [2018] EWCA Civ 928\nHomelessness \"This appeal is about when a person who is homeless and suffers from mental illness may apply for housing under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996. ... The difficulty for the appellant in this case, WB, is that it has been held she does not have capacity to make the decisions necessary to complete the process of applying for accommodation as a homeless person. In 1993, the House of Lords held that a homeless person with mental disabilities, who could not understand the choices she had to make when offered accommodation, could not be treated as a person in priority need...\"\nICLR\nThe ICLR have kindly agreed for their WLR (D) case report to be reproduced below.\nThe WLR Daily case summaries\n[2018] WLR(D) 256!\nWB v W District Council (Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening)\n[2018] EWCA Civ 928!\n2018 Jan 24; April 26\nArden, Lewison, Asplin LJJ\nLocal government\u2014 Homeless persons\u2014 Mental disorder\u2014 Homeless housing applicant found to be incapable of managing her affairs\u2014 House of Lords' authority providing homeless person lacking mental capacity not treated as priority need for purposes of housing legislation\u2014 Whether exclusion of persons lacking mental capacity an obsolete statutory provision\u2014 Whether current housing legislation to be given Convention-compliant interpretation so as to place applicants for priority housing with mental disability on same footing as those without disability\u2014 Housing Act 1985 (c 68), s 59(1)\u2014 Housing Act 1996 (c 52), s 189(1) \u2014 Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s 3 \u2014 Mental Capacity Act 2005 (c 9), s 19(6)\nThe defendant local housing authority refused the applicant's application for assistance as a homeless person under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996 on the basis that while she was in priority need under section 189(1) of the Act she had become homeless intentionally. The applicant's appeal was adjourned part heard as the judge determined that she lacked capacity to conduct litigation and appointed the Official Solicitor on her behalf. In subsequent Court of Protection proceedings declarations were made that the applicant lacked capacity to conduct proceedings and to make final decisions as to where she should live and therefore was without capacity to apply for assistance under Part VII. The housing appeal was resumed and the judge found that the applicant was incapable of managing her affairs and that he was bound by House of Lords' authority, that a homeless person with mental disabilities, who could not understand the choices she had to make when offered accommodation, could not be treated as a person in priority need for the purposes of section 59(1)(c) of the Housing Act 1985 and therefore was not eligible for housing assistance as a homeless person. Section 189(1)(c) of the 1996 Act and section 59(1)(c) of the 1985 Act were in the same terms. On her appeal the applicant contended that: (i) the exclusion of persons lacking mental capacity was an obsolete statutory provision; or (ii) section 189(1) could be interpreted, using section 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998, in a way that put applicants for priority housing with mental disability on the same footing as those with no such disability; or (iii) the effect of the House of Lords' authority was simply to prevent a person from signing a tenancy agreement but allowed them to make an application for housing assistance.\nOn the applicant's appeal\u2014\nHeld, appeal dismissed. (1) The exclusion of a person with a disability from Part VII of the Housing Act 1996 was not obsolete. Parliament had chosen to retain the concept of priority need in the 1996 Act and, since the Human Rights Act 1998, had built on the legislative scheme for housing homeless persons and had not taken any steps to reverse the House of Lords' authority. Where the courts had interpreted a term in an enactment and Parliament made further legislative provision using the same term, it was presumed to have chosen that the same meaning should apply in legislation re-enacting the previous legislation or similar legislation. In the instant case it was clear that Parliament had successively built on the relevant provisions of the 1985 Act, the same meaning should be presumed to apply and there was nothing to rebut that presumption. Moreover, neither the 1998 Act nor the Equality Act 2010 in terms amended the relevant provisions of the 1996 Act (paras 22, 23, 26, 27, 30, 41, 42, 52, 71, 72).\nBarras v Aberdeen Steam Trawling and Fishing Co Ltd [1933] AC 402!, HL(Sc) and R v Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council, Ex p Garlick [1993] AC 509Not on Bailii!, HL(E) applied.\nGhaidan v Godin-Mendoza [2004] 2 AC 557!, HL(E) and R (N) v Lewisham London Borough Council [2015] AC 1259!, SC(E) considered.\n(2) Section 189(1)(c) of the 1996 Act could not be interpreted, using section 3 of the 1998 Act, so as to place applicants for priority housing with mental disability on the same footing as those with no such disability. To interpret Part VII of the Housing Act 1996 afresh would not be to interpret those provisions but to give them a meaning that it was clear from legislative history was contrary to that which Parliament intended. While the absence of a Parliamentary intention to attach a Convention-compliant interpretation to legislation was not a bar to the courts adopting such an interpretation under section 3 of the 1998 Act, a distinction should be drawn between that situation and one in which the Convention-compliant interpretation had been rejected by Parliament by express words or other inconsistent legislative action (paras 30, 64, 71, 72, 73).\n(3) Pursuant to section 19(6) of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 a deputy appointed to make decisions about the personal welfare or property and affairs of a person who lacked capacity could be given the power to make an application under Part VII of the 1996 Act, including power to make the various choices that an applicant might be required to make, with the deputy being regarded as agent of the person without capacity when acting within his agency. The House of Lords' authority, which considered only contractual agency, was not a bar to the statutory agency under section 19(6) of the 2005 Act (para 34).\nMartin Westgate QC and Michael Marsh-Hyde (instructed by Shelter Legal Services) for the applicant.\nWayne Beglan (instructed by W District Council) for the local housing authority.\nHelen Mountfield QC (instructed directly) filed written submissions for the intervener.\nReported by: Nicola Berridge, Solicitor\nCASES DATABASE\nFull judgment: BAILII!\nOther capacity cases\ud83d\udd0d\nDate: 26\/4\/18\ud83d\udd0d\nCourt: Court of Appeal (Civil Division)\ud83d\udd0d\nJudge(s):\nArden\ud83d\udd0d\nLewison\ud83d\udd0d\nAsplin\ud83d\udd0d\nWB\ud83d\udd0d\nW District Council\ud83d\udd0d\nEquality and Human Rights Commission\ud83d\udd0d\nCitation number(s):\n[2018] 3 WLR 2035!\nWhat links here:\nApril 2018 chronology\nPublished: 27\/4\/18\nCached: 2020-01-18 07:26:31\nRetrieved from \"http:\/\/www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk\/index.php?title=WB_v_W_District_Council_(2018)_EWCA_Civ_928&oldid=37954\"\nThe following categories (in blue boxes) can be clicked to view a list of other pages in the same category:\nICLR summary\nOther capacity cases\nJudgment available on Bailii","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Celebrity \u00bb Juno Awards 50th Anniversary Show Rescheduled For May 2021\nJuno Awards 50th Anniversary Show Rescheduled For May 2021\n2020-12-02 Celebrity\nThe Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences has announced that The JUNO Awards 50th anniversary will be moved to May 2021.\nOriginally scheduled to be held in Toronto in March, the annual event was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.\nThe JUNO Awards will be broadcast in Canada on May 16, 2021 on CBC TV, CBC Gem, CBC Radio One, CBC Music and globally on CBCMusic.ca\/junos.\nTo commemorate the 50th anniversary next year, a gold version of the JUNO Award statuettes will be awarded to the winners, a silver version for Special Award recipients and a gold and silver version for Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductees.\n\"It's been a decade since the JUNOS returned to Toronto and while this 50th-anniversary celebration is certainly going to be different, we still intend on celebrating all of the artists who unite our country through their music,\" said Allan Reid, President & CEO, CARAS\/The JUNO Awards and MusiCounts.\nTo help celebrate the JUNO Awards 50th anniversary, MusiCounts, Canada's music education charity, will be awarding $1.5 million dollars worth of instruments and equipment to schools and community organizations across Canada through the MusiCounts Band Aid Program and TD Community Music Program.\nTeachers in search of support for a school music program can apply before December 11 to musicounts.ca. Applications for the TD Community Music Program will open this spring.\nNo host has been announced for next year's show. The JUNO Awards have been hosted in the past decade by the likes of Drake, William Shatner, Michael Bubl\u00e9, Bryan Adams and Sarah McLachlan.\n50t, Juno Awards, rescheduled\nClip showing 'adulteration' of milk is fake, says Aavin\nMini Assembly polls in Maharashtra may see mega drama in MVA parties\nMark Wright's mum Carol enjoys dog walk with daughters Jess and Natalya after coronavirus battle","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"TruthDig: Opinion- Scott Tucker: David McReynolds- Pacifist and Socialist, 1929-2018\nSource: TruthDig- Democratic Socialist activist David McReynolds, speaking at The Left Forum in 2009\nSource:The New Democrat\nPeople talk about Democratic Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders, ( still but not for long the only self-described Socialist member of Congress ) as far as where his politics come from and the people and movements that he looked up and how he got his Socialist politics. A lot of that can be from his upbringing being born in 1940s New York City to a Jewish immigrant family where socialism is very popular with Jewish New Yorkers especially, but with New Yorkers in general. Or coming of age in the 1960s and going to college in the early and mid 1960s when a lot of young people especially in the early days of the hippie movement were open to socialism and perhaps becoming a Socialist them self.\nThe New-Left ( Socialists and Communists ) emerges in the late 1960s with a lot of Baby Boomers who were coming of age getting involved with that new movement and why it was called the New-Left, because pre-1965 or so to be on the Left in America meant you supported things like the New Deal, Great Society, the civil rights movement, free speech and personal freedom, but were somewhat hawkish on foreign policy and national security and not just anti-Communist, but anti-authoritarian in general. Which is what it meant to be a Progressive and Liberal back then and still does, at least factually.\nWhich changed in the late 1960s with millions of young Americans now open and even supporting of socialism, but even communism as well. And as a result the Democratic Party moves to the Far-Left in 1968 and through 1972 and they get their nominee for President in Senator George McGovern, who was the Democratic Socialist of his time, the Bernie Sanders of the 1960s and 70s.\nBut if I had to point to one man even though I don't personally know Senator Sanders myself, I would point to David McReynolds, who was a Democratic Socialist activist from the 1950s when he was in college really till his death this year. Someone who believed in both democracy including a free press, free speech, freedom of religion, civil liberties, and personal freedom.\nBut to go along with a democratic socialist economic system where the Federal Government would literally be in charge of distributing the financial resources of the country to the people based on what everyone needs to live well. A national welfare state designed to make sure that everyone's economic needs are met so we don't have a wealthy people and a lot of poor people or any poor people. That's what a socialist welfare state is designed to do for the country.\nNot saying that David McReynolds and Bernie Sanders are ideological twin brothers. Senator Sanders, is not a pacifist and has voted for and supported he use of force in Congress multiple times both in the House and Senate and even though Senator Sanders is somewhat isolationist and dovish when it comes to foreign policy and national security, he's certainly not a pacifist. But economically and as it relates to social issues and personal freedom, you can easily argue that David McReynolds and Bernie Sanders have a lot in common politically.\nSource: Democracy Now: Friends Remember War Register League Activist & Socialist David McReynolds - Democratic Socialist activist David McReynolds, on Democracy Now\nLabels: New Left\nMarmar: The South Bank Show- Elizabeth Taylor: 1981 Interview\nSource: Marmar- Hollywood Goddess Dame Elizabeth Taylor in 1981\nSource: The Daily Review\nThe term genius gets thrown out a lot and generally thrown badly and for a lot of incomplete passes ( to use a football analogy ) and gets thrown around by a lot of people who certainly aren't geniuses and if anything are lazy mentally. And they use it to talk about people who impress them and these people tend to get impressed easily. The word is misused a lot similar to how the word awesome is misused today and done for pop culture reasons. But Elizabeth Taylor's case, I believe genius fits her perfectly and not just because she's a great actress, but because of every other characteristic that comes with being a genius.\nAccording to Cambridge Dictionary\na genius is someone who is very great and possesses rare natural ability or skill especially in a particular area such as science or art. That's a paraphrase but it's pretty close. But we all know or know of people that could be accurately labeled as geniuses who are different and standout in other areas and perhaps not as well as they do with their craft.\nAnyone who is familiar with the filmmaker and aviator Howard Hughes knows that he was great at his business, but struggled to get close to anyone emotionally and preferred to be left alone. Richard Nixon, in a lot of ways was a brilliant man when it came to public policy especially as it related to foreign affairs and national security, but struggled to socialize with people and didn't like even shaking hands with other people.\nLiz Taylor, was a genius in another way as an actress. Someone who was great at playing her parts so well that she made you believe that she was exactly the person that she was playing, but struggled in other areas of her personal life and could even come off as an idiot as far as how she lived her personal life. All the marriages and the different men in her life, the obesity, followed by alcoholism.\nLiz, was great at doing the things that made her famous in life which was her ability to act and had a very sharp intelligent wit and could sum up things very well and accurately and do it in a humorous way, but struggled to make deep connections with people and relate to them positively and keep relationships with people she cared about and loved. Things that normal people, ( not to be insulting ) but people who aren't geniuses, but otherwise intelligent and talented do well in their everyday lives everyday.\nLabels: Dame Liz\nAngela Mary: Dallas- E True Hollywood Story\nSource: Angela Mary- The women of Dallas; Victoria Principal, Linda Gray & Charlene Tilton\nThere have been a lot of great soap operas both in the movies and on TV. The big ones of course today are The Young And The Restless, General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, but back in the day you had great prime time soap operas like Melrose Place, Dynasty, One Life To Live, Guiding Light, and movies that were soaps like Where Love Has Gone with Susan Hayward and Mike Connors, Love Has Many Faces with Lana Turner and Cliff Robertson, Strangers When We Meet with Kirk Douglas and Kim Novak. But if I had to choose one over every other I have to choose Dallas because it represents soap opera at it's best, which is what I'm going to explain.\nWhen I think of great soaps I think of dramatic comedy at it's best where you have really serious scenes and situations, but people and characters who are exactly that who do crazy things and seem somewhat out of control and yet always seem to know what they're doing. Like the JR Ewing character ( played by Larry Hagman ) on Dallas. Where you have serious situations with serious people, but doing crazy funny things. Like two adult women getting into cat fights and throwing pillows at each other. Happened multiple times between Linda Evans and Joan Collins on Dynasty.\nOr two grown men getting into a fist fight at a restaurant because they're interested in the same woman, with one of them saying, \"look, we're both adults here no need to fight for her.\" Even though that's exactly what happens two guys getting into a fist fight over a girl the kind of thing that happens in high school, but on Dallas or on another great soap opera it happens between two middle age men in public at a popular restaurant. Dallas, wasn't a drama or a comedy, it was both because it was a soap opera. You had a lot of serious situations and serious people, but with crazy immature people doing a lot and saying a lot of funny crazy things. Like with Larry Hagman on the show, who was like an evil bastard, except he was so good at it and funny at it you almost had to like him or at least respect him because he was so good at being a bastard.\nThe 1980s was a decade of excess where Americans had a lot of money and seemed to be in a hurry to spend as much of it as they possibly could as if they're was a national money going out of business sale and you have to spend all of your money before it becomes worthless. And Dallas perfectly represented the 1980s with the actors and characters that they had, as well as the writers. Similar to how Easy Rider perfectly represented the 1960s. It also represented a time when network TV was not only great, but relevant as well and where people wanted to watch CBS, ABC, and NBC every night and not just for sports and movies, but for programs as well. And almost 30 years later after Dallas finally went off the air after 13 seasons Dallas is still the best soap opera ever.\nAngela Mary: Dallas- True Hollywood Story\nLabels: Dallas\nSalon: Timothy Denevi- Hunter S. Thompson in Chicago, 1968: 'The Battle For The Democratic Party's Soul'\nSource: Salon Magazine- Hunter Thompson at the 1968 Democratic National Convention\nSource: The New Democrat\nIf 1967 was the summer of love, then 1968 was the summer of discontentment, revolution, upheaval, whatever other big words that you prefer to voice a national unhappiness with the country and how things were going. It was the summer where once again millions of Baby Boomers were coming of age and pissed off at society, but especially the Vietnam War and feeling the need not just to speak out against the war, but to make their feelings known and to demand real change or face real consequences. The people would face those consequences being the government at three levels, local state and federal.\nIf you were a Baby Boomer in 1968, ( an American born in the 1940s and 50s ) life for you was pretty swell ( to use a word from the 1950s ) before you deiced to become a rebel and take on the man and the establishment that was created to give you a life where you could live freely and not have to worry about crime, poverty, being able to get a good education including college. Especially if you were of Anglo-Saxon background, ( people of English ethnicity ) just as long as toed the party line ( so to speak ) and weren't a disrupter. You weren't a woman who had some wild idea that you were going to become a lawyer. Or an African-American who had the nerve to enter a quality high school or go to college.\nI have mixed feelings about the 1960s especially the late 1960s as someone who wasn't born until about ten years after the summer of 1968 where the only protests and the closest things I got to see to rioting in highs school, were students complaining about the low quality of food at lunch or students getting into fights at the nearby McDonald's because someone believed someone took one of their fries. I love the individualism and the personal freedom of that decade as a Liberal. This feeling that being an American was about being yourself and not having to follow in your parents footsteps, especially your father's just because that's what they decided to do with their lives.\nBut on the other side I hate the violence of that decade especially 1968. The rioting, the high crime rates, law enforcement going to far in how they responded to the young protesters. Young Boomers, who were given all the opportunities in the world to make great lives for themselves and instead of feeling grateful that instead of growing up in some authoritarian state where the government decides what kind of lives everyone in the country is going to have, they grew up in America where they had that freedom to make those decisions for themselves and instead of feeling grateful, they become political terrorists in many cases. Deciding to rob banks as a political statement because they claimed to hate our capitalist economic system. Far-Left socialist groups like The Weather Underground and others.\nI get the opposition to the Vietnam War and if was a young man back then I would've hated that war and just what I've read, seen, and heard about it I hate that war myself. And I get this feeling that it's time for the Democratic Party to change and not just oppose the Vietnam War outright but create a new politics by abandoning the right-wing Dixiecrats and moving the Democratic Party in a more leftist direction. Socialist to be more accurate, with groups like Students For a Democratic Society supporting people like Senator George McGovern and others.\nBut that's what liberal democracy is for. You don't like the direction that the country is going in, you're more than free to speak out and campaign against it, and even offer an alternative vision for where you believe the country should go. But when you don't win and get your way, the answer is to not turn to violence to try to force your views and policies which is what The Weather Underground and other Socialist groups did back then. But instead take your losses and regroup and get ready for the next elections.\nSource: E.P. James MacAdams: Hunter S. Thompson on Richard Nixon - Hunter Thompson's eyes on 1968\nTruthDig: Opinion- Scott Tucker: David McReynolds-...\nMarmar: The South Bank Show- Elizabeth Taylor: 198...\nSalon: Timothy Denevi- Hunter S. Thompson in Chica...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Roadmap To Your Future Is Not In Your Resum\u00e8 with Laura Berman Fortgang\nPrevPreviousBe Selective About Where You Work with Shawn Livermore\nLaura Berman Fortgang\nLaura Berman Fortgang is recognised as a pioneer in the personal coaching field and part of the founding team of the International Coach Federation. She has brought coaching to NASA, Florida's State Government and dozens of Fortune 500 companies. She has made appearances on Oprah, Good Morning America and CNN, amongst others, as well as publishing five best-selling books including 'Now What? 90 Days to a New Life Direction' and 'The Little Book On Meaning'.\nAnd in 2015 Laura gave a TEDx talk titled 'How to Find Your Dream Job Without Ever Looking at Your Resume' which has been viewed more than 1.5 million times. Laura joins Phil to discuss why the roadmap to your future is never in your current resum\u00e8. Laura also talks about why we should trust our instincts when it comes to shaping our IT career.\nApple | Spotify | Stitcher | Google | iHeart\nLauraBermanFortgang.com \u2013 Check out Laura's personal website\nNowWhatCoaching.com \u2013 Check out Laura's company website\nNow What? 90 Days to a New Life Direction \u2013 check out Laura's book\nFree Resources \u2013 check out Laura's free career development resources\n2 Top Career Tips\n1) Don't look at your resume in order to find the next step in your career if you're not happy with the role you're currently performing. It's only a chronological case study of the road you've taken so far, and doesn't provide insight into where you're headed.\n2) Honour those inklings inside you that tell you something inside of you is trying to evolve. Follow the small voices that try to guide you.\nWorst Career Moment\nAs a former actor, Laura gave her everything during a performance and was met by a damning response by an audience member. From this she learned to never take rejection personally.\nCareer Highlight\nMeeting Oprah Winfrey was the highlight of Laura's career and taught her much about confidence and nerves, and how to handle the intimidation that many must have felt in that position.\nLongevity and innovation is abundant. The challenge will be in how the industry scales, and what the next generation of professionals looks like. Seeing how the people in the industry age and grow will be fascinating to watch.\nThe Reveal\nWhat first attracted you to a career in I.T.?\nNot asked during interview.\nWhat is the best career advice you've ever received?\nBe the best at what you do and be as single-minded as possible.\nWhat is the worst career advice you've ever received?\nIf you had to begin your career again in today's world, what would you do?\nLaura would worry less and compare herself to others less.\nWhat career objectives are you currently focusing on?\nScaling her business from doing one-on-one training to one-on-many training scenarios.\nWhat's the number one non-technical skill that has helped you in your career so far?\nCommunication skills have been key to helping Laura build her business.\nWhat do you do to keep your own career energized?\nReading and learning are a marvellous way of keeping our skills fresh.\nWhat do you do in your spare time away from technology?\nChildren taken up much of Laura's time. Her other passion is crochet.\nContact The Guest\nContact Laura Berman Fortgang through the following social media platforms:\nTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/LauraBFortgang\/\nLinkedIn: https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/laura-berman-fortgang-b9a9936\/\nInstagram: https:\/\/instagram.com\/LauraBFortgang\nClick Here For More Episodes","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Cancer Researchers \/ Other Health Care Professionals \u00bb Membership \u00bb In Memoriam \u00bb D. James Morr\u00e9\nAACR Academy\nAACR Academy Governance\nAACR Academy Highlights\nAbout the AACR Academy Medal\nCancer Immunology Working Group\nChemistry in Cancer Research Working Group\nMolecular Epidemiology Working Group\nPediatric Cancer Working Group\nRadiation Science and Medicine Working Group\nTumor Microenvironment Working Group\nReinstate your Membership\nResponsibilities of Membership\nTransfer Your Membership Category\nBenefits of Associate Membership\nMembership Verification Letter\nAACR 50-year Members\n2020 Annual Meeting Awardees\nAACR Graduating Members\nAACR Margaret Foti Scholar-in-Training Awards in Pediatric Cancer Research\nIn Memoriam: D. James Morr\u00e9\n(10\/20\/1935 - 06\/16\/2016)Member since 1979\nD. James Morr\u00e9, PhD, professor emeritus in the Department of Chemistry at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, died June 16, 2016, at the age of 81. Morr\u00e9, AACR member since 1979, had been the chief executive officer and director of research at MorNuCo Inc. since founding the company with his wife, Dorothy M. Morr\u00e9, PhD, in 2011.\nBorn Oct. 20, 1935, in Drake, Missouri, Morr\u00e9 graduated from the University of Missouri in Columbia, and received his master's degree at Purdue and his doctoral degree in biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. In 1962, Morr\u00e9 worked with Hilton H. Mollenhauer at the Cell Research Institute at the University of Texas in Austin as a visiting assistant professor. Later that year, he began his tenure at Purdue, in the Botany and Plant Pathology Department.\nMorr\u00e9 went on to serve as the first director of the Purdue Cancer Center from 1976 to 1986 and Dow distinguished professor at Purdue College Pharmacy from 1986 to 2009. He also served the cancer research community internationally, including a sabbatical in 1969 at the Universit\u00e9 de Paris, guest senior scientist at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg in 1976, and was Charg\u00e9 de Cours at the University of Geneva in Switzerland from 1985 to 1988.\nMorr\u00e9 often worked in a research team with his wife, Dorothy, a professor of foods and nutrition in Purdue's School of Consumer and Family Sciences. Together the Morr\u00e9's discovered a single protein responsible for setting the length of periods of activity and inactivity within cells, acting as a biological clock. They also presented evidence of green tea's potential to ward off cancer.\nIn addition to his wife, he is survived by three children, nine grandchildren, and seven great grandchildren.\nRemembrances of D. James Morr\u00e9\nPlease add your remembrance of D. James Morr\u00e9\nLeave remembrance of D. James Morr\u00e9\nBe the first to add a Remembrance.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Police Issue a Million Dollar Reward for Missing Boy William Tyrrell\nBy Belinda Jennings Sep 12, 2016\nNSW police have just issued a $1,000,000 reward for information relating to the return of NSW Toddler, William Tyrell.\nThe unprecedented reward comes after more than 1,000 supposed sightings and 2,000 calls to Crime Stoppers in a case that has baffled Australians young and old.\nBetween their investigations and tips, the police have identified 690 persons of interest. That said, they're still looking for more information about the missing boy \u2013 in a major way. Previously, the highest missing persons reward was $500,000 and offered for information on Michelle Bright (a teenager murdered in 1999).\nThe number of persons of interest may seem terribly high. But, that doesn't mean the police are at a loss. \"I want to make it very clear that the fact that we've got so many persons of interest doesn't mean that we have no idea on what's happened,\" said Detective Chief Inspector Gary Jubelin, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. Jubelin went on to say that the high number shows that they've cast a wide net. The police are keeping all of the possibilities open, and investigating any lead that they see as a real option.\nNSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione and Premier Mike Baird announced the jaw-dropping reward this morning at a press conference. This marks the second anniversary of the toddler's disappearance from his grandmother's home in the town of Kendall on the Mid North Coast. William was playing with his sister in the front yard when he disappeared, dressed in his favourite Spiderman suit.\nThe police immediately began the search, but did not turn up any leads right away. In previous statements, the police have said that there's the possibility that the little boy's disappearance is related to a pedophile ring in the north coast region.\nTo date, the most high-profile suspect has been washing repairman William \"Bill\" Spedding. Spedding who worked at the home prior to the abduction. The repairman is fighting to have (unrelated) sex charges dismissed, and has publicly said he has nothing to do with William's disappearance.\nThe current $1 million reward isn't like many other high dollar amount police rewards. These are typically given only when someone is convicted of the crime. Instead, this reward is for William's location. Police believe that the little boy is still alive and, with the public's help, can be found and returned to his family.\n\"It's unacceptable that two years down the track we haven't found out what's happened to William,\" said Jubelin. He added, \"I'm confident in saying it's only a matter of time before we find out what's happened to William and if we come to you, the offer of the reward is off the table.\"\nThe police are reassuring anyone who might have information that they will not be viewed as concealing a crime, provided that they come forward and deliver the information to the police. As the detective noted, if the police find anyone connected to the crime (meaning, anyone who hasn't come forward on their own), they can't promise that the responsible parties won't be prosecuted.\nAnyone who has any information about William, his disappearance or his current location should call Crime Stoppers immediately on 1 800 333 000.\nIf you have information and don't want to call, you can also fill out an online report at the Crime Stoppers' website.\nAuthor Belinda Jennings\nBelinda's a passionate advocate for community and connection. As the founder of the Mum Central Network she's committed to celebrating the journey that is Australian parenthood. Mum to two cheeky boys, and wife to her superstar husband, they live a busy but crazy lifestyle in Adelaide. Great conversation, close friends and good chocolate are her chosen weapons for daily survival. Oh, and bubbles. Champagne is key.\nReal Stories: The True Stories of 2020 That Made a Major Impact\nRemember Hanson? Check Out the Brothers and their Tribe of Kids Now\nPeppa Pig and Paw Patrol too Violent for Kids? This Study Says So!\nRoxy Jacenko Buys Nine-Year-Old Daughter an $85,000 Car\nRebel Wilson Wows the Internet as she Reaches her Goal Weight","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Brian Moynihan\/Bank of America\nBrian Moynihan leads a team of more than 200,000 employees dedicated to making financial lives better for people, companies of every size, and institutional investors across the United States and around the world.\nBank of America is recognized as a top employer, including by Working Mother magazine, the Human Rights Campaign, and G.I. Jobs magazine.\nMoynihan participates in several organizations that focus on economic and market trends, including the World Economic Forum International Business Council, the Financial Services Forum, the Business Roundtable, and the supervisory board of The Clearing House.\nMoynihan leads the company's Global Diversity and Inclusion Council and is a member of the Museum Council for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. Moynihan is also a trustee of the Corporation of Brown University. He served as Irish America's Wall Street 50 keynote speaker in 2009.\nMary Ann Callahan\nJason Carroll\nGerald Corcoran\nRyan Crowe\nMartyn Curragh\nHollie Fagan\nErin Fitzsimmons\nBill Gorman\nCecilia Healy Herbert\nMaureen McGetrick Hogan\nSean Kelleher\nShaun Kelly\nLiam Lynch\nFrancis C. Mahoney\nKen McCabe\nGerry McNamara\nPeter A. Merrigan\nNiall O'Donnell\nMichael O'Grady\nThomas F. O'Neill\nJim O'Sullivan\nPeter Quinlan\nMeredith Ryan-Reid\nThomas E. Sullivan\nJohn Tyrrell","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Me too movment\n\"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.\" That was Margaret Mead's conclusion after a lifetime of observing very diverse cultures around the world. Her insight has been borne out time and again throughout the development of this country of ours. Being allowed to live life in an atmosphere of religious freedom, having a voice in the government you support with your taxes, living free of lifelong enslavement by another person. These beliefs about how life should and must be lived were once considered outlandish by many. But these beliefs were fervently held by visionaries whose steadfast work brought about changed minds and attitudes. Now these beliefs are commonly shared across U.S. society.\nA post shared by #\u0645\u0646_\u0647\u0645 (@me_too_movement_iran)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Read Next Estate of Emergency: Jimi Hendrix Estate Preemptively Sue Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell's Heirs\nNovember 13, 2019 6:38PM ET\nCan Neil Young Ever Become a U.S. Citizen?\nAdmitting to marijuana use in the Trump era seems to be a crime akin to murder. Can the Hall of Famer slip through?\nNeil Young's admission to marijuana use has delayed his U.S. citizenship chances. Immigration lawyers explain his possibly long road\nAaron Rapoport\/Corbis via Getty Images\nIn early 1966, Neil Young was riding in a 1953 Pontiac hearse with Buffalo Springfield bandmate Bruce Palmer when he crossed the U.S. border illegally for the first time. \"I made up my mind that someday I was going to sneak in,\" he wrote in his 2012 memoir Waging Heavy Peace. \"I targeted L.A. because that was where all the music was happening.\" They told the U.S. immigration guard they were on their way to Vancouver, but were driving through the States because the roads were better. He permitted them through, not knowing that he'd stay for the next five decades or that the hearse contained six containers of weed. \"We were laughing our way into the promised land,\" he said.\nTwo years later, Young would be arrested in an infamous drug bust alongside Eric Clapton, Jim Messina, Richie Furay and others while jamming too loud at Stephen Stills' home in Topanga Canyon. Young and Clapton were only found guilty of disturbing the neighbors; Stills fled the police by escaping out his back window. \"I should've manned up,\" he recalled in the 2019 documentary Echo in the Canyon. \"I've never lived that down and felt awful about it ever since.\"\nMore than fifty years later, the climate is drastically different than when Young first crossed the border. The Hall of Famer has been living in the States for more than 50 years, but he's still not a citizen. On November 8th, days before his 74th birthday, he informed fans that his attempt to become naturalized had been delayed due to the \"good moral character\" provision on the immigrant application aka he has admitted to smoking too much weed. In a post titled \"I Have Been Very Successful In My Life,\" Young wrote that he wants to \"be a dual citizen and vote,\" and that he answered questions truthfully during the interview and passed the test.\nThe naturalization process consists of confirming your biographical information, taking an English reading test and answering 10 basic civics questions. Applicants must answer six of them correctly in order to pass. \"I have been told that I must do another test, due to my use of marijuana and how some people who smoke it have exhibited a problem,\" he said. He also noted former Attorney General Jeff Sessions' policy memorandum, which states that an applicant involved in marijuana lacks good moral character. \"I will keep you posted, but I don't think I will be able to remain parked here during the proceedings,\" he wrote.\nAccording to several immigration lawyers, it won't be as easy for Young as simply retaking the test. \"If [an] officer doesn't approve or refuse it, they will recommend it for approval for a person to have their swearing in,\" says Anastasia Tonello, a New York immigration lawyer. \"But that would typically go to another stage, like a supervisory level to approve it or to say that they need more checks.\"\nEven so, getting caught with weed over 50 years ago shouldn't ostensibly affect Young's naturalization. His application would be denied if he had appeared to lack good moral character during the statutory period of the last five years. During the interview process, Young admitting his marijuana use is what may have caused his application to be delayed. \"As soon as he said yes, he set off this little chain reaction,\" says Jonathan Grode, an immigration lawyer and adjunct professor at Temple University.\nPresident Trump's crackdown on the immigration policy has most likely played a role in delaying Young's citizenship. The musician has been a fierce critic of him since he ran for president, even publicly speaking against his use of Young's 1989 classic \"Rockin' in the Free World\" at campaign events. Ironically, Trump has attended several Neil Young concerts in the past, even talking to Rolling Stone in 2008 to discuss his music. \"He's got something very special,\" he said. \"I've met him on occasions and he's a terrific guy.\"\nSo what can Young do to become a U.S. citizen? According to Carol Edward, an immigration lawyer who holds a dual citizenship with the United States and Canada, he has two choices. \"If he's denied naturalization, he can appeal the decision. And beyond that, he can file a lawsuit in federal court challenging their determination.\"\nFor fans, speaking up would also help speed up Young's naturalization in time for the 2020 election. \"Free speech and public outcry is the basis for change,\" says Grode. \"Is it fair within the naturalization process to consider this an issue of good moral character? As more and more states are pushing towards medical marijuana and legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes, isn't it time that our federal laws reflect the consensus of the nation?\"\n\"We're at a tipping point within our country as it turns on how we handle cannabis and marijuana usage,\" Grode adds. \"The more people that talk, the more people that step out the more people that complain, the greater chance you're going to get political action because they see that as their constituents talking.\"\nIn This Article: 2020 election,\tNeil Young","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"December 21, 2012 Dan Braganca\t16 comments\nGun rights advocates correctly argue that we shouldn't base public policy off one extreme incident. Tragically, we have enough gun violence every year to justify increasing restrictions on firearms. If one horrific massacre prompts action to reduce the likelihood of future violence at least we're learning.\nWith over 300 million guns in the US, the protection of the 2nd Amendment, and the content of public opinion it's neither possible nor desirable to make America completely gun-free. So what reasonable controls can we strengthen or institute to make America safer?\nWait! I can hear you now: \"You haven't established that gun controls make it safer.\" If guns are harder to get, criminals will just substitute another weapon.\nFirst of all, guns make it much easier to kill someone, which is why murder rates and gun murders are highly correlated.\nAlso, inconveniently for the faith-based belief that more guns lead to less violence, America is the industrialized country that has the most guns and the most violence. Not only that, the late '80s\/early '90s saw the beginning of a dramatic drop in the number of homes with the types of guns most frequently used in violent crimes. The decline of gun ownership has roughly tracked the decline in violence. (See The Monkey Cage for more)\nNot only is there a correlation of \"states with stricter gun control laws have fewer deaths from gun-related violence,\" but other researchers studied the effect of the expiration of the Assault Weapons Ban on violence. Since a state level ban remained California, but not in Texas, Arizona and New Mexico it's possible to determine if having easier access to assault weapons increases homicides in those places of close proximity. Unsurprisingly, it does, establishing more than just simple correlation.\n(2004 is the year the assault weapons ban expired)\nSo, again, what reasonable controls can we strengthen or institute to make America safer?\nA comprehensive assault weapons ban\nWe've already seen evidence that an assault weapons ban prevents some homicides, but gun control opponents usually retreat to mocking people's ignorance of the difference between assault weapons and automatic weapons. Somehow when they point out that automatic weapons\/machine guns are strictly regulated and are almost never used in violent crimes\/massacres it doesn't fully disrupt the cognitive dissonance when they're claiming gun controls on criminals are both impossible and counterproductive.\nBan all high-capacity magazines and clips.\nIf you're going hunting for anything other than a human, you don't need more than 10 bullets in one magazine. Curiously, Clayton Cramer, at the National Review argues that high-capacity magazines simultaneously have no advantage to the shooter and that a civilian might need it in a gun fight.\nHow much actual \"advantage\" does a high-capacity magazine give to a monster who is shooting unarmed people? Practically none.\nWhile it is rare for either a police officer or a civilian to need 15 or 20 rounds in a gunfight, it is not unknown, and in some cases it is the difference between life and death for individuals engaged in self-defense.\nDuring the riots following the Rodney King trial, many shopkeepers in the Korean section of Los Angeles confronted mobs threatening to loot and burn the stores. Some of the shopkeepers used high-capacity magazines in rifles to avoid taking lives.\nGot that? Monsters spraying innocent civilians gain virtually no advantage from high-capacity magazines, but shopkeepers would be practically forced to gun down rioters unless they have \"30-round magazines in their rifles.\"\nClose the gun-show loophole and make everyone subject to a background check\nHere's a simple regulation. To make sure that anyone with a violent criminal record or certain types of mental illness doesn't have easy access to firearms make everyone -every time- subject to a background check, a waiting period, and government approved safety training.\nLimit the number of guns a single person can own\nSorry, you don't need your own personal armory of 30 guns to go hunting or protect your home. It just increases the risk they fall into the wrong hands (or that you're the problem yourself). Come on, is 5 enough?\nThe Chris Rock Solution: Limit the number of bullets a person can own \/ or tax each bullet heavily\nIsrael, for example, limits gun owners to 50 rounds annually. This will make it more difficult for criminals and gangs to acquire and mantain bullets, but will leave individuals with enough to protect themselves if they choose to own a gun. If this too severely limits hunters, we could tax bullets, register them, or both.\nEvery solution I've proposed isn't going to end all violence or prevent all criminals from acquiring deadly weapons, but they should help without curtailing freedoms excessively or without the costs outweighing the benefits. The public policy nihilism some gun rights advocates display is remarkable for the conspicuousness of bias. Right-wingers that would never dream of legalizing all drugs, argue it's impossible to stop criminals from acquiring guns. How many of those same people think guns and other weapons should be allowed on airplanes because \"if we outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns\"?\nWhat about solutions that don't work?\nAffirmative action for men in schools\nThere was not a single adult male on the school premises when the shooting occurred. In this school of 450 students, a sizeable number of whom were undoubtedly 11- and 12-year-old boys (it was a K\u20136 school), all the personnel \u2014 the teachers, the principal, the assistant principal, the school psychologist, the \"reading specialist\" \u2014 were female. There didn't even seem to be a male janitor to heave his bucket at Adam Lanza's knees. Women and small children are sitting ducks for mass-murderers.\nSomehow my mother who was a quote, reading specialist, and a woman kept her students safe all those years.\nArm everyone!\nAlan Jacobs in The American Conservative counters,\nBut what troubles me most about this suggestion \u2014 and the general More Guns approach to social ills \u2014 is the absolute abandonment of civil society it represents. It gives up on the rule of law in favor of a Hobbesian \"war of every man against every man\" in which we no longer have genuine neighbors, only potential enemies. You may trust your neighbor for now \u2014 but you have high-powered recourse if he ever acts wrongly.\nWhatever lack of open violence may be procured by this method is not peace or civil order, but rather a standoff, a Cold War maintained by the threat of mutually assured destruction. Moreover, the person who wishes to live this way, to maintain order at universal gunpoint, has an absolute trust in his own ability to use weapons wisely and well: he never for a moment asks whether he can be trusted with a gun. Of course he can! (But in literature we call this hubris.)\nIt's not coincidence that nations with less guns have less violence. Steven Pinker in his exhaustive study on violence finds that the more we escape that Hobbesian \"every person for themselves\" approach the more violence declines.\nMore God\nReligious extremists like Mike Huckabee and the Westboro Bapist Church think that if we were only more pious as a nation, we'd have less violence. Huckabee argues that if we only taught things like \"thou shalt not kill\" our society wouldn't reflect its godlessness in the form of violent massacres. I'll just assume he's not aware that the least religious countries on earth are some of the least violent or that violence has fallen since official school prayer was ruled unconstitutional.\nGun control isn't about banning all weapons. Like so many other Americans, I think it's perfectly reasonable to have fun and learn some skills at a shooting range.\nIf you want to own a gun, that's your right, but society has a responsibility to regulate and restrict what you can own for the safety of everyone.\nCategories: Violence","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"American Country Countdown\nHero of the Week\nThe Song Remembers When\nStation List \u2013 Updates in Progress\nKix TV\nCountry Daily News\nTag Archives: The Cowboy Rides Away\nListen to Ronnie Dunn Cover George Strait's \"The Cowboy Rides Away\" From New Album, \"Re-Dunn\"\nRonnie Dunn dropped his new country\/rock cover album, Re-Dunn, on Jan. 10. The 24-track album features popular tunes originally recorded by Bob Seger, Tom Petty, Van Morrison, Hank Williams, Eric Clapton, George Strait, Tom T. Hall, Eddy Arnold and more. In addition to covering \"Amarillo By Morning\" on the new album, Ronnie sings George Strait's\u2026\u2026 MORE\nTweets by @KixBrooks\nRoger Miller Tribute Concert to Feature Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Trisha Yearwood, Chris Janson & More\nWatch Kelsea Ballerini & Halsey Perform \"Graveyard\" From Upcoming Episode of \"CMT Crossroads\"\nCMA Honors Alan Jackson With the \"Joe Talbot Award\"\nLuke Combs Will Be the Musical Guest on \"Saturday Night Live\" on Feb. 1\nListen to Old Dominion's Poignant New Single, \"Some People Do,\" Which Was Co-Penned by Thomas Rhett\nCharity Concert at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium to Feature Dolly Parton, Lonestar, Lee Greenwood, Abby Anderson & More\nDan + Shay Score 7th No. 1 Single With \"10,000 Hours\" Featuring Justin Bieber\nWatch Blake Shelton & Gwen Stefani's Tender New Video for \"Nobody But You\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"UEB's history\nResearch - services units\nUEB's staff\nUEB's Academic\nPost-graduate Programs\nResearch at UEB\nCooperation at VNU-UEB\nInternational Partner\nUEB Level\nVNU Level\nTheses of Masters\nDisertation\nYouth Union\nMap to UEB's campus\nNews of VNU\nGPAC 2019\nYSI Asia Convening 2019\nNews > Training\n8 most excellent teams made their ways to Business Challenges 2019 Finale\nUpdate at 8:21, Wednesday, 16\/10\/2019 (GMT+7)\n8 selected teams in the semi-final round\nOn October 12th 2019, the Business Challenges semi-final took place in Sunwah Hall (144 Xuan Thuy Str., Cau Giay Dist., Hanoi, Vietnam), in which the best teams were selected to compete in the final round.\nThe competition was co-organized by the VNU University of Economics and Business - Vietnam National University (UEB - VNU) and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF). Strategic partners also participated in the competition: BestB Ecosystem, iBosses Vietnam and the sponsorship of SeaBank. VCCI is a content sponsor; Investment Newspaper, Business Forum Newspaper as information sponsors of this contest.\nAttending the semi-final round were Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Anh Thu - Vice Rector of the UEB, Dr. Pham Hung Tien, Acting Director of FNF Vietnam, the judges and 12 excellent teams.\n12 teams compete in 2 branches, each branch has 6 teams and 8 teams will be selected to attend the final round, 4 from each branch.\nDr. Pham Hung Tien - Acting Director of FNF making a speech at the semi-final round.\nSpeaking at the semi-final, Dr. Pham Hung Tien said: \"The competition has gone through 3 rounds and found the 12 best teams to compete in the semi-finals today. Through the competition, the ideas are gradually realized, the output has been formed with high practicality. The semi-final will select 8 out of 12 teams to participate in the finale based on the performance of the teams today.\"\nAssoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Anh Thu affirmed that after 3 rounds, the quality of the teams is quite uniform and it is not based on luck that they are here.\nThe judges of the semi-final round included Mr. Pham Anh Cuong - CEO of BestB; Mr. Dang Hoang Nam, Investment Analysist, Thinkzone; Mr. Ho Chi Dung - Head of Research and Development Division, People One Joint Stock Company; Mr. Nguyen Tien Minh - lecturer of Faculty of International Business and Economics, UEB and Mr. Pham Tuan Hiep - BKHoldings.\nThe judges of the semi-final round of Business Challenges 2019\nThe teams have shown that it is not based on luck to participate in the semi-finals, each team can express their ideas, direction and vision clearly. For example, the idea of establishing a chain of photography studios for children shows the ability to understand the market and the taste of customers. It has been highly appreciated by the judges.\nIn the semifinal round, apart from giving future ideas and plans, the teams must also come up with specific projects and products to impress the judges\nThe teams had a very competitive round\nThe final result has identified 8 finalists:\nBranch 1: Snap VN, Athenas, Youth +, Sline\nBranch 2: Skywalker, 5S, P&F, Hara\nThe final round will take place on November 7th 2019 and there will be the participation of distinguished guests representing a number of central departments.\n>>> Click here to see the news in Vietnamese.\nCong Cuong - Thanh Tu\nFeedback( 0 ) | Send feedback | Send Email Print page [Back Top]\nFullName Email\nAddress Security code LQOWRZ\n>>Commencement exercises: Master and bachelor of Business Administration of joint training program with Troy University (27\/10\/2015 3:54 PM)\n>>Opening ceremony of joint training program BSBA 14 with Troy University (23\/10\/2015 3:56 PM)\n>>Learning about production and operation management with US expert (08\/10\/2015 4:03 PM)\n>>Commencement convocation of MBA Benedictine - Intake 5 (06\/10\/2015 1:50 PM)\n>>Opening ceremony for the 2015-2016 academic year (17\/09\/2015 3:40 PM)\n>>Launching ceremony of CFA Research Challenge 2015 - 2016 (16\/09\/2015 3:37 PM)\n>>Faculty of Finance and Banking - Practice-oriented training (04\/09\/2015 9:59 AM)\n>>UEB's students attended the Global Partnership of Asia College 2015 in Taiwan (04\/09\/2015 8:20 AM)\n>>Training technology \"Teach less and Learn more\" of the Faculty of Business Administration (31\/07\/2015 3:49 PM)\n>>Faculty of Development Economics: Students can easily access to all learning resources (31\/07\/2015 3:06 PM)\n<12...67891011121314...1920>\nurl=\/Uploads\/flash\/tin%20khai%20giang%20nam%20hoc%202010-2011.swf iurl=\/Uploads\/image\/khai%20giang%20DHKT%20(13).jpg width=180 height=200 loop=false play=false downloadable=false fullscreen=true displayNavigation=true displayDigits=true align=center playlistThumbs=false\nHead News\nFour UEB's lecturers were honored by VNU, Hanoi in 2020\nVietnam's economy in 2021: Which is the best way for businesses?\nFundraising campaign for the Central of Vietnam\nUEB to introduce Bachelor program in Business Administration for Sport Talents\nUEB's Vietnam-U.K. Friendship Sub-Association brings love on Christmas Day\nHomepage | Email | Seminars of PPD\nCopyright of University of Economics and Bussines - Vietnam National University, Hanoi\n144 Xuan Thuy Str, Cau Giay Dist, Hanoi, Vietnam\nTel: (84.24)37546765 Fax: (84.24)37546765 Email: news_ueb@vnu.edu.vn\nWebsite: http:\/\/ueb.edu.vn - http:\/\/ueb.vnu.edu.vn","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"7 Artists You Gotta Listen to Ahead of This Year's Splendour in the Grass\nJessica Lee\nSplendour in the Grass is back again for another year, held this year in North Byron Parklands from the 20th-22nd of July. If you're heading out to Splendour for the first time, chances are you're going to have a helluva bender \u2013 what a stacked line up to pop your SITG cherry!\nAs the weekend draws closer, we've taken a look at the artist lineup to find the artists you do not want to pass on.\nYou have got to be kidding yourself if you don't believe that Kendrick Lamar, arguably the hip-hop, coming down to Australia for Splendour in the Grass ahead of the Australian leg of his \"DAMN\" tour is one of the greatest gifts we could get. The Pulitzer Prize winner will be gracing the Parklands on the Sunday of Splendour, and with more than over 6 million albums sold worldwide and 12 Grammy Awards, its no surprise that he would top this list. One thing's for certain \u2013 if you've got the chance to head to Splendour, make sure you do not miss him.\nKeep an eye out for set times here.\nThe 21-year old first caught the eye of the public with her debut single Royals back in 2013, and ever since then she's only been rising higher and higher. At such a young age she's already managed to nab two Grammy Awards, and top charts numerous times. In her ONLY Australian show, she'll be performing on the Friday of Splendour, so be sure not to miss out.\nKeep your eyes peeled here for set times.\nI had the utmost privilege of attending Khalid's show last year in Sydney, and I am not lying when I say that it changed me as a person. The amount of energy and charisma that the 20-year old gave on stage combined with soulful vocals and passion proves what a game-changer he is. In his only Australian show, Khalid will be playing on the Friday of Splendour, so make sure to check him out!\nSet times will be made available for Khalid, here.\nAngus and Julia Stone\nBorn and bred in Sydney, the folk and indie-pop siblings have taken the world by storm. Having birthed four studio albums to date, the pair have toured sell-out shows internationally and on Australian shores. While the duo are set to be playing around the world throughout 2018, they have taken a momentary break to perform on home soil (pretty darn special considering that the makings of their latest album SNOW were produced in Angus' cottage in Byron Bay, close to the Splendour parklands) on the Friday of Splendour.\nYou can check out the Stones' on the SITG site, here.\nSelling out in grand cities such as London, New York and Los Angeles, the Gold Coast based singer\/songwriter is back in Australia to perform on the Saturday of Splendour. Having risen to prominent fame since the breakout of her single \"Adore You\", Shark has been on shows such as Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and The Late Late Show with James Corder, was a front runner for Number 1 on triple j's hottest 100 and been the first ever Australian featured as Apple Music's \"Up Next\" artist, proving she is one to not gloss over.\nAmy's set time will be made available here.\nAfter winning the Australian Music Prize earlier this year, the Zambian-born Melbourne-based hip hop artist has quietly been taking over the music scene, having just finished performing a headline tour in Europe. With a powerful voice and an eclectic mix of emotions echoing over and over in each track, Sampa is the ultimate artist to watch out for in 2018.\nSampa's set time will be made available here.\nSince debuting in 2016, Alice Ivy has been quietly taking the music scene by storm, having performed at SXSW, Listen Out, Groovin' the Moo and Vivid. Taking a break from nationally touring alongside The Jungle Giants as a supporting act, be sure to catch her during the Friday of Splendour.\nKeep an eye out for Alice Ivy's set times, here.\nSplendour in the Grass will be held this year at North Byron Parklands from the 20th-22nd July. For more information, visit their website here!\nThis content has recently been ported from its original home on The AU Review: Music and may have formatting errors \u2013 images may not be showing up, or duplicated, and galleries may not be working. We are slowly fixing these issue. If you spot any major malfunctions making it impossible to read the content, however, please let us know at editor AT theaureview.com.\nTrack of the Day: Ruby Tuesdays \"Why You Always Gotta Fight Me\" (2018)\nSeven essential Splendour in the Grass sideshows you can still get tickets for\nGames Review: TT Isle of Man: Ride on the Edge (PS4, 2018): Gotta go fast\nGotta go fast: The Crew 2 closed beta kicks off May 31\nTrack of the Day: Kaurna Cronin \"Gotta Get Outta This Place\" (2019)\nEvita and the Opera Australia productions you need to see in Sydney in\u2026\nTags: Alice Ivy, Amy Shark, Angus and Julia Stone, Featured, Kendrick Lamar, Khalid, Lorde, Sampa the Great, Splendour in the Grass, The Jungle Giants","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Developing a UV-Curable Bore Sealant\nCuringFinished Adhesives and SealantsFormulatorsManufacturers\nDeveloping a UV-Curable Bore Sealant\nFigure 1. Secondary Sealant Applied to the Metal Case's Outer Diameter\nFigure 2. Interactions Among the Material, its Application and the UV Light Source\nFigure 3. Output of Standard Mercury Bulbs\nKEYWORDS sealants for automotive \/ ultraviolet (UV) curing\nA UV-curable sealant that combines lean with green is well-suited for the automotive industry.\nOver the past 20 years, ultraviolet (UV)-curable adhesives and sealants have made continual strides in demanding, high-speed, high-volume applications. UV-curable materials offer reduced cycle times, smaller manufacturing footprints and less energy consumption. They are also safer to use in the workplace.\nRotating shaft seals are used in engine, transmission and axle-sealing applications. Each seal consists of an elastomer element bonded to a metal ring or case. In some designs, the outer diameter of the metal case is exposed. When the seal is installed into the bore of the engine or transmission block, the rough surface of the bore presents a potential fluid path that could ultimately lead to a leak of the service fluid. To eliminate this leak path, a secondary sealant is applied to the outer diameter of the metal case (see Figure 1).\nTraditionally, this sealant has been a nitrile rubber dissolved in a flammable solvent. After application of the sealant, the seals are either passed through an oven to speed the evaporation of the solvent or are kept in a vented hood until dry, creating a high level of work in process (WIP), a demand on floor space, and, when ovens are used, added capital and operating costs.\nThus, when design engineers sought a more viable process, the answer was a UV-curable sealant. But what does it take to introduce a new material into a high-volume application? The development of UV-curable sealants and adhesives requires a systematic approach that considers the interactions among the material, its application and the UV light source (see Figure, 2).\nA STRATEGIC APPROACH\nA typical UV-curable material consists of one or more oligomers, monomers, a photoinitiator and additives. UV-curable materials are classified by their cure chemistries as either free-radical or cationic. For the most part, UV-curable sealants are based on free-radical (acrylate) chemistry.\nCommercially available sealants are based on acrylate-functional urethane, epoxy or silicone oligomers. These oligomers are selected to meet the range of physical and environmental requirements of the particular application and normally make up the bulk of the formulation. Oligomers also contribute significantly to the sealant's viscosity. Next, monomers are added to adjust viscosity and enhance physical properties. For example, the hardness or stiffness of the bead can be increased with the addition of a monomer with a high glass-transition temperature (Tg).\nThese oligomers and monomers, however, are not reactive without the addition of a photoinitiator, an ingredient that decomposes when exposed to high-intensity light energy. Selection of a photoinitiator is critical. For instance, some photoinitiators are recommended for thin, clear coatings, while others are recommended for applications requiring thicker, pigmented layers. For UV sealants with bead heights of approximately 0.5 mm or greater, a photoinitiator for thick layers is recommended. Finally, additives such as pigments, de-aerators and adhesion promoters are included as needed.\nThe application of UV-curable sealants does not differ significantly from other types of sealants. The dispensing system includes a pump for delivering material and a valve. It also requires a method for rotating the part. The height and width of a dispensed bead are determined by two main factors: the flow rate from the dispense nozzle and the rotation speed of the part. The flow rate, in turn, is determined by the sealant's viscosity, the pressure applied by the pump, and the diameter of the tip used with the dispensing valve. The viscosity of commercially available UV-curable sealants typically ranges from 1,000-50,000 centipoise (cPs). For high-speed applications, if the viscosity is too high, the bead will not have time to wet the substrate and level before cure begins.\nFINDING A LIGHT SOURCE\nThe final component of a UV-curable sealant system is its light source. Both spot (local) and conveyor (continuous) light sources are available. Spot sources rely on high-pressure mercury vapor lamps that require electrodes. On the other hand, continuous sources use microwave energy to excite a mercury bulb without electrodes. Of the two types, spot sources can be used to cure the part directly at the point of sealant application.\nCuring sealants at high speed requires an understanding of both the spectral output and the intensity. Longer wavelength UV light penetrates deeper into the sealant bead than shorter wavelength light, providing greater depth of cure. Standard mercury bulbs produce much of their output at 365 nm and 400 nm (UVA) with additional peaks around 440 nm (blue) and 540 nm (red), as illustrated in Figure 3.\nWhile this broad emission may be adequate for thin, clear coatings, it is not ideal for thicker applications. As previously noted, the activity of the photoinitiator must be matched to the output of the light source\u2014but most commercial photoinitiators do not absorb light in the visible range, leaving only the lamp output at 365 nm and 400 nm to cure the sealant. The irradiance or light intensity at 400 nm is generally about half the level at 365 nm.\nAnother drawback with high-pressure mercury lamp sources is that the bulbs decay, typically at a rate of about half the original output after 1,000 hours. When establishing the cure conditions for a UV process, it is necessary to determine the minimum intensity needed to achieve the desired state of cure in the cycle time. The higher the minimum irradiance required to cure the part in the targeted cycle time, the shorter the life of the bulb. For processes running over multiple shifts, the operating costs can add up.\nFor this reason, continuous light sources offer several benefits. First, the bulbs can be doped with other metals, shifting the output of the lamp to more desired regions of the spectrum. Second, the electrode-less bulbs have longer life, lasting over 8,000 hours. The downside to this type of light source for these applications is the added footprint of the conveyor compared to a spot source.\nLonger wavelength, high-intensity UV-LED spot sources have recently entered the market and represent an attractive alternative to traditional high-pressure mercury bulbs. Unlike mercury lamps that have a broad spectral output, LEDs emit light at discrete energies, typically with bandwidths less than 10 nm. In addition to the standard 365 nm LED, diodes are available that emit at 385 nm and 400 nm, aiding the cure of thicker cross sections.\nLEDs also outlive even the electrode-less microwave lamps with lifetimes over 10,000 hours, while at the same time maintaining a steady irradiance. In other words, the intensity decays little over time. Because of these benefits, LED spot sources show promise for next-generation applications.\nMAKING IMPROVEMENTS\nWith the combination of the right sealant, application method and light source, the introduction of a UV-curable bore sealant has led to manufacturing benefits. The floor space required for sealant application has been reduced by at least 75%. Cycle times have been reduced from over 15 minutes to seconds, and work in process has been reduced from hundreds to single digits. All of this is possible while eliminating a source of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and reducing energy consumption.\nAlthough UV-curable materials come at a higher price than their traditional offsets, unlike solvent-containing sealants, they are 100% active. When the applied cost is determined, UV-curable materials are often at or below their conventional counterparts. Clearly, UV-curable sealants offer an ideal combination of lean with green.\nFor additional information, contact Freudenberg-NOK Sealing Technologies at 47690 East Anchor Court, Plymouth, MI 48170-2455; phone (800) 533-5656; or visit www.freudenberg-nok.com.\nMike Moore is a Senior Chemical Specialist at Freudenberg-NOK Sealing Technologies\nAn Explosion-Proof UV-Curable Sealant System\nCan we speed up curing of an UV adhesive\/sealant by using a full-spectrum bulb from the hardware store?\nAsk Dr. Dave: How can we ensure that UV-curable adhesives are always fully cured?\nEpoxy Technology Inc.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"2020 Election Facts First Election 101\nWhite House: 'We should have sent someone with a higher profile'\nBy Eric Bradner, CNN\nUpdated 9:44 AM EST, Wed January 14, 2015\nThe White House said it should have sent a higher-profile representative to a Paris unity march\nAt least 1.5 million people attended the anti-terrorism rally in France, including several world leaders\nSecretary of State John Kerry had a prior commitment in India with the new prime minister there\nPresident Barack Obama's administration admitted it erred by failing to send a higher-ranking representative of the United States to the Paris unity march on Sunday.\n\"I think it's fair to say that we should have sent someone with a higher profile to be there,\" White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Monday afternoon.\nHe said Obama himself would have liked to attend the march \"had the circumstances been a little different.\" But planning began Friday night, 36 hours before the event began, and there wasn't enough time for the \"onerous and significant\" security work that needed to take place ahead of a presidential visit, Earnest said. He said Obama's presence also would have meant extra restrictions on the people who were there.\n\"That said, there is no doubt that the American people and this administration stand foursquare behind our allies in France as they face down this threat,\" he said. \"And that was evident throughout last week.\"\nMore than 40 world leaders, including the British, German and Israeli heads of state and Russia's foreign minister, joined at least 1.5 million people on the Paris streets Sunday for a unity march that became France's biggest-ever public demonstration.\nActivist: Some leaders shouldn't have marched in Paris\nBut Obama and his administration's top hands were nowhere to be found \u2013 an absence that triggered complaints that he missed a key leadership opportunity.\nThe United States appeared to have options to send to the march: Obama spent Sunday at the White House with no public events on his schedule. Vice President Joe Biden was at home in Delaware for the weekend, also with a blank public schedule. Outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder was already in Paris for security meetings \u2013 and even recorded interviews with several U.S. Sunday morning programs \u2013 but he didn't attend the march.\nA Secret Service official said the agency was not asked to draw up security plans for a potential presidential trip to Paris in advance of Sunday's march.\n\"We weren't asked or notified about a trip,\" the official said. But the agency had Secret Service agents on the ground in Paris, per its standard operating procedure.\n\"It would have been a challenging advance \u2026 based on what we know,\" Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary said. But Leary did not say that such an advance would have been impossible.\nDuring the White House briefing, Earnest suggested security challenges were a factor in not having the president travel to Paris. But Earnest acknowledged the Secret Service could have pulled it off. An agency official noted previous \"last minute\" presidential trips have happened during the Obama presidency, including a hurried visit to South Africa in December 2013 for the memorial service for Nelson Mandela.\nThe White House noted that it was represented in Paris on Sunday \u2013 and has offered support to France in recent days.\nU.S. Ambassador to France Jane Hartley was in the march, as was assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. At a security summit, Holder was joined in those security meetings by deputy Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.\nObama personally visited the French Embassy in Washington last week to offer his support.\nSecretary of State John Kerry, meanwhile, will visit Paris on Friday.\nKerry skipped Monday's march because he was in India on Monday for a long-planned event there with new Prime Minister Narendra Modi \u2013 a key relationship as the United States tries to improve long-strained trade ties with the country.\nKerry brushed the criticism off as \"quibbling,\" saying he'll visit Paris on his way back to the United States to make \"crystal clear how passionately we feel\" about the attacks and response.\n\"The U.S. has been deeply engaged with the people of France since this incident occurred,\" Kerry told reporters, adding that the United States has offered intelligence and law enforcement help.\n\"This is sort of quibbling a little bit in the sense that our assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland was there and marched, our ambassador was there and marched, many people from the embassy were there and marched.\"\nFrance's ambassador to the United States, Gerard Araud, sought to show there are no hard feelings, tweeting on Monday: \"I am extremely grateful for the overwhelming support France has received from everybody here, from the President to the ordinary American.\"\nThe White House's push-back comes as Obama takes heat \u2013 particularly from Republicans considering 2016 presidential bids \u2013 for his absence.\nRick Perry tweeted that Obama \"should have stood with France in person to defend Western values and show support for victims.\"\nSen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) wrote for Time: \"Our President should have been there, because we must never hesitate to stand with our allies.\"\nAnd Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said Monday that \"it was a mistake not to send someone.\"\nRubio said on CBS' \"This Morning\" that he understands that the President's security detail can be problem in mass gatherings like the rally, but suggested Holder or Kerry should have gone in his place.\n\"I think in hindsight, I would hope, that they would do it differently,\" Rubio said.\nMillions gather against terrorism\nBritish Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov were among those who attended, along with religious leaders.\nWho did go\nFareed Zakaria, host of CNN's \"Global Public Square,\" called the absence of top U.S. officials a mistake.\nFrance is the United States' \"deepest ideological ally,\" he said, and it would have been a meaningful image to have a senior administration member, or the President, standing shoulder to shoulder with other leaders.\nZakaria noted that security concerns didn't dissuade Netanyahu or Abbas or other leaders from showing up. But Obama's absence did show that the struggle against radical Islam is \"not all about America,\" Zakaria said.\n\"Many people have tended to think that Islamic terrorism wouldn't exist without America,\" Zakaria said. \"This is really a struggle between the civilized world and a band of extremists. Even if you take the U.S. out of it \u2026 the civilized world is up in arms.\"\nAnd Jake Tapper, host of CNN's \"The Lead,\" said American leaders were conspicuously absent from historic Paris rally, perhaps the most important public demonstrations in Europe in the last generation.\nTapper not only called out the President and his administration, but also prospective 2016 hopefuls from both parties, for missing the opportunity to share in the global moment.\nWhat Obama said\nObama spoke about the Paris attacks on Friday, saying he wants the people of France to know the United States \"stands with you today, stands with you tomorrow.\"\nThe White House also announced Sunday that it will host a February 18 summit aimed at countering violent extremism.\nEarnest said that event will \"highlight domestic and international efforts to prevent violent extremists and their supporters from radicalizing, recruiting or inspiring individuals or groups in the United States and abroad to commit acts of violence, efforts made even more imperative in light of recent, tragic attacks in Ottawa, Sydney and Paris.\"\nHe said the summit will include presentations, panel discussions and small group meetings, focused on the local, state and federal government levels.\nCNN's Jim Acosta, Ashley Killough, Holly Yan, Jim Sciutto, Erin McPike and Ashley Fantz contributed to this report","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\"DYADECHKO SPORT FUND\" Sergiy Dyadechko foundation\nCharity Dyadechko Sport Fund (DSF) Fund was established at the initiative of Ukrainian businessman Sergei Dyadechko to ensure the development of sports in Ukraine and promote healthy lifestyles among the population of our country.\nDyadechko Sergey for years served as president of basketball club \"Donetsk\", and in this period paid special attention to the children's school basketball club and organization of sports tournaments for children and youth in the region. He is currently successfully implementing his management talent and skills as the head of the basketball club \"Monaco\", which under his direction in a short time transformed from an outsider into the flagship of French basketball.\nAccumulated by Dyadechko Sergei rich organizational experience and financial resources allows the fund effectively provide technical assistance to improve the quality of the sports events, make the promotion of sports and outdoor activities in all population groups of our country.\nThe priority objectives of the fund Sergey Dyadechko identified as revival and development of various kinds of sports, attracting the attention of the citizens of Ukraine to the sporting events and the motivation of our fellow citizens to actively engage in sports themselves. First of all, it concerns children and youth, as only healthy and strong nation will be able to ensure the future prosperity of our country.\nTo successfully solve strategic tasks Dyadechko Sport Fund will encourage the desire to sports in enthusiasts and professionals of any gender, age and skill to perfection and the highest achievements. The Foundation is always ready for open cooperation in the principle of mutual benefit with all those who share our beliefs, and goes to the same purpose.\nFund Mission\nprovide sports development, providing technical assistance, organizational experience and financial resources to improve the quality of sports activities and the promotion of sport and health, as active leisure.\nFund Objectives\ncontribute to the revival and development of various kinds of sports, to attract people's attention to sporting events, to stimulate increased interest in the sport.\nFund Strategy\nencourage the pursuit of excellence and the highest achievements, to achieve maximum effectiveness, comply with the principle of openness and cooperation.\nFund DSF opens a new season of American football in Ukraine\nOn Sunday, May 6, the White Church hosted a match of the opening of a new season in the Top League of the Ukrainian League of American Football More\nPresident Sergey Dyadechko: \"Strengthening the team for the playoffs\"\nJakuba Ouattara will join Roca Team! President of BC Monaco Sergei Dyadechko agreed to comment on the return of Jakuba Ouattara home More\n\"Monaco\" of Sergey Dyadechko set a French basketball record\n\"Monaco\" of Sergey Dyadechko set a French basketball record, having won the \"Leaders Cup\" for the third year More\n\"Harvest\" of records in the final of the Cup of Ukraine in Strongmen with the support of Sergey Dyadechko\nOn the last Sunday September 17 in Vinnitsa Final of the Cup of Ukraine on Strongmen took place. More\nFounder About fund Partners Media\nNews Gallery Projects Contacts\n\u00a9 Copyrights 2006-2017 \"Dyadechko Sport Fund\". All rights reserved. When using the site materials reference to the site is required.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Coronavirus: Summer baseball league delays start; Kelowna, Victoria announce cancelled seasons\nBy Doyle Potenteau Global News\nPosted May 8, 2020 6:45 pm\nThe West Coast League, a summer league made of college players, says it is pushing back the start of its season from June to hopefully July. But on Friday, the Kelowna Falcons and Victoria HarbourCats both announced they had cancelled their 2020 seasons. Susan Miller\nThe college boys of summer won't be coming to the Okanagan or Vancouver Island this year.\nOn Friday, the West Coast League announced that it was pushing back the start of its season, from early June to potentially early July because of the coronavirus pandemic.\nThat delay, however, had some teams in the short-season baseball league deciding to put away their cleats, mitts and bats for 2020.\nREAD MORE: Play ball! Korean baseball league begins in empty stadiums\nThe Kelowna Falcons were one of those teams, along with the Victoria HarbourCats. Those two clubs are the only B.C. franchises in the WCL, a league which also operates in Washington state and Oregon.\n\"Nothing is more important to our club then the health and safety of our fans, players, coaches, umpires and staff,\" said Kelowna Falcons general manager Mark Nonis.\n\"Despite the improvements we've heard in B.C. from health officials, we don't anticipate a return to play until late summer or sometime in the fall.\"\nNoting that nearly all of Kelowna's road games take place in the U.S., Nonis said,\"without any ability to really predict when it will be safe and responsible to return or watch, a number of teams have made the difficult decision to cancel season.\"\n1:54 State of Lethbridge baseball uncertain as COVID-19 postponements continue\nIn Victoria, the HarbourCats said the team looks \"forward to a strong return in 2021, when we anticipate being joined on Vancouver Island by the expansion Nanaimo franchise, due to be officially named this summer.\"\nOther WCL teams that cancelled their seasons were the Bend Elks, Bellingham Bells and Corvallis Knights.\n2:03 How will sports leagues restart in the pandemic?\nThe league said its remaining teams will continue to pursue their options.\n\"While the existing constraints make it clear that 2020 will not look like a traditional West Coast League season, all of our teams \u2014 whether playing this season or not \u2014 remain committed to bringing baseball to our loyal fans, both this summer and in 2021,\" said the league.\nREAD MORE: Coronavirus: Cancellation of CFL season is 'most likely scenario', commissioner says\nWith Kelowna not playing in 2020, WCL commissioner Rob Neyer said, \"it's obviously a big blow to the league. But we know Kelowna will be back in 2021, so we're considering this just a brief pause in the Falcons' wonderful history, with better things to come.\"\nAccording to the league, 90 former and current players of WCL teams were selected in the 2019 MLB draft, including No. 1 overall pick Adley Rutschman, a Portland product and catcher who was selected by the Baltimore Orioles.\nRutschman, who was playing for Oregon State when Baltimore drafted him, played for the Corvallis Knights in 2016. His father coached the Knights from 1999-2004.\n1:47 CFL Players' Association prepares players for life after football\nCOVID-19COVIDKelownabc coronavirusSportsBaseballBCVictoriaOregonKelowna FalconsVictoria HarbourCatscollege baseballsummer baseball\nSportsnet.ca","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Analyst Update: Altera, Eli Lilly and Co, and Vertex\nAnalysts adjusted their ratings on ALTR, LLY, and VRTX\nLLY\nVRTX\nAnalysts are weighing in today on semiconductor firm Altera Corporation (NASDAQ:ALTR), as well as drug developers Eli Lilly and Co (NYSE:LLY) and Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ:VRTX). Here's a quick look at today's brokerage notes on ALTR, LLY, and VRTX.\nALTR is nearly 3% higher at $38.20, following a round of price-target hikes from no fewer than five brokerage firms. The most ambitious among them is courtesy of Raymond James, which lifted its target by $5 to $45, and reiterated a \"strong buy\" opinion. Earlier, in fact, shares of Altera Corporation hit an annual high of $38.34, and longer term, they're up 17.5% year-to-date. Options traders remain unconvinced, however. ALTR's 10-day put\/call volume ratio at the International Securities Exchange (ISE), Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), and NASDAQ OMX PHLX (PHLX) is a brow-raising 29.91, as nearly 30 puts have been bought to open for every call over the last two weeks. What's more, this number ranks just 1 percentage point shy of a 12-month high. However, a portion of these bearish positions may have been initiated by shareholders protecting against a pullback.\nLLY has tacked on 3.1% to trade at $73.25, and earlier hit a fresh decade peak of $75.10, after Morgan Stanley upgraded the stock to \"overweight\" from \"underweight,\" and boosted its price target to $85 from $60. On the charts, the shares have put on a show, advancing nearly 44% in 2014, ushered higher by their ascending 20-week moving average. That said, additional bullish brokerage notes could be forthcoming, potentially providing a tailwind. Three-fifths of covering analysts rate Eli Lilly and Co a \"hold\" or worse, and the stock's consensus 12-month price target of $68.16 represents a discount to current trading levels.\nVRTX is benefiting from a massive price-target hike to $130 from $94 at Credit Suisse -- though the brokerage firm reiterated a tepid \"neutral\" opinion on the shares. Specifically, the stock has rallied almost 4% to trade at $121.78, and earlier touched an all-time high of $122.26. What's more, year-to-date, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated has gained roughly 64%. Not surprisingly, traders at the ISE, CBOE, and PHLX have been betting bullishly in recent weeks. VRTX's 10-day call\/put volume ratio across these exchanges is 9.24, or in the 97th percentile of its annual range.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Student creates wristband which alerts bar staff when someone is being harassed\nHattie GladwellMonday 27 May 2019 3:56 pm\nBeatriz has made the wristband to stop harrassment (Picture: Edinburgh Napier University \/ SWNS)\nA university student has created a colour-changing wristband which alerts friends and nightclub staff if someone is being harassed.\n21-year-old Beatriz Carvalho created the discreet wristband, along with a smartphone app, after suffering from harassment as a teenager.\nThe Edinburgh Napier product design student said she wanted to come up with a savvy invention for her fourth year project which will help victims and educate perpetrators.\nLux, the wristband and app, connects friends on a night out and sends them and bar or nightclub staff an alert if the wearer is feeling distressed or intimidated.\nBeatriz said: 'I settled on creating something that was educational as well as preventative.\n'The aim of Lux is first and foremost to help keep its wearer safe.\nBeatriz Carvalho with her wristband (Picture: Edinburgh Napier University \/ SWNS)\n'It's also there to identify behaviour on nights out that is going too far and to help educate the perpetrator that this sort of thing isn't acceptable.\n'It's important that people who do potentially harass and step over the line learn to not do this sort of thing again \u2013 that's really the only way that things will improve.'\nThe product design student added that the invention stemmed from her own experiences of harassment.\nShe said: 'It's also been a personal project. I experienced harassment while I was at High School and there are certain triggers that bring that horrible memory back.\n'It's the same for people who have experienced something like this in a nightclub or at a gig.\n'No one should be scared of going out and Lux could be the difference for many \u2013 it could act like a safety net.'\nThe gender inclusive wristband can be linked to an app which friends can join before heading on a night out.\nIt lights up when someone is feeling intimidated (Picture: Edinburgh Napier University \/ SWNS)\nIf the wearer finds themselves in a threatening, distressing or uncomfortable situation, they can tap the wristband to trigger an alert sent to friends through the app.\nA double tap will make the wristband light up and send a second alarm to bar and nightclub staff.\nThe bars involved will have to sign up to the scheme to make sure they receive the alerts, which they will get through the app, and by seeing the glowing wristband.\nBeatriz said: 'Sexual harassment and behaviour that makes people uncomfortable is a complex subject.\nMore: School\n'Many people want to shy away from it and pretend that it doesn't happen.\n'I've always been of the view that it is good to talk about these sort of things so that more people know what sort of behaviour is acceptable and what isn't.\n'I think Lux has the potential to play a big part in allowing these conversations to happen.'\nMORE: I wear a wedding ring to avoid being sexually harassed, not because I'm married\nMORE: Pub lets you swap homegrown vegetables for pints or puddings\nLifeSchool\nWhat I Rent: Ashley and Niall, \u00a3500 a month for a two-bedroom flat in Northwich\nTransgender soldier who served in Iraq and Afghanistan starts modelling\nMan who drank heavily every night ditches alcohol and loses four stone\nYes I'm a hijab-wearing personal trainer\u2026 so what?\nYou can buy Opal Fruits again \u2013 22 years after the sweets were renamed Starburst\nHome \u203a Lifestyle","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"RusHydro, Chinese Firms Ink Deals for Conventional, Pumped-Storage Development\nsource: http:\/\/www.dailyenergyreport.com\/rushydro-chinese-firms-ink-deals-for-conventional-pumped-storage-development\/\nEnergy giant RusHydro has announced the signing of two deals with Chinese firms that could lead to the development of five hydroelectric power projects in Russia. The first deal calls for the Russian utility and PowerChina to venture in the development of the 1,560 MW Leningradskaya pumped-storage plant. RusHydro will hold 51% interest in the joint venture, while PowerChina will control the remainder. The second preliminary agreement could see the Russian utility develop four hydropower projects in the country's eastern region with China Three Gorges Corporation.\nSuzlon Energy Installs World's Tallest Hybrid Wind Turbine\nIndia's biggest wind energy solutions company, Suzlon Energy, is looking to expand its product line as it gets ready to take advantage of notable reforms that the government is expected to implement in the wind energy sector. Suzlon recently unveiled the tallest hybrid wind turbine as its 2.1 MW generator sits atop a 120 meter tower. The turbine is located in the western state of Gujarat, which boasts the third-largest installed wind energy capacity in the country.\nUnlike Other Tech Giants, Amazon Chooses Coal\nApple is powering its data centers with 100% renewable energy. Facebook is looking to do the same, and is purchasing huge quantities of wind power in Iowa to power its data center there. However, one internet star is moving the other direction. Unfortunately, Amazon \u2013 unlike Google, Apple, Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft \u2013 has made no effort to use sustainable energy. And it may get even dirtier soon as news has been trickling that Amazon's next data center will be located in Ohio, one of the states in the US that is powered heavily by coal.\nG20 Spends $88 Billion Annually for Fossil-Fuel Exploration\nA study shows that the G20 group of major economies spends around $88 billion a year on fossil-fuel exploration, five years after pledging to phase out industry subsidies. Spending of $17 billion and $11.3 billion by state-backed oil firms Saudi Arabian Oil Co. and Petrolio Brasileiro SA are the biggest components in the funding gathered by the Overseas Development Institute and Oil Change International. G20 nations in 2009 agreed to wean out inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption without defining their criteria. Ministers from those countries and another 170 will gather next month in Peru to draft texts in the fight against climate change.\nSick of Paying an Outrageous Electric & Gas Bills? http:\/\/reduceandsaveenergy.com\/switch","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"A man rides a new Skip e-scooter through UN Plaza on Monday, Oct. 15, 2018. (Kevin N. Hume\/S.F. Examiner)\nSkip pulls fleet off San Francisco streets after e-scooter catches fire in D.C.\nCompany decides to suspend service out of 'abundance of caution'\nMichael Barba\nJun. 2, 2019 5:00 p.m.\nOne of only two e-scooter companies operating in San Francisco is temporarily taking its vehicles off city streets after the battery on a scooter caught fire last week in Washington, D.C.\nA spokesperson for Skip confirmed Sunday that the vehicles were being removed out of an \"abundance of caution\" until the company can share the results of an investigation into the incident with transit officials.\n\"There is still no reason to believe that this affects any other vehicles in our fleet after days investigating all potential causes of the incident, including foul play,\" Skip spokesperson Martha Shaughnessy said.\nNo one was injured in the incident, but the flames caused minor damage to a nearby wall, according to Shaughnessy.\nShaughnessy said Skip also decided to suspend service in Washington, D.C.\nThe scooters are expected to be back in service either Monday or Tuesday.\nThe company is permitted to operate 800 e-scooters in San Francisco that are available to rent through a smartphone app.\nSkip and its competitor Scoot were allowed to roll out their vehicles in The City last year under a pilot program from the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.\nSafety was among the criteria the companies had to demonstrate to be chosen for the highly-competitive program.\n\"While this is an inconvenience to customers, we appreciate that Skip is putting safety first,\" SFMTA spokesperson Paul Rose said Sunday. \"We are going to closely monitor their investigation as they determine whether or not this was an isolated incident, before we comment on any possible next steps.\"\nThe multi-billion dollar industry has grown in cities across the country as companies vie for operating permits.\nIn October, the SFMTA Board of Directors is expected to consider approving and expanding its permits.\nS.F. Examiner Staff Writer Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez contributed to this report.\nThis report has been updated to reflect that Skip was permitted to operate 800 e-scooters as of Friday by the SFMTA, information Skip provided in a Monday update. Previously they were allowed to operate 625 e-scooters in San Francisco.\nSF Muni operators overwhelmingly approve their contract\nSF to pay $400K settlement to mother of Mario Woods over fatal police shooting","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Michael J Fox Foundation\n2017-03-23news-articleNews<p>The Motion Analysis Laboratory at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital has launched a study entitled &ldquo;EMG modules as a novel biomarker of basal ganglia plasticity in Parkinson&rsquo;s disease&rdquo;.<\/p>\nSpaulding Motion Analysis Lab Receives Grant from Michael J. Fox Foundation for Study to Identify Biomarker for Parkinsons Disease\n(Boston, MA)- The Motion Analysis Laboratory at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital has launched a study entitled \"EMG modules as a novel biomarker of basal ganglia plasticity in Parkinson's disease\". Researchers at Spaulding intend to investigate if it is possible to use muscle activity patterns as a biomarker for Parkinson's disease. The study funded by the Michael J. Fox Foundation aims to identify specific characteristics of muscle activity that could be linked to changes within the brain that are associated with Parkinson's disease.\nCurrently, there is no definitive, objective biomarker or test to diagnose Parkinson's disease and monitor its progression. A Parkinson's disease biomarker \u2013 i.e. a substance or subject's characteristic associated with disease presence or that changes over time in a way that can be linked to the disease progression - would revolutionize clinical care. Paolo Bonato, PhD, Director of the Spaulding Motion Analysis Lab, serves as the principal investigator on the study and Jean-Francois Daneault, PhD serves as the project lead in the laboratory.\n\"We hope the results of this investigation will make a significant difference in our ability to diagnose and monitor the progression on Parkinson's disease\", says Dr. Bonato.\nThe study team is looking for individuals that have just been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and are not taking any related medications as well as healthy volunteers. Participants will be compensated for their time. The study requires from 1 to 4 visits to Spaulding to complete the study.\nIndividuals can visit https:\/\/foxtrialfinder.michaeljfox.org\/trial\/4478\/ to learn more about the study and http:\/\/srh-mal.net\/ to learn more about the Motion Analysis Laboratory at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital.\nFounded in 1971, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston is one of the largest rehabilitation facilities in the United States, and is ranked the 5th top rehabilitation hospital in the country by U.S. News & World Report. As the official teaching hospital of the Harvard Medical School Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), Spaulding is at the forefront of research in advances in rehabilitative care. In April 2013, Spaulding opened a new 132-bed facility in Charlestown which is a national model for environmental and inclusive design. With a wide range of inpatient programs and 25 outpatient centers throughout Eastern Massachusetts, Spaulding strives to continually update and improve its programs to offer patients the latest, high-quality care through its leading, expert providers. Spaulding has been awarded a Model Systems designation in three specialty areas- Brain Injury, Spinal Cord Injury and Burn Injury Rehabilitation- by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research. For more information, please visit www.spauldingrehab.org","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Kilchoman's MacLellan loses cancer fight\n29 March 2016 by Becky Paskin\nJohn MacLellan, distillery manager of Kilchoman and a long-standing figure of the Scotch whisky community, passed away on Sunday following a battle with cancer.\nJohn MacLellan (1955-2016), was a long-standing and loved member of the Scotch whisky industry.\nJohn, who had been living with prostate cancer for several years, passed away at his home, near Port Charlotte on Islay.\nHis whisky legacy began in 1989 when he joined Bunnahabhain distillery, helping the brand emerge as a single malt for the first time in 100 years.\nHe eventually became distillery manager and stayed on at the site when it was sold to Burn Stewart in 2003.\nIn 2010, after 21 years' service, John decided to leave Bunnahabhain and join the fledgling Kilchoman as distillery manager.\nDuring his time at the distillery, John played a major role in the launch of Kilchoman 100% Islay, and the brand's first core expression, Machir Bay.\nHowever John was diagnosed with prostate cancer and took leave from his role at Kilchoman in 2014.\nIn December last year, Kilchoman auctioned its first 10-year-old bottling, from the very first cask laid down at the distillery, raising \u00a37,000 for the Beatson Cancer Charity, which aided John in his final months.\nHis family \u2013 wife Lindy, daughter Rosie and son Sandy \u2013 have started a tribute fund in John's name, with the aim of raising \u00a35,000 for the Beatson Cancer Charity. Donations can be made here.\nA statement from Kilchoman distillery, posted on its Facebook page, said: 'John MacLellan sadly passed away on Sunday. He will be a huge loss to us at Kilchoman and to all that knew him.\n'His impact at the distillery has been immense and we will all miss him greatly. The huge number of kind words we have received in the past few days from all over the world are testament to John and the affection everyone had for him.\n'Our thoughts are with Lindy, Sandy and Rosie.'\nJohn MacLellan had an intense passion and energy for the whisky industry.\u200b\n'In 2010 we were looking for a manager, hoping to attract someone with experience beyond production to help us grow Kilchoman globally,' he said. 'We never dreamt that someone of John's experience would believe in what we were doing so much that he would want to join us. He brought with him a wealth of knowledge, a dry sense of humour and a massive following within the whisky world, putting Kilchoman on the map.\n'John worked well with everyone but especially enjoyed working alongside the younger members of staff praising them when things were done well and encouraging them to make the most of their abilities wherever they worked.\n'On a personal note, I will miss his positive attitude, his support, his wealth of knowledge and a willingness to get his hands dirty helping in every area of the distillery, even clearing tables in the caf\u00e9. What I have learnt from him will continue to help build Kilchoman and I will always be grateful.'\nAnthony Wills, founder, Kilchoman distillery\n'I first met John when he was manager at Bunnahabhain. It was a time when the whisky was little known. His office door was always open, my calls always answered, all areas could be accessed. It was part of who he was \u2013 going that extra mile to help, to teach, to joke.\n'Thanks to him Bunnahabhain started doing Feis bottlings. Irritated that the then owners weren't embarking on the same route as Islay's other distilleries, he and the team at the still took it upon themselves to join the trend. The bottlings, of course, were legendary. John, after all, knew where the best casks were.\n'He has faith in what he and the team were making. The smile on his face when, a few years later, Bunnahabhain was relaunched as a single malt at an event on the Royal Yacht Britannia made you think for a moment that the vessel was his.\n'He took a similar hands-on approach when he joined Kilchoman \u2013 an inspired appointment. Here was a manager who understood whisky, a man who knew Islay, a person who could steer a new whisky into maturity, a steady hand on the tiller.\n'He always had time for a lengthy chat and that sense of humour was undimmed. I recall coming across him in the depth of the distillery standing next to a plastic bin filled with whisky, a teapot in his hand. \"You realise Dave,\" he said, \"this teapot holds exactly 75cl.\" With that he continued bottling that year's Feis launch. It was a very Islay moment; it was a very John moment.\n'He enriched so many people's lives and was deservedly proud of his son and daughter, always finding a chance to praise their achievements. My thoughts are with them and his wife, Lindy.\n'As ever at times like these you wish that you had managed to say goodbye. I deeply regret I never managed to. Rest in peace John and thank you.'\nDave Broom, chief engineer, Scotchwhisky.com\n'The island is saddened by John's passing. He was a very popular man and well respected by us all, not just as a distiller but also for fund raising for various charities, in particular the Islay Pipe Band in which his son, Sandy, was member. John raised a great deal of money to buy instruments and support the band on their visits to the mainland and his efforts paid off as the band has gone on to become a Grade 2 band, which is a huge achievement.\n'In his earlier years he was a very keen soccer player and I played both with him and against him. With his long hair held in place with a head band he would go flying down the wing like a gazelle on speed trying to score from crazy angles \u2013 most times not, but when he did it was a thing of beauty. The only way I was able to stop him was to run straight into him and most times he would leave me on my arse, cursing.\n'As a distiller his passion was a burning flame; he had time for all who were interested in Islay's whiskies, not just Bunnahabhain and Kilchoman but the others as well. He was a true son of Islay both at home or on tour at the many events he participated in around the globe, preaching the gospel of the place and its people.\n'He also had a very dry sense of humor and loved nothing more than winding up his fellow distillers. As he walked away you would think, \"did he just say that?\" but by the time you worked it out he was gone with a big smile on his face, thinking \"another one bites the dust\".\n'John has gone to claim his angel's share and left a legacy of brilliant spirits behind and for many years to come thousands will share in his passion and skills. He becomes part of the revered list of Islay distillers who have served their island well and will be remembered for his passion, pride and his amazing courage in the battle he fought so valiantly against his illness. He never looked for sympathy nor showed sadness when you spoke with him about his illness. He did not wish to make you feel ill at ease in his company \u2013 he wanted to enjoy your company. For John, every day was a bonus. A lesson for us all to remember.\n'The thoughts and sympathy of all the Ileachs are with Lindy, Rosie and Sandy at this time and we feel their loss.'\nJim McEwan, former master distiller, Bruichladdich\n'We have lost one of the most charismatic gentlemen of the whisky industry, a true Islay boy from the village of Port Charlotte. And we have lost a friend.\n'John was an energetic and cheerful person, always welcoming his visitors with a mischievous smile, keen to tease his fellow distillery manager colleagues.\n'When he started working at Kilchoman distillery, he showed passion and energy, never lacking ideas and projects. Illness tragically knocked all that promising future down. John was passionate about whisky and about Islay too, especially his native village Port Charlotte. He beamed with this wonderful sense of community that makes Islay so special. The whisky world has lost a great character; Islay has lost a dedicated ambassador. I know his son Sandy will play a moving tune on his bagpipe when Islay comes to say farewell.'\nMartine Nouet, whisky writer and educator\nFrom the editors 08 June 2016\nKilchoman's lessons for whisky start-ups\nThe construction and early life of the Islay distillery is part cautionary tale, part inspiration.\nFestivals and events 27 May 2016\nF\u00e8is \u00ccle Day 6: Kilchoman and Jura\nIslay's newest distillery showcased its maturing quality, sharing the day with neighbouring Jura.\nIn depth 30 December 2016\nThe 10 most read Scotch stories of 2016\nRecalling a year of shocks, surprises, new whiskies, fake bottles and controversy.\nIn depth 19 February 2018\nIslay's single malt expansion\nThe latest moves on 'Whisky Island', including new, revived and expanding distilleries.\nNew Whiskies 31 May 2016\nBatch 45: F\u00e8is \u00ccle 2016 Part 2\nOur festival special ends with Bunnahabhain, Caol Ila, Jura, Kilchoman, Lagavulin and Laphroaig.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Books: The Best Books of 2015 According to a Panel of 10 Experts. Our Ninth Expert \u2013 Ruth Nichol\nRuth Nichol | Guest writer\nWellington journalist and former books pages editor Ruth Nichol chooses the novel that many of our experts also chose. Just go and buy it, okay?\nI briefly thought Anne Tyler's latest novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, would win the Man Booker Prize. What's not to like \u2013 it's clever, witty, wise and much more complex than it first seems.\nThen I remembered that most Man Booker winners are either a load of old tosh (I give you Howard Jacobson's The Finkler Question) or they make you work really, really hard. A Spool of Blue Thread never stood a chance; it's much too engaging.\nSet, like most of Tyler's novels, in the comfortable middle-class suburbs of Baltimore, it's the story of the Whitshank family \u2013 Red and Abby and their four adult children. Three of the four are married with children of their own; they live in close \u2013 though not always comfortable \u2013 proximity to their parents. The fourth, Denny, has long since quit the nest but he reappears from time to time, upsetting at least one family member in the process.\nTyler is an accomplished chronicler of family life and she's in top form here. A Spool of Blue Thread has a few unexpected plot twists that create brief moments of excitement. But the real pleasure of the book comes from Tyler's ability to create characters who are real and recognisable, and whose dialogue is so pitch-perfect you could be sitting in your own living room.\nCracking out three big novels in a year and a half is an impressive achievement \u2013 especially when, like Jane Smiley's Last Hundred Years trilogy, they are well-written, exhaustively researched and provide a deeply satisfying reading experience.\nThe first in the series, Some Luck, was published in 2014. It's been closely followed by the next two, Early Warning and Golden Age, both of which were published this year.\nIt was an ambitious project. The trilogy \u2013 effectively one book in three instalments \u2013 follows the fortunes of the Langdon family over 100 years, starting on their Iowa farm in 1920 and finishing in various US locations in 2020.\nBut Smiley pulls it off. Passion, pain, birth, death, war, politics, the GFC, global warming and the 2016 US elections (she predicts a Bush victory) \u2013 it's all there. At times you sense the author pulling the strings to make sure her characters are close to the big events of American history. The vast cast of characters can get confusing too, though the family tree at the start of each book helps.\nAnd the trilogy definitely deliver the goods. I have recently become a Last-Hundred-Years-mule, distributing my copies of the three books around a growing group of friends keen to get their next Smiley hit.\nBritish writer Simon Mawer flies a bit under the radar, though his excellent novel The Glass Room \u2013 set in Czechoslovakia shortly before the Second World War \u2013 was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2009.\nSince then he's gone more mainstream, first with The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, published in 2012, and this year its sequel, Tightrope.\nYou probably don't have to have to have read The Girl Who Fell from the Sky to appreciate Tightrope, though it would help. Both feature Marian Sutro, a Nancy Wake-like character who in the first book parachutes into south-west France as a special operations executive and is promptly captured by the Germans and sent to Ravensbruck.\nIn Tightrope we catch up with Marian in Britain after the war; it's all dull afternoon teas and flower arranging. Before long, she's back in the spying game and soon she's caught up in complicated Cold War intrigue: double agents, Russian spies, the lot.\nIt sounds silly and Mawer himself has likened Marian to a female James Bond. But she's a lot more than that. Mawer is good on the spying stuff, but he also skilfully conveys the uncertainties, the ambiguities and the occasionally maddening behaviour of a woman who has been scarred by unspeakable experiences.\nThe Spinoff Review of Books is proudly brought to you by Unity Books, recently named 2020 International Book Store of the Year, London Book Fair, and Creative New Zealand. Visit Unity Books Wellington or Unity Books Auckland online stores today.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Stop using these baby formulas, the FDA says, after 4 infants are hospitalized\nBing Guan\nSimilac powdered baby formula with an expiration date on or after April 1, 2022, and a code containing K8, SH or Z2 with the first digits of 22 through 37 are part of a voluntary recall by its manufacturer, Abbott Nutrition.\nThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration is advising consumers not to use some powdered baby formulas after identifying four bacterial infections linked to the products. One of the cases was fatal.\nAbbott Nutrition, which makes the Similac, Alimentum and EleCare brands, on Thursday issued a voluntary recall of certain formulas manufactured at its plant in Sturgis, Mich., where the formulas involved in the infections were produced.\nYou can check if your powdered formula is affected by inspecting the code printed near the expiration date. Affected products have a code beginning with first two digits of 22 through 37 and containing K8, SH or Z2 and have an expiration date of April 1, 2022, or later.\nLiquid baby formula and all other products produced by Abbott Nutrition are not affected.\nAbbott Nutrition said it is cooperating with the FDA investigation into the three Cronobacter sakazakii infections and one salmonella infection, all of which required hospitalization. The one fatal case has not been confirmed to be solely related to a Cronobacter infection, according to the FDA.\nThe FDA said environmental samples from the facility have yielded positive results for the Cronobacter bacteria, but there have been no reports of salmonella so far. A review of Abbott's records show that the company has destroyed products in the past due to the presence of Cronobacter.\nCronobacter infections are rare but can be especially dangerous for newborn babies.\nSymptoms of a Cronobacter infection include poor feeding, jaundice and grunting breaths, according to the FDA. Those infected with salmonella might experience fever, diarrhea and abdominal cramps.\n\"We value the trust parents place in us for high quality and safe nutrition,\" Abbott said in a statement provided to NPR. \"We'll do whatever it takes to keep that trust and resolve this situation.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Drunk as a Skunk\nThere's a common cliche among leftists criticizing conservatives who insist on religious freedom: \"Don't those morons know that this applies to their enemies?\" On the contrary this started with a controversy about the religions of Native Americans, a group not normally thought of as right wing. The original law was passed with bipartisan support. It's the left that changed what passes for their minds about it. It looks like leftists are the morons who didn't know that this can apply to their enemies.\nI'm reminded of the following quote from The Midas Plague by Frederik Pohl:\nHowland was there, drunk as a skunk, disgracefully drunk, Morey remembered thinking as he stared up at Howland from the floor.\nI suspect the protestors are concentrating on Indiana because it does not have a reputation for being far right. They think Indiana can be embarrassed into submission but they think South Carolina can't. If they were merely fund raising they would protest other states but they need a scalp.\nA far-fetched but plausible speculation: A few days ago, it suddenly became well known that conservatives could also field an army of people with too much free time. The Left had to come up with a scalp in a hurry to maintain the illusion of inevitability and this was their best shot.\nAdvice for the Left\nIf you must come up with something to embarrass the right, I recommend hiring an illegal alien and claiming that it's required by the Biblical commandment to be fair to strangers (Exodus 22:21).\nHow to Prevent Maniac Pilots from Crashing Planes\nJust let the passengers fly the plane. Daedalus of New Scientist recommended a similar system for buses:\nMy cyberdemotic friend Daedalus has been weighing the theoretical advantages of buses against the inconvenience of waiting for infrequent vehicles. Smaller and more frequent buses would be preferable but for the expense of manning them. Daedalus remembers the supermarket principle\u2014let the customer do for himself what a worker once did for him\u2014and suggests that the passengers drive the bus themselves. His 'collective responsibility vehicle' has a steering wheel, controls, and TV view of the road ahead, for every seat; and each passenger is invited to help drive if he can. A central mini-computer scans the signals from each steering wheel, accelerator, etc. discards the most extreme values and averages the rest for transmission to the traction unit. Thus individual aberrations (the road-hog, or the man who wants to haul the bus off-route to his own doorstep) have no effect, but the mass knowledge of driving and of the bus-route are pooled. Of course, if everybody wants the bus to take an unofficial route, democracy wins, as it should.\nThink of it as crowd soaring or wiki-flying.\nA Study I'd Like to See\nThere's a common technique in psychological research: Researchers give the experimental subjects fabricated data. Much of the time, the subjects refuse to believe it. This is classified as irrational behavior. I'd like to see a parody version of this in which the fabricated data point in a preposterous direction. (For example: \"Recent research has shown that the Moon really is made of green cheese.\" or \"Mathematicians have discovered the number 5 comes after the number six.\" or \"There never was a World Trade Center. It was actually a giant pair of stereo speakers.\" or \u2026)\nThis might even rival the classic article in the BMJ on double-blind tests of parachutes.\nA Note on \"Agreeing to Disagree\"\nAccording to the Aumann's agreement theorem, disagreement might seem irrational. On the other hand, if we use a system of expressing \"what your personal analysis says while simultaneously adjusting your private opinions (which might be revealed in your actions) closer to the opinions of the majority,\" then disagreements are more apparent than real. In such a system, \"agreeing to disagree\" can turn into \"You look for evidence for X and I'll look for evidence for Y,\" which makes sense if one person knows more about X (for example, if it was the religion he was raised in) and the other more about Y. This even makes \"confirmation bias\" look more rational.\nOn the other hand, this makes refusal to listen to a dissenter far less rational. It should be reserved for persons who are not arguing in good faith.\nFuzzy Matching and Data Compression\nCould data compression be used to detect similar files? Many data-compression algorithms work by detecting repeated patterns. If two similar files were concatenated, they could be compressed far more than if two unrelated files were concatenated.\nHow's That Again?\nFrom a book catalog:\nFilling a much-needed gap in the current literature, this book expertly bridges the subjects of number theory and programming and features a multitude of examples and programming exercises in each chapter. It provides an introduction to elementary number theory with fundamental coverage of computer programming and is appropriate for students of mathematics and computer science alike who need to become acquainted with the most famous theorems, problems, and concepts of number theory. In addition, the authors provide a comprehensive presentation of the methodology and applications for readers with various levels of experience, and while theorems are provided, the authors avoid the standard theorem\/proof format to aid in reader comprehension. The book features sample programs and research challenges at the end of each chapter for readers to work through, as well as an appendix that provides select answers to the chapter exercises.\nI noticed this in the dead-tree version of Wiley's catalog and was able to find a bookseller with the thinko in its book description in time to send the url to the Internet Archive.\nThe Case of the Missing Argument\nOne of the commonest left-wing arguments is \"All the cool nations do this.\" For some reason, it's absent from the net-neutrality debate. Of course, if we look at what the \"cool nations\" have actually done:\nIf the administration decides to look abroad for answers, it will see that see that countries such as Japan, South Korea and France have developed faster and less expensive broadband networks, but have also refrained thus far from implementing strict net neutrality rules.\nIf Voters Resent Foreign Interference in Elections \u2026\nThe attempts by the Obama administration to tilt against Netanyahu in the recent Israeli election might have energized Netanyahu's base simply because many voters resent foreign interference in elections. On the other hand, the open letter to Iran from Republican Senators might have energized the opposition for the same reason.\nTwo Problems with \"Alternative Energy\"\nProblem 1: It doesn't allow for much expansion. A typical analysis of alternative energy supplies will frequently find that if we turn all energy production over to wind, rooftop solar, etc. and if we have magic batteries to even out the fluctuations we can barely manage to replace the present energy-supply system. If we want to bring the rest of the world up to U.S. standards, we'll need far more and if the population increases, we will need far more.\nProblem 2: By the the standards of anti-nuclear environmentalists, the more effective alternative energy systems (wind with toxic battery backup, desert solar, hydroelectricity) should be shut down. They're not decentralized and have at least as much imaginary negatives as nuclear. If they can shut down nuclear energy, they can shut down nearly anything.\nIt's \u03c0 Day\nIt's 3\/14\/15, also known as Einstein's birthday.\nWhat Will Turn out to Fight Cancer Next?\nIf vaccines can cure cancer\u2026 Are GMOs next? Will we soon find out about the amazing properties of high-fructose corn syrup, trans-fatty acids, and gluten?\nThe Left Has the Right Beaten \u2026\n\u2026 when it comes to unhinged lunatic ranting. The reaction of left-wing activists confronted with right-wingers who claim to be concerned about factual accuracy is far loonier than the reaction of right-wing activists confronted with left-wingers who claim to be concerned about factual accuracy.\nCreationist Nonsense and Transhumanist Nonsense\nA common creationist attempt at an argument against evolution (for example, here) says:\nThey say we came from monkeys. Then why tf we still got monkeys??\nIn a related story, a common transhumanist attempt at an argument against traditional values (for example, here) says:\nWe're basically learning to produce bodies and minds. Bodies and minds are going to be the two main products of the next wave of all these changes. And if there is a gap between those that know how to produce bodies and minds and those that do not, then this is far greater than anything we saw before in history.\nAnd this time, if you're not fast enough to become part of the revolution, then you'll probably become extinct.\nWe see the same fallacy in both places: The assumption that, if part of X becomes Y, all of X must become Y.\nThe really annoying part is that the bulshytt-emitting wing of transhumanism has been able to scare some bioconservatives into taking them seriously.\nThere are three possible stories that can be told about the United States:\nThe purpose of the United States is to limit the power of rulers.\nThe purpose of the United States is to ensure that the People rule.\nThe purpose of the United States is to fight for the interests of the White People who started it.\nI was already aware of the fact that many left-wing activists take the third story seriously and that there are alleged right-wing activists who do so as well. Following the comments on some right-wing websites made me realize that story 3 is taken seriously by more than a handful of loons.\nThe really weird part is that those of us who defend story 1 are not only mistaken for people who believe stories 2 or 3 but sometimes mistaken for anti-American people who believe stories 2 or 3.\nOne more point: The election of President Obama sent the message that story 3 is no longer accepted by the voters, if it ever was. (The bad news is the Obama apparently thinks story 2 is not only correct but anything that might indicate the contrary is the result of right-wing perfidy and must be disregarded, but that's another rant.) I think the Nobel Prize awarded to Obama a few years ago was intended to go to the American people for electing Obama but the rules did not allow that, so it had to Obama instead. (There is the alternative theory that the Nobel Prize Committee was just plain nuts.)\nWhen Evidence Starts\nOne common meme lately has been the list of Foods Never to Eat (typical example here). In many of these lists, most of the foods in question do not have actual evidence showing shorter life expectancies or increased illness. They only have far-fetched associations (food X is associated with pesticide Y which is correlated with a syndrome in lab rats that in turn is correlated with cancer). To make matters worse, the lists ignore the fact that toxins have thresholds, below which they're harmless.\nThe exception is preserved meat. There appears to be actual evidence showing it's unhealthy. The good news is that there is a threshold (just like real toxins) below which it's harmless. Just keep your consumption of pastrami, sausages, etc. below 20 grams per day. (That's five ounces per week for those of us who prefer hexadecimal units.)\nThe Assumption of Censorship\nOne sign of paranoia: The belief that the Establishment is censoring you \u2026 even in the absence of evidence.\nMy introduction to this was the time I read: \"You won't find these ideas in a university library!\" in a university library. Another example is the belief that chain bookstores would never carry anything by Noam Chomsky. Shortly after I read that claim, I checked a Borders bookstore and found a shelf full of Chomsky's books. (Or is that why it's out of business?)\nOn the other hand, self-censorship appears to be common. I don't even mean self-censorship of what you speak but self-censorship of what you read. It's amazing how many have never heard of the ideas that liberals could be fascists (as described by Nobel prize winner Friedrich von Hayek as well as Jonah Goldberg or even Steven J. Gould) but also the evidence showing that \"primitive peoples\" did not preserve their environment intact, the fact that Hannukah is a celebration of armed resistance, and even the fact that the roundness of the Earth was well known in the Middle Ages. Maybe we should fight that instead of blaming an Establishment.\nI'm reminded of this by the comments here on a possible Google experiment on filtering web sites by factual accuracy. Even if someone tries using that for censorship purposes, it's unlikely to last. For a while Google was shutting down anti-Obama blogs. They had to backtrack on that. The experiment might be an example of a common phenomenon: Leftists attempting to devise an objective test that they imagine will prove conservatives are scum. This is then followed by dropping it when the test gives answers they don't like.\nDoes Life Require Borders?\nPatri Friedmann on borders:\nOne of the things life has taught me this decade is the importance of exclusion and boundaries, which are highly relevant to this metaphor. A thermodynamic system with poor borders (less insulation), will have greater thermal conductivity. It may do more work initially, but it will also move at maximum speed towards that final resting state where all energy is evenly distributed. Such a state is peaceful in precisely the same way as death; for without flows of energy, there can be no life (in vivo or in silico \u2013 as no computation is possible). I suppose those who think human extinction is fair or just will consider this the state of ultimate fairness. I don't particularly care for that final solution.\nSo if you even care about life existing \u2013 let alone the infinite diversity possible therein \u2013 then (contra Caplan), boundaries (such as national borders) are an absolute necessity. No differences, no energy flow, no (thermodynamic) work, no life. As in the stars, so on the earth: romance flows from polarity; trade from comparative advantage; thermodynamic work from heat differences; evolution from variation; economic competition from competing alternatives. All progress is driven by differences; so to erase differences is (counter-eponymously) to end progress.\nAlexander Cairns-Smith on borders:\nThe control of the environment by primitive genes depended, not on the individual acts of individual genes, but on effects depending on millions and millions of copies of them. There was thus no need for anything as neat as a cell. If you are a gene very close to the ground, if your modes of preferential survival and propagation depend on deflecting somewhat, and to your advantage, processes that are going on in any case around you, there is no need to be so cordoned off. Indeed it is better not to be.\nI won't more than mention that there aren't many border controls inside the U.S. but that doesn't make the U.S. homogeneous.\nPhyletic Gradualism or Punctuated Equilbrium?\nSean Davis is asking journalists:\n\u2026do you believe in phyletic gradualism or punctuated equilbrium?\nMy answer: Let's do both!\nPhyletic gradualism is based on the idea that nature does not make jumps. Punctuated equilibrium is based on the idea that almost all the time, species aren't changing. Oddly enough both theories are compatible with each other in the presence of change. The Cantor function (also known as the \"Devil's Staircase\") increases from 0 to 1 even though it is both continuous (the equivalent of phyletic gradualism) and the first derivative is defined and zero almost everywhere (the equivalent of punctuated equilibrium).","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"These people were trying to send an extremely heavy box to India, and it ended up costing them around $300. FedEx or UPS is generally a lot cheaper than the post office for big boxes, but maybe that's only domestic.\nThis guy didn't speak English, so he told the person on the phone what he wanted, gave the phone to the clerk, and the person on the phone told the clerk what he wanted. It works, but if he actually lives here, it might be easier to just memorize the English words for what he likes to eat.\nHonestly, who would ever buy a used trophy with someone else's name on it?\nThat's a weird window cut-out.\nThe hurricane dropped the ceiling down about an inch along one side, but since it hasn't actually caved in, I told the office I didn't care if they don't fix it. Insulation or something kept falling out of it, though, and that got a little annoying, so I found some white duct tape to at least stop that.\nIt's always good to have layers when you go skiing or do anything else in cold weather, but I also keep these three pieces of headgear to exchange out depending on how warm I get.\nEven though it says, \"Tray is bolted down,\" you'd be amazed at how many people tried to pick this up to put their stuff in at the airport security line.\nThese chairs are indoors, and they still somehow have what appears to be bird poo on them. How does that happen, and why has nobody cleaned them since whenever they got that way?\nI like window seats so I can lay my head against the side of the plane and rest, but that's kind of hard to do when the little kid behind you keeps banging on the window.\nDude, honestly, you don't need that much ketchup.\nThe Denver airport has this mural with a pretty scary picture on the right side. A mask-wearing Nazi-type guy with a machine gun in one hand and a sword swinging towards a dove and some crouching people in the other? Come on, kids walk by this thing.\nThe living room of our condo in Breckenridge.\nHot tubs at our condo.\nEating at Eric's, a really good pizza place.\nSome of the Breckenridge slopes.\nGetting our equipment was pretty easy, except for digging through this jumbled mass of ski poles to find two that matched.\nA bunch of us at the bottom of the mountain.\nThe Dew Tour was going on this weekend and there were some really big names competing. I watched a little, but didn't stay too long. I'd rather watch it at home on TV where it's warmer.\nMy kind of place.\nIt often was hard to see at the top of the mountain with the snow blowing around, and the only way down is via black runs.\nA club that was less than a block away.\nWhich was nice for going to the club, but was a bit of a pain when the random girl came knocking on our door looking for her friend's room at two in the morning. And then, from what I could hear, knocking on pretty much every single other door in our building doing the same.\nSaturday was a bit cold, though.\nI went to Keystone, but not only was it freezing, I also couldn't see very far in front of me at all.\nEssential equipment: socks to use as heel lifts and warmers to stick into my boots to keep my toes from freezing.\nTruckers were required to use chains in some areas, so you'd see long lines of them pulled off to the side putting the chains on. You'd think the chains would really tear the roads up.\nMy least favorite thing about Vail: you had to walk through their little \"village\" of shops to get to the mountain. Which wouldn't be so bad if you weren't hauling skis and poles and wearing those impossible-to-walk-in ski boots.\nA big bowl at Vail.\nThe bathrooms had scented candles, which I thought was a nice touch.\nVail also had some areas with super-deep powder.\nWhich was fun, except when one of my skis went down into the snow instead of over the top of it, and I had to go back and dig it out of three feet of snow.\nMy favorite run at Vail: down through the trees and then into a giant bowl. I love the really wide runs which you can ski pretty much anyway you want.\nThe oldest continuously-operating bar west of the Mississippi.\nNapper Tandy's Irish Pub, which is above the Salt Creek Steakhouse (a really great restaurant, by the way).\nThey were having a winter-clothing fashion show there this night.\nUh, that one doesn't look too wintery, though.\nMe on top of Breckenridge.\nTime to go through the trees.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Support MCDS\nLet's Build the Future Together\nThe endowment is Madison Country Day School's next priority in building a mature business plan for our growing school. In addition to traditional sources of income like revenue from earned sources (primarily tuition) and contributions (the Annual Fund), invested income (or the endowment) is designed to support important school priorities that enhance the MCDS experience.\nHow will the endowment do this?\nThe endowment is new to MCDS and will play an essential role in providing financial support and stability in order to further the School's mission. It will ensure MCDS's future by preserving and enhancing the real, inflation-adjusted value of the endowment through prudent investments and strong oversight. As a result, the endowment will provide a steady, stable and predictable stream of earnings to allow planning for Madison Country Day School.\nHow much is the endowment worth and where is it invested?\nOur endowment currently plays no role in balancing MCDS's budget. Over the next decade, MCDS will pursue support that will cover 5% of the school's budget.\nWho oversees the MCDS endowment?\nThe Madison Country Day School Board of Trustees oversees the investment and growth of the school's endowment.\nWhat is the Board's responsibility?\nThe Board of Trustees develops and approves investment policies and guidelines for money managers to follow. As the endowment grows they will also carefully monitor performance against established benchmarks. This deeply engaged group of MCDS leadership is supported by the School's Development staff.\nWhat are the endowment's objectives?\nThe primary investment goal of the Trustees is that the endowment earn an annual average return that exceeds its spending policy. This financial objective is intended to balance the School's future needs.\nHow does the endowment support the school?\nWhen the endowment is fully vested, the Trustees will approve an annual maximum contribution from the endowment. Currently the guideline is 5% of the average market value of the twelve previous quarters.\nHow will MCDS use that support?\nEarnings from the endowment will be used exclusively to support school priorities as directed by our strategic plan including professional development, faculty compensation, and scholarships.\nHow does the school ensure fiscal responsibility?\nAs a young school we are a tuition-driven institution; just 9% of our budget is balanced by the Annual Fund. In the twenty-first century, all independent schools will need to move from this model to one that is better balanced by tuition, annual contributions and the endowment. We will reinforce our commitment to fiscal strength by building significant endowment income over the next decade.\nHow does the gift add value to Madison Country Day School's curriculum?\nThe endowment will contribute significantly to the richness of the School's mission. Endowment earnings from unrestricted and restricted funds will underwrite faculty compensation and benefits, professional development, and curriculum; all factors that enrich the classroom.\nWhat is the endowment-to-operating-budget ratio?\nA priority of Madison Country Day School is to establish a ratio of endowment to operating budget in order to provide a larger, permanent, predictable source of funding for its growth.\nHow can I contribute to the endowment and support MCDS?\nYou can designate your contribution to the endowment or you can plan a gift through your estate. Naming Opportunities are available at appropriate giving levels for an array of funding needs. Whether by a present or deferred gift, participating in the School's endowment offers a way to dedicate one's belief in this exceptional education for current and future students at MCDS.\nFor more information or to pledge your support\nContact the Development Office at (608) 850-6000.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Audiology Without Borders\nAudiology Education\nClinical Case Studies\nClinical Case Videos\nHearing-Brain Connections\nTinnitus Research\nManufacturers News\nVideos & Podcast\nAbout the Publication\nHome > August 2013 - Volume 66 - Issue 8 > Clinical Consultation: Symptom Redness in Middle Ear\nFriend's E-mail is Invalid\nThought you might appreciate this item(s) I saw at The Hearing Journal.\nYour message has been successfully sent to your friend.\nClinical Consultation: Symptom Redness in Middle Ear\nDjalilian, Hamid R. MD\nThe Hearing Journal: August 2013 - Volume 66 - Issue 8 - p 18\u201320\ndoi: 10.1097\/01.HJ.0000433568.14173.bb\nClinical Consultation\nDr. Djalilian is director of neurotology and skull base surgery and an associate professor of otolaryngology and biomedical engineering at the University of California, Irvine.\nDiagnosis: Otosclerosis\nGENETIC ETIOLOGY\nCARHART NOTCH\nTHREE OPTIONS\niPad Video!\nTREATMENT: WATCH THE SURGICAL OPTION FOR OTOSCLEROSIS\nA 45-year-old male comes into the office with a complaint of hearing loss. He had noticed this difficulty hearing over the last year, especially in noisy environments.\nThe patient works as a physician and sometimes has trouble understanding in a conference setting. It is also challenging for him when people mumble.\nHe denies having had any previous surgery on his ears or problems with ear infections as a child. His father wore hearing aids starting at age 60.\nExamining the patient's ear, we find that there is a reddish hue to the middle ear structures. The Rinne exam shows bone conduction to be louder than air conduction.\nWhat is your diagnosis? See p. 19.\nHamid R. Djalilian, MD\nThe reddish appearance on the otoscopic exam is generally associated with an infectious process. Infection causes increased vascularity of the tympanic membrane, making the membrane look red. This often occurs in conjunction with fluid in the middle ear.\nRedness of the tympanic membrane in the absence of middle ear fluid can be seen in a child who is screaming during the examination. The screaming causes engorgement of the capillaries of the tympanic membrane, creating the appearance of a hyperinflated red tympanic membrane.\nWhat's observed in this patient is distinct from a red tympanic membrane in that the erythema is on the promontory of the cochlea (outer wall). The tympanic membrane itself is actually normal.\nThis subtle exam finding is best appreciated with microscopic examination rather than the use of an otoscope. With a microscope, one is able to focus further into the middle ear and notice that the redness is from the promontory and not the tympanic membrane. This can sometimes be seen when an endoscope is used for a magnified examination of the tympanic membrane.\nThe redness of the outer wall of the cochlea in this patient is associated with a hypervascular bone of otosclerosis, termed Schwartze's sign. Otosclerosis only affects the endochondral bone of the inner ear, called the otic capsule.\nThe abnormal otosclerotic bone grows uncontrollably, gradually causing hearing loss in some patients. Most patients present in their 20s and 30s, and 90 percent of affected patients are under 50 at the time of diagnosis.\nIn studies of postmortem temporal bone histopathology, 10 percent of temporal bones from Caucasians had foci of otosclerosis. However, only 10 percent of those individuals had hearing loss.\nOtosclerosis is less common in African-Americans and Asians, and more common in women. An acceleration of otosclerosis-related hearing loss is seen during pregnancy.\nMultiple etiologies for otosclerosis have been theorized, but the most commonly accepted cause is genetic. Several genes associated with otosclerosis have been identified, with each on a different chromosome. An autosomal dominant pattern with variable penetrance has been seen.\nAnother theory is that a post-measles viral infection causes changes in the bone. Genetic material from the measles virus has been found in otosclerotic bone of some patients.\nThe most common area of involvement is the fissula ante fenestram, which is at the anterior edge of the oval window. Encroachment of that focus of otosclerosis onto the stapes footplate leads to the conductive hearing loss observed in patients affected by this disease.\nThe second most common site of involvement is the posterior aspect of the oval window, called the fossula post fenestram. Other locations include the round window and internal auditory canal. Sometimes, the otosclerotic bone will invade the cochlea and cause sensorineural hearing loss, termed cochlear otosclerosis.\nPatients presenting with otosclerosis have some distinguishing characteristics on audiological testing. Most patients will have a low-frequency conductive hearing loss combined with a drop in the bone conduction threshold at 2,000 Hz, termed a Carhart notch. The cause of the drop in the 2-kHz threshold is unknown; however, a normalization of this threshold often is seen after surgical repair.\nNearly all patients with otosclerosis have an absent acoustic reflex once the conductive hearing loss has advanced beyond 30 dB in the lowest frequencies. A shallow (type As) tympanogram is seen due to the stiffness of the ossicular motion that occurs with stapes fixation.\nPatients who do not have these characteristics can potentially have superior canal dehiscence and should be evaluated for that with an ultra-fine-cut CT scan of the temporal bones.\nIn the office, patients diagnosed with otosclerosis are generally presented with three options: watchful waiting, hearing aid, and surgical repair. Most commonly, older patients choose hearing aids, while younger patients opt for surgery.\nThe surgery, called stapedotomy, involves a transcanal approach to the middle ear. Once the stapes has been exposed, its immobility is confirmed. The stapedial tendon and posterior crus are cut by a laser.\nA small (0.6-mm) opening is placed into the oval window. After measurement of the distance between the incus and the stapes footplate, a prosthesis is attached to the incus and placed into the oval window opening. Tissue or blood is used to seal around the prosthesis at the oval window.\nThe surgery generally is successful at reducing the air-bone gap to less than 10 dB in about 95 percent of patients.\nVideo by Hamid R. Djalilian, MD\nIn the August iPad issue, watch as Hamid R. Djalilian, MD, director of neurotology and skull base surgery and an associate professor of otolaryngology and biomedical engineering at the University of California, Irvine, performs a stapedotomy, which is the surgical option for patients diagnosed with otosclerosis.\nIn a stapedotomy, the fixed stapes is replaced with a prosthesis. Generally, the surgery is successful at reducing the air-bone gap to less than 10 dB in about 95 percent of patients.\nTo see the surgery, download The Hearing Journal app, and the video, for free today atbit.ly\/AppHearingJ.\n\u00a9 2013 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.\nTREATMENT: WATCH THE SURGICAL OPTION FOR OTOSCLER...\nThe Hearing Journal66(8):18-20, August 2013.\nArticles in PubMed by Hamid R. Djalilian, MD\nArticles in Google Scholar by Hamid R. Djalilian, MD\nOther articles in this journal by Hamid R. Djalilian, MD","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"European Insurance Giant Transforms Business Processes with EMC Documentum xCP\nGenerali Hellas Eliminates Two Million Pages of Paper a Year; Deploys Documentum xCP to Automate Application Processes, and Improve Productivity and Service for Millions of Clients\nBERLIN - November 01, 2011 -\nAt Momentum, the EMC Information Intelligence Group's global user conference, EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced that Generali Hellas, a member of the Generali Group (Assicurzioni Generali S.p.A.), the largest European insurance group and second largest global financial insurance company , has significantly enhanced its competitive position and operational efficiencies by deploying EMC\u00ae Documentum\u00ae xCP, an integrated platform for building dynamic business solutions and an action engine for Big Data.\nCustomer Benefits:\nInsurance Application Processing Time Shrunk from Weeks to Days: EMC Documentum xCP combines enterprise content management (ECM), business process management (BPM), intelligent capture, and compliance management, to increase productivity and decision making. Generali has accelerated insurance application processing time from weeks to days.\nImproved Efficiency and Service Quality: Web-based access, activity monitoring and reporting transforms Generali's insurance application processing. Processes are streamlined and coordinated across functional boundaries both inside and outside the organization, providing the visibility into business operations to improve decision quality and service levels.\nMassive Cost Savings via Near-Paperless Environment: Last year, the company printed nearly two million pages of paper for its agents to service its customers. They are now largely paperless, massively reducing costs associated with printing, postage, and fulfillment.\nLegislative Compliance: Retention management positions Generali for their current and pending compliance with certain laws, such as Solvency II.\nCustomer Challenges\nFounded in 1886, Generali Hellas is the oldest insurer in Greece. The company offers a wide range of specialized Life and non-life insurance products, and has shown particularly rapid growth, effectively tripling its portfolio over the past decade. Generali Hellas' previous information management infrastructure was impacting its ability to support its business strategy and competitive position. Generali evaluated several ECM, BPM, and capture solution providers, and selected EMC Documentum xCP as the most comprehensive solution to replace its legacy system.\nCustomer Quote:\nElias Mandouvalos, Assistant IT Manager, Generali Hellas\n\"EMC Documentum xCP was by far the most complete offering on the market with integrated ECM, BPM and capture. We conducted an in-depth technical inspection, and Documentum xCP delivered the functionalities we were looking for. It simply does what they said it would do \u2014 accelerating application processing and empowering our agents to provide industry-leading service to our customers.\"\nEMC Executive Quote:\nRohit Ghai, Vice President and General Manager, Content and Case Management Group, EMC Information Intelligence Group.\n\"Global organizations, such as Generali, deploy EMC Documentum xCP to simplify business operations, make accurate decisions, and increase return on investment. As Generali continues to transform other business processes, it can rely on its existing xCP infrastructure for even faster time-to-market benefits.\"\nLearn more about Documentum xCP.\nStay connected with Momentum on Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn.\nFollow the @EMC_Momentum account and join the #mmtm11 conversation on Twitter.\nJoin the EMC Documentum communities on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, SlideShare, the EMC Community Network.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u00ab K'naan Brings Hip-Hop to The 2010 World Cup | Main | Michael Jackson A Billion - Dollar Man \u00bb\nFCC to toughen internet rules\nThe Federal Communications Commission has taken the first formal steps towards tougher rules for broadband.\nIt asked for public comment on three different plans, igniting an expensive lobbying campaign by all sides.\nThe looming battle follows a court ruling questioning the FCC's right to regulate internet service providers after one throttled traffic to users.\nThat court ruling dealt a major blow to a central plank of the FCC's broadband plan called net neutrality which demands that all data traffic be treated equally.\nThe five commissioners on the FCC board were split 3-2 in putting out for public comment proposals on new regulations for the broadband industry.\n'Third way'\nOne of the three plans the public is being asked to comment on, and which is favoured by FCC chairman Julius Genachowski, is called the \"third way\".\nThis would involve reclassifying broadband so it went from being a lightly regulated service to one with more vigorous oversight.\nIn return for this tightening up, Mr Genachowski has proposed the new classification would not regulate on how much people pay for their broadband. It would also shy away from overseeing internet content, services, applications or electronic commerce sites.\nThe other two options include leaving the existing regulatory framework in place or imposing the full force of stricter regulations.\nISPs, such as Comcast, AT&T and Verizon, prefer the status quo and have come out against the \"third way\" proposal.\n\"This is impossible to justify on either a policy or legal basis and we remain confident that if the FCC persists in its course - and we truly hope it does not - the courts will surely overturn their action,\" said Jim Cicconi, AT&T's senior executive vice president for external and legislative affairs.\nVerizon said the FCC's move was \"a terrible idea\".\nBy contrast, web giants such as Google and Amazon extol the value of free-flowing web traffic and an open internet.\n\"Broadband infrastructure is too important to be left outside of any oversight,\" said Richard Whitt, Google's telecom and media counsel in a blog posting.\n'To the death'\nThe political dynamics of the FCC board, two Republicans and three Democrats, imply that the \"third way\" looks almost certain to be the plan it adopts.\nSome suspect this will provoke more lobbying and may draw legal challenges.\n\"There is a very big fight brewing and it's the carriers versus everybody else,\" said Erik Sherman, analyst with BNET.com, part of CBS's digital business network.\n\"There is little doubt it's going to be a right data Donnybrook and I am not sure the consumers are winners in any circumstances. These companies are not fighting for the little guy. They are fighting for themselves and higher profit margins.\"\nThat view was echoed by Public Knowledge, a Washington based public advocacy group.\n\"It's a tough road ahead and the telcos are going to fight this to the death,\" communications director Art Brodsky told BBC News.\n\"AT&T in the first quarter of this year spent $6m on lobbying. That is one company. One quarter. Compare that to Google which spent $4m in the whole of last year.\"\nThe Computer and Communications Industry Association said the \"third way\" option is the only realistic option.\n\"Without deliberate FCC action, consumers, entrepreneurs, small businesses and non-profits will be left completely powerless against the corporate commercial interests of their unregulated internet access providers,\" said Ed Black, association president. SOURCE\nPosted at 08:08 PM in Legal , Lifestyles, TECHNOLOGY | Permalink\nTags: FCC to toughen internet rules","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Catalog Number(s): 20200925, 20170414, 20160916\nInterview Year(s): 2016\nIn front of an audience at the Kansas City Public Library, Juan Felipe Herrera, our first Chicano U.S. Poet Laureate (2015-2017), reveals how he, as the child of migrant farm workers, found his voice as a poet. Herrera, whose collection Everyday We Get More Illegal, was released in 2020, reads from his earlier books, including the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Half of the World in Light and his 2015 book, Notes on the Assemblage, as he discusses his use of Spanish and English at the Writers Place 2016 Inaugural William H. Hickok Reading Series. The California-born writer, who has also served as his state's Poet Laureate, gets the audience to participate in reciting his work for both children and adults. A 1992 interview with Juan Felipe Herrera is also available in our Audio Archives.\n(Photo by Oregon State University CC BY-SA 2.0)\nhttps:\/\/www.newletters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/NEWLETTR_20200925_Herrera.mp3","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Trucking News New Love's location brings 79 truck parking spots to California\nNew Love's location brings 79 truck parking spots to California\nThis week, Love's Travel Stops opened a new truck stop location in Kern County, California.\nOn Thursday, Love's opened a new store off of Highway 58 in Boron, California.\nAmenities at the new location include 79 truck parking spaces, a Carl's Jr. restaurant, six diesel bays, eight showers, a Love's Truck Care with on-site Speedco, laundry facilities, a CAT scale, and a dog park.\n\"We're excited to open a new location in this important corridor on the West Coast,\" said Tom Love, founder and executive chairman of Love's. \"Boron is a great location to provide professional truck drivers and four-wheel customers the great service and amenities they expect, and to help get them back on the road safely and quickly.\"\nIn January, Love's announced plans to open 40 new store locations nationwide in 2020. The company says that this will allow them add about 3000 new truck parking spots to their network this year.\nLove's Travel Stops & Country Stores was founded in 1964 and currently operates approximately 520 locations in 41 states.\nMultiple agencies are teaming up for three week I-70 blitz","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"THE CONSTRUCTION COMIC\nCarmen Ciricillo tours nationally as The Construction Comic \u00ae a humorous routine he created about life as a contractor. \"My act plays well for everyone\" says the comedian. In fact, XM and Sirius Satellite Radio has been airing Carmen's Construction Comedy CD to their audiences of over 10 million subscribers.\nCarmen's first construction gig was for the Northern Illinois Home Builder's Association. That's when the word spread about The Construction Comic\u00ae. Since that day Carmen has performed for thousands of construction groups including:\nThe National Association of Home Builders (NHBA)\nNational Underground Utility Contractors (NUCA)\nAssociated Builders and Contractors (ABC)\nAssociated General Contractors (AGC)\nThe American Subcontractors Association (ASA)\nThe Plumbing Heating Cooling Contractors (PHCC)\nThe Painting and Decorating Contractors Association (PDCA)\nVolvo Hard Hat Comedy Tour\nThousands of major construction corporations including DuPont, LeChase, Home Depot, Hammes, March Westin, Wilsonart and many more\nCarmen also portrayed the humorous tool man on The Discovery Channel's \"Your New House\" television show where he was a regular. Carmen wrote and performed almost 60 segments which aired daily. He went on to travel with NASCAR for The Michael Holigan Racing Team and Hendricks Motor Sports doing driver interviews and entertaining at the hospitality events.\nBill Grundfest, a writer and producer on the NBC sitcom \"Mad About You\", wrote a pilot for a sitcom based on Carmen's Construction Comedy routine. Carmen went out to L.A. and shot the pilot! Not too many comics get that chance!\nCarmen is also approved by the State of Florida to teach Florida Licensed Contractors their required continuing education to maintain their licenses. Carmen owns and is the principal instructor for Construction Comedy School, teaching safety, building code, workers compensation, green building, economics and more in a humorous manner.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Riverside Ice Rink was so cold Saturday that Ryan Miller could see his breath. \u00a92013, Dan Hickling, Olean Times Herald\nSabres want Alexander Sulzer to provide veteran stability\nBUFFALO \u2013 As a 29-year-old veteran of 107 NHL games, defenseman Alexander Sulzer gives the struggling Sabres some much-needed stability, interim coach Ted Nolan said.\n\"We're running around the defensive zone a little bit too much,\" Nolan said Saturday after the Sabres prepared for this afternoon's game against the Detroit Red Wings inside the First Niagara Center.\nThat's why Nolan and Pat LaFontaine, the president of hockey operations, watched Sulzer play Friday in Rochester. The Sabres recalled him following the game.\n\"We got a lot of young talent,\" Nolan said inside the Riverside Ice Rink. \"We got to make sure they mature at the right pace. He's a veteran guy that has been around for a while. He can add some stability back there.\"\nSulzer, who's played 33 games with the Sabres, including one during a brief recall earlier this season, has two goals and seven points in 10 appearances with the Americans in his first AHL stint since 2009-10.\nThe Sabres waived him shortly before the season started.\n\"I'm an older guy, even if I don't want to admit it,\" Sulzer said. \"He just wants me to be calm on the ice and just play the zone. Don't freak out when a mistake happens.\"\nSulzer practiced Saturday beside Christian Ehrhoff, his old partner. The two Germans formed a strong duo late in 2011-12.\nTo make room on the 23-man roster, the Sabres placed forward Cody McCormick, who left Thursday's 4-1 loss in Philadelphia early, on injured reserved.\n\"Cody's banged up a little bit,\" Nolan said. \"I guess modern day you've got to say, 'upper body or lower body.' Pick your choice. He's got one of them. He's out at least a week.\"\nMeanwhile, John Scott practiced as a defenseman much of Saturday, meaning the tough guy's likely out against Detroit, a team that rarely fights. Brian Flynn, a regular winger like Scott, centered the fourth line with Marcus Foligno and Corey Tropp, a healthy scratch last game.\n\"He's a very intelligent player,\" Nolan said about Flynn. \"He said he played eight games at center ice last year. With the fourth-line position, we got to make sure we have reliable guys.\"\nNolan also put the top line of Matt Moulson, Cody Hodgson and Drew Stafford back together Saturday.\nThe three players haven't scored since Nolan took over four games ago.\n\"My simple philosophy in life is if it ain't working, you ain't working hard enough,\" Nolan said. \"You just got to \u2026 do things maybe you don't want to do sometimes, and that's go up the wall, dump it and go get it. Sometimes we want to carry it in and make a nice play.\"\nLaFontaine told reporters Friday in Rochester he interviewed at least one person for vacant general manager's job last week. He wouldn't reveal the name. LaFontaine said he's added to his original list of candidates.\nAuthor Bill HoppePosted on 11.24.13 02.26.19 Categories Detroit Red Wings, Ehrhoff, Flynn, Foligno, Hodgson, LaFontaine, McCormick, Moulson, Nolan, Rochester Americans, Scott, Stafford, Sulzer, Tropp\nPrevious Previous post: Sabres recall Alexander Sulzer for veteran presence; Cody McCormick out at least a week\nNext Next post: Sabres' Tyler Myers confident he's finally regaining old form","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Toxic and Tax Exempt\nApril 2, 2013By Erin O'SullivanBlog Post, Featured, Subsidy Spotlight\nToxic and tax exempt: How tar sands spills from Michigan to Arkansas cost us all.\nAs the Obama Administration continues to ponder a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, TransCanada has been assuring everyone of it's safety. \"Safety of the public and the environment is a top priority for TransCanada\" their slick website reads. Any spill is deemed \"unlikely\".\nHardly. Last year, there were 364 spills from pipelines that released about 54,000 barrels of oil and refined products. In 2010 in Marshall, Michigan an Enbridge pipeline sent 819,000 gallons of toxic tar sands crude into the town's creek just 80 river miles from Lake Michigan. Now in Mayflower, Arkansas, 22 homes have been evacuated this week as Exxon prepares to attempt to clean 10,000 barrels of this same dirty tar sands crude from neighborhoods.\nThe experiences of people of Marshall, Michigan may shed light on what the citizens of Mayflower, Arkansas may now be in for.\nOn July 26th 2010, at 7:30 a.m., Marshall resident Susan Connolly dropped off her children at daycare. That Michigan morning there was a strong smell in the air, making it hard to breathe. By the time she picked up her children just a few hours later, the symptoms had started.\nThat night her son vomited. The week following, her daughter had a rash, as did almost all the children at the daycare. The other children also reported cases of vomiting, upset stomach, shortness of breath, lethargy, headaches, rash, irritation with the eyes, sore throat, and cough. Meanwhile, Connolly and her husband experienced migraines, eye irritation, sore throat, nausea, and cough. Just six days later, their dog came in from the yard suffering from continuous vomiting and diarrhea.\nThey quickly learned that this was all related to a broken Enbridge pipe, spilling bitumen ooze into the water just 6\/10ths of a mile from their children's day care and just two miles from their home. Bitumen is a thick, sticky, black semi-solid form of petroleum. It is transported from Alberta Canada as diluted bitumen (dilbit) on its way to refineries in the U.S.\n\"I'm a parent and I see the children and the staff of this center who have been affected by this spill,\" says Connolly, \"Three months after the spill, four parents withdrew six children from the center due to their concern of their short-term health effects of their children. They were concerned about the smell, air quality, and potential long-term effects. An employee who has been with the child care center since it opened, who helped them build it from the ground up, left the center because she has been sick since the day of the spill.\"\nTheir concern is understandable. The EPA established that there were 15 parts per billion of benzene in the atmosphere in the region of the spill, which is roughly three times the standard established as safe for human exposure.\nConnolly reports that \"the argument made by Enbridge is: you cannot prove that the spill may be the cause. Well, my response as a parent is you can't prove that it's not\u2026 I'm not anti-pipeline, but I am an advocate for safety. You need to know the health impacts. There will be another spill, it's not an if, it's a when.\"\nConnolly's story highlights the clear effects of the revolving door of money from politicians and fossil fuel companies keeping the safety standards and oversight low. In 2009 and 2010 fossil fuel companies like Enbridge spent $25.8 million lobbying Congress and in return they received subsidies and tax loopholes worth $20.5 billion. That's a 5800% return on political investment; about $59 in return for each dollar they spend lobbying.\nConnolly sees the influence fossil fuel companies have on Washington, DC firsthand. She asks, \"Who do you think [government officials] are looking out for more? Corporations or the people?\"\nCompanies that transport oil are required to pay into the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, giving the government a pot of money for immediate spill responses. The Enbridge pipeline in Michigan and the Exxon pipeline in Arkansas, however, are exempt because these pipelines are not considered to be carrying \"conventional oil\", despite the fact bitumen spills are more expensive and more dangerous.\nIn a January 2011 memorandum, the IRS determined that to generate revenues for the oil spill trust fund, Congress only intended to tax conventional crude, and not tar sands or other unconventional oils. This exemption remains to this day, even though the United States moves billions of gallons of tar sands crude through its pipeline system every year. The trust fund is liable for tar sands oil spill cleanups without collecting any revenue from tar sands transport. If the fund goes broke,the American taxpayer foots the cleanup bill.\nWhen Connolly learned that Enbridge is not required to pay into the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, she was shocked. \"I can't believe that,\" she said, \"it's unconscionable, disgusting. I can't believe it's not being brought up\u2026 [Companies] get enough tax loopholes; they can pay into the system and should not make taxpayers pay for their cleanup.\"\nConnolly holds that the government needs to hold companies like Enbridge and Exxon accountable. She believes her government representatives should advocate for companies to pay into the Oil Spill Liability Fund and keep discussing the issue. \"They're making a ton of money and they're calling the shots, but who do they answer to? We're asking the government to come and look at the impact, but no one comes out. No one looks; no one sees. They think it's all cleaned up.\"\nConnolly has just one piece of advice for politicians and Enbridge CEO Al Monaco: \"Come back to Michigan; meet with the residents who have concerns and questions. Don't come just for PR or to hand out checks. Make the time to talk to those involved in pipeline and cleanup. I'm not trying to bash anyone, but we should all learn from it and be better prepared\u2026 a spill like this will happen again.\"\nAnd indeed it has.\n-Erin O'Sullivan\nAlice Burkhart says:\nok, let's get the foxes out of the position of writing epa and state department reports about the henhouse. Real science, and while we are at it, no tax exemptions or cost of cleanup exemptions, Exxon still hasn't fully paid for the Valdez\u2026 Come on.\nFrederick Gooding says:\nI am an American living in Canada. This article and many others are reasons that I am against the proposed pipeline\noriginating in Alberta and going into the United States\nWho will pay for the spills and what loopholes will be granted to keep the company from paying.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag: BER\nDue to the announced warning strike at Berlin Airport, no passenger flights will be possible on Wednesday, 25 January 2023. The airport company officially informed its partners, such as the airlines, ground handling service providers,\nBER Introduces Virtual Queuing Programme\nPassengers at BER can now book additional access through the security controls: the airport company's new BER Runway service is now being offered to all passengers. This allows passengers to book a time slot online\nChemnitz Now Connected with BER\nFrom June, the Saxon city of Chemnitz will be directly connected to BER Airport by rail: From Sunday, 12 June, Deutsche Bahn will extend its Intercity connection from Rostock-Warnem\u00fcnde to Dresden to Chemnitz, twice daily\nTerminal 2 at BER Off to a Flying Start\nOperations at Berlin Brandenburg Willy Brandt Airport's (BER) Terminal 2 (T2) begin today. The main user will be the airline Ryanair. Terminal 2 serves as a check-in building for departures and arrivals. It is connected\nBER Prepares for Increased Number of Passeners\nIn its first meeting in 2022, the supervisory board of the BER discussed preparations for the expected air traffic recovery and the company's medium and long-term financial development. It also discussed the effect the war\nThe Christmas Travel Season at BER Begins\nFor many people, the Christmas period is also a time of travel. During the holidays in Berlin und Brandenburg, the airport operating company is expecting slightly increasing passenger figures compared to the previous weeks. During\nBER to Close New Runway a Month After Opening\nThe first supervisory board meeting after the successful commissioning of BER on November 27 was all about the massive effects that the ongoing pandemic has on the capital region's flight operations. The management reported that\nBrussels Airlines Moves Its Operations to New Brandenburg Airport (BER)\nBerlin Brandenburg Airport \"Willy Brandt\" (BER), named after former West Berlin mayor and West German chancellor Willy Brandt, opened its doors on October 31st. Following Austrian, Lufthansa and Swiss, today also Brussels Airlines moved its\nLufthansa to Launch Operations at BER\nWith the arrival of special flight LH2020 Lufthansa partakes in the opening of the new Berlin Capital Airport BER on 31.10. Lufthansa's Airbus A320neo \"Neubrandenburg\" is scheduled to take off from Munich (MUC) at 12:50","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"By Default\ndomestic-policy \/ drugs \/ policing-and-crime\nGovt starts cocaine crackdown\nA new government crackdown on cocaine begins today with drug minister Vernon Coaker announcing a \u00a31 million FRANK campaign aimed at 15 to 18-year-olds and a government commitment to Colombia's 'Shared Responsibility' campaign.\nMr Coaker will lead a summit this morning with representatives of the Colombian government, the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) and various treatment agencies.\nThe government is said to be committed to a sophisticated media campaign, including online advertising, given the drug's continued popularity among the young and successful. Cocaine is the only street drug whose use has risen over the last ten years. Just under five per cent of adults have used the drug over the last year.\nMr Coaker said: \"Cocaine use has been stable in recent years but it is a very dangerous drug for users and has a devastating impact on the people that live in producing countries.\n\"Cocaine users need to realise that their drug use destroys more than their health; it destroys the lives of innocent people caught up in kidnapping, exploitation and armed violence.\"\nThe initiative comes as Columbia's government launches an all-out anti-cocaine initiative across the western world. The South Americans have decided to tackle users in Europe and America in an effort to cut down the demand for the drug.\nThe cultivation and sale of cocaine in Colombia funds several of the left-wing guerrilla groups which the Colombian government is intent on destroying.\nDrug reform: Should cocaine be legalised?\nIf Labour really cares about left-behind communities, it'll push to reform our drug laws\nRevealed: The moral disaster of Britain's drug laws\nCanada shows how we can save ourselves from the drug war\nTHC rising: Failed war on drugs sees cannabis grow out of control\nCannabis reform: The chaos of the half-legal CBD market betrays patients\nDrug reform police chief faces the Downing Street backlash\nCannabis reform: Legalisation in California could spell the end for prohibition","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Feminist Theology (10) Guides for the Perplexed (24) Inter-faith & World Religions (18) Liberation Theology (6) Practical Theology (4) Science & Religion (19)\nPractice of Theology\nA Reader\nColin Gunton, Colin E. Gunton, Stephen R. Holmes, Murray Rae\nA Reader for introductory level university courses in systematic theology. Texts are selected from a variety of positions and historical periods. There is no comparable volume currently on the market.\nModels of Contextual Theology\nStephen Bevans, Prof. Robert J. Schreiter, C.P.P.S.\nJesus: A Portrait\nGerald O'Collins, SJ\nModern Christian Thought\nThe Enlightenment and the Nineteenth Century\nJames C. Livingston\nCambridge Companion to Reformation Theology\nDavid Bagchi (University of Hull), David C. Steinmetz (Duke University, North Carolina)\nA comprehensive and accessible guide to the theology and theologians of the Reformation period.\nJonathan Edwards for Armchair Theologians\nJames P. Byrd\nBlack Church in the 21st Century\nJoe Aldred, Keno Ogbo\nFirst Theology\nGod, Scripture and Hermeneutics\nKevin J. Vanhoozer\nBible and Ecology\nRediscovering the Community of Creation\nVirtue Reborn\nVirtue Reborn is the first in a series of three titles about Christian life in the modern world, which will build on the themes of Simply Christian and Surprised by Hope and be aimed at a similar market.\n\u00a310.00 to \u00a314.9956\nPaperback \/ softback226","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"TEA Talk Time\nDan Woog\nYou've heard of TED Talks. The 18-minute, internet-addictive presentations cover a broad range of topics. Originally, TED stood for Technology, Entertainment and Design.\nGet ready for Westport's version: TEA Talk. This Sunday (October 26, 2 p.m., Town Hall auditorium) the Westport Arts Advisory Committee is sponsoring 3 20-minute conversations. Because this is Westport, the focus is on Thinkers, Educators and Artists.\nGina Rattan\nAnd because this is Westport, the TEA Talk features a combination of rising young talent, and well-established thinkers, educators and artists.\nGina Rattan \u2014 a Staples grad who's working now on the live broadcast of NBC's \"Peter Pan,\" and is the resident director of the Broadway musical \"Matilda The Musical\" \u2014 will discuss the impact of technology on Broadway with Carole Schweid.\nShe directs the \"Play With Your Food\" series, and was an original Broadway cast member of \"A Chorus Line.\" This segment will include video clips of some wizardry behind Broadway shows.\nNick DeBerardino \u2014 another Staples grad and Rhodes Scholar pursuing a master's in music at Yale, and the co-founder of Princeton's Undergraduate Composers Collective \u2014 will explore the integration of recent technology into music composition and performance.\nNick DeBerardino\nHe'll chat with Richard Epstein, professional bassoonist and host for 38 years of WPKN's \"Sometimes Classical.\"\nThe program kicks off with Bill Derry \u2014 head of innovation at the Westport Library \u2014 discussing and demonstrating 3D printing's application to the visual arts. Joining him is Thomas Bernstein, a photographer and sculptor best known for his \"Dancing Leaves\" series.\nBoth Gina and Nick will be presented with \"Horizon Awards,\" as up-and-coming artists (and movers and shakers).\nThe TEA Talk is followed by a reception, across the street at the Westport Historical Society. They'll serve hors d'oeuvres \u2014 and tea.\n(Both events are free, and open to the public. For more information, click on www.westportarts.org)\nCategories: Arts, Organizations, People, Staples HS\nTags: Gina Rattan, Nick DiBerardino, TED Talk, Westport Arts Advisory Committee","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent\nAbout The Volokh Conspiracy\nVolokh Daily Email\nTakings\nSupreme Court Decides to Hear Case Challenging State Law Empowering Government to Seize Entire Value of a House to Pay Much Smaller Property Tax Debt\nMinnesota law allowed Hennepin County to seize a $40,000 home owned by a 93-year-old widow to pay off a $15,000 tax debt.\nIlya Somin | 1.14.2023 12:17 AM\nOn Friday, the Supreme Court decided to hear a case challenging the constitutionality of a Minnesota state law empowering local governments to seize the entire value of a property in order to pay off a much smaller delinquent property tax debt. The property owner in the case \u2013 93-year-old widow Geraldine Tyler \u2013 argues that this kind of uncompensated seizure of home equity violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment, which requires government to pay \"just compensation\" anytime it takes private property, and the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment.\nThe case has important implications beyond Minnesota. Ten other states have laws that allow similar \"home equity theft.\" In addition, the case might help resolve the longstanding debate over whether property rights under the Takings Clause are purely a product of state law, and therefore subject to elimination by state legislation.\nThe Pacific Legal Foundation, the public interest law firm representing Tyler, has a helpful summary of the facts:\nAs an elderly widow living alone, Geraldine Tyler was doing just fine in the one-bedroom condo she owned in Minneapolis. That is, until 2010, when a rise in neighborhood crime and frightening incidents near her home alarmed Geraldine and her family and prompted her hasty move to a safer area, where she rented an apartment.\nOnce Geraldine moved, she could no longer afford the property taxes on her condo in addition to the rent on her apartment. The taxes piled up, and Tyler accrued a $2,300 debt. In 2015, when the total tax debt, including penalties, interest, and fees, was $15,000, Hennepin County, Minnesota, seized the condo and sold it one year later for $40,000. Instead of keeping the $15,000 it was owed and refunding Geraldine the sale surplus, the county kept all of the $40,000.\nThe US Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit ruled for the government, concluding that Tyler had no constitutional property right in her home equity because property rights are ultimately a product of state law, and the Minnesota state legislature had abolished the rights in question by passing a statute eliminating them:\nWhether a property interest exists \"is determined by reference to existing rules or understandings that stem from an independent source such as state law.\" Phillips v. Wash. Legal Found., 524 U.S. 156, 164 (1998) (internal quotation omitted). We\ntherefore look to Minnesota law to determine whether Tyler has a property interest\nin surplus equity.\nTyler argues that Minnesota recognizes a common-law property interest in\nsurplus equity in the tax-forfeiture context. She relies on an 1884 decision of the\nMinnesota Supreme Court, Farnham v. Jones, 19 N.W. 83 (Minn. 1884), which\naddressed an 1881 Minnesota tax-collection statute\u2026.\nWe conclude that any common-law right to surplus equity recognized in Farnham has been abrogated by statute. In 1935, the Minnesota legislature augmented its tax forfeiture plan with detailed instructions regarding the distribution of all \"net proceeds from the sale and\/or rental of any parcel of forfeited land.\" 1935 Minn. Laws, ch. 386, \u00a7 8. The statute allocated the entire surplus to various entities but allowed for no distribution of net proceeds to the former landowner. The necessary implication is that the 1935 statute abrogated any common-law rule that gave a former landowner a right to surplus equity.\nThe court goes on to conclude that current Minnesota tax foreclosure law is similar to the 1935 statute in stripping property owners' rights to surplus home equity.\nA recent Sixth Circuit ruling in a similar home equity theft case effectively highlighted the flaw in this reasoning:\nTrue, the federal \"Constitution protects rather than creates property interests,\" which means that \"the existence of a property interest,\" for purposes of whether one was taken, \"is determined by reference to existing rules or understandings that stem from an independent source such as state law.\" Phillips v. Washington Legal Foundation, 524 U.S. 156, 164 (1998\u2026 But the Takings Clause would be a dead letter if a state could simply exclude from its definition of property any interest that the state wished to take. To the contrary, rather, \"a State may not sidestep the Takings Clause by disavowing traditional property interests long recognized under state law\u2026\"Id. at 167.\nThe question, then, is whether Michigan likewise disavowed traditional property interests merely by defining them away in its General Property Tax Act. The interest that the plaintiffs invoke here, again, is an entitlement to the equity in their homes\u2014pursuant to principles long articulated by courts of equity, before their merger centuries later with courts of law\u2026.\nI explained the significance of this issue in a post on the Sixth Circuit case, which also notes key reasons why the reasoning like that of the Eighth Circuit should be rejected:\nThis ruling is part of a longstanding debate over the extent to which the property rights protected by the Takings Clause are purely defined by state law (in which case the state can often avoid takings liability simply by redefining them), or whether they are also defined by some combination of general legal tradition and natural law. The Sixth Circuit is right to conclude that broader legal principles constrain the states here. But I would add that, at least as a matter of original meaning, states are also constrained by natural law understandings of property rights. I briefly cover this point in this article (pp. 52-53), and also in Chapter 2 of my book The Grasping Hand.\nGiven the high value the Founders placed on property rights, it would be strange\u2014to say the least\u2014if these constitutional rights were left entirely at the mercy of state governments to redefine as they please, because state law protects them and plays a key role in defining their scope. The same logic would equally justify allowing states to redefine the scope of many other constitutional rights. For example, rights to speech and bodily autonomy could similarly be left to the discretion of the states on the theory that state law historically defined the scope of protection against assault and battery, and the extent to which speech could be restricted by laws against libel, slander, sedition, and blasphemy.\nI am guardedly optimistic that the Supreme Court will overturn the Eighth Circuit ruling and adopt something close to the approach embraced by the Sixth Circuit, and a number of other federal and state courts, such as the Michigan Supreme Court in the 2020 San Rafaeli case (decided under the Michigan State Constitution). While many property rights cases tend to split the justices along predictable left-right ideological lines, it is possible this one will not, as liberal justices may see the egregious nature of home equity theft, an the way it tends to victimize the relatively poor and disadvantaged. The facts of the Tyler case drive home this point well.\nIn addition to the Takings Clause issue, the case also raises the question of whether home equity theft violates the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment. This issue is a tougher one than the Takings Clause question, and I will perhaps return to it at a future time. If, as I tentatively expect, the Supreme Court rules in favor of Tyler under the Takings Clause, it may not even need to address the other issue.\nNOTE: In both Tyler and the Sixth Circuit case the the property owners were represented by the Pacific Legal Foundation, which is also my wife's employer. She, however, was not involved in either case.\nTo get the Volokh Conspiracy Daily e-mail, please sign up here.\nNEXT: SCOTUS Grants Cert To Reconsider TWA v. Hardison\nIlya Somin is Professor of Law at George Mason University, and author of Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom and Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter.\nTakingsProperty RightsExcessive Fines\nShow Comments (141)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"S.L.Frank: The Life and Work of a Russian Philosopher, 1877-1950\nBoobbyer, Philip (1995) S.L.Frank: The Life and Work of a Russian Philosopher, 1877-1950. Ohio University Press, 290 pp. ISBN 978-0-8214-1110-0. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:53759)\n\"There are many reasons for writing a biography of Semyon Frank. Quite apart from his philosophy, he lived a remarkable life. Born in Moscow in 1877, he was exiled from Soviet Russia in 1922 and died in London in 1950. The son of a Jewish doctor, he became a revolutionary Social Democrat in his teens and finished his life as a Neoplatonist Christian. One of the Russian revisionist Marxists, he was then involved in the Kadet Party during the 1905 revolution before breaking with active political activity and turning to philosophy. He lived in Petrograd through the First World War until September 1917, after which he went to Saratov, where he experienced the chaos of the Russian Civil War. Living in Germany after his exile, he witnessed the rise of Hitler in Berlin, left for France in a hurry in 1937, and spent part of the war hiding from the Gestapo in the Grenoble mountains. It was a life that encompassed a lot of history. \"Yet along with this, Frank was arguably Russia's greatest twentieth-century philosopher. Indeed, V.V. Zen'kovskii, the historian of Russian philosophy, considered Frank 'in strength of philosophic vision ... the most outstanding among Russian philosophers generally -- not merely among those who share his ideas.' For its lucidity, conciseness, systematic character, and unity, Zen'kovskii considered Frank's system ' the highest achievement ... of Russian philosophy.' Doubtless, Zen'kovskii's assessment is disputable, but his remarks emphasize Frank's stature in the Russian tradition. In the style of German idealism, Frank constructed a comprehensive philosophical system, which he believed offered a coherent alternative to materialism. He was deeply worried by the implications of epistemological relativism and constructed a system of metaphysics designed to link epistemology and ontology, to bridge the gulf between thought and being. In addition, he attempted to express the idea of a personal God in philosophical language. His system also embraced social philosophy, anthropology, and ethics.\"-- from the Introduction by the author\nD History General and Old World\nM.R.L. Hurst\nBoobbyer, Philip:","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Houston's downtown \"Lazy River\" is now open to the public\nBy FOX 26 Houston staff\nHOUSTON, TX - Step into the Blue! If you're in need of a Texas-size refreshing break, the Marriott Marquis Houston has opened its Parkview Terrace to the public.\nThe hotel is now selling resort weekday-only passes to its Texas-shaped Lazy River and other amenities that were once open to overnight guests at the Marriott Marquis. The $50 pass gives you access from 9:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mondays through Thursday with admission to the lazy river, heated infinity pool, the hot tub and fitness center and towel service. Guests are also invited to buy food and drinks at the High Dive restaurant.\nSuperspreader 'swinger' party busted in South LA\nPD: 16-year-old boy shot, killed in Phoenix","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Brotherhood the common bond for CSU rugby team\nBrett Kennedy\nVideo by Brett Kennedy, CTV Sports\nThe Colorado State men's rugby team talks about its success this season. Backs coach Ryan Walker discusses teaching the simple things to his players, along with how close the team has gotten.\n\"We're sending little, precise messages about doing the simple things right, those things you take for granted when you start winning a lot of games,\"Walker said. \"We're emphasizing the basics.\"\nTeammates Ben Pinkelman and Luke Engelhaupt talk about how the team's key to winning is focus and playing as a brotherhood.\n\"You have to attack with a lot of depth so you're catching the ball at full speed,\" Pinkelman said. \"If you can just get an accurate pass, it means a ton, it don't seem like much but it changes the whole flow of the game.\"\nThe team had a 10-game win streak going into hosting their Seven's tournament on April 11. The Rams came in second place to Air Force and missed Nationals for the first time in three years.\nThe team will wrap up its season on April 18 in an away game against the Denver Harlequins.\nCTV Sports Reporter Brett Kennedy can be reached at sports@collegian.com\nCSU sweeps 1st and 2nd in 2-day Winter Invite\nIsaiah Stevens breaks CSU's 30-year career assist record\nWyoming spoils Stevens' record-breaking day in final seconds\nRams basketball took a back seat in annual Fight like a Ram matchup\nCSU women's basketball wins 5th straight against Nevada\nColorado State sends SDSU into OT, falling in the finish\nTrace Young: Creation, life, basketball (in that order)\nRams track and field impress at CU Potts Invitational\nRams track and field's indoor season is underway, here's what you need to know","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tempur Sealy to add about 700 new jobs in the U.S. to meet demand for its mattresses\nBy Ciara Linnane\nCiaraLinnane\nCorporate news editor\nTempur Sealy International Inc. TPX, -0.05% said Wednesday it is planning to add about 700 new jobs in the U.S. to meet growing demand for its Tempur-Pedic, Stearns & Foster and Sealy mattresses. The announcements comes a day after Lexington, Ky.-based Tempur Sealy announced new retail agreements with Big Lots Inc. and Mattress Firm Inc. The new jobs include management roles, operations and logistics and sales and will be spread across the U.S. Shares were not yet active premarket, but have gained 70% in 2019, while the S&P 500 SPX, -0.47% has gained 16%.\nTempur Sealy International Inc. U.S.: NYSE: TPX","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Lanza-Weil Named Next Executive Director\nEric Grant, President of the Board of Directors of the Greater Shelburne Falls Area Business Association (GSFABA) announced that the organization has appointed Carmela Lanza-Weil to serve as its next Executive Director. \"Carmela has proven herself by overseeing the management of the organization since July and has done a great job. The board unanimously agreed to invite her to stay on permanently in the position to help lead us into the next chapter of the GSFABA's story.\"\n\"I'm thrilled to accept this appointment. It is truly an honor and I look forward to leading the organization,\" said Lanza Weil. \"Building on the solid foundation that Mary Vilbon -- and those before her \u2013 created, we'll be able to take advantage of some exciting opportunities coming up. We'll work diligently to leverage the prospects ahead, build partnerships to attract and retain businesses, support and grow the creative economy, and continue to build on our robust tourism initiative. Through all these development strategies, we'll see the entire region grow and stabilize economically \u2013 while retaining the unique, rural character of the area. \"\nLanza-Weil noted the organization was recently awarded funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council for new activities in the Shelburne Falls Cultural District. Details on that effort will be forthcoming in the next few weeks.\nFounded in the mid-1980s, the Greater Shelburne Falls Area Business Association works tirelessly to improve the economy and sustain the rural quality of the Village of Shelburne Falls and surrounding Hilltowns of Western Massachusetts.\n\"Solarize Shelburne\" Project\nThe Town of Shelburne will hold a public meeting on Thursday, October 22 from 7:00 \u2013 8:30 pm in the select board meeting room at the Shelburne Town Hall, 51 Bridge Street in Shelburne Falls, to explore how and whether to launch a \"Solarize Shelburne\" project in 2016. All Shelburne residents and business owners are invited to attend, particularly those interested in installing sun-powered electricity generating systems at their homes or businesses. The meeting is also open to residents of neighboring towns who may wish to join a multi-town bulk purchasing Solarize program.\nThe meeting will include two brief presentations and time for questions and discussion. Tim Walter, solar coach for the town of Plainfield, will describe the Solarize program developed by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to organize discounted bulk purchase and installation of solar systems. Ashfield, Buckland and Plainfield are currently collaborating on a 3-town Solarize program that has so far enrolled 90 participating households. John Walsh, former energy efficiency program manager for the Western Massachusetts Electric Company (now Eversource) will provide details on installing and operating a typical roof or ground-mounted solar system designed to generate the electricity needed for an average home. He has installed a 2.6 kilowatt system and a 4.4 kilowatt system that he co-owns with another household on the roof of his home in Shelburne Falls.\nAccording to Shelburne Selectman Andrew Baker, \"the purpose of the meeting is to see if there is interest among Shelburne residents in creating a group purchasing program for solar systems this coming year. The 30% federal tax credit for solar systems expires at the end of 2016 \u2013 that means we have a little over a year to create a Solarize program, choose a solar company to work with and get systems installed. For those interested and able to install your own solar system, now is the time to get going, and a bulk purchase program can lower the cost.\" For more information about the public meeting or to join a Solarize Shelburne working group, contact Andrew Baker at (413) 625-8465.\nSolar for All: Developing Community Shared Solar for your Community\nThe Roundhouse \u2013 Colrain, MA\nOctober 23rd, 5 pm to 24th, 5 pm, 2015\nPurpose: Community Leaders share knowledge and experience in building large solar projects that 20 to 500 families can share.\nKeynote Speaker: Steven Strong, Solar Design Associates\nSteven Strong is acknowledged as a pre-eminent authority on integration of renewable energy systems in buildings. Drawing on his background in architecture and engineering, he has pioneered the concept of integrated design with applications such as solar electricity (photovoltaics), solar thermal and wind energy. Steven has designed dozens of homes and buildings powered by solar electricity - from the Outermost House to the White House.\n5 \u2013 6 pm Dinner\n5:30 \u2013 6:20 pm Pre-Training Workshop\nEli Moulton, Merritt, Merritt and Moulton - Community Shared Solar Projects and Securities Law\n6:30 \u2013 7:45 pm Solar Energy On the Line\nKeynote Address: Steven J. Strong, President Solar Design Associates.\n7:45 \u2013 9 pm Music, socializing, etc.\n8 \u2013 8:45 am Breakfast\n8:45 \u2013 9:15 am Putting the Community Back in Community Solar - Welcome and Introductions with Lynn Benander, Co-op Power's CEO\n9:30 \u2013 10:45 am Workshop 1\nCommunity Shared Solar for All \u00b7 Peter Wingate, Community Action and Lynn Benander, Co-op Power - Brainstorming Strategies for Including Participants from Limited Resource Communities in Community Solar\nSolar Options for Homeowners \u00b7 Dwayne Breger, UMass Energy Extension - Lease, Buy a System, or Buy a Share in a Community Solar Project - How do you choose?\n11 \u2013 12:15 pm Workshop 2\nCommunity Shared Solar Basics \u00b7 Josh Hilsdon, PV Squared - Site Selection and Solar Technology Options for Community Shared Solar\nCommunity Shared Solar Policy \u00b7 Claire Chang, The Solar Store of Greenfield - An overview of Solar Policies supporting Community Shared Solar in Massachusetts and what we're doing to ensure they continue. Claire will also talk about the community solar project she's working on with Greening Greenfield.\n12:15 \u2013 1:15 pm Lunch\n1:30 \u2013 2:45 pm Workshop 3\nCommunity Shared Solar Legal Considerations \u00b7 Jill Winans, McCauley Lyman LLC - Legal Considerations for Community Shared Solar\nCo-op Power's Model for Community Solar \u00b7 Isaac Baker, Co-op Power - Community Shared Solar Partnership Flip Financial Model\n3 \u2013 4:30 pm What's Next?\nBuilding Community Shared Solar - Options and Opportunities\nMassachusetts Solar Loan Program\nGreenfield Savings Bank Offers Workshop: Online Tools to Simplify Banking\n58 Bridge St., Shelburne Falls\nSmall is the Next Big\nThe nation's highest-potential shoppers are turning away from the mall and back to 'Main Street'\nMacy's just announced it will be closing 35-40 stores in 2016. This will likely mark the slow, steady progression toward death for the malls to which those stores are attached. But maybe the closure of these Macy's stores are a symptom of a deeper problem in the mall shopping experience, not the cause of the malls' failure.\nToday shopping malls are becoming 21st-century ghost towns. Since 2010, more than two dozen enclosed shopping malls have closed, and an additional 60 are on the brink. By 2025, an estimated 15% or more malls will be closed or repurposed, according to projects by Green Street Advisors.\nWhile mall owners blame the trend on the closing of anchor stores, like Macy's, the real reason behind the demise of malls is that shoppers, especially the high-potential affluent customers, have lost interest.\nToday, the sameness and ubiquity of the big-box store experience is beginning to show fatigue. Walk through any of the nation's 1,000 or so enclosed malls and you might notice they all look much the same.\nFilled with the same stores offering the same merchandise at the same 'sale' price, it's too much of the same thing. Consumers are beginning to look for something new and different and finding it on 'Main Street' not in the malls.\nShoppers are abandoning malls and coming back to Main Street\nMain Streets and the independent retailers that thrive there are on the cutting edge of a new shift in retailing. While the Great Recession took out a wide swath of retailers -- economic natural selection at work -- the successful retailers that remain represent, by and large, the best and brightest. They have come through the worst and emerged onto the other side stronger, smarter and more resilient.\nSpecialty retailers need to target the affluent customers in their communities. While the middle class lost its spending power in the recession and has yet to recover, the affluent, especially the HENRY (high-earners-not-rich-yet) mass-affluent who are the new mass-market customers with discretion, have the incomes on which specialty independent retailers rely.\nThe HENRYs are passionate about fulfilling their desires in smaller shops where they know store owners and staff. They tend to demand to be treated with a high level of personal service, and expect a differentiated, experiential sell.\nOver the next 10 years, independents will thrive as multi-generational customers cut back on the one-size-fits-all approach of mass retail and the sameness that it engenders. Customers will seek these smaller stores for a variety of reasons, based on their socio-economic, psychographic and demographic outlooks. As a result, growth at mass will slow down and profits will shrink.\nThe next decade will see a great winnowing down, restructuring, and right sizing of mass-market retail, which will give a new opportunity to independent specialty retailers.\nFrom Pam Danziger & Unity Marketing Blog\nFranklin County Chamber Hosts Speaker DeLeo\nThe Franklin County Chamber of Commerce's next breakfast will be October 23 at Terrazza at the Country Club of Greenfield. Robert DeLeo, Speaker of the House of Massachusetts, will be the presenter. He is unquestionably one of the three most powerful figures in Massachusetts government and he comes to us through the efforts of Representative Paul Mark, who represents many of our Franklin County towns.\nAmong possible topics, Speaker DeLeo will discuss issues related to energy, the environment, state budget, higher education, tourism and agriculture. Speaker DeLeo lives in Winthrop and represents the 19th Suffolk District. He was elected Speaker of the House in January, 2009. A Globe article in February of last year praised him as \"one of the biggest champions of our innovation economy\" and described him as \"knowledgeable and fluent in getting things done, what the innovation economy needs.\"\nPlease join us for this opportunity to hear the words and opinions of someone who influences the decisions and initiatives that affect you and all the residents of the Commonwealth. It is your chance to make certain that the issues important to you and your business in Western Massachusetts are heard and delivered to Beacon Hill.\nPlease make reservations by October 16. FCCC members $13 (if prepaid or pay-at-door), $14 (billed) or non-members $16. Call (413) 773-5463 or email.\nFranklin County CDC's 36th Annual Meeting\nAt the Arts Block,\nDowntown Greenfield\nGuest Speaker - Katie Stebbins, Assistant Secretary - Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, MA Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development\nHear stories from local entrepreneurs are that are innovating and stimulating our local economy\nTaste some new delicacies from FCCDC clients\nDrink local fermented beverages (and some non-fermented ones as well!)\nCatch the entrepreneurial excitement!\nFCCDC Business Training\nVariety of classes & support\nBusiness Training is available from a variety of organizations and consultants along with Information Sessions for Small Businesses to Start and Grow.\nBoswell's Books\nSunday, October 18 at 4:00 pm, Lisa Rogak, author of Cats on the Job, will be at Boswell's Books signing copies of the book along with our own Boswell the cat, who is featured in the book.\nThursday, November 5 at 6:30pm, Archer Mayor, the prolific author of the Brattleboro-based detective Joe Gunther series, will be at the Arms Library in Shelburne Falls to talk about and sign his new novel, The Company She Kept.\nSunday, November 15 from 2:00-4:00 pm: Boswell's Annual Game Day! Come enjoy a fun time learning some new games or playing old favorites. It's a great opportunity to preview and select games as holiday gifts or just have a good time. We will be offering free hot cider and cookies!\nThe Art Garden\nIn Someone Else's Shoes (about perspectives and empathy): A community exhibit.\nParticipation is free and open to the public. Deadline for submissions is November 2; Opening reception November 7th 6 -8 pm with performances at 7pm.\nNew Series at Mocha Maya's\nWe're very excited to announce a new series that will run from Tuesday, Oct. 20th through Tuesday, Nov. 24th.... it's Taste of Theatre Tuesdays! It's a series of six play reading performances with professional actors. The plays range from a comedic send-up of Hitchcock's 39 Steps to an Irish drama about five sisters to a play about a couple at a Boston party who meet 30 years after an exciting night in Capri. The shows start at 7 and are on Oct. 20, Oct. 27, Nov. 3, Nov. 10, Nov 17 and Nov. 24. Admission is by donation. Come join us for an evening of laughs and fantastic theatre.\nOn October 20th, we present 'Dancing at Lughnasa' (1998). This extraordinary play is the story of five unmarried sisters eking out their lives in a small Irish village in 1936. A radio is their only link to the world at large and romance. Then their older brother arrives from a missionary in a Uganda leper colony, followed shortly by the father of the only child they've begotten.\nPonte Restaurante's New Menu\nDownload the PDF!\nSoup: 4.00\nCheck Today's Specials\nBlue Chips and Mild Salsa: 3.25\nBeef: 3.95\nGround beef, cheese, sour cream, carrot cabbage slaw\nPulled Pork: 3.95\nPulled Pork, cheese, sour cream, salsa,carrot cabbage slaw\nChicken: 3.95\nShredded Chicken, cheese, sour cream, salsa, carrot cabbage slaw\nSwordfish: 6.00\nSwordfish pieces with watercress pesto and carrot cabbage slaw\nBean: 3.00\nBlack Beans, cheese, sour cream, salsa, and carrot cabbage slaw\nTaco de Papa: 3.75\nRoasted Garlic Chipotle mashed potatoes, cheese, sour cream, salsa and carrot slaw\nDeviled Egg Salad: 3.50\nMade with Chipotle Peppers, lime, mayo, and served with carrot cabbage slaw.\n7 inch Individual Plain: 5.00\nCuban: 6.00\nMargherita: 6.00\nJamaican Meat Pie: 4.95\nGinger Fizz: 2.75\nHibiscus Iced Tea: 1.75\nLimeade: 2.75\nMexican Sodas: 2.25\nCubano Sandwiches\nClassic: 12.50\nPressed sandwich on house made Pan Cubano bread, Roasted Pork, Ham, Swiss Cheese, pickles, jalape\u00f1os, mustard\nVeggie: 7.50\nPressed sandwich on house made Pan Cubano Bread, Swiss Cheese, Pickles, Jalape\u00f1os, Deli Mustard\nPulled Pork Sandwich: 7.00\n1\/2 lb BBQ pulled pork on a roll topped with carrot slaw\nSlider: 2.50\nAll Beef Patty with Mexican Spices served on a roll\nThe Flying Dog returns to Ponte Restaurante\nThe New Englander: 3.25\nDog, Bun, Mustard and Relish\nThe Mexican: 3.75\nBacon Wrapped dog with cheese, salsa, sour cream, jalape\u00f1os, carrot cabbage slaw\nThe New Yorker: 3.25\nSauerkraut, mustard, chili pepper\nThe Puerto Rican: 3.25\nPuerto Rican style onion sauce, Deli Mustard\nThe Reuben: 3.25\nSauerkraut, Swiss cheese, 1000 Island dressing\nThe Chili Dog: 3.75\nChili, Raw Onion, Cheddar Cheese Sauce, Deli Mustard\nThe BBQ Dog: 3.75\nBBQ Sauce, Crumbled Bacon, Cheddar Cheese Sauce\nRice, Black Beans, Salsa, Carrot Cabbage Slaw, Cheese and Sour Cream: 6.50\nAdd Chicken, Pork or Beef: 1.50\nPlease inform us of any food allergies before ordering.\nCall and place your order: 413-489-3062\nVolunteers Needed for CiderDays!\nGet involved in one of the county's most exciting events - CiderDays! The Cider Days Committee is looking for individuals to help pour tastes of hard cider during the tasting salons at the event on Saturday afternoon (November 7) at Berkshire East. We also need some help for a few hours setting up chairs at the Shelburne Buckland Community Center Friday afternoon (November 6).\nContact Lisa Duval to sign up!\nGSFABA Annual Pancake Breakfast & Membership Meeting\nTrinity Church, 17 Severance St. in Shelburne Falls\nFor reservations, call the office at 625-2526 or email Wes\nLast Art Walk of the year!\nSaturday, Nov. 7, 2015\nShelburne Falls \u200b\nCider Days\nWorkshops at the Community Center, Berkshire East, and other locations throughout West County!\nMoonlight Magic's Coming!\nLook for an invitation to help light the village coming soon!\u200b\nBusiness Doings\nDavenport Maple Farm opens their restaurant on weekends through November 1st. The restaurant is a very important part of their farm and helps support the farm throughout the year. Go enjoy great food and support our local economy!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Parahuna Trailer: Kulwinder Billa & Wamiqa Gabbi are ready to offer you 'Parahuna' Culture\nBy Punjabi Pollywood Team | September 11, 2018\nNewly singer turned actor of Punjabi music industry 'Kulwinder Billa' is coming up with his second Punjabi movie in 2018 that is 'Parahuna'. In this new Punjabi movie Parahuna, Punjabi model and actress 'Wamiqa Gabbi' is also going to lead opposite to Kulwinder Billa. The trailer of this movie is out now and is promising major laughter to the audience.\nThe trailer gives a glimpse of the megastar cast of film 'Parahuna', which includes perfect theatrical faces having the best command of portraying emotional and comic roles on the screen. The names include Karamjit Anmol, Harby Sangha, Sardar Sohi, Hobby Dhaliwal, Anita Dutt, Malkit Rauni, Nirmal Rishi, and Rupinder Roopi. The trailer has briefed the concept of the movie that the story would revolve around the 'Parahuna Culture' of Punjab, as the Son-In-law is termed as 'Parahune' in the local language.\nDuring the events like marriages, the son-in-law expects huge formalities and formal care from his In-laws. Simultaneously his attitude and satisfaction become a major issue for the whole family as well. Because of these conditions, a lot of drama happens especially in the Malwa region of Punjab from where the star Kulwinder Billa comes.\nThe trailer is ensuring that all this family drama will be put up on the screen by the makers of the Punjabi film \"Parahuna\". This all happened during the 90's more. And interestingly from the sets and dresses from the movie seem to be from 90's Punjab. Thus, the movie is going to be an attractive production from the present uncle-aunties more than the younger generation. Also, if the youth wants to understand the family system during their parent's marriage then also they would love to watch it.\nParahuna Movie Trailer\nThough the movie was supposed to be released on the first Friday of October, now it is coming one week earlier, on last Friday of September 28th. The trailer is being liked by everyone; hence it has crossed 3 million views very swiftly.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Fire extinguisher explodes at BKK airport, killing one staff\nA fire extinguisher exploded in a service zone inside Suvarnabhumi Airport on Thursday afternoon, killing one person and injuring four others.\nPolice said staff were replacing the cylinder when it fell down from its position due to an insecure valve, and caused the fatal blast.\n\"We have received reports of casualties,\" Provincial Police Region 1 chief Pol Lt-General Ampol Buarabporn said.\nPolice said the blast occurred at a service corner between Zone 2 and Zone 3 of the airport at a spot close to the Airport Link's station.\nThe blast scene has been cordoned off. There is no report of the incident affecting the airport's operations.\nFire extinguisher explodes Suvarnabhumi Airport Fire extinguisher","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'Concerned and frustrated' Stoke City boss sends January transfer message amid poor form\nStoke City are now five points adrift of the play-off positions after suffering successive 2-1 home defeats\nMark Mothershaw\nStoke City manager Michael O'Neill on the touchline. (Image: Getty Images)\nMichael O'Neill is as concerned and frustrated as anybody else by his side's alarming mid-season slump in form\nThe Northern Irishman cut a frustrated figure after watching his side surrender a one-goal lead before succumbing to defeat against a Preston side who had been out of action for almost a month.\nLike the Potters, Covid-19 had ravaged their festive schedule, but they returned with a bang by inflicting more bet365 Stadium misery upon O'Neill's men, just days after they went down to another 2-1 loss to Derby.\nBen Wilmot's stunning first goal for the club had the hosts in the ascendency before Brad Potts and Andrew Hughes turned the game on its head during a dramatic finale.\nThe manner of the late turnaround infuriated O'Neill, who admitted that he won't have the benefit of dipping into the January transfer window to address his side's issues.\n\"I am frustrated and concerned about the team, obviously,\" the Stoke boss told the media.\n\"I am not going to stand here and just say that we will be able to turn things around, because that isn't going to just happen.\n\"We have got to work hard to turn things around, and we are going to have to do that with the group that we have within the building.\n\"Whilst other sides will get stronger by virtue of what they do in the transfer market, we will get stronger by getting players back from injury, because we are restricted in the market.\n\"At the moment having players back from injury isn't imminent for us, so we have simply got to carry on working with what we have available to us \u2013 there is nothing else we can do.\nWhat do you think? Have your say in the comments section\n\"There are no shortcuts to this. Our performances haven't been consistent enough over a 90 minute period to earn us the points we would have liked.\n\"We are a little bit fragile and we are a little bit vulnerable, so we are having games like this where we take the lead which we then go on to lose.\n\"Even the game against Derby, we are 1-1 and then we give away a bad goal, so we are throwing points away at this moment in time, which is hugely frustrating.\"\nBoos at full-time as Stoke City continue worrying home form vs Preston\nStoke City player ratings vs Preston as Wilmot sizzler in vain","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Browse:Home Allegany County Shreve birdies No. 6, holds on for modified doubles win\nShreve birdies No. 6, holds on for modified doubles win\nPublished by AlleganyPlayground.com on November 28, 2021 | 0 Comment\nRaynor 2nd, E. Shreve and Spradlin tie for 3rd\nDoubles play resumes Dec. 5 in Cumberland\n* Western Maryland Disc Golf FB page\n* AlleganyPlayground.com FB page\nCUMBERLAND \u2014 No tie. No Scott Mallery. No problem for Bill Shreve.\nThe 45-year-old Cumberland man and his partner, son Ethan Shreve, birdied No. 6 on the front nine, propelling Shreve to an individual lead in modified doubles play to wrap up Week 6 in the Western Maryland Disc Golf Fall\/Winter Doubles League at Central Assembly of God in Cumberland.\nKevin Spradlin photo | AlleganyPlayground.com\nBill Shreve throws from No. 6 on the red tee. He and partner Ethan Shreve birdied the hole in two strokes.\nIt was a lead Bill Shreve, who played one day earlier in the inaugural Ace Race event at Mile Lane Disc Golf in Mount Savage, built on over the remaining 12 baskets. Shreve finished with a score of 46, followed by Keith Raynor, 45, of Vale Summit, in second place with a round of 50. Ethan Shreve, 18, of Cumberland, and Kevin Spradlin, 42, of Frostburg, each scored a 53 to tie for third. Josiah Spradlin, 12, of Frostburg, rounded out the field with a 55. It was the younger Spradlin's first time throwing from the white tees on the back nine, so his second-half score of 28 was even more impressive.\nWith five people registered for the 2 p.m. tee time, Bill Shreve pulled a magic trick from the hat of disc golf veteran and administrator Scott Mallery, leaning on the Week 2 format which made the odd man out be a rotating position over 18 holes. During play on Oct. 31, Shreve tied with Mallery (48 each).\nJosiah Spradlin, 12, tees off on No. 8. His partner was Ethan Shreve but, at least for this hole, Josiah did not need him.\nAt each tee on Sunday, the pairs alternated \u2014 it started out with the two Spradlins, then the Shreves, with Raynor on his own for the first hole. The odd player out was able to have a mulligan on one shot during each hole, similar to a doubles team having the option to choose between partners' throws.\nRaynor and Bill and Ethan Shreve each shot solo four times, while Kevin and Josiah Spradlin each played the odd man out three times. Comparing each player's first three solo holes, the scoring looked like this:\nKevin (2, 3, 5 = 10)\nJosiah (4, 4, 3 = 11)\nBill (2, 3, 2 = 7)\nEthan (3, 3, 4 = 10)\nKeith (2, 3, 3 = 8)\nKevin was the only player to shoot solo only once on the shorter red nine, scoring a birdie on No. 5.\nWith the help of his rotating partners, Kevin Spradlin stayed even with Bill Shreve through the first five baskets. Then Shreve and his son birdied No. 6. Bill Shreve gained another stroke on No. 9 \u2014 another birdie \u2014 for a two stroke lead over Spradlin and Raynor at the midway point (21 to 23). Ethan Shreve was at 24 while Josiah Spradlin threw a 27.\nKeith Raynor tees off from No. 10, the first white tee on the back nine.\nFall\/Winter Doubles League action continues on Sunday, Dec. 5 at Central Assembly of God in Cumberland with a tee time of 2 p.m. for all players, members and non-members alike. Registration begins at about 1:30 p.m. The registration fee is $5 per player ($2 goes to the league, $1 goes into the ace fund and $2 goes into the weekly winner's purse).","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"International Journal of Communication Publishes a Special Section on Women's Rights and Gender Equality in Turkey\nPosted on October 29, 2020 by bellgarc\nZeren G\u00f6ktan, \"Deep Blue\", #1, 2017\nTurkey, once a democracy, has slid into authoritarianism, and has now severe restrictions on its media which prompts the question:\nWhat does this mean for women's rights and gender equality in Turkey?\nGuest-edited by Esra \u00d6zcan, this Special Section on Women's Rights and Gender Equality in Turkey brings together eight original papers (plus an editorial introduction) on current research in gender and media in Turkey. The articles investigate a wide a range of historical and contemporary issues about women's rights and gender equality in different types of media:\n\u2022 Women's representation in early modern Turkish newspapers\n\u2022 Women's films\n\u2022 The promotion of a neo-liberal gender ideology in Islamized self-help books\n\u2022 The media coverage of violence against women and LGBTQ+ communities\n\u2022 Online activism against violence\n\u2022 Anti-feminism\n\u2022 Gender stereotypes in advertising\nThe Special Section explores ways to push against gender conservatism in a restricted media environment. We invite you to read these Special Section articles that published in the International Journal of Communication on October 28, 2020. Please Ctrl+Click on the article titles below for direct linking.\nWomen's Rights and Gender Equality in Turkey: Struggles Over Media Representations and Discourses in the Past and Present \u2014 Editorial Introduction\nEsra \u00d6zcan\nThe Image of Turkish Women as the Antithesis of the Ottoman Past: Representations of Women in the Newspapers of the Early Republican Era\nEsra Ercan Bilgi\u00e7\nCinema Has Split the Girl's Soul into Pieces: Scrutinizing Representations of Women in Films from Turkey\nEsin Pa\u00e7a Cengiz\nGender in Turkey's Islamic-Oriented Self-Help Literature: Constructing Self-Regulating Female Subjectivity\nFeyda Sayan-Cengiz\n\"The Public Immoralist\": Discourses of Queer Subjectification in Contemporary Turkey\nEser Selen\nThe Politicization of Rape as a Consequence of Western Modernity and Religious Conservatism: Competing Media Narratives on Gender\nEce Algan\nUse of Social Media in the Struggle Surrounding Violence Against Turkish Women\nChristine Ogan, \u00d6zen Ba\u015f\nVoices Against Misogyny in Turkey: The Case of a Successful Online Collective Action Against a Sexist Commercial\n\u00d6zden Melis Ulu\u011f, \u00d6zen Oda\u011f, Nevin Solak\nFraming the Alimony Debates in Turkey: Struggle Between Feminist and Antifeminist Discourses to Represent \"Women's Rights\"\nKasia Anderson, Managing Editor, Special Sections\nEsra \u00d6zcan, Guest Editor\nAccording to the latest statistics from Google Scholar, IJoC ranks 3rd among all Humanities, Literature & Arts journals, and 5th among all Communication journals.\n\u2190 International Journal of Communication announces the publication of 32 papers that published in SEPTEMBER\nInternational Journal of Communication announces the publication of 24 papers that published in OCTOBER \u2192","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"By Ari Herstand\nResourcesLennon Cihak - 11-25-2020 0\nWhich print on-demand merch company is best for musicians: Gooten, Printful, Printify, Teelaunch, or Teespring?\nIncomeAri Herstand - 10-15-2020 0\nThis is the most comprehensive and accurate digital distribution review comparison piece on the web. By far. I checked. Who is the best digital distributor? Read on\u2026Amuse vs. AWAL vs. CD Baby vs. DistroKid vs. Ditto Music vs. Fresh Tunes vs. Horus Music vs. Landr vs. Octiive v...\nAri Herstand\nAri Herstand is a Los Angeles based musician, the founder and CEO of Ari's Take and the author of How to Make It in the New Music Business.\nFormer Major Label Executive is Creating a New Investment Model | New Music Business w Ari Herstand\nListen on your favorite podcast platform: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Acast\nToday's guest is Nick Gatfield. He has been in the music industry for decades. He was a major label executive for 25 years, most recently Sony Music UK, which he left in 2014. He's worked at various majors over the years, including Universal and EMI. He was there when they signed Radiohead and was also part of Amy Winehouse's team.\nBut now he's out of the major label game and runs an investment company called Twin Music. They invest in artists, recordings, and various artists' assets. I will let Nick explain how it all works because he is so knowledgeable on this due to his decades worth of experience in the industry. It's clear that he cares about artists and this new model. One of the first artists he signed to this new deal was Allie X, who was on the show about a month ago. I encourage you to check out her episode to learn how this deal works from an artist's perspective.\n+Allie X on Creating Her Artist Package, Breaking Into LA and Staying Independent\n3:53 \u2013 How London is doing amidst the pandemic and how the industry is shifting\n10:55 \u2013 What is Twin Music and what's the business model?\n22:22 \u2013 What does the exit strategy look like for Twin Music \/ the artist?\n25:03 \u2013 Does Twin Music just put up the money or is there a team that helps the artists?\n27:18 \u2013 Who are Twin Music's distribution and publishing partners?\n29:54 \u2013 Is Nick's business model scalable or is it just a wave that will eventually pass?\n35:42 \u2013 Will major labels always have their place in being the driving force behind popular culture or is the industry shifting away from them?\n37:50 \u2013 What percentage of artists that Nick signed when working at the major labels made their advance back on their first album?\n46:38 \u2013 What does an investment look like? How does someone invest in an artist?\n53:42 \u2013 What can an artist expect from an investment deal? Does it work like an advance?\n56:25 \u2013 What does it mean to Nick to make it in the new music business?\nNick Gatfield\nTwin Music\nPrevious articleVictoria Canal on Releasing Music During COVID and Staying Inspired\nNext articleParadigm Fired Them So They Started a New Booking Agency With an Impressive Roster\nPodcastsAri Herstand - 10-28-2020 0\nAnwar and I talk about being a producer\/songwriter and writing thousands of songs and even how he got his publishing deal. We also talk about developing Audrey Nuna.\nParadigm Fired Them So They Started a New Booking Agency With an Impressive Roster\nPodcasts Ari Herstand - 10-28-2020 0\nThis episode is for all of you orchestra nerds out there. I'm guilty of that. I played in an orchestra for most of my life. For those of you who don't know, I'm a trumpet player. I love going to the LA Phil and love orchestra music. It features Nu Deco Ensemble founders Sam Hyken and Jacomo Bairos.\nMarshall Betts is an agent formerly of Paradigm, but after Paradigm dissolved its entire music division and laid off hundreds of employees he along with a few of his co-workers at Paradigm launched a new agency... TBA Agency. Get it?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"gladstone partners london\nGladstone International Legal Consultants Prestige Tower 17, 12th floor ... SE1 9SG, London. Company\/Fund Name: Gladstone Partners Address: 20 Balderton Street, London, W1K 6TL, United Kingdom Phone: +44 207 408 4771 Fax: +44 207 408 4790 Website: Sub Funds and Performance November 17, 2020The Changing Role of \u2026 His father, John, made himself a merchant prince and was a member of Parliament (1818\u201327). Neil Klerck Founder & CEO at Baseline Media Limited; Founder at Tifo Football London. 1- 5. Middle East Legal Affairs. Gladstone Capital Management LLP is based out of London. N\/A. David Craigen. Gladstone Global is a Private Investment boutique that holds stakes in businesses and their underlying projects. Gladstone was of purely Scottish descent. Partner at Gladstone Partners London. About Us. Location 2 London Bridge London, Greater London T44 20 7939 1706. It was founded in 03\/2015. Gladstone was sent to Eton, where he did not Gladstone Place Partners is a group of talented professionals with rich experience in corporate and financial issues. London, United Kingdom 500+ connections. ... To protect and enhance Gladstone's ownership stake in each business by actively involving key partners in the corporate governance, financial, commercial and ... Mayfair London W1 J 5PA, United Kingdom. They hold $419 million in assets under management as of September 1, 2017. Read their Plain English Brochure. The latest from GPP View All. Gladstone, a low profile firm founded by former Lansdowne Partners equity analyst George Michelakis in 2005 and which now manages $2.7bn in assets, has quietly emerged as one of London's top-performing hedge funds in recent years. Gladstone, a low profile firm founded by former Lansdowne Partners equity analyst George Michelakis in 2005 and which now manages $2.7bn in assets, has quietly emerged as one of London\u2026 USA . Contact Gladstone Partners or view Gladstone Partners's ratings, investment advice, financial planning and insurance services, and get detailed information on their fees, ... London, Greater London # OF EMPLOYEES. www.gladstone-private.com. November 23, 2020Direct Listing: Communicating Your Path to the Public Market. Gladstone Capital Management LLP is a hedge fund with 4 clients and discretionary assets under management (AUM) of $1,268,339,294 (Form ADV from 2020-06-11). www.gladstone-private.com. Gladstone International Partners Corp 12707 High Bluff Drive, Suite 244, San Diego, CA 92130 United States of America. Articles. William Ewart Gladstone, statesman and four-time prime minister of Great Britain (1868\u201374, 1880\u201385, 1886, 1892\u201394). Gladstone Partners is a hedge fund based in London, United Kingdom. 20 BALDERTON STREET, LONDON, +44 207 408 4771 +44 207 408 4790 Total Assets. Gladstone Capital Management LLP. Neil Klerck. Employment Details. 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{"text":"Another Industry-Backed Effort to Delay Crucial Safeguards and Undermine the Regulatory Process\nTania Matsuoka,\nCenter for Effective Government\nEffective public safeguards protect all of us from toxic chemicals, air pollution, water contamination, and unsafe food. Streamlining the process of strengthening and updating these standards would help us fight new and emerging dangers. But earlier this year, Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) quietly introduced a resolution that would inject Congress into the federal regulatory review process and slam the brakes on a rulemaking system that is already fraught with delays that put people's lives and health at risk.\nRounds and his co-sponsors claim that the measure, the Regulation Sensibility Through Oversight Restoration (RESTORE) Resolution, would address issues raised in an industry-backed report on the cost of regulations. But that publication and its findings ignore the immense benefits of public protections and were debunked by the Washington Post Fact Checker as \"misleading\" and having \"serious methodological problems.\"\nRounds' proposal would create a temporary Joint Select Committee that would \"conduct a systematic review of rules enacted by federal agencies\" and would hold potentially wide-ranging hearings on these rules. The committee would submit recommendations to Congress to sunset rules it doesn't like and would impose a process for federal agencies to submit rules to Congress for review before they are enacted.\nRESTORE would also require Congress to consider creating a permanent \"Joint Committee on Rules Review,\" which would further broaden the scope of standards and safeguards subject to unnecessary delay and possible repeal.\nRESTORE is redundant, unnecessary, and a backdoor way to prevent the implementation of popular laws.\nOur regulatory process is already overloaded with roadblocks that slow the enactment of crucial public safeguards. It already takes years for agencies to develop even uncontroversial and pressing standards. During these delays, people may die or suffer serious injuries and illnesses, and communities and our natural resources can be irreparably harmed.\nThe Office of Management and Budget's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) currently reviews rules that agencies develop. Congress created OIRA through the Paperwork Reduction Act and tasked it with overseeing the federal regulatory process. The office focuses on evaluating the economic impacts of rules and avoiding inconsistent and duplicative policies among agencies. RESTORE essentially gives the Joint Select Committee some of the same functions as OIRA, rendering the resolution redundant and wasting staff time and resources of executive agencies and Congress.\nRESTORE is a \"solution\" in search of a problem because Congress already has extensive oversight of the regulatory process. It may make recommendations to agencies, hold hearings and pose questions to agency heads, impose restrictions through funding bills that prevent agencies from enforcing specific rules, or enact legislation concerning a proposed rule. Should an agency issue a final regulation that Congress disagrees with, it can pass a joint resolution of disapproval by a simple majority under the Congressional Review Act. This can overturn a rule if the president signs it.\nAt a recent hearing, Senate Republicans tried to cite the shrinking capacity of OIRA to take on expansive regulatory review as a justification for the RESTORE resolution, but their own witness, former OIRA Administrator Susan Dudley, pointed to an easier fix: Congress could just provide the office with more resources.\nLegislators don't have the time or the expertise to review all significant rules, and RESTORE is likely unconstitutional.\nMembers of Congress have scant time to review rules \u2013 whether they're newly proposed or already adopted. Incredibly, Rounds proposes a review of all existing federal regulations to identify rules and sets of rules that should be repealed, which could subject every regulation ever enacted to an undefined standard of congressional review.\nFurther, the resolution would drag more proposed rules into the review process by lowering the economic standard for defining a \"significant\" rule, from an annual impact on the economy of $100 million or more to $50 million. Even the current standard is unreasonably low; it was set in 1978 during the Carter administration and has not been changed since. Adjusted for inflation, the equivalent impact on the economy would be $713 million today.\nAs Rounds himself points out, there is no way Congress can review over \"ten thousand regulations per year\" unless such an undertaking is institutionalized. He is absolutely correct, and that's why Congress delegated this responsibility to the executive branch.\nIt is also highly unlikely that legislators appointed to the Joint Select Committee would have the necessary expertise to review technical and scientific rules. In addition to OIRA, the current rulemaking review process allows other federal agencies with expertise and interest in a rule to provide their input. However, congressional review would allow industry-backed legislators to overrule scientific experts and roll back decades of vital public protections.\nRESTORE represents a transparent and likely unconstitutional power grab that is unworkable and creates more problems than it purports to solve. Congress should reject this proposal.\nTania Matsuoka\nTania Matsuoka is an intern with the Center for Effective Government and the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"These businesses reacted to covid with automation and AI\nDuring the pandemic, AI has played a vital role in demand forecasting, supply chain optimization of essential services to healthcare services.\nRiya Pahuja\nUpdated: July 23, 2021, 17:08 IST\nAI has played a silent role in our lives for many years now- medical research is a key example. However, the applications of AI are now more visible to people mainly because of consumer applications such as e-commerce, ride sharing, app-based food delivery, OTT platforms, etc. that they use in their daily lives.\n\"Globally, industries such as retail, e-commerce, healthcare, life sciences, insurance, banking, consumer goods, utilities, telecom, media and direct to consumer services have been increasing their investments in AI over the past decade. Driven by benefits ranging from productivity gains and cost reduction to strategic goals such as deepening customer engagement, finding new ways of growing revenue, expanding into new markets and getting better insights for product development, enterprises are adopting a more strategic approach to how they leverage AI to achieve their business goals,\" said Senthil Ramani, Head - Accenture Applied Intelligence for Growth Markets.\nWhile India as a market was trying to understand the applications of Digital, Automation and AI, pandemic spurred the growth of these powerful technologies across all industries. During the pandemic, AI has played a vital role in demand forecasting, supply chain optimization of essential services to healthcare services.\n\"Our latest research found that 59% of technology leaders accelerated investments in AI and machine learning during the pandemic and 60% in robotic process automation. Scaling up their investments in key technologies including AI during the pandemic has helped leaders not only absorb impact quickly but also refocus on growth. All indications point to a continued investment in this area.\" Ramani added.\nPre-Covid, while some businesses were in the early adoption stage, some were just chatting about the technology but today, almost every major organization is automating its process and making its system artificial intelligence.\nWith work from home, things were moving slowly and so were the business processes. Taking this opportunity, Puneesh Lamba, CTO, Shahi Exports turned a lot of manual run tasks into automated ones.\n\"We saw that wherever the processes were physical or had manual touch points were either slower now because of the lockdown or not possible at all. So we had to move to virtual processes,\" said Lamba.\n\"The number of processes automated by the company in the last year is much more than the total automation done in the last 3 years. Given the base the company still has, I am sure that in the coming 6-9 months all the eligible processes will be automated using multiple technologies whether it is RPA or AI, or workflow technologies,\" he added.\nAlso Read: How automation helped Shahi Exports survive two big pandemic waves\nIn addition to the processes going slow, another biggest challenge in the supply chain functions was inventory management. With orders flowing in from all the channels, it was difficult for the retailers to keep track of the inventory. Business found the solution to this problem, once again, in technology.\nFor example, to optimize its supply chain functions and customer orders, IKEA is doing goal-driven AI. IKEA wanted to optimize its supply chain for a smooth flow of products in the store and to customer's homes.\n\"We needed to optimize the way we were managing our inventory. We are doing a lot of goal driven AI where we optimize the supply chain functions. The question was, if the customer orders online or gets it from the store, from which warehouse or store do we deliver the product from? So we have worked with AI to know the best way to do this so that the product reaches the customer in the shortest time possible with the best availability,\" explained Divya Kumar, Global Digital Chief Financial Officer, IKEA\nCiting an example she further explained, \"I want to keep sofas in a place. I may want to keep them all at one place and deliver from there or may want to distribute them to a warehouse or different store. So the AI algorithm built underneath the model helps me decide where to keep my inventory such that it's the optimum way and it helps me in managing the cost.\"\nOn the supply chain side, Kumar believes there are huge quantitative benefits in AI, especially when it comes to the end-to-end operations.\n(With inputs from Dhrumil Dhakan)\nShahi Exports\nOmni channel trade\nDivya Kumar\ncs rpa\ncs AI\nMost Read in Next-Gen Technologies\nBudget 2023: Wishlist of Indian start-up ecosystem\nAirtel 5G Plus service now available in these seven cities of Andhra Pradesh: All details\nChanging face of mobility in India and the future ahead\n'Quantum computing will be at the core of growth'\nIndustry 4.0 revolutionizing the aerospace and defense manufacturing industry: Maya Raichelson, Collins Aerospace\nRitesh Srivastava, BharatPe on top AI trends for fintech industry to look for in 2023\nPutting AI into gaming is like putting Minecraft on steroids: Raja Koduri, Intel","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Posted on December 28, 2021 byAdam Wallace\nModern eclectic combat systems, otherwise known as Mixed Martial Arts (or MMA), appear to be attracting far more adherents today than the traditional Chinese systems. What are the reasons for this? Are traditional martial arts, as detractors claim, really outdated, obsolete and doomed to extinction? Why the division? What then still attracts students to traditional styles over modern martial arts? And what do traditional styles offer that the modern arts do not? These questions will be addressed over the coming parts.\nMMA appears to hold the view that traditional Chinese martial arts \"have no place in today's world\". This is patently absurd as traditional Chinese martial arts have been \"battle-tested\", literally on the battlefield! Hand-to-hand combat has not really changed much over the centuries, except for firearms replacing traditional weapons. As Bruce Lee said, \"A punch is just a punch. A kick is just a kick\"!\nMMA considers itself to be the next step in the \"evolution\" of martial arts, as it covers all ranges, including the ground, and claims to employ the best techniques from all the various arts. The emphasis on ground fighting is one of the major differences between Traditional Chinese Martial Arts and MMA. Fighting on the ground is not really a component of Chinese arts whereas for MMA it is the cornerstone. All martial artists today, and even the armchair fans of sport MMA have been conditioned by the medium of television Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) events and reality shows, to believe that a fight almost invariably goes to the ground, and that this is where a fight \"really begins\". In reality, all fights begin standing up. And, for the winner, they certainly end standing up. Yet, MMA considers that any martial art without ground fighting is \"incomplete\" or inferior, and that every fighter must be well versed in groundwork, covering Jiu-Jitsu, Judo or wrestling.\nChinese martial artists are expected to remain upright. This is why emphasis is placed on various types of stance training, as foundation, so leg strength, balance, inner awareness, stability and mobility, and positional recovery are equally developed. True striking power comes from the legs, and not many MMA fighters seem to know this, considering how much time they spend on training the arms and upper body strength. Should a traditionally trained martial artist lose balance, or slip and fall, or manage to be taken to the ground, and find himself on his back, he simply returns to upright as quickly as possible. He is under no obligation to remain there, and if untrained in groundwork, then opting to remain on the floor would be like falling into the river and not knowing how to swim. The notion of rolling around and thrashing about in the mud, dust or dirt during a confrontation is considered \"undignified\". The Chinese are a highly pragmatic race of people. During centuries of wars and gang fighting, if ground techniques had been considered a necessity, then techniques would most certainly have been developed for this situation. Forms of grappling and throwing (Shuai Jiao) and joint locking (Qin Na), as a means to control or finish the opponent, do exist within most styles of traditional Chinese martial arts, but unlike MMA, they are not applied from the ground, so the training does not begin with both fighters in the supine or prone positions, straddling each other on the floor.\nWith MMA, a fighter's objective is to forcibly take his opponent to the ground where he can apply his repertoire of wrestling skills, grappling, chokes, and joint locks, or else he is quite content to allow himself to be taken to the floor by his opponent, whereupon he will attempt to turn the tables and ply his trade. So, one way or the other, as they all fully expect to end up on the floor, it is their conscious or subconscious intention, through action or passivity, that inevitably leads them there. This is the invariable result with MMA solely because both parties tacitly agree to it. Seldom do we find the situation in which one skilled combatant is uncooperative and refuses to play the game.\nIf one possesses trained strength with stability and balance, internal awareness and sensitivity to changes, and the ability to turn and neutralize force, together with footwork\/ mobility to maintain advantageous position, along with knowledge of counter measures to prevent going to ground, then he simply cannot be taken down. And, not without energy sapping effort expended by the opponent.\nUFC (the televised public face of MMA) has played the role of culture creationist, helping shape thought and opinions on martial arts, in general, by judging all other martial arts against it. But, with respect, UFC itself really is competition sport. Of course, competition sport does not mean to denigrate it, but the purpose of traditional Chinese martial arts is not for competition or sport. They were purely for survival.\nThe main problem with combat sports (including boxing) is that knockouts are not guaranteed and without a knockout (KO) or technical knockout (TKO), a clear winner cannot always be determined without the input of the judges' scorecards. Even so the bout can and often does result in a draw, and decisions awarding a winner, by the smallest margin of points, can often be at odds with what the audience has witnessed, leading to accusations of fraud and match fixing, especially when big money and betting is involved. So, altogether, not a reliable or satisfactory result. Through ground fighting, wrestling and Jiu-Jitsu, the MMA\/ UFC fighter can apply a lock or choke hold that will cause the opponent to submit or concede by \"tapping out\" and this provides another avenue for a winner to be determined. People always want a winner, so this is one reason why UFC has become so popular with the television audience. It is the influence of televised MMA events which has instilled the belief that this is how all real-life confrontations on the street must unfold and conclude.\nBut, going to ground also allows for a protracted and drawn-out confrontation. Only in Hollywood movies do fights last for several minutes. Real life encounters are generally much quicker than that, lasting maybe only five or ten seconds at most. Even half a minute is quite unusual. In fact, 17th generation Chen Taijiquan Grandmaster Chen Fa-Ke claimed a fight should last no longer than three seconds! This is quite different than UFC\/ MMA where fighters trade a few blows, then become propped up against the sides of the cage, trying to out-muscle each other, before rolling around on the floor for a time. UFC sanctioned title matches last for five rounds of five minutes each, with one minute rest in between. So, one fight without a knockout of submission can last up to half an hour! For sport, on television, this is normal and expected. A headline fight lasting only three seconds is not good value for those that paid exorbitant sums of money to spectate live (blink and you may miss it!) and for television broadcast this is not good for generating advertising revenue. Fights on television must be, above all else, both entertaining and lucrative.\nIn real situations, going to ground to gain submission through pain compliance (or risk a bone break and tendon tear) may be useful to avoid lawsuits resulting in physical damage, and hospitalization etc. so this is preferable for bodyguards, security guards, doormen\/ bouncers, and law enforcement officers. However, choking someone, even if you are the victim, can lead to a prison sentence, in certain US states! So, this too is not always a viable alternative outside the ring, cage, sport arena or gym. But, in an actual street fight, for self-protection, this is not the fail-safe solution or be-all-and-end-all for every situation that MMA fighters are conditioned to believe it is. When there is the threat of multiple opponents, with and without weapons, it is not wise to concentrate and devote time attempting to tie up one person on the ground as this only invites the rest of the group to attack simultaneously. Often, perceived solo attackers are predators with friends or associates that are lurking out of sight, in the shadows or blending with a crowd in the background, ready to \"sucker punch\", act cowardly and gain advantage once the defender has been distracted, wrestling around on the ground with the \"bait\". Alternatively, the terrain may be covered with dangerous items from broken glass to used hypodermic needles to feces or other toxic materials. So, opting to take an opponent to ground in these conditions would be ill-advised. In the ring, or cage, this is not a concern, but in real-life encounters on the street we need to use situational awareness to avoid the ground.\nToday's MMA fighters are quick to criticize or deride practitioners of Chinese martial artists that decline to step into their ring and compete under their rules. They consider their ring as the only truth. But, if traditional martial artists cannot use the techniques they train and must abide by another's rules then the game is somewhat rigged against them and the cards are stacked. Wing Chun and Taijiquan, for example, require sensitivity and skin contact for grabbing and controlling, so wearing gloves becomes a hindrance and a handicap. Some of the very best street fighters, gypsies and bare-knuckle fighters are neither professionally trained MMA fighters nor Chinese martial artists, and if they competed under such rules they may not fare as well either.\nIn the past, if one traditional Chinese martial artist wanted to challenge another to gain a reputation, or settle a dispute, waivers would be signed to remove blame, resulting in law involvement or repercussions if either party died or suffered serious injury as a result. Such was the seriousness of some of these challenges. They would take it to the very end, without any referee to step in and end the fight, and none of the protections afforded to UFC\/ MMA fighters. Sometimes \"friendly competitions\" might be arranged between schools. Of course, they were not all that \"friendly\" as losing meant losing face and the entire school's reputation would be at stake. But, when schools competed in the past, the aim was to improve and strengthen by finding weaknesses and to evolve the style. While good health and Qi are the by-product of internal training (which MMA foregoes altogether), traditional Chinese martial arts were only concerned with developing skills in life threatening situations for self-protection, and protection of the clan, during feudal, chaotic times against marauders, and much later, defense of the nation against foreign invaders. Martial arts were purely for survival and not the belt or trophy, not for fame, recognition or personal glory (not to springboard a movie career), or for the \"purse\" (money). The skills contained within these systems included techniques designed to end fights quickly, to incapacitate, maim or fatally injure, and were not intended to be long drawn-out affairs decided by points awarded by judges.\nWhile UFC bouts are real in the sense that two warriors go in to battle with the actual intention to do the other harm, it is not a real matter of life-and-death survival. Both parties have prior agreement to meet at a pre-arranged future date, with months of mental and physical preparation in advance to train before the event. This is in stark contrast to a real life-threatening survival moment that is neither mutually agreed upon nor is there any warning given beforehand or time to prepare. Adrenaline aside, UFC events are simply two professionals going to work (to entertain the masses), in order to do a job to the best of their abilities: in other words, it is just \"business as usual\". UFC fighters (and professional boxers) know and can take comfort in the fact that there are numerous rules and safeguards in place \"to protect them \u2013 at all times\".\nHeadbutting, eye gouging, biting, fish hooking (the mouth), hair pulling, strikes to the spine or back of the head, strikes to the throat or grabbing the trachea, downward elbow strikes, groin attacks, kneeing or kicking the head of a grounded opponent, small joint manipulation, or clawing, pinching or twisting flesh are all forbidden. Kicks to the body, including the legs, are permitted, but stomping the knee is not. The very practical and effective self-protection techniques, that may be needed or called upon to disable an opponent and remove mobility in real life would be regarded as \"unsportsmanlike conduct\" in UFC\/ MMA sports competition, leading to warnings, point deductions and even forfeiture and disqualification. (Many incapacitating techniques are found within traditional forms. Some are obvious and some are secret and need a teacher to explain.) Then, there is the protective gear, like the gum shield, groin cup, and padded gloves. Although gloves won't protect the brain from concussion, but by preventing bone-on-bone contact, they do offer protection to cheeks, jaw, eye sockets, ribs, and breastplate, from breaks and fractures and minimize lesions and contusions. And, lastly, fighters are protected by a referee who will step in and end the fight the moment he decides one fighter is incapable of defending himself or is in grave physical danger. Once such rules and regulations, protections and limitations such as this are introduced, can it really be regarded as \"real\" in the realest sense any longer? Or at least any more real than any traditional Chinese martial arts partner training?\nAll of these protections give the competing fighters added sense of security and remove some portion of the naked fear, unpredictability, and sheer ferocious violence that is present within an encounter outside of the ring or cage, or dojo, thereby changing the activity from true combat to sport. In a real street encounter or street fight you could literally die and must be mentally prepared for this. As it was reported on the news, Anthony Smith, an established UFC\/ MMA fighter, was the victim of a home invasion by a drug addict in April, 2020. Smith was 6ft 4in and 205 pounds, and a trained professional. The invader was 170 pounds and unskilled, but under the influence of narcotics and seemingly impervious to pain. Smith was asleep and unprepared at the time he was alerted. He described the ordeal as the \"toughest fight of my life\" and \"terrifying\". For over five minutes, until the police arrived and subdued the man, he struggled to control the situation. He claimed the attacker \"took everything I gave him \u2013 every punch, every knee, every elbow\u2026.and kept fighting me\". So, a seasoned, trained, professional UFC fighter, despite fighting for his life and those of his wife, mother-in-law and daughters, failed to overcome an attacker that he referred to as \"just an ordinary Joe\". Perhaps it was the mindset of being drilled in fighting for sports competition instead of finishing in three seconds that led to failure? He was used to applying techniques on others playing by the same rules, and not a wild, unpredictable and uncooperative desperado. He did not use the very techniques found within Chinese martial arts designed to end fights quickly that would be banned in his \"sport\".\nPerhaps it was Smith's mindset of panicking (which he freely admitted to)? There is no shame in this, and this is a perfectly \"normal\" reaction for a normal person in this type of situation. But, panicking, with Qi in disorder, impacts timing, focus and accuracy, and decision-making. Traditional Chinese martial arts include stillness training (including breath control) for the mind, instilling within the student a mental state that is relaxed and empty, unclouded by emotions of apprehension or anger, or doubt, and to treat life and death in these situations with equanimity. Of course, many students of Chinese martial arts today fail to devote sufficient time on this aspect and do not attain this mental state, in which case they would be no different than Smith in this situation. With the mind trained in this manner, the body and striking tools react just as they should, without any impediment. In fact, for most traditional skills this can be the foundation, while MMA does not understand and considers this aspect of training a \"complete waste of time\". The Chinese are wise, resourceful and pragmatic. If training mind and stillness did not benefit or enhance the senses, perception, and combat potential and Qi, they would never have included it. Fighting implies struggle. The Chinese word for martial art is \"Wushu\". This is comprised of two words that together literally translates as \"Stop Fighting Technique\", so the idea is not to struggle and scrap, but to end the confrontation quickly and decisively without \"fighting\".\nAnyone could find themselves in this terrifying ordeal, and there is no guarantee a martial artist from any other style would necessarily have fared any better. But that is the point. It is the individual and not the style that counts. And, MMA, for all its claims to be the \"complete\" martial art with ground fighting, and delusions of superiority over the \"outdated\" Chinese martial arts, it cannot guarantee winning a confrontation, even against an untrained person, and winning one that is far more important to win than in the ring or cage as one's family, possessions and life are at stake. MMA is therefore no more effective or more relevant in today's world than the traditional Chinese martial arts, which offer so much more to their practitioners than fighting alone.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'Nymphomaniac' Red-Band Trailer: \"We Say Sex Addict\"\nPosted on Friday, November 22nd, 2013 by Angie Han\nAfter several tantalizing \"appetizers,\" including one deemed too hot for YouTube, the first full-length trailer has arrived for Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac. And yes, it's everything we've come to expect: beautiful, unsettling, explosive, steamy, chaotic, and wildly NSFW. (Like, really, super, completely not safe for work.)\nCharlotte Gainsbourg stars as Joe, who is beaten and left for dead on a cold evening. A stranger named Seligman (Stellan Skarsgard) takes her in, and she gives him her very sexy life story. Stacy Martin plays the younger version of Joe, and gets almost as much screentime here as the older one does. Check out the trailer after the jump.\nThere was some recent controversy over the decision to cut von Trier's five-and-a-half-hour cut down to four hours, in an attempt to make the movie more marketable. Producer Peter Aalbaek Jensen said at the time that the edits were \"purely for commercial reasons\" and not to tone down the explicit sex, and the trailer seems to back him up. There's lots of sex here, in all forms from coy come-ons to sadistic spanking. Not much of it looks happy and healthy, but then it wouldn't be a von Trier film if that were the case.\nThe star-studded cast also includes Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Jamie Bell, Uma Thurman, Willem Dafoe, Mia Goth, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Connie Nielsen, Udo Kier, Jens Albinus, and Nicolas Bro. No U.S. release date has been set, but the film opens in December in Denmark and Norway.\nNYMPHOMANIAC is the wild and poetic story of a woman's erotic journey from birth to the age of 50 as told by the main character, the self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, Joe. On a cold winter's evening the old, charming bachelor, Seligman, finds Joe beaten up in an alleyway. He brings her home to his flat where he tends to her wounds while asking her about her life. He listens intently as Joe over the next 8 chapters recounts the lushly branched-out and multi faceted story of her life, rich in associations and interjecting incidents.\n'The House That Jack Built' Spoiler Review: A Deep Dive Into 2018's Most Polarizing and Controversial Film\n'The House That Jack Built' Trailer: Lars von Trier is Back With a Serial Killer Drama\nControversial 'The House That Jack Built' Director's Cut to Play in Theaters One Night Only\n'The House That Jack Built' Review: Lars Von Trier's Serial Killer Movie is Sometimes Hilarious, Often Fascinating, and Always Full of Sh*t [Festival du Nouveau Cin\u00e9ma]\n\/Tweeted, Drama, Movie Trailers, Lars-von-Trier, Nymphomaniac","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"More Health:\nNo excuses: Philly startup offers personal training on demand\nWeTrain sends personal trainers to your home any time for a flat fee\nBy Sharon Lurye\nFitness Business\nEd Newton\/for PhillyVoice\nChris Whittle performs a situp while WeTrain co-founder Zach Hertzel (center, in tan hat) coaches him at a special training event hosted by the Greater Philadelphia Veterans Network on Tuesday, May 10, 2016, near the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.\nPeople who want excuses not to exercise are going to absolutely hate WeTrain.\nIt used to be that you could say that personal training is way too pricey and way too inconvenient. This startup fitness company based in Philadelphia, however, has crafted an app where you can call up a certified trainer to come to your house at any time, whether it's four in the morning or four in the afternoon.\nThe obvious comparison is to call it Uber for personal training \u2014 but there's no surge pricing. It's a flat membership fee of $50 per month, plus an unlimited number of sessions that cost $15 for a half-hour or $25 for an hour. Virtual sessions are available anywhere, while in-person sessions are offered in Philadelphia and parts of New Jersey.\n\"If you can do a jumping jack, our trainers can train you, with or without any weights or expensive equipment,\" said CEO Jon Sockol.\nSockol started the company after his own struggles to get fit. Though now quite trim, he used to weigh 200 pounds, partially because he had a job that required sitting at a desk all day. Even when he was working in finance on Wall Street, however, he didn't want to shell out the money for private training.\nCo-founder Zach Hertzel came from the opposite side of the fitness community: He was a trainer in a gym, and before that, served nine years as an Army medic in Iraq and Afghanistan.\nWeTrain co-founder Zach Hertzel, himself a veteran, leads a workout for veterans near the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.\n\"It was very frustrating because the gyms don't care about how well you treat your clients,\" said Hertzel.\nHe said he felt like the gyms where he worked only cared about the question, \"How are you going to make them take more money out of their wallet and keep paying us?\"\nPlus, the majority of a client's fee at a gym goes to that gym, while trainers get paid only around $10 to $15 per training session. Sockol called that \"highway robbery.\"\n\"Applying concepts from the military, where you reward soldiers based off of performance and based off their dedication to the team and our mission, our mission at WeTrain is to provide the best possible service at the lowest possible price...we reward our trainers and keep them motivated,\" said Hertzel.\nWeTrain fitness trainers get paid significantly more than the national average and also get rewarded for good work through a program called \"sweat equity.\" Each employee can earn points that translate into a percentage of the financial value of the company.\n\"We're not only paying more upfront cash but also the opportunity to be part of something larger than yourself,\" said Sockol.\nThe company started offering its services in February and, for now, offers basic fitness training. It plans to branch out eventually to more specialized fields like yoga and Pilates.\nThere hasn't been any incident yet where the company didn't have trainers available for someone who wanted one.\n\"It's very similar to my experience in the military,\" Hertzel said. \"When you think about air ambulance coverage, if someone's injured, there always has to be a helicopter ready to pick up that soldier.\"\nSo sorry, soldier, if you wanted an excuse to stay home from the gym.\nCorrection: A previous version of this article misidentified a person in a caption.\nSharon Lurye\nRead more Fitness Business Philadelphia Exercise Startups\nAbout PhillyVoice.com\nAbout aHealthierPhilly\nThe contents of this website, such as text, graphics, images, and other material contained on this website, are for informational purposes only and do not constitute medical advice.\nahealthierphilly is sponsored by Independence Blue Cross, the leading health insurance organization in Southeastern Pennsylvania, serving nearly 2.5 million people in the region, providing health news and related information that leads to a more informed, healthier life.\nahealthierphilly and its health-related information resources are not a substitute for the medical advice, diagnosis, and treatment that patients receive from their physicians or health care providers and are not meant to be the practice of medicine, the practice of nursing, or to carry out any professional health care advice or service in the state where you live. 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{"text":"Betta Go For The Gold! Get A Front Row Seat To These Adorable \"Fish Olympics\" Games.\nMany people enjoy keeping betta fish as pets, but they don't really expect much of them.\nFish typically just swim around, eat, and occasionally give us the stink eye if their tank needs cleaning, but did you know they can also be trained to do tricks? A woman named Louisa runs a popular Instagram page showcasing her talented fish, and she's changing people's minds about the \"lowly\" betta fish.\n\"Betta fish are a special kind of fish,\" Louisa told The Dodo. \"They're brightly colored, highly curious, and they can be trained to do tricks. But, best of all, they have unique personalities.\"\nOn her page, Louisa shares tips and information about fish keeping and aquascaping, which is making a living piece of artwork using plants, rocks, and other materials in a fish tank. She often shares videos of her many betta fish, but says it was a multicolored betta named Pepsi that opened her eyes to all that these fish are capable of learning and doing.\nOver time, Louisa earned Pepsi's trust so much that he would even come \"cuddle\" in the palm of her hand. She used food treats to teach him how to perform tricks, like jumping out of the water through a hoop, nudging a football with his nose, and even doing an agility course through plastic betta tubes and other obstacles.\nHer special bond with Pepsi gave her an idea to help other fish owners bond with their pets, too. She started a fun online competition called Fish Olympics, and it's incredible to see how many smart bettas are out there!\nA post shared by Aquascape.Art (@aquascape.art)\nWinners of the Fish Olympics win prizes like a glass trophy, 3D-printed Olympic rings, medals, and other ornaments for their tank. Oh, and bragging rights, of course!\n\"The Olympics have shown that these fish are actually very smart,\" an owner of a Betta fish contestant said. \"And they have their own little personalities.\"\nLouisa says she's \"delighted\" to see other betta owners enjoying building a bond with their pets. The next Fish Olympics will be held in January, so we'd better start training!\nWatch the video below to learn more about Louisa's adorable project, and don't forget to share.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Emily Haigh\nEmily Haigh is an English actress born in Devon. She has won 10 Best Actress Awards and the 'One To Watch' Award, as well as awards for filmmaking. Her acting credits include Georgiana Reed in the Oscar nominated feature film 'Jane Eyre', guest lead in BBC's hospital drama, Casualty and American teenager, Molly Jackson in 'The Dare.'\nFeature film 'G-Loc', where Emily plays Riley opposite Stephen Moyer (True Blood) and John Rhys-Davies (The Lord of the Rings) is due to be released in 2020.\nEmily recently wrapped playing, co-lead Sarah in feature film 'Sorority' opposite BAFTA winners Sophie Kennedy Clark and Kate Dickie.\nAt 18 years of age, with no prior filmmaking experience, Emily made her writing\/directorial debut with the short film 'Dead Wrong' which received an exclusive screening at the Lee Strasberg Institute. This led to Emily being asked to produce environmental animation 'The Velvet Abstract', where she attached narrator Tobias Menzies (The Crown, Outlander).\nAfter securing the lead role in 'The Inuring' Emily was asked to join as producer - she went on to win best producer and 5 best actress awards for her leading performance.\nHer third film as writer\/director 'Beautified' has won 26 awards to date and continues a strong festival journey.\nVoice-Over Artist\nSiren Call Films\n\u00a9 2020 Emily Haigh All rights reserved","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Estonian entrepreneurs should keep their eyes on Norway even in times of crisis\nRyte Venckuviene, who is the Export Adviser of Enterprise Estonia in Norway, writes about the current situation in Norway, how the crisis has affected the exchange rate of the Norwegian krone, how the government has responded, and what export options are available.\nToday's situation in Norway is similar to that of many other Nordic countries. According to the latest information, more than 6,200 people have contracted the coronavirus and over 100 people have died. All public events have been cancelled until at least Easter and all schools are closed. From 20 April, it is planned to ease the measures, meaning that kindergartens and some schools will be opened. However, various rules will be introduced there as well. Enterprises operate remotely to the extent possible. All people who have been abroad must stay in home quarantine and, essentially, it can be said that Norway has been locked down. Only citizens and foreigners with a residence permit are allowed to enter the country.\nThe value of the Norwegian krone reached an unprecedented level in mid-March, meaning that the Euro exchange rate was 13 kroner. For comparison, at the end of last year it was 9.8 and currently 11.3. The weak krone, in turn, makes the purchase of imported products (and travelling abroad in the future) unreasonably expensive for ordinary Norwegian consumers, which is why it will certainly affect Estonian exporters as well. Although the Norwegian Central Bank spends 2 billion Norwegian kroner a day in April to boost its currency, the real impact can only be assessed after the crisis.\nThe Norwegian government has developed a number of aid packages to alleviate the crisis, including lowering VAT on certain services and making changes to tax and excise policies. In order to support the cluster activities and boost innovation support, 150 million Norwegian kroner will be allocated, and as much as one billion Norwegian kroner will be invested in the infrastructure. For the success of major road works, the Norwegian Road Administration has, for the first time, announced negotiated public procurements to openly communicate with road construction enterprises of the impact of COVID-19 on prices and contract terms and to reduce unforeseen risks for both contractual parties.\nGiven the sparsely populated areas in Norway, it is frustrating for employers there that many employees have to be quarantined in their home areas and that traffic between some areas is severely restricted. In addition, Norway's dependence on foreign labour has come to the fore \u2013 major construction projects rest on valuable workers from Poland and Lithuania who are currently back in their home country, waiting for the situation to calm down. Upon returning to Norway, they must undergo a mandatory 14-day quarantine before starting work, which may, in turn, further delay the deadlines.\nHowever, a few exceptions have been made in case of some major projects. For example, an exception has been made for the construction of the Tana Bridge, meaning that the construction site has been declared a quarantine zone and foreign workers can also work there during their 14-day quarantine.\nThe number of unemployed people in Norway is growing at a record rate. Since 12 March, more than 400,000 people in need have applied for unemployment benefits in this oil-rich country, where every citizen is theoretically a millionaire thanks to sovereign wealth funds. The number of redundancies and unemployed in Norway has risen to its highest level since World War II, accounting for almost 15% of the working age population. The confusing situation of oil prices on the world market does not simplify the situation either, as the income of the Norwegian state largely depends on oil exports.\nHundreds of Norwegian enterprises have gone bankrupt due to the deteriorating economic situation caused by the coronavirus. The clear priority of the local tax office is the prevention of bankruptcies, so there is a tendency to postpone tax arrears and consider exceptions, and the collection of contractual penalties has also been temporarily suspended.\nFuture trends and options\nThe digitalisation of business has already been on the agenda in Norway before, however, the current events have forced Norwegian enterprises to reorganise their operations earlier than planned. It is not just a question of teleworking, but a new way of resetting is required by almost all industries, where dependence on raw materials or migrant workers from distant lands has become a millstone for enterprises in the midst of the constraints established due to the virus. This will certainly lead to a rethinking of existing supply chains, and here, thanks to their positive reputation as an excellent cooperation partner, Estonian enterprises may have the opportunity to get their foot in the door.\nThe Norwegian government's plan to increase investment in the development of environmental technologies and to accelerate projects related to carbon capture and storage that contribute to Norway's climate goals can also be considered important for Estonian entrepreneurs. This will create business opportunities for enterprises operating in the field of environmental technology and will hopefully give more wind to the wings of Estonian wooden house manufacturers for whom Norway is one of the most important export markets.\nThe task of the Norwegian representative of Enterprise Estonia is to help Estonian entrepreneurs identify those possible market niches where it would be possible to achieve success even in the post-crisis period. To be successful in the Norwegian market, a product or service must be distinctive, sustainable, and environmentally friendly. Although Norway's economic situation is currently in a rather poor state, it is not to be expected that Norwegians are willing to make a discount on demand. Norwegians value high quality above all and they are rarely guided by a more favourable price. Thorough preliminary work is vital in conquering the Norwegian market. To this end, in addition to the representative of Enterprise Estonia, it is worth contacting other enterprises operating in the local market, where potential cooperation partners could be seen instead of competitors. It should not be forgotten that Norway is not a member of the European Union, so there are many peculiarities here in terms of contracts, legal frameworks, and business communications.\nThis project is co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund.\nRyte Venckuviene (ryte.venckuviene@eas.ee)\nExport Adviser in Norway\nExport adviser of Enterprise Estonia: the ICT sector could be among the first ones to emerge from the crisis\nEnterprise Estonia established a list of Estonian manufacturers of personal protection and disinfection equipment\nEnterprise Estonia (EAS):","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"What Scotland Thinks > Opinion Polls > Scotland Poll Results > Do you think that an independent Scotland controlling growth in spending in its early years in order to reduce the expected spending deficit would be the right or wrong thing to do?\n1 June 2018\t- 5 June 2018\nFull question: The Growth Commission report also suggested that in early years an independent Scotland should control growth in spending in order to reduce the expected spending deficit. Do you think this would be the right or wrong thing to do?\nIf Scotland were to become an independent country, then in the long term (that is, the next twenty-five years or so), do you think Scotland would have more or less economic growth than if it remained part of the UK?\nIf Scotland were to become an independent country, then in the short term (that is, the next ten years or so), do you think Scotland would have more or less economic growth than if it remained part of the UK?\nDo you think an independent Scotland prioritising attracting more skilled immigrants of working age would be the right or wrong thing to do?\nDo you think the level of immigration into Scotland in recent years has been too high or too low? (5-point scale)\nDo you think that an independent Scotland controlling growth in spending in its early years in order to reduce the expected spending deficit would be the right or wrong thing to do?\nDo you think continuing to use the UK pound in the short term, but setting up a Scottish currency in the longer term would be the right or wrong thing to do?\nWere Scotland to become independent, what currency would you most like to see an independent Scotland use?\nDo you think that Richard Leonard is doing well or badly as leader of the Scottish Labour party?\nHow would you be likely to use your regional vote in a Scottish Parliament election? (asked 2016-21 Scottish Parliament)\nHow would you use your constituency vote in a Scottish Parliament election? (asked 2016-21 Scottish Parliament)\nHow would you be likely to vote in a UK General Election? (asked between 2017 and 2019 General Elections)\nWould you support or oppose having a referendum on Scottish independence after Britain has left the EU?\nWould you support or oppose having a referendum on Scottish independence after Brexit negotiations have concluded, but before Britain actually leaves the EU?\nIn principle, do you think there should or should not be a referendum on Scottish independence at some point in the next five years?\nDo you think that Theresa May is doing well or badly as Prime Minister?\nHow likely would you be to vote in Scottish Parliament elections on a scale of 0 to 10?\nOn a scale of 0 to 10, how likely is it that you would vote in a General Election?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Elections Canada Home\nVoters Everything a Voter Should Know\nElections Current & Past Elections\nResource Centre Legislation, Research, Publications...\nMedia News Releases & Media Info\nEmployment Forms, Rules, Returning Officers Info...\nPolitical Financing Political Entity Registration and Financial Reporting\nPolitical Participants Tools for Parties, Candidates, Electoral District Associations...\nOpinions, Guidelines and Interpretations\nOfficial Elections Canada Communication Products\nPost-election Evaluations\nResearch on Electoral Participation\nElector Personas\nIndigenous Electors\nFirst-Time Electors \u2013 New Canadians\nFirst-Time Electors \u2013 Youth\nAdministration of Elections\nElectoral Framework\nInternational Electoral Resources\nA History of the Vote in Canada\nThe Electoral System of Canada\nElectoral Insight\nElector Services in Remote Indigenous Communities (ESRIC) \u2013 43rd General Election\nDuring the 2015 federal general election, some remote Indigenous communities experienced ballot shortages and long wait times due to higher-than-expected voter turnout. To address this situation and improve elector services in remote Indigenous communities that were served the least, Elections Canada piloted the Elector Services in Remote Indigenous Communities (ESRIC) project. The pilot took place during the 18 months leading up to the 2019 federal general election. Based on service criteria defined after the 2015 federal general election, Elections Canada identified Indigenous communities in 26 electoral districts and provided the returning officers in those regions with access to additional time, opportunity and tools to engage with those communities earlier in the election cycle. ESRIC aimed to strengthen relationships between participating communities and local Elections Canada staff in order to better understand and respond to the needs of these remote communities.\nThe pilot resulted in some notable achievements in reducing barriers to information and access for remote Indigenous communities as well as several lessons learned. For example, most returning officers (19 out of 26) reported that relationships with the Indigenous communities they served were stronger. In addition, the number of polling places provided in ESRIC Indigenous communities increased for the 2019 federal general election; and indicators on the convenience of polling places also showed slight increases. While the project did not result, as hoped, in improved registration rates before election day, there was some evidence that the gap in registration rates on election day between ESRIC and non-ESRIC communities may have narrowed since the last election\u2014which would suggest an improved voting experience in those areas. Unfortunately, due to data collection difficulties, Elections Canada could not verify whether Indigenous electors in those communities felt their voting experience was improved.\nThe lessons learned from the ESRIC project will inform the agency's future efforts regarding complex issues of this kind, which require an agency-wide approach. The successful elements of the pilot have been integrated into Elections Canada's general service offering and, as such, the pilot will not be continued. Key initiatives of the pilot that will be carried out across all electoral districts include: early engagement with local leaders; greater efforts to recruit community members in the delivery of elections; and stronger information-sharing about the ways to register and vote. The goals of the ESRIC pilot remain essential to the agency's mandate, and Elections Canada continues to work with Indigenous electors to identify and test ways to meet the needs of Indigenous electors in remote communities.\nShare this page on social media\nGo to Facebook. Go to Twitter. Go to Linkedin. Go to Reddit. Send this page to a friend.\nThe Chief Electoral Officer\nPrivacy at Elections Canada\nQuestions, Complaints, Feedback\nBecome a supplier to Elections Canada\nDate Modified: February 23, 2021","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Mentally Unstable Millionaire Gives Out More Than $800k in Gifts to Strangers\nOpposing Views Staff\nA 'mentally unstable' multimillionaire is suing Bank of America after they allowed him to give out more than $800,000 in gifts to two strangers.\nJeffrey Horan, of Manhattan, gave a $460,000 Lamborghini to a contractor and a $72,000 Mercedes-Benz to a woman in Queens. He also gave the woman $300,000 in cash. According to him, during the time he gave the gifts, he was exhibiting \"strange, illogical and self-destructive behavior,\" and that the bank knew of his mental instabilities but allowed him to make \"improper and erratic financial transactions.\"\nHoran has spent time in Bellevue Hospital and New York Presbyterian Hospital for his mental conditions. He was committed against his will in both cases.\nHe is now seeking millions in compensation and punitive damages from the bank.\nHoran first started feeling altruistic when he paid Alexander Gershowitz $600,000 for construction work on his apartment. Thinking that wasn't enough to show his gratitude, he then bought Gershowitz the Lamborghini.\nHoran later met Elizabeth Ortiz of Queens, and gave her the Mercedes. She also received a $300,000 money transfer from him.\nAll of this spending raised no red flags with the bank.\n\"The Bank defendants\u2026ignored suspicious and inexplicable activity in J. Horan's accounts and\/or its monitoring system failed to alert the Bank defendants to the unusual activity,\" the suit says.\nBank of America collected \"large sums of money for fees\" as Horan emptied his accounts with the gifts.\nSources: NY Daily News, Daily Mail\nJeffrey HoranMan Gives Out GiftsHoranMentally Unstable Millionaire Gives Out Gifts\nDisabled Veteran Gets Incredible Gift From Stranger\nRosie O'Donnell Calls Trump 'Mentally Unstable' (Photo)\nStranger Gives Touching Note, Gift To Struggling Mother (Photos)\nStrangers Give Unclaimed Veteran Funeral\nGiving the Gift of Guns for the Holidays\nBrides Furious After Receiving Gift Basket for Wedding Gift\nCharitable Millionaire Gives Away All His Money, Loses His Wife\nTeacher's Aide Christopher Sheehan Gives Pot To School Principal As Gift For Winning Big Award","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Why Value Investing Sucks\nIllustrations by Leonardo Santamaria\nIndexing, the Fed, private equity: Value investors blame many things for a decade of underperformance. Is their misery at an end?\nBy Amy Whyte\nEleven years ago, Institutional Investor proclaimed \"The Death of Value Investing.\"\nIt was November 2008. II columnist Edward Chancellor believed the ongoing credit crisis had revealed \"a profound weakness\" in the investment discipline popularized by Benjamin Graham, the economics professor widely known as the father of value investing.\n\"The credit bust is bringing fundamental changes to the economy at a mind-numbing speed,\" wrote Chancellor, then a senior member of GMO's asset allocation team. \"As the credit crisis continues and the global economy worsens, things could get a lot worse for Graham's disciples.\"\nEleven years later, things certainly haven't gotten much better.\nValue stocks \u2014 traditionally defined as companies that trade at low prices relative to characteristics like earnings and book value \u2014 have largely underperformed since 2007, trailing throughout an explosive bull market for growth stocks, rapidly growing companies with rising valuations.\nThere's no single reason for this unprecedentedly bad run for value investing. Down-on-their-luck value investors point the finger at everything from interest rates to index funds to antitrust regulation. Many blame exorbitant private market valuations and FAANG stock euphoria. Softbank is a name that comes up a lot.\nWhatever the precise cause of the underperformance, value's proponents insist that it won't last forever. Many argue that current valuations indicate that the strategy is on the cusp of a comeback. Some say it may already be here \u2014 just look at September.\nOthers, however, believe that the problems that have plagued value investors for a decade-plus are not cyclical, but structural. These investors and market observers claim that popular indicators of value no longer work \u2014 that the market and the companies that operate in it have fundamentally changed in a way that renders ineffective the approach outlined in the bible of value investing, Graham and David Dodd's Security Analysis.\nEven defenders of value, like GMO's Ben Inker, acknowledge that some of the strategy's return drivers have deteriorated since the financial crisis. Value stocks today are trading at a much larger discount than they have in the past \u2014 and these cheap stocks have stayed cheap as high-flying growth stocks keep growing. \"Something clearly has changed,\" Inker says.\nIf value investing truly died 11 years ago, as Inker's former colleague suggested, what will it take to resurrect it?\nA large sect of value evangelists have pinned their hopes on another tech bubble \u2014 a bubble they see as ready to burst.\nThis group of investors is eager to point out how very cheap value stocks currently appear in comparison to growth stocks, especially the so-called FAANG companies: Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google. These investors view value stocks' long period of underperformance as merely a painful side effect of the decade-plus-long rally in growth stocks \u2014 a run of outperformance that has pushed stock valuations to the extremes, with these tech giants leading the way.\n\"In order for a real rotation to happen, you have to look not at value, but at growth, and see where the cracks start appearing,\" says Alex Roepers, founder and chief investment officer of Atlantic Investment Management. Some of the most noticeable cracks have appeared in what the value-oriented investor describes as \"the most frothy part of the market: pre-IPO unicorn companies.\" Usually tech companies \u2014 or at least firms marketed as tech companies \u2014 these are venture capital\u2013backed start-ups that have ballooned to valuations above $1 billion in the private market before going public. Although private market valuations have been climbing for several years now, it was the 2017 launch and rapid deployment of Softbank's $100 billion Vision Fund that really pushed things over the edge, according to Roepers.\n\"We've seen Uber and Lyft and WeWork try to go public. WeWork turned out be a complete disaster,\" Roepers says. \"If I have one word for the rotation, it's 'WeWork.'\"\nThe Softbank-backed office space leasing company, once valued at $47 billion, nearly went bankrupt after its initial public offering failed in September. Roepers thinks the WeWork debacle will curtail Softbank's ability to raise a \"relevant\" second fund \u2014 \"which means there will be less ammunition to continue this lunacy of throwing money around,\" he adds.\nThe chilly reception for unicorn IPOs, combined with \"a lot of wobbling\" by growth stocks in September, has Roepers feeling confident that a rotation to value is not just imminent, but already underway.\n\"It could be that September was a false signal, but I'm encouraged by what's happening to some of the frothy parts of the market,\" he says.\nOther value believers are feeling similarly optimistic, if slightly more cautious. \"It's hard to predict,\" notes Stacie Mintz, a quantitative equity portfolio manager at PGIM-owned QMA. The multiasset and quant specialist has been tracking the widening spreads between the cheapest and most expensive stocks \u2014 spreads that have recently become \"stretched to an extreme,\" Mintz says.\nFor example, when Mintz's team recently analyzed the implied earnings growth of current stock prices, they found that the median expensive company \"would have to grow 25 percent every year for the next ten years to justify its price,\" she explains. \"For data like that, it feels like we must be near a turning point.\"\nNot everyone agrees that the market is overvalued.\n\"A lot of people think the stock market is expensive today because of the PE multiples,\" says Brad Neuman, senior vice president and director of market strategy at growth investment firm Alger. Wrong, he says. \"The stock market is actually cheap on a price-to-free-cash-flow basis.\"\nNeuman argues that the traditional ways investors classify which stocks are cheap and which are expensive have become \"dramatically skewed\" as business practices have outpaced U.S. accounting standards.\n\"There's been a dramatic change over the past several decades in how companies invest,\" he explains. \"Historically, when companies invested, most of their assets were tangible assets. Today companies invest in more intangible assets.\" These intangible assets \u2014 patents or intellectual property, for example \u2014 aren't accounted for in the same way that tangible assets are. \"They're expensed, not capitalized, which means they don't show up in book value,\" Neuman notes.\nThis inherent flaw in book value \u2014 and, relatedly, earnings \u2014 has lately been attracting a lot of notice in finance and academic circles, as investors and market observers have attempted to figure out why value investing strategies haven't been working.\nBernstein analyst Inigo Fraser-Jenkins and his colleagues in June flagged the increasing importance of intangible assets as one of several structural challenges facing value investors, arguing that the usefulness of book value and earnings as value indicators has become \"questionable.\"\nThis accounting problem was also the subject of a recent academic study by New York University business school professor Baruch Lev and the University of Calgary's Anup Srivastava. The two accounting professors found that a simple value strategy relying on the price-to-book ratio had underperformed not just for the past dozen years, but for the better part of the past three decades.\n\"This expensing of intangibles, leading to their absence from book values, started to have a major effect on financial data (book values, earnings) from the late 1980s, due to the growth of corporate investment in intangibles,\" they wrote. Speaking to II, Lev explains that this \"madness of accounting\" has dragged down the performance of value investors ever since.\n\"All the important investments like R&D and IT are immediately expensed, and people are left with highly misleading ideas about profitability and about value,\" he says. \"Especially with respect to small companies and medium companies that are not followed by a lot of financial analysts and not written up by the media, people rely on the financial reports. And they are terrible.\"\nStill, when value investors are asked about this potential flaw in their investment approach, most are what can charitably be described as dismissive. Although the book-to-value ratio is a prominent measure of value \u2014it's the one used in the famous factor model developed by Eugene Fama and Kenneth French \u2014 it's not the only, or even the primary, measure used by value investors, particularly those following the teachings of Benjamin Graham. Roepers, for example, says Atlantic Investments has \"never\" used price-to-book, opting instead to focus on other measures like cash flow.\n\"Selecting low price-to-book or low price-to-earnings companies is not value,\" argues Eben Otuteye, a finance professor at Canada's University of New Brunswick. Otuteye has spent the past several years studying value \u2014 the Graham and Fama-French definitions \u2014 alongside Mohammad Siddiquee, an assistant professor of finance at Mount Saint Vincent University. Although there is a large degree of overlap between the two approaches, the two professors point out that value investing, as laid out in Security Analysis, involves finding companies that are not just cheap but also have other desirable characteristics like profitability and financial stability. GMO's head of asset allocation makes a similar point, noting that the Fama-French definition is \"less close to the platonic idea of value.\"\nSays Inker, \"I do think there should be some deterioration in the long-term performance to Fama and French\u2013type value factors.\"\nIn any case, U.S. accounting issues can't explain the international dominance of growth stocks, according to Research Affiliates CIO Chris Brightman, who points out that international accounting standards call for the capitalization of many intangible assets. The book value theory is \"correct as far as it goes, but it's not large enough to account for the magnitude of what we're seeing,\" he says.\nAs Brightman views it, value's extended run of underperformance is mainly because of the \"extraordinary increase in corporate profits\" that's occurred in the wake of the financial crisis.\n\"Sales over the last ten years since the crisis have not grown all that much faster than the economy \u2014 and that makes sense, of course,\" he explains. \"However, earnings before interest and taxes have been growing much faster than sales. Companies have had a really successful run in improving margins.\"\nThe growth of corporate profits has partly been fueled by a combination of low interest rates, low taxes, and stagnant wages. But Brightman primarily attributes the \"fabulous run for profitability\" to companies' pursuing business strategies that allow them to earn high profits with minimal investment. Some call this strategy building a moat. Others call it rent seeking, or creating a monopoly.\nWhatever term you choose, the result has been an increase in industry concentration, with the largest, most dominant players in each industry taking on bigger shares of the aggregate profits. It's a trend that's been detrimental to value strategies, which generally make money when there's turnover \u2014 when growth stocks stop growing or cheap stocks start becoming more expensive.\n\"High-growth companies have been able to retain growth for longer, and the really somewhere-between-boring-and-crappy cheap companies have had a harder time generating excitement about them,\" explains Inker of GMO. \"Historically, at least a couple of these highfliers would have fallen from grace by now, and they haven't.\"\nInker, for his part, believes that the more static prices are likely a \"temporary feature\" of the market and will eventually regress toward longer-term averages. Still, change may require intervention by forces outside the market.\n\"If the environment stays the same, I think you will find rational CEOs and rational boards of publicly traded companies will continue to do what's been so well rewarded, which is to build moats and extract rents,\" Brightman says. \"Unless regulation and antitrust policy changes, I don't see the present environment changing.\"\nNext year's presidential election in the U.S. could usher in a new regulatory regime, one that cracks down on monopolistic behavior. \"I don't think you'd want to be long Facebook the day Elizabeth Warren is sworn in,\" Brightman notes. But even if the 2020 election doesn't trigger value's comeback, the strategy's proponents are certain that something eventually will.\n\"It would be extremely odd if there was any group doomed to underperform forever or win eternally,\" Inker says. \"If nothing else, prices would adjust.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Author Home Author Archives Search Articles Subscribe\nSEARCH ARTICLES:\nAuthor All Authors\nFireKeepers Casino Hotel Details\nNevada Gambling\nTop 10 casino openings and expansions for summer 2020\nFireKeepers Casino Hotel opens new sportsbook\nSeven tribal casinos to reopen before Michigan's stay-at-home order ends\nNevada gaming revenue jumps almost 8% in November\nInside Gaming: Kentucky judge levels 'egregious' penalty against PokerStars\nNevada gaming regulators monitoring Adelson's Review-Journal purchase\nHyde Lounge nightclub will have branch in Las Vegas Arena\nBest of Howard Stutz\nInside Gaming: Macau in a free-fall and taking Wynn Resorts with it\nGaming Guru\nHoward Stutz\nHoward Stutz Homepage\nHoward Stutz Archives\nBusy Full House ready for spotlight\nBy Howard Stutz\nLAS VEGAS, Nevada \u2013- Full House Resorts has quietly flown under the radar.\nBut the Las Vegas-based casino operator is making enough noise that investors could soon notice.\nTwo weeks ago, Full House opened the FireKeepers Casino in Battle Creek, Mich., which it manages for the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indians. Full House oversaw the 15-month development, design and construction of the property.\nFireKeepers has 107,000 square feet of gaming space, including 2,680 slot machines, 78 table games, a poker room, bingo hall and five restaurants. The resort is off busy Interstate 94 between Chicago and Detroit.\nThe property is a step up from the 8,400-square-foot Stockman's Casino in Elko, which Full House bought in January 2007, and a 2,100-slot machine casino the company manages at the Harrington Raceway in Delaware.\nFull House told investors last week it had enrolled more than 100,000 customers into its players' club, well above analysts' initial expectations.\n\"The construction of FireKeepers came in ahead of schedule and under budget despite increasing the number of slot machines and parking spaces from the original plan,\" Full House Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Andre Hilliou said. \"Traffic at the casino is currently at capacity levels.\"\nMorganJoseph gaming analyst Justin Sebastiano is sold. He believes Full House, which is traded on the American Stock Exchange, could double earnings per share over the next year because of FireKeepers.\nFull House has $4.5 million in cash, $7.9 million available under a credit agreement and an estimated free cash flow of $6 million this year. Sebastiano expects the company, which is working with the Northern Cheyenne Nation to develop a casino on tribal land in Montana, will actively explore expansion opportunities.\n\"Full House continues to peruse the acquisition market and is likely to make (one) on its own or joint venture with another entity for a larger property,\" Sebastiano said.\nFull House is best known for having former auto industry executive Lee Iacocca on its board of the directors. But the company's profile may soon be elevated.\nCopyright GamingWire. All rights reserved.\nThis Author All Authors","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"PRESS RELEASE: Circulate San Diego Congratulates MTS for Adopting Free Transfers in New Fare Policy\nposted by Colin Parent | 2498.80sc\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE \u2013 March 11, 2021\nContact: Colin Parent, Executive Director and General Counsel\nCirculate San Diego Congratulates MTS for Adopting Free Transfers in New Fare Policy\nToday, Circulate San Diego is pleased to congratulate the Board of Directors for the Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) for voting to allow free transfers for bus and trolley riders.\n\"MTS made the right decision to allow bus and trolley riders to seamlessly transfer with the price of a one-way fare,\" said Colin Parent, Executive Director and General Counsel with Circulate San Diego. \"Free transfers make transit easier to access, and fairer for riders that take more than one bus or trolley to get where they're going.\"\nCirculate San Diego has advocated for free transfers since 2018. Research from Circulate San Diego showed that MTS is one of only two of the twenty largest transit agencies in the United States to not provide free or reduced-price transfers.\nOn January 19, and again on March 9, 2021, Circulate sent a letter to the MTS Board of Directors, urging them to implement free transfers as a part of the current update to the region's transit fare policy.\nIn addition to free transfers, the fare policy approved by the MTS board today includes a number of significant improvements, combining to become a cutting edge and progressive fare structure. Those elements include \"best fare\" functionality to avoid over-charging riders, and lower prices for one-way youth fares. The policy is online here at Page 235.\nAbout Circulate San Diego\nCirculate San Diego is a regional nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing mobility and making the region a better place to move, work, learn and play. Our work focuses on creating great mobility choices, more walkable and bikeable neighborhoods, and land uses that promote sustainable growth. For more information, go to www.circulatesd.org.\nColin Parent published this page in Press Room 2021-03-11 11:03:11 -0800","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cerebral Function Unit\nThe Cerebral Function Unit, located in Greater Manchester Neuroscience Centre at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, is a regional referral centre for the investigation and diagnosis of degenerative neurological disorders.\nThe unit was set up with the aim of improving clinical services to patients with degenerative neurological disorders through greater accuracy of clinical diagnosis and better understanding of the cognitive and behavioural symptoms of these conditions.\nThe unit has an international reputation for its multidisciplinary research, which spans the fields of neurology, neurobiology, neuropathology, neuropsychology, psychiatry and genetics.\n**FOLLOW US ON TWITTER**\nYou can keep upto date with the latest news news from the CFU using our twitter feed @CFU_UK\nAbout the CFU\nOur clinical service\nPatients & carers\nCFU Carers' support group\nInformation for clinicians\n**Home**","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tron betrayal portugues\nSmaart live 7 mac keygen.zip\nSuper junior experience korea app\nCar parking software\nHello stafford brothers skull\nBuilding a Strip Canoe, Second Edition, Revised Expanded\nRonald reagan rendezvous with destiny\nRequiem memento mori direct\nMain \/ Music & Audio \/ Sol Plaatje Mhudi.pdf\nSol Plaatje Mhudi.pdf\nName: Sol Plaatje Mhudi.pdf\nSol Plaatje's Mbudi. TIM COUZENS. One of the first novels written in English by an African, Mhudi, which was published in but probably largely written. Download book PDF In Mhudi (), Plaatje deals with the times of Mzilikazi, and especially with the war between the Matabele and Barolong. of the World: Sol Plaatje's 'Mhudi', English Studies in Africa (Johannesburg), XIV, 2(). Native Life in South Africa by Sol T. Plaatje. Pp. London: P. S. King,. Mhudi by Sol T. Plaatje. Pp. Francolin: Capetown,\nJ M PHELPS. Sol Plaatje's dramatization in MhudP of political actions set within essay^,^ dealing respectively with Mhudi and the historical novel (with. THE CRITICAL reception of the Tswana writer Sol Plaatje's novel scenes of native life, the hero Ra-Thaga, and Mhudi, who becomes his wife. The rise in critical status of Sol Plaatje's Mhudi is traced, with the connections between the changing political conditions and the (increasingly generous).\nSol Plaatje began work on `Native Life in South Africa' in , while on his . particular, resulted in a historical novel, \"Mhudi (An Epic of South African. Sol Plaatje was the fiercely proud offspring of literate, independent peasant literature, writing the first black South African novel in English, Mhudi: An Epic. Solomon Thekisho Plaatje was born near Boshof, Orange Free State (now Free State South African to write a novel in English - Mhudi. ABSTRACT. The dissertation investigates Sol Plaatje's strategies of mediating orality in writing, and the use to which orality is put in his novel, Mhudi.\ncommand and conquer 3 kanes wrath update\nhamlet liikemaailmassa\nmoonchild be album\nfrank lampard goals\nannouncing source code pro\ncanal street confidential\ns3500 games","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u2026while some carriers have decided to press on with developing their data business since former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden's disclosures, others have started pitching themselves as their customers' best allies in seeking to hide from any prying eyes. Verizon's Precision Marketing Insights product, which offers businesses statistics about mobile users in a given area, was in commercial trials with sports teams and billboard owners when the Snowden allegations hit. After fresh debate by top management and the board on whether selling even anonymous data on customers was a good move, the company decided to go ahead with it, said Colson Hillier, a Verizon executive. \"Privacy is a hot button issue right now, but we think we can take a leadership stance,\" Hillier said. \"It's not a reputational risk if you do it right and are pro-active in communication with consumers and policy makers.\" Other telecom companies took the opposite tack, casting themselves as better guardians of customer data than internet companies like Google, which use it to target advertising. Deutsche Telekom, for example, last year launched an encrypted \"Email made in Germany\" service and a secure communications link for small businesses to ward off hackers or spooks. \"Protection of the private sphere is a valuable commodity,\" its CEO said.\nTelecom firms mine for gold in big data despite privacy concerns | Reuters","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tekken 7 Review \u2013 Intricate and Robust Fighter Doesn't Disappoint\nJudi Azmand\nTekken 7 Review\nTekken is a fighting game franchise that's been around for quite some time. With its first installment back in 1994, it's been around for more than 20 years and is home to one of the most diverse cast of characters and peculiar stories. With nearly every game revolving around the King of Iron Fist Tournament held by the Mishima Zaibatsu Corporation, it invites fighters from around the world to battle it out and show their skills. Tekken 7 keeps the same premise but has a darker-than-usual twist for the conclusion of the Mishima clan saga. With a 5 year gap from the previous Tekken installment, is Tekken 7 worth the wait?\nTekken 7 has three main modes to feed your fighting game desires. First is Story Mode where the storytelling is split into two sections \u2013 one that follows the entire Mishima Saga including events from previous installments, and the other highlighting specific characters not directly related to the story. Since there isn't a dedicated Tutorial Mode, the Story Mode also sparsely gives guidance on how to use certain buttons and initiate certain moves, but really doesn't do much justice. You play a handful of different characters as you progress through the chapters allowing you to get a feel for the unique fighting styles and learn about the various characters within the Tekken universe. There are over 30 characters to try out and get a hang of \u2013 some long-running returning characters and others completely brand-new.\nOverall, while the story has its flaws and weird moments, it's enjoyable and highly entertaining. Sure, characters talk to one another in different languages, there are random unnecessary fights, and events that are so absurd they make you laugh, but it's what makes Tekken 7 part of the Tekken franchise and exactly what it's known for. It's not often you get a grandfather, father, son, and grandson throwing each other off cliffs and into volcano pits to be in charge of a company running an international fighting tournament. Even more so, it's a rather suitable entry point for newcomers to learn about Tekken's lore without feeling overwhelmed.\nThe second is Offline Mode that includes Arcade, Treasure Battle, local versus, and practice. Arcade is your straightforward run-through of a handful of stages with a final boss to conquer and see the credits role. Meanwhile, Treasure Battle is where you'll spend a good chunk of time surviving battle after battle to obtain as much fight money and items as possible for customization. Certain fights along the way are chosen to have additional perks or altered settings to keep it exciting \u2013 like Turbo Mode for instance. Other than that, local versus is where you'll duke it out with a friend locally and practice is where you'll most likely be staring at the list of moves you wish you could master.\nThird is Online Mode that houses tournaments, ranked matches, and lobby rooms for you to fight fellow Tekken players you've never met before or a friend, not in arm's reach. While Offline Mode is easy to get sucked into, Online Mode is a whole other experience where you can really test out your skills and meet the Tekken community. Whether you want to get highly competitive or just chillax and find a worthy opponent, it's all at your disposal. Syncing matches takes a while at times, but the stability of the servers and smoothness of battles have been extremely impressive so far.\n\"Tekken 7 continues to provide its intricate and robust fighting mechanics to consoles by having the Tekken formula balance itself between just enough of the same and also the new for returning fans of the franchise to appreciate without feeling underwhelmed\"\nAside from actually getting physical in fights, there's Customization Mode and Jukebox Mode. You can customize every single Tekken 7 character nearly any way you like \u2013 their hair, clothes, accessories, and even avatar or special effects. In addition, you can edit the design of your health bar, title plate, and information panel to your heart's desire. You also have the ability to listen and create a playlist of all your favourite songs throughout the Tekken games. The flexibility to edit characters' appearance as well as the interface to make it unique and your very own is always an awesome feeling.\nThe nitty gritty elements of Tekken 7 reside in the fighting mechanics and what happens in battles. Tekken has been known for its more technical and robust build that doesn't necessarily push button mashers away, but has a level of intricacy to it that needs to be harnessed to get anywhere. You've got your basic punches and kicks both aimed amongst high, mid, and low areas of the body as well as throws, guards, and counters. Item moves make a return in which equipped items are incorporated into battles and utilized. Stage Effects are also carried over where the floor or walls can break and characters bounce off the environment.\nA change and new feature to the Tekken formula is the dual function of Rage Mode and inclusion of Power Crushers. Once your health lands in the red zone and Rage Mode is activated, you have the ability to use either Rage Arts a 'super move' with a nifty animation that knocks out around 30% of health, or Rage Drives that can be incorporated into combos dealing tons of damage if executed correctly. Usage of either move will deplete the amount of rage you have so choosing wisely is key. Power Crushers, on the other hand, are moves that do not stop even if you get hit by absorbing the damage from mid or high attacks. In addition, Interactive Cutscenes debut in Tekken 7 in which the camera pans to where the finishing blow will occur and slows down the fight for even more suspense and intensity.\nThe fighting mechanics and their features in Tekken 7 are well-incorporated and feel far from awkward or unfitting. If anything, the inclusion of Rage Arts and Interactive Cutscenes make Tekken 7 more appealing to the eye, interactive, and on-par to other fighting games currently out in the market. Like past Tekken installments, it's hard not feel powerful and mighty when in a battle as Tekken 7 continues its unique quirks and charms.\nTekken 7 uses Unreal Engine 4 nicely bringing the Tekken 7 characters and world to life. Each character dawns their outfit proudly with the various colours and details associated with them while the stages have various times of day and weather conditions making for enjoyable and memorable fights. It also helps that the animations are extremely smooth and fluid making fights intense and adrenaline-filled. While some characters look a bit off at times compared to other characters, Tekken 7 still does a superb job in maintaining its overall visual quality. Cutscenes in Story Mode also transition straight into fights without any loading time successfully maintaining an engaging experience.\n\"Tekken 7 is a worthy fighting game that anyone can pick up and play, but also further perfect on a highly technical level when desired\"\nIf you're in need of some beats to jam out to the Jukebox Mode is filled with tracks that'll keep your head bobbing for hours. Sound effects inevitably make every land of a punch or kick overly satisfying. Voice acting has always been impressive in the Tekken franchise and there's definitely an abundance of languages being spoken again this time around and truly plays into the authenticity of the characters.\nTekken 7 continues to provide its intricate and robust fighting mechanics to consoles by having the Tekken formula balance itself between just enough of the same and also the new for returning fans of the franchise to appreciate without feeling underwhelmed. Newcomers to Tekken may find the learning curve to be a tad bit high and accessibility to resources lacking, but self-driven investigation on combos as well as tips and tricks is all part of the fun. It's also a surprisingly suitable entry point for newcomers to learn about the Tekken universe and returning fans to have a recap. Tekken 7 is a worthy fighting game that anyone can pick up and play, but also further perfect on a highly technical level. With such a diverse cast, rewarding fighting mechanics, and tons of customization to spend countless hours on, Tekken 7 is a must-have for anyone craving a new fighting game to add to their collection.\n*** PS4 code provided by the publisher ***\nGreat looking visuals\nTons of awesome music\nAccessible for newbies\nAdmirable and diverse cast\nEndless customization\nLack of a tutorial mode\nFairly heavy on self-research\nDeveloper: Bandai Namco\nPublisher: Bandai Namco\nTekken 7 and Frostpunk Joining Game Pass\nBandai Namco Revealing The Idolmaster Game Soon\n6 Different One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 Trailers Board Our Vessel\nDigimon Survive Screenshots Released\nXenosaga Remasters Considered by Bandai Namco\nNext Hover: Revolt of Gamers Review \u2013 The Boring Grind\nPrevious Wonder Woman Spoiler-Free Review \u2013 It Has Action, Heart and Serious Flaws","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Frieden in Mosambik 1992-2017\nDas Bild der Friede von Mosambik\nSenegal (Casamance)\nGesundheitsdiplomatie zur Bek\u00e4mpfung von AIDS\nHumanit\u00e4re Diplomatie gegen die Todesstrafe\nECUMENISM -INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE\nSchools of Peace\nLES ECOLES DE LA PAIX EN EUROPE\nLES ECOLES DE LA PAIX EN AFRIQUE\nLES ECOLES DE LA PAIX EN AMERIQUE LATINE\nLES ECOLES DE LA PAIX EN ASIE\nTHE COUNTRY OF THE RAINBOW\nYOUTH FOR PEACE\nLONG LIVE ELDERLY\nCO-HOUSING\nELDERLY IN NURSING HOMES\nSCHOOL OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURE\nPEACE PEOPLE\nHUMANITARIAN CORRIDORS\nROMA PEOPLE\nART AND DISABILITY\nJOB AND DISABILITY\nDISABILITY AND GOSPEL\nTHE RESTAURANT 'GLI AMICI'\nMEALS ON THE ROAD\nREMEMBERING MODESTA\nVISITING PEOPLE IN JAIL\nECO-SOLIDARITY\nSpielzeugmarkt\n\u00d6kosolidarisches Gesch\u00e4ft in Rom\nSOLIDARITY - EMERGENCIES\nSAINT GILLES: THE CHURCH, THE SAINT\nGET INVOLVED (VOLUNTEERING)\nWRITING TO SOMEONE ON DEATH ROW\nCOLLECT AND RECYCLE\nFREE THE PRISONERS\nSOCIAL AND APP\nNEWS\/STORIES\nDOCUMENTS\/DOSSIER\nHOMILIES PREACHED AT SANT'EGIDIO\nHOME > THE COMMUNITY > PRAYER > EVERYDAY PRAYER\nPrayer for the unity of Christians. Particular memory of the Christian communities in Africa.\nI am the good shepherd,\nmy sheep listen to my voice,\nand they become\none flock and one fold.\n1 Samuel 18,6-9; 19,1-7\nOn their return, when David was coming back from killing the Philistine, the women came out of all the towns of Israel singing and dancing to meet King Saul, with tambourines, sistrums and cries of joy; and as they danced the women sang: Saul has killed his thousands, and David his tens of thousands. Saul was very angry; the incident displeased him. 'They have given David the tens of thousands,' he said, 'but me only the thousands; what more can he have, except the throne?' And Saul watched David jealously from that day onwards. Saul let his son Jonathan and all his servants know of his intention to kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, held David in great affection; and Jonathan warned David, 'My father Saul is looking for a way to kill you, so be on your guard tomorrow morning; go into hiding, stay out of sight. I shall go out and keep my father company in the countryside where you will be, and shall talk to my father about you; I shall see what the situation is and then tell you.' Jonathan spoke highly of David to Saul his father and said, 'The king should not harm his servant David; far from harming you, what he has done has been greatly to your advantage. He took his life in his hands, he killed the Philistine, and Yahweh brought about a great victory for all Israel. You saw for yourself. How pleased you were! Why then sin against innocent blood by killing David for no reason?' Saul was impressed by Jonathan's words. Saul swore, 'As Yahweh lives, I will not kill him.' Jonathan called David and told him all this. Jonathan then brought him to Saul, and David remained in attendance as before.\nI give you a new commandment,\nthat you love one another.\nThe text opens with one of the most beautiful descriptions of friendship found in the Bible, the one between David and Jonathan. From their first meeting the two feel immediately \"connected\" to each other for life. Their friendship reaches a level where they identify with one another. This is the meaning of the \"covenant\" established between them. Jonathan giving his clothes and armour to David is demonstrating more than just a generous act on the part of a prince toward the young pastor who has neither clothes appropriate for the court nor armour suitable for battle. Jonathan recognizes himself in David in an everlasting bond. Saul also delights in David for his success in the military missions he continues to give to him. The young leader's fame grows increasingly larger. Saul feels jealous and begins to suspect that David could be a threat; he thinks that the young man may dethrone him. Saul, however, needs David because he is the only one who helps him in his illness. But jealousy gnaws at him and has the idea to kill David while he plays to alleviate his pain. Subsequently, he sends David on more dangerous missions that result only in bringing David more success, in gaining more favour from the people. By now, Saul is convinced that David is an intolerable threat. If earlier he wanted to try to eliminate him discreetly, now he wants to do it openly. He shares his intention in confidence with his son Jonathan, who \"took great delight\" in David (v. 1). But Jonathan, because of his love for David, tells him what his father plans to do and urges him to go off to a secluded place. He then intercedes on David's behalf to Saul, saying that he is not only bold and brave, but has acted in good faith towards him. Saul, for the moment, allows himself to be convinced and promises that he will not kill David (v. 6), who is then reinstated in the court (v. 7). David then wins another battle against the Philistines (v. 8), but Saul burns with envy instead of rejoicing. By now the king's heart is completely consumed by murderous instincts. He decides to kill David the following morning when he comes out of his house. David's wife, Michal, knowing the king's intentions, let David down out the window so he could escape. Through Jonathan's friendship, God stops Saul's every attempt to carry out his plans.\nCalendar of the week\nclick to read the privacy policy\n>> register another address\nThis site uses cookies to improve your experience on the portal.\nOk understood!\nDo not show anymore.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"BVE Insights Video: The Power of Music and Storytelling\n14 Mar 2018 BVE Insights\n| YES\n| Recommended\nVideo: The Power of Music and Storytelling\n\"There's nothing like music that has the ability to create big emotions and unforgettable experiences\"\nEach year we like to programme into the seminar content something a little different to what people are used to seeing at BVE. This year, with our new seminar structure we were able to look at a little bit more of the creative outputs of the UK media and entertainment industry by creating our main stage \u2013 The Storytellers Stage.\nThis gave us the freedom to really explore and have fun in featuring some of the best projects of 2017 and hopefully inspire a few people with the creativity and technology that is being developed. It also gave us the chance to explore something that we haven't looked at before, the creative impact of audio and music. Not just from a practical 'this is how you get the best results', but its impact on storytelling and its ability to amplify emotional connections with their audiences.\nPerhaps one of the content surprises for the BVE audience this year, and as head of content one of my favourite sessions, was \"Cannes Curated: Finding inspiration - brands and storytelling\" hosted by Olivier Robert-Murphy, Global Head of New Business for the Universal Music Group, and Carsten Elmose, Senior Vice President and Head of Marketing for YouSee, Denmarks largest Telco.\nYou may wonder \u2013 why are Universal Music and YouSee presenting at BVE? Well simply put, they are both brands that have become masterful at using music and creativity to enhance the storytelling in their own branded content. Apart from Olivier Robert-Murphy being an amazing speaker and having a wealth of insight and knowledge to share as to how music brands are succeeding in creative branded content campaigns, he also brought one of those brands to BVE to share even more creative insight with our audiences. Carsten gave us perhaps one of the most memorable soundbites from BVE that I doubt many would disagree with \"There's nothing like music that has the ability to create big emotions and unforgettable experiences\".\nWhen we consider the power of music and audio across content, be it in broadcast content, high end drama, indie films, or branded content, the feedback we had in our BVE research was that music and audio is perhaps not given as much credit as it deserves in terms of its contribution to storytelling and its power to connect to an audience.\nHow can creators produce engagement pieces that pull people back to their channel, and create lasting positive sentiments and loyalty?\nThis fitted neatly into what was perhaps one of the key trends that we wanted to explore for 2018, how do broadcasters, production companies, content creator's, and brands create meaningful and lasting connections with their audiences? And moving on step further how can they create these connections that work to create engagement pieces that pull people back to their channel and create lasting positive sentiments and loyalty. YouSee are a fantastic example of a brand that has used technology, analytics paired with creativity and music to connect with their customers, and global audiences, in a way that we can all learn from\u2026 no matter what type of content you produce.\nI am delighted that we can share this session with you, it may be one of the most entertaining and interesting things you do with 30 minutes today!\nCannnes Curated: finding inspiration - brands and storytelling\nSession from 28 Feb 2018 at BVE features unique insight on:\nHow Universal Music and Yousee are engaging audiences using music and storytelling\nHow brands are using music to create emotional connections with online audiences\nA look at some of the best branded content campaigns from Cannes Lions\nBVE is the largest broadcast, production and media and tech exhibition in the UK attracting over 12,000 creative professionals, business leaders and tech professionals every year.\nFREE TICKET\nWell that's a wrap\u2026until next year\nThese (Clouds) go to 11","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Simplified Version of the Declaration of Rights\nWhat is the declaration of rights?\nThe Constitution is the supreme law of the country that sets out how the country must be governed. The Declaration of Rights is set out in Chapter 4 of the Constitution. It sets out the rights and freedoms which the people of Zimbabwe are entitled to.\nHuman rights are entitlements that we have simply because we are human beings. The rights listed in the Declaration of Rights are constitutional rights and are legally protected. Laws that take away any of these rights shall not be made unless the Declaration of Rights allows for such. Any existing laws that take away any of the rights may be declared invalid. If these constitutional rights are violated, one can sue for damages or take the matter to the Constitutional Court to get justice.\nThe Declaration of Rights in our new Constitution has both civil and political rights as well as economic, social and cultural rights. It also provides for environmental rights. Civil and political rights are rights that a person has as a citizen. Such rights protect a person from uncalled-for abuse by government, other people or organisations. They also ensure one's ability to participate in civil and political life in their country without discrimination or repression. Examples of rights in this group are the right to life, to liberty, not to be tortured, freedom of expression, assembly and association and the right to engage in political activity. Rights in this group are called first generation rights because they were the first human rights to be recognized.\nEconomic, social and cultural rights relate to basic necessities of life such as right to work, shelter, food, health, education and own language. These rights are called second generation rights because they were recognised after the need for civil and political rights had been clearly established. Solidarity and group rights are also referred to as third generation rights include right to development, peace and a clean environment.\nRights, duties and responsibilities go together. Each person has the responsibility of respecting the rights of others and the duty to obey the Constitution and other laws in Zimbabwe. As such, some rights in the Declaration of Rights are limited in ways that make sure that the public interest is served and that they do not violate the rights of other people.\nDownload Document:\nSimplified Version of the Declaration of Rights.pdf","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'The otter mustn't die out twice'\nThe reintroduction of the otter into the Dutch landscape eight years ago seems to have been a success, but inbreeding and high mortality rates are taking their toll.\nThe 31 otters that were released into the weerribben in 2002 seem to be doing well, says Hugh Jansman, animal ecologist at knowledge institute Alterra. The have produced 70 to 90 young and are also being spotted beyond the weerribben with increasing frequency. 'Otters are nomadic and they get everywhere, in spite of the countless barriers', says Jansman. 'That illustrates the resilience and the opportunism of the species.' In the report The return of the otter to the delta area, Jansman argues for the introduction of new otter populations besides the small existing source population in the Wieden-Weerribben national park. This would increase the chances of being able to put this mammal - the Netherlands' largest - back on the fauna map, after the species was officially declared extinct in 1988.\nA fish-eating water rat\nThe European otter (Lutra lutra) is found in large tracts of Europe and Asia. It lives both in fresh water and along rocky sea coasts. With its weight of up to 13 kilos and its length of almost one and a half metres, the otter is slightly lighter yet longer than the badger. Its streamlined body, webbed toes, closeable ears and watertight skins make this fish-eater a real water rat.\nAs things stand, there is cause for concern, however. The otter population grew spectacularly in 2007-2008, only to fall back significantly a year later. This winter, numbers of the animals actually decreased, says Jansman. The harsh winter played a role in this, but Jansman believes that the consequences of inbreeding are also revealing themselves. 'A handful of extremely dominant males fertilized all the females. Those offspring then mate with each other, and as a result the genetic variation is halved.'\nOver the next few years, the ecologist hopes to obtain more insight into the effects of inbreeding. The introduction of fresh genetic material from newly released animals is a must, says the researcher, who argues for the release of new otters on a small scale in places including the Gelderse Poort, where there is room for a fair-sized population, the Vechtplassen, and possibly in the longer term the river area of central Limburg.\nTraffic victims\nAnother problem besides inbreeding is the high mortality rate. The heavy traffic on Dutch roads poses a serious threat to the otter's survival. The otter is no match for a tonne of steel that approaches almost soundlessly at a hundred kilometers an hour over 'quiet asphalt'. This makes traffic cause of death number one for the otter. 'About 80 percent of otter deaths can be directly put down to the traffic', estimates Jansman. Another 15 percent are due to otters meeting an untimely end by swimming into a hoop net and drowning.\nJansman sees solutions for these threats. He thinks the traffic danger could be reduced by relatively simple measures. 'We know the otters' main migration routes. Wherever a route crosses a busy road, you can take specific precautions', he claims. 'Lowering the speed limit from 80 to 60 kilometres an hour would be enough to reduce the death rate spectacularly. And then you could consider putting corrugations in the asphalt at certain places, to make the approaching cars more audible'. The death rate among otters could be further cut, says the researcher, by redesigning hoop nets so that otters cannot swim into them any more.\nHard to see but not to study\nOtters are difficult to spot, but thanks to modern technology, Jansen and his colleagues have been able to learn a lot about Dutch otters. Their droppings contain a certain small percentage of intestinal wall cells which contain DNA that can, with the help of technology, be extracted and analysed. Because each animal has a unique DNA profile, researchers can not only identify individual animals, but also analyse their parentage and the genetic variation in a population. Like this, you can learn a lot about the otter population without ever clapping eyes on an otter. The population introduced into the Netherlands is therefore the best-researched otter population in Europe.\nModel country\nAlongside releasing more otters and taking steps to reduce the death rate, Jansman also argues for a systematic improvement to the otter's habitat. That need not cost a fortune, he thinks. 'The otter doesn't need much. What it takes is patches of shrubs or 'wilderness' along waterways, which the otter can use as resting places during the day. And every 5 to 10 kilometres there should be a larger natural area where the animals can reproduce.'\nIn spite of all the problems and sticking points, Jansman is optimistic about the otter's chances. 'I am convinced that in 20 years' time the otter will once again occupy most of its original habitats in the Netherlands', he asserts. 'But this is a critical phase. We have to watch out that the otter doesn't die out for the second time due to genetic impoverishment.'\nWhat this would take, says Jansman, is financing for monitoring the population, for example. At present there are no funds for this. And that is a pity, says Jansman. 'A project such as this generates a lot of unique knowledge that can be applied elsewhere as well. The problems China is having with the conservation of the panda and the tiger are really no different to what we come up against in the conservation of the otter: the fragmentation of its habitat and inbreeding. With the otter research, the Netherlands can profile itself as a model country for the maintenance of sustainable populations in a strongly human-dominated context.'\nPlease insert the sum of these numbers (use numbers): five + six = *","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag Archives: pollack\nBoxing Thoughts on an Eventful Summer\nBy Adam J. Pollack\nManny Pacquiao vs. Jeff Horn. It is sad that all of the outrage about the alleged robbery actually robs Horn of the accolades that he rightfully deserves. That was a close fight, not a robbery, and Horn fought the perfect fight. Overall, he dictated and was more in control of matters than Pacquiao. Horn had awkward head movement, in-and-out side-to-side footwork, altering the tempos and rhythms of the fight, attacking ferociously, mauling and outworking Pac on the inside, pulling his head down (which Referee Mark Nelson allowed), occasionally butting, then moving and ducking again, showing his versatility. Horn fought the better fight, and had the superior generalship and energy in the contest. Except for the 9th round, Pac never could time or get a read on him, and his range was off. His energy levels overall were fairly low, and lower than they needed to be when he most needed energy late in the fight, when most thought Horn would fade from all of his work. But Horn was in great, superior shape, and Pac was not. All three judges had it for Horn unanimously.\nPacquiao did almost no fighting on the inside, but that is where he needed to work, because he was the shorter fighter with shorter arms, and often was falling short or missing from the outside owing to Horn's footwork, head movement, and superior height and reach. But Pac was getting manhandled by Horn's strength, particularly since Pac mostly tried to hold on the inside, rarely worked while there, rarely countered when close, and used a passive defense, which only encouraged Horn.\nLet's face it. Pac has gone up a lot of weight divisions over his lifetime. He looked like a blown-up lightweight fighting a thickly built middleweight in there. The size disparity was quite obvious. Horn's height, reach, size and strength were big factors in the fight.\nAndre Ward vs. Sergey Kovalev. First of all, due credit must be given to Ward for being one of the most courageous champions in the sport. He always has been willing to fight the best out there, and he has proven it consistently, against guys still at the top of their games, which is more than one can say for a lot of so-called champions in this sport. That alone places him at the top or near the top of the pound-for-pound list. His resume features the who's who of his division's elites, from Kessler, Abraham, Froch, Dawson, and now Kovalev, not once, but twice. Even some of the lesser-known guys he has fought, like Edwin Rodriguez and Sullivan Barrera, have been real fighters who would be tough outs for anyone but Ward.\nAs for the Kovalev rematch, before the fight I said that if Kovalev thinks he can just go in there and overpower Ward, and not engage in some real honest reflection about some of his mistakes in the first fight, he was doomed to lose again. Andre Ward is a very smart fighter. Regardless of his poor start in the first fight, he was the one who made the adjustments to make that fight close, whereas after Ward adjusted, Kovalev did not. It likely would be the case that Ward, having learned a great deal from the first fight, would come into the second with a better game plan. I said that if Kovalev did not work on his inside game, footwork, relaxation, punch volume and gears, he was going to lose by an even wider margin this time, though I believed it would be via decision.\nIn the rematch, after the first few rounds, Kovalev looked lethargic, listless, and confused. He had even less energy than in the first fight. He made no adjustments, mentally was not all there, and seemed more fatigued than the relatively slow pace would have made one think he would be. Now some of his fatigue might have been owing to the occasional low blow, which oddly enough, Referee Tony Weeks either failed to see or failed to warn Ward about. Getting hit low tends to wear you down. But we all know that if the referee does not help you, you need to help yourself. But Kovalev did very little to help himself in any way.\nConversely, Ward's defense was near perfect, he landed the cleaner crisper blows, particularly to the body, but also several solid jabs and lead rights to the chin. Kovalev clearly was hurt by the body blows, and he was affected by some solid blows to the chin. Like the first fight, after a competitive first 3 rounds, as of the 4th round, one could tell that Ward had adjusted and slightly taken over, and felt more comfortable, whereas Kovalev seemed more confused. By the middle of the fight, it certainly appeared that Ward was en route to another victory.\nAll that said, it doesn't change the fact that Ward landed several low blows in the 7th and 8th rounds, and the final blow which doubled over Kovalev and led referee Tony Weeks to stop the contest, was low. True, Kovalev had been hurt by a right to the chin, but he was finished with a low blow. It should not have been stopped at that point. Kovalev should have been given a recovery period and the action allowed to resume, per the unified rules. The referee deprived Kovalev the opportunity to recover from the foul blow, Ward the opportunity to win cleanly and without controversy, and the fans the benefit of their bargain.\nKovalev subsequently has issued a statement that making weight has affected his endurance, and it might be time to move up to cruiserweight. We shall see.\nPerhaps the more controversial fight was on the undercard: Guillermo Rigondeaux vs. Moises Flores. Rigondeaux should have been disqualified. He clearly and flagrantly held and hit, which set up the knockout blow, which was thrown and landed after the bell rang. How in the world anyone could watch that and say Rigondeaux deserves to win by knockout is beyond me. It is a reflection of the utter lack of integrity in this sport. Sure they changed it days later to a no contest, but one has to wonder how they got it so wrong on fight night. The result that night was absolutely wrong. If you don't want to be disqualified, don't commit flagrant harm fouls. The reluctance to disqualify a name fighter for egregious breaches of the rules is in part why boxing does not have the same level of respect as a sport.\nThe July 15 fight card at the Forum in Los Angeles might not have the biggest names in boxing, but there are some really good match-ups that should prove entertaining.\nMiguel Berchelt vs. Takashi Miura. Both guys come to fight. Junior lightweight Miura is a bit more of the unpolished tough brawler, and Berchelt a bit more of the boxer, but Berchelt also has the power to hurt as well, having scored 28 knockouts in his 31 victories. Berchelt hasn't lost a fight in over three years, his only defeat, and is coming off a KO11 victory over then undefeated Francisco Vargas. Southpaw Miura, 31-3-2, has 24 knockout victories to his credit, and is coming off a KO12 over 56-11 Miguel Roman. He has a common opponent with Berchelt, having been stopped in 9 rounds by Francisco Vargas in a fight in which both fighters were down. Naturally Berchelt is the clear favorite, but Miura is no easy out.\nJoe Smith, Jr., 23-1, 19 KOs, vs. Sullivan Barrera, 19-1, 14 KOs. This might well be the best and most intriguing match-up on the card. This will be a true test for Smith. There still are a lot of question-marks surrounding him. Right or wrong, folks can find ways to explain away his recent big victories \u2013 Fonfara got caught cold, Hopkins was 50 years old, had been beaten up by Kovalev, and hadn't fought in two years. There is no doubt that Smith is a very heavy-handed puncher who probably can hurt anyone he hits. But does he have the power, skill, and condition needed to beat Barrera, a guy who went a competitive 12 rounds with Andre Ward in his only loss, and who has knockout victories over sturdy guys like Karo Murat and Vyacheslav Shabransky? That question makes this fight very intriguing. There definitely is a real aura of danger for Smith in this one.\nTerence Crawford, 31-0, 22 KOs, might well be the actual best pound-for-pound fighter in the world right now, and he's fighting to become the first undisputed and undefeated champion in his weight division in quite a long time. On August 19, he will be taking on undefeated southpaw Julius Indongo, 22-0, 11 KOs, who is awkward, tall, long, and strong, and should not be underestimated. This should be a worthwhile junior welterweight matchup. Watching Crawford is like watching poetry in motion. But Indongo is the type of guy who will do whatever it takes to muck it all up and make it ugly, if he can.\nFloyd Mayweather, Jr., 49-0, 26 KOs, vs. Connor McGregor, pro boxing debut, on August 26. You know, it makes me laugh and roll my eyes a little just to write that a guy with 49 pro boxing fights is fighting a guy making his pro boxing debut. It reminds me of when Floyd Patterson defended his world heavyweight championship against then pro debuting Pete Rademacher. But you know, as ridiculous as that fight was in its inception, at least Rademacher had actual boxing experience, and had won an Olympic gold medal, in boxing.\nTo the best of my knowledge, Connor McGregor is an MMA fighter. Sure, stand-up boxing is an element of MMA, but it isn't what the sport is. Thinking this is a real fight is like taking the best ping pong player in the world and matching him in a tennis match with Roger Federer, or vice versa. Or taking the best bicyclist and putting him on a track to run against the world's best 10,000 meter runner. At first blush, some might say 'Maybe, they are similar,' but anyone who understands the real differences between the sports understands it is more like apples and oranges than one might think. McGregor has no more chance to defeat Floyd in boxing than Floyd has to defeat McGregor in MMA.\nSure, McGregor will last some rounds, owing to the fact that Floyd is extremely careful, cautious, defensive-minded, and minimalist offensively. But don't let that fool you or give you the wrong impression about McGregor's performance. Floyd's caution is all the more reason why McGregor has almost zero chance \u2013 Floyd won't give him the opportunity to land even a lucky punch. He's going to methodically pick him apart and bust him up.\nThe fight is non-competitive in its inception. If folks want to buy that, and there is a market for that, then so be it. If you purchase and pay for it, all you are doing is encouraging more ridiculous fights like this to occur. Floyd is a businessman who wants to make the most money for the least risk, so if the fight earns him a lot of money, from a business perspective, one cannot fault him. It certainly is the least risk possible. It will be the easiest money he has earned in a long time, perhaps ever. But from a sporting perspective, he deserves excoriation.\nMayweather is banking on the fact that there is a market for the freak show, the side show, the curiosity. This isn't boxing as much as it is show business. This is like a circus, with promotion which will be akin to wrestlemania, and like the ringleader and circus master P.T. Barnum once said, \"There is a sucker born every minute.\" Back in 1910, when Jack Johnson defeated James J. Jeffries, who had been the betting favorite despite not having fought in six years, one observer wrote, \"We fool ourselves every day more than other people fool us.\" This fight is a fight to fool fools who will help fool themselves.\nPerhaps some MMA folks will watch to see how well an MMA fighter can do with an elite boxer, and some boxing folks will watch to see the boxer pummel the MMA fighter. Some might liken it to Rocky. Some folks will be hoping that McGregor, like Rocky, shocks the world with his performance. But we all know what happens in real life.\nJapan's world superflyweight champion Naoya Inoue, 13-0, 11 KOs, is one of the best, most talented pound-for-pound fighters in the world, but amongst the least known top fighters. He will be fighting Antonio Nieves, 17-2-2 on September 9 in California. Check him out. You are in for a real treat.\nMike Tyson's Appeals of His Rape Conviction, Revisited\nTo this day, debate continues regarding whether or not former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson received a fair trial which lead to his conviction for sexually assaulting Desiree Washington. Perhaps the best information regarding the debate is from the appellate court decisions themselves.\nRefusal to Allow Impeaching Witnesses to Testify\nIn his appeal,Mike Tyson argued that the trial court erred when it refused to permit him to call as witnesses three women who came forward during the course of the trial: Carla Martin, Pam Lawrence, and R Renee Neal, all of whom would have contradicted Desiree Washington's version of events.\nMartin was anticipated to testify that Martin and Lawrence were in a car parked in front of the Canterbury Hotel at approximately 1:40 a.m. on July 19, 1991, waiting for a friend, Renee Neal. While there, Martin observed a limousine pull in front of the hotel. Martin saw a man and a woman \"hugging and kissing\" in the backseat of the limousine (who turned out to be Tyson and Washington).Ms. Martin exclaimed to Ms. Lawrence that the two were all over each other. Martin would testify that she then observed the African-American woman with shoulder-length curly hair and Tyson, whom Martin immediately recognized, exit the backseat of the limousine and enter the hotel. As Tyson and the woman entered the hotel together, Martin saw Renee Neal, who was exiting the hotel, bump into the couple. Martin also observed that, as the couple entered the hotel, the woman \"move[d] toward Mr. Tyson until their upper bodies appeared to be touching, and she appeared to put her arm in Mr. Tyson's.\"\nLawrence, if called as a witness, would testify that she heard Ms. Martin remark that the two people in the limousine were all over one another. Ms. Lawrence looked over and saw two persons sitting in the backseat of the limousine in close proximity to one another.\nNeal's testimony would be that she \"observed the man and woman [who had exited a gold limousine] holding hands as they entered the hotel.\"\nTheir testimony would have contradicted Desiree Washington's version of events, for she testified that Tyson hugged and kissed her when she first got into the limousine at her hotel, but no further physical contact occurred in the limousine thereafter, and that she walked into his hotel behind him, not arm-in-arm or holding hands.\nThe trial judge ruled that the witnesses had come forward too late, and that the Defendant took too long to notify the Court about their existence and intent to use them. The trial began on January 27, 1992. The witnesses came forward to the defense team on January 30, 1992. The prosecution was first notified about the witnesses on February 2, 1992.\nIn Tyson v. State, 619 N.E.2d 276 (Ind.App. 2 Dist., 1993), in a 2 to 1 vote, the Indiana Court of Appeals refused to reverse his conviction and grant Tyson a new trial. The Court agreed that it was clear that the anticipated testimonywould have contradicted the testimony of Washington that there was no physical contact between her and Tyson after the limousine left her hotel.\nNevertheless, as impeaching evidence, the Courtof Appeals held that the excluded testimony was cumulative. Washington was impeached on other points, including the details of the rape. For example, fellow Miss Black America pageant contestant Madeline Whittington testified that Washington told her she was going out with Tyson and stated, \"This is Mike Tyson. He's got a lot of money. He's dumb. You see what Robin Givens got out of him.\"\nPasha Oliver, one of Washington's roommates during the pageant, testified that Washington told her Tyson restrained her during the rape by pinning her wrists together and covering her mouth with his arm or hand, and that she asked Tyson to take her home after the rape and he refused, which made her angry. Again, Washington expressly denied both of these things.\nFurther, there was additional testimony that Washington gave conflicting accounts of how the incidents in question occurred.\nThe majority noted that the dissent argued that the excluded testimony was not cumulative, but \"is different in kind and character from other evidence adduced at trial.\" It made this statement based upon the conclusion that \"the manner in which Tyson and D.W. acted toward each other shortly before the acts complained of has extreme relevance to whether or not Tyson might have reasonably believed, from all the surrounding circumstances and events, that D.W. consented even though as a factual matter she did not consent.\"\nYet, ultimately the Court of Appeals held that the evidence of the conduct that occurred between Tyson and Washington in the limousine before they entered the hotel and their conduct as they entered the hotel was not crucial, considering the spectrum of evidence that corroborated the determination that Tyson reasonably and honestly believed Washington would consent to sexual conduct in the future, and the spectrum of impeaching evidence that was admitted during the course of the trial, including Washington's inconsistent descriptions of the critical details of the conduct that occurred in Tyson's hotel room. Therefore, the Court of Appeals held that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in determining that the testimony of Martin, Lawrence, and Neal was not vital to Tyson's defense.\nExclusion of Evidence of Desiree Washington's Prior Sexual History and Incidents With Her Parents\nTyson also argued that the State's examination of Washington, as well as its opening and closing arguments, left the jury with the impression that she was a \"sexual innocent whose religious beliefs prohibited any premarital sex and who was far too naive to understand the implications of going to Tyson's hotel room in the middle of the night.\" Tyson cited portions of Washington's testimony which he asserted created an impression of innocence, including that she was active in her church, a doer of good deeds, and an award-winning student. He contended that the State's characterization of her during opening and closing arguments as a \"kid\" with \"eyes this big\" who put on her \"jammies\" before bed and who expected to go home \"the same girl\" after her date with Tyson further enhanced this image.\nHence, he argued that he should have been able to challenge and impeach this impression of an \"angelic image\" by cross-examining her about her sexual history and prior sexual conduct. However, the Court of Appeals held that Tyson's legal counsel failed to preserve the issue, even though it specifically requested to be allowed to enter such evidence into the record, and the judge refused.\nTyson further argued that the trial court erred in preventing him from referring to incidents between Washington and her parents which would have given her a motive to fabricate the rape charge. Again, the Court of Appeals held that counsel failed to preserve the issue properly, even though his counsel had requested to admit the evidence and make an offer of proof, which request was denied.\nAdmission of Hearsay Evidence\nTyson argued that the trial court erred by admitting into evidence an audio tape of the phone call Washington placed to 911 24 hours after he allegedly raped her. The Court of Appeals ruled that at most, it was harmless error.\nErroneous Jury Instructions\nTyson argued that the trial court should have provided the jury with several requested jury instructions, which was prejudicial to him. He wanted instructions regarding mistake of fact and reasonable belief. He argued that even if in fact Washington in her own mind was not consenting, if a reasonable person in Tyson's position mistakenly believed that she was consenting, then he could not be found guilty.\nTyson testified, \"I believe that we had both made it clear earlier that day what was going to happen. \u2026 I'm sure we made it clear.\" Tyson testified that earlier in the day, soon after he had met Washington, he explained to her \"that I wanted to fuck her,\" and she responded, \"Sure, just give me a call.\" At nearly 2 a.m., he picked her up from her hotel, she went with him to his hotel, and they went into his hotel room and had sex.\nHe said Washington responded in a positive manner to his kissing in the limousine while riding to his hotel, and that while he was kissing her in the hotel room she was \"dropping her jacket, you know, getting her jacket off quick.\" He also testified that he complied with Washington's request not to ejaculate in her and that he asked her to stay the night.He further testified:\nQ.: Did you undress her?\nA.: I did.\nQ.: What happened then, Mr. Tyson?\nA.: As I'm kissing her, she's moving fast. I'm kissing her. She dropping [sic] her jacket\u2026. I'm kissing on her neck and I'm kissing her around the ears, the back of her neck, her chest, her nipples, her stomach, and I believe she had a white shirt on as well. She's trying to get that off. So I came back while she was taking it off and she had taken off those shorts\u2013she had some shorts. She took off her shorts. I took my shirt off at the time. She had took [sic] off her underwear and the underwear dropped to her knees, and I pulled the underwears [sic] off, and then I took off\u2013I had shorts that I had took off [sic]. I continued kissing on her body.\nQ.: Then what happened?\nA.: We were having oral sex a little while, and she had told me to stop, and she had told me to come up, come up. She said, \"No, come up.\"\nQ.: Meaning what?\nA.: Indicating that she wanted me to insert my penis in her.\nQ.: And what did you do then?\nA.: She had told me not to come in her. She said, \"Don't come in me, don't come in me. I'm not on the pill,\" and I pulled back and I ejaculated on her stomach and her leg.\nWashington testified that when Tyson saw she was crying during the rape and after the two acts of criminal deviate conduct (oral and digital sex), he asked if she wanted to \"get on top,\" to which she responded in the affirmative without \"then explaining to him that she agreed to go on top only because she thought it would enable her to get away,\" and that she asked Tyson to, \"Please put a condom on\" and said, \"I don't need a baby.\" Tyson argued that such statements would give a reasonable person the belief that she was consenting, even if she was not.\nWashington's testimony on direct examination included:\nA.: I walked out of the room, out of the bathroom \u2026 and then I glanced over and I saw the Defendant in his underwear\u2026.\nQ.: What was your reaction?\nA.: I was terrified.\nQ.: What did you say?\nA.: \"It's time for me to leave.\"\nQ.: Like that?\nA.: Yeah.\nQ.: And his response?\nA.: \"Come here.\" And he grabbed my arm, and then he was, like, \"Don't fight me. Come here,\" and then he stuck his tongue in my mouth.\nQ.: What did you do?\nA.: Just pulled back\u2026. He started saying, \"Don't fight me.\" I tried to fight him\u2026. It was like hitting a wall. It didn't do anything.\nQ.: What did he do next?\nA.: He started taking off that outer jacket that I had on. He started taking that off, and I'm like, \"Get off me. Stop. Get off me,\" and he just kept going. Then the next thing I knew, he put me down on the bed or slammed me actually down on the bed, and he started grabbing the rest of the stuff down, and he kept kissing me and kept saying, \"Don't fight me, don't fight me, relax, don't fight me.\"\nQ.: Did you try to negotiate with him?\nA.: Yeah. That was after he put his hands in me, his fingers, in my vagina.\nQ.: Okay, How did he get his hand down there?\nA.: He was between my legs, and he just put his fingers in there, started jamming them in really, really hard, and that's when tears started to come to my eyes, and I was, like, \"Owww, please, stop.\"\nQ.: Did you mention to him that you were worried about pregnancy?\nA.: Yeah. That was\u2013he started to pull out his penis, and he was over me, and I just freaked out and I started saying anything because I knew that hitting him and stuff wasn't going to help me. So, I just started saying anything that I could think of, like, \"Please, I have a future ahead of me. Please, I have college. I can't have a baby. What are you doing?\" You know, \"Please put a condom on.\" I was just\u2013anything to get him off of me so that I could get out of there, and he was just, like, \"Well, I don't have anything and I know that you don't.\" I'm like, \"Please, I don't need a baby. I don't need a baby.\" I was begging him. I was saying anything that I could say to him, and nothing worked. He was just, like, \"So we'll have a baby,\" and he just jammed himself in me\u2026. [H]e exposed his penis.\nQ.: What did he do then?\nA.: He jammed it in my vagina.\nA.: I screamed out\u2013not screamed, but I was like, \"Owww,\" and then I just started crying and I\u2013\nQ.: Pain again?\nA.: Yes.\nQ.: Did you tell him you hurt?\nA.: Yes\u2026. It was just excruciating. It just hurt. He just slammed himself in me. It just felt like someone was ripping me apart. I don't know how to explain it. It just hurt.\nQ.: Okay. What efforts, if any, did you make to try to get loose, to try to get away?\nA.: I was trying to punch him and stuff like that. I was trying to back up. I was trying to do a lot of things. Nothing worked.\nQ.: Okay. What's he doing while you're trying to do all this?\nA.: He was telling me not to fight him, and then he started saying, \"Don't fight me, mommy. Don't fight me,\" and he just kept going. He just kept slamming himself really hard.\nQ.: Did you change position?\nA.: At one point, he said, \"Oh, you're crying,\" and he stopped for a second and his voice started to, like, be a little bit normal again, and then he just turned evil again, and really mean, and his eyes got all mean, and he just kept going really hard, and then he goes, like, \"Well, do you want to be on top?\" and I thought I could get away. So I said, \"Yeah,\" and I was crying when I said it, and he flipped over. Then I tried to get away, and he was, like, \"I told you not to fight me,\" and he slammed me back down again and rolled back over again.\nQ.: Okay. Do you have any idea as to how long he remained inside of you?\nA.: Until he was done\u2026. Until he ejaculated.\nQ.: Did you see him do that?\nQ.: Tell us what he did.\nA.: He pulled back and there was stuff coming out, and he said, \"I told you I wouldn't come in you. Don't you love me now.\"\nQ.: He said, \"Don't you love me now?\" and what was your response?\nA.: I just looked at him like I was disgusted.\nTyson argued that \"[a] properly instructed jury could have found (or entertained a reasonable doubt) that these exchanges could have led a reasonable person to believe that Desiree Washington consented, even if in her own mind she may not have been consenting.\" The Court of Appeals upheld the trial court's rejection of his proposed jury instructions, holding that the facts did not merit such instructions.\nPrejudicial Closing Argument\nThe defense argued that prosecutor Greg Garrison improperly prejudiced the jury when in closing argument he read edited portions of U.S. Supreme Court Justice White's dissenting opinion in United States v. Wade,388 U.S. 218 (1967). The portions read stated,\n\"Law enforcement officers have the obligation to convict the guilty and to make sure that they do not convict the innocent. They must be dedicated to making the criminal trial a procedure for the ascertainment of the true facts surrounding the commission of a crime. To this extent our so-called adversary system is not adversary at all, nor should it be. But defense counsel has no comparable obligation to ascertain or present the truth. Our system assigns him a different mission. He must be and is interested in preventing the conviction of the innocent, but absent a voluntary plea of guilty, we also insist that he defend his client whether he is innocent or guilty. The State has the obligation to present the evidence. The defense counsel needs to present nothing, even if he knows what the truth is. He need not furnish any witness to the police or reveal any confidence of his client or furnish any other information to help the prosecution's case. If he can confuse a witness, even a truthful one, or make him appear at a disadvantage, unsure, or indecisive, that will be his normal course. Our interest in not convicting the innocent permits counsel to put the State to its proof, to put the State's case in worse [sic] possible light regardless of what he thinks or knows to be the truth. In this respect, as part of our modified adversary system and as part of the duty imposed upon honorable defense counsel, we countenance or require conduct which in many instances has little, if any, relationship to the search for the truth.\"\nThe Court of Appeals held that the objection was not preserved properly, because Tyson's counsel objected only to the prosecutor reading case law in general, not the particular case.\nSelection of the Judge by the Prosecutor\nTyson argued that he was denied due process because the prosecutor was able to select the trial judge who would preside over his case. He argued that the current system of assigning criminal cases to particular divisions in Marion County erroneously permits the prosecutor to determine the particular room within the criminal division to which a case is assigned, for the prosecutor knows which judge handles cases in which room. It was fundamentally unfair to allow the prosecutor to choose the judge he wanted;the inference being that a different judge might have issued different rulings throughout the trial.\nOn July 29, 1991, the Marion County prosecutor filed a petition requesting that a special grand jury be convened to investigate Washington's allegations against Tyson. Pursuant to Indiana law, IC 35-24-2-14 (1988), the prosecutor could file this petition with any judge in Marion County; and he chose to file it with Judge Gifford, who was presiding in Room 4 of the criminal division. In this way, the prosecutor selected the particular room and, in the absence of a valid motion for change of judge, selected Judge Patricia Gifford as the presiding judge.\nThe Court of Appeals ruled that because Tyson failed to show that he was prejudiced in any way by the selection of the particular room or judge, he was not deprived of his due process rights.\nAnd yet, the Court of Appeals also said,\n\"However, we strongly urge the criminal division of the Marion County Superior Court to change the method by which cases are assigned to the rooms in the division. The existing system of filing cases is totally inappropriate and must be abandoned in favor of a system in which the prosecutor cannot control the assignment of a case to a particular judge. Presently, the criminal division of the Marion County Superior Court lacks the appearance of impartiality that is required to maintain the confidence of the public and the accused in the system.\"\nDespite this \"totally inappropriate\" method which \"lacked the appearance of impartiality\" required to maintain the confidence of the public and the accused in the system, Tyson's conviction was not reversed.\nThe Dissenting Opinion\nIn his strong dissent from the majority opinion, Judge Patrick Sullivan argued that Tyson's conviction should be reversed and he should have been granted a new trial. He believed that Tyson had not been afforded a fair trial or a level playing field. \"My review of the entire record in the cause leads me to the inescapable conclusion that he did not receive the requisite fairness which is essential to our system of criminal justice.\"\nThis judge believed that the three excluded witnesses for the defense should have been allowed to testify. Defense counsel could not have revealed the witnesses sooner, because they were not yet known. Further, they had a duty to conduct a reasonable investigation before seeking to add witnesses. They acted reasonably and diligently.\n\"Not only was there no discovery order breach, there was no delay, substantial or otherwise. Even if there were some degree of unexplained delay, given the absence of bad faith upon the part of the defense, the State at most would be entitled to a continuance. \u2026 Failure to request a continuance constitutes a waiver of an alleged discovery breach. \u2026 Not only did the State not seek a continuance, it categorically stated that it did not want a continuance.\"\nThis judge recognized the potential importance of the excluded testimony:\n\"The State's position with respect to the prejudice to its presentation of evidence becomes somewhat schizophrenic, and most certainly inconsistent. On the one hand, the State attempts to diminish the importance of the testimony of the three witnesses by asserting that it would have had minimal impact upon the issues and was meaningless as merely cumulative. On the other hand, the State has acknowledged that the excluded testimony might have grave implications for a successful prosecution. It so indicated by emphasizing the great lengths to which the State would have to go to combat this testimony. It is clear that the State did not think the evidence to be merely cumulative. The State was very concerned \"given the impact of these witnesses on this case, given the notoriety of this case, given what this case is all about\u2026. These witnesses clearly would have been telling a story wholly different than the story we had.\" \u2026\nAs earlier noted, we are restricted in validating the ruling of the trial court to the reasons she gave. The trial court did not base its exclusion of the testimony upon a determination that the proffered evidence would merely be cumulative. The majority here, however, utilizes a conclusion to that effect to affirm the ruling. In doing so it errs.\"\nThe dissenting judge also believed the majority confused the differences between cumulative and corroborative evidence in its justifications.\n\"It is my view that the majority erroneously or inadvertently uses the term \"cumulative\" interchangeably with the term \"corroborative\". Cumulative evidence is that which goes to prove what has already been established by other evidence. \u2026 Corroborative evidence tends to corroborate or to confirm while cumulative evidence merely augments or tends to prove what has already been proved. \u2026 Evidence which brings to life some new and independent truth of a different character, although it tends to prove the same proposition or ground of claim before insisted on, is not cumulative, within the true meaning of the rule\u2026.\nThe testimony sought to be admitted here was different in kind and character from other evidence adduced at trial. It went to an issue or issues and to facts or observations not covered by other evidence. It was not cumulative. It may have been in the nature of corroboration with respect to the crucial facts surrounding and immediately preceding the sexual acts but that very aspect of corroboration is what made the exclusion of the evidence prejudicial to the defense.\"\nThe dissenting judge took the majority to task for calling the evidence merely impeaching, as if that was not crucially important to the defense, and also noted that Tyson's proposed jury instructions regarding mistake of fact should have been provided to the jury:\n\"One aspect of the majority opinion considers the excluded evidence as merely impeaching in nature and holds that it was merely cumulative of evidence which impeached D.W. \"on other points\". \u2026 I strongly disagree. Even if the offered evidence were to be construed solely as impeaching, impeachment upon one issue is not cumulative of impeachment upon other issues. \u2026\nThe evidence of record, to which the excluded evidence is thought by the majority to be cumulative, demonstrates that the jury was entitled to believe that there was consensual sexual contact in the hotel room. There was testimony to that effect from Reverend Katherine Newlin, who attended D.W. at the hospital. \u2026 At a very minimum, such testimony gives rise to a strong and reasonable inference of consensual sexual contact in the hotel room. It is baffling indeed, therefore, that the majority proceeds to cavalierly discount the defendant's reasonable belief contention.\nThe manner in which Tyson and D.W. acted toward each other shortly before the acts complained of has great relevance to whether or not Tyson, at the time, might have reasonably believed, from all the surrounding circumstances and events, that D.W. was consenting\u2013even though as a factual matter she did not consent. \u2026\nThe issue is not whether Tyson reasonably believed that D.W. would consent. It is whether he reasonably believed that she was consenting. In this sense, then, the exclusion of the testimony from Martin, Neal and Lawrence was particularly prejudicial and that prejudice was magnified by the failure to give instructions with respect to mistake of fact, reasonable belief or to instruct that the degree of culpability, i.e., knowing, was applicable to the essential element of compelling force.\nIn holding that the evidence excluded was \"only minimally corroborative of Tyson's testimony\" with respect to D.W.'s receptiveness to Tyson's physical advances, the majority usurps the jury function. It is totally inappropriate for this court to convert speculation as to the credit and weight which a jury would give certain evidence or the impact of such evidence upon their consideration of other evidence into a holding as a matter of law.\nWithout question there was error in excluding the testimony of Ms. Martin, Ms. Neal and Ms. Lawrence. Without question that error was not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.\"\nThis judge believed that \"the excluded testimony of Ms. Martin, Ms. Neal and Ms. Lawrence would have added to the factual mix before the jury and may have reasonably tipped the deliberative balance in favor of acquittal.\"\nTyson's Second Appeal\nIn Tyson v. State, 626 N.E.2d 482 (Ind.App. 2 Dist., 1993), Mike Tyson alleged that his conviction should be reversed as a result of newly discovered evidence, which was that all along Washington had planned to sue Tyson in civil court, despite previous claims to the contrary.\nHowever, the Indiana Court of Appeals held that Tyson's counsel had failed to ask Washington if she expected to receive any monetary benefits from her experience; if she had retained a lawyer named Ed Gerstein to pursue a civil suit; if she had any written agreement with Gerstein; if she had contemplated bringing a civil suit; if she had the present intent to sue Tyson; if she had discussed selling her media rights with anyone; if she wanted to sell or had contemplated selling her media rights; or if she believed she could exploit her experiences with Tyson in any other way.\nNevertheless, Tyson argued that his attorney's lack of diligence should be excused because Washington and her parents, in their depositions and at trial, testified perjuriously, falsely, or misleadingly in order to obscure his ability to discover the family's financial motives. In particular, Tyson claimed he was unable to put the \"critical fact\" before the jury that Washington had consulted with attorney Ed Gerstein \"with a view towards instituting a civil action against Tyson\" because \"[t]he Washingtons took the position, at their depositions and before the jury at trial, that Gerstein \u2026 was retained only for defensive purposes\u2026.\"\nAlthough Judge Sullivan concurred with the majority in this ruling, he noted his belief that indeed, \"D.W. and her parents gave misleading testimony.\"\n\"While I agree that Tyson's counsel failed to use reasonable diligence to discover the full details of the retainer agreement between D.W. and Edward Gerstein, I am unable to agree with the majority that the testimony of D.W. and her parents was not misleading. Although perhaps many of the various answers given with respect to the relationship with Gerstein were literal responses to the questions as phrased, and although the witnesses certainly had no duty to volunteer information, in light of the facts known by the witnesses, the answers were misleading.\nD.W.'s answers carried the clear implication that Gerstein was retained only to \"help me through this\", i.e., the criminal trial, and that when the trial was over, her parents would pay him. Additionally, she belied the fact that she was the client when she testified that Gerstein was counsel for the family. More importantly, when asked whether there had been any discussions between Gerstein and the family concerning compensation, she unequivocally said: \"No.\" \u2026\nMrs. Washington testified that Gerstein was counsel for the family but that there was no written agreement relating to the relationship. In light of the fact that Mrs. Washington was a signator to the retainer agreement between Desiree Washington and Gerstein, that answer was also misleading.\nMr. Washington, also a signator to the agreement between D.W. and Gerstein, stated that he had retained Gerstein's services but categorically stated that the purpose was \"to help ward off the media\"\u2026 He also denied that any consideration whatsoever had been given to the possibility of a civil suit against Tyson. \u2026 Further, he denied that he had a contingency fee agreement with Gerstein and stated that his only agreement was to pay expenses. Again, in the context of the facts, the natural and logical implication of the testimony of all three witnesses was that there was no contingent fee agreement with Gerstein with regard to representation in civil proceedings.\nIn point of fact, the retainer agreement was entered into and signed on August 1, 1991. Although Donald C. Washington and Mary B. Washington were signators, as well as D.W., the agreement clearly states that D.W. is the only client\u2013not the \"family\" and not Mr. and\/or Mrs. Washington. It also clearly spells out that the purpose of the agreement is not to get D.W. or the family through the criminal trial or to \"ward off the media,\" but rather was to procure legal representation regarding possible civil liability on the part of Tyson and others as a result of the \"incident\" of July 19, 1991.\nIf the information given by these witnesses were the only information available to defense counsel, the deposition and trial answers would have been sufficiently misleading as to indicate that further inquiry or issuance of a subpoena ducestecum would be wasteful and unavailing.\"\nNevertheless, this judge believed that based upon the knowledge already possessed, Tyson's trial counsel simply did not ask the right questions. Hence, the lack of due diligence defeated Tyson's \"newly discovered evidence\" argument, despite the fact that his counsel had been misled.\nThe Indiana Supreme Court declined to consider or hear Tyson's appeal at all, deadlocked at 2-2 in its vote whether to consider the case for further review (the fifth judge recused himself). A majority vote was needed. Hence, the Court of Appeals' decision stood.\nAuthor Adam J. Pollack is the owner of winbykopublications.com, has written several books about early heavyweight champions, is a boxing referee and judge, and is a practicing attorney in Iowa City, Iowa.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"George Krivo\nDynCorp CEO George Krivo Inducted to 2018 Wash100 for His Leadership in Providing Support Services to the U.S. Military\nExecutive Mosaic is honored to introduce George Krivo, CEO of DynCorp International, as an inductee into the 2018 edition of the Wash100 \u2014 Executive Mosaic's annual selection of influential leaders in the government contracting arena \u2014 for his leadership in providing support to the U.S. military.\nKrivo was promoted to his current role in July 2017 after serving as chief operating officer of the McLean, Va.-based company.\nDynCorp won a potential six-year, $795.3 million contract from the U.S. Army in May 2017 to provide logistics services for fixed-wing aircraft fleets that carry out transport missions. Krivo says the contract award is a testament to DynCorp's experience with Army aviation.\n\"This win validates DI's reputation as the recognized worldwide leader in supporting U.S. Army aviation,\" said Krivo. \"We have a rich history of supporting this mission and we are glad to have the opportunity to provide outstanding support to this important program once again.\"\nKrivo discussed his company philosophy, saying DynCorp delivers a range of military services to help the government achieve savings, execute faster recruitment processes and free up government personnel to perform \"inherently governmental\" tasks\n\"There are a lot of capabilities that are more efficient if the U.S. government contracts them out to someone that does those capabilities in order to free up people to do the inherently governmental things \u2014 DynCorp provides the U.S. government with that capability.\"\nHe added that DynCorp prioritizes leadership values to help meet customers' requirements and support U.S. national security objectives.\n\"It's because we're really about people. In order to get the best out of all of us \u2014 for all of us to be our best \u2014 we have to lead and be led,\" Krivo said. \"What it really comes down to is doing the right thing, always, and delivering the results that both our customers expect, and our ethics demand.\"\nAs a U.S. Army veteran, Krivo has over two decades of service in command and staff positions, with strong missile defense experience and regional expertise in Northeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. He sits on the board of directors for the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, which provides grief-counseling for the families of fallen soldiers. Before working at DynCorp, Krivo held executive positions with SAIC and DRS Technologies, as well as serving as a managing director for Cerberus Capital Management.\nExecutive Mosaic congratulates George Krivo and the DynCorp team for their selection to receive this award.\nClick here to view the full list of leaders recognized in the Wash100.\nSign in to cast your vote for those executives with the greatest impact on government contracting.\nAbout The Wash100\nThis year represents our fifth annual Wash100 award selection. The Wash100 is the premier group of private and public sector leaders selected by Executive Mosaic's organizational and editorial leadership as the most influential leaders in the GovCon sector. These leaders demonstrate skills in leadership, innovation, reliability, achievement and vision.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Transactions, Issues 48-55\nat the end or centre, in mills of not less than three hundred and fifty feet in length ?\"\n1. Cotton manufacturing began in this country by utilizing its water powers, and at these beginnings water-wheels were limited in power; and for this, and also for financial reasons, short mills, say 100 to 150 feet in length, were built, and the power applied at one end.\n2. When larger mills were wanted, they were frequently built across the valley of a stream, and two wheels were placed in the centre; to utilize the full power of the stream without digging canals or turning a corner with the power, and for the further reason that the art of making shafting was in its infancy, and 100 to 150 feet was as long as a line would work well; and for these reasons power was applied at the centre.\n3. The application of power at the centre of mills, with numerous cumbersome belt boxes, took much valuable room and virtually divided each floor of the mill into two rooms.\n4. When steam power began to be used to drive cotton mills in this country, the limitations of shafting led to the application of power at the centre of mills, for a material term of years; and this method necessitated the building of an L, or a separate building in the rear of the centre of a mill; either of which shut off much light; and, in many cases, one tower with stair-case was deemed sufficient for mills not over 350 feet long, and this tower was usually placed at the centre and on the front side of the mill; so that the tower and rear building, together with the belt boxes, shut off all valuable light from the centre of the mill, and in effect divided each floor into two rooms.\n5. The introduction of turbine wheels concentrated water power; and this advantage, together with the fact that several of them could be coupled together, so that a very large amount of power could be concentrated, enabled mill builders to change the arrangement of mills to be operated by water power, so that they could be built of any length.\n6. The wonderful improvement in steam engines has also concentrated vast amounts of steam power, and made it specially applicable to long mills.\n7. Long mills permit the placing of towers not opposite each other; and hence they do not shut out much light.\n8. The wonderful improvements in the art of making shafting and belting have also made the operation of long mills practicable.\n9. I can best convey an idea of the improvements in shafting by calling your attention to the construction of the Amory Mill at Manchester, N. H., and the application of shafting to one of its rooms. This is a ring spinning room, containing 31,216 frame spindles, 1,500 spooler spindles, 20 warpers and 2 slashers. This room has but one line of shafting to drive the entire load. The power comes up on to the head end, which is 54 inch diameter, with 4 inch bearings. The line runs the entire length of the mill, running at a speed of 455 revolutions per minute, with sizes and lengths of shafting as follows, viz. : 105 feet of 22 inch diameter cold rolled shafting; 231 feet of 23 inch diameter cold rolled shafting ; 167 feet of 113 inch diameter cold rolled shafting.\n10. Competition has led manufacturers up to the necessity of building mills so large, that as much machinery can be placed on one floor as one overseer and one second hand can take care of.\n11. In conclusion, I feel that I am justified in saying that the improvements in motors, shafting and belting, aided by experience and competition, lead me to conclude that all mills, whether 100 or 600 feet long, should have the power applied at one end.\nMr. MESSENGER. I did not learn why Mr. Kilburn favored applying the power at one end. Perhaps he gave it, but I did not catch all he said about it.\nMr. Kilburn. Simply, the concentrated power keeps your wheels all in one spot; and avoids the darkening of your mills by either towers, or auxiliary buildings, located in the centre for water-wheels or steam engines.\nMr. GARSED. Mr. President, we built a mill in 1853, 500 feet long and 66 feet wide, with the engine in the middle. From that time to the present I think two shafts have probably given out in the picker room, where the girders gave way; therefore I should judge that it was a pretty good system to have the driving power in the middle of the mill. There are 20,000 spindles in that mill, and they have been running ever since 1853.\nMr. KILBURN. Mr. President, it may not be out of order for me to state that, years ago, we did not put upon the ordinary shafting more than one-third the load it was capable of bearing. I think the rule followed years ago by A. D. LOCKWOOD, of obtaining the power of shafting, was to cube the diameter, divide by the velocity in revolution, and multiply by 100. To-day in using ordinary shafting we usually divide by 33. The way ordinary shafting is made to-day, it is capable of bearing three times the load that was formerly put upon it. A cold rolled iron or cold rolled steel shafting is capable of bearing twice as much as ordinary iron; or, fall a little below that, and call it 13 to 1. I see Mr. Knight of the Amory Mills here to-day. He can tell us what the result has been by the use of shafting in that mill, some of which is smaller than I have spoken of.\nMr. KNIGHT. Mr. President, I can only say that the transmission of power in the Amory Mill is very satisfactory. The only peculiarity that I have noticed in the spinning room is that the shafting runs at very high speed, enabling us to use very large pulleys on the frames. We use a fourteen-inch pulley to drive 240 spindles; and we have no slipping of belts. In one of our mills we put in some spinning frames very similar to those in the Amory Mill, and both run 9,000 revolutions on No. 28 yarn. We did not get the yarn per spindle, that we did in the Amory Mill; very much to my surprise. On inquiry into the cause, I found that, as the bobbin was filled, the load became heavier on the spindles, and the belts were slipping. We did not get the speed on the front rolls that we did when they began with empty bobbins. The size of the frame-pulley, there, was nine inches. The pulley on shafting was something like 34 inches, I think, in diameter; but passed up through the floor onto the nine-inch pulley; as you see, covering only a small part of the circumference of the nine-inch pulley. In the Amory Mill we have no trouble of that nd. The slipping of belts, or anything of that kind, is almost an unheard-of thing.\nMr. Wm. J. KENT. Mr. President, when I was at the Grinnell Mill we had our belts all at one end; and we were thereby enabled to raise them up and get rid of the dirt, and passed the belt through the belt hole from one room to another.\nMr. BOURNE. Mr. President, I would like to inquire about the cold rolled shaft. I have had a little experience, and my experience has not been wholly satisfactory. I put in some a number of years ago. Whether I have had poor luck, or not, I cannot say.\nMr. KILBURN. Mr. President, I would say, as the result of my experience, that I occasionally get a poor shaft made of cold rolled iron; and when I do I send it back to the manufacturers and tell them to send me a new one, and I get it.\nThe PRESIDENT. We had a steel shaft in one of our mills that broke, and was renewed, several times; finally we got disgusted with it, and threw it out, and put in its place a common iron shaft of the same size, which has given us no trouble. Mr. KILBURN. I have not been troubled with the iron shaft.\nI The brittleness of the steel shaft makes it objectionable, and I have avoided its use; but I have found extreme satisfaction in the use of the cold rolled iron, as far as my experience has gone.\nMr. MESSENGER. Mr. President, I presume the first cost of shafting would be considerable, would it not?\nMr. KILBURN. Of course the less shafting, the easier it is to run.\nMr. PARKER. It does not seem to me that the advantage of taking power into the end of the mill has been proven. On the other hand, I think that, as mills are belted to-day, - and no one perhaps would think of building a mill without putting the belting within a closed room or belt tower, \u2014 there is just as much light cut off from the machinery as if the belts were taken in at the centre or the engine room, and the belt tower\nwere placed in the centre of the mill, rather than at the end. At a mill in Lawrence there is a belt tower about 12 feet square that contains all the belts which drive the mill; requiring about 1,200 horse-power. Those belts enter the mill horizontally, without interfering with the running of the machinery. Possibly there is a little trouble in arranging the counter-belts which are needed near these main belts; but aside from that there is no interference, and there is no trouble whatever in bringing the belts in where they belong, and getting power on the main shafting. The suggestion that the shafting would have to be larger if the power enters at one end of the mill is a vital one; making the shafting cost more than it would if you should take your power in at the centre of the mill, especially where the power at the centre of the mill can be quickly distributed from that point. Several mills that I am acquainted with have the picking department, for instance, at the opposite end of the mill from where the engines are; and a very large amount of power has to be taken over a large shaft the whole length of the mill. There, of course, the application of the power at the centre of the mill or nearer the picker room would be of obvious advantage ; but as mills are ordinarily arranged, or, we will say, with the best arrangement that it is possible to make, there is no doubt in my mind that the shafting could be placed in a mill for less money where the power was taken in at the centre than at the end; and I cannot see how there would be any less light in the mill so arranged. In the case of the Lawrence mill the shaft runs across the mill, and the belts are run with a quarter turn; and where the belts enter\nl the different rooms they run over carrier pulleys. We have never had any trouble with these belts. All are 20 inches wide, and two of them over 240 feet in length; and they have run eight years.\nA MEMBER. What percentage of the total power is used in driving the shafting and loose pulleys, belts, etc.?\nMr. PARKER. I cannot give any figures for that mill; but I can quote from a paper which Mr. SHELDON should have read here at the last meeting, where he states that the least friction","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"19 Best Games For Long-Distance Friends and Family\nAugust 24, 2022 August 19, 2022 by Cassie Riley\nJust because your favorite people are based far from you doesn't mean that you can't all come together and have fun like you ordinarily would if you were living a few blocks away from each other.\nThe world is continually going digital and there are a lot of virtual games that can help you stay connected with your loved ones. As much as nothing beats physical meetings, would you rather be bored to your wits end behind your phone screen or connect virtually with your friends and have a nice laugh over a game?\nI'm sure you'd pick the latter. But the question is, what games can I play with my long-distance friends and family to strengthen the bond we have?\nTo answer your question, I have compiled a list of these games, with a detailed description of how to play them and where they can be downloaded. In the end, you just have to choose the one that works best for you, download it, and start enjoying it with your pals!\nWithout much ado, let's dive into the best games for long-distance friends and family.\nAlso Read: Best Cool Math Games Alternatives\nBest Games For Long-Distance Friends and Family\n1. Draw Something (Classic)\n2. Mario Kart\n3. Heads Up\n4. Yahtzee\n5. Kahoot\n6. Quiplash on Jackbox Games\n7. Skribbl\n8. Checkers\n9. Clue\n10. Psych\n11. Twenty Questions\n12. Kiss Marry Kill\n13. Never Have I Ever\n14. Truth or Dare\n16. Online Chess\n17. Scattergories\n18. Crazy Eights\n19. Bingo Blitz\nThis is one of the best long-distance games to play if you have artistic friends or family members.\nThe game requires two players to draw the picture of a stated word one after the other. In the end, their partners will guess the subject of their drawing within a specified timeframe.\nIf you are worried about your drawing skills, then you go ahead to play this game. It's available to download for free on Google Play Store and Apple Store.\nIf you want to throw in a bit of action and adventure to the game, then Mario Kart is the one for you. In this game, you get to race against other players and win power-ups on your way.\nPlayers either gain or lose points based on performance in a race or battle. The game strives to match players with similar ratings to make it even more competitive.\nThere is no need to create a personal avatar as this game has characters you can adopt. It mainly features characters from the Mario franchise such as Mario, Peach, Daisy, Toad, and others.\nTo play Mario Kart, you must have a Nintendo account, a persistent network, and a compatible smartphone \u2013 an Android or iPhone is fine. The game can be downloaded for free on Google Play Store and Apple Store with optional in-game purchases available.\nAlso Read: Multiplayer Online Games For Couples\nHeads Up is a great online game to play with your family and friends that are far from you, especially the witty ones. It's fun, interactive, and gets you laughing until you're almost out of breath.\nAs the name implies, the game requires the players to place their phones on their foreheads, while their friends try to give them a clue to what's written on their card without saying the word or anything remotely connected to it!\nYou only have one minute to guess the right word before other cards appear. This game promises a lot of fun as there are several categories to pick from; ranging from animals, celebrities, movies, accents, and more.\nOne amazing feature of this game is that you can play it completely online either through zoom or Google Meet. Like other games, we have reviewed above, Heads Up works on both Android and iOS devices.\nAlso Read: Best Games Like Heads Up\nYahtzee is best suited for people who love dice games. If you fall under this category and your far-away friends love it too, then go ahead and play this game.\nThere are five dice involved and each player will have to roll the dice to get the highest score they can in a play. Each player is entitled to play 13 times before the game is over.\nHowever, you can roll up to three times per play and after each roll, the scores are recorded on a board. In the end, the scores are summed up and the player with the highest score wins! It's that simple!\nYahtzee is free to download on both Android and iOS devices. You can also play it online from your browser.\nKahoot is the game to go for when you are in the mood for quizzes and you have smart and nerdy friends.\nIt is a great idea for educational fun games that require answering some trivia questions. You can create your unique quiz based on topics that might be of interest to your friends.\nPlaying the game is simple. You only have to create unique quizzes based on topics that might be of interest to your friends. They in turn provide answers to the quizzes. The player with the most right answers wins the round.\nAs usual, it doesn't matter where your friends are located. You only need to send them an invite link once you are done with the quizzes.\nAlternatively, you can organize facetime or zoom meetings to play this game. This game is available for both Android and iPhone users. You can download this free on either the Google Play Store or the Apple Store.\nAlso Read: Best Kahoot Alternatives\nQuiplash is the ultimate game of fun. It is exciting, interactive, and provides premium entertainment for all players.\nThe objective of this game is to prove you are the funniest or wittiest person among the group with your answers. The more hilarious your words are, the more likely you are to get all the points.\nTo play this game, at the beginning of a round, players are prompted with a question and each of them provides an answer. In the end, the audience votes on their favorite answers. If you have more votes, you'll earn more points.\nOne great feature of this game is that, as much as it accommodates between three to eight players at once, you can have more than 10,000 audiences. That's a lot! And everyone gets to cast their votes.\nAlso, the game isn't just available on smartphones, it also works on computers including Mac, Linux, and Windows.\nIf you and your friends love drawing, then Skribbl should be on your list for your next virtual game night with them.\nTo play this game, each player gets a turn to draw from the options provided in under 80 seconds. When you are not drawing, you have to guess what other players are drawing and type it before they are done.\nThe faster you are, the more points you get to win. In the end, the crown goes to the person with the highest points.\nOne great advantage Skribbl has is that it allows a player to create his room with customized words and drawing time. You can send invites to your friends once the room is created.\nEach room supports up to 12 players. I love that the game isn't only available in English. You have other languages like Korean, Italian, Tagalog, and Hungarian.\nYou can download Skribbl for free on either the Google Play Store or the Apple Store for iPhone users.\nCheckers is another great board game for your distant friends and family anytime you like. You can add some spice to this game by selecting a category such as Fourth of July checkers, St. Patrick's checkers, or Halloween Checkers.\nTo play Checkers, each player needs to make a move that will ultimately bring their opponent to ruin. This game works on all devices and can be downloaded from the Play Store and Apple Store.\nAlternatively, you can play the game straight from your browser without downloading any app.\nIf you have been dying to play Sherlock Holmes with your friends or family, Clue provides the perfect opportunity to do this.\nTo play this game, each player assumes the role of one among six suspects in a murder case and tries to figure out how the victim was murdered, the exact location of the crime, and the murder weapons.\nPlayers strategically move around a game board representing the rooms of a mansion for murder clues. Various colored pieces illustrate the characters, murder weapons, set, and solution cards.\nEvery player also gets to access a detective notepad where they keep an accurate record of the rooms, weapons, and characters. You can play this with your friends either on your Android or iOS device, or even your PC.\nPsych is an exciting online game to play with your friends and family. This game guarantees lots of fun and provides ample opportunity for you to discover new facts about your friends.\nTo play this game, you have to come up with fake answers to real questions. Your opponents are saddled with the responsibility of figuring out which of your fake answers is real. You earn points for choosing the right answer.\nThe game is free to download from Apple Store and Play Store.\nAlso Read: Best Games Like Krunker\nTwenty questions is a guessing game best suited if you and your friends love mental challenges. Here, you simply need to think of something and the system will automatically read your mind and ask specific questions.\nThe game is fun and exciting to play with your loved ones primarily through Zoom or Google Meet. You can play it straight from the website by first choosing your desired language and allowing the AI to do what it does best \u2013 ask questions.\nYou can also download the app free from the Apple Store or Google Play Store.\nKiss Marry Kill will get your friends or family laughing with each round. The game can be played in real-time or virtually.\nTo play this game, players get to pick three characters and then go on to decide who they want to kiss, who they would marry, and finally who they are going to kill in the worst way possible.\nI love that the game reveals friends' innermost thoughts for each other. At least, you get to know who's crushing on you, who would love to spend the rest of their lives with you, and then \u2013 who would kill you.\nThe game is available for free download on the Google Play Store and Apple Store.\nThis fun online game will get your far-away friends and family spilling lots of crazy secrets. It's also a fun and exciting way to learn more about each other.\nTo play this game, players get to be honest about the activities they have never indulged in. You have different categories of questions to choose from.\nThere are normal, popular, party, sexy, and a couple of dirty questions. The game can be played virtually with friends anywhere in the world and there can be as many players as possible.\nYou can play the game with your smartphone after downloading it on Google Play Store, the Apple Store, or simply from the website.\nAlso Read: GTA V Geoguesser \u2013 The Complete Guide\nIf you are looking for the ultimate game of fun, then you need to play Truth or Dare. The game is guaranteed to keep you on your toes throughout the game.\nPlaying it requires players to take turns in choosing a truth (a question they must provide an honest answer to) or a dare (an action they must follow through on). You gain points when you successfully complete either of them.\nIt's a great way to learn more about your friends. Players can decide on the consequences of losing in a round to make the game more interesting. You might pay some cash or give in to some hideous request.\nThe game can be downloaded for free and works on both Android and iOS devices.\nMonopoly is one of the most classic online games and a great choice for your long-distance friends or family members especially if they are as interested in financial literacy as you. This game allows you to make some money moves.\nMonopoly is anchored on real estate and involves from two to eight players. Each player aims to bankrupt his competitors while fighting to remain financially buoyant by purchasing properties and managing his money in the best way that will guarantee income.\nThis game is available on App Store and Google Play Store and can be purchased for only $3.99.\nAlso Read: Best QuizUp Alternatives\nIf your friends or family love mentally stimulating games, then you should play online chess the next time you're organizing a virtual hangout.\nThe game can be played directly from their website and it usually starts with each player having a white-colored box at the bottom of the chessboard. Then the cheese pieces are set appropriately, while the second rank is filled up with pawns.\nThe rooks on the other hand are stacked up in a corner, followed by the knights. There is the bishop and finally the queen and king. The winner of the game of chess is the player who makes the right moves and captures the king of the opponents.\nThis game is available for download free on both Android and Apple devices. You can either go to the Google Play Store or the Apple store.\nExplore: Best GameKnot Alternatives\nThis is another interesting online game for your long-distance family and friends that will surely improve your vocabulary.\nTo play this game, each player has to make a list of words that all start with the same letter. You score a point for each word on your list that isn't on anyone else's list.\nA round can last for over three minutes and you can play as many rounds as possible. I love that the game is excellent for mental stimulation and an opportunity to learn new words.\nIt is a fun, competitive game and can be enjoyed by anyone, young or old. Scattergories is available for free download on both Android and iOS devices.\nAlso Read: Best Anki Alternatives\nIf you and your friends love card games, this game is right up your alley. The game aims to discard your cards and it requires a high skill set, logic, and adaptive skills.\nTo play this game, there are 52 standard cards. A player is served five cards to play. The left-over cards are placed facedown on the table with the top card facing up to signal the commencement of the game.\nEach player is required to place cards with similar shapes or numbers as the top card. In the end, the player that exhausts his cards becomes the winner of the game.\nFor other players, the final scoring is determined based on the points of all the cards they still have. This game can be played virtually, and once a player creates a private room, he can invite others to join in.\nThe app download is compatible with all Android and iOS devices.\nAlso Read: Quizlet vs Anki\nBingo Blitz is the last on my list mainly because it's my favorite. What do they say about saving the best for the last?\nIf you are like me, who loves exploring and adventure, and you have friends that share the same personality, then Bingo Blitz is the best online game for you.\nThis game is a perfect blend of beautiful design, vibrant playing community, and smooth gameplay. It allows you and your friends to explore amazing places all over the world without necessarily traveling together.\nWhile exploring, you get to collect a lot of amazing gifts for free. You can play the game on Facebook or simply download the app from Android's Google Play Store or Apple Store.\nAlso Read: Brainscape vs Anki\nDistance shouldn't be a barrier to having fun with your far-away loved ones. As you can see, there are a lot of virtual games you can play with them.\nFeel free to choose any of the games I have reviewed above and have fun playing them with your friends and family.\nCassie Riley\nCassie Riley has a passion for all things marketing and social media. She is a wife, mother, and entrepreneur. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, language, music, writing, and unicorns. Cassie is a lifetime learner, and loves to spend time attending classes, webinars, and summits.\nCategories Blog, Software\/Tools\nQuizlet vs Kahoot \u2013 Which Is Better?\nGTA V GeoGuesser \u2013 The Complete Guide\nLast Updated on August 24, 2022 by Tom Clayton","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home | TV | TV Review: Requiem (Season 1) (2018)\nTV Review: Requiem (Season 1) (2018)\nChristy Lou Sturman 04\/23\/2018 TV\nA shocking personal trauma sends cellist Matilda Grey and best friend Hal on a journey to unravel a missing child cold case. Along the way Matilda finds herself in a twisted search for her own identity and answers to questions she didn't know she needed to ask. With classic themes of British horror \"Requiem\" weaves a complex, supernatural tale of what may hide on the other side of mirrors.\nA couple episodes into this series I caught myself thinking \"this would probably be really good if her haircut wasn't so awful\". By the end, however, her haircut was just one of many reasons this is not the best horror\/thriller Netflix has offered. There are elements that make \"Requiem\" a fair time waster, slow binge and not a horrible mess of a show but it never quite lives up to what it seems like it promises.\nThe story starts with brief introductions to the horrible hair owning, concert cellist main character Matilda Grey (Lydia Wilson), her troubled mother Janice Gray (Joanna Scanlan) and Matilda's musical partner\/friend Hal Fine (Joel Fry). I will quickly note here that the acting is in fact quite good, particularly from later characters in the series and the chemistry between most characters is believable which is one of the few reasons to actually enjoy this atmospheric mess of a show. After the unexpected death of her mother, Matilda finds information connecting her mom and in turn herself to the case of a missing child 15 years previous. In an effort to find some peace and closure Matilda and Hal take a presumably short journey to a tiny Welsh village in an effort to sort out what all of this means.\nThe trouble is while they are trying to sort out a cold missing child case the viewer is trying to sort out what they are watching \u2013 is it a sordid thriller, a haunted house ghost story, a demon fable, a modern day fairytale, a cop drama, something about naked witches in the woods or the tale of a good old-fashioned, devil-worshipping cult? The trouble is that it tries to be all of those things, all of the time plus it wants you to keep up with an assortment of love interests, emotional family entanglements and a more than necessary amount of mysteries within mysteries. And to top it all off, for some reason the series tries really hard to make scrying a thing, it's really not an interesting enough premise to be a thing, sorry \"Requiem\".\nI said at the beginning that the series is not a horrible mess, and it's not horrible, but it is a mess. I did get caught up in the central idea of the story which is the who, how, what, where and why of a missing child, focusing on that is what made me stick with the series through to the end. There are some excellently portrayed characters as well, such as the missing child's mother Rose Morgan (Claire Rushbrook) and the innkeeper's daughter turned ally Trudy (Sian Reese-Williams) who kept me hooked in the story and interested in their outcomes. We are briefly treated to a scene with a young Matilda who is portrayed by Bella Ramsey (best known for her role as the immoveable Lyanna Mormont in \"Game of Thrones\"). There are some wonderful creepy elements and a good deal of classic British horror atmosphere, it often feels like you are watching a visual interpretation of those gothic Victorian-era romance novels in which unassuming, lovely, young women are sent to live in scary old houses on forgotten moors.\nMusic is supposed to be a major element of the story \u2013 Matilda and Hal are successful classical musicians, a dodgy CD plays a part in the first shocking incident, strange chants in children's voices are found in recordings which haunt most of the series, the whole thing is called \"Requiem\" after all, and yet\u2026everything fails to make the musical impact that it could. There is an almost silly, musically set montage of misery right in the middle of the series, where you are given some important information to the story but there is a bigger dose of cringe-worthy melodrama than you can take in one sitting. I think that this moment was supposed to read almost like the playing of a piece of classical music but again it falls short of actually getting us to see or feel that. As someone who grew up in a musical family and surrounded by musicians of all sorts the one thing the series got right was the character of Hal, I had no problem believing he was a musician caught up in something above and beyond the ordinary (as it turns out the actor playing Hal is, in fact, a member of the band Animal Circus). There was an opportunity to actually create a soul-stirring requiem out of this story and never once does it feel like that was even a consideration.\nAfter a bumpy ride through every horror element short of vampires and werewolves, the ending is sadly predictable. You are taken down several tantalizing roads that have the potential to create an exciting supernatural tale, but those roads always end in a bad accident and flesh-eating somnambulists with no closure. The slapdash cult-themed moment that ties everything together (and for some reason takes the oddly placed chance to try for some dry humor) is way too rushed and ends up being a major let down for what is supposed to be the fantastical crescendo. Everything that happens in the last 10 minutes or so will not be at all surprising, there is no great twist that will leave you stunned or even baffled.\nStripped to its bare bones \"Requiem\" had the potential to be a great British horror story, but it tries too hard, way too hard. I feel like it would have been better to have the story play out over several seasons \u2013 where we could have the haunted house season, the cop drama season, the demon season (though I fear we would be forced to have a scrying season which would kill the whole thing) and so on. Instead, we are force-fed all of it in one 6 episode go, missing the chance to savor the creep, get lost in the music or bond with enjoyable characters. There has been no decision, as of this writing, about whether there will be a Season 2, and no personal decision as to whether I would watch a Season 2 (I'm saying a tentative \"yes\" providing Matilda gets a better, far less distracting haircut). If you want to give \"Requiem\" a try all six episodes are available in Netflix in the US.\nTags british horror classical music haunted house Joel Fry Lydia Wilson Mirrors\nFilm Review: The Amityville Haunting (2012)\nFilm Review: Crave (short Film) (2018)\nAre You Up For The NAKED AND SCARED CHALLENGE?\nNew Horror Novel \"The House\" Coming Soon\n\"Deeply Unsettling\" (NY Times), Blackout Haunted House Isolates, \"Effs Up\" Victims October 1-31\nFilm Review: Mirrors (2008)\nJane Nightshade\nI loved it until after the missing child mystery was solved, when it just ran out of gas. The final revelation of who Matilda really is just seemed like a rehash of an average Supernatural episode. I love British but I don't watch it to see imitations of American horror!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Book Review: All God's Chillun Got Wings and Welded by Eugene O'Neill\nPosted on January 18, 2020 by Coreen Catenburg\n\"All God's Chillun Got Wings and Welded\" is a love tragedy about race. Ella, a white girl, marries Jim, a black young man, but the marriage is more traumatizing than it is happy, and eventually, it overwhelms them. If Ella embodies the entanglements of ethnic intermarriage, then Jim more reflects the essence of marriage. Jim is hardworking but kind. Unlike most black people who were resigned to their fate and went with the flow, he has been making efforts to improve his situation and status. But as a descendant of blacks, he was haunted by racial prejudice and discrimination. The powerful external pressure was a constant reminder of his black identity and a heavy burden on him. The harder he tried, the more he felt the intensity of racial prejudice and discrimination, which made him helpless even in the face of good white people. Simply because he had done something that many blacks would not or could not do, he was an outlier in the black and white world. If it was a naive child who drank lime-water as a boy and wanted to whiten his skin to have the same complexion as the girl he liked, it was a grown man who dreamed of going to law school and becoming a lawyer. For this, Jim made a hard effort, but he couldn't get it. After growing up, most of the young people with the same color of skin were moving forward helplessly along the road of their parents' life.\nOnly he was diligent and studied hard. He became one of the few people of his age, making him incompatible with black and white people. Maybe we can blame Jim for not being strong enough, but how can a person fight against the whole society? We can see the huge invisible pressure of society from his repeated failures. On the other hand, his failure was accompanied by care and sacrifice for his sick wife. As a man, he loved Ella, and he loved the innocent playmate of his childhood without regret. In the face of the girl he admired so much, her physical and mental pain made his heart ache. Jim hopes that his love for Ella's ordeal will help her move on from her past. The past was over, but then Ella fell deeper into the misery of loving her husband but not being able to acknowledge his black identity from the bottom of her heart. All this made her suffer, she did not know what to do, the feelings of love and hate torn her heart. For Jim, Ella is his life, especially when they are ostracized by the whole society, and the husband and wife become a pair of unhappy lovers. For the sake of peace and happiness, they went to a foreign country, and he obeyed his wife, even as brother and sister, whenever she was happy. Instead, they found no peace in foreign lands. Although racial prejudice and discrimination did not exist there, what they heard and saw in their own country left a shadow in their hearts far more cruel and terrible than real life. Her union with her black husband made Ella feel ashamed and she tried everything to hide for peace.\nThere was nothing Jim could do about it. He loved his wife, but he could not relieve her mental pain. He could only blame himself for everything, even though he had done nothing wrong. Faced with his ailing wife, he felt guilty and could only try his best to take care of her to atone for his sin. Ella became more and more insane, and one more day with her was a greater risk of being killed. Sending her to a nursing home would liberate him, but it would kill her and she would die of shame which is something that Jim, who loved Ella so much, could never do. This is an ordinary man, on the one hand, he can not give up the dream, on the other hand, he is deeply in love with the woman. The woman he had married was sick, and it was the same woman who, fearing his success, had been trying to obstruct him. He must choose between this woman and his dream. In order to love this woman, in order to keep them together, he has to give up his dream completely. There was no hope of equality and harmony, no hope of success that would prove his worth and give his wife pride, and all that remained was a madwoman and a broken-hearted man. God created this world, and he also created human beings who live in it. But God has failed to instill in all men the capacity to accept and love all men. So in this world, no matter how good and how hard our protagonists work, they will face the only failure in the end.\n-Coreen C.\nThis entry was posted in Book Reviews by Coreen Catenburg. Bookmark the permalink.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Calls to draw up guidelines on poster ban for Local Election candidates in Carlow\nLeighlinbridge Tidy Towns group has already decided it does not want election posters in the village\nCalls have been made to draw up guidelines on a poster ban for all Local Election candidates in Carlow.\nRead also: Towns and villages around Carlow encouraged to go 'poster free' for Local Election\nCllr Brian O'Donoghue brought the issue up at this month's meeting of Carlow Municipal District and asked to formulate a meeting of all candidates in this year's Local Election with representatives from each Tidy Town group across Carlow.\n\"It would be to see if there's a possibility of putting some control on the use of election posters. Leighlinbridge have decided that they don't want election posters in the village.\n\"I did a poll on social media and 190 people voted with 86% of them agreeing that it was a good idea,\" he said.\nCllr O'Donoghue told members that if nothing was agreed at the meeting then people in the communities would have the usual \"bizarre\" situation with election posters strewn all over the place.\n\"I'm asking all candidates running in the Municipal Districts to meet and come up with the guidelines to make [the Local Election] a fair playing pitch,\" he added.\nCouncillors in Carlow Town have already debated banning election posters for the Local Elections in May as the number of posters going up becomes \"a bit of a farce\".","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Best Compensated Musicians of 2021: Bruce Springsteen, Jay-Z Top rated Earners\nOf all the supposedly \"pandemic-proof\" careers out there, here's a surprising one particular: rock star. The world's 10 highest-paid out musicians of 2021 raked in a put together $2.3 billion, additional than double what they were being producing on an annual foundation in the yrs suitable in advance of Covid-19.\nThe coronavirus has decimated touring, with brutal results for artists who count on gigs as a main supply of income. But up in the stratosphere, icons from Bruce Springsteen to Paul Simon uncovered other ways to income in \u2014 particularly by offloading their catalogs for nine-determine sums.\n\"These are virtually like pieces of art \u2014 there is a finite amount of actual, super-superior-top quality hit music from the earlier \u2014 and there's this kind of all-out seize to very own people legal rights,\" says Josh Gruss, founder and CEO of Spherical Hill Songs, which has invested $1.3 billion on audio copyrights above the past ten years. \"It's a incredibly steady stream of earnings which is there, and that would make it pretty interesting for investment decision.\"\nOnly Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Taylor Swift produced the cut without having a enormous catalog sale (scroll down to see the whole position). The remaining 7 of music's 10 major earners banked the bulk of their bucks by providing copyrights. Underscoring the industry's persistent pay back hole, they're all white gentlemen (Stevie Nicks offered her catalog for $100 million in December 2020, just lacking our cutoff). You have to extend to the major 15 to locate music's 2nd highest-paid out woman or an act born exterior the United States.\nThis unlucky truth has roots as aged as the music business enterprise itself, notably when it will come to gender disparity. For each and every Springsteen signed to a report deal, how a lot of female rockers were being disregarded? For each and every Dylan provided flexibility to generate his music \u2014 and accumulate intellectual assets \u2014 how a lot of women got pigeonholed as just singers? For each Simon who managed or negotiated the return of his legal rights many years ago, how numerous woman icons were being denied that respect? And so it goes for so many underrepresented demographics in the industry.\nThere are at minimum couple of young names amongst all the septuagenarian centimillionaires. Some of the even larger catalog revenue, like Ryan Tedder's $200 million offer, have now been described. Other individuals, like Blake Shelton's $50 million-moreover legal rights sale, have not. Regardless, it's clear investors are finally observing the worth of songs in the streaming age \u2014 for better or even worse.\n\"There's wonderful irony in the simple fact that when Wall Street will take note of songs' value, the digital platforms frequently really do not,\" says Jody Gerson, chairman and CEO of Universal Tunes Publishing Group. \"Which suggests we must continue on to struggle for our songwriters equally in conditions of the worth of what they build and in terms of the treating tracks as art, not as assets.\"\nSo, for music's a person-percenters, what is the incentive to market? There is a variety of components, some of them arcane and disregarded, like tax fees: The sale of a catalog is ordinarily addressed as a money acquire, and for that reason taxed at a significantly decrease charge than a royalty test.\nThen there is the simple fact that music use proceeds to soar, with global on-need spins surging 26.3% year-more than-12 months. That determine got a key strengthen from back catalog streaming, which spiked 19.3% this calendar year and accounted for 69.8% of total listening.\nOn leading of that, low interest prices about the globe suggest megabuyers like personal-equity agency KKR and Merck Mercuriadis' Hipgnosis Songs Fund can afford to pay for to borrow cheaply, spurring them to spend increased multiples and generate greater checks.\nBut several insiders feel these conditions are possible to change in the not-so-distant upcoming. Some be expecting to see tax-code changes, even though other folks stress growing inflation could direct to higher fascination fees.\n\"That has to lead to some kind of adjustment in the multiples becoming paid,\" states Gruss, who believes the new music-rights industry is nearing its peak, at least on the large finish. \"But I've been incorrect right before \u2014 each calendar year when I assume it is maxed out, it retains going.\"\nBrowse on to see the full ranking of the world's leading-earning musicians. The listing steps pretax profits for calendar yr 2021 prior to deducting fees for agents, managers, attorneys, living charges, and so on. Estimates are generated by scouring community documents and interviewing individuals with direct information of significant specials.\nSoon after a ten years at Forbes, Zack O'Malley Greenburg covers the business of songs at Substack \u2014 come across his operate, such as best earners No. 11-15, right here. He's the creator of four songs publications, such as the Jay-Z biography Empire State of Head. His tales have also appeared in The New York Moments, Washington Write-up, and Vanity Honest.\nPhotograph Illustrations by Sean McCabe for Rolling Stone. Pictures in illustrations by Evan Agostini\/Invision\/AP (Swift) Jason Kempin\/ACMA2021\/Getty Photos (Shelton) Chris Pizzello\/Invision\/AP (Motley Cr\u00fce) Lauren Dukoff (Buckingham) Gus Van Zant (Red Very hot Chili Peppers) Hubert Boesl\/picture-alliance\/dpa\/AP (Tedder) David Livingston\/Getty Images (West) Dave Kotinsky\/Getty Photos (Simon) Xavier Collin\/Image Push Company\/Sipa United states\/AP (Jay-Z) Danny Clinch (Springsteen)\nBruce Compensated Earners JayZ musicians rated Springsteen Top\nBob Dylan's Lifetime as a Visual Artist Explored in Miami Museum\nThe Tale Powering The Movie Your Mother and father Warned You About\nPrevious post:Bob Dylan's Lifetime as a Visual Artist Explored in Miami Museum\nNext post:The Tale Powering The Movie Your Mother and father Warned You About\nTechnology Components","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Wool City Rivals\nby john dewhirst\nAbout BCAFC colours, crests and nicknames\nBCAFC Programme, 2017\/18\nBradford history\nLinks to other Bradford related websites\nOrigins & history of Bradford sport\nBook Review: One Year, Two Seasons\n8 Oct 2018 8 Oct 2018 johndewhirst\n'One Year, Two Seasons' by Richard Wardell (City Gent Publications, 2018) \u00a33.00\nAuthor Richard Wardell had long thought about writing a book about supporting Bradford City and he could not have chosen a more eventful period to write about. In fact some of us would say that he has successfully written a horror story featuring Bradford City!\nIt is a long, long time since the Wembley Play-off Final in May, 2017 against Millwall when it seemed that Bradford City supporters were assured of a bright future. Fast forward to the beginning of the 2018\/19 and it feels as though the world has been turned upside down. Optimism has been swapped for despondency and rancour. How we will look back upon this period in the future is anyone's guess but Richard Wardell has done a mighty fine job of documenting the change in outlook during the twelve months that followed the club's final game of the regular season at Rochdale on 30th April, 2017.\nPut together in the same format as The City Gent, it is better described as a booklet (72 pages in size) but with the splendid cover by Paine Proffitt and a good selection of photographs One Year, Two Seasons is well produced and equally well-written. Published to raise money for the Plastic Surgery & Burns Research Unit and the Huntington's Disease Association it is richly deserving of support.\nRichard is a longstanding supporter and one who is unlikely to have his commitment to the club shattered by what has happened at Valley Parade of late. His loyalty to the club and infectious enthusiasm is writ large on each page despite the tangible evidence of the implosion and dramatic loss of form from the end of December, 2017 about which we are all aware. This is a man who should be a positive thinking coach, if not a therapist.\nWritten as a journal Richard reveals the extent to which supporting his team has come to dominate his life and despite the bad results and disappointments, he demonstrates how it can be a satisfying experience with its various routines. It is something of an understatement when he writes that 'football is so much more than the 90 minutes on the pitch. It's about forming and maintaining friendships, it's about sharing stories with strangers, it's about communities, and it's about creating history and making happy memories.'\nAmen to all of that. Richard demonstrates that without people like him we wouldn't have a football club and in truth, it would not be worth following. Long after foreign owners have got bored by their dalliance it will be the likes of Richard Wardell who will help Bradford City AFC begin the process of recovery and rebuilding.\nJohn Dewhirst\nYou can find other book reviews on this blog \u2013 refer links from HERE\nPublished by johndewhirst\nAuthor: 978-0-9566984-4-5 A History of Bradford City AFC in Objects (bantamspast 2014) 978-0-9566984-5-2 Room at the Top - The Origins of Professional Football in Bradford and the Rivalry of Bradford FC and Manningham FC (bantamspast 2016) 978-0-9566984-8-3 Life at the Top \u2013 The Rivalry of Manningham FC and Bradford FC and their Conversion from Rugby to Soccer (bantamspast 2016)\tView all posts by johndewhirst\nPrevious postBlack cats and bantams\nNext postThe first game of soccer at Valley Parade","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Oral History Collection John J. Stavola oral history interview transcript\nJohn J. Stavola oral history interview\nJohn J. Stavola oral history interview transcript\nTitle John J. Stavola oral history interview\nLST-37\nWorld War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Marshall Islands\nMarine accidents.\nLSMR-191\nKamikaze airplanes.\nKwajalein Atoll, Battle of, Marshall Islands, 1944\nDescription The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John J. Stavola. Born in 1921, he joined the Navy in 1942. He trained with the diesel group at the Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. He was assigned to LST-37 as a Motor Mac. He remained with the ship for a month after it was transferred to the Greek Navy to assist with the transition. His next assignment was to the LST-43. He describes a Japanese air raid on Kwajalein. He also describes witnessing the disaster at West Loch in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and rescuing his Executive Officer. He was sent back to the U.S. to pick up LSMRs. He shares an anecdote about prize fighter Tony Zale at the Naval Amphibious Base in Little Creek, Virginia. He returned to the Pacific for the invasion of Okinawa. He describes the naval battle for the island of Kerama Retto. He also describes the landing on Okinawa. He talks about picket duty aboard LSMR-191 and other activities in the waters around the island. He also discusses attacks by kamikazes. He returned to the U.S. with LSMR-191 when it was retrofitted as an ammunition carrier. He was discharged in January, 1946. The interview also contains information about his family during the Depression.\nCreator Stavola, John H.\nThorpe, Kara\nTitle John J. Stavola oral history interview transcript\nAdd tags for John J. Stavola oral history interview transcript\nPost a Comment for John J. Stavola oral history interview transcript\nJohn J. Stavola oral history...\nJohn J. Stavola oral history interview audio","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Brownell v. Anderson, No. 26270.\nDocument Cited authorities 6 Cited in 11 Precedent Map Related\nCourt Supreme Court of Nebraska\nWriting for the Court THOMPSON\nCitation 222 N.W. 55,117 Neb. 652\nParties BROWNELL v. ANDERSON ET AL.\nDecision Date 23 November 1928\nDocket Number No. 26270.\n117 Neb. 652\n222 N.W. 55\nBROWNELL\nANDERSON ET AL.\nSupreme Court of Nebraska.\nNov. 23, 1928.\nSyllabus by the Court.\n\"The remedy for the enforcement of the entire double liability imposed by the Constitution upon stockholders of a state bank in the event of insolvency is a suit in equity by a creditor for the benefit of all the creditors, or by the receiver, against all the stockholders.\" Rogers v. Selleck, 116 Neb. page ___, 221 N. W. 702.\nA receiver of an insolvent state bank, duly appointed by the district court, lodged with the county court a contingent claim for double stock liability against the estate of a deceased stockholder, then being administered by it. Held, (a) that the filing of such claim did not vest the county court with exclusive jurisdiction over it, and neither did such filing deprive the receiver of the right to proceed in the district court appointing him, in a suit in equity, to determine the liability of such stockholder; (b) that the executor of such estate was a proper party defendant; (c) that it was the duty of the county court to direct the executor to retain in his hands sufficient of the assets to pay such contingent claim when the same became absolute.\nAppeal from District Court, Dodge County; Button, Judge.\nAction by R. O. Brownell, receiver of the First Bank of Nickerson, against W. A. Anderson and others, wherein Seymour S. Sidner, as executor of the estate of John Sidner, deceased, filed a special appearance. Judgment of dismissal, and plaintiff appeals. Reversed and remanded, with directions.\n[222 N.W. 55]\nDolezal, Spear & Mapes, of Fremont, and C. M. Skiles and Ira D. Beynon, both of Lincoln, for appellant.\nCourtright, Sidner, Lee & Gunderson, of Fremont, for appellees.\nHeard before GOSS, C. J., DEAN, THOMPSON, EBERLY, and HOWELL, JJ., and REDICK and CHASE, District Judges.\nTHOMPSON, J.\nThis action was instituted by appellant, the receiver of the First Bank of Nickerson, against the appellees by way of a petition in equity, in due and usual form in such cases, to enforce the double liability of appellees as stockholders of the above insolvent bank under sections 4 and 7, art. 12, of the Constitution of this state. At the trial the appellee, Seymour S. Sidner, as executor of the estate of John Sidner, deceased, filed a special appearance which challenged the jurisdiction of the district court over him, as well as over the subject-matter. The court sustained the challenge and dismissed the action, to reverse which the receiver appeals and presents as reasons for such reversal, in substance, that, under the facts shown by the record and the law applicable thereto, the special appearance should have been overruled and appellant permitted to proceed with his action to final judgment.\nThe facts material for our consideration, as shown by the record, are: The First Bank of Nickerson is one organized under the laws of this state for commercial banking business at Nickerson in Dodge county. The appellees, defendants, with others were and are stockholders in the bank, one of whom, as above indicated, was John Sidner, who died testate a resident of Dodge county on August 15, 1923. On September 10, 1923, in the county court of such county, the will was admitted to probate, and Seymour S. Sidner appointed executor, who qualified and entered upon the discharge of his duties, and has been ever since so acting. On July 10, 1924, the bank was, by the district court for Dodge county, adjudged insolvent and Emil Folda appointed receiver, who subsequently resigned and R. O. Brownell, the appellant, was...\nBrownell v. Adams, No. 27682.\n...56 Neb. 201, 76 N. W. 587;Hastings v. Barnd, 55 Neb. 93, 75 N. W. 49;Brown v. Brink, 57 Neb. 606, 78 N. W. 280;Brownell v. Anderson, 117 Neb. 652, 222 N. W. 55. [2] Jurisdiction of equity to enforce constitutional liability of stockholders of an insolvent banking corporation is based upon t......\nParker v. Luehrmann, No. 28731.\nSupreme Court of Nebraska\n...claim absolute for allowance in the county court. The administrator is a proper party defendant for that purpose. Brownell v. Anderson, 117 Neb. 652, 222 N. W. 55. 3. \"The trust of an administrator or executor is a continuing one, and a decree of final accounting does not destroy the relati......\nWalter v. Walter, No. 26107.\n...the interest of plaintiffs in the east 80 would have been reduced to one-third, and their interest in Knox county estate would have been [222 N.W. 55]one-third, after the payment of $3,000 of legacies and a $3,000 mortgage. No prejudice is shown. It is said in 30 Cyc. 190, that, until a \"pr......\nHoover v. Haller, No. 31980.\n...Neb. 613, 97 N.W. 808. Certainly an action in partition is one for relief other than for the recovery of money only. Brownell v. Anderson, 117 Neb. 652, 222 N.W. 55, was a suit involving the liability of a stockholder in a state bank, brought against the executor of the estate of a deceased......","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"AFA - Air & Space\nBoeing Positions F-15 as F-22 Supplement\nNATIONAL HARBOR, Md. \u2014 In an effort to extend its F-15 business, Boeing unveiled a new upgrade package for the F-15C design \u2014 one specifically targeting an air superiority gap left from the decision to cut production on the F-22.\nThe new design, part of an effort dubbed \"F-15 C2040\" by the company, would double the number of air-to-air weapons carried by the F-15C from 8 eight to 16 while adding conformal fuel tanks for enhanced distance.\nIt would also feature updated electronics, including a long-range Infra-Red Search and Track (IRST) sensor and the already planned Eagle Passive\/Active Warning Survivability System (EPAWSS). It would also feature an updated AESA radar.\nThe upgrades being proposed are not one large package. Rather, the company is offering a menu of options, one which can be targeted both at the 250 air dominance F-15s in the US inventory and the hundreds used by international customers abroad.\nMike Gibbons, F-15 program manager for Boeing, said the idea of this particular configuration came from a realization that \"there is a real challenge the Air Force faces with air superiority.\"\nBoeing's marketing theory goes something like this. The F-22 was supposed to be the air superiority backbone of the Air Force for years to come, working hand in hand with the F-35 to provide a high-end air capability. But then the F-22 program was cancelled well short of projected totals.\nGen. Mark Welsh, Air Force Cchief of Sstaff, acknowledged the challenge caused by the curtailed F-22 fleet in an exclusive interview with Defense News.\nThe F-35, Welsh said, \"was never designed to be the next dog fighting machine. It was designed to be the multipurpose, data-integration platform that could do all kinds of things in the air-to-ground arena including dismantle enemy, integrated, air defenses. It had an air-to-air capability, but it was not intended to be an air-superiority fighter. That was the F-22.\"\nFor Boeing, the argument then is that an upgraded F-15C can help bridge the gap left by the F-22 cutback, at least until the next-generation air dominance program comes online in large numbers \u2014 around 2040.\nWhich isn't to say upgraded F-15s will replace the F-22. Indeed, Boeing is expressly positioning the system as an integrated capability with the F-22, thanks to its Talon HATE program.\nSpeaking to reporters last week in St. Louis, Boeing executives gave a first glance at the pod, which is on contract with the Air Force for 4 EMD pods. The pod is designed to allow easy data transfer between F-22 and F-15, built around the Boeing \"Phantom Fusion\" computer system.\nGibbons confirmed the Talon HATE pod is part of the upgrade package being discussed. He added that while the pod comes with an IRST capability, it is not the long-range IRST being discussed for the 2040C package.\nBacklog orders on the F-15 line currently run out in 2019. While denying that means the end of the F-15 line in St. Louis, Gibbons did acknowledge it puts pressure on the Air Force to decide whether it wants these upgrades or not \"in the next few\" budget cycles.\nGibbons also said the work is largely non-evasive, with the exception of EPAWSS \u2014 which is already planned to be installed across the fleet in the early 2020s. That would provide an ideal window to do other depot work, he noted.\nSpeaking to reporters later in the day, Gen. Hawk Carlisle, the head of Air Combat Command, acknowledged that a capability upgrade would be nice, but that a service life extension program, or SLEP, is more important.\n\"When we look at the stress tests we've done on the f15c and were doing on the f15 and f16 there are issues were gonna have to do for service life extension with respect to the structural integrity of the airplane, so were working on those and what were gonna have to do in the future,\n\"If I could find a way with resources, I would do everything I could when we put those airplanes in to do a service life extension program and fix the structural issues, I would do everything in my power to try to do capabilities upgrade at the same time,\" he said. \"I will try to do as much of that as I can find the resources.\"\nAs to how much a SLEP program would cost, Carlisle said the analysis is underway but \"we know it's a pretty significant bill in the billions of dollars.\"\nLara Seligman contributed to this report.\nEmail: amehta@defensenews.com\nTwitter: @AaronMehta\nMore In AFA - Air & Space\nAFSOC plans to demo amphibious MC-130J by end of next year, commander says\nA new water-ready C-130 would give the Air Force more littoral capability.\nSecAF to Congress: Let us retire aircraft or we can't beat China\n\"We will not succeed against a well-resourced and strategic competitor if we insist on keeping every legacy system we have,\" Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said Monday.\nAs the US Air Force looks to the future of special operations, vertical lift takes center stage\nWhat comes after the MC-130 and CV-22s operated today by Air Force Special Operations Command?\nLockheed reveals new LMXT refueling tanker, firing the opening salvo in US Air Force competition\nImprovements include more range and better fuel-offloading capabilities compared to the baseline version of Airbus's A330 tanker.\nAir Force creates new information warfare organization, revamps Cyber Command teams\nThe Air Force is creating 16th Air Force that will combine cyber, electronic warfare, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and information operations into a single organization.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"HomeNewsHeritage BC recognizes Annable Block restoration\nHeritage BC recognizes Annable Block restoration\nBy Submitted Article\nFriday, May. 13th, 2022\nNelson CARES has won provincial recognition for its efforts to restore and conserve the Annable Block. (Submitted by Nelson CARES)\nHeritage BC has honoured the Nelson CARES Society for its efforts in restoring the Annable Block (also known as Ward Street Place). The building was chosen as the winner of conservation category for this year's Heritage BC awards.\nNelson CARES bought the building in 2002, which is home to 45 residential and seven commercial tenants.\n\"It was truly a labour of love to restore and bring dignity back to this amazing building and to the people who live there,\" said project manager Jenny Robinson, who recently retired from the organization.\nThe award was presented Wednesday during the joint conference between Heritage BC and the BC Museum Association.\n\"This award is a wonderful acknowledgement for the building which now outwardly reflects the safety, stability and sense of community for the residents inside,\" Nelson CARES chair Ron Little said.\nThe Annable Block was built in 1912 and has been home to offices, storefronts, and furnished one-room apartments ever since.\n\"It's been a real privilege to have an opportunity to give back to a community that has given so much to me and my family,\" said Steffan Haake, the maintenance Lead at Ward Street Place.\n\"I'm honored to have been part of a project that helps conserve our town's rich history and simultaneously help deal with the present housing crisis that troubles so many of our communities.\"\nIn 2011 a budget was developed for the long-term restoration and operation of the building including a 30-year maintenance reserve. In 2014, a $700,000 fundraising campaign, partnered with the community to renovate one residential unit at a time. In 2017 extensive interior renovations were completed including a fire suppression system.\nNelson CARES completed a heritage conservation plan in 2018, which detailed significant upgrades to the building including, a rebuild of the roofline cornice, preservation of original Florentine glass transoms, awning renewal, updated cooling\/heating system and new doors and windows.\n\"For me this has been not only an education in antique materials and design, but an eye-opening discovery that we have here in our community the contractors and the tradespeople capable of taking on some very unique challenges and also capable of reviving some antique skills,\" said project manager Bill Lynch.\nNelson CARES says the project was made possible with the support of the Columbia Basin Trust, the technical guidance of Heritage BC experts and skilled tradespeople in Nelson.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"EC announces preliminary decision on sharing\n.\t Published on 11 September, 2002 . 0\nThe European Commission has reached a preliminary decision on the future of 3G network sharing, bringing good news for two international mobile operators. The UK-based O2 group and Germany's T-Mobile proposed a scheme some time ago which would see the pair sharing some of their UMTS network infrastructure in the UK and Germany, where both companies have bought 3G licences.\nEC Competition Commissioner, Mario Monti, commented: \"The examination of the network sharing agreements between T-Mobile and O2, the only two so far to have been filed for regulatory clearance, have led the Commission to believe that, provided that the appropriate safeguards are in place, such co-operation deals can bring benefits for the consumer in terms of a faster introduction of new services, more competition and a lesser impact to the environment.\" The EC will not give its final decision until it has studied the views of all other parties involved.\nWritten by BWCS for PMN Mobile Industry Intelligence.\nThe commission would have been foolish to reject the idea of network sharing entirely, but it is sensible to set certain conditions for such agreements. As Ericsson has highlighted, some markets may not be big enough to accomodate the number of licenses sold. In a sense, this is the EC attempting to patch up the damage caused by the greed of individual governments during the 3G license auctions.\nThis a positive step which will be welcomed by all in the industry for the exact reasons cited by Commissioner Monti: increased speed of deployment for the consumer and reduced environmental impact from 3G base stations. If properly regulated this should lead in turn to a more viable competitive landscape.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Leona Lewis plans Adele duet\nLeona Lewis wants to get back to the top of the US charts by making a track with fellow British singer Adele.\nby : Elle Canada- May 24th, 2011\nLeona Lewis wants to get back to the top of the US charts by duetting with Adele.\nThe British singer \u2013 who got to number one in the US singles chart with 'Bleeding Love' four years ago \u2013 wants to raise her profile stateside by collaborating with the 'Someone Like You' hitmaker.\nShe told Metro newspaper: \"They've invited me to perform on US 'X Factor', so that will be exciting.\n\"What came into my head was a duet with Adele. I think she is incredible. I met her a little while ago. We did 'VH1 Divas' together and I just think she's awesome. She's done so well and her music speaks for itself. That's what it is \u2013 just talent.\"\nThe 26-year-old beauty has been working on her next album which she says promises a \"different sound\".\nShe said: \"I've been working in Europe and the US with new producers. It's fresh and it's all coming together with a different sound.\"\nMeanwhile, Adele has turned down a reported \u00a3500,000 to appear at three summer shows in London so she can instead hang out with her friends, as she doesn't want her whole life to be spent working.\nThe told Q magazine: \"I've been doing this since I was 18 and if I do it how I could do it, if I worked my a**e off for ten years, I'd miss my whole twenties.\n\"I think that's where my insecurities have been coming in. What if I come out the other end and I dunno who I am? It'd be horrible.\n\"You've got to build up relationships. I'm at a point where I'm making my friends for life. I don't wanna forget how to be normal.\"\nThe 'Rolling in the Deep' singer added she is not \"money-driven\", and would be just as happy without a big bank balance.\nShe added: \"I like things now I've got it but I'd still be alive and healthy and a good person if I didn't have money.\"\nFor the latest in fashion, beauty and culture, sign up to receive ELLE's daily newsletter.\nToday's Tune: Charlotte Cardin's \"Daddy\" Is a Burning Banger\nThe Canadian singer is giving us all the feels, all the time.\nby : ELLE Canada- Jan 13th, 2021\nMontreal Musician Shay Lia Won't Stay In Her Comfort Zone\nThe singer has a new EP and a new sound.\nby : Patricia Karounos- Oct 13th, 2020\nA Billie Eilish Documentary Is Coming To Apple TV+\nStreaming on a screen near you in February 2021.\nby : Patricia Karounos- Sep 28th, 2020\nSpecial Holiday Offer\nELLE QU\u00c9BEC\n\u00a9 2021 Elle Canada","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Scientific Calls\nGlobal Network of Internet & Society Research Centers\nProgrammes, Groups & Projects\nInternet & Digitalisation\nOpen Science Principle\nDefining concepts of the digital society\nencore magzine\nLecture Series: Making sense of the digital society\nTalk series: Digitaler Salon\nDIGITAL SOCIETY BLOG\nMaking sense of our connected world\nLukas Fox | 10 September 2020 | doi:doi:10.5281\/zenodo.3964396\nPhilipp H\u00fcbl on the characteristics of conspiracy theories the motivation behind their spread, and rational thought as a shield against it.\nSCIENCE VERSUS PSEUDOSCIENCE\nMost conspiracy theorists make abstruse claims: The world is flat and run by an alien species of \"reptiloids\" covered in human skin (Ronson 2001). Governments use airplanes to diffuse chemicals into the atmosphere, known as \"chemtrails\", in order to regulate the size or behavior of the population. The Rothschild family has been in charge of global finance and trade for centuries. 9\/11 was an inside job. And Bill Gates is developing a vaccination against the coronavirus in order to secretly implant chips under our skin that can be used to control our minds. Especially during the current Covid-19 pandemic, new varieties of widespread conspiracy ideas have emerged. The idea behind conspiracy theories can be summarized as follows: Nothing is what it seems, and there is a master plan behind all major events in world history (Butter 2018; Barkun 2013). Conspiracy thinking underlies entertaining conspiracy theories, or at least, it is a disposition to holding conspiracy theories to be true.\nAt first glance, conspiracy thinking bears a striking resemblance to scientific thinking. Working in science, in order to make a name for yourself, you have to attack the standard view and come up with an original alternative explanation. You have to cultivate a skeptical stance and find a general principle underlying apparent heterogenous phenomena (like the law of gravitation or the structure of the DNA). This is precisely what a conspiracy theorist does, or so it seems.\nAt second glance, however, the differences between the conspiracy mentality and scientific thinking are even more striking. In fact, philosophers of science like Karl Popper, who coined the term \"conspiracy theory\", and others went to great length to pinpoint the demarcation between science on the one hand and pseudoscience, a mere dummy or superficial imitation of real science, on the other (Popper 1945). This enterprise is commonly called the \"demarcation problem\" (Hansson 2008).\nConspiracy theories often incorporate elements from pseudoscience, for instance by employing scientific terms or referring to \"data\", \"research\", \"sources\" and statements from \"experts\". Yet they typically shy away from employing the scientific method. Though there is no final consensus about the list of criteria for the demarcation between science and pseudoscience, there are some clear candidates: Scientific claims are based on systematic observation and\/or experimentation, they should be consistent with other findings, and ideally expressed in precise logical and mathematical terms. Those statements need to be falsifiable, in other words, it must be possible to show that they are not true (Popper 1935). And the theories have to be ontologically parsimonious, typically expressed by Ockham's razor: \"don't introduce entities without need\", or put more colloquially \"the simplest explanation is the best\" (on parsimony, see Quine (1948)). Through critical self-examination, like peer review, scientific theories can be improved and enhanced. Scientific process and societal progress in technology, economics and social conditions go hand in hand.\nBy contrast, pseudoscience rarely emerges from systematic observations and it is rarely expressed in precise terms, let alone based on qualitative or quantitative studies (for a discussion, see Popper (1935), Bunge (1982), Hansson (2008), Thagard (1978)). The claims show no regard for consistency, are often immune to falsification and introduce mystical powers and forces instead of employing parsimony. Pseudoscience lacks peer review, shows neither scientific nor subsequent technological, economic or social progress.\nTHE COGNITIVE FALLACIES OF CONSPIRACY THEORISTS\nConspiracy theorists, too, rarely have formal training in science, or more broadly, in rational thinking, yet they entertain a penchant for the extremes. A newspaper didn't publish the \"exact\" numbers of participants of a political demonstration? Then the entire \"mainstream media\" must be lying. The wrong person was arrested after the terrorist attack 2016 in Berlin? The government is obviously behind it. The philosopher Jerry Fodor characterized this appetite for excess: \"Apparently the rule is: if aspirin doesn't work, try cutting off the head\" (Fodor 1986 p. 1)\nAs research in psychology shows, conspiracy theories are fuelled by two attitudes, one cognitive and one motivational: namely fallacies in reasoning on the one hand and certain emotional attitudes and personality traits on the other. Together they constitute the conspiracy mentality (Imhoff 2015).\nFirst let's look at the cognitive fallacies (Kahneman 2011). Consider the above-mentioned conspiracy theory about reptiloids, mighty alien lizards controlling the world. This story is reminiscent of John Carpenter's 1988 film They Live, in which the entire upper class consists of extraterrestrials who disguise themselves as human beings, forcing the world population to work for them. The film is an allegory about capitalism, hidden power and critical outsiders who ultimately blow the rulers' cover. A conspiracy theory often starts from a point of healthy skepticism towards authorities, but then overshoots the mark, turning into the absurd opposite.\nStudies show that conspiracy theorists are likely to have an intuitive thinking style that is guided by gut feelings, with little to no knowledge about statistics. They are typically young, have a low level of education, are more religious and spiritual than the average, believe in the supernatural, and are generally prone to extreme views (Bartoschek 2015). As some experiments indicate, conspiracy theorists don't find it problematic to have two contradicting beliefs at the same time. For example, in one study, subjects with a conspiracy mentality considered it more likely that Lady Di was killed by the secret service than was killed in a car accident (Wood 2012). At the same time, they considered it more likely that she is still alive, living under a secret identity, than being dead from the accident. In other words, conspiracy theorists find it more likely that Lady Di is simultaneously dead and alive. Schr\u00f6dinger's Lady Di, so to say. Conspiracy theorists also fall prey to fake news more easily than the average, according to research on 2.3 million Facebook users (Mocanu 2015).\nWhen it comes to pseudoscientific beliefs, the conspiracy theorist's na\u00efve and fallacious theory of causation is particularly striking, namely the idea that a small elite secretly guides the destiny of mankind. Instead of accepting that human suffering often results from complex and elusive political, social and economic circumstances, they rather opt for personalized causes, namely a group of powerful Svengalis.\nA theory of causation says something about cause and effect (for an overview, see Schaffer (2016)). We all tacitly employ a folk theory of causation, even if we cannot frame it in explicit terms. For example, we know that dropping the vase causes it to break on the kitchen floor. We know that insulting people makes them angry, in other words, that insults cause anger. And we know that sunburns are caused by rays of light.\nAssumptions about causation are not only at the heart of the sciences, but so essential for the everyday thought and action that Immanuel Kant considered the principle of causation (\"Every event has a cause\") one of the basic principles of reason (Kant 1781\/1787). We cannot try to understand the world without assuming that causes are followed by their effects. Many causes are complex, invisible, and have indirect and thus often distant effects. An Azores anticyclone is causing cloud formations over Paris. Hundreds of wrong decisions caused the financial crisis in 2008. And viruses like Covid-19, too tiny to be detectable by the naked eye, can cause a pandemic killing hundreds of thousands worldwide. Although causation is the \"cement of the universe\", as David Hume pointed out, it is challenging even in science to corroborate causal claims through experimental or other evidence.\nMany people have a hard time dealing with distant, complex and invisible causes, because from our experience, we are only familiar with everyday causes in our vicinity occurring to medium-sized objects, like persons, cars and vases. The most salient causes we know from experience are human agents, or more precisely, their actions. This is probably the reason why the ancient Greeks regarded Zeus as the one who threw lightning bolts and why members of many ethnic religions still blame demons and witches for inexplicable happenings, for example for their house collapsing or for their child getting sick (Boyer 2001).\nConspiracy theories employ similar reasoning by making a small group of agents responsible for the suffering of the world: the CIA, the Freemasons, the Zionists, or simply \"the elites\". For them, agent causation is closer to home than introducing complex and abstract explanations that take into account multiple events as well as the dispositions and powers of the objects that appear in those events.\nIf you have formal training in dealing with probabilities you know that if two people have a fatal accident on the same day on two different continents, it is almost certainly due to pure chance, even if a few decades before, they had both worked side by side for the government. However, the conspiracy theorist will reject mere coincidence, and suspect a hidden message or a higher plan concocted by a person or a group. Psychologists call this tendency hyperactive agent detection (Barrett 2000).\nStill, how do some people come up with the insane idea that 9\/11 was an inside job? The government of the United States attacking the World Trade Center killing over 3,000 US citizens in order to have a reason to invade Afghanistan? This is where a second fallacy comes into play, the cui bono principle, which says: \"To whom is it a benefit?\". The principle is attributed to the Roman philosopher Cicero, who used it in a criminal trial to uncover the motive of an actual perpetrator, thus proving the innocence of his client. From an evolutionary perspective, the principle makes sense. When it comes to actions, it is quite plausible to first ask about the motive, because this is the only way to explain our deeds and those of others (Davidson 1980). The police, for example have a hard time solving murders, if there is no motive, as we know from television shows.\nFrom the point of argumentation theory, however, the principle is fallacious. The consequences of an act being useful for someone does not imply that they committed it. Incidentally, common sense alone can refute the conspiracy theory behind the 9\/11 attack on the World Trade Center. The US could have invaded Afghanistan on a less dramatic pretext. They could have simply said \"The country has weapons of mass destruction.\"\nTHE MOTIVATION BEHIND THE CONSPIRACY MENTALITY\nIn addition to cognitive fallacies and biases, the conspiracy mentality has a second aspect that typically leads to motivated cognition stemming from protecting one's moral identity, especially when it comes to authority and power (Bruder 2013; for more details, see H\u00fcbl (2019)). In this regard, the conspiracy mentality is similar to Theodor W. Adorno's concept of an authoritarian character, a person who is particularly receptive to right-wing extremist ideas (developed by Adorno as well as Max Horkheimer and Erich Fromm, see Adorno et al. (1950)). Such a person is not only drawn to authority and power, he or she is also prone to superstition, belief in destiny, a social dominance orientation towards outgroups and the belief in evil (H\u00fcbl 2018a).\nSince people with a conspiracy mentality have similar characteristics, it is apparent that the groups largely overlap. Conspiracy theories are particularly popular among right-wing extremists, and many conspiracy theories employ topics from right-wing extremism (Bruder 2013 p. 10). However, the conspiracy mentality can also be found among left-leaning liberals and progressives (Miller et al. 2016). Progressive conspiracy theories often regard topics of nature, health and medicine, such as genetically modified food or vaccination being linked to evil plans by \"big pharma\" or \"the government\".\nAt any event, the majority of conspiracy theorists employ right-wing attitudes and are concerned with power and authorities. Since they entertain an authoritarian thinking style, they want to dominate others. Hence, they are particularly bothered if authority lies in the wrong hands (van Prooijen 2013). Moreover, those who follow a conspiracy theory tend to think that other conspiracy theories are true, as expressed by psychologist Stephen Lewandowsky's tongue-in-cheek \"NASA faked the moon landing, therefore, climate science is a hoax\" (Lewandowsky 2013). This stance indicates a general suspicion towards out-group authority. From an evolutionary point of view, we may have evolved to be sensitive and distrusting towards power in our social group, especially since power is often complementary. When I have no power, others typically have it. But the inference from \"others have power\" to \"others use their power against me\" is a fallacy. It comes as no surprise that according to many studies, conspiracy theorists typically suffer from a feeling of powerlessness and inferiority (Goertzel 1994). They have the impression that nothing can be done against those in charge of politics and the economy. Often, they also feel socially excluded, disintegrated and alienated (Graeupner\/Coman 2016).\nOne can even intensify this feeling in experiments generating conspiracy thoughts. Students interviewed in a classic anxiety situation shortly before an important exam made stronger conspiracy assumptions than the relaxed control group (Grzesiak-Feldman 2013). In another experiment, after being presented with unsolvable puzzles, subjects had to look at randomly generated pictures (Whitson\/Galinsky 2008). They recognized significantly more \"patterns\" in these images than those subjects from the neutral control group. This suggests that when people are unable to bring order to the world around them, they will seek order and structure elsewhere.\nThe experiments could also explain why conspiracy theorists often present themselves as having a gesture of superiority (Imhoff\/Lamberty 2017). They think that they have a secret knowledge that is kept from others and enjoy the feeling of being special. While other people are na\u00efve and need to wake up from their dogmatic slumber, conspiracy theorists view themselves as skeptics who don't fall for deception. Plus, they always have a surprising story to tell.\nAs a coping strategy, this feeling of superiority could have two functions: On the one hand, it gives conspiracy theorists the impression of power as a substitute for their lack of power.\nAs opposed to the blind majority, they are \"red pilled\", seeing through the veil of deception. On the other hand, the narrative of mighty puppeteers serves as a rationalization of their own shortcomings (Imhoff\/Bruder 2014). The second attitude would also explain why anti-Semitism is a frequent element in conspiracy theories. Anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists consider Jews inferior, but still powerful (Fiske 2002).\nRATIONAL THINKING AS BULLSHIT RESISTANCE\nThe current pandemic is characterized by a loss of control due to an invisible threat. Both aspects promote conspiracy thinking. While full-fledged conspiracy theorists are often self-proclaimed skepticists and critical thinkers, they typically confuse science as a combination of method and positive scientific knowledge with the current knowledge alone. Science, as a method, is the systematic discovery of the truth, while the current scientific knowledge is by its nature preliminary. Conspiracy theorists take revisions in science (e.g. initially considering first-hand contact as main pathway of coronavirus infections, and later aerosols) or ignorance in certain fields of study (e.g. about the origins of the coronavirus) as indicating that the methodological enterprise of science itself is questionable.\nWhat conspiracy theorists don't see is that autocorrection is an integral part of the scientific method, a fact that is often not stressed enough in the popular communication of science. This method has proven its worth for several reasons. First, it is based on the insight that knowledge is fallible: what you believe to be true can be proved to be wrong later (Popper 1935). Second, scientific theses are always empirically undetermined, no matter how good and large the data set is (Quine 1960). Later discoveries can throw a new light on your approach. Third, humans are fallible beings: we make mistakes. And even if we take all precautionary measures, we tend to employ typical heuristics and biases. This is why peer review and criticism from colleagues is such an important corrective in science.\nTreating knowledge as preliminary and theories as undetermined is challenging for many in everyday life. Even people who are resilient towards conspiracy thinking, prefer to know what is going on instead of constantly dealing with ambiguity and indeterminacy. Why is that the case? Evolutionary psychologists tell something of the following story: Our everyday thinking is not geared towards virology, statistics and the philosophy of science, but has evolved in order to survive in a harsh and dangerous environment (Stanovich 2010). Living during the Stone Age in small groups, the thought patterns of our ancestors were advantageous even though they contradicted the principles of science. It was better on average, for instance, to follow those who appeared confident, because every full-bodied boast about the close-up area was easy to unmask: Those who could not correctly interpret the track of the wild boar immediately lost their reputation (Pinker 2018 p. 354 f.).\nYet, group cohesion might have been more important than the truth (Shaver\/Sosis 2018). The group's identity included superstitious causal explanations about how the world worked, such as gods hurling lightning bolts. Those who questioned the standard assumptions of the tribe were ostracized or even killed. Moreover, the safest assumption was: correlation implies causation. If the companion ate a toadstool and died afterwards, then the natural assumption was that the mushroom had caused his death. It would have been absolutely ruinous to conduct a double-blind study with fly agarics and placebo mushrooms to systematically test the hypothesis \"fly agarics are poisonous\".\nToday, we are still susceptible to those archaic thought patterns. However, they are harmful when it comes to pandemics and the like, since science does not work that way. Researchers are revising their assumptions and carefully formulating their hypotheses, which makes them appear uncertain and fickle to laypeople. Causes are rarely agents, but in the case of pandemics invisible entities like bacteria or the Covid-19 virus. To investigate them, you have to conduct experiments. In science, at least on average, anyone who disproves the group's mainstream view with good arguments and solid data is rewarded with fame, prizes and a tenured position instead of being outlawed. While science is arguably not as open and transparent as it could be, and while researchers, too, sometimes misuse their power, only very few got rich or powerful from their discoveries. And finally, correlation does not imply causation. For instance, the decline of the number of storks and the birth rates in Europe have been strongly correlated for decades now, as are margarine consumption in the USA and the divorce rate in the state of Maine (Matthews 2000). But those correlations tell us nothing about causation. In order to bring the nature of things to light, you need experimental and statistical methods. Claims from conspiracy theorists such as \"the experts lie\" or \"Bill Gates is behind it\" fall short of this standard.\nWe are made from crooked timber, as Kant has pointed out (Kant 1784). Empirical research on heuristics and biases can corroborate and specify this observation. We are prone to prejudices and mental shortcuts, because evolution has equipped us with an intuitive thinking apparatus that is not tailor-made for the modern world of science and technology. Fortunately, however, evolution has also given us reason, that is the ability to distance us from ourselves, and to think critically and scientifically, so that we can shield ourselves against mental shortcuts and recognize our own prejudices (Stanovich 2016). This is tiring, since it requires attention and intensive training, but it can save lives and prevent us from making fools out of ourselves in believing ludicrous fake news and conspiracy theories. Hence, in schools and universities and all essential political, social and scientific institutions we need obligatory courses in \"critical thinking\", or, as I like to call it: bullshit resistance (for more details, see H\u00fcbl (2018b)).\nPhilipp H\u00fcbl is a philosopher working in the philosophy of science, philosophy of mind and about moral identity. He is author of the books \"Die aufgeregte Gesellschaft\" (2019), \"Bullshit-Resistenz (2018), \"Der Untergrund des Denkens\" (2015), among others, and has published articles on political and social topics in media like DIE ZEIT, FAZ, taz, NZZ, Die Welt, Republik, and El Pa\u00eds. H\u00fcbl taught theoretic philosophy at the RWTH Aachen university, the Humboldt University in Berlin, and as Associate Professor (\"Juniorprofessor\") at Stuttgart University. In 2020, he is fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin.\nAdorno, Theodor W. et al. (1950) The Authoritarian Personality. Harper und Brothers: New York\nBarkun, Michael (Ed.) 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(2008) \"Lacking Control Increases Illusory Pattern Perception\" Science322, 5898: 115\u2013117\nWood, Michael J. et al. (2012) \"Dead and Alive. Beliefs in Contradictory Conspiracy Theories\" Social Psychology and Personality Sciences 3, 6: 767\u2013773\nBlog overview\n5 SEO tips for non-profit organisations\nMany non-profit organisations often do not use the full potential of their online presence. We\u2026\nTowards the Technological Pluriverse\nHow does the design practice of digital technology need to be fundamentally changed to create\u2026\n4 core properties of sustainable support formats for digitalisation in SMEs\nHow can we communicate digitalisation in SMEs in a appropriate way for the target group?\u2026\nImpressum | Top | View Non-AMP Version\nUnless noted otherwise all content on this website is handled under Creative Common License BY-SA 3.0","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Science Comics: Birds of Prey: Terrifying Talons (Hardcover)\nBy Joe Flood\nSpread your wings with Science Comics: Birds of Prey, a new and exciting volume of First Second's nonfiction graphic novel series!\nEvery volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic\u2014dinosaurs, the solar system, volcanoes, bats, robots, and more. Whether you're a fourth grader doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty-year-old with a secret passion for airplanes, these graphic novels are for you!\nIn this volume, you'll get up-close and personal with some of the world's most skilled hunters, from the majestic eagle to the oft-maligned scavenger vulture! Armed with razor-sharp claws, keen eyesight, powerful wings, and killer instincts, these stealthy predators can make a meal of rodents, fish, snakes, lizards, monkeys, and even kangaroos! Discover how these amazing birds who are often at the top of the food chain, play an integral role in many different ecosystems around the world.\nJoe Flood is a comic book author and illustrator whose work includes Cellies, Pirates of the Caribbean and Orcs: Forged for War. For the Science Comics series, he collaborated on Dinosaurs: Fossils and Feathers with MK Reed and wrote and illustrated Sharks: Nature's Perfect Hunter. He lives with his wife and daughter in New York's Hudson Valley.\n\"Flood's standout bird portraits use saturated colors to make plumage patterns particularly vivid and sharply defined lines for painstakingly detailed beaks and talons... [Science Comics: Birds of Prey] feeds, in a frank but not gratuitously gory way, middle graders' hunger to learn more about some of the animal world's most fierce and splendid predators.\" \u2014School Library Journal\n\"A fun, fact-filled romp through the world of raptors.\"\u2014Kirkus\nPublisher: First Second\nSeries: Science Comics\nMinimum Grade Level:\nJuvenile Nonfiction \/ Comics & Graphic Novels \/ Science & Nature\nJuvenile Nonfiction \/ Animals \/ Birds\nJuvenile Nonfiction \/ Science & Nature \/ Zoology\nPaperback (May 17th, 2022): $12.99","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Orioles reach deadline day to sign arbitration-eligible players\nBy: Roch Kubatko\nThe deadline for teams to reach agreements with their unsigned arbitration-eligible players is 1 p.m. today and the Orioles still have some unfinished business.\nThey will be exchanging salary figures with Trey Mancini, Hanser Alberto and Mychal Givens unless they can resolve the situation. Hearing dates will be established between Feb. 3-21, with the Orioles vowing to go \"file and trial\" rather than continue to negotiate.\nI feel like I've been writing about this subject for months.\n(Checks notes, sees that he has.)\nMLBTradeRumors.com has predicted that Mancini will receive a raise from $575,500 to $5.7 million, while Cot's Contracts places his salary at $5 million.\nThe jump is going to be significant, no matter the outcome. The Most Valuable Oriole award is a nice negotiating tool.\nGivens made $2.15 million last season and projections place his 2020 salary at $3.2 million or $3.5 million. Alberto's salary is projected to rise from $578,000 to $1.9 million or $2.25 million.\nLeft-hander Richard Bleier agreed on Dec. 2 to a contract that pays $915,000, a raise from $572,500 last season. The Orioles traded Jonathan Villar to the Marlins and Dylan Bundy to the Angels, leaving them with the four unsigned players heading into yesterday.\nThe figure was shaved to three after Miguel Castro signed for $1.05 million. He earned $569,000 last season before entering the world of arbitration eligibility.\nThe Orioles are 11-2 in arbitration hearings, the last loss coming against reliever Brad Brach in 2017. Former manager Buck Showalter relayed the result to players as they were stretching on one of the back fields at the Ed Smith Stadium complex.\nOne teammate yelled that Brach was paying for dinner.\nCastro has more on his mind these days than arbitration. The robbery in the Dominican Republic has understandably left him shaken, knowing that only a jammed gun prevented the situation from turning far more tragic than a lost necklace.\nIt certainly puts contract negotiations in their proper perspective. And if anyone needed to receive some good news yesterday, it was this guy.\nNo one on the roster is immune to trade talks and executive vice president\/general manager Mike Elias mentioned earlier this week that more veterans could be dealt later in the offseason. It wasn't a prediction. More of a confirmation that he's open to the idea after already moving Villar and Bundy.\nGivens is viewed as the most likely to go if anyone is moved, but I'm still expecting him to begin the season in Baltimore - with the caveat that I'm allowed to change my mind.\nLike, right after a trade is announced.\nI haven't talked to every single person in baseball, but there are plenty who think Givens is more likely to be traded in July. But it only takes one phone call to shift the odds.\nAlberto isn't irreplaceable, of course, but he's set up to start at second base with Villar gone, could platoon again at third base and might be allowed to play some shortstop after skipping the position in 2019.\nA pretty important guy who won't need to worry about the waiver wire.\nI won't need to worry about arbitration if the Orioles can get three more agreements by noon. Bury the subject and move onto the next.\n(Checks notes, has nothing else to write about, vows to stop complaining.)\nfeatured_sidebar, frontstory_orioles3, hanser alberto, miguel castro, mike elias, mychal givens, orioles, richard bleier, roch kubatko, trey mancini\nOrioles sign Castro for 2020 season\nOrioles agree to terms with Givens, Alberto and Mancini\nAnother look at the importance of winning on the farm\nFor this player, expectations will be high in 2020\nPart two: A scout's take on O's prospects","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Politics Brexit: John Bercow rules out third meaningful vote on same deal |...\nBrexit: John Bercow rules out third meaningful vote on same deal | Politics | The Guardian\nThe House of Commons Speaker, John Bercow, has said the government cannot bring the meaningful vote back to parliament again unless there has been substantial change to the Brexit deal.\nIn a shock move likely to infuriate the prime minister, the Speaker said the House of Commons was \"being repeatedly asked to pronounce\" on the same question.\nBercow suggested he believed such a change would involve a renegotiation at EU level, rather than clarification of the legal advice written by the attorney general, something that had been suggested this week.\nQuoting from the guide to parliamentary procedure, Erskine May, Bercow said that by convention, the question \"may not be brought forward again during the same session\" and that it was a \"strong and longstanding convention\" dating back to 1604.\nHe said the convention had been confirmed again many times, including in 1864, 1870, 1882, 1891 and 1912. \"Indeed, Erskine May makes reference to no fewer than 12 such rulings up to the year 1920,\" he said. \"One of the reasons the rule has lasted so long is that it is a necessary rule to ensure the sensible use of the house's time and the proper respect for the decisions it takes.\n\"Decisions of the house matter. They have weight,\" he said. \"It is a necessary rule to ensure the sensible use of the house's time and the proper respect for the decisions which it takes.\"\nBercow said the second meaningful vote motion held last week did not fall foul of the convention, because it \"could credibly argued it was a different proposition\" to that rejected on 15 January because of changes the government considered to be legally binding.\n\"If the government was to bring forward a new proposition that is neither the same, nor substantially the same as disposed of by 10 March, this would be entirely in order,\" he said, but added that it could not be \"the same proposition or substantially the same proposition\".\nIn a response to a point of order by the chair of the Brexit select committee, Hilary Benn, Bercow said a \"demonstrable change to the proposition would be desired \u2026 a change in opinion about something does not in itself constitute a change of the offer.\"\nHe said the change must make the deal \"fundamentally different\", rather than just a unilateral reinterpretation.\n\"Not different in terms of wording, but different in terms of substance,\" he said. \"This is in the context of a negotiation with others, outside the United Kingdom. That would be my initial feeling.\"\nBercow won immediate support from the leading Conservative Brexiter Bill Cash, in a flurry of points of order after the statement.\n\"It seems to me that what you have said makes an enormous amount of sense given the fact that, actually, this has been defeated on two separate occasions,\" Cash said.\nThe Speaker said the motion could be put forward unchanged if parliament was prorogued and then resumed, in answer to a question from the pro-Brexit Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg.\nPrevious articleWhiny Actor Calls Trump \"Racist,\" Suddenly Learns His Celebrity Won't Save Him\nNext articleWest Ham launch \u00a320m bid for Croatia defender Domagoj Vida? Transfer news and gossip from Sunday's papers","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"How many employees does National Council of Resistance of Iran have?\nThese committees serve on behalf of the government ministries. The body has a secretariat in Paris, which is administered by Mahnaz Salimian, the NCRI's Senior Secretary along with Abolghasem Rezai the Deputy Senior Secretary. It is manned by five secretaries, the secretariat, holds meetings, communicates with members, and oversees the organization's administrative activities.\nRajavi Maryam was elected as the NCRI President-elect for the interim period preceding the reliquishing of power to the people, to get to know her more click on this link.\nThe NCRI's assembly functions as the organization's decision-making body. It organizes meetings to its regular sessions when necessary. Additionally, the secretariat hosts casual weekly discussion groups on current political problems, which members in Paris are welcome to attend if they so want. Mrs. Rajavi presides over committee chair meetings on an as-needed basis.\nThis organisation now operates representative offices in the United States and European Nations. These offices maintain interaction with local and national government officials, non-governmental organizations, the parliaments, and the Iranian diaspora residing in those nations.\nThe NCRI's representative offices in each nation serve to represent the NCRI's political views as well as its administrative, legal, and actual interests in those countries. All its members support the NCRI's programs and resolutions. Apart from their personal and professional responsibilities, the members engage in a range of independent human rights, political, cultural, and extracurricular activities that are not always connected to the NCRI's objective.\nThe following are instances of national council of resistance of Iran committees engaged in non-research activities:\n1.The Foreign Affairs Committee\nThis committee maintains contacts with lawmakers, political personalities, research organisations, United Nations authorities, human rights groups non-governmental organizations, and key government officials in Europe, the United States, and the Arab world. The committee publishes a considerable number of publications in a variety of languages, including English, Arabic, German, Italian, and French on the Iranian situation and recent events.\n2.Women's Committee\nThis Committee collaborates intensively with Iranian women living abroad and keeps frequent interaction with Iranian women residing in Iran. The Women's Committee works in collaboration with a variety of women's rights groups, Iranian diaspora people, and non-governmental organizations. It is a significant source of knowledge on Iranian women, and the committee is a significant source of that information. Members and allies of the committee participate in UN Human Rights Council meetings and other inter-governmental conferences on women's issues, in addition to a continuous campaign against the Iranian coalition's sexism.\n3.The Defense and Strategic Research Committee\nThis committee closely monitors the regime's military actions, notably those involving topics addressing the missile defense systems, regime's nuclear, and other military activities. The mission is carried out in close conjunction with Iran's PMOI network, which enables the collecting of critical data. Numerous significant disclosures concerning the ballistic missile and regime's nuclear operations have been made as a consequence of the committee's investigation.\n4.The Political Research Committee\nThis committee investigates the Iranian regime's internal actions to ascertain the precise condition of circumstances. The committee's tasks include investigating internal factions and changes inside the organization, as well as researching societal discontent, trends, and developments.\nAlong with assessing and evaluating various studies and research on Iran, the committee also produces internal reports based on information gathered from various sources inside the PMOI's internal network in the nation. The outcomes of this research are reviewed in NCRI meetings and utilized to evaluate the organization's policies and stances.\n5.Security and Counter-Terrorism Committee\nThis committee's principal mission is to combat the intelligence activities and regime's terrorists to destabilize the resistance in Iran. This has been a focal point of the committee's activities for the last two decades.\nIn the last few years, the Iranian regime has made huge efforts to infiltrate and destabilize the NCRI and PMOI, primarily through the dissemination of propaganda via a vast network of websites maintained by the regime's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS).\nThis cyber war has begun and will continue indefinitely. The Committee has made significant disclosures about the Iranian regime's terrorist actions in the region, its intervention in other countries.\nSince the NCRI's inception in the early 1990s, sizable Iranian artists have been members. Numerous renowned artists collaborate to further the enrichment of Iran's ancient culture and arts. Among the committee's initiatives are collaborations with other Iranian organizations in the organizing of cultural events, concerts, and creative programs.\nAdditionally, the committee is tasked with evaluating the status of artists and authors under the mullahs' supervision, as well as other expert work on Iran's future growth in the coming years.\nGlass ampoules: risks and benefits\nVitamins and supplements that increase energy and fight fatigue\nTHE MOST IMPORTANT INVENTIONS TODAY\nWith technological progress, the imagination of creators gets carried away and sometimes it goes a little too far. Find the most zany inventions of the last few years and don't miss out on the latest technological innovations.\nORIGINAL DECORATIVE OBJECTS FOR THE HOME\nPineapple decoration, cactus decoration, geek decoration or luminous decoration\u2026 An unusual home decoration requires original furniture which will transform your home into a temple of the unusual. An approach that is sure to please you.\nTHE MOST UNUSUAL BANKNOTES IN THE WORLD\nUnusual designs, unexpected sizes or amounts\u2026 countries are creative when choosing banknote designs. A selection of the most incongruous printed currencies on the planet that will amaze you.\nFrench Singles\nCurrent affairs interviews\nUnusual Inventions","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Role of Canadian Space Technology in Enabling Global Transparency in Methane Emissions\nJune 10, 2022 12:13 | April Duffy (Administrator)\nPresenter: Eric Choi, Director of Business Development GHGSat Inc.\nMethane is a potent greenhouse gas with 80 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide over the first 20 years after release. A quarter of today's global temperature increases are caused by anthropogenic methane. Reducing methane emissions 45% over the next five years would have the same 20 year climate benefit as closing 1,300 coal-fired power plants.\nCanadian space technology is addressing the growing need for global transparency in methane emissions. A number of past (e.g. SCIAMACHY), current (e.g. Sentinel-5P\/TROPOMI) and future (e.g. GeoCarb) space agency missions provide methane data on regional and global scales. An exciting development is the emergence in Canada and abroad of commercial remote sensing companies like GHGSat that are pushing the boundaries with innovative and complementary Earth observation capabilities that would otherwise not be possible with either a space agency or private sector mission alone.\nGHGSat's satellites enable the quantification of facility-level methane emissions and provide data and analytics for stakeholders in the energy, resource, power generation, agricultural, waste management, and sustainability sectors to make informed environmental decisions. There are currently three GHGSat satellites in orbit, with the next three satellites scheduled for launch this summer and three more satellites now under construction towards the goal of a ten satellite constellation by the end of 2023. No other government or commercial satellite mission is currently capable of quantifying methane emissions from point sources as small as individual oil and gas wells.\nThis presentation will include a short history of satellite-based methane monitoring, a summary of GHGSat's satellites and their capabilities, a description of how GHGSat's high-resolution satellites work synergistically with regional-scale data from space agency missions, and conclude with some examples of recent observations from GHGSat's satellites.\nOur Speaker\nEric Choi is director of business development at GHGSat. Over the course of his career, he has held positions of increasing technical and managerial responsibility in both the aviation and space sectors, the latter including work on QEYSSat (Quantum Encryption and Science Satellite), the Meteorology (MET) payload on the NASA Phoenix Mars Lander, the Canadarm2 on the International Space Station, the RADARSAT-1 Earth-observation satellite, and the MOPITT (Measurements of Pollution on the Troposphere) instrument. He holds a B.A.Sc in engineering science and an M.A.Sc in aerospace engineering, both from the University of Toronto, and an MBA from York University.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"News > Third-Person Shooter > Video Games\nThe Division Heartland: Release date, trailers, leaks, gameplay, how to register\nUbisoft has announced a brand new game set in The Division universe. Here's all the info about The Division Heartland, including gameplay and how to join the closed beta!\nAccording to Ubisoft, The Division 2 has a community of over 40 million players.\nThe first game has been released over five years ago, and the world of the post-apocalyptic US quickly gathered a huge community of players.\nAnd today, Ubisoft has announced their future plans not just for The Division 2, but for the next The Division games as well.\nThey have revealed The Division Heartland, the brand new game set in the same universe as the first two games.\nWhat is The Division Heartland?\nUbisoft has big plans for The Division universe, including a movie and a mobile game (Picture: Ubisoft)\nThe Division Heartland is a new game set in the world of the previous two games, but it won't be a direct sequel or a part of the main series. Instead, the game is a spin-off title.\nIt has been developed by Red Storm studio, the studio that has been working on Tom Clancy games since 1997, most noticeably the Ghost Recon series.\nUnlike the previous two The Division games, this one will be a free-to-play game.\nThe Division Heartland gameplay\nWe don't know much about the game currently, as Ubisoft hasn't shared any additional details about what can we expect from the game.\nUbisoft says that \"Heartland is a standalone game that doesn't require previous experience with the series but will provide an all-new perspective on the universe in a new setting.\"\nBased on the fact that this will be a F2P game, we think that it will most likely be a PvP title, and it will probably have things like Battle Passes and all kinds of cosmetics.\nThe Division Heartland trailers, leaks, more\nUbisoft hasn't yet released and trailers or teasers for the game, nor there are any leaks.\nAs soon as something becomes available, we will update the article.\nThe Division Heartland closed beta: How to register\nThough we still don't have any details on the game, Ubisoft has already announced that we can soon expect the closed beta to start.\nRead more: Rainbow Six cheater Yannox, main suspect of Ubisoft Montreal hostage threat\nEveryone will have a chance to participate, and if you want to sign up for a chance to participate, you can do it at this link.\nThe Division Heartland release date and platforms\nThe Division Heartland is expected to be released in late 2021 or early 2022 on PC, consoles, and cloud.\nPokemon BDSP mystery gift codes (January 2022): How to Get\nMHA: Ultra Rumble closed beta: Start date, pre-register and more\nHow to enable 2FA in Valorant\n\"You have died of dysentery.\" \u2013 Oregon Trail Generate another quote","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Latest IMF: Nigeria Remains Largest Economy in Africa, 26th in the World\nIMF: Nigeria Remains Largest Economy in Africa, 26th in the World\nBy James Emejo\nThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that Nigeria maintained its lead as the biggest economy in Africa, in terms of the size of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP).\nBut globally, the IMF, in its recently released World Economic Outlook (WEO), reviewed by THISDAY yesterday, ranked Nigeria the 26th largest economy, with an average GDP of $442.976 billion.\nThe computation was based on nominal GDP, which does not take into account differences in the cost of living in different countries.\nThe IMF ,recently returned a gloomy verdict on the Nigerian economy for 2020, declaring that the nation's economic outlook was challenging.\nThe multilateral institution, in its recently released 2020 Article IV Consultation on Nigeria, had stated that the country's economy \"is buffeted\" from side to side by a cocktail of issues, including the uncertainty over the COVID-19 pandemic, low oil prices, capital outflows and balance of payment challenges.\"\nThe IMF had stated: \"The COVID-19 global pandemic is exacting a heavy toll on the Nigerian economy, which was already experiencing falling per capita income and double-digit inflation, with limited buffers and structural bottlenecks.\n\"Low oil prices and sharp capital outflows have significantly increased balance of payments (BOP) pressures and, together with the pandemic-related lockdown, have led to a large output contraction and increased unemployment.\"\nIn its estimation, the IMF said supply shortages have pushed up headline inflation to a 30-month high.\nIt said: \"Under current policies, the outlook is challenging. Real GDP is projected to contract by 3\u00bc per cent in 2020. The recovery is projected to start in 2021, with subdued growth of 1\u00bd per cent and output recovering to its pre-pandemic level only in 2022.\"\nThe IMF report, which acknowledged the efforts of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to rein in inflation, however, maintained that despite an expected easing of food prices, inflation is projected to remain in double digits and above the CBN's target range.\n\"Following a significant decline in revenue collections \u2013 from levels that were already among the lowest in the world \u2013 fiscal deficits are projected to remain elevated in the medium term,\" the report stated.\nRecognising various policy measures put in place by the federal government, the Bretton Wood Institution still believes there is need to put in place more broad market reforms in order to address the pressing balance of payment pressures in Nigeria.\nPrevious articleOPS: AfCFTA will Attract Multinationals to Manufacture in Nigeria\nNext articleBuhari Didn't Demand Apology over Invitation on Insecurity, Says House\nFCTA: Unvaccinated Workers Won't Be Allowed into Office from Jan. 17\nCurtain Closes on Oba of Benin Golf Tourney Today\nDanbatta to Deliver Fountain University's Convocation Lecture\nEx-Lawmaker Condemns Suspension of PDP Member from Kwara Assembly","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Arguably the most important figure in American Civil Rights - and one of the country's most important public figures overall - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has been understandably mythologized in the decades since his death. And yet while the details of his relatively short life do complicate that mythological portrait, they also paint a picture of a complicated but devoted man whose courage in a conflicted age has inspired such veneration.\nDr. King was born Michael King in Atlanta in 1929,...\nHomeLiterature EssaysMartin Luther King, Jr.\nMartin Luther King, Jr. Essays\nLetter from Birmingham Jail: A Contemporary Literary Analysis Seanette Culmer College\nLetter From Birmingham Jail\n\"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere\". This is a quote directly from Dr. Martin Luther King's 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' of 1963. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American minister and Civil Rights Activist fond of...\nRhetorical Analysis of \"Letter From a Birmingham Jail\" Anonymous College\nAt the peak of the Civil War Movement in America on April 12th, 1963, eight Alabama clergymen made a public statement announcing that Dr. Martin Luther King's protests in the streets should end because they promote \"hatred and violence\" (par. 5)....\nHow Stoicism Supports Civil Disobedience Anonymous College\nThe Stoic way of life described in Epictetus's Enchiridion (135 A.C.E.) is characterized by a freedom from anxiety and being highly aware of the limitations of humanity. The Enchiridion is a list of 52 principles that, by following them, would...\nWe Are in This Together: Comparing \"Letter from Birmingham Jail\" and \"Sonny's Blues\" Mathew Koziarski College\nMartin Luther King and James Baldwin lived in the era of racial inequality and the civil rights movement, an era when African-Americans were still fighting to find a place in society. In 1963, King wrote a famous letter from jail while in 1957;...\nFighting Inequality with the Past: A Look into \"Letter from a Birmingham Jail\" and Related Historical Documents Anonymous College\nIn his letter to the clergymen, Dr. Martin Luther King utilizes many of the intellectual concepts that President Thomas Jefferson employed in the writing of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America. While highlighting...\nA Question of Appeal: Rhetorical Analysis of Malcolm X and MLK Anonymous 11th Grade\nAs outspoken leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. urged black Americans to pursue equality with uncompromising dignity; however, each held a distinct opinion about the proper methods and the purpose of such...\nStanding Courageously in the Face of Adversity Anonymous College\nMartin Luther King stated the following: \"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws\" (King 259). Laws are meant to protect citizens and ensure order within society; however, when a law degrades human personality, the obligation to...\nAcknowledging the Past to Progress into the Future Anonymous College\nWhy is history an essential core class in the American school curriculum? The phrase 'those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it' is a surface-level answer to such question. The past formulates the ingredients for the future,...\nRomanticism in the Civil Rights Movement Anonymous College\nStride Toward Freedom by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is a civil rights era memoir detailing the importance of love in revolution, and the necessity to revolt non-violently and with understanding towards others that are in different cages than your...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Automotive Window Tinting\nXPEL Paint Protection\nCeramic Pro Paint Protection\nSolar Shades & Blinds\nGraphics & Wraps\nCar Galleries\nUptown Charlotte\nEast Charlotte\nWest Charlotte\nSun Stoppers\n20 years of excellence in west Charlotte window tinting\nAbout Sun Stoppers\nIf you need automotive window tinting, residential or commercial window tinting, or paint protection solutions, look no farther than Sun Stoppers.\n22 year legacy of excellence\nOur founder and owner of Sun Stoppers Window Tinting,Mike Burke, strives to create a successful team who work together to provide clients with the best possible experience and finished product. Built on the concept of family values, teamwork, quality products and professional installation, Sun Stoppers has grown to become the industry leader in window tint and automotive paint protection solutions. Mike Burke graduated with a marketing degree from Western Carolina University in 1994 and spent 6 months of the following year as the #1 salesman at Scott Clark Toyota. An entrepreneur at heart he packed up in 1996 and moved to Myrtle Beach to open his first tint shop, Innovations. Homesick after a year at the beach Mike returned to Charlotte and started a mobile tinting company, The Tint Man. He quickly became the primary tint provider for most of the stereo and accessory shops within a 50 mile radius of Charlotte. The Tint Man was so successful that he created his first retail location, Lighting Mike's, in 1999 to keep up with the demand. Over the next 6 years Mike expanded Lightning Mike's into 6 locations throughout the Charlotte area, offering a variety of aftermarket automotive services, inspections, A\/V, accessories, wheels & tires in addition to the ever popular window tinting.\nBy 2005, after gross sales of $1.6 million, Mike sold Lighting Mike's and spend time with his young family. While taking a break from the automotive industry he pulled on his educational background and started an ad agency, Pinpoint Advertising, which focused on direct marketing to upscale clients. After growing Pinpoint to self-sufficiency, he then sold it in 2006 to open Sun Stoppers. With Sun Stoppers, Mike took what he learned building and running his first several companies and decided to follow a Starbucks inspired marketing strategy. Focusing on quality rather than quantity and providing a superior product with excellent customer service. By doing one thing extremely well. That one thing is window tinting! Sun Stoppers built a reputation as the place to go for the best overall customer experience and window tint installation. Over the course of Sun Stoppers' 12 years in business, Mike has expanded his product offerings to include automotive paint protection, roller shades, residential and commercial flat glass tinting and specialty and printed films for commercial storefronts, branding and advertising.\nSun Stoppers now has 11 local retail locations include Matthews, Charlotte, Uptown, South Tryon, Lake Norman, Concord, Monroe, Rock Hill, Southend, Stoughton, Massachusetts as well as Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina and Fairmont, West Virginia. Sun Stoppers has three flat glass divisions that can aid with any commercial or residential window tinting solutions. In addition to window tinting and paint protection services, Sun Stoppers has created a design, print and installation company called Southend Graphics. Southend graphics specializes in full vehicle wraps, automotive graphic accents, graphic design, storefront graphics and installation. As Sun Stoppers and all affiliated companies continue to expand, Mike is careful never to lose sight of the core values that make Sun Stoppers and his team great; motivation, teamwork, quality and putting the client first.\nIf you're an existing window tint or paint protection company and would like to expand your business through a partnership with Sun Stoppers please contact Mike Burke directly at mike@charlottepaintprotection.com.\nAUTOMOTIVE LOCATIONS\nLet us accommodate your schedule with one of our nine area locations! Choose from Charlotte, Matthews, Concord, Rock Hill, Lake Norman, Auto West, Southend, Uptown and Monroe. You can even drop your vehicle off with us and rent one of our Sun Stoppers Courtesy Cars for the day!\nSun Stoppers Fairmont\n700 Fairmont Ave, Fairmont, WV 26554, USA\n[P] 304-366-5000\n[W] https:\/\/sunstoppersfairmont.com\/\nSun Stoppers Matthews\n14105 E Independence Blvd, Matthews, NC 28104, USA\n[W] https:\/\/sunstoppersmatthews.com\/\nSun Stoppers Charlotte\n6810 Albemarle Rd, Charlotte, NC 28212, USA\n[W] https:\/\/charlottewindowtinting.com\/\nSun Stoppers Southend\n114 Clanton Rd, Charlotte, NC 28217, USA\n[W] http:\/\/sunstopperssouthend.com\/\nSun Stoppers Auto West\n9300 S Tryon St, Charlotte, NC 28273, USA\n[W] http:\/\/sunstoppersautowest.com\/\nSun Stoppers Concord\n489 Concord Parkway North, Concord, NC 28027, USA\n[W] http:\/\/sunstoppersconcord.com\/\nSun Stoppers Lake Norman\n18700 Statesville Rd, Cornelius, NC, USA\n[W] https:\/\/sunstopperslakenorman.com\/\nSun Stoppers Monroe\n1969 Old Charlotte Highway, Monroe, NC, USA\n[W] http:\/\/sunstoppersmonroe.com\/\nSun Stoppers Stoughton\n713 Washington St, Stoughton, MA 02072, USA\n[W] http:\/\/sunstoppersstoughton.com\/\nSun Stoppers Uptown\n4207 Monroe Road, Charlotte, NC 28205, USA\n[W] https:\/\/charlottepaintprotection.com\/\nSun Stoppers Rock Hill\n2215 Cherry Road, Rock Hill, SC, USA\n[W] https:\/\/sunstoppersrockhill.com\/\nSun Stoppers Charleston\n801 Long Point Rd, Mt Pleasant, SC 29464, USA\n[P] (843) 577-6737\n[W] http:\/\/sunstopperscharleston.com\/\nSun Stoppers Locations\nGraphics and Wraps\nFollow us Facebook!\nSun Stoppers of Lake Norman\n\u00a9 2019 Sunstoppers West Charlotte | All Rights Reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jeffrey D. Madelone\nSaugerties High School\nSeamon-Wilsey Funeral Home, Inc.\n45 John Street\nSAUGERTIES- Jeffrey D. Madelone, 46, passed away Thursday, June 17, 2021, in his home surrounded by family, after a long battle with ALS. Jeff was born in Schenectady, the son of David and Sally Madelone, before relocating to Saugerties when he was 3 years old. A 1993 graduate of Saugerties High School, Jeff loved his school and community. He played baseball and basketball proudly for SHS. Jeff went on to continue his education, work locally and play recreational sports until ALS forced him to stop in 2001. Along with his parents, he will be desperately missed by his wife, Megan Ackerley, daughter Grace Madelone, sister, Kristina Wood, niece Darian Wood, nephews, Dawson Wood, Dylan and Riley McGlynn, Connor and Avery Ackerley. Everyone who knew Jeff loved him and Jeff's love in return was endless and went far beyond blood. He will be missed by more family and friends than possible to mention. If you knew Jeff, you knew he was a huge sports fan and his dedication to his NY teams was unparalleled. His love for the Yankees was undeniable, but there was so much more that Jeff found joy in over the years. From movie scores to hard rock and everything in between Jeff's love of music was another passion that brought him comfort and connection throughout his life. Jeff fought a courageous battle with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis aka Lou Gehrig's Disease) for 20 years with humor, hope and his \"never give up\" attitude. We take comfort in knowing that Jeff is shining down upon us all from his special place in heaven and is reunited with his beloved bulldog, Ralphy. A service of remembrance will be held at 5 p.m., Saturday, June 26, 2021, at the main diamond at Cantine Memorial Field, Washington Ave. in Saugerties. Attire is casual. Arrangements are under the direction of the Seamon-Wilsey Funeral Home, Inc. Corner of John and Lafayette Sts., Saugerties. Memorial donations\/in lieu of flowers, may be made to Hope Loves Company, supporting children and young adults affected by ALS. https:\/\/www.hopelovescompany.org\/donate Expressions of condolence may be shared with the family on Jeff's Tribute Wall at www.SeamonWilseyFuneralHome.com.\nPublished by the Daily Freeman from Jun. 23 to Jun. 24, 2021.\nCantine Memorial Field\nWashington Ave., Saugerties, NY\nHow do you know Jeffrey D. Madelone? (Optional)\nJeffrey was one of the most courageous young men I have and will have ever known! A gifted athlete and a true and loyal friend! I truly grieve his passing but know he no longer suffers! He received the best care known to man by his Wife Megan, Father David and Mother Sally! Jeffrey will always be in our hearts! Love, Uncle Paul\nUncle Paul Madelone\nTo Megan, Gracie and the Madelone family: It was with great sadness that we learned of Jeff's passing. He fought a valiant effort to beat ALS and he never gave up. Jeff was an inspiration to all who knew him. He was a great guy and loved by all. May it help you all to know that we will all miss him at the games and his pleasant smile. Our deepest sympathy to all during this very sad time. Sincerely, Elaine & Dennis Ferraro\nElaine P. & Dennis P. Ferraro\nCondolences to family and friends of One of our finest... Rest in Peace Jeff\nBob Mooers\nThe Seplavy Family\nOur thoughts and prayers are with the whole family at this time. Jeff was a great person and will truly missed\nFlo & Ken Krauss","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The US Hitting the Debt Ceiling Limit: Here's Everything You Need to Know!\nby Akanksha Mishra | Jan 21, 2023 | Trending\nThe US government just reached its $31.4 trillion debt ceiling. This has sparked concerns about the economic repercussions of lawmakers failing to strike an agreement to pay the US government's debts. The US now has approximately six months to increase the debt...\nDavos 2023: IMF's Georgieva predicts global growth at 2.7% in 2023\nOverview of the Davos Meeting and IMF's Predictions for Global Growth The World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, is an annual gathering of leaders from business, government, civil society, and academia to discuss pressing issues facing the world...\nHow To Reduce Excess SALT Deductions?\nby Akanksha Mishra | Jan 10, 2023 | Investment Ideas\nAre you tired of seeing excessive salt deductions on your paychecks? Do you find yourself continuously battling to make ends meet as a result of excessive tax withholdings? If so, you are not alone. It may be irritating and upsetting to be in this scenario, which many...\n10 Mistakes To Avoid When Choosing A Hedge Fund\nby Akanksha Mishra | Dec 20, 2022 | Hedge Fund\nAs a successful business owner, Anthony always managed his finances diligently. He had a diverse investment portfolio with a mix of many assets. But he wanted to explore the possibility of working with a hedge fund company to help maximize the potential returns on his...\nQuant Investment Management | Secvolt \u00a9 Copyright 2022","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Charles Darwin's Views on the American Civil War\nBy Mark Mancini\ngetty images \/ getty images\nCharles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln never met in person, but they sure would have had plenty to talk about. For starters, both of these visionary men were born on the exact same day: February 12, 1809. Both lost their mothers at a tragically young age. And both came to hate that \"peculiar institution\" called slavery.\nIn 1831, Darwin\u2014then a recent college grad\u2014took the trip of a lifetime aboard the H.M.S. Beagle. Over the next five years, he'd become the resident naturalist, gathering New World plant and animal specimens by the hundreds before shipping them back to England. During these travels, Darwin also began laying the groundwork of an idea that would forever change his life and our world: evolution by natural selection.\nBut fossils and tortoise shells weren't the only sights catching Darwin's eye. After returning home, he penned a memoir entitled The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. The scientist described in vivid, uncomfortable detail some of the \"heart-sickening atrocities\" he'd witnessed in the \"slave-country\" of Brazil:\nNear Rio de Janeiro I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves \u2026 I have seen a little boy, six or seven years old, struck thrice with a horse-whip (before I could interfere) on his naked head, for having handed me a glass of water not quite clean; I saw his father tremble at a mere glance from his master's eye.\nAnd Darwin doesn't stop there. \"Picture to yourself the chance,\" he instructed his readers, \"ever hanging over you, of your wife and your little children \u2026 being torn from you and sold like beasts to the first bidder! And these deeds are done and palliated by men, who profess to love their neighbours as themselves, who believe in God, and pray that his Will be done on earth! It makes one's blood boil, yet heart tremble, to think that we Englishmen and our American descendants, with their boastful cry of liberty, have been and are so guilty.\"\nGiven these passionate words, when America's Civil War broke out, you can guess which side Darwin supported. Shortly after southern forces fired on Fort Sumter in 1861, he contacted his Yankee colleague, botanist Asa Gray, and wrote:\nI have not seen or heard of a soul who is not with the North. Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would proclaim a crusade against Slavery. In the long run, a million horrid deaths would be amply repaid in the cause of humanity \u2026 Great God how I should like to see the greatest curse on Earth, slavery, abolished.\nLincoln never read this document, but his razor-sharp political instincts were second to none. Anti-slavery sentiments just like Darwin's were firmly-rooted throughout much of Europe\u2014a fact upon which \"Honest Abe\" capitalized with his famous Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.\nWhen that brilliant decree rang out, Darwin's reaction was a bit on the skeptical side. \"Well,\" he wrote Gray, \"your President has issued his fiat against slavery\u2014God grant it may have some effect.\" Gray, for his part, believed that the Union would emerge victorious and that slavery's death knell had finally begun. \"You see, slavery is dead, dead,\" Gray had announced that year. Darwin\u2014who once told Gray \"you are too hopeful on your side of the water\"\u2014had his doubts:\nI sometimes cannot help taking [a] most gloomy view about your future. I look to your money depreciating so much that there will be mutiny with your soldiers and quarrels between the different states which are to pay. In short anarchy & then the South & Slavery will be triumphant. But I hope my dismal prophecies will be as utterly wrong as most of my other prophecies have been. But everyone's prophecies have been wrong; those of your Government as wrong as any.\u2014It is a cruel evil to the whole world; I hope that you may prove right and some good come out of it.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Julia Peet - Biography and Images\nHome \u2022 Biography & Images \u2022 Julia Peet\nJulia Peet is a reporter and presenter for Spotlight, the BBC's regional news programme for the South West.\nJulia joined the BBC in 1992 and as well as presenting and reporting, she also helps produce the programme.\nJulia has filed reports for Spotlight, News 24, BBC Breakfast and Radio 5 Live from places as diverse as the Zambian bush, Miami and Dunkirk.\nVote 2005 \u2013 Sky News Promo 2005\nThe Sheth Factor","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Startup develops new vaccine against hepatitis b\nIt has been a mystery to scientists for years: being well vaccinated against hepatitis B, but still being able to become infected with the HBV virus. CyTuVax from Maastricht is currently testing a vaccine that reduces the so-called non-response effect. In other words: the risk of infection is further reduced. In November, the last of more than 130 test subjects will receive an injection in the study, CyTuVax expects to publish the results in early 2019. An earlier study already gave positive results; 90% of the test subjects were protected against the virus after vaccination with the new product. The company would like to achieve this result again: \"We are confident that the data from the first phase of the study will be reconfirmed. In addition, we hope for a more comprehensive understanding of the effectiveness and safety of our product in a larger group of non-responders. We aim to provide at least 85% of non-responders with a vaccine,\" explains Paul van den Brekel, one of the company's founders.\nThe traditional treatment method currently offers \u2013 depending on the vaccine and treatment schedule \u2013 a solution for 50% to 70% of the non-responders. After the usual three injections, they will receive three additional shots. \"We want to ensure a higher response rate, but also demonstrate that our product is more effective. Instead of three revaccinations now, our vaccine only needs one or two replicates to adequately protect against the virus,\" emphasises Van den Brekel. About 5% of adults do not produce enough antibodies to be protected against infection, in spite of the vaccinations. It is not known exactly why this is. But in the majority of cases, such a non-response is more common in men over forty who smoke and carry too many kilos with them. Also, factors such as genetics and the functioning of the immune system play a possible role. This effect can be particularly dangerous for people working in healthcare or the sex industry.\n\"You can imagine that a young surgeon with a non-response has a different view about protection than a tourist who goes to Thailand for two weeks,\" says Van den Brekel. \"But ultimately safety is the most important factor, not only the health of the non-responder but also of those exposed to an infected non-responder.\" Van den Brekel indicates that a non-responder-specific drug may change the approach of vaccination centres: \"In the future, in addition to the standard visits for vaccination, a fourth visit could be planned, where the blood is tested for the number of antibodies. This way you can say with 100% certainty that a vaccination has been successful.\"\nBut it will take some time before the vaccine comes available on the market. In the final phase of the clinical study, the vaccine must demonstrate in an even larger group that it works effectively and is completely safe for people. Van den Brekel: \"In the coming period we will enter into discussions with registration authorities such as the European Medicine Agency (EMA) to determine how this last study should be set up for a final registration of the product.\" CyTuVax is also looking for a possible investor who can help financially in this process. \"These are long-term, expensive projects. As a startup, we cannot afford that alone.\"\nSewage sludge and tree bark as sources for green gas production\nThe European Union's HEPHAESTUS Project: Cable robot to build and renovate fa\u00e7ades\nTesla against the rest\nIn case of fire: Intelligent buildings as lifesavers","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"CIM Group Completes 169-Unit Prizma Apartment Building in Hollywood's Media District\nLOS ANGELES, CA - CIM Group announced that it has completed construction of Prizma, a 169-unit, seven-story apartment building prominently located on the northeast corner of La Brea Blvd. and Willoughby Avenue in Hollywood's Media District. The building also features approximately 33,000 square feet of ground floor retail served by separate public parking and elevators for easy accessibility.\nPrizma is designed around a park-like central courtyard that provides residents an outdoor retreat with fire pits, outdoor game area, a 3,000-square-foot pool and deck with barbeque area, and ample seating. Two additional rooftop Wi-Fi-enabled communal outdoor areas offer city views from the Hollywood Hills to the downtown skyline, include outdoor televisions, comfortable seating areas with fire pits.\nResidences are a mix of studios, one- and two-bedroom floorplans as well as bi-level units, and are equipped with stainless steel kitchen appliances, in-unit washer and dryer, and Nest thermostats and electronic door locks offering optional keyless smartphone enabled access for connected living. Modern finishes such as hardwood floors and sleek tile bathrooms enhance the stylish units that are awash with natural light from floor-to-ceiling operable windows. Embracing the indoor\/outdoor California lifestyle, most units offer a balcony or a terrace.\nPrizma also features a 24-hour attendant, a fitness center equipped with Life Fitness cardio, cable motion, and free weight machines, a WiFi-enabled co-working office area, and an indoor-outdoor lounge.\nLocated in a vibrant and evolving area of Los Angeles bordering on West Hollywood, Prizma is well-positioned in a walkable neighborhood with an array of nearby shopping and dining options, and an emerging hub for culture and the arts. It also is a thriving area for business, particularly entertainment and creative industries that are drawn to the variety of contemporary office options including 953 Sycamore and The Lot, a CIM-owned creative studio campus just blocks away.\nCIM Group is a long-time owner and operator of commercial real estate throughout Los Angeles and utilized its broad experience in owning, developing and operating multifamily and retail properties to envision and deliver the Prizma apartments and retail uses to Hollywood and neighboring communities.\nSource: CIM Group \/ #Apartments #Multifamily","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Critical Condition's Roger Weisberg Answers Viewer Questions\nOctober 21, 2008 By Ruiyan Xu Comments 7 min read\nRoger Weisberg is the director of Critical Condition, which aired on POV on September 30, 2008 and is streaming in its entirety online until November 11, 2008.\nAfter the broadcast, many viewers wrote with questions for Roger. Read on for Weisberg's responses to some of the questions he received.\nMargo asks: What can I and others really do to help change this antiquated system we call health care?\nRoger Weisberg: 1. Write your elected officials and urge them to support efforts to extend health insurance to all Americans.\n2. Host a screening or house party to bring visibility to this issue and encourage discussion about health care reform.\n3. Join local community groups and national organizations that are pushing the next president and Congress to move the nation towards universal health insurance. For more information about action steps, go to the Take Action page on the POV Critical Condition website.\n4. Learn more about this issue and what the presidential candidates are saying about health care reform, and vote for the presidential candidate who is mostly likely to tackle this problem. To learn more about the candidates' positions on health care reform, go to POV's Presidential Plans in Action page.\nAdam asks: How can I help Carlos and his family? What can we do to help other people who are uninsured?\nWeisberg: Carlos is doing much better. He is now four inches taller and is out of pain for the first time in 15 years. He is able to enjoy his newly acquired ability to play with his four children, and says, \"I'm very pleased that I've gotten a second chance at life.\" About three months after his surgery, Carlos returned to work, but he still has no health insurance. The policy offered at his job is still too expensive for him, and in light of his documented pre-existing condition, Carlos thinks it would be even more expensive than before his operation.\nThere are several concrete steps people can take to help people like Carlos. They can support various free clinics and community health centers that provide services to the uninsured. There are often volunteer opportunities available at these organizations as well. People can also join or support various community groups, advocacy organizations and grassroots organizations that are trying to improve access to health care for the uninsured. Lastly, people can become more involved in political initiatives at the local, state and national level. The Critical Condition website offers links to many organizations that can help viewers become more informed and involved.\nLarry asks: Of the 47 million uninsured Americans you mentioned in your film, how many are illegal immigrants? And how many could have afforded insurance, but declined to pay for it out of their own pocket? And how many are eligible for some kind of coverage, but have failed to enroll? I am sympathetic to the characters in the film, but also feel that people need to take personal responsibility for their choices.\nWeisberg: Of the 47 million uninsured in 2006, about 4 in 5 (78 percent) were U.S. citizens. Because the main government surveys that ask about health insurance do not ask whether immigrants have legal documentation to be in the U.S., it is impossible to say for sure how many of the 10 million or so uninsured immigrants are undocumented. However, we do know that in 2006, 70 percent of uninsured noncitizens had been in the U.S. for 6 years or more.\nWith respect to the numbers of people who could have afforded health insurance but declined to pay for it: evidence suggests that when people have access to affordable coverage, most purchase it. Only 1.5 percent of adults say they are uninsured because they do not need coverage. Even among low-income employees, more than half sign up for coverage from their employer when it is offered. Those who do not sign up may not be able to pay their share of the premiums. In 2008, the average annual total premiums for coverage through an employer are $4,704 for individual coverage and $12,680 for family coverage. The amount workers have to pay towards those premiums varies by employer, with 30 percent of smaller employers asking employees to contribute more than half of the premium costs for family coverage. For those who do not have access to employer-sponsored coverage or who cannot afford their share of the premiums, it can be difficult to find coverage on the individual market. About half of uninsured adults have a chronic condition, which may cause insurers to reject them or charge them higher rates if they tried to purchase coverage on their own.\nIn terms of those who are eligible for coverage, but who have failed to enroll: confusion over who qualifies for Medicaid or State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and an enrollment process that can be difficult to navigate have left one-quarter of the uninsured without coverage, despite being eligible for these programs (2004 data). Most of those who are eligible for public insurance but uninsured are children or parents. About three-quarters of uninsured children are eligible for public coverage, about 28 percent of uninsured parents are eligible and 8 percent of uninsured adults without children are eligible. Children are more likely to be eligible for Medicaid or SCHIP than their parents and most childless adults are not eligible for Medicaid regardless of income. Many states have tried to streamline eligibility and increase awareness of Medicaid and SCHIP to prevent those who are eligible from remaining uninsured, but federal rules and state budget constraints have limited these efforts.\nChris asks: How might alternative health care fit into the equation? Many alternative health care options are available and are a great avenue for preventive care.\nWeisberg: At the moment, 47 million Americans have no health insurance whatsoever, and an additional 20 million are \"underinsured,\" which means that their policies have such high copayments, deductibles and exclusions that they experience many of the same access barriers as the uninsured. While it would be nice if the public could access alternative health care options, our first priority needs to be to guarantee access to a basic standard of medical care for all Americans. Then we can have a reasonable discussion about what forms of alternative medicine should be available as part of a basic package of medical benefits.\nRhea asks: I believe that when it comes to health care, insurance companies should be taken completely out of the picture and health care should be nationalized. However, I wouldn't know the first thing about what steps need to be taken to work toward nationalizing health care in this country. Any suggestions?\nWeisberg: There are many national, state and local grassroots organizations working on various national health insurance proposals. One organization that is committed to a government-financed health care system that would put private insurance companies out of business is Physicians for a National Health Plan (PNHP). This organization has the support of thousands of doctors and proposes to replace private insurance companies with a single-payer system that could be most easily described as Medicare for everyone. For more information about PNHP, visit their website. For links to other advocacy organizations, go to the POV website for Critical Condition.\n\ue85b Archived in POV 2008: Critical Condition and tagged @criticalcondition, ask the filmmaker, election 2008, filmmakers, health care, healthcare, healthcare reform. Bookmark the permalink.\nRuiyan Xu\nFormer POVer Ruiyan Xu worked on developing and producing materials for POV's website. Before coming to POV, she worked in the Interactive and Broadband department at Channel Thirteen\/WNET. Ruiyan was born in Shanghai and graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in Modern Culture and Media.\nPermalink: http:\/\/archive.pov.org\/blog\/news\/2008\/10\/critical_conditions_roger_weis_1\/\nUp the Yangtze's Yung Chang Answers Viewer QuestionsBy Ruiyan XuOne response4 min read\nDoc Soup: 'Dear Zachary'By Tom Roston12 responses2 min read","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Find Embassy!\nwww.allembassies.com\nTime zones Mon - Jul, 15 2019\nSelect the Country:\nUnited Kingdom (U.K.)\nChina (P.R.C.)\nDiplomatic Associations\nFinancial Section:\nCurrency sign\nCurrency codes 1\nAllEmbassies.Com:\nAdd the Embassy\nA time zone is a region on Earth that has a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes. In order for the same clock time to always correspond to the same portion of the day as the Earth rotates (for example, the sun being at its highest point every day around noon), different places on the Earth need to have different clock times. Time zones have been used in modern times so similarly situated cities can keep exactly the same time, for simplicity and ease of communication.\nStandard time zones could be defined by geometrically subdividing the Earth's spheroid into 24 lunes (wedge-shaped sections), bordered by meridians each 15\u00b0 of longitude apart. The local time in neighboring zones would differ by one hour, and the variation in the position of the sun from one end of the zone to the other (east vs. west) would be at most 1\/24th of the sky. Most of the 25 nautical time zones (specifically UTC\u221211 to UTC+11) are indeed defined this way, and are 15\u00b0 of longitude wide. An hourly zone in the central Pacific Ocean is split into two 7.5\u00b0 wide zones (UTC\u00b112) by the 180th meridian, part of which coincides with the International Date Line.\nOn land, it is more convenient for areas in close commercial or other communication to keep the same time, so time zones tend to follow the boundaries of countries and their subdivisions instead. Of the 40 time zones on land, most are offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) by a whole number of hours (UTC\u221212 to UTC+14), but a few are offset by 30 or 45 minutes from a nearby hourly zone. Daylight saving time is used in some higher-latitude countries to manipulate clock time with respect to the position of the sun for parts of the year, typically by changing clocks by an hour. Many land time zones are skewed toward the west relative to the corresponding nautical time zones, which also creates a permanent daylight saving time-like offset. Computer operating systems use either UTC or a local time zone to time stamp events.\nTime zones map (Last update: October 18, 2011)\nThe information placed above is from \"Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\"\nWe thank them for the data!\nImages and text from Wikipedia are available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License\nTime Zone Abbreviation\nRegion (City)\nNZT New Zealand Time (Auckland, Wellington) GMT + 12:00\nUSZ9 Russia Time 9 (Vladivostok) GMT + 10:00\nAEDT Australia Eastern Daylight Time (Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney) GMT + 10:00\nAEST Australia Eastern Time (Brisbane) GMT + 10:00\nACDT Australia Central Daylight Time (Adelaide) GMT + 09:30\nACST Australia Central Time (Darwin) GMT + 09:30\nUSZ8 Russia Time 8 (Yakutsk) GMT + 09:00\nJST Japan Time (Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya) GMT + 09:00\nUSZ7 Russia Time 7 (Irkutsk, Ulaan Bataar) GMT + 08:00\nCCT China Coastal Time (Beijing, Hong Kong) GMT + 08:00\nAWST Australia Western Time (Perth) GMT + 08:00\nUSZ6 Russia Time 6 (Krasnoyarsk) GMT + 07:00\nICT Indochina Time GMT + 07:00\nUSZ5 Russia Time 5 (Novosibirsk) GMT + 06:00\nUSZ4 Russia Time 4 (Ekaterinburg) GMT + 05:00\nUSZ3 Russia Time 3 GMT + 04:00\nR2T Russia Time 2 (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volgograd) GMT + 03:00\nR1T Russia Time 1 GMT + 02:00\nEET Eastern Europe Time (Athens, Istanbul, Minsk, Sofija ) GMT + 02:00\nEAT East Africa Time GMT + 02:00\nCET Central Europe Time (Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague, Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris, Sarajevo, Skopje, Vilnius, Warsaw, Zagreb, Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna) GMT + 01:00\nWET Western Europe Time (Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London) GMT + 00:00\nEST Eastern Time (USA, Canada) GMT - 05:00\nCDT Centeral Daylight Savings Time (USA, Canada) GMT - 05:00\nCST Central Time (USA, Canada) GMT - 06:00\nMST Mountain Time (USA, Canada) GMT - 07:00\nPST Pacific Time (USA, Canada, Tijuana) >GMT - 08:00\nAKST Alaska Std Time GMT - 09:00\nAHST Alaska-Hawaii Std Time GMT - 10:00\nGMT 1300 Nuku'alofa GMT + 13:00\nGMT 1200 Fiji, Kamchatka, Marshall Is. 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{"text":"Clay Newcomb's 8 Best Squirrel Hunting Tips\nMaggie Hudlow Oct 1, 2021\nIn Episode 5 of MeatEater Season 10, Steve, Janis, and Clay load up the mules and dogs for an Arkansas squirrel hunt. Here are some of Clay's best tips and tricks to get squirrels from the woods, skinned, and into the crockpot, preferably served with dumplings.\nFind the Food, Find the Squirrels Clay typically breaks out the squirrel dogs in December and hunts through February. Tree squirrels don't hibernate, so they're active all winter. In order to survive the colder temps, they hoard food by burying it underground or storing it in middens camouflaged by ground cover. While it's not necessary to find individual squirrel caches, they usually won't be far from the original food source.\n\"You can use what you've learned in the fall deer hunting and pretty much know where the squirrels are going to be because they're going to be eating the same mast,\" Clay said.\nSquirrels will eat just about anything, but their winter food storage is focused on mast crops like acorns, hickory nuts, and beech nuts in the Southeast.\nGlass for Tails Start with the trunk then follow the main branches of the tree. \"You're not looking for a whole squirrel because you're just not going to see him,\" Clay said. \"What you're looking for is that long tail that blows in the wind and can give them away.\"\nHe says you should also glass at the straight lines of the tree and look for bumps. That could be a head, ear, or tail. \"If they're hiding from you, they're going to be pretty close to the trunk or on a big limb or right in the fork where those two meet,\" Clay said. \"They're real aware of their silhouette, so they won't be out on a 2-inch limb.\"\nIf You Spot a Squirrel, Get There Quickly \"There's a timestamp on a tree because the squirrel is extremely mobile in the canopy. So, when you hear those dogs treed, you get there as soon as you can,\" Clay explained. \"By the time you get to a treed dog, 50% of the time the squirrel is going to be running and 50% of the time they're going to be holed up.\"\nClay likes to use two or three dogs and keep them within about 150 yards so he can get to the treed squirrel before it finds a way to get away.\nGet 'em Moving Often you'll find a squirrel in a hole and it'll be hard to get them out of there. \"Our biggest trick to get squirrels to move is shaking vines and limbs or just smack a tree with a stick,\" Clay said. \"A lot of times that squirrel is going to be in a tree with vines because they like cover, especially in late winter. And boy, you start banging those vines around and you can get those squirrels moving.\"\nNever Shoot at a Squirrel on the Ground \"Number one rule: If he's on the ground, let him run,\" Clay said. \"You don't want to shoot a dog in excitement or even shoot somebody.\"\nHunt with Buddies and Try Different Firearms \"If you're by yourself, you can't see him while he's on the backside of that tree. He knows where you're at,\" Clay said. \"So, you circle around the tree. Well, the squirrel moves. But if a few of you can spread out and get around all sides of the tree with guns pointing up, you're more likely to get that squirrel.\"\nIn the MeatEater episode, Clay uses a Rossi Circuit Judge .45 Colt\/.410 gauge. You can actually bid to win the exact gun (and more) right now with the MeatEater Season 10 Package in the Auction House of Oddities that benefits our Land Access Initiative.\nSteve swears by a .22 in the squirrel woods and shot his CZ American .22 LR in the Ozarks. Steve claims Clay is a big fan of shotguns because he \"probably isn't as good a shot as I am,\" but Clay believes you ideally need at least two people on a squirrel hunt\u2014one with a .22 and one with a shotgun.\n\"If you're hunting with dogs and you want to kill anything, you better have somebody with a shotgun,\" Clay explained.\n'Black Them Out' Squirrels are a pretty small target, so good marksmanship plays a key role in a successful hunt. If you're shooting with a .22, you're going to be aiming at the head. If you're firing a shotgun, you're more likely to blast at a running squirrel and lead it like you would a duck.\n\"My grandpa always said, 'black them out,'\" Clay said. \"Swing your gun until you can't see it anymore and then pull the trigger.\"\nFor new hunters, Clay's recommendation is just to get out: \"I don't know if there's anything that can prepare you to shoot a squirrel any better than just going and shooting a squirrel.\"\nHoot, Holler, and Have a Good Time \"I'm a grown man and it blows my mind how fast my heart beats when we walk up to a tree and a squirrel breaks,\" Clay concluded. \"You've pretty much got one shot at it in the timber. It's jumping and moving, and you just feel like you've come unglued inside.\n\"Then you take your shot. And then you're like, 'Man, it's just a squirrel, why did I get so worked up?' That is why we do it. It's chaos. It's great.\"\nIf you want to see some of that chaos unfold, check out MeatEater Season 10, Part 1. It's live on Netflix right now!\nDiamondback HD Binoculars 10x42\n18i Shotgun\nonX\nonX Hunt App\nElement Shotgun\nVideo: How to Skin a Squirrel in 1 Minute\nClay Newcomb\nIn my experience, this is the best method for skinning squirrels, especially if they were killed with a shotgun or have a torn-up hide. I call it the \"Batesville Method,\" but a more descriptive name would be the dip-and-snip. First, dip the squirrel in water. This keeps most of the hair off the meat while skinning. You'll need a pair of utility snippers that can be purchased at any hardware store for the next part. Clip the feet, tail, and head...\nVideo: How to Make Squirrel Tail Christmas Ornaments\nLooking to add some class to your Christmas tree? I can help you do it. Utilizing wild game for food is the primary reason we hunt, but for eons hunters have memorialized the chase by using non-edible parts of the animal for ornamentation. In this video, you'll learn how to make two types of Christmas tree ornaments using squirrel tails. The first step is deboning the squirrel tail. Second, I salt the tail to dry out the skin. This will preserve...\nThe Rise and Fall (And Rise Again) of the American Small Game Hunter\nIt's no secret the MeatEater crew loves small game hunting as much as chasing big bucks or spring gobblers. We grew up small game hunting with friends and family, and we never gave it up. But despite the rich tradition and history of small game hunting in this country, the majority of current American hunters spend little time, if any at all, hunting small game. Squirrels and rabbits barely register as worth the effort. Even upland birds and...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"IRS Releases Priority Guidance Plan\nThe IRS has released its 2021-2022 Priority Guidance Plan. The US Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the IRS previously solicited recommendations for items to be included in the priority guidance plan in Notice 2021-28. The 2021-2022 Priority Guidance Plan contains 193 guidance projects that are priorities for allocating Treasury and IRS resources for the period from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022. Some projects that were in the 2020-2021 Priority Guidance Plan have not been included in the 2021-2022 Plan because the Treasury and the IRS indicate that they are no longer considered priorities for purposes of allocating resources for the current plan year. Some of the projects that are listed in the plan include those necessary to update regulations to reflect statutory changes made with respect to S corporations, C corporations, IRAs and other tax areas. Other projects of note include issuing: (1) guidance to address mark-to-market accounting under Section 475, (2) guidance with respect to the cure provisions for regulated investment companies and for real estate investment trusts (REIT), (3) guidance clarifying the definition of income for REIT qualification, (4) regulations with respect to Section 1001 and the modification of debt instruments, (5) final regulations with regard to the application of Section 163(j) to partnerships, S corporations and their owners, (6) final regulations addressing adjustments to bases and capital accounts and the tax and book basis of partnership property and (7) regulations under subpart F and regulations addressing the treatment of foreign entities held by domestic partnerships and S corporations.\nIRS Releases \"Limitation of Exchange Gain or Loss on Payment or Disposition of Debt Instrument\" Practice Unit\nThe IRS has released a practice unit titled \"Limitation of Exchange Gain or Loss on Payment or Disposition of Debt Instrument\". The unit covers basic foreign currency principles related to currency transactions that multinational enterprises may enter and how any exchange rates may impact such entities.\nIRS Releases \"Section 263A Costs for Self-Constructed Assets\" Practice Unit\nThe IRS has released a practice unit titled \"Section 263A Costs for Self-Constructed Assets\". The practice unit provides guidance for the capitalization of self-constructed assets, which are assets produced and used by the taxpayer and not sold in the regular course of business. Taxpayers are required to capitalize certain costs (e.g., material and labor costs) incurred to produce self-constructed assets. These capitalizable costs fall into three categories: Section 471 costs, additional Section 263A costs and interest costs capitalized under Section 263A(f). The practice unit does not cover self-constructed assets that qualify for the simplified methods.\nInformation contained in this publication should not be construed as legal advice or opinion or as a substitute for the advice of counsel. The articles by these authors may have first appeared in other publications. The content provided is for educational and informational purposes for the use of clients and others who may be interested in the subject matter. We recommend that readers seek specific advice from counsel about particular matters of interest.\nCopyright \u00a9 2021 Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP. All rights reserved.\nChristopher C. Scarpa\nWyden Proposal Would Impact ETF and Mutual Fund Redemptions-in-Kind and PTPs\nIRS Extends Time Period for Private Activity Bond Telephonic Hearings\nIRS Defers Application of Foreign Partnership Withholding Regs\nSIFMA Resubmits Comments to IRS Regarding Transfers of PTP Interests\nIRS Issues Revenue Procedure on Accounting Method Changes\nSenate Passes Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act\nMeet The Team Government Affairs","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Fond du Lac Band stops using COVID-19 test over accuracy concerns\nThe FDA is looking into inaccuracy reports.\nMelissa Turtinen\nThe National Guard via Flickr\nFond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has stopped using a COVID-19 test that gave fast results due to concerns over the test's accuracy.\nThe band has been using the Abbott ID NOW test that provides results in fewer than 20 minutes, as well as a test through Mayo Clinic that provides results in 1-5 days. But concerns were raised last week regarding the Abbott ID NOW test, which prompted the band to reevaluate using the test, the band posted on Facebook Tuesday.\n\"After thorough research and investigation, it was decided that the immediate removal of Abbott ID NOW from our COVID-19 testing options was necessary until further research has been conducted,\" the post said.\nOn May 14, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an alert that said the Abbott ID NOW test may return false-negative results, with Tim Stenzel of the FDA noting the test can still be used and can correctly identify \"many positive cases in minutes,\" but \"negative results may need to be confirmed with a high-sensitivity authorized molecular test.\"\nThe band said not all patients who received the Abbott ID NOW test will need to be retested. It has called and reassessed patients who were tested with this test over the last 14 days and scheduled additional testing when appropriate, which will be sent to the Mayo Clinic Laboratory for testing, the post said.\nDuring public health emergencies like we're going through now, the FDA will authorize the use of unapproved medical products in emergency situations when no adequate and approved alternatives are available, the band said, noting this is the case \"with all COVID-19 testing.\"\nAbbott Laboratories, based in Illinois, said it has been working closely with the FDA throughout the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) process, noting some \"studies being conducted to understand the role of ID NOW in ways that it was not designed to be used,\" a May 14 news release says. Abbott mentions the NYU study, which prompted the FDA's alert, stating the results \"are not consistent with other studies.\"\n\"While we've seen a few studies with sensitivity performance percentages in the 80s, we've also seen other studies with sensitivity at or above 90 percent, and one as high as 94 percent,\" Abbott said.\nSign up for our BREAKING NEWS newsletters\nIn total, the FDA has received 15 adverse event reports about the Abbott ID NOW test and it is reviewing the reports, the alert said. It is looking into these and investigating whether false negative results could be due to the types of swaps or viral transport media that were used. The FDA said external studies, like the NYU study, are just one piece of the FDA's overall evaluation of a diagnostic performance.\nIn response to accuracy concerns, the FDA says Abbott has agreed to conduct post-market studies for the test that will include at least 150 COVID-19 positive patients in a variety of clinical studies, which can help the FDA and Abbott understand the cause or patterns of accuracy issues and inform what steps need to be taken.\nAbbott in its May 14 update said it will further clarify product information, noting negative results should be presumed negative unless it is inconsistent with clinical signs and symptoms or necessary for patient management, should be tested with an alternative molecular assay. It is also reinforcing proper sample collection and handling instructions.\nAs of May 11, Abbott said it had shipped more than 1.7 million ID NOW tests to all 50 states, with the majority sent to outbreak hotspots, and it is manufacturing 50,000 tests per day with the goal of increasing the manufacturing capacity to 2 million tests a month by June.\nFond du LaccloquetAbbottCoronavirus TestingMinnesota\nHere are the 6 latest locations for free COVID-19 testing in Minnesota next week\nMDH is conducting the testing amid increased community spread in Minnesota.\nMinnesota offering free COVID-19 tests at 6 places this weekend\nThe testing sites have the capacity to test 6,000 people this weekend.\nResidents in Ely urged to get tested, quarantine due to COVID-19 outbreak\nThe northern Minnesota community has seen a \"significant\" increase in COVID-19 cases.\nFond du Lac Band to choose leader Tuesday\nVoting members of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa will choose the next chair of their Reservation Business Committee. The position oversees a budget of about $180 million and businesses, including a casino amid a legal battle with the city of Duluth. Pete DeFoe is challenging incumbent Karen Diver for the four-year term.\n3M developing paper COVID-19 test to give results in minutes\nThis test could be administered at the point-of-care and wouldn't need to be sent to a lab to get the result.\nCity of Duluth files lawsuit to stop Fond du Lac Band from expanding its downtown casino expansion\nDuluth claims the tribe breached its contract with the city. The News Tribune reports the band is seeking federal authority to expand its downtown gaming activities to include a former hotel without obtaining approval from the city.\nFond du Lac Band will spear walleye on 13 lakes this spring\nHere are the 4 free COVID-19 testing sites in MN for the week of Oct. 19\nPeople don't need to have symptoms or insurance to get tested for free.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Literary | Talks\nWed, Jul 10, 2019\nRUN TIME: 1hr with book signing to follow\nALL TICKETS: $20 event only; $40 with book (a savings of over 25% off list price)\nSee all on-sale dates\nTue Jun 11\nMembers & Patrons\nFri Jun 14\n30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3\nWednesday July 10, 2019\nPart of Unbound\nIn conversation with Elaine Welteroth\nLaunch of Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem\nCo-presented by BAM and Greenlight Bookstore\nHigh-end streetwear icon Dapper Dan graces the BAM stage to celebrate the launch of his stunning new memoir, Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem. At his now-legendary atelier on 125th Street in Harlem, Dapper Dan remixed classic luxury-brand logos into his own designs in the 1980s and dressed the likes of Eric B. and Rakim, Salt-N-Pepa, Big Daddy Kane, Mike Tyson, LL Cool J, Jam Master Jay, Diddy, Naomi Campbell, and Jay-Z.\nBut before he reinvented haute couture, he was a hungry boy with holes in his shoes, a teen who daringly gambled drug dealers out of their money, and a young man in a prison cell who found nourishment in books. And when he turned his attention to fashion, he did so with the energy and curiosity that he approaches all things, eventually emerging as a world-famous designer whose looks went on to define an era. In this playful, poignant, thrilling, and inspiring account, he tells his story for the first time.\nLimited Ticket Availability\nStandby tickets may become available and are sold on a first-come, first-served basis at the box office just before the start of the program. For the latest update on ticket availability, follow us on Twitter at @BAM_Brooklyn.\nDaniel \"Dapper Dan\" Day's work has been displayed at the Smithsonian Institution, The Museum at FIT, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of the City of New York, and London's Design Museum. His eponymous boutique was open from 1982 to 1992, and reopened in 2017 in a major partnership with Gucci.\nNew York Times best-selling author and journalist Elaine Welteroth was formerly the editor in chief of Teen Vogue, becoming the youngest person and the second African-American to hold this title in Cond\u00e9 Nast's 107-year history. Under her leadership, Teen Vogue notably increased its coverage of news and politics, encouraging readers to become civically engaged. Welteroth has written for the show Grown-ish and is currently a judge on Bravo's Project Runway. Her first book, More Than Enough, was recently published by Viking Press.\nPhoto: Renell Medrano","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Apple chief on Chinese VPN app ban: We always toe the line with other nations' laws\nApple boss Tim Cook has said that his company would \"rather not\" remove apps from its store \u2013 but has to comply with the law in China. His comments come after it was revealed that Apple has removed a number of the virtual private network apps that allow users to circumvent the Great Firewall from its Chinese store. Cook was \u2026\nAdd to 'My topics'\nWednesday 2nd August 2017 12:07 GMT Anonymous Coward\n\"We always toe the line with other nations' laws\"\nExcept where taxes are concerned, obviously ...\n22 6 Reply\nWednesday 2nd August 2017 12:54 GMT Gavin Chester\nBut they do comply\nTax law is complex, and everyone (both corporates and individual people) will look to minimise the tax they pay.\nSome of the MPs who were highly vocal over the tax of Apple \/ Facebook\/ Amazon etc, were also themselves using some of the same rules to benefit form Offshore accounts. On a much smaller remember how IR35 was introduced to stop the self employed doing tax avoidance, the point is we all would try to pay less tax if we could.\nYes big corporates can afford to set up complex systems that minimise tax, but they do so by cleverly staying inside the law. It may not be in the spirit of the law, but it will be to the letter of the law.\nAnd I fully expect downvotes ,,,\nWednesday 2nd August 2017 15:18 GMT big_D\nOr consumer protection or, or, or...\nWednesday 2nd August 2017 12:35 GMT Teiwaz\nYes, it's so much more difficult to bend or ignore the law when you either don't have a cop or a politician in your pocket or you're not sure your bought and paid for authority will return the favour.\nIt's all very Cosa Nostra really.\nThey know full well they can do what they like as the Western Governments will moan and complain and bleat, but be unable to act due to public opinion concerns or unwilling due to generous donations...\nMeanwhile China will just kick them in the wallet where it hurts.\nWednesday 2nd August 2017 12:42 GMT Paul Crawford\nRe: \"We always toe the line with other nations' laws\"\n\"Governments will moan and complain and bleat, but be unable to act due to public opinion concerns\"\nIs that not the idea behind democracy?\nIs it the idea behind , or the result of?\nI would like to be the first to applaud Apples sensible stance in supporting an oppressive regime rather than standing it's ground and losing some money.\nBravo Apple, Bravo.\nAll they did was remove SOME VPN apps. The ones that complied with Chinese law remain, and nothing was said about disabling the built in VPN capability in iOS.\nPlease elaborate on \"complying with Chinese law\" where doing so does not interfere with the privacy or freedom of the Chinese people.\nThey don't need to disable the built in VPN on iOS as it's probably been slammed so hard by the NSA that China laughs at it.\nApple are so ethical with really cool adverts so I trust them.\nThursday 3rd August 2017 06:26 GMT Anonymous Coward\nI don't know Chinese law, but obviously VPN services that comply with the law will compromise the privacy and freedom of the Chinese people in some way. If you are going to suggest that Apple should refuse to cooperate, even to the point of having China ban all their products from sale in China, then where's your suggestion that ALL western companies should cease doing any business with China?\nTreat them like South Africa was, divest completely, economically isolate them, and see if that makes them loosen the reigns or clamp down even harder to avoid unrest when their economy is sent into a massive depression as a result? Or is Apple alone required to take a stand by you, and everyone else is off the hook and business as usual? Don't be naive, the idea that once China gets richer their government will loosen control has been proven wrong, so if we really care about their citizens we should cut all economic ties with China and try applying pressure the apartheid way.\nKind of surprised to see the upvotes, and no one bringing up the fact that if we actually did this a massive worldwide recession would result that would make 2008\/2009 look like a blip.\nWednesday 2nd August 2017 13:38 GMT I ain't Spartacus\nFunny legal compliance\nIn the UK they don't comply with the most basic rules.\nGet an iPhone through a mobile company and try and send it back within warranty period.\nThey won't take it because Apple insist that you go direct through them. They then try to claim that you have to promise to pay them something stupid like \u00a3120 if there's no fault with the phone - and they'll take that off your card at their discretion. Then they ship you replacements and collect yours.\nThat's totally illegal. Your contract is with your vendor - in this case the mobile phone company. And it's them that are legally responsible for returns.\nWednesday 2nd August 2017 13:52 GMT Timmy B\nRe: Funny legal compliance\n\"Get an iPhone through a mobile company and try and send it back within warranty period.\"\nMust only be phones or that company was lying to you. I took a duff iPad back to PCWorld and they swapped it there and then. And that's PCWorld - they aren't exactly renowned for great customer service. This was a couple of years back, mind.\nI don't live in the UK so I don't know the laws or whether what you say is true or not, but why do you assume it is Apple acting illegally? Maybe your carrier didn't want to deal with it so they lied and told you to go through Apple? It isn't as though carriers have a reputation for great customer service...\nThursday 3rd August 2017 08:22 GMT ilovecookiez\nWhy would you even want to do warranty with your carrier instead of going through Apple? Carriers are worse when it comes to warranties, can confirm as I used to issue warranties on AT&T.\nThursday 3rd August 2017 12:50 GMT David Nash\n\"Why would you even want to do warranty with your carrier instead of going through Apple? Carriers are worse when it comes to warranties, can confirm as I used to issue warranties on AT&T.\"\nThe point is, if you buy something, eg. an iPhone, from a shop, eg. a mobile phone shop, then your contract is with that retailer and not with anyone else, even if that someone else was the original supplier of the goods.\n\"That's totally illegal. Your contract is with your vendor\"\nWhy did @I ain't Spartacus get downvotes for this statement of fact?\n\"no backdoors will be created into any of our systems\"\nTotally believable. Especially from a man who's gonna let Guizhou Big Data Cloud Industries handle all their iCloud bits in the country.\nWednesday 2nd August 2017 14:41 GMT walatam\nWhen Tim Cook says \"We strongly believe that participating in markets and bringing benefits to customers is in the best interest of the folks there and in other countries as well\" he must think we are all daft. Apple took a pragmatic decision to remove VPN's in China because failure to do so would have affected their bottom line - China may have taken more destructive action if Apple did not comply.\nI do not know which is more deplorable - China's repressive regime or Apple's \"only doing it for the customer\" bullsh*t. I suppose China is slightly more open about being a sh*t.\nWednesday 2nd August 2017 17:16 GMT Your alien overlord - fear me\nGood reason to use Android\nMy Nexus 5 has VPN built in. Even if I went for a 3rd party one, I could download ones from outside of Google Play and pass to to others. How are the Chinese gov't dealing with this then?\nNot all VPN apps have been removed\nThe iPhone has VPN built in as well. Note that it is only some VPN apps that have been removed. China's law requires VPN operators have a license from the government, they are not all banned. Cook said \"a number of VPN apps that apparently follow regulations are still available in the App Store in China\", but the Reg didn't bother to mention that in their misleading article.\nNo idea what requirements there are - presumably that they have to do something that lets China censor content.\nI read elsewhere that China is going to block all VPNs in their firewall, and only let the approved ones through. So before long you might be able to install whatever VPN app on your Android, but it won't work unless it has been blessed by the government.\nRe: Good reason to use Android\nA good friend lives in China and only today tried to communicate with me. In the end he gave up and I had a text later to say that 'once again' the vpn wasn't working. I don't know which one he uses but he tells me that it's becoming more hit and miss as to whether he can get a connection.\nThursday 3rd August 2017 09:28 GMT DropBear\nTime to try desperate means - Morse and a laser pointer at the retro-reflectors on the Moon perhaps...?\nSaturday 5th August 2017 19:34 GMT Strahd Ivarius\nWhat other applications will disappear?\nIf all the applications available in a country must be used according to the country's laws, when will Apple remove the ones that allow users to commit crimes?\nA little list to start:\n- any map (you can use it to plan a burglary)\n- SMS and phone (same thing)\n- an calculator or spreadsheet (it can be used later to divide the results of the above burglary)\nPOST COMMENT House rules\nNot a member of The Register? Create a new account here.\nYour email address is never published\nRemember me on this computer? 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{"text":"Critical Perspectives on Art, Politics, and Culture \u2022 Independent and Free\nDEC 20-JAN 21 new!\nAll issues \u00bb\nSubscribe to the Rail in print \u00bb\nGet updates about future events\nBecome a subscriber for $9\/month\nThe New Social Environment#79\nJulie Mehretu, Paul Pfeiffer, and Lawrence Chua with Phong Bui\nMonday, July 6, 2020 to Monday, July 6, 2020\n1 p.m. Eastern \/ 10 a.m. Pacific\nThis event is produced by The Brooklyn Rail. Learn how you can donate \u2728\ud83c\udf08\nJulie Mehretu, Paul Pfeiffer, and Lawrence Chua will discuss their work and the ongoing programs of Denniston Hill with Rail publisher, Phong Bui. We'll conclude with a poetry reading from Vanessa Jimenez Gabb.\nPhoto credit: Teju Cole\nJulie Mehretu is a world renowned painter, born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1970 who lives and works in New York City and Berlin. She received a Master's of Fine Art with honors from The Rhode Island School of Design in 1997. Mehretu makes large-scale, gestural paintings that are built up through layers of acrylic paint on canvas overlaid with mark-making using pencil, pen, ink and thick streams of paint. Mehretu's work conveys a layering and compression of time, space and place and a collapse of art historical references, from the dynamism of the Italian Futurists and the geometric abstraction of Malevich to the enveloping scale of Abstract Expressionist colour field painting. In her highly worked canvases, Mehretu creates new narratives using abstracted images of cities, histories, wars and geographies with a frenetic mark making that for the artist becomes a way of signifying social agency as well suggesting an unravelling of a personal biography.\nPhoto credit: Joey Trisolini\nPaul Pfeiffer is a visual artist living and working in NYC. He was born in 1966 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Known for his innovative manipulation of digital media, Pfeiffer recasts the visual language of pop spectacle to explore how images shape the perception of ourselves and the world. Pfeiffer earned a B.F.A. in printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute, an M.F.A. from Hunter College, and was a participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program. Working in video, photography, sculpture, and sound, he is drawn to moments intended for mass audiences (live sports events, stadium concert tours, televised game shows, celebrity glamour shots), which he meticulously samples and re-edits to expose an uncanny emptiness underneath. From the hyperreality of photo retouching and digital erasure to the endless repetition of video loops, his mastery of postproduction allows him to magnify the surreal aspects of contemporary existence, where bodies become sites of saturated observation, and violence-as-entertainment flirts with nationalism, religion, and ancient myth. While he also experiments with the format and scale of his works, immersive audiovisual installations often cohabit with portable fetish objects in his exhibitions. Throughout his practice, Pfeiffer seeks to reflect and heighten the existential condition of the viewer as consumer by perversely blurring the boundary between voyeurism and contemplation.\nPhoto credit: Timothy Gerken\nLawrence Chua is a historian of the global modern built environment with an emphasis on Asian architecture and urban culture. He is an assistant professor at the School of Architecture, Syracuse University and a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute for 2020-2021. He has been a fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies in Leiden and the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universit\u00e4t, Freiburg. He is the author of Bangkok Utopia: modern architecture and Buddhist Felicities (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2021) as well as a novel, Gold by the Inch (New York: Grove Press, 1998). His writing has also appeared in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Journal of Architecture, Journal of Urban History, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, and Senses and Society. He received his PhD in the History of Architecture and Urban Development from Cornell University in 2012.\nPhoto by Nicola Delorme\nPhong H. Bui is an artist, writer, independent curator, Publisher and Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Rail, the River Rail, Rail Editions, and Rail Curatorial Projects. From 2007 to 2010 he served as Curatorial Advisor at MoMA PS1. His recent projects include Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy, an ongoing curatorial project that was exhibited in 2019 as an official Collateral Event of the Venice Biennale and at Colby Museum in Waterville, Maine. He is a trustee of Studio in a School, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Anthology Film Archives, the Third Rail, the Miami Rail, Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Second Shift Studio Space of Saint Paul, AICA (2007-2020), and is co-founder of the Monira Foundation, a non-profit which aims to curate ongoing exhibitions and public programming at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City and beyond. Forthcoming projects include the Detroit Rail, the first U.S. retrospective of Jonas Mekas, and Occupy Industry City: Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy, Year 3.\nIn the Rail: https:\/\/brooklynrail.org\/contributor\/phong-bui\nWebsite: http:\/\/www.phongbui.net\/index\nVanessa Jimenez Gabb is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection, Pink Salt (Rescue Press, 2021) and Images for Radical Politics (Rescue Press, 2016). She is from and lives in Brooklyn, NY. More at www.vanessajimenezgabb.com\nThe New Social Environment \u2014 Daily conversations with artists, writers, filmmakers, poets around the world where we discuss creative life in the context of our new social reality.\n\u00a9 2022 The Brooklyn Rail","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"LCC International University > News and Events archive > Anastasiia Kasianchuk: Journey from RA to RD\nAnastasiia Kasianchuk: Journey from RA to RD\nAnastasiia Kasianchuk currently works as a Resident Director at LCC for our Karklu Residence Hall. She is an LCC alumna, having graduated from LCC in 2020 with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology. Originally, she is from Zhytomyr, in the mid-west of Ukraine. We invited her to share her insights about her life at LCC through the years.\nShe first heard about LCC when she was in 7th grade when a representative from LCC made a presentation at her school. Anastasiia shares: \"I remember thinking that a North American style university in Europe might be just the place for me, so I left my email address to sign up to receive recruitment materials. Funny enough, I didn't hear from anyone again until January of my senior year.\" She admits that much of her success is due to her mother and grandmother playing an important role in her life and pushing her to put much effort to achieve her goals. Her mom was the one to convince her to apply to LCC so she would be closer to home. In her senior year, Anastasiia was an exchange student in the United States and was interested in continuing studies somewhere abroad, as well as emerging herself into other cultures. Apparently, she did not need much convincing to head to LCC, even though she got offers to study from other universities.\nBefore coming to Klaip\u0117da, Anastasiia met with some Ukrainian LCC students to get a bit more information from actual students. She notes: \"The more information I gathered, the more I favored LCC over other schools from which I received admission offers also. I was drawn by the promise of a diverse, but tight-knit community and that promise was fulfilled.\"\nThe first time Anastasiia came to LCC was in 2016 during LCC's celebration of its 25th Anniversary. She shared how LCC made a great first impression with a grandiose Community Day. \"Imagine, besides enjoying the infamous hot dogs, games, and music, also being delighted with a celebratory cake and fireworks during your very first Community Day. You would rightly think LCC is the best university in the world!\" Anastasiia was truly impressed with LCC at that point and was looking forward to the rest of the years and even including her graduation. Sadly, Anastasiia and her peers were the first LCC graduates who did not get to enjoy graduation in person due to pandemic restrictions.\nAfter graduating in the Spring of 2020, Anastasiia needed to stay at LCC because of travel restrictions and borders being closed. She then began working as an Assistant Resident Director.\nWhen she was able to go back to Ukraine, she started an internship at the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, which was truly an exciting experience for her. During her internship, she had a chance to deepen her knowledge in policies and issues concerning inclusivity, equality, sustainability, digitalization, and other topics in education, which has since changed her view toward public service.\nWhen asked about the differences she had noticed here at LCC, she notes that it seems that there are more students from a variety of different countries than when she was a freshman in 2016. \"We have so many more students from countries that were rarely represented on campus before. It's great to see students be able to attend LCC with people from their own country to strengthen their cultural identity and to help ease them into this transformational international experience.\"\nDuring her time as an LCC student, Anastasiia was a Resident Assistant, a tutor at Student Success Center but also on the Honors List frequently. We asked her to share some tips on managing leadership positions, jobs, and studies. \"You have to choose and focus on opportunities that bring you the most fulfillment and challenge you in the areas where you want to grow because you must love what you're doing even when it's hard\u2026especially when it's hard!\"\nHere are a couple of pieces of Anastasiia's advice about managing studies and leadership positions for the current students who are or wish to be student leaders. First, look at the situation realistically. Be honest with yourself when your commitments become overwhelming and don't align with your goals and interests \u2013 it's smarter to back out and redirect your focus than to exhaust your resources on something that doesn't have value to you. Next, use a planner to set your priorities and personal deadlines before the start of the week. If you have major conflicts in your schedules, discuss potential delays or changes with your professors and mentors ahead of time. You would be surprised at how open everyone is to meeting you halfway and finding a reasonable compromise. Lastly, find a good spot for studying, where you can get in the mode of being productive. It should be separate from places of rest or socialization. Speaking from personal experience, you can be an RA, a writing tutor, a receptionist, attend several events per week, foster many friendships, and still graduate with the highest academic award all at the same time!\nFor three of her student years at LCC, Anastasiia was a Resident Assistant. Now she is a Resident Director at our LCC Karklu Residence Hall. She admits that there are many more administrative tasks as RD than she knew about while being an RA, yet on the bright side, she enjoys the opportunity to mentor the RAs and the residents at Karklu. She feels grateful for a team that supports, cares, and inspires her.\nWhat Anastasiia likes most about Klaip\u0117da are the sea and the beaches. She feels like the location of the university plays a big part in building the community. \"The beautiful beaches, the calm atmosphere, unique places like The Spit - it all helped create a sense of belonging and home for me here at LCC.\" In her free time, she likes to go to the beach. She shared that being at the sea is one of her coping mechanisms. \"It is at the sight of the boundless sea and at the sound of waves brushing against the shore that I find moments of peace.\" While enjoying the beach, Anastasiia marvels at the creation of God. She shares, \"Manifesting the majesty of our Lord, it reminds me of my smallness and His power so that my soul can take comfort in knowing He, who can calm every storm, is for me.\" She also likes to spend quality time with her close friends, who help her through difficulties she faces. Anastasiia enjoys doing puzzles or working on DIY projects. She also loves to cook. She jokes that when she is cooking and not following the recipe closely, it makes her feel like a chef.\n\"For LCC's 30th anniversary I wish them an even more good fortune to continue attracting talented individuals to this institution, from the students to the top staff and faculty. I wish LCC's future growth to be able to comfortably accommodate more individuals than they already do. Most of all, I wish all at LCC never have to do remote work again, as we begin this transition back to normalcy.\"\nPictures are from Anastasiia Kasianchuk's personal archive.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The New York Times to Double Digital Revenue to $800M by 2020\nThe company laid out its growth plan to double its digital revenue in the next five years.\nBy Alexandra Steigrad Plus Icon\nAlexandra Steigrad\nMedia Editor\nRecent Articles by Alexandra Steigrad\nMedia People: CNN's Arwa Damon on War Reporting, Tattoos and Close Calls\nReese Witherspoon Talks Gender Equality at WSJ Innovators Awards\nCond\u00e9 Nast to Cease Teen Vogue in Print, Cut 80 Jobs and Lower Mag Frequencies\nOctober 7, 2015, 2:15pm\nThe NYTimes homepage. Courtesy Photo\nThe New York Times put a virtual stake in the ground on Wednesday, laying out its mission to double its digital revenue to $800 million by 2020. Despite the grand declaration, Wall Street shrugged, as shares remained flat in midday trading.\nChief executive officer Mark Thompson and executive editor Dean Baquet made the bullish statement on Wednesday in a memo to staff, following the announcement of the company's third-quarter earnings release on Oct. 29.\nIn the note, Baquet and Thompson spoke of a \"shared sense of urgency\" in transitioning the business toward digital. Over the past five years, The Times has doubled its digital revenue to $400 million in 2014, and in the next five it hopes to do the same.\n\"Achieve that and we will secure our journalistic mission for the long-term as well as create one of the world's most successful digital content businesses,\" the memo said.\nIn order to accomplish this, the execs explained that they must \"keep our costs in mind in the years to come,\" but added that the message was one of \"growth,\" not cuts.\nStill, it's hard to escape the fact that the newspaper's recent growth in second-quarter profit to $16.4 million was linked in part to cost cuts. Revenue slid 1.5 percent to $382.7 million, due to shrinking print advertising revenue. Last year, the company also slashed 100 newsroom jobs in a move that would help facilitate its transition to becoming a more robust digital business.\nThe Times laid out its digital strategy for the next few years in a second note called \"Our Path Forward.\" The 11-page document, written by Baquet and upper management on the business side, described the challenge of growing its digital readership and digital revenue to meet their \"enduring commitments to journalism and readers.\"\n\"Twelve percent of our digital readers deliver 90 percent of our total digital revenue. To double our digital revenue, we need to more than double the number of these most loyal readers,\" the memo said. \"We will need to develop them increasingly from younger demographics and international audiences. This will require new thinking in journalism, product and marketing. Our print product is a vital ingredient in the mix for many of our most engaged digital readers. We must ensure that it, too, remains relevant and valuable in this digital-centric era.\"\nThe company said it wants to create a \"daily habit\" out of reading the digital news report as it has done with the newspaper. One solution is the development of digital lifestyle and culture products like \"Cooking,\" the company offered. The Times turned to its business model, which focuses on subscription first, then advertising and unique monthly page views.\n\"Many of our competitors focus primarily on attracting as many uniques as they can with a view to building an advertising-only business. We see our business as a subscription service first, which requires us to offer journalism and products worth paying for. Our focus on quality and a deep engagement with readers is also a competitive advantage in advertising, which at its best is driven by unique consumer insight and superior creative work,\" the company said, emphasizing a shift of focus to the reader rather than the platform.\nThe Times said it would have a series of sessions with Baquet and Thompson that will allow staffers to ask questions and provide feedback. Chairman and publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. will also host a \"State of The Times\" gathering next month to keep the lines of communication open.\nThe memo ended in a flurry addressing the need for communication \u2014 which ironically isn't the hallmark of most media companies.\n\"What's needed adds up to a transformation of the company. Responsibility begins at the top. We know that a lack of unity or clarity among senior leaders can slow everyone down. That's why we've developed this new thinking together. This is not a newsroom plan or a revenue plan or a corporate plan. It's our plan. We all made it and we all back it because we all want the same thing \u2014 the future success of The New York Times.\"\nWorld Bank: Vietnam's Economic Growth Depends on 'Greening the Trade Sector'\nMicrosoft To Buy Activision Blizzard In Mega-Deal Worth $68.7B","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"CBS Home CBS Logo takes you to cbs.com home page\nTry CBS All Access\nSundays 9\/8c\nSearch shows and movies\n7 Moments From \"Spiral\" - NCIS: Los Angeles S6 E12\nWhile Callen is undercover in the mail room of an office building to investigate an arms dealer, it is over taken by terrorists and Callen becomes a hostage.\n\"Spiral\" - NCIS: Los Angeles S6 E12\nWhile Callen is undercover in the mail room of an office building to investigate an arms dealer, it is over taken by terrorists and Callen becomes a hostage. When the team arrives to help, they discover the entire building is wired with explosives, on NCIS: LOS ANGELES, Monday, Jan. 5 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET\/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Michael Yarish\/CBS \u00a92014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.\nPictured: Eric Christian Olsen (LAPD Liaison Marty Deeks). While Callen is undercover in the mail room of an office building to investigate an arms dealer, it is over taken by terrorists and Callen becomes a hostage. When the team arrives to help, they discover the entire building is wired with explosives, on NCIS: LOS ANGELES, Monday, Jan. 5 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET\/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Michael Yarish\/CBS \u00a92014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.\nPictured: Chris O'Donnell (Special Agent G. Callen) and Jordan Belfi (Tom Blanchard). While Callen is undercover in the mail room of an office building to investigate an arms dealer, it is over taken by terrorists and Callen becomes a hostage. When the team arrives to help, they discover the entire building is wired with explosives, on NCIS: LOS ANGELES, Monday, Jan. 5 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET\/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Michael Yarish\/CBS \u00a92014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.\nPictured: Chris O'Donnell (Special Agent G. Callen). While Callen is undercover in the mail room of an office building to investigate an arms dealer, it is over taken by terrorists and Callen becomes a hostage. When the team arrives to help, they discover the entire building is wired with explosives, on NCIS: LOS ANGELES, Monday, Jan. 5 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET\/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Michael Yarish\/CBS \u00a92014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.\nPictured: Eric Christian Olsen (LAPD Liaison Marty Deeks) and Daniela Ruah (Special Agent Kensi Blye). While Callen is undercover in the mail room of an office building to investigate an arms dealer, it is over taken by terrorists and Callen becomes a hostage. When the team arrives to help, they discover the entire building is wired with explosives, on NCIS: LOS ANGELES, Monday, Jan. 5 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET\/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Neil Jacobs\/CBS \u00a92014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.\nPictured: Patrick Gallagher (Don The Security Guard) and Daniela Ruah (Special Agent Kensi Blye). While Callen is undercover in the mail room of an office building to investigate an arms dealer, it is over taken by terrorists and Callen becomes a hostage. When the team arrives to help, they discover the entire building is wired with explosives, on NCIS: LOS ANGELES, Monday, Jan. 5 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET\/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Neil Jacobs\/CBS \u00a92014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.\nSite Navigation Shows Full Episodes Live TV Schedule Movies Shop TV Provider CBS News CBS Sports\nPrivacy & Terms Ad Choice Closed Captioning Video Description Privacy Policy Terms of Use Cookies CA Privacy\/Info We Collect CA Do Not Sell My Info\nInformation Show Feedback Casting Ratings Guidelines About CBS Corporation Advertise Careers Help\/Contact Us Watch! Magazine\n\u00a9 2020 CBS Interactive. All rights reserved. By viewing our video content you are accepting the terms of our Video Services Policy.\nAbout CBS Corporation\nWatch! Magazine","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"ANT JONES (1986-1987)\nRicky Simmonds\nArriving on screen in Series 9 (1986), Ant Jones (play ed by Ricky Simmonds),became one of Grange Hill's most popular characters. A romance with Georgina, constant clashes with Mr Bronson, running away from home and an eventual transfer to rival school St Joseph's were some of the highlights of Ant's time on Grange H\nill. In an exclusive interview with Grange Hill Gold, Ricky talks about his time at Britain's best known school and how he eventually swapped acting for music.\nYou started your career as a child model \u2013 how did that come about?\nWhen I was about 12 or 13, a neighbour was doing some modelling and said 'why don't you try?' I thought it sounded a good alternative to being a paper boy and an easy way to earn money! I was really fortunate; I put some pictures together and the first job I got was Kays Catalogue\u2026. for two weeks in the South of France! It was brilliant; I thought every job was going to be like that.\nI didn't set out to, but I did get a lot of work. I'd always looked a lot younger than my age, so when I was doing work aged about 13, it was with people a few years younger. With me, there was a bit more of maturity and professional attitude than someone aged about 10 or 11. It was really good fun to do and great training ground for being in-front of the camera.\nWhat lead to you going into acting?\nWhen I was 7, the Central School of Speech and Drama in London were doing a play called The Duchess Of Malfi and needed a young kid for a couple of scenes. My primary school was a few minutes away and possibly because I looked a bit Mediterranean, they asked me if I wanted to do it. When I went on stage with an audience it was great; this electric atmosphere. I got the bug!\nI remember crying to my mum and dad, saying I wanted to go to stage school. They were really level headed about it and said I'd have a normal education and if I wanted to go to drama-college at 16 it would be my choice. It was heart-breaking; it was all I wanted to do.\nI got on with life at normal school, then when I was about 15, I started these Saturday classes with Stella Greenfield who was also an agent. You got to go on loads of auditions and that got me into it. I was a child actor in a way, but I didn't start until I was 16 and had left school; I was never taking time off school to do acting.\nOne of your first major roles was in the well-remembered Children's Film Foundation film, Pop Pirates. What are your memories of this?\nI'd gone to Sixth Form but wasn't really getting anywhere, and then, who knows why, I decided I wanted to go and work in a hotel as a page boy. I did that, but I wasn't really enjoying that and then after 3 weeks of working there, I got the role in Pop Pirates for The Children's Film Foundation.\nThey were looking for someone who could play instruments and had a music background as well as being able to act. I was lucky I could do that . . . . . . and mime playing the guitar; I've never been able to master playing that properly. I was very fortunate to be able to get that part and work with Roger Daltrey. It was a wonderful experience. I got to film in Brighton for a week, which as a 16 year old, it's very exciting to get a part where you're going off on location.\nWhen Grange Hill was on, they showed Pop Pirates on the BBC a couple of times on a Friday afternoon and even Phillip Schofield seemed pleased to be introducing it. It was strange little film ; there was a naivety about lots of those CFF films \u2013 a bit of a Famous Five kind of vibe.\nI went for a lot of auditions before I got any parts, but once I was starting to work, the parts were there. I worked pretty solidly for about three or four years with lots of theatre and TV. I thought I'd be working in the hotel for much longer!\nWhich other roles did you have before Grange Hill?\nI'd done a lot of theatre work. I did the stage version of On Golden Pond, and then straight after I did understudying for Adrian Mole in the West End. When I auditioned for Grange Hill, I'd been doing that for about 6 months. I was sad to leave as I was having a great time, but I couldn't do both.\nThe only other TV role I'd had was for a show called Free-Time in which they had a scene retelling the story of Little Red Riding Hood. I played the wolf. I remember being, in a slightly self-righteous way, disappointed as they'd spelt my name wrong at the end, but then I was in a wolf costume and couldn't be seen anyway!\nDid you audition specifically for the part of Ant?\nI auditioned for Ziggy. I saw an advert in The Stage, saying that Grange Hill were looking for a Liverpudlian actor to play a 13 year old major new role. I phoned up my agent and said that I wanted to audition and they asked if I wanted to be in Grange Hill. Of course I wanted to be in Grange Hill! Everybody wanted to be in Grange Hill!\nI figured out that if a producer or director knew you were putting on an accent, instead of listening or watching their performance purely, they'll always be listening to see how long they can keep the accent up for. So I decided to go along as a Liverpudlian right from the word go with this Scouse accent. I did the audition, and sometimes you know if it's gone well and they said 'Look that was really good, but we're going to be really honest with you; you look a bit too old for this part. Ziggy's a bit younger than you look, but it was a really, really good audition.\"\nThey asked if I'd done any other work and in my Scouse accent I said \" I'm playing Adrian Mole in the West End, and I once played this cockney guitarist in this film.\" The director looked at me and said \"You can do a cockney accent?!\" He asked me to read for another part, for a character that was a bit older, the Ant Jones role. And so I read (in my cockney accent) and he said 'That's a really good accent you can do!\"\nI went away and they called me in for a recall with Phil Redmond, who I knew was Liverpudlian. I thought he might suss me out if I turned up with a Liverpudlian accent. My friend Deborah, who had Liverpudlian parents, said, the night before the audition; 'If he asks you where you're from, say Allerton \u2013 the posh part!' Sure enough he did ask me and I got away with it! I did the cockney accent for the part and I got the role.\nFor about 2 months, I was really sweating about the fact that when I got there, I might have to spend 9 months coming into work every day as a Liverpudlian. I really wrestled with that and thought I'll just go in as normal; and it was never mentioned! We were having lunch one day and the producer, in front of another couple of members of staff, said ; 'Oh yes, auditions are funny things. Some people can turn up at an audition as if they are from Liverpool. Can't they Ricky?!' Very funny.\nI could have been Ziggy Greaves if I'd just been a little bit younger, but George was amazing. What an actor he was.\nHow similar were you to Ant Jones?\nNot that similar. He was a very serious character. I've got that side to me and I can be sensitive at times but he seemed to be sensitive all the time! He was great to play as there was a lot of conflict and drama. It was a joy to play some of the more dramatic scenes that I was given for him.\nDid you like the character of Ant?\nI think it was more the drama he created. To have scenes where you're really pissed off with a teacher and you have to do long daggered looks, and are wronged by everyone; it was a little bit dramatic which is great to play. I wouldn't put that kind of sensitive, serious character at the top of my favourite character list, but it was a godsend to get a part like that, where you could do these really dramatic scenes. You got anger, tears a couple of times, running away from home; all that kind of stuff. I didn't think about it at the time, but afterwards I realised I was very lucky to be able to play so many extremes when it's just a show about school.\nWhat was it like working with Michael Sheard (Mr Bronson)?\nIt was great to work with people like Michael Sheard; a really accomplished actor who really cared about the craft. It was almost like a masterclass with people like him. He could go a little bit over the top as well; he did play Hitler in Indiana Jones, and he'd never let you forget it, or the fact that he did Star Wars! But those scenes we had were great. It was a bit gritty, for the time; brave, gritty stuff. That was probably Phil Redmond's influence more than anything. He did the same with Brookside.\nSome of the race issues, kids on drugs, that Grange Hill had, was really hard hitting stuff. At the time, I didn't think 'this is really gritty'; you were just a part of it. Maybe that was why it connected so well, because it was a little more realistic (though no one said the f-word!).\nDid you get on well with the cast?\nWe all got on really well, which sounds a bit clich\u00e9d. It was a really good laugh ; we had a scream. I was in a weird position in that I was nearly 17 when I started, and I'd hang out with all the younger actors, but then a lot of them, between scenes would then go into another room at Elstree where they'd have their schooling. I'd go in with the 'adult' actors and I'd suddenly have to be a little bit more mature; sitting there doing my crossword! It was weird going between the two but I loved it. A lot of them used to be really envious of me that I didn't have to do school work and could go and wander around Albert Square next door or hang out in the canteen with Dirty Den, instead of doing Biology homework!\nWhen I passed my driving test everyone was envious then. There were only about a handful of us who could drive. I think Melissa, who played Jacqui, passed her test before me. I remember we were both driving in, and you could see the others were very jealous, having to get on with their Geography or whatever they were doing.\nEveryone was good fun. You had a couple of prima-donnas \u2013 I won't name them! \u2013 but for the most part everyone was lovely. I thought that on the first day I went in. It was terrifying; anyone who has gone to a new school and doesn't know anyone, will know that feeling. If you're a bit shy, like I could be at times, and every single person you look around at is so famous in the UK; there's Fay Lucas getting her lunch \u2013 oh look it's Gonch and Hollo over there!- it's very weird and unreal. On that day, Erkan Mustafa (Roland), I'll never forget, was brilliant. He came over and sat with me and started chatting; not that everyone else was blanking me but I was just the new person there! He had such a great way about him that was so welcoming. Everyone was friendly, and it was like being at school to a certain degree; just having a laugh with your mates all the time. A totally unique thing!\nIt's also really rewarding having life long friendships with a lot of the people I worked with\u2026 Erkan (Roland), George (Ziggy), Lisa (Julie), Sara (Julia), Fiona (Laura) are amongst the many that I have regularly been in contact with over the years \u2013 and most notably one of my best friends since we worked together is Simon Vaughan (Freddie). We also shared a flat together soon after he joined the cast. I was best man at his wedding, and I roasted him to within an inch of his life!\nAnt was seen as one of the pin ups of the show. Did you get much reaction to your character from the public?\nI feel really stupid talking about this, but there were so many letters sent to the BBC for Grange Hill. I've seen other actors ay about being watched by millions, but it really was. Some episodes were like 9 or 10 million; it was massive and there was a lot of mail for everyone! Because I was in at a time when there was massive ratings and an exciting bunch of storylines, it coincided. I got the most valentines I'll ever get in my life, on one of the years! It was bizarre, but it was fun; a unique experience. Although people say when you're doing it, you don't appreciate how unique it is, I think everyone kind of did, apart from the ones who were first on it, like Todd Carty and those actors; they didn't know it was going to be a success. But everyone I was in the cast with, we all joined that show knowing it was the biggest show in kids TV and practically every kid we all knew was a fan of it.\nOn my first day of rehearsals, I remember walking through the gates at Elstree, and I was just thinking that this is such a big thing! I was aware of how unique it was and didn't treat it in a flippant way; I really appreciated it.\nGrange Hill won a BAFTA during the 1986 series, and for many this is regarded as the golden era of Grange Hill. Why do you think this series was so successful?\nI might argue that other generations have their own era. When I fell in love with Grange Hill it was Tucker, Benny, Trisha Yates. The thing that I particularly related to was that when I was 11, that was when the programme started and they were all the same age as me. It felt extra special for people of my time, that they were charting exactly what we were going through.\nI don't know if the era we were in is stronger than that era, or the Pogo Patterson \/ Stupot era, which were brilliant. It might be it had gathered such momentum by then, 6 or 7 years after that initial brilliance.\nAnother thing that doesn't get mentioned a lot is that when I was there, Anthony Minghella, who went on to be a really successful director and writer (The English Patient for example), was script editor. Sometimes I think that it's no coincidence that some of the real strong, brave storylines were being tackled at the time when when he was a major creative influence there. He's sadly no longer with us, but he was a real rare talent.\nDid you enjoy being involved in the Just Say No campaign, and what are your memories of this?\nAgain, that's the weird thing, it wasn't too mind blowing at the time, but years go by and you think we're sitting with the First Lady in the White House. It's really bizarre. I'm a big fan of surreal comedy; I love Spike Milligan and Monty Python, and it's almost Python-esque that idea; it's ludicrous! I can't remember if I thought it was bizarre at the time or I took it in my stride. Standing on the pitch at the Yankee Stadium and miming the Just Say No song was just absurd.\nAlso, I really felt for some of the other actors who didn't go. Only 9 of us went and I remember being at work for rehearsals and everyone was being told who had been picked. Some of the actors who weren't picked and thought they would be picked, really took it quite hard; they were quite upset. I remember thinking this fe\nels really awkward, like we'd won some kind of golden ticket. I really felt for the ones who couldn't go; it was a real shame, but they couldn't take everyone clearly.\nHow do you look back at the Just Say No record; with pride . . . . . or any other emotions?\nI love the leading nature of these questions! I don't know if Mmoloki (Kevin Baylon) is totally proud of the rap that he wrote, not to say I don't love it and its really good fun to listen to. It was a bit of a cheesy, slightly awful record and I was quite embarrassed about it for a number of years, probably because I was so into music. When you're a bit younger, I was probably doing a bit of an Ant Jones and taking things a little too sensitively! I do not think that's a great record by any stretch of the imagination, but after I've got over that early youthful period where I tried to forget it, I find it quite funny to be a part of it. It's like the whole experience of going to the White House ; a bit crazy and absurd! Although the best thing about that record is the saxophone; I heard it recently on one of these 80s programmes and I thought that's actually a really good saxophone part. Maybe it's slightly under-rated; maybe it needs to be reappraised?!\nI've been fortunate enough to have quite a lot of records that I've written with my long-term writing partner, go into the Top 40, but I've never reached where Grange Hill got! Top 5 \u2013 that's a land mark if ever there was one!\nHave you always been interested in music?\nI'd always played piano by ear and I'd had lessons, but I didn't like playing what you had to play in the lessons, so I shied away from it. I was always tinkering with keyboards. I bought an electronic keyboard when I was about 12. I was always writing songs and then I started a little band with a couple of mates. I was really into playing keyboard and writing; not so much singing. I did more of that years later. Music was a passion from early on.\nWhen I was about 21, I decided I wanted to concentrate mainly on music, which is kind of what I've been doing for the last several decades! The fact that the first thing I did professionally in acting was as a singer playing guitar and I ended up as a musician, is a nice parallel.\nAnd then you started a band . . . . .\nI joined my brother Danny's band called Clear Conscience which we subsequently renamed Protocol. That was fairly soon after Grange Hill. It went through several kinds of sounds from pop, to heavy rock, to more of a Pink Floyd kind of type sound, and through different line ups. It did get a bit Spinal Tap, with our 17th bass player at one point! We were going for about three years and did a lot of gigs around the UK. It was almost like an apprenticeship. With that band I really learnt how to write a song; the collaboration process and crafting something out of musical ideas. Protocol was great but it didn't achieve too much and slowly disbanded in the early 90s.\nWhat happened next?\nMe and the keyboard player, Steve Jones (who I'm still working with all these years later) started a band called The Good Strawberries. We got signed to an independent label in the UK and did an album. We did a really good tour with the Ministry Of Sound when they were first starting. Paul Oakenfold was headlining and we were like the support band. That was more of a rock \/ dance cross-over; club music in a more rock style. That sort of feel apart because of issues in the band and the record company being crap.\nRelating back to Grange Hill, there was a track on the album we made, called 'Peace On The Evening News', I wanted about 4 or 5 spoken bits at the beginning which would be like news-reel \/ commentator footage. There was one voice where I needed someone to talk about this character in the song and I thought of Michael Sheard. I got in touch with him and me and Steve took our very vintage recording equipment and he did this line really well in his best Michael Sheard-ian voice. He asked how much he'd be paid and we didn't really have a budget so he suggested if it sells a million we'd pay him. Didn't sell a million, but it was nice to see him again.\nTell us about how you moved into Dance music.\nAfter 1995, Steve and I started a series of projects that were just me and him putting an act together, so we're known as The Space Brothers in more trance \/ progressive areas of club music. We're still releasing records under that name. Another one was Chakra \u2013 The Time, which we had a lot of success with on Warner Brothers. We did a lot of these projects where we would get other singers, female singers, to front a record or an album we were doing. Another long-term one we've got is Lustral, which we've done a couple of albums with. It's more song orientated and a bit more ambient, down-tempo chill-out music. So that's what has kept me busy! We did run a download store called Audiojelly which ran for about ten years. It was a really hard business to be in and it took away from the time I had to write and produce, so I stopped that a few years ago to focus on what I love doing. We're working on a new album now which is really good \u2013 I would say that! \u2013 but I think some of the stuff I'm working on now is really special.\nIt's really fortunate to be able to do something that you're passionate about and make a career out of it. That's not to say I didn't love acting. It was great but the problem with acting is you are not in control of your own destiny; you can only act when someone says can we hire you. So, even though I loved acting, I had an equal passion for music and decided to go down that road, which is where I am now.\nWhat are your favourite memories from your time playing Ant?\nOne of the best weeks for everyone was when we did a week filming in Coventry on a barge trip. It was just a riot! Really really funny. It was pretty much most of us \u2013 there were only a few who unfortunately didn't get to do it. You had practically the whole cast there and because we were staying at this place where we were together every night as well, obviously we were young people just having a real laugh.\nI remember things like a cricket match episode and a fun run episode where the whole cast were there. Periods of filming like that were great. A lot of the time, when you were working during the week on Grange Hill, you'd work with only about ten actors and the other cast might not be there on that day, because they haven't got scenes or were in tutor periods. Those kind of events where it was the whole cast were great fun because you were there with all your mates. It was really really good fun.\nDo you have any bad memories of your time there?\nIt's not bad, but a slight negative. The second year I was there, I was going to be doing less episodes because Ant had left the Grange Hill school. The producer had said to me that I wasn't going to have so many episodes, but if I was offered any other parts they would do their best to work round it for me so I could do both. I auditioned for a part in a Dennis Potter TV play, and he'd written so many great things. It was for the part of a 17 year old American who had some weird adventure on a holiday with a step-mother or something who he had a kissing scene with. I knew the woman was going to be played by Glynis Barber of Dempsey and Makepeace. You couldn't go wrong; a Dennis Potter TV movie, a kiss with Glynis Barber and a month filming in Portugal. I got the role and the Grange Hill producer said it would be fine, but phoned me a couple of days later to say they'd done everything they could but they couldn't move the scenes that I'd got, so they wouldn't let me do it. I was really disappointed by that because it would have been such a great thing to do. I was a bit frustrated with the producer because he'd made this promise but I knew it wasn't perso nal.\nGrange Hill was the most positive thing. There was nothing that wasn't completely positive and joyous about it. I can't remember doing an interview about Grange Hill since I left, but whenever people have asked me about it, they assume it probably wasn't as fun as it looked, but it really was!\nIf I could do it all over again, I wouldn't change anything. Though I wish I'd written a diary, because there's so much that I'll probably never remember; so many funny things that happened. I don't think I've ever seen any footage of us in rehearsal or messing about, and I'd love it any of the actors did have any. In 1985\/6 I don't think people really had video cameras so I don't think anyone really has any footage. There's been some great pics that some of the actors have shared, but unlike the digital world we live in with mobile phones and cameras, not a lot. I'd love it if anymore could be unearthed as it's a great reminder of it.\nHow do you look back at the fashions and the legendary 'Ant Jones' hair?!\nI love your questions! I'm not going to take all the blame, but it was the 80s so I don't think we can totally blame Grange Hill or my barber. In fact my mum was my barber at the time, because she used to be a hairdresser. It wasn't like I was going into a big TV show and I had to have my hair like that; that really was my haircut at the time! Blame my mother for that one! It was acceptable in the 80s as Calvin says. . . . . .\nWhat lead to you leaving Grange Hill?\nI didn't really leave. I was only contracted to do a year; one series. I wasn't supposed to be doing another year as Ant went to St Josephs. Because the series that I was in was so well received in every aspect, and the Zammo storyline which was so well done by Lee, really connected with people, I think I was lucky to be in a series that was peaking in those terms. Because a lot of people seemed to have engaged with my scenes as Ant, they thought they'd like to have Ant back, and asked me if they could find a way to keep Ant, would I do another series. Of course I would! I kind of got an extra series out of it as a pose to doing just one. At the end of that series he splits up with Georgina and then there is very little link to Grange Hill school anymore to have the character in too many episodes. I'd forgotten about Ant's final scene where he watches everyone having fun and goes off on his own \u2013 it was like a character in Eastenders having a good send off. I didn't get a Jereme Irving scene though, who drowned in the swimming pool. Now that was a gritty bit of drama \u2013 it really shook you!\nDid you expect your role in Grange Hill to be remembered 30 years later?\nI never thought\nthat would happen. Things went very quickly then. You didn't have YouTube or the internet so the idea of things being given a more permanent reminder didn't happen. When we were doing that programme, it was only things like the classic comedies would be repeated. When I was a kid, I remember a programme called Fox with Peter Vaughan, Larry Lamb and Ray Winstone. I found the DVD online about 4 or 5 years ago, and not having seen it for 20 odd years it was great. The mind-set then was that you watched something and you didn't expect to see it again.\nBut then when they started putting clips online a couple of years ago, I was amazed by that. The interest in it surprised me.\nWhen Terry Sue Patt (Benny Green) sadly died in 2015, there was a huge reaction. Not just from social media sites, but writers and people who'd grown up watching Grange Hill, were saying he was an iconic figure. Not only was he the first character in it, but it was rare to have a black character in any series, let alone a children's drama in the 1970s. It broke a lot of ground with diversity which people would talk about nowadays. It took me by surprise that it was such a big news item, and that so many people had watched Grange Hill. You don't think about it, until sadly something like that happens and you're reminded how much affection there was for the show and people like Terry.\nI'm kind of proud of I was in that, because it was a special part of childhood for me as a fan, and then to be in it as well, and to have people still interested in it and discussing it, years later, is great; really really great.\nWhat do you think Ant Jones is doing now?\nBlow drying his hair!\n(c) 2017 Grange Hill Gold. Not to be reproduced without permission\nThanks to Ricky Simmonds\nVisit http:\/\/www.early-sarah-brightman.com\/ricky_simmonds.htm \u2013 a fan site that was invaluable when researching for this interview. Many thanks!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Notts set to reopen with new landlords - and they're keeping it just how you like it\nFormer staff will be returning under the plans to preserve the feel of the characterful pub\nGregory Ford\nDirector Mike Brierley (right) and chef Nicholas Walton (centre) outside the Nottingham House on Sea View Street (Image: Grimsby Live)\nThe new landlords at The Nottingham House in Cleethorpes have said they are committed to preserving the character of the pub and their promise goes beyond maintaining the decor inside.\nWell-known local former landlord of multiple venues Mike Brierley is leading a small group who have pumped around \u00a330,000 into re-vamping the Sea View Street pub ahead of a re-opening date of May 17.\nMike is one of four directors that will be overseeing the running of the venue while the responsibility for the day-to-day running will fall to Michelin star trained chef Nicholas Walton who will act as head chef and manager.\nThe group have decided to re-hire all of the former staff that lost their jobs when the popular pub called time after the impact of the pandemic was felt in June last year.\nThe directors and head chef are taking a hands-on approach to getting the pub ready for their opening day (Image: Grimsby Live)\nMike said: \"I've been involved in pubs in the area since 1973, I've been at various places like the Cricketers Arms and the Tivoli Tavern at various times, in a way it's always been part of my life.\n\"I run a little pub company but this is a separate venture, this is four people that didn't want to see what was a popular and unique pub close its doors for good.\n\"We know the pub well and what we're looking to do is preserve the character of the place, we know some former regulars might have been worried about it so we've offered jobs to all the staff that lost them when it closed last year.\nRescue effort after deer becomes trapped in metal fence at New Waltham park\nAnger as beautiful trees full of blossom are felled in People's Park\n\"I wouldn't quite go as far as to say we've undertaken a renovation because we're not trying to change what is there we're just redecorating and bringing things back up to scratch.\n\"That said I think we've put around \u00a330,000 into it so far but a lot of that work has been under the surface with plumbers and electricians, people will see it is all quite familiar when they come back to visit.\n\"We have upgraded the rooms to let upstairs and a lot of the seating has had to be replaced, the dining room has had a spruce up and the lounge rooms are looking fresher.\n\"The important thing is that we haven't changed the character of the pub which would have been against everything that we wanted to achieve here.\"\nFor the latest news in your area enter your postcode below\nIt was feared that last orders had been called at the venue when long serving former landlord Roger Gott decided not to renew his lease from Star Pubs and Bars, the pub businesses of Heineken UK last year.\nHe had been in charge of the venue for ten years, and built it into one of the busiest pubs in the chain.\nAt the time Roger said: \"It is a combination of the 10 year lease ending and I am getting old. It feels like the end of an era for me. We shall miss the customers, some of whom have been coming here for 40 to 50 years.\"\nThere is still work to be done in the traditional pub before its opening later this month (Image: Grimsby Live)\nMike and his fellow directors have invested in Sky and BT sports which will be shown in the tap room at the front of the pub which will also be dog friendly.\nThey're also committed to maintaining the pub's offering of seven hand pulled beers alongside Tetleys, lagers, Guinness and a selection of wines and spirits.\nMichelin star trained chef Nicholas Walton will be bringing a menu of British classics for weekly menu with specials on a Friday and Saturday.\nMore details on the offerings from the kitchen will be coming next week and the pub is scheduled to open its doors on May 17.\nThe kitchen is not anticipated to be ready in time for the May 17 opening date and more details on the restaurant opening dates will follow.\nThe hour-by-hour forecast in northern Lincolnshire as experts predict weekend 'washout'\nAsda trials new system where shoppers need a 'secret code'\nEating out in Grimsby\nCouncil tax rise 'unavoidable' as cabinet passes draft budget\nNorth East Lincolnshire CouncilThe pandemic and rising social care costs have put pressure on council finances\nTeenagers arrested in connection with alleged assaults in Cleethorpes\nCrimeA 15-year-old boy, a 14-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl have been arrested\n75 North East Lincolnshire families living in fuel poverty to get help\nNorth East Lincolnshire CouncilIt will help low-income families whose homes are difficult to heat","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Lita returns, Sami Zayn introduces \"InZayn\" segment on Friday Night SmackDown\njohnpollock January 14, 2022, 8:05pm #1\nOriginally published at\tLita returns, Sami Zayn introduces \"InZayn\" segment on SmackDown\nLita is set to return on tonight's edition of Friday Night SmackDown from Omaha, Nebraska.\nThe former women's champion was one of the nineteen entrants announced last week for the women's Royal Rumble later this month.\nThey are promoting it as the first SmackDown appearance for Lita in nearly 20 years. Her last match on SmackDown occurred in March 2002 teaming with Trish Stratus against Ivory & Jazz two weeks before the first-ever draft and Lita was a Raw talent from 2002-06.\nThey have also announced that Seth Rollins will appear on the show for a \"face-to-face\" segment with WWE Universal champion Roman Reigns prior to their match at the Royal Rumble.\nSami Zayn will introduce a segment called \"InZayn\" where he tries to \"out Jackass Johnny Knoxville\", which will either be the best or worst thing on the show with little room for anything else.\nAliyah will take on Natalya in a singles match with both women part of the Royal Rumble on January 29th.\nRewind-A-SmackDown is live tonight at 11:15 p.m. ET for all POST Wrestling Caf\u00e9 members with reviews of SmackDown and AEW Rampage.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Enter to Win 50% OffCLICK HERE\nEnter to Win 50% off an All Inclusive Stay for 2\nWhich season are you interested in?\n$3,000 Value. Dates for stay are based upon availability.\nWhy Latigo?\nAbout Latigo Ranch\nOvernight Pack Trips\nSkiing & Trail System\nXC Ski Race - Latigo Loppet\nUnique Weeks\nAdults Only Week\nSeptember Cattle Round Up\nWomen's Special Week\nOur thoughts - Latigo Blog\nContact Latigo Ranch\nWhat we are talking about - Latigo Blog\nWhy Latigo?>\nAbout Latigo Ranch>\nExperiences>\nSummer Time>\nWinter Time>\nUnique Weeks>\nContact>\nContact Latigo Ranch>\nCurrent Articles Archives Search\nHistory of the Dude Ranch\nThe short answer is: it was probably an inevitable accident. The people who lived and made the West were known for their hospitality and neighborliness, so it only makes sense that they would open their doors to friends, family, and visitors from out East. Some people say the first 'dude ranchers' \u2013though they didn't call themselves that at the time\u2014were either Teddy Roosevelt in North Dakota or Kit Carson in New Mexico. I'd like to think it was a little earlier, either Bill Sublette, a famous mountain man, who agreed to take some Easterners to Brown's Hole for the summer of 1844 or Jim Bridger, immortalized in legends of the West, when he guided Sir George Gore on a hunting trip in North Park in 1850. Yes, the same North Park that we can see from the front porch of our lodge. Grand County alone is currently home to four dude ranches, including the one where I was raised from birth and the one where my parents met and fell in love with the west and each other.\nPerhaps there is something in the water, maybe it's the way the mountains slope and the rocks jut that just repel the advance of civilization, and it just might be the utterly shocking beauty of this place that draws people to it who have a desire to remember the West when it was wild.\nRegardless of who got it rolling, the fad began to snowball shortly thereafter. The West began to open up to the population out East with the transcontinental railway, and everyone started looking for places to experience some of the magic that inspired all those stories and dime-store novels. These cattle ranches sometimes evolved into dude ranches without even realizing it, and, of course, no one had invented the term 'dude ranch' yet, either. Living in the West isn't a way to get rich, and supplementing the meager income of cattle ranching with paying visitors made ends meet that much easier.\nThey were \"Families That Take in Friends\"(an Informal History of Dude Ranches, by Joel H. Bernstein), with the first intentional dude ranch being the Eaton's ranch up in Wyoming; in a testament to true Western hospitality, they are still in business four generations down the line. And, while no one truly knows where the term comes from, 'dudes' were known as the nicely dressed, greenhorn Easterners who sought to find a vacation in the West during the summer months. Dudes came to Ranches, and they were willing to pay good money for it.\nLatigo was founded as a dude ranch, set in the ideal location for wild beauty, perfect trail rides, and endless views, in 1928, only shortly after the other ranches in the west organized to form the Dude Rancher's Association and figure out how to sell the unique little industry to a wider market.\nAll of the ranches in the association have updated over the decades, including Latigo. We've expanded on the original program to include things like a swimming pool, fishing in our trout pond, shooting, wagon rides, and a truly excellent menu. Essentially, the history of dude ranches follows the story of those who love the West and this life enough to share it. That has never changed.\nDon't forget to check Latigo on Facebook, Pinterest, & Instagram!\n>All Posts<\n'Thank you' just seems so inadequate\u2026It was honestly one of the best vacations I can remember.\nDavid & Judith F.\nThe horse riding was wonderful, the food excellent, the scenery breathtaking and your company very, very pleasant.\nP.J.\nEverything was top notch, and everyone was so friendly and helpful.\nSue P.\nWe loved Latigo Ranch! It was our best vacation ever! Cabins were comfortable, food was scrumptious and the wranglers were wonderful.\nJohn & Jenni E.\nThis has been our second consecutive visit and again it has equaled all expectations.\nPO Box 237, 201 County Road 1911, Kremmling, CO 80459 | {970} 724-9008\nLicensed Permitee and Equal Opportunity Service Provider on the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests\nWhen are you planning on traveling?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Frequency of Acentric Fragments Are Associated with Cancer Risk in Subjects Exposed to Ionizing Radiation\nAleksandra Fucic, Stefano Bonassi, Sarolta Gundy, Juozas Lazutka, Radim J. Sram, Marcello Ceppi, Joe N. Lucas\nIstituto San Raffaele Pisana\nA.O.U. San Martino - IST, Istituto Nazionale Ricerca sul Cancro (GENOVA)\nBACKGROUND\/AIM: Biomonitoring is currently applied in the estimation of health risks after overexposure to ionizing radiation (IR). The aim of this study was to compare the association of dicentric chromosomes and acentric fragments (AF) with cancer risk in subjects exposed to IR, as well as in control subjects.MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study was performed on 3,574 subjects (2,030 subjects exposed to IR and 1,544 control subjects). The mean follow-up period was 8 years.RESULTS: In subjects reporting exposure to IR, the presence of AFs and dicentric chromosomes was associated with a significant increase in cancer risk, hazard ratio (HR)=1.78 (95% confidence interval (CI)=1.01-3.13) and HR=1.73 (95% CI=1.03-2.90), respectively.CONCLUSION: AFs are associated with cancer risk and have a similar sensitivity to dicentric chromosomes in subjects exposed to IR. Because automated AF scoring can be easily introduced using fast flow cytometry combined with the pan-centromere staining, this biomarker may hold promise as a potential sensitive biomarker of exposure to IR and cancer risk.\nAnticancer Research\nFucic, A., Bonassi, S., Gundy, S., Lazutka, J., Sram, R. J., Ceppi, M., & Lucas, J. N. (2016). Frequency of Acentric Fragments Are Associated with Cancer Risk in Subjects Exposed to Ionizing Radiation. Anticancer Research, 36(5), 2451-2457.\nFrequency of Acentric Fragments Are Associated with Cancer Risk in Subjects Exposed to Ionizing Radiation. \/ Fucic, Aleksandra; Bonassi, Stefano; Gundy, Sarolta; Lazutka, Juozas; Sram, Radim J.; Ceppi, Marcello; Lucas, Joe N.\nIn: Anticancer Research, Vol. 36, No. 5, 05.2016, p. 2451-2457.\nFucic, A, Bonassi, S, Gundy, S, Lazutka, J, Sram, RJ, Ceppi, M & Lucas, JN 2016, 'Frequency of Acentric Fragments Are Associated with Cancer Risk in Subjects Exposed to Ionizing Radiation', Anticancer Research, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 2451-2457.\nFucic A, Bonassi S, Gundy S, Lazutka J, Sram RJ, Ceppi M et al. Frequency of Acentric Fragments Are Associated with Cancer Risk in Subjects Exposed to Ionizing Radiation. Anticancer Research. 2016 May;36(5):2451-2457.\nFucic, Aleksandra ; Bonassi, Stefano ; Gundy, Sarolta ; Lazutka, Juozas ; Sram, Radim J. ; Ceppi, Marcello ; Lucas, Joe N. \/ Frequency of Acentric Fragments Are Associated with Cancer Risk in Subjects Exposed to Ionizing Radiation. In: Anticancer Research. 2016 ; Vol. 36, No. 5. pp. 2451-2457.\n@article{56e52d3355a9486c98c320916cbe1bf8,\ntitle = \"Frequency of Acentric Fragments Are Associated with Cancer Risk in Subjects Exposed to Ionizing Radiation\",\nabstract = \"BACKGROUND\/AIM: Biomonitoring is currently applied in the estimation of health risks after overexposure to ionizing radiation (IR). The aim of this study was to compare the association of dicentric chromosomes and acentric fragments (AF) with cancer risk in subjects exposed to IR, as well as in control subjects.MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study was performed on 3,574 subjects (2,030 subjects exposed to IR and 1,544 control subjects). The mean follow-up period was 8 years.RESULTS: In subjects reporting exposure to IR, the presence of AFs and dicentric chromosomes was associated with a significant increase in cancer risk, hazard ratio (HR)=1.78 (95{\\%} confidence interval (CI)=1.01-3.13) and HR=1.73 (95{\\%} CI=1.03-2.90), respectively.CONCLUSION: AFs are associated with cancer risk and have a similar sensitivity to dicentric chromosomes in subjects exposed to IR. Because automated AF scoring can be easily introduced using fast flow cytometry combined with the pan-centromere staining, this biomarker may hold promise as a potential sensitive biomarker of exposure to IR and cancer risk.\",\nkeywords = \"Chromosome Aberrations, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Humans, Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced, Radiation, Ionizing, Journal Article\",\nauthor = \"Aleksandra Fucic and Stefano Bonassi and Sarolta Gundy and Juozas Lazutka and Sram, {Radim J.} and Marcello Ceppi and Lucas, {Joe N.}\",\nnote = \"Copyright{\\circledC} 2016 International Institute of Anticancer Research (Dr. John G. Delinassios), All rights reserved.\",\njournal = \"Anticancer Research\",\npublisher = \"International Institute of Anticancer Research\",\nT1 - Frequency of Acentric Fragments Are Associated with Cancer Risk in Subjects Exposed to Ionizing Radiation\nAU - Fucic, Aleksandra\nAU - Bonassi, Stefano\nAU - Gundy, Sarolta\nAU - Lazutka, Juozas\nAU - Sram, Radim J.\nAU - Ceppi, Marcello\nAU - Lucas, Joe N.\nN1 - Copyright\u00a9 2016 International Institute of Anticancer Research (Dr. John G. Delinassios), All rights reserved.\nN2 - BACKGROUND\/AIM: Biomonitoring is currently applied in the estimation of health risks after overexposure to ionizing radiation (IR). The aim of this study was to compare the association of dicentric chromosomes and acentric fragments (AF) with cancer risk in subjects exposed to IR, as well as in control subjects.MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study was performed on 3,574 subjects (2,030 subjects exposed to IR and 1,544 control subjects). The mean follow-up period was 8 years.RESULTS: In subjects reporting exposure to IR, the presence of AFs and dicentric chromosomes was associated with a significant increase in cancer risk, hazard ratio (HR)=1.78 (95% confidence interval (CI)=1.01-3.13) and HR=1.73 (95% CI=1.03-2.90), respectively.CONCLUSION: AFs are associated with cancer risk and have a similar sensitivity to dicentric chromosomes in subjects exposed to IR. Because automated AF scoring can be easily introduced using fast flow cytometry combined with the pan-centromere staining, this biomarker may hold promise as a potential sensitive biomarker of exposure to IR and cancer risk.\nAB - BACKGROUND\/AIM: Biomonitoring is currently applied in the estimation of health risks after overexposure to ionizing radiation (IR). The aim of this study was to compare the association of dicentric chromosomes and acentric fragments (AF) with cancer risk in subjects exposed to IR, as well as in control subjects.MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study was performed on 3,574 subjects (2,030 subjects exposed to IR and 1,544 control subjects). The mean follow-up period was 8 years.RESULTS: In subjects reporting exposure to IR, the presence of AFs and dicentric chromosomes was associated with a significant increase in cancer risk, hazard ratio (HR)=1.78 (95% confidence interval (CI)=1.01-3.13) and HR=1.73 (95% CI=1.03-2.90), respectively.CONCLUSION: AFs are associated with cancer risk and have a similar sensitivity to dicentric chromosomes in subjects exposed to IR. Because automated AF scoring can be easily introduced using fast flow cytometry combined with the pan-centromere staining, this biomarker may hold promise as a potential sensitive biomarker of exposure to IR and cancer risk.\nKW - Chromosome Aberrations\nKW - Genetic Predisposition to Disease\nKW - Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced\nKW - Radiation, Ionizing\nKW - Journal Article\nJO - Anticancer Research\nJF - Anticancer Research\nIstituto San Raffaele Pisana - Identificazione di nuovi modelli organizzativi e gestionali per ottimizzare la risposta riabilitativa nel paziente con disabilit\u00e0.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"N icco and Rocco Ruscitto are both psychology majors at CSU Fuller- ton. At first glance, most people don't realize they are identical twins. ey don't look exactly alike; Rocco has a beard, and they differ in weight by about 15 pounds. But Nancy Segal did a double take and recognized that they were identical twins the minute she set eyes on them. That's b e c a u s e sh e i s c o n si d e re d o n e of th e foremost experts on twins in the country. Author of four books and more than 200 scientific articles about twins, she runs the Twin Studies Center at CSU Fullerton, where she is a psychology professor. And yes, she is a twin. Her fraternal twin sister lives in New York and is an attorney. S h e a ske d th e 2 2 - ye a r - o l d Ru s c itt o brothers if they would drop by her lab and contribute to her research. ey were hon- ored to assist such a renowned researcher. ey wish, however, that they had met her earlier. She could have come to their defense a few years ago when they were taking the same online college course and their work was so similar that they were unjustly accused of cheating. \"is happens on occasion,\" says Segal, California Faculty Association . \"I have worked on a number of cases where twins were accused of cheating because they came up with the same answers on tests and homework assignments. Several of these cases have gone to court, and in some cases students have been dismissed from their universities. It's unfortunate that some faculty and administrators don't real- ize students with matched talents can do similar work.\" Segal has a passion for clearing up mis- conceptions about twins and studying the ways they are alike and different that con- stantly drives her to break new ground on the topic. She has studied the relationships of twins with each other and with outsid- ers. She has studied twins who were raised together and twins who were raised apart, and some who were reunited after decades of separation. She has compared the bond of fraternal twins with that of identical twins. She estimates that she has studied hundreds if not thousands of twins. She made headlines in 2014 when she arranged for a reunion of twins Ann Hunt and Elizabeth Hamel, who had been apart for 78 years, since they were 5 months old. Hunt, from England , was adopted and learned she had a twin sister after her Meet twin expert Nancy Segal By Sherry Posnick-Goodwin In 2014, Segal arranged for the reunion of twins Elizabeth Hamel (left) and Ann Hunt, who had been apart for 78 years, since they were 5 months old. Photo courtesy Nancy Segal. Nancy Segal with twins Rocco and Nicco Ruscitto. Photo by Scott Buschman. 14 cta.org perspectives","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Deutsche Bank Group | Responsibility | Art Programme | Deutsche Bank KunstHalle | Deutsch\nHome Feature On View News Press Archive Service\nThis category contains the following articles\nThe Press on Frieze Masters and Frieze London\nGabriel Orozco\u00b4s commissioned work for the Deutsche Guggenheim\nSend a friend\n\"The magical beauty of objects\"\nThe press on Gabriel Orozco's commissioned work for\nthe Deutsche Guggenheim\nThousands of objects are at the center of Gabriel Orozco's exhibition project \"Asterisms,\" the 18th commissioned work for the Deutsche Guggenheim. The artist arranged objects he found on the beach in a nature protection area in Mexico and on a sports field in New York into a poetic installation that critics are raving about.\n\"A a philosophical investigation of formal aspects, materials, longevity and erosion.\" This is how Gabriel Orozco described his exhibition project Asterisms at the Deutsche Guggenheim in an interview with Claudia Bodin, the New York correspondent of Art. \"It is reminiscent of a classification of finds. You have all these objects in front of you and you try to find a meaning for the whole puzzle,\" said the Mexican artist. In the review of the exhibition in Art, Birgit Sonna writes that Orozco transferred \"relics from human and other life into surreal perspectives by radically shifting the context and presenting very contemporary things as though they are finds from antiquity. (\u2026) Erosion is his main subject. Or the poetry of decay, the wearing away of cultural ideas, identities, rituals. With Orozco, we see the ravages of time gnawing on social forms that still exist.\"\nThe Berliner Morgenpost writes that with his \"astonishing floor work (\u2026),\" the artist realized \"the ultimate summer show.\" In the Berliner Zeitung Ingeborg Ruthe says that the \"world-famous poet among the conceptualists\" is showing \"a clearly conceived work that consists of simple ingredients yet is highly complex\" at the Deutsche Guggenheim. \"(\u2026) A giant carpet composed of garbage and flotsam turns into a strange, urgent, poetic topography before our very eyes. (\u2026) It is abundantly obvious that Orozco has a very special eye for the magical beauty of objects.\" Writing for Informationsdienst Kunst, Karlheinz Schmid has a completely different viewpoint. In his opinion, the exhibition is an \"artistic debacle\": \"Orozco is merely searching for traces, engaging in aesthetic games that provide no real insights.\" Christiane Meixner from the Tagesspiegel on the other hand sees in Asterisms a \"mosaic shedding light on 21st-century culture and living habits.\" She writes that the work \"contains poetic energy that affords a new view. And that makes plastic elements of fascinating beauty out of waste.\"\nIn the blog Hypedefender, we read: \"What for the viewer is a mountain of garbage in nature is visibly staged by Orozco as a cultural asset, illustrating the conflict of man versus nature.\" taz editor Ingo Arend writes that \"the work in Berlin's upscale little show room would have been perfect for Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev's post-human documenta 13.\" He sums up the exhibition as follows: \"But the 51-year-old does not just play around with forms in his work. A sense of the collision of nature and culture, of consumption and the throwaway society is always present. Orozco consciously chooses everyday objects for his works. But whereas Duchamp puts them in the context of art, Orozco gives them a form. He called his double work in Berlin Asterisms \u2013 Sternbilder. Thus he combines the profane and the poetic. The result can be called beauty.\"\nStay up-to-date on contemporary art-with ArtMag. Register here for our newsletter.\nFree Radicals - Elad Lassry\u00b4s Hermetic Photographic Works \/ It's interesting to be unsure - A conversation with Lorna Simpson \/ The Human Dimension - Thomas Scheibitz at the MMK \/ Visual Encyclopedia of the People's Republic - Liu Zheng's monumental photo atlas The Chinese \/ On Disappearance and Illumination - Michael Stevenson in the Portikus, Frankfurt \/ 10 Years - ArtMag Celebrates its Anniversary! \/ Dynamic Duo - Preview Frieze London and Frieze Masters \/ Fabian Marti: Trip to the Other Side \/ Wallpaper and Transcendence: Shannon Bool - Excursions into Modernism\nAsterisms - Gabriel Orozco's Commission for the Deutsche Guggenheim \/ This Undreamt Descent - Wangechi Mutu in the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden\nNo Boredom - John Baldessari awarded the Kaiserring \/ Deutsche Bank supports Emil Schumacher exhibition \/ Deutsche Bank Foundation Sponsors MMK Talks \/ Yto Barrada at MACRO \/ Cai Guo-Qiang Honored with the Praemium Imperiale \/ Baselitz - Immendorff - Sch\u00f6nebeck at Villa Wessel\nImprint | Legal Resources | Accessibility | Privacy Notice | Cookie Notice","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Genetics Society of America announces Howard Lipshitz as new Editor...\nGENETICS and G3 welcome new editors\nGenetics Society of America partners with Oxford University Press to...\nGENETICS welcomes new editors\nCongratulations to the 2020 Early Career Scientist Leadership Program cohort!\nGSA-Art: Douglas Bishop\nGuest posts are contributed by members of our community. The views expressed in guest posts are those of the author(s) and are not necessarily endorsed by the Genetics Society of America. If you'd like to write a guest post, e-mail cgelling@genetics-gsa.org.\nLate December, Marysville, WA.\nGSA-Art features the creative works of scientists, particularly geneticists. Read more about the series from GSA President Stan Fields. If you would like to submit your own work or nominate someone else's, please send an email GenesToGenomes@genetics-gsa.org with \"GSA-Art\" in the subject line.\nDouglas Bishop is a professor in the Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology and the Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago.\nSummer shadows, Craigville, MA\nLong Beach, Craigville, MA\nNew in G3: chicken genome assembly, Drosophila co-CRISPR, and more\nJeannie Lee appointed GSA Vice-President\nArt & CultureGSA-Art","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Many artist to paint and tell their stories. It\nMany adults know about the negative\nstereotypical views video games received throughout the years. Views consisting\nof promoting violence and aggressive behavior, which it will not help the\nplayers later in life, and other usual excuses many parents use in not letting\ntheir children play them. Nevertheless, many of the generations, both new and\nold, look to video games as a form of art and inspiration. Video games over the\npast few years are now considered an art form.\nIt is astonishing on how something so negatively viewed, has become a\ngood portion of art culture. Truly, video games are a\ncollision of art, literature, and playwrights in one interactive medium. Yet,\nhow are video games an example of all three arts, in the first place?\nOne, video games are similar to that which\nis considered fine art such as paintings like the Mona Lisa or cultural\nstructures like the Thinker because of the in-depth intent and meanings the\nplayer experiences and the exhibitions held in respected art venues. The art that\nis exhibited in museums and art venues and many Universities have archives,\nstudies, and even made documentaries about them and their artists.\nSurprisingly, in the recent years, dozens of video game exhibits have been held\nin thoroughly respectable venues and museums such as the Smithsonian and MoMA\n(Moriarty, 2015). G1 Universities even carry archives of\nthe games and hardware, as well as carry out video game studies and made\ndocumentaries out of these studies. However, is video game really an art? Many\nexperts in the recent years consider these games as an art form that collides\nart and science together, and its own technology expanding the canvas for an\nartist to paint and tell their stories. It is believed to be the art form that\nonly exists in digital space and the only form of media that allows for\npersonalization of the artistic experience while retaining the authority of the\nartist. To clarify, video games allow each player a different experience the\nartists convey in art or graphics of the game. They even include traditional\nforms of artistic expression in a new style, such as sculpture in 3D modeling,\nillustration in 2D modeling, or pointillism in pixel\nsprites (Melissinos, 2015). However,\nthat is just the visual art aspect of video games.G2 G3 G4\nTwo, video games are an example of\nartistic literature because they contain elements of a plot and interactive\nstorytelling. In the few decades of video games development, most games have\nbeen developed with interactive storytelling. By definition, interactive\nstorytelling is \"a form of the digital environment in which users create\nor influence a dramatic storyline through actions\" (Ferk, n.d.). In\nliterature, the author has absolute control over the story, whereas in video\ngames the creator of the story gives some control to the player, therefore,\nmaking the player experience the story told. For instance, in literature, the\nauthor presents the protagonist to his or her readers. The G5 G6 G7 protagonist's\nactions are fixed by the author, therefore the readers just watch on the\nsidelines as if the two were different peG8 ople.\nNow games, on the other hand, allows the player to experience the protagonist's\njourney as if they were the same person. A perfect example of this experience\nis role-playing games or RPGs, where the PC or player's character, whose\nactions and decisions are controlled by the user, does not see the story but\nactually participates in it. What are supporting characters in literature are\nthe same as NPCs or non-player characters in video games, they are not\ncontrolled by the user but by an AI or artificial intelligence created by the\nsame creator of the story. Nevertheless, do video games follow the same plot\ndevices aG9 G10 G11 s in literature? As a matter of fact,\nthey do. Every video game story follows a strict rule of having a beginning,\nbody, climax, and ending and archetype. By definition, an archetype G12 is an idea, symbol, pattern, or\ncharacter-type, in a story and it's any story element that appears again and\nagain in stories from cultures around the world and symbolizes something\nuniversal in the human experience (2017, Archetype: Definitions and Examples). In the case\nof the Sonic the Hedgehog games;\nSonic is the hero G13 archetype, Shadow is the anti-hero\narchetype, Tails aka Miles Prowler is the sidekick archetype, and Dr. Eggman is\narch nemesis archetype. As mentioned, video games are both art and literature.\nThere is, however, one last artistic aspect of video games to mention.G14 G15 G16 G17 G18\nLastly, video games are like theatre\nproductions where the player becomes the star actor or actress and director by\nof playing as the main characterG19 in a fictional world or story. Video\ngames are similar to an interactive theatre or \"a presentational or\ntheatrical form or work that breaks the \"fourth wall\" that\ntraditionally separates the performer from the audience both physically and\nverballyG20 .\" (2012, Pawar). Nevertheless, in\nvideo games, the interactivity is the participation of the playerG21 as the main character of the story. According to\nDaniel and Sidney Homan, during the age of \" video game narrative\"\ngames, where plot, narrative, and dialogue started become important to video\ngame development, enhancing the player's role as an actor and giving them the\nrole of playwright devising the script and determining the direction of the\nplot (2014, pg. 7) G22 G23 G24 Now in the recent years, the narrative in\nvideo games has become all-important since most contain multiple story paths,\nthousands of lines of alternate dialogue, and adding a voice to their\ncharacters. In both theater and games,\nthe audience has the ability to change the meaning and even the script usedG25 G26 G27 . In summary, video games are a\ncombination of these three considered art mediums; however, there are art\ncritics who believe otherwise. G28 G29 G30\nMany famous art critics believe that video\ngames can never be art due to there being no individual ownership for the\n\"artist\" to make it theirs. Robert Ebert (2010), a film critic, once wrote:\n\"G31 No one in or out of the field has\never been able to cite a game worthy of comparison with the great poets,\nfilmmakers, novelists, and poets.G32 \"(para. 21). Ebert argues the one\ndifference between art and games is that you can win a game. To clarify, a\nvideo game has rules, points, objectives, and an outcome; therefore, even if\none can cite a game with no rules or points, it ceases to be a game and becomes\na representation of a story, a novel, a play, dance, a film. A story, novel,\nplay, or film are a thing that cannot be won, only experienced (2010, para.\n11). G33 He also argues the interactivity of a\ngame meant that the creator was unable to claim an authorial vision (Stuart,\n2012). To clarify, Ebert states \"No one 'owns' the game\" (Stuart, 2012, para.4).\nIn this case, there is no artist, therefore no work of art. However, these are the same counter-arguments\nused again and again.\nA rebuttal to Ebert's argument may be that\ngames are an expressive medium and a form of communication because of their\ninteractivity and rules. According to Chris Melissinos, while playing games,\ngamers can be inspired to feel guilt or joy or moral ambiguity and be\ntransformed instead of just distracted (Tucker, 2012). Melissinos, comparing\ngames and books, states that in books, everything is laid before the audience\nso there is nothing to discover; nevertheless, games allow the ownership of the\nauthor to remain true while allowing the observer to explore and experiment the\nworld given. Keith Stuart states that the critics like Ebert feel threatened by\nvideo games being art; therefore, they attempt to barricade themselves against\nthe flood of the new, to fence in what they understand and can safely ascribe\nmeaning to (Stuart, 2012). In Ebert's argument \"No one in or out of the\nfield has ever been able to cite a game worthy of comparison with the great\npoets, filmmakers, novelists, and poets.\"G34 (2010, para.21); however, two things\nhave happened in this decade that weakens this argument. First, the rise of the\nindependent games because of the \"Indies\" producing thousands of edgy, curious\nand deeply personal games those are similar to art (Moriarty 2015). Second, the\nnew experiences which fuse the technology of games and cinema into dynamic\nhybrids that are neither games nor cinema (Moriarty, 2015). In the argument of video games having rules\nand can be won not experienced, Melissinos (2015) rebukes \"In video games, we\nfind three distinct voices: the creator, the game, and the player. Those who\nplay a game are following the story of the author and are bound by the\nconstructs of the rules\u2014but G35 based on the choices they make; the\nexperience can be completely personal. If you can observe the work of another\nand find in it personal connection, then art has been achieved.\" (para.3). Game\ndevelopers make games about serious issues and historic events, portraying\ntheir own or others' struggles with life, or based off of folklore and legends.\nIn June of 2012, the Supreme Court ruled video games should be considered an\nart form, as deserving of the United States First Amendment safeguards as \"the\nprotected books, plays, and movies that preceded them.G36 \"(Tucker, 2012, para.1).\nTo clarify, some games are based on other art\nmediums such as film and literature.G37\nGames can be either based loosely on these mediums creating a different\ninterpretation or can be exactly derived from the medium. Sometimes, a popular novel becomes a base for\nG38 G39 a film creating two sources game\ndevelopers can merge or use separately no matter the profound difference. The\ngames may even become better than the mediums their based off of because the\ngame sometimes achieve what the author or movie director is trying to do. For\ninstance, Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor is\nbased on the Lord of the Rings novels\nand The Hobbit films. However, the absurdly long LOTR and Hobbit\nfilms built drama into their absurdly long battle sequences, wherein the\naudience needed to see named characters in peril and reappearing super-threats\nis something Mordor does not use (Meer, 2015). According to Alec Meer (2015),\nMordor structure in the battle scenes are more vivid and breathlessly inspiring\ndue to the hero becoming stronger in a more realistic slow pace. To clarify,\nMordor had achieved the battle scenes and experiences the movies and novels\ntried to portray since a novel and movie have a limited time for the main\ncharacters progression (Meer, 2015). Even so, literature-based games are\ndeveloped and are moreG40 popular than movie based games\nbecause literature based games has less limitations on the story or script.\nLiterature games can also be a retelling of a story in a different light. For\nexample, American McGee's Alice\nreleased in 2000 by Electronic Arts, a dark retelling of the Alice in Wonderland story starting with\nAlice in a catatonic state due to the death of her family (American McGee's\nAlice (Video Game), n.d.). In this state, she is transported to a twisted\nWonderland, using a variety of deadly toys to kill the Queen's minions, many of\nwhich are her former friends and companions trying to destroy her and solving a\nnumber of puzzles along the way to destroy the Queen of Hearts and return\nWonderland to its former self, thus healing her mind as well. Her guide and\nprimary ally is a twisted, emaciated Cheshire Cat, who can be summoned by the\nplayer for hints on how to go or just the occasional cryptic quote (American\nMcGee's Alice (Video Game), n.d.). As noted, the game is twisted and morbid\njourney into the mind based off of Alice\nin Wonderland. Some video games are inspired by literature and tell an\nentirely different story in the case of Assassin's\nCreed. Surprisingly, Creed was heavily inspired by a 1930 novel titled Alamut. According to David Roberts\n(2016), the author's, Vladimir Bartol, novel Alamut centers on a man named Hassan-i Sabbah, who is a Persian\nmissionary and converted a small community back in the 11th century. Sabbah\nformed the Hashshashin to further their order. The motto of the Hashshashin\n\"Nothing is an absolute reality, all is permitted.\" (Roberts, 2016,\npara.1). Creed follows the Hashshashin motto in a different way because Alamut doesn't\nreally touch on the whole \"ancient high-tech civilization controls\nhumanity's actions through a series of magical artifacts to prevent a massive\ncataclysm in 2012\" plot Assassin's\nCreed contains. Lastly, these games allow exploration of the world created\nin the book as portrayed in The Witcher.\nWitcher is actually based off of a Polish series of dark fantasy short stories\nand novels under the same title. For the game, the developers use the lovely\n\"amnesia\" trick on the Polish novel series' main protagonist, Geralt of Rivia\n(Roberts, 2016). In the game, Geralt lost much of his memory of his time\nadventuring, leaving you to learn about the world and its inhabitants as you\nprogress. The Witcher series are\nfamous for wading in the books' own morally gray ethics \u2013 only this time, the\nplayer's choices actually affect the world more than if one would simply turn a\npage (Roberts, 2016). Many iconic video game franchises even sources for other\nmediums, mostly for film and books; for instance, a grand example would be the\nfamous Resident Evil series. Six\nmovies, a book series, and comic series under the same title were loosely based\noff it (JTRW, 2014). All those mentioned\nare examples of how video games is becoming a new herald to books, films, and\nplays that precede art.G41 G42 G43\nAs mentioned, even\nthough video games still receive negative stereotypical views to this day, it\nis rapidly becoming an art form in the art culture. Whether some art critics\ndisagree and maintain the same \"video games can never be art\"\nargument, there is no denying a cultural change on what is believed to be art\nand on video games themselves. Video games are an example of fine art like\nsculptures and paintings the in-depth intent and meanings the player experiences and the same use of artistic techniques\nwith new methods. 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{"text":"EC3 vs. Matt Cardona at \"Free the Narrative\" show\nApr 16, 2021 - by Marc Middleton\nEC3 and Matt Cardona (fka Zack Ryder) are set to face off at a special \"Free The Narrative\" event that will air ahead of Memorial Day Weekend.\nEC3 has been using the \"Free The Narrative\" line since leaving WWE last year. He is currently working with ROH, while Cardona is working with Impact Wrestling.\nThe special event is available for pre-ordering now at $14.99 via Vimeo. It will air exclusively through Vimeo on Vimeo on Thursday, May 27 at 8pm ET.\nThe official promotional material for this event notes, \"There will be no three-letter companies or corporate wrestling brands\u2014only answers. In addition to this 'featured fight,' EC3 has personally invited people you know and people you will know, all of whom are ready to embrace the #ControlYourNarrative movement. Set to an original score, 'Free The Narrative' is an entirely independent production that will feature an innovative blend of professional wrestling, cinema, and harsh reality.\"\nThere's no word yet on who else will be involved with the show, but we will keep you updated.\nStay tuned for more on EC3 and Cardona. You can see the full announcement below, along with the poster, the trailer and a video of the two shooting on each other over coffee:\nEC3 FIGHTS MATT CARDONA ON MEMORIAL DAY!\nTHE LONG AWAITED, COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT CLASH WILL BE AVAILABLE ONLY ON VIMEO.\nFREE THE NARRATIVE 5-27-21\n\"Are you happy, Matt?\"\nA lot has changed in one year. While they have taken very different paths, EC3 and MATT CARDONA now find themselves on a collision course. Since their public dismissal during a world-wide pandemic, EC3 has asked, even demanded, that Cardona answer a seemingly simple question: \"Are you happy?\" EC3 believes the answer goes far deeper than MATT admits, and has tormented CARDONA on social media, his podcast and his YouTube show in a quest for the \"truth.\"\nNow, we will finally learn the answer. These rivals will face off at \"Free The Narrative,\" which will be available to fans only on VIMEO on Thursday 5\/27\/2021 Memorial Day Weekend.\nThere will be no three-letter companies or corporate wrestling brands\u2014only answers.\nIn addition to this \"featured fight,\" EC3 has personally invited people you know and people you will know, all of whom are ready to embrace the #ControlYourNarrative movement.\nSet to an original score, \"Free The Narrative is an entirely independent production that will feature an innovative blend of professional wrestling, cinema, and harsh reality.\nFree the Narrative tells original and personal stories\u2014it is more than just a surface perspective into the hardship of a very competitive industry. This is a profound glimpse into the reality that these wrestlers face, and this venue and The Narrative platform offer them the chance to destroy their pasts through the primal act of combat.\nTo \"Control Your Narrative\" is to \"tell your story.\"\nAt \"Free The Narrative\" their stories will be told.\n4\/22\/19 Live Raw Coverage: A new era begins on the red brand\nAustin Reflects on his 316 Matches with The Undertaker\nOwen Hart passed away twenty years ago today\nFirst Raw teases for Monday\nCena on breaking Flair's record, proposing at WrestleMania, retiring, more","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Intensive Language\nFull Degree\nAPI in Dublin, Ireland: University College Dublin Summer Health Sciences Program\nStudents who choose to study abroad in Dublin at the Health Sciences Summer School at University College Dublin (UCD) take courses in the field of healthcare.\nIdeal for health students seeking a global perspective, the Health Sciences Summer School at UCD provides a challenging international education experience in central Dublin. Students on this program will benefit greatly by developing their knowledge of comparative health systems and their skills in research, in addition to benefiting from the rich culture of Dublin and the opportunity to integrate into Irish life.\nStudents who choose to study abroad in Dublin at the Health Sciences Summer School at University College Dublin (UCD) take courses in the field of healthcare, including Introduction to Health Systems, Critical Appraisal of Research for Healthcare, and Introduction to Statistics.\nSetting Description:\nUniversity College Dublin is a dynamic, modern university where cutting-edge research and scholarship provide a stimulating intellectual environment \u2013 the ideal surroundings for learning and discovery. For over 150 years, UCD has produced graduates of remarkable distinction including famous surgeons, architects, entrepreneurs and five of Ireland's Taoisigh (Prime Ministers). Perhaps the best known of all its graduates is the writer James Joyce, who completed his Bachelor of Arts at the university in 1902.\nPre-departure, On-site, and Re-entry services included, such as advising and online resources, airport reception, resident directors, housing, tuition, tutoring, medical & life insurance, excursions, social & cultural activities, alumni network, Learning and Engagement Badge Program and more!\nAdditional Program Information\n*Minimum 2.5 G.P.A. *Open to juniors and seniors\nScholarships Description:\nAPI awards approximately $500,000 in study abroad scholarships annually ranging from $250 -$1,000 per student.\nNot Yet Reviewd\nBe the First to Review this Program\nAdvisor Information\nPrivacy Policy | Terms of Use | Legal Notice | Do Not Sell (CA and NV residents)\n\u00a9 Copyright 1995-2020 EducationDynamics, LLC\nThe sources for school statistics and data is the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics and the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System unless otherwise noted.\nDisclosure: EducationDynamics receives compensation for the featured schools on our websites (see \"Sponsored Schools\" or \"Sponsored Listings\" or \"Sponsored Results\"). So what does this mean for you? Compensation may impact where the Sponsored Schools appear on our websites, including whether they appear as a match through our education matching services tool, the order in which they appear in a listing, and\/or their ranking. Our websites do not provide, nor are they intended to provide, a comprehensive list of all schools (a) in the United States (b) located in a specific geographic area or (c) that offer a particular program of study. By providing information or agreeing to be contacted by a Sponsored School, you are in no way obligated to apply to or enroll with the school.\nThis is an offer for educational opportunities that may lead to employment and not an offer for nor a guarantee of employment. Students should consult with a representative from the school they select to learn more about career opportunities in that field. Program outcomes vary according to each institution's specific program curriculum. Financial aid may be available to those who qualify. The information on this page is for informational and research purposes only and is not an assurance of financial aid.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"NewsFile | Remembering Marianne de Trey and a New Studio in Kansas City\nWelcome to NewsFile, your weekly roundup of news from the world of contemporary ceramics and contemporary ceramic art. Unfortunately, as is sometimes the case on NewsFile, we have sad tidings this week. Marianne de Trey, a force within the British crafts movement, has passed away. From The Guardian:\nAbove image: Marianne de Trey. Photograph from the Ceramics Review Archive.\nMarianne de Trey, who has died aged 102, was one of the pioneers of the British functional studio ceramics movement after the second world war. Following the ideals of Bernard Leach, these potters provided handcrafted alternatives to factory production. Through her tablewares, her role as a teacher and the decorative pieces she continued to make into old age, Marianne contributed significantly to the British crafts revival. Her fine, often exuberant tablewares are among the signature forms of postwar ceramics.\nShe also left her mark in the US and went on to run a pottery at Dartington in Devon that became integral to the artistic programme established there by Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst.\nMarianne was born in London to well-to-do Swiss parents, Emma (nee Lehmann) and Auguste de Trey. Her father, who ran an old family business making dental tools, encouraged Marianne to attend the Royal College of Art in London, where she studied textiles, graduating in 1936 and going on to teach the subject at Ipswich Art School. At the RCA she met Sam Haile, a fellow student, whom she married in 1938. He was a charismatic painter and potter, part of the British surrealist group. He introduced his new wife to a broader world of revolutionary art, literature, music and politics, a wonderful but frightening time, she said.\nThough an energetic traveller abroad, her life at Dartington was frugal, her lack of interest in material things typical of many craftspeople of her generation. She received numerous honours, including two retrospectives of her work, and was made a CBE in 2006. On the latter award Marianne's feelings were mixed, particularly when it came to a tiresome search around Totnes for a hat for the investiture. Down to earth, direct and practical, she was not the sort of woman who wore hats.\nWhile some of the grander artistic schemes at Dartington ultimately failed, Marianne's perseverance ensured an unbroken tradition of pottery over half a century.\nShe is survived by her daughter, Sarah (who also goes by the name of Tattwa Gyani), and two grandchildren, Tom and Anna.\nMarianne de Trey, potter, born 3 November 1913; died 18 October 2016.\nWelcome, Kansas City Urban Potters\nNews out of one of America's ceramics hubs: KC Urban Potters just opened its doors in Kansas City, MO. Their website currently features the work of about 7 ceramists and we suggest giving it a look. From the studio:\nKansas City Urban Potters is a collective of full-time studio artists making functional pottery with a high standard of craftsmanship. Located in the heart of an already-strong clay community, the collective looks to expand visibility of contemporary studio pottery to local and regional audiences through invitational exhibitions, public lectures and community-based events. Through joining forces and partnering with other local organizations, makers can accomplish far more than what would be individually possible.\nDo you love or loathe these missives from the world of contemporary ceramics and contemporary ceramic art? Let us know in the comments.\nThe staff of Kansas City Urban Pottery. Click to see a larger image.\nFiled Under: All Topics, Art, contemporary ceramic art, Contemporary Ceramics, News Tagged With: britain, contemporary ceramic art, contemporary ceramics, kansas city, kc urban potters, london, marianne de trey, missouri, obituary, uk, united kingdom\nBill Rodgers\nBill Rodgers is a reformed journalist living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A lover of nontraditional storytelling, he explores the role of narrative in art. Bill is Managing Editor of cfile.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Fantasy author completes final books of series\nFantasy author completes final books of series -- Stephen R. Donaldson publishes ''The Last Runes of the Earth,'' his first book of the Covenant series in two decades\nBy Gilbert Cruz\nUpdated October 15, 2004 at 04:00 AM EDT\nIt's been two decades since we last saw Thomas Covenant, a modern-day leper traveling between our world and a parallel realm of magic, creatures, and arcane language. Now the hero of Stephen R. Donaldson's landmark fantasy saga returns in The Runes of the Earth, the first of four books that will complete the Covenant series (whose first six titles have sold 10 million copies). Why the delay? Donaldson, 57, says that he just wasn't good enough to finish the story at the time. \"I had an encounter with my own limits\u2026. I needed to stretch and grow as a writer before I tackled this final installment, so I turned to other storytelling ideas,\" he says. \"One thing led to another and suddenly it was 21 years later.\" In the meantime, Donaldson wrote 10 other books and enjoyed his life in New Mexico \u2014 though he'd rather not say exactly where, a lesson learned after a zealous young reader dropped by while the author was writing the second trilogy 25 years ago. \"This kid hitchhiked from Iowa with his backpack and arrived at my door, assuming that he could live with me while I taught him to be\u2026me, \" he recalls. \"I practically had to drive him away from my doorstep.\" With Covenant back, Donaldson might have to lock his doors again.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"8 cozy chic cardigans that are worth buying right now\nLaura Galvan\nOur team is dedicated to finding and telling you more about the products and deals we love. If you love them too and decide to purchase through the links below, we may receive a commission. Pricing and availability are subject to change.\nSweater season is in full swing and one silhouette that's having a major moment is the cardigan. From cozy neutrals to puffy shoulders and embellished buttons, there's no shortage of styles that will make a statement in your wardrobe.\nSpotted on and off the runways, the style that was once a staple in your grandma's closet has been revived for modern day. 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Olivia Rubin Tally Cropped Cardigan, $305\nOlivia Rubin Tally Cropped Cardigan\nIf you liked this story, check out over 20 products that went viral on TikTok on 2020.\nSave up to 70 percent during Nordstrom's Designer Finale sale\nThese best-selling $45 jeans should be in your Amazon cart, stat\nThis is the microphone you keep seeing all over TikTok\nThis warm and cozy teddy coat is affordable enough to buy in multiple colors\nThomas Whittle told police he was on doomed snowmobile that killed man \u2014 he just 'wasn't driving' it\nJurors in Corner Brook provincial court Tuesday heard Thomas Whittle, accused of driving a snowmobile while drunk and killing his passenger, claim he wasn't operating the vehicle at the time of the lethal crash. Crown prosecutor Renee Coates played an almost two-hour audio recording of an RCMP interview with Whittle conducted in March 2018, when he was arrested for impaired driving causing death. Whittle can be heard agreeing that he was sitting on the front of the snowmobile, but denying he was the one driving it. He told police that Justyn Pollard, who was sitting behind him, was actually operating the machine, with Pollard's hands on the handle bars, throttle and brake, while Whittle's hands rested on the centre of the machine, on a rubber handle in the middle. Whittle claimed he had his hands close to the kill switch of the 2015 green and purple Bombardier Freestyle in case something went wrong. Whittle faces four counts of impaired driving causing death in connection to the 2017 collision, when a snowmobile hurtled across a bridge at the Humber Valley Resort entrance and crashed into a taxi van, killing 21-year-old Pollard. The RCMP interview with Const. John Galway continued playing in the courtroom for an hour and 45 minutes. Over the duration of the recording, Whittle repeatedly tells Galway that he \"wasn't driving\" and pleaded with the officer to believe him. \"I was a passenger in the front,\" he told Galway. \"I am not going to be held responsible for something I didn't do.\" Whittle tells Galway he remembers very little from that night except for waking up in a pile on the bridge. On Wednesday, the jury heard a second police interview that was recorded just days after the incident took place. At the time, Whittle was recovering from his injuries at Western Memorial Regional Hospital in Corner Brook. Const. Paul Canning, the lead investigator on the case, collected a witness statement in which Whittle said he remembered seeing headlights coming toward him when he was on the bridge. Whittle also told Canning he was not operating the vehicle and that Pollard was in control from the back of the snowmobile. An emotional Whittle cried several times while speaking with police. Witness says footage shows front passenger driving Coates asked Canning on the stand to describe a still photograph of the snowmobile, captured from surveillance footage taken near the Humber Valley Resort gatehouse at about 4 a.m. on Feb. 19, 2017. Canning described the photo in detail, saying the driver in the front was in control and had both of his hands on the handlebars, while the passenger in the back had their hands around the driver's waist. Each member of the jury, nine women and five men, was handed a copy of the picture. The Crown has now finished presenting its case to the jury. Whittle, representing himself at the trial, can now call witnesses or testify, if he chooses. The trial is scheduled until the end of January. Read more from CBC Newfoundland and Labrador\nFamilies subjected to birth alerts deserve an apology, says B.C.'s Representative for Children and Youth\nThe B.C. government should apologize to families who were the subjects of birth alerts, says the province's Representative for Children and Youth (RCY), Jennifer Charlesworth. \"We believe that these families are due a public apology from the provincial government, which should acknowledge how wrong and harmful this practice was,\" the RCY said in a statement released Jan. 14 in response to IndigiNews' ongoing investigation into the legality of birth alerts. \"We also believe that, if information regarding previous birth alerts remains on the current personal health records of any women, such information should be removed.\" A \"birth alert\" or \"hospital alert\" is when a social worker flags an expectant parent to hospital staff \u2014 without their consent \u2014 because they feel the parent may put their newborn at risk. The hospital then notifies the social worker when the baby is born. \"In some cases, these alerts contributed to separating babies from mothers and families at what are critical bonding times,\" reads the RCY's statement. According to government records obtained by IndigiNews, birth alerts led to babies being apprehended approximately 28 per cent of the time in B.C. And in 2018, 58 per cent of the parents who were subject to birth alerts in B.C. were Indigenous. The RCY provides independent oversight for the province's child welfare system. Charlesworth has served as B.C.'s RCY since August 2018, and her team is responsible for monitoring, investigating, and advocating for children and youth in or from government care. She says she is \"very concerned about the content\" of documents obtained and published by IndigiNews. These records show that months before B.C.'s Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) formally put a stop to birth alerts on Sept. 16, 2019, the ministry was advised by the province's Ministry of the Attorney General that birth alerts are \"illegal and unconstitutional.\" \"For years and years and years, I've been opposed to the notion of birth alerts,\" says Charlesworth. \"In starting in this role, I felt it was really important that we continue to push against the use of birth alerts, so we were certainly heartened when [they were stopped.]\" In reviewing the records obtained by IndigiNews, Charlesworth says what stood out to her was that months before then-minister Katrine Conroy officially put a stop to birth alerts, there were discussions happening within MCFD about privacy breach concerns. \"Even though the practice of birth alerts was discontinued, I want to know: what other stones do we need to turn over to make sure that things are made right?\" says Charlesworth. \"I want to understand more about what happened.\" \"We've had a lot of discussions, both with the privacy commissioner and with the Ministry of Children and Family Development, about what our next steps are.\" She says her team is also reaching out to the Ministry of Health and the health authorities to ask what is written on a patient's file following a birth alert. This is important to understand because notes on a person's record can create \"the condition for the possibility of ongoing bias or discrimination,\" as documented in a recent report on anti-Indigenous racism and discrimination in B.C.'s health care system, Charlesworth says. \"Given what we now understand, that would be a breach of privacy, and it would need to be addressed and removed.\" Birth alerts involve the sharing of a parent's personal information between social workers and health care workers without the parent's consent. As previously reported, this constitutes a breach of privacy, according to Michael McEvoy, B.C.'s Information and Privacy Commissioner. \"Our office has looked at this issue, and it is our view that the practice of 'birth alerts' is not authorized by FIPPA [B.C.'s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act],\" a spokesperson for the commissioner told IndigiNews via email. \"I certainly think that, at a minimum, a public apology is in order,\" says Charlesworth. IndigiNews asked MCFD Minister Mitzi Dean whether she plans to issue an apology to parents and families impacted by these alerts. \"Any discussions around a formal apology need to be held first with Indigenous communities and developed in collaboration with those communities,\" said a ministry spokesperson via email. \"The Ministry is engaging with Indigenous leadership on these issues,\" they added. As to the question of reparations for families, Charlesworth says that's outside of her mandate. But she believes each family's situation should be considered on a case-by-case basis. Some families may not know that social workers shared their personal information with hospital workers in the form of a birth alert. In an email to IndigiNews, MCFD said it hasn't let parents know that it breached their privacy by issuing a birth alert about them because it \"didn't want to retraumatize affected families by providing notifications of past birth alerts.\" \"I think that's a relatively weak response,\" says Karin Kirkpatrick, Liberal MLA for West Vancouver-Capilano, and the official opposition critic for children, family development and childcare in B.C. \"I think we have privacy legislation that would dictate otherwise,\" she says. \"As with a privacy breach of any other kind, people deserve to be informed of it in a timely manner.\" Kirkpatrick says she supports the RCY's call for a public apology. So does Sonia Furstenau, leader of B.C.'s Green Party and MLA for Cowichan Valley. \"That is a starting point, not an ending point,\" Furstenau says. \"And then there is an enormous amount of work and change that should flow from that apology.\" \"I just cannot think of something more traumatizing for a mother and a baby then to be separated \u2014 unwillingly separated \u2014 within hours or days or weeks of birth,\" she says. And we have to \"recognize the ways in which this is a systemically racist system,\" Furstenau adds. \"The contrast between a white woman of privilege going into hospital with zero expectation that there's any chance that I'm not leaving with my baby after I give birth \u2026 Indigenous women do not have that privilege.\" As for MCFD's stated reluctance to notify families who were subjected to birth alerts for fear they may be retraumatized, Furstenau says, \"the damage has been done.\" MCFD needs to \"reconnect with these families, assess what the extent of the trauma was because of that action and then work to repair it,\" she says. \"That's the work that they need to do.\" The RCY has committed to doing a review, which could result in a public report or policy recommendations for the government. As an oversight body, Charlesworth says her office has a mandate to investigate any trend, practice or policy that may be harmful to or not supportive of children, youth and families. She says their review will likely take a few months, depending on the volume of information and how easy it is to access. \"It's going to be quite tricky to determine how many birth alerts were issued and for whom,\" she says. \"It's not a field that's collected.\" The RCY will need to track down that information \"in a number of different ways,\" she adds. Charlesworth says she appreciates the opportunity to review MCFD's records and the process that preceded the ministry's decision to ban birth alerts. And she says B.C.'s privacy commissioner has offered to provide advice and counsel as they review what happened. \"Anything that calls the system to take a closer look at itself and its practices and where it might have caused harm is a good thing,\" she says. At the same time, she adds it's important not to lose sight of the bigger picture \u2014 the drivers pushing people into the child welfare system such as \"poverty, domestic violence, mental health \u2026 [and] substance use concerns within the family [and] multiple moves.\" \"This is generations old. All the crap that we're seeing down in the States? That's absolutely indicative of white supremacy and the kind of big power dynamics that have resulted in the kinds of things that we're seeing. So, yes, kids are at risk. And, yes, kids are unsafe. And we have to intervene. But we also simultaneously have to be saying, so what's given rise to these vulnerabilities in the first place?\" she says. \"We have to take at poverty, we have to take a look at housing, we have to look at social attitudes \u2026 I don't want to just keep nibbling at the edges of our system. Okay, well, we don't have birth alerts \u2014 are we done? No, we're not done. We're not done at all.\" Brielle Morgan, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Discourse\nVariants du coronavirus : ce que l'on sait, ce que l'on ignore encore\n\u00c0 mesure que se d\u00e9veloppe l'\u00e9pid\u00e9mie de coronavirus, de nouveaux variants apparaissent. Ces mutants pourraient poser probl\u00e8me. Que sait-on de ceux qui pr\u00e9occupent actuellement les sp\u00e9cialistes ?\nJonathan Osorio upbeat about what lies ahead for Canadian men's soccer team\nMuch has changed since Toronto FC midfielder Jonathan Osorio first attended a Canadian national team camp in March 2013. All for the good. The 28-year-old Osorio, who has won 34 caps for Canada, painted a rosy picture Wednesday of the squad currently training in Bradenton, Fla. While key players such as Alphonso Davies (Bayern Munich), Jonathan David (Lille), Milan Borjan (Red Star Belgrade), Scott Arfield (Rangers), Junior Hoilett (Cardiff City) and Cyle Larin and Atiba Hutchinson (both Besiktas) are not there given the January camp does not fall in a FIFA international window, Osorio likes what he sees in the young talent around him. This camp is worlds apart from Osorio's first. \"Much different. Much more competitive,\" Osorio told reporters. \"A lot of players playing at good clubs, playing at a high level and playing at their clubs regularly.\" In the past, the talent pool wasn't as deep and Canadians were often buried on the depth chart at their clubs. Osorio welcomes the step up. \"I love it. I wish it was like this eight years ago,\" he said. \"But I'm happy with the way it is now. I'm very excited, The development has come a long way in this country. And it shows every time. Every January camp, it gets better. \" Coach John Herdman says he has some 88 players in his extended talent pool with a top tier of some 45. He will dig into that squad in a busy 2021 with World Cup and Olympic qualifying set to begin in March and the Gold Cup scheduled for July. First-time call-ups at the Florida camp, the first for Canada since last January, are Tajon Buchanan (New England), Cristian Gutierrez (Vancouver), Belal Halbouni (SV Werder Bremen II, Germany), Alistair Johnston (Nashville SC), Jahkeele Marshall-Rutty and Ralph Priso (Toronto FC), Dayne St. Clair (Minnesota United), Frank Sturing (Den Bosch, the Netherlands) and Joel Waterman (CF Montreal). More than half the players in the squad were born 1997 or later, which also makes them eligible for Canada's Olympic team. \"Very very exciting players,\" said Osorio. \"Players that belong on the pitch with the veteran players and all the better players \u2026 These young players are making a case to be a part of the full men's team as well.\" Now Canada has to deliver on that talent, says Osorio. The Canadian men have only qualified for one World Cup, in 1986 in Mexico, and have not taken part in the Olympics since 1984. Its lone Gold Cup triumph came in 2000. \"We're still trying to make an imprint on world football, in CONCACAF and in the world,\" said Osorio. \"We're still developing as a team. We have now the talent there. So, of course, we can't waste it. We know this. We're well aware of this. But we're more excited about it than anything.\" \"These things are possible now. These things are not out of reach,\" he added. It will take the Canadian men 20 qualifying matches to get to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. \"It's a long road but there's no better day than today to start working towards that,\" said Osorio. With three MLS teams and the Canadian Premier League, Canada now offers a place for talent to develop at home, he believes. In contrast, a teenage Osorio left friends and family to pursue his soccer dream in Uruguay, along with friend and Canadian teammate Lucas Cavallini (now with the Vancouver Whitecaps). While they spoke the language \u2014 Osorio's parents were born in Colombia while Cavallini's father is originally from Argentina \u2014 it wasn't easy. They lived in dormitory-style accommodations with Uruguayan juniors who initially saw them as foreign intruders looking to take their jobs. \"Canada is a young country when it comes to world football,\" said Osorio. \"We're a little bit behind the other countries as far as experience and things like that. But we are gaining knowledge every day, sending coaches to do licences overseas and things like that. \"So things are being done the right way now, the way they are done around the world. And that's what's helping this country grow \u2026 As long as we stay on this path, the sky's the limit for Canada soccer, because there is a lot of talent in this country.\" The Canadians are set to play the U.S. in a scrimmage Saturday. --- Follow @NeilMDavidson on Twitter This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 20, 2021 Neil Davidson, The Canadian Press\nBiden implores Americans to show 'tolerance and humility'\nIn his inaugural address, U.S. President Joe Biden urged Americans to end the 'uncivil war' that is dividing the country and 'show a little tolerance and humility' so that the country can face its great challenges together.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/articles\/netflix-rally-continues-with-earnings-set-for-next-tuesday-51587060394\nEven the Bears Are Getting Optimistic About Netflix's Earnings\nEric J. Savitz\nPhotograph by Alastair Pike\/AFP via Getty Images\nNetflix shares surged further into record territory on Thursday, as analysts adjust models and target prices ahead of the company's first-quarter earnings report, due after the market's close next Tuesday.\nNetflix's first-quarter guidance was for $5.7 billion in revenue, profits of $1.66 a share, and 7 million net new subscribers. The Street consensus calls for $5.74 billion and $1.64 a share. But the focus is going to be on new subscribers during the quarter\u2014and expectations for the second quarter.\nNetflix (ticker: NFLX) has almost certainly gained viewers\u2014and streaming hours\u2014in recent weeks, as billions of people hunker down at home. Following a huge jump in streaming subscribers for Walt Disney (DIS) and a 49% spike in first-quarter streaming hours at Roku (ROKU), expectations are mounting for Netflix's latest results.\nNetflix shares are up 37% year to date and almost 20% since last week. The streaming pioneer now has a market value inching close to $200 billion, surpassing both Disney and Comcast (CMCSA) to become the most highly valued U.S. entertainment company.\nNetflix rose another 3.8% Thursday to $442.46; barring a reversal, the stock is headed for another record close.\nOn Thursday morning, Morgan Stanley analyst Benjamin Swinburne reiterated an Overweight rating on the stock, lifting his price target to $440, from $400. He writes that few companies are benefiting more from the shelter-in-place phenomenon than Netflix.\nSwinburne now sees the company adding 14 million net adds over the first two quarters of the year, up from 11.7 million previously. \"The 2020 global advertising recession likely cements Netflix's leadership position and increases the returns it can generate,\" he wrote. \"Netflix competes for consumers' time, and its primary competition for that time\u2014incumbent broadcasters around the world\u2014face 10%-20% advertising revenue declines and will likely need to reduce content investment.\"\nSwinburne added, \"The bull market has ended, but it ends with Netflix's lead intact and perhaps insurmountable.\"\nJ.P. Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth also repeated his Overweight rating, while upping his target to $480 from $440. \"Netflix is a clear beneficiary of stay-at-home, but more importantly we believe it is also accelerating the secular shift toward on-demand streaming, resulting in a bigger business over time,\" he writes. Anmuth upped his outlook for first-quarter net adds to 8.8 million, from 7.5 million.\nEven bearish analysts are raising their Netflix target prices.\nEvercore ISI analyst Vijay Jayant held on to his In Line rating, while increasing his target to $350, from $300. \"Netflix is clearly emerging as the winner of an internet TV category with plenty of secular growth ahead, but we think there are enough questions about longer-term profitability of the internet TV business model which lead to our conclusion that the risk\/reward profile for NFLX shares looks balanced at best at current levels,\" he wrote. But he now forecasts 9.5 million net adds in the quarter, well above guidance, and 29 million for the year.\nWedbush analyst Michael Pachter remains the most determined bear on the stock, repeating his Underperform rating, while upping his target to $194, from $173.\n\"We believe that Netflix's valuation is unwarranted,\" he wrote. \"We expect the company to continue to increase its marketing and content spending over the next several years in order to maintain the pace of its subscriber growth ...Although we expect a temporary boost to free cash flow from Netflix's inability to produce content during the pandemic, we expect the company to bid up the price of available licensed content, and think that the lack of new content may cause churn to increase later in the year.\"\nWrite to Eric J. Savitz at eric.savitz@barrons.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Verein zur F\u00f6rderung der Kommunikation von Bildung und Wissenschaft, mit besonderem Augenmerk auf unabh\u00e4ngigen, ausgewogenen und vorurteilsfreien Bildungs- und Wissenschaftsjournalismus\nEigenveranstaltungen\nFremdveranstaltungen\n\u00dcber den Klub\nZiele des Klubs\nDie Statuten des Klubs\nF\u00f6rdernde Mitglieder\nWissenschafterIn des Jahres\nEisstockschie\u00dfen 2018\n\u2190 27.3.2014: Study trip Lower Austria\n28.3.2014: EUSJA on top \u2192\n28.3.2014: Study trip Vienna\nPubliziert am 28. M\u00e4rz 2014 von Oliver Lehmann\nThe second day of study trips took the delegates of the EUSJA GA 2014 to hotspots of science and research in Vienna. First point of call was the Uni Campus Wien, the former general hospital which had been converted in the 1990s and transferred to the University of Vienna. The representative for science, research and universities of the city of Vienna, Prof. Alexander Van der Bellen, welcomed the delegates on behalf of the city and informed them about Vienna as university location: a total of 180.000 students represent 10% of the Vienna's population. After a tour of the compound the group received a presentation at the Institute of Contemporary History of the University of Vienna. Prof. Johnanna Gehmacht and her colleagues gave an overview of their research, especially on the history of science with a focus on Vienna in the 1920s and 1930s.\nNext stop was the new Campus of Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), opened 2013. The WU is Europe's largest university dedicated to business and economics, ranked as one of the best business schools in Europe. The new \"Campus WU\" is close to the public park Prater and features six main building complexes on 25 acres (10 ha) making it the largest campus for business sciences in Europe. The buildings were designed by architectural firms from Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan and Austria. The dominant element of the campus is the Library & Learning Center which was planned by Zaha Hadid. In this sepctacular building Rector Christoph Badelt welcomed the group and explained the development of the WU emphasizing the international networks.\nThe third centre of research on this day was the Atominstitut where Director Hartmut Abele welcomed the guests. Run by the Faculty of Physics at the Technical University Vienna it is dedicated to today's broad range of research and education ranging from very fundamental questions about symmetries and interactions in nuclear and particle physics to neutron-, atomic-, quantum-physics and quantum optics to radiation- and reactor physics to applied tasks such as environmental monitoring, radiation protection or for example the radiation resistance of modern materials. Highlight was a visit in the test reactor whrer the science journalists witnessed a nuclear fission.\nProf. Helmuth Veith gave an overview of the upcoming Vienna Summer of Logic in July 2014, with 2500 participants the \"biggest gathering of logicians since Aristotle\".\nFinal destination was the Campus Vienna Biocenter (CVBC), one of the most prominent life sciences hubs not only in Austria but also in the Central European Region. The founding nucleus was the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) soon augmented by the University of Vienna with five departments. In 1998, the CVBC spin-off company Intercell (now Valneva) was founded. Subsequently, the Austrian Academy of Sciences founded two new research institutes, IMBA and GMI, situated next door to the IMP. The Campus has continued to rapidly develop and now includes more than 15 complementary players in the life sciences.\nThe evening reception at the Dino Hall of the Museum of Natural History, sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy, was the appropriate conclusion to the tightly scheduled two-day study trip. The museum is one of the largest, oldest, and most noteworthy natural history museums in the world. The current building was completed in 1889. Today it houses a collection of about 30 million specimens and artifacts. Its collections were founded in 1750 by Emperor Franz I Stephan of Lorraine, the husband of Maria Theresa. A few selected specimens could be examined after dinner during late night tour of the museum.\n\u00a9 Klub der Bildungs- und Wissenschaftsjournalisten \/ Joseph Stoisits. Free usage in the context of the EUSJA GA 2014\nDieser Beitrag wurde unter Eigenveranstaltungen, News, Veranstaltungen abgelegt und mit EUSJA GA 2014 verschlagwortet. Setze ein Lesezeichen auf den Permalink.\nAusschreibung V\u00d6Z-F\u00f6rderpreis Wissenschaft und Medien\n\u00d6kologe Georg Grabherr,\"Wissenschafter des Jahres\" 2012, gestorben\nStaatspreis 2022 f\u00fcr drei ausgezeichnete Wissenschaftsjournalistinnen\nAPA-OTS: Wissenschaftsfeinde im Aufwind\nKlubabend mit Rektor Sebastian Sch\u00fctze\nEUSJA study trips\nJournalistenpreise\nKategorien Kategorie ausw\u00e4hlen Auszeichnungen Calls \/ Ausschreibungen Eigenveranstaltungen Fremdveranstaltungen Jobs Medienreisen News Preise Stipendien Veranstaltungen WissenschafterIn des Jahres\nAlpbach EUSJA EUSJA GA 2014 Generalversammlung ORF Studie Wissenschafter des Jahres","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"End\u014d Sh\u016bsaku. Translated by Van C. Gessel\nPub Date: August 2020\nIn novels such as Silence, End\u014d Sh\u016bsaku examined the persecution of Japanese Christians in different historical eras. Sachiko, set in Nagasaki in the painful years between 1930 and 1945, is the story of two young people trying to find love during yet another period in which Japanese Christians were accused of disloyalty to their country.\nIn the 1930s, two young Japanese Christians, Sachiko and Sh\u016bhei, are free to play with American children in their neighborhood. But life becomes increasingly difficult for them and other Christians after Japan launches wars of aggression. Meanwhile, a Polish Franciscan priest and former missionary in Nagasaki, Father Maximillian Kolbe, is arrested after returning to his homeland. End\u014d alternates scenes between Nagasaki\u2014where the growing love between Sachiko and Sh\u016bhei is imperiled by mounting persecution\u2014and Auschwitz, where the priest has been sent. Sh\u016bhei's dilemma deepens when he faces conscription into the Japanese military, conflicting with the Christian belief that killing is a sin. With the A-bomb attack on Nagasaki looming in the distance, End\u014d depicts ordinary people trying to live lives of faith in a wartime situation that renders daily life increasingly unbearable. End\u014d's compassion for his characters, reflecting their struggles to find and share love for others, makes Sachiko one of his most moving novels.\nAn important work of historical fiction that raises profound questions about the moral legitimation and human cost of war, transnational relationships, and the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.\nEnd\u014d Sh\u016bsaku (1923\u20131996) was Japan's leading Christian writer, a prolific author of novels, stories, and plays. Among his translated works are The Samurai, Deep River, Wonderful Fool, and Foreign Studies. His best-known novel, Silence, was adapted into a film by Martin Scorsese in 2017.\nVan C. Gessel is professor of Japanese at Brigham Young University. He has translated eight of End\u014d's works, including Kiku's Prayer (Columbia, 2012). In 2018 he received an imperial decoration, Order of the Rising Sun.\nAsian Studies: Fiction and Literature\nAsian Literature in Translation\nAsian Fiction and Literature\nWeatherhead Books on Asia","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}