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https://www.phyllisvine.com/ | 2024-04-15T01:46:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816939.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415014252-20240415044252-00826.warc.gz | 0.92349 | 813 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__43669754 | en | Doors to WellBeing Webinar with the Copeland Center
October 31, 2023
CLICK for required preregistration
Fighting for Recovery reveals how grassroots activists challenged medical authority and popular opinion to insist upon recovery for people managing a mental illness. Since the middle of the last century, people with a lived experience have upended conventional beliefs that deterioration was inevitable. With an abiding pursuit of choice, they opposed the use of force and built a movement with innovative service options.They focused on person-centered needs, the development of skills with respect for strengths, and situated their work within broad-based fights for equity and social justice.
Readers will meet leaders from California to Maine who campaigned for peer services, who designed non-coercive crisis programs, and who sought respite rather than institutionalization while decrying the injustice of criminalizing mental illnesses. They will discover the charisma of leaders such as Howie the Harp, Judi Chamberlin, Sally Zinman, and dozens more, who insisted on humane services while fighting for recovery.
Fighting for Recovery is available for pre-order.
What READERS are saying
"a ground up rather than a top down approach. . an important contribution to the historial literature."
--Matthew Rozsa, Salon
"In this essential history, Phyllis Vine recounts the long movement for liberation and recovery of people with mental illness and those who've led this imperative and incredible work."
--Karla J. Strand, Ms. Magazine
"Borne out of love for a brother, executived with storytelling flair, and featuring a parade of inpassioned individuals, FIGHTING FOR RECOVERY introducded me to waves of brilliant reforms - and reminded me of the villains who thwarted them. . .Armed with that sense of solidarity and this illuminating history, I feel newly resolved to keep fighting."
--Rachel Simon, author of Riding The Bus WIth My Sister and The story of Beautiful Girl
"an astonishing narrative . . . written in a crisp and clear fashion. . .This is a one-of-a-kind guide for understanding the complex fight to create healing and caring environments, and a clarion call for the next generations to finish the job."
—Dr. Courtenay Harding, former director, Center for Rehabilitation and Recovery at the Coalition of Behavioral Health Agencies.
"You may have wondered why 'psychiatry has been slow to adopt recovery programs.' That verdict (coming after more than three hundred pages of painstakingly documented history) will be less mysterious—but not one iota less sad—to any reader of what came before it."
—Kim J. Hopper, author of Reckoning with Homelessness
"must-reading for anyone who wants to understand how the mental health field has developed and where it must go in the future."
—Ron Manderscheid, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
"a long-overdue history of the mental health rights movement in America that is both poignant and scholarly. . . a singular accomplishment."
—Steve Coe, former CEO of Community Access
"As the daughter of a father who suffered from schizophrenia. . .Vine's book finally gives me hope."
—Arlene Notoro Morgan, assistant dean, Klein College of Media and Communications at Temple University, and advisory member, Rosalynn Carter Journalism Fellowship on Mental Health.
"Its historic sweep details the development of our movement over decades and provides a vivid reminder that the fight for recovery and rights requires us to stay vigilant."
—Harvey Rosenthal, CEO, New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services
"with compelling examples, the impact that former consumers of mental health services have had and continue to have on destigmatizing mental illness. . . She takes us behind the scenes to explore the possibility of recovery."
—Risdon N. Slate, author of The Criminalization of Mental Illness | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://film.lmu.edu/thelmuexperience/unmitigatedglobalwarmingcouldmakesomeregionsuninhabitable/ | 2021-01-26T19:11:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610704803308.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20210126170854-20210126200854-00124.warc.gz | 0.911165 | 304 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__82728058 | en | Unmitigated Global Warming Could Make Some Regions Uninhabitable
Extreme temperatures and humidity around the Persian Gulf are likely to approach and exceed a threshold of human tolerance within this century if greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase on their current trajectory, according to new research released online today by the journal Nature Climate Change.
These findings, by Jeremy Pal of Loyola Marymount University, and Elfatih Eltahir of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, suggest that human habitability of major cities such as Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Doha, Dhahran and Bandar Abbas may be severely impacted by extreme weather events in the future.
The human body can shed heat through evaporative cooling of perspiration provided that the wet-bulb temperature — a combined measure of temperature and humidity — remains below 95 F (35 C), which the scientists say converts to a heat index or feels like a temperature of 170 F.
Pal and Eltahir used a number of high-resolution regional climate model simulations to project the incidence of extremes of wet-bulb temperature around the Persian Gulf toward the end of the 21st century (2071–2100).
“These extreme temperatures are likely to become a normal summertime heat wave event by the end of the century, if no progress on climate change is made,” said Pal. “On a more positive note, we show that greenhouse gas mitigation efforts would greatly reduce the probability of occurrence of these extremes in temperature.” | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://saturdaynews.xyz/what-is-different-between-social-platform-content-platform/ | 2021-10-17T08:34:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585171.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20211017082600-20211017112600-00627.warc.gz | 0.92896 | 653 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__211268168 | en | While it’s hard to anticipate the future bearing of the different web-based media stages, it tends to be fascinating to note what methodologies advertisers are really intending to execute, which, in enormous part, will reflect where they see things headed, in view of their true encounters.
So where will advertisers spend a greater amount of their online media time and cash in 2020?
In a new survey series, we requested individuals from the SMT people group this careful inquiry. More than 1000 individuals reacted, telling us where they intend to center their promoting time and energy in 2020.
This is what they said:
Which online media stages will advertisers invest the greater part of their energy in 2020?
In spite of the fact that we just remembered four significant stages for this study, our survey shows that Instagram will be the principle focal point of most promoting systems in the coming year, with Facebook arriving in a nearby second.
Other social stages — like Pinterest, Youtube, Snapchat and TikTok —were excluded, so its even more an overall outline in this regard. This isn’t to imply that that these different stages will not assume a significant part for certain organizations, however to keep the survey concentrate more broad, we just incorporated the key part here.
Realizing that numerous advertisers are intending to invest the majority of their energy and cash on Instagram one year from now probably shows a couple of things:
Instagram has demonstrated to be an effective stage for advertisers to fabricate their image and arrive at other promoting and deals objectives
Advertisements and promoting content on Instagram will just expansion in 2020
Contest will be higher on Instagram
Alternately, rivalry might be to a lesser extent a battle on different stages
On the off chance that you intend to showcase on Instagram in 2020, regardless of whether through promotions or natural substance, ensure that you invest the energy to make something genuinely effective. You would prefer not to slack on imaginative substance here, or you’ll probably miss out to the opposition.
What kind of content will advertisers use in 2020 to meet their objectives?
We as a whole have one of a kind promoting objectives that decide the sorts of content we decide to make. What we were generally inquisitive about here is whether any of these substance types could wind up overwhelming the web-based media scene in 2020.
Our survey results show that social promotions and in-house (natural) content to be the principle center for most of advertisers, however different types of content, (for example, force to be reckoned with posts and UGC) will be nearly as significant. No type of content came out as an unmistakable champ accordingly.
On the off chance that we join social advertisements and powerhouse posts into a gathering of “paid substance” versus UGC, and in-house content as “natural substance,” the outcomes at split 50/50. The two types of promoting will be utilized intensely in the coming year; neither sort of content will overwhelm advertising systems.
As the year finds some conclusion, it merits utilizing this calmer opportunity to ponder what more established systems you’ll bring into the new decade, and what more current ones it could be an ideal opportunity to execute. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://marigoldnaturalpharmacy.com/taxes-you-must-pay-if-you-win-the-lottery/ | 2023-12-07T17:20:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100677.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207153748-20231207183748-00441.warc.gz | 0.968868 | 887 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__231570453 | en | There are numerous ways to win the lottery. The government used lotteries as a means to fund projects throughout the nation. From a battery of guns in Philadelphia to the building of Faneuil Hall in Boston, lotteries helped finance government projects. However, there are scams involving the lottery. Read this article to avoid becoming a victim. This article will help you understand the lottery’s chances of winning. It also discusses the taxes you must pay if you win the lottery.
Chances of winning a lottery jackpot
As jackpots grow, you might be tempted to buy multiple tickets to increase your odds of winning. Though it increases your odds a little bit, it is still much less likely than winning the jackpot. In other words, buying 10 tickets increases your odds to one in 292 million. Compared to winning the jackpot, you’re far more likely to die from an asteroid or a plane crash. As a result, you’d be better off focusing on other things.
Although the odds of winning the lottery jackpot are low (one in 302.5 million), they remain very enticing. There’s a good reason why people keep buying tickets – the promise of a multimillion-dollar jackpot is incredibly alluring. After all, if you’re lucky, you could retire on a tropical island. Using the right math, though, your chances of winning a lottery jackpot are a lot lower than you might think.
Organizing a lottery pool
Organizing a lottery pool is relatively easy. You need to decide how much each member of the lottery pool will buy and who will manage the cash. Also, it is imperative to create a set of rules for your lottery pool. The rules of your lottery pool should state how much each person should buy, the minimum and maximum buy-in amounts, and the name of the primary person responsible for the money. A contract can help protect you from potential scams and disputes.
A lottery pool agreement is a vital contract between the participants. The parties should make sure it spells out clear rules for the distribution of winnings. Lottery pools are more common than you think. Besides boosting your chances of winning without spending money, they can be a great way to bring a group of people together. Once you have your pool rules set, the next step is to recruit participants and get a contract signed.
Taxes on lottery winnings
If you have ever won a lottery, you know that lottery winnings are subject to taxes. It’s important to know how much you’ll owe and how the tax rates affect your lottery winnings. If you assume you’ll pay the winnings out of pocket, you may be surprised to find out that state and local taxes are much higher than you’d hoped. To avoid this surprise, make sure you understand the tax rate on your lottery winnings before you claim them.
While state laws vary, there are some general rules. For instance, if you won a lottery for a sum between $600 and $5,000, you may owe 4% state income tax on that amount. You should also be aware that lottery winners are no longer required to receive W2-G forms for tax reporting purposes. In addition, House Bill 29 has mandated withholding of state taxes on prize money, which you must pay when you claim your prize.
Scams related to winning a lottery
Scams related to winning the lottery have become more common over the years. Many people become duped into sending money to fake organizations that promise them a windfall. Last year alone, the Better Business Bureau reported losses totaling $117 million. Many victims are embarrassed to report their losses, so they continue to fall for these scams, hoping to win big from a fake lottery or sweepstakes. Legitimate lotteries do not require people to pay a pre-determined amount to claim their prize.
Scam lottery mail is usually sent in the form of a check that appears to be sent by a legitimate organization. Unfortunately, the checks bounce when you deposit them and are actually drawn from the victim’s account. These scams often target those who have already entered sweepstakes. In these cases, the victim is asked to wire more money to the scammer, so that they can avoid having to pay the lottery officials. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://discoveringlanguagepod.com/?season=1 | 2020-09-22T20:28:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400206763.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20200922192512-20200922222512-00222.warc.gz | 0.955934 | 127 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__73078242 | en | Of the thousands of languages spoken in the world today, only a handful are privileged with mainstream visibility. Every month I'll be interviewing members of underrepresented language communities to discuss their work, art, and efforts to keep their languages and cultures thriving. If you're passionate about languages, interested in other cultures, or just learning about something new then this is the podcast for you!
June 2nd, 2019 | Season 1 | 28 mins 14 secs
In this episode, I sat down with Elva Ambia, founder of The Quechua Collective of New York, to talk about her mission to keep Quechua thriving. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://mimotaurus.com/entertainment/great-movies-and-great-web-series-only-on-telugu/ | 2024-03-04T10:33:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476442.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20240304101406-20240304131406-00565.warc.gz | 0.977205 | 666 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__156427666 | en | Are you looking forward to one of the best Indian movies online and great Indian web series? In that case, you can download the largest Telugu OTT platform AHA to stream hundreds of movies, web series, and dozens of shows in Telugu. If you’re looking for some of the best recommendations for great movies and great web series, here are some recommendations:
This Telugu social problems film has received three national awards and five international awards, and it was a huge success for the filmmakers. Rajesh Touchriver directed it, and Sunitha Krishnan and M.S. Rajesh produced it. The film features actors like Siddiqui, Anjali Patil, RatnaSekhar Reddy and NeenaKurup. It had received worldwide fame and recognition, and it is one of the greatest Indian films because it brilliantly displayed the issues of the sex trafficking business and forced prostitution. It also conveyed the message that every woman working in that industry was/is someone’s daughter and highlighted the struggle of the family of sex-trafficked women.
The film is about Shrinivas and his daughter Durga who is very good in her academics. Srinivas often travels to Hyderabad on the pretext of work; however, he does sex trafficking. Durga asks her father to take her to Hyderabad, where they stay in a hotel, and she is abducted from the hotel by a woman who was duped by Shrinivas and was forced into prostitution. Durga is also made into a prostitute. Meanwhile, Srinivas is frantically searching for his daughter, and he knows that he will never be able to get back his daughter. Watch this film to know if Srinivas gets his daughter back. This is one of the few Indian movies online that had shocked the viewers and was highly acclaimed by the critics.
If you love to watch web series, then you can go forward with Mastis. This web series is based on the tale of six people living in a high-class urban society, and they are all involved with the lounging bar called Mastis. The director of this web series is Ajay Bhuyan. It features Navdeep as Pranav, Raja Chembolu as Anand, BinduMadhavi as Gowri, Hebah Patel as Tanya, ChandiniChowdary as Lekha, and Akshara Gowda as Simran.
The web series’s story is about the relationship and friendship in high-class society in modern times that are mainly driven by greed, lust, ambition, and manipulation. Pranav and Gauri run the bar, and they have hired the waitress Lekha and the manager Anand. Pranav has external affairs with many women; Simran and Anand are secretly in love with Lekha. Also, so the band singer Tanya faces a lot of struggles to uplift the band. This is the best web series that showcases the fragility of posh urban living. If you like watching drama, this is the web series for you.
There are many greatest and highly acclaimed films and great web series on AHA if you want to watch offline Telugu movies, download AHA today! | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://tritonus.dk/category/projekter/ | 2018-12-14T22:54:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376826354.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20181214210553-20181214232553-00273.warc.gz | 0.948591 | 501 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__59853502 | en | Udtræk af en anmeldelse af Valby Summer Jazz på allaboutjazz.com
Autor: Jakob Baekgaard
Another luxurious journey in sound came from percussionist Marilyn Mazur, who closed the festival with her concert with the Tritonus Choir. The name of their project was called “Existence,” and unfolded itself like a glorious suite of poems set to music and instrumental interludes played by the quartet of Mazur, pianist Makiko Hirabayashi, bassist Klavs Hovman and saxophonist Hans Ulrik.
The texts came from both Nordic and oriental sources and it all started when members of the choir popped up from everywhere and walked around in the concert hall, whispering a poem by Vigdis Garbarek. With this introduction, the scene was set for something special and the concert turned out to be a mind-blowing experience where Mazur’s painterly percussion, the Zen-like touch of Hirabayashi’s piano and the deep grooves of Hovman were merged with Hans Ulrik’s Coltrane- like lines on the tenor.
The instruments were in perfect flow with the voices of the choir and brought out the philosophical aspects of the texts without succumbing to unnecessary pathos or dry intellectualism. Instead, the music and words combined into crashing waves of vitality that emphasized the rhythm and beat of life in a marvelous sound painting. When it all ended with an irresistibly charming cover of Monty Python’s “Always Look on the Bright Side of life,” Mazur’s Quartet and the choir had managed to distill all the complexities of life into a life-affirming work of art.
The festival began with a concert with choir and ended with a concert with choir. It was a narrative of voices and big bands, but more than anything, it was an homage to creativity and music itself. With their tireless effort, Werner and Koppel and the team around Valby Summer Jazz have created a truly unique event that takes the perspective of the artists, but seeks to include the audience and expand their musical horizons. This year it seemed like the sky was the limit and some of the concerts played will definitely linger, as the festival moves on and prepares for another year of exciting musical meetings.
All Photos: Jannik Knudsen | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://news.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/info/1012/5331.htm | 2021-02-24T23:36:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178349708.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20210224223004-20210225013004-00489.warc.gz | 0.96665 | 392 | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-10__0__162834279 | en | President Qiu Yong meets Rector of the University of Oslo and confers Honorary Professorship to Norwegian scholar
On April 17th, Qiu Yong, President of Tsinghua University, received Professor Svein Stolen, Rector of the University of Oslo (UiO), at Gongziting of Tsinghua, and exchanged views on the future cooperation between the two institutions.
During the meeting, Qiu extended his welcome to Prof. Stolen and thanked him for his support to the cooperation between Tsinghua and the UiO. The two institutions have already signed a Memorandum of Understanding and a student exchange agreement in 2017, facilitating student mobility and the possibilities of collaborative research. Qiu hoped that in the future the existing areas of collaboration between Tsinghua and UiO could be extended.
Qiu Yong also congratulated Professor Nils Christian Stenseth for becoming an Honorary Professor of Tsinghua and hoped he would become a bridge between the two institutions.
Qiu noted that in the future Tsinghua will pay more attention to its internationalization and its cooperation with partner institutions. The University of Oslo is an important partner of Tsinghua. He hoped that in the future Tsinghua will conduct closer cooperation with UiO in more areas.
Prof. Stolen noted that he is honored to be at Tsinghua, and the collaboration with Tsinghua is crucial for the UiO. The UiO is also an international university. It welcomes more Chinese students and will send more Norwegians to China in the future.
At the end of the meeting, Qiu Yong formally conferred the title of Honorary Professorship of Tsinghua to Professor Stenseth.
Afterwards, the Norwegian guests also attended the opening ceremony of the “Tsinghua-Norway Collaboration-Workshop Series”.
Writer: Zhu Lvhe | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.cheapbusinessclasstickets.us/pulling-big-guns-turkish-airlines/ | 2018-08-14T11:31:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221209021.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20180814101420-20180814121420-00510.warc.gz | 0.960803 | 592 | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-34__0__120098144 | en | New Denon Headphones included in entertainment option on Turkish Airlines Business Class
Commitment of Turkish Airlines towards providing their customers with top notch facilities cannot be corroborated more by any other fact than, they are going to offer Denon Headphones for entertainment purposes on Business Class Flights.
Denon is at the pinnacle of providing home entertainment systems. The quality of Denon manufactured headphones will add to the mesmerizing experience provided on Turkish AIrlines Business Class. To up the ante and to beat other major players in the aviation industry can be justified as reasons for these recent changes.
Morgan Freeman as Brand Ambassador
To boost engagement with their customers, Turkish has made Hollywood’s acclaimed actor, Morgan Freeman, their new face. Morgan will represent the airline for the first time during the Super Bowl final. An advertisement at Super Bowl final with a face as celebrated as Morgan’s is likely to boost airline’s credibility as well as popularity.
The advertisement featuring Morgan will premier on February 5, 2017.Morgan is renowned for movies like “The Bucket List,””The Shawshank Redemption,”” Driving Miss Daisy” and many more. Prior to this, the airline had launched ad campaigns featuring Lionel Messi and Kobe Bryant. By doing so, they had considerably augmented brand awareness in America as well as Europe.
Partnership with Panasonic Avionics Corporation
To redefine inflight entertainment, the airline has also partnered with Panasonic Avionics Corporation. Aggregating the eX1 in-flight entertainment and communication (IFEC) system into their business class facilities will definitely delight their passengers.
Along with a HD display and high fidelity audio, the airline is aiming to create a powerful ambience for passengers that enables them to soak in the comfort provided in Turkish Airlines business class. In addendum to this, passengers will also be able to watch live television and connect their smartphones with Panasonic’s entertainment system.
Turkish Airlines has been Europe’s finest and has won the accolade of best European Airline for 6 consecutive years. The award was offered by Skytrax. The airline has also received approbations for the deluge of exotic dishes and fine cuisine prepared by world renowned chefs for business class passengers. Above all, the aviation giant has also gleaned the title of “Most Valuable Brand of Turkey” for the year 2016.
Efforts by the airline have paid off as the number of passengers sored up 2.5 percent from the previous year. 62.8 million passengers proved their affinity to the airline by travelling with them. The report released by them also stated, “the number of international business class passengers remained the same, while international-to-international transfer passengers increased by 14 percent.”
Hopefully, the airline will continue to depict its commitment towards customers by breaking new grounds and redefining inflight experience. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://painintheals.co.uk/pain-in-the-als-golf-day-2019-raises-10000/ | 2024-04-19T09:00:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817382.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419074959-20240419104959-00488.warc.gz | 0.957289 | 527 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__68448057 | en | Pain in the ALS Golf Day 2019 raises £10,000
34 teams of 4 gathered at Brickhampton Golf Complex for the third annual Pain in the ALS Golf Day last Friday. Raising money for the Motor Neurone Disease Association (MND) and for Mike Crisp and his family. Former Worcester and Cheltenham rugby player Crisp, who was diagnosed with the terminal illness in 2016, set up the golf day 3 years ago as a way to raise money for the charity and raise awareness of MND. The event has gone from strength to strength and has a real mix of golfing abilities, from first time golfers to former Ryder Cup players (Peter Baker).
Crisp commented ” It was a dream of mine to run a golf day and when I could no longer play because of my MND diagnosis, things soon fell in to place. It’s a lot of effort with everything else that we have to deal with, but it’s also a welcome distraction. This year was made harder because I can only type with my eyes, so sending emails and invoices took that much more effort.
Stu Mico, Director of Midland Communications, commented “I’ve known Mike since the age of 13 when we played rugby together. Mike’s diagnosis came as a huge shock so when he set up the golf day we were happy to get involved. We sponsor the half way house so everyone gets a pasty and a pint to keep them going. It’s one of my favourite days out in the year and to win it this year was a bonus. “
The event raised just over £10,000 which will be split equally between the MND Association and Mike’s family. They are trying to get a Wheelchair accessible vehicle so that Mike can get out and about in his new powered wheelchair. This brings the total raised in the last 3 years for MND to £19,000.
We are indebted to all the local companies who generously supported the Golf Day
SOZO Web Design Agency
Freeman Event Partners
Dee & Griffen Solicitors
Abbey Business Equipment
Gary Wills Gas | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://sergistudios.com/eagle-creek-fitness-model-video-shoot/ | 2020-02-22T09:09:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875145657.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20200222085018-20200222115018-00534.warc.gz | 0.945019 | 304 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__155465616 | en | Sergi Studios Indianapolis Videography
Had lots of fun shooting and editing this promo showcasing the talents of fitness model Justice Cook. Find more of her work on Instagram.
We met at Eagle Creek park on the northwest side of Indianapolis after a decent snowfall. Justice was very easy to work with and is a very hard worker. In addition to attending school, and modeling, she’s also a host for @dpan_gt. Her mom Stacie joined us and it was neat to see the two of them get along so well. Justice has a great support system with her mom and I’m proud of the video we created together.
Check out the video below and follow Sergi Studios on Instagram and Facebook for the very latest!
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https://careers.trilogyequity.com/jobdetail.php?jobid=1878923 | 2021-10-27T13:14:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323588153.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20211027115745-20211027145745-00678.warc.gz | 0.872785 | 483 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__90212736 | en | Senior Manager, International PR at Lookout
Who we are.
What you’ll be doing:
- Collaborate with the Lookout corporate communications team, international marketing field marketing and PR agencies to drive global awareness.
- Develop internationally-relevant media pitches, messaging and strategic direction to generate thought leadership, threat research and go-to-market partnership media coverage.
- Lead the review and approval process for international local/regional news releases; coordinate efforts with corporate PR and social media teams.
- Stay on top of cybersecurity trends and bring fresh, creative proposals to engage the international media.
- Filter and reply to all in-bound international media inquiries and propose outbound pitches and messaging based on real-time news activity.
- Rapidly respond to international cybersecurity events; provide insightful analysis on the fly.
- Assist with planning and execution of media-related events and corporate visits.
- Review, evaluate and vet local speaking opportunities and virtual and in-person conferences; prepare spokespersons and manage logistics.
- Support the creation of blog and social content relevant to international PR initiatives.
- Engage sales teams and customers to participate in customer advocacy programs.
- Support international industry analyst requests when necessary.
- Track media coverage and influencer activity; provide quarterly (and as needed) recaps on metrics including placements, impressions, share-of-voice and message pull-through.
Desired Skills & Experience
- 8-10 years of experience in tech media relations and/or communications; experience in cybersecurity is preferred.
- A talented writer and passionate communicator, has strong relationships with the media and excels at managing multiple projects at once.
- Can simplify a complex technical topic so anyone can understand it (even your mom).
- Proven ability to operate successfully within a global team – aligning with the corporate communications strategy and adapting for local markets.
- Understands the local media culture and landscape in each country supported.
- A keen understanding of new and traditional media, and how to use it to build a brand.
- A highly driven self-starter focused on delivering outcomes.
- Collaborates well; dedicated to being a team player.
- Data-driven and understands how critical it is to accurately represent statistics.
- Positive attitude and thrives in a fast-paced high-growth environment. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.johnwmacdonald.com/blog/blog.html | 2017-04-28T06:19:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917122865.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031202-00236-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.90049 | 190 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__273449005 | en | 15 authors have made it on to the Judges’ List of Contenders for the second Man Booker International Prize
. The writers come from 10 countries and four are writers in translation.
The Judges’ List was announced by the chair of judges, Professor Elaine Showalter, at a press conference held at Massey College, Toronto today (Thursday 12 April).
The 15 authors on the list are:Chinua Achebe
The judging panel for the 2007 Man Booker International Prize is: Professor Elaine Showalter, academic and author; Nadine Gordimer, writer and novelist; and writer and academic, Colm Tóibin.
In announcing their list, the judges commented:
"With this list, we offer a gift to readers all over the world, an opportunity to join a conversation on 15 writers, diverse in nationality, language, themes and techniques, but united in their dedication to the power of the word." | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://ideasinstock.com/en/fashion-and-sustainability-a-long-or-short-term-investment/ | 2024-02-21T19:22:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473524.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221170215-20240221200215-00061.warc.gz | 0.952329 | 307 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__172088921 | en | The title poses a question with a neither easy nor predictable answer. On several magazines we read the word sustainability associated with the term fashion and we ask ourselves:
Are we facing a real investment that aims to change the mindset of the way garments are produced? Or, instead, it is one of the consumer marketing strategies for those who want to feel ecologically-friendly?
The ecological commitment in the fashion industry has been clearly visible for years now: the latest Green Carpet Awards in Milan have been announced with phrases such as transformative change and real solutions aimed at rewarding and supporting entrepreneurial ideas in support of the environment.
Relevant groups, such as Kering, make sustainability their core business, where basically fashion and sustainability become synonyms, and not simply terms juxtaposing one another.
The radical change within the fashion industry inevitably affects the final consumer. We as consumers are in fact becoming much more aware of our choices in terms of garment quality and respect for the environment in making them. But not only. Recalling each year the tragic event of the Rana Plaza in 2013 when a textile factory collapsed causing countless of victims, the attention is also directed to the mills producing clothes and people’s rights.
A sustainable choice could be that of buying garments that care about the workers’ health and the environment in which we live.
Sustainability is the ethical and ecological response in a world of severe climate change and exploitation of workers in disadvantaged contexts. Sustainability is a lifestyle that we can embrace and adopt. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://narwhal.city/posts/14632 | 2022-08-14T10:30:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00117.warc.gz | 0.978481 | 126 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__125089320 | en | At 3:33 pm, just hours before the polls are set to close, Ward tweeted again, indicating that Pinal and Pima Counties literally ran out of ballots. She also said that Attorneys are getting ready to take action on behalf of Republican voters. The polls close at 7 pm!
Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb told The Gateway Pundit that this is true, and it is happening in multiple Pima County voting precincts, including Saddlebrook. Multiple voters reached out to him with these concerns.
“There’s truth to it. People were turned away,” said Lamb. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://whoyouknow.org/2022/10/07/dont-just-pay-interns-help-them-build-networks/ | 2023-12-04T23:43:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100535.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20231204214708-20231205004708-00808.warc.gz | 0.953323 | 1,974 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__266638922 | en | Summer internships are a proven gateway to jobs. But that gateway is not equally open to students from different backgrounds. Low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented students’ internship participation rates lag behind those of their wealthier, white peers. Moreover, access to paid internships, which are associated with long-term wage premiums, remains uneven along lines of race and class.
Any organization with an internship program should be asking itself: Are your company’s internships a cause of or a cure for workplace inequality? The answer depends not only on who gets internships, but also what those interns get in exchange for their time.
By now, it’s widely acknowledged that paying interns is a critical first step to addressing barriers to access for historically underrepresented students who otherwise could not afford to spend their summers working for free. But simply paying an intern isn’t enough to jumpstart a career. In a labor market where an estimated half of jobs come through networks, social capital remains the other key currency for getting ahead. Diversifying access to internships as an inroad to not just compensation, but also connections is also essential.
Based on my and my colleagues’ research on innovative strategies to expand and diversify young people’s networks, we’ve surfaced practical, research-backed approaches that can connect interns more equitably across your enterprise and harness the full potential of a diverse talent pool. Here’s where you should start:
Think beyond the hourly wage.
Paid internships, along with relocation and housing stipends, can address real barriers to entry for interns from low-income families. But there can still be barriers to building networks and connections. After all, even casual lunches and coffees, where employees build rapport and exchange advice, don’t come cheap.
That’s led some advocates to work to ensure interns have daily stipends for meals. “We give all of our students a $20 per day lunch stipend,” said Kevin Davis, founder and chair of the nonprofit First Workings, which offers internships for underrepresented high school students in New York City. In a recent interview with researcher Brent Orrell of AEI, Davis explained that the purpose of these stipends is to help interns buy time to connect. “The idea there is to build social capital [and] create relationships,” Davis says. “So, if a colleague says, ‘Hey, we’re all going out for coffee after work’ or ‘we’re all having a sandwich at lunch,’ [they] can participate.” He adds: “It’s those interactions at work which enable you to acquire a mentor.”
Don’t just assign a manager — build a web of support.
Employers often assign supervisors or even mentors to interns. While that might be sufficient for managing day-to-day work, research from the CERES Institute has shown that webs of supportive connections are critical to thriving. For example, Old Navy’s This Way ONward program seeks to place 16 to 24-year-olds facing barriers to employment in engaging first jobs that will serve as foundations for successful careers. Participants have access to not only an in-store supervisor, but also a job coach (from a local nonprofit with which the company partners), a “big sib” (a young employee), and peer associates. This web of support appears to pay off. According to one alumni survey, 72% of participants went on to secure stable employment compared with 55% of their peers.
Companies should pay particularly close attention to the often-overlooked upside that a “big sib” can offer. While your younger employees may have less wisdom and experience, they can offer know-how and relatability that other mentors can’t. In fact, in a recent study by the Search Institute of organizations aimed at expanding low-income students’ and students of color’s career prospects, near peers (those close in age and experience) emerged as the relationship that provided program participants with the most resources, including connections to others and useful skills and insights on reaching education or employment goals.
Make feedback real through relationships.
Your interns need feedback, in addition to networking opportunities. Creating opportunities for interns to get constructive, useful feedback can not only improve their task performance, but also their relationships across the office. Numerous studies on internship quality have highlighted that well-structured projects, along with feedback on said projects, are critical to intern satisfaction and productivity. Research from the Wisconsin Center for Education Research suggests, however, that supervisors tend to offer general support for interns’ wellbeing but are less likely to provide the rich, task-specific feedback that interns want.
To start, invite more individuals to review an intern’s work. Colleagues can offer not only a fresh set of eyes but also a broader context about where tasks intersect with organizational goals. According to Jeffrey Moss, founder and CEO of Parker Dewey, a company that pairs students with paid microinternships, diversifying sources of feedback can boost interns’ sense of purpose and belonging. “It’s invaluable to show the interns where his or her work fits within the larger effort of the company, [such as] how the case study created by a marketing intern aligns to a need within sales, or the competitive analysis is used by the product development team,” Moss said. “It demonstrates that the intern’s work is valued, a key component to ensuring he or she feels like part of the team.”
Take the chance out of chance encounters — including online.
For employers still navigating the tradeoffs of virtual and in-person work, ensuring interns are fostering connections might feel daunting. Spontaneous encounters in an office environment are the kind of thing that might have been left to chance before the pandemic. But there are big benefits to taking the time to facilitate these connections.
In their 2021 report on “Virtual Watercoolers,” Harvard Business School researchers found that even brief, online, synchronous, informal interactions between remote interns and senior managers increased interns’ performance, attitudes, and eventual likelihood of receiving offers for full-time employment. Returns were even stronger among interns who were matched with demographically similar senior managers, as defined by shared gender and ethnicity.
For companies still operating in a virtual or hybrid capacity, make sure you are offering opportunities for informal, online conversations, including with senior managers. This will not only help build a culture of belonging and success for interns generally, but data also suggests that both entry-level employees and employees of color are particularly likely to report feeling lonely in the workplace. Informal relationship-building will not solve all of this, but it can bolster employee engagement.
Invest in, and measure, lasting relationships.
The value of a network is rarely one-and-done. A colleague may offer episodic support on projects. Down the line, that same colleague might offer referrals to new jobs or opportunities. Although it’s hard to predict perfectly if and how a relationship might open doors, professionals, particularly those operating in industries that place a premium on social skills, are incentivized to invest in their networks.
Interns just testing the waters in the world of work may not share this understanding of how to build or mobilize networks. And according to research from America’s Promise Alliance, young people of color and from low-income families believe connections and social capital are essential for navigating their career journeys but report struggling to build them.
Arming interns with the skills, mindsets, and confidence to forge connections across your company can unlock valuable social capital that outlasts the summer. Investing in targeted network- and relationship-building training can help. For example, Social Capital Builders Inc., a social enterprise, offers a program called Foundations in Social Capital Literacy – a cousin to financial literacy – to young adults just entering the workforce. Another organization, MENTOR, has created a curriculum called Connect Focus Grow that can help interns and their supervisors alike deepen their relationship-building and networking skills.
From there, you can take proactive steps to understand how connected your interns actually are. Collecting data, and disaggregating it by interns’ backgrounds, is critical to checking assumptions about what is and isn’t working for your interns. There are fairly simple ways to understand which interns are building relationships and how those relationships are, in turn, offering them resources like support, advice, and feedback. A weekly pulse check on whom interns interacted with can offer supervisors insight into how connected or isolated their interns are. Employers that want to go further can ask interns to maintain network maps throughout their experience to keep track of and reflect on new connections. If they are already deploying an intern survey, they can also integrate survey items that use what sociologists call name and position generators to measure how connected interns are before and after their summer work experience.
Now more than ever, companies are turning to internships — and even “pre-internships” — as a strategy to diversify their pipeline. If internships are going to operate as engines that promote inclusion rather than perpetuate inequality in the labor market, compensating interns with both financial and social capital matters. Calls to expand access to internships, especially paid ones, are well-intentioned. But they’ll fail to deliver on their full potential without a careful eye on who students get to know along the way.
This piece was originally published in Harvard Business Review here. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://healthmattersprogram.org/2021/03/10/push-is-on-for-states-to-ban-organ-transplant-discrimination/ | 2024-04-16T11:42:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817081.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416093441-20240416123441-00550.warc.gz | 0.966203 | 1,724 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__121612930 | en | New laws would prevent people with Down syndrome, autism and other disabilities from being denied transplants solely because of their conditions.
Griffin Dalrymple is an energetic 7-year-old who loves going to school in Eureka, Montana. But two years ago, the boy described by his mother, Jayci, as a “ball of fire” was suddenly knocked back by severe bacterial pneumonia, which hospitalized him for two weeks.
As her son lay in the intensive care unit with a tube in his tiny lungs, Jayci began imagining worst-case scenarios. She worried that if Griffin ended up needing a lung transplant, he might be refused because he has Down syndrome.
“It was terrifying knowing that they could deny him certain lifesaving services,” she said.
Denying organ transplants to people with intellectual and neurodevelopmental disabilities like Down syndrome or autism is common in the United States, even though it is illegal under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
According to a widely cited 2008 study, 44 percent of organ transplant centers said they wouldn’t add a child with some level of neurodevelopmental disability to the organ transplant list. Eighty-five percent might consider the disability as a factor in deciding whether to list the child.
After Griffin recovered, Jayci brought the issue to Montana lawmakers’ attention. Largely as a result of her campaigning, the Legislature is considering a bill that would ban physicians from denying organ transplants based solely on patients’ disabilities. Last month, the bill — nicknamed “Griffin’s Law” — passed the state Senate 50-0.
If a determination is made to not include a person on the list only because that individual has a disability, that’s blatant discrimination.
Although Montana has no transplant centers of its own, advocates hope the bill and others like it will draw attention to the issue and pressure physicians to examine why they are making certain decisions. Andrés Gallegos, chairman of the National Council on Disability, or NCD, said he hopes such legislation will inspire “a change of heart so people understand that they are discriminating.”
If the bill passes the state House and is signed by the governor, Montana would become the 17th state to ban such discrimination. Similar bills are pending in seven other states and in Congress. Some experts doubt that such laws will be enforceable enough to eliminate discrimination.
More than 100,000 people are on the waiting list for organs nationwide, and average wait times for some organs extend three to five years, so physicians frequently have to make heart-rending decisions about which patients are likely to benefit most.
According to a 2019 report from the NCD, many physicians and organ transplant centers worry that a patient with an intellectual or neurodevelopmental disability is more likely to have co-occurring conditions that would make a transplant dangerous or that the patient’s quality of life would be unlikely to improve with a transplant. Others believe such patients may not be able to comply with post-transplant requirements, such as taking immunosuppressive drugs.
But the report, which scoured research papers and medical reports, found that none of the concerns is universally true. Rather, disabled patients can benefit as much as any other patient, according to the NCD, an independent federal agency.
“If a determination is made to not include a person on the list only because that individual has a disability, that’s blatant discrimination,” Gallegos said.
Many intellectually disabled patients and their families see that firsthand. When Joe Eitl was born with a congenital heart defect in 1983, his mother, Peg, was told that he would never be a candidate for a new heart because of his Down syndrome. So when his heart failed in 2019, eight hospitals refused to even consider a transplant for Joe, who lives with his mother in Philadelphia.
Peg Eitl conceded that her son’s case was difficult, given that he’d had reconstructive heart surgery that would complicate a transplant. She pleaded with transplant centers for more than a year and even considered suing them. In October, Vanderbilt University agreed to perform the procedure. Joe went home Feb. 10 and is recovering.
“I think my greatest frustration was the value placed on someone with special needs,” Peg Eitl said. “It pains me that they’re discounted as being less than and not as worthy.”
Bioethicist David Magnus of Stanford University, who authored the 2008 study on the extent of transplant discrimination, said people like Peg Eitl shouldn’t have to prove that their children would benefit from transplants. Because people with disabilities are a protected class in the U.S., he said, “the burden is on people who want to discriminate.”
But that doesn’t appear to be the case in practice. In September, Magnus published a follow-up survey of more than 300 transplant programs. Seventy-one percent said they would automatically disqualify an adult with an IQ under 35, which is considered severe intellectual disability; 12 percent would disqualify a child at that level. Only about 20 percent of the institutions had formal guidelines about child patients.
Magnus said he suspects that the numbers are low given that some physicians may be unwilling to admit to discrimination. He hasn’t yet studied whether new state laws have affected physicians’ likelihood to discriminate against disabled patients.
But Magnus said he doubts that laws like Montana’s bill would be enforceable. Part of determining patients’ eligibility for transplants, he said, is whether they or their caretakers can comply with post-transplant requirements, such as remembering to take immunosuppressant drugs. If someone with a disability can’t meet those criteria, that person might not be a good candidate.
“All of these are terribly difficult judgments,” Magnus said.
Transplant surgeons need to maximize the limited supply of organs and ensure that they survive in the patients who receive them. If they don’t, “it’s taking an organ from someone who could have benefited from it,” said Dr. Marwan Abouljoud, president of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.
Abouljoud said institutions have different standards for weighing the importance of intellectual disabilities in transplant decisions. Ideally, he said, a committee that determines whether to list someone for a transplant will include social workers and behavioral psychologists, as well as program leaders, who can find ways to help the patient comply.
On Feb. 12, the transplant surgeons’ society adopted a statement supporting nondiscrimination and encouraging transplant centers to find ways to support such patients. “We will be urging states to adopt local policies on this,” Abouljoud said.
Sam Crane, legal director of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, which has written model legislation adopted by several states, said some bills — including Montana’s — address the concern about post-transplant care. They would ban transplant centers from basing their decisions solely on people’s ability to carry out post-transplant requirements and require investigations into sources of support to help patients comply.
Crane said physicians could still come up with pretexts to avoid adding disabled people to the transplant list if they believe people without disabilities would benefit more from receiving organs.
“It’s very difficult to prove discrimination in that sort of situation,” she said.
A similar nondiscrimination bill has been introduced in the U.S. House, but Crane said advocates prefer to focus on state laws. Organizations like the autism group have taken the position that the Americans with Disabilities Act and other federal laws already prohibit that kind of discrimination, making federal legislation unnecessary. Gallegos said states could also enact stricter requirements than the federal government’s and fit them to their specific medical systems.
Under state laws, patients can appeal to local courts for emergency injunctions or restraining orders. The hearings can be conducted quickly, allowing judges to decide whether to compel institutions to add people to the transplant list.
That speed is what Jayci Dalrymple hopes Griffin’s Law will achieve. “When you’re needing to stop discrimination, you’re racing the clock,” she said. | journalism_and_media_communication |
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Monday, June 1st 2020, 12:06 pm - How ultraviolet light could help stop the spread of COVID-19
Radiation so powerful it warps the structure of a virus. As the particle gets broken apart, it is unable to replicate and essentially is killed. This is how scientists expect COVID-19 to react when exposed to UVC light.
This shortwave light is another method people are using in order to disinfect during a pandemic.
“UVC light can kill viruses,” says Ronald Hofmann from the International UV Association. “Applying a high enough dose to the virus [will make cleaning efforts effective]. And also ensuring that the virus is in the direct line of sight of the UVC source,” Hoffmann adds.
While various companies around the globe are testing and using this light, here are three examples of where this light could be useful:
In China, PHIDA UV-C light is being tested in order to clean subway cars and buses. The company *PHIDAUV * is supplying the light. The disinfecting will happen overnight when the cars are not in service.
IS UV-C LIGHT SAFE?
The city of Winnipeg has been using UV-C light to disinfect its water since 2006 and it has been part of the food industry for over 50 years.
“UV-C is perfectly safe for food in the sense that there is absolutely no leftover ‘bad stuff’ on the food after exposure,” explains Hofmann. “There are no side-effects. The food won’t be damaged at the doses that would be applied.”
There has also been a surge in at home UV-C cleaning devices. The light is safe when used correctly,improper use can be harmful.
“Since UV-C has the potential to be dangerous due to eye damage, skin damage, or lung damage due to ozone that can be produced by UV devices, we urge people to be cautious in using UV devices,” says Hofmann.
He also adds, “Our message is that UV-C consumer products are new technologies and there are, at present, no recognized standards or certifications -- or even industry best practices for these devices. As such, it’s completely buyer beware”.
While the sun does emit UV-C light, it does not reach Earth. Essentially the ozone layer blocks UV-C light from reaching our planet. We only experience UV-A and UV-B, which do not have the same disinfecting power as UV-C, especially when it comes to COVID-19.
For more information on the safety around UV-C light, click here. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://sharepointreviews.com/content-organization/1106-FireArrow-News-Solution-for-SharePoint | 2020-10-30T10:25:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107910204.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20201030093118-20201030123118-00059.warc.gz | 0.836763 | 395 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__123895697 | en | FireArrow News Solution offers an easy-to-use and full-featured news management solution to manage and display news articles in SharePoint sites. It provides multiple news page templates with flexible layouts and styles, back-end library and content types to manage news articles in your sites. It offers an way for editors to create and edit news contents with associated meta-data information. It integrates with rating and review features seamlessly to allow users to rate and comment on the news. In addition, it provides RSS feed features for users to quickly view top rated news, most recent news, etc.
Key Feature List:
- Create and edit news page contents and properties through customized News Page content type.
- Manage news pages through customized News Library list.
- Provide four different news page templates.
- Integration of rating and review features with news article pages. Features highlight as below:
- Allow users to rate based on 1-to-5 rating scale or like/dislike, and write reviews on news pages.
- Automatically calculate and display average rating * Display rating summary information: overall rating, # of total ratings, # of total reviews and rating distribution chart.
- Display all ratings and review comments.
- Sort and filter review comments.
- Pagination to browse through review comments.
- "Reply to Comments" feature.
- "Like/Dislike" votes feature for reviews and replies.
- Different styles for display overall rating.
- Options to display overall rating and total # of comments along with page contents.
- Support adding social network links to news pages.
- Option to set news expiration date.
- Support adding other web parts to news pages.
- Offer News RSS feeds: Top Rated News, Most Rated News, Most Recent News and Most Commented News.
- Support integration into "Pages" list in 2007 MOSS and 2010 SP environment where publishing feature is enabled. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://mct.or.tz/mediacouncil/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=402&Itemid=487 | 2013-05-20T04:05:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698238192/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095718-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.923364 | 952 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__149689852 | en | Azimio la Dar es Salaam Juu ya Uhuru wa Uhariri na Uwajibikaji
Dar es Salaam Declaration on Editorial Freedom, Independence and Responsibility
The Manual focuses on enriching the professional practice of journalism, and by extension, mass media, so as to ensure that impending elections will be credible,undoubted by any voter, candidate or observer. The delivery of such credibility is very much in the hands of the media.
Kitabu hiki kimekusudiwa kuboresha utendaji wa kiweledi wa wanataaluma ya habari,pamoja na vyombo vyao,ili kuhakikisha chaguzi zinazokaribia zinakuwa za kuaminika,zisizotiliwa shaka na mpiga kura,mgombea au mwangalizi yeyote wa uchaguzi. Jukumu la kuhakikisha hili linatokea liko katika mikono ya vyombo vya habari.
This publication is the first of its kind to be prepared by the Media Council of Tanzania (MCT) aimed at setting out an articulated research agenda on media issues in Tanzania.
This publication will give readers a new perspective on the business of freelance journalism. Some of the findings are very new, insightful and will most likely make freelancers, editors and even media owners think about freelancing in a whole new light.
The Media Council of Tanzania (MCT) has developed this broadcasting manual to help practising journalists and journalism students learn,understand and appreciate modern technigues of writing for the "ear" (broadcast media) as opposed to writing for the "eye" (print media).
The manual is available for TZS:5000/- only.
Training manual for Poverty Reporting in Tanzania it is a user-friendly manual that can be used by trainers as well as mid-carrer journalists intent on quality coverage of poverty issues. It attempts to look at global dimensions of poverty including international instruments and initiatives,as well as local conditions,to help the poverty writer think globally and write locally. We hope that the manual will help reporters handle poverty stories better by enabling them to put issues in context and assisting them at in-depth reporting.
The manual is available for TZS:5000/-
This booklet provides a synopsis of training needs and gaps in media training which would be a useful guide to the Council and other institutions engaged or interested in providing in-service trainging for media practitioners.
This manual has been prepared so as to provide trainers with an easy to use training manual for both trainers and journalists covering rural issues,to provide journalist with skills for effective agenda-setting orientated reporting of rural areas/issues from a developmental perspective and to provide rural issues through the mass media and thereby making them get due attention form policy and development planners.
The manual is available for TZS:5000/- only
The scope of this report is founded on a research precess and subsequent findings on the extent to which Tanzania's print media have covered poverty issues.
The demand for this kind of study hinges on the fact that the media remain pivotal in in?uencing socio-economic changes,including efforts being made by various agents to uplift people from the dehumanising spin-offs of the scourge of poverty.
The objective of this manual is to help journalists who intend to cover science and research findings become able to do so with a little more ease and confidence. It seeks to provide the necessary skills and insights into science and research reporting as a particular genre of the profession.
The manual is intended to hone the skills of the journalist. Th target is the practicing journalist,probably mid-career,rather than the cub reporter. It is therefore assumed that the user already has basic journalistic knowledge and experience.
The manual is available for TZS:5000/- only
This book is about the ten years of arbitration work done Council. It is a book that is of importance not only to the media practitioners, but also to the public for purposes of reference as well as learning.
This Manual addresses ethical issues and problems that confront journalists in Tanzania everyday.The manual has taken note of the changes that have been shaping operations of the media industry in the last decade.Part two of the Manual is designed to guide the trainers during delivery of the course.The manual is designed to help the trainers and students acquire the necessary knowledge in journalism ethics. The first part deals with definitions and guidelines that are useful to both students and the trainers. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.breastcancer.org/research-news/20131107-3 | 2017-10-21T01:19:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824537.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20171021005202-20171021025202-00631.warc.gz | 0.969517 | 803 | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__214632921 | en | A large study done by the American Cancer Society has found that regular exercise at a moderate intensity level, such as walking, reduces breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women.
The study was published online on Oct. 4, 2013 by Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Prevention. Read the abstract of “Recreational Physical Activity and Leisure-Time Sitting in Relation to Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Risk.”
Many studies have shown a link between exercising at a vigorous intensity level, such as running or doing aerobics, and a lower risk of breast cancer. But it hasn’t been clear if doing only moderate intensity activities, such as walking, offered this same benefit.
This study was part of the Cancer Prevention Study-II Nutrition Cohort, a prospective study on cancer incidence. A prospective study follows a group of similar people who are different in terms of the factors that are being studied to see how the factors affect rates of a certain outcome. In this case, the researchers looked at 73,615 postmenopausal women to see how various levels of exercise affected breast cancer rates.
When the study started in 1992, the women completed a survey that asked about a number of factors, including demographic information, medical history, and exercise. They filled out follow-up surveys every 2 years between 1997 and 2009.
The surveys specifically asked about how many hours the women spent on physical activities such as walking, jogging, swimming, playing tennis, bicycling, and performing aerobic exercises every week, as well as the number of hours spent in leisure time sitting, including watching television and reading:
- about 9% of the women didn’t do any type of physical activity
- 47% of the women said walking was their only physical activity
The median activity level was 3.5 hours of moderately paced walking per week. This means that half the women did more exercise than that and half the women did less.
During the study, 4,760 (6.5%) women developed breast cancer.
Among the women who said walking was their only physical activity, women who walked at least 7 hours per week had a 14% lower risk of breast cancer compared to women who walked 3 or fewer hours per week.
The most active women had a 25% lower risk of breast cancer than the least active.
The links between physical activity and lower breast cancer risk weren’t affected by body mass index, weight gain, or using hormone replacement therapy. Time spent sitting also didn’t affect breast cancer risk.
“We were pleased to find that without any other recreational activity, just walking an average of 1 hour per day was associated with a lower risk of breast cancer in these women,” said Alpa Patel, Ph.D., senior epidemiologist at the American Cancer Society in Atlanta, Ga. “More strenuous and longer activities lowered the risk even more.”
Along with a healthy diet and lifestyle choice, regular exercise is one of the best things women can do to keep breast cancer risk as low as it can be. This study is encouraging because it suggests that walking -- something many women are comfortable doing -- can help lower breast cancer risk.
To fit in an hour of walking per day, it may help to break up the walking into two 30-minute sessions. Maybe you walk for 30 minutes before you go to work and another 30 minutes on your lunch break. Or make plans to walk with a friend after work -- you’re more likely to stick to it if someone else is counting on you. Plus, you get to socialize and ease the day’s stresses. Regular exercise also helps keep your physical and mental health in top shape. No matter how old you are, it’s never too late or too soon to get moving.
Visit the Breastcancer.org Exercise pages for tips on exercising safely and how to stick to an exercise routine. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://eng.rim-intelligence.co.jp/news/summary/crudecondensate-sep-30-oct-4-van-gogh-premiums-jump-on-imo-demand/ | 2019-10-17T10:20:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986673538.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20191017095726-20191017123226-00360.warc.gz | 0.929414 | 371 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__60334658 | en | Crude/Condensate: Sep 30-Oct 4: Van Gogh premiums jump on IMO demand
For Abu Dhabi crudes, the September-loading OSP for Murban was unveiled at a premium of $4.08 over Dubai quotes, up 89cts from the previous month. Meanwhile, the November-loading OSP formula for Saudi Arabian Arab Extra Light (AEL) was set at a premium of $3.60 over the Dubai/Oman average, up 70cts on month. The OSP gap between Murban and AEL widened to 48cts in favor of Murban. Meanwhile, the light/heavy gap for Saudi Arabian crudes grew marginally from the previous month. The price trends reflected an outlook that heavy sour grades with high yields of high-sulfur fuel oil would attract less demand ahead of the tighter sulfur regulation in bunker fuel starting January 2020.
Among Brazilian crudes, the country's state-run Petrobras sold Lula to China's Hontop Energy for December arrival. The cargo fetched a premium of the high $6 level over ICE Brent on a DES basis. Petrobras also sold Iracema and Buzios to China for December arrival. Chinese end-users beefed up crude oil purchases in recent weeks, in a bid to use up their crude oil import quotas for 2019.
With regards to Australian crudes, the country's producer Santos sold Van Gogh for mid-November loading. The cargo fetched a premium of around $13 over DTD Brent. The price was pushed higher by increasing demand as fuel oil blending stocks ahead of the tighter sulfur cap regulations starting January 2020. In condensate-related news, Vietnam's state-run PV Oil issued a term sell tender on Hai Tach for January-June 2020 loading. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.cheapsoccerjerseysdiscount.com/tag/juventus-fc-jersey-from-china/ | 2020-02-24T11:07:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875145941.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20200224102135-20200224132135-00476.warc.gz | 0.978512 | 329 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__190692564 | en | Juventus are hoping to persuade Liverpool to sell Emre Can in January, rather than losing the German for nothing in the summer.
Can, who scored in the Reds’ 5-1 thumping of Brighton at the weekend, is out of contract at the end of the season.
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp is still determined to keep the German international at Anfield, last week declaring it was important that Can was persuaded to stay.
However, negotiations between Can’s representatives and the Merseysiders’ have been at a standstill for some time.
That has seen a number of clubs, including Can’s former side Bayern Munich and Spanish champions Real Madrid, mentioned as potential suitors.
But it is Juve who have held the longest interest in the versatile former Bayer Leverkusen star, and according to Corriere dello Sport they are keen to press ahead with a move next month.
The Bianconeri don’t want to be drawn into an auction for Can’s services and hope to persuade Liverpool by paying a ‘small sum’, rather than waiting for what has been deemed an ‘auction’ next summer.
However, that is unlikely to spark any interest at Anfield, unless it is in excess of £15-20million. Even then it may not be enough to persuade Klopp, who wants to continue building and is determined not to let his star men leave.
“We want to keep him,” said the German last month. “We have to be as attractive as possible as a club.” | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://bostonmountain.org/2016/02/17/waste-tires-potential-breeding-grounds-for-zika-virus-disease-vectors/ | 2018-02-19T17:37:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891812758.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20180219171550-20180219191550-00002.warc.gz | 0.956203 | 485 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__130740636 | en | Waste Tires: Potential Breeding Grounds for Zika Virus Disease Vectors
With cases of Zika virus on the rise, including widespread outbreaks in Central and South America and several dozen confirmed cases in the United States, officials are encouraging preventative strategies against its transmission, which is primarily by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
Mosquitos are some of the most-effective disease-spreading vectors in the world, capable of passing the virus between groups of people who have not even been in contact. Further, eradicating the mosquito is a rather daunting task. There are, however, ways to target and reduce populations of the insect in particular areas, including depriving it of breeding grounds.
We tend to think of stagnant ponds and storm drains as mosquito-havens, but another major breeding ground, believe it or not, is inside abandoned tires. Often seen dumped in roadside ditches, dry creek beds, and junkyards, tires quickly fill with standing water and can harbor huge quantities of mosquito eggs. This is especially problematic in summer months, when other water sources tend to dry up.
Officials in Georgia (one of the states with confirmed cases) have been urging their residents to pick up and properly dispose of tires to reduce this risk. In order to clean up littered tires before mosquito season, and before spring foliage once again begins to hide dumped waste, we encourage residents of the Boston Mountain Solid Waste District to do the same, as soon as possible. While we are not currently at a high risk for the Zika virus in Arkansas, it’s never too early to take preventative action to protect our community’s health. The virus is spreading quickly, and scientists are still trying to understand all of its effects on human health, particularly on newborns. This lack of information surrounding the virus’s effects means that we should be even more cautious in our approach to dealing with it.
Littered tires not only harbor dangerous disease vectors, they are also unsightly, marring our beautiful Boston Mountain landscape. Fortunately, every resident of the District (children included) can dispose of FOUR passenger tires every 30 days for FREE, and are charged only $4 for each additional tire with rim. Find designated drop-offs on our disposal map, and next time you see a dumped tire, do a good deed and bring it to a drop-off near you. | journalism_and_media_communication |
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Jobs, Who Built Most Valuable Technology Company, Dies at 56 (1)
Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Steve Jobs, who built the world’s most valuable technology company by creating devices that changed how people use electronics and revolutionized the computer, music and mobile-phone industries, died. He was 56.
Jobs, who resigned as Apple Inc. chief executive officer on Aug. 24, 2011, passed away yesterday, the Cupertino, California- based company said. He was diagnosed in 2003 with a neuroendocrine tumor, a rare form of pancreatic cancer, and had a liver transplant in 2009.
“We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away,” Apple said. “Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.”
Jobs embodied the Silicon Valley entrepreneur. He was a long-haired counterculture technophile who dropped out of college and started a computer company in his parents’ garage on April Fools’ Day, 1976. He had no formal technical training and no real business experience.
What he had instead was an appreciation of technology’s elegance and a notion that computers could be more than a hobbyist’s toy or a corporation’s workhorse. These machines could be indispensable tools. A computer could be, he often said, “a bicycle for our minds.” He was right -- owing largely to a revolution he started.
Jobs’s passing was met with grief from consumers who laid flowers and posted tributes on the walls of Apple stores and technology executives who had partnered and competed with Jobs over the years. Flags flew at half-staff at Apple’s headquarters. Apple plans a celebration for employees. It doesn’t intend to hold a public ceremony, a person familiar with the matter said.
Even U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama lamented the loss.
“Michelle and I are saddened to learn of the passing of Steve Jobs,” Obama said. “Steve was among the greatest of American innovators -- brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.”
On his watch, Apple came to dominate the digital age, first through the creation of the Macintosh computer and later through the iPod digital music player, the iPhone and the iPad tablet.
With each product, Jobs confronted new adversaries -- from International Business Machines Corp. in computers to Microsoft Corp. in operating systems, to Sony Corp. in music players and Google Inc. in mobile software.
Visionary to Virtuoso
And Jobs would prove himself not just a techie visionary, but the virtuoso executive who built the world’s second-most valuable company after Exxon Mobil Corp.
The opening act of Jobs’s professional ascent stretched from 1976 to 1984. He scored his first hit with the Apple II computer, a device that resonated with schools and some consumers and small businesses, and made Apple an alluring alternative to IBM, then the world’s largest computer maker. Apple had its initial public offering in 1980 and the graphical Macintosh was born just over three years later.
During his second act, from 1984 to 1997, Jobs’s star dimmed. In 1985, he was fired after a power struggle with Apple’s board. He started another computer company, NeXT Computer Inc., and bought a digital animation studio from filmmaker George Lucas. The firm later took the name Pixar.
String of Hits
Apple’s purchase of NeXT in 1997 brought Jobs back to the computer maker he helped found and commenced his career’s third act. The company was foundering. He ignited a flurry of innovation and growth -- and achieved what may be the greatest comeback in business history.
Whether he was working on the Mac or the iPhone or backing the computer animation that yielded an unbroken string of Pixar hits, Jobs proved that complex technologies could be designed into simple, beautiful products that people would find irresistible.
His meticulous attention to product detail carried over to his public image, which grew inseparable from the Apple brand. In public he wore beltless jeans and a black mock-turtleneck.
On the few occasions he granted interviews -- appearing on the covers of Time, Fortune or BusinessWeek, for instance -- he fretted over such minutiae as which photographer would take his picture. The reclusiveness only added to his mystique.
“The mystery is actually wonderful,” said Regis McKenna, a computer-industry marketing consultant who first worked with Apple in the 1980s. “You want to know more about this company the more mysterious it is.”
Another way Jobs manufactured his aura was with product unveilings. He obsessively prepared for the choreographed occasions, often at Apple’s Cupertino campus or San Francisco’s Moscone Center, rehearsing his delivery many times over. He would scrap presentations wholesale, even at the last minute, if they weren’t up to snuff.
He captivated audiences, and the gadgets he introduced resonated with consumers the world over, adding billions of dollars in revenue. Sales surged 82 percent to a record $28.6 billion in the June 2011 period, the last full quarter before Jobs resigned, and the stock closed at $376.18 on Aug. 24, before the move was announced. That gave Apple a market value of $348.8 billion.
All that success came with an ego to match. Jobs was a notorious control-freak with authority issues, associates and former employees say. He came close to breaking securities laws by backdating employee stock options. Even his worsening health -- or his non-disclosure of his illness to shareholders -- drew scrutiny from authorities.
In Apple’s parking lot, people often noticed Jobs’ silver Mercedes-Benz SL 55 AMG parked in the handicapped spaces. His cars were easy to spot because he refused to put license plates on them. “It’s a little game I play,” he told Fortune in 2001. Employees stuck notes under the car’s windshield wipers, encouraging Jobs to “Park Different,” a play on the “Think Different” Apple advertising slogan.
Jobs was known to praise people one minute and belittle them the next. According to “The Second Coming of Steve Jobs” by Alan Deutschman, this management style was known at Apple as the “hero-shithead roller coaster.” No one was immune from Jobs’s tirades, and he had strained relationships with colleagues, friends, and family throughout his life.
‘Like a Campfire’
“Steve Jobs is a bit like a campfire,” Neil Sims, a headhunter who helped recruit executives for Jobs, said in an interview in October 2008. “Everyone wants to be close enough to stay warm. No one wants to get close enough to get burned.”
Steven Paul Jobs was born Feb. 24, 1955, in San Francisco, to unwed college graduate students Joanne Carole Schieble and Syrian emigrant Abdulfattah “John” Jandali. He was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs, who raised Steve in the middle-class enclaves of Mountain View and Los Altos in California.
“That was right in the heart of Silicon Valley, so there were engineers all around,” Jobs said in a 1995 interview conducted by the Smithsonian Institution. “It was really the most wonderful place in the world to grow up.”
Jobs took advantage of the local technological ferment. His father had a workshop in the garage, and created a space for his son to tinker. A neighbor, who was a ham radio operator and Hewlett-Packard employee, taught him about electronics. Young Steve loved figuring out how things worked.
“It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence,” Jobs said in the Smithsonian interview. “Through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things.”
That self-confidence was on full display before he hit high school. As Jobs once told BusinessWeek, at age 12 he called William Hewlett, the co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Co., about some parts for a frequency counter he was trying to build. Hewlett stayed on the phone 20 minutes; Jobs got the parts he needed -- and eventually, a summer gig at Hewlett-Packard.
Catherine Lawler Jacobs, who lived around the block from the Jobs family, said she remembers Steve as a teen. Jobs appeared in her driveway one day, asking for her help setting up an office in his parents’ house. She’d been earning money selling turquoise jewelry and a neighbor recommended her as someone who knew a little about business. Jobs had no money to pay her but offered her shares in his new company.
“I said, and I remember this exactly, ‘I don’t want any phony shares. I want to get paid,’” Jacobs recalled in an interview. “You see, I wasn’t going to be burned by some nerd who was always hanging out in his garage.”
In 1972 Jobs graduated from Homestead High School in Cupertino, also the alma mater of his future business partner, Steve Wozniak, Class of 1968. He then headed north to attend Reed College, a liberal arts school in Portland, Oregon, famous for its Bohemian atmosphere. He dropped out after six months.
He didn’t leave right away, though. He stuck around campus for another year and a half, sleeping on friends’ floors and living off the money he raised by collecting bottles for 5-cent deposits. He listened in on classes, too, including one that would inspire a lifelong mission of elegant design -- a course on calligraphy.
“It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating,” Jobs said in a 2005 commencement address at Stanford University.
As Jobs told those Stanford grads, he “connected the dots” between this developing aesthetic sense and his technical understanding. He realized that technology and artistry could be complementary. More than that, the new world of computers offered a new medium for creativity.
Back in California
By late 1974, Jobs was back in California, immersed in the technology-tinged counterculture of Silicon Valley. He traveled to India, became a Buddhist, experimented with LSD. He also hung out with his friend Wozniak -- they’d met a few years earlier through a fellow electronics enthusiast -- at the Homebrew Computer Club, a group of engineers and hobbyists who would meet to swap parts and ideas.
“He was one of those cool guys,” Wozniak said in an interview with Bloomberg TV after Jobs’s death. “He knew technology, he understood it. We talked about the philosophies of the day, the hippy movement, words in songs and went to concerts together. It was a strong friendship.”
The two started working together on projects, with Woz the tech genius and Jobs the brash idea man. An early effort was a “blue box” -- a hacker’s term for a device that taps into the phone system to make free long-distance calls. It worked.
“What we learned was that we could build something ourselves that could control billions of dollars worth of infrastructure in the world,” Jobs said in the 1996 PBS documentary “Triumph of the Nerds.” “That was an incredible lesson. I don’t think there would ever have been an Apple computer had there not been blue boxes.”
Wozniak began putting together a contraption he and Jobs could show off to their Homebrew buddies. The Apple I was little more than a motherboard, the main circuit board in a personal computer. Whoever bought one -- Woz and Jobs sold 50 to a local hobby store -- had to supply their own case to hold the circuitry, not to mention a keyboard and monitor. It may have been primitive, but it was the proof of concept they needed. They knew they could build a better computer, and Jobs knew people would buy it.
The pair officially began Apple Computer on April 1, 1976. Twelve months later the company introduced the Apple II. It was a hit and became the first widely used home computer. The company’s sales reached $117 million in fiscal 1980, the year the company went public.
‘Welcome IBM. Seriously’
The Apple II was hardly a technological great leap forward. Yet unlike its predecessor, it did come with a keyboard and was housed in a plastic case. Nor was it alone in the marketplace. Commodore and RadioShack Corp. also came out with early home- computer models around the same time; the Altair 8800 had been introduced in 1975.
IBM entered the market in 1981 with its own PC, using software from a tiny startup called Microsoft Corp. rather than building its own operating system. Jobs professed to be unconcerned, even running a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal, saying “Welcome, IBM. Seriously.”
The Mac’s slow start gave IBM and other machines running Microsoft software and Intel Corp. chips a chance to win adherents and build an ecosystem.
Us Against Them
What set Apple apart was its charismatic frontman, Jobs, who was rapidly turning into a business superstar. He hyped. He dated Joan Baez and Diane Keaton. He saw himself and his company as an anti-establishment force, waging a noble campaign to battle the faceless power of IBM.
“You always need to have bad guys and good guys in America,” said McKenna, the technology marketing expert. “Apple was thumbing its nose at this big world of monolithic standards. It became a rebel. It became a symbol of fast growth, youth.”
Us-versus-IBM was the guiding worldview behind the famous TV commercial that introduced Apple’s next major product, the Macintosh. The 60-second spot, directed by Ridley Scott, ran only once, during the 1984 Super Bowl. It depicted an Orwellian world of grim conformity. A lone woman wearing a tank top sprints through the grayness and throws a hammer through a giant screen, shattering the droning visage of Big Brother.
The Mac, with its mouse and graphics, demonstrated Jobs’s ability to see the potential of new technologies and package them in a way that would appeal to the most demanding aesthete he could imagine: himself.
Matter of Taste
Jobs had first seen a graphical user interface prototype a few years earlier on a visit to Xerox Corp.’s Palo Alto Research Center, and immediately knew it was the future of computing. He had no compunction about copying the idea.
“Ultimately it comes down to taste,” Jobs said in “Triumph of the Nerds.” “It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then trying to bring those things in to what you’re doing. I mean, Picasso had a saying. He said, ‘Good artists copy. Great artists steal.’”
The Mac project showed another side of Jobs: the inscrutable autocrat. He could be charming and rude almost in the same sentence, leaving underlings scared or dazzled or both. People who worked for Jobs called his powers of persuasion the “reality distortion field.”
Andy Hertzfeld, an early Apple engineer, described the phenomenon in “Revolution in the Valley,” his 2005 book about the development of the Macintosh computer.
“The reality distortion field was a confounding melange of a charismatic rhetorical style, an indomitable will and an eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand,” Hertzfeld wrote. “If one line of argument failed to persuade, he would deftly switch to another.”
Andrea Cunningham, who worked with McKenna on marketing the Mac in the 1980s, said that Jobs’ intolerance of aesthetic infractions never let up. Cunningham was with Jobs in his room at The Carlyle hotel in New York City for a magazine cover shoot. Jobs, who Cunningham said “always had to have the environment exactly right,” began yelling about a particular flower he wanted -- a calla lily.
“He was being such a pill,” said Cunningham, who is now head of marketing of Rearden Commerce in Foster City, California. “Where do you get a calla lily in New York in December at 11 at night? I found a florist. I found the calla lilies. And the next thing was a bowl of strawberries on the piano. And a separate bowl of whipped cream. We spent three or four hours doing this.”
Jobs could bewitch too, as he did when he hired PepsiCo Inc. executive John Sculley to be Apple’s CEO in 1983. Jobs famously asked him, “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?”
“He looked up at me and just stared at me with the stare that only Steve Jobs has,” Sculley recalled in “Triumph of the Nerds.” “I just gulped because I knew I would wonder for the rest of my life what I would have missed.”
Not long after the launch of the Mac, Jobs’ relationship with Sculley and Apple’s board soured. Arthur Rock, the Silicon Valley venture capitalist and early Apple board member, said Jobs’s obsessions and unyielding personality got the best of him.
“Back then he was uncontrollable,” Rock said in a 2007 interview with Institutional Investor. “He got ideas in his head, and the hell with what anybody else wanted to do. Being a founder of the company, he went off and did them regardless of whether it ended up being good for the company.”
The Mac didn’t sell well during the 1984 holiday shopping season, and Sculley demanded in April 1985 that Jobs be relieved of day-to-day duties and serve as a non-executive chairman, playing the role of outside spokesman. Jobs hated the idea and tried to get the backing of Apple’s directors. The board sided with Sculley and Jobs was out.
Jobs was 30 years old and devastated, but not for long.
“I didn’t see it then,” Jobs said in his 2005 Stanford speech, “but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.”
In 1985 he founded NeXT, which developed a powerful computer based on the Unix operating system. The sleek, black machines earned a reputation for elegant design and high performance; Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web on a NeXT workstation.
NeXT was hardly a success. The computers were too expensive to gain a wide following. Still, the software developed at NeXT would later provide the technological underpinnings for Apple machines.
The following year, Jobs bought George Lucas’s computer- graphics shop for $10 million and renamed it Pixar. The studio’s first feature film, “Toy Story,” was the top-grossing film of 1995, and kicked off an unbroken string of hits. Walt Disney Co. bought Pixar in 2006 for $8.06 billion and gave Jobs a seat on the company’s board. He became Disney’s largest shareholder.
In his personal life, Jobs settled down. He married Laurene Powell in 1991 in a Buddhist ceremony at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park, according to biographer Deutschman. The couple have three children.
He also reconciled with his daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, who was born in 1978 to his then girlfriend Chrisann Brennan. Chrisann raised Lisa mainly on her own. By the time Lisa was a teenager and before she attended Harvard University, she moved into her father’s home.
“In California, my mother had raised me mostly alone,” Lisa wrote in an article for Vogue in 2008. “We didn’t have many things, but she is warm and we were happy. We moved a lot. We rented. My father was rich and renowned, and later, as I got to know him, went on vacations with him, and then lived with him for a few years, I saw another, more glamorous world.”
Neither Lisa Brennan-Jobs nor Chrisann Brennan, now a painter in San Francisco, would comment when contacted recently.
Jobs didn’t get in touch with his biological father, John Jandali, a onetime academic who went on to run beverage services at the Boomtown Casino in Reno, Nevada. Jandali and Schieble had another child after putting Steve up for adoption, a daughter named Mona Simpson, now a novelist. Jandali left the mother of his child. Schieble raised the girl alone.
“I’m proud of the fact that he’s my biological son, even though I cannot take credit for anything he’s done,” Jandali said in an interview at the Boomtown Casino in April 2009. He said he had never spoken to Steve.
Jobs’s absence from Apple coincided with the ascendance of Bill Gates and Microsoft Corp., developer of a graphics-driven operating system of its own called Windows. Apple filed, and eventually lost, a lawsuit against Microsoft, arguing that Windows was a Mac knockoff.
When Jobs got wind of Microsoft’s plans for what would become Windows, he screamed at Gates about ripping Apple off, according to a 1983 essay by Andy Hertzfeld, the Mac’s chief software designer.
Gates coolly replied, “It’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox, and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it,” wrote Hertzfeld, who witnessed the interchange.
‘Shut It Down’
Meanwhile, Apple was dying. By late 1997, it had racked up two years of losses and the Mac’s share of the PC market was in the single digits and falling. On stage at a conference that year, Michael Dell was asked how he would revive Apple if he were CEO.
“What would I do? I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders,” he said. Jobs would later say the company was 90 days from bankruptcy.
In desperation, Apple agreed to buy NeXT for $400 million in late 1996, and Jobs accepted a role as adviser to then-CEO Gil Amelio. Within seven months, Amelio was gone and Jobs was once again running the company.
One of the first things Jobs did upon retaking the reins was fire all but two of Apple’s board members. His handpicked replacements were Bill Campbell, a former Apple executive and then-CEO of Intuit; Jerome York, former IBM CFO and onetime adviser to Tracinda Corp. CEO Kirk Kerkorian; and Jobs’ longtime friend, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. Ellison left the board in 2002; York died in 2010. Campbell is still a director.
$1 a Year
Jobs also rebuilt the executive team, installing key technical managers from NeXT who would help him guide Apple’s strategy over the next decade. They included Jon Rubinstein, who had run NeXT’s hardware engineering, and Avie Tevanian, the young software engineer who helped create NeXT’s operating system.
Rubinstein went on to lead Apple’s iPod division before departing for smartphone maker Palm Inc., while Tevanian served as chief software technology officer. Jobs also found talent within Apple, singling out a British-born designer named Jonathan Ive to lead industrial design.
As a show of Jobs’s not-in-it-for-the-money drive to fix Apple, he insisted on getting paid $1 a year, a salary package that continued for the remainder of his career.
Jobs’s remuneration instead came mainly from stock options, restricted stock and an $84 million Gulfstream V jet, given to him by the board in 2000.
Jobs’s net worth was at least $6.7 billion as of Sept. 6, according to Bloomberg estimates. His 7.4 percent Disney stake was worth $4.4 billion, and his 5.5 million shares of Apple were worth $2.1 billion. Jobs’s 138 million shares of Disney had paid him at least $242 million in dividends before taxes since 2006, according to Bloomberg data.
Stock options let holders buy shares later, usually at the trading price on the day the options were granted. Like other Silicon Valley executives, Jobs viewed the securities as a necessary incentive to keep valuable employees.
“That’s the key asset Apple has -- is its talent,” Jobs would later say in a March 2008 deposition with the Securities and Exchange Commission. “I was very concerned that Apple could really suffer some big losses on its executive team with the business environment we were in, and the competitors coming after our people.”
And like hundreds of other technology companies, Apple engaged in “backdating,” or retroactively changing grant dates to those with lower stock prices. The practice could artificially boost employee compensation and ran the risk of shielding compensation costs from investors. It came under scrutiny by the SEC.
Jobs admitted in 2006 to recommending some favorable dates on options other than his own. A special committee of Apple’s board exonerated him of any misconduct, and the SEC said in April 2007 that Apple wouldn’t be sanctioned.
“Jobs was one of these CEOs who ran the company like he wanted to -- he believed he knew more about it than anyone else, and he probably did,” Arthur Levitt, a former chairman of the SEC, said in a February 2009 interview.
Levitt said that around the time of the two grants that got Apple in trouble, Jobs invited him to join the company’s board - - then disinvited him because his views on corporate governance were “too independent, too doctrinaire” for Jobs.
Levitt also praised Jobs.
“He’s among the best CEOs I’ve ever known, in spite of his irreverence, irascibility and ego,” Levitt said.
Back to Apple
When Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, he was still an exacting connoisseur of design. Only now, he demonstrated an understanding that he needed to place his bets carefully. He culled the company’s product line, killing money-losing projects such as the Newton personal digital assistant. He ended the Mac “clone” program that let other computer makers install Apple’s operating system on their machines; he called the welcoming of clones an “ill-conceived” move that undercut Apple’s own Mac hardware sales.
“We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter,” Jobs told BusinessWeek magazine in 2004. “But it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.”
“How he looked at things from a product perspective is very rare,” said Ed Zander, a CEO of Motorola Inc. before it split into two companies. “You don’t find many CEOs who have the attention to detail from the product experience point of view -- and understand the business side of the house.”
Of Macs, IPods
The first tangible result of Jobs’ return was the iMac, which he introduced at the Flint Center in Cupertino, California, in 1998. The iMac looked like no other computer: It was a bulbous, sci-fi looking number encased in translucent plastic. The unveiling that day had all the usual language of a Jobs keynote -- the iMac was “beautiful,” “cool,” and “a really big deal.”
The iMac would become Apple’s best-selling desktop ever, according to the company. The decision to offer the computer in five colors flew in the face of the then-common industry practice of packaging machines in easy-to-manufacture -- if dull -- beige boxes.
“I remember scratching my head at the time, when Apple first came out with those first little colored desktop Macs, the iMacs,” said Blake Johnson, an assistant professor in engineering at Stanford University. “But the message and splash of five different colors was a conscious decision -- okay, we have some supply chain inefficiencies, but those are more than offset by the positive impact on customers.”
Apple was profitable again by 1998, and over the next decade released a series of blockbusters that went beyond traditional computing. The iPod media player and the iPhone were beautiful objects that ignited consumer lust in Apple’s sparsely elegant -- and typically crowded -- retail stores. Jobs dropped “Computer” from the company name in 2007 at the time he unveiled the iPhone.
Beneath the contours of Ive’s designs were two less obvious achievements. The first was the software that made all those devices work together.
All of it was rooted in a single operating system, OS X, which had its beginnings in Tevanian’s work at NeXT. Apple’s great strength, Jobs would say repeatedly, was that it was a software company.
“An iPod is really just software,” Jobs said at the All Things D technology conference in 2007. “It’s in a beautiful box -- but it’s software. If you look at what a Mac is, it’s OS X. It’s in a beautiful box, but it’s OS X. And if you look at what an iPhone will hopefully be, it’s software.”
The other big achievement was Jobs’ ability to create hits by getting industry partners to do his bidding. For the iTunes music store, he not only demanded that the major music labels sell their product over the Internet, but do so at a single price, 99 cents a song.
He convinced AT&T Inc. to modify its network to handle the iPhone’s many features in exchange for exclusive rights to sell the iPhone to U.S. buyers. Verizon Communications Inc.’s wireless division started selling the iPhone in February 2011.
“The AT&Ts and Verizons of the world want to control the software, product, the brand, the colors, where the keyboard goes, the pricing, the distribution,” said Zander, the former Motorola CEO, who partnered with Jobs on an early music-playing phone. “Here comes Steve and he says to AT&T, you get the product but I get the brand, I get the colors, I get the software, I get the distribution pretty much, I get the pricing.”
‘Follow Your Heart’
Apple’s iPhone became the world’s best-selling smartphone in the second quarter of 2011.
Jobs said in 2004 that he had been diagnosed and treated for a neuroendocrine tumor in his pancreas. After surgery to remove an islet cell tumor, he took a month off to recuperate and declared himself healthy and cancer free.
For a few years he looked that way. He was thinner, which was no surprise after what he’d been through. One person who knew him well said that the cancer scare didn’t slow him down, convince him to spend more time with family or reconnect with friends. If anything, Jobs seemed to get even more engaged with work, said this person, who wished to remain anonymous because the matter was private.
During the 2005 Stanford commencement address, Jobs described how the inevitability of death was a motivating force in his life.
“Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked; there is no reason not to follow your heart,” he said.
Reports of Death
Jobs’s appearance changed noticeably by early 2008. He started looking gaunt. Tech blogs bubbled with discussion about what was going on. Typical headlines: “The Incredible Shrinking Apple CEO,” and “Why Does Steve Jobs Look So Thin?”
When he took the stage at Apple events, Jobs joked about his health. In August of that year, Bloomberg News erroneously published an obituary; at a product launch a month later he recited the Mark Twain line that reports of his death were greatly exaggerated. At another event that year, he projected a slide of his blood pressure.
In January 2009, Jobs said that his weight loss was caused by a “hormone imbalance”; nine days later, he began a five- month medical leave, handing control of the company to his COO, Tim Cook. Later that year, he underwent a liver transplant at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis.
Apple’s disclosures -- or lack thereof -- around Jobs’s health became a matter of debate among investors and corporate governance experts. Some said that because his health was critical to the company’s success, Apple should have said more, sooner. The counterargument: privacy laws trump investors’ right to know the details of his health.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission officials examined in 2009 whether the company violated disclosure rules regarding Jobs’s medical status, a person familiar with the matter said at the time. No legal action was taken.
While Jobs was on leave that year, Apple came under competitive pressure from an unexpected source: Google Inc. The search giant, whose then-CEO Eric Schmidt was an Apple board member, had gotten into the smartphone business with its Android operating system.
Unlike the iPhone, Android phones were made by multiple manufacturers. The budding rivalry evoked the Mac vs. PC showdowns of the 1980s. It pitted a company -- Apple -- that made one kind of device against an array of manufacturers orbiting around a software operating system -- in this case, Google’s Android.
By the time Jobs returned to work in June, several Android devices were on the market. Google’s Schmidt resigned from Apple’s board in August, acknowledging the escalating tension between the two companies.
“The economic engine that Steve built is an amazing one in terms of cash generation, global footprint distribution,” Schmidt said in an interview with Charlie Rose after Jobs’s death. “It is just one of the great American success stories.”
Jobs the following year introduced his next epoch-making product: the iPad. The run-up was full of the buzz that greeted past products. What would it look like? What would it do? Only a select handful of developers and media companies got access to pre-release versions of the iPad, and then only under strict conditions. Recipients had to agree to keep the devices tethered to a fixed object in rooms that blacked-out windows.
At the product unveiling, Jobs said that the tablet computer would go on sale later that year, calling it “magical.” The public agreed: Apple sold more than 300,000 iPads on day one, and within a few months the device had a near monopoly share of the tablet market that companies led by Microsoft had failed to crack for a decade.
Another momentous product was in store for 2010. The iPhone 4 boasted a glass front and back and a brushed-steel band around the edge. It also came with a front-facing camera that would allow mobile videoconferencing.
While the iPhone 4 was destined for success, this time there was a glitch. Customers who held the phone a certain way experienced dropped phone calls -- the “death grip,” it was called.
At first, Apple denied anything was wrong and suggested that customers were holding the phone incorrectly. The flaw snowballed into a public-relations crisis that came to be known as “Antennagate,” stoked by longtime grumbling over service quality on the network of AT&T, then the only U.S. iPhone carrier.
Cook Comes to Fore
By July, Jobs had changed his tune. He apologized to customers and offered free “bumpers,” rubber cases that fit around the metal edge of the phone, so that fingertips wouldn’t cause any antenna interference.
The imbroglio had little impact on iPhone demand. Apple sold 1.7 million iPhone 4 units during the first three days it was on sale; by the end of the year, the iPhone would represent nearly 40 percent of revenue.
During the introduction of a new MacBook Air in October 2010, Jobs appeared thinner than ever. Three months later, Jobs said he would be taking a new leave of absence to “focus on my health.” “I love Apple so much and hope to be back as soon as I can,” he said.
For the third time since 2004, Cook took over day-to-day operations. He oversaw the introduction of the second version of the iPad and introduced a music-storage service called iCloud. He traveled to China to discuss the iPhone with China Mobile Ltd., the country’s largest mobile-phone carrier.
Jobs announced his resignation Aug. 24. “I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know,” Jobs said in a statement. “Unfortunately, that day has come.”
In the weeks preceding his resignation, Jobs was largely housebound, according to a person familiar with the matter.
“Under Steve’s leadership Apple has not only revolutionized the computer industry but also transformed how the world communicates, plays, shops and works,” Frank Quattrone, CEO of Qatalyst Partners LLP, a Silicon Valley investment bank, said at the time. “In the entrepreneur hall of fame, he is the charter member. He is, and will remain, an inspiration to the world.”
Cook became CEO for good. While Cook had mastered an expanding list of operational roles, including manufacturing, distribution, sales and customer service, he hadn’t demonstrated Jobs’s penchant for product vision.
Ive, Forstall, Schiller
In the post-Jobs era, that role would lie more squarely with head product designer Ive, who oversaw the development of devices including the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad.
Rounding out the executive team are Scott Forstall, who is in charge of the iOS software that powers the iPhone and iPad; Philip Schiller, who leads product marketing; Bob Mansfield, who heads Mac hardware engineering; and Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer, who is tasked with overseeing Apple’s more than $75 billion in cash and long-term holdings.
Jobs left a company with a market value larger than that of Microsoft and Dell combined. Apple’s revenue reached a record $65 billion in fiscal 2010, with analysts predicting that they will exceed $100 billion in 2011.
Besides relying on surging demand for the iPhone and iPad, Apple is also counting on growth in China. “We’re just scratching the surface right now,” Cook said of the region in July. The company is also due to sell a new service called iCloud that will let users access photos, videos and other content across an array of Apple products.
The Apple Jobs left behind was well suited to confront the challenges it then faced, including the Google threat, largely because of a product lineup Jobs set in motion, analysts and investors said at the time of his resignation. The concern is whether the company can produce industry-disrupting devices long after Jobs’s influence recedes.
“The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come,” Bill Gates said after his passing. “Steve and I first met nearly 30 years ago, and have been colleagues, competitors and friends over the course of more than half our lives.”
At the AllThingsD conference in 2007, Gates had said, “I’d give a lot to have Steve’s taste. The way he does things is just different and, you know, I think it’s magical.”
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Global Shapers Series: Millennial voice on Forests
Blog by: Alejandra Plaza Limón
A National Strategy: Securing Better Forests
The goodness of healthy forests are well known, and many benefits come within, including they produce oxygen, prevent erosion, provide water and regulate temperature. As former Vice President Al Gore said: “the best technology to fight global warming is a tree!” It is difficult not to agree with him, however, there are several challenges that arise when securing better forests to communities in Mexico.
According to the UN-REDD “deforestation and forest degradation, through agricultural expansion, conversion to pastureland, infrastructure development, destructive logging, fires, etc., account for nearly 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions, more than the entire global transportation sector and second only to the energy sector. ”
Additionally, according to data from Reforestamos México, the survival rate for national reforestation projects done by government agencies is of 30%. How to ensure that the initial impact of a reforestation campaign generates a lasting impact on the communities? The reforestation initiative is a great step forward, but the maintenance and active care of at least 3 years are crucial to ensure forests survival.
Deforestation in Mexico: Nevado de Toluca in danger
According to FAO it has been recorded that in Mexico we have 64.8 million hectares of forest, covering 33 % of its total land area (FAO, 2010). However, our country has lost more than half of its natural forests. An average of more than 705 051 ha per year of forests was lost between 1997-1993. This rate then increased to 819 591 ha per year from 1994-2000, according to a recent study by Herrera (2003). During the last couple of years, the average number of hectares deforested reached close to one million per year.
This is a tragedy, as along with the forest crop, topsoil, habitats, biodiversity, time and money are lost. Man-made deserts are growing in Mexico, the commercial timber line is moving up the slopes and the forest frontiers are being pushed up the mountains by pressure from farmers, cattle raisers, fruit orchards, coffee plantations and local landless fieldworkers.
One of the richest natural areas in Mexico is sheltered in the Nevado de Toluca National Park, and although landscape in this place is wonderful, endemic life in it is in complete threat. The deterioration of this site has been documented through the decrease in native land-cover, where only 17,000 ha of natural vegetation of the original 54,000 ha remains—a loss of almost 70% (Maass et al. 2006).
Image: North face of El Nevado de Toluca, a national protected area in México. Credit: José Pons.This site of wooded area is of vital importance for the Valley of Mexico. Each of the trees that populate its slopes impacts the quality of the air and the underground aquifers that nourish the central part of the country. Indeed, making it a true green lung.
Ambition with an 80% rate survival
Several NGOs have made extraordinary efforts to save Mexican forests, but survival rates are still a main problem to maintain hope. Last reforestation season I worked with Reforestamos Mexico, a national NGO with a very successful path. They acknowledge that their work model has been successful since 2011, with a survival rate of 80% for all reforestation campaigns. I could deepen their success when I had the opportunity to support them in a massive reforestation campaign, where the goal was to recover in the Nevado de Toluca area, 6 hectares with 6 thousand hartwegii pines and 2 thousand volunteers, all in one day.
Map of El Nevado de Toluca’s vegetation cover in 2000 (from Maass et al. 2006).
The impact generated by this NGO is outstanding. Better Alliances, Better Forests is the program they designed to pursue an organized and effective action plan to reforest a degraded area, with the aim of making it sustainable. This national program promotes restoration and conservation of forests. An action plan that unites different sectors of society: ejidos and communities, governments, businesses and youth.
A National Strategy
The vertical integration of the Better Alliances, Better Forests program is what has constituted them as a successful pioneer in forest conservation issues, venturing into more than 12 states in the Mexican Republic.
Integration begins with direct contact with companies, supporting them in developing a social responsibility program focused on the sustainable development of forests. Alliances are created to ensure financial support, in which the company undertakes not only the reforestation effort, but also the adoption of their reforested area. The investment that companies make in adopting a forest is divided into objectives to catalyze several problematics, including environmental, event organization and social work.
In the environmental sector, the monitoring and maintenance of the area is included for 3 years, in which a community forestry brigade would protect and maintain the forest with conservation actions such as replanting, fire prevention, surveillance, fencing, soil retention and water harvesting. For the reforestation event, the coordination of the event would be held plus a scouting and a prior awareness-raising workshop; the event includes the collaboration of young leaders who guide the group on that day. In social work area, the creation of productive projects with the communities and ejidos is promoted, where the people who inhabit the forests manage to create their own companies.
With this strategy, the NGO ensures the survival of the trees, and in their successful figures, 80% of the forests in which the MAMB program has worked in, has managed to survive.
Video: Reforestation Mexico
Some encouraging information is that since the creation of the program in 2011, this NGO has worked in more than with the help of 97,635 volunteers, planting more than 2.2 million trees, benefiting 500 families with the generated jobs. In 2018 alone, they participated with 17,425 volunteers from 76 companies in 17 Protected Natural Areas, which translated into restoration actions in more than 132 hectares in twelve states of the country, including Estado de México, Jalisco, Querétaro, Guanajuato, Puebla, Yucatán, amongst others.
Map of MAMB program incidence in Mexico
Turning hope into action
Success stories have been reflected in several parts of the world including China and Ethiopia among the leading countries in forest conservation. But what are we doing in Latin America? Latam region as many other, faces many risks due to increasing rates of deforestation, among them, socio-economic ones. But also, they face a great challenge in terms of the expansion of agriculture and production. The urgent moment to act is now.
Deforestation in Mexico has been a collective misfortune caused by poverty, misconceived government policies, greed of some loggers, tree poaching, and poor technical supervision. And I believe many countries felt identified and found similarities within seconds. But after an exhaustive review, this Mexican NGO believes that the key for reforestation campaigns could be to have a forest management plan vertically aligned, with the local residents as operators and benefactors. It should be noted that the economic model of this NGO began in 2011 just in the nearby cities of our capital. Today they have been able to replicate the program, make it grow and maximize its impact in more than 12 states.
If the replication of the program could be made in every country in Latin America, we could at least reduce 30% of greenhouse emissions. Implementing in our countries practices such as the MAMB program to generate sustainable economic cycles and foster.
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During more than 30 years in the ministry, Pastor Matthew has given countless people the spiritual and practical foundation on which to successfully build their lives. His broadcast ministry, Winning Ways, is viewed by millions of people in Europe, Africa, Asia, the USA and the Emirates.
A prolific writer of more than 60 books, including the award winning ‘Tongues of Fire’, Pastor Matthew constantly challenges believers to become the best they can be.
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Miles mediator and arbitrator, Winter Wheeler, can add podcast host extraordinaire to her resume after the streak of dynamic and thought-provoking episodes of The Future of Resolution Podcast she has hosted during the past several months.
Relegated to recording through Zoom to ensure ease, safety, and convenience for her high-profile guests, Winter made the most of it and forged ahead!
She has interviewed Georgia and national notables, including Georgia Court of Appeals Judges Verda Colvin and Ken Hodges; DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston; General Counsel for the State Bar of Georgia, Paula Frederick; and attorneys Emily Ward and David Fried.
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Winter’s latest interview is with none other than CK Hoffler, President of the National Bar Association and Chair of the Rainbow Push Coalition.
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https://www.fegno.com/content-marketing/ | 2024-02-27T06:53:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474671.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227053544-20240227083544-00223.warc.gz | 0.912814 | 2,476 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__126696729 | en | Content marketing goes beyond traditional advertising, focusing on delivering valuable, relevant, and engaging content to attract and retain customers. It encompasses various forms, from blog posts, videos, social media campaigns, and podcasts, to infographics and e-books, allowing brands to leverage their expertise and creativity to create a compelling narrative.
As Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft said “Content is king” is truly right, when it comes to this digital era, where consumers are constantly bombarded with information, capturing their attention and fostering meaningful connections has become a daunting challenge for businesses. Amidst this ever-evolving landscape, content marketing has emerged as a powerful tool that not only enables brands to cut through the noise but also establishes lasting relationships with their target audience.
Get ready to unleash the true potential of your brand through the art and science of content marketing. Let’s dive in and discover how this dynamic approach can propel your business forward while fostering connections that stand the test of time.
What is Content Marketing?
The goal of content marketing is to draw in and keep the attention of a target audience by producing and distributing valuable, pertinent, and consistent material. To increase brand recognition, establish trust, and eventually encourage profitable consumer action, organizations utilize this strategy to deliver information, entertainment, or insights to their current and potential customers.
The content created in content marketing can take various forms, such as blog posts, articles, videos, podcasts, infographics, whitepapers, ebooks, social media posts, and more. The key aspect is that the content is designed to be informative, helpful, or entertaining rather than explicitly promotional. it aims to provide value to the audience, addressing their needs, interests, and pain points. By delivering valuable content, businesses aim to attract and engage their target audience, building trust and credibility along the way. This, in turn, can lead to increased brand loyalty, customer retention, and ultimately, conversions and sales.
Why exactly a brand needs a content service?
A content service is indispensable for any brand seeking to thrive in today’s world. Firstly, it enables the brand to establish a strong online presence and connect with its target audience effectively. High-quality content, distributed through various channels such as blogs, social media, and email newsletters, engages customers, builds trust, and educates them about the brand’s offerings. With the right content strategy, a brand can increase its visibility, enhance brand awareness, and position itself as a thought leader in the industry, gaining a competitive edge.
Secondly, a content service plays a pivotal role in driving traffic and improving search engine rankings. Well-optimized and valuable content enhances a brand’s Search Engine Optimization (SEO) efforts, boosting its organic traffic and website visibility. Moreover, by addressing customer pain points and providing relevant solutions, content aids in lead generation and supports the sales process.
Through personalized and targeted content, a brand can cater to different customer segments, enhancing engagement and conversions. Additionally, consistent and compelling storytelling further strengthens the brand’s identity, fostering emotional connections with customers. With the ability to measure content performance and analyze user behavior, a content service empowers a brand to refine its strategies and adapt to the ever-changing digital landscape, ensuring continued growth and success.
What makes a successful content marketing strategy?
A successful content marketing strategy encompasses several key factors that contribute to its effectiveness. Here are the elements that make a content marketing strategy successful:
- Clearly Defined Goals
- Deep Understanding of the Target Audience
- Compelling and Valuable Content
- Consistency and Frequency
- Effective Content Distribution
- Optimization for Search Engines
- Engagement and Interactivity
- Data Analysis and Iteration
- Continuous Learning and Adaptation
Clearly Defined Goals
The foundation of any effective content marketing plan is a set of precise objectives. These objectives should be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-bound) and in line with your overall business objectives. You can concentrate your efforts and correctly assess the success of your approach by having defined objectives.
Deep Understanding of the Target Audience
To create content that resonates with your audience, you need a deep understanding of their demographics, preferences, needs, challenges, and aspirations. Conduct thorough audience research and develop buyer personas to identify their pain points and motivations. Tailor your content to address their specific needs and interests.
Compelling and Valuable Content
Successful content marketing strategies revolve around creating high-quality and valuable content. Your content should provide meaningful information, insights, entertainment, or solutions to your audience. It should be well-researched, well-written, and visually appealing. Focus on delivering value and building trust with your audience.
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Consistency is key in content marketing. Consistently delivering fresh content builds trust, encourages audience engagement, and keeps your brand top of mind. Determine a frequency that works for your audience and resources, whether it’s daily, weekly, or monthly, and maintain a consistent flow of content.
Effective Content Distribution
Creating great content is only part of the equation; you need to effectively distribute it to reach your target audience. Utilize various channels such as your website, blog, social media platforms, email newsletters, industry publications, and content syndication platforms. Tailor your distribution strategy to align with your audience’s preferred channels and engage with them where they are most active.
Optimization for Search Engines
Implement Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques to ensure your content ranks well in search engine results. Optimize titles, headings, meta descriptions, and image alt tags. Provide a good user experience, optimize for mobile devices, and focus on website speed and performance.
Engagement and Interactivity
Successful content marketing strategies encourage audience engagement and foster a sense of community. Encourage comments, discussions, and social sharing. Respond to comments and engage with your audience to build relationships and foster loyalty. Utilize interactive elements such as polls, quizzes, surveys, and contests to boost engagement and create memorable experiences.
Data Analysis and Iteration
Regularly analyze data and metrics to evaluate the performance of your content marketing efforts. Track key metrics such as website traffic, engagement, conversion rates, and return on investment (ROI). Use these insights to refine your strategy, optimize future content, and make data-driven decisions.
Continuous Learning and Adaptation
The content marketing landscape is ever-evolving. Stay updated with industry trends, emerging platforms, and changes in consumer behavior. Learn from your successes and failures, adapt your strategy based on feedback and insights, and experiment with new content formats or approaches. A successful content marketing strategy is agile and continuously evolves to stay relevant.
Content marketing types
Content marketing encompasses various types and formats that can be used to engage and connect with your target audience. There are various types of content that brands can utilize to engage their audience effectively. Firstly, written content, such as blogs, articles, and whitepapers, remains a staple in content marketing. Blogs provide a platform to share valuable insights, industry trends, and educational content, while articles and whitepapers establish a brand’s authority and expertise in a particular domain. Written content is not only informative but also plays a crucial role in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), driving organic traffic to the brand’s website.
Secondly, visual content, including images, infographics, and videos, has become increasingly popular in capturing audience attention. Visuals are highly shareable on social media platforms and help convey information more efficiently, making complex ideas easily digestible. Infographics present data and statistics in a visually appealing manner, while videos allow for storytelling and immersive brand experiences. As people’s attention spans shorten, visual content proves to be a powerful tool in holding the audience’s interest and enhancing brand recall.
Combining these two content types, brands can create a well-rounded content marketing strategy that caters to diverse audience preferences and behaviors.
How content marketing builds relationships?
Content marketing fosters relationships by employing various strategies and tactics that build trust, engagement, and loyalty with your audience. Here’s how content marketing fosters relationships:
- Establishing Authority and Thought Leadership
- Engaging and Interactive Content
- Providing Value and Solving Problems
- Personalization and Relevance
- Consistency and Reliability
- Storytelling and Emotional Connection
- Feedback and Collaboration
- Long-Term Nurturing
1. Establishing Authority and Thought Leadership
Through content marketing, you can establish your brand as an authority in your industry or niche. By consistently sharing valuable insights, expertise, and knowledge, you position yourself as a credible source of information. This builds trust and confidence in your brand, fostering a relationship where your audience seeks your guidance and views you as a thought leader.
2. Engaging and Interactive Content
Content marketing encourages audience engagement and interaction. By creating content that sparks discussions, encourages comments, and invites participation, you invite your audience to actively engage with your brand. This two-way communication fosters a sense of connection and community, deepening the relationship between your brand and your audience.
3. Providing Value and Solving Problems
Content marketing focuses on creating content that provides value to your audience. By addressing their pain points, answering their questions, and providing solutions to their problems, you demonstrate that you understand their needs and genuinely want to help. This fosters a sense of trust and positions your brand as a reliable resource.
4. Personalization and Relevance
Content marketing allows you to personalize your content to cater to the specific needs and interests of your audience segments. By understanding their preferences, demographics, and challenges, you can create targeted content that resonates with them on a deeper level. Personalized content shows that you value their individuality and fosters a stronger bond between your brand and your audience.
5. Consistency and Reliability
Consistently delivering high-quality content builds reliability and trust with your audience. When you consistently provide valuable content, your audience knows they can rely on you to deliver information that meets their expectations. This consistency builds a relationship of dependability and establishes your brand as a reliable source they can turn to.
6. Storytelling and Emotional Connection
By crafting compelling stories that evoke emotions, you can create a strong emotional connection with your audience. Sharing authentic stories that resonate with their experiences, aspirations, or challenges helps to forge a deeper bond and fosters a sense of empathy and understanding.
7. Feedback and Collaboration
Content marketing allows you to actively seek feedback from your audience and involve them in the content creation process. By listening to their opinions, suggestions, and feedback, you demonstrate that you value their input and are open to collaboration. This fosters a sense of ownership and co-creation, strengthening the relationship and making your audience feel valued.
8. Long-Term Nurturing
By consistently nurturing your audience with valuable content over time, you deepen the relationship and foster loyalty. This ongoing connection helps to retain customers, encourages repeat engagement, and transforms them into brand advocates.
As the digital landscape continues to evolve, content marketing remains a vital strategy for businesses of all sizes. It offers the opportunity to showcase expertise, connect with customers on a deeper level, and differentiate from competitors. Through the power of content marketing, brands can shape their narrative, drive business growth, and cultivate relationships that stand the test of time.
So, embrace the power of content marketing and unleash its potential to drive results, amplify brand visibility, and build meaningful connections with your audience. Start crafting compelling content that informs, inspires, and engages, and witness the transformative impact it can have on your business. Get ready to harness the power of content marketing and make your mark in the digital realm. If you’re looking for expert guidance, consider partnering with a reputable digital marketing company like ours to maximize your content marketing efforts. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://crossroadsbasketball.com/basketball/often-asked-how-to-watch-ncaa-basketball-championship-online.html | 2022-08-18T00:41:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573145.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818003501-20220818033501-00751.warc.gz | 0.919825 | 1,002 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__117098326 | en | Often asked: How To Watch Ncaa Basketball Championship Online?
- 1 How can I watch NCAA basketball online for free?
- 2 Can I watch the NCAA tournament online?
- 3 How can I watch the NCAA tournament without cable?
- 4 What app can i watch NCAA basketball?
- 5 What channel can I watch NCAA basketball on?
- 6 How can I watch the Final Four online?
- 7 Can you stream March Madness for free?
- 8 How do I watch NCAA basketball on Firestick?
- 9 Can I watch NCAA basketball on CBS All Access?
- 10 How can I watch NCAA championship on Roku?
- 11 How can I watch NCAA tournament on my iPhone?
- 12 Can you watch NCAA basketball on ESPN Plus?
How can I watch NCAA basketball online for free?
Streaming sites that carry all or part of the NCAA Tournament include Paramount+, fuboTV, Hulu Plus Live TV and YouTube TV, all of which offer free trials.
Can I watch the NCAA tournament online?
Does the NCAA offer any service for me to watch the game I want? March Madness Live will stream all 67 games on the NCAA website, as well as on Apple, Android, Amazon, and Roku devices. It’s also available on Xbox One. You’ll need to log in with your username and password from your TV provider, however.
How can I watch the NCAA tournament without cable?
If you don’t have cable or satellite, there are several streaming services you can use. One of the cheapest options to watch the Men’s NCAA Championship Game is Paramount Plus. The service offers live CBS streaming and on-demand content with ads for just $6 a month.
What app can i watch NCAA basketball?
NCAA March Madness Live is the only app that lets you stream all games live, play the Capital One NCAA March Madness Bracket Challenge and get real-time commentary and analysis. Friday 3/19 through Monday 3/22, you can also watch live games with Fast Break, the NCAA’s digitally exclusive experience that lets you catch
What channel can I watch NCAA basketball on?
Where to Watch the Tournament. Your NCAA® March Madness® games are live on TBS, TNT and TruTV, along with CBS in most cities. To check for your local CBS affiliate, please click on the “View Channels In Your Area” link. Also get access to 65+ other Live and On Demand channels with live sports, news and entertainment.
How can I watch the Final Four online?
If you don’t have a cable login to access those stations for a live stream, you can get a free trial from YouTube TV, Hulu with Live TV, AT&T TV Now, FuboTV, or Sling TV to stream the Final Four.
Can you stream March Madness for free?
Watch March Madness Online for Free The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament lasts three weeks, with the first games starting on March 18th and wrapping up with the National Championship game on Monday, April 5th. All those games are on CBS, which you can watch live using a free trial to Paramount+.
How do I watch NCAA basketball on Firestick?
You can watch NCAA Basketball on Amazon Fire TV with one of these streaming services: fuboTV, Sling TV, Hulu with Live TV, YouTube TV, AT&T TV Now, and Vidgo.
Can I watch NCAA basketball on CBS All Access?
The new streaming service (formerly known as CBS All-Access ) will let you watch March Madness on CBS through your phone, computer or connected TV, and the free trial lasts for 30 days, so you can use it to watch all of Paramount+’s content even after the tournament is over.
How can I watch NCAA championship on Roku?
Launch the NCAA March Madness Live channel, press the * on your remote and select “TV Provider.” Enter the registration code shown on the channel at www.ncaa.com/activate/roku. You will be asked to select your TV provider and login through that service.
How can I watch NCAA tournament on my iPhone?
The easiest way to watch every game in the 2021 NCAA Tournament is through the NCAA March Madness Live app, which is available for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. You’ll need a valid cable subscription to view the games, but there’s no additional costs or fees.
Can you watch NCAA basketball on ESPN Plus?
The ESPN+ streaming service exclusively airs over a thousand live college basketball games from the 2020-2021 NCAA Men’s Basketball season. You can watch NCAA basketball all season on ESPN+ for just $5.99 per month. Check out what games are on ESPN+ this week. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.cambridgemediasolutions.com/ | 2021-04-18T08:03:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038469494.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20210418073623-20210418103623-00565.warc.gz | 0.973133 | 452 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__52131652 | en | Martyn was a pleasure to work with. Through the thick and thin of the project, he was constantly flexible, forward thinking, and committed to hitting the milestones we had agreed upon. Martyn managed his team well and drove them towards excellence. The proof is in the quality of the end product.
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
After eighteen months of working together we’re delighted with the work carried out. Martyn and his team were responsible for scheduling, project management and delivery, all of which were completed to an extremely high standard. The results were excellent: open lines of communication, clear progress reports and a clear desire to push the project forward. We would have no hesitation in recommending them to any company who rely on external suppliers to be of the highest quality.
THE BRITISH COUNCIL
Two large-scale and extremely challenging projects have been delivered on time and budget by Martyn and his team: the first combined the planning, production and delivery of over 450 videos with hours of recorded audio; the second required the end-to-end project management of both audio and editorial elements and a team of 18 external suppliers and freelancers.
Over the last 7 years Martyn has driven the delivery of a number of large scale, complex digital projects for LearnJam. He always brings a professional, meticulous and friendly energy to the team. Regardless of the size of project, Martyn always commits himself to making sure we deliver on time, on budget and to the best of our abilities as a team, and in doing so looks for ways to bring out the best of every team member. It’s always a pleasure working with Martyn, and I recommend him as a publishing professional for anybody looking for a dedicated team member who always goes the extra mile to make sure the best outcome is achieved.
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Martyn and his team turned around a niche video project in a short space of time. Martyn’s ‘can do’ attitude meant we got there on time – not just with adequate video, but with really great video that combined a sense of energy with real emotion. The end product was fantastic – we were really blown away. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.discountedweed.com/leafly-launches-leafly-delivery-to-meet-increased-demand-from-cannabis-consumers-and-businesses-for-flexible-safer-online-shopping/ | 2024-04-22T19:46:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818337.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422175900-20240422205900-00117.warc.gz | 0.923715 | 675 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__88334903 | en | SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Leafly, the world’s leading cannabis information resource, today announced the launch of Leafly Delivery, an expansion to its online ordering platform intended to help meet significant demand from cannabis retailers to provide flexible ordering options. Leafly Delivery joins Leafly Pickup on the company’s online order fulfillment platform. Leafly Pickup, which is available at more than 1,600 retailers in North America, allows consumers to order from participating cannabis stores online and then pick up and pay for purchases in-store or curbside.
“Cannabis stores across the U.S. and Canada are working tirelessly to meet the essential needs of customers while adapting to the realities of COVID-19,” said Tim Leslie, CEO of Leafly. “We’ve seen Leafly Pickup orders increase 176% in the past month as consumers seek out ways to shop local and shop safely. Leafly Pickup and Delivery allows retailers to offer a fast and flexible online shopping and buying experience for their customers who need it most.”
Leafly Delivery is currently available in all states that allow cannabis delivery for recreational and/or medical cannabis, which include Michigan, Maryland, New York, Florida, Nevada, Arizona, and Oregon. Leafly Delivery allows dispensaries who operate their own delivery fleets to streamline online orders with their delivery fulfillment process. Leafly will expand Leafly Delivery into new markets as cannabis delivery policy continues to change.
“People find our store on Leafly all the time. But by offering Leafly Pickup and Delivery we can immediately convert those web visits into House of Dank customers, thanks to the familiar convenience of online ordering. Whether they choose to come pick up in store or have us deliver their products, Leafly Pickup and Delivery make the logistics of processing, managing, and fulfilling online orders very easy, so that we can stay focused on serving our customers,” said Marvin Jamo, owner of House of Dank in Detroit, MI.
“Leafly Delivery is essential to our business. It gives customers a convenient and easy way to support our shop and order online, while making it seamless for us to manage our delivery fleet as part of our workflow. Not only does this enable us to do business during this current moment, but it brings new revenue streams into our business by giving customers flexible ways to shop from us,” said Joanna DeFilippis, director of operations at Blüm Reno and Blüm Desert Inn Las Vegas.
Cannabis retailers that want to learn more about Leafly Pickup and Delivery should visit here. Cannabis consumers who want to know where Leafly Pickup and Delivery are offered should visit here. For running updates on how COVID-19 is affecting the cannabis industry, please visit here.
As the world’s leading cannabis information resource, Leafly’s mission is to help people discover, find, and buy cannabis, and empower cannabis businesses to attract and retain loyal customers through advertising and technology services. Learn more at Leafly.com or download the five-star rated Leafly mobile app through Apple’s App Store or Google Play. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://blog.fads.co.uk/news/fads-helps-furnish-big-brother-house/ | 2024-04-12T20:09:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816070.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412194614-20240412224614-00012.warc.gz | 0.952447 | 379 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__133971045 | en | At FADS, we are proud to announce that we have received an order from the interior designers of reality television show Big Brother. The iconic house has long been furnished with stylish, eye-catching furniture and this year looks set to be no different.
The Big Brother house is redesigned for every installation of the show, offering a unique twist every year. Early images demonstrate that this year’s house contains a futuristic style. Interactive LED walls, touchpads and identity scanners will complement a minimalistic, contemporary design.
The interior designers of the Channel 5 show ordered seven of our Scarlett White Gloss 1 Drawer Bedside Tables, furnishings that fit into the house’s famed contemporary style. With the show traditionally having between 10 and 14 contestants, it remains to be seen whether the seven bedside tables will be awarded to only the public’s favourite housemates. This theming is a big leap from the house style of last year when an organic theme was installed.
The new series is due to commence this week on June 5 on Channel 5 at 9pm. The contestants are yet to be revealed but it has been reported that Big Brother has made them all take IQ tests before entry.
The theme for this year’s series is control and power, coinciding perfectly with the technologically advanced design. The housemates are due to be given a series of tests that will test their IQ and their spirit throughout the series. Housemates will be awarded power throughout the competition and will be able to exert that power upon other contestants.
The trailer for the new series shows presenters Emma Willis and Rylan Clark exerting their power over servants in a dystopian high rise building.
If you want to recreate the styles found in the Big Brother house this year, we stock a great selection of modern, contemporary high gloss furnishings for every room in your home. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://schoolonomic.blogspot.com/2012/11/do-we-need-to-fear-fiscal-cliff-i.html | 2017-04-27T01:17:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121778.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00076-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.945943 | 836 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__282420702 | en | While Barack Obama has won the 2012 presidential election on November 7th, allowing him to remain president for a second term, he may not cheer for long. The "fiscal cliff", as named by the FED president Ben Bernarke is inevitably approaching, dividing Democrats and Republicans alike - but what exactly is the fiscal cliff? And should it be feared? This short essay will aim to provide answers to these questions, split in two parts; today's post will examine the status quo, while tomorrow we will examine the predicted effects of possible scenarios.
The fiscal cliff, technically put, is the set of changes predicted to be caused by the expiration of the so-called "Bush era tax cuts", a series of measures imposed in the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA) and the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (JGTRRA), extended by the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA). Without a further extension, these measures are bound to expire by 1 January 2013, leaving the US public budget in a substantially different shape than before.
In order to assess the effects of such a policy change (or rather, the lack of it), we'll need to assess:
a) The current effects of the current tax cuts on the American economy - the status quo;
b) the effects of abolishing the tax cuts;
c) the effects of keeping the tax cuts.
In this analysis, we will concentrate on the two extremes of complete abolition and complete keeping up of tax cuts; the current antagonism of the Democrats and Republicans suggests that such an assumption is not far-fetched. Hence in order to determine what policy should the politicians choose, we only have to choose between these two options; a careful analysis of the pros and cons of each stance brings us closer to whether there could be an ideal compromise, maximizing the utility of the decision both for the state (deficit-wise) and the citizens (whatever that may mean; we will discuss the effects for individual citizen groups later).
While the effects of what will/what would happen after the cliff cross are quite well documented, but the current situation is rarely assessed. This is so because while one side (the need for a balanced budget and the US deficit history) is well documented, but the individual effects on the population are very diverse, and they affect different population groups in different ways. However, given that the tax cuts are keeping a mildly progressive taxation system from becoming more progressive (that is, that people with more money pay relatively more taxes), the current situation favours the more well-off. Just how much is once again difficult to quantify; that being said, the EGGTRA lowered income tax rates for all groups with an average of 3%, while the JGTRRA lowered tax rates on capital income. As a result, federal income has decreased, hence, federal debt has grown; the graphic below displays historic values of US federal debt.
|Click to enlarge. Source: Wikimedia|
As it can be seen above, government deficit did rise starting in the 2000's; however, the biggest part of debt growth only came in 2008, with the financial crisis(and the implementation of TARP and other measures).
Consequently, it weren't the tax cuts which caused the debt crisis; but in a wider, financial sense, it may now be better for the American economy to abolish them (to help lower the debt).
Searching for answers
Essentially, the questions American politicans now face are the following.
A) Will the abolishment of tax cuts bring down federal debt?
B) Would doing so hurt the economy? How?
C) Are the current debt levels destructive for the US economy?
D) If C) and B) is true, which one is better - a debt relief in exchange for a temporarily hurt economy, or
sustaining the status quo, and watching debt levels increase?
In our next post, we will try to provide answers to these questions, and answer the title question - see you tomorrow. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://bigoutdoors.org/new-blog-1/6-outdoor-photographers-you-havent-followed-on-instagram-yet | 2019-05-20T08:23:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232255837.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20190520081942-20190520103942-00495.warc.gz | 0.946822 | 792 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__155244526 | en | A picture is worth a thousand words, which makes Instagram the largest collective of words on the web. Instagram serves as a venue to allow people to show others the food you are eating, your family, or the epic adventures you have been on. With roughly 400 million users, you can spend the rest of your life trying to find those photographers whose photos you will fall in love with. Luckily, we did the work for you. These are 6 of the outdoor photographers you should hit follow for.
1. Ryan Stephens - @ryanstephensphoto
Website - www.ryanstephensphoto.net
If you have roamed the Big Outdoors website, you will probably notice the awesome pictures at every click. Well, those photos are courtesy of our co-founder Ryan Stephens. Based in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Ryan takes his love of the outdoors and uses photography and film to express it all over the world. With his photos have changed the way people look at organizations such as Northern Michigan University and Camp Manito-wish and film collaborations “The Michigan Ice Film” and "Cold Rolled", Ryan definitely deserves your follow.
2. Tony Murray - @tonymurrayphoto
Website - http://www.tonymurray.com/
Originally from Colorado, Tony Murray is now exploring the world. Using photography to capture his memories, Tony does just limit himself to stunning landscapes. With collections titled as Human Interaction and World Faces, he captures the beauty of the world, along with the people that occupy it. So if you want more gorgeous photos from cities to open prairies, give Tony Murray a look.
3. Renee Hahnel - @reneehahnel
Website - http://www.reneehahnel.com/
This Aussie is roaming around the United States and filling Instagram with her travels. Renee’s photo provide a refreshing and playful look at the outdoors. Her and her classic wide brimmed hats have travelled to the top of mountains and down to the ocean shore. If you want to see where Renee travels take her to next, hit the follow button on her profile.
4. David Swindler - @actionphototours
Website - http://www.picturethejourney.com/
When people go to college, some of them end up not using the major they got. David Swindler is a prime example. Receiving a major in chemical engineering, David left the industry to pursue his love for photography. Based out of Kanab, Utah, he now guides people to help them develop their own photography skills. So until you meet him on tour, follow him to keep up with his stunning pictures.
5. Rach Stewart - @rach_stewart_nz
Website - http://www.rsnzphotography.com/
Roaming through New Zealand, Rach Stewart is documenting all the nature beauty the island is know for. From breathtaking landscapes to passing wildlife, her Instagram has it all. If the these photos don’t make you want to hope on the first flight to New Zealand, you may want to see a doctor. So stop on by Rach’s profile and throw her some likes.
6. Grant Sachs - @grantsachsventure
Website - http://www.grantsachsphoto.com/
With a life motto of live it up, Grant Sachs is powered by making the most that life has to offer. Currently returning from a semester of adventures in Australia and New Zealand, Grant lets his photos speak for themselves. Loaded with jaw dropping photos, his profile will make you question why you haven’t stumbled upon it sooner.
Were you following any of the profiles we mentioned? Is there someone you think we should have added to our list? Let us know below in the comments to let us know! | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://bodaboda.org/news/ | 2024-04-13T02:42:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816535.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413021024-20240413051024-00539.warc.gz | 0.986304 | 1,521 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__19674276 | en | He wears a torn suit, the remains of broken chains are still dangling from his wrists, his tie with the Ugandan flag flutters vigorously in the wind as he stumbles with a determined gaze through a burnt landscape. These were the film posters for “Situka” (“Call for Action”), a Ugandan political love film in which the hero fights for justice.
That was 2015, the main actor was the Ugandan musician and actor Bobi Wine, whose civil name is Robert Kyagulanyi. Kyagulanyi was elected to Uganda’s parliament in 2017 during a repeat election in his constituency. Since August 16, 2018 Kyagulanyi has been held in a Ugandan military prison. His wife reports that he is hardly recognizable due to swelling and injuries and can hardly stand on his own.
This too is a story from a Christian African democracy, a country from which hardly any refugees come to Europe, but which on the contrary receives millions of refugees from Southern Sudan itself. Uganda is also the country most densely afflicted by obscure Christian American churches and is one of the most popular destinations for NGOs and development workers.
From liberator to dictator
What happened in less than two years of Kyagulanai’s political career? To understand the events of last year, one has to go a little further: Uganda has been ruled by Yoweri Museveni since 1986. After the dictatorships of Idi Amin and Milton Obote, Museveni was regarded as the leader of the National Resistance Army (NRA) as a great hope for a democratic Uganda. Another leading member of the NRA was Paul Kagame, who later liberated the country as leader of the Front Patriotique Rwandaise after the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 and has been president there since then.
Museveni preached Marxist slogans in his political beginnings, later had liberal approaches, invented a toothpaste made of mutete grass, then showed himself to be a (very) good Christian (in Uganda an above-average number of obscure American spin-offs are anchored in order to proselytize the surroundings from there) and recently attracted attention through increasingly obscure measures. First, he introduced strict laws against homosexuality, which also threaten friends and relatives who do not report gays or lesbians with punishment. The original death sentences have not yet been implemented. Then he had “porn scanners” purchased to detect pornographic images on computers and smartphones, flirted with banning oral sex and finally introduced a social media tax: Anyone using WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram will pay an additional 200 shillings (about 5 cents) a day. How exactly this is to be implemented remains to be seen.
Finally, at the end of 2017, Museveni had a constitutional age limit for presidents removed in order to remain in office longer. Museveni is 74 and thus de facto president for life.
From reality TV star to opposition hero
Robert Kyagulanyi actually had a good career as a musician and actor before he became a Member of Parliament. In the reality show “Ghetto President” he was already something of a politician, with the election he actually became one. And contrary to expectations, he actually took his role seriously – so seriously that it became life-threatening for him.
Numerous mostly peaceful protests developed around the lifting of the age limit at the end of 2017. In more heated debates, however, there was even a brawl in Parliament.
Opponents of the suspension wore red T-shirts or headbands, which over time also became Kyagulanyi’s new trademark. In the course of time, demonstrators were attacked more and more frequently – allegedly by citizens loyal to Museveni. It soon turned out, however, that the attackers were paid thugs recruited mainly from among Boda Bode riders. Boda Bodas are Uganda’s motorcycle taxis, which are an important transport infrastructure and one of the few job prospects for young people. The big organisations that govern this industry sometimes have contacts with crime (read more about Boda Bodas in “The Big Boda Boda Book”). In January 2018, the bosses of a Boda Boda association and high-ranking police officers were arrested in spectacular raids.
All this was fed by a protest movement which Kyagulanyi led until the end and to which several other parliamentarians also belong. As Bobi Wine, Kyagulanyi himself was by no means always a pure democrat. In 2014 he was refused a visa for Great Britain because of his homophonic texts. In 2016 he apologized for this, sought out talks with African LGBTI activists and swore he and his fans would be tolerant.
As a neo-parliamentarian, he first sought contact with liberal MPs, but they found him difficult to trade and continued on his own. At first, the cat-and-mouse play with the establishment also seemed to be part of his staging: Again and again he escaped arrests or police checks, once spectacularly with the Boda Boda, while his car was blocked with tire claws. This provided great pictures, his career as a musician seemed to immunize him against more serious anger. After all, he was already a guest of the Gates Foundation in the USA and thus had protective international attention.
The president has no indulgence
Last week there were new protests in a small town in the course of another by-election. Kyagulanyi was in town to support an opponent, Museveni was also in town to promote his candidate. Stones that damaged the president’s car are said to have flown when the president’s convoy left.
Security forces arrested several demonstrators, including other members of parliament and shot Kyagulanyi’s driver while he was waiting in the car.
Kyagulanyi claimed to have been in his hotel room during all these protests, where he was arrested.
Since then, the story has been somewhat opaque. Kyagulanyi had disappeared for a few days, people feared for his life. Pictures of the other deputies also arrested (Francis Zaake, Gerald Karuhanga, Paul Mwiru and Kassiano Wadri) appeared a few days later, showing signs of abuse. Kyagulanai’s wife, who was able to visit him a few days later, reported a badly maltreated man who was hardly recognizable and could hardly stand on his feet. One day later official places published a photo of Kyagulanai, on which no injuries can be recognized, but his face seems quite deformed.
Will the challengers still win?
Is this another episode of arbitrariness and corruption? It could also be the opposite. Ugandans talk about the events. With his campaign now running for one year, Kyagulanyi has achieved enough reach to attract attention to be able to control his image in public. Journalists, intellectuals and ordinary citizens talk about the events. While older people sound a little resigned, students even give an ultimatum to the government – Kyagulanyi must be released within four days, otherwise Kampala will be covered with demonstrations.
And Kassiano Wadri, the independent candidate whose candidacy has been the cause of the last riots, has won the election.
However, Kyagulanyi must go to court on August 30 as a traitor. | journalism_and_media_communication |
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Salon İKSV has been taking good music from its house in Beyoğlu to bigger stages of town for a while as Gezgin Salon (Salon on Wheels). This time, with the support of +1, Gezgin Salon welcomes us with a non-stop open-air festival to last for a weekend. The captains in the cabin as we ascend from the forest to the sky will be Moderat with their minimal Berlin techno, L'Impératrice with their soulful funk, the band of sweet sorrows, Cigarettes After Sex, and our ‘habibi’, Tamino. For now!
Come, join us as we make Parkorman our home, our village to enjoy two full days of music.
Saturday (25 June): Moderat (live), L'Impératrice
Sunday (26 June): Cigarettes After Sex, Tamino
When Modeselektor [Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary] and Apparat [Sascha Ring] decided to become one, Moderat was born. Hardly anybody has brought electronic music from Berlin to the farthest flung corners of the world with more passion and enthusiasm than these two heavyweights. In 2002, Sascha, Gernot and Sebastian met for the first time. Moderat laid their foundation in 2003 with the EP Auf Kosten der Gesundheit and then needed six years to put together the album Moderat. Following the soberly called II and III in 2013 and 2016, Moderat announced that they’d be taking an extended break following a final concert in their hometown of Berlin in front of 17.000 people.
Yet in 2022 they return with a new album and a new live show. MORE D4TA, the group’s fourth album, arrives more than six years after its predecessor, yet its contents are quintessentially Moderat. Created largely during a time when touring (and most traveling) was off the table, MORE D4TA is an album that wrestles with feelings of isolation and information overload – issues that have become particularly pronounced recently. After spending the better part of two decades making music together, they’ve carved out a sound and aesthetic that are all their own, and MORE D4TA showcases a group that’s creatively recharged and fully dedicated to its craft.
Since the release of Matahari three years ago, L’Impératrice has been living in a permanent state of vertigo. That debut album was followed by a whirlwind tour through the band’s native France, and then onto Italy, Mexico, California... But not before two sold out nights at the legendary Olympia in Paris. It’s a journey that has broadened the horizons of all of those who sail in the Empress.
The world around us has altered in the last three years, and things have changed in the world of L’Impératrice too. Their latest, 2021 release Tako Tsubo is a breakup album in which Matahari’s romantic streak has made way for a landscape more anchored in reality. Tako tsubo means ‘octopus trap’ in Japanese. It is no fictional disorder, the phenomenon is called the broken heart syndrome. It weakens the heart’s main pumping chamber brought on by intense emotional distress: an earthquake or a natural disaster, or something less (literally) earth shattering like the loss of a loved one or the angst felt when one is spurned by a lover. Modern science is yet to find a cure, but L’Impératrice will surely ease the symptoms.
‘I’ve always avoided studios,’ says Cigarettes After Sex frontman Greg Gonzalez. ‘There’s something special about recording out in the world, some kind of X-factor that comes from the character and atmosphere of wherever it is that you’re working that becomes essential to the feeling of the music.’ That marriage of sound and setting is the heart and soul of Gonzalez’s riveting sophormore album Cry. Recorded in a stunning house on the Spanish island of Mallorca, the collection reflects the uneasy beauty, erotic longing, and stark minimalism of the space, all smooth lines and soft light.
The week Gonzalez and his bandmates – drummer Jacob Tomsky, bassist Randy Miller, and keyboardist Phillip Tubbs – arrived in Mallorca to begin recording Cry happened to be the very week that their long-awaited, self-titled debut LP hit shelves in 2017. The full-length collection earned international raves out of the gate, with The Independent praising it as ‘intimate and spectral’. The Guardian dubbed the band’s ‘noir dreampop’ as ‘among 2017’s best’. In addition to being a critical smash, the record was also a streaming juggernaut, approaching one billion plays across all platforms and landing the band dates on five continents along with festival slots from Primavera and Best Kept Secret to Lollapalooza and Reading & Leeds.
Of Belgian, Egyptian and Lebanese heritage, Tamino first appeared with his EP ‘Habibi’ that featured ‘Indigo Night’ with Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood on bass guitar. He was only 21 when he wrote and shaped his first album of visceral, sit-up-and-listen quality, called Amir. Although the majority of the playing heard on Amir is Tamino himself, he is joined by a collective of Arabic musicians based in Brussels called Nagham Zikrayat. The firka (orchestra) is predominantly made up of professional musicians from the Middle East, most of which have refugee status having predominantly fled from Iraq and Syria. Over the course of Amir, Tamino captures a range of emotions from romance to desolation and almost everything in between. It’s mood music, painted in a number of different shades.
Tickets can be purchased via passo.com.tr and Passo Mobile application by creating a membership, or from the İKSV main box office. You can attend the events with your PDF tickets sent to your e-mail address, which can also be accessed from the ‘my tickets’ tab under your profile information on the Passo website. Ticket prices include service fee.
With the Eczacıbaşı Youth Ticket project, student tickets will be 10 TL for the events organised by İKSV throughout 2022. Eczacıbaşı Youth Tickets can only be purchased from Passo counters including the main box office of İKSV and passo.com.tr by creating a membership, and not from the Passo Mobil app. To purchase tickets, “eczacibasigencbilet” must be written in the code field on the campaign screen.
Depending on the quota of each event, a limited number of Eczacıbaşı Youth Tickets will be on sale. Only one Eczacıbaşı Youth Ticket can be purchased at a time. In seated events, a special sitting section is created for this category. In standing activities, unless otherwise stated, regular and student ticket holders will be mixed.
The student status of the audience with Eczacıbaşı Youth Tickets will be checked at the venue entrances before the events. In order to enter the event, students must show their valid student ID or a formal student document retrieved from E-Devlet (E-Government) for Turkish citizens. Istanbul Card is invalid. Student IDs of students studying abroad are valid.
If a valid student ID cannot be shown, the ticket holder will be directed to the box office to purchase a difference ticket. The difference will be the amount between the lowest general sales category and the student ticket. In case of being late to the event due to the waiting time that may occur while purchasing the difference ticket, the responsibility belongs to the audience, and the ticket will not be refunded in any way. Tickets will not be refunded to those who cannot present valid student documents and refuse to buy a difference ticket.
There is no age limit for Eczacıbaşı Youth Ticket. Each event has its own age limit for entry. We kindly ask you to check the age limit before purchasing a ticket.
Priority sales will begin for Black and White Tulip Card members on 25 February and Red Tulip Card members on 26-27 February. Tulip Card members can purchase their tickets during the priority sales at passo.com.tr, the Passo Mobil application, and at the İKSV main box office between 10.00-18.00. During the priority sales, no service fee is charged in any of the sales channels for ticket purchases with the Tulip Card. Black and White Tulip Card members receive 25% discount at all events. Red Tulip Card members are entitled to 20% discount on online events and 15% discount on physical events.
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Due to security measures, we kindly ask you not to carry any bags larger than a handbag. Luggage and large backpacks will not be accepted in the venue and cloakroom.
There may be last-minute changes in the event programme due to pandemic conditions. Please visit our website for the most up-to-date programme.
Since the event will be held outdoors, we recommend that you choose suitable clothes and shoes, and bring an umbrella or raincoat in case the weather is cool or slightly rainy.
At the entrance to the venues, the HES code will be inquired through the Hayat Eve Sığar (Life Fits Into Home) application. The guests must download the app and get their HES code before coming to the venue. If the result is ‘not risky’ in the ‘Inquire HES code’ section of the app, you can enter the event. Those who are ‘risky’ will not be admitted to the event.
Guests are required to enter the venues with masks and wear masks while they are inside. Masks will be available in the venues for the use of spectators who do not have a mask or who need a replacement. Those who insist on not wearing a mask will be escorted out of the venue.
Guests must sit on their designated seats written on their ticket. Those who do not comply with this rule and insist on a change of place will be escorted out of the venue.
Guests must abide by the rules imposed under COVID-19.
RECORDING DEVICES It is forbidden to record the event with a camera, mobile phone and all kinds of recording devices.
AUDIENCES WITH CHILDREN There is an age limit of 18 year old at this event. Audiences between the ages 14 and 18 can attend the event accompanied by their parents.
TICKET REFUND AND CHANGE Purchased tickets cannot be changed or refunded except for the cancellation of the event or the change of date. Refunds and changes to be made as a result of cancellation or date change must be carried out until the date to be specified in future announcements.
CHANGE OF VENUE There may be changes in the event venue for reasons beyond our control. İKSV will prepare a seating plan that will provide the closest place to the ticket numbers in the new venue. Tickets purchased due to venue change are non-refundable.
CHANGE IN THE PROGRAMME The event programme can be changed due to unforeseen reasons. Tickets purchased due to programme change are non-refundable.
HEALTH The event venue has a medical team and ambulance present. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.steele4ca.com/reducing-incarceration | 2020-01-29T03:23:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579251783621.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20200129010251-20200129040251-00037.warc.gz | 0.965705 | 449 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__169369079 | en | Incarceration rates in the United States have exploded since the 1970s. The rate has increased sevenfold, from 0.1% of the population in jail (1 out of every 1,000 people) to the current rate of 0.7%. And Virginia ranks 14th nationwide in highest rates of incarceration. The United States leads the world in both the highest rate and highest total number of people incarcerated -- Americans make up less than 5% of the world's population, but we have 25% of the world's incarcerated population.
This unprecedented level of incarceration comes at a tremendous cost to us:
It's costing us $31,240 per prisoner, per year (VA Dept. of Corrections, 2018)
The Dept. of Corrections spent $1.2 Billion last year (and this doesn't include the costs of local jails)
In 2018, Roanoke County alone spent $8.062 Million on local jails. This number is equal to almost 9% of the money we collected from real property taxes in 2018.
If this increase in incarceration resulted in a reduction in crime, then perhaps that might justify the cost -- unfortunately, it doesn't. Study after study has shown that incarceration has almost no effect on reducing crime rates, and the increase in incarceration rates was not in response to rising crime rates. Most crime rates have been in steady decline since the 90s, even in states and countries which have kept their levels of incarceration at historically low levels.
The number one factor that has driven this prison increase has been our policies on the prosecution of drug crimes. Ironically, this is one of the only areas where the crime rate is rising. The system isn't working.
We have to stop treating incarceration as our only solution to crime, and especially to the public health problem of drug addiction. Mass incarceration is an extremely expensive way to fail to solve this problem. In case after case we are paying substantial amounts of money to imprison drug users for years, only to have them re-join society in a much more dangerous situation after they've served their sentence. Let's stop talking about "getting tough on crime", and let's start work to actually reduce crime, making our community safer and better. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://custom.maps.com/081108news.aspx | 2013-06-19T19:05:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.926027 | 454 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__192405028 | en | Maps.com Releases Customized & Interactive Maps for Directory Web Sites
Santa Barbara, CA
— [August 11, 2008] Maps.com, a leading provider of custom mapping solutions for Convention and Visitors' Bureaus since 1991, announces a new line of dynamic, interactive maps designed especially for CVB websites.
Maps.com has been providing a variety of print map services for CVBs, such as city maps and point-of-interest maps, all of which are completely customized to the clients' specifications. Now, Maps.com is also offering dynamic, interactive maps custom built for CVB websites, featuring the latest in mapping technologies.
"We have created interactive maps for other industries, and are pleased to now offer high-quality Internet solutions to our CVB clients," said Paul Chapman, Director of Sales for Maps.com's Custom Mapping Division. "According to a recent study by PhocusWright Travel, over 50 percent of travelers used the Internet to research and book their travel in 2008, and that number is only expected to grow in the coming years. CVBs are still recognized as the ultimate authority for finding travel or conference information for a given city, but with so much information available on the Internet for today's travelers to choose from, there is competition. By offering the latest in mapping technology and trip planning tools, such as driving directions and enhanced listings for attractions and local businesses, a CVB can ensure that its website is the one travelers will return to every time they make plans to visit that city."
Online Map features Include:
- Listings of local businesses and points-of-interest that provide photos, store hours, menus, website links, and more
- The option of viewing a regular street map, satellite views, or a hybrid map
- Space for advertisements which the CVB can use to create new revenue from business partners, if so desired
- Turn-by-turn driving directions
- A user-friendly administrative tool that allows the CVB to make changes to its database of business listings if needed
- A look and feel designed to blend smoothly with the CVB's website
A sample map can be viewed at: http://custom.maps.com/OnlineCVB.aspx | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://zh.yjohny.com/2010/11/the-secret-to-the-ielts-speaking-test/ | 2017-03-30T18:34:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218199514.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212959-00032-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.953791 | 500 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__170659834 | en | The Secret to the IELTS Speaking Test
The International English Language Testing System, or IELTS for short, is a test that many non-native speakers of English must take if they want to go to school abroad. The test consists of four parts: Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking. In this article we will discuss the secret to performing well on the Speaking portion.
The Speaking Test takes the form of a one-on-one interview with a native English speaker lasting between 11 and 14 minutes. While preparing for this test, many Chinese students scour websites to discover what questions have been recently asked, and spend hours memorizing model answers that they think will give them a higher score.
The secret, however, is much simpler and much less stressful than all of that. Forget that it’s a test at all. Instead, look at your IELTS interview as an opportunity to communicate — a chance to show the interviewer your English.
Most test-takers go into the IELTS interview thinking about how they will be evaluated, and how their final score on the IELTS will determine whether or not they will be able to go abroad. Going into the interview thinking about the test often leads students to 1) be extremely nervous, which results in their leaving a poor impression and making more mistakes; 2) think too much about their language use, which greatly reduces their level of fluency; and 3) give boring, prepared answers that are based more on what they think the interview wants to hear than what the students actually think, which comes across as stilted and fake.
If students view the interview as a communication opportunity rather than a test, they will be more likely to communicate fluently, and more likely to leave a positive impression on the interviewer. So listen to the interviewer’s questions as if you were listening to questions from a friend; ask if you don’t understand a question, realizing that some misunderstanding is a natural part of communication; and allow yourself to get excited about the chance to show off the English that you have been learning to speak for so many years.
Of course, it’s important to keep in mind that preparation and practice over a long period of time are necessary to get a high score on the IELTS, but the simple shift in perspective described in this article can mean the difference between a 6 and a 7 or a 5 and a 6. Good luck! | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://productbabble.com/2011/01/16/chrome-defends-drop-of-h-264-codec-support/ | 2017-07-27T06:31:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549427749.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170727062229-20170727082229-00604.warc.gz | 0.961662 | 350 | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-30__0__186115972 | en | Chrome drops H.264
A few days ago, Google announced they were dropping H.264 video support for their browser : Chrome.
This has come as a pretty big surprise to most of the industry and people had different opinions about it. Some said it was “short-term pain for long-term benefit” and others said it was plain stupid. It is important to point out that this change only effects the HTML5 <video> tag, which is only available in the latest browsers.
Google’s argument is three-fold :
- H.264 is not open, nor is it free. A license fee has to be paid for every product that ships with the codec. Hence, this is not possible for any open-source project (their revenue being as small as it is, cannot go into licensing other code).
- This is not a “move on it’s own”. Many open-source communities are behind this move, not the least being Firefox and Opera.
- The <video> tag in browsers such as Opera and Firefox (two of the other big browsers) do not support H.264 either. This means that publishers will have to encode their video twice in any case (which means that Google is not causing that situation by dropping support now).
I myself think it is a good move. If Google is smart (and presumably it is), they will re-encode all Youtube videos with their native WebM format. Youtube being the largest video-sharing website around, they can make this move for the better, getting rid of the patent loaded H.264 once and for all :).
Sources : http://blog.chromium.org/ | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.wizedeal.com/tech/telco/unleash-your-social-media-potential-with-voxi-unlimited-data-and-more/ | 2023-06-09T11:02:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224656675.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20230609100535-20230609130535-00229.warc.gz | 0.892174 | 918 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__279572480 | en | In a world where social media has become an integral part of our daily lives, having a mobile phone plan that caters to our online presence is essential. Enter VOXI, the mobile network that understands the needs of social media enthusiasts. With unlimited data for popular social media platforms, enticing benefits, and flexible plans, VOXI is revolutionizing the way we connect and share. In this blog post, we’ll dive into the features that make VOXI stand out from the crowd and why it’s the perfect choice for avid social media users.
Unlimited Data for Social Media
Use all your favorite messaging and social media apps, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, without worrying about eating into your monthly data allowance. VOXI offers unlimited data for social media, so you can snap, like, and swipe away to your heart’s content. Say goodbye to the days of searching for Wi-Fi and embrace the freedom of unlimited data for your online connections.
Get a Free Gift When Your Friend Joins
Sharing is caring, especially when it comes to recommending a great mobile network. With VOXI, when you recommend the service to a friend and they sign up, both of you receive a generous £40 Amazon voucher as a token of appreciation. Spread the word about VOXI and enjoy exciting rewards together.
No Credit Checks
VOXI understands that flexibility and simplicity are key when choosing a mobile phone plan. With their SIM-only 30-day contracts, you have the freedom to switch plans quickly and easily without the hassle of credit checks. Whether you’re a student, freelancer, or anyone looking for a hassle-free mobile experience, VOXI has got you covered.
Unlimited Streaming on Select Plans
Calling all streaming enthusiasts! VOXI offers unlimited data-free video streaming on their £15 and £20 monthly plans. With popular apps like Netflix, YouTube, and Amazon Prime included, you can binge-watch your favorite shows and movies without worrying about your data allowance. It’s time to elevate your streaming experience with VOXI.
Coverage and Speed
VOXI utilizes Vodafone’s mobile network, providing an extensive 98% 4G coverage across the UK on all plans. Additionally, 5G coverage is expanding in various locations. When it comes to speed, VOXI‘s service aligns with Vodafone, which boasts an average connection speed of 21.6Mbps. Stay connected and enjoy seamless browsing and streaming experiences with VOXI‘s impressive coverage and speed.
Roaming Made Easy
Traveling within Europe? VOXI has you covered with their European Roaming Pass. Utilize your inclusive plan data or a 20GB fair usage data allowance (whichever is less) in 50 European countries. Additionally, unlimited calls and texts are included. Prices start at £2 for one day, providing an affordable solution for staying connected while exploring new destinations. For countries outside of Europe, VOXI offers flexible roaming options tailored to your needs.
VOXI goes above and beyond to provide an array of benefits to their customers. Enjoy unlimited social media usage, giving you more time to do what you love on your favorite platforms. Snap, like, and swipe away without worrying about data consumption. Additionally, unlimited video streaming allows you to indulge in endless video content without touching your data. VOXI‘s plans offer unparalleled flexibility, allowing you to pause, change, or cancel your plan anytime. Plus, unlimited calls and texts ensure you can stay connected with loved ones. As a cherry on top, VOXI Drops, a monthly reward scheme, gives you access to exclusive freebies and offers on food, fashion, music, entertainment, and more. VOXI truly understands the value of providing a comprehensive mobile experience that goes beyond just data.
If you’re a social media enthusiast who craves unlimited data, flexibility, and enticing benefits, VOXI is the perfect mobile network for you. With unlimited data for social media, free gift incentives, no credit checks, and unlimited streaming options, VOXI is redefining the way we connect, share, and stay entertained on our mobile devices. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to unleash your social media potential with VOXI‘s innovative offerings. Join the VOXI community today and experience a mobile phone plan that truly understands your digital lifestyle. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.arrowheadtapes.com/blogs/news/protection-and-recovery-in-competitive-horse-racing-masterys-story | 2024-04-18T10:47:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817206.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418093630-20240418123630-00332.warc.gz | 0.983875 | 746 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__18718011 | en | Sometimes, however, no amount of protection and preparation can prevent against injury, as in the case of Mastery. That’s when the use of veterinary tapes and wraps for recovery comes into play.
We wanted to share excerpts of a recent New York Times story by Joe Drape about Mastery.
“On May 3, 2014, the foal that would become Mastery wriggled out of the mare Steady Course, wet, wobbly and eager to find his legs. His father, Candy Ride, was bred in Argentina and retired undefeated after winning the 2003 Pacific Classic at the Derby distance of a mile and a quarter. He had already sired three champions and, for the past three years, his offspring were successful enough to keep Candy Ride ranked in the top five of American stallions. A year later, Mastery had grown into an athlete.”
Mastery started his career off strong, as one of only 8,523 horses in that 2014 crop to race as a 2-year-old, winning all three of his races last year, including the Grade I Los Alamitos Cash Call Futurity, and earning $511,200. His success was due, in part, to his genetics and the expertise of his trainers. Then came the race that changed everything as told by Dr. Ryan Carpenter, Mastery’s doctor.
Carpenter watched Mastery shoot out of the starting gate like a missile in this March race and knew he was going to win. Heck, he was going to prevail in this year’s 143rd running of the Kentucky Derby, which will be held on Saturday.
“I had him in hand and powered him down the last 16th of a mile,” said Mike Smith, Mastery’s jockey. “Then just past the finish line, he took a funny step, rolled his ankle or something. I got off of him quick as I could.”
Mastery had a complete displaced condylar fracture, or a broken ankle. The only certainty was that he would not be racing in the Kentucky Derby, a race he was expected to be a favorite to win. The hours following his injury became all about caution and recovery, and were critical to Mastery’s future in racing.
For Mastery, the keys to well-being were a clean, comfortable bandage on his injured leg, antibiotics and Carpenter’s keen attention to the colt’s basic functions and temperament.
“The fast ones are more prone to injury because they give so much,” he said. “I’m a half-full-glass kind of guy. I got to see Mastery run four times, and four times he was absolutely brilliant. I will always cherish that memory.”
While Mastery is no longer able to compete in races, he is recovering well. The New York Times article notes that one of the keys to Mastery’s well-being post-injury was a clean, comfortable bandage. As we reflect on the story, it’s important to note the importance of high quality cohesive and adhesive tapes and wraps, not only for protection but for recovery for animals, as well.
Here at Arrowhead Animal Health, we design and manufacture premium tapes and wraps for those who provide care to all animals. Our quality tapes and wraps offer the best protection to keep horses at the highest of levels protected and safe, and also help with recovery.
To experience Arrowhead Animal Health’s line of cohesive and adhesive tapes and wraps for the well-being of all animals, request a free sample pack by clicking here. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://rachelclarke.net/bio.html | 2017-03-26T05:14:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189127.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00327-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.940187 | 336 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__154385289 | en | Photo by Rik Keller
Rachel Clarke (born Shropshire, UK) is an artist and educator teaching new media and digital art at California State University, Sacramento, CA.
Her work intertwines themes of nature, culture, and technology and involves video and animation, installation, augmented reality, and experimental 3D. It has been shown in galleries, museums, new media art festivals and film screenings nationally and internationally. She has recently shown at ISEA Vancouver BC, Canada; Another Year in LA gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Balance/Unbalance international conference at Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ; Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria; Aggregate Space, Oakland, CA; WORK Detroit, MI; and Currents International Festival of New Media in Santa Fe, NM.
Working in collaboration with Sacramento Metropolitan Art Commission she was artist and co-curator for an NEA funded augmented reality public art project, Broadway Augmented located in the Broadway Corridor in Sacramento, that launched in fall 2014.
In 2011 she co-curated an exhibition of experimental 3D filmmaking with artist Claudia Hart of the School of the Art Institute, Chicago, entitled The Real-Fake: Simulation Technology after Photography. The show toured in the US in 2012.
Commissions include Crocker Mosaic, a new media participatory artwork created for the Crocker Art Museum, October 2010.
Clarke is the founding editor of Media-N the CAA New Media Caucus’s international journal of digital and media arts. She served as Editor-in-Chief of Media-N from 2005 – 2011, and is currently serving on the New Media Caucus board. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.innerframe.net/2013/08/hatrick-for-colwyn-bay-fc/ | 2018-07-16T10:11:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589251.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20180716095945-20180716115945-00590.warc.gz | 0.984039 | 189 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__151933866 | en | We are very proud to once again be working with Skrill League North side Colwyn Bay FC during their pre season friendlies as we were commissioned to produce frames for three matches. First up, Premier League side Chelsea FC were presented a frame at the home of the Seagulls.
Colin Caton the former Colwyn Bay FC player and now manager of Bala Town FC was presented a frame to commemorate his testimonial played at the Lakesiders Maes Tegid ground.
The final presentation was to be a very special, as Colwyn Bay played host to Leeds United Football Club in what was to be a match in memory of the late great Gary Speed and Inner Frame had the honour of seeing their frame being handed over to Leeds United FC by the parents of the former Leeds and Welsh International Legend.
We wish to thank Colwyn Bay FC for the recent commissions and wish the team all the best in the upcoming season. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://myiwc.com/forums/showthread.php?p=34188 | 2018-06-21T06:12:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20180621055646-20180621075646-00302.warc.gz | 0.93848 | 246 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__180449596 | en | Al Qassam website - "Al-Aqsa Foundation for Heritage" revealed on Monday, 15/2/2010, that there are large and dangerous cracks in addition to erosion in the walls and columns of the Marwani masjid.
The Marwani masjid is part of the Al-Aqsa; it is located in the south-east side under the ground.
In a report, "Al-Aqsa Foundation" stressed that it reveals these cracks after a field inspection carried out on Sunday for many hours; the tour included all parts of the Marwani masjid.
The foundation also stressed that these cracks occurred due to the Zionist campaign of excavations in the area of the Umayyad palaces directly adjacent to the Marwani masjid from the south side.
It added that the Zionist occupation prevented the Islamic Waqf of restoration work in the Marwani masjid, and this of course leads to the occurrence of such cracks and corrosion.
The foundation called for a dedicated engineering team from the Islamic world to attend to examine these cracks and to act immediately to save the structure of Al-Aqsa masjid. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://looms.cloud/2024/02/19/prioritizing-customer-experience-over-loan-fees-how-looms-leads-the-charge/ | 2024-04-24T09:58:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819089.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424080812-20240424110812-00799.warc.gz | 0.93081 | 597 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__173081128 | en | In the competitive landscape of lending, the battleground has shifted from interest rates and loan fees to a focus on customer experience. Today’s borrowers demand more than just favorable terms; they expect a seamless and user-friendly lending process that meets their needs efficiently and effectively. In this article, we explore the significance of prioritizing customer experience in the lending industry and how looms, a cutting-edge loan origination management system, is leading the charge in revolutionizing the lending experience.
The Evolution of Lending Priorities
In the past, lenders primarily competed on the basis of interest rates and fees, striving to offer the most competitive terms to attract borrowers. However, as technology has transformed the lending landscape, borrowers’ expectations have evolved. Today, customers place a premium on convenience, speed, and transparency throughout the lending process. They seek a personalized and streamlined experience that caters to their individual needs and preferences.
The Importance of Customer Experience
Customer experience has emerged as a key differentiator in the lending industry. Research has shown that borrowers are willing to pay more for a superior experience, and they are more likely to remain loyal to lenders that prioritize their needs. Moreover, a positive customer experience can lead to increased customer satisfaction, improved brand perception, and ultimately, higher customer retention and loyalty.
The Role of looms in Enhancing Customer Experience
looms recognizes the paramount importance of customer experience in today’s lending landscape. As a comprehensive loan origination management system, looms is designed to streamline the borrowing process, reduce friction, and deliver a superior experience to both lenders and borrowers.
- Streamlined Borrowing Process: looms simplifies and automates the loan origination process, allowing borrowers to apply for loans quickly and easily through digital channels. By eliminating cumbersome paperwork and manual processes, looms accelerate the lending process and reduce turnaround times.
- Personalized Customer Journeys: looms enables lenders to create personalized customer journeys tailored to the unique needs and preferences of borrowers. Through data-driven insights and analytics, lenders can offer targeted product recommendations and personalized interactions, enhancing the overall borrowing experience.
- Transparent and Secure Transactions: looms prioritizes transparency and security throughout the lending process. Borrowers have access to clear and understandable terms, fees, and repayment schedules, ensuring full transparency and eliminating surprises. Additionally, looms incorporate robust security measures to protect borrowers’ sensitive information and prevent fraud.
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https://www.titaniumrobotics.com/press-release/dannys-farm/ | 2019-02-20T12:17:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247494741.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20190220105613-20190220131613-00582.warc.gz | 0.977311 | 373 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__105345298 | en | Last Saturday, on September 9th, San Marino High School’s Titanium Robotics came out to support the Fall Classic for the Farm, a benefit for those with Autism. The event was run by the Danny’s Farm non-profit organization. It works to provide opportunities for the learning and understanding of the disorder, offer a friendly and loving space for those with special needs, and find employment for adults with developmental disabilities. “The way in which Danny’s Farm spreads awareness for Autism is very innovative,” commented Engineering President Shawn Thai. The organization informs others about their cause through petting farms such as the Fall Classic for the Farm.
At the benefit, there were animals including goats, bunnies, sheep, a cow, and a pig for guests to pet. Visitors received autographs from and photos with MLB greats. They also helped themselves to Dodger Dogs, which were being barbecued during the event. Titanium Robotics brought their T-Shirt Cannon and shot to those at the event. “It was great to see all of the kids’ smiling faces as they chased the t-shirts down and drove the robot around,” remarked Sophomore Madeleine Haddad. Additionally, the San Marino High School baseball team hosted activities, such as practicing footwork and batting. Face painting and a silent auction were held as well. To wrap up the benefit, MLB players, including the Dodgers’ Orel “The Bulldog” Hershiser, spoke to the crowd. Overall, Titanium Robotics viewed Fall Classic for the Farm as a success on many levels. Freshman Marcus Chua concluded, “Danny’s Farm promotes a great cause, and the organization allowed for Titanium Robotics to show our support. They helped us help others, in a sense.” | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://reprorechtefilm.org/en/i-had-an-abortion/ | 2020-10-21T21:03:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107877420.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20201021180646-20201021210646-00433.warc.gz | 0.964979 | 491 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__64912217 | en | I had an abortion
“We had an abortion”
This public confession was made in 1971 by 374 cis-women, some of them pictured on the title page of the Stern magazine, in protest against §218, which defines abortions as a criminal offense.
The context today is different. Abortions are still illegal, but the so-called “compromise solution” makes it possible to interrupt an unwanted pregnancy while restricting access to abortions at the same time. A person who chooses to have an abortion can only do so after a compulsory counseling talk (which should be “open-ended” but also aims “to protect the unborn life”) and must undergo a 72-hour waiting period in order to terminate the pregnancy in impunity. However, access to abortions is restricted by the shrinking amount of doctors who carry out abortions, partly because abortions are not part of the medical curriculum. And those who offer this service may not inform about it, because they would violate §219a of the Pregnancy Conflict Act, which prohibits doctors to “advertise” for abortions.
The condemnation of the doctor Kristina Hänel, because she announced on her website that she offers abortions among other services, has renewed public attention for the topic of “abortion” and the extent of the restriction of reproductive rights and self-determination in Germany. This limitation is also compounded by the growing influence of right-wing and Christian fundamentalist movements, who systematically harass and file legal complaints against the physicians who perform abortions, or besiege counseling centers such as ProFamilia as an intimidation tactic. This short film was created in this context.
The KINOKAS collective has interviewed people about their abortions. The result is reports of experience that stand alone, and that, in relation to the other stories, show the differences, similarities and variety of experiences. Together, these stories also provide information on how reproductive justice is experienced in Germany and how the institutional framework affects individuals. “I had an abortion” Four cis-women break the taboo in this video and talk about their experiences and at the same time lead us through the chronology of an abortion. This documentary work is part of a larger documentary film project that explores the state of reproductive justice in Germany with an intersectional and queer feminist approach but also aims to counteract the network dominance and misinformation of Christian fundamentalist networks by publishing such field reports. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://hunt4soccer.org/ourimpact.html | 2019-05-21T03:30:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256215.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20190521022141-20190521044141-00279.warc.gz | 0.976473 | 509 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__86686990 | en | We provide soccer balls to at risk children through after school programs
and put smiles on their faces!
"The impulse to play, to share, and to dream can be unleashed by the simple gift of a soccer ball. Hunt4Soccer understands that childhood has no second chances and that owning a ball means having the opportunity to play whenever and wherever the inspiration strikes. And when there is a ball, a game will usually follow. The ball from Hunt4Soccer has the power to bring friends together for play, and as the excitement builds, you might just see childhood in full bloom with game-winning plays and Championships won in the roar of imaginary crowds."
--Colin Schmidt, Executive Director of America SCORES Bay Area. Colin has helped distribute over 4,000 Hunt4Soccer soccer balls to low-income youth in San Francisco and other high-poverty areas around the Bay Area. He has seen first-hand how children are moved by the story of Hunt and he has witnessed the smiles and excitement when a child realizes he or she is going to get their very own soccer ball.
"As a child, I really took for granted that I always had a ball to play with. But this is not the case for so many children around the world. Here in Los Angeles, Hunt4Soccer has allowed us to give a soccer ball to every child who participates in America SCORES LA. And over the past decade, more than 2,000 children have received new soccer balls. What an incredible impact."
"Here in the Palms community of Los Angeles, the Hunt4Soccer balls have made an incredible difference. Palms is one of the most densely populated areas of Los Angeles, and the Hunt4Soccer balls are often seen in the driveways of apartment buildings and the alleyways where children play. But what makes these balls so special is that the kids can keep them. They can take them home, and they can play with them when school is out and when our program isn't running. This can make all the difference."
"When we think of a soccer ball, we think of the game. But here in Los Angeles, the Hunt4Soccer balls are much more. Although the game springs from them, they are also the gateway to increased physical activity, friendship, health, and even academic achievement. They help kids remain focused and positive, and they provide a source of personal pride for each child. What could be a greater gift!"
--America Scores LA | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://mrbsemporium.com/shop/books/the-race-to-save-the-romanovs/ | 2023-01-26T22:32:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764494826.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20230126210844-20230127000844-00708.warc.gz | 0.938211 | 580 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__19361915 | en | The Race to Save the Romanovs
Shortlisted for the HWA Sharpe Books Non-Fiction Crown Award
A work of investigative history that will completely change the way in which we see the Romanov story. Finally, here is the truth about the secret plans to rescue Russia’s last imperial family.
On 17 July 1918, the whole of the Russian Imperial Family was murdered. There were no miraculous escapes. The former Tsar Nicholas, his wife Alexandra, and their children – Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Alexey – were all tragically gunned down in a blaze of bullets.
Historian Helen Rappaport sets out to uncover why the Romanovs’ European royal relatives and the Allied governments failed to save them. It was not, ever, a simple case of one British King’s loss of nerve. In this race against time, many other nations and individuals were facing political and personal challenges of the highest order.
In this incredible detective story, Rappaport draws on an unprecedented range of unseen sources, tracking down missing documents, destroyed papers and covert plots to liberate the family by land, sea and even sky. Through countless twists and turns, this revelatory work unpicks many false claims and conspiracies, revealing the fiercest loyalty, bitter rivalries and devastating betrayals as the Romanovs, imprisoned, awaited their fate.
A remarkable new work of history from Helen Rappaport, author of Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs.
Gripping... Rappaport has uncovered many missing pieces in the story, from the diplomatic wrangling over the tsar's fate to a number of "hare-brained" rescue schemes hatched by monarchist sympathisers. * The Times * Highly entertaining... Rappaport introduces us to a colourful array of con men, charlatans and fantasists involved in ideas to free the Romanovs... She is a vivid storyteller -- Victor Sebestyen * Sunday Times * A groundbreaking book... [which] prove[s] that, even as the centenary of their deaths by firing squad at Ekaterinburg approaches... there remain fresh angles and, crucially, unused evidence pertaining to the Romanovs. * The Daily Telegraph * What I always love about Helen Rappaport's books is that they appeal to the heart as well as the head. She's a writer of great compassion. -- LUCY WORSLEY I read The Race to Save the Romanovs in more or less in a single sitting. It's absolutely marvellous - packed with details, beautifully paced and told me lots of things I didn't know. -- PETER FRANKOPAN
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https://freedomwheels.org.au/news/nicolas-journey-to-freedom-and-independence/ | 2024-02-26T10:23:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474659.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20240226094435-20240226124435-00622.warc.gz | 0.940344 | 513 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__169669009 | en | Posted on 22nd Mar 2023
Meet Nicola, a vibrant 50-year-old woman who was diagnosed with Charcot-Marie Tooth in her mid-40s. This progressive genetic disorder affects the nerves and muscles in her legs and hands, making mobility a challenge. Despite her condition, Nicola is a testament to resilience and determination, finding a renewed sense of freedom and independence through the Electric-assist Freedom Wheels Trike.
Before discovering the Electric-assist Freedom Wheels Trike, Nicola felt overwhelmed and isolated due to her mobility challenges. She often avoided leaving her home, feeling self-conscious about the way she walked and the stares from others. However, everything changed when she received the life-changing gift of an Electric-assist Freedom Wheels Trike.
The Electric-assist Freedom Wheels Trike is a game-changer for people like Nicola, who face mobility challenges due to their condition. With a 250w hub motor kit, the Electric-assist add-on transforms a Gomier or Recumbent trike into an easy-to-use e-bike, making cycling more accessible and enjoyable for everyone. The system comes with five different levels of automatic pedelec assistance, easily adjustable from the LCD screen on the handlebars.
Nicola’s journey with the Electric-assist Freedom Wheels Trike has been nothing short of inspiring. She has found the confidence to venture outdoors, participate in family outings, and even challenge herself to ride through parks and along the waterfront. The trike has not only helped her regain her independence, but it has also had a significant positive impact on her mental well-being.
The freedom and accessibility offered by the Electric-assist Freedom Wheels Trike have given Nicola a new lease on life. As she continues to explore new places, create unforgettable memories with her family, and tackle challenges head-on, Nicola’s story serves as a shining example of the transformative power of adaptive technology.
If you or someone you know could benefit from an Electric-assist Freedom Wheels Trike, consider exploring the possibilities of this innovative and empowering solution. With its easy-to-use features and customisable assistance levels, the Electric-assist Freedom Wheels Trike is an excellent choice for individuals seeking to reclaim their freedom and independence.
In the words of Nicola herself, “Life’s not over.” Embrace the opportunity to rediscover joy, connection, and adventure with the Electric-assist Freedom Wheels Trike. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.perfectplus.events/uk-london | 2022-05-17T05:06:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662515501.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220517031843-20220517061843-00487.warc.gz | 0.900594 | 289 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__250419235 | en | London is a massive city with many famous landmarks adored by millions of people around the globe. If you wish to see London in its full glory, then visit the London Eye on the bank of the River Thames. It presents the pleasure of enjoying an amazing 360-degree view of London, where you can even spot some iconic attractions such as Big Ben, the House of Parliament, and the famous Buckingham Palace. The spectacular invention is one of 32 high-tech glass capsules taking approximately 30 min to show you the ever-changing perspective of London.
London welcomes you to unfold the magical world of wizards and their spells by Stepping into the Warner Bros studios and discovering the magic behind the enthralling special effects. An opportunity to explore the behind-the-scenes secrets of the Harry Potter film series. The studio invites you to unearth the iconic Hogwarts Great Hall and explore the Forbidden Forest, all before reaching the original Hogwarts Express at Platform 9 and wandering down Diagon Alley. The Studio Tour showcases the immense talent, imagination, and efforts that went into making the impossible possible on the screens. Tourists will relive the magic through the eyes of the producers and directors who brought the Harry Potter film series to life.
London dearly awaits to take you on its glorious journey.
For an estimated cost for stay at this location, please visit the Accommodation page. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.matildajoslyngage.org/girlschile/ | 2016-08-30T20:45:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-36/segments/1471983019893.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160823201019-00267-ip-10-153-172-175.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.938615 | 648 | CC-MAIN-2016-36 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-36__0__153333112 | en | Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
Abiba Salahou and Mikayla Cleary-Hammarstedt will travel to Chile with Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation Director Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner March 14-19 as part of a “Girl Ambassadors for Human Rights” program. Through a grant made possible in part by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and administered by the American Alliance of Museums, the visit is part of a year-long Museums Connect initiative which will bring together 50 teenage girls from Villa Grimaldi museum (Chile), the Institute of Social Development (Sri Lanka) and the Gage Foundation in Fayetteville, to explore and share their experiences and ideas through facilitated dialogue, social media technology, and international travel. The participating museums are all members of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, which partnered in the grant.
Abiba Salahou is a senior at Nottingham High School, where she is a member of the National Honor Society, French, Book and Key Clubs, the Muslim Student Association and actively involved as a facilitator in Community Wide Dialogue to end Racism. She serves in Student Government and is Yearbook Editor. Abiba also works with Seeds of Peace and tutors with the Somalian Bantu project. Abiba has played for her school soccer, lacrosse, and track teams while keeping up Honor Roll and High Honor Roll statuses. She is very eager to start the next chapters of her life in University.
Mikayla Cleary-Hammarstedt is a junior at Fayetteville-Manlius High School and belongs to the Environmental Conscience (ECOS) Club, Fair Trade Club, Student Forum and Women in Power. She plays tennis, takes part in the Community Wide Dialogue on Racism and is on the Step Team for Black History Month. Mikayla sings with the Syracuse Community Choir and plays with the FM Concert Orchestra. She has been on the High Honor Roll for her three high school years.
Two representative girls traveled with Gage Foundation personnel to Sri Lanka in December, and representatives from the museums in Chile and Sri Lanka will visit the Gage Center in April.
Under the mentorship of community leaders, the girls will use the museums’ exhibits at each site as a launch pad to explore local women’s history and roles in social change, questions of identity, gender-based discrimination, and definitions of what it means to be a free woman. They will share what they’ve learned through public presentations and dialogue, both virtual through Skype and social media and in-person, to identify common goals and tactics that transcend differing cultural expectations and desires.
“Cultural exchanges are an incredible way to show the world America’s unique creativity and spirit,” said Ann Stock, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. “That’s why the United States supports programs like Museums Connect—to foster the people-to-people connections that strengthen a museum’s presence in its community, and the community’s presence in the world.” | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://slowwovendotca.wordpress.com/2017/11/08/flat-land-coffee-co/ | 2023-03-21T21:54:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943746.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20230321193811-20230321223811-00371.warc.gz | 0.971039 | 703 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__140615010 | en | Walking into Flat Land Coffee Co., it seemed like I had walked into a shop in Toronto. Minimalist white walls with beautiful local art. When seeing me walk in, the owner, Chad Ermel, smiled and welcomed me, and I was quickly reminded I was still in friendly Manitoba.
Chad and I sat down to talk about what it is like running a small business in rural Manitoba, the issues that exist in the coffee industry, and why buying premium coffee is so important.
In a town of five thousand, Flat Land Coffee Co. is one of four shops in Gimli, Manitoba. It distinguishes itself from the rest by serving premium coffee. While sipping on a latte, I chatted with Chad, who told me a bit about the coffee scene in the town and some info on the industry.
Chad has been working in the industry for over a decade and decided to open Flat Land Coffee Co. to make a life doing what he loves in a town he loves. He says an issue in the industry is everyone’s perception of coffee. The general attitude is that coffee should be cheap and there is no thought about the quality or where it comes from.
The coffee industry is an interesting one in that it’s so large and so easy for companies to lack transparency. It’s one reason why supporting local shops like Flat Land Coffee Co. is necessary. While I was talking to Chad, he told me they were currently featuring a Colombian coffee from 49th Parallel. While doing research for this post, I looked into 49th Parallel, its a roasting company from Vancouver who imports beans from all over.
I got really excited while on 49th Parallel’s website because it has what they call “transparency reports” which shows where the all the money they spent on coffee beans went. I was happy to learn that 68% of the money they spent on their Colombian roast went to the farmers. (Check here for the whole report.)
Here are a few things to know about your cup of joe:
- 90% of the world’s coffee production takes place in developing countries (When buying coffee at premium coffee shops like Flat Land Coffee Co., you can be assured those farmers are paid properly)
- There are about 25 million coffee farmers in the world
- Fairtrade coffee only a small portion of the market
- The coffee is a $100 billion industry (let’s bring more of that to Canada)
- Coffee shops have a 7% annual growth rate
Chad said he is slowly trying to educate people, if they’re interested, about the industry and why the prices of premium coffee are essential.
When grabbing a cup from your local coffee shop, you’re purchasing coffee that was ethically made and traded for, supporting a local business which in turn supports multiple employees, and you’re getting a great cup of coffee.
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I believe it is spelled “Flatland,” as one word, the way it is on their Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/flatlandcoffee.gimli.manitoba/). I was just Gimli and was writing my own blog post about the business. I researched how to spell it and came across your blog post and their Facebook page. 🙂
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https://blog.pricebeam.com/netflix-pricing-power-better-than-ever | 2023-09-27T08:51:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510284.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927071345-20230927101345-00311.warc.gz | 0.965661 | 448 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__109821954 | en | Netflix’ Pricing Power Better than Ever
For a long time, Netflix’ main focus has been on penetrating the streaming market and gaining market share. “Affordable” has been a keyword for the streaming giant, but now they’re looking to substitute affordability for profitability, and CEO Reed Hastings reports that the company expects their operating profit margin to double to 7% in 2017.
The improvement in profitability comes from investing heavily in value-driving activities (i.e. activities that significantly increases willingness to pay): activities such as high-definition content and Netflix Original Content (think House of Cards, Narcos) that differentiates them from the competition.
The improved profitability is a direct result of the price increases that Netflix has been implementing, however, subscriber growth has not suffered as was initially forecasted. In the US, the growth reached a 6-year high in the 2nd quarter, and the international segment grew by more than 170%.
Netflix has realized that they need to seriously differentiate themselves from the competition, especially with Amazon getting into streaming. Traditionally, streaming services have been quite similar, and almost striving to offer the same content as everyone else, leaving price as the only distinguishing factor. With Netflix Original Content, no financial resources can match this: of course, competitors can offer their own original content, but this is much harder than lowering price.
If we look to music streaming, a similar trend emerges. In 2015, Jay Z bought Tidal at $56m, and over the last two years, the service reached a valuation of more than $600m. Why? Because the company focused on differentiating itself by offering the highest audio quality, exclusive content from Jay Z himself, Beyonce, and Taylor Swift among others, and by offering the highest royalties in the business, keeping the music business “sustainable”.
Netflix is still competing on price to a certain extent, for now. However, it is interesting to see the increasingly important role of original content, produced by the streaming services themselves; one could imagine a future where your choice of streaming service does not depend on price, but on your taste in movies and which service offers the best content for your taste. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.kreedapanti.com/2021/02/12/indias-greatest-test-triumph/ | 2023-01-30T08:08:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499804.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20230130070411-20230130100411-00110.warc.gz | 0.981971 | 4,008 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__267508077 | en | It was the 5th day of the fourth Test between India and Australia at the Gabba. Gabba to the Australians is what Anfield was to Liverpool – much more than a fortress, a ground they hadn’t tasted defeat at since 1988, when they lost to the fearsome West Indies team. In the 31 Tests since then, Australia had won 24 Tests and drawn seven. (P.S: Liverpool lost to Burnley at home in the Premier League on 21st January 2021, 1369 days after their last home defeat in the league. There’s something about this week and fortresses being invaded.)
The score was 318-5. Washington Sundar was facing the fifth ball of Nathan Lyon’s over. At that juncture, India needed just 10 runs, with 4.2 overs in hand. Sundar, having played like a veteran on his debut till that point, finally gave in to his inexperience, trying to be over-ambitious and attempting a reverse sweep, only for him to have an unfortunate contact with his gloves before knocking off the bails.
That’s when the Australian commentators started to talk about a “glimmer” that Sundar’s wicket gave the Aussies to somehow, somehow save the Test from falling in India’s favour, not that they would have saved the match anyway. Well, that shows the extent of damage a battered and bruised Indian side had done to this Australian side, a side that had its pace battery charging in with all their might throughout the four Tests, a batting unit that saw the returns of their trailblazing mavericks David Warner and Steve Smith, and a side that was – ahead of the Test Series – at the top of the World Test Championship Table.
This series win will go down as one of the greatest Test Series, not just in Indian cricketing folklore, but as an underdog fairytale that will be talked about for generations to come, possibly eternally. Australian tours have always been about the big players rising to the occasion, but this tour saw the emergence of clutch warriors and cricketing superheroes that threw the kitchen sink and punched way, way above their weights.
It all started from the spirit-dampening 8-wicket loss in the day/night Test at Adelaide. The build-up to the opening Test was significant, for this series – according to pundits and media alike – was equally poised unlike the 2018-19 series where Australia were without the services of David Warner and Steve Smith. It was anything but that as India were humiliated on the third day. They had registered their lowest-ever score during an innings, all while having almost the same team that toured Down Under in 2018-19.
Ironically, David Warner and Steve Smith had no influence on the match’s outcome, which made this loss all the more difficult to digest. Former cricketers had written this team off for the rest of the series. Waves of a 4-0 whitewash – which would have been India’s first whitewash at the hands of Australia since 2011-12 – circled all around the cricketing fraternity. The departure of Virat Kohli gave more emphasis to the predictions. Australians and the people in the media were celebrating India’s all-time low score as if they had regained the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Everyone was assured that Australia would make light work of this crestfallen and dejected Indian side. Everyone but the Indians themselves.
The revival began in Melbourne. The stage was set for the Kangaroos to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series. Who knew India would come up trumps against all the odds, more so after the return of Virat Kohli to India, the absence of Mohammed Shami due to injury, and the inclusion of two debutantes in Shubman Gill and Mohammed Siraj. A win in Melbourne was something no one had seen coming. What was even more compelling were the contributions of the two newbies, Gill and Siraj. Both of them showed supreme composure with the bat and the ball respectively, especially Siraj, who had been the subject of unnecessary social media trolls and who had lost his father just a few weeks back.
This underdog fairytale had reached its crescendo at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Surely, India wouldn’t give Australia a run for their money for a second Test in row, right? The cricketing gods, for all the punches that the Australians threw at the Indians, favoured the on-paper looking David against Goliath.
That had been the recurring theme throughout the series. Every Test, every session, every hour, an unlikely hero emerged and took the game by the scruff of its neck. Sometimes, it took the collective efforts of two or more men to save the blushes, just like Hanuma Vihari and Ravichandran Ashwin, who shape-shifted into immovable forces in the fourth innings at the SCG. Vihari had a series to forget up until that point, and he walked in when Rishabh Pant got out on 97. India had to survive the bludgeoning Aussie charges for another 57 overs, needing 157 runs. Mathematically, the game was India’s to lose. 57 overs and 157 runs would have been a cakewalk for even a monk-like figure of Cheteshwar Pujara, who scored three of his slowest half-centuries of his Test career this series (we’ll talk about him in a while).
Vihari suffered a gruelling hamstring injury. After the fall of Pujara’s wicket, Ashwin walked in at the crease. The Tamil Nadu off-spinner has four Test centuries to his name. Yet, his batting had significantly regressed over the last few years. And his fourth innings performances are only as good as those of all other Indian tailenders.
What unfolded over the next three hours was a ‘blockathon,’ and it seemed as if Rahul Dravid had cloned himself in disguise in the form of Vihari and Ashwin. Vihari, injured and incapable of playing at his best, decided to dig in, finding able support from Ashwin, who played the innings of his life. Amidst all the barrage of short balls, body blows, and some abominable sledging by Aussie captain Tim Paine, the two warriors were undeterred by the proverbial “mountain to climb” challenge, instead deciding to look it in the eye. One was playing to save his career, while the other to save the pride. United, they managed to save the match and, in turn, the series. 62 runs, 259 balls, and grit of the highest order meant that both the teams headed to the ‘Gabbatoir’ with everything to play for.
And here we are, at the climax of this incredible storyline, one that would have been counted as a psychotic prediction prior to the series. Australia won the toss for the umpteenth time this series. Steve Smith and his protégé Marnus Labuschagne had clicked into top form just at the right time. And such was the build-up to this match that India were made to look as losers even before the first ball had been bowled, not to mention India had to play with an almost second-string side that consisted of two debutantes (technically three if Shardul Thakur is counted) in Washington Sundar and Thangarasu Natarajan, both of whom are known to be ‘white-ball specialists.’
Australia posted 369 runs in the 1st innings, a total good enough to intimidate a brittle Indian team, more so when the Indians were reduced to 186-6. What happened next was the stuff of dreams. Shardul Thakur, who got injured in the second over on his Test debut against West Indies in 2018, was technically making his debut alongside Tamil Nadu’s 21-year-old Washington Sundar. Neither of them were a part of the Test squad originally.
The duo put on 123 runs for the seventh wicket just when it seemed like Australia would extend their Undertaker-esque streak at the Gabba to 25-0 without any hassle. A lead of over 150 runs was looking a reality and the Australians must have rejoiced at that stage. Little did they know that they were going to be completely outclassed by two amateurs of the Test arena, that too with sheer confidence and panache. The Sundar-Thakur partnership was India’ most important partnership of the series, right up there with the rigorous Vihari-Ashwin blockathon.
A slender lead of 33 didn’t give the Kangaroos the sort of impetus they would have fancied. Siraj and Thakur shared 9 wickets among them in the second innings, with the former bagging his maiden five-wicket haul in only his third Test. The huge smile on Thakur’s face as he grabbed Hazlewood’s catch to signal the end of the second innings showed the sort of character this team had. Thakur himself was just one wicket away from picking up his first five-wicket haul, but the fact that he celebrated Siraj’s achievement as much as he would have celebrated his was truly a sweet moment.
It all boiled down to the final – and most important – day of the fourth Test, and the series itself. The entire chase was like a pendulum, swinging and switching sides hour after hour. The early dismissal of Rohit Sharma meant the floodgates would open. Shubman Gill had a half-century in the previous Test, but he did himself one better, scoring 91 and taking the game away from the opposition. He took on the initiative, smashed Starc with utter nonchalance all around the park, and showed that he belonged here. He deserved a century for the class he put on display, but he did twice of what was expected of him considering it was only his third Test.
If the Sydney heist was magical, the breaching of the Gabba fortress was a miracle. Gill’s innings gave India the belief that they could conquer Gabba. If Pujara’s vigil that lasted 211 balls ensured India wouldn’t lose the match, Rishabh Pant ensured that India didn’t leave Brisbane without breaking the Aussie pride.
India were injury-ravaged throughout the Test series, with as many as nine regulars either unavailable or sidelined due to injury. Five players made their Test debuts during the series: Shubman Gill, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Washington Sundar, and Thangarasu Natarajan. A totally bizarre bowling lineup managed to pick up 20 Australian wickets at the Gabba. The Indian bowling lineup had played a combined four Tests and picked up a combined 11 wickets ahead of the fourth Test. The Australian bowling lineup, on the other hand, had a combined experience of 246 Tests and 1013 wickets. There are just no words to describe the bravado of this side.
Recollect the third act of Avengers: Endgame. A wounded Captain America was up against the entire army of Thanos, plus Thanos himself. Yet, he stood up to fight them, as long as he could, alone. You can probably compare this Indian team with Captain America/Steve Rogers from Avengers: Endgame, someone who just wouldn’t give up in the face of adversity.
Mohammed Siraj had lost his father a few weeks back and wouldn’t have even made his debut if not for the injuries to the regular bowlers. In the final Test, he emerged as the unofficial leader of the pack, a player who himself had no experience at the highest level whatsoever. Siraj became the human embodiment of the famous Spider-Man phrase “With great power comes great responsibility.” (Sorry for all the Marvel references, you must have figured out I am a Marvel aficionado by now. And yes, I am.) With 13 wickets in 3 Tests, he finished as the highest wicket-taker for India, and the third-highest in the series, only behind Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood.
What can be said about Thakur and Sundar? The Aussies were simply taken aback by their onslaught, and how! Between them, they shared 11 wickets and 151 runs in the Gabba Test, contributions worth their weight in gold. Thakur was told by Shastri, “If you want people to love you, perform in Australia.” And, perform he did!
If the newbies wiped the feet off the Aussies’ ground, several experienced lads knocked the wind out of their sails. Statistically, Pujara had a worse outing than he did in 2018-19, where he was the best batsman. His ultra-defensive approach came under the scanner several times. He might have been looked at as a villain initially, but he left Australia as a hero, as a leader, and most importantly, as someone who will continue to flee the spotlight and work quietly, all while being one of the most important (and underrated) members of the XI. Anyone who doubts Pujara’s style or approach knows about cricket only as much as a donkey about quantum mechanics.
Finally, it’s time to give some screen time to the MVP of Gabba, Rishabh Pant. The wicket-keeper has had quite a journey, hasn’t he? He had lost his place as the first-choice wicket-keeper to Wriddhiman Saha since his wicket-keeping was (is) still a work in progress as compared to Saha, who is more often than not touted as the ‘best wicket-keeper in terms of pure wicket-keeping quality.’
The youngster has come under immense pressure numerous times. Having been given a long rope, his coarse-grained shot selection led to his downfall. It’s ironic and befitting at the same time how a player of Pant’s flair outperforms in the longest format yet somehow fails to deliver in formats tailor-made for his fearless batting style. Mind you, he has the highest batting average in Tests of any visiting batsman in Australia in the last ten years.
From being a backup, to scoring a valiant 97 at the SCG in the third Test to give India a “glimmer” of chasing down the insurmountable 407, to taking the team over the finishing line with a well-calculated 89 at the Gabba, Pant had quite the turnaround in a matter of few weeks. At the SCG, Lyon got the better of Pant as the batsman flayed at a ball outside the off stump only to serve some catching practice to the fielder. He learned his lesson and left most of the balls outside off stump at the Gabba, even if that meant a spike in the required run-rate.
This innings was somewhat reminiscent of Sachin Tendulkar’s ostentatious yet cautious 241 at the SCG in 2004. He was a victim of the balls being bowled outside the off stump, and he wasn’t enjoying a good tour until that moment. In that innings, however, Sachin’s steely resolve came to the fore as he didn’t attempt a single cover drive. Pant’s innings had similar levels of resolve and determination. He came in with the intention of winning the game, and such was the cinematic effect to this run chase that he scored the winning runs with a tailender at the non-striker’s end. Lyon was frustrated at the end of the game, and I am sure a majority of that came from Pant’s leaves outside the off stump off his bowling.
Harsha Bhogle termed the Gabba victory as the greatest moment in Indian cricket history alongside the 1983 World Cup victory. Bhogle for one is a man of logic. He will never hyperbolize his statements. In my opinion, this is the greatest Test victory I have ever witnessed. It might or might not usurp England’s Houdini Act at Headingley in 2019, and I don’t care enough to compare these two victories. India were never given a chance, let alone have a shot at being equals.
What worked in India’s favour was that they hit rock bottom within three days of the commencement of the Test series and not mid-way or at the end, when it mattered the most. They had time to recoup and they would surely not do worse than they had already done, would they? But the spirit and never-say-die attitude that the players showed is nothing less than commendable. When you hit a low, the morale is broken and it’s extremely difficult to pull back things in order. Without their leader, Virat Kohli, and a string of regulars, the sort of intent and bravery this bunch showed throughout the tour deserves a place in the upper echelons of the history of the game.
Justin Langer correctly proclaimed that the Indians should never be underestimated. Whether he was being modest or that was a natural reply after being humbled, Langer surely had huge respect for this team based on how he sounded. Without their best batsman and bowler, and all the other components that made India a force of nature, India have left an indelible mark on the Australians in their own backyard.
This series was never meant to be one for the weak-hearted. This series was never meant to be about the famous ones stealing the headlines. This series was never about one team walking over another without much effort. Rather, it was a series where a struggling nobody became a shining somebody. It was a series that paved the way for stop-start careers to flourish rather than a good career getting destroyed. It was a series where superheroes overcame the challenge without any superpower. It was a series where dreams met reality.
There are no qualms about the fact that this series will go down as the greatest in Indian cricket history. Kudos to all the players involved, for they put up one hell of a fight. Special praise should be heaped towards Ravi Shastri and Ajinkya Rahane, who made sure the team stayed united during the crisis and returned better than ever. Rahane’s captaincy needs to be lauded as he showed his tactical nous and diligence at crucial junctures throughout the series.
It’s difficult to tell what will happen to the ‘Class of 21’ once the regulars return to the XI. Some of them might not even play another Test, ever. But I can guarantee one thing. These players’ names will be engraved on my heart, as well as every other fan’s heart, for the rest of our lives. Stories will be told about these so-called cricketing superheroes, who have shown that you need just one match or one series to forge your legacy. And their legacies will remain at the very pinnacle of the cricket mountain for generations to come until one day, another underdog fairytale takes the world by storm. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://rph.wa.gov.au/About-us/News/New-helipad-an-investment-in-the-future-of-Royal-Perth-Hospital | 2017-05-01T00:29:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917126237.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031206-00624-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.925013 | 234 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__9616551 | en | New helipad an investment in the future of Royal Perth Hospital
Royal Perth Hospital is to get a new $6.8 million helipad.
In announcing the funding recently, the Minister for Health John Day said it was an investment in the future of Royal Perth Hospital as a key health care centre of excellence.
The new helipad will ensure Royal Perth Hospital meets changing Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) standards, and will enable the hospital to accept larger helicopters.
The current helipad was commissioned in 1999, with capacity for helicopters weighing up to 5400kg. The new helipad will have a 10,000kg capacity.
As home to the State Adult Major Trauma Unit and the State Spinal Service, Royal Perth Hospital currently receives between 160 - 300 direct helicopter landings per year.
Work on the new helipad will start in 2017, for completion in 2018. The existing helipad will continue operating while the new facility is built.
This is a significant investment in the future of Royal Perth Hospital, continuing to excel and thrive as the major tertiary hospital in the East Metropolitan Health Service. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.laflood2016.com/water-still-rising/ | 2022-05-29T11:23:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662644142.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20220529103854-20220529133854-00023.warc.gz | 0.964857 | 412 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__23108662 | en | The Initial Flood
While it may have stopped raining or at least decreased in frequency, water is still making its way to Louisiana and increasing water levels at an alarming rate. This influx of water into the state is causing more homes and businesses to be flooded on a daily basis.
With Louisiana being in the top three for lowest mean elevation, excess water is an extremely dangerous prospect. According to NASA, more than 20 inches of rain fell in southeastern Louisiana over the weekend, which is a third of Louisiana’s annual rainfall of 59.42 inches. This massive amount of water in such a short time caused many rivers, bayous, and tributaries to overflow causing the initial flood.
I’m Watching the Weather and it Says the Rain Stopped, Why is Louisiana Still Flooding?
The Secondary and Continuing Flooding
Louisiana is not just being flooded by rainwater anymore. At this time, the waterways that were already overflown from rain are receiving more water from the natural river flow system from up north. This means the already maxed out water systems in Louisiana are continually getting more water and the water is overflowing into more and more places.
The Water Distribution Process
Normal water flow from the north is overflowing the Mississippi River even more and the water is being pushed into tributaries and bayous as a natural drainage system for the Mississippi River. Flooding occurs at this point because tributaries and bayous do not out-flow to the ocean. They are isolated pockets of low ground that gets filled when high rain occurs. As the bayous and tributaries can’t empty to another area, they overflow and the water pushes further outward into towns, creating more and more flooding.
This flooding is not a two-day problem for Louisiana, but a several week problem for water increase. Rebuilding efforts could take several months to a year. With more than 40,000 people in 30 different parishes affected by this historic flooding, assistance and support is needed now and in the upcoming months. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.1077lakefm.com/news/edward-norton-replaces-benedict-cumberbatch-as-pete-seeger-in-bob-dylan-biopic/ | 2024-02-26T13:10:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474660.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20240226130305-20240226160305-00817.warc.gz | 0.941739 | 168 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__131157235 | en | American actor Edward Norton is set to replace British actor Benedict Cumberbatch as Pete Seeger in the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown.
According to Deadline, Cumberbatch was replaced by Norton due to scheduling conflicts.
A Complete Unknown is being directed by James Mangold, while the movie stars Timothee Chalamet as Dylan and Elle Fanning will play the role of Sylvie Russo. The film will be heading into production in New York this March. The cast also includes Monica Barbaro and Woody Guthrie.
Seeger, who died in 2014, had a significant impact on Dylan’s musical upbringing, having a profound influence on Dylan from the perspectives of both music and activism.
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https://www.nikkiechangmua.com/blog/2019/1/9/new-years-resolutions | 2019-05-20T14:35:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256040.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20190520142005-20190520164005-00281.warc.gz | 0.957267 | 296 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__100464322 | en | New Year's Resolutions
Happy New Year! I am starting off this blog with a resolutions post! I took some time this year to seriously think about what I want my resolutions to be because I wanted to focus on positivity and confidence. For the past several months, I’ve worked on creating a YouTube channel dedicated to beauty and scarring. You would think that those two don’t go together, but that’s where I start to challenge the beauty standard of today’s social media-centric world. All you see on Instagram are perfect, Facetuned, beautiful women and men all with the same look (especially of the Kardashian variety). But differences and “imperfections” like scars, acne, or pigment are what make people special and that’s what everyone should be celebrating.
In my video, I talk about how my scars affect my everyday life and how I’m going to overcome these thoughts and barriers in order to grow my self-esteem and build confidence in myself. For example, I talk about how putting my hair up is a challenge for me at work because it fully shows my scars and causes a lot of staring. It definitely was not an easy video to film because I rarely speak so freely about my scarring and my thoughts! But it’s a step forward to my resolutions and a mentally healthier year. I’m even wearing a ponytail today at work. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://secondtimearound.blog/2021/06/20/checking-off-the-dates/ | 2023-05-29T01:10:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644574.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20230529010218-20230529040218-00634.warc.gz | 0.920334 | 345 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__292471552 | en | For the last 3 weeks or so I’ve been seeing a stream of emails in my inbox from companies whose subscriber lists I’ve ended up on. They’re all asking me the same thing, and it’s not the usual “buy all of our stuff”. Instead, they’re all suggesting that I let them know whether or not I’d like to hear about Father’s Day. I don’t remember this being a thing last year, but I’ve probably had about 25 in the last month.
Although the cynic inside my head wonders whether they’re banking on some goodwill purchases as I marvel at their selfless sensitivity, I’m pretty happy about this development. The recognition that National days of celebration are not always celebratory occasions for everyone, or devoid of complicated feelings is a welcome change.
Father’s Day can be a wonderful opportunity to celebrate those in your life who have played the role (and you can read all about mine here).
But it can also be a day of confusion, guilt, sadness, regret, and a lot of cookie dough ice cream.
So, in the spirit of making things a little easier on social media for some people today, here is an article that my friend Angeline shared with me.
“Father’s Day for those Widowed Young”
It’s from Care for the Family, and gives some clear tips on how to support someone dealing with loss on Fathers’ Day (and any other day).
Let’s celebrate our father figures, and be there for our friends.
With love x | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://bettycjung.net/Blog2017.htm | 2017-06-25T00:10:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320368.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624235551-20170625015551-00231.warc.gz | 0.954737 | 7,828 | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-26__0__132913634 | en | Suggested Citation: Jung, B.C. (2016 - 2017). Betty C. Jung's 2017 Public Health Blog (January - June).
Web document: http://www.bettycjung.net/Blog2017.htm
Please note that this page is a work in progress. Finalized entries are dated and posted on the What's New Page, and at the end of each month are returned here for archiving. So, unless an entry has a date it can still undergo metamorphosis! Thanks for your understanding.
January xxx, 2017 - Social Media Represents One-Quarter of Adult Women’s Total Media Time
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Graphic source: http://www.marketingcharts.com/online/social-media-represents-one-quarter-of-adult-womens-total-media-time-73699/attachment/nielsen-social-share-us-adults-media-time-jan2017/
January xxx, 2017 - GOES-16 Earth Images (NASA)
January xxx, 2017 - Majority of US Adults Live in Cell-Only Households
Search rankings studies have indicated that the impact of relevant content continues to grow, and a new survey [download page] from Ascend2 and its Research Partners finds that marketers largely agree. Some 57% of the 256 marketing influencers surveyed around the world rated relevant content creation as being among their most effective SEO tactics, topping the proportion feeling that way about keyword/phrase research (49%).
These top-2 tactics in effectiveness are unchanged from last year’s survey, though the gap between them has narrowed somewhat.
As with last year’s iteration of the survey, relevant content creation continues to be perceived as the most difficult SEO tactic, followed by external and internal linking. The easiest tactic to execute is meta description/tags, though this is seen as being among the most effective methods by few respondents to the survey.
On an encouraging note, marketers seem to have confidence in the effectiveness of their SEO strategies. Roughly 8 in 10 describe themselves as either very successful (34%) or somewhat successful (47%), and a similar proportion say that effectiveness is either increasing significantly (42%) or marginally (40%).
Perhaps they feel good about their content creation skills?
About the Data: The Ascend2 data is based on a survey of 256 marketing influencers around the world, three-quarters of whom come from companies with at least 50 employees and 64% of whom are primarily B2B (45%) or B2B and B2C equally (19%).
More than 3 in 4 American adults engage in social media in some way, finds a report from The Harris Poll. The study indicates that of those engaged in social media, passive reacting or posts and content is the most common form of engagement, with far fewer mostly creating and posting original content. Still, users typically post about some areas more than others.
Most commonly, adults post about their families, with about 1 in 3 saying they typically do so. Next up is humorous content such as memes, quizzes, lists and videos, with 3 in 10 typically posting such content. That fits with previous research indicating that humor is a key motivator of social sharing behavior.
Meanwhile, adults are about as likely to post about pets (17%) as they are about kids, travel and food (each at 18%). Even in the run-up to the election, few (11%) profess to typically posting about politics, though.
Unsurprisingly, these responses differ markedly by age and other demographic variables, as highlighted below:
For youth (18-34), humorous content is most commonly shared (by 43%);
The 35-44 bracket shares content about family the most, while also being more likely than other age groups to share about kids;
Affluent Americans post about travel (26%) more commonly than other income groups; and
Parents with kids under 18 in the household are more engaged with social media than those without kids in the household, and are equally or more likely to post about all the topics measured.
Also as expected, the 18-34 age group is the most engaged with social media, as almost 9 in 10 engage in some way. This age group is also the most likely to be exposed to multiple ads on social media and to count those ads as an influence on their purchases, per MarketingCharts study data.
Finally, a separate survey of Facebook users from Fractl indicates that men and women are equally likely to share funny videos or articles and news content. Results from the survey indicate that Millennials are the least likely to share political content and the most likely to share memes, with the opposite patterns true for Boomers.
As for the buzz-worthy employee advocacy trend? Just 7% of respondents to the Harris Poll say they typically post about work, with this most common among 35-44-year-old females (15%).
At the age of 30, more than 7 in 10 young adults were married, had a child, were not enrolled in school, and lived on their own. That was in 1975. Fast forward 40 years, and just 32% fit that picture, per a new analysis released by the US Census Bureau.
Young adults (30-year-olds) are putting off marriage and kids at far greater rather than they did 40 years ago. Indeed, as of last year, 57% had ever married, down from 89% in 1975. Likewise, less than half (47%) were living with a child, down from about three-quarters (76%) in 1975.
As of last year, 7 in 10 young adults (30-year-olds) lived on their own, according to the analysis, down from 90% in 1975. That follows an earlier assessment from the Pew Research Center, which revealed that for the first time on record, 18-34-year-olds are more likely to be living with a parent than having any other living arrangement.
Financial concerns likely play a role. While 30-year-olds today are more likely to have at least a high school diploma (90% vs. 80%) and be in the labor force (81% vs. 71%), those advances haven’t translated into other socioeconomic aspects of life. Namely, only 55% have a moderate income (between 66% and 200% of the national median household income), a drop from 71% in 1975. And just 33% are homeowners, a steep decline from 56% some 40 years ago.
Financial instability has also changed the mindset of young parents, particularly as student debt has weighed heavily on the young population. Data contained in a recent MarketingCharts study on youth and financial services indicates that as of last year, 74% of parents aged 30-34 with children expected to attend college have started saving for that goal. In 2007, only 58% of parents of that age had started saving for their children’s college expenses. Part of that motivation seems to be an increased desire to not burden their children with student debt: 48% of young parents plan to pay for all college costs, triple the share (16%) from the earlier study period.
The findings are interesting in light of marketers’ strong focus on Millennials (of which there are many…). It’s worth keeping in mind that most of these youth are yet to “settle down,” at least in the traditional sense… As such, the attention paid to Millennials is likely more about capturing their loyalty (if that’s possible) rather than finding the highest-spending consumers.
Topics: Demographics & Audiences, Education, Real Estate, Traditional, Youth & Gen X
Source:How the Socioeconomic Characteristics of Young Adults Have Changed In the Past 40 Years http://www.marketingcharts.com/traditional/how-the-socioeconomic-characteristics-of-young-adults-have-changed-in-the-past-40-years-68788/
According to 1/3/2015's Sciencemag.org's "The simple math that explains why you may (or may not) get cancer":
"...most cancer cases are the result of biological bad luck.
Here’s how it works: Take the number of cells in an organ, identify what percentage of them are long-lived stem cells, and determine how many times the stem cells divide. With every division, there’s a risk of a cancer-causing mutation in a daughter cell.
Thus, Tomasetti and Vogelstein reasoned, the tissues that host the greatest number of stem cell divisions are those most vulnerable to cancer. When Tomasetti crunched the numbers and compared them with actual cancer statistics, he concluded that this theory explained two-thirds of all cancers.
Plotting the total number of stem cell divisions over a lifetime against the lifetime risk of cancer in 31 different organs revealed a correlation. As the number of divisions rose, so did risk.
Colon cancer, for example, is far more common than cancer of the duodenum, the first stretch of the small intestine. This is true even in those who carry a mutated gene that puts their entire intestine at risk. Tomasetti found that there are about 1012 stem cell divisions in the colon over a lifetime, compared with 1010 in the duodenum.
For Vogelstein, one major message is that cancer often cannot be prevented, and more resources should be funneled into catching it in its infancy. “These cancers are going to keep on coming,” he says.
Although the randomness of cancer might be frightening, those in the field see a positive side, too. The new framework stresses that “the average cancer patient … is just unlucky,” Clevers says. “It helps cancer patients to know” that the disease is not their fault."
"Today's retirees tell us in no uncertain terms that the number-one ingredient for a happy retirement is, by no small margin, having your health. Sure, other things are important, like being financially secure and having a loving family and friends, but a new study reveals that health trumps all as the key factor to having a happy and satisfying retirement." (Huffington Post's 9/15/14 article,"Study Reveals The #1 Key To A Happy Retirement"; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ken-dychtwald/retirement-planning_b_5800234.html)
According to "Health and Retirement: Planning for the Great Unknown": "Health is the most important ingredient for a happy retirement, according to 81% of retirees. Meanwhile, paying for health care costs is Americans' greatest financial concern."
Key insights from the study also include:
The double threat of health challenges to retirement financial security
Five critical health care conversations couples and families should be having—but often aren't
Important enhancements to our health care system needed to prepare for an aging population
Four unique "Boomer HealthStyles," defining different approaches boomers are taking to managing their health and preparation for health care expenses (http://www.wealthmanagement.ml.com/wm/Pages/Age-wave-Survey.aspx)
According to CDC's Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) (1999–2008) o students aged 13-15 years:
"Worldwide, 7% of girls surveyed smoke cigarettes and 8% use tobacco products other than cigarettes (such as pipes, waterpipes, smokeless tobacco, and bidis).
Cigarette use among girls is higher than 30% in 7 of the countries surveyed: Chile, Czech Republic, Latvia, Bulgaria, Papua New Guinea, Cook Islands, and Northern Mariana Islands.
In all regions, susceptibility to initiate smoking is higher than current smoking rates among girls. (i.e., although 7% of girls smoke, 19% of girls who never smoked reported they were susceptible to start smoking)."
(Lung cancer rates for women....)
A 2013 Gallup Poll found that 92% of successful ex-smokers did not use the nicotine patch, gum, Zyban, Chantix or Champix, that most quit smoking cold turkey.
"Most current smokers in the U.S. would like to give up smoking. Perhaps as a testimony to their desire to quit, 85% of smokers say they have in fact tried to quit at least once in their lifetime, including 45% who have tried at least three times.
The finding that smokers have tried on average 3.6 times to quit smoking over their lifetimes -- only to return to their habit -- is more understandable in light of the fact that 72% of smokers claim that they are "addicted" to cigarettes.
The quarter of Americans who have successfully quit smoking, when asked to name the strategies or methods they used to quit, are most likely to attribute their success to just deciding to quit "cold turkey." Smaller percentages of reformed smokers name willpower, support from family and friends and prayer, use of the nicotine patch, ceasing to be around people who smoke, using chewing gum or candy, and using an electronic cigarette.
Fewer former smokers say they quit because of the expense of smoking, because smoking was a bad or disgusting habit, or because of their family and friends.
Smokers on average are engaging in a habit they wish they didn't have, and, in fact, the average smoker has attempted to quit at least three times in their lifetime. The difficulty in quitting is attested to by the fact that more than seven in 10 smokers say they are addicted to cigarettes.
The majority of former smokers say their concern for their health was the main factor that caused them to quit smoking. This is an important finding, but given that 91% of smokers already admit that smoking is harmful to smokers' health and 79% admit that smoking is a cause of lung cancer, it is clear that the specter of bad health, disease, and death has not been enough in and of itself to get smokers to stop."
I love this graphic that shows how important collaboration is to addressing the tobacco problem. Tobacco is an environmental problem because of health effects associated with second-hand and third-hand exposures. Collaboration among government entities at various levels, along with coalition building among advocacy groups make for a more effective approach.
, 2014 - Third-hand smoke just as deadly as first-hand smoke
According to a University of California-Riverside report, "Third-hand smoke just as deadly as first-hand smoke":
"While first-hand smoke refers to the smoke inhaled by a smoker and second-hand smoke to the exhaled smoke and other substances emanating from the burning cigarette that can get inhaled by others, third-hand smoke is the second-hand smoke that gets left on the surfaces of objects, ages over time and becomes progressively more toxic.
Third-hand smoke is a potential health threat to children, spouses of smokers and workers in environments where smoking is, or has been, allowed. Contamination of the homes of smokers by third-hand smoke is high, both on surfaces and in dust, including children's bedrooms.
Re-emission of nicotine from contaminated indoor surfaces in these households can lead to nicotine exposure levels similar to that of smoking. Third-hand smoke, which contains strong carcinogens, has been found to persist in houses, apartments and hotel rooms after smokers move out.
(Mice studies have found:) In the liver, third-hand smoke was found to increase lipid levels and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, a precursor to cirrhosis and cancer and a potential contributor to cardiovascular disease.
In the lungs, third-hand smoke was found to simulate excess collagen production and high levels of inflammatory cytokines (small proteins involved in cell signaling), suggesting propensity for fibrosis with implications for inflammation-induced diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma.
In wounded skin, healing in mice exposed to third-hand smoke showed many characteristics of the kind of poor healing observed in human smokers who have gone through surgery."
Finally, in behavioral tests the mice exposed to third-hand smoke showed hyperactivity.
"More recently we have found that exposure to third-hand smoke results in changes that can lead to type II diabetes even when the person is not obese,"
Children in environments where smoking is, or has been allowed, are at significant risk for suffering from multiple short-term and longer health problems, many of which may not manifest fully until later in life."
Research has shown that children living with one or two adults who smoke in the home, where second- and third-hand smoke are abundant, are absent 40 percent more days from school due to illness than children who did not live with smokers."
According Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Norris Cotton Cancer Center's "Protect Children from Third Hand Smoke Exposure" Studies have shown that when just one cigarette was smoked in a bedroom with the door closed, it took two hours for particulates in the air to return to below the threshold for harm. Figure: Ott et al. 2003. J. Air & Waste Manage. Assoc.
"What happens when second hand smoke collects on our clothes, or in the car seats, furniture, carpets, and even the wallboard that surround us? The contamination that persists after second hand smoke has dissipated is called third hand smoke (THS).
Researchers have identified significant amounts of toxins from third hand smoke in homes and cars of smokers even months after no smoking has occurred. Residual pollutants remain on surfaces and in dust; they re-emit as nicotine gas or as ultrafine particles; and they can collect in textiles and other materials to create a reservoir that emits gas over time. These pollutants can also react with other compounds in the environment, like ozone, to create secondary pollutants.
Even when parents understand the dangers of second hand smoke in the home, many think it is safe to smoke in a car if children aren't in it.
But smoking in the car creates an especially intense environment for third hand smoke exposure. The nicotine can combine with nitrous acid from exhaust to create cancer-causing tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) that settle into the dust on the dashboard, seats, and carpets. And these TSNA's can be absorbed through the skin—when you open a glove compartment or dust off the dash with your hand."
Scientific assessments such as dose effect curves seek to evaluate the health risk associated to second-hand smoke exposure.
"The Surgeon General released a report in 2006 regarding the dangers of secondhand smoke (SHS). One of the claims in the report is:
There is NO risk-free level of secondhand smoke exposure, with even brief exposure adversely affecting the cardiovascular and respiratory system.
We know that secondhand smoke harms people's health, but many people assume that exposure to secondhand smoke in small doses does not do any significant damage to one's health. However, science has proven that there is NO risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke. Let me say that again: there is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke.
Breathing secondhand smoke for even a short time can damage cells and set the cancer process in motion. Brief exposure can have immediate harmful effects on blood and blood vessels, potentially increasing the risk of a heart attack. Secondhand smoke exposure can quickly irritate the lungs, or trigger an asthma attack. For some people, these rapid effects can be life-threatening. People who already have heart disease or respiratory conditions are at especially high risk."
"The harmful effects of smoking do not end with the smoker. An estimated 88 million nonsmoking Americans, including 54% of children aged 3–11 years, are exposed to secondhand smoke. Even brief exposure can be dangerous because nonsmokers inhale many of the same poisons in cigarette smoke as smokers.
Secondhand smoke exposure causes serious disease and death, including heart disease and lung cancer in nonsmoking adults and sudden infant death syndrome, acute respiratory infections, ear problems, and more frequent and severe asthma attacks in children. Each year, primarily because of exposure to secondhand smoke, an estimated 3,000 nonsmoking Americans die of lung cancer, more than 46,000 die of heart disease, and about 150,000–300,000 children younger than 18 months have lower respiratory tract infections."
According to New York State Senator Liz Krueger's Blog:
"The tobacco industry spends $1.2 million every day across New York City and State marketing their deadly product. The more tobacco marketing kids see, the more likely they are to smoke. In fact, 90 percent of smokers begin smoking before age 18. In Manhattan alone, 4,000 public high school students smoke cigarettes; one-third will die prematurely as a direct result of smoking if they continue."
"An estimated 21% of all adults (45 million people) smoke cigarettes in the United States.
Secondhand smoke, also known as environmental tobacco smoke, is a complex mixture of gases and particles that include smoke from the burning cigarette, cigar, or pipe tip (sidestream smoke), and exhaled mainstream smoke.
Secondhand smoke contains at least 250 known toxic chemicals, including more than 50 that can cause cancer.2 Secondhand smoke causes heart disease and lung cancer in nonsmoking adults and a number of health conditions, including sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and respiratory infections, in children.
More than 126 million nonsmoking Americans continue to be exposed to secondhand smoke in homes, vehicles, workplaces, and public places. Most exposure to tobacco smoke occurs in homes and workplaces. Almost 60% of U.S. children aged 3–11 years—or almost 22 million children—are exposed to secondhand smoke."
"Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States. Each year, an estimated 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, and another 8.6 million live with a serious illness caused by smoking. Despite these risks, approximately 46.6 million U.S. adults smoke cigarettes. Smokeless tobacco, cigars, and pipes also have deadly consequences, including lung, larynx, esophageal, and oral cancers.
Coupled with this enormous health toll is the significant economic burden of tobacco use—more than $96 billion a year in medical costs and another $97 billion a year from lost productivity."
According to: 6/2015's "A study of pyrazines in cigarettes and how additives might be used to enhance tobacco addiction"
Background Nicotine is known as the drug that is responsible for the addicted behaviour of tobacco users, but it has poor reinforcing effects when administered alone. Tobacco product design features enhance abuse liability by (A) optimising the dynamic delivery of nicotine to central nervous system receptors, and affecting smokers’ withdrawal symptoms, mood and behaviour; and (B) effecting conditioned learning, through sensory cues, including aroma, touch and visual stimulation, to create perceptions of pending nicotine reward. This study examines the use of additives called ‘pyrazines’, which may enhance abuse potential, their introduction in ‘lights’ and subsequently in the highly market successful Marlboro Lights (Gold) cigarettes and eventually many major brands.
Methods We conducted internal tobacco industry research using online databases in conjunction with published scientific literature research, based on an iterative feedback process.
Results Tobacco manufacturers developed the use of a range of compounds, including pyrazines, in order to enhance ‘light’ cigarette products’ acceptance and sales. Pyrazines with chemosensory and pharmacological effects were incorporated in the first ‘full-flavour, low-tar’ product achieving high market success. Such additives may enhance dependence by helping to optimise nicotine delivery and dosing and through cueing and learned behaviour.
Conclusions Cigarette additives and ingredients with chemosensory effects that promote addiction by acting synergistically with nicotine, increasing product appeal, easing smoking initiation, discouraging cessation or promoting relapse should be regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration. Current models of tobacco abuse liability could be revised to include more explicit roles with regard to non-nicotine constituents that enhance abuse potential.
Graphic source: Adapted by BCJung, from http://www.treatobacco.net/en/page_79.php, Safety of Smoking Cessation Medications
, 2014 - Cardiovascular Toxicity of Nicotine
According to the 1997 "American College of Cardiology's Cardiovascular Toxicity of Nicotine: Implications for Nicotine Replacement Therapy 1"
"Cigarette smoking is well known to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. Nicotine affects cardiovascular function and could contribute to cardiovascular disease.
Nicotine binds to nicotinic cholinergic receptors, which are located in the brain, autonomic ganglia, the adrenals and neuromuscular junction. The main cardiovascular effect of nicotine is sympathetic neural stimulation. Sympathomimetic effects are mediated by several mechanisms. Central nervous system–mediated sympathetic stimulation can occur through activation of peripheral chemoreceptors, direct effects on the brain stem and effects on more caudal portions of the spinal cord. Intrapulmonary chemoreceptors may also contribute to brain-mediated sympathetic arousal. The site that appears to be most sensitive to low levels of nicotine is the carotid chemoreceptor. Peripheral mechanisms include catecholamine release from the adrenals and direct release or enhancement of release of catecholamines from vascular nerve endings.
Nicotine works primarily by enhancing the release of various neurotransmitters, including epinephrine, norepinephrine, dopamine, acetylcholine, serotonin, vasopressin, glutamate, NO (60), calcitonin growth-related peptide (CGRP) (60) and beta-endorphin. Thus, in addition to catecholamine-mediated actions, some other of these effects, such as acetylcholine, serotonin, NO, CGRP or vasopressin release, may contribute to effects of nicotine on blood vessels."
Here is a graph that shows how different nicotine delivery methods affect the level of nicotine found in the blood. Though nicotine may be fast acting (it only takes 11 seconds for the nicotine to reach the brain), it's effects don't last long, which is why smokers end up smoking more and more over time.
, 2014 - Nicotine Dependence, By Age Group
Graphic source: Adapted by BCJung, from Tobacco and Health Effects Slides at http://www.treatobacco.net/en/page_111.php
Here is a bar graph that shows why it is so hard for long-term smokers to quit. Given that most smokers begin smoking in their teens, by the time they are in their 50s, 3/4s are addicted to the nicotine. An even worse statistic is by the time smokers are 26, 1/2 are already addicted to the nicotine! This is the reason why the sooner smokers stop, the better off they are.
, 2014 - The Relative Addictiveness of Nicotine
Relative Addictiveness of Nicotine
Graphic source: http://bigscaryideas.com/?p=160
Here is a bar chart that compares the relative addictiveness (0 to 100%) of a number of drugs. Those in blue are legal drugs, and those in red are illegal drugs. Somewhat scary to see that the two most addictive drugs are legal, of which nicotine is second only to oxycodone for addictiveness. This is a good reason to keep in mind when young children are lured into smoking without understanding what they are getting into. Before they realize it they are physically addicted to nicotine.
Ever think of nicotine as a drug? Well it is, and a very addictive psychoactive drug at that. In terms of addictiveness, nicotine is right up there with morphine. Even worse, nicotine is more addictive than cocaine, at a lower dose!
Starting October 1st (not soon enough), CVS stores will stop selling cigarettes. Well, it's a start. However, if you look at where cigarettes are usually bought and sold, gas stations may be the place to stem the sale of cigarettes, as they make up 48% of where people buy cigarettes.
While statistics show that the number of cigarettes sold is declining, the tobacco industry still stands to make $230 billion in 2013. That's a lot of cigarettes sold.
July 10, 2014 - People Smoke Where Cigarettes Are Cheap
Annual age-adjusted rate* of tobacco-related cancer† cases (2009–2013) and trends§ in rates (2004–2013), by state — National Program of Cancer Registries, and Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program, United States
"The Department is proposing in this NPRM to explicitly ban the use of electronic cigarettes on aircraft as there has been some confusion over whether the Department's ban on smoking of tobacco products includes a ban on use of electronic cigarettes. We see no reason to treat electronic cigarettes any differently than traditional cigarettes. The purpose behind the statutory ban on smoking aboard aircraft and the regulatory ban in part 252 on smoking tobacco products was to improve air quality within the aircraft, reduce the risk of adverse health effects on passengers and crewmembers, and enhance aviation safety and passenger comfort. Electronic cigarettes are generally designed to look like and to be used in the same manner as conventional cigarettes. Although a vapor, rather than smoke, is produced, the products require an inhalation and exhalation similar to smoking cigarettes. We are unaware of sufficient studies on the health impact on third parties from these vapors to conclude that they would not negatively impact the air quality within the aircraft and/or increase the risk of adverse health effects on passengers and crewmembers.
Each e-cigarette consists of three parts: The replaceable cartridge, which most often contains liquid nicotine but may contain other chemicals, the atomizer or heating element, and the battery and electronics. See Sottera Inc. v. Food & Drug Administration, 627 F.3d 891, 893 (D.C. Cir 2010). Theatomizer or heating element vaporizes the liquid inside the cartridge, and the battery and electronics power the atomizer and monitor air flow. Id. When the user inhales, the electronics detect the air flow and activate the atomizer, the liquid nicotine is vaporized, and the user inhales the vapor. Id.
Some electronic cigarette companies have claimed that their products are safe because they reportedly do not contain carcinogens or tar or produce second-hand smoke, as there is no combustion in their use. According to these arguments, while the vapor looks and feels, and may taste, like smoke produced by burning traditional tobacco products, its chemistry differs from the smoke produced from burning conventional tobacco products. The principal liquid ingredient is propylene glycol, which is widely used as a moistening food additive and an aid to vaporization. However, some research, conducted on non-asthmatic people, has shown that exposure to propylene glycol mist from artificial smoke generators may cause acute ocular and upper airway irritation, and in a few cases people reacted with cough and slight airway obstruction. See G Wieslander, D Norbäck, and T Lindgren, “Experimental exposure to propylene glycol mist in aviation emergency training: Acute ocular and respiratory effects,”Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2001; 58:649-655. Further, in a recent New England Journal of Medicine article, “E-Cigarette or Drug-Delivery Device? Regulating Novel Nicotine Products,” it was noted that the safety of inhaling propylene glycol has not been studied in humans. 365;3: 193-95.
July 15, 2017 - Cigarette Smoking Status* Among Current Adult E-cigarette Users,† by Age Group — National Health Interview Survey,§ United States, 2015
* Adults were asked if they had smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime and, if yes, whether they currently smoked cigarettes every day, some days, or not at all. Those who smoked every day or some days were classified as current cigarette smokers. Adults who had not smoked 100 cigarettes were classified as never cigarette smokers. Adults who had smoked 100 cigarettes but were not smoking at the time of interview were classified as former cigarette smokers. Percentages are shown with 95% confidence intervals.
† Current e-cigarette use was based on responses of“every day”or“some days”to the question,“Do you currently use electronic cigarettes every day, some days, or not at all?”asked of adults who had ever tried an e-cigarette, even one time.
§ Estimates are based on household interviews of a sample of the noninstitutionalized U.S. civilian population aged ≥18 years and are derived from the National Health Interview Survey sample adult component.
In 2015, 3.5% of U.S. adults were current e-cigarette users. Among adult e-cigarette users overall, 58.8% also were current cigarette smokers, 29.8% were former cigarette smokers, and 11.4% had never been cigarette smokers. Among current e-cigarette users aged ≥45 years, 98.7% were either current or former cigarette smokers, and 1.3% had never been cigarette smokers. In contrast, among current e-cigarette users aged 18–24 years, 40.0% had never been cigarette smokers.
Among adults who had never smoked cigarettes, the percentage who had ever tried an e-cigarette, even one time, was highest for those aged 18–24 (9.7%) and declined as age increased Among adults aged 45 and over who had never smoked cigarettes, 1% or less had ever tried an e-cigarette even once.
Current cigarette smokers who had tried to quit smoking in the past year were more likely than smokers who had not tried to quit to have ever tried an e-cigarette (Figure 4).
Current cigarette smokers who had tried to quit in the past year (20.3%) were almost twice as likely as cigarette smokers who had not tried to quit (11.8%) to currently use e-cigarettes.
Almost one-half of current cigarette smokers (47.6%) and more than one-half of recent former cigarette smokers (55.4%) had ever tried an e-cigarette, compared with 8.9% of long-term former smokers and 3.2% of adults who had never smoked cigarettes (Figure 3).
About one in six current cigarette smokers (15.9%) and nearly one in four recent former cigarette smokers (22.0%) currently used e-cigarettes, compared with 2.3% of long-term former cigarette smokers and 0.4% of adults who had never smoked cigarettes.
Current use of e-cigarettes was about the same for men and women. Current e-cigarette use was higher among non-Hispanic AIAN adults (10.7%) and non-Hispanic white adults (4.6%) than among Hispanic (2.1%), non-Hispanic black (1.8%), and non-Hispanic Asian (1.5%) adults.
Men were more likely than women to have ever tried an e-cigarette. More than 20% of adults aged 18–24 had ever tried an e-cigarette, with use declining steadily as age increased.
Non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native (AIAN) adults (20.2%) and non-Hispanic white adults (14.8%) were more likely than Hispanic (8.6%), non-Hispanic black (7.1 %), and non-Hispanic Asian (6.2%) adults to have ever tried an e-cigarette.
According to the April 4, 2014 MMWR Report, "Calls to Poison Centers for Exposures to Electronic Cigarettes — United States, September 2010–February 2014"
"E-cigarettes accounted for an increasing proportion of combined monthly e-cigarette and cigarette exposure calls, increasing from 0.3% in September 2010 to 41.7% in February 2014. A greater proportion of e-cigarette exposure calls came from health-care facilities than cigarette exposure calls (12.8% versus 5.9%) (p<0.001). Cigarette exposures were primarily among persons aged 0–5 years (94.9%), whereas e-cigarette exposures were mostly among persons aged 0–5 years (51.1%) and >20 years (42.0%). E-cigarette exposures were more likely to be reported as inhalations (16.8% versus 2.0%), eye exposures (8.5% versus 0.1%), and skin exposures (5.9% versus 0.1%), and less likely to be reported as ingestions (68.9% versus 97.8%) compared with cigarette exposures (p<0.001).
Calls about exposures to e-cigarettes, which were first marketed in the United States in 2007, now account for 41.7% of combined monthly e-cigarette and cigarette exposure calls to PCs. The proportion of calls from health-care facilities, age distribution, exposure routes, and report of adverse health effects differed significantly between the two types of cigarette."
It is hard to believe that it has been 16 years since I published the first webpages that turned into this Web site. Many thanks to the thousands of visitors who contributed millions of hits during the past 15 years, and for all the nice comments along the way. I will continue to strive to make this Web site a worthwhile place to spend your time and find credible public health and health information. Thank you so much!
October 17, 2014 - October is Health Literacy Month
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http://lanegold.blogspot.jp/2010/06/who-saw-zenyatta-run.html | 2013-06-20T09:09:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.971915 | 530 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__48616284 | en | Everytime you see Zenyatta run, it is hard not to remain in awe of one of the greatest thoroughbreds in history, regardless of gender.
The one part that is a little disturbing to me is that only around 12,000 fans saw her awesome performance. That attendance figure is becoming more accepted as a good day but for a horse like Zenyatta in a market like Los Angeles, it is actually pretty sad.
What makes that attendance figure even worse is the fact that Hollywood Park offered a Zenyatta Bobblehead Giveaway. Those gimmicks used to help bring in a handful of extra people but even the allure of a "freebie" wasn't enough to catapult the crowd figures.
This sort of racing ambivalence in big city racing markets is becoming very commonplace. Huge markets like New York, LA, Chicago and Miami are drawing a fraction of the racing crowds they used to. Even in Louisville, home of the greatest race, getting people to the track has been an ongoing struggle. (Big exceptions, of course, are Derby Week, Friday night racing and the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend.)
Big city sports fans only seem to come out to the track when it's a big day (i.e. Belmont Stakes, Big Cap, etc.) but today should have qualified as one of those days. And those people who didn't make it out to Hollywood, missed out on a great race and an even greater horse.
For years, racing has been crying out for stars and we have two genuine ones in Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta yet why don't people come out to see them run on a consistent basis? Promoting the stars has been a challenge and the fact that Daily Newspapers have cut back their racing coverage significantly is a hindrance. But it's also incumbent upon the individual racetracks and the sport to promote when it's top notch stars run.
I don't know how much Hollywood Park promoted Zenyatta's appearance outside of the Bobblehead giveaway but you have to think it wasn't enough.
We are simply running out of time before both Rachel and Zenyatta are retired and racing loses another golden opportunity to win over new fans. We are very lucky that Zenyatta is still racing but the window is about to close as you have to assume that she only has three more races left before she is done.
And for those that didn't see her run, you have missed out. We may not see anyone like her for sometime.
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http://blackpointpress.com/sf-apartment-magazine/ | 2018-02-20T11:09:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891812938.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20180220110011-20180220130011-00481.warc.gz | 0.950674 | 373 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__4124518 | en | The publication reflects the local housing market, with writers and columnists addressing all aspects of the management, ownership and sales of apartment buildings.
SF Apartment Magazine serves as the official publication of the San Francisco Apartment Association. The publication reaches more than 6,000 apartment owners and property managers throughout San Francisco.
San Francisco—a city known for its charm, its people, its weather—and its housing. Epic battles have been waged here over the right to develop, rent and own housing for decades. One magazine, the SF Apartment Magazine, has covered the housing market for almost thirty years, providing readers with the insight and perspectives on the management, sale and operation of apartment buildings in San Francisco.
SF Apartment Magazine prides itself on giving apartment owners the information needed to navigate the legal and political minefields in this tenant-friendly city. The magazine boasts an impressive and varied pool of writers and columnists—from the region’s top landlord/tenant lawyers to real-estate dealmakers to mom-and-pop owners—who educate readers on their rights and responsibilities of owning and managing rental property in San Francisco. The publication delivers in-depth features, colorful columnists and up-to-date sales statistics and trends, all wrapped up in a vibrant and innovative design.
San Francisco Apartment Association
The magazine is delivered to members of the San Francisco Apartment Association, one of the state’s largest trade associations for apartment owners. SFAA opened its doors in 1917 and today nearly 3,000 rental property owners depend on the nonprofit for advice, educational classes and, of course, its award-winning monthly magazine. From their annual trade show to intimate monthly managers’ luncheons, the organization provides its members with the necessary information needed to be thoughtful and well-informed members of the rental housing community. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://jtownco.org/an-evening-with-scott-levin-regional-director-%EF%BB%BFanti-defamation-league/ | 2019-11-13T20:40:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496667333.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20191113191653-20191113215653-00535.warc.gz | 0.968952 | 247 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__201001936 | en | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 7:00 p.m. at the Lone Tree Hub
Scott will speak about the rise of hate in America, the causes, and what can be done.
Scott Levin is the Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Mountain States Region. He assumed this position in December of 2010, after retiring from 28 years as a successful trial attorney. Scott is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of George Washington University and graduated from the University of Denver College of Law where he was a national moot court finalist. Prior to becoming part of ADL’s professional staff, he was a member of its Board of Directors and the recipient of its 2010 Torch of Liberty Award. Scott has been the Chair and/or member of several non-profit boards, including the Metropolitan State University of Denver Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, the Denver Jewish Day School, JEWISHcolorado, Stepping Stones and Congregation Emanuel.
Scott is a frequent speaker and writer on civil rights issues. He has authored many articles, is regularly interviewed by local media, and has testified on numerous occasions before the Colorado Legislature on issues pertaining to equality, diversity, inclusion and educational opportunities for all. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.eeb2.be/website/node/1705 | 2019-04-26T14:02:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578806528.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20190426133444-20190426155444-00190.warc.gz | 0.976339 | 283 | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__106701726 | en | Bravo to S4 PT students who presented “Auto da Índia” by Gil Vicente, a XVI century masterpiece and S5 PT students who took to the stage with “ A Noite” by José Saramago, 1998 Literature Nobel Prize. Pilar del Rio, widow of José Saramago and President of the Foundation with his name, was invited and gave a master class to the students about the author and his fight against all kinds of authoritarianism. In the evening, she also talked to the audience about the similarities between the humorous theatre of Gil Vicente and Saramago writings, specially the social criticism. As a journalist and humanist, she gave insights on the Night of 24-25 April 1974, where the democratic revolution finally arrived to Portugal and the anonymous people who made it. She made us discover Celeste Caeiro, the anonymous waitress who intuitively gave carnations to the military – and how this became the symbol of the revolution – and “the boys in the tanks”, particularly one soldier who refused to fire his tank simply because “there were people in front of it”. Thank you to L1 PT teacher Maria Manuel Gandra for organizing all this and for her dedication! Thank you to all the colleagues who helped her to make of this night a very special night for the students and the all school community! | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.gameandfishfacts.com/stories/saving-arizona | 2019-02-23T19:32:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550249530087.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20190223183059-20190223205059-00596.warc.gz | 0.946902 | 260 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__38661303 | en | How Did the Bighorn Sheep Cross the Road?
The bighorn sheep population in northwest Arizona is important to outdoor enthusiasts of all types, yet highways have separated this population. As a result, wildlife-vehicle collisions, interference with access to adequate water and lack of habitat connectivity disrupt bighorn and put their population health at risk.
In a historic and innovative collaboration with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Federal Highway Administration, and the Arizona Department of Transportation, the Arizona Game and Fish Department created a solution that saves the lives of bighorn sheep and people. To alleviate vehicle collisions with bighorn sheep along a busy 15-mile stretch of Highway 93 north of Kingman, three wildlife overpasses and adjacent funnel fencing were constructed. This infrastructure allows wildlife to cross over the road safely, helping to keep populations connected to their habitat and reducing the risk for motorists and wildlife.
The success of this project led to collaboration with an unlikely partner: Nevada, who was concered the construction of the new Interstate 11 would have devastating consequences on wildlife habitats. Working with Nevada Department of Wildlife, Nevada Department of Transporation and other agencies, Arizona Game and Fish assisted with the design and implementation of the crossings, which is already showing positive results with active monitoring. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://speedcentral.net/?cat=7 | 2015-04-25T12:25:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-18/segments/1429246649234.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20150417045729-00041-ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.9553 | 942 | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-18__0__96765165 | en | The WKA Russell Karting Gold Cup Series visited the BeaveRun Motorsports Complex last weekend for the Jammer Clutches Nationals, where two drivers each took four feature victories to win eight of the 18 national classes offered at the western Pennsylvania venue.
The big winners were junior driver Jacob Donald and senior racer Brett Farmer. Donald swept the Briggs Jr classes, winning 12-lap features in Briggs Jr Lite, Jr Medium, Jr Heavy and Restricted Jr. Accomplished young kart racers such as Dakota Bell, Sam Beasley and Zachary Deshaies have raced in the Briggs Jr ranks in recent years, but none of them has ever accomplished the four-class sweep.
Donald, a WKA Manufacturer’s Cup regular out of Jeannette, Pa., beat the best junior drivers the Gold Cup Series has to offer at BeaveRun. Matt Tifft finished second to Donald in Rest. Jr. Skylar Robinson was the runner-up in Jr Lite and Jr Medium, and Chris Wells ran second in Jr Heavy. Wells was a 2009 national champion and Robinson won two features at the Gold Cup opener in Kershaw, S.C., but neither had anything for Donald at BeaveRun.
Joining Donald as a four-race weekend winner was Michigan’s Farmer, who took wins in Briggs Lite, Briggs Medium and the pair of Briggs Animal Modified classes.
Farmer drove his Margay to the win over Scott Kleman in Lite and out-raced Arrow pilot Gary Lawson and Coyote’s Jim Lipari to the checkers in Medium. Farmer won the Animal Mod races over Scott Heckert, and he drove his Coyote chassis to lap times under the one-minute barrier in both Mod affairs. Farmer clocked a fast lap of 59.102 in Animal Mod Medium’s qualifying session, which was over a second faster than his top qualifying time in Briggs Lite.
Trent Barnes picked up his second and third Gold Cup feature wins of the season. Barnes swept the Briggs Sportsman 1 features, winning over Tyler Frantz in Sportsman 1 Lite and Jake Lutz in Sportsman 1 Heavy. Trent was the one of only two double winners at BeaveRun; the other was Kaytlyn Fauci who was the only entrant in Briggs World Formula Medium and Heavy.
Skyler Locklear continued his reign over the Briggs Sportsman 2 Lite division. After winning the Kershaw opener, Locklear got the win at BeaveRun over Sarah Luoma. Locklear will be looking for his third in a row when the tour heads to New Castle, Ind., for the season’s third event.
Douglas Barnes Jr. equaled Locklear’s success when he won the Briggs Sportsman 2 Heavy class for the second national in a row. After winning the class at Kershaw, Barnes finished ahead of Stephen Brewer Jr. and Locklear at BeaveRun.
Gary Lawson won Briggs Heavy for the second Gold Cup race in a row. Lawson’s win denied Farmer of a fifth weekend triumph. Farmer finished second and Ryan Phillips third.
Ian Walther won Briggs Super Heavy, while Justin Cassity (Medium) and Tim Stiefel (Heavy) split the Briggs Masters mains.
Nick Fauci and Robert Noaker Jr. were Kid Kart participants at BeaveRun.
The Jammer Clutches Nationals entry count equaled last year’s BeaveRun Gold Cup national count of 220. Last year’s BeaveRun national was the series’ season closer and this year it was moved to Fourth of July weekend. G&J Kartway in Camden, Ohio, will serve as this year’s Gold Cup closer the first weekend of October.
Many classes saw increased entries at BeaveRun compared to the Kershaw opener. Sixteen and 17 karts started Briggs Jr Lite and Medium, while only 10 took the green in each class at Kershaw. Briggs Medium had 26 entrants versus 21 at Kershaw, and most other classes at least equaled the Kershaw count. The exceptions were Briggs Masters Medium and Heavy, which started 13 and 11 karts at Kershaw and only nine and six at BeaveRun.
Next up for the Russell Karting Gold Cup Series is the Coyote Motorsports Nationals at New Castle Motorsports Park. The race will serve as the second annual Gold Cup / Vega Speedway Pavement Series doubleheader at the popular Indiana venue. The New Castle twin bill goes off Aug. 20-22, and pre-registration is open through Wednesday, Aug. 11. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://shieldsvshammer.com/shields-vs-hammer-boxing-fight-hd-tv/ | 2019-11-14T19:14:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496668534.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20191114182304-20191114210304-00390.warc.gz | 0.960179 | 435 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__46528740 | en | Find out about the Shields vs Hammer fight on SHOWTIME, including ways to watch, fighter stats, news and more. Claressa Shields and Christina Hammer are just a few days away from fight night.
Claressa Shields and Christina Hammer both made weight ahead of their historic middleweight unification showdown at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City on Saturday night.
The undefeated champions goaded each other when they went face-to-face during a lively weigh-in for what has been billed as the ‘biggest fight in women’s boxing history’. Here’s everything you need to know to watch the Shields vs. Hammer live stream for free.
Double Olympic champion Shields (8-0, 2KOs), who will put her IBF, WBA and WBC titles on the line, tipped the scales 159.4lbs, while WBO rival Hammer (24-0, 11KOs) came in at 159lbs.
“I’ve played this fight in my head many times,” said American Shields. “The first round is a very important round. She’ll find out just how strong I am in the first round and I’m going to let her know she’s in with a fighter.
“I’m going to let her know she won’t control this fight in any aspect. I can outbox Hammer. I’m way faster and I have great head movement. I came to fight. I want to see where her heart is and how strong she is. If she’s not as strong as she says she is, she’s going to want to get out of there.”
In what is the most significant women’s boxing match in recent memory, if not ever, Claressa Shields vs. Christina Hammer showcases two undefeated women champions who are exciting enough to headline any card on any network. You can live stream the card for free on Saturday night via Showtime, and if you’re a boxing fan, it’ll almost certainly be worth your time. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.cathylefeuvre.com/pages/sports/ | 2017-04-25T02:46:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917120092.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031200-00155-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.977522 | 665 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__136353558 | en | This past couple of weeks have been truly inspirational.
The London 2012 Games started with a fantastic Opening Ceremony in the Olympic Stadium in East London, has seen some magnificent performances from medal winners and those who've just missed out, and even more amazing stories of sports people triumphing over disaster to compete.
But it's away from the Games themselves that I've found my personal inspiration.
I've been working for More Than Gold, the agency set up to encourage and support churches as they get involved in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. I've been working in the Media Centre which was set up just for the Olympics to help spread the news of what the British churches, and Christians, have been doing across the Games.
Churches across the nation have been getting together to host fantastic community events, thousands of volunteers have been out in the streets and at events helping people to enjoy the Games, hundreds of people have opened their homes to complete strangers through something called the More Than Gold Athlete Family Homestay programme. More Than Gold Games Pastors have been out at transport hubs as additional support for travellers and particularly our international visitors, and a million bottles of water have been distributed.
In the Media Centre we've been telling these stories, encouraging media to cover what the church is doing....and we've had some really good coverage.
I've met people from different nations who've come to volunteer in the Media Centre, made some new friends and worked with old friends. It's all been really good fun and very positive.
But the most inspirational moments for me came this morning at the More Than Gold / Athletes in Action Legacy Breakfast, an event held to honour committment and character on the field of sport and off. Two Christian sportspeople, Olympian rower Debbie Flood and Olympian Decathlete Bryan Clay were presented with the first ever Eric Liddell Award, and we also heard from Eric Liddell's daughters Heather and Patricia as we were reminded of that amazing athlete's Christian witness as well as his sporting achievements.
The Legacy Breakfast had a couple of other special guests, Stephanie Cook, the modern pentathlon Olympic gold medal winner who is also a doctor and Stefanie Reid, a long jumper and runner and a medal winning Paralympian.
The whole morning was inspiring and but for me, Stef Reid's story was the most challenging, impressive and motivational.
When she was just 16 Stef lost her right foot in a boating accident. For someone as sporty as Stef, with dreams of being a rugby player, you'd think suddenly becoming an amputee would crush her and her ambitions.
But no - today she stood on a platform at London's Methodist Central Hall and told several hundred people how she was inspired, by her family, friends, complete strangers, and her Christian faith, to still reach her full potential.
Listening to Stef was truly humbling. She reminded me that whatever life throws at you, with belief in yourself, and faith, anything is possible. In my case, it may not be striving for Olympic sporting gold, but I can take this thought, and inspiration into many areas of my life.
And I'll be watching the upcoming London 2012 Paralympics with even more interest now! | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.noha-hockey.ca/single-post/2016/08/16/sudbury-to-host-2018-telus-cup-1 | 2024-04-24T06:09:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819067.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424045636-20240424075636-00801.warc.gz | 0.915188 | 997 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__203394993 | en | Sudbury to Host 2018 Telus Cup
SUDBURY, ONT., TO HOST 2018 TELUS CUP
Canada’s National Midget Championship returns to Ontario for the 13th time, and to Sudbury for second time
CALGARY, Alta. – The TELUS Cup, Canada’s National Midget Championship, is headed back to Sudbury, Ont., for the first time in two decades, with the Nickel City set to host the 45th edition of the tournament from April 23-29, 2018 at the Sudbury Community Arena.
Hockey Canada, in partnership with the Northern Ontario Hockey Association and the Ontario Hockey Federation, made the announcement Tuesday in Sudbury.
The city last hosted the tournament in 1998, when it was known as the Air Canada Cup. It is the 13th time Ontario will play host, joining Oshawa (1974, 1975); Cornwall (1980); North Bay (1984); Gloucester (1987); Thunder Bay (1988); Kitchener (1993); Sudbury (1998); Sault Ste. Marie (2003, 2013); Kenora (2004); and Arnprior (2008).
“The TELUS Cup is the pinnacle of the minor hockey system in Canada, and it has long been one of the most prestigious tournaments on our calendar,” said Tom Renney, Hockey Canada president and CEO. “We know the passion the people of Northern Ontario have for our game, and it’s exciting to be able to take Canada’s National Midget Championship back to Sudbury for a second time, and to the province of Ontario for a 13th.”
“I have seen first-hand through the years the passion Sudbury has for hockey at every level, and it’s exciting that my hometown will welcome the nation in April 2018 for the TELUS Cup,” said Joe Drago, chair of the Hockey Canada Board of Directors. “This event is a tremendous opportunity for the community to shine on a national stage, and I look forward to being there when the puck drops.”
The host Sudbury Nickel Capital Wolves of the Great North Midget League – the 2008 TELUS Cup champions – will be joined by five regional winners (Atlantic, Central, Pacific, Quebec and West) to compete for a national title. It will be the sixth time a team from Sudbury has competed in the event.
“We’re eager to create a world-class hockey tournament and memorable experience for all the participants and visitors coming to the TELUS Cup,” said Albert Corradini, general manager of the Wolves. “Sudbury has had tremendous success in hosting past provincial championships, and with the support and community spirit that has been shown from our local partners, we know fans are in for an exciting time. We’re looking forward to welcoming back the country on the 20th anniversary of the last time Sudbury played host, and the 10th anniversary of our national championship win.”
“The City of Greater Sudbury is very excited for the opportunity to showcase our hockey-crazed city with our signature Northern Ontario hospitality, and the serious hockey talent up here with the Sudbury Nickel Capital Wolves,” said Paul Schweyer, major events development officer with the City of Greater Sudbury. “This will be ‘the’ event when it comes in April 2018, which will no doubt reflect in community support and attendance. We look forward to working with the organizing committee, Sudbury Minor Hockey Association, Northern Ontario Hockey Association, Ontario Hockey Federation, Hockey Canada and numerous volunteers to create a memorable, world-class experience for participants and visitors.”
The sentiments are echoed from the host committee and Sudbury Minor Hockey Association president Craig Maki.
“On behalf of the executive of the Sudbury Minor Hockey Association I would like to express our sincere gratitude to Hockey Canada for the tremendous privilege and responsibility of hosting the 2018 TELUS Cup,” said Maki. “The Sudbury Minor Hockey Association is beyond excited to be invited to play an integral role in this event, as these types of opportunities are a fantastic way showcase the great community of Sudbury on a national stage.”
The schedule and ticket information for the 2018 TELUS Cup will be announced at a later date.
A number of future NHLers have taken part in Canada’s National Midget Championship since its inception in 1974, including 53 first-round draft picks, three No. 1 selections (Gord Kluzak, Wendel Clark and Sidney Crosby) and eight future Hockey Hall of Fame inductees (Glenn Anderson, Ron Francis, Mike Gartner, Al MacInnis, Larry Murphy, Patrick Roy, Joe Sakic and Steve Yzerman). | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.midlandchristianschool.org/article/572897 | 2023-02-05T11:56:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500251.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20230205094841-20230205124841-00599.warc.gz | 0.96675 | 585 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__24239749 | en | Friday, October 29, 2021
7:00 PM Kickoff
Gordon Awtry Field -Midland, TX
Midland Christian Mustangs (6-2 / 3-2 District)
Prestonwood Christian Lions (6-2 / 4-1 District)
6th All-Time Meeting (Prestonwood leads 3-2)
Last Meeting- 2015 in Plano (Prestonwood 57-14)
First Meeting- 2006 2nd Round (MCS 43-15)
3rd Regular Season Meeting
4th Meeting in Midland
The Lions are coming off a 38-14 win at home vs Bishop Lynch last week, and have won 4 out of their last 5 games. Prestonwood averages 34 points a game on offense and gives up an average of 21 points per game. PCA currently sits in 2nd place in district with a 4-1 record. Their only losses this season are to Parish Episcopal 35-10 and a non-district 49-21 loss to Garland. The Lions will put their perfect 3-0 record away from home to the test in their furthest road trip of the season. Junior QB Maguire Martin returned to the offense last week after an injury earlier in the season. Martin accounted for 425 yards and 4 touchdowns last Friday. Head Coach Chris Cunningham has been at Prestonwood since 2007. During his time the Lions have won 4 TAPPS State Championships (2009, 2010, 2015, 2017).
Midland Christian looks to bounce back as they return home for the final time at Gordon Awtry Field in 2021. Last week, in a 34-22 loss to All Saints, the Mustangs were held to only 89 rushing yards. The previous low in rushing yards was 191 at Parish. Midland Christian gave up 300 passing yards to the Saints, which was a season-high. The most passing yards given up by the Mustangs going into last week was 219 vs Argyle Liberty. MCS is currently in a 3-way tie for 3rd place in District 1 at 3-2 with All Saints and Nolan Catholic. Senior dual-threat QB Ryver Rodriguez leads the team with 2,490 yards and 32 touchdowns in 8 games this season. Senior Sean Madison is the leading WR with 34 receptions, 584 yards and 6 TD on the year. Special teams continue to impress as sophomore Kicker Gage Gunter is 29/29 on extra-point attempts this season. Gage also had another successful onside kick last week, and senior Tanner Carlisle returned a kickoff 80 yards for the score vs All Saints. Junior punter Dawson Bullard has 16 punts on the year for 484 yards, averaging 30 yards per punt. MCS scores an average of 37 points per game and allows an average of 23 points per game. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.daretoparent.com/courses/parenting-tweens- | 2024-04-23T07:33:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818468.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423064231-20240423094231-00645.warc.gz | 0.943563 | 185 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__45301706 | en | About the Podcast
Join teens expert Annie Fox and Dare to Parent's Amy Ambrozich as they discuss how the tween years are transitional years for kids and parents. Amy defines this period as the shift between the elementary school years (“typically smooth and easy going”) to middle school where kids feel like everything is changing, including their place in social groups. A parent’s role is changing, too. “They’re trying on new skin and now we’re parenting a young adult with training wheels. Consistency is the key to getting through these years,” says Amy, who counsels parents of tweens in her private practice. Annie talks with Amy about riding the emotional roller coaster together with your child so that kids and parents can transition more smoothly. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.webuseful.co.uk/web-design-blog/a-new-editor-for-wordpress-gutenberg/ | 2019-01-22T17:38:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583857993.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20190122161345-20190122183345-00302.warc.gz | 0.856125 | 137 | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__210650925 | en | A new editor for WordPress – Gutenberg.
A major WordPress update has started rolling out – version 5. It introduces a new editor for pages and news posts, called Gutenberg.
Gutenberg makes it easier to create complex layouts, such as arranging text in columns, and adding media. Gutenberg is of course more complex than the old ‘classic’ editor, so if you are thinking of using it it’s worthwhile investing some time in learning how it works. There’s more about it here.
If you prefer the classic editor, or simply don’t have the time to learn Gutenberg, then simply install a plugin called Classic Editor which hides Gutenberg. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.maranoamechanical.repcoservice.net/go/news/local-mechanic-dispels-car-warranty-myths | 2019-05-22T04:39:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256763.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20190522043027-20190522065027-00214.warc.gz | 0.958694 | 313 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__87768202 | en | WHY take your new car out of town to get serviced?
That’s the question Brad Goldthorpe is asking Balonne drivers as he looks to dispel new car warranty service myths.
Mr Goldthorpe, who owns Maranoa Mechanical, said that consumers had the right to choose their own service provider unlike what they’re commonly led to believe.
“It’s quite common for new car owners to think their statutory rights are void if they were to get their car serviced outside of their dealer network,” Mr Goldthorpe said.
“This can often lead to unnecessary time and money wasted, as owners travel vast distances in order to see dealerships which aren’t available at St George.
“But the reality is, that doesn’t need to be the case.”
Changes to consumer laws in 2010 confirmed that car owners have the right to choose their own qualified mechanic to have a new car serviced.
Local Repco Authorised Service centres, like Maranoa Mechanical, are fully qualified to service new cars and maintain log book schedules.
But don’t think shopping local means you lose out on competitive rates.
Maranoa Mechanical will match any capped price servicing program, allowing Balonne customers the reassurance of knowing in advance the maximum cost for each scheduled service.
“It’s all the benefits, minus the inconvenience of leaving the Balonne,” Mr Goldthorpe said. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.iamthird.ca/thankspontifex-and-what-comes-next/ | 2015-05-25T21:20:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-22/segments/1432207928715.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20150521113208-00015-ip-10-180-206-219.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.94281 | 788 | CC-MAIN-2015-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-22__0__45184416 | en | This morning, Pope Benedict XVI left the Vatican for the last time, and as of noon today the chair of St. Peter will be vacant. I wanted to share five other resources I’ve come across to help people understand all that’s going on – the Pope’s resignation, his legacy, and what comes next:
-First, an article from Randy Raus, president of LIFE TEEN, reflecting on why the Pope stepped down: http://lifeteen.com/the-popes-fearless-decision/ (LIFE TEEN also has a beautiful tribute video up at the top of their website today, or you can see it by clicking here.)
-Second, an article Fr. James Martin, SJ (you’d recognize him if you watch The Colbert Report), on the legacy Benedict leaves behind: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/opinion/the-change-upon-christs-rock.html?_r=0
-Third, Franciscan University explained the process (Conclave) that is to come very simply and clearly on their Facebook page:
“The papacy has been vacant many times through the millennia—Benedict has been the 264th successor of St. Peter. The process for selecting a new pope has changed over the millennia, but nowadays when the papacy is vacant (typically because the pope dies) the cardinals younger than 80 years old gather in the Vatican. They are locked into the Sistine Chapel and nearby lodging with absolutely no contact with the outside world (hence the term “conclave,” which comes from the Latin words meaning “with the keys”). They discuss and vote until a new pope is elected. Technically any baptized Christian male is eligible, but they usually choose someone from among their own ranks. The conclave will begin within the next week or two and will probably only last two or three days (but it could be longer, the Church has gone for years without a pope in the past because the cardinals simply could not agree). There are 117 cardinals from around the world who are younger than 80, but two will not participate in the conclave—one from Indonesia and one from Scotland. So 115 cardinal-electors will gather in the Vatican very soon for the conclave. And the United States has eleven cardinal-electors (Dolan, DiNardo, George, Mahony, Burke, Levada, O’Malley, O’Brien, Wuerl, Harvey, and Rigali) making the U.S. contingent the second largest behind only Italy.”
If you’re more of a visual learner, here is a video that explains it in pretty great detail:
Fourth, Fr. Robert Barron was interviewed on the NBC today show about some of the potential candidates for Pope, if you’re interested in speculating on that: https://www.wordonfire.org/News/TODAY-Show—Who-will-be-the-next-Pope—–Matt-La.aspx New Advent is also ranking the 115 Cardinal electors based on the online buzz about each one on their homepage, http://www.newadvent.org/.
Finally, as an ordinary Catholic, we aren’t ordinarily directly involved in the conclave, but we can spiritually support the Cardinals as they undertake this critical task for our Church. A friend first came across a website where you can Adopt a Cardinal, choosing to fast and pray for one of the 115 Cardinal electors who will soon enter into the Conclave to choose our 266th Pope. I’m praying for an Italian, Cardinal Paolo Sardi, and you can adopt one for yourself at http://adoptacardinal.org/ | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.titanpokerblog.com/who-can-stop-erik-seidel | 2014-08-22T05:53:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1408500823169.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20140820021343-00134-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.957847 | 472 | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-35__0__153059753 | en | American poker player Erik Seidel has 8 World Series of Poker bracelets and a World Poker Tour title. He is currently in first place on the all-time money list of poker players. Last year he was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame.
In January, Seidel defeated Team Titan’s Sam Trickett in heads-up play to win the $250,000 Super High Roller at the Aussie Millions, just days after finishing in 6th place in the Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge (an event that Sam won).
In 2011 so far, Seidel has $4.3 million in cashes, with his latest win being the National Heads-Up Poker Championship (NHPC) in Las Vegas, for a first prize of $750,000. Is this a super hot streak, or just another amazing showing of the world’s number one poker player?
Last year, Seidel finished as runner-up in the NHPC when he was defeated by Annie Duke in the final best of three series. But this year there was no stopping him, as he bested Allen Cunningham, Jennifer Harman, Phil Gordon, Vanessa Selbst, and Andrew Robl on his way to a final duel with 2003 WSOP Main Event winner Chris Moneymaker.
In addition to his cashes at the Aussie Millions this year, Seidel took first place in the $25,100 High Roller Event at the 2011 L.A. Poker Classic for $144,570; and 4th place in the $25,000 No Limit Hold’em – High Roller Event at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure for a prize of $295,960.
In October last year, Seidel was selected as one of two 2010 inductees to the Poker Hall of Fame, the greatest recognition for players of the game.
“I have such a high regard for the many members of the Poker Hall of Fame that I have played with over the years and it’s a real privilege to be able to join them,” Seidel said of the honor at the time.
Photo of Erik Seidel by flipchip / LasVegasVegas.com and used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
Tags: erik seidel | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.njilabse.com/dubai-fashion-week-weekend-highlights/ | 2023-12-09T15:30:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100912.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209134916-20231209164916-00829.warc.gz | 0.940331 | 464 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__16293717 | en | Dubai, known for its opulent architecture and luxurious lifestyle, once again set the stage for fashion enthusiasts and industry experts to converge at the highly anticipated Dubai Fashion Week. The weekend was nothing short of spectacular, showcasing the latest trends, innovative designs, and creative prowess of both established and emerging fashion designers.
The event commenced with a grand opening ceremony, featuring a runway show that set the tone for the fashion extravaganza. Designers from around the world presented their collections, encompassing a diverse range of styles and themes. The runway came alive with a vibrant display of colors, intricate patterns, and avant-garde designs that left the audience awe-inspired.
One of the standout features of the Dubai Fashion Week was the emphasis on sustainable and eco-friendly fashion. Several designers showcased their eco-conscious collections, utilizing ethically sourced materials and environmentally responsible production methods. This shift towards sustainability is reflective of the global fashion industry’s growing awareness of its environmental impact and a desire to make a positive change.
The weekend also saw panel discussions and workshops on various topics, such as fashion technology, future trends, and the fusion of traditional and modern designs. Industry experts shared their insights and experiences, providing valuable knowledge to aspiring designers and attendees keen on understanding the dynamics of the fashion world.
Moreover, the event served as a platform for budding talent to shine. Young designers were given the opportunity to showcase their creativity and innovation, allowing them to gain exposure and recognition within the fashion industry. This emphasis on nurturing emerging talent is a testament to Dubai’s commitment to fostering a thriving fashion community.
Celebrities, influencers, and fashion connoisseurs were in attendance, adding to the glamour and allure of the event. Social media platforms were abuzz with updates, as attendees shared their favorite runway looks and memorable moments from the Dubai Fashion Week.
In conclusion, the Dubai Fashion Week was a remarkable event that highlighted the fashion industry’s evolution towards sustainability, creativity, and inclusivity. The weekend showcased a diverse array of designs and brought together fashion enthusiasts from all over the world, solidifying Dubai’s position as a global fashion hub. With each passing year, the Dubai Fashion Week continues to set new standards and inspire the fashion landscape worldwide. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://bloggingforbeginners.com.au/2021/04/02/blogging-for-fame-and-fortune-a-review/ | 2021-07-23T18:19:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046150000.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20210723175111-20210723205111-00340.warc.gz | 0.933648 | 1,271 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__60975842 | en | For most people blogging is just a hobby they love to spend time with. But at the same time, this has become a full time profession for the successful publishers making their living by doing what they love to do – blogging. Here, you’ll discover the basics of creating blogs. This 101 blogging guide covers all major steps of creating a complete blog from scratch. But you’ll have to explore the technical parts to master the art of blogging and be your own boss quitting the day-to-day job.
How to blog: 9 steps that every wannabe blogger must follow precisely
The steps discussed here are compiled after extensive research. Some talented writers became successful blog-entrepreneurs online just because they followed the basic steps of blogging. They explored how the concept works and how to generate revenue using their popularity and traffic.
#1 selecting the topic stands above all
Before you start blogging, you have to find out a topic you’re interested to write about. Blogging should be your passion and hence you have to select the topic carefully. If you are an expert in a niche, it’s a great idea to share the knowledge with others through your blog. If you’re not sure, find out something that attracts you. Do some research and prepare yourself to become an author in that niche.
#2 preparing the foundation content
#3 choosing a suitable blogging platform
If you don’t have expertise in programming or coding the websites, you should better choose a content management system. There are hundreds of blogging platforms that let you start blogging without any technical skills. If you don’t want to invest anything, blogger.com, tumblr.com, wordpress.com can help you (these are free to use). If you wish to blog like a pro, you have to buy a domain (blog address) and hosting (server space) and install a content management system such as WordPress, Joomla, Drupal etc.
#4 building the website is crucial
Once you have selected a suitable platform to start blogging, you have to pick a good looking, user-friendly template. You have to consider yourself as a visitor arriving at your blog and finalize a design. You must install the tools, plugins and add-ons to keep things simple, easy and effective. Do some research to find out the most essential tools to furnish your blog properly.
#5 publishing the contents
Once you have gone live online, it’s time to focus on the contents again. You have to prepare sufficient content to grab your visitor’s attention. At the same time, you have to retain the regular visitors with fresh, resourceful information. Don’t concentrate on optimizing the content. Just prepare high-value content that comprehends helpful, factual information. You should add photos, videos and infographics whenever necessary. You might prefer scheduling the posts and predefine the time when they should go live on almost every content management system today.
#6 SEO and marketing is essential
The world of blogging has become too competitive for a new blogger. No matter what topic you’re writing on, you have to fight with the existing competition to reach the top. So, you have to master the art of SEO and marketing online. You have to write search-engine friendly posts to get them indexed on the search engines; at the same time, you have to maintain the quality to secure a top rank. If you don’t have this time, hire a SEO expert or a renowned IM service provider to help you.
#7 communicating with the visitors
Once you have started generating traffic to your blog, it’s time to concentrate on your followers. Encourage the visitors to make comments on your posts and share their thoughts. You should also participate in those discussions actively. If you differ from anyone at a point, don’t argue with them. Rather, you should encourage these discussions to get better exposure and social signals on sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus and so on.
#8 monetization, optimization, using tools
As your blog has become populated and ranked high in the search engines, it’s time to monetize the contents. You can use affiliate marketing, ad-revenue sharing, selling your own product or service, or anything else to make money out of your blog. Many experts recommend this as a primary step, but for a newbie, you should only start monetizing when you have started receiving visitors from the search engines regularly.
#9 management and regular updating
By this time, your blog will become popular and you’ll have a decent amount of regular visitors and referred (new) visitors to your posts. To retain the organic traffic-flow, you have to manage the blog properly. You should update the blog regularly with fresh, resourceful contents. In this stage, you can also invite some of your regular visitors to contribute something to your blog (guest posts etc.). You should also run contests, polls and other interactive events to engage your visitors even more.
101 blogging tips: mistakes that every new blogger must avoid
* Blogging can take you a while to become successful and famous. Don’t lose hope, keep posting valuable contents, follow unique and effective marketing techniques and stay on track.
* Don’t over optimize your blog or the contents. Make your posts interesting and resourceful. You should care for the visitors who come to your website daily.
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Today, almost every internet savvy user fancies about blogging. It’s easy to start a blog, but it’s very difficult to fight with the competition. You might quit the day-to-day job and be your own boss by blogging from home, but you have to work really hard to make a decent amount of money as a blogger. You have to explore everything about the topic you’ve selected to write on; at the same time, you must keep updated to stay ahead in the race. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://thephproject.net/ | 2023-02-02T13:37:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500028.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20230202133541-20230202163541-00768.warc.gz | 0.961973 | 256 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__129100243 | en | Straight out of Long Beach, CA and riding the New Wave of Classic Rock comes The PH Project.
Paul Kaminski and Hugh Vanderlinden (aka The PH Project) have been friends since they were in high school, but only now have come together to write and record original songs. All their lives they have been passionate about rock ’n’ roll, and their songs are a testament to that. Their previous musical ventures include the bands Whitestone, the perfect cry, and the Jam Daddies.
The PH Project has released over a dozen songs since 2019. Their song, "Jump Right In" was featured on 15 Moments of Summer Compilation put out by Ramshaw Records. Pop.vox.Music also has their song, "Snowball Fight" on the Christmas Volume 3 (2022) Compilation CD. Now they are ready to release an entire album of their music in 2023.
Sharing musical and lyrical ideas while sipping whiskey became the PH Project's songwriting formula.
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http://sustainablegrub.wordpress.com/ | 2014-10-24T11:15:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1414119645866.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20141024030045-00006-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.93501 | 3,364 | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-42__0__147993461 | en | An urban farm and community garden has sprouted at 500 Hoke Street in southeast Raleigh. Though it’s only two miles from the capital’s trendy eateries, the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle farm is at the heart of a “food desert.”
Most of its neighbors can’t afford to dine upscale downtown. And there’s no supermarkets nearby where they can find healthy groceries for their families. Urban food deserts typically rely on fast-food joints and convenience stores, where calories are cheap but not necessarily nutritious. That’s a recipe for the growing incidence of obesity, Type 2 diabetes and other costly ailments related to poor diets.
Hoke Street turned out to be an ideal location for the urban farm and training center for Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, the anti-hunger nonprofit serving Raleigh and seven surrounding counties for the last 25 years. The new three-acre site now includes community garden beds for residents wishing to grow their own produce, and an urban farm and training center for interns learning to cultivate and sell healthy food.
“We set up this space so people could see how food is grown, and grow it themselves” said Katie Murray, who coordinates IFFS urban agriculture training programs. We visited during the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association’s annual farm tour.
Half a dozen families are growing vegetables in the new IFFS community garden. And there’s an open raised bed for curious neighbors who want to taste what’s sprouting — red leaf lettuce when we visited. IFFS also has cultivated a partnership with Will Allen, the now-famous MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellow behind Growing Power, the organization teaching young people around the country about innovative sustainable practices for urban farming enterprises. IFFS has four interns through the program, working at the Raleigh farm and learning about composting, vermiculture, aquaponics, hoop houses, mushrooms, micro-greens and more.
“The goal is to grow food here and sell it through local farmers’ markets and to restaurants,” Murray said. The interns are gaining experience to develop their own small enterprises through a collaborative local alliance.
The farm is adjacent to a 14,000 square-foot warehouse, where IFFS stores local food gleaned from farms and delivers it to neighborhoods through its mobile market program. The IFFS warehouse also serves as a community grocery store during a monthly market on fourth Fridays.
Inter-Faith Food Shuttle also has a Teaching Farm on Tryon Road, with incubator plots for those ready to start their own farming enterprises.
Invite a dozen local farmers to harvest more than a thousand pounds of peppers, pork and produce. Urge two dozen creative chefs, brewers and distillers to concoct special nibbles and swigs. Blend with live music and games. Add in sun and blue sky.
Those were the magic ingredients that drew more than a 1,000 hungry, thirsty revelers to the seventh annual Pepper Festival. It was a memorable Sunday afternoon at Briar Chapel’s new Great Meadow neighborhood, and another opportunity to celebrate the heat and light sown by one amazing foodshed.
That’s what the Pepper Festival is all about. And Abundance NC, WUNC, Briar Chapel and other community sponsors delivered once again.
Pepper Fest originated in tiny Pittsboro as a taste test for new localized pepper varieties adapted by Doug Jones, the genius cultivator behind Piedmont Biofarm. The celebration has grown into an annual harvest, cooking and brewing rite. This year’s Fall ritual featured Jones’ Tobago, described as a “seasoning pepper, huge on flavor (not unlike Habanero), but tiny on heat.” In other words, delicious and digestible.
Tobago flavored the secret sauce pleasing palates all afternoon at food booths circling the meadow. We tasted peppers everywhere. We found them pureed, sauteed, chopped and blended. They seasoned pork and polenta, sausage sliders, beefy snacks, and spicy soups. Even the local brews, wines and spirits were pepper-infused, which turned out to be a pleasant surprise.
Emcees Eric Hodge of WUNC Morning Edition and Bryan Welch of the Utne Reader kept it real on stage. Phil Cook and Christy Smith provided a mellow mix of live original tunes. And we applauded the new Pepper King and Queen (Phil Cook and Kristy Yule), for selling so many festival tickets.
As always, the real stars were the farmers and chefs who served up fresh, inspired fare, and the festival-goers who ate it up.
Piedmont Biofarm, Bennett Farming, Dutch Buffalo Farm, Fiddlead Farm, Gladstone Acres, Granite Springs, Okfuskee Farms, Penny Lane, Dog Day, and Screech Owl Greenhouse. And 518 West, Angelina’s Kitchen, Cackalacky, CCCC Natural Chefs, City Tap, Cottage Lane Kitchen, Fair Game Beverage, Fearrington Granary, Fiction Kitchen, Galloway Ridge, Glass Half Full, Green Planet Catering, La Residence, Lilly Den, Little Hen, Lucky 32, Mystic, Oakleaf, Provence, P.G Werth, Small Potatoes, Top of the Hill, Tribeca Tavern and Vimala’s Curryblosson Café.
Local chicken farmers have faced hard times since Townsend, Inc. filed for bankruptcy four years ago and closed its poultry processing plant in Siler City, NC. But now a Moore County start-up may have good news, especially for growers able to fulfill contracts to raise organic, non GMO poultry.
Carolina Premium Foods plans to invest $4 million to renovate the former Townsend plant in Siler City, re-opening a new organic processing facility in about five months. They hope to process up to 200,000 birds per week there, providing about 150 jobs in the first phase and more than 350 jobs in the next phase, according to company spokesperson Sonya Holmes. The company has received a $750k grant from the North Carolina Rural Infrastructure Authority to develop the plant. The new 95,000 square-foot facility could be the first organic poultry processor of this type — focusing on smaller, non-GMO, organic birds — in the state of North Carolina.
Farmers interested in new organic contracts may contact Holmes at 910-984-5309.
If we want the most nutritional bang for our bucks, we should walk on the wilder side, according to Jo Robinson, opining in The New York Times.
The author of Eating on the Wild Side says that most of today’s vegetables (like that sweet corn you’ve been day dreaming about) don’t have nearly as much nutritional power as heirloom varieties do. That means purple potatoes are better than the usual white Idahos. Those bright orange carrots I happily chomp down most days are indeed very good for me. But apparently they don’t have nearly as many nutrients as the heirloom purple ones at the Farmer’s Market and local co-op.
Turns out, the Big Food folks have managed to breed much of the nutrition out of everyday tomatoes, corn, carrots, and other mass produced produce. Eating those veggies is better than gobbling potato chips for sure, but if you want maximum nutrition, it’s time to get picky.
The good news is, this doesn’t have to be complicated, or costly. Weeds like chickweed, dandelions and nettles that propagate freely all over my yard, are packed with nutritional power. And herbs, any herbs, are also densely nutritious.
If you think parsley is just a throw-away garnish, think again. It’s easy to grow parsley or find it fresh in the market, and if you just add it to everything you eat, you’ve got maximum nutrition with little effort.
Robinson suggests the following:
- Select corn with deep yellow kernels.
- Cook with blue, red or purple cornmeal.
- Choose arugula over iceberg lettuce (that’s a no brainer).
- Scallions or green onions are more nutritional than the white or yellow kind, and wild onions are the most nutritional of all.
- Herbs are wild plants, too even though you can cultivate them in your garden. Adding herbs like parsley and basil not only add flavor, they add nutrients.
Last Sunday at the first Wild Food and Herb Market in Carrboro I learned from the amazing Kim Calhoun that some of those weeds proliferating in my yard and garden are both delicious and nutritious. Freebies from Mother Nature. I had heard that chickweed made great pesto, but that seemed too good to be true.
During a short walk on the wild side, Kim validated the chickweed story and gave me a whole new perspective on the bounty growing all around us. She showed us the familiar chickweed, dandelion and speedwell thriving just a few steps away, confirming that chickweed and dandelion are great for salad and pesto, and speedwell has medicinal properties.
It’s important to properly identify plants before consuming them, Kim said (a magnifying glass and illustrated guide are useful tools). Avoid areas that may have been treated with pesticides or harmed by roadway run-off or other toxic substances. And, before harvesting, be sure to thank the plant and don’t pluck more than you need.
A week later, I got down on my knees in my garden patch to thank and pluck three cups of the chickweed that had proliferated there since I harvested my sweet potatoes in the fall. A few minutes later, I was savoring the fantastic Chickweed Pesto I made from Kim’s recipe, reprinted below with her permission.
If you want to learn more about edible wild foods and herbs, I recommend that you connect with Kim and consider signing up for her March 24 “eat wild spring” workshop at the N.C. Botanical Garden, where you’ll get to forage and make wild greens pesto.
Planty Kim’s Wild Greens Pesto
3 medium garlic cloves
½ cup walnuts (or pecans, almonds, cashews, pine nuts)
3 cups firmly packed greens (any combo of seasonal wild & cultivated herbs—see list below)
¼-½ cup extra virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon plum vinegar (or sea salt to taste)
1 tablespoon nutritional yeast (a dairy-free option instead of parmesan cheese)
1. Blend garlic and nuts in food processor until coarsely chopped.
2. Add remainder of ingredients to food processor and blend till desired smoothness. Yields approximately one cup.
3. Eat on crackers, mixed into pasta, smeared on a frittata or fried egg sandwich, spread on rolls or pizza, get creative!
4. Any leftovers will keep in the fridge for a week or more. I like to triple the recipe and freeze some Wild Green Pesto in half pint (8oz.) glass mason jars.
Wild Greens of the NC Piedmont in early Spring (to name a few): chickweed, creasy greens/cress, dandelion leaves, plantain leaves, tender yellow dock leaves, wild lettuce leaves, cleavers, wild garlic, self heal, violets,henbit…don’t forget flowers too—dandelion (remove bitter green base), henbit…
Cultivated Greens: parsley, cilantro, nettle, lemon balm, thyme, rosemary, nettle, oregano…
US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) proposed a fiscal package last week that would correct the devastating cuts made to local food and organic agriculture in the “fiscal cliff” deal passed by Congress last month.
The proposal would end direct payments for subsidies and restore the programs for renewable energy, rural small businesses, value-added agriculture, new and beginning farmers, conservation, specialty crops, organic farming, minority farmers, and local food producers that were left out of the farm bill extension portion of the fiscal cliff deal. The cost of those programs combined paled in comparison to the $5 billion price attached to the direct payment program. The Reid proposal would right that wrong and it would also provide immediate funding for livestock disaster assistance, which was also left out when the farm bill was thrown over the cliff earlier.
The Reid proposal would cut defense spending and net farm bill spending by $27.5 billion each over the next decade. The proposal saves the federal government $31 billion in direct commodity production subsidies, while reinvesting $3.5 million to pay for a full farm bill extension, including the programs not included in the fiscal cliff extension.
One of the programs not included in the fiscal cliff farm bill extension provided cost share funds to growers to become certified organic. That program distributed almost $60,000 to NC growers in 2012. Another program not included in the extension provided funding for an organic grain-breeding program at NC State University. This program provided badly needed support to the growing NC organic grain industry through research on organic crop production and pest management.
“We applaud Sen. Reid for taking this step to restore federal support for local food and organic agriculture,” said Roland McReynolds, executive director of the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association. “These small, targeted investments help small and medium-scale farms and businesses provide jobs and healthy food for their communities.”
Check out this TEDx talk by Stacy Mitchell, senior researcher with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. She says buying local is a great idea, but it’s only the first step in changing the world. We know that small sustainable farms produce more than twice as much food per acre as big farms, with far less environmental impact. But Walmart continues to capture one in four food dollars in America — and half the market in some three dozen metro areas — not because its food is better (clearly, it’s not), but because it can use its giant market power to influence politics, and the business and tax policies affecting food. It will take collective action by citizens demanding new policies — including a wholly new Farm Bill — to reform our economy for the better. That’s an audacious goal, one worth working toward, while we continue to build a sustainable foodshed for our community.
Here are some excerpts from Stacy’s talk:
“The primary and often exclusive way we think about our agency in the world now is as consumers. But as consumers we’re very weak. We’re operating as lone individuals, making a series of small decisions, and the most we can do is pick between the options that are presented to us….we’re hoping that someday enough of us will have enough information about all the issues and all the choices in the marketplace, and we’ll have access to all the right alternatives, and all or most of us will be able to make the right decisions all or most of the time. But while we’re trying to line up all of these millions of small decisions in the right direction, we are swimming upstream against a powerful down current of public policies that are taking our economy in exactly the opposite direction.
“What we really need to do is change the underlying structures that create the choices in the first place….by acting collectively as citizens…
“We could begin by turning the farm bill on its head. Instead of giving the most money to the biggest farmers feeding the fast-food pipeline, why not give the most money to local farms, feeding their neighbors?…
“The answers are there, and the public support is largely there. The question we have to grapple with is, how do we begin to see our trips to the farmers’ market and to the local bookstore not as the answer, but as the first step? How do we transform this remarkable consumer trend into something more? How do we make it a political movement?” | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.freedomnevada.org/clarkcogop/ | 2015-01-31T08:30:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422118108509.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124164828-00030-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.927438 | 299 | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-06__0__186232416 | en | Last weekend, the Clark County Republican Party voted to remove harmful language from its platform that limited the definition of marriage to one man and one woman.
The platform was approved with overwhelming support during the Party’s annual convention in Vegas on Saturday. Leaders of the Clark County Republicans say that this move puts the Party’s platform more in line with the Republican values of individual liberty and freedom — and reflects the growing momentum for the freedom to marry in Nevada and across the country.
Striking this discriminatory language from the Clark County Republican Party’s platform is just the latest sign that Nevadans from both sides of the political aisle believe there is simply no good argument to be made for denying marriage to loving same-sex couples. Earlier this year, Republican Governor Brian Sandoval joined with Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto in dropping the state’s defense of the constitutional amendment that prohibits gay and lesbian couples from marrying. Their decision puts litigation seeking to strike down Nevada’s marriage ban on a fast track in federal court.
Across the country, support for marriage equality is rising among Republicans too. A poll commissioned last month shows that 61% of young Republican voters favor allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry, while only 35% say they are opposed.
As momentum continues to build, we’re confident that we can secure the freedom to marry in Nevada — sooner than later.
CLICK HERE to sign our petition supporting marriage for all Nevada families. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://jldancecenter.com/the-importance-of-a-dance-convention-un-convention-boston/ | 2024-02-29T00:45:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474775.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20240229003536-20240229033536-00403.warc.gz | 0.932215 | 1,367 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__104145982 | en | Dance, as an art form, is a celebration of movement, expression, and creativity. For aspiring dancers, the journey towards their ultimate dance dreams involves not only honing technical skills but also immersing oneself in the rich and vibrant dance community.
One exceptional way to do this is by participating in dance conventions. In this blog post, we will discuss the significance of dance conventions, with a special spotlight on the innovative approach taken by the Joanne Langione Dance Center in their unique event Un.Convention Boston.
The next Un.Convention at JLDC is this month! Un.Convention Winter 2023 will be held on the afternoons of December 20th and 21st beginning at 4:00pm. The superstar lineup of guest faculty includes Guinness Book record holder, dance prodigy, and Youtube sensation Sophia Lucia, along with professional dancers Rory Freeman, Jeff Lapes, Michael Keefe, Chanel Aguirre, and Julia Dickey.
Let’s do a deep dive on why Un.Convention Boston is unlike any other dance convention.
The Dance Convention Experience:
Dance conventions offer an unparalleled opportunity for dancers to expand their horizons. These events bring together talented individuals, world renowned instructors, and industry professionals, creating an environment that is full of inspiration and growth. Workshops, masterclasses, and performances at conventions provide dancers with a chance to learn new techniques, explore diverse styles, and gain valuable insights into the world of dance.
Dance conventions are typically held in a hotel ballroom or convention center. It is not out of the ordinary to be in a class of 200 plus dancers at a time. Before we move any further, let’s take a moment to grasp the pure size of a class that has 200 plus dancers in it. It is a lot.
For some dancers, that is an ideal scenario. It can provide motivation, inspiration, and a touch of friendly competition that can be motivating to dance outside of one’s comfort zone. For other dancers, it can be quite the opposite. It can feel intimidating, daunting, and extremely overwhelming which can result in lack of confidence, stress, and in worst cases, completely turn someone off to dancing at a convention ever again!
The Joanne Langione Dance Center’s Vision:
At the heart of the Joanne Langione Dance Center’s philosophy is a commitment to fostering creativity and individuality in their dancers. Their approach to everything they do is to make sure their mission of nurturing the next generation of dancers in a fun and loving environment is present with each and every event they hold inside of their dance center.
One example of how JLDC is committed to their mission is by prioritizing one on one attention inside the classroom. The goal is to have each and every dancer that enters the state-of-the-art facilities located on 38 Border Street leave with the feeling of being seen, heard, and inspired.
Because of their promise to spread love and support through their dance training, it has resulted in creating the magic that is Un.Convention Boston.
Un.Convention Boston goes beyond the traditional dance convention while still providing all of the incredibly valuable benefits found in a traditional dance convention.
Un.Convention: Embracing the Unconventional:
Un.Convention Boston, organized by the Joanne Langione Dance Center, stands out as a testament to their dedication to pushing the boundaries of dance conventions. This unique event takes a departure from the norm, encouraging dancers to embrace the unconventional, break free from traditional molds, and express their individuality.
One major difference that sets Un.Convention Boston apart is the intimate size. Located in a small studio setting, Un.Convention Boston focuses on the gift of providing the highest level of dance education, true mentorship from world renowned dancers at the top of their dance careers, and the opportunity to build lasting friendships inside the dance community.
Not to mention all of the incredible performance opportunities held at Un.Convention Boston! With the calibur of guest faculty JLDC provides at Un.Convention Boston, there is a good chance that the students will have the opportunity to dance alongside some of their dance idols!
Having teachers such as Teddy Forance, the co-founder of CLI studios, Sophia Lucia, the Guinness Book of Records holder for most pirouettes, and multiple So You Think You Can Dance finalists in person at Un.Convention Boston, is a once in a lifetime opportunity for many students.
What’s cooler than taking class from some of the most famous dancers around the world? Getting to perform with them of course!
Whether it is at the end of the week show during Un.Convention Summer, or having an opportunity to perform in a small group during classes, performing with such inspiring teachers can transform a student’s confidence, motivation, and overall passion for dance.
Breaking Barriers through Un.Convention Winter and Summer:
Un.Convention Boston isn’t just a festive winter activity. The Joanne Langione Dance Center also has Un.Convention Summer! Both Winter and Summer events are carefully curated to challenge dancers to think outside the box. From experimental choreography sessions to phenomenal performance opportunities, dancers are exposed to a range of experiences that encourage them to break free from conventional dance norms.
Fostering a Sense of Community:
One of the remarkable aspects of Un.Convention Boston is its emphasis on building a supportive dance community. Through collaborative projects and team-building activities, dancers at Un.Convention Boston not only refine their skills but also form lasting connections with fellow artists.
Empowering Dancers for the Future:
Un.Convention Boston at The Joanne Langione Dance Center aims to not only enhance technical proficiency but also to empower dancers with the skills needed to thrive in the ever-evolving world of dance. The guest faculty of Un.Convention Boston provide insight into the world of professional dance whether that is dancing in an audition, dancing in front of a camera, or simply inspiring the next generation of dancers through their thoughtfully planned classes and choreography.
In the world of dance, conventions play a crucial role in shaping the next generation of artists. The Joanne Langione Dance Center’s Un.Convention Boston stands as a beacon of innovation, encouraging dancers to embrace the unconventional, break free from the ordinary, and chart their unique path in the world of dance.
As the dance community continues to evolve, events like Un.Convention Boston provide a glimpse into the future of dance education—one that celebrates diversity, creativity, and the limitless potential of each dancer. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.mahindraautocity.co.za/mahindra-unveils-its-all-new-visual-identity/ | 2024-03-02T07:27:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475757.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20240302052634-20240302082634-00329.warc.gz | 0.898669 | 561 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__117150960 | en | Mahindra reveals the new “Twin Peaks” brand identity crafted exclusively for SUV and lifestyle bakkies
Announcement of the New positioning statement “Unleash the Explorer in You”
XUV700 to be the first vehicle to wear the Twin Peaks logo
Centurion, June 28, 2022: Mahindra South Africa yesterday unveiled its new visual identity including a brand-new logo that will differentiate its future product portfolio. Characterised by the ‘Twin Peaks’ logo, this represents the bold new direction Mahindra has embarked on with new-age products that have been designed to deliver a new-age ownership experience.
The new Twin Peaks logo and visual identity was created by Mahindra’s Global Design Team. It embodies the company’s willingness to change and embrace a new world order.
In designing the new logo and visual identity, the design team worked to incorporate Mahindra’s ethos of creating truly authentic SUVs and lifestyle bakkies for personal exploration and adventure.
The new visual identity evokes a powerful emotion of freedom and the brand statement of “Unleash the Explorer in You”. It also reflects Mahindra’s ambition and ability to take new challenges head on.
Speaking on the occasion, Sachin Arolkar, Head of International Operations, Automotive Division, Mahindra & Mahindra Limited said, “The new look of brand Mahindra with its formidable product range shall enable its customers to explore the terrains of South Africa in a most adventurous way. No matter if it’s city roads or the gravel backroads of the Karoo. The visual overhaul of our identity will be done in a phased manner across our nameplates of SUV and lifestyle bakkies, and across all the virtual and physical touchpoints where our customers interact with us.”
“Our new logo is more than just a visual change. It heralds a new growth phase for Mahindra in South Africa,” says Rajesh Gupta, CEO of Mahindra South Africa. “In the coming months customers will see a complete rejuvenation of our approach and several exciting new additions to our range of authentic SUVs and lifestyle bakkies.”
The new visual identity will be seen throughout South Africa at Mahindra’s growing network of dealers and new products in the coming months, starting with the all-new XUV700 and followed shortly thereafter by the Scorpio-N.
For more on the Mahindra brand reveal, watch the film here: https://youtu.be/ouRSUcDHD4w and follow #UnleashTheExplorerInYou. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://inspiredeconomist.com/articles/world-trade-center-going-for-leed-gold/ | 2024-04-18T03:42:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817187.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418030928-20240418060928-00842.warc.gz | 0.940305 | 662 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__147640057 | en | The rebuilding of the World Trade Center is in many ways a memorial to those who lost their lives in the 2001 September 11 attacks and it is a tribute that these buildings will also be built to the highest green building standards. N.Y. Governor George Pataki announced that the Freedom Tower, World Trade Center Office Towers 2, 3, and 4, as well as the World Trade Center Memorial and Memorial Museum will all be designed to achieve the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) LEED Gold certification requirements.
This groundbreaking announcement was made five years after the devastating attacks and includes an entire package of energy and environmental measures that will be incorporated into the design of the World Trade Center redevelopment. Plans for the Freedom Tower and other facilities at the World Trade Center site will feature state-of-the-art energy technologies to better protect environmental resources, utilize renewable energy sources, and maximize energy efficiency.
These buildings join over half a billion square feet of construction projects already involved with the LEED program, including World Trade Center 7, which was certified as LEED Gold in March 2006. These facilities will also be built to a design standard that is 20 percent more efficient than the New York Energy Conservation Construction Code.
"The decision to achieve LEED Gold is a fitting tribute to the importance of the reconstruction of Ground Zero. Using LEED sends a clear message that our buildings must be safe, healthy places for us to live and work," said Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO & Founding Chair, U.S. Green Building Council. "New York is to be commended for its leadership; the World Trade Center buildings will stand as a symbol of New York’s courage and commitment to a healthy and sustainable future."
Governor Pataki also announced an agreement with Silverstein Properties that calls for the Freedom Tower and each of the World Trade Center Office Towers to utilize cutting edge fuel cell technology to increase efficiency and provide secure clean on-site power generation. These fuel cell installations, totaling 4.8 MW of power generation, will together constitute one of the largest fuel cell installations in the world.
"The redevelopment will be a global example of green building design and a constant reminder of our commitment to break the cycle of dependence on foreign energy," said the Governor. "By moving forward with state-of-the-art design and guidelines, New York will once again show the world our ingenuity, innovation and commitment to building a stronger, brighter future for all."
The creation of a "green" World Trade Center site builds on the progress in Battery Park City, the neighborhood closest to the site and one of the most environmentally responsible neighborhoods in the country. Battery Park City is home to The Solaire, the world’s first green residential high rise and LEED Gold building, and Goldman Sachs is constructing a new office tower that will be designed to earn LEED Gold certification.
"LEED certification for the rebuilding of the World Trade Center complex demonstrates the resiliency of the United States," Fedrizzi continued. "Not only is our nation restoring the areas devastated by the terrorist attacks, but we are also doing so in a way that highlights our commitment to-and belief in-the future." | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://bestyler.com/sustainable-womens-clothing/ | 2024-04-19T00:19:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817249.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418222029-20240419012029-00563.warc.gz | 0.945794 | 2,540 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__64439116 | en | In a world where fast fashion has long dominated the industry, the rise of eco-friendly and sustainable women’s clothing is a breath of fresh air for the environmentally conscious shopper. As the devastating effects of climate change become increasingly apparent, more and more people are seeking to lessen their ecological footprint, and the fashion world is no exception. Enter the realm of eco-friendly fashion, a rapidly growing movement that not only looks good but does good, too. This trend is reshaping the way we think about our wardrobe choices and encouraging us to shop more responsibly. From ethically sourced materials to responsible production practices, sustainable fashion is paving the way for a greener future. In this guide, we’ll explore the captivating world of eco-friendly fashion, discover the brands leading the charge in sustainability, and share essential tips on how to shop responsibly, ensuring that your next fashion statement is both stylish and sustainable.
The Importance of Sustainable Women’s Clothing
In recent years, the importance of sustainable women’s clothing has become increasingly clear. As consumers become more aware of the environmental impact of their purchasing choices, many are seeking to make a positive difference through their wardrobe. Sustainable women’s clothing prioritizes the use of eco-friendly materials, ethical production practices, and a reduced carbon footprint, all of which contribute to a healthier planet.
By choosing sustainable clothing options, women can not only look good but also feel good about their choices. Embracing sustainable fashion means supporting brands that prioritize the health of our planet and its people, which is a powerful way to vote with your wallet. Moreover, sustainable fashion often focuses on timeless, high-quality pieces that are designed to last, promoting a more conscious approach to consumerism that values quality over quantity.
Despite the numerous benefits of sustainable women’s clothing, it can be challenging for consumers to know where to start. Thankfully, there are many resources available to help navigate the world of eco-friendly fashion, from informative blogs to dedicated shopping platforms. By educating ourselves on the importance of sustainable women’s clothing, we can make more informed decisions and play a part in promoting a greener future.
The Environmental Impact of the Fashion Industry
The fashion industry is one of the largest contributors to global pollution and waste. From the production of synthetic materials to the disposal of unsold clothing, the environmental impact of the fashion world is immense. It is estimated that the fashion industry produces around 10% of global carbon emissions, making it a significant contributor to climate change. Additionally, the industry is responsible for approximately 20% of global water pollution, as toxic chemicals from dyeing and finishing processes are often discharged into rivers and other water sources.
Another concerning aspect of the fashion industry is the sheer volume of waste it generates. Fast fashion, in particular, has led to a culture of disposable clothing, with millions of tons of textiles ending up in landfills each year. This waste problem is compounded by the fact that many synthetic materials, such as polyester, can take hundreds of years to decompose, further exacerbating the issue.
As the environmental impact of the fashion industry becomes increasingly apparent, it is crucial for both consumers and brands to take responsibility for their actions. By supporting sustainable women’s clothing and promoting responsible production practices, we can mitigate the harmful effects of the fashion industry on our planet.
Materials and Production Methods in Eco-Friendly Fashion
One of the key aspects of sustainable women’s clothing is the use of eco-friendly materials and responsible production methods. As the fashion industry seeks to minimize its environmental impact, many brands are turning to alternative materials and innovative production techniques in order to create more sustainable products.
Natural and organic materials, such as organic cotton, hemp, and linen, are often favored in eco-friendly fashion due to their lower environmental impact. These materials typically require fewer pesticides and resources to produce and are biodegradable, making them a more sustainable choice than their synthetic counterparts. Additionally, some sustainable brands are turning to innovative materials like Tencel, a cellulose-based fiber made from sustainably sourced wood pulp, or recycled materials such as recycled polyester made from plastic bottles.
Responsible production methods are also a crucial component of sustainable women’s clothing. This can include practices such as water-saving dyeing techniques, carbon offsetting, and renewable energy use in manufacturing facilities. Ethical labor practices, such as fair wages and safe working conditions, are also an essential component of sustainable fashion, ensuring that workers throughout the supply chain are treated fairly and with respect.
Top Sustainable Women’s Clothing Brands
As the demand for sustainable women’s clothing grows, numerous brands have emerged as leaders in the eco-friendly fashion movement. These brands prioritize the use of sustainable materials and ethical production practices, creating stylish and responsible clothing collections that cater to a wide range of tastes and preferences. Some of the top sustainable women’s clothing brands include:
- Patagonia: Known for its commitment to environmental and social responsibility, Patagonia offers a range of eco-friendly clothing and outdoor gear made from sustainable materials, such as recycled polyester and organic cotton.
- Eileen Fisher: This brand creates timeless, high-quality clothing using sustainable materials, such as organic cotton and Tencel, and is committed to fair labor practices and a transparent supply chain.
- Reformation: Focusing on feminine and fashionable designs, Reformation uses sustainable materials like Tencel and deadstock fabrics, and offsets its carbon emissions through renewable energy and forest restoration projects.
- People Tree: A pioneer in fair trade and environmentally sustainable fashion, People Tree offers a wide range of clothing made from organic cotton, Tencel, and other eco-friendly materials, while also supporting fair labor practices and artisan craftsmanship.
- Everlane: With a commitment to transparency and ethical production, Everlane offers stylish clothing made from sustainable materials, such as organic cotton and recycled polyester, and ensures that its factories adhere to strict labor standards.
By supporting these and other sustainable women’s clothing brands, consumers can help to drive the eco-friendly fashion movement forward and encourage more widespread adoption of responsible practices within the industry.
How to Identify Sustainable Fashion
With so many brands claiming to be sustainable, it can be challenging for consumers to determine which clothing options are genuinely eco-friendly. There are several factors to consider when assessing the sustainability of a garment, including the materials used, the production methods employed, and the brand’s overall commitment to environmental and social responsibility.
One of the easiest ways to identify sustainable fashion is to look for certifications and labels, such as Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS), Fair Trade Certified, or Bluesign approved. These certifications ensure that the materials and production methods used meet specific environmental and social standards. Additionally, researching a brand’s supply chain transparency and ethical labor practices can provide valuable insight into its commitment to sustainability.
Another helpful tool for identifying sustainable fashion is the Higg Index, a comprehensive sustainability assessment tool developed by the Sustainable Apparel Coalition. The Higg Index allows brands to measuretheir environmental and social impact across their entire supply chain, giving consumers a clearer understanding of a brand’s overall sustainability performance. Some sustainable fashion websites, such as Good On You, also provide ratings and reviews of different brands based on their sustainability practices, making it easier for consumers to make informed choices.
Finally, it is essential to be mindful of greenwashing, which is when brands make misleading or exaggerated claims about their sustainability practices. Greenwashing can make it difficult for consumers to determine which clothing options are genuinely eco-friendly, so it is important to do your research and look beyond marketing hype to assess a brand’s true sustainability credentials.
Tips for Shopping Responsibly and Ethically
Shopping responsibly and ethically is an essential component of sustainable women’s clothing. By choosing eco-friendly and ethical fashion options, consumers can help to reduce their environmental impact and support responsible production practices. Here are some tips for shopping responsibly and ethically:
- Prioritize quality over quantity: Invest in timeless, high-quality pieces that are designed to last, rather than fast fashion items that are designed to be disposable.
- Look for sustainable materials: Choose clothing made from eco-friendly materials, such as organic cotton, Tencel, and recycled polyester.
- Shop second-hand: Thrift stores and consignment shops are excellent sources of high-quality clothing that has already been produced, reducing the need for new manufacturing.
- Support sustainable brands: Choose to shop with brands that prioritize sustainability and ethical production practices.
- Consider the entire lifecycle of the garment: Look for clothing that is designed to be recycled or biodegradable, and seek out brands that have a closed-loop production system.
- Be mindful of your laundry habits: Wash clothing in cold water and use eco-friendly detergents to reduce water and energy consumption.
- Repair and repurpose clothing: Rather than throwing away damaged clothing, learn how to repair or repurpose it to extend its lifespan.
By adopting these and other responsible shopping habits, consumers can play a crucial role in promoting a more sustainable future for the fashion industry.
The Role of Thrift Shopping and Second-Hand Clothing
Thrift shopping and second-hand clothing are excellent ways to support sustainable fashion and reduce the environmental impact of the fashion industry. By purchasing clothing that has already been produced, consumers can help to reduce the demand for new manufacturing and prevent clothing from ending up in landfills. Additionally, thrift shopping and second-hand clothing can be an affordable way to build a sustainable wardrobe, as many high-quality garments can be found at a fraction of their original price.
Thrift stores and consignment shops are excellent sources of second-hand clothing, offering a wide range of styles, sizes, and brands to choose from. Online marketplaces like Depop and eBay are also great options for finding sustainable clothing, as they allow consumers to buy and sell pre-owned items from all over the world.
When shopping for second-hand clothing, it is important to be mindful of the condition of the garment and its overall sustainability credentials. Look for clothing made from sustainable materials and prioritize high-quality pieces that are designed to last. Additionally, consider the environmental impact of shipping when purchasing online, and try to choose sellers who are located closer to you to reduce transportation emissions.
Supporting Sustainable Fashion through Activism and Awareness
In addition to making responsible purchasing choices, consumers can also support sustainable fashion through activism and awareness. By advocating for more sustainable production practices and raising awareness of the environmental impact of the fashion industry, consumers can help to drive positive change within the industry. Here are some ways to support sustainable fashion through activism and awareness:
- Educate yourself: Learn about the environmental impact of the fashion industry and the benefits of sustainable fashion.
- Support sustainable fashion campaigns: Sign petitions and support campaigns that call for more sustainable production practices and greater transparency within the fashion industry.
- Engage with sustainable fashion communities: Join sustainable fashion groups and follow sustainable fashion bloggers and influencers to stay informed and connected.
- Share your knowledge: Spread the word about sustainable fashion and encourage others to make more responsible purchasing choices.
- Vote with your wallet: Choose to support sustainable fashion brands and products, and avoid brands that prioritize profit over environmental and social responsibility.
By taking these actions, consumers can help to promote a more sustainable future for the fashion industry and reduce its impact on the environment and people around the world.
Conclusion: The Future of Eco-Friendly Fashion
The rise of eco-friendly and sustainable women’s clothing is a positive development in the fashion industry, offering consumers the opportunity to make more responsible purchasing choices and support brands that prioritize the environment and ethical production practices. By choosing sustainable fashion options, consumers can help to reduce the environmental impact of the fashion industry and promote a more sustainable future. While there is still much work to be done in terms of promoting sustainable production practices and reducing the waste generated by the fashion industry, the growing popularity of eco-friendly fashion is a step in the right direction. By educating ourselves, shopping responsibly, and supporting sustainable fashion through activism and awareness, we can all play a part in creating a more sustainable future for the fashion industry and the planet as a whole. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://hartlepooljobcentre.co.uk/automotive-makers-face-an-existential-risk-and-will-pull-out-of-the-uk-except-sunak-modifications-brexit-deal/ | 2023-12-03T23:04:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100518.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203225036-20231204015036-00088.warc.gz | 0.951639 | 858 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__109737163 | en | The Prime Minister is being urged to renegotiate the UK’s Brexit deal as Vauxhall’s guardian firm Stellantis has warned except there are modifications to the Commerce and Co-operation Settlement (TCA) with the European Union, they won’t be able to maintain their dedication to make electrical autos (EVs) in Britain.
The automobile business is dealing with an “existential risk” with out these modifications and hundreds of jobs at the moment are in danger.
The Labour chief Sir Keir Starmer has stated that “we’d like a greater Brexit deal” to make sure firms like Vauxhall will proceed to function within the UK.
This points has been raised with Brussels by the Enterprise and Commerce Secretary Kemi Badenoch and there was a pre-arranged assembly made with Stellantis bosses on Wednesday.
Badenoch has raised automobile producers considerations to the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and the Overseas Secretary.
The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) convention was advised by Hunt that there’s world-wide strain on the provision of electrical car batteries.
Hunt stated, “The fact is there’s a provide scarcity. Everyone seems to be making an attempt to develop provide of EV batteries. We have to have that provide right here within the UK.
“All I’d say is watch this area as a result of we’re very targeted on ensuring the UK will get that EV manufacturing capability.”
Professor David Bailey, from Birmingham Enterprise Faculty, stated: “I believe there’s a type of existential risk to the UK automobile business.”
He advised BBC Radio 4’s Right this moment programme: “Automotive makers have been saying for a while, they will’t meet these guidelines as they tighten up, they usually’re going to probably be dealing with tariffs.”
The Labour chief advised BBC Breakfast, “After all we wish a more in-depth buying and selling relationship, we completely do. We wish to make sure that Vauxhall and lots of others not simply survive on this nation however thrive.
“As a result of there are jobs sure up, there are households watching this morning both employed by Vauxhall or the same place who’re deeply anxious about what this implies.
“So sure we’d like a greater Brexit deal. We are going to make Brexit work. That doesn’t imply reversing the choice and going again into the EU however the deal we’ve obtained, it was stated to be oven-ready, it wasn’t even half-baked.”
Stellantis advised MPs within the inquiry, “To strengthen the sustainability of our manufacturing vegetation within the UK, the UK should think about its buying and selling preparations with Europe.”
The corporate warned that there will probably be “inadequate battery manufacturing” within the UK or Europe which is not going to meet the federal government’s targets to ultimately part out petrol automobiles by 2025 and diesel autos by 2030.
Stellantis who owns Citroen, Peugeot and Fiat and employs greater than 5,000 employees within the UK stated, “It we’re unable to depend on enough UK or European batteries, we will probably be at a significant aggressive drawback. Particularly towards Asian imports.
“We have to reinforce the competitiveness of the UK by establishing battery manufacturing within the UK.”
A Authorities spokesman stated: “The Enterprise and Commerce Secretary has raised this with the EU and is set to make sure the UK stays probably the greatest areas on this planet for automotive manufacturing, particularly as we transition to electrical autos.
“We’re supporting the business by way of the Automotive Transformation Fund and Superior Propulsion Centre to develop a high-value end-to-end electrified automotive provide chain within the UK and help cutting-edge automotive applied sciences.
“Within the coming months, the Authorities will construct on these interventions with decisive motion to make sure future funding in zero emission car manufacturing.” | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://pcmensstyle.blogspot.com/2014/02/super-bowl-fashion.html | 2018-09-20T12:39:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267156471.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20180920120835-20180920141235-00033.warc.gz | 0.954491 | 219 | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-39__0__229129879 | en | WWD asked Peyton Manning, five-time MVP and quarterback of the Denver Broncos, which designer he would be wearing on Sunday. His response was, "I'll have a good-looking Zegna suit on."
It seems Zegna runs in the family, as his brother Eli has often been spotted wearing the popular Italian designer's suits.
Photo courtesy of Pursuitist.com
Retailers have also been hopping on the Super Bowl bandwagon. Bloomingdale's unveiled 48 designer helmets in their windows on January 15th. The retailer partnered with the Council of Fashion Designers to commission one-of-a-kind helmets. Helmets will be up for auction to support the NFL Foundation, and include designers Alexis Bittar, Alice + Olivia, Diane von Furstenberg, John Varvatos, Kenneth Kole, Michael Bastian, and Todd Snyder. Currently, the highest bid is for the haute couture helmet by John Varvatos at $2,276. Auction closes Tuesday night at midnight.
Image courtesy of bloomingdales.com | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.zsplussecurityindia.com/2018/04/shurmur-gettleman-drool-over-saquon-barkleys-potential/ | 2019-01-21T03:30:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583755653.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20190121025613-20190121051613-00193.warc.gz | 0.957433 | 352 | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__56669787 | en | Giants GM Dave Gettleman has made it clear that he won’t necessarily take a quarterback with the No. 2 overall pick in the NFL draft. Of course, he wouldn’t say who else he was considering.
But it sure sounded like he expects Penn State running back Saquon Barkley to be sitting atop his draft board when it’s done.
There’s no doubt he is, and both Gettleman and Giants coach Pat Shurmur have said they don’t have a problem with taking a running back second overall. For years, the prevailing thought in the NFL was that running backs could be found later, and that building an offensive line was far more important. But a recent run of game-changing running backs – like Dallas’ Ezekiel Elliott and Los Angeles’ Todd Gurley – has seemingly changed all that.
Advice: Big Ten linemen like Ohio State DE Sam Hubbard or Michigan DT Maurice Hurst appear to be scheme fits for Schwartz and might be solid options at the back of the first round.
All-world LT Jason Peters is 36 and trying to came back from an ACL tear that ended his 2017 season after seven games. Could be time to start eyeing his successor.
Advice: If GM Howie Roseman wanted to find a high-end replacement immediately, he’d probably have reasonable shots at players like Pitt’s Brian O’Neill or UCLA’s Kolton Miller at the end of Round 1. But the Eagles won’t pick again until Round 4, when projects like Humboldt State’s Alex Cappa or North Carolina A&T’s Brandon Parker are more realistic options. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://wustlysp.blogspot.com/2012/03/interivew-with-ysp-blogger-peggy-ni.html | 2013-05-26T02:55:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.981525 | 558 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__171436524 | en | An Interview with YSP Blogger Peggy Ni - March Volunteer of the Month
This month the tables were turned as Peggy Ni was interviewed as our volunteer of the month for March! Peggy is a 4th year Immunology graduate student. She has been volunteering with YSP since the end of her first year as a graduate student, 3 years ago. Peggy joined YSP as a continuation of her science outreach during high school and college, when she taught a class for middle school girls on computer technology. After hearing great things about YSP’s program and organization, she contacted volunteers she knew, got on the list serve, and the rest is history. Her first experience was as a tutor for a Summer Focus student, an experience she found rewarding as she got to watch the progression of her student over the 8-week program.
Her latest endeavor has been writing the YSP Blog, a project she started and considers “my baby”. You see, scientific writing is Peggy’s passion and this blog she hopes is the first step towards a career in science writing. She sees herself as a writer at a major scientific journal or at a more public interest magazine one day. Peggy first approached Jen Mosher to discuss writing a blog last year as a way to build her writing portfolio, as Peggy has never had journalism experience. Having been a volunteer, Peggy knew how awesome and rewarding volunteering with YSP is and she and Jen recognized the benefits of using a blog to promote YSP’s experiences and special events to the Wash U and wider community. New students who are curious about YSP can log on to the website and with one click, access Peggy’s blog to get a feeling for what volunteering is like first hand. As a consequence of starting this blog, Peggy was invited to write a blog for MidSci, a local biotech company who recently started a partnership with YSP, improving her writing credentials.
In writing the blog, she has particularly enjoyed writing the Volunteer of the Month. She said, “It’s nice to profile someone exceptional every month. It just makes them feel good, I think.” One goal for the blog this summer is following the progress of a few Summer Focus students through the course of the program to share their perspectives as they learn the ins and outs of conducting research and presenting their work.
What does she feel about being interviewed herself? Well, she found the experience very different. “I really appreciate all the interviewees that I have interviewed in the past. I don’t know how they managed such succinct, clear answers but it is really difficult!” For now, it seems, Peggy is happy to do her part in promoting YSP through her writing. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://allsport-group.com/en/news/AdamPeaty_Speedo | 2024-02-28T01:26:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474690.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228012542-20240228042542-00226.warc.gz | 0.969716 | 528 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__191012073 | en | Speedo has announced a multi-year sponsorship deal with triple Olympic champion and World Record Holder – Adam Peaty OBE.
Widely regarded as the greatest breaststroke swimmer of all-time, Peaty joins Speedo off the back of winning two gold medals (100m breaststroke, 4x100m mixed medley) and one silver (4x100m medley) at the most recent Olympic Games in 2021. The British swimmer now holds 15 of the 20 fastest 100m breaststroke times in history.
Peaty joins the likes of Caeleb Dressel, Emma McKeon, Duncan Scott, Tom Dean and Ariarne Titmus, as well as a plethora of British and international stars, who form Team Speedo. At the Olympic Games in Tokyo, they dominated in the pool with the brand being worn by 61% of swimmers who won gold.
Speaking about the new partnership, Peaty revealed that Speedo’s success in the pool, coupled with a passion to use his platform to build a more inclusive and sustainable sport, were the main drivers behind the new deal.
Peaty said: “I’m really excited to be joining Team Speedo alongside so many of the world’s best swimmers who swam so well in Speedo suits last summer. The figures from Tokyo speak for themselves and I’m certain this partnership will help me reach the next level.”
As well as his performance credentials, Peaty will support Speedo’s drive to increase participation in swimming through the brand’s new Swim United programme, which aims to enable thousands of children in under-represented areas and communities to learn how to swim.
He added: “Since the birth of my son, George, I have become increasingly focused on playing my part in helping to create the best world I can for him. Once I heard the plans Speedo had from a sustainability and diversity perspective, there was never a doubt in my mind that they were the perfect partner for me.”
Simon Rowe, Global Head of Sports Marketing for Speedo, said: “Adam Peaty is one of the greatest swimmers Great Britain has ever produced and we are immensely proud that he has agreed to join Team Speedo. From the moment we met Adam it was clear we had a shared vision for the future of swimming. We’re both committed to making the sport as wide-reaching and sustainable as possible, and so it is the perfect fit for brand and athlete.” | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://lochend-chalets.com/activities/touring/edinburgh/ | 2020-12-01T17:22:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141681209.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20201201170219-20201201200219-00296.warc.gz | 0.921099 | 207 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__131786049 | en | The best things to do in Edinburgh
Where to start?! First, perhaps, by saying that while Lochend feels incredibly secluded, in fact, we’re only about 75 minutes from the Royal Mile – or maybe two hours if you take the one-hour train from Dunblane or Stirling to Waverley Station.
And what a city: riddled with intriguing vaults and wynds (alleys), Auld Reekie is a brilliant city to explore on foot (though the open-top tour buses at Waverly Station will try to tell you otherwise!), a place of ancient beauty and elegant vistas, cracking pubs and buzzing arts scene, classy cafes, shops and museums.
The one-mile, cobbled Royal Mile running between Holyrood Palace and Edinburgh Castle is the one real unmissable, especially in August when the Fringe Festival – the world’s largest arts festival – is in full swing, and the pavements are jam-packed with street performers. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://hkwriterscircle.com/hearkee-ye-raskal-hear-me-sirrah-the-conundrums-of-researching-and-writing-hong-kong-writers-circle/ | 2024-04-15T22:53:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817033.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415205332-20240415235332-00582.warc.gz | 0.977579 | 214 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__195717259 | en | We had a wonderful and informative evening with Larry Feign on Thursday, 8th April.
Larry is well-known to many old Hong Kong hands as the creator of The World of Lily Wong cartoon that we turned to in the South China Morning Post in days of old. However, Thursday’s session was about his new project, the historical novel, The Flower Boat Girl.
This is based on the true story of Shek Yang, the pirate queen of the south China coast. Shek Yang was a real person whom Larry first happened on in an old folk song of the Tangka or boat people. Through a series of happy coincidences, he established that she was a real person, and was able to hunt down her story – albeit one with many holes.In his fascinating, erudite and at times funny presentation, Larry discussed the difficulties he faced in tracing source material, and the literary challenges he faced in remaining authentic to the truth while weaving a compelling story around it.
Larry’s book is available online and in Bookazine. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://burrowssheffield.toyota.co.uk/article/fun-fresh-and-3d | 2019-05-25T14:00:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232258058.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20190525124751-20190525150751-00226.warc.gz | 0.946415 | 471 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__9023284 | en | The Toyota AYGO is getting another makeover! Don't worry, you won't be waiting too long to see the new model as it going to be shown to the world at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show on the 6th March. The current AYGO is an instantly recognisable model thanks to its trademark front 'X' design and a wide range of customisation options. So if you are looking for a car with a new distinctive and individual design and a fun-to-drive experience look no further than the new Toyota AYGO.
Overall the design of the new Toyota is to make it look more fun and fresh. The statement fron 'X' design is currently a two-dimensional graphic, this has now been transformed into a three-dimensional architectural element. A new re-designed headlight has been introduced with integral daytime running lights, giving the car an even more striking appearance. There is going to be a whole range of new colours and wheel designs - each dedicated to a specific model - to be revealed which will add to the overall impact of the exterior styling. Inside the new AYGO, the combimeter has been upgraded with graphics that have a more three-dimensional look and a new illumination colour. Most grade have new fabric seats and a more premium colour scheme - UK colours yet to be confirmed.
As for the performance of the new Toyota AYGO, the driving dynamics have been improved for a more agile performance when you're in and around town while still maintaining the class leading fuel economy. Additional improvements have been made to reduce the noise and vibration levels inside the cabin for a quieter driving experience. Revisions have been made to the engine which now meets Euro 6.2 emissions standards, while still achieving an idea balance of power and fuel efficiency. Plus a better torque delivery at a lower engine speed which provides a better drive in urban traffic.
|Current AYGO||New AYGO|
|0-62 mph||14.2 seconds||13.8 seconds|
|Top Speed||99 mph||100 mph|
|Fuel Consumption||68.9 mpg||72.4 mpg|
More details regarding the new Toyota AYGO model, grades and specification features are going to be announced closer to the time when the new AYGO goes on sale. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://montreal-photobloggers.org/2008/09/21/world-press-photo/ | 2013-05-24T12:37:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704658856/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114418-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.95909 | 216 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__111106813 | en | For those of you who have yet to visit this excellent exhibit, strike while the iron is hot! You still have a week left.
When: 29 August 2008 - 28 September 2008
Where: Just For Laughs Museum, 2111 St-Laurent Boulevard, Montreal
World Press Photo is run as an independent, non-profit organization with its office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where World Press Photo was founded in 1955.
The organization is controlled both by an independent executive board and a supervisory board, and employs around 25 permanent staff. The Amsterdam office acts as the hub for a network of professional contacts worldwide - it is this network that makes organizing the contest, exhibitions and other activities on such a large scale possible.
First and foremost, World Press Photo is known for organizing the world’s largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest. Prizewinning photographs are assembled into a traveling exhibition that is visited by over two million people in some 45 countries worldwide. A yearbook presenting all prizewinning entries is published annually in six languages. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://rihanna777.weebly.com/blog | 2019-03-26T14:32:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912205534.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190326135436-20190326161436-00527.warc.gz | 0.962719 | 1,328 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__42231813 | en | Take a look behind the scenes of ELLE UK‘s April cover shoot with Rihanna. Click here to watch a video.
The Rihanna Diamonds World Tour previously scheduled for this evening at the TD Garden in Boston has been postponed it was announced this morning by Live Nation.
Unfortunately, following her sold out concert on Friday, Rihanna has contracted laryngitis and per doctor’s instruction is unable to perform this evening. Rihanna tweeted:
#BOSTON this is the hardest thing for me to deal with! I feel like we’ve been waiting on this day forever, and I’m hurt that I let you down. I hate disappointing people that never ever let me down!! I’m so embarrassed about this! Thank you for your prayers and well wishes! #DWT
Boston fans are instructed to retain their tickets pending rescheduling show date information.
The Baltimore performance (Tuesday, March 12) is expected to move forward as scheduled.
RiRi was photographed arriving at her London hotel earlier today (March 4).
She’s in the city for the launch of the Rihanna for River Island Collection tonight at their 301 Oxford Street store.
In other news, River Island presents a look behind the scenes at the first ever Rihanna for River Island campaign. Shot by Mario Sorrenti in New York, the campaign features Jourdan Dunn, Charlotte Free, Bambi Northwood-Blyth, Ataui Deng and Tao Okamoto.
Think what you’d like about Rihanna’s horrible Grammys weekend of 2009 … but she’s moved on completely from that dark period in her life. And in a very candid new interview with Elle U.K., the “Stay” singer is opening up about how she feels more empowered than ever right now.
In new photos for the mag shot in Paris by Mariano Vivanco, Rihanna prominently displays the gun tattoo that she inked on the right side of her torso just months after she was beaten up by boyfriend Chris Brown. "Everybody wanted to know what was happening in my life. Is she a drug addict? No. Is she an alcoholic? No. Is she a victim? No," she tells the mag. "That's why I got the gun. It was a symbol of strength. I'll never be a victim."
And that’s not the only gun tattoo that Rihanna, who just turned 25 last week, has on her body. She also sports an Egyptian-like falcon in the shape of a gun on one of her feet, ink that she got last summer just days after Brown got in a scuffle with the rapper Drake at a NYC nightclub. “Falcon s--t!!!!” she tweeted in June 2012, following up with, “Falcon: a light that shines in the darkness! Never close their eyes during sleep.”
Rihanna talks with Elle U.K. reporter Mark Allen about how this period in her life feels like a “fresh start” with Brown, and goes on to say that in five years, she sees herself with a child … which we can only assume she’d want with her “Don’t Wake Me Up” singer beau.
"I will probably have a kid," she tells the mag. "Right now, that's just what we want, a great friendship, that's unbreakable," she continues. "Now that we're adults we can do this right. We got a fresh start and we're thankful for that."
RiRi also opens up in the interview about other topics, ranging from her music and touring, to her “now-infamous 777 plane trip” – aka: the publicity trip from hell for journalists around the world. And being that this is Elle, she talks all about her burgeoning fashion designing career.
Elle U.K.’s spread shows off RiRi’s spring/summer 2013 River Island fashion collection – her first ever -- which she premiered recently at London Fashion Week. On one cover, she dons a black, zip-through River Island skirt paired with a Louis Vuitton monochrome top. And on the other, a striped bra from the same collection peeking out from Prada’s silk and satin stole
The April issue of Elle U.K. hits newsstands on Wednesday, March 6.
Rihanna opens up about her relationship with Chris Brown, her desire to start a family, and one of her infamous tattoos in Elle UK.
Talking about her renewed romance with Brown, who assaulted her in 2009, the singer says, “Right now, that’s just what we want, a great friendship, that’s unbreakable.”
“Now that we’re adults we can do this right,” Rihanna tells the magazine. ”We got a fresh start and we’re thankful for that.”
The “Stay” songstress even confirms that the ballad, about wanting true love to last, ties into their relationship.
“You don’t have that feeling with everybody so when you have it, you don’t want to let go of it,” Rihanna says. “I would definitely say he is the one I have that kind of relationship with.”
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Those in fear, however, that history may repeat itself needn’t worry, says the star, who explains that her gun tattoo on the right side of her rib cage symbolizes her empowerment since the incident.
“Everybody wanted to know what was happening in my life. Is she a drug addict? No. Is she an alcoholic? No. Is she a victim? No,” Rihanna explains. “That’s why I got the gun. It was a symbol of strength. I’ll never be a victim.”
On the contrary, Rihanna is planning on being something else: a mom.
Asked where she sees herself in five years, the singer says, “I will probably have a kid.”
Rihanna’s full interview in the April issue of Elle hits newsstands March 6. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://euphoriccheese.com/2021/06/10/buddy-check-10-owners-of-farragut-cheese-shop-fight-breast-cancer-together-wbir/ | 2023-12-04T06:12:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100525.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20231204052342-20231204082342-00366.warc.gz | 0.967873 | 868 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__140508153 | en | Katie Inman | June 10, 2021 | WBIR Buddy Check 10
From best friends, to business partners to breast cancer survivors, two women in their 30s are navigating a heartbreaking diagnosis together.
FARRAGUT, Tenn. — The owners of a new specialty cheese shop in Farragut are navigating their separate breast cancer diagnoses together.
Best friends Amy Burritt and Cheri Intveld were both diagnosed with the heartbreaking disease within months of each other. They both got the news in the midst of opening Euphoric Cheese Shop.
While the road hasn’t been easy, they’ve gotten through with their faith and friendship, often looking at each other to say, “We’re doing it.”
Both women are always looking for hope, and never give up, whether it’s behind a cheese counter or it’s in an unexpected call.
Burritt felt a lump during a breast self exam, and Intveld encouraged her to get it checked. After months, mammograms and biopsies, her breast cancer diagnosis came.
“I remember crashing down on the phone, hearing the words from my doctor and just feeling like, okay, I didn’t expect this, but now there’s this whole path ahead of me,” Burritt said.
The word “mastectomy” stung Burritt’s ears in that phone call. Intveld was there to help her through.
A few months later, Intveld also felt a lump during a self check, but kept pushing off getting it checked.
“I just kept thinking, there’s no way I could have breast cancer right after Amy had been diagnosed because it was within a year of her diagnosis,” Intveld said.
Unfortunately, her suspicion came true. The doctor confirmed it was stage 3A breast cancer, a higher grade than Burritt’s. It was a hard pill to swallow for the two women in their 30s.
Now, Intveld is on chemo and will continue treatment with radiation and surgery through the end of the year.
“We’ve shared a lot of things, I never thought we would share a cancer diagnosis, but here we are,” Intveld said.
Friends for almost 20 years, the two took the fight in stride.
“I mean, when it was me, it was like, okay, this is my thing to get through,” Burritt said. “When is someone you love, I think it’s harder.”
Burritt kept a blog through the whole process. She hopes to let others know they aren’t alone, and offer that hope she’s always looking for.
Now, both women have a community of support in Breast Connect, something they didn’t know they needed.
“So many different survivors say it’s a club you don’t want to be a part of, but once you are in, it really is like a sisterhood,” Burritt said.
At the end of the cheese counter sits a box waiting to be filled with messages for Intveld. Most of the people who write to her are strangers, but the support and encouragement is something she will never forget.
She wants to give back to the community who has given her so much, and be a light during a scary diagnosis.
“That’s my goal is to try and love the community that I’m in,” Intveld said.
Through faith, friendship and a whole lot of cheese, Burritt and Intveld are thankful for the lessons and support given during the disease.
Both women encourage others to do breast self checks and go to the doctor if something feels off. Early detection is key in the fight against breast cancer.
Euphoric Cheese Shop has only been open for a few months. If you would like to visit, it’s at 139 West End Ave in Farragut, or you can go to their website at euphoriccheese.com. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://persimmonhillstore.com/products/texas-sky | 2024-02-21T12:00:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473472.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221102433-20240221132433-00812.warc.gz | 0.908849 | 383 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__135037879 | en | Whether it shows a summer thunderstorm rolling across the plains of the Llano Estacado or a full moon rising on a clear winter night, the sky is the most commanding presence in the Texas landscape.
As Georgia O'Keeffe once wrote from Canyon to a friend, "I am loving the plains more than ever it seems—and the SKY—Anita you have never seen SKY—it is wonderful." Wyman Meinzer observes that "recording the vibrant and sometimes forbidding nature of the sky has been one of the most enjoyable photographic endeavors of my career."
The one hundred breathtaking color images in this book reveal the beauty, drama, unpredictability, and sheer expanse of Texas' sky. Meinzer observes the sky from first light to the star trails in a night exposure.
He presents the full palette of sunrise and sunset hues, the endless variety of cloud formations, and the cobalt blue of the sky after a winter norther. Most of all, he captures the feelings of freedom and power that so many people experience under the Texas sky.
In a beautifully written essay, John Graves connects Meinzer's photos to the land and the people of Texas. Meinzer's preface describes the careful planning and lucky chances that yielded many of these photographs, while interspersed among them are quotes from Texas skywatchers past and present. Taken together, the stunning images and eloquent words say all there is to say about the Texas sky.
An enormous and compelling sky--and the expansive vistas which it yields--are an integral part of Texas scenery. In hill country and plains, desert, mountain and river valley, the sky itself often shapes the geographic and psychic landscape. The University of Texas Press releases Texas Sky, an elegant publication which celebrates both state and sky, by the award-winning photographer Wyman Meinzer. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://guypassey.co.uk/kaleidoscope/ | 2022-05-27T13:39:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662647086.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220527112418-20220527142418-00091.warc.gz | 0.963488 | 176 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__155002579 | en | Guy is a founding member of award-winning saxophone quartet Kaleidoscope.
Described by The Times as ‘irresistible’, Kaleidoscope is an innovative collaboration between four creative young artists. The group’s approach is built on the distinct creative personalities of its members, with engaging programmes blending classical and contemporary music. The quartet’s work has led to numerous awards and high profile performances at venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and Bridgewater Hall. Kaleidoscope’s championing of new music has seen them commission numerous works from the country’s most talented young composers, with their commission A Day at the Spa from composer Oliver Leith winning a British Composer Award and being played on Radio 3. For more information on Kaleidoscope, check out their website. | journalism_and_media_communication |
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