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http://www.domenicfazioli.com/ | 2018-02-24T21:58:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891815951.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20180224211727-20180224231727-00087.warc.gz | 0.970515 | 242 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__183135646 | en | Domenic Fazioli is a television reporter & producer with City-TV’s “Breakfast Television” program, the top English morning show in Montreal.
Domenic has uncovered the Quebec whereabouts of convicted schoolgirl killer Karla Homolka in 2006, 2016 and 2017; he’s met with Hells Angels prison escapee Francis Boucher, and his stories on missing children have helped reunite youngsters with their desperate parents.
Before joining City-TV, Domenic was reporting for Global News in Montreal for 15 years.
He’s also worked with the top-rated CBC “Hockey Night In Canada” program and served as a story producer for several PBS programs.
Domenic studied at Ryerson University in Toronto.
In August 2012, Domenic became the first Quebecer to take part in the “Living Kidney Donor Paired Exchange” program. He donated his kidney to a complete stranger and in turn his father received a kidney that saved his life! Watch and read the inspirational story in the “My Work” section. Click on “My Kidney Donation”. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://onlinecasinorouletteliven79.com/independence-day-ban-on-heavy-autos-entry-to-delhi-noida-information/ | 2022-10-06T10:06:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337803.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20221006092601-20221006122601-00322.warc.gz | 0.910364 | 368 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__150286405 | en | NOIDA: The entry of heavy autos might be banned from Noida to Delhi from Friday 10 pm to Saturday afternoon because of Independence Day rehearsals within the nationwide capital. Related visitors enforcement might be in place from 10pm on August 14 to August 15 afternoon until the Independence Day celebrations are over in Delhi.
There might be visitors diversions on the DND Flyway, Kalindi Kunj and Chilla border. Ganesh Prasad Saha, the deputy commissioner of police (visitors), Noida, stated, “We are going to cease the Delhi-bound visitors on the DND Flyway, Kalindi Kunj and Chilla border and divert it to the Noida Expressway. From there, we are going to information it to take the Japanese Peripheral Expressway to proceed the onward journey,” he stated.
A number of vans and items carriers is likely to be stopped on the Noida-Delhi borders, resulting in visitors jams. The visitors police have suggested commuters to decide on alternate routes and plan their journeys accordingly. They’ve additionally issued a helpline quantity, 9971009001, for commuters on this regard.
The Noida Authority additionally held a programme of flag distribution amongst folks in Noida on Wednesday. Indu Prakash Singh, Noida Authority particular officer on responsibility (OSD), stated the authority engaged totally different RWAs, AOAs, residents, Noida Entrepreneurship Affiliation, and so on., within the programme. “We plan to distribute 1.5 lakh Tricolours this Independence Day,” he stated.
Noida police are additionally making elaborate safety preparations for the seventy fifth Independence Day celebrations on August 15. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://lifemixx.com/2018/David-Castillo-and-Fredric-Snitzer-Galleries-to-Return-to-Art-Basel-Miami-Beach-in-2018.html | 2021-06-25T10:43:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487630081.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20210625085140-20210625115140-00130.warc.gz | 0.929603 | 493 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__29132493 | en | David Castillo And Fredric Snitzer Galleries To Return To Art Basel Miami Beach In 2018
Art Basel Miami Beach released its list of 2018 galleries this morning, and the numbers break down thusly: 268 galleries from 34 countries, two Miami art spaces, and zero surprises.
Miami Beach's David Castillo Gallery and Miami's Fredric Snitzer Gallery are the two South Florida representatives at the nation's biggest art fair this year, continuing a pattern that stretches back to Castillo's Art Basel acceptance in 2008. Castillo and Snitzer have been the only local galleries inside the Miami Beach Convention Center several times since Basel landed in town in 2002, including last year, the year before that, and 2011.
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Fredric Snitzer Gallery, located in Miami's Omni neighborhood just north of downtown, is a near-guaranteed presence at the fair — owner Fredric Snitzer is on its selection committee. The gallery represents some of Miami's biggest names in art, including Hernan Bas and Kenny Scharf, and recently opened an apocalyptic exhibit by Tomas Vu complete with 148 ceramic skulls.
David Castillo Gallery launched in Wynwood in 2005, back when art spaces could afford to do that kind of thing. Castillo boasts its own lineup of impressive talent: Jillian Mayer, Adler Guerrier, Sanford Biggers. In 2014, the gallery moved to Lincoln Road in South Beach. Right now, visitors to the space will find an exhibit of text paintings, sculpture, and photography by artist Xaviera Simmons, inspired by the history of "sundown towns" — communities where black people were unwelcome after dark.
Art aside, one of the biggest revelations for Art Basel Miami Beach visitors this year stands to be the new look of the convention center following its lengthy and expensive renovations.
Art Basel Miami Beach. Thursday, December 6, through Sunday, December 9, at the Miami Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Dr., Miami Beach; artbasel.com/miami-beach. Tickets cost $50 to $500; discounts are available for students and seniors, and children aged 12 or younger get in free.
- Ciara LaVelle | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://blog.webdesignrsa.co.za/2021/05/06/opinionista-its-time-for-real-leaders-to-rise-up-and-rid-the-country-of-predatory-elites/ | 2021-07-24T14:22:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046150266.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20210724125655-20210724155655-00521.warc.gz | 0.961561 | 1,196 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__180066143 | en | We are at a crossroads as a country. And I fail to see how a manipulative nexus of public and private predatory elites can hold us to ransom. And that it sits like a cancer in the ranks of the political movement that spearheaded our liberation struggle. And we feel powerless to do anything about it.
History is a useful teacher. The impunity and absence of consequence in governance today breeds the rising spectre of a fascism and banditry that threatens to catapult us into the chaos of our divided past. The tale of two eras of history.
Let us turn back the clock 34 years. It was 29 April 1987. A different world. But where leadership mattered as much as it does today.
It was the cold winter of discontent. The country was a seething mass of writhing tension. Twenty-thousand railway workers had gone on strike. Unexpected. Fuelled by desperation. A frontal assault on the apartheid state. The bursting tension ruptured into the streets of the metropolis. Thousands of workers congregated at Cosatu House. Now a fiery centre of resistance. As the security forces set up a perimeter, it became a war zone.
Staring down to the streets I felt a rising tide of anger. The police had painted an AWB sign on one of their vehicles. A symbol of right-wing fascism and a product of the undeclared war on us, orchestrated from deep within the State Security Council that now governed the country.
It was a dangerous time. Apartheid assassins deep inside the state were plotting deadly plans and incursions against us. Fear gripped the country. But defiant courage was rising. Galvanised by the atrocity of apartheid brutality and corruption. The 11th floor of Cosatu House, our headquarters, in downtown Jeppe in Johannesburg, was a hive of bustling activism.
On that fateful night, they broke down doors floor by floor. Organisers and staff spreadeagled, hands in the air, cutting an eerie and iconic picture of the “dark night, long knives”. Not dissimilar to what we face today.
But that time we were more organised. Our strength was not in offices. Not in leaders like Elijah Barayi, Cyril Ramaphosa or me. We were just the lightning rod of a deeply entrenched defiant resistance, its roots deep in the trenches of our mines, factories, shops and hotels. Its hands embracing the fiery cauldron of struggle that went beyond the factory floor. We averted a bloodbath.
But a week later, on 7 May, they struck our nerve centre in the dark of night, exploding two massive bombs in the basement of Cosatu headquarters.
The intention was clear. Destroy the enemies’ infrastructure. Paralyse its nerve centre. Cut its supply lines. Sow confusion and fear. Drive a propaganda war that we were a centre of terrorism and extreme violence. We were actually accused on state media of housing a bomb factory. The environment was one within which a heavily armed white right-wing could feel justified to unleash havoc against us across the land. The country was “laagered” again.
The next morning the security forces cordoned off our building. We were stopped from entering. But they had also arrived with a warrant to seize the latest copies of Cosatu News. A furious argument, but I chose the battle would be another day.
It came sooner than we had expected.
On Monday, 10 August, the first official day of the industrial action, an estimated 340,000 people came out on strike, which represented more than 70% of all black coal and gold miners.
The response was brutal and violent.
We had shaken the very foundations of the apartheid state. The war had escalated. We were the principal enemy.
Why did we succeed? We had leadership united behind a vision that embraced the hopes, aspirations and dreams of our people.
We had a leadership that fought in dangerous trenches, not for enrichment of themselves, but for the pursuit of a better life for all our people.
We spurned the demagoguery that today hides the plundering greed of predatory elites behind a veil of left-wing rhetoric.
And we had leaders who understood that power derives from the mandate of our people, not from “big men” in dark corridors buying power with bags of stolen cash.
We are at a crossroads as a country.
And I fail to see how a manipulative nexus of public and private predatory elites can hold us to ransom. And that it sits like a cancer in the ranks of the political movement that spearheaded our liberation struggle. And that we feel powerless to do anything about it.
There are stark choices facing us today that require the boldness and courage of 34 years ago. A historical duty to end the impunity that reigns in our beautiful country.
To bring us back to the path of the fundamental transformation we need.
To heal the wounds we all carry. Whether those are wounds of racial superiority or inferiority.
To build a meaningful dialogue that bridges the chasm of poverty, inequality and wealth.
To involve all our people, like we have done so often in the past.
And to recommit to the dreams enshrined in our Freedom Charter and the Constitution we so painstakingly crafted in 1994.
As Mandela said, “I have become more convinced than ever that the real makers of history are the ordinary men and women of our country; their participation in every decision about the future is the only guarantee of true democracy and freedom.”
Let the leaders entrusted by our people and Constitution rise to the challenge.
Heal our country.
Root out the corruption that has mercilessly sought to subvert the struggles and sacrifices of generations of patriotic South Africans who gave more than their lives for the freedom we celebrate today. DM | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.mystudycentre.com/news-centre/2588/Evaluation-of-Mumbai-University-final-year-papers-yet-to-begin | 2022-09-25T23:55:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030334620.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220925225000-20220926015000-00108.warc.gz | 0.971988 | 547 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__80334674 | en | A month after final year exams started, the University of Mumbai is yet to begin the assessment of answer sheets. As papers pile up in the Exam House in the Kalina campus, there are fears students’ results could be delayed.
While the assessment usually begins within three days of the start of the examinations, this year, not a single answer sheet has been corrected yet.
The reason: the onscreen assessment process, announced by the Vice-Chancellor in January, has not taken off as the varsity is yet to appoint an agency for the task. With not many bidders showing interest in the project and other roadblocks in the bidding process, the university’s efforts have not taken shape.
The university will now make a third attempt at hiring an agency this week. “The evaluation process has been delayed as not many agencies were interested in the bid. However, we are confident that a decision will be taken on April 22 and an agency will be hired,” said registrar MA Khan. Khan added that since the assessment had been delayed, it could lead to a delay in result declaration.
The new assessment process involves scanning the answersheets after students turn them in, so that they cannot be tampered with. Teachers then evaluate them on screen. The agency will bring in the infrastructure for scanning.
Despite two extension in dates for the bidding process, only three agencies have shown interest so far. Earlier, the varsity had to revise the technical and financial criteria in the tender to get in more agencies . The annual turnover condition was brought down from Rs 100 crore to Rs 30 crore and the minimum technical score requirement was brought down from 70 to 60.
However, this time, the varsity is confident of hiring an agency. On Tuesday, it announced a four-day training schedule for evaluators. “There will be 20 centres and training will be conducted between April 24 and 27. Soon after, we will kick off assessment,” said Khan.
Meanwhile, the answer sheets of around 2 lakh final year students — of which 79,000 are from third-year B Com, 18,000 from third-year Science and 14,000 from third-year Arts — remain uncorrected.
In January, Vice-Chancellor Sanjay Deshmukh had announced that all final year answersheets would be evaluated on screen from April to prevent tampering. The process is already in use for the engineering stream.
Khan said that the university will follow a decentralised process for assessment. “While the Exam House will be one of the centres, other colleges, too, will be nominated as assessment centres,” he said. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.farmingfunda.com/news/24/organic-farming-veteran-nammalvar-dead | 2017-09-24T17:32:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818690112.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170924171658-20170924191658-00718.warc.gz | 0.976862 | 185 | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-39__0__58109822 | en | The pioneer of organic farming in Tamil Nadu, G Nammalvar, died at the age of 75 in Athivetti village in Thanjavur district on Monday. He is survived by wife, Savithri, and daughter, Meena.
Sources close to Nammalvar said he died due to age-related ailments. He was in Athivetti while leading a campaign against a private company's methane exploration project in the Cauvery delta. Angels Raja, a close associate of Nammalvar, said the latter had not been feeling well for the past few days. "But he refused to stay away from the campaign against the methane exploration project. He even attended a book release function on Sunday in the Mullivaikkal Mutram in Thanjavur," Raja said. ... more
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https://motomaximus.com/harley-davidson-street-750/ | 2024-02-27T09:29:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474674.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227085429-20240227115429-00259.warc.gz | 0.948455 | 5,156 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__56972818 | en | The Evolution of Harley-Davidson Street 750: A Closer Look
The Harley-Davidson Street 750 has come a long way since its introduction in 2014. This entry-level motorcycle was a departure from the traditional Harley-Davidson image, with its smaller engine and more affordable price tag. However, over the years, the Street 750 has evolved into a formidable machine that has gained a loyal following.
One of the key aspects of the Street 750’s evolution is its improved performance. When it was first released, the bike was criticized for its lackluster power and sluggish acceleration. However, Harley-Davidson listened to customer feedback and made significant improvements to the engine and overall performance of the bike. The latest iteration of the Street 750 boasts a more powerful engine, delivering a smoother and more responsive ride. This improvement has made the Street 750 a more attractive option for riders who want a Harley-Davidson experience without breaking the bank.
Another area where the Street 750 has evolved is in its design. The original model had a somewhat generic look, lacking the distinctive Harley-Davidson styling that enthusiasts have come to expect. However, Harley-Davidson has made efforts to rectify this with each subsequent update. The latest version of the Street 750 features a more aggressive and muscular design, with a sleeker profile and bolder lines. This updated design has helped the Street 750 stand out in a crowded market and has garnered praise from both riders and critics alike.
In addition to its improved performance and design, the Street 750 has also seen advancements in its technology. The latest model comes equipped with a range of modern features, including a digital instrument cluster, LED lighting, and a USB charging port. These technological upgrades not only enhance the overall riding experience but also bring the Street 750 in line with its competitors in terms of features and functionality.
One of the most significant changes in the evolution of the Street 750 is its growing popularity among younger riders. Harley-Davidson has traditionally been associated with an older demographic, but the Street 750 has helped the brand appeal to a new generation of riders. Its affordable price point, combined with its urban-friendly design and performance, has made it a popular choice among younger riders who are looking for a stylish and accessible entry into the Harley-Davidson family.
Despite its evolution, the Street 750 still faces some criticism. Some riders argue that it lacks the raw power and iconic status of other Harley-Davidson models. While it may not have the same level of prestige as a Fat Boy or a Road King, the Street 750 offers a unique and accessible riding experience that appeals to a different set of riders. It may not be the bike for everyone, but it has certainly found its niche in the market.
In conclusion, the evolution of the Harley-Davidson Street 750 has been a testament to the brand’s commitment to innovation and customer feedback. From its humble beginnings as an entry-level motorcycle, the Street 750 has grown into a capable and stylish machine that appeals to a wide range of riders. With its improved performance, updated design, and modern technology, the Street 750 has firmly established itself as a worthy addition to the Harley-Davidson lineup.
Why Harley-Davidson Street 750 is the Perfect Bike for Urban Riders
Harley-Davidson is a brand that is synonymous with motorcycles. Known for their iconic designs and powerful engines, Harley-Davidson bikes have always been associated with the open road and the freedom of the great outdoors. However, with the rise of urban living and the increasing popularity of motorcycles as a mode of transportation in cities, Harley-Davidson recognized the need for a bike that would cater specifically to urban riders. Enter the Harley-Davidson Street 750.
The Harley-Davidson Street 750 is the perfect bike for urban riders for several reasons. Firstly, its compact size and lightweight design make it incredibly maneuverable in city traffic. Navigating through crowded streets and tight spaces is a breeze on the Street 750, allowing riders to effortlessly weave through traffic and reach their destination in no time. This is a crucial advantage for urban riders who often find themselves stuck in traffic jams and need a bike that can help them beat the congestion.
In addition to its agility, the Street 750 also offers a comfortable riding experience. The bike is equipped with a low seat height, making it easy for riders to plant their feet firmly on the ground at stops. This not only enhances stability but also instills confidence in riders, especially those who are new to motorcycling or have a shorter stature. Furthermore, the bike’s suspension system is designed to absorb bumps and vibrations, ensuring a smooth ride even on rough city roads. This is particularly important for urban riders who may encounter potholes and uneven surfaces on their daily commute.
Another standout feature of the Street 750 is its fuel efficiency. With rising fuel prices and growing concerns about the environment, urban riders are increasingly looking for bikes that offer good mileage without compromising on performance. The Street 750 delivers on both fronts. Its liquid-cooled Revolution X engine provides ample power while also being fuel-efficient, allowing riders to go the distance without constantly worrying about refueling. This not only saves money but also reduces the bike’s carbon footprint, making it an eco-friendly choice for urban riders.
Safety is always a top priority for any rider, and the Street 750 doesn’t disappoint in this aspect either. The bike comes equipped with anti-lock braking system (ABS), which prevents the wheels from locking up during sudden braking, reducing the risk of accidents. This is particularly important in urban environments where unexpected obstacles and sudden stops are common. Additionally, the Street 750 features a bright LED headlight that ensures excellent visibility, even in low-light conditions. This enhances the rider’s safety by making them more visible to other road users.
Lastly, the Street 750 offers a stylish and modern design that appeals to urban riders. With its sleek lines and bold colors, the bike stands out in a crowd and exudes a sense of confidence and individuality. It is a bike that not only performs well but also looks good while doing so. This is an important factor for urban riders who want a bike that reflects their personal style and makes a statement on the city streets.
In conclusion, the Harley-Davidson Street 750 is the perfect bike for urban riders. Its compact size, comfortable ride, fuel efficiency, safety features, and stylish design make it an ideal choice for navigating the challenges of city living. Whether it’s beating traffic, enjoying a smooth ride, saving on fuel costs, prioritizing safety, or making a fashion statement, the Street 750 ticks all the boxes for urban riders. So, if you’re an urban dweller looking for a motorcycle that combines performance, practicality, and style, look no further than the Harley-Davidson Street 750.
Exploring the Performance Features of Harley-Davidson Street 750
Harley-Davidson is a name that is synonymous with power, performance, and the open road. For decades, this iconic motorcycle brand has been the go-to choice for riders who crave the thrill of the ride and the roar of the engine. One of the latest additions to the Harley-Davidson lineup is the Street 750, a bike that promises to deliver an exhilarating riding experience like no other.
When it comes to performance, the Harley-Davidson Street 750 does not disappoint. Equipped with a liquid-cooled, Revolution X V-Twin engine, this bike is capable of producing an impressive amount of power. With a displacement of 749cc, the Street 750 delivers a smooth and responsive ride, whether you’re cruising down the highway or navigating through city streets.
One of the standout features of the Street 750 is its low-end torque. This bike is designed to provide maximum power at low RPMs, making it ideal for urban riding. Whether you’re accelerating from a stoplight or overtaking slower traffic, the Street 750 delivers a surge of power that will leave you grinning from ear to ear.
In addition to its impressive power, the Street 750 also offers excellent handling and maneuverability. With a low seat height and a lightweight chassis, this bike is easy to control, even for novice riders. Whether you’re navigating tight corners or weaving through traffic, the Street 750 responds quickly and effortlessly, giving you the confidence to tackle any road or riding condition.
Another performance feature that sets the Street 750 apart from its competitors is its braking system. Equipped with dual disc brakes in the front and a single disc brake in the rear, this bike offers exceptional stopping power. Whether you need to make a sudden stop or slow down gradually, the Street 750’s brakes provide the confidence and control you need to ride safely.
When it comes to comfort, the Street 750 does not disappoint. With a comfortable seating position and a well-designed suspension system, this bike offers a smooth and enjoyable ride, even on long journeys. Whether you’re cruising down the highway or exploring winding country roads, the Street 750 provides a comfortable and enjoyable riding experience.
In conclusion, the Harley-Davidson Street 750 is a bike that delivers on its promise of performance. With its powerful engine, excellent handling, and comfortable ride, this bike is a true joy to ride. Whether you’re a seasoned rider or a beginner, the Street 750 offers a thrilling and exhilarating experience that is sure to leave you wanting more. So, if you’re in the market for a bike that combines power, performance, and comfort, look no further than the Harley-Davidson Street 750.
The Iconic Design Elements of Harley-Davidson Street 750
The Harley-Davidson Street 750 is a motorcycle that is instantly recognizable due to its iconic design elements. These design elements not only contribute to the overall aesthetic appeal of the bike but also serve a functional purpose. From the distinctive V-twin engine to the classic Harley-Davidson logo, each element has been carefully crafted to create a unique and timeless look.
One of the most striking design elements of the Street 750 is its V-twin engine. This engine is not only a powerful and reliable piece of machinery but also a visual statement. The V-twin configuration, with its two cylinders arranged in a V shape, is a signature feature of Harley-Davidson motorcycles. It not only gives the bike a distinctive look but also provides a low center of gravity, which enhances stability and handling.
Another iconic design element of the Street 750 is its blacked-out styling. The bike features a matte black finish on various components, including the engine, exhaust pipes, and handlebars. This blacked-out look gives the bike a sleek and aggressive appearance, setting it apart from other motorcycles on the road. It also adds a touch of sophistication and modernity to the overall design.
The classic Harley-Davidson logo is yet another iconic design element that is prominently displayed on the Street 750. The logo, with its bold and stylized lettering, is instantly recognizable and evokes a sense of heritage and tradition. It serves as a symbol of the brand’s long-standing reputation for quality and craftsmanship. The logo is typically placed on the fuel tank, ensuring that it is always in view and adding to the bike’s overall appeal.
In addition to these design elements, the Street 750 also features a low-slung profile and a minimalist approach to styling. The bike has a slim and streamlined silhouette, with clean lines and minimal clutter. This design choice not only enhances the bike’s aerodynamics but also gives it a timeless and understated look. It is a departure from the flashy and over-the-top designs often seen in the motorcycle industry, making the Street 750 stand out in a crowd.
Furthermore, the Street 750 incorporates modern technology seamlessly into its design. The bike features LED lighting, which not only improves visibility but also adds a contemporary touch to the overall aesthetic. It also comes equipped with a digital instrument cluster, providing riders with essential information in a clear and concise manner. These modern touches blend seamlessly with the classic design elements, creating a harmonious balance between tradition and innovation.
In conclusion, the Harley-Davidson Street 750 is a motorcycle that embodies the iconic design elements that have made the brand famous. From the distinctive V-twin engine to the blacked-out styling and classic logo, each element contributes to the bike’s overall appeal. The low-slung profile and minimalist approach to styling add to its timeless and understated look. The incorporation of modern technology further enhances the bike’s functionality and aesthetic. Whether you are a Harley-Davidson enthusiast or simply appreciate well-designed motorcycles, the Street 750 is sure to catch your eye.
A Comprehensive Review of Harley-Davidson Street 750’s Handling and Comfort
Harley-Davidson is a brand that is synonymous with power, style, and the open road. When it comes to motorcycles, few names carry the same weight as Harley-Davidson. The Harley-Davidson Street 750 is a bike that embodies the spirit of the brand, offering riders a unique blend of handling and comfort.
One of the standout features of the Street 750 is its handling. This bike is designed to be nimble and responsive, making it a joy to ride on both city streets and winding country roads. The low center of gravity and wide handlebars give the rider a sense of control and stability, allowing them to confidently navigate through traffic or take on tight corners.
The suspension on the Street 750 is also worth mentioning. The front forks and rear shocks are tuned to provide a smooth and comfortable ride, even on rough roads. This means that riders can enjoy long journeys without feeling fatigued or uncomfortable. The suspension also helps to absorb bumps and vibrations, further enhancing the overall riding experience.
In terms of comfort, the Street 750 does not disappoint. The seat is well-padded and offers ample support, allowing riders to stay comfortable even on long rides. The riding position is also well-designed, with the footpegs and handlebars positioned in a way that reduces strain on the rider’s body. This means that riders can spend hours on the bike without feeling any discomfort or fatigue.
Another aspect of the Street 750 that contributes to its comfort is the wind protection. The bike features a small windscreen that helps to deflect wind away from the rider, reducing fatigue caused by wind resistance. This is especially beneficial for riders who frequently travel at high speeds or on highways.
The Street 750 also comes equipped with a range of features that enhance the overall riding experience. The bike features a digital instrument cluster that provides riders with all the necessary information at a glance, including speed, fuel level, and gear position. This allows riders to stay focused on the road without having to divert their attention to multiple gauges.
In terms of safety, the Street 750 is equipped with anti-lock brakes (ABS) as standard. This feature helps to prevent the wheels from locking up during sudden braking, reducing the risk of accidents. ABS is especially useful in wet or slippery conditions, where maintaining control of the bike can be challenging.
Overall, the Harley-Davidson Street 750 offers a compelling combination of handling and comfort. Its nimble and responsive nature makes it a joy to ride, while its comfortable seating position and suspension ensure that riders can enjoy long journeys without feeling fatigued. The bike’s wind protection and safety features further enhance the overall riding experience, making it a great choice for riders who value both performance and comfort. Whether you’re a seasoned rider or a beginner, the Street 750 is a bike that is sure to impress.
The Legacy of Harley-Davidson Street 750: From the Past to the Present
The Harley-Davidson Street 750 is a motorcycle that has a rich legacy, spanning from its inception to the present day. This iconic bike has become synonymous with the Harley-Davidson brand and has left an indelible mark on the motorcycle industry.
One of the key aspects of the Street 750’s legacy is its historical significance. The motorcycle was first introduced in 2014 as part of Harley-Davidson’s strategy to tap into the emerging markets, particularly in Asia. This move was seen as a departure from the company’s traditional focus on heavyweight motorcycles, and it was met with both excitement and skepticism.
However, the Street 750 quickly proved its worth, becoming one of the best-selling motorcycles in Harley-Davidson’s lineup. Its success can be attributed to its affordability and versatility, making it accessible to a wider range of riders. This marked a significant shift for the brand, as it expanded its customer base and reached out to a new generation of riders.
Another aspect of the Street 750’s legacy is its impact on the motorcycle industry. The bike’s introduction sparked a wave of competition among other manufacturers, who sought to replicate its success. This led to the emergence of a new category of motorcycles known as “middleweight cruisers,” which aimed to combine the performance and style of heavyweight bikes with the affordability and accessibility of smaller models.
The Street 750’s influence can also be seen in the design and engineering of other Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Many of the features and technologies introduced in the Street 750, such as the liquid-cooled Revolution X engine and the improved suspension system, have been incorporated into other models in the brand’s lineup. This demonstrates the lasting impact of the Street 750 on the company’s product development and innovation.
Furthermore, the Street 750’s legacy extends beyond its impact on the motorcycle industry. It has also played a significant role in shaping the culture and community surrounding Harley-Davidson. The bike has become a symbol of freedom, rebellion, and individuality, attracting a diverse group of riders who share a passion for the open road.
The Street 750 has also been embraced by motorcycle enthusiasts and collectors, who appreciate its unique design and historical significance. It has become a sought-after model in the vintage motorcycle market, with collectors willing to pay a premium for well-preserved examples.
In conclusion, the Harley-Davidson Street 750 has a rich and enduring legacy that spans from its introduction to the present day. Its historical significance, impact on the motorcycle industry, and role in shaping the Harley-Davidson culture have solidified its place in motorcycle history. Whether you’re a rider, collector, or simply an admirer of motorcycles, the Street 750 is a testament to the enduring appeal of Harley-Davidson and its commitment to innovation and excellence.
Customization Options for Harley-Davidson Street 750: Personalize Your Ride
Harley-Davidson motorcycles have always been synonymous with freedom, power, and individuality. With their iconic designs and roaring engines, these bikes have captured the hearts of riders around the world. One of the most popular models in the Harley-Davidson lineup is the Street 750, a bike that combines style, performance, and affordability. What sets the Street 750 apart from other motorcycles is its customization options, allowing riders to personalize their ride and make it truly their own.
When it comes to customization, Harley-Davidson has always been at the forefront. The Street 750 is no exception, offering a wide range of options for riders to choose from. From handlebars to exhaust systems, there are countless ways to make your Street 750 reflect your unique style and personality.
One of the most popular customization options for the Street 750 is the addition of aftermarket exhaust systems. These systems not only enhance the bike’s performance but also give it a distinct sound that is sure to turn heads. Whether you prefer a deep, rumbling growl or a high-pitched scream, there is an exhaust system out there that will suit your taste.
Another popular customization option for the Street 750 is the addition of new handlebars. The stock handlebars on the Street 750 are comfortable and easy to handle, but some riders prefer a different style or position. Whether you want ape hangers for that classic chopper look or drag bars for a more aggressive riding position, there are plenty of options available to suit your needs.
In addition to exhaust systems and handlebars, there are also a variety of options for customizing the appearance of your Street 750. From paint jobs to chrome accents, there are countless ways to make your bike stand out from the crowd. Whether you prefer a sleek, all-black look or a vibrant, eye-catching design, the possibilities are endless.
But customization isn’t just about aesthetics. It’s also about making your bike more comfortable and functional. One popular customization option for the Street 750 is the addition of a new seat. The stock seat on the Street 750 is comfortable enough for short rides, but if you plan on spending hours in the saddle, you may want to consider upgrading to a seat that offers more support and cushioning.
Another popular customization option for the Street 750 is the addition of saddlebags or a luggage rack. These accessories not only add storage space but also make it easier to carry your belongings on long rides. Whether you need to pack a change of clothes for a weekend trip or want to bring along some snacks for the road, saddlebags and luggage racks are a practical and stylish addition to any Street 750.
In conclusion, the Harley-Davidson Street 750 offers a wide range of customization options that allow riders to personalize their ride and make it truly their own. From exhaust systems to handlebars, there are countless ways to enhance the performance and appearance of your Street 750. Whether you’re looking to turn heads with a custom paint job or improve comfort with a new seat, the possibilities are endless. So why settle for a stock bike when you can create a one-of-a-kind masterpiece? Personalize your ride with the Harley-Davidson Street 750 and make a statement wherever you go.
The Harley-Davidson Street 750 Community: Stories and Experiences
The Harley-Davidson Street 750 has gained a loyal and passionate community of riders who have shared their stories and experiences with this iconic motorcycle. From long road trips to daily commutes, the Street 750 has proven to be a reliable and versatile machine that brings people together.
One of the most common themes among Street 750 owners is the sense of camaraderie and community that comes with owning a Harley-Davidson. Many riders have formed close friendships and riding groups, organizing regular meetups and events to share their love for the brand. The Street 750 has become a symbol of unity and belonging, bringing people from all walks of life together.
The affordability of the Street 750 has also played a significant role in its popularity. As one of the more budget-friendly options in the Harley-Davidson lineup, it has opened the doors to a wider range of riders who may have previously thought owning a Harley was out of reach. This inclusivity has fostered a diverse and vibrant community, with riders of all ages and backgrounds coming together to celebrate their shared passion.
Another aspect that sets the Street 750 community apart is the willingness to help and support one another. Whether it’s sharing maintenance tips, recommending the best riding routes, or offering a helping hand in times of need, Street 750 owners have created a network of support that extends far beyond the motorcycle itself. This sense of community is a testament to the bond that forms when people share a common interest.
The Street 750 has also become a platform for personal growth and self-expression. Many riders have shared stories of how owning this motorcycle has empowered them and helped them overcome personal challenges. The freedom and independence that comes with riding a Harley-Davidson has been a catalyst for personal transformation, inspiring individuals to push their limits and embrace new experiences.
In addition to the personal stories, the Street 750 community has also been a source of valuable feedback for Harley-Davidson. Riders have provided insights and suggestions for improvements, helping the company refine and enhance the motorcycle over the years. This collaborative relationship between the brand and its community has resulted in a better product that meets the needs and desires of its riders.
While the Street 750 community is undoubtedly passionate about their motorcycles, it is important to note that it is not without its critics. Some riders have voiced concerns about the bike’s performance and handling, citing issues with its weight and suspension. However, these criticisms are often met with constructive discussions and a genuine desire to find solutions, further highlighting the community’s commitment to continuous improvement.
In conclusion, the Harley-Davidson Street 750 has fostered a vibrant and supportive community of riders who share their stories and experiences. From the sense of camaraderie and inclusivity to the personal growth and self-expression it enables, this motorcycle has become more than just a mode of transportation. It has become a symbol of unity, a platform for personal transformation, and a catalyst for collaboration between the brand and its community. Despite its critics, the Street 750 community remains steadfast in their love for this iconic motorcycle, continuously working towards making it even better. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.studiosohy.com/studio_sohy_artists/chris-suspect | 2018-09-26T01:34:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267162809.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20180926002255-20180926022655-00308.warc.gz | 0.966146 | 318 | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-39__0__13226579 | en | Photo by Matt Dunn
Chris Suspect is a street and documentary photographer from Washington, D.C. He specializes in capturing absurd and profound moments in the quotidian. His street photography work has been recognized internationally and has been exhibited in Miami, Tblisi, Germany and the United Kingdom. His documentary work on the underground music scene in Washington, D.C., was published as a book by Empty Stretch in 2014 and was a featured exhibit in the Leica Galerie at Photokina 2014 in Koln, Germany. The work is currently held in the Leica Galerie Archives.
In this past year, Suspect was named a finalist in the Urban Picnic Street Photography Awards (UK), a finalist in the Miami Street Photography Festival and was shortlisted for the International Street Photography Awards (UK). Locally, he was named the winner of the Washington City Paper’s 2014 Photography Contest. Previously, Suspect served as a judge for the Miami Street Photography festival during Miami Art Basel (2013), he won Photo District News’ “The Scene” contest for music photography (2013) and received an honorable mention in the Chicago Photographic Society’s first annual street photography contest (2013).
Suspect’s work has recently been featured in the Huffington Post, Photo District News and on the Leica Camera Blog. He also has published photographs in the Washington Post, Washington City Paper, National Public Radio (website), Scientific American, CNN, The Atlantic, Forbes and many other media outlets in the US, Germany, Canada and Brazil. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.astroeverywhere.com/post/fact-or-fiction-does-the-moon-really-affect-our-mood | 2024-04-21T08:43:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817729.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421071342-20240421101342-00135.warc.gz | 0.954263 | 2,710 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__175145003 | en | Black holes have long endured a reputation as an “unknowable mystery” that has been highly distorted and warped in the funhouse mirror of pop culture and science fiction. They have been depicted as everything from sources of infinite energy to doorways to other realms. Given the hysteria that surrounds them, their actual natures seem mundane by comparison - no small feat when their true nature is the physics bending result of a star’s highly energetic death!
Black hole animation credit: NASA
Black holes have recently come back into the public eye with the gravitational wave discovery known as GW150914. This result has been a hundred years in the making and confirmation of some of the most exciting ideas in physics. This discovery has not only opened up a new possibility for observing and understanding the Universe, but allowed us to perceive realms and events previously thought of as unobservable.
Most of the smaller (non-supermassive) black holes in the Universe are thought to have begun their existences as stars. The mass of a star at the beginning of its life determines much of the star’s eventual fate. While modest red dwarf stars start with very little hydrogen to power their internal furnaces, they use it slowly and efficiently with very little going un-utilized. Some of these stars are thought to take between ten billion and a hundred billion years or so to end their lives. Stars like our own Sun start with more material but lead faster paced lives - our Sun has been shining for five or so billion years and could shine for five billion more but when it does go out, there will be an envelope of unused hydrogen around it as it becomes a planetary nebula surrounding a glowing white dwarf. For the largest stars, like proverbial rock stars, they live fast and die young, leaving behind “attractive” corpses (gravitationally attractive, that is…). While their ten million year lifespan might seem ancient to us bipeds, it is shockingly brief for stars. It is jarring to imagine that, for stars like this, 6.6 generations have come and gone since the demise of the dinosaurs! These high mass stars also leave behind neutron stars or black holes as their remnant, depending on their initial mass.
The stars that gave their lives to produce the binary black holes that merged to cause the recent gravitational wave discovery are somewhat mysterious - characterizing a pair of stars from 130 million light-years away would be an astounding feat. What we do know from the result is the mass of the black holes that remained at the end of the star’s lives - . Based on the respective masses of 29 times the mass of the Sun and a whopping 36. We have stars firmly within the largest class of stars since much of their original mass would have been expended into energy over their brief lives, thought to be between 40-100 times the mass of the Sun at their formation ( Belczynski, 2016) - they would be considered very high mass stars. When the stars went supernova, (type II supernova, most likely) they left behind very massive black holes as a result of their dramatic ends; yet this is where our story really begins.
These two star-crossed stellar remnants met their mutual end 130 million years ago, but due to their tremendous distance from us here on Earth, we only learned of their merger in 2014. The two had likely been orbiting each other for a long time, slowly losing gravitational energy. As their binary orbit decayed, they moved in closer and closer to one another, orbiting faster and faster. The final stage of their merger is what created the distinctive rising “tone” that was detected clearly by the LIGO team; this was the ever accelerating ringdown phase where the rapidly orbiting stars entered a mutual Schwarzschild radius and became one. The signal of this merger spread outwards across the Universe, eventually reaching Earth and triggered both apparati. As the waves propagated outward, the ripples in spacetime became more diffuse and therefore more challenging to detect so when they reached and passed through LIGO’s detection facilities, the contraction of space that was observed was minute. The change in distance for the mirrors within the cavity was on the order of 1/1000 of the diameter of a proton which is quite a challenging distance to wrap one’s mind around. Several of the analysis compared the measurement to observing a change in distance equivalent to the thickness of a human hair over 4.24 light-years, the distance to Alpha Centauri. These nearly imperceptible fluctuations in spacetime could have come from any number of sources, meaning that the LIGO team had to painstakingly compare the received signal to a variety of scenarios to determine which one was the closest match and eventually (after months of calculation and deliberation) determined that the origin was a black hole merger.
What was actually observed? A laser ever so slightly ceased interfering with itself in a laboratory in Louisiana tiny fractions of a second after a duplicate apparatus experienced a similar ceasing of interference across the United States in Washington. The two facilities had set up long tube-like optical cavities, well shielded from the pervasive vibrations and noise of the outside world that were set at right angles to one another. Lasers were passed through a partially coated mirror called a beam-splitter and sent down these chambers to reflect off a mirror 4 kilometers away. The laser is then recombined and calibrated so that it interferes with itself, cancelling itself out when the system is “at rest” but when a gravity wave passes through the apparatus, it would contract or extend the distance the light travels through on one axis-arm, allowing the light to avoid canceling out whereupon it would be detected by a photometer sensitive to the laser’s wavelength.
The first recorded detection of gravity waves is a world-changing event, akin to the discovery of radio waves from space by Jansky in the 1930’s but perhaps even more fundamental and potentially more revealing. It was greeted warmly by the press but quickly overtaken by the next “big discovery” that made a social media splash and this is a crying shame. In attempting to share nearly every published result to garner support, scientific institution are creating a good deal of publication “noise” that can diminish the “signal” of truly groundbreaking discoveries. It falls to those who report on science and share it with the public to emphasize the good and contextualize the rest.
That being said, those who wrote on the discovery did an excellent job - one example of surprisingly good science journalism in an unexpected place was the Huffington Post, a publication best know for reviews of Starbuck beverages and celebrity gossip. The author of their article, an astrophysicist by the name of Jeffrey Bennett writes: “this discovery is that direct detection opens up an entirely new way of studying the universe.” (Bennett, 2016) Emphasizing that while the subjects observed (large and merging black holes) are certainly sensational, the lion’s share of the discovery is an entirely new way to study the Universe and directly observe phenomena that had been outside our abilities, historically.
In order to better understand the astronomical implications, more studious and academic sources might be required. Yet once again, things are not as they seem. The New York Times published a verbose piece (Overbye, 2016) that is constantly and confusingly expanding the analogy between the observation and audible sound. They do, however, share a graphic and a fair amount of column inches to the black holes themselves, illustrating the method by which they merged and how the merger expended a huge amount of energy, thereby explaining the missing mass/loss of energy as predicted by Einstein nearly a century ago.
Unsurprisingly, the Caltech/LIGO release (LIGO lab, 2016) is full of excellent detail and emphasizes the teammates who contributed to the discovery as well as detailing information and the instrumentation, but I feel there is something of a lack in reporting about the black holes themselves. They do reference a “mathematically accurate model” as being a major factor in confirming their detection but on the release itself there is not a lot of detail about the astronomy. While this is somewhat understandable given their institutional proximity to the apparatus and the science team, it does not seem to be the strongest response.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) offered a factual review (Chu, 2016) of the celestial event as well as the detection - highlighting that this was detected shortly after LIGO was technically upgraded into Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravity-wave Observatory (or ALIGO) and that soon, it will be improved so that it will be able to achieve three times the current sensitivity and be able to detect farther and fainter signals. Given the nearly implausible precision of the system today, this is both hard to comprehend and really exciting!
Public Radio International, like MIT, gave due credence to both the discovery teams and their instrument, but was a bit scant on the nature of the black holes. What made their article noteworthy was their exploration of the principles of Einsteinian gravity. They had a very good explanation of the principles behind the gravity waves and how this discovery is simultaneously a confirmation of hundred year old physics and a wonderful “open window” into new astronomical realms. Using the Sun as a familiar “space-time distorter” and including a fun video on the subject is a great example of scaffolding the content for a layperson.
Science and research focused publications seem to be an obvious choice for a trustworthy and detailed write up and the well esteemed journal Nature did just that. Their examination of the result is measured, accurate, well sourced, and well explained. They share the nature and mechanism by which the energy is expended in the generation of the gravity waves and how the energy loss led to the orbital decay and increase in orbital frequency until the black holes themselves were orbiting at nearly half the speed of light for their final five rotations before merging into the single static black hole. Davide Castelvecchi (2016), the author of the Nature article also describes a plausible explanation for the oversize mass of the participant black holes, in that both are a little past the 30 solar mass limit for type II supernovae but that migrating through a rich cloud of material would have given the massive objects a chance to scoop up more material and become more massive. Overall, I would say that the Nature piece has had the best mixture of style and content.
Composing content that is both factual and engaging is a huge challenge, a balancing act of sorts. When this challenge is compounded by a monumental discovery, an amazing team of scientists, further vindication for one of our best loved theoreticians, and a whole new kind of astronomy that enables us to study black holes, this is like a balancing act while carrying the Queen Elizabeth 2’s anchor. It makes me glad to know that there are science communicators out there capable of rising to the challenge and sharing these wonderful new ideas with the world.
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Castelvecchi, Davide. "The black-hole collision that reshaped physics." Nature 531, no. 7595 (2016): 428-31. doi:10.1038/531428a.
Daniel, Ari. "Listen to the collision of two black holes. Einstein was right." Public Radio International. February 11, 2016. Accessed April 27, 2017. https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-02-11/listen-collision-two-black-holes-einstein-was-right.
"Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein's Prediction." LIGO Lab | Caltech. Accessed April 24, 2017. https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20160211.
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office. "Scientists make first direct detection of gravitational waves." MIT News. February 11, 2016. Accessed April 26, 2017. https://news.mit.edu/2016/ligo-first-detection-gravitational-waves-0211.
Belczynski, Krzysztof, Holz, Daniel E., Bulik, Tomasz, O’Shaughnessy, Richard “The first gravitational-wave source from the isolated evolution of two stars in the 40–100 solar mass range”
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Overbye, Dennis. "Gravitational Waves Detected, Confirming Einstein’s Theory." The New York Times. February 11, 2016. Accessed April 23, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.rainforestfund.org/an-open-letter-to-president-hernandez-honduras/ | 2023-09-25T03:55:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506676.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20230925015430-20230925045430-00514.warc.gz | 0.950182 | 633 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__275209706 | en | In the wake of Ms. Berta Cáceres’s assassination, Rainforest Fund has written a letter to President Hernández with the intention of expressing our sadness but also our demand for justice and an end to senseless violence.
Dear President Hernández,
We write to you as Rainforest Fund, a non-profit organization that for twenty-seven years has supported indigenous peoples throughout the world’s rainforests in their efforts to protect their ancestral lands and fulfill their rights.
In the wake of Ms. Berta Cáceres’s assassination, we are deeply saddened and deeply disturbed as the peaceful fight for the protection of life, indigenous life, in Honduras and throughout the world, is perpetually met with violent resistances, attacks and murders.
Ms. Cáceres knew the risks of leading her Lenca people in the defense of their lands and resources historically threatened by illegal logging and most recently by the construction of a dam; but, cowardly threats to her life and livelihood did not derail her. She had a mission to improve the livelihoods of her people and implore the rest of the world to “wake up,” as she called for in her Goldman Environmental Award acceptance speech. Ms. Cáceres knew that if our nations cannot determine a way to live and operate in harmony that we will sow our own destruction. Her message was on behalf of the indigenous people, but is one that speaks to all people, throughout our lone world.
The brutal perpetrators who took Berta Cáceres’s life are likely part of the broader crisis throughout Latin America and other rainforest countries. This crisis – characterized by criminals seeking to exterminate indigenous and environmental activists who protest against extractive industry projects that destroy the environment – has resulted in over one thousand killings over the past fourteen years according to a report by Global Witness. Honduras is the deadliest country per capita for environmental activists. This violence can end but is possible only when governments, institutions, communities and corporations work together to ensure that all stakeholders involved in extractive resource projects are fairly represented, involved and respected.
Rainforest Fund appeals to you, President Hernández, to follow up on your promise to investigate this crime, as it is, as you say, one against Honduras itself. We beseech you to carry on Ms. Cáceres fight by upholding and implementing international law and custom regarding indigenous peoples and justice itself: to commit to policies that demand the free, prior and informed consent of indigenous peoples and to hold accountable those who violate these basic human rights.
We thank you for your time and offer our deepest condolences for the loss of this inspiring woman who brought strength to her people.
The Rainforest Fund
Franca Sciuto, Co-founder and Chair/Executive Director
Trudie Styler, Co-founder, Board Member
Sting, Co-founder, Board Member
JP Davidson, Board Member
Athos Gontijo, Financial Director
Madeleine Lesser, Program & Development Officer | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.advocateforvictims.com/blog/2017/6/15/why-victims-of-sexual-assault-and-abuse-must-speak-up | 2019-08-22T11:17:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027317113.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20190822110215-20190822132215-00237.warc.gz | 0.978834 | 999 | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__54367709 | en | Sexual assaulters are keenly aware, even smug, that their victims will not report them and if they do, the odds of the assaulter being convicted or suffering any long-standing consequences is extremely low. Sexual assault, sexual harassment, and child sexual abuse are crimes that thrive on silence due to shame and fear. The courageous people who do come forward are abandoned by friends, families, schools, co-workers, and churches. They are revictimized by law enforcement, lawyers, the media, and trolls.
Why on earth would anyone voluntarily subject themselves to that additional pain and suffering when what they are going through is already unbearable. As someone who has been through it, I can tell you why I did and why my hope is that I can help others do the same – to save others. It is the most common reason most victims come forward. The second most common reason is to seek justice which validates their story and serves consequences to the assaulter.
The paradox victims face is that to save others and seek justice they must speak up and report what happened to them when that is the very last thing they want to do at the time. They want to pretend it didn’t happen, they don’t want people to know it happened, and they want to forget it happened. The problem is most states have a statute of limitations that requires victims to report in a timely manner.
It is very common for victims not to disclose what happened to anyone until much later in life after they have had time process only to find that they are too late to seek justice due to the statute of limitations.
When victims take 10, 20, or 30 years to come forward, as they did in the widely publicized cases of Bill Cosby and the Archdiocese in The Keepers docuseries, people who are not trauma-informed or educated in sexual assault question the validity of the claim. The victims are called liars and gold diggers.
More than 60 women have come forward accusing Bill Cosby of sexually violating them. Out of 60, only one was within the statute of limitations. This is a prime example of how drastically different the outcome could have been had the victims came forward sooner. Every victim that comes forward helps to validate the stories of the victims that come before or after them.
Quite often the District Attorney won’t even try a case if there is only one victim. This happened in my daughter’s case when she reported a predator who molested her. She was the only victim to have come forward so the DA did not press charges until a year later when another victim came forward. Had that girl not come forward, he could have gotten away with it. Turns out he had many victims over a period of seven years that could have reported to the authorities and stopped him before he got to my daughter. Who knows how many children could have been spared.
There was never any doubt in my mind that we were going to report. I knew it would be hard and stressful for my daughter and myself. I felt a strong civic duty to stop the predator from hurting others despite how hard it would be. It was harder than I expected and I would do it again.
I applaud Andrea Constand for being brave enough to fight this battle on her own and respect the Prosecutor willing to take the case to trial, especially against an adored celebrity like Bill Cosby. Had Constand come forward sooner it could have made a much stronger case. Had other victims came forward within the statute of limitations it would have made a very strong case and much longer sentence had Cosby been convicted. Each victim adds to the amount of prison time the criminal is sentenced to serve.
Many of us are fighting for eliminating or greatly extending statutes of limitations for these types of cases. The damage that is done to the victims has no time limits, therefore, there shouldn’t be any time limits to hold an assaulter accountable. However, changing the statute of limitations will not always change the juror’s questions as to why the victims didn’t come forward sooner. We are not going to be able to educate the entire public or every potential juror on the psychological and valid reasons why each victim comes forward only when they are ready.
To remedy this, we need to support and encourage victims to report sooner rather than later. We cannot guarantee justice will be served but the potential to save others remains. Research shows that the majority of sexual assaulters have multiple victims. Child molesters have an average of 117 victims and do not stop until the day they die. The outcome we can guarantee victims is their words and actions will impact others. The more we speak up and take action the more we encourage others to do the same. There is strength in numbers and every story matters. I encourage victims to tell their stories and report to authorities, you never know how many victims you spared. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://regulatecannabislg.org/marijuana-testing-in-the-nfl-has-been-drastically-reduced-under-the-new-cba/ | 2023-09-24T11:15:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506632.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924091344-20230924121344-00736.warc.gz | 0.976001 | 697 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__273100582 | en | With the NFL Draft in full swing for 2021, the league’s popularity is at an all-time high. Hundreds of young athletes will begin their NFL careers during the draught, which begins on Thursday, April 29th, 2021 and ends on Saturday, May 1st, 2021. These athletes, fresh out of college, will enter the NFL in the hopes of having successful athletic and financial careers. Though injuries and a lack of ability are the most common hurdles to success in the NFL, there is another factor that has wrecked a number of pro-football careers. The NFL’s drug policy has long been known for being stringent, with a number of players testing positive each season. Marijuana, primarily THC, is one of the most prevalent positive tests in the NFL. Under the new collective bargaining agreement, the NFL’s marijuana testing policy will be dramatically revised in order to give its players more freedom.
The NFL’s Outdated Marijuana Policy Is Causing Problems
The NFL’s marijuana policy has long generated more issues than it has addressed for its players. Ricky Williams, the famous running back, is one of the most apparent stories that springs to mind. Williams, a former Heisman Trophy winner who was selected fifth overall in the NFL draught, had his career cut short many times due to adverse THC testing. Williams chose to retire and study holistic medicine rather than pay a six-figure fine and serve a four-game suspension after his first positive test.
Though he was able to return to football, Williams was subjected to numerous further marijuana-related sanctions and was scapegoated throughout his career for his mostly therapeutic marijuana use. Williams would very certainly be in the Hall of Fame if not for marijuana-related career setbacks. His narrative is a perfect example of the harm caused by an erroneous and outdated perception about marijuana. Williams is now a proponent of medical marijuana and has even created his own business.
NFL Marijuana Policies Have Been Revised
Though the NFL’s drug standards have been exceedingly severe for years, the modifications introduced this year are a breath of fresh air. The in-season THC test threshold was previously set at 35 nanograms, but it will now be upped to 150 nanograms. Positive test penalties were once severe, ranging from a punishment of two game checks to a one-year suspension from the league. Instead of immediately imposing penalties, the league will now assess if treatment is required based on a player’s THC level. This player-centered strategy is the appropriate way to go, and NFL players will most certainly appreciate it.
The league’s random drug testing period usually starts on April 20th (no, it’s not a joke) and lasts until August 9th, when training camp begins. During this time, the NFL conducts drug testing on players for everything from cocaine to performance-enhancing substances. THC will no longer be tested for during this offseason time, which is one of the most significant modifications to the NFL’s marijuana testing policy.
The adjustments to the NFL’s marijuana testing policy will almost certainly be welcomed by the majority of the league’s players and team employees. The policies should no longer be aimed at preventing and punishing players who use marijuana. Instead, they will not lead to the demonization of players who use marijuana to cure the numerous injuries incurred as a result of spending the majority of their lives playing a violent game. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://crochet-news.com/coming-soon/ | 2017-11-18T10:08:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934804724.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20171118094746-20171118114746-00776.warc.gz | 0.82418 | 190 | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-47__0__250016614 | en | We’re busily working behind the scenes, creating graphics, writing policies, contacting bloggers, yarn and pattern companies and more. Soon we’ll be opening our Crochet News site to new daily content, showcasing the best of the online crochet world including:
- the latest free crochet pattern releases
- the best of the paid crochet patterns
- tips, tricks and tutorials from the experts
- all the latest crochet news and events
- crochet videos you’ll love
- special offers on classes, and class reviews
- exclusive discounts on your favorite online suppliers
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In collaboration with renowned Atlanta artist FRKO, we've curated a bespoke NC A&T homecoming graphic, a testament to our commitment to authenticity and creativity. This visual masterpiece captures the essence of tradition meeting modernity, echoing the spirit of our documentary series.
'Scholars on the Yard' isn't just a documentary; it's a vibrant mosaic of stories that redefine education, inspire creativity, and amplify voices that deserve to be heard. Join us in honoring the legacy of HBCUs, where passion meets purpose, and Maverick Minds shape a brighter tomorrow. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://wearefanatics.com/tag/pittsburgh-steelers/ | 2018-02-24T12:12:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891815560.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20180224112708-20180224132708-00758.warc.gz | 0.963369 | 2,503 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__28290260 | en | In June, the Pittsburgh Steelers created a lot of excitement among fans by introducing the “bumblebee” jersey, which has been worn occasionally since 2012. The black-and-gold horizontal-striped jersey with black-on-white number patches – which team president Art Rooney II once admitted looked like a prison uniform – is based on the 1930s then–Pittsburgh Pirates uniform and has became a favorite among jersey buyers. The “bumblebee” will debut this season on November 1 against the Bengals.
“We wanted to use a jersey that we wore early in our history as we celebrate our 80th season,” Rooney said in justifying his decision to launch the unique jersey in 2012. “We have never used those jerseys since the 1934 season and I think our fans will be excited to see our players wear them in action this year.”
For many, a team’s jersey is the most identifiable symbol of the team. As players spend the game masked and helmeted, the field uniform is the visible avatar of the team, carrying the fans’ passions and anguish on its sleeves. The jersey is a part of the brand, which represents the team’s successes, failures, rivalries, and accomplishments. It’s not so much that if the jersey is liked, the team will be liked; the jersey represents the team and as the team is successful, the jersey becomes more revered.
Sports Illustrated hit on this point in an analysis of the success of college football team the Oregon Ducks (University of Oregon). “[This] brand wasn’t built by the marketing department or by a consultant,” wrote Andy Staples for SI. “The staff at Nike, one of the best brand-building companies in America, had a hand in the process, but the people most responsible were the coaches and the players. Like anything else, a football team’s brand is mostly defined – for better or for worse – by the quality of the product. Coca-Cola could have actors sing about buying the world a Coke, but the world wouldn’t have bought many if those Cokes had tasted terrible.”
“In Oregon’s case, Nike’s uniform designs and technological advances are vital components. But so is the blur offense created by former coach Chip Kelly and refined by successor Mark Helfrich and coordinator Scott Frost. And the most important factor is a culture that has remained intact through three coaching changes over 20 years.”
In the case of the Steelers, the jersey has come to represent an 82-year history during which they transitioned from an also-ran team with the longest record for going without a championship pre-merger to the team with the most Super Bowl wins (6), most Super Bowl appearances (8), most conference championship appearances (15), most conference championship games hosted (11), and most AFC championships (8) post-merger. Arguably one of the most successful teams in the modern era, the black and gold represents years of toil, hardship, and long-due redemption for a team as hard as the reputation of its host city.
The History of the Steelers Jersey
1933: Sports promoter Art Rooney purchases an NFL franchise for $2,500 with the intentions of converting his semi-pro team, the Majestics, into a pro team. As was tradition at the time, Rooney changes the name of the team to the city’s baseball team name, the Pirates.
The 1933 jersey is engineered to give the ball carrier as much of an advantage as possible: The black vertical stripes on a gold background are actually raised felt, meant to cause friction against the ball when the carrier presses it to his body to reduce the possibility of fumbles. The original 1933 jersey also bears the coat of arms for the City of Pittsburgh on its chest as a way of getting the hometown crowd behind them.
The 1933 jersey is no longer thought to exist, and no high-definition photos or diagrams are available. When the Steelers sought to recreate the jersey for its NFL 75th Anniversary throwback in 1994, they were unable to make a faithful reproduction, as the exact design of the coat of arms is also lost to time. The throwback featured non-raised stripes and the current city crest.
Despite the jersey’s engineering, the ’33 team finishes 3-6-2. The team would not finish above .500 until 1942.
1934: The 1934 jersey features raised stripes running horizontally. Instead of the coat of arms, two black-framed black-on-white number panels appeared on the chest – a unique feature among NFL jerseys. It will be this jersey that will become the “bumblebee” throwback.
Uni-Watch investigated this jersey and found the team only wore it during one game in 1934, instead of the 1933 jersey. This game, based on photographic evidence from the University of Pittsburgh, was the November 12, 1933 game against the Brooklyn Dodgers, which the Pirates/Steelers won 32-0. For most of its games that year, the team wore either a solid yellow jersey with black chest numbers, a black jersey with gold sleeve bands and chest numbers, or a yellow jersey with wide black sleeve bands and black chest numbers. Many suspect that the team wore the city crest jersey for four games that year.
Nobody knows why the Pirates/Steelers cycled through so many jerseys that year.
1940: The Pirates change their name to the Steelers in reference to Pittsburgh’s steel industry. To help build morale, the White House asked the Steelers to continue playing – despite the fact that most of the team’s line-up has been drafted into World War II.
1943: To cope with the financial stresses, manpower shortages, and diminished market, the Steelers merge with Pennsylvania’s other NFL team, the Philadelphia Eagles, becoming the “Steagles.” The team plays in both Pittsburgh and Philadelphia and embraces the Eagles’ green and white: The new jersey features white chest numbers and vertical sleeve stripes on a seafoam green jersey. The merged team finishes the 1943 season with the Steelers’ second winning-season record (the first was the year prior).
1944: The Steelers merge with the Chicago Cardinals as a result of an uneven number of teams in the league, forming the “Card-Pitts.” This marks the Pittsburgh franchise’s only winless season. The experiment ends in 1945 when the Boston Yanks permanently merge with the now-defunct Brooklyn Tigers.
1954: The first “modern” Steelers uniform emerges – the black at-home jersey with gold horizontal sleeve bands and gold chest numbers. The helmet transitions from leather to plastic – although, facemasks will not become compulsory until the 1960s.
1960: The latest jersey debuts; it is similar to the 1954 jersey, except that it is tighter. It is unclear whether this was intentional, as logic suggests a looser jersey would afford more comfort and freedom of movement.
1963: This year marks not only the first use of the Steelers’ logo – which is based on U.S. Steel’s three-points logo – but also introduces a new away uniform. The jersey is white with yellow diamond-shaped number patches at the shoulder, black chest numbers, and black sleeve and collar cuffs. The logo is placed on the right side of the helmet only, allegedly because owner Art Rooney was on the fence about it. The right side–only helmet logo is now Steelers tradition.
1966: This year marks the debut of a new home uniform: a black jersey with a yellow diamond “yoke” at the shoulders and collar and white numbers at the chest and high on the sleeves. The Steelers are the only team to use anything other than a rectangular “yoke” on their jerseys. The “Caped Crusader” jersey – so named because it resembles Adam West’s Batman costume – was designed to stand out from other NFL jerseys and to draw attention to the Golden Triangle development in Pittsburgh. The players hated the jersey, and the triangle faded easily.
1974: From the team’s inception until 1971, the Steelers only had eight winning seasons. The ’70s change all this, starting with the 1974 season that nets the team its first league championship at Super Bowl IX. Quarterback Terry Bradshaw, defensive tackle “Mean Joe” Greene, defensive end L.C. Greenwood, defensive tackle Ernie Holmes, and defensive end Dwight White wear the white away jersey with gold horizontal stripes and black shoulders and chest numbers.
1975: A new home jersey follows the 1974 away jersey in design, with a black jersey with gold and white alternating stripes and white numbers on the shoulders and the chest. A white American Bicentennial patch appears on the jersey for Super Bowl X. Bradshaw and the “Steel Curtain” win the Super Bowl this year, as well as in 1978 and 1979.
1988: With minor alterations, the 1974 and 1975 jerseys are still used today. However, in 1988, the Steelers added an “AJR” patch to their jerseys to mark the passing of Rooney.
2000: The Steelers logo patch is permanently added to the jerseys at the left shoulder, and the NFL logo is introduced to the front of the collar – as it is for all NFL jerseys.
The Black, White, and Gold
In 2009, then-governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell and then-governor of Arizona Jan Brewer put an unorthodox twist on the traditional governors’ wager on championship games. Instead of daring each other to perform an asinine stunt, the bet dictated that the losing governor would have to treat the winner of an essay contest in the winning governor’s state to an all expense–paid vacation in the losing governor’s state. For Super Bowl XLIII, Rendell had Steelers fans explain why they loved the Steelers, in 250 words or less.
The winner, Cole Hughes, a Residence Inn manager, expressed what many Steelers fans feel about their home team in describing how he and his father dealt with having only one ticket to the 1972 AFC Championship: “My dad, who was a steelworker, somehow came up with one ticket,” Hughes wrote. “We went down to Three Rivers with the hope of getting another. Not one single ticket was even being scalped that day, so it didn’t happen.”
“He wanted me to use the ticket. I wanted him to use the ticket. We went back and forth for 15 minutes outside of Gate A, each insisting the other use the ticket. At 13, I knew enough to insist he use it as he had gone through many losing seasons with the Steelers. I reasoned that this was the beginning of something good and I would get to my share of AFC Championships.”
“I convinced him to use the ticket, which he did, and I took the bus home and listened to the game on the radio with my buddies. We always had a great memory of that day with that one ticket.”
The Steelers of today pale in comparison with the Steelers of the ’70s or even the Steelers of the last decade; but for a city as hard-nosed and hard-working as Pittsburgh, the Steelers are the ideal team. They didn’t see a championship for their first 38 years, they had to fight for respect and recognition, and they were regularly lost in the haze of Philadelphia’s and New York’s flashier teams. Yet the Steelers are still owned and run by a direct descendent of its founder, who never moved, and the team is still the fixture in Pittsburgh society it was more than 80 years ago.
The black, white, and gold have came to represent the tradition of the NFL’s most storied team, and, like the team, the history and evolution of the jersey represents a never-ending passion for what could be and what was.
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https://califunder.com/astro-daily-april-5-2023 | 2023-09-23T07:39:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506480.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923062631-20230923092631-00083.warc.gz | 0.954796 | 279 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__226070901 | en | Astro Daily: April 5, 2023
Although tomorrow's Libra Full Moon is not an eclipse, it brings eclipse energy to the forefront, hinting at a new chapter to come with the Aries New Moon solar eclipse in two weeks. Our collective focus is getting ready to shift as we prioritize relationship.
We have a tendency to only think of romance and intimacy when we hear the word relationship. But Libra, as an archetype, encompasses all relationships. It helps us to socialize, to understand the perspective of others, to find consensus.
From July 2023 to January 2025, the Lunar Nodes will be in Aries-Libra, which is to say that the eclipses will be in Aries-Libra -- a bit of a change from the Taurus-Scorpio eclipses that have been dominating our experiences since November 2021. With the South Node going into Libra, we're going to be collectively working on our relationship with relationship into 2025.
Think of tomorrow's Libra Full Moon as our first glimpse at this new chapter. And if you are an Aries or a Libra, life is going to get a bit dynamic. The last time eclipses were in Aries-Libra was 2014 and 2015.
If you are in AUSTRALIA or NZ, this forecast applies approximately for April 6, 2023. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://skillbard.bandcamp.com/album/an-all-encompassing-light | 2017-07-24T10:36:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549424846.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20170724102308-20170724122308-00612.warc.gz | 0.970881 | 127 | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-30__0__4091511 | en | Excerpts from the score to An All Encompassing Light, directed by Chloe White.
A 20 minute documentary which details the experience of Lee, now in his 80s, when the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. The film is told through Lee's eyes as he remembers where he was, and how it affected him afterwards. The film uses archive footage against modern day shots of Hiroshima to show how the city has changed, and recovered from it's brutal past. The film touches on themes of memory, and loss, and poses the question: how we can move forwards with our lives when we hold such painful memories? | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.ychs.net/apps/blog/show/43981870-mass-of-thanksgiving | 2021-06-21T10:20:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488269939.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20210621085922-20210621115922-00549.warc.gz | 0.972582 | 318 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__46480256 | en | |Posted on May 15, 2016 at 2:40 AM|
Hundreds of visitors, including YCHS students and their families, Board members, and friends of the school gathered on campus for a potluck dinner and Mass of Thanksgiving for Father Corcoran. Corcoran, the founding Principal and Director of YCHS, is completing five years of service at the school. He will leave this summer to begin a new assignment in the U.S.
In his homily at Mass, Father Mulreany (who arrived five years ago with Corcoran) compared how the disciples may have felt when they realized Jesus would be leaving them and how many at YCHS may feel about Corcoran's departure. "No one should be worried," Mulreany reassured the congregation. "Jesus told the disciples that the Father would send the Holy Spirit to remind them of all He taught them. The Holy Spirit, which gave birth to this school, will continue to remind us of all that Father Corcoran has taught us." Mulreany then mentioned three of the important lessons Corcoran brought to YCHS: 1. Be at school and on time every day. 2. Be a reader. 3. Do what's right, not what's easy. Mulreany finished by thanking Corcoran "for bringing out the best in all of us."
During his remarks after Mass, Corcoran thanked all those who have helped make YCHS a success. To view pictures of ther Mass and dinner, click on the Photo Gallery link above. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://blog.beta.mn/beta-backers-sparks-connection-for-startups | 2021-10-20T20:40:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585348.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20211020183354-20211020213354-00577.warc.gz | 0.976778 | 1,195 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__162673968 | en | As part of our programming to uplift Minnesota founders and propel startup growth in the Twin Cities, we hosted another BETA Backers event on May 7!
Presented by Bremer Bank, Backers connects active investors with Minnesota’s newest emerging companies. We source and vet both investors and startups and make unique matches based on industry, investment thesis, and startup stage.
This time around, we were able to connect 28 startups with over 20 investors from around the country! Explore the experience below and get involved for the next invite-only BETA Backers by filling out our investor support form or submitting a startup application.
The Startup Experience
“The biggest part is building relationships,” said Mary Kay Ziniewicz, BETA alum and founder of Bus Stop Mamas. This was her second Backers event, and she described it as a learning experience each time.
“Each time I go in, what I know is different,” she said, explaining that as a startup founder, her knowledge base evolves along with the journey. This year, Ziniewicz went in for critical feedback and practice pitching after a year off.
She also noted having to re-angle her pitch on the fly as she met with multiple investors, which proved helpful and beneficial. “It got me fired up for getting my head around raising money now,” she added.
And Bus Stop Mamas has interest — Ziniewicz is following up with a few investors as a result of the event, and got interest from investors that she didn’t even meet with but heard of her company.
“I loved the opportunity to get in front of investors in a non-threatening way,” she said.
“All the front-end heavy lifting is done for us,” Eul, who met with four investors, said. “[It’s a] big win for me that it was all set up and coordinated,” he added, mentioning that it was very clear and appreciated that every investor had done their research.
As a company that works to make meaningful professional connections through office hours and coffee clubs, Eul mentioned really appreciating the back end work to the connection — because that’s exactly what they do.
“Usually there’s an uneven dynamic, but when a third party does it, it evens the playing field,” he said of networking and connecting with big players like investors.
Currently in the middle of a raise, Eul is in active conversation with two of the four investors he met with at Backers.
The BETA Backers experience was also great for Black Tech Talent, said founder and CEO Mike Jackson.
“It was an opportunity to meet with multiple investors in a scenario where we knew at minimum they were interested in learning about us if they weren't already familiar,” he said.
The team met with all four investors they were slotted with and are continuing conversations with three — one of them became a customer a few days after. “We also had an additional investor ask to be introduced to us after the event,” Jackson said, who also mentioned enjoying the format of the event on Gather.town.
The Investor Experience
In the role of a venture capitalist, there’s a lot of noise, said Ryan Broshar of Matchstick Ventures. What Backers helps do is tap into quality companies and foster those connections.
“It’s super helpful,” he said, mentioning that all the companies he met with were well prepared and matched well with the wheelhouse of Matchstick. “I could tell there was relevance in a lot of it.”
As a co-founder of BETA, he also mentioned how exciting it is to see the evolution of companies who go through programming like the Cohort and Backers. “The quality of the companies as a whole was great, there were some really awesome companies we were able to meet with,” he said.
Broshar emphasized the vibe of the program in that it’s not supposed to pressure startups and investors to fill out term sheets in 20 minutes — rather, it’s to foster connections, mentor young startups, and create opportunities.
“I thought it was a great use of time,” he said.
Peyton Green of Traction Capital, a newer hybrid private equity and venture capital firm in the Cities, agreed. “It held a lot of value for me,” he said.
Green attended Backers to get out and meet founders in the community, and explore businesses that might be potential investment opportunities in the future. He ended up meeting with 4 companies, following up with three, and reaching out to seven more listed on the program dossier.
“It was a really good resource for me and I had several really good conversations,” Green said, mentioning one of the companies he reached out and chatted with was Bus Stop Mamas.
“I’m definitely going to attend future events,” he said.
About BETA Backers
BETA Backers connects investors with Minnesota’s top emerging startups. The BETA team sources and vets both investors and startups, to make unique matches based on industry, investment thesis, and startup stage. During a 2-hour virtual event, investors and startups partake in multiple 20-minute conversations in an intimate setting that can lead to meaningful partnerships.
BETA is a 501(c)(3) organization that develops Minnesota’s next generation of business leaders by inspiring and educating first-time founders. The BETA Group nurtures startups and small businesses with great scalability potential, so that they can grow to become our next Fortune 100s. Learn more here. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.theindicast.com/index.php/indicast-podcasts/point-blank/item/1022-point-blank-with-pritish-nandy | 2020-08-03T17:39:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439735823.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20200803170210-20200803200210-00598.warc.gz | 0.94835 | 217 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__115685290 | en | A poet, a journalist, a sportsman, a publishing editor of India's premier newspaper, a photographer, a traveler, a film maker - all in one lifetime and still going strong. If this were a quiz question, one needn't require any options to choose from. The name that comes at the top of one's mind is that of Pritish Nandy. In this point blank chat with Aditya, Nandy gets candid on his colourful career so far - right from his schooling days where his poems would get him plaudits from accomplished writers and female fans to his stint as a successful producer of cult films like Hazaron Khwaishein aaisee...
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https://www.iamll912.org/uncategorized/ohio-ceos-are-making-almost-300-times-what-average-employees-make/ | 2023-12-05T01:12:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100540.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20231205010358-20231205040358-00806.warc.gz | 0.931782 | 205 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__307912679 | en | According to the AFL-CIO’s Executive PayWatch, Ohio S&P 500 CEOs are being paid about 290 times what the average rank-and-file worker makes. That’s an average of $10.9 million per year vs. $37,600 per year for production and non-supervisory workers.
When inflation is taken into account, worker’s wages have remained more or less the same for half a century.
“The income inequality crisis in our country continues unabated,” said Tim Burga, Ohio AFL-CIO President. “Our economy continues to be rigged by those at the top and working people continue to pay a big price. These findings highlight the need for a greater emphasis on strong collective action to ensure that wages rise, rights get restored, and workers finally get the dignity and respect they’ve earned.”
According to Salary.com, GE Aviation CEO David Joyce made over $10 million in compensation in 2016. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://thebrewerydistrict.ca/new-westminster-cultural-crawl/ | 2022-01-20T10:09:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301737.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120100127-20220120130127-00208.warc.gz | 0.90565 | 261 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__20522474 | en | New Westminster Cultural Crawl
This year marks the 15th annual New Westminster Cultural Crawl - a free two-day arts and cultural festival that puts the city’s abundant creative talent on display. The Crawl has come a long way from its origins in 2013 as a one-day art walk with only a few artists and less than 400 visitors to 2017 - with 4,200 people visiting over 150 artists in 37 venues across New Westminster.
From August 10th to 12th, don't miss out on an opportunity to see the variety of art and culture that New Westminster is proud of. Visit 100 Braid Studios, the Van Dop Gallery and Pineapple Cat Studios to see the working space of New West's most prolific artists. For a trip back in time, stop by The Original Bike Shop & Cap's Bicycle Museum to see bicycles all the way from 1860!
Wesgroup and The Brewery District are proud to sponsor an event that showcases the importance and abundance of New Westminster’s art and cultural scene. The Brewery District is right there in the Sapperton and Victory Heights Neighbourhood leg of The Crawl and is the perfect launching pad for your cultural explorations.
For more information on the New West Culture Crawl, visit newwestculturalcrawl.com | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.gaudibarcelonashop.com/en/blog/11_arran-hangs-a-banner-in-la-pedrera-to-protest-against-mass-tourism.html | 2019-11-13T00:26:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496665809.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20191112230002-20191113014002-00013.warc.gz | 0.956821 | 137 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__115377966 | en | La Pedrera as a tourist icon and being one of the most crowded spaces in the city.
Arran, the youth organization linked to the CUP, has hung a banner in La Pedrera on Tuesday against tourism in the city: «Tourism kills the city». The group of activists denounce that it is an "unsustainable" model for both the population and the territory.
Arran Jovent has shared the action in his social networks. In his Twitter account, he argues that "We will continue to point out a tourist model designed to enrich a few and precarize many.", adding that "it is the first action, but not the last one". | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.watchingamerica.com/alseyassah000005.shtml | 2017-04-26T03:56:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121153.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00187-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.961553 | 1,195 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__76544080 | en | Ayatollah Khomeni's Grandson Calls on Bush to 'Occupy' Iran
One might imagine that the grandson of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Al Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Revolution, would support the Iranian regime. But according to this article from Kuwait's Arabic-language Al-Seyassah, Hossein Khomeini is calling on President George W. Bush to invade and occupy Iran to liberate it from 'religious dictatorship.'
Translated By Nicolas Dagher
June 2, 2006
Kuwait - Al-Seyassah - Original Article
(Arabic, PDF Files, Pages 1 and 42)
Like grandfather, like grandson?
Nope. Hossein Khomeini (above),
the grandson of late Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini (below),
founder of the Islamic Revolution.
Hossein Khomeini , grandson of Ruhollah Al Khomeini, the founder of the Iranian Republic,
has said that his country is living under a religious dictatorship, governed by the mullahs. He also
defended his call for President Bush to invade Iran!
interview with the news Web site alarabiya.net, Hossein Khomeini called for the
liberation of Iran from religious rule and Al-Fakih [rule by the
most learned of Islam] and said that the revolution, which was led by his
grandfather against the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1979, had devoured its
Note: Al-Faqih is the doctrine of The Guardianship of the Jurists, which means that
those most knowledgeable about Islamic law should assume a leading political
role in society. ].
a rare interview with Hossein Khomeini, who has avoided the media since touring
Iran three years ago and annoying the Iranian government with some of his comments. Khomeini said
that he knows that his contacts and movements are under surveillance.
of the heated confrontation between his country and the international community
over the nuclear issue, Khomeini said that Iran, "would be powerful if
freedom and a democratic society were being developed there, rather than weapons
and the bomb."
also said that he opposes the Al-Fakih rule and would never accept the
authority of a ruler under Al-Fakih. He added that if he came to power, the
first law that he would implement would make wearing of hijab [headscarf] a
personal decision for women.
Some color options for
women who wear the Hajib.
He said, "by
forcing women to wear the strictest, black-colored hajibs, instead of allowing those of different colors, the religious authorities in Iran are unduly restricting
women. Even though I personally support the wearing of some form of hijab, when
female students come out of schools and colleges covered in black, it just makes your heart sick. The hijab issue is a
personal matter. If a woman wants it she can wear it, and if she refuses it,
she doesn't have to. My grandfather Khomeini had lots of relatives that didn't wear
Hossein Khomeini observed that, "my grandfather's revolution devoured its sons and lost its way." He said that when the revolution took place it did not intend to install the Fakih rule, but that all this changed because of the religious thinking that was predominant in religious societies and schools.
He said that the revolution used to call for freedom and democracy, but instead it persecuted its leaders. People like Al Sayyid Al Talkani, who was often imprisoned during the Shah's regime. After the revolution he opposed the breaking of laws and suffered tremendously, having to go in hiding full of sadness over of his actions.
Like father, like son? In this
case, perhaps. Reza Cyrus
Pahlavi (above) and his father,
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
He also condemned the revolutionary tribunals, which continue to practice persecution and beatings in an arbitrary and disorganized fashion. Al Talkani's family was also targeted.
It is well known that the most famous leaders of the Iranian revolution either opposed it afterwards, like Massoud Rajavi who was sentenced to death, or fled the country, like Bani Sadr, or mysteriously disappeared, like Montazeri, Rajaii and Bahchati.
About his call for U.S President George W. Bush to occupy Iran, Hossein Khomeini clarified: "freedom should be promoted in Iran in any way possible, and it is irrelevant whether this freedom comes as the result of domestic or foreign developments. If I were imprisoned, what does it matter? It is in my interests that someone come and break me out of that prison."
In regard to his meeting with the son of the deposed Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, Khomeini said it was an ordinary meeting between two people who share the suffering over a singular problem, which is tyranny, even though each of us comes at it from a different angle."
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Speaks to Hossein Khomeini.
VIDEO FROM IRAN: 'IMAM KHOMEINI SUPPORTED SEX CHANGE OPERATIONS'
AL-JAZEERA, iran: Excerpts from a story about sex change operations in Iran, June 2, 2005, 00:05:04, Via MEMRI
"The first to inspire fatwas on this matter was the Leader of the Revolution - Imam Khomeini. Four decades ago, before he came to power in Iran, Khomeini adopted this position, and became, as some claim, the first Muslim cleric to deal with sex change."
Finding sex-change relief in Iran | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://drjenniebyrne.com/the-alarming-surge-of-chronic-diseases-the-need-to-shift-our-focus-from-lifespan-to-healthspan/ | 2023-10-03T19:45:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511220.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20231003192425-20231003222425-00804.warc.gz | 0.92167 | 1,109 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__157270919 | en | Chronic diseases have been rising in the USA for the last 40 years. Today, the numbers are staggering— six in ten adults have one chronic disease and four in ten have two or more. The chronic disease epidemic is the leading cause of death and disability in the United States, costing $4.1T annually, and representing 90% of healthcare costs. Even more startling, chronic diseases are anticipated to further rise in the US and around the globe.
A key revelation from the Covid-19 pandemic was the susceptibility and vulnerability of the US population, especially those with pre-existing conditions. Americans suffered one of the highest rates of complications and death per capita with the worst outcomes among industrialized nations. In 2021, the US spent ~$12,914 per person on annual healthcare costs, the highest of all countries in the world. In contrast, Japan spent $4,666 and had one of the lowest Covid-19 death rates amongst wealthy nations.
The statistics paint a sobering picture. In the United States alone, more than 70% of adults carry the burden of being overweight or obese, and nearly 10% battle diabetes. Heart disease, the leading cause of death in the country claims more than 600,000 lives each year. These numbers are indicative of a systemic problem. When the majority of the population has a chronic disease, it is no longer that “someone” needs to take better care of themselves. Rather, it’s an indication that the underlying “system” has failed.
The Case for Prioritizing Healthspan
In this article, we focus on lifestyle-driven chronic diseases which represent 80% of chronic diseases and offer a significant opportunity for meaningful intervention and prevention. We have for far too long over indexed on increasing “lifespan”; rather, it’s time to reevaluate our north star with a focus on extending “healthspan”.
Healthspan (n) — the amount of life spent in good health without disease
Healthspan represents the number of years an individual lives in good health, without suffering from chronic diseases or disabilities. Unlike lifespan, which measures the total length of an individual’s life, healthspan focuses on the quality of those years. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining functional abilities, cognitive health, and overall well-being throughout the entire lifespan. Healthspan prioritizes addressing the root cause of chronic diseases.
Introduction to the Healthspan Index
To navigate this transformative journey, we introduce the healthspan index — a powerful tool to quantitatively assess an individual’s overall health and well-being across their lifespan. By considering a multidimensional approach to health, this index provides a comprehensive and nuanced evaluation of an individual. It transcends the binary presence or absence of disease, enabling personalized interventions to enhance healthy aging and longevity.
The healthspan index encompasses five pivotal categories:
(2) Mental health
(3) Lifestyle behaviors
(4) Socioeconomic factors
(5) Health promotion and prevention
Through a series of carefully designed questions, individuals embark on a self-assessment journey.
To calculate a healthspan index score, different measures and indicators are used, such as self-reported health assessments, medical evaluations, functional capacity tests, quality of life surveys and biomarkers of aging. These assessments are often combined to generate a numerical score or index that represents an individual’s healthspan index score. Dr. Jennie Byrne who focuses on the Medicare population eloquently states that we need to find “ways to help human beings proactively manage their health and create resiliency in managing their illness.” In addition, Nicole Mason, who focuses on worklplace wellness says, focusing on healthspan may “help elevate and expand the availability mental health resources”.
A healthspan index score can lead to empowered discussions within our communities, families, employers, and with healthcare professionals as we reclaim agency of our health and drive change. Dr. Michelle Feng who specializes in mental health states “We need a healthcare system that incentivizes healthy living through an integrated system of disciplines”.
A Call to Action
By maximizing healthspan, we extend the years of vitality and functional ability, transforming the very fabric of our lives. But it goes beyond personal responsibility; it requires bold systemic changes. Governments must invest in public health initiatives, making healthy choices affordable and accessible to all. Corporations must prioritize employee well-being, fostering a culture of health. Communities must create environments that support and promote healthy living.
Introducing a healthspan index offers a powerful tool to understand the needs of our population and drive transformative actions. It is a comprehensive compass guiding us towards a society that values well-being as a fundamental pillar. This revolution is not limited to disease prevention; it is about enhancing the quality of life for every individual. Rashmi Rao, SVP of Philips Healthcare articulates that healthcare requires a “paradigm shift from caring about treating sickness to preventing sickness…. From seeing us as patients to seeing us as humans …”
The healthspan revolution demands a multi-pronged approach, combining individual empowerment, public health initiatives, and structural changes. Together, we can bridge health disparities, ensuring a more just and equitable society. It is an opportunity to rewrite the narrative of health, unleashing the potential for a healthier and more resilient future. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://close-1.tumblr.com/tagged/shakespeare | 2014-10-21T15:08:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1413507444493.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20141017005724-00199-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.962947 | 433 | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-42__0__79160940 | en | TCA: Tom Hiddleston on Move from ‘Avengers’ to Shakespeare - Loki Is ‘Quite a Shakespearean Villain’
By Tim Molloy | The Wrap – 9 hours ago
As you sat through “Thor,” little did you know you were getting a dash of Shakespeare — courtesy of Tom Hiddleston.
The British actor stars in the new PBS series “The Hollow Crown,” an adaptation of the Bard’s Henriad: “King Richard II,” “King Henry IV, Part 1,” King Henry IV, Part 2,” and “King Henry V.”Hiddleston’s Prince Hal becomes King Henry V over the course of the plays.
Hiddleston said in a Television Critics Association panel on Monday that he saw similarities between Hal and Loki, the Norse God of Mischief he played in “Thor” and “The Avengers.” So did his “Thor” director, Shakespearean actor and director Kenneth Branagh.
"When I was building Loki as a character with Kenneth Branagh, all of my references — both of our references — were Shakespearean," said Hiddleston (pictured with “Crown” executive producer David Horn). “There’s a version of Loki in Branagh’s film that is sort of Prince Hal-like. He’s a prince wrestling with the authority of his father.
"And I was borrowing from Julius Caesar: ‘Cassius has a lean and hungry look.’ I was stealing from Iago and his capacity for strategy and tact. He’s an immaculate tactician who’s acting out of self interest. … I think he’s quite a Shakespearean villain, in many regards.”
“The Hollow Crown,” which Sam Mendes produced for BBC2 last year, will begin airing on PBS’s “Great Performances” beginning Friday, Sept. 20. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://counsellingni.co.uk/2017/10/raising-awareness-women-stay-abusive-relationships/ | 2019-08-18T10:49:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027313803.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20190818104019-20190818130019-00445.warc.gz | 0.972334 | 1,182 | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__186850031 | en | Raising Awareness- Why Women Stay in Abusive Relationships
The prevailing myth that persists about domestic violence, even in today’s society, is the notion which is implicit in the question “Well, why doesn’t she just leave him?” that the abused woman is to some extent responsible for her own misfortune.
Many people still hold on to the belief that men are only violent when they are provoked or encouraged in some way. It stands to reason, according to this argument, that women deserve to be abused. Others maintain that women who stay in violent relationships must enjoy being abused. Worse than promoting ideas like these, society is guilty of ignoring the subject of domestic violence altogether as “a private matter between man and wife.”
Violence Toward Men
Although male victimization is an important issue that needs to be addressed, it is of significance and worth remembering the disparity between male and female physical strength and the unequal power context in which domestic violence occurs. Evidence shows that the use of violence by men toward women is of a much more widespread and serious nature than violence used by women toward men, which renders the abuse of women a priority issue.
According to a study carried out by UNICEF, up to half the female population of the world is subject to domestic violence. Evidence points to the fact that the abuse of women is both a national and a worldwide crisis.
So… why do so many women put up with it?
Staying in an Abusive Relationship: Emotional and Practical Reasons
Emotional considerations, such as the shame and embarrassment of being an abused woman was one of the most significant reasons according to Live Science. In order to access help, a woman must expose the nature of her relationship and invite the criticism of others. Many women have also come to believe, erroneously, over the years that they are causing their partners’ violence and that it is a justified punishment. As such, self- blame stops them from recognising that they are the victims of crimes committed against them and seeking the help that they deserve.
Fear of her partner’s reaction often stops a woman from leaving an abusive relationship. Indeed, one study found that women are particularly at risk after they leave their husbands/partners and know that leaving doesn’t necessarily end the violence anyway. As McWilliams and McKiernan point out, “The reason why it is expected that a woman would leave the violence is simultaneously the reason why she does not.” She may have been threatened with being killed many times and, having seen all too often what her partner is capable of doing to her, she knows that these are no idle threats.
She may still have feelings for her partner and, having already invested considerable time and effort in the relationship, believes that with a little more effort on her part, she can make him change. Her fantasies may be fuelled by her partner’s promises and profuse apologies during the “honeymoon period” which she wants desperately to believe and which create the right psychological conditions for her to do this.
Practical concerns, especially when women are financially dependent on their partners, often mean that leaving a violent partner is tantamount to choosing a life of poverty. An abused woman may also have no one to turn to either because she is isolated geographically or, having left her partner many times before only to return to the relationship to try again, she finds that she no longer has the support of family and friends.
Battered Woman’s Syndrome
Very often, the abused woman, broken down by continual emotional wear and tear over the years, lacks the confidence required to lead an independent life and to put into practice all the changes that that would entail. She may be suffering from depression or, what Hilberman and Munson termed as “battered woman’s syndrome,” which is characterized by passivity, paralysis, numbness and a pervasive sense of helplessness and despair. Such feelings reflect not only the fear of another assault, but the constant struggle to control her own anger and aggressive impulses toward her partner which she is unable to express without fear of reprisal.
Women stay in abusive relationships for a variety of emotional, practical and even physiological considerations. Making the decision to leave or end an abusive relationship is, for most women, a long and difficult process. Often they will leave several times before they are able to end it altogether. It needs to be recognised that the decisions made by these women will change the course of their lives. Saying “Why don’t you just leave?” to an abused woman is not useful at all because it shows little regard for her concerns and fails to grasp the complexity of the situation that she finds herself in.
Stopping the Cycle of Violence
Domestic violence affects most people, if not directly, then indirectly. The impact that it has on children, who are frequently witness to these assaults, in terms of their sense of security and the normalisation of unacceptable behaviour, is a serious concern because of the potential that it will lead to the inter-generational transmission of violence.
In order to stop the cycle of violence, however, it is necessary to stop “blaming the victim,” reinforcing in the minds of abused women that it is their own fault that they are being abused, thoughtlessly branding them with the stigma that they are “weak,” “stupid,” “bad” or “unstable” in addition to the traumas that they endure. These women need support and encouragement and their reasons for remaining need better understanding if they are to find the courage to put an end to their violent relationships. More information about ways you can end domestic violence can be found here. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.aliqtisadia.com/2019/05/05/opec-is-facing-an-existential-crisis/ | 2020-07-13T15:53:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593657145436.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20200713131310-20200713161310-00273.warc.gz | 0.967967 | 911 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__145431439 | en | Global oil market fundamentals are looking particularly bullish, from the OPEC+ production cuts, to the constraints of exports in Nigeria and the U.S. sanctions on Iran and Venezuelan. While oil price volatility has increased thanks to financial analysts putting an emphasis on Trump’s apparent Twitter agreements with OPEC leaders, market fundamentals are still very bullish. Until the global market realizes that U.S. oil storage reports are not the be all and end all for oil prices, volatility will remain.
There is a new threat looming though as OPEC+ prepares to meet at its June 25-26thMinisterial Meeting in Vienna. The internal cohesion of OPEC is being called into question at present, as several major member countries are facing not only external sanctions but threats of a total internal implosion of their respective regimes. The removal of U.S. waivers for leading oil importers of Iranian oil and gas is putting the Tehran regime under severe pressure.
While Trump’s target of reducing Iranian production to zero is unrealistic, the impact of the sanctions is undeniable. No new oil contracts have been reported between Iran and its main clients, China and India, since the sanctions. It seems that the fear of indirect sanctions by the U.S. is already having its desired result, Iran’s hydrocarbon exports have been hit hard and seem to have no response.
Reports about Iran having trouble to pay not only its own bills, but also its proxies in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, also show that the regime is struggling.
At the same time, Iran’s staunchest supporter in OPEC, Venezuela appears to be on the brink. Confronted by U.S. sanctions and increased political support from Arab and European countries for opposition leader Guaido, Venezuela is a facing an economic meltdown as its hydrocarbon sectors come to a standstill. In recent days the situation here has worsened as the opposition, supported by parts of the Venezuelan armed forces and security services, has openly started a rebellion to remove current president Maduro. The latter remains in power, but mainly due to Russian, Chinese and Turkish support. Iran’s Latin American partner is heading for a possible civil conflict of unknown proportions.
Based on these two key OPEC producers, at least on paper, OPEC’s internal structure is fragmenting. The Saudi-led OPEC+ production cut strategy is still in place, but it is partly successful due to the negative repercussions of the sanctions on Iran and Venezuela. The high level of compliance with the agreement (128%) is based on the loss of these particular volumes.
At the same time, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Russia, are sticking to their roles, cutting as needed. Optimism about Iraq is based on uncertain assumptions, while Libya’s overall situation is highly volatilie.
In the coming weeks, as analysts focus on production figures, storage volumes and demand, OPEC will be focusing on defusing pressure to increase production, while at the same time the Saudi-led faction will likely confront the Tehran-Venezuela (and possibly Iraqi) axis. Iran has openly threatened to undermine OPEC’s stability if no support can be gathered before the June meeting.
In several statements to the press, Iran’s oil Minister has warned that OPEC is in danger of collapse. Tehran threatens at present to take all necessary measures to block oil and gas flows from OPEC members that are supporting the U.S. sanctions regime.
At the same time, Tehran has warned to take measures against countries trying to fill in the supply gap left by Iran. Zanganeh reiterated the latter during a meeting with OPEC secretary general Barkindo in Tehran. Barkindo reacted by saying that OPEC will do its utmost to depoliticize oil and gas policies of the organization.
OPEC’s SG statements however look very bleak in light of the growing heat in the conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Zanganeh is counting on Iraq, Libya and Venezuela to keep the pressure on Riyadh an Abu Dhabi, not to fully support U.S. sanctions.
The meeting in June will be crucial. Geopolitical pressure, combined with an aggressive power projection of Iran in the Middle East (Iraq, Syria, Libya), leaves less room to maneuver for Arab countries than before. Tehran’s hope to keep Moscow on its side also seems to be backfiring as Russia openly is behind OPEC+ cuts, while backing Saudi-UAE’s efforts in Libya. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.leoberwick.com/tax-insurance-forum-2023/ | 2024-04-13T16:13:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816820.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413144933-20240413174933-00025.warc.gz | 0.956098 | 3,063 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__96891463 | en | The recent inaugural Tax Insurance Forum (TIF) hosted by tax advisory firm Leo Berwick in New York provided an opportunity for tax insurance brokers and underwriters to engage in a lively discussion led by several panelists.
“The tax insurance market has grown substantially, beyond traditional M&A,” said Joe Volk, Managing Director at Leo Berwick. “It requires brokers, underwriters, and underwriter counsel to be creative in assessing non-traditional risks and to have deep expertise outside of M&A.”
The TIF was intended to be a collaborative event where brokers and underwriters in the tax insurance marketplace could discuss important issues and new challenges that have emerged in the field, with the conversation being led by recognized leaders in the industry. The agenda included:
- The State of the Tax Insurance industry (Nick Kato, Leo Berwick; Joe Volk, Leo Berwick; Justin Pierce Berutich, Euclid Transactional; Austin Cahill, Alliant Insurance Services);
- Green Energy (Kyle Kidd, Leo Berwick; Jordan Tamchin, CAC Specialty; Mark McTigue, Marsh);
- Claims and Insuring Live Controversies (Sharon Katz Pearlman, Greenberg Traurig; Bill Kellogg, Ryan Transactional Risk);
- Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) (David Brandon, Leo Berwick; Joe Volk, Leo Berwick; Devorah Pomerantz, Great American Insurance Group; Bill Kellogg, Ryan Transactional Risk); and
- State and Local Tax Issues (Toni Lewis, Leo Berwick; Jeffrey Lash, Euclid Transactional; Alisha Soares, Marsh)
Addressing conference goers on the state of the market, Austin Cahill, a Managing Director and Tax Team Leader at Alliant Insurance Services said that there must be a willingness to turn over new rocks to help clients mitigate risk. “Our time in the spotlight is here,” he said. “There has never been a bigger need for collaboration. We must … perhaps divorce ourselves from just being players in the M&A market space.”
Echoing the need-for-collaboration sentiment, Leo Berwick’s Managing Partner Nick Kato said “insurance proposals that are submitted to an underwriter are occasionally ‘skinny’ or missing key analyses and facts.” Mark McTigue from Marsh shared that brokers explain to their clients that a well-written tax memorandum that summarizes the relevant facts and an analysis of the law, together with a “tax exposure calculation” that clearly shows the tax at risk if the IRS or other taxing authorities were to successfully challenge the insured tax position, can go a long way to getting strong terms and pricing.
Nick Kato added that without those key items, “many more hours may need to be spent by underwriters and underwriter counsel on the submission if it’s going to be effectively quoted, and ultimately underwritten.”
The group agreed that a potential tax submission must go beyond a high-level summary and cursory legal analysis. Unless that submission contains the information needed by an underwriter, it takes on a generic quality, potentially resulting in delay, higher premiums, higher underwriting fees, or even an inability to issue a non-binding indication letter (NBIL).
The group also addressed the recent slowdown in M&A activity, as a result of uncertainties surrounding valuations, inflation fears, increased interest rates, and decreased demand. This has caused a reset of public and private company valuations. As a result, it has been difficult for parties to reach an agreement on price. Notwithstanding the slowdown in M&A activity, tax insurance submissions continue to increase, supported by increased market acceptance of the product.
“The tax insurance market’s dedication to expanding product awareness and penetration has been unwavering and is really starting to pay dividends,” said Justin Pierce Berutich, Managing Director and Head of Tax at Euclid Transactional. “With our persistent efforts, the market successfully delivered insurance solutions for even the most intricate tax opportunities, including transfer pricing and non-U.S. risks in regions like Latin America. It’s incredibly exciting to be a part of the market’s continued progress and expansion.”
Turning to the green energy portion of the agenda, panel members discussed new opportunities for tax insurance coverage in the wake of the Inflation Reduction Act and the expansion of green energy tax credits.
As of January 1, taxpayers may elect to transfer credits to unrelated taxpayers in exchange for cash, opening up new opportunities for monetization of credits. Panel members discussed their observations of tax structuring trends in core renewables.
“Overall, we are still seeing tax equity partnership flips for larger scale wind and solar projects, despite the new transferability regime,” said Kyle Kidd, Partner and Renewables Leader at Leo Berwick, who has extensive experience advising renewable energy investment funds.
Kidd said that clients seem to be considering transferability of investment tax credits on less familiar green energy projects, like standalone battery storage and biogas. Smaller-scale wind and solar projects are also good candidates for transferability, since the transaction costs of transferability are less than a traditional tax equity partnership structure.
The role that tax insurance may play in the new transferability regime is an evolving debate. Kidd said that the expectation is that sellers of tax credits will provide indemnities to buyers to protect buyers from recapture risk and general credit qualification risk. In a scenario where the seller has a weak credit rating, we may see tax insurance playing a role.
One of the most common issues still being insured is valuation risk with respect to investment tax credits. With standalone battery storage, some valuations are significantly higher (relative to cost) than typical solar projects. It may become clear that tax insurance will play a role in this unfamiliar territory.
“Tax credit insurance is very important in this space,” said Jordan Tamchin of CAC Specialty “More times than not, it is the lynchpin in getting deals done, especially for companies that may have a weak credit rating. Moving to a broad policy to ensure transferability instead of listing every issue that may arise may be the way to go.”
After a brief break, a new panel discussed audits and tax controversy from a claims perspective as well as in connection with the industry’s ability to insure live controversies. The discussion centered on partnerships, and the elevated rate of audits in this area.
“The IRS moves very slowly and cautiously in the partnership space because the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (BBA) procedures which now govern partnership examinations are relatively new,” said Sharon Katz Pearlman, a Shareholder with Greenberg Traurig LLP, where she is a member of the law firm’s Global Tax Practice focusing on US and cross-border tax controversy, and an adjunct professor of law at NYU Law School. “In addition, practitioners are seeing more strong collaboration with IRS National Office on a variety of issues. With respect to the BBA process and technical partnership issues, if examiners have specific questions, they can consult with an expert at the IRS national office. This has expedited the process somewhat but there is still a long way to go.”
“The IRS has put a lot of enforcement focus and funding into the partnership space and has hired tax professionals with partnership experience, but it is still a challenging area. And, although the BBA was enacted to help the IRS more easily manage partnership examinations, the IRS is still short staffed with a lot of training yet to be completed.”
The panel agreed that there is heightened risk as time marches on and the IRS becomes more attuned to what was taken lightly in years past. Education is another reason for the elevated instances of audits.
With regard to active tax controversies, the group noted that it seems more penalties are being asserted at the examination level, and that they are not automatically being dropped at Appeals. The panel commented that the penalty provisions exist to encourage voluntary compliance, and also serve to motivate taxpayers and their advisors to take and adequately document reasonable return positions.
The panel and audience discussed that the presence of tax insurance may be included in an IRS agent’s information document request. However, the presence of tax insurance doesn’t necessarily indicate a weak return position to the IRS. Rather, the presence of tax insurance could be seen as signal to the IRS that a position has been thoroughly vetted and that an insurance company has placed real capital at risk based on its underwriting.
The panel also indicated that settlements are still much more common than trials. However, there is increased IRS Office of Chief Counsel involvement, and certain matters proceed more slowly as a result. It can be more of a challenge to obtain an Appeals settlement that taxpayers believe fairly reflects the hazards of litigation. In a change from former Appeals process, Appeals does not always operate within the “80/20” parameters for resolution which it generally used in the past.
The next part of the forum involved REITs. Leo Berwick’s REIT Tax Leader, David Brandon kicked off the general discussion by mentioning three areas in which investors typically are interested in tax insurance for REIT transactions. These are REIT qualification, prohibited transactions, and Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act (FIRPTA).
He cautioned that the potential exposure in this space is very real, particularly with REIT qualification. “Although the question of REIT qualification has not been on the IRS radar screen for some time, problems in this area are often unearthed in connection with major REIT transactions, when a buyer’s due diligence team uncovers them” he said.
The panel agreed that most major REIT transactions should be backed with a REIT qualification opinion, and sufficient due diligence undertaken to support all the factual conditions of the opinion.
All were in agreement that prohibited transactions, which can be subject to confiscatory penalties, can be an excellent area for tax insurance when supported by appropriate factual development. As the economy deteriorates, particularly in the commercial real estate sector, REITs may look to raise funds by selling properties, raising the question of whether the properties are dealer properties subject to penalty taxes on disposition by a REIT.
Devorah Pomerantz noted that as an underwriter, she looks for a submission to clearly establish the factual background in such risk submissions. Volk noted that underwriters and underwriter counsel know the law, but appropriate facts and representations need to be present in a submission for the risk to be successfully underwritten.
Perhaps the largest takeaway from the REIT discussion was that prohibited transactions, which can be subject to confiscatory penalties, can be an excellent area for tax insurance when supported by appropriate factual development. Underwriters and underwriter counsel know the law, but appropriate facts and representations need to be present in a submission for the risk to be successfully underwritten.
The forum wrapped up with a discussion of payroll, and state and local tax issues, which could be an area of expansion for tax insurance.
Alisha Soares, Senior Vice President at Marsh, opened the dialogue by emphasizing that it takes a wary eye to bring an employee retention credits (ERC) risk to underwriters.
“When bringing a potential ERC risk to market you have to understand who was intended to receive these credits,” said Soares. “Then, go over the underlying documentation. We need to watch out for the ERC mills, or bad actors advising companies that they’re eligible to receive ERCs when they’re not. That’s not where we want to be. The IRS is in the position to enforce the rules aggressively.”
Jeff Lash, Senior Vice President and tax underwriter at Euclid Transactional noted that it is important for brokers, underwriters, and underwriter counsel to be stewards of the tax insurance product and exercise due caution in insuring risks like ERC eligibility, particularly when ERC eligibility is on the IRS Dirty Dozen list.
The IRS issued a renewed warning in March urging people to carefully review ERC guidelines before trying to claim the credit as promoters aggressively push ineligible taxpayers to file.
The IRS and tax professionals also continue to see third parties aggressively promoting these ERC schemes on the radio and online. These promoters charge large upfront fees or a fee that is contingent on the amount of the refund. The promoters may not inform taxpayers that wage deductions claimed on the business’ federal income tax return must be reduced by the amount of the credit.
“There is little appetite to insure these credits because of all the unreputable schemes out there that start with such things as banner ads and click bait,” said Toni Lewis, Partner and State and Local Tax Leader at Leo Berwick.
Notwithstanding the potential for bad actors, some forum attendees emphasized a willingness to consider insuring ERC eligibility given the right facts and situation.
The panel then shifted gears to developments and fallout that continue from the 2018 Supreme Court decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair.
Wayfair seems to have left an impression, particularly for state taxing authorities, that a nexus determination may be simplistic. Essentially, if you meet the economic threshold, you have a filing requirement regardless of the actual activity in a state. The US Supreme Court, in its Wayfair decision found that a business must “purposefully direct” its activities toward a state in order to be subject to its tax laws. The Court found that Wayfair’s advertising was purposefully directed toward South Dakota. It remains unclear what level of activity (active or passive) meets the Courts “purposefully direct” standard. This is just one of several questions that remain unanswered by the Supreme Court’s decision in Wayfair. These unanswered questions, along with the states’ inconsistencies in how they have adopted economic nexus and marketplace facilitator statutes mean that many state nexus issues are anything but simple, making tax insurance an important tool in the taxpayer playbook in addressing gaps or uncertainties in state statutes and regulations.
The lively discussions continued after the final panel session. There was a general sense in the room that this is somewhat of a new dawn in the tax insurance industry. There is a distinct need for robust collaboration when assessing new risks in emerging industries like green energy. Although the green or renewable energy industry is not new, certain industry offshoots, such as battery storage, are.
“All in all an exhilarating forum,” said Kato. “We accomplished what we set out to do: get a variety of views on the pressing tax insurance issues of the day. On behalf of Leo Berwick, we look forward to hosting the next TIF.”
Please contact a Leo Berwick team member to learn more. | journalism_and_media_communication |
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Demographic change – a wake-up call for all of Europe.
The working population of Europe is declining, while the ageing population is expanding. Solutions are needed to prevent stress of citizens and companies workers and at the same time improve affordable childcare services to allow more women to join the labour market. On the other hand, the provision of better organised home-help services for households and support services for the elderly can become a substantial source of new jobs.
These were some of the key messages emerging from an innovative Breakfast Debate in Brussels, 24 April on demographic change and future job opportunities in the home help, childcare and eldercare sectors organised by Edenred, the pioneer of the ‘Ticket Restaurant’ system, together with Toute l’Europe.eu, the online European information service.
The event was the first of a series of ‘Policies & Practices’ debates being organised with the aim of bringing together policy makers with practitioners from the field to help develop constructive and workable policy solutions.
Highlighting the current demographic situation in Europe was Dr Erika Schulz from the prestigious German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin. She presented the latest population trends in Germany which show that the number of elderly people requiring care will rise from the current 1.3 million to 3 million by 2050, while the number of carers to look after them is steadily declining. Dr Schulz anticipates a shortfall of some one million carers with evident consequences.
As a participant in the pan-European research project ‘ANCIEN’ (‘Assessing Needs of Care in European Nations’) Dr Schulz was able to point to the similar disturbing patterns emerging in many regions of the EU - an indicator of an impending crisis in the long term care for the elderly.
“The ‘baby boom’ generation of the 1950s who typically had two or three children has been replaced by a more cautious generation less certain about the future and less willing to commit to large families,” she said. “The labour force in Germany will decline from 43 million today to 34 million in 2050 while the number of elderly they have to support continues to increase.”
Jean-François Lebrun from the European Commission’s Directorate-General for employment, social affairs and equal opportunities said that at the EU level the number of over 65 year olds will double over the next 50 years from 87.5 million in 2010 to 152.6 million in 2060, according to Commission estimates.
Mr Lebrun presented the Commission’s analysis of the demographic challenge and provided the audience with a preview of new important consultative document “Towards a job-rich recovery” being presented by the Commission later this year.
The EU has set an objective of increasing the employment rate in the 20-64 age group to 75% by 2020 and is investigating a number of strategic areas for potential job creation. One of the areas it highlights is the employment potential in the sector for personal and household services (PHS). It also believes many jobs can be created providing long term care (LTC) for the elderly and people with disabilities.
Potential for jobs in household services
Mr Lebrun points out that home help and care for the elderly do not demand the technical skills levels of professional health services. Encouraging jobs in these sectors can allow people to get a foothold in the labour market while opening up possibilities for later skills development (‘up skilling’). They can offer various levels of job skill requirements from ‘do it yourself’ to the higher levels of care services.
The Commission also recognises that Europe also needs to implement measures which will attract more women into the workforce by improving their support services and overall work-life balance. Importantly, the expansion of trustworthy and affordable PHS services will enable women in particular to be free to focus on their own higher productivity work.
New model for the low skilled
Mr Lebrun points out that there is a need to develop a ”new model of jobs for the low skilled”. The Commission’s proposals for the PHS sector have considerable job creation potential. By subcontracting chores such as housework at a rate of just one hour per week, a potential of 5.5 million jobs can be realised, he said.
As a practical way of organising PHS, Mr Lebrun presented the example of the ‘Titres services’ (services voucher) system operated in Belgium which could be a useful model for other countries.
Instead of going to the informal market to find domestic services such as cleaning, laundry, cooking, shopping etc., a household can buy service vouchers at 7.5 euro per hour from an agency regulated by the public authorities and have the services of a fully legalised helper. The full hourly cost of the service in the Belgian system is 20.80 euro with the difference being financed by the national employment office (ONEM).
Take-up of the system has been good and more than 10% of users say they are able to increase their own work availability and employability as they can delegate mundane takes. Others have found that when freed from doing housework they were able to seek employment work once more.
This Belgian approach provoked a lively discussion with particular interest being focused on the potential application of this system to child care and elder care services. Representatives of family organisations pointed to the importance of being able to work with the same people on a long term basis. Others discussed the potential for providing higher skills accompanied by higher service voucher tariffs.
Jean Francois Lebrun pointed to the advantages of being able to bring a lot of people in from the black market to work fully legally – a benefit for both householders, employees and the state.
While the cost of this system is currently relatively high for the public purse, Lebrun pointed to the potential for refining the system by finding the optimum price for the service vouchers.
“With suitable refinements the system can become highly affordable for the public purse. An extrapolation of the Belgian system across the EU would give a net cost of 1.2 billion euros for creating 4 million new jobs in housework services,” he explained.
Direct benefits to the public purse can include reductions in unemployment benefits, additional revenue from personal taxation and social security contributions. Indirect benefits can include savings from other support schemes, the greater possibility for the elderly to stay at home, a better work-life balance and increased aggregate demand at the macroeconomic level.
Discussion centred on the expansion of the scheme to enterprises which have every interest in ensuring a fully committed and focused workforce, particularly the females, freed of household worries.
Other participants pointed to the potential of filling the shortage of carers for the elderly by using unemployed youth, and more males in a sector currently dominated by females (85%). The sector had to be made more attractive to attractive more people to work in the area it was suggested.
For these schemes to succeed, Mr Lebrun stressed, the public authorities have to take a global, long term vision and level of service has to be maintained through adequate training and where necessary supervision. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.lormaxstern.com/2016/04/28/lormax-stern-buys-gregory-boat-marina-detroit/ | 2024-02-27T03:33:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474670.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227021813-20240227051813-00047.warc.gz | 0.925678 | 142 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__10440870 | en | Gregory Boat Co. and Gregory Marina, family-owned Detroit companies that hail back to 1906, have been sold to Bloomfield Hills-based development firm Lormax Stern.
With the purchase, the companies’ names will change. Gregory Boat Co., on East Jefferson Avenue across from Belle Isle, will be renamed Detroit Boat Basin; Gregory Marina, on Clairpointe Street near the Detroit River, will become KAM Marine and KAM Yacht Sales. Detroit Boat Basin was the company’s name back in the 1940s.
The purchase will not impact the staff or its leadership. Kathy Gregory will continue as president.
Read the original story at Crain’s Detroit Business | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://aod.thrive.wfu.edu/students/alcohol-social-norms/ | 2021-10-21T09:19:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585382.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20211021071407-20211021101407-00559.warc.gz | 0.903211 | 414 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__292008641 | en | Fake news. It’s everywhere.
Even on our campus. When it comes to alcohol and drug use at Wake Forest, what many students think is the norm isn’t always the case. Demon Deacons party smarter than you think. And we have the fictional memes — and the factual statistics — to show it.
Based on the Spring 2020 National Collegiate Health Assessment (NCHA) of 884 Wake Forest students, these are the facts:
- 21.6% of Deacs don’t drink alcohol.
- 73.5% of Deacs don’t smoke weed (use cannabis) and more than half (51.5%) never have.
- 96% of Deacs know that taking study drugs not prescribed to them is dangerous and doesn’t work, so they don’t do it.
- 84% of Deacs don’t vape.
- 82.6% of Deacs don’t drink to the point of blacking out.
- 99% of Deacs don’t drink to the point of getting in trouble with the police.
- 75% of Deacs don’t drink to the point of doing something they later regretted.
- 93% of Deacs don’t drink to the point of physically injuring themselves.
- 99% of Deacs don’t drink to the point of needing medical help.
- 70 Deacs identify as being in recovery from alcohol or drug use. (If you need information about recovery, reach out to the WFU Collegiate Recovery Community with [email protected] or @wakeforestcrc.)
Our party memes are all over social media, and they’re brought to you by the same nerdy oldsters who collect and study statistical data about alcohol and drug use among Wake Forest students. Our strategy is to place fiction next to fact — and our goal is to challenge your perception of drinking and drug use behavior on campus. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.aplaw.law/2017/12/09/vicki-podberesky-seeks-justice-usc-basketball-player-deanthony-melton/ | 2024-04-21T04:50:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817729.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421040323-20240421070323-00459.warc.gz | 0.950008 | 459 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__104653379 | en | Vicki Podberesky Seeks Justice For USC Basketball Player De’Anthony Melton
USC student-athlete De’Anthony Melton is an innocent young man. Abandoned by the NCAA who has neglected its duty to “create opportunities for college athletes,” and waiting on USC who has been hesitant to make a decision to play him, despite overwhelming evidence that neither he, nor a close family friend did anything wrong, De’Anthony Melton stands in the shoes of a young black man assumed guilty until proven innocent. http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-usc-melton-ncaa-hernandez-20171129-story.html#share=email~story
His attorney Vicki Podberesky, of Andrues/Podberesky, has worked tirelessly to marshal evidence that definitively proves that no crime was committed or NCAA rule broken by either De’Anthony, his family members, or close family friends. Videotape evidence uncovered by Podberesky shows that family friend Dave Elliott never took any money at a meeting arranged by Christian Dawkins, Munish Sood, and an undercover FBI agent. http://www.latimes.com/sports/usc/la-sp-usc-melton-video-20171128-story.html
The video reveals a glaring falsehood in the government’s complaint, where the FBI undercover agent swore under oath that she gave the money to Christian Dawkins, the sports agent indicted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York. Hotel security cameras captured the meeting on video, which clearly reveals that not only did the undercover agent lie in the affidavit in support of the complaint, but also that the agent herself—notDawkins—placed the alleged envelope of money on a table at the meeting, and the envelope was never touched by Melton’s family friend, Dave Elliott. While USC continues to sideline De’Anthony Melton, his attorney at Andrues/Podberesky has been unrelenting in her efforts to preserve Melton’s reputation, his basketball future at USC, and his promising career in the NBA. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://portalsidoarjo.com/2020/01/27/coronavirus-china-confirms-human-to-human-transmission.html | 2021-10-16T05:51:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323583423.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20211016043926-20211016073926-00037.warc.gz | 0.85944 | 164 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__275704923 | en | Coronavirus cases are on the rise. An 89-year-old man in China has become the fourth person to die from a new strain of coronavirus. The man was a resident of Wuhan, where the virus is believed to have originated, but it’s since spread to other major cities, including the capital Beijing. The head of the country’s national health commission has confirmed the disease can spread from human to human, and there are now more than 200 confirmed cases in China alone. More countries are going to start screening travelers from China, with the World Health Organisation due to hold an emergency meeting on Wednesday. From Beijing, Patrik Fok reports.
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http://www.northcoastnature.org.au/news/savebrokenheadtrees | 2017-08-20T20:57:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886106990.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20170820204359-20170820224359-00586.warc.gz | 0.916186 | 450 | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-34__0__47390081 | en | Byron Shire Council has (so far) marked about 40 big, old Tallowwoods, Blackbutts and Red Mahoganies on the Coast Road for potential removal.
Next to the Coast Road north of the Broken Head Hall. Look for the painted numbers on the trunks.
Council wants to do road works.
Why are the trees important?
- They are scenically significant in a landscape in which so many beautiful, BIG trees have been removed.
- They provide a beautiful backdrop to this scenic drive and are part of what makes Broken Head so special.
- The Tallowwoods are one of 3 feed trees vitally important to our threatened coastal koala population (the others are Swamp Mahogany and Forest red Gum).
- The trees provide habitat for birds, bats, reptiles and other native animals.
- They provide a forested link for animals across the busy Coast Road and elsewhere these links have largely disappeared.
- Crazily, Council is targeting this same area to protect and improve the koala habitat link in their Comprehensive Coastal Koala Management Plan now on public display.
It’s happened before!
Concerned local residents had to protest and address Council TWICE before to save old trees earmarked for clearing next to the Coast Road at Broken Head.
After protests stopped the tree clearing Council upgraded the road south of the Broken Head Beach turnoff without having to remove the rest of the trees marked for removal.
Fortunately, Councillors acted sensibly in the past but now the new Council need to act.
What can I do?
1. Contact the Councillors:
2. Sign our change.org petition to Council here
3. Write a letter to the editor
4. Talk to your friends and encourage them to take action.
• No tree clearing!
• Protect the beautiful roadside corridor of old native trees.
• Protect the Tallowwood koala feed trees.
• Protect the forest link for animals across the Coast Road.
• Fix the road but save the trees.
• Save the money earmarked for unnecessary studies and spend it in other areas of the shire where it’s desperately needed. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://foodblog.boschpackaging.com/2017/12/05/wilde-snacks-adopts-bosch-flow-wrapping-machinery/ | 2019-12-14T16:00:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575541281438.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20191214150439-20191214174439-00218.warc.gz | 0.958687 | 432 | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__158119486 | en | In the world of protein bars, flow wrap is the name of the game. Consumers know and understand this very customary packaging. Wilde Snacks of Boulder, Colorado, wanted to capitalize on this consumer standard, yet give them something they had never tasted before or seen in a typical flow wrap package.
The Wilde package
The protein product using GAP (Global Animal Partnership) certified lean meats was supposed to be created as a bar rather than having it labeled as “jerky” – a must when CEO Jason Wright set out to create Wilde. “We were tired of the sugary, low protein snack bar options currently available on the shelf. We wanted to give the customer a new savory option but with a recognizable feel, so we chose to flow wrap the bars to give them a familiar package.” Since the consumer would be trying something new when choosing Wilde, Wright and his team wanted to make sure they offered it up in an instantly recognizable package, located on shelves next to the bars they were already accustomed to.
Wright knows that Bosch Packaging Technology is known as one of the leaders in horizontal flow wrapping so it was an easy choice when deciding on a machine supplier. “With Bosch we felt comfortable to achieve hermetic seals, which was one of the main reasons to partner with Bosch,” Wright says. In order to verify the requirements, Bosch performed tests at their plant prior to ordering the equipment and demonstrated their capability to seal the packs at the required quality and speed. Wilde Snacks decided to go with the Pack 101 horizontal flow wrapper, which is an entry-level solution that offers a wide format range. “We love the consistency of the machine. It produces the perfect seal we need every time,” says Wright. The demand for quality meat snacks has grown in double digits for the last five years. “The wave is coming,” Wright says, “and we’re out there with our surfboard.”
Read more about the pack style “horizontal flow wrap in this article:
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https://invest.lebijou.com/insights/hospitality/serviced-apartments-2/ | 2024-04-12T10:26:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296815919.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412101354-20240412131354-00437.warc.gz | 0.967772 | 437 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__4780905 | en | A furnished apartment with pool and room service: Serviced Apartments are booming in Switzerland. This increases price pressure and housing shortages.
In Switzerland, the business with serviced apartments is growing. These are furnished rental apartments, with certain services such as laundry included in the rent. The term is broad, however.
Basically, serviced apartments are according to the real estate monitoring of Wüest Partner in terms of service and equipment level between hotels and furnished living. Typically, the apartment cleaning is included. In addition, the infrastructure on site often belongs to the offer. Guests can use the gym or the complex belonging to the residential complex.
47 percent surcharge
Serviced apartments are lucrative as they often lead to above-average returns, according to Wüest partners. They are noticeably more expensive than classic rental apartments. At a high service level landlords demand on average 47 percent more rent compared to a regular apartment, the authors said.The surcharge of furnished rental apartments without additional services is on average just under 7 percent. According to the study, a serviced apartment costs around 2,500 Swiss francs per month in Swiss terms.
Most users of such offers are foreign business people. Accordingly, serviced apartments are mainly found in major Swiss cities, especially in Zurich. The apartments are also characterized by «excellent location quality», according to the study authors. For example, traffic connections are extremely good.
However, these apartments are not aimed at long-term tenants: the majority stays for a maximum of two months. Thus, the rental period for such an offer is massively shorter than for classic rental apartments. There, according to Wüest, it is the average partner for around 7.5 years.
National Councilor Balthasar Glättli sees a connection between serviced apartments and housing shortages: "If regular living spaces are converted into serviced apartments, of course, living space disappears for the quite normal long-term tenants." In this case, there are fewer apartments for people who want to permanently move to Zurich, for example, can not afford an expensive serviced apartment. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://hostoneer.com/2023/11/27/navigating-the-web-unleashing-the-impact-of-backlinks-on-your-digital-odyssey/ | 2024-03-03T03:12:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476180.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303011622-20240303041622-00607.warc.gz | 0.912206 | 736 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__62916236 | en | In the vast and competitive landscape of the digital world, where websites are constantly vying for attention, the significance of backlinks cannot be overstated. Often referred to as the backbone of search engine optimization (SEO), backlinks play a pivotal role in determining a website’s credibility, authority, and ultimately, its success. In this article, we will delve into the realm of backlinks, exploring what they are, why they matter, and how they can propel your online presence to new heights.
What are Backlinks?
Simply put, backlinks are incoming links from one website to another. They act as digital endorsements, signifying to search engines that the linked content is valuable and worthy of attention. When a reputable website links to yours, it’s like a vote of confidence, and search engines interpret this as a signal that your content is credible and relevant.
The Importance of Backlinks:
- Enhanced Search Engine Ranking: Backlinks are a crucial factor in search engine algorithms. Search engines, such as Google, consider the quantity and quality of backlinks when determining the ranking of a webpage. Websites with a higher number of high-quality backlinks are more likely to appear at the top of search results, driving organic traffic and visibility.
- Credibility and Authority: Backlinks are a testament to your website’s authority and credibility within your industry or niche. When reputable websites link to your content, it establishes your site as a reliable source of information, building trust among your audience and peers.
- Increased Referral Traffic: Backlinks are not just about impressing search engines; they also serve as direct pathways for potential visitors. When users click on a backlink, they are redirected from one site to another, increasing your website’s visibility and driving targeted traffic.
- Faster Indexing: Search engines use bots to crawl and index web pages. Backlinks can expedite this process by providing a clear path for search engine spiders to discover and index new content. This is particularly beneficial for new websites aiming to establish a presence in the digital realm swiftly.
- Diversification of Traffic Sources: Relying solely on one traffic source is risky. Backlinks allow you to diversify your sources of traffic. If one channel falters, you can still attract visitors through other reputable websites linking to your content.
Building Quality Backlinks:
- Create High-Quality Content: The foundation of any successful backlink strategy is high-quality content. Create valuable, informative, and engaging content that naturally attracts links from other websites.
- Guest Posting: Contribute guest posts to authoritative websites in your niche. In return, you can usually include a link back to your site, establishing your authority and reaching a wider audience.
- Networking and Relationship Building: Cultivate relationships with influencers, bloggers, and other websites in your industry. Genuine connections can lead to organic backlinks as others recognize and appreciate your expertise.
- Broken Link Building: Identify broken links on other websites and offer your content as a replacement. It’s a win-win situation – they get a working link, and you gain a valuable backlink.
In the ever-evolving landscape of the internet, backlinks remain a cornerstone of digital success. They not only contribute to improved search engine rankings but also validate your website’s credibility and authority. By understanding the importance of backlinks and implementing strategic link-building techniques, you can pave the way for sustained online growth and recognition. Embrace the power of backlinks, and watch your digital presence soar to new heights. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://behind-the-lines-the-houston-lawyer.buzzsprout.com/930415/6126997-race-based-housing-discrimination-historically-and-today?t=0 | 2022-08-19T01:07:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00265.warc.gz | 0.921057 | 150 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__52692227 | en | This episode explores housing rights and discrimination, featuring the life and legacy of J. Vance Lewis, one of Houston's first Black trial attorneys, and his influence on Freedmen's Town. Then, Christopher Tyson of Build Baton Rouge discusses the law and policy behind housing rights and urban development, followed by an overview of race-based housing discrimination cases with Lone Star Legal Aid.
Use the chapter markers in Buzzsprout to navigate between the segments.
After listening to this episode, Houston Bar Association members can visit hba.org/watchcle for information to obtain CLE credit.
Views expressed by the participants of this program are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors of The Houston Lawyer or the Houston Bar Association. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.electroniccigarettelife.com.au/electronic-cigarette/electronic-cigarette-the-future-of-smoking | 2020-01-22T18:01:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250607314.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20200122161553-20200122190553-00555.warc.gz | 0.946632 | 669 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__57333025 | en | Electronic cigarettes also known as an e-cigarette or e-cig are gaining more and more popularity as people discover an alternative to smoking tobacco cigarettes. An ever-increasing number of smokers are giving up the deadly smoking habit in favor of what is referred to as “vaping”. Many small businesses have popped up to cater to the needs of “vapers” and electronic cigarette users. The majority of these businesses are run by entrepreneurs who have seen first hand the benefits of making the switch to the electronic cigarette. Electronic cigarettes are battery operated devices providing an alternative that have been welcomed by smokers around the globe.
Why Electronic Cigarettes?
Everyone knows and understands the negative effects that smoking traditional tobacco cigarettes has on your body. It’s not only a danger to your health but a danger to the people around you. In a nutshell the electronic cigarette is a powerful device developed as an alternative for smokers of traditional tobacco cigarettes, it is not a smoking cessation device. If you are a cigarette smoker and harming your health and the quality of your life you may want to consider switching to an electronic cigarette. When you smoke a tobacco cigarette you generally feel obligated to smoke the whole thing. Usually a few puffs will sooth the craving but you don’t want to waste the rest of the cigarette by throwing it away after a few puffs because this of course is a waste of money with the price of tobacco sky rocketing these days. The e-cigarette allows you to use it when required and use as much as you like, you can literally take a few puffs, pop it in your pocket, and go about your day. You may even use an electronic cigarette less and save thousands of dollars every year.
E-Cigarettes – Are they effective?
Quitting smoking is the best and healthiest thing a smoker can do. Smoking cigarettes is not only dangerous, it’s deadly! Quitting smoking is very hard work and replacement products can definitely help to kick the tobacco addiction. Some individuals may need to use nicotine patches, gum and inhalers to help quit smoking, those products continue to give you nicotine.
Nicotine addiction is the most powerful substance addiction of them all, more powerful than heroin addiction. It’s no wonder millions of smokers around the world are struggling to quit and escape the grip of addiction once they start smoking cigarettes, and it gets harder the longer you smoke. If you belong in the category of smokers that want to quit smoking cigarettes, but have struggled with other quitting methods, you may find the electronic cigarette to be an alternative method of quitting.
A Thoughtful Gift
Electronic cigarettes have taken Australia and the world by storm and not surprisingly, they have also become popular gift items. It’s always exciting to find a gift for someone that is special to you. You can now give the gift of an electronic cigarette starter kit to your chain smoking uncle or friend for under $100! An e-cigarette is a fantastic way to say that you care without putting a lot of stress on your loved ones to give up smoking. You don’t need a massive budget to purchase a starter kit and the electronic cigarette could be the positive intervention you’ve been looking for to help your loved ones kick the nasty habit. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://superstarblogging.nomadicmatt.com/how-to-become-a-travel-writer/ref/4/ref/4/ | 2019-09-16T17:08:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514572879.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20190916155946-20190916181946-00072.warc.gz | 0.940318 | 2,575 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__158063377 | en | Learn to Write Stories That Hook People
Do you dream of literary success?
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Are you looking to improve your writing? Break into the travel industry and land assignments that send you to far reaches of the globe?
Do you wish you had access to teachers and experts who could help you?
There’s a storyteller inside all of us.
The trick is getting it out.
There’s an art to putting your story on paper.
And, like any art, it’s one that can be learned – and improved on.
Becoming a good writer takes practice and, most importantly, a good teacher.
When you are traveling, living in a small town, or have limited funds, getting the help you need can be difficult. I know. I’ve been there. When I started out I looked high and low for a course that would help me improve my writing while I traveled.
I never found one.
But what if you could get a college writing course for a tenth of the price – with personalized feedback from a college professor?
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Through video lectures, interviews with successful travel writers and editors, detailed examples of edited stories, graphics, real-world examples, and writing assignments, you’ll get the course David teaches at NYU and Columbia University — with added information for online writing — at your fingertips (and without the cost).
From crafting a story to self-editing, improving your grammar, writing a book proposal, coming up with ideas, creating narrative arcs, and pitching editors, our course covers everything you need to know to succeed as a writer – and even includes templates for pitching editors and David’s actual book proposal.
What Our Students Are Saying
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“David not only explains the ins and outs of what it means to be a travel writer but inspires and teaches his students to become professional storytellers. The feedback and insights David gave me on homework assignments have carried over into everything I’ve written since and have changed the way I read other people’s work, edit my own, and find ideas. The best part of all — the course actually gets you excited to sit down and write!” – Corey
Are you ready to succeed?
We know that when the barrier to entry is low and Buzzfeed-style lists dominate the Internet while publications shutter, it can seem like there’s no hope of making it in the travel writing world. While there is a glut of potential writers, there’s still a dearth of driven ones. There’s quantity but not quality, and I want to show you how to break free from the crowd, find the big breaks, improve your writing, and make it in this industry.
This course covers all aspects of travel writing. It will teach you how to craft the perfect story, improve your writing, self-edit, and enhance your research through video, writing samples, examples of edited work, and much more.
When we were young, there were only a couple of “how to become a travel writer” type of books — and they didn’t seem very good. And there were no classes — online or live — where a successful travel writer could lay out for you just how one successfully travels down this path.
In David’s 10+ years of teaching, his students have gone on to write for the New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, Travel + Leisure, AFAR, and other publications. Some have even published books.
Those successful students were not necessarily the most talented writers in the class. THEY WERE ALWAYS THE MOST DRIVEN. THEY REALLY WANTED THIS. They wanted to make it. That propelled them to become better writers and successes in the field.
And we want to help you get there like those other students!.
Our Course Syllabus
Each week, you’ll get a number of lessons taught through video lectures, text, and step-by-step breakdowns as well as assignments to turn in for editing and personalized feedback. It’s like having your own personal teacher. This course is self-paced so you can learn and write at your own speed.
Introduction to travel writing
Understanding the writing lifestyle
How to create a story
How to find your angle and peg
How to come up with story ideas
BONUS: Writing resources
The anatomy of a story
Various types of commercial writing (and their differences)
How to craft the perfect lede
How to be descriptive (and avoid clichés)
How to edit like an editor
Grammar dos and don’ts
BONUS: Revision checklist
The difference between print and online writing
How to write for an online audience
How to create viral content
How to write memoirs
How to create perfect story arcs
How to research effectively
BONUS: Research checklist
How to find freelance work
How to find and pitch editors
How to sell your work online
How to blog and succeed on social media
BONUS #1: 93 PLACES TO PITCH YOUR WORK
Get a list of publications that hire writers so you can step out the gate with places to pitch right away! Instead of spending fruitless hours trying to find this information online, we’ve included it all in one place for you. We include their rates, email addresses, and contact information.
BONUS #2: PERSONALIZED FEEDBACK ON YOUR WORK
Writing is a skill that requires practice and feedback. That’s why you’ll be able to submit your writing samples to us. David and I will help you refine your writing, editing, story planning, and craft so you can become a better writer from day one. That’s our commitment to you.
No other online travel writing course features this!
BONUS #3: Printable Cheat sheets
From grammar dos and don’ts to editing guidelines, revision checklists, we provide a number of cheat sheets and checklists that you can download, print out, and reference as often as you like to continue to improve your writing.
13+ Hours of Expert Interviews
Listen to interviews with 13 award-winning writers and editors as they share their travel writing tips, failures, and successes with you.
Travel Writer, Editor
Don has been a travel writer and editor for 40 years. In this interview, he talks about how to break into the industry, his early mistakes, and advice for new writers.
Author, Travel Writer
In this wide-ranging interview, he discusses how to brainstorm stories, create a narrative arc, and publish a book.
Stephanie is currently a teacher at UNC. In this interview, she talks about how to write and pitch a successful book.
Carol talks about creating a niche you can grow with, supporting your family on a freelancer’s salary, and the lack of diversity in travel writing.
Nathan discusses long-form writing on the web, how to create story ideas, and how NOT to pitch editors.
Travel Writer, Editor
Derk is the former editor of AFAR magazine. In this interview, he discusses what writers can do to improve the quality of their writing and pitches.
Writer, Educator, Teacher
Thomas is the editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. In this interview, he covers the dual life of writing and editing.
Food and Travel Writer
Matt discusses his journey from writer to editor, the mistakes he sees freelance writers make in their editing, and how to successfully pitch online.
Freelance Writer, Traveler
Jessica talks about life as a freelance travel writer and how to be a “reporter” in your destination.
Jason is an award-winning travel journalist and current editor of Frommers.com. In this interview, he discusses how to write service articles.
Author, Former TV Writer
Caroline shares her advice on how to create stories, develop a narrative arc, and write dialogue that engages and captivates the audience.
Travel Editor, SFChronicle.com
Spud shares how he picks and assigns freelance work as well as how writers can self-edit their work and improve their writing.
Travel Writer, Essayist, Adventurer
Rolf discusses his evolution as a writer, how to use traditional writing skills for the web, and finding unique story angles.
perks of membership
Private Facebook Group
Monthly Q&A Webinars
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This course will teach you writing and editing skills from world-famous and best-selling authors, writers, and editors. Start today risk-free with our 30-day money-back guarantee.
We’re fully committed to helping you improve your writing and become a success. You can test-drive the course for 30 days, read the material, listen to the webinars and interviews, and check out the case studies. If you still don’t feel the course is right for you or will improve your writing, we’ll happily refund 100% of your money.
Meet Your Instructor
David has been writing about travel, food, and culture for over twenty years. His work has appeared in AFAR magazine, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Condé Nast Traveler, and World Hum, among other publications. In 2006 and 2013, he won Lowell Thomas Awards from the Society of American Travel Writers for magazine articles he wrote. He has lived in Prague, Paris, and Rome and now lives in New York City. He is the author of An Irreverent Curiosity and was a host for National Geographic. He teaches writing at Columbia and New York University.
What Our Students are saying
“This course surpassed any writing course I have ever taken in college, as a homeschool teacher, or as a travel professional. I really enjoyed the content and how it was presented, along with the fact that I could send in my writing for David and Matt to review and give feedback on. This course is really is the best of the best! Thank you, David and Matt!” – Whitney
“I noticed an immediate improvement in my writing after starting the course. David illuminates the fundamental concepts of travel writing in such a relatable way that you will be hard-pressed NOT to have a few lightbulb moments as you progress. From the nuts and bolts of grammar to research, composition, and marketing, David dives into it all. Moreover, the feedback David provided was extremely helpful in helping me identify and correct mistakes! If you want to understand the concepts behind the best travel writing in the world, this course is where to start!” – Christopher
“I took this course to learn the underlying physics of being a great travel writer. Through detailed course notes and video tutorials mixed with bespoke and actionable feedback, I found this course suited me perfectly to find structure in my storytelling and also writing for the reader. Supported by a community of bloggers, I now have the confidence to tackle any writing task thrown at me.” – Warren | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.durmazlar.com.tr/en/haberler/agreements-were-made-for-turkeys-first-tram-export-to-poland/ | 2023-12-11T10:19:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679103810.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211080606-20231211110606-00805.warc.gz | 0.967597 | 1,125 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__232148522 | en | Mayor Grzmowicz: “It’s much quieter and eco-friendly”
The tender, which costs about 20 million euros, was signed at a ceremony held in the Municipality of Olsztyn in July.
Olsztyn’s Mayor Piotr Grzmowicz as the host gave a speech in the ceremony, where Atilla Gökhan Kızılarslan, Chief Commercial Counsellor of the Turkish Embassy in Warsaw, Fatma Durmaz Yilbirlik, the Vice-Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Durmazlar Holding, the holding officials, Olsztyn Municipality officials and citizens also participated.
Piotr Grzmowicz stated that they were able to return to rail system transport, which was abolished in 1965, only in 2004 and emphasized that rail systems are the cleanest and cheapest transport system for the people of the city and the region.
Mayor Grzmowicz stated that they work to develop the tram vehicle numbers and infrastructure within this scope and they are happy to sign an agreement with Durmazlar Holding, meeting all their expectations as a result of the tender they initiated for buying 12 tram vehicles.
Grzmowicz said, “For now, we ordered 12 tramways. Durmazlar Holding’s trams are much quieter and eco-friendly than the trams we are currently using. We may buy 12 more trams according to circumstances after the upcoming 21 months delivery period. The satisfaction received from Panorama model trams, which is produced by Durma Holding and used in Kocaeli and Samsun, was a determining factor for us to choose Durmazlar.”
Fatma Durmaz Yılbirlik stated: “Our goal is to make the world better with advanced technology”.
Fatma Durmaz Yılbirlik, the Vice-Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Durmazlar Holding gave a speech after Mayor Piotr Grzmowicz and expressed that she was very glad to be in Olsztyn for this meaningful purpose. She stated that gaining the trust of the Olsztyn Municipality and the people of Poland fills them with pride as Durma Holding, which exports to 120 countries and serves Polish industrialists for more than 30 years and wished that the agreement would be the first step in rail systems between Poland and Turkey. Yılbirlik said “We are fully convinced that we will not let down the trust in Durmazlar Holding, which always aims for better and analyzes the needs of the different cultures and aims to make the world better with technology as Turkey’s co-founder of Industry 4.0. I wish this agreement to be good for the city of Olsztyn and Durmazlar”. Fatma Durmaz Yılbirlik, the Vice-Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Durmazlar Holding and Piotr Grzmowicz, the Mayor of Olsztyn signed agreements and congratulated the officials in the Turkish and Polish delegations and had their photo taken after the speeches on “The first tramway export of Turkey”. Fatma Durmaz Yılbirlik made statements after the ceremony and said that they entered the rail systems sector in 2009 with the 65-year experience and infrastructure of Durmazlar. Stating that they were very happy to export to Olsztyn as the first tram export of Turkey with the company that produced roughly 100 subway and tram vehicles, Yılbirlik also said that it was her duty and goal to increase the cultural relationship and the friendship between the two countries as the Honorary Consul of the Marmara Region in Poland since 2014. “It’s an honor for me and my country to continue to work both culturally and commercially and to make this happen,” she said.
İpekböceği and Panorama experience
Aiming to be the first in the world rail systems sector, Durmazlar Holding established Durmaray in 2010, which operates in the field of rail systems technologies, projects, design, software, installation, testing and commissioning. It started production in 2 separate facilities which have 15 thousand m2 of closed and 50 thousand m2 of open area for frame and bogie production and 25 thousand m2 and 10 thousand m2 open area for rail systems vehicle production. The first tram produced by Durmaray, İpekböceği was put into the service of Bursa in 2013. It also won 60 Light Rail System and 12 bidirectional tram projects initiated by Bursa Metropolitan Municipality in 2015.
The company’s new generation design Panorama was put into service with 8 vehicles in Samsun and with 12 bidirectional vehicles in Kocaeli in 2016. Panorama trams will also be available for Olsztyn after 21 months. Having completed their 30-year life test, tested and approved with international standards, the trams stand out with their low energy consumption, low noise level, eco-friendly and safe design. Panorama trams prioritize passenger’s comfort with its 370 mm depth of entrance and 100% low floor. They have 210 passenger capacity with a length of 32 thousand 500 mm and a width of 2 thousand 500 mm. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://msj.edu/news/details/mount-st.-joseph-university-fireworks-to-kick-off-delhi-skirt-game-with-a-b | 2018-05-23T22:41:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794865830.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20180523215608-20180523235608-00017.warc.gz | 0.924085 | 181 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__46709481 | en | The Mount St. Joseph University Fireworks will be the highlight of the annual Delhi Skirt Game Tailgate Party on Thursday, July 31. The Tailgate Party is planned for the Remke parking lot on Delhi Pike from 6-10 p.m. Bring the whole family to dinner!
The annual Delhi Skirt Game's theme this year is "Famous mothers versus famous daughters." Where else can you see Goldie Hawn squaring off against Kate Hudson? The annual skirt game is a charity fundraiser and features Delhi, ahem, men dressed in women's clothes while playing baseball. Local 12's Bob Herzog will again host the game with a special appearance by Judge Dinkelacker. Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Neal will play catcher like you've never seen him before.
For more information, visit the Skirt Game's website at http://www.delhiskirtgame.org/ | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://oldchemist.adr.com.ua/2016/01/03/what-do-you-know-about-flu/ | 2019-10-21T11:14:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987769323.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20191021093533-20191021121033-00289.warc.gz | 0.956976 | 2,243 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__10770682 | en | By Mary Elizabeth Dallas | Reviewed by Farrokh Sohrabi, MD
“Getting the flu is miserable,” says Christopher A. Ohl, MD, a professor of infectious diseases at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. “It means missed work, school, and vacations.” There are simple steps you can take to avoid the flu this season, but first you need to know your influenza facts.
See if you have what it takes to protect yourself and your loved ones this flu season.
How long can flu viruses generally survive on a hard surface?
“Up to eight hours” is correct. Flu viruses can generally survive on hard surfaces for up to eight hours, according to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Large airborne droplets sneezed or coughed from the nose or mouth of an infected person can land on nearby surfaces, like floors, tables, and countertops, Dr. Ohl explains. Flu viruses can also be transferred from an infected person’s hands to commonly used objects like light switches, phones, and doorknobs, where others can pick them up, he notes. Flu viruses prefer low humidity and low temperatures, and under these conditions they could potentially survive for up to 48 hours on hard, nonporous surfaces like plastic and stainless steel. If these surfaces are moist or wet, flu viruses could survive even longer, according to HHS.
To avoid getting the flu or spreading the virus to others, it’s essential to wash your hands frequently with soap and water or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer, and to avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth, which can spread germs, advises Susan Rehm, MD, vice chair of the department of infectious disease and executive director of physician health at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. If used correctly, certain chemicals – including chlorine, hydrogen peroxide, iodine-based antiseptics, and alcohols – can help get rid of flu viruses lingering on surfaces, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
How far can the flu spread in the air when a person sneezes or coughs?
“About 6 feet” is correct. You don’t need to be in close contact with someone who has the flu to become infected. People with the flu can spread it to others about 6 feet away, according to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Most people don’t realize how easily the flu can be transmitted through the air, Dr. Rehm notes. “If people have the flu when they cough, sneeze, or even talk, the flu virus goes into the air and people who are in a radius of up to 6 feet or possibly even farther may be breathing in flu particles and getting sick,” she says. Visualize Pigpen, the character from the Peanuts comic strip with a dusty haze around his head, Ohl suggests. If you get into that cloud or within 6 feet of someone with the flu, you’re at risk.
How long do you need to wash your hands to get rid of germs?
“At least 20 seconds” is correct. One of the most important things you can do to avoid getting the flu or infecting others is to keep your hands clean, the CDC advises. But, for this to be effective, you need to wash your hands correctly. That means scrubbing with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. “It’s the friction that makes the difference,” Rehm explains, “not the type of soap you use.” Scrub both the fronts and backs of your hands as well as the spaces between your fingers, Rehm suggests. After you’ve finished, air-dry your hands or use a clean towel.
Make good hand hygiene a habit. Routinely wash your hands before eating, as well as after preparing food, using the bathroom, changing a diaper, blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing, the CDC recommends. If you aren’t near a sink with running water, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains at least 60 percent alcohol.
Can you spread the flu to others before you develop symptoms?
“Yes” is correct. Even before people realize they’re sick, they can spread the flu to others, the CDC cautions. Symptoms of the flu, such as fever, chills, and body aches, usually develop one to four days after the virus enters the body. Unlike a cold, which can develop gradually and worsen over the course of a few days, the flu usually comes on very suddenly, Rehm notes.
Most healthy adults may be able to infect other people up to 24 hours before these symptoms appear, the CDC states.
In general, how long are people with the flu contagious?
“Five to seven days” is correct. Most healthy adults could infect other people with the flu for five to seven days after they get sick, according to the CDC. “Once a fever hits, you are the most contagious,” Ohl says. “Generally, the highest level of contagiousness is when you feel the worst.” Your symptoms may be less severe after a few days, but it’s important to remember that you are still contagious. It may take up to two weeks for some people to fully recover from the flu. In order to avoid spreading the virus to others, the rule of thumb is to stay home for at least 24 hours after your fever is gone, Ohl adds. “Be a good citizen and stay home,” he says. “It’s not the time to get up and go to work. Your colleagues don’t want to be around you if you have the flu.” Children with the flu and those with weakened immune systems may be contagious for longer than seven days, NIAID notes.
Once you get a flu shot, how long does it take for the vaccine to become effective?
“About two weeks” is correct. The seasonal flu vaccine is not effective right away: It takes about two weeks for your body to make the antibodies that will protect you from the flu, according to HHS. During this time, if you are exposed to the virus, you are still at risk for infection because you’re not yet immune. That’s why it’s important to take the time to get a flu shot early in the fall before flu season kicks into high gear, Rehm notes. “Every year, flu season is a little bit different,” she says. “A couple of years it peaked in December, and many years it peaked at the end of February. The biggest problem with immunization is missed opportunities.”
Bottom line: Don’t continuously put off getting a flu shot. Since the timing, severity, and length of flu season vary from year to year, getting vaccinated early on can help minimize your risk for infection, Rehm advises.
You can’t get the flu if you get a seasonal flu shot.
“False” is correct. There is still a chance you could get the flu if you are vaccinated. The effectiveness of the seasonal flu vaccine depends on your age and health status, and also on the similarity between the viruses selected to make the vaccine and the viruses actually circulating in the community, the CDC explains. More than 100 national influenza centers in more than 100 countries conduct ongoing flu surveillance. The World Health Organization uses this information to make recommendations about which flu strains to include in the vaccine for the Northern Hemisphere, according to the CDC. If the viruses included in the vaccine are a close match to those in circulation, the vaccine will be more effective. Even if the vaccine and circulating flu viruses are not closely matched, the vaccine may still offer some level of protection, reduce the severity of the illness, and help prevent serious flu-related complications, the agency explains. “The flu vaccine remains the No. 1 way to prevent the flu,” Rehm says.
“Even in years where it’s not as effective, having some degree of protection is better than none, which is what you get if you don’t get the vaccine.”
Once flu symptoms develop, antiviral medications are most effective if taken within:
“48 hours” is correct. Antiviral drugs are most effective against the flu if they are taken within 48 hours of the patient’s developing symptoms, the CDC reports. These prescription medications are available as pills, in liquid form, and as an inhaled powder. Some can also be given intravenously. Antiviral drugs are not a cure for the flu, but they can reduce its severity. They can ease your symptoms, prevent serious flu-related complications, and help you recover a day or two sooner, the CDC points out. Even if the ideal 48-hour window passes, some people with the flu — particularly those with chronic medical conditions — may still benefit from taking antivirals, Rehm notes. “These drugs are the only things that can actually prevent the flu virus from replicating,” she says. “They are very specific.”
How many people in the United States die from the flu or flu-related complications each year?
“Between 3,000 and 49,000” is correct. The flu is a serious illness and shouldn’t be taken lightly. It’s estimated that annual flu-related deaths in the United States range between 3,000 and 49,000 people, according to the CDC. To put this into perspective, nearly 34,000 people are killed in car accidents in this country each year, Rehm points out. Every year, 5 to 20 percent of the U.S. population gets the flu, and more than 200,000 people are hospitalized because of flu-related complications, the CDC reports. Young children, older people, pregnant women, and people whose immune systems are weakened from disease or medication are at greater risk. But it’s important to realize that anyone can develop serious flu-related complications, Rehm cautions.
In recent years, 80 to 90 percent of people who died from the flu were:
“Adults age 65 and older” is correct. During recent flu seasons, 80 to 90 percent of those whose deaths were ruled flu-related were 65 and older, the CDC reports. As you get older, your immune system weakens, increasing your risk for the flu and flu-related complications, HHS explains. As a result, older people have the option of getting a high-dose flu vaccine that will trigger a stronger response from their immune systems. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://fabzenone.com/blog.html/want-to-see-whats-happening-in-vancouver-movie-industry-5726959 | 2024-04-16T10:25:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817081.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416093441-20240416123441-00181.warc.gz | 0.898158 | 370 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__145202968 | en | Filmed in Vancouver
We’re ready for our close-up! Vancouver’s film and TV show biz pumps $1 billion per year into the local economy, and with blockbuster flicks like Deadpool, Skyscraper, 50 Shades of Grey and Star Trek filmed here, word is out that Vancouver is spreading its own Hollywood glitter.
Chalk it up to lower production costs, close proximity to a range of available backdrops – sparkling ocean, sandy beaches, lush rainforests and soaring mountains, for starters – and a mild climate conducive to year-round shooting. Whatever the case, Vancouver is critically acclaimed by movie producers, directors and celebrities alike. In fact, the city has a long history with celebrity lore, back since Gary Cooper hitched a ride to the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver on a passing street-cleaning machine.
Of course, it’s not just big-name cinematic releases that shoot in Vancouver – plenty of your favourite TV flicks are brought to life here, too. The city has become a sci-fi and fantasy hub, starting back when the original X-Files series filmed in the ‘90s (David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson also returned to shoot the series reboot). Other small-screen fan favourites shot in Vancouver include Riverdale, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, Supernatural, Once Upon a Time, Arrow and The Flash, as well as old-school series spanning the range of 21 Jump Street to MacGyver.
While visiting, take note of big white trailers parked around the city, with cables snaking down footpaths and casually dressed crews milling about with walkie-talkies – you might be witnessing the makings of the next Hollywood blockbuster. That’s a wrap! | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.jonathanguyer.com/index.html | 2022-08-12T08:43:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571597.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812075544-20220812105544-00779.warc.gz | 0.952973 | 133 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__100178566 | en | Jonathan Guyer is a senior foreign policy writer at Vox.
He worked as managing editor of The American Prospect from 2019 to 2021, where he wrote accountability stories on national security and foreign policy that won top prizes from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and the Society of Professional Journalists.
Jonathan has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and Rolling Stone, among others. His research has been supported by fellowships from Fulbright, the Institute of Current World Affairs, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
Visit Oum Cartoon, his archived blog of Arabic comics and caricature. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://jeffprobst.co.uk/blog/9/alli-member-milestones/ | 2024-04-23T01:08:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818452.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423002028-20240423032028-00183.warc.gz | 0.978207 | 213 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__162572855 | en | Author Member: Jeff Probst
Jeff Probst's latest novel, When the Moon was White, was published in autumn 2022. He has had stories, articles and poems published in literary magazines, journals and newspapers in California, South Africa and London.
I launched my novel at a local pub on a Wednesday afternoon to about 25 people in the ‘Americana’ group of the local U3A (University of the Third Age). The audience demographic of over-60s was just right: my novel features the Moon Race and music from the Sixties. The group seemed to enjoy the extracts I read, and the Beatles, Herman’s Hermits and Beach Boys tracks.
Why are you proud?
I worked on my novel for nine years, and here was a group of local readers who listened to my words, asked interesting and intelligent questions, and afterwards bought some books.
What have you learned?
Not to panic before my next reading. The people who come want to hear what I have to say. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.mvc.fm/24?t=0 | 2021-09-19T05:25:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780056711.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20210919035453-20210919065453-00455.warc.gz | 0.961695 | 229 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__106668307 | en | The guys sit down with Lee Warrick, a junior front end web developer who recently attended a local bootcamp after years of being a firefighter and nurse. They talk about his transition from healthcare to programming, how the college experience differed from his development training, how he keeps his skills sharp on the job, and how you can run a bunch of extracurricular activities for developers, but maybe just attending some is at least as effective a use of your time.
We really enjoyed having Lee on the show and hope that his story can inspire our listeners who might be on the fence about learning programming.
Follow us on Twitter @mvcpodcast.
01:28- Lee's developer story
09:31- Biggest surprise of developer life
13:56- Advice to your younger self
23:08- How do you keep learning after school?
38:14- Can your job actually be fun?
40:36- How to keep from burning out?
46:44- Choosing the right extracurriculars
- Lee's website
- Lee on Twitter
- Tech Jr. Podcast | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://shawnandbret.com/game-after-players-beat-the-suffragettes/ | 2020-01-21T03:36:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250601241.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20200121014531-20200121043531-00366.warc.gz | 0.96079 | 795 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__92918759 | en | A hyper realistic and completely free western, the video game Red Dead Redemption 2 is a technical success and scriptwriting. His record sales prove it. But videos of players showing themselves to be beating and killing suffragettes create controversy over this “open world”. The Rockstar studio does not seem to fear for its reputation.
It took seven years to discover the sequel to Red Dead Redemption. Released October 26, this video game, which takes place in 1899, plunges the player into an open world of westerns. But by leaving a complete moral freedom to its players, Rockstar, the publishing company, must now face a bad buzz.
In this game, the player crosses the road of characters illustrating this period of change in the United States. He met suffragettes in particular, those women who campaigned for the right to vote and who won it in 1920.
But a few days after the release of the game, unexpected videos have blossomed on Youtube. There were players attacking these militant women. Some were beaten, others thrown at alligators or tied up at the bottom of a mine … the most “popular” of these videos, posted by youtubeur Shirrako exceeded 1.7 million views. Others accumulate hundreds of thousands.
In the comments, there are many anti-feminist remarks. Some thank Rockstar for allowing them to get rid of these ” boring feminists “, others regret that it is not possible to act in real life. At first, Youtube censored these videos arguing that its policy does not allow gratuitous violence. But faced with criticism of players, they have been restored but prohibited to minors.
Absolute moral freedom
The creators of the game emphasize that if the players have complete moral freedom, they must still pay the consequences of their actions. So by acting badly, vis-à-vis these women or any other character, the player will be more and more sought after by the authorities and bounty hunters will eventually eliminate it. A threat that is not enough to prevent this drift.
” This is a complex problem that applies to very detailed games and open universes, which give priority to the player’s choice.What is less complex (to understand) is that there is a pool of video game players who hate women and get on with it, “writes on twitter Emmanuel Cheeseberg, editor of the Motherboard tech website. Dan Hassler-Forest, media specialist at the University of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, is less nuanced: ” the possibility of hitting a suffragette is something that the studio deliberately chose to introduce into the game “.
The game’s specialists explain that it is precisely the absolute freedom that makes this game extraordinary. On the side of RockStar, we remain discreet on the controversy. If some hope that this controversy will damage the reputation of the studio, in fact, it is mainly involved in its promotion. This new album has already sold 17 million copies in eight days and will be the best-selling game in 2018.
Grand Thief Auto
In addition, the studio is accustomed to controversy. He is at the origin of the famous “Grand Thief Auto” (GTA) license. At the release of each version, the studio is systematically criticized for the violence of the scenario, the ambiguous moral choices and the presence of sex workers with whom the players can “interact”. Nevertheless, each release is a commercial success.
In France, in 2016, former Secretary of State for Digital Axelle Lemaire had launched a mission about sexism in video games. This industry, on which the Hexagon is at the forefront, benefits from tax credits and an aid fund. The minister and parliamentarians had threatened to deprive the studios that they would not put enough effort into the positive representation of women. But, in the absence of consensus, these projects did not succeed. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://engine.iium.edu.my/ece/?p=16 | 2023-09-22T11:39:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00408.warc.gz | 0.895379 | 770 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__47982810 | en | The world of mobile communication has seen rapid evolution over the past few decades, from the birth of the first-generation (1G) networks to the current widespread adoption of 5G. As we stand on the precipice of technological advancement, the next frontier in wireless communication is already emerging: 6G. In this article, we will delve into the concept of 6G mobile communication, its potential features, applications, and the profound impact it could have on our interconnected world.
6G, the successor to 5G, represents the sixth generation of mobile communication technology. While 5G is still in the process of global deployment, the industry is already looking ahead to 6G to address anticipated requirements beyond the capabilities of 5G networks. While it’s important to note that 6G is still in the early stages of research and development, several key attributes are being envisioned:
- Unprecedented Speed: 6G is expected to offer blistering data transfer speeds, potentially reaching terabits per second. This would enable near-instantaneous downloads of ultra-high-definition content and immersive virtual reality experiences.
- Ultra-Low Latency: The latency in 6G networks is expected to be reduced to a few milliseconds or even microseconds, facilitating real-time applications like remote surgery, augmented reality gaming, and autonomous vehicles.
- Massive Connectivity: 6G is envisioned to connect not only people and devices but also the Internet of Things (IoT) on an unprecedented scale. This includes connecting billions of devices and sensors, enabling a vast array of applications in smart cities, agriculture, and healthcare.
- Spectral Efficiency: Improved spectral efficiency in 6G networks will allow for more efficient use of available radio frequencies, reducing congestion and enhancing network reliability.
- Energy Efficiency: 6G aims to be more energy-efficient than its predecessors, with innovations in power management and reduced energy consumption, contributing to a greener future.
- Advanced Antenna Technologies: The use of advanced antenna technologies, such as intelligent beamforming and massive MIMO (Multiple Input, Multiple Output), will be critical for delivering high-speed, reliable connections in 6G.
The capabilities of 6G are expected to open the door to a wide range of innovative applications and services:
- Immersive Experiences: 6G can provide the backbone for incredibly immersive augmented and virtual reality experiences, revolutionizing gaming, entertainment, and remote collaboration.
- Healthcare: The low latency and high reliability of 6G networks can enable remote surgery and telemedicine procedures with precision and confidence.
- Smart Cities: 6G will play a pivotal role in the development of smart cities, facilitating seamless connectivity for traffic management, public safety, and efficient resource utilization.
- Autonomous Vehicles: The ultra-low latency of 6G is crucial for autonomous vehicles, ensuring rapid response times and safe navigation.
- Agriculture: Precision agriculture can benefit from 6G’s massive IoT capabilities, enabling real-time monitoring of crop conditions and automated farming techniques.
Challenges and Considerations
While the prospects of 6G are exciting, there are several challenges to overcome:
- Technical Hurdles: Developing the technology to achieve the ambitious goals of 6G, such as terabit-per-second speeds, presents significant technical challenges.
- Regulatory and Spectrum Issues: Allocating and managing the required frequency spectrum for 6G is a complex process that will require international coordination.
- Security: With greater connectivity comes increased security concerns. Robust security measures will be essential to protect the vast array of connected devices and data.
- Environmental Impact: As with any advanced technology, the environmental impact of 6G must be carefully considered, with a focus on sustainability and energy efficiency. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://blog.gosafescore.com/tag/cambodia/ | 2023-12-02T11:06:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100399.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202105028-20231202135028-00131.warc.gz | 0.960347 | 439 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__148480198 | en | As the vaccine rollout strengthens, Cambodia is, at last, looking towards re-opening its borders for tourism.
The Cambodian ministry of tourism announced plans to relax travel restrictions for foreigners from November. To further entice tourists, the country is also looking at reducing its current quarantine time of 14-days, or, even removing it entirely. At this stage, it appears that the re-opening plan will only permit fully vaccinated travellers to visit the country. As yet, no further details have been announced.
Cambodia is rapidly outpacing its neighbours in the vaccination race – according to figures from Our World in Data, the country has vaccinated 54,6% of its population. Thailand, and Vietnam are lagging behind with 11,2% and 3,6% respectively. It’s no surprise then, that these positive numbers have brought the possibility of re-opening to leisure travel to the fore. In fact, Cambodia’s vaccine rollout has been so fast-paced, it’s the second highest in Southeast Asia, beaten only by Singapore, which is currently at 79,1% of the population vaccinated. Currently, Cambodia’s capital city, Phnom Penh is the most vaccinated city in Southeast Asia. The country’s goal is to reach herd immunity by the end of September when roughly 75% of the population will have received both jabs.
When to visit?
For foreigners eager to explore the temples of Angkor Wat, or kick back on a beautiful beach, then Cambodia‘s re-opening couldn’t be better timed. The wet season tends to run between May and October, so by then, the seasonal monsoon cycle should be over. The dry season runs from November to April, and December and January are the coolest months. With daily average temperatures sitting in the mid-20oC’s the end of the year is ideal for a beach escape. So, whether you want to snooze on the beaches of Saracen Bay, or hack through the rainforests in the Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia will soon be a bucket-list possibility once more. | journalism_and_media_communication |
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https://viewsonartblog.wordpress.com/tag/sculpture-on-the-way/ | 2021-11-28T03:09:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358443.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20211128013650-20211128043650-00316.warc.gz | 0.982061 | 1,398 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__121832615 | en | By Jerry Williams, Volunteer Docent at Grounds For Sculpture
Volunteers at Grounds For Sculpture have a monthly educational meeting. Our guests at one meeting late last year were from The Sculpture Foundation, the force behind Sculpture On The Way. They used to produce a full color brochure on the artwork included in the program. When we asked when it would be updated to include the many additions since last publication, we were advised that it was not practical to keep updating the brochure because the artwork itself keeps changing. They suggested someone amongst us volunteers take up a similar project.
Well, the individual who asked the question coincidentally had the same name as me. So, I picked up the thrown gauntlet, grabbed my camera and hit the road. I’ve traversed these roads and seen these sculptures countless times, but I never gave a second thought to photographing them. I quickly discovered that a weekday afternoon was not going to work if I wanted to capture all of the pieces. So I shot a few and decided to come back on the next Saturday morning.
I headed north on I-295 and pulled to the shoulder across from Head 2 Head. There’s not much traffic on this road at about 8 a.m. on a Saturday, but there is still some. I quickly picked up my camera with a telephoto lens and shot off a group of pictures of the sculpture across six lanes of highway plus a grass median — this while cars whizzed by on both sides of the roadway.
Done there, I went further up the highway and turned around to come back to exit 65B from the north. As soon as you come off this exit, the first thing you see is Comprehension by Seward Johnson. It was this piece that drove home the realization that certain installations of public art are meant to be seen only in passing. I should have realized it after photographing Head 2 Head on a busy Interstate Highway, but it sunk in here. There is simply no place to stop safely and take some photos, even early on a Saturday morning.
Over the next hour or two I shot a bunch of photos. When I got home, I loaded them into my computer and printed out what I thought were the best ones of each piece. The following week, I met with Lynn DeClemente, the registrar for The Sculpture Foundation. I showed her what I shot and she identified those pieces I could not. She also pointed me to pieces I had missed, or didn’t know about, and let me know of a few pending additions. Without Lynn’s invaluable assistance and guidance, I would not have been able to complete this project.
So, the following Sunday, camera in hand along with a big cup of coffee, I once again headed out. The sculptures on and around the NJ Transit train station property were easy to capture on Sunday morning as it’s not a busy place then. Across the road is the Congoleum plant and I spent some time on their property shooting whatever I could of the surrounding art.
Perhaps the most frustrating part of all was trying to fully capture Crossing Paths by Seward Johnson. This monumental piece was not yet installed when I took on this project. It is sited to best be seen from the adjacent train track. Thus, from the road (East State Street Extension), all you can see is the back. Well, I was determined to shoot the piece from the front and knew the area pretty well. So I set out to go to the other side of the tracks and get a few good photos. The other side of the tracks is also industrial, including trucking firms and the like. As you can imagine, early Sunday does not bring much activity to light industrial areas so I was the lone car in the area. I drove up and down side streets across from the work but could not get a clear view of it. While I sipped my coffee I contemplated the risk versus reward of entering private property to get closer to the tracks. Wisdom won out and I drove back to the other side of the tracks and moved on to the other works.
The piece on Klockner Road by NottinghamHigh School (Long Forms by Mark Power) presented its own problems. Before doing my early weekend morning excursions, I drove by the high school a number of times before I could even distinguish the piece from the surrounding trees. I briefly thought of pulling over and taking a few shots but quickly stifled those thoughts. Imagine an older gentleman (me) driving up to a high school during school hours and sticking a camera with a telephoto lens out the window. Once again, wisdom won out and I decided to capture this on a weekend trip.
Tulip by Seymour Ikenson presented another problem. At the time I was doing this project (early 2012), the former Siperstein’s paint store was being demolished and a new Walgreen’s was replacing it. The construction site was fenced off and there was rubble surrounding the sculpture. Across the street is a Wawa in whose lot I sat, with another cup of coffee, pondering how I could capture the work without including all the construction detritus. Bottom line was that I couldn’t and the photo included in Episode V is taken from The Sculpture Foundation website.
This project made me realize that there are two types of public (actually there are probably more than that). One is sculpture that is intended to be enjoyed while passing by. These pieces are usually monumental and are not designed to be seen up close and personal. Most of the works in Sculpture On The Way fall into this category. They are placed in locations not convenient or safe for pedestrians. The other type is those that can and perhaps should be looked at up close and personal. First Ride and Daedalus come to mind as good examples of this type.
Sculpture On The Way is not stagnant. Since I undertook this project, Hitchhiker and Crossing Paths were added. Los Mariachis and Turn of the Century were moved to a new location and joined by Whispering Close and Time For Fun. The vacated location was filled with God Bless America. It is not beyond belief that before you read this final episode, yet another change will have taken place on Sculpture On The Way. Just as a breadcrumb path succumbs to changes from wind and animals, so too does Sculpture On The Way.
I hope you enjoyed this excursion as much as I did preparing it. The next time you go to Grounds For Sculpture, or to the NJ Transit train station, or have any reason to be in the area, perhaps you’ll look at this marvelous collection in a slightly different light. It was a pleasure chatting with you. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.invizius.com/news/fierce-15/ | 2024-04-13T13:20:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816734.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413114018-20240413144018-00460.warc.gz | 0.943714 | 588 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__159139890 | en | Invizius has been named by FierceMedTech as one of 2018’s Fierce 15 med tech companies, designating it as one of the most promising private companies in the industry.
Invizius has developed H-Guard, a biotechnology product that acts as an “invisibility cloak”, hiding life-saving medical devices from patients’ immune systems. The company’s first application targets the blood filter used in kidney dialysis, promising to meet a massive and desperate unmet need among almost three million patients with kidney failure.
Invizius spun out of ground-breaking research at the University of Edinburgh into how deadly bacteria manage to hide from the human immune system. H-Guard replicates bacteria’s behaviour and is being developed into a suite of products that integrate with existing treatments, preventing the deadly complications that result when medical devices are rejected.
During dialysis, the patient’s immune system sees the dialysis machine as an unwelcome foreign body, and attacks it, creating inflammatory processes that end up damaging the patient’s own cardiovascular system. Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death for dialysis patients, and life expectancy on dialysis is slashed by two-thirds compared to that of the general population.
H-Guard is also being developed to help millions of patients in critical care, or who undergo open heart surgery, who suffer from complications after being hooked up to heart and lung machines.
Invizius announced £500,000 of investment from Mercia Fund Managers in April 2018, shortly after the company was formed with the help of Edinburgh Innovations, the University of Edinburgh’s commercialisation service.
Richard Boyd, CEO of Invizius, said: “The team at Invizius is absolutely delighted that our innovation and global ambition are receiving international recognition as one of the Fierce 15, and this adds to the momentum the business is building. We are excited and motivated by the potential of H-Guard to address decades-long shortcomings in the treatment of millions of patients worldwide.”
The Fierce 15 celebrates the spirit of being “fierce” – championing innovation and creativity, even in the face of intense competition. This is FierceMedTech’s seventh annual Fierce 15 selection.
An internationally recognized daily report reaching a network of over 90,000 med tech industry professionals, FierceMedTech provides subscribers with an authoritative analysis of the day's top stories. Every year FierceMedTech evaluates hundreds of private companies from around the world for its annual Fierce 15 list, which is based on a variety of factors such as the strength of its technology, partnerships, venture backers and a competitive market position.
The full list of this year’s Fierce 15 winners, and a feature on Invizius, can be viewed here. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://hughespr.blog/2013/01/07/bringing-your-blog-to-life/ | 2018-06-18T09:24:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267860168.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20180618090026-20180618110026-00531.warc.gz | 0.923943 | 647 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__45672978 | en | Catherine Bauer writes…
Silence (or thinking music).
Tap, tap, tap.
Those are the sounds of a frustrated writer – be it journalist, columnist, blogger, novelist, student – whatever.
Writing doesn’t always come easy – even to someone who enjoys it or who writes for a living.
More than a few of Adelaide’s PR consultants have a journalism background and are regularly asked by clients to help write columns or blog posts.
A good column or blog requires more than just the ability to articulate an opinion. Your opinions have to make sense, provide insight and be convincing. And ideally, they must be entertaining. They can be more intimate, informal and conversational than a lot of mainstream writing.
Here are a few tips that might help you with any New Year blogging resolutions.
Write as you would speak – don’t be formal if you’re not. And don’t be informal and lighthearted if it doesn’t come naturally.
Don’t be long winded – a rambling rant that takes forever to reach a point is blog poison. Get right to the point ASAP.
Write with conviction – put forward your opinion as something you truly believe in. Argue your case with conviction. Don’t sit on the fence. Be definite and be prepared to stand by your statements.
Use facts – back up your arguments with facts.
Be critical – people like reading columnists who dare to criticise. Naming names might create a bit of controversy but as long as you do not libel anyone and don’t go overboard in your criticism, it works well to make your column an interesting and exciting read.
It’s ok to be passionate – a ho-hum piece of writing is akin to a flaccid handshake – or being flogged with warm lettuce, to borrow from former Prime Minister Paul Keating. A soft or passive voice isn’t one for a columnist or blogger. If what you’re writing about doesn’t excite you, don’t expect your readers to be engaged either.
Have a point – if you’re going to raise an issue, you should also suggest a solution – not to is pretty useless.
Come up with some posts for the blog bank – this is a good idea if you’re a regular writer. Keeping up a series of blogs or columns can be onerous, especially when you’re not faced with some good juicy issues to tackle. Find some ageless subjects that aren’t time sensitive. And write ahead at those times you’re feeling creative, rather than at a time your stressed or busy and the words have to be painfully extracted.
Finally, don’t enter the realm of sharing your views, opinions and experiences unless you have a thick skin!
Hughes PR is a communications and public relations consultancy with proven and extensive experience in publicity and media relations, issues management, crisis management, digital media and social media strategy and implementation, community consultation, event management, media training, publications and strategic problem solving. Find out more. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://thamesvalleychamber.startupinfohub.co.uk/news/small-business-news/spend-on-small-business-saturday-breaks-new-record | 2021-05-16T17:57:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243991178.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20210516171301-20210516201301-00430.warc.gz | 0.978165 | 569 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__218688092 | en | The organisers of the Small Business Saturday event have estimated that UK shoppers spent £1.1 billion on the day, as shoppers showed support for their local high streets after a tough year.
The UK's eighth annual Small Business Saturday, which took place on 5 December 2020, saw 15.4 million people hitting the high street and shopping in independent retailers. Research commissioned by Small Business Saturday founder American Express has revealed that spend exceeded the billion pound mark for the first time ever, even though there was a fall in footfall.
Toluna polled 3,701 UK adults on behalf of American Express and found that the average per person spend was £70.74, up 56% from £45.42 in 2019. These figures indicate that UK shoppers spent £1.1 billion in small retailers on the day, using ONS figures for the UK adult population.
Of the shoppers who took to the high street on Small Business Saturday, 48% said they chose to spend money with small businesses as they wanted to support them after a tough year. Small Business Saturday also drew high engagement on social media, with #SmallBusinessSaturday trending throughout the day.
Michelle Ovens, director of Small Business Saturday, said: "It is fantastic to see such phenomenal, record-breaking support for small businesses, in one of the toughest years many have ever experienced. Small Business Saturday has been running for eight years, but this year's campaign has been our most vital. We are delighted that it's generated such a massive boost for small businesses, at a time they are facing huge challenges with the ongoing effects of the pandemic.
"I have no doubt that this strong support for small businesses has been driven by recognition of the critical role they played in our communities during lockdown. So many firms worked hard to pivot and adapt their businesses during this national emergency, often stepping in to offer useful services, vital products, as well as being a source of practical support and kindness, particularly for the NHS and frontline workers.
"While there is light at the end of the tunnel for 2021, with a vaccine, this winter is still going to be tough for many small businesses and it's so important that we all continue to support them. This year Small Business Saturday is not just about one day, but all of the small actions that individuals can do across the winter to add up to one big impact."
American Express is also incentivising its card holders to support their local small shops with its Shop Small offer. From 5 to 20 December 2020, they will receive a £5 statement credit when they spend £10 or more in-store at participating small businesses. The offer is valid for use up to ten times, once per participating location, which means shoppers can earn a total of £50 in statement credits.
Written by Rachel Miller. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.mohawkvalleychorus.org/rossi_director.html | 2023-12-04T06:51:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100525.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20231204052342-20231204082342-00585.warc.gz | 0.977 | 382 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__298794426 | en | David M. Rossi, a music teacher at Germantown Central School, has been named director of the Mohawk Valley Chorus.
He will be only the sixth director of the chorus in its 75 years of existence, succeeding John H. Nethaway, who retired after 30 years of service this spring.
Besides his teaching experiences, Rossi has been music director of the Choraliers of St. Clare’s in Schenectady since 2004 and of the Clifton Park Community Chorus the past year. He is also choir director and organist at Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Christ the King Church, a position he has held since 2003.
His teaching career, before joining the Germantown district two years ago, has included stints at Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons High School in Schenectady and St. Brigid’s Regional Catholic School. He also served as a substitute teacher at Sidney Central for several years.
Among his other conducting experience was directing the First Congregational Church of Greene choir, where he also led a three-octave bell choir, and the Tri-Town Ecumenical Choir.
Rossi is a graduate of Colonie Central High School and Hartwick College, where he sang with the Hartwick College Choir and the Hartwick Chamber Choir. He has also sung with the Catskill Choral Society.
He will be leading MVC when it resumes rehearsals for the 2009-10 season on Monday, Sept. 12, said president Charles Snyder.
In Rossi’s application, he expressed hope “to work with a choir of people from various backgrounds and experiences. I would like to work with and direct a group of people who enjoy music and learning a variety of musical styles. I would enjoy working with people who have interests that are comparable to my own.” | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.voxmotus.co.uk/dragon | 2019-09-18T02:50:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514573176.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20190918024332-20190918050332-00207.warc.gz | 0.819033 | 455 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__169899469 | en | Latest Dragon News
Vox Motus, the National Theatre of Scotland and Tianjin People's Arts Theatre present the world premiere of DRAGON.
Tommy can’t sleep. He hasn’t been able to since his mum died a year ago. Since then, life has gone from bad to worse. His dad is grief-stricken, his big sister ignores him and he’s become the target for the school bully. Then one restless night, Tommy goes to the window, throws back the curtain and…
…a dragon is looking at him. Straight in the eye.
An extraordinary visual story told without words, featuring puppetry, illusion and original music.
A show for adults, teenagers and children with vivid imaginations.
Recommended for 9 years +
The show is completely accessible to Deaf and hard of hearing audiences.
A co-production with the NATIOnal theatre of scotland and the Tianjin children's Arts Theatre, China
CONCEIVED BY JAMIE HARRISON, OLIVER EMANUEL AND CANDICE EDMUNDS
Written by Oliver Emanuel
Directed: Candice Edmunds and Jamie Harrison
Designed: Jamie Harrison
Puppet Design: Jamie Harrison and Guy Bishop
Composed: Tim Phillips
Sound Design: Mark Melville
Lighting Design: Simon Wilkinson
Associate Lighting Designer: Derek Anderson
Produced: Susannah Armitage
Associate Producer: Shihui Weng
Assistant Director: Andy McGregor
Casting Director: Laura Donelly
Dad: Martin McCormick
Susie: Joanne McGuinness
Tommy: Scott Miller
Vanessa: Amanda Wright
David Hogan: Gavin Jon Wright
Ben Laing: Kai Zhang
Alison Brodie: Yan Tao
Production Manager: Chris Hay
CSM: David Sneddon
TSM: David Hill
DSM: Emma Whoriskey
ASM: Rosie Ward
Sound Supervisor: Andrew Kirkby
Lighting Supervisor: James Gardner
Lighting Programmer: Laura Whitley
Technicians: Jon Meggat, Neil Dewar
Wardrobe Supervisor: Stephanie Thorburn
Interpreter: Liang-Yu Sung | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://feedyourwanderlust.com/about/ | 2018-02-23T04:47:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891814393.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20180223035527-20180223055527-00741.warc.gz | 0.927954 | 478 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__271517582 | en | Feed Your Wanderlust is a travel blog dedicated to helping you experience our world and live life to the fullest. Wanderlust will especially focus on wellness travel that nourishes the mind, body, and soul. The author, Megan Jicha, believes this type of travel–or really any travel in general–is one of the best ways to discover, grow, and enjoy who you are as a person.
Megan will also go beyond her recommendations and reviews of wellness travel and simply recount her favorite travel experiences: From soul searching in Iceland and bridge climbing in Sydney to awesome pancakes in San Francisco. Megan simply wants Wanderlust to be a place where she can share her stories and hopefully inspire a few people to get out there and explore the world.
Last but not least, Megan will also document the steps she takes to become a travel writer. She hopes sharing these experience will help just one person pursue their passion for travel writing and help them understand that they too can delve into the wonderful, life-affirming world of travel writing.
About the girl, Megan Jicha
Currently residing in Orange County, California, Megan, 26, is a full-time freelance writer–splitting her time between corporate copywriting and travel writing. Her current life goals include: 1) surely and steadily growing Feed Your Wanderlust and her travel writing career, 2) dedicating more time to her yoga practice, 3) visiting at least one new country each year, 4) getting her finances in grown-up-girl order, and 5) continuing to learn how to reduce stress and embrace happiness on a day-to-day basis.
Her favorite travel excursions to date include:
- Camping around Iceland for a month and climbing multiple glaciers
- Camping in the Australian outback
- Climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge
- Playing on the rock slides of Sacsayhuaman
- Hiking, zip-lining, and rafting the Inca Jungle Trek
- Exploring Machu Picchu
- Rope swinging off a sunset cruise boat on a man’s back–in a black dress–in Aruba
- Driving the Pacific Coast Highway
- Eating veggie burgers, window shopping, and relaxing on the beach in Cape May, NJ
- Calling Boston, MA home for over 5 years
- Moving cross country to California | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://hl-isy.com/News-and-Events/Press-Releases/National-MCO-Analyzer-Medicare-053112 | 2013-05-21T10:20:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.937108 | 447 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__80261489 | en | Seniors are Choosing Medicare Advantage in Greater Numbers which is Good News for Private Health Plans, According to HealthLeaders-InterStudy
May 31, 2012—Nashville, Tenn. —
HealthLeaders-InterStudy, the leading provider of managed care market intelligence, finds that Medicare’s growth and profit potential make it a good bet for managed care organizations looking to expand their business, according to the recently published National MCO Analyzer: Medicare
report. Even with the nation’s budget and debt problems, Medicare continues to expand as aging baby boomers enter the market and the weak economy pushes more people into retirement.
The 2012 Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment season ended with 13.3 million members in MA plans, up 10 percent from 2011. Much of the 2012 MA growth accrued to the large national MA plans, which benefited from Medicare age-ins, a successful annual enrollment period and several major health plan acquisitions in the Medicare segment.
“Medicare Advantage is maturing, and part of that maturation is the consolidation of the market as smaller plans either fail or are purchased by the larger plans.” said HealthLeaders-InterStudy Senior Analyst Paula Wade. “The top ten plans now have two-thirds of the MA market for 2012. As these large players realize greater economies of scale, particularly in drug purchasing, consolidation will continue as marginal players decide to put themselves up for sale.”
Seniors are choosing Medicare Advantage plans in greater numbers, because those plans offer better benefits than the government fee-for-service program. Medicare Advantage plans are part of a federal program providing Medicare coverage through the private insurance market.
“Baby boomers are accustomed to managed care,” said Ms. Wade. “They think it’s entirely normal to choose a private health plan for delivery of their Medicare benefits. This generation is also savvier about researching their coverage alternatives online and shopping for the best value.”
The National MCO Analyzer: Medicare
report includes a profile for each state and the District of Columbia to capture each program’s unique structure and operation. An abstract of the report can be found here: | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://marianneboeskygallery.com/art-fairs/10-independent-art-fair/ | 2024-02-20T21:51:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473347.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20240220211055-20240221001055-00788.warc.gz | 0.951866 | 572 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__107763115 | en | For sales inquiries, please contact:
Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to participate in the 2022 edition of the Independent Art Fair in New York City with a solo booth featuring a new body of work by seminal Italian artist Pier Paolo Calzolari (b. 1943). The presentation follows Calzolari’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, Painting as a Butterfly (March 18 – April 23, 2022), which was the first significant presentation of the artist’s work since his retrospective at Museo Madre in Napoli, Italy in 2019.
The new paintings on display are works from Calzolari’s latest “Shop Signs” series (2019-ongoing). These new works were created in a period of isolation and delicately channel a collective longing for human connection. The series continues his long-standing observation of modern urban life, in which the artist creates fictional encounters such as a stroll past a shoemaker, flower shop, or a hatter. Working in a scale reminiscent of merchant signage, Calzolari uses commonplace signifiers such as a teapot or a shoe to transcend language and allow viewers to sit with the often overlooked beauty and simplicity of everyday life. The artist said, “I’ve always asked people to listen to the murmuring of things, the voice of objects, their secrets.” Painting with blue, red, and yellow pastels à l’écu, a medium that combines the tradition of Old Masters with modern chemistry,, Calzolari collapses temporalities on salt-strewn canvas and creates moments for viewers to meditate on their personal emotions and memories.
“We are thrilled to premiere this new body of work by Pier Paolo Calzolari at Independent Art Fair, a thoughtfully curated platform envisioned by our colleagues Elizabeth Dee and Matthew Higgs,” said Marianne Boesky. “The fair offers a unique opportunity for cross generational and cultural dialogues, putting Calzolari’s recent innovations in conversation with a younger generation of artists and dealers, who may be examining similar concerns through their individual lens.”
A central figure in the postwar Arte Povera movement, Calzolari continues to be one of the most important contemporary Italian artists working today. This recent period of fervent creativity, from a new studio in Lisbon, Portugal, has notably impacted the artist’s use of light and color, in particular seen in his experimentation with a pastel color palette that has never before been seen in his works. Calzolari’s creations are simultaneously highly charged and contemplative, both for the viewer and the artist himself. Shedding a new light onto his painting practice, Calzolari is at once conductor and audience. | journalism_and_media_communication |
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Missouri GOP Lawmaker Reveals He’s Gay And Opposes ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill
A Republican lawmaker in Missouri on Wednesday announced that he was gay and called on his colleagues to revoke their support for a “horrible” bill that would prevent the discussion of homosexuality in schools.
“I will not lie to myself anymore about my own sexuality,” state Rep. Zachary Wyatt said during a press conference at the State Capitol. “It has probably been the hardest thing to come to terms with. I have always ignored it, didn’t even think about it or want to talk about it. I’ve not been immune to it. I hear the comments — usually snide ones — about me.”
“I’m not the first or last Republican to come out. I’ve just gotten tired of the bigotry being shown from both sides of the aisle on gay issues. Being gay has never been a Republican or Democrat issue.”
Wyatt warned that Missouri’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill would make it impossible for LGBT students to speak with teachers and counselors when they were being bullied. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://ivorsacademy.com/news/mnek-amy-wadge-and-ross-golan-amongst-300-songwriters-and-artists-joining-the-paysongwriters-campaign/ | 2023-12-07T17:01:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100677.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207153748-20231207183748-00605.warc.gz | 0.961739 | 983 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__283190563 | en | Supporters include MNEK, Amy Wadge, Ross Golan, Fred Gibson, Mikkel Eriksen of Stargate, Paloma Faith, Savan Kotecha, Jess Glynne, Natalie Hemby, Jimmy Hogarth, Liam Howe, Giorgio Moroder, Digital Farm Animals, Dan Bastille, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jin Jin, Plested, Ina Wroldsen, Tre Jean-Marie, Rick Nowels, Tiffany Red, Iain James, Dyo and Jessica Agombar.
300 writers, along with SONA (Songwriters on North America) and The 100 Percenters, have signed an open letter to all record labels calling on them to pay writers a minimum daily allowance (per diem) of £75 / $120 to each songwriter working with an artist to cover expenses and give writers at least four points on the master from the label share. The letter says that the per diem would be non-recoupable from the artist share and points should be on net revenue and shared amongst the non-performing songwriters on a record.
MNEK, artist, songwriter and producer said, “There are no songs without songwriters, lyricists and wordsmiths. To award ceremonies to the digital platforms even down to the conception of the song, the people behind the lyrics and melody are made to seem secondary. Pay songwriters for our minds and our time.”
Amy Wadge, songwriter and Grammy winner said, “It takes a village to launch a successful artist and songwriters are an essential part of the village and yet they are still at the bottom of the food chain when it comes to income. It’s time for a proper conversation and for a new precedent to be set but it has to be supported by labels and artists too. Songwriters need to be heard for what they are saying as well as what they are writing!”
Ross Golan, multi-award-winning and multi-platinum selling songwriter and producer said, “Just because the industry is the way it is, doesn’t mean the industry has to always be this way. Let’s make our community healthier and stronger.”
Tiffany Red, Grammy winning songwriter and founder of The 100 Percenters said “I’ll always be a songwriter. It’s the love of my life. I’m down to write for artists as long as they pay my songwriting fee, give me a per diem for my time, and points on the master.”
Songwriter Iain James said, “I’ve been extremely lucky in my career over the last 15 years in what I’ve achieved, but I can’t imagine trying to break through and make a name for myself in 2021 – I simply wouldn’t have been able to afford it. Like in any other creative industry, we must nurture and look after the next generation of amazingly talented people coming through and this has to start by giving songwriters a fairer share of the pie.”
Songwriters invest in artists and emerging talent by spending time in the studio providing direction, inspiration and development at their own risk and often for no return. Unlike a label, a songwriter does not have the same means to absorb these costs. Coupled with the inadequate revenues songwriters receive through streaming, the risks and rewards writers face needs to be re-balanced.
The campaign argues that providing writers with a daily allowance and additional points on the master are immediate steps that labels can take to support, and invest in, creativity.
This campaign comes as the DCMS Select Committee inquiry into the economics of streaming holds an evidence session with UK Government Ministers on Monday 22 March. Helienne Lindvall, Chair of The Ivors Academy’s Songwriter Committee said, “We know we have to fix streaming so it’s fair, transparent and sustains the careers of the people that create the music we love. Structural reform is needed now more than ever, but in the meantime there are a few quick and easy measures which could help songwriters get by until such time as reform is achieved. While labels enjoy record revenues from streaming, songwriters are struggling to pay the rent. The #PaySongwriters campaign provides simple ways for the labels to support songwriters when it’s needed most.
“We commend The Other Songs and the other labels who have joined them already in paying points to non-performing songwriters, showing that this is a fair way to reward the huge contribution songwriters make to the health of the music industry. As a community of music creators, we call on all labels to support our campaign to #PaySongwriters.” | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.parkplacewinghaven.com/thanksgiving-park-place-at-winghaven/ | 2024-04-13T12:25:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816734.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413114018-20240413144018-00460.warc.gz | 0.924744 | 1,165 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__29190998 | en | 5 Reasons to Spend Your Thanksgiving Weekend at Park Place at Winghaven
Thanksgiving—a holiday steeped in tradition and filled with the three Fs: family, feasting, and football. But there’s a fourth ‘F’ that’s making its way into the Thanksgiving lexicon: flexibility. The holiday season is evolving, with many people now opting to celebrate in new locales, creating fresh traditions while still honoring the old. For those seeking a change of scene, Park Place at Winghaven in O’Fallon, Missouri, offers a perfect mix of comfort, luxury, and community spirit. Let’s dive into five reasons why spending your Thanksgiving weekend at Park Place at Winghaven could start your holiday season off right.
Comforts of Home in a Luxurious Setting
Park Place at Winghaven echoes the comforts of home with its inviting, well-appointed living spaces. The luxurious touch points make it an appealing choice for those who wish to enjoy the holiday in style. High ceilings and expansive windows offer a bright and airy atmosphere, perfect for watching the autumn leaves fall or the morning frost glisten while sipping on a warm cup of coffee.
While home-cooking is a Thanksgiving staple, not everyone loves the preparation and cleanup that comes with it. Thankfully, O’Fallon is a town that celebrates with fervor, offering a bevy of local dining options with Thanksgiving specials. You can savor a bountiful Thanksgiving dinner with all the traditional fixings—or a gourmet alternative—without the extensive prep and dishes to wash afterward.
The Splendor of Autumn in Missouri
Missouri in the fall is a sight to behold, and Park Place at Winghaven sits at the heart of this autumnal beauty. The landscape is awash with reds, oranges, and yellows, providing a gorgeous backdrop for holiday photos or a quiet walk to reflect on the things we’re thankful for.
Beyond the aesthetics, the season is perfect for outdoor activities before the winter chill sets in. Whether it’s a family touch football game or a peaceful hike through one of the nearby parks, there’s no shortage of ways to enjoy the crisp November air.
A Sense of Community and Belonging
The holiday season, and Thanksgiving in particular, is about community. It’s about sharing not just a meal, but experiences and gratitude. Park Place at Winghaven fosters a genuine sense of community, something that can make the holidays feel even more special.
Residents and visitors alike can enjoy the shared amenities—a feature not always possible in a typical setting. Imagine kids playing in the common areas, forming friendships as parents exchange recipes or share stories of Thanksgivings past.
Generous Accommodations for Families
When you bring families together, space becomes a precious commodity. The apartments at Park Place at Winghaven boast generous floor plans that allow everyone to gather comfortably, a luxury during the holiday season.
Each unit is designed with both communal and private spaces in mind, ensuring that while the turkey is roasting, some can watch the parade on TV, others can play games in a separate room, and those needing a quiet moment can find peace away from the bustle.
Celebrate Without the Stress
Finally, the allure of a stress-free holiday cannot be overstated. Thanksgiving at Park Place at Winghaven means you can enjoy all the festivities without the usual anxieties. The maintenance team ensures that your holiday is about relaxation and celebration, not about fixing that wobbly chair leg or a clogged kitchen sink. Park Place is your place to savor life, find all amenities and services here.
Thanksgiving Weekend at Park Place
Now, let’s paint a picture of what a Thanksgiving weekend could look like at Park Place at Winghaven:
Thursday Morning: Start your day with a brisk walk or jog around the neighborhood, taking in the serenity of O’Fallon’s scenic pathways. As the parade floats across your TV screen, the aroma of turkey begins to fill the air, courtesy of a local caterer or a meal prepared by your family in a fully equipped kitchenette.
Thursday Afternoon: Gather around the spacious living room as the Thanksgiving feast is spread out on the dining table. The bounty is rich, and the company is even richer. Laughter and the clinking of glasses underscore a sense of togetherness.
Thursday Evening: After the big meal, why not take a leisurely walk around the community, or for those who can’t resist, catch some holiday specials or football games on the large screen TV provided in your apartment.
Black Friday: For those who live for the thrill of holiday shopping, Black Friday deals await at nearby shopping centers. The hunt for bargains is exhilarating and the victories sweet. And when you’re shopped out, Park Place is just a short drive away.
Weekend Activities: The rest of the weekend can be as active or as laid back as you desire. Engage in community events at Park Place, take in a movie at a local theater, or explore historical sites around O’Fallon. Visit our area attractions page to learn about nearby places that are fun to explore.
Thanksgiving at Park Place at Winghaven offers a holiday experience that combines tradition with the ease of a getaway. It’s a place where memories are made, where the holiday rush is replaced by leisure and appreciation, and where the spirit of Thanksgiving is not just preserved, but elevated. This year, make Park Place at Winghaven your Thanksgiving destination and discover a new way to celebrate the season. | journalism_and_media_communication |
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There are 35 Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty in England. But 90% of us live in towns and cities and most people rarely get out and visit them. So CABE is supporting a photo competition to find ‘Areas of Outstanding Urban Beauty’
The idea is to focus attention on the quality of urban areas and to find out what people love about the places where they live. You’re invited to take a picture. Write a few lines. And submit an entry. It could be a single building, a cityscape, a park or a detail like a paving stone. It needs to be in an English town, city or village. It must be somewhere that is beautiful to you.
The project is being run with with Dezeen, the online architectural and design magazine, with support from The Photographers’ Gallery in London.
To find out more information click here | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.cracgallery.com/uno/ | 2021-09-22T21:19:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057388.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20210922193630-20210922223630-00635.warc.gz | 0.900649 | 422 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__190265907 | en | UNO is an artist who lives and works in Rome from the early 2000s.
The techniques used in his artistic production are the classics of street art and muralism, although his preference, right from his first experiences in the street, are posters, repetition, collage, decoupage, stencils, and anything that has to do with the streets and the ephemeral, with the perpetual and incessant need to roam around burning the midnight oil.
By assimilating and actualizing the lesson of Warhol, Debord , and Rotella , through endless repetition and frequent use of bright colors, UNO plays with the advertising techniques and transforms them.
Focusing on the face of a famous chocolate advertising, he turns it into an icon of the possible revolution of the individual against the mass society. A face freed from the role assigned to it by its creators and that paradoxically becomes the ideal tool for a critique of the advertising practice itself.
Reinforcing this message his decoupages with torn paper and stencil-collages, that remind us of the individual and his uniqueness, continually manipulated until lost in the multiplicity of society.
One hundred thousand , no one , UNO.
His artworks are displayed in different cities: Los Angeles (USA), San Francisco (USA), Chicago (USA), London (GB), Moscow (RUS), Berlin (D), Amsterdam (NL), Madrid (E), Lisbon (P), Rome (I), Milan (I), Turin (I), Siracusa (I), Catania (I), Bologna (I), Salerno (I), Terni (I); Venice (I), Barcelona (E), Dortmund (D), Hamburg (D), Marseille (F), Athen (GR), La Turbie (F), and more.
His works appeared on:International New York Times; Juxtapoz Magazine; Huffington Post; Rolling Stones; LIFO art magazine; BBC travel; Artribune; Pow! Wow! Worldwide; Vandalog; Widewalls; Brooklyn Street Art. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.jimzub.com/page/2/ | 2014-10-31T19:51:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1414637900185.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20141030025820-00120-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.942442 | 2,827 | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-42__0__49276754 | en | The gang from the Enchanted Tiki Talk Podcast met me in person at NYCC and we did a follow-up interview all about the Figment comic mini-series.
I’ve gone on at length about my love of tabletop role-playing games and how I feel they’re the best entertainment money can buy. Sitting down to create a new interactive tale with a group of friends is a joyous experience that few other things can match. Playing RPGs strengthened my storytelling skills and lead me down the creative path to becoming a comic writer.
I want to talk about one game in particular that stands out among the dozens and dozens I’ve played over the years: FENG SHUI.
Feng Shui is an Action Movie Role-Playing Game written by Robin Laws. It takes the heightened intensity of Hong Kong-style action films and, in a simple and cohesive way, creates a storytelling framework that encourages everyone playing to have a great time. It changed the way I played games and, for many designers and players alike, it was a milestone in the way that it injected storytelling ideas into the mechanical components of gaming.
Here’s the thing: In practically every tabletop RPG that came before Feng Shui, there was a distinct divide between narration and action. You could “role play” all you wanted as the story progressed but, once the action kicked into gear, it was time to break out the dice and hope for the best. No matter what you envisioned in your mind as weapons clashed, the rules alone would dictate who hits, how much damage they take, and the end result therein. The narrative component was completely pushed out in favor of cold numbers and probabilities.
What Robin did with Feng Shui was to weave the narrative back into the heart of the action and make it integral to how the game is played. Describing what you’re doing during combat, how you’re doing it, and making it as entertaining as possible grants you bonuses to achieve the very thing you’re describing. Instead of the rules working against your wildest imagination, it propels it forward and makes action scenes a bombastic rollicking part of the story instead of a number crunching speed bump. It’s no longer about min-maxing the stats and hoping the dice play your way, it’s about entertaining the whole table as the Game Master rewards your inventiveness and creativity.
That critical shift in focus made a massive difference in how our group played RPGs. It pushed Feng Shui to the top of the pile whenever we wanted to pull together a game or teach new players what RPGs were all about. It made the mechanical part of the game fun and encouraged everyone at the table to contribute in a way I’d never experienced before.
Feng Shui effortlessly codifies the ridiculous entertainment of action movies and empowers everyone playing to throw down in an over-the-top thrill ride with an infinite production budget. It rewards involvement, energizes storytelling, and never fails to surprise.
Our college gaming group ran a Mission Impossible-style episodic campaign called Agents of Intrigue. It started off as a simple throw-together format to run games when we weren’t sure who would be available from week to week and, over dozens of wild sessions and years of play, it evolved into a sprawling cast of colorful characters and weaving plot lines punctuated with wry humor and bone-crunching action. To this day that campaign is one of my favorite gaming memories.
The Feng Shui 2nd Edition Kickstarter is currently running down its last day of fundraising and I heartily encourage everyone I know who loves games to contribute. Beyond the PDF or physical book of rules, you’re helping support one of the best RPG games of all time while receiving a toolkit for creating new heart-pounding stories of ultimate ass-kickery.
DO IT and tell ‘em I sent ya.
Announced over the weekend, I’m part of the creative team launching a tie-in comic for the Ultimate Spider-Man animated series featured on the Disney Channel.
You can read all about it in our new Comic Book Resources interview.
Amazing Spider-Man was the first super hero comic I ever collected, so getting the chance to write stories for everyone’s favorite web-slinger is a pure delight.
Comic Book Resources has just posted up a new interview with me along with a new preview of Dungeons & Dragons: Legends of Baldur’s Gate. Click on through to read about how the series came about and my plans for the new series that launches next week!
Over on Sequential Tart, Suzette Chan interviews Steve and I all about Wayward, including our influences, research, Japanese culture, and the trials our characters are going through. Give it a read!
Another incredible convention season wraps up with the annual New York Comic Con. I’ll be there from Thursday through Saturday (I’m heading home Sunday before the show opens to spend Canadian Thanksgiving with my family) and, if you’re there, I hope you get a chance to come by and visit!
ARTIST ALLEY TABLE W-16
Wayward, Skullkickers, Samurai Jack, Pathfinder, Figment… lots of different books you can bring by to get signed.
In addition, IDW will have special advance copies of Dungeons & Dragons: Legends of Baldur’s Gate, with a space hamster-tastic convention-only cover, there for Max Dunbar and I to sign.
Beyond the table set up, here’s where you’ll be able to find me for signings/panels:
06:15-07:00pm Hasbro/IDW Panel – Room 1A14
11:00-12:00pm IDW Signing – Booth 1844
01:00-01:50pm Dark Horse Signing – Booth 1636
04:15-05:00pm IDW Panel – Room 1A14
02:00-03:00pm Image Comics Signing – Booth 1544
Today sees the release of FIGMENT #5, the final issue of our mini-series. From last December when Bill Rosemann first approached me about writing the story through to now, it’s hard to believe how quickly it all went.
I’m really proud of the work our team put together and I’m so happy that fans of Journey Into Imagination have enjoyed it so much.
Here’s the little note I wrote in the back of the issue for our readers:
I know it’s a groan-worthy cliché, but I can’t help it – Working on Figment has been a dream come true!
Right from the start – from concept, through development, and then into art production and lettering – everyone on the team clicked. All of us gathered momentum and enthusiasm as the project built up steam. I think that creative ‘spark’ really shows on the final printed page, each one lovingly rendered by Filipe and Jean-Francois.
Expanding the legacy of Dreamfinder and Figment has been a magical experience all around. I know how much these characters mean to fans of Disneyworld and I’m delighted that you’ve welcomed this new story into your hearts.
To the creative team, the Marvel crew, the Disney Imagineers, and our loyal readers – Thank you for letting me add a bit of steam-powered joy to the Magic Kingdom.
I was a guest on this week’s War Rocket Ajax podcast with Matt Wilson and Chris Sims. We talk extensively about Wayward, juggling multiple projects, the awesomeness of Charles Soule, Waffle House, and more. Give it a listen. My interview starts at the 36 minute mark of the podcast.
Wayward #2 arrived in stores last week and, once again, all of us on the creative team are blown away by the response from retailers and readers alike. Thank you so much for the praise and support. Keep telling others about the series as we continue to crank away making it the best we can.
• Bleeding Cool: “The new high school experience, the language differences, and exploring of a stranger world within a strange world, yeah, definitely the comic of the week.”
• 13th Dimension: “There is no question that the slowly unfolding series is brimming with promise and, in the meantime, if Zub can continue to regale us with Rori’s adventures in Tokyo, the series should continue to be an essential read.”
• All-Comic: 5/5 “Wayward is only on its second issue, but has instantly become one of most vibrant and fascinating titles in Image’s stable.”
• Big Glasgow Comic Page: 4/5 “Wayward is still a very, very open book: anything could happen.”
• Black Ship Books: “Rori continues to be a fascinating character and Cummings’ art alone is well worth the cover price. Don’t miss it.”
• Comic Book Bin: 10/10 “Wayward does indeed look to be one of the year’s best new comic book series and one of the best fantasy comic books period.”
• Comics: The Gathering: 9/10 “Wayward continues with an incredibly strong second outing that is vivid and eye-catching. Don’t miss this one.”
• Comix I Read: “Supernatural beings, a deep and confused main character and fantastic art make Wayward issue #2 a must read for this week.”
• Con Freaks & Geeks: 9/10 “As Rori’s story continues on, her powers manifest even more. Wayward’s story is progressing very strongly and is leading to something very big.”
• Emertainment Monthly: “Wayward has an incredibly unique take on both monsters and Japanese culture and Zub does an excellent job of establishing—and quickly fleshing out—his characters.”
• Fangirl Nation: “Anyone who is a fan of the fantasy/supernatural element would be interested in this comic. It is compelling, beautiful, and full of creatures that most people outside of Japan never heard of.”
• Four Color Bullet: “This is fast becoming one of my favorite books, both for content, and a nice price tag.”
• Geeked Out Nation: 8/10 “When everything is said and done you do have to take notice of the attention put into Rori’s relationship with her mom and how there are things about both of their lives that they don’t discuss for the sake of not burdening the other.”
• Iron Violet: 5/5 “I cannot express how much I love the artwork for this series! Its that rare enigma of being the perfect blend of comic book art with manga influences that doesn’t have too much or too little of either.”
• Major Spoilers: 9.5/10 “Wayward #2 is a visually stunning as the narrative is engaging. Cummings, Ruach and Zub are all on their A-game and work together effortlessly.”
• Mind Capsules: 4.5/5 “After two issues, this book has become a keeper and one to definitely pick up if you are not doing so already.”
• OmniJerBear: 10/10 “I really think it’s going to do great.”
• Pop Culture Company: “Image has another huge winner on their hands here”
• Pop Culture Maven: “Zub is not rushing things along. Cummings artwork is one of the key things that is really driving the book.”
• Reading Pictures: “Thus far, Wayward has shown it’s in a real class of its own with its hybrid version of a Japanese coming-of-age tale. Zub, Cummings and the rest of the team have something going strong and this book is just plain fun to read.”
• Reading With A Flight Ring: “I can’t believe I’m such a big fan of this book already it’s that much fun to read.”
• Rhymes With Geek: 9/10 “How nice to be able to say that Wayward is a series that only gets better in the second issue.”
• Shadowhawk’s Shade: 9.5/10 “What can I say, another mindblowing issue from a great team.”
• Talking Comics: “This art is absolutely stunning. It is beautiful, and grounds the story in the real world.”
• Unleash The Fanboy: 9/10 “Two issues in and I can say that this is something that deserves a spot on your pull-list. Highly recommended.”
• We The Nerdy: 87% “Issue 2 is continuing the trend of building and following a character worth reading about. As a reader, I can’t ask for much more than that.”
• What’cha Reading: 4.5/5 “I love Wayward more and more each issue. Rori is identifiable and the right combination of fragile and strong.”
• Word of the Nerd: 8/10 “The art is marvelous and so are the colors.” | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://inthemix.staradvertiserblogs.com/2013/08/01/in-the-mix-pelekai-eliminated-on-agt/ | 2019-05-21T13:28:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256381.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20190521122503-20190521144503-00176.warc.gz | 0.968489 | 351 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__69953264 | en | Pelekai eliminated on 'AGT'
"America's Got Talent" viewers sent home a contestant with Hawaii ties for the second straight week, dismissing Oahu resident Ciana Pelekai during a second week of eliminations decided by a public vote.
Local dance crew Hype went home during the show's first live results episode on July 24.
Pelekai, 12, chose a cover of Emeli Sande's "Next to Me" for her live performance on Tuesday, July 30, at Radio City Music Hall
"This is a really tough one," celebrity judge Mel B. told Pelekai the following night, July 31, as she awaited her fate alongside country singer Marty Brown and sword-swallowing daredevil Alexandr Magala. "I'm so glad we judges don't have to decide this.
"You have a stunning voice. Your performance was great last night."
America didn't agree, however, that she deserved one of four slots available for the 12 acts featured this week. Instead, country singer Brown, operatic trio Forte, dance crew Innovative Force and impressionist Angela Hoover were selected to move on to the show's semifinal round, bringing them one step closer to a $1,000,000 grand prize and Las Vegas show contract.
They'll be joined by the KriStef Brothers, Collins Key, Brandon James and Anna Christine, who were all picked by viewers last week to advance to the semifinals.
Jason Genegabus is Entertainment Editor/Online at the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and has covered the local nightlife, music, bar and entertainment scenes since 2001. Contact him via email at [email protected]. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://lulufashionweek.com/ | 2022-01-27T01:53:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305052.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127012750-20220127042750-00626.warc.gz | 0.954008 | 236 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__64939388 | en | The flamboyant city of Kochi is gearing up to welcome the biggest fashion spectacle the country has ever witnessed! ‘Lulu Fashion Week 2020’ is one of the most happening fashion shows which encompass all those who are associated with the field of fashion. It facilitates to expose the fashion conscious with the latest fashion trends domestically as well from across the globe. ‘LuLu Fashion Week 2020’ is touted to be the biggest exhibition of the season’s most eye-catching spring/summer fashion trends and styles by leading 45 brands with 29 fashion shows spread across five days from 15th April to 19th April 2020. The ‘LuLu Fashion Week 2020’ recognizes the exceptional contributions by eminent personalities from the fashion and entertainment industry with coveted titles of Pride of Kerala and Style Icon Awards. A ‘Fashion Forum’ which will have the inspiring presence of many stalwarts and dignified personalities from the fashion, entertainment and retail industry is also on the cards and promises to be an enriching influence for students of fashion technology.
So, mark the dates of 15-19 April 2020 on your calendar for a brand new fashion experience! | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://diahannhh.medium.com/the-greatest-value-of-bitcoin-38506e340309?source=post_internal_links---------2---------------------------- | 2023-11-28T15:42:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679099892.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20231128151412-20231128181412-00593.warc.gz | 0.937481 | 500 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__290848078 | en | Hint: It’s behind the launch of Web 3.0
Back in the early 90s, while working for one of the earliest internet companies, I remember enthusiastically encouraging business people to migrate onto the online world using DOS prompts and modems. My advice back then was that the internet would, one day, change the world of business with its valuable tools like email, Telnet and FTP, so they should become early adopters of this emergent technology to stay one step ahead. It was until a few months later that the first web browser Mosaic was announced by Marc Andreessen, marking the launch of Web 1.0. This first ever ‘graphical user interface’ (GUI) browser was a huge deal, and made the newly-created World Wide Web accessible to the non-technical world. Today’s youth can’t fathom a world without ‘Googling’ any question, ordering takeaway food at the push of a button or spending their pocket money online in the e-commerce world of Web 2.0.
Now we’re on the brink of another critical ‘technical turning point’. We’re witnessing the birth of Web 3.0, built on a blockchain foundation, that will change our world in ways we’re only beginning to fathom. The most important benefit Web 3.0 brings to society is that the human frailties of greed and dishonesty can at last be kept in check like never before in history.
What is Web 3.0?
Web 3.0 is the term for the creation of a superior, digital infrastructure being built with blockchain technology, which has already brought unparalleled improvements in transaction transparency, speed and operating costs for all commercial, financial and legal activities that take place each day around the world. And new applications for this technology are being uncovered and developed every week.
So what is the technical innovation that, like Mosaic, has officially launched the new Web 3.0? Bitcoin. While Bitcoin was not the first attempt at creating a digital currency, it was the first decentralised and encrypted means of transferring value directly between two parties that didn’t know/trust each other. Since Bitcoin’s launch in 2009, blockchain developments have exploded from single use as crypto-currencies into a multitude of innovative, real world applications that utilise encryption and unchangeable (immutable), decentralised ledgers for any… | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://vrouwennetwerk.sites.uu.nl/internationale-vrouwendag/ | 2022-07-07T13:52:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104692018.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220707124050-20220707154050-00202.warc.gz | 0.93615 | 181 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__250579062 | en | A special celebration of International Women’s Day in Utrecht on Friday 8 March at the University Hall.
Professor Berteke Waaldijk will historically contextualize this eventful day, for it is a day that is celebrated as well as disputed. According to Waaldijk, the strong and continuing disagreements about its history are proof of vibrant feminism and illustrate the need for future researchers who take an interest in what divides and what unites women.
Following her lecture, alumna and professor Anneke Smelik will chair the ROSANNA Fund for Women Grant Ceremony. The ROSANNA Fund for Women was founded by Anneke Smelik and professor Rosi Braidotti as they wish to make higher education more accessible to women.
Read more about the programme and the ROSANNA Fund for Women on our website | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://morsunled.weebly.com/home/archives/12-2023 | 2024-04-18T04:10:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817187.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418030928-20240418060928-00168.warc.gz | 0.907281 | 612 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__10926146 | en | n the world of off-road enthusiasts and Jeep aficionados, the Jeep JL RGB headlights have emerged as a dazzling beacon of style and functionality. As the sun dips below the horizon and darkness sets in, these technologically advanced headlights not only light up the trail but also add a vibrant, customizable flair to the iconic Jeep JL.
Jeep, renowned for its rugged and adventurous spirit, has always been at the forefront of innovation. The introduction of RGB (Red, Green, Blue) headlights for the Jeep JL is a testament to the brand's commitment to merging cutting-edge technology with the classic design of their vehicles.
The primary allure of Jeep JL RGB headlights lies in their ability to transform the night-driving experience. Traditional headlights, while effective, often lack the personality and versatility that RGB headlights bring to the table. With a wide spectrum of colors at your fingertips, Jeep owners can now customize their headlights to match their mood, personality, or even the specific terrain they are conquering.
Beyond the aesthetic appeal, the RGB headlights offer practical benefits for off-road enthusiasts. The ability to switch between different colors can serve as a signaling system during group off-road adventures, enhancing communication between fellow Jeepers. Whether it's signaling a stop, indicating a change in direction, or simply expressing enthusiasm, these headlights transcend their illuminating function to become a form of visual communication on the trail.
Installation and operation of Jeep JL RGB headlights are surprisingly user-friendly, considering the sophisticated technology involved. Most RGB headlight kits come with a simple plug-and-play design, allowing Jeep owners to upgrade their headlights without the need for extensive technical expertise. Once installed, the accompanying smartphone app or remote control provides an intuitive interface for adjusting colors, brightness, and even creating dynamic light shows.
The durability and weather resistance of these RGB headlights ensure they can withstand the rigors of off-road adventures. Sealed to prevent moisture ingress and constructed with robust materials, the headlights maintain their performance even in challenging weather conditions, allowing Jeepers to confidently venture into the unknown.
Jeep JL RGB headlights not only illuminate the path ahead but also illuminate the Jeep community with a sense of camaraderie and individuality. As these headlights become increasingly popular among Jeep enthusiasts, the trails come alive with a kaleidoscope of colors, reflecting the diverse personalities and unique stories of each Jeeper.
The Jeep JL RGB headlights stand out not just for their vivid illumination but for the transformative experience they bring to night driving. A harmonious blend of style, functionality, and user-friendly technology, these headlights are a beacon of innovation that further cements Jeep's position at the forefront of the off-road community. So, buckle up, engage those RGB headlights, and let your Jeep JL become a rolling canvas of light on the off-road canvas of adventure.
Write something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://dishist.org/?page_id=735 | 2018-02-20T01:40:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891812871.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20180220010854-20180220030854-00706.warc.gz | 0.932205 | 218 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__20757248 | en | The Disability History Association podcast features recent work in disability history—both inside and outside academia. Episodes can be streamed below, or you can download an mp3 or a pdf transcript.
If you have any questions or comments about the podcast, please contact Caroline Lieffers at [email protected].
Episode 1 (January 2018): Disability and The Waltons
Haley Gienow-McConnell discusses her research on representations of disability in the hit 1970s TV show.
Haley Gienow-McConnell is a PhD candidate at York University in Toronto, Ontario. Her research interests include cultural histories of disability, deaf histories, and histories of women’s health and disability. She is a fluent ASL-user, and lives with her deaf husband and their daughter in Thorold, Ontario. Haley also recently published a deaf/disability positive children’s book entitled “A Sense of Love.” She can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter at @HaleyAnnGM. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://whereyousendme.wordpress.com/2014/03/ | 2023-03-28T03:05:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296948756.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20230328011555-20230328041555-00199.warc.gz | 0.978454 | 178 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__619400 | en | This morning in Chapel at GIAL, they shared a video showing 5 families that have served with Wycliffe overseas. They tell of how they got involved with Bible Translation, stories of living in different cultures, and the love they have for sharing their hearts and lives to get the Word of God into the heart languages.
The video is 20 minutes long, but it is a great way to get a glimpse into the lives of some of the individuals who have served with Wycliffe.
We are privileged to see some of the individuals from the video (they are retired and live on the center) and others like them who have served overseas, to learn from them and to talk with them about what it will be like to be a missionary serving God overseas. I am thankful for the opportunities that I have gotten being here at GIAL to learn, grow, and prepare to serve in Cameroon. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://minecraftpak.blogspot.com/search/label/Nintendo | 2018-07-23T03:30:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676594886.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20180723032237-20180723052237-00175.warc.gz | 0.948235 | 578 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__7868229 | en | Mojang has now confirmed that the popular block-based builder will finally arrive on the Nintendo Wii U this December. The announcement was made by Mojang in an official video, where lead developer Jeb Bergensten closed out a faux interview with the surprise announcement.
Minecraft will be releasing for the Wii U on December 17th, just in time for the holiday season. The company only confirmed that it would arrive as a purchasable title on the eShop, so those looking to buy it as a Christmas gift needn’t worry about wrapping paper.
Gamers looking to play Minecraft on the Wii U will have to shell out more cash compared to other console gamers, as the Nintendo edition will retail for a relatively hefty $29.99, whilst the Xbox One and PS4 versions sell for less at $19.99. Granted, the Wii U version will come with 6 add-on DLC skin bundles already included, but considering skins have always been free for PC players, that’s not much of an incentive to purchase the game at a higher price.
Fans can take a look at Jeb’s announcement video below, where they take a moment to talk about upcoming features in the PC release before getting down to the reveal:
Mojang also confirmed that more Minecraft content packs would be arriving to the Wii U in the near future, so those looking to purchase things like Nintendo-centric character skins will probably be able to do so sooner rather than later. Gamers from other consoles routinely get brand-specific downloadable content, and considering how easy it is for companies to make, it would be a baffling decision for Nintendo not to offer gamers the ability to mine dressed as Mario or Luigi.
As expected, the game will feature off-TV play, so gamers can continue playing on the GamePad while other family members take over the television. The studio also promised to keep supporting the core game with free updates, much like they do with the other console versions. PC Gamers still get access to the most updated version of the game ahead of time, and that won’t change, but it’s great to see that the popular building game will be available across all consoles.
Markus ‘Notch’ Persson, the creator of the game, recently commented that he thought it would be neat to see Steve as a Smash Bros character, so perhaps this announcement is the big catalyst in such a development. Only time will tell if Nintendo and Mojang evolve a larger partnership beyond launching the game on their console, but either way, everyone wins.
What do you think about Mojang finally bringing Minecraft to a Nintendo platform?
Minecraft is now officially available for iOS, Android, PC, Linux, Mac, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, Vita, and Nintendo Wii U. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://kooyongclassic.com.au/kubler-still-buzzing-lleytons-wildcard-call-kooyong/ | 2019-04-21T02:08:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578530161.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20190421020506-20190421042506-00260.warc.gz | 0.988906 | 693 | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__122606493 | en | Kubler still buzzing from Lleyton’s wildcard call at KooyongPosted on January 11, 2018
After making his debut at the Kooyong Classic in very hot conditions Jason Kubler was still beaming with happiness contemplating his second Grand Slam appearance at next week’s Australian Open.
The 24-year-old from Brisbane was defeated by Japanese speedster Yoshihito Nishioka 7-5 6-4 but his mood was still bright after finishing his last competitive match before playing at Melbourne Park where he has qualified as a wildcard.
“It was tough conditions today, a little bit windy at the start and it was hot,” Kubler said after the match.
“We had some long rallies and it was just tough to get ready for the next point, but I think that’s what I need before the Open.
“I was happy with the match-up because he was going to get everything back, so I just need to complete my points, I don’t think I did that too well in the first set.
“But in the second set I was able to shorten the points a little bit.”
Last week he played a Challenger event in Adelaide and ended up winning the tournament, giving the world No. 242 more than enough time on court to make the most of his golden opportunity with a good preparation.
Kubler made his first and only appearance at a Grand Slam in 2010 at Melbourne Park, which will host the draw on Thursday night deciding who the Australian will play in the first round.
“When I was 16 I had like a month like this where I played Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne – it was just tough will all the pressure and stuff,” he explained.
“This time I’m really enjoying it and I was happy playing in front of a crowd, even though I lost, I thought I played some good tennis and I’m just pumped about it all.
“I gotta get used to the heat but I’m feeling pretty good.”
Having started the 2017 without a ranking has made the last few weeks all the more sweeter for Kubler who was ecstatic when Australian tennis legend Lleyton Hewitt called his phone with news of his wildcard selection.
“Very excited with the wildcard, it was a bit of a shock to get it to be honest,” Kubler smiled.
“I didn’t think I was going to get it so when Lleyton rang I was pretty pumped about that.
“It was unbelievable (getting that call), I thought I was going to get into the quallies and I would have been happy with that and then he’s rang me and said, ‘do you think you’re ready for five sets?’
“I’m like, ‘of course I am, of course I am’.
“I didn’t expect it either, even four months ago I had made finals of a couple of tournaments but even the thought of quallies at the Aussie Open was out the window.
“Fast-forward four months and I’m here, even playing here today in front of a good crowd was great.” | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://southingtonlibraryteens.weebly.com/home/previous/2 | 2017-04-28T14:02:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917122992.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031202-00206-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.937172 | 570 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__42209538 | en | Teen Summer Reading Video Challenge
The Connecticut State Library is co-sponsoring a national video competition for teens to encourage them to get involved with reading and their public library's summer reading program.
Teens across the country are invited to create a 30 to 90 second video with their unique interpretation of the 2016 teen summer reading slogan Get in the Game - Read.
$150 will be awarded to the creators of the winning Connecticut video. The deadline for Connecticut entries is Friday, April 1, 2016. Winners will be announced in April 2016.
Get creative and enter your video!
For more information and entry forms, check here.
According to Dictionary.com, e-piracy is "the illegal uploading of digital copies of copyrighted works to a website, or the illegal downloading of such material."
I was planning to write a post about e-piracy and how it hurts the publishing industry, but during my research, I came across two blog posts by Ally Carter, author of All Fall Down (Book 1 in the Embassy Row series) and the popular Gallagher Girls series. I think she explains it best, so check out these posts from Ally Carter's blog...
May 3, 2009: Pirates - Who They Really Hurt
June 18, 2010: Epiracy: Yes, It's Wrong. And Yes, It Hurts.
What is social media?
Blogs, wikis, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Pandora - any website or app that allows users to create their own content and connect with other people. That's why it's called "social" media.
What's my digital footprint?
"Digital footprint" is a phrase used to describe the virtual tracks that everyone leaves behind when posting information online. Pics posted on Flickr, personal info added to Facebook, comments posted on blogs, book reviews posted on Amazon -- all of these leave a footprint of where you've been, what you think, and details about who you are. Put all of that together, and someone may be able to create a pretty accurate (or inaccurate) profile of you.
So it's important to think carefully about your digital footprint...
You probably don't want everyone to see all the details of your life, so you need to make sure the personal information you post online can only be seen for the family and friends you choose. Most social media sites provide "privacy settings," so you can decide who can see the info you post. Make sure to check the privacy settings on all the social media sites you use.
College admissions officers and employers look at social media sites when they make admissions and hiring decisions. You don't want the info you post to stand in the way of getting into college or getting a job, right? That's why you need to manage your reputation online by:
Nicole Kent is the | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.jordansirek.com/colors-of-kandy/ | 2019-07-22T03:46:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195527474.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20190722030952-20190722052952-00480.warc.gz | 0.941538 | 176 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__123340238 | en | “Colors of Kandy“ is a story about the diverse life in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Despite Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity being practiced in Kandy, and Sinhalese, Tamil, English and Arabic all being spoken, the appearance of a life of peace and harmony exists. However, there remains a subtle, not so obvious tension between the diverse communities in the city. Yet, amidst such diversity and quiet tension, Kandyans do choose and wish to live in peace amongst one another. The story offers a message of hope and a sense that we can all live together despite our self-imposed differences. With the recent violence in Kandy against Islamic communities inflicted by their Buddhist neighbors, it is important now more than ever to highlight the harmony that can exist. The beauty and kindness of Kandyans is equal throughout the diverse communities. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://thesongfoundry.com/page/2/ | 2017-07-26T04:50:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549425766.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170726042247-20170726062247-00021.warc.gz | 0.877061 | 314 | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-30__0__4069369 | en | Welcome to The Song Foundry
We’re not like most songwriting sites.
We’re not about interviews with artists or anecdotes from the studio. We’re not about ways to win over industry execs. We’re not about the latest Cubase plugin or virtual synth.
We’re about writing great songs. We’re about how words, music and structure work. We’re about how to write songs that change people’s lives. We’re about how to think, breathe and live like a songwriter. We’re about how creativity is for everyone. We’re about how anyone, anywhere can learn to be a great songwriter if they want to.
We know we’re not for everyone. If being famous is more important to you than writing great material, we probably can’t help you. But if you’re here to master your artform, to find ways to unleash your creativity and create some really remarkable songs, you’ve come to the right place.
We’re glad to have you.
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https://www.pttrns.com/15-best-y2k-fonts-on-canva/ | 2024-04-15T22:38:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817033.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415205332-20240415235332-00480.warc.gz | 0.84515 | 1,160 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__132056523 | en | As we dive into the vibrant and unmistakably nostalgic world of early 2000s design, the resurgence of Y2K aesthetics in fashion, music, and digital art has sparked a renewed interest in the iconic fonts that defined this era. The Y2K aesthetic, known for its futuristic curves, metallic textures, and playful embrace of technology, offers a unique blend of optimism and digital dreaminess that is now being celebrated once again. In this article, we’ll explore the best Y2K fonts available on Canva, each carefully selected to help you channel the spirit of the millennium’s dawn into your graphic design projects.
What we cover
1. Bebas Neue
Why It’s Y2K: Bebas Neue’s clean, all-caps sans-serif design captures the Y2K era’s fascination with minimalism and digital clarity. Its boldness makes it perfect for headlines that demand attention, reminiscent of early 2000s tech ads and digital interfaces.
2. Black Gold Display
Why It’s Y2K: With its sophisticated serif design, Black Gold Display brings a touch of luxury and high-end fashion that became popular in the late ’90s and early ’00s. It evokes the era’s glam and the emerging web’s elegance, making it ideal for designs that aim to blend retro luxury with modern crispness.
Why It’s Y2K: The geometric shapes and uniform thickness of Blinker echo the Y2K era’s love for simplicity and futurism in digital design. Its clean lines and modern look make it suitable for projects that require a touch of the new millennium’s optimistic outlook.
4. RQND Pro Ultrawide
Why It’s Y2K: The ultra-wide stance of RQND Pro Ultrawide reflects the Y2K fascination with space, exploration, and a broader perspective of the digital world. Its extended characters suggest the era’s push towards innovation and the unknown future.
5. Mokoto Glitch 1
Why It’s Y2K: Embodying the digital experimentation and the occasionally imperfect technology of the Y2K era, Mokoto Glitch 1 is perfect for projects that channel a sense of digital disruption, cyberpunk aesthetics, and the glitch art that began to emerge.
Why It’s Y2K: Gyanko, with its playful and somewhat quirky design, mirrors the Y2K era’s embrace of fun, personality-driven fonts in web design and digital media. It’s reminiscent of the friendly interfaces that welcomed many to the digital age.
Why It’s Y2K: Retropix captures the pixel art that dominated early web graphics, video games, and digital art of the late ’90s and early ’00s. Its pixelated style is a nod to the roots of digital culture, making it essential for nostalgic Y2K-themed projects.
8. VT 323
Why It’s Y2K: The monospaced, typewriter-like appearance of VT 323 brings back the DIY ethos of early web designs and zine culture from the Y2K period. It’s perfect for evoking the handcrafted, personal feel of early online communities.
9. Zico Display Inline
Why It’s Y2K: Zico Display Inline, with its inline detailing and bold presence, harks back to the era’s love for depth and dimension in text, often seen in logos, gaming, and digital media. It’s dynamic yet playful, fitting the Y2K vibe perfectly.
10. Ayr Saturday Night Interlock Regular
Why It’s Y2K: This font captures the party spirit of the Y2K era, with its interlocking design reminiscent of dance club logos and music album art from the time. It’s all about fun, connectivity, and the social buzz that defined the turn of the millennium.
Why It’s Y2K: Pixelion blends the digital pixel look with a modern design, reflecting the transition from the rugged, pixelated graphics of the ’90s to the smoother, more sophisticated digital imagery of the 2000s. It symbolizes the evolution of digital design aesthetics.
12. Kindred Youth
Why It’s Y2K: Kindred Youth’s handwritten style adds a personal touch that contrasts with the digital perfection, reminiscent of the personal blogs and handmade web graphics that became popular as the internet became more accessible.
13. TT Milks Casual Outline Shadow
Why It’s Y2K: Its geometric, structured form captures the architectural and design innovations of the era, echoing the Y2K focus on the future and the blending of form and function in urban design.
14. ITC Magnifico Nighttime
Why It’s Y2K: The decorative flair and sophistication of ITC Magnifico Nighttime recall the extravagant and bold design choices prevalent in late ’90s and early ’00s nightlife culture, fashion, and luxury branding.
Why It’s Y2K: Cyberjunkies embodies the edgy, rebellious side of Y2K culture, drawing from cyberpunk and underground tech scenes. Its bold, unconventional look captures the era’s exploration of digital identity and virtual realities. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.campbell-bell.com/projects | 2019-10-23T03:09:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987828425.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20191023015841-20191023043341-00145.warc.gz | 0.953852 | 535 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__126188386 | en | Adventurer, Travel Writer, Entertainer.
Charley Boorman’s charismatic “let’s just do it” approach to challenges has won him over to a massive TV and literary audience. He is also known for his enthusiasm for motorbikes, as demonstrated in several documentaries of his travels, including two with his friend, actor Ewan McGregor.
Round the world motorcyclist, travel adventurer.
In April 2019 Henry completed an epic 363 day round the world adventure on a motorbike where he clocked up 55,000 miles, 20,000 more miles than he had initially anticipated. Henry is the youngest person to achieve this tough challenge. Having suffered from depression since the age of 14 and having lost several friends to suicide, Henry says discovering motorcycling at the age of 19 saved him and that the experience has completely changed his outlook on life. Henry is an active supporter of the global mental health charity Movember
Chef, Food Adventurer, Restaurateur, Presenter.
Kiran’s most recent tv series, ‘The Fearless Chef’ produced for Fox International Channels packs a riveting punch as he traverses the globe showcasing fascinating Ingredients and extreme methods of harvesting. Kiran Jethwa is the creator, Chef and owner of Nairobi’s “Seven Experience”. His restaurants have become the most popular eating destinations for Kenya’s cosmopolitan capital and continue to raise the bar pushing culinary boundaries in the region.
Climber and Adventurer.
Based in the Lake District, UK, Leo is one of Britain's top climbers and among the best in the world. He is a veteran of a score of epic ascents, including Everest, but specialises in free climbing the most technical peaks and biggest walls in the world. Leo led a 3-man team across Antarctica by sled and by snow-kite and completed the first ascent of Spectre, the highest peak in the Gothic Mountains.
One of the world’s leading polar explorers & adventure guides.
Inge has successfully lead 20 north pole expeditions, taking the first blind person, Mark Pollock, to the South Pole, guiding 2 pioneering expeditions with injured British servicemen the south and north pole for the acclaimed Walking with the Wounded Expeditions as well as guiding countless private clients into extreme environments.
Inge has also presented, consulted and produced many extreme TV series including Blizzard and Race to the Pole, and is a proud global ambassador for Brietling as part of their inspiring Explorers Squad alongside David de Rothschild and Bertrand Picard. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/PR13000163 | 2019-03-22T12:35:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202658.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20190322115048-20190322141048-00321.warc.gz | 0.971615 | 796 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__24441817 | en | The Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence, Alan Shatter TD, has announced that the Government on Tuesday approved the holding in the autumn of the Referendum to amend Article 34 of the Constitution to provide for the establishment of a Court of Appeal.
The need for a Court of Appeal arises mainly from the on-going significant backlog of cases before the Supreme Court and the consequent long delays in cases being dealt with by the Supreme Court. The average delay for new non-priority cases is now of the order of 4 years. Earlier this year, the Chief Justice announced her decision not to accept any new priority cases, given that there were already over 70 cases on the priority list.
Welcoming the Government Decision to hold the Referendum, Minister Shatter said "This is just the first step on the road to a Referendum of the People which will be held in the Autumn. Work will now proceed on the preparation of the necessary legislation and the Government will consult with interested parties on the detail of that legislation over the coming months. I intend to publish the proposed constitutional amendments as early as possible in order to give people time to reflect on what is proposed and to allow for a rational and considered debate. I look forward to that discussion and am hopeful that we will be able to convince the People that the proposal is worthy of their support. In all of this, the People are sovereign, it is their Constitution, and as democrats, we will respect whatever choice they make."
The Supreme Court in Ireland, unlike in other common law jurisdictions, is the Court of Final Appeal in all cases. This means that whereas in other countries the Supreme Court mainly deals with cases involving substantial points of law or issues of major public importance, in Ireland the Supreme Court is taken up with issues ranging from routine interlocutory orders to the major constitutional issues and everything in-between.
The new Court of Appeal will deal with most cases that are currently dealt with by the Supreme Court, thus reducing its workload and allowing it to focus on the development of the law. The model for the new Court of Appeal is largely drawn from the seminal Report of the Working Group on a Court of Appeal which was chaired by now Chief Justice Denham and which was published in 2009.
The intention is that after the establishment of the Court of Appeal, most appeals will be concluded at that court and only in exceptional circumstances, and subject to the Supreme Court’s own "leave to appeal" requirements, will cases proceed to be heard by the Supreme Court. This should result in the number of cases heard by the Supreme Court falling substantially.
2 May 2013
Note for Editors
Court of Appeal
The Working Group Report on a Court of Appeal was published in May 2009 and is available at
The Report considered a number of options and recommended the establishment of an intermediate court between the Supreme Court and the High Court. The Intermediate Court would be the Court of Appeal and it would deal with most appeals from the High Court, as well as appeals from the Circuit Criminal Court and the Central Criminal Court.
The main features of the Court of Appeal as recommended by the Working Group are:
1. The Court of Appeal would have civil and criminal jurisdiction and would replace the Court of Criminal Appeal, for criminal cases;
2. There would be a right of appeal of all cases, including those involving constitutional issues, from the High Court to the Court of Appeal;
3. Cases could be appealed from the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court according to the Supreme Court’s own leave to appeal requirements, in relation to matters of exceptional public importance.
4. There would also be provision for the Supreme Court to hear appeals from the High Court, in exceptional circumstances, where the public interest so required, subject to its own leave to appeal requirements.
The Minister intends to consult widely on the detail of the Court of Appeal and would welcome submissions from all interested parties. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.dcatvci.org/top-industry-news/gsk-s-ebola-vaccine-candidate-progresses/ | 2023-12-07T04:16:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100632.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207022257-20231207052257-00289.warc.gz | 0.943826 | 464 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__286255146 | en | GSK’s Ebola Vaccine Candidate Progresses
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) reported on results from a small Phase I trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine that showed that an Ebola candidate vaccine from GSK and the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) was well-tolerated and produced an immunological response in each of the 20 healthy adult volunteers in the United States who received it.
The candidate vaccine used in the trial conducted by the NIH was co-developed by the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Okairos, a biotechnology company acquired by GSK in 2013. It uses a type of chimpanzee cold virus, known as chimpanzee adenovirus type 3 (ChAd3), as a carrier to deliver genetic material from two strains of the Ebola virus: the Sudan strain and the Zaire strain, which is responsible for the current Ebola outbreak in west Africa. GSK has been working with the NIH to accelerate development of both this bivalent version of the candidate vaccine and a monovalent version targeting only the Zaire strain in response to the current Ebola epidemic.
Further data from ongoing Phase I trials in the US, the UK, Mali, and Switzerland are expected by the end of the year. If the trials are successful, the next phases of the clinical trial program will begin in early 2015 and will involve the vaccination of thousands of frontline healthcare workers in the two of the affected countries, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Further safety studies will also be conducted in west African countries not affected by the current outbreak in adults and children.
GSK says it continues to work with the World Health Organization (WHO), regulators, and other stakeholders to determine possible solutions to accelerate the development of the Ebola candidate vaccine with the goal of trying to limit the further spread of the epidemic. Its potential future use in mass vaccination campaigns will depend on whether WHO, regulators and other stakeholders are satisfied that the vaccine candidate provides protection against Ebola without causing significant side effects and how quickly large quantities of vaccine can be made. GSK continues to actively explore with relevant organizations and partners ways to accelerate the development of manufacturing at an industrial scale. Additionally, the company is looking at whether use of a booster vaccine may help provide longer-lasting protection. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://palliativecareworks.org/ | 2023-03-23T22:56:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945218.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20230323225049-20230324015049-00229.warc.gz | 0.910344 | 370 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__87384725 | en | Latest PCW news – 30/08/2022
African Palliative Care Association Conference
PCW is delighted to report its participation in the African Palliative Care Association’s recent hybrid Conference, ‘Palliative Care in a Pandemic’, held on August 25-26th and live streamed from Kampala, Uganda.
A pre-recorded 10-minute oral presentation “Lights, Camera, Action - Innovation in the time of COVID-19,” about our new series of films, was aired on Day One, followed, on Day Two, by an hour-long demonstration workshop on the use of these videos/ films in palliative care education. This was led by Tanzanian colleague, Elvis Miti in Kampala and co-hosted from U.K. by PCW Trustee, Charles Campion Smith.
Full details of, and access to, all the conference presentations will be available in due course on the APCA website www.africapalliativecare.org.
For further details about the actual PCW presentations, please contact PCW secretary, Stephen Chowns
PCW’s Autumn Conference 2022
Where next? Rethinking global Palliative Care Education.
Mastering virtual learning.
Saturday 8th October, on-line via Zoom
View the conference programme and register
Register directly here
Lights, camera, action
Palliative Care Works launches five educational films. Intended to help trainers around the world explain the key issues of palliative care, they come with scripts and teaching notes and are FREE.
We are a not-for-profit organisation, and since 1st June 2015 we have been a registered charity
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https://www.ceamteam.org/three-ways-sb55-will-help-missouri-students/ | 2024-04-18T23:49:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817249.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418222029-20240419012029-00327.warc.gz | 0.975177 | 810 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__75956374 | en | The pandemic has made it clear that parents and families bear the ultimate responsibility for their children’s education, but Missouri’s education system is focused on funding buildings and systems instead of funding students. During the pandemic many Missouri families discovered a reality others have faced for decades — Our current system traps our students in the schools they are assigned to based on zip code regardless of whether or not those schools are meeting our child’s needs.
Missouri needs to break this education monopoly and give families the power, opportunity, and funding needed to ensure that every child is receiving a quality education that meets their specific needs.
Thankfully, this week the Missouri Senate is expected to debate the Senate Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 55 (SB55).
Here are the top three ways SB55 will help Missouri students.
SB55 would create Missouri’s first-ever Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA)program, giving families across the state the ability to design an educational plan that fits the individual specific needs of their children.
Families receiving an ESA scholarship could use the funds for private school tuition, textbooks, tutors, computer equipment, summer- and after-school programs, therapy, and homeschool curriculum. They could even use the funds to pay for their child to attend a public school in another district. This gives those families the funding they need to ensure their children are receiving a quality education.
ESA’s would also result in savings for both the state and local school districts, savings that could be redirected to improve education for students remaining in the public school system.
Charter schools have been a success in St. Louis City and Kansas City. SB55 would give families in five counties and about 50 cities the same chance to attend a charter school that residents of St. Louis City and Kansas City currently have.
SB55 would not require charter schools to open in these communities, it would simply give the communities the opportunity for a charter school to be opened in their district if enough families saw the need for better educational options.
Communities that would get this opportunity under SB55 include St. Louis, St. Charles, Jackson, Clay, and Jefferson counties as well as Cape Girardeau, Columbia, Jefferson City, Joplin, Springfield, and St. Joseph.
Charter schools have a proven track record of out-performing district schools they are located near. Twelve of the top 20 St. Louis schools in math were charter schools, 13 of the top 20 St. Louis schools in ELA were charter schools, 14 of the top 20 Kansas City schools in math were charter schools, and 15 of the top 20 Kansas City schools in ELA were charter schools. More importantly, close to half of all students in both Kansas City and St. Louis have chosen to attend a charter school and much less likely to seek out a different school than their peers in traditional district schools.
During the pandemic, many families have had horrible experiences with virtual education designed by their local district. At the same time, many districts have failed to notify parents of their legal right to access carefully designed and effective virtual education programs through the MOCAP program. Even before the pandemic districts were actively blocking families from enrolling in MOCAP courses, resulting in lawsuits across the state.
SB55 fixes Missouris virtual education program, by allowing parents to directly enroll their children in MOCAP programs without first having to get permission from their school district. This eliminates a clear conflict of interest from districts that are more concerned with finances than what is in the best educational interest of their students. SB55 also creates a clear penalty for district that do not inform parents of their right to access MOCAP programs, ensuring that every family has the option to receive high quality virtual education if that is what works best for their children.
You can learn more about the specifics of SB55 here.
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http://alumicraft.info/news/alumi-craft-buggies-capture-crandon-gold-and-michael-meister-wins-midwest-championship-again/ | 2022-05-19T08:48:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662526009.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220519074217-20220519104217-00730.warc.gz | 0.970513 | 1,736 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__158963110 | en | Alumi Craft Buggies Capture Crandon Gold and Michael Meister Wins Midwest Championship Again!
September 6, 2019
The 50th Annual Crandon World Championship at Crandon International Raceway, as expected, was a huge event that will be recorded as one of the biggest in short course off-road racing history. As usual, Alumi Craft Racers were there to rack up the accolades. The first Super Buggy event featured an all Alumi Craft podium finish, Trey Gibbs scored back to back wins Friday & Saturday, Michael Meister captured the Lucas Oil Midwest Short Course League (LOMSCL) 2019 Super Buggy Championship; his third straight title, with runner up Michael Hester and Eliott Watson was crowned the Crandon 2019 STEEL-IT Pro Buggy World Champion finale on Sunday.
The Labor Day race weekend at Crandon always attracts the world’s most prolific off-road racers, but for the 50th they came out in droves for a chance to forever be memorialized as part of this historic event, including a strong field of 22 Super Buggies. The legendary fans filled up “The Big House” cramming in a crowd of nearly 75,000 strong. Crandon International Raceway truly lived up to the hype and even featured a Kid Rock concert to get it all fired up on Friday night.
Everything started with the final rounds of the LOMSCL points racing. With over 20 buggies hitting the track, you can imagine what the famous Crandon Land Rush Start was like. Trey Gibbs took the Turn 1 sweeping holeshot and never looked back till he crossed the finish line. Maybe it was the perfect Alumi Craft race car, perhaps it was Gibbs, or it just could have been the brand new livery theme, but the #15 Super Buggy just looked awesome and hooked up to the checkers. Michael Meister, in the #94 Alumi Craft, started in the back of the field in 12th place and worked himself up to podium position on the seventh lap. With only one more chance around the course, Meister made the pass for 2nd place, on the last lap, which left Michael Hester in the #9 car for a 3rd place finish and an all Alumi Craft Super Buggy Podium.
Gibbs commented, “Coming into the Crandon World Cup weekend I was feeling super confident with sweeping the four previous rounds at Crandon. My team and I went into the weekend with our heads high and knowing what we could do as we had our Alumi Craft dialed. Friday’s points race went flawless. Instead of a land rush start, we lined up side by side, and I was sitting in the 5th position. I knew what I had to do, and as soon as the green flag dropped, it was time to hunt. I was able to clear the field in front of me in two laps, and for the rest of the race, I had open-air. I was able to gap the field by several car lengths which is always a good feeling. My spotter just kept telling me to keep my eyes up and stay loose, and this race is ours. My Alumi Craft pro buggy was performing amazing and helped me bring home the win.”
Meister was super pumped to gain the extra valuable points, as this had him well-positioned for another championship, “12th to 2nd place! I gained a couple of points as well! I am going for that ring and my 3rd championship! The Ponsse / Meister Logging LLC Alumi Craft Super Buggy was feeling the best it has all year long.”
Saturday’s Ponsse Super Buggy Race saw another stacked grid with 20 competitors starting the event. A super chaotic first couple of laps changed things around for the majority of the field, but Gibbs in the #15 Alumi Craft was untouchable. Trey cleared the field and went onto win his second race of the weekend. Meister & Hester were caught up in a mess and fell back while Alumi Craft racer Eliott Watson, from the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series (LOORRS), punched through and positioned himself for a 3rd place podium. Meister held on for a 4th place finish. Hester wound up in 7th and cleared the way for Meister’s third straight championship.
“BACK TO BACK TO BACK CHAMPIONS! I cannot even believe it,” declared Meister. “It feels amazing to get the results I worked so hard for. The 2019 season was up and down, but we managed to stay in the hunt for points to finish strong. The 50th anniversary weekend at Crandon was one for the record books, and it brought out some amazing drivers from the west coast. Brad Shearer kept me safe in the buggy this whole year, and he worked his butt off. We couldn’t do it without you bud! Katlynn Nelson has been amazing support the last three years, and I couldn’t have done this without you either. Many people have stuck in with me the last few years, and it shows how the support of great people and companies can come out on top.”
Gibbs stated, “Saturday’s race was a little different story. The start of the race was a land rush start, unlike the previous day. I was lined up 5th from the very inside and got a decent jump off the line which put me in third place going into turn one. I battled with Mike Hester also running an Alumi Craft pro buggy for about two laps then capitalized on a mistake he made, putting me into second place. There was an incident farther back in the field, causing us to go yellow, so the whole field was stacked back up, which worked in my favor allowing me to be right behind the leader. The green flag dropped on the restart, and it was go time again. I battled hard with the leader for about two laps and was able to set up a pass and take the lead over. From there on out I had clean open-air and was able to run my lines and check out. My Alumi Craft pro buggy ran like a dream all weekend and pumped to bring home two big wins.
The final buggy race of the weekend featured the STEEL-IT Pro Buggy World Championship on Sunday. One of the fan favorites and year-long anticipation for the racers too. It is the one everyone wants, the big check, and the World Championship prestige.
Typically, the best racers with the best equipment are the ones who end up on top. Also, motivation and drive are essential factors. Eliott Watson felt like he could do better than the prior 3rd place podium and wanted the top of the box for the big race. Watson’s top finish in the last event established the #33 Alumi Craft in a premium starting position, and he took it to the bank. Watson made the pass for the lead on Lap 3 and kept it clean to the finish, capturing the win. “It feels so good to be the 2019 PRO BUGGY WORLD CHAMPION,” shared Eliott. “I came off the line in 3rd and made a crazy pass for 2nd. At the halfway caution, I was able to pick up another spot for the lead! I am so pumped!”
Watson continued, “It just really hasn’t sunk in that our team won the biggest Pro Buggy short course off-road race in history. To say I am excited is an understatement! We had a super fun week traveling back to Wisconsin with friends and watching some of the best racing ever. I am so thankful for everyone that supports our racing program.”
Another year of Crandon has passed but will not soon be forgotten. Another Alumi Craft Racer wins a third straight Lucas Oil Midwest Short Course League Championship while another crowned Crandon World Champion. Alumi Craft Race Cars provides the fast track to race wins and titles and is the preferred platform of winning off-road racers. Call Alumi Craft Race Cars for an expert consultation on what is needed to win races. Give Alumi Craft a call at 619-596-9841 or go to: http://alumicraft.info/ to find out more about our race products and services. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.percyhedley.org.uk/media-project-receives-funding-boost-from-karten-network/ | 2018-09-24T14:16:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267160454.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20180924125835-20180924150235-00383.warc.gz | 0.941909 | 206 | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-39__0__108531705 | en | We are delighted to announce that the Karten Network has awarded Hedleys Karten Media Suite funding of £25,000 to buy new equipment.
The media project has been part of the Foundation’s adult day services for 9 years and provides opportunities for disabled people to get involved in multi-media activities.
Hedleys Karten Media offers people a wide range of multi-media training in high-end digital photography, digital and stop frame animation, web design, video streaming, interactive music, pod casting and film production.
The £25,000 will be used to help purchase new equipment and make existing equipment more accessible, flexible and user friendly.
The acquisition of this equipment will lead to increased sensory, physical and social benefits for the people accessing Hedleys Karten Media.
Mary Gallen, Support Manager at Hedleys Able 2, said: “We are very grateful for all the support we have received from the Karten Network and we look forward to working together in the future.” | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://thepicture.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/paul-fusco/ | 2018-06-25T19:37:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267868876.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20180625185510-20180625205510-00165.warc.gz | 0.973006 | 294 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__113304297 | en | On June 5th, 1968, less than three months after the murder of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles as he was campaigning for the Presidential nomination. His death shook the country to its core. To Paul Fusco and millions of other Americans it seemed to represent the end of hope.
Kennedy’s body was subsequently flown to New York City for a memorial service at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and then carried by train from New York to Washington D.C. for burial at Arlington. That final journey took place on June 8th – a swelteringly hot early summer day. On board the train was the Magnum photographer Paul Fusco, then a young photographer on assignment for LOOK Magazine. As the train made its progress down the eastern seaboard, hundreds of thousands of mourners came out to line the railway tracks and pay their final respects to Bobby Kennedy and all he stood for.
From inside the train, Fusco began to take pictures of the mourners – people from every section of society – black, white, rich, poor, in large groups and on their own. By Fusco’s own calculation, he took approximately 2,000 pictures in the eight hours it took for the train to make the usually four-hour journey.
Go to Danziger Projects for more information. The exhibition runs from Sept 5 – Oct 4, 2008. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.asmmotorsport.com/asm-motorsport-and-osian-pryce-join-forces-to-give-fia-r4-spec-rally-car-its-world-competition- | 2024-04-18T12:54:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817206.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418124808-20240418154808-00768.warc.gz | 0.950066 | 1,030 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__85182374 | en | Osian Pryce will give the VR4K Oreca FIA R4-spec car its international competition debut this weekend, when he contests the Rallye Ciudad de Granada.
Co-driven by Dale Furniss, Pryce will drive an Etios R4 on the penultimate round of the Spanish Gravel Rally Championship. The event will be the 25-year old Welsh driver’s first overseas gravel rally since he finished fourth in WRC2 on the 2017 Rally Finland (M-Sport Fiesta R5).
The R4-spec Etios that Pryce will drive will be run by Barcelona-based ASM Motorsport – a team that has created a separate R4 Rally Cars Division, dedicated to the construction, on-event running and worldwide growth of the new FIA-homologated category.
Until now, R4-spec cars have only been seen in public running as course opening ‘zero’ cars – in fact, the same Etios R4 that Pryce will drive on the Rallye Ciudad de Granada was driven by Stéphane Sarrazin on the Rallye du Var last year, as part of its initial test and development programme.
The Rallye Ciudad de Granada will be a good test for the R4-spec car – which has been developed as an affordable car to fill the void between lower-powered two-wheel drive rally cars and the more powerful and expensive four-wheel drive R5 cars.
Pryce has been seeded at number nine on the 55-car Rallye Ciudad de Granada entry list, within a top 20 dominated by high-powered four-wheel drive cars. Spanish Gravel Rally Championship leaders Xevi Pons/Rodrigo Sanjuan (Peugeot 208 T16 R5) will start at number one, Josep Basols/Xavier Amigo (Škoda Fabia R5) start at two and Spanish Gravel Junior Champions Javier Pardo/Adrián Pérez (Suzuki Swift R+) will start at three.
Osian said: “It’s nice to be asked to give the R4-spec car its world competition debut, and it’s come at the right time for me as I’ve been working hard on getting back to four-wheel drive international competition. I visited the ASM Motorsport headquarters last week to see the car in the workshop, and my first impressions were extremely good. When you sit in the driver’s seat, everything feels just right and you can instantly tell it’s a very cleverly designed and extremely well engineered car. It feels very driver friendly inside the cockpit, with a good interface on the dash – you just sink into the car and it immediately feels part of you. It really looks like it has all the ingredients to be a very good and competitive car.
“I’m looking forward to driving the R4-spec car for the first time, but that won’t be until the official rally shakedown on Friday. We hope to do as many passes over the shakedown stage as possible to get used to the car as best we can in such a short space of time. The event itself will be a good challenge, as are all the Spanish Gravel Championship rounds. The stages look to be more twisty and technical rather than high speed, so it will be extremely interesting to see how the R4-spec car compares to the more powerful, and more expensive, cars around us.
“It’s about sixteen months since our last overseas gravel rally in a four-wheel drive car, so Dale and I are super excited to be out competing on the international stage once again – especially as we’ll be making rally history by giving the R4-spec car its world competition debut.”
Álex Sabater, CEO of ASM Motorsport, said: “The world competition debut of the FIA R4-spec car is a very important step in the evolution of the new category and our new R4 Rally Cars Division. We are delighted to have Osian Pryce drive the car on the Rallye Ciudad de Granada. The event has received a very good entry, so it offers a great opportunity to compare the R4-spec car for the first time on an event against R5 cars from Ford, Škoda, Peugeot and Citroën. It will showcase to the world this exciting and affordable new formula, which ASM Motorsport is now fully focused on the development, build and running of these exciting FIA R4 rally cars.”
There is just one pass over each stage during the recce on Friday (2 November), before a ceremonial start and the first of nine stages in the evening, which is located near the IES Severo Ochoa part of the city of Granada. The remaining eight stages will take place on nearby gravel roads on Saturday (3 November). | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.kunstveiling.nl/items/steve-mccurry-rabari-tribal-elder-rajasthan-india-2010/442851 | 2022-10-05T11:18:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337625.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20221005105356-20221005135356-00415.warc.gz | 0.959414 | 146 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__75993313 | en | A signed & limited edition Magnum Square Print from famous photographer Steve McCurry.
Not removed from plastic cover to avoid dirt or fingerprints
Steve McCurry has been one of the most iconic voices in contemporary photography for over three decades, documenting international conflicts, vanishing cultures, ancient traditions and contemporary society. Placing particular emphasis on individual frames, McCurry has produced some of the most recognizable photographs of the 20th century. His image of a young Afghan refugee with piercing eyes—the June 1985 cover of National Geographic—has become one of the most distinctive in photographic history. Speaking of his practice, McCurry has said: “What matters most is that each picture stands on its own, with its own place and feeling.” | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.mustard.co.uk/car-insurance-guides/crash-for-cash-scams/ | 2024-04-18T00:39:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817184.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417235906-20240418025906-00274.warc.gz | 0.949517 | 1,702 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__108154775 | en | Crash for cash scams have hit the headlines recently with the UK’s Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) estimating it they costs honest motorists around £340 million every year. So, how can you safeguard against the fraudsters and if you are caught up in a scam, what can you do about it?
What is crash for cash?
It’s when criminals purposely cause a car ‘accident’ with the intention of making a fraudulent claim for large amounts of money. The money earned through a crash for cash scam is often used to fund more crime.
The IFB have identified three main types of scam:
- The staged accident – this typically just involves the criminals, it’s when they purposely crash into each other and make a claim. In some cases, the cars are deliberately damaged by hand to make them look as if they’ve been in an accident.
- The induced accident – this is when innocent motorists are set up so criminals can make claims for compensation.
- The ghost accident – these are essentially fake car accident claims that fraudsters submit to insurers. In some cases, even the cars don’t exist and the entire claim is made up.
How does crash for cash work?
The most frequently highlighted cases are the ‘induced accident’ scams.
Induced accidents typically involve a fraudster’s car suddenly stopping, giving the innocent driver behind no chance to react. The result is, the unwitting motorist hits the scammer’s car from behind – with the criminals then claiming for compensation.
Other incidents include so-called ‘flash for cash’ which is where criminals behind the wheel flash a motorist to give them right of way but crashes into them instead. Some scammers also purposely disable their break lights in order to cause confusion – leading to an accident.
In all these examples, the criminal driver will make exaggerated claims for things like personal injury (for example whiplash), loss of earnings, car hire and vehicle recovery costs.
In a recent twist, some fraudsters are now trying to bribe innocent victims into giving them money there and then in order to ‘hush up’ the accident. Needless to say, this is also a scam and the criminals will take your money as well as put in a claim against you.
How do criminals choose crash for cash victims?
It’s not just unfortunate drivers at the scene of the crime that criminals are cheating. Fraudulent crash for cash scams are adding an average of £50 to every honest motorist’s insurance premium every year.
How can I tell if car insurance claims against me are a scam?
The IFB have put together some ‘tell-tale’ signs that could indicate you’ve been targeted as part of an insurance scam:
Immediately after the accident, the other driver is very calm.
The majority of people will be shaken up, in shock and in some cases, irritable and angry.
The other driver has their insurance details already prepared and written down.
Injuries appear over the top compared to the force of the accident.
Some incidents involve several passengers in the fraudster’s car. Each one will say they have whiplash (which can be hard to disprove) and go on to make a claim.
The other driver asks you for money in return for keeping quiet about the accident (they may even offer to take you to a cash point). After they’ve taken your money, they very often go on to claim anyway.
Are there any crash for cash hotspots?
Car insurance scams happen all across the country but the IFB have a list of crash for cash hotspots which tend to be clustered in larger towns and cities – they are:
- Birmingham – appears five times within the top ten, the most affected areas are postcodes B6, B8, B10, B11and B25.
- Bradford – particularly postcodes BD3, BD8 and BD9.
- Manchester – most targeted is postcode area M8.
- Oldham – postcode area OL8 is the ninth greatest crash for cash hotspot.
For a full list of the top 30 scam areas, head to IFB, crash for cash hotspots.
How do I report insurance claims frauds?
If you think you’ve been targeted by crash for cash scammers, tell your insurer about your suspicions. You should also tell the IFB, they have a dedicated Cheatline – contact them by phone on 0800 422 0421 or fill out their Cheatline report.
If you’re at the scene of an accident which you suspect to be fraudulent, insist on calling the police – this could put criminals off.
You should also try and take the details of independent witnesses who your insurer can call on for a statement. Be aware that some criminal gangs are sophisticated and will have planted false witnesses.
How to beat crash for cash fraudsters
Defending yourself against an intentional whiplash claim or scam, can be really difficult as it often comes down to your word against someone else’s.
If you’ve got false witnesses and convincing criminals, gathering evidence to prove your innocence can be hard which is why dash cams have proved so popular. Depending on your insurer, having one could even save you money on your premium.
Dash cams can cost as little as £20 so they’re well worth considering (although the more you spend, the better the quality). For suggestions and advice on what to look for, take a look at Car Magazine’s handy guide.
Alternatively, if someone’s made a personal injury claim against you and you don’t have a dash cam, ask for any CCTV footage from the scene of the accident.
If that isn’t available, you’ll need to tell your insurer why you think the claim is fraudulent. If you’re unhappy with the way your insurer is handling your case, you can report them to the Financial Ombudsman Service.
What’s in it for the fraudsters?
Crash for cash is worth a lot of money and estimates suggest that criminals can earn up to £20,000 per accident.
Compensation amounts vary but claims for severe personal injury alone can be in the hundreds of thousands. If you then add in additional payouts for vehicle recovery, expenses and lost earnings, the total value of an insurance scam can be staggering.
What’s the punishment for dealing fraudulently?
Insurers work hard to minimise fraud with some having a strict policy of investigating any claim that appears suspicious. Providers also liaise with the IFB to identify and prosecute criminals.
Punishments for car accident insurance scams vary but courts have shown how serious crash for cash cases are taken by enforcing prison sentences in many cases. In January 2019, a man from Kent narrowly escaped jail after making false claims worth £15,000.
Not so lucky was a Wolverhampton based crash for cash criminal whose claim (had it been successful) would have cost insurance group LV, more than £250,000. Instead, acting on their suspicions, LV investigated and were proved correct with the fraudster sentenced to 12 months in prison.
Crash for cash sentencing was also in the news in Wales last summer as the police and IFB saw more than 150 people convicted of car insurance fraud.
The crash for cash gang were found to have made false claims between 2002 and 2012. Of the 158-strong group, 81 were given jail time.
What is ‘ghost broking’?
Ghost broking is another type of car insurance scam but instead of staging accidents, criminals are falsifying paperwork.
Ghost brokers leave innocent motorists without valid insurance which could result in six penalty points and a £300 fine. For more information and advice on how to prevent becoming a victim this latest insurance scam, read our guide on the rise of ghost brokers.
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https://cdactionny.org/tag/budget/ | 2024-04-20T07:07:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817491.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420060257-20240420090257-00162.warc.gz | 0.967283 | 1,122 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__70362344 | en | On Thursday evening, the Governor released amendments to her budget. These amendments are an annual occurrence and are meant to be technical fixes to address inevitable drafting errors in a series of bills that are cumulatively thousands of pages of text. This year, they were far from just technical fixes. Among other things, the Governor proposed 15 pages of new changes that would, in many cases, fundamentally change CDPAP (spoiler alert – it’s always for the worse).
The bill would eliminate Designated Representatives, or DRs. DRs have been a part of CDPAP since the program was created in 1980. The DR acts as the consumer when the consumer themselves are unable to self-direct their own care. This change will mean that no child will be able to use CDPAP. Many with developmental disabilities who use CDPAP to complement their OPWDD self-direction budgets use a DR. Those with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia rely on a DR. And thousands of others. This change would leave tens of thousands of people, if not over 100,000 people, suddenly ineligible for CDPAP, with no identifiable way for them to receive services in the current workforce crisis.
The bill will require state mandated training for PAs. A hallmark of CDPA has always been that the consumer – not an agency and not the state – is responsible for recruiting, hiring, training, supervising, and terminating their own staff. This has worked for over 40 years. Governor Hochul would prevent a PA from being able to work until they have completed a state-mandated training course, removing one of the core pillars of consumer responsibility that is a founding principle of the program.
The bill will set maximum daily and weekly limits on the hours PAs can work. Some FIs allow overtime. Some do not. Some consumers want PAs to work overtime. Some consumers need PAs to work overtime. Some consumers do not. Governor Hochul wants to tell consumers and PAs how many hours the PA can work each day and each week, taking more control away from the consumer. They do not say what those hour limits would be.
The bill will limit the number of FIs that a plan or a county can have in their network. The state’s position has always been clear – contracting is a process between two private third parties that they do not get involved in. The Governor wants to limit the number of FIs that a plan and county can now have in their network, limiting consumer choice along with it. The number of FIs that will be allowed is not identified.
The bill prevents an agency from offering home care and CDPAP. Sometimes, consumers want to be able to mix CDPAP and home care services, filling some hours with a personal care aide through “traditional” services and the rest through CDPA. This can happen for many reasons. They might have one person they want as their PA, but cannot or do not want to hire others and want an agency to send people. They might have a particular service they are not comfortable training a PA on. Their PA(s) might not be available on a particular day. In these instances, being able to use one agency for both “traditional” personal care and CDPAP can make life much easier. The Governor’s bill would prevent an agency offering CDPAP from being a LHCSA in Medicaid.
The bill prevents insurance companies from being FIs or LHCSAs. Ok, I said mostly bad. This is actually a good idea – and one that we had codified years back and the Cuomo administration repealed with the RFO. The insurance companies are the payors. They should not also be allowed to be the payee. Imagine going to a job and getting to set your own wage! Worse, the insurance control the networks, and often (though they aren’t supposed to) direct consumers to particular FIs or LHCSAs. This is a clear conflict of interest and eliminating the practice is a good idea.
Clearly – the next few months are going to be a long road, and we are going to need you – and your networks. If you are not a member of CDANY, please consider joining for just $22.50 a year. The more members we have – the stronger we are. Plus, we’ll send you a cool CDANY sticker!! If you’re already an individual member, thank you.
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Take action today to tell your legislators and Governor Hochul that PAs aren’t second class home care workers and they cannot undo all the progress we’ve made on wages and cut wages and benefits to levels we haven’t seen in over half a decade.
Then, be ready. You’re going to get a lot of emails over the next 45 days or so. We will have more campaigns asking you to email your legislators and the Governor on these other critical issues. We’ll be announcing events – in Albany and around the state. We’ll be giving you updates on how things are going here in Albany. We will give you all the tools to be the best advocate you can be – at whatever level you can.
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https://blog.hotelsclick.com/2018/02/last-minute-easter-breaks/ | 2024-02-22T04:05:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473690.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222030017-20240222060017-00204.warc.gz | 0.946968 | 3,450 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__96171775 | en | Easter is coming. If you are thinking of going away on a family break or on a memorable holiday over Easter, we guess this is the right time to start looking for some good ideas and deals.
To give you some inspiration, we are going to present here 8 possible destinations for your Easter holidays this year: 5 of them are in Europe, the other 3 range from the US to Japan and Africa.
Let’s have a closer look at them starting from our European choices.
Easter Break in Rome
A travel to Rome during the Easter period is an opportunity not to be missed. The spring weather, the famous Holy Mass from the Pope’s balcony and Easter Monday are just some of the reasons why the Eternal City is such an appreciated destination by both Italians and foreigners.
A weekend in Rome is a sure hit. Italy’s capital always impresses tourists with its magnificent monuments and spectacular museums: Rome is full of attractions and every city’s corner hides surprising details.
According to us, walking around the city is the best way to appreciate the essence of Rome and its masterpieces, as the Coliseum, Piazza Navona, the Spanish Steps or the Trevi Fountain…
Keep in mind that on Easter Sunday and Easter Monday, the magnificent Vatican Museums are closed. On the official website you can find all information and prices. In this period, several Roman museums promote the culture with free admissions to exhibitions.
Between faith and tradition, during Holy Week, the Italian capital puts on a very special and religious look. In Rome you can attend the Way of the Cross, one of the most important Easter rituals in Italy, which takes place on the evening of Good Friday.
This procession, which is celebrated by the Pope himself along the path that leads to the Colosseum, is held in one of the most evocative and unique locations that Rome offers.
The Way represents the latest dramatic events linked to the Passion of Christ, as written in the Gospels.
In addition, don’t miss the Mass with the Pope in St. Peter’s Square on Easter Sunday, which attracts thousands of pilgrims every year.
Besides religious events and guided tours, you also have to taste some good Roman traditional food.
Have you ever heard of La Pizza Cresciuta? It is a typical recipe that comes in sweet and savoury versions and is cooked exclusively during the Easter period in Rome and its province. This special pizza has an unmistakable cinnamon aroma and, according to the tradition, it is eaten on Easter morning, accompanied by eggs and salami… Want to taste it?
On our website you can find a wide assortment of hotels to plan your Easter weekend in Rome.
Easter Vacation in Barcelona
It’s the ideal destination for a spring break. With its sunny and warm days, the lively capital of Catalonia offers the perfect atmosphere for taking a stroll along Las Ramblas and enjoying an aperitif in Plaça Reial.
Thanks to the many low-cost airlines, Barcelona is very easy to reach. Even finding a hotel room isn’t so difficult: just take a look at our special offers for Barcelona, and always remember to book in advance if you want to save more.
During Holy Week, the atmosphere in the city is particularly charming and lively, with a rich calendar of events.
For example, on Palm Sunday, children take palmons, that is entire branches of palm trees into the church, in to churces, recalling Jesus entering Bethlehem.
Religious rites last up to Good Friday, with processions around the city and church concerts.
The culinary king on the Easter tables is the cod served with chickpeas and potatoes.
On this special day, the godparents give children the Mona de Pascua, an Easter donut covered with as many chocolate eggs as for the years of the child.
Besides tasting all these specialities, we suggest you take advantage of your stay in Barcelona by visiting the classic attractions of the city, such as the Sagrada Familia, the masterpiece of the great architect Antoni Gaudí, or Güel Park, a famous UNESCO World Heritage site.
We recommend you to book online your entrance in order to avoid enervating queues.
Easter in Edinburgh
According to Scottish customs, Easter Sunday is celebrated by having a special family meal whose main course is, in most cases, a roast lamb.
Another appreciated dish for Easter Sunday is the famous Hot Cross Bun, a cake that contains raisins or currants, with a cross on the top of the bun.
If you are planning a trip to Edinburgh for this period, you have to partecipate in the curious egg rolling: it’s a traditional game, recalling an ancient celebration whose origins go back to the Jewish Easter, that consists in rolling some decorated eggs down the green hills of the city. One of the most famous sites where this tradition takes place is Arthur’s Seat, the main peak of Holyrood Park.
Easter is also a feast for children who wait impatiently for the Easter Bunny that will leave them some delicious chocolate eggs.
If you are planning an Easter city-break with your family in the Scottish Capital, perhaps you will be happy to know that every year in April Edinburgh hosts the International Science Festival, one of the biggest science festivals in Europe, much appreciated by children and their families. More info on the official website: http://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/festival.
Easter in Florence
The city of Florence, also known as the cradle of the Renaissance, arouses curiosity and charm all year-round. The city’s museums, churches and palaces house some of the most important artistic treasures of the entire world, the masterpieces of famous artists like Botticelli, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Giotto and Michelangelo.
If you haven’t decided yet what to do for this Easter break, well, spending a few days in Florence during Holy Week could be a really good idea.
Before revealing you all the details of the special event that awaits you on Easter morning in Florence, the so-called Explosion of the Cart, we’d like to share with you some must-see Florentine attractions.
If you like art, Florence cannot disappoint you! Don’t miss the majestic Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral, known as The Duomo, with the famous Brunelleschi’s Dome, the largest masonry dome ever built. Curios to know how heavy it is? It is estimated to be around 37,000 tons: awesome, isn’t it?
With just one ticket you can visit all the monuments of the Santa Maria del Fiore complex: in addition to the cathedral and its dome, there are also Giotto’s Bell Tower and the Baptistery of San Giovanni.
Besides, if you are in town, you have to visit the Galleria dell’Accademia which houses Michelangelo’s sculpture David, one of the most important works of the Italian artist.
Getting back to Easter… From Good Friday to Easter Monday, religious reenacments, Easter rituals and folk events enliven the Tuscan city.
From more than three centuries, Easter Sunday is celebrated in Florence with a very special ceremony which goes back to the Crusades. This ceremony consists in a procession that starts from Piazzale di Porta al Prato and goes on up to Piazza del Duomo, right at the foot of San Giovanni Baptistery.
Legend has it that in 1099, during the First Crusade to the Holy Land, the young Florentine nobleman Pazzino de’ Pazzi was the first man who managed to cross Jerusalem walls and raise the Christian banner. For this great act of courage he received three chips of stone from the Holy Sepulchre as a gift. Once back in Florence, he handed his gift to the city’s Bishop. The three flints were then used to light a holy fire to be distributed to the people using small torches, as symbol of purification and resurrection.
From this episode, the Pazzi family founded the basis of today’s ceremony by building a monumental cart which was assembled for the first time in 1622. Originally, a tripod on the cart contains the coals on fire that are now replaced with common fireworks for the so-called Scoppio del Carro (Explosion of the Cart).
Today the Chariot of Fire is presented in a triumphant way. It is a 3 shelf- cart around 10 metres high which is driven through the streets of Florence by two white oxen, whose horns are adorned with gold. The Fireworks placed on the chariot are lit by a rocket-shaped dove, which symbolizes the Holy Spirit. It is a good omen for the whole city of Florence if the event takes place without any glitchs.
Every year, from 11 a.m, this event brings together locals and visitors from all over the world.
To visit Florence over Easter will allow you to combine a cultural trip with the opportunity to experience something unique. Are you interested in? Well, the time has come to find your hotel in Florence.
Easter on the island of Malta
The island of Malta, located in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea, can be an excellent option for your Easter holidays, given the combination of sun, sea, culture and history that it offers to visitors. By the way, Malta is the European country with the largest number of holidays in the EU.
Being a country with a long-standing Christian tradition, Easter in Malta is much felt for.
If you like, you could join one of the many events taking place in the island during Holy Week, beginning from the Friday before the Good Friday: that day is known as id-Duluri, namely the Feast of our Lady of Sorrows, when a statue of our Lady is carried in procession through the streets of many towns and villages: the most evocative parade is the one held in Valletta, the island capital.
Easter events and activities include historical reenactments, passion plays, religious processions with statue carrying, marches and bell ringing. Some parishes have even drama groups that work together to organize performances related with Easter.
If you are passionate of good local food, Easter in Malta has itw own special delicacies: Figolli, for example, are a typical almond cake, basically a tradition during the Easter period. In the past, figolli usually had the shape of a stylized human being, man or woman, something similar to gingerbread men; later on, other shapes apperead like fish, butterflies and bunnies.
You will find plenty of them in every baker’s window and in shops too.
Another traditional Easter dish is the so-called Aljotts, basically a fish soup that includes the fish head and tail as well to make it more tasty, besides plenty of garlic and onion.
Apart from the intense list of events connected to the Easter celebrations, Malta is a great choice for this year’s period, considering the favourable climate the island enjoys.
Moreover, if you are passionate about ancient history and archaeology, in Malta you will have the chance to visit some of the most attractive sites of the Mediterranean Sea, such as megalithic monuments and dolmen dating back to the Bronze Age, Punic and Roman remains, besides exquisite temples. The Hypogeum (Hypogeum of Ħal-Saflieni), for instance, is one of the most famous buildings in the island, allegedly a subterranean sanctuary, later turned into a necropolis: its origins go back to prehistoric times. The Hypogeum is listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Not to mention the magnificent beaches and bays for which Malta is appreciated all around Europe.
Have a look at the short guide on Malta on our website.
Easter at Cape Verde
How about flying to Africa for a long and exotic break?
The Republic of Cabo Verde, former Portuguese colony, includes an archipelago of 10 islands of vulcanic origin, located in the Atlantic Ocean, around 350 miles off the Western coast of Africa. An authentic paradise on earth that, in virtue of its position, enjoys an ideal climate all year round, with temperatures that range from 23° C in February to 28° C in August and September.
We bet this would be enough to persuade anyone to plan a trip there, but actually there are many other good reasons to go to Cabo Verde.
Cabo Verde is the perfect choice if:
1. you are looking for uncontaminated beaches, like those on the islands of Sal and Boavista
Going back to the topic of this post, that is Easter, the great majority of people living in the islands of Cape Verde are Christian; therefore the country celebrates the Catholic Easter which is also the largest religious celebration taking place across all the inhabited islands of the archipelago.
During Holy Week there are lots of events going on that culminate with a re-enactment of Jesus’ resurrection on Easter Saturday.
Easter in New Orleans
Catholics, who compose the majority of the city’s population, love to celebrate Easter with parades, traditional church masses, egg hunts and fine-dining brunches.
Three of the most famous parades of New Orleans are held on Easter Sunday in the French Quarter.
Over Easter, many restaurants in New Orleans serve Easter brunches with special dishes that mark the end of the Lent. If you want to find the list of places offering this special brunch have a look at this site: http://www.opentable.com/. Tip: reserve your table well ahead of time.
In New Orleans, Easter is not Easter without the Easter egg hunt, a tradition appreciated especially by children.
This special hunt, recommended for 8 year-old kids and younger babies, is held in City Park from around 10 a.m. The public park is located in the heart of the city and is a must-see for all visitors.
Locals go there to have a picnic, wander through the gardens or play their favourite sports. In the park, you can also pay a visit to the beautiful Botanical Garden that hosts a huge collection of mature live oaks and other trees typical of the area.
On Easter Day, the park’s gates open at 9 a.m.: children don’t need to bring their own basket or bag since the staff will give them a special egg carton.
Thousands of coloured eggs will be hidden in City Park, and every child will have great fun trying to find them. The most-wanted egg is the golden one, which will assure a special prize to the lucky child who finds it. For the event, the Easter Bunny in person is awaited to the joy of all children.
If you want to join the Easter Egg Hunt you can purchase online your tickets.
Easter in Tokyo, Japan
Only a small number of Japanese celebrate Christian Easter, and therefore you can’t see many signs of this Feast along the streets and in the shops.
However, if you are arranging a visit to Japan, you can’t miss the enchanting cherry blossoms or hanami.
This ancient Japanese tradition allows people to fully enjoy the transient beauty of flowers. On this occasion, Japanese people usually meet in the parks and celebrate this feast under the flowering trees: if you are in Japan you absolutely have to experience it!
One of the best places where to see the sakura (cherry trees) in full bloom is at the Himeji Castle, a UNESCO world heritage site where you can drink sake and have a picnic under thousands of pink petals, an authentic pinkish paradise.
Besides being a religious celebration with some profound meanings for believers, Easter is more simply the first public holiday you can enjoy since Christmas and New Year. Also, in the collective unconscious it is somehow connected to the spring arrival, after the long winter period.
In other words, Easter makes it possible for people who need a break bewtween Christmas and the summer holidays to organise a trip or a weekend away from home.
As said before, mid-february is a good time to begin planning your Easter holidays.
So whether you are after a religious celebrations in a Catholic country or a cool break in a totally different nation, you are still in time to book your Easter holiday getaway. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://wildswimmingfinland.fi/swim-and-glow-in-winter/ | 2023-06-08T05:59:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224654097.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20230608035801-20230608065801-00515.warc.gz | 0.94531 | 438 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__109333647 | en | What is it that gives winter swimmers that glow? I asked myself this question again, when I saw healthy and invigorated swimmers in The Finnish Winter Swimming Championships in Ähtäri. There are many answers to that question, both scientific and experiential.
One professor has said: “Lack of ‘thermal exercise’ may cause inadequate functioning of the brain.” A cold dip is a trigger, a positive stress to swimmer’s body and mind. This so called eustress helps you to maintain and improve your health.
Many winter swimmers say that they feel strongly alive in water and after a swim. No wonder, because they experience a hormone boost of endorphins, dopamine, serotonin, adrenaline, cortisol and oxytocin. But it’s not only about the hormones. It’s also about experiencing outdoors and nature and cold water giving instant whole body sensations and feedback.
Winter Swimming event connected people of different ages (from two to eighty-two), backgrounds and parts of the country. Old friends met and new friends were made in this gathering of thousand swimmers. Every swimmer in the ice pool was cheered. Getting encouragement and cheering from other people also makes one glow.
Now when “the Beast from the East” brings minus temperatures to a large part of Europe, thermal exercise is easy to get. Expose yourself to cold, whether it be the Polar Vortex chilly wind or cold water. But remember only winter swimming gives you the glow. 🙂
PS. I succeed in taking medals in two races. Phew. In middle of long working days in the event…:)
Photos in this second slider are by Timo Ahopelto, more photos by him in this gallery. In the first slider the first photo is by Timo Ahopelto, photos 2.-4. are by Jukka Vuorinen, the rest by author.
The Finnish Winter Swimming Championships are organised by The Outdoor Association of Finland and local event organisers. The Association organises the first European Winter Swimming Championships in 2019 – welcome! | journalism_and_media_communication |
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Laura-Jane researches, scripts, films, edits, and presents on-camera and on stage for the BBC and more. She also hosts events, sometimes presenting from the piano, explaining musical concepts and using music as a powerful method of engaging an audience.
She has compered events internationally and has broadcast over 1500 hours of live television. Currently working as a TV producer at the BBC, she is available for speaking engagements in the fields of consumer electronics, media training and music.
Writing, presenting and filing video features from 4 different continents (so far), LJ also reports and occasionally produces the ‘Tech Know’ series for the BBC Tech index.She can also be heard on BBC World Service Radio, Radio 4 Women’s Hour, the Fred MacAuley Show and You and Yours talking about music technology and social media.
LJ gained a scholarship to the Royal College of Music aged 11 years old to study piano, voice, medieval instruments and electronic music. She read Music at Christ Church College, Oxford, then worked as a sound engineer for Pete Waterman before eventually getting her first TV presenting job. Her encyclopaedic knowledge of science fiction books, Star Trek and most Sci-Fi movies sometimes comes in useful – but not very often!
LJ is proud to be largely responsible for the growth of @BBCClick’s twitter account, which currently stands at over 2 million followers.
She is an enthusiastic foodie and a keen traveller – with a particular affection for the Asia-Pacific area. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://www.ysce.eu/en/projects/2009.html | 2018-10-20T23:52:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583513508.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20181020225938-20181021011438-00270.warc.gz | 0.897232 | 223 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__55796302 | en | The year 2009 is rich in historical and musical anniversaries: Twenty years ago the Berlin Wall fell – the liberating result of a European movement that began in Poland and the Czech Republic, on the streets of Prague and Gdansk. The Young Sound Forum of Central Europe is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a concert tour through Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany with concerts in Swidnica, Wroclaw, Teplice, Prague and Berlin. The programme features Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s rarely played overture from „Die schöne Melusine“ in celebration of Mendelssohn’s 200th birthday, a symphonic poem by the great Polish composer Mieczyslaw Karlowicz, who died 100 years ago. The young German composer and percussionist Johannes Fischer has written a Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra for the Young Sound Forum of Central Europe that will be heard for the first time on this tour. Excerpts from Bedrich Smetana’s „The Bartered Bride“ conclude the concert. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://lebanoncenterrehab.com/lebanon-center-for-rehabilitation-and-healing-earns-deficiency-free-state-survey/ | 2024-02-28T23:39:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474746.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228211701-20240229001701-00493.warc.gz | 0.94636 | 158 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__88411729 | en | Lebanon Center for Rehabilitation and Healing, formerly Lebanon Health and Rehabilitation Center recently earned Deficiency-Free Status during this year’s annual health state survey.
The annual survey is conducted by the Office of Health Care Facilities (OHCF) for the Tennessee Department of Health during an unannounced visit that evaluates the center’s commitment to quality and compliance with industry state and federal regulatory guidelines. This year’s survey for Lebanon Center issued zero citations. In an executive summary issued to the Tennessee General Assembly, roughly only 15% of all nursing homes in Tennessee received Deficiency-Free status last calendar year. This year’s health survey success places Lebanon Center in the top 10% for performance in the state of Tennessee.
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https://www.timetogether.org.uk/covid/britain-lifts-part-of-restrictions-due-to-pandemic/ | 2022-08-14T18:06:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00375.warc.gz | 0.969898 | 839 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__66059628 | en | In particular, from March 29, groups of six people or members of two households will be allowed to meet on the street.
The second phase of lifting coronavirus restrictions in the UK will begin on Monday in accordance with the government’s timetable for a gradual exit from the national quarantine. The kingdom’s authorities hope that after the partial lifting of the measures, residents will be able to celebrate Easter, celebrated by Anglicans and Catholics on April 4, in a wide circle of relatives.
Since Monday, due to the easing of rules, the British will be allowed to meet on the street in groups of no more than six people or members of no more than two households. According to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, this will allow relatives to see each other more often given the upcoming holidays. In addition, outdoor group sports can resume, tennis courts and golf courses, football and cricket can be played.
According to the government schedule, “the decree will also end, which instructs UK residents not to leave their homes unnecessarily, although many of the coronavirus restrictions will still remain in force.” In particular, British people are encouraged to continue working from home if possible.
The lifting of restrictive measures introduced in the UK almost three months ago due to the new wave of the coronavirus pandemic began on March 8 with the opening of schools. The authorities called the return of students to their desks the first step towards a normal life.
Quarantine Relief Schedule
The next phase of quarantine mitigation is scheduled to begin on April 12, if the epidemic situation in the country does not worsen. At this stage, shops that do not sell essential goods, hairdressers and beauty salons, as well as gyms will be able to resume work. Restaurants and pubs will be able to serve visitors at tables located on the street. Zoos, amusement parks, open-air cinemas, libraries and museums will also receive permission to reopen.
The third phase of relaxation is to begin on May 17th. From this date, it is planned to open pubs, restaurants, cinemas, hotels. Fans will be able to attend sporting events. It will be allowed to organize weddings, funerals, receptions with up to 30 guests. It is possible that from this date the United Kingdom will resume flights with other countries. Now the British are prohibited from all travel abroad, with the exception of extremely important ones, for example, for work.
The fourth phase, which will begin no earlier than June 21, provides for the removal of all restrictions on contacts with other people, as well as the holding of mass events. At this stage, theaters, concert halls and nightclubs will be able to fully resume their work. These exemptions apply to England, which is home to 85% of the UK population. The authorities of the rest of the administrative and political parts of the kingdom – Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – independently determine their quarantine policy. However, usually their actions in this matter are synchronized with the steps taken by London.
The authorities were able to begin to weaken the quarantine due to a stable decrease in infection rates in the country. According to the authorities, this was due to the success of the quarantine introduced on January 4, as well as the effectiveness of the mass vaccination campaign of the population. Since December 8 last year, more than 30 million people have already been vaccinated – approximately 45% of the kingdom’s population.
Until the end of July, all residents of the country over 16 years old will have the opportunity to receive the vaccine. So far, the kingdom is being vaccinated with drugs from the American company Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, as well as the British-Swedish company AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford. At the same time, as previously stated by the head of the Ministry of Health Matt Hancock, in the first half of April, the rate of vaccination in the UK will decrease due to the expected interruptions in the supply of drugs for coronavirus, but this will not affect the plans of the authorities to lift the restrictions. | journalism_and_media_communication |
https://www.civicsanddebate.com/post/florida-s-civics-and-debate-initiative-fcdi-expected-to-reach-all-florida-districts-in-2022-23 | 2024-04-22T13:20:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818293.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422113340-20240422143340-00292.warc.gz | 0.950745 | 667 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__8557259 | en | ~ FCDI is expected to reach over 400 schools and every Florida school district in 2022-23. ~
Tallahassee, Fla., July 1, 2022 - Today, Commissioner of Education Manny Diaz, Jr. praised the success of the Florida Civics and Debate Initiative (FCDI), an innovative program strengthening free speech and civil discourse in Florida classrooms.
Since Governor Ron DeSantis announced the initiative in 2019, FCDI has expanded civics education and competitive debate opportunities to 237 schools across 45 school districts and is on pace to reach more than 400 schools and every Florida district in the upcoming 2022-23 school year.
“Thanks to Governor DeSantis, Florida’s students are increasingly prepared to be informed and engaged citizens after they leave our schools,” said Florida Commissioner of Education Manny Diaz, Jr. “I’m excited to see so many schools across our state participating in the Florida Civics and Debate Initiative, and I look forward to working with teachers, school districts, and students to further meet the demand for this outstanding program.”
FCDI was launched in partnership with the Florida Education Foundation (FEF), a direct-support organization for the Florida Department of Education (FDOE). The program’s mission is to create opportunities for underserved middle and high school students to receive the best civics education possible by providing curriculum support, debate opportunities, and high-quality teachers equipped to empower students to become great citizens.
“The Florida Civics and Debate Initiative is the only statewide civics and debate program of its kind,” said FEF Executive Director Kristin Piccolo. “By coupling civics education with debate, Florida is providing a unique learning environment for student scholars, which will benefit them both now and in the future. In just the second year, our program already serves as a shining example for the rest of the nation.”
FCDI provides professional development opportunities for teachers and debate coaches throughout the year as well as student debate camps and coaching clinics. The initiative is also scheduled to host “The Great Debate” in November, the second annual National Civics and Debate Competition, allowing a broad range of students to explore, understand, and express important constitutional, legal, and societal matters.
In addition to FCDI’s 2022-23 projected statewide growth, the initiative is expected to train over 5,800 teachers and reach 766,000 students in the upcoming school year. The program’s total impact to date includes:
An increase from 11 to 45 school districts with debate programs.
An increase from 59 to 237 schools participating in the debate program.
An increase from 2,023 to 4,793 student participants in debate.
An increase from 306 to 3,056 teachers benefiting from debate and civics education professional development programs.
An increase from 40,392 to 403,392 students reached by teachers receiving civics professional development from FDOE and FEF/FCDI partnership.
An increase of 48 debate tournaments over the last two years.
For information about the Florida Civics and Debate Initiative, including its teacher toolkit and calendar of events, visit: https://www.floridaeducationfoundation.org/fcdi. | journalism_and_media_communication |
http://maineatwar.bangordailynews.com/tag/seminary-ridge-museum/ | 2017-04-23T17:36:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917118740.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031158-00172-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.960884 | 250 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__245730822 | en | Gettysburg’s newest museum takes visitors to the battle — and onto the battlefield, because men fought and died around this historic building on July 1, 1863. Located in the former Schmucker Hall at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, the Gettysburg Seminary Ridge Museum opened exactly 150 years later, on July 1, 2013. Famous in Civil War […]
Welcome to "Maine at War," the blog about the roles played by Maine and her sons and daughters in the Civil War. I am a Civil War buff and a newspaper editor recently retired from the Bangor Daily News. Maine sent hero upon hero — soldiers, nurses, sailors, chaplains, physicians — south to preserve their country in the 1860s. “Maine at War” introduces these heroes and heroines, who, for the most part, upheld the state's honor during that terrible conflict. We tour the battlefields where they fought, and we learn about the Civil War by focusing on Maine’s involvement with it. Be prepared: As I discover to this very day, the facts taught in American classrooms don’t always jibe with Civil War reality. I can be reached at [email protected]. | journalism_and_media_communication |
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