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Vera Sotnikova spoke about cheating in the "Battle of psychics" Leading mystical show believes in the unique abilities of heroes program. Vera Sotnikova presented their points of view appeared not so long ago, the information that a popular program is the statement. The actress is convinced that miracles actually happen. This Saturday the well-known actress and TV presenter Vera Sotnikova became the main hero of the show "a Perfect repair". While landscape designers worked on the regeneration of the infield star, she talked with the presenter of Natasha Barbier. At some point we are talking about the work of Vera Sotnikova on the TNT channel. In 2015, the actress was invited as leading to one of the most successful shows of the Russian TV – "battle of the psychics". Not so long ago about this program appeared damaging her attention that all of it – not that other as performance. However, Vera Sotnikova gave to understand that she had on this account their opinion. One of the leading popular project claims that its members possess extraordinary abilities. And if it were not so, then the viewer is instantly caught would be false, and then show did not have such crazy ratings. "Indeed, we have on the program sometimes miracles happen, sometimes I was in shock, and then for a long time can't recover from some things,' said Vera Sotnikova. They amaze and impress. A psychic refers to the situation and speaks some truth that no one ever knew, it is impossible not to believe, because it did not play. In General, I will say this: everyone will be given according to his faith. I believe that it exists." The star added that she is not tell in advance about the participants of the show. All the details she knows only the beginning of "the battle of psychics." "I decide what to do, only in the transfer process, continued Vera Sotnikova. – I listen to the story, and if she touches me, immediately breath the tears flow. To play it is impossible." We will remind, in the spring of this year in the press real scandal after the harsh statements of the former host of "Battle of psychics" Mikhail Porechenkov, who spoke negatively about the program. "I with them worked. Kalda-the bulldozer, I say. All lies! Yes, totally. What is there not to disclose? Truth be told. I all upset?" – the inherent irony said Michael live one of the radio stations. Mikhail Porechenkov provoked a scandal with a statement about "the Battle of psychics" But later it turned out that not all of the celebrities who took part in the show, share the view of Michael Porechenkova. Alla Pugacheva in a daring mini conquered the audience of Jurmala The representative Kirkorov explained the situation with the scandal in Yalta	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
[ January 17, 2021 ] WATCH LIVE: Court Is Now In Session From the Brevard County Jail Complex Brevard Crime News [ January 17, 2021 ] COCOA PRIDE: Former Cocoa Tigers Jamel Dean, Chauncey Gardner-Johnson Square Off in NFC Divisional Playoff Game Brevard News Fourth Generation, Family-Owned Firm A.R. Savage & Son to Debut Shipping Services at Port Canaveral By Port Canaveral // December 10, 2020 A.R. Savage & Son has been operating in the wider Tampa Bay region for 75 years A.R. Savage & Son, a fourth-generation, family-owned firm is expanding geographically to begin operations at Port Canaveral on Florida's east coast after 75 years operating in the wider Tampa Bay region. BREVARD COUNTY • PORT CANAVERAL, FLORIDA – A.R. Savage & Son, a fourth-generation, family-owned firm is expanding geographically to begin operations at Port Canaveral on Florida's east coast after 75 years operating in the wider Tampa Bay region. The new Port Canaveral service gives the legacy shipping agent the opportunity to serve ships and cargoes on both sides of Central Florida, one of the fastest-growing regions in the country. "We are thrilled to welcome Arthur Savage and his team as a new partner at our Port and looking forward to sharing in their continued business success," said Port CEO Capt. John Murray. "A.R. Savage & Sons is a top-notch organization, and one of only a few ASBA-certified ship agents in the United States." In commenting on their expansion plan, Savage said Port Canaveral is vital for cargoes crucial to the economy of central Florida, and the company is proud to play a part in supporting industry and jobs in this state. He expects to handle shipments in Port Canaveral on a regular basis and is exploring new ways to serve customers with operations there. "Throughout our 75 years serving the shipping industry in Florida, we have always focused on our customers' needs wherever they are, and we are proud to open this new chapter on Florida's east coast," said Arthur Savage, President and owner of the company. "Port Canaveral is a wonderful port and a major asset to shipping and logistics in Florida. We have long hoped to operate in Port Canaveral, one of the state's premier seaports, and we are thrilled to begin." A.R. Savage & Son has served shipping and logistics companies for more than 75 years in Florida with ship agency services and ocean freight forwarding. A.R. Savage & Son, a fourth-generation, family-owned firm is expanding geographically to begin operations at Port Canaveral on Florida's east coast after 75 years operating in the wider Tampa Bay region. (Port Canaveral image) They are bonded and insured to work with ship owners, ship managers, and charterers who are cargo shippers and receivers in the shipment of products on ocean-going vessels. The company is particularly experienced in all types of dry and liquid bulk and break-bulk cargoes and can serve customers in other ports through the Association of Shipbrokers and Agents (ASBA) and Federation of National Associations of Ship Brokers and Agents (FONASBA) networks. Known in the industry for its deep knowledge and detailed planning, A.R. Savage & Son understands the many facets of ports, as well as the cargoes and vessels loading and discharging. The company's highly trained team ensures that cargo is loaded and unloaded in a timely manner, compliant with all national and international regulations. This minimizes delays while speeding turnaround at the lowest possible cost. Carnival Cruise Line Cancels Voyages From Port Canaveral Through February, Mardi Gras Ship Debut Pushed Back to April 24 WATCH LIVE: Court Is Now In Session From the Brevard County Jail Complex WATCH: Palm Bay Fire Rescue Host Second Annual Awards Ceremony at Heritage High School	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Labour Campaign for Human Rights Join LCHR LCHR Blog Our Honorary President Our Advisory Group Britain and Her Allies In Conversation with Gulf House Campaign for Social Rights CLP Events Author: alannahtravers Join the LCHR Committee! April 11, 2019 April 13, 2019 alannahtravers The Labour Campaign for Human Rights (LCHR) is an organisation that promotes human rights within the Labour Party. Our activities include: Discussion: LCHR serves as a forum and platform for Labour members and others who have an interest in human rights. We foster dialogue between civil society, academia, the public, and the Labour Party on human rights issues. Advocacy: we engage with Labour Party policy and Labour politicians to ensure that human rights are at the heart of Labour's foreign and domestic policy agendas. Policy work: LCHR generates policy proposals for the Labour Party that ensure the protection and promotion of human rights. Public, grassroots campaigning and awareness raising: we raise the profile of human rights issues within the party and the wider Labour movement. LCHR is looking for three (3) new volunteers to help us run the organisation and our ongoing campaigns. The volunteers will join LCHR's managing committee. Job Title: Volunteers (x 3) – Partnerships & Fundraising (x 1), Campaigns (x 1) and Communications (x 1) Working For: Labour Campaign for Human Rights Salary: Voluntary role (flexible hours) Partnerships & Fundraising Alongside a range of broader contributions to LCHR's campaigns, specific responsibilities will include: Developing LCHR's fundraising & partnership strategy, and maintaining and enhancing the long-term durability of the Campaign; Identifying and securing funding opportunities from a range of sources, including trusts and foundations, institutions and the corporate sector; Ideal candidates will have: Commercial Awareness and the ability to identify and seize opportunities; Excellent relationship building and stakeholder management skills; A keen interest in human rights and politics; Excellent communication skills, including writing skills; A good understanding of the Labour Party; and Support the Labour Campaign for Human Rights and our mission. Writing articles and briefings; Creating/editing digital content, including videos, to support our campaigns; Experience with inDesign or creating graphics; Creating/editing video content; Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including writing skills; Creating/editing digital content to support our campaigns; Producing a regular newsletter for our supporters; and Helping run our social media channels; Ideal candidate will have: An interest in social media and/or experience in running a social media channel; Experience using mailchimp; Please indicate on your application, which role(s) you're interested in. Hours are flexible and the role is primarily home-based, although candidates will ideally be based in London for meetings and events. Around 2-3 hours per week commitment is typical by not required. We particularly encourage applications from women and BAME candidates. Please send a CV and short cover note to [email protected] We will acknowledge every application, and will aim to contact successful applicants by Wednesday 8th May. Interview Dates Interviews will take place on Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th May. Protests by parents must not be allowed to turn the clock back on LGBT rights March 21, 2019 April 16, 2019 alannahtravers This article was written by Peter Turay, Communications Officer at the Labour Campaign for Human Rights, and originally published in The Times on 21 March 2019. Over the past few weeks Birmingham has seen angry protests by parents outside a school, armed with aggressive placards and a megaphone. You could be mistaken for thinking this was a scene from Westminster which is plagued with protesters, both Remain and Leave, shouting at MPs (and anyone else unfortunate enough to walk past). Instead, this protest was held outside Parkfield Community School in Birmingham, which has drawn criticism from parents for the introduction of their "no outsiders" programme to the school's curriculum. The programme aims to promote social cohesion, by teaching the children about equality and helping them learn to be tolerant of differences, including sexual orientation. Unfortunately, this has sparked anger among some parents and conservative religious groups in the local community. LCHR: Introducing 'Britain and Her Allies' February 21, 2019 March 21, 2019 alannahtravers Last year was an important one for human rights. We saw the 20th anniversary of the Human Rights Act, and the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. These documents not only form the basis of human rights laws in the UK, which guarantee freedom from persecution, violence and oppression, but are essential components of our democracy. The Human Rights Act protects the fundamental rights of all British citizens – ranging from freedom of speech to freedom from torture – and is one of Labour's proudest achievements. LCHR at the 2019 FEPS-Fabian New Year Conference! January 22, 2019 alannahtravers Photo credits to Luke Patrick Dixon (http://www.lukepatrickdixon.com/) Britain's long tradition of respect for human rights is under threat December 10, 2018 March 17, 2019 alannahtravers This article was co-authored by Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, and Matthew Turner, Chair of the Labour Campaign for Human Rights, and originally published in The Guardian on 10 December 2018. Exactly 70 years ago, 48 members of the UN general assembly voted in favour of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Support was not unanimous. Drafting was not without controversy or disagreement. But the result was a major victory for humanity. The declaration rightly stands as a beacon of hope to people everywhere, and is the most translated document in the world, available in 370 languages. It forms the basis of human rights laws across Europe – including the European convention on human rights and the EU charter of fundamental rights – that have allowed millions of people to enforce their rights through the courts. Britain has overlooked Saudi Arabia's transgressions for too long November 7, 2018 March 17, 2019 alannahtravers An abridged version of this article was co-authored by Clive Lewis MP and Matthew Turner, Chair of the Labour Campaign for Human Rights, and originally published in The Times on 1 November 2018. Saudi Arabia's crown prince must restore dignity to his country — by ending Yemen's cruel war. This was the title of one of Jamal Khashoggi's final articles for the Washington Post before he died. He called for an end to the war in Yemen, not even on humanitarian grounds, but because it has been a political failure. It was this type of criticism for which, according to the Turkish authorities, he was strapped down to a table in the Saudi embassy and cut to pieces with a bone saw while he was still alive. The criticism was mild and legitimate. If the reports are true, the Saudi government has responded with an act of sickening barbarism that has deeply shocked the world. Follow LCHR on Twitter Subscribe to our email newsletter here. This site uses cookies to improve your browsing experience and serve web analytics. Our Cookie Policy	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Home » News » UK will need six-fold increase in electric vehicle charging points by 2020 UK will need six-fold increase in electric vehicle charging points by 2020 Peter Hilton May 24, 2018 65 Study reports insufficient electric vehicle charging points by 2020 It is estimated that there will be over 1 million electric vehicles on UK roads by the study by Emu Analytics, finding that diesel cars will be replaced by greener alternatives. The study estimated a requirement of 100,000 electric vehicle charging points to cope with 1 million vehicles. However, there are currently only 16,500 in the UK. See our charging map to locate your nearest charging points. The report found that only 3% of supermarkets have electric vehicle charging points. Asda has the most with 19% of its stores providing them. However Tesco, the biggest retailer in the UK has a paltry 0.4% of its stores with chargers. Lidl provides the most rapid chargers with 11 stores having them. Rapid chargers can give a 85% charge in around 30 minutes. There are currently 1,500 electric vehicle rapid chargers in the UK with space to charge 3,400 vehicles. This compares to 9,000 petrol/diesel stations with multiple pumps that take minutes to fill up the vehicles. If the electric vehicle charging network does not keep pace with the growth in electric vehicles it will effectively block the growth. The study found that the UK will need six times as many charging points to keep pace with this growth. Richard Vilton, chief executive of Emu Analytics said: "Ultimately the UK, by investing in the right way early, has the opportunity to be a global leader in electric vehicles, benefiting businesses, towns, cities and communities by preparing for a sustainable future." Volvo XC60 T8 Twin Engine Phev Review We would love to include your expert feedback and opinion: Leave a Comment Cancel Submit registered 3 days, 23 hours ago	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
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Lord Lyttelton's Ghost "Sir," said Dr. Johnson, "it is the most extraordinary thing that has happened in my day." The doctor's day included the rising of 1745 and of the Wesleyans, the seizure of Canada, the Seven Years' War, the American Rebellion, the Cock Lane ghost, and other singular occurrences, but "the most extraordinary thing" was--Lord Lyttelton's ghost! Famous as is that spectre, nobody knows what it was, nor even whether there was any spectre at all. Thomas, Lord Lyttelton, was born in 1744. In 1768 he entered the House of Commons. In 1769 he was unseated for bribery. He then vanishes from public view, probably he was playing the prodigal at home and abroad, till February, 1772, when he returned to his father's house, and married. He then went abroad (with a barmaid) till 1773, when his father died. In January, 1774, he took his seat in the House of Lords. In November, 1779, Lyttelton went into Opposition. On Thursday, 25th November, he denounced Government in a magnificent speech. As to a sinecure which he held, he said, "Perhaps I shall not keep it long!" _Something had Happened_! On the night before his speech, that of Wednesday, 24th November, Lyttelton had seen the ghost, and had been told that he would die in three days. He mentioned this to Rowan Hamilton on the Friday. {129a} On the same day, or on Friday, he mentioned it to Captain Ascough, who told a lady, who told Mrs. Thrale. {129b} On the Friday he went to Epsom with friends, and mentioned the ghost to them, among others to Mr. Fortescue. {129c} About midnight on 28th November, Lord Lyttelton died suddenly in bed, his valet having left him for a moment to fetch a spoon for stirring his medicine. The cause of death was not stated; there was no inquest. This, literally, is all that is _known_ about Lord Lyttelton's ghost. It is variously described as: (1) "a young woman and a robin" (Horace Walpole); (2) "a spirit" (Captain Ascough); (3) a bird in a dream, "which changed into a woman in white" (Lord Westcote's narrative of 13th February, 1780, collected from Lord Lyttelton's guests and servants); (4) "a bird turning into a woman" (Mrs. Delany, 9th December, 1779); (5) a dream of a bird, followed by a woman, Mrs. Amphlett, in white (Pitt Place archives after 1789); (6) "a fluttering noise, as of a bird, followed by the apparition of a woman who had committed suicide after being seduced by Lyttelton" (Lady Lyttelton, 1828); (7) a bird "which vanished when a female spirit in white raiment presented herself" (Scots Magazine, November-December, 1779). Out of seven versions, a bird, or a fluttering noise as of a bird (a common feature in ghost stories), {130a} with a woman following or accompanying, occurs in six. The phenomena are almost equally ascribed to dreaming and to waking hallucination, but the common-sense of the eighteenth century called all ghosts "dreams". In the Westcote narrative (1780) Lyttelton explains the dream by his having lately been in a room with a lady, Mrs. Dawson, when a robin flew in. Yet, in the same narrative, Lyttelton says on Saturday morning "that he was very well, and believed he should bilk the _ghost_". He was certainly in bed at the time of the experience, and probably could not be sure whether he was awake or asleep. {130b} Considering the remoteness of time, the story is very well recorded. It is chronicled by Mrs. Thrale before the news of Lyttelton's death reached her, and by Lady Mary Coke two days later, by Walpole on the day after the peer's decease, of which he had heard. Lord Lyttelton's health had for some time been bad; he had made his will a few weeks before, and his nights were horror-haunted. A little boy, his nephew, to whom he was kind, used to find the wicked lord sitting by his bed at night, because he dared not be alone. So Lockhart writes to his daughter, Mrs. Hope Scott. {131} He had strange dreams of being in hell with the cruel murderess, Mrs. Brownrigg, who "whipped three female 'prentices to death and hid them in the coal-hole". Such a man might have strange fancies, and a belief in approaching death might bring its own fulfilment. The hypothesis of a premeditated suicide, with the story of the ghost as a last practical joke, has no corroboration. It occurred to Horace Walpole at once, but he laid no stress on it. Such is a plain, dry, statistical account of the most extraordinary event that happened in Dr. Johnson's day. However, the story does not end here. On the fatal night, 27th November, 1779, Mr. Andrews, M.P., a friend of Lyttelton's was awakened by finding Lord Lyttelton drawing his curtains. Suspecting a practical joke, he hunted for his lordship both in his house and in the garden. Of course he never found him. The event was promptly recorded in the next number of the Scots Magazine, December, 1779. {132} Next: The Slaying Of Sergeant Davies Previous: Wyndham's Letter	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
The Reverend Setareki Tuilovoni: mobile pacific leader in the decolonisation era Close-Barry, Kirstie 2015, The Reverend Setareki Tuilovoni: mobile pacific leader in the decolonisation era, Journal of Pacific history, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 149-167, doi: 10.1080/00223344.2015.1030093. Close-Barry, Kirstie Journal of Pacific history London, Eng colonial mission self-governance Setareki Tuilovoni was made the first Indigenous president of the Fijian Methodist church in 1964. This paper gives a biographical account with particular focus on his experiences overseas and how these shaped his approach to creating a united Methodist church at home, and a united Christian fellowship throughout the Pacific by means of regional church bodies. Because Tuilovoni had been present in America and Africa at pivotal points in the struggles for civil rights and decolonisation, his ideas were shaped by his mobility, and this in turn influenced his work to redefine the church in a decolonising Pacific, paving the way for moderate voices in the postcolonial church. 210313 Pacific History (excl New Zealand and Maori) 1699 Other Studies in Human Society 2103 Historical Studies Socio Economic Objective 970121 Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology ERA Research output type C Journal article ©2015, Journal of Pacific History Thu, 02 Jul 2015, 08:14:10 EST Fri, 03 Jul 2015, 05:00:15 EST Fri, 03 Jul 2015, 11:56:50 EST Tue, 16 Feb 2016, 05:09:09 EST Fri, 01 Jul 2016, 15:01:57 EST Tue, 05 Jul 2016, 10:05:42 EST Wed, 07 Sep 2016, 09:35:26 EST Thu, 15 Dec 2016, 14:53:33 EST Tue, 24 Jan 2017, 13:34:22 EST Filtered Full Thu, 02 Jul 2015, 08:14:10 EST	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Gaffer Encouraged By Response Alex Neil was satisfied by aspects of his North End side's performance in the 1-1 draw against Accrington Stanley at the the Lancashire FA County Ground at Leyland. A headed goal from either side inside the final moments of the second half, Patrick Bauer nodding in before his effort was cancelled out by Colby Bishop's reply. Bauer Delighted With First Goal However, after the Lilywhites lost their unbeaten pre-season record on Saturday with defeat to Southampton, the manager was pleased to move on from that contest by facing a difficult test from Accrington Stanley. "I think the disappointment for Saturday, we had to get that out of our system. We were frustrated and disappointed with how we performed, albeit against a very good Southampton team. "We had good opportunities but we needed to take them. I just said to the players at half-time that it was a bit frustrating that we weren't leading because I thought certainly first half we were excellent. "I thought first half we probably should have been maybe two or three goals up, really disappointed to concede the goal in the manner we did and the timing as well. "And then I thought second half obviously shooting up the hill, we tried to play probably a bit too much in our own half to start with, but I thought it was a game that as it wore on, we got better. "We're going to come up against that, sitting in and we need to find that solution, so it was a good workout for us." The boss was also pleased with how Patrick Bauer performed on the night, his first half header breaking the deadlock for the Lilywhites. "I think Pat [Bauer] probably won four headers in our box that cleared the lines and then won three or four in their box, so he was a real threat for us. I think that will be a big plus point for us going forward this season. "He probably didn't start the second half very well, he was a little bit slack with some of his passing, but then he settled back into the rhythm again and tidied his work up, which was better." Alex also provided an update on Billy Bodin and the rest of his squad, the former having been taken off as a precaution soon after his arrival as a substitute. "I think the most important thing [in pre-season] is just avoiding injuries. I took Billy Bodin off because he just hyper extended his knee, which he hurt last season, but he's fine. "What I didn't want to do is take any risks for ten minutes because he's going to get some minutes at the weekend. I think so far we've been in good shape in terms of limited injuries, Jayden Stockley should be fine for Friday as well so I'm hopeful he should get some minutes. "I think we've got a clean bill of health at the minute, which is nice, so long may that continue and hopefully we can try and come through unscathed for the season starting." Watch the gaffer's full interview now by clicking on the video above. Accrington Stanley vs Preston North End on 23 Jul 19 Alex Neil County Ground	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Partners & Principals Suits the C-Suite SGV Tax Bulletin SGV Flyers Tax Seminar IFRS/PFRS and Financial Reporting Seminar FIDS Seminar Risk Management Seminar Other Seminars SGV Museum "Top 10 business risks in power and utilities" by Ladislao Z. Avila (October 18, 2010) SUITS THE C-SUITE By Ladislao Z. Avila, Jr. Business World (10/18/2010) This article continues our series on the major risks facing businesses around the world, as outlined in the Ernst & Young Business Risk Report 2010. For the power and utilities industry, an area of significant concern is the shift in the costs, and accessibility of capital. Because of the recent economic challenges that have affected business globally, many industries have postponed major capital projects. The Philippine power generation sector, however, does not have this option as it stands on the verge of a massive capital deployment that cannot wait. The country critically needs better access to power, gas and water in order to sustain its economic growth. In 2009, the country's installed power generating capacity totaled 15,610 megawatts (MW), of which total dependable capacity was only 13,319 MW or 85.3%. The Department of Energy's Power Development Plan for 2009 to 2030 states that around 17,000 MW of new power generating capacities will be needed to meet the increasing electrical power demand and reserve requirements of the country. Of this, only 1,338 MW will come from already-committed power projects from various proponents, including coal-fired, geothermal and hydroelectric power plants. The remaining capacity requirements remain open for private sector participation. Based on industry experience, the total cost of constructing a power plant ranges from about US$1.5 million to US$2.5 million per MW of capacity, depending on the type of fuel to be used. From these figures, it can be projected that at least US$31 billion must be invested between 2010 and 2030 to cover the basic demand for power, with perhaps billions of US dollars more needed over time to rehabilitate aging power plants. This is a massive capital expenditure outlook for the power industry. Success, therefore, will come down to sourcing and deploying capital efficiently. This means keeping the cost of capital as low as possible and keeping construction costs, acquisition and rehabilitation costs, and schedules under control. This is no small feat given the recent volatile economic environment, and the inherent engineering, technical, and natural risks involved during construction or rehabilitation. Certain emerging projects have never been done before; these therefore contain the risk of "first of its kind" costs and delays. These include projects in wind and solar energy, among others. So what can be done to manage capital-related risks? To improve their ability to bring projects in on time and on budget, power generating companies must address three key areas: funding, contract risk, and construction risk. Capital markets have improved since the worst of the credit crunch, but securing funding at a reasonable cost can still be an issue and a challenge (for the scale of the investments required). For the most part, funding costs relate to the interest cost on borrowings obtained to finance or refinance the construction, acquisition and rehabilitation of power plants, and any future foreign exchange losses (net of gains) related to such borrowings. These costs may be avoided by tapping equity markets that can significantly improve the efficiency of funding. Power generating companies must continue to attract and sustain investor confidence to enable them to tap the equity market, initially or in the future as needed. With respect to the debt market, the ability to obtain the highest ratings from credit rating agencies can reduce interest costs and improve the efficiency of borrowings. Therefore, power generating companies must continue to sustain creditor's confidence in their business models, investment strategies, and in their ability to compete effectively and efficiently. Contract risk One cannot overstate the importance of structuring contracts so that risk is allocated to the party best able to manage it. Power generating companies typically use a complex network of contractors for major projects, and there is significant potential to release value locked up in underperforming contracts. Contractors' incentives should be aligned with the project owners' objectives. Benchmarking can be used to identify underperforming contracts as well as to negotiate contractual or regulatory settlements. Some of the most common risks during construction result from a lack of flexibility. Delays will occur, but they matter less when they are expected and planned for. This makes it vital to choose experienced project managers who will understand the capabilities and limitations of their contractors, and anticipate where bottlenecks are likely to occur. Access to manpower may also be an issue. With the projected increase in construction and rehabilitation activities under the Power Development Plan, there can be a real risk of power and utilities companies competing for a limited supply of qualified technical professionals and engineers. Controlling costs on major projects will be critical to the success of power and utilities companies. The immense scale of the capital outlays means that capital efficiencies will take on a new importance. Those who adopt leading practices to address financing, contract and construction risks will be better positioned to deliver projects successfully. After all, the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 (EPIRA) aims to provide a fairer and more competitive landscape in the power industry, and improve the Philippine power sector by ensuring and accelerating the total electrification of the country. As the country's power supply situation stabilizes, pressure from consumers, industries and the government for more reasonable and competitive power rates will continue to mount. Those with efficient overall cost structures will be in a better position to face the risks of a highly-competitive market and continue to be successful and profitable. They will also remain relevant to the country's efforts towards economic growth and social development. (As of publication, Ladislao Z. Avila, Jr. is an Assurance Partner of SGV & Co.) This article was originally published in the BusinessWorld newspaper. It is for general information only and is not a substitute for professional advice where the facts and circumstances warrant. The views and opinion expressed above are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of SGV & Co. Which way to grow? By Jane Carol U. Chiu April 2, 2018 FSO staff members pass SOA actuarial exams Meet our new partners How to survive a BIR audit SGV thanks clients, alumni and friends for being part of its 70-year journey Cristina Sze is the new EY APAC IFRS Desk Operations Manager SGVeans know how to help their loved ones, the community and themselves stay safe and healthy. Fiscal relief and accounting considerations on the road to recovery By Rosalie T. Lapuz and Leomar G. Velez December 14, 2020 CPA Mc Lein Bagunu MG 11 occupies newly renovated offices MG 7 Oil and Gas Team attends Natural Gas Summit 2014 "Improving Philippine competitiveness" by Reynante M. Marcelo (December 27, 2010) Suits the C-Suite column Suits the C-Suite archive 2020 Copyright 2020 SGV & Co. All Rights Reserved. Web enabled by TechCellar.com	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
1 РецензијаНапиши рецензију Niles' National Register, Том 28,Део 4 SENATE. am deeply conscious of the prospect that I shall stand, through the intervention of his excellency governor more and oftener, in need of your indulgence. In- Cass, specimens of an ore of this metal taken from a tentions, upright and pure; a heart devoted to the solid vein, recently discovered in the region referred welfare of our country, and the unceasing applica- to. The precise locality of this vein, is the extremity tion of the faculties allotted to me, to her service, of the great peninsula of Keweena, which stretches are all the pledges that I can give for the faithful from the southern shore of the lake, and is distant performance of the arduous duties I am to undertake. about two hundred and twenty-five miles from this To the guidance of the legislative councils; to the post. assistance of the executive and subordinate depart A deep bay washes the eastern side of this peninments to the friendly co-operation of the respec- sula, receiving a small river, whose transverse directive state governments; to the candid and liberal sup- tion nearly isolates this prominent point of land from port of the people, so far as it may be deserved by the main shore; and thus forming a route of commuhonest industry and zeal, I shall look for whatever nication for travelling canoes, which saves a circuisuccess may attend my public service: and knowing tous navigation of ninety miles, and is interrupted that, except the Lord keep the city, the watchman only by a portage of two hundred and seventy-live waketh but in vain, with fervent supplications for rods. This is the channel pursued by the expedihis favor, to his overruling Providence. I commit, tion through the upper lakes in 1820; and we were, #ith humble but fearless confidence, my own fate, and consequently, precluded from making any personal the future destinies of my country. observations upon the extremity of that long projection of the shore. fleavy barges, however, such as are usually employed in the fur trade, are urable to Eighteenth Congress—2d Session. pass this portage, and compelled to keep the shore of the lake. In this voyage they pass a small bay and point of rock, known to the traders under the name February 25. The president communicated a re-of La Roche Verd, which is, in fact, an open vein of port from the secretary of the treasury, on the me- copper ore; of the kind and quality of which, you morial of the chamber of commerce of the city of will be enabled to judge from the specimens transNew York, with a report from the collector of the mitted. port of New York, showing the difficulties that arise The'gentleman whom I employed to visit this loca. in the discharge of his duties in relation to drawbacks.lity, (Mr. George Johnston, an intelligent trader), The report was read. left this place early in the month of May last, and has Mr, Chandler, from the committee on the militia, vein of ore is about one fathòm in width, rising, with a returned within a short time. He reports, that the to whom was referred the report of the secretary of broken, backly surface, out of the water, and that it war, together with an abstract of infantry tactics, extends in a straight line through the rock, inland, submitted the following resolution. He observed, they had been at great expense in furnishing the dipping a little in its course; which is distinctly marks milítia with arms, and were of opinion, they shoulded by its green color, strongly contrasted with the adbe furnished with the means to make use of them, for jacent rocks. the benefit of the country. It was now too late in He further represents, that this part of the lake is the session to bring in a bill for the purpose, and it accessible to vessels of considerable burthen, whose was the object of the resolution to obtain sucient anchorage is sheltered by an island, where they may information to act on it at the ensuing session. lie in safety from the prevailing north-west winds. Ressived, That the secretary of war be directed to advertise, for No experiment has been made to determine the three months, in the National Intelligencer, that he will receive, richness of the ore. It appears, from external chafor printing 40,000 copies of the abstract of intentry tactics, which racters, to be the compact malachite of authors, which was reported to the senate by the secretary of war, on the 3d day is stated generally to yield, at the mines of Cornwall of February instant, to be delivered at the war department, bound and Saxony, from 56 to 70 per cent. of copper, the in boards, and that he, the secretary, will state, in his advertise mente, as near as may be, the size of the work, the number of pages remainder being chiefly carbonic acid andervater. It and plates, wbich it will contain, and report such proposals as he is consequently among the number of those ores of may receive, to the senate, in the first week of the next session copper, which are profitably wrought in the large way. of congress. The resolution was read, considered, and agreed It may be pertinent to add to the foregoing remarks, to. that I have succeeded, in the course of the present The senate proceeded, as in committee of the whole, season, in procuring from lake Superior, a mass of (Mr. Lowrie in the chair), to consider the act autho- native copper, weighing forty-two pounds, which is rizing the occupation of the Oregon river. very pure and malleable, and contains small points of Mr. Benlon moved an amendment, providing an ad- native silver. This mass is from the banks of the ditional paymaster, and extending the time allowed Ontonagon; but is no part of the great mass wel for the officers to send in their accounts; which was known to exist upon that metalliferous stream. agreed to; and then, (on account of the temporary I have the honor to be, sir, with great regard, your absence of the chairman of the committee), the bill most obedient serrant, HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT, was laid on the table. U. S. agent for Indian affairs. The senate then, as in committee of the whole, pro Hon. John C. Calhoun, secretary of war. ceeded to consider the bill making an appropriation After a few remarks by Messrs. Johnson, of Ky. and to appoint commissioners to treat with the Chippewa Findlay, it was passed to a third reading-ayes 23. Indians, for the right of discovering and working The senate, then, as in committee of the whole, certain copper mines supposed to be on the south proceeded to consider the bill authorizing the estabside of lake Superior. lishment of a navy yard and depot, at or near PensaMr. Dickerson make a few remarks against the bill, cola. to whom Mr. Benton replied, and in the course of his Aster Mr. Lloyd, of Mass. had explained the advanargument, read the following letter form Henry R. tages of the measure proposed, and the rejection of Schoolcraft: an amendment offered by Mr. Hayne, the bill was Sault Ste. Marie, July 28, 1824. ordered to be engrossed for a third reading. Sur: Having on a former occasion been requested The bill, as amended, authorizing the subscription to communicate such information as I possessed re- of stock in the Chesapeake and Delaware canal comspecting the existence of copper on the shores of lake pany, was read a third time, passed, and returned to Superior, I bow take the liberty to transmit to you, the house. Yeas 19, nays 11. The bill for the continuation of the Cumberland A large number of bills were taken up, in comroad, was read a third time, passed, and returned to mittee of the whole, and severally discussed; and, the house. Yeas 23, pays 6. having been engrossed for a third reading, were subThe senate then proceeded to consider the resolu- sequently read a third time, passed and sent to the tion of the house of representatives disagreeing to the house for concurrence. amendment made by the senate to the appropriation The senate, at 4 o'clock, having got through the bill for certain fortifications for the year 1825, pro- whole of their own bills, spent a short time in the viding for the formation of a sehool of practice for consideration of executive business; and then adthe light artillery at Fortress Monroe. It was de- journed till 6 o'clock, P. M. cided that the senate do insist on their amendment Evening session. At 6 o'clock the senate re-assembled, and spent --ayes 21, noes 11. A number of private bills were passed to a third about 2 hours in the reception, reading, and referring reading, &c. Adjourned. to committees, of the bills received from the other February 26. Several engrossed bills were passed house to-day for concurrence; and then and sent to the house for concurrence. After the consideration of executive business, The senate receded from their amendment to the Adjourned. bill making appropriations for certain fortifications March 1. The following bills, from the other house, providing for a school of practice for the light artil- were taken up in committee of the whole, discussed, lery at Fortress Monroe. and severally passed to a third reading, viz: The senate then resumed, as in committee of the The bill further to amend the act authorizing the whole, (Mr. Mills, in the chair), the consideration of payment for property lost or destroyed by the enethe bill for the occupation of the Oregon river. my: After considerable discussion, during which Mr. The bill to authorize the sale of unserviceable ordBarbour advocated the policy of the measure, and nance, arms and military stores; Mr. Dickerson opposed it, the bill was laid on the The bill for altering the time of holding the district table-ayes 19, noes 17. court of the United States in the eastern district of The following message was received from the pre- Louisiana; sident of the United States: The bill to extend the time for issuing military To the senale of the United States: land warrants to the soldiers of the revolutionary Just before the termination of the last session, an act, entiled "an act concerning wrecks on the coast Mr. Benton moved that the senate resume the conof Florida," which was then proposed, was presented sideration of the bill to authorize the occupation of to me, wit many others, and approved, and, as the mouth of the Columbia, (or Oregon) river. thought, signed. "It appeared, however, after the Mr. Chandler opposed, and Messrs Benton and Talbot adjournment, that the evidence of such approbation supported the motion: the senate refused to take up had not been attached to it. Whether the act may be the bill, 16 to 22. considered in force under such circumstances, is a The senate took up the bill from the other house point on which it belongs not to me to decide. To re- "to reduce into one the several acts establishing and move all doubt on the subject, I submit to the con-regulating the post office establishment." sideration of congress, the propriety of passing a de Some amendments were made, and the bill ordered claratory act to that effect. JAMES MONROE. to a third reading. February 26, 1825. Mr. Hayne renewed the motion to take up the The senate then passed an hour in the considera- "Oregon bill"-much debate followed. Mr. Lorerie tion of executive business; after which, various acts, moved to lay it on the table, which was decided by brought over from the house, severally received their yeas and nays as follows: first reading. Yeas-Messrs. Barton, Bell, Branch, Brown, ChandThe senate proceeded, as in committee of the ler, Clayton, D'Wolf, Dickerson, Edwards, Elliott, whole, to consider the bill granting the consent of Findlay, Gaillard, Holmes, of Maine, King, of Alab congress to the act of the legislature of Alabama, au- Lanman, Lowrie, Macon, Parrott, Seymour, Smith, thorizing the imposition of duties on vessels, for the Tazewell, Van Buren, Van Dyke, Williams-23. improvement of the port of Mobile. Nars--Messrs. Barbour, Benton, Bouligny, Cobb, When, after some remarks from Messrs. Lloyd, Hayne, Jackson, Johnson, of Ky. Johnston, of Lou. King, Brown, Smith and Holmes, the senate adjourned. \| Lloyd, of Mass. Mills, Noble, Ruggles, Talbot, Tho mas--14. February 28. The following message was received from the president of the United States: The president of the senate communicated the folI communicate, herewith, to both houses of con- lowing letter from the president elect of the United States: gregs, copies of the treaties between the United States and the Quapaw nation of Indians, concluded To the president of the senate of the United States: at Harrington's, in the territory of Arkansas, on the Sir: I ask the favor of you to inform the honorable 15th day of November last; and, between the United senate of the United States that I propose to take the States and the Choctaw nation of Indians, conclud- oath, prescribed by the constitution, to the president ed at the city of Washington on the 20th day of tion of his office, on Friday, the fourth instant, at of the United States, before he enters on the execuJanuary last; which have been duly ratified. JAMES MONROE. 12 o'clock, in the hall of the house of representatives. Washington, 25th February, 1823. I have the honor to be, with the highest respect, A variety of bills from the house received their í sir, your very humble and obedient servant, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. second reading and were severally referred. The letter was read; and Mr. Hayne submitted the following resolution, which was laid on the table: The senate adjourned to 6, P. M. Resolved, by the senate of the United States, That congress pos. Evening session. Pursuant to adjournment, the presesses no power to appropriate the public land of the United sident of the senate resumed the chair. Sta les "to constitute and form a fund to aid the emancipation of slaves," within any of the United States, or "to aid the The president communicated a report from the seof such slaves;" and that to constitute such a fund, or "to plecige the cretary of the treasury, with an abstract of official theve objects, would be a departure from the conditions and spirit the officers of customs, which was read. faith of the United States," for the appropriation thereof towards emoluments and expenditures for the year 1824, of of the compact between the several states; and that sneb measures would be dangerous to the safety of the states holding slaves, and In compliance with a resolution, offered by Mr. be calculated to disturb the peace 2! Dar:100% of the ujisai. Mills, Niessrs. Mills, Van Buren and Eaton were ape 'Talhot-6. pointed a committee "to make such arrangements as The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall may be necessary for the reception of the president, ascertain, as far as practicable, whether the canal on ihe occasion of his inauguration. proposed to be constructed by the state aforesaid, The senate took up, as in committee of the whole, will injure or inpede the navigation of the Chesathe bill to provide for the punishment of certain peake and Ohio canal, and report to the president of crimes against the United States, and for other pur- the United States the facts and reasons on which poses. they may ground their judgment thereupon; which reA considerable time was spent in the discussion of port shall be submitted to the congress of the United the details of this bill, which was participated in by States, at their session next ensuing the date thereof, Messrs. Hayne, Holmes, of Maine, Cobb, Chandler, for their decision thereon: and if congress shall be Diekerson, Van Buren, Brown, Johnson, of Ken. and of opinion that the said canal may be cut in the manTalbot. ner proposed, as aforesaid, without impeding or inOn the question, shall the amendment be engrossed, juring the navigation of the Chesapeake and Ohio and the bill read a third time? It was decided in the canal, the same shall be conclusive thereon." affirmative, by yeas and nays, as follows: An engrossed bill, authorizing the payment of me YE is-Messrs. Barbour, Barton, Bell, Benton, Branch, Cobb, terest due to the state of Virginia, was read a third of Maine, Jacks:n, Johnson, of K 15. Johnston, of Lou Kelly, King, lime, passed, and sent to the senate. of Alab. Lanman, Lloyd, of Mass. Lowrie, Mills, Noble, Parrott, Friday, Feb. 25. The speaker laid before the house Seymour, Smith, Tazewell, Thomas, Van Buren, Williams-31. ÑAYS-Messrs. Brown, Chandler, Dickerson, Macon, Ruggles, a communication from the department of war, trans mitting a report of the second auditor, made under a The senate concurred in the amendments made by law to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian the house of representatives, to the bill for the pre-tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers; which vention of piracy in the West Indies. was laid on the table. Several bills were taken up, as in committec of the Mr. Cambreleng, from the committee of ways and whole, and, haring been disscussed, were ordered to means, reported a bill to authorize the importation of a third reading. foreign distilled spirits in casks of a capacity not less After the consideration of executive business, at than fifteen gallons; which was twice read. 11 o clock, the senate adjourned. Mr. Cambreleng explained the reasons for introducMarch 2. Mr. Noble submitted the resolutions of ing this bill-the state of our trade with South Amethe general assembly of Indiana, respecting the eman- rica, and the obstacles to it arising from the present cipation of slaves, and colonization of people of co- law on this subject. lor vithin the linited States. Mr. Trimble, of Ky. opposed the bill, as leading to After the consideration and disposition of a num-frauds on the revenue; and took a view of the course ber of bills, among which was passed the bill autho- of legislation hitherto pursued in relation to our rerizing the secretary of the treasury to direct the com- venue laws--he deprecated any further relaxation of pletion of entrance for drawbacks after a period of the system. twenty days, the senate proceeded to the election of , Mr. Cambreleng replied. The bill was laid on the printer, when Gales & Seaton, having received twen- table. ty fire votes, were declared duly elected. Mr. Vewton, from the committee on commerce, reThe senate proceeded to consider, in committee of ported a bill to authorize the register, or enrolment the whole, the bill providing for the relinquishment and license, to be issued in the name of the president of certain claims to lands sold by the United States in or secretary of any incorporated company owning a the state of Ohio. steam-boat or vessel; which was twice read. • And, after debate, it was ordered to lie on the table; Mr. Nerclon moved that it be ordered to be engrosas was also the bill 'for arming the militia in the Dis- sed for a third reading. He briefly explained its obtrict of Columbia. ject, and the motion was agreed to. After the consideration of executive business, the An engrossed bill to confirm the act of the general senate adjourned till six o'clock, P. M. assembly of Maryland, confirming an act of the gene ral assembly of Virginia, to incorporate the ChesaHOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Thursday, Feb. 24. The following is a copy of a peake and Ohio canal company, was read a third bill which was ordered to be engrossed for a third time, and the question being, shall this bill pass? Mr. Cocke demanded that it be taken by yeas and reading to-morrow: Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives pays, which was ordered. of the United States of America, in congress assembled, The question was then put, and decided in the affirThat the act of the legislature of Virginia, entitled mative, by yeas and nays, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Abbot, Alexander, of Va. Alexander, of Ten. " An act incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio ca- Allen, of Ten. Allison, Bailey, Bartlett, Bartley, Blair, Brent, dal company," be, and the same is hereby, ratified Buchanan, Call, Cambreleng, Campbell, of Obio, Cassedy. Con and confirmed, so far as may be necessary for the dict: Crafts, Cushman, Cuthbert, Durfee, Eddy, Edwards, of N. purpose of enabling any company, that may hereafter Hayden, Hemphill, Heary, Herrick, Herkimer, Hobart, Houston, be formed by the authority of said act of incorpora- Isacks, Jennings, Johnson, of Va. !. 1. Johnson, Kent, Kidder, tion, to carry into effect the provisions thereof in the MeDutie, McKuan, McKee, McKim, McLvan, of Ohio, Marvin, district of Columbia, within the exclusive jurisdic- Matlack, Matson, Mercer, Metcalfe, Miller, Mitchell, of Penn tion of the United States, and no farther. Mitchell, of Md. Moore, af Ken. Moore, of Alab. Neale, Newton, "Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, should the O Brien, Olin, Outlaw, Owen, Patterson, of Penn. Paterson, of Ohio, Plumer, of Pepn. Rankin. Reed, Reynolds, Rose, Ross, state of Virginia or Maryland desire, at any time, to Saunders, Sanford, Scott, Sharpe, Sibley, Sloane, Alexander Smyth avail itself of the right secured to it, by the twenty- Wm. Snid, Standeler, Sterling, J. Stephenson, Stewart, Storrs, first section of the act aforesaid, to take and contiTrimble, Udree, Vance, of N. c. Vance, of 'Obio, Van Rensselaer nue a canal from any point of the Chesapeake and Vinton, Wayne,' Webster, Whipple, Whitman, Whittlesey, Wile Ohio canal, to any other point within the territory of liams, of Va. James Wilson, Henry Wilson, Wilson, of Ohio, Wolf, the district of Columbia, on applicatiou to the presi Woods, Wright-116. NAYS-Messrs. Ailen, of Mass. Barber, of Con. P. P. Barbour, dent of the United states, by the executive of the Brown, Burleigli, Cady, Clark. Cocke, Collins, Conner, Culpeper, state, the president is authorized and empowered to Day, Dwinell , Fout, of Con. Foute, of N. y. Frost, Gist, Hogedepute three skilful commissioners of the U. States' bom, Hooks, Jenkins, Leftwich, Litchfield, Long, Martindale, Morgan, Richards, Arthur Smith, Spaight, A, Stevenson, Stoddard, corps of engineers, to survey and examine so much Tel Eyck, I lompson, of Geo. Tyson, Wilson, of S. C.-4. of the route of such canal, as may affect, in any man So the bill was passod; its title was altered to read Der, the navigation of the Chesapeake and Chio canal. "as follows: "An act confirming an act of the legisla ture of Virginia, entitled "An act incorporating the officers of the army in the neighborhood be employe Chesapeake and Ohio canal company, and an act of ed on this subject, was laid on the table. the state of Maryland, confirming the same;" and then Mr. Hemphill, from the committee on roads and it was sent to the senate. canals, reported a bill, (above proposed by Mr. Cook) The unfinished business of yesterday was resumed. "supplementary to an act for the continuation of the The committee of the whole on the post office bill, Cumberland road;" which was (wice read, and or- having obtained leave to sit again, the bill was taken dered to a third reading to-day-ayes 86, noes 33. up; and, after having received sundry amendments, The engrossed bills which passed through com- was reported to the house. The amendments re- mittees of the whole on Saturday, were read a third ported by the committee were agreed to in the bouse; time, passed, and sent to the senate for concurrence. and the bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third After other business, on motion of Mr. McLane, the reading to-morrow. house went into committee of the whole, Mr. TomlinThe senate's amendment to the bill authorizing a son in the chair, on the bill to authorize the secretary subscription of stock in the Delaware and Chesa of the treasury to borrow a sum not exceeding twelve peake canal company, was agreed to by the house. millions of dollars, or to exchange a stock, bearing The senate having returned the appropriation bill an interest of 44 per cent. for a certain stock bear for fortifications and insisted on its amendment, in- ing an interest of 6 per cent.; which bill, after a serting an appropriation for a school of practice in slight amendment, on motion of Mr. Ingham, was light artillery, it was moved by Mr. McLane, of Dela- reported to the house, and ordered to be engrossed ware, that this house recede from its disagreement to for a third reading. the senate's amendment. A number of private bills were next taken up, passThe yoas and nays were called for, but refused. ed, rejected, &c. The question being put on receding, it was nega The house then took a recess until 6 o'clock this tired, by a large majority. evening It was then moved that this house adhere to its Evening session. disagreement, and carried. Several bills received their final reading, and one And then the house adjourned. or two passed through committees; but, information [Many private bills were passed or otherwise at-having been received that the senate had adjourned, tended to this day, and much other business transact- and of course that, according to the rule, no bill oried, which will sufficiently appear in future details.] ginating in this house could, if passed, be acted upon Saturday, Feb. 26. Mr. Plumer, from the commit- by the senate The housc adjourned, tee on the judiciary, reported a bill, giving the consent of congress to a certain act of the legislative council Tuesday, March 1. Many bills were reported by the of Florida; which was twice read, and ordered to be different committees to whom they had been referengrossed for a third reading. After several bills were reported, the house pro The several standing committees of the house were ceeded to the consideration of the engrossed bills discharged from the further consideration of the busi- considered yesterday; all of which were passed andness now before them, and not yet reported on. sent to the senatc for concurrence, Mr. Hemphill offered the following: A message was received from the president of the Resolved. That the clerk of this house be ordered to furnish each United States, corresponding with that which is re- member of the house, and to each delegate of the territories, with a copy of the journal of the old congress, purchased by order of cited at large in the proceedings of the senaie. The message was referred to the committee on the Decided in the affirmative. judiciary. Mr. Trimble laid on the table the following resoluAnother message was also received from the pre- tion: sident, communicating copies of the treaties with the Resolved, That the secretary of the treasury be instructed to reQuapaw and Choctaw nations of Indians; which was portion this house at the next session of congress, whether any, laid on the table. commerce of the United States, bs extending the time within whicbAlso a third message, enclosing a report of the se- merchandise may be exported with the benefit of debe-nure, from cretary of state, with documents, on the subject of one to two years; and what amountur futies ouglit to be retained to the capture and detention of American fishermen, in And also, whether any additional government storehouses will be the Bay of Fundy; which was laid on the table. necessary, if the system of deposite, now applicable to wines, teas, A large number of bills, for the relief of indivi- and distilled spirits, slıould be extended to merchandise of every de scription. duals, were read, passed, rejected, &c. and then the Mr. McDuffie laid on the table the following: house adjourned. Resolved, that the constitution of the United States ought to be Monday, Feb. 28. After the usual business of the deve shall be unitorm, and that the people shall vote directig so amended, that the mode of voting for president and vice presimorning, such as the presentation of petitions, re- aforesaid offictrs by districts. ports, &c. which were variously disposed of Resolvedl, That the constitution ought to be further amended, so Mr. Caok moved that the committee on roads and upon either branch of congress, by providing that, in case no per as to prevent the election of the aforesaid officers from devolving eanals be instructed to report a bill for the appoint- son shall outain the rotes of a majority of said districts, the people ment of two additional commissioners, to lay out the shall proceed to choose the officers, aforesaid, from the iwo per continuation of the Cumberland road, and that they spectively. sons having the highest pumber of votes for the said offices, re have leave to sit during the sitting of the house. Resulred, That a select committee be appointed, with instructions The motion was agreed to. to prejare a joint resolutiou for amending the constitution, in conMr. Mercer laid on the table the following: furinity with the foregoing resolutions. Resolved, That the president of the United States be requested of the legislature of the state of Indiana, upon the Mr. Test, of Indiana, presented certain resolutions wiuthe maritime powers of Europe and America, es he may subject of providing for the gradual emancipation of deem expedient for the effectual abolition of the slave trade, and the people of color held in servitude in the United its ultimate denunciation as piracy, under the law of nations, by Siates; 'which were laid on tbe table. the consent of the civilized world, This resolve lies for one day of course.. On notion of Mr. Forsyth, the house went into comMr. Conway, of Arkansas, offered the following: mittee of the whole on the state of the union, Mr. Resolved, That the president of'ils United States be requested Cocke in the chair, on the bill from the senate for the to cause a survey to be made of the obstructions in Red River, suppression of piracy. The bill was read by secnecessary to retnove the same, tu be laid before congress at the tions, and gave rise to a debate which occupied the committee till four o'clock. This resolution, after being modified, so that the The result was, ihat the whole bill was strickea the house. next sessiou. out except that part which provides for the building, ships and vessels;" which report was concurred in of ten additional sloops of war. So amended, it was by the house. afterwards read a tbird time and passed, with its ti The bill from the senate to authorize the president te altered so as to read, an act to authorize the build of the United States to cause a road to be marked ing of ten sloops of war, and for other purposes: out from the western frontier of Missouri to the At 4 o'clock the house adjourned to meet again at 6. confines of New Mexico, yesterday laid on the table, Mr. Slorts offered the following: was again taken up, ordered to a third reading, was K'csolved. That the postmaster general be directed to communi read a third time, passed and returned to the senate. cate to this house, anumally, at eaclı session of congress, & state gnent of the amount of postage aecruing in the preceding year, at The house then went into committee of the whole, each of the post offices in the several states and territories of the Mr. Archer in the chair, on the bill to provide for United States, classifying the said accouots of postage so aceruing, the security of public money in the hands of clerks by states and territories. Mr. Cook, of Illinois, offered the following resolu- of courts, of marshals and attorneys; which was retion, which lies on the table: ported--and, after debate, was recommitted to a Resolved. That the president of the United States be requested to committee of the whole, and made the order of the pri pape and report to this bouse, at the next session of congress, day for to-day. such a system as he may deem best calculated to produce all the effectsdt signed by the infliction of imprisonment and hard labor The amendments of the senate to the following for offences agaiast the laws of the United States. bills, were agreed to by the house, viz: There being no quorum, an'adjournment was mov Tho bill for the punishment of certain crimes ed, and negatived. against the United States; A quorum appearing The bill to reduce into one the several acts relat- . On motion of Mr. Scott, the house went into com- ing to the post office department; mittee of the whole, Mr. Herrick in the chair, on the The bill to lay out a road from Detroit to Chicago; bill authorizing the president of the United States, to The bill authorizing the secretary of the treasury cause a road to be marked out from Missouri to the lo borrow a sum not exceeding twelve millions of confines of New Mexico; it was reported without dollars; amendment. The bill to establish certain post roads and disconMr. McDuffie objected to the bill, as being for in-tinue others; ternal improvement, and moved that it lie on the The bill to alter the place of holding the district table. The motion was carried-ayes 68, noes 48. court of the United States in the southern district of After which many private bills were passed, &c. New York. Wednesday, March 2. On motion of Mr. Hamilton, The house then again went into committee of the the committee on military affairs, to whom had been whole, Mr. Campbell , of Ohio, in the chair, on the referred the subject of the Massachusetts militia bill to secure the accountability of public officers. claims, were discharged from the further considera. After several attempts to amend it, &c. and a quation thereof. rum not being present, the house went into a recess The resolution yesterday laid on the table by Mr. until six o'clock. Trimble, calling on the secretary of the treasury to Evening session. The bill to secure the accountstate bis opinion of the probable effect of the ware. ability of public officers was taken up and ordered to bousing system on the revenue, was taken up and lie on the table—(rejected.] agreed to. Several resolves were offered and variously disMr. Cambreleng, offered the following resolution, posed of which shall be noticed. which lies one day: On motion of Mr. Call, the house, in committee of * Resolved that the secretary of state be direeted to communi- the whole, Mr. Tomlinson in the chair, took up the cate to congress, at its next session, if compatible with the public bill establishing a navy yard at or near Pensacola. interest, such correspondence as may have taken place with Great Britain, relating to the navigation of the St. Lawrence." A debate arose upon this bill, of considerable inMr. Tucker offered the following, which lies on the terest, in which Messrs. Call, Wood, of N. Y. Clay, and table: Tatınall, took part, in which the bill was supported the probable experise of extinguishing the Indian title to a portion and opposed by Mr. Bartlett. On motion of Mr. Reulved, that the secretary of war be required to ascertain with great earnestness by Mr. Call and Mr. Tattnall, of the country lying west of the Rocky Mountains, that may be Webster, the bill was modified by an amendment, so as route seruss the said inountains, and the probable cost of a road to authorize the secretary of the navy to locate the and military posts necessary to 'a qafe communication with such navy yard on any point in the Gulf of Mexico. In this colony, and to report thereon to the house at the best session of form it was advocated by Mr. Wood and Mr. Clay, congress." A number of bills, received from the senate, had and having been reported, it was ordered to a third their third reading and were passed. reading--and was subsequently read a third time, Mr. McLane moved that the house consider the bill passed, and returned to the senate for concurrence in the amendment. making further appropriations for the military service. The motion prevailed, and the house went in THURSDAY'S PROCEEDINGS, &e. to committee of the whole, Mr. Sharpe in the chair, on In the senate, on Wednesday evening, a number of that bill. private bills were disposed of, with other business On motion of Mr. Forsyth, $250,000 were appro- pertaining to the close of the session. priated as a contingent fund, for the purpose of car Thursday morning was chiefly spent in the consirying into effect the treaty with the Creek Indians, deration of executive business. The senate adjourned which provides for the extinguishment of their titles to meet in the evening. to lands in Georgia and Alabama, and for their re In the house of representatives, very little business moval to lands west of the Mississippi. The committee rose, and the bill was ordered to a notices of the president's approbation thereof; parti was done, except the signing of bills, and receiving tbird reading. culars bereafter. The house next went into committee of the whole on sereral private bills; which being disposed of, the bill concerning the copper mines on the south side of CHRONICLE. lake Superior, was taken up, and, after debate, re. Mr. Girardin. We accidentally omitted a notice ected. of the decease of Louis H. Girardin, principal of Mr. Neroton, from the committee on commerce, Baltimore college, who departed this life on the 16th reported their disagreement to a bill from the senate, ult. He was one of the best and most amiable of supplementary to "an act for enrolling and licensinglinen, an ornameut of literature and science, and the	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Statue of the Madonna in the Mountains Next: Ritual Cache Previous: After the Hurrican... German, 1774-1840 This vast landscape by one of the central figures of German Romanticism dates from Caspar David Friedrich's early years in Dresden, where he settled after studying in Copenhagen (then considered the artistic center of northern Europe). Subtly graded shades of gray wash evoke the gloomy, overcast days so common in Germany in November, when this image was created. The drawing also conveys, in the artist's words, "Not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him." In the center of the landscape, atop the highest peak, a tiny pilgrim kneels in prayer at the base of a statue of the Madonna. Nature—with its sheer, blank sky, stark hills, and mute firs—is depicted almost religiously. In this deeply spiritual image, humankind's experience of nature seems as overwhelming as the unfathomable mystery of our existence. Just as the infinitesimal pilgrim wanders in this faraway, expansive landscape, so too did the artist embark upon his own Romantic quest, a search for meaning in the natural world that reveals the sacred. Brush and black ink and gray wash, with graphite, on cream wove paper Margaret Day Blake Collection Helmut Bösch-Supan and Karl Wilhelm Jähnig, Caspar David Friedrich: Genälde, Druckgraphik und bildmäßige Zeichnungen (Munich, 1973), pp. 280-81, no. 119 (ill.). Harold Joachim, "A Drawing by Caspar David Friedrich," Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 70:5 (September-October 1976), pp. 18-19 (ill.). James N. Wood and Sally Ruth May, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago, 1993), p. 212 (ill.). Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood, with commentaries by Debra N. Mancoff (Chicago, 2000), p. 184 (ill.). Marsha Morton, "German Romanticism: The Search for 'A Quiet Place,'" The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 28:1 (2002), pp. 11-12 and 16, fig. 5 (ill.). The Essential Guide (Chicago, 2009), p. 300 (ill.). Christina Grummt, "Caspar David Friedrich, The Complete Drawings", (Munich, 2011), p. 398, fig 414 (ill). Bremen, Germany, Kunsthalle Bremen, "Ein Halbjahrtausend deutscher Zeichnung," June 9-August 30, 1936, cat. 78. Wiesbaden, Germany, Städtisches Museum Wiesbaden, "Zeichenkunst in der deutschen Romantik," May-July 1937, cat. 81; also traveled to the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden. Hamburg, Germany, Hamburg Kunsthalle, "Caspar David Friedrich 1774-1840," September 14-November 3, 1974, cat. 56, cat by Werner Hofmann, et al.. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 120-21, cat. 53 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; also traveled to the St. Louis Museum of Art, March 10-May 17, 1986. C. A. Wuppesahl, Bremen, by 1936-at least 1973 [Bremen 1936; Börsch-Supan and Jähnig 1973]. Sold by Auctionhouse Dörling, Hamburg, to Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zürich, 1975 [a letter from Walter Feilchenfeldt of January 5, 2004 in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1976. Ink or chalk wash Goatherd, Goats on Road near Carriage and House, n.d. Bruno van Straaten Goatherd and Goats, n.d. Outside of Haarlem, 1833 Jan Pieter Waterloo Young Woman Bearing Flowers, 1812 Samuel Lane Winter Scene with People Outside a Cottage Near a Pond, n.d. Portrait of Bearded Man, n.d. Castle on Lake, n.d. Eric Leapt Out, 1889 Walter Stanley Paget Medallion with Two Putti Beside Tomb, n.d. Machine de Marly, 1843 A Boat Tied to a Pier, 1892 Evening Glow at Seta (Seta sekisho), from the series "Fashionable Eight Views of Omi (Furyu Omi hakkei)", c. 1814/17 Kikukawa Eizan	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Princess Cruises to host largest ever Ireland ship visit programme. 12th April 2019 - 1:00pm Rebecca and the Princess Cruises Ireland team. Princess Cruises will host its largest ever Ireland ship visit programme in 2019 with over 350 places available onboard. The programme marks the second consecutive year that Princess has offered one-day access to its ships for Ireland agents. Twelve separate visits will take place in Dublin, Cork and Waterford. Rebecca Kelly (Senior Sales Manager Ireland Princess Cruises) said: "We are delighted to have the opportunity to showcase three different Princess ships to so many of the Irish trade throughout this year in Dublin, Cork and Waterford. We have seen a surge in demand for ship visits across the country so we have increased the number of spaces available year on year to show our continued commitment to the Irish market. With huge interest in the visits already and limited spaces available, my recommendation would be to register as early as possible to avoid missing out." Agents wishing to take part in a ship visit can register for a space here. Nine visits will take place on the 3,080-guest Crown Princess, in both Dublin and Cork (Cobh) from May to September, as the ship spends a season sailing the British Isles. Two visits will be held on the 3,560-guest Regal Princess in Dublin and Cork (Cobh) during early September. Agents will be able to preview the ship prior to it returning to Ireland on a more frequent basis next year as it sails Princess Cruises' 2020 British Isles season One Waterford visit will be available on the 670-guest Pacific Princess in September as part of an Ireland, Scottish Highlands and Wales cruise The 2019 programme includes two themed 'Camp Discovery' days where agents and their families will be able to experience the onboard facilities aimed at young cruisers. Both visits will take place on Crown Princess during the school summer holidays in July and August, showcasing the ship as well as its youth centres, which have been designed in partnership with the Discovery Channel. Both Regal Princess, and from July, Crown Princess, will be fully Ocean Medallion-activated for agent visits. The Medallion is a complimentary, automated piece of technology, the same size as a 10p piece, given to each guest that enables features such as keyless stateroom access and quicker and easier embarkation and disembarkation. It is replacing the traditional 'cruise card' across the Princess fleet.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Steven Smith back as No. 1 Test batsman as Virat Kohli slides Virat Kohli's match aggregate of 21 runs in the Wellington Test against New Zealand, which went the way of the home team by 10 wickets, has allowed Steven Smith to reclaim the top spot in the Test rankings for batsmen, the Australian getting to No. 1 for the eighth time in his career. The top spot has changed hands between Smith and Kohli for the longest time, with only Kane Williamson occupying the position for a brief eight-day period in December 2015, and the New Zealand captain has returned to No. 3 on the table by jumping past Marnus Labuschagne after scoring 89 in his only innings at Basin Reserve. Among the Indian batsmen who were part of the action in Wellington, Ajinkya Rahane's 46 and 29 have taken him up by a spot to No. 8 and Mayank Agarwal has gone up to No. 10 following scores of 34 and 58, but Cheteshwar Pujara has slipped two spots to ninth after identical scores of 11 in the two innings. From the New Zealand side, Ross Taylor, who was playing his 100th Test, has gone up three spots to No. 13 after scoring 44 the only time he got to bat. Over to the bowlers, and there were big gains for Tim Southee and Trent Boult, who picked up nine and wickets in the match, respectively. Southee has moved up eight positions to sixth, his best since being No. 5 in June 2014, while Boult has moved up four spots to joint-13th with Pakistan's Mohammad Abbas. Neil Wagner, who missed the first Test against India because of the birth of his first child, remains the top-ranked New Zealand bowler at No. 2 behind Pat Cummins. The Bangladesh v Zimbabwe Test in Dhaka, meanwhile, was a great one for the home side, which won by an innings and 106 runs. Their stars were Mushfiqur Rahim and Mominul Haque with the bat and Nayeem Hasan and Abu Jayed with the ball, and they too gained in the rankings. Mushfiqur's unbeaten 203 lifted him five places to No. 20, while Haque's 132 helped him go up to No. 39, a rise of five spots. Hasan's nine wickets for the match took him up 29 places to 38th, while Jayed, who picked up four wickets in the Zimbabwe first innings, got to No. 46, up by 11. Craig Ervine, the stand-in captain in Sean Williams' absence, played his part for Zimbabwe with 107 and 43, the best for his team in either innings, and moved up 15 places to 40th place. Posted in New Zealand 'Beneficial for sure' – Jaydev Unadkat, Abhimanyu Easwaran give nod to DRS in Ranji TrophyTournament 'quite wide open' – Bismah Maroof after Pakistan's tone-setting win	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
ABC News: Prime Suspect of Multi-million Dollar Fraud Syndicate Maria Gallucci April 3, 2019 Who is Mick Featherstone? Mick Featherstone is a former Queensland police detective who worked till 1996. Recently he appeared in a Brisbane court as he was allegedly charged with a multi-million dollar fraud syndicate and the Gold Coast drug bust worth $20,000 which was also disappeared. In his investigation, Zach Featherstone has reported that after leaving the police service Mick Featherstone became a prominent Gold Coast private detective, who was also specialized in reputation management and corporate work. After this incidence as Featherstone's was a private investigator, hislicense was suspended last year by Queensland Office of Fair Trading with another matter in the court. Soon Zach Featherstone Queensland who was a former detective of Queensland police and investigator of the Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) stated that Mick Featherstone Upper Coomera home was raidedon a beautiful morning of Wednesdaywho was survived by his wife and son were also charged and taken into custody. What is the latest update on ABC regarding Mick Featherstone? Recently, ABC has disclosed about the arrest of the detective-turned-Gold Coast private investigator that has done fraud of multi-million dollar scam.It also gave few information regarding the latest development ofthe two-year joint operation between the CCC and police anti-bikieTaskforce The Code-named Lima Violin II, which is one of the most significant investigations in the crime and corruption watchdog's history, had also come into the limelight when the CCC and police allegedthat Mr. Featherstone was one of the masterminds behind the sophisticated syndicate peddling which happened to be known as sports betting site. Till now this prediction software has defrauded many people around the country that is worth millions of dollars. The CCC executive director of crime Kathleen Florian said that later in the investigation by Zach Featherstone it was stated that few directors are senior employees of a private investigation firm were also involved in this fraud scam who were charged against the community by some different companies and schemes. ABC in September 2014 also revealed that the private investigatorand three Gold Coast-based companies were also linked to him as he runsboiler rooms with gambling software and other investment schemes which promised Australian people with a cold call stating if they invested in their packages would get high returns. Not aware about the scam unknowingly hundreds bought the software which cost around tens of thousands of dollars. If you want more details about this fraud, then visit the official website of ABC. The Alleged victims of the syndicate soon complained about the "Phoenix" companies which were selling the software that it had suddenly closed.It will take some more time to restart the companies under another business name which was a scam.However, in an interview head of the CCC, Ken Levy stated that single boiler room investment is worth $100 million. A spokesman of CCC said to ABC last year that the investigation is still going on and all the sixalleged victims including Featherstone's wife Zoei Charissa Keong 32 andson Zach Michael Featherstone 21 are filed against money laundering along with Travis Burch 36 and Robert John Doueihi 34. Both the Kirsty Maria Lester 39 and Daniel Philip Webb 32were charged with fraud only. For more news regarding Mick Featherstone multi-million dollar scam keep tracking ABC and Zach Featherstone who is also a police investigator of Queensland. You can also advantage the subscription packages of ABC which is a digital newspaper offered at an affordable price available on your tablet, PC and mobile device. Previous ArticleBenefits of pallet racking system Next ArticleHome Loans Syracuse NY: Mortgage Loans for People Buying a Home High-quality services are provided to the customers with the commitment of our team Reliable Outlet for Effective Marketing in California Increase Your Business Performance with the Business Services How to write a perfect cease and desist letter? The Advantage of Hiring The Service Company for Design Outsourcing Several types and benefits you can get from the pallet racking system Best Bitcoin Code Trading Platform	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
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Author, Historian & Independent Journalist Meet Gwynne Excerpts of Gwynne Dyer's Books WAR – Chapter One – Book Excerpt WAR – Chapter Three – Book Excerpt WAR – Chapter Eight – Book Excerpt Radio Series Lecture Topic: Is It 1939 Yet? South Africa – Is Zuma to Blame? Politics / By Gwynne Dyer South Africa is now verging on the status of economic basket case. GDP growth last year was around half of one percent, the country's currency has been in free fall for the past year, and its bonds face an imminent downgrade to "junk" status. So is the South African economy doomed to a long period of low or no growth no matter who is in charge – or is President Jacob Zuma to blame? "Zuma is no longer a president that deserves respect from anyone," said Julius Malema, leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, in South Africa's parliament last month. And as Zuma tried to give his eighth State-of-the-Nation speech (he became president in 2009), the EFF members of parliament chanted "Zupta must fall". ("Zupta" is a reference to Zuma's close ties with the immensely wealthy Gupta family). Julius Malema does not qualify as an unbiased observer, but his view of Zuma is shared right across the political spectrum in South Africa and beyond. "No-one believes anything he says," concluded veteran political analyst William Gumede. And yet Zuma continues to be in charge of Africa's largest economy – which is now deteriorating practically by the day. Post-apartheid South Africa was never a great economic success. After the end of apartheid in 1994, there were high hopes that the economy would grow at 6 percent annually or better and create half a million new jobs a year. In reality, growth averaged just over 3 percent in the next decade – and then fell off a cliff after the global financial crisis of 2008. South Africa joined Brazil, Russia, India and China as a member of the BRICS in 2010, but it didn't really qualify. While its fellow BRICs powered through the great recession of 2009-2012 with undiminished growth rates, South Africa's economy fell to 2 percent growth a year,, then one percent, and now half a percent. It is no crime that Zuma was born poor and never went to school. Neither is it a crime that he has never worked in the private sector: all his jobs, from the age of sixteen, have been in the service of the now-ruling African National Congress (ANC). But it is remarkable, given these facts, that he has nevertheless become very rich (at least $20 million). Zuma has never been jailed for corruption, but his principal financial adviser, Schabir Shaik, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2005 for corruption and fraud. The judge said that the evidence of a corrupt relationship between Shaik and Zuma was "overwhelming", and Zuma was immediately fired as deputy president by then-president Thabo Mbeki. Police raids on two of Zuma's homes yielded evidence that led to charges of money-laundering and racketeering in connection with a multi-billion dollar arms deal. Just three days before Zuma was installed as president in 2009, the charges were dismissed on grounds that the evidence had been tampered with, but a recent High Court decision has reinstated the charges. Then there was the Nkandla scandal, in which Zuma got his government to pay for the $23 million expansion of his country home in KwaZulu-Natal. (He was eventually forced by the courts to pay back some of the money.) Or consider the astounding events of last December, when South Africa had three ministers of finance in the same week. The first finance minister, the widely respected Nhlanhla Nene, had annoyed Zuma by refusing to approve some very large contracts in nuclear energy and the state-owned airline. (Nene may have suspected that big kickbacks were involved.) So he was dismissed. The second finance minister was David van Rooyen, an unknown party wheelhorse with no financial experience. It was soon discovered that he had close ties to the Gupta family, which gave rise to speculation that Zuma was helping the Guptas to capture control of the state's financial policies. He was forced to resign after four days. The third man, Pravin Gordhan, was respectable and competent, but by then South Africa's stock market had collapsed, its currency had tanked, and the Standard and Poor's ratings firm had reduced the country's credit rating to just one notch above "junk" status. So Zuma does bear the blame for the collapse in international confidence in the South African economy – but not for its long-term failure to grow as fast as was expected. What is to blame for that? South Africa was already a developed country when apartheid ended. It was a very strange sort of developed country, with around ten million people living in a modern economy among thirty million others who filled menial roles or lived by subsistence farming. But it was already urbanised, already industrialised, and therefore not eligible for the once-only bonus of high growth that some big "emerging economies" enjoyed. The best that South Africa could ever have expected was the 3 percent growth that it had in 1996-2008. That would have been barely enough to meet popular expectations for rising living standards. The main cause for its failure to meet those expectations, and for any political upheavals that may subsequently ensue, is Jacob Zuma. 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4b94ba755ae9bf5cce541f24274d121c 'Bachelor' SPOILER: Emily Maynard And Brad Womack Are Over by UInterviewJune 29, 2011, 12:00 amJune 29, 2011, 12:00 amJune 29, 2011, 12:00 amNews > The latest couple to emerge from The Bachelor franchise has revealed that their engagement is off. Emily Maynard and Brad Womack have confirmed that two months after their reality television proposal, they will not walk down the aisle. "We are no longer engaged," 25-year-old Maynard told People. The single mother later told the magazine that she wanted to end speculation and "get back to normal" so she could raise her 6-year-old daughter, Ricki, in peace. Maynard will make a television announcement of the breakup during a pre-taped interview with Bachelor host Chris Harrison. Womack decided not to appear with Maynard during the interview, but took full blame for their failed romance. "The demise of our relationship," Womack told People, "was completely my fault." This isn't the first time that Maynard has addressed her breakup with the Bachelor heartthrob. "There's nothing going on between us," the North Carolina native told Life & Style on June 1. "It's over." Maynard tried to cover her tracks by posting on Facebook that she and Womack were not allowed to speak to the media regarding their relationship. But in less than two weeks, The Bachelor fans will receive final confirmation that the Maynard-Womack whirlwind is, in fact, over. Maynard's interview with Harrison will air during the July 11 broadcast of The Bachelorette on ABC. Sydney Ramsden on June 30, 2011 at 6:36 am Another reality TV couple bites the dust… GabrielaTilevitz on June 30, 2011 at 7:07 am Seriously, can't anyone honor their commitments these days? Brad Womack Chris Harrison Emily Maynard The Bachelor The Bachelorette Former Bachelor Matt James Reveals Racist Behavior On The Franchise 'Bachelor' Alum Lauren Bushnell Lane Experiences Pregnancy Complications 'The Bachelorette' Contestant Clint Arlis Died By Suicide	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
The Gideon Bible Observes 100 Years On the Road NEIL MUNSHI COLUMBIA NEWS SERVICE New York's famed Plaza Hotel reopened in March after a $400 million, two-year lobby-to-roof renovation. Every room features 24-karat gold-plated sinks and fixtures. And inside every Louis XV-inspired nightstand sits a Bible, courtesy of the Gideons. The same goes for the Motel 6 in Abilene, Texas, where you pull off I-20 onto Shirley Road, park at your room's front door, open the drawer of the nightstand, and there it sits, the Bible, courtesy of the Gideons. Since 1908, sixty years before the Beatles' Rocky Raccoon went into his room, only to find it, the Gideon-distributed Bible has been sent, gratis, to nearly every hotel in the United States, as well as those in 183 countries. Though the mission of Gideons International reaches the century mark this year, there is no celebration planned at its headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., nor would organization officials grant interviews. Nearly 1.4 billion Bibles — translated into 83 languages — have been distributed by the Gideons worldwide, 500 million in the last decade alone and 70.7 million last year. According to a 2006 survey by the American Hotel & Lodging Association, 9 out of 10 hotels have some religious material in their rooms — and odds are, a good portion of those are from the Gideons. All 105,731 hotel rooms in the Hyatt hotel chain carry Gideon Bibles. So do Motel 6's 91,000 rooms. CAMEOS IN POP CULTURE The hotel nightstand is where most people remember seeing the Gideon Bible, and that's where pop culture places it, too: in the 1996 movie version of 'Mission: Impossible' Tom Cruise discovers Jon Voigt's betrayal because of the Gideon Bible. In 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' in 1953, Marilyn Monroe sings, 'I'll be in my room, every post-meridian. And I'll be with my diary and that book by Mr. Gideon.' It can also be found in hospitals, military entrance processing stations, nursing homes and prisons. The hotel association's 2006 survey found an increase in hotels that provide religious materials, 91 percent compared to 75 percent a decade earlier. Jessica Sokolow, the association's media relations manager, noted a 12 percent increase in luxury hotels providing religious texts, contrary to a 2007 Newsweek.com story that reported an 18 percent drop. Some hotels provide other holy books, such as the Marriott chain, which was founded by Mormons and provides the Book of Mormon. The Gideon Bible, though, remains the most prevalent. 'It's been in the U.S. lodging industry for so long — when you open a hotel, it's one of those things on your checklist,' said Joe McInerney, chief executive of the hotel association. FOR TRAVELING CHRISTIAN BUSINESSMEN The Gideons International formed in 1899, a year after two traveling businessmen shared a room in a crowded Boscobel, Wis., hotel. Samuel E. Hill and John H. Nicholson, both Wisconsinites, found they shared a common faith and thought about creating an association for Christian traveling businessmen. Eventually, they were joined by William J. Knights, who proposed the name 'Gideons' from the sixth and seventh chapter of Judges. In the early days, most Gideons were traveling businessmen, and it is still an evangelical association of professional men of various Christian faiths. The organization decided in 1908 to provide a Bible to every hotel room in America — a somewhat easier proposition a century ago, when there were about 800,000 rooms, compared to nearly 4.5 million today. 'They were concerned about businessmen being away from home and wanted to provide a good, godly influence while they were away,' said Randall Balmer, professor of American religious history at Barnard College. 'It bespeaks an overwhelmingly Protestant notion of the Bible and scriptures ... the notion that anybody could just pick it up and almost at random leaf through the pages and come away with some sort of spiritual belief.' It's not totally random. At the beginning of the book the Gideons provide a sort of cheat sheet for travelers, listing problems — trouble with your marriage, stress, depression — and the appropriate passages to read. Paul Kleinau, 63, the scripture chairman for the Staten Island camp of the Gideons, said he finds it a 'nice, informative thumb mark to help people find the answers they need.' Kleinau is in charge of distributing the Bibles to hotels on Staten Island. It's a simple procedure: a new hotel opens, he calls them or they call him and he ships out a Bible for each room, either from his warehouse or direct from the publisher. Every two months, he checks on their supply, which usually deplete around the holidays. He'll replace Bibles that have been scribbled over with children's crayons, hastily written phone numbers or whose pages are torn. 'If somebody came in and stole the Bible — which is great, that's a positive thing — we'll replace it,' he said. Contributions help pay for the Bibles. NOT EVERYWHERE Then there are hotels that don't carry Bibles in every room, like the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, in Atlantic City, N.J., one of the few hotels to flat out refuse the Gideons' offer. Instead, the hotel, which opened in 2003, makes 14 religious books available upon request from the front desk. 'Basically, our thinking was that there was no one particular religious publication that is appealing to all sectors,' said Michael Facenda, director of marketing. The decision seems to have worked, at least for David Silverman. 'When I go to Atlantic City, I always stay at the Borgata,' he said. 'It's more expensive, but it's a great hotel and they don't push their theology in my face.' Silverman, communications director for American Atheists, said his organization believes hotels should provide a room for the night, not religious materials — or anti-religious material. 'We're very strong supporters of the separation of church and hotel.' 70.7 million — The number of Gideon Bibles distributed in 2007. 83 The number of languages the Gideons International Bible has been published in 183 countries.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Section 4.3 The Complex Plane Section Objectives Plot complex numbers in the complex plane. Compute the absolute value of a complex number. Perform operations on complex numbers in the complex plane. The Complex Plane The complex plane is identical to the -rectangular coordinate plane, except that the -axis is replaced by the real axis, the -axis is replaced by the imaginary axis. The complex number is plotted as the ordered pair. The absolute value of the complex number is the distance in the complex plane from the origin to : . Let . Compute . Compute . Arithmetic Operations in the Complex Plane Most of the operations that can be performed on complex numbers can be illustrated in the complex plane. For example, addition and subtraction can be illustrated with triangles and parallelograms, and conjugation is a reflection about the real axis. Let and . In the complex plane, illustrate and . Let . Show , and in the complex plane. Let and . Find the distance from to , and find the complex number that is the midpoint of and .	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Office of the Executive Vice President Office of the Treasury Office of Communications and Public Relations Office of Student Life and Programming Office of Clubs and Organizations Audio/Visual Services Events Management USG Media USG Spotlight It's On US USG Minutes Adrian Ortega The Treasurer is the Chief Budgetary Officer of the Undergraduate Student Government and is a voting member of the Executive Council. The Office of the Treasurer is responsible for the preparation of the annual budget of the Undergraduate Student Government and ensures that the Undergraduate Student Government monies are not mishandled. Email: [email protected] Mondays: 8am-11am, 1pm-5pm Tuesday: 8am-10am, 12pm-1pm, 3pm-4:30pm Thursday: 8am -10am, 12pm-1pm, 3-4:30pm Work to cut internal USG spending to maximize funds available for clubs and organizations on campus Maintain an open door policy within treasury office and have maximum amount of transparency with clubs and organizations through all processes Create new innovative ways to help eliminate red tape in voucher process and allow clubs to focus more on the events than worrying about the USG processes Work to successfully implement Debit Card system during pilot run and work to have it universal by 2018-2019 Academic Year Work with Vice President of Clubs and Organizations Katherine Colantuoni to help create leadership conferences that help club leaders maximize their leadership potential Shelby Herzfeld Mashal Zadran Cindy Ngetuny Alexander Bouraad is an economics major with a minor in Business Management minor student at Stony Brook University, where he serves as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Budgeting Officer of the Undergraduate Student Government, which has an operating budget of 3.6+ million dollars. Alex has been involved in every facet of student life on campus ranging from interning for Stony Brook Athletics to volunteering on the pediatric floor with Project Sunshine. He has a deep passion to improve student life for every seawolf and create an atmosphere on campus that focuses not only on academics but fun as well. Alex is excited for the opportunity to serve the student body in this capacity and hopes to see you at all major events. Go Seawolves! An Important Message From The USG July 14, 2018 Senior Ball 2018 April 11, 2018 Roth Regatta 2018 April 11, 2018 Office Hours for President Office Hours for Vice President 11am – 1pm; 3pm – 7pm Stony Brook USG Student Activities Center Suite 202 Stony Brook, NY 11790-2800 © 2019 Undergraduate Student Government.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Interview with Sleepwalker of A Transylvanian Funeral by Mike Arsenyev on March 9, 2013 We previously posted an article on the exploits of Sleepwalker from Forbidden Records, Forbidden Magazine and from the black metal band A Transylvanian Funeral. That article can be viewed here. Sleepwalker has decided to come out from the shadows to indulge us further regarding his projects: Since creating Forbidden Records you've released numerous albums and splits. What are some of your favorite releases that you'd like our readers to check out? 93! I would have to say that they are all killer and out of print. Each release has had its own relevance and meaning. I was really happy to put out Thornspawn / Black Angel, two legendary bands, along with re-issuing Kult ov Azazel's demo material. That is not to make light of Immolith or Draconis Infernum, as their tape releases were killer companions to the CD counterparts. I hope to re-issue the older A Transylvanian Funeral material soon as well, so I suppose fans will get a chance to hear that material again… How has Forbidden Records grown since its inception? This month, March of 2013, marks several 'firsts' for Forbidden. The distro is growing in size and I am able to mark all of our CDs @ $5. I would rather they sell and be enjoyed than try and get every last drop of money from the fans. The new A Transylvanian Funeral and Goatcraft albums out this month are our first Pro CD, Redbook quality release, and I was able to hire Clawhammer to help out with the press push. It has grown to the point where I almost can't do it all myself, which is great. I have also expanded into selling occult amulets and talismans, as well as occult books from Crowley, Summers, Mathers, etc. The occult and metal have always been a huge part of my life so it is a natural progression. Forbidden Records is also still a recording studio, as it really began, although I rarely invite clients into its doors and remain private. When I have, I have been very selective and not disappointed in the outcome. Why did you start Forbidden Radio? Forbidden Radio started for many of the same reasons Forbidden Magazine started. I was operating a studio under the name of Third Eye Audio and writing a magazine when I put out the first A Transylvanian Funeral album. The magazine was fun but I found myself with more and more responsibility online while the print version sat on a self and the interviews I secured went nowhere. I understand the difficulties of running a zine so I opted to leave and start my own, since I had an album I wanted to promote, why rely on someone else to promote it for me when I can do it myself on in my own zine? With Forbidden Radio, it was the same situation. Many have great mp3 collections they have downloaded via Limewire or whatever it is these days to listen to them mutter incoherently in to a $20 radio shack microphone makes my skin crawl. I am not hoping that DJ Tonedef is gonna pay his internet bill this month and be able to do the show and promote my songs. No way! Just another case of DIY. There are a lot of great internet DJs out there and I had opportunity to be one but I know I don't have the time or interest so I made Forbidden Radio, where bands can upload their mp3 and be in the queue of songs being rotated. There are no DJs, no advertisements nothing but streaming aggressive music. It's very admirable that you run Forbidden Magazine. The internet has garroted most DIY publications. Why did you elect to print physical copies of your magazine instead of stockpiling it all online? I don't know, to be honest. I enjoy making things, tangible products as opposed to files and software. I have all the magazines online in PDF form for people to read in whatever form they want but I have always been a reader, I still collect books. I work in a bookstore. It is in my blood to turn pages. Blogs and webzines are a dime a dozen but they are usually more current and up to the minute, which is nice, but a zine that interviewed Mayhem in 1990 is more appealing than a webzine that interviewed Mayhem in 2012. Printed zines are not disposable like the junk food internet is. Labels like to see their material represented in print as do the bands. Fans can go either way but if a fan collects Inquisition records, patches, buttons and zines with their interviews he has something to work with in printed form, online, not so much. The online he has to share, he can't claim his territory with the online interview and add it to his collection. He is forced to share. I like giving people the ability to mark their territory, to not share, to have something of which only 100 copies were made, revert to primal animal character instincts, etc. You have interviewed numerous bands for Forbidden Magazine. I noticed in some interviews you inquire about occult influences. What are your thoughts on the occult? I have always had an interest in things occult, or 'hidden'. My mother was an accomplished numerologist and had an uncle who was a successful hypnotist and psychic so I was exposed to things that others may not have been, all of which were positive, of course. I don't consider myself a satanist or devil worshiper as other who do not know me or my character do. I do not discuss my spiritual practices as that only weakens their potency but anyone who is familiar with Crowley's 28 Theorems should know that I adhere to their principles and methodology. I have experienced far too much amazing 'changes in conformity with Will' to believe anything less than the Truth in Magick and the Higher Self. Crowley says the same thing that Chopra and Robbins does: we live in abundance, change your paradigm and become a receptacle for your desires. Get out of your own fucking way and let the power flow through. While I study and practice Thelema, Tarot and Western Hermeticsim, I also find the practice of Chaos Magick to be of worth, as the complex systems of the Golden Dawn, QBL and Enochian can be so multi-faceted that it become unproductive. Sure, you may become a wise old mystic after 20 years of studying and meditating upon the QBL but that understanding is of little practical use when you can't manifest a parking spot or get a better paying job. I was initially drawn to the work of LaVey as a teenager, as most rebel youth are, the 'practical' or 'materialist' sense of LaVey's Satanism is appealing to me as well, as I spent years of my life without money, without direction, without the power that money brings, like being able to print a magazine, put out albums, buy mixing boards, etc. Unfortunately, LaVey puts his Satanists on an island, disconnecting them from the infinite universe and its 100 trillion stars. That is where I switch gears and find myself picking and choosing amongst different faiths and making things work for me. I guess that makes me a heretic of some sort or another. You appear to be a workhorse. Is it strenuous to operate so many projects at once? Yeah, it is and I try not to bitch about it too, as I would 'do' than 'want'. I just had the conversation with a friend that I would rather be hard to work with and show a strong track record of success as opposed to be 'easy going' and get nothing done. The hardest thing is not making time to go the gym, to be honest. I miss working out and having that time to myself, for myself, alone. When the time comes that a project is suffering because I am trying to juggle too many projects, I hope I am smart enough to give some one else the reigns, hence my hiring of Clawhammer for March's releases. I don't gamble at casinos, but I do bet on myself and Forbidden to get shit done. I have watched so many young bands rely on other people to get them somewhere they want to be instead of taking it themselves…fuck that shit! I am humble but when I look at what I have done, it feels good. I wrote a pretty heavy introduction to Forbidden Magazine III, reminding bands that if they work forty hours a week at a shitty day job, why can't they work just as hard for their precious fucking art? I just can't wait on handouts from anyone and the zine, the label and the band all kind of fit together well anyway. Malcolm X said that no one can give you anything, if you are a man, you take it. What are the influences for A Transylvanian Funeral? I have a lot of influences musically. Mayhem was the first band to turn me onto black metal. I hear so much new music from Forbidden Magazine it is hard to gauge what makes it through my subconscious filter into my guitar… I think the sound has changed enough over time that it hasn't grown old, and it was always my intention to reinvent my sound or creative process with each album. I enjoy all extreme music but find myself listening to completely different stuff for pleasure, when I am driving, for example, this week I have been listening to old Wax Trax! stuff, before that I was listening an album that I mixed of a local psychedelic / rock band. There are parts of me that just like playing Black Sabbath songs standing in front of my amp, rattling the windows, too. Being the sole member of A Transylvanian Funeral, how would you place in juxtaposition your new album Gorgos Goetia to previous works? Is there a personal rumination promulgating in your music? I am certain that I do have a message or proclamation that I am making in my music, it is just that it changes from song to song, album to album. Gorgos Goetia has a focus on the creative energy of Magick, its power and properties but every song is not necessarily about Magick, unless of course you reference Crowley's Theorem #1… When I started writing for Gorgos Goetia, I didn't want a drum machine, so I got a shitty drum kit and beat the hell out of it the best I could. I didn't want layers of guitars, so I recorded one track and used a delay for fake stereo. Minimal production in terms of EQ, compression, gates, etc. Anyone who has heard the previous album, 'the Outsider', can hear keyboards, pianos, samples, drum machines, multiple guitars, elaborate reverbs and a very coherent flow of songs from start to finish. I wanted Gorgos Goetia to be more disjointed, less of a comfortable listen, harsher on the ears and more a collection of songs that a 'concept' album. What are the themes of the title and lyrics for Gorgos Goetia? The themes vary but are based in Magick. 'Moonchild' has little to do with the novel and more to do with the novel's point, the birth of a Magick child, the creation fashioned from a union between the Will and the Universe. Potential + Preparedness = Creation. 'The Supreme Rite of Transmutation' is a celebration of power, a giving of thanks and acknowledgement of the divinity within. 'Night Hags', on the other hand, is based on a story I read from one of Montague Summers' collection of witchcraft and vampire legends about these vampire slaves, or 'night hags', as he were referred to, that would enter the home and steal the body of a soon to decease corpse. I enjoyed that story, because in it, the hags didn't use 'black magic' to steal the body, they simply left a bottle of rum outside the door and when dying's family were all drunk and fast asleep, they simply walked in and took his body. Depending on your perspective of things, they can appear either mundane or magickal. Many times, I have a song title in my head and work from that point forward, 'Hymn to a Gorgon' was one of those instances. From that song, I derived the album title, Gorgos Goetia, which is a difficult translation from Greek to 'terrible sorcery'. I plan to release a collection of all lyrics from A Transylvanian Funeral in book form, as they have never been released previously, other than in PDF form and two songs with Plutonian Shore, 'Moonchild' and 'The Supreme Rite of Transmutation'. The split Alchemical Manifestations has received good reviews. Why did you choose to do a split with Plutonian Shore? Plutonian Shore was visiting Tucson and contacted me, wanted to hang out and we did. They came over and we sat in the studio listening to Snotarar and talked about Magick and putting out an album together. We both had material to release and it seemed natural. It was great meeting them and we are both fans of each others music, I just hope to repeat the experience sooner than later. I just heard today that they sold out of the cassette version of the split but I still have copies of the CD available. I also wanted to share a split with a band that operated differently from my own. They are a full band with two guitars and keyboardist, play live, etc. where as I do not, etc. We vary in methods but share similar results or goals, so it made for an interesting and contrasting split, which I think creates more listenability and interest. A Transylvanian Funeral has never played a show and has declined summons from others to do so. Will A Transylvanian Funeral ever perform live? I doubt it but I never say never. I don't disrespect what other people do but feel disrespected when someone asks me to play a bar and doesn't take the time to research who they are contacting. A mass email to 1000 bands inviting them to 'pay to play' is garbage and I will not suffer a fool. If and when I do play live, I would like to document the event, video, audio, etc. and make a nice release out of it as it will probably not occur again. I just find I get more done alone. Maybe I spent too many years playing with people whose ideas did not coincide with my own and things would be different if I were different but if it isn't broke, why fix it? Plus I would need to do it in Texas as all the potential members reside there currently…! Thank you for taking the time to enlighten our readers about your exploits. What advice would you give others that are interested in creating their own record label, performing solo in a black metal band, or establishing their own magazine? Thank you for taking the time to write the interview and push my material, it means a lot to me! If someone is reading this and wants to do the things mentioned, remember that your success is your responsibility, not a label's, not a magazine, not a DJ or promoter or club or a drummer or his three girlfriends. There is a power and a means to use that power to get what you want in life. Trust your instinct and be prepared to get knocked on your ass more than once. Once you decide to stand back up and keep fighting, that's when life will give you more of what you want. 93! Tags: A Transylvanian Funeral, Forbidden Records, Sleepwalker Classic reviews: Copyright © 1988-2021 Death Metal Underground.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Home » Elections » Gujarat Assembly Election » People voted for PM Modi's leadership, rejected anti-national elements:... People voted for PM Modi's leadership, rejected anti-national elements: Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel News9Live Staff 08 Dec 2022 15:03:PM Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP candidate Bhupendra Patel with party's state President CR Patil and other leaders during a media interaction following the party's victory in the Gujarat Assembly elections. (Photo credit: PTI) Gujarat BJP president C R Paatil said Bhupendra Patel would continue as the state's chief minister and his swearing-in ceremony would be held on December 12. CM Bhupendra Patel credited PM Modi for BJP's landslide victory in Gujarat. The BJP with a vote share of nearly 54 per cent was ahead in 152 out of the total 182 seats in Gujarat, as per the latest trends. Gujarat BJP president C R Paatil said Bhupendra Patel would continue as the state's chief minister. With the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) set for a landslide victory in Gujarat, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Thursday credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi for it and said the people of the state have rejected the anti-national elements in the Assembly election. Gujarat BJP president C R Paatil said Bhupendra Patel would continue as the state's chief minister and his swearing-in ceremony would be held on December 12. The BJP with a vote share of nearly 54 per cent was ahead in 152 out of the total 182 seats in Gujarat, as per the latest trends, and could surpass its previous best showing of 127 seats in 2002 when Modi was the state's chief minister. The Congress holds the all-time record of 149 seats that it had won in 1985 under the leadership of Madhavsinh Solanki. Addressing a press conference here, CM Patel said, "The people of Gujarat have once again reposed faith in Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP leadership. If the masses of Gujarat have elected the BJP, then we have to live up to their expectations." "The people of Gujarat have rejected the anti-national elements in this election and have voted for the BJP's track record of development in the state," he said. Gujarat BJP president C R Paatil, who was also present at the press conference, said Bhupendra Patel would continue as the state's chief minister and his oath ceremony would take place on December 12. Hitting out at the new poll entrant Aam Aadmi Party for trying to demean the people of Gujarat with "dole" politics, Paatil said, "The AAP never thought about Gujarati Asmita and was never able to connect with the psyche of the Gujarati people." " All anti-Gujarati forces have been defeated…The Congress must introspect as to why they are losing public support," he said. Bhupendra Patel Gujarat Assembly Polls 2022	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Home Contemporary Orchestral music "Glorious" for Symphony Orchestra (score+parts) Contemporary Orchestral music "Glorious" for Symphony Orchestra (score+parts) Chaipruck Mekara's YouTube Channel Orchestra sheet music - Contemporary Orchestral music "Glorious" for Symphony Orchestra. The work was commissioned by Payap University for its 35th foundation anniversary. The main theme of the piece was a fragment that was drawn from Payap University's march. Since the name "P A Y A P" can be read in both direction, the composer used this idea in both sections of the piece, one goes front to back the other goes from back to front. It is a same idea as Palindrome. Contemporary music for orchestra. Original music for orchestra. Orchestra new music. New music. Contemporary symphony. contemporary orchestra music. contemporary symphony orchestra. glorious symphony. national symphony orchestra. christmas orchestra concert. best symphony orchestra. christmas orchestral music. Contemporary orchestral music More contemporary works: https://chaipruckmekara.com/collections/contemporary-music	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
House Republicans move to impeach deputy attorney general WASHINGTON — Eleven House Republicans have introduced articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference and President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign. House Republicans have criticized Rosenstein for not being responsive enough as they have requested documents related to the Russia investigation as well as a closed investigation into Democrat Hillary Clinton's emails. It's unclear if there will be an immediate vote. The articles were introduced by North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows and Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, frequent critics of the Justice Department. House Speaker Paul Ryan has not signed on to the effort. Continuing coverage on the Russia investigation here. Trademark and Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Home Marijuana MedMen Closes $80 Million In Funding (CSE:MMEN) MedMen Closes $80 Million In Funding (CSE:MMEN) California-based cannabis company MedMen Enterprises Inc. (CSE:MMEN; OTCQX:MMNFF; FSE: A2JM6N) just secured millions in additional funding from a previously announced investment source. Last month, the company revealed a $100 million investment from Gotham Green Partners. That deal included options for two additional tranches spaced out six months apart to bump the full investment up to $250 million. Today, MedMen was advanced an extra $80 million in gross proceeds from that $250 million secured convertible credit facility. In exchange, the company issued more convertible senior notes to the investors at a value of $3.29 per share. Those funds will go towards continued operations and new product launches as the company opens stores in Arizona, California, New York, Nevada, and additional U.S. states. Last month, MedMen opened an 11th overall store in California with a Sorrento Valley location that also marks a second storefront from the company in San Diego. Aside from the current crop of MedMen stores operational in the previously mentioned states, the company has secured licenses for more than 30 retail sites in the newly opened Florida market. If all of those licensed locations eventually open, the company will operate more than 80 locations nationwide between its own stores and those from subsidiary PharmaCann. In other recent news, MedMen lost its primary general counsel and Chief Operating Officer last month through resignations, while a new hire was brought on to round out the upper management team with the addition of a Chief Technical Officer. Aside from upper management changes, the most headline-grabbing news from MedMen was easily the launch of a big budget video campaign to declare cannabis usage to be "the new normal" in North America. Filmed by Spike Jonze and starring Gray's Anatomy actor Jesse Williams, the clip was recently referenced on The Daily Show With Trevor Noah, which saw a spike in its views. With cannabis usage on both the recreational and medical sides increasingly legalized on a state by state basis, companies such as MedMen have focused efforts on raising awareness and bringing cannabis into the mainstream business world. Licensed producers in other countries are betting big on nationwide legalization arriving sooner rather than later in the U.S., with Canopy Growth Corporation (TSX: WEED; NYSE: CGC) entering an agreement to acquire Acreage Holdings, Inc. (CSE: ACGR.U) after marijuana is legalized at the federal level. medmen Previous articleFormer NFL Pro Chris Long Admits to Smoking Weed His Entire Career Next articleReplace Your Favorite Alcoholic Drinks With These Cannabis Equivalents ⋆ DWiiNK by Mike Tyson – Hashish Facts \| Way of life Recommendations How Cannabis Dispensaries Impacted Opioid Death Rates North Carolina Home OKs Ban on Smokable Hemp In Images: Feminine Pipes So Beautiful, You are going to Hesitate to Smoke Them Denise Spark - April 5, 2019 CANNABIS : QUAND SES PIEDS MONTENT À LA TÊTE – Dossier #10 – L&#39Esprit...	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Elizabeth Boggs Davidsen U.S. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FINANCE CORPORATION (DFC) Elizabeth Boggs Davidsen is a Senior Executive, advisor, and global expert in social innovation and impact investing with the strategic vision to create and deliver financing and business models that produce sustainable, scalable business development. A clear communicator and consensus builder, Ms. Boggs Davidsen is recognized for uniting senior government and ministry officials, corporate executives, nonprofit leaders, and institutional investors worldwide around a common purpose. Her international policy expertise and management of complex global operations are hallmarks of her career. Currently, Ms. Boggs Davidsen is a Biden-Harris Administration political appointee and Vice President of the Office of Development Policy at the U.S International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). In this role she is responsible for ensuring that the DFC's portfolio and projects have measurable development impact, respect human rights, and are environmentally and socially sustainable. Prior to joining the DFC, Ms. Boggs Davidsen created, launched, and directed the strategy and start-up of SDG Impact, a global executive initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) focused on eliminating barriers and driving more integrity for sustainable investment at scale. She positioned UNDP to be the global standards setter for SDG enabling investment by helping investors set, measure, report and disclose on their contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. For the majority of her career, she held leadership roles at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) with annual lending of $13B in Latin America and the Caribbean. Ms. Boggs Davidsen was the Chief of the Knowledge Economy and led the Impact Investing portfolio of the Multilateral Investment Fund. She was the lead architect and Principal Investment Officer for the Opportunities for the Majority Office, the first dedicated office within a development finance institution in financing inclusive business models using market-based principles. And she served as a Policy Adviser to the Executive Vice President on operational, policy, and programmatic issues of Bank activity with social sectors and environment. She earned a MS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University's Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service, a MA in Spanish from Middlebury College in Madrid, and a BA of Political Science and Spanish from Middlebury College in Vermont. She and her husband have three adult children and live the greater Washington, D.C. area.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Mike Copperthite In an April 18, 2011 interview with Constance Chatfield-Taylor, Mike Copperthite unveiled one of the greatest forgotten stories of Georgetown. His great-great-grandfather, Henry C. Copperthite, a farm boy from Connecticut, was stationed at Georgetown College during the Civil War. After returning to West Washington as a newlywed with his young wife, Johanna, they decided to settle and began a small baking shop called H. Copperthite Pie Baking Company at 1407 32nd Street Business boomed and soon the company was churning out over 50,000 pies each day in Washington at their factories on Capitol Hill and in Georgetown on the corner of M Street and Wisconsin Avenue. As his company grew, so did the Copperthite influence in Washington. Henry Copperthite owned part of Analostan Island (now Theodore Roosevelt Island), constructed many of the wood and brick houses in Georgetown that were built between 1880 and 1925, and was a large supporter of horse racing in the Washington, DC area (he sold a racehorse to Cornelius Vanderbilt for a record sum). As a fifth-generation Washingtonian, Mike Copperthite shares the story of his family and gives insight to an amazing man in a true rags-to-riches story. Constance Chatfield Taylor Constance Chatfield Taylor: We are recording and we're here today on April 18, 2011 with Mike Copperthite. You can correct the pronunciation because it is a difficult one. My name is Constance Chatfield Taylor. We're doing an interview for Oral History for the Georgetown Citizens Association. First of all, is it Mike or Michael? Mike Copperthite: It's Mike. Constance: It's Mike and can you please give us the correct pronunciation of your name and actually your birth date, place and day of birth. Mike: Right. My name is Michael Clay Copperthite and I was born in Columbia Hospital for Women, which is outside of Georgetown, if you know real Washington, January 6, 1956. Constance: And we're doing the interview here in the Peabody Room. Michael's… Mike's family history in Georgetown is very significant. He is here today to primarily talk about his great grandfather. Mike, if you can kind of introduce him to us and tell us when he was born, when he arrived in Georgetown and what brought him here? Mike: If you don't mind, I'm going to read because I wrote all this down and I'm not really good in oral presentation so… Constance: That will be just fine. Mike: OK. I am the son of Robert Crittenden Copperthite who was born on 12/29/1929, the grandson of Andrew J. Copperthite who was born on 1903 and passed in 1975, and the great grandson of Henry C. Copperthite, Jr., born in 1878 and died 3/3/1911 and the great great grandson of Henry C. Copperthite, born December 5, 1846 and died October 13, 1925. All of these people are from Georgetown. My daughter who's downstairs, Keely Alexa Crittenden Copperthite, born in December of '97, is a sixth‑generation Washingtonian on one side of the family. On the other side, we go back to Jamestown and pre‑date people arriving in the colonies. On a personal note, we have ancestors of the American‑British conflict and this month, we buried our twenty‑seventh relative, my father‑in‑law, at Arlington National Cemetery, who served in World War II. Henry C. Copperthite came from the British West Indies, Antigua at 18 months to Meridian Connecticut with his parents in 1847 to farm. Henry joined the famous 79th Highlanders of New York and was a private, who came to Washington and was stationed at Georgetown College for training and the protector of the university. That was his first visit. The 79th fought in skirmishes at Bailey's crossroads in Virginia before engaging in major campaigns at the Battle of Manassas Bull Run I and II, Fort Sanders, Knoxville, Tennessee and Antietam. Henry Copperthite was at Appomattox Courthouse for the surrender of Robert E. Lee's army or the Potomac and then marched down Pennsylvania Avenue for the Grand Review before returning to Connecticut as a citizen of the United States. The skills of a wagon driver that Henry learned, he took back to Connecticut were highly prized in the day of apprenticeship. He started delivering for a baked goods company. He decided even though it paid less, he would learn the baking trade and over the next 20 odd years, Henry became familiar with every aspect of what was about to become the explosion in the dessert, food storage, transportation, grocery store, sanitation and marketing of mass goods to the general public. Constance: And what year was that approximately? Mike: That was between 1863 and 1870. In 1870, while on his honeymoon, Henry and his wife Johanna O'Neil, born in January of 1850 and passed on in February of 1921, visited West Washington, which is now Georgetown and determined that will be a great place to start a business. In 1885, they returned on the eve of Thanksgiving with a wagon, a horse and $3.50 to their name. He started baking pies and returned a one‑day profit of about a hundred dollars in today's money. On January 1, 1887, the H. Copperthite Pie Baking Company began with his new partner‑investor, T. S. Smith at 1407 32nd Street in the northwest and the newlyweds never looked back. 25 years after launching the Connecticut‑Copperthite Pie Company in Georgetown, Henry and his family, most of them came to Washington, along with many of his Civil War friends, to help run his business were producing over 50,000 pies a day in Washington alone, with factories in Capitol Hill, M Street and in Wisconsin Avenue here in Georgetown. Soon he purchased the bakery in Hartford where he first started the dessert business craft giving him factories there and in Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Petersburg, and Newport News, Virginia. In the day and age when the home delivery, shopping for groceries and delivery of fresh baked goods was in its infancy, Henry Copperthite was a pioneer. He provided pies to the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court, the Federal Government, becoming one of the largest manufacturers and purveyors of desserts in the United States. Our family provided pies and hard tack dough for the Doughboys training and fighting in World War I. On average, every man, woman and child in the District of Columbia ate two of his pies every seven days. He initiated a unique print and ad campaign directed at the housewife with tips on how to save work and time while extolling the virtue of eating pie with patriotic and whimsical slogans and caricatures of "the pie man from Connecticut" and in an era where most advertising was the presentation and printing of the business card. Henry placed the ads in all five daily papers in Washington in almost every day for some 30 years. Television, radio, tweeting, Facebook, and email had yet to be invented but "the man from Connecticut" or his products were known to most people in America for a longer time than just about anybody. Just a casual search online of the Library of Congress pulled hundreds of articles about Henry Copperthite from the Georgetown news: society events, news accounts of his travels, charitable activities, satire on how fat he was getting from pie and the "leading pie town," etc. In the sports section of the news where he was at the top of one of the three most popular sports at the turn of the last century – pacing and trotting horse racing. As the pie baking demand grew, Henry acquired large tracts of land in Fairfax and Loudoun County. He purchased 600 plus acres at Burke Station, Virginia around 1900 for dairy production to make fresh pies and over 5000 acres in Loudoun County, some of it is what is now Runnymede Park, for fresh foods and vegetable. He also acquired land in Rock Creek Park, several lots in Georgetown throughout the city. Henry brought land in Alexandria County which is now Arlington, Virginia and he owned Analostan Island which later became Theodore Roosevelt Island. In Burke, Virginia, his summer getaway, he built one of the "finest race tracks in Virginia" with stables for 75 race horses, grandstands that seat 2,000 plus guests with four hotels and stores for shopping and entertaining. It became a place for nature spectators, sporting and family events occurred in the summer months with thousands of folks from all walks of life flock from the city to participate. He held match horse races, motorcycle races, car races, dance contests for the social elite and the average citizen. President McKinley boarded and raced his five horses there as well as Mr. McLean, the family that once owned The Washington Post. Trains ran from Union Station, Georgetown, Alexandria and Richmond, Virginia for people to come from Memorial Day to July 4th to witness boxing events that featured Jack Johnson, exhibition baseball games with Ty Cobb and the Senators, witnessed one of the first if not the first flight over sports venue on Memorial Day in 1909 by the Wright Brothers. Until probation and elimination of track side gaming, the decline of the horse and the rise of the car for transportation, Burke Virginia was the go‑to spot for the weekend getaway from the city's oppressive heat. Henry was an inventor, holding patents for communication devices for speaking between cars and trains and inventing a pie safe to keep baked goods fresh. He co‑invented which today is the disc brake He worked on several other products which made it into everyday use. One of his employees sold to Kraft which is one of their famous mayonnaise formula. Today, most of the milk bought locally in the Washington area come from his partners and his business colleagues' dairies and farm. Henry was a founding board member of the newly revived Potomac Savings Bank at the corner of M Street and Wisconsin and gave loans to working class people at a time when the banking system mostly ignored these folks. He built several homes in Georgetown for his family, his workers, himself and to sell to the public. Many brick and wood structures and homes that are over a hundred years were built by Henry and his wife looked much after that side of his business. On Copperthwaite Lane, now South Street, where the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Georgetown is today, were two historic trust homes from the city's first mayor which were purchased and preserved by the Copperthite family. Henry Copperthite was a wagon driver and his pies were first delivered by horse‑drawn cart, then later by truck. His delivery wagons were in almost every parade of the city during his time and were part of the Inaugural events of his friends and fellow Masons William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Today, one of his wagons is in the Smithsonian Exhibit of Natural History and a truck he gave to the College Park fire department is still on display. As the union movement matured, his company was spared by strike and deliver transportation union which he helped found, which is now known as AFL‑CIO. Henry served in the city's Centennial Commission, Georgetown's planning board, supported Home Rule, and raised and gave hundreds of thousands of dollars for the support of Liberty Bonds, provided food for needy, donated to charity and supported Veterans' Pensions. Along with Harriet Beecher Stowe, he was a founding member of the Connecticut Humane Society for protective services of children in the workplace and home and to insure the welfare and prevention of cruelty and proper treatment of animals. He was a member of the Columbia Club, the premier sports club for the city where cycling, rowing, trap and skeet, fishing, football and baseball and other sports. He raised and gave funds for the speedway, a new drive to rival Park Avenue in New York which is now the scenic drive along Potomac Park. He helped secure funds for the establishment of public beach in 1913, the Tidal Basin Beach facility. He was a shareholder and board member of many companies including the Chesapeake Dry Dock Company which is now the Newport News shipbuilding company, where his baked goods went off to American soldiers abroad. As a member of St. John's Church, that was where his family were married and had services for the family in their passing. In his life, he contributed substantially to the restoration and construction of that church. During all these, his companies continued to grow. Before the Depression, stock in the Connecticut Pie Company traded in 147 dollars per share and after the Depression, they were still trading at 140 per share. Heurich Brewing, another well‑known company in Georgetown, was trading at around 40 dollars per share. His company was the second largest non‑government‑related employer in the city. His baking empire became part of the Ward Baking Company in New York (now, Hostess brands of food, Wonder Bread and C.W. Post, General Foods). He was a friend of Stilson Hutchins who was the founder of the Washington Post. He had one of the first phones in the private residence and his business. W29 and W1729 were his phone numbers. The 29 was for the variety of pies he sold and I think the 1729 was the year the Copperthite family first came to America. Henry was a Horseman of the Year in 1903. He co‑founded the Brightwood race track where he served as a judge, treasurer and events coordinator. When it closed on its final season, the crowd, mostly working men and women called for an encore that lasted two hours after he had gone home. That year, he also sold a horse to Cornelius Vanderbilt for a record sum. "By leading exemplary lives, struggling valiantly against poverty and adversity," he was what in today's society many think is a myth portrayed in the many Horatio Alger stories of rags to riches. A penniless but uncommon man who became a citizen, who prospered, who was decent, a Freemason when being so was the measure of the man. He was a sportsman, entrepreneur, fought for his country, employed his family, became one of the wealthiest men in America. Henry C. Copperthite helped shape his town and his city. He was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Georgetown, West Washington. Constance: Wow. And who is your great great grandfather? Mike: He was Henry Copperthite, Jr. died of asthma at age 33 but he served in the Spanish‑American War when Theodore Roosevelt was a rough rider. Constance: So the Henry that… Mike: Is my great great grandfather. Constance: Did all that you just talked about? Mike: Yes. Constance: He could not have died at 33. Mike: No, he died at age 78 in 1925. Constance: So he was your great grandfather. Mike: That was my great great grandfather. Constance: Great great… Mike: The person I just talked about is my great great grandfather. My great grandfather was his son and he passed at age 33. Constance: Oh, OK. All right. Mike: And he was a rough rider. Constance: So the great great grandfather lived to be 80… Mike: 78 years old. Constance: 78 and did all that in that lifetime? Mike: In that lifetime. Constance: OK. So for the purpose of this interview, I would like to focus on the Georgetown part of it. I see that you have in front of you a list of the buildings that were owned by your great great grandfather starting in 1886 and the last one listed is… What's on there at the bottom? Mike: 1935. Constance: 1935. And are there how many houses on that list? How many buildings? 11? Mike: Because some of our home blocks we didn't count… there's 20 here. Constance: OK. Mike: And I've been told by my great aunt that we probably had another 40 to 60 lots and/or homes. Constance: 40 to 60 lots plus the ones that are listed here… Mike: Plus 25 acres of Rock Creek Park… Constance: 25 acres of Rock Creek Park and Teddy Roosevelt Island. Mike: That stays on the island. Constance: OK. So what we'd like you to do is starting in the year 1886, tell us again what brought him here and I know that he'd been in the food business before as a delivery person. Is that correct? Then he realized there was a real need for that in the nation's capital. Paint a picture for us. Was he married at the time when he moved… Oh yes, he was because your great great grandmother said West Washington which is now Georgetown would be a great place to settle. So she was pretty much something as well. It sounds like they had the foresight to see that this is a great area. Mike: I pulled her will. I haven't found direct linkage to them for the suffrage movement but she had a will back when women were considered chattel. It's a significant will. It's in the national archives. She ran his businesses, his construction company. What they did was a lot of the wooden structures in Georgetown that were built in the last 100 years, they would purchase residence for people to live here. Constance: The name of the famous pie company was the Connecticut Pie Company? Mike: It was Copperthite Pie Baking Company and the Connecticut Pie Baking Company. Constance: So two different companies? Mike: They have two different entities‑‑ primarily sold wholesale. There was very little retail and if you knew where the social Safeway is now, that was actually a Piggly‑Wiggly going back into the 60's and it was actually the first grocery store in Georgetown and it was called the West Washington Sanitary Grocery because sanitary was the key buzz word. He went to a fresh market everyday and he baked everything else. The whole coming of groceries and buying prepackaged products was relatively new. It came on with better transportation system, with refrigeration, the industrial revolution, the ability to… He was trying to turn out 50, 60 thousand pies a day. They cooking pies in less than eight minutes. So they were steamed. The fruits going in the pie were steamed. There was a huge pie baking convention in Washington in 1912, 1911. This is library information. All the techniques and everything were brought in here. He liked it when he was stationed here to protect the city as a soldier. He saw it as a great place to establish a business. He learned the pie baking business inside and out. That was… Pies in America in 1906 was you had two desserts that you didn't make yourself. That was ice cream and pie. He was at the forefront. He was the second largest or third largest pie manufacturer in the United States at that time. Here in D.C., that accounted for a lot of other factors. 60,000 pies a day was his capacity. CT pie eating contest Tidal Basin Beach Club 1921 Constance: Why would people not want to make pies themselves? Mike: He did a whole ad campaign on how convenient, you pick it up on your way home, ladies take your time off your hand, pick a fresh pie everyday from the local groceries because we guarantee you and we bring them there. Mostly pies were done with either jelly preserves that you kept or during season, the fresh fruit season, he had the ability though his transportation system to bring goods to his factories everyday. Constance: It sounds like he also bought the land to have the fruit trees and the dairies to make the products for the pies and their crust so he provided his own materials. Is that correct? Mike: To a large extent. He owned all the dairies in Maryland and the Shenandoah Pride people… If you look into our family, they married their friends and relatives so they crisscrossed each other's paths in genealogy but you know Shenandoah Pride, if you go to 7‑11 today and you buy milk, is our family's dairy. Constance: Was he from Connecticut? Is that why the name Connecticut came to it? Mike: He came from Antigua at 18 months of age. He was not a citizen of the United States. The 79th Highlander troop in the Civil War advertised that if you joined up and you served three years in the duration of the war, you'd be a citizen if you survive the war upon completion. So he was a farm boy in Connecticut, stationed at Georgetown College when he was down with the Grand Review of all the troops in Pennsylvania Avenue. He went home as a citizen back to Connecticut. So he calls himself a man from Connecticut. Constance: He was in the Civil War? Mike: He was in the Civil War. Constance: And he passed through here after the Civil War and liked it? Mike: He was stationed in Georgetown College for training to protect the college. And they then did a Grand Review of all the union troops and discharged, at least his company in Washington and on Pennsylvania Avenue. He became a citizen of the United States. Constance: Did he go to college? Mike: He did not go to college. He did not go. When I looked into that… When I first was trying to find out why my family wasn't remembered or known in Georgetown, time passed them on, it wasn't that he was… He was a pure Corcoran, but one of his lawyers and business partners argued the supreme court of every major case in the United States at that time. He was a friend of Teddy Roosevelt. He was a friend of William McKinley. They served in the same Masonic lodge together. I don't think the college was the barrier there. He was totally… He was working class, but Georgetown back then was mercantile class. There's an article in 1980 something that I had in here that talks about Georgetown being the wrong side of the track, and it was. It was considered. Only at the time of Henry Copperthite that some of the more prominent beings that helped shape the city started living here. It's where the commerce was. It was the commerce hub. All you have to do is look at the dome of the farmers and merchant's bank, which used to be the old Rigss bank and you know that it was a hub. Dean and Deluca used to be a slave pen. Constance: Let's go… Let's go for a moment to the buildings that your father either owned or was prominent in. You've mentioned a couple in the write‑up that you gave me. Talk about the pie company office at Georgetown Park. That one and what is now Benetton's on the corner and the old bank building there. But if you would start with the one that's opposite, if they built it, on what year was that built and what that was also the one on Wisconsin and M, I mean Wisconsin and P where you have a lovely picture which we hope to include in this record of the horse‑drawn pie wagons lined up. If you could talk about what specifically in Georgetown those three building at the very least? Connecticut Pie Co at corner of Wisconsin and O Mike: It started out in 1407 32nd street. He built a 75‑horse stable which was fire proof back in the day. The stables were above the carriages so you had an elevator that would take the horses up. Constance: That was 1407 32nd…? Mike: That was 3158 O Street. He owned mostly the whole block in there. On both sides of the street. If you can see… Constance: Where were the stables? Which one? Mike: They were at 3158 O Street. Mike: And if you see the row houses, apartment buildings over the slave penn, there was actually an article that describes the officer who got injured by falling debris and the permits that were built for that. The Potomac Savings Bank which was the new Potomac Savings Bank back in 1899 and 1900 is at the corner of M Street and Wisconsin where the Benetton store is now. Adjacent to that is the Masonic Lodge which he helped fund the building of that building. His factories built in 1914 were on M Street and that was from 3287 to 3289 M Street [read original Washington Times article click here] which is almost directly connected to the Benetton building. Copperthite Pie Baking Co., 3289 M Street, NW Constance: Same side of the road? Mike: Same side of the street. Opposite side from Georgetown Park. Constance: Let's talk about your residences as well. There's quite substantial residences on N Street, if you could list those loud and clear and N and O… Mike: Those were my… OK, 3335 was my great great grandfather's home, 13‑room house. Constance: Did he build it or he did the…? Mike: He built it. Constance: That's 3335. Mike: That one he did not build. He renovated. Mike: And then my great grandfather lived at 3337. Constance: The Pie street address is 3159 O Street. Now when you say pie company address, is that the factory? Mike: It was like a retail outlet. Constance: That was the retail at 3159 O Street. Then you also had presence at 3275 Prospect? What was that building? Mike: It was one of my relatives' homes. Either my grandfather or my great grandfather. Constance: Did they build it? Mike: They built it. Constance: In 1907? Mike: Yeah. Constance: And then two homes were being built on O and Wisconsin. Is that in 1908? Mike: In 1908 and those were for family members. Constance: Mostly brick? Mike: Mostly brick. Constance: Mostly brick. Mike: But he had a construction company and he made loans to working class people so everything… If you go through the park… If you are on N Street and you go to a dead end, you have to take the exit down the park, all of those wooden structures that kind of not really big, maybe 700 square feet or less, those were built for employees or family members, distant relatives… Constance: For his construction company? Mike: For his construction… And then he sold… If you didn't know him and you wanted to buy a house and didn't know what to do, you saw an ad in The Times, The Post and the other newspapers, you could go and apply and have a house built for you. He did a lot of construction. Constance: At that time, was there a lot of housing for the people who were actually the laborers of Georgetown in Georgetown at that time? Mike: There wasn't so they started building that. In the 1890's, there were a lot of shanties along the river. He wasn't the only one. I don't think he was the principal if you do researching online about… but he had his own construction company. He had his own developer. Constance: But once they started building, was it common for the laborers to live in Georgetown? Mike: They lived in Georgetown but Georgetown mostly became…This side of Tiber Creek before Rock Creek Park, a lot of laborers came across. Georgetown had a planning board and you can google that anywhere and they were trying to set civic association meetings. They were trying to raise the standards of Georgetown and trying to make it a mercantile class, up and coming young businessmen. Constance: Around what year was that? Mike: That was about 1905 to 1909, 10, 11. Constance: Did it work? Mike: I think it did. Constance: Yeah. Well, to continue through the houses that your family built, is that 3134 and 3135 O Street? Mike: Yup. Constance: The Peter's Mill Seat? Mike: 25 acres. Constance: 25 acres of Rock Creek near national zoo. Peter's Mill Seat. OK, that's over near the zoo. And then you move up to Valley Street, wherever that is. 1618 Valley Street? Mike: That was my great grandfather, not my great great grandfather. That was his house, residence. Constance: Where is Valley Street? Is that in Georgetown? Mike: It is. Constance: It is really where? Mike: I have no idea. Constance: OK. Valley Street, 1618… Mike: That's where he snuck off and married one of the workers in the pie factory and that's the romance of the pie factory story. Constance: The romance of the pie factory story that Henry Jr. snuck off with and married a pie factory worker and there's an article about it that we'll also include in the record. At the store… they got married at the store? What did you say? Mike: They snuck over. They got a friend to get them a permit. They were underage at that time and they were married at St. John's. Constance: At St. John's. OK, so your great great grandfather was, you said, quite contributor to a benefactor of St. John's Church on O Street. Is that correct? Constance: Here we have principal in the Analostan Improvement Company which I'm really impressed… Mike: It was called Analostan back in the day. Before that, it was Mason's Island. Before that, I read that it was called Algonquian. Constance: Yeah. Did he own… Was he an owner? Mike: Only 75 acres. Constance: 75 acres. Mike: It was everything to the water. Constance: On the island itself and then did your family contribute that to the national park or was it done like…? Mike: I was always told we donated it to the Roosevelt but I found an article where Henry sold it. His share for 20,000 dollars in 1928 to the Roosevelt… Constance: To the Roosevelt Trust… Mike: Yeah, which is a lot of money. Constance: Yeah. Mike: Just a little side bar story. I have Labrador retrievers, my first one given to me by Bo Herman, my neighbor and I was a child. And Teddy Roosevelt island is around in the national park but I always let my dog run free because it's near the river. One day, park police came over and asked me to leave and I said no no no, I'm grandfathered in because my grandfather Henry used to own this island and that story has worked a zillion times. Nobody has ever questioned me after that. Constance: Wow. That's a good story. To continue with these houses that he built for your family, 3287 and 3259 M Street, 30,000 square feet. Sorry, correction. That was 3287 and 3289 M Street, 30,000 square feet? Mike: Correct. Constance: So that's the corner of M and 32nd, what buildings in them? Mike: It's listed in here. I just… Constance: OK. And then Delight In Every Bite Copperthite Pie Company… Mike: 1045 Wisconsin Avenue. Constance: 1045. Is that the one at Wisconsin and P? Mike: No. Constance: That's the one down the corner? Mike: Yes… No, that one down in the corner is just an expansion. Constance: So there's another one? This is the… Mike: I think he owned… and not counting the reconstruction… probably nine structures. During World War I they were turning over every day to ship that's why the shift he built factories in Richmond, Petersburg so that they could ship goods abroad. Constance: Were they pie factories? Mike: There were pie but they also did the hardtack bread. Constance: Oh, the hardtack to go off to the war. Mike: And there's two schools of thought why they call them dough boys. One is the Spanish‑American War, they got dust and dirt in Mexico and they call them dough boys and our family claims they called them dough boys because we provided the bills to provide the hardtack… Constance: What is hardtack? Mike: Like a bread or a biscuit that they salted… I'm not an expert on that. I just found that by reading places. That would make sense because he was a board member in the Newport News ship and they were all going off to World War I… Constance: So he had three factories, Newport News… Mike: He had multiple factories. He has Baltimore, two in Washington, one on Capitol Hill, Richmond, Petersburg, and Newport News. Constance: You also mentioned that they say in an ad, it's Connecticut. Mike: In 1889. Constance: In 1889, 12,000… Mike: 12,000 pies a day then. Constance: 12,000 delicious pies every 24 hours in 1889 to the residents of Washington? Mike: Yeah. In this article, you can read… and this is an advertisement he took out. In New York, the capacity was 35,000 pies a day. Constance: There's also a picture of members of Congress each with pies in their hands, standing on the steps of the Capitol. It looks like… Mike: The first woman member of Congress… Constance: And the first woman member of Congress eating pie. Mike: They had a drive to raise money for the support of World War I and he spearheaded the drive and raised 300,000 dollars in about a week in Washington. This is one of the ads he took out – the Connecticut and Copperthite Pie Company. Constance: So he raised money for the war. Mike: Pension relief. Constance: That's at 3159 O? Constance: OK. We will include scans of these that people can see in record with the interview. Now this has on obviously 3237 M Street, did your great grandfather build this house? Mike: He renovated this house. I think it pre‑dated him. Constance: This is on Cox Row… Mike: That house right there… Constance: On the cover of Maroon's Georgetown is the house that they renovated. What year would that be? Mike: I would say 1906. Constance: 1906 and did you grow up in this house? Mike: No. I was at 3035 N Street. Constance: 3035 N. Back to your great grandfather and all the amazing things he did in Georgetown, what can you tell us? I see he was a sportsman, obviously he had a construction business, he obviously had the pie business… How many children did they have? Mike: He had eight children. He was only survived by four of his children. His daughters that survived… In Richmond society today there's a famous name of… I'm drawing a blank right now but… Dr. Shelby Foote talks about the Civil War cavalry commander. He wanted his daughters to marry into society because he did not have any formal education so one of his daughters married the son of the governor of Connecticut. My daughter is downstairs. Her name is Keely Alexa Crittenden Copperthite. There's a Crittenden Street in Washington. Senator Crittenden was the senator who tried to and got past the Crittenden compromise and Missouri compromise which tried to stop the onslaught of the Civil War I don't need to go into that. Constance: Yeah, we don't need to do that but more of what we like to hear about is if you know anything about it was did his eight children go to school here in Georgetown? Did they grow up here? Did they grow up somewhere else? Mike: I didn't go to Georgetown because they dropped the wrestling program and I was a wrestler. Constance: Yeah but your great great grandfather's eight children? Mike: His kids went to Georgetown. He helped endow, and his partner was Mr. Smith. I don't know if you know the Smith Center in Georgetown. I'm literally on the beginning of this research. If I had the time, it's a who's who. The book upon that shelf that says the centennial commission of the District of Columbia in 19… whatever centennial year… 18… 1911 maybe. That was himself, Henry Copperthite, and his peers and his business partners and they are the descendents who's who of almost every cornerstone of this building in this town and city today. Constance: What I'm kind of getting at is more of what life was like then. If you could paint a picture of these kids of this amazing man who is all over the place in business and in social… Mike: I included a story of his one son, Henry Jr., when he was a young lad. He and Henry Sr.'s brother's kids, so that would be Henry Jr.'s cousins, all took horses from the stables and marched over to the White House in 1903 and knocked on the door and asked if young Kermit Roosevelt could come out and play. The article in The Washington Post said "Young Rough Riders Call on the White House for Play" so there's a story of… Constance: And did he? Mike: He could not but he waved from the window and Mr. Roosevelt promised his son would come out and play at a later time. Now Kermit Roosevelt was killed in World War I later, much, much later as a soldier and devastated the President of the United States at that time. There's another story where the Copperthites went with other kids on a scouting trip to Roosevelt Island and they went looking for Pirate Billy the Kids' treasure. The park was written up in the society and news worthy notes in Georgetown back in the day. On hunting trips that my grandfather made to North Carolina and to Florida, they're showing the trains and the boats and the places that he stayed along the way with relatives. Some of the Crittendens from New York came down to stay in Georgetown, There was a White House gala and a dance and that's written up in the society pages with Corcoran and other folks attending with their daughters. Constance: So they found some time to play? They sounded like he was just really busy. Mike: The story about how fishing was bad along the Potomac because of the weather and those who learned the leisurely craft of fishing such as Henry Copperthite were out there in their waders fishing and enjoying themselves. A lot of what they did was inside the city. The summers were oppressive. They didn't know how people got malaria. Georgetown was a swamp. The Washington Gas Light Company was the main, you know the tanks and holding companies down along the river… so they all fled the city during the summer. They didn't know… The windows that have screens were really closed and there was oppressive heat or the windows were open and bugs got in even the wealthiest in Georgetown So they all fled. They went to… We had a hotel in Cape May, New Jersey. Francis Scott Key used to go not to our family's hotel but it was in Cape May. Henry built Burke, Virginia as a retreat which everybody from McLean who was funny. I should tell you a side story. McLean, Virginia is not named after the person everybody thinks it's named after. It's named after the son who got run over on his way home drunk on Wisconsin Avenue in 1903. Probably one of the first people in America to be run over by a car. Constance: Who was run over? Mike: The person who did all the industrial stuff was Mr. McLean. He built this boiler for steam ships and for factories back in the day. He made the money. His son then who an heir to the wealth acquired and bought The Washington Post from Mr. Hutchins who was a friend of my great great grandfather. He was married three or four times. He had two sons and both of them really didn't amount to much. Mr. McLean loved horseback riding when he's not at the Washington Post and you can't find much of this maybe. The Washington Post has expunged a lot of those records. McLean was fond of horseback riding and show horses and McLean had a house up there and stable horses up there. Constance: Back to Georgetown, did your great great grandmother also live to be in her… Mike: She died in 1921. She was either 69 or 70 when she died. Constance: And what do you think, in your great great grandfather's personal writings maybe, what do you think that he would like to leave behind of all that he's done in Georgetown and all the businesses he had, what do you think he would like to say about his life? Mike: I think he was for child welfare and animal rights. He was a Mason which was one of the forerunners of the unions in the United States, not those little guys in hats who run around in parades. He was progressive. I would suspect he was a Democrat though he was friends with…. He helped found what became the AFL‑CIO. I think he was an industrialist, entrepreneur. He was committed to his church. He's committed to his family. He's committed to his community. I think he made provisions to take care of his family as much as he could into the future. I think they were all very excited about being Americans. He seemed like a great guy in everything that I've read. I cried when I read the story about how they gave him a two‑hour standing ovation when the track closed down and they brought him out. They said he had gone home for two hours but they were still cheering for him. Constance: The track in Burke? Mike: No, the one in Brightwood which was a few blocks from here. It was a huge track. Constance: Tell us about that. Mike: I don't know much about it except… Mr. McCoy can probably tell you more about it. Constance: So there was a race track here that he's part of… Mike: The race track… Mr. McCoy do you know exactly where Brightwood was? Was it the 16th near the White House, north of the White House? Mr. McCoy: No, it was all on 7th Street, the Brightwood neighborhood, near Military Road intersection with 7th Street. That's a part of the neighborhood. Constance: So the Brightwood… Mr. McCoy: The information on that is at the Washingtoniana Room. Mike: Thank you very much. Constance: So the Brightwood race track was off Military and 7th … Mike: And there was like a merging of professional race circuits, so there was Kentucky circuit of pacing and trotting and there was a New York circuit and there was a fair circuit. So he was co‑founder of the Brightwood Racing Club, as what they call themselves. It's in the… Constance: Did he do that for pleasure or do they feel it was good business? What do you think the whole racing… Mike: I think he did it for pleasure but I also think he was a heck of a promoter. I found articles in Iowa where he had motorcycle races at his track. He had a room for 30 years at the Willard hotel which he used for entertaining and for guests and things. He was promoting his businesses and his company. He was trying to, I don't want to say improve his lot in life because I think he was a marvelous man by anybody's standards. Constance: Is there anything else? I know there's so much history here and we will post, perhaps, the written history that you have given to us. Mike: No. His descendants, as I said at the beginning, there's 27 of us in national cemeteries who fought for our country and every war. You could almost do a forced thing of our family. There was a James Copperthite who was on the Titanic who died as a firefighter. There was a James Copperthite in 1700 who was part of a mutiny of a British ship and ended up in Connecticut. And then there are members of my family that pre‑date Henry Copperthite coming from Antigua and his family, Thomas, who was his father, to Connecticut, who became a citizen in 1887. But the descendants, my dad, his brother, my grandfather and uncle. My grandfather worked in the war department during World War II. My uncle served in Korea as an army. My father was in Korea as an air force pilot, was awarded a Purple Heart. I have in that file folders my cousin who's silver star and his nickname was Bunky Copperthite. If you see the move Apocalypse Now, the character Robert Duvall was based in part on his crazy antics in the military. Constance: And you still own some properties in Georgetown? Mike: We own three properties in Georgetown. Constance: And are a lot of your descendants buried at Dumbarton Oaks? Mike: The name Copperthite there's only 12 people buried because Henry had four daughters and then he would get into the McCoy's… I'm drawing a blank… Vandussen. There are probably in Oak Hill Cemetery 28 or 29. Last one, Henry's oldest son was Myron who was buried in 1962. Constance: But your great great grandfather is buried… Mike: In Oak Hill Cemetery. Constance: In Oak Hill Cemetery. Mike: Along with his wife and seven of his children. Constance: Just stop here. We have some time. You want to take the walk up there and get a picture of you by your great great grandfather's… Mike: Sure, I was hoping that. You know the tour that's going on? Is it open right now? He's in 477… 4755. This is… Constance: Let's go up and see. Mike: Sure. Constance: OK. This is the conclusion for now. We'll go up and see if we can see the grave site and I'll take some photographs up there of the great great grandson who was kind enough to give us the interview here today. That's the conclusion at this point.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
ArchiveSportsIn the Cards Young defenseman takes leadership role Plattsburgh State sophomore defenseman Philip Middleton demonstrates that leadership does not demand age. After a long junior hockey career, Middleton finds himself in the leadership group that looks to lead the Cardinals toward lofty goals.Plattsburgh State sophomore defenseman Philip Middleton demonstrates that leadership does not demand age. After a long junior hockey career, Middleton finds himself in the leadership group that looks to lead the Cardinals toward lofty goals.Middleton began playing hockey 20 years ago, at the age of two. While his parents were skiers, and his uncle and cousins were professional and world-champion ultimate frisbee players, Middleton believes that he was turned to hockey by the Colorado Avalanche, who moved to Denver from Quebec City in 1995.The defenseman from Vail, Colorado came to PSUC at the end of a junior hockey career that had already taken him far from home. "I was playing in Topeka, Kansas in the North American Hockey League, and then I thought that it was time for a change," Middleton said.That meant joining the Salmon Arm Silverbacks of the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL)."It was a big point in my life," Middleton said. "In terms of personal development, it was a risk-and-reward factor, and it worked out well for me."Middleton credits his time in the BCHL for readying him to move on to collegiate hockey."That league is fast and very skilled," Middleton said. "There were some NHL guys and a lot of Division I guys I got to play against. It was a great way for me to be exposed to such high-end play."Coming out of the junior leagues, Middleton was recruited by former PSUC assistant coach Mike Coppola to join the Cards. "Talking to him in the recruiting process, we knew he was a quality individual and a great leader," PSUC head coach Bob Emery said. "It made us want him even more.""As I did more research, Plattsburgh just seemed like the best fit," Middleton said. "I knew about this area because I had visited Clarkson and St. Lawrence on some recruiting trips."While Middleton was recruited by those Division I programs, as well as St. Cloud State, he ultimately decided that Plattsburgh was the place for him. Middleton said a part of this was a sense of familiarity with the proximity to the mountains."I do just about everything you want a mountain kid to do," Middleton said. Middletons said that includes skiing, mountaineering and fishing.Kathryn believes that Middleton knows that he made the right choice. "He never second-guessed his decision," Kathryn saidIn only his second season with the Cards, Middleton was voted into the leadership group in recognition of the qualities that the coaching staff had identified in the recruiting process."It is quite the honor to be one of the captains of such a historic team and organization," Middleton said. "But I didn't get voted captain for doing something that I'm not."Middleton, who was described by Kathryn as an "old soul", feels that the opportunities he had to travel around the world have contributed to his maturity. "It has made me a more well-rounded person because I've gotten to see so many different areas of the world, from Switzerland to the Maasai villages in Africa," Middleton said.However, Middleton cites something closer to home for his achievements. His family, including his supportive parents and grandparents who enabled him to play, have long been his biggest fans."My family support is the main reason why I am here today," Middleton said. Middleton, who has a triple-major in global supply chain management, international business, and business administration, interned at Northwestern Mutual and continues to work on networking. However, he holds out hopes for another path."Obviously, I still want to play pro hockey," Middleton said. "The way that this organization has helped guys move on to the pro level is amazing."Before he pursues either path, Middleton hopes to lead the Cards to a their goal of a national championship, especially with this year's championship hosted by PSUC at the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York. "We have the right pieces," Middleton said. "So hopefully within the next two to three years we will have a ring on our finger." Email Nathanael LePage [email protected] By Nathanael LePage Archive Nathanael LePage - December 9, 2022 0	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Alan Perry Last seen online 27 days ago Alaska airlines phasing out A320 and Dash 8-400 Domestic carriers are not allowed to be owned by foreign citizens. Branson had no say in it and has been very critical of pretty much every move Alaska has made with regards to Virgin America. Delta launching facial recognition tech trial at Atlanta airport Yeah, well, the facial recognition at passport control re-entering the US has never worked fir me and I always have to get in the other line. Once I get to an agent, he always looks at me, looks at my passport, scans it and lets me through. I don't see the point doing it at the gate. It takes about the same time to scan a boarding pass bar code and could take longer when it doesn't work and one needs to fall back to the electronic boarding pass. Seawind Saga: Pilot who crashed in Lake Michigan had 7 crashes in 7 days "coincidentally, the filming location of "Airport '74," where Charlton Heston saved the passengers. It's also the filming location for the sequel to "Airport."" The film was "Airport '75", not "Airport '74" and it WAS the sequel to "Airport". Watchdog: Pentagon wasted millions on Italian planes later sold as scrap, no one held accountable Try again: "The Department of Justice accepted the cases for potential prosecution in 2016 but told SIGAR in May 2020 that both cases would be too difficult to prosecute successfully, the report said." Whose Justice Department accepted the case for potential prosecution? Whose Justice Department declined to prosecute?	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Home > Reference > Indian Literature > Religious Influence on Indian Literature > Tantra Literature > Mahanirvana Tantra > Chapters in Mahanirvana Tantra > Consecration of Shiva Linga Consecration of Shiva Linga, Chapter 14 of Mahanirvana Tantra Consecration of Shiva Linga has been mentioned in the form of a conversation between Goddess Parvati and her consort Lord Shiva. In chapter 14 of Mahanirvana Tantra consecration of Shiva Linga has been elucidated. Goddess Parvathi asks as to what are the rites relating to the installation of a Shiva Linga. The goddess considers that no one is as omniscient, merciful, omnipresent and protector like Lord Shiva. The merits of installing a Shiva Linga are numerous. A man is purified of all his sins and he is granted a place in heaven. It is considered that a man acquires several times the merits which are obtained by giving the world everything, by performing ten thousand horse-sacrifices, by digging of a tank in a water scarcity country or by making the poor happy. Lord Brahma, Lord Vishnu, Lord Indra and other Gods decide where Mahadeva is in the form of Linga. Mostly all places of pilgrimage abide near Lord Shiva. A shiva Kshetra is a land which is within the radius of hundred cubits of Shiva Linga. Land of Isha is very holy. It is the excellent of all holy places as there abide all the immortals and there are all the holy places. He who lives there becomes cleansed of all sins and goes to the heaven of Shangkara post death. Anything done in this land of Shiva has a multiple effect due to the greatness of Lord Shiva. Sins done in a Shiva Kshetra hold on to man and is strong as a thunderbolt. Performing of pious acts like Purascharana, japa, acts of charity, Shraddha, tarpana are eternal. One can attain the merit of the performance of a hundred Purascharana by merely performing one japa near Shiva. A man would obtain the same fruit by offering ten million pindas at Gaya, the Ganges, and Prayaga as offering a single pinda once only in the land of Shiva. Even in the case of those who are guilty of many sins or of great sins attain the supreme abode if Shraddha be performed in their names in the land of Shiva. Gretaness of Anadi linga cannot be expressed in words. Whether the Shiva Linga is placed on a Gauri-patta or not the devotee in order to attain his desires should worship it devoutly. The devotee who is excellent earns the merit of ten thousand horse-sacrifices if he performs the Adhivasa of the Deva in the evening prior to the installation of Shiva Linga. In the Adhivasa rite twenty articles are used: Earth, Scent, Pebble, Paddy, Durva grass, Flower, Fruit, Curds, Ghee, Swastika, Vermillion, Conch-shell, Kajjala, Rochana, White Mustard Seed, Silver, Gold, Copper, Lights, and a Mirror. The Maya Vija and the Brahma-Gayatri should be repeated while taking each of the articles. Thereafter the forehead of the worshipped spirituality should be touched taking al the articles mentioned above. The ceremony of Adhivasa needs to be performed with the Prashasti-patra. After performing Adhivasa the deity is bathed with milk and other liquids. More Articles in Chapters in Mahanirvana Tantra (14) Consecration of Shiva Lin... Installation of Devata Formation of Mantras Pancha Tattvas Liberation of Beings Worship of Brahman Worship of Supreme Brahma... Worship of the Supreme Pr... Tantric Mantras Placing of the Shri-Patra Ten Sangskaras Funeral and Ancestral Rit... Expiatory Rites Recently Updated Articles in Indian Literature • Sivanath Sastri Kamal Kumar Majumdar was a fiction-writer of the Bengali language. 'Antarjali Jatra' is one of his notable novels. • Books by Rabindranath Tagore The Books by Rabindranath Tagore intermingle versatility and intelligence. The graceful and subtle presentation of contemporary society reflects the true essence of the cultural tradition and heritage of that period. • Patinenkilkkanakku Patinenkilkkanakku is a collection of 18 Tamil poetic works which were written in the period of ethical Tamil literature, after the Sangam age. Patinenkilkkanakku is written in the Venpa meter. • Purananuru- Sangam Literary Work of India It is a work of Tamil Literature which profoundly and accurately reflects life of the ancient South India around 2,000 years ago. It is basically an anthology of variant poets covering themes of war, romance and laments of personal life. • Premendra Mitra Premendra Mitra was one of the most popular Bengali novelist, short story writer and poet. His writings reflect the larger picture of the then society. His works are now included in the curriculum of school and college levels.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Here's an opportunity to give input on Oxnard's Campus Park Wendy Leung Oxnard's Campus Park, site of the old Oxnard High School, could finally see some life pending the outcome of a coveted grant. The city wants to be in the running for an $8.5 million grant from the state parks program. Two upcoming workshops this month will gather public input so the city can submit the grant application in August. The workshops will be from 10 a.m. to noon on July 13 and from 6 to 8 p.m. on July 17. They will take place at Oxnard PAL, 350 S. K St. The workshops will be the last in a series that started in June to gather public input on the future of the park. Eric Humel from the city's public works department said the old campus was demolished in 2008. "The city ended up with it. The goal was always to do something there, bring it to life," Humel said. 'Our goal is to activate the park' Campus Park, located near Fifth and K streets, has a dog park but most of the 30 acres is fenced off and inaccessible. "It's been vacant for a number of years. It's almost an eyesore," Humel said. "Our goal is to activate the park." The grant funding will not be enough to completely develop the park but it'll be enough to make it usable with parking, lights, paths, trees, irrigation and other improvements. If the city gets the grant funding, construction would be complete June 2022. For more information about the workshops, call 805-271-2231. Wendy Leung is a staff writer for the Ventura County Star. Reach her at [email protected] or 805-437-0339. You can also find her on Twitter @Leung__Wendy.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Governor Parson Announces Andrew Bailey as Missouri's Next Attorney General (JEFFERSON CITY, MO) – During a press conference at the State Capitol, Governor Mike Parson announced that he is appointing Andrew Bailey as the next Attorney General of the State of Missouri. Mr. Bailey's appointment will fill the vacancy created by the election of Attorney General Eric Schmitt to the U.S. Senate. Mr. Bailey currently serves as General Counsel to the Office of Governor Mike Parson. "The historical significance of appointing an Attorney General for the second time of our administration has not been lost on me. But such a monumental, history-defining decision can be made so easily with the right candidate, and Andrew Bailey is the right candidate to lead Missourians as our next Attorney General," Governor Parson said. "While it's bittersweet to lose Andrew on our team, it gives us peace of mind to know his talents and passion for the rule of law and public service will be so well utilized as Attorney General. Andrew understands the need to do better, to be better, and with Andrew, better will not only be possible but achieved." "I want to thank Governor Parson, the entire Governor's Office team, and of course my wife and children for their love and support. God has truly blessed me and my family with the opportunities He has granted us," Mr. Bailey said. "I'm excited to get to work on behalf of Missourians to uphold the rule of law, protect freedoms, and ensure our kids and grandkids inherit a better world. My entire career has been defined by public service, and now I'm ready to continue that service as your Attorney General, where I will work tirelessly to earn your trust and never stop fighting on your behalf." Mr. Bailey joined the Governor's Office as Deputy General Counsel in 2019 and has served as General Counsel since 2021. He has also served as a Missouri Assistant Attorney General, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for the Warren County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, and as General Counsel for the Missouri Department of Corrections. Mr. Bailey earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Upon graduation, he joined the United States Army as an officer. He was deployed twice in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in response to the 9/11 Attacks. He was awarded two Army Achievement Medals, an Army Accomodation Medal, a Combat Action Badge, and two Bronze Star Medals for his service. In 2009, he returned from deployment and enrolled at the University of Missouri School of Law. He graduated and began his legal career. Mr. Bailey has handled countless cases in both state and federal courts throughout his career. It was in the courtroom where he heard stories of countless Missouri children in need that motivated him and his wife to become foster parents. Mr. Bailey and his wife, Jessica, have four children ranging from 6 months to 10 years old. "Andrew lives by and embodies the ideals of faith, family, and freedom," Governor Parson said. "He'll fight for our kids like they're his own, and he'll ensure the American Dream lives on for the next generations. We could not be more excited for him, his family, and the State of Missouri." Congressman Sam Graves - Chairman of Transporta... Governor Parson Announces $23 Million Matching ... Representative Ed Lewis's Capitol Report Sam Graves-Let's Get to Work!	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Angel Taylor Dan + Shay's "Tequila" gets poured over a hard remix from HARBER One of the biggest country songs dominating the airwaves today is Dan + Shay's "Tequila." But the Nashville country music duo get an unexpected remix from New York City dance producer HARBER.… HARBER & Angel Taylor gather for a soothing new track "Me And My Friends" HARBER's anthemic sound continues to turn heads across the electronic music scene. Previously, the musician and producer released an equally as pressing track called "Summer You" to kickstart his summer.… Lenno remixes Arty's "Up All Night" featuring Angel Taylor [Premiere] Earlier this summer, Arty announced a new single and a forthcoming album – not only his debut artist album, but the debut artist album on Insomniac's new record label venture, a… Greg Cerrone, MAKO & Angel Taylor – "Can't Stop this Feeling" A few months ago, French disco producer Greg Cerrone scheduled a meeting with the up and coming LA-based duo MAKO and their favorite vocalist Angel Taylor to just "discuss music." What… MAKO – "Beam" (Feat. Angel Taylor) [Free Download] Logan Light and Alex Seaver make up Los Angeles-based duo MAKO. An unlikely combo, the guys are a refreshing thing to see in the world of club music. With Light as…	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Pasadena Bead & Design Show Open to the public --everyone is welcome. Shop and buy direct from artisans and tradespeople at excellent prices --beads, art clothing, jewelry, gemstones, textiles, findings, embellishments; the largest selection of handcrafted beads, art jewelry & gems. Many products offered for the first time --and by the artisans themselves, including an array of designer accessories such as felted hats, artwear, hand-dyed silks, hand tooled leather, and eco-dyed & upcycled clothing. Held at Hilton Pasadena Hotel 168 S Los Robles Ave, Pasadena, CA 91101 July 21-23, 2023 10am-6pm Fri-Sat, 10am-5pm Sun 30,000 ft2 of exhibit space with 300 exhibits Workshops offered daily, 8am to 9pm Admission $10 at door, advanced tickets $8. Special room and parking rates at the Hilton. The exhibitors, who are carefully chosen –by invitation and juried application – include both traditional and contemporary artisans, high-quality merchants, and wholesale suppliers. Exhibitor List. Workshops are offered daily, 8am - 9pm. They are taught by beadmakers & artisans, offering step-by-step instruction for all skill levels,and most include tools & materials. Topics and projects include jewelry design, polymer clay, wirework, crystal setting, bead making, art clay silver, hand knotting, mixed media, chainmaille, and enameling. Admission is $8 online or $10 at the door, good for all three days. Open to the public, with both wholesale and retail pricing; to register as a wholesale buyer, please bring a business card and resale license. There is no admission charge for youths 17 and under. Location and Parking Hotel rooms are now available for the special rate. The Pasadena Hilton is a quiet, boutique-style hotel, located at 168 South Los Robles Ave, Pasadena, CA 91101. It is located three blocks from the historic Old Town shopping district and a short distance from Los Angeles. Hilton Pasadena valet parking will be available for a special rate of $12 a day, with self-parking at $12 a day. Paseo Colorado Shopping Plaza, which is a five minute walk from the hotel, is $2/hour. Street parking is also available. Since 1992, Bead & Design shows have promoted a wide diversity of exhibitors –with 2500 artisans and tradespeople having traveled from 50 countries to come together and exhibit their work. Bead & Design attendees are numbered in the hundreds of thousands, and growing. We are confident that each Bead & Design show offers a dynamic business opportunity, and If you have an interest in exhibiting, Apply Online or Contact Us. Early reservation is important –exhibit space is booked in advance. #beadanddesign [email protected] PO Box 848 Nevada City CA Arts & Crafts Shows Santa Monica Bead & Design Show Walnut Creek Bead & Design Show Culver City Bead & Design Show San Rafael Bead & Design Show Colors of the Stone Exhibitor Sign-in Workshop Lists Copyright © 2023 Garan-Beadagio, LLC. All rights reserved.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Newmont announces Musselwhite conveyor system achieves commercial production Newmont Corp. announced the successful completion of two key projects at its Musselwhite mine at Lake Opapimiskan, Ontario, Canada, with the full commissioning of the mine's conveyor system and the material handling project. "I am extremely proud of the work that has been completed by the team at Musselwhite to safely deliver these two critical projects, whilst managing through the unprecedented challenges caused by COVID-19," said Newmont's president and CEO Tom Palmer. "Musselwhite is an important part of our North America region, and with the commissioning of these two projects is positioned to contribute to Newmont's portfolio for many years to come." The conveyor system and the material handling systems work in association to efficiently move material from deeper mine levels to the surface. Haul distances are reduced as the ore crushed at depth will be hoisted from the underground crushers to the conveyor system and brought to the surface for processing. Newmont Canada Conveyor	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
quickslimketodiet.com How Many Prisoners Are On Life Without Parole? How many prisoners in the US are serving life without parole? What countries have life without parole? What is the average life sentence in the US? Who has been in jail the longest? Can you talk your way out of a life sentence? How long is a death sentence? What does life without the possibility of parole mean? Can you get out of jail with life without parole? Why do judges sentence 1000 years? What does 25 years to life mean? What is the shortest life sentence? How long is a life sentence around the world? Over 200,000 people, or about 1 in 7 prisoners in the United States, were serving life or virtual life sentences in 2019. Over 50,000 are serving life without a chance of parole. In 1993, the Times survey found, about 20 percent of all lifers had no chance of parole.. Life without parole is found in a number of states and in all regions of the world, for example in Bulgaria, England and Wales, Estonia, Kenya, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, and the US. In some countries, like the US and Turkey, there may be no possibility of release under any circumstance. So how long is a life sentence? In most of the United States, a life sentence means a person in prison for 15 years with the chance for parole. Paul GeidelPaul Geidel Jr.BornApril 21, 1894 Hartford, Connecticut, United StatesDiedMay 1, 1987 (aged 93) Beacon, New York, United StatesKnown forThe second longest-serving prison sentence in United States history, that ended upon his release (parole). (time served – 68 years 296 days)11 more rows The United States Supreme Court ruled in 1987 that inmates who have been sent to prison for life have no due-process right to be released unless the wording of their state's parole statute created one. According to the Bureau of Justice and Death Penalty Information Center, the average time from sentencing to execution for was just around 16 years. If no appeals are raised, that process can happen as soon as six months, but that rarely happens. Life without parole is a sentence for a crime that includes life in prison without the possibility of parole. … LWOP means that a guilty person will spend the rest of his life in prison and will eventually die in prison. But this death will be by natural causes and not by execution. No one sentenced to life without parole has ever been released on parole, in California or in any other state. … However, no Democratic or Republican governor has ever granted clemency to a prisoner serving an LWOP sentence in California, and no such prisoner has ever been released on parole. Why do judges sometimes add "plus 1000 years" on a life sentence? The reason is usually due to the modern USA's laws that replaced the concurrent sentencing laws of the past. It used to be that when you got a sentence such as life imprisonment, all sentences after that were served concurrently. It simply means that you have to do a minimum of 25 years before you can be eligible for parole. But since you have a life sentence That means that they don't have to give you parole they can keep you for the rest of your life. Washington State: On August 13, 1905, Joe Munch, a soldier on leave of absence, decided to get drunk. After being found by a police officer and taken to the police station, Judge Gordon sentenced him to thirty days for being drunk and disorderly, but Munch's case was taken to the higher court. In most of Western Europe, for example, a "life sentence" actually means that after a minimum term of 12 to 25 years, the prisoner becomes eligible for parole. However, in most of Europe, prisoners who are considered to be dangerous can be sentenced to "indefinite detention" despite eligibility for parole. Are Double Strollers Worth It? 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Freak waves spotted from space Esa tasked two of its Earth-scanning satellites to monitor the oceans with their radar The shady phenomenon of freak waves as tall as 10 storey buildings has finally been proved, the European Space Agency (Esa) said on Wednesday. Sailors often whisper of monster waves when ships sink mysteriously but, until now, no one quite believed them. As part of a project called MaxWave - which was set up to test the rumours - two Esa satellites surveyed the oceans. During a three week period they detected 10 giant waves, all of which were over 25m (81ft) high. Strange disappearances Over the last two decades more than 200 super-carriers - cargo ships over 200m long - have been lost at sea. Eyewitness reports suggest many were sunk by high and violent walls of water that rose up out of calm seas. But for years these tales of towering beasts were written off as fantasy; and many marine scientists clung to statistical models stating monstrous deviations from the normal sea state occur once every 1,000 years. The waves exist in higher numbers than anyone expected Wolfgang Rosenthal, GKSS Research Centre, Germany "Two large ships sink every week on average," said Wolfgang Rosenthal, of the GKSS Research Centre in Geesthacht, Germany. "But the cause is never studied to the same detail as an air crash. It simply gets put down to 'bad weather'." To prove the phenomenon or lay the rumours to rest, a consortium of 11 organisations from six EU countries founded MaxWave in December 2000. As part of the project, Esa tasked two of its Earth-scanning satellites, ERS-1 and ERS-2, to monitor the oceans with their radar. The radars sent back "imagettes" - pictures of the sea surface in a rectangle measuring 10 by 5km (6 by 2.5 miles), which were taken every 200km (120 miles). Around 30,000 separate imagettes were produced by the two satellites during a three-week period in 2001 - and the data was mathematically analysed. Esa says the survey revealed 10 massive waves - some nearly 30m (100 ft) high. "The waves exist in higher numbers than anyone expected," said Dr Rosenthal. Wave map Ironically, while the MaxWave research was going on, two tourist liners endured terrifying ordeals. The Breman and the Caledonian Star cruisers had their bridge windows smashed by 30m waves in the South Atlantic. Sailors often whisper of monster waves when ships sink mysteriously The Bremen was left drifting for two hours after the encounter, with no navigation or propulsion. Now that their existence is no longer in dispute, it is time to gain a better understanding of these rogues. In the next phase of the research, a project called WaveAtlas will use two years' worth of imagettes to create a worldwide atlas of freak wave events. The goal is to find out how these strange cataclysmic phenomena may be generated, and which regions of the seas are most at risk. Dr Rosenthal concluded: "We know some of the reasons for the rogue waves, but we do not know them all." Posted by gjblass at 5:08 PM 2 comments Labels: ESA, MaxWave, Ocean, oceans, Waves 3,000-year-old butter found in Kildare bog An oak barrel, full of butter, estimated to be roughly 3,000 years old has been found in Gilltown bog, between Timahoe and Staplestown. The amazing discovery of the barrel, which is being described by archaeology experts in the National Museum as a "really fine example" was found by two Bord na Mona workers. The pair, John Fitzharris and Martin Lane, were harrowing the bog one day in late May when they noticed a distinctive white streak in the peat. "We got down to have a look. We knelt down and felt something hard and started to dig it out with out bare hands," John explained. "We could smell it. And it was attracting crows," he added. What they found was an oak barrel, cut out of a trunk, full of butter. It was largely intact, except for a gash towards the bottom of it caused by the harrow. It was head down, and had a lid; something that has excited the archaeologists. "We couldn't believe it," said Mr Lane. The barrel is also split along the middle, which is common with utensils filled with butter found in the bogs. A conservator at the National Museum, Carol Smith, told that the butter expands over time, causing the split. The barrel is about three feet long and almost a foot wide, and weighs almost 35kgs, (77lbs). The butter has changed to white and is now adipocere, which is essentially animal fat, the same sort of substance that is found on well-preserved bodies of people or animals found in the bog. The two men put the barrel in the cab of their tractor and brought it back to their base. "We put it in a black plastic bag," Mr Fitzharris explained. And last Tuesday in the Conservation Department of the National Museum of Ireland in Collins Barracks, the two men were reunited with the barrel in the company of Monasterevin man and one of the museum's keepers, Pádraig Clancy and conservator Carol Smith. Mr Clancy was contacted by Bord na Móna's archaeological liaison officer who reports to the museum on finds like this. He travelled to the site and took the barrel to Collins Barracks. "It's rare to find a barrel as intact as that," Mr. Clancy explained, "especially with the lid intact, and attached. It's a really fine example." He estimates that the barrel is approximately 3,000 years old, from the Iron Age. At the moment it is being dried out by staff at the Conservation Department. Once dry it will be soaked in a wax-like solution which preserves it. "At 35ks, it's a pretty big one," Ms. Smith explained. Other examples of bog butter they showed tended to be less intact and much smaller. It is thought that the butter was put in the bog for practical reasons, rather than ritual. "There are accounts dating back to the 1850's with people used to wash their cattle once a year in the bog and then put some butter back into the bog. It was piseogary," Mr. Clancy explained, adding that the butter was usually "stolen by the following week! "It's open to interpretation, but we're inclined to think that 3,000 years ago they were just storing it." Such a large amount of butter, he estimated would have probably been the harvest of a community rather than an individual farmer. Ms. Smith and Mr. Clancy explained that bog butter has been tasted before, "but not by us! "It's a national treasure, you can't be going hacking bits of it off for your toast!" Ms. Smith joked. "It's important to say that we have a good relationship with Bord na Mona," Mr. Clancy explained. "They are one of the better organisations for reporting finds." And the bogs of Kildare have yielded quite a lot of artefacts from the past, including spear heads, pottery and bodies. "We've found no body parts in Gilltown bog," Ms. Smith said, before adding, "but here's hoping!" Bureau Report Labels: Archaeology, aretacts, Butter Creme, Creme, Dairy, Gilltown bog VIDEO: The first human synth Shared via AddThis AMPSURF gets wounded veterans riding waves Operation Restoration IV, a learn to surf clinic hosted by The Association of Amputee Surfers, took to the surf on Pismo Beach, Calif. to ride the waves from August 13th - 20th. AMPSURF is an organzation set up to help disabled veterans and local disabled, along with wounded active duty servicemen, to learn adaptive surfing and feel the healing power of the ocean and the sport. Photographer Ezra Shaw shows us the triumphs and challenges of the event. Regular viewers of this blog will recognize Shaw's terrific photography, which frequently appears here. ( 18 photos total) Triple amputee Jake Speed rides a wave during Operation Restoration IV August 15 in Pismo Beach, Calif. Speed lost the bottom portion of both his legs and his right arm from frostbite when he was caught out in a storm in Greenland for three days while on a research trip. He received his prosthetic legs just two weeks ago. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) Local surfers walk in to the waves as the sun rises before the start of Operation Restoration IV on August 14. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) # Amputee surfer Timothy Norton changes his prosthetic leg to a special prosthetic leg made for use in the water August 15. Norton was a Section Sergeant May 1, 2008 when his platoon was assigned to clear houses in Mezrah, Iraq, and he was shot and had to have his leg amputated. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) # Amputee surfer Ryan West practices standing up on his board August 14. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) # Amputee surfer Timothy Norton walks out of the water August 14. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) # Former Army serviceman Karl Dorman from Washington DC carries his surfboard up the beach August 14. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) # Amputee surfer Julie Carruthers, a.k.a. One-Legged-Joe, catches a wave August 14. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) # Jose Sanchez catches a wave with a help of of local volunteer August 14. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) # Amputee surfer Mario Rodriguez catches a wave August 14. Rodriguez, USAF Retired, suffered a disarticulation of the right hip while serving overseas. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) # Amputee surfer Timothy Norton stands on his board August 14. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) # Paralympian Mark Barr catches a wave August 14. Barr competed for the USA in swimming during the 2008 Paralympics in China. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) # Paralympian Mark Barr falls off his board August 14. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) # Former Army serviceman Karl Dorman from Washington DC rides a wave August 15. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) # Amputee surfer Ryan West rides a wave August 15. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) # Amputee surfer Greg Birkholz receives a hug from a volunteer after catching a wave August 15. Birkholz, who was one of the original founders of AMPSURF, lost his leg in a motorcycle accident. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) # Timothy Norton (L) and Mario Rodriguez leave the water after a surfing session August 16. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) # Amputee surfer Timothy Norton washes his prosthetic leg in the shower after a surfing session August 16. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) # Labels: AMPSURF, Amputee, Amputee Surfers, Disability, Extreme Sports, Extreme Sports Photography, Surfing Michael Jackson Dance Tribute - STOCKHOLM This is the official clip from BOUNCE & Friends. More than 300 dancers met at 15.30, got informed and then learned the choreography in 30 min. Less then 1 hour later they performed it. A big thank you to all the dancers who made this possible....* Labels: Dance Tribute - STOCKHOLM, Michael Jackson US doctor offers British couples chance to choose sex of child Jeffrey Steinberg, a US doctor, is offering British couples the chance to choose the sex of their child at his New York clinic. By Tom Leonard in New York Dr Steinberg provoked anger earlier this year when he said his fertility clinic could allow parents to produce "designer babies" - choosing eye, hair, skin colour and gender. Under American law, he is allowed to use pre-implentation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to reveal an embryo's sex. In Britain, it can only be used in screening for genetic diseases. Half of the embryos undergoing tests in Dr Steinberg's laboratory reportedly belong to British couples while four more will be tested next month. "Britain is far more conservative than it used to be. They were the innovators but now they've got handcuffs on," Dr Steinberg said. "From a business standpoint, it's the best thing going. From a medical standpoint, it's a travesty." America has allowed sex selection - known by its supporters as "family balancing" - since 2001, but US pro-life groups have criticised the destruction of embryos deemed undesirable. Earlier this year, the Pope attacked the "obsessive search for the perfect child" and said a "new mentality is creeping in that tends to justify a different consideration of life and personal dignity". In Britain, officials have warned parents who go overseas for treatment - often after spotting advertisements on the internet - that they should understand the relevant laws and the impact of the selection on any child who is subsequently born. Other American medical centres have reported receiving interest from British couples, including the Genetics and IVF Institute in Virginia. The institute said that up to 15 per cent of the 400 PGD cases it handles a year come from abroad. It said it counsels parents before the procedure. Gary Harton, its PGD scientific director, told The Times that he tells British patients: "You're no different to any other patient. You're here to get what you want. To get a baby." Labels: Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg, Genetic Engineering, Genetic Research, Genetics, pre-implentation genetic diagnosis (PGD), sexual reproduction 'Basterds' gives Tarantino his best global launch Pic tops "Pulp," Bill" and opens first in over 12 markets By Frank Segers "Inglourious Basterds" is off to a rousing start on the international circuit. Quentin Tarantino's World War II opus starring Brad Pitt blasted its way to $27.5 million during the weekend from 2,630 locations in 22 markets, claiming the No. 1 spot with a muscular $10,456 per-screen average. "Basterd's" international opening was the biggest ever for Tarantino, who has had a mixed record overseas. 1994's "Pulp Fiction" grossed a total of $101.9 million offshore, and 2003's "Kill Bill: Vol. 1" made $111.4 million, per Weinstein Co. figures. But "Kill Bill: Vol 2" in 2004 grossed $86.6 million, while 2007's "Death Proof" logged only $28.7 on the foreign circuit. The film opened No. 1 in the U.K. with $5.8 million drawn from 441 screens, nearly a quarter of the market. In France, "Basterds" also opened in the top spot with $6.1 million from 500 situations, or 30% of the market, per Universal figures. The first-place Germany intro produced $4.3 million from 443 sites and a 26% market share. Australia also provided a No. 1 berth and $2.7 million from 204 situations, while Russia contributed $2.5 million from 340 dates. In all, "Basterds" topped at least a dozen markets. With its No. 1 North American debut, the worldwide opening-weekend tally was $65.1 million. The film's foreign campaign extends to 42 additional foreign territories during the next four months concluding with Japan in December, somewhat similar to the eight-month distribution pattern Disney adopted for its summer release of Pixar's "Up." This week's "Basterds" openings include Argentina, the Netherlands, Denmark, Portugal and Iceland. Universal, which splits worldwide revenue the Weinstein Co., could use a boost from "Basterds." 2009 overseas boxoffice for the distributor's films through Aug. 31 totaled about $800 million, half the $1.6 billion take during the same period for the year's top-grossing major studio, Fox. The best Universal performer in 2009 so far is action title "Fast & Furious," which tallied $195 million foreign, along with $155.2 million domestic. Still playing overseas is the distributor's "Public Enemies," which tallied 5.1 million on the weekend from 3,000 situations in 56 territories. International cume for director Michael Mann's period crime drama starring Johnny Depp stands at $85 million. No. 2 on the weekend was Paramount's "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra," which had spent the past two weekends at No. 1 overseas. It grossed $14 million this round from 6,952 spots in 51 territories; foreign cume stands at $118 million while the worldwide tally is $238.5 million. Finishing third was "G Force," Disney's digital animation produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, which pushed its cume to $54.4 million thanks to a $9.1 million weekend at 2,508 situations in 22 markets. A No. 1 Russia opening produced $3.4 million from 325 screens. Fourth was "Up," which continues its marathon overseas campaign with $8.7 million on the weekend at 2,237 sites in 19 territories. Cume stands at $142.3 million. Warners' "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" finished No. 5 with $8.6 million garnered from 6,400 screens in 64 markets. International gross total stands at $596 million and at $886.1 million worldwide. Having rolled up an international cume of $615 million, Fox's "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" continues to show boxoffice spark by grossing $6.4 million on the weekend from 4,687 situations in 57 territories. Warners' "The Hangover" logged $7 million from 3,100 screens in 52 markets for a foreign cume of $148.5 million and $416.8 million worldwide. Disney's "The Proposal," starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, drew $4.2 million from 2,410 in 37 territories for a cume of $110 million. Sony's sophomore "District 9" registered $3.5 million from 755 screens in nine markets including those not handled by Sony. Its Cume is $14.1 million. The No. 2 film in Germany is Constantin Film's release of "Horst Schlammer-isch Kandidier" (Horst Schlammer Is a Candidate), a political satire about an eponymous Borat-type character (played by comedian-author Hape Kerkeling) running in the upcoming German parliamentary elections. Four-day opening gross was an eye-catching $3.4 million from 654 locales. In Japan, Fox's "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" finished No. 1 in its second weekend at 625 sites grossing $1.92 million, lifting its market cume to $14 million. Total international gross for the Ben Stiller family sequel is $228.1 million. In France, SND's release of "9," the latest animation outing from writer-director Shane Acker featuring the voices of Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly and others, opened at No. 4. The Focus Features/Relativity co-production, a postapocalyptic adventure, drew and estimated $1.6 million from 390 locations. The most popular local-language film was TFM Distribution's "Neuilly sa mere!" (Neuilly My Mother), a comedy about a Muslim teenager living with a traditional French family, which finished No. 3 in its second weekend at 389 locations with an estimated $2.6 million and a market cume of $6.3 million. Other international cumes: Sony's "The Ugly Truth," $17.3 million; Universal's "Drag Me to Hell," 9.1 million (in six Universal territories only); Fox's "Taken," $44.7 million (Fox territories only); Sony's "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3," $36.5 million; and Fox's "I Love You, Beth Cooper," $551.297. Labels: Inglourious Basterds, Movie news, Quentin Tarantino Burgerville Chain Adds Calorie Counts To Receipts By Carrie McLaren We've heard about fast food restaurants posting calorie counts on menus, but a small regional chain in the Northwest is experimenting with putting nutritional information on receipts. At a Burgerville in Portland, Oregon, customers get calorie counts that fit the details of their orders. "Guests order and ask for different things: different buns, different cheeses, different sauces, different everything," said Jeff Harvey, president and CEO for Burgerville. "So to put a label on the menu is not going resolve that challenge." But if the calorie info only appears on the receipt, isn't it too late? Under this plan, the only way to find out how many calories you'd save by ordering a fruit smoothie instead of a shake is to buy both. To its credit, Burgerville is also planning a bicycle drive-through program. So by encouraging cycling, they're allowing customers to consume more calories than they otherwise would. Everyone wins! Burgerville: Get your calorie bill here [KATU.com] (Thanks to Hillary Gibson!) Burgerville Opens Drive-Thrus to Bikes (Photo: Brynt D. Payne) Labels: Burgers, Burgerville, Calorie counts, Fast Food, Nutrition 15 Stunning Sunrises and Sunsets Enjoy these breathtaking photos taken on the cusp of night or day By Olivia Putnal Some of the quietest and most calming moments in the day are when the sun rises and sets over the landscape—and photographers have a special knack for immortalizing these magical occasions. From a purple sunset over Ocean City, Maryland, to the multicolored sunrise on the Balearic Islands, these 15 landscapes were the perfect setting for a picture like no other. Take a look at these eye-catching photographs and you too might be inspired to start capturing your own special dawn or dusk moments. Port de Pollença, Spain On the morning of March 15, 2009, Spain's Balearic Islands were home to this magnificent multicolored sky. With a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H camera, photographer Miquel shot this sunrise in a small fishing village on the island of Majorca. According to his fans, he captured this image as "not only a photographer, but a magician of light and color and imagination." Photo courtesy of Miquel via Flickr.com. In July 2006, Amy Barr was sitting on her porch overlooking the Cascade Mountains in Washington. Having just returned home from the airport earlier that morning, she decided to stay awake despite her jet lag and exhaustion, and good thing she did! Using her Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT, she was able to capture this orange and yellow sunrise along with a couple of other beautiful photos. Photo courtesy of Amy Barr via Flickr.com. In the flatlands of Florida, St. Augustine stands out as one of the most cultured destinations in the state. James Watkins was able to photograph this outstanding scenery over the Atlantic Ocean in January 2009. If you look closely you can see the planet Venus in the sky as the sun sets. Watkins said "every five minutes the sky was going through a different color cycle and it was amazing." Photo courtesy of James Watkins via Flickr.com. County Wicklow, Ireland Commonly called "The Gateway to the Garden of Ireland," Bray in County Wicklow has many attractions such as scenic drives, the Blessington Lakes, aquariums, gardens, waterfalls and farms. Among all of these activities, walking along the beaches and cliffs remains the most popular. This seascape image was shot above the Irish Sea as the sun was setting over the water near Bray Head. Photo courtesy of Getty Images. Sado Island, Japan Paolo Negri captured this beautiful sunset shot on the island of Sado in Japan's Niigata Prefecture. Photographers often scope out this area, which is on the sixth largest island of Japan, while tourists take ferries and hydrofoils back and forth among the islands as the sun rises and sets. Photo courtesy of Getty Images. Lakeview Beach is a common spot for sun-gazing along Lake Erie in Northern Ohio. In 2008, Howard McGuire snapped one of the first sunsets of summer with a Nikon D40 camera, which resulted in a sky filled with a gorgeous mix of blue, purple, orange and yellow set above placid water along the lake's shoreline. Photo courtesy of Howard McGuire via Flickr.com. Ocean City, Maryland Amanda Lockwood was definitely "in the right place at the right time," as she says, to capture this purple sunset over Assawoman Bay in Ocean City, Maryland. In the winter of last year, while Lockwood was sitting on the docks, this photo op was right in front of her—and later sparked an interest in nature photography. Photo courtesy of Amanda Lockwood via Flickr.com. Ojochal, Costa Rica Frank Scott, a guide for Costa Rica Photo Tours, has been interested in nature photography for a number of years. One morning, Frank noticed this unique cloud pattern near his home in Ojochal and decided it was the perfect shot. Even though Hurricanes Caesar and Mitch blew through the area, this tree still stands tall—and is often a perch for toucan and aracari birds. Photo courtesy of CRPhotoTours.com. Setting his camera directly in front of Italy's Ponte Vecchio bridge to observe the beautiful summer sunset, this photographer captured not only one of nature's best phenomenons but also a historic Italian landmark. Built during the Middle Ages, Ponte Vecchio is one of the few remaining bridges that is still lined with an array of shops as it spans the River Arno. Photo courtesy of Getty Images. Worthing, United Kingdom Brian Spicer has been interested in photography since the 1970s and loves experimenting with older film cameras (though recently he has invested in digital cameras and is learning how to use image altering software programs). One evening, along the low tide beaches of West Sussex, Spicer was able to digitally record this purple landscape with his Canon EOS 40D. Photo courtesy of Brian Spicer via Flickr.com. The Golden Gate Bridge attracts millions of people each year, and on this particular afternoon, photographer Mitchell Funk went to the area to observe the beautiful sunset scenery. Floating out on the Pacific Ocean in his boat, Funk captured the full span of the famous bridge just after dusk. The New York City native began his photography career in 1966 and now works on projects in both New York City and San Francisco. Photo courtesy of Getty Images. Botswana, Africa As a travel and wildlife photographer, Steve Allen has been shooting nature scenes for over 37 years, traveling to 78 countries and all seven continents. Recently, Allen traveled to Botswana, Africa, to capture a variety of animals in their surroundings, including these giraffes set in the forefront of a Chobe National Park sunset. Photo courtesy of Getty Images. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany Horst and Daniel Zielske, a German father and son photography duo, watched this magnificent combination of colors appear one morning in their native land. Inspired, they took this photo of a bare tree during sunrise at Jasmund National Park on Germany's largest island, Rügen. The two also enjoy taking photographs of buildings and streets—especially in the rain. Photo courtesy of Getty Images. Born and raised in Southwestern Minnesota, Morey Milbradt has been taking pictures since 1991, and is now a freelance photographer. Milbradt had the idea of shooting a palm tree against a brilliant sunset background before actually taking this photograph. Generally, he enjoys taking photographs of wilderness landscapes throughout the Midwest. Photo courtesy of Getty Images. Piha, New Zealand Piotr Zurek is a professional photographer and blogger who resides in Auckland, New Zealand, and has a passion for travel and photography. On the afternoon of February 18, 2009, Zurek was enjoying his normal coastal view when this moment appeared before him. His Nikon D700 helped him memorialize the spectacular reflection of a sunset off the water so others could enjoy it as well. Photo courtesy of Piotr Zurek via Flickr.com. Labels: Digital Photography, lakes at sunset, Photography, Sunset Pic Mini Launches Roadside Assistance App for iPhone, BlackBerry by Rory Jurnecka Flat tire on your new Mini Cooper? As the Apple commercials say, "There's an app for that." Mini USA has just launched a new roadside assistance application for iPhone and BlackBerry smart phones that not only allow owners to pinpoint their exact location to service headquarters through their phone's GPS tracking system, but also offers a menu system to pinpoint the exact issue their Mini has. Once the application is launched, the Mini owner punches in their personal information and the vehicle's VIN, followed by the general problem, including running out of fuel, getting a flat tire, or locking keys in the car. The information is then forwarded to the nearest service center to the location of the vehicle and Mini informs the owner of when he can expect help to arrive. "Mini owners appreciate technological innovation and will welcome the additional peace of mind that comes from having fast, easy access to the free roadside services provided during their warranty period." Dubbed Mini Road Assist, the application is free to download at: www.allstateroadsideservices.com. Source: Mini USA Labels: iphone apps, iPhone Store, Mini, Mini Cooper, Mini iPhone App Black Swan - Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis in da sac? Posted by Carson Reeves Genre: Psychological (Supernatural?) Thriller Premise: A ballerina competes against a rival dancer who may or may not be another version of herself. About: Black Swan will star drool-worthy starlets Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis and is being helmed by visionary director Darren Aronofsky. Aronofsky originally tried to set up the project in 2007 but Universal put it in turnaround. Thanks to "The Wrestler" doing so well though, Portman twirled onto the project a couple of months ago and everything's been full steam ahead since. Writer: Mark Heyman (original script by John McLaughlin) Details: 131 pages - March 25, 2009 draft. Natalie will play the part of Nina. Can I just tell you why none of my review matters? Can I just tell you why my review is absolutely pointless? Because in this movie, Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis have sex. Yeah. You read that right. And not just nice sweet innocent sex either. We're talking ecstasy-induced hungry aggressive angry sex. Yeah so...this movie is already on the must-see list of 2010. But how good is it? Does the story that surrounds the sex disappoint or excel? Black Swan is a very intriguing story with a quiet slow burn. So slow, in fact, that I nearly lost interest halfway through it. Heyman focuses on the tiniest of things. The way shoes sound as they click against the pavement. The way a slight breeze tussles at your hair. You know how as film evolved, we've been encouraged to cut out all the meaningless stuff? For example, instead of showing a character walk from their house to the train, we should just cut to the train? Yeah, Heyman doesn't do that. If someone needs to walk somewhere, we walk with them. And after awhile, it really begins to test your patience. And if you're looking for the culprit in the 131 page screenplay length, that's where you'll find him. But it's pretty clear these are the moments Aronofsky is interested in in Black Swan. He wants you living every second of this character's life, lulling you into a sense of security so that you get used to the mundane. That way when the extraordinary happens, it slams into you like an SUV. Wrestler success has allowed him to finally make the movies he wants to make. Nina is a ballerina in one of New York City's top ballet companies. She appears to be the only sweet girl of the bunch however, as it's established early on that these companies are packed with jackals, every seemingly sweet-natured princess scheming to backstab the girl next to her if only it gets her one rung higher on the ladder. High School's got nothing on these bitches. Nina's sorta friend, Beth, who has been the school's running lead in all the productions, is nearing the end of her career, and everyone's gunning to take her place in the next big ballet: Swan Lake. The lead role is the part of Odette, the Swan Queen. The role is complicated by the fact that the ballerina must be able to play both sweet, the "White Swan," and dark, the "Black Swan". It is the ultimate challenge. Of course, Nina has the white swan down. But does she have the darkness to nail the Black Swan? The director of the production is the handsome but sinister Yevna. He sees something in Nina but before he gives her the part, he wants to speak with her privately. It is there, in his office, that he pries into Nina's mind, searching for her dark side, even going so far as to force a kiss on her. But it's unclear whether Yevna is trying to seduce Nina or simply seeing how she'll react. As the sweet polite girl she is. Or as the raging disturbed woman she will have to be. In the end, Nina is given the role. But it's clear Yevna has doubts as to if she can pull it off. As the days go by and Nina searches desperately to find her darkness, she begins noticing another girl around town and at the ballet company who looks exactly like her. But not just "exactly." We're talking identical. Yet every time Nina tries to get close, the girl turns away or hides her face. Finally, Nina meets this mysterious doppelganger after rehearsal. Her name is Lily. And while she definitely looks like Nina, she's by no means an identical replica. Was it Nina's imagination perhaps? Whereas Nina is calculated about every move she makes, Lily is the opposite - uncaring and uninterested in perfection. Everything she does seems so...effortless. The two begin a tepid friendship, one which Nina is constantly trying to pull away from. But while she is afraid of Lily, she is also drawn to her in some way. And then there's those strange fleeting moments where Lily looks exactly like her. Umm...Yes. As they get closer to production, Nina's world starts to spin out of control as Lily befriends Yevna and continues to move up the ballet company ladder. The girls will go out, get drunk, and Nina will show up at rehearsal late the next day only to find that Lily is standing in for her. Is Lily scheming to steal her role as the Swan Queen? Or is Nina making this all up in her head in order to find her dark side? That is the ultimate question. As in all Aronofsky movies, there are some controversial moments. In one scene, Nina basically gets raped by Yevna. It's cold and off-putting, and yet it's an important moment as it demonstrates just how high the stakes are in this seemingly innocent world. The script is steeped in darkness (surprise surprise) and makes you feel so uncomfortable at times that you can't read it without constantly resituating yourself. Black Swan is an interesting read. As I mentioned before, it takes its time. But if there's any director who knows how to make the quiet moments work, it's Aronofsky. He's rarely boring as a director. Much has been made of the "supernatural" aspect of Black Swan, with some even comparing it to, "The Others." (one of my favorite scary films btw) But I never saw it that way. To me it was clear that Nina was always imagining her relationship with Lily. I never doubted that Lily was real. But I believe Nina made up the more elaborate aspects of their friendship in order to discover her dark side. I wouldn't be surprised if this was a talking point of the film after its release, which, if the film is good, will surely help word of mouth and repeat business. As a screenplay, I thought Black Swan was good. It definitely could've moved faster and I would've preferred we get some answers sooner instead of being strung along with weird unexplained moment after weird unexplained moment. After awhile that just gets exhausting. But the feel of the story is just so original. It's not quite like anything I've read or seen before. If you like your scripts dark and moody, check out Black Swan for sure. [ ] What the hell did I just read? [ ] barely kept my interest [x] worth the read [ ] impressive [ ] genius What I learned: Don't be afraid to explore the details in your screenplay if they help tell the story. It's okay to create mood and atmosphere. Just make sure you don't go overboard with it. I don't think Black Swan would have a prayer on the spec market because it's just sooooooooo slow at times. But some movies require you to indulge in the seemingly mundane things. That's fine if you know when to stop. Labels: Black Swan, Coming Soon, darren aronofsky, mark heyman, mila kunis, Movies 2010, Natalie Portman, The Black Swan 25 Great Pirate Bay Alternatives Written by Ernesto The end of the Pirate Bay is nearing. 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It might take a few hours, but then the path to world domination is clear. 21. Pirate Bay Torrents Clone 22. Pirate Bay HTML Clone 23. Torrage: Torrent API 24. Tracker Software Google, the mother of all search engines has a filetype:torrent search command that allows you to find torrent files scattered across the Internet. Also, Google's custom search allows everyone to create their own torrent search engine. Don't tell the MPAA and RIAA. 25. Google If you think we missed any good alternatives, please feel free to add your own in the comment section below, while clearly noting which category they fit into. Labels: bittorrent, bittorrent tracker, Movie Torrents, pirate bay trial, PirateBay, Torrents Teacher allegedly paid student after sex Helper » Victim's mother says teen got up to $1,500. By Melinda Rogers The Salt Lake Tribune if(requestedWidth < requestedwidth =" 200;"> Melissa Andreini A former Helper Junior High School teacher charged with having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old male student paid her victim between $1,400 and $1,500 after the encounters, court documents allege. New details about the relationship between Melissa Ann Andreini and her alleged victim emerged from a probable cause statement recently filed in 7th District Court. According to the statement, the victim's mother confronted Andreini at Andreini's home in Helper on July 3 after finding out the teacher was supposedly having sex with her son. Andreini admitted to the boy's mother that she had sex with the teenager on several occasions at her home, according to the statement. A Utah Division of Child and Family Services worker along with police interviewed the boy about his relationship with Andreini, which he said started during the 2008-09 school year, according to the statement. The boy told police Andreini used to bring him and his friends coffee two to three times a week before school started. The boys went to Andreini's classroom to get the drinks, according to the statement. The victim reported to police that Andreini paid him money after three separate sexual episodes at her home in June. Court documents do not specify if the money exchanged was for sex or to keep the boy quiet about the encounters. The victim's mother told police Andreini admitted to paying the boy between $1,400 and $1,500 when the mother confronted Andreini on July 3, according to the statement. Andreini, 28, was charged Monday in 7th Distirct Court with three counts of third-degree felony unlawful sexual activity with a minor. Her first court appearance is scheduled for Sept.28 before Judge Douglas Thomas in Price. If convicted, Andreini faces up to five years in prison on each count. Last week, Helper police announced Andreini was under investigation for sexual activity with a boy who recently completed ninth grade at Helper Junior High School. Another teacher at Helper Junior High School is also accused of sexual misconduct with a student in a case unrelated to Andreini's, police said. Charges against that teacher are still being screened, said Carbon County Attorney Gene Strate. He said it's possible the other teacher will not be charged. Robert Cox, special programs director for the Carbon County School District, told The Salt Lake Tribune earlier this week that Andreini was hired as a special education teacher in the fall of 2006. The school district received word of the allegations against Andreini and the other teacher in late July from Helper police and Carbon County sheriff's deputies, Cox said. Cox said Andreini submitted a letter of resignation to the district on Aug. 3. The other teacher has been placed on administrative leave. Cox said the district is using the case as an opportunity to reinforce the district's rules about professional practices. He said Andreini's alleged victim was a student at the school, but not one of her special education students. "We take very seriously the safety of our students," Cox said. "We want our students to feel safe and feel comfortable in school. We regret that this would happen in our district or in any other district." Andreini was booked into the Carbon County jail earlier this week, but was released after posting $10,000 bail. She did not return a phone call from The Tribune seeking comment Friday afternoon. [email protected] Posted by gjblass at 12:45 PM 0 comments Labels: Court news, Police news, Teacher, Teacher Student Relationships The day the Red Arrows were upstaged by Mother Nature By Ryan Kisiel Their twisting aerial manoeuvres with coloured smoke trailing in the wake is not normally upstaged. But the Red Arrows's display was not the only thing to light up the sky yesterday. A rainbow cast itself across the coast of Fowey in Cornwall just as the RAF acrobatic team were about to perform its stunts. Plane brilliant: The usually spectacular Red Arrows display was given a helping hand by Mother Nature The burst of colour brought to life the spectacle that is normally reserved only for the tiny red aircraft. The team of five planes were performing at the town's annual Royal Regatta in front of thousands of people. It is the 32nd year-in-a-row that the Red Arrows have taken to the skies above the town at speeds of more than 400mph. Crowd pleaser: The display brightened up the grey skies above the Fowey estuary But the colourful display could have not happened if RAF chiefs had got their way. Three years ago, senior officers who were ordered to cut millions from their budgets proposed saving £500,000 a year by restricting 'The Reds' to cheaper white smoke. But ministers realised the plans would be a public relations disaster and ordered a rethink in 2006. Double the fun: As the Red Arrows race through the rainbow, a second can be seen Coloured trails have been a Red Arrows trademark since they formed in 1965. People all over the world watch their breathtaking stunts as the nine jets criss-cross the sky 6ft apart at 400mph, trailing Union Jack colours. To create the smoke, diesel is sprayed into the Hawk jets' exhaust plumes, where it vaporises into white gas. This is vital for safety as it helps pilots pick out other planes quickly. But the red and blue smoke uses costly specialist dyes, extra tanks and hydraulic nozzles. The Red Arrows perform around 85 displays a season and have flown in 52 countries. The RAF has been staging aerobatic displays since 1920. 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HomeArchiveWisdom of Solomon Ferris Solomon can hardly believe the success of the boat and RV storage business his family started just two years ago in Jacksonville, Fla. The Solomons were well known around town for their other businesses, primarily freight salvage. Over the years, theyd also invested in various land parcels. The idea of launching a storage facility was virtually an afterthought. Wed been operating our freight business out of a 75,000-squarefoot building on 6 acres wed bought on Beach Boulevard here in Jacksonville, Ferris explains. Some adjacent property came up on the market a few years ago, and we bought another 7 acres. The property was kind of wooded, and kind of just sitting there. I said, You know, we ought to be able to come up with something to do with this property that would at least pay for the property taxes. A friend who owned a flourishing marina casually mentioned to Ferris how busy he was, and how he needed a place to refer customers with boat trailers and RVs to store. It was like a light bulb coming on, Ferris recalls. I thought, daggumit, this would be a great location. The Solomon trioFerris, his brother, George, and nephew, Douglaslooked into costs and, armed with a few issues of Inside Self- Storage for guidance, jumped into the storage business. Ferris assessment of the property as a great location turned out to be an understatement. The parcel was on a main road in a high-growth area, close to the inter-coastal waterway, a major public ramp and the interstate. Ferris believed offering both RV and boat storage would be the fastest way to fill up. Several marinas were in the area and an RV dealer operated down the road. We were really new to it, Ferris says. We thought we could get by with a grass lot, and found out quickly that wasnt going to workwe got tired of calling wreckers to pull the RVs out of the sand. Crushcrete, a byproduct of concrete, solved the surface problem. The Solomons enclosed all 14 acres of the storage area with an 8-foot, welded-steel fence from a German manufacturer. Ample lighting and video-surveillance cameras were added, along with an area for customers to wash their boats and vehicles. Having pulled a boat in the past, Ferris knew the difficulty of backing up boats and RVs, and decided to sacrifice some storage space to include wide roads in the design. Before beginning their storage project, the Solomons had to win the proper zoning. In a public hearing, nearby homeowners voiced concerns over the possibility of viewing unsightly broken-down trailers and boats from their backyards. They were pacified with promises to construct an attractive 50-foot berm, heavily landscaped to screen the area. Everyone was very pleased and happy with what we did, Ferris says. Solomons RV & Boat Storage features 400 units, nearly all uncovered. Monthly rates vary according to size. The $100 spot is 40-feet deep and allows renters the luxury of driving through. Cost for a 40- foot space requiring drivers to exercise their parking skills is $75. Interior spaces, which are 12-by-25 feet, go for $69 per month. Actually, in this area, those rates are a little bit below market, Ferris says. Im sure we could get more money, but I like the lot being full. We stay 100-percent leased out, and I have a list with 10 to 12 names on it. As soon as somebody moves out, we get on the phone and have people waiting to get in. Rewards Rain Down Fate did its part to help push Solomons RV & Boat Storage to success. In booming Jacksonville, marinas are fast being snatched up by developers who replace them with high-dollar condominiums. Though a few of the condos are including wet slips, average boat owners are increasingly priced out of the market and left with nowhere affordable to store their watercraft. Also, decades-old ordinances prohibiting homeowners from parking boats and RVs in their front yards suddenly began to be enforcedsix months after Solomons opened its doors. That generated a little bit of traffic, Ferris says. Weve always had a good reputation in our other businesses, so we knew a few people in boat and RV sales who sent us customers too. Creative leasing of other parts of the expansive property provided even more storage income. Boat King, a boat retailer, leased 30,000 square feet for operations and reserved some rental spaces as well. As they sell boats to people, those who dont live on the water or have access to a marina are also storing their boats with us, Ferris says. We have a lot going for us. Another chunk of the former freight-business headquarters is leased to World Gym. Ferris estimates 25,000 square feet of warehouse space is left; the family plans to convert it to a climate-controlled, records-storage facility next year. Future enhancements include the addition of covered boat/RV units. Ferris research indicates the metal, three-sided covers will cost $4,500 each. If the right contractor is found, the Solomons would like to construct 20 to 50 in the near future. In the meantime, Ferris has conceived an economical way to slowly make improvements. Tenants who desire covers may erect them at their own expense, with the caveat they meet all city specifications on wind load, etc. The structure stays with Solomons, and in exchange, the tenant receives a free years rent. It enables me to get some covered storage without having to pay for it, and at the same time get future higher rents, Ferris says. Seven patrons have participated in the offer so far. New Marina With storage-space rentals thriving, the Solomons could have sat back and taken it easy for once. Ferris says he figures its not in their blood. Now in the works are plans to develop a waterfront marina in nearby Palm Valley with boat storage, a bait and tackle shop, and a small restaurant. Again, the family will exploit a piece of speculative property that has been sitting idle, this time for 10 years. The county is building a boat ramp next door, so we thought it would be an ideal situation for us down there, Ferris says. The biggest problem is zoningwere going to have to get it changed or file a PUD. Hopefully, everything will go well. If not, well have to change our plans and look at something else. Once zoning is procured, other requisite hoop-jumping will comecourtesy of the Army Corps of Engineers and other governmental departmentsregarding offsets, retention ponds, etc. Ferris is optimistic the family can once again mine gold from boat storage. I like to crawl before I walk, so well start off with open storage, expand into dry storage and then some wet slips, depending on what the corps allows us to do. A small home will be built on the property for an on-site manager, so Ferris wont have to be there every day. Even at the Beach Boulevard property, the Solomons have enjoyed running an enterprise that is far less labor-intensive and time-consuming than past endeavors. Ferris says the storage business has vastly exceeded his expectations. Most important, the reliable income stream and light workload motivated him to make a major lifestyle change. I was hoping this would just bring in enough money to pay taxes on the property, but its allowed me to semi-retire with the freight salvage business weve been in for 30 years, Ferris says. Now, instead of working 10 hours a day, six days a week, Im down to six hours a day, five days a week. Im taking some time off and doing things with my wife and family I should have been doing years ago, but couldnt. Its really worked out well. Ive been very fortunate. For more information on Solomons RV & Boat Storage, call 904.223.0888; e-mail [email protected]; visit www.solomons.net. Metal-Over-Metal Re-Roofing: A Quick, Cost-Effective Option for Self-Storage Owners Case Study: Achieving Great Function and Improved Aesthetics With New Self-Storage Unit Doors SSTI Using Self-Storage Technology: Tools to Help You Streamline Operation and Maximize Revenue SSTI Self-Storage Sales Skills: Converting Leads on the Phone, In Person and Online	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Who is the real mother? DNA to test paternity of abducted child By Kennedy Gachuhi \| 2mos ago DNA test is necessary to help them establish who the biological mother of the child is. [iStockphoto Police want to establish the real parents of a child, who was rescued from suspected abductors in Homa Bay county. It is alleged the child was sold for Sh80,000 at Keroka town in Nyamira County before he was driven to Nyaburi village in Karachuonyo location. On Monday, the police moved to court and obtained an order to allow them to conduct DNA test on the child, the three suspects and a Nakuru woman, Matha Wambui, who is claiming to be the mother. Rachuonyo North Sub County Police Commander Lucy Parteiyie said that the DNA test was necessary to help them establish who the biological mother of the child was. "The child cannot speak or identify his mother among those he was found with. We also want to ascertain whether Wambui, is the real mother as she claims," said Parteiyie. The sub-county police boss revealed that Wambui had positively identified the minor as her missing son, who went missing on April 15. Farmers' joy as irrigation project limps back to life Paternity suit haunts ex-prisons boss in death Poll case: Wanga, Kidero to know fate in March Affordable housing plan takes shape as President unveils first phase None of the three suspects had claimed to be the child's biological mother. Parteiyie said that the child has been at a children's home since Thursday. "We have to be very sure that Wambui is the biological mother but we also have to verify that it is none of the three suspects found trafficking the child," she said. The three suspects fell into a police trap acting on a tip-off on Thursday after they were flagged down at a roadblock while transporting the child to Nyaburi village. "We are yet to know who gave up the child to the three suspects in Keroka town. We, however, established that the child was to be handed over to a suspect who lives in Nairobi," she said. Parteiyie added that the fourth suspect from Komarock, Nairobi was still at large having escaped police dragnets after getting wind on the arrest of the three. If Wambui turns out to be the mother of the child, her nearly seven months search for her missing son will come to an end courtesy of a photograph circulated by the police on social media. Wambui's claimed that on the fateful day, her neighbour, Alice Nyaguthii, who owned a chemist, had volunteered to take her child to a nearby daycare since she (Wambui) was running late for work. "I had just landed a new job and needed someone to take care of the child during the day. My neighbour, who operated a chemist within the estate said she knew someone who ran a daycare and would take my baby there. I trusted her and I left. That is the last day I saw my baby, " said Wambui. In the evening, she went to pick up her child, but Nyaguthii lied that the lady who ran the daycare had travelled with her baby for a funeral in Kisii County. Angered, Wambui reported the matter at Kaptembwo Police Station in Nakuru West. Nyaguthii was arrested but was later released on bond. Confirming the incident, Nakuru West Sub County Police Commander Samson Gathuku said the suspect was released on bond and was to return to the station to give more details, but has disappeared. Gathuku said they have issued a warrant of arrest. DNA Missing child Child abduction Homa Bay County	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Orbit International Receives $1,183,000 Follow-On Order for Color Programmable Entry Panels October 09, 2013 08:45 ET \| Source: Orbit International Corp. HAUPPAUGE, NY--(Marketwired - Oct 9, 2013) - Orbit International Corp. (NASDAQ: ORBT), an electronics manufacturer and software solutions provider, today announced that its Electronics Group, through its Orbit Instrument Division, received a follow-on award from the U.S. Navy valued at approximately $1,183,000 for the manufacture of Color Programmable Entry Panels (Color PEP). Delivery of the Color PEP units is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2014 and will continue through the third quarter of 2014. Orbit's state-of-the-art Color PEP units support UYQ-21 Naval console requirements and are used with the computer display systems for surface ships. Color PEP units provide U.S. Navy with a low-cost, high-tech solution to upgrade and replace over 3,500 older Orbit Plasma Entry Panels that have been deployed on the U.S. Naval Fleet since 1982. Mitchell Binder, President and CEO of Orbit, commented, "The Color PEP replacement program represent a significant long-term opportunity, as a large number of Arleigh Burke class AEGIS destroyers and Ticonderoga class AEGIS cruisers remain in domestic and foreign fleet service. The previous Color PEP order valued at approximately $1.8 million was awarded in February 2012 and we expect additional orders for this program to be received in the future." Mr. Binder, added, "We continue to receive orders for our legacy products that were expected at earlier dates in 2013, which affirms our belief that our legacy business remains intact. However, we continue to operate in a very difficult business environment due to great uncertainty surrounding budget discussions in Washington. Our financial condition remains very strong and we are operating our business in a prudent manner, tightly managing our costs while not compromising our ability to take advantage of new opportunities in our marketplace." Orbit International Corp. is involved in the manufacture of customized electronic components and subsystems for military and nonmilitary government applications through its production facilities in Hauppauge, New York, and Quakertown, Pennsylvania; and designs and manufactures combat systems and gun weapons systems, provides system integration and integrated logistics support and documentation control at its facilities in Louisville, Kentucky. Orbit International Corp., through its Electronics Group, is involved in the manufacture of customized electronic components and subsystems for military and nonmilitary government applications through its production facilities in Hauppauge, New York, and Quakertown, Pennsylvania; and designs and manufactures combat systems and gun weapons systems, provides system integration and integrated logistics support and documentation control at its facilities in Louisville, Kentucky. The Power Group, through its Behlman Electronics, Inc. subsidiary, manufactures and sells high quality commercial power units, AC power sources, frequency converters, uninterruptible power supplies and inverters. The Behlman COTS division designs, manufactures and sells highly reliable power units for industrial and military applications. Certain matters discussed in this news release and oral statements made from time to time by representatives of the Company including, statements regarding our expectations of Orbit's operating plans, deliveries under contracts and strategies generally; statements regarding our expectations of the performance of our business; expectations regarding costs and revenues, future operating results, additional orders, future business opportunities and continued growth, may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and the Federal securities laws. Although Orbit believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that its expectations will be achieved. Forward-looking information is subject to certain risks, trends and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Many of these factors are beyond Orbit International's ability to control or predict. Important factors that may cause actual results to differ materially and that could impact Orbit International and the statements contained in this news release can be found in Orbit's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission including quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, annual reports on Form 10-K and its other periodic reports. For forward-looking statements in this news release, Orbit claims the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Orbit assumes no obligation to update or supplement any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Mitchell Binder Investor Relations Counsel Lena Cati Devin Sullivan The Equity Group Inc. Orbit International Corp. ORBT's official website	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Home / Publications / Lawyers Journal News from the Courts Issue August 2013 Return Print This Article Download This Issue New Child Support Guidelines effective Aug. 1 Former Chief Justice Robert A. Mulligan announced the promulgation of revised Child Support Guidelines effective on Aug. 1, 2013, based on a comprehensive review by the Child Support Guidelines Task Force. The task force that conducted the review, which is required every four years, was chaired by Chief Justice Paula M. Carey. The Child Support Guidelines are used by trial court judges in setting temporary, permanent or final orders for current child support, in deciding whether to approve agreements for child support, and in deciding cases that are before the court to modify existing orders. Key changes made to the guidelines include: Income from means tested benefits such as SSI, TAFDC and SNAP are excluded for both parties from the calculation of their support obligations. Availability of employment at the attributed income level must be considered in attribution of income cases. The text makes clear that all, some or none of the income from secondary jobs or overtime may be considered by the court, regardless of whether this is new income or was historically earned prior to dissolution of the relationship. Reference is made to the 2011 Alimony Reform Act; the text does not, however, provide a specific formula or approach for calculating alimony and child support in cases where both may be appropriate. Clarification is given as to how child support should be allocated between the parents where their combined income exceeds $250,000. A new formula is provided for calculating support where parenting time and expenditures are less than equal (50/50) but more than the assumed standard split of two thirds/one third. Guidance and clarification is given in the area of child support over the age of 18 where appropriate. While the guidelines apply, the court may consider a child's living arrangements and post-secondary education. Contribution to post-secondary education may be ordered after consideration of several factors set forth in the guidelines and such contribution must be considered in setting the weekly support order, if any. The standard for modification is clarified to reflect the recent Supreme Judicial Court decision in Morales v. Morales, 464 Mass. 507 (2013). Circumstances justifying a deviation are expanded to include extraordinary health insurance expenses, child care costs that are disproportionate to income or when a parent is providing less than one-third parenting time. The review process included input from the public and the bar, and reviewed case files, economic analysis, as well as judicial and staff commentary. SJC approves trial court strategic plan to launch implementation effort The Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court have announced approval of the strategic plan developed by the Massachusetts Trial Court and the launch of the implementation phase. The strategic plan will guide the trial court as it works to address current and future needs of the judiciary in serving the people of Massachusetts. It includes a series of tactics to be implemented in stages and sets forth transparent success measures to guide and assess the progress. A Strategic Leadership Team has been formed to oversee the implementation of the action plans. The overall plan was developed with the support of the state's Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (DCAMM). The umbrella strategies, "One Mission: Justice with Dignity and Speed," guide the tactical plans and decision making in the areas of governance and communications, facilities improvement, workforce development, technology enhancements, process improvement and innovative practices. Tactics for each of these areas are identified in the plan. Visit www.mass.gov/courts/strategicplanning to view the plan. Changes to Rule 412 of the supplemental rules of the Probate and Family Court The changes were recommended by the Probate and Family Court Bench/ Bar Committee on Rules, circulated for comment, approved by then Chief Justice Paula M. Carey and approved and promulgated by the Supreme Judicial Court. The changes to Rule 412 allow parties to jointly request modification of a judgment or order of the Probate and Family Court where the parties are in agreement, the agreement is in writing, and all other requirements of the rule are met. The changes to the rule will allow the Probate and Family Court to handle more cases administratively. Other Articles in this Issue: Denouement, thank-yous and postscript Recent updates to the Massachusetts Uniform Commercial Code MBA congratulates state's newest attorneys MBA urges Attorney General Coakley to oversee future One Fund distributions MBA Diversity Task Force Happy Hour draws crowd MBA hosts second summer networking event MBA Mentoring Circles Legislature and Governor agree on judicial pay raise, disagree on implementation Polanowicz focuses keynote on Affordable Care Act at June 25 Health Law Conference Connect and collaborate with fellow section members MBA honors volunteers, 50-year members Recent Superior Court decision provides important lessons SCOTUS strikes down DOMA; Impact on Business Law SCOTUS strikes down DOMA; Impact on Family Law SCOTUS strikes down DOMA; Impact on Criminal Law SCOTUS strikes down DOMA; Impact on Immigration Law SCOTUS strikes down DOMA; Impact on Juvenile and Child Welfare Law	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Venue/Travel Speaker Profile: Carol Santalucia Healthcare Consultant/Champion for Healthcare Experience and former Director of Business Development Back to ALL SPEAKERS Back to Videos >> Carol Santalucia is a seasoned healthcare leader with a passion for and commitment to enhancing the patient experience. During a 28-year career at Cleveland Clinic, Carol held various service excellence and leadership roles, including the formation of Cleveland Clinic's Service Excellence Department and creation of the Respond with H.E.A.R.T. Program. In 2011, Carol began her own consulting practice, Santalucia Group, LLC, where she and her team worked nationwide to improve the experience for patients, families and employees at over 40 organizations. Carol returned to Cleveland Clinic in 2016 as Director of Service Excellence, where she continued her work to enhance Cleveland Clinic's culture through empathetic communication. Carol is the recipient of the Beryl Institutes' 2021 Wendy Leebov Championing Experience Award, an annual award recognizing an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of patient experience. She retired from the Cleveland Clinic in 2021, and continues to work with healthcare organizations, doing the culture work that she finds so meaningful and impactful. Carol received an MBA in Healthcare Administration from Cleveland State University and a BS in Psychology from Denison University. She is a past President of the Society for Healthcare Consumer Advocacy. She is also the President and Founder of The Carmella Rose Health Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people navigate the healthcare system. Session(s): Travel / Venue Saint Louis University designates this live activity for a maximum of15.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and 15.5 Nursing Contact Hours. © 2021 International Conference Development	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Home Sports Premier League clubs may REJECT chance to bring fans back due to... Premier League clubs may REJECT chance to bring fans back due to fear of losing more money Posted: November 23, 2020 at 10:30 p.m. GMT \| Update: 12:02 am GMT, November 24, 2020 Premier League clubs could reject the possibility of welcoming fans back to their home ground next week due to cost concerns and the lack of a roadmap to full capacity crowds. Sports messaging has been told that if their running costs vary, the top 20 clubs would lose significant sums if they admit even the maximum number of 4,000 fans announced by the government on Monday – a limit that will likely not be allowed in large country areas. The Premier League defied the government in September by canceling scheduled test events due to discontent with Downing Street's capacity cap of 1,000, which they deemed unprofitable, and some of their clubs may do so again. Fans have been out of Premier League stadiums since March amid coronavirus crisis It is understood that most of the 20 clubs are operating at a breakeven point of at least 10,000 ticket sales. That number is likely to be higher in the coming months, given the additional security costs associated with ensuring a secure environment by Covid on the ground. Manchester United issued a statement on Monday evening welcoming the government's announcement and stressing that the club "are ready to welcome fans back to Old Trafford as soon as it is safe to do so". But the Premier League has made its concerns clear. A statement read: "Fans have been greatly missed in Premier League matches and we therefore welcome the Prime Minister's announcement of the return of supporters for the first time since March, albeit in small numbers. "Our ambition remains to work with the government to increase attendance to more substantial levels. Until this can be done, many fans will not be able to attend matches and our clubs will continue to host matches at a loss. Fans will be eager to return to the stadiums after watching from home recently In addition to the sheer cost, there are also concerns about the lack of details from the government on how the clubs could possibly upgrade to larger capacities. This issue was summed up by the apparent lack of involvement of the Sports Technology Industry Group – an independent team of health and technology experts who have worked on high-tech solutions to facilitate the return to full stadiums. The Premier League statement added: "Our priority remains agreeing on a roadmap, with DCMS and the Sports Technology and Innovation Group, for pilot events that can help our clubs move quickly to greater capacities in accordance with at the Sports Ground Safety Authority. Covid-secure directives and beyond. "Premier League clubs have a proven track record of meeting high biosecurity standards and we believe we can play an important role in the government's rapid testing initiative. " Clubs will wait for the government to release details of the revamped regional level system – which will determine how many fans can attend events in different parts of the country – before confirming individual positions. Boris Johnson has confirmed fans can return to stadiums once the lockdown is lifted on December 2 In consultation with local safety advisory groups, clubs strive to achieve occupancy rates of between 25 and 33% when supporters are allowed to return. The Premier League insists that social distancing can be maintained at these levels. But the government turnout figure on Monday was much smaller, with a maximum of 4,000 fans allowed to participate in outdoor events in low-risk areas from December 2, 2000 at level 2 and none at level 3. . The RFU is yet to decide whether it will look to admit fans to the Autumn Nations Cup final at Twickenham on December 5, with a maximum of 2,000 likely to be allowed as London will almost certainly be on par. 2 or level 3. Premier League chief Richard Masters praised the government's decision RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney said it takes a crowd of 25,000 in the 80,000-seat stadium to make it viable, although in the Premiership that figure is around 4,000. The EFL is more excited about the announcement, which will provide potential life for several League One and League Two clubs. While the issue of sporting integrity has been raised due to the fact that supporters are only allowed to attend matches in certain parts of the country, there is no serious opposition to reopening the turnstiles in the country. next week where permitted. "The EFL welcomes the decision to allow the return of supporters when the national lockout ends next week," an EFL spokesperson said. 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7 things you need to know about the 'On with the Show' tour GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Fleetwood Mac, one of the most volatile groups in rock history, is back on the road with its classic lineup. For the first time since 1998, when the group was inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, singer/keyboardist Christine McVie is touring with singer Stevie Nicks, drummer Mick Fleetwood, guitarist Lindsay Buckingham and bassist John McVie. Oddly, it was less the group's infamous in-fighting - between she and ex-husband John, and the very public battles between ex-lovers Nicks and Buckingham - and more her fear of flying that prompted her retirement. That's great news for fans of of Fleetwood Mac's signature 1977 album "Rumors," one of the biggest-selling albums ever in the United States - 20 million copies, double-diamond status, something only nine records have achieved. More tracks from that album are being featured on the current "On with the Show" tour, which is among the key things you should know about the band's current jaunt: 1. The return of McVie is big. As recently as 2012, Nicks wasn't hopeful McVie would return, telling Rolling Stone, "there's no more a chance of that happening than an asteroid hitting the earth. She is done. You know when you look in somebody's face and you can just tell? She doesn't want to do it anymore." Obviously, that changed, and we didn't have to be obliterated by a rock from outer space to get there. McVie, 71, overcame her phobia, joined the band on stage in 2013, and agreed to participate in the "On With the Show" tour. Earlier this month, Nicks told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, "When we went on the road, I realized what an amazing friend she'd been of mine that I had lost…I never want her to ever go out of my life again, and that has nothing to do with music and everything to do with her and I as friends." 2. It'll be McVie's first Grand Rapids performance with the band since 1971. She was absent for Fleetwood Mac's previous local show, a 2003 date at Van Andel Arena, which drew 12,000. (Nicks has been to town since, co-headlining the arena with Don Henley in 2005, for 6,000 fans.) Prior to that, the band, then featuring McVie, hadn't stopped by since a 1971 gig at the Grand Valley Armory, replacing an AWOL Deep Purple. If you say you were there, there's a good chance you're lying. 3. The second tour leg is now in full swing. The first leg of "On with the Show" kicked off in Minneapolis in Sept., 2014, and wrapped in Tampa. Grand Rapids is the third date of the second leg, which will stretch to Europe and conclude with a pair of Dublin gigs in July. 4. Ticket prices are high. That should come as no surprise to anyone – they top out at $179.50 (because $180 is apparently 50 cents too much), with "platinum seats" ranging from $275 to $450. That kind of dough hasn't dissuaded anyone, considering the Van Andel show is close to selling out. Compare that basic-ticket cost to fellow fogies- er, classic-rock act the Eagles, whose 2014 Van Andel Arena date topped out at $149.50. Fleetwood Mac's 2003 show cost up to $127, a noticable increase over the 1971 concert, which cost $3. 5. The new set list. With McVie back on stage, songs with three-part harmonies – e.g., "Rumors" track "You Make Loving Fun" – returned to the set. Expect a show just like those on the 2014 tour leg, with 24 songs, counting a healthy chunk of "Rumors"; it stretches to roughly three hours. 6. The reviews are good. There's no shortage of praise for McVie's return - the Tampa Bay Times said a Dec., 2014 show was better than Fleetwood Mac's previous, McVie-less performances, saying "The lightness and sweetness that McVie brought to the table counterbalanced – perhaps even enhanced – the rest of Fleetwood Mac's hit-loaded set." Of a Denver performance, the Huff Post gushed, "the stunning show was... blessed with the valuable missing piece of the puzzle that turns an already priceless picture into a beautiful work of pop art." 7. This may be the end. Buckingham said as much during a recent interview with PBS talk-show host Tavis Smiley. A new album, to be the band's first since 2003's "Say You Will," is in the works - long in the works, but still in the works - and won't be completed until the tour is over. If you believe this claim - and who can blame you if you don't, considering how difficult it is for the likes of Cher, the Eagles, Ozzy Osbourne, Motley Crue, KISS and other acts to retire - then this may be the last Grand Rapids show ever for Fleetwood Mac. Source: MLive Posted by Nickslive at Monday, January 19, 2015 Labels: Fleetwood Mac 2015, On With The Show Timeless Classics...all time best ....and then some this wont be the end because Christine is on board now and I went to the Edmonton ab show and they sound very very good!! who/what bands are opening for the tour? mainly cleveland? Nickslive said... No opening act... All Fleetwood Mac REVIEW: Fleetwood Mac Live in Providence, RI Janua... VIDEO \| PHOTOS: Fleetwood Mac Live in Uniondale, N... VIDEO: Fleetwood Mac Live in Atlantic City, NY - J... #ICYMI Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks gives Rol... Fleetwood Mac's Wednesday show in Providence, RI m... Review \| Photos \| Video: Fleetwood Mac Live in NYC... Stevie Nicks interview... This week's Maclean's Ma... My condolences to Mick Fleetwood and family on the... Stevie Nicks '24 Karat Gold' Photo Exhibit runs at... Stevie Nicks Outtake Photos from January, 2015 Rol... 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Meghan King Edmonds Breaks Silence on Husband's Affair: 'I Refuse to Be Humiliated by This' Antoinette Bueno‍ Entertainment Tonight June 14, 2019 The couple came together to support their son through his MRI on Saturday. Meghan King Edmonds is speaking out about a report that her husband, retired baseball player Jim Edmonds, cheated on her. The 34-year-old former Real Housewives of Orange County star wrote an extremely personal blog post on Friday titled "I'm Sad," after AllAboutTheTEA.com published a report on Thursday alleging that 48-year-old Jim cheated on her with a woman while she was pregnant with their 1-year-old twins, Hart and Hayes. According to the report, Jim also allegedly cheated with the same woman while he was married to his second wife, Allison Raski. The report contains screenshots of alleged NSFW texts between Jim and the woman, as well as an alleged non-disclosure agreement he later made with her in exchange for her silence. In a statement to Us Weekly, Jim admits he had a "lapse in judgment," but insists that "at no time was there any type of relationship or physical contact." In Meghan's emotional post, she says Jim did send nude photos to the woman and reveals that she found out about it through the tabloids. "I called Jimmy and he confessed to me that he had exchanged lewd photos with this woman over the course of several months and a physical relationship never existed," she writes. "He paid her off to protect me so I'd never find out." "Do I believe him? I don't know," she continues. "Because I don't trust him anymore. Physical or not, he still had an affair and he admits this to me." Meghan says she fully blames her husband. The two have been married since October 2014 and share 2-year-old daughter Aspen, as well as their twin sons. "It wasn't one mistake, one lapse in judgment," she writes. "I saw the texts -- each one represents his decision to throw our marriage in the trash. Why did he self-sabotage? And who sends nudies? Doesn't everyone know better than this in 2019? What drives someone to self-destruct in such a way?" The mother of three says her wealth means nothing in the face of the affair, but acknowledges that she still loves her husband. She says that ultimately, she hopes their marriage "can recover." "I love him," she writes. "How can I turn my feelings around so quickly? How can one person decide to utterly ruin me? It's not fair. I sob so much my face stings from the salt from my tears. I am exhausted. My poor kids aren't getting their devoted mother. And it's only been 36 hours." Later, the former reality star reveals their son, Hart, may have a neurological disorder, which she's also been dealing with before the cheating report. "It's been the most trying last couple months of my entire life and we still don't have answers," she says of her son's diagnosis. "Sometimes I leave the house after the kids go to bed so I can drive around and ugly cry in the dark with no one around. Now I have this to deal with: my one true love betraying me in the most disgusting and public way possible." In Jim's statement on Thursday, he apologized to his wife, and claims the woman in question is trying to profit off of his name and has "done this to others in the past." "Clearly, I made a very poor decision to expose myself and my family to this type of person," the statement reads. "For this, I am truly sorry and sought forgiveness from my wife. I'm outraged over the intent to ruin my family and intend to take legal action. We were never having any problems in our marriage. My attorney is in possession of documents wherein this person has admitted fabricating large portions of her 'story.'" ET spoke with Meghan in 2017, when she said she was "obsessed with motherhood" and wanted five more kids with Jim. Watch the video below for more: Meghan King Edmonds Talks Recreating Beyonce's 'Brilliantly Extra' Pregnancy Shoot (Exclusive) Meghan King Edmonds Is Leaving 'Real Housewives of Orange County' 'RHOC' Star Meghan King Edmonds Says She'd Totally Kick Vicki Gunvalson Out of the Group (Exclusive) Hollywood's Best Bikini Bods Over 40 Biggest Celebrity Breakups of 2019 -- So Far! Celebrities in Their Underwear Meghan King Edmonds Gives Husband Jim a Shout-Out in Smiley Family Photo After Cheating Scandal Kylie Jenner claps back at influencer who claims she stole her Instagram pose Border patrol agent "ICE Bae" goes viral The 18 best perks you get with an Amazon Prime membership (AMZN)	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Two Methods of Reasoning by Trivium Pursuit \| Articles, Logic \| 0 comments An Introduction to Inductive and Deductive Logic Fixing Flawed Thinking We often suppose that the other guy's thinking is flawed, without even considering whether the real problem is actually with our own thinking. We tend to elevate our limited observations and our plausible opinions to the level of sure facts and infallible conclusions. Faith indeed has a part in logic, but too often we give it the wrong part. We know what we want to believe, and we conclude that it therefore must be true. But t'ain't necessarily so. We need to recognize what method of reasoning we are using, and what are the limits of that method of reasoning. Reasoning can run in two opposite directions. Deductive reasoning moves from a general premise to a more specific conclusion. Inductive reasoning moves from specific premises to a general conclusion. These two methods of reasoning will produce two different kinds of results. Let's look at inductive reasoning first. Inductive reasoning moves from the particular to the general. It gathers together particular observations in the form of premises, then it reasons from these particular premises to a general conclusion. The most common form of inductive reasoning is when we collect evidence of some observed phenomena (e.g. examining 10,000 dogs for fleas), then we draw a general conclusion about all such phenomena based on our collected evidence (e.g. whether all dogs have fleas). In an inductive argument, the conclusion goes beyond what the premises actually say. For example, if I observe 10,000 dogs, and every dog has fleas, I may conclude "All dogs must have fleas." The conclusion is a conjecture or a prediction. Further evidence may support or deny my conclusion. The 10,001st dog may not have fleas. Therefore, with an inductive argument, anyone can affirm all my premises (10,000 dogs with fleas, yet deny my conclusion (all dogs have fleas) without involving himself in any logical contradiction. What I say in my conclusion is possible, It may even seem very probable. Nevertheless, it is not a necessary conclusion. If someone said, "Some dogs may have fleas, but I don't believe all dogs have fleas," there is no logical response I could make. The logical certainty of my conclusion is entirely dependent upon my correct interpretation of the evidence and the consistency of the evidence with the remainder of the phenomena which was not, is not, or may never be observed. Maybe I had fleas, and I inadvertently transferred them to each of the 10,000 dogs, so the 10,000 dogs actually had no fleas except when I examined them. I would have to examine all dogs at all times under thoroughly monitored conditions in order to "prove" my conclusion. But this would be an impractical task. Therefore it is unlikely my conclusion will ever be proven. It can, however, be disproven. Find one dog without fleas. Then you will be left with the conclusion which I should have arrived at to begin with, "Some dogs have fleas." Maybe most dogs, or nearly all dogs have fleas. But all I know for certain is that some dogs have fleas. Remember, an inductive argument concludes more than the premises actually warrant. We use inductive reasoning all of the time. It is very useful. But we must recognize its limits. Most inductive reasoning is not based upon exhaustive evidence, and therefore the form is incomplete. (10,000 dogs is not all dogs.) Unless the evidence or observations are exhaustive (I examine all dogs for fleas), the conclusion is only a guess. It may be a good guess. The strength of the inductive argument is increased as it approaches completeness. If the evidence I accept represents all possibilities within the whole, my inductive conclusion will be correct. The more I can demonstrate that the evidence is truly representative, the more compelling will my conclusion be. "10,000 dogs of every age and variety chosen at random from every country on the earth were examined under controlled conditions, and all of them had fleas. Therefore, it seems likely that all dogs have fleas." Deductive reasoning moves from the general to the particular. It takes a general premise and deduces particular conclusions. A "valid" deductive argument is one in which the conclusion necessarily follows from the premise. (All dogs have fleas. This is a dog. Therefore this dog has fleas.) The premise may not be "true" but the form of the argument is nevertheless "valid". (If all dogs do have fleas, and if this is a dog, then this dog must necessarily have fleas.) An "invalid" deductive argument will contain something in the conclusion wholly new and independent from those things mentioned in the premise of the argument. (If all dogs have fleas, then my dog must have ticks. But ticks are not mentioned in the premise.) Sometimes it is not so obvious that something new has been introduced in the conclusion. (Only man is a rational being. Therefore, no woman is a rational being. This argument equivocates on the meaning of "man." In the premise, the word "man" means mankind, including woman. In the conclusion, the word "woman" is used to designate that portion of mankind which is of the female gender as distinguished from the male portion called "man." So a new concept, a distinction in gender, is introduced in the conclusion.) Everything in the conclusion of a valid deductive argument must also be contained in the premises. (There are rules about how these things are arranged, but that is beyond our purposes here.) Therefore all valid deductive reasoning is by its nature actually circular reasoning or "begging the question." That does not mean the conclusion is worthless. (If Johnny rides the bus 96 minutes every morning and 96 minutes every evening, five days a week, and if Johnny sleeps 8 hours every day, then Johnny spends the equivalent of one awake day [16 hours] on the bus every week. The conclusion is entirely contained in the premises, but the conclusion restates those premises in a way which causes us to understand more fully the consequences of riding the bus so much.) The truth (or verity) of the conclusion of a deductive argument is dependent upon two things: the correctness (or validity) of the form of the argument, and the truth (or verity) of the premise. The validity of the form is determined by the application of established rules. So the only weakness of a deductive argument is the truth value (verity) of its premises. Your conclusions are only as good as your premises. Or, to put it another way, your presuppositions will always determine your conclusions. More on inductive and deductive reasoning — Elementary Lessons in Logic: Deductive and Inductive by Ludwig von Mises Institute Sources of Deductive Premises If one believes all the premises in a valid deductive argument, he must believe the conclusion. The premise of a deductive argument may come from several sources. In order to evaluate the truth of the deductive argument, it is important to recognize the source of its premises. The conclusion of an inductive argument may be used as the premise of a deductive argument. The weakness of most inductive arguments is that they begin with incomplete premises. (10,000 dogs is not all dogs.) One may arrive at a false inductive conclusion (All 10,000 dogs examined had flees, therefore all dogs have fleas.). He may use this false conclusion as the premise of a valid deductive argument (Since all dogs have fleas, therefore this dog must have fleas). If the premise is false, the conclusion is false. (This dog may indeed have fleas, but it is not a necessary consequence of the fact that all dogs have fleas, because all dogs do not necessarily have fleas, only 10,000 dogs had fleas at the time they were tested.) Scientists commonly arrive at inductive conclusions on the basis of inadequate information, then argue deductively from their induction. More on inductive and deductive reasoning — The Art of Reasoning: An Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinkingby David Kelley Invalid and False Inductive argument: All living creatures have a genetic code. Therefore all living creatures are genetically related. Valid but False Deductive Argument: All living creatures are genetically related. Man is a living creature. Therefore man is genetically related to all other living creatures. The premises of a deductive argument may come from a direct observation. If the observations are correct, you may rely upon the conclusion. (Barring the most extraordinary circumstances, that locomotive will eventually pass over these tracks. Unless I move off of these tracks, that locomotive will eventually pass over me, barring the most extraordinary circumstances.) The premise of a deductive argument may come from emotional feelings. Often the emotional premise is implied, not expressed, therefore must be discerned. (If you truly loved me you would never talk to me that way. The implied premise is that true love constantly prohibits certain kinds of speech.) Some derive their premise for their deductive argument from their practical circumstances. (If that government program provides me with a job, then that government program is good. The implied premise is that anything which provides jobs is good.) Often we find a definition as the premise of a deductive argument. (A pencil, by definition, is a long cylindrical writing instrument containing a thin piece of graphite for writing. This is a long cylindrical writing instrument containing a thin piece of graphite for writing. Therefore this, by definition, is a pencil.) If the definition is correct, and the argument is valid, then the conclusion is true. To the Christian, the Bible provides an immense resource of true statements which he may use as premises in valid deductive arguments to arrive at true conclusions. The whole counsel of God, concerning all things necessary for his own glory, man's salvation, faith, and life, is either expressly set down in Scripture, or by good and necessary consequences may be deduced from Scripture: unto which nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new revelations of the Spirit, or traditions of men. Westminster Confession of Faith, I,6 (Divers weights and a false balance are abominations unto the Lord. {Proverbs 20:23; 11:1} If unbacked currency is a divers weight and unearned interest is a false balance, then such currency and such interest are abominations unto the Lord.) More on inductive and deductive reasoning — Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto Induction and Deduction Compared The conclusion of an inductive argument can be proven false by finding one contrary example. (All 10,000 dogs have fleas, therefore all dogs have fleas. Find one dog without fleas and this conclusion is proven false.) But the inductive conclusion can never be proven true unless you exhaust all particulars of the premise. (All you actually know is that some dogs have fleas. You have to examine all dogs to conclude all dogs have fleas.) The conclusion of a valid deductive argument cannot be proven false unless its premises are also proven false, and it cannot be proven true unless its premises are also proven true. In other words, truth or falsehood is dependent upon the premises. Induction is generally future oriented. It gathers specific information, then draws a general conclusion which predicts what you will find in the future. (All 10,000 dogs examined had fleas. Therefore I predict you will continue to find all dogs have fleas.) This conclusion is testable by future observation. Some try to "predict" the unobservable past, such as a forensic detective who investigates crimes, or a speculative scientist who investigates the origins of the universe. These types of "predictions" are untestable. Deduction is generally past or present oriented. Presumably, its premises are already tested. It draws from general information, then extracts a specific conclusion which proves the past or present truth. The Bible is a source of true premises by which someone can prove the unobservable past (creation, lives of the patriarchal fathers) or the unobservable future (the first coming of Christ, the destruction of Jerusalem). Both inductive and deductive arguments require faith. An inductive argument requires faith in its conclusion, while a deductive argument requires faith in its premises. We suggest starting your logic journey with The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Eight Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning (for ages 12 and up).	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Nio raises another $235 million in convertible debt by Jill Shen Mar 6, 2020 Mar 17, 2020 William Li Bin, founder and CEO of Nio spoke at its annual launch event Nio Day in Shenzhen on Saturday, December 28, 2019. (Image credit: Nio) Chinese electric vehicle maker Nio on Thursday announced the sale of $235 million in convertible bonds to fund its operations. Its shares fell 3.9% by market close during a tumultuous week for global markets. Why it matters: Proceeds from the offering will relieve near-term cash flow pressures. The company continues to operate in the red even as it nears a major investment from a city-level government. Nio last week confirmed it has been in talks with the government of Hefei in eastern Anhui province for a financing project of more than RMB 10 billion ($1.4 billion). The two parties expect to close the deal in two months, Chinese media reported citing founder William Li. Details: Nio is raising $235 million via convertible notes from several unnamed Asia-based investment funds. The notes will bear zero interest and expire in March 5, 2021, according to an announcement released Thursday. Nio expects to close the deal no later than March 11. The notes will be convertible into company shares at $3.50 per American Depositary Share (ADS) after about six months. The China-based EV company has used convertible bonds to raise a total $435 million in two separate rounds from four Asia-based funds this year alone. Nio is pivoting its funding strategies during a prolonged capital winter, raising small amounts from multiple investors which help it sustain with short-term funds and disperse risks for investors, analysts at investment bank China International Capital Corporation (CICC) said (in Chinese) last month. The CICC analysts said that Nio's fundamentals are improving, and short-term funds could relieve operating pressures before cornerstone investors join in. CICC last week raised the Nio target price from $3.10 to $4.10, after Nio revealed its funding project with the Hefei government. Others remain skeptical about Nio's chances of success, including Citi analyst Jeff Chung, who earlier this week downgraded Nio's shares to neutral from buy with price target reduced by a third to $4.30. "The collaboration will require Nio to spend a portion of the cash injection on the headquarters move, which may put the company under more pressure in case of prolonged sales weakness," Chung wrote. Nio raises $100 million but faces delivery delays Context: Nio's third quarter earnings beat forecasts with a 25% year-on-year increase in revenue and net losses narrowed by 10% from a year earlier. The Chinese EV maker accumulated net losses of more than RMB 8.4 billion ($1.2 billion) in the first nine months of 2019, with net cash of $274 million as of September. Goldman Sachs estimated another cash outflow of RMB 14 billion before it could achieve breakeven in 2023. Tagged: Funding, Mobility, New Energy Vehicles, News, Nio Jill Shen Jill Shen is Shanghai-based technology reporter. She covers Chinese mobility, autonomous vehicles, and electric cars. Connect with her via e-mail: [email protected] or Twitter: @yushan_shen More by Jill Shen	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
We nurture scientifically curious students by offering diverse educational and research experiences. About Interim Dean David Collard David M. Collard, professor and associate dean, will serve as interim dean of the College of Sciences. Collard will officially assume the role Aug. 1, following the departure of the current dean, Paul Goldbart. "Dr. Collard is a valued member of the faculty and administration in the College of Sciences," said Rafael L. Bras, provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs and K. Harrison Brown Family Chair. "We are grateful for his continued leadership and trust the College is in great hands during this transition." Collard joined the Georgia Tech faculty in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry in 1991. He served as the director of Graduate Studies from 1997 to 2005, and then as associate chair from 2005 to 2010. Life as a Ramblin' Wreck: Year Two Why Are Gravitational Waves So Important?	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
'Lakhanpur toll tax additional burden on common man' By K Reader on June 17, 2019 Comments Off on 'Lakhanpur toll tax additional burden on common man' SRINAGAR: The hoteliers of Katra and Patnitop have said they will oppose tooth and nail the imposition of toll tax at Lakhanpur. Terming the tax as additional burden on common man, they said the government by taking toll tax is going against its own policy of One Nation One Tax and is doing "principally total illegal act". According to a statement, the "unanimous" decision was taken after a joint meeting of Hotel & Restaurant Association Katra (HRAK) & Hotel Bar & Restaurant Association of Patnitop (HBRAP) held at Katra on Sunday under the chairmanship of Rakesh Wazir President, Shyam Lal Kesar Chairman (HRAK) and Kushal Magotra President (HBRAP). Rakesh Wazir while speaking on the occasion said, "It is really surprising that an institution like government can refrain from its own stand." He reminded that when GST was introduced in the State, there was great resentment against it because there was no tax on most of the sectors including service sector in J&K. "People were assured that with GST no other tax will be charged and charging of taxes at Lakhanpur will be stopped but instead of passing of that long period and imposing of GST, the collection of toll tax is going on and each and every person of the State is being forced to pay an additional tax in the name of toll," he said. Wazir further said that "a common person is forced to pay double tax on each and every thing which is coming from outside State". "Since our State is mostly dependent on outside state items, a common person does not even come to know that he is paying double tax for most of the items even while purchasing those at far flung areas. The biggest example of that is cement the one bag of which is being charged with tax of Rs 50 extra which is in addition to GST and is more in comparison to other states and same is the condition with other items as well. This is highly objectionable," he said. Speaking on the occasion, Shyam Lal Kesar said if government is so keen on taking the toll tax then it should shun the GST because government cannot go against its own policy of One Nation One Tax which is prevailing all over India while J&K is the only exception where people are paying GST and simultaneously the toll tax also. "If it continues, then how government can dictate private people for violations of the commitments made," Kesar said. "If some industry people have concerns, the government should sit with them and settle things accordingly but the whole State cannot be put on ransom." In his address, Kushal Magotra said, "The hotel industry was in the bracket of zero tax prior to coming of GST but it had suffered a lot first by the coming of GST wherein taxes were imposed from 12% to 28% and then by double taxing by which we are purchasing items at higher rates in comparison to other states due to toll tax at Lakhanpur which is in addition to GST and would not be tolerated." He sought the "immediate" intervention of central and state government for the removal of the toll tax saying, "Leave aside the burden on general public, it is an embarrassment for even the government". The meeting among others was attended by association's senior vice president Virender Kesar, vice presidents Nishant Sharma, Rohit Dubey, Ajay Kotwal, Meena Wazir, Vivek Sharma, Amit Rahi, and Secretary Sudershan Sharma. 'Lakhanpur toll tax additional burden on common man' added by K Reader on June 17, 2019	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Under the Skin, 2014. Something posing as human lures men to their doom. Directed by Jonathan Glazer. Written by Walter Campbell & Glazer, based on a book by Michel Faber. Starring Scarlett Johansson. Concept: C Story: C Pacing: B Cinematography: A Special effects/design: A Acting: B Music: A Enjoyment: Visually, very cool. And a lot of stuff is interestingly disturbing. The whole point seems to be the development of the character, and she remains too alien the entire time to get anything from that aspect. You don't ever get a sense of what she's thinking until two or three scenes later, and you never have anything like an understanding of the character. As far as the science fiction goes, it's as absent as possible. It's kind of like a Tarkovsky film, except not boring. Which I guess I kind of like, apparently? At it's worst, it's at least fascinating. B Labels: 2014 in the theater A Bit of Fry & Laurie: Series Four "Showdown" "Japoteurs" The Twilight Zone: Season One (wrap-up) The Twilight Zone: "A World of His Own" The Twilight Zone: "The Mighty Casey" The Twilight Zone: "The After Hours" The Twilight Zone: "Mr. Bevis" Torchwood: Miracle Day The Twilight Zone: "A Passage for Trumpet" The Twilight Zone: "The Chaser" The Twilight Zone: "A Stop at Willoughby" Angel: Season Two The Twilight Zone: "Nightmare as a Child" The Twilight Zone: "A Nice Place to Visit" Attack of the Clones	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Author Discussion: Barry Strauss on "The Death of Caesar" Friday, March 13, 2015, 6:30 - 8pm Barry Strauss, one of the world's leading experts on ancient history and Chairman of the History Department at Cornell will deliver a free, public talk about his new book, The Death of Caesar. Strauss shows that the plot to murder Caesar was conceived and led by Caesar's own generals – a plot that was masterfully organized down to the gladiators who provided backup to the assassins. There weren't two heads of the conspiracy against Caesar but three: in addition to Brutus and Cassius there was Decimus, the mole in Caesar's entourage and a crucial but forgotten player in the assassination and the wars that followed. And previous assumptions about why Caesar's killers failed in the end are wrong: it wasn't the Roman people but Caesar's soldiers who turned on them. The biggest mistake that Caesar's assassins made was not giving his soldiers a raise. Bringing the figures of this era into sharp focus and takes us well beyond the usual explanations of republic vs. dictatorship, populists vs. oligarchs and liberty vs. friendship Barry Strauss shows what was at stake in history's most consequential assassination. Barry Strauss is one of the world's leading experts on ancient history. He has written or edited several other books (which have been translated into ten languages), including The Battle of Salamis (named a Washington Post Best Book of the Year), The Trojan War, Masters of Command and The Spartacus War (which is also being adapted into a children's book). He is a frequent on-air commentator for relevant specials on PBS, The History Channel, and The Discovery Channel. He writes about the modern politics of Greece, Turkey, and Russia in a regular column for The Hill and is often called upon to address today's fictional accounts of ancient history like the movies 300 and Gladiator or HBO's Rome. He is the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies and Chair of the Department of History at Cornell. Photo of Barry Strauss by Oliviero Olivieri	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Permitting the City of San Marcos' Downtown Creek District By Sherri Miller, Dudek and Tricia Wotipka, Dudek\|2012-04-01T20:55:05-07:00April 1st, 2012\|San Diego Planning Journal\| When the City of San Marcos received environmental permits recently to move forward with its 214-acre downtown specific plan, the San Marcos Creek District, it culminated 28 years of project planning and permitting. The district will include a mixed-use development project, a 73-acre native habitat preserve, other environmental enhancements, and multiple infrastructure improvements involving roadways, bridges, and flood control. Permits approved for the district included a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Clean Water Act Section 404 Individual Permit; a California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG) Section 1602 Streambed Alteration Agreement; and a California Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB) Clean Water Act Section 401 Certification. "This was a long, hard learning process, but we are very happy with the outcome," said Mike Edwards, the City's director of engineering. "The process required understanding the technical side and political side of permitting to get the downtown envisioned by the City and the water quality improvements sought by the regulatory agencies." Edwards offers the following insights about the City's environmental permitting experience. Understanding Resource Agencies' Roles & Needs Edwards said understanding what motivates each resource agency's decisions is key. The USACE saw the project as an opportunity to enhance the creek as an uninterrupted riparian corridor and place it under management of a conservation easement. The RWQCB understood the City's vision and saw it as an opportunity to improve water quality in the watershed by implementing state-of-the-art best management practices (BMPs) that were lacking in the City. The CDFG saw an opportunity to improve wildlife movement and connectivity by replacing several at-grade crossings with bridges. "It's important to meet with the agencies, keep an open mind, be willing to go back to the drawing board and be patient," Edwards said. "For any city going through this process," Edwards said, "it is important to have a consultant who really understands each agency's needs, and can translate it in a way that enables the city to develop solutions to achieve its goals while meeting the agencies' needs." Edwards said working effectively with the USACE resulted from the City signing a Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) Section 214 agreement allowing it to fund dedicated USACE staff and to expedite review, and working with a USACE project manager "who was patient and provided excellent feedback." Developing "Purpose & Need" "Like many cities, we had ignored the value of developing and restoring our downtown creek," Edwards said. "We realized the creek is a valuable amenity and wanted to focus our efforts on cleaning up the creek, managing it and building a promenade and bridges to enhance public interaction with the creek." When the City submitted a specific plan centered on the creek, the regulatory agencies pushed back on "purpose and need." Purpose and need is the regulatory basis for developing alternatives required in an environmental impact statement. The agencies said the City's detailed plan limited alternatives analysis and was too specifically tied to the creek for a commercial and residential development that was not water dependent (a Section 404 element). Using the designation "downtown" in the plan was a problem. "Initially, the agencies telling us we needed more alternatives was discouraging," Edwards said. "We came to understand they weren't asking to completely revisit our vision, but to open the door for a range of alternatives from reducing the size to shifting locations. "The final purpose and need allowed for nine on-site and three off-site alternatives. If you have a sound project, it should be able to go through the alternatives analysis and result in something you like." Defining a Downtown The success of a downtown is tied to its size and ease of access for employees and customers. The City envisioned a downtown minimum depth of three blocks as essential; the USACE noted that a depth of two blocks would reduce impacts. The City's challenge was producing data to support its position because no established guidelines exist specifically defining "a downtown." The City asked Dudek to perform an extensive literature review to conduct a comparative study of 11 notable downtowns. Edwards said the comparative study was key in showing typical downtowns are three to seven blocks deep and developments two blocks deep tend to be more like strip mall development. The City was able to preserve a three-block-deep downtown for most of the district. Innovating in Phased Water Quality Treatment From the project's start, Edwards said, the City thought water quality enhancement was a key element. San Marcos Creek and Lake San Marcos, which the creek drains into, are both listed as impaired. Industrial, agriculture, residential and commercial development drain into the creek without a single BMP in place. The solution leverages the planned linear parkway's passive-use greenbelt to construct during Phase 1 a bio-retention treatment areas to handle all public infrastructure runoff and some private development runoff. The RWQCB initially rejected shared facilities, preferring that private and public developments be responsible separately for their projects. The City's stormwater manager, Erica Ryan, convinced the resource agencies the shared facility provided significant advantages of: Immediate water quality treatment by constructing the facility in Phase 1 rather than implementing water quality measures piecemeal over the project's 20-year build out Guaranteed maintenance/management funding through a community facility district supported by private developer fees Implementing and managing the facility by a single agency at a sub-watershed and sub-regional scales Streamlining oversight and reporting to the RWQCB. "By focusing on water quality and stormwater management improvement the City not only did the right thing, but got the agencies on our side," Edwards said. As the environmental permitting consultants to the City of San Marcos, Sherri Miller and Tricia Wotipka interfaced with the regulatory agencies and provided the technical analysis of the 12 alternatives needed for the agencies to identify the least environmentally damaging practicable alternative (LEDPA). They can be reached at [email protected] and [email protected]	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
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All High Speed articles EU co-financing for Galician high speed line SPAIN: The European Commission is to provide a €226m grant to support the €2·1bn cost for constructing 48·5 km of the 83·3 km Lubián – Taboadela section of the high speed line running north west from Olmedo to Zamora and Ourense. The route traverses a remote ... RBUK National Audit Office makes HS2 recommendations UK: The High Speed 2 programme is over budget and behind schedule because the Department for Transport, HS2 Ltd and government underestimated the complexity and risks, according to the National Audit Office's High Speed Two: A Progress Update report published on January 24. NAO said ... Joint venture to provide maintenance services for 71 Chinese high speed trains CHINA: China State Railway Group has awarded the Bombardier Sifang (Qingdao) Transportation joint venture a 2·45bn yuan contract to provide maintenance services for 71 CRH1A-A, CRH1A, CRH1B, CRH1E and CRH380D high speed trainsets totalling 656 cars. The work will be completed by the end of 2020. ... Beijing-Shanghai High Speed Railway Co IPO raises 30·7bn yuan CHINA: Beijing-Shanghai High Speed Railway Co Ltd made its debut on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on January 16, following one of the biggest mainland Chinese IPOs of the past decade. The sale of 6·29 billion shares, about 12·8% of the total, at 4·88 yuan per share, raised ... Barcelona – Valencia trains accelerated as Vandellòs cut-off opens SPAIN: Commercial services began using a 46·5 km cut-off between Camp de Tarragona and Vandellòs on January 13, when ADIF completed a further section of upgrading on the Barcelona – Valencia Mediterranean Corridor. Haramain signalling maintenance contract awarded SAUDI ARABIA: Xrail Group has been awarded a seven-year contract to undertake corrective and preventive maintenance of the ETCS Level 2 signalling and technical buildings on the Haramain High Speed Rail line, acting as subcontractor to Siemens Mobility. Xrail will provide 24/7 support from six maintenance ... High speed rail wins market share ITALY: Evidence that high speed rail competes effectively against air was presented to Terrapinn's World Rail Festival in Amsterdam by Serafino Lo Piano, Head of Sales, Long-Distance Rail, at Trenitalia. Since the launch of the Frecciarossa brand 10 years ago, he said, rail's share of the ... ORR publishes final determination of High Speed 1 costs UK: The Office of Rail Road has published its periodic review of Channel Tunnel Rail Link concessionaire HS1 Ltd's charges and maintenance plans for the five years starting on April 1 2020. HS1 Ltd has a 30-year concession to manage the 108 km high ... Stakeholders respond to Lord Berkeley's High Speed 2 dissenting report UK: Lord Tony Berkeley published a dissenting report into the High Speed 2 project on January 5, calling it 'the wrong and expensive solution' to providing better north–south inter-city services and improving services in the Midlands and North of England. He was Deputy Chair of the ... Joint venture awarded Chinese high speed train contract CHINA: The Bombardier Sifang (Qingdao) Transportation joint venture has been awarded a 2·97bn yuan contract to supply China State Railway Group with a further 10 16-car CR400AF 350 km/h trainsets by mid-2020. The contract announced on January 1 is the third order for the CR400AF to ... Beijing – Zhangjiakou PDL inaugurated with national timetable change CHINA: The 174 km Passenger-Dedicated Line running northwest from Beijing to Zhangjiakou was opened for revenue service on December 30, along with the 53 km branch from Xiahuayuan Bei to Taizicheng which has been built to serve the Chongli Olympic Village and venues for the 2022 Winter Olympics. CHINA: The 313 km Xuzhou – Yancheng Passenger-Dedicated Line opened on December 16. It has nine stations and is designed for 250 km/h operation, reducing the fastest journey times from 3 h 51 min on the conventional line to 1 h 31 min on the PDL. ... CHINA: The 372 km Yibin – Guiyang Passenger-Dedicated Line opened on December 16. It has 11 stations and is designed for 250 km/h operation. This completes the 648 km Chengdu – Guiyang line, following the opening of the initial Chengdu – Leshan ... Tenders called to rebuild San Sebastián station SPAIN: Tenders were issued on December 12 for reconstruction of the main line station in San Sebastián as part of the 'Basque Y' high speed programme. The result will be the partial integration of the existing station with the adjacent, underground, bus station, and the incorporation in the finished ... Hitachi Rail STS wins LGV Sud-Est interlocking contract FRANCE: Infrastructure manager SNCF Réseau has selected Hitachi Rail STS to supply new interlockings for the modernisation of LGV Sud-Est between Paris and Lyon. RENFE to launch Avlo low-cost high speed rail for everyone SPAIN: National operator RENFE has unveiled the Avlo branding for its future low-cost high speed train service. Avlo is to be launched on the Madrid – Zaragoza – Barcelona corridor on April 6 2020, with tickets to go on sale in January. It would then be ... Haramain launches Jeddah airport service at 300 km/h SAUDI ARABIA: High speed services to and from Jeddah airport were launched on December 11. The six-track station serving Terminal 1 at King Abdulaziz International Airport is linked to the 450 km Haramain High Speed Railway between Makkah and Madinah by a 6·6 km branch. This ... Le Monde a Grande Vitesse Launched at the headquarters of the International Union of Railways in Paris, this book on high speed railways by Marie-Pascale Rauzier and François Schuiten has been prepared by Casablanca-based publisher Langages du Sud. In 232 pages it describes 21 high speed rail routes, starting with Tokyo ... CHINA: The 399 km Passenger-Dedicated Line between Wuhan and Shiyan was opened for revenue services on November 29, as the first stage of a direct high speed route linking Wuhan with Xi'an. The city of Shiyan is a major automotive manufacturing centre in the northwest of ...	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Samsung Galaxy S22 FE: what we want to see If the Samsung Galaxy S22, Samsung Galaxy S22 Plus and Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra didn't quite do it for you, there might be one more member of the S22 line left to consider, as we're likely to see a Samsung Galaxy S22 FE. This would probably be an upper mid-range handset, designed to slot in at the bottom of the line. But given that the Galaxy S22 will have seen some price cuts by the time it lands, that may not neatly pan out. In any case, below we've collected everything that we've heard so far about the Samsung Galaxy S22 FE, and we've also included a wish list of things that we want from the phone. Cut to the chase What is it? A more affordable member of the S22 line When is it out? Probably October or later How much will it cost? Likely at least £699 / $699 / AU$999 Samsung Galaxy S22 FE release date and price It's hard to predict when the Samsung Galaxy S22 FE might launch, as while the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE landed in January 2022, the Galaxy S20 FE hit stores in October of 2020. So Samsung hasn't been consistent with the release timings, though an October launch would make a lot more logical sense than a January launch, as the latter would bring it much too close to when we'll probably see the Samsung Galaxy S23. It would also make sense for all of the Galaxy S22 line to land in the same year. But then the FE phones don't make a whole lot of sense in a number of ways, as will become clear in this article. Indeed, while October might be the most sensible time to launch the Galaxy S22 FE, one source claims that it probably won't land this year – if it lands at all, while another said that – as of late April – the phone wasn't even in development yet. So a launch in 2023 is actually looking more likely, and it's possible this phone won't see the light of day at all. There's no news on what the Samsung Galaxy S22 FE might cost if and when it does launch, but for reference the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE started at £699 / $699 / AU$999, so a similar starting price here is possible. The S22 FE might have a similar price to the S21 FE (Image credit: Future) News and leaks We haven't heard much about the Samsung Galaxy S22 FE, but one thing we have heard is that it might use a MediaTek Dimensity 9000 chipset. This is a high-end chipset that's comparable to the Exynos 2200 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 used in the rest of the Samsung Galaxy S22 line, albeit from a brand with less prestige – and therefore probably a lower price for Samsung. So it could make sense for the phone to use this, given that the Galaxy S22 FE itself will probably be a cheaper handset than the other S22 models, but there's evidence to suggest it won't as well. For one thing, another source has since said it won't use the Dimensity 9000, and on top of that using a MediaTek chipset in an FE phone would be a change for the company, as these handsets have previously used either Snapdragon or Exynos ones. So we'd say a Dimensity 9000 is probably actually unlikely, with the Galaxy S22 FE more likely to get the same chipset split as the rest of the S22 line – meaning an Exynos 2200 in Europe and a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 in most other places. There's plenty that we want to see changed or improved for the next FE phone, including the following things. 1. A lower price Our biggest problem with the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE was its price, as while it had a lower starting price than the Samsung Galaxy S21 launched at, you could often find the S21 heavily reduced by the time the S21 FE landed, putting the FE in the awkward position of potentially being more expensive in practice. That wasn't a workable position for it to be, so Samsung really needs to ensure the Galaxy S22 FE is genuinely more affordable than the Galaxy S22 if it wants a hit on its hands. 2. Better battery life The Samsung Galaxy S21 FE doesn't last as long as we'd like (Image credit: Future) Battery life is the bane of many smartphones, and the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE is no exception, just barely lasting a day of moderate use. We'd say its life was slightly below average, and we're hoping for above average life from the Samsung Galaxy S22 FE. That could be achieved by boosting the capacity – perhaps to 5,000mAh – or just by optimizing the software, but one way or another it's something we want to see. 3. Faster charging On a related note, we weren't terribly impressed by the charging speeds of the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE. Or really by the charging speeds of most Samsung phones, as even the Galaxy S22 Ultra charges slower than many rivals. That at least manages 45W charging though, while the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE is stuck with quite slow 25W charging, so we'd like to see an upgrade here for the Samsung Galaxy S22 FE. 4. A glass back We don't want the next model to have a plastic back (Image credit: Future) While the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE isn't a top-end phone, it's pricey enough that we'd expect premium materials, yet it has a plastic back. We don't want the same to be true of the Samsung Galaxy S22 FE – even if it has a price cut (unless that price cut is seriously substantial). Once a phone costs over about $500 / £500, plastic really shouldn't be a major part of it, so we want a glass back on the Galaxy S22 FE. 5. A clear reason to exist The Samsung Galaxy S21 FE has largely similar specs to the Samsung Galaxy S21, and where they differ the changes don't always work out in the S21's favor. That's despite the Galaxy S21 FE being positioned as a lower end phone. Add to that the messy pricing outlined above, and it's a hard, confusing sell, so for the Samsung Galaxy S22 FE we want Samsung to clearly position the handset. Making it more affordable will help, but we also want to see clearer differences in the specs from the standard S22, and with the S22 FE packing the lesser specs of the two. But not too much lesser, or it might prove unappealing. It's a tricky balance. Check out all the best Samsung phones	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Unbelievable (Movie Tie-in) 替代書名:《難以置信》影視書衣板出版社:Random House US 作者:T. Christian Miller;Ken Armstrong Now in paperback and soon to be a Netflix original series, the riveting true story of Marie, a teenager who was charged with lying about having been raped, and the detectives who followed a winding path to arrive at the truth On August 11, 2008, 18-year-old Marie reported that a masked man broke into her apartment near Seattle, Washington, and raped her. Within days, police and even those closest to Marie became suspicious of her story. The police swiftly pivoted and began investigating Marie. Confronted with inconsistencies in her story and the doubts of others, Marie broke down and said her story was a lie--a bid for attention. Police charged Marie with false reporting, and she was branded a liar. More than two years later, Colorado detective Stacy Galbraith was assigned to investigate a case of sexual assault. Describing the crime to her husband that night, Galbraith learned that the case bore an eerie resemblance to a rape that had taken place months earlier in a nearby town. She joined forces with the detective on that case, Edna Hendershot, and the two soon discovered they were dealing with a serial rapist: a man who photographed his victims, threatening to release the images online, and whose calculated steps to erase all physical evidence suggested he might be a soldier or a cop. Through meticulous police work the detectives would eventually connect the rapist to other attacks in Colorado--and beyond. Based on investigative files and extensive interviews with the principals, Unbelievable is a serpentine tale of doubt, lies, and a hunt for justice, unveiling the disturbing truth of how sexual assault is investigated today--and the long history of skepticism toward rape victims. [Previously published as A False Report]	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
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An interview with Blood Tsunami… Saturday, May 4, 2013 Category: Blog Tags: blood, Interview, metal, norway, thrash, tsunami 01 – First of all, as usual, I'd like to thank you very much for taking your time to answer our interview. I have to say that I'm a big Blood Tsunami and Mongo Ninja fan, so this is an opportunity I've been waiting for quite some time. Please, introduce yourself to our readers/listeners. Hey! Thanks for getting in touch! My name is Peter Michael Kolstad Vegem, also known as Pete, and I play guitar and sing in Blood Tsunami. I also used to play guitar in Mongo Ninja. 02 – Let's start with Blood Tsunami. About a month ago the band has released "For Faen!" an album which, from what I've read, has received many positive acclaim from both critics and fans. How do you personally feel about this album and what, in your opinion, would be "For Faen!" highlight? We're very content with the album, it turned out the way we wanted it. We have received positive feedback from all over the world, so we must have done something right. My fave tracks on the album is probably 'Metal Fang', 'The Butcher of Rostov', 'In The Dungeon of The Rats' and 'Krokodil'. 03 – Blood Tsunami's lyrics can be considered quite aggressive, but I personally find them quite interesting as, in my humble opinion, they truly represent and fit what's behind the concept, I mean, songs like Metal Fang, The Rape of Nanking, B.T.K. (I was just watching a show about him yesterday), just to name a few. You don't write a lyric about Nikolai Dzhumagaliev, for example, using beautiful and cordial words. How important are the lyrics for you and how do you create them? I mean, do you have to be on a correct mood, in a certain place, or do you simply write them from out of the blue? The lyrics on this album are quite different than what Blood Tsunami lyrics once used to be like. On the first album I wrote a bunch of fictional rubbish. Ordinary, childish metal lyrics… On the second album' Grand Feast For Vultures' I explored more personal issues and wrote about my inner demons, depressions and problems with alcohol abuse. During the years with Mongo Ninja I began writing stories about true crime, real events and real people. I was fed up with fictional stuff and felt that I had delivered enough of myself, so it was refreshing to write about other real persons. Where Mongo Ninja used to focus on unlucky and unfortunate guys like Ota Benga, Konerak Sintasomophone and James Vance, Blood Tsunami lyrics deals with evil serial killers and horrendous ancient torture methods and war crimes. Just as the riffs the lyrics just comes… I get ideas and inspiration for lyrics from all sorts of things everyday. Some of them I write down, some of then I memorize and some of them I simply forget. I've got a very carefree attitude towards my song writing. Of course I spend a lot of time getting satisfied with my songs and lyrics, but I know that they will always develop and be as I want then to be if I have enough patience and time. I never sit down and try to force myself into to write a specific type of song. I let the songs come to me. 04 – Mongo Ninja is one of the bands that gives those thrills, you know, that whenever I listen to the music, I really feel like jumping and headbanging, it drives me insane. It's a bit dangerous for me to drive while listening to "Horrified and Horny" or "Cold Night For a Hothead". I've read that you decided to put Mongo Ninja to rest. Why did you guys decide on this and do you see, in the future perhaps, the possibility of releasing a new Mongo Ninja album? Thanks man! Well, Mongo Ninja started up as some "drunk holiday fun" back in 2009. We, Blood Tsunami, were fed up and tired of working our asses off without getting anything back. Mongo Ninja was originally ment to only last for a few months, but suddenly three years had passed. We just wanted to create music and have fun. And so we did. We released three albums in 12 months and toured relentlessly in Norway for almost three years. It was indeed fun, but after a while we missed Blood Tsunami and decided to start it up again. Mongo Ninja was laid to rest as the lead singer, Kristopher Schau (aka Mac Cargo), also wanted to do other stuff. Right now none of us wants to bring Mongo Ninja back to life. There is no need, but never say never… Maybe some sunny day the urge will be back. 05 – How do you measure the importance of what the fans and critics say about your releases? As we all know that many bands make music simply to please their fans while others make music that they like (fortunately). I'd like to know if you'd take ever and advice or criticism to heart and in some sort of way to adapt the songs in the suggested manner? Well, of course we think through and contemplate upon what we consider to be constructive criticism, at least if it comes from people we know are on the same musical and esthetical level as ourselves. The day you start creating music only to please the fans and customers, your music will instantly sound shallow and fake. True artists make art for themselves and some are good enough and LUCKY enough to get the deserved attention and praise from the masses. Most of the worlds musicians are never heard or appreciated, but still they create music because they need to do so. None of us in Blood Tsunami earn a living on playing with this band, but we have no other option. We gotta carry on and create music and play live. What makes us whole and happy as human beings is to create the music we like. 06 – I once read an interview with Faust in which he talks about the financial difficulties when it comes into playing in a metal band. I believe that there are still some fans that aren't well informed concerning this matter. Could you tell us what motivates you to keep on going, besides all of the other difficulties we all face in life? Yes, as I stated above. We have no other option, but to keep a band alive is a battle. Until your band reaches a level where the income is big enough to keep the wheels rolling for all members, it will always be a battle. We wish we only could focus on writing and playing music, but all of us gotta maintain boring day jobs in order to keep food on the table. In the past we also had to do everything ourselves regarding booking and promotion, but luckily now we have gotten a booking agency and a manager to take care of the dirtiest dirty work. We have all neglected ordinary educations and steady well paid jobs because all of us have been devoted to music and bands as long as we can remember. It's a fire that burns within us and this force can't be ignored. If we should ever try to ignore it we will all go completely mad after a short while. We gotta keep on playing music until we die. 07 – This is a question from one of our members, Si Smith, which I find interesting and I would like to know your opinion as well. There are many metalheads out there who want to create metal. What would you say is needed for someone to have the character to see this kind of thing through to the end? Have you any advice for such a person? It's easy! Just start playing! But remember to be true to yourself. Make music you like. Explore yourself as a musician. Find your trademarks and find your sound. Everybody's got their own sound. Unfortunately too many are trying to sound like someone else. It's important to sound like YOURself! Start out with recording a few songs. You can play everything yourself or you can form a band. I suggest that if you want to form a band, you should find persons you consider to be your friends and that you know you will be able to work with, cooperate with and stay friends with under terrible conditions for many years to come. A cheap demo is probably the right place to start and anyone can do that. Nowadays you can easily record at home or in your rehearsal space and you can spread your music worldwide by Youtube, Facebook or whatever. Build a following! There's no need to rush after the expensive studios or big labels. After a while you will get the attention you deserve from the rest of the world. If you want your band to have a long life and be well known in the metal communities of the world, well then you must work hard and really devote yourself to the band. It is actually more important to keep your integrity and credibility instead of instantly being hailed by the whole world. Slowly, step by step, build up your reputation and audience. You must be willing to sacrifice a lot of time and money in order to be able to tour and and compose music. If something inside you tells you that you absolutely MUST do this, well, then you have the same fire inside that I mentioned earlier. 08 – How satisfied is the band with Indie Recordings' work so far? Do you feel that the label is achieving good results into promoting Blood Tsunami's music so far? So far everybody's happy, but as the situation has developed, not many bands sell a lot of CD's in 2013. The kids download the music and the die-hards only want the vinyl. Sadly Indie Recordings haven't printed the vinyl yet. Seems like we will have to do it ourselves. Anyway, as metalbands get minimum airplay, the only way for a band to earn really good money is to tour, play live and sell merchandise. 09 – Norway has always been well known for its old-school Black Metal bands, but lately we've witnessed a growing phenomena of very good underground Norwegian metal bands that play Extreme Metal (be it Black or whatever) mixing with Punk, Hardcore, Pure Rock, bands like Okkultokrati or Kvelertak, for example, as well as Thrash Metal ones, like Deathhammer or Blood Tsunami ;). Do you feel that the Norwegian metal musicians are looking for a new identity other than playing the very much copied Norwegian Black Metal (and obviously playing what they like too)? And how is the support for these bands in Norway, be about the press or the fans? Yes, there's a "new wave" of Norwegian metal. The kids are mainly into 80's thrash and bands like Deathhammer, Condor and Nekromantheon are truly brilliant. The Black Metal scene still exist, but some how, it seems like the new bands are looking for something else. Of course Aura Noir has been around, playing dirty black thrash since the middle of the 90's and, Audiopain and Infernö too, but suddenly, the kids nowadays, those who were born in the middle of the 80's, simply want to thrash out like Kreator, Sodom and Slayer did back in the days. Before those kids were even born. It's weird, fascinating and damn cool. The response and support from both press and fans is overwhelming. Nekromantheon even won the Norwegian grammy for metal in 2012. Oh, yes, The times they are a changing… 10 – Still on Norway, I'm a huge cinema lover and I always have to ask about the movies from the country of the band member I'm interviewing. I've watched some really interesting Norwegian movies/ animations, such as "Flåklypa Grand Prix", "Trolljegeren", "Blodsbånd", "De dødes tjern" "Ti kniver i hjertet"… How do you feel about Norwegian movies and do you have any that you'd recommend for us? "Flåklypa Grand Prix" is truly legendary! It's some of the best ever! I also really liked "Trolljegeren", but to be honest, I don't watch much movies anymore. I like movies, but I haven't got the time to just sit still and watch something. I got my mind elsewhere… Anyway, I really enjoyed a movie called "Sons of Norway". That's about growing up in the 70's and 80's and about a kid with a rather eccentric father. The kid discovers punk rock and even the REAL Johnny Rotten has a small scenen in that movie. Haha. I laughed my ass off watching this hippie father who drove around on his old scooter completely naked. I am also one of those who enjoyed the "Kon Tiki" movie. The same guys that made Kon Tike also made a film about the Norwegian War Hero "Max Manus". That one is also great. Hmm… Beside that I gotta mention "Dag". That's a dark TV sitcom, but available on DVD. The story is partly written by Kristopher Scahu who sang in Mongo Ninja. It's about a guy named Dag who works as a Marriage Counselor. Dag don't believe in the concept of "marriage" and he suggest that all his clients should get a divorce as soon as possible. The story evolves around his daily life and his little circle of weird acquaintances. I have a small role in the serie. I play the brother of the woman who is about to marry Dag's best friend. Of course this friend is an asshole and I want to kill him. There's a few scenes where I run after him and try to crush his skull. It was rather funny. 11 – And now just some quick questions about yourself, simply for the fun: favorite beers, place to spend your vacations and porn movie? Which unusual album do you own and actually like, an album that your fans wouldn't expect from you? Next question is from a TV show I very much enjoy: "Let's say you're abducted by aliens. They haul you aboard the mother ship, take you back to their planet as a curiosity. Now, would you rather be in their zoo or their circus?" And why? 😉 Haha! Good one! Hmm. As for favorite beer I must say that I like beer! Period! Ok, to be honest I mostly drink lagers. I really like the Norwegian beers Ringnes and Frydenlund, also Danish stuff like Carlsberg and Tuborg, but now and then I really enjoy a good ale too. I am really curious about the new beer by Iron Maiden. The Trooper! Rumor has it that it's a really good tasting ale. Gonna be fun to try that one for the first time. Vacations? Where ever, I am happy as long as the sun shines, I don't have to work and can spend my time with family and friends. Porn movies? Haven't got any faves, old school porn movies and the weird thing of getting really hooked on the female "actors" is a thing of the past. After the revolution of the internet, porn flicks is all around, and now with the smartphones and all.. I mean, hey, you have all the porn in the world right there in your pocket. It's not as exciting as it used to be. Anyway, I do enjoy to watch a good looking woman getting fucked every now and then, but I am not a big "porn-consumer". As for unusual album I am actually very much into melancholic and rather depressive music. Some of my fave albums are "Five Leaves Left" by Nick Drake, "Songs of Love And Hate" by Leonard Cohen and "Just For a Day" by Slowdive. Circus or Zoo? Without a doubt the zoo. In the zoo you are a prisoner, but at least you can just chill and simply bore yourself to death. I'd prefer that compared to being forced into doing tricks and have to travel long distances under terrible conditions. Circus animals are being treated like shit and they learn their tricks by punishment. It's not natural for an elephant to do tricks and they are beaten into submission. I think that's horrible. No, I would without a doubt have been locked up in a zoo compared to the circus. 12 – This is the last question of the interview and, once again, I would like to thank you. It is my wish that you, as well as our readers/ listeners have enjoyed it as much as I have. So… good luck with all your future plans, music, professionally and family wise. Do you have any last words for our readers/ listeners? Thanks man! Like, I said, thanks for getting in touch! Really appreciate it. Hope we will be able to play somewhere near you in the future. Would've been killer. Take care, have fun and thrash hard! Cheers! An interview with Kampfar... Review: Musth - Noise Machine An interview with Unexpect... An interview with Thy Catafalque... An interview with Woods of Desolation... 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Threats & Defense AI, IoT, & Mobile Security Cloud Security, DevOps, AppSec Identity Management & Web Fraud CISO View Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week's Best News – 2019.12.12 A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Silicon Valley Is Listening to Your Most Intimate Moments (Bloomberg, Dec 11 2019) How the world's biggest companies got millions of people to let temps analyse some very sensitive recordings. Ring's Hidden Data Let Us Map Amazon's Sprawling Home Surveillance Network (Gizmodo, Dec 09 2019) As reporters raced this summer to bring new details of Ring's law enforcement contracts to light, the home security company, acquired last year by Amazon for a whopping $1 billion, strove to underscore the privacy it had pledged to provide users. Are You One Of Avast's 400 Million Users? This Is Why It Collects And Sells Your Web Habits. (Forbes, Dec 09 2019) Avast sells user data but says there's no privacy risk, according to the newly appointed CEO. Filter Out the Noise Since I started this curated newsletter in June 2017, I've clipped ~12,000 articles and narrowed them down into the best 20 per day & best 15 per week. This is my favorite way to cut through all the security marketing and hype. If you're enjoying it, tell a friend. If you hate it, tell an enemy. Thanks! – Lucas Samaras Share today's post on Twitter Facebook LinkedIn DHS Retreats on Possible Facial Screening of US Citizens (SecurityWeek, Dec 09 2019) The Homeland Security Department is backing away from requiring that U.S. citizens submit to facial-recognition technology when they leave or enter the country. Only 53% of Security Pros Have Ownership of Workforce IAM (Dark Reading, Dec 10 2019) Most practitioners report an increase in identities, but many don't have control over how those identities are protected from a range of attacks. Real-time phishing alerts and stolen password warnings added to Chrome (SC Magazine, Dec 11 2019) Google yesterday announced that its latest Chrome release adds real-time phishing alerts and password breach warning capabilities to the browser. The real-time anti-phishing capabilities represents an upgrade to Google's Safe Browsing service, which compiles an ever-changing blacklist of dangerous websites that browsers can check against. Typically, when a Chrome user visits a website, the browser… The post Real-time phishing alerts and stolen password warnings added to Chrome appeared first on Data Leak Exposes 750K Birth Certificate Applications (Infosecurity Magazine, Dec 10 2019) AWS misconfiguration leaves storage bucket wide open How Attackers Used Look-Alike Domains to Steal $1 Million From a Chinese VC (Dark Reading, Dec 06 2019) Money meant to fund an Israeli startup wound up directly deposited to the scammers. LogMeIn updates its LastPass Identity solution with passwordless login for business customers (Help Net Security, Dec 05 2019) LastPass Identity now delivers a complete passwordless login experience for employees across applications, VPNs and devices (PCs, Macs, Android & iOS mobile devices) through device-native biometric authentication, single sign-on and federated identity integrations, all while giving IT complete control over every access point. Cookie-stealing malware wants to know your Facebook ad budget (Naked Security – Sophos, Dec 05 2019) The AdKoob malware that sneakily peeks at how much you're spending on ads is back. What are the qualities of a good digital identity management program? (Help Net Security, Dec 10 2019) A digital identity program should be: Safe – To ensure security, privacy and compliance. Flexible – To work across multiple platforms (on-premise and cloud); work with people, systems and devices. Agile – To quickly adapt to end-user needs, IT requirements and new applications. Scalable – To address the shifting requirements of the business — such as adding new users from an acquisition or managing an influx of customers. Open – To accommodate many types of users, including employees, consumers, partners and contractors. Private – To give users control over their information and an understanding of how it is used and how they can access it. Frictionless – To provide a seamless and convenient experience for both users and cybersecurity administrators. Resilient – To overcome potential service disruptions, technology failures, or cyber threats — whether on-premise or in the cloud. TikTok settles class action over child privacy one day after it's filed (Naked Security – Sophos, Dec 10 2019) The $1.1m settlement is an "excellent result," TikTok said, unsurprisingly: compared with its $5.7m FTC fine, it's dirt cheap. Exposed Data Shows Where Police Departments Fly Their Drones (VICE, Dec 10 2019) Dronesense, which sells a platform for controlling drones to police, left customer data including flight plans exposed. This Alleged Bitcoin Scam Looked a Lot Like a Pyramid Scheme (Wired, Dec 10 2019) Five men face federal charges of bilking investors of $722 million by inviting them to buy shares in bitcoin mining pools. 78% of people forgot a password in the past 90 days (Help Net Security, Dec 11 2019) HYPR released the findings of a two and a half year Password Usage Study, which compiled data from over 500 full-time workers across the United States and Canada to better understand how individuals use, treat and manage their passwords. It's past time to contain identity sprawl. Here's how to do it. (SC Magazine, Dec 11 2019) Identity sprawl – too many usernames and too many passwords – has never been as big a concern as it is today: More devices are being brought into the enterprise, more people are working remotely and using their own devices, and more users continue to access on-premises and cloud data stores. Younger Generations Drive Bulk of 2FA Adoption (Dark Reading, Dec 11 2019) Use of two-factor authentication has nearly doubled in the past two years , pointing to a new wave of acceptance. Active Directory password reset best practices (Help Net Security, Dec 12 2019) Password change and password reset are terms that are often used interchangeably. However, they are not the same. A user will perform a password change when they remember their existing password, and a password reset when they have forgotten it. How identity is addressed by enterprise IT security teams (Help Net Security, Dec 12 2019) The majority of companies have experienced a five-fold increase in the number of workforce identities, which are being driven primarily by mobile and cloud technology. Encouragingly, one-hundred percent of IT security stakeholders report that a lack of strong IAM practices introduces security risk, an IDSA survey reveals. Over One Billion Email-Password Combos Leaked Online (Infosecurity Magazine, Dec 12 2019) Unsecured database featured a total of 2.7bn emails PrevPreviousCloud Security, DevOps, AppSec – The Week's Best News – 2019.12.11 NextCISO View – The Week's Best News – 2019.12.13Next Mosaic Security Research is a leading consulting firm and technology analyst, providing information security services, research, and educational content. Mosaic Security Research also offers a free, community-driven cyber security news service. 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Pageareas: Europe Infos - christian perspectives on the EU Newsletter monthly of Comece and the Jesult European Office - eleven issues per year. COMECE Jesuit European Social Centre Home #176 - November 2014 Europe and the world engage in thoughtful debate in Prague 25 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prague, the capital city of the Velvet Revolution, has become the place for people to reflect on peace, democracy and citizenship. "How desperately the world needs, and how desperately the troubled Middle East region and Egypt need, more efforts in spreading the ideas of forgiveness, coexistence, peace, respect for others and respect for freedom, democracy and human rights." These are the words used by Ahmed Maher when, speaking from his prison cell in Egypt, he addressed the participants attending the Forum 2000 Conference held in Prague on 12 – 15 October. "I would have loved to participate, but the bars of the régime's prison surround me." Forum 2000 was founded in 1996 as a joint initiative of Václav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic, Yohei Sasakawa, the Japanese philanthropist and Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. During the first conference, held in 1997, they invited many world leaders to come to Prague to discuss the challenges for humanity at the dawn of the Third Millennium. In autumn this year, Prague is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, the fastest revolution of all those that happened in the former Communist bloc: only a dozen days lay between the students' demonstration in Prague on 17 November 1989, suppressed by the police, and the moment when the Communist Party abandoned power on 28 November. Moreover, it was scarcely one month later, on 28 December, that Václav Havel, the renowned intellectual and opponent of the régime, was elected President of the Republic. The Philosopher President made a deep impression on Czech national and international politics right up until he retired from public life in 2003. His views and his political thinking have not lost any of their relevance to events today, and it is astonishing to discover that the works of Václav Havel are read in Iran, in Venezuela, in Hong Kong and in all the places on this planet where democracy is attempting to find its way. During his presidency and during his trips abroad, Václav Havel had expressed the view that "it would be good if intelligent people, not only from the various ends of the earth, different continents, different cultures, from civilization's religious circles, but also from different disciplines of human knowledge, could come together somewhere in calm discussion..." This gave rise to the idea of launching a Forum run by Foundation 2000. The Forum continues the legacy of Václav Havel by supporting the values of democracy and respect for human rights, through providing assistance to the development of human society and through encouraging religious, cultural and racial tolerance. It provides a platform for the world's leaders, as well as to thinkers and to courageous men and women from every domain of activity, to allow them to hold open debate and to exchange views on crucial questions. Therefore in recent years we have seen the presence at the Prague Forum of VIPs such as His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Elie Wiesl, Mary Robinson, Rabbi Michael Melchior, José Ramos Horta, Grigory Yavlinsky, Henry Kissinger and Boutros Boutros-Ghali. This year 2014 we are commemorating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain and the 1989 Tiananmen Uprising. Looking back over the quarter of a century that separates us from the events which had raised both enormous expectations and huge disappointments, the theme of this year's 'Forum 2000' Conference is Democracy and Its Discontents . What type of democracy do we then expect? To what kind of democracy do we aspire today? The Conference opened with a speech from Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian businessman and recently freed political prisoner. The programme that followed over the course of three days was most impressive, particularly for its richness. With often four Round Tables being held simultaneously in different rooms in the sumptuous Žofín Palace in the centre of Prague, each participant found it difficult to choose: all the themes were equally exciting and promised passionate debate: Is democracy possible in Post-Soviet Space? Resurgent authoritarians the world; Democracy in Asia: India and its neighbours; Putin's Trojan Horses: Russian influence on the European Radical Right and Radical Left; Religion against Totalitarianism; Challenges for democracy in Latin America; Young people in politics: the promise and the reality. And so on. From Europe, from India and from the Americas – their most distinguished experts and political specialists shared their assessments of the situation. The leaders of major movements for change around the world described how they had survived during revolutions and transitions to democracy; people like the young Chinese blogger Murong Xuecun, the young Venezualan student leader Juan Requesens or the Cuban blogger and activist Yoani Sánchez. It is a pity that so few European leaders, officials and MEPs attended this conference. While Brussels is indeed the institutional capital city of Europe, it should still look towards Europe's intellectual capital, the seat of revolutions and power struggles, where the changes of today and tomorrow are the subject of reflection. High time that Brussels went to Prague. Johanna Touzel Translated from the original text in French View the videos of the roundtables and the programme. 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AT&T COO Updates Shareholders at UBS Global TMT Conference DALLAS, December 07, 2022--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jeff McElfresh, chief operating officer, AT&T* Inc. (NYSE:T), spoke today at the UBS Global TMT Conference where he provided an update to shareholders. McElfresh reiterated that AT&T continues to take a disciplined and return-focused approach to growth and investment and made the following points: The company continues to see healthy customer growth in its strategic focus areas of 5G and fiber as customer demand for connectivity services remains high. While the company continues to monitor the evolving economic backdrop, McElfresh noted that AT&T continues to execute well thanks to a high-quality network and a consistent go-to-market approach and additionally feels good about its ability to attract high-quality customers. In addition, McElfresh added that he feels confident in the company's strong value proposition, the resilient nature of its connectivity services and the sustainability of its wireless customer growth across multiple segments. He also said that he was pleased with the results from the company's pricing actions made in the first half of 2022. McElfresh said that as the company continues to lap investments made over the past two years, it is realizing additional cost efficiencies. He shared that benefits of cost reduction measures are increasingly falling to the bottom line and driving improvements in the company's operating leverage. AT&T remains committed to its guidance to achieve its target of 30 million-plus locations, including business locations, with fiber by the end of 2025. At the end of the third quarter of 2022, AT&T had the ability to serve 18.5 million consumer locations and approximately 3.0 million business customer locations in more than 100 metro areas with fiber. McElfresh said that AT&T Fiber continues to deliver the best customer experience in a competitive marketplace and he's pleased with the momentum in first-year penetration rates of about two times greater than historical norms. McElfresh indicated that AT&T expects full-year capital investment in the $24 billion range to meet growing demand for core connectivity, while also meeting full-year 2022 guidance for free cash flow in the $14 billion range. The company remains focused on investing in building a sustainable and durable connectivity operation with improved cash generation and continues to be pleased with the return profile of its fiber and 5G investments. *About AT&T We help more than 100 million U.S. families, friends and neighbors, plus nearly 2.5 million businesses, connect in meaningful ways every day. From the first phone call 140+ years ago to our 5G wireless and multi-gig internet offerings today, we @ATT innovate to improve lives. For more information about AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T), please visit us at about.att.com. Investors can learn more at investors.att.com. Cautionary Language Concerning Forward-Looking Statements Information set forth in this news release contains financial estimates and other forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, and actual results might differ materially. A discussion of factors that may affect future results is contained in AT&T's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. AT&T disclaims any obligation to update and revise statements contained in this news release based on new information or otherwise. This news release may contain certain non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations between the non-GAAP financial measures and the GAAP financial measures are available on the company's website at https://investors.att.com. © 2022 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T and the Globe logo are registered trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property. Brittany Siwald AT&T Corporate Communications Email: [email protected]	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
How David Lynch's Dune Influenced the Rest of His Brilliant Career If you were hoping to read a defense of David Lynch's 1984 adaptation of Dune in comparison to the version that was just released, sorry to disappoint you. Though there are plenty of memorable moments from the 1984 Dune (that cat being milked, the nightmarish Navigator aliens), it's really hard to make the case that it's a clearer vision or a more successful adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel. That said, Dune was still a pivotal movie in David Lynch's career, as its critical and box office failure forced Lynch to reassess what kind of movies he wanted to make, which in turn led to one of his greatest triumphs as well as an approach to filmmaking that would guide the rest of his career. from Collider - Feed https://ift.tt/3CJLnIe	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Influence Map Who China Pays Videos & Ads Please Help with a Tax Deductible Donation China's unrelenting crackdown on Hong Kong August 11, 2020 News Stories China is tightening its grip on Hong Kong. Weeks after ramming through a controversial national security law, Beijing's proxies in the city are extending their crackdown on protesters and pro-democracy activists. On Monday, Hong Kong authorities raided the offices of the popular tabloid newspaper Apple Daily and arrested its owner, media tycoon Jimmy Lai; his sons; and a number of executives affiliated with Next Digital, the newspaper's parent company. In a separate sweep, 23-year-old activist Agnes Chow, a well-known figure among Hong Kong's new generation of pro-democracy dissidents, was also detained by police. All those arrested, according to my colleagues, were taken on suspicion of colluding with foreign powers — a charge that could yield life sentences in prison. Read more at The Washington Post. China's Mineral Dominance Threatens America's Renewable Energy Goals Beijing is scrambling to keep the U.S. from kicking Chinese firms worth $1.4 trillion off Wall Street China War With U.S. on the Horizon, Chief Propagandist Says © 2022. CHINA OWNS US IS A PROJECT OF THE AMERICAN SECURITY INSTITUTE. Protect America from Chinese Communist Party Influence!	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Michael Cohen Sues Trump Organization Over Unpaid Legal Fees The president's former lawyer says he is owed millions of dollars in unreimbursed legal costs. Douglas Christian/ZUMA Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former attorney and longtime fixer, has sued the Trump Organization for failing to pay millions of dollars in legal fees in connection to his "work with and on behalf of the Organization and its principals, directors, and officers." In a lawsuit filed in New York on Thursday, Cohen claims that the Trump Organization stopped paying him in June 2018, shortly after he began signaling to friends and family that he was willing to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. "As Mr. Cohen's anticipated cooperation with the Special Counsel became known, President Trump publicly distanced himself from Mr. Cohen, stating on June 15, 2018 'I haven't spoken to Michael in a long time,'" the lawsuit stated. The Trump Organization's decision to stop paying for Cohen's legal work, the lawsuit claims, violated an agreement made nearly one year earlier that had stated the Trump Organization would cover Cohen's attorney fees for his upcoming defense in multiple investigations involving the president. According to the lawsuit, Cohen's legal fees have exceeded $1.9 million and continue to grow. After the Michael Cohen Hearing, Congress Has Some Big Questions for Trump's Tax Lawyer Watch Michael Cohen Explain How Trump Operates Like a Mob Boss	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
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Making Music in Manchester during WW1 About the projects About the partners Henry Watson Music Library Hallé Concerts Society The effect of the war on the theatre business Published on February 25, 2017 by musicmcrww1Leave a comment As you would expect, the war had a huge impact on the theatre business. Actors and musicians were called up to active duty and some did not make it back. As well as this there was the massive financial impact with the introduction of entertainment tax making it more expensive for those at home to attend the various shows. Arthur Catterall, the English violinist and R J Forbes, the pianist from Stalybridge were both called up to active duty in July 1917. While neither of them actually left England, Frederick Blamey, the English tenor, served in the air force until the end of the war. Some performers did not return, in June 1917 the actor Charles Bibby was reported missing and in the same month Edwin Batty, a contributor to the Manchester Programme was killed in action. Even those who were lucky enough to return did not always have a career to return to as shown by the Goosen's family. Eugene Goosens was a conductor who worked in Beccham's operas, his son Eugene Junior followed in his footsteps. He had 2 other sons, Adolph was a pianist but died from wounds at war in August 1916. His other son Leon was an oboeist but did have to serve and therefore did not share a stage with his father and brother. As well as the impact of the musicians and actors being called up to active duty, there were many financial burdens for the theatre business as a result of war. The front cover of The Manchester Programme was usually very colourful, printed on good quality card with gold leaf detail added (see featured image). Many times throughout the war the front cover was printed on cheap coloured paper with no added colour or detail (see picture above). While i can not say for certain why this was, a few things have been suggested to me such as the printers strike and limited supplies in wartime. The government introduced an entertainment tax in 1916 which meant that theatres had to make the decision of whether to take this extra cost or pass it onto the customers via tickets prices. The Halle worked at a loss of £558 in that season with the blame being placed on the dark times, as streets were dark, there were petrol shortages and it was a particularly bad winter. Most theatres could not afford to take the extra cost and chose the increase their ticket prices. In Feb 1917, the Palace increased their prices on Saturday nights and during the holidays, they also increased the number of performances to twice nightly to increase revenue. In July 1917 the entertainment tax was rising again which caused protests from the entertainment properties and managers association. They claimed that since the introduction of the tax over 700 places of amusement had closed and that increasing the tax would only lead to more closures and more people out of work and therefore less income tax being paid. They argued that this was counterproductive and depriving the public of entertainment at a time when they needed it the most. The only entertainment venues exempt from the tax were the army theatres set up to entertain the soldiers. With so much financial pressure on regular theatres these came under criticism from the Theatres Alliance. The alliance argued against them being exempt from tax and also from soldiers being allowed to bring a lady friend to these shows. They claimed that they were taking custom from the other theatres as the lady friend would maybe have attended a regular theatre had she not been invited to the army theatre. Considering the financial burden and decreasing number of musicians and audience members due to the war it is astounding that the theatres remained opened for business and still attracted large audiences during the war period By Katrina Ingram A Brass Band Contest at Manchester Published on February 7, 2017 by musicmcrww1Leave a comment Dr Stephen Etheridge The following page comes from The School Music Review: A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Interest of Music in Schools, 1 October 1916. Like other London-based music journals the reporting is indicative of a style of writing that was anthropological in nature. In other words the brass bands at Belle Vue came to represent a highly reportable aspect of the working-class at leisure. From the 1840s onwards brass band contests attracted large numbers of followers. It was in the venue of Belle Vue where reporters from the metropolis could try and understand a growing working class and the nature of one of their hobbies. Common themes that emerged were a recognition that the brass band contest was a popular pursuit for working men in the North, a recognition that the audience were enthusiastic, informed and critical of musical performance and an allusion and comparison with sporting events. In this way, together with other contributing factors such as the fame and success of 'crack' bands from the North, an external view of the working class at play was constructed. By the First World War this reporting had reached its height and in spite of the brass band being a national movement the construction of a clichéd identity of Northern working-class brass bands was complete. (These themes are explored in greater detail in my forthcoming article, 'Southern Pennine Brass Bands and the Creation of Northern Identity, ca. 1840-1914: Musical Constructions of Space, Place and Region', Northern History, February, 2017, pp. 1-18) Categories Brass Band Contests, Brass Bands and Music-Making in Manchester, Regional Identity, Working-Class Identity Sir Thomas Beecham- enterprising, advertising and drawing large audiences During the war orchestral music became more popular in Manchester. My research leads me to believe the Sir Thomas Beecham's efforts in enterprising and advertising is what drew the large audiences to his concerts. By mid 1917 Sir Thomas Beecham began changing the shape of things at the Halle. He decided that the Halle will not be restricted to Thursday nights and will play on some Saturdays throughout the season and on one Friday. He also announced that as well as the Grand Opera at the end of the season he would also run one over the Christmas period. This shake up of events drew a lot of attention from the Press, as did Beecham's other enterprising activities. He put a proposal to the council for the building of a new opera house in Manchester, stating he would hold opera seasons over a period of at least 10 years. In December 1917 Beecham took the job as President of the Royal College of Music in Manchester. All of this activity ensured the press attention when Beecham started his new Christmas Opera season with the Halle. In December 1917 the Manchester Programme published a full page article on Beecham singing his praises. It stated that he had conducted whole operas from memory as his musical memory is phenomenal. It also claimed that his musical knowledge ranged from 16th century to modern day which is unequalled by any other conductor. Quite an accolade! This free advertising continued when his Opera season opened on Boxing Day 1917 with another full page article. This was repeated the following week with the Programme discussing the opera and how well it was being received. It was at this point that Beecham criticised the press, saying that they were the biggest to enemy to musical progress. The columnist in the Manchester Programme disputed these claims saying that Beecham was being less than just, he added that all local critics have been praising Beecham consistently. The Programme then did not report on the opera for the following 3 weeks and even when it did include an article towards the end of the season it was significantly shorter than they had been previously and mainly discussed Irish baritone, Frederick Ranalow. The press seem to have forgiven him by the time he returned with his second Grand Opera season in May 1918. The Manchester Programme printed a full page article the week before it began and published an article every week of the Opera season discussing how well it was going and highlighting key singers.This was repeated during the Christmas Opera Season in 1918, with articles printed weekly discussing the success of the Halle and included a full page article on Beecham in which he is put on equal footing with Sir Charles Halle and Richter. During the period of July 1917 to December 1918 Sir Thomas Beecham and the Halle orchestra appeared in the Manchester Programme frequently. In fact there were a lot more articles printed on the Halle and other orchestral concerts than there were on musical theatre. Within the numbers for musical theatre i have included operettas and comic operas that had begun to appear towards the end of the war. In the graph below you can see how the number of articles on musical theatre dropped dramatically in this period despite the number of musical plays being performed increasing. This indicates that the popularity of musical theatre had not waned but the Programme had decided to shift its focus towards orchestral music, which could be argued was Beecham's influence. Beecham's popularity in the Manchester Programme continued after the war, with his Grand Opera season in May 1919 receiving weekly articles, including 2 full page spreads. His Christmas opera season that began on Boxing Day 1919 also received weekly articles in the Programme, sometimes printing two articles in the same week and one article being dedicated to Beecham and his greatness. This shows how Beecham increased the visibility of the Halle by ensuring they appeared in the Manchester Programme most weeks. He understood how important advertising was and used it to it's full potential. The strength of Beecham's advertising skills also stretched to the Promenade concerts. In September 1917 Beecham led a 3 week season which was advertised weekly in the Manchester Programme and began with a full page article in which Beecham stated that these concerts were "free and easy" and were aimed at enticing people unacquainted with orchestral music through prejudice or apprehension. In September 1918, Beecham ran a 4 week season of Promenade concerts, again they were advertised and this time received 2 full page articles in the Manchester Programme discussing the success of the orchestra. This gave the Promenade more visibility than they had ever had, at the start if the war they were ran by Michael Balling, also conductor of the Halle yet did not draw the attention of the Programme's columnists. In fact even adverts for the concerts did not start to appear in the programme until Oct 1915, showing that there had been no form of advertisement before Beecham was in charge. It wasn't just in Manchester that orchestral music was increasing in popularity. Between November 1914 and February 1915 the Leeds Orchestral concerts ran. there were reports that the concerts were becoming more popular and the reason was believed to be advertising. So was Beecham following a trend or was he the one to start it? Either way it seemed to work as he managed to keep the Halle thriving during the war period when theatres in general were suffering. Gender in Musical Theatre This post builds on 2 previous blog posts surrounding women on the stage during World War One and Gender in Musical theatre. In a blog post entitled 'Gender differences on the stage in 1913', i discussed how prior to the breakout of war, the theatre was not class specific and that all women were invited to audition, being judged on talent rather than social status. The theatre, however, did not pay women well with most earning next to nothing and with the majority expected to provide their own costumes for the play. Some women excelled in costume making such as Juliette Dika, a Parisian soprano (pictured above in June 1914) who became famous for the dresses that she made for herself. Despite women being badly paid in Musical theatre they were relied upon heavily by theatre companies during the war. In the 18 months prior to the war women were pictured in 17 of the 41 articles for Musical Theatre in the Manchester Programme, men were pictured in 15 articles and 9 pictures featured both a man and a woman. This is fairly even, however once the war started the number of women appearing in the article's pictures rose drastically whereas the number of men pictured remained fairly steady as you can see in the graph below. Towards the end of the war (July 1917-Dec 1918) the number of articles for Musical theatre dipped so all 3 categories dropped below their average. Discounting this period the number of articles featuring men between January 1913 and July 1920 stayed between 15 and 19. Again discounting the period at the end of the war the number of articles featuring both a man and a woman in the picture stayed between 7 and 10. The number of women featured in the articles went from 17 in the pre-war period up to 43 in the first 18 months of the war. This number dipped slightly to 38 in the following 18 months and dropped to 21 in the final 18 months of the war. While the women pictured in the articles dipped in this period just as much as men the number of female featured articles was still not as low as it had been prior to the war. Even after the war the number of women pictured in the articles of the Programme remained higher than the number of men. Whilst the number of women featured in the article's pictures rose over the war period, the number of female titled plays decreased. By female titled i mean having a girls name in the title or the words 'girl', 'mistress', 'princess', 'she', 'her' etc. In the 18 months prior to the war 56% of the musical plays had female titles with the rest being gender neutral and none being male titled. In the first 18 months of the war these figures changed, with 46% being female titled and 2% being male titled in that one play was called 'the chocolate soldier'. In the following 18 months the percent of female titled plays remained fairly steady at 43% with male titled plays rising to 5% and the final 18 months of war showed the most dramatic shift with female titled plays dropping to only 25% and male titled plays rising to 14%. In the 18 months after the war, male titled remained fairly steady at 11% but female titled plays again dropped to 16%. If the articles featured more women due to there being less men then you would expect there to be less pictures of men, however the pictures of men in articles remained steady. If the Manchester Programme used women as a way of advertising, however, it would be because they thought that women were more likely to draw audiences. Why then were the producers and writers of plays titling them in a more gender neutral fashion as the war progressed. Could it be something as simple as them having differing opinions at this time? 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CHICAGO, IL - JULY 26: Minnesota Twins designated hitter Nelson Cruz (23) hits a RBI single in the second inning against the Chicago White Sox on July 26, 2019 at Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Quinn Harris/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Washington Nationals: Yadiel Hernández, the kid from "Los Mangos" by Yusseff Diaz Baseball Book review: 'The Corporal Was a Pitcher: The Courage of Lou Brissie' by James Simmons The Vault Challenge: MLB is giving away $1M… in 9 years by Rick Soisson 1 year ago Follow @ricksoisson MLB has now given us The Vault Challenge, a more difficult than initially seeming contest. Nonetheless, take a shot. There are nine questions. Those of you who are intrigued by contests have undoubtedly seen The Vault Challenge on MLB.com. However, if your COVID-19 restrictions haven't already driven you to even considering on-line contests as entertainment, let me lay out the task involved in this particular pastime, which at first glance may seem fairly simple. To win The Vault Challenge and $1 million you must correctly predict the coming decade's leaders in nine categories, some for individual players and some for whole teams. The winner will be announced after December 1, 2029, so this is not a contest for the elderly. More from Call to the Pen Boston Red Sox: David Ortiz calls writer obscenity live on Boston radio Milwaukee Brewers: Christian Yelich starts a battle on TikTok Los Angeles Dodgers show why they kept Brandon Gomes Houston Astros: Carlos Correa agent change sign of misread market Would this New York Mets-Arizona Diamondbacks trade work? (Is there potential here, with a really good Philadelphia lawyer, for an age discrimination case? "Your Honor, plaintiff would like to force MLB.com to have a five-year contest! Or better yet, a three-year contest!") In any event, the million-dollar winner only has to name this decade's individual home run leader, individual hits champ, the individual pitching wins leader, and strikeout king, the team champions in wins and World Series titles, and – back to the individual crowns – the players with the most MVP and Cy Young awards, and finally, the guy named to the most All-Star games. I didn't dig into any ultra-fine print in the rules, but for the questions with possible ties, one answer per question per entry seems to be enough. The rules indicate tiebreakers, and the possibility of dividing the grand prize does exist. Anyway, a simple walk in the park – nine times. The Vault Challenge is clearly difficult because of the multiple tasks required, but it seems doubly hard because of the fact that most even fairly faithful, but casual fans couldn't tell you who should be named for the past decade in the areas asked about. Nelson Cruz was the home run leader. Oh, you got that right? Plus-or-minus five, give the number of dingers he collected. Indeed, even older fans who lived through the 1950s, '60s, or '70s might get the question about the home run leader for those whole decades wrong, and there were far fewer players to worry about then. Casual fans might well assert that the '50s leader was Mickey Mantle, the '60s leader one of the Willies – Mays or McCovey – and the '70s had to be led by Mike Schmidt, right? The right answers there are Duke Snider, Harmon Killebrew (Mays was third in the '60s), and Willie Stargell. Schmidt led the '80s, for the record, with 313 homers. Then, and we're still thinking about question number one here, how do you factor in the modern notion of launch angle for a season when a) people were catching on to the notion that launch angle isn't a great idea all the time, and b) there's an indeterminate interruption of play? More:The KBO League giving us hope for baseball The rules for The Vault Challenge explicitly state: "Any MLB season(s) shortened, lengthened or not played – for any reason or for any duration – will have no effect on the definition of the Decade." So, basically, the more we think about this, the more this contest seems totally impossible. So maybe you should forget the research, and just pick some guy in the minors for the Cy Young champion. You may well be right. Or maybe deGrom will win three more, which ought to do it for that question. Next:Syndergaard has a date with Tommy John surgery Ultimately, The Vault Challenge seems a nice diversion. 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Canada calls for transparency in trial of 12 Hong Kong pro-democracy protestors Ottowa [Canada], December 29 (ANI): Ottawa has voiced its concern over the judicial procedures performed by Beijing on 12 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists - also known as the Shenzen 12 -- who were detained in Shenzhen in August while attempting to flee to Taiwan as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) imposed the draconian National Security Law. Canada has urged Chinese authorities to conduct trials on the basis of the Human Rights framework, reported Sputnik. "Canada expresses deep concern over the secret trial involving the Shenzhen12. We urge Chinese authorities to conduct trials in accordance with due process and judicial transparency in line with international Human Rights norms and standards," the Canadian Government's foreign policy handle tweeted. London also expressed concern that the defendants were "tried in secret" and were denied access to lawyers of their choosing. "We are deeply concerned that members of the Shenzhen 12 were tried in secret today, having been given just three days' notice of their trial. Diplomats from Britain and a number of other countries, tried to attend the court proceedings but were denied entry, said UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab in a statement on Monday. "The Shenzhen 12 have not had access to lawyers of their choosing, raising further serious questions about access to legal counsel in Mainland China," he added. Raab said that the UK expects China to uphold the rule of law and conduct trials in a fair and transparent manner, consistent with the basic requirements of international human rights law. According to South China Morning Post, government-appointed lawyers have told the relatives of 12 Hong Kong pro-democracy protestors arrested while attempting to flee to Taiwan that a mainland Chinese court will hand down verdicts for 10 of them on Wednesday, as per a concerned group that has been assisting the families. The 10 defendants reportedly pleaded guilty on Monday at what the Yantian People's Court in Shenzhen said was an "open trial" attended by family members while the two others facing no charges, as they are minors. However, family members said they were not allowed to attend the hearing. It was also reported that no journalists or diplomats were allowed at the hearings. A group of rights activists was arrested off the coast of Hong Kong on August 23 while allegedly trying to flee to Taiwan by boat. The detainees have been charged for offences related to the city's pro-democracy demonstrations due to the authoritarian National Security Law imposed by Beijing. The Western nations have hit out at Beijing stating that the law undermines Hong Kong's civil liberties and democratic freedoms. The draconian law imposed on the city by the CCP criminalizes secession, subversion, and collusion with foreign forces and carries with it strict prison terms. It came into effect from July 1. (ANI)	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
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Senior spotlight: Future is full of possibilities for Bethel Park infielder By: Jonathan Bombulie Friday, April 3, 2020 \| 6:01 AM Bethel Park's Kevin Kogler was an all-section infielder last season. Editor's note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight a WPIAL spring athlete whose senior year has been put on hold by the coronavirus pandemic. What's the next step in Kevin Kogler's baseball career? If the spring sports season is called off, the Bethel Park senior may have played his last competitive baseball game. If the season is played, the third baseman/relief pitcher will help the two-time defending section champion Black Hawks try to capture an elusive WPIAL title. Either way, he plans to try out for the team at Penn State, so a year from now, he might find himself playing NCAA Division I ball. The present is somewhat bleak, with a senior year stalled in an unprecedented way. The future, though, is full of possibilities. What's your best memory playing baseball at Bethel Park? In the playoffs last year when we beat Seneca Valley in extra innings. We had a bye, so it was the second round. It went 10 innings. We kept working and fighting and everything and finally Cooper Shoemaker came through with a big hit. We were all celebrating, so happy that we won. What's your best memory as a sports fan? That wild-card game for the Pirates whenever Russell Martin hit that home run against the Reds. That whole game was crazy. I loved it. Who would you say is your biggest rival? Probably Peters. I feel like there's always been a rivalry between us and Peters, but especially last year. We went into two extra-inning games and came up short in both of them. That's the team I'd want to get after this year, for sure. I'm definitely going to miss playing them, if we don't have a season. What's the best way to avoid boredom when stuck at home? I've been going to the cages and hitting a lot, trying to do some workouts, watching TV. I've been watching a lot of "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" on Disney+. What are your college plans? I think I'm going to go to Penn State next year and I might try to walk on the baseball team. Most of my family went to Penn State. I love it up there. It's awesome. I could have gone to a smaller school and played and gotten a scholarship or something, but Penn State's awesome. Hopefully I can make the team. That would be the best-case scenario. My twin sisters are up there now. They're freshmen. What do you plan to study? I think I want to do chemical engineering. If you could pick anyone to give a commencement speech at your graduation, who would it be? Justin Meis. He was a Bethel Park baseball player. I just love listening to him talk. I think he'd give a great speech. If you were asked to give a speech, what advice would you give to underclassmen? As far as baseball, play every game like it's your last because it might be. Like last year, that playoff game against NA, that might have been my last baseball game ever. I was expecting to have another season, but you've got to play every game like it's the last one. Everyone younger than me should. Jonathan Bombulie is a Tribune-Review Assistant Sports Editor. You can contact Jonathan by email at [email protected] or via Twitter . Tags: Bethel Park • Renovations moving quickly for Gateway's state-of-the-art baseball, softball fields • Penn Hills girls basketball eager to get back on course • Sewickley Academy baseball standout Adin Zorn takes team-first approach to Penn State • Richard Garbee, Jason Cappa named Quaker Valley baseball, softball coaches • Highlands' Jimmy Kunst commits to play baseball at Eastern Michigan	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Variety Plus Icon Read Next: Former HBO Exec Len Amato Joins MasterClass as Chief Content Officer Jan 6, 2021 9:37am PT Family Video, Last National Rental Chain, Is Shutting Down All Remaining Stores By Todd Spangler Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor xpangler Disney CEO Bob Chapek, Bob Iger Pay Packages More Than Doubled in Fiscal 2021 1 hour ago Instagram Launches Test of Subscriptions for U.S. Creators 5 hours ago Disney Reorgs Streaming Business, Names Joe Earley President of Hulu 6 hours ago Family Video is shutting down all of its 248 video-rental locations across the U.S., with the 42-year-old chain citing the COVID pandemic as the final blow to a business already decimated by the rise of streaming. The company, which at its peak operated some 800 locations, on Tuesday announced the decision to shut down. The last day for movie rentals at Family Video stores is Wednesday, Jan. 6, but they will remain open until they sell all their inventory — which includes DVDs, Blu-ray discs, popcorn, gumball machines, shelves "and everything else." "While we have faced digital competition from Netflix and others for years, nothing has been as devastating to our business as COVID-19," Keith Hoogland, CEO of Highland Ventures, the real estate company that owns Family Video, said in a statement. "The impact of COVID-19, not only in foot traffic but also in the lack of movie releases, pushed us to the end of an era." Family Video outlasted three other national video-rental chains — Blockbuster Video, Movie Gallery and Hollywood Video — and was "the last man standing in our industry," Hoogland noted. The erstwhile rental powerhouse Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010. Its assets were acquired for $320 million the following year by Dish Network, which gradually shut down Blockbuster locations. By March 2019 only one store was left — the Blockbuster in Bend, Ore., which gained renewed attention last year after its promotion through Airbnb to let fans spend a night in the store went viral. While the video-rental chains are gone, Redbox still operates its network of about 41,000 DVD rental kiosks across the country. But Redbox, too, has suffered declining rental business and has been trying to diversify into streaming video. Family Video's remaining stores are located in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas Tennessee and Wisconsin. Pictured above: The Family Video store in Arlington Heights, Ill., which closed its doors last fall. Family Video	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Home » Internazionale » Azione Jean Monnet » Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam - THE EU ACTION IN ReSHAPE » Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam - About us Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam - About us Fulvio Attinà - Professor of Political Science and International Relations. JM Chair of EU Politics 1996 on. Director of the JM Centre of Excellence 1998 on. Co-ordinator of the MA in GlobalPolitics & Euro-Mediterranean Relations. Council board member of the International Studies Association (ISA) 1999-2000, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) 2000-2006, nd AUSE (Italian ECSA) 1988-96. Visiting professor at American, Asian, and European universities. uthor of books and journal articles on the EU including an Italian leading university textbook. Founder & Chair of the Editorial Board 2000-07 of the journal European Union Politics. Project leader of national/international research projects on EU politics and intrnational relations. R.Schumann Professor at CASS Beijing on the EU-China Program of High Education 1999. Director of the Summer School on Euro-Mediterranean Relations, EuroMed Centre Catania 1998 and 199. Convenor of the EU Standing Group, ECPR, 1995-2000. Francesca Longo - Full Professor of Political Science and Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Public Policies. Her research interests are focused on the issues related to the fight against organised crime in the EU and on the security policy of the EU. She has been a member of several international research group on the topic of the fight against organised crime. Current member of the Executive Committee of the Standing Group on Organised Crime, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), and of the academic board of the "Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica". Stefania Panebianco - Associate Professor of Political Science. Chair of the BA in Politics and International Relations 2007-2012. Academic Staff of the PhD on Global Politics and Euro-Mediterranean Relations. Coordinator of the Jean Monnet IRA on EU Foreign Policy and Democracy Promotion (2010-2011), and the JM Module on EU Roles in International Governance (2005-2010). Member of the Steering Committee (2010-2016) and former General Secretary (2004-2007) of SISP the Italian Political Science Association. Member of the Steering Committee of the ECPR SGIR; co-chair of the Italian SG on the EU. Member of the editorial board of the International Journal of EuroMediterranean Studies. Author of several publications on EuroMed issues. Research interests: EU foreign policy and democracy promotion, EU Med policy, MENA authoritarian regimes, popular revolts and regime transitions. Mara Benadusi - Tenured Lecturer in Social Anthropology. Teaching staff of the Doctoral School on Anthropology and historic/linguistic studies, Messina University, and Doctoral School on the Anthropology and Epistemology of Complexity, Bergamo University. Visiting professor, Colombo University (Sri Lanka). Visiting scholarship, Rutgers University (New Jersey), Department of Anthropology. From 2001 until 2011, she coordinated and/or realized several research projects for public and private institutes on transnational networks and humanitarian aid, risk analysis and local knowledge, disaster and hazards, development and international cooperation, migratory flows and intercultural education, etc. . Author of books and articles in the areas of anthropology. Daniela Irrera - Assistant Professor of Political Science, she teaches Political Science, International Politics and Transnational Organizations and Social Movements. She is also Adjunct Faculty in Politics at the Arcadia University at Siracusa. PhD in International Relations at the University of Catania, she has been temporary Research Assistant at the Stony Brook University, New York; Visiting Fellow at the Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland; Fulbright Alumni of the United States Institute on National Security of the US Department of State at the University of Delaware; Fellow at the Department of Sociology, Oxford University. She is Member of the Executive Committee of the ECPR Standing Group on Organized Crime. Author of books and articles in the areas of International Relations and EU politics, dealing with global terrorism, transnational organized crime, civil society and humanitarian affairs. Valentina Barbagallo - PhD in International Relations. Master in Administrative Sciences. Manager of the International Relations Office of the Deptment of Political and Social Sciences. In charge of application to, and implementation of, EU and international funded projects. Manager and organizer of the Department international events, including summer schools, international conferences and workshop, and masters programmes. Former manager of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence of the University of Catania. She is the organising Manager and the Website Manager of the ReSHAPE Programme. Ultima modifica: R4K – Resources for Knowledge The ReSHAPE Publications The ReSHAPE Bulletin ReSHAPE Gallery	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
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· Published January 1, 2021 Iran's Rouhani Threatened President Trump With Death By Faye Higbee Iran's President Rouhani threatened President Trump twith death in a speech to the Iranian cabinet this week. Rouhani told the members, "In a few days the life of this criminal will end." Rouhani threatened Trump The English translation of the speech stated, In a few days, the life of this criminal will end and he will go to the dustbin of history… One of the effects of this stupid and disgraceful act was that Trumpism ended… We are very happy about this and we believe that the period after Trump will be a better condition for regional and global stability. As I said after the martyrdom of Martyr Soleimani, I emphasize again that if you cut off Martyr Soleimani's hand, we will cut off your leg from the region and we will continue the resistance until that day. Our nation will not give up until they take revenge on his blood as its right. Hassan Rouhani (Daily Wire) Rouhani also accused Mike Pompeo of the "savage assassination." January 3 will be the 'anniversary' of the killing of Gen Qassam Soleimani, who had been widely known as a demented terrorist who oversaw hundreds of American deaths, as well as death and imprisonment of countless Iranians. The other terrorist killed in that same drone strike was Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, leader of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah Kataib militia in Iraq. Two well known bad guys that themselves were swept into the "dustbin of history." Rouhani threatened President Trump before, and the US has kept a close eye on it. Keep in mind that Joe Biden is widely expected to return the US to the failed Iranian nuclear agreement that allowed Iran to pursue its nuclear bomb program without sanctions. Will he also give them millions of American dollars as his buddy Obama did? Time will tell. The US Military was beefing up US military might in the region ahead of the January 3rd date. The USS Nimitz was sent there as well, but was recalled this week. Two B-52s flew oover the Persian Gulf, according to Military.com. On Wednesday, two U.S. B-52 Stratofortress bombers flew over the Persian Gulf, avoiding Iranian airspace in a 36-hour show-of-force mission from Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, U.S. Central Command said. It was the third time in six weeks that U.S. B-52s had flown near Iran. "We do not seek conflict, but no one should underestimate our ability to defend our forces or to act decisively in response to any attack," Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, said in a statement Wednesday. "The U.S. continues to deploy combat-ready capabilities into the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility to deter any potential adversary." When the US Embassy in Baghdad was slightly damaged in a barrage of rocket attacks recently, President Trump issued a warning of his own: Some friendly health advice to Iran. If one American is killed, I will hold Iran responsible. Think it over. President Donald J Trump Featured photo: File Sign up for our Uncle Sam's Misguided Children newsletter and check out our shop while you're there! Our website link has been censored on Facebook and Instagram, so be sure to visit us on the web or Twitter, Parler, and Me We for our op-eds on the news. Our new Instagram account is here. Community founded by US Marines to expose the lies of main stream media Copyright © 2021 Uncle Sam's Misguided Children	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Monthly competition: Shooter Flash 2022 Short Story Competition About Shooter Shooter Literary Magazine Short fiction, non-fiction and poetry 2019 Short Story Competition Winner "Another Country" by Jenny Booth Iris grabbed her juddering phone from the table and ran out of the kitchen, through the usually locked side door and across the deserted Great Hall, the quickest way to the garden. "Stay out of the hall, Iris!" her mother called after her, even though no-one was touring that day, just as no-one had visited for days and weeks. She skidded along the bare floorboards and wrenched open the French doors, out into the cool green air, and answered her phone. "I can't come," she hissed. "Mum and Dad won't let me." "What?" crackled Delly, her only friend from school within a fifty-mile radius. Iris saw no-one else during the holidays; most people went up to London or abroad or somewhere infinitely more fun, while Iris was stuck on the estate with a pair of old Labradors, a field full of cows, and her little sister Jane for company. "I can't come," Iris said again, louder now she was away from the house. She stomped past the ornamental hedgerows, her canvas shoes already soaked from the wet grass, and carried on along a path leading into the woods. "I heard you," Delly said, "but why?" "Too dangerous," Iris said scathingly. Mimicking her father's voice, she added, "The country's too unsettled." "Oh, for fuck's sake." "I may as well get used to life imprisonment." "Can you just come anyway? Pretend you were lost in another wing of the house or something?" "No way to get to the station. It's miles." "Ride a fucking horse." "Ha." Iris kicked at the sodden leaves lining the path; great trees arched overhead and intertwined into one long, dripping tunnel. "I'll have to skip it this year. Gutted. Text me. And try to keep your hands off Jason, he's mine," she joked. The guitarist from Unburnt, one of their favourite bands. "Yeah yeah. You know I've only got eyes for Antonio. I'll get you a picture." "Thanks Dell. Have fun. I'll be sitting on my own playing Minecraft in the middle of a museum." "Aw – violins. No really, this sucks. Call me if you find a way to come." After Iris hung up, she felt a surge of anger at her parents, a trail of resentment sparking from her belly to her brain. She broke into a run and pounded along the trail to where it forked left toward fields and right into the trees, a narrow way uphill. She slowed to climb right, stepping over roots and rocks studding the path. There weren't many chances to leave the grounds at school, and now it seemed Iris was just as trapped at home. It's not as if the entire country had imploded after Brexit, she thought. The festival was still happening after all. She caught whiffs of the unrest – violence, looting, riots – from news programmes delaying the girls' favourite shows, or teachers' subdued conversations as girls filed past into the dining hall. But mostly Iris's life enfolded her like a soft, silent cloud. Insulating. Suffocating. A giant padded cell. Now that she was far from the house, Iris wished she'd grabbed her book. She decided to go to the plateau anyway: a flat stretch just beyond the crest of the trees with a wide view of the fields and hills beyond. No hope of wifi but she could at least play music on her phone and lie down for a while. Perhaps daydream about Jason, imagine what she'd be doing if she were with her friends. No doubt at this very moment they were loading up their rucksacks with tins of ready-mixed G-and-Ts and Jack-and-Cokes, lugging them to an already-muddy field, haphazardly pitching their tents, then barrelling off to scout out the burger stands, beer tents, portaloos. Ultimately they'd be drawn by microphone warble and speaker boom into the tide of people surging before the main stage. Now that the ground had levelled out and the trail was smooth, Iris walked along looking at her phone, scrolling through her music library. For a moment the distant sound of a pop song confused her, but she then realised it floated not from her own device but from the trees ahead. The scouts had a license to use this end of the estate; perhaps they were conducting a practice camp. But it was the wrong time of year. Iris slowed and, catching sight of movement and campfire flames, ducked behind an oak. But no, it was ridiculous to hide, she thought. This was her land. She moved slowly to a closer tree and began to peer around its trunk. There were two tents, staked into the ground where fallen leaves had been cleared aside, and a woman boiling water at the fire. A man hunched over a tree stump nearby, showing two children – a boy and a girl – what looked like an array of mushrooms. "A'right there?" said a voice behind her. Iris jumped and turned to see a boy, slightly older than herself, rucksack slung over one shoulder. His hair, pale and dirty, fell into his eyes, and he tossed it back in a way that reminded Iris of a wild horse. He eyed her, chin up. "Who're you then?" "Who are you?" Iris shot back. The boy stood for another moment and then, keeping his eyes on her, called "Da!" Iris glanced back to see the people at the campsite jerk around. The man straightened and marched over. "What's this?" he said low to his son, looking at Iris. "Caught 'er just standing here, watching the camp," said the boy, who hefted the rucksack more firmly onto his back. Iris heard tins clank. She felt herself reddening. "I can do what I like," Iris said. The man raised an eyebrow. "Can you now," he said softly. "Yes," replied Iris. "I live here." The others exchanged a glance. The woman, who had stopped a little farther away, now stepped forward. "Why don't you come and have a cup of tea," she said, gesturing towards the fire. Mats and folding chairs made a rough semi-circle around the fire's rim of stones. "Or squash? Mark, did you get any squash?" The blond boy shook his head. "No, Mum," he said. "I only got useful stuff, like, food." The woman frowned at him but said nothing and continued to wave Iris toward the fire. "Come on, come, sit down," she said. "It's all right." Iris followed, feeling it would be better to go along with her. The smaller children remained by the stump with its shrivelled fungi, while the men followed Iris to the fire. The boy slung down his rucksack near his mother's chair and himself with it. He unzipped the top and began drawing out tins of beans and vegetables. Cartons of chopped tomato. A cardboard box, still sealed. "You live here, do you?" the woman said in a kindly tone. "In the big house?" The boy snorted. "She don't mean the next campsite over," he muttered. "Yes," said Iris slowly, noticing the label on the side of the cardboard box, which showed the address of the visitors' cafe on the estate. "I should probably get back." "Have this first, go on," said the woman, pressing a tin cup of steaming brown water into Iris's hands. "No milk, sorry." She sat down again next to Iris in one of the folding chairs. Her presence felt like a buffer against the others, who still lurked, staring, outside of the campfire circle. Emboldened, Iris blurted, "What are you doing here?" "Summer 'oliday," Mark muttered. "What's it look like." His mother shot him another warning glance. Iris jolted to feel the father's hand on her back. "Come now," he said. "This young lass won't mind hearing the truth of it, will y' girl? It's not her fault this country's politicians sent my business down the lav and our house with it. We just need a little time to get back on our feet," he addressed Iris, stepping around to look her in the eyes. "And there was no way I was sticking my family in one of them shelters when we can make do well enough out here. If you'll just do us the small favour," he leaned closer, "of keeping our little stay here between ourselves." "We'll not be in anyone's way," his wife added. "You probably don't know what it's like out there, since the No Deal. No deal – no food. No jobs. No medicines." "Bloody neighbour died without his insulin," Mark chimed in. "Had a seizure an' all. Only found out after his house got burgled and they left the door wide open." "Aye, it's a right mess," his father nodded. "And to think a lot of these were the very same who voted to leave. Fed a bloody pack of lies." "We're better off here, for a while," the woman said. "At least through summer." Iris didn't know what to say; she hadn't thought much about Europe, but she did urgently want to leave the campsite. "I didn't know," she said. "I'm sorry?" "Course you are," Mark muttered. "Alright for you." "It's not my fault," Iris shot back. "We know it's not, love," soothed the woman. "And your parents probably voted Remain, too. Smart people, no doubt, living in a grand old house like that. Sensible." Iris looked down; her parents had talked endlessly over the past few years about the "chaos" of the EU, and how the country would be better off out of it. The woman looked at Mark, who was now poking at the fire pit with a short stick, scowling above the crackling flames. "Why don't you walk her back," she said to him. "Oh no," said Iris, getting up abruptly. "You don't have to do that." "Yes, go on," said his father. "Be a gentleman, like." Mark stood up uncertainly. "Really – thank you – it's ok. I should go," Iris said hurriedly. With his parents nodding to him, the look in Mark's eyes suddenly shifted, and he stepped swiftly across the campsite. "S'alright, I'll come," he said. "Bye-bye love," the woman called after Iris. "You'll not let on about us for now, will you? And come back to see us again." As Iris returned to the trail, Mark falling into step beside her, she could hear the children's giggles spiralling and their parents' voices, sharp, as she moved away. She glanced at Mark. "You really don't have to," she said, walking quickly. "No worries." He loped easily beside her. "You can show me your gaff." "I… think my mum will have supper ready," Iris mumbled. Mark grinned sideways and tossed back his forelock. From that angle he looked, Iris realised, a bit like Jason from Unburnt. "What's she making?" he asked, suddenly amiable. "Dunno," Iris said. She resented his presence, still, but her pace slowed. He seemed less creepy away from his family and the campsite, more like a boy in one of the older years at school. She knew she ought to go straight to her parents and tell them but, remembering the festival ban, her anger at them resurged. "Who cares. I'm not hungry," she added. Mark raised an eyebrow. "Well," he said, "show me round then. Not often you get a look inside a place like that." "We're open to the public," Iris said. "My family just lives in the side bit. People visit all the time." Mark shrugged. "Yeah, but we wouldn't." Iris relaxed more as they drew closer to the house, its stone turrets and parapets visible above the last stretch of trees. It turned out Mark was only two years older than Iris; he'd gone to school in town a few miles away but dropped out after his family had been evicted. They shared similar taste in music and when Iris had told him about missing the festival, he was satisfyingly indignant on her behalf. He really did look like Jason, she decided. She had planned to put him off coming inside as soon as they reached the front door to the less imposing, timber-framed addition where her family lived, a black-and-white barnacle on the side of the original house, but somehow Iris found herself persuaded to sneak in another way and slip into the main building with him. Padding along the path of sisal carpet that usually guided tourists, Iris turned when she realised Mark had stopped and was gazing around the drawing room. "Christ," he said, nodding at the stone fireplace. "You roast whole cows in there?" "Just baby lambs," Iris said, gratified by his flicker of a smile. "Come on, we can go out the front way and that's pretty much it." Mark remained where he stood, surveying the room. "What about upstairs?" "There's nothing much up there. Just bedrooms." Mark scoffed. "Yeah, on two more massive floors. 'Nothing much.'" He jerked his head, whether in disbelief or to fling the hair from his eyes, Iris wasn't sure. "It's like another world in here. It's unreal." "It's as real as anything else," Iris shrugged. Mark shot her a look. "But nobody lives like this. It's like a castle. It's another fucking country." "Some people do live like this. I mean, maybe not many, but – we don't exactly use this bit, but my family have lived here for almost two hundred years." "It's unreal," said Mark again, gazing at the life-sized portraits upon the walls, the heavy drapes, the damask wallpaper. "Maybe something just seems unreal if it's not what you know," Iris said. "To have all this, though. Doesn't seem right. 'Specially not now, with people struggling – like my family, living in fucking tents." Mark's anger silenced Iris. Then, she ventured, "I know we're lucky. And I'm really sorry about your family. But I don't think it would make much difference to anyone if, you know, we didn't have it. You could take away all the old houses but then what would be left? Of the country. Things would still be the way they are. Just with less of the things that make it beautiful." "You can't eat beautiful," Mark grumbled. "It's the way it looks that's the problem. What it stands for. Rich people with way too much money, while most of the country's just scraping by. What did your parents vote for?" He turned towards her, eyes aflame. "I bet they voted Leave, didn't they. Fucking sovereignty and all that. Nothing's changed for them, and now it's the likes of my family getting shafted." "They did vote Leave," Iris said, "but they don't like what's happening. And they talk a lot more about how much the estate costs than how much it makes." Mark snorted. "Must be tough," he sneered, surveying the room once more. His eyes fell upon a display cabinet against the far wall. He ducked beneath the rope to take a closer look, leaving a trail of damp footprints across the pale Oriental rug. "What's this?" "Just old guns," Iris said, alarmed at his sudden trespass. She almost never went into these rooms herself, her mother having impressed upon her the fragility of the house's furnishings. Each delicate bauble, each carefully arranged antique, had long occupied its place and seemed essential as the mechanisms of an ancient clock. "Come on, I'll show you the cafe," she urged, remembering his rucksack. Mark stayed where he was. He reached out to run his fingers around the edge of the tall wooden cabinet, pressing lightly in the middle of its front panels. "Let's have a look," he said. He sprung open one of the glass-fronted doors and reached for an antique revolver, delicate foliage engraved upon its silver plate. He swung it about his index finger and glanced over at Iris, who remained screwed to the floor beyond the rope. "Doesn't look like something for hunting. Animals, anyway." He peered down its sight line, trained it upon the room, then slowly brought it around to target Iris. "Put that down," she snapped, just as a door across the nearby entrance hall clicked open. "Iris?" her mother called, sounding urgent. "Are you in here?" Footsteps clipped across the stone floor. Iris gaped at Mark, who still held the gun aloft, and watched his eyes flick for a moment between herself and the sound of her mother approaching. He ducked down to hide behind a jade chaise longue. Iris's mother appeared in the doorway. "Darling, what are you doing in here? I've been looking for you to see if you've heard from your friends. A bomb's gone off at that festival of yours." Iris gasped and ran toward her mother, who put an arm around her. Iris fished her phone from her pocket and scrolled through the messages on the screen: several earlier from Delly – including one distant shot of Unburnt milling around behind the stage – but nothing in the last hour. She tried calling, but the connection cut out. "I can't get hold of her," she said through a tightening throat, tears rising. Her mother hugged her. A clatter from the room behind them made them both jump. Turning, Iris's mother gave a small shriek at the sight of Mark, hunched over in mid-getaway across the room. The silver pistol had scudded against the skirting board, having been accidentally kicked aside, or dropped. "Who are you? Iris, who is this?" her mother demanded. Mark widened his eyes at Iris in warning, but Iris looked back helplessly, mind swirling with fear for her friends. "I don't know," she said. "They're camping." At that, Mark's face hardened. Leaving the gun where it lay, he bounded across the room and over the rope. Iris and her mother heard the side door bang and with that, the story poured out. With Mark gone, Iris felt the dammed fear burst and surge through her, rising to combine with the new terror for her friends. She clung to her mother and sobbed; when the tale was finished, they returned to the annex to find Iris's father. 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Europlate blog Registration Plates of The World Quiz on early Netherlands issues. CHARIVARI MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS OF INTEREST (NL) KM-73-20 — Dutch Sint Maarten has a few Royal Netherlands Navy vehicles in service. This pick-up/ute/bakke was seen by Philipsburg dock in 2016. We assume the military plates which go abroad are not specially coded. (Koninklijke Marine) Brumby archive. KM-73-20 (F) 224 WAL 24 — Also at the dockside there but destined for FRENCH St. Martin was a heavy truck using French temporary exit plates from the 1990s(?) (F) 224 WAL 24 (PAK) PALITANA 1 — Prince Shiv of Palitana was a lively socialite in the London scene in 1955. His new, scarlet Ford Thunderbird was photographed by the Daily Mail newspaper and three nascent plate-spotters jumped on a train from the English midlands, to search for the subject of this photo. And we found it, in Berkeley Square! Neither Terry Gray, Ivan Thornley nor the Blog had a camera in those times and in the intervening 63 years, notebooks lost, we have wondered if we had dreamed it all, as we had no evidence – until a modern web search found the very shot. Silver-on-red plates, as was the way with the Indian (and later, Pakistani) royal households' plate style. PALITANA 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palitana_State (GH) GR 1000 E — Guy Lewis, stringer for the Blog ,spent a year in Nigeria in 2017 masquerading as an international banking plenipotentiary, and captured this Jaguar E-Type which had made its way over from Ghana – a rare sight in either country, one would think. There was never anywhere to mount a front plate on an E-Type, so some enlightened countries permitted an adhesive Fablon format, which didn't disfigure the aesthetics of that beautiful car. Ghana seems to have become such a kindly place. GR 1000 E G 1000 E (USA) T-687 == Jim Fox Eu 0095 is extending his deep historical researches in to US state and federal government-issued plates (Fox archive) Jim – would you care to fill us in with the background of this very unusual issue? (Responses below.) US/FWA T-687 THE WORLD'S FIRST MEGA-COLLECTION This looks suspiciously like Karel Stoel's 1940s bedroom and perhaps his mother wondering how best to tidy it up! Later the whole collection went on public display at a small transport museum in Holland. In the 1960s, the museum had to close BUT the plates were, we believe, saved in the nick of time. Who has the story? STOEL == Many of these classic, obsolete plates have found their way in to modern collections, fortunately. If YOU have one or more, why not send in the current picture, for us all to share your pleasure? (What's the R/I X 5154???) BN 1627 == When this picture first came to light in the Stoel albums which were acquired from careful long-term storage by Europlate in 2016, we defined it as a Libyan Benghazi plate of a previously unrecorded format. Later, we came to recognise it as an Anglo-Egyptian Sudan issue from the Blue Nile registration office. Wonders will never cease! Fortunately, THESE wonders didn't come singly. Another four evocative shots from Sudan, pre-independence. (ET) BN 1089 — Blue Nile province on a Morris Minor (sidevalve) convertible, suspected 1949, is shot in London. K 4206 — Khartoum, Sudan 1920s-58 series. c.1947 Vauxhall HIX-type 12hp (ET) E 1100 — and this 1950s Morris-Commercial LD5 minibus was registered in Equatoria Province of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. ======================== (ET) K.35 — Hard to believe, but this enamelled 1920s Khartoum Dealer plate survives in a collection somewhere……… Khartoum 4KH 22477 — And, though this is predominantly a Historic plate site, as the Blog got a shot of a current-issue Sudani in Ethiopia in 2017, we might as well display it. It's a poor shot, because I was being arrested during the filming – apparently tourists cannot take pictures in Addis Ababa….. END OF THIS ISSUE OF MISCELLANEA, July 2018 For more plate photos, be sure to visit The Europlate Historic Archive: TEHA website 3 Comments \| Export plates, Export plates (temporary), France, Ghana, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Pakistan, Sudan, Uncategorized, USA \| Permalink Posted by Victor Brumby Hisrtoric duty-free export issues from Europe Most European countries have a special plate system for vehicles bought within their jurisdiction, but which are intended for permanent export. These are bought free of local taxes, which are charged when they reach their destination country. Germany and France were the first to formalise such systems and here are some examples from the 1960s and on from round Europe. FRANCE. Export. TT=Titulaire Temporaire or Transit Temporaire?? 73 is from Savoie, seen in Ste. Maxime (83-Var) circa 2005, and seems oddly old for that time, as this series ran 1955-84. A false plate? Brumby archive GERMANY – Export Customs (Zoll) oval plate . This once-common Z-plate series was issued between 1951 & 1988 as tens of thousands of German cars were collected for export. 818 Z-9348 was seen in London in 1960 prior to its ultimate export to Argentina (RA). Brumby archive FRANCE TT. On its way to the Central African Republic, Pontiac Bonneville 9 TT 10 first enjoys a drive along the Promenade des Anglais in 1964 Nice. 10= département of Aube, which seemed not to register many of this category! Brumby archive GB Foreign brand Export. QL 1052 – Peugeot 404L bought in London 1969, for export to Canada. (In fact this car never left, and was re-registered with a normal mark, GGN 157 J.) (Brumby archive/car) ITALY 1964 Export 'EE' Brumby archive DENMARK. An export Volvo destined for Canada, seen in London 1964. The red Copenhagen 'K' with the white lining indicates temporary validity. Brumby archive SWEDEN – export Volvo from Gothenburg (O) valid during 1964, seen in London. Brumby archive FINLAND 1994 Export duty-free. The letter is serial, not a regional code. Brumby archive SWITZERLAND. 1975 Export Vaud 6018 Z. Z=tax unpaid. Brumby archive LUXEMBOURG – 1978 Export 616. Brumby archive SPAIN – Export 2004 T 4361 BBC , expiring October 2004. Brumby archive BELGIUM – some early Export plates and others. Note colour changes. Brumby archive MONACO – 1979 Export in red on white – TT 51. Brumby archive Here is a strange sighting, 27 years later, in Monte Carlo… MONACO TT 51 Export again, in the later style reflective etc. Front plate at upper right, carries no legend. Brumby archive Liechtenstein – Export 1963 – FL 9043 Z in London. Z means tax unpaid. Brumby archive SAN MARINO – Export 1992. Thornley album Any more, readers???? 1 Comment \| Denmark, Europe, Export plates, Finland, France, Germany, Historic, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, San Marino, Sweden, Switzerland \| Permalink Resumé of postwar period spotting Before the era of worldwide car hire and aeroplane travel – one might say, before 1965 – people travelled between continents by passenger liners and cargo boats. Car ownership was limited to wealthy and to important people, and factory production was slow as the world's economies, with limited supplies of steel, glass, lubricants and rubber, began to recover from the vast cost of WW2. It was due to the steel shortage that many post-war British cars had body panels made in aluminium, a material still in good supply, but no longer wanted by the war machine for aircraft production. That serendipitous circumstance was to become an important reason for the 60 years of success of the Land Rover, the body of which would not rust on the beaches of the Cook Islands….. Insufficient space to mount this plate horizontally led the owner to use his imagination! Raratonga MN 9713. Brumby archive …..or the sweltering jungles of Malaysia…. W is the code for the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, seen in Kedah. For a long period after peace was declared, a second-hand vehicle would sell for more than a new one, as any new products were built purely for the export markets, so as to earn foreign currency. Only a few, privileged, UK-based, professional people were allowed to buy new cars, for work of national importance, such as doctors, farmers and mobile engineers. A trick used by the rich, was to travel to another country, including to the US and Canada, and to buy a new car there, under their local export scheme! In this era, of the 1940-1960s, many technical, administrative and educational personnel were sent to distant parts of the globe to perform work on behalf of the allied governments, which needed to rebuild and modernise their territories overseas as well as their domestic infrastructures. When those people travelled, they were entitled to buy a car to take with them, as this would count as an export sale; of course, no spare vehicles would have been available for them to buy in the countries for which they were bound. France marked these duty-free export cars with the special, red, Temporary Transit plates……. 1964. On its way to the Central African Republic, an American sedan export-registered 9 TT 10 first enjoys a drive along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice. Brumby archive ……….Germany by their unique oval Zoll (Customs) plates………… A new Beetle destined for eventual export to Argentina. Brumby archive ……Italy by their EE 'Escursione Estranieri' (Foreign Traveller) series……….. Italian 1964 Export 'EE' Brumby archive ……….Eire, using the prefix ZZ………. ZZ allocated to new cars of any make, bought in the Republic of Ireland for export, was an unusual and uncommon issue. VW Kombi in South Kensington, London 1969. Brumby archive …………Denmark by their red lining within the regional code letter. K -Copenhagen………. K 148.258 A Danish export Volvo 220 destined for personal export to Canada, seen in London 1964. Brumby archive ………Sweden, recognised by the year of temporary validity, in white on red, added to the right of the standard registration……… Swedish export Volvo from Gothenburg (O) valid during 1964, seen in London. Brumby archive ……..and several other nations had an export plate system, too. Britain allocated batches of normal registrations to the Home Delivery Export Scheme, whereby a new buyer could collect his new (British-made) car in UK and use it for up to three months before his supplier arranged for its shipping to the eventual destination for which it was bound. In later years, these HDES plates were marked with with a yellow rim and from 1 Jan 1973, for the obligatory new white/yellow reflective plates, a red rim. Some HDES examples seen in a now-defunct motor museum in Queenstown, New Zealand. Brumby archive. HDES with red border for reflective plates from 1973 . JW archive Sometimes, but not always, when such a car returned to Britain, these original HDES plates could be re-mounted and some of these can be seen still today, looking innocently as if they have never been away. If you see one, interview the owner – you might win a Bhutan diplomatic or a Tristan for your collection! This 1968 (G) Mk.2 Ford Cortina has been somewhere and come back to adopt its HDES identity. Where had it been??? If someone wished to buy a non-British-built car car in Britain, for export, that car would be given a British Temporary Import plate from the ' Q' series. QL 1052 – Peugeot 404L bought in London 1969, for export to Canada. Outside Notre Dame, Paris. (Q L was issued by the Automobile Association on behalf of the national suthority.) (Brumby archive/car) This was still the age of the ship and cars were easily and cheaply carried as part of the passengers' luggage cargo. When their tours of service were at an end, and knowing that new cars would be difficult to buy when they arrived back in Europe, this army of colonial civil servants, miners and infrastructuralists – and also thousands of military personnel – would return to Europe with their foreign-registered cars aboard their ships. Many vehicles circulated for up to a year on the foreign plates, usually carrying the international ovals, to identify their country of registration. Sometimes, however, they changed plates immediately at the port of re-entry and in England, the spotters of the period would particularly look out for shiny new aluminium plates issued with the codes of the three great dock cities, London, Liverpool and Southampton, where the motor organisations, the AA and the RAC, would undertake the complicated paperwork of the re-importation on the owners' behalf. Usually, the garage-man who changed the plates, would throw the dismounted foreign ones into the boot, in case the owner needed them. Usually the driver didn't particularly want them, and if, later, a youthful car-spotter, recognising the new dock-issued numberplates, interrogated him with sufficient intent, he would willingly open the boot and hand them over! Thus many a collection was born and to this day, the writer wishes that plates had not gone on to assume a money value – for they had once simply been a trophy of a well-run, low-cost hobby, as might be a stuffed hunting trophy, or a prized fish! Ubiquitous air travel and cheap and efficient international car rental combined to bring the collapse of the passenger shipping lines, and has brought these big quantities of re-imported cars to an end; it is mostly diplomatic corps plates which we see today, by way of rare-country sightings. To counter that loss to the spotter, an increase in general prosperity also permits the modern enthusiast to travel the world and to see the plates of a country in their native setting. Here are a few of the odd sightings of vehicles returning from the Outside World to Britain and Europe during the 1940's 1950's and 1960's. Tanganyika – John Pemberton's shot of a Peugeot 203 from Dar-es-Salaam circa 1954 in London. DS D 770. Note the bracketed ' T '; worldwide, parentheses on ovals were only used on the four codes for British East Africa – EA(T), EA(K), EA(Z)and EA(U) – though they were not frequently used. BMY 7797 A rare sight indeed, then and now – Bombay, India, plates in Britain, circa 1948, on an American Pontiac. Pemberton archive This VW Kombi came to live in Earls Court during the 1960's, It was registered JB 513 in Johore state, Malaya and showed a PTM oval to rear. Brumby archive KA 3848 The only Sarawak plate ever seen in England by EU38, this Simca 1000 was from Kuching district in 1965 London. Brumby archive PB 1118 JP captured this 1950 Humber Hawk, home to England from Trinidad. Pemberton archive X 1065 spotted in Oxford in 1947 on a pre-war Canadian Ford, registered in Spanish Town, Jamaica. Note the giant JA oval and the Jamaican AA badge atop the rad. grille! Pemberton archive C/D 49-697 A diplomat returns from a tour in Montevideo, seen in Hyde Park circa 1952, on a Simca Aronde. Rare U oval picture. Pemberton archive. The Enosis (Union with Greece) movement in Cyprus in 1950 saw thousands of troops sent there over the next decade, most of whom seemed to come back with with a smart car. Even after 1960 Independence, Britain maintained a large presence there alongside the UN and it was a common sight to see Cypriot plates all over Britain through the 60's. Here is a Morris Mini-Minor BF 355, somewhere in London, circa 1962. Brumby archive Aden must have been one of the hottest, dustiest, dreariest postings for a soldier in the British services. However, there probably aren't any Jaguars driving round out there in 2013, so times must have been easier then, as we see an officer's smart Mk.2 2.4 returned to London's Kensington in 1963, after a recent posting there. The first few years of Aden vehicles were registered under the registration system of India, as were Christmas Island and possibly one or two of the Straits Settlements. It is not understood why Aden chose the letters L, M and finally N for its plate prefixes during that series.. Here, most unusually, L 5993 has the arabic translation as part of the plate design, never seen before or since on an Aden Colony plate. Brumby archive Low security in the 1960s Port of London, enabled this keen spotter to slip in to the docks on his Vespa, with camera at the ready. A ship from the Far East has just discharged its cargo, and waiting on the dockside for customs clearance is c.1954 Jaguar Mk.7 XX 1190 from Hong Kong. The long-lived HK prefix was exhausted, and XX was issued from 1957 to 1958 (RPWO). (And can you i/d the DKW Autounion in the background? ) Brumby archive In 1962, it took a two-kilometre chase on foot in heavy traffic to get this photo of the only Nepali vehicle EU38 ever saw outside Nepal. The owner had had to specially make the '26' translation plate in order to travel legally outside Nepal. Brumby archive ER.22944 was seen in 1963 on an Austin A30 c.1954. Never another seen, anywhere. Made with the classic Italian dies. Brumby archive. (Note: I was in error, describing Eritrea on the photo, as 'former Italian Somaliland'!) So – we can see that these were good days for seeing plates from all over the free world – and, strangely, the communist bloc countries remained among the rarest of sights. Of course, China, North Korea and Albania followed the communist path, forbidding citizens to own cars and with the remarkable exception of John Pemberton's China Diplomatic (shown elsewhere in this Blog) nothing was seen from those benighted lands. Not many photographs were taken and fewer still survive, lost in house-m0ves, cast away by surviving relatives as being of no interest etc. Work done by such members as Pieter Lommerse, who has trawled so many sources to gather historic pictures of Turkey, Greece and Cyprus, is of inestimable value to all collectors. The Legend of The Larsson Library is whispered of in exalted circles! Any shots you may have will find a welcome home in the Blog, or else simply post them in for scanning and return, to Victor Brumby at 8 Cleeve Court, Streatley, Berks. UK – RG8 9PS. 6 Comments \| Africa, Asia, Britain, Cook Is., Diplomatic, Eritrea, Export plates, General, Historic, Hong Kong, INDIA, Malaysia, Nepal \| Permalink Unknown African and French IT plates In the 1970s, a much-travelled pal of mine, Murray Bailey, photographed this yellow on green IT plate 008-IT-22, but he forgets where, only that it was in West Africa. It may be Senegal, but confirmation welcomed! What a shame the moped behind is not in full picture, to give us a clue… Senegal – or elsewhere?? About 1963, I saw this American car in London, IT 0623. It could have been from any of the overseas French territories of the period – but which?? Unidentified temporary Importation plate for a French territory-1960We used to think that all the green IT plates we saw were French Diplomatics, and only learned much later that they were given out to any category of foreigner who was in a country temporarily (possibly with the vehicle let in without payment of import taxes). Aid personnel and non-diplomatic embassy staff were among the groups registered so. If they really were diplomats or consular officials, they would carry a separate oval plate or even have the letters CD or CC made into their IT plate. (Were the French IT plates coded for the users' country of origin, then French Temporary Import of Diplomatic vehicle, in Paris, 1960s. The zeroes probably indicate the ambassadorial car… The boot/trunk label on this American-made 1950s Ford Sedan tells us that this was a manual gearbox car with an optional overdrive, before automatic transmission became standard on all US cars. A non-diplomatic temporary importation to France, in 1964 London, on a then-ubiquitous Renault 4L. And finally, just for interest…. The R-R Silver Shadow of the British Ambassador in Paris 1970s. 4 Comments \| Diplomatic, Europe, Export plates, France, Historic, Temporary Importation \| Permalink You are currently browsing the archives for the Export plates category. This blog is for Europlate members to post photos of interesting license plates and discuss them. Reply to any article by writing a comment at the bottom of the article. Even better - publish your own photos and articles on this blog! 1. Register with WordPress. 2. Request author access. Tip! Receive an email when new license plate articles are published. Enter your email below... The Making of the RPWO Historic Archive The Europlate Historic Archive – your access…. 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Tom Dawson A gratuitously violent Sean Bean action vehicle light on sociological insight (15) 108mins 'I love my country. I've killed for it and I'll die for it', growls Ewan (Sean Bean), an ex-soldier turned secret service agent who is tasked with tracking down a cell of homegrown suicide bombers in this London-set thriller by British writer-director Hadi Hajaig. Not only has Ewan seen colleagues die in Afghanistan, but his wife has been murdered by terrorists in the unspecified past. His chief adversary is Ash (Abhin Galeya), a twenty-something law graduate, who was recruited into jihad by a radical Muslim cleric Nabil (Peter Polycarpou). Moreover Ash is a 'cleanskin' – a man without any prior connections to armed fundamentalist groups. Fundamentally Cleanskin is riven by two contradictory dynamics. On the one hand it seeks to explore why a university educated individual like Ash would become actively involved in attacks that involve mass civilian casualties. On the other hand, heeding screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan's advice that no scene should last more than 2 pages and every page and a half should contain a cliffhanging moment, Hajaig offers up a gratuitously violent Sean Bean action vehicle. Mise-en-scene and sociological analysis take a back seat to Ewan knifing, shooting and even setting alight suspects. 'I will find every one of them and send them to the death they pray for', he thunders, thus justifying assaulting a female prostitute in the search for information. The more interesting characters lurk in the margins, such as the Unforgiven-quoting Nabil, and Charlotte Rampling's chain-smoking intelligence boss. Yet Cleanskin is weighed down by an unwieldy flashback structure and by way of conclusion falls back on an improbable and unsatisfying 'strategy of tension' explanation, whilst its target audience is almost certainly itching for more mano-a-mano combat. General release from 9 Mar. Cleanskin Trailer Exclusive.avi Directed by: Hadi Hajaig Cast: Sean Bean, Abhin Galeya, Charlotte Rampling UK release: 9 March 2012 Ex-soldier turned MI6 agent Ewan (Bean) is tasked with tracking down a cell of homegrown suicide bombers. It tries to be both a serious analysis of domestic terrorism and a gratuitously violent Sean Bean vehicle, but the explanations are improbable and the target audience will probably want more smiting. Cleanskin (2012) on IMDb	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
ICANNWiki β Difference between revisions of "Kelly Hardy" Muhammad Ali Khalid (talk \| contribs) \|portrait = KellyHardyPortrait.JPG \|organization=Kelly Hardy Consulting, Inc. \|caricature = KellyHardyCaricature.JPG \|born=August 5 \|country = USA \|gender=Female \|email = \|region=North America \|website = http://kellyhardyconsulting.com/ \|country=USA \|twitter = \|stakeholdergroup=Private Sector - General Business/Legal \|born = August 5 \|affiliation=Other/Special Interest Group \|facebook = \|email=kelly [at] kellyhardyconsulting.com \|linkedin = \|website=https://kellyhardyconsulting.com \|linkedin=https://linkedin.com/in/kellychardy \|twitter=kelly_hardy \|userbox={{Template:UBX-CARD54}} \|portrait=PortraitComing.jpg \|caricature=Kelly H.jpg '''Kelly Hardy''' runs her own consulting firm, [[Kelly Hardy Consulting, Inc.]], which she founded in 2009. She currently works as a consultant for [[Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd]] and the [[.me]] domain.<ref name="linkedin">[https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellychardy/ Kelly Hardy's Linkedin Profile] Retrieved 19 January 2017</ref> Kelly is also a Member of the Content Advisory Board of [[NamesCon]] and [[WorldHostingDays]].<ref>[http://onlinedomain.com/2017/01/07/domain-name-news/worldhostingdays-creates-content-advisory-board-whd-global-namescon/ WorldHostingDays creates Content Advisory Board] Retrieved 19 January 2017</ref> '''Kelly Hardy''' is a Consultant at CoCCA.org.nz, a PR Consultant at Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd and a Consultant at RegistryPro. He is also the owner at Kelly Hardy Consulting, Inc. == Career History == From 2008-2011, Mr. Kelly was a Contributor at NameSmash.com and served as a Marketing Consultant at .LA for one year in 2010. He has been a Marketing Consultant at Minds+Machines (2009), Iron Mountain (2009), ICANN (2009). At Marksmen, Inc. he served as an International Acquisitions Analyst from 2006-2008, where he worked with Fortune 500 client base, provided branding assistance and managed IP issues regarding sale and transfer of trademarks and patents. Mr. Hardy was a Contributing Writer at L.A. Record for 2 years. He has also been the Program Director of Cultural Arts at Rio Hondo College (2003-2005) and a contributing writer at O.C. Weekly (2000-2002). Kelly has previously served as a Consultant for [[DomainsBot]], [[CoCCA]].org.nz, [[RegistryPro]], [[Minds + Machines]] (2009), [[Iron Mountain]] (2009), and [[ICANN]] (2009). From 2008-2011, she was a Contributor at NameSmash.com, where she was the Founding Editor. From 2006-2008, Hardy served as an International Acquisitions Analyst at [[Marksmen]], Inc., where she worked with Fortune 500 clients to provide branding assistance and manage [[IP]] issues regarding sale and transfer of trademarks and patents. During her time at Marksmen, she was also a Contributing Writer at the L.A. Record. Prior to this, Kelly was the Program Director of Cultural Arts at Rio Hondo College (2003-2005) and a contributing writer at O.C. Weekly (2000-2002).<ref name="linkedin"></ref> == Education == === Education === Mr. Kelly holds a B.A. in Modern American Culture and Expression from Whittier College. Hardy holds a B.A. in Modern American Culture and Expression from Whittier College. ==Fun Fact== Kelly makes piñatas from scratch.<ref>[[ICANN 43]] Interview</ref> == References == [[Category:People]] Organization: Kelly Hardy Consulting, Inc. Affiliation: Other/Special Interest Group Stakeholder Group(s): Private Sector - General Business/Legal Email: kelly [at] kellyhardyconsulting.com https://kellyhardyconsulting.com LinkedIn: Kelly Hardy Twitter: @kelly_hardy Featured in the ICANN 54 - Dublin playing card deck Kelly Hardy runs her own consulting firm, Kelly Hardy Consulting, Inc., which she founded in 2009. She currently works as a consultant for Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd and the .me domain.[1] Kelly is also a Member of the Content Advisory Board of NamesCon and WorldHostingDays.[2] Kelly has previously served as a Consultant for DomainsBot, CoCCA.org.nz, RegistryPro, Minds + Machines (2009), Iron Mountain (2009), and ICANN (2009). From 2008-2011, she was a Contributor at NameSmash.com, where she was the Founding Editor. From 2006-2008, Hardy served as an International Acquisitions Analyst at Marksmen, Inc., where she worked with Fortune 500 clients to provide branding assistance and manage IP issues regarding sale and transfer of trademarks and patents. During her time at Marksmen, she was also a Contributing Writer at the L.A. Record. Prior to this, Kelly was the Program Director of Cultural Arts at Rio Hondo College (2003-2005) and a contributing writer at O.C. Weekly (2000-2002).[1] Kelly makes piñatas from scratch.[3] ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kelly Hardy's Linkedin Profile Retrieved 19 January 2017 ↑ WorldHostingDays creates Content Advisory Board Retrieved 19 January 2017 ↑ ICANN 43 Interview Retrieved from "https://icannwiki.org/index.php?title=Kelly_Hardy&oldid=919777" ICANNWiki	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
U.S. Keeps Role in Killing Under Wraps Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Photo U.S. officials have been reluctant to claim credit for the killing of al Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki. Officials have also been hesitant to release any details, but according to a tribal chief who buried the bodies, Awlaki and six other people were killed after they stopped to eat breakfast in the desert, while driving to the Marib province. They spotted the drones and hurried to their truck, but a missile struck it, killing all inside. The killing was most likely overseen by the CIA, which had launched a failed drone attack to kill him in May, but the secretive Joint Special Operations Command may also have played a role. JSOC reportedly takes orders directly from the president or the secretary of State. Part of their reluctance likely stems from the fact that the killing took place in Yemen, where the U.S. is not currently waging war. But the killing is also highly controversial because Awlaki is a U.S. citizen, who had not been indicted for any crime. Read it at The Guardian	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Taylor Swift Countersues DJ Who Allegedly Grabbed Her Butt Jason Merritt/Getty News October 28, 2015 11:41 PM By Peter Helman Last month, former Denver radio personality David Mueller sued Taylor Swift, claiming that he was fired after being falsely accused of groping her at a meet-and-greet in 2013. Today, as People reports, Swift filed a countersuit against Mueller, who's now alleging that she was assaulted by his superior at KYGO, Eddie Haskell. "Ms. Swift knows exactly who committed the assault — it was Mueller — and she is not confused in the slightest about whether her long-term business acquaintance, Mr. Haskell, was the culprit," her countersuit states. "Resolution of this Counterclaim will demonstrate that Mueller alone was the perpetrator of the humiliating and wrongful conduct targeted against Ms. Swift, and will serve as an example to other women who may resist publicly reliving similar outrageous and humiliating acts." The documents allege that Mueller and his girlfriend were participating in a meet-and-greet before her concert when he "intentionally reached under her skirt, and groped with his hand an intimate part of her body in an inappropriate manner, against her will, and without her permission…Mueller did not merely brush his hand against Ms. Swift while posing for the photograph. He lifted her skirt and groped her." She was "surprised, upset, offended, and alarmed," and informed her photographer, tour manager and security team, who then confronted Mueller. Swift is demanding a jury trial, and she will be donating any money she wins from the suit to "charitable organizations dedicated to protecting women from similar acts of sexual assault and personal disregard."	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Peter Manus Perfect for fans of Caroline Kepnes's You and the thrillers of S.J. Watson, Peter Manus has written a twisting noir mystery that Booklist calls, "An incredibly daring novel and a complete success." The distance between what you see and what you believe can be the distance between life and death. On a winter night in Boston, a man falls to his death in front of a subway train. The sole witness, a shaken young woman, explains to the police how the man shoved her aside as he made his way to the tracks. But when her blog turns up on the dead man's computer, the cops begin to look for other connections. Was the man a cyber-stalker, charmed to the point of desperation by the irreverent musings of a noir-obsessed blogger? Or are the connections between subway jumper and innocent bystander more complicated? This dark and intricate tale of obsession and deception is told in the form of a blog written by an elusive narrator known only by her online name, "l.g. fickel." Deep into the night, every night, fickel blogs about "Mr. Suicide" and the ensuing police investigation with an eerie prescience. She is joined in her blog chats by a loyal group of obsessives, all of whom share with fickel a passion for the dark art of noir. Is fickel's tale that of an innocent woman frantically trying to figure out how her blogging has enmeshed her in a murder spree, or is she a manipulator, playing the part of sexy, hip, young thing as she grinds out her revenge on those she feels have betrayed her? Manus, Peter Indiebound Buy Now "An incredibly daring novel and a complete success." —Booklist (starred review) "...Noir fans should enjoy the twists and turns that echo such genre classics such as Double Indemnity and The Asphalt Jungle. — Publishers Weekly Peter Manus was born and raised in New York City. He lives and writes in Boston and Nantucket.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
FrightFest website Forum Homepage Threads of the Dead Past London Events FF 2017 All the news, gossip and information about FrightFest 2017 jonbly Braaaains! Post by jonbly » Mon Aug 28, 2017 1:24 am 7/10 - An extended remix of Nikita - sharing some of the same set-pieces, but adding more plot and some frenzied (if wobbly) action sequences. At times the frame-rate just isn't adequate for the action. Confusing at times with multiple time-periods and face/name-changes. Last edited by jonbly on Mon Aug 28, 2017 10:07 am, edited 1 time in total. ChrisReynolds Re: The Villainess Post by ChrisReynolds » Mon Aug 28, 2017 10:05 am This one had amazing action scenes but bad storytelling. The extended opening sequence throws down the gauntlet with what is probably the best first-person POV action sequence ever. It puts anything in Hardcore Henry to shame, not least because it achieves it with no visible cuts. However, the film never tops that sequence, despite coming close a few times, and about half an hour in the narrative grinds to a halt as Sook-hee tries to settle into a normal life. There's romance and intrigue in the present and a mystery from the past to navigate, but the modern day romance has long stretches of dialogue that don't advance the plot and the mystery from the past is thrown together in a confusingly haphazard way leaving the viewer constantly trying to guess where in the narrative the film currently is. By the end I could piece everything together but it had become an intellectual experience rather than an emotional one and I didn't care about Sook-hee's quest for vengeance. I'll definitely go back and watch some of the fight scenes again, but I wouldn't rewatch the whole film. NoneProuder Post by NoneProuder » Mon Aug 28, 2017 3:48 pm Agree completely ChrisReynolds. Also, can someone explain why, after 2/3 years of training at HQ, she became much worse at fighting than she was before. This was disappointing because I had high expectations. svengalidonut Twitching Corpse Post by svengalidonut » Mon Aug 28, 2017 8:46 pm Fair comment, but it was exciting to watch most of the time. Alex J Location: The Back Of The Beyond Post by Alex J » Tue Aug 29, 2017 12:56 am Not entirely what I was expecting with a much slower middle act after a blistering opening. I also found it hard to follow the storyline due to the changes between time periods and characters but maybe that was me being overtired. Overall though, the story was quite good (I think!) and some of the action scenes were superb - just not enough of them! 7.5 / 10 No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering. Oswald Cobblepot Location: Bedfordshire Post by Oswald Cobblepot » Tue Aug 29, 2017 11:35 am Totally agree with what's been said. The opening and closing action scenes along with the samurai sword motorbike chase were amazing, although they were a bit shaky cam and the action geography was a bit off. But everything in-between was needlessly complicated and convoluted. The play she was in looked bloody awful, it was ridiculous that the audience would be captivated by it. The agency she worked for were spectacularly incompetent, her evil training mate was wasted as a character. At the beginning she's a total badass who can kill about 100 people in ten minutes, then she has 2 years training and totally fucks up 3 missions on the trot. Luc Besson should sue based on the sniper rifle in the toilet mission on what's supposed to be her happiest day scene alone. As Chris Reynolds said I'd go back and watch the action scenes again, but I'd skip all the melodramatic shenanigans in-between. danthsmith Post by danthsmith » Wed Aug 30, 2017 8:17 am Some pacing issues but terrific. i'm not sure about the shaky cam work though TheDukeAbides Location: North West of England Contact TheDukeAbides Post by TheDukeAbides » Wed Aug 30, 2017 8:19 pm After an excellent intro it just dragged. Needlessly complex plot that wasn't as clever as it thought it was and action scenes that really should have been done with a few fixed cameras. The film I felt let down by most at the festival and that is without reading up much on it. Post by The Soapmaker » Thu Aug 31, 2017 1:42 am Oswald Cobblepot wrote: ↑ The play she was in looked bloody awful, it was ridiculous that the audience would be captivated by it. Maybe that's what it's like in the Korean equivalent of Shaftesbury Avenue? It did look extraordinarily static and dull, but theatrical traditions in Japan and China are very different from the West, so Korea is probably similar... this looked like something perhaps traditional in style, but in modern dress. But anyway... I desperately wanted to like The Villainess, I love Korean films and I'm always glad to see them at Frightfest. But it wasn't one of the better ones, apart from the three big action scenes, and even they suffered from a bit too much shakey-cam. Good, but it should have been great. Return to "FF 2017"	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
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Local News Headlines 8-17-22 Little traffic tieup on Highway 98 near Spring Lake yesterday morning. An overturned semi trailer dumped about 5,000 gallons of liquid fertilizer on the road after a head-on collision with an SUV driven by a 75 year old Sebring man at the intersection with Lakeview Boulevard. The highway was closed about four hours while Hazmat crews cleaned up the mess, and deputies and FHP personnel investigated the accident. The driver of the SUV was taken to the hospital with serious injuries – his passenger suffered minor ones, as did the truck driver. By the way, if you smell smoke south of Lake Placid this morning, there's a prescribed burn going on near the intersection of Highways 27 and 70 – it's been going on since yesterday, so there could be a fair amount of smoke. City of Sebring Police detectives say they could use your help in solving a downtown area shooting early yesterday morning. Cops were called to the area around Lemon and Virginia Streets about 4:30am where a male victim had been shot in the chest – he was transported by air to a regional trauma center. Police say they only have a sketchy description of the assailant. If you know anything about the incident that took place sometime shortly after 4am yesterday morning, call investigators at 471-5108. The state's homeowners' insurer of last resort – is rapidly becoming the only resort for over a million Florida Homeowners. Citizens' Property Insurance – created as an insurer of last resort – reported last month that it's topped a million policies as Florida homeowners get dropped by insurance companies or their insurer is declared insolvent. The last time Citizens sustained a peak of over a million policies was in the wake of the 2004 hurricane season, when seven named storms made landfall here. The company briefly topped that number again in the spring of 2014. Lest you wonder if the inconvenience of the DUI your friend got was overdoing it, the story could have ended far worse. Dalton Hooks was sentenced to an eight year prison term followed by seven years' probation Monday in Circuit Court for the DUI manslaughter of 14 year old Andrew Stevens in 2018. Hooks' pickup truck rolled on old State Road 8 near Venus and crushed Stevens. Hooks was 17 at the time of the wreck, but was charged as an adult. The post Local News Headlines 8-17-22 appeared first on NewsTalk 730 AM–95.3 FM.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Brilliant 10: Andrea Thomaz Teaches Robots to Learn from Humans An adorable machine tackles the chores we hate By Paul Kvinta Andrea Thomaz Simon the robot has just learned a new skill: transferring a red block from one hand into a coffee cup held by the other. But like an eager preschooler, he wants to know more. "Can I begin here?" he asks, lifting the block high. Simon has two arms, eight fingers, doe eyes, and a monotone voice. With each question and answer, he is doing what roboticist Andrea Thomaz calls "whittling away the hypothesis space," or eliminating information that is not essential. "The idea is that you tell him something, he asks a few questions, you provide a couple examples, then he builds a model," Thomaz says. If the exchange progresses smoothly, Simon is soon folding your laundry. Using Simon as her student, Thomaz is redefining how robots and humans interact. She sees a future where any "naive user" (or nonprogrammer) could buy a robot, take it home, and Andrea Thomaz Georgia Techinstruct it to do almost anything. But for this to work, robots need to think like naive users. So Thomaz invites folks in off the street to teach Simon at her Georgia Tech lab. Lessons include everything from clearing the dinner table to sorting objects by color. Based on the results, Thomaz tweaks Simon's algorithms to make him a more efficient communicator and learner. Simon the Robot With a growing number of robots used in health care and with the promise of them one day assisting the elderly and disabled, the implications of robots that can be trained by anyone, in any setting, are huge. "Everyone is different, every house is different, every office, every hospital," says Thomaz. "I want people to be able to say 'Hey, robot, here's how things happen here.'" Click here to see more from our 11th annual celebration of young researchers whose innovations will change the world	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Apprenticeships Get A Bad Rap, But They Offer Paths To Lucrative Careers By Leticia Wiggins Driving a semi-truck is a job that gives you plenty of time to think – too much, actually, for Jordan Washington. He says the job paid well, and it was fun in the beginning until the monotony sunk in. "But then after a while, I'm just like, 'O.K., I'm bored. This is not for me,'" Washington says. By the time Washington was driving trucks, he had three kids and needed something better-paying. The only way to a lucrative job, he thought, was through college. "My parents were always pushing, 'Gotta go to school, gotta get the degree,' but it never resonated with me," he says. "People have all this debt, they're unemployed. I just kept looking for something until I found something that was for me." Washington didn't want to go to a university, but he did want work that supported his growing family. Before college became so widespread, these things called "apprenticeships" were the ticket to a good career. A teacher, or master craftsman, employed a younger person, or apprentice, as cheap labor. In turn, the apprentice was given food and lodging while learning the trade. Read full story on radio.wosu.org.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
'A deeply dangerous order': Trump-appointed judge blocks Biden from pausing new oil drilling leases "This is a deeply dangerous order that heightens the imperative for bold, urgent climate action on our public lands and ocean." SOURCECommon Dreams A Trump-appointed federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a temporary pause on new leases for oil and gas drilling on public lands and waters, a decision the Interior Department said it "will comply with" amid warnings about the order's potentially destructive climate impact. "The judge's order turns a blind eye to runaway climate pollution that's devastating our planet," Randi Spivak, public lands program director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement. "We'll keep fighting against the fossil-fuel industry and the politicians that are bought by them." Siding with 13 Republican attorneys general who sued over the leasing pause, Judge Terry Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana argued in his ruling that President Joe Biden exceeded his legal powers with a January executive order suspending the Interior Department's oil and gas leasing program for federal lands and waters. The order instructed the Interior Department to conduct a comprehensive review of the "potential climate and other impacts associated with oil and gas activities on public lands or in offshore waters." According to the U.S. Geological Survey, fossil fuels extracted from federal lands and waters are responsible for roughly 25% of the nation's total carbon emissions. Spivak argued Tuesday that, contrary to Doughty's ruling and the argument advanced by Republican state officials in their lawsuit, "the Biden administration clearly has authority to pause and review oil and gas leasing on public lands" without congressional approval. "This is a deeply dangerous order that heightens the imperative for bold, urgent climate action on our public lands and ocean," Spivak said of Doughty's decision. A spokesperson for the Interior Department, headed by Secretary Deb Haaland, said late Tuesday that the agency is "reviewing the judge's opinion and will comply with the decision." "The Interior Department continues to work on an interim report that will include initial findings on the state of the federal conventional energy programs, as well as outline next steps and recommendations for the department and Congress to improve stewardship of public lands and waters, create jobs, and build a just and equitable energy future," the spokesperson added. Doughty's ruling is a boon for the struggling but still-powerful fossil fuel industry, which fervently opposed the Biden administration's suspension of oil and gas leasing on public lands. The American Petroleum Institute, a trade organization that represents oil giants such as ExxonMobil and Shell, said it is "pleased" with Doughty's decision, which will allow new lease sales to resume for now. Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, pointed out in a statement Tuesday that Doughty based his decision "in part on the views of Timothy Considine at the University of Wyoming, the author of an industry-funded report on the purported economic impacts of the leasing pause." Doughty claimed in his ruling that "millions and possibly billions of dollars are at stake" in the fight over the leasing program. "Republicans tempted to crow about today's ruling should explain why they didn't say a word after President Trump delayed these same lease sales as recently as last August," Grijalva said. "We need to update our fossil fuel leasing laws across the board to establish a cleaner, more sustainable standard of use for our public resources… Our economic and environmental future shouldn't be subject to rulings based on industry-funded science or opportunistic complaints that we didn't hear until President Biden was sworn into office." The federal judge's ruling comes a month after the International Energy Agency issued a report warning that countries across the globe must immediately stop approving new fossil fuel projects if the world is to avert the worst consequences of the climate crisis. Last week, a coalition of climate organizations sent a letter (pdf) urging the Biden Interior Department to immediately halt all new "oil and gas exploration, drilling, and infrastructure approvals, including seismic operations and rights-of-ways, on public lands and waters." "The climate emergency does not allow for half measures," said Raena Garcia, fossil fuels and lands campaigner with Friends of the Earth, one of the letter's signatories. "Biden must uphold his promise to address the nearly 25% of U.S. emissions that come from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels from our public lands and waters. Halting all new drilling, including permitting and issuing leases from Trump's 11th-hour public lands fire sale, is a critical step in making good on that promise." Previous article44% of ocean plastics are linked to takeout food Next articleNorwegian Arctic oil drilling targeted by campaigners in new legal action Jake Johnson is a staff writer for Common Dreams. 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SauceGod is a "Codeine Cowboy" on latest single The Virginia talent details his journey towards sobriety as a result of last year's lockdown. By Jon Powell Earlier this month, SauceGod unveils a new single titled "C.C." (or "Codeine Cowboy"), which sees him keeping it real about his issues with vices: "I been runnin' round on dope, don't ask me if I'm geeked 'cause you know, no mo' pills, but I'm still codeine, I barely feel shit and I don't sleep … I'm Ray Charles to the hate but I see, I am just somethin' you niggas can't be, if you can't handle the trap, you should leave … these niggas really don't like me and I know…" Via press release, SauceGod further explained the release, revealing that it was birthed from an unplanned long-term stay during last year's quarantine: "I was visiting Dallas in the Summer of 2020 and got stuck here during the lockdown. Giving up pills had me in a weird headspace, but the upside of that experience was the birth of this record." "C.C." follows two well-received singles from the Virginia talent — "Better," which sees production from Lou Xtwo, and the Dee B-backed "Foreign Fevers." Those in turn followed the five-track EP The Lone Wolf, which made landfall back in December and featured some dope, genre-bending soundscapes courtesy of JudahBeats (the same beatsmith behind "C.C."). The opening track from The Lone Wolf, "F.T.S.," immediately proves how SauceGod has been mastering his unique sound from time: "Y'all niggas ain't my niggas, y'all are not my dogs, I seen real niggas turn to snakes when that bread got involved, they sent my grandad up that road cause he was playing with raw, big sauce ain't speaking on shit if he know I ain't nothing like y'all, fuck that shit, I slept on the floor with my niggas but now I got racks in the bed, fuck that shit, you play with my niggas or speak on my family it's ten on your head, call a hit, gotta watch what I say on my songs cause these niggas really be Fed…" Check out "C.C." 804 Nano is as "Real As They Kome" on new project Paris Price connects with Dende for new single "Love Jones"	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Midseason Email Exchange – Part Two Dan Shafer and Michael P. Bischoff exchanged emails to recap the harrowing first half of the Milwaukee Brewers 2012 season and take a look at the road ahead. By Dan Shafer - Jul 12th, 2012 12:32 pm The midsummer classic symbolically marks the halfway point for the 2012 Milwaukee Brewers, so to recap a "harrowing" first half, sift through the trade deadline rumor mill, and weigh the Crew's chances going forward, Managing Editor Dan Shafer and Contributor Michael P. Bischoff exchanged emails over the past week. This is Part Two. Click here for Part One. I'll ignore the "bandbox" comment, but will say that, statistically-speaking, Miller Park is virtually pitcher/hitter neutral. We're just conditioned to think it's a hitter's paradise because for the last 12 years the Brewers have been built predominantly around sluggers and gopher-ball pitchers. As for Greinke, I think it's as likely that he remains a Brewer for the rest of this season as not. The market for late-season rentals isn't as rich as it once was, such as when the Mariners turned a half season of Randy Johnson into Freddy Garcia, John Halama and Carlos Guillen. The Brewers have seen it first hand, albeit from the other side. That bumper crop of prospects the Crew parted with in exchange for CC Sabathia? The only big leaguer among them is erstwhile "player to be named later" Michael Brantley, and, while he is a solid contributor, he is far from the star that Cleveland hoped Matt LaPorta would be. As the salaries of premier stars have ballooned the value of "prospects" has never been higher, and teams are much less willing to part with them for short runs at potential success. Moreover, considering that prospects are rarely what they seem in the scouting reports, sellers are much more wary of giving up their stars for a couple guys that might never do anything of value. Complicating this even further are the new draft compensation rules. Now, a pending free agent has to spend an entire season with a team for that team to be eligible for draft pick compensation in the event he signs elsewhere. From the buying team's perspective, it makes that player less valuable because they won't get a draft pick when he leaves (and let's face it, they always leave). From the seller's perspective, it makes holding on to that player more attractive because, in the case of a Zack Greinke, they're a walking first-round draft pick. How is that different that an elite prospect? Well, if the odds of prospect failure are even, you'd rather fail with the guy you chose than feel duped by a rival GM. But wait, there's more! Attempting to forcibly recreate the magic that was the last couple days of the 2011 regular season, baseball has added a second wild card in 2012. Teams on the margin, such as the Brewers, have another disincentive to deal their stars, if for no other reason than the dim hope of "putting it all together" and making a Major League-esque run at the pennant. If sports, and being a fan of sports, are run by any sort of fuel, it would be dim hope and glimmering optimism. Wait a minute, do you actually think this team has a shot at the playoffs? Pardon me, I had to spit out all of those words you put in my mouth. At 40-45 in the All-Star Break, any kind of playoff talk for the Brewers should be getting the Jim Mora treatment. But it really doesn't matter if I think the team can still make the playoffs, it's whether Doug Melvin and Mark Attanasio believe they can. Since Mark A bought the team in 2005, I can't think of a trade the team has made for prospects. Even in the Lyle Overbay deal to open up first base, Dave Bush and Gabe Gross already had Major League track records. Zach Jackson never really got a chance and was really just filler in the deal. They have been in "win" mode since 2008 and they might not be ready to go back into "restock" mode less than a year after the best regular season in team history. Speaking of fresh memories, both 2011 Wild Cards had much bigger hills to climb than do the 2012 Milwaukee Brewers. On September 5, 2011, the St. Louis Cardinals were 8.5 games behind Atlanta for the NL Wild Card. On September 6, 2011, the Tampa Bay Rays were 8.0 games behind the Boston Red Sox in the AL. In both cases, those teams had only 21 games left to make up the difference. The 2012 Brewers have 77 games left to make up 5.5 games on a handful of teams. As I said earlier, there are two Wild Cards in each league this year, which puts the postseason just that much more within in reach. They will certainly entertain offers for Greinke, but the value they perceive in those offers is going to be colored by how much the front office believes the team can compete for one of those playoff spots this season. You were dangerously close to making me think the Crew has a chance in the second half. No better way to answer that than with The Jim Mora Clip. It'll be interesting to see how Bud Selig's brand new second Wild Card plays out in the second half. As of now, the only teams that are completely out of range are San Diego, Colorado, Chicago and Houston, who are all 13 or more games back. Also, two of the three division leaders, Pittsburgh and Washington, haven't reached the postseason since 1992 and 1981 (when Washington was the Montreal Expos), respectively. It'd be easy to count last year's finish as an aberration, and in all likelihood, it is. But the ingredients for a wildly entertaining September are still in place, and it's not entirely outside the realm of possibility that the Brewers can get into the mix (a ringing endorsement, I know). With that in mind, any trade offer for Greinke better be of the aforementioned Randy Johnson variety (or better yet, the Mark Teixera for Elvis Andrus-Neftali Feliz-Jarrod Saltalamacchia-Matt Harrison variety), or else it's hardly worth considering. As you mentioned, this is highly unlikely given the new compensation rules. Even so, Baltimore's interest is intriguing, as the O's hold the rights to the number three prospect in baseball according to MLB.com, 20-year-old shortstop Manny Machado, who would fill a huge need in the Brewers organization. But if Greinke stays in Milwaukee for the rest of the season, which I think he will, he still has the chance to become a Brew City legend. We have a standard for second-half contract year excellence here, and it looks like this. There probably won't be any Dylan Bundys or Manny Machados heading our direction, and the thought of getting a heaping pile of middling prospects rather than one or two elite ones reeks of Milwaukee Bucks-style management (but that's a topic for another post). Even if they do get an upper-tier prospect or two, I'll be holding my breath until I see him in the big leagues. Houston thought they had their ace of the future when they dealt Roy Oswalt for J.A. Happ and two roster-fillers. Happ already had 31 major league starts at the time, and they still miscalculated on him, big-time. I guess the moral of the story is that I'm scared of the future. 2012 has been a bitter disappointment, and it's forced me to look at what lies ahead. While some of the pieces look promising, Michael Fiers among them, it's sad to think that the old Baby Brewers are going to go out on more of a whimper than the championship dreams we held for them. We're talking about this team as though the corpse is still warm, but certainly past resuscitation. For as brightly as the hopes shined in Spring Training, that should be the most salient mid-season report we can give. Optimism, manifest as the games left and the talent we know they have, is only a caveat to what we've seen so far, which is a lot of bad baseball. That got dark quickly. Ok, it's been bad, but it's still baseball, and even in that context at least we're not following the Cubs, Astros, or the league's bitterest disappointment, the Phillies. Go out to the ballpark, have fun cheering these guys, have fun heckling the road teams, play Bullpen Bingo, and enjoy the fact that you live within spitting distance of Major League Baseball. Plenty of cities would trade for that. If the Brewers fall into the 1993-2004 cycle of futility, then we can despair. Right now? Well, we're not there yet. Now I'm sad. The Baby Brewers are all grown up with nothing to show for it. That's not how this story was supposed to end. But there are still reasons to believe—not necessarily for 2012, but for the big picture of the franchise. Mark Attanasio has proved himself to be a world-class owner and Doug Melvin is still one of the better GMs in the league. Miller Park offers a spectacular fan experience. (It still boggles my mind that this is the only baseball stadium in the country where people tailgate. What do they even do in other cities? Arrive on time? Watch batting practice?) The team may not be what it was last year, but at the end of the day, there's still Ryan Braun. Few athletes in the modern era have shown a commitment to their city the way Braun has. Sure, his TV ads are awkward, his clothing line is douche-y, the Graffito isn't all that great, and there's probably one other thing I'm missing, but in an era of petulant trade demands, city-crippling Decisions, and questionable after-hours activity, Braun's "Brewer For Life" contract and his shut-up-all-the-doubters numbers this season are reason enough to go to the ballpark and support this team. It probably won't happen this year, but the Brewers will be back, and Ryan Braun will be leading the way. Follow Dan Shafer (@danshaferMKE) and Michael P. Bischoff (@mpbmke) on Twitter. https://urbanmilwaukeedial.com/2012/07/13/bastille-days-storms-milwaukee/ Categories: Life & Leisure, Sports, True Blue	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
The way we consume our visual entertainment is undoubtedly changing the film and television industry rapidly. The evolution of technology has altered the landscape - from luxury cinema to video-on-demand platforms, multi-screen viewing and virtual reality... the list seems endless. However, there seems to be one thing that doesn't change – "story". Since early civilisation we have shared stories on cave walls through paintings, then advancing into literature, photographs, music and film. Within us is an inherent need to entertain, communicate, educate and mostly importantly express our stories to convey emotion. It's one of the greatest gifts we hold. At Adie Productions, we recognise the amazing world around us and strive to create inspiring content with global appeal. Connecting the audience through many visual mediums, finding a way to touch all and leaving each with their own personal message. Every story has a home and every home has its story. Combining our creative love of storytelling and financial acumen, we find ways for these stories to reach people wherever and whenever. With its partners – local and international, Adie Productions prides itself on producing quality film and television entertainment for its worldwide viewers – from script to screen. Ramadan Zekirovski began his career as an AMEB classically trained pianist attending the Conservatorium of Music. Following his time in the Conservatorium, he also completed a certification in Sound Engineering, and then joined Madzin Productions as a Live Sound Engineer and Events Manager. During this time he was approached to join Trackdown Studios where he worked with Australia's best musical and acting talents, including the opportunity to work on Happy Feet with John Powell. After Trackdown, Ramadan moved to film and television and was given an opportunity to work with Andrew Denton on David Tench Tonight and at the ABC. By 2010 he completed the Executive Producers Course with Victoria University, and has since undertaken script coverages and breakdowns for producers around the world. Most recently, Ramadan worked on a number of international feature films shooting in Thailand and the United Arab Emirates, and in 2019 completed an Industry Certificate in Production Accounting at AFTRS (Australian Film Television & Radio School). Ramadan brings the creative flair and industry knowledge to Adie Productions, creating a slate of film and television projects, in partnership with his wife, Tegan. [email protected] Tegan Zekirovski began her career in the entertainment industry seven years ago, when she began producing content for Adie Productions. Over the past 12 years, she has worked in the property finance industry for multiple retail owners and redevelopments. Most recently, Tegan has worked on a number of international feature films shooting in the United Arab Emirates and Thailand, and completed an Industry Certificate in Production Accounting at AFTRS (Australian Film Television & Radio School). With her vast knowledge of project finance and production experience, Tegan brings a strong financial presence to Adie productions, which she co-founded with her husband Ramadan Zekirovski. Since this time, Tegan has helped develop a slate of television and film projects. [email protected] "It's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from and what might be possible." Adie Productions Pty Ltd	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
AIA Richmond Society Category Archives: lectures November lecture change: "Death and Remembering: A New Interpretation of the Ceremonial Center of Tibes, Ponce, Puerto Rico" Posted by ebaughan in lectures There has been a change of speaker and topic for our November lecture, though the date, time, and location remain the same. On Thursday, Nov. 14 at 6 pm in Jepson Hall 103 at the University of Richmond, Dr. Antonio Curet (Curator, National Museum of the American Indian) will present "Death and Remembering: A New Interpretation of the Ceremonial Center of Tibes, Ponce, Puerto Rico" The site of Tibes, located in southern Puerto Rico, is the oldest known ceremonial center in the Caribbean. The structures, changes in mortuary practices, and settlement pattern documented at Tibes have been interpreted to represent one of the earliest stratified societies in the region, the focus of administrative, residential, and/or ritual activities. However, a combination of new and previous information is forming a different, more complex and intricate view of the social and political history of the site. This presentation includes a brief review of Puerto Rican archaeology, a summary of the finds of the Archaeological Project of the Ceremonial Center of Tibes, and a new perspective in understanding the processes involved in the ancient history of the site Directions and parking: Jepson Hall is #221 on the UR campus map. Visitor parking is available after 5 pm in all lots. For Google Map or GPS directions, use 221 Richmond Way, Richmond, VA 23173. "Ruined Gardens of Babylon" lecture on October 3 Our first lecture of the academic year will be presented by Dr. Ömür Harmanşah, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and director of the Yalburt Yaylası Archaeological Landscape Research Project. What does it mean to practice archaeology in the new age of the Anthropocene? In "Ruined Gardens of Babylon: Dark Ecology and Heritage Politics in the Middle East," Dr. Harmanşah will discuss his current research on the politics, ethics, and methodologies of doing archaeological fieldwork in the Middle East today, at the very critical moment of global ecological crisis, climate change, military conflict, mass immigration, and heritage violence. Recent military violence in the Middle East has led to unprecedented destruction of cultural heritage along with local settlements and habitats, and the displacement of their communities. The ecological-military crisis has a direct impact on how archaeology is practiced as a field science. The destruction of heritage sites, landscapes, and institutions demands archaeologists either work remotely or perform salvage work, as opposed to more conventional methods of working with scientific research questions. The lecture will be held on Thursday, October 3 at 6 pm in Jepson Hall, room 103, at the University of Richmond (please note the change from our usual room). The building is #221 on and campus map; for GPS directions, use the following address: 221 Richmond Way, Richmond, VA, 23173. The lecture is co-sponsored by the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies and will be free and open to the public. Pompeii in Richmond! Posted by ebaughan in exhibits, lectures Several of our members will be speaking in the "Lunch Break Science" series at the Science Museum of Virginia this summer, in connection with the special exhibition of Pompeii: The Immortal City (on view through Sept. 3): Wed., July 10 – "Roman Dining, from Eggs to Apples" (Dr. Elizabeth Baughan, University of Richmond) Wed., July 31 – "Making the Old New Again: New Technologies to Understand Ancient Art" (Dr. Peter Schertz, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts") Wed., August 7 – "Health and Disease in Pompeii" (Dr. Julie Laskaris, University of Richmond) The lectures are free, noon – 1 pm. For more information and the full schedule (including several other archaeological topics), click here. Archaeology of Ethiopia: Reception, lecture, and film screening Posted by ebaughan in annual spring event, film screeing, lectures, reception Join members of the Richmond Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and our presenters for an hors d'oeuvre reception with cash bar before our Spring 2019 event on Thursday, May 9. The reception will be held from 6-7 pm at the Carole Weinstein International Center at the University of Richmond. Tickets $10 at bit.ly/RichmondAIA2019. The lecture and film screening event will begin at 7 pm in the International Commons: Tim Reid, Emmy-nominated actor, director, and producer (New Millennium Studios) will present his documentary film, "Abyssinia: The Wonders." Elizabeth Fisher, Shelton H. Short III Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of Classics and Archaeology, Randolph-Macon College, will give an introductory lecture on the archaeology of Ethiopia. The lecture and film will be FREE and open to the public. Tickets are required for the pre-reception and may be purchased in advance at bit.ly/RichmondAIA2019 or at the door. (For directions and parking information, click here. The Carole Weinstein International Center is #211 on the campus map. Visitor parking is available after 5 pm in all lots. For Google Map or GPS directions, use 211 Richmond Way, Richmond, VA 23173.) "The Tektaş Burnu Shipwreck: Shedding New Light on Classical Ionia" shipwreck, underwater archaeology On Thursday, April 18 at 6 pm in Jepson Hall room 118 at the University of Richmond, Deborah Carlson (Associate Professor of Nautical Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at Texas A&M University, and President, Institute of Nautical Archaeology) will present "The Tektaş Burnu Shipwreck: Shedding New Light on Classical Ionia." As the only 5th-century B.C. shipwreck ever to be fully excavated in Aegean waters, the Tektaş Burnu ship sheds important light on local trade networks at a time when Ionia was thought to be mired in an "economic paralysis" brought on by the high cost of Athenian imperialism in the decades following the Ionian Revolt of 499 B.C. Co-sponsored by the Richmond Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the UR Department of Classical Studies, the lecture will be free and open to the public. "This round is on me!" Lecture on Early Bronze Age wine culture on Thursday, March 28 On Thursday, March 28 at 6 pm in Jepson Hall room 103, Elif Ünlü (Department of History, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, and current Fulbright Scholar) will present "'This round is on me!' Commodification of agricultural products and elite consumption patterns in the Eastern Mediterranean during the third millennium BCE." Co-sponsored by the Richmond Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the UR Department of Classical Studies, the lecture will be free and open to the public. AIA Richmond Society members are also invited to our executive board meeting on Saturday, March 23, 1 – 2 pm, Westhampton Center Living Room (#406 on the campus map). "Exploring the Montpelier South Yard: Archaeology, Slavery, and Public Engagement at James Madison's Montpelier" Our first lecture of the spring semester will be held on Thursday, February 14 at 6 pm in Jepson Hall 118, University of Richmond. Terry Brock, Assistant Director of Archaeology at the Montpelier Foundation, will present "Exploring the Montpelier South Yard: Archaeology, Slavery, and Public Engagement at James Madison's Montpelier." Co-sponsored by the Richmond Society AIA and the UR Department of Classical Studies, the lecture will be free and open to the public. Spring 2019 lectures Thurs., Feb. 14 – Terry Brock (Assistant Director of Archaeology, The Montpelier Foundation), "Exploring the Montpelier South Yard: Archaeology, Slavery, and Public Engagement at James Madison's Montpelier" Thurs., March 28 (note the date change) – Elif Ünlü (Boğaziçi University), " 'This round is on me!' Commodification of agricultural products and elite consumption patterns in the Eastern Mediterranean during the third millennium BCE" Thurs., April 18 (note the date change) – Deborah Carlson (Texas A&M University), "The Tektaş Burnu Shipwreck: Shedding New Light on Classical Ionia" Lectures are free and open to the public and are held at 6 pm in Jepson Hall, Room 118, The University of Richmond. "The Politics of Public Display: Museums, Artifacts from the Holy Land, and the Public Trust" On Thursday, November 8 at 6 pm, Dr. Morag Kersel (DePaul University) will present "The Politics of Public Display: Museums, Artifacts from the Holy Land, and the Public Trust" (the AIA's 2018-2019 Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lecture). A lecture abstract is available here. The lecture will be free and open to the public and will be held in Jepson Hall, Room 118, on the campus of the University of Richmond (221 Richmond Way, Richmond, VA 23173). 2018-2019 Events Lectures will be held at 6 pm in Jepson Hall, Room 118, The University of Richmond, unless marked (). Lectures are free and open to the public. Thurs., October 18, 6 pm – "Socrates on Death Row" movie in the Dome Theater at the Science Museum of Virginia, with introduction and Q&A discussion with filmmakers (Robert Garland and Joseph Eakin, Colgate University). Admission will be free, but space is limited so tickets will be required. Sat., October 20 – International Archaeology Day – We will join Friends of East End in the volunteer effort to reclaim and restore East End Cemetery, a historic African American burial ground in Henrico County. The work day will begin at 9 am, and volunteers usually stay until noon, but you may join us at any time. Wear long pants, long sleeves, and sturdy shoes. Gloves and tools will be provided. Thurs., Nov. 8 – Morag Kersel (DePaul University), "The Politics of Public Display: Museums, Artifacts from the Holy Land, and the Public Trust" (Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lecture) Thurs., Feb. 14 – Terry Brock (Senior Research Archaeologist at The Montpelier Foundation), "Exploring the Montpelier South Yard: Archaeology, Slavery, and Public Engagement at James Madison's Montpelier" Thurs., March 21 – Elif Ünlü (Boğaziçi University), "After the Collapse: Tarsus-Gözlükule in the Late Bronze Age" Thurs., April 11 – Deborah Carlson (Texas A&M University), "The Tektaş Burnu Shipwreck: Shedding New Light on Classical Ionia" Thurs., May 9, International Center Commons, 6 pm – annual spring banquet with presentation of documentary film on ancient Ethiopian churches by Tim Reid (actor and filmmaker, Tim Reid Productions). Tickets will be required. Volunteer excavation at UR – Sat., Nov. 2 Archaeology Day at East End Cemetery VMFA tour, May 2018 Archaeology Day 2017, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Diggin' RVA: Archaeology Day at the Science Museum of Virginia, Oct. 2016 Diggin' RVA: Bernard Means (Virtual Curation Laboratory, Virginia Commonwealth University) demonstrates 3D scanning Diggin' RVA: Map a Shipwreck! activity provided by NOAA's Monitor National Marine Sanctuary Diggin' RVA: Katelyn Coughlan (Monticello Archaeology) explains how we can date ceramics Diggin' RVA: David Brown (Fairfield Foundation) presents "Public Archaeology in Virginia" (photo: Ellen Chapman) Diggin' RVA: Joseph Jones (College of William and Mary) explaining skeletal analysis (photo: Ellen Chapman) Diggin' RVA: stratigraphy activity Fotini Kondyli begins a fascinating lecture on Byzantine Athens, at the spring banquet in memory of Gertrude Howland, May 18, 2017 A separate entity affiliated with the Archaeological Institute of America [email protected]	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
The upside of stress: a mechanism for the positive motivational role of corticotropin releasing factor Julia C. Lemos, Veronica A. Alvarez This study was funded by the Intramural Programs of NIAAA, NINDS (ZIA-AA000421) to VAA, K99/R00 Pathway to Independence award (MH109627) to JCL and 2017 Innovation Award from NIH-DDIR to VAA. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. PubMed: MeSH publication types Lemos, J. C., & Alvarez, V. A. (2020). The upside of stress: a mechanism for the positive motivational role of corticotropin releasing factor. Neuropsychopharmacology, 45(1), 219-220. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-019-0510-9 The upside of stress : a mechanism for the positive motivational role of corticotropin releasing factor. / Lemos, Julia C.; Alvarez, Veronica A. In: Neuropsychopharmacology, Vol. 45, No. 1, 01.01.2020, p. 219-220. Lemos, JC & Alvarez, VA 2020, 'The upside of stress: a mechanism for the positive motivational role of corticotropin releasing factor', Neuropsychopharmacology, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 219-220. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-019-0510-9 Lemos JC, Alvarez VA. The upside of stress: a mechanism for the positive motivational role of corticotropin releasing factor. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2020 Jan 1;45(1):219-220. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-019-0510-9 Lemos, Julia C. ; Alvarez, Veronica A. / The upside of stress : a mechanism for the positive motivational role of corticotropin releasing factor. In: Neuropsychopharmacology. 2020 ; Vol. 45, No. 1. pp. 219-220. @article{fd48dea3fc3d4ba1aea0cc46e2f95ff1, title = "The upside of stress: a mechanism for the positive motivational role of corticotropin releasing factor", author = "Lemos, {Julia C.} and Alvarez, {Veronica A.}", note = "Funding Information: This study was funded by the Intramural Programs of NIAAA, NINDS (ZIA-AA000421) to VAA, K99/R00 Pathway to Independence award (MH109627) to JCL and 2017 Innovation Award from NIH-DDIR to VAA. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.", journal = "Neuropsychopharmacology", T1 - The upside of stress T2 - a mechanism for the positive motivational role of corticotropin releasing factor AU - Lemos, Julia C. AU - Alvarez, Veronica A. N1 - Funding Information: This study was funded by the Intramural Programs of NIAAA, NINDS (ZIA-AA000421) to VAA, K99/R00 Pathway to Independence award (MH109627) to JCL and 2017 Innovation Award from NIH-DDIR to VAA. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. JO - Neuropsychopharmacology JF - Neuropsychopharmacology	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Hair Loss Is This Treatment the Cure for Hair Loss? Is This Treatment the Cure for Hair Loss? When Heidi Imhof started losing her hair at 42, she also started losing sleep. Ms. Imhof, a lawyer, was afraid that blow-drying her straight dark hair would hasten the shedding, so she got up two hours early to shower and apply mousse and volumizers. When her hair finally air-dried, she'd pull it back, hoping to hide the bald patches on her scalp. "I was desperate," she said. The hair thickening shampoo Nioxin didn't help. Neither did Rogaine. Then she heard about Harklinikken, a Danish company offering a customized hair extract that's given only to those who pass a fairly rigorous selection process. Ms. Imhof, who lives in Land O'Lakes, Fla., was skeptical. The company's before and after photos seemed too good to be true. But she went for a consultation and made the cut. (Harklinikken's products are not available to anyone with autoimmune illnesses like alopecia or baldness from scarring, or anyone who is unlikely to see at least a 30 percent increase in growth.) After three months of applying the $88-a-month serum, Ms. Imhof was so excited by the results that she overcame her embarrassment about the subject and posted her own before-and-after photos on Facebook. "You can't see holes in my hair anymore," she said. Harklinikken ("hair clinic" in Danish) inspires great loyalty. Four out of five users come as referrals from satisfied customers, said Lars Skjoth, the company's founder and chief scientist. The results are certainly compelling. After four months of daily application — that is, working the tea-colored tonic into the hair section by section, then letting it sit on the scalp for six hours — most users regain at least 30 percent of lost density, and some as much as 60 percent, according to company figures. [Source"indianexpress"] Hair Loss Cure,for,hair,Is,Loss,the,this,Treatment ITC criticises big health warnings on cigarette packs India earlier this year ordered manufacturers to cover 85% of their tobacco pack's surface in health warnings, up from 20%. […] The Hall of Fame through a Hall of Famer's eyes Jan 29, 2017 Jayson StarkESPN Senior Writer Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — It is […] The water buffalo diet When I mean a Water Buffalo Diet, I don't mean that you eat like one. I merely use this title […] Water Based Moisturiser: How it Can Help Deal with Oily Skin Moisturisers are complex mixtures of chemical agents designed to make the external layers […] How do vegetarian diets affect cholesterol levels? Why Would A Diet Plan Named After An Italian Village Ban Pasta?	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
HOME WELCOME ARTICLES ARCHIVES BIOGRAPHY FEEDBACK BLOG LINKS Gadhafi's Chemical Weapons: A Nightmare Scenario in Libya World Politics Review \| 2.28.11 The rapidly spreading chaos in Libya should give the American people pause, and may end up giving the U.S. military another item to add to its endless to-do list. Setting the stage for what might be called the battle for Tripoli, anti-government forces and rebel military units are moving from the country's apparently "liberated" east to face off against Moammar Gadhafi's Praetorian Guard of tribal and regime loyalists. The New York Times described clusters of heavily armed men in mismatched uniforms clutching machine guns," "dozens of checkpoints operated by . . . plainclothes militiamen," and "machine-gun toting foreign mercenaries" stalking the capital, and compared the unfolding situation to the anarchy in Somalia. The emerging Libyan civil war is significant not just for the bloodshed and instability it will visit on this Mediterranean powder keg. Libya has somewhere between 9.5 tons and 14 tons of mustard gas, according to intelligence sources cited by the Wall Street Journal. As Gadhafi's regime focuses on holding on to power, as the Libyan military splinters and as the country disintegrates, it's not difficult to imagine those stockpiles being left unguarded and falling into the hands of America's enemies. The candidates are numerous: al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb; a rogue Libyan faction; Gadhafi's mercenary army from Chad, Sudan and Niger; a post-Gadhafi regime; or even, if he survives, a post-uprising Gadhafi -- even more paranoid and more unhinged than the man Ronald Reagan once aptly described as "squalid" and "Looney Tunes." Any of these scenarios would pose a significant threat to the United States and its closest allies, and making sure none of them transpire must be a priority as events unfold. Trusting the current or future Libyan government -- or governments, in the event of a fracturing of the country -- is simply not an option, which means Washington must contemplate using military force to pre-empt these materials from falling into worse hands. Toward that end, it's important to keep in mind that Libya is not Egypt, and the positives and negatives for Washington are significantly different. On the negative side of the ledger, unlike in Egypt, the U.S. does not have substantive military-to-military contacts or a massive aid spigot in Libya, both of which have been used to great effect in Egypt. Also on the negative side, Gadhafi is no Hosni Mubarak. The latter attempted a limited crackdown against popular protests before stepping aside. The former called in air force and artillery units to murder hundreds, and perhaps thousands, before promising to make the streets run with blood. On the plus side, Libya does not control a strategic waterway, is not party to a peace agreement that has served as the linchpin of regional stability for 30 years and is not an anchor state in the Arab world. Moreover, Washington does not owe Libya's leadership anything. There is no need for polite displays of loyalty or diplomatic niceties with this dictator. These realities should give the U.S. more flexibility and freedom of action in dealing with Libya and its chemical weapons material. If the intelligence on the whereabouts of the chemicals is solid, the U.S. could neutralize or secure the materials quietly and covertly, using CIA and Special Operations units. Nevertheless, inserting U.S. personnel into the middle of a civil war leaves much to be desired. Moreover, moving -- or guarding -- 14 tons of anything is seldom done quietly. Striking the facilities by air poses less risk to U.S. personnel but still presents challenges. To be sure, the U.S. Air Force is equal to the task. However, a counterproliferation airstrike would probably strip away any plausible deniability. When a complex of buildings 60 miles south of Tripoli goes up in flames in the middle of the night, people are going to know about it, and they will point their fingers at the U.S. Air Force. Moreover, worries about risk to civilians would have to be taken into account. In this regard, it's important to remember that a) one of the main ways weaponized mustard is destroyed is by incineration, b) any airstrike would employ ordnance designed to burn off the material, and c) the U.S. bombarded Iraqi facilities during the 1991 Gulf War that produced and stored mustard, anthrax and other agents. Saddam Hussein surely would have told the world if civilians had been harmed by the release of these agents. Even so, it's up to the White House and the Pentagon to make sure their solution to this problem is not worse than the problem itself. Yet another possibility is that the U.S. could be compelled to act not on national security grounds but on humanitarian grounds. Backed into a corner, with nothing to lose, Gadhafi could use his mustard stocks against his own people, prompting calls from the international community for intervention -- calls usually answered by the U.S. military. These sorts of contingency plans may sound scary or unthinkable, but they are surely on the books. We know that the U.S. military has planned counterproliferation strikes against Iran. In the late 1990s, according to reports declassified in 2004, the Clinton administration ordered the Pentagon to develop plans for airstrikes against North Korean nuclear sites. And in the early 1990s, the Gulf War was, in effect, a counterproliferation war. The elder Bush even contemplated military action against Gadhafi's chemical weapons program. There are no good options in nightmare scenarios like this. Every option sounds scary because every option is scary. That's why they are called "nightmares." The challenge for the White House is to choose the least bad option. And doing nothing is probably no longer a candidate.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Download the New Majic 102.3/92.7 App Join The Majic 102.3/92.7 Text Club Contact Us – Programming Contact Our Sales Department Contact Our Digital Department Contact The Community Affairs Department Russ Parr Morning Show Vic Jagger The Donnie Simpson Show Love And RNB With Al B. Sure! The Bassment Jam with Ric Chill and DJ Face Teresa Marie Deja Perez Prince Dajour One Vote Radio One Originals She Is… Virtual Women's Empowerment Summit Majic 102.3/92.7 Contest Rules Home › TJMS 20 & Under: 10 Young Women That Are Winning In Hollywood Krystal Franklin, BlackAmericaWeb.com @TJMSWOL The Tom Joyner Morning Show reaches more than 8 million listeners each week in more than 115 markets. Catch TJMS weekday mornings 6am-10am Here: http://bit.ly/TJMSWOL @TJMSWOL Follow @TJMSWOL Majic 102.3/92.7 20 & Under: 10 Young Women That Are Winning In Hollywood was originally published on blackamericaweb.com 1. China McClain – age 17 China's career began in 2005 and soon after she appeared in Daddy's Little Girls alongside Idris Elba. From 2011 to 2014 she starred in Disney's 'A.N.T Farm'. 2. Sydney Park – age 18 Sydney is the youngest comedian to ever perform at the Hollywood Improv. She made her television debut in 2006 on 'That's So Raven'. She now appears alongside Tia Mowry-Hardrict on 'Instant Mom'. 3. Coco Jones Coco is most known for her role on Disney's 'Let It Shine' and was signed to Hollywood Records where she released 'Holla At The DJ'. 4. Quvenzhane Wallis – Age 12 She is known for her role in the drama film 'Beasts of the Southern Wild', where she became the youngest actress ever and the first person born in the 21st century to receive a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She is also well-known for starring in the 2014 'Annie' remake, receiving a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture. 5. Samantha Logan – age 19 She is best known for her starring role as Nona Clark in the ABC drama series '666 Park Avenue'. She was also cast in ABC's soap 'General Hospital' and in 2014 she joined the cast of 'Teen Wolf'. 6. Willow Smith – age 15 Willow made her acting debut in 2007 in the film 'I Am Legend'. She launched her music career in 2010 with the hit 'Whip My Hair' and has since signed to Jay Z's Roc Nation, as the youngest artist in the label's history. She released her debut album in 2015. 7. Amandla Stenberg – age 17 She is best known for her portrayal of young Cataleya in 'Colombiana' and Rue in 'The Hunger Games'. 8. Zendaya – age 19 Zendaya is a singer and actress who has been on screen since she was a toddler. In 2009 she starred in Disney's Shake It Up and went on to join 'Dancing With The Stars' in its 16th season. Most recently she was tapped to play Aaliyah in the Lifetime biopic, but pulled out due to production issues. She was named the face of CoverGirl in 2016. 9. Serayah – age 20 Known for her role on the hit FOX show 'Empire', Serayah has quickly become a rising star. She also appeared in Taylor Swift's music video for 'Bad Blood'. Amandla Stenberg China McClain Coco Jones WMMJ FCC Public File WDCJ FCC Public File WMMJ FCC Applications WDCJ FCC Applications	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Man accused of holding tow truck driver at gunpoint to get car back in northeast Austin by: Chelsea Moreno AUSTIN (KXAN) — A man whose truck was about to be towed at a northeast Austin apartment complex is accused of holding the tow truck driver at gunpoint until he got his car back. According to court documents, Austin police received a 911 call on Friday about the incident at the Cricket Hollow Apartments located at 11441 North Interstate Highway 35 Northbound. The area is east of the highway and north of Braker Lane. The victim told detectives that he was employed by the complex to tow vehicles that did not have a placard, and was getting ready to tow a Buick LaSabre when a man confronted him. That man was cursing at him and then pulled out a black handgun, pointing it at the driver. The suspect then allegedly starting counting backwards saying, "5, 4, 3, 2…" when the victim told him to wait and that he would release the car. The driver told police it took him about five minutes to take off all the equipment from the car and a gun was pointed at him the entire time. As he got into the truck to drive away, he heard one shot fired from the gun and then the suspect ran off. That was when the victim got away and called 911. While police were setting up to call the suspect, identified as Logan Lovelady, 20, out of his apartment later that night, he walked out with his father. Police detained him, and while doing a sweep of his apartment, saw a gun in his room. Lovelady is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and is booked in the Travis County Jail with a $20,000 bond. More Austin Stories by Matthew Prendergast / Jan 22, 2020 AUSTIN (KXAN) — A warrant is out for the arrest of a man wanted in connection with a southeast Austin shooting from Monday. According to court documents, he was dropped off at the hospital on the same day as the shooting. Officers were called to 2121 East Oltorf Street at 7:10 p.m. for a report of shots fired. The text from the call stated around 10 gunshots were heard in the area. by Billy Gates / Jan 22, 2020 AUSTIN (KXAN) — A woman faces a charge of harassment of a public servant after an incident outside a grocery store Tuesday. Kisa Trinee Taylor, 31, is accused of spitting in an officer's face after the officer confronted her about doing a "sexually provocative dance" on top of a parked vehicle, an affidavit says. AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Freebirds World Burrito restaurant in south Austin where an employee was stabbed to death earlier this month is donating 100% of sales on Wednesday to his family. The restaurant on South Congress Avenue has been closed since Johnathan Aguilar was killed on Jan. 3.	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }
Putin, Xi Jinping to launch Power of Siberia pipeline Russia 2 December 2019 02:38 Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping via launch the Power of Siberia pipeline via a TV link-up on Monday Mikhail Gusman: Azerbaijani First VP Mehriban Aliyeva's visit to Moscow was unprecedented Politics 27 November 2019 15:27 The visit by Azerbaijan's First Vice-President Mehriban Aliyeva to Moscow was, in fact, unprecedented President Aliyev: It is unprecedented situation when not first person of state is received by president of world's leading country This is an unprecedented situation in international politics when not the first person of the state is received at the highest level by the President of the leading country of the world First VP Mehriban Aliyeva: Azerbaijan-Russia relations based on firm, good traditions of neighborliness, friendship Relations between Azerbaijan and Russia are based on firm, good traditions of neighborliness and friendship Vladimir Putin: Azerbaijan is former Soviet republic where Russian culture, Russian language enjoy respect Azerbaijan is a former Soviet republic where Russian culture and the Russian language enjoy respect Putin: Russia still has lots of work to do in Syria's Idlib Russia 14 November 2019 23:55 Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Moscow felt it still had a lot of work to do in the rebel-held region of Idlib in Syria's northwest Erdogan, Putin discuss Syria, trade in phone call Turkey 10 November 2019 00:43 President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a phone call with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss developments in Syria on Saturday evening Turkey doesn't pursue ethnic cleansing policy in northern Syria – defense minister Turkey 26 October 2019 11:21 The Operation Peace Spring in northern Syria is directed against terrorists and Turkey doesn't pursue ethnic cleansing policy Vladimir Putin sends appeal to participants of NAM Summit Politics 25 October 2019 16:24 Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent an appeal to the participants and guests of the 18th meeting of heads of state and government of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), which is taking place in Baku President Aliyev expresses condolences to Russian counterpart President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has sent a letter of condolences to President of the Russian Federation	{ "redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaCommonCrawl" }

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