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Improving a Machine Learning System (Part 2 - Features) This post is part two in a three part series on the challenges of improving a production machine learning system. Find part one here and part three here. Adding New Features or Improving Existing Features A machine learning model is only as powerful as the features it is trained with. As a result, one of the most important parts of improving a machine learning system is improving the core feature set. However, experimenting with new features or feature improvements presents a unique set of challenges. Online Version vs Offline Version Probably the most straightforward challenge of adding new features is offline/online mismatch. This problem arises when the processes by which features are derived from raw data are different between the systems for model training and model serving. This problem is particularly common when a model is trained and deployed in different environments. For example, suppose we train a model in a notebook on a cloud machine but deploy it to run in a user's browser. The feature computation code in these two settings may be written in different languages, and slight differences in serialization, tokenization, rounding, etc are very common. Even in the situation that the feature serving code is identical between the training and inference pipelines, it is common for the data itself to be different. For example, it is often most cost efficient for organizations to use low-latency key-value stores like redis or bigtable to serve features online but to use data warehousing solutions like hadoop or bigquery to manage features for offline model training. It is possible for substantial differences to exist between how data is written, stored, and accessed between these different tools. Finally, even when the features themselves are identical, the systems for providing features at inference time may fail or timeout. This is particularly common in large distributed systems with tight latency constraints. Even if the ML system is engineered to handle these failures gracefully, these events can cause differences between the feature distributions at training and inference time. Another well known challenge with feature experimentation is time travel. Time travel arises when we use a feature that is computed at time t2 to train or evaluate a model on a sample that was derived at some time t1 != t2. This can skew the feature distribution and lead to mismatch between the training and inference feature distributions. This is particularly risky when t1 < t2, since it is possible for the label to "leak" into the feature distribution. For example, suppose we are training a click prediction model, and one of the features in the model is the number of clicks that the user has performed in the last 30 days. Now suppose we use the value of this feature at time t2 to predict the probability of a click at t1 where t1 < t2. The model will likely overindex on the importance of this feature, since the user's decision to click at time t1 is already included in the value of the feature at time t2. Time travel is easy to avoid when the set of features that we use is constant. We can simply log the feature set at prediction time, and then use the logged features for training and evaluation. However, we cannot use this strategy when we add a new feature or want to experiment with a new strategy for computing a feature. In these situations the only recourse may be to start logging the new features for a while before using them to train a model. Feature Freshness In most machine learning applications we can divide features into two categories: Static features that change slowly and don't need to be updated often. This includes things like user age, text content, and media content. Dynamic features that change quickly and rely on regular updates. This includes things like a user's last action, today's weather, or a sensor's last health report. If a model is trained to expect that dynamic features are computed with a 2-hour lag, then either system outages that increase that lag or performance improvements that reduce that lag can damage model performance. That's all for now. In our next post we will explore some of the challenges of A/B testing improvements to a machine learning system. Tags: Machine Learning, Machine Learning Systems, Features	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
About the site \| Read our blog SciCombinator Discover the most talked about and latest scientific content & concepts. Concept: Breastfeeding Similar to Those Who Are Breastfed, Infants Fed a Formula Containing 2'-Fucosyllactose Have Lower Inflammatory Cytokines in a Randomized Controlled Trial The Journal of nutrition Evidence suggests that human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) provide multiple benefits to infants, including prebiotic effects, gut maturation, antimicrobial activities, and immune modulation. Clinical intervention studies with HMOs are required to confirm these benefits in infants. Concepts: Infant, The Canon of Medicine, Randomized controlled trial, Milk, Breastfeeding, Lactation, Clinical research, Breast milk Vital Signs: Update on Zika Virus-Associated Birth Defects and Evaluation of All U.S. Infants with Congenital Zika Virus Exposure - U.S. Zika Pregnancy Registry, 2016 MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report Published almost 4 years ago In collaboration with state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments, CDC established the U.S. Zika Pregnancy Registry (USZPR) in early 2016 to monitor pregnant women with laboratory evidence of possible recent Zika virus infection and their infants. Concepts: Pregnancy, Childbirth, Infant, Fetus, Breastfeeding, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Hydraulic fracturing and infant health: New evidence from Pennsylvania The development of hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") is considered the biggest change to the global energy production system in the last half-century. However, several communities have banned fracking because of unresolved concerns about the impact of this process on human health. To evaluate the potential health impacts of fracking, we analyzed records of more than 1.1 million births in Pennsylvania from 2004 to 2013, comparing infants born to mothers living at different distances from active fracking sites and those born both before and after fracking was initiated at each site. We adjusted for fixed maternal determinants of infant health by comparing siblings who were and were not exposed to fracking sites in utero. We found evidence for negative health effects of in utero exposure to fracking sites within 3 km of a mother's residence, with the largest health impacts seen for in utero exposure within 1 km of fracking sites. Negative health impacts include a greater incidence of low-birth weight babies as well as significant declines in average birth weight and in several other measures of infant health. There is little evidence for health effects at distances beyond 3 km, suggesting that health impacts of fracking are highly local. Informal estimates suggest that about 29,000 of the nearly 4 million annual U.S. births occur within 1 km of an active fracking site and that these births therefore may be at higher risk of poor birth outcomes. Concepts: Childbirth, Infant, Epidemiology, Breastfeeding, Maternal bond, Infant mortality, Pediatrics, Mother Maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index and newborn telomere length Published over 4 years ago Newborn telomere length sets telomere length for later life. At birth, telomere length is highly variable among newborns and the environmental factors during in utero life for this observation remain largely unidentified. Obesity during pregnancy might reflect an adverse nutritional status affecting pregnancy and offspring outcomes, but the association of maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) with newborn telomere length, as a mechanism of maternal obesity, on the next generation has not been addressed. Concepts: Childbirth, Infant, Nutrition, Obesity, Mass, Breastfeeding, Body mass index, Star Trek: The Next Generation Persistence of Supplemented Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis EVC001 in Breastfed Infants Attempts to alter intestinal dysbiosis via administration of probiotics have consistently shown that colonization with the administered microbes is transient. This study sought to determine whether provision of an initial course of Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis (B. infantis) would lead to persistent colonization of the probiotic organism in breastfed infants. Mothers intending to breastfeed were recruited and provided with lactation support. One group of mothers fed B. infantis EVC001 to their infants from day 7 to day 28 of life (n = 34), and the second group did not administer any probiotic (n = 32). Fecal samples were collected during the first 60 postnatal days in both groups. Fecal samples were assessed by 16S rRNA gene sequencing, quantitative PCR, mass spectrometry, and endotoxin measurement. B. infantis-fed infants had significantly higher populations of fecal Bifidobacteriaceae, in particular B. infantis, while EVC001 was fed, and this difference persisted more than 30 days after EVC001 supplementation ceased. Fecal milk oligosaccharides were significantly lower in B. infantis EVC001-fed infants, demonstrating higher consumption of human milk oligosaccharides by B. infantis EVC001. Concentrations of acetate and lactate were significantly higher and fecal pH was significantly lower in infants fed EVC001, demonstrating alterations in intestinal fermentation. Infants colonized by Bifidobacteriaceae at high levels had 4-fold-lower fecal endotoxin levels, consistent with observed lower levels of Gram-negative Proteobacteria and Bacteroidetes. IMPORTANCE The gut microbiome in early life plays an important role for long-term health and is shaped in large part by diet. Probiotics may contribute to improvements in health, but they have not been shown to alter the community composition of the gut microbiome. Here, we found that breastfed infants could be stably colonized at high levels by provision of B. infantis EVC001, with significant changes to the overall microbiome composition persisting more than a month later, whether the infants were born vaginally or by caesarean section. This observation is consistent with previous studies demonstrating the capacity of this subspecies to utilize human milk glycans as a nutrient and underscores the importance of pairing a probiotic organism with a specific substrate. Colonization by B. infantis EVC001 resulted in significant changes to fecal microbiome composition and was associated with improvements in fecal biochemistry. The combination of human milk and an infant-associated Bifidobacterium sp. shows, for the first time, that durable changes to the human gut microbiome are possible and are associated with improved gut function. Concepts: Bacteria, Gut flora, Ribosomal RNA, Milk, Breastfeeding, Lactation, 16S ribosomal RNA, Breast milk Maternal gestational vitamin D supplementation and offspring bone health (MAVIDOS): a multicentre, double-blind, randomised placebo-controlled trial The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology Maternal vitamin D status has been associated with bone mass of offspring in many, but not all, observational studies. However, maternal vitamin D repletion during pregnancy has not yet been proven to improve offspring bone mass in a randomised controlled trial. We aimed to assess whether neonates born to mothers supplemented with vitamin D during pregnancy have greater whole-body bone mineral content (BMC) at birth than those of mothers who had not received supplementation. Concepts: Vitamin D, Pregnancy, Childbirth, Fetus, Randomized controlled trial, Breastfeeding The early infant gut microbiome varies in association with a maternal high-fat diet Genome medicine Emerging evidence suggests that the in utero environment is not sterile as once presumed. Work in the mouse demonstrated transmission of commensal bacteria from mother to fetus during gestation, though it is unclear what modulates this process. We have previously shown in the nonhuman primate that, independent of obesity, a maternal high-fat diet during gestation and lactation persistently shapes the juvenile gut microbiome. We therefore sought to interrogate in a population-based human longitudinal cohort whether a maternal high-fat diet similarly alters the neonatal and infant gut microbiome in early life. Concepts: Pregnancy, Childbirth, Infant, Human, Gut flora, Breastfeeding, Maternal bond, Mammal Community mobilization in Mumbai slums to improve perinatal care and outcomes: a cluster randomized controlled trial. Improving maternal and newborn health in low-income settings requires both health service and community action. Previous community initiatives have been predominantly rural, but India is urbanizing. While working to improve health service quality, we tested an intervention in which urban slum-dweller women's groups worked to improve local perinatal health. Concepts: Health care, Infant, Epidemiology, Clinical trial, Poverty, Randomized controlled trial, Breastfeeding, Slum The Role of Avocados in Maternal Diets during the Periconceptional Period, Pregnancy, and Lactation Maternal nutrition plays a crucial role in influencing fertility, fetal development, birth outcomes, and breast milk composition. During the critical window of time from conception through the initiation of complementary feeding, the nutrition of the mother is the nutrition of the offspring-and a mother's dietary choices can affect both the early health status and lifelong disease risk of the offspring. Most health expert recommendations and government-sponsored dietary guidelines agree that a healthy diet for children and adults (including those who are pregnant and/or lactating) should include an abundance of nutrient-rich foods such as fruits and vegetables. These foods should contain a variety of essential nutrients as well as other compounds that are associated with lower disease risk such as fiber and bioactives. However, the number and amounts of nutrients varies considerably among fruits and vegetables, and not all fruit and vegetable options are considered "nutrient-rich". Avocados are unique among fruits and vegetables in that, by weight, they contain much higher amounts of the key nutrients folate and potassium, which are normally under-consumed in maternal diets. Avocados also contain higher amounts of several non-essential compounds, such as fiber, monounsaturated fats, and lipid-soluble antioxidants, which have all been linked to improvements in maternal health, birth outcomes and/or breast milk quality. The objective of this report is to review the evidence that avocados may be a unique nutrition source for pregnant and lactating women and, thus, should be considered for inclusion in future dietary recommendations for expecting and new mothers. Concepts: Pregnancy, Health, Nutrition, Milk, Breastfeeding, Lactation, Mother, Breast milk Gastro-oesophageal reflux: a mixed methods study of infants admitted to hospital in the first 12 months following birth in NSW (2000-2011) BMC pediatrics Gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR) is common in infants. When the condition causes pathological symptoms and/or complications it is considered gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD). It appears to be increasingly diagnosed and causes great distress in the first year of infancy. In New South Wales (NSW), residential parenting services support families with early parenting difficulties. These services report a large number of babies admitted with a label of GOR/GORD. The aim of this study was to explore the maternal and infant characteristics, obstetric interventions, and reasons for clinical reporting of GOR/GORD in NSW in the first 12 months following birth (2000-2011). Concepts: Pregnancy, Childbirth, Infant, Breastfeeding, Maternal bond, Infant mortality, Gastroesophageal reflux disease, New South Wales	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Number of laboratory animals used in Belgium 2018, by research type In 2018, over 556,000 animals were used for scientific research in Belgium. About half, or nearly 251,700 animals were used for basic research purposes. Basic research covers subjects such as oncology, nervous and immune systems, and more. During that year, roughly 141 thousand animals were used for regulatory and routine production purposes. These means cover notably quality control, toxicity, and safety testings. Number of laboratory animals used in Belgium in 2018, by research type Number of animals Number of animals used in research and testing worldwide 2020 by country Animals used in scientific experiments in Great Britain in 2019-2020, by severity Procedures on scientific animal experiments in Great Britain 2020 Purposes for scientific research on animals in European Union countries 2017 Statistics on "Animal testing" Number of animals used for scientific research in the EU 2015-2017 Animals used for scientific research in the European Union in 2017 by animal class Animals used for scientific research in the European Union 2017, by animal class Animal classes used for scientific research in the European Union 1999-2017 Animals used for scientific research in the European Union 2017, by origin Animals used for scientific research in the European Union 2017, by severity Animals used for experimental purposes in Great Britain in 2020 Animals used in scientific experiments in Great Britain by research field 2020 Animals used in scientific experiments in Great Britain 2019-2020, by genetic status Mice used in scientific experiments in Great Britain 2019-2020, by procedure Number of laboratory animals in applied research testing Belgium 2018, by purpose Distribution of laboratory animals in Flanders (Belgium) 2017, by type Number of laboratory animals in Flanders (Belgium) 2017, by type Animals used in scientific experiments in Ireland 2019 Animals used in scientific experiments in Ireland by project purpose 2019 Animals used in scientific experiments in Great Britain in 2020, by procedure Animals used in scientific experiments in Great Britain in 2020, by place of birth Public opinion of animal research and researchers in the United Kingdom 2016 Opinion on use of animals in non-medical research in the United Kingdom 2016 Public information on animal research and developments in the United Kingdom 2016 Opinion on use of animals in scientific research in the United Kingdom (UK) 2016 Opinion: types of animals acceptable to use for environmental research in the UK 2016 Public views of animal research organisations in the United Kingdom (UK) 2016 Opinion: types of animals acceptable to use for human medical research in the UK 2016 Acceptability and permissibility of using animals in cosmetic testing in the UK 2016 Opinion: types of animals acceptable to use for research into animal health UK 2016 Public opinion: risks/benefits of the use of animals in research in the UK in 2013 Animal testing Global pharmaceutical industry Pharmaceutical industry in the U.S. Pharmaceutical industry in the UK Animal health in the U.S. Departement Leefmilieu, Natuur en Energie. (April 11, 2019). Number of laboratory animals used in Belgium in 2018, by research type [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 21, 2022, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1043748/number-of-laboratory-animals-used-in-belgium-by-research-type/ Departement Leefmilieu, Natuur en Energie. "Number of laboratory animals used in Belgium in 2018, by research type." Chart. April 11, 2019. Statista. Accessed January 21, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1043748/number-of-laboratory-animals-used-in-belgium-by-research-type/ Departement Leefmilieu, Natuur en Energie. (2019). Number of laboratory animals used in Belgium in 2018, by research type. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: January 21, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1043748/number-of-laboratory-animals-used-in-belgium-by-research-type/ Departement Leefmilieu, Natuur en Energie. "Number of Laboratory Animals Used in Belgium in 2018, by Research Type." Statista, Statista Inc., 11 Apr 2019, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1043748/number-of-laboratory-animals-used-in-belgium-by-research-type/ Departement Leefmilieu, Natuur en Energie, Number of laboratory animals used in Belgium in 2018, by research type Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1043748/number-of-laboratory-animals-used-in-belgium-by-research-type/ (last visited January 21, 2022)	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
40 Watt Gigolo Hate To See You Go - The Rolling Stones from the album Blue & Lonesome (2016) At their core, The Rolling Stones are rooted in the blues. From their 1964 tribute to Chess Records - 2120 South Michigan Avenue - to taking their band name from a Muddy Waters song, the Stones and the blues are inseparable. Check out the moment in the concert film Shine A Light when Buddy Guy joins them on stage for Champagne & Reefer , you see the joy in the bands faces and hear the heightened intensity in their sound. This week, the band releases Blue & Lonesome , a record comprised of covers of old blues songs. The record further stakes their claim as a great blues band. Of the pre-released songs, my favorite is Hate To See You Go . This Little Walter cover is highlighted by Mick Jagger's harmonica playing. I dig sitting back and thinking "that cat can blow like Little Walter." High praise. Willie Dixon famously said "The blues are the roots, the rest are the fruits." It is nice to see the Où Va Le Monde - La Femme from the album Mystère (2016) La Femme is a French band that create trippy vibes. Check out the western mysterioso stylings going on in Où Va Le Monde . Coupled with the vocals, this song takes my on a groovy psychedelic journey that makes me smile. Click Here to watch the video for Où Va Le Monde . Muscles - Sport from the album Slow (2016) I am excited to be bouncing around France for a few days. Paris is quite different than I imagined it. More gritty, less magical. Maybe that makes it more magical? Anyhow, the vibe here really calls for some strong alternative rock and punk bands. In my search, I came across Sport, an indie band from Lyon that I am really digging. There music has a Replacements sensibility that I cannot get enough of. Check out the tune Muscles . It is melodic with a driving sense of purpose. This is what I want on my headphones when I ride the Metro. Click Here to listen to Muscles . Mr. Babylon - Bi.ba from the album Massavana (2016) With Dancehall and Dub styles in season, great new roots reggae is sometimes hard to uncover. Look no further than Bi.ba. On their latest album, this Bingy Band throw down a chain of grooves that soothes the soul and puts joy in your heart. Check out the tune Mr. Babylon . Listen to the tightness of the rhythm section. Feel how everything blossoms from there. Click Here to listen to a live version of Mr. Babylon . Soma Gone Slapstick - Kristin Hersh from the book Wyatt At The Coyote Palace (2016) Last night, I caught a Kristin Hersh show at Saint John on Bethnal Green in London. There is something about this city that makes every musical performance a cherished event. She is on tour promoting her new book Wyatt At The Coyote Palace and the double CD that accompanies it. I quite dig this type of packaging. So many of the singer/songwriters I admire also write excellent prose. Combining the two seems too natural. One of the new songs that stood out most is Soma Gone Slapstick , the lead single. Although the lyrics are expectedly out front on this tune, it is the underpinning stomp and pulse that create the necessary tension to highlight the might of the lyric. The world needs more thoughtful, high-quality writing in all forms. Artists like Kristin Hersh have a special gift allowing them to contribute across the literary spectrum. Click Here to listen to Soma Gone Slapstick . B-Cuz - Bettie Serveert from the album Damaged Goods (2016) One of my funky recently texted me with an urgent message to check out the Dutch Indie band Bettie Serveert. He saw them opening for Squeeze in Boston and became enthralled. So I downloaded their most recent release - Damaged Goods - and boarded a transatlantic flight where I would give them a spin. Eight hours later, I was landing at Heathrow after a good dozen listens. It is something of an indie tour de force ranging from epic rockers to Dusty Springfield inspired grooves. The song I digged most was track one, B-Cuz . The tone of this record takes me back to early Who songs from albums like My Generation . In fact, the song almost seems to give a tip of the hat to the song The Kids Are Alright . I really enjoy how that 50-something year old sound is updated into something fresh and current. Do yourself a favor and check out the full record. There are lots of gems here. Click Here to watch Bettie Serveert perform B-Cuz live. I Trusted U - Balkan Beat Box from the album Shout It Out (2016) Balkan Beat Box is an Israeli band whose music is stands at the intersection of gypsy punk, electonica, and reggae in a style that incorporates Jewish, Middle-Eastern, and Eastern European traditions. I first became aware of them a decade, or so, ago through their song Bulgarian Chicks. The single of their latest record is titled I Trusted You . The song contains a dizzying mix of beats, horns, rhythms, and catchy vocals. I dig it. Click Here to watch the official video to I Trusted U . Hey Lucinda - Tindersticks from the album The Waiting Room (2016) Lhasa de Sela has collaborated with Tindersticks before, her voice offering a perfect counterpoint to frontman Stuart A. Samples' iconic vocals. The two have even recorded together on Mr. Samples' solo efforts. What makes this year's release of the song Hey Lucinda particularly poignant, is that Lhasa de Sela sadly died of breast cancer in 2010. In a Vogue interview earlier this year, Staples said of Hey Lucinda : "When I first wrote the song, I was very excited because I broke a kind of stricture. From Islands In The Stream to Lee (Hazlewood) & Nancy (Sinatra), duets have been written the same way. The man sings a bit, the woman sings a bit, they sing the chorus together. In Hey Lucinda , the music follows the conversation rather than the conversation being fitted to the song structure." "I went to Montreal, where Lhasa lived, and sang it with her, and it sounded great, but I was struggling - it wa I Know Who - Ash. from the EP The Please Like Me (2016) How about some auto-tone laden, R&B driven, synth-pop to roll into the weekend? Last night, I heard the tune I Know Who by Ash. on SCAD Atlanta radio. It was catchy and hooky in a way I did not expect. I even turned up the volume (a lot). Sometimes we all need some mindless goodness to cleanse our spirits and souls. For those times we go there, it is best to choose really, really god mindless goodness. I dig this tune. Click Here to watch the official video to I Know Who . Felicidade - Dom La Nena from the EP Cantando (2016) I am on a beautiful, moonlit beach. Just me and the Land Ro. A few hundred yards to my left are some sailors, boisterous and drunk, speaking Portuguese. A bit apprehensive, I walk in the opposite direction. The Land Ro follows me. As the sound of the sailors fades beneath the soft surf, the sky becomes electric. The stars begin to dance on their indigo backdrop. I walk in wonder. Maybe half an hour later, I reach a perfectly rounded cove and decide to rest on a well-placed piece of driftwood. I sit there, secluded, wondering if this is where my magical journey ends. Music starts to play. A beautiful, soft Brazilian voice over plucked strings. Bowed strings come in adding to the magic. The shazam in my mind has heard this voice before. It is Dom La Nena. Hers is the sweetest voice I know. I lay in the sand, looking towards the heavens. The Land Ro morphs into a giant snowy egret and flies away. The music plays. Do do do ... Click H Motivation - Babyfather from the album "BBF" Hosted By DJ Escrow (2016) I'm on the floor of a Brixton pub. You know, the one with the rottweiler on the roof. I can't move and there is this Hackney brother hovering over me. As grateful as I am that he is not belting out a rendition of Singing In the Rain , I am a bit alarmed by the rapping and all the talk of " niggas ." It's an understated, monotone, do it on the bathroom floor kind of rap. It is a song called Motivation . The brother is Dean Blunt. DJ Escrow is somewhere in the background, shouting out to all his tugs. Shorty fell in love with a hustler Shorty fell in love with a G Hunny wanna hang with the brothers And she's always down for the tease I don't know Hunny. I don't know Shorty. I don't even know where my Land Ro is? But you know what, Motivation is a pretty cool tune. Now, get me out of here... Click Here to listen to Motivation . Plaisirs Américains - Bernardino Femminielli from the album Plaisirs Américains (2016) Maybe it was the super moon. Maybe it was the shots of Salmaikki in that Helsinki bar. But how the hell did I wind up in Paris? And how did the trusted, rusted Land Rover get here? Anyhow, I'm laying on the hood of the Land Ro - under my sleeping bag - eating baguette and stinky cheese trying to get that salty licorice taste of those shots out of my mouth. It's working. So is the Côtes du Rhône. Bernardino Femminielli is also working. I'm jamming the little track of his latest record - Plaisirs Américains - on my Land Ro stereo. Seven minutes of ecstasy. The hushed french vocals. The percussive piano chords. I'm diggin' this trip... Click Here to listen to Plaisirs Américains . Synnyin Syksyllä - Jukka Noisiainen from the album Jukka Noisiainen (2016) So I'm still behind the wheel of that old Land Rover. Having cruised along the rough roads of Nigeria, I decided to hyperspace to some new scenery. Welcome to Finland. Some locals suggested I drive north from Oulu to Hammerfest, but I opted against it. Good name for a puffy pants festival, bad name for a podiatrist convention. Instead, I am cruising south along the Gulf of Bothnia towards Pori. Good times. Hope the skies clear so I can see the super moon. For this leg of the journey, I am listening to Jukka Noisianinen, I really dig this Finnish guitarist, particularly his tune Synnyin Syksyllä . Warm analog tones, highlighted by a country twang and harmonies, create a familiar vibe. However, the Finnish vocals give it an erie unsettled excitement. Kind of like Tennessee in an alternative universe... Anyhow, it is perfect for this ride. Ooh. Look. It's the super moon. Click Here to listen to Synnyin Syksyllä . Win In the Flat World - Lorenzo Senni from the album Persona (2016) When I first started listening to the song Win In The Flat Room by Lorenza Senni, I had a similar feeling to when you come across an old photograph of someone from your past who - although dear to you - you have not thought about in decades. The reason is the style of music, particularly the high-velocity riffing on the keyboard. Once upon a time, I hung out in cars and dorm rooms listening to keyboardists like Keith Emerson and Rick Wakefield as they dazzled with hard-driven rocking riffs with near Mozart-like precision. In the music circles I've been swimming in these days, the fellas just don't play that way. I did not realize how much I missed it. Click Here to listen to Win In A Flat World . Finlin Ho - Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou from the album Madjafalao (2016) After this endless election cycle - and all the gloating and whining that has followed - wouldn't you just like to get away from it all? In my mind, I am driving an old Land Rover across some remote stretch of West Africa. The sun is warmly shining as I bounce along a dirt road in the open air. The stereo is cranked up blasting the happy, free-spirited music of Orcrcheste Poly-Rythmo Cotonou. Finlin Ho is tune that I keep coming back to. The band grooving to polyrhythms and sweet, sweet melodies in a language I do not need to understand. Just feeling the vibe, basking in the sunshine. I wish this road could stretch forever... Click Here to listen to Finlin Ho . You Want It Darker - Leonard Cohen from the album You Want It Darker (2016) Leonard Cohen died today. A few weeks ago, I wrote about the song " If I Didn't Have Your Love. " I thought that it was altogether fitting to choses a love song from the final album of such a master songwriter. I was urged by readers of this blog to also write about the album's title track, " You Want It Darker ." I agree with them that it is an incredible song, but I held back. Not certain why. Well, tonight I find myself listening to this song - over and over - wondering if he know of his impending death when crafting the lyrics and music. Maybe... Take a listen to a master songwriter at the end of his days. God bless Leonard Cohen. Click Here to listen to You Want It Darker . Click Here to read my post on If I Didn't Have Your Love . Out Of This World - Floating Pyramids from the single Out Of This World (2016) Once upon a time, I played in a band of highly talented musicians. We were not a "band of equals" as the singer and guitar player were prima donnas, soaking up the glory while the rest of us played second fiddle. Kind of like how the Beatles largely allowed George Harrison to contribute only one song per album (think of all the music this denied the world). In our band, if it wasn't their song or idea, they poo-poo'd it. Knowing that I had fair writing and marketing chops, I wanted to be the one who promoted our records and gigs. However, I knew that this would be a non-starter with our ego-maniac singer. My solution was to tell the band about a Public Relations specialist I knew named Elmore Bassett (cleverly named after my trusted Bassett Hound, Elmore James) who agreed to do me a favor and help us out. It worked. Over the next few years, our records were played in seven states and copy written by Elmore Bassett Boyish - Hippo Campus from the single Boyish (2016) Hippo Campus is a very clever band name derived from a play on one of the most important components of the human brain. I dig that. The hippocampus is thought to play a role in emotions like fear and anger, as well as the "slam on the brakes" reflex you may experience while driving. It also plays a role in feelings of joy and pleasure, which is what I experience when listening to Boyish , the latest single from this Minnesota band. From the opening notes, my heart is rushing with anticipation and joy. The eighth notes of the drum are really effective, as are the synth tracks. The high pitched vocals and occasional background mantra of " I'll save the earth " further add to the vibe. When this song ends, you can't help but feel a let down. It is cool when a song's energy evokes this. Click Here to watch the official music video to Boyish . Learning To Fly - Deep Sea Arcade from the single Learning To Fly (2016) Once upon a time, I saw A Flock Of Seagulls perform in a small NYC club. While most of the crowd wanted to hear I Ran , which was all the rage at the time, I was there to hear Space Age Love Song . For me, the song had something magical in the vibe that seemed to lift me off floor allowing me to float a few inches in the air. When I first heard the single Learning To Fly by the psychedelic Sydney band Deep Sea Arcade, I had a similar sensation. What is it that causes this? Is it the way the synths bounce over the beat? Is it the melodic vocal line? Is there something in the subliminal bass groove? The spaced out guitars? All of the above? And I wonder if the band understood that they were creating this sensation when naming the song. I like to think so. Anyhow, gives this tune a spin and give me a hand in figuring this one out. Thanks. Click Here to listen to Learning To Fly . Smash Hit - Potty Mouth from the single Smash Hit (2016) Are you looking for something " super extra ultra special fantastic " in your life? Something that gives you the fame and notoriety that has been eluding you for too long? That best selling novel? That hit record? Your Oscar speech? Well, take a minute to dream with Potty Mouth, a garage pop band from Northampton, Massachusetts. And while your listening, please remember that we believe in you, we are rooting for you, and we will be in that roaring crowd when your dream comes true !!! Click Here to watch the official video to Smash Hit . Dancing On Glass - St. Lucia from the album Matter (2016) Once upon a time, a drunken armada set sail for Sag Harbor, New York to see the Thompson Twins perform at a club called Bay Street. It was good pirate fun. Fast forward to today and one of those buccaneers has turned me on to St. Lucia, a Brooklyn-based synth-pop band whose mastermind hails from South Africa. Of all the songs I've sampled, Dancing On Glass is the one that resonates most. The title's visual imagery coupled with the recklessness it explicates puts a smile on my face. We all dance on glass in one form or another and " we're never gonna stop until we break it. " Now to the music, the synths, the beats, the groove are all fun; all have retro 80s with a modern sensibility. It evokes an underlying spirit of the time that we could dance our problems away. Thanks to my funky pirate friend for turning me on to this. Click Here to listen to Dancing On Glass . Welcome to my blog. I created this site as a way to share some of the great new songs that I stumble across with fellow music lovers. Hope you enjoy. --> 40 Watt	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Home Run Pick'em Head2Head Fantasy Baseball Continue the excitement through the MLB playoffs You're the GM with a $100 million Salary Cap Compete for only $10! First game is Tuesday, September 29th Popular game runs from the Wild Card Series through the World Series Easy to play - just pick 1 player from each of 12 groups $12.95 low entry package price - no additional fees $1,000 Grand Prize with $2,500 Perfect Entry Bonus! Compete with friends for added excitement Just $10 to play - no additional fees for the rest of the season! CASH prizes every week! Create a buddy league to compete with your friends Win the $2,500 Grand Prize and up to $400 in your league You're the GM with $100 Million payroll to build your team! Weekly head2head match-ups Live Stats included with each Complete Package Teams packages start as low as $14.95 Or, pick the High-Stakes League option - 80% CASH Payouts! Exciting event runs MLB All-Star Weekend only! Simply pick your favorite Futures and All-Star players Enter for as low as $5! Compete for great CASH prizes Hurry - deadline is Sunday, July 7th! Fantasy Baseball, or Rotisserie as it was called then, was the first of all fantasy sports games in America. Since the late 1970's, Fantasy "Baseballers" have been managing their own squad of major leaguers – from grand slams to no-hitters. The actual on-field performance of your players determines your team score. Head2Head Sports has a baseball game for everyone. From simple pick'em formats to our classic H2H salary cap game for wanna-be general managers. So, grab your glove and follow your team of big leaguers each and every week. Trout? Harper? Boston's pitching staff?… You make the call! Joey Lucchesi was traded from the Padres to the Mets on Monday as part of a three-team deal headlined by Joe Musgrove moving from Pittsburgh to San Diego, Kevin Acee of The San Diego Union-Tribune reports. Joe Musgrove was sent from the Pirates to the Padres as part of a three-team deal which sent Joey Lucchesi to the Mets and a package of prospects to the Pirates, Jeff Passan of ESPN.com reports. Corey Kluber is finalizing a one-year, $11 million contract with the Yankees on Friday, pending a physical, Jeff Passan of ESPN.com reports. Gio Urshela (elbow) and the Yankees reached a one-year, $4.65 million deal Friday, avoiding arbitration, Jon Heyman of MLB Network reports. Corey Seager and the Dodgers reached a one-year, $13.75 million deal Friday, avoiding arbitration, Jon Heyman of MLB Network reports. Francisco Lindor and the Mets reached a one-year, $22.3 million deal Friday, avoiding arbitration, Mark Feinsand of MLB.com reports.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
You were my crush.... till you said you love me AUTHOR - Durjoy Datta is bestselling author of five books, Of Course I Love You! (2008), Now That You're Rich! (2009), She Broke Up, I Didn't! (2010), Ohh Yes, I Am Single! (2011) and You Were My Crush! (2011). All these books have enjoyed prolonged stays on various bestseller lists including and especially the Flipkart. All his books are apparently (as written in its texts time and again) inspired from real life incidents. From the cover stats, His books have sold a total of 1,000,000 copies till date making him one of the highest selling Indian authors till date and also One of the youngest and the most prolific authors in the newly emerged coffee table paperback Indian fiction scene. Durjoy is a mechanical engineer from Delhi College of Engineering (DCE) and did his management from MDI, Gurgaon in 2011, he now co-owns a publishing house with other writers of similar genre like Sachin Garg of the "I'm not 24, I've been 19 for 5 years" fame. Orvana Ghai is the co-author of this book SYNOPSIS – Durjoy Datta's fifth book highlights itself as a true story based on his misunderstood brother - Benoy Roy. People say a lot of things about Benoy. 'I love him, but I don't want him to drive a Bentley,' his mom says, Or used to say. She is dead now. He drives a Bentley. 'He is a stranger to me. I haven't seen him since he was eight. I receive his credit card bills though,' his dad says. 'He should stop drinking,' his maid says. '...stop bribing professors,' his best buddy, Eshaan advises him. 'Good for nothing, brat!' his best friend, Diya says. 'I never want to see you again. Stop stalking me or I will let my boyfriend know,' the love of his life says. 'You're the best,' his brother, Deb claims. Between all this, who is the real Benoy? This story is about him picking up the pieces of his life and trying to find a meaning out of it. A big car, a big house, does it solve anything? Why is that despite having everything, he has nothing? You Were My Crush! is Durjoy's fifth book. Pulkit Speaks – Nothing new to offer. In the mid-end of last decade, when Indian Fiction scene started gaining popularity with the rise of Chetan Bhagat jonour of first person light hearted narrative, one of writers that emerged to be a highly loved person of that style was Durjoy. I have been closely following his rise right from the start of his writing career and have read all his works so far. Love them or hate them, but you can't deny the fact that he sells, and sells big time. This is his fifth book, as I have mentioned in the synopsis, it also is a Flipkart bestseller, and have great reviews there. Saying all that, I personally felt that this book is among all his titles, the most predictable, boring and substance less. After the days of "Of Course I love you… till I find someone better", and "Now That you are rich… Let's fall in love", Durjoy's ability to bring something fresh on the table have constantly been on a low down. His last three books, including the one I am reviewing this time have failed to bring on my face a fresh story, that has characters not resembling his first two titles. In third and fourth book, he almost re-narrated the first two in more elaboration and yet succeeded in selling so many copies, which shows that he does have a fan base, which reads his work irrespective of the originality of Idea and storyline base that it offers. The third and fourth titles, still had more moments of fun as compared to this one. This book clearly shows how it has been rushed into publication and lacks the Durjoy Magic that his initial books had. Benoy Roy's character has nothing new to offer, he has no shades that have not been displayed by Deb in some portion or another in past titles. His dad is almost too perfect to be true and you can almost predict 100 pages in advance to the end, how eventually he will fix everything in the same manner that he eventually fixes it. At times, its over flattery and attention for his charm, that makes it a little boring. His best buddy Eshaan is almost a side kick, that has no shade of his own, he fails to leave any impression on the mind of the reader and is almost never present in the story. Same tragedies have struck to Deb and Avantika, they are there, god knows why? And yet never there in any of the plot or main script scenes doing anything noticeable, the sheer presence less existence of those two is something that's almost disturbing for someone like me, who have read so much about them in the past from his pen. Either those two should have not been a part of this at all, or they should have been given more backbone than what they eventually got. Diya, initially appears as a strong confident ambitious and composed girl who gradually become a close friend of Benoy, but after the entry of her super gorgeous sister Naina in the story, she is nothing but a name being mentioned once in a while after every few pages, just to remind readers that she is there and will suffer big mishaps just to connect dots of Benoy's love life in the end. Their parents, in the story almost have no opinions of their own. They are confused and right from start to end, appears to be dependent on mercy of others wisdom to see the obvious. Naina's fiancée is almost a ruthless mean greedy boy, one can wonder over the course of entire story what she might have initially seen in him, considering she is smart and beautiful and not so stupid and he is dull boring and almost a bastard. He is just black and have not even a shade of grey and there hardly is a line where he shows any charm that can make us believe that Diya and Naina's parents were indeed in their senses when they agreed to marry their rose petal young daughter to him. I mean just because he showed up at their door and accepted a relationship with her, cannot be any substance full reason to accept him as a son in law, considering the asshole he is in the whole of book. The girl Naina, plainly comes out of fantasies, too good to be true like most of the leading ladies of Durjoy's books, she too is smart, witty, confident, cute, charming and almost a sex goddess in bed. The love between her and Benoy, happens too easily and almost reaches its climax of success abruptly in the same manner. Their chats and sms'es being the only cheesy lines that can make one smile, this book otherwise suffers from so much lack of humor that by the time story drags to the accident of Diya and the frenzy surrounding it, one seem to have lost all interest in the core plot of Benoy's life. The case might be that something which appeared fresh in the life of Deb in earlier novels is now nothing more than a repetitive overdose of predictable sex and boring conversations when u talk of this one. I feel let down, by this one more so, because I was looking forward to see the independent writing of Durjoy, a person who already has a market base and could have experimented more in himself, especially since he was also the publisher of this one. But to one of his regular readers in me, he failed to deliver on grounds of not only story(unlike past two), but also as a fun-read, something his books are otherwise. The title is more interesting then the book. I have purposefully not said anything about Orvana Ghai's writing because I am still waiting to read her, in any non collaborative write up. Rating – 2 on 5. (Those 2 are for the cute chats and sms'es exchanged between Naina and Benoy in a few pages,somewhere in between). I restate despite being his critic from last two years, This writer is capable of far more then what he delivered this time again. A big let down and waste of 100 bucks. Looking forward to read him again, when he comes up with yet another title in the end of Feb. A book that, according to him, is his personal hard worked project. Price – 100 Rs Publisher – Grapevine Purchased from CP, New Delhi PS – Admin talk – right at the start of this year, in Admin address, FL talked about how we are planning to make the website, more and more colorful, interactive and engaging for your experience. For this, we will be coming up with reading challenges, book review targets, games, personal Get Together events for Readers and writers of this page, Authors Interviews that would feature many bestselling writers from Indian Fiction scene especially and something for which we are planning to Hire a reporting interviewer too, Book giveaways would be there like always, once in a while to bring a smile on your face… and many more other exciting things. All your suggestions are welcomed in regards to the same. A constant feedback will keep us make sure, that we are on the right path. And by right path, I mean, the path that u want us to tread on. So mail at [email protected] or contact us on Twitter or Facebook to make sure that u let us know, everything that's in your mind. We shall answer every mail or message received, that's a promise that I make in our endeavourer to keep this medium as interactive as it can be. Tags: Durjoy Datta, Indian fiction, Orvana Ghai, Pulkit IceMaiden January 19, 2012 at 5:19 PM Umm. Awkward. ".. when Indian Fiction scene started gaining popularity with the rise of Chetan Bhagat jonour.." I think you mean genre? Er.. PULKIT January 20, 2012 at 3:54 PM @IceMaiden-sorry for the typo, was typing the post on my cell text pad. I stand corrected Lord of Snow and Shadows - Sarah Ash Bossypants by Tina Fey Room- Emma Donoghue The House of Silk - Anthony Horowitz Accused- Mark Gimenez The little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Six Suspects - Vikas Swarup Pigs Have Wings- P. G. Wodehouse THE STORY OF THE NOBLE ROT Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John le Carré Book Review: Aslam Rahaman's 'The Fortune Hunters'... 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China tells Canada to stop meat shipments over bogus documents By Kelsey Johnson and Rod Nickel FILE PHOTO: Baby pigs in Alberta farm OTTAWA (Reuters) - China said on Tuesday it wants the Canadian government to stop allowing meat shipments to China after bogus export certificates were discovered. The announcement comes just four days before China and the United States are due to sit down to work on settling a trade dispute that has caught Canada in the crossfire. An investigation into Canada's export certificates has revealed as many as 188 "counterfeit" veterinary health documents and the existence of "obvious safety loopholes," the Chinese Embassy in Canada said in a statement on its website. Canadian Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said in a statement that the Canadian Food and Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed it had found "inauthentic export certificates." The Chinese Embassy, in its statement, said, "... China has taken urgent preventive measures and requested the Canadian government to suspend the issuance of certificates for meat exported to China. "We hope the Canadian side would attach great importance to this incident, complete the investigation as soon as possible and take effective measures to ensure the safety of food exported to China in a more responsible manner," it added. Bibeau said in her statement that the CFIA had been working closely with industry and Chinese officials on the matter. "CFIA is investigating this technical issue and has informed appropriate law enforcement agencies. This incident is specific to export certificates to China. Export certificates to other countries are not affected," Bibeau said. Bibeau did not say whether the CFIA would suspend the certificates, but a Canadian government source said the issue was a "technical" and not a political one, and that a "temporary suspension" may be announced. Relations between China and Canada nosedived in December after Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co, was detained in Vancouver on a U.S. arrest warrant. She denies any wrongdoing and Beijing is demanding her return. After Meng's arrest, China detained two Canadians and later formally charged them with espionage. Canada says the arrest of the two men was arbitrary. China has already blocked imports of Canadian canola seed. In its statement on Tuesday, the Chinese Embassy did not link its call to suspend Canadian meat imports to the Meng case. On Monday, Meng's lawyers urged Canada's justice minister to withdraw extradition proceedings against Meng, but received no immediate response. Though the issue is not on the official agenda, Canada's justice minister, David Lametti, is due to meet U.S. Attorney General William Barr in Washington on Wednesday. U.S. President Donald Trump last week told Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that he was prepared to raise the case of the two detained Canadians with Chinese President Xi Jinping, whom he is to meet with in Japan on Saturday at the Group of 20 meeting. The United States hopes to relaunch trade talks with China. It will be the first time Trump and Xi sit down together since trade talks between the world's two largest economies broke down in May of last year. China bought C$310 million ($235.26 million) worth of Canadian pork from January through April, making it Canada's third-largest export market by value, according to official data. Earlier this month, Reuters reported exclusively that China planned to boost inspections of imported Canadian meats and meat products. A Canadian Agriculture Ministry notice said the Canadian Embassy in Beijing had been told that Chinese customs agents would open all containers of Canadian meat and meat products, and that in some cases 100% of the contents would be inspected. The move to block Canadian meat imports comes at a difficult moment for Chinese pork consumers. China's sow herd is being closely watched by the global livestock market as an epidemic of incurable African swine fever has killed millions of animals in the world's most populous country, pushing up prices. (Reporting by and Kelsey Johnson in Ottawa and Rod Nickel in Winnipeg; Writing by Steve Scherer; Editing by Sandra Maler, Matthew Lewis and Leslie Adler) Move over Trump: China's tweeting diplomats open fresh front in propaganda fight Moon Landing 50th: CBC News takes you inside the landmark mission and its impact She'd like to help the doctor shortage, but immigration rules are holding her back Murray among 29 invitees to Canada's training camp ahead of Basketball World Cup 'A firefighter's firefighter': Lt. Danny Finnigan remembered in line-of-duty funeral	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Selections from the 2021 BA International Festival of Independent Cinema Jorge Farah March 18, 2021 I've been attending BAFICI — the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema — for 16 years now. That's every year since I first arrived in Argentina, a doe-eyed teenager excited to face whatever the future had in store for me. And every year it's been an embarrassment of riches, showcasing some of the weirdest, most interesting, and most exciting films from all corners of the globe. Every single year, I come away with a brand new obscure favorite to tell people about. Every single year except, of course, 2020. One year ago, my favorite film festival and cherished annual tradition happened to coincide with the beginning of a global pandemic, one where spending lots of time in close proximity with strangers in an air-conditioned room wasn't exactly a great idea. For the first time since I arrived in 2005, there was no BAFICI. And honestly, in a year full of tremendous bummers, it felt silly to complain about that particular loss. But I felt it. I missed it. And if, like me, you still have complicated feelings about the idea of going to the movie theater while the pandemic is still very much a thing (as we mentioned last time around, film theaters are slowly coming back with a bunch of safety measures in place), worry not; this year's festival is operating in a hybrid streaming/screening format, with most of its over 270 films made available to watch online. Not only that, but many of the in-person screenings will take place outdoors. The festival kicked off yesterday, Wednesday 17th, and runs until the 28th, providing ample opportunity to check out its wide and varied catalogue. This includes feature and short films of all genres; from the dourest drama to the wackiest comedies and most experimental animation. You can find all the information, including screening times and all the festival-related activities, on its official website. We took a look at this year's lineup and came up with a quick list of recommendations. Of course, this is a tiny tiny sampling of all the cool stuff they have available this year, and we'll likely be kicking ourselves within a couple hours of posting this piece for missing some important ones. A new film by director Abel Ferrara, starring the incomparable Willem Dafoe (who, true story, got really annoyed with me once). This powerful, sometimes difficult picture tells the semi-autobiographical (but not really, but sort of, but not really) story of a sullen American artist living in Rome with his young European wife Nikki and their 3-year-old daughter, Dee Dee. Dee Dee is also the name of my cat, but that's neither here nor there. Screening details Beautiful, Goodbye Here's a bit of melancholy weirdness from Japan, courtesy of Eiichi Imamura. A blogger is involved in a violent crime and, as he attempts to escape, he ends up running over a young woman. The young woman happens to be a zombie. This leads to a delightfully strange, deeply unconventional but no less poignant road movie, which vacillates between deepest darkness and whimsical comedy. White Lie Kacey Rohl (whom you might recognize as "that girl from Hannibal") stars in this dark drama by co-directors Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas about a young woman who has accomplished everything she ever wanted: she's a campus celebrity, people adore her, and she has a loving and caring girlfriend. The way she gets all this, however, is by faking a cancer diagnosis and putting her story out on the internet. Cool. A very cool thing to do. Carmen Vidal, Mujer Detective I knew nothing of this movie before it caught my eye in this year's lineup, and I was immediately sold by its poster (see link below). The trailer was just icing on the cake. This black comedy by director Eva Dans follows Carmen Vidal, a detective whose colleague commits suicide. She is forced to interrupt her cycle of pizza and marihuana to investigate, leading to many wacky hijinks if the trailer is to be believed. This looks like a buttload of fun. Monty and the Street Party Speaking of buttloads of fun, here's an animated feature from Denmark about a boy whose dreams of attending a kickass street party are thrown off course by his parents' sad divorce. This irreverent, often crude comedy with a heart, by the directorial team of Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthalerseems, seems exactly like the lighthearted entertainment we need in light of all of last year's darkness. Club Internacional Aguerridos I've always found that BAFICI's music-related movies are some of my favorites from each years' festival. Whether they be traditional rock docs, experimental weirdness set to song, or the occasional full-on musical, there's something about these movies that always seems to grab me. This is a Mexican film by director Leandro Córdova which follows a young man from an affluent family who "infiltrates" Mexico's crust-punk scene, and is quickly assimilated by it. The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks Another mind-melting, experimental oddity by legendary Russian animator Andrei Khrzhanovsky, who employs a mix of styles and techniques to tell this wild tale, based on an opera by Shostakovich. Sure, we're in. You Don't Nomi Finally, it wouldn't be BAFICI without a documentary about a much-loved (or sometimes much-maligned) piece of filmmaking. This time around, director Jeffrey McHale's You Don't Nomi examines the legacy of, and pays tribute to, one of the absolute weirdest films of the 1990s: the bright, glittery, extremely nude and often incoherent madness that is Showgirls. 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(-) Remove US Army filter US Army Home Front (27) Apply Home Front filter Part of a 70 mule train carrying ammunition and barbed wire up the first incline of Firebreak Trail during maneuvers at Hunter Liggett Military Reservation on 21 March 1944 1815. '3-21-44. Ecklund. Part of a 70 mule train carrying ammunition and barbed wire up the first incline of Firebreak... A soldier receives a message from outpost observers at Hunter Liggett Military Reservation on 23 March 1944 1849. '3-23-44. J. P. Johnson. Radio Cpl. J. T. Sheridan and operator Pvt B. M. Dennard, H. Q. and Service Battery... Cleaning the breach of 75mm pack row after firing at Hunter Liggett Military Reservation on 24 March 1944 1831. '3-24-44. J. P. Johnson. Cleaning breach of 75mm Pack Row after firing, Pfc W. Zanienaski of Battery C, 609th F.A... Noon chow for the soldiers of the 609th Field Artillery at Hunter Liggett Military Reservation on 22 March 1944 1839. '3-22-44. J. P. Johnson. Noon chow, and men of Battery C, 609th F.A., 71st L. Div. have drawn C Rations from... Major Deason observes troop movements on a distant hill during maneuvers at Hunter Liggett Military Reservation on 23 March 1944 1833. '3-23-44. J. P. Johnson. Maj. R. H. Deason, H.Q.... A soldier receives a message over a receiver-transmitter set during mountain maneuvers at Hunter Liggett Military Reservation on 22 March 1944 1834. '3-22-44. J. P. Johnson. Radio Cpl Owen Curren receives message over S.C.R. 284 A Receiver-Transmitter set at H.Q... 1835. '3-22-44. J. P. Johnson. Radio Cpl Owen Curren, H.Q.... A soldier operates switchboard at which field lines from Division Headquarters and lines to artillery and batteries terminate during maneuvers at Hunter Liggett Military Reservation on 22 March 1944 1837. '3-22-44. J. P. Johnson. Pvt J. H. Kenedy H.Q.... A disposal pit for C Ration cans near bivouac areas at Hunter Liggett Military Reservation on 22 March 1944 1838. '3-23-44. J. P. Johnson. Cleanliness prevails where ever the army goes. Here is a disposal pit for C Ration cans... Cargo mule train carrying rations during mountain maneuvers at Hunter Liggett Military Reservation on 24 March 1944 1840. '3-24-44. J. P. Johnson. Cargo mule train carrying Type C Food Rations, and other supplies along the steep... Four 75mm pack Howitzer gun positions at Hunter Liggett Military Reservation on 24 March 1944 1850. '3-24-44. J. P. Johnson. C Battery, 609th F.A., 71st L. Div., on rearward slope of Ridge East of Hill #3509.... A new trail being cut along rearward slope, below firebreak trail, during mountain maneuvers at Hunter Liggett Military Reservation on 22 March 1944 1841. '3-22-44. J. P. Johnson. New trail being cut along rearward slope, below firebreak trail, on ridge near Hill #...	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Mounir Samuel Mounir Samuel (1989) is a Dutch-Egyptian political scientist & Middle East expert. He became one of the most famous young commentators on TV and Radio in the Netherlands during the Egyptian uprising against President Hosni Mubarak (2011). Born as a girl out of orthodox-protestant Egyptian parents raised in the Dutch Bible Belt, his coming out in public first as a lesbian and later as a female-to-male gender queer (not to be mistaken with transgender) has resulted in huge debate in the Netherlands. Through his work, public speaking, TV appearances and writing he has constantly pushed the boundaries and cultural notions of sexuality and gender. His latest work includes a popular vlog series on his transition and the social side effects as he calls a public gender transition, and numerous long-reads for de Groene Amsterdammer (the Dutch equivalent to the New Yorker) in which he investigates racism and discrimination in the sex tourism in Thailand, the double lives of middle class youth in Senegal, "sad in the city" being the only-non black in a all-black neighborhood in Brooklyn-Queens NYC, and the growing color-alliances among non-white second and third generation	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Moore's 40-Year-Old Law The Philter The Philter 4/15/2005 NOON -- Moore's Law is 40 years old this week. Gordon Moore (above, in 1965 and today) became somewhat of an engineering legend when he published an article in the April 1965 issue of Electronics Magazine titled "Cramming More Components Onto Integrated Circuits" which later became known as Moore's Law. Essay question: Is Moore's Law still relevant? What about those fierce glasses? — Phil Harvey, News Editor, Light Reading More Blogs from The Philter Cowboys CIO: Connectivity is still the star The man running technical operations for AT&T Stadium, and a dozen other entities, talks private networks, Wi-Fi consumption and the culture that keeps pushing for a better fan experience. An inside look at AT&T's 5G and fiber focus The company that once urged us to celebrate 'Batman Day' is again focused on being one of the world's leading network providers. Light Reading's Leading Lights Awards: Finalists coming soon Light Reading is still narrowing down its shortlist of finalists for the 2022 Leading Lights awards. Deadline extended: 2022 Light Reading Leading Lights still open for entries Light Reading is accepting nominations for outstanding achievements in 5G, broadband, optical networking, edge computing and more. The new deadline is Friday, September 16, 2022. Ciena's Gary Smith: Looking beyond the chip blip With more than $4 billion in backlogged orders, Ciena's CEO said that demand has never been better. But will customers wait around while the supply chain drama continues?	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
TCT's resident costume designer retires after 27 years By Brianna Childers [email protected] Dec 8, 2019 at 6:52 PM Dec 8, 2019 at 6:52 PM For 27 years, Topeka Civic Theatre's resident costume designer Kate Stires has been learning the ins and outs of the costume world. From learning how to make puppets for "Avenue Q," to implementing a quick outfit change system for actors to teaching costume volunteers how to put in a zipper, she's done and seen it all. But her time at the theater she's come to love will come to an end when she retires Dec. 31. Stires, who started out as a volunteer for TCT for 10 years, has dressed more than 5,700 people. She has also costumed about 323 productions, and each year, she is responsible for costuming 16 shows. "She was really basically doing the job, just in a volunteer capacity," said Vickie Brokke, president and CEO of TCT. "She excelled at what she was doing, so it was an easy decision to give her the position full time." While there are so many shows she has costumed throughout the years, it doesn't take Stires long to think about what her favorite one has been. "I like the silly stuff, the crazy stuff," Stires said. "My favorite show ever is 'Avenue Q,' and it is all puppets but they are like people-sized puppets. When they first were talking about ('Avenue Q') they asked me what I thought and I said 'Well we can do that sure, no problem.' So the next year when it got time to do the show, I'm thinking 'What in the devil was I thinking? I've never made a puppet in my life,' but I had a lot of fun with it." It is hard for Stires to think of a show that has been challenging for her because as she's designing the costumes, they all become her favorite. But she said designing costumes for shows that aren't odd or from this time period aren't as interesting to her. For the most part, Stires also comes up with the design for the costumes on her own. While she will pull some inspiration from the internet, she said she can't fully do that because there are always some elements she doesn't like. "Kate is an artist on her own, so it has been her job to design the costumes, and costume plot and then get with the director and make sure their visions are the same," Brokke said. "But she doesn't just do what someone tells her to do, or she doesn't do what somebody else has already done. She designs it, and presents it and has color themes to go with it." It can take Stires and her team of volunteers one to two weeks to build a show, depending on what that show is, she said. And Stires said she makes sure that the leftover fabric, or costumes not needed anymore, find a good home. "We give it to Helen Hocker, we give it to a lot of the schools," Stires said. "There's places like God's Storehouse and Goodwill and Salvation Army. Everything comes down to where everything is used, which I like." Stires said what she will miss the most about her job at TCT is not just the people, but the job itself. "I love it because I stay busy, and it's always something creative," Stires said. "I enjoy having a job, I'm kind of a workaholic, and I just enjoy doing it." Brokke said with Stires as resident costume designer throughout the year, there has never been a fear that the costumes won't be finished by opening night. "There's never ever a fear that we will give her something that she cannot figure out how to do," Brokke said. "No matter what the show is, no matter how big the show is, if we throw it at Kate we know it's gonna get done. So her 'Whatever it takes' attitude is pretty special." Brokke said TCT will find another costume designer, "but there will never be another Kate." "I've had several people ask me how we're going to replace Kate, and the answer is we can't," Brokke said. As for what Stires will do following retirement, she's not quite sure, but mentioned people can still find her volunteering her time at TCT painting. "I will probably stay away from the sewing department for a while so not to make that person feel uncomfortable, but I would be happy painting," Stires said. "I love the theater, so probably anything they ask me to do, I would be down to do. It's a fun job. It's the best job I've ever had."	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Academic & Professional Books Organismal to Molecular Biology Veterinary Sciences Veterinary Drugs Synonyms & Properties Edited By: GWA Milne ISBN: 9780566085000 Hardback Dec 2004 Out of Print #159923 About this book Contents Biography Related titles Veterinary Drugs provides comprehensive coverage of commercially available animal pharmaceuticals and pesticides. Over 700 unique veterinary agents are recorded along with their chemical structures and exhaustive listings of product trade names and manufacturers. The drug compounds are organized by therapeutic category, allowing all drugs with a particular function to be reviewed and compared quickly and easily. Each main entry includes the following information: the commonly adopted chemical name, three internationally used identifiers of the compound (CAS, EINECS and Merck), and other synonyms and systematic names. The drug's physical properties and acute toxicity, along with its known biological activity and FDA-labeled applications are summarized. Each entry also includes a detailed listing of the trade names of all animal health products containing the drug along with the product's manufacturer and its NADA (New Animal Drug Application) number. A key feature of Veterinary Drugs is its extensive indexing. Appendixes include a CAS Registry Number index; a European Inventory of Existing Commercial and Chemical Substances (EINECS) number index; an index of NADA numbers; and a master index containing over 9,000 names and synonyms. A detailed directory of addresses, websites and phone numbers for animal drug manufacturers and suppliers provides convenient contact information. This reference will be an invaluable companion for animal and livestock veterinarians, pharmaceutical researchers, government food and drug regulators, food safety and public health specialists and biologists who, starting with a single synonym or trade name for a veterinary agent, will be able to quickly find a thumbnail sketch of essential information. Preface. How to Use This Book. Glossary of Terms. Glossary of Units. Abbreviations and Symbols. Table of Therapeutic Categories PART I: MAIN ENTRIES. PART II: INDEXES. CAS Registry Number Index. EINECS Number Index. NADA Number Index. Name and Synonym Index. PART III: MANUFACTURER AND SUPPLIER DIRECTORY. G.W.A. Milne was a Senior Researcher at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, USA, where he worked on the use of spectroscopy for structure determination of organic compounds, and on molecular modeling in the design of drugs for the treatment of cancer and AIDS. He has been active for many years in the fields of chemical information and chemical computation and is Editor of the American Chemical Society's Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Science, Gardner's Chemical Synonyms and Trade Names, Eleventh Edition (Ashgate), and a host of other reference works. In 1999, jointly with Stephen Heller, Dr Milne was awarded the Skolnik Award of the Chemical Information Division of the American Chemical Society. Bestsellers in Veterinary Sciences Threatened Newts and Salamanders, Volume 3: Captive Care Management / Gefährdete Molch- und Salamanderarten der Welt, Band 3: Richtlinien für Erhaltungszuchten Treated Like Animals Threatened Newts and Salamanders, Volume 2 Gross Pathology of Avian Diseases Incubating Chelonian Eggs Sea Turtle Health & Rehabilitation Physiology of Domestic Animals Game Ranch Management How to Hold Animals Épidémiologie Appliquée à la Lutte Collective Contre les Maladies Animales Transmissibles Majeures [Epidemiology Applied to the Collective Fight Against Major Transmissible Animal Diseases] Feline Behaviour and Welfare Infectious Disease Ecology of Wild Birds Browse titles in Veterinary Sciences Other titles from Wiley Handbook of Bird Biology Geological History of Britain and Ireland Small Carnivores Microclimate: The Biological Environment Human and Ecological Risk Assessment Pesticide Application Methods Stream and Watershed Restoration An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology Applied Landscape Ecology The Diversity of Fishes World Fisheries Browse titles from Wiley	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Hey Youngin, You Know I Went to High School With… NBA LEGENDS By Darian McGhee Anthony was called "the brow" his one defining feature Bill was a real winner and wasn't afraid to remind you. Cleveland gave us Lebron, a special kid who moved out west but was never forgotten. Dirk never left his home, he preferred to fade away Earvin didn't own a wand or rabbit, but still like to perform magic. Fighting with Kevin wouldn't be wise. He was kind of crazy. Giannis was a skinny freshman, but after some years his strength was unmatched Hakeem's moves were so swift and sweet, many girls called him dreamy. Isiah dated my sister's friend, she said she liked bad boys. James liked to cherish high school memories to take a step back and reflect Kareem had big dreams, for him the sky was the limit. Larry was a simple man, He enjoyed working in the garden Michael, to me was arrogant, he must have thought he was the greatest. Nikola was the class clown, and always filled the halls with laughter. Oscar wasn't a grouch, but always had a chip on his shoulder Paul never told a lie, the most honest person I've ever met. Quiet Kawhi was almost robotic, but always got his work done. Russell always gave maximum effort, he never seemed to run out of energy Steph liked to go hunting, he was a real sharp shooter. Tim had a summer job at the bank, and he didn't like to travel much. Unstoppable, that man Shaquille, he was a force to be reckoned with Victor grew to be a star, which none of us expected. Wilt had the school record for everything, some of them will never be broken. 'Xceptional people like Kobe come once in a life time, the young kids would shout his name Yao was the exchange student, but seemed to fit in pretty well. Zach wasn't as well known as the others, he always had his head in the clouds	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
T.I. just revealed he takes his daughter, 18, to the gynecologist every year to ensure she's still a virgin; Iggy Azalea responds By ARIYA Nigeria November 6, 2019 4 Mins Read Rapper T.I. has revealed that he takes his daughter, 18, to the gynecologist to check her hymen and confirm she's still a virgin. But he admits his 15-year-old son is sexually active and he doesn't have a problem with that. The 39-year-old made the shocking revelation while on the Ladies Like Us podcast. He told of how important it is to him that his teenage daughter Deyjah Harris has not had sex yet. He then disclosed that he accompanies her on her annual checkup to the gynecologist and insists on her signing a waiver to allow the doctor to share confidential status about her virginity with him. He told the hosts: "Not only have we had the conversation, we have yearly trips to the gynecologist to check her hymen." He continues: "Yes, Yes I go with her. I go with her. So it's this one time we go, I think this might have been after her 16th birthday. This is what we do… Usually, like the day after the [birthday] party, she's enjoying her gifts. I put a sticky note on the door: 'Gyno. Tomorrow. 9:30.' " He added that he makes his daughter sign a waiver to allow her doctor to share her confidential information with him. He said: "So we'll go and sit down and the doctor will come and talk and the doctor's maintaining a high level of professionalism. He's like, 'Well, you know sir, I have to, in order to share information' — I'm like, 'Deyjah, they want you to sign this… so we can share information. Is there anything you would not want me to know?' 'See doc? No problem.' " He said the doctor has even explained to him that there are many other ways for a hymen to break besides sex, and in fact, many virgins no longer have hymens intact. But T.I. doesn't care about that. He said: "So then they come and say, 'Well, I just want you to know that there are other ways besides sex that the hymen can be broken, like bike riding, athletics, horseback riding, and just other forms of athletic physical activity.' "So I say, 'Look doc, she don't ride no horses, she don't ride no bike, she don't play no sports. Just check the hymen please and give me back my results expeditiously.' He then adds: "But I will say as of her 18th birthday, her hymen is still intact." T.I. defended his actions by saying he thinks a lot of people wish their parents had been more protective of them. He went on to suggest that his daughter will look back on his actions and be grateful that he was so involved. He said: "I think that most kids in hindsight, looking back, they always thank their parents for not allowing them to damage themselves as much as they could have." He also admitted that he doesn't want guys to woo his daughter even though she's now an adult. He said: "They're no fun. Who wants a virgin? Like, really? All that work." The hosts of the podcast laughed and said his daughter is a "prisoner" and that T.I. is encouraging men to be "vultures." T.I. admitted though that he isn't that strict with his 15-year-old son King, who is already sexually active. He said: "I don't want any of my children to have sex before it's time for them, but who's to say when it's time? "However, I will definitely feel different about a boy than I will about a girl. And that's just the God's honest truth. I don't think there's any father out there who'll tell you any different." His admission led to a conversation online as Twitter users called him out. Rapper Iggy Azalea, who recently had a beef with T.I. also joined in calling him out. She tweeted in reply to a fan who said "men are terrible": "I really wish the women who interviewed him would have said something to him. He has serious control issues with women in all aspects of his life and needs therapy." Listen to the interview. Nigerian weightlifter, Chika Amalaha faces eight year-ban for doping November 6, 2019 2 Mins Read Kylie Jenner and Drake have been spending time together 'romantically' after her split from Travis Scott, new report claims Day 2 of Trump's Senate impeachment trial: Here's what happened Nigeria ranks 146 out of 180 on the annual corruption Index Married man advises men on actions to take to stay faithful to their spouses FAAN announces measures being taken to prevent the importation of the deadly Coronavirus into Nigeria Coronavirus: Nigerian Government issues advisory to Nigerians returning from China as it announces heightened screening measures at ports of entry Coronavirus: Nigerian Government issues advisory to Nigerians returning from China as it announces heightened screening measures at ports of entry to prevent spread of deadly virus Reverse Imo state judgement or face the wrath of God- Anglican bishops warn Supreme court judges The ex and the boyfriend: David Adefeso hangs out with his girlfriend Tamara Braxton's ex-husband Vincent Herbert "Worse thing you can do is listen to what I have been through and put me through it again"- actor Blossom Chukwujekwu's estranged wife, Maureen Esisi, writes Wendy Williams and Kevin Hunter finalize their divorce after 21-years of marriage Nigerian Student says he was flogged by teachers for identifying as a Marlian (photos) If we expose those in Buhari's government, they?ll not only go to jail, they?ll go to hell ? ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo © 2019 ARIYA Nigeria. 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Roy Rak Hak Liam Tawan: Episode 6 Another episode filled with uber adorable-ness. Is that even a word? I don't care. I'm in love with the show. The relationship and story front both move to the right direction. The girls come to an understanding, while some misunderstandings stay hidden. Seiko warns Takeshi from mentioning morbid things, and we see that perhaps he ought to listen to her. But he'll take punishments in the form of kisses.. yes, hugs and kisses please. It's Takeshi's day off – or special day off, as Ryu would have it – and he's spending it with Seiko.. doing homework? Heh. Their work tables are facing each other because Takeshi wants to see her face while working, but Seiko hates to be such a bother, although she appreciates his help with her paper. Takeshi reminds her that she's his daily dosage of happiness, when he's around her, the stress just melts away. He finishes the sentence with the standard 'my beloved Kimi' and to his utmost surprise, she responds with 'my beloved Anatak.' Hee. Their last exchange of hearts must have done wonders for this progress! Takeshi is practically jumping up and down in his seat. But his Kimi takes him down a notch by telling him that she's only following his orders. Takeshi goes back to work with a pout while Seiko gazes at him and says to herself "I'm following your orders, but I'm following the sound of my heart, Anatak my beloved." She smiles secretly to herself. Mario makes the cutest sulky face. Ha. How can you say no to this face? Haro puts his mind on planting marigolds in the middle of the night. He tells his dad that marigolds love full sun exposure, they are representation of the sun, and gives off hope for those struggling to move on. Marigolds also wilt and die when the weather changes, very much similar to the metaphors of life, and the human's negative and positive experiences. Koji relents that whatever it signifies, it is still a flower at the end of the day. Ouch. Furthermore, it's his job to take care of the flower, he can never be the owner. Alas, Haro's fate might be relegated to pining after Marigolds for the rest of his life. Can someone throw the puppy a bone? Maybe another love interest, perhaps? How can you not envy these adorable lovebirds? Even the sending her off to school is so cute, packaged lunch and hordes of smiles to go around. Ryu steps in and chides his cousin that they can spend some time apart so they can worry about each other. He hands the packaged lunch back to Takeshi and takes Seiko's hand and wishes her great concentration in school. Oh you devil. Takeshi suggests he can release his beloved's hand now. Heh. Takeshi tucks his Kimi in the car and waves her off. He then notices that Ryu is swatting himself and wondering out loud who left the sugar out because the mosquitos are biting him. Hehehe. Misawa wonder what possessed Aiko to get up early and go to school. We learn that she's making good on her promise to eradicate Seiko out of Takeshi's life. Aiko follows Seiko closely at school, while her minion distracts Haro the bodyguard. Once Seiko is in the restroom, Aiko strikes and throttles Seiko. Her friend rushes out of the restroom in search of Haro when she spots Aiko taking out the knife. Aiko wants to carve out Seiko's face and see if Takeshi would still love her. Haro isn't distracted too far and comes in time to rescue Seiko as Aiko raises her hand to slash Seiko with the knife. The best part is that he throws Aiko in the bathroom stall, ha. But this is another scare for Seiko, and her friend vows that she will not let Aiko hurt her best friend again. They report to the police station as Takeshi comes to his wife's aid. He pulls her into his arms and tells her not to be afraid. Takeshi turns his questioning to Haro, how could he let this happen? Her best friend explains that Haro was misled in a different direction while Aiko wanted to take the knife to Seiko's face. This shocks Onitsuka, they didn't think she would be capable of this. The bestie confides that she has already reported this to her father (the police) and they will apprehend Aiko for assault. Ryu states that he will not relinquish the person who hurts Seiko. Ryu and Koji pull Takeshi aside to advise that if he pursues Aiko for assault, Misawa would be displeased. Ryu suggests that they make Misawa agree in front of Osamu (the chief) that Aiko would not harass Seiko again. Koji thinks it's best to let Misawa punish his daughter (that worked really well in the past…) Takeshi laments that hurting Okusang is like stabbing his heart, if Haro hadn't saved her in time, she would be in bad shape. Ryu suggests he consider the partnership with Misawa over his personal issues. Damn if you do, damn if you don't. The chief requests a private conversation with Takeshi and Ryu prior to the arrival of Misawa. He inquires the young mind (and new power) about what they think would be a resolution to the three powerful families: Onitsuka, Misawa, Sato. The chief doesn't want the country to be overrun by them, Ryu states that Samurais are not on the boat as the likes of those criminals (Sato.) The chief counters that fighting amongst each other without regards to the law does not differentiate them from the criminals. Takeshi wonders why the chief wants them to end this feud and the older man reasons that his father (Ichiro) envisions the improvement of the country, and to keep the peace, Takeshi must marry Aiko. Chief pleads for him to let Aiko free of the charges. He assures Takeshi that Aiko and Misawa will not harass Seiko anymore. Takeshi doesn't want to let it go, but Ryu steps in and makes the chief promise to have a talk with Misawa, if they don't abide by the promise, then they will reopen the case. The chief relents that he's aware Onitsuka does not break the law; moreover, they protect the people. However, he forewarns them that Misawa and Sato are not like Onitsuka. It is time to clear the air about those two clans and the police force is requesting for Onitsuka Sorel's cooperation in this. Onitsuka and Misawa convene before each other at the police station. Aiko despises seeing Takeshi holding hands with Seiko, but can't do anything about it since her father has her on a leash. While her brother wants to pummel Takeshi's face, but Ryu stops him and warns him not to add to their list of discretions. Takeshi holds Seiko close and tries to console her as she cries. Haro watches on quietly as he drives them home. Ricki scolds his daughter for creating more dislike between Takeshi and Misawa. They have the same argument, that Seiko is stealing Ryu's love. Satoshi tells her to hold her horses and wait for a year, but Aiko dislikes waiting. She orders her dad to kill off Seiko but Ricki chides that they have enough problems as it is. If Seiko happens to go missing, the police would think it's Aiko's doing. Daddy advises her to adhere to the chief's orders and she may have a chance of being the first wife. But she screams her discontent, why is everyone protecting Seiko? We know she's not stopping there. Misawa is sounding like a broken record when he says that he will get back at Onitsuka the moment Takeshi marries Aiko. All bark and no bite? The only person who's "doing" something about it is Aiko, but not in the smartest way. Haro gets another scolding from his father for underestimating the safety of Seiko at school. Koji declares that he will request another person to protect Okusang because clearly his son can't do the job, maybe he's best suited protecting Sorel or the work facilities. Koji surmises in hindsight that Okusang is too beautiful and any man who goes near her would fall for her. Haro promises that he knows she belongs to Sorel and he has no ill intentions, but Koji scolds that he doesn't even have the right to feel sad about any unrequited love. In case his son didn't get the message, Okusang is Sorel's heart and there's no way she would be his. Dayam, Koji. Over dinner, Takeshi's mind is still on the conversation he had with the chief. He shares this with Seiko and that problems won't cease if he doesn't marry Aiko. Also, if the town is strong on its own then they won't require warriors like the clans to protect them, and his family's murders wouldn't be dragged on like this. So far, he has learned that the people who set the bomb were taking orders from Sato. If he gets a chance, he would kill Keniji. Takeshi apologizes to Seiko for not taking better care of her safety, he doesn't realize that Aiko is capable of this. Dude, Seiko needs to spill the beans that Aiko is the culprit behind her kidnapping! Make Takeshi realize that the girl is not redeemable! Alas, she doesn't. Seiko surmises that she's the root of the cause: Keniji had mentioned during the kidnapping that a heartbroken woman is the scariest. Takeshi takes the blame though, he was wrong to love Seiko, especially when she already has a boyfriend in Thailand. Seiko argues that Aiko isn't in the wrong either for loving him. But Takeshi vows that he won't let her slide if she touches Seiko again. Well, he'll just have to uncover the truth himself because Seiko ain't talking. Seiko notices a single marigold flower in a vase and inquires whether Takeshi had prepared it for her. Haro nods his head in agreement, sometimes we have to wonder about the pain we inflict on ourselves. Seiko mentions that marigolds remind her of Thailand. Her home has marigolds planted all around the garden. Haro slips and tells her that he's pleased to hear that she likes it. Seiko admits that her heart is touched every time Takeshi does something for her. Haro adds that it's due to love, Sorel does everything from his heart. In the kitchen Seiko learns that Takeshi loves fish while Ryu loves meat. She wonders how difficult it would be to raise these two and cook separate meals. Auntie admits that when they were younger, it was challenging, but entertaining because the two would bargain and switch foods. The two are very close, they were raised together, they are best friends and brothers. Time for lunch! Seiko brings out the dishes for the duo Ryu and Takeshi, and Ryu does a quick taste and notes that the dishes are quite sweet today. Heh. Seiko thinks he's being serious and balks that she didn't put any sugar in the dishes. Takeshi snipes that Ryu's just jealous. Ryu pretends to ask the heavens why they're so cruel as to make him a third wheel. But maybe the heavens is not so cruel because Sorel and Okusang just got invited to dine at Takahashi's family home as a way to congratulate them for their "nuptials." Ryu wonders if he ought to go too because it's giving respect to "his" Okusang. Takeshi corrects him that it's "my" Okusang not yours. Oh, these boys. I could watch them argue all day. Takeshi says that if Ryu wants to see Mayumi, he should just admit it, stop being so tightlipped. Heh. Ryu starts to eat furiously, great way to keep that mouth shut. That night Seiko thanks Takeshi for everything he has done for her today, which confuses him. Seiko explains that he has helped her recall the warmth of her country, her home has marigolds planted all around. He relents that he's pleased to see her happy but.. (he glances at the flower) seeing his happiness come to fruition makes him worry about Ryu. He wonders if he'll live to see Ryu admit his love for Mayumi. Seiko bids him not to speak of death, Thai people are superstitious about that. Their lives are so different, his clan's agenda is filled with revenge while her life is simple, she doesn't know how long she can be his Okusang. Takeshi takes her hand, "My mother cried on every occasion that my father took his warriors out to settle a score with the enemies. I don't want you to go through what my mother went through. I'm sorry Kimi. In just one year you'll be back in Thailand. You'll be back with your lover." Hot tears form in her eyes. "I'm willing for you to walk away, than to endanger your life here." And he pulls her in for a hug. Aw. At a dark casino, a little boy sneaks in. It's the son of Sato's minion. This is also where Keniji is laying low. He immediately rushes over and slaps his minion, scathing that he failed at his job. He tosses a glass against the wall but it lands on the kid instead. He chides the minion that they're in enough trouble, last thing they need is a minor at their establishment. We can tell that the minion cares for his son as he wipes the blood from his sons face. This shows that people do bad things because maybe they only see the dark path to aid them through their problems. He's angry at the way Sato treated his son. Keniji receives a letter from Aiko requesting a meeting at the same spot. She snipes that he failed at his job and trying to manhandle her is a bad move, didn't he endure enough bodily pain? Keniji snipes that at least it's better than heartache. Touché. She relents that he needs to attempt another kidnapping or even just kill her off. Keniji doesn't get ordered around though, even with money dangling in front of him. She questions what he wants and Keniji tells her that she need only to come find him and she'll know. If she doesn't agree to his terms then she doesn't need to show her face. In this instance, it's all on her. Sorel gives his Okusang a new, red kimono. He finds her stunning in it and prepares to change as well. As he strips, she turns away in surprise, he wonders why she's not used to it by now. Heh. Seiko laments that she's not a pervert who likes to look at people changing. He confesses that he likes to watch HER. She sulks and tells him that if he doesn't stop his teasing, he can ask Auntie to help him into his clothes. Takeshi smiles and says that she's uber adorable when she pouts. She mutters that everything she seems to do seems to please him. Takeshi sweetly tells her that the world is livable because she's in it. Somehow this saddens her, she wonders what his world will be like when she returns to Thailand. He tells her that it will be as if he has died. But he brightens up and says that he's going to treasure all of their happy moments though. (To make them stretch and last during the darker days? Ah, the thought itself is so sad.) Ryu paces in front of the car waiting for his cousins to arrive so that they can go to Mayumi's house. Takeshi observes that he's quite impatient, perhaps his heart has reached there before his body has? Heh. Seiko is a little nervous about this dinner because it's her first social appearance as his Okusang. Takeshi suggests that she take it easy, she's already his great Okusang. Yay we're at Mayumi's house! Mayumi and her sister greets the group outside, Ryu's face practically lights up the minute he sees her. He mutters, "pretty," to which she heard and scowls. Heh. He gives the group the "did I say that out loud?" look. Ryu covers his mistake and compliments that the house is pretty. In the kitchen the girls prepare the first course and Seiko offers to help. Mayumi, with a straight face, tells her to make sure she arranges the vegetable according to what is to be eaten first and what is to be eaten later, further indicating that just because a vegetable is prettier, doesn't mean that it has more value. Seiko understands the metaphor and the two separate to prepare the dishes, Mayumi, playing the unsmiling hostess. As she makes the miso soup, Seiko observes that she should not heat it on high or throw in a clump of miso, but Mayumi does the exact opposite to spite her. Koji feels it's time to pass on the responsibility to his heir, Haro. They kneel before the late Sorel and Koji hands him the family heirloom (ring). Mayumi's father compliments that Seiko is beautiful and has great manners, deserving to be Onitsuka Okusang. Ryu adds that Takeshi totally adores her and if it weren't for the invite, he wouldn't let Seiko leave the house. Mayumi looks on at Ryu, probably not happy that he's condoning this relationship. Ryu chokes on the miso soup and the rest of the group taste theirs to see what the choking is about. To Mayumi's horror, the miso is horrible, salty and non-aromatic. And to her surprise, Seiko fesses up and takes the blame for her. She offers to make a new batch. Mayumi follows her to the kitchen and wants to know why Seiko took the blame for her. Seiko explains that she had volunteered to help in the kitchen so it is her fault too. Mayumi questions if she's only pretending to do good to win brownie points? Seiko questions her back that it sounds as if she doesn't like her. They continue their conversation outside. Seiko laments that living in a small home with warmth is better than living in a large home with emptiness. Mayumi asks if she's not happy living in a big house. Seiko says that some people strive for the grandness and some people refuse to accept them. Mayumi wonders what category Seiko falls under. Seiko turns away and replies the latter. She confides that she can understand her prejudice against secondary wives because if she were Mayumi, she wouldn't be pleased if Ryu has an Okusang. However, she doesn't have a choice. Seiko explains the situation to Mayumi (about Sato's intentions on kidnapping her to kill Onitsuka and how she came to live as Okusang) and concludes that she wouldn't want to share her man with another woman either. Mayumi feels remorse for judging Seiko without knowing the circumstances. Seiko suggests that they head back inside because she knows that Ryu and Mayumi must want to see each other. Mayumi says that Ryu doesn't know how to miss people, but Seiko shares that Takeshi told her Ryu cares about her feelings a lot. In fact, he talked to her dad about allowing her to study medicine for that reason. Seiko suggests that she focus on school and that time will work itself out with matters of the heart. Mayumi is smitten with Seiko now and understands why Sorel loves her so much. Ryu wanders outside as if he has nothing better to do. Heh. Seiko realizes that she's being the third wheel and excuses herself to get more sake for Ryu. "She really knows me," he mentions. "P'Seiko is a cute person, not a cunning person like you." "Is that right.. you've only gotten to know her one time and already you're sisters?" Ryu observes. "Or are we feeling a little touched because she took the fall for you? I've had her soups many times and she never fails." Hehehe. "You're quick witted," she comments and walks away. He spins her around, "Are you calling me a dog?" "That's your imagination," she counters. "You know that I like to imagine? Well, guess what I'm imagining between us right now?" He has her by the shoulders and looks at her deeply. "No counters? Ok, looks like you're agreeing to all of it." He swoops down for a kiss.. hehe. Mayumi pushes him away, but before she could go, he tells her one last thing: that she's very beautiful in the kimono today. Oh my. Her lips slightly turn up into a smile before she marches away. Why are they so cute?! Takeshi and Seiko catches Ryu smiling so happily, the fullness in the stomach has nothing to do with food this time. Seiko tells him that love originates from the heart, but if he doesn't confess, the recipient would never know how he feels. Ryu feigns sleepiness and excuses himself. Heh. Takeshi wonders at this rate, how will they ever find love. Seiko advises that it's best to keep it this way, Mayumi is still young, they should let nature play its course. Takeshi fears that nature may go a little too rough on Ryu. This is not a foreshadow, right? I can't take it! Aiko is missing from home and her father has people searching for her, even at Onitsuka's holding. But we all know where she's going, right? She cannot fault anyone else from the bed that she chooses to lay down on. Daddy is concerned about her whereabouts, and I sort of feel badly for him that he has such a shitty daughter. He promises to destroy Onitsuka if anything happens to Aiko because of Takeshi. Aiko returns home feeling guilty. She lies and tells her dad what he wants to hear, she went to the library so that she can study and finish school soon. Be a good wife to Takeshi. Daddy says he's really proud of her. Bro is a little more skeptical. Takeshi stirs awake and notices a journal wedged under Seiko's pillow. And the first page reads "Happy birthday to me." Frantic, he gets up. He finds Haro next, who's trimming his marigold bush. I wonder if Takeshi will put two and two together… Seiko stands before a garden of marigolds. Aw Haro, you know your dad's going to give you a hard time about this, right? Seiko immediately thanks Takeshi and that he makes her so happy. She embraces him, leaving him confused. He smiles anyway and wishes her a happy birthday. He wants to find her the best present, but she tells him that it's enough. He's totally reaping the benefit from what Haro's has sowed! Haro watches them hug from the sideline. They go out on a date that night to celebrate her birthday. This makes its way to Aiko's ears. Bro wants to know why she's following the news about the couple – it's not like she could do anything about it – other than getting angry. Aiko relents that the anger will help her hate Seiko for the rest of her life. Bro suggests that she ought to hate Takeshi instead because even if Seiko is out of the picture, he would never come to love her. Hahaha. I kinda love and hate Satoshi. Maybe I just love to hate him. Ha. Takeshi wines and dines his Okusang while the guards survey the restaurant. Haro spots a suspicious man who brings over a plate with a knife tucked underneath. He follows the server. But Takeshi and Seiko are simply enjoying themselves. She overhears a happy birthday song and feels nostalgia for home. She tells Takeshi that every year, her mom would bake the cake and her and her brother would frost it to their hearts' content. She's just missing her parents and younger brother. Takeshi takes her hand and says that she's with him now, today, in this country. They are one family. She thanks him, touched by his love. Takeshi says that she's his heart, and he has to take care of his heart, even with his life. Seiko reminds him not to speak of morbid things. He apologizes and laments that he'll take punishment in the form of kisses. Heee. Haro spies the hand holding as the duo walk down the stairs. He recalls his new responsibility and the reminder of the family heirloom. Takeshi, being the adorable cousin that he is, stops by Ryu's favorite food stand to order his cousin's favorite dish. But we see that the vendor has bad intentions as he follows them with a gun. He aims and fires. The bullet hits Haro on the arm first and the two bodyguards open fire. Another gunman shows up on the opposite corner, Takeshi jumps in front of Seiko and takes a bullet in the chest. Oh noes! Eeps! You can't end there! I want MORE! Two episodes a week aren't satisfying my appetite for Roy Rak Hak Liam Tawan. Next week will be Seiko's moment to shine, I hope? She will have to nurse Takeshi back to health and show him just how much she feels for him. I love how the show goes into the differences between Ryu and Takeshi, without giving everything away to us. We know that the two boys are very different. Takeshi likes to speak his mind, he's honest and doesn't spare his feelings. If he loves someone, he would tell the person. He's gentle and kind and never professes to be a hero. While Ryu on the other hand, is tightlipped and prefers to show rather than say anything. To him, actions speak louder than words. So we're going to have a ball watching him trying to speak those words. Heh. I'm already falling in love with Ryu and I hope that they don't take away the fun and adorable-ness (there's that word again) from Ryu and Mayumi, even if we know there's angst down the road. I don't feel sorry for Aiko anymore, because she has made her bed now. She could have chosen a different path, but her anger and blind love causes her to continue the bad route. I do feel sorry for her father though, because even though he craves power, he does love his family and is honorable in that way. It's sad to see that not only is his daughter getting the unrequited love, and going through what he went through, she's bat shit crazy. I'm so curious about the Japanese culture after watching this show. There's so many titles and ceremonies.. I must learn more, and the best way to do so is through dramas. Ha! But not before I indulge in more re-watches of Takeshi-Seiko and Ryu-Mayumi scenes! Off I go, until next Wednesday my friends! Tagged: Mario Maurer, Nadech Kugimiya, Rising Sun Series, Roy Rak Hak Liam Tawan, Taew Nataporn, Yaya Urassaya Reathanak says: Thanks for the recaps Fia!!!! I'm loving this Lakorn! I love the relationship that Takeshi and Ryu have. It's so real and full of love and care. I've never been too fond of Taew, she reminds me of a younger Aff but not as pretty. She's ok in this lakorn. I LOVE Yaya and Nadech together! jafstar78 says: Hi, I've been so happy reading your recaps! Thank you so much for your hard work! (Just an fyi: in the first two paragraphs, you have a typo with Takeshi's and Ryu' s names being switched for one another.) Cannot wait for next Wednesday and Thursday! Takeshi better be faking this so his Seiko can nurse him, and then we get a real kiss scene! Lol. Oops haha, it must be because I just love them both. Good catch! I need to slow down on my recaps 🙂 it's fixed now, glad to hear you've enjoyed the reading, and thanks for the comment! Mao says: Thank you again for the recap!! I haven't watch ep6 yet but after reading your recap I'm so anxious to watch it. OMGAWD! Come on! The second lead Haro is KILLING ME! He planted her freaking marigold and she thinks it's Takeshi! These type of characters kill me because they deserve the girl too but we know that can never be! Takeshi and Seiko are adorable and their adorableness (that's definitely a word in my dictionary) is too contagious. No one can wipe this smile of my face…. well not until I saw tht Takeshi was shot! Alright hospital cliche but über romantic scenes here we come! Ryu and Mayumi, glimpse of you guys through the episode is enough because I know we will get a whole dose of you after this finish! Thanks as always Fia!!! 😘😘😘😘 suzsuz says: Love this episode as well. I don't feel as sorry as i did previously for Aiko. I hope Seiko 'mans up' after this and stands by her anata and not run away instead being noble and all. Ryu and Mayumi are just shooo cute together!! Can't wait for next week! picadrama says: Aiko gets on my nerves so much. She could do better than this; she's been stepping way too low for a man that doesn't care at all about her. Let's see how far she will go. I am sad that Takeshi is benefiting from efforts made by Haro. I don't know how Takeshi will feel when he realizes that Haro has been harboring feelings for Seiko all along. It might turn ugly 🙁 sweetsheng says: Reblogged this on "My Kikay Diaries". « Roy Rak Hak Liam Tawan: Episode 5 The Unraveling of Dao Kiang Duen »	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Home \| Perspectives \|Construction Law Blog \| Pennsylvania Superior Court Holds that Mechanics' Lien Claim Exists for Excavation Work Performed Incidental to a Planned Improvement That Is Never Constructed. Pennsylvania Superior Court Holds that Mechanics' Lien Claim Exists for Excavation Work Performed Incidental to a Planned Improvement That Is Never Constructed. Posted By: Jim Miller Tags: Mechanics' lien In B.N. Excavating, Inc. v. PBC Hollow A, L.P., 2013 PA Super 120 (May 17, 2013), the Pennsylvania Superior Court sitting en banc reached a significant decision regarding whether a mechanics' lien claim exists for excavation work performed incident to a planned improvement that is never erected. The claimant, B.N. Excavating, completed excavation and other site work in preparation for the construction of two buildings. Despite the completion of claimant's work, no improvement was ever constructed on the property. Based on this fact, the trial court dismissed the lien claim, finding that Sampson-Miller Associated Companies v. Landmark Realty Co., 303 A.2d 43 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1973) barred lien claims when no improvement ultimately is erected in relation to the work. Upon review, the Superior Court reviewed the prior cases that have addressed this issue. After a careful examination, the court rejected those cases that interpreted Sampson-Miller to provide a bright-line rule that a lien rights never exists in the absence of a constructed improvement. The court first observed that "nothing in the Mechanics' Lien Law requires that a structure actually exist" or that construction of the improvement must be completed. Rather, as the court explained, the Lien Law merely requires that excavation must be performed incidental to the erection or construction of an improvement in order to create lien rights. Moreover, the court found that Sampson-Miller's perceived requirement that the actual erection of an improvement must occur for lien rights to exist directly conflicts with Section 1305 of the Lien Law, which provides: "Except in case of destruction by fire or other casualty, where, through no fault of the claimant, the improvement is not completed, the right to lien shall nevertheless exist." Therefore, the Superior Court concluded that B.N. Excavating's lien rights must "nevertheless exist" even if no structure was ultimately constructed as contended by the owners. The B.N. Excavating Court also proclaimed that Sampson-Miller unnecessarily restricted the ordinary meaning of the term "incidental." If the common definition of "incidental" is employed, as the Court explained, the plain language of the Lien Law "simply requires excavation and preliminary groundwork to be connected to a structure and not merely an independent improvement" of land. Thus, the B.N. Excavating Court reasoned that Sampson-Miller's limited definition of "incidental" erroneously forced the rule that actual construction of the improvement must occur even though the statute does not contain such a requirement. Based on this analysis, the B.N. Excavating Court held that it remains true that when grading and excavation work is performed independent of a plan to construct an improvement, the Lien Law does not provide claim rights. However, where "excavation is performed as an integral part of a construction plan, the activity falls within [the scope of the Lien Law] regardless of whether a structure is ever erected." The court also acknowledged that its holding is consistent with the analysis in Dollar Bank, FSB v. EM2 Development Corp., 716 A.2d 671, 673 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1998) in which the court held that a lien attaches when excavation and related site work is performed as part of a "'continuous scheme to erect' a structure." Interestingly, the Superior Court in dicta also remarked on its recent holding in Bricklayers of Western Pennsylvania Combined Funds, Inc. v. Scott's Development Co., 41 A.3d 16 (Pa. Super. Ct. 2012) (en banc), which jettisoned the long-established rule for strict construction of the Lien Law and proclaimed that a liberal construction should be employed for non-procedural provisions of the Lien Law. The B.N. Excavating Court expressed that the liberal construction standard proclaimed by the Bricklayers Court did not apply to 49 P.S. § 1202(a)(12) because it was adapted from the Mechanics' Lien Law of 1901 and, according to the statutory comment to Section 1202, was expressly intended to retain the existing decisional law affecting that section under the Lien Law of 1901. The B.N. Excavating Court's discussion of Bricklayers, however, had no effect on the outcome of the decision because, as the court explained, the holding would be the same whether a liberal or strict construction of the Lien Law was utilized. With this decision in mind, the best practice going forward for lien claimants involved in failed constructed projects should be to include an express statement in their lien claim that indicates that the work was performed incidental to a planned improvement and as part of a construction plan. 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President showing support for untested Covid-19 treatment touted by MyPillow founder, reports Jacquelyn Martin/AP Food and Drug Administration (FDA) signage is seen through a bus stop at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, in Silver Spring, Md., on the FDA grounds. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) President Donald Trump has reportedly asked the FDA to permit an untested herbal extract to be marketed as a dietary supplement and a potential cure for Covid-19, according to reporting by Axios. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and MyPillow founder and CEO Mike Lindell both support using oleander extract. Oleandrin is commonly used to treat heart conditions and asthma. Lindell, who is a vocal Trump supporter and personal friend, met with President Trump and Secretary Carson in July to tout the untested drug for use in coronavirus cases. President Trump vocalized support for the extract in the meeting, according to Axios. Lindell reportedly has a stake in Phoenix Biotechnology, the company that makes oleandrin. There is a small, non-peer-reviewed study that oleandrin inhibited coronavirus in test-tube experiments using monkey kidney cells. "I haven't (pushed the FDA to approve it)," the president told reporters Monday morning when asked about oleandrin. When asked if it was something he would support, he responded, "Is it something that people are talking about very strongly? We'll look at it, we'll look at it. We're looking at a lot of different things." The president continued, "I've heard that name mentioned I'll have to get back to you later." In March, President Trump asked the FDA to authorize the emergency use of hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19. The FDA did, and then in June it revoked the authorization for its use because a large trial study found a "risk of heart rhythm problems" in patients treated with hydroxychloroquine.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Vulture Conservation Foundation European Vulture Conference Der Falke A GPS-tagged Griffon Vulture originating from Crete wanders alongside the Cypriot coastline The moment of CAA's release © Silvio A. Rusmigo A Cretan Griffon Vulture that was released in Cyprus as part of previous restocking efforts proved to be a great wanderer. The LIFE with Vultures project team follows the movements and behaviour of the vulture "CAA" through the GPS tag on its back. This small device provides important insight into the ecology of the species, as well as crucial data that helps us implement targeted conservation actions. Movement ecology and vultures Vultures have played a pivotal role in the development of what might be termed 'movement ecology'. From the very early trials of initially heavy GPS-devices fitted on birds, vultures have served as models due to their large bodies and long travels. Thanks to this technology, we now know much more about the great distances vultures are able to travel and their wide-ranging behaviour. Using uplift currents of warm air (thermals), they can soar high in the sky without beating their wings, thus saving energy and facilitating travel over wide ranges in search of food. A Griffon Vulture with a GPS tag few moments before its release © E. Karatzia/ VCF In the course of the "LIFE with Vultures" project, GPS tracking devices will be fitted to a large sample of the current population, as well as to all individuals that will be imported from Spain as part of the restocking efforts of the project. These devices are already used by the project team to gain insight into the behaviour, movement ecology and the conservation of vultures. Griffon Vultures, in Cyprus and in other countries, concentrate their daily travels in the middle of the day, when thermal updrafts are strongest. From what has been shown by other studies and also through the GPS tracking monitoring of vultures in Cyprus, the beginning of spring is always marked by a significant increase in the distances travelled. However, this behaviour does not apply to all individuals. Namely, breeding individuals stay close to their nesting site, while non-breeding individuals largely abandon the breeding colonies and start to wander around to forage and explore new areas. The travels of the ultimate Griffon Vulture wanderer in Cyprus An example of such a non-breeding individual is a Griffon Vulture known as "CAA". CAA is a Griffon Vulture of unknown sex that hatched in early 2013 in Crete and was transported, along with other individuals, to Cyprus in the same year as part of the Project "GYPAS" in an effort to boost Cyprus' Griffon Vulture population. After spending a year and a few months in a suitably designed acclimatization aviary managed by the Game and Fauna Service, the bird was released back into the wild in February 2015. Thanks to the LIFE with Vultures project, CAA was fitted with a GPS device in mid-September 2020 and the project team is now closely monitoring its movements and gaining valuable information on the population's feeding and home ranges. Of the four Griffon Vultures currently fitted with GPS devices, "CAA" seems to be the ultimate wanderer. In less than two months (March-April), CAA travelled the farthest, covering a total of 4,683 km. The 2nd most wandering bird was "Ikaros", a 4-year-old bird that covered around 3,220 km. GPS tracking data showed that "CAA" wanders to areas that no other local vulture does (or at least no other GPS-tagged or observed individual). However, in the past, Cretan birds that were imported to Cyprus under Project "GYPAS" have explored similar areas. Most of these areas are located far away from the usual home and core ranges of the Cyprus Griffon Vulture population. During the timeframe mentioned above, CAA almost covered the whole coastline of Cyprus, exploring districts unusual for the species such as Nicosia (including the town centre), Larnaca, Famagusta, and even Kerynia, flying over Pentadahtylos Mountains. One day, the bird travelled Episkopi along the coasts of the city to Larnaca, Famagusta and overnighted at Rizokarpaso on the Karpasia peninsula. The following day, it travelled back to Episkopi, following the same route. Furthermore, CAA visited other historical feeding and breeding grounds of the species on the island. It also explored areas in the Paphos district, such as Polis Chrysochous, and reached the very tip of the Akamas Peninsula. The importance of GPS tracking for the LIFE with Vultures project The more we know about the vultures' ranging behaviour and other spatial parameters such as mean daily distances covered and seasonal changes in habitat use for roosting and foraging, the more we can do for the conservation of this scavenging species. The project team will continue monitoring the birds' movements throughout the project to assess feeding station use, recolonization of historical breeding colonies, and the acclimatization level of the birds imported from Spain to reinforce the currently depleted population. So far, CAA's travels show that the species can easily travel to explore the whole of Cyprus. This suggests that if other conditions were right (population level, food availability at a wider distribution, reduced disturbance at potential nesting sites, reduced poison bait use), the vultures would not be disinclined to explore new areas and recolonize abandoned breeding and foraging grounds, subsequently expanding their range on the island. LIFE with Vultures LIFE with Vultures is a targeted conservation project for the protection of the Griffon Vulture in Cyprus. In this four-year endeavor (2019-2023), BirdLife Cyprus, the Game and Fauna Service, Terra Cypria – The Cyprus Conservation Foundation and the Vulture Conservation Foundation have joined forces to tackle the main threats facing the Griffon Vulture and prevent Cyprus' most threatened bird of prey from going extinct. The project has a 1,375,861 Euro budget and is co-funded (60%) by the EU's LIFE programme. tagPlaceholderTags: griffonvulture, 2021-05, lifewithvultures, Monitoring Support our work and help us protect vultures Connect to Twitter	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
IMC group plays Music in the Park By Staff \| Jun 27, 2014 Tim Chapman/PCT International Music Camp faculty members (Clockwise from left) Tim Farrell, Arlene Shiplett, Devin Otto, Thomas Zugger and Ronnie Ingel performed as a brass quintet Wednesday at Music in the Park While some area youth were at International Music Camp at the International Peace Garden, five camp faculty came down to Rugby to perform under the Mark J. Carlson Memorial Gazebo. The International Brass Quintet performed on a sunny Wednesday evening and was warmly received by the crowd. Although, as a group, their journey to Rugby was only a 45-minute drive, individually each member traveled distances ranging from 65 miles to 1,400 miles to come together. The group is composed of Tim Farrell, professor and chairman of the music department at the University of South Dakota; Ronnie Ingel, trumpet professor at the University of North Dakota; Thomas Zugger, associate professor of trumpet and euphonium at Capital University Conservatory of Music in Ohio; Devin Otto, associate professor of music at Minot State University; and Arlene Shiplett, of the Saskatoon Symphony. Both Ingel and Farrell played on trumpets, Otto on tuba, Shiplett on french horn and Zugger played trombone. Each member has been in the group for a varied amount of years. Zugger has been with the group for six years and Shiplett for five, while this year is the first year for Ingel. An earlier incarnation of the quintet, with different membership, performed in Rugby eight years ago. The quintet played renditions of "Battle of Jericho", Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World", Fats Waller's "Black and Blue", gospel classic "Down by the Riverside" and an original tune inspired by the Great Lakes, among others. Their expansive repertoire included jazz and baroque. "We play anything that's been arranged for us," Farrell said. "A lot of what we play has been transcribed either for us or for groups our size." The quintet also performed in Minot, and Farrell noted a contrast between the two audiences. "The audience in Rugby was larger, almost twice as big as Minot," Farrell said. Beautiful music July 9 For the July 4th week, there is no Music in the Park performances. Performances pick up again July 9 with Sister's 7. Composed of Julie Geiger, of Mandan; and Anita Hoger, Joell Letzring, Dana Pazdernik, DeAnn Bueligen, Bonnie Toepke and Kristie Klusman, all of New Salem, the ladies each have various influences, ranging from gospel to oldies to country, and perform five-part harmonies. They have performed at weddings, fairs, banquets and other functions. All Music in the Park performances take place at 7 p.m. at Ellery Park. During performances, Lions Club members will also scoop free ice cream. Tune in to KZZJ in the event of inclement weather.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Rifles Reviews More Articles From Reviews Mossberg Blaze-47 Semiauto Rimfire: Full Review of a Fun Gun Mossberg Blaze-47 Semiauto Rimfire with 25-Round Mag: Full Review of a Fun Gun When you can shoot a semiauto rimfire with a 25-round magazine, it's just fun. This is what you get with the Mossberg Blaze-47, an AK-47 lookalike for just $370. Mossberg Blaze-47 FDE Semiauto Rifle with 25-Round Mag (Photo courtesy of RifleShooter Magazine) May 13, 2021 By Stan Trzoniec The Mossberg Blaze-47 semiauto rimfire rifle is available with a traditional wood stock or a flat dark earth polymer stock. The AK-47 Blaze feeds from either 10- or 25-round magazines. My FDE polymer-stocked model shipped with the latter. Checking in at 4.5 pounds, it's light but feels good in the hands. The buttstock is a six-position adjustable. Length of pull is 12.25 inches with it pushed all the way in; the midpoint is the common 13.5 inches, and all the way out it's 15.5 inches. It's easily adjustable via a locking device on the bottom, and once released it locks into detents along a bottom rail. The stock is capped off with a rubber buttpad to prevent the gun from slipping off your shoulder. The plastic halves of the receiver and fore-end show a gap, but they are otherwise well fitted top and bottom. The fore-end is comfortable to grip, with square-patterned impressions to secure the gun in your hands. There are vents near the top of the barrel to mimic the AK. The well-proportioned pistol grip has a palm swell that will work for both right- and left-handed shooters. The grip can be removed by a screw that runs through the center. Trzoniec's sample shipped with a 25-round magazine, and between its capacity and great trigger, he found it a joy to shoot. (Photo courtesy of RifleShooter Magazine) The barrel is 16.5 inches long. At the muzzle is a faux flash hider, atop which sits the front sight assembly. It is a tall fixture, and while it looks ungainly, it matches up perfectly with the rear sight. The red front sight blade is easy to acquire through the twin green fiber-optic rods on the plastic rear sight. It is adjusted for windage and elevation via large plastic knobs, so you don't have to carry any tools in the field for adjustments. The long receiver houses a rugged steel bolt and operating handle. The handle sticks out about an inch and is curved, making it easy to cock. To keep the bolt open, pull it back and push the operating handle inward. Inside you'll find a heavy-duty extractor with the mechanical ejector that operated flawlessly no matter the ammunition. The trigger has a wide face, and I was surprised to find it broke at only four pounds. There's just a bit of take-up before the sear let go, and it behaves almost like a two-stage. I think this trigger beats others in guns of its price range by a wide margin. Although many of the parts on the gun are plastic, the trigger guard is steel. The full fore-end gives the gun a solid feel despite its light weight. Together with the adjustable buttstock, it's a gun anyone will find easy to handle. (Photo courtesy of RifleShooter Magazine) I know many shooters out there will not be too happy with the plastic safety lever. However, it is ambidextrous, and the positions are clearly marked on both sides. Pushing it forward places the gun on Fire; pushing it up puts it on Safe. Magazines seat easily in the mag well. The magazine includes what Mossberg calls a "loading assist button"; pushing it down allows fresh cartridges to be inserted easily. The magazine release drops unloaded mags without effort. Because of the length of the 25-rounder, if you are going to benchrest the gun to test various types of ammunition, bring something to raise the fore-end for better results. At the time I tested the rifle, ammunition was hard to find. Federal graciously helped out with a few 500-round boxes of Champion ammo in its value pack, which certainly helped the cause. I had some Federal Target and Winchester Power-Point already on hand. The gun's polymer halves do show a gap but are otherwise well matched. The fiber-optic rear sight is easily adjusted via two good-size wheels. (Photo courtesy of RifleShooter Magazine) When it came to accuracy, the gun lives up to the standards set by Mossberg over the years. You can see the averages in the accompanying chart, and as is almost always the case, one group stood out. In this instance, the prize went to the Winchester brand coming in at 0.72 inch at 25 yards with open sights. I got addicted to this gun after shooting just a few magazines, reloading the magazine numerous times while plinking at downrange targets. With the more-than-acceptable trigger and great sights and its ability to digest ammunition without a hitch, the gun came away with high marks. The only fault I could find is that there should be some kind of a rail installed on the gun for a scope because, with its short barrel, some folks will find it hard use the front and rear sights. I know the gun's plastic construction can be a problem in terms of torqueing down a scope mount, but if the factory does it and secures the mount with a good thread cement, I think it would be good addition. Mossberg Blaze-47 Semiauto Rimfire Rifle Accuracy No question, the Blaze-47 FDE is entertaining to shoot and handle. Mossberg did one heck of a job with this rifle. It's a gun the whole family can enjoy shooting, and it would also serve as a survival tool or even a hunting rifle. Mossberg Blaze-47 Semiauto Rifle Specs: Type: blowback-operated semiauto rimfire Caliber: .22 Long Rifle Capacity: 25-round magazine supplied (as tested) Barrel: 16.5 in., 1:16 twist Overall Length: 33.5–37.25 in. Weight: 4.5 lb. Stock: six-position flat dark earth polymer Sights: adjustable green fiber-optic rear, red blade front Trigger: 4 lb. pull (measured) Manufacturer: O.F. Mossberg & Sons, mossberg.com .25-06 Rem. vs 6.5 Creedmoor Best Non-Magnum Rifle Cartridges Available Blaser R8 .22LR Conversion Review Bowhunter	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Posts Tagged 'collapsed businesses' Five Questions with Merv Field Mervin Field is the pioneering founder of the Field Poll, an independent, nonpartisan, public opinion survey that has tracked every state election in California since 1948. The man insiders call "The Swami" kindly took time to answer some Calbuzz questions. Calbuzz: What do you make of Jerry Brown's effort to become the first guy to be elected governor again, when he's twice as old as the first time he won? Merv Field: Jerry Brown is reasonably well positioned to be elected governor in 2010. If Dianne Feinstein does not run, then Brown and Antonio Villaraigosa move up in position. I think then that the chances for either winning the nomination is 50-50. Newsom's odds improve but are still relatively long. Brown wears his age well. As a campaigner he doesn't look much different than when he first ran for office in 1968. He certainly will not appear to be an old codger trying to win back his old job. The negatives he acquired as governor (1975-1982) will be issues in the campaign among old-timers and perhaps some of the newer voters. However, I can see him campaigning this way: "I was first elected governor when I was 36. I accomplished a lot of things (also admitting to some failures). I have learned a lot since then — being a mayor, AG, etc. I have witnessed all the changes, been active in dealing with them and am now uniquely equipped to deal with the huge problems facing the state." CB: What's with the Curse of Sunny Jim Rolph? Why do mayors have such a hard time getting elected governor, and what does it portend for Gavin Newsom and Villaraigosa? MF: There were different conditions in each of the unsuccessful gubernatorial candidacies in California of former mayors of big cities, along with some similarities. Their tenures as mayors split their constituencies. Dealing with local problems gets more attention locally, where failures are well reported, then resurrected when running for governor. Local problems have inordinate effects on voters. Mayors, not governors, deal with potholes. Also, as far as S.F. and L.A. are concerned, voters in either place don't identify with the other. There has been and still exists a somewhat ill-defined rivalry — if not animosity — between residents of the two cities. Plus, there's animosity between residents of the big cities and adjacent cities and suburbs. Both Villaraigosa and Newsom will face this problem. CB: With their huge personal wealth, do Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner have an overwhelming advantage in the governor's race? MF: Money will help in getting attention, but it is problematic whether the reaction of the voters will be positive. Wealthy candidates without accomplishments in government feed the desire of voters to know more about them. They also invite a lot of scrutiny from the press digging into their lives. The negative media play about wealthy, new-to-the-public candidates, from former business associates, ex-spouses, school friends, etc. has a great and lasting effect on voter opinions during a relatively short campaign. Whitman presumably has to run on the basis of being a successful business person (or personality) ready to straighten out the mess in Sacramento. But I don't think that message will have as much resonance as it did in 2003 when Arnold used it successfully. And like Al Checchi and Bill Simon earlier — it may also have some repellent aspects in 2010. I don't know about Poizner. He just got elected Insurance Commissioner in 2006, so he has not yet made a mark in public office. By next year, he probably still will be viewed essentially as a successful high-tech entrepreneur. If the GOP continues to be fractured, that's not going to help. If the primary consists of expensive personal attack ads then the winner's chances in November are diminished. Any credibility that successful business people might have had as competent leaders has been collapsed with the news about Detroit automakers, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Wall Street, banks, etc. CB: Tom Campbell is arguably the most qualified Republican who's not bloody likely to win his party's nomination for governor. Do you see anything on the political horizon that will enable moderate Republicans to become competitive again? MF: I don't see a moderate like Campbell getting the GOP nomination. It's going to take a long time before moderate Republicans can be competitive again in California. The proportion of Republican voters has been steadily declining statewide for some time, and the public has become less inclined to react positively to messages of the national and state GOP parties. Republicans can still elect office holders in gerrymandered districts but not regularly beyond that. The chances of moderate Republicans becoming more potent may occur if the promised reapportionment reform comes into being. The proving ground for moderate GOP candidates aiming for higher office will become more fruitful if they can start and get elected in legislative districts that are more evenly balanced. CB: Imagine the unthinkable: that Calbuzz got it wrong and Dianne Feinstein does run for governor. Do you think she would be as formidable as the polls make her out, or would the liberal netroots questions about her husband's finances and her long absence from state politics combine to make her campaign strongest on the day she declared? MF: If Feinstein runs she would face the problems you list. I agree with your inference that she would be at the peak of her popularity when she announces her candidacy. But if she announces before the other Democrats get too far in their campaigns I think she would still win the nomination. If she doesn't have to face an inordinately scathing primary, she would be quite formidable against either Whitman or Poizner, with the odds in her favor. If Feinstein really has her heart in running and being elected governor, her life-long desire, she would have to be considered the favorite in winning the Democratic nomination. However, I am beginning to be one of those political bystanders who believes that she won't run. She'll be 77 in 2010. Based on my perception of how voters perceive the strengths and weaknesses of a candidate, that age would be a handicap for a man running for high office and a larger handicap for a woman. Tags: collapsed businesses, Field Poll, gerrymandering, Sunny Jim Rolph Posted in Antonio Villaraigosa, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Governor's Race, California Politics, Dianne Feinstein, Gavin Newsom, Jerry Brown, Meg Whitman, Steve Poizner, Tom Campbell \| 6 Comments »	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
This Bristol entrepreneur has launched a vegan grooming range that supports men with mental health problems He is a "long-time vegan and animal lover" who suffered with mental health issues himself Hannah BakerBusiness Editor Sign up to FREE daily email alerts from BristolLive - Daily A Hartcliffe-based entrepreneur who suffered with mental health issues is launching a crowdfunding campaign today (30 April) in a bid to raise investment for his vegan grooming business and support other men with mental health problems. Blue O'Connor plans to give 20 per cent of profits made from the sales of his ethical range Kings to support Bristol charities Mentoring Plus and Bristol Mind. Some of the money raised from the campaign will also go towards the company's own projects including an urban gym and health and wellbeing programme for men. Blue O'Connor is the founder of ethical grooming company Kings Blue, who says his products are cruelty-free and are approved by the Vegan Society, says he wants to "empower young men to be open about their problems". He said: "There's still a huge stigma with young men when it comes to dealing with mental health issues. "I feel strongly that we need to open up the conversation and address them to live healthier and happier lives. "We want to encourage men to challenge the unhealthy, unrealistic ideas society holds about masculinity, and redefine what masculinity means in 2018." Blue hopes to raise £10,000 through the crowdfunding campaign with the sale of bottles of aftershave and ethical t-shirts. Would you wear a device to work that detects mental health conditions? Kings products are all cruelty-free (Image: Kings Instagram) The funding will also enable Blue to launch Kings as a business and cover his set-up costs. He added: "Kings is all about challenging the norm and using our brand to help power change, whether that's offering high-quality grooming products that are also vegan and ethically made, or using profits from the range to help change the way men deal with mental health issues. "All the products in the Kings grooming range are certified vegan, which is important to me as a long-time vegan and animal lover. These are the happiest places in Bristol to work "I've also taken things one step further by pledging a percentage of profits to supporting male mental health, another cause that's close to my heart. "The first step is this crowdfunding campaign, which we hope will hope create momentum for Kings and mark our first success, so we really hope that Bristolians will get behind us and support our campaign." bristol.live Follow @bristollive BedminsterBristol dad sets up Dudes & Dogs walking group to help men open up'Let's go for a walk' is much easier to say than 'let's have a chat' EmploymentWorkers awarded more than £200k after losing jobs at Bristol-based airline FlybmiFlybmi workers who were based at Bristol Airport and East Midlands Airport are in line for a big payout	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Embrace > Darkside Sun Since she was six years old, Addison Beckett's seen the world around her unraveling, as if someone is pulling a thread from a sweater and it's all slowly coming undone. Her arrogant-but-hot professor Asher Green insists that the dead from a parallel dimension are trying to possess the living in this one. And since Addison seems to be the only one who can see these "wraiths," she just might be the key to saving the world. Stop the wraiths. Break the rules. Save the world. All in a day's work. Normal was overrated, anyway. Mortal Machine Series, Book 1 By Jocelyn Adams The dead have been waiting for her… Addison Beckett tries hard to pretend she's normal, but she's far from it. Since she was six years old, she's seen the world around her unraveling, as if someone is pulling a thread from a sweater and it's all slowly coming undone. When she ignores it, it goes away, so that's what she does. Enter her arrogant-but-hot professor Asher Green. He knows all about her special brand of crazy. In fact, he might be just as nuts as she is. Asher insists that the dead from a parallel dimension are trying to possess the living in this one. And since Addison seems to be the only one who can see these "wraiths," she just might be the key to saving the world. Addison wants nothing to do with Asher or his secret society, The Mortal Machine. But as their animosity grows, she finds it harder and harder to ignore the chemistry between them. And when she discovers that Machine laws forbid her from touching him, she realizes that's all she wants to do. Stop the wraiths. Break the rules. Save the world. All in a day's work. Normal was overrated, anyway. "Darkside Sun builds and builds and holds your every attention and then it tears you apart at the seams. Truly a stunner of a book." --Shortie Says "With its unique look at the paranormal, Darkside Sun brings us something different, not only in the New Adult genre, but to fiction as a whole. This story has me by the heart." --Gabby, Goodreads "Highly recommend to NA contemporary fan looking to branch out and PNR/Urban Fantasy fans looking for a new series to lose themselves in!" --Nicci, Goodreads "A must-read for paranormal and action junkies." --Jennifer Eaton, Goodreads With only three days until the wraith king turns the earth into an all-you-can-eat buffet, Addison Beckett must enlist brooding sentinel Asher Green's help. But Asher has erased her memory, along with the knowledge that he loves her, wants her, needs her. When... Life for the Mortal Machine—the secret-society that protects Earth from dark forces—has become almost...normal. For everyone but Addison. The evil she's imprisoned in her soul is destroying her sanity. Consequently, nobody believes her warnings that an old... Series: Mortal Machine, Book 1 Release Date: Mar 10, 2014 Imprint: embrace Genre: new adult, paranormal Tropes: forbidden love/off limits, overcoming odds By Magen Corrie August 09, 2016 4.5 stars! eARC received from NetGalley/Entangled in exchange for an honest review I'm going to be totally honest. I had my doubts about this one. I was back and forth if I should read this one when I was offered the chance. And you know what, I'm so flipping happy I took that chance! I ...more By Amaleen March 10, 2014 Aside from the incredible storyline, the wonderful world building, the walk-off-the-page characters, and the incredibly sexy Asher Green, one of my favourite things about this novel is the protagonist Addison Beckett. She's a down to earth, relatable, plaid-wearing heroine who evolves during the cour ...more By Pam March 09, 2014 Received ARC from publisher via NetGalley I absolutely loved this book, it has all the feels. A unique and interesting premise with wraiths from parallel dimensions coming into our world and taking over humans and a secret society tasked with stopping them. Addison suddenly finds herself thrust into ...more By Gabbie (Rampant Readers) March 12, 2014 "Denial was a wonderful thing, like a rain slicker to keep the deluge of crazy from soaking too deep into my skin." "'And I'm really not going to hurt you the way you think I am.' 'You don't pick up a dagger like that near a runecovered altar with shackles on it unless you intend to ca ...more By J. March 16, 2014 Entangled Embrace Publishing found a gem when they signed Jocelyn Adams to their lineup of authors. I've been a fan of Ms. Adams for some time now. It all started with THE GLASS MAN and my addiction to her writing grew from there. After reading all of her works, I have to say DARKSIDE SUN is her best ...more By Nas November 03, 2016 I CAN'T BELIEVE THE ENDING! NOO! ASHER WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE SO BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN?! SHE LOVES YOU, YOU LOVE HER SO WHY CAN'T YOU JUST BE TOGETHER! PLEASE MAKE HER REMEMBER YOU AGAIN! PLEASE I BEG OF YOU. I knew this book was going to be awesome, the originality of the paranormal world of wraiths is com ...more By Gabby (What's Beyond Forks?) March 14, 2014 Full Review at: What's Beyond Forks? Darkside Sun is the first book in the Mortal Machine series by Jocelyn Adams. This novel was stuffed to the brim with everything I like to find in a story, and I simply couldn't get enough of it. The premise and paranormal aspects were unique. I can't say I've eve ...more By Rebecca March 20, 2014 I thought I loved The Glass Man and Lila Gray ... but that was before I read about Addison. Yes, Ms. Adams has grabbed hold of my imagination again with her new Mortal Machine series. Darkside Sun's cover may look familiar, but I can tell you the story inside is different from anything else you've r ...more By Terri April 01, 2014 Ever been thrust into a funk because of an incredibly written story??? Ugh. A tortured soul. A swoon-worthy jerk (Don't judge! Read the book!!)A fresh, new world. Unique beyond anything I've read. While I've always been a huge fan of Ms. Adams, she's found another way to unhinge my jaw and leave me g ...more By Gigi March 14, 2014 Enter he ...more By Denise April 07, 2014 Darkside Sun begins with Addison, a young 18-year-old college student, in her dorm room watching the walls unravel loosing the darkness, losing time, and in a panic about being late for class with an enigmatic and terror inspiring hotty professor. I have to admit that the beginning of this book made ...more By Nicci March 11, 2014 HOLY CRAP! Where to begin?! Oh, how about I begin with the fact that this book is New Adult and it's paranormal New Adult? Now, I know that other genres beyond contemporary romance exist in the new adult category but as things stand - at the moment - other genres are few and far between. I love the N ...more By Sharon March 28, 2014 I'm the first to admit that paranormal isn't the first type of book I will grab. I never swooned over the vampire/werewolf fad. I am learning to like urban fantasy, however, and this book is a paranormal romance/urban fantasy. From the first line, I was hooked. I had a difficult time putting this boo ...more By Jennifer July 25, 2014 Strap yourself in for the ride of your life. This story starts with a bang and keeps you ducking until the very last sentence. Loved the creative world and the complex story and characters. A must-read for paranormal and action junkies. Rubbing my hands together and salivating at the thought of book ...more By Sera ~ Catty Reader March 09, 2014 ARC kindly provided by Entangled Publishing, LLC/Netgalley in exchange for an honest review * 4/5 shifting stars "Curiosity killed the cat and, maybe soon, the Addison" The blurb of the book interested me a lot since it's very different from other PNR books I've read so far. This is the first boo ...more By Anna March 21, 2014 Thank you to Rockstar Book Tours for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review I must admit I was not expecting this book to be as good as it was but I found myself being sucked into this amazing book. Once you start this novel it is impossible to put its down. Although ...more By Ann May 10, 2014 Addison Beckett/Addy is a college student taking up Accountancy at Waterloo University. Her life is anything but normal, when she is in her own bedroom or familiar places, the walls come to life and wraiths show up. She tries her best to run away from them and didn't tell anyone, not even her father ...more By T.A. March 12, 2014 This review and more can be seen at http://gothicmoms.blogspot.com/ The first several chapters, while extremely detailed were also extremely long and unnecessarily drawn out. CFBS, Classic First Book Syndrome, where the author is trying to balance the scales between enough information to form the plo ...more By Ruth March 08, 2014 Darkside Sun presents us a world where other realities exist and a secret society fights a threat from another dimension. Addison is introduced to The Mortal Machine to discover that she has a special role and the easy task of saving the world. With a lot of action, a bit of romance and more bruises ...more By La_Revenant March 16, 2014 This book sucked me in quickly and, shortly thereafter, it captivated my attention with its unique story line. "Alternate realities? Multiple universes potentially containing other Earths? People tracking and destroying alien-ghost-thingies that could somehow make holes between our worlds to climb t ...more By Elle (Lost in Wonderland) March 17, 2014 * Many thanks to Entangled Publishing for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review. * Sexual Tension, Sexual Tension! SEXUAL TENSION. ...Would be my word of choice to describe this book. Although there is a lot more to the book, including weird bug men, shifting dimensions, and ...more By Heather March 06, 2014 Book Title: Darkside Sun (Mortal Machine #1) by Jocelyn Adams Darkside Sun is the first in what will assuredly become a series of books that follows Addison Beckett, a new adult who has been watching the world literally come apart at the seams since she was six. Now that she's ...more By DelAnne April 27, 2014 Title: Darkside Sun - Mortal Machine Trilogy Book 1 Author: Jocelyn Adams Publisher: Entangled Embrace Published: 3-10-2014 E-Book ASIN: B00IHCC5JC Tags: Contemporary Fiction, Series, Fantasy Sensual Level: very low Overall Rating: excellent Reviewed For: Entangled Romance Reviewer: D ...more By Elien March 19, 2014 This review and more on So Bookalicious Right from the start we were pulled into the craziness that is Addison's life. The world crumbles down around her and she truly believes she's crazy since she's the only one who can see it happening. And then she has an encounter with her professor Asher Green ...more By Tash July 21, 2017 Reviewed for Confessions From Romaholics It been a few months since Entangled Embrace line was started and I been wanting to check out some of the offering they had. So when I was offered the chance to review this book , I accepted and was hoping this book would live up to the expectations I have for ...more Jocelyn Adams Jocelyn is an office grunt by day and creator of romance and intrigue by night. Born a farmer's daughter in small town Ontario, she spent her childhood dreaming up stories that remained untold until 2010. With no formal training, she relied on the keen eyes and honest feedback of her writing group to take her from that first short story all the way to THE END of her first novel, and her newest contemporary romance will be coming to Entangled Select in the near future. A two-time finalist in the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest, Jocelyn has eight published novels and several shorter works. Her favorite event of the year is the Muskoka Novel Marathon where she gets a little crazy with other authors from Southern Ontario to raise money for adult literacy programs. When she isn't slinging words, you can find her shooting her bow, reading dark and gritty urban fantasy or paranormal romance, or enjoying the serenity of family life in her little house in the woods. Darcy needs to be taken seriously as a journalist, so she's set on interviewing reclusive millionaire Micah Laine. Micah proposes a deal—the bigger the secret he offers up, the bigger the cost he'll demand—a secret of her own, her wildest fantasy, a kiss.... The sickness came on suddenly and violently. When it ended, the entire town of Glory seemed to be dead...except Blue Michaels. And she is very different. Only a handful of them made it, including U.S. Army Specialist Seth Campbell, who is fierce and protective,... Every bounty hunter on the Eastern Seaboard is after Mikayla Morgan—but when she returns to the scene of her mother's murder, Shaun Denver and his partner snag her. She's a piece of work, and Shaun can't decide if he wants to kiss her or kill her. When things... 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When his sister becomes tangled with a coven of demons, college senior Slade Bennet must trade his soul to save her. But first he must kill the assigned target: a sexually charged beauty who ignites his protective instinct. Halena Girard lives for only two things:... Cameron Lawson is partying it up before she starts her dream job at New York's biggest ad agency. Her task? To hook up with a random guy, and, the super-sexy guy sitting next to Cameron is definitely game. No names. No details. Just one hot night...until the first... Cori Elliott likes order. Her schedule, her social life...even her GPA is perfect. Then she finds out her ex-boyfriend's death wasn't an accident. The revelation is enough to fracture her perfectly structured life, sending Cori into a downward spiral of self-doubt... Bad boy and former NFL running back Patrick Guinness is tired of meaningless sex. Ever since his scorching hot one-night stand three years ago, no one has interested him. So when Max Segreti wanders into his mechanic shop—and his life again... All I ever wanted was to make a name for myself as Candice Salinas, creative writing grad student at the University of Miami, but my secret identity as Candy Sloane, self-published erotic romance writer, could ruin that. Enter James Walker, super-hot local barista... How does someone like me, an ordinary girl from Pittsburgh, wind up in the arms of the world's sexiest rock star—surrounded by celebrities, fashion, and music—and not be eaten alive? Berkeley Dalton is everything I've ever dreamed of in a boyfriend... Emily's lived a life of adventure, but the secret she guards stands in the way of the love Luke offers. Risking her heart won't matter if they can't survive the volatile mountain.... Duncan McAllister is marrying Elaina Tripoli tomorrow. Except—he's missing. Their friends arrive in Greece to help find him, but everyone has their own baggage. Noah's got a surprise planned for Jordan that has to go perfectly. Griffin's keeping life-changing... My name's Grant Clark, and I screwed up my life in triplicate by falling in love with my teammate, wrongly believing he was straight, and not making a move until it was too late. Or is it?... In an effort to leave my past behind me, I've hacked my way into a spot in a hostage rescue team's training program. The complication? Harvard, my ideal man and my instructor. But my past isn't letting me off that easily. A series of freak accidents—deadly... It's been six months since Ashlyn Daniels was kicked out of her home. Six months since she stood up to her abusive stepfather and got a busted rib—and seeing all her things set ablaze in a backyard bonfire—for her trouble. Never going back... Devi Dalton won't let anyone hold her back. With a shiny new job in Manhattan, she's finally taking control of her life. Her only obstacle? Ben Winslow, the sexy cage fighter she's desperately trying to resist, who isn't about to let her push him away ag... Audra Madison has a second chance at life and she's got a plan: Go to college. Get a tattoo. Date. You know, live. Now she wants to give Jake her heart, but he isn't sure it's hers to give... The last thing I need is a Texas princess like Callie messing with my head. But there's something more to this spoilt little rich girl than the perfect image she works so hard to keep.There's only one rule to keeping my job and a roof over my sister's he... Copyright © 2013 by Jocelyn Adams. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce, distribute, or transmit in any form or by any means. For information regarding subsidiary rights, please contact the Publisher. My dorm room wall began to unravel as if someone had found a loose thread on the fabric of reality and sped off with it. It happened a lot around me. I didn't know what might be on the other side and what it wanted. Maybe me. I wasn't about to stick around to find out. Once upon a time I'd have bolted, but I'd trained myself out of advertising my insanity. I just had to get my stuff and leave calmly, like a normal person, so the walls could seal themselves up again as they always did. I wasn't sure how long it took, but when my nerve steadied enough for me to come back, everything would be normal again. Well, as normal as my life ever got. A nervous laugh gurgled out of me as I gathered the chaos of books from my bed and stuffed them into my backpack. Denial was a wonderful thing, like a rain slicker to keep the deluge of crazy from soaking too deep into my skin. There was not a black hole in my wall. Nothing would come through it and eat me for breakfast. Deluding myself was also necessary, since Dad had mortgaged the cabin to send me to Waterloo University, and I didn't want to lose my ever-loving mind before graduation. Not even my reality issues would keep me from class today, even if the devil himself spilled out of my wall. Only one thing scared me more than whatever waited out there on the dark side of the veil, and he taught my ancient civilizations class. I'd witnessed firsthand what Professor Green did to people who arrived late to his lecture. I'd rather have taken a hammer to my knuckles. I checked my watch. Eight-fifteen a.m., leaving me fifteen minutes to hot-foot it across campus to the Arts Lecture Hall, or the AL. I'd have ten minutes to spare, which was cutting it about as close as I'd dare to. The temperature began to drop, and my next breath frosted the air. I glanced up while hoisting my pack onto my shoulder. The fuzzing around the upper walls had crawled down at least a foot from the ceiling. I had a sudden image of some giant beast lifting the roof off, reaching in a gnarled finger, and scooping me up. "Time to go, idiot," I said. "What are you waiting for, the apocalypse?" What if whatever was peeling back my reality opened a big enough hole to come through? Like I needed that visual right at the moment. Nope. I just had to get to the AL, and everything would be fine. I only made it one step toward the door when something slammed into me from every direction at once, like a concussion wave of sound, only I couldn't hear anything. That was new. A pulse grew inside me like a giant heartbeat that wasn't mine. Or was it in the room? Or from the darkness beyond the wall? I couldn't draw in air, and my legs ignored my command to run. Oh, God! Before the full dose of panic hit me, the hush and click of a door snapped my attention back to reality. Released from whatever had turned me into a statue, I lurched forward and almost ran into my roommate, Ava. One note of my scream escaped before I shut my mouth. She stood there, black hair hanging in chocolate springs around her heart-shaped face. The sight of her startled expression made me burst out laughing, which, naturally, caused me to spew out another blizzard into the air. Not that she'd notice. Nobody ever did. I gaped at her, trying and failing to slow my breathing. One of Ava's dark eyebrows arched up. "God, Addison, could you get any weirder? Why are you hyperventilating again?" she asked, tracing me up and down with her dark brown eyes. She wore skin-tight yoga pants and a T-shirt straining over her perky boobs. Sweat glistened on her forehead and cleavage, probably from a workout with whatever guy she'd knocked nasties with last night. "I'm not hyperventilating, I was just … Gotta go." I swallowed another giggle and detoured around her, my braid sliding over my shoulder to dangle down my plaid shirt. My hair was that so-dark brown, close to black but not quite, with a few natural caramel streaks throughout. "See you later." "I'm surprised you're still here." She went for the inner door that led from my room into hers. It mostly sucked having the only exit in our shared space in my bedroom, especially considering her busy social calendar. I'd wanted the inner room for more privacy, but one flaming-eyeballed look from her, and I'd agreed to the outer one. "Taking your life in your hands, aren't you? Professor Green is going to roast you on a spit if you go there now. And if you don't go, you're out of his class." Mouth curling up with a grin, she shrugged as if thinking that might be entertaining to see on a Friday morning. "I'd really hate to be you right now." What is she, high? "I've still got fifteen minutes to get there." I glanced at my watch again. It read 8:45. I'd lost half an hour. "Shit!" I launched out the door and left her yucking it up in my room. God, there were days when I wanted to slip her a sharp piece of my mind. I supposed she did have a point about my freakishness. I spent most of my life either hyperventilating, laughing hysterically to cover a scream, or staring at the ceiling to make sure it wasn't coming apart. Not to mention I'd just blanked out for thirty minutes and couldn't breathe all of a sudden, which were odd events even for me—so no, I couldn't get any weirder. She still didn't have to say it out loud. It was no wonder I couldn't make any friends and usually spent my time alone with a book. Maybe the thing would scoop her out through the roof. Although once Professor Green got through with me, I might wish it had gone bobbing for me. I sprinted down the hallway on the third floor of Village Two, the dorm they stuck all of us first years in. Girls on the third floor, guys on the first two. I took the stairs down a few at a time. Maybe he'd go easy if I was panting when I got there? A girl could try. Spring sunshine smiled through the trees as I clip-clopped along Ring Road, which encircled the campus. Hints of summer warmed the early April breeze, carrying the scent of lilacs and some other white flower that lined the road like some frilly junk old folks set their tea cups on. I wasn't a gardener. If Dad had his way, and he usually did, I'd be a full-fledged chartered accountant. If I wanted him to put me through university, I had to major in something practical. Since I had bigger aspirations than being a cashier at Walmart, I'd applied to the accounting program and resigned myself to a life of excruciating boredom. Waterloo was the university in Ontario. If you graduated from there, you were guaranteed a job. Sitting at a desk. Staring at endless scads of spreadsheets and ledgers and crap. God, it was just so … depressing. Still, my high school marks had been mediocre at best, so when my acceptance letter had shown up in our mailbox, I'd nearly peed my pants. My dream job was practical to me even if Dad thought I was delusional. I wanted to be a historian, archaeologist, or museum curator. Something that put my hands on cool, old stuff as ancient as the hills and just as interesting, dripping with texture and history and scuff marks from where people long dead had held it just like I would. Okay, so not really practical unless I wanted to live in a big smelly city and probably end up in some dusty archive for the next twenty years while waiting for a decent job to open up—which I didn't, but dreams aren't always rational. After much pleading on my part, Dad had compromised and let me take one course per year that I wanted to take. Naturally, I'd chosen Professor Green's Ancient Civilizations class. He had a reputation not only for getting nearly violent over lateness and other perceived indiscretions, but for giving fascinating lectures. I rushed up to the glass double doors of the AL and went inside. My lungs ached. Maybe they'd burst. Maybe, just maybe, that would be a better fate than facing Professor Green. Still, I'd rather take my lumps than be banned from his lecture. I rather enjoyed watching his pants strain across his tight butt as he pointed out interesting features on his slide shows. Panting, I came to the classroom door, holding still until my nerve calmed. It took a while. For all of the oddness my life handed to me, you'd think I'd be braver. I wasn't. A giant chicken, that's me. I eased open the door, or tried to. A mournful wail of rusty hinges resounded through the stadium seating full of students riveted to the man standing on the platform at the bottom. I'd totally forgotten about that damn door. He'd probably forbidden the custodians to oil it so nobody could slip in unnoticed. I stepped inside, painfully aware his hand had stopped moving the dry-erase marker over the white board. The door screeched again and clanged shut. I jumped at the sound. I'd just locked myself in with the beast and holy cow was he pissed. He never went that still unless a category five hurricane of doom blew around on his tongue, which he would soon release upon me, no doubt. I'd seen it happen enough to recognize the warning signs. A still image of Mayan ruins shone on the screen beside him from the projector dangling from the ceiling. My heart tripped and fell. I'd been waiting all year to get to the Mayans. Why did I have to be late today of all days? I stalked down the aisle, searching for an empty seat, anxious to hear what he had to say on the subject. Thankfully, I only had to descend a few rows. Head down, I shuffled along the aisle, trying not to play demolition derby with any knees. Most of the girls continued to stare at Green with a dreamy expression, no doubt fantasizing about how they could help him work off his anger without their clothes on. A few people offered me sympathetic gazes. Others smiled, eager for my impending doom. I dropped into a chair, holding my pack to my chest, the top covering my face to my nose. As if that would keep him from seeing me. He saw everything, like he had eyes in the walls, in the backs of every chair. The ultimate mother-hen-turned-psychotic-cop. Green turned slowly, his bone-straight jet-black hair glossed under the lights, giving it an almost blue sheen, like a spill of oil in the sun. He wore tan slacks perfectly creased down the legs. Shiny brown shoes polished to a blinding gleam poked out underneath. An Oxford-blue dress shirt covered his broad shoulders, buttoned all the way to his neck and ironed to within an inch of its life. I wondered if he ironed his underwear, too. And maybe his skin. He appeared way too young and gorgeous to be a full professor, especially one who knew so much about anthropology. From a distance, I'd have put him at early twenty-something, but that had to be wrong. He glared at me with eyes so blue I imagined staring into skies from some far-off world where they had shades of blue I'd never heard of. Bright blue-green, clear as ice, and just as cold. Even though he stood below all of us, he looked at us the way a boot would stare at a herd of ants in its path. Yeah, he'd not only stomp on us all but enjoy the hell out of it, too. I swallowed, certain everyone could hear it over the hush that had fallen. "I'm sorry," I blurted, jumping at the echo of my too-loud voice in the quiet. He lowered his butt onto the edge of his desk and crossed his arms, the fabric of his shirt straining over his muscled chest and biceps. Menacing was the word that came to mind whenever he struck that pose. If Lucifer posed for a Calvin Klein photo spread, he'd look like that. Green had the bronzed complexion of someone from across the ocean, maybe the Middle East. A shadow of a beard always lay across his arrogant chin, and I wondered if it bothered him. The rest of him was as clean cut as a razor, but I bet he could have shaved until the cows came home, and he'd never rid himself of that shadow. Was it petty of me to find a little satisfaction that he was one stop short of perfect? Yeah, probably. "I've changed my mind," Professor Green said at last in the tone of Thor about to unleash lightning on us. Dark, dangerous, and, I had to admit, frighteningly sexy if you liked a little danger in the bedroom. He'd be like riding a wild, prehistoric beast. If you could catch him, had the nerve to climb on, and he didn't tear your face off right away, the ride would be exhilarating, leaving you winded and flushed and hotter than Mount St. Helens' guts. I wondered what he'd look like without that Oxford on. Um … what? I righted myself, remembering he was about to give me a public thrashing of some sort and I shouldn't be daydreaming about my professor, no matter how hot and tempting he appeared to be. I wanted to ask him what he'd changed his mind about, but nobody rushed the man. Two minutes went by. Three. God, why didn't he get it over with? "Since Plaid here has decided she's more important than the rest of us, I don't feel like teaching today." He withdrew a little green tub of lip balm from his pocket and slathered it on as he often did. I glanced down at my blue plaid shirt and back at him, frowning. I hadn't really expected him to know my name, but "Plaid"? So what if I liked to be comfortable and unflashy in my country-girl-chic ensemble? Was that a crime? He probably would have commented on my sock-monkey-socks, worn jeans, and scuffed hiking boots if he could have seen them. I was glad he couldn't. "You will all hand in a paper on the cycles of the Mayan calendar before you leave today," he said, a trace of malignant humor in his crystal tone. "Three thousand words. Double-spaced, handwritten. Begin." Well, shit. Groans rose, and one guy shouted out, "But we haven't covered that yet." "Your problem, not mine." Green's strange blue eyes sliced me again, arms still crossed over his spiffy shirt. "If you have a problem with it, I'd suggest taking it up with Plaid after class." When every eye in the room rolled in their sockets toward me, I froze and worked my throat like crazy to hold in the hysterical laughter that bubbled in there. Most of the time nobody noticed me. The invisible girl, that's me. I preferred invisible. If anyone did bother to notice, it was usually because I was making a fool of myself while escaping one of my reality-unraveling episodes. Now everyone in the room just hated my guts. Somebody shoot me.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
17 Apr Music Video: Kelly Rowland – "Coffee" "Coffee and sex in the morning" is the opening line of Kelly Rowland's new song, so you already know what time it is. Everything about "Coffee" — the beat, the melody, Kelly's vocals — oozes with sex appeal. At the risk of being hyperbolic, I'd venture to say it is arguably her best song yet. And if the song isn't her best, then its video definitely is. The "Coffee" visual gives us lots of brown skin and beautiful hair, and captures the precise mood of the song. With the exception of one shot, the video is Kelly from wall-to-wall, on the beach in a variety of sexy swimwear (including a see-through number). Co-written by Marcos "Kosine" Palacios, Syd (from the Internet), Marcus Green and Kelly herself, "Coffee" is expected to appear on the singer's upcoming album. Watch the video below. 16 Apr Throwback Thursday: Akon – "Locked Up" (featuring Styles P) As it becomes apparent that much of America will be on lockdown for at least the next month, there isn't a better soundtrack for this moment. They won't let us out. Written and produced by Akon, "Locked Up" was the lead single from the Senegalese singer's debut album, Trouble, and a top 10 hit in the summer of 2004. Styles P contributes a verse to the version of the song used in the music video. This week's TBT pick is not only appropriate because of its hook — today also happens to be Akon's 47th birthday. 12 Apr 15 Years of 'The Emancipation of Mimi' The year was 2005 and Mariah Carey was 15 years into her career. She had sold more albums and achieved more Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s — 15 at the time — than any woman in history. If she did nothing else, she would go down as one of the greats, but fortunately and unfortunately, Mariah still had a lot to prove. Today in 2005, Mariah released her tenth studio album, The Emancipation of Mimi. The album is arguably her greatest triumph, but to understand why that is, we would have to examine the four years leading up to its release. In 2001, MC released her biggest failure at the time, the movie Glitter and its accompanying soundtrack. The project was a monumental setback, but not just because of its relative commercial under-performance — it came with personal drama and endless bad press. In a single week during her promotional tour for the project, Mariah had a series of much-talked about public appearances, including her infamous TRL appearance that had people questioning her mental state. By the end of that week, Mariah would check herself into a hospital for exhaustion. At the time, there were rumors of a mental breakdown, which wouldn't be confirmed for another 17 years. Throughout this saga, Mariah rings the alarm about an ongoing sabotage being carried out by her ex-husband and former label boss, Tommy Mottola, with an assist from Jennifer Lopez. It's all happening behind the scenes, so people write her off as crazy, but she was right. On top of all of this, her record label, Virgin Records, paid Mariah $28 million to terminate their $100 million contract with her. She was officially the biggest pariah in showbiz. Soon after Virgin gave her the boot, she signed with Island Records and released Charmbracelet (2002), which also under-performed. The album was only able to chart one of it singles on the Billboard Hot 100, and said single peaked at No. 81. Mariah had essentially been counted out, but in 2005, we found out that you can't keep a good woman down. Mariah had been hard at work on a new album, and by the fall of 2004, she had what she though was a complete project — in fact, she had shortlisted "Say Somethin'" (produced by the Neptunes) and "Stay the Night" (produced by Kanye West) as possible first singles. As legend has it, label head L.A. Reid heard Mariah's finished product and thought she needed to get into the studio with Jermaine Dupri. Luckily, Mariah obliged. The recording sessions with JD — which included Bryan-Michael Cox, Johntá Austin and Manuel Seal — produced four songs that would all become singles for The Emancipation of Mimi. "It's Like That" was released as the first single, and while it was her highest-charting single in years, it failed to crack the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. And then came "We Belong Together." With "We Belong Together," Mariah was officially back. The song became her record-extending 16th No. 1 hit, spending 14 weeks at the throne and becoming the biggest song in the history of American radio at the time. It was followed by "Shake It Off," which only peaked at No. 2 because "We Belong Together" wasn't done cooking. The fourth song resulting from the 2004 JD sessions, "Get Your Number" (featuring JD himself), was released as a single internationally but not in the States. For the album's reissue, Mariah got back into the studio with JD, which resulted in two new tracks, including Mimi's fourth single, "Don't Forget About Us," which became Mariah's 17th No. 1. The Emancipation of Mimi would go on to become the biggest album of 2005, selling over 10 million copies worldwide. It would also earn Mariah her first Grammys since 1991 — a triumph and yet a great malfeasance, but I digress. The album is a fan favorite and widely considered to be the greatest comeback in the history of show business. Picking a favorite track from a classic album can be difficult, but in the case of The Emancipation of Mimi, "Shake It Off" is the clear winner. Join me in celebrating this history-making album. 12 Apr New Music: Usher, Lil Jon and Ludacris – "SexBeat" While social media was dragging the Weeknd for talking reckless, Usher linked up with Lil Jon and Ludacris to give us "SexBeat," which had been previewed days earlier during Lil Jon's IG Live battle with T-Pain. When I learned of this song's release, I got excited about the opportunity to say that "Usher, Jon and Luda did it again," but the truth is that they did not. The song sounds like something off a Pretty Ricky album and I mean that in the worst way. I had hoped they could replicate the magic they had on previous collabos, but the fact of the matter is that all three artists are way past their prime, so there's a limit to how disappointed one can be. If this is what Usher is coming with on Confessions 2, he might need to shelve the project. 09 Apr Throwback Thursday: Usher – "Twork It Out" Cocaine is bad, as is an oversized ego. Mix the two together and you get The Weeknd saying that Usher's "Climax" was influenced by his sound. Unfortunately, the Weeknd and many of his deluded fans will never appreciate the recklessness of his comments because Diplo, who co-wrote and produced "Climax," essentially co-signed what he said. As a token of my rejection of the Weeknd's tomfoolery, this week's TBT selection could only be one from Usher's catalog, which offers dozens of hits. However, I'm opting for an album cut. Ursh's third album, 8701, gave us classics like "U Remind Me" and "U Got It Bad," but it also blessed us hidden gems like "Twork It Out." Co-written by Usher, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, "Twork It Out" takes us back to a time when major R&B stars needed to know how to sing, and with the Weeknd showing his whole ass and getting away with it, I long for those days more deeply than usual. Click play. 07 Apr Music Video: The Weeknd – "Until I Bleed Out" The Weeknd just dropped a new video that appears to pick up from where the last one left off, with the singer still rocking a red jacket and bruised face as he continues his trippy journey. The video begins in a what appears to be a hotel lobby party and ends in a desert. Much like Abel's previous clip, this one tries way too hard to not make sense. Some hipster somewhere thinks this video is deep, but it's not. Check it out below. 06 Apr Music Video: Woah Vicky – "Big Vick" Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great shame that I confess that I enjoy Woah Vicky's new song, "Big Vick." The lyrics are predictable as hell and Vicky's whole schtick feels wholly inauthentic, but the beat slaps just hard enough for you to ignore all those other things — momentarily, at least. Check it below. 03 Apr Music Video: Drake – "Tootsie Slide" Drake just dropped a new song and a Coronavirus-inspired video featuring a solo Drake with his face covered. The "Tootsie Slide" video also comes with a new dance routine to go along with the song's instructional hook. It also comes with the "Life Is Good" bass line, but that's neither here nor there. The real story, however, is Drake's McMansion, which serves as a reminder that not all quarantines are made equal. Check the video out below. 02 Apr Throwback Thursday: Marvin Gaye – "Let's Get It On" On what would've been his 81st birthday, it would be a crime for our TBT pick to be anything other than a Marvin Gaye song. A little over a month ago, I referred to TLC's "Red Light Special" as being possibly the quintessential baby-making song, and while it is up there on the all-time list, Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On" might have a stronger case for the title. Penned by Gaye himself and Ed Townsend, "Let's Get It On" was the title track from the Marvin Gaye's thirteenth studio album. The song is pure sex vibes and is a forefather for most of the slow jams ever since. "Let's Get It On" was Marvin Gaye's second No. 1 and sixteenth top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, and was the top-selling single of 1973. Almost 50 years later, the song's legacy is evergreen — we hear it in movies, we hear it in commercials, and we even hear it as an uncredited sample in hit songs. Happy birthday to one of the greatest to ever do it. Click play. 02 Apr Music Video: DaBaby – "Find My Way" DaBaby just dropped a new song and a short film to go with it. Musically, "Find My Way" offers a good balance of "commercial"and "gully" – both questionable terms to use when describing music, but I'm sure you know what I mean. DaBaby sing-raps throughout the song, but the lyrics have just enough gun references to placate rap fans that are allergic to melodies. The 10-minute music video is an absolute masterpiece. DaBaby and B. Simone are true thespians, and as played out as Bonnie-and-Clyde themes are, the "Find My Way" video does it without making you roll your eyes. Check it out below.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Sanity is forbidden Circulation: 195,132,622 Issue: 824 \| 23rd day of Eating, Y20 The dappled light of the spring sunshine filtered through the burgeoning canopy and down onto the warm earth underpaw. Blade tips of new grasses were interspersed by the first blooms of flowers that dared to poke their heads above the figurative parapets... -- pikapi20 A Guide to Owning an Elephante A Guide to Owning an Elephante by iloveoreos_ Everyone loves their Neopet - yes, that's true. But not many people know how to care for the often overlooked Elephante. You may know to walk your Lupe or how to comb your Wocky, but do you really know how to properly care for your Elephante?? This guide will tell you everything that you need to know!! 1. Feed them their favorite foods Believe it or not, Elephantes absolutely love snacking. Their favorite snack of all is peanuts! I suggest starting out with a Basket of Peanuts, but if that doesn't satiate your Elephante then you will want to buy a Bag of Peanuts as well. Yes, they are a bit on the expensive side but you want nothing but the best for your precious Elephante. As a bonus, feeding them a Bag of Peanuts for the first time will also get you a nice, shiny avatar – Elephante Surprise. You can use this avatar for chatting on the Neoboards or in your guild and show off your true love for this awesome Neopet!! For Elephantes with more expensive tastes there are rare Gourmet Foods. Your pet will truly be living the life of luxury when you feed them these amazing dishes. This automatically puts your pet into the Gourmet Club, where they can compete to eat the highest number of the most exquisite foods in Neopia. Welcome to Meridell MERIDELL - Fighting through the bushes that are blocking your path, you emerge upon the top of the hill and bask in the beauty of the land below: it's the medieval world reigned by King Skarl. You look around in the distance seeing the great blue and red castle, a village, plenty of farmland and fields, and an array of shops. Welcome to Meridell, and here we will take a closer look at this marvelous medieval kingdom and all that it has to offer. After looking around, you start walking on the faint light green path on the ground. You gaze around looking for the first place you want to learn about. You hear a greeting from the right, and you turn to see a smiling brown Ixi with a crown on her head! Why, this must be Shapeshifter! Sinsi welcomes you to her home and invites you over to a red and white checkered blanket and talks about the rules and just how much her friends love her games! On the blanket lay plenty of different shapes. All it takes to win is to get all the icons to be the same. For only twelve years old, it appears Sinsi is a very smart young Ixi. It has also been heard that you can gain an avatar by playing this game! Why not play a few games and see if you can get it? Doesn't hurt to try, right? After your done playing Shapeshifter, you look around to the next event you should go to. You notice a small pond and a group of Neopets lined up in a row. A Backpacker's Guide to Backpacks MYSTERY ISLAND – Hey my lovely Neopians! It's your very own Ceyonie here, Backpacker extraordinaire and world-renowned travel and culture connoisseur, coming to you from the luscious jungles of Mystery Island! (No, I'm not lost in Geraptiku right now, so don't you worry!) Now, a lot of my fans have asked me—"Ceyonie, what made you decide to leave everything behind and travel the world with only a backpack?" Yes, I know. "The Breadmaster's Story" by maryannyks It was a regular day at the sea, where pirates were working on their ship, scurrying about, yelling things to each other. On this ship, also worked a Kacheek as the ship's cook. He would make food for the hungry pirates day after day, up to three or four times a day, depending on how hungry the pirates were. Every pirate knew him and loved his food, all of Krawk Island treasured the things he made. He loved his job, he loved making different kinds of foods, but most of all things, he liked to bake. The Kacheek would bake intricate cookies and pies and cakes that would look like delicate flowers and tasted so heavenly, some pirates thought he cooked with faerie magic. Pirates preferred other kinds of food, sadly. They wanted their slop and meat, potatoes and different fruit grogs. The Kacheek felt like his talent is wasted on the ship and felt like he needed a change. After another exhausting day as the ship's cook, the Kacheek (also known as Breaddy), figured it would be the last day as a cook on the pirate ship. He decided to try out something different as soon as the ship would sail back to Krawk Island. He was born in Krawk Island and it had been his home for years. He couldn't even dream of living somewhere else, even though he disliked the pirate ways of life. "The Shadow of Takeryuu" by cosmicfire918 The time is thousands of years before Neopia's present day. The Circle of Twelve, with the wizard Jahbal at its head, rules the Great Empire in the area of what is now Neopia Central. But the Circle has overstepped its bounds and begun misusing its power, succumbing to greed and anger. Even now, the southern city of Kal Panning plans for a revolt, but it will not end well for them. Meanwhile, far to the west, on the other side of the Mountains at the End of the World, lies Shenkuu. Life at the Lotus Mountain Temple was bliss for Eunji. The faerie Vandagyre could feel the harmonious energies of the area flow and meld with the rocky crags, the ancient pines, the mists that twined through the valleys below, and the merrily painted pillars and roofs of the temple. Bright colours attracted positive energies, Master Cheol always said. That was why Eunji and the other geomancers kept the temple well-painted. Eunji's pink wings flittered as she bounded up the narrow wooden steps to the waterfall where the acolytes obtained their daily water. Chores were a joy at Lotus Mountain Temple. Everyone's work helped keep the place running, and through their joint efforts, harmony was maintained and energy flowed as bounteous as a river. "Leave Room for the Impossible:Part Two" by unfogging Eliss continued to stare at the rainbow fountain, still in disbelief. She looked down at her book in her arms suspiciously, but it still looked the same. What had just happened? However, her confusion was soon replaced by pure wonder as she gazed open-mouthed at the world around her. Faerieland. She was actually in Faerieland! Just like she had always dreamed of. In person, it was even more amazing than she expected. Buildings of bright purple and teal floated in clouds above her head. Waterfalls of the clearest blue cascaded in the landscape around her, complimented by the brightest of green grass and colorful flowers. Famous landmarks stood out to her: The rainbow wheel of excitement, offering Neopets the chance to win all sorts of amazing prizes. Jhudora's Bluff, where Faerieland's most notorious troublemaker gave Neopets fabulous rewards – at a cost. Faerieland had been number one on her list of places she wanted to see. As a young Aisha, when other Neopets were drawing pictures of the stones and rocks that occupied all of Tyrannia, Eliss had drawn pictures of rainbows and clouds. Her favorite poster was of the rainbow fountain, and rested above her bed in her room. She'd read everything possible about Faerieland and had been in love with it for as long as she could remember. The Faeries Need Your Help! This week's issue is brought to you by: All New Faerie Quests Totally Normal Topsi by butterflybandage A Techo Pun Tell me why? by kennielee RE: Wait a minute... This doesn't look right... by orlovo MERIDELL - Fighting through the bushes that are blocking your path, you emerge upon the top of the hill and bask in the beauty of the land below: it's the medieval world reigned by King Skarl. You look around in the distance seeing the great blue and red castle, a village, plenty of farmland and fields, and an array of shops. Welcome to Meridell, and here we will take a closer look at this marvelous medieval kingdom and all that it has to offer. by jockylocky TWELVE Tips to Help You Succeed in Life:Part Seven TIP SEVEN: ALWAYS EMBRACE NEW OPPORTUNITIES	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Reveille Readers Regiment Community Preparedness Training (CPT) PsyOp/Mind War Spirit Soul Psyche Love's Thought System Allied Camps Forensic Analysis of the Murder of LaVoy Finicum 2nd Page Elias Alias March 28, 2017 Note from Elias Alias, owner/editor: Before viewing the videos below, please go to this website and meditate on what you'll see there, and then see if you are impressed to do whatever you can to help the Finicum family. I can certainly recommend very highly LaVoy Finicum's novel. I've read it and I love it. Buy this book at One Cowboy's Stand For Freedom. Many of you have already seen the top two of the four videos below, as they were published on September 25 2016 Here. Of the four below, the bottom two are brand new, so please share. The four videos below are not only credible, they are valuable as excellent "forensic analyses" of LaVoy's last moments on earth. I am proud to post these videos at The Mental Militia, for they pose serious questions which challenge what the government has said about the assassination/murder of LaVoy Finicum. Such questions lead to yet deeper insight into the nefarious underbelly of some government agencies, such as the FBI. This murder shows that the same consciousness which prompted the mass murders at Waco, Texas is still alive in our current law-enforcement community and must be addressed before yet more innocent Americans are squashed under the mechanical rollers of a berserk government. These four videos also show something which has not been said often enough, that being that we as Americans are entitled to ask questions about the activities of our government. The individual who made these videos has shown us how to ask questions, and that is a valuable gift to the freedom movement in and of itself. Thank you for viewing this very important work. I would also like to thank our friend for sending the two most-recent videos to The Mental Militia and inviting The Mental Militia to be the first to post them on the Internet. This individual wishes to remain un-named, so we will honor that and respect the need for privacy. But we are grateful for all the good work which viewers will appreciate as they watch, and I personally would ask anyone reading here to please help these videos get spread around. This page has four videos which were created by the same individual. They came to me in this sequence — "Forensic Analysis of the Murder of LaVoy Finicum" (1) "The Foam Bullet Used To Justify Killing LaVoy Finicum". (2) "The Assassination of LaVoy Finicum: The Planted Gun" (3) "The Assassination of LaVoy Finicum: The Two Shots That The FBI Lied About" (4) Regarding the third video, there are serious questions about whether a gun was "planted" on LaVoy's body after the law-enforcement agents murdered him. If I recall correctly, various witnesses (who were with LaVoy that day) have indicated that he did not bring his gun with him on the trip. There are questions about the gun claimed by the government to have been in LaVoy's jacket pocket, including the question of ownership of that particular gun. I will verify two items of interest and enter my findings here after verification. Please keep in mind when viewing video number 3 that serious questions are involved, which is why our friend made the video In video number 4 we find an anomaly in which two bullets penetrated the truck LaVoy was driving while passengers were inside that truck, but only one entry hole is observable in videos or photos. To my knowledge no members of the public have been allowed to examine that truck. (Any reader here who can shed light on that one issue is requested to do so in the comment section under this article. Thank you.) Our video technician friend has raised several other points to ponder. In that regard it is important to note that the FBI agents on the scene of LaVoy's murder lied about firing shots, then lied again in trying to cover up the truth about having fired the two shots. Two, or maybe three, FBI agents caused the FBI to launch an investigation into their actions and their lies. By starting that investigation the FBI has noted that at least two of their agents lied about these two shots in question. The Mental Militia is very fortunate to have a good working relationship with the individual who has produced all four videos on this page. We send our respectful thanks and a grateful Salute! LaVoy Finicum Assassination Forensic Study Released! The Foam Bullet Used to Justify Killing LaVoy Finicum The Assassination of LaVoy Finicum 3 The Planted Gun The Assassination of LaVoy Finicum 4 The Two Shots That the FBI Lied About Spend some time browsing around the Finicum family's website. Buy LaVoy's novel. Make a donation. Spread the word. Share this link. Help this American cowboy family defend their ranch against a vicious government encroachment. Click this link and you're there. Thank you! https://www.onecowboystandforfreedom.com/ Posted in MindWarTagged Lavoy Finicum, Malheur Wildlife Refuge An Empire Strikes Home Part One 16 thoughts on "Forensic Analysis of the Murder of LaVoy Finicum 2nd Page" Pingback: Forensic Analysis of the Murder of LaVoy Finicum - TMM Adam Ruff says: Superb analysis which I highly recommend watching. The following text is a comment from Peter Offerman on the video analysis of LaVoy's murder done by Casey Runyan. It was Casey Runyan that did the analysis in the two videos you present. Peter Offerman is a video expert, who has done a frame by frame analysis of both the FBI video and Shawna Cox's video, as they were released by the FBI. Peter's analysis shows there were missing frames in both releases. In addition Peter's analysis shows the FBI video was a composite of two videos. Following is Peter's commentary on Casey's two videos: "Although the videos are well prepared and appear to support Lavoy's cause I think they are an attempt to keep the focus away from more damning facts. "The truck approach is pretty well done. The 3 pauses of braking are probably the result of an anti-lock braking system which modern vehicles come with not any specific action of Lavoy's. When attempting to stop in a hurry jamming on the brakes and holding them on causes a vehicle to go into an uncontrolled skid so modern vehicles moderate braking by automatically pumping the brakes on hard braking at speed in an attempt to retain control. A trained driver in such a situation would manually pump the brakes. "I don't buy the explanation of the 3 shots as the truck approached. One of my last posts looks at the angles involved and shows that these could not be responsible for the bullet holes in the truck. "What does this explanation conceal? "It is far more justifiable to shoot at a speeding vehicle as it approaches a road block, while accelerating, as incorrectly stated by the officers involved, than it is for an officer to run out in front of an almost stopped vehicle and shoot at the driver. All 3 bullet holes found were the result of this later murderous attempt and not the result of the officers shooting at the truck as it approached. They may well have also shot at the truck as it approached but these later shots did the damage to the truck. "The explanation regarding the shots at Lavoy, after he gets out of the truck, is not credible at all. What it instead does is avoid any mention of significant events that happened as Lavoy got out of the truck. How and why was the shot through the roof of the cab caused? The explanation based on a few clues left behind by sloppy video editing makes it obvious there is missing time in the video at this point. This missing time is very damning because it implicates not just the officers at the scene but also those that had possession of the video before it was made public. No lab tech would make such alterations without authorization from higher ups. It totally destroys the credibility of the authorities evidence and testimony. "During this time period I pointed out some of the anomalies in the video such as the shooting stand that appears in one frame without being seen put in place or taken away to where it is very obvious in many frames both before and after. This is physically impossible and proves time is missing. The shot through the cab roof occurred from this stand. We should have seen the stand being put in place, the shooter getting on it, taking his shot, getting off it, moving it away afterwards. That we don't see this supports what Shawna says that Lavoy stood in the door of the truck for a period talking to the officers before moving away from the truck. "The shots taken while Lavoy was standing there at the truck, complying with the officers, are responsible for his fast movement away from the truck. The one through the cab roof came from behind him while he was cooperating with his hands in the air. Would you duck for cover if this happened? This shot is irrefutable evidence of the murderous intent of the authorities. "If you reviewed my analysis of the trajectories of the 3 shots that actually hit Lavoy it is obvious that the second shot (autopsy shot 2) which occured during this period, actually hit Lavoy. There is no one in a position to cause a wound with this trajectory once Lavoy gets to where he is dropped. "In my analysis I looked very closely at the actions of the supposed shooter of the foam bullet and his actions do not fit this explanation. The officer on the ground does not move to that location to take a shot. The movement is a second officer moving past him to get into position behind Lavoy's truck. The officer on the ground, appearing to crouch, is the officer who ran out in front of the truck as it came to a stop, who was knocked to the ground by the wave of snow thrown up by the truck. That we do not see him get into this position is another indicator of missing time in the video. "What I saw on close examination was that he was on the ground just getting up from being knocked down. He was facing towards the roadblock, not uphill. He braces himself with his left arm and swings his right arm in front of himself for balance in order to get up from the ground. He then moves into the center of the roadblock in a crouched position because other officers are aiming at the truck over his head and he is trying to stay out of the line of fire. "I detailed thoroughly his movements after his point as his movements make it obvious of more missing time in the video. The reason for the missing time here is that while he is moving Lavoy arrives at the location where he was gunned down. The foam bullet attempts to hide the fact of another shot (autopsy shot 1) that hits Lavoy in the back while he has his hand in the air and is cooperating with the officer he is facing. The missing time mostly hides Lavoy's physical response to being hit by a bullet from behind him. "Regards, Peter" Offerman has not done a video. However he has done a frame by frame analysis of the FBI video, Shawna Cox's video from within LaVoy's truck and Ryan Bundy's recording from within the truck. Here is the link to Offerman's analysis. https://towardsabetterworld.com/blog/?s=lavoy Elias Alias says: Only tangentially related, and not intended to assess the content of your post, I'll note for other readers here that the link to Peter's site activates a caution screen noting that the certificate is not a properly-registered certificate. That is very likely an effort by FireFox (or someone who has influence over FireFox) to discourage traffic to Peter's site. When the second advisory screen popped up after I told FireFox to take me to the site anyway, I quit trying to go there. So I thank you for copying/pasting material from his site. I may have reflections on the above quoted passages, if I can make time. Hey Elias, Was reading this and thought immediately of Lavoy and the ROADBLOCK (not a "traffic stop"). Your car's hidden 'black box' and how to keep it private http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/cars-hidden-black-box-keep-private/186353#more-186353 and in USA today https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/komando/2014/12/26/keep-your-car-black-box-private/20609035/ "While the first-generation event data recorders did little more than track whether or not the car's airbags deployed, recording and sensor technologies have become smaller and much more powerful. The NHTSA has mandated that every new recorder must track 15 variables. The information includes vehicle speed, throttle position, airbag deployment times, whether the brakes were applied, if seatbelts were worn, engine speed, steering angles and more. Manufacturers may also have up to 30 additional data points if they want, excluding, they say, GPS location, video and audio. Also, a black box only stores information for 20 seconds around the crash." "That's the technical side of downloading black box data, but there's a legal side as well. As of this writing, 15 states — Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington — have passed regulations regarding who can pull the information with and without the car owner's permission. You can find an up-to-date list of the states and their rules at the National Conference of State Legislatures site. In general, however, no one can pull data without your permission or a court order. " "Can you keep your data private? Still, anyone with a court order, or just the right tool and a little time, can get at your black box information. There's no way you can delete the data or disable the black box. Fortunately, there is a simpler option. Products like AutoCYB, OBD Lock and OBD Saver put a lock on the diagnostic port so no one can plug anything into it without your permission. That keeps people from resetting information, extracting data or falsifying records that could be used against you. Whether a court order would require you to hand over the keys to the lock is another story. I'll leave that one for the lawyers to decide. However, you can at least make sure that nothing short of a court order lets someone get your data." Wouldn't it be interesting to have the blackbox information on Lavoy's truck? Cal, That is an interesting point for consideration. Additional input is always worth considering. Thank you for posting that here. You know, Cal, I think you've got a point there. I do think it would be very interesting to see the recording of LaVoy's truck during the last two minutes of his life. Thanks for that, Neil Wampler says: I knew Lavoy at Malhure, and am one of the seven acquitted in the first Malhure trial. I've been at the site of Lavoy's murder. The choice of this particular spot on the highway for a roadblock does have the character of an ambush, as any car heading north, as Lavoy's truck was, would come upon the roadblock suddenly and without warning. Standing in the road at the ambush site, you are struck by how specifically it was chosen. By simply turning your head, a straight, level, open stretch of highway is visible in the valley below. The Oregon State Police and FBI could have easily put the roadblock there, but it would have offered no concealment for the snipers and HRT. But you Know, these boots on the ground are not the real culprits. WHO GAVE THE ORDER FOR THIS AMBUSH ? this is the real question. Jeanette's wrongful death suit will hopefully put some of the State Police operatives or HRT guys on the spot, and it may be worthwhile to give them immunity from prosecution if their testimony will incriminate High Oregon Officials. Neil, Thank you sincerely for being there and doing what you did for this country. And thank you for taking time to add a comment under this article. You are invited to register your email address with this site so you'll get an occasional email from The Mental Militia. (I do not send many emails.) I'd love to have you on my list or recipients. If you do register, be sure to put The Mental Militia into your email service's address book, to keep the spam-bots from dumping our emails. God bless; stay safe; keep the Faith; Elias Alias Mark Hayward says: You can Thank Sheriff David Ward for choosing the Ambush site. Blind Curve Concealment and no cell phone service in this spot.. Commenting on October 04 2017 as an addendum. I may add more below this comment. I'd like to point out that the person who made this video (and three other "forensics" videos on this subject) has been in contact with me by email and by phone. That person is not using the name you say is the creator of the videos. Can you please have the man you say created this video contact me? https://thementalmilitia.net/contact/ Kat Whatley says: It is quite possible that one of the occupants of the first vehicle that was successfully stopped had made an excuse to reenter the refuge before leaving and retrieved LaVoy's gun and concealed it. After the stop, he could have given it to OSP who then transported it to the roadblock scene. There are pictures of the interior of LaVoy's truck showing two long guns beneath the back seat. I believe these were also planted as there are no indentations on the seat bottom indicating prolonged contact with the guns. There is also a hump covering the transmission in these trucks that the back seat rests on. Long guns would not fit across this hump without damaging the seat underside and possibly the guns besides making the seat impossible to sit naturally. Kat, When dealing with government "Law Enforcement" these days in America, one cannot trust anything they do or say. We as a nation have slept too long, and did not notice the morphing of "To Serve and Protect" into "Law Enforcement". Your hypothesis is entirely possible. I have heard cops in bygone years talk about "throw-downs", which was what they called a gun they might carry (usually a stolen gun) to plant on some innocent victim of their over-the-top methods for getting "the bad guys". Pingback: Jeanette Finicum Family, The LaVoy Brand, and TMM - TMM Pingback: Tribute to a real American hero LaVoy Finicum \| OUR GREATER DESTINY Just saving this link which I stumbled upon on September 19 2019. 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Fahrenheit (PS2) Review January 2, 2017 March 14, 2017 Ben McCurry Retro David Cage's Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy for Americans) has been much maligned over the years. Find out if any of the criticism has been justified in the Ludotempus review. A nice snowy evening in New York City: the perfect weather to build a snowman, drink some hot chocolate, do some murders, and go out ice skating at Rockefeller Centre. Sounds great, right? If you're not homicide-inclined, you can just leave it to this odd curio of a game: Fahrenheit, by gaming's leading exporter in FEELINGS and EMOTION, David "Sadman" Cage. Released in 2005, Fahrenheit (known as Indigo Prophecy in North American markets to avoid confusion with Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11) was a brave attempt at marrying game and movie, endeavouring to push interactive fiction as far as it can go while adding as many "game" elements as possible to make it palatable to the mainstream audience. How did it go? Fahrenheit purports itself as an "interactive film", so the story had better be good, and thankfully, the opening delivers in spades, creating one of the most iconic narrative moments in the sixth generation of gaming. You are Lucas Kane, but that's not important, as you've just woken up in a dank New York diner's bathroom, fresh from demonic possession having stabbed a random old-timer. Bang; snap to reality, and Kane is straddling this innocent man's body, and very quickly, control is passed over to you – in this dingy and blood-soaked bathroom, you have three minutes to figure out your plan of action; hide the evidence, clean the scene, and nonchalantly return to your seat to finish your meal, run out of there screaming and crying, or slip out the back door? The situational choices are yours to make, and as mocked as Cage is, the man has a fantastic grip on atmosphere and tone, in that he can manipulate players into getting as nervous as possible. He is an expert at tension, and it doesn't shine through more than in this wonderful opening scene, vivid in nature, which is helped by the filmic presentation and soundtrack, both of which will be broached later. In life, one must take the rough with the smooth, and while Fahrenheit glows and sizzles in its fresh approaches to some things; other elements of the game weigh it down like a sodden balloon. First, its tag as an "interactive movie", while wildly pretentious, is also somewhat egregious: you only have input into minute situations, not the whole plot at large, so your decisions and performances within the game will only affect the way point A goes to point B, not any larger story concerns. Despite how you play each individual scene, the plot works out the same: Lucas stabs a man in a bathroom, gets away, and tries to figure out what EXACTLY just happened while two of NYPD's finest, Carla Valenti and Tyler Miles chase him down. This comes as a disappointment: Fahrenheit sells a bill of goods that don't come close to the final product. Secondly, after all the goodwill that David Cage accrues in the opening minutes of the game, he deletes it gradually with lacklustre writing and nonsensical plot devices; as such, Fahrenheit is like an ice-cream cone on a hot summer's day; initially desirable, but ends up a useless puddle of goo. We start strong with that fabulous introduction, punctuated by the oppressive atmosphere of the cold New York streets, and the irony of the white snow paving the sidewalks in the wake of a grisly murder. The detective chase starts solidly too – Carla and Tyler begin to accrue information, and an odd reversal starts to begin, even though Lucas is our designated main character, the audience might feel more aligned with the warm and charming police duo, especially as we learn (or can choose to play him in certain scenes this way) that Lucas is a bit cold and asocial. As we go on, the thought creeps in: could this guy actually have done it, and is what we have seen some sort of unreliable narration? This keeps the narrative incredibly enthralling. Right up until we learn that Lucas has superpowers and has intertwined himself within a cyber-supernatural war between two non-corporeal armies, all centred around kidnapping "the Indigo Child", a young girl who has the power to start a new Ice Age and wipe humanity. The plot goes absolutely doolally in short order, and it goes from being an impressive narrative and technological achievement in gaming to becoming daft and comical. What's good in Fahrenheit is amazing, but everything else – all the narrative nonsense – will break your heart, as this game could have really and truly been a transcendental classic. Due to Cage's schizophrenic writing, it's a half-baked mess. The characters are of obscene importance to this game, and thankfully, Cage crafts them decently enough to capture the hearts and imagination of the audience. The designated protagonist is Lucas Kane, a high-ranking I.T. man working for New York's finest fictional bank. Kane's a bit…off-centre. Slightly weird, very bookish, but eminently vulnerable and human, all you want to do in this game is (1) give him a big hug for all the awful events happening to him and (2) get him to safety ASAP. Carla Valenti is the soul of this game. She's a clever and wry detective that stands as a legitimately fantastic representation of women in games; she is very minutely sexualised, as well as being intelligent and real; through the course of the game, she must overcome claustrophobia, but instead of the clichéd "we can do anything, let's work gurls" attitude that gets used a lot with less nuanced portrayals of women in games, she takes a breath and says, "Okay, I can do this". She becomes strong by confronting her weaknesses, and it honestly makes her one of Cage's greatest creations, and by far the most roundly likeable of the game. Rounding out the main cast is Tyler Miles, the comedic but sensitive black partner to Valenti. Miles is mostly here to add comic relief to the sombre and depressing mood of the game, but part of his portrayal leaves a wrong and racist taste in the mouth; his theme is generic funk, pure Blaxploitation music, which, coupled with his swaggering gait, just comes off as unseemly. Yet, he does provide some genuinely funny moments to help pace the game, such as beating an annoying white colleague at basketball (good day for stereotyping) and some chuckle-worthy fourth-wall-leaning quips. As a ranty and small aside, Cage does the mentally ill a huge and, frankly, disgusting disservice in this game. There's a harrowing and frightening scene where Carla must interrogate a mentally ill man in a special facility who has had experience with the supernatural, when the lights go out, security fails, and everyone is released from their cells. Cage here portrays the mentally ill as zombified rapists, which is grossly insensitive and plainly wrong. The need to create narrative tension is understandable, but Cage achieves it in a way that might turn off players, especially those who will play it well into the future – past 2017, more and more people are likely to get switched on to mental health, and this scene will only age worse as time passes. The backbone of this game is a creaky and crumbling one: "strenuous" sections on the game which depict Lucas, Carla, or Tyler performing physical tasks utilise the old gaming bugbear; quick-time events. Aside from navigating your character with clumsy tank controls and making choices, these make up the bulk of the game in "action" scenes, where characters fight, flee, or play basketball. You must flick both left and right sticks in the directions shown on screen in a poor man's DDR, which is neither satisfying, fun, or either rhythmic; you'll notice an impending sense of dread when these appear. Also, rearing their ugly heads are staggered tappings of the L2 and R2 buttons, which turns out to be extremely exhausting, and surprisingly easy to fail. Failure, while the topic is at hand, is interesting here; the game never makes it explicit that failure is an option within the game, much less a good one; there's a scene where Lucas must keep cool under interrogation, and interacting with the QTEs actually creates suspicion which is an idea only clever in hindsight. It's understandable that an interactive movie needs that level of interactivity to justify being released on games consoles, otherwise all you have is a movie that isn't as good as other movies, yet quick-time events were the entirely wrong choice here to punctuate the action, and as such, a lot of the good that Fahrenheit provides suffers. Angelo Badalamenti needs to take a bow. This man was the composer of Fahrenheit, and he and his musical work is the glue that holds the game together, serving to create the oppressive and despairing atmosphere that makes this game so initially appealing. This is more a game that doesn't need to be played, but felt, which really asks why it should exist as a game, but Badalamenti has only done his job, and a fantastic one at that with his chilling instrumentation. Also of note is the licenced songs in the game – not Theory of a Deadman which appears in Lucas' CD player (an awful set of records and another reason not to trust the man) but a set of bona fide 60s classics such as Teddy Pendergrass' "Love TKO", and a wild card track for Carla, the relatively modern (2003) "Sandpaper Kisses" by Martina Topley-Bird, which is minimalist, cold, and heartbreaking simultaneous. There's a strain on good detail here, and most of the soundtrack hits hard, making it a light in the otherwise overwhelming darkness. As a final note, the production of this game was spectacular. Instead of a "new game", players can instead choose "new movie", and this is no overstatement of the game's capabilities. Fahrenheit uses filmic camera cuts and multiple shots on screen at once, naughtily cribbed from 24 but used to dazzling effect here, pushing the PS2's Emotion Engine to its limits. The most harrowing use of this is, again, during the opening scene, when you must clean the crime scene, the game constantly cuts back to a police officer sitting right outside at the diner's bar, and it uses both shots side by side on screen to emphasise that he's coming, and time is of the essence so you'd better not mess about. You can feel your heart press into your ribcage and sternum with the tension, and for all his faults, Cage is a master at creating and building tension to an orgasm. It's just a shame he couldn't write a narrative here that follows suit. Fahrenheit had the ingredients to become part of gaming's canon, but unfortunately, the final product is limp, lifeless, and nearly unpalatable despite some fantastic elements at play. This game will get two extra points because of "showing their work", and for the fact that 75% of it plays well. If only the critics who reviewed it at the time played it past that point, right? Verdict: One of the most true-blue disappointments in gaming, not because it's overwhelmingly bad, but because it could have been genuinely great. As such, Fahrenheit will only serve to leave you cold, but if you appreciate game design and ideas, there's at least some morsels to relish here. david cage fahrenheit fahrenheit indigo game indigo indigo game indigo prophecy indigo prophecy fahrenheit ps2 quantic dream review Jackie Chan Stuntmaster (PS1) Review The Simpsons Hit and Run (PS2) Review	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Advertising Solutions Centre Masterful Mobile Web Hitting a wall with your advertising channels? Here's how to hammer through Bence Bakóczy November 2021 Bence Bakóczy / November 2021 Bence Bakóczy is the head of ad operations at Intren, a full-service digital agency based in Budapest, Hungary. Here he tells us how, together with Hungary's biggest DIY chain, Praktiker, they expanded the brand's reach with a new cross-platform advertising strategy. We've all witnessed an incredible uptick in e-commerce as people are increasingly taking to the web to shop for essentials (and non-essentials). In 2020 alone, e-commerce grew nearly 30% worldwide. But what seems like a great opportunity for retailers can also present an unlikely challenge: a boom in e-commerce doesn't necessarily translate into rising sales. Praktiker was faced with this very problem. They had been successfully advertising online, covering all levels of the sales funnel. But the ad campaigns reached peak performance and weren't generating more revenue. By analysing why previous campaigns were no longer working and rethinking their strategy, Praktiker hammered through this challenge to reach new users. Renovating an old strategy The retailer offers a wide product portfolio, but it comes with the challenge of managing campaigns and promotions for each of those products in an impactful way. Previously, Praktiker used many different campaigns — like dynamic search, Shopping ads, and Display — to capture users at each stage of the customer journey. However, they sometimes found it challenging to make the best use of each of them. So we teamed up with Prakitker in their efforts to improve the performance of their campaigns. We started by experimenting with various bidding strategies to find out whether there was room for improvement. We did this by testing the efficacy of these campaigns against their return on ad spend (ROAS) and conversion rate. The results showed that the current campaign structure had reached their profitability limit, while revenue expectations continued to rise. That's when we knew it was time to try something new. Breaking through the revenue ceiling with a new tool Because the retailer wanted an easy-to-manage campaign type that provided the highest quality leads, we decided on Performance Max. The new goal-based tool allowed us to access the entire Google Ads inventory from a single campaign. Praktiker didn't have any additional budget to try and break through the ceiling it hit, but with Performance Max it could keep the same budget — while trying out different advertising channels, like YouTube, that hadn't been prioritised in the past. Praktiker had an ultimate goal in mind: increase revenue while improving ROAS. Since the campaigns launched in July, we kept a close eye on Google Trends to find highly seasonal, trending product groups and create custom landing pages that would direct users to corresponding products on the retailer's website. For each, a new asset group was created in the Google Ads account and paired with custom creatives and ad texts that resonated the most. One of the assets for the Praktiker Performance Max campaign For example, during summertime we set up an asset group for 'air conditioning' and 'garden & grill'. And during the European Championship and Tokyo Olympics, landing pages were created using relevant product types, like 'sun shaders', 'beer benches', and 'pavilions' — and they included creatives that communicated a feeling of excitement and community. Because of the automated nature of Performance Max, the creatives and copy would automatically update for each of these different landing pages based on a bank of templated designs. This freed up our time and resources, and allowed Praktiker to engage with more customers across different advertising channels than they had tried before, and find new users they hadn't reached through previous campaigns. Measuring up the results In the following months between July and September, we kept increasing our spend to find the best performing daily budget, while increasing the diversity of our asset groups and signals. After three months, we learned that overextending our spending can quickly diminish the performance of the campaign. We also found that keeping the ongoing messages and seasonal offers in the same campaign can have a beneficial effect on performance, rather than separating them into different campaigns, in which case our results quickly deteriorated. "At first, the idea of focusing on different points in the sales funnel with a single campaign rather than segmenting it seemed interesting, but the numbers speak for themselves," says Szilvia Burka, marketing director at Praktiker Hungary. Thanks to the new automated campaign strategy, we were able to smash through the ceiling with the results — exceeding our expectations. Praktiker generated almost 2.4X higher total ROAS with the Performance Max exclusive ROAS increasing more than 16X. "We're excited to work with an agency that likes to experiment in a similar way to us because constantly pushing boundaries is the primary key to our success," concludes Burka. 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"Culpeper's Got Talent" and more! AMERICA'S GOT TALENT WINNER LANDAU EUGENE MURPHY JR. TO APPEAR AT CULPEPER'S STATE THEATRE AS GRAND FINALE OF 'CULPEPER'S GOT TALENT' COMPETITION SATURDAY APRIL 26TH NBC TV PERSONALITY'S ALL STAR SHOW ALSO FEATURES FORMER TEMPTATIONS, PLATTERS, AND DRIFTERS LEAD VOCALISTS AND SWING MACHINE BIG BAND Landau Eugene Murphy Jr., the Sinatra-singing season six winner of NBC Television's America's Got Talent, will perform at the State Theatre of Culpeper in Culpeper, VA Saturday, April 26th at 8pm. The concert will serve as the grand finale of the hugely successful "Culpeper's Got Talent" competition, which has featured incredibly talented performers from all across the region over the past several weeks. The Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. Show in Culpeper will also feature as Landau's special guests, former lead vocalists from the Temptations, Platters, and Drifters, singing the biggest hits from each group including "My Girl," "Under The Boardwalk," "The Great Pretender," and many more. The incomparable "Swing Machine Big Band" will accompany the vocalists. Swing Machine is an All-Star big band comprised of many former members of the Air Force Airmen of Note, Army Blues, Navy Commodores, Glenn Miller Orchestra and other professional musicians from the Washington DC area. Tickets are available now at the State Theatre box office and online at landaumurphyjr.com and www.culpepertheatre.org: the limited Gold Circle seats are available for $50, general admission is available for $40, and balcony seats are available for $30. Gold Circle ticket purchases will include an exclusive meet-and-greet and photo op with all of the vocalists before the show. About the performers: Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. thrilled fans of NBC television's hit series America's Got Talent as the dreadlocked crooner that won America's hearts, walking away with the largest number of winning votes in the history of the series. Landau's classic crooning and smooth style has spread well beyond AGT audiences worldwide. From headlining Caesars Palace in Las Vegas to Harlem's famed Apollo Theater and all points in between, Landau has performed all across the country and internationally, having toured China with fellow AGT winner Michael Grimm and performed for U.S. troops stationed in Europe. Landau's first Columbia Records album, "That's Life," produced by Grammy winner Steve Tyrell, debuted at #1 on the Billboard jazz charts in 2011. He released his follow-up holiday album "Christmas Made for Two" in 2013, featuring Christmas classics, new sounds of the season, and a special guest cameo from Glenn Leonard, former lead singer of the Temptations, on their soulful duet of "Silent Night." Landau's autobiography published by Headline Books titled "Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. – From Washing Cars to Hollywood Star" spent several weeks in the top spot of Amazon's Jazz Books chart late last year. Landau's third album, recorded at the famed Capitol Records Studio "B" in Hollywood, is slated for release later this year. The new project will feature Landau's soulful, original spin on Great American Songbook standards, a handful of R&B flavored classics, and two new original songs co-written by Landau and multi-platinum producer/songwriters Dapo Torimiro (John Legend, Jordin Sparks, Brandy, David Archuleta, Justin Bieber), and Bill Meyers (Madonna, Natalie Cole, Dionne Warwick, Olivia Newton-John, Four Tops). Grammy winner Jeffrey Weber produced the new Landau CD. Landau has appeared on dozens of major network and cable TV and radio shows, received the Reality Television Personality of the Year award, was nominated for an NAACP Image Award, and performed in both the nationally televised Macy's Christmas Parade and Hollywood Christmas Parade. Landau has received his home state's two highest honors, named "West Virginian of the Year" by the Charleston Gazette newspaper and named "Distinguished West Virginian" by Governor Earl Ray Tomblin. GLENN LEONARD, former Temptations lead vocalist, enjoyed a long, illustrious career as the first tenor and lead singer of the Tempts from 1975-1983. Glenn sang on 10 albums with the Motown legends and appeared on television specials worldwide. Glenn's voice is the one you hear each year on the radio singing the Christmas classic "Silent Night" from the Temptations' classic Christmas album. Glenn re-recorded "Silent Night" as a duet with Landau on Murphy's "Christmas Made for Two" CD. Glenn was a featured performer on the Temptations' "Reunion" tour and album, sharing the stage and recording with the likes of Eddie Kendricks, David Ruffin, Dennis Edwards, Richard Street, Otis Williams, and Melvin Franklin. He is a 2013 inductee into the R&B Music Hall of Fame. JOE COLEMAN was the lead vocalist with The Platters for many years and was a regular at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas with the group for over a decade, performing their most popular songs such as "My Prayer," "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," "The Great Pretender," and many more Number 1 hits to sell-out audiences night after night. Joe is also an acclaimed theatrical composer, songwriter, and astute businessman, who recently returned from a tour of Japan with the legendary Ben E. King. Joe has been featured on the "Today Show," "The Regis & Kelly Show," and more. RON DAVID MCPHATTER is a true legacy of the musical world – the son of Ruth Brown, The Queen of R&B, and Drifters lead vocalist Clyde McPhatter. Ron has performed hundreds of concerts in his father's slot with "The Original Drifters," and also shared the stage over the years with artists including Bonnie Raitt, B.B. King, Rick James, Jeffrey Osbourne, and his uncle: the legendary Little Richard. Ron has appeared in several music-themed films including "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" opposite Hallie Berry, "The Five Heartbeats," "The Temptations," and "Shake Rattle and Rock" with Renée Zellweger. Ron's latest release, the R&B dance single "I Want Your Lovin'" is featured on a new BET sampler and is receiving airplay at MusicChoice and radio stations nationwide. ‹ Landau set to croon at Bethesda Blues and Jazz United States Junior Chamber Names 2014 Ten Outstanding Young Americans ›	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
What Makes a Great JRPG? - Part 2 - Storytelling & Immersion - (1 of 2) posted by Unknown on 4:28:00 PM No Comments As I said in Part 1, for the next few days I'm going to be exploring what makes a JRPG great. In Part 1 I did my best to describe how I think JRPGs should be categorized so if you haven't, and you're interested, check that out! When somebody says "RPG" I think one of the first concepts or major design cornerstones is "they have good stories" and that's absolutely correct! In the case of JRPGs they primarily utilize storytelling to create a sense of immersion, due to their unique style of combat. When games are linear this is pretty challenging! To best portray the importance of good storytelling in the formula I'll be using my favorite JRPG of all time as an example, Suikoden 2! Suikoden 2 is a JRPG published by Konami in 1999 as a Playstation exclusive. When I decided to start writing this series I interviewed multiple regulars, friends and family about JRPGs. I'll get into that a bit more but I'm happy to say multiple people said that not only was Suikoden 2 their personal favorite, but was one of the very best JRPGs of all time. Xifaxan, LML regular, stated Suikoden 2 was his favorite JRPG due to solid game mechanics and "a story that is never as simple as good vs evil." He went on to say Suikoden 2 has incredible depth and layers to it's main plot, and I feel this is a solid summary. That being said, Suikoden 2 is an incredibly long game with countless side missions and characters. In fact, Suikoden 2 has 108 "party"(not all of them are usable in combat but assist in other ways) members, a series staple, and a good majority of them have back stories that get explored in the game. I cannot possibly touch on everything in a blog post, although I'd love to. I'm not sure I would even be capable of doing the game justice with only words. I will however touch on major points in the narrative and their ability to create intense immersion through simple story crafting. Suikoden 2 utilizes foreshadowing, interactive storytelling, storytelling through mechanics, symbolism and even metaphors to create this beautiful piece of art that is far greater then it's 1999 presentation. I also chose Suikoden 2 due to it's incredibly potent intro scenes, and how important that is in a JRPG. Some JRPGs suffer heavily from having terrible intros and openings, not investing the player for hours, and that is not the best way to tell a story. Before I start I'd like to touch on a few very important points - SPOILER ALERT - I will obviously be touching on some key points in Suikoden 2's main plot. I would tell you to consider playing the game before you even read this if you planned to, if not, you have been warned! I'll be giving a very thorough analysis of the introduction in the game, and touching on a few others as well. Suikoden 2 has 3 possible endings and each one is significantly different. Now, I believe that Suikoden 2 is developed in such a way where the 2nd ending is most likely to happen if you are a new player. There are very very specific things that need to happen to have ending 1 and 3 occur, and I will touch on the options. Ending 2 was my first experience with Suikoden 2, like most players and is the most memorable to me, but I have since seen all of them. I will touch on areas where the player's decision directly effects what happens in the plot, but ending 2...oh man. Lastly, I'd like to note the graphic style of Suikoden 2. Suikoden 2 is best described as a dark war epic set in a world of political ruin and violence. Riddled with despair and absolute betrayal, Suikoden 2 is incredibly dark, no way to argue that....SO let's take a look at some of our main characters - Suikoden as a series is renowned for it's incredible cast of characters Suikoden 2 does not have any cutscenes, the story is told and played out with these sprite models. I've never been a huge stickler when it comes to graphics, and I know many JRPG players aren't either. However, it is definitely worth mentioning that Yoshitaka Murayama, the game's lead director, producer and writer, was able to tell such an incredible tale with these models. Even the latest JRPGs with top notch graphics tend to fall short compared to Suikoden 2, and that's a huge ode to storytelling and it's strength. Okay, let's dive right in! The Intro Suikoden 2's tale starts off with an immediate camera pan in the woods. You can clearly see multiple men in the same clothing scattered about an encampment. Sharpening weapons, sitting over a fire and loafing about, it is very clear this is a military encampment. The first character to speak is a young man named "Jowy" and he is addressing the player character (the player character can be renamed, however his default is Riou). After a short conversation you can easily tell Jowy and Riou are good friends and this is their last day in the encampment before being sent home. Jowy immediately mentions "Nanami", and that Riou is her only family. Right off the bat you already have a character you haven't even met that is relying on you. Jowy goes on to confirm this world is in a time of war. After this conversation the player has the option of exploring the camp a bit with Jowy or immediately going to bed to prepare for their homecoming in the morning. Having the freedom of choice is not uncommon in JRPGs but Suikoden 2 delivers this particular one in a way that I love. It's such a simple decision and yet it is yours to make, and Jowy will abide no matter what you choose. Within 5 minutes of the game the player is aware they will have to make decisions regarding this world, and there are characters relying on him. This is called Interactive Storytelling and it's essential in letting the player immerse themselves in the story being told, even if it's in a tiny way. Interactive Storytelling is what makes video games such an incredible medium, since it is unique to this medium. Exploring the camp is a great way to get some information about your surroundings, such as learning Jowy and Riou are members of the Unicorn Brigade (youth division) of the Highland Army. Ultimately Riou and Jowy go to bed, excited for their next day. A few hours later Riou and Jowy hear a lot of noise outside of their tent. Awakened by shouts of "surprise attack!" the player character and Jowy step outside to see their camp is burning. The young boys' unit commander, Captain Rowd, orders all living soldiers to flee to the east path, stating that the city-state has broken the treaty. Following their superior officer's orders, Riou and Jowy run to the east. This is a good scene to set the stage for the state of turmoil these characters are dealing with. As Riou and Jowy run there are dozens of injured and slaughtered men crying out for assistance and guidance, with many of them passing away shortly after. It is clear from this point on Suikoden 2 does not pull any punches when it comes to the tragedy of war. As they are moving through the forest Jowy suddenly comes to the realization that the direction they are escaping the woods is the only clear path out, and a very good tactical choke point. This is another great scene of foreshadowing. As the player, you are unaware of your geography and are simply following the orders of your superior, but Jowy was very aware that something wasn't right about this situation. Jowy identified a problem and was willing to go against what was expected off him, for whatever reasons. Compared to Riou, to put it simply, Jowy is more experienced and deals with problems a bit differently. Jowy decides to run back and tell their Captain of their flawed escape plan and Riou follows suit. When they arrive at their encampment there is virtually nothing left. The entire area has been absolutely devastated. Riou and Jowy notice their own Captain standing amidst the rubble addressing a man with the title of Prince. Through some dialogue it is vaguely given away that this was all a terrible plot of war. The Unicorn Brigade has become a pawn in a mechanism of total war, being sacrificed by their own Prince to become Martyr's to insight a break in the peace treaty. Prince Luca, the Prince of Highland, was behind it all. >.> While this is all being revealed and the player is reading and piecing it together, Jowy is already backing up, immediately piecing together the tragedy that is taking place. This is another representation of Jowy being a little more aware of this world and the way things work, demonstrating his experience over Riou once again. The amount of foreshadowing in this entire introduction sequence is not only subtle but extremely potent, especially on a second playthrough. Jowy immediately comes up with a plan to run to the north in a desperate attempt to escape slaughter at the hands of their own military. After a bit of running they arrive at the cliff of a waterfall with no where else to run. As soon as the two boys take a breather, Jowy seems jarred by the fact that Rowd would go along with Luca's plan. Rowd shows up and makes it very clear he has no intention of letting the 2 escape, inciting a battle. After dispatching Rowd's unit, which is a surprisingly difficult battle, Rowd scurries off to get reinforcements. Jowy identifies there is now way the 2 can continue to combat the Highland military and their only chance is to take a leap of faith and jump into the waterfall. No matter what decision Riou makes here, you are locked into jumping from the waterfall. Suikoden 2 has a huge overbearing theme of "fate" and what that entails, but it kicks off at the waterfall scene. Jowy grabs a knife and carves a slash into a nearby rock and states, "If we make it...but...somehow get seperated...let's return to this spot. That way we will be reunited." Jowy asks Riou to promise, Riou complies and slashes the rock as well, creating an "X". Then both boys jump off the waterfall, leaving their lives into the hands of fate. This scene has become pretty popular in the Suikoden fandem, entitled "Waterfall Scene" And THAT is the introduction to Suikoden 2. The waterfall scene is followed by the introductory credits rolling with a chronicle of Riou and Jowy's upbringing in the backround. Playing together at a young age, training under the same master and joining the military together, it is clear Jowy and Riou are incredibly close, without seeing any dialogue. As far as JRPGs go, there are relatively famous for having very slow starts with a lot of hand holding to get a grasp on the world and combat. I love Suikoden 2's approach of an introduction by establishing the world you live in an incredibly jarring look at the violence and corruption first hand, and forcing you to adapt to the combat quickly, allowing you to be immersed in the storyline easier. Establishing so much core story in such a short amount of time without sacrificing gameplay is an incredibly challenging feat and I personally feel like Murayama couldn't have done it in any better way. These truths of JRPGs and storytelling ring out throughout many titles in a ton of different ways but they all have the same goal in mind; Immersion through storytelling. PHEW my hands hurt. I'm going to break this particular analysis of JRPGs in half due to length. In my next post I'm going to discuss the rest of the game (in less detail!) and the structure Suikoden 2's storytelling takes, as well as other JRPGs. Storytelling is the absolute cornerstone of JRPGs and there's so many amazing and interactive ways of immersing the player in these long adventures and I feel Suikoden 2 does a good job of showcasing these techniques. What JRPG is your personal favorite and why? What is your favorite introduction for a JRPG? Let us know in the comments below and stay tuned for "What Makes a Great JRPG - Part 2 - Storytelling & Immersion (2 of 2)"! Bossman's Pokemon Go Vacation - Syracuse, NY Bossman's Pokemon Go Vacation - Rt 12B Scenic Rout... 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The Stolen Generations The Apology Bringing Them Home Report You are here: Home Resources The Apology "Today we honour the Indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest continuing cultures in human history. We reflect on their past mistreatment. We reflect in particular on the mistreatment of those who were Stolen Generations - this blemished chapter in our nation's history. The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future. We apologise for the laws and policies of successive Parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians. We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country. For the pain, suffering and hurt of these Stolen Generations, their descendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry. To the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, for the breaking up of families and communities, we say sorry. And for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry. We the Parliament of Australia respectfully request that this apology be received in the spirit in which it is offered as part of the healing of the nation. For the future we take heart; resolving that this new page in the history of our great continent can now be written. We today take this first step by acknowledging the past and laying claim to a future that embraces all Australians. A future where this Parliament resolves that the injustices of the past must never, never happen again. A future where we harness the determination of all Australians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, to close the gap that lies between us in life expectancy, educational achievement and economic opportunity. A future where we embrace the possibility of new solutions to enduring problems where old approaches have failed. A future based on mutual respect, mutual resolve and mutual responsibility. A future where all Australians, whatever their origins, are truly equal partners, with equal opportunities and with an equal stake in shaping the next chapter in the history of this great country, Australia." Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are warned that this web site may contain images of deceased people. The Memorials at the Cootamundra Aboriginal Girls' Training Home Lola Edward's Story Former Prime Minister Paul Keating speech at Redfern Park 1992 Sorry Speech Aboriginal Flag ABSEC (NSW) Copyright © 2019 The Stolen Generations. All Rights Reserved. Joomla Templates: from JoomlaShack	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Government will continue to support Russian Machines through government procurements RNS. – The Ministry of Industry and Commerce plans to continue supporting Russian Machines of Oleg Deripaska through government and municipal procurements, as told by the minister of industry and commerce Denis Manturov to journalists. "Russian Machines will be supported in any case, since in practice 85% of the purchases and supply of ambulances and buses accounts for GAZ Group" – Manturov said. Manturov has also mentioned the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant, which previously participated in the delivery of its products to the regions. "I'm sure that UAZ will continue its participation even now. There's a demand for UAZ vehicles in the regions, especially in difficult terrain. For that reason, I only gave you rough proportions, which simply works out in an objective way in practice. Therefore, a great majority will account for GAZ Group" – said the minister. Manturov has noted that the Ministry will use the practice of sole executor during the state purchases. "We will have a sole executor in any case, as we always had and the practice will be maintained within the framework of the purchases until the end of the year. No drastic changes are expected" – Manturov said. As reported previously, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce made a proposal to purchase automobiles and road construction vehicles for the subjects of Russia and municipal requirements, due to the fact that the Russian Machines and GAZ Group of Oleg Deripaska were in the sanctions list of the United States. However, the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service did not support the draft resolution of the Russian government, formulated by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. The United States has imposed sanctions against 24 Russian individuals and 11 legal entities on 6 April. Oleg Deripaska and the companies controlled by him -En+ Group, GAZ Group, Basic Element and Rusal- have been included in the sanctions list. Tags: GAZ Group, Russian Machines The Russian government is formulating a strategy for the development of automotive industry until 2025 Vehicle production has been increased by 20% within the first quarter St Petersburg automotive industry has grown by 2% in January 2019 Rostec and Renault increase their shares at Avtovaz to 83.5% The net profit of Sollers Group has shrunk by 38% in 2017 ZiL factory will manufacture Hyundai brand vehicles Car production up by 69% in January 2017 in Russia UAZ will invest 7 billion rubles in a new platform for Patriot-2020	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Home CryptoCurrencies & Blockchain What is OmiseGo and how does it work? CryptoCurrencies & BlockchainCryptocurrency EducationFeatured What is OmiseGo and how does it work? Understanding OmiseGo: What Is It and How It Works 1 Understanding OmiseGo: What Is It and How It Works 2 An Overview on OmiseGo 3 The Future of Omisego After conducting a few research, I finally decided to share what I've found out about OmiseGo. I'm pretty sure you'll find it an interesting subject to follow in the long-term. [su_animate type="wobble" duration="7.5″ delay="0.5″]If you like this article, please share it and follow us on Twitter & Facebook as there is much more great stuff to come. Thank you ;)[/su_animate] An Overview on OmiseGo OmiseGo is an Ethereum ERC20 token. As of the moment, there are no wallets or anything; however, developers are currently working on it, and it's expected to come out soon. OmiseGo is actually an extension of the company OMISE, which is known as a payment gateway across Asia. They have been established since 2013 and have bases in Japan, Singapore, and Thailand. They even have several offices scattered all throughout Asia. In their website, you can see a roadmap that states the availability of the platform, granting access to everyone, in the 4th quarter of 2017. To understand what OmiseGo is about, here is a quick overview of their service: They provide help to businesses to implement payment methods which their customers can use. But what makes it important? In my opinion, OmiseGo will be used as the crypto or platform that will take cryptocurrency to the mainstream. As it's built on the Ethereum blockchain, it will most likely offer peer to peer money exchange, as well as storage and decentralized trading. By allowing decentralized trading, it will be possible for consumers to store and make trades all in one platform. Since it's on the blockchain, it will be highly secured. What makes the company even more interesting are the people who make up their development and management team. If you do a bit of research, you'll definitely find out each of them has a few achievements of his own. However, what stole the spotlight is Ethereum's very own founder himself – Vitalik Buterin. Vitalik obviously knows the massive potential behind Etherium so much that he's willing to work with one of these platforms in order to bring cryptocurrency into the mainstream. Another well-known name you can find in the team is Lightning Network developer and Ethereum co-founder Joseph Poon. There are also several other huge names who are leading the way in developing blockchain. This only means that this project they're currently working on is a really huge one. It also explains its massive untapped potential, which is why they're working hard to make sure it goes to the mainstream. Moreover, they're also working to develop a mobile wallet in the future that is capable of supporting fiat and cryptocurrency all in one platform. As I've said, it's really a great thing since when you have decentralized cryptos that are dependent on centralized trading like Coinbase, Bittrex, and Poloniex, such exchanges become prone to hacking. However, with a decentralized platform, such things can be rid of. While it's not yet happening, there's no doubt a decentralized exchange is huge and will become the future of cryptocurrency trading within the next few years. It's a massive development, and it's evident by the fact that aside from money transfers, they also offer loyalty points in the form of Reward Points. They'll make low-rate money transfers possible, and you know it's going to happen since it is on blockchain via Ethereum. This removes the need for a middleman which is a huge deal when it comes to getting financial services on the blockchain. OmiseGO CEO Jun Hasegawa stated that over 240 McDonald's branches in Thailand will accept cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum through OmiseGo. He also mentioned that it will also include fiat as part of the payment platform. McDonalds has conducted a PR for OmiseGo in an effort to legitimize cryptocurrency and take it to the mainstream. Well in my own opinion, it is a huge step for getting cryptocurrencies into the mainstream if McDonald's start using and accepting cryptocurrency for payments and other transactions. One of the main issues they're trying to solve is the rising number of Asians who are cut off from banking. Through this technology, there's no longer a need to create a central bank account just to transfer money or perform any transaction. Basically, people will benefit from financial freedom. Instead of carrying cash with them, they have a mobile wallet and decentralized exchange. This is a huge leap forward for solving the problems involved in Asia's traditional banking system. As you guys might know, major Asian countries like Japan, Singapore, and Thailand are working together to make crypto transactions available to everyone. In fact, there has been an increasing number of companies that are starting to accept cryptocurrencies. As mentioned earlier, McDonald's is currently working with crypto development, and seeing their recent PR move, it won't take long before other companies will start embracing this new technology. There are a lot of things to look forward to, especially that OmiseGo is currently working with Ethereum's powerhouse team. The Future of Omisego The development team of OmiseGo is also planning to work with different payment platforms such as digital wallets like Google Pay and Venmo. They are aiming to gain support from these platforms, and in the event they did manage to gain enough support, the said platforms will gain incentives for doing so. It's actually a mutual relationship kind of thing – they lend their hands to OmiseGo while, in return, they benefit from OmiseGo's services. It also serves as a proof of stake blockchain. By placing your investments, you will be able to stake your tokens in exchange for verifying transactions on your computer. By staking your tokens, you will be able to help secure the network and make it foolproof from security breaches. You can get your tokens back after staking them. But of course, you also get a return on investment for doing so. This is just one good reason why you should keep those tokens until the time you're going to need them. This platform is a truly promising one just by taking a look at their team. Make sure to take a look at this platform upon its launch, which is expected to be by the end of the year if what they say in the roadmap is true. Since it seeks to solve a major issue, then it is a really huge development that could change the way money is handled. Once it's out, it will be possible to cash in and cash out between fiat and cryptocurrency without any hassle. Moreover, if it becomes successful, people will start using the platform for transactions and more. The thing is that a lot of investors and average people find crypto to be rather intimidating. They find it quite complicated to figure out how to invest on it or how to set up their wallets. But if the setup is proven quick and simple, then even an average person with no technical knowledge and experience can get on the blockchain with the help of this platform. It will be possible and simple to cash in and out between cryptocurrencies, and it's more than enough to convince people to hop in and start investing. If this gets launched in Asia where it has the most potential to succeed, particularly in Thailand, other neighboring countries will start picking up. Later on, the whole world would be using the platform. Thailand's already planning to accept payments in Bitcoins, and in the event the platform goes out, people will start paying Bitcoins when making orders at various McDonald's branches. It won't take long before this gets spread all over the world. Once it does, it will be a huge step for cryptocurrencies being in the mainstream, and it might be something that could change the way the world works! [cryptocurrency_widget type="leaderboard" symbol="OMG~USD" template="background" color="blue"] Previous articleGoldman Sachs exploring bitcoin trading operation Next articleBitcoin is like the Internet in the 1990s – Matthew Goetz Colene Wierschem October 8, 2017 At 8:17 am Thanks a lot for the blog article.Really looking forward to read more. 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Modular-Analog Music Music tech Stories Tech Herb Deutsch, educator and Moog synth co-inventor, has died Herb Deutsch, one of the leading figures in the early development of the synthesizer and a lifelong educator, died on Friday. News reaches us this weekend, and Moog Music has made an official announcement. Today we celebrate the life of our friend Professor Herb Deutsch. As a colleague, Herb helped Bob discover his passion for being a toolmaker. Together they developed a model for how engineers and artists may work together to achieve their creative dreams. The belief that an instrument's designer must understand the artist's mind and creative needs remains the core of all that we do at Moog to this day. As a composer, Herb helped show the world how song is one of the greatest languages for storytelling. He believed in the power of music and recognized its role as a catalyst for change. As an educator, Herb touched thousands of lives over his 50+ years of teaching. He inspired many to form lifelong relationships with music and composition. His students will remember him as a man who dedicated his life to making the world a more wonderful place through sound. As a friend, Herb gave us the gift of a gentle smile and never let us forget the importance of kindness for our fellow humans. Herb's legacy and place in the history of music will never be forgotten. And here at Moog, his laughter will be missed and cherished. We are endlessly grateful for your friendship, collaboration, guidance, and creative spirit, Herb. Our love is with you and your family. I wrote a round-up of Herb's many contributions to the synth world at large earlier this year. Honestly, my hope has been to express more when folks are still with us – young and old, since we never know how long they or we will be around. I hope we hold each other to that. Happy 90th birthday to Herb Deutsch, educator, composer, and Moog synth co-inventor That's not to take away the importance of honoring and celebrating people as they pass, though. Our hearts go out to the friends, family, students, and colleagues in education and at Moog. One seminal historical reference appears to be offline currently, but you can read it in archive – 2003 and 2004 interviews with the Internet Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20210507102031/http://www.moogarchives.com/ivherb01.htm After first meeting for hours in Rochester – the two had bonded over Theremin kits – Herb and Bob two chatted about the future of musical instruments over Italian food in Greenwich Village in 1964. There, they imagined a world-changing product that would become the Moog modular – the goal being, in Herb's words, a "small and affordable music synthesizer." Herb is also credited with championing the keyboard interface that helped render the synth accessible to musicians accustomed to keys. Herb tells the story of making that argument. It might bother modern advocates of alternative interfaces and more inclusive interfaces for musicians around the world. But then again, for a company in 1960s upstate New York, it almost certainly was an essential business decision. (You could argue, even, that making that business decision has widened synth making to the point that now we can make more adventurous choices.) From the above interview: At the time I was actually still thinking primarily as a composer and at first we were probably more interested in the potential expansion of the musical aural universe than we were of its effect upon the broader musical community. In fact when Bob questioned me on whether the instrument should have a regular keyboard (Vladimir Ussachevsky had suggested to him that it should not) I told Bob "I think a keyboard is a good idea, after all, having a piano did not stop Schoenberg from developing twelve-tone music and putting a keyboard on the synthesizer would certainly make it a more sale-able product!!" As a composer, Herb also was a stand-out, writing the first recognized piece for the modular instrument as well as performing at the legendary Jazz in the Garden concert at New York's Museum of Modern Art: That was a most unusual event. Bob designed and assembled four modular systems. One was a rather typical simple system used primarily for bass sounds and voices, a second was much more complex, and assembled to allow a soloist to access a wide variety of voices with fast selection by both patching and flipping switches…that was the primary synthersizer. A third and very interesting unit was one designed to provide many different percussion, cymbal and drum sounds playable, of course, from a keyboard. The fourth was actually a hybrid of Moog modules with a polyphonic keyboard which allowed the pianist of the group (Hank Jones was the wonderful player in my quartet) to play solos as well as "comp" behind other soloists. When putting together my quartet, I first called Herbie Hancock asking him to play the polyphonic synth at the MOMA concert. I don't remember his exact words, but he felt that at the time, synthesizers and electronic music were things he didn't know enough about (pretty amazing considering where he went within 4 years of that concert!!). It was Herbie who suggested that Hank Jones might be interested, and it was really an honor to get to know Hank. He (one of the famous "Jones Boys") then went on to appear as a soloist with my Hofstra Jazz Ensemble a couple of years later. Jazz in the Garden was amazing for many reasons: 1) the instruments were not completed until two days prior to the concert, so rehearsals were VERY limited. 2) The event was incredibly crowded and quite thrilling (with the air filled with the smoke of hundreds of joints). 3) The close of the concert, which is very well-documented, was dramatic, because someone stepped on a power cord, pulling the entire ensemble into silence – – – which the excited audience considered part of the show and screamed their approval. I hope you all enjoy the adventures of your own musical and technological inventions. RIP, Herb. Tags: 1960s, Bob Moog, Herb Deutsch, history, interviews, inventors, keyboards, modular, Moog, Moog Modular, Moog Music, New York, NYC, obituaries, synthesizer, usa Business Techno: The Game is board game social critique from Poland, now with optional socks Listen to Herb Deutsch narrate studies in tape and synthesis, from his 1976 book modularusa LA x Berlin celebrates the sunnier Berlin connection in sound	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Home › Uncategorized › Dig Update #2 Dig Update #2 Posted on June 12, 2015 by digadmin Apologies for the slow updates; sometimes, after a day excavating out in the New Orleans summer heat, it's hard to get much writing done! This is a quick update on the progress of the field school itself. Thanks to a relatively dry couple of weeks, we haven't had much lab time. Therefore, there hasn't been much opportunity to photograph artifacts, but all of the excavation areas have been productive. Most of the material recovered so far dates from the second half of the eighteenth century, and there will be some great pieces of pottery that will be reconstructable with time in the lab. Examples of various eighteenth and early nineteenth century ceramic types recovered in recent excavations. Our excavation nearest the gate at the front of the lot has now revealed what appears to be the foundation of a structure that burned in the 1788 fire. This could be the same structure shown on the 1731 Gonichon map of the city; while our overlays show this building as being under the existing slab on the lot, this is very close. It could also be a previously undocumented structure from the Spanish colonial era, but further excavation should definitively answer this. Above this, there were many layers of compressed debris from the ca. 1790 to 1801 period, just before the nineteenth century building was built. Front unit with possible burned structure at top (north) edge of unit, just after being exposed The unit located just behind the slab marking the location of the 1801 structure has been complex. After documenting the brick surface revealed previously (associated with one of the outbuildings from the 1801 complex), we elected to remove it, in the hopes that it had sealed levels associated with the ca. 1722 structure. Beneath it, there appears to be a series of living surfaces and midden accumulations from the late eighteenth century. We have not yet located a visible lens from the 1788 fire in this unit, but it may be close… Students Chris Combel and Sydney Viard excavate a ca. 1790s component in the middle unit; photo by UNO staff photographer. The two units at the rear part of the property are also producing primarily late eighteenth century material. One of the features at the rear is now pretty clearly a privy shaft, and it matches the location of privies shown as late as an 1883 Notarial Archive drawing. We have now bisected that feature, and found that it is filled with a dense trash deposit presumably from the ca. 1800-1810 period. This contained a number of interesting and unique ceramics, from a piece of Liverpool creamware with a patriotic design featuring Washington, Lady Liberty, and a map of the colonies, to numerous fragments of hand-built (presumably Native American) earthenware. The base of the feature itself was unlined, but there were some interesting aspects to the deeply buried soils beneath it that could be related to early French development of the property. We are now exploring the other side of the feature, and the area just to its west, where I suspect there may be a second, later privy shaft. Privy shaft after bisection The excavation at the rear corner has been the most productive unit by far, with large fragments of pottery manufactured from ca. 1750-1800 throughout. The fill is very inconsistent, and we suspect that there may be multiple fill episodes that may have disturbed earlier ones. Still, the material, much of which displays patterns that match examples from the other ca. 1790-1810 components, provides a vivid record of everyday life at the location. Rear (southeast corner) unit during excavation 'China glaze' style English pearlware from rear unit ‹ Dig Update – June 4 Dig Update #3 ›	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
As an organisation Newman University uses the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to assess applicants' suitability for positions of trust. The University fully complies with the DBS Code of Practice and undertakes to treat all applicants for positions fairly. It undertakes not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a Disclosure on the basis of a conviction or other information revealed. Newman University is committed to the fair treatment of its staff, potential staff or users of its services, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, responsibilities for dependants, age, physical /mental disability or offending background. This written policy statement on the recruitment of ex-offenders is available to all Disclosure applicants at the outset of the recruitment process. The University actively promotes equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential and the organisation welcome applications from a wide range of candidates including those with criminal records. Candidates are selected for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience. Where a Disclosure is to form part of the recruitment process, all applicants invited to interview are encouraged to provide details of their criminal record at an early stage in the application process. It is requested that this information is sent under separate, confidential cover to the Human Resources Advisor at Newman University and it is guaranteed that this information will only be seen by those who need to see it as part of the recruitment process. Unless the nature of the position allows Newman University to ask questions about an applicants' entire criminal record, an individual will only be asked about 'unspent' convictions as defined in the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The University ensures that all those involved in the recruitment process are suitably trained to identify and assess the relevance and circumstances of offences. They will have received appropriate guidance and training in the relevant legislation relating to the employment of ex-offenders, including the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. At interview or in a separate discussion, an open and measured discussion will take place on the subject of any offences or other matter that may be considered relevant to the position. Failure to reveal information that is directly relevant to the position sought could lead to the withdrawal of an offer of employment. The University undertakes to discuss any matter revealed in a Disclosure with the person seeking the position before withdrawing a conditional offer of employment. Having a criminal record will not necessarily bar prospective employees from working at Newman University. This will depend on the nature of the position and the circumstances and background of the offences. Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders.pdf - 189 KB	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
<< Previous: Apple Watch: The iPh... \| Next: College Football 201... >> College Football 2012: Week 4 Recap Saturday, 2012 September 29 - 10:44 am Michigan loses in ugly fashion to Notre Dame; N.C. State rolls. This is way late, I know, but I've been depressed about last week's result. #18 Michigan 6, #11 Notre Dame 13. There's only one meaningful statistic in this game: Michigan turnovers, 6. If not for a number of maddening interceptions (mostly the result of Denard having unblocked defenders pressuring him), Michigan actually would have had a pretty good day. Denard Robinson only deserves part of the blame, though... mostly, I blame Al Borges for continuing to try to shoehorn his scheme into the offense when it's just not working. When the Notre Dame corners are playing 15 yards off the line, throw the freakin' bubble screen, Al. Otherwise the safeties will continue to cheat into the box against the run, play robber against the pass, or play man coverage against the slot and allow the linebackers to blitz. There's a direct link between Al's refusal to throw the bubble screen and the 4 interceptions that Denard threw. So. Sigh. The good news is, the defense played really well, and if not for the turnovers there were some bright spots in the play of the offense too. And since the Big Ten is pretty miserably weak this year, Michigan still has a chance of having a good season. But only if Al changes things up a bit. Heroes: Defensive line, linebackers. Goats: Denard Robinson, Al Borges. Grades: Defense A, Offense F. Michigan is on a bye in week 5. N.C. State 52, Citadel 14. Cupcake city. I was right that State would find its rushing attack in this game; freshman Shadrach Thornton ran 21 times for 145 yards and two touchdowns. Of course it was Citadel, but that's a hopeful sign for State, who's had a tough time getting anything going on the ground all year. State plays Miami (FL) in week 5 in what should be a good matchup. Around the Big Ten The theme of this week was trouble with lesser competition. #16 Ohio State had trouble with UAB but ended up winning 29-15. Wisconsin looked downright ugly in beating UTEP 37-26. #21 Michigan State trailed Eastern Michigan at the half but ended up winning 23-7. Penn State eked out a win over Temple 24-13. Iowa lost to Central Michigan 32-31, ugh. Illinois got crushed by Syracuse 52-24. Nebraska and Northwestern rolled over 1-AA opponents. Minnesota is a surprising 4-0 after beating Syracuse 17-10. Other Notable Games #2 LSU barely beat Auburn 12-10. Auburn is 1-3 but they're better than their record suggests. #3 Oregon walloped Rich Rodriguez' Arizona Wildcats, 49-0. This was a bit of a shocker for me. #4 Florida State beat #10 Clemson 49-37. FSU is legit this year. #6 Oklahoma was upset by #15 Kansas State 24-19. #13 USC beat Cal 27-9; I'd thought that game would be closer. Oregon State beat #19 UCLA 27-20. Still too early to call Oregon State a contender, though. Posted by Ken in: sports There are no comments on this article.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
FILM REVIEW: The Greatest Showman starring Hugh Jackman (or why you should see Barnum at the Menier instead) Posted on January 7, 2018 by mrmonstagigz WORTH A LOOK?: ** OUT: now This film is shortlisted for three Golden Globes tonight (7/1) and, of those, its most likely victory is in the Best Song category. Read on for reasons including why you'd be better off seeing the stage version TV PREVIEW: Feud: Bette and Joan starring Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon WHEN: Final two episodes of eight air in the UK BBC2 9pm 6/1 On Sunday actresses Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon (pictured from left above) are both shortlisted for the same award at the 75th Golden Globes. Read on for reasons including who we think most deserves the Golden Globe PREVIEW: 6 Broadway shows we would like to see in 2018 Hello Dolly! at the Shubert Theatre Star Bette Midler bids farewell to the Tony Award-winning revival on 14/1/18 leaving it in the capable hands of Bernadette Peters. Charlie Stemp (Half A Sixpence and Dick Whittington) joins the cast on 20/1/18. Does his arrival signal an imminent West End transfer? Booking through July. Tickets Read on for reasons including Hangmen and Angels In America THEATRE REVIEW: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs starring Craig Revel-Horwood WHERE: Southampton Mayflower WHEN: 31/12, runs to 7/1/18 Our review of Strictly Come Dancing's Craig Revel Horwood's fabulous turn in Annie last year was the fourth most read content on this site in 2017. Read on for reasons including which pantomime is Southampton-bound in 2018	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Trustees of Philadelphia Baptist Association v. Hart's Executors (1819) By John R. Vile Related cases in Church Property and Governance In Trustees of Philadelphia Baptist Association v. Hart's Executors, 17 U.S. 1 (1819), the Supreme Court dealt with implications of the First Amendment's religion clause. Similar to later decisions predicated specifically on the First Amendment, this decision was designed to keep courts out of the business of deciding matters of internal church governance and policy. Although this case did not specifically rest on the First Amendment, it established principles that would later be used in First Amendment cases. Court tried to clarify charitable inheritance laws to religious organizations A provision in the will of Silas Hart provided that some of his assets would go "to the Baptist Association that, for ordinary, meets at Philadelphia, annually" for the training of individuals for the ministry. The case originated in Virginia, where the will was executed. Three years prior to Hart's death the state had repealed all governing English statutes over charitable behests. In this case designed to "certify" [clarify] the law for lower courts, Chief Justice John Marshall wrote the decision for a unanimous court. Court said the organization could not take the trust Agreeing that "[i]t was obviously the intention of the testator [Hart], that the Association should take in its character as an association; and should, in that character, perform the trust created by the will," Marshall observed that the association to which Hart had left his assets had not at the time been incorporated and was thus "incapable of taking this trust as a society." Accordingly, "[a]t the death of the testator . . . there were no persons in existence who were capable to taking the bequest." The behest was therefore void, and "the property vests, if not otherwise disposed of by the will, in the next of kin." John Vile is a professor of political science and dean of the Honors College at Middle Tennessee State University. He is co-editor of the Encyclopedia of the First Amendment. This article was originally published in 2009. Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819) McGarvie, Mark Douglas. One Nation Under Law: America's Early National Struggles to Separate Church and State. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. John R. Vile. 2009. Trustees of Philadelphia Baptist Association v. Hart's Executors (1819) [electronic resource]. The First Amendment Encyclopedia, Middle Tennessee State University (accessed Jan 19, 2022). http://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/179/trustees-of-philadelphia-baptist-association-v-hart-s-executors	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Wasps Agree Partnership Renewal With CWA Date: 8 Dec 2020 Wasps are pleased to announce a partnership renewal and continued shirt sponsorship with Birmingham based civil and structural engineering consultancy, CWA Ltd. CWA's logo will again be on the back of Wasps' shirts for domestic and European fixtures throughout the 2020/21 season. CWA have been part of the Wasps family for five years, having previously been a Seasonal Hospitality Member. Birmingham city centre-based CWA are one of the region's leading civil and structural engineering and design consultancies, providing services to a wide range of high-value projects to blue-chip clients nationwide. Adam Benson, Wasps Chief Commercial Officer, said: "I am delighted that CWA will continue their support of Wasps. CWA has an excellent reputation throughout the Midlands and beyond and is a proud member of our partner family." CWA Director, Dave Copeland, said: "We're delighted to have renewed our partnership with an iconic Premiership Rugby side like Wasps. "It's great that two local Midlands businesses in Wasps and CWA can continue working together over the coming season." Season Membership Plus Wasps launch 2020/21 home and away kits	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Donald Trump Just Admitted to a Federal Crime in 'Fox & Friends' Interview, Obama Ethics Chief Says By Alexandra Hutzler On 8/22/18 at 3:31 PM EDT U.S. Donald Trump Trump Federal Crime Donald Trump may have just admitted to committing a crime in an interview on Fox & Friends, Barack Obama's former ethics chief said. The president appeared on the show after his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to eight charges, including campaign finance violations. Cohen claimed in court that he arranged payments to two women who alleged they had affairs with Trump at the direction of the now president. While the full interview will not air until Thursday, a short clip released from Fox News showed Trump telling co-host Ainsley Earhardt that he knew about the payments. "Later on I knew, later on, but you have to understand, Ainsley, what he did, and they weren't taken out of campaign finance—that's a much bigger thing, did they come out of the campaign? They didn't come out of the campaign," Trump said during the interview. EXCLUSIVE: President @realDonaldTrump on if he knew about the Cohen payments. See more from his interview with @ainsleyearhardt tomorrow 6-9amET. pic.twitter.com/HPJPslOG6X — FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) August 22, 2018 Eisen, who previously served as the White House Special Counsel for Ethics and Government Reform, told CNN on Wednesday that the video is an accidental admission that Trump committed a crime. "The striking thing about the video we just watched is that the president in his usual clumsy way has stumbled into another federal crime," Eisen said, claiming that Trump signed his federal financial disclosures in 2017 and purposefully omitted his debt to Cohen for paying off women who claimed to have had affairs with the president . "Guess what, if you owe somebody money, he just said, 'Yes, I know about the payments,' he repaid Michael Cohen. He had to list that on his form. He omitted it," Eisen continued. The ethics expert said that his watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has already made a criminal referral against Trump, which has resulted in a complaint from the Office of Government Ethics to the Department of Justice. "President Trump just stumbled right into that second federal offense. So we're seeing, it may not be the beginning of the end, but it's the end of the beginning," he added. Walter Shaub, the previous director of the United States Office of Government Ethics, also noted that Trump's interview proved that the president knowingly omitted his debt to Cohen in his 2017 financial disclosure report. "In any past administration, this would be a huge story. Everything is relative now," Shaub wrote on Twitter. Welp, I guess Trump's interview with Fox News today answers this question. He says he paid. So he knowingly omitted his debt to Cohen from the financial disclosure report he filed in June 2017. In any past administration, this would be a huge story. Everything is relative now. https://t.co/3MS7eZRjDd — Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) August 22, 2018 Trump has repeatedly changed his story on the payment made to women who claimed to have had affairs with him. He first denied any knowledge of a $130,000 hush-money deal to adult film star Stormy Daniels (real name Stephanie Clifford) made just days before the 2016 election. He then said he knew about the payments but did not use campaign finances to make them. Completing a bad day for Trump on Tuesday, his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was found guilty on eight counts of fraud. Donald Trump Just Admitted to a Federal Crime in 'Fox & Friends' Interview, Obama Ethics Chief Says \| U.S. Paul Manafort Picked the Man Who Could Replace Trump Trump Tweets First Reaction to Cohen Plea Deal Cohen Says Trump Directed Him to Violate Campaign Laws	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
You are here: Home / News / New Zealand Conservation Ranger New Zealand Conservation Ranger August 3, 2017 By ecoadmin Leave a Comment Working in some of New Zealand's most enchanting and dramatic landscapes, rangers with the Department of Conservation are truly living the dream. James Livingston – New Zealand Conservation Ranger To celebrate World Ranger Day meet New Zealand's conservation rangers. To those passionate about nature and the great outdoors, their jobs look like a wonderful adventure. Yes, there's a lot of hard work to be done, but the rewards are many and varied. From Scotland to Motueka: James Livingstone, Senior Ranger Growing up on the eastern edge of Scotland's Glasgow, James Livingstone realised early on he had two choices in life. "It was either, go west to the city and experience the rough and tumble or go east to the fields and forests for more wholesome activities. In the end, I enjoyed the best of both." In the end, living and working close to nature won out. "In mid-70s Britain, the Forestry Commission presented by far the best opportunity to achieve that, and so I was the token Scotsman on the 1985 intake to England's National School of Forestry," he recalls. He worked in Grizedale Forest in the Lake District, Wester Ross in north-west Scotland, and the Isle of Skye. On a trip to Australia, he become involved in native forest harvesting in the Otway Ranges in Victoria, a mortal sin he says he's still repenting. "Fortunately I later found myself living in Zurich where I studied and worked in forestry and landscape architecture. This was a period of cultural enlightenment." Livingstone came to New Zealand in late 2002, attracted by the "best quality of life on offer anywhere". And, he says, "almost 15 years ago, I was Johnny on the spot, talking to the right person at the right time to secure a short contract on Mangere Island in the Chatham archipelago a few days after arriving. In the ensuing years, I've enjoyed tremendously fulfilling roles in scenic and remote locations, from Mana Island, Pureora Forest, Raoul Island in the Kermadecs, Franz Josef and now Motueka." Primarily involved in protecting and recovering endangered native ecosystems and bird species, Livingstone contributes to animal ethics and kiwi recovery. "I'm proud to be part of a committed team improving biodiversity in Abel Tasman National Park, working with great people to achieve magnificent things in the best places." see relating article: Dream Job, New Zealand Conservation Rangers Five new marine reserves planned Dti sets record straight on solar reports Orange Farm's new depot moves recycling up a gear Filed Under: Employment, Featured, New Zealand, News Tagged With: Conservation, James Livingston, New Zealand, Ranger	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Paradise Park Manor I Homes For Sale Welcome to Paradise Park Manor I, 69 custom and semi-custom homes built by Dix and Catalina Homes in the mid 1980's an actually developed after Paradise Park Manor II. Most of these custom homes are unique in layout and feature Spanish red tile roofs. Paradaise Park Manor I was named after Anne McCormick's Arabian Horse Ranch. These homes were built on the land the once housed the stables of Paradise Park, which used to host the Arabian Horse show before the park was demolished and moved to West World in the late 1970's. The average lot size in the neighborhood is 11,500 Sq Ft and homes average just above 3,300 Sq Ft. This community is very unique because all the cul-de-sacs on the East side of the community lead to the Greenbelt pathways and connect with Mountain View Park and Cochise Elementary School with a tunnel under Mountain View Road. From Mountain View Park residents have access to the stunning Camelback Walk Section of the Greenbelt that leads to the lakes. Mountain View Park has many amenities for residents to enjoy such as a recreation center, basketball court, tennis court, children's playground, soccer fields, and a lighted baseball diamond. Over the years these homes have been meticulously maintained and seen fabulous renovations that make Paradise Park Manor I an ideal place to call home.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Khan voted man of the match from Newport win Stags' fans have voted midfielder Otis Khan as their man of the match from the 3-0 win over Newport County AFC on Saturday! Khan added a second-half brace to Tyler Walker's first-half opener to give Mansfield a resounding victory on the opening day of the season. Khan scooped 32.2% of the vote, and was closely followed by midfielder Neal Bishop who had 22.1%, with Walker rounding off the top three (13.1%). Well played, Otis!	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
June 27, 2019 \| Opinion/Feature Osinbajo and the fallacy of truth By The Rainbow At a town hall meeting with Nigerians in New York on Sunday evening, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was asked about the security situation in Nigeria. He responded that although there were actual incidents, the stories of violence and insecurity have been wildly exaggerated. He blamed the social media for its propensity to galvanise e-troops who infuse relatively mild situations with enough hysterics to magnify it into a significant social problem. According to Osinbajo, some of the most 'dramatic' stories of kidnapping are untrue and merely fuelled by politics. He added that they try to verify every report of an abduction story, and eventually they find that at the end of the day, "people just tell all sorts of stories." I was taken in by the way the Vice President treats 'truth' as an objective measure of the reality he addresses. He said they try to verify every report of a kidnapping and that people "just tell all sorts of stories." These two points are connected, and both reveal that Osinbajo is using the wrong analytical instruments to measure the truth value of the stories. While I understand that the job of his office includes working with factual details of kidnappings, and it is necessary to weigh evidence in this type of situation, he should also understand that premising the notion of truth on the verifiable content of stories people tell is fallacious. Not all stories are true because they are factual; they are true because they epitomise ongoing social sensibilities and sentiments. They are not true because they happened but because they symbolise the truth of a society's situation. And what is the truth of Nigeria's situation? Insecurity in all ramifications. It is exacerbated by insufficient government response, and a sinking feel of despondency and helplessness that is further galvanised by Aso Rock's body language. From Zamfara, Borno, Osun, Ondo to Akwa Ibom states, there is an acute sense of insecurity plaguing Nigeria. Nobody is spared from the menace of herdsmen and other agents of deaths. People are not just telling all sorts of stories; all kinds of mishaps too are happening. Disclaimer: "The views/contents expressed in this article are the sole responsibility of The Rainbow and do not necessarily reflect those of The Nigerian Voice. The Nigerian Voice will not be responsible or liable for any inaccurate or incorrect statements contained in this article."	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
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Sounds like — Anderson Paak, Michael Jackson, Tokyo Incidents Location — Malang Credit: Marigold Follow Marigold Marigold is an Indonesian band formed in the midle of 2015. The group consists of lead vocalist Bila, guitarist Ivan, bassist Ical, keyboardist Melodi and drummer Hariyo. The band creation was first initiated by Bila who pursuade Ical and Ivan to build a pop-folk accoustic act consist of only the three of them. From this formation, a song called "Dilema" was recorded as their debut single. After being a three-man act for a while, their needs of percussions in their live performance finally made them choose to call Hariyo to fill in the drum sections. As the band plays on different stages and bringing more of the players personal influences in their music, they finally realized that a pop-folk doesn't sits right with their preferences as a band. with that thoughts in mind they finally made a decission to change their concepts as a Pop,R&B and Soul band and recruited Melodi to play the keyboard to expand their musical style and Thus, new Marigold with their current formation and concept was born. Since the changing concept of the band, they have released a song tittled "Cerita & Arti"-which can be heard on Spotify-as a means to introduce their old listener to their new concept. The song was created by Ical and Ivan and worked together with Mahatamtama and Derry from GZZ records as their producer and music director. Marigold is curently working on their debut album and the song's lyrics will be in Indonesian and English. Their debut song in english entitled "Thension"-which they have played it on their live performances-will be released soon on online media platform. Marigold with their current concept will be serving a colorfull music, weither from their musical aspects or their lyrics. Their colors come from their players different influences where Bila and Melodi comes from pop musics background, Ivan from blues and soul, Hariyo from R&B and funk and Ical from fusion and jazz. All those influences combined has made Marigold to have a wide variety of songs which will be served in their upcoming debut album. To find out more about Marigold Instagram : instagram.com/marigoldmusic/ Twitter : twitter.com/marigoldmusic_ Facebook : facebook.com/marigoldmusicm/ Youtube : youtube.com/channel/UC1soqTuDs8yw4Vb70e2JxCA Marigold Tracks Marigold Photos Marigold's Merch Louis Antoniou Honey Lung	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Niners LB Peterson signs franchise tender Linebacker Julian Peterson signed a one-year tender offer with the San Francisco 49ers... SANTA CLARA, Calif. (March 25, 2005) -- Linebacker Julian Peterson signed a one-year tender offer with the San Francisco 49ers, who had named him their franchise player for the second successive season. Peterson's salary will be 20 percent greater than last season, when he played only five games before tearing his Achilles' tendon. Peterson, a two-time Pro Bowl player and an All-Pro in 2003, sat out every minicamp and most of training camp last season after turning down a six-year offer in a futile attempt to become the NFL's highest-paid defensive player. Though he still hasn't completed his rehabilitation from surgery on his Achilles', Peterson signed the deal so he can attend meetings next weekend at the 49ers' first minicamp under new coach Mike Nolan. The coaching staff intends to install a 3-4 defense that should take greater advantage of Peterson's talents. Peterson is expected to be healthy in time for training camp in July.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Melody Thomas Scott Birth Name: Melody Ann Thomas Birth Place: Los Angeles, California, United States Profession:Actor College:Attended University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States Melody Ann Thomas was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, on April 18, 1956. She began acting at the tender age of three. Appeared in multiple commercials before landing a national commercial for Kelloggs Rice Krispies at the age of six. Scott made her big screen debut as young Marnie in Alfred Hitchcock's movie of the same name in 1964. Melody's childhood was filled with acting, dancing and singing lessons, theatre productions through the Hollywood Children's Theater and Three Arts Studio and work. Roles on television and film such as Wagon Train, Ironside, The Beguiled, Posse, and The Shootist started filling her resume. As she reached young woman status, more mature roles followed such as Secrets, Code R, Fish, The Car, The Waltons, Charlie's Angels, The Fury, Piranha, Makin' it, Billy, and The Rockford Files. But it was in February of 1979, when 23 year old Melody was cast as Nikki Reed, the girl from the wrong side of the tracks, on The Young and the Restless, that changed her life forever. Scott has credited the role as Genoa City's ultimate survivor for saving her life. As Melody's popularity reached international heights through the daytime series, she continued working on primetime and film. Her credits include appearances on, Eight is Enough, The Scarlett O'Hara War, Hotel, Diagnosis Murder, The Nanny, The King of Queens, The Paradise Virus, Freezerburn, My Name is Earl, Castle and The Crazy Ones. On the set of Y&R, Melody met her future husband — Supervising Producer Ed Scott. The two married in 1985. They have three daughters, Elizabeth, Jennifer and Alexandra. The couple co-founded the "Save The Earth Foundation" and continue to support other charities whenever they can. April 18, 1956 — Birthdate She was 8 when she debuted in Alfred Hitchcock's film Marnie. Studied ballet, tap, jazz and singing from an early age and majored in piano in college. Developed her own line of hair-care products. Longtime fan of I Love Lucy and founding board member of the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center in Lucy's hometown of Jamestown, NY. Was a co-founder of the Save the Earth foundation, which creates awareness of environmental issues. Won the Soap Opera Digest award for Outstanding Lead Actress in 2001. Celebrated 35 years as Nikki Newman on The Young and the Restless in 2014. Edward Scott — Spouse Alexandra Danielle Yeaggy Scott— Daughter Elizabeth Marie Scott— Daughter Jennifer Scott— Daughter Melody Thomas Scott seemed destined to be an actress. The entertainer began her acting career when she was a child. Scott had roles in Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie, Wagon Train, Beguiled, The Shootist, The Waltons, and Charlie's Angels. These acting opportunities cemented her ambition, but it was the role of Nikki Newman on The Young and the Restless in 1981 that made Scott an international star. That part put her in the path of her future husband Edward Scott, a supervising producer on the show at the time. Despite a busy schedule on Y&R, Melody still finds time to add more roles to her resume. Melody Thomas Scott Photos Ten Fun Facts About Melody Thomas Scott The $25,000 Pyramid (1987) Melody Thomas Scott & David Graf - Part 1 Y& R 40th \| Marie The Young and The Restless - Y& R Co-Star Quiz: Melody Thomas Scott vs Eric Braeden Melody Thomas Scott 2002 Intimate Portrait The $100,000 Pyramid (January 13, 1987) Melody Thomas Scott & Actor (12 Credits) Title Role Year The Young and the Restless (TV Show) 10-20-2017 — 2017 Nikki Newman 2017 The Crazy Ones (TV Show) The Monster; The Lighthouse — 2014 The Monster — 2014 Castle (TV Show) Nikki Heat — 2011 Tonya Wellington 2011 The King of Queens (TV Show) Inner Tube — 2001 Nikki 2001 Makin' It (TV Show) Tony's Homecoming — 1979 Staying Alive — 1979 Paula 1979 Piranha (Movie) The Fury (Movie) LaRue 1978 The Waltons (TV Show) The Seashore — 1977 The Go-Getter — 1977 Darlene 1977 The Car (Movie) Suzie, Cyclist 1977 The Shootist (Movie) Girl on Streetcar 1976 Posse (Movie) Laurie 1975 Dirty Harry (Movie) Ann Mary Deacon 1971 Host (1 Credit) Soap Talk (TV Show) Soap Talk — 2006 Guest (10 Credits) Home & Family (TV Show) Home & Family — 2014 Steven and Chris (TV Show) Steven and Chris — 2013 Marie (TV Show) 40 Years of Young and Restless — 2013 Melody Thomas Scott — 2012 The Talk (TV Show) The Talk — 2012 Game On! With John Salley (TV Show) The Early Show (TV Show) The Early Show — 2008 The Martha Stewart Show (TV Show) Pyramid (TV Show) Pyramid — 2004 Speaking of Women's Health (TV Show) Wayne Brady (TV Show) Wayne Brady — 2003 Appearing (3 Credits) The Haunting Of... (TV Show) John Edward Cross Country (TV Show) Heroes — 2008 Daytime Emmy Awards (TV Show) Subject (person only) (1 Credit) Intimate Portrait (TV Show)	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
CM approves a Rs 1,400 crore road project to link Bihar's most interior riverine areas Bihar CM Nitish Kumar approved alignment of a two-lane state highway from Mansi (in Khagaria district) to Hardi-Chaughara (in Supaul district) to provide better road connectivity in the state's most interior riverine part that exists in the bordering area of Khagaria, Saharsa and Begusarai districts. Major part of this riverine area remain submerged in flood waters for more than six months every year. The approved highway would be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 1,400 crore and it would have four major bridges on Bagmati, Katyayani, Kosi and dead Kosi rivers. This state highway would also provide direct connectivity to famous temple of Katyayani where people still have to go by boats. · Fourth Edition of Raisina Dialogue held in New Delhi Fourth Edition of Raisina Dialogue was organized by Ministry of External Affairs in partnership with Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi. The Theme of the Dialogue was "A World Reorder: New Geometries; Fluid Partnerships; Uncertain Outcomes". The Raisina Dialogue whose first edition was held in 2015 is India's flagship annual geopolitical and geostrategic conference. Gk bit : Raisina Dialogue Organized along the lines of the Shangri-La Dialogue held in Singapore, and co-hosted by the ministry of external affairs (MEA) and the Observer Research Foundation, it takes its name from the Raisina Hills, where India's seat of power resides. The Dialogue, since its inception, has attracted academics, scholars, researchers, students, journalists and even politicians who are either interested—or are working—in the field of international relations, geopolitics, security, nuclear issues and Indian foreign policy. That is evident with the fact that even the first edition of the dialogue involved about 120 international participants from 40 countries, while the second edition attracted 250 foreign participants from 65 countries. · GST exemption limit doubled to give relief to small businesses Finance Minister Arun Jaitley raised the annual turnover for availing composition scheme to Rs 1.5 crore from Rs 1 crore effective from April 1, 2019, to provide relief to small businesses underGoods and Services (GST) regime. TheGoods and Services (GST) exemption limit has been doubled to Rs. 40 lakh annual turnover and Rs 20 lakh for northeastern states. List of Items Removed from 28%, 18% & 12% GST Slab GST Rate Reduced from 28% to 18% TVs and Monitor screen of up to32 inches screen size ● Pulleys, transmission shafts, and cranks, gearboxes etc., falling under HS Code 8483 Re-treaded or used pneumatic tires of rubber; ● Power banks having lithium ion batteries note that Lithium-ion batteries are currently at 18% ● Parts and accessories for the carriages for disabled persons ● Digital cameras and video camera recorders GST Rate Reduced from 28% to 5% Parts and accessories for the carriages for the disabled person GST Rate Reduction on Other Goods (18% to 12%) Cork roughly squared or debagged ● Articles of natural cork ● Agglomerated cork GST Rate Reduction on Other Goods (18% to 5%) Marble rubble Fly ash Blocks GST Rate Reduction on Other Goods (5% to 0%) Vegetables in the state of uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water while being frozen, branded and are in a unit container Vegetable briefly preserved under the mixtures of sulfur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulfur water or in other preservative solutions but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption. GST on Solar Power Generating Plant and Other Renewable Energy Plants Prescription of GST rate of 5% on renewable energy devices & parts for their manufacture (biogas plant/solar power based devices, solar power generating system (SGPS) etc) [falling under chapter 84, 85 or 94 of the Tariff] or other equipment being used in such plants attracting GST. Clarification on certain items having 5% GST supplied along with construction services applicable to the solar power plants GST Rate Reduction on Services Services by banks to Basic Saving Bank Deposit (BSBD) account holder coming under Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) Third party insurance premium of goods carrying vehicles down from 18% to 12% Gk bit– Composition scheme Composition scheme is a convenient way for the small taxpayers in order to escape from too many GST formalities and pay the tax at a fixed rate based on their business turnover. Under this scheme, a taxpayer will pay tax as a percentage of his/her turnover during the financial year without the benefit of Input Tax Credit. The floor rate of tax for CGSTand SGST shall not be less than 1%. A taxpayer opting for composition scheme will not collect any tax from his/her customers. When the eligible taxpayer is opting for the Composition Scheme under GST, a taxpayer has to file a summarized returns on a quarterly basis, instead of three monthly returns (as is applicable for normal businesses). Turnover must be below (from 1st April 2019) 1.5 Cr (Rs. 75 Lakhs for North-Eastern States) Applies only to the Intra-Statesupplies Traders will have to pay 1% tax. Manufacturers will have to pay 2% tax. Restaurant businesses will have to pay 5% tax. However, no input tax credit (ITC)will be made available. · India's Mary Kom becomes world's top woman boxer Mary Kom, who had become the first ever woman boxer to win six world championship titles in November last year, has been ranked number one by the International Boxing Association (AIBA) in the light fly (45-48kg) category. The 35-year-old tops her weight division with 1700 points. Ukraine's 22-year-old boxer Hanna Okhotais ranked second, with 1100 points. · Malala Yousafzai has written a new book titled We are Displaced Malala Yousafzai,the Nobel Peace Prize winner and Pakistani activist, has written a new book, titled We are Displaced, charting her experiences travelling the world and visiting refugee camps. Publishers Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Hachette India said that her travels through the refugee camps led her to reconsider her own displacement. In We are Displaced, Malala not only explores her own story of adjusting to a new life while longing for home, but she also shares the personal stories of some of the incredible girls she has met on her various journeys, girls who have lost their community, relatives and often the only world they've ever known. Categories January 2019 Post navigation DMPQ: What are the opportunities and challenges confronting the Indian small scale industrial sector in the era of globalization DMPQ: What are bioplastics? Discuss the issues with the use of bioplastics. (Science)	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
States Explorer State Foodborne Illness Reporting Laws Each year foodborne illnesses sicken an estimated 48 million people, leading to more than 128,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. State and local agencies play a critical role in keeping US food safe, and detecting and responding to outbreaks of foodborne illness. State foodborne illness laws regulate which illnesses need to be reported, the timeframe for reporting, and which agencies must then be informed of the illness and/or outbreak. This map focuses on state laws relating to foodborne illness surveillance and outbreak response, including the reporting requirements for several of the most common foodborne diseases. CREATED BY: Policy Surveillance Program Staff MAINTAINED BY: Policy Surveillance Program Staff VALID FROM: April 1, 2013 UPDATED THROUGH: April 1, 2013 Data Codebook Protocol Summary Report See all related maps Alcohol Tobacco & Other Drugs Injury Prevention Policy Questions	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
http://boards.barbarasher.com/ Other People's Wonderful Quotes http://boards.barbarasher.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6602 by chamomile "The reason people find it so hard to be happy is: that they always see the past better than it was; the present worse than it is; and the future finer than it will be." Marcel Pagnol, "On Happiness" and another one: "Everything can be taken from us but one thing; the last of human freedoms: To choose one's attitude in any given circumstance." --Victor Frankl, holocaust survivor "No ordinary involvement with an idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes." MIT researcher, Ed Schon "The new idea either finds a champion or dies." Unknown "The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you'll have." Anna Quindlen "You cannot push a rope." Art Williams "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. The man who listens to reason is lost; reason enslaves all those whose minds are not strong enough to master her." George Bernard Shaw (Thanks for this thread. I love inspirational quotes! I pulled these off my fridge, but I've got a drawer full!) Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2001 2:11 pm by xnera "Don't hope more than you're willing to work." --Rita Mae Brown That's in the signature of a frequent poster to one of my mailing lists. I think I'm going to hang this quote in every room of my house. I find that I hope a heck of a lot, but never do the necessary work for those hopes to become a reality. --xnera by Jeanie H These are my favorite quotes and All of these have inspired me: "What would attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" Robert Schuler "I love children and it is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love me." Charles Dickens(?) "This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it." "Work like you don't need the money; Dance like nobody's watching; Love like you've never been hurt" Jeanie by d. olsen Smooth waters make unskilled sailors. (A Canadian proverb - at least, I heard it from a Canadian)) The dirtier you are, the prettier the flowers. by Arty "Work like you don't need the money; Dance like nobody's watching; Love like you've never been hurt" I get that part about dancing and love, but what does "work like you don't need the money" mean? I can't imagine why anyone would work if they didn't need the money. And, while we're at it, can anyone translate "He's got a lot to be humble about" for me? [This message has been edited by Arty (edited March 17, 2001).] by dex "Measured by the yard, life is hard; measured by the inch, life is a cinch." I recite this when I am overwhelmed by a task. by DStaub11 "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS." Mahatma Gandhi (recently quoted in the "New York Times" by Iris Cantor of Cantor Fitzgerald, the bond firm once located on the 101st-105th floors of the World Trade Center. Roughly 300 of the 1,000 employees survived.) by justabum Max Lucado says "You never see u-hauls hooked up to hearses". I think that's a great quote because it's just another way of saying, you can't take it with you. Will people ever get that?! by Robin W ...in that profuse upstairs delicatessen of mine I'm as open to every wild possibility as I was at 13...one life was never quite enough for what I had in mind. Seymour Krim (1922-1989) from the essay "For my Brothers and Sisters in the Failure Business" by giovanni8 "A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe." --- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 1990 _Flow_ pg xi "Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, & defended privately by each person." --- ibid pg 2 "The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult & worthwhile. Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen." --- ibid pg 3 "All social controls, for instance, are based on a threat to the survival instinct. The people of an oppressed country obey their conquerors because they want to go on living." --- ibid pg 17 "working people achieve the flow experience -- deep concentration, high & balanced challenges & skills, a sense of control & satisfaction -- about 4 times as often on their jobs, proportionately, as they do when they are watching television." --- ibit pg 83 "Impara l'arte, e mettila da parte. (Learn how, & then forget that you know how.)" --- M.C. 1994 _The Evolving Self_ pp 168-169 "The sage gives free rein to his desires, embraces his spontaneous dispositions, & all he controls is perfectly ruled... Thus the Zen person walks along the Way without purposive effort; the sage walks along the Way without striving." --- Hzun Tzu 21.66-67 (quoted in ibid pg 169) "Once I have the donnee, the stuff I get out of the unconscious, it's my job to bring it together." --- Anthony Hecht (quoted in M.C. 1996 _Creativity_ pg 251) Peace is not [merely] the absence of conflict. Peace is the presence of justice. You don't have to be a great man. Just be a man. "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." from a "Scientific American" review of a physics text [This message has been edited by giovanni8 (edited February 26, 2002).] by Stonegirl From my favorite author Lois McMaster Bujold: Book "Memory" "the Introduction to Tactics professor never bothered changing his tests from term to term to prevent cheating because while the questions were the same, the answers changed." "When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence, you had damned well better take the action that would create it" "The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart." And from the the book "The Vor Game": "Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures." [This message has been edited by Stonegirl (edited February 28, 2002).] by Genna "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." Ralph Waldo Emerson Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. Hans Christian Anderson We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry. E.B. White by Wise&Free Oops, posted this on "Barbara's quotes", should have posted here: "Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself." Supposedly St. Exupery, but I've never located it.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Tuition, Costs and Aid Degrees and Programs Hurricane Harvey FAQs and Resources Student Services and Resources Give to UHCL Menu Search Information For UHCL Pearland Academic Resources and Offices Off-Campus Education UHCL Online Extended and Professional Education Enhance your degree plan with a minor. With over 40 minors to choose from, UHCL has something for every interest. Explore UHCL Degrees and Programs Explore our 524-acre campus located on a wildlife and nature preserve in the heart of Clear Lake's high tech community. Schedule a Campus Visit Most UHCL students don't pay the full cost of college on their own. Last year, for example, two out of three UHCL students received some kind of aid package. Learn More Orientation and New Student Programs To keep all UHCL students, faculty and staff informed UHCL has created a webpage with frequently asked questions and resources. Learn More About UHCL Administrative Offices and Resources Working at UHCL Looking for a career change? A new career at UHCL could be in your future. Explore UHCL Employment Opportunities Success and Outcomes Institutional Success The experience you get here is for a purpose - to give you a better chance at career success. And while we're affordable, we're a great value because of how far our degree takes you. Learn More Check Application Home / News / UHCL writing professor appointed to Texas education committee Dawit Woldu George Mattingly II Jim Townsend Karen Barbier Mike McMullen College of Human Sciences and Humanities College of Science and Engineering UHCL writing professor appointed to Texas education committee October 15, 2018 \| George Mattingly II Once Assistant Professor of Writing Christal Seahorn entered a school classroom, she never left. From attending school as a child, to teaching University of Houston-Clear Lake students the foundations of composition, she knows the impact of education firsthand. "My passion for undergraduate education comes from my own history," she said. "As a first generation student and a person of color, it is very present to me how much my education has played a role in networking and professional development opportunities I've received." Seahorn is continuing to live her passion with her recent three-year appointment to the Undergraduate Education Advisory Committee (UEAC) as part of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The committee is comprised of representatives from community and technical colleges, health institutions, universities, independent institutions and at least one student who advise the THECB on ways to enhance undergraduate education in the state. Their role is part of the 60x30TX higher education plan, which aims to create a more educated workforce by increasing the percentage of young adults who earn a certificate or degree to 60 percent by 2030. "The committee's focus on undergraduate education at all levels from certifications to associate's degrees demonstrates their dedication to undergraduates, which is important to me as an educator," Seahorn said. "I look forward to addressing issues concerning underrepresented populations and their barriers to education as well as open access to resources." Seahorn is no stranger to these student success initiatives. She has served as the director of UHCL's First-Year Composition program since 2014, when the university welcomed freshmen for the first time. In 2017, she became chair of the College of Human Sciences and Humanities Core Faculty Advisory Committee. "We work to support faculty teaching core courses to add value for students taking those classes," she said. "It's important to have support at this level because these are 'gateway' courses, or foundational courses students must take to move successfully on to their advanced courses, which is related to retention." The new responsibility might seem like added work, but for Seahorn, her role on the UAEC is one more step in her pursuit of creating positive educational experiences for her students. "I've seen education and at all levels. Over time, I realized that research has become so much of a focus that teaching sometimes gets lost. I can see myself in my students, so my goal is to be there for them as a teacher who helps them meet their goals and passions." Learn more about UHCL's minor in professional writing at www.uhcl.edu/academics/degrees/professional-writing-minor. University of Houston System TRAIL (Statewide Search) Texas Public Information Act 281-283-7600 2700 Bay Area Boulevard, Houston, TX 77058 © 2019 University of Houston-Clear Lake Report a problem with this webpage	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Eagle Darling praises 'fun' forward line admin Comments off West Coast forward Jack Darling will be a crucial player in the AFL grand final against CollingwoodWest Coast forward Jack Darling is in the form of his life but it's not the only reason why he's having so much fun. Darling is averaging a career-high 2.35 goals per game this season, with his strong contested marking a highlight. West Coast are a perfect 12-0 when Darling and Josh Kennedy have played together this year, and the pair will be crucial planks in Saturday's grand final against Collingwood. But as good as Darling and Kennedy have been this season, it's West Coast's small forwards who have also been key to the team's success. Willie Rioli and Liam Ryan have been revelations in their debut seasons, while Jamie Cripps is enjoying a career-best year. Veteran Mark LeCras has also been vital with 32 goals. "The forward set up we've got going at the moment sure is a lot of fun to be part of," Darling said. "The new guys that have come in this year have really bought in and played their role, especially with their defensive pressure. "A massive part of my game in the air is to make sure I at least bring the ball to ground. "If I mark it, then that's a bonus. "I definitely try not to get outmarked. If I bring it to ground, we have those amazing smaller guys who can do some amazing things." Darling endured a nightmare performance in the 2015 grand final loss to Hawthorn. The 26-year-old managed just one goal from 10 disposals, with his horror dropped mark in the third quarter costing the team dearly. But Darling feels far better prepared to deal with the occasion this time around, and has gained confidence from his hot form this year. However, he is keen to improve his accuracy in front of goal. The 191cm forward has booted 19.16 since returning from a serious ankle injury in round 17, including 3.3 in the preliminary final win over Melbourne. "All year haven't really been kicking straight," Darling said. "If I play a good game, it's usually 4.3 or something like that. "At least I'm getting shots. Hopefully in the grand final it will come together." Categories: 苏州夜网 Tags: Opening of 100th surf season heralded by century-old bugle SOUND, SOLDIERS AND SURF: Maryland's Kye Jeffriess will play the Last Post on a 1912 issue bugle on Saturday. Picture: SIMONE DE PEAKThe sounding of ahistoricbugleon the sands of Nobbys beach this Saturday will recallthe pivotal contribution of WWI soldiersto the region's surf life saving clubs. The Hunter Surf Life Saving branch formed in 1918,the same year the Great War ended. BUGLE SOUND: Kye Jeffriess with his 110 year-old bugle. Picture: SIMONE DE PEAK According to Cooks Hill Surf Club's member services officerJohn Mayo, the branch rapidly expanded in the 20s and 30s due to the number of men who returned from service to the region's coastline and signed up as surf life savers. "Fromwhat I can best estimate there was somewhere between 200 and 300surf life savers whovolunteered to go to WWIfrom the surf clubs in Newcastle. Quite a few of them didn't return," Mr Mayo said. "Many other guys joined after returning from the war. They were very enthusiastic for surf clubs because they wanted the comradeship," Mr Mayo said. To commemorate this contribution, 16-year-old Kye Jeffriess will play theLast Post during the Hunter branch's centenary celebration on Saturday morning. UNKNOWN HISTORY: Markings on the bugle's bell show the bugle was of government issue in the NSW Citizens Military Force in 1912. Picture: SIMONE DE PEAK The son of a keen military collector and former Nobbys nipper, Kye will sound a 110-year-old bugle believed to be connected to 's effort during the Great War. The instrument bears the markings of the NSW Citizens Military Force and was found in Britain. "I love the fact thatI'm able to go these ceremonies and play for everyone, because music doesn't die. I can play exactly what was played 110 years ago and people can hear it now," Kye said. MAKERS MARK: Markings show the bugle was made in 1908. Picture: SIMONE DE PEAK With a long line of relatives who have served overseas Kye said he hadn't tired of playing the military refrain. "It's got a soft spot in my heart. It's very meaningful to me." The opening of the Hunter's 100thsurf season begins at8.30am on Nobbys beach. Work begins on kiosk at Redhead Surf Life Saving Club after fireBogey Hole rescue in Newcastle prompts warning for rock anglers Letters to the editor Saturday September 29 2018 HIT HARD: Billy Slater after the judiciary hearing that cleared him to play in the grand final on Sunday and, inset, the tackle that landed him there.AS EXPECTED, Billy Slater walked away from what I considered a blatant anddeliberate shoulder charge hearing free to play. This is very bad look for a game that talks a lot about cleaning up this sort of nonsense, yet turns a blind eye on what I considera blatant breach of the rules regarding shoulder charge offences. Firstly, the rules are very clear:Billy Slater should have been sent off. Secondly, he should have received a four-weeksuspension and, thirdly, he should have been made an example of so young players learn that even high profile players are subject tothe same rules as they are. It is no wonder that league fans are leaving in droves as these types of decisions, coupled with the refereeing that fans and players are forced to endure, leave us wanting to find a game that is above allfair, unbiased and consistent.NRL, pleaseclean up your act. Dennis Crampton,Belmont NorthOUTCRY SHOULDERS BLAMEWHAT a joke, thisfiasco created from Billy Slater's shoulder charge. This fiasco was created a few years ago by the public pressure that led to outlawing theshoulder charge in the NRL. Thanks to the public outcry about how dangerous the shoulder charge is, the NRL bowed to demand. Apparently facing a dramatic loss of registered players in the code's juniors,the NRL decided to outlaw a fundamental part of their game due to public backlash from parents who said they would not allow their kids to play rugby league because of the contact, especially shoulder charges. I believe it was afair point for them not to allow their kids to play, but not fair that the rules had to be changed to allow for theirneeds.I understand rugby league needs to compete with other footballing codes, but does this mean you have to change the rules? Rugby league and rugby union have butted heads for years, but at least rugby union outlawed the shoulder charge a long time ago. At least rugby has stuck to their policy, with any player guilty of a shoulder charge being heavily punished and facingsuspension. For God's sake, both league and unionarecontact sports. That requires contact of bodies, whether it be high or low impact. I believe that if the Billy Slater shoulder charge was in round onethis year rather than the game before the grand final there would have beena suspension, so why havespecial circumstances seemingly been made?Is it because of his standing in the game? What if a lesser player committed the same offence, would they be treated they same? I think not. Commonsense would change the rules and deal with shoulder charges the same as tackles. If they were deemed dangerous, they would be sent to the judiciary and dealt with accordingly. Is that unreasonable?If not, why is this the way they deal with tackles? If you are not happy with the physical contact made in these sports, that's fair enough. But please don't support a player who made an illegal shoulder charge and think he deserves to play in a grand final because of the many deeds he has done in thegame.What about the players and families who have suffered at the outcomes of a dangerous shoulder charge, how do you think they feel? Groiden Schammell,Hamilton NorthWE'RE SHORT ON HONESTYIT SEEMSwe are unable to constitutionally recognise our Indigenous peoples. We can't possibly establish an exclusively Indigenous body, as that might express an opinion contrary to the wishes of our parliament.We can't seriously consider moving our national day so that it doesn't coincide with British seizure and occupation of this continent, and the associated dispossession and destruction of Indigenous society. Of coursein truth, we could quite easily do all of these things and be a better place for doing so. However, that would require a degree of national, political and personal honesty and introspection that is, clearly, in short supply.Prime Minister Scott Morrison continues to promote the government's dishonest misrepresentation of calls for a "third chamber" which any informed observer knows to be false ('Indigenous voice rejected', Newcastle Herald,27/9). He attempts to muddy the waters by promoting the idea of a national day of Indigenous recognition and celebration ('Smile and dance: it's a new Aboriginal day', Herald, 27/9) seemingly unaware that one issue does not address the other. On this issue real honesty and genuine goodwill remain in short supply. John Buckley,FloravilleMOST ARE GOOD APPLESI WOULD also like to give my praise to Amaroo Lodge (Letters, 25/9).My brother Ron spent his last years at Amaroo. We cannot complain of the care the staff gave to him, in fact I am sure he enjoyed his tenure. He made friends easily and always had good stories about the mates he had there. The staff?He never had a bad word to say about any of them. He was always kept as clean and tidy as his room. He was fussy about his foodbut he survived. I will never forget how the staff came to his aid in the end, compassionate and caring.Thank you. Mum also spent 18 years in care. She was 14 years at St Vincent de Paul New Lambton and she enjoyed her time there. The friends she made and the staff were excellent, the food was pleasing and she never complained. It was only the last fouryears, when she became immobile, that mum went into high care at Narla Village.They were also very caring. God bless you all. Not all aged care are bad places and have bad staff, so how about we give praise to the good ones?I am sure there are more good ones than bad. Ron did complain to me once: he said they did not iron his hankies. Jan Thomas,ShortlandTHE SUNNY SIDE OF POWERI FREQUENTLY read comments by various writers deriding the reliability of renewables. In the April 2015 storm the grid failed and our caravan solar, battery and inverter gave us a degree of civilisation with lighting and communication for three days. Because of that outage, I have taken a section of our house off grid and run the TV and ancillaries, radio, modem and phone, device charging and six lights, one of which is over the barbecue,on renewables. This equipment runs permanently on solar panels via a battery and inverter. There is adequate power even in cloudy weather. On sunny days we have an abundance of power and we can vacuum or iron or use power tools. Dave Hamilton,JewellsLETTER OF THE WEEKTHE pen goes to Gwen Tonge, of Cooks Hill, for her letter about green space. SHARE YOUR OPINIONEmail [email protected]苏州夜总会招聘.au or send a text message to 0427 154 176 (include name and suburb). Letters should be fewer than 200 words. Short Takes should be fewer than 50 words. Correspondence may be edited and reproduced in any form. NZ PM plays anti-Trump at United Nations Rejecting isolationism and protectionism in favour of kindness and collectivism, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's key speech to the United Nations lived up to the "anti-Trump" nickname she was once given. Ms Ardern – who made waves this week by bringing infant daughter Neve into the UN chambers – didn't name the US or its president during her nation's address on Thursday, but nonetheless played counterpoint. "In the face of isolationism, protectionism, racism – the simple concept of looking outwardly and beyond ourselves, of kindness and collectivism, might just be as good a starting point as any," Ms Ardern said. "We must demonstrate that collective international action not only works, but that it is in all of our best interests." In a speech focusing heavily on climate change in the Pacific, generational change and equality, Ms Ardern also made a plea for international cooperation on social issues. "I for one will never celebrate the gains we have made for women domestically, while internationally other women and girls experience a lack of the most basic opportunities and dignity," she said. "Me Too must become We Too." The line received applause. The statement was in stark contrast to US President Donald Trump's, which – along with drawing laughter from other world leaders – stated: "We reject the ideology of globalism and accept the doctrine of patriotism." However, afterwards Ms Ardern told New Zealand reporters the speech had been written before the general assembly and was not intended to hit at Washington. "We have held those values long before I was around. It's not new," she said. 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Some reflections of mine on Justice Scalia at Commonweal, to add to the good comments and memories of Lisa, Rick, Tom, Erika, and Kevin. A bit from the end: His optimism is perhaps nowhere more evident than in his Establishment Clause opinions, which express his appreciation for the traditions of the American accommodation of law and religion, and his hopeful expectation that American people would maintain, cherish, and be sustained by that inheritance. That optimism underlies much of his jurisprudence. In constitutional law, he believed that tradition is itself an independently powerfully reason in the law's interpretation. That emphasis on American tradition led him to the view (often expressed in dissent) that "acknowledgement of the contribution that religion has made to our Nation's legal and governmental heritage" is permissible under the Establishment Clause. In my judgment, he was largely correct about this. Even more, however, Scalia was convinced that the American tradition of public religion—public prayer, for example—was a uniting force of civic fellowship. Hearing a public prayer in a tradition different from one's own, he argued in his Lee v. Weisman dissent, would not lead to public discord, but to greater harmony, mutual understanding, and even civic "affection." How old-fashioned this view seems amid today's cacophony of demands for validation based on identity or interest group. Yet it is in his free-exercise jurisprudence that Scalia's optimism in the commonplace American character was tested and stretched to the breaking point. His seminal contribution was Employment Division v. Smith, where the Court held that a neutral law of general application did not implicate the Free Exercise Clause even if the law had the effect of burdening religion. Many critics of Smith (I am one) miss that what may first appear as a hard and parsimonious rule for religious freedom is closely coupled in Scalia's opinion with a deep faith and optimism that people, acting through their legislatures, would do right by their religious brethren, would be magnanimous and charitable toward them whenever they could be: Values that are protected against government interference through enshrinement in the Bill of Rights are not thereby banished from the political process. Just as a society that believes in the negative protection accorded to the press by the First Amendment is likely to enact laws that affirmatively foster the dissemination of the printed word, so also a society that believes in the negative protection accorded to religious belief can be expected to be solicitous of that value in its legislation as well. Scalia was determinedly sanguine in his opinions about American solicitude for religion. Religious liberty and tolerant good will could never be eradicated from the core spirit and innate generosity of the American people. The people might go astray; they might make mistakes. But in the long run and in the main, the best and most secure outcomes for religious freedom will reflect popular negotiations rather than Court-imposed "solutions." So sanguine was he that even as late as 2012, Scalia—a deeply faithful and committed Catholic—could obdurately persist in telling John Allen in an interview that "if the bishops want an exception from the law [in this case the contraception mandate in Obamacare], they should try to get it through the democratic process…. Americans are very generous about accommodating religious beliefs." The Congress that passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in 1993 was more pessimistic in its long-term assessment of the character of the American people. Alas, it was probably more accurate as well. In fact, one may wonder whether Justice Scalia's faith in the American people in the long run will be rewarded. Certainly he must have had his doubts. Especially toward the end, he must have known and regretted that his "wins" were so "damn few." So they were, and so, perhaps, they will be. But to Scalia's great credit, those doubts and regrets never appeared in his written opinions. And over the truly long run, optimism is not so bad a bet. February 23, 2016 in DeGirolami, Marc \| Permalink Fr. Scalia's Homily: "We are gathered here because of one man." By Kevin C. Walsh As a follow-up to Rick's post, here is a transcript of Fr. Scalia's moving, mildly humorous, and theologically profound homily. As a teaser, here's the part right after the opening acknowledgments and expressions of gratitude: We are gathered here because of one man. A man known personally to many of us, known only by reputation to even more. A man loved by many, scorned by others. A man known for great controversy, and for great compassion. That man, of course, February 21, 2016 in Walsh, Kevin \| Permalink Justice Scalia's funeral Mass You can watch a recording of Justice Scalia's funeral Mass on YouTube, here. It's beautiful . . . especially the wonderful homily preached by the Justice's son, Fr. Paul Scalia. R.I.P. February 21, 2016 in Garnett, Rick \| Permalink Remembering Justice Scalia By Elizabeth Schiltz I am not a Con Law scholar, and have not spent as much time as my colleagues analyzing Justice Scalia's writing. I knew him only as the spouse of one of his clerks. In that vein, here are the memories I shared with our student newspaper, and a picture of my husband and me paying our respects at the Supreme Court yesterday. I first met Justice Scalia in 1986. My husband, Patrick, was clerking for then-Judge Scalia on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. The week that we had our first date was the week that Justice Scalia was nominated to the Supreme Court. I first met Justice Scalia that summer when Patrick and I drove down to his summer cottage on the Virginia shore, to deliver some papers related to his nomination hearings. He was wearing shorts, relaxing with his (many) kids and his wife; we played some board games before heading back into Washington. My husband, who had already been hired by Justice O'Connor for the next year, was released from that obligation to go with Justice Scalia for his first year on the Supreme Court. Of course I encountered Justice Scalia in many more formal settings over the years, and came to admire the brilliance of his opinions. But most of my personal memories of him were ones like that first meeting at the beach, and later meetings at which we would swap stories with him and his wife, Maureen, about what our children were all up to. It goes without saying that Justice Scalia was a brilliant man with a sharp wit. But he was also a man who reveled in his family, and was generous and loyal to his friends. Over the years, he was unfailingly gracious in responding to my husband's invitations to speak at Notre Dame Law School, where we taught before coming to help re-open the Law School at the University of St. Thomas, and then to speak at UST Law – from the very beginning of our existence to more recently, including this past Fall. One of Justice Scalia's most striking characteristics was his openness and curiosity about the parade of people who came across his path. The fact that his friendships crossed all typical lines of politics, faith, age, and background is a testament to his generosity of spirit. He was a wonderful man. My husband and I are currently in Washington to attend his funeral. The funeral card distributed at his wake on Friday included the prayer of St. Ignatius, a fitting reflection as we say goodbye to this great man: Take, O Lord and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and whole will. You have given to me all that I am and all that I possess. I surrender it all to You, that You may dispose of it according to Your will. Give me only Your love and Your grace. With these I possess all and seek naught else. February 20, 2016 in Schiltz, Elizabeth \| Permalink Conscience Rights and the Hypocrisy of (Some) Lawyers By John M. Breen The last several years have witnessed, a number of highly publicized cases that have pitted proponents of same-sex marriage against certain business owners who claimed a religious exemption to public accommodation laws. Florists, bakers, and photographers who declined to make their expressive talents available to celebrate and thereby promote a view of marriage at odds with their religious conscience, have been socially branded as haters and bigots, and legally penalized for their dissent. The view championed by the advocates of public accommodation against those who dissent from the new understanding of marriage is that everyone in business must serve "all comers." According to the ACLU (here) "Everyone is entitled to their own religious beliefs, but when you operate a business in the public sphere those beliefs do not give you a right to discriminate." As the New Mexico Supreme Court concluded in Elane Photography, LLC v. Willock, 309 P.3d 53, 67 (N.M. 2013), "[i]f a commercial business wishes to offer its services to the public, thereby increasing its visibility to potential clients, it will be subject to the antidiscrimination provisions of the [state public accommodation law]." But there is a conspicuous exception to this policy: the provision of legal services. Members of the legal profession enjoy a kind of conscience protection that exempts them from being forced to represent clients who seek to advance causes with which they disagree. As such, this conspicuous exception to the "all comers" policy involves the very advocates who argued against the bakers, florists, and photographers who sought to refrain from having their expressive talents utilized in support of same sex marriage. This exceptionalism smacks of hypocrisy – a double standard whereby (some) lawyers are free to overcome the conscience objections of certain businesses even as they enjoy the conscience protection afforded by the law governing lawyers. There is something similar to the notion of "public accommodation" in the legal profession. It is the idea that every client has a right to counsel. The right is not absolute (e.g. disqualification of counsel due to conflicts of interest), and there is no right to have counsel provided free of charge to those who cannot afford a lawyer (except in a criminal case). To encourage pro bono representation, the legal profession celebrates the lawyer who represents a client who cannot afford to pay, especially where the client's cause is unpopular. What the profession does not require of its members, however, is that specific lawyers agree to represent specific clients. Doing so may be regarded as laudatory. But, as Harvard's David Wilkins explains in his article Race, Ethics, and the First Amendment: Should a Black Lawyer Represent the Ku Klux Klan? 63 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1030 (1995) (link here), "a lawyer is free to turn down any case for any reason, including the most banal (and undoubtedly most common) reason of all: the client can't afford to pay the freight" (p. 1036). As Wilkins also explains, there are two rationales behind the bar's historic reluctance to require lawyers to represent specific clients in specific matters. The first rationale, found in MRPC 6.2, focuses on the attorney-client relationship and the quality of the legal representation provided. It states that a lawyer may refuse court appointed representation "where the client or the cause is so repugnant to the lawyer as to be likely to impair the client-lawyer relationship or the lawyer's ability to represent the client." The second rationale "focuses on the lawyer's moral right to control his or her own labor" (p. 1038). The thinking behind this rationale is that "[g]iven our society's commitment to both individual autonomy and moral pluralism, it would be fundamentally wrong for the state (or the profession) to compel individuals to commit what they consider immoral acts for the sake of the greater good" (p. 1039). Indeed, "[a] lawyer who believes that it would be morally wrong to lend her professional skill to a particular cause ought not to be forced to do so just because the client can see some strategic advantage in the arrangement" (Id.). Reflecting this rationale, MRPC 1.16 (b)(4) provides that a lawyer may withdrawal from a representation already begun where "the client insists upon taking action that the lawyer considers repugnant or with which the lawyer has a fundamental disagreement." These conscience protections for lawyers are provided notwithstanding the ABA's assurance that "[a] lawyer's representation of a client, including representation by appointment, does not constitute an endorsement of the client's political, economic, social or moral views or activities" MRPC 1.2(b). One might have thought that this official declaration of lack of endorsement would be enough to protect the conscience rights lawyers, but the ABA plainly believes otherwise. In addition to the professional standards promulgated by the ABA, the Supreme Court has recognized the expressive nature of legal representation. In In re Primus, 436 U.S. 412 (1978) the Court refused to apply a state legal ethics ban on attorney in-person solicitation recognizing that the lawyer's actions were taken "to express personal political beliefs and to advance the civil-liberties objectives of the ACLU, rather than to derive financial gain" (Id. at 422). In the same way, photographing, or providing floral arrangements, or baking a cake for a wedding celebration could, quite reasonably, be taken as expressing a certain moral or religious view with respect to marriage. Some might argue that Primus is unhelpful in reaching this conclusion insofar as the majority opinion draws a strong distinction between a lawyer who takes a case in order to advance a particular moral or political position, and a lawyer who takes a case in order to earn a fee. Taking up this distinction, those who urge the application of public accommodation laws to florists, bakers, photographers and other vendors who refuse to participate in the celebration of a same-sex weddings are business owners seeking to make money. They are for-profit enterprises, not religious entities that exist to exude the faith of their owners. This claim regarding In re Primus is deserving of several responses. First, in his dissent in Primus, Justice Rehnquist expressed extreme doubt as to the ability of the state to draw a principled distinction between, on the one hand, a lawyer who proposes a commercial transaction and, on the other hand, a lawyer who engages in political expression through legal representation (Id. at 440-42). He was highly skeptical as to whether state authorities would be able to tell whether "a lawyer proceeds from political conviction rather than for pecuniary gain" (Id. at 445). This skepticism is altogether understandable. Most people are motivated to engage in the kind of work they do for multiple reasons: because they enjoy the work itself and find it fulfilling; because it enables them to earn a good living; because they find it to be consonant with their moral, political, and religious views. Indeed, work that enables a person to make a living may advance his or her religious beliefs in the world in a way that is far more powerful than simple proselytism. In the Catholic understanding of things, this is what it means to have a vocation – to make the love of Christ present in the world and thereby "work out your salvation in fear and trembling" (Phil. 2:12). The multi-dimensional nature of work is significant. We are not required to subscribe to a Manichean worldview – championed by secularists – demanding that the reality of social life be compartmentalized into its preferred categories: the sacred and the profane, religious expression and business enterprise, vocation and occupation. The hypocrisy of lawyers (at least some lawyers) when it comes to conscience protection, then, is this. Lawyers for the LGBT community are all too happy to say that "open for business" means that a vendor or service provider must serve "all comers" no matter how much he or she disagrees with the would-be customer politically, morally, or religiously, even where the business owner's work necessarily involves his or her expressive talents in support of the view opposed. Yet how many of those same lawyers would be willing to represent the opposite point of view? Would they not instead claim that demanding such legal representation would amount to a totalitarian misappropriation of their talents? An immoral demand that they use their creative, legal abilities in the service of a cause that goes against their conscience? Nestled safely behind the walls of the legal profession, secure in their own rights of conscience, they plot the downfall of others. February 19, 2016 \| Permalink "Antonin Scalia: Devout Christian, Worldly Judge" Some reflections of mine on Justice Scalia--his faith and judicial philosophy--at Christianity Today. Admiring, with some criticism. The final paragraph: In end, however, Justice Scalia was a prophet, like many of the great dissenters in the Court's history (he will rank with Oliver Wendell Holmes among the greatest). And prophecy involves ringing tones and stark terms; it is hard to combine those with qualifiers that charitably give the other side every benefit of the doubt. Justice Scalia lost many battles on the Court, and some of his positions will become even less popular over time. But many of his words will ring with prophetic power for generations to come. February 17, 2016 in Berg, Thomas, Current Affairs \| Permalink Good and welcome news from Oklahoma on school choice and the "Blaine Amendment" As I mentioned the other day, Justice Scalia's sudden death could mean bad news in the case out of Missouri, having to do with that state's discriminatory prohibition on aid to religious institutions. However, thanks to Prof. Friedman, we have some good news in a related case out of Oklahoma: In Oliver v. Hofmeister, (OK Sup. Ct., Feb. 16, 2016), the Oklahoma Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the state's voucher program that permits children with disabilities to attend any private school of their choice to obtain special education services, whether the school is sectarian or non-sectarian. The Court held that the program does not violate the "no aid" clause of Oklahoma's Constitution, Art. II, Sec. 5 (Oklahoma's Blaine Amendment), saying in part: Because the parent receives and directs the funds to the private school, sectarian or non-sectarian, we are satisfied that the State is not actively involved in the adoption of sectarian principles or directing monetary support to a sectarian institution through this scholarship. When the scholarship payment is directed to asectarian private school it is at the sole and independent choice and direction of the parent and not the State. The scholarship funded through the Act has no bearing on state control of churches. We are convinced that the scholarships funded by the Act have no adverse impact on the ability of churches to act independently of state control and to operate separately from the state. Tulsa World, reporting on the decision, says that in 2014-15, 61% of the the $2.5 million total vouchers went to religious schools. Disagreeing with Michael Sean Winters on "Justice Scalia's Legacy" A few days ago, at Distinctly Catholic, Michael Sean Winters posted this, "Justice Antonin Scalia's Legacy." In my view, the piece is mistaken in several ways, starting with the claim that it was Justice Scalia who "helped accelerate the transformation of the court into a political football." In fact, it was a constant and consistent refrain of his, in opinions and in speeches, that one of the many reasons to regret the Court's overreaches and mistakes in politically and philosophically charged areas is that these overreaches and mistakes naturally made the Court and its composition into political footballs. As he (correctly) pointed out, if the Court insists on assuming for itself the power to decide and purportedly settle political disputes over matters that people really care about, it should not be surprised when people come to care a lot about who is sitting on the Court. Winters pronounces that the Justice was "an advocate of two judicial ideologies, neither of which is intellectually tenable and which conflict with each other[,]" referring to "originalism" and "textualism." To be sure, "originalism" (which, contrary to Winters's suggestion, is, in the literature, many things and not one) is controversial and contestible, but it's pretty clearly "tenable" (I've seen it done!) "Textualism" in statutory interpretation anyway is entirely mainstream and unremarkable (thanks in no small part to Justice Scalia). But, Winters does not accurately describe either interpretive method and so the post has a straw-man flavor about it. For example, he confuses Justice Scalia's view with one that asks about the Founders' "original intent." Winters also argues that the two "ideologies" "conflict with each other" but this claim rests entirely on his misdescription of "textualism" as the view that "words must be interpreted in a kind of fundamentalist matter." Nor is "textualism" the view that "the Constitution is a self-interpreting text." Nor is there any conflict between Justice Scalia's view that in statutory-interpretation cases the "legislative history" of the statute is not a helpful guide to the statutory text's meaning and his "originalism" -- which, again, does not involve a "search for explanations as to what was intended by the drafters of a given text." I share, as a general matter, what I take to be Winters's view that the Court should defer to the politically accountable branches . . . except when the Constitution clearly requires otherwise. (Interestingly, this "deference" is what Justice Scalia called for in his Smith opinion, which Winters regards as deeply wrong.) And I think there is plenty of room for reasonable disagreement about when, in fact, the "Constitution clearly requires otherwise." Justice Scalia thought, in Citizens United, that the Constitution did require otherwise (he was right), and Winters disagrees, which is fine. (I probably agree with Winters regarding the Affordable Care Act cases.) But there's nothing un-conservative (or opportunist or hypocritical) about concluding, from time-to-time, that a particular policy favored by a political majority has been taken off the table by the Constitution or that a particular precedent was wrong and should be abandoned. And, in any event, if one steps back and surveys the Court since, say, the mid-1960s, and asks which justices have been most inclined to invalidate legislative or other policy choices on the basis of adventurous interpretations of the Constitution, I think Justice Scalia appears at least as deferential as the more liberal justices employing "living constitutionalism." There are lots of interesting arguments to be had about how, exactly, judges should go about identifying the meaning of the Constitution's text, constructing doctrines and standards, and deciding cases. In my view, Justice Scalia's brand of "faint-hearted originalism" has a lot to recommend it over its various rivals and textualism seems clearly the appropriate approach to the business of statutory interpretation. Of course, I could be wrong. In any event, I think it's very important -- when dealing with these debates, and with the three-decades-long "legacy" of one of the most consequential jurists in the post-war period, to engage claims and ideas carefully and accurately (even within the admitted limits of the blog-post format). Winters followed his "Legacy" post with this one, on the "Consequences of Justice Scalia's Death." (I think his predictions regarding particular pending cases are right, though there is no basis at all for the suggestion that Justice Scalia's Smith decision (his "handiwork") suggests any reservations about RFRA or about the wisdom of and need for legislative accommodations of religion.) Near the end of the post, he returns to the matters I was discussing above: As I noted yesterday, for all the volumes that have been written about Originalism and Textualism, they are not ideas that are as rigorous as they pretend to be, and even those of us who are not legal scholars, and who may treat them superficially when compared to the treatment they receive from those scholars, nonetheless we sniff what is wrong about them, and the abuses to which Scalia put them. There was a lot about the Founding he seemed not to grasp, not least its intensely anti-Catholic temper. And there is no text for which there is a mere "objective" reading. His ideology made judicial interpretation seem easy, and to the unwashed masses, if not to the scholars of the law, that ease fed their own desire for simplistic political solutions. Again, there might well be some things "wrong about" (or at least incomplete about) originalism as a method of constitutional interpretation (my own view is that it wins-out in a second-best kind of way) and I'm sure that it (like any method) can be abused (or just inaptly deployed). But, again, I don't think Winters's presentation of what these ideas actually are is accurate and so it is difficult to know how one who endorses his description could really "sniff what is wrong about them." I don't think either of Winters's post actually identifies or presents an argument against "originalism," as Justice Scalia and most contemporary legal scholars understand it, other than to list some decisions (like Heller and Citizens United) that he thinks were wrongly decided and that Justice Scalia wrote or joined. (Readers who are interested in learning more might enjoy this volume, "Constitutional Originalism: A Debate.") Pope Francis: A Comprehensive Conceptualization of Justice By Mary G. Leary When Pope Francis visited the United States this fall, much was made of his social justice message regarding those in prison. His visit with inmates as well as his call for an end to the death penalty and life sentences captured the attention of many advocates of criminal justice reform. While the Pope did mention victims of human trafficking and poverty, it would be fair to note that many of his references relevant to crime victims were in the context of a secondary effect of greed or poverty. Not so with his trip to Mexico. Even before leaving Rome, he issued a video statement to the Mexican people where he not only recognized victims of crime but called all people to fight organized crime, violence, and human trafficking. He responded to questions about the violence that plagues many Mexican people by recognizing the victimization this climate besets on some of its people: "Violence, corruption, war, children who cannot go to school because their country is at war, trafficking, arms manufacturers who sell weapons so that the wars of the world can continue … this is more or less the climate that we live in the world, and you are experiencing a part of it, a part of this 'war', this part of suffering, of violence, of organized trafficking. If I come to you, it is to receive the best of you and to pray with you, so that the problems … that you know exist may be resolved, because the Mexico of violence, the Mexico of corruption, the Mexico of drug trafficking, the Mexico of the cartels, is not the Mexico that our Mother loves, and of course I do not wish to cover up any of that; on the contrary, I would urge you to fight, day by day, against corruption, against trafficking, against war, against disunity, against organized crime, against human trafficking". Once on Mexican soil, he addressed Mexican politicians with more force than he did American legislators during his historic speech to Congress. Speaking to the Mexican political elite, he condemned corruption and noted that, "sooner or later the life of society becomes a fertile soil for corruption, drug trade, exclusion of different cultures, violence and also human trafficking, kidnapping and death, bringing suffering and slowing down development…." But some have argued that his strongest words were reserved for the ecclesial leadership and bishops. The Associated Press reports that he demanded these societal leaders "provide their people with security, justice and courageous pastoral care to confront the drug-inspired violence and corruption that are wracking the country, delivering a tough-love message to Mexico's ruling classes…." When we examine these two trips together, a form of symmetry emerges. Pope Francis understands that criminal justice reform and prisoner rights do not exist in the vacuum. They exist as part of a continuum. While it is necessary to remember and act on the rights of those imprisoned, it is not sufficient. Rather, we must act to end the criminal victimization and violence by also holding responsible those who are engaged in and profit from this exploitation. His rebuke of corruption is an important rebuke of enabling or ignoring criminal activity which exploits and victimizes the innocent. The road to criminal justice reform does not begin at the jailhouse or prison or even the police department. It begins with the protecting people from crime. A Matter of Interpretation By Erika Bachiochi As the nation grieves the passing of a great jurist, I suspect many of us at MOJ have been thinking about the precise contours of Justice Scalia's towering contribution to statutory and constitutional interpretation. I've found myself reviewing the philosophical and technical differences in Scalia and Thomas' views, and I have been happy to see pieces like this that throw out political categories to celebrate Scalia's achievement for the rule of law. Mary Ann Glendon's comment on Scalia's 1995 Tanner lectures at Princeton, published together (with comments from Gordon Wood, Laurence Tribe and Ronald Dworkin) in A Matter of Interpretation in 1997, is well worth reading, as a comparatist complement to Scalia's foundational lectures. Glendon republished her comment in the magnificent collection of some of her writings, Traditions in Turmoil. (I couldn't find Glendon's comment online but here is Scalia's lecture.) The issue at hand in Scalia's celebrated lecture (over two days) was looking at how American lawyers trained almost exclusively in the great common law tradition (at the very least, in the first year of law school) would have the necessary habits of mind to properly interpret statutes (and, well, the Constitution). Scalia reminds us that common law judges performed two functions: applying the law to the facts and making the law [or, depending on your cast of mind, discovering the law according to the dictates of reason]. This, of course, requires resolving the particular dispute at bar by discerning the applicable legal/common law principle, distinguishing this case from prior cases (or not), and applying stare decisis. This is a very different practice from the work of the lawyer or judge in the civil law system (e.g., Germanic) "where it is the text of the law rather than any prior judicial interpretation of that text which is authoritative. Prior judicial opinions are consulted for their persuasive effect, much as academic commentary would be; but they are not binding." More Scalia: As I have described, this system of making law by judicial opinion, and making law by distinguishing earlier cases, is what every American law student, what every newborn American lawyer, first sees when he opens his eyes. And the impression remains with him for life. His image of the great judge- the Holmes, the Cardozo - is the man (or woman) who has the intelligence to know what is the best rule of law to govern the case at hand, and then the skill to perform the broken-field running through earlier cases that leaves him free to impose that rule - distinguishing one prior case on his left, straight-arming another one on his right, high-stepping away from another precedent about to tackle him from the rear, until (bravo!) he reaches his goal: good law. That image of the great judge remains with the former law student when he himself becomes a judge, and thus the common-law tradition is passed on and on. And then, Scalia writes: "All of this would be an unqualified good, were it not for a trend in government that has developed in recent centuries, called democracy." !! Scalia describes the tension between common law judging ("making law") and separation of powers in the new era of statutes. And then: But though I have no quarrel with the common law and its process, I do question whether the attitude of the common-law judge - the mindset that asks, "What is the most desirable resolution of this case, and how can any impediments to the achievement of that result be evaded?"-is appropriate for most of the work that I do, and much of the work that state judges do. We live in an age of legislation, and most new law is statutory law....This is particularly true in the federal courts, where, with a qualification so small it does not bear mentioning, there is no such thing as common law. Every issue of law I resolve as a federal judge is an interpretation of text - the text of a regulation, or of a statute, or of the Constitution. He then offers his robust and deeply influential view of statutory (and constitutional) interpretation as a way to fill the "sad" void of having had "no intelligible theory of what [American judges] do most." ("Whereas legal scholarship has been at pains to rationalize the common law - to devise the best rules governing contracts, torts, and so forth-it has been seemingly agnostic as to whether there is even any such thing as good or bad rules of statutory interpretation. There are few law school courses on the subject, and certainly no required ones; the science of interpretation (if it is a science) is left to be picked up piecemeal, by reading cases (good and bad) in substantive fields that are largely statutory, such as securities law, natural resources law, and employment law.") Glendon's comparatist comment runs a bit deeper into the historical comparison between the training and habits of the American lawyer in common law and those trained in the civil law, describing both the greater ease with which continental lawyers and judges have taken on constitutional interpretation due to their civil law habits of mind and the way in which those legal traditions could advance our own view of statutory/constitutional interpretation. When civil lawyers come to American law schools for graduate work, they often express surprise at the degree to which the case method dominates our approach to courses based on enacted law. In particular they find it hard to understand why constitutional law cases and materials typically begin not with the study of the language and design of the Constitution but with a case (usually Marbury v. Madison). Her suggestion for studying the Constitution in law school, drawn from continental canons of interpretation, will now be quite familiar to anyone who has read Michael Stokes Paulsen's superb book, The Constitution: An Introduction. Here's Glendon: One trait that most conspicuously differentiates the Bundesverfassungsgericht's [German Constitutional Court] decisions from those of the American Supreme Court...is the practice of attending consistently to the language and structure of the entire Constitution--to the document as a whole, and to the relationship of particular provisions to one another as well as to the overall design for government.... Up to thirty years ago [now fifty years ago, as this was written in 1997], the typical constitutional law course was heavy on federalism, separation of powers, but light on the Bill of Rights. The obvious remedy would have been to teach the whole Constitution from preamble to last amendment--as a design for self-government as well as a charter of rights, and as a texts whose parts cannot be understood in isolation from one another. For both Scalia and Glendon, the stakes in properly studying and interpreting both statutes and the Constitution are high: as Glendon puts it, "one of the most basic American rights is the freedom to govern ourselves and our communities by bargaining, education, persuasion, and yes, majority vote." Coming to Scalia's defense on this particular point (as many criticized his views as "vulgar majoritarianism"), Glendon concludes her comment: [I]s tyranny of the majority really the greatest danger that faces a country when its courts foreclose ordinary politics in one area after another --and when more and more decisionmaking power over the details of everyday life is concentrated in large private and public bureaucracies? Which is more likely: that unruly majorities will have their way, or that the democratic elements in our republican experiment will wither away, while new forms of tyranny by the powerful few take rise? Whom should we fear more: an aroused populace, or the vanguard who know better than the people what the people should want? Tyranny, as Tocqueville warned, need not announce itself with guns and trumpets. It may come softly--so softly that we will barely notice when we become one of those countries where there are no citizens, but only subjects. So softly that if a well-meaning foreigner should suggest, "Perhaps you could do something about your oppression," we might look up, puzzled, and ask, "What oppression?" February 16, 2016 in Bachiochi, Erika \| Permalink	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Donohoe: Rise in core spending will be higher than 3.5% The Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe, has said expenditure by the Government will be higher than the average 3.5% increase in core spending detailed in the Stability Programme Update. Minister Donohoe was responding to a question from Sinn Féin spokesperson on finance, Pearse Doherty, at an appearance before the Oireachtas Committee on Budgetary Oversight this afternoon. The Minister said decisions on future spending will depend on Covid-related expenditure, the estimates process and government decisions over time. He accepted that it would be higher than 3.5% a year. In an answer to PBP's Richard Boyd Barrett TD, the Minister said no decision has been made yet about the future of PUP payments and other supports. He said as the economy reopens, emergency levels of funding would have to be looked at. But he repeated the message that there would be no 'cliff edge' to payments beyond the end of June, when they are scheduled to expire. He said any extension to the payments would add to the deficit this year and it will be 'necessary to address this.' He said that beyond 2022, he expected that Covid supports would be unwound. Article Source – Donohoe: Rise in core spending will be higher than 3.5% – RTE – Robert Shortt	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Peter Abelard "The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning. For by doubting we come to inquiry, and by inquiry we arrive at truth." "Appearances are often deceiving." It is the mark of and educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. "If anyone can refute me, show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective, I'll gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone." Ludwig Börne "Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth." "Anyone can err, but only the fool persists in his fault." (Philippica XII, 5) "I am not ashamed to confess ignorance of which I do not know." "Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable." Gaius Julius Caesar "Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true." Norman Cousins "Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences." Matt Dillahunty "I want to believe as many true things and as few false things as possible." "Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish." "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." "Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent when there is the lowest degree of culture." "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." "Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught." Siddharta(1922) "A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die." "It's only because of their stupidity that they're so sure of themselves." The Trial "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." "There are very few lovers of truth, for truth's sake, even amongst those who persuade themselves that they are so." "We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom." "Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself." "The Intelligent man is not the man who holds such-and-such views but the man who has sound reasons for what he believes and yet does not believe it dogmatically." "The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points." The Triumph of Stupidity(1933) "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." "I know that I know nothing." "Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road." Republic (Plato, 406 BCE) "The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you." "The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions." "A thing is not necessarily true because a man died for it." "The truth is rarely pure and never simple." The Importance of Being Ernest	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
OUTREACHES SHOP & GIVE FRIENDS & BOARD MEMBERS James Fallon Donna Gizzi Dr. Cathy McGovern Sheryl Nolletti Lori Rocco Fran Weissler HONARARY MEMBERS Wendy Browder, Esq Lisa Salvadorini Frederic Chiu Gregory Knowles, Ph.D Aleksandra Vojcic, Ph.D DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL OUTREACH Marcy Stein HEAD YOUTH "It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible." - Dali Lama - FOUNDER & CHAIRWOMAN Dr. Kathy Reilly Fallon was born in New York City and received her undergraduate degree from the College of New Rochelle (1990) and studied abroad at Oxford & Cambridge University's in England (1988) and the University of London-Imperial College in England (1990). She was in the Honor's Program during College and was a member of the Tri-Beta Biological Honor Society. She obtained a Doctorate degree (1994) from the New York College of Podiatric Medicine and went on for further medical studies at New York Medical College. She also received the Silver Award for Medical Writing from the American Society of Foot/Ankle Dermatology and received the Langer Biomechanic Orthopedic Award for Outstanding Performance in Orthopedics and Biomechanics at her Medical School graduation at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center. She is a Board Certified Wound Care Specialist and Foot & Ankle Specialist where she practices at the Midtown Health Center in New York City, New York for the last 17 years. For over 10 years, she worked at St. Vincent's Midtown Hospital and the St. Vincent's Family Health Center as a Physician/Surgeon specializing on Foot/Ankle surgery. She was also Clinical Supervisor Department of Surgery, teaching Interns and Residents during their weekly lecture series and in the operating room and during their weekly clinic sessions. She was on the Executive Board of the Hospital for 2 elected terms and the Medical Record's Committee as well as the Credential's Committee. Dr. Reilly Fallon was honored by the Westchester Business Journal as one of the "Woman of Westchester" in April, 2008. She was nominated as one of the 10 Best Women of Westchester. In addition, Dr. Reilly Fallon has been featured in 20 various newspapers and magazine articles. She appeared on the Today Show, MSNBC, CNN after 9-11-01 where she was a Foot/Ankle Doctor volunteer at St. Paul's Chapel in a special segment called "The Chapel That Still Stood". She also been on News 12 Westchester four times to discuss her charity and its projects. She was recently honored at the United Cerebral Palsy's Charity Golf event in July, 2009 for her work as Journal Chair and her charitable contributions to NYC-UCP. She is Co-Chair of the Beautification Committee at the H.C. Crittenden School in Armonk since 2010. She has been a Class Mom for the last several years at the Coman Hill School and The Wampus School in Armonk, New York. She is also an Executive Board Member of the March of Dimes and is a Board of Trustee's Member of the New York College of Podiatric Medicine in NYC, an affiliate of Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, Metropolitan Hospital Center and the New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System. She is also a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators. Besides being in the medical profession, she has authored several medical journal articles and published two books and sings on three musical Cd's. Dr. Reilly Fallon has studied voice and has been a member of St. John the Baptist's Children Choir, Folk Group and her College's chorus. She has competed and won 14 First Place awards in Irish Feis' singing competitions and two Second Place awards. Her love for Irish music was passed down to her from her Dad, Edward Reilly who was the owner of Reilly's Bar & Restaurant in New York City, NY, where he would sing great Irish songs on weekends. She is currently recording a new album of Celtic music. Dr. Reilly Fallon co-authored & sang on "Heavenly Skies & Lullabies-Illustrated Song Book/CD" with Frank Pellegrino, Actor on The HBO Series "The Soprano's" and owner of Rao's Restaurant. This book/Cd's proceeds help children in need. She also sang on the "Heavenly Lullabies CD" for the Babies & Orphans of 9-11. Her Foundation's Book/CD has received 5 awards and outstanding reviews, even from Publisher's Weekly. She also contributed two stories in a book entitled "How I Met My True Love". She will be releasing a new Children's book entitled "Oh Snap!" which she authored with her son, James Edward Fallon and her friend, Ruth Weiner. Dr. Reilly Fallon resides in Westchester, New York with her beautiful family and lives life each day in gratitude. VISIT HER SITE FRIENDS OF HEAVENLY PRODUCTIONS Dr. Kathy Reilly Fallon www.kathyreillyfallon.com www.heavenlylullabies.org [email protected] [email protected]	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
The case for a near-term commercial demonstration of the Integral Fast Reactor Brook, BW and van Erp, JB and Meneley, DA and Blees, TA, The case for a near-term commercial demonstration of the Integral Fast Reactor, Sustainable Materials and Technologies, 3 pp. 2-6. ISSN 2214-9929 (2015) [Refereed Article] Copyright 2014 The Authors. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ DOI: doi:10.1016/j.susmat.2014.11.004 Demonstrating a credible and acceptable way to safely recycle 'used' nuclear fuel will clear a socially acceptable pathway for nuclear fission to be a major low-carbon energy source for this century. Here we advocate for an accelerated timetable for commercial demonstration of Generation IV nuclear technology, via construction of a prototype metal-fueled fast neutron reactor and associated 100 t/year pyroprocessing facility to convert and recycle spent fuel (routinely mischaracterized as "nuclear waste") that has accumulated from decades of light-water reactor use. Based on the pioneering research and development done during the 'Integral Fast Reactor' (IFR) program at Argonne National Laboratory,1 a number of synergistic design choices are recommended: (a) a pool-type sodium-cooled reactor; (b) metal fuel based on a uranium–plutonium–zirconium alloy, and (c) recycling using electrorefining and pyroprocessing, thereby enabling the transmutation and repeated re-use of the actinides in the reactor system. We argue that alternative technology options for the coolant, fuel type and recycling system, while sometimes possessing individually attractive features, are challenging to combine into a sufficiently competitive overall system. A reactor blueprint that embodies these key design features, the General Electric-Hitachi 380 MWe PRISM,2 based on the IFR, is ready for a commercial-prototype demonstration. A two-pronged approach for completion by 2020 could progress by a detailed design and demonstration of a 100 t/year pyroprocessing facility for conversion of spent oxide fuel from light-water reactors3 into metal fuel for fast reactors, followed by construction of a prototype PRISM as a commercial-scale demonstration plant, with an initial focus on secure disposition of separated plutonium stocks. Ideally, this could be achieved via an international collaboration. Several countries have expressed great interest in such collaboration. Once demonstrated, this prototype would provide an international test facility for any concept improvements. It is expected to achieve significant advances in reactor safety, reliability, fuel resource sustainability, management of long-term waste, improved proliferation resistance, and economics. nuclear energy, intergral fast reactor, climate change Resources engineering and extractive metallurgy Nuclear engineering (incl. fuel enrichment and waste processing and storage) Brook, BW (Professor Barry Brook) 184 View Download Statistics	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Home»Interviews»Interview with Blues Diva Eden Brent (Part 2) Interview with Blues Diva Eden Brent (Part 2) By Matt Marshall December 28, 2010 No Comments9 Mins Read We'll just jump in where we left off, with Eden talking about blues along the Mississippi River, songwriting inspirations, and the wonderful recording session down in New Orleans that lead to her latest album, Ain't Got No Trouble. If you missed the first part of the interview, you can find it here! "In Love With Your Wallet," I wrote that about a relationship my dad is having with this woman and the thing is, that is also kind of a universal thing. The "May to September" romance where it's a younger lady with an older man and she's good lookin' and he wants somebody beautiful and sexy and he's older and established and got money to pay her bills and she's looking at him for that. In other words, two people who partner for probably less-than-noble reasons. And as a matter of fact, that woman, she's bent out of shape about the tune. She's not spoken to me since the record came out; since she heard the song. How do you feel about that? Well, the way I feel about that is that I wrote the song and so I wasn't going to not put it on the record. I did put it second to last, so perhaps maybe she wouldn't pay attention when it came up. So I thought maybe she, like I said, she's sexy and beautiful. I asked my daddy "why'd you start goin' with this girl? I mean, jeez, daddy I mean really! Do you have to have a girlfriend that's my age?!" And he looked at me and got a big grin on his face and says "well, baby I couldn't find anybody younger!" But she is sexy, but she ain't the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree. I thought she might not even get it, but apparently shes slightly smarter than I give her credit for. Then she got huffy about it. Surely it's not my habit nor is it my pleasure to hurt peoples feelings. The whole reason for being an entertainer was to move people; to provide some sort of catharsis when they need it, and to lift them up and make them feeling better for a minute; to make then forget their own troubles for a minute… so they can suffer through mine with me! Seriously, though, I would never attempt to hurt somebody's feelings, but it occurred to me that a) she would not notice the song, and b) she would be delighted that she inspired a song. I think it's kind of cool! Little Joe McLerran wrote a song on his next-to-last album, the one were he won "Best Self-Produced CD" at the International Blues Challenge last year. He has a song on that CD called "Cocktails For Two" that's about me! I know that because he mentions Greenville, Mississippi and he doesn't know anybody else in Greenville, Mississippi! …and because he told me he wrote it for me! And it's called that and I guess I could've got bent out of shape because he's practically calling me a lush because I make the best cocktails in town, but I truly didn't mean to hurt her feelings. I probably would've done it anyways, but I truly did not mean to hurt her feelings. I thought she would be delighted and I'm not entirely convinced that she's secretly not delighted! You mentioned that you did the CD down in New Orleans. Now I know you played with a bunch of ridiculous New Orleans cats, John Cleary and George Porter, etc. Colin played some slide on that. What did all these things do to the sound on your album Ain't Got No Troubles this time? When I wrote Ain't Got No Trouble, I intentionally tried to give it that "second line" feel; we're marching down the street, after we've done the funeral, after we've already done "Just A Closer Walk With Thee" and we jump into "When The Saints Go Marching In." I tried to give it that kind of feel, and naturally, the New Orleans players, particularly the horn section, and I was not familiar with the horn players but they just did a superb job. they really gave it that flavor. When I listen to that song now, I can just see a bunch of people marchin' down the street grinnin' and spinnin' and havin a good time. The horns build and build and build. It's kind of a long song. When I'm writing a song, I don't know how long the song's going to last until I put it all together! Sometimes I talk a little more than necessary. "Ain't Got No Trouble" is a little bit more than 5 minutes, which, sadly, makes it less accessible to radio, because generally, radio folks wanna play something less than 5 minutes. It has something to do with the amount of money if they play something longer than 5 minutes. Which is probably why Jazz is not any more popular than it is!!! Hell, the Jazz solo usually lasts more than 5 minutes! Anyhow, and so on "Leave Me Alone", I had written a bridge to that song, but the song had gotten the point across, and my dad is a huge huge Hank Williams fan. And if there's anything I've learned from listening to Hank; simple is better. So I left out the bridge and instead Colin plays a beautiful solo over the bridge. And the horn section on "Ain't Got No Trouble" builds, and by the end of the tune it's really like you can almost picture a band that's set up, like say in Preservation Hall, has started to play a tune, and by the end of it they've jumped up out of their seats and they're marching down the street! It was a lot of fun to record and a whole lot of fun to listen to the finished product. this was the most enjoyable recording experience I've ever had because Colin did such a great job of leading, and I was simply able to follow. He gave such great direction, and I think somehow intuitively, he knew the sound that would be right for this album. He certainly delivered. It's the most honest thing I've ever recorded. The very first time I heard it, the thing that overwhelmed me is that it sounded like I was sitting in my own living room listening to me sitting right across from me. And it just sounds very honest and real. Theres mistakes there… there's just nothing phony about it anywhere on the record. It really shows the frailty of performance and of life. It's not striving for perfection, yet in it's own imperfection it's perfect. And he's the one who's responsible for providing that sound and putting it in me. Colin did a beautiful solo in "Beyond My Broken Dreams". I do a lot of cover songs. I'm not a prolific writer. Songwriting is a craft like anything else. "Beyond My Broken Dreams" were written by bona-fide songwriters in Nashville. One's a mother-daughter team, and the other's a friend of mine from Mississippi named Tommy Polk, who's lived in Nashville for more than 20 years and has several BMI awards and has, you know, achieved gold records and this kind of stuff. So I was looking around for other material and Tommy Polk sent me several ideas, and that tune had never been recorded by anybody except for those folks that recorded the demo. The demo itself was really quite good, so it was a challenge trying to make something new. (If I'd have heard that on an album, I never would have thought "oh that's just a demo.") When they do a demo in Nashville, they're serious about it! Because they're trying to sell the songs to somebody big. So it has to sound really professional, so people take the song seriously. And we're in the studio and I played the recording of the song, and said "Hey, I wanna do something different with this!" George kind of came up with the groove that has a little bit more of a lilt. It's more "swampy" than the demo, which had more straight 8th notes. There was no point in me rehashing what the brilliant artists did on that demo. So George Porter, Jr. came up with that groove, and he did a great job. His feeling of it, his presentation of the rhythm, it spoke to me a little more than a straighter version would have. I would never make it as a country star! With a Mississippi accent? I think you could probably make it! I dunno! If it was just blues, it's Mississippi too. A lot of people could talk about Chicago blues, and I love Chicago blues, but the fact of the matter is that the reason I love Chicago blues, and the reason that everybody else loves the Chicago blues, is that the Chicago blues sound was established by people from Mississippi! I mean, every damn one of them that established that "Chicago blues sound" was from Mississippi. That ain't no damn joke! And it's interesting to note that a lot of the Memphis players would have been from Mississippi, but by the time they got that far north, the sound had evolved from something else, so all along the Missisisppi waterways you have wonderful musical cities, Kansas City and Saint Louis and Memphis, and from here I could get all the way to Chicago traveling the waterways, and New Orleans too. All of these wonderful musical cities have their own flavor. And it pays to notice the difference because it would've been the towns that people most often played in. and those players obviously would've exchanged ideas. …And all that was to say that Colin Lindon did a beautiful job of playing a solo on that tune too. That's prolly one of my favorite tunes on the record. Stay tuned, y'all! We'll be posting the third and final part of our interview with Eden Brent shortly, followed swiftly by our interview with the amazing Chicago blues rocker Nick Moss. 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Effects of human and organizational deficiencies on workers' safety behavior at a mining site in Iran Mostafa Mirzaei Aliabadi, Hamed Aghaei, Omid Kalatpour, Ali Reza Soltanian, Maryam SeyedTabib DOI : https://doi.org/10.4178/epih.e2018019 Recipient's E-mail * /500 characters About the epiH Journal Catalog Epidemiologic Investigation Brief Communication Data Profile Epidemiol Health Search FOR AUTHORS AND REVIEWERS Author Checklist epiH Search Epidemiol Health > Volume 40; 2018 > Article Mirzaei Aliabadi, Aghaei, Kalatpour, Soltanian, and SeyedTabib: Effects of human and organizational deficiencies on workers' safety behavior at a mining site in Iran Epidemiol Health 2018; 40: e2018019. Published online: May 18, 2018 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4178/epih.e2018019 Mostafa Mirzaei Aliabadi1 , Hamed Aghaei2 , Omid Kalatpour1 , Ali Reza Soltanian3 , Maryam SeyedTabib3 1Center of Excellence for Occupational Health Engineering, Occupational Health and Safety Research Center, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran 2Center of Excellence for Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health and Research Center for Health Sciences, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran 3Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Modeling of Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran Correspondence: Hamed Aghaei Center of Excellence for Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health and Research Center for Health Sciences, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box 6517838695, Hamadan, Iran E-mail: [email protected] Received Mar 18, 2018 Accepted May 18, 2018 ©2018, Korean Society of Epidemiology This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Throughout the world, mines are dangerous workplaces with high accident rates. According to the Statistical Center of Iran, the number of occupational accidents in Iranian mines has increased in recent years. This study investigated and analyzed the human and organizational deficiencies that influenced Iranian mining accidents. In this study, the data associated with 305 mining accidents were analyzed using a systems analysis approach to identify critical deficiencies in organizational influences, unsafe supervision, preconditions for unsafe acts, and workers' unsafe acts. Partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was utilized to model the interactions among these deficiencies. Organizational deficiencies had a direct positive effect on workers' violations (path coefficient, 0.16) and workers' errors (path coefficient, 0.23). The effect of unsafe supervision on workers' violations and workers' errors was also significant, with path coefficients of 0.14 and 0.20, respectively. Likewise, preconditions for unsafe acts had a significant effect on both workers' violations (path coefficient, 0.16) and workers' errors (path coefficient, 0.21). Moreover, organizational deficiencies had an indirect positive effect on workers' unsafe acts, mediated by unsafe supervision and preconditions for unsafe acts. Among the variables examined in the current study, organizational influences had the strongest impact on workers' unsafe acts. Organizational deficiencies were found to be the main cause of accidents in the mining sector, as they affected all other aspects of system safety. In order to prevent occupational accidents, organizational deficiencies should be modified first. KEY WORDS: Mining accident analysis, Human factors, Behavior, Statistical model The mining industry plays a crucial role in the economy of countries throughout the world. Despite extensive efforts to improve safety in mines, accidents remain a threat to the sustainability of the mining industry, as they can lead to injuries and death among workers, property degradation, and damage to the environment [1]. According to previous studies, the rate of accidents in the mining industry is very considerable [2]. Several studies have investigated the main causes of accidents in the mining industry. A study of mining accidents in the US attributed nearly 85% of mine accidents to human error [1]. Since human behavior in a complex socio-technical system such as the mining industry is affected by various organizational and environmental factors, it cannot be correct to consider human error to be the main cause of accidents [3]. Some studies have reported that inappropriate working conditions, such as rock falls and explosions, were the main causes of mining accidents [4,5]. A number of studies have identified inadequacies in management measures, such as a lack of proper training courses for workers and inadequate supervision, as the main causes of mining accidents [4,6,7]. However, a comprehensive analysis for identifying the causal factors of accidents has not been conducted yet. Determining the interactions between causal factors of accidents can lead to better comprehension of the defects in the system. System-based accident analysis models can help to understand why accidents occur, and identifying patterns of accidents would be helpful for preventing their reoccurrence [2]. Multiple system-based accident analysis models have been developed [8,9]. The human factors analysis and classification system (HFACS) is one of the most widely used and reliable accident analysis models [10], and was developed by Wiegmann & Shappell [3] based on the Swiss cheese model [9]. Instead of introducing humans as the main cause of accidents, the HFACS systematically seeks to recognize the active and latent errors in the system that can eventually result in an accident. The HFACS model categorizes 19 causal factors in a hierarchical order of 4 levels of human and organizational failures, including unsafe acts, preconditions for unsafe acts, unsafe supervision, and organizational influences. In this approach, investigators first identify the types of unsafe acts that are thought to lead to the accident, and then look for the root causes of the accident at the organizational and supervisory levels. Based on the HFACS approach, at least 1 deficiency is present at each level when an accident occurs. If the organization corrects any of the failures that results in an accident, the accident will be avoided. The HFACS was first introduced to analyze aviation accidents [3], and then has been employed in other areas such as marine accidents [11,12], clinical errors [13,14], and rail incidents [15,16]. Some studies have utilized the HFACS for analyzing mining accidents. Patterson & Shappell [17] applied a modified version of the HFACS to analyze 508 mining accidents with the goal of recognizing the human and organizational deficiencies that led to mining accidents in Queensland. In another study, Lenné et al. [18] used the original HFACS to characterize the relationships of organizational and supervisory failures with unsafe acts of the operator in mining accidents. Verma & Chaudhari [19] analyzed human factors contributing to Indian manganese mining accidents using a modified version of the HFACS. However, no studies have conducted a comprehensive analysis to determine the relationships and interactions among the human and organizational deficiencies that contribute to mining accidents. According to the Statistical Center of Iran, Iran had 5,316 active mines in 2012, from which more than 60 minerals were extracted. Iran is among the top 15 mineral-rich countries, and more than 100,000 people are employed in the mining industry directly and approximately 2 million more people indirectly. Unfortunately, the number of occupational accidents in Iranian mines has increased from 876 cases in 2009 to 1,177 cases in 2012 [20,21]; however, a large number of work-related accidents may has not been reported by organizations. Thus, the present study focused on analyzing Iranian mining accidents based on the HFACS model to identify human and organizational deficiencies and to determine the interactions between these deficiencies by using partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a powerful analysis tool from the multivariable regression family that allows a set of regression equations to be tested simultaneously. SEM is a comprehensive statistical approach for testing hypotheses about relationships between observed and latent variables [22,23]. Covariancebased structural equation modeling (CB-SEM) and PLS-SEM are the 2 main approaches for estimating SEM [24]. In the CB-SEM approach, the proposed model is examined using a covariance matrix, while in the PLS-SEM approach, the model is assessed by describing the variance in the variables. PLS-SEM is recommended when the data do not follow a multivariate normal distribution, few data are available, and the model is formative [25]. Data source and coding process Reports of 305 significant mining accidents involving considerable property damage, fatality, or serious injuries occurring between 2002 and 2016 and results of the accident analysis were gathered from one of the largest iron ore mines in Kerman, Iran. The company employed an accident analysis team with various experts to analyze significant accidents. Accident analysis was performed using the root cause analysis (RCA) approach. RCA is a problem-solving approach utilized to identify the root causes of problems [26]. As mentioned earlier, the HFACS has 4 levels. Level 1 is workers' unsafe acts and includes 2 categories: workers' errors and workers' violations. An error is an unintentional action of a worker that can result in an accident, while a violation is an intentional disregard of rules and regulations that can also result in an accident [3]. Violation should not be conflated with sabotage, because the former category includes actions that generally have the goal of completing tasks faster and in a more effective manner, while the latter category refers to actions carried out with the aim of damaging the system. Level 2 contains the preconditions for unsafe acts, including various physical and technological factors, adverse mental/physiological states, and physical limitations of workers that can contribute to an unsafe act or accident. Preconditions for unsafe acts include environmental factors, condition of operator, and personnel factors [3]. Level 3 corresponds to unsafe supervision, which refers to supervisors' disregard of safety problems in the workplace. Unsafe supervision is subdivided into 4 subcategories: inadequate supervision, planned inappropriate operation, failed to correct known problem, and supervisory violations [3]. Level 4 refers to organizational influences, or deficiencies at the top management level that affect the likelihood of an accident. Organizational influences are subdivided into 3 subcategories: resource management, organizational climate, and operational process [3]. In the present study, workers' unsafe acts, preconditions for unsafe acts, unsafe supervision, and organizational influences were regarded as latent variables, and categories related to each variable that could be determined directly were regarded as their indicators. The latent variables and their related indicators are presented in Table 1. Each indicator was regarded as a binary variable, for which a score of 0 meant that the indicator did not contribute to the accident, and a score of 1 meant that the indicator contributed to the accident. To determine the score of each indicator in each accident (the coding process), 2 ergonomists with 4 years of experience in the mining industry were asked to assign a score to the variables based on accident data, such as accident report forms, photographs of the accident, and RCA results. All accidents were coded based on the above-described procedure and a database was created. The coding process was performed by consensus to increase inter-rater reliability. Building the model SEM models are normally constructed based on the hypotheses that are to be examined. Since a previous study [1] demonstrated that 85% of mining accidents occurred due to workers' unsafe acts, in the present study, the influence of system deficiencies on workers' unsafe acts was evaluated based on the following hypotheses: Hypothesis 1: Organizational influences exert a direct impact on unsafe acts of workers; Hypothesis 2: The effect of organizational influences on unsafe acts of workers is mediated by unsafe supervision; Hypothesis 3: The effect of organizational influences on unsafe acts of workers is mediated by preconditions for unsafe acts; Hypothesis 4: Organizational influences have an impact on unsafe acts of workers through a sequence of unsafe supervision and preconditions for unsafe acts. Since workers' unsafe acts can be divided into errors and violations, we examined the above hypotheses for workers' violations and for workers' errors separately. The proposed models are illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 for workers' violations and workers' errors, respectively. The database was imported into SmartPLS 2.0 (https://www.smartpls.com/smartpls2) and the hypotheses of the present study were examined using the bootstrap method. Since the applied model in this study was formative and few data were available, PLSSEM was employed [25]. Following Zhang et al. [27], the process of data analysis with PLS-SEM for verifying the theoretical model was performed in 2 steps. In the first step, the quality of the measurement model (individual indicator validity) was evaluated. Various indices were used to assess the measurement model according to the type of the indicators in the model [28]. Since the proposed models in the present study had formative indicators, we used the indicator weight to determine which indicators should be eliminated and which should be retained in the model [28]. Accordingly, after running PLS-SEM, the significant indicators and the non-significant ones weighted more than 0.5 were retained in the model, while the others were excluded. After determining the indicators that needed to be retained in the 2 models, the data were analyzed again, and new indicator weights and t-values were calculated (Figures 3 and 4). As shown in Figures 3 and 4, all indicators in the 2 models were significant (p< 0.05). After evaluating the quality of the measurement model, the second step was to evaluate the structural model (construct validity). In this step, using R2 , cross-validated redundancy (CV-Red), cross-validated communality (CV-Com), and goodness-of-fit (GoF) indices that were fitted to the model with formative indicators [25,28], the quality of the structural model was evaluated. R2 is a measure of the variance explained in each of the endogenous latent variables. CV-Com assesses how much each latent variable is useful to the model adjustment and CV-Red assesses the accuracy of the adjusted model. GoF assesses the quality of the adjusted model [25]. Table 2 show the results of structural evaluation of the models of workers' violations and workers' errors, respectively. As Table 2 shows, CV-Red and CV-Com were acceptable for all latent variables in the model of workers' violations. Additionally, R2 values were 15.48, 23.25, and 13.50%, respectively, for unsafe supervision, preconditions for unsafe acts, and workers' violations. Table 2 shows that CV-Red and CV-Com were acceptable for all latent variables in the model of workers' errors. Unsafe supervision (R2 , 18.10%), preconditions for unsafe acts (R2 , 22.32%), and workers' errors (R2 , 13.22%) had a medium effect on workers' errors. We determined the GoF for the workers' violations and workers' errors models to be 0.32 and 0.28, respectively, which indicated that the 2 models had an adequate adjustment [29]. The study protocol was approved by the Hamadan University of Medical Sciences (ethical code: IR.UMSHA.REC.1395.458). A total of 305 mining accidents were investigated. All the workers involved in the accidents were men, with a mean age of 33.0±7.6 years and an average experience of 7.6± 4.3 years. Moreover, 76% of them were married and the rest were single. Before interpreting the results of PLS-SEM, the quality of the proposed models was assessed in 2 steps and the suitability of the proposed models was confirmed (Figures 3 and 4). Based on Figure 3, among the 3 indicators of the organizational influences variable, the organizational climate had the greatest effect (indicator weight, 0.63) and the organizational process had the least effect (indicator weight, 0.41). Inadequate supervision (indicator weight, 0.66) and supervisory violations (indicator weight, 0.64) had a nearly equal influence on the unsafe supervision variable. Since among all the indicators of the preconditions for unsafe acts variable, only environmental factors were retained in the workers' violations model, this indicator had the greatest effect on preconditions for unsafe acts. Of the 2 indicators of the workers' violations variable, routine violations had a greater effect than exceptional violations. In the workers' errors model (Figure 4), resource management had the most influence on the organizational influences, while organizational process had the least. Planned inappropriate operation and inadequate supervision had a large effect on unsafe supervision, whereas supervisory violations had a small effect. Furthermore, environmental factors were the indicator with the greatest effect on the preconditions for unsafe acts. Among the 3 indicators of the workers' errors variable, skill-based errors had the greatest effect and perceptual errors had the least effect. Hypotheses 1 to 4 aimed at assessing the interactions among unsafe acts of workers and organizational influences, unsafe supervision, and preconditions for unsafe acts. As shown in Figure 3, workers' violations were positively affected by the organizational influences (path coefficient, 0.16) and this effect was statistically significant (p< 0.01). Therefore, hypothesis 1 was confirmed for the workers' violations model. Moreover, the impact of organizational influences on workers' violations was mediated by unsafe supervision because the path from organizational influences to unsafe supervision and the path from unsafe supervision to workers' violations were statistically significant; hence, hypothesis 2 was supported. Additionally, as shown in Figure 3, the impact of organizational influences on workers' violations was mediated by preconditions for unsafe acts (environmental factors), thereby confirming hypothesis 3. Furthermore, organizational influences impacted workers' violations through a sequence of unsafe supervision and preconditions for unsafe acts; therefore, hypothesis 4 was confirmed (Figure 3). Figure 4 shows the interactions among latent variables in the model of workers' errors. Organizational influences had a direct positive effect (path coefficient, 0.23) on workers' errors, and this effect was statistically significant (p< 0.05), confirming hypothesis 1. Organizational influences had a significant effect on unsafe supervision (p< 0.01) and unsafe supervision had a statistically significant effect on workers' errors (p< 0.05), thereby supporting hypothesis 2. Hypothesis 3 was confirmed, because the impact of organizational influences on preconditions for unsafe acts was statistically significant, as was the impact on preconditions for unsafe acts on workers' errors. Finally, organizational influences impacted errors through the sequence of unsafe supervision and preconditions for unsafe acts to a statistically significant extent; therefore, hypothesis 4 was also supported. Workers' unsafe acts are usually considered to be the main cause of industrial accidents. However, in complex systems, humans are only one of multiple mutually-interacting system components. In the analysis of unsafe acts, these interactions should be taken into account. Therefore, several studies have suggested that accidents should be investigated and analyzed using systematic methods to recognize deficiencies in all components of the system [32,33]. A comprehensive investigation of accidents using systematic analysis methods can help to gain a deep understanding of the relationships and interactions among system components [34]. In the present study, mining accidents were analyzed using the HFACS as a reliable system-based method, and interactions between human and organizational factors were examined with PLS-SEM. In the present study, based on the PLS-SEM results, hypotheses 1 to 4 for the models of workers' unsafe acts were supported. According to hypothesis 1, organizational deficiencies have a direct effect on workers' unsafe acts. Some studies [27,35] demonstrated that organizational factors such as deficiencies in safety management, organizational involvement, and unsafe rules directly affected workers' unsafe acts. Moreover, other studies [36,37] showed that safety culture and work pressure were organizational factors that affected workers' unsafe acts. Time pressure and a high workload can affect human error and the efficiency of operators [38]. Hypothesis 2 states that organizational deficiencies exert an effect on workers' unsafe acts mediated by unsafe supervision. According to the psychosocial model of workplace accidents, the organizational safety climate influences workers' safety behavior, mediated by supervisors' safety responses [39]. Therefore, the role of supervisors as a mediator between management rules/policies and workers can have a crucial effect on workers' safe acts. Indeed, supervisors can provide a supportive environment for safety in which safety behavior is encouraged. Several studies have explained that one of the main reasons why workers do not engage in safe behavior is the fear of being teased by coworkers [40]. Another reason is that some workers regard safety behavior as a sign of weakness [41]. Both these examples are indicative of a workplace with a poor supportive environment. However, it should be noted that the lack of a supportive environment is a sign of poor management commitment to safety. In other words, when safety is important for managers, it is important for supervisors too, thus resulting in a supportive environment for safety behavior [42]. Indeed, management commitment to safety is crucial for providing a supportive environment for safety. Moreover, when supervisors ignore safety rules and regulations, frontline employees may lose their motivation to engage in safe behavior; in such a situation, reward and punishment systems are also meaningless and the effectiveness of incentive systems cannot be maintained in the long term [43]. In this study, hypothesis 3 was also confirmed, meaning that managerial lack of attention towards solving environmental and technological problems, such as lack of funding for the necessary technological tools for the workplace, can lead to workers' unsafe acts. For this reason, mines are harsh and polluted workplaces. In such a poor working environment, workers are uncomfortable and tend to take shortcuts when performing their tasks, consequently ignoring safety issues and increasing the risk of accidents. This pattern has also been observed among outdoor workers. Several studies have found the rate of unsafe behavior to increase during the middle of the day when the outdoor temperature is at its peak [44]. Likewise, the finding is in accordance with the results obtained by Ramsey et al. [45], who found that the rate of safety behavior decreased as the thermal conditions of the workplace deviated from the optimum range. In the same vein, the effect of environmental factors on safety behavior has also been investigated by some other studies [46]. Therefore, more attention from management to housekeeping, ventilation systems, and thermal comfort may be helpful as a way to decrease accidents by improving environmental factors. Finally, hypothesis 4 was supported, indicating that organizational influences affect unsafe acts of workers through a sequence of unsafe supervision and preconditions for unsafe acts. In fact, organizational factors such as management commitment to safety are essential for improving health and safety issues in workplaces. Without management commitment, safety programs are unlikely to succeed [47]. Inadequate staffing is another organization-related factor that can affect safety behavior and accidents [48]. When the number of workers in the workplace is lower than what is needed, workers must work fast, perform several tasks simultaneously, and take shortcuts. Consequently, their attention decreases and the probability of error increases. Moreover, this result is in agreement with the study by Lenné et al. [18] that analyzed major mining accidents based on the HFACS model and found that there was a significant relationship among certain contributing factors in the organization, supervision, preconditions for unsafe acts, and workers' unsafe act levels. System-based accident analysis models suggest that the elimination of latent errors across a sophisticated system is the most appropriate strategy for preventing accidents, instead of addressing the active errors of workers. This is also in accordance with the conceptual model proposed by Neal et al. [49], which argues that organizational climate is the root cause of poor safety performance. Some strengths and limitations of this study should be acknowledged. In the present study, many mining accidents were investigated, meaning that the sample size was a major strong point of the study. Another strong point was the use of a systematic and well-accepted framework as a basis for the PLS-SEM model. However, this study also had some limitations that should be mentioned. A major limitation is that the accident data investigated in the present study were obtained from a single mining site in Iran; hence, it is recommended for future studies to consider more accidents from various mining sites. Moreover, although PLS-SEM is a powerful method for interaction analysis, other methods, such as Bayesian networks [50], are recommended for developing predictive models. In conclusion, organizational deficiencies were found to be the main causes of mining accidents. These deficiencies have both direct and indirect effects on unsafe acts. Organizational deficiencies can also lead to unsafe supervision and preconditions for unsafe acts. Without modifying these deficiencies, attempts to prevent mining accidents would probably fail to achieve the desired results. Therefore, in order to reduce the rate of mining accidents, deficiencies at higher organizational levels should be addressed. The authors would like to express their gratitude to Hamadan University of Medical Sciences for providing financial support under the PhD thesis scheme (grant No. 9602261191). The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare for this study. The hypothesis model for describing the influences of casual factors on workers' violations. OC, organizational climate; OP, organizational process; RM, resource management; IS, inadequate supervision; PIO, planned inappropriate operation; SV, supervisory violation; FCKP, failed to correct known problem; EF, environmental factors; CO, condition of operator; PF, personnel factors; RV, routine violations; EV, exceptional violations. The hypothesis model for describing the influences of casual factors on workers' errors. OC, organizational climate; OP, organizational process; RM, resource management; IS, inadequate supervision; PIO, planned inappropriate operation; SV, supervisory violation; FCKP, failed to correct known problem; EF, environmental factors; CO, condition of operator; PF, personnel factors; SBE, skill-based errors; DE, decision errors; PE, perceptual errors. Final PLS-SEM model of workers' violations with indicator weights and path coefficients among latent variables. PLS-SEM, partial least square structural equation modeling; OC, organizational climate; OP, organizational process; RM, resource management; IS, inadequate supervision; SV, supervisory violation; EF, environmental factors; RV, routine violations; EV, exceptional violations. p<0.05, p<0.01. Final PLS-SEM model of workers' errors with indicator weights and path coefficients among latent variables. PLS-SEM, partial least square structural equation modeling; OC, organizational climate; OP, organizational process; RM, resource management; IS, inadequate supervision; SV, supervisory violation; PIO, planned inappropriate operation; EF, environmental factors; SBE, skill-based errors; PE, perceptual errors; DE, decision errors. p<0.05, **p<0.01. Latent variables of study and their related indicators Workers' errors Skill-based errors Errors that occur in highly routine operations, due to workers' attention deviation Decision errors This error type occurs when the action of a worker is intentional, while the provided plan to achieve the desired outcome is inadequate Perceptual errors Errors that occur when the sensory input of a worker is degraded and an action is taken based on defective information Workers' violations Routine violations Habitual behavior of a worker that is tolerated by the management Exceptional violations Violations committed by a worker in abnormal situations Preconditions for unsafe acts Environmental factors A variety of issues involving conditions of the physical environment (e.g., heat and lighting) and technological environment (e.g., design of equipment) Condition of operator Includes issues such as adverse mental states, adverse physiological states, and physical/mental limitations of workers Personnel factors Refers to lack of communication and teamwork among individuals Unsafe supervision Inadequate supervision Refers to situations in which the provided supervision is not effective Planned inappropriate operation Refers to operational tempo or work scheduling that puts workers at risk or affects their performance Failed to correct known problem Occurs when defects related to the safety domain such as equipment and staff are known to supervisors, yet are permitted to continue Supervisory violations The intentional disregard of supervisors for existing rules and instructions Organizational influences Resource management The human, monetary, and equipment resources that management allocates to safety issues Organizational climate Refers to the atmosphere within the organization such as culture, policies, and structure Operational process The formal process through which matters are carried out within the organization Indices of the structural model for latent variable R2 (%)1 CV-Red CV-Com Workers' violations Organizational influences - 0.38 0.38 Unsafe supervision 15.48 0.09 0.67 Preconditions for unsafe acts 23.25 0.24 0.99 Workers' violations 13.50 0.07 0.42 Workers' errors Workers' errors 13.22 0.08 0.30 Criteria 2.00, 13.00, and 26.00: small, medium, and large effect, respectively [30] 0<CV-Red [31] CV-Red, cross-validated redundancy; CV-Com, cross-validated communality. 1 R2 is only available for endogenous latent variables. 1. 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More languages available Show fewer languages Rheum officinale (a traditional Chinese medicine) for the treatment of chronic kidney disease Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a long-term, life threatening illness that is becoming more common. People who have CKD are monitored closely and treated with therapies that are determined according to the stage of their illness and whether they have other health problems. Treatment for CKD often involves drugs to control blood pressure and aid kidney function - often angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEi) and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) - along with restricting the amount of protein consumed. Practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine often use Rheum officinale (Da Huang, a type of rhubarb) to treat people with CKD. We analysed evidence from nine studies conducted in China that compared Rheum officinale with no treatment or treatment with captopril, an ACEi. We looked at reported changes in two important blood markers - serum creatinine and blood urea nitrogen - that indicate progression of CKD. We found no high quality evidence to indicate that treatment with Rheum officinale can improve CKD or delay its progression. Rheum officinale was not found to cause any serious health problems in patients with CKD. Well-designed randomised controlled studies are needed to provide robust, high quality evidence to assess if there are benefits from Rheum officinale for people with CKD. Authors' conclusions: Currently available evidence concerning the efficacy of Rheum officinale to improve SCr and BUN levels in patients with CKD is both scant and low quality. Although Rheum officinale does not appear to be associated with serious adverse events among patients with CKD, there is no current evidence to support any recommendation for its use. Read the full abstract... Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major public health issue worldwide. Standard therapies to delay CKD progression include dietary protein restriction and administration of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEi) and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB) to help control blood pressure and confer additional renoprotective effects. Despite such interventions, CKD incidence and mortality rates continue to increase. Rheum officinale (Da Huang) a medicinal herb used widely in China to treat CKD has been reported to offer a range of pharmacological properties that may delay disease progression. To assess the benefits and harms of Rheum officinale for preventing the progression of CKD. Search strategy: We searched the Cochrane Renal Group's Specialised Register (up to 27 May 2015) through contact with the Trials' Search Co-ordinator using search terms relevant to this review. We included randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and quasi-RCTs that assessed the benefits and harms of Rheum officinale for preventing the progression of CKD regardless of dosage, type, maturity, mode of administration, duration of treatment, or storage time before use. Data collection and analysis: Two authors independently screened titles and abstracts for eligibility, assessed study quality, and extracted data. We expressed results for dichotomous outcomes (need for renal replacement therapy, all-cause mortality, quality of life) as risk ratios (RR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI). Continuous outcomes (glomerular filtration rate (GFR), serum creatinine (SCr), creatinine clearance (CrCl), blood urea nitrogen (BUN)) were expressed as mean differences (MD) with 95% CIs. Main results: We identified nine studies that enrolled 682 participants. None of the studies reported blinding or group allocation methods. Seven studies were judged to be at low risk of incomplete outcome reporting; three studies were judged to be a low risk of selective reporting (protocols were available and/or all outcomes relevant to the this review were reported); and two studies were judged free of other potential biases. Seven studies compared Rheum officinale with no treatment and two made comparisons with captopril, an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEi). Compared with no treatment, Rheum officinale had a positive effect on SCr (MD -87.49 µmol/L, 95% CI -139.25 to -35.72) and BUN (MD -10.61 mmol/L, 95% CI -19.45 to -2.21). Compared with captopril, a statistically significant difference was not demonstrated in relation to Rheum officinale for any outcome (BUN, CrCl, or patients' capacity to undertake work). No data were available on all-cause mortality or cost of treatment. Only minor adverse events were reported in association with Rheum officinale. 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Home > Research Centers and Institutes > FAC_MONOGRAPHS > 114 Faculty and Staff Monograph Publications Traces of Hecke Operators Andrew Knightly, University of Maine - MainFollow Charles Li The Fourier coefficients of modular forms are of widespread interest as an important source of arithmetic information. In many cases, these coefficients can be recovered from explicit knowledge of the traces of Hecke operators. The original trace formula for Hecke operators was given by Selberg in 1956. Many improvements were made in subsequent years, notably by Eichler and Hijikata. This book provides a comprehensive modern treatment of the Eichler-Selberg/Hijikata trace formula for the traces of Hecke operators on spaces of holomorphic cusp forms of weight $\mathtt{k}>2$ for congruence subgroups of $\operatorname{SL}_2(\mathbf{Z})$. The first half of the text brings together the background from number theory and representation theory required for the computation. This includes detailed discussions of modular forms, Hecke operators, adeles and ideles, structure theory for $\operatorname{GL}_2(\mathbf{A})$, strong approximation, integration on locally compact groups, the Poisson summation formula, adelic zeta functions, basic representation theory for locally compact groups, the unitary representations of $\operatorname{GL}_2(\mathbf{R})$, and the connection between classical cusp forms and their adelic counterparts on $\operatorname{GL}_2(\mathbf{A})$. The second half begins with a full development of the geometric side of the Arthur-Selberg trace formula for the group $\operatorname{GL}_2(\mathbf{A})$. This leads to an expression for the trace of a Hecke operator, which is then computed explicitly. The exposition is virtually self-contained, with complete references for the occasional use of auxiliary results. The book concludes with several applications of the final formula. Hecke operators, Trace formulas, Number theory Mathematics \| Number Theory Knightly, Andrew and Li, Charles, "Traces of Hecke Operators" (2006). Faculty and Staff Monograph Publications. 114. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/fac_monographs/114 Find @ the Library	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Lucio Rovati Lucio is Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientific Officer of Rottapharm Biotech S.r.l. He joined the Company following the entrepreneur footsteps of his father, Professor Luigi Rovati who was the founder of the Rottapharm Group. Lucio graduated in Medicine in 1985 and obtained a Postgraduate specialization in Clinical Pharmacology in 1989 at University of Milan. He completed his training as attending physician in Internal Medicine and served as research fellow in the Department of Medical Pharmacology, Chemotherapy and Toxicology of the University of Milan, School of Medicine. In over 25 years in Rottapharm, he served as head of Clinical Pharmacology and Clinical Research before becoming Chief Scientific Officer, directing all R&D activities of the Group, and Executive Medical Director responsible for all international medical activities of the Company and its subsidiaries. He founded Rottapharm Biotech in 2014. After holding similar positions at the Universities of Naples and of Parma, since 2003 Lucio is Invited Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, School of Medicine, where he is also Coordinator of a Postgraduate Master in Pharmaceutical Medicine. He is an active member of several international scientific societies, where he is also included in panels providing advice to the Food and Drug Administration or the European Medicine Agency on the drafting of drug development guidelines. Lucio is the author of over 175 full papers in peer reviewed international scientific journals (H-index=42).	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
You are here: Home / Latest News / Chinese Group Proposes Major Garment Manufacturing Hub in Northern Myanmar Chinese Group Proposes Major Garment Manufacturing Hub in Northern Myanmar January 27, 2021 by Thiha YANGON—A Chinese textile group has submitted a proposal to implement an international textile manufacturing cluster project in a major town in Sagaing Region, an economic hub for Upper Myanmar, at an expected cost of more than US$370 million (493.49 billion kyats). The Ministry of Planning, Finance, and Industry (MOPFI) said China's Jiangsu province-based Eastern Development International (Myanmar) Co. Ltd. (Dongzhan Textile Group – China) made an unsolicited proposal for the project in Sagaing city, which if accepted would be the first textile-based industrial cluster to be developed in the country. According to the government's investment agency, the Directorate of Investment and Company Administration (DICA), Eastern Development International (Myanmar) Co. Ltd. registered in 2018 as a manufacturer of wearing apparel. Both directors of the company are Chinese citizens and it is wholly owned by foreign citizens. Textile manufacturing is one of the leading industries in Sagaing city, and the region is home to a number of the country's major state-owned textile factories. Sagaing Region borders India and its economy is largely dependent on trade with the country. The Myanmar Project Bank said the proposed project will comprise two phases at an estimated total cost of $371.40 million on 356.47 acres in Sagaing owned by No. 3 Heavy Industries Enterprise, a state-owned company. It will involve the construction of a total of 17 garment-related factories, an international textile-related market at a ginning factory in Sagaing, and other related infrastructures. According to the Project Bank, construction is expected to be complete within 10 years. Phase 1 will include the construction of 12 new garment-related factories, knitting fabric factories, dyeing and printing factories, down and feather factories, and residential buildings for employees. Phase 2 will include the construction of five garment related factories, an embroidery factory, a carton factory, a polyester wadding factory, and the international textile-related market. Under the proposal, the industrial cluster would be linked with other textile factories across Sagaing Region. U Win Aung, general manager of No. 3 Heavy Industries under MOPFI with responsibility for the project, told The Irrawaddy that the Chinese company had already carried out a preliminary feasibility study (FS) for the project. If the project goes ahead, it will be 100-percent wholly owned by the foreign company, he said. However, the ministry is planning to launch a Swiss Challenge to invite other interested bidders, U Win Aung added. The Myanmar government set out new rules last August for investors looking to submit unsolicited project proposals worth more than 2 billion kyats. Under the Swiss Challenge process, an initial development proposal put forward by a company will be made public to allow qualified firms to challenge it with better terms, on the basis that they strictly adhere to the terms and conditions of the tender assessment criteria. U Win Aung said that the proposal for the Swiss Challenge is awaiting approval from the Union level. He said the Swiss Challenge will be launched after the Union level gives the green light. "The process will take at least six months. We will invite all foreign and local investors who are interested to participate in it," he added. The Project Bank said the project is expected to create 20,000 new jobs. Although the Chinese company made the first proposal, U Win Aung said the official will choose the most qualified one based on their financial capability and their work experience track record, among other things. U Win Aung said the project is a part of the government's plan for the privatization of state-owned enterprises, adding that Myanmar intends to transform from a cut, make and pack (CMP) to a freight–on–board (FOB) basis. Under the FOB system, international buyers have to pay Myanmar's garment factories for the full value of the completed garments as they are loaded "on board" shipping vehicles. Currently, manufacturers in Myanmar are operating under the CMP production system, in which producers have no involvement in the design and or input sourcing processes. Source: The Irrawaddy Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: DICA, Finance and Industry, Garment Manufacturing Hub, Ministry of Planning, MoPFI	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Does CaSe-MiXinG disrupt the access to lexico-semantic information? \| mijn-bsl Skip to main content vorige artikel Does gesture strengthen sensorimotor knowledge ... volgende artikel The impact of training methodology and category... 28-10-2018 \| Original Article \| Uitgave 4/2020 Does CaSe-MiXinG disrupt the access to lexico-semantic information? Psychological Research > Uitgave 4/2020 Manuel Perea, María Fernández-López, Ana Marcet The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-018-1111-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Mixed-case WoRdS disrupt performance in word recognition tasks and sentence reading. There is, however, a controversial issue around this finding as the hindered performance could be related to impoverished lexico-semantic access or to lack of visual familiarity. The present experiments aim to examine whether there is a genuine mixed-case effect during lexico-semantic access or whether the effect is driven by a visual familiarity bias (i.e., lack of familiarity may induce a bias toward "no" responses in word/nonword decisions). Participants were presented with same-case vs. mixed-case items in a word/nonword discrimination task (lexical decision) and in a task that requires access to semantic information (semantic categorization). In lexical decision, responses were faster and more accurate to same-case words than to mixed-case words, whereas the nonwords showed the opposite pattern. In two semantic categorization experiments, we failed to find any signs of a case-mixing effect for words. Therefore, the case-mixing effect in word recognition is not due to an impoverished access to lexico-semantic information but rather to lack of visual familiarity. 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lastshortstory — entries friends calendar profile ASif! Previous Next The Fonz in People Aren't Jukeboxes - Not if You Were the Last Short Story on Earth — LiveJournal 07:04 11th July 2007 lastshortstory ex_benpayne119 The Fonz in People Aren't Jukeboxes Okay, first up I'm gonna have to declare my bias regarding the stories for this week. These are both stories that were accepted by myself and Robert Hoge when we were co-editors of Aurealis. That said, I had no part in their final publication. So construe bias where you will. Ben Peek's John Wayne, part of his dead Americans series of stories, places John Wayne and his friend Orson Welles in contemporary USA. Wayne is well-characterised, rather than being a two-dimensional target of satire, and we are shown both his flaws and his strengths as a man, resulting in some fascinating contradictions. In Wayne's paranoias and the subsequent violence, we are given a strong critique of racial politics in the US today (and by extension in our own country, too.) Peek's strength in this story is in the fact that he allows the story to move beyond its social critique and to create moments of genuine pathos as well, resulting in a deeper and more compelling vision of contemporary society. Rjurik Davidson's Domine is one of my favourite stories of the year so far. A man is faced with the return of his father from space, now ten years younger than himself. It's not a new idea, by any means. But Davidson uses it to explore the figure of the estranged father, both in terms of the protagonist's relationship with his returned father, still the man he was when he left, and in terms of his relationship with his own son and ex-partner. There's a wonderful depth to the characterisation, here. Nobody in the story feels like a cardboard cut-out. Davidson's SF is subtle but pointed in its vision of a nearish future society, and the extension of our own society that it represents. The descriptions are vivid and evocative. Most of all, though, it is a story about people, and it is the realistic dialogue and the complex motivations of all the characters that makes the story so emotionally powerful. The best stories can make you forget the world you're reading about is created, and instead give the impression that you've just been granted a window on another world. This is one such story. Highly recommended. Current Music: The Mission - God is a Bullet User: lastshortstory Name: Not if you were the Last Short Story on Earth Website: ASif! australian best list dolce domum ellen kushner pelican bar sara genge year's recommended reading list	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Gaming \| July 13, 2016 Top 10 Fascinating Facts About Pokemon Go Mike Floorwalker Even if you are not familiar with the ins and outs of the media franchise known as Pokemon, the chances are good that you've at least heard the name. Created in 1995, Pokemon began as a video game for the humble Nintendo Game Boy handheld called Pokemon Red. In it, players traverse a mythical land, trying to catch "pocket monsters" of widely varied appearance and ability, then "train" them to defeat other monsters in battle. It's since spawned a legion of video games, animated television series, trading cards, and other media, becoming the second most successful video game–based franchise in the world. It's second only to Nintendo's Mario series. And this was before July 6, 2016, when the Pokemon Go mobile app was released to the world and quickly rose to dominate, well, seemingly everything. It took five hours to climb to number one on the download charts after its release, over twice as fast as the previous champion. Here are some things you may find interesting about this instant phenomenon. Featured image credit: Engadget 10 It May Overtake All Social Networks Photo credit: similarweb.com Pokemon Go uses GPS to situate its players on a real-world map, which looks a lot like a rough version of Google Maps. It displays on their mobile device as they traverse the real world, looking for Pokemon to catch. As one might imagine, this requires a good deal of data, and gamers are not simply downloading this game, playing a couple times, and forgetting it. They are using it. Boy, are they ever. The sheer volume of users has placed a heavy burden on the game's servers, and the ability to connect to them is rather critical to gameplay. Throughout the first week, connections were spotty for many users. Amazingly, the game has pretty much instantly eclipsed every social network in popularity, which was likely not foreseen by even the most optimistic Nintendo executive. Pokemon Go was installed on more than twice the number of Android phones in that first week—over 5 percent—than the insanely popular dating app Tinder, with a little more than 2 percent. Also in the first week, the game got within shouting distance of social giant Twitter in terms of daily users. As it continues to roll out new features (like the ability to trade Pokemon with other users, a feature coveted by fans), its popularity is likely to keep exploding for some time. 9 Its Players Are Getting A Ton Of Exercise Photo credit: nbc4i.com Even though Pokemon will appear randomly around your house, players know that the way to get the best use of the game is to venture into the outside world. As they wander around, Pokemon appear on their GPS map. Then the game switches to a real-world view—provided by the phone's front camera—with your target animated onto the real terrain. Players then throw balls at their targets—"Pokeballs," of course—which capture and contain them. If all of this sounds like a lot of exercise, it is. And even though gamers are a stereotypically lazy bunch, it's not slowing them down one bit. During the game's first weekend of release, social media was swamped with users complaining (mostly jokingly) about their sore legs and proclaiming the obsolescence of their gym memberships. While this is not without precedent, Pokemon Go is notably not a physical fitness or sports-themed game. It seems that the key to the oft-repeated parental refrain of "Get off that couch and go outside!" was to create a must-have game that actually requires players to do so. 8 It's Making Americans Learn The Metric System Photo credit: Tech Insider Most Americans would frankly rather eat their hats than use an app, let alone play a game, where important components are based on the metric system. Sure, the US system makes no damn sense. Even its formal name, the "United States Customary System," implies that we only use it because we have been for a long time and we have no interest in changing that. Most of us rarely need to convert miles to kilometers, for instance—except Pokemon Go players, who now have to do it every day. And indeed, Google Trends results showed that in the first couple days of usage, searches for kilometer-to-mile conversions in particular distances spiked considerably. It's often because of eggs, a main feature of the game. Eggs, of course, are for hatching more Pokemon (among other things, like experience and stardust, which can be used for upgrades). But you have to hatch them by walking. The longer you walk, the better the prize that is eventually hatched. Eggs come in 2-kilometer, 5-kilometer, and 10-kilometer denominations, so you can probably guess what distances were Googled the most often. It'll be interesting to see if this has any lasting effect at all in raising our awareness of the metric system—as literally not one single other thing ever has. 7 It's Created A Profitable Side Business Of course, since this is a game that basically forces one to exercise and learn, some Americans are always going to find a way to avoid those things—and others will immediately learn to profit by helping them. In several large cities, it only took a matter of days before craigslist ads started to pop up advertising a service which is begging for a proper name: chauffeuring around Pokemon Go players who want to catch 'em all without doing all that walking. This is particularly helpful (or underhanded, depending on how you look at it) because of two of the game's features. "Pokestops" are physical places (usually public) where players can collect virtual items, and "Gym Trainers" are physical locations where collected Pokemon can be powered up. Getting to these spots quickly can give players an obvious advantage, and some are paying up to $30 per hour to enterprising drivers. Ads are boasting all types of amenities, from snacks and drinks to Wi-Fi to advance knowledge on the driver's part of all Pokestops and Gym Trainers in the area. While a dedicated app for this purpose has not yet arrived, it's only a matter of time. And while this is merely the first and most obvious Pokemon-related service to spring up after the game's release, it seems safe to say it will be far from the last. 6 It Might Help Some Criminals Commit Crimes Since discussion of the game's explosive popularity has largely taken place on the Internet, it stands to reason that there would be a fair number of unsubstantiated stories about terrible things happening to players right off the bat. While nobody did actually kill a child over a Pokemon or cause a traffic pileup by trying to catch one on the highway, there have actually been a number of instances where the game was tied, directly or indirectly, to criminal activity. In perhaps the most widely reported incident, a Wyoming teenager found a man's dead body while looking for a Pokestop. However, the man's death appears to have been accidental, an underreported detail. In a far more disturbing case, police in St. Louis County, Missouri, arrested four men on July 10, 2016—a mere four days after the game's release—for essentially using it to locate people to rob. Players are able to place beacons to alert other players to landmarks, and these thieves were placing them near Pokestops to attract their victims. The Pokemon Company addressed this quickly, issuing a statement urging players to play in groups when in unfamiliar places and to be alert to their surroundings. Police stations nationwide have taken note of this incident, which hopefully does not become a trend. 5 It Could Completely Transform Nintendo Photo credit: GameZone Beloved gaming giant Nintendo has taken a bit of a hit in recent years. The Wii U, their follow-up to the massively popular Wii console, was an attempt to combine the Wii's interactive gameplay with high-definition graphics and an innovative touchscreen controller. While not a bad console, it was a tremendous flop and left many fans wondering whether Nintendo could possibly produce a next-generation console to compete with Microsoft's formidable Xbox and Sony's PlayStation juggernaut. The short answer: Nintendo owns a 32 percent stake in the Pokemon Company and in Niantic Labs, and it is now going to have a great deal more cash to innovate with. Within six days of Pokemon Go's release, Nintendo's market value increased by fully 60 percent—to the tune of $12 billion. The financial impact on the company in the long run will be nothing short of staggering. Pokemon Go is one of Nintendo's first forays into the mobile market, and they recently announced the development of a new console—code-named NX—that is due to be released in 2017. One might shortly expect to see a revised plan of action from the company as they are currently receiving a sustained, massive influx of cash that has the potential to completely reshape the future of any company. 4 There Are Dangerous Counterfeit Versions Photo credit: destructoid.com via Mediacraft Even though the game is free, some users have had trouble getting it downloaded due to the heavy demand. Looking to jump the gun, others wanted to find ways to get the game before it was available in their area. As a result, many copies of the game have been downloaded from third-party servers, and most of these come with a little extra baggage attached. Of course, we're talking about malware—specifically, a malicious remote access tool called DroidJack, which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. The tool installs a backdoor that grants the installer full access to and control of the infected Android phone. The first installations showed up within 72 hours of the game's release. Fortunately, the counterfeit version is not easy to install. Android's security must be disabled for any unknown, third-party apps to be installed, and all downloads from a legitimate app store are verified. As the game's rollout is complete, hackers should have a more difficult time getting their version onto players' phones. But the game's popularity means they certainly will not stop trying. 3 It's Collecting A Huge Amount Of Data Pokemon Go uses and stores GPS location data, and users must agree that the Pokemon Company reserves the right to share this information with third parties. But that's not all. Not only can the user's device be located generally or precisely, but the app obviously accesses the camera and not so obviously accesses the user's storage, contacts, and network connections, among other things. Users logging in through Google also automatically grant access to their Gmail, Google Docs, and other Google applications. Niantic can basically use this outrageous amount of data in any way they see fit, and if they have specific plans for it, they're not saying. Of course, the information collected and Niantic's free use of it is all spelled out in the License Agreement, which explicitly states that location data may be provided to law enforcement if the need arises. But it gives few other specifics. Speculatively, it seems obvious that the marketing opportunities which could arise from legally tracking the precise movements of millions of people at all times are potentially tremendous, to say the least. 2 Letting Real-World Businesses In On The Action Photo credit: Forbes Pokemon Go was developed from Ingress, a similar Niantic effort that also used GPS tracking and a real-world display. In place of Pokestops and Gym Trainers, Ingress featured "Portals" that were mapped out to real-world landmarks, including random businesses. This Portal map was largely transposed over Pokemon Go's landmark system, which has predictably resulted in these random businesses wondering why their traffic seems to have exploded overnight. Even businesses which haven't been automatically powered up by Niantic can easily get in on the act by using Lures. These are in-app purchases that attract Pokemon for a specified length of time and can be set down in any actual geographic location. Some savvy business owners have reported activating games of their own and then setting lures inside the business and watching Pokemon-hunting customers come rolling in. Using lures has also proven to be an effective double whammy for businesses fortunate enough to already be designated a Pokestop or Gym Trainer or even be near one. Of course, not everyone is delighted. One National Weather Service building, featured as a Portal in Ingress, has likewise been made a Gym in Pokemon Go, leading meteorologists to post signs asking that players power up their little monsters elsewhere. 1 It's Bringing Augmented Reality To The Mainstream Photo credit: Popular Science Augmented Reality (AR), the blending of virtual elements with the physical world, is not new technology. It's been employed in poorly received heads-up displays for passenger vehicles and the helmets of F-35 fighter pilots. It has even made a small segue into the consumer world in the form of Snapchat filters, which allow users to take video of themselves overlaid with digital animations. While Pokemon Go's AR engine is certainly not fantastic—its digital elements often seem sloppily superimposed over the real world, and they do not interact with physical objects—the game has undeniably vaulted the entire concept into the public consciousness in a big way and in a very short amount of time. There are probably many attempts to replicate this success already underway, although the sheer scale of the game's success can likely be attributed more to the popularity of the Pokemon brand than anything else (as evidenced by the fact that nobody has ever heard of Ingress). Given the vast amount of money that we now know is in play, it can only be a matter of time before we see the advent of AR-specific gaming platforms which do not currently exist. Perhaps it's time for Google Glass to make a comeback? Top 10 Fascinating Facts About Ordinary Medieval People Top 10 Fascinating Facts About Presidential Press… Top 10 Fascinating Facts About The Netherlands Top 10 Fascinating Facts About The Republic Of Yemen Top 10 Fascinating Facts About Finland Top 10 Fascinating Facts About Magnetic Fields Mike Floorwalker's actual name is Jason, and he lives in the Parker, Colorado area with his wife Stacey. 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The intervention in context The Howard Government's 2007 Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER), colloquially described as the 'Intervention', will form a major landmark of our country's history in the 21st century. To many such as me, it will be yet another dark chapter of Australia's history and a classic repetition of the major mistakes that have plagued the relationship of the white community and the first Australians since the arrival of the First Fleet. To others it may have different connotations. What is important is that it be evaluated on the basis of evidence and not assertion, or the pursuit of short term political interests that so often cloud consideration of the issues. This collection of essays achieves that object. It is true that the contributions do not come from apologists for the Intervention, but at the same time the tone is cool, credit is given where it is due and the arguments of those apologists are to be found within. Most contributors concede that the objects of the Intervention evolved from a genuine concern to bring about a change in the relationships of Government and the Aboriginal community for the eventual benefit of the latter. While some, including me, may have doubts about that, all agree that the situation of most Aboriginal people in the NT in 2007 was completely unsatisfactory. However with some minor exceptions in relation to particular aspects of the Intervention, the authors say that there is little evidence that the Intervention has improved the situation and there is a considerable body of evidence that in most areas, it has either not improved it or has worsened it. This makes it more difficult to understand the Labor Government's stubborn persistence in maintaining it. Those who question why this is so appear to be unanimous in the view that the fault lies in the failure of successive Governments to appreciate that real change cannot be brought about by politicians and bureaucrats in Canberra or the NT, fuelled by polemicists such as Hughes and Johns, or people representing but one strand of Aboriginal opinion. The message that emerges from these essays is that unless and until the Australian and State and Territory Governments stop merely consulting Aboriginal people in the NT and instead bring them and their leaders into the decision making process as equals, any Government initiative will inevitably fail. The tone of the essays is set by Peter Billings' introduction and the evocatively titled first article by Tom Calma, "The Northern Territory Intervention-It's Not Our Dream". Calma provides a useful historical survey of the events surrounding the Intervention and what has followed and makes the point that one of its worst aspects was the suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act. In one stroke Parliament, by doing so, converted the Aboriginal citizens of this country into second class citizens and revealed the shallowness of the guarantee of racial equality provided by the RDA. This is something that should not only concern Aboriginal Australians but all of us. Billings and Cassimatis are similarly critical of both Governments' behaviour in relation to the RDA and the attempt by the Labor Government to preserve aspects of the Intervention as 'Special measures' upon the basis of questionable consultations with the Aboriginal people. As Crowe points out in the final essay, while the Act does not form part of the Constitution, it is a law that Australians have come to rely upon as a bulwark against arbitrary and excessive Government actions. Calma makes the point that the three elements of good Indigenous policy making are a human rights approach, Indigenous participation and government accountability to demonstrate the success or otherwise of measures taken. He says that the Howard Government and its successors have failed all three of these tests. He and other writers point to the almost uniform condemnation of the Australian Government's policies by UN and human rights bodies and individuals. This seems to be something that does not worry the major Australian political parties other than the Greens, but I for one feel very uncomfortable when my country behaves like an international pariah. The resulting damage to its international standing and capacity to influence human rights issues is immense. In their chapter Arney et al document the shift in the thrust of the Intervention from preventing child sexual abuse to addressing Aboriginal disadvantage and the issue of neglect of Aboriginal children. As Thalia Anthony points out, statistics for child sexual abuse in the NT have been steady since 2003 with a slight decline in the rate of successful prosecutions This is not surprising as the spectre of extensive child sexual abuse and paedophile rings so heavily relied upon by the Howard Government has proved to be a myth about as credible as its 'children overboard' myth in relation to asylum seekers. The sad irony of the Intervention as documented by Anthony is that the major effect of additional policing has been the increase in imprisonment rates of whites and Aboriginals alike for driving offences a number of which carry with them mandatory penalties of imprisonment. Thus the focus of the Intervention has shifted from child sexual abuse to unlicensed drivers and unregistered vehicles. At the same time the already unacceptable level of imprisonment of Aboriginal people is driven higher in a Territory where imprisonment rates increased by 23% between 2006 and 2009 and where 82% of the prison population are Indigenous. These are shocking figures and the absurdity of how the Intervention has exacerbated this situation is evocative of the apartheid regime in South Africa. These figures make a mockery of the need for increased police powers and the involvement of the Australian Crime Commission in the Intervention. Marcelle Burns deals with the issue of Indigenous homelands which raises the troublesome issue of what the Intervention was and as continued by the Labor Government is, really about. Burns view, which I share, is that successive Government policies towards homelands forms part of a wider neo-liberal agenda intended to destroy the culture of Indigenous people and convert them into typical ordinary dwellers living in an Indigenous version of market driven suburbia. She argues that what amounts to the forced relocation of residents from homelands into some 20 designated settlements embodies an economic rationalist approach to Indigenous people at the expense of their rights under the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and other international instruments, which Australia purports to support. She refers to the resemblances between the Labor Government's Closing the Gap policy and the Howard Government's approach to Indigenous policy, with its emphasis on statistical equality over protecting and promoting Indigenous peoples' human rights. This is mirrored by the NT's Working Future policy of reducing education services in remote areas in order to force Indigenous people into larger communities. Another example of this broad and sinister design not dealt with in this essay relates to the leasing by Government of Indigenous land by way of long term leases of land held by traditional owners in return for the provision of housing and services, the cost being paid by Indigenous people themselves out of mining royalties. A number of contributors deal with the vexed question of income management, introduced as part of the Intervention and continued by the Labor Government in modified form. Arney et al refer to the Pearson led ideology behind this scheme. They and others are highly critical of the lack of effective evaluation of the program. Billings and Cassimatis comment that the law and policy prescription applied in the NT, particularly to income management, has treated people as simply incapable of acting responsibly, irrespective of personal circumstances. The authors point out that the Labor Government's 'consultations' have been marked by their lack of transparency regarding summary reports and quantitative data and that these have been used to justify its income management scheme. They also suggest that there are instances where income management will actually promote, rather than reduce individuals' dependence on state control, a point also made by Crowe in the final essay. They are critical of its blanket application to 'disengaged youth' and long term adult welfare recipients upon the basis that it is punitive and runs contrary to the universal right to social security. They are also critical of Government approaches that purport to set one set of universal rights against others, in this case the rights of children against that universal right. Finally, in a broad philosophical discussion of the Intervention, Crowe examines the role of social space in enabling humans to live meaningful lives as applied to the Intervention. He suggests that the lack of consultation and reliance on Anglo Australian law in response to criminality and socio-economic problems in remote communities has troubling colonialist overtones and that the substitution of the Government's vision of Indigenous welfare for the views of those affected is a form of 'epistemological violence'. He says that Indigenous people must be able to shape their own space if it is to be meaningful and this requires a genuine commitment to self determination that is lacking from the Intervention. He uses income management as a particular example of pushing them into narrower spaces in which to live and controlling their lives thereby reducing their opportunity to live full and meaningful ones. This contribution is a fitting note to end this series of essays which should give pause to the Federal and NT Government in making plans for the future of Indigenous people in Australia. Alastair Nicholson was a barrister in 1982-88, Chief of the Supreme Court of Victoria in 1982-88, Chief of the Family Court of Australia in 1988-2004 and is currently a professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne. He has written and spoken widely on human rights issues. Categorised: Arena Magazine Review Tagged: Aboriginal Australians, Edition 113, human rights, Indigenous Australians, Intervention Support Arena Independent publications and critical thought are more important than ever. Arena has never relied on or received government funding. It has sustained its activities largely through the voluntary work and funding provided by editors and supporters. If Arena is to continue and to expand its readership, we need your support to do it.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Remhoogte Chenin Blanc Honeybunch Bruichladdich Botanist Gin 750ml Although the "Botanist" name might suggest a floral gin, instead the flavor profile veers toward herbs and spices. There's a subtle, herbal scent, with anise flavors up front, backed by coriander seed and cassia bark on the spicy finish. Made by Bruichladdich Distillery, which is renowned for its Scotch, on a pot-still named Ugly Betty. Sold in an attractive, square-shouldered, gift-worthy bottle. Producer: Bruichladdich Region: Islay Although one of a number Scotland's whisky producing islands, Islay is so distinctive in character it is classified as a separate region. Of the island's seven distilleries currently bottling, Ardbeg, Lagavulin, and Laphroaig on the shouthern shore and Caol Ila to the north, are known for making the most peaty whisky that expresses medicinal qualities redolent of seaweed, salt, and iodine. By contrast, Bowmore, Bunnahabhain, and Bruichladdich make less peated but equally complex whisky, with the latter two bottling the island's lightest styles. Type: Gin and Jenever Gin has come a long way since its infamous origins as the scourge of the working classes in 18th century in England. Once called "mother's ruin," gin and its closest relative, Jenever, enjoyed mass popularity during the early 20th century, in cocktails and punches across the globe, but declined with cocktail culture in the 60's and 70's. The international resurgence of martinis and speakeasies has led to a boom in microdistilleries producing high-quality gins for all tastes, from dry to sweet, and with all the aromatic variety of a spice market.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.taglib.ui.LanguageEntry@6f2fbd2d News - Scame acquisisce la portoghese Magnum Cap - Scame Spain Scame Spain News - testata Navegación por categorías Scame Group consolidates in e-mobility with the acquisition of the Portuguese Magnum Cap LDA. On May 4, 2021 Scame Parre S.p.A. has finalized the acquisition of 85% of Magnum Cap Lda, a Portuguese company dedicated to the production and distribution of charging systems for the electric vehicle. The agreement was signed by Eng Stefano Scainelli, CEO of Scame Parre S.p.A., a manufacturer of electrical equipment based in Parre (BG), and Eng José Henriques, CEO and founder in 2009 of Magnum Cap Lda company, based in Aveiro. The acquisition of Magnum Cap is part of Scame Parre S.p.A.'s broader strategy aimed at further strengthening its leading role in the sector of systems and infrastructures for charging electric vehicles, an area in which it has been successfully operating for more than twenty years. "Beyond the obvious commercial benefits in terms of strengthening the current sales networks, however, guaranteeing continuity of service to the respective stakeholders - explains Stefano Scainelli - the value of this operation lies in the strong synergies between the two companies in terms of skills and respective product offers, both sharing an approach that focuses on the customer, the recipient of technologically advanced and highly customizable solutions as well as efficient pre and post sales services. This will allow the Scame group to present itself on the markets with a more complete offer than ever from the point of view of both hardware and local management of the charging infrastructure through a dedicated software platform ". "Scame Parre S.p.A. - continues Scainelli - was among the very first companies to believe in a different concept of mobility, presenting in 1999 the first connector in the world specifically designed and built for charging electric vehicles. The acquisition is therefore part of a groove traced years ago and which we intend to follow with ever greater determination in the years to come, so as to govern change without undergoing it, anticipating the needs of the market thanks to the capabilities, in terms of vision and research and development of the two joint companies". "Through Scame Parre S.p.A. – José Henriques adds – I really believe that we are together consolidating the leadership and strong positioning as an EV chargers worldwide player, including a complete range of state of the art solutions for electric mobility. Scame Parre SpA is also the perfect match to leverage the existing technologies by adding its industrial knowledge and worldwide presence." With the current acquisition Scame Parre S.p.A. further strengthens its production and sales structure in the rapidly expanding sector of e-mobility. share-alt linea puntinata	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Home / About / Work / Services / Contact / Labatt USA "Give Labatt" Holiday Campaign It started with a Blue... Labatt USA is the American division of the Labatt Brewing Company, a beloved Canadian brewery with a flagship pilsener that's as much a part of Buffalo's DNA as chicken wings. As the Social Media team for Labatt, Mr. Smith was tasked with developing and deploying creative assets that drive relevance among the core Labatt demographic, help premiumize the brand, and increase purchasing frequency of Labatt products. To achieve all these goals as we approached the holidays, we designed a campaign that spoke directly to all of these objectives by utilizing humor, high-end production value, and reinforced messaging to the target audience telling them that they should give the gift of Labatt this year. The resulting video was storyboarded, scripted, performed, and produced exclusively by members of the Mr. Smith team. We even wrote, recorded, and produced an original song to provide extra creative energy and capture the limited attention available on social media. Upon completion, we launched a suite of creative assets across the Labatt social channels, utilizing a variety of still photos before finally unveiling the full, finished video, which we supported with targeted ad buys designed to drive impressions and engagement among our target audience. The result was a resounding holiday success for the brand that helped.close a profitable (albeit challenging) year on a positive note with fresh momentum for the new year. © 2022 Mr. Smith Agency, LLC. All Rights Reserved.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
We kindly inform you that, as long as the subject affiliation of our 300.000+ articles is in progress, you might get unsufficient or no results on your third level or second level search. In this case, please broaden your search criteria. Result 79361-79380 of 80429 'Slovak, not Brussels Social Democracy' Europeanization/De-Europeanization and the Ideological Development of Smer-SD Before 2020 Parliamentary Elections in Slovakia Author(s): Juraj Marušiak / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021 This paper is focused on the evolution of the ideology of Smer - Social Democracy (Smer-SD) party and its positions on European integration before the political elections in Slovakia in February 2020. As the 'social-democratization' of Smer-SD was the result of party's Europeanization, the article explores the dimensions of de-Europeanization in the politics of this party in 2017–2020. Since 2006, Smer-SD has occupied a dominant position among political parties in Slovakia. However, a substantive decline in the electoral support of the party took place after 2016. Smer-SD faced a significant political challenge during the political crisis after the assassination of the journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová in February 2018. The result was the resignation of Prime Minister Robert Fico. The appointment of party vice chairman Peter Pellegrini as Prime Minister created a new situation within the party, as for the first time the positions of Prime Minister and head of the party were separated. The political crisis in 2018 revealed the presence of internal conflicts within the party and the weakening of the authority of its chairman, Robert Fico. The establishment of two centres of power within the party resulted in competition between Fico and Pellegrini and, finally, in June 2020, a split, as Pellegrini announced the founding of a new political party. 'The Slovakebab': Anti-Islam Agenda in Slovak Parliamentary Elections and Beyond Author(s): Michaela Grančayová,Aliaksei Kazharski / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2020 The article examines discursive framing of Muslims during the 2020 Slovak parliamentary campaign, putting it in the broader context of the four-year period since the previous 2016 elections, which took place in the shadow of the European migration crisis. We adopt a social constructivist framework to argue that, despite very low numbers of Muslims in Slovakia, Islam remains a politically divisive issue. Competing discourses strive to redefine Islam for their own political purposes, making use of politicized symbols such as the 'kebab' or the 'minaret' in the process. This makes Islam a floating signifier of Slovak politics to which multiple meanings can be attached. In the absence of actual problems with Muslim minority integration, axiological conflicts over Islam can be seen as representing broader struggles between more culturally conservative and liberal-multiculturalist forces. "E is for Ernest who choked on a peach": food, death, and humour in the works of Edward Gorey Author(s): Nikola Novaković / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2022 In Edward Gorey's numerous scenes of breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and afternoon teas, food and drink often feature with more or less prominence and are sometimes even found in the titles of his books, such as in The Fatal Lozenge (1960) or The Unknown Vegetable (1995). Their seemingly innocent appearance is often tied to violence or death: a head is discovered in a breadbox, a woman murders her husband by lacing his tea with atropine, a boy dies of exposure after being punished for "splashing his soup", and several characters are consumed by more or less fantastic creatures. And yet, throughout all such gruesome events, Gorey's characteristically playful and absurd humour adds levity to scenes of food-related death, misery, downfall, and even murder. Whether much attention is drawn to such events (such as in The Unknown Vegetable, where the entire story revolves around the discovery of a giant turnip-like vegetable that leads to a woman being buried alive) or whether they are merely mentioned in offhanded comments, Gorey couches them in a frame of the ridiculous and the nonsensical. It is therefore the aim of this paper to explore how Gorey achieves this curious combination of the grotesque and the humorous in scenes revolving around food, and how this approach extends to a general confusion of tone in his darkly funny, seriocomic creations in which any manner of horror may be lurking in peaches, cakes, crackers, boiled turnips, a recipe for fudge, a family picnic, or under a haunted tea cosy. "I Learned All by Myself": Romanian Young People's Self-Perception of Their Digital Competence Author(s): Gyöngyvér Erika Tőkés,Anca Velicu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015 Following the theoretical framework and analysing the empirical data of the EU Kids Online III (2013) project, in this study, we have followed the digital competence of Romanian children and adolescents. We have studied the online activities they undertake, their attitudes towards the Internet and the perception they have of their digital competence. Romanian children and adolescents are very present in the digital world, which they perceive as a social space distinct from that of the adults, where they can retreat and where they can meet their needs for communication, information (not just for homework but also questions of their own concern), leisure, etc. However, the situation is far from ideal. The modest implication of parents and teachers in the online life of children and adolescents has a detrimental impact on their level of digital competence. "Signs of Times" – A Semiotic Content-Analysis of 'Apocalypticizing' Rhetoric on Hungarian Conspiracist Websites Author(s): László Attila Hubbes / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2010 There is an ever stronger interconnection between various forms of social anxieties, be they religious, political, national or even environmental and online forms of expression. People's fears and resentments (along with hope) precipitate in mythical narratives structured on the ancient oppositions of Good and Evil. Apocalyptic rhetoric represents the most crystallized form of verbal warfare against the evil forces (mundane or supernatural). In the processes of secularization and globalization these narratives have somewhat lost their religious character, but at the same time penetrated new reaches of the Irrational, and impregnated many beliefs and ideologies, from academic and philosophic heights down to popular mythology and urban legends. The easiest way for ancient sacral stories of antagonisms to get into the modern narratives was through symbols, mainly purported by visual signs. Although anxieties have always been present, showing certain patterns of rise and decrease, the electronic media of the past century have definitely contributed both to the perpetuation of a higher tension and to the wide spreading of such story-bearing visual symbols. Today, the Internet offers an excellent hotbed for both processes mentioned above: not only through unidirectional web pages but also, or even better, through the self-organizing virtual net-communities. There are countless such groups, religious or ethno-political, each with its own symbolic iconography, but most of these signs are quasi universal, same as the stories they bear. I have chosen some Hungarian websites through which I wish to present these symbols and narratives at work, with a hint to their universal character. "Society, you Need to Grow Up!" Popular Literature Made by Hungarian Teenagers on Instagram Author(s): Rita Glózer / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0 One of the most disputed phenomena of the information society is the expansion of personal space with the help of web 2.0 tools. An important interface for this purpose is Instagram. Through analysing the self-disclosure and fan-community gathering methods of adolescents living in Hungary, Rita Glózer finds that in essence, online social communication has similar objectives to offline social communication. "They Already Know Everything." Computer Use by Teenagers and Associated Perceptions in Rural Communities Author(s): József Gagyi / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2014 The statement highlighted in the title, "they already know everything", refers to a small group of Generation Z, rural children and teenagers in three communities in contemporary Transylvania. It is not them who describe themselves so, but a grown-up, a representative of Generation Y, Zalán M., an expert in the maintenance and use of digital devices who is recognized as such in the communities. Because of the recognition of his competence as an expert and the legitimacy this brings him, his views, which he proclaims vehemently and publicly, are shared by others as well.The cases presented in this paper come from a long-term field work with lengthy interruptions. The location is the communities of Vărgata commune in Mureș county (Vărgata, Valea, Mitrești, as well as to a lesser extent Grâușorul and Vadu). I have been present as an ethnographer in the field since 2004, conducting observations focusing on various topics. My goal was the holistic understanding of the cultural behaviour and the creation of interpretations using knowledge from anthropological literature. Since the appearance and proliferation of digital and new media devices, the elements of knowledge needed to operate them and the attitudes associated with them are a new phenomenon that has been brought into the crosshairs of public attention in these last few years (since 2009), this paper draws on the contextual knowledge I have developed throughout the years of fieldwork to understand the computer use of the young members of Generation Z and the general perceptions the computer engenders, as well as opinions and ways of behaviour associated with it. "Three-fold Identity?" The Ethnical and National Identity of the Hungarian Boyash Gypsies Author(s): Mátyás Binder / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0 The Roma are possibly the largest minority group in the European Union. Yet this group is composed of communities with varying languages, cultures and identities. The obvious cause of this variety is that the Gypsies1 compose a large diaspora stretching across five continents, and accordingly, among every community living in a minority, different processes of adaptation led to the formation of distinct identities. In my opinion, three factors – all generated by living in a diaspora – influence the ethnical and national dimensions of the Romani identity: social categorization, national socialization and ethnical identity. Society's perception, the socialization processes in the nation state institution systems, and the Gypsy community's own ethnical culture are all factors, which supposedly have or have been an influence on most Romani identities. "Untouched by your Do-gooder Propaganda" How Online User Comments Challenge the Journalistic Framing of the Immigration Crisis Author(s): Jana Rosenfeldová,Lenka Vochocová / Language(s): English Issue: 31/2022 The role of the media in polarizing the debate on immigration has been subject to a growing amount of research; yet little is known about whether and how online comment sections related to news articles on immigration reshape the journalistic narrative. This study examines readers' reactions to the media coverage by employing a quantitative content analysis of over 6,000 users' comments responding to 128 online news articles on immigration. It concludes that generally the discussants' perspective does not differ significantly from the medium's framing of the issue with one important exception: the human rights frame accentuated by the medium is strictly refused by the discussants. The discussants also bring the economic and cultural aspects of immigration into the debate. The article thus contributes to a more general understanding of the role the users' discussions play in shaping the debates on controversial political issues. ЈАВНО МИСЛЕЊЕ Author(s): Renata Treneska-Deskoska / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 14/1997 The term publicity in it's wider- nonpolitical and its narrower- political meaning, the term opinion, the origin, the different understandings and characteristics of these terms have been an object of interest of the political philosophy, political and other sciences for а longer period of time. In it there have been different understandings: from exaggeration of their importance, up to questioning their validity and relevance. The contemporary understanding of the notion and the process itself acknowledges that the relation between the public opinion and the authorities is two sided: The public opinion is modeling the politics, but the politicians are modeling the public opinion аѕ well. That determines the role of the public opinion in the political system аѕ well аѕ the mode of its formation and еxpression. ЈАЗИКОТ И НАЦИЈАТА Author(s): Marija Tasheva / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 05-06/1994 Јасна Милошевић-Ђорђевић, Човек о нацији. Схватање националног идентитета у Србији, Институт за политичке студије, Београд 2008, 193 стр. Author(s): Aleksandar Kostić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2009 Један осврт на нови историзам Author(s): Milica Radulović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 02/2011 This paper is concerned with the emergence of New Historicism, its basic features and conditional division into Leftism and Rightismorientated New Historicism. The paper also presents a theoretical base on New Historicism - Geertz's symbolic anthropology and Foucault's social model, as well as the sociohistorical and both scientific and professional causes of its origin. Special attention is devoted to new historicist studies in Renaissance literature and, additionally, to the causes that led to scholars' being attracted by this era. Furthermore, what is taken into consideration is the methodological and conceptual similarity between New Historicism and feminism, revised Marxist theories and cultural materialism. ЈУГОСЛАВИЈА БЕШЕ РАЗБИЕНА ОД ВНАТРЕ Author(s): Latinka Perović / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 05-06/1994 Југославија, највећа српска ухронија Author(s): Petar M. Anđelković / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 4/2018 Bearing in mind the warning Crnjanski made '[that] things should be considered from a Serbian point of view', this paper represents a critical overview of a social phenomenon, the creation of Yugoslavia, (the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes) and which has, in various forms (Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and the Slovenes, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia, the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro) lasted from 1918 to 2006. In the creation of the idea of Yugoslavia and its realizations, the external and internal factors were co-operating. When it comes to internal (Serbian) factors, the fact that the 'call' of Yugoslavism started with the elite (both intellectual and political) is undeniable, and therefore, it is most responsible for the birth of this idea and for all the consequences that have arisen from it. When after a century from the creation of Yugoslavia we sum up the balance, we find that it was most devastating for the Serbs. In the past 100 years, Serbia-from The Kingdom of Serbia once crowned with glory after The Balkan Wars and World Wars I and II-transformed its position to a losing party in FRY and SFRY, and after the breakup of these countries. The basic idea of this paper that we are trying to prove is that the Yugoslavian idea has been devastating for the Serbian people, as the most dangerous virus, because the Serbs have renounced their national identity for the interest of the common state, on the principles of fraternal equality, bringing in it all of their victories, and ultimately becoming the victim of the ideology. Therefore, Yugoslavia is the largest Serbian uchronia and should serve as a warning to guard against false utopias. Serbia didn't even recover from this drunken euphoria of the creation of the first Yugoslavia during the Second World War. Moreover, due to the British and communist games behind the curtain, Serbia came out this war with at least a million lives lost and without a true social elite that would have foreseen the events in Serbia. The new revolutionary government especially sought and very much succeeded in crafting a break with old historical values, built on traditional religious and cultural principles-especially characteristic for Serbs-which severely damaged the integration of the Serbian people and led to the loss of national identity. After a century of wandering, Serbia has faced new challenges, uncomfortable and incompetent, 'without historical awareness and awareness of evil' to answer them in the right way. ЈУГОСЛОВЕНИТЕ ВО 1945 ГОДИНА: РУСОФИЛИ ИЛИ СОВЕТОФИЛИ? Author(s): Ivan Gjurić / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 11/1996 Јужна Србија и Лесковац на историјској периферији: један социо-економски поглед Author(s): Jovica Cvetković / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 01/2013 In this paper a new socio-economic paradigm has been tested on the example of the City of Leskovac in Southern Serbia. The paradigm claims that the system of values in a community can produce different developmental consequences if it is in agreement or in collision with the target function of a social system. The universal validity of this paradigm was tested in the space of one local community. Historical sources about the City of Leskovac, as one of the centres of Southern Serbia migrated toward by its surrounding population, were used to provide a closer insight into socio-economic winding of this region of Serbia through the process of adaptation of the structures of values to different social and historical environments. The typical "disjointed" path of development of the City's local economy is seen in this paper from a different perspective when analyzed in terms of methodology introduced to the classical economic analysis by Douglass North. Possible causes were found for cyclical ups and downs of the local economy as well as of Southern Serbia as a socio-economic space. Љубов, сексуалност и казна во македонската традиционална култура Author(s): Vesna Petreska / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 08/2015 The love, sexuality and the punishment in the Macedonian traditional culture is considered on the basic of the ethnological-anthropological analyze. The analyze is based on the oral stories, ritual practices and oral poetry, which I take as means of communication. The love and the love emotions were in accordance with social and cultural criteria of the community in which occurred. This means that the love emotions, primarily the sexual emotions, had to be controlled, or to be shown as much as the traditional culture allowed. In general this was meant for the women and the maidens, "a woman's chastity", that implies the women's purity and innocence. Otherwise the punishment commences. The betrayed young woman that has totally surrendered to the love emotions or the unjustly accused wife of infidelity is reaching towards the curse in order to satisfy the justice. ЏИХАД У САВРЕМЕНИМ МЕЂУНАРОДНИМ ОДНОСИМА Author(s): Miroljub Jevtić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 04/2007 The Jihad system of all actions and activities that Muslims perform in pursuit of the triumph of their religion has become especially interesting for its warrior version. In European horizon it obtains the characteristics of the world war. Under the influence of the ideas of globalization the Muslims should also be involved in that project and the idea of Jihad consequently became an obstacle. Therefore the Euro-US media trend was to ignore and neglect that idea. There was also a misapprehension that neglecting would make this problem disappear. The situation in Yugoslavia was similar. The Muslim media advocated that idea, as well as the majority of the non-Muslim population. As a result, this phenomenon remained completely unexplored or misinterpreted which finally yielded bad results of the globalization itself. ისტორია, არქეოლოგია, ეთნოლოგია Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Georgia	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
The End of the World is Today, May 21, 2011 . . . Or Not "Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation." ~ Plato Plato's words may be put to the test today. The AP wires and major news networks worldwide are running with the story . . . the end of the world is nigh; today, May 21, 2011, to be precise. At least today is the date that Harold Camping, a preacher from Oakland, California is predicting the end will come. If Mr. Camping were speaking from any normal pulpit, it might be easy for us to dismiss him as just another religious eccentric. However, thanks to America's airwaves, 2,000 billboards coast to coast and worldwide news reporting, we find his unlikely Doomsday message difficult to ignore. Camping comes from a long line of seers, sages, preachers and prophets – all of whom time has proven wrong. What makes Camping different is the precision of his prognostications – an exact date and time, providing an uneasy sense of certainty in uncertain times. He is predicting that the end of the world will start today, Saturday, May 21. Camping believes the end will start in New Zealand at 6 PM (local New Zealand time) with the largest earthquake in human history. If we factor in the time difference, what does that mean for us on the east coast? Or . . . is it already Sunday, May 22 in New Zealand? At 89 years old, Camping delivers his impending end of the world message out to his followers daily via the Family Radio Network, a religious radio organization funded entirely by his listeners, which he founded in the 1950s. Through the generosity of supporters, with assets over $120 million, the deep pockets of Family Radio now owns 66 stations in the US alone. Camping's programming on Family Radio is delivered in 48 languages, and boasts tens of thousands of followers around the globe, with radio stations in South Africa, Russia and Turkey. Camping's prophecy comes from numerological calculations based on his reading of the Bible. When asked about his end of the world prediction, Camping is quoted in Britain's newspaper, The Independent, "We're not talking about a ball game, or a marriage, or graduating from college. We're talking about the end of the world, a matter of being eternally dead, or being eternally alive, and it's all coming to a head right now." Should we be planning how to spend our last hours on Earth? Before you give away your car or make plans for your last shopping trip to the mall today, you should know that Camping has been wrong before. Yes, Camping's last prediction for Judgment Day was September 6, 1994, and . . . 16-1/2 years later, the world remains. Such predictions are nothing new, but Camping's latest has been publicized with exceptional vigor. Preferring to take the positive, half-full approach to life, I choose to believe that we all will still be here tomorrow, May 22nd. But then again, maybe it already is tomorrow in New Zealand. Quang says: Humans should study and learn buddhism to clearly understand the universe and how things work better. There will be end of the earth, but not that human would be able to predict. Where did earth come from and where will it go? Same as all of us, learn buddhism and understand how things are created. Not by gods and goddess, but by each individual's engergy! I am re-reading Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything", and after the chapter on meteors and all manner of cosmic matter shooting through space, I think it's kind of miraculous that the Earth hasn't been destroyed yet!	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Wintershall and DEA set to merge BASF and LetterOne have signed a final agreement to merge their respective oil and gas business, Wintershall and DEA Deutsche Erdöl AG and create Wintershall DEA. Wintershall DEA will form the leading independent European exploration and production company with international activities in selected core regions. Crude oil and natural gas production at Wintershall and DEA amounted pro forma to a total of 210 million barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) in 2017; that corresponds to a daily production volume of around 575,000 BOE. Through this merger, BASF and LetterOne are laying the foundation for further profitable growth. The medium-term plan is to list Wintershall DEA through an initial public offering. Closure of the deal is expected in the first half of 2019, subject to the approvals from the merger control and foreign investment authorities. Wintershall and DEA will continue to operate as independent companies. Mario Mehren, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Wintershall, will be the CEO of Wintershall DEA. Maria Moraeus Hanssen, CEO of DEA, will be the deputy CEO and Chief Operating Officer. In addition, Thilo Wieland, member of the Board of Executive Directors of Wintershall, and Hugo Dijkgraaf, Managing Director of Wintershall Norge, will be on the five-member Management Board of Wintershall DEA. The appointment of the Chief Financial Officer will be announced in due course. BASF will initially hold 67 per cent and LetterOne will hold 33 per cent of Wintershall DEA. The merged company will be jointly headquartered in Hamburg and Kassel. Lord Browne, the Executive Chairman of L1 Energy and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of DEA, said: "I am delighted that we have reached agreement to create Europe's largest independent E&P company. Wintershall DEA is the largest E&P merger in Europe for over a decade, and will have a diverse portfolio of outstanding growth prospects, with the scale needed to access important new opportunities. We expect the company to evolve rapidly into a world-class and globally competitive organisation with an international portfolio. We look forward to working with our new partners to create a disciplined, responsible and sustainable oil and gas company." Greig Aitken, principal analyst M&A, at global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie, said: "DEA saw scale as key to future success and this deal certainly delivers. For Wintershall, the tie-up is a logical step en route to a future IPO, which will allow the BASF-owned company to escape the shadow of its chemical company parent. The deal will form one of Europe's largest independent E&P companies. Production from Wintershall DEA will rank below only the majors and Repsol in terms of European-headquartered producers. #BASF #Wintershall #DEA #LetterOne #oil #gas #energy #Germany #Europe Equinor signs collaboration deals with TechnipFMC and Aker Solutions BP gets approval to develop the Vorlich field in North Sea Wintershall, DEA complete merger Gemrany's Wintershall and DEA Deutsche Erdoel (DEA) have completed their merger and the new compa... Wintershall and DEA look to merge BASF and LetterOne Energy have signed a letter of intent to merge their respective oil and gas su... Wintershall set for a strong 2019 Germany's Wintershall held its Annual Press Conference at its headquarters in Kassel and announce... Wintershall sees strong returns in 2017 BASF's Wintershall subsidiary presented at its annual press conference in Kassel, Germany signifi... Wintershall sees oil and gas production at record level Wintershall is on a growth course despite the difficult conditions in the industry and attained a... Norway awards record number of production licences Norway's Ministry of Petroleum & Energy has awarded a record number, 83, of production licences i... Paul Smith to be appointed CFO of Wintershall DEA German chemicals group BASF and investment company LetterOne agreed to appoint Paul Smith as the ... Siemens focuses on repowering Iraq Siemens' President and CEO Joe Kaeser met with Prime Minister of Iraq, Haider Al-Abadi, in Baghda... Endress+Hauser secures two industry awards Liquid analysis specialist Endress+Hauser Conducta receives the European Business Award and the T... DNV GL opens LNG test centre The LNG test centre, located in Groningen, The Netherlands, will enable safer and more efficient ...	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Saudi Arabia's game of thrones In the round of 'royal musical chairs' that played out two months ago, the Sudairi branch of the royal family consolidated its grip on power at the expense of those loyal to the late King Abdullah. Carool Kersten King Salman of Saudi Arabia. Wikimedia Commons. Some rights reserved.They are back: the appointment of Muhammad bin Nayef and Muhammad bin Salman as crown prince and deputy heir to the throne indeed formalizes the ascent to power of the grandsons of the kingdom's founder, Abd al-Aziz Ibn Saud. But focusing on this generational shift is missing the point of the latest round of royal musical chairs in Saudi Arabia. Giving the second and third highest offices to the sons of late Crown Prince Nayef and current King Salman entrenches the Sudairi branch of the royal family once again at the centre of power, thus further dismantling former King Abdullah's measures to curb the influence of a group of princes that have gone virtually unchallenged since 1975. After the assassination of King Faisal and during the reign of King Khalid, the future King Fahd and his six full brothers, known as the 'Sudairi Seven' (named after the clan of their mother), built an unassailable fortress of power within the royal family and the kingdom-at-large by taking control of the office of crown prince, the ministries of interior and defence, as well as several key provinces. In his final years as king, Abdullah used the successive demise of Crown Princes Sultan and Nayef to insert his own sons, and members of other branches of the royal family, in key positions in order to offset Sudairi power. This led to the removal of the sons of the late King Fahd and Prince Sultan from key government posts. The unprecedented retirement 'at his own request' of the current king's half-brother, Crown Prince Muqrin, completes a process set in motion on the very day Salman took the throne in January 2015. With lightning speed most of the sons of King Abdullah and other loyalists were dismissed from their posts, while the energetic Muhammad bin Nayef and Muhammad bin Salman quickly overshadowed the ailing new monarch in running the daily administration of government. Although they are younger and more hands-on, don't expect any structural changes or liberalisation in the way the Sudairi branch of the Al Saud runs what they consider 'their country'. Aside from Uncle Muqrin, other victims of the latest move include their cousins from the only other branch of the royal family that seemed to have – or rather had – the potential of competing with the Sudairis: the sons of King Faisal. Prince Saud Al Faysal, the country's long-serving Minister of Foreign Affairs was also relieved of his duties on 29 April. Having held the office for 40 years, Saud's health had been failing for quite some time, rapidly deteriorating in recent months. So while his retirement was expected for some time, it removes the last of King Faysal's sons from the central government. His brother Turki Al Faysal, a former intelligence chief and ambassador, had already been sidelined a while ago, after falling out with the Sudairis over their constant interfering in Saudi-American relations when Turki was posted in Washington. In January 2015, the other brother, Khalid Al Faysal lost his position as Minister of Education and was sent back to the governorship of Mecca. A painter and published poet, the cultured Khalid Al Faysal has been the intellectual face of the royal family for decades. His appointment as education minister by King Abdullah, in 2013, seemed to be part of a – by Saudi standards – progressive approach to a key aspect of Saudi governance because of the country's young population. This trend was further undone by the collateral damage suffered by Nora Al Fayez, vice minister of education since 2009 and the highest female office holder in Saudi Arabia's government. She was also fired in this latest round of government changes; allegedly because her progressive ideas upset the reactionary religious establishment. Although the replacement of Saudi Al Faysal by the first non-royal Minister of Foreign Affairs, former ambassador to the US Adel al-Jubeir, and the earlier appointment of another non-royal general as head of central intelligence, can be interpreted as a professionalization of international relations and intelligence, it will only affect the executive level. Foreign and international security policy-making will remain firmly a royal domain, now under the almost exclusive control of the two Muhammads. It also provides the Al Saud with useful scapegoats if and when things go wrong. In view of the 'Decisive Storm' initiative in Yemen, what can be expected is a more pro-active stance on the part of the Saudis, rather than the reactive attitudes of the older generation when it comes to responding to international crises. While presenting a modern and technocratic front (including increased media savviness), it is all about power for the Sudairis. Barring any unforeseeable events, with this latest move they have not only secured control of the throne, but also consolidated their hold over the kingdom for decades to come. Published in: North Africa, West Asia Succession in Saudi Arabia: no surprises here Written by: Carool Kersten All articles by: Carool Kersten Saudi Arabia's succession: securing the status quo Saudi Arabia's big mistake in Yemen Written by: Edward Burke All articles by: Edward Burke Democracy and government	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
There are no services available. Osage Beach, MO (65065) Sunshine and clouds mixed. High 41F. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph.. Clear skies. Low 33F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph. Skyline Photography Outlet Mall getting some attention Nancy Zoellner The Lake Sun Nov 19, 2021 Updated Dec 2, 2021 The Osage Beach Outlet Mall is under contract and the new owners have some big changes planned. Chris Foster, the son of well-known local developer Dan Foster and a partner in the new venture, said although a non-disclosure with current owner Simon Property Group prevents him from releasing a lot of the details – he said those who live at the Lake of the Ozarks and those who just vacation or visit here will be pleased. "We originally planned to hold off making any announcements until we could present the overall project plan but once the rumor mill started churning – especially on Facebook – we felt it was important to counter some of the wrong information. Sometimes people assume no answer is a confirmation of what, in this case, was misinformation and we wanted to make sure people know that our focus is to keep the mall operating. We just plan to build on the blocks that are already there to create a dynamic new project that will benefit the Lake area well into the future," Foster said. To carry out their plans, the Foster family contracted with Kansas City-based Legacy Development, which has had a hand in creating more than 50 projects with over 31 million square feet of retail space across 14 states. One of their projects is the Legends Outlets in Kansas City, Kansas, which is 90 percent occupied, according to Foster. At one time the Osage Beach Outlet Mall was home to more than 100 stores. Foster said while they don't see the mall returning to that size in the future, they are looking at creating more commercial opportunities for the people that are coming down here. He also said to create the best shopping experience, it makes sense to consolidate the existing stores in one area. "And when we talk about repositioning, we're also talking about adding more restaurants and a lot of different entertainment components. At this point, nothing is off the table," he said. Some of those entertainment components will include family activities similar to what can be found in tourist destinations like Gatlinburg, Tennessee, Myrtle Beach and, closer to home, Branson. "I have a 6-year-old and I know that in the wintertime, there's not much to do with children. We had so many family destinations years ago – the Fort Funtier Land – an amusement park with rides and games for kids, the old Hillbilly Town and pretty much the entire Bagnell Dam Strip was family friendly. We believe that to be successful as a community, we need to have these types of things," Foster said, adding that while his family has a lot of development experience, they don't have experience developing retail. "So the takeaway is we'll combine the knowledge of the Foster family, which has been in the area a long time, with the horsepower of a large, nationwide development team - a team of experts in retail – to come up with a great plan." With more than 3,000 students enrolled in grades k thru 6 in the Osage and Camdenton school districts, they'll have a built-in customer base for any business that caters to children. Foster said their plan may also include a housing component. Foster said when looking at the total amount of acreage, it makes sense, especially when considering that an apartment component on the property would not only provide more customers for the retailers, it would also provide potential employees. However, like the rest of the possibilities, that piece of the development puzzle is just under consideration at this point. "We are pretty far along in the process on a lot of different items, and we'd like to get started early next year but we haven't closed on the property yet. We're in our due diligence period. We won't be moving forward with the project until and unless we can see it to a successful completion," he said. This wouldn't be the first transformation project for Chris Foster. As chairman of the Santa Monica (California) Pier Corporation Board, he has headed up projects that revamped what was known as a "tourist trap" into a famous destination for tourists and locals alike, earning the Tourism Champion of the Year award. In 2019, the first year of Foster's leadership, to celebrate the premiere of the Netflix series "Stranger Things 3" the show brought in an amusement park that recreated circa 1985 carnivals. The Pier also hosted concerts that drew record crowds, an 18-week Run and Yoga series that drew an estimated 3,500 participants, and a festival that brought 30,000 people, which was 20,000 more than the previous year's event. A snow machine on Christmas was also a huge hit. Osage Beach Mayor John Olivarri said he's anxious to meet with the developers to discuss the project. "I am talking with Legacy Development Friday and I'm really looking forward to our conversation. Legacy is a well-known company with multiple developments across the county. We feel they are a very credible developer and we're looking forward to working with them and the Fosters on reinvigorating the Outlet Mall. It's a prime piece of property right in the middle of our retail hub so we're anxious to see it be redeveloped and flourish," Olivarri said. 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Third Brigade Second Division - Third Corps — Army of the Potomac — By Craig Swain, November 11, 2008 1. Third Brigade, Second Division, Third Corps Tablet The diamond symbol of the Third Corps appears at the top of the tablet. Third Brigade. Second Division - Third Corps. Army of the Potomac Third Corps Second Division Third Brigade Col. George C. Burling 2d. New Hampshire 5th. 6th. 7th. 8th. New Jersey 115th Pennsylvania Infantry.. July 2 Arrived between 9 and 10 a.m. and joined the Division. Between 2 and 3 p.m. advanced with the Division and was placed in reserve in rear of Second Brigade and soon thereafter ordered to First Division except that the 5th New Jersey supported Battery K 4th U.S. on the Emmitsburg Road. The 2d New Hampshire and 7th New Jersey reported to Brig. Gen. C. K. Graham and supported Batteries in the Peach Orchard the 63d Penna. on the left. The 6th New Jersey went to the support of Second Brigade First Division on its left in Plum Run Gorge near Devil's Den. The 8th New Jersey and 115 Penna. were sent to the Wheatfield to support the right of Second Brigade First Division. The Regiments of the Brigade were severally engaged where assigned and retired at the close of the day with the organizations with which they served. July 3 In the morning rejoined the Division and was placed in reserve where apparently needed. Casualties Killed 6 offices 53 men. Wounded 43 officers 333 men. Captured or missing 78 men. Total 513. . This historical marker was erected in 1912 by Gettysburg National Military Park Commission. It is Near Gettysburg in Adams County Pennsylvania Third Corps Second Division Col. George C. Burling 2d. New Hampshire 5th. 6th. 7th. 8th. New Jersey 115th Pennsylvania Infantry. July 2 Arrived between 9 and 10 a.m. and joined the Division. Between 2 and 3 p.m. advanced with the Division and was placed in reserve in rear of Second Brigade and soon thereafter ordered to First Division except that the 5th New Jersey supported Battery K 4th U.S. on the Emmitsburg Road. The 2d New Hampshire and 7th New Jersey reported to Brig. Gen. C. K. Graham and supported Batteries in the Peach Orchard the 63d Penna. on the left. The 6th New Jersey went to the support of Second Brigade First Division on its left in Plum Run Gorge near Devil's Den. The 8th New Jersey and 115 Penna. were sent to the Wheatfield to support the right of Second Brigade First Division. The Regiments of the Brigade were severally engaged where assigned and retired at the close of the day with the organizations with which they served. July 3 In the morning rejoined the Division and was placed in reserve where apparently needed. Casualties Killed 2. Burling's Brigade Tablet 6 offices 53 men. Wounded 43 officers 333 men. Captured or missing 78 men. Total 513. Location. 39° 47.758′ N, 77° 14.721′ W. Marker is near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in Adams County. Marker is on DeTrobriand Avenue, on the left when traveling east. Located in the Wheatfield at Gettysburg National Military Park. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Gettysburg PA 17325, United States of America. Touch for directions. Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. 8th New Jersey Volunteers (a few steps from this marker); Captain Jed. Chapman (within shouting distance of this marker); 115th Pennsylvania Infantry (within shouting distance of this marker); 17th Maine Infantry (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); 110th Pennsylvania Infantry (about 300 feet away); 62nd Pennsylvania Infantry (about 400 feet away); a different marker also named Third Brigade (about 400 feet away); Captain Henry V. Fuller (about 400 feet away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Gettysburg. 1. The Wheatfield. National Park Service virtual tour stop. (Submitted on January 26, 2009, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.) 2. Report of Col. George C. Burling. One senses some frustration in Burling's report, as his command 3. Burling's Brigade Reserve Position, Mid-Day July 2 Looking north at the intersection of Sickles Avenue with Wheatfield Road. Burling's Brigade was initially posted in the fields north of the Wheatfield as a reserve before individual regiments were posted about the III Corps salient in order to react to Confederate pressure. was parceled out to other sectors, sometimes without his knowledge: I now received orders from General Birney to detail two of my largest regiments to report to General Graham, in compliance with which I detailed the Second New Hampshire and Seventh New Jersey Volunteers. Shortly after this, I received orders from General Birney to detail the strongest regiment to report to General Humphreys for picket, in compliance with which I sent the Fifth New Jersey Volunteers, leaving me three small regiments. I was now ordered by General Birney to form a line across a small wheat-field on my left, to connect two brigades of the First Division. Before I had executed this order, I received an order from General Birney to send the largest regiment to General Ward's support, on my left, and while I was attending to that, the Eighth New Jersey Volunteers was taken from me without my knowledge, leaving me with the One hundred and fifteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers, numbering 140 muskets. My command being now all taken from me and separated, no two regiments being together, and being under the command of the different brigade commanders to whom they had reported, I, with my staff, reported to General Humphreys for instructions, remaining with him for some time. 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Vambrace: Cold Soul Looks Amazing But Doesn't Quite Deliver in Gameplay Here Are April's Xbox Games With Gold Titles Richard Seagrave The coming of a new month means new games for Xbox Games with Gold subscribers to get excited about. Unfortunately though, April's Games with Gold titles aren't anything special. Leading the Games with Gold lineup this April is The Technomancer, an action RPG that was quite good upon its release in 2016 but is now likely to feel a little dated. You'll be able to add The Technomancer to your library any time throughout the month. Next up is Outcast: Second Contact, a remake of the 1999 cult hit that many believe kicked off the open world adventure genre. The verdict is mixed on it, so you might love it or hate it. But as you can download it for free you might as well give it a go. It'll be available to download between 15th April and 15th May. As well as the two Xbox One games, there are also two additional back catalogue games available as usual. The first is Star Wars Battlefront II Classic. Released for the original Xbox, it looks very dated now and you won't be able to play it online. It still offers entertaining bot matches though. You can download it between 1st-15th April. Xbox 360 game Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 is the last Games with Gold title for April. If you've never played it, give it a go. We remember having a lot of fun with it back in the day. It'll be available to download between 16th-30th April. So those are your Xbox Games with Gold offerings for April. be sure to add them to your library if you're a subscriber. You never know when you might get the urge to play one of them. Previous articleHere Are April's Free PS Plus Games Next articlePhoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy is Barmy Courtroom Fun Inside and Castlevania Headline July 2019's Games With Gold Lineup Ubisoft's Got Four AAA Titles Coming Before March 2020 Play Ghost Recon Wildlands For Free This Weekend The Problem With PlayStation Plus (and Games With Gold) February's Xbox Games With Gold Offerings Announced	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Minibus surprise for farm that helps vulnerable people A horticultural-based, environmental social enterprise has been surprised with a new minibus. Rhubarb Farm, Langwith, discovered it was to receive the 17-seater minibus at EEM's fifth annual Building Communities Awards. The black-tie annual awards were held at the Athena, Leicester, and included a charity auction and raffle. The event saw £22,000 handed over to Prostate Cancer UK, as well as £12,000 for Rhubarb Farm, which EEM upgraded into the big surprise – the urgently needed £26,000 minibus, complete with a personalised registration plate and branding. Rhubarb Farm Managing Director Jennie Street and Business Development Manager Angela Keyworth, who attended the event, said they were blown away by everybody's support: "We were expecting to receive a cheque for about £10,000 from monies raised by EEM members. Instead, to our total amazement, Rhubarb Farm was given a brand new 17-seater minibus worth £26,700." "We don't know how to thank EEM and all 25 companies, local authorities and housing associations (their members) whom they procure materials for." "It was incredible and restored our faith in human nature." Woodhead Group were among the sponsors who helped to buy the minibus. Business Support Manager Matt Bust was "honoured to support such a great cause as part of the Woodhead Group's commitment to championing social value". Rhubarb Farm supports vulnerable people to change their lives for the better, using horticultural therapy. It works with people of all needs and abilities in and around north Nottinghamshire and north Derbyshire. Find out more about Rhubarb Farm here	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Guide to the Index Non-Fiction Index Search the Index Browse by Extra About the GOP About the Girl's Own Paper In Search of the GOP (Article) Dating and Numbering Christmas / Summer Extras Answers to Correspondents Selected Illustrations The Lutterworth Press Origins of the Index A full collection of GOP Annuals, 62 thick quarto volumes, occupies eleven feet of shelf-space. Each Annual has its pages numbered consecutively from one up to eight hundred or so, and each was originally issued with an alphabetical index, but even so, looking for a particular item is a formidable task, if we do not know in which volume it is to be found. Moreover, these volume indexes do not usually give authors, and do not cover the Christmas and Summer Extras. I therefore decided, several years ago, to try to compose a series of Indexes covering all the bound Girl's Own Annuals, 1880-1941, 62 in all, with summer and Christmas Extras, using the Hypercard program running on an Apple Macintosh. The indexes do not include any of the reduced-size GOP magazines published from 1941 to 1956. Honor Ward History of the Index The first two indexes covered fiction stories only, one arranged by author and the other by title. These two Fiction Indexes were published in 1992, bound together as a single octavo volume of approximately 200 pages, by A.&B. Whitworth, 17 Hill Street, Colne, Lancashire, England, under the title Girl's Own Guide, by E. Honor Ward. The non-fiction articles were then indexed by author and by subject category. These two Non-Fiction Indexes were not published in print form, but were made available, along with the two Fiction Indexes, on the original version of this website, which was developed by Professor Tom Ward and was hosted on the website of the University of Durham. The current, updated website has taken the original indexes and imported them into database form, in order to take advantage of the searching and sorting possibilities of the online database format. Some editing of the original data has also taken place in order to improve readability. The current Index to the Girl's Own Paper is now fully searchable and sortable by multiple criteria, including title, author, volume and year of publication. The Non-Fiction Indexes can also be searched and sorted by subject category. Finally, a separate Author Index has been compiled from the original data, cross-referenced for variant author credits and pseudonyms, allowing researchers to concentrate on finding stories and articles by specific authors. Guide to the Fiction Index Guide to the Non-Fiction Index Guide to the Author Index From The Lutterworth Press From Morality to Mayhem (PB) By Julian Lovelock Material taken from the Girl's Own Paper (including the examples of "Answers to Correspondents" and the selected illustrations) are all © The Lutterworth Press. The images and text may not be reproduced in any form without permission from The Lutterworth Press (contact us here). The contents of the index to the Girl's Own Paper is © Honor Ward. Extracts from the Index may be used and distributed for any non-commercial activity as long as this notice is included in full with the extracts. Please send all corrections and queries to the [Please enable Javascript to view email address.]	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
🔋 Biodegradable batteries solves e-waste Scientists from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have come up with a partial solution to the toxic e-waste of batteries - a biodegradable one that can be buried in soil. Linn Winge 09.Feb.2022 3 min read Toxic e-waste is a rapidly growing problem, but fortunately, scientists from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have come up with a partial solution to the toxic e-waste of batteries. A biodegradable battery that can be buried in soil once it no longer works and where it will decompose after about a month. These new batteries are paper-thin and made of biodegradable zinc. The team behind the new batteries believes and hopes that, in the future, their invention could be an environmentally friendly alternative for powering smartphones and flexible wearable electronic devices. Good News Network writes, "the NTU Singapore-developed zinc batteries are made up of electrodes (through which the electrical current leaves or enters the battery) screen-printed onto both sides of a piece of cellulose paper that has been reinforced with hydrogel. Once the battery has been expended, it can be buried in soil, where it breaks down completely within a month". In order to prove that their battery works, the team has demonstrated how the battery consisting of a small square of printed paper (4 cm by 4 cm) could power a small electrical fan for 45 minutes at least. The team also performed an experiment that showed that even if a part of the paper is cut away or bent, the battery keeps on working. Professor Fan Hongjin, the study's co-lead author, said to Good News Network: "Traditional batteries come in a variety of models and sizes and choosing the right type for your device could be a cumbersome process. Through our study, we showed a simpler, cheaper way of manufacturing batteries, by developing a single large piece of battery that can be cut to desired shapes and sizes without loss of efficiency. These features make our paper batteries ideal for integration in the sorts of flexible electronics that are gradually being developed." Assistant Professor Lee Seok Woo from the NTU School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and the study's co-lead author, commented the research: "We believe the paper battery we have developed could potentially help with the electronic waste problem, given that our printed paper battery is non-toxic and does not require aluminum or plastic casings to encapsulate the battery components." "Avoiding the packaging layers also enables our battery to store a higher amount of energy, and thus power, within a smaller system." The research is published in Advanced Science. 🔋 Breakthrough: Here is the world's first sodium EV battery Sodium is a whopping 1,000 times more abundant than lithium and both cheaper and easier to extract. Now, the biggest battery maker for EVs has revealed a sodium-ion battery that could shake the industry. Warp NewsMagnus Aschan 🔋 Faster and greener battery recycling With ultrasound and weak acids, it is possible to recycle up to 99 percent of all metals in lithium batteries. Warp NewsKent Olofsson ♻️ Green Tech⚡️ Energy	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
ClassifiedsPhotosAboutContactAdvertise South Pittsburgh Reporter - Serving South Pittsburgh Since 1939 Brashear Association Hilltop Alliance South Pittsburgh People Commentorials Guest Commentorial What The Reporter Means to me Historic Review Commission Service News By Margaret L. Smykla Mt. O. Boro making changes to office, residential policies In the mayor's report which began the Sept. 21 meeting of Mt. Oliver council, Mayor James Cassidy said there are no major issues for the police department. Council member Billie Michener was absent. In the public safety report, Mr. Cassidy reported there were 562 total police calls in August. The k-9 unit was used 16 times. There were five burglaries, and four DUI arrests. Of the 50 drug-related arrests, many were at traffic stops. Police responded to 12 residential alarms, and five false commercial alarms. All equipment is up and running. The officer training is up to date. In the engineer's report read by council President Darnell Sains, both R&B Contracting and Palombo Landscaping were granted a time extension for work at Ormsby Park, Phase II. Palombo was expected to have benches and pavilions installed by Sept. 11. R&B has the paving, fencing, additional wall behind the bench and some punch items to complete. Councilman Frank Bernardini said park vandals will be prosecuted, especially in light of all the money the borough spent on the park. "We are going to run the borough, not the ones going up there and ruining the place," he said. Security cameras were scheduled to be installed in the park this week to video vandalism at it occurs and, therefore, the vandals. In the administration and finance report, Amber McGough said there is a concern about residents and council members being in the administrative offices. Mr. Sains said only the borough manager, building inspector, and two secretaries should be there. Otherwise, work is interrupted. He said from now on the door will be locked for most of the day, with permission of office personnel required to enter. The police will have also have a key to enter. It cannot be used as a "hang-out place," Mr. Sains said. "Gone is the time when that is a thoroughfare." In the code enforcement report from inspector Chuck Knaus for Aug. 7 thru Sept. 3, Mr. Bernardini reported there were 19 complaints; 35 rental inspections (59 units); 19 violation/notices; 38 citations; 11 legal filings; seven occupancies; and one building permit. "He's doing the job of two people," Mr. Bernardini said of Mr. Knaus. He also said if anyone has problems with any borough employee, they should come to a meeting and speak with council. He resents postings on Facebook and other social media that council is lying or stealing. Council is very open, he said, and no member is involved for monetary gain. Councilman Nick Viglione said he does not think any council puts in the time the present council does. Mr. Bernardini also said he and Mr. Knaus discussed the nuisance property ordinance, and see nothing wrong with implementing it. Mr. Sains and solicitor Deron Gabriel said they want final approval from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). "There are 42 properties in Carrick that will be moved on. The city of Pittsburgh and mayor are not worried about the ACLU," Mr. Bernardini said. "I'm tired of being afraid of the ACLU," Mr. Viglione said. Mr. Sains said there has not been a lawsuit filed against the borough in a while. The current ordinance is "antiquated," he said, and he wants to make sure the new version does not infringe on people's civil liberties. Borough manager Ricky Hopkinson said he wants to present the new version to the ACLU for their okay. He will then have a final version within two months. "We don't want to get sued," he said. "It's time to get it nailed down," Mr. Bernardini said. Mr. Viglione said there are 30-year residents who have renters in their neighborhood who terrorize them. When the ordinance is adopted, the borough will need a five-member appeals board. Mr. Bernardini said he wants to invite the ACLU to the borough, where he, along with a few residents, will talk to them. Next, there was discussion about what to do about property which is not maintained. The borough is currently cutting grass for about 30 homes. Councilwoman Barbara Keener suggested drafting a letter to property owners informing them a lien will be placed against their property if is not maintained. Mr. Sains said it must be done in a legal way as sending a threatening letter will have legal ramifications. Mrs. McGough said if the borough cites residents for high grass, it should do the same with property owners. Mr. Bernardini said liens can be placed on properties after so many citations, for which Mr. Gabriel agreed. Mr. Sains said the solicitor should construct a letter so there are no legal problems. In the parks and recreation report, Mr. Viglione said a resident who was instrumental in planting and tending the borough's community garden confiscated youngsters' bikes recently after witnessing them vandalizing the garden. Mr. Sains said residents do not have the liberty or authority to take matters into their own hands. Police Chief Matthew Juzwick said even the police cannot take bikes. Mr. Viglione said the resident was frustrated. She would like more of a police presence at the garden, he said. In the public works report, Mr. Sains said salt was a big issue at the COG meeting attended by himself and Mr. Bernardini. Last year's salt cost was $79 per ton. This year, it is expected to be $61 per ton, although that could rise, he said. In resolutions and ordinances, council voted to spend $62,500 as the borough's share for the city to resurface the borough's side of Brownsville Rd. Council also voted to pay Palombo Landscaping $25,579.83 for work at Ormsby Park, and $26,485 to Allegheny City Electric for phase II of the decorative street lighting. In the question-and-answer session, an attendee said a check cashing business on Brownsville Rd. has become a hang-out for kids on the sidewalk in front of it. Mr. Sains said with the local Carnegie Library closed for renovations there is less for youngsters to do. Mr. Cassidy said the police can move them along, but they return once the officers leave. Mr. Bernardini and Mr. Viglione said to start citing them. "We cannot let these kids terrorize us," Mr. Viglione said. Mr. Bernardini said if the borough hopes to revitalize the business district, it "must act." Mr. Cassidy said the business owner should hang "no loitering" signs, and call the police. Mrs. Keener, Mr. Cassidy, and Chief Juzwick will get together and discuss the use of beat officers in the area. The resident also complained about the appearance of the second block of Stamm Ave. "It is unsightly," he said of the dumpsters without enclosures. Mr. Hopkinson said he would look into the matter. The next council meeting will be on Oct. 19. Christmas lights on East Carson started with a man and a plan City to reopen old Zone 3 as police substation, construction should be complete to open in '22 Allentown to get 31 new affordable homes There won't be holiday pole decorations in South Side, this year Fresh Fridays on the Hilltop will take place on Friday, Nov. 12 Applications open for... Cupid's Chase 5K benef... Sunday meter enforceme...Margaret L. Smykla City of Pittsburgh to... Hilltop Alliance conti...Tom Smith Subscribe to our Business mailing list to receive email only specials South Pittsburgh Reporter [email protected] © 2022 Neighborhood Publications, Inc.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Tag Archives: UK politics Voting Remain to build a better European Union June 20, 2016 Capital, Politics, UKbrexit, EU, European Union, Jo Cox, Migration, UK politics, UKIPTom The EU is a beast that's difficult to love at the best of times. And these certainly are not its best times. The weakness of its institutions over the last decade has meant that it has found it difficult to deal with a series of crises. But it has not been the abject failure that some would have you think. While I disagree with much of the fiscal policy pushed by the Troika, it must be remembered that the EU managed to prevent a Euro collapse that really was on the cards for a year or two. It's easy to forget now that when the EU faces a serious challenge, it has the pragmatism and determination needed to find a solution. This spirit is what has saved the EU in the past and will help it move forward from its current stasis. For months, I've been discussing disconnection, alone and with friends. I've been in Catalonia for fourteen years now, and my infrequent trips to England have left me worried about what's happening there. Increasingly, I've felt disconnected from England. I don't understand why there are Union Jacks everywhere, or why cool people I get along with suddenly shriek at me about the country being "full". I don't understand how people close to me can describe the EU as "horrible", while they simultaneously contemplate handing power to people like Boris Johnson, Michael Gove or Nigel Farage. Victory for Brexit will be a victory for nasty right-wing populism – the repetition of old lies and the fabrication of new ones. Look how UKIP supporters pushed an ever louder, ever nastier anti-migrant message and then went into overdrive trying to claim that Jo Cox's assassination wasn't political. That party thrives on people's fears, and has managed to poison debate in England in a way I never thought possible. And Brexit will hand Farage a huge amount of political capital. Not wanting to empower Britain's populist right wing isn't enough of an argument for the EU, though. The other half of this narrative must be logic and fact – the LSE's Nicholas Barr is as good a source as any for a sensible, evidence-based approach to remaining in the EU. How telling it is that some Brexiters are even calling on their countrymen to 'Ignore the numbers!', as though that were somehow a noble way to approach this debate. It isn't: it's the very definition of small-minded ignorance, a quality which exemplifies the Brexit campaign. The numbers are, of course, vitally important. Which is no doubt why we're encouraged to ignore them. "You can prove anything with facts!", as Stewart Lee reminds us. Whether it's trade, security, democracy or the economy, all the evidence and research points to remaining in the EU as the sensible choice. If Brexit ends up winning on Thursday, the sky will not fall. But things will change. Britain's democracy will have been dealt a major blow by arguably the most dishonest and hate-filled political campaign in our history – certainly since the Blackshirts. Voters will have sided with ignorance and demagoguery. Britain will, for perhaps the first time in its history, take a step backwards and explicitly reject progress and modernity. This referendum will likely be my last chance to vote in the UK. It's also by far the most important vote I've ever cast. If you have a vote, please use it to vote to keep Britain in the European Union and reject UKIP's vile, populist propaganda. Vote for the hope that Europe represents for so many millions of people, and for the aim that together we can build a better Europe and a better Union. Vote Remain.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Aldridge Reports Q2 2016 Financial Results and Provides a Corporate Update Download this Press Release (PDF 444 KB) TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Aldridge Minerals Inc. (TSX-V: AGM) ("Aldridge" or the "Company") announced today the filing of its unaudited consolidated financial statements as at and for the six months ending June 30, 2016 (the "Q2 2016 Financials"), and the Management's Discussion & Analysis related thereto (the "Q2 2016 MD&A"), which are available on SEDAR and at www.aldridgeminerals.ca. Second Quarter Highlights Revised pricing strategy advances Yenipazar land acquisition significantly - During the last month, landowners holding 37.3% of the project area have committed in writing to sell their land to Aldridge. Following the purchase of the newly committed land, Aldridge will have full ownership of 76% of the total project area, including treasury land. Potential stream transaction announced – Aldridge announced a Potential Transaction with Orion to extend the Company's existing Loan, which would be followed by the implementation of a silver stream transaction. Aldridge expects the silver stream deposit to equal US$40,000,000. Han Ilhan, President & CEO, commented, "The key focus of Aldridge continues to be the advancement of the Yenipazar Project land acquisition through parallel processes of voluntary sales and the State's compulsory process. As at June 30, 2016 approximately 36% of the total project area had been acquired for a cost of US$9,410,535. The Company also has the right to use treasury land representing an additional 13% of the project area, which increases the total to approximately 49% of the project area. "The key development during the quarter occurred in June 2016 when the Company revised its pricing strategy in order to shorten the acquisition timeline and maintain the Company's social licence to operate. As a result, Aldridge increased its offer price from Turkish Lira ("TRY") 5.1 per square metre to TRY 9.1 per square metre with a payment of TRY 5.1 per square metre payable on title transfer and a deferred payment of TRY 4 (or US$1.35) per square metre to be paid within 24 months. The revised offer price resulted in significant acceptance by existing landowners. In July 2016 the Company received landowner commitment agreements representing more than 80% of the remaining land to be purchased. Following the completion of the purchase and sales process related to these commitments, I am pleased to report that Aldridge will have full access to 76% of the total project area. If we include additional partially owned parcels and commitments, this total increases to approximately 89%." In closing, Mr. Ilhan added, "We look forward to facilitating the purchase and sales process with the landowners over the coming months. In parallel we will continue financing discussions that have been initiated with multiple financial institutions that have expressed interest in the Yenipazar Project." Land Acquisition – In July 2016 the Company received land owner commitment agreements representing more than 80% of the remaining land to be purchased. Consequently, land acquisitions and purchase commitments since June 30, 2016 improved as indicated in the following table: 30-Jun-16 30-Jun-16 30-Jun-16 1-Aug-16 1-Aug-16 1-Aug-16 including Commitments* Land Parcels % of Project Treasury land - 'Right to Use' per mining license 84 1,210,907 12.8% 84 1,210,907 12.8% Private land - Wholly owned 154 2,493,281 26.3% 154 2,493,281 26.3% Commitments from landowners* - Wholly owned 216 3,541,306 37.3% Treasury, wholly-owned private land & commitments* 238 3,704,188 39.0% 454 7,245,494 76.3% Private land - Partially owned 125 930,832 9.8% 80 858,975 9.0% Commitments from landowners* - Partially owned 36 366,807 3.9% Sub-total - Partially owned 125 930,832 9.8% 116 1,225,782 12.9% Land Titles Owned & Right to Use 363 4,635,020 48.8% 570 8,471,276 89.2% Remaining to purchase - Partial parcels 1,178,818 12.4% 457,794 4.8% Remaining to purchase - Whole parcels 238 3,633,473 38.3% 31 514,541 5.4% Pasture land - application in progress 2 48,338 0.5% 2 48,338 0.5% Outstanding - Required Land 240 4,860,629 51.2% 33 1,020,673 10.8% Yenipazar Project Area 603 9,495,649 100.0% 603 9,491,949 100.0% *"Commitments" represents agreements made by landowners to sell their property to Aldridge. The Company expects to process the transactions and obtain the title deeds at the local land registry office beginning in August. The Company has commenced the process of executing the purchases of land pursuant to the commitment agreements discussed above. Turkish regulations allow ownership of a share of land title, which allows non-exclusive access to the land parcels. The chart above segregates the partially-owned parcels indicating additional purchases or expropriation are required to gain exclusive access to these land parcels. The Company is committed to paying former land owners, who previously sold their land to the Company at the initial offer price of TRY 5.1 per square metre, the deferred payment of TRY 4 (or US$1.35) per square metre at the same deferred dates. Consequently, the total cost of the land acquisition plan ("LAP") is estimated to increase by approximately US$10,000,000 from the cost outlined in the 2014 "Technical Report on the Yenipazar Optimization Study, Yozgat Province, Turkey." The State-led compulsory LAP court process continued in parallel with the voluntary transactions based on the new commitment agreements. There are presently 120 court cases related to approximately 4,800,000 square metres, or all remaining project land to be acquired. As land titles are acquired on a voluntary basis, the related court cases have been and will continue to be dropped. The court process includes an initial hearing whereby land pricing experts are appointed to assess the value of the project land. The initial hearing has been completed for 117 of the 120 open court cases, and pricing experts have visited more than 89% of the land area subject to the court cases. Loan Extension and Silver Stream – On July 28, 2016, the Company announced that it is in advanced stage discussions with an affiliate of Orion Mine Finance ("Orion"), with respect to a potential silver stream transaction (the "Potential Transaction") the proceeds of which would be used to repay outstanding indebtedness owed by the Company under its existing US$35,000,000 loan facility with Orion (the "Loan") and to fund the Company's on-going land acquisition process and working capital requirements. Subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions precedent, including the finalization of definitive documentation, the Potential Transaction would, if completed, result in, among other things, the extension of the Loan's maturity date from August 29, 2016 to up to December 31, 2017. The implementation of the silver stream transaction and repayment of the Loan prior to the revised Loan maturity date would be subject to the Company achieving certain milestones related to the development of the Yenipazar Project in Turkey. Aldridge expects the silver stream deposit to equal US$40,000,000. Working Capital and Debt Facility – The Company ended the second quarter with US$3,607,954 in cash and negative working capital of US$15,670,335. As at June 30 and August 11, 2016 the Company had drawn down US$17,500,000 of its US$35,000,000 Loan. Strategy and Outlook The Company's short term focus will be on completing the definitive documentation related to the Potential Transaction and completing the land purchases based on the commitment agreements and the revised price offer. The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) activities will continue to focus on advancing the Yenipazar Project in line with the timing of obtaining the financing in 2017. As a result, the Company expects to advance the Yenipazar Project as follows: Loan Extension and Silver Stream – The Potential Transaction's definitive documentation is expected to be completed in August 2016. Land Acquisition – The land acquisition will continue to be advanced through voluntary sales and State-led compulsory process. The Company is working towards completing the acquisition of at least 85% of the total land required by the end of 2016 and the balance in Q1 2017. However, there are inherent procedural risks outside of the Company's control, such as the court proceedings and absent land owners which may result in some land parcel purchases delayed (see "Risk Factors" in the Q2 2016 MD&A). Engineering – The Company has established a Technical, Environmental, Health, Safety and Sustainability Committee to assist with the analysis of the EPC development plan and, more specifically, the review and analysis of prospective contracts and negotiations of certain basic engineering packages and letters of intent related to the supply of long lead-time process equipment and other services. As a result, basic engineering may begin in the second half of 2016 with continuation in 2017. Financing – The Company will actively consider various project financing alternatives, which may include senior and subordinated debt, equity, metal streams, off-take agreements and strategic investments. Although significant progress on the LAP is anticipated in the next few months, the timing risk related to the State-led court process suggests additional time may be required to obtain all the land necessary to comply with project financing conditions. Consequently, the Company may seek interim equity financing within six months, and prior to completing the full project financing required to build the Yenipazar Project. Selected Financial Information The following table provides selected consolidated financial information that should be read in conjunction with the Q2 2016 Financials. SIX MONTHS ENDED AND AS AT ENDED AND AS AT Loss before income tax $(1,688,792) $(2,723,183) $(5,279,998) Net loss (1,688,792) (2,723,183) (5,279,998) Net loss per share (0.01) (0.03) (0.05) Cash and cash equivalents 3,607,954 6,394,406 8,520,566 Working capital (i) (15,670,335) 6,624,642 (10,005,830) Total assets 30,711,251 24,280,358 30,814,033 Total non-current financial liabilities 174,892 9,582,084 126,974 (i)Working capital equals current assets less current liabilities, and is a non-GAAP measure used by management. Officer Appointment Jaymes Dircks, the Company's EPC Director, was appointed as an officer of the Company effective June 29, 2016. Aldridge is a development stage mining company focused on its wholly owned Yenipazar polymetallic Massive Sulfide Project (Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc) in Turkey, a country that is committed to developing its natural resources. Aldridge completed the Yenipazar Optimization Study and filed the related technical report in May 2014, which updated the original May 2013 Feasibility Study. The Company is currently advancing the Yenipazar Project on key aspects including land acquisition, project financing and engineering. This news release may include certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Canadian securities laws, including, but not limited to, the ability to accomplish remaining milestones, completing the Yenipazar land acquisition, refinancing the Company's existing loan, securing project financing, advancing the Yenipazar Project to production, economic performance and the future plans and objectives of the Company. Forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results, performance, prospects and opportunities to differ materially from those expressed in such forward-looking statements. Such risks, uncertainties and factors including the Company's ability to re-finance the Loan prior to the maturity of the Loan on August 29, 2016 on terms acceptable to the Company or at all, meeting conditions for future advances under the Loan and the other factors discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's Management's Discussion and Analysis for the year ended December 31, 2015 and in other continuous disclosure filings made by the Company with Canadian securities regulatory authorities and available at www.sedar.com. Any number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements as well as future results. Forward-looking information is based on a number of factors and assumptions which have been used to develop such information but which may prove to be incorrect, including, but not limited to, assumptions in connection with the continuance of Aldridge and its subsidiaries as a going concern, general economic, political and market conditions, mineral prices, the accuracy of mineral resource estimates. Although Aldridge believes that the assumptions and factors used in making the forward-looking statements are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on these statements, which only apply as of the date of this news release, and no assurance can be given that such events will occur in the disclosed time frames or at all. Aldridge disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise unless required by law. 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Desert Dispatch LV Leader Hesperia Star Best of Desert Cook responds to U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian general Rene Ray De La Cruz Staff Writer @DP_ReneDeLaCruz Jan 3, 2020 at 8:15 PM Jan 3, 2020 at 8:15 PM On Friday, the Apple Valley Congressman called a U.S. drone strike that took out Qassem Soleimani a 'decisive defensive action.' CORRECTION: In a previous version of this story, Roger Peterson was misidentified as Roger La Plante. The story has been updated. We apologize for any inconvenience. APPLE VALLEY — Rep. Paul Cook issued a statement Friday in response to U.S. military action that resulted in the death of Iran's top general, Qassem Soleimani. The 62-year-old Soleimani was killed Friday in a drone strike at Baghdad's international airport, an attack many world leaders say threatens to ratchet up tensions in the region. Soleimani was the head of Iran's Quds Force and architect of Tehran's proxy wars in the Middle East. In a news release, Cook, R-Apple Valley, who represents California's 8th Congressional District, called Soleimani "a brutal terrorist responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American service members and thousands of civilians in Iraq, Syria and across the Middle East." Cook said Soleimani ran Iran's terrorist Quds Force for over a decade and orchestrated countless terror attacks, including one earlier this week on the American Embassy in Baghdad. "He actively developed plans to attack American diplomats and service members throughout the region and was a key architect of the covert operations central to Iran's strategy to destabilize its neighbors," Cook said. "This decisive defensive action sends a message that the United States will not tolerate terror or further Iranian aggression." Cook called the Iranian government a leading sponsor of terrorism worldwide. He said the U.S. must proceed cautiously while remaining resolute in "protecting our country and defending freedom." Democrats seeking the White House in 2020, as well as those in Congress, questioned Trump's approach to the targeted killing, but they made clear they didn't regret the end result. Many focused on the possible ramifications that could play out in the aftermath of Soleimani's death. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, for example, said the president's move "'increased the likelihood of more deaths and new Middle East conflict." Locally, however, High Desert residents interviewed by the Daily Press praised Trump for carrying out the drone strike. Teacher Josh Justice, a Victorville resident who has lived abroad for many years, said the decision to take out Soleimani was a wise move. Justice said the Iranian general murdered hundreds of his own civilians, killed thousands more in Syria, conspired to assassinate a Saudi diplomat in Washington, D.C., killed hundreds and injured thousands of American soldiers, bombed Saudi oil facilities and captured a U.S. military boat. "I think killing one man instead of retaliating to a number of things this man did was the best thing to do seeing as how diplomacy has not worked," Justice said. "This guy was an evil, evil man." Justice shared a portion of a conversation he recently had with his friend, Will, a Syrian who has sought refuge in Tunisia. "Yeah, it was good news to wake up to. That (expletive) was a monster. He had it coming," Will told Justice. "I was surprised though. That was a bold move from Trump." Roger Peterson, former chair of the Lucerne Valley Municipal Advisory Council, said Soleimani's demise was long overdue. "He was responsible for so much terrorism around the world," Peterson said. "I applaud the president for having the courage to take him out." Businessman Paul McClain, of Helendale, agreed, saying, "Finally we have a president that is taking care of business." Laura Foss, of Oak Hills, said, "I believe our president made this decision based on the intelligence he had at hand, and he did what he had to do." In his first televised remarks since the drone strike, Trump addressed the nation on Friday and accused Soleimani of planning "imminent and sinister attacks." "What the U.S. did yesterday should have been done long ago," Trump said. In response to the targeted killing, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned that a "harsh retaliation is waiting" for the U.S. Reporter Rene Ray De La Cruz may be reached at 760-951-6227, [email protected], Instagram@renegadereporter, Twitter @DP_ReneDeLaCruz. vvdailypress.com ~ 13891 Park Ave, Victorville, CA, 92392 ~ Do Not Sell My Personal Information ~ Cookie Policy ~ Do Not Sell My Personal Information ~ Privacy Policy ~ Terms Of Service ~ Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy This Desert Life Lucerne Valley Leader CSD Voter Guide Sickweather Map Best of the Desert Reader Loyalty Program	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
You are here: Home / Collegiate / University of Central Missouri / Alex Springer named MIAA Golfer of the Week Alex Springer named MIAA Golfer of the Week Central Missouri senior golfer Alex Springer was named the MIAA Men's Golf Athlete of the Week after his performance at the DII National Preview Tournament in Kissimmee, Fla. earlier this week. The Olathe, Kan. native shot rounds of 72, 71 and 70 to finish at three-under par and tied for 10th place at the tough NCAA Division II National Preview Tournament. He helped the Mules to a 12th place team finish in a tournament that featured 14 top-25 teams, including the top five teams in the nation and eight of the top 10. This is the second MIAA Golfer of the Week award for Springer this year. The Mules are back in action next Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 10-11 at the Missouri Western/Holiday Inn Express Classic at the St. Joseph Country Club. Previous Article William Woods Women's Golf Finishes First at Fulton Medical Center Invite Next Article UMSL's Thorngren Named GLVC Women's Golfer of the Week Collegiate September 25, 2018 Sylven Leads Men's Golf at Findlay Fall Tournament Women's Golf Finishes 10th at Minnesota Invitational Women's Golf Wraps Up Play at Payne Stewart/MSU Memorial	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Fuhrer Cult and Megalomania "Even the pyramids," Hitler told his protege, architect Albert Speer, "will be dwarfed by the stone and concrete masses I plan to erect." By early in the twentieth century Nuremberg was regarded as the most... By early in the twentieth century Nuremberg was regarded as the most anti-Semitic city in Europe. By 1929 Hitler had decided to make Nuremberg the "City of the Party Rallies" and a symbol representing the greatness of the German Empire in medieval times. Up to 1.5 million people converged on Nuremberg in the course of a party rally, which lasted eight days, forming an indispensable platform for the Nazis once a year - with a gigantic propaganda machine, brochures and books, recordings, radio and films - all brilliantly captured by Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will." Even today it is possible to see signs in Nuremberg of the megalomaniac proportions that the system was to assume. In such arenas, the individual was worthless and nothing more than a minute ornament. According to experts, this state and party rally architecture was also a symbol of Hitler's determination achieve world domination. Rare footage of the construction work was used for this documentary. A previously unknown amateur film even shows the land in color in 1936. Witnesses report on the atmosphere during the party rallies, of fanatical anti-Semitism and the unprecedented "Fuhrer" cult. From the director of The Goebbels Experiment and Firestorm. "Astonishing...disturbing (but alas, riveting)." - Examiner.com Michael Kloft First Run Features	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Commitment to Racial Equity Join Funders Together Funder Resources All Funder Resources Racial Equity Resources COVID-19 Resources for Funders Funder Resources on the Executive Order on Banning Racial Equity Trainings Voices for Justice In the Movement to End Homelessness Homelessness and Housing Narrative Change and Messaging Resources Become a Full Member You can make an important impact. A national network of funders supporting strategic, innovative, and effective solutions to homelessness Making Public Housing Work for Families (Part 1 of 3) Posted by Nancy von Euler 82sc on February 11, 2014 The first post in a three-part series on The Fairfield County Community Foundation's efforts to improve the lives of families in Connecticut. In 2008, The Fairfield County Community Foundation (FCCF) embarked on an effort to improve the success of families living in public housing in Bridgeport, CT. The work was inspired and supported by a new donor-advised fund at FCCF, the Bridgeport Public Housing Resident Support Fund (BPHRSF) that was established with the proceeds of the settlement of a lawsuit, and was intended to benefit Bridgeport public housing residents. The first focus of the fund was eviction prevention and FCCF and the BPHRSF advisory committee selected New Haven Home Recovery (NHHR) through a Request for Proposals process to deliver a program model we had developed with consultation from the Center for Urban and Community Services. The program, which we named Stable Families, was designed to provide intensive case management and support services to high risk families in Bridgeport public housing and was intended to take an early intervention approach to eviction; getting at the underlying issues that can make a family vulnerable to eviction before they actually found themselves in the eviction process. The program would also work with families who were in the process of eviction; first helping them resolve the issues that put them at risk for eviction and then providing services and supports that would help improve the health, stability and economic and educational success of these families. Ira Cutler (now of Metis Associates) was brought on board as the process evaluator and implementation advisor prior to implementation, and the BPRHSF advisory committee committed to staying closely involved in the development and implementation of the program. Although the advisory committee was in an oversight role, we very intentionally positioned ourselves as partners in the work being done. The honest exchange that resulted during our monthly meetings allowed us to very quickly see the tremendous potential of the program, as well as the red flags that highlighted the pitfalls. The program opened in the fall of 2009 and in the very first year we learned some valuable lessons: Our first lesson concerned program access and referrals. Because nearly all of Bridgeport's 5,500 public housing residents were living on incomes that were well below poverty level, virtually all residents could be considered at risk for eviction. We feared that Stable Families' three full-time staff members would quickly become overwhelmed by the need. To avoid this, we carefully crafted eligibility and prioritization criteria, only to find in the first year that the program could not fill its caseload. We had envisioned Housing Authority site managers as being an important source of referrals, but quickly learned that the referral role was not consistent with their vision of their role as property managers or with their skill set. Self-referrals to the program only became a consistent and reliable source of new clients in the second year when NHHR was able to access some funds to provide emergency assistance grants to clients for back rent or outstanding utility balances. That brings us to our second lesson. The Housing Authority's staff attorneys were the primary source of referrals to the program in the first year, which meant that Stable Families was primarily serving families who were already in the eviction pipeline. Clearly we needed to find a way to connect with families earlier. In our planning, we had envisioned an early intervention strategy that would be built on a robust partnership with the Child First program of Bridgeport Hospital, an evidence-based early intervention and home visiting program for at-risk families with children from birth to age 6; but Stable Families was not having success enrolling families with young children. From an early intervention standpoint, we were not going to be successful unless we could connect with these young families. There was good news, however. In the first 21 months the program had served 118 families at risk for eviction, achieved a 99% eviction prevention rate, and helped 75% of those families to maintain or increase their income. Framed as a homelessness prevention program, Stable Families was doing a good job; but we didn't want to just prevent failure, we wanted to ensure success. By the end of the first year we were already realizing that we were not going to be able to achieve positive, long-term outcomes for families as long as those families continued to live in highly unstable public housing environments. We needed to find a way to have positive community level outcomes, in addition to positive family-level outcomes, and that was going to mean working differently. Read part two in this three-part blog series. Nancy von Euler joined the Fairfield County Community Foundation in April 2008 and serves as Program Director for Economic Opportunity and Health and Human Services. Ms. von Euler holds a Bachelor's degree in Urban Studies from Vassar College and a Master's degree in Public Administration from New York University. Find her at @nancyvone. families affordable housing Joe Baker commented 2014-02-11 13:16:01 -0500 Thanks for demonstrate how listening and learning can improve service outcomes. We joined Funders Together because we believe in the power of philanthropy to play a major role in ending homelessness, and we know we have much to learn from funders across the country. -Christine Marge, Director of Housing and Financial Stability at United Way of Greater Los Angeles I am thankful for the local partnerships here in the Pacific Northwest that we've been able to create and nurture thanks to the work of Funders Together. Having so many of the right players at the table makes our conversations – and all of our efforts – all the richer and more effective. -David Wertheimer, Deputy Director at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Very often a lack of jobs and money is not the cause of poverty, but the symptom. The cause may lie deeper in our failure to give our fellow citizens a fair chance to develop their own capacities, in a lack of education and training, in a lack of medical care and housing, in a lack of decent communities in which to live and bring up their children. -President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 State of the Union Address Funders Together has given me a platform to engage the other funders in my community. Our local funding community has improved greatly to support housing first models and align of resources towards ending homelessness. -Leslie Strnisha, Vice President at Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland Our family foundation convenes local funders and key community stakeholders around strategies to end homelessness in Houston. Funders Together members have been invaluable mentors to us in this effort, traveling to our community to share their expertise and examples of best practices from around the nation. -Nancy Frees Fountain, Managing Director at The Frees Foundation Only members have access to some of the resources we list on this page. Feel free to explore the Funder Toolkit and see what we have to offer, but you may not be able to access some of the resources without signing up for membership. 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Prince Harry, The Wounded Wounded - Saturday 28th January 2023 01:09 AM An American general predicts the year in which the war with China will break out - Saturday 28th January 2023 01:08 AM Oweidat has evidence incriminating Al-Bitar and Lebanon received estimates of the presence of 4.4 billion cubic feet of gas in Block 9 - Saturday 28th January 2023 01:08 AM Former Shin Bet chief: Foreign investors are fleeing and the collapse of the Hebrew state is imminent - Saturday 28th January 2023 01:08 AM Urgent, good news for all Umrah pilgrims and visitors to Saudi Arabia .. significant cost reductions - Saturday 28th January 2023 01:08 AM Seoul, New Zealand toppled Elton John's concert - Saturday 28th January 2023 01:08 AM Two people were injured in a traffic accident in Damietta due to a motorcycle race - Saturday 28th January 2023 01:08 AM Tunisia.. "Salvation Front" calls for a return to the 2014 constitution (video) \| news - Saturday 28th January 2023 01:08 AM "World Health": Lifting the state of emergency on Corona – Saudi News - Saturday 28th January 2023 01:06 AM News 24 \| Union decides the fate of Aaron Camara - Saturday 28th January 2023 01:05 AM Microsoft has called out PlayStation for its defense against the FTC lawsuit Technology Saffanah World Tuesday 24th January 2023 06:46 AM REPORT Microsoft has filed Sony Interactive Entertainment with a subpoena as it looks to build its defense against a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) lawsuit. According to the court filing, the Xbox manufacturer wants Sony to disclose information it believes is relevant to its case, which could include confidential details that Sony would be reluctant to share with its competitor if possible. "Negotiations between SIE and Microsoft regarding SIE's production scope and discovery schedule are ongoing," the file reads, referring to the unspecified documents it requested. After a one-week extension, Sony has until January 27 to take action to limit, cancel, or respond to the subpoena. In December, the FTC announced plans to sue Microsoft in an effort to halt its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which the regulator argues would enable the company to "suppress competitors" to its Xbox console, subscription content, and cloud gaming business. Among other concerns, the FTC and Sony have expressed concerns that the deal could significantly reduce PlayStation's ability to compete, given that it would see Microsoft take ownership of the Call of Duty series, which Sony has described as "irreplaceable". In their responses to the FTC complaint, Microsoft and Activision argued that their merger would be competitive and benefit consumers by making the Call of Duty publisher's games more widely available. In an effort to address regulatory concerns, Microsoft recently said it had offered Sony a legally enforceable 10-year contract to make every new Call of Duty game available on PlayStation the same day it is available on Xbox. The Federal Trade Commission said earlier this month that there were no "substantial" settlement talks with Microsoft over the proposed acquisition. If it goes to trial, the case will be decided during hearings scheduled for August 2023. PREV Microsoft stops selling Windows 10 downloads as part of a planned shutdown in 2025 NEXT Microsoft will stop selling Windows 10 at the end of January "World Health": Lifting the state of emergency on Corona – Saudi News China is working on a new spacecraft for the 2026 mission to the Arctic… The perpetrator is a resident of Jerusalem.. The Israeli police describe the "Nabi Jacob" attack as "difficult and complex"	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Do Individual Auditors Have Their Own Styles? Evidence from Clients' Financial Statement Comparability in China Haina Shi Wen Wen; Wen Wen Beijing Foreign Studies University Gaoguang Zhou Hong Kong Baptist University Xindong (Kevin) Zhu We thank Byron Song, Song Tang, and the participants at Central University of Finance and Economics, Renmin University of China, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and University of Waterloo for their constructive comments. We are grateful for the constructive comments from the editor and two anonymous referees. All errors are our own. Gaoguang Zhou acknowledges that the work described in this paper was supported by a grant from the Research Grant Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), China (Early Career Scheme Fund No. 22503317). Xindong Zhu acknowledges financial support by the Research Grant Council of the Hong Kong SAR, China (General Research Fund No. 11507914). Wen Wen acknowledges financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 72002014 and 72072015), the National Social Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 20AGL015), and the Beijing Social Science Foundation Project (Grant No. 19YJC040). Haina Shi, Fudan University, School of Management, Department of Accounting, Shanghai, China; Wen Wen, Beijing Foreign Studies University, International Business School, Beijing, China; Gaoguang Zhou, Hong Kong Baptist University, Department of Accountancy and Law, Hong Kong, China; Xindong (Kevin) Zhu, City University of Hong Kong, Department of Accountancy, Hong Kong, China. All authors contributed equally. Editor's note: Accepted by Jagan Krishnan, under the Senior Editorship of Teri Lombardi Yohn. Accepted: January 01 2021 Accounting Horizons (2021) 35 (3): 187–215. https://doi.org/10.2308/HORIZONS-18-002 Haina Shi, Wen Wen, Gaoguang Zhou, Xindong (Kevin) Zhu; Do Individual Auditors Have Their Own Styles? Evidence from Clients' Financial Statement Comparability in China. Accounting Horizons 1 September 2021; 35 (3): 187–215. https://doi.org/10.2308/HORIZONS-18-002 In this study, we investigate whether individual auditors are associated with the comparability of their clients' financial statements, based on a sample of Chinese companies audited by ten large audit firms. We demonstrate that individual auditors have an incremental effect on comparability, beyond the office-level effect. We also find that the style of individual auditors is stronger when they are affiliated with Big 4 audit firms (compared to non-Big 4 large audit firms) and when they are industry experts. In addition, two possible channels of enhanced comparability are identified: (1) clients' accounting flexibility, which provides opportunities for auditors to exert influences; and (2) individual auditors' characteristics, such as age, position, and academic degree, which affect auditors' abilities to exert influence. Our results are robust to alternative comparability and industry expertise measures, to various sampling methods, and to corrections for potential endogeneity problems. JEL Classifications: M41; M42. individual auditors, financial statement comparability, industry expertise	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
What's the Best Way to Build Endurance? Written by Laura Schwecherl on April 3, 2014 From cycling, to running, to soccer, to swimming, aerobic exercise requires endurance so athletes can keep on truckin' without losing steam. But it may not be as easy as running longer, swimming farther, or cycling a century. Here, we lay out some traditional ways to boost stamina along with sneakier ways to keep going stronger, longer. Push it Real Good—The Need-to-Know Endurance allows people to work out at a certain intensity or for an extended amount of time (hello, marathon!) The effect of endurance training on parameters of aerobic fitness. Jones, A.M. Carter, H. Department of Exercise and Sport Science, Crewe and Alsager Faculty, The Manchester Metropolitan University, England. Sports Medicine, 2000 Jun;29(6):373-86. . There are a number of factors that combine to create an athlete's "endurance profile," and two of the most important are VO2 max and lactate threshold. VO2 max, or the maximum rate at which an athlete's body can consume oxygen during exercise, is the most popular measurement of aerboic capacity (although it's unclear if it's necessarily the most accurate) Limiting factors for maximum oxygen uptake and determinants of endurance performance. Bassett, D.R., Howley, E.T. Department of Exercise Science and Sport Management, University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 2000 Jan;32(1):70-84. Testing for maximum oxygen consumption has produced a brainless model of human exercise performance. Noakes, T.D. Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Deaprtment of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2008 Jul;42(7):551-5. Epub 2008 Apr 18. . Although endurance ability is mostly a matter of genetics, maximal oxygen uptake can be improved with targeted training. High intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts have been shown to to do the trick, increasing athletes' VO2 max Aerobic high-intensity intervals improve VO2max more than moderate training. Helgerud J, Høydal K, Wang E, et al. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. 2007 Apr;39(4):665-71. . Another piece of the endurance puzzle is the athlete's lactate threshold, or the level of exertion at which lactate accumulates in the muscles Lactate threshold concepts: how valid are they? Faude, O., Kindermann, W., Meyer, T. Institute of Sports Medicine, University Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany. Sports Medicine, 2009;39(6):469-90 . Luckily, it's possible for virtually any athlete to improve both of these measures. To improve lactate threshold—and therefore the ability to workout harder for longer periods of time—Greatist Expert Noam Tamir says tempo runs may do the trick. Endurance athletes often have a higher proportion of slow-twitch muscle fibers, which power steady-state activities like running by using oxygen efficiently to generate more energy Maximal oxygen uptake and muscle fiber types in trained and untrained humans. Bergh, U., Thorstensson, A., Sjodin, B. et al. Medicine and Science in Sports, 1978 Fall;10(3):151-4 . Running long can train slow-twitch muscles to fuel such workouts more efficiently and to fight fatigue more effectively. A continuous practice of long-distance running can also help convert fast-twitch muscles to slow-twitch muscles, which will enhance endurance. Surefire Stamina—Your Action Plan Try these tips to help bump up endurance a notch. With some smart training and nutrition guidance, that Ironman may totally be within reach! Rest up. To go long and hard, athletes need fresh muscles, says Greatist Expert John Mandrola: "Go hard on hard days; go easy on easy days; and never string hard days together without adequate rest." Feeling fresh can help anyone go the distance. Eat right. When it comes to exercise nutrition, carbs are key, since the body uses glycogen for fuel when the goin' gets tough Exercise and functional foods. Aoi, W., Naito, Y., Yoshikawa, T. Nutrition Journal, 2006 Jun 5;5:15. . Once glycogen runs out, the body turns to energy from other sources, and begins to burn fat. For extended cardio sessions, consume 30-60 grams of carbs every hour, depending on body weight. Studies have also found a mix of carbs and protein can enhance endurance performance and reduce muscle damage—win! Adaptation to a fat-rich diet: effects on endurance performance in humans. Helge, J.W. Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre, August Krogh Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Sports Medicine, 2000 Nov;30(5):347-57. Effects of diet on muscle triglyceride and endurance performance. Starling, R.D., Trappe, T.A., Parcell, A.C., et al. Human Performance Laboratory, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. Journal of Applied Physiology, 1997 Apr;82(4):1185-9. Effects of a carbohydrate-protein beverage on cycling endurance and muscle damage. Saunders, M.J., Kane, M.D., Todd, M.K. School of Kinesiology and Recreation Studies, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 2004 Jul;36(7):1233-8. Effect of a carbohydrate-protein supplement on endurance performance during exercise of varying intensity. Ivy, J.L., Res, P.T., Sprague, R.C., et al. Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, The University of Texas, Austin, TX. The International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, 2003 Sep;13(3):382-95. . That said, keep in mind that the best mix of carbohydrates, fat and protein varies considerably amongst athletes, says Mandrola. Experiment, experiment, and experiment some more to find the right combination for you. HIIT it up. It might sound crazy, but often less really is more. High intensity interval training—aka quick bouts of intense exercise—can help improve endurance in conjunction with traditional training Short-term sprint interval versus traditional endurance training: similar initial adaptations in human skeletal muscle and exercise performance. Gibala, M.J., Little, J.P., van Essen, M., et al. Department of Kinesiology IWC AB122, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Journal of Physiology, 2006 Sep 15;575(Pt 3):901-11. Epub 2006 Jul 6. Aerobic high-intensity intervals improve VO2max more than moderate training. Helgerud, J., Hoydal, K., Wang, E., et al. Department of Circulation and Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 2007 Apr;39(4):665-71. . Need some ideas on how to mix it up? Run some stairs or try a track workout for some speed. Just remember to get plenty of recovery after these workouts—they're intense! Add some strength. When it comes to endurance training, variation is important. Resistance training can strengthen our bones, ligaments, tendons, and muscles—helping improve overall fitness and helping with that final sprint to the finish Effects of resistance training on endurance capacity and muscle fiber composition in young top-level cyclists. Aagaard P, Andersen J.L., Bennekou M, et al. Institute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, 2011 Dec;21(6):e298-307 . Mix up aerobic exercise with kettlebells, dumbbell, and bodyweight exercises to help improve stamina Compatibility of adaptive responses with combining strength and endurance training. McCarthy, J.P., Agre, J.C., Graf, B.K., et al. Biodynamics Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison WI. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 5 Mar;27(3):429-36. Explosive-strength training improves 5-km running time by improving running economy and muscle power. Paavolainen, L., Hakkinen, K., Hamalainen, I., et al. KIHU-Research Institute for Olympic Sports, University of Jyväskylä, SF-40700 Jyväskylä, Finland. Journal of Applied Physiology, 1999 May;86(5):1527-33. Effect of resistance training regimens on treadmill running and neuromuscular performance in recreational endurance runners. Mikkola, J., Vesterinen, V., Taipale, R., et al. KIHU-Research Institute for Olympic Sports, Jyväskylä, Finland. Journal of Sports Sciences, 2011 Oct;29(13):1359-71. Epub 2011 Aug 22. Turn on the tunes. Could it be as easy as pumping up the volume? Listening to music has been shown to boost endurance performance while walking, so it doesn't hurt to work out with some tunes. The mind-body connection is especially strong among endurance athletes, and any pick-me-up can help when the going gets tough Psychophysical and ergogenic effects of synchronous music during treadmill walking. Karageorghis, Cl. Mouzourides, D.A., Priest, D.L., et al. School of Sport and Eduction, Brunel University, West London, UK. Journal of Sport and Exercise Phychology, 2009 Feb;31(1):18-36. . Work on what's weak. People often find their fitness niche and stick to it. Instead, Mandrola advises people to mix it up in order to build endurance: Marathoners should work on speed, and flat-landers should stomp those hills. Getting to that personal best means working on what's most challenging. Drink beet juice! Yup, it's science. One study found nitrate-rich beets may help increase stamina up to 16 percent by reducing oxygen intake in athletes (It remains unclear if other nitrate-rich foods produce similar effects) Promoting functional foods as acceptable alternatives to doping: potential for information-based social marketing approach. James, R., Naughton, D., Petroczi, A. Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, 2010 November 10. . So consider drinking some beet juice along with that bowl of pasta the night before race day. You never know. Just remember that beet juice can be high in sugar, so use in moderation. Train smart. The gradual adaption principle—that is, slowly and steadily increasing mileage and speed—is a great way to build endurance. There are ways to do this safely to avoid injury, from running on soft surfaces, to getting enough sleep and drinking tons of water.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
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PM Narendra Modi addresses inaugural session of "END TB" Summit New Delhi: The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today addressed the inaugural session of the "END TB" summit in New Delhi. He expressed confidence that the Delhi End TB Summit would be a landmark event towards the complete elimination of TB. He said every step taken towards the eradication of this disease, is also linked to the betterment of the lives of the poor. The Prime Minister announced that India has set a target for complete elimination of TB by 2025, as against the global target date of 2030. He said the Government is working comprehensively towards this goal. He said State Governments have a key role to play in this regard, and he has personally written to all Chief Ministers to join in this campaign. The Prime Minister said frontline TB physicians and workers are a crucial part of the drive to eliminate TB. He said those patients who overcome this disease also inspire others. The Prime Minister gave examples of Mission Indradhanush and Swachh Bharat, to show how the Union Government is speeding up progress towards desired targets. Vice President Interacts with Probationers of Indian Postal Service Trio World Academy student spreads message on conservation of nature	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Psyop Cocaine. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Latin America; the Marxist- Leninist group 'Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia' consist of around 10,000-12,000 well-armed and organised fighters (according to various sources) and who inhabit the Colombian jungle. Many think little to be done with them, ie. the Colombian army, armed and trained by U.S. armed forces, nor the American special forces, nor the U.S. as instructors and experts. There still hasn't been found an answer to a very seemingly simple question, which is; 'how the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia can after fifty years, still wage war with the government?' Oddly enough, there is now a good amount of information regarding the FARC appearing on the internet, there are even websites in different languages, even so the vast majority of people do not know a great deal about them or the events surrounding them. Nor it has to be said what they are responsible for delivering in colossal quantity onto the world stage. A brief scan South Columbia. Herein, from the spurs of the Cordillera to the border with Venezuela and Brazil lies a literal sea of dense green jungle. There are no large cities or large towns, more individual farms, very small villages (pueblos) consisting of around five households, and in sparse various Indian settlements. Around these is dense jungle. Hundreds and hundreds of miles of plains and river flood plains are teeming with twilight shadows, giant vines intertwined, soaked fumes sloshing underfoot, wetlands ringing the morass of local mosquitoes and singing native frogs and so on and so forth. The mountainous jungle regions are very dry in contrast, scrubby, with thorny branches and tenacious, dense, fine-leaved canopies blocking out the sky. To the southwest , on the border with Ecuador is such mountain jungle. In the east, along the borders with Venezuela the terrain appears flat. There are almost no roads, few strands are drawn from village to village. What roads there are, are patrolled by the army and police, employing the use of checkpoints , thus embodying the state power. Part of the jungle is officially recognized by the state as being of 'zones to restore order ' and not valid with regard to civil laws and the Constitution of Colombia. The entire executive power is vested in the military. However, it is the case that after a hundred meters on either side of the road, this power comes to an abrupt end. Then begins a very solid wood wall, in the depths of which, as expected, there are all sorts of 'goings-on' for want of a better description. This, in reference to very many carefully cultivated coca plantations, which employ peasants from the nearest village. The land is securely hidden in caches which house various well stocked laboratories that turn the leaves of this exotic and highly lucrative bearing plant into cocaine. Then there are the improvised runways for the various cartel aircraft. Apparently you can see and even meet with the Indians, for which all the wonders of an old civilization persist. At the same time the important presence which lives beneath the forest canopy, and beneath the canopy of sophisticated camouflage tent s live members of the modern gerrileros, the FARC. History of the FARC – brief During the late 1950s in Colombia, the civil war ended, this between the liberals and conservatives (supporting large landowners and local oligarchs), known in history as the 'Spanish Violencia. This war actually cost the lives of at least 200,000 Colombians. But as often happens in the history of revolutions and civil wars, elite liberals and conservatives could could come to an agreement and even create a unity government. Within, both parties simply began to succeed each other in the presidential palace and government every four years. It was at this time, that residents of rural Colombia created the first self-defence units , which became the backbone of the future, in the future of guerrilla groups. They began to form so-called independent republics, these the zones of influence of the rebels. The largest was a hotbed of peasant resistance ' Marquetalia colony' situated at the foot of the Cordillera Central, covering more than 4000 sq km. The leader of the guerrilla struggle in the Marquetalia was a young gerrilero, called Manuel Marulanda, nicknamed 'Sniper' (born May 13, 1930 in the village of Hönow, near Quindio) . eal name; Pedro Antonio Marin. The young evolutionary Manuel Marulanda Velez succeeded him, to immortalise the name of the leader of the Communist Party of Colombia, who was killed for heading a protest against sending the Colombian military contingent to the war in Korea. During his liberal beliefs Marin – Marulanda was subjected to repression by the reactionary government, and for several months was in hiding in the mountains. Of his cousins, he created the first partisan detachment in Quindio, and then moved south to join the liberal rebels there. During the early 1950's his political views underwent a major change, and he joined the Communists. In 1962, the 'independent republic ' Marquetalia's first regular units came under attack by government forces totaling 6,500 soldiers, but he managed to survive. Naturally, these poor peasants, who believed that Jesus Christ was a 'gringo' and lived somewhere near Bogotá, were not aware of the existence of Karl Marx and the ideological battles taking place on a global scale. However, following the Cuban Revolution,Washington were very concerned that the whole of Latin America would follow Fidel Castro and accordingly allocated a great deal of resource in fighting the 'contagion'. Amazingly certain of the Colombian officials found a way to dilute 'Big Brother, the United States' for financial aid. The 'Independent Republic' was presented as being a gang of Commies, who were just waiting for the secret signal from Radio Havana. As a consequence significant subsidies were received via U.S. arms and military advisers. On May 27, 1964, the army launched an operation whose purpose was to once and for all put an end to 'communist outlaws'. Against 48 gerrileros of Marquetalia were thrown 16,000 soldiers and officers, almost a third of the entire Colombian army. Killing squads trained at U.S. military bases, used modern technology, they resorted to the tactic of scorched earth, bombed and fired via air attack. Of course the main losses were among the peasants. The Marquetalia army was defeated, however and as a consequence. Manuel Marulanda with few companions did manage to hide in the mountains. There, he was able, in a very short time, to combine multiple independent peasant into self-defence groups , to bring to life the local 'Makhnovshchina' (particularly recalcitrant leaders). Very soon and under his auspices emerged a large compound. Yet poorly armed and little disciplined, they rallied around hated of the government troops and the gringos (U.S. residents ). It is with the advent of 27 Maya. 1964 the history dates back to the FARC. Secret Intelligence Service Adversitate. Custodi. Per Verum Copyright (c) 2018 All Rights Reserved London	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Related Interviews Kimberly Peirce - Stop-Loss - 03/12/08 Breach (2007) Flags of Our Fathers (2006) I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) Somersault (2006) Seven Psychopaths (2012) She's the Man (2006) Step Up (2006) Public Enemies (2009) G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) Dear John (2010) Haywire (2012) 22 Jump Street (2014) Foxcatcher (2014) Jupiter Ascending (2015) The Hateful Eight (2015) Hail, Caesar! (2016) Logan Lucky (2017) Smallfoot (2018) Live Free or Die Hard (2007) The Girl Next Door (2004) A Man Apart (2003) Justified: The Complete First Season (2010) I Am Number Four (2011) Justified: The Complete Second Season (2011) Mother's Day (2016) Snowden (2016) Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (2019) The Nativity Story (2006) Munich (2005) Veronica Guerin (2003) Lara Croft — Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) Race to Witch Mountain (2009) Rome—The Complete Series (TV) (2005) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011) Life During Wartime (2010) The Debt (2011) John Carter (2012) Closed Circuit (2013) First Man (2018) The film teeters on the balance until arriving at its genuinely moving and depressingly honest final act. 113 min. Paramount Pictures. Director: Kimberly Peirce. Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish, Channing Tatum, Timothy Olyphant, Ciaran Hinds. Being right doesn't necessarily mean being convincing: as Hillary Clinton is learning, intelligence, fortitude and emphasis don't guarantee that one can capture the imagination of an audience. Director Kimberly Peirce's Stop-Loss, a drama about the consequences of the Iraq War, may be the best of its kind to date; along with co-writer Mark Richard, Pierce does an awful lot right. But Peirce's didactic rectitude drowns out her humanism—as her protagonist embarks on a road-movie path, one can imagine her with a clipboard, checking off political points. The film's audience, if indeed there is one, is likely to be as split as the country. Given that this is an MTV Film being marketed largely to the audience most likely to join up for military service, maybe Peirce's approach is more fox-like than crazy. There's never any doubt where her sympathies lie: with the red-blooded soldiers who love and serve their country. Setting aside for a moment the true purpose and efficacy of the War in Iraq, the rub is that many soldiers are victimized by a policy known as "stop-loss," which enjoins them to second and third tours of duty. Ryan Philippe plays Staff Sgt. Brandon King, an Army man looking forward to his discharge after completing his tour of duty and collecting the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. Instead, "by authority of the President," he's stop-lossed. On principle, Brandon rejects this "backdoor draft." He's held up his end of the bargain, and he's "done with killing." Before he knows it, he's AWOL and unsure how he'll get along as a wanted man. Brandon's stance drives a wedge between him and his best friend, Steve (Channing Tatum). They, alcoholic Tommy (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), and wounded warrior Rico (Victor Rasuk) share emotional scarring from their time in the shit, depicted in an intense, expertly executed Tikrit-set action sequence. Once Brandon goes AWOL, Stop-Loss turns into a road movie, with variable results. Each stop serves a purpose in informing the audience, though some are dramatically clumsy. So too is the tagalong presence of Steve's girlfriend Michelle (Abbie Cornish), a point in a hastily sketched love triangle. A visit with the family (screenwriter Richard, Laurie Metcalf, and Steven Strait) of a fallen comrade rings true—a chance encounter with a fellow AWOL soldier and his family not so much. Peirce embroiders it all with consumer-video-styled montages well-crafted to resemble real soldier videos (with the first five minutes of Stop-Loss alone, Peirce puts Brian De Palma's Redacted to shame). Peirce, who scored with Boys Don't Cry nearly a decade ago, regularly evinces technical prowess; the sound design, for example, is intimate in realistic scenes and skillfully evocative in hallucinatory ones. And she gets good work from her ensemble, particularly in the creditable performances of the young men playing the good-ol'-boy soldiers. It's just a shame that she overplays her hand by depicting two out of the four soldiers as slipping so easily into the delusion that they're back in Iraq (with the third, short a limb, confined to a hospital and the fourth drowning in depression and the bottle). It's understandable that guilty survivors who saw what these men saw are permanently damaged, but it doesn't make the dramatic redundancy any more subtle or shake off the memory of the picture's best war-themed forebears. The film excels when it focuses on the men's roots, uncomplicated love of country, and domestic complications. Peirce gives smalltown attitudes an authentic feel as the soldiers resettle, whether its Brandon calling his father (Ciarán Hinds) "sir" or Steve and Michelle's marriage too-publicly healing wrong. The film teeters on the balance until arriving at its genuinely moving and depressingly honest final act. Peirce brings us to the brink of Brandon's limited options: submitting to the government, living forever a fugitive, or leaving the country he loves. The choice the film makes feels dramatically right, chased by sober stats about the army of "stop-lossed" men fighting in our name. [For Groucho's interview with Kimberly Peirce, click here.] Aspect ratios: 1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen Street date: 7/8/2008 Distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment Paramount delivers a very fine DVD transfer for Stop-Loss: clean, detailed, film-like, and married to a Dolby Digital 5.1 surround soundtrack. Plus, the round-up of special features serves the film as a piece of cinema and a thematic reflection on the modern warrior. A commentary by director Kimberly Pierce and her co-writer Mark Richard delivers an energetic discussion about the film's inspirations and production challenges. "The Making of Stop-Loss" (20:57) effectively conveys the commitment of the cast and crew, and shares secrets like the dislocated shoulder that shut down production and allowed needed rewrites (the featurette also includes excerpts of Pierce's research interviews). Participants include Pierce, Richard, military advisor Sergeant Major James Dever, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Victor Rasuk, Ryan Philippe, and Channing Tatum. "A Day in Boot Camp" (10:02) gives an intimate look at the actors' five-day training, with Dever, Philippe, Gordon-Levitt, Tatum, and military advisor Master Sergeant Tom Minder. Deleted Scenes (18:33 with "Play All" option and optional commentary) include "Hometown Cooking" (2:36), "Roy King and Son" (2:16), "Leaving the Base" (1:05), "Need a Ride to Austin" (1:37), "Dropping Shorty Off" (1:04), "Michelle Offers to Drive" (1:38), "Veteran's Support Network" (2:18), "Check Out" (:36), "D.C. Visit" (1:11), "Senator Worrell" (2:12), and "Beach" (2:01). Lastly, we get previews for American Teen, The Ruins, Star Trek, Iron Man, and Shine a Light. Review gear: Panasonic Viera TC-P55VT30 55" Plasma 1080p 3D HDTV Oppo BDP-93 Universal Network 3D Blu-ray Disc Player Denon AVR2112CI Integrated Network A/V Surround Receiver Pioneer SP-BS41-LR Bookshelf Speaker (2) Pioneer SP-C21 Center Speaker Pioneer SW-8 Subwoofer	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Ancient Mummified Fetus Found in Tiny Egyptian Sarcophagus Rossella Lorenzi — Discovery News Filed to:archaeology A suspected fake mummy currently on display in Wales is in fact the real deal — and it contains a fetus 12 to 16 weeks into development. The remarkable finding indicates that the deaths of young children as well as miscarriages were not treated casually. Known as W1013, the 20-inch artifact is a case made of cartonnage — layers of linen stiffened with plaster or glue — and belongs to the Wellcome collection at Swansea University's Egypt Center, which houses more than 5,000 objects. Most of them were collected by the Victorian pharmaceutical entrepreneur and archaeologist Sir Henry Wellcome on excavations in Egypt. The tiny mummy came to Swansea in 1971, but nothing is known about where Wellcome obtained it. A Potential Forgery The mummy has long puzzled experts. It is colorfully decorated in a style dating back to the 26th Dynasty, around 600 B.C. The inconclusive results of an X-ray carried out in 1998 combined with meaningless inscriptions painted on the cartonnage case, suggested the mummy could have been a 19th century forgery. "But it's not unusual for sham hieroglyphs to be placed on coffins. Undoubtedly this would indicate that the maker of the piece was not literate," curator Carolyn Graves-Brown told Discovery News. Further research solved the mystery. A Secret Revealed Last month, Swansea University's Paola Griffiths of the Clinical Imaging College of Medicine, CT scanned the artifact. It was then revealed the majority of the interior of the case is taken up by what appears to be linen bandages. Within those folded strips of material, the CT scan showed a darker area about 3 inches long which researchers identified as a fetus in fetal position and with a placental sac. What could be the fetus's femur was also identified. "The length of the femur together with the size of the dark patch is consistent with that of a 12 to 16-week-old fetus," Graves-Brown said. "Another dark patch suggests the presence of an amulet and there are several areas with dark circles resembling strings of beads or tassels." Decorated with criss-cross pattern of rhombus shapes perhaps imitating the bead net placed over some other mummies, the cartonnage case might provide some clues on the unborn baby's sex. The face is painted in reddish-brown, a color usually associated with men. Moreover, the heavy, yellow and blue striped wig and wide collar are most common on male coffins. But Graves-Brown cautions: "As the fetus is only 12-16 weeks and is not in a perfect state of preservation I would not guess the sex," he said. Deaths Treated With Reverence The finding revealed the care with which even the fetus was treated in ancient Egypt. "For example, two coffins holding fetuses were found in the tomb of Tutankhamun. In New Kingdom (around 1550-1070 B.C.) Deir el-Medina, a part of the Eastern cemetery seems to have been set aside for child burials, but also fetuses and even placentas in bloody cloths," Graves-Brown said. The fact that fetuses and infants were buried with such care indicate that deaths of young children as well as miscarriages were not treated casually. "We can imagine that the probable fetus within W1013 represents someone's terrible loss; an occasion of great grief and public mourning," Graves-Brown said. Image: The mummy mask and the CT scan showing the fetus. Credit: Carolyn Graves-Brown/Swansea University's Egypt Center. This article originally appeared at Discovery News and is republished here with permission.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }

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