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https://www.sgfoodonfoot.com/2018/07/michelin-guide-singapore-2018-5-new.html | 2020-09-24T14:32:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400219221.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20200924132241-20200924162241-00275.warc.gz | 0.86089 | 389 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__247487872 | en | Michelin Guide Singapore has announced the winners of 2018. This year a total of 39 restaurants have made it to stardom, receiving their star. This is an increase of 1 starred restaurant compare to 38 last year.
5 new restaurants received their one star this year making it into the 2018 listing. However, there is no 3-star restaurant in Singapore this year after Joël Robuchon decided to close the restaurant at RWS. The 2-star restaurant list also shrunk from 7 to 5 this year, due to the closing of André and L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon.
Michelin Starred Restaurants 2018
Burnt Ends *NEW
Cheek by Jowl
Crystal Jade Golden Palace
Hill Street Tai Hwa Pork Noodle
Imperial Treasure Fine Teochew Cuisine
Jiang-Nan Chun *NEW
Liao Fan Hong Kong Soya Sauce Chicken Rice & Noodle
Ma Cuisine *NEW
Putien (Kitchener Road)
Shinji (Bras Basah Road)
Shinji (Tanglin Road)
Sushi Kimura *NEW
The Song of India
I have mentioned in my blog after visiting Nouri last year that it has the potential to get a star, and indeed it is one of the 5 new restaurants to get a star this year. Congratulations! Chef Ivan of Nouri probably is a hot property for restaurants that is chasing a star since he has a good track record of getting a star for Bacchanalia and now Nouri.
The other new winners are Burnt Ends, Jiang-Nan Chun, Ma Cuisine and Sushi Kimura. Congratulations to the restaurants and chefs.
Unfortunately Osia is the restaurant that has fallen from the list this year,
Do visit Michelin Guide Singapore at https://guide.michelin.sg/ for more details. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.wakeuplittlesusie.co.uk/2018/08/ | 2022-07-07T16:03:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104495692.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20220707154329-20220707184329-00626.warc.gz | 0.973303 | 1,541 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__82138525 | en | Following a very successful collaboration between two ladies from Norwich and two from south of the border that resulted in some beautiful 1950s style boudoir images featuring vintage nightwear from me, (Susie Pritchard of Wake Up Little Susie) being worn by Suffolk model Jody Sturman sporting classic Hollywood Waves & ‘50s style make-up by Norwich based Jessica Ludlow of Rock ‘n’ Rolla Hairstylist, with another Suffolk girl Caroline Lawrence behind the lens, we decided immediately to team up together again for another themed photo shoot.
We hit upon vintage swimwear, and agreed that a genuine local location would be better than a studio set up – the obvious challenges of working outside being outweighed by the creativity that’s inspired by problem solving and the authenticity that recognisable scenery adds to the images. We’re spoiled in Norfolk for beautiful coastlines, and the sheer variety of potential backdrops made Wells-Next-The-Sea win the vote.
Vintage beach wear worked perfectly for myself as stylist as I have been wearing 1950s clothing since I was a teenager in the ‘80s and have my own collection of ‘50s swimsuits that deserve to see the light of day now and again, and it was also fun to source out something from a slightly different era. Working in natural light with unpredictable weather conditions was a delicious challenge for Caroline Lawrence Photographer, model Jody Sturman is always up for anything different so sea, sand & beach huts was a dream for her, and for Rock ‘n’ Rolla Hairstylist it was a good opportunity to work two distinctly different styles into the same shoot, with limited resources to hand! (It turn out there’s nowhere to plug anything in on Wells beach…)
Onto the day itself – it’s always tricky to pin down a date that finds all the team members available, and when shooting outside there is of course the added consideration of the weather forecast. We tackled this with a ‘let’s just go for it’ attitude, so the day came and we found ourselves at the home of our hairstylist with Jody’s first style being worked on by Jessica whilst Caroline took behind the scenes images, and we all anxiously checked our phones to see what the weather was going to bring…With the first ‘look’ completed we headed off to Wells in Caroline’s car; you know when you’re driving along in the rain and you manage to convince yourselves that it looks brighter on the horizon? Well, it was one of those kind of days! Once we’d arrived & got out of the car, it turned out it was actually a bit chilly at the seaside as well as drizzly…Never mind, by this time we were all hungry so it made sense to head to the nearest chip shop for lunch, and of course by that time the sun would surely be out…We had a fabulous meal on the harbour and all were in agreement that even if we had to abort at this stage, nothing was lost as four good friends had enjoyed a lovely drive and meal out together.
Jody being a professional and very excited about the concept of this shoot agreed to go ahead despite the weather, and off we trundled towards the beach huts, dunes and sea. We started working by the beach huts, to afford us some shelter as it was still raining and because of the beautiful shapes and colours for Caroline to work with, and which also influenced some of the outfit ideas. As always, we had planned outfits beforehand but again as always, as the day evolves, ideas and plans change too which is all part of the creative fun. For the first look, Jessica had created an elegant ‘up-do’ which works perfectly for beach wear and with the beautiful traditional pin-curls arranged into a chignon it created a perfect 1950s Hollywood starlet look to complement the 1950s outfits. The blue and white checked suit shouts ‘50s all over, with a fun, teenage look too.
Recognising the glorious unpredictably of the British weather and to add more interest to our looks, I’d also brought a range of accessories from vintage sunglasses and floppy hats to combat glaring sun, and lovely towelling ‘cover-ups’, so nice to pop on when you’ve been in the water and perfect to keep out that little chill that sometimes sets in! All true vintage apart from the floppy white sun hat which I’d acquired on a recent trip to the Costa del Sol, just proving that it can be cheap and easy to accessorise and create a retro look. A parasol added another pop of colour against the colourful beach huts…
….and when we changed to the classic red 1950s suit (make-shift changing area behind the beach huts of course!) it worked beautifully with the white cape-let trimmed with navy ribbon for an almost nautical and decidedly movie star look. It is worthy of note that behind the scenes, the rest of us were sheltering under the awnings of locked up huts and wearing the hats and cover-ups to protect us from the drizzle! Something you would never realise from the images – Jody is such a trooper!
Although happy with how it was going we were all lamenting the lack of sunshine when lo and behold, the sun actually got out and it became a different day altogether! Still with the red suit on, we headed towards the dunes and water for some different images, inadvertently disturbing a courting couple in the dunes but I think they were entertained by our antics! Caroline was then able to work her magic in the sunshine with the sea up close, a great opportunity to bring out the sunglasses for some typical ‘50s poses, and yes we got Jody running about in the water, capturing the joy of a sunny day at the seaside!
I’d also managed to source out a late ‘60s bathing suit, in colours typical of that period as a contrast to the ‘50s pin-up look so it was back to the beach huts for a quick change, and Jessica worked wonders in her ‘beach salon’ (i.e. just sitting on the sand!) to brush out Jody’s pin curls and, with a little back combing, create a completely different look. This Raquel Welch/Bridget Bardot look suits Jody really well, and is a credit to Jessica’s forward planning that she was able to credit a second unique hairstyle from the very different first style, without the aid of electricity or a salon full of products. I love the way this particular look fits in with the sand and skyline.
Although perhaps we wished the sun had appeared a little sooner, and Caroline wished she’d brought lighting with her to work with the natural light, it was actually an incredible day – lots of fun and creativity, brilliant team work and problem solving, and a beautiful set of images that showcase the skills and vision of all four of us.
We were very proud that some great publications were interested in our work, and Rocket Magazine featured some of the colourful images in their summer issue:
And we were so happy with the fabulous front cover and three page spread that our very good friends at The Norwich Resident gave us!
Watch this space for the next Dream Team collaboration! | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.bozemetal.com/newspage/452 | 2024-04-13T07:14:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816586.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413051941-20240413081941-00572.warc.gz | 0.93428 | 387 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__192552403 | en | Us Media Have Speculated That Apple Will Build The Car Or Use The Premium Metal Titanium Alloy
Us Media Have Speculated That Apple Will Build The Car Or Use The Premium Metal Titanium Alloy To Achieve The New Features
Although Apple has not officially confirmed the car-making so far, a number of news about Apple Cars have attracted widespread attention from the outside world.
According to U.S. media reports, Apple has recruited Desi Ujkashevic, who has 31 years of work experience at Ford, to be in charge of electric vehicles. This also marks that after Doug Field, the former director of the car-building project, left for Ford, Apple's car-building ambitions set sail again.
In addition, LeaksApplePro, a well-known source, said that the Apple car development case is in full swing, and Apple is likely to entrust Taiwan's Hon Hai Group (Foxconn) to be responsible for the assembly and production of its cars, and the release of Apple cars will still be in 2025 or even the end of 2024.
According to the report, industry insiders said that Apple will not launch electric vehicles for the mass market. Its electric vehicles will be positioned in the high-end market of USD$100,000 and above, competing with Tesla's Model S for the market.
From this point of view, Apple Car's positioning will be higher than that of the traditional luxury car BBA brand, and it is expected to be close to brands such as Porsche, and Apple Car will pay more attention to the intelligent experience of technology and the ability of autonomous driving.
The report also mentioned some new features of Apple Car, including the use of high-quality metal material titanium alloy, and the ability to unlock the iPhone without a key. It is reported that Apple now has car key function options for some BMW, Hyundai Motor brands Genesis, Kia and other models. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://climatechange.medill.northwestern.edu/page.aspx?id=225227 | 2015-03-29T10:36:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131298464.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172138-00259-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.966038 | 721 | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-14__0__86609291 | en | Before the government reopened last week, the shutdown weighed heavily on scientists gathered in southern Wisconsin for the Comer Abrupt Climate Change Conference earlier this month. Now back at their labs, scientists say the temperary shutdown won't harm their long-term projects.
But short-term research delays lingered for some.
Glaciologist Brenda Hall of the University of Maine has traveled to Antarctica every year for the last 24 years. Hall’s research in there analyzes how the melting ice sheets contribute to rising sea levels.
Despite the temporary government shutdown this month, she is still scheduled to go with students to the continent during the last week in November, a trip she feared she would have to cancel if the shutdown lingered.
“It’s just a mess,” Hall said during the conference, held in the midst of the shutdown. “It’s just a mess.”
To her relief, her trip will go on as planned.
A lost research season can ripple through the research, leaving gaps in both data and funding, scientists said.
Hall teaches glaciology and ice age studies and said many of her students’ research has been placed on hold because of the shutdown. If the current research project in Antarctica is postponed this year and the fieldwork pushed to next year, the two-year project could run out of funding, she said.
The field season in Antarctica runs from November to February. Unfortunately, due to teaching schedules and coordinating with other scientists, she and her students cannot go there just any time during that period if she loses her November window of opportunity.
Many professors, students and researchers alike delayed activities such as fieldwork and applications for more funding from the National Science Foundation after the 16-day government shutdown took effect Oct. 1. Others, who already completed their fieldwork projects, worried about data waiting to be processed at places such as the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
Jennifer Lennon, a master’s student at the University of Maine and an advisee of Hall's, does not work in Antarctica, but said her research has been delayed by the shutdown, though not for long. She had a host of beryllium-10 samples waiting to be assessed at Lawrence Livermore. Beryllium-10, like carbon-14, provides a dating tool. The finalization of her master’s thesis depends on that data.
Toby Koffman, a PhD student at the University of Maine,
was also waiting for data from Lawrence Livermore. He canceled a trip to the
California lab to collect data samples he needed to finish her dissertation, which
he plans to defend in the spring. Koffman conducts research on glaciation
in New Zealand.
“It’s an important facility, far beyond the scope of my work,” Koffman said.
Koffman’s dissertation is back
on schedule, he said. The total cost for
him, other than the worry that comes with delay, was $200 for a change of
Richard Alley, climate scientist and professor at Penn State University, emceed the conference. He said the shutdown made teaching very difficult because government websites, abundant with data and maps, were unavailable to his students who are not heading out on field excursions. Overall, he said, the shutdown hurts students, along with everyone else.
“The thirst for knowledge is being blocked because their [the government] house is not in order.” | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://arsitektur.uk/mens-basketball-swats-sac-state-hornets-91-73/ | 2024-02-27T09:19:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474674.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227085429-20240227115429-00480.warc.gz | 0.957665 | 865 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__205965300 | en | Stanford men’s basketball (2-0, 0-0 Pac-12) left Maples Pavilion with a 91-73 win against Sacramento State (0-2, 0-0 Big Sky) on Friday evening. A game of incredible plays hinted at a potentially strong season for the team.
The Cardinal won tip-off to start, and their first make of the game — shot from the perimeter — came from none other than fifth-year forward Spencer Jones. After a rough performance at three against Cal State Northridge, Jones was back in his former stride as an elite perimeter shooter, shooting three of four from deep for the game.
Despite maintaining just a small lead over the Hornets through the half, the Cardinal showed how potent their offense could be.
Sac State attempted to close the gap, but a steal from sophomore guard Benny Gealer stole the crowd’s attention as he ran the court for a layup — the first fast-break points of the game.
Shots by Jones, freshman guard Andrej Stojaković, graduate student guard Jared Bynum and graduate student forward James Keefe kept the score in favor of the Cardinal.
With four minutes left in the half, the game saw its first dunk by senior forward Brandon Angel. The Card continued to stay ahead to the buzzer, and a dunk by junior forward Maxime Raynaud scored the final points for Stanford. The first half ended with a 47-39 lead for Stanford.
The second half saw stronger performance from Stanford, with 56.25% shooting from the field. Bynum continued dominating on the court, leading the team by initiating the offense.
“As a point guard, [I’m] always pushing the pace, always making the reads, always finding the right guys. The coaches give me a lot of confidence when I got the ball in my hands to play free and make the decisions.” Bynum said.
Early free throws by Jones continued the Card’s 100 percentage. The team maintained a double-digit lead over Sac State with shots by graduate student guard Michael Jones, Spencer Jones and Stojaković. A rebound from Gealer set up Keefe for the Cardinal’s third dunk of the game.
A steal by sophomore guard Ryan Agarwal and a layup with 7 minutes left in the game added another two to the Card’s lead. A dunk by Raynaud and a campaign of layups led by Angel shut down the Hornet’s attempts to close the gap. And at 88-73, with just seven seconds left in the game, senior forward Max Murrell drained a three-pointer to seal another win for Stanford: 91-73.
Overall, the team’s 55.7% from the field over Sac State’s 38.2% on a near-equal number of shot attempts is what led them to victory.
“We had 56 points in the paint … we were getting to the basket,” said coach Jerod Haase. “Our mindset was good.”
Stanford set the single game program record for assist to turnover ratio at 22:4, beating their previous best from 2013. Cardinal players also set a number of individual records against Sac State: Gealer had career bests of six assists, eight points and five rebounds, while Bynum met his career high with 10 assists and just one turnover.
Angel led the Card in scoring with 18 points, followed by Spencer Jones with 15 points and Raynaud’s 14. Stojakovic increased his contributions from game one, with 12 points on 55% from the field and 2-of-4 from the perimeter.
The Cardinal looks to end their final season in the Pac-12 strong. “It’s the last year of the conference and we want to finish the conference strong, but it’s one game at a time and that’s our goal,” Angel said.
Stanford men’s basketball looks to continue its win streak on Tuesday at a home game against Santa Clara. Tip-off is set for 6 p.m. PT. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.cosmochics.com/inspiring-fiction-2017/ | 2018-01-17T12:41:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084886939.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20180117122304-20180117142304-00787.warc.gz | 0.974256 | 729 | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__48420547 | en | Title: The Most Inspiring Fiction Of 2017 With the year winding down, it’s about time for a bunch of lists counting up the “best of” and “worst of” in all kinds of categories from the year that was. It’s always a fun time on the internet, looking back on what people best remember from the year, and which stories, songs, films, etc. will ultimately stick out as representing a year in time. Here I’m not going to limit things to the “best of” in a single category, but rather look more broadly at some of the most inspiring works of fiction we saw throughout 2017, whether in film, on television, or in literature.
Exit West – Novel by Mohsin Hamid
This is an incredibly powerful and inventive novel from Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid. It actually made at least one list of the best fiction books of 2017, and with good reason. It’s something of a sad story about a couple in love fleeing a country thrown into civil war (the country is fictional, or at least remains unnamed). The two choose love over despair, but also have to wrestle with conflicting feelings about the family members and friends they left behind (by using a sort of magical door that transports them “West” in an instant). Again, there’s some sadness to it, but it is ultimately an inspiring tale of the bonds of family and love.
Game Of Thrones – HBO Television Show
Game Of Thrones is more about entertainment than anything else, but the seventh season that aired earlier this year definitely had its inspirational moments. More than anything else, the show continued its streak of female empowerment. Once criticized for using actresses as much for nudity (or even abusive scenes) as anything else, the show has gradually developed several of the strongest female characters on television. It became plainer than ever before during the seventh season that the women hold every bit as much power as the men in this fantasy drama, and that’s an inspiring message to see in a show like this.
Wonder Woman – Film by Warner Bros.
Who was Wonder Woman before 2017? For some she was simply a vintage comic book character, largely forgotten by comparison to some of her contemporaries. For others, she’s a video game personality. She appears in a slot arcade designed for fans of comic books and superheroes, as well as an online MMO for DC characters and the “Injustice” game series. That’s more or less all. But in 2017, this character became so much more. Director Patty Jenkins and lead actress Gal Gadot brought Wonder Woman to cinemas in a way that gave little girls all over the world their first major female superhero to admire. It was as inspired and inspiring an effort as anything we saw in fiction in 2017.
The Big Sick – Film by Amazon Studios
This is an autobiographical independent comedy that was put together by Pakistani comedian Kumail Nanjiani, best known for his role in the HBO tech culture spoof comedy Silicon Valley. It’s recently been making headlines again because it was snubbed at the Golden Globes (to which Nanjiani had a very amusing response). Despite this snub however, this was a heartwarming and uplifting film about young love in modern society and the difficulties of multicultural relationships. Nanjiani hilariously recounts his own real life love story in which he had to overcome the issues that face so many couples in which the people come from different cultural, racial, and/or religious backgrounds. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://bismarck.sanfordhealth.org/newsroom/printer.asp?CID=616 | 2013-12-07T18:31:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163055633/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204131735-00031-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.91211 | 180 | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__209922010 | en | |Sept. 24, 2013|
|Run and Walk for Breast Cancer Awareness is Oct. 11|
|(Bismarck, N.D.)—Sanford Women’s Health Center will host the 17th annual Run and Walk for Breast Cancer Awareness Friday, Oct. 11. The event includes an 8K competitive run and walk, a 4K non-competitive walk and an education forum featuring wellness screenings and information about breast cancer prevention and treatment. The registration fee is $25 per person by Oct. 9 and $30 after Oct. 9. Registration and the education forum begin at 5:30 p.m. Each participant receives a long-sleeve performance shirt and refreshments.
To register, visit bismarck.sanfordhealth.org/whc or call the Sanford Women’s Health Center at (701) 323-6376. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.amazingfinds.in/best-flagship-phone-the-forefront-of-innovation-and-design/ | 2024-03-03T00:23:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476137.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20240302215752-20240303005752-00750.warc.gz | 0.917212 | 1,505 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__5068362 | en | In the ever-evolving world of smartphones, OnePlus has consistently been at the forefront of innovation and design. With the release of the OnePlus 11 5G in its striking Titan Black variant, the company continues to push the boundaries of what a premium smartphone can offer. Boasting 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, the OnePlus 11 5G promises a seamless and powerful user experience. In this review, we will delve into the various aspects of this cutting-edge device, from its design and display to its performance and camera capabilities, to help you decide if this is the right phone for you. Which is the best flagship phone in 2023?
Design and Build
OnePlus has always been celebrated for its attention to detail in design, and the OnePlus 11 5G in Titan Black is no exception. The phone exudes a sense of elegance and sophistication with its sleek and minimalistic design. The all-black finish, which OnePlus aptly calls Titan Black, gives the phone a premium and timeless look that’s sure to turn heads.
The device feels substantial in your hand, thanks to its glass front and back with an aluminum frame. This not only adds to the premium feel but also enhances the durability of the device. The placement of buttons and ports is intuitive, making the phone comfortable to use in one hand. The slim profile of the phone ensures it easily slips into your pocket.
Which is the Best Flagship Phone in 2023?
OnePlus has always excelled in the display department, and the OnePlus 11 5G continues this tradition. The device features a 6.55-inch Fluid AMOLED display with a 1080 x 2400 resolution. The colors are vibrant, and the blacks are deep, thanks to the AMOLED technology. HDR10+ support enhances the viewing experience, making streaming content a joy.
The 120Hz refresh rate is a standout feature that makes everything on the screen appear smoother and more responsive. Scrolling through social media, playing games, or watching videos is a delight on this display. The display also gets bright enough to be easily visible in direct sunlight, which is a crucial feature for outdoor use.
Under the hood, the OnePlus 11 5G is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset, coupled with 8GB of RAM. This combination delivers exceptional performance. From multitasking to gaming, the phone handles everything with ease. Apps open quickly, and you can switch between them seamlessly without any lag. The OnePlus 11 5G runs on OxygenOS, which is known for its minimalistic and user-friendly interface. It’s based on Android 12 and offers a smooth and bloatware-free experience.
Gaming on this device is a joy, thanks to the Adreno 730 GPU. Whether you’re into casual gaming or more graphics-intensive titles, the OnePlus 11 5G is more than capable of handling it all. The high refresh rate display further enhances the gaming experience by ensuring smooth gameplay.
Storage and Battery
The OnePlus 11 5G comes with 128GB of non-expandable internal storage. While 128GB should suffice for most users, it’s worth considering your storage needs before making the purchase. If you’re a heavy user who stores a lot of media files, you might find yourself running out of space. It’s a minor drawback given the overall performance of the device, but some users might prefer the flexibility of expandable storage.
In terms of battery life, the OnePlus 11 5G sports a 4,500mAh battery, which is quite sufficient for all-day use. With moderate use, the phone easily lasts through a day, even with the high refresh rate display. The device supports Warp Charge 65T, which is incredibly fast. You can charge the phone from 0 to 50% in just 15 minutes, ensuring you’re not tethered to a charger for long periods.
The OnePlus 11 5G features a triple-camera setup on the back, including a 50MP primary sensor, a 16MP ultra-wide-angle lens, and a 2MP depth sensor. On the front, there’s a 16MP selfie camera. While the camera system is not as extravagant as some of its competitors, it still delivers impressive results.
The primary camera captures sharp and vibrant photos with good dynamic range. The ultra-wide-angle lens is useful for capturing more in your frame, and it maintains decent image quality. OnePlus has also improved low-light photography, and the Nightscape mode does a commendable job of brightening up dark scenes.
The 16MP front camera captures crisp and detailed selfies, and it works well for video calls and social media uploads. Overall, the camera system on the OnePlus 11 5G is versatile and capable of delivering great shots in various conditions.
As the name suggests, the OnePlus 11 5G comes with 5G connectivity, which ensures fast and reliable internet speeds. With the rollout of 5G networks in many regions, having a 5G-compatible device like this can future-proof your smartphone for years to come. Whether you’re streaming content, video conferencing, or simply browsing the web, you’ll experience a significant boost in speed and connectivity.
Software and Updates
OnePlus has a reputation for providing regular software updates and security patches. The OnePlus 11 5G runs on OxygenOS, which not only offers a clean and intuitive user experience but also ensures that you’re among the first to receive the latest Android updates. OnePlus has committed to providing three years of software updates, which means your device will remain up-to-date and secure for an extended period.
In terms of security, the OnePlus 11 5G offers an in-display fingerprint sensor that is quick and accurate. Additionally, there is facial recognition for those who prefer a more seamless unlock experience. Both methods are secure and provide convenient ways to access your device.
Price and Competition
The OnePlus 11 5G in the Titan Black variant with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage is competitively priced, making it a strong contender in the premium smartphone market. While it’s not the cheapest option, it offers a great balance of design, performance, and features for its price range.
When it comes to competition, the OnePlus 11 5G faces rivals like the Samsung Galaxy S22, Google Pixel 6, and Apple iPhone 13. Each of these devices has its own unique features and ecosystem advantages, so your choice will depend on your specific preferences and brand loyalty.
Which is the Best Flagship Phone in 2023?
The OnePlus 11 5G in Titan Black is another impressive addition to OnePlus’ lineup of flagship smartphones. With a premium design, a stunning display, powerful performance, and 5G connectivity, it caters to the needs of both everyday users and tech enthusiasts. The camera system, while not the most advanced, still delivers great results in various conditions. The combination of OxygenOS and regular software updates ensures a smooth and secure user experience.
If you’re looking for a well-rounded smartphone that offers value for your money and doesn’t compromise on performance, the OnePlus 11 5G in Titan Black is a compelling choice. Its striking design and flagship features make it a strong competitor in the premium smartphone market, continuing OnePlus’ tradition of delivering innovative and user-centric devices. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://blog.warrenbarnett.com/new-ellen-set-featuring-ed-ellen-degeneres-thomasville/ | 2024-04-13T04:15:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816535.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413021024-20240413051024-00687.warc.gz | 0.952407 | 356 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__148293125 | en | The newest season of Ellen has officially started! On Tuesday, September 5, Ellen kicked of season 15 (crazy!) of her daytime talk show with celebrity guests Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell. The entire premier week is packed with more stars like Reese Witherspoon, P!nk, Miley Cyrus and Halle Berry, among others.
While we’re excited the show has returned, we’re even more excited about this season’s set! As most of you know by now, Ellen partnered with Thomasville to create the ED Ellen DeGeneres crafted by Thomasville furniture collection.
Of course, it seemed fitting the set would feature some fabulous pieces – and it does!
In the photo above, you’ll see Ellen on set with the Liberte Chairs* and the Villerie Cocktail Table. Throughout the season, depending on the number of guests she has on at a time, the guest Liberte Chair will be switched out for multiple chairs, the Liberte Sofa, or a custom Liberte Love Seat.
We’re so pleased to see this fabulous collection being featured on Ellen’s show! If you haven’t yet, we encourage you to visit our designer furniture showroom in Brookfield to discover the collection.
Our award-winning interior designers are always around to help as much or as little as you need. Who wouldn’t love to have the same chairs in their living room as Ellen has on her TV show set?!
*Due to the requirements of the show, the Liberte pieces for the set were all finished in a custom white vinyl upholstery. Visit our showroom to browse our wide selection of upholstery options. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.am.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/b_000191.html | 2018-11-13T16:47:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039741324.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20181113153141-20181113174528-00006.warc.gz | 0.978754 | 141 | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-47__0__43260630 | en | During the opening ceremony at the Moscow Cinema in Yerevan, Ambassador Taguchi and the President of the "HIKARI" Center Ms. Piliposyan made their welcome speeches, and “Arar” chorus performed “Letter”, the theme song of one of the films.
Moscow Cinema, Yerevan
Film Festival in Ejmiatsin
This time the Film Festival was held in 4 halls of 3 cities and 7 films were screened. Approximately 1000 people came to watch the films. After screenings, a lot of applause and good opinions were heard in the hall. This Film Festival became a great opportunity to introduce Japan and Japanese culture to the Armenian people. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://oxidedesign.com/2016-get-out-the-vote-poster/ | 2019-08-21T12:13:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027315936.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20190821110541-20190821132541-00526.warc.gz | 0.951661 | 393 | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__11178951 | en | 2016 Get Out The Vote poster
Oxide was delighted to participate in 2016’s Get Out The Vote, a nonpartisan campaign hosted by AIGA every four years to encourage graphic designers to use their talents to motivate the American public to get out there and vote. This year’s program is presented in partnership with the League of Women Voters‘ Vote 411 initiative.
While the larger campaign is open for all designers to participate, Oxide was invited to join a select group of design leaders, whose posters were exhibited in the cities hosting party national conventions: Cleveland for the Republican National Convention, and Philadelphia for the Democratic National Convention. This special set of posters were also curated for an online Google Art Project.
Designed by the whole team, our poster concept presents one form of a metaphorical, ever-changing book chronicling the past, present, and future of the great democratic nation of the United States of America. The term of our 44th president is coming to a close, so the 2016 election represents our opportunity to “write the next chapter” with our vote. Through our vote, we literally have the power to create the future of our nation.
The GOTV campaign is headlined this year with “To Vote is to Exist,” a poster designed by the iconic Milton Glaser (the man behind the “I ♥ New York” branding). In at least one of the initial exhibitions, Oxide’s poster had the honor of being placed next to Glaser’s poster.
The full set of original posters, plus all the posters submitted by designers across the country, are available online for free download and display. Pick your favorites, print them out, and hang them up for everyone to see in these critical weeks leading up to the election.
And don’t forget to register (check your state’s deadline) and then vote on November 8! | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://blazingsaddle.ca/calgary-stampede-2021/ | 2021-12-06T11:49:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363292.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20211206103243-20211206133243-00063.warc.gz | 0.948498 | 1,011 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__200970295 | en | If there were ever a year to celebrate, it is this one! With Covid-19 well on its way to the past, we have our chins held high and are looking forward to STAMPEDE 2021. If there is anything that Calgary excels at, it is having the Stampede Spirit!
In 2020, no one expected the Calgary Stampede to be cancelled for the first time in its history. But did you know that we STILL serviced over 50 locations around town with décor. We set up tiny little displays in front yards, a couple of Covid graduation parties, we decked out Steven Avenue and lots of 17th. We were beyond thrilled to have the support of you folks and will be eternally grateful.
This year, the Calgary Stampede will be going ahead. “Stampede 2021 might look different — but what’s important is how it makes you feel. We’re continuing to plan for the best and safest Stampede possible in 2021, of course, that means making sure there’s lots of flexibility so we can adapt our operations depending on the circumstances in July. Our planning includes the iconic aspects of Stampede — the animals, the music, the rides and the food.” communications manager Kristina Barnes said.
Sounds good to us 😊!! BUT…there is no way to look forward, without a glimpse of the past…..
The Calgary Stampede has drawn more than one million visitors to the city each year, according to the Conference Board of Canada. Over 120,000 people attend the Stampede per day, around 70 per cent of whom are from Calgary. This pumps $540 million into the provincial economy annually. The Stampede’s year-round events contribute about $110.9 million to Calgary’s GDP, the board says. Every $1.00 spent at the Calgary Stampede generates more than $2.70 city-wide on hotels, restaurants, shops, taxi’s and other expenditures of the type. Blazing Saddle distributes over 350 fire retardant bales across the stampede grounds each year and is an official supplier of the Calgary Stampede.
Stampede Park itself covers more than 200 acres of land. More than 7000 animals are hosted by the Stampede Park during the 10-day event including over 600 chuckwagon horses. More than 2 million mini-donuts are eaten every year at the Stampede and over 200,000 pancakes are served at community breakfasts throughout the city during the Stampede. 30,000 flowers are planted in Stampede Park each year. And did you know that every year more than 2200 people, a majority of whom are from Calgary, dedicate their personal time to volunteer at the show. Isn’t that amazing!?!? Blazing Saddle spends at least 2 full days at the grounds spreading the stampede spirit for a large group of vendors and every year we discover new areas of the grounds. It’s HUGE!
Big Four Building: The “Big Four” businessmen: A.J. MacLean, A.E. Cross, George Lane and Pat Burns made a crucial contribution of $100,000 towards the first ever Calgary Stampede in 1912. The very first Calgary Stampede lasted just 6 days until 1968 when they stretched it to 10 days. In 1939, admission to the grounds was just 25 cents. Today, it’s $18.00 for an adult ticket. The crew here at Blazing Saddle wants to vote to extend the Stampede to a full 14 days! Who’s with us??
The Parade: Approximately 400,000 people attend the Stampede Parade every year and over 2 million Canadians nationwide watch the Stampede Parade on television. Over 130 western themed entries join in on the parade fun, which lasts about 2 hours. Around 850 horses participate in the parade accompanied by approximately 2 tonnes of manure that is left behind by animals on the parade route (gross). During the parade, the Blazing Saddle Crews are at the ready, waiting to be let back into downtown again, to keep spreading the joy on DAY 1!
The Rodeo: The Calgary Stampede Rodeo is the WORLD’S largest outdoor rodeo that hosts 6 major rodeo events plus the Chuckwagon Races. It runs every day for 10 days and has the largest purse in outdoor rodeo — $2 million — up for grabs. We don’t get to see the Rodeo very often, as Stampede week for us is packed with events and we are all bombing around to every corner of the city, but when we do, its just awesome to see.
WE CAN’T WAIT TO SEE WHAT STAMPEDE 2021 WILL BRING!
YAHOO CALGARY! SEE YOU SOON! | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://sweettalkthemovie.com/bios/natalie-zea/ | 2017-04-28T17:46:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917123046.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031203-00369-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.970247 | 466 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__9696042 | en | Natalie Zea will get to show her comedic side as she takes on the lead in the new Amazon dramedy The Outlaws. Produced by Ice Cube & Michael Strahan, the series centers on Julie Levine, the wife of a pro-football team owner (Zea), who now needs to run the flailing organization after her husband dies. She has to take on the challenges of being a young, widowed mother who finds herself being pulled in different directions – before ultimately deciding to trust her gut.
Zea also stars opposite Kevin Bacon as Claire Matthews in the hit FOX thriller The Following.
Best known to television audiences for her acclaimed role as Winona Hawkins on FX’s original series Justified, (which she continued to guest on while shooting The Following) Zea has also been seen in CBS’ Under The Dome, Showtime’s Californication and HBO’s Hung. Other television credits include The Shield and her popular role as Karen Darling in Dirty Sexy Money, among others.
Zea recently starred in the independent film SWEET TALK, written by award winning Peter Lefcourt, as a bored phone sex operator who forms a strong bond with one of her callers. In 2010, she was Will Ferrell’s hilarious psychotic ex-girlfriend in THE OTHER GUYS.
Zea also hones her creative juices by writing and is currently developing a comedy pilot for a major cable network. She begins shooting the feature film she wrote and will star in, IMAGINARY PLACE OF EAST, later this year.
Originally from Texas, Zea made her way to New York where she earned a scholarship to the prestigious American Music and Dramatic Academy. After completing the program in only two years, Zea landed a role as part of the original cast of Kimberly Peirce’s 1995 short BOYS DON’T CRY which later evolved into the Academy Award winning film by the same name.
Having never lost her love of theater, Zea helped develop Los Angeles’ reputable Lone Star Ensemble, a theatre company in which she serves on the Board of Directors. She’s newly engaged to her long-time partner, Travis Schuldt and lives with him and their two cats in Los Angeles. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://amisgreaterthanpm.tumblr.com/ | 2014-08-23T07:28:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1408500825341.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20140820021345-00307-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.942803 | 959 | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-35__0__87241199 | en | I am sick of the “Bad Boy” trope. I am sick of the guy liner and the ripped jeans, the black shirts and the devilish smiles. I am sick of the sexual innuendoes and the gross comments, sick of the recklessness and the misogyny. I am sick of the good, kind, decent male characters constantly being pushed out of the picture to make way for the scowling, broody, sexist bad boys. And I am sick of the romanticization of the “Bad Boy” character, sick of the claims that bad boys just need to be loved, that they will change for the “right” woman, that all they need is the “love of a good woman”. Enough. We need to starting seeing bad boys for what they are - BAD boys.
I have dated bad boys before and believe me, there is nothing romantic or glamorous about dating a bad boy. They are nothing like their media portrayals. They are not secretly sensitive or sweet “once you get to know them” or “loving to a few” or broken souls who “need to be loved”. They are sexist and controlling and dangerous and unpredictable and (most importantly) they will not and can not be changed by the love of a good woman - and it’s not our job as women to change them. That’s not on us, and the idea that it should be is gross and damaging.
And I don’t say this without evidence. As I said, I have dated bad boys. Once upon a time, I was very attracted to bad boys. But these kind of guys are BAD NEWS. They are unhealthy and dangerous; at best, bad boys will demean and ignore you, at worst, they will abuse and control you. Unfortunately, the constant romanticization of the “Bad Boy” character in the media (from Damon Salvatore in TVD to Killian Jones in OUAT) completely glosses over these facts. The media is determined to make the bad boy trope the winning one, determined to eradicate the idea that a GOOD GUY is actually the better option.
And the worst part? WE BUY INTO IT. For some unfathomable reason we strong, amazing females EAT THIS SHIT UP WITH A SPOON. It is evident everywhere - from the adoration for the Spuffy relationship in BtVS, to the OUAT fandom’s obsession with the CS ship and their vilifying of Neal and SwanFire, to the TVD fandom’s infatuation with the Delena and Klaroline relationships (despite the dangerous and abusive elements in both ships).
There are far too many unhealthy and/or problematic relationships being portrayed on TV, far too many romanticized bad boys. We need to stop encouraging these portrayals and start showing girls the reality of dating a bad boy. People may say that I’m overreacting but the bottom line is that we learn from the media. We absorb the lessons and the messages presented in our shows and these messages help to shape our views on relationships and romance, and given that so many shows are glorifying the “bad boy” in some way or another, I think we all have reason to be concerned.
I have to ask one very important question here - what is wrong with the GOOD GUY? Why do we turn away from the decent, selfless, kind men, who treat their partners right and are danger-free? Because they’re so often viewed as “boring”? Believe me, I would take “boring” (but safe, loving and kind) over a bad boy any day. “Boring” is better than abusive, misogynistic, controlling, manipulative and stalkery, no matter how “sexy” and “entertaining” the bad boy is.
This trend of the bad boy winning, of the bad boy being so damn popular, is both alarming and disturbing. Instead of encouraging the female audience to embrace the good guy, to realise that the good guy is the better (safer and more stable) choice, we are hoisting bad boys up on pedestals and allowing/encouraging young girls to glorify them. In romanticizing the bad boy, in condoning problematic and unhealthy relationships, we are sending a god-awful message to those who watch these shows. We are allowing the audience (and the creators) to ignore and excuse all problematic aspects of the “bad boy” and any relationships he may have. And this needs to stop. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.truenorthorganizing.org/press/ | 2018-08-17T19:37:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221212768.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20180817182657-20180817202657-00550.warc.gz | 0.935393 | 3,135 | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-34__0__179062354 | en | In the Press
While One Comes Home, Thousands Suffer, Says True North After Claudia Portillo Released From ICE Detention
Our network has witnessed the pain that a family experiences when a daughter, sister, mother, cousin, aunt and friend is jailed and separated from those who love her. Through our relationships with Claudia and her family, we empathize deeply with the pain of isolation and the cruelty of immigration detention. We opened our hearts and put our boots on the ground for Claudia, and this time we were able to help bring a loved one home. We need to do the same for other families who are being ripped apart by the broken immigration system and callous government officials.
While Claudia will likely be home with her family by the end of this week, thousands of children and parents will remain separated, alone and afraid. The whereabouts of their loved ones will remain unknown. As an organization dedicated to advancing immigrant rights, we will continue our fight for them. Now is the time for all people of goodwill and a thirst for justice in our North Coast Community to stand up and join us in this fight!
"Urueta said she believes the outpouring of community support shown during Portillo’s hearing Monday played an important role in Judge Patrick O’Brien’s decision to grant Portillo’s request to be released on bond."
North Coast Journal 06/20/2018
'“It’s not a question of why we should help, its why would we not help support an upstanding member of our community. Why would we not go to bat to keep families together?” Dennis Rael, who helped coordinate the free food for the protesters says. He explains that Los Bagels as a company stands with the community, and for human rights. But the donation was not about promoting the store, simply helping people who are fighting for what they believe is right."
Redwood News 06/19/2018
"Over the past week, a community fundraiser has raised more than $8,000 in online and in cash donations, and both individuals and community groups are arranging to cover the rest of the $12,000 cost of her release. Claudia may be home with her family this week."
North Coast News 06/19/2018
"Arcata resident Claudia Portillo, who was held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody since November, could soon be freed following a decision by a San Francisco immigration Judge Patrick O’Brien on Monday afternoon. Avigail Portillo, who just graduated from high school this month, was part of a convoy of around two dozen people that went down to San Francisco for the immigration hearing Monday. “Honestly, I was happy to see her but I was more nervous,” Avigail Portillo said after Monday’s hearing. Avigail Portillo said she and her three younger sisters are all excited for their mother to return home to Arcata.
This morning, Judge Patrick O’Brien granted Portillo’s request to be released on $12,000 bond, though the Department of Homeland Security can appeal his ruling, which would delay Portillo’s release. Portillo has four daughters, one of whom graduated from Arcata High School last week.
A community fundraiser held over the past week raised more than $8,000 and community groups are currently working to raise the rest of the money needed for Portillo’s bond with the hopes she will be able to return home this week.
North Coast Journal 06/18/2018
"Claudia Portillo, asistió a una visita de revisión con inmigración en Bakersfield y fue detenida, pasaron más de siete meses para que un juez le asignará una fianza de 12,000 dólares para poder regresar a casa y estar con sus cuatro hijas."
Univision Television Group 06/18/2018
"Dozens drove from six hours away in Claudia's home of Arcata to San Francisco on Monday to see if she might receive bond. When the judge declared it at $12,000, more than twice what the group raised, things looked cloudy -- and then, magic.
"One of our neighbors was sitting next to me and she looks up and says, 'I inherited some money. I'm going to front it. I have a check in my pocket. I'm just going to pay it,'" said Leila Roberts, a community supporter with the True North group."
NBC Bay Area 06/18/2018
"Claudia Portillo, an undocumented Arcata resident and mother to four daughters, has been granted release on a $12,000 bond after seven months of immigration detention, and her community is arranging to pay for her release. The North Coast community has advocated for Ms. Portillo’s release both at home in Humboldt and Del Norte counties and in San Francisco with community events, online fundraisers and direct support to her family."
Lost Coast Outpost 06/18/2018
"A Humboldt County woman who has been detained by immigration officials since November is now set to be released and reunited with her family. The family says they are celebrating today. But, say with recent events they will continue their work fighting for immigrant families.
More than a dozen family members and supporters of Claudia Portillo journeyed down state from Humboldt County and rallied outside an immigration courthouse in San Francisco on Monday, hoping for her release."
KTVU Television 06/18/2018
'“My sister has been stuck in detention for seven months. She has missed her daughters’ birthdays and graduations waiting for a bond hearing.” Explained Ms. Portillo’s sister Jenny Ventura. “That hearing was just scheduled for 1 p.m. on Monday, June 18th in San Francisco. We have to make it count.”'
Lost Coast Outpost 06/13/2017
"Two convoys from Humboldt County will depart promptly at 6:30 am Monday, June 18th from in front of both the Arcata and Eureka locations of Los Bagels, a popular local bakery and cafe and donor of food for the journey. They will gather with clergy and allies at the San Francisco Immigration Court house at 12 noon that day, before filing into Ms. Portillo’s 1 pm hearing."
Redheaded Blackbelt 06/13/2018
"Since May 2017, True North leaders and staff have partnered with the Northern California chapter of the ACLU to build a Rapid Response Network to respond to heightened fears of ICE raids on the North Coast. So far, more than 50 local leaders comprise the Response Team, and have been trained to respond if unforeseen ICE activity is reported and verified in Humboldt County."
Lost Coast Outpost 01/22/2018
"When Claudia Portillo, 30, mother of four, left her north Arcata home three weeks ago, she was confident that her appointment at the U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services office in San Francisco would go well. But Portillo didn’t come back, and what was supposed to be a yearly check-in became a fight to bring her home. Jenny Ventura, sister of Portillo and a leader within the True North Organizing Network, knows all too well that the current immigration system can be difficult to navigate for many undocumented people. “My sister had an appointment at the regional center on Tuesday, Nov. 14,” Ventura said. “She was very confident that she would just turn in her paperwork for her annual check-in. I was even going to go with her.”'
"Cuando Claudia Portillo, de 30 años y madre de cuatro hijos, dejó su hogar en el norte de Arcata hace tres semanas, confiaba en que su cita en la oficina del Servicio de Ciudadanía e Inmigración de los Estados Unidos en San Francisco iría bien. Pero Portillo no regresó, y lo que se suponía ser un registración anual se convirtió a una pelea para llevarla a casa. Jenny Ventura, hermana de Portillo y un líder dentro de True North Organizing Network, sabe muy bien que el sistema de inmigración puede ser difícil de navegar para muchas personas indocumentadas. “Mi hermana tuvo una cita en el centro regional el martes 14 de noviembre,” dijo Ventura. “Ella estaba muy segura de que solo entregaría su documentación para su registro anual. Incluso iba a ir con ella.”'
El leñador 12/08/2017
Vigil for McKinleyville Woman Detained by ICE to Be Held Tonight; ‘Deportation Defense’ Online Fundraiser Launched
"32-year-old Claudia Portillo remains in a Bay Area detention center now two weeks after she was taken into custody by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. In response various local community organizing groups have planned a #No1StandsAlone vigil in Arcata for Tuesday night. Additionally a GoFundMe campaign has been launched to raise funds for potential future legal costs Claudia’s family — which includes her fiancee and four children, all U.S. citizens who live her in Humboldt — may endure."
Lost Coast Outpost 11/28/2017
"Mike Thornton, a True North organizer researching local homelessness, asked legislators in the room for their suggestions regarding such issues. “It is going to have to be a combined effort,” Inscore said, noting meetings are ongoing to solve these problems. He said the city is working to be competitive in receiving money from the state’s No Place Like Home initiative."
Del Norte Triplicate 10/28/2017
"Cynthia Barcelo, immigration rights leader for True North Organizing Network, pointed out the parents, siblings, grandparents, cousins, neighbors and best friends of Del Norte students who don’t qualify for DACA fear they may be taken away from their families. The fear that they will be taken away from their families make some undocumented immigrants physically and mentally ill, she said. “We worry that DACA immigrants will be supported at the expense of undocumented immigrants who are just as worthy as any human being of dignity and respect,” Barcelo said. “On behalf of the members of my community who feel frightened and are hiding in the shadows, I plead that you take a similar stand for them as well. They need elected leaders like you to stand with them.”
Felice Pace, a member of the Klamath Local Organizing Committee, which is affiliated with True North, noted many undocumented workers in Del Norte County do jobs that are difficult and dangerous and are poorly paid. “It is not that Americans don’t want to do those jobs,” he said. “It’s just that we’re not willing to work that hard for that little amount of money. I would hope that knowing those realities, that you would support all of the people that are part of our community and happen to be undocumented.”'
Del Norte Triplicate 09/30/2017
"Every pew in the small white United Methodist Church at the corner of Del Norte and F streets was filled on Monday evening, with people standing in the back aisles and sitting on plastic chairs in the overflow room. Many fanned themselves with programs. Spanish speakers wore headsets provided by the Humboldt Area Foundation, listening as an interpreter translated presentations by a variety of speakers, the culmination of many conversations between people in the immigrant community and leaders in the True North Organizing Network about how to best protect and serve undocumented people in the community.
North Coast Journal 09/16/2017
"During a community meeting on Aug. 24, Alejandro Dominguez, of Crescent City, spoke to a group that included the Humboldt Area Foundation, KHSU, True North and HSU President Lisa Rossbacher. Through a Spanish interpreter, Dominguez shared the necessity of bringing Radio Bilingüe further north. “We want to be involved with the whole community,” Dominguez said. “But we don’t know how. It’s important for us to be informed locally.” Beyond feeling included in the larger community, Dominguez spoke on the importance of sharing opportunities, improving public safety and disseminating information. “We want to know about food availability, ” Dominguez said. “We want to know where we can seek medical attention. We want to know about forums at city halls. We want to know if we’re in danger because of a forest fire.”'
El leñador 09/05/2017
"A local community organizing network has weighed in on the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia with a plea to the community to “refuse to allow neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and other avowed racists to spread messages of hate.”
True North Organizing Network condemned the use of violence by those participating in the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville on Saturday and expressed its support for the victims of that violence, according to a press release Monday."
Del Norte Triplicate 08/17/2017
"On this episode of North Coast Update, Susan Andrews reports that True North Organizing Network and the Klamath Local Organizing Committee brought together community leaders to address the lack of recreational opportunities for Klamath youth. Questions remain, but concerns include youth having to play in the streets due to a lack of maintained facilities. Team sports were a focus of discussions , but other ideas included trails and a swimming pool."
"The lack of recreational opportunities for young people in Klamath has long been on the minds of members of the community. On Tuesday the Klamath Local Organizing Committee, a division of the True North Organizing Network, took a big step towards addressing that issue by bringing various leaders in the community together at Margaret Keating Elementary School to commit to working together to create a plan.
“This issue in particular, we have been talking about this in private since I moved back here in 2005,” said KLOC member Josh Norris. “Parents and community members have been talking about this for years. It has always sort of been at the top of our priority list, but we weren’t sure about a strategy because we have always been told there is no funding for this kind of project, and once we get the facilities who is going to run the programs?”'
Del Norte Triplicate 06/24/2017 | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://keirhardiesociety.co.uk/2011/06/28/inaugural-annual-general-meeting-of-new-keir-hardie-society/ | 2019-07-23T13:16:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195529406.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723130306-20190723152306-00546.warc.gz | 0.97923 | 402 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__54172715 | en | The inaugural Annual General Meeting of the newly established Keir Hardie Society was held in Maryhill, Glasgow on Sunday (June 26th). The Society was launched at Summerlee – Museum of Scottish Industrial Life on the birthday of the first Labour leader, the 15th of August last year to promote a revival of interest in his life and work.
MP Cathy Jamieson was elected as Chairperson of the Society, Hugh Gaffney was elected as Treasurer and Richard Leonard was elected as Society Secretary.
Richard also a Society co-founder said:
“With Labour’s recent election defeats ringing in our ears we could do a lot worse than go back to the beginnings of the Scottish Labour Party and once again understand its purpose and recapture its sense of direction. Keir Hardie’s politics were founded on principle, vision and determination. We need more of that in the labour movement today.
“In the last year we have successfully established the Society and begun work on our goal of promoting the life and work of Keir Hardie. In April of this year East Ayrshire Council erected road signs which inform people that Cumnock is the home of James Keir Hardie, the Keir Hardie exhibition in the Baird Institute in the town has been revamped and we hope to get his writing back in circulation and a web site established.
“We chose the Maryhill Community Halls for Sunday’s meeting because it was in Maryhill that Keir Hardie’s funeral took place. Thousands lined the streets as his body made its way to the Maryhill Crematorium on Wednesday 29th September 1915.”
“As a society we recognise that many areas have their own connection with Keir Hardie and that is why we have now held events in Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Glasgow. We will continue to make sure the society is as accessible as possible to all communities that have a link with Hardie. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://freejalil.com/ | 2019-07-17T21:30:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195525402.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20190717201828-20190717223828-00192.warc.gz | 0.969622 | 2,784 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__197047672 | en | 2019 Campaign for Commutation !
Bring Jalil Home Now! Contact Gov. Cuomo ask him to let Jalil come home
Write to Jalil
Anthony J. Bottom #77A4283
Sullivan Correctional Facility
P.O. Box 116
Fallsburg, NY 12733-0116
2019 Clemency/ Parole Campaign
During the Months of July and August
Remember to tweet and/or email Governor Cuomo every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and call and write the Governor every Tuesday and Thursday.
As many of you know, Jalil has been to the parole board ten times since 2002, when he first become parole eligible.
Jalil has been denied each time for a variety of reasons, all of which are tantamount to the nature of the crime—something that will never change.
After the last parole hearing and denial, pursuant to NYS Constitutional Article IV, Section 4, Jalil filed an Application to Commute the Sentence to Time Served with NYS Governor Andrew M. Cuomo. Governor Cuomo has the authority to grant the Application and order Jalil’s immediate release from NYS DOCCS custody.
Since the Application’s submission it has been revealed that the NYS Board of Parole had a “secret deal” with the NYC Police Benevolent Association (PBA), permitting them to submit opposition letters directly to the Board of Parole from their website. These opposition letters negatively influenced the decision-making process, ensuring Jalil would not receive a fair and impartial parole hearing. During Jalil’s 2014 parole hearing, he was told that “current and former members of law enforcement” were parole commissioners, many of whom decided to deny his release.
On December 4th & 5th, 2016, The New York Times published an extensive exposé entitled “The Scourge of Racial Bias in New York States Prisons” that informed: “The racism can be felt from the moment a black inmate enters New York’s upstate prisons.” This implacable racism has been institutionalized in the entire parole system, permitting subjective biases of parole commissioners to influence parole decisions.
Since the submission of the Application to Commute the Sentence to Time Served, Governor Cuomo has received many letters and communications urging him to grant Jalil’s Application. However, due to the revelation of political collusion between the Board of Parole and the PBA, and the PBA/media backlash and scrutiny of the Parole Board’s release of Jalil’s co-defendant, it has become necessary to launch this May Day Initiative in support of Jalil’s Application.
Jalil exceeds all requirements for release. His release on parole has been supported by activists, academics and community leaders from across the country and around the world, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the family of one of the victims. The political nature of his conviction has prevented parole commissioners from giving fair and impartial consideration to his release, despite the overwhelming community support.
During his 47+ years of his imprisonment, Jalil has accomplished the following: Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology, Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology, Certificate of Architectural Drafting, Certificate of Computer Literacy.
He has established many programs, such as the first Men’s Group for therapeutic training in the NY State prison system, an African/Black Studies program, a computer literacy class, a Sociology class and a poetry class. He has received two commendations for preventing prison riots. He has raised money for the children’s fund, was office manager of the computer lab and a teacher’s aide for GED classes.
Jalil is also the recipient of several certificates for rehabilitation programming, and is a published author, poet, educator and blogger.
As a human rights advocate, he had the first U.S. prisoners national petition heard and recorded by a Special Committee at the United Nations on U.S. prisons and the existence of U.S. political prisoners. He has litigated several civil rights complaints on behalf of prisoners. In 2000, Essence magazine featured an article on father-daughter relationships. The article, entitled “Daddy Says,” quoted Jalil stressing the importance of maintaining these relations even during incarceration.
We request that people do the following for Jalil throughout the month of May:
On May 1, 2019, May Day, we are requesting that Friends and Supporters call, tweet, email and write NYS Govenor Andrew M. Cuomo’s office and appeal to him to grant Jalil’s Application to Commute the Sentence to Time Served.
We also request that this May Initiative be widely posted on social media platforms, encouraging freedom loving people around the world to join in this initiative.
Since this will be ongoing throughout the month of May, we propose that people tweet and/or email Governor Cuomo every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and call and write the Governor every Tuesday and Thursday.
Communications to Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s office must refer to Jalil as: ANTHONY JALIL BOTTOM, 77A4283, Sullivan Correctional Facility, P.O. Box 116, Fallsburg, New York 12733-0115.
Write the Governor:
The Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo
Governor of the State of New York
State Capital Building
Albany, New York 12224
Call the Governor: 1-518-474-8390
Tweet the Governor: @NYGovCuomo
Email the Governor: https://www.governor.ny.gov/content/governor-contact-form
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Jalil Muntaqim, Jailed 48 Years, Has 12th Parole Hearing This Year
May 21, 2019, New York – Today, a group of prominent academics, lawyers, and activists published an open letter calling for the release of political prisoner Jalil Muntaqim (a/k/a Anthony Bottom), the only remaining Black Panther incarcerated in New York. He was arrested 48 years ago, when he was 19 years old, and is scheduled for his 11th parole hearing in September 2019. Signers include Professor Angela Davis of the University of California at Santa Cruz, Professor Cornel West of Harvard, actor and activist Danny Glover, musician and filmmaker Boots Riley, author Michelle Alexander, and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Patrisse Cullors.
The letter reads:
We the undersigned offer our strongest support for the release of Jalil Muntaqim (aka Anthony Bottom) on parole. We also ask that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo commute his sentence to time served. Jalil was arrested in 1971 when he was only 19 years‐old and a member of the Black Panther Party. Forty‐eight years later he is the only Black Panther prisoner who remains incarcerated in New York State prisons. It is time for this father, grandfather and great grandfather to come home.
Over the decades, Jalil has consistently demonstrated his commitment to sustaining family relationships, pursuing educational advancement and providing service to the community, inside and outside of prison. He has served as a teacher, mentor and role model for hundreds of other incarcerated people. He stands as an example of the potential to reflect, change and grow despite the many challenges of the prison environment.
Jalil is scheduled for his twelfth parole hearing this coming September. One of his co‐defendants, Albert ‘Nuh” Washington, died in prison in 2000. The other, Herman Bell, was released in April 2018 after serving almost forty‐five years in prison. There is no justification for Jalil to be held in prison any longer. He should be released at his next parole hearing when he will be sixty‐eight years old. Jalil is scheduled for his twelfth parole hearing this coming September. One of his co‐defendants, Albert ‘Nuh” Washington, died in prison in 2000. The other, Herman Bell, was released in April 2018 after serving almost forty‐five years in prison. There is no justification for Jalil to be held in prison any longer. He should be released at his next parole hearing when he will be sixty‐eight years old.
We believe in the principles of restorative justice. While we understand the serious nature of the crimes for which Jalil has been convicted, a life sentence should not be a death sentence. Forty‐eight years is long enough. After all this time, Jalil Muntaqim belongs with his family and his community.
Muntaqim’s two codefendants are Herman Bell, who was released from prison in 2018 after serving almost 45 years in prison, and Albert “Nuh” Washington, who died in prison in 2000. Muntaquim will be 68 years old at his parole hearing.
’48 years is enough’: activists and celebrities call for release of ex-Black Panther
Seventy-five public figures sign letter to New York governor asking for release of Jalil Muntaqim after nearly five decades in prison
Leading civil rights activists, academics, actors and writers are calling on Andrew Cuomo to release Jalil Muntaqim, a former Black Panther who has been in prison for 48 years for one of the most high-profile killings of the 1970s black liberation struggle.
Seventy-five prominent public figures have signed a letter to the governor of New York state, headlined: “48 years is enough”. The letter asks Cuomo to commute Muntaqim’s sentence to time served. They include the writer and activist Angela Davis, who was herself put on trial for a 1970 courtroom kidnapping but later acquitted.
Among other signers are Cornel West of Harvard university, actor Danny Glover, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, film-maker Boots Riley and Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow.Advertisement
The authors write: “We believe in the principles of restorative justice. While we understand the serious nature of the crimes for which Jalil has been convicted, a life sentence should not be a death sentence. Forty-eight years is long enough. After all this time, Jalil Muntaqim belongs with his family and his community.”
The letter also emphasizes that he has had a clean prison record for decades. “He has served as a teacher, mentor and role model for hundreds of other incarcerated people and stands as an example of the potential to reflect, change and grow despite the many challenges of the prison environment.”
Muntaqim, whose birth name is Anthony Bottom, faces his 12th parole board in September, having been knocked back for release 11 times since he first became eligible in 2002 on a sentence of 25 years to life. He will be 68 at his next hearing.
He was arrested in 1971 at age 19 for the ambush and murder in Harlem of two police officers, Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones. Days after the shootings, the Black Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Black Panthers, claimed responsibility and three members were arrested.
Of his two co-defendants, Albert “Nuh” Washington died in prison in 2000 and Herman Bell was released on parole in April 2018.
The Guardian highlighted the struggle for release of Muntaqim in July 2018 as part of a series of articles on black power behind bars. At that time 19 black radicals were identified who were still imprisoned, in some cases almost 50 years after the crimes for which they were convicted.
Another former Black Panther profiled by the Guardian for the series, Mumia Abu Jamal, is among the signers of the new letter calling for Muntaqim’s release. Abu-Jamal remains behind bars in Pennsylvania as one of the 17 incarcerated black radicals, where he is serving a life sentence having been taken off death row in 2012.
Muntaqim’s battle for freedom after almost half a century in New York maximum-security prisons has been hampered by ongoing vociferous opposition from New York City police unions and from one of the widows of the two slain police officers. A further challenge has been Muntaqim’s unwillingness to denounce the black liberation struggle of which he was part.
Herman Bell secured his release in part upon his statement to the board in which he said of the 1971 incident: “There was nothing political about the act, as much as I thought at the time. It was murder and horribly wrong.”
Muntaqim is more resistant. Though he has admitted to committing the police killings, he continues to describe the 1970s black power movement as “noble”.
In an interview with the Guardian he said: “My engagement in the struggle was self-sacrifice because of my love of my people and humanity. Because of that I was targeted by the government and that indicates that my incarceration is of a political nature.”
Angela Davis told the Guardian that she believed black radicals in prison were being forced to denounce their politics before they could go free: “They have to denounce a party that was the forerunner of movements like Black Lives Matter today.” | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://materialworldsingapore.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/food-review-sugarhall-vanessa-tai/ | 2018-07-18T23:45:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676590362.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20180718232717-20180719012717-00334.warc.gz | 0.957834 | 860 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__258822537 | en | Good food, great drinks, excellent atmosphere. If a restaurant can do all three well, you probably have a recipe for success. Sugarhall checks all three boxes, and then some. By Vanessa Tai
The first thing that strikes you when you step into Sugarhall is its lively vibe. With its muted lighting, earthy interiors, and energetic playlist of vintage Latin, Ska, and Jamaican reggae, it’s hard not to feel perked up instantly. Deborah and I were recently there for a media tasting on a Wednesday evening and at 6.30pm, the place was already filling up with office workers chasing down a good, stiff after-work drink. Well, with the bar being helmed by Jigger & Pony’s bar manager Aki Eguchi, you can be sure the cocktails at Sugarhall more than deliver.
The owners of Sugarhall are the same folks who brought you Jigger & Pony (which is actually right next door), and the husband-and-wife team are determined to continue delivering the same top-quality, edgy cocktails that gave Jigger & Pony its fame.
Deborah had the Especial Martini, which is a blend of Brugal Extra Dry Rum, Cocchi Americano, and a mezcal-washed pickled quail’s egg (yup, you read right!) It’s not as strange as it sounds, and actually washes down nicely with the drink. I had the Bumbo Old Fashioned – a mix of El Dorado 12 YO Rum, demerara sugar, nutmeg tincture, and cinnamon. Sounds more like a dessert, right? But don’t be fooled; the cocktails at Sugarhall are potent. Don’t worry about getting too intoxicated though. The owners have thoughtfully created a menu where each cocktail comes with “Hungry to Full” indicators so you can pick a drink according to your appetite. So, if you’re famished, you might want to order a lighter-bodied concoction versus a richer, full-bodied cocktail.
With Sugarhall, the owners have expanded their repertoire beyond just drinks by offering an extensive flame-grilled menu. The kitchen is headed up by Polo Seah, a former alumnus of W Hotel’s steakhouse SKIRT, and you can expect a selection of meats and seafood, all carefully grilled over a wooden fire. Here, they make use of two types of wood, one from Thailand (to cook the food) and another from Japan (to keep the fire going). They also use wood chips from USA, which lends the grilled meats an aromatic, smoky flavour.
While the meats were delicious in their own right, what truly impressed us were the selections “from the garden”. This is where the chef gets to flex his creative muscles and create side dishes that are fun and inventive. Our favourite was the Creamy Mushrooms; which, despite the generous serving of cream, wasn’t stodgy and actually lent a nice contrast of textures to the meats. Another side dish we enjoyed was the Grilled Cauliflower, which came with bacon, burnt butter, capers, and hazelnut. The medley of flavours wowed everyone at the table, including Deborah, who’s a bonafide carnivore … so that’s saying something.
If you’re looking for a fun night out, Sugarhall — with its laidback vibe, unpretentious food and kickass cocktails — comes highly recommended.
Sugarhall is located at 102 Amoy Street, Tel: 6222 9102, Website: www.sugarhall.sg
Material World was invited for a tasting at Sugarhall and was not paid for this review. All opinions are the author’s own.
About The Author: Vanessa Tai is a founder of Material World who has previously worked on magazines Simply Her and Cosmopolitan Singapore. Now a freelance writer and a full-time contributor to this website, the 27-year-old dreams of attending every single major music festival before she turns 30. Follow her on Twitter @VannTaiTweets. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://campaigniacs.thestarphoenix.com/ | 2024-02-23T00:07:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473871.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222225655-20240223015655-00619.warc.gz | 0.891227 | 266 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__113237833 | en | Saskatchewan has an important choice to make this fall, with provincial and municipal elections running in strange and uncertain times.
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https://www.summerbeambooks.com/products/why-preservation-matters-why-x-matters-contributors-page-max-author | 2024-04-20T20:38:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817674.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420184033-20240420214033-00509.warc.gz | 0.921499 | 608 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__103966678 | en | Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, a critique of the preservation movement--and a bold vision for its future
Every day, millions of people enter old buildings, pass monuments, and gaze at landscapes unaware that these acts are possible only thanks to the preservation movement. As we approach the October 2016 anniversary of the United States National Historic Preservation Act, historian Max Page offers a thoughtful assessment of the movement's past and charts a path toward a more progressive future.
Page argues that if preservation is to play a central role in building more-just communities, it must transform itself to stand against gentrification, work more closely with the environmental sustainability movement, and challenge societies to confront their pasts. Touching on the history of the preservation movement in the United States and ranging the world, Page searches for inspiration on how to rejuvenate historic preservation for the next fifty years. This illuminating work will be widely read by urban planners, historians, and anyone with a stake in the past.
"Page . . . throws down the gauntlet in Why Preservation Matters, calling out members of a movement he finds elitist, in thrall to neoliberalism, and disconnected from its rightful aim of social justice."-- Architect Magazine
"The basic points we know: Old buildings can enrich neighborhoods and become regional attractions. They also make smart environmental sense more often than not. But on the 50th anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, the author argues these points with detailed passion -- and also stresses that the cultures embodied in a building, even the scars of history, can be more important than architectural details."--John King, San Francisco Chronicle
"Max Page offers a powerful argument for making historic preservation about more than just saving buildings - using it as a tool to fashion a more sustainable, a more equitable society."--Inga Saffron, Philadelphia Inquirer architecture critic
"Since coalescing into a national movement a half century ago, historic preservation has been notoriously un-self-critical. Max Page helps to rectify this problem in this thoughtful, provocative assessment of what has been accomplished and where preservationists need to direct their energies in the future. At this critical juncture the movement needs a catalytic call to action comparable to those written by Rachel Carson and Jane Jacobs. This could be that book."--Richard Longstreth, George Washington University
"Historic preservation has reached a moment of profound and provocative creative ferment and this book is a testament to that innovative thinking and the desire to contest long-standing norms. Max Page's eloquent and incisive volume is a worthy map to guide the future of preservation." - Stephanie K. Meeks, President and CEO of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
"Max Page succinctly and elegantly demonstrates how preservation transcends antiquarian aesthetics to embrace the most pressing questions of the day, from economic democracy to sustainability to reconciliation following state terrorism."--Lawrence Vale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://strangecolourdeejreviews.blogspot.com/ | 2022-11-30T22:53:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710777.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20221130225142-20221201015142-00039.warc.gz | 0.960416 | 1,035 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__272587606 | en | DEATH LINE (1972)
Starring: Donald Pleasance, Norman Rossington, David Ladd
Writer: Ceri Jones
Director: Gary Sherman
When a government official goes missing after last being seen in Russell Square tube station, Inspector Calhoun (Donald Pleasence) of Scotland Yard sets about solving the case, aware of several other disappearances which have previously occurred in the same area. Calhoun hopes that a young couple (played by Sharon Gurney and David Ladd) who saw the man alive just before he vanished will provide the answers he needs but, as we get to know before he does, something far more tragic and gruesome is going on…
Having not seen this for several years but having remembered how much I enjoyed it back then, I’m delighted to confirm Death Line is a bonafide classic, not just because of its plentiful humour and well-placed gore but because of its assured film-making by Gary Sherman and a brilliant, biting script from Ceri Jones (from Sherman’s original story).
Astonishingly, given the craft on display and the general confidence of the piece, this was Sherman’s debut feature and he was only in his twenties at the time. There’s a care evident in every frame of this, not least a stunning tracking shot of over seven minutes in length which gives us a leisurely, not to mention queasy, tour of a nightmarish setting for human slaughter. The crisp cinematography is courtesy of Alex Thomson who was a camera operator for Nicolas Roeg before he became a fully-fledged DoP. He also lensed such films as Dr. Phibes Rises Again and deep-sea monster flick Leviathan.
Also, watch the scene in which Calhoun encounters his MI5 nemesis Stratton-Villiers, played by Christopher Lee (whose appearance apparently took up around half of the budget – money well spent, in my opinion). For one, it’s a joy to watch Pleasance and Lee play off each other but pay attention to how each character is shot as the dynamic shifts in their conversation.
Death Line was ahead of its time in terms of startlingly gory moments – it still packs a grisly punch now – and provides a stark contrast to the rather more chaste approach of, say, the Hammer output of the era. This was progressive horror in all senses of the word, taking its cues from the political landscape, class warfare and social injustices both modern and historic.
It’s arguable that the most sympathetic person in the entire movie is the killer himself. He cares more for those around him than anyone else in the story and he’s driven to kill by circumstance and a need to survive outside the norms of society. In Gurney’s Patricia, The Man – as he’s referred to in the credits – desperately tries to make himself understood but it’s the lack of understanding between both parties that ends in a terrifying act of violence, the one moment in the proceedings where empathy for this poor creature is substantially diminished.
As The Man, Hugh Armstrong is exceptional, somehow coming across as warm-hearted even though he’s been dining on commuters for who knows how long. Communicating through howls, grunts, whimpers and the one phrase of English he’s picked up (“Mind the doors!”) he’s still more principled and unselfish that those above ground and his innocence gives context to the dreadful things he’s forced to do. He’s also more loving than Patricia and Alex (Ladd), who live together but don’t seem to have much affection for each other at all.
Donald Pleasance and Norman Rossington (as Calhoun’s sidekick, Detective Sergeant Rogers) are brilliantly entertaining as Scotland Yard’s finest, Rossington playing the knowing straight man to Pleasance’s wisecracking Inspector. Calhoun’s dialogue is frequently hilarious, often revolving around where his next cup of tea is coming from, and it does seem that Pleasance is having an absolute ball here, There’s also a lovely gag involving a dartboard in Calhoun’s office that’s dealt with in such a wonderfully throwaway manner that you know the people behind this are not wanting to hammer home every little detail to their audience.
Death Line is a superb, offbeat horror/thriller made with heart and guts (literally, in a few scenes), refusing to resort to ticking off the usual shocker checklist and delivering a truly outstanding piece of work in which even the standard triumphal ending is replaced by something more sobering and thoughtful. As Calhoun says: “What a way to live”. And what a film this is. If you haven’t seen it, please seek it out. Seventies fashions aside, this is as fresh and vital as the day it was first released. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.csustl.us/post/in-era-of-unprecedented-imports-into-the-united-states-use-of-ad-cvd-laws-continues-to-grow | 2024-04-15T20:00:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817014.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415174104-20240415204104-00790.warc.gz | 0.960988 | 700 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__150578473 | en | By Nathaniel Maandig Rickard of Picard, Kentz & Rowe, LLC
On June 1, 2023, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) released the agency’s annual Trade and Travel Report for fiscal year (“FY”) 2022. The report was published more than eight months after the September 30th close of the fiscal year, meaning that the Report was delayed considerably compared to reports issued for earlier fiscal years. In its Report, CBP notes that the number of antidumping (“AD”) and countervailing duty (“CVD”) orders enforced by the agency continues to grow and that CBP was enforcing 662 AD/CVD orders at the end of FY2022, more than double the number of orders enforced by the agency at the end of FY2016.
In FY2022, CBP reported that the agency had collected approximately $3.6 billion in AD/CVD deposits on imports worth $37.4 billion (“Type 3 imports”). As shown in the chart below, both the amount of AD/CVDs deposited and the value of imports subject to these trade remedies is unprecedented and reflects substantial growth in the use of these laws over the last eight years.
The total value of imports subject to AD/CVDs increased by 24 percent ($7 billion) over the total in FY2021, while the amount of AD/CVDs deposited with CBP increased by 50 percent ($1.2 billion) over the previous fiscal year.
Although the overall value of imports subject to AD/CVD orders reached a record level last year, the data released by CBP once again confirms that these trade remedies do not cause meaningful disruptions in the U.S market. For the $37.4 billion in goods imported during the last fiscal year that were subject to AD and/or CVD orders, just $3.6 billion in AD/CVDs was deposited with CBP, an amount equal to an average duty on these imports of 9.6 percent. As shown in the chart below, the effective AD/CVD deposit rate applied to the subset of imports subject to these trade remedies (Type 3 imports) has been less than ten percent for each of the last three fiscal years.
Moreover, CBP’s Report contextualizes the substantial increase in the coverage of AD/CVD orders as taking place simultaneous with a massive increase of imports into the United States. For FY2022, CBP reports that the agency processed $3.35 trillion in imports, an increase of roughly twenty percent from the previous year. As shown in the chart below, the amount of imports presented to CBP last year was well beyond the agency’s historical experience.
Accordingly, even with a growing number of AD/CVD orders in effect, just 1.1 percent of the total overall import value was subject to these trade remedies in FY2022.
Once again, the new data released by CBP confirm that AD/CVDs have become increasingly important to a broadening range of U.S. industries found to be injured by unfair trade. Nevertheless, at the same time, because the trade remedy laws are narrowly-tailored, the use of these laws has caused minimal disruptions to overall trade and has not discouraged imports of goods into the country in any meaningful respect. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://healthfoodsolution.com/legalization-cannabis-reduced-opioid-deaths/ | 2018-02-23T16:40:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891814801.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20180223154626-20180223174626-00270.warc.gz | 0.934431 | 902 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__207981998 | en | The legalization of cannabis and some other recreational marijuana products in Colorado for the past 3 years has shown a marginal drop in opioid-related deaths across the state.
This is according to a study published by the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) entitled “Recreational Cannabis Legalization and Opioid-Related Deaths in Colorado 2000-2015.”
The report analyzed data showing potential connections between the state’s legalization of recreational marijuana in 2014 and opioid-related deaths during that time period.
The report concluded that “Colorado’s legalization of recreational cannabis sales and use resulted in a 0.7 deaths per month reduction in opioid-related deaths.”
This is the first time such data has been collected and analyzed on the direct relation between recreational marijuana and opioid-related deaths.
Previous research has shown that marijuana’s effectiveness in controlling chronic pain persuades people to choose weed over heavily addicting opioids and other prescription painkillers.
The co-authors of the study, Melvin D. Livingston, Tracey E. Barnett, Chris Delcher and Alexander C. Wagenaar of the University of North Texas indicated that their research shows a first-time “reversal” from 14 years of increasing opioid-related deaths. Colorado, like much of the U.S., has seen dramatic increases in deaths stemming from morphine-like drugs including heroin, hydrocodone, oxycodone and fentanyl.
“As policymakers continue to grapple with both the growing opioid crisis and the rapidly changing landscape of marijuana laws in the U.S., scientific evidence is needed to help inform policy decisions to combat this disturbing upward trend in opioid-related deaths,” Livingston said in a school press release.
The research team logged deaths from prescription opioid painkillers in Colorado from the start of 2000 through 2015, comparing those numbers to data from Nevada and Utah to monitor interstate trends. Their statistical model found a 6.5 percent decrease in monthly opioid deaths after legal recreational marijuana sales began in 2014.
Livingston cautions that while legalized marijuana appears positive in this case, its expansion can also lead to an increase in other public health concerns.
“As of 2016, eight states and Washington DC have legalized recreational marijuana. While we found an apparent public health benefit in short-term reduction of opioid-related deaths following Colorado’s legalization, it’s important to note that expanded, legalized marijuana can also be associated with significant potential harms,” Livingston added. “For policymakers to weigh decisions balancing potential beneficial and detrimental effects of these laws, researchers must continue to examine the full range of health outcomes through further study.”
Illegal and legally prescribed opioids today account for nearly 30,000 deaths a year in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 91 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose. CDC data shows that both prescription and illegal opioid deaths have more than quadrupled since 1999.
Skeptics of this latest study include Robert Valuck, coordinator of the Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention, and Dr. Larry Wolk of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, who told the Denver Post Monday that “the whole thing is convoluted” and the opioid, legal weed connection is dubious.
“[I]t’s virtually impossible to assign cause and effect or credit and blame to any one thing,” he told the Denver Post. “It just hasn’t been in place long enough,” Wolk said. “Anything that does get published at this point should be considered preliminary data.”
The study authors agree on the infancy of the research, noting that “these initial results clearly show that continuing research is warranted as data becomes available.”
Colorado Amendment 64 legalized recreational cannabis products for adults 21 and over and the measure was passed on Nov. 6, 2012. Commercial sale of marijuana products to the public commenced on Jan. 1, 2014.
Sale of marijuana in Colorado
Legal marijuana sales in Colorado hit $1 billion in a just eight months, according to data analysis from the Denver Post’s weed site, The Cannabist. This marks the second year in a row that the industry has made $1 billion in sales. Last year, the state took 10 months to hit the $1 billion mark in combined recreational and medical marijuana sales. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.jonpessah.com/aboutthebook | 2019-11-11T21:06:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496664437.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20191111191704-20191111215704-00204.warc.gz | 0.937781 | 411 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__200645715 | en | The incredible inside story of power, money, and baseball's last twenty years.
In the fall of 1992, America's National Pastime is in crisis and already on the path to the unthinkable: cancelling a World Series for the first time in history. The owners are at war with each other, their decades-long battle with the players has turned America against both sides, and the players' growing addiction to steroids will threaten the game's very foundation.
It is a tipping point for baseball, a crucial moment in the game's history that catalyzes a struggle for power by three strong-willed men: Commissioner Bud Selig, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, and union leader Don Fehr. It's their uneasy alliance at the end of decades of struggle that pulls the game back from the brink and turns it into a money-making powerhouse that enriches them all.
This is the real story of baseball, played out against a tableau of stunning athletic feats, high-stakes public battles, and backroom political deals--with a supporting cast that includes Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire, Joe Torre and Derek Jeter, George Bush and George Mitchell, and many more.
Drawing from hundreds of extensive, exclusive interviews throughout baseball, The Game is a stunning achievement: a rigorously reported book and the must-read, fly-on-the-wall, definitive account of how an enormous struggle for power turns disaster into baseball's Golden Age.
About Jon Pessah
Jon Pessah was a founding editor of ESPN the Magazine. He has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, managed the sports departments for Newsday and the Hartford Courant, and edited, wrote, and ran the investigative team for ESPN the Magazine.
- New York Times: 3 Men Forged 2 Decades of Labor Peace
- ESPN The Magazine Special Report: Who Knew? An Inside Look at Steroids in Baseball.
Jon joins Baseball Essential to discuss The Game and Bud Selig's tenure as commissioner. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.toistersolutions.com/blog/2015/4/13/get-ready-to-respond-to-customer-email-within-one-hour | 2019-10-22T15:55:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987822458.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20191022155241-20191022182741-00097.warc.gz | 0.943871 | 559 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__179174409 | en | Update: This study was repeated in April, 2018. The new study includes response time expectations for Twitter and Facebook messages. You can read the latest results here.
There’s a new standard for email response time.
You can toss out the old school one business day standard. That's so 1999. Even 2014’s four hour response time standard is old news.
The Toister Performance Solutions 2015 email response time survey revealed that customers now expect businesses to respond to their emails in just one hour.
Over 1,000 adults in the U.S. ages 18+ participated in the survey.
Here’s the breakdown of the survey results along with an invitation to tune in to an exclusive interview with customer service writing expert Leslie O'Flahavan.
A Big Challenge for Business
This isn't good news for most companies.
A separate 2014 Toister Performance Solutions survey revealed that 66 percent of companies currently take 1 day or more to respond. (Take the survey yourself and see how you stack up.)
One business day is still favored by many customers, with 43.4 percent of survey respondents selecting this option. The problem with this standard is 43.9 percent of customers expect a faster response.
That means the one business day standard could be alienating nearly half of your customers.
The new one hour standard reflects the longest response time that will meet at least 80 percent of customers’ expectations.
The survey looked at response time expectations by age, but found no significant difference between generations. It seems we all want it now.
More bad news?
In 2014, just 4 percent of survey respondents said they expected businesses to respond within 15 minutes. That jumped up to 14.5 percent this year.
You can see where this is going.
High Expectations for Co-Workers
The survey also revealed that people expect their co-workers to respond quickly too.
The most popular selection on the survey was four hours, but nearly as many people responded “one hour” as did “one day.”
Using the 80 percent rule, the new expectation for co-worker response time is just one hour too.
This is really bad news for workplaces already beleaguered by email overload.
Learn How to Respond Faster
Check out my Google Hangout On Air interview with customer service writing expert Leslie O’Flahavan.
Leslie and I discussed ways that companies and customers service agents can respond faster without compromising quality.
Extra: Some Good News
The survey did reveal some good news.
We still give our friends a bit of leeway when it comes to response times. The standard is unchanged from 2014. It’s still one business day. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://fluxing.net/fluxing/ | 2023-01-30T14:06:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499819.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20230130133622-20230130163622-00445.warc.gz | 0.954812 | 303 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__242619540 | en | Fluxare Made it to the Top 100 in the NorCal Recruiting Challenge
He was then teamed with Sweaty Steve, who also made the cut, to create a video. They created a great one called “The Clock of Life – Motivation for all Creators/Influencers”. At the end of the Video they added the Tag line: “#Fluxing- It’s like flexing, but it’s not.”
Fluxare and Sweaty Steve made the cut to the top 50 in large part to the power of their video.
Sadly, 16 year old Fluxare passed away from stage 4 bone cancer before the next cut to the top 25. In his short time here Fluxare was building a commitment to reducing the levels of hate, anger and unnecessary ego in the online gaming community. He encouraged, complimented and inspired by always being positive and helpful even when someone might be coming at him with less than kind comments. You know the type of comments, we all do. So we are reaching out to you, with a challenge that has a reward. Every month we will award $100 to the submitted video that best captures the concept that meant so much to Fluxare: A cooler, kinder community.
Help us define what that means:
- Not meeting hate with hate.
- Not meeting ignorance with ignorance.
- Inspiring – being yourself, embrace yourself and others | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.sherreephilips.com/about | 2024-04-20T17:07:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00585.warc.gz | 0.952655 | 312 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__45099099 | en | Sherree Philips is a highly sought-after Australian Production Designer based in London. She works internationally across film, television and high-end commercials.
In 2019, Sherree designed Shannon Murphy’s critically acclaimed feature film Babyteeth, which had its World Premiere at the Venice Film Festival where it was selected for Official Competition and nominated for the Golden Lion. Sherree was awarded a Best Production Design nomination at the 2020 AACTAs (Australian Academy Awards) and the film went onto win 9 AACTAs in total, including Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Film.
In television, Sherree’s Production Design credits include Amazon’s flagship US drama series The Wilds (2022), created by Sarah Streicher and produced by Amy Harris and Lena Cordina for Amazon and ABC Studios.
Sherree has worked in New Zealand designing Samuel Van Grisven’s Went Up The Hill starring Vicky Krieps and Dacre Montgomery, produced by Pop Films and Causeway Films. Most recently, Sherree has been in Cardiff, Wales where she has been production designing a new TV series Dope Girls with Bad Wolf for BBC & Sony.
A graduate of the prestigious Australian Film, TV and Radio School (AFTRS), Sherree is represented by CAA in the US, Lux Artists in the UK & Europe, and Camerons Management for Australasia. She is the recipient of a Global Talent Visa, granting her freedom to live and work in the United Kingdom.View CV | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://2023.lwfassembly.org/news/lwf-council-looks-back-journey-windhoek-krakow | 2023-12-04T04:28:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100523.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20231204020432-20231204050432-00810.warc.gz | 0.951823 | 432 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__17095225 | en | President and General Secretary thank outgoing Council members for their dedication during difficult COVID times
(LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) outgoing Council met for the last time on 12 September, ahead of the opening of the Thirteenth Assembly in Kraków, Poland, on the following day.
LWF President Dr Panti Filibus Musa thanked Council members for their “sacrifices, commitment and dedication” over the past six years since their election at the Twelfth Assembly in Namibia in 2017. “It has been a wonderful but challenging journey,” he said, “especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, but I am grateful for God’s grace that has enabled us to carry out our responsibilities on behalf of the global communion of churches.”
On Saturday, 16 September, the Assembly will proceed with the election of a new LWF president and Council, drawing on a list of nominations from the communion’s 150 member churches.
For one week, the center of Lutheranism will be here in Poland.”
– Rev. Dr Anne Burghardt, LWF General Secretary
General Secretary Rev. Dr Anne Burghardt also expressed gratitude to the Council members, noting their willingness to find new ways of staying “connected and committed” to the work of the LWF. She urged them to remain closely connected to the LWF, serving as “ambassadors” by sharing the work of the global communion with local churches and partners, as well as within wider society.
Burghardt gave an update on the practical preparations for welcoming delegates and guests to the Krakow Assembly, which begins with opening worship on Wednesday morning. She noted the significance of this global gathering for the local Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland, a country with a predominantly Catholic population. Highlighting the fact that the Assembly’s opening worship will be streamed live on Polish national television, she said: “For one week, the center of Lutheranism will be here in Poland.” | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://literaturelovereviews.com/2017/01/02/the-princess-diarist/ | 2018-08-20T03:08:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221215523.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20180820023141-20180820043141-00349.warc.gz | 0.971693 | 404 | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-34__0__41382416 | en | Author: Carrie Fisher
Date of Publication: 18th October 2016
Synopsis: A recounting of, among other things, Fisher’s casting in Star Wars, the genesis of the famous Leia hairstyle and Fisher’s affair with Harrison Ford – as well as some of her diary entries during the period of filming episode four of the Star Wars series.
“I am always disappointed with someone who loves me – how perfect can he be if he can’t see through me?”
As a lifelong Star Wars fan, this was already on my radar. However with the recent and tragic passing of Carrie Fisher, I instantly elevated it to my first read of 2017 – and what a read it was.
A warning here – often Fisher’s thoughts are disordered and chaotic; she was a rambler. If you don’t think you’d like that then perhaps this isn’t the book for you. However this is also painfully heartfelt in a way which makes you breathe that little bit harder and labour over each page – especially the diary entries themselves. Fisher’s insecurity and self consciousness radiates through in the forms of disjointed sentences and poetry. She is candid about her teenage years and the beginnings of her foray into the world of Star Wars and celebrity.
She also goes into some detail about her affair with Harrison Ford during the filming of episode four. This too is bittersweet – with Fisher clearly developing feelings which Ford doesn’t return. There’s nothing explicit or titillating about her account. Instead she reveals the emotional affair she felt she had (and the lack of one which Ford seemed to experience).
Carrie Fisher seemed like a witty, expressive, creative woman. For all her struggles she writes with a brutal and compelling honesty which captured me as a reader from the first page. Her loss is one the world is bereft by. This, her last work, is an absolute must read. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://yoginiandthecity.com/2012/03/03/on-being-a-yogawoman-part-2-living-our-yoga/ | 2014-07-28T18:24:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1406510261771.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20140728011741-00079-ip-10-146-231-18.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.967733 | 887 | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-23__0__36242721 | en | Clearly, being a yogawoman has a struck a chord with many of you, as I’ve gotten a lot of response – both male and female. Go see this film if you have the opportunity; if you don’t, create the opportunity for others and host a screening.
Creating opportunity is another aspect of this great documentary. A fair portion is spent highlighting yogini activists and causes. Some of the AMAZING projects shown included Off the Mat, Into the World, and the Africa Yoga Project.
Watching this film reminded me of all the women I know who have started non-profits, women who regularly volunteer, women who are true care-takers. I think this is because women have an easier path to Isvara Pranidhana, or surrender (most women I know have an innate maternal instinct, whether it means caring for their own children or caring for the people around them). Jaganeth Carrera describes surrender as “the voluntary letting go of limited, personal desires for the sake of a greater and more fulfilling experience. It often takes the form of dedicating the fruits of our actions to God or humanity.”
One of the highlighted causes in “Yogawoman” was the Art of Yoga Project – a non-profit serving at-risk teenage girls in the juvenile justice system in California. There is a particularly moving moment in the film where one of the teachers mentions that in each class she makes an announcement that a student can always opt out of adjustments or being touched at all. For many of the girls, survivors of sexual abuse, this was the most profound part of class – it was the first time in their lives they were given the option of being touched.
Here’s where part 1 and part 2 of this post bind together. Acknowledging body image is important for ourselves and the way we feel about our bodies. But it is even more important to acknowledge the ramifications that come from telling ourselves and our women that they are only valuable for one thing.
I live in a neighborhood where men who stand on the corner click or whistle at me – like I’m a dog – when I walk by. While I’ve always ignored them, it took the better part of several months to not get irritated. I’m not sure when my anatomy became up for public consumption, but I’m trying to let this feeling go, knowing that ultimately – no matter what happens to it – I am the owner, I am the director of my body. I have to remind myself that my male neighbors’ reactions are base, and they have nothing to do with who I really am.
There is a true connection between body image, media coverage, and violence against women around the world. Feeding into the media, perpetuating photoshopped images, we rob women of the autonomy that all beings deserve. It’s hard not to get discouraged. We are living in a world where women are still being used as currency. And a few weeks ago, Congress held a hearing on legislation that directly affects women’s health, and not a single woman was on the panel.
I get discouraged, and then I remember women like my friend Abby, who are strengthening the resolve of young women in places where they have long been oppressed – with the added challenge of remaining culturally respectful. Abby is living her yoga.
I do not know passive women. The women I know are talented, driven, intellectual bad-asses who are out to change the world. Whether they are producing their own rap albums, working for major law firms, raising incredible kids, or running their own dance companies, they are taking up space.
This above all is why women should keep practicing yoga. To be empowered. To be inspired. To be reminded that they are their perfect bodies, and to be reminded that they are more than a perfect body. Too often, women are not given the space they deserve. Yoga reminds us of that space, yoga reminds us to surrender to it, yoga let’s us take that space and shape it into something constructive and beautiful.
Ladies – and gentlemen, how are you living your yoga? How are you practicing Isvara Pranidhana?
PS Did you know that March is Women’s History Month? | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.angrymoo.com/blog/most-popular-short-video-sharing-platform-china | 2017-11-23T16:25:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806844.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20171123161612-20171123181612-00618.warc.gz | 0.927947 | 376 | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-47__0__188609404 | en | Video storytelling has become the new buzzword. Chinese short video sharing platforms have gone through such a rapid growth in 2016 that it's hard to keep track of all the rising stars and investment stories anymore ...
But which player has emerged as the king of mobile short video sharing platforms?
Penetration Rate of Short Video Sharing Platforms on Mobile Devices (Dec 2016)
So far it looks like MiaoPai has come out the strongest. Its daily video views jumped from 340 million (2016Q1) to 2 billion (2016Q4). But how did it grow so fast?
MiaoPai and Weibo
MiaoPai's parent company, Yixia technology has formed a strategic partnership with Weibo. Only MiaoPai videos can be played on Weibo.
Through this partnership, MiaoPai has gained significant traction and Weibo has seen a rise in its daily usage rate.
In 2016 Q3, videos embedded within Weibo generated 1.8 billion views per day. In 2016 Q4, MiaoPai videos generated 2 billion views per day.
Variety and Content
MiaoPai covers over 40 different categories with 5000+ original content creators. There are over 3000 celebrities and Weibo influencers, 10,000+ media and PGC creators and 2000+ MCN companies, video production companies and internet celebrity agencies.
Between 2014 and 2016, YiXia Technology received a total of 750 million USD investment.
How popular can a short video star get?
Papi Jiang (22 million fans on Weibo; 23 million fans on MiaoPai) sold one of her advertising slots for 3.1 million USD in April 2016 .
Top 5 MiaoPai videos in 2016
Source: YiGuan 2017 Report on China's Short Video Market (Mobile Devices) | journalism_and_media_communication |
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The fallout from the NBA’s clash with China hasn’t been limited to the league’s lucrative broadcast deals in China. A number of Chinese stores as well as the country’s top e-commerce sites have pulled NBA merchandise from sale, particularly products related to the Houston Rockets. It was the NBA team’s general manager, Daryl Morey, who tipped off the confrontation last week with his now-deleted tweet in support of the Hong Kong protesters.
Quartz searches for Rockets merchandise on Alibaba-owned e-commerce sites Tmall and Taobao returned no results. Their official NBA landing pages are still functioning, just with Rockets merchandise removed—a notable absence since the Rockets, the longtime team of former Chinese star Yao Ming, are popular in China. On rivals JD.com and Suning, searches for “NBA” and for Rockets products turned up no results. The South China Morning Post reports that the popular shopping app Pinduoduo has also taken down Rockets merchandise.
China Shoes Cheap
A screenshot of Tmall's site showing no resultsSCREENSHOT OF TMALL
You won’t find Houston Rockets merchandise on Tmall.
Similar occurrences are happening offline. In Chongqing, a reporter for ifeng.com (link in Chinese) visited a number of stores yesterday and found them removing Rockets-affiliated jerseys from sale.
According to Reuters, several Nike stores it visited in Shanghai and Beijing had removed Rockets merchandise, including jerseys and sneakers. Store managers said they had received memos from management to pull the products. The stores went so far as to cover up the letters “NBA” on displays.
China Shoes Wholesale
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Houston Rockets sneakers and other merchandise were pulled from several Nike (NKE.N) stores in major Chinese cities amid the furor surrounding a tweet from the team’s general manager in support of anti-government protests in Hong Kong.
Managers at five Nike stores in Beijing and Shanghai told Reuters during visits on Thursday they had been told in recent days via a memo from management that all Rockets merchandise had to be removed. Reuters was unable to view the memo.
Although Rockets general manager Daryl Morey has since apologized for his tweet last week, National Basketball Association (NBA) Commissioner Adam Silver further angered authorities when he said the league backed Morey’s right to exercise his freedom of expression.
Despite the controversy, the NBA was pressing ahead with an exhibition game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn Nets in Shanghai on Thursday night. Promotional events earlier in the week had been canceled.
China Shoes Online
The stakes are high for NBA, whose league business in China is said to be worth more than $4 billion. The world’s most populous nation is Nike’s top source of revenue growth as other regions slow.
Three Nike stores in Shenzhen also kept Rockets merchandise off the shelves, as well as NBA products in general, staff told Reuters by phone. Three Nike stores in Chengdu, a bustling inland city in southwest China, also removed Rockets products.
Nike and its China office did not respond to multiple Reuters requests for comment.
A specialist NBA store at Super Brand Mall, a major shopping center in the Shanghai financial district of Lujiazui, has also removed all Rockets-related merchandise.
China Shoes Store
People walk past a Nike logo outside its store at a shopping mall in Beijing, China October 10, 2019. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang
“Other stuff, there hasn’t been any impact, and no one has said we need to withdraw it,” said a store manager, laughing. “If they say that all NBA stuff has to be withdrawn then our store will go bankrupt.”
At two basketball-themed NBA Playzone family entertainment centers in Shanghai and Beijing opened by NBA China, staff confirmed that Rockets products had been removed.
“Rockets products were hot before and when you stepped into the store, it was full of red. Now, it is mostly yellow and blue,” the colors of the Golden State Warriors, said a manager at the Shanghai Playzone, who like the NBA store employee declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the issue.
NBA China did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment about the entertainment centers.
China Shoes To USA
As controversy between the NBA and China continues, a spotlight is being shone on the players signed to Chinese sneaker brands.
The NBA-China conflict made headlines last Friday when Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey posted a now-deleted tweet supporting protests in Hong Kong against Chinese rule.
For his part, Morey clarified that his views were not representative of the league. NBA commissioner Adam Silver published a statement on Oct. 8, writing, “The NBA will not put itself in a position of regulating what players, employees and team owners say or will not say on these issues.”
Fake China Shoes
The fallout for the NBA continues both at home and overseas. In the U.S., lawmakers on both sides of the aisle criticized the league, which they said kowtowed to China. Across the Pacific, Chinese brands are reportedly planning to cut ties with the NBA. Sportswear brand Anta announced it would cease a contract renewal process with the league, and rival Li-Ning is purportedly no longer affiliating itself with the Rockets.
What’s at Stake for Nike & Other Top Brands as the NBA’s China Controversy Continues
The NBA Faces Backlash in China Over Houston Rockets GM’s Tweet
Is Nike Better Positioned to Bear the Brunt of China Tariffs Than Its Peers?
Both Anta and Li-Ning have signed U.S. basketball stars to their rosters in recent years. Below, see the top NBA athletes who have deals with Chinese sportswear brands:
Nike Shoes From China
Dwyane Wade, Li-Ning
Wade signed with Li-Ning in 2012. In July 2018, the Miami Heat star, who retired at the end of the 2018-2019 season, extended that contract to a lifetime deal. While neither party disclosed specific terms of the contract, Wade reportedly has earned millions through his sponsorship and also has equity in the label. The ex-baller has his own signature line, called Way of Wade.
Klay Thompson, Anta
Arguably the most prominent current star signed to a Chinese brand, Thompson originally inked a deal with Anta in 2014. In 2017, the Golden State Warrior agreed to a 10-year extension that will keep him with Anta through 2026. This extension of the partnership could earn him an estimated $80 million, netting him one of the most lucrative sneaker deals in the NBA, according to SBNation.com. Thompson’s high-performing signature shoe, introduced in 2015, has gone through four iterations to date: the KT1, KT2, KT3 and KT4.
Yeezy From China
CJ McCollum, Li-Ning
In 2017, McCollum announced a five-year deal with Li-Ning that has included annual trips to China during the offseason. The Portland Trailblazer has collaborated with the brand on the YuShuai 12, a shoe that he’s adopted as his own.
Gordon Hayward, Anta
Ahead of the 2018-2019 season, Hayward inked a four-year partnership with Anta following the expiration of a longtime Nike deal. His Anta sponsorship includes a signature sneaker and apparel.
Rajan Rondo, Anta
Rondo, who is playing on the Los Angeles Lakers this season, has repped Anta since 2013, when he landed an eight-year deal with the label. Additionally, he has an eponymous signature sneaker with the brand. The RR5 is the latest in the franchise.
Kevon Looney, Anta
Looney signed a two-year contract with Anta earlier this month. The Golden State Warrior wore Adidas for his first four seasons in the league but said he decided to make the switch after trying on teammate Thompson’s shoes.
Matthew Dellavedova, Peak
Dellavedova signed a three-year deal with Peak in 2016. The Cleveland Cavalier has a signature sneaker with the Chinese sportswear brand, called the Delly 1, which was released in Australia, his home country.
Evan Turner, Li-Ning
Turner signed to Li-Ning straight out of college in 2010, becoming the second NBA player to join the brand’s roster. The Atlanta Hawk most recently hit the court in the brand’s Sonic sneaker. Turner convinced former teammate McCollum to join team Li-Ning.
Lou Williams, Peak
Williams, who was named the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year in 2018, is signed to Chinese brand Peak. After the Los Angeles Clipper won the Sixth Man honors, Peak released a Crazy6 Pack celebrating the new star.
Michael Carter-Williams, Li-Ning
In 2018, Carter-Williams played on the Houston Rockets, the team behind the current NBA-China controversy. But these days, the NBA star, who had an eponymous Li-Ning shoe drop in 2017, is signed with the Orlando Magic.
Jordan From China
Major Chinese e-commerce platforms Alibaba (BABA.N) and JD.com (JD.O) have taken Houston Rockets merchandise off their sales platforms, including mobile apps.
Searches for sneakers with the NBA logo on Alibaba and JD.com also yielded no results. Those include collaboration sneakers marketed with brands such as Nike and Carlyle-backed (CG.O) Supreme.
A handful of individual online merchants still sell the sneakers.
Alibaba, which declined to comment, told domestic media that Morey’s comments had seriously hurt the feelings of the Chinese people, and that there was no room for negotiation.
JD.com, which also did not comment, told local media that the firm deeply resented and strongly condemned Morey’s remarks.
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Two of the largest online resale marketplaces for sneakers in China have also removed all branded shoes connected to the NBA, according to four sneaker traders.
Poizon and DoNew, two mobile shopping apps popular among fans of designer sneakers, have taken NBA shoes off their platforms, traders said.
A Reuters search on Poizon and DoNew’s apps with the keyword “NBA” returned no results.
Poizon did not respond to an emailed request for comment and phone calls to DoNew’s office in Shanghai went unanswered.
“As long as the bosses of Nike and Adidas don’t come out and say something stupid and get banned by China’s central government, I think sneaker resales in China will remain pretty profitable,” said Zhu Junwen, a reseller in Guangzhou.
Adidas (ADSGn.DE) is in the middle of a reported $200 million, 13-year endorsement contract with Houston Rockets star guard James Harden, who is the centrepiece of the apparel maker’s basketball shoe lineup.
“But if (Nike and Adidas get banned), that would be the end of it,” Zhu said.
The unofficial ban may be aimed at the Rockets and the NBA, but it could put many Chinese retailers, particularly smaller ones selling on e-commerce platforms, in a difficult position. Even if sites continue to stock products, removing them from search effectively blocks shoppers from finding them. On the Nice app and Du app, two popular resale platforms for sneakers and sportswear, products related to both the Rockets and NBA could still be found with some digging. But searches for “NBA” or Rockets team yielded no results. Meanwhile, the retailers selling the items may not want to remove products from sale, as that income can be important, but they’re also not able to push back.
For a brand such as Nike, the situation is also sensitive. The US label is the official apparel provider to the NBA, meaning in addition to the products removed from its own stores, some of the items being pulled from sale elsewhere are likely Nike products too. While the official Nike page on Suning.com still lists all kinds of products, as Quartz checked today, no NBA team names or NBA stars are mentioned in the product listings. These items are just part of Nike’s giant business in China, of course, much of which isn’t specific to basketball, such as casual sneakers and running shoes.
Air Max From China
Printed NBA letters on a shoe shelf are seen covered, at a Nike store in Beijing, ChinaREUTERS/TINGSHU WANG
“NBA” is covered up on a display in a Nike store in Beijing.
But Nike and other brands could begin to notice an impact if the conflict escalates and broadcasts of NBA games are further restricted. “Without the exposure of the NBA, who is still buying signature shoes?” asked a sales associate at one of the stores visited in Chongqing.
Sales of basketball shoes in China are robust: An estimated 300 million people in the country play the sport at least recreationally. Matt Powell, the sports industry analyst for research firm NPD Group, noted in a blog post that, from what he sees, brand sponsorships of NBA players still drive sales in China, in a way they no longer do in the US. It’s part of the reason brands such as Under Armour and Nike send their NBA stars on tours of Chinese cities. If Chinese shoppers stop buying, voluntarily or not, the sneaker brands’ giant investments in athlete endorsements could lose value. “The same goes for NBA licensed products; if Chinese kids stop wearing NBA jerseys, the sales and investments in the licenses will, in my opinion, likely be in jeopardy,” Powell wrote.
Nike had not replied to a request for comment by the time of publication. We will update this story with any response.
So far, sneakers seem mostly spared, since they’re less likely to be explicitly branded in relation to the Rockets or the NBA itself, as opposed to specific brands or players. On JD.com, for example, searches for Nike and Air Jordan appeared unaffected. The report from Chongqing noted that signature lines for NBA players such as LeBron James (who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers) and Kevin Durant (now on the Brooklyn Nets) were still for sale, as were James Harden’s signature Adidas shoes. Though Harden plays for the Rockets, his shoes aren’t specifically branded for the team. (He was also quick to apologize to China and its fans after Morey’s comments.)
But whether and how quickly the NBA and China resolve their tensions has implications for other brands and businesses, too. They’re likely watching anxiously to see what happens next. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.yourbirthjourneydoula.com/post/if-my-baby-is-breech-embracing-the-variation-of-normal | 2024-03-03T22:18:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476399.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303210414-20240304000414-00662.warc.gz | 0.952141 | 1,006 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__90929593 | en | As I celebrate my second son's 10th birthday, I reflect on a significant moment during his journey into the world—the day I discovered he was in a breech position.
At 35 weeks pregnant, a routine check-up threw our plans for a home birth into uncertainty. Breech? No home birth? C-section? The questions flooded our minds, and we turned to my husband's aunt, a Doula, for guidance.
Her suggestion brought a ray of hope into our lives. She introduced us to a remarkable midwife who specialized in vaginal breech births. To our surprise, this midwife worked at a hospital just 40 minutes away from our home in England!
Without hesitation, we reached out to her. Her prompt response and reassuring demeanour instantly put us at ease. A few days later, we found ourselves in her hospital, seeking clarity and peace amid our anxieties.
In the days leading up to our meeting, I explored various techniques and positions to encourage the baby to turn. It felt as if my little one was guiding me to focus on our connection. I dedicated myself to nurturing that bond and paying closer attention to the baby.
Finally, the day arrived, and we made our way to the hospital. Nestled by the sea, the location offered a serene backdrop of waves and gentle breezes. Though I had envisioned a home birth, the thought of bringing my child into the world with the soothing sounds of the sea was equally enchanting.
As we entered the hospital, the midwife awaited our arrival. We began with an ultrasound scan to confirm the baby's head position. To our delight, it turned out that my baby had already made the move, and his head was now down, ready for a vaginal birth.
Although we didn't end up giving birth at her hospital, fate reunited me with this incredible midwife after a decade, through one of my clients facing a similar situation. She has since become a leading figure in the realm of vaginal breech births, not only in the UK but globally.
During my renewed exploration of breech births, I repeatedly encountered the phrase, "Breech is a variation of normal." What a reassuring statement!
Too often, we may feel a sense of personal failure or inadequacy when confronted with the term "breech." However, the truth is that the medical system's lack of support for vaginal breech births has contributed to this sense of failure.
We possess an innate power to give birth, and what we truly need is a supportive system that fosters and facilitates that power.
In this day and age, there are midwives like her who dedicate her passion, time and energy to maximizing our birthing power. This fact itself empowers us.
This incredible midwife's name is Shawn Walker. You can find information about her research projects on this website: https://optibreech.uk/about-the-feasibility-study/
Her transformative work, including research projects like the OptiBreech care pathway, instils hope for a future where vaginal breech births regain the support they deserve.
Yet, challenges persist. In West Wales, where I now reside, vaginal breech births face obstacles due to a lack of training. This presents an opportunity for change, and Shawn Walker's OptiBreech care pathway offers a potential solution.
To bring the option of vaginal breech birth to West Wales, we can take action. Contacting the local Maternity Voices Partnership and expressing the need for this service, as well as collaborating to design its delivery within the Health Board, can make a significant difference.
The Hywel Dda MVP, associated with Glangwili Hospital Carmarthen, Bronglais Hospital Aberystwyth, and Withybush MLU Haverfordwest, provides a vital platform for voicing our views and shaping the future of maternity care in the region. Reach out to Charlie Priddy, the MVP Chair, via email at [email protected], to contribute to this essential conversation.
Reflecting on my own journey, I am immensely grateful for the presence of a midwife like Shawn Walker and the support of a Doula. They enabled us to retain our power of choice, even in the face of unexpected circumstances.
Now, as a Doula myself, I am committed to assisting my clients in embracing their birthing power, even when faced with unforeseen challenges. Each birth story is unique, and it is essential to have a system that respects and supports the innate strength of women and birthing individuals.
So, if you find yourself in a similar situation, remember that breech is a variation of normal. Seek the support you need, explore the possibilities, and advocate for a system that empowers every woman and birthing person to give birth in the way that feels right for them. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://risedesignstudio.co.uk/blog/index.php/tag/home-improvement/ | 2022-08-14T15:46:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00234.warc.gz | 0.952591 | 615 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__142383122 | en | In March this year, the UK Government removed the requirement for VAT on payments related to the installation of certain energy saving materials in residential property in Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland). This will be in place until the end of March 2027. Scrapping VAT on green home improvements for the next five years is a welcome move from the government and should mean that more people will be able to afford to improve the energy efficiency of their home.
Reducing carbon emissions
The UK Government has committed to achieving ‘net zero’ emissions by 2050. In practice, this means reducing carbon emissions by 78% by 2035 (using the 1990 levels as the baseline). Although this is a legally binding commitment (which should be applauded for its ambition), it is meaningless if no actual action is taken.
Reducing the use of fossil fuels in our homes is an important step on the road to net zero. Over 90% of residential property in the UK is still heated using gas and/or oil, the emissions from which accounts for nearly 20% of all UK carbon emissions. The current cost of living crisis also highlights the unsustainable nature of these types of fuel, particularly when prices are pushed up by global crises such as war, which impact on non-renewably energy supply chains.
Strong support but high costs
There is a huge amount of support amongst the British public for the use of renewable energy in our homes. The growing popularity of ‘green energy’ suppliers is testament to this. Increased awareness of the impacts of climate change, alongside rapidly rising energy prices, strongly motivate us to try to reduce our energy consumption and increase efficiency. However, the uptake of renewable energy installations to provide electricity and heat has been slow. For example, only 36,000 heat pumps were installed in 2020.
This is because the initial cost of installing energy efficient technology and moving away from the use of fossil fuels can be very high. These costs are even higher when VAT is part of the cost. It is therefore good news that the removal of VAT will bring the initial costs down somewhat and, hopefully, make greener electricity and heating accessible to more households.
Still more to be done?
At the time of the change in rules, it was estimated by the government that the removal of VAT on green home improvements would save homeowners installing rooftop solar panels around £1,000 a year (on average). Installing solar panels (or heat pumps or improving insulation) would also save an average of £300 a year on energy bills (although this figure may now be even higher in the context of the increasing prices).
While welcome, there is arguably still more work to be done to enable households that cannot afford new installations to make green improvements to their homes. Removing VAT is unlikely to be the ‘one size fits all’ solution it perhaps set out to be. Now is the time to develop and commit to a national retrofit strategy that would invest in improving all existing housing stock to ensure we all live in healthy and climate smart homes. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.sketches.fathomcolumns.com/post/the-dakotas | 2024-04-18T15:05:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817206.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418124808-20240418154808-00103.warc.gz | 0.952732 | 381 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__181746203 | en | Kathleen Norris described the Dakotas
as the place where “angels drown.”
And yet my daughter was born here,
swimming. I steadied her inside my belly
as we drove through the snow to the hospital.
I wrapped her up in swaddle after swaddle
that winter. And in the spring, we visited
each tree in the yard, touching their rough
bark delicately with our fingers. I told her
about ants and how trees communicate
with each other under the earth.
Norris also saw beauty in the Dakotas, calling
them her monastery, a place of stunning stillness
where life and drought bloom together.
I can already see the prairie roots in my
daughter’s veins, the milkweed crumple of
her hair, and the pine squirrels she will chase
until she runs out of air. She is resilient.
She will laugh at the snow and ice. She will
dance in the dust storm and rainstorm and
pick ripe tomatoes all summer long, allowing
the juice to run down her bare arms.
The Dakotas have been dismissed by the
rest of the country as flyover territory,
out of touch, full of dying towns and
aging farmers who don’t read The New York Times.
But when I look out my window, I see the
school children across the street, playing games
outside in the middle of a frigid December day.
They are bold, shrieking and laughing. Having
put on their coats, they become fearless. They
know how to chase light through the snow
and find ways to enchant the wind. They are
dusty and brave, and perhaps, the best of us.
Cover image by Emma Dau. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.academie-internationale-ete-nice.com/masters?id=187&dm=musique-chant | 2020-01-23T15:44:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250610919.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20200123131001-20200123160001-00255.warc.gz | 0.931089 | 983 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__110168528 | en | Violinist Philippe Graffin has established an indisputable reputation for his interpretations of the French repertoire, natural perhaps for one of the few pupils of Josef Gingold, himself a pupil of Ysaye for whom most of the violin repertoire of this era was written.
Philippe made his first recording with Yehudi Menuhin conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and his many highly acclaimed recordings since then bear witness to a questing mind and include many world premieres. He has rediscovered original settings of Chausson's Poème and Ravel's Tzigane and has championed the forgotten violin concertos of Fauré and the English composer Coleridge-Taylor which he has recorded and performed at the BBC Proms.
As concerto soloist, he has performed with orchestras such as The Philharmonia, BBC Symphony, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken the Residentie Orkest, Gothenburg Symphony, Czech Philharmonic, Orchestra di Padova et del Veneto, St Petersburg Philharmonic and Georges Enescu Philharmonic. Graffin performs works of many living composers and has had works written for him by Rodion Shchedrin, Vytautas Barkaukas, David Matthews, Philippe Hersant and Yves Prin. Philippe is a highly sought after chamber musician and was founder and artistic director of the "Consonances", a chamber music festival held in St Nazaire, France, from 1990-2015. Philippe has also written a short children’s story for violin and narrator, La Fée Cachée (The Hidden Fairy), illustrated with musical excerpts by Mozart, Paganini, Kreisler and Ravel.
A recent highlight was a three-concert event at Theatre Flagey in Brussels, curated by Philippe, around the iconic French actor, Gérard Depardieu, exploring the relationship between poetry and music. The event was recorded by Belgian television for broadcast in many European countries and for a documentary.
Engagements this season include the German première of the violin concerto of British composer, Peter Fribbins, returns to both Sweden’s Camerata Nordica and the Gothenburg Symphony, an invitation to perform the Elgar concerto in Princeton, New Jersey and an eleventh tour in South Africa performing with the Kwa-Zula Natal Philharmonic and Cape Town Philiharmonic. Chamber music engagements include a performance of Enescu’s Octet in Bucharest’s Atheneum, the Mustonen and Schubert piano quintets at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, a Dohnanyi programme with Ensemble Kheops in Paris and a televised concert with Gary Hoffman and Eliane Reyes in Liège. Following the success of his festival at Flagey in Brussels with Gerard Depardieu, recorded and documented by Belgian Television RTBF, in September 2017 Graffin curates ‘Ysaÿe’s Knokke’, a festival in Knokke le Zout, where the great Belgian violinist Ysaÿe had his summer residence.
His discography includes three contributions to Hyperion’s Romantic Violin series – the three Saint-Saëns concertos, world-premiere recordings of concertos by Cliffe and d’Erlanger and, the works of Joseph Jongen with the Royal Flemish Philharmonic and Martyn Brabbins. For Avie Records he made the world premiere recording of the Coleridge-Taylor violin concerto and recorded Elgar’s Violin concerto in the original manuscript version. Philippe has also recorded the concertos of David Matthews for Dutton Records and Philippe Gaubert’s Violin Concerto for Timpani Records. Recent releases on the Dutch Cobra label include the world premiere of the violin concerto of Finnish composer Tauno Marttinen, with the Turku Philharmonic, a recording of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, the first to include the cadenza by Ysaÿe, coupled with Prokofiev’s Five Melodies and Shchedrin’s Concerto Parlando and the Mendelssohn and Schumann violin concertos with the Orchestra di Padova et del Veneto. Graffin’s recent release for Dutton Vocalion of the Britten and Delius concertos received great acclaim.
In demand as a teacher, Philippe Graffin, is a professor at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique (CNSM) and at the Brussels Conservatoire Royal. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://new.unca.edu/news/news-post-1/ | 2024-02-22T19:41:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473824.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222193722-20240222223722-00095.warc.gz | 0.924183 | 149 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__41205841 | en | November 3 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
A panel discussing Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Mental Health will be held on November 3 at 5 p.m. in the Mountain View Room in the Sherrill Center.
Featuring four mental health practitioners with Asian heritage – Tracy Hopkins, Eric Tran, An Truong, and Tai Kulenic – who will address the unique experiences of AAPI people who are still largely portrayed as a “model minority” and a monolithic group. Topics will include the rise of Asian hate since the COVID-19 pandemic, issues of identity, and cultural humility in practice.
Attendees will be entered into a raffle for AAPI books. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.reignfc.com/news/2019/7/6/celias-first-nwsl-goal-takes-down-portland-thorns | 2019-11-12T00:18:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496664469.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20191112001515-20191112025515-00484.warc.gz | 0.956446 | 624 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__144380207 | en | Celia Jiménez Delgado’s first NWSL goal propelled Reign FC to victory against Portland Thorns FC 1-0 at Providence Park on Friday. The goal gave Reign FC its third straight road win, bringing them to 5-1-5 overall.
“Once again I’m very proud of this team,” Reign FC head coach Vlatko Andonovski said. “Every game I walk away from, they make me fall in love with this group more and more. They’re tremendous. The heart, the intensity, the desire they have on this team is unbelievable. The three points are big, especially when you play Portland away. It’s never an easy environment, but we managed it well and I’m happy with the outcome.”
Jiménez Delgado scored in the 55th minute, seconds after scuffing a shot into a wall of waiting defenders. The defender, deployed by Andonovski as an attacking midfielder in the match, stepped up and hit a powerful shot with her right foot that rocketed past Portland keeper Britt Eckerstrom and into the net.
Jiménez Delgado, who earned Player of the Match honors for her strike, deflected the credit to her teammates.
“The team put in a great effort and knew how to manage all the energy and intensity to come out, play strong and win every battle,” Jiménez Delgado said. “It helped me a lot to get the opportunity to score that goal. It’s so special for me because this team and Vlatko trusted me when he drafted me. It was a great opportunity to give back to the team.”
Portland threw numbers forward as time dwindled, putting Reign FC under pressure in the dying minutes. Reign FC’s back line came up big, however, holding the Thorns to three shots over the final half hour.
Casey Murphy made another highlight reel save to keep her third straight clean sheet. Portland’s Caitlin Foord managed a close-range backheel in the 44th minute. Murphy, already on the ground, reached backward as the ball bounced toward the line and pushed it wide to deny the Thorns the opening goal.
After the match, Jiménez Delgado reflected on the importance of the three points against the club’s archrival.
“I think they’re huge,” Jiménez Delgado said. “Especially for the team right now. They’ve been giving incredible effort while the internationals were gone. They kept pushing, they kept playing hard, they kept winning to bring us to the position to be fighting for first place. Winning this game today in Portland against such a talented team, it’s a sign that we’re doing things right and it’s also going to give us the extra energy to keep fighting and keep improving for the games to come.” | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://crewenergy.com/news/article/?pid=6786 | 2023-09-23T14:38:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506481.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923130827-20230923160827-00654.warc.gz | 0.966854 | 899 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__92319255 | en | Crew Energy Inc. Announces Update on COVID-19 Measures for Its Annual General and Special Meeting of Shareholders and Reaffirms Board Nominees
CALGARY, Alberta, May 10, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Crew Energy Inc. ("Crew" or the "Company") (TSX: CR) has scheduled its Annual General and Special Meeting of Shareholders for 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 20, 2021 (the "Meeting"). Crew was hopeful that Alberta would be emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic which would allow for an in-person meeting of its shareholders. However, in light of the most recent and enhanced "stop the spike" COVID-19 restrictions announced by the Alberta Government, as well as the continued advice of the Public Health Agency of Canada and Alberta Health Services strongly discouraging indoor gatherings of any kind, in order to adhere to the latest restrictions and reduce potential risks to the health and safety of its shareholders, employees and other stakeholders, Crew is asking registered and beneficial shareholders alike to cast their votes in advance of the Meeting and to remain at home and NOT attend the Meeting in person. Attendance in person is expected to be restricted to essential personnel only and registered shareholders and proxyholders only if restrictions allow. Guests will not be permitted and there will be no presentation or reception following the formal portion of the Meeting.
The Company reserves the right to refuse admission to any registered shareholders or duly appointed proxyholder seeking to attend the Meeting in person, but whose attendance the Company believes would violate applicable public health laws, restrictions, policies or emergency orders in place at the time of the Meeting. Health and safety remain Crew's highest priority. The Company will continue to monitor the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and will be adhering to all federal and provincial restrictions and recommendations in place regarding public gatherings. Shareholders are invited to monitor Crew's website at www.crewenergy.com for any updates and are encouraged to visit the Crew website often where there is a wealth of information designed to inform and educate shareholders and investors alike.
The details of all matters to be voted upon by Crew shareholders at the Meeting including, without limitation, information in respect of the nominee directors standing for election to the Board of Directors of the Company (the "Board"), are described in the Company's Information Circular and Proxy Statement dated April 16, 2021 (the "Circular") which has been filed on SEDAR and is available on the Company's website. The Board also wishes to take this opportunity, following shareholder inquiry, to reaffirm that Mr. Ryan Shay, along with all of the other Board nominees named in the Circular, will continue to stand for election to Crew's Board at the Meeting. Mr. Shay has been a director of Crew since May of 2018 and is also a director of Perpetual Energy Inc. since October of 2017 and Journey Energy Inc. since May of 2017.
As recently publicly announced, in addition to his directorship with Perpetual, Mr. Shay was appointed as Vice-President Finance and CFO of Perpetual effective May 4, 2021. While he was not formally appointed to his office as Vice President and CFO of Perpetual until May 4, 2021, Mr. Shay commenced employment with Perpetual on February 1, 2021 to assist in a financial capacity and to effect an orderly transition. Mr. Shay has also confirmed he will not be standing for re-election to the board of directors of Journey Energy Inc. at their upcoming annual meeting. The Board of Crew congratulates Mr. Shay on his appointment and following Mr. Shay's assurances that, among other matters, he is dedicated to continue to commit the necessary resources and time to Crew, the Board determined and remains satisfied that Mr. Shay will continue to meet Crew's highest standards of integrity, including the due exercise of his director duties of loyalty and good faith to Crew and all its stakeholders. Accordingly, the Board reaffirms its recommendation that shareholders vote in favour of Mr. Shay's re-appointment to the Board at the Meeting, along with all of the other nominees named in the Circular.
FOR DETAILED INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
|Dale Shwed, President and CEO||Phone: (403) 266-2088|
|John Leach, Executive Vice President and CFO| | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.itsdan.net/blog/jodie-whittaker-is-the-thirteenth-doctor | 2024-02-29T15:22:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474843.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20240229134901-20240229164901-00551.warc.gz | 0.961498 | 403 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__188922376 | en | Latest Stuff That I Find Interesting
The BBC have officially announced that Jodie Whittaker is the Thirteenth Doctor, and the very first female to take to the role.
Whittaker, 35, has previously worked alongside upcoming showrunner Chris Chibnall as well as Tenth Doctor David Tennant in one of her better known roles as Beth Latimer in the detective drama, Broadchurch.
Speaking on becoming the next Doctor, Whittaker says: "I'm beyond excited to begin this epic journey - with Chris and with every Whovian on this planet.
"It's more than an honour to play the Doctor. It means remembering everyone I used to be, while stepping forward to embrace everything the Doctor stands for: hope. I can't wait!"
New Showrunner, Chris Chibnall, says: "I always knew I wanted the 13th Doctor to be a woman and we're thrilled to have secured our number one choice.
"Her audition for the Doctor simply blew us all away. Jodie is an in-demand, funny, inspiring, super-smart force of nature and will bring loads of wit, strength and warmth to the role. The 13th Doctor is on her way."
Current Doctor, Peter Capaldi, also shared his thoughts: "Anyone who has seen Jodie Whittaker's work will know that she is a wonderful actress of great individuality and charm.
"She has above all the huge heart to play this most special part. She's going to be a fantastic Doctor."
The announcement was made with a trailer on BBC One following the Wimbledon Men's Final, and she will claim the TARDIS keys in this year's Christmas Special in what will also be Capaldi's final episode.
Her debut will take place on Christmas Day, and Jodie Whittaker's first full series will air in 2018.
Watch the full reveal video below
Story Credit Doctor Who 24/7 | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.losangeles.va.gov/pressreleases/Groundbreaking_on_VA_Project_Benefiting_LA_Homless_Veterans.asp | 2021-09-21T17:50:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057225.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20210921161350-20210921191350-00541.warc.gz | 0.911492 | 477 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__148287163 | en | VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
Groundbreaking on VA Project Benefiting LA Homeless Veterans
January 23, 2013
LOS ANGELES - The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hosts a groundbreaking ceremony for Building 209 at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System’s West Los Angeles Medical Center (WLA) campus on Jan. 25 at 1:00 p.m. Once renovation is completed, Building 209 will serve as a therapeutic and supportive residence for chronically homeless Veterans.
“This project builds on VA’s progress toward ending Veteran homelessness locally and across the country,” said VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System’s Director, Donna M. Beiter, RN, MSN. “The West LA campus is a sacred place for Veterans to heal, and VA is committed to ensuring Veterans receive the care and benefits they have earned.”
As a therapeutic residence for chronically homeless Veterans, Building 209 primarily serves patients whose combination of chronic mental health or other medical needs necessitate residential treatment and for whom previous recovery attempts have failed.
“We want to continue finding innovative ways using patient-centered care principles to help Veterans who are homeless,” said Bill Daniels, Chief of Mental Health at VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. “The goal of our ‘no wrong door’ approach is to provide options for Veterans to transition into independent and permanent housing within the community of their choosing.”
The 51,500 square feet renovation project will modernize 55 residential units using a mix of single and double occupancy units. The three-story building is designed to include a secure reception area, a library, a multipurpose room that may host yoga, tai chi, and healthy living classes, a kitchen where Veterans can learn to cook, and an internet café. The renovation also includes a wing designated for female Veterans undergoing treatment which can be expanded as needed.
Under the leadership of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki, VA put an aggressive plan into place in 2009 to end homelessness among Veterans in 2015.
“Even one Veteran living on the street is too many,” said Beiter. “We continue to make great strides toward the goal of ending homelessness among our Nation’s heroes.”
Michiko Riley, Public Affairs
310.478.3711 ext 49947 | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.afr.com/p/markets/miners_energy_stocks_drive_sharemarket_MDAvWZpZL4zdowK2mz90IP | 2014-09-01T11:18:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1409535917663.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20140901014517-00260-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.944234 | 655 | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-35__0__160369262 | en | Miners, energy stocks drive sharemarket higherPUBLISHED: 04 Jul 2012 10:21:36 | UPDATED: 04 Jul 2012 13:56:22PRINT EDITION: 04 Jul 2012
James Carlisle with wires
The ASX was 1 per cent higher on Wednesday afternoon, driven by strong gains among resources stocks, thanks to a combination of strong US factory data and hopes for central bank stimulus.
The mood was also helped by data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showing that Australian retail sales rose in May by more than twice what economists forecast, a sign interest rate cuts are starting to boost consumer spending.
At 1.37pm AEST, the S&P/ASX 200 was up 39.8 points, or 0.96 per cent, at 4167.0.
IG Markets broker Chris Weston told AAP that risk assets were performing well on Wednesday as investors took a more positive approach to the European debt crisis.
“There’s a theory that central banks are going to come to the party and they’ve been appeased by some of the actions at the EU summit and we’re going to see concerted global easing,” he said.
BHP Billiton was up 2.4 per cent, while Rio Tinto gained 3.0 per cent and Fortescue Metals rose 2.2 per cent.
Among energy stocks, Woodside Petroleum rose 2.0 per cent and Santos added 2.6 per cent.
The banks, however, were mixed, with NAB rising 0.4 per cent, CBA up 0.6 per cent and ANZ up 0.4 per cent, while Westpac slipped 0.2 per cent.
Retailers were in demand after the better than expected rise in retail sales.
David Jones rose 0.9 per cent, Myer Holdings added 1.8 per cent, JB Hi-Fi gained 1.2 per cent and Super Retail Group rose 0.7 per cent. Harvey Norman, however, was flat.
New orders for US factory goods rose more than expected in May, a hopeful sign for US manufacturers who have appeared more vulnerable to Europe’s festering debt crisis. The Commerce Department said on Tuesday new orders for manufactured goods rose 0.7 per cent during the month. Economists had forecast orders rising 0.2 per cent
At the close, the Dow Jones industrial average gained 72.43 points, or 0.56 per cent, to 12,943.82. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index rose 8.51 points, or 0.62 per cent, to 1374.02. The Nasdaq Composite Index added 24.85 points, or 0.84 per cent, to 2976.08. The market closed early and will be closed tomorrow for the Independence Day holiday.
Shares in Europe have closed higher with the FTSE 100 up 0.83 per cent, the DAX up 1.26 per cent and the CAC 40 up 0.96 per cent. It’s the biggest three-day rally this calendar year on bets central banks soon will move to bolster global growth.
The Australian Financial Review | journalism_and_media_communication |
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https://www.nlfire.com/apps/public/news/newsView.cfm?News_ID=105&Print=1 | 2023-02-07T12:25:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500456.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20230207102930-20230207132930-00242.warc.gz | 0.95072 | 336 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__81256872 | en | |Santa Claus to Ride in Fire Engine through New Lenox Neighborhoods|
|By New Lenox Fire Protection District|
|November 18, 2022|
The New Lenox Fire Protection District (NLFPD) and New Lenox Professional Firefighters IAFF Local 5097 (L5097) will be bringing Santa to town on December 3rd and December 10th. Santa will be riding through neighborhoods throughout the New Lenox area in a fire engine.
“We are always looking for a fun way to give back, and the past several years bringing Santa to town has had such a great response from the community,” said Lt. Dan Vanek, President L5097.
This is the 6th annual Santa Claus is coming to Town event the NLFPD and L5097 will be bringing to New Lenox.
“Any time we are able to bring Santa with us to an event, the excitement on children’s faces make it that much more special,” said NLFPD Fire Chief Adam Riegel.
Below are the list of approximate times Santa will be visiting the neighborhoods.
The parade routes are not exact, and times are approximate. The parade may be delayed if there is an emergency call during the scheduled time. Residents are encouraged to follow the New Lenox Professional Firefighters Local 5097 on Facebook for updates as Santa visits each neighborhood as well as the routes he will be taking through each neighborhood. For more information, contact the New Lenox Fire Protection District at (815) 463-4500. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://bloodofages.com/the-magic-spreadsheet-competitive-word-counts-and-writing-consistency/ | 2022-08-08T01:05:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00166.warc.gz | 0.949286 | 254 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__53064293 | en | So I joined The Magic Spreadsheet, which is a community of writers all in agreement to produce a minimum word count every day.
The purpose of the community is to promote consistency and routine, to get (and keep) its writers in the habit of…well, writing.
Also, it provides a little competition–and that can only ever be a good thing, right?
I won’t be posting daily word counts here. Follow the third book’s journey to completion on Tumblr.
Secondly, The ISBW in brackets by my name is an indicator of how I came across this resource. ISBW stands for the “I Should Be Writing” podcast by Mur Lafferty, which is great for all authors, both published and aspiring.
In other news, I got “From The Ashes” back from the editor the other day with the line edits and a critique.
Good news, there wasn’t too much in dire need of revision.
Bad news, I don’t have much time to make the suggested changes, as I’ll have to order the paperback versions of the Advanced Reading Copies for the Goodreads giveaway before the end of the month. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://solicitorsmarketingclub.co.uk/index.php/2023/10/31/understanding-the-google-business-algorithm/ | 2024-04-13T19:36:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816832.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413180040-20240413210040-00268.warc.gz | 0.929648 | 646 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__77774903 | en | Understanding the Google Business Algorithm
Title: The Google Business Growth Challenge: Understanding the Algorithm
Have you ever felt frustrated while trying to make your business stand out on Google? You’re not alone. Many UK businesses face the same challenge when they attempt to optimize their online presence. But don’t worry; we’ve got your back. In this article, we’ll demystify the Google algorithm and explain why so many businesses struggle. Plus, we’ll provide valuable insights on how to overcome these hurdles and succeed in the online marketplace.
The Quest for Quick Results
Every business owner wants results, and they want them fast. It’s only natural to expect that the longer you invest in optimizing your business for Google, the greater the rewards. However, Google’s algorithm introduces a twist in this expectation. It creates a curve, unlike the straight line we often envision.
Understanding the Algorithm’s Curve
The curve represents the reality of Google’s algorithm, and it’s not as straightforward as we’d like it to be. Let’s call this curve “The Canyon of Frustration.” Many businesses find themselves stuck in this canyon, often weeks or months after they’ve initiated their optimization efforts. Just when they’re about to give up, the algorithm is on the cusp of rewarding them.
To better illustrate this, let’s meet Kathryn. She runs a successful business, and she’s been diligently implementing various tactics she learned. She optimizes her Google profile, adds offers, updates business hours, and ensures he uses the right categories. A week passes, and she’s expecting results, but they don’t arrive as quickly as she’d hoped.She continues to invest time and effort into his Google profile, consistently adding new photos, posts, and gathering reviews. However, a few more weeks pass, and she still hasn’t seen the results she expected.
The Power of Consistency
The reason behind her growth lies in the principle of consistency. Google rewards businesses that regularly provide authoritative content, and this takes time. Nothing seems to happen until you hit a certain point, and then everything begins to change rapidly. Kathryn might be just days away from achieving significant growth, but is about to give up in the face of disappointment.
Don’t Give Up – Understand the Algorithm
Google’s algorithm is complex, but understanding it can be your key to success. If you’re struggling to make Google work for your business, we encourage you to keep going.
Expanding your business with Google can be a game-changer, but it requires patience and a deep understanding of the algorithm’s intricacies. Remember, success may be just around the corner. Don’t join the ranks of those who give up too soon; instead, equip yourself with the knowledge and tools to beat the algorithm and outshine the competition. With determination, consistency, and the right strategies, your business can claim the online success it deserves. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://hayleygailcomment.com/2015/05/20/10-life-lessons-from-admiral-william-mcraven/ | 2023-06-02T18:38:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224648850.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20230602172755-20230602202755-00498.warc.gz | 0.975576 | 2,595 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__51544690 | en | With graduation approaching, I can’t stop thinking about how it’s only been a year since I walked across that stage and watched the world’s greatest fireworks show. With front row tickets I may add (go pharmacy!). The emotions are real you guys. It’s such an overwhelming time in your life. And believe me, your Forty Acres family will do everything in their power to tug at your heartstrings as much as possible.
Last year, Admiral William McRaven graciously agreed to give a commencement address at our university wide graduation ceremony. It had been 37 years since he had been in our shoes as a new UT graduate. He began his speech by talking about our slogan here at UT: “what start’s here changes the world“. Through his experiences in the military and basic Navy Seal training, he was able to formulate 10 key points to help us change the world.
“It matters not whether you ever serve a day in uniform. It matters not your gender, your ethnic or religious background, your sexual orientation, or your social status. Our struggles in this world are similar. And the lessons to overcome those struggles, and to move forward, changing ourselves and changing the world around us, will apply equally to all”.
Now bear with me. This isn’t one of those short Buzzfeed-like blogs. I decided to take a deeper perspective when writing for you guys this time around, because I think this one is important. I encourage you to read through to the end. And I hope that if anything, you are left with some courage and confidence for what your future holds.
1.IIf you want to change the world start off by making your bed
Every morning during training, the instructors would come into his room and inspect his bed. It was a requirement that they make their bed to perfection. Even though it felt ridiculous at first that such a mundane task was of the utmost importance, Admiral McRaven learned how critical it was. “If you make your bed every morning, you will have achieved the first task of the day”. Not only will it give you a sense of pride and encourage you to do other tasks, but it will also reinforce that the little things in life matter. Seems easy right? I personally believe that his message is in holding yourself accountable. It’s more than just tucking in your sheets every morning.
“And if all else fails, you will come home at the end of the day to a bed that is made.”
2. If you want to change the world find someone to help you paddle
Divided into groups, his class would struggle to paddle through the surf during the worst of the weather. Every paddle that was made was to be synchronized, with each member exerting equal effort. If they didn’t paddle in unison, they wouldn’t make their destination. “You can’t change the world alone. You will need some help. And to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the goodwill of strangers, and a strong coxswain to guide you”.
Yes, it is OKAY to allow yourself to confide in others. The most successful didn’t get where they are today on their own.
3. If you want to change the world measure a person by the size of their heart, not by the size of their flippers
Admiral McRaven talked about how there was a boat crew of “little guys”, which they called the Munchkin Crew. No one was over 5’5”. All of them of different racial and cultural backgrounds. The taller guys would always make fun of the little flippers the Munchkin Crew had on their feet. However, the little guys would always out-run and out-swim the rest of the crews. “Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education, not your social status.”
We are all one in the same. My size of my flippers is a reflection of my anatomy, not of who I am inside.
4. If you want to change the world get over being a sugar cookie and keep moving forward
Several times a week the crew would get uniform inspection. Just like making the bed, the standards were unbelievably high. No matter how polished your belt buckle nor how starched your uniform, it was never enough. If inspection was failed, the students had to run fully clothed to the surf zone, and while wet, roll around on the beach until every part of their bodies was covered in sand. This effect was called the “sugar cookie”. Some students struggled with the fact that the instructors were never going to let them succeed. They couldn’t accept that their uniform would never be perfect. Those students didn’t make it through training. “Sometimes no matter how well you prepare, or how well you perform, you still end up as a sugar cookie. It’s just the way life is sometimes.”
Yeah, not those kind of sugar cookies.
5. If you want to change the world don’t be afraid of the circuses
As one would assume, training was consumed with daily physical events. Long runs, long swims, obstacle courses, etc. If your times were not met, your name was posted on a list. At the end of the day, every name that was posted on the list was invited to a “circus”. An additional 2 hours of hard work formulated to test your mind, break you down, and make you want to quit. It was inevitable. At some point during training, every student would make the circus list. But see, for those that were constantly on the list, they got stronger. “Life is full of circuses. You will fail. You will likely fail often. It will be painful. It will be discouraging. At times it will test you to your very core.”
But you can be afraid of clowns. Because clowns are creepy.
6. If you want to change the world sometimes you have to slide down the obstacle head first
During training all of the students were required to complete a 25 piece obstacle course. The most challenging obstacle was the “slide for life”. Combined with a 3-tiered 30 foot tower and a 200 foot long rope, the record for best time had been untouched for years. Until one of Admiral McRaven’s class members went down head first. It seemed dangerous, foolish, and put the student at risk for injury. Nonetheless, he braved the challenge and cut the record time by half.
And you know how us Longhorns are. We like to be the best.
7. If you want to change the world don’t back down from the sharks
Part of their time at camp was spent on San Clemente Island, where the waters served as breeding grounds for great white sharks. Long swims were required to pass training, including night swims. As if this wasn’t terrifying enough, the instructors made it a point to educate them on the all the different species of sharks right before their journey. They would reassure that no student has ever been eaten by one. Or at least, not to their knowledge. They were told to “stand your ground” if a shark appeared to start circling your position. To not swim away or act afraid. “There are a lot of sharks in the world. If you hope to complete the swim, you will have to deal with them.”
Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming.
8. If you want to change the world be your very best in the darkest moment
Navy Seals have a job to conduct underwater attacks against enemy shipping. To practice, during training they would be dropped off outside an enemy harbor and swim over 2 miles underwater using nothing but a depth gauge and a compass to get to their target. There is always SOME light that comes through throughout the swim. But when approaching the ship, the light begins to fade. The Seal divers are expected to swim under the ship and find the “keel”, the centerline of the ship. The darkest part of the ship. Where you can be easily disoriented. Where you can fail. Every Seal knows that this is a time when you need to be calm. When you must be calm. And composed. “When all your tactical skills, your physical power and all your inner strength must be brought to bear.”
You will never regret being the one who was calm and collected during moments of crisis.
9. If you want to change the world start singing when you’re up to your neck in mud
“Hell Week” started the ninth week of training. Six days of no sleep, continuous physical and mental harassment, followed by a day at the Mud Flats. A swampy patch of land where the mud can literally eat you alive. The students were expected to spend 15 hours in the freezing cold as the instructors persistently pushed each member to quit. As his team was engulfed in mud, they were told that they could leave if only five men would quit. With eight hours to go. Through chattering teeth, one voice began to sing. One voice became two, and then two become three. Before long, everyone in the class was singing. Admiral McRaven remembers thinking that the mud seemed a little warmer, the wind a little tamer, and the ending closer. “If I have learned anything in my time traveling the world, it is the power of hope. The power of one person. A Washington, a Lincoln, King, Mandela, and even a young girl from Pakistan, Malala. One person can change the world by giving people hope.”
Even if you’re off-key, sing to those in need. So that they may find hope.
10. If you want to change the world don’t ever, ever ring the bell
In training there is a brass bell that hangs in the center of the compound. All you had to do to quit camp was ring the bell. And you no longer have to wake up at 5 am. No longer have to swim in the freezing water. No longer have to do the obstacle courses. No longer have to endure the hardships of training. “All you had to do was ring the bell to get out. If you want to change the world, don’t ever, EVER, ring the bell.”
So there you have it. Ten simple tasks that, if executed appropriately, can change everything in your life from this point forward. Start each day with a task completed. Find someone to help you through life. Respect everyone. Know that life is not fair and that you will fail often. But if you take some risks, step up when times are the toughest, face down the bullies, lift up the downtrodden, and never ever give up. If you do these things, the next generation and the generations that follow will live in a world far better than the one we have today.
I re-watched this speech for weeks following graduation. Call me corny, but it really had an effect on me. Here was a man whom has accomplished so much in his life, achieving goals most of us can only dream of. Yet his advice is simple. It focuses on how one’s ability to be able to change the world resides in their character. Their humbleness. Their will to selflessly act for the greater good. I think it is important that we remember how vital the little things in life really are. We all have different goals. Whether your goal is to be a business owner, a housewife, or the future president. Never forget how far the little things can get you. To say that this graduation day speech changed the way I viewed my future is an understatement. I hope this year’s commencement ceremony has a similar effect on you.
Congratulations to the class of 2015! You’ve been given the building blocks for ways to change the world during your days spent here on campus. Now is the time to put what you’ve been taught to use. And as you go forward as an alumnus, never forget to give back to future Longhorns, in return for what others have given to you.
Hook’em forever! \m/ | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://westernboothill.blogspot.com/2013/ | 2019-12-07T16:36:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540500637.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20191207160050-20191207184050-00272.warc.gz | 0.970606 | 269 | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__181698633 | en | Comedian Charlie Hill, who grew up in Oneida and became a groundbreaking influence for Native American comedians and other Native Americans in the entertainment industry, died Monday. He was 62.
Hill attended the University of Wisconsin before moving to California to pursue show business. He made his debut on “The Richard Pryor Show” in 1977 and went on to become the first Native American comedian to be on “The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.”
He was a regular at the famed Comedy Store in Los Angeles and forged friendships that led to appearances on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” and “Late Show with David Letterman” throughout his career. He also wrote for the TV sitcom “Roseanne.”
Hill had been battling lymphoma, according to Indian Country Today. News of his death sparked condolences and tributes on Twitter:
Funeral arrangements for Hill are pending with Ryan Funeral Home & Crematory in De Pere.
Born: 7/6/1951, Oneida, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
Died: 13/30/2013, Oneida, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
Charlie Hill's western - himself:
Rich Hall's Inventing the Indian (TV) - 2012 [himself] | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://fagellaw.com/articles/kern-county-mother-awarded-4-7-million/ | 2024-02-23T21:11:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474445.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223185223-20240223215223-00556.warc.gz | 0.979662 | 940 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__146199195 | en | Published in: Antelope Valley Press
By Kevin Mc Keehan – Valley Press Staff Writer
BAKERSFIELD — A Tehachapi mother whose newborn contracted a crippling form of meningitis at Kern Medical Center was awarded $4.7 million Thursday by a Bakersfield jury that found the hospital failed to treat her infant properly.
The jury agreed with the mother’s assertion that two doctors and a nurse at KMC failed to recognize the signs that a potentially devastating infection was brewing inside her newborn son before he was discharged from the hospital.
According to the mother’s Beverly Hills attorney, the three KMC staffers not only failed to communicate with each other but violated their hospital’s own policies in the delivery and aftercare of the child.
Attorney Dr. Bruce Fagel said Friday that the boy simply “fell through the cracks” at the hospital, the victim of poor communication between staffers.
“This is a situation where there were several breakdowns in communication that developed in a setup for a disaster,” Fagel said. “Unfortunately, the circumstances are probably fairly common. The outcome, being this type of devastating situation, is rare.”
Calls to KMC, a county-run hospital, were referred to the attorney who handled the case. That attorney on Friday, however, did not return phone messages placed to his firm. A message left on the voicemail of the KMC risk management official who handled the case was also not returned.
The circumstances, according to Fagel, began on July 22, 1996, during the child’s birth, a very difficult one for the mother.
During the boy’s journey through the mother’s birth canal, the boy ingested a large amount of his own feces. Fagel said such an excretion of stool is normal, but to ingest the amount that the boy did is potentially dangerous.
“It created the risk for infection,” Fagel said.
After birth, the mother, a factory worker in Tehachapi, developed a urinary tract infection from the stool her son excreted during birth. The mother’s obstetrician, who had only been certified for a week, discovered the infection and prescribed antibiotics for it.
“This is very significant, because if the mother has an infection, then why would you ignore the baby?” Fagel said.
According to testimony, the nurse who assisted the obstetrician did not tell the child’s pediatrician, Dr. Jess Diamond, that an infection in the mother had been detected.
The nurse, longtime KMC employee Monica Ruiz-Coodey, said that she feared the obstetrician was wet behind the ears and had based the diagnosis on a contaminated specimen.
“She concluded that the mother really didn’t have an infection,” Fagel said. The next day, without knowing from either Ruiz-Coodey or the obstetrician that the mother had contracted an infection, Diamond discharged the boy providing that he return in three to five days for a checkup.
Fagel said Ruiz-Coodey was supposed to make the appointment but could not because the computers were down. No appointment was made for the boy, and the mother was told to call later for an appointment.
The boy, now almost 2, returned to KMC in Bakersfield five days after he was discharged and was diagnosed with meningitis, an illness which causes the membranes of the brain and spinal cord to become inflamed.
He was immediately airlifted in critical condition to a children’s hospital in Fresno, where doctors expected him to die. Yet after removing the boy from a ventilator, the newborn surprisingly recovered from the illness. However, his brain was permanently damaged.
While KMC refused to comment, Fagel said that hospital officials said the obstetrician’s diagnosis of the mother was incorrect. Fagel said the officials insisted that, despite records to the contrary, the mother had not suffered a urinary tract infection.
If the diagnosis of the mother was incorrect, then the pediatrician was correct in releasing the boy, officials testified.
Of the $4.7 million, all but $250,000 are to go toward the boy’s past and future medical care, which is required 24 hours a day. The $250,000, the maximum allowed by state law, was granted to the mother for her pain and suffering. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://ellybeanstalks.blogspot.com/2011/10/aftercare-after-thought.html | 2024-02-21T03:55:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473370.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221034447-20240221064447-00778.warc.gz | 0.990701 | 1,085 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__95726412 | en | Yesterday I was interested to read in the Guardian about a Mumsnet campaign to improve the level of NHS care after miscarriage. It's the kind of article that once upon a time I would have glanced over and then turned the page. But that was before I fell pregnant and before I had a second-trimester miscarriage. A lot of things have changed since then and sometimes it feels like my life falls into two periods - those years before the miscarriage (BM?), and those months that have followed (AM?). I'm the same person fundamentally, but a miscarriage changes you and I see the world a little differently now.
I read the article from start to finish and was going to write something on here about this yesterday, but I felt I needed time to process the words and the messages of the campaigns. I think it's such an important issue. Miscarriage is relatively common - stats I see vary from one in four pregnancies, to one in five pregnancies ending in this way - but from what I've read online and from conversations with friends and colleagues, a person's experience of miscarriage is uncommon. It's very individual and even talking about what has happened remains something of a taboo.
It's hard to think of being 'lucky' when you experience such a tragic loss - the Boy and I were absolutely devastated to lose our baby Beans and it hurt even more that the miscarriage came post 12-weeks, so we thought we had 'made it'. But when I look back at my experience of miscarriage - I think an innately lonely and complicated process - with the breathing space of five months, I believe I was 'lucky'. I had the Boy beside me every step of the way, always a strength and a comfort. We were overwhelmed by the love we received from family and friends, and our colleagues and workplace were accommodating and thoughtful. If any of the pieces of this vital jigsaw had been missing then I know the experience would have been even harder to bear.
But where I was really fortunate was in my dealings with the NHS. The woman who told us that our baby had died at a routine scan was extremely gentle and kind - her eyes pricked with tears as she told us the news and I felt genuine warmth and empathy from her. And the doctor who explained what might have happened and what our options were was incredible. I felt she understood, and while she was kind and compassionate she didn't pull any punches - she explained exactly what would happen and what the pros and cons were of each of the options I was offered (D&C operation, medical management, or 'natural'). I made an informed, if impossible, choice.
I opted - as regular readers of this blog will know - for medical management, and I was given a private room where the Boy was able to stay overnight with me. The process, while painful at times, was welcomingly quiet and respectful. While it is a very difficult thing to go through with and therefore this will sound strange, it couldn't have gone any better. The staff were gentle but honest, and I'd been prepared for it to be more painful and traumatic from what they had said. When I was well enough to be discharged we were able to go to the hospital chapel and say goodbye, and the hospital arranged a beautiful quiet funeral for us that was a real chance to mourn our loss. The hospital cancelled all my further antenatal appointments so I didn't receive any upsetting reminder letters, and my GP called me the following week to make sure I was bearing up ok and to check if I needed anything. It all felt the best it could be, in a situation no woman ever wants to find herself in.
I have been saddened and shocked since my miscarriage to hear or read of other women's experiences that were so dissimilar to mine, lacking the calm and dignity that was there in every part of my loss. Some of the language I've heard was used by doctors infuriates me, and I find it incredible that women losing their children were put on the same wards as those who had newborns - my heart breaks for them to think how painful that must have been, it was bad enough for me when I saw a pregnant person in the street! I feel angry at the lack of planning and thoughtlessness that has led to this.
Why must miscarriage just be 'one of those things'? Something every woman who wants a family might have to go through? I'm sure if 25 per cent of children were dying at five years old, or 20 per cent of adults were dying at 21 years old it wouldn't be just 'one of those things' and there would be more government funding into research about the whys and hows. It makes me angry that it's down to charities like Sands and Bliss to fund and run that work for them.
But I digress, I think this is a really important campaign and I fully support the five-point code of practice Mumsnet recommend. I was 'lucky' that I had all that - and more - and I can't praise the staff or facilities at St Thomas's Hospital any higher. But it shouldn't be down to luck, and someone who has already been so desperately unlucky as to lose their wanted and loved baby shouldn't have to rely on the throw of a dice or a postcode not to suffer any more. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://initiativemagic.com/bold-and-bright-the-rise-of-neon-in-contemporary-wardrobes/ | 2024-02-29T15:06:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474843.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20240229134901-20240229164901-00447.warc.gz | 0.920039 | 2,229 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__17940342 | en | In today’s fashion landscape, neon hues have skyrocketed in popularity, becoming a staple in contemporary wardrobes around the world. Vibrant and eye-catching, neon colors inject a burst of energy into any outfit, making a bold statement wherever you go. Whether it’s a neon yellow dress, a fluorescent green jacket, or electric pink accessories, incorporating neon into your style instantly adds a touch of daring and confidence. This article explores the rise of neon in fashion, shedding light on its origins, its current prominence in the industry, and how anyone can embrace this trend to create a vibrant and unforgettable look.
A Brief History of Neon
The Origins of Neon
Neon, a bold and vibrant color that captures attention instantly, has a fascinating history deeply rooted in the fields of science and art. It all began in the late 19th century, when neon gas was discovered by Sir William Ramsay and Morris W. Travers. The word “neon” itself is derived from the Greek word “neos,” which means new. This groundbreaking discovery paved the way for the creation of neon lighting, an invention that revolutionized the way we illuminate our world.
The Popularity of Neon in the 1980s
While neon lighting was invented in the late 19th century, it wasn’t until the 1980s that neon truly burst onto the fashion scene. The vibrant colors and glowing lights of neon became synonymous with the flashy and energetic aesthetic of the decade. From neon signs illuminating the streets to the iconic neon fashion trends, the 1980s became an era fondly remembered for its bold use of neon.
Neon in Contemporary Fashion
As we fast forward to the present, it’s clear that neon is experiencing a major resurgence in contemporary fashion. This eye-catching color has once again captured the hearts of fashion enthusiasts around the globe. From street style to high-fashion runways, neon has become an integral part of the modern fashion landscape. Let’s explore the various ways neon has found its place in fashion design.
Neon in Fashion Design
The Use of Neon in Clothing
One of the most striking ways neon has infiltrated the fashion world is through clothing. Designers have embraced neon in their collections, creating stunning garments in electrifying shades of pink, green, yellow, and orange. Neon dresses, tops, and even suits have become go-to choices for those looking to make a bold fashion statement. Wearing neon clothing instantly adds a vibrant and youthful energy to any outfit.
Neon Accessories and Footwear
Neon doesn’t just stop at clothing; it has also made its mark in the world of accessories and footwear. Neon handbags, belts, and hats can be used to add a pop of color and elevate any ensemble. When it comes to footwear, neon sneakers have become particularly popular. Whether it’s a pair of neon running shoes or neon high-top sneakers, these eye-catching kicks are a surefire way to make a fashion statement.
The Influence of Pop Culture
Neon in Music and Entertainment
Neon and pop culture go hand in hand. From music videos to album covers, neon colors have long been associated with the world of music and entertainment. Artists such as Madonna, Prince, and Michael Jackson embraced neon in their performances, solidifying its place as a symbol of the vibrant and energetic music scene.
Celebrity Endorsement of Neon Fashion
Celebrities have also played a significant role in popularizing neon fashion. Influential figures like Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and Billie Eilish have been spotted rocking neon outfits on red carpets and in their music videos. Their endorsement has made neon a must-have trend and has further fueled its popularity in the fashion industry.
Neon as a Statement
The Bold and Attention-Grabbing Nature of Neon
Neon fashion is not for the faint-hearted. It demands attention and exudes confidence. Wearing neon is a statement in itself, conveying a bold and fearless attitude. The vibrant hues of neon clothing reflect the wearer’s willingness to stand out from the crowd and embrace their individuality. Neon serves as a beacon, drawing all eyes to you and making a lasting impression.
Expressing Individuality and Self-Confidence
Neon fashion provides a unique opportunity to express individuality and celebrate personal style. The daring nature of wearing neon allows individuals to break free from traditional fashion norms and showcase their true selves. By donning neon clothing, one communicates a sense of self-confidence and a willingness to take risks. Neon fashion is an embodiment of embracing one’s true colors and unapologetically celebrating personal identity.
The Versatility of Neon
Neon in Street Style
One of the reasons for neon’s enduring popularity is its incredible versatility. Whether it’s a street-style ensemble or a high-fashion look, neon can seamlessly integrate into any fashion aesthetic. In street style, neon pieces can be mixed and matched with casual staples, such as jeans and basic T-shirts, to create a vibrant and trendy outfit. Neon accessories can also be incorporated into street-style looks to add a pop of color and elevate the overall ensemble.
Neon in High-Fashion Runways
Neon has also made its mark on the high-fashion runways. From designers like Versace to Balenciaga, neon has become a staple on the catwalks. High-fashion neon ensembles often feature avant-garde designs and innovative silhouettes, pushing the boundaries of traditional fashion. The incorporation of neon in high fashion showcases its ability to be both high-impact and sophisticated at the same time.
Neon in Casual and Sportswear
Neon has found its way into casual and sportswear as well. Activewear brands have embraced neon shades to create bold and energetic workout attire. Whether it’s neon-colored leggings, sports bras, or sneakers, these vibrant pieces not only add a touch of fun to workout routines but also make the wearer more visible in low-light conditions. Neon casualwear, on the other hand, offers an effortless way to inject some vibrancy into everyday outfits. A neon hoodie or a pair of neon joggers can instantly transform a simple outfit into a fashion-forward statement.
The Psychology of Color
The Impact of Neon on Mood and Emotions
Colors have a profound impact on our emotions and mood, and neon is no exception. The vibrant and intense hues of neon are known to evoke feelings of excitement, enthusiasm, and optimism. Wearing neon clothing can lift one’s spirits and exude a contagious sense of happiness. It has the ability to turn heads, spread positive energy, and create a vibrant atmosphere wherever it goes.
Neon as a Symbol of Positivity and Optimism
In a world that often feels saturated with negativity, neon fashion serves as a beacon of positivity and optimism. Choosing to wear neon is a conscious decision to embrace joy and radiate positivity. It sends a message to the world that no matter the circumstances, there is always room for optimism and a brighter tomorrow.
The Sustainability of Neon Fashion
The Use of Sustainable Materials in Neon Clothing
As the fashion industry moves towards a more sustainable future, neon fashion has followed suit. Designers are increasingly incorporating sustainable materials into their neon clothing collections. From organic cotton to recycled polyester, sustainable fabrics are being used to create vibrant and eco-friendly neon pieces. This shift towards sustainability ensures that neon fashion can be enjoyed without compromising the health of the planet.
The Upcycling and Reimagining of Neon Pieces
Another way in which neon fashion promotes sustainability is through the process of upcycling. Neon garments that have lost their initial charm or need repair can be transformed into unique and innovative pieces through upcycling. By breathing new life into these garments, the longevity of neon clothing is extended, reducing waste and showcasing the endless possibilities of sustainable fashion.
Styling Tips for Incorporating Neon
Pairing Neon with Neutral Colors
To create a balanced and visually appealing outfit, consider pairing neon pieces with neutral colors. Neutrals like white, black, beige, or gray act as a backdrop that allows the neon to take center stage. For example, a neon yellow dress can be paired with white sneakers and a beige jacket for a chic and stylish look. This approach ensures that the neon remains eye-catching without overwhelming the overall ensemble.
Mixing Different Neon Shades
If you’re feeling particularly adventurous, don’t be afraid to mix different neon shades in one outfit. Mixing neon colors creates a vibrant and playful aesthetic that exudes confidence. However, be mindful of creating cohesion by choosing tones that complement each other. For instance, pairing a neon pink top with neon green trousers can create a striking contrast that demands attention.
Accessorizing with Neon
For those who want to dip their toes into the neon trend without committing to full neon outfits, accessorizing with neon is the way to go. Neon accessories, such as statement earrings, bold handbags, or vibrant scarves, can be added to any outfit to inject a pop of color and make a fashion statement. These smaller neon accents provide a versatile and subtle way to embrace the trend without overpowering the entire look.
Neon in Different Seasons
Neon for Spring and Summer
Neon is the perfect companion for the vibrant and sunny seasons of spring and summer. The bright and lively hues of neon align perfectly with the blossoming flowers and blue skies. Imagine wearing a neon orange sundress or a neon green bikini while lounging by the poolside. Neon embodies the spirit of these seasons and adds a fun and energetic touch to warm-weather outfits.
Neon for Fall and Winter
Contrary to popular belief, neon is not limited to the warmer months. Neon fashion can be seamlessly incorporated into fall and winter wardrobes as well. Picture yourself walking down the street, donning a cozy neon yellow sweater paired with dark-wash jeans and ankle boots. The vibrant color adds a much-needed pop to the sometimes gloomy weather, brightening up the streets and uplifting your own spirits.
From its origins in scientific discovery to its iconic status in the 1980s, neon has undoubtedly left an indelible mark on the fashion world. Today, neon continues to captivate the fashion industry, offering a bold and vibrant option for self-expression. Whether it’s through clothing, accessories, or footwear, neon fashion allows individuals to embrace their individuality, exude confidence, and make a statement. As we navigate the ever-changing landscape of fashion, neon remains a beacon of positivity, optimism, and sustainability, ensuring that it will continue to shine bright in contemporary wardrobes for years to come. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://mbd-magazine.com/features/single-family/123-de-young-properties | 2019-02-16T10:57:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247480272.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20190216105514-20190216131514-00218.warc.gz | 0.96547 | 1,319 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__126944642 | en | Fresno, California’s De Young Properties has figured out how to leverage more than 70 years of experience.
WHEN A CALIFORNIA homebuyer steps into a model home, energy efficiency is no longer merely a bonus. It can be the deciding factor.
Though De Young Properties was established in 1974, the homebuilder has created a name for itself as one of the most innovative in the California market.
“Efficiency is definitely something everyone wants,” Operations Vice President Brandon De Young says. “When people are shopping for a home, they expect them to be touting energy efficiency.”
Over the past eight years, De Young and his siblings, Ryan and Ashley De Young – the family’s third generation of homebuilders – have focused on innovations to improve not just energy conservation but also water usage, recycling, green construction and other factors.
“We have definitely carved out a niche for ourselves,” he says. “If you polled the average consumer in the area looking for a new home today, you would definitely find our company name in the top three at least of cutting edge, energy efficient, green builders.”
The key, he says, is to keep pushing and exploring.
“We have continually updated our home design specifically related to energy efficiency to make sure that we are using cutting-edge technology,” De Young says.
One example is their electronically commutated motor, a component of De Young homes that De Young says is not employed by other area builders. The company has been using the fan motor, which drops the electricity consumption of an HVAC system by as much as 2/3rds, for more than five years.
“It is things like that we really tout when we are talking to consumers in our model homes,” De Young says. “We are not just green-washing. We are not that builder who will design the home to barely meet some of the requirements for a green building program and not keep trying to innovate. We take it to heart by continually trying to find the most effective technology for our homes to meet, and significantly exceed, the really stringent requirements of the California energy code.”
The team started pursing those greener innovations in earnest about eight years ago with an EnergySmart home program ? a combination of internal protocols and practices, such as using integrated software that ensures a greener building process as well as updates to technologies for the homeowner.
“EnergySmart is our homes' energy efficiency program,” De Young says.
Homes from De Young are third-party rated and certified to be green through the GreenPoint Rated program, run by Build It Green in California. To qualify, homes must be a minimum of 15 percent more energy efficient than the California Energy Code requires.
That was only a starting point for De Young.
“We found that a lot of the techniques, construction practices and energy efficiency of our existing products was really not that far off from what was required to achieve that minimum,” De Young says. “So we made a few adjustments and made sure we met that requirement, and we were off and running.”
A year later, company leaders started looking for ways to improve, again. So the company upped its standards, from 15 percent better than California code to 30 percent better.
“Over time, we doubled the number of points we achieved on the GreenPoint rated scale,” De Young says. “You have to have a minimum of 50 points. We're now over 100 points, well over double what they require.”
Since then, the company also has built zero-net electric homes with solar to offset consumption, which added more awards and accolades to the company, a recipient of two Gold Nugget Awards at the Pacific Coast Builders Conference for Zero Net Energy Home Design. A new lease packaging program from Solar City for solar energy has made those options more affordable, too.
“It's a mindset of continual improvement and the drive to be that builder people think of when they are looking for energy efficiency,” De Young says.
The company also has built two designer homes featured on the HGTV television series, “Showhouse Showdown,” which highlights the customization features De Young offers for homes, which start at 1,700 square feet, through the De Young Design Studio. The studio offers homeowners plenty of options for almost every detail. Just for cabinets, for example, there are more than 80 possibilities.
The attention to homeowner needs and desires helped the company make it through the market crash to where it is now building momentum again.
“We have been lucky enough to be supported by our community,” De Young says, adding that the company is selling about 100 homes annually. Another differentiator is a five-year, fit-and-finish warranty, nearly double what many other builders offer.”
The company has made a point to give back to the community, too, he says. In 2009, De Young was the featured builder in ABC's “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” which provided a home for a mother born without legs and only one fully developed arm. The homebuilder also has served as the builder and major donor for the Central Valley St. Jude Dream Home since 2007, raising over $7.6 million so far to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
For the future, the company is focusing again on making zero-net energy homes more accessible.
“We have been working on it heavily since 2010,” De Young says. “We want to zero not just electricity but also natural gas. We designed and built one of our model homes to meet zero-net energy requirements.”
In 2013, the homebuilder erected a Clovis, California, home in partnership with Pacific Gas & Electric Co. The home is designed to produce as much energy, with solar photovoltaic energy, as it uses. The solar system is oversized ? beyond a home's electrical needs ? so that additional electricity produced in a year is equivalent to that used in natural gas.
“It all starts with us being a familyowned company that literally has grown up here in this community,” De Young says. “We feel so grateful to be supported so long by our community.” | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.ictpmn.org/events/twin-ports-interfaith-fundraiser-for-palestine/ | 2024-03-01T18:46:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475422.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20240301161412-20240301191412-00726.warc.gz | 0.943997 | 2,603 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__63532779 | en | We, the Islamic Center of Twin Ports, anti-Zionist Jewish community members, First Lutheran Church, Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Duluth, Peace United Church of Christ, United Presbyterian Church – Superior, Trinity Episcopal Church – Hermantown and Twin Ports Chapter of American Veterans for Peace, are all here to make a statement about the unfolding tragic situation in Gaza that unfortunately is no longer in the mainstream news in the US despite what the United Nations Secretary General described at various times, as a “crisis of humanity,” “a living hell,” “a bloodbath,” “a situation of utter deepening and unmatched horror.” In Gaza, an entire population of 2 million people living in an area just slightly bigger than the size of Duluth and Superior combined are being besieged and attacked. OXFAM reports that the daily death rate in Gaza higher than any other major 21st Century conflict—250 Palestinians killed per day. Because of the high population density, CNN reports that any one of the 2,000 lb. bombs supplied by the US government, which has a blast radius of 1,200 ft or 56 soccer fields, falls in that population, it can potentially kill 2,300 people. In the early stages of the bombardment, satellite imagery showed more than 500 craters over 40 feet in diameter, consistent with craters left behind by 2,000 lb. bombs. Even if those 500 bombs were only 1% effective, 500 of them would still kill 11,500 people. With this scale of bombardment, the numbers reported by the Gaza Health Ministry as of Jan 30 of 26,637 people killed and 65,387 wounded, are probably underreported. And since nearly half of the Gaza population is under 18 years old, half of those nearly 27,000 killed are children.
We call everyone to find their humanity and demand a stop to this killing. This is not a Muslim, Christian or Jewish issue. This is a human issue. The people who are dying are not animals. They are fathers, mothers, sons and daughters, children and grandchildren. There are numerous reports of whole families and lineages being decimated as bombs fall on their homes. We stand with justice and human decency. All the wrong committed in 1 day on Oct 7 as well as all the wrong committed in the 119 days since then, must stop and the perpetrators be brought to justice. At this time, the media is busy reporting about how trade is being disrupted by the Houthis in Yemen while children’s arms and legs are being amputated without anesthesia in Gaza because the hospitals have all been bombed and there is not enough medical supplies to treat the wounded. There are 35 healthcare organizations in Gaza with a handful of large hospitals. The Associated Press reported that 26 of those organizations are non-functional because of damage sustained. The World Health Organization reported 164 attacks on healthcare in Gaza. Doctors without borders reported last week on the bombing of the largest remaining hospital in Khan Younis, in the south of Gaza, which was supposed to be safe. The hospital’s surgical capacity is now almost nonexistent.
The Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF reported that the Gaza Strip is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child. Quote: “We have said this is a war on children. But these truths do not seem to be getting through. Of the nearly 25,000 people reported to have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the escalation in hostilities, up to 70% are reported to be women and children," he said. "The killing of children must cease immediately." At the International Court of Justice on Jan 11 and 12th, the Irish Lawyer representing South Africa cited the UN Undersecretary General for Humanitarian affairs saying: And I quote: “Gaza has become a place of death and despair, families are sleeping in the open as temperatures plummet. Areas where civilians were told to relocate for safety have come under relentless bombardment. Medical facilities are under relentless attack. The few hospitals that are partially functional are overwhelmed with trauma cases, critically short of medical supplies, and inundated by desperate people seeking safety. A public health disaster is unfolding, infectious diseases are spreading in overcrowded shelters as sewers spillover, some 180 women are giving birth daily amidst this chaos, people are facing the highest level of food insecurity ever recorded. Famine is around the corner. For children in particular, the last 12 weeks have been traumatic: no food, no water, no schools, nothing but the terrifying sounds of war, day in and day out. Gaza has simply become uninhabitable. Its people are facing daily threats to their very existence, while the world watches on.” End quote.
On December 12, 2023, 153 countries voted in the United Nations General Assembly for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and protection of civilians. The US government voted against it. We stand with those 153 countries to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and immediate stop to hostilities and killing of civilians, women and children. We call for the global community to bring those who perpetrated war crimes to be brought to justice, regardless where they come from. We stand here before you as witnesses so we can stand before God in good conscience.
All the religious traditions abhor what is happening and call upon humankind to do something:
In the Quran:
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا كُونُوا قَوَّامِينَ بِالْقِسْطِ شُهَدَاءَ لِلَّهِ وَلَوْ عَلَىٰ أَنفُسِكُمْ أَوِ الْوَالِدَيْنِ وَالْأَقْرَبِينَ ۚ
Oh you who have believed, stand upright with justice, as witnesses for God, even if it is against yourselves or your parents or your family (4:135).
مِنْ أَجْلِ ذَٰلِكَ كَتَبْنَا عَلَىٰ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ أَنَّهُ مَن قَتَلَ نَفْسًا بِغَيْرِ نَفْسٍ أَوْ فَسَادٍ فِي الْأَرْضِ فَكَأَنَّمَا قَتَلَ النَّاسَ جَمِيعًا وَمَنْ أَحْيَاهَا فَكَأَنَّمَا أَحْيَا النَّاسَ جَمِيعًا ۚ
For that reason, we have decreed for the Children of Israel that whosoever killed a human being with no valid justification, or is a corruption on the earth, it is as if he has killed all of humankind. And whosoever saves a life, it is as if he has saved the lives of all humankind (5:32)
In the Bible:
For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ And the King will answer them, "Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me." - Matthew 25:35-40
In the Torah (Old Testament):
"Turn from evil and do good. Seek peace and pursue it." Psalms 34:15.
Yahweh Sabaoth says this. He said, "Apply the law fairly, and show faithful love and compassion towards one another. Do not oppress the widow and the orphan, the foreigner and the poor, and do not secretly plan evil against one another. Zechariah 7:9-10
Martin Luther King, Jr. said: “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”
This fundraiser is the least we can do. Join the Twin Ports interfaith community for the "Twin Ports Interfaith Fundraiser for Palestine" on February 18th, 2024, at the First Lutheran Church, 1100 E Superior St, Duluth. This event aims to support humanitarian efforts in Palestine and embodies our commitment to a world of peace where all people live free from oppression.
The evening, starting at 4:30 PM, features an educational gallery on the conflict from 5:00 to 6:00 PM and a dinner with Palestinian cuisine. The highlight is a presentation by Mariam El-Khatib, a Palestinian-American and community leader, beginning at 6:15 PM. El-Khatib brings a wealth of experience from her involvement with American Muslims for Palestine and LaunchGood.
Proceeds will aid the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. Secure dinner tickets for $55 at https://bit.ly/interfaith-twin-ports; limited seats available. People are also welcome to only attend the presentation, which starts at 6 PM. Donations are encouraged at the event and online for those unable to attend.
Location: First Lutheran Church, Duluth, MN
Date: February 18, 2024
4:30 PM: Doors Open
5:00 - 6:00 PM: Gallery & Dinner
6:15 - 7:00 PM: Presentation & Q&A
UN Relief Chief on humanitarian crisis in Gaza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhknN2h-LS0
Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (OXFAM) https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-other-major-21st-century-conflict-oxfam
CNN December 22, 2023 ‘Not seen since Vietnam’: Israel dropped hundreds of 2,000-pound bombs on Gaza, analysis shows” https://www.cnn.com/gaza-israel-big-bombs/index.html.
Al-Jazeera https://www.aljazeera.com/tag/israel-war-on-gaza/
Reuters “Battles rage as Palestinians say Gaza toll passes 25,000”, https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/death-toll-israeli-strikes-gaza-passes-25000-gaza-health-officials-say-2024-01-21/
NPR “Children make up nearly half of Gaza's population. Here's what it means for the war” https://www.npr.org/2023/10/19/1206479861/israel-gaza-hamas-children-population-war-palestinians
UNICEF https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/statement-unicef-deputy-executive-director-ted-chaiban-upon-conclusion-his-visit
Irish Lawyer Blinne Ni Ghralaigh KC at the International Court of Justice https://youtu.be/ZS6IYp0BErg
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https://www.faroportugaltourism.com/faro-beaches/ilha-deserta.html | 2023-03-20T10:13:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943471.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230320083513-20230320113513-00633.warc.gz | 0.944768 | 1,210 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__106048831 | en | Ever dreamed of going to a deserted island? You can do so in Faro. It’s literally called Ilha Deserta (“Desert Island”), but is also known as Ilha da Barreta. It’s an uninhabited island, with a 7km-long (4 miles) stretch of sand that’s been made an official nude beach. You don’t have to take it all off (naturists tend to stay on the western end), but you’ll want to spend some time in the sun with nothing but pristine nature around you.
This is a beautiful and unspoiled natural paradise, and the only human constructions are sheds by the pier, a small lighthouse, and a wooden restaurant that you see when you arrive on a boat from central Faro. Open throughout the year, the restaurant runs on solar power and specializes in fresh fish and seafood. It’s the only place where you can find a bathroom on the island.
Word of mouth and frequent boats have made this a more popular destination, but it’s never crowded. In the summer, however, it does have wicker parasols and loungers for rent, as well as lifeguards on duty. That’s good news for those who like the typical beach experience, but it takes away some of the wild atmosphere that characterized it for so long. Those looking for peace and quiet can still find it away from the concessioned area. As there are no cliffs or trees, there’s no shade, so if you want to avoid the sun, you have to rent a parasol or bring your own.
The white sand and the water are clean, giving the beach a Blue Flag certification. The water temperature tends to be a little higher than at other beaches on this coast, reaching 24 degrees Celsius (75 degrees Fahrenheit) in the summer.
The northern side of the island, facing the city of Faro, has calmer waters, while the southern side tends to have waves. However, these waves are not big enough for surfing, and this is not a beach for water sports. The main activity, besides sunbathing and swimming, is collecting shells, which you see on the shore and in the crystal-clear water. However, tourists are discouraged from taking shells home, to preserve the island’s ecosystem. As you’ll see signs advising, take only photos and leave just your footprints.
Ilha Deserta is just one of a series of barrier islands on the Ria Formosa Natural Park, considered one of the natural wonders of Portugal. It extends east from Faro to close to the Spanish border. This is the only deserted island. It also stands out for being Portugal’s southernmost point, called Cabo de Santa Maria (“Santa Maria Cape”) and marked by a wooden structure pointing in the direction of different world cities.
A 2km-long boardwalk over the dunes takes you around the island. You shouldn’t leave without going on a peaceful walk, breathing in the unpolluted air and admiring the views, the flora and the fauna. Even in the high season, there are places where you’re completely alone, making this one of the most relaxing destinations in Algarve.
Beach for: Couples, Naturists
Bathrooms: Yes (at the restaurant)
Bar or Restaurant: Yes
Parking: No (ferry access only)
How to Get to Ilha Deserta
Ilha Deserta can only be reached by boat from Faro. There’s a regular ferry service and a speedboat shuttle, both departing from a pier by the Porta Nova gateway of the Old Town walls (it’s a short walk from the marina). Tickets are bought from the stands by the pier, which list the schedules -- make sure you note the time of the last boat if you plan to stay on the island for the entire day. The ferry takes about 45 minutes but is a pleasant journey, allowing you to see flamingos and other aquatic birds. It operates throughout the year, has bathrooms and capacity for 96 passengers. A 1-way ticket is 5 euros. Naturally, the speedboat is much faster, reaching the island in about 15 minutes. It costs twice as much as the ferry (10 euros, one way) but saves you 30 minutes (one hour of your day, when you add the return). The regular speedboat takes as many as 18 people. If you miss the last ferry or regular speedboat, a private boat at a higher price is your only way to get off the island until the following morning.
Beaches by Ilha Deserta
If you enjoyed your time at this beach, head to the neighboring island of Farol. There are boats departing from the pier in Faro and from the city of Olhão.
Hotels by Ilha Deserta
Eva Senses Hotel
This is the hotel closest to the pier for the boats to the island. It faces the marina and has spacious rooms with balconies, some with a sea view. On the rooftop is a pool, and there’s also a panoramic restaurant and a spa.
SEE PRICES, AVAILABILITY AND MORE DETAILS HERE: Eva Senses Hotel
Hotel Faro & Beach Club
Conveniently located by the marina and just steps from the pier, this hotel also offers a boat service to Ilha Deserta in the summer. It has bright rooms with balconies, a rooftop terrace with a restaurant and a swimming pool open throughout the year, and a spa.
SEE PRICES, AVAILABILITY AND MORE DETAILS HERE: Hotel Faro & Beach Club | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://pensford10k.com/about-the-pensford-10k/ | 2023-03-25T07:46:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945317.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20230325064253-20230325094253-00234.warc.gz | 0.961528 | 361 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__190670998 | en | The first Pensford 10k took place in May 1988, organised by a local enthusiast, Pete McGuiness, with support from Somer AC. A Fun Run organised by Pensford Primary School followed the 10k and has done so ever since.
Over the 30 years on the roads the 10k gained a loyal following and a reputation as a tough race, mainly due to the legendary Peppershells hill at the halfway point. It was never a course for PBs! (If you’d like to see the old road course you can see it here.)
In 2018 we decided to take the race off-road and explore the countryside along the River Chew, resulting in one of the best new trail runs in the South West. Just to make things even harder, in 2019 we introduced the river section!
Now organised by a group of local volunteers, helped on the day by a small army of race marshals and other helpers, the 10k has become a fixture, with the Fun Run always proving popular. And with the help of our sponsors and advertisers, we’ve been able to support a lot of local causes over the years, including the Pensford memorial hall and the installation of defibrillators in the village.
After a very successful 2019 race, we’re delighted to make a £1000 donation to the Pensford Primary School Riverbank Project, as reported in the Chew Valley Gazette. Huge thanks again to all of the runners, marshals and our sponsors and advertisers for making this happen!
The 2020 edition of the race was sadly postponed due to the Covid 19 pandemic, but on Sunday 11th July 2021 we finally managed to hold the race, with wave starts. Looking forward to getting back to normal conditions in 2022! | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://angolabusinessdaily.com/stories/515900008-endiama-angola-and-russia-discuss-diamond-mining | 2020-02-26T03:06:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875146186.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20200226023658-20200226053658-00483.warc.gz | 0.946171 | 236 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__153289763 | en | Endiama issued the following announcement on Oct. 24.
Angolan President Joao Lourenco and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are discussing in Sochi Thursday the deepening of "economic cooperation" between the two countries.
According to the Russian news agency TASS, one of the main topics of discussions between the two heads of state, is the trade and economic cooperation of Russia and Angola, with greater emphasis on diamond extraction.
Klemlin spokesman Yuri Ushakov said the turnover between Russia and Angola has increased 42% in the last seven months to $ 34.8 million.
Meanwhile, Ushakov recalled that Russian company Alrosa is co-founder of Angola's premier diamond mining company “Catoca” - and revealed that the two countries are developing a “geology and mining cooperation program by 2025”.
As part of the Russia-Africa summit, according to a note from the Angolan President's Civil House, “the presidential mission in Russia includes the signing of protocols in various fields, the training of cadres and the implementation of a fertilizer industry in Angola”.
Original source can be found here. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://eab-berlin.eu/en/event/06-12-2023/radio-spatkauf-podcast | 2024-02-26T11:10:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474659.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20240226094435-20240226124435-00350.warc.gz | 0.902002 | 510 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__44998046 | en | Radio Spätkauf (Podcast)
The view from the morning window confirms it: Winter is here. While the snow blankets the city and vast parts of Europe in white magic, and the Christmas lights cast our cities in a special glow, winter is the harshest season for the most vulnerable in our society. How do the homeless fare in these times? What support measures exist in our city? And how can art change our perspective on homeless people in our city, on our continent, and bring us closer to the issue?
We would like to discuss these and other questions with our guests and you. We cordially invite you to be part of this important conversation. The event will be conducted in English and recorded.
We are pleased to invite you to a special event hosted by the European Academy Berlin. The theme of the evening will be "Homelessness in Berlin and Beyond," a topic that deserves special attention, especially in the cold season.
Location: Salon am Moritzplatz, Oranienstraße 58, 10969 Berlin
Admission: From 7:00 PM
We have assembled an impressive panel for this discussion:
- Karen Holzinger, Head of Homelessness Assistance at the Berlin City Mission
- Kathrin Schultz, Queerhomes
- Debora Ruppert, Artist
- Dan Stern, Moderator from the Radio Spaetkauf Podcast
The event will begin at 7:30 PM with the recording of a podcast episode in which the guests will share their perspectives and experiences. The discussion and recording will conclude around 9:00 PM. Subsequently, we invite you to a get-together with drinks and finger food, lasting until 9:45 PM.
This event marks the pilot episode of a new collaboration between the European Academy Berlin and the Radio Spaetkauf Podcast. Radio Spaetkauf (https://www.radiospaetkauf.com/) is an English-language news podcast from Berlin. The broadcast of the "RSxEAB" show will take place a few days after the recording. We will inform you in our next newsletter [https://www.eab-berlin.eu/de/newsletter].
Kindly confirm your attendance by 05/12/2023, 12:00 PM.
We look forward to an informative and enriching evening. The event is made possible by project funding from the Federal Foreign Office and co-financing from the European Union. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://leeuwenhoek.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/resurrection/ | 2019-02-21T09:48:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247503844.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20190221091728-20190221113728-00381.warc.gz | 0.958847 | 137 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__96736833 | en | I am looking to restart this blog on a casual basis, with the goal of sharing items on and around the Dutch Golden Age, with a focus on science. art and culture. It will no longer be Leeuwenhoek-centric, (although he remains one of my personal heroes of science), but rather it will generally share how that era continues to reverberate in society today. It will probably retain the bias I have for Delft, but that is to be expected.
I’m presently looking for a new blog name, so suggestions will be accepted! (…and yes, The Dutch Golden Age has already occurred to me, and may still be used.) | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://coloradoflights.org/2022/09/19/winter-air-schedule/ | 2024-02-22T04:37:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473690.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222030017-20240222060017-00088.warc.gz | 0.914149 | 515 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__201774891 | en | TELLURIDE, Colorado (August 5, 2025) – While the airline industry continues to recover, Telluride’s winter air schedule features two major additions, along with two route hiatuses, for the coming this season. Served by two airports, Montrose Regional Airport (MTJ) just 75 minutes away and Telluride Regional Airport (TEX), one of ski country’s most convenient just ten minutes from town and the slopes, Telluride offers skiers and riders some of the best air service in the Rockies.
Two long-term objectives will fly into Montrose Regional Airport (MTJ) this winter, including the addition of nonstop service from Austin and the return of daily service from Atlanta. Southwest will fly from the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) on Saturdays from January-March, and Delta will return to daily flying from Atlanta-Hartsfield Jackson International Airport from December-early April.
“Austin has long-been considered a sister city to Telluride, and we are thrilled to offer their avid skiers and riders a nonstop option on Southwest this winter. Upgrading its longstanding service from ATL to MTJ, Delta returns to daily flying from one of Telluride’s key markets and the largest airport in the country,” said Colorado Flights CEO Matt Skinner.
Along with the welcome additions, MTJ will also see a stoppage of service on two of its winter routes with American Airlines, daily Chicago (ORD) and Saturday Los Angeles (LAX). As the travel industry recovers, the intention is to reestablish these routes in the future. Both of these airports will continue to be served by United Airlines.
Telluride Regional Airport will offer daily jet service from Denver and Phoenix again this winter. Denver Air now has interline relationships with United and American, allowing travelers to book connecting flights straight into TEX through both global networks.
Other MTJ carriers and routes will operate as normal, with Telluride offering 14 nonstop flights from 12 major U.S. hubs into the two airports this winter:
- United: daily Denver, Chicago, Houston, New York/Newark, and multi-day San Francisco & Los Angeles
- American: daily Dallas (DFW) and Phoenix, Saturday New York/La Guardia
- Southwest: daily Denver, Saturday Dallas (DAL) and Austin
- Delta: daily Atlanta
- Denver Air/United/American: daily Denver and Phoenix to TEX | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://thompsontaraz.co.uk/news/144/AREF_membership | 2019-09-23T06:49:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514576122.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20190923064347-20190923090347-00516.warc.gz | 0.963185 | 306 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__42747033 | en | Thompson Taraz has joined the Association of Real Estate Funds (“AREF”) as an affiliate member. Affiliate membership is open to leading property industry advisers and firms who offer support to real estate funds and their managers.
John Cartwright, Chief Executive of AREF gave Thompson Taraz “a warm welcome to the Association”.
Founder and Director of Thompson Taraz, Afshin Taraz, said: “Membership of the association is a natural fit for us due to our long history of working as a fund operator in the real estate industry. We are very much looking forward to being an active part of AREF, helping to promote the association’s values and activities.”
One of the first AREF events to be attended by TT is the regulatory discussion: ‘AIFMD – The Journey So Far’, to take place on 17th November. Thompson Taraz was one of the first firms in the UK to receive its Small UK AIFM Status from the FCA in March this year. (See News & Views, 2014 April 01.) Then, in June, the FCA approved its application to act as an AIFMD depositary to closed ended unauthorised private equity and real estate funds. (See News & Views, 2014 June 10.)
For more information on this AREF event, please see http://www.aref.org.uk/events/aifmd-journey-so-far | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.redahmusic.com/ | 2024-04-19T12:52:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817398.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419110125-20240419140125-00572.warc.gz | 0.974828 | 288 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__64849131 | en | Welcome to my world! I am Redah, singer - songwriter, record producer, audio engineer and audio editor based in Los Angeles, CA.
I have been writing, recording, producing and mixing music as well as sound for film and TV for over a decade.
As a singer/songwriter my music has been used in commercials for major companies such as Big Lots and McDonald's, as well as in various film & TV programs all over the world through Universal Production Music.
As a music producer, my skills especially on vocals have been widely recognized on major TV shows such as NBC The Voice, American Idol, and on records such as Elliphant’s “To The End" featured in Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse, which won “Best Animated Film” at the 76th annual Golden Globes, the 91st Academy Awards, and which was nominated for “Best Soundtrack Compilation” at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards. In 2021, singer-songwriter and American Idol winner Chayce Beckham's single "23" that I vocal produced and mixed alongside Ross Copperman has reached Number One on the Worldwide Itunes Charts and Billboard Country digital sales.
As an audio editor, my credits include work for major companies such as Google, Netflix, Chase Bank, Venmo, Ross, Verizon, ELF Cosmetics, and AAMCO. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://swathi-balaji.medium.com/what-is-india-going-through-caa12cedf2f3?source=post_internal_links---------7---------------------------- | 2022-09-27T20:19:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335058.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220927194248-20220927224248-00330.warc.gz | 0.96655 | 1,722 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__294226733 | en | What is India going through?
Did the double mutant help set a world record?
India ranked highest in the world with its daily cases reaching as high as 3,14,835 last Thursday(22/04/2021). As the second wave mercilessly crashes through the country breaking the healthcare system and eating up the crematoriums, the people let out their loudest cry for help. Several questions are unclear as the data are not disclosed publicly, although several doctors and scientists report that they observe a different trend in the cases during the second wave. Several youngsters seem to be infected, doctors in Delhi report that unlike the first wave most people getting hospitalised are in their 30s, and more deaths were seen in people without any comorbidities.
India had 10 lakh active cases during the last peak but now the reports show 14 lakh active cases. Although many hospitals and doctors say that children are showing serious infections there are no connections yet showing that the rate of infection (no. of children being infected) is higher now than before. Many doctors say that there is a possibility that the number of children who tested positive in the first wave were overlooked because most of them were asymptomatic.
“Children are definitely more symptomatic now than what we saw in the first wave,” Tanu Singhal, a pediatrician and infectious disease specialist at Mumbai’s Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, told the Hindustan Times. “The severity of their illness has gone up.”
Some children had to be hospitalised in Mumbai for gastrointestinal infections, breathlessness, and fever — all linked to the virus. “Those with gastrointestinal infections had to be put on intravenous fluids,” paediatrician Bakul Parekh told Hindustan Times. “The patients who were breathless required steroids and oxygen support.”
What is the reason for the surge?
There is no one particular reason for the surge, there are many. The number one reason being the complete negligence in following social distancing guidelines and protective measures once there was a decrease in the cases. Another reason is that India, despite manufacturing huge proportions of the world’s vaccine supply, failed to vaccinate its population when there was a decrease in cases and the hospitals and nurses had time to spare to safely administer the vaccine.
The double mutant strain of the virus definitely has an important impact on the cases, but taking in to consideration the aforementioned reasons, and the general lack of statistics related to the strain, there is no surety that the mutant virus is the number one cause of the surge.
To add to this trying situation, India now has another mutant strain derived from the Β.1.617 strain called the triple mutant or B.1.618. This strain is found in samples from Bengal, Maharashtra and New Delhi, even little data is available on this virus, all we have so far are speculations.
What do we know about the mutant strain?
The strain of virus that is of concern in India is called B.1.617, this strain, however, is not a new mutant, it was first entered into the global genome database as early as Oct 2020. India reported having sequenced the highest number of this viral genome, followed by the UK and then by the US. There might be a small bias in the data based simply on the fact that the country that has performed higher sequencing would have detected a higher number of the B.1.617 strain.
How worrying are the constant mutations in the virus?
The nature of any virus is to mutate. The reason behind this is evolution through natural selection, just as any living being evolves by natural selection, viruses do too.
The aim of the human immune system is to defend the body from pathogens, similarly the aim of the pathogen is to come up with new ways to evade the immune system, reproduce and infect more hosts. In order to meet this aim, every time the virus replicates the characteristics that help evade the immune system are restored, and the characteristics that negatively affect their spread and evasion are left behind. It is also interesting to note that the aim of the virus is never to kill the host (as they require a host to reproduce and spread), if the host is dead then the virus has no means of transmission, hence ideally as the virus evolves it would aim to increase its infectiousness and decrease its fatality rates.
During replication, all cells that have DNA as the genetic material have a special proofreading tool that prevents mistakes from happening while the genetic code is copied from the parent genome to the daughter. Whereas cells with RNA as the genetic material lack the proofreading tool, which leads to many mistakes during copying of the parent genome. These changes result in the formation of different proteins, thereby altering the characteristics of the virus, making it more or less infectious.
Mutations to be noted in the two variants.
The B.1.617 strain has 13 mutations as compared to the original strain (hence calling it double mutant isn’t very accurate), the most notable mutation in this is the E494Q and L452R.
The E494Q mutation also called the escape mutation occurs in the 484th position of the genome, the UK, South African and the Brazil variant also have a similar mutation in the 484th position their mutation is E484K instead.This mutation is known to help the virus slip past the human immune response
Despite having the escape functionality, not much statisitc information is available on the E494Q mutation except for few studies that show a reduction of neutralization (inactivation of the virus by antibodies) by some but not all convalescent plasma taken from people who were tested positive naturally for SARS-CoV-2.
The other major mutation found in the B.1.617 strain — L452R, is also found in few other variants like B.1.429 (California strain). It is predicted to increase the viral infectivity and its host immune evasion potency. Experts report weaker neutralization of the virus by convalescent plasma and also by monoclonal antibodies in lab experiments.
The P681R or P681H which is found in various strains like B.1.617, B.1.318 B.1.1.7 is found next to the furin cleavage sites on the spike protein (which is said to be responsible for the virus’s relatively high infectivity). This mutation could lead to a change in the spike protein processing or other activities of the virus, although more information is essential to understand for sure the changes brought by this combination of mutations.
The major mutations in the B.1.618 or the triple mutant are:
- A deletion and two changes in spike protein
- Deletion of H146 and Y145
- Mutation in E484K and D614G in spike protein
Is B.1.617 a variant of concern?
The criteria for a mutant strain to be considered a variant of concern(VoC) is if it has:
1)increased transmissibility or virulence
2) a decrease in the effectiveness of vaccines, treatments, diagnostic assays, or other public health measures.
3) escaped from immunity derived from natural infection.
This variant is currently classified as a variant under investigation by the Public health England, this means the virus has highly certain predictable data that it has undergone mutations that cause adverse effects, but still doesn’t meet the definition of a variant of concern.
Despite having several qualities of a VoC, there hasn't been much time to investigate the viral capabilities in a lab. It also takes some more time to study evidence from real-world vaccination reports. which is why we can’t be certainly sure if this strain is the cause of the surge or if it is merely co-incidental that the surge and the spread of the strain happened at the same time. It is essential to confirm if there was indeed a cause and effect relationship before declaring the strain as a VoC, which is difficult to do currently as there has been only 1000 sequences submitted by India, out of 4 million cases. Also this strain was detected back in 2020, therefore if it is just catching momentum now, then chances are that it isn’t as transmissible as the other variants of concern. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.kcequipment.com.au/kc-carries-on-tradition-at-tweed-banana-festival/ | 2024-02-26T20:55:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474663.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20240226194006-20240226224006-00752.warc.gz | 0.922856 | 353 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__100401033 | en | Tweed Valley Banana Festival Parade Returns To The Northern Rivers With KC Equipment On Show
- On Saturday the 25th of August the Tweed Valley Banana Festival returned to glory, with a triumphant street parade once again winding its way through the streets of the Murwillumbah CBD. The local KC Equipment team headed the parade in a shiny red Massey Ferguson tractor, continuing a tradition set by former local AGCO dealer Noel Graham.
Led by two mounted police, the Massey Ferguson 5610 fronted the parade, carrying with it several royal treasures - the outgoing '2017 Banana Queen' Billie Goodsell, along with this year's 'King and Queen Bananas,' and two award-winning banana bunches. The festival's '2018 Banana Queen' winners were right behind the Massey tractor, travelling in style in the official banana-shaped banana festival float, fronted by festival mascot Banana Jim.
Overall the event was a huge success, and the team at KC Equipment are looking forward to next year's parade!
For more information on the Tweed Valley Banana Festival, visit their Facebook page here.
KC Equipment services the Agricultural, Golf, Sports, Commercial and Residential grounds care industries with a huge range of equipment from the world’s leading manufacturers, including Massey Ferguson, Iseki, Kubota, and Jacobson. With over thirty years of experience, branches in Yatala, Lismore and Murwillumbah, and a huge parts and supplier network, KC Equipment can assist you with all aspects of your operation.
KC Equipment – for everything in your shed.
For any media enquiries, contact Jean-Paul Mollinger, Marketing Coordinator, on [email protected] | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.legacymuseumonmain.org/ | 2014-03-11T23:23:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1394011352596/warc/CC-MAIN-20140305092232-00014-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.941943 | 191 | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-10__0__134575011 | en | THE NUTCRACKER THROUGH 30 DECEMBERS
Legacy Museum on Main is pleased to join the LaGrange community in celebrating The Nutcracker through 30 Decembers. Costumes, programs, newspaper stories, photographs, posters, and more will be featured in the exhibit which will be on display at Legacy Museum from Thursday, December 5 until Saturday, January 11, 2013. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, December 12 from 3:30 to 5:30. The public is invited.
Many of the costumes that will be on display date from the 1980s and the earliest productions of The Nutcracker in LaGrange. A few of the displays feature “then and now” costumes with examples of current costumes next to original costumes. A special photograph of The Nutcracker cast dates from December 1955 when Mary Cleaveland directed the classic Christmas show with students at Harwell Avenue School. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://bioresetmedical.com/a-virtual-fireside-chat-episode-with-tv-host-writer-producer-dave-aizer-recorded-may-10-2020/ | 2023-01-27T18:05:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764495001.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20230127164242-20230127194242-00501.warc.gz | 0.965834 | 238 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__214003797 | en | Dr. Cook sits with American TV Host, Writer and Producer Dave Aizer and welcomes pointers around public speaking, in the quest to becoming the next Howard Stern of Podcasts.
“When you can let go of everything you feel you have to do perfect and you just exist, that’s when creativity starts flowing,” says Aizer. Dr. Cook shares that he\’s applying the same concept in his practice when coaching members of his team who experience anxiety and stress.
Listen in as Aizer also shares more about the symptom known as “Imposter Syndrome”, where no matter how credentialed and successful you are, a fear washes over you as soon as you get up on that stage. Aizer provides tips on ways to overcome this fear and more. “A big moment when you go from being okay to being a really good public speaker, is when you can get rid of the idea that you’re chasing perfection. Set your foot on that stage and be okay without giving a perfect performance.”
This and more with Aizer and Dr. Cook on this unique episode of the BioReset Podcast. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://therapystars.co.uk/baby-walkers-dont-physiotherapists-like/ | 2024-02-29T12:34:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474808.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20240229103115-20240229133115-00334.warc.gz | 0.9548 | 1,215 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__45414373 | en | Lots of parents choose to put their baby into a baby walker. These activity centre-style walkers tend to be advertised as being for babies as young as 4 months old and are often marketed to parents as a way of encouraging a child’s mobility. So why don’t paediatric physiotherapists recommend them? In this article, our team outlines the hidden dangers of a baby walker, why you should avoid using walkers for your baby and the effects they can have if you don’t.
So, are baby walkers safe? Paediatric physiotherapists and other health experts strongly discourage the use of baby walkers because of the accidents they can cause and the potential developmental problems they contribute towards. Baby walkers give babies unnatural height and speed which increases the risk of injury, whilst also forcing walking before the baby may be developmentally ready.
Read on to learn more about the dangers associated with baby walkers and why physiotherapists advise against using them.
Are Baby Walkers Safe?
In short, no, sit-in baby walkers are not safe for your baby despite them being heavily advertised by brands around the world for babies as young as four months. Although they are advertised as a way of encouraging a child’s mobility they can be very harmful both immediately and long term for your child. There are two main reasons why we would not recommend a baby walker; firstly due to safety and secondly in relation to a baby’s development. We’ve highlighted these factors in more detail below.
Any parent’s first priority is to keep their child safe, and although you won’t mean to, every time you place your child in a baby walker, you do increase their risk of injury. Every year there are many reports of babies being injured whilst in a baby walker. These accidents include;
- Trapping of limbs
- Head injuries
- Burns and scalds
- Tripping and Falling
When you place your child into a baby walker you’re aiding them to have unnatural height and speed which increases their risk of accessing hazardous things which may cause them injury. This could include knocking objects from a height that is usually out of reach, falling down the stairs, and trapping limbs in between the walker and objects around them. Some studies have shown that just under half of the babies that are put into a baby walker will experience some form of injury whilst using it.
A baby will walk when a baby is developmentally ready. In order to get to the point of walking, a baby has to learn so many other things. The timescales for a baby to walk will also depend on their body shape, motivation, personality and many other factors. Various studies carried out have shown that not only do baby walkers not encourage a child’s development but they can actually cause a delay in a baby’s motor development milestones.
Spending lots of time in a walker limits the amount of time spent in other positions like lying on the floor and walkers also alter a baby’s ability to see their legs and feet. At such a young age babies are learning where their body parts are, relative to themselves and to their environment, another skill that is essential for a developing baby. There is also evidence that suggests that the use of baby walkers can cause a child to walk on their toes. This may be because their muscles and joints are not ready to take their own body weight at such a young age. The toe walking may also continue once your child is walking independently.
How Long Should a Baby Be in a Walker?
Although we strongly recommend that you avoid using baby walkers, we understand that some parents may still choose to use them. If you do decide to use one with your baby, the APCP (Association of Paediatric Chartered Physiotherapists) have published a parent leaflet that advises that your child is always under close supervision and that they use a walker for no longer than 20 minutes at a time. Also ensure your child’s feet are flat on the floor, not up on their toes to prevent persistent toe walking beyond a normal development point.
If you’re worried that your baby is continuing to tip toe walk, physiotherapy is a great way to help rectify and resolve the abnormality, we discussed the topic in-depth in our recent blog.
What Are Some Alternatives To Baby Walkers?
Ideal alternatives to baby walkers include letting your baby do natural activities without the need for aids such as crawling or tummy time. If you’d like to read more about tummy time and its benefits, read one of our recent blog posts – Tummy Time What to Expect.
Here your baby will learn skills that are crucial to their motor development like rolling, sitting and using their arms and hands to lean on. It also supports crossing information in the brain which helps the baby’s development, as the left half of the brain controls the left side of the body and vice versa with the right side. This is a development that is missed when using a baby walker.
If you use a baby walker to help contain your child, why not try using a stationary activity centre? This allows them to experience sensory stimulation and development without having to move around.
Paediatric Physiotherapy From Therapy Stars
At Therapy stars, we have an expert team who are professionally trained physiotherapists and hydrotherapists working with babies, children and young adults who are diagnosed with genetic and mobility-limiting conditions or who are experiencing developmental delays. We have a range of excellent facilities and packages that can be tailored to your child’s needs, whilst providing treatment that is engaging and fun.
To contact us simply book a complimentary call with one of our team to discuss which child physiotherapy services we can provide. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.lisasmithputnam.com/new-page | 2019-09-18T00:56:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514573173.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20190918003832-20190918025832-00445.warc.gz | 0.964414 | 635 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__113725384 | en | As Lisa Tells It – Life Is Pretty Awesome!
What could be better than waking up each morning knowing that you are meant to be here for the purpose of fulfilling all your heart’s desires? In the end you certainly do not want to leave with any regrets, that’s for sure!
Currently, you can find Lisa hosting her Pet radio show formerly“Your Pets My Dogs”, but known now as SIMPLY PETS RADIO (www.simplypetsradio.com). Her new book on pet etiquette, “Petetiquette”, in which she is the Ms. Manners for pets, is due out in October 2016. And the month prior, September 2016, Lisa’s new pet magazine “Simply Pets Magazine” (www.simplypetsmagazine.com) launches nationwide. This isn’t all; Lisa will also be involved, front and center, in several of her other loves, a show dedicated to our PetKids... Simply Pets Shopping Network and Lisa Smith Putman’s Talk Show”, a place for all people to come together and, well...talk!
If you enjoyed the variety talk shows of yester year you know how perfect Lisa is to host the variety talk show of today! She makes you smile, makes you laugh and helps you escape into a world of fun, forgetting all the troubles of the day! Lisa’s love of music (after all she IS the “female black Dick Clark”) is what connects her to all the things she loves in life! Having had a very successful test run with “Back Home With Lisa Smith-Putnam” with overwhelmingly positive reviews, Lisa is thrilled to announce that a new season of her variety talk show will return to television in the spring of 2017.
Lisa’s incredible love of people, animals and music is the motivating factor for all that she’s accomplished, but it is her love of family that makes her who she is in this life, someone overflowing with love and a need for togetherness.
When you first meet Lisa, as much as she has going on, it will be YOU who will be made to feel special. In those moments you will KNOW that Lisa would rather be nowhere else, but there getting to know you. That’s the beauty of Lisa. Her life is one amazing story after another and there is no better storyteller! She can entertain for hours on end if asked.
Some of her favorite projects haven’t even been mentioned yet because they’re so special we don’t want them to get lost in the fray. But to give you a hint “Walk A Mile In Your Shoes” is in development. This is a show that will pull at the heartstrings of people from all walks of life. “Round Robin” is another favorite, a game show she has in the works that is just hilarious! This show is being created for participants of all ages; even little children can play, and surely they will! | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://breakingbeijing.com/commentary | 2019-10-13T23:54:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986648343.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20191013221144-20191014004144-00170.warc.gz | 0.963956 | 2,123 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__13857399 | en | “The Americans had an apt phrase to describe a situation like ours, where your strength grows but your options become ever more limited: Manifest Destiny. “Destiny drives you forward but ties your hands.” -Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War
China’s rise has left it with great potential but few options. Many of its needs and policies run counter to the current international order. A rising power must expand and amass power and influence to survive, or else it risks being left to the annals of history. China cannot maintain its more than three decade long economic boom for much longer without massive changes to the regional and global order in its favor. Failure to seize opportunities created by American indifference and decline, would delay China’s ascendancy to hegemony and perhaps threaten the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) legitimacy and power. Historically, many of the battles fought between hegemons and their challengers have been decided by whomever controls the seas and the lucrative trade routes that travel through them. In Southeast Asia, the fight for those key maritime trade routes in the South China Sea (SCS) will fall between the nations of ASEAN, the US, and China. China has already taken steps to secure the South China Sea by constructing and militarizing artificial islands that it says justify its claim to the entire SCS, threatening those who challenge its internationally-recognized-as-illegitimate claims. In order to understand just how important control of this region is to Chinese ascendance, we must first look at how previous states have come to power, and what drove them to war.
Hegemonic conflict is far from a new concept in international relations. Empires rise and fall with the changing of the tides, and those tides are often red with the blood of competing powers. Sino-US competition in the Pacific will likely be no different. The end of Pax Americana does not simply mean an end to the world order created in the 25 years since the fall of the USSR, it means the beginning of the end for many of the US-backed international institutions that have existed since the end of WWII. China cannot complete its rise to hegemony without reorganizing the international order in its favor, nor could it do so without having influence over much of the world’s economy and trade. Given the recent slowing of the Chinese economy, Beijing cannot wait decades for these institutions to erode on their own and for the US to fall back on its own, it must force the issue, most likely within the next decade, if it wishes to supersede US dominance of the world stage.
The beginning of the modern hegemonic cycle began in the 15th Century, at the dawn of the Age of Exploration as Portugal sent its ships to the farthest reaches of the world, and gained an edge in the colonization of the New World. The Portuguese dominance of navigation and their superior knowledge of the Earth’s oceans enabled Portugal to seize valuable ports and resources, establishing lucrative trade routes and relationships with far-flung regions. The US has a similar advantage in that it is the world-guarantor of freedom of navigation. In fact, America’s first post-Independence conflict was fought over freedom over navigation rights in the Mediterranean and those same rights have become a major talking point for the US in the South China Sea.
In the latter half of the 16th century, the Dutch came to power through their control of credit markets and investment. As Portugal began to decline, the Dutch could invest heavily in private expeditions and their navy to challenge the Portuguese status quo. The Dutch attacked the overseas holdings of Portugal across the globe, securing much of the spice trade and enriching the Netherlands at the cost of Portuguese power and influence throughout the world. Increased Dutch wealth and overseas investment enabled the Dutch to expand as Portugal was occupied with other conflicts and interests (notably the 80 Years’ War). As the US spreads its forces thin across the globe and hollows them out through sequestration, China can pick and choose which territorial disputes it wants to focus on and can concentrate its forces with less effort than the US. Chinese overseas investment and corporate influence is enough to force some states to make concessions to China in exchange for such investment, weakening the US’ ability to hold onto and protect allies that cannot survive without Chinese investment. The Dutch used their economic strength to further enrich themselves through the funding of military expeditions in places that would enable Dutch control of vital trade routes and commodities. Chinese ambition in the Southeast Asia and Africa should be viewed no differently.
Ironically, it was Dutch expansion and ambition that led to a power shift in the late 17th century from the Netherlands to England. Dutch-English cooperation in military and economic affairs enabled the English to take advantage of peace and enlarge their navy and control over world trade routes, soon overtaking the Dutch and some of their colonies. Those who encourage Sino-US cooperation should be wary of similar partnership. American economic weakness and military decline would ensure that the US is the weaker partner in such a relationship.
The Napoleonic Wars not withstanding, the British ruled the world’s seas and remained hegemon for more than two centuries without a significant challenger. British naval power, reinforced by its industrial innovations, enabled Britain to rule a quarter of the world at its height. While the British Army had never been anything to marvel at, and was often much smaller than those of the Continental powers, Britain’s successful policy of offshore balancing against any rivals in Europe kept aggressors at bay by relying on its control of the seas. The end of Pax Britannica began in 1914 with the outbreak of the first World War. Despite Britain’s eventual victory, the war destroyed an entire generation and weakened the economic and military power of the British Empire.
The German Imperial policy prior to the lead-up to World War I was summarized as security and strength without hegemony. The famous German leader Otto von Bismarck encouraged this policy as Chancellor, and until his death was adamantly against German attempts at hegemony in Europe. Unfortunately, his legacy was not enough to hold off the forces that encouraged German expansion. The fact was that Germany could not sustain itself without an empire and expansion, it simply did not have the resources to match the other powers in Europe. China has followed similar advice in its development since the end of the Cold War. Deng Xiaoping’s 24-character strategy encouraged an inward focus and development without attempts at expansion or aggression. However, that focus was largely an effort to keep China from making attempts at expansion before it was ready, as so many failed hegemons had done before it. Deng did not say that China should never make an attempt at hegemony, and that is what is worrying. Chinese scholars often point to Deng’s strategy as reason for no concern towards Chinese military and economic development, because of the “never claim leadership”portion but they downplay the part that says “hide our capacities and bide our time.” Any attempt to minimize the threat a rising China’s ambitions pose to the Western order should be looked at with great suspicion not simply because of historical precedent but because of the very strategy that CCP leadership so closely follows.
The arguments against seeing China as a serious, aggressive threat to US-led world order are similar to the arguments made against those who foresaw conflict between Europe’s great powers in the run up to August 1914. The argument that globalization and the economic intertwining of states makes war between states too costly was the one of the more popular cases against European conflict. In the decades prior to WW1, the world became globalized through the invention of the first telecommunications systems, industrialization and relative peace enforced by Pax Britannica. This period of peace eventually encouraged those with imperial and hegemonic ambitions to take advantage of dying old empires, increased wealth, and the fear of burgeoning new empires to encourage their nations to arm, expand, and plant their flag around the globe. The globalization argument is still rather popular today, particularly by those who do not understand what China values and what it thinks it could gain from a successful conflict with the US. Other scholars and policymakers are still confident in superior American power, either because of ignorance towards China’s growing capabilities or because they still believe America is invincible. In my opinion, that degree of hubris is more dangerous than any weapon that China could build.
Despite growth in arms development, nationalist rhetoric, and even commentary by some leaders about their ambitions, fears of an end to the ‘Belle Epoch’ were dismissed as part of the old world, one that was not economically intertwined like modern Europe. War would simply cost states too much money, and that argument resonated with many because it made people feel secure and because it made sense to the average person that attacking someone who gives you money would be counter-intuitive to prosperity and success. Many simply did not see how the benefits of a victory in war could outweigh the benefits of peace, but for a revisionist power like Germany, both the people and their leaders saw opportunity in war. For Germany’s leaders, victory meant ending its encirclement by British-allied states and the ending the threat of the ‘Russian hordes’. For the people of Germany, it meant taking their rightful place atop Europe and righting the wrongs done unto them by the other empires of Europe. For other states, it meant reasserting themselves after years of decline or seizing new territory for economic gain. If any of this sounds familiar it is because much of the same rhetoric is used by the CCP as justification for its military buildup and territorial ambitions.
Despite all of the talk about economic peace, hyper-nationalistic rhetoric was rampant in Europe in the run-up to 1914. The elections of populists like Rodrigo Duterte and Donald Trump, in conjunction with increased nationalistic propaganda and stricter enforced adherence to CCP ideology within China suggest that a wave of nationalism like that found in Germany, France, and the Balkans prior to 1914 has arrived in the Asia-Pacific. Thus, while the idea of war in the Asia-Pacific may have been too terrible a thought less than a decade ago, nationalistic sentiments tend to encourage the romanticizing of conflict over the sober reality of war, dissuading the voices of caution and raising the influence of war hawks in capitals around the world. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://hepburnlibraryofnorfolk.org/holiday-closures-2023/ | 2023-06-01T21:46:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224648209.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20230601211701-20230602001701-00240.warc.gz | 0.899003 | 173 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__33986847 | en | Holiday Closures 2023
Please check the list below for our 2023 holiday closures.
Martin Luther King Day- Monday, January 16
Presidents Day-Monday, February 20
Memorial Day-Monday, May 29
Junteenth (Observed)-Monday, June 19
Independence Day- Tuesday, July 4
Labor Day-Monday, September 4
Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples Day Monday, October 9
Veterans Day- Friday, November 10
Thanksgiving Day- Thursday, November 23
Thanksgiving (Black Friday)- Friday, November 24
Christmas (Observed)-Monday, December 25
New Years-Monday, January 1
Closures due to weather/uncontrollable circumstances will be updated if possible, please check out our Facebook page and local news stations for updates. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.warwickshire-pcc.gov.uk/pccs-office-praised-for-openness-and-transparency-for-fifth-year-running/ | 2024-04-17T03:09:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817128.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417013540-20240417043540-00885.warc.gz | 0.96502 | 684 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__46597282 | en | The Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Warwickshire (OPCC) has received a prestigious national award for openness and transparency.
The ‘Open and Transparent Quality Mark’ has been awarded by CoPaCC, an independent organisation which monitors police governance by comparing Police and Crime Commissioners and the work of their offices.
The award recognises the efforts made by the PCC and his office to provide the public with key information in accessible format on their website, including information about projects and activities, how finances are managed, what the key priorities are for the PCC and the progress made against them, as well as information around policies and procedures.
To date, the Transparency Quality Mark has been granted to only 28 of the 41 PCC’s offices across the country, with this year being the fifth in succession that Warwickshire has been awarded the prestigious accolade.
This year, CoPaCC added a further criteria for assessment – ‘ease of use’, i.e. how easy is it for a member of the public to find information which is required by statute to be published. This means that it is no longer sufficient to just make the information available; it should be easy to identify where the information can be found and simple to navigate with the minimum number of steps. A higher pass threshold was also introduced.
OPCCs were assessed during November and December 2019 with CoPaCCs researcher acting as a ‘mystery shopper’ looking for the required information on the website of each OPCC.
Warwickshire Police and Crime Commissioner Philip Seccombe said: “Like any public office, it’s really important to be open and transparent in everything that we do on the public’s behalf, providing the public the information they need to hold me to account and also be fully involved in my work.
“The criteria for the Quality Mark has been tightened this year, so I am pleased that we have again retained our national recognition. It’s really down to the hard work of all of the team in my office, who deserve the full credit for this achievement.”
CoPaCC chief executive Bernard Rix added: “The successful these OPCCs have all demonstrated that they are transparent in what they do, meeting relevant legal requirements. They present key information in an accessible format on their websites. I congratulate them all on their award-winning work, and I look forward to what I trust will be continued excellent work by each and every one of them in this area.”
Grant Thornton, the leading police assurance provider, sponsor CoPaCC’s Transparency Quality Mark analysis and the associated awards. Paul Grady, Head of Police for Grant Thornton, commented that: “Transparency is an essential part of the democratic process. For the public to be able gauge how successful their PCC is in delivering their electoral mandate, they need access to information that is accessible, easy to understand and fit for purpose. Grant Thornton is proud to once again be supporting these Transparency Awards and we congratulate all those who have been successful in meeting the standards required.”
A formal presentation to OPCCs of the CoPaCC ‘Open and Transparent Quality Mark’ will take place at a forthcoming Police Governance Summit in the Autumn. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.mainstreetartsfest.org/press/fearless-film-festival-screenings-announced/ | 2018-05-24T07:59:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794866107.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20180524073324-20180524093324-00037.warc.gz | 0.91704 | 1,230 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__134521280 | en | Fearless Film Festival Screenings Announced
More than 200 short films were submitted for this year’s Fearless Film Festival, and organizers have selected 16 from across the globe for screening in the four-year-old short film fest that brought moving pictures to MAIN ST. Fort Worth Arts Festival (MAIN ST.).
Fearless Film Festival screenings are scheduled at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, April 10 and 1:15 p.m. Sunday, April 11, at the David L. Tandy Lecture Hall at the Fort Worth Central Library.
Filmmakers’ panels return this year, and the festival program also includes a special presentation of One Square Mile, the documentary series that is putting Fort Worth filmmakers on the map.
The film festival complements visual and performing arts showcased in MAIN ST., one of the nation’s top fine arts fairs, and celebrates the short film format, organizers said.
“There’s a growing recognition of the role short films play in feature filmmaking careers,” Fearless Film Festival coordinator and filmmaker Melissa Kirkendall said. “The spotlight that this year’s Academy Awards program put on short films is just one example. Every major film festival has a short film component, but it’s our pleasure to devote our entire schedule to short films and the people making them.”
Fearless Film Festival is open to short films of up to 20 minutes and honors the best in categories ranging from documentary and narrative to experimental, animation, dance, music video and trailer as well as best of show. Winners are awarded cash and non-cash prizes.
Fearless Film Festival has an international appeal, and foreign films have won Best of Show in three of the four years of competition.
Winners in the fourth annual Fearless Film Festival are:
The Tea Master (10min)Winner: Best in Show
Dir: Aaron Au (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
The Ah of Life (2min 50 sec) Winner: Best Trailer
Dir: Banks Helfrich (Florida)
Superstitious? (4min.) Winner: Experimental
Dir: David Magnier United Kingdom)
Frames (3min 19sec) Winner: Best Student Film & Rose Marine Theater Award
Dir: Jaime Chapin (Argyle, Tx.)
They Can’t Deport Us All (3min) Winner: Best Music Video
Dir: Rocky Curby (Northridge, Ca)
Skylight (4min 37sec) Winner: Best Animation
Dir. David Baas (Toronto, ON)
So As Through Fire (11min) Winner: Best Narrative
Dir: Tony Pauletto (North Hollywood, CA)
Eric/Derailed (19min) Winner: Foreign Film
Dir. Nicolas Simonin Simonin (Paris, France)
Winning films and eight more selected by jurors from the local film community will be screened in the festival. Fearless Film Festival is presented as part of the "Off MAIN!" series of performances in venues both on and off Main Street during the fine arts festival.
Filmmakers’ panels for 2010 take on the personal documentary and distribution alternatives as well as resources available to Texas filmmakers in sessions Saturday and Sunday, April 10 and 11 in two downtown locations. Panels and special presentations are:
Saturday, April 10
Chappell Meeting Room, Fort Worth Central Library
10:30 to 11:30 a.m. One Square Mile Special Presentation
1 to 2 p.m. Webisodic series & short film on the net
2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Self Distribution
4 to 6 p.m. Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund workshop
4 Day Weekend Theater
- Noon to 1:30 p.m. The Personal Documentary with Kelley Baker, a.k.a. the Angry Film Maker
- 2 to 3 p.m. One Square Mile Special Presentation
Sunday, April 11
Chappell Meeting Room, Fort Worth Central Library
- 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. One Square Mile and Angry Film Maker special documentary presentation series
MAIN ST. Fort Worth Arts Festival celebrates its 25th year April 8-11 with a celebration of fine arts and crafts, music, film and food a mile long, stretching from the Tarrant County Courthouse to the Fort Worth Convention Center.
More than 200 juried artists and fine crafts exhibitors will line brick-paved Main Street, joined by musicians and dancers on three stages. Performance artists and food and drink vendors complete the scene.
MAIN ST. Fort Worth Arts Festival is presented by Coors Light and produced by Downtown Fort Worth Initiatives, Inc. Festival hours will be 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday, April 8; 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 9-10; and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, April 11, 2010. Admission is free to the public. For more information, visit www.mainstreetartsfest.org.
MAIN ST. is made possible by a host of corporate citizens who support the festival year in and year out, bringing the finest entertainment to North Texas. Official Sponsors are Chase, Green Mountain Energy Company, Sundance Square, Texas Lincoln Mercury Dealers, and XTO Energy. Media Sponsors include CBS 11/TXA 21,D Magazine and the Star-Telegram as well as radio stations Mix 102.9, 102.1 The Edge, 106.1 KISS FM, 95.9 FM The Ranch, Country Legends 92.1, and Lone Star 92.5. Supporting Sponsors include Chesapeake Energy Company, Coca-Cola Bottling Company of North Texas, Dallas/Fort Worth Professional Musicians Association, Fort Worth Transportation Authority, Pizza Hut, Target and the University of Texas at Arlington.
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http://finchleyfoil.co.uk/index.php/news | 2018-01-16T12:59:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084886436.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20180116125134-20180116145134-00798.warc.gz | 0.955838 | 155 | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__176863977 | en | Latest News from the British Fencing website: Great Britain’s Men’s Foil Team Richard Kruse, James Davies, Laurance Halsted and Marcus Mepsted today secured qualification for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games by finishing ninth at the Bonn World Cup. The team won their trip to Rio as the highest European World ranked team outside the World top four. Three of the team members were once young fencers of Finchley Foil fencing club and Laurence Halsted is Clare's son. We are so very proud of them all and wish them every success on their journey to Rio 2016. This will be Richard's 4th Olympics and James and Laurence's 2nd Olympic games.
You can see more news on the British Fencing website. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://stephentooth.wordpress.com/2015/01/ | 2021-04-11T22:03:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038065492.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20210411204008-20210411234008-00031.warc.gz | 0.947452 | 1,070 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__15425663 | en | Saturday 10th January 2015
Here’s a really interesting story that is likely to keep on running: nautical-themed Lego pieces keep washing up on beaches in Cornwall and farther afield, nearly 18 years after the sinking of the Tokio Express container ship about 20 miles off Land’s End. The losses included 62 containers, one of which was filled with nearly 5 million Lego pieces bound for New York. The BBC News Magazine first covered the story back in July 2014: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28367198
An update has been published within the past few weeks, including a map of where the Lego pieces are being found (see image): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28582621
A Facebook page has even been set up to keep track of the finds (see image), some of which are likely related to the Tokio Express’s cargo, and others which may not be. As yet, I have still to find any of the Lego pieces on Aberystwyth’s beaches but I’ll keep on looking …
This unplanned ‘experiment’ is akin to a controlled tracer exercise in geomorphology, whereby a collection of coloured pebbles are placed on a beach or in a river bed, and attempts are made to recover the pebbles at various intervals thereafter to see how far they have moved during tidal, wave or flood events. From this information, geomorphologists can learn much about the processes, patterns and rates of sediment movement in flowing water. Given that we can send manned missions to the Moon, control rovers on Mars, and even land instruments on comets more than 6 billion kilometres away (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30069244), you would think that we would know most of what we need to about these fundamental processes. Not so. The mechanics of sediment movement in flowing water is exceptionally complex – just think of those countless billions of sediment particles of all shapes and sizes jostling and being jostled within highly turbulent waters – and still defeats the attempts by some of the best brains to model or predict the phenomenon with any great degree of accuracy. So even basic field experiments – planned or unplanned – still provide useful information. As the BBC articles outline, in the case of the Lego, oceanographers and coastal geomorphologists will be able to learn much about the vagaries of oceans currents and tides, adding to our knowledge about the poorly-known watery 70% of our planet.
Although a uniquely quirky case study, the Lego story is also illustrative of the larger debate about plastic pollution in the world’s oceans. Large areas of the oceans have become known as ‘garbage patches’, the most infamous being the huge Pacific Garbage Patch, located half way between Hawaii and California (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29631332). Were Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ancient mariner and crew to be becalmed in this part of this ocean today, rather than complaining about a lack of drinking water, they may well have had reason to comment on all the shredded plastic bags, torn crisp packets, broken tupperware, bits of polysterene and numerous other plastic items swirling in the water column.
Regardless of whether ‘plastic soup’ is a better term than ‘garbage patch’, the problem is the same: large quantities of industrial (‘man-made’) materials are entering natural systems. Plastics, ceramics, glass, metals, bricks … the list of manufactured items goes on and on. Ocean plastic pollution thus is illustrative of a wider debate still: namely the extent of the legacy that our industrial age will leave behind for future generations. Some of these industrial materials will degrade over time, simply returning the compounds and elements to the Earth. Others will be buried more or less intact in sediments on the ocean floor or along beaches. Others will transform, perhaps fusing with natural materials to form new types of rock (e.g. so-called ‘plastiglomerate’ on Hawaiian beaches – http://news.sciencemag.org/earth/2014/06/rocks-made-plastic-found-hawaiian-beach). Others still will break down to smaller and smaller pieces but perhaps always remain in some form or other. Physical breakdown of large plastic items to smaller and smaller pieces (collectively termed ‘microplastics’) is a particularly insidious problem, given the largely unknown implications for pollution of food chains. Marine animals accidentally ingest some of the microplastics, which can fill the stomach and lead to death by starvation, and there is also the potential to affect higher trophic levels. 18 years after they were washed overboard and released to the ocean, some of the Lego pieces are washing up on beaches in Cornwall and farther afield in good condition. But given 180 years, 1800 years, 18000 years or longer, into how many bits will these nearly 5 million Lego pieces fragment? | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.traceybaptiste.com/media/at-algonquin%2C-a-decade-of-change-reflected-in-one-book | 2024-03-04T01:33:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476409.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20240304002142-20240304032142-00318.warc.gz | 0.928979 | 121 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__126765585 | en | At Algonquin, a Decade of Change Reflected in One Book
Along with Girlhood, Algonquin’s small list of eight to 10 titles per year includes books on subjects of great importance to teens. Michael Long’s Kids on the March (Mar. 2021) is geared toward younger teenagers; it recounts 15 stories of young people’s involvement in significant protests throughout history. A forthcoming title by Tracey Baptiste, African Icons: Ten People Who Built a Continent, shares the stories of 10 individuals from Africa who have had an outsize impact on history. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://contractfurnitureco.wordpress.com/ | 2023-02-02T14:48:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500028.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20230202133541-20230202163541-00613.warc.gz | 0.972898 | 1,527 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__204469388 | en | “A company with no history may be one with no future.”
In this age of recession, where an estimated 660,900 businesses closed their doors in 2009 alone, we at Contract Furniture Company are humbled by and proud of our continued success.
This year as we celebrate our 10th anniversary, we decided to take a look back at one of our most notable clients – The Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. In December of 1992 the landmark hotel closed for a complete renovation. The project lasted two and a half years, with the hotel reopening in June of 1995. We were a part of these site improvements, providing arm chairs, chaise lounge cushions, umbrellas, and umbrella bases.
The following is excerpted from a Los Angeles Times Magazine article entitled The Cabana King, by Martin Booe. We hope you enjoy the blast from the past.
“The hotel above is pink as a flamingo, with a gentle breeze tickling the surrounding palm trees and the pool water as deep blue as the cloudless Southern California sky. Two tiers of cabanas give the area the look of an inverted wedding cake, and the air is fragrant from nearby lemon trees. What could be closer to paradise than a cabana at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where Svend Petersen for nearly 45 years strove to put you in touch with your inner celebrity.
“The colors seem almost preternaturally enhanced. The eyes must be protected. Read what you will into the fact that when Petersen dons sunglasses, the lenses are rose-colored.
“Though Petersen retired nearly three years ago from active duty as the hotel’s pool manager, he still can be found poolside several days a week. At 73, he’s a living, breathing vessel of Hollywood history–barrel-chested, muscular and vigorous, his white shock of once-blond hair full as ever, his skin astonishingly undamaged by years of solar assault. More important, he retains the sort of sunny disposition necessary to survive and thrive in the orbit of those who assume themselves to be the sun itself. And, thus, his semiofficial title now is ‘Hotel Ambassador.’
“He grew up in the frigidity of Denmark, mentally escaping the Nazi occupation by watching American movies featuring such stars as Buster Crabbe, Esther Williams and Johnny Weissmuller. From his youth, Petersen was attracted to water and sunshine. At 17 he joined the Danish swimming team. He put in two years at the American Embassy in Copenhagen as a waiter in the ambassador’s private residence, found an emigration sponsor, and in 1959 lit out for California, where he was hired as a lifeguard at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool. Three years later he was promoted to pool manager and made headmaster of a squad of white-clad cabana boys.
“During the ’60s, the hotel and the pool were the domain of the movie folk–actors and actresses and “starlets,” a word whose passing from common usage Petersen rather laments. He made cameos in the movies “The Prize” and “Torn Curtain” and also nabbed roles in a few soap operas and commercials; he was not opposed to a career in Hollywood, though he eventually let go of that aspiration.
“Over the years, the pool waters frothed with the grand celebrities, icons all: Cary Grant, Fred Astaire, Grace Kelly, Ingrid Bergman, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor. Petersen recalls a sweaty Katharine Hepburn, fresh from the tennis courts, doing a back flip into the pool, tennis clothes and all. The Beatles were sneaked in for a private dip. In the ’70s, the pool’s denizens were more likely to be from the music industry than the movie business, Michael Jackson and Dionne Warwick among them.
“He encountered his share of eccentrics, such as the absent-minded movie mogul who walked into the pool area stark naked, so absorbed was he reading the trade papers. (‘Mr. Schlafer, excuse me, but you’re not wearing any clothes.’) The ’60s and ’70s presented their own challenges, as Petersen was required to announce as diplomatically as possible that the smoking of marijuana around the pool could not be tolerated.
“You spend that much time around the pool and you notice things, bodies not being the least of them. Petersen would rank Raquel Welch, who was discovered by the pool, as the finest specimen of feminine physique he ever beheld. ‘She had the most incredible body! She was just, like, incredible. Anita Ekberg! And Jane Russell! And in those days they were real!’
“Silicone notwithstanding, a few other things have changed. Petersen, for one, reckons the cellphone has taken a lot of the fun out of things. Back then, it was more about being seen, that unending square dance of drawing the attention of cigar-chomping moguls and people more important than you. In those days, there was a lot of paging done. “Paging Elizabeth Taylor! Paging Cary Grant! Whether they were there or not. It made things more exciting.” Now, the glitterati work their contacts over the cell while sipping their Fiji water in seclusion.
“‘Back then, you could talk to them like family, though you always respected their privacy,’ Petersen reflects. ‘Then in the past few years it changed. It’s different now. You go to say hello and you’ve got three bodyguards saying, ‘Hey, what do you want?’ It used to be friendlier and more glamorous.’
“Ultimately, it always comes down to pleasing people, and this involves more than providing fluffy terrycloth towels, sun shields and the crackly frozen towels he began using to cool off guests a few years ago. Petersen recalls the day he learned this lesson, when he greeted a man with the standard, ‘How are you today?’ only to be told that it was none of his business.
“‘So I said to myself, ‘Svend, you’ve got to count to 10 before you blow your top! Every half hour, I asked him if I could get him anything. And after the day was over, he came over and said, ‘I have to thank you because you were so nice and I was [a jerk] to you! And that made me happy! That I could make him happy! From that day on, I said, ‘Svend, you’ve got to do nice to people because it benefits you in the long run.’
“‘How did this happen? It’s like a fairly tale,’ he says. ‘In Denmark I thought, ‘Svend, one day you have to meet all these people.’ And I did.’
“And there’s one question begging to be asked: Does Petersen have a pool of his own? At this, he breaks out laughing. ‘Of course not! This is my pool!’ | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://krprllc.blogspot.com/2015/06/ | 2020-08-13T05:07:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439738960.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20200813043927-20200813073927-00423.warc.gz | 0.965477 | 158 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__140793004 | en | Sunday, June 14, 2015
The Our City Festival was a huge success! What started in 2008 as a small film festival in the back of Busboys and Poets restaurant has turned into a huge three-day event taking over downtown Washington, D.C. This year's festival, which happened last weekend (June 5-7), included live musical performances, dance parties, art installations, poetry, food trucks, and, of course, films. KRPR teamed up with the D.C. Public Library to co-present this festival and plans to bring it back next year. Interested in learning more, please visit www.theourcityfestival.com, and check out these great photos and videos below.
Posted by Kendra Rubinfeld at 2:19 PM | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://nairobigossips.com/the-intricate-dance-exploring-the-historical-connection-between-the-gambling-world-and-the-mob-world/ | 2023-12-08T02:22:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100710.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20231208013411-20231208043411-00489.warc.gz | 0.935654 | 1,028 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__147878878 | en | The world of gambling and the underworld of organized crime have shared a long and complex history, intertwining in a dance that spans decades. From the glamorous casinos of Las Vegas to the smoky backrooms of underground gambling dens, the connection between the gambling world and the mob world has been a recurring theme in both reality and fiction. In this article, we’ll delve into the intricate relationship between these two worlds, exploring the historical ties, notable figures, and the enduring impact on the landscape of gaming.
1. Prohibition Era and the Birth of Casinos:
The early 20th century, marked by Prohibition in the United States (1920-1933), created fertile ground for the intersection of gambling and organized crime. With the ban on alcohol, illicit enterprises sought alternative revenue streams, and many turned to gambling operations as a lucrative venture. The mob saw an opportunity to fill the void left by legal restrictions, establishing speakeasies that often included hidden gambling rooms.
2. Bugsy Siegel and the Birth of Las Vegas:
The connection between the mob and the gambling world reached new heights with the rise of Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel. In the 1940s, Siegel envisioned transforming the desert oasis of Las Vegas into a thriving resort city. Backed by mob financing, he played a pivotal role in the development of the Flamingo Hotel and Casino, which became the prototype for the modern Las Vegas Strip. Siegel’s vision marked a turning point, solidifying the mob’s influence on the burgeoning casino industry.
3. The Rat Pack and Casino Culture:
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Rat Pack, led by figures like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr., became synonymous with the glamour and excitement of Las Vegas. While the Rat Pack members were not directly involved in organized crime, their association with casino culture further blurred the lines between entertainment and the mob. The Rat Pack’s performances in iconic venues like the Sands Hotel contributed to the romanticized image of Las Vegas as a playground for both celebrities and the underworld.
4. Skimming and Control of Casinos:
One of the key ways the mob exerted influence over casinos was through a practice known as skimming. Skimming involved diverting a portion of a casino’s profits before they were officially recorded. The mob would install individuals with ties to organized crime as casino employees, allowing them to siphon off money without detection. This control over the financial aspects of casinos provided a significant source of revenue for organized crime families.
5. The Stardust Scandal:
The Stardust Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas became embroiled in a high-profile skimming scandal in the 1970s. Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal, a notorious figure associated with the Chicago Outfit, managed the Stardust. The skimming operation, orchestrated by Rosenthal and others, was eventually exposed, leading to legal repercussions. This event, dramatized in the film “Casino” (1995), highlighted the extent of mob involvement in the casino industry.
6. Decline of Mob Influence:
Over the years, increased law enforcement scrutiny and regulatory measures led to a decline in direct mob control over the casino industry. The Nevada Gaming Control Board, established in 1955, played a pivotal role in regulating and monitoring the activities of casinos, minimizing the influence of organized crime. While remnants of the mob’s historical involvement still linger, the modern casino industry operates under stricter regulations and oversight.
7. Fictional Portrayals:
The connection between the gambling world and the mob has been a recurring theme in popular culture. Films like “The Godfather” trilogy (1972-1990), “Goodfellas” (1990), and “Casino” (1995) have immortalized the symbiotic relationship between organized crime and the casino industry. These cinematic portrayals, while often dramatized for entertainment, capture the essence of the historical connection between the two worlds.
8. Contemporary Challenges:
While the overt influence of the mob on the casino industry has diminished, contemporary challenges persist. Money laundering, loan sharking, and other illicit activities continue to pose threats to the integrity of the gambling world. Casinos, cognizant of the historical pitfalls, invest heavily in security measures and cooperate with law enforcement to maintain a legitimate and regulated environment.
The historical connection between the gambling world and the mob world is a complex tapestry woven with threads of ambition, glamour, and crime. From the early days of Prohibition-era speakeasies to the rise of iconic Las Vegas resorts, the relationship between organized crime and the casino industry has shaped both the narrative of American history and the cultural mythology surrounding gambling. While the days of blatant mob control have largely passed, the echoes of this intricate dance still resonate in the contemporary challenges faced by the gambling world. As casinos continue to evolve and adapt, the legacy of their tumultuous past remains an indelible part of their narrative. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://wyomingfc.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=265:ash-grant-funeral&catid=16&Itemid=158 | 2019-03-26T22:31:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912206677.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20190326220507-20190327002507-00030.warc.gz | 0.981163 | 146 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__64188003 | en | The funeral of Ash Grant will be held at 1:30pm this Friday the 23rd of March at Pluim Park, Lisarow. Seating will be in the main grandstand, with standing room on the hills adjacent. Ash's family has asked everyone attending to wear their local club shirts or polo's to celebrate Ash's life and the impact he has made across football on the Central Coast.
Ash's impact on the football community has been huge over more than 40 years and his passing leaves a massive hole. We would like to pass on our condolences to his family and friends. He will be missed enormously but never forgotten. Rest in Peace Ash.
(Photos and text courtesy of Central Coast Football) | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://engine61662appeal.co.uk/update.html | 2017-04-30T05:02:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917124299.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031204-00565-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.946797 | 147 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__280450933 | en | Project News Updates
We aim to produce a monthly update to keep all our current and potential future members informed of our progress. You can click on the menu and download the monthly bulletins in pdf format.
The project is featured on the official Manchester United web site and can be viewed here.
Below are the highlights of an interview with Ken Livermore, the Engine 61662 Project Leader conducted by Manchester United TV outside their home ground, Old Trafford during the summer of 2012. Ken dropped in during his cycle marathon from Lands End to John O'Groats to discuss the project with representatives from the club.
Mark Wylie, the Manchester United museum curator was presented with a print of the locomotive for his office. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://edgeofthefringe.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/movie-review-phantasm/ | 2017-07-27T14:43:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549428300.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20170727142514-20170727162514-00196.warc.gz | 0.956923 | 672 | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-30__0__91217603 | en | 1979 Avco Embassy
Phantasm has been one of my favorite horror movies since I first saw it in 1979. One of the things I love the most about it is its originality and the strange atmosphere that permeates every scene. I don’t know how writer and director Don Coscarelli managed to do it but he made one of the creepiest horror movies of all time on a shoestring budget with some seriously wacked out story elements.
Just look at the story – After one of their friends dies three guys discover someone is stealing bodies at the Morningside Funereal Home, not only stealing them but resurrecting them and shrinking them down into little demented dwarves. These dwarves are then stuffed into barrels and shipped off to another world through a portal that resembles a giant tuning fork. Guarding the hallways of Morningside are flying chrome spheres that drill into their victims heads and drain their blood. Meanwhile the mysterious Tall Man rules over all this insanity.
Sounds totally absurd huh? Damn right it does but like I said for some reason it works. Maybe it’s the cast, not great actors, but likable in a real world guys you have a beer with kind of way? Maybe it’s the cheaply built but extremely effective Morningside sets? Maybe it’s the Italian horror vibe or the awesome music score? I believe it’s all of the above but most of all it’s the mystery. None of this weirdness is ever explained. Not in this movie or in any of the three sequels. There are hints of possible explanations but nothing definite, no concrete answers to what the hell is going on and that to me is a big part of what makes this movie work. It’s like having a strange nightmare that you know is a nightmare but is still disturbing long after you wake up.
The cast. It’s hard to believe but these guys played these characters from 1978 to 1998 with only a ridiculous recast in the second sequel spoiling the continuity.
This movie “feels” like an Italian horror movie to me. I know the director was influenced by them and he really captures the otherworldly atmosphere that oozes from Italian horror perfectly. The sets and lighting, music score, weird plot elements, and over the top gore add to that feeling immensely.
The not so good:
Jody’s “Never shoot a man unless you mean to kill him.” speech to Mike cracks me up every time I watch this. Jody makes it sound like he gets into gunfights on a regular basis.
It would have been nice to have just a little more explanation of what is going on.
Random thoughts and observations:
So the Tall Man is disguised as the Lady in Lavender having “relations” with Tommy? So does that mean that the Tall Man actually had sex with Tommy before killing him? Kinky.
What is up with the ending? The ending and various story elements have been debated endlessly by Phans of this movie. It all adds to the weirdness and can be interpreted in many ways. According to interviews I have read Don Coscarelli never intended to make a sequel so really had no explanation in mind when making this movie. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://mymagicalinkerytour.blogspot.com/2013/04/remembering-patriots-day.html | 2021-04-22T13:32:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618039610090.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20210422130245-20210422160245-00350.warc.gz | 0.989377 | 269 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__234835343 | en | Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Remembering Patriots Day
I turned on the radio yesterday afternoon to hear there had been two explosions at the Boston Marathon. The first report I heard said they were thought to be electrical related, but as I changed the station, words can't even begin to describe the shock I felt as I then heard it had been two bombs. I've known many who have participated in this race as runners, and so many more that make it a day trip to go into the city.
Of course the Boston Marathon has been an event to watch around here for as long as I can remember, tuning in during the afternoon to see who will win. Also, having grown up so close to Concord, Lexington and Boston it's always invoked a feeling of pride to be so closely connected to the birth of our country. I love walking around those old paths, standing on the Old North Bridge, looking at the Lexington Green, and visiting the homes of the families who were so brave in those early days of our nation.
I am grateful that friends and family who were nearby when these explosions took place are safe and sound, but truly I'm at a loss to say much more about the events of yesterday, except the victims of this attack will be first and foremost in my mind today, and many more days to come. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.fisheradamskelly.com.au/australian-governments-damages-claim/ | 2018-05-25T02:54:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794866938.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20180525024404-20180525044404-00478.warc.gz | 0.953036 | 1,246 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__209206671 | en | A series of events has led to the Commonwealth of Australia attempting to recover damages from the bio pharma company, Sanofi-Aventis, to the tune of $60 million. Depending on the final outcome this could be of significance to both drug originator companies seeking to enforce or defend their pharmaceutical patents and to generic companies seeking to challenge a patent or otherwise to gain entry of their generic product to the market prior to expiry of a relevant patent.
Sanofi was the registered owner of Australian Patent no. 597784 (the clopidogrel patent) which included claims having within their scope the anti-clotting agent, clopidogrel (sold to the market as PLAVIX). PLAVIX was a true blockbuster drug product for Sanofi. A competitor, Apotex Pty Ltd (previously known as GenRx Pty Ltd), wanted to introduce a generic equivalent of clopidogrel into the Australian market and, as part of this process, commenced proceedings seeking revocation of the clopidogrel patent. Sanofi, in response, cross claimed that Apotex’s proposed actions would constitute an infringement. Sanofi, in trying to protect their market position, additionally sought an interlocutory injunction preventing Apotex from entering the market and obtained this along with certain undertakings provided by Apotex. In return Sanofi provided typical undertakings that it would submit to any cost order the court may direct to compensate any parties ultimately shown to have been adversely affected by the injunction.
The real significance of this ‘dance’ between the drug originator (Sanofi) and the generic manufacturer (Apotex) relates to an aspect of the Australian healthcare system. The Australian government subsidises access to approved medications via a system known as the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) whereby a portion of the drug’s cost is borne by the government, and the patient pays the remainder to improve patient access. To ensure a level of price competitiveness within the system, the PBS has a policy whereby when a cheaper equivalent, such as a generic version of a brand name drug, is available then the government immediately reduces the subsidy it will pay by 16%. Importantly, this price drop is irreversible even if the generic entry is subsequently removed from the market due to, for example, patent infringement. Thus this issue forms the core of many interlocutory injunction and patent dispute cases in the pharmaceutical sector.
Relating this to the facts of the current case, Sanofi’s prevention of Apotex’s entry to the market with their generic PLAVIX meant that the Australian government continued to pay a premium price for the drug. Had the courts not granted the interlocutory injunction, the Apotex generic equivalent would have been introduced to the market and would have reduced the government’s costs by 16%.
In the revocation court case Sanofi won at trial, but an appeal subsequently ruled in favour of Apotex, and an application for special leave to the appeal to the High Court was refused. Ultimately, the clopidogrel patent was therefore revoked on inventive step grounds. Apotex then sought compensation from Sanofi for their loss of profits for the duration of the interlocutory injunction. This matter was settled outside of court with the settlement sum not being publicly disclosed.
However, the Australian government then took the highly unusual step of seeking compensation from Sanofi for the loss of savings it was entitled to during the interlocutory injunction period. Effectively the government asked to be reimbursed the savings it calculated it would have made had Apotex not been blocked from entering the market and thereby triggering the 16% price reduction. The government has stated that it “alleges it has suffered financial loss in excess of $60 million as a result of Apotex being prevented by the various interlocutory orders and undertakings from achieving a listing for its clopidogrel products under the PBS. Most of the Commonwealth’s loss is said to flow from statutory price reductions and price disclosure reductions that would have occurred had Apotex not been the subject of the relevant interlocutory restraints.”
Sanofi is fighting the government’s damages claim and in a recent decision raised an interesting ground in its defence. Sanofi will argue that even if Apotex had been allowed to list its generic clopidogrel on the PBS, Apotex would not have been able complete this task without infringing on the copyright of the PLAVIX product information and consumer medicine information documents. Sanofi’s argument is that it is unreasonable for the government to claim damages resulting from an action which would have been an infringement of Sanofi’s intellectual property.
While it will be interesting to see how Sanofi’s copyright infringement defence plays out in court, the Australian government’s unusual damages claim has potentially wider reaching effects in the pharmaceutical space. The possibility of a damages claim by the government should make the patentee of a patent covering a PBS reimbursed drug think twice about seeking an interlocutory injunction if early evidence on any wider revocation action indicates a real likelihood of revocation. If the patent is ultimately shown to be invalid, and it could be argued the patentee should have reasonably known this at the outset, then the patentee may be asked to pay compensation to the government. Clearly this becomes more likely for highly prescribed or high cost medicines where the quantum of damages is enough to interest the government.
Finally, for generic drug companies seeking to enter the market in light of an existing patent, then this scenario may provide them with a further means to apply pressure during settlement negotiations with the patentee, especially if the relevant patent is approaching its expiry and reasonable questions can be raised regarding its likely validity.
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http://lastwordonbaseball.com/2017/08/06/weekly-atlanta-braves-farm-report-ozzie-albies-debuts-atlanta/ | 2018-05-26T19:37:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867859.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20180526190648-20180526210648-00498.warc.gz | 0.976011 | 1,526 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__42403640 | en | Welcome to another edition of the report on the Atlanta Braves farm system by the team at Last Word on Baseball! This week was a busy one with three players receiving a call to join the big league club! Pitcher Lucas Sims and 2B Ozzie Albies both made their Atlanta debuts this week while Max Fried was called up to work out of Atlanta’s bullpen. Lefty Andrew Albers is the Player of the Week after recording 15 shutout innings over two starts. (Prospect rankings listed in parenthesis. All rankings taken from MLB.com’s 2017 Atlanta Braves Top-30 Prospects list. Also be sure to check out LWOB’s mid-season top-20 list of Braves Prospects.)
Weekly Atlanta Braves Farm Report: Ozzie Albies Debuts in Atlanta
Sims (19th) made his MLB debut Tuesday against the Dodgers. It was a tall task for the young righty, but Sims performed well. He did take the loss, but he finished six innings with six hits, three earned runs, and three strikeouts without issuing a walk. Albies (second) also made his debut alongside Sims against the Dodgers. He has appeared in five games so far with mixed results. Albies is batting .143/.333/.357 with three runs scored and three RBI. His first hit was a three-run home run in a losing effort, but Albies looks well on his way in MLB. Fried (10th) was promoted on Saturday but did not make an appearance out of the bullpen.
Gwinnett Braves (Triple-A)
The Gwinnett Braves posted a record of 2-4 this week. Gwinnett’s offense scored two or fewer runs four time this week. The southpaw Albers (unranked) was nearly untouchable. Albers picked up a win this week with 15 innings pitched, 11 hits, no earned runs allowed, 13 strikeouts, and one walk. Luiz Gohara’s (eighth) second start in Gwinnett went much better. The big lefty completed six innings with five hits, one earned run, one walk, and eight strikeouts. He is putting together quite a season across three different levels.
The legend of outfielder Ronald Acuna (first) continues to grow. The young outfielder went 9-for-21 with two RBI and three runs scored this week. Acuna has thrown common sense to the wind as he has improved his numbers at virtually every stop this season. He is now slashing .341/.426/.580 with a 1.005 OPS, four home runs, and 16 runs scored at Gwinnett. Acuna has even seen some time as Gwinnett’s leadoff man since the departure of Albies to Atlanta.
Mississippi Braves (Double-A)
The Mississippi Braves suffered a tough week going winless in eight tries. Mississippi is now 11 games back and looks like a long shot to return to the playoffs this year. Touki Toussaint (15th) posted a strong start in his first Double-A appearance with six innings pitched, four hits, two unearned runs, and four strikeouts. Tyler Pike (unranked) ended the week with a quality outing. Pike went six innings with two unearned runs on five hits, two walks, and eight strikeouts.
Catcher Alex Jackson (17th) is off to a slow start in Double-A. Jackson has just two hits over his first seven games with a double, an RBI, two runs scored, and 11 strikeouts in 23 at-bats. He posted strong numbers at Advanced-A, and it is likely just a transition phase for the power-hitting catcher. One cause for concern is the number of strikeouts early on for Jackson. Third baseman Austin Riley (11th) is starting to find his footing in Mississippi. He had eight hits this week which brought his average up to .256 with a .304 OBP, three home runs, and nine runs scored.
Florida Fire Frogs (Advanced-A)
The Florida Fire Frogs went 2-3 this week. Consistent results have still eluded the Fire Frogs as they sit with a season record of 38-64. 2017 draft pick Kyle Wright (fourth) made his Advanced-A debut this week. The righty threw two shutout innings without allowing a hit and recording one strikeout. The short outing is to be expected for Wright this season after a heavy workload at Vanderbilt. Still, it is good to see solid results from the young pitcher.
Speedster Anfernee Seymour (25th) recorded his first Fire Frogs home run and logged a hit in all four games he played this week. Catcher Brett Cumberland (27th) raised his batting average in Florida to .301 with five hits, two doubles, and three RBI. His now hitting .301/.397/.407 over his first 34 games in Florida.
Rome Braves (Single-A)
The Rome Braves posted an undefeated week with a record of 7-0. The team finished the week on a 10-game win streak to pull them within four games of the Charleston RiverDogs for a postseason appearance. The staple of Rome’s play is yet again a strong pitching staff. Lefty Joey Wentz (ninth) was the star this week with two strong starts. Wentz picked up two wins with a combined line of 14 innings pitched, five hits, three earned runs, two walks, and 17 strikeouts. He now holds a 2.43 ERA with 124 strikeouts to just 33 walks in 107.1 innings pitched. Bryse Wilson (22nd) also picked up a win this week with six strikeouts in six shutout innings.
Catcher/first baseman Drew Lugbauer (unranked) responded well to a promotion from Danville. Lugbauer jumped out of the gate in Rome with eight hits, three doubles, a triple, two RBI, and six runs scored in his first five games. Lugbauer was an 11th round draft pick for the Braves out of the University of Michigan. He is slugging .576 in 34 games over two levels for the Braves. A natural catcher, Lugbauer has been playing at first for Rome with Lucas Herbert (unranked) serving as Rome’s everyday catcher.
Danville Braves (Rookie Level)
The Danville Braves had a strong week with a record of 5-1. They are now above .500 for the season with a record of 23-20. Lefty Kyle Muller (13th) went four innings and allowed three hits, two earned runs, one walk, and five strikeouts. Fellow southpaw Jaret Hellinger (unranked) threw five innings of two-hit, one-run ball to pick up his second win of 2017.
Outfielder Drew Waters (20th) posted seven hits with three RBI and two runs scored this week. He is now slashing .258/.355/.333 in Danville. SS Kevin Maitan (sixth) has continued to slump a bit with just two hits on the week and a .205 average and 13 strikeouts over his past 10 games. Waters and Maitan are competing at 18- and 17-years old respectively. The fact they have made it to Danville at this point is impressive enough. The results will come in time.
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https://www.privatebanking.societegenerale.com/en/insights/weekly-update-game-over-not-yet/ | 2024-04-15T08:26:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816954.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415080257-20240415110257-00500.warc.gz | 0.970438 | 764 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__36188532 | en | Weekly Update - Game Over? Not yet...
In late April, the Bank of Canada (BoC) was the first to move when it announced the tapering of its asset purchases from C$4bn per week to C$3bn. It justified this move by pointing to a dramatic upgrade in its forecasts – in January it had expected first quarter (Q1) GDP to fall by -0.6% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) whereas growth is now forecast at 1.6%, thanks to vigorous fiscal support in the face of the latest wave of infections. This takes 2021 growth estimates to 6.5% from only 4% in January and the BoC now expects that by H2 2022, all economic slack will have been absorbed and inflation will be sustainably around its 2% target.
At its meeting in early May, the Bank of England (BoE) made no changes to policy settings, keeping its policy rate at 0.1% and holding the total size of its asset purchase programme steady at £895bn. Like the BoC, the BoE revised its 2021 growth forecasts higher, to +7.25% versus its previous +5% estimate. This means that GDP will be back to pre-crisis levels by Q4 this year, a quarter earlier than previously thought, thanks to faster consumption of pent-up demand. And, like the BoC, the BoE announced it would reduce the weekly pace of its asset purchases, from £4.44bn to £3.44bn. In his statement to the markets, BoE governor Bailey went out of his way to emphasise that this was a mechanical change rather than a signal that policy is being tightened. The BoE had fixed a £190bn envelope for asset purchases this year, implying as £3.7bn weekly rate – by reducing the weekly pace, Bailey is simply spreading the remaining purchases out evenly over the rest of the year. This explanation is borne out by the bank’s longer-term forecasts for GDP growth – 2022 has been cut from 7.25% to 5.75% and 2023 left unchanged at a modest 1.25%.
The European Central Bank (ECB) and the Federal Reserve (Fed) show no sign of following suit however. The ECB announced that it would accelerate the pace of asset purchases in Q2 given the perceived tightening in monetary conditions and, indeed, the weekly pace of its Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme buying has accelerated by 33% since Easter reaching €25.3bn. The US Fed has stuck to its monthly target of $120bn in purchases despite the recent string of stronger confidence data – for example, the March Institute of Supply Management survey of manufacturers hit a 37-year high, before easing back in April. Recent statements from Fed decision-makers have been consistent. Although the economic outlook has brightened, there is still a long way to go before the Fed tightens – one fifth of the workforce in the lower income categories is still unemployed and the Fed remains convinced that this year’s spike in inflation will prove transitory. These views were given some weight by the April payroll data – observers were disappointed to see only 266,000 new jobs added and the unemployment rate edging up to 6.1%.
Bottom line. We continue to expect a solid cyclical recovery in activity in the second half, in particular in Europe. However, we do not expect a lasting pick-up in inflation – output gaps remain very wide, the global labour market still has enormous slack and structural disinflationary forces (such as aging demographics and innovative technologies) have not disappeared. In this context, central banks are likely to keep policy very accommodative, which should continue to support risk appetite | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://bdtechworld.com/new-technology-gadgets-2024/?amp=1 | 2024-02-22T19:50:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473824.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222193722-20240222223722-00408.warc.gz | 0.878027 | 1,907 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__162851496 | en | New Technology Gadgets 2024: In the fast-paced realm of technology, the year 2024 promises to be a pivotal moment, with groundbreaking innovations and futuristic gadgets set to redefine our daily lives. From wearable tech revolutions to the integration of artificial intelligence, this article takes you on a journey through the most anticipated new technology gadgets of 2024.
1. Wearable Tech Revolution
1.1 Smartwatches and their Enhanced Functionalities
Smartwatches are no longer mere accessories; they have evolved into comprehensive health and communication hubs. The upcoming releases in 2024 are expected to boast enhanced functionalities, blurring the lines between traditional timepieces and high-tech gadgets.
1.2 Evolution of Health-centric Wearables
With a growing focus on health and fitness, wearable tech is anticipated to make significant strides. From advanced fitness trackers to wearables capable of monitoring critical health metrics, the industry is geared towards empowering users to take charge of their well-being.
2. Artificial Intelligence Integration
2.1 AI-powered Gadgets Shaping the Future
Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to be a driving force behind technological advancements. Gadgets embedded with AI are set to offer personalized experiences, adapting to user preferences and learning patterns for seamless interaction.
2.2 Enhanced User Experience through Machine Learning
Machine learning algorithms are expected to play a pivotal role in enhancing user experiences. Devices capable of understanding and predicting user behavior will become more prevalent, making technology an intuitive and indispensable part of our lives.
3. Sustainable Tech Innovations
3.1 Eco-friendly Gadgets Making a Mark
In an era of heightened environmental awareness, the tech industry is responding with eco-friendly solutions. Gadgets with sustainable materials and manufacturing processes are poised to gain popularity, reflecting a commitment to reducing the ecological footprint.
3.2 The Rise of Solar-powered and Biodegradable Devices
Solar-powered gadgets and biodegradable materials are at the forefront of sustainable tech innovations. These advancements not only contribute to a greener planet but also set a precedent for responsible technology production.
4. Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
4.1 AR and VR Gadgets Redefining User Interaction
Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) are transcending entertainment and gaming, venturing into diverse applications. From virtual travel experiences to immersive educational tools, AR and VR gadgets are reshaping how we perceive and interact with the world.
4.2 Applications of AR/VR Beyond Entertainment
Beyond entertainment, AR and VR are finding applications in healthcare, education, and professional training. The article explores how these technologies are poised to revolutionize various industries, offering unparalleled possibilities.
5. Internet of Things (IoT) Advancements
5.1 Interconnected Devices for a Seamless Lifestyle
The Internet of Things (IoT) is facilitating a connected lifestyle, where devices seamlessly communicate with each other. From smart homes to wearable tech, the IoT landscape in 2024 promises a more integrated and efficient user experience.
5.2 Smart Homes and the Role of IoT
Smart homes, powered by IoT, are becoming increasingly sophisticated. The article delves into how IoT advancements are transforming homes into intelligent spaces, where devices collaborate to enhance comfort, security, and energy efficiency.
6. Gaming Gadgets Evolution
6.1 Next-gen Gaming Consoles and Accessories
2024 marks the evolution of gaming gadgets, with next-gen consoles and accessories pushing the boundaries of immersive gameplay. From enhanced graphics to innovative controllers, the gaming experience is set to reach new heights.
6.2 The Influence of Cloud Gaming on Traditional Setups
Cloud gaming is disrupting traditional gaming setups, allowing players to access high-quality games without the need for expensive hardware. The article explores how this shift is reshaping the gaming industry and the experiences it offers.
7. Cutting-edge Communication Devices
7.1 Futuristic Smartphones and their Capabilities
Smartphones are evolving with futuristic features, from flexible screens to advanced camera capabilities. The article highlights the anticipated releases and explores how these devices are reshaping the way we communicate and engage with the digital world.
7.2 Innovations in Communication Technology
Communication technology is not limited to smartphones. The article discusses how innovative communication devices are emerging, catering to specific needs and preferences, ultimately enhancing connectivity in an ever-expanding digital landscape.
8. Quantum Computing Breakthroughs
8.1 A Look into the Quantum Computing Landscape
Quantum computing, once a concept relegated to the realm of science fiction, is becoming a reality. The article provides insights into the current state of quantum computing, its potential applications, and the transformative impact it could have on various industries.
8.2 Practical Applications and Potential Impact on Industries
From cryptography to complex simulations, quantum computing holds the potential to revolutionize industries. The article examines practical applications and discusses how businesses and researchers are preparing for the quantum era.
9. Biometric Security Integration
9.1 Advancements in Biometric Technology for Device Security
Biometric security is evolving beyond fingerprints and facial recognition. The article explores the latest advancements in biometric technology, highlighting how these innovations are enhancing device security and user authentication.
9.2 The Shift towards More Secure Authentication Methods
As cyber threats continue to evolve, so does the need for robust authentication methods. The article discusses the shift towards more secure alternatives, such as behavioral biometrics and multi-factor authentication, ensuring user data remains protected.
10. Tech for Sustainable Living
10.1 Gadgets Promoting a Greener Lifestyle
The tech industry is increasingly conscious of its environmental impact. The article showcases gadgets designed to promote a greener lifestyle, from energy-efficient devices to those encouraging sustainable practices among users.
10.2 Eco-conscious Choices in the Tech Industry
Beyond individual gadgets, the article explores how tech companies are adopting eco-conscious practices in manufacturing and packaging, contributing to a more sustainable and responsible industry.
11. Challenges and Ethical Considerations
11.1 Addressing the Challenges Posed by New Technologies
With innovation comes challenges. The article discusses the potential drawbacks and challenges associated with new technologies, from privacy concerns to the digital divide, emphasizing the importance of addressing these issues responsibly.
11.2 Ethical Concerns and Responsible Innovation
As technology advances, ethical considerations become paramount. The article explores the ethical implications of emerging technologies and emphasizes the need for responsible innovation that considers societal, cultural, and environmental impacts.
12. The Consumer’s Role in Tech Evolution
12.1 How Consumer Preferences Shape Technological Advancements
Consumer feedback and preferences play a pivotal role in shaping the direction of technological advancements. The article explores how tech companies listen to their users, adapting and innovating based on consumer needs.
12.2 The Impact of User Feedback on Future Developments
From software updates to hardware improvements, user feedback is a driving force behind continuous innovation. The article highlights instances where user feedback has led to meaningful changes, emphasizing the collaborative nature of tech evolution.
13. Anticipated Market Trends
13.1 Predictions for the Tech Market in 2024
Experts and analysts offer insights into anticipated market trends for 2024. The article provides a comprehensive overview of the projections, exploring how these trends could impact consumer choices and industry dynamics.
13.2 Emerging Trends that Could Redefine the Industry
From niche technologies gaining mainstream attention to shifts in consumer behavior, the article delves into emerging trends that have the potential to redefine the tech industry in 2024 and beyond.
Summarizing the Transformative Journey of Tech in 2024
In conclusion, the year 2024 promises to be a landmark period in the evolution of technology. With innovations spanning wearable tech, artificial intelligence, sustainability, and beyond, users can anticipate a future where gadgets not only enhance convenience but also contribute to a more sustainable and connected world.
5 Unique FAQs
1. What makes the gadgets of 2024 different from previous years? The gadgets of 2024 represent a convergence of cutting-edge technologies, including AI, sustainable materials, and enhanced user experiences. These innovations mark a significant leap forward in terms of functionality, connectivity, and environmental consciousness.
2. How are wearables evolving to meet health and fitness needs? Wearables in 2024 are becoming comprehensive health companions, offering advanced features like real-time health monitoring, personalized fitness insights, and seamless integration with healthcare systems, empowering users to take proactive measures for their well-being.
3. What role does the consumer play in shaping the tech landscape? Consumers wield significant influence in shaping the tech landscape through their preferences, feedback, and adoption patterns. Tech companies are increasingly responsive to user needs, leading to the development of more user-centric and innovative gadgets.
4. Are there any ethical concerns associated with the new technologies? Yes, the rapid advancement of technology brings forth ethical concerns, including issues related to privacy, security, and societal impacts. The article discusses the importance of addressing these concerns responsibly to ensure the ethical development and use of new technologies.
5. What market trends can we expect in 2024, and how might they impact consumers? Anticipated market trends in 2024 include the rise of sustainable tech, increased integration of AI, and the continued evolution of gaming experiences. These trends are likely to influence consumer choices, offering a glimpse into the future of the tech industry. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.99mockingbirds.com/spotlight-on-creativity-interviews-with-influential-designers/ | 2024-02-25T02:42:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474573.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225003942-20240225033942-00676.warc.gz | 0.902028 | 795 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__104148569 | en | Spotlight on Creativity: Interviews with Influential Designers
Spotlight on creativity unveils a captivating exploration into the minds of influential designers whose innovative work has left an indelible mark on the world of design. Through a series of insightful interviews, we delve into the creative processes, inspirations, and philosophies that have shaped their groundbreaking contributions to the design landscape.
One interview spotlights the visionary architect and designer, Zara Rodriguez, whose avant-garde approach to architecture challenges traditional norms. Rodriguez discusses the fusion of functionality and artistic expression, emphasizing the importance of designing spaces that not only serve practical purposes but also evoke emotional responses. Her commitment to sustainable and inclusive design practices underscores the transformative potential of architecture in shaping the way we experience the world.
In another interview, we engage with Adrian Harper, a prominent industrial designer celebrated for his sleek and ergonomic product designs. Harper shares his insights into the intersection of form and function, emphasizing the role of human-centered design in creating products that seamlessly integrate into users’ lives. The conversation delves into the balance between aesthetics and usability, revealing the meticulous process behind Harper’s iconic designs.
The spotlight also turns to graphic design maven, Elena Chang, known for her innovative visual storytelling and brand identity work. Chang discusses the evolution of graphic design in the digital age and the power of visual communication in conveying complex narratives. Her exploration of the symbiotic relationship between design and storytelling highlights the role of graphic design in shaping cultural narratives and influencing societal perceptions.
A conversation with Malik Thompson, a trailblazing fashion designer, sheds light on the dynamic world of haute couture. Thompson shares insights into his creative process, drawing inspiration from diverse cultures and historical periods to create fashion that transcends trends. The interview explores the transformative power of fashion in expressing individuality and challenging societal norms, emphasizing the role of designers in shaping cultural aesthetics.
The world of user experience (UX) design comes into focus with our interview with Maya Patel, a leading UX designer renowned for her intuitive digital interfaces. Patel delves into the intricacies of designing user-centric experiences that prioritize accessibility and inclusivity. The conversation explores the ever-evolving landscape of UX design, emphasizing the importance of empathy and continuous adaptation in creating digital interactions that resonate with diverse audiences.
Turning to the world of environmental design, our interview with Xavier Green provides insights into the intersection of sustainability and aesthetics. Green, a pioneering environmental designer, discusses the imperative of integrating ecological considerations into the design process. His work exemplifies the potential of design to address pressing environmental challenges, offering solutions that harmonize with the natural world.
The multifaceted nature of design is further illuminated in our conversation with Isabella Wong, a versatile interior designer known for her transformative spaces. Wong shares her perspective on the role of interior design in shaping the human experience, creating environments that evoke emotion and enhance well-being. The interview delves into the fusion of functionality and aesthetics, emphasizing the profound impact of well-designed spaces on our daily lives.
In a finale, we engage with David Chen, a groundbreaking virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) designer. Chen explores the immersive world of extended reality (XR) design, discussing the potential of XR in revolutionizing various industries, from gaming to education. The conversation unfolds the exciting possibilities and ethical considerations in designing virtual environments that push the boundaries of human experience.
In conclusion, the interviews with these influential designers offer a panoramic view of the diverse and dynamic world of design. From architecture to fashion, graphic design to environmental design, and UX to XR design, each interview unveils the passion, creativity, and forward-thinking philosophies that propel these designers to redefine the boundaries of their respective fields. The spotlight on creativity becomes a testament to the transformative power of design in shaping our world and inspiring the next generation of creative innovators. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://moravsky-snooker.cz/ | 2019-09-21T16:06:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514574532.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20190921145904-20190921171904-00151.warc.gz | 0.963016 | 411 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__73271025 | en | Royal Snooker’s Heath Williams continued his fantastic season with victory in the Czech National 6 Reds finals at Kolbenka Club in Prague on Sunday 5th May. Williams won his group before disposing of his club adversary (and fellow oldie) Jean Marie Hustin 2-0 in the last 16 with the aid of a 49 break. A dominant 3-0 victory with a 65 break, the highest of the competition, followed in the quarter finals against Jaroslav Horni. Heath completed his victory with close fought 3-2 wins over Jiri Stehlik in the semi-final and Tomas Kubicek in the final to seal his 3rd National Title of the season.
Earlier in the day Williams had partnered Hustin, as Royal-Snooker A Team, to victory in the Czech National Teams event with victory over Martin Cupal and Michal Brzica in the final (BrzyCup). Royal-Snooker A disposed of Jan Matejicek (2018 Czech Champion) and Jan Chren in the semi-finals (Arenia Snooker Team) and Royal-Snooker B (Petr Zak and Jiri Stehlik) in the quarter finals. In addition to his runner’s up spot in the Czech National Championships against Ales Herout, it has been a fantastic few weeks for Heath – congratulations!
Herout made the second highest break of the 6 Reds with a 63 break in his group match against Jaroslav Kucera but surprisingly lost to Stehlik to finish second in the group. That meant a last 16 meeting with Jakub Rendla who won 2-0 before succumbing to runner up Kubicek 3-0 in the quarter finals. Kubicek reached the final with a 3-1 victory over Zaid Al-Tamimi. He finishes the season with a runner up place to add to his third place finish in the Czech Snooker Championships.
The results of the 6 Reds MCR can be viewed here. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://sietar.nl/portfolio/ardi-bouwers/ | 2024-02-24T10:41:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474526.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20240224080616-20240224110616-00487.warc.gz | 0.935477 | 103 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__82482687 | en | Ardi Bouwers gives strategic advice, keynotes and masterclasses about East-West communication, China in the 21st Century and Chinese media. She studied Sinology at Leiden and Nanjing University and is the founder of China Circle. She works and teaches in the Netherlands and China, specializing in international communication and media narratives. Author of the book Circles and straight Lines (in Dutch) about differences in culture and communication styles between China and the Netherlands. Ardi is treasurer of SietarNL. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://matchreferee.com/index.php/2024/01/05/crickets-greatest-upsets-underdog-stories-that-inspire/ | 2024-04-24T20:00:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819847.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424174709-20240424204709-00297.warc.gz | 0.933812 | 577 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__109826981 | en | Cricket, like any sport, is full of unpredictability, and some of the greatest moments in the game’s history have come from underdog teams defeating stronger opponents. These upsets not only showcase the unpredictable nature of cricket but also inspire fans and players alike. Here are some of cricket’s greatest upsets and underdog stories:
- India vs. West Indies, 1983 World Cup Final: India, led by Kapil Dev, faced the mighty West Indies in the 1983 World Cup Final. The West Indies were the two-time defending champions and considered unbeatable. However, inspired by Kapil Dev’s iconic innings of 175, India posted a total of 183. The Indian bowlers then bowled out the West Indies for 140, securing an unexpected and historic victory.
- Kenya in the 2003 World Cup: Kenya, a non-Test playing nation, reached the semi-finals of the 2003 Cricket World Cup. They defeated the West Indies, Bangladesh, and Zimbabwe in the group stage. Kenya’s remarkable journey captured the cricketing world’s imagination, proving that underdog teams could compete at the highest level.
- Ireland vs. Pakistan, 2007 World Cup: In the 2007 Cricket World Cup, Ireland faced Pakistan in a group stage match. Chasing a target of 133, Ireland pulled off a stunning upset by successfully chasing down the total with just five balls to spare. This victory highlighted the potential for associate nations to compete with established cricketing powers.
- Bangladesh vs. Australia, 2005: In the first Test of Australia’s tour of Bangladesh in 2005, the underdog hosts secured a historic win. Bangladesh, considered a weak Test side at the time, defeated the world champions Australia by 7 wickets. This victory marked a turning point for Bangladesh cricket.
- England vs. Ireland, 2011 World Cup: In the 2011 Cricket World Cup, Ireland faced England in a group stage match. Chasing a target of 328, Ireland pulled off a remarkable victory with just five balls to spare. Kevin O’Brien’s blistering century played a pivotal role in one of the most memorable upsets in World Cup history.
- Sri Lanka vs. Zimbabwe, 1996 World Cup: In the 1996 Cricket World Cup, Sri Lanka entered the quarter-finals as underdogs against Zimbabwe. Chasing a target of 236, Sri Lanka was struggling at 99/4. However, Aravinda de Silva’s brilliant century guided Sri Lanka to victory, and they eventually went on to win the World Cup.
These upsets showcase the beauty of cricket, where on any given day, the underdog can rise to the occasion and defeat a stronger opponent. These stories continue to inspire cricket fans and players, reminding us that the game is full of surprises and that the spirit of competition can lead to extraordinary achievements. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.chronoaviation.com/en/blog/2018/8/30/chrono-aviation-unveils-its-first-boeing-737-200-joins-the-big-leagues-of-canadian-aviation | 2019-09-19T06:20:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514573444.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20190919060532-20190919082532-00153.warc.gz | 0.940789 | 887 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__43264738 | en | SAINT-HUBERT, August 30, 2018 - Québec air charter company Chrono Aviation is unveiling a notable addition to its fleet at the Aéroport Montréal Saint-Hubert Longueuil (AMSL) this morning: its first Boeing 737-200. This plane, which can carry 120 passengers or various combinations of passengers and cargo, is the world’s only Boeing that’s able to take off from and land on 5,000-foot unpaved strips. With this acquisition, Chrono Aviation becomes one of the few companies to offer an aircraft of that size for chartering. The 737 is the first jumbo jet to be officially based at the Saint-Hubert airport, which is also inaugurating a new landing strip this morning to accommodate this type of plane.
An exceptional plane that marks a watershed moment in Chrono Aviation’s history
“The addition of this first 737-200 to our fleet marks an important step in our company’s growth,” said Vincent Gagnon, President of Chrono Aviation. “After acquiring a Dash 8, a private jet and a King Air 350 in the last two years, we felt we were ready for this pivotal moment. Our company is ready to shift gears and join the big leagues of aviation. Until recently, Chrono could carry up to 37 passengers or 8,000 pounds of passengers and cargo with its Dash 8. The 737 will meet our customers’ increasing demand and enable us to carry up to 120 passengers or 30,500 pounds of cargo.” It will serve as a strategic asset for Chrono, allowing it to offer jumbo-jet transport to mining or construction companies that frequently travel to remote areas.
A second 737 to join the fleet in coming months
The plane is the first Boeing in a fleet set to expand rapidly—as a matter of fact, a second 737 200 is coming in November. Chrono is investing over $12 million into its two aircraft to completely refurbish them, paint them in the company’s trademark matte black and build entirely new interiors for them. Since the company was founded, Chrono’s distinctive matte black planes have stood out in the North American aviation industry. “Whether in Québec, Canada or the US, people notice our planes and talk about them,” said Dany Gagnon, Vice-President of Chrono Aviation. “As you can imagine, the 737, being three times the size of the Dash 8, is going to turn a lot of heads!” With a 737 to its name—and a second one coming soon—Chrono Aviation continues its meteoric rise to the pinnacle of Canada’s aviation industry, which it started nearly six years ago now.
About the BOEING 737-200*
The Boeing 737-200 is a high-capacity jetliner. This American-made high-performance twin-engine jet aircraft is the most popular commercial plane in the world. Its multiple configurations offer maximum flexibility, whether it’s to carry up to 120 passengers, 30,500 pounds of cargo or various combinations of passengers and cargo. The Boeing 737-200 can travel 2,720 km at a cruising speed of 779 km/h and a maximum altitude of 11,887 m (39,000 ft.). It’s also one of the few jets able to take off from and land on gravel strips.
*This aircraft is operated by Chrono Jet, member of the Chrono Aviation Group.
About Chrono Aviation
Founded in Québec City in 2012, Chrono Aviation is an ambitious and innovative company that specializes in air charter. The company is based in Montréal, Québec City and Rimouski, and its primary mission is to provide passengers with a superior level of safety. It stands out from the competition by offering an upmarket service with modern, cutting-edge aircraft. After only six years in business, Chrono Aviation has over 107 employees and a fleet of 14 aircraft. In recent years, the company received two prestigious awards at the annual Fidéides gala, a Trophée Vision and an award at the Mercuriades. Chrono Aviation continues to expand and strengthen its position at the head of the air charter industry in Québec. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.razormagazine.com/floki-explodes-500-is-now-the-time-to-invest/ | 2023-09-23T13:20:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506481.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923130827-20230923160827-00718.warc.gz | 0.951548 | 372 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__20597541 | en | • The total value locked on the Floki blockchain has surged by 71 percent in February 2023, flashing high adoption.
• FLOKI price is up by more than 200 percent and its valuations soared past $500 million for the first time, entering the top 100 cryptocurrencies.
• KuCoin recently announced listing of FLOKI, offering trading against USDT and USDC pairs to 27 million users.
Floki Price Soars 500% – Is Now a Good Time For Investors?
The memecoin Floki (FLOKI) has had an impressive run in the crypto market recovery of 2023, with its price surging over 200 percent this week and crossing $500 million for the first time in market capitalization.
Total Value Locked Increases 71 Percent
As FLOKI’s valuations soar, its native DeFi protocol FlokiFi Locker has also seen major milestones. The total value locked (TVL) on the Floki blockchain has shot up by an astonishing 71 percent since the start of February 2023.
KuCoin Offers Support for FLOKI
The recent surge in FLOKI prices comes shortly after Seychelles-based exchange KuCoin announced support for it. This means that 27 million global users can trade FLOKI against USDT and USDC pairs.
DOGE & SHIB Attract Attention from Investors
With DOGE and SHIB continuing to be popular amongst traders, investors are now taking notice of other memecoins like FLOKI as well.
Is It Time To Invest In FLOKI?
As crypto markets continue to recover in 2023, many investors may consider investing in memecoins such as DOGE, SHIB, and now even Floki. However, investors should do their own research before making any decisions. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://thenewsflashblog.com/https-thenewsflashblog-com-the-enigmatic/ | 2024-04-21T20:14:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817819.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421194551-20240421224551-00659.warc.gz | 0.944873 | 914 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__74705240 | en | The dog’s face is a fascinating canvas of emotions, expressions, and intelligence. It is a window to their world, reflecting not only their emotions but also the depth of their connection with humans. From their soulful eyes to their expressive ears and ever-wagging tails, a dog’s face tells a story of companionship, loyalty, and love. In this article, we explore the myriad facets of the dog’s face and why it captivates our hearts.
The Eyes: Windows to the Soul
One of the most captivating features of a dog’s face is undoubtedly their eyes. Dogs possess an incredible range of expressions through their eyes. The adage that “eyes are the windows to the soul” couldn’t be more true when it comes to dogs. Whether it’s the soulful gaze of a Labrador, the mischievous twinkle in the eyes of a Beagle, or the intense focus of a Border Collie, each dog’s eyes reveal a unique personality.
The depth of emotion that dogs can convey through their eyes is remarkable. They can express joy, curiosity, fear, love, and even sadness. A dog’s eyes, with their ability to connect with humans on an emotional level, have been a source of inspiration for countless artists and writers over the years.
The Nose: A Marvel of Scent
The dog’s nose is not just a prominent feature; it’s also an incredible sensory organ. Dogs have an extraordinary sense of smell, and their noses are finely tuned instruments that allow them to perceive the world in ways we can only imagine. Their wet, cold noses are more than just a charming physical attribute; they’re highly functional.
The dampness of a dog’s nose helps trap scent particles, enhancing their already impressive olfactory abilities. This powerful sense of smell plays a vital role in a dog’s life, aiding them in tracking scents, locating food, and even detecting medical conditions in humans. It’s no wonder that dogs are often employed in search and rescue operations, where their incredible noses can mean the difference between life and death.
The Mouth: Communicating with Canines
A dog’s mouth, complete with a set of sharp teeth and a wagging tongue, is a multifaceted tool for communication. The way a dog’s mouth moves can convey a wide range of emotions and intentions. A relaxed, open mouth might indicate a content and happy dog, while a snarl or bared teeth can signify aggression or fear.
But it’s not just their teeth that speak volumes; a dog’s tongue is equally expressive. The famous “dog smile” with a lolling tongue is a sign of happiness and excitement. Licking is a form of affection and bonding in the dog world, often used to show submission or to groom their pack members, both human and canine.
The Ears: Sentinels of Sound
The dog’s ears, perched on top of their heads, serve as sentinels to the world of sound. Their ears are highly mobile, and they can swivel in different directions to capture even the faintest of sounds. This acute sense of hearing is essential for dogs in the wild to detectthreats or prey. In our modern world, it often means they are aware of visitors long before we are.
The position of a dog’s ears can also reveal their emotional state. Ears held forward can signify alertness or curiosity, while ears laid back against the head might indicate fear or submission. Understanding a dog’s ear language can be a valuable tool in communicating with them effectively.
The dog’s face is a masterpiece of nature, showcasing their emotions, senses, and communication skills. Each aspect of their face, from their eyes and nose to their mouth and ears, serves a unique purpose in their lives and in their relationship with humans.
Our connection with dogs goes beyond words; it’s a silent conversation that happens through the expressions and movements of their face. The dog’s face is a testament to their loyalty, affection, and unwavering companionship. It is a captivating canvas that continues to captivate our hearts and enrich our lives in countless ways, reminding us of the special bond we share with our four-legged friends. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://midlandtowncentre.com/we-are-going-to-get-it-done-major-midland-development-moving-forward/ | 2023-06-06T18:56:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224653071.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20230606182640-20230606212640-00501.warc.gz | 0.944147 | 606 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__14038391 | en | ‘We are going to get it done’: Major Midland development moving forward
Midland Town Centre, an 85,000-square-foot development planned for 710 Balm Beach Rd. E., is currently being constructed.
David Colagiacomo is committed to seeing two major developments through to completion.
Colagiacomo, the co-owner of the Coland Developments Corporation, is behind a development on a 7.6-acre parcel of land off Balm Beach Road East and another on 15 acres of land off Highway 12.
“A lot of people are saying that developers come in and they don’t finish. There is a bad stigma in the community. I’ve heard it many, many times,” said Colagiacomo.
He wants to erase that stigma.
Construction crews have started erecting the steel skeletons of the five buildings that will make up an 85,000-square-foot commercial plaza at 710 Balm Beach Rd. E.
This development, which will be named the Midland Town Centre, will consist of 71 commercial condominium suites and more than 360 parking spaces.
Crews broke ground at the site in late 2019 and the project was originally slated to be completed by the fall of 2021, but was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lockdowns and material shortages have changed the timeline. According to Colagiacomo, the project is now scheduled to be completed by September 2022.
“We are going to get it done, that’s for sure,” said Colagiacomo. “It is going to be by far the nicest development in all of Midland. Once it is all built and done … everybody is going to be in awe.”
The complex will feature a two-storey, 20,0000-square-foot medical building; a two-storey, 30,000-square-foot professional office building; two 15,000-square-foot retail and restaurant buildings; and a 5,000-square-foot daycare building.
Colagiacomo and Coland Developments are also behind the Midland Market Square, a 10-building, 180,000-square-foot development planned on for a parcel off Highway 12, west of Beamish Road.
This development will have a Holiday Inn Express, Starbucks, dental office, restaurant, fast food drive-thrus and more.
One of the biggest reasons he is committed to these developments is because he believes in Midland.
“It’s an excellent area and it’s growing,” said Colagiacomo. “It is still undervalued in my opinion. You are only an hour and a half from downtown Toronto.”
For more information on the developments, visit coland.ca.
Source: simcoe.com, December 8, 2021 | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://journal.alpsandmeters.com/journal/2017/7/27/the-king-of-the-mountains | 2019-11-11T22:37:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496664439.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20191111214811-20191112002811-00095.warc.gz | 0.970935 | 831 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__199593411 | en | What little drama remained in the 2017 version of the Tour de France wrapped up last Sunday along the Champs-Élysées, as Chris Froome earned a third consecutive Tour win and fourth of his career, but the passion, athleticism and emotion that are jam-packed into the three week event will stay with us throughout the summer. The tour is an event we always circle on the calendar, a certain highlight of the summer months in the mountains thanks to the Tour's intimate relationship with the mountain ranges of France: the Pyrenees and the Alps.
While the tour is obviously an annual event, the route changes from year to year, visiting some of the iconic mountain towns and resorts in France and offering the chance to experience a different side of these mountains compared to the winter months. The drama that unfolds across these numerous cols and mountain passes is captivating: as the hills get steeper and steeper, the spectators that line the streets get closer and closer; often creating a path barely wide enough for a bike to fit through. The pain, sweat and suffering are written on the riders faces as they fight to reach the top.
Climbing to new heights and summiting majestic peaks have long fascinated alpinists, and cyclists are no exception. The Tour started in 1903, and by 1933 incentives were put in place for those who made it to the top of a particular mountain climb along the route. Thus, a separate mini-competition within the overall Tour was born: The King of the Mountains.
Some of the greatest riders in the world have held the King of the Mountains and, unlike today's modern Tour de France, the man who held that title was often the one who wore the maillot jaune (yellow jersey) in Paris as the overall winner at the end of the Tour. Fausto Coppi was King of the Mountains prior to winning the tour in 1949 and 1952, Eddy Merckx did the same in 1969 and 1970.
Today's more modern, specialized race has rendered the King of the Mountains competition to a more secondary role: in a team-oriented environment, the favorites to win the overall competition are watched like hawks, and the risk of making a breakaway charge up a high mountain pass is no longer worth the reward. In fact, since 1975 only two riders have even won the Tour and the Mountains Classification at any point in their entire careers.
One of these riders, Bernard "The Badger" Hinault was famous for a contentious duel in the 1986 Tour with American Greg LeMond. Hinault was the master, LeMond the protege - Hinault had won his fifth Tour in 1985 in large part thanks to the supporting efforts of LeMond, and promised to return the favor by supporting LeMond in his quest to win in 1986. Yet as the Tour progressed, it was Hinault who launched attack after attack, pushing himself into the overall lead and casting doubt on the sincerity of his pledge. The drama reached a climax in the climb up the legendary Alpe d'Huez where Hinault launched another solo attack, only to be matched pedal for pedal by LeMond. The incredible display of competition was not lost on the two: they reached the summit hand-in-hand and LeMond let his teammate win the stage out of respect. But immediately following the finish, Hinault wouldn't concede, saying that an upcoming time trial would determine the winner. LeMond would ultimately prevail, becoming the first American to win the Tour de France. Hinault was the King of the Mountains and second overall - and remains the last Frenchman to win the Tour.
The duel is expertly captured in the outstanding ESPN 30 for 30 documentary Slaying the Badger. It's essential viewing for those interested in the Tour.
While we won't be competing for the polka-dotted jersey any time soon, we draw tremendous inspiration from those who shed blood, sweat and tears to ascend to the summit on two wheels, and the competitive spirt those duels embody. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://freshmax.shop/blogs/news/healthline-survey-reveals-most-americans-know-about-the-dangers-of-sugar-but-don-t-know-what-to-do-about-it | 2022-01-16T18:55:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300010.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220116180715-20220116210715-00173.warc.gz | 0.968595 | 157 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__243485642 | en | Healthline asked 3,223 Americans from across the country about their sugar consumption habits and awareness about added sugar in food.* More than half of respondents (62 percent) are concerned about the impact of sugar and how it affects their waistline, and 40 percent of respondents are likely to feel guiltier about eating too much sugar versus carbohydrates (22 percent) or fat (18 percent). One-third of those surveyed want to take action to reduce their sugar intake, and 1 in 10 (10 percent) have broken up with sugar. Surprisingly, 2 in 3 guess wrong on which popular food items contain more sugar. People are three times more likely to choose sweetened packaged cereal over the trendy “avo toast” (maybe it’s not as trendy as we thought). | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://negotiatingwithgiants.com/about/author-peter-johnston | 2018-04-23T11:24:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125945942.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20180423110009-20180423130009-00110.warc.gz | 0.96495 | 430 | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-17__0__18234985 | en | About the Author: Peter Johnston
Peter Johnston is an international negotiator, advisor and mediator whose groundbreaking results have been formally recognized by the US government for their positive economic and social impact.
He's a pioneer in helping underdogs negotiate against the odds with giants who tower over them in size and clout. His folksy, concrete advice to smaller players – entrepreneurs, athletes, struggling organizations, embattled political leaders and individuals seeking change – is driven by his experience with clients and his research into the best practices of successful smaller players across hundreds of years.
As Managing Director of NAI – a boutique consulting firm founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts – Peter's insights also come from his extensive work with giants, including governments, global institutions and some of the world's largest corporations.
Recent examples of Peter’s client engagements include helping a renowned gallery negotiate the return of stolen artwork; guiding a small company in its successful efforts to get a giant retailer back as a customer; supporting the Founder and Chairman of a high-profile fashion group in negotiating the sale of his company; advising a group of municipal leaders on a sustainable regional development and governance plan; speaking at a global M&A conference about the advantages of being a smaller competitor; training the board of a large union in best negotiation practices and then counselling its executive team on critical issues; mediating a rights dispute between a national government and its aboriginal people.
The early foundations for his distinct approaches to influence were formed by working closely with founders of the Harvard Negotiation Project, the Program on Negotiation and the Harvard Negotiation Roundtable. He is a Harvard MBA, trained journalist and former corporate and investment banker.
Peter has been featured in media around the world, talking about his work and commenting on newsworthy negotiations, volatile conflicts and successful influence strategies related to politics, economics and personal relationships.
Dozens of news groups have interviewed or quoted him, including CNN, PBS, ABC's “America This Morning,” FOX Business News, Oprah & Friends, US News & World Report, Business Week, Wired Magazine, The Globe and Mail, The National Post and The Wall Street Journal. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://bravingboyhood.blogspot.com/2010/01/i-heart-ricky-stanzi.html | 2018-06-18T11:08:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267859766.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20180618105733-20180618125733-00124.warc.gz | 0.989034 | 379 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__207650172 | en | Wednesday, January 6, 2010
I heart Ricky Stanzi
We are Iowa Hawkeye fans! If you don't know, they won the Orange Bowl last night. More important than that, Jenna Waters has won her fight against cancer! Almost a year ago, I shared this story with your here. Jenna was today declared cancer free!!! Praise God!!! She has to have her blood levels checked monthly and a few more scans completed before they declare her in remission. What does my title of I heart Ricky Stanzi have to do with this whole story you ask? Well, Jenna has received treatment at the University of Iowa Hospitals. We are very lucky to live so close to such a great facility. Jenna was visited by a group of Hawkeye players and Ricky and Jenna became close friends. Last night, during the bowl game, one of the reporters shared the story of their relationship. If any of you watched the game, you could see his "Pray for Princess Jenna" pink armbands which he wears every game. The reporter was talking about this relationship and she shared that Ricky wanted her to tell Jenna he loved her. This brings tears to my eyes right now, Jenna is a precious little girl and I am so thankful that God has taken her cancer away and I pray that she remains cancer free. She has been through so much in the last year. Ricky has become someone that she keeps in contact with daily. In today's world it is reassuring to me that there are still good, kind people who are role models in the eyes of our children. Here is a link to the news story that a local station did on Jenna and Ricky. Jenna's mom reported that Jenna watched the entire game last night and that when the announcer said that Ricky wanted her to tell Jenna he loved her that she shouted back at the TV "I love you too Ricky!" Precious! | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://toomuchtuma.blogspot.com/2017/04/what-chris-sale-era-means-for-boston.html | 2019-07-23T09:38:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195529175.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723085031-20190723111031-00538.warc.gz | 0.985477 | 668 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__204713898 | en | Wednesday, April 5, 2017
What The Chris Sale Era Means For Boston
Boston is a city that wants sports titles. Sorry, Boston is a city that demands sports titles. 10 championships in 15 years will do that to a fan base. And if you're not ending a season with a parade you better be playing hard to keep us on your side. This year's Celtics team is a good example. Most fans realize we likely aren't going to the finals this year, but Isaiah Thomas and company give us everything they have on a night to night basis so they have our support.
This mentality translates to individual players as well. A position in which it has been discussed with recently is the ace of the Red Sox. Dating back to the late 90s with Pedro Martinez the Sox have a history of front end starters with bulldog like mentalities. Boston fans have been lucky enough to also witness Curt Schilling, Josh Beckett, and Jon Lester possess this trait.
The low point of this position came in 2015, which was the year with the infamous John Farrell quote of "I think we have five number ones". In reality that team didn't even have a number two starter. David Price was supposed to change this last year but he hasn't exactly endeared himself into the hearts of Red Sox fans. Rick Porcello has come closest since we lost Lester, but even he didn't get all the way there in his Cy Young winning 2016.
Enter Chris Sale. Red Sox president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski recognizes his team has a chance to compete for a title right now so he went out and got the best pitcher in the American League. Over the past five seasons Sale has averaged 203 innings pitched, and during individual years has led the league in strikeouts once, ERA+ once, FIP once, and K/9 twice. He has five all star appearances during this time and has yet to finish lower than sixth in the Cy Young voting since he became a full time starter.
The one knock on Sale is...well actually there is no knock on Sale. He hasn't pitched in the playoffs yet but before 2016 neither had Corey Kluber. Judging by Sale's personality and commitment to winning one would expect him to excel in a postseason atmosphere. One criticism could be his violent delivery leading to arm trouble but as stated before he has averaged over 200 innings per year since becoming a starter. I haven't been as excited to see a Red Sox starting pitcher since I was a kid watching Pedro.
Unless I'm forgetting someone it was Sale who received the loudest ovation from fans during Opening Day's pregame ceremonies. Price's inability to connect with the Boston fans and media has led to us really wanting Sale to become "the guy". So far he is doing his best to just fit in, evidenced by when he acknowledged Porcello should pitch the first game of the season. Hopefully Sale gets his Red Sox career off to a great start tonight but ultimately all the regular season success in the world won't mean much if he and the team don't perform over the next few Octobers. One way or the other it's going to be an entertaining three year window for Boston baseball. As for now, enjoy the beginning of what could eventually be known as the Chris Sale era. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://joel-nava.squarespace.com/dressler-parsons | 2019-10-18T04:19:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986677884.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20191018032611-20191018060111-00505.warc.gz | 0.935761 | 1,205 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__189219414 | en | Closely Examining The Truth: Hannah Barco’s Fathomings at the ASU Art Museum
By Dressler Parsons
The trick to performance art or participatory art so often lies in the piece’s preservation. How does one document an ephemeral moment in a way that stays true to the original piece? How can the feeling of creation and collaboration stay alive within the walls of a museum?
Hannah Barco begins to tackle this by installing a structure in the ASU Art Museum that is at once familiar and totally unfamiliar–a bizarre blend of a sidewalk and a kitchen countertop that reads as some dreamworld-version of a home. And somehow, it feels absolutely alive.
It’s impossible to nail down a single element that brings Barco’s piece to life, but running water is a great place to start. A kitchen sink, adorned with rags and sponges, overflows into a kitchen-counter cutout of a river. The plumbing beneath the counter–and then sidewalk–is clearly visible, calling to mind the invisible or overlooked plumbing that pervades our everyday lives.
The water is also conceptually relevant; the title of the piece has a double meaning. “Fathom” is a verb used to mean “to understand” or “to comprehend,” but it’s also used in nautical contexts. “To fathom” is to measure the depth of something with a sounding line, or sonar.
Barco’s running water deepens the traditional notion of “understanding” into something more complex–carefully cataloguing the world around us in a quest to find the truth. The water works double-time as a structural benefit; like a water fountain in a shopping mall or a courtyard or a park, the familiar trickling noise calms visitors down and draws them closer. This is great, because calm and closer is exactly where visitors need to be to fully appreciate the structure.
Barco’s intense attention to detail leads the visitor to carefully explore every inch of the structure. Nooks and crannies are filled with thoughtful surprises. A cabinet beneath a sidewalk reveals a maze made out of pins. Two loaves of fake bread peek out from a half-closed box. An open cabinet door reveals a tiny ladder running from one shelf to another. Grass peeks out of a crack in the elevated sidewalk. These details are at once so lifelike and so otherworldly that it takes a moment to place yourself back in the museum, and not in a psychological mashup of your childhood home and the sidewalk in front of said home.
These small structures, according to the wall text, are sculptural representations of Barco’s own attempts to fathom; she has interviewed scholars across the campus, centering around the question, “How do we proceed with competency and aplomb in a world we can’t fully fathom?” Their answers, and the resulting sculptures, are ways of translating these ways that other humans have learned to understand. Barco’s statement lifts these varied viewpoints, noting, “Each person has a unique literacy–a particular lens through which they are able to read and glean understanding from the materiality of our world.”
Another drawer, under a kitchen counter and invitingly positioned by a stool, encourages visitors to participate in “conversations that already happened.” The soft fabric envelopes inside make crinkling noises like a baby toy and are labeled in cursive with questions (“What keeps you up at night?”), assertions (“Because in dynamic and inherently complex systems we must name our assumptions”), dedications (“For those who seek profit by meeting demands, feel threatened by change, advocate for the greater good, and/or seek public support”), and abstract images (“The meaning and perception of materials transferring across time through lifetimes of engagement with process and the relational emerging of skillful people as they themselves make their world”).
These words have a clear meaning to Barco; they feel like fiercely underlined sentences pulled from her own notes about the exhibition’s final form. While conceptual artists often have a desire to pull back the curtain, to share the process, it’s rarely executed so elegantly. This isn’t a glass case filled with untouchable, inscrutable notebook pages. These envelopes feel like an invitation and an offering to the visitor; and a note-to-self, perhaps, for the artist.
Finally, while the structure itself is filled with vitality and small mysteries, the space points to evidence of audience members participating in the creation of the piece. Aside from the structure itself paying homage to Barco’s research subjects, a line of photographs on the wall show hands helping to construct the sidewalk; anonymous, delicate hands. Other evidence is conversation-based; during my visit, a security guard grinned and told me about the chewing gum party Barco held, where everyone chewed gum and stuck it on and under the sidewalk. While he talked, he was genuinely bright-eyed over the memory.
This is where Barco’s skill really lies. She has this rare ability to create a participatory art piece that’s accessible but not condescending, and acknowledges life’s inherent whimsicality without punching it up to an unrelatable level. Her work is intelligent, welcoming, and quietly fun.
The feeling of the space Barco and her collaborators have created has an unmistakable sense of community. It is a piece that feels like a conversation, an exploration, a fathoming. And like the water flowing from the sink to the counter, this conversation is not stagnant. All visitors are welcome to join in. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.omwbe.wa.gov/about-omwbe/washington-state-business-diversity-subcabinet/disparity-study | 2017-10-17T05:43:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187820927.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20171017052945-20171017072945-00454.warc.gz | 0.947778 | 148 | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__28046908 | en | Washington State Disparity Study
The State of Washington is conducting a statewide disparity study that will provide valuable information about how state government is doing when it comes to including minority-, women- and veteran-owned businesses in contracts and purchasing. To learn more or to get involved, visit the official study website, wastate.disparity-study.com.
Two public meetings — in Seattle and Spokane — were held in June to provide further information on the study. Those who did not attend the meetings are encouraged to join an information Webinar at 10 a.m. on Aug. 9. Click here to register To learn more about how to participate, and to see presentations used at the public meetings, please visit the disparity study website | journalism_and_media_communication |
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