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MediaWire SenFluence Journalists Center MediaGroupNYC Introducing the DribbLords, a Jumping, Spinning, Fascinating Game It can seem like game development today has become stagnant with little to no innovation occurring. Here to change that is The DribbLords, a game featuring unique mechanics and lovable levels. Vienna, Austria -- (ReleaseWire) -- 03/30/2017 --Ever since the golden days of the classic games of Super Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, and more, platformers have long been in the public's eye. The baseline skill required to complete a level combined with the added time pressure of a ticking clock makes for quite a rush from level to level. But these games did much more than simply showcase what it meant to be a platformer; instead, these games set themselves apart from the rest by incorporating a variety of unique mechanics, each of which forced the player to think in new and creative ways. As a result, these game series took off and began to feature more and more unique mechanics like vision play in Luigi's Mansion or speed generation in Sonic. After this golden age of platformers, it can solemnly seem like there are no undiscovered game mechanics for platformers to incorporate. Here to change that is The DribbLords, a game that combines jumping, spinning, and more to create a puzzle-like platformer game with an adorable cast of characters and adventurous levels. The game itself incorporates incredibly simple controls yet provides a depthful experience for any player. On the phone the game can be played with only one finger, as tapping the screen will cause the DribbLord to jump while tilting the screen will cause the DribbLord to rotate. Similar effects can be achieved in the PC version with the use of the four arrow keys. Through changing the speed of the spin of a DribbLord, players can cause intricate bounce angles, adding a level of intricacy to the game. As players progress through the game's levels, they will master these controls in order to maneuver these DribbLords about the terrain, fighting the ominous and mechanical system as the DribbLords attempt to make it to the exit portal. The levels become progressively more difficult, and powerups are scattered across the game, adding yet another layer of depth to a seemingly simple platformer. As a side benefit, the aesthetic of the game is perfectly playful, making it suitable for all ages. Sadly, a game as innovative as this takes funds to develop. To remedy this issue, The DribbLords team has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. Those who support the campaign will be rewarded with a variety of perks, ranging from a copy of the game to the ability to name a level in the game. With this support, The DribbLords team hopes to finally help the DribbLords beat the system and rule their little, crazy world. To learn more visit the Kickstarter campaign page. Joe Gillis Follow MediaGroupNYC MediaGroupNYC - Logo Source: MediaGroupNYC Posted Thursday, March 30, 2017 at 9:30 AM CDT - Permalink Privacy Policy \| Cookie Policy \| Terms of Service \| Report Abuse Try it now with OnDemand	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8523420095443726, "wiki_prob": 0.8523420095443726, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1505128"}
Politics Policy Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages By Mikeynews (self media writer) \| 2 years ago English is Nigeria’s official language; however, Nigeria’s large population is liable for its linguistic diversity which encompasses three major African language families: Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and Niger–Congo. Figures for the amount of spoken Nigerian languages range from 250 to over 500 with Ethnologue placing the precise number for Nigeria at 527. This anomaly arises where scholars are divided over which language constitutes ‘language’ and which constitutes ‘dialect’. Ajawa, Auyokawa, Basa-Gumna, Gamo-Ningi, Holma, Kpati, Kubi, Mawa and Teshenawa are now extinct Nigerian languages. These are the highest ten most spoken Nigerian languages. Hausa (or Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa) is usually related to Islamic culture in Nigeria and West Africa. Together of the foremost spoken Nigerian languages, 18.5 million native speakers are found in Sokoto, Kaduna, Katsina, Kano, Bauchi, Jigawa, Zamfara, Kebbi, and Gombe states. Hausa is additionally spoken by 25 million people in West Africa including Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Senegal, Sudan and Togo where large Hausa communities exist. Hausa is additionally the second language of 15 million more people in Nigeria making it the foremost speech in Sub-Saharan Africa and has prompted international radio stations just like the BBC, China Radio International and Voice of Russia to broadcast in Hausa. Igbo (Asusu Igbo) is the principle language spoken by about 24 million people (primarily of Igbo descent) in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo States. Igbo is additionally spoken in some parts of Akwa Ibom (Ika LGA), Delta (Oshimili, Aniocha, and Ndokwa LGAs) and Rivers States (Ikwerre, Bonny, and Ahoada LGAs). Significant Igbo speakers also are found in Cameroun while in Equatorial Guinea , Igbo may be a recognized minority language. Numerous Igbo dialects exist (some of which aren't mutually intelligible) including Bonny-Opobo, Ngwa and Olu. Interestingly, in 2009 the United States Army scouted for recruits who could speak one among 35 languages including Igbo. Yoruba (or Yoruba, Yooba) is the native tongue of the Yoruba people and is spoken by approximately 18.9 million people concentrated in Oyo, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Kwara, and Lagos states and parts of Kogi State. Outside Nigeria, Yoruba is spoken in Benin, Togo and by Nigerian immigrants within the UK and therefore, the USA raising the entire number of native Yoruba speakers to over 19 million and making it one among the highest most spoken Nigerian languages worldwide enm3333. Additionally, about 2 million people speak Yoruba as a second language. Yoruba has over fifteen dialects including Awori, Ijesha, Ilaje and Ila. Fulfude Fulfulde (or Fulani, Fula) is of Senegambian origin but now spoken by cattle pastorals across the Sahel and largely in Northern Nigeria by the Fulani diaspora. In Nigeria, 1.7 million Fulfude speakers are found in Kano, Katsina, Zaria, Jos plateau, Bororo, Maiduguri and Sokoto. In total, there are 19 African countries stretched across West, East, and Central African Republic that are home to about 25 million Fulfude speakers. In Senegal and Guinea, the language is named Pulaar and Pular respectively. variety of Fulfude dialects exist including Bororo, Kano-Katsina, Adamawa Fulfude and Benin-Togo. Kanuri Central As one of the foremost spoken Nigerian languages, Kanuri (or Beriberi, Bornu, Kanouri, Kanoury, Yerwa Kanuri), is the principle representative tongue of the Nilo-Saharan linguistic group. Three million native speakers are mainly located in Borno State (Kukawa, Kaga, Konduga, Maiduguri, Monguno, Ngala, Bama, and Gwoza LGAs), Yobe State (Nguru, Geidam, Damaturu, Fika, Fune, and Gujba LGAs) and Jigawa State (Hadejia LGA). Additionally, about 500,000 people use Kanuri as a second language in Nigeria. Although many dialects exist including Kaga, Fadawa and Yerwa linguists agree that the Maiduguri dialect is universally understood. Ijaw The Ijaw people speak 9 closely related Niger-Congo languages which are divided into Eastern Ijaw and Western Ijaw with Izon being the foremost prominent member the latter. Ijaw (or Izo, Uzo, Ijo, Central-Western Ijo) is spoken by almost 2 million people in Bayelsa (Yenogoa, Souther Ijaw, Kolokuma-Opokuma, Ekeremor and Sagbama LGAs), Delta State (Burutu, Warri and Ughelli LGAs), Ondo State (Ilaje Ese-Odo LGAs) and Ekiti State (Ikole LGA). Variety of dialects exist including Arogbo, Egbema, Ikibiri and West Tarairi with about 30 of them being inherently intelligible. Pidgin English. Nigerian Pidgin English (or Pidgin, Broken English, Broken) may be a blend of English and ethnic Nigerian languages spoken operating as a sort of interlanguage across Nigeria.It is estimated that Pidgin is the language of roughly 3 to five million people mainly concentrated within the Niger Delta region and may be a second language for a minimum of another 75 million Nigerian people. Tiv may be a branch of the Niger-Congo linguistic family. Together of the foremost spoken Nigerian languages, Tiv is spoken by over 2 million people in Nigeria concentrated mainly in Benue State (Makurdi, Gwer, Gboko Kwande, Vandeikya and Katsina Ala LGAs). it's also widely spoken in Plateau State (Lafia LGA) and Taraba State (Bali, Takum, and Wukari LGAs) while there also are a big number of Tiv speakers found in neighbouring Cameroon. Ibibio (closely associated with the Efik language) has some 1.5 million native speakers with about 4.5 million level 2 users concentrated in Akwa Ibom State in Itu, Uyo, Etinan, Ikot Abasi, Ikono, Ekpe-Atai, Uruan, Onna, Nsit-Ubium, and Mkpat Enin LGAs. Although several dialects exist, the more common ones include Central Ibibio, Enyong, Itak and Nsit. Ibibio is taught in primary and secondary schools (and even online at www.nsitatai.org) with radio and TV programs available in Akwa Ibom State. Edo (or Ado, Benin, Bini, Oviedo and Ovioba) is primarily spoken by a minimum of 1 million people in Edo State. Interestingly, in November 2013 a scholar quoted the Esogban of Benin Kingdom as raising alarm over the ‘likely extinction of the Bini language’. this is often possibly thanks to the shortage of a standard language in Edo State, gradual decline of speaking Edo in homes and therefore, the more pronounced use of English and Pidgin English as inter language . 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The 49 Most Anticipated Albums of Spring 2021: Taylor Swift, Japanese Breakfast, J Balvin, and More Graphic by Drew Litowitz, photos via Getty Images New releases to look forward to in the coming months, from Dawn Richard, Iceage, Olivia Rodrigo, and others By Pitchfork Spring is in the air, the weather is getting warmer, vaccination rates are climbing, tours are being announced: there’s a lot to be hopeful for right now. And as the bumper crop of albums listed below attests, there’s a ton of great music awaiting our ears just around the corner. Here are 49 records to look forward to in the coming months. (As of April 6, all release dates have been confirmed. But as usual, everything is subject to change.) Andy Stott: Never the Right Time UK electronic producer Andy Stott had almost completed his new album Never the Right Time in early 2020, just months after the release of 2019’s It Should Be Us. But then “personal upheaval brought everything to a sudden standstill,” he explained in a press release. Stott finally finished the album in late 2020. In March, he dropped the frosty first single “the beginning,” featuring vocals by Alison Skidmore. –Marc Hogan Preorder: Boomkat The Armed: ULTRAPOP According to the Armed’s guitarist and co-producer Dan Greene, the hardcore collective’s latest album is a “joyous, genderless, post-nihilist, anti-punk, razor-focused take on creating the most intense listener experience possible.” The follow-up to 2018’s Only Love features assistance from Mark Lanegan, Queens of the Stone Age’s Troy Van Leeuwen, producer Ben Chisholm, and executive producer Kurt Ballou. The famously mysterious group revealed its member lineup for this album in the live video for lead single “All Futures.” –Sam Sodomsky All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. $24.99 at Rough Trade Arooj Aftab: Vulture Prince Pakistan-born, Brooklyn-based multi-hyphenate Arooj Aftab will release Vulture Prince after sharing the singles “Last Night” and “Mohabbat,” both of which blur the lines between genres and traditions. “It’s about people, friendships, relationships,” Aftab has said of the full-length effort. Vulture Prince follows her 2015 debut album Bird Under Water. –Marc Hogan Preorder: Bandcamp Bachelor: Doomin’ Sun In February, Jay Som’s Melina Duterte and Palehound’s Ellen Kempner revealed they were joining forces under the name Bachelor. After releasing the single “Anything at All,” the indie-rock singer-songwriters later confirmed that the project would carry over to a full-length album, Doomin’ Sun, with contributions from members of Big Thief and Chastity Belt. They also shared the new song “Stay in the Car.” In 2019, Jay Som released Anak Ko, and Palehound released Black Friday. –Marc Hogan beabadoobee: Our Extended Play EP Months after her debut album as beabadoobee with last year’s Fake It Flowers, singer-songwriter Bea Kristi returns this spring with a new EP titled, simply, Our Extended Play. Matty Healy and George Daniel of the 1975 are credited as producers and co-writers, and the first single “Last Day on Earth” was released in March with a video. Kristi has said she “wanted to experiment on the sounds and sonics even more.” beabadoobee’s first proper tour behind Fake It Flowers is set for this September in the UK. –Marc Hogan black midi: Cavalcade In the lyrics of Cavalcade, the sophomore album from adventurous London rock band black midi, you’ll encounter a cult leader fallen on hard times, a corpse in a diamond mine, iconic singer Marliene Dietrich, and so much more. “When you’re listening to the album you can almost imagine all the characters form a sort of cavalcade,” bassist Cameron Picton said in a press release. “Each tells their story one by one and as each track ends they overtake you, replaced by the next in line.” Lead single “John L” indicates the rest of the album will be just as wide-ranging and unpredictable. –Sam Sodomsky Bomba Estéreo: Deja Four years after Bomba Estéreo’s last studio album Ayo, the Colombian band returns with Deja, a project divided into parts based on the four classical elements: Agua, Aire, Tierra, and Fuego. Lido Pimienta and OKAN guest on lead single “Agua.” The group has also shared “Soledad” and the title track. “The album is about the connection and disconnection of human beings—from the planet, from one’s own self,” Bomba singer Liliana “Li” Saumet has said. –Marc Hogan BROCKHAMPTON: ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE Almost four years since their debut, BROCKHAMPTON will release their sixth album Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine, with an accompanying livestreamed broadcast from Rick Rubin’s Shangri-La Studios in Malibu. To build anticipation for the record, the group teased its arrival with trailers that feature Rubin and RZA. They recently dropped the album’s lead single “Buzzcut,” featuring Danny Brown, as well as “Count on Me,” featuring Shawn Mendes, A$AP Rocky, and Ryan Beatty. –Alphonse Pierre In early February, Cardi B shared her new single and video, “Up.” In an interview timed to the release, she said she wanted to put out an album in 2021 and had “like 50 songs” recorded. Since then, Cardi has performed her 2020 hit with Megan Thee Stallion, “WAP,” at the Grammys, although the song isn’t expected to be submitted for awards consideration until next year—hopefully timed to the release of the follow-up to her 2018 debut Invasion of Privacy. –Marc Hogan CHAI: WINK CHAI’s fuses cheeky rock music with dance and R&B elements on WINK, the Japanese group’s third album and first for Sub Pop. WINK signals the first time CHAI has teamed up with guest artists (Ric Wilson, Mndsgn, and YMCK), and the quartet has released several vibrant lead singles. Look to the delightful indie-pop song “Donuts Mind If I Do” for a taste of WINK’s culinary theme and undeniably playful energy. –Eric Torres Damon Locks / Black Monument Ensemble: NOW Damon Locks and the Black Monument Ensemble’s first album, 2019’s Where Future Unfolds, documented the live debut of the Chicago artist/activist and 15-member collective in a city park. Recording for the follow-up, simply titled NOW, seems to have been almost as spontaneous, comprising “only a few takes” in a garden behind Chicago’s Experimental Sound Studio. The ensemble includes such illustrious International Anthem labelmates as Angel Bat Dawid and Ben LaMar Gay, but the most prominent accompanists on lead single “Now (Forever Momentary Space)” is a swarm of cicadas. –Marc Hogan Darkside: Spiral Eight years after their one and only album, 2013’s Psychic, Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington have returned. Last December, Darkside announced a new full-length, Spiral, timed for a spring 2021 release. They also shared a new song, the lush and heady “Liberty Bell.” They recently unearthed PSYCHIC LIVE JULY 17 2014—a live set from Belgium’s Dour Festival. –Marc Hogan Dawn Richard: Second Line: An Electro Revival For her debut on famed indie label Merge, electronic-R&B artist Dawn Richard adopted the persona of King Creole to pay homage to the parades in her hometown of New Orleans. The follow-up to 2019’s new breed includes previously released singles “Bussifame,” “Pilot (a lude),” and “Jacuzzi.” Richard said she made Second Line to center Black women in electronic music and show beyond doubt that they belong—and always have. She told Pitchfork earlier this year, “I want to fucking break that taboo all the way.” –Eric Torres $37 at Rough Trade Dinosaur Jr.: Sweep It Into Space Five years after 2016’s Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not, rock legends Dinosaur Jr. will return with a new record, Sweep It Into Space, co-produced by Kurt Vile. The band began recording in late 2019 at Biquiteen in Amherst, Massachusetts but was interrupted by the pandemic. Luckily, “the recording session was pretty well finished by the time things really hit the fan,” according to J Mascis. Meanwhile, the trio has announced 2021 tour dates and a rescheduled Camp Fuzz retreat in Big Indian, New York. –Quinn Moreland Drake: Certified Lover Boy Last August, after the longest-ever break between albums, Drake announced Certified Lover Boy—the follow-up to 2018’s Scorpion—and shared his Lil Durk collaboration “Laugh Now Cry Later.” The news followed last spring’s Dark Lane Demo Tapes project. Multiple teased release dates for the Six God’s sixth album have come and gone, but Drake has lost none of his bravado along the way. On this year’s surprise, guest-filled Scary Hours 2 EP, he boasts, “Come with a classic, they come around years later and say it’s a sleeper.” –Marc Hogan Ethel Cain: Inbred EP Indiana-based singer-songwriter Ethel Cain, born Hayden Silas Anhedonia, has described her Cain persona as “the unhappy wife of a corrupt preacher.” She’s brought that image to vivid life through two caustic singles from the forthcoming EP so far: the sawtoothed “Michelle Pfeiffer,” featuring emo-trap artist lil aaron, and “Crush,” both of which display Cain’s sharp strain of indie rock. –Eric Torres FORESEEN Entertainment / Epistrophik Peach Sound Georgia Anne Muldrow: VWETO III Georgia Ann Muldrow revealed news of her instrumental VWETO III in March. It’s the third entry in a series, after 2011’s VWETO and 2019’s VWETO II. Muldrow also shared the track “Mufaro’s Garden.” Last year, Muldrow released an album by her solo jazz project Jyoti, Mama, You Can Bet!. The upcoming record, she’s said, “is intended for movement.” –Marc Hogan girl in red: if i could make it go quiet Norwegian indie-pop singer-songwriter girl in red announced her debut album, if i could make it go quiet, in March. If the open-hearted, FINNEAS co-produced lead single “serotonin” is any indication, expect the LP to contain more memorable pop-rock mutations and piano balladry. Marie Ulven has described her highly anticipated debut as “an attempt to learn what it’s like to be human; to deal with the scariest parts of myself; to live with the pain of knowing i’m only flesh and bones.” –Eric Torres Gojira: Fortitude Fortitude is the first album in five years from the French heavy metal band Gojira, known for philosophical and environmentally conscious lyrics. According to guitarist/vocalist Joe Duplantier, opening track “Born for One Thing” has an anti-consumerist message. “We have to practice detaching ourselves from everything, beginning with actual things,” he said in a press release. “Own less possessions, and give what you don’t need away, because one day we’ll have to let everything go, and if we don’t, we’ll just become ghosts stuck between dimensions.” —Sam Sodomsky Hiatus Kaiyote: Mood Valiant The next album from Australia’s Hiatus Kaiyote, Mood Valiant, is the Brainfeeder/Ninja Tune signees’ first since 2015’s Choose Your Weapon. That album spawned samples by the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and Chance the Rapper. It’s also the band’s first album since lead singer Nai Palm’s recovery from breast cancer. Lead single “Get Sun,” featuring Brazilian arranger Arthur Verocai, is jazz funk that’s at once somber and triumphant. –Marc Hogan Iceage: Seek Shelter Iceage teamed up with Spacemen 3’s Peter “Sonic Boom” Kember for their fifth album, marking the first time the Danish punk band has ever worked with an outside producer. “For Seek Shelter, we had a definite vision of how we wanted the album to be carved out,” vocalist Elias Bender Rønnenfelt said in a press release, “yet still the end result came as a surprise in terms of where we sonically were able to push our boundaries.” So far, they’ve shared the tracks “The Holding Hand,” “Vendetta,” and “Shelter Song,” which features vocals from the Lisboa Gospel Collective. –Sam Sodomsky India Jordan: Watch Out! EP Clubs were shut down for most of 2020, but India Jordan didn’t rest. Following their breakout EP, For You, the ascendant dance producer returns with Watch Out!, a new collection of tracks for Ninja Tune. They describe it as “a homage to both physical and conceptual movement,” led by the single “And Groove.” That track, they said, was crafted “in peak Lockdown #1 and is reminiscent of a train journey—repetitive and rhythmic movement that goes on and on (and groove!)” –Noah Yoo J Balvin hasn’t revealed much about the follow-up to last year’s Colores, but the Colombian reggaetón colossus has already shared two singles from it, “Tu Veneno” and “Ma’ G.” He has also lately teamed up on tracks with Mr Eazi and Eladio Carrión. His collaborative album with Bad Bunny, OASIS, arrived in 2019.–Marc Hogan Jack Ingram / Miranda Lambert / Jon Randall: The Marfa Tapes Country singer-songwriters Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, and Jon Randall recorded their new album together with a pair of microphones and an acoustic guitar in the desert of Marfa, Texas. Reflecting their natural, collaborative process, the trio intersperses the songs with field recordings and friendly banter: “There’s something singular that happens in that moment of collaboration and creation, something you can never really recreate in the studio,” Ingram explained in a press release. “Our hope with this album was to share a little bit of that magic with people.” –Sam Sodomsky Japanese Breakfast: Jubilee “After writing two albums and a book about grief, I feel very ready to embrace feeling,” Michelle Zauner told Pitchfork ahead of her third album as Japanese Breakfast, Jubilee. Zauner’s memoir, Crying in H Mart, is still upcoming, but Japanese Breakfast has become a breakout indie-pop sensation thanks to the shimmering melancholy of those prior LPs, 2016’s Psychopomp and 2017’s Soft Sounds From Another Planet. The first Jubilee single “Be Sweet” is a beacon of a brighter future, as Zauner sings, “I want to believe in something.” –Marc Hogan With the exception of her campy Amazon Prime Christmas special in 2019, Kacey Musgraves has been relatively quiet on the music front since releasing her third album, 2018’s magnificent Golden Hour. In a recent Rolling Stone interview, Musgraves disclosed that the new album, slated for this year, will dissect both her divorce from singer-songwriter Ruston Kelly and the dire state of America as she’s seen it over the last turbulent year. –Eric Torres Lana Del Rey: Rock Candy Sweet Lana Del Rey announced her March album Chemtrails Over the Country Club, the follow-up to 2019’s world-conquering Norman Fucking Rockwell!, almost a year in advance. The wait apparently won’t be as long for Rock Candy Sweet, which the singer-songwriter announced one day after Chemtrails’ release. It’s been a productive several months for Del Rey, who recently released a poetry collection and audiobook, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass. –Marc Hogan Lil Yachty: Michigan Boy Boat Lil Yachty’s Michigan Boy Boat mixtape has been endlessly teased, but now the artist’s heavy output makes it seem like it’s actually about to come to fruition. Since 2017’s “From the D to the A” with Tee Grizzley, Atlanta’s Yachty has had close ties with the Motor City’s fast-growing rap scene. Throughout 2020, he released collaborations with Michigan artists, including YN Jay, Sada Baby, and Rio Da Yung OG. In early 2021, he put out “Royal Rumble,” with a starting roster of rappers from the state, and “Hit Bout It,” a collaboration with Florida’s Kodak Black where both tackle a heart-beating Michigan-style beat. –Alphonse Pierre Loraine James: Reflection London electronic producer Loraine James released her fearless debut album For You & I in 2019. Following a pair of EPs released during lockdown—Hmm and Nothing—she’s set to make a full-fledged return with Reflection. Produced in the summer of 2020, the new album draws its R&B and drill influence from James’ own listening habits. It features vocal collaborators like Eden Samara, Baths, and other artists who she said “complement her own diaristic lyrics.” –Noah Yoo In the more than three years since Lucy Dacus’s last album, 2018’s Historian, she’s remained a cultural force. That year, Dacus teamed up with Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker for the indie-rock supergroup Boygenius, releasing a self-titled EP. A year later, she delivered the solo 2019 EP and appears to be gearing up yet again. In March, she unveiled a devastating studio version of a live-show fan favorite, “Thumbs.” –Marc Hogan Philadelphia punk rockers Mannequin Pussy tightened from a quartet to a trio ahead of the Perfect EP. It was announced in March alongside a video for the new song “Control.” Written on the fly after a pandemic year apart, the EP follows 2019’s Patience. Last year, lead singer Missy told Pitchfork how Mannequin Pussy used Bandcamp revenue to support their out-of-work touring team. –Marc Hogan Matt Sweeney / Bonnie “Prince” Billy: Superwolves More than 15 years since their first collaborative album, the cult favorite Superwolf, guitarist Matt Sweeney and Bonnie “Prince” Billy mastermind Will Oldham have joined forces for the follow-up. “I think it’s the most substantial group of songs on record that I feel like I’ve been involved with in years, in terms of original compositions,” Oldham told GQ. So far, the duo has shared “Hall of Death,” which features Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar, and the more stripped-back “My Blue Suit,” which received a video from director Geoff McFetridge. –Sam Sodomsky Mdou Moctar: Afrique Victime Mdou Moctar, a Tuareg guitarist and songwriter from northern Niger, and his powerhouse backing group make their Matador debut with Afrique Victime. Moctar’s expressive guitar playing and hypnotic rhythm section were on full display with his first full-band album, 2019’s Ilana (The Creator). While Afrique Victime opener (and first single) “Chismiten” explores similarly propulsive territory, the previously released track “Tala Tannam” showcases a quieter, unplugged side. Moctar has said, “I want the world to know that we are making music to promote world peace.” –Marc Hogan Mustafa: When Smoke Rises “Smoke rises in such a gentle way, unlike how relentless and horrifying a fire can be,” Toronto singer-songwriter Mustafa told Pitchfork last year. His debut project When Smoke Rises includes the poet and musician’s first two head-turning singles, “Stay Alive” and “Air Forces,” as well as the moving “Ali,” which arrived in late March with a self-directed video. –Marc Hogan In February, Noname shared her first song of the year, “RAINFOREST,” a Tropicália-tinged track with lyrics that blend introspection and climate-scale social commentary. At the same time, the Chicago rapper revealed that her next album Factory Baby would be on the way later in 2021. It’s her first full-length since 2018’s Room 25. –Marc Hogan Olivia Rodrigo exploded into the public consciousness (beyond the Disney Channel universe, at least) seemingly overnight in early 2021 with “drivers license,” a debut single that premiered at the top of the charts in the U.S. and several other countries, shattering multiple streaming records. The Filipino-American singer-songwriter followed that up with the Billy Joel-referencing single “deja vu” at the top of April, with her yet-untitled debut album arriving on May 21. –Noah Yoo Patrick Paige II: If I Fail Are We Still Cool? In 2018, the Internet’s bassist Patrick Paige II released his intimate solo debut album Letters of Irrelevance. He’s prepared to follow it up this May with If I Fail Are We Still Cool? via Fat Possum. Leading up to the album, Paige has put out two singles: the soulful “So They Say” and “Whisper (Want My Luv),” which features bandmate Steve Lacy, Allen Love, and Durand Bernarr. –Alphonse Pierre Porter Robinson: Nurture Porter Robinson’s long-awaited sophomore album Nurture arrives seven years after the producer’s influential debut Worlds. In between albums, Robinson released the trance-inspired Virtual Self EP but said he had to overcome a period of burnout and creative block to finish his new record. Nurture includes the recent songs “Get Your Wish,” “Something Comforting,” “Mirror,” “Look at the Sky,” and “Musician.” –Noah Yoo Rostam: Changephobia Rostam recorded his second solo album Changephobia at the same time that the producer was working on critically acclaimed albums for HAIM, Clairo, and others. The songs were written in various locations around the world as he traveled for production. Don’t let the title fool you: “This collection of songs is not celebrating a fear of change,” Rostam has said. “Rather, it’s the opposite. It’s about who we are capable of becoming if we recognize these fears in ourselves and rise above them.” –Noah Yoo Sharon Van Etten: epic Ten In 2010, Sharon Van Etten released her second studio album, epic. In celebration of the album’s anniversary, Van Etten is sharing epic Ten, a double album featuring the original record and a series of covers by the likes of Fiona Apple, Lucinda Williams, Big Red Machine, and Shamir. On April 16 and 17, epic Ten: the documentary and concert, will stream with proceeds benefiting the Los Angeles venue Zebulon. The film includes a complete performance of epic by Van Etten and her band. –Quinn Moreland Silk Sonic: An Evening With Silk Sonic Silk Sonic is your mom’s new favorite band. Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak made their new group official with their debut single “Leave the Door Open,” a Philly soul tune that featured string arrangements from Larry Gold, who played on classic records by the O’Jays, the Spinners, and more. The duo then performed the song on Music’s Biggest Night, replete with matching leisure suits. Details of An Evening With Silk Sonic are scant, but if Mars and .Paak’s Lacoste promotion is any indication, expect more music soon. –Noah Yoo Sons of Kemet: Black to the Future More than three years after Sons of Kemet’s Impulse! debut, 2018’s Your Queen Is a Reptile, the ensemble led by London jazz mainstay Shabaka Hutchings returns with Black to the Future. Guests on the album include Angel Bat Dawid, Moor Mother, and, on newly shared lead single “Hustle,” Kojey Radical and Lianne La Havas. Hutchings’ groups Shabaka and the Ancestors and the Comet Is Coming both released albums in the past couple of years. –Marc Hogan Spirit of the Beehive: ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH Philadelphia’s Spirit of the Beehive makes exceptionally ambitious music that transcends genre and convention. The band’s debut on beloved indie label Saddle Creek, ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH, is no different. Arriving three years after Hypnic Jerks, the self-recorded and self-produced album finds the band—now a trio composed of guitarist/vocalist Zack Schwartz, bassist/vocalist Rivka Ravede, and multi-instrumentalist Corey Wichlin—pushing their boundaries further. With songs titled “GIVE UP YOUR LIFE” and “I SUCK THE DEVIL’S COCK,” ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH promises to be a wild ride. –Quinn Moreland St. Vincent: Daddy’s Home The era of MASSEDUCTION—the latex, the reworked and remixed versions, the bright visuals—has come to a close. Four years later, Daddy’s Home. St. Vincent began writing her sixth album in the winter of 2019, following her father’s release from prison after nearly a decade. Working again alongside producer Jack Antonoff, St. Vincent channels a ’70s sound as made evident in lead single “Pay Your Way in Pain.” The album’s promotional posters declare: “So sit back, light up, and by all means, have that bourbon waiting, because… DADDY’S HOME.” –Quinn Moreland Taylor Swift: Fearless (Taylor’s Version) In 2019, after her former label Big Machine sold the master rights of her catalog to Scooter Braun, Taylor Swift announced plans to re-record her first six albums. The first of these new records will be Fearless (Taylor’s Version), now expanded to 26 songs, including six unreleased tracks. One previously unheard track, “You All Over Me (From the Vault),” is produced by Aaron Dessner and features background vocals from Maren Morris. –Quinn Moreland $40 at Target Tony Allen: There Is No End Tony Allen, the drum luminary and Afrobeat architect, died at age 79 last year—but the beat goes on. There Is No End, timed for release on the anniversary of his death, was crafted by Allen alongside composer Vincent Taurelle and percussionist Vincent Taeger. The album features vocal turns from contemporary artists like Sampa the Great, the Koreatown Oddity, Danny Brown, ZelooperZ, and Skepta. –Noah Yoo Topaz Jones: Don’t Go Tellin’ Your Momma New Jersey rapper Topaz Jones’ next album will be packaged with a short film written and directed by Jones alongside creative duo rubberband. Both will be called Don’t Go Tellin’ Your Momma, his first album since 2016’s Arcade. In February, Jones released the first single, “Herringbone.” –Alphonse Pierre Wolf Alice: Blue Weekend Wolf Alice’s second record, 2017’s Visions of a Life, debuted at No. 2 on the UK charts and won the 2018 Mercury Prize. The British quartet will follow that up with Blue Weekend, out in June via Dirty Hit and RCA. It was recorded alongside producer Markus Dravs (Arcade Fire, Björk) and led by the Kurt Vonnegut-inspired single “The Last Man on Earth.” “This album is for other people,” lead singer Ellie Rowsell said in a statement. She said she hopes the tracks “make people feel listened to if they are going through something.” –Quinn Moreland Yaya Bey: The Things I Can’t Take With Me EP Last summer, singer-songwriter Yaya Bey released Madison Tapes, a simmering and introspective R&B project interwoven with spoken word samples. As she preps a follow-up, the Brooklyn artist is teeing up The Things I Can’t Take With Me, a six-song EP that includes the laid-back single “fxck it then.” “[The album] is going to be about the journey home to self,” Bey said in a statement. “But on the way, there’s all this shit I gotta let go of, just the things I can’t take with me.” –Eric Torres TagsAndy StottThe ArmedArooj AftabBachelorBeabadoobeeBlack MidiBomba EstéreoBROCKHAMPTONCardi BCHAIDamon LocksBlack Monument EnsembleDawn RichardDinosaur Jr.DrakeEthel CainGeorgia Anne Muldrowgirl in redGojiraHiatus KaiyoteRockJazzMetalPop/R&BRapExperimentalGlobalFolk/CountryElectronic 31 Great Records You May Have Missed: Winter 2021 The 41 Most Anticipated Albums of 2021: Kendrick, Rihanna, Adele, and More The 40 Most Anticipated Tours of 2023: Taylor Swift, SZA, Blink-182, Arctic Monkeys, Beyoncé, and More By Marc Hogan Taylor Swift Performs “Anti-Hero” for the First Time at the 1975’s London Concert By Madison Bloom Taylor Swift Albums Account for 1 in 25 Vinyl LPs Sold in 2022 By Jazz Monroe The National Announce Tour and New Album Featuring Taylor Swift, Sufjan Stevens, and Phoebe Bridgers By Eric Torres 8 Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now By Allison Hussey Boygenius Announce New Album The Record, Share Three Songs	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9962632656097412, "wiki_prob": 0.9962632656097412, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line204879"}
For bees, Oregon sets important new legislative precedents! Lisa Arkin, Exec. Director, at Feb. 15th rally for bee health and safety It started eighteen months ago, when a group of passionate and dedicated bee keepers came to the Beyond Toxics office to talk with us about the bees. They were well informed and brought published studies revealing the role pesticides play in the demise of honey bee colonies. What a true grassroots group does is listen to those who are most impacted by toxic chemicals, evaluate the issue and take action. And so started the Bee Health and Pesticides movement in Oregon. I want to thank members of the Oregon Sustainable Beekeepers for alerting us. We now have two significant wins that set new precedents for protecting bees. On February 26, at the request of Beyond Toxics and neighborhood leaders, Eugene's City Council unanimously passed a Council Resolution, "Enhancing Current Integrated Pest Management in Parks," which bans the use of neonicotinoid pesticides on all city property. According to bee advocates around the nation, Eugene is the first city to ban these persistent pesticides. Let’s just stop promoting chemicals that are lethal to bees, accumulate within trees, flowers and hives, and are highly bio-toxic to amphibians and birds in wetlands. Only a week earlier the Oregon Legislature passed a new law heralding the start of meaningful bee protections in our state. The law requires anyone applying for a pesticide license to take a course on pollinators and pesticides and pass the exam. HB 4139 also requires the Governor to establish a Task Force directed to continue the research on bee health and pesticides for legislative action in 2015. Take note! The vote in both the House and the Senate was nearly unanimous. Strong bi-partisan support says a lot for the level of concern about bee survival. True, the legislation fell short of the original bill that would have restricted neonicotinoids, but considering the lack of action by the EPA and other states, Oregon has stepped up the pace for bee protection. The few newspapers covering Oregon’s lawmaking dismissed the significance of the win with disparaging tones. Make no mistake, this is pure corporate spin attempting to negate the significance of decisive action. Eugene’s ban on neonics sets the bar for other cities and states to take action to guard against a crisis in pollinator survival that could impact 30-70% of all food production. Resolution 5101 also includes clear goals around children’s health and seeks to expand the current Pesticide-Free Parks program from ten parks to, potentially, all 40 parks. Oregon’s first, but not last, bee protection laws set forth precautionary policies that can, and should, motivate other local and state governments. It is a testament to Oregon’s values on protecting the health of the natural environment that these two laws were adopted without bi-partisan controversy. Lisa Arkin, Executive Director For those who would like to see loads of lovely bee photos, we invite you to visit this page showing the winners of our Aug. 2013 photo contest, "Imaging A World Beyond Toxics." If you like our work to help save bees, please JOIN US today!	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5837554931640625, "wiki_prob": 0.5837554931640625, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1562606"}
Five Myths About Climate Change What’s happening isn’t natural — and almost all scientists agree People gather near the U.S. Capitol for the People’s Climate Movement before protesting President Donald Trump’s environmental policies on April 29, 2017, in Washington, DC. Photo: Astrid Riecken/Getty Images By Katharine Hayhoe The Fourth National Climate Assessment — the work of 13 federal agencies and more than 350 scientists, including me — is clear: The Earth is warming faster than at any time in human history, and we’re the ones causing it. Climate change is already affecting… More from The Washington Post News and analysis from around the world. Founded in 1877. Read more from The Washington Post Schneider Electric accelerates fight against climate change at One Planet Summit Eimear McNelis Where to build that green house you have always wanted. Ken Winter writes and I respond Aelius Venture NYC’s Climate Mobilization Act Will Make Cities Carbon-Neutral The Age of Sustainability — Issue #10 — Geothermal Rocks Wiley Monday Pest Control Brisbane — Tips to Get Rid of Insects and Bugs in Your Home This Crazy Family Project Ark How Your Cat Pic Can Save the Planet	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5831398367881775, "wiki_prob": 0.4168601632118225, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line798295"}
Elon Musk has no issue for using SpaceX Name and Logo in Gaming – 2021 Elon Musk has no problem using the SpaceX name and logo in games. Yeah, you read it right. Elon Musk himself has made it clear, so it will be a great time for all the small players who wanted to use SpaceX’s name and logo in their game. Find out how Elon Musk has no problem using the SpaceX name and logo in games, how this will affect the gaming industry, and many other related details. Now let’s look at those details. Elon Musk has no problem using the SpaceX name and logo ingames. Elon Musk needs no introduction. This genius is known for his work on Tesla, SpaceX and other projects. He is currently the richest man on the planet. The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX is also known for his active presence on Twitter. Recently, a game developer asked him for permission to use SpaceX’s name and logo in his next project, and Elon responded to the game developer. In fact, the game developer is making a game about the colonization of Mars, and to do that he wants to involve SpaceX in this game project. Permission was needed, so he tweeted Elon and, surprisingly, got a response from Mr Musk. You can also read: How to find the mysterious pod in Fortnite. Elon replied that the developer can use SpaceX’s name and logo and they won’t sue him for it. He gave permission to use the SpaceX logo and name in the developer’s upcoming game project. If you haven’t seen the tweet yet, check it out below. Here’s how to learn more about this conversation. Here’s a tweet from the game developer responding to Elon’s tweet. Dear Elon, I’m a game developer and I’m making a game about the colonization of Mars with you and SpaceX in it. If you think it’s cool, I’ll just use your name and logos. I will post this every day for a year or until I get a yes or no! – Lubomir Vladimirov (@lvladimirovBG) January 12, 2021 Here’s what Elon had to say in response to Gaming David. Elon Musk has no problem using the SpaceX name and logo in games. You can steal our name/logo and we probably won’t sue you. What I personally like about Elon Musk is that he even responds to most people’s tweets. That’s what sets him apart from other executives in the company. You can also read: February Pokémon Community Day – Roselia shines in Pokémon Go If you see a lot of games with the SpaceX logo and name in the future, don’t be surprised. Just go back to this article and read it to find out why. In case you don’t know: SpaceX is an American aerospace company that aims to reduce space transportation to enable the colonization of Mars. Thanks to the work of Elon Musk, space travel will soon be possible for everyone. It’s a complete revelation that Elon Musk has no problem using the SpaceX name and logo in games. Don’t forget to let us know what you think. We’d like to know what you think. You can also read: The next generation update of Cyberpunk 2077 will not be released until the second half of 2021. Conclusion: Elon Musk has no problem using the SpaceX name and logo ingames. Finally, we hope you have obtained complete information about Elon Musk; no problem using SpaceX’s name and logo in games. Thanks to this resolution, you will see many games in the future that use the SpaceX name and logo. You can also read: Forza Horizon 4 Update 1.460 January 2021 Patch Notes elon musk favorite video games, how much did elon musk sell blastar for, elon musk game 12 years old, how much did elon musk make from blastar, elon musk video game at 12, elon musk gamertag, blastar elon musk code, elon musk video game theory, elon musk companies, blaster game Previous: Previous post: Windows 10 Weather app not working Next: Next post: Where To Get The Best Exchange Rates For DOGE To BTC?	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5127913355827332, "wiki_prob": 0.48720866441726685, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1048075"}
What is PAS? 2022-23 Solutions Forums 2019 Fall Conference 2017-2019 Convenings PAS Components EWS 2.0 EWS 2.0 & On-track Resources Resources by Audience Solutions Forums Solutions Forums 2021-22 PAS in Action PAS Partner Initiatives PAS Design Challenge Design Challenge Recipients HOW TO PROVIDE ACADEMIC SUPPORTS TO INCREASE POSTSECONDARY READINESS “Providing academic supports to increase postsecondary readiness” means providing students with genuinely challenging academic instruction so that they are prepared for success at the college level; providing extra help and acceleration to those who enter middle or high school already behind grade level in key academic areas, particularly English and math; and supporting less well-prepared students to succeed in “advanced” college prep classes beginning in the middle grades. Data indicate that more than two thirds of students entering two-year colleges, and one in five of those entering four-year colleges, are required to take remedial courses in math and/or English because they have not acquired the skills needed for success in college-level coursework. The burden falls most heavily on disadvantaged and minority students. Remedial courses do not provide credits toward a bachelor’s or associate degree, yet in most cases cost as much credit-bearing courses. Many students are required to take multiple remedial courses, with no guarantee of success. These hurdles are a major factor in many students’ decision to drop out of college. The basic math and communication skills needed for college success are also the competencies sought by employers in the workforce. HOW TO PROVIDE POSTSECONDARY PATHWAYS FOR ALL How to Develop Life and Social Skills for Adult Success How To Provide Postsecondary Exposure Opportunities for Students How to Provide Postsecondary Guidance How to Provide Academic Supports to Increase Postsecondary Readiness How to Develop Viable Career Pathways within Middle and High School Programs How to Provide Postsecondary Navigation Supports How to Support Students Between the End of School and Postsecondary Options (Click the above image for a PDF version of the resources on this page) HOW TO MAKE IT HAPPEN Ideally, providing academic supports for postsecondary success begins in the middle grades if not elementary school. However, many districts are also embracing “pre-remedial” twelfth grade classes designed to enable less well-prepared students to enroll directly in college courses upon graduation. At middle school and early high school level, provide challenging content to all students in heterogeneous groups, eliminating academic tracking. Offer extra-help support classes to enable less well-prepared students succeed in accelerated courses. Consider innovative, intensive school-wide academic programs to address the needs of student populations with particular needs (e.g., ELLs or disadvantaged students; see examples below). Implement policies that allow students to make up missed assignments or those that do not meet standards; communicate the need to make up work promptly to students. Improve communications to parents on students’ academic status and work required from them. Give teachers regularly scheduled time to meet in grade level and content teams, and professional development on culturally responsive teaching and instructional strategies. Implement cooperative learning strategies that require students to read, write, and calculate individually at their instructional level; lead students in reading and analyzing instructional-level informational text in content areas (e.g., science and social studies). EXEMPLARS IN PRACTICE Schools to Learn From: How Six High Schools Graduate English Language Learners College and Career Ready Detailed study of academic and SEL supports that six successful high schools provide ELL students for postsecondary success, with many examples of effective school-wide policies, programs, and challenging instructional practices. Aligning Competencies to Rigorous Standards for Off-Track Youth In-depth report on Boston Day & Evening Academy’s successful program to enable off-track youth achieve Common Core required competencies. How five states are boosting college readiness in twelfth grade Thomas Fordham Institute Brief report on “pre-remedial” 12th grade math and/or ELA courses to help less well-prepared students enter college without remediation in five states (California, Delaware, Hawaii, Washington, and West Virginia). The Science of Summit, 2017 Summit Public Schools Overview of research base and policy/practice choices within Summit Public Schools, a charter EMO with schools in Washington state and California. Focus on four key areas: Cognitive skills, content knowledge, habits of success, and sense of purpose. Uncommon Schools: Against Common Schools of Thought, a Focus on GPA, SAT Scores, and One ‘Dirty Little Secret’ Boosts Network’s College Success Rates to 50% The 74 Million Charter school serving disadvantage urban students saw college persistence improve dramatically by helping students maintain a 3.0 GPA, attain SAT scores of at least 1000, and increase science lab competency. National Technical Assistance Center on Transition Multiple resource to for helping students with IEPs plan for postsecondary success. Multiple measures: A definition and examples from the U.S. and other nations National Center for Fair and Open Testing, July 2010 Numerous examples and options for multiple measures of student performance and preparedness. Accelerating mathematics achievement using heterogeneous grouping Carol Corbett Burris, Jay P. Heubert, and Henry M. Levin. American Educational Research Journal Longitudinal study showing middle grade heterogeneous grouping and extra-help workshops improved high school math achievement for lower-performing students, without detriment to high achievers. What We Know About Transition Courses Community College Resource Center “What we know, what we need to know” on the effectiveness of 12th grade transition or “pre-remedial” courses. Pathways to Adult Success Vision Statement For schools, their systems and communities to enable all youth, regardless of their needs, circumstances, place of residence and prior experiences, to obtain the competencies needed to persist and complete secondary schooling and a postsecondary pathway that leads to a family-supporting wage and adult success. Pathways to Adult Success is supported with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Everyone Graduates Center Johns Hopkins University School of Education 2800 N. Charles Street, Suite 420 [email protected] © 2022 Pathways to Adult Success	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7313188314437866, "wiki_prob": 0.2686811685562134, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line948681"}
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Could snail venom someday save your life? By Manoush Zomorodi, Rachel Faulkner White, Sanaz Meshkinpour Published June 11, 2021 at 10:22 AM EDT Updated November 23, 2022 at 10:53 AM ET Part 4 of TED Radio Hour Episode A Love Letter To The Ocean Cone snails are deadly sea predators; their venom can kill fish and even humans. But chemical biologist Mandë Holford says that powerful venom can actually be used for good — to treat human diseases. About Mandë Holford Mandë Holford is a chemical biologist and venom scientist, and an associate professor in chemistry and biochemistry at Hunter College and CUNY-Graduate Center. She also has scientific appointments at The American Museum of Natural History and Weill Cornell Medicine. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on venomous marine snails, and how their venom can be used to treat human diseases and disorders. She is also the co-founder of Killer Snails, an edtech game company that has created award-winning games like Assassins of the Sea and Killer Snails All Around. Holford received her B.S. in mathematics and chemistry from York College, City University of New York, and her Ph.D. in synthetic protein chemistry from The Rockefeller University. This segment of TED Radio Hour was produced by Rachel Faulkner and edited by Sanaz Meshkinpour. You can follow us on Twitter @TEDRadioHour and email us at [email protected]. Rachel Faulkner White Rachel Faulkner is a producer and editor for TED Radio Hour. See stories by Rachel Faulkner White Sanaz Meshkinpour See stories by Sanaz Meshkinpour	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8788116574287415, "wiki_prob": 0.8788116574287415, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line944320"}
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Zoë Rom Sets FKT On (Scary, 14,131-Foot) Capitol Peak August 24, 2020 David Roche After eight miles and 5000 feet of climbing to the ridgeline just before the 14,131-foot summit of Capitol Peak, it appears. Like the shark in Jaws, you don’t see the villain until near the end. But you hear its foreboding music. Dun-dun. 5 people died on this peak in 2017. Dun-dun. The fastest women’s round-trip time is six-plus hours. Dun-dun dun-dun. How can you move that fast over treacherous terrain? Dun-dun dun-dun dun-dun-dun-dun-dun. Oh sht, there it is. Zoë Rom faced down the monster and used a technique she practiced over many years of putting herself out there and taking chances. She thought about it. She planned and stressed and planned some more and found a semblance of peace with it. And then she laughed. “The ridge still scares me in a healthy way. Mostly, I was excited to get back on the Knife Edge because I think it is a super-cool and fun feature, and I love ridge traverses,” says Zoë. “I power-scooted by straddling it and just kind of bear crawling across. It’s not sexy, but it’s safe and relatively efficient!” Zoë has taught me a lot over the years, but this might be the biggest lesson. If you’re going to make a metaphorical leap into the unknown, you might as well do it with love and laughter. Sprinkle in some stress and planning too, since we’re human and that’s what we do. Addendum for 2020: never hesitate to use the power scoot. Getting Vulnerable I met Zoë a couple years ago when she was moderating a panel discussion. It was going to be the usual running store event, something like “Let’s Talk About Running Awkwardly For 45 Minutes, Followed By Snacks.” But Zoë made it something special. It became about life and fear and failure. Followed, of course, by snacks. Afterward, my wife, Megan, and I got back to the car, and every married couple can probably identify with what happened next. In the safe confines of our Subaru, we debriefed what just happened, ready to dish the gossip. And Megan said what you’ll hear a lot about Zoë. “I love Zoë so much and I want us to be best friends.” Amelia Boone: “Having Zoë in your life is like having your own personal cheering squad. She has a gift for understanding and empathizing with people, and has a way of brightening everyone’s day.” Kylee Van Horn: “While Zoë always gives 110 percent in everything she does, I think ultimately, it’s her spirit for life that I admire most.” Ashley Brasovan: “Zoë is such a sweet and passionate human, coach, athlete and friend. She also has this intelligence and wit about her that definitely surprised me a little the first time I met her.” Zoë has this magical way of putting people at ease. You know that feeling when you have your first sip of hot cocoa on a cold night? I could go on, but you probably get the idea. Zoë has this magical way of putting people at ease. You know that feeling when you have your first sip of hot cocoa on a cold night? Zoë is like that, just with a deliciously biting sense of humor when you get to know her. Back when she moderated that panel, she was working at NPR in Aspen, honing her journalistic skills. But she had a gnawing feeling that there was something else. She wanted to tell stories—stories that were warm and funny mostly, daring and unique partly. Mid-20s, in a really good job with a really good future, but she knew there was something more she wanted in the distance. There are often some sketchy traverses between your reality and your dreams. The next year, she power-scooted into the unknown, becoming an editor at Trail Runner magazine. Fast forward to August 2020. Zoë is living in Carbondale, Colorado with her partner TJ David and dog Walt. She is telling stories through the amazing DNF Podcast and countless articles, empowering other people to tell their stories too. With TJ, she has a thriving running coaching business Microcosm Coaching. Still, though, there are traverses. Traverses everywhere. And the hardest traverses of all might be the ones that take place between two ears. “Leading up to the effort I really struggled with imposter syndrome,” Zoë says. “It felt really vulnerable to put myself out there.” If I could think of a slogan for how Zoë lives her life, it might be connected to that quote. Zoë Rom: Putting myself out there, and helping other people put themselves out there too. If I could think of a slogan for how Zoë lives her life, it might be connected to that quote. Zoë Rom: Putting myself out there, and helping other people put themselves out there too. She does that for me and dozens of people I know, and that’s just a peek into the keyhole of the lives she touches. The big thing she has helped teach me is what happens after vulnerability. “But, there was also part of me that was just excited that I even had any confidence that I could do it! I was just proud to be a person who believed they could set an FKT on a 14er, whether or not they could actually do that. Stepping up to that line requires a lot of bravery, and I was really proud of myself for setting such a big goal.” And it was a very, very big goal. 17 miles, 5400 feet of climbing from trailhead to trailhead, sketchy traverses and thin air and billions of rocks. Is running a metaphor? Sometimes I think so, but at least in this case, it doesn’t have to be. Big freaking mountain, certain death three inches to the right and left, pizza waiting at the car. What do you do? Zoë stayed in the car and played it safe. Just kidding. Zoë crossed half court and pulled up from 35 feet with a hand in her face to shoot her shot. “I picked this route for an FKT because I genuinely love every inch of it, and it’s all interesting and different in its own special way … Getting up early and running up 14ers is something that has always been exciting and joy-filled for me. The mountains are what brought me to Colorado, and being able to run up them makes me feel like the person I always wanted to be.” Getting up early and running up 14ers is something that has always been exciting and joy-filled for me. The mountains are what brought me to Colorado, and being able to run up them makes me feel like the person I always wanted to be. “Capitol Peak is basically a celebration of the fact that I love spending my weekends running up mountains, and this is what happens when I really stepped back from arbitrary racing goals and allowed my happiness to run wild.” Sometimes, writing about running risks being like that old Seinfeld episode. So … I was scared, then I set this big goal, yadda yadda yadda, I won and am now an internationally sponsored athlete being paid to post Instagram stories. I don’t want to yadda yadda yadda Zoë’s run too much, but we’re already at 1,300 words, so bear with me. Running up to 14,000 feet with tons of rocks and exposure is hard. Unglamorous. Sweaty and smelly and often shtty. “The first five and a half miles are a bit of an uphill grind, but the trail is super smooth and runnable so I gunned it right away. I was feeling good and excited to be able to run hard!” To me, this is like someone saying that they love to do their taxes, but to each their own. “The trail dumps you above this gorgeous alpine lake on these comically steep switchbacks, which are really fun because you get to really power hike like a boss. I love a straightforward power hike.” Now this I can get behind. I am a big fan of walking. It’s my favorite physical activity outside of eating potato chips. Next come the rocks. And more rocks. Then smooth. Actually that’s a typo, next comes the death-defying ridge traverse. Mixed in with Class 4 scrambling is the Knife Edge. Google it if you want to poop yourself today. Here’s a summary from an article about the tragedies on the mountain: “Unlike most 14ers, where sticking to a well-defined trail for long enough will bring you to the summit, Capitol Peak requires a long scramble across a field of loose rocks with death or serious injury a certain should you fall. Instagram photos do no justice to the intensity of this section of the trek.” That’s where the new trail dance craze came in: the power scoot. Zoë scooted her way across, overcoming mental lows and soaring highs. Yadda yadda yadda, she demolished her goals and the record, flanked by TJ cheering her on and Walt licking her salty face. There, dear readers, lies the secret. It doesn’t mean that much at all. Zoë climbed Capitol Peak on her birthday, providing a good excuse for reflection. “If I didn’t reach my goal time,” Zoë says, “Then I would have just spent a great day celebrating on my favorite mountain!” “No matter what happened, I was going to put it in my ‘win’ column because it was going to be a beautiful day on a truly amazing peak, and I would be spending it with my favorite person (TJ) and we were going to get carry-out pizza on the way home.” Conquering the Knife Edge is cool. An FKT is cooler. But you know what’s coolest? Putting yourself out there and getting vulnerable. Facing fears and DNFs and running/power-scooting boldly into the uncertain darkness. Knowing Zoë, and knowing what she has created and how many people she has helped along the way, it gives her final words a few extra layers of meaning. Were you nervous? What if you didn’t get the FKT? Zoë’s journey is just getting started, but the winding trail has led her to one conclusion she knows for sure. “It was just going to be a celebration no matter what.” David Roche partners with runners of all abilities through his coaching service, Some Work, All Play. With Megan Roche, M.D., he hosts a weekly, 30-minute podcast on running (and other things), and they wrote a book called The Happy Runner. Michael Wirth Breaks the FKT Record for Colorado’s Elks Traverse Kaytlyn Gerbin and Jenny Abegg on the North Cascades High Route The Beating Heart of Nolan’s	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5963104367256165, "wiki_prob": 0.5963104367256165, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1587953"}
Arrest in fatal shooting of Texas A&M student COLLEGE STATION, TX -- An Austin-area man arrested in Fort Worth is charged with murder for the shooting death of a 21-year-old Texas A&M student killed at her off-campus apartment over the weekend, police said Monday. College Station police said Victor Manual Garcia-Loyo, 22, of Del Valle, had been dating Maricarmen Quiroz-Octaviano. Police were called Saturday night to her apartment complex not far from the A&M campus after reports of gunfire. They found the woman's body inside her apartment. Police said detectives contacted Garcia-Loyo by phone and he agreed to come in and talk with them but never showed. Investigators were able to track him by his cellphone to Fort Worth, where police found him at a residence Sunday. He was carrying the driver's license of Qjuiroz-Octaviano and a 9mm handgun. He also had what appeared to be a gunshot wound to his hand. Authorities said Garcia-Loyo told College Station police who went to Fort Worth to interview him that he shot the woman during an argument and shot himself in the hand during the gunfire. He was returned to Brazos County where he was jailed Monday without bond on a murder charge. Police described the shooting "an isolated incident" of domestic violence and said the public was in no danger. MURDER TEXAS NEWS TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY COLLEGE STUDENT	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8994728326797485, "wiki_prob": 0.8994728326797485, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line226996"}
Highways or Communities: What is Our Future? by Jean Frost, Preservation Vice-President A Preservation Perspective - I-110 HOV Flyover hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, February 23, 6-8 p.m. “We build highways.” And apparently at the expense of communities. That’s what a Caltrans staffer told us when we questioned why the agency was even considering erecting a massive 54-foot-tall concrete structure (the I-110 HOV Flyover) that will tower over West Adams Boulevard landmarks like St. John’s and St. Vincent’s Cathedrals, and split yet another community in half. WAHA is in the community-building business, and of course the historic preservation business, and that’s why we urge everyone to attend the hearing on Tuesday, February 23 (6-8 p.m.), at the Orthopedic Institute for Children, 403 West Adams Blvd. This is your chance to stand with stakeholders, Councilmember Curren Price, and Senator Feinstein’s field staff and give voice to your concerns. Caltrans is now claiming that this Flyover transit-way, which basically will spend $40 million in taxpayer dollars to move traffic two blocks south and saving commuters – maybe – a couple of minutes’ transit time, will not have a significant impact on our West Adams environment. (Which contradicts their own October 2015 Finding of Adverse Effect.) This 54-foot concrete edifice would hover over our neighborhood yet Caltrans says it will have: No impact on the myriad historic landmarks it will tower over. No impact on St. John’s, where cars will rumble past during church services and throughout the day and night, up in the air, just yards away. No impact on aesthetics, despite the giant concrete mass cutting off the view lines east and west on Adams Boulevard. No traffic and circulation impact on 23rd Street, where HOV traffic will now be dumped. No impact on the visual, atmospheric and audible element No impact on the connectivity of University Park’s historic resources. Caltrans is proposing approval of an “MND,” which stands for “Mitigated Negative Declaration,” which is considered a much lower level of environmental analysis than a full Environmental Impact Report (“EIR”). An EIR requires a full exploration of alternatives; an MND does not. WAHA, along with the Los Angeles Conservancy, St. John’s Cathedral and other community stakeholders, supports nothing less than an EIR – and, frankly, we and the others oppose the project, period. (You can read the entire MND here. ) In response, the Los Angeles Conservancy has written: “The I-110 Flyover would create a new physical barrier between St. John’s Cathedral and the surrounding neighborhood…degrading the overall character of the community.” And St. John’s Fathers and Rectors wrote, “The proposed flyover project seeks to discount our vibrant and historic neighborhood by cutting through it once again.” Please…Please do come to the hearing. When Caltrans is proud that it “builds highways, not communities,” we all might find a new Caltrans project in our own backyards, with just as little respect for our individual neighborhoods as is on display right now in University Park. To read the previous WAHA Preservation article "Caltrans Proposes Spending $40 million to Move Traffic Two Blocks", click here.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5508671998977661, "wiki_prob": 0.5508671998977661, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line182532"}
Philip Stafford Phillip Stafford Editor, FT Trading Room @FTTradingRoom www.ft.com Phillip Stafford is a reporter and editor for the FT Trading Room page. He is known best for covering topics such as high frequency trading, market structures, OTC derivatives and global exchanges.[1] Stafford has been employed with the Financial Times since 2004, when he started as the UK markets editor. In 2006, he became a Technology reporter for the Times, covering topics such as listed companies and start-ups.[2] From there, Stafford moved to the FT Trading Room starting in October of 2010. Stafford received a degree in History and Politics from the university of Sheffield (U.K.) in 1996. MarketsWiki Education[edit] Stafford participated in the MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity series in London in October of 2016 at the Woolen Exchange. ↑ FT Trading Room. Financial Times. ↑ Phillip Stafford. LinkedIn. Retrieved from "http://www.marketswiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Philip_Stafford&oldid=203661" Professionals on Twitter The Financial Times - Current Employees MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity Speaker	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5221362113952637, "wiki_prob": 0.47786378860473633, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1383464"}
Ashish R Sharma- The man behind many successful Social Media Campaigns Ashish Sharma April 7: When it comes to social media campaigns or strategic trending for renowned brands, Ashish R Sharma is a known name. The brands that he is associated include INOX Leisure Ltd (INOX), INOX Air Products, Miss India & Miss Diva Organization, Mobile Premier League, Prestige Group, Shemaroo OTT, Amazon, Star TV, Sony Tv, Pen Movies, Designers Vikram Phadnis & Divya Ready, Charismomic and Manipal Hospital. His passion for work and the panache that he carries around is really affable. Combining his expertise and experience, he started his own venture Add Media Buzz which is known for providing 360-degree solution for Digital Media and PR, Brand Management, Influencer/Celebrity marketing, Event Curation services etc. The company has many Bollywood, Regional Movies, Independent Artists, Ecomm, F&B, Fashion and Beauty events and personalities as their clientele. For his exceptional work he has also received a nomination for Social Samosa 40 under 40. Campaigns like #motherhood for Charismomic with Meghana Raj, which gained a Million reach with 100 plus mom bloggers or worldwide trend for Miss India and Miss Diva during the time from Manushi Chillar till Harnaaz Kaur Sandhu respectively. These trends not only reached number 1 spot, but with the help of cumulative social media influencers in fashion & Lifestyle, they grabbed attention of more than a Million youth, Furthermore, Add media Buzz is making a mark worldwide by getting listed in Twitter Success story for the Campaign Aayega India, executed for INOX The digital campaign gained impressive results, delivering above industry benchmarks (View Rate of 32.25% vs 1.71% industry benchmark) while maintaining a low cost-per-view with a reach of 2.3 mil+ audiences globally & achieved 726.7K video views at a cost of just $0.0028 vs $0.08 (Cost-per-view vs industry benchmark). While Conversation Buttons resulted in a big spike in the number of people on Twitter talking about INOX, and the hashtag #AayegaIndia was mentioned over 8K times. The campaign also saw a 99% positive or neutral sentiment. When asked about his views, Ashish R Sharma, Managing Director of Add Media Buzz Pvt Ltd, expressed his views, “We have been closely working with the entertainment, sports, and lifestyle sector so we understand what will work best with the audience. Furthermore, to induce this conversation from the audience, we used Twitter’s latest conversation card Our background of running thefansworld.com also helped this campaign to strategize in a better way.” Ashish Sharma added I Would like to thank INOX Leisure Ltd (INOX) for putting their trust on me, with their campaign of the year, which entered the hall of fame in Twitter Success Story, making its mark worldwide.” Recent Centre Initiated reforms – Giving wings to the Indian economy Jai Bheem Short Video App’s live streaming of Prof Hari Narke’s Lecture on Untiring efforts of Krantijyoti Savitrimai Phule’s contribution towards the education of girl child	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7695270776748657, "wiki_prob": 0.7695270776748657, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line51902"}
detail in file Nursing care plan [700 words +/- 10%] Develop a nursing plan of care for the individual in the case study. Base your plan of care on information identified in your mental state examination, including your risk assessment and information identified in your clinical formulation. – List 2 priority problems in your nursing plan of care – For each priority problem, identify and describe one evidence-based (non- pharmacological) nursing intervention to address them. (Each intervention must identify how it will address the priority care area within a recovery- orientated framework). – Identify what assessment data would indicate the interventions are positively impacting the individual in the case study. Academic paragraphs integrating evidence-based literature are expected. This case Tom, schizophrenia Tom is 52-year-old Caucasian male who currently lives in supported accommodation in an inner-city suburb of a metropolitan city and has a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Tom was diagnosed with schizophrenia in his mid-twenties following the birth of his daughter and the subsequent relationship breakdown between him and his daughter’s mother. Tom has a family history of mental illness – his mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia but died from a heart attack 15 years ago, and his maternal aunt has bipolar affective disorder. Tom has never met his father nor knows who his father is. Tom is supported by the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and his care coordinator Julie from the local community mental health team as Tom is on a community Treatment Authority under the Mental Health Act 2016 (Qld). Tom does not have any contact with his daughter, Amelia, who is now 28-years old, or any other family members. Tom has minimal social supports outside of his care coordinator and the NDIS, he is unemployed and spends most of his time at home listening to the radio. Tom has a history of substance use including amphetamines and heroin and reports his substance use was frequent in his twenties and last used methamphetamines 2 months ago. He reports sporadic use over the past 20 years. Tom has a cognitive impairment which is a result of trauma he experienced in utero, he is unable to read or write and he feels shame regarding this. Tom was discharged from the mental health unit 2 weeks ago after a 2-month long admission for commencement of clozapine on the background of increasing auditory hallucinations which were commanding in nature. Tom commenced a new medication during this admission, clozapine, however he self-ceased five days ago as he reported it was giving him constipation and he was not sure why he was taking it. Tom’s care coordinator Julie is a mental health nurse, and on her last home visit to Tom one day ago, she observed a deterioration in his mental health. Tom was wearing a stained black shirt and pants, Julie noted that Tom was wearing the same clothes as when she visited the week before and he appeared disheveled and has tattoos on his arms. Tom did not have eye contact with Julie and was sitting facing away from Julie during conversation. Julie noted Tom had a blunted and reduced range of emotions, it was difficult to have a conversation with Tom as he appeared distracted, often pausing mid-sentence, and requiring questions to be repeated on multiple occasions. Tom’s responses were monotone and often brief in conversation and did not directly relate to the question asked. Tom disclosed he was hearing voices that were commanding him to stay home and to not trust other people. Tom reported the voices were derogatory towards him, telling him he is “worthless” and “not good enough for other people”. Tom became increasingly withdrawn as he was asked more about his experience of hearing voices. Tom reported his mood to be low and that he was experiencing thoughts of wanting to end his life if he had access to the means to do this. Julie discussed Tom’s deterioration in his mental state with the mental health team and Tom agreed to present to hospital for admission to stabilise mental state and review medication regime. Presentation requirements: Your assignment should be written in CiteWrite APA style and prepared as follows: Cover sheet with the assessment title, your name, student number, tutor name (not necessarily the Unit Coordinator) and word count. Include a ‘footer’ on each page with your name, student number, unit code and page number. 3 cm margins on all sides, double-spaced text Use single font, such as Times New Roman, Arial or Calibri; font size 12 o CiteWrite APA7 style referencing. o It is a requirement that you include page numbers for all in-text references. E.g. (Smith, 2020, p.34). o Note: markers will be checking references to see that you have accurately represented the source. Inaccurate citations or falsifying your references is academic misconduct and will be reported. Headings can be used to structure your assignment logically e.g. The mental You do not need an introduction or a conclusion Be written in academic style using full sentences and paragraphs unless stated otherwise References should be no older than 7 years	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7150242328643799, "wiki_prob": 0.2849757671356201, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line715615"}
The Problem With Greta Van Fleet May 30, 2018 / James P. Crowley / 8 Comments In 2008, AC/DC went on a North American tour in support of their Black Ice album. Opening this tour was Northern Irish hard-rockers The Answer, a band that upon a Google search was hailed as “The Irish Led Zeppelin.” I downloaded some of their songs, most notably “Highwater or Hell” from their Never Too Late EP. They definitely did have a bunch of Zeppelin-isms, chunky guitar riffs, a yelping lead singer, and a powerhouse rhythm section. For someone who’d yet to get jaded from almost all opening bands, The Answer seemed like a godsend. Of the three big arena concerts I’d been to, The Answer was easily the best opening act I’d ever seen. I listened for The Answer for about a year after that show, because why wouldn’t I? Led Zeppelin was my favorite band, and there was little sign they were ever reuniting. Here I had a near perfect sound-alike that I also enjoyed. A few artists manage to stir up similar feelings: young bands like Wolfmother, Jet, Alter Bridge, as do some newer supergroups formed by older rockers: Black Country Communion, Adrenaline Mob, or Hellyeah. Artists that pay tribute to older music are nothing new, and some are actually somewhat innovative in their modern classic rock (see: The Darkness, Steel Panther), but now we have Greta Van Fleet: a breakout sensation that sounds a little too much like Led Zeppelin. Continue reading → The Front Bottoms-Ann May 22, 2018 July 30, 2018 / James P. Crowley / Leave a comment The Front Bottoms early releases are arguably brilliant, but unquestionably flawed. Brian Sella had yet to find his signature yelp, the production was lo-fi, the band was still mainly a two-piece, and there was plenty of casual misogyny scattered through the lyrics. The band’s release of the Rose EP in 2014 was a chance to right some of these wrongs: flesh out some songs for a full band, and make them sound like The Front Bottoms had on Talon of Hawk. Ann serves as a continuation of the “Grandma” EP series; the band’s current iteration reworks some old songs to make them more fitting with the Going Grey era of The Front Bottoms, a bad idea on paper that pays off nicely. Continue reading → Snapchat: A Loveless Marriage May 15, 2018 May 14, 2018 / James P. Crowley / Leave a comment I never took the kids and left Snapchat, but we only spoke when we needed to and started sleeping in different beds. I do think Snapchat and I are spared our divorce, but we’re still trapped in an unhappy marriage that I won’t leave for the sake of my contact list. This was probably foreshadowed by Snapchat’s tumbling stock and when the layout for the app was first altered, but I think that Snapchat’s most recent update is the most half-hearted attempt at making the app better. Worst of all, it’s going to hurt the app and user’s relationships with it. Continue reading → Frank Turner-Be More Kind May 7, 2018 / James P. Crowley / Leave a comment Frank Turner isn’t exactly a musician out of time. He’s made a career embracing the past while making fairly relevant music. He’s also noted for having a diverse taste in music. If one had to guess, he has an equal affinity for ABBA and Queen as he does for Rancid. He also will unashamedly speak his political views and point a finger at those he sees as fallacies and evil. Be More Kind sees Turner seeking empathetic people while taking a step away from his folk and punk roots and leaning into a more radio-friendly indie rock sound. Continue reading →	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7270904779434204, "wiki_prob": 0.2729095220565796, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1888227"}
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To develop a resilient workforce and rebuild the economy, we’ll have to accomplish two things at once: get people back to work now, and at the same time help them learn new skills to pivot into a new career. It’s a challenge that emerged out of a situation constantly described as “unprecedented.” Yet the solution might be found in a training model that’s worked for centuries. With roots in vocational training, apprenticeships have traditionally been associated with the skilled trades. But a new twist on the classic earn-and-learn model is expanding access to a high-tech career pathway that’s typically reserved for college grads. When Heather Terenzio launched an apprenticeship program for software development, she was looking to build a more diverse talent pipeline for her own software company. “I always had in the back of my mind that you could learn software development without having a college degree,” she said. “Yet every time we were interviewing, we were interviewing people with computer science degrees.” After taking a chance on hiring someone who taught himself to code — and being wowed by his talent and dedication —Terenzio, CEO and founder of Techtonic and Techtonic Academy, developed a training program for people, as she describes, “who just love software development but don’t have the right kind of resumes to get a foot in the door.” The aim of the Techtonic Academy apprentice program, recognized by the Department of Labor, is to recruit people from diverse backgrounds, regardless of their work experience or academic training, and pay them to learn soft-skills and software engineering that prepares them for their future career. The benefits of the program are extensive, impacting Techtonic, its clients, and the apprentices. We spoke with Terenzio to learn more about Techtonic’s apprenticeship model and approach to building a more diverse talent pipeline. Q: How has Techtonic evolved and where do you want it to go? Heather Terenzio: At the start of the apprenticeship program, we were just trying to solve for our own talent needs. And it worked really well for us and then our clients started seeing what we were doing internally and asked if they could partake in this as well. That’s how we started expanding our model to serve our clients with talent as well. We want to go nationwide with the model, and we think that this is the new way to be teaching software developers, a new way for bringing diverse talent into this industry. The way our program specifically works is that we have a 12-week class that will give you the foundations of software development. And then you work side by side with a more senior level employee who’s teaching you the ropes. The whole apprenticeship idea is that people learn by doing. That’s exactly what we’re doing and it’s the model that’s worked for thousands of years throughout the trades. Not everybody learns by sitting in a classroom for four years. Our apprentices are paid to learn and are on their way and Techtonic gets amazing employees who are loyal and dedicated. If you go through our program, you will earn 39 credits of college credit through one of our local community colleges. That’s half of a college degree. So, it’s a perk that we can offer to folks and they can use it if they decide they want to go back to school. Not a lot of our folks have done that yet, mostly because I don’t think they wanted to take the time out to get a college degree. We haven’t been doing this long enough to have a good statistical sample size. It’s really just about giving people options. They have the option to stay here and continue their career. They have the option to go to college. And it’s nice for us as a company to be able to offer our employees all different kinds of pathways. Q: How does someone become a Techtonic apprentice? Terenzio: First, it’s just a simple online application but we also have some personality tests. We have some logic tests and we have some pre-work. It’s almost 40 hours’ worth of work that somebody has to do just to get the in-person interview. We want to understand your motivations and your background and how you got here. And from there, we’ll decide whether we want you in the class or not. Our classes tend to be incredibly diverse. We have about 75 percent women, minorities and veterans in our classes. And what we attribute that to is that we take all the barriers to entry away. You could be a barista on Friday and then show up for work on Monday and pretty much maintain your lifestyle. But you’re now on this rocket ship ride through an amazing career in software development. We have everything from a 19-year-old software protégé who didn’t want to go to college, all the way up to someone who was laid off from IBM after a 20-year career and now wants to re-tool themselves, and really everything in between. Part of what we’re doing right is to find people with all different kinds of backgrounds who just love software development. And what’s interesting is that if you were to walk in our office today, you couldn’t tell who the 19-year-old foster kid was from someone who has an Ivy League Master’s degree in computer science. Everybody kind of looks the same. And everybody is working on the same kinds of things. It’s interesting that once you have that skill set how quickly you assimilate. With software development, once you have a job and you’ve proven yourself and you have these skills, nobody really cares what your college degree was in. They just care that you can actually do the work. Q: What kind of skills and experiences prepare a software apprentice for success? Terenzio: We do quite a bit of work on soft skills – how to work in a team, how to conduct yourself in a team meeting, and how to be collaborative. We have found that people who have retail backgrounds or something in customer service make really great employees. They know how to talk effectively with customers and each other, they’ve had that kind of training. And we’ve had people from the Apple and Verizon stores work for us who have great customer service skills and are really good at explaining complex things. Whereas somebody coming right out of college might not have that same kind of experience. Q: What are the biggest barriers for successful completion of the apprenticeship? Terenzio: It usually doesn’t come down to “I can’t grasp this concept.” It comes down to somebody just can’t show up on time. Somebody just can’t be here five days a week. And we’ve actually struggled a little bit with young adults who are just coming out of high school. It’s really hard to go from a high school environment to 40 hours a week and having to be somewhere eight hours a day. I think it’s because they haven’t had the experience of having a barista kind of job or a retail job for a couple of years to know what a great opportunity they have with us. Q: Would you encourage other organizations across different industries to go through this process and create new apprenticeship models? And what are the barriers to that happening? Terenzio: I do think it’s really important that other kinds of companies think about using the apprenticeship model. College isn’t the only way to find an on-ramp into a professional or middle-class career. College has become basically a gate and it’s excluding a lot of people from a lot of really great careers. There are a lot of skills that can be taught on the job if the company is willing to invest in that. Diversity has not just been a nice thing to do, it’s really enhanced all the products that we build. It’s really great having somebody build something from six different perspectives rather than people with the exact same kinds of backgrounds. But, diversity is not just going to come knocking on your door, you have to really start looking in unexpected places in order to start bringing that into your company. We’re really walking the walk with what we’re doing, and it has made my job and my life so much more satisfying than it has ever been. And so, I would encourage other companies to figure out a way to be this impactful and to just go all in and you find that if you just do the right thing all the other stuff falls into place. To create a PDF of the webpage, choose in opened window 'Save as PDF' option in 'Destination' select or something like that and click to save or print button. 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Connecting Node.js to a MySQL Database by Rheinwerk Computing on December 28, 2022 MySQL is one of the most widely used databases on the web. You can access this database with almost all major programming languages. The connection of Node.js to MySQL can be realized via a special database driver. MySQL has already proven itself as a database for many years, even in very large applications. Not only does the system have a simple server component, but it also allows you to run a database on multiple servers in a primary-secondary compound structure. The benefit of this is that you can distribute the requests across several systems and thus ensure resilience. In addition, for very large data volumes, a database can be partitioned and distributed across multiple systems, which offers further opportunities in terms of performance improvements. MySQL has many other useful features, including triggers (functions that are executed when certain operations are performed), and transactions. A transaction is a group of operations that may only be performed in their entirety or not at all. Another advantage of MySQL is that this database is available on a large number of different operating systems, such as Linux, Windows, and macOS. The availability and widespread use have led to a very active community that you can call on if you have any questions or problems. There are also forks of MySQL, such as MariaDB, which offer similar functionality. One of the drawbacks of MySQL is that it can’t quite keep up with the big SQL databases such as Oracle or DB2 in terms of its feature set. However, the advanced development of the database is increasingly compensating for this disadvantage. In general, there are two different approaches to connecting to a MySQL database. For one thing, there is a driver that directly implements the MySQL protocol and is written entirely in JavaScript. No other software is needed for this driver, and it can be used directly to work with a database. Another variant of MySQL drivers is based on the MySQL client libraries. These have the advantage of being slightly more performant than drivers implemented entirely in JavaScript. However, they have the disadvantage that the MySQL client libraries must be installed on the system running the Node.js application. MySQL in a Container You don’t need to install MySQL on your development system. Especially for experimenting, running the database in a container is a viable alternative. But containers are also becoming increasingly popular for day-to-day development operations, as this approach allows both the configuration to be shared between developer systems and the container configuration to be versioned along with the rest of the application’s source code. You can launch the MySQL container using the command shown below. docker run --name mysql -v db-data:/etc/mysql/conf.d -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=topSecret -e MYSQL_ROOT_HOST=% -p 3306:3306 mysql:latest The docker run command creates a new container from the image named mysql:latest. The mysql image is officially provided by MySQL on Docker Hub (https://hub.docker.com/), which is downloaded by the command in the specified version—here :latest—that is, the latest version. The --name option assigns a name to the container so that it’s easier to manage and doesn’t need to be addressed by its ID. You can use the -v option to specify that a local directory is mounted as a volume in the container, so that the database files are located on the host system rather than in the container. The subsequent -e option sets environment variables for the container, which MySQL uses in this case to set the root password and allow the root user to log on from outside the container. Finally, you use -d to specify that the container should run in the background. When you execute the command, you’ll get a cryptic-looking character string as a result. This is the ID of the container, which you can also use to manage the container in addition to the name. Once you’ve launched the container, you can use MySQL on your system. The table below contains an overview of the most important commands for the Docker command line. A comprehensive list of all commands, including descriptions and all available options, can be found in the official documentation at https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/cli/. The MySQL driver for Node.js is available as an npm module and can be installed from the command line using the npm install mysql2 command. The driver implements the MySQL protocol entirely in JavaScript, so it doesn’t require you to install any other external libraries or perform any compilation steps during the installation process. Once the installation is complete and you have a MySQL database available, you can access the MySQL database from your application. To reproduce the examples in this chapter, you need a running instance of a MySQL database with a data structure to work on. The listing below contains the required SQL commands to create a database with the two tables, Movies and Ratings, and to fill the database with initial values. Once you’ve executed these statements, you can start implementing the sample application in the next step. To create the structure, you must either use the mysql command locally on the console of your system, or, if you’re running the database in a Docker container, you should use the docker exec -it mysql mysql -p command to execute the mysql command in the container named mysql. Then you can execute the statements shown below. CREATE DATABASE `movie-db`; USE `movie-db`; CREATE TABLE `Movies` ( `title` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL, ` year` int(11) DEFAULT NULL, ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8; INSERT INTO `Movies` (`title`, `year`) VALUES ('Iron Man', 2008), ('Thor', 2011), ('Captain America', 2011); Establishing the Connection In any application that uses a database, before using this database, a connection must first be established through which the commands are sent to the database system and the information from the database can flow back to the application. The application is based on source code from the book Node.js: The Comprehensive Guide, and it uses the Pug template engine. The database connection is established in the movie/model.js file. Below shows how you can do this in the source code. import mysql from 'mysql2/promise'; const connection = await mysql.createConnection({ host: 'localhost', user: 'root', password: 'topSecret', database: 'movie-db', await connection.connect(); export async function getAll() {} export async function get(id) {} export async function remove(id) {} export function save(movie) {} After including the promise interface of the mysql2 module, you can use the createConnection function to configure the connection and then use the connect method of the connection object to connect to the database. Much of the driver’s functionality in this case is based on promises. For the createConnection function, it returns a promise object that you can wait to be resolved using the await keyword. You can also terminate an open connection by calling the end method. The connect method also returns a promise object. You can use the catch method of this object to implement error handling related to the connection establishment. Alternatively, you can use the await keyword and perform error handling with try-catch. The connection can also be established implicitly by calling the query method on the connection object. Reading Data Records Because you’ve already created some data records when initializing the database, you can already read them. To do this, you must first define an appropriate query and pass it to the query method of the connection object. Communication with the database takes place asynchronously and also uses promises. Alternatively, the mysql2 package also provides a callback-based interface, but this is much less convenient to use. The source code below shows how you can read data from a table. host: '127.0.0.1', export async function getAll() { const query = 'SELECT * FROM Movies'; const [data] = await connection.query(query); The query method of the connection object returns a promise object that is resolved with an array of multiple elements. The first element of this array contains the queried data from the database, which you can extract and return using a destructuring statement. After you mark the getAll function as an async function, you can work inside the function with the await keyword, and the function will automatically return a promise object. If successful, the returned promise object contains the data from the database; if there’s an error, the corresponding error is returned from the database. Because the signature of the getAll method hasn’t changed due to the connection of the database, you don’t need to adjust anything else in the controller. Currently, the source code of your application assumes only the success case, which is sufficient for our purpose, namely, connecting the database. However, for a productive application, you also need to take care of error handling and send at least a generic error message to inform your users without revealing too many internal details about your application to a potential attacker. The MySQL driver for Node.js supports many other features, such as escaping, which is described in more detail in the following sections. Creating New Data Records After implementing read access to the database, the next step deals with write access. Basically, the operation process here is similar because you also use the query method of the connection object to send the INSERT query. A special feature here is that you don’t directly compose the values entered by the users into a query via string concatenation, but rather use placeholders and let the database driver do the escaping. This reduces the risk of an SQL injection. As was the case with the read process, you also use the movie/model.js file as the starting point when creating new records. Below shows the customized source code of the file. const connection = await mysql.createConnection({...}); export async function getAll() {...} async function insert(movie) { const query = 'INSERT INTO Movies (title, year) VALUES (?, ?)'; const [result] = await connection.query(query, [movie.title, movie.year]); return { ...movie, id: result.insertId }; export function save(movie) { if (!movie.id) { return insert(movie); The central place of the model file that takes care of saving the data is the save function. Based on the presence of the id property of the passed data record, the function decides whether it to create a new record or update an existing record later. In the current case of a new creation, the save function then calls the insert function with the data record to be created. You can implement the insert function as an async function to be able to use the promise- based interface of the mysql2 driver comfortably. In the first step, you must prepare the INSERT statement by writing the query completely and providing question marks for the values to be inserted. The driver then replaces these question marks with the values when they are called and takes care of escaping the values correctly. The query method of the connection object accepts the SQL statement as a string as the first argument and an array with the values for the placeholders as the second argument. The return value is a promise object with an array whose first element contains a set of metadata about the request. Here you’ll find, among other things, the insertId property, which contains the ID of the newly created data record. You must use this ID together with the information from the originally passed object to create a new object with the spread operator and return it to the calling instance. You don’t need to adjust the controller and its saveAction because the interface of the model hasn’t changed. Updating Data Records To update the data records in your application, you must first connect the model method for reading individual data records to the database to populate the form with the existing data. In the implementation, you should combine the structure of the reading request from before with escaping to safely insert the passed ID into the request. The code below shows the necessary adjustments to the movie/model.js file. async function insert(movie) {...} export async function get(id) { const query = 'SELECT * from Movies WHERE id = ?'; const [data] = await connection.query(query, [id]); return data.pop(); export function save(movie) {...} Again, no further adjustments to the controller or view are required, so in the final step, you can turn your attention to implementing the functionality for updating the data in the database. For this purpose, you must use an update request to the database. The adjustments for the update are limited to the changes shown below because the controller passes the requests directly to the model for both updates and new installations. async function update(movie) { const query = 'UPDATE Movies SET title = ?, year = ? WHERE id = ?'; await connection.query(query, [movie.title, movie.year, movie.id]); return movie; export async function get(id) {...} return update(movie); Removing Data Records The last operation you’ll learn about here in connection with MySQL is deleting data records from the database. Deleting data records can’t be easily undone. If you work with referential integrity via foreign keys, deleting one record can result in a cascade of deletions of other data records that are based on that record. You should therefore always exercise caution with such operations and, if in doubt, prompt the user for confirmation via a dialog. Below shows how you can remove data records from your database. async function update(movie) {...} export async function remove(id) { const query = 'DELETE FROM Movies WHERE id = ?'; await connection.query(query, [id]); With regard to the structure, the remove function is similar to the get function except that you use a DELETE statement instead of a SELECT statement. With these customizations, you can now manage the data records in your application. You can create new records, view existing ones, and modify them. You can delete data records from the database that are no longer needed. An alternative to the final deletion of data records is the marking of records. In the database, this is represented by an additional field within the table. This field contains the value 0 for active data records and the value 1 for deleted data records. The drawback of this variant is that you have to take care of the referential integrity of your database by yourself; that is, you have to mark dependent data records as deleted yourself. The fact that you need to install a driver for each respective database access enables you to connect different databases. Besides MySQL, there are numerous other relational databases. A lightweight alternative, for example, is SQLite. Editor’s note: This post has been adapted from a section of the Node.js: The Comprehensive Guide by Sebastian Springer. Node.js: The Comprehensive Guide If you’re developing server-side JavaScript applications, you need Node.js! Start with the basics of the Node.js environment: installation, application structure, and modules. Then follow detailed code examples to learn about web development using frameworks like Express and Nest. Learn about different approaches to asynchronous programming, including RxJS and data streams. 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How do you get kids to think creatively? Creative Action has the answers Written by: Troy Price Editor’s note: This post is part of an ongoing series of posts featuring NCRP nonprofit members. How do you get young people to express themselves? How do you encourage them to think creatively? And in what ways can you create space for them to share the results? Creative Action has some compelling answers. The Austin, Texas-based nonprofit’s programs equip kids with the tools to build healthy relationships, successful careers and active roles in their communities. But gentrification has its foot on the scale in Austin, and white kids have better access to Creative Action than black and brown ones. Funders need to commit not just to investing their money into beneficent organizations like Creative Action, but doing so in amounts commensurate with the scale of impact gentrification has wrought. Born in 1997 and incorporated in 2001 with a focus primarily on theater arts, Creative Action has blossomed into an organization with a diverse array of programming in visual arts, filmmaking, music, puppetry, creative writing and acting. Though the organization primarily works with school age children, it also serves the greater Austin community. There’s arts-based social and life-skills classes for young adults with Asperger’s or mild to moderate autism, and creative writing/storytelling for seniors wishing to unlock their latent artist within. Creative Action’s office and arts center is located in the heart of “Six Square,” a six-mile region officially designated Austin’s African American Cultural Historical District. The facility helps ground Creative Action in the neighborhood. Since they finished construction in 2012, the organization has adopted the local elementary school and helped it integrate arts learning into every class every day, and has installed a community-designed mural portraying the African American history of Six Square. In a city that’s rapidly gentrifying, Creative Action partners with the local cultural preservation organization to develop creative placemaking strategies that uphold the area’s hard-fought African-American identity. Gentrification is no small matter to Creative Action. The process has pushed Latinx and black students into suburban and rural settings outside Austin, where the cost of living is lower, but so too are the funds to support Creative Action’s work. The organization has shifted resources to follow them when possible, but as the city continues to change, bringing its programming to communities of color has grown increasingly difficult. A higher cost of living has also made it harder to find and retain people who can work the hourly positions necessary to keep up with the increasing demand for Creative Action’s services. Certainly it’s great that Creative Action is reaching its large student population, but if fewer black and brown kids are included in that reach, is their work really maximizing the good it could do? Creative Action is not just scraping by. Almost 60 percent of its funding comes from earned revenue via payments from schools and a fee-based version of its after-school program. The organization has grown by at least 15 percent every year for the past 15 years. Aside from the schools it works with, Creative Action partners with 25 to 30 other nonprofit and community organizations to deliver arts education programming to young people. Yet the disparity between who Creative Action serves and who they need to serve continues to swell. Children of color are being pushed faster and further into the margins while their supporters struggle to keep pace. But there can be no giving up for funders committed to equity. Creative Action transforms the way kids think, feel and act through art skills development. If it were to have all the resources it needed, it would identify high-need schools without the discretionary funds to host them and bring more of their programming to those locations. Greater funding would also mean increased compensation and benefits for Creative Action employees, thus making arts education a viable career path for Austin-based teachers and artists. Creative Action alone won’t stop the demographic shifts within its city, but funders can make sure the organization has the resources to better stick with children of color when they are displaced. Empowering black and brown kids to advocate for themselves is direly important. There can be no underestimating the value of joy, self-expression and community pride in childhood development. Let’s make sure that as many kids as possible, both in Austin and nationwide, have unrestricted access to them. Troy Price is NCRP’s membership and fundraising intern. Follow @NCRP on Twitter. Image by LoneStarMike, used under Creative Commons license. Tags: NCRP members Underserved communities	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6132420897483826, "wiki_prob": 0.38675791025161743, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line18127"}
Commanders vs. Texans: How to watch NFL week 11 for free Published: Nov. 20, 2022, 11:00 a.m. Ariana Tourangeau \| [email protected] The Washington Commanders, who just defeated the Eagles and ruined their undefeated record, will now play the Houston Texans in week 11 and look to keep up their momentum. The game will be at 1 p.m. EST and will be broadcast on FOX. Viewers looking to stream the game can do so on FOX or by using fuboTV, Sling or DirecTV Stream. Sling offers 50% off your first month and fuboTV and DirecTV all offer free trials for new users. NFL+ is also a new option to stream NFL games this year and offers a free trial. The Commanders have won four of their past five games after opening the season 1-4. The Texans are the only team in the league with just one win and are searching for a way to end a four-game losing streak. More information from the Associated Press: WASHINGTON (5-5) at HOUSTON (1-7-1) Sunday, 1 p.m. EST, Fox FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK NFL LINE: Commanders by 3½ AGAINST THE SPREAD: Commanders 5-4-1, Texans 4-4-1 SERIES RECORD: Texans lead 3-2 LAST MEETING: Texans beat Commanders 23-21 on Nov. 18, 2018, in Washington. LAST WEEK: Commanders beat Eagles 32-21 in Philadelphia; Texans lost to the New York Giants 24-16 on the road. COMMANDERS OFFENSE: OVERALL (25), RUSH (20), PASS (22), SCORING (24) COMMANDERS DEFENSE: OVERALL (11), RUSH (12), PASS (15), SCORING (15) TEXANS OFFENSE: OVERALL (29), RUSH (26), PASS (25), SCORING (28) TEXANS DEFENSE: OVERALL (30), RUSH (32), PASS (16), SCORING (21) TURNOVER DIFFERENTIAL: Commanders minus-2; Texans: even COMMANDERS PLAYER TO WATCH: Top wide receiver Terry McLaurin is a force in the passing game and particularly thrives on 50/50 balls. If he keeps winning those, the offense that otherwise relies heavily on the run can thrive. TEXANS PLAYER TO WATCH: RB Dameon Pierce. The fourth-round pick leads all rookies and is fifth in the NFL with 772 yards rushing entering Week 11. He has six games with 100 yards of offense which is tied for second most in the NFL and is the most among rookies. KEY MATCHUP: Houston QB Davis Mills vs. Washington’s secondary. The Commanders limited Philadelphia’s Jalen Hurts to 175 yards with two touchdowns and an interception last week. Now they’ll face the inconsistent Mills, who has thrown five interceptions combined in the past four games. KEY INJURIES: Commanders QB Carson Wentz is expected to miss a fifth consecutive game after having surgery for a broken finger, making Taylor Heinicke the starter once again. ... DE Chase Young could play for the first time in more than a year since tearing the ACL in his right knee, but would be on what coach Ron Rivera called a “pitch count” of snaps. ... LB Cole Holcomb could miss another game with a foot injury. ... Houston DL Maliek Collins missed practice Wednesday with a chest injury. ... WR Nico Collins was limited in practice this week with a groin injury, but is expected to play Sunday. SERIES NOTES: Rivera worked as an assistant under Houston coach Lovie Smith for three seasons with Chicago from 2004-06, serving as his defensive coordinator. ... The Commanders are playing a second consecutive game on the road for the first and only time this season. ... This is Washington’s first game at Houston since Week 1 in 2014. ... Washington is 6-3 in November going back to 2020. ... Washington won the first two in the series and Houston has won the past three. STATS AND STUFF: The Commanders are 3-1 since Taylor Heinicke replaced Wentz as starting QB. He has thrown five touchdowns and four interceptions. ... Rookie RB Brian Robinson Jr. rushed for a career-high 86 yards last week and had his second rushing TD. ... RB Antonio Gibson has 50-plus yards from scrimmage in four of his past five games. ... WR Curtis Samuel has 134 yards rushing and 483 receiving this season. ... DT Daron Payne leads the Commanders with a career-high 5½ sacks. Fellow Alabama product Jonathan Allen is next with 4½. ... Second-year LB Jamin Davis recovered his first career fumble last week. He has five-plus tackles in each of his past four games. ... S Darrick Forrest had his second interception of the season last week. ... Houston WR Brandin Cooks has at least 50 yards receiving in four of his past five home games. He had 98 yards receiving with two touchdowns in his only game against Washington in 2015. ... Collins had 49 yards receiving and his first TD reception of the season last week. ... WR Chris Moore had a season-high 70 yards receiving in Week 10. ... TE Jordan Akins led the Texans with a season-high 72 yards last week. ... DE Jerry Hughes had a sack and two tackles for losses last week. ... DB Jonathan Owens had 12 tackles last week for his sixth game this season with 10 or more tackles. ... Rookie LB Christian Harris had a career-high nine tackles last week. ... LB Christian Kirksey has at least five tackles in all nine games this season. ... DB Jalen Pitre ranks third among rookies with 63 tackles. FANTASY TIP: McLaurin could be a good pickup after having a season-high 128 yards receiving last week for his third 100-yard game this season.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5526726841926575, "wiki_prob": 0.5526726841926575, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line853744"}
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Tag Archives: Ronny Graham Episode 159. Forgotten Broadway II August 26, 2022 African American Singers, Broadway, Canadian Singers, Comic Relief, Crossover, Great Baritones, Happy Birthday, In Memoriam, Mezzo Madness, Music for a World in Crisis Series, Needle Drop, Operetta, Pop Icons, Queer Pride, Singers of Color, Twentieth Century Music, Voiceless WondersAlan Jay Lerner, Anton Coppola, Anyone Can Whistle, Cesare Siepi, Charles Strouse, Clay Warnick, Cy Coleman, David Atkinson, David Opatoshu, Dick Hyman, Dody Goodman, Donald Gramm, Dorothy Fields, Elaine Stritch, Ethel Ennis, Ezio Pinza, Fred Ebb, Frederick Loewe, Gary Geld, George Siravo, Hal Hackady, Harold Hastings, Harold Rome, Harry Guardino, Harry Pleva, Harvey Schmidt, Herbert Greene, Jack Cassidy, James Stenborg, Jane Powell, Jean Kerr, Jerry Herman, Jimmy Jones, Jimmy Van Heuse, Joan Ford, John Kander, Johnny Burke, Johnny Green, Joyce Brown, Lanny Meyers, Larry Grossman, Larry Kert, Lee Adams, Lee Remick, Lehman Engel, Leo Robin, Leonard Bernstein, Leroy Anderson, Linda Lavin, Louie Bellson, Mary Rodgers, Me and Juliet (Rodgers & Hammerstein), Melba Moore, Milton Kaye, Milton Schafer, Minnie’s Boys, Ogden Nash, Oscar Hammerstein II, Oscar Kosarin, Pat Suzuki, Pearl Bailey, Peter Udell, Rebecca Luker, Richard Rodgers, Richard Weiss, Rita Gardner, Robert Goulet, Rod Derefinko, Ron Raines, Ronny Graham, Sam Pottle, Sarah Fleming, Shannon Bolin, Sigmund Romberg, Skitch Henderson, Stephen Sondheim, Susan Johnson, Sylvan Levin, Sylvia Syms, Ted Thursday, Tom Jones, Vernon Duke, Walter Kerr, Walter Marks, William Raycountermelody https://media.blubrry.com/countermelody/content.blubrry.com/countermelody/Episode_159-Forgotten_Broadway_II-FINAL.mp3 The follow-up episode to my previous Forgotten Broadway episode is an epic one, chock full of fascinating composers, lyricists, performers and shows. We begin with a tribute to birthday boy Leonard Bernstein, a song from Peter Pan sung by gay Broadway icon Larry Kert. From there we encounter shows by Lerner and Loewe, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Kander and Ebb, Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields, Strouse and Adams, Jerry Herman, Stephen Sondheim, Schmidt and Jones, Vernon Duke, Mary Rodgers, Sigmund Romberg, Harold Rome and Leroy Anderson, among others, performed by Jane Powell, Pat Suzuki, Melba Moore, Rita Gardner, Jack Cassidy, Rebecca Luker, Cesare Siepi, Susan Johnson, Dody Goodman, Pearl Bailey, Ezio Pinza, Elaine Stritch, Shannon Bolin, and others. Diverse topics discussed include the Broadway revue, queer subjects and performers, and the place of performers of color on Broadway. This is a long episode that I recommend listening to in segments! And please be aware that an equally mammoth third segment on Forgotten Broadway will be published this weekend for my Patreon supporters!	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.502228856086731, "wiki_prob": 0.49777114391326904, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line876942"}
NC ranks last in national school funding effort, report says By Avery Baker \| Jan. 25 North Carolina ranks 50th in school funding effort and 48th in overall funding level, according to an annual report by the Education Law Center. Parents and administrators cited a lack of instructional staff and inadequate supplies as areas affected by low funding. Number of active short-term rentals, including Airbnb, increase in Chapel Hill By Annie Gibson \| Jan. 25 Despite funding, Chapel Hill sees stall in affordable housing preservation, development By Bailey White \| Jan. 25 ‘Absolutely ridiculous’: Students struggle to find on- and off-campus housing By Maddie Singleton and Abby Pender \| Jan. 25 "Since January 2021, the number of active short-term rentals (STRs) in the Chapel Hill area has increased by about 40 percent." The development and preservation of the Town of Chapel Hill's new affordable housing units struggles to keep up with demand, despite increases in funding. This fiscal year, the Town plans to preserve 350 affordable units and develop 30 affordable units. Last fiscal year, the Town funded the preservation of 509 affordable units and the development of 11 affordable units. Six hundred UNC students are on the waitlist for fall 2023 on-campus housing. Last year, there were 422. That's an increase of 42.18 percent. The University said in a statement it is common to have a shortage in the next semester's housing availability at this point in the year. Carolina Housing will provide a room for every student who wants to live on campus. “Prices for (off-campus) housing are just absolutely ridiculous,” Jaleah Taylor, a UNC sophomore currently living in Morrison Residence Hall, said. “And that’s why people have to live on campus now — because it’s just so expensive to live off campus.” UNC men's basketball fights off late-game Syracuse push, defeat Orange 72-68 By Lindsey Ware \| Jan. 25 This win upholds UNC’s win streak and proves that the team is capable of winning on the road. Gov. Roy Cooper signs executive order to ban TikTok from state-issued devices By Sam Kornylak \| Jan. 24 The executive order, signed Jan. 12, directs the state's Chief Information Officer and the North Carolina Department of Information Technology to develop a policy that prohibits TikTok and other potentially high-risk applications to be installed on state-owned devices within 14 days. UNC gymnastics emerges victorious in Carolina Tri-Meet after layoff Following a two-week hiatus, the North Carolina gymnastics team returned to competition by picking up right where it left off. Here's what you need to know about land use ordinances and affordable housing By Ethan E. Horton \| Jan. 24 A land use ordinance is a collection of all of the rules, procedures and guidelines a municipality follows when developing a property. It defines, through zoning, what kind of building can go on a site and what limitations that building has. North Carolina housing shortage, instability negatively impacts mental health By Maddie Policastro \| Jan. 24 Housing instability is a prominent issue facing many North Carolina residents. About 348,000 renter households in North Carolina are at an extremely low income level and 69 percent of these households have severe housing cost burdens, according to data from the National Low Income Housing Coalition. Graduate students say they struggle to afford housing, take up extra work By Emi Maerz \| Jan. 24 Graduate students in the UNC community face complications in the relationship between their stipends and rent in Chapel Hill. Between finding roommates, managing stipends and working other jobs, graduate students share their experience of living in the Chapel Hill community. UNC men's basketball looks to solve Syracuse's 2-3 zone in Tuesday night clash By Twumasi Duah-Mensah \| Jan. 24 After Saturday’s 80-69 victory over N.C. State, UNC head basketball coach Hubert Davis insisted he was not worried about the team’s record. With a Tuesday visit to Syracuse, Davis’ focus likely remains the same: keep getting better. Column: A guide for navigating your college breakup By Georgia Roda-Moorhead \| Jan. 24 "A week ago I discovered that my boyfriend was cheating on me. This discovery sent me into emotional shambles. I needed to re-introduce structure to my life, so I came up with a multi-step guide on how to cope with a breakup." After cancer treatment, UNC diver Emily Grund makes her return to the pool By Caroline Wills \| Jan. 24 The UNC redshirt senior diver made her long-awaited comeback to the pool this season after battling acute promyelocytic leukemia – a form of bone marrow cancer – last year. Grund will compete at the 2023 NCAA Regional Zone Championships this year. 'Tarred Healing' debuts at National Civil Rights Museum nearly a year after UNC pulled the display By Lauren Rhodes \| Jan. 24 Almost a year "Tarred Healing" was pulled from display at the University, Cornell Watson's photo project debuted at National Civil Rights Museum. The exhibit features Black history in Chapel Hill, with photographs of places on UNC's campus that are relevant to the University's racial past. “When you do things the right way, when you are connected with the community that you are creating something about, they will stand behind you in those turbulent times,” Watson said. “It was really gratifying to have the Black community of Chapel Hill stand behind this and really kind of become family.” Residents grapple with differences in pricing between Chapel Hill and Carrboro By Caroline Horne \| Jan. 24 The average overall rent in Chapel Hill is $1,917 and $1,419 in Carrboro, according to RentCafe. The average rented space in Chapel Hill is 968 square feet and 857 in Carrboro, meaning the cost per individual square foot in Chapel Hill is roughly 19.6 percent more expensive than Carrboro UNC seniors reflect on housing struggles throughout the pandemic By Zoe Sinclair \| Jan. 23 As the three-year anniversary of the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic approaches, seniors at UNC reflect on their experiences with housing throughout their time as a student. On an aging campus, Carolina Housing continues plans for residence hall renovations By Anna Heath \| Jan. 23 As dorm conditions change and renovations are completed, Carolina Housing continues to provide on-campus housing for a large amount of students. An overview of how the local governments are using their remaining ARPA funds By Carly Breland \| Jan. 23 Local governments are carefully planning out their use of remaining funds from the American Rescue Plan Act — the federal effort to help communities with economic hardships caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Orange County received a total of $28.8 million from the act and has $4.45 million remaining. UNC Faculty Council discusses COVID, University Approved Absence policies By Collin Tadlock \| Jan. 23 In the first 2023 meeting of the UNC Faculty Council, updates on the pandemic were shared along with discussions of the approved UNC absence policy and the presentation of the 2022 Thomas Jefferson Award. Column: You don’t have to hate your hometown By Kennedy Cox \| Jan. 23 "We’ve all seen the 'peaked in high school' tweets and TikTok videos. We know the stereotypical person who shares nostalgic memories on social media, wears their high school sweatshirt, reminisces on their 'glory days' and goes back to visit their favorite teacher. But why is that a bad thing? What’s wrong with reflecting on those days in a positive light?"	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9852181673049927, "wiki_prob": 0.9852181673049927, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line738322"}
Master Doctor > Drop Master Doctor Search: Drop Receive the "Drop" Newsletter by email RBA must be careful not to overshoot in the fight against inflation Households have already suffered a big drop in living standards as a result of inflation. They could pay an even heavier price if the RBA miscalculates. Drop Business The economy 7 days of antibiotics effective for preventing recurrent cUTI among... Another study has demonstrated that a shorter course of antibiotics may be better, this time for the treatment of complicated UTIs when antibiotics with comparable IV and oral... Drew Barrymore & Savannah Guthrie Have Created Your Kid's New Fave Show A lot has gone down since 2017. A lot. What has been six years, in reality, has felt like six lifetimes. And while much of it has been sad, tucked into that tumultuous time... Alicia Silverstone Reprises Role Of 'Clueless' Character For Super Bowl Ad Millennials will be totally buggin' over the news that Alicia Silverstone is returning as her legendary character, Cher Horowitz, from the 90s' teen comedy - Clueless - for a... Searching for my identity as a mixed-Black woman adopted by a white family For adoptees, figuring out our story requires work - scouring fragments of documents, stories and phone conversations. And sometimes, we still come up short. ‘Things are moving really, really fast': Inside a lab researching AI Seven decades after artificial intelligence was defined as a field of research in computer science in the summer of 1956, AI is everywhere. ‘I'm not physically capable': Ozzy Osbourne cancels 2023 tour The ex-Black Sabbath frontman said the news was “probably one of the hardest things I've ever had to share with my loyal fans”.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5729414820671082, "wiki_prob": 0.5729414820671082, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1726582"}
Content about israeli-palestinian conflict Hamas Holocaust faux pas makes media, not IDF invasion of al-Aqsa Holocaust-denying comments by a Hamas official win international coverage, while an Israeli military invasion of al-Aqsa Mosque received practically no mainstream reportage. Hamas spewed some predictable ugliness about a Palestinian official's visit to the site of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland—and the mainstream and Zionist press predictably plays it for all it is worth. Ziad al-Bandak, an adviser to President Mahmoud Abbas, made the visit this week, prompting Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum t Israel issues demolition orders for eight Palestinian villages Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered the demolition of eight Palestinian villages in the hills south of Hebron, saying the Israeli military needs the land for training exercises. A total of 1,500 residents will be evicted. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on July 22 ordered the demolition of eight Palestinian villages in the hills south of Hebron because the Israeli military wants the land for training exercises. Palestinian political prisoners agree to end hunger strike Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli facilities agreed to an Egyptian-brokered deal ending the strikes in exchange for improved conditions and a pledge to release the detainees at the end of their "administrative detention" terms. Palestinian prisoners on long-term hunger strike agreed May 14 to a deal ending the strikes in exchange for improved conditions. The Egyptian-brokered deal to end the mass hunger strike in Israeli facilities will see the prisoners—including Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahla on a 77-day strike—released at the end of their "administrative detention" terms. Gaza authorities call for new Intifada to free political prisoners Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called for a new intifada to support the more than 4,000 Palestinian prisoners being held by Israel, hundreds of whom started a mass open-ended hunger-strike two weeks ago. Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called on April 30 for a new intifada to support Palestinian prisoners being held by Israel, who started a mass hunger-strike two weeks ago. The Hamas premier urged Arab and Muslim nations to intervene to support detainees, in remarks at a rally for prisoners in Gaza City. Israel high court grants reprieve to West Bank outpost ruled "illegal" In a move blasted by rights organizations, Israel's Supreme Court ruled that buildings of the Ulpana settlement outpost on the West Bank, ordered destroyed because of a claim by Palestinian land-owners, would receive a 60-day reprieve. Israel's Supreme Court on April 29 ruled that buildings of the Givat HaUlpana settlement outpost at Beit El on the West Bank, ordered destroyed because of a claim by Palestinian land-owners, would receive a 60-day reprieve. The State Attorney's Office had filed the appeal on two days before, asking for a three-month delay in the scheduled demolition of the Ulpana outpost. UN protests more East Jerusalem, West Bank evictions UN aid agencies in the occupied West Bank protested that Israel destroyed 21 homes of Palestinian Bedouin refugees at Khalayleh north of East Jerusalem—leaving 54 people homeless, including 35 children. UN agencies in the occupied West Bank said April 22 that Israel last week destroyed 21 homes of Palestinian Bedouin refugees—leaving 54 people homeless, including 35 children. Civil Administration maps West Bank lands for "illegal" settlement Released document reveal that the Civil Administration in the West Bank has for years covertly mapped available land, naming the parcels after existing Jewish settlements, with an eye toward expanding these communities. It came to light in Israel last month that the Civil Administration in the West Bank has for years been covertly identifying and mapping available land, and naming the parcels after existing Jewish settlements, evidently with an eye toward expanding these communities. US high court: listing of Israel on birth certificate not political issue The US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in MBZ v. Clinton that the ability of a US national born in Jerusalem to list Israel as place of birth on a passport is not a political question, but remanded the case for a ruling specifically on the issue. On March 26, the US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in MBZ v. Clinton that the ability of a US national born in Jerusalem to list Israel as place of birth on a passport is not a political question, but remanded the case for a ruling specifically on the issue. Settler provocation turns holy sites into battlegrounds Under criticism from UNESCO, Israel reportedly removed Rachel's Tomb and the Cave of the Patriarchs from its "National Heritage Sites" list—but provocation by far-right settlers seeking to secure the sites as exclusively Jewish sparked violence. Under pressure from UNESCO, Israel has agreed to remove the Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb—two Jewish holy sites on the West Bank—from its list of "National Heritage Sites." This of course immediately sparked a backlash from Israel's religiou Jerusalem: new clashes rock Temple Mount In the worst clash in the recent protests at Jerusalem's Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, Israeli police used tear gas and stun grenade at the entrance of al-Aqsa Mosque. Protests began after right-wing politicians called for closing the site to Muslims. Hundreds of Muslim worshippers clashed with police Feb. 24 at Jerusalem's Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif. Israeli authorities said that following Friday prayers, a large group of worshippers began hurling rocks at the controversial Mughrabi Bridge leading to the Mount. Palestine gets a Bobby Sands Palestinian detainee Khader Adnan has been on hunger strike since Dec. 17, and Physicians for Human Rights now says that his life is at risk. His protest against administrative detention has sparked solidarity demonstrations across the West Bank. Palestinian detainee Khader Adnan has been on hunger strike since Dec. 17, and Physicians for Human Rights now says that his life is at risk. This was also acknowledged by the Israeli Prison Service, which has transferred him from military detention on the West Bank to Ziv hospital in northern Israel, and said he had agreed to take potassium pills. Palestinians charge land-grab in Jerusalem greenbelt plan An Israeli government plan to create a greenbelt around Jerusalem is fueling opposition among Palestinians and their supporters, who say the chain of parks is a land grab that consolidates Israel's grip on occupied East Jerusalem. An Israeli government plan to create a greenbelt around Jerusalem is fueling opposition among Palestinians and their supporters. Mayor Nir Barkat's hopes the plan, which focuses on archeological preservation, will boost tourism in Jerusalem, but critics say the parks amount to a land grab that consolidates Israel's grip on occupied East Jerusalem. The Mufti and Avigdor: birds of a feather The Zionist propaganda machine is having a field day with the latest call from the Mufti of Jerusalem to "fight the Jews"—as Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman continues to call for "transfer." The Zionist propaganda machine (e.g. Palestinian Media Watch, Israeli high court rejects challenge to "apartheid" citizenship law In a move assailed by civil rights groups, Israel’s High Court voted to reject a challenge filed against provisions of the Citizenship Law, which bar Palestinians married to Israeli Arabs from receiving citizenship or residency. Israel's High Court on Jan. 11 voted to reject a challenge filed against provisions of the Citizenship Law, which bar Palestinians married to Israeli Arabs from receiving Israeli citizenship or residency. Thousands of US troops deployed to Israel for missile defense drill Amid growing tensions in the Persian Gulf, the US and Israel are preparing to hold the largest missile defense exercise in the history of the Jewish state. The drill will involve the deployment of thousands of US troops to Israel. Amid growing tensions in the Persian Gulf, the US and Israel are preparing to hold the largest missile defense exercise in the history of the Jewish state. Last month, Lt.-Gen. International outrage follows death of West Bank protester Amid days of three-way violence on the West Bank between Palestinian protesters, Jewish settlers and Israeli security forces, global outrage is growing at the death of a young Palestinian man in a demonstration against seizure of village lands. Hundreds of Palestinians gathered in the West Bank Dec. The Gutman flap and reductionist thinking US ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman calls out Israeli inflammation of European anti-Semitism—but in terms that smack of denial about the extent and depth of the problem. A Dec. 3 report on YNet is aghast at the heretical comments by the US ambassador to Belgium, Howard Gutman—without actually bothering to quote them. We are treated only to a paraphrase: Israel responds to UNESCO vote with new West Bank settlements The Israeli government said it will move ahead with "sensitive housing projects" in East Jerusalem and the West Bank as a rebuttal to UNESCO's decision to grant Palestine full-member status. The US meanwhile cut funds to UNESCO. The Israeli government immediately said it would move ahead with "sensitive housing projects" as a rebuttal to UNESCO's Oct. 31 decision to grant Palestine full-member status. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a forum of eight senior ministers formally decided the next day to initiate a new wave of settlement construction on the West Bank. Indecency: Sanctioning Palestine for seeking statehood Members of U.S. Congress move to impose severe economic penalties on Palestine if it continues to seek statehood. This is an offense against the "democratic" values that both the U.S. and Israel purport to uphold. Enshrined in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as fundamental human prerogatives are "the right of the people peaceablyto assemble, and to petition...for a redress of grievances." The amendment expressly banned Congress from abridging that right. Will Palestine join "phantom republics"? The US has already cut funds to the Palestinian Authority as a punitive measure in response to its statehood bid. From Kosova to Western Sahara, numerous other countries around the world similarly wait and sacrifice for UN recognition. The UN Security Council’s Standing Committee on Admission of New Members is currently considering Palestine's application for full United Nations membership. John Mearshiemer, co-author of The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, provides a jacket blurb for Hitler apologist Gilad Atzmon's new book. Will progressives balk at calling him out for fear of legitimizing bogus charges of anti-Semitism? The problems with the ritual squawking that "anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism" have rarely been made so clear as in the egregious faux pas just committed by John Mearsheimer, co-author of The Israel Lobby and Israel won't budge on new East Jerusalem settlement plans In defiance of pressure from the European Union, Russia and Turkey as well as Arab states, Israel insists it intends to go ahead with he newly announced construction of 1,100 Jewish homes in Gilo on annexed land close to East Jerusalem. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sept. 28 rejected Western and Arab complaints that the newly announced construction of 1,100 Jewish homes in Gilo on annexed land close to East Jerusalem would hurt efforts to revive the peace process. Did PA call for "Judenrein" Palestine? The right-wing blogosphere is having a field day with claims that Palestinian ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat called for a "Jew-free Palestinian state." But Areikat responds that it's "a total fabrication" and a "total set-up" by conservo-bloggers. The right-wing blogosphere is having a field day with this one. The Daily Call started it all with a Sept. Diplomatic fallout as UN releases Gaza flotilla raid report The UN issued its its report on the deadly 2010 Gaza flotilla raid, criticizing Israel for "excessive and unreasonable" force but finding that the blockade of the Gaza Strip itself is lawful. Turkey responded by recalling its ambassador from Israel. The UN on Sept. 2 issued its its report on the deadly May 2010 Gaza flotilla raid, criticizing Israel for using "excessive and unreasonable" force but finding that the naval blockade of the Gaza Strip itself is lawful. Prepared by a panel headed by former New Zealand prime minister Geoffrey Palmer for the office of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the report found:	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.894169270992279, "wiki_prob": 0.894169270992279, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1846781"}
Has second wave begun in India? Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu continue to report upsurge in daily new cases GN Bureau \| March 12, 2021 #Covid-19 #Novel Coronavirus #healthcare #health ministry #testing #recovery #Maharashtra #second wave #vaccination India seems to be entering a second wave of Covid-19, with the rising numbers of daily new cases and the return of lockdown in Nagpur. The authorities are keeping a close watch, though there is no need to panic as the healthcare systems are better prepared now and the vaccination drive is progressing well. As many as 23,285 new cases were registered in the 24 hours to Friday morning, an official release said. Maharashtra has reported the highest daily new cases at 14,317 (61.48% of the daily new cases), followed by Kerala with 2,133 while Punjab reported 1,305 new cases. Eight states are displaying an upward trajectory in daily new cases. Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu continue to report a surge in the Covid daily cases. They cumulatively account for 85.6% of the new cases reported in the past 24 hours. Maharashtra imposed a second lockdown in Nagpur Wednesday as a precautionary measure to stem the spread of coronavirus. India’s total Active Caseload has reached 1,97,237 on Thursday. India’s present active caseload now stands at 1.74% of India’s total Positive Cases. Five states cumulatively account for 82.96% of the total active cases in the country. Two states – Maharashtra and Kerala – account for 71.69% of India’s total active cases. The centre is actively engaging with all state and UT governments, especially those showing an upsurge in daily new cases and with a high caseload of active cases. The union government is regularly reviewing the status of Covid containment and public health measures with them. Recently, the centre rushed high level public health teams to Maharashtra and Punjab to assist in Covid-19 control and containment measures in view of recent spike in cases in these states. The central government had earlier also deputed high-level teams to Maharashtra, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Punjab, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, and Jammu and Kashmir to support them in their fight against the recent spike in Covid-19 cases. The reports of central teams are shared with the states for follow-up action. The follow-up and compliance on part of states is monitored by the union ministry of health. More than 2.61 crore (2,61,64,920) vaccine doses have been administered through 4,87,919 sessions, as per the provisional report till 7 am Thursday. These include 72,23,071 healthcare workers (HCWs) (1st dose), 40,56,285 HCWs (2nd dose), 71,21,124 frontline workers (FLWs) (1st dose) and 6,72,794 FLWs (2nd Dose), 10,30,612 beneficiaries aged more than 45 years with specific co-morbidities (1st Dose) and 60,61,034 beneficiaries aged more than 60 years. As many as 4,80,740 vaccine doses were given on Day-55 of the vaccination drive (11th March, 2021); 4,02,138 beneficiaries were vaccinated across 9,751 sessions for 1st dose (HCWs and FLWs) and 78,602 HCWs and FLWs received 2nd dose of vaccine. In most of the states, people celebrated Maha Shivratri on Wednesday. Other than being a gazetted holiday, many people also observed a fast, particularly women including ANMs, ASHA workers and women vaccinators. The Covid vaccination coverage is hence reported to be on the lower side. More than 1.09 crore (1,09,53,303) people have recovered so far. 15,157 patients have recovered and got discharged in the 24 hours to Thursday morning. As many as 117 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours. Six States account for 82.91%of the new deaths. Maharashtra saw the maximum casualties (57). Punjab follows with 18 daily deaths andKeralareported13 deaths in the last 24 hours. Nineteen states/UTs have not reported any Covid-19 deaths in the last 24 hours. These are Gujarat, Rajasthan, Chandigarh, Odisha, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Puducherry, Lakshadweep, Manipur, D&D & D&N, Mizoram, Ladakh (UT), A&N Islands, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Tripura, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh. #Novel Coronavirus #health ministry #testing #recovery #Maharashtra #second wave	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9254105687141418, "wiki_prob": 0.9254105687141418, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1405748"}
МКС 17 Metrology and measurement in general Including measuring instruments in general, preferred numbers, standard measures, general aspects of reference materials, etc. Quantities and units, смотри 01.060 Chemical reference materials, смотри 71.040.30 Стандарт и/или проект ISO 3:1973 Preferred numbers — Series of preferred numbers ISO 17:1973 Guide to the use of preferred numbers and of series of preferred numbers ISO/IEC Guide 98-1:2009 Uncertainty of measurement — Part 1: Introduction to the expression of uncertainty in measurement 90.92 ISO/TMBG ISO/IEC CD Guide 98-1 Uncertainty of measurement — Part 3: Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement (GUM:1995) ISO/IEC Guide 98-3:2008/Suppl 1:2008 Uncertainty of measurement — Part 3: Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement (GUM:1995) — Supplement 1: Propagation of distributions using a Monte Carlo method ISO/IEC Guide 98-3:2008/Suppl 1:2008/Cor 1:2009 Uncertainty of measurement — Part 3: Guide to the expression 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standard atmosphere as a function of altitude in feet Statistical interpretation of data — Tests for departure from the normal distribution Accuracy (trueness and precision) of measurement methods and results — Part 1: General principles and definitions Accuracy (trueness and precision) of measurement methods and results — Part 1: General principles and definitions — Technical Corrigendum 1 ISO/DIS 5725-1 Accuracy (trueness and precision) of measurement methods and results — Part 2: Basic method for the determination of repeatability and reproducibility of a standard measurement method Accuracy (trueness and precision) of measurement methods and results — Part 2: Basic method for the determination of repeatability and reproducibility of a standard measurement method — Technical Corrigendum 1 Accuracy (trueness and precision) of measurement methods and results — Part 3: Intermediate measures of the precision of a standard measurement method Accuracy (trueness and precision) of 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FirstStopFantasy.com: FSF Top 100 Players – #99 Eli Manning – First Stop Fantasy Eli Manning considers himself an elite NFL quarterback and he has two Super Bowl Championship rings to back himself up. He went from #31 in 2012 to #42 in 2013 and then off the list last year and this year at NFL.com in their ratings. At FirstStopFantasy.com's Top 100 NFL Players in 2015 the gun-slinging quarterback leaps onto the list at #99 after missing the top 100 last year. Is he rated too high? Too Low? Just right? How do you feel about Eli Manning's ranking as #99 in the 2015 FSF Top 100 NFL Players? FSF Top 100 Players – #99 Eli Manning – First Stop Fantasy	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7465938329696655, "wiki_prob": 0.2534061670303345, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line730123"}
Knowledge Hub & Expertise Reference Codes EXCELLERAT successfully closes its first chapter The first funding phase of EXCELLERAT has come to an end on 31st May 2022. Over the past three and a half years, the Centre’s consortium consisting of 13 European partners provided expertise on how data management, data analytics, visualisation, simulation-driven design and co-design could benefit engineering, in particular in the aerospace, automotive, energy and manufacturing sectors. Overall, EXCELLERAT’s work strongly focused on improving computational efficiency, dynamic mesh adaptation, load balancing, scalable data handling, usability (visualisation and workflow tools), as well as investigating novel architectures and opportunities for co-design and developing more efficient numerical methods. White Paper: The EXCELLERAT Best Practice Guide The EXCELLERAT Best Practise Guide is an outcome of EXCELLERAT, the European Centre of Excellence for Engineering Applications. The project aimed at establishing the foundation of a central European knowledge and competence hub for all stakeholders in the usage and exploitation of high-performance computing (HPC) and high-performance data analytics (HPDA) in engineering. Having worked together throughout the 42 months of the initial funding phase, we are presenting this Best Practice Guide of ways and approaches to execute engineering applications on state of the art HPC-systems in preparation for the exascale era. White Paper: FPGAs for accelerating HPC engineering workloads – the why and the how Running high performance workloads on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) has been ex-plored but is yet to demonstrate widespread success. Software developers have traditionally felt a significant disconnect from the knowledge required to effectively exploit FPGAs, which included the esoteric programming technologies, long build times, and lack of familiar software tooling. Fur-thermore, for the few developers that invested time and effort into FPGAs, from a performance perspective the hardware historically struggled to compete against latest generation CPUs and GPUs when it came to Floating Point Operations per Second (FLOPS). Explore our flyers, deliverables, and more browse Through our success stories Success Story: In situ VR visualisation of Nek5000 simulations with Vistle Nek5000 cases that use Exascale level performance compute data on very large grids. Writing this data to disk frequently becomes a major run time bottleneck, while handling all the data on disk comes with its own challenges. With increasing data sizes and complexity analysing the usually 3D data with conventional 2D methods becomes even harder. Running large simulations is also costly, therefore errors should better be identified rather sooner than later. Success Story: Running AVBP Industrial code on Arm architectures With the diversification of the micro-processor catalogue for High-Performance systems, porting and evaluating software performance on Arm-based architectures has become an imperative step for code developers. For core performance to multi-node scalability, real application benchmarks remain elusive. Given the myriad of Arm flavours available, a comprehensive real case benchmark would give developers and users a first look for the future usage of the European Processor Initiative (EPI) and Arm-based leadership class systems. In collaboration with Arm Ltd., CERFACS has performed a first benchmark using the AVBP code, a state-of-the-art Navier Stokes solver on unstructured grids for reactive compressible flows written in Fortran and based on MPI for parallelism. Press release: EXCELLERAT CoE supports COVID-19-related research Date: 1.December 2020 A group of researchers from EXCELLERAT’s consortium partner SSC-Services GmbH, an IT service provider in Böblingen, Germany and the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) is supporting the German Federal Institute for Population Research (Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung, BiB). SSC has developed an intelligent data transfer platform, which enables the BiB to upload data, start simulations and download results. The platform supports the work of BiB researchers in predicting the demand for intensive care units during the COVID-19 pandemic.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5208820700645447, "wiki_prob": 0.4791179299354553, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1067888"}
Tag Archives: IQ Murray/Sailer on Powerline Podcast This is more of a comment than a fully-developed article, but I though I’d try to be timely. It refers to part one of Steve Hayward’s conversation with Charles Murray and Steve Sailer for the Power Line podcast. It was as great (as expected), but Charles Murray had one response that I don’t think Steve Hayward followed up on enough, and it’s important. At one point, Murray says, accurately, that conservatives don’t like to talk about race and cognitive ability. It makes them uncomfortable. He then added that the cognitive ability aspects of education totally mess with the permanent libertarian zeitgeist that says hard work is everything. As it happens, I’ve written about this a lot. My favorite piece about a conservative who is made uncomfortable by a frank reference to race and education was written in response to a podcast as well: Making Rob Long Uncomfortable in which Heather MacDonald goes off on a rant about black underperformance. Rob’s response is a textbook case of discomfort. He was fine talking about bad schools and lazy teachers, but when MacDonald goes there you can, as I said, practically hear Rob’s toes shrieking across the bathroom tiles. It’s hilarious. I then do some verb conjugation on the hypocrisy of the right on this point. (“They’re reactionary fascists, you’re unreasonably censorious, I’m judicious in setting limits.”) Not, I hasten to add, that the left isn’t in hideous shape on this point. I also mention the fact that few conservatives, in their review of the craziest of the libertarian batshits, Bryan Caplan, mentioned the obvious racial implications in his book The Case Against Education. Hard to tell whether I was more infuriated by Caplan, who combines “let’s kill public education” with “let’s open the borders”, or the dozens of conservative media reviews that never mentioned the obvious racial implications of his policies. I wrote a whole series on Caplan’s book, as I found it exceptionally dishonest when it wasn’t just being facile: How Did We Get Here?, Pre-Employment Testing, Toe Fungus Prevention,How Well Are Americans Educated? and the one in which I go through the ramifications of Caplan’s policies on black Americans, Average Was Always Over. What Murray didn’t mention, and I was surprised Steve Sailer didn’t, is that there’s a perfectly good political reason why conservatives don’t acknowledge the racial dimensions of cognitive ability. Conservatives and libertarians all want to destroy public schools. And by “conservatives”, I generally mean it’s an openly expressed Republican policy, one that actually isn’t shared by the conservative think tanks that focus in on education in any responsible way. Rick Hess, Robert Pondiscio, and Nat Malkus aren’t thrilled with public schools and they support charters and vouchers (at least I believe they do), but they don’t call for the wholesale elimination of public schools. More importantly, Republican voters don’t share this disdain (check out the EdNext poll–barely 50% of Republicans support charters, for example, and that’s one of the higher numbers.) But among Republican and conservative politicians and media it is entirely normal to hold that public schools are sewers of inadequacy and incompetence. Current buzzwords: “let the funding follow the student not the building”, and all that. Or there’s this recent example by Governor Ducey of Arizona announcing summer school for low-performing kids: That’s why the plan is to hire teachers who work in schools currently graded A, B or C, though there may be some outreach to teachers in lower-rated schools who have a proven record of performance. “We’re going to find a way to take people that are skilled in the profession, allow them to make additional funds, and bring our kids up to grade level,” the governor said. I could write a whole article on the gefukt thinking behind this comment. Teachers in A, B, or C schools aren’t generally any better; they just have smarter students. They will be far less able to deal with low-performing students. And oh, by the way, summer school won’t bring kids up to grade level. Behind it all is the assumption that low-performing kids are the result of low-performing teachers. Needless I totally disagree with this position, and think most of the people espousing an all choice system in which parents spend government dollars on private schools haven’t….quite thought through all the ramifications. Or cost. But leave that aside. You can’t call schools failing and useless and horrible and all that and then talk about different racial group cognitive abilities. You can’t rail at teachers for failing to close the achievement gap and then say yeah, well, some of that gap might be cognitive. Kills the moment. So politically, in order to keep at playing Charlie Brown to the teachers’ union’s Lucy, the whole conservative political and elite class have to ignore any possibility that schools are, actually, doing a pretty good job once you control for IQ. Second point: towards the end of the podcast, Steve Hayward asks about the possibility of Asian and Hispanics shifting more towards the GOP, “now that Trump is gone”–which is weird, because Trump did better with Hispanics and blacks than any GOP president since Bush at least, so one would think they’d say “build on Trump’s success”, but ok. The particulars of the Asian vote change revolved around the open discrimination they face in elite school admissions. I keep meaning to write more about this, but I think Steve Sailer will understand what I mean: Republicans should think carefully about openly courting Asian voters, at least using the rhetoric I keep hearing. As Steve used to say, Republicans could go for increasing the Hispanic vote or increasing their white vote. SImilarly, chasing the Asian vote by pushing for admissions-based testing without fixing the many problems with it might just hurt the GOP percentage of the white vote around the edges. A while back I almost wrote a piece called Everybody’s Second Favorite, that was going to include this passage: But a school that’s 50% Asian or black and the other half majority white will in a few years be 80% Asian or black. Whites don’t hang around for blacks or Asians, in my experience. (emphasis mine this time round.) Next, whites do tolerate genuine racial diversity well, probably because there are fewer cultural distortions that arise with both Asians and African Americans. I can think of a number of 30-30-30-10 schools that hold on to those numbers for a decade or more. “White flight” from Asians has been around for 20 years or more, long enough for the Wall Street Journal to notice it back in 2005. I wrote recently about the decline in white applications to the eight NYC specialized high schools. Whites and Asians are both about 15% of the NYC public school population, have roughly the same admission rate to the specialized high schools, but Asians apply at twice the rate that whites do. Whites just don’t want to go. Bloomberg’s choice programs allowed people who found the Asian culture at these schools unpleasant to set up their own “soft” choice programs. I found a second dataset for another test-based admissions high school, and will be publishing pretty soon, I hope. (I have a day job, so take “soon” with some salt.) Asian test prep that goes on for years and years, not a few weeks, sets up what I believe are false positives but we can argue that point later. By all means, Republicans should actively pursue growing their Asian vote, but I don’t advise doing it by giving Asian immigrants what they want in public schools, because what they want generally turns off all American parents, particularly white ones. And one rule of public education that also works with politics is don’t piss off the white folks. There are plenty of ways to improve public education and university admissions without discriminating against Asians or rewarding several years of test prep. Talk about those. Oh, and by the way, don’t talk to Asians or Hispanics about how stupid the Democrats were to cave to teachers unions to close the schools, since all categories of non-whites were (and probably are) far more supportive of remote education than whites, but that’s another article I’m working on. Finally, Steve Hayward said they would be talking about college next week. Really? I hope not. Again, great discussion. Looking forward to next week even if it’s about college. Hey, got this done in under 24 hours. I should rewrite this but I’m tired, so it will have to do. 15 Comments \| tags: Charles Murray, cognitive ability, GOP diversity, IQ, Steve Sailer \| posted in policy, politics Making Rob Long Uncomfortable (Note: This is in the context of my multi-chaptered review of The Case Against Education, particularly the last, but I think it stands alone.) I’m a big Rob Long fan; I listen to both his Ricochet and GLoP podcasts. I’ve even subscribed to Richochet, and you should, too. I am not a Heather MacDonald fan, for reasons that puzzle others. But I like Long/Lileks/Robinson more than I don’t like her, so I was listening to their conversation a while back. The three hosts were completely on board as Heather excoriated the college campus craziness documented in her new book. You can practically hear them nodding with approval as she outlines the various issues: the outraged feminist wars, the soft and whiny college students, the transgender insanities. And then, at about hour 1.06, Heather turned the same withering sarcasm to race, talking about the delusional fools who think that African American disparities in college are due to racism as opposed to their low academic achievement…. I laughed and laughed. You could practically hear Rob’s toenails shrieking against the tiles as he braked to a stop. This was not the conversation he’d signed up for. He was there to lightly mock feminists and social justice nuts, not crack witty, on-the-nose jokes with Heather about the racial skills deficit. Cognitive dissonance, anyone? It runs all through the political and intellectual class, particularly on the right. So, for example, Charles Murray is a great social scientist and The Bell Curve an important work (I agree!)–but let’s blame crap teachers and low standards for black academic underperformance. Recently, Megan McArdle added her voice to John McWhorter in calling for an end to research on race and IQ. This appears to be the new “informed right” position: if you’ve spent any time actually reading about race and IQ, it’s clear that only bad news awaits further research. So ban it. Meanwhile, on the subject of recent campus craziness, Megan thinks that Evelyn Beatrice Hall’s formulation is one of “humanity’s noblest inventions” and John McWhorter routinely denounces the safe-space rhetoric on college campuses as absurd and “unhelpful”. Both of them are appalled at the idea that college students would want to shut down conversations they don’t like. They’re reactionary fascists, you’re unreasonably censorious, I’m judicious in setting limits. Ever notice how the same people who praise Caplan’s idea of restricting college are also those singing songs of praise about KIPP and “no excuses” charters in general–for sending more poor urban kids of color to college? KIPP schools put their kids through hours and hours more school every week, all to get just 45% of them to graduate college “ten or more years” after 8th grade–that is, 6 or more years of college. They’re the education blob who ignore reality to keep spending taxpayer dollars, you’re unduly optimistic about college readiness, I’m all for unqualified black kids going to college if it’s not unionized teachers sending them there. I read many reviewers of The Case Against Education on the right or the intellectually honest left who discussed the book without ever observing the obvious implications of Caplan’s plan to cut back on college attendance. This perplexes me. I actually know a reviewer who gave a great analysis without mentioning race. I asked him why the omission. He replied the idea was “far-fetched enough that the racial implications are a ‘cross that bridge when we come to it’ side issue.” That sounds amazingly on point. Yeah, sure, Caplan’s proposal is pie in the sky, but it’s a great idea, you know? Interesting. Challenging. Controversial. Let’s engage it. Play with it. Not get into the nitty gritty details. Of course, everyone’s totally into the nitty gritty when castigating the here and now. “Failing schools” is an expression with bipartisan support–and the schools are always failing on the count of race. KIPP’s “Success for All” or Eva’s “Success” Academies are clearly talking about success by race. All the praise for Wendy Kopp giving Teach for America a chance to “expand opportunity” for kids is, again, talking about opportunities for black and Hispanic kids–and, by the way, pretty sure those opportunities include college. No Child Left Behind demanded that test scores be disaggregated by race, and only if all students of all racial and income populations achieved at the same rate could schools get out of academic probation. States dumped their test score standards and still couldn’t avoid putting all their schools in probation status, thus creating the need for waivers that allowed everyone to ignore the racial gaps while they Raced to the Top. I don’t doubt the sincerity of my reviewer buddy. But come on. All the pro-charter, pro-voucher, anti-union policy wonks on the right are all about race when they can use it to beat teachers over the head. The nation itself defines its success in education almost entirely on how well it educates kids by race. But a guy writes a book proposing to restrict access to college and most public schools by choking off funding in ways that would be catastrophic to African Americans but hey, it’s just spitballing. No need to mention race. Policy analysis a la Wimpy: I’ll gladly talk about race in today’s education if you let me ignore race in the education of tomorrow. But despite my dismay, that is definitely how it goes. Everyone suffers from educational romanticism, as Charles Murray puts it: Educational romantics of the Left focus on race, class, and gender. It is children of color, children of poor parents, and girls whose performance is artificially depressed, and their academic achievement will blossom as soon as they are liberated from the racism, classism, and sexism embedded in American education. Those of the Right see public education as an ineffectual monopoly, and think that educational achievement will blossom when school choice liberates children from politically correct curricula and obdurate teachers’ unions. In public discourse, the leading symptom of educational romanticism is silence on the role of intellectual limits even when the topic screams for their discussion. This silence from those who know better leaves the rest of the talking class, particularly those on the right, the ones who aren’t into policy, utterly unprepared for a serious discussion. They get very, er, uncomfortable with any mention of black underperformance that isn’t a de rigeur nod to shit teachers and corrupt schools. They haven’t really thought about it much or read the literature, but they quite like the basic GOP talking points (bad unions, bad! Charters! Choice!) and would much rather no one take away their comfort chew toys. Fair to say I’d make Rob Long uncomfortable. EduRealist makes the case against Caplan's defunding of education by being very blunt about how bad black academic results are(and some antiimmigration comments)and using that as argument for how much school helps and Im rotten enough to find it very funny https://t.co/PU2COW7ygT — Siberian Fox (@SilverVVulpes) December 2, 2018 Notice that I did not (and do not) hold black culture at fault for these academic results. As I mentioned once long ago when looking at the black/white gap in Praxis scores (teacher credential tests): The white Millennial bonghitter with a 1.2 GPA who teaches sixth grade science after his parents booted him out of the basement ties the freshly-pressed hardworking black track star with a 3.8 GPA teaching special ed.* The goofball wannabe [white] manicurist who loafed through Podunk U and went into teaching kindergarten after the tenth of her problematic boyfriends dumped her outscores the idealistic black welfare daughter success story on a full scholarship to Harvard who went into teaching sixth grade English to “give back” to her community. Pace JD Vance, it ain’t culture. Your Middletown classmates who ended up dead or in dead-end jobs almost certainly outscored the rich black kids in, I don’t know, Delaware County, or wherever the wealthy black families live in Ohio. As I’ve written before, all those placing great hope in KIPP are missing the big picture: the kids who need the hours of extra education and the forced discipline of No Excuses to get anywhere near 8th grade ability by 8th grade is simply not the same as the intellect that can eat Crispy Cocoa Puffs every day while watching TV or playing video games and bet at the 8th grade level by 4th grade. MacDonald herself blames culture. In the podcast, she responded to Long’s plea with the offer of a thought experiment. If black kids have the same level of school attendance, same level of homework completion, and in ten years they still have lower achievement, she says, then and only then she’ll consider racism. Apparently MacDonald isn’t aware of the thought experiment known as Cambodians, Laotians, and Hmong who have the same dedication to education but wildly different academic results and graduation rates. And given the frequency with which poor white kids outperform wealthier black kids, often at the same schools, it’s hard to reasonably argue that schools themselves are the result of black underperformance. Which doesn’t stop many people from unreasonably arguing it, of course. What do I blame? [Crickets.] Look, it’s not a matter of “blame”. But that’s an answer that gets one into hot water. People who talk about the test score gap without fingering responsibility–worse, who argue against the usual culprits–are giving the impression that there’s nothing to fix. Which isn’t true, but it’s closer to true than any hope of closing the racial achievement gap. The discomfort has wasted billions to no real avail. Despite the demands to increase college readiness, we are sending far more students to college who are less prepared than ever. Colleges have responded not by tightening standards, but by ending them, giving college credit for classes teaching middle school skills. Employers routinely call for more unskilled immigrants to take on the tasks “Americans won’t do” when in fact they mean jobs that won’t pay enough for Americans to do, and thus create more low-skilled populations we can let down in future generations–populations that are beginning to outnumber American blacks of slave ancestry, the people to whom America owes a great debt. And yet. I can think of so many ways that accepting performance gaps and modifying education policy could create more problems–like, say, Bryan Caplan’s notion to end public education. So it goes. Bryan Caplan gets a book deal and fame for seriously arguing in favor of a policy that would block most blacks and many Hispanics from all advanced education. I’m anonymous, unpaid, and unbook-dealed, writing in favor of continuing public education for all. But Caplan ignores race, and I’m blunt about black academic results while refusing to blame acceptable scapegoats. Despite his pose as a controversial intellectual, Caplan will never make Rob Long uncomfortable. I wish I knew how to distill all this into something pithy. But I’m bottom up, not top down. Or is it the other way round? 12 Comments \| tags: black academic achievement, Bryan Caplan, Charles Murray, IQ, KIPP, Megan McArdle, Rob Long \| posted in philosophy Restriction of Range I read Scott Alexander because he’s a pretty good weathervane for insight into the respectable crowd. For reasons I don’t understand, he periodically gets raves from writers way up the food chain, so he’s clearly writing about sensitive subjects without activating their panic buttons. I once read this book on Highly Sensitive People, and the author was like “OK, this may be painful, so stop and take a breath before you move on. Sense how you’re feeling. Breathe again. Now turn the page.” I found this extremely irritating, and Scott reminds me of that author. Who, by the way and despite the offputting habits and an entirely unscientific theory, provided me with a successful frameworks and some useful tips. Yes, I am a Highly Sensitive Person. Go ahead, laugh; it’s 20 years and I still think it’s funny. Anyway. While this may seem like insider baseball, I’m writing this because the issue at hand illustrates an important point. Recently, Scott wrote a soothing reassurance to the many people writing him “heartfelt letters complaining about their low IQs”. See, the correct response to “heartfelt letters complaining about their low IQs” is a gagging noise or, perhaps more maturely, a discreet eye-roll. But that’s just me. Scott quotes a Reddit commenter echoing a typical concern: I never got a chance to have a discussion with the psychologist about the results, so I was left to interpret them with me, myself, and the big I known as the Internet – a dangerous activity, I know. This meant two years to date of armchair research, and subsequently, an incessant fear of the implications of my below-average IQ, which stands at a pitiful 94…I still struggle in certain areas of comprehension. I received a score of 1070 on the SAT, (540 Reading & 530 Math), and am barely scraping by in my college algebra class. Honestly, I would be ashamed if any of my coworkers knew I barely could do high school-level algebra. Scott does something like five paragraphs on the measurement and meaning of IQ and how it’s great for groups but not terribly valuable for the individual. All that is just duck and weave, though, because basically, his response is “Well, your IQ test wasn’t accurate”. But Scott’s worried that if he says that, it will undo all the hard work he’s put in convincing people that IQ has meaning. So reading the post, the reddit thread, and the comments, I’ve concluded that my–well, somewhat undue–frustration has two sources. First, I believe abrupt, brusque and occasionally rude responses are not immoral and frankly necessary. But more importantly, I’m dumbfounded that Scott would treat these queries as worthy of a treatise, so I’m wondering why. I don’t usually quote Malcolm Gladwell unless it’s his ketchup piece, but this is instructive: Of course, Gladwell was actually quoting someone with actual expertise, Arthur Jensen: While individual IQs are irrelevant, the tiers are pretty useful. Those who interact regularly with all three tiers can place people pretty accurately in those tiers. My various occupations have given me access to the entire range of IQs, from the occasional low 80s to third standard deviation and possibly beyond. As a result, I don’t know a 98 from a 105, but I would never place either in the below 90 or above 115 group. And from that vantage point, I can’t figure out why Scott is equivocating, because there is simply no way the Reddit poster, or indeed anyone who reads Scott’s blog, has an IQ much south of 115. The idea is ludicrous. Instantly risible. Alexander is clearly aware of this. His characterization: “Help, I got a low IQ score, I’ve double-checked the standard deviation of all of my subscores and found some slight discrepancy but I’m not sure if that counts as Bayesian evidence that the global value is erroneous” oh so gently mocks his emailers–and mocks them in a manner that only higher IQs could understand. But why would he spend so much time on the topic? Maybe it’s my (extremely low) opinion of the SSC groupies, but it’s pretty obvious that the emailers are looking for validation from their hero. “I’ll tell Scott or random people on the internet that I’ve got a low IQ and they’ll go, pish tosh! and tell me how smart I am.” . Write an intellectual email, tossing in all the right buzzwords, worrying about their IQ, in order to get a reassuring “Don’t be silly! You’re far too intelligent for a 90 IQ!” that they can brag about. In short, I think Scott’s emailers are lying to get an ego boost. Sure, it’s possible that IQ tests are routinely handing out scores of 90 to people with 80th percentile SAT results. It’s just extremely unlikely. Alternatively, these folks could be IQ-denialists lying to seed doubt and confusion about IQ tests. “We’ll be, like Russian agents and post fake news through Scott. No one will trust these foul instruments!” I’ll take “Needy Validation” for $1000, Scott. He may simply be too polite to say “I don’t believe you”. But no one else did, either, in all the megabillion comments he gets on each blog. Some of the reddit folks gently pointed this out, but their views didn’t catch on. Hence I wonder about restriction of range. Are the people in the discussion, from Scott Alexander on down, so unfamiliar with the intellectual capabilities of a 94 IQ that he thinks it merely unlikely that the IQs are inaccurate, as opposed to a possibility that can be instantly dismissed? Maybe that’s it. After all, most of the educated world is setting their intellect standards like the second graph of this grip strength study illustrating the essay title: As the author says, note the change in the x axis. In perhaps his most famous piece, Scott characterizes the other, the people outside his inadvertently constructed social bubble as “dark matter”. These people exist. They are legion. But somehow he never runs into them, never has any contact. It’s a neat little metaphor, but really all he’s describing are social bubbles that restrict your range pf experience or understanding. Just as most progressives never run into a conservative, so too are most college graduates who aren’t teaching in high poverty districts rarely going to meet an average IQ, much less sub-90 intellects. Steve Sailer, with the ruthless accuracy and snarkiness that (wrongly) inspires disdain for his excellent observational skills, once observed that Rachel Jeantel, who testified at George Zimmerman’s trial was a high school student. Steve, who notices things, was pointing out that our expectations for high school students must include Jeantel, when in fact most people yapping about at risk black high school students have Will Smith in mind. Wrong. Smith is a bright guy. Rachel was 19 when she testified, and graduated the next year from high school at 20. The media reports that “extensive tutoring” helped her graduate, but high schools will graduate anyone who tries hard enough. In my opinion, the support and the attention, not the tutoring, is what helped Jeantel graduate. I can’t find much about her life since then, but no news in this case is pretty good. I’d guess Jeantel below the 90 tier, but she might be right above it. She’s pretty functional. She’s savvy about how to handle her moment in the sun. She took advantage of the support offered her. Listen to some of Jeantel’s testimony. Go back up and read that Reddit post that Scott says is typical of the worried emails he gets from people who are saying that they have roughly the same IQ as the young woman in that video. Perhaps then you’ll see why I think the emailers deserve derision, gentle or otherwise. Derision not because a low IQ is to be mocked or dismissed. Derision in part because I believe these people are seeking validation and ego boosts. But mostly, derision to reinforce and educate people about these tiers. The more people understand the basic realities of a 90 IQ as opposed to one of 115, the more we’ll understand the challenges of educating and employing them. The more people who engage in these debates understand how cocooned they are, the less foolishly optimistic they’ll be in considering education policy debates. Educators, the peasants of the cognitive elite, can offer some guidance. Many educators deliberately ignore cognitive reality; I’m not saying we all have the right answers, or that I do. But I would like all educated people who think they understand American education to look at the whole picture, rather than be allowed to ignore the “dark matter”. I really don’t know if Scott himself is refraining from mocking these IQ queries or if he really doesn’t understand that their fears are impossible. Ending where I began: I read Scott Alexander because he’s a pretty good weathervane for insight into the respectable crowd that prides itself on its skeptical humanism. Unfortunately, either interpretation of his behavior is consistent with that set. I remain befuddled. 37 Comments \| tags: IQ, low ability students, Scott Alexander, Steve Sailer \| posted in voldemort The Available Pool (This is by far the most Voldemortean topic I’ve taken on in a while. Brace up.) Some readers might have noted a potential flaw in my observation that ed schools can’t commit affirmative action. If the average elementary school SAT score is 500 per section, and the average content SAT score is 580 in the relevant subject, then there shouldn’t be a shortage. Plenty of African Americans have those scores, right? Well, it depends on what you mean by “plenty”. Just ask Malcolm Gladwell. Four words I’d never thought I’d say. I liked Gladwell’s article about ketchup. I also find him useful as a predictive sorter: when I meet someone who admires his work, I run like hell. But recently I came across a page I’d either missed or forgotten about since the last time I flipped through his book. Gladwell even cites Jensen. Conceding what he sees as a minor aspect of IQ to make a larger point, Gladwell acknowledges that regions, or thresholds, of IQ exist. But beyond these broad ability differentiators, IQ differences are irrelevant compared to factors like luck, birth, language, rice paddy history. Given certain thresholds, IQ is relatively unimportant in outcomes. And given certain thresholds, Gladwell’s not terribly wrong, as Jensen confirms. There’s just one pesky little problem still left to plague modern society: the thresholds. The regions, as Jensen describes them, that differentiate between broad ability levels. The ones that even an IQ pishtosher like Gladwell accepts as given. They’re kind of an issue, if by “issue” you mean the fatal flaw lurking in most of our social and education policies. Jensen’s regions correspond to the IQ standard deviation markers. The average IQ is 100, with a standard deviation of 15. An IQ of 70 is 2 SD below the average of 50 (2nd percentile), 85 is 1 SD below average (16th percentile), 115–the marker for graduate level work, according to Gladwell and Jensen—is 1 SD above the mean. Translating Gladwell and Jensen into standard deviations: in order for an American student to be ready for a college graduate program, he needs to have an IQ at the 84th percentile, with “average” (this is Gladwell’s word) as the 50th percentile. Give or take. IQ tests are finicky, no need to be purist. These are broad strokes. Using those broad strokes, we know that average African American IQ is a little less than one standard deviation below that “average IQ” (again, Gladwell’s term), which means that the 84th percentile for all IQs is attained by just 2% of blacks. Test scores consistently prove out this harsh reality. While the mean African American IQ has risen five points since 1970, test performance has often remained stubbornly 1SD below that of whites. As Chistopher Jencks observes, “typical American black still scores below 75 percent of American whites on most standardized tests”, and often as much as 85% (or 1SD). Much has been written about the 1 SD difference; you can see it in the SAT, the GMAT, and the LSAT. (The SAT is much easier these days; before the recentering, just 70 blacks got over 700 on the verbal, whereas today it’s 2100, or 2%. In 1995, 90% of African Americans scored below 430 on the verbal section whereas the unrecentered LSAT has a score distribution chart registering no black scores over 170.) (You’re thinking oh, my god, this is Bell Curve stuff. No, no. This is Gladwell, remember? Secure position in the pantheon of liberal intellectual gods. It’s all good.) We are oversupplied with whites with IQs over the 115 threshold, all of whom have the requisite tested ability to be lawyers and doctors and professors. Since these fields are highly desirable, the educational culling process weeds out or rejects all but the most cognitive elite candidates. Thus all the cognitively demanding fields have a sorting process for whites: medicine, law, academia, science, technologists, executives, politicians, venture capitalists, mathematicians, yada yada yada all the way down to high school teachers, the peasants of the cognitive elite. The available pool of blacks with the requisite Gladwellian-approved IQs to test into graduate education is barely toe deep. To build cohorts with blacks exceeding single digits, graduate schools in law, medicine, and business, to name just a few, commit deep discount affirmative action, regardless of legal bans. Ed schools can’t, for reasons I described in the last post. Given the wide range of choices blacks with anything approaching the requisite cognitive ability have, it’s hard to say if any sorting occurs at all. Much has been written of the supposedly low standards for teacher licensure exams but what do we know about the standards for becoming a lawyer in Alabama or a doctor in Missisippi? I often ask questions for which data is unobligingly unavailable. Sometimes I just haven’t found the data, or it’s too broad to be much good. Sometimes it’s like man, I have a day job and this will have to do. Med school: Not much data. See Razib Khan’s efforts. Law school: For all the talk about mismatch or the concern over dismal bar exam passing rates for blacks, the reality is that low LSAT scores, law school, and persistence can still result in a licensed black lawyer. State bar exam difficulties aren’t uniform (which is also true for teaching). This bar exam predictor says that a law school graduate with an LSAT of 139, three points below the African American mean, attending an Alabama lawschool not in the top 150, graduating in the bottom tenth of his class, has a 26% chance of passing the bar. In Iowa, the same person has a 17% chance–in California, just 4%. If that predictive application has any validity, the cognitive abilities needed to pass the average high school math or science licensure test in most states are higher than those demanded to pass a bar exam in states filling out the bottom half of the difficulty scale. Passing the math or science licensure exams with an SAT score below the African American mean would be next to impossible in most states. English and history probably compete pretty well on that front as well. It wouldn’t surprise me if the cognitive demands needed to pass elementary school licensure tests in tough states (California) are greater than those needed to pass the bar exam in easy states (Alabama). (sez me, who has passed the tests in three subjects, and sez all available information on average SAT scores for passing candidates). Here we are back at the cognitive dissonance I mentioned in the last post. Received wisdom says teachers are stupid. Reality says teacher credential tests have significant cognitive barriers, barriers that appear to exceed those for law and may do so as well for medicine—and the other professional tests are presumably easier still. Before I looked into this, I would have assumed that licensure tests for law and medicine weeded out a “smarter” class of blacks than those weeded out of teaching. Now I’m not as sure. It seems law schools and med schools keep out the “not-as-smart”whites and Asians while admitting blacks and Hispanics who would only be “not-as-smart” if they were white or Asian. The med and law school licensure exams, in knowledge of this weeding, are gauged to let in the “not-as-smart”, secure in the knowledge that these candidates will be mostly black and Hispanic. (A number of “not-as-smart” whites and Asians will make it through, assuming they paid a small fortune for a low-tier law school, but jobs will be much harder to find.) Understand that I’m using “smart” in the colloquial sense, which means “high test scores”. And most evidence says these are the same thing. I’ve said before now I’m not as certain of this, particularly with regards to African Americans. This isn’t enough to prove anything, of course, and I wanted more. What else could I could use to—well, if not prove, at least not disprove, what seems to me an obvious reason for a dearth of black teachers? Employed persons by detailed occupation, sex, race, and ethnicity I made some predictions going in: Blacks would be a higher percentage of elementary/middle school teachers than of high school teachers. I couldn’t sort out academic teachers from special ed and PE teachers, and I wasn’t sure whether sped teachers would be included in the count. But given the easier licensure test, I was betting the percentage would be higher. There would be more black school administrators than black high school teachers. The ratio of black lawyers and doctors to black high school teachers would be higher than the ratio of white lawyers and doctors to white high school teachers (in absolute numbers). The ratio of black social workers to black teachers would be much higher than the same ratio for white teachers. So this table shows the total employed in each category, the percentage black and white, the absolute number black and white: This table calculates the ratio of each non-teaching occupation to K-8 and high school teachers by race. So the number of black high school teachers is 25% of the number of black K-8 teachers, and the population of black high school teachers is 65% the number of black education administrators, and so on. I didn’t want to over-interpret the data, so this is just simple Excel, pulling the numbers right off the table (calculating white percentage by subtracting the other races). And I was right about a lot, except I underestimated the number of black professionals in the highly cognitive fields of doctors, dentists, and lawyers and I didn’t know this basic fact: There are more white lawyers than white high school teachers! Still, this data mostly bears out my predictions. I threw in some other categories: entertainment/media, and nursing, just for compare/contrast. Many blacks become social workers, far more than become high school teachers or even K-8 teachers. Now, I know teachers complain about low pay, but social work has really low pay, less attractive vacations, and a client base even less cooperative than the average high school student. I was wrong about lawyers, obviously, but less wrong on doctors. White and black doctors/dentists have roughly equal parity compared to white and black high school teachers–black doctors and dentists are about 85% of black high school teachers, whites about 87%. In med school, Whites have to compete with Asians, who are 20% of doctors (and just 5% of lawyers), but if the professions were cognitively sorting on anything approaching an equal basis, there should be a lot more black high school teachers, shouldn’t there? And if you go the less cognitively demanding but still intellectual field of nursing, black nurses outnumber black high school teachers by nearly twice the ratio that white high school teachers are outnumbered by white nurses. So blacks are choosing skilled health care work over teaching at considerably higher rates than whites are making that same choice, and the number of black doctors/dentists have near parity with black high school teachers compared to whites in the same professions. Then there’s my amazing perspicacity in predicting the overrepresentation of black education administrators. Pretty obvious, really. Districts can only practice affirmative action in teacher hiring to the extent they have black candidates. But administrative positions are wide open for affirmative action. While I’m sure there’s a test, it’s got to be a piece of cake compared to the high school subject credential test. I can’t really take all the credit, though. CJ Cregg first alerted me to affirmative action in principal selection. But before you shed all sorts of tears for Tal Cregg, remember that the Brown decision resulted in thousands of black teachers and administrators losing their jobs, all in the name of racial equity and equal access. I only had one surprise. When I started this effort, I figured that I’d include a snarky remark like “Want more black teachers? Raise the cut scores for the bar exam.” But no, lawyers, it turns out, are whiter even than high school teachers. That might explain why the cut scores are set so low on the bar exam, and it suggests that the predictive application knows its stuff. The legal profession in many states is doing its best to bring in more black and Hispanic lawyers by lowering the cut score—in others, not so much. Steve Sailer noticed something I’d missed in my original post on teacher SAT scores—namely, teachers had strong verbal scores regardless of the subject taught. Law, too, is a field heavy on the reading and talking. So maybe whites are drawn to fields that reward this aptitude. It’s arguable, in fact, that America’s entire educational policy through the century was informed, unknowingly, by its unusually large population of unambitious smart white people who like to talk. We might want to consider that possibility before we start demanding diversity. Step one in investigating the lack of black teachers should start with the oversupply of black social workers and see why, given their strong interest in community work, they aren’t going into teaching. The uninformed yutzes who presume to opine on education policy think ed schools are either prejudiced against or just uninterested in recruiting black teachers. Those actually interested in creating black teachers think it’s the licensure tests. I’m with them. So go find out. If I’m right, we can start talking about lowering the cut scores for k-3 licensure tests. Once we realize that the Common Core goals are a chimera, we might create high school teaching tiers, with easier tests for basic math and English classes. (In exchange, maybe, for loosening up the affirmative action grip on administrative positions, if such a grip exists.) Given the tremendous overrepresentation of blacks in our prisons, I’d argue we need to spend our time and policy creating more black lawyers, not black teachers. Better pay, better status and who knows, maybe better justice. The available pool of black cognitive talent is small. Tradeoffs must be made. If we want more black teachers, we’ll have to lower the cognitive ability standards required for teaching or reduce the number of black professionals in better-paying, higher-status jobs. To a certain extent, the first of those options make sense. The second one’s just stupid. I got into this because of that damn TFA announcement saying that 1 in 5 of their teaching corps was black, and the congratulatory nonsense that spewed forth in the announcement’s wake. And you still should be wondering how TFA is getting so many blacks that can pass the licensure tests. Next up, I promise. 29 Comments \| tags: black doctors, black lawyers, black professionals, black teachers, IQ, licensure tests, Malcolm Gladwell, Steve Sailer \| posted in policy, teacher certification, voldemort 28 Comments \| tags: Charles Murray, disparate impact, Hobson v Hansen, IQ, IQ distribution, Jeanne Oakes, McNeal Standard, Michael Petrilli, Richard Posner, Roslyn Mickelson, school racial bias, segregation, Spangler vs Pasadena, tracking case law \| posted in College Admissions, policy, politics, testing Richard Posner, Voldemortean Educational Realist Terrible confession: I have not always been clear on the difference between Richard Posner and Kenneth Feinberg. It’s not so much that I think, “One’s a famous judge, one’s the guy who did the 9/11 settlement” as it is that I make the famous judge the guy who did the 9/11 settlement. Someone got dropped in the duplicate data key, and I think it’s Posner, because I would recognize Feinberg if I saw him on TV, but Posner doesn’t look familiar. (You’re thinking um, they’re both New Yorkers who work in the legal profession with names that seem more than a tad Jewish? But that can’t be it, because I’m very clear on who Alan Dershowitz is, to say nothing of Ruth Ginsburg.) So even though I’ve read and enjoyed articles by both, I have traditionally conflated them into one guy. But no more. In Rating Teachers, Posner takes fewer than a three hundred words to clearly articulate the major idea of my little blog, when I can never get a single entry below a thousand words. I bow to greatness. Finally, I am not clear what we should think the problem of American education (below the college level) is. Most children of middle-class (say upper quartile of households, income starting at $80,000) Americans are white or Asian and attend good public or private schools, usually predominantly white. The average white IQ is of course 100 and the Asian (like the Jewish) almost one standard deviation higher, that is, 115. The average black IQ is 85, a full standard deviation below the white average, and the average Hispanic IQ has been estimated recently at 89. Black children in particular often come from disordered households, which has a negative effect on ability to learn and perhaps indeed on IQ (which is only partly hereditary) as well. Increasingly, black and Hispanic students find themselves in schools with few white or Asian students. The challenge to American education is to provide a useful education to the large number of Americans who are unlikely to benefit from a college education or from high school courses aimed at preparing students for college. The need is for a different curriculum and for a greater investment in these children’s preschool environment. We should recognize that we have different populations with different schooling needs and that curricula and teaching methods should be revised accordingly. This recognition and response should precede tinkering with compensations systems. I do not call for greater investment in preschool , because most people who hold this view believe that better preschool would close the achievement gap. It almost certainly would not. However, I do wonder if preschool that removes poor kids from their often incompetent parents and physically dangerous environments would simply better prepare them to learn to their best ability and give them more resilience, more faith in the larger world and willingness to try to play a part in it. On that basis and with that goal, I would support more preschool funding. Other than that, I could have written this if I weren’t distressingly verbose, nowhere near as disciplined and, though it pains me to say so, not quite as smart. And just to prove it, I’m going to recall the times I’ve said so, because otherwise my word count will fall below 1000: The Fallacy at the Heart of All Reform: No one has ever made an effective case that non-native speakers can be educated as well as native speakers, regardless of the method used. No one has ever established that integration, racial or economic, improves educational outcomes. No one has ever demonstrated that blacks or Hispanics can achieve at the same average level as whites (or that whites can achieve at the same level as Asians, although no one gets worked up about that gap), nor has anyone ever demonstrated that poor students can achieve equally with their higher-income peers. No one has ever established that kids with IQs below 90 can achieve at the same level as kids with IQs above 100, or examined the difference in outcomes of educating kids with high vs. low motivation. And the only thing that has changed in forty years is that anyone who points this out will now be labelled elitist and racist by both sides of the educational debate, instead of just one. Algebra and the pointlessness of the whole damn thing: In California, at least, tens of thousands of high school kids are sitting in math classes that they don’t understand, feeling useless, understanding deep in their bones that education has nothing to offer them. Meanwhile, well-meaning people who have never spent an hour of their lives trying to explain advanced math concepts to the lower to middle section of the cognitive scale pontificate about teacher ability, statistics vs. algebra, college for everyone, and other useless fantasies that they are allowed to engage in because until our low performers represent the wide diversity of our country to perfection, no one’s going to ruin a career by pointing out that this a pipe dream. And of course, while they’re engaging in these fantasies, they’ll blame teachers, or poverty, or curriculum, or parents, or the kids, for the fact that their dreams aren’t reality. If we could just get whites and Asians to do a lot worse, no one would argue about the absurdity of sending everyone to college. Until then, everyone will divert themselves by engaging in this debate—which, like many kids stuck in the hell of unfair expectations, will go nowhere. The Sinister Assumption Fueling KIPP Skeptics: I am comfortable asserting that hours and hours of additional education time does nothing to change underlying ability. I’m not a racist, nor am I a nihilist who believes outcomes are set from birth. I do, however, hold the view that academic outcomes are determined in large part by cognitive ability. The reason scores are low in high poverty, high minority schools is primarily due to the fact that the students’ abilities are low to begin with, not because they enter school with a fixable deficit that just needs time to fill, and not because they fall behind thanks to poor teachers or misbehaving peers. And if that’s not enough, Posner further makes my day by pointing out that not all good people are competitive, and that teaching isn’t the only job that pays everyone the same salary. Richard Posner, I’ll never think you’re Kenneth Feinberg again. And HT to the uber-voldemortean Steve Sailer for pointing his readers to the Posner post. 5 Comments \| tags: achievement gap, HBD, IQ, Richard Posner, Steve Sailer \| posted in reform, voldemort Learning Math Jessica Lahey’s In Defense of Algebra, in which she describes her adult triumph over math, reminded me of my own experiences learning math and how they might be relevant. This is long, but if I make what I did sound too easy, people will get the wrong idea. I struggled in math during high school, but was simply too clueless to quit. I got As and Bs algebra in 8th grade, got Cs and Ds in the subsequent courses until senior year, when I held onto a B the entire year in AP Calculus and, in what remains one of the great academic shockers of my life, passed the AP Calc test with a 3. Many years later, I took the GRE for my first master’s. I spent a month slogging through math, relearning enough of it to get by, and was very pleased with my 650 quant score, which was the 65th percentile on the GRE. Good, but not great, which is pretty much how I did on the SAT many years earlier. (Verbal, which I spent no time on, was 790). My math turnaround began after I started grad school, when my son was failing geometry. After reading his book and working dozens of problems, I was able to help him (he went on to pass both the AP Stats and Calc AB tests, and is stronger in college math than I am). Needing a part time job for grad school, I auditioned for a job at Kaplan. I originally hired on to teach GRE classes, but within a month I was working close to 40 hours a week teaching the high school tests. Two months later, I was teaching Math 1c and Math 2c, which was ridiculous. I had to learn the SAT math by rote at first, and the SAT Subject math tests required trig and second year algebra. I protested to no avail, and my manager’s decision was prescient—within a few months, parents were emailing me for private homework tutoring in high school math. It turns out I’m very good at explaining things; when I didn’t know how to do a problem in the early days, which was often, I’d go look it up or ask a student who did understand the problem. Ah, that’s the part I missed! Anyone else do that? I could see students nodding. I made the process very transparent, showed students where the glitches in my comprehension were, helped them find their own glitches and, it turns out, students would rather be tutored by someone who knows where the understanding glitches are. I told parents I didn’t have a clue what a log was if it wasn’t in an Ingalls story, but even after raising my rates as an attempt to scare them off, I was getting lots of work. Still, for my own peace of mind, I decided I needed to learn more math instead of literally learning it while teaching others. I started with test math, my strength. The REA and Kaplan test prep books served as my educational foundation. Between the two books, I learned how to recognize the subject and how to solve a number of common problems. When I was tutoring students, I would recognize the type of problem it was. Then, using their textbook, I’d help them work problems by example and explain. In explaining the math, I learned a great deal. My students learned and got improved grades, more confidence, and better test scores. Me, I kept getting more clients. After four years of this, I had an excellent understanding of high school math through pre-calc, and routinely scored 800 when taking practice Math 2c tests (which I did for the first few years to keep me alert to weak spots). I not only knew the material cold, for the most part, but was by this point extremely familiar with the curriculum and sequencing for pre-algebra through algebra II/trig, and somewhat familiar with the same for math analysis (pre-calc) and calculus. Seven years after my first GRE and untold decades after high school, I aced two of the three teacher math credential tests, and passed the third, in calc, with what can be called a gentleman’s C—the conceptual questions, the trig and the math history questions pulled me through. I scheduled my ed school GRE with two days’ lead, and got an 800 on the quant—by that time I was getting 800s on the practice test without a pencil, sitting around the Kaplan office with 15 minutes to kill. (Verbal: 780, but I was distracted and finished in 12 minutes.) As I was studying for the calc credential test (which I took twice), I suddenly had an epiphany about why I was now able to learn math, when I’d done so poorly in high school, and for this, boys and girls, I must go back even further, back to the dark old ages of the mainframe and the earliest days of my previous career: I was unfocused after college, having done well in English lit classes and nothing else. I started as a data entry clerk, but got a contract at IBM using a mainframe product that everyone in its customer base hated, but had to use. While entering the data, I noticed a few short cuts, asked for a manual, and began customizing the product in ways very few people knew was possible. The boss was impressed and made me responsible for product demonstrations, showing my work and explaining how the product could be customized. I got a job from one of the companies that came to the demo, a major brokerage firm. It was my first real job after five years of temping in admin jobs, during and after college. (Irony alert: I’d taken, and nearly flunked, one computer programming course in college and was convinced it wasn’t the career for me. I was three years into my new job before I felt comfortable saying I was an applications programmer, much less a computer programmer.) And the first day I got to my new job, my boss said to me, “So I need to put you on a different project first. Our systems management application needs to be installed on the NYC machine.We have this automated process that moves the source code out of Panvalet, automatically builds the compile JCL based on the program—you know, if it’s CICS or batch, IDMS or DB2, and so on, and compiles it, linkrefs it, and installs it in the right library. It’s already working here; you just need to transfer all the code, change the libraries, and so on. You know CICS, right?” “Oh, it’s a transaction server environment. We mostly use COBOL here, but we’ve got some assembler routines. You know COBOL or assembler? No problem, I’ll sign you up for a class. The code itself is mostly ISPF calls with EXEC, although I’d like to upgrade to REXX.” It’s not just that I didn’t know COBOL, and had no idea what CICS was. It’s that I didn’t know what compile meant, or source code, or batch, or JCL, much less IDMS or DB2. And I didn’t have the foggiest clue what REXX or EXEC was, and ISPF to me was an application, not something I programmed with. Baby, I brought that motherf***er in on time. Two and a half months. I got a bonus, too, because by the time it went live, my director had figured out a small fraction of how much I didn’t know, and was extremely impressed. She never grasped the sum total of my ignorance, thank god. Nor did she ever realize that I still didn’t know what the difference between CICS and batch was and didn’t realize that (at the time) a program couldn’t be both, only vaguely understood that “compile” meant translating code I could read into weird symbols I couldn’t read but presumably the computer could, never did learn COBOL, and only vaguely understood what JCL was or what it did. All that was in my future. The only thing I was pretty confident about after those two and a half months was that I was pretty darn good at EXEC and ISPF dialogs, and that these things weren’t what the brokerage products ran on. So my epiphany was this: Working with computers had taught me how I learned. How I learned. Which was not like most people. When books don’t work as a learning tool, then I have to learn by a particular type of doing. Explanations won’t help. Learning in a vacuum won’t help. I need to learn by trial and error. And then, I learn like Wile E. Coyote traverses the desert; I just keep on going until something blows up in my face. Go this way? Boom! Okay, that way doesn’t work. File it away. Go that way? Two steps, yes, then BOOM! Okay, the two steps, file away, then don’t go that way because BOOM! how about this way? Tiptoe, tiptoe, try this, ha! It worked! Done. On to the next. Make sense of the chaos, bit by bit, understanding the rules by the reaction. When I’m learning something, I neither know nor care about why. Understanding will usually come. So just as I ultimately understood CICS only several months after I started making changes to a mission critical CICS transaction, I didn’t bother with understanding what, exactly, trigonometry was. Two years after I first learned how to work trig problems, I read that trigonometry was the study of the ratio of right triangle sides, and I was like Holy Crap, that’s exactly what trig is. What a trip. One day soon I’ll internalize the fundamental theorem of algebra, but give me time. If not, I’ll wave the dead chicken over the problem because that’s what worked the last time. And it usually works again. (Note: Ironically, as a math teacher, I am big on explaining why, but that’s because I’ve realized that most people aren’t like me.) Of course, theory, whether it be math or computers, is usually beyond me. And yet, in both math and computers, I am capable of occasional insights that please actual mathematicians and computer scientists, even though most of the time I don’t care, as they are working on things that I find utterly incomprehensible. Why did I struggle with math in high school? The usual reasons don’t apply. I was an A student, and remained one in English and history. Unlike Jessica, I never felt labelled, nor did I give up. I had excellent math teachers, all of whom knew that my intellect was considerable and took the time to reach out—each one sat me down at some point and asked why I wasn’t doing better, given my obvious brains. I just know that some people are going to read my post, as they read Jessica Lahey’s, and conclude that, by golly, we prove that anyone can learn math, and that labelling kids based on early progress is cruel and wrong and demoralizing. Lahey herself clearly holds this position. Well, no. Lahey and I are both extremely bright and I know I say this a lot, but that’s because people persist in ignoring the relationship between “smart” and “academic achievement”. Lahey clearly has excellent verbal skills, strong at writing and foreign language (she’s a Latin teacher at an elite middle school), whereas I’m a hybrid who, in addition to excellent verbal skills, tested high on every computer aptitude test that came out back when I was in college. On the other hand, I can’t speak any foreign languages, and I suspect Lahey isn’t as strong on logic and pattern recognition, which is why she needed an algebra teacher to get through first year algebra, whereas I self-taught myself the entire high school curriculum. What Lahey and I both demonstrate is that it’s possible to be well above average in smarts, yet still struggle in math when later experience proves that we were entirely capable of grasping it. Why, then, does an otherwise smart person struggle with math? I have a theory, involving my layman’s understanding of IQ, which I’ll go into briefly. Two visual aids to categorizing or measuring intelligence: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale subscores and subtests and Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory. In both, you can see what most people know on a casual level: intelligence has a verbal component and a visual/spatial component (known as performance in Wechsler). Logic seems to cut across the categories. It’s not terribly controversial to point out that advanced math, even that found in high school, requires more visual spatial and logic ability. I don’t know, specifically, how my intelligence maps to these categories. But I’ve always known that my verbal abilities were very high, my pattern recognition and decision processing equally so, and my visual-spatial relatively weak. Imagine smart kids who has really strong verbal skills but unknown weaknesses in either logic or visual spatial abilities. These kids would coast easily through elementary school, where the skills needed are almost exclusively verbal—reading and arithmetic. By the end of of 8th grade, they’re bored out of their minds. Most of elementary school is time spent teaching them things they already know and developing social skills. So for 8 years, this type of smart kid hadn’t ever had to struggle to learn something—in fact, learning itself is pretty alien to smart kids. (This, parents of smart kids, is why you should make sure your kids have to struggle with something—cooking, art, horseback riding, making nice with other people, whatever.) And then, math. Algebra and beyond can come as a big shock. When school has come easily all your life, it’s hard to even know what “learning” is, much less how it applies to you. I’ve talked to countless people who qualify as Really, Really Smart, and every one of them has agreed that at some point in their lives, they realized that they had no idea how to learn. Some figured it out in high school or college. Some, like me, didn’t figure it out until they got a job that required them to learn something. Others, like Lahey, had access to a math teacher and went back and learned it because they wanted to fill in a gap that they felt was necessary for parenting. So the otherwise smart kids who struggled with math did so in part because their particular intelligence was strong on verbal, and lighter on the spatial and (probably) visualization skills that are helpful in math. Plus, math was, to quote the Great Barbie, tough. And these kids had never once faced “tough” in a school subject. Many folded. This was particularly true in the era before we began demanding higher math of all students (say about a decade or fifteen years ago). Before the 90s, math teachers weren’t held responsible for their students’ failures, and we accepted that not everyone was “good at math”. Kids with strong verbal abilities just took less math—in those days, it didn’t end your hopes of college, even of elite college. It was quite normal to get into an excellent school with a strong performance in history or English with little more than second year algebra on a transcript. Today, of course, any white or Asian kid who wants to go to an elite college has to have advanced math, so the smart verbal kids who don’t have the requisite math skills have a much stronger incentive to either compensate or fake it, with or without a tutor. Moreover, math teachers these days are far more likely to reward effort over ability, so it’s easier for a student to get As in math by religiously doing homework and extra credit, even if they do poorly on tests. And of course, math teachers are also less likely to dismiss the effort involved in teaching math to those who aren’t necessarily strong in the subject. Thus, for many reasons, smart kids today with primarily verbal skills are less likely to have given up on math and are at least willing to fake it. Many learn to compensate, as I did much later in life, by using their other cognitive abilities to make up for their relative weakness. (Compensation: Picture a circle inscribed in a square. Can you estimate the ratio of the circle’s area to the square’s? Or would you, like me, be completely incapable of a reliable guess and so calculate the difference by creating a radius of length r and work it as an algebra problem? I contend that people who can make an accurate estimate and do the algebra have an easier time in math than the people who can only do it with the algebra.) Back in the day, the kids whose intelligence was strong in the math aspects but weak in verbal got a similar shock when they were expected to write an analytical essay on Hamlet and offer some original insights. Unfortunately, as has been noted before, our history and English curriculum has never recovered from the dumbing down it suffered through in the interests of multi-culti, giving kids who are strong at math little reason to ever struggle to access their verbal abilities. This has obvious implications for the big algebra controversy kicked off by Hacker. But it involves recognizing that underlying cognitive ability is a huge determinant when deciding who should, or perhaps shouldn’t, take algebra. 12 Comments \| tags: algebra, education, Hacker, honors, IQ, Jessica Lahey, trigonometry \| posted in math, policy	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7127287983894348, "wiki_prob": 0.2872712016105652, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1908810"}
Pink Films Vol. 5 & 6 Written by Richard Durrance on 18 Oct 2021 Distributor Third Window • Certificate 18 • Price £17.99 Pink Films Vol. 5 & 6 is an curiously described release. Believe the cover and it comprises Women Hell Song (1970) and Underwater Love (2011). See the back and you realise it’s those two films and Forbidden Techniques (1966), a film added as an extra and only in a German dub and English subtitles. The oddity here is as much because Third Window previously released Underwater Love, so anyone skimming information might pass it by if they have that film. If I’m making a big deal of this it’s because I ordered this one sight unseen and if I’d realised the films weren't as advertised I’d have thought twice. I’d tried to watch Underwater Love before and it had gotten right on my tits and I didn’t even finish it. This would have been a shame because bloody hell, Women Hell Song is worth the price of the Blu-ray itself. Not just that but it’s very possibly the best film across all the volumes, beating even the two features on Pink Films Vol. 1 & 2. Women Hell Song Okayo (Katori Tamaki) is a Yakuza on the run, caught by sadistic policeman Honda. Sold by Honda to Ginji the Viper, who plans her no small amount of harm, Okayo is then rescued by a mysterious saviour, finds love with him and then religion. Okayo, marked by the tattoo on her back of Benten, begins to travel, only to meet a young woman, Osayo, being sold by her father to pay his debts. Okayo conspires to help Osayo escape her bondage, having been sold to the now powerful Honda. Meanwhile Okayo finds herself attracted to Seigaku, who might just be the man who saved her years before… As stories go it is like most, pretty so-so on paper but the power of the film is apparent right from the first moments. Mainly shot in often beautifully framed black and white it belies its limited budget. As Okayo escapes from Honda it’s visually gorgeous and curiously feels a million miles away from what you imagine as a pink film; the images of her escape would not be out of place in a polished chanbara picture. If anything it sets the tone, because though there are unpleasant scenes that you’d expect of sexual assault and some nudity throughout, how these are treated is frequently unusual. Director, Mamoru Watanabe, filming an opening sexual assault on Okayo, uses the camera not to linger on flesh but provide a sense of struggle and Okayo’s own punch-drunk senses. Where it could easily have been filmed with leering men – Ginji the Viper is no angel but he’s no raving caricature – and lots of shots of lingering nudity, it keeps the titillation to a minimum and the film focuses more on Okayo’s defiance and emotional state. You feel what really matters to Watanabe is illustrating Okayo’s strengths rather than her preceived weaknesses as a woman. One thing that caught my attention early on was also how Okayo’s past was dimly referred to. She was someone or other's mistress and has committed something or other crime, but there’s no sense of her past that marks her as a pure hero or villain. Yes, she admits to having killed, but we don’t know in what context, why, or even if her life has given her little choice. The passing brilliance of this means that we can create our own vision of Okayo’s past: I chose to frame her as a character like the young woman she will later meet who is being sold and has to find a way to survive and even thrive in a world that sees her as nothing other than a commodity, and so any violence, any crimes of hers, means she is as much the victim as she is the perpetrator. The way young Osayo is treated I felt like the director likely felt the same as me, and was hinting at what has led Okayo to this point. The fact the young woman being sold has a name eerily close to Okayo’s own seemed to confirm this. Then when we witness what happens to Osayo you only feel that these men that buy and sell are vicious, pathetic, self-serving and the worst kinds of criminal -in escaping them most crimes would be almost forgivable. The women earn your sympathy, the men your contempt yet it’s never too over the top as some films can be and never falls close to cartoonishness. Women Hell Song also introduces elements of a ghost story and in some of the early scenes Okayo has a curiously feline capacity that would not be out of place in Kaneto Shindo’s Kuroneko, in place of the avenging daughter who sails through the ghostly fog. The film provides other reasons for suggesting that Okayo may or may not really be alive, and the ambiguity certainly provides the film with a specific mysteriousness that also makes you question if she is manipulating the men’s sense of who she might be, when really nothing more than flesh and blood. As well as ghost story comparisons, Okayo’s self-composure seems to mark her out like a Spaghetti Western hero – self-reliant, unflustered – even when accosted on a lonely road with a knife you feel as though she is the one in control. Either that or she's like some avenging angel that knows it cannot be harmed. She often feels part Lady Snowblood part Zatoichi. She fights like both and definitely gambles with the same skill as Zatoichi. Okayo in this incarnation is comfortable in almost any circumstance, even if her tattooed back is described as leaving her unable to meet the eyes of others. I’m not sure if we’re meant to be considering this false modesty, considering she has that almost ghostly imperviousness I associate with Maiko Kaji at her most defiant in the Female Prisoner 701 Scorpion movies. Like many of the previous films though, the star Tamaki Katori appeared in the first pink film. Intriguingly most of scenes that contain sexualised nudity are shot in colour, one imagines to please those who are hoping to see a sex film, as they’d otherwise be disappointed. The first is faintly ludicrous, almost comic; the second feels more that it wishes to evoke romantic eroticism; the third is a rape that again takes no pleasure in what is occurring, instead the director is more intent on visually expressing the emotions of Osayo. Clocking in at a brisk 75 minutes, the film tells its story with economy and another beautiful example of why though initially sceptical of what the pink films in these releases might be, to always keep an open mind. I’m sure there are plenty of tatty ones out there. Women Hell Song most certainly is not one of them. Forbidden Techniques Next up, Kan Mukai, director of Blue Film Woman provides us with Forbidden Techniques, a film that opens with an explanation of why the film is in a German dub, though it’s pretty obvious: no one can find another copy of the print or the Japanese soundtrack. Sounds awful right? Wrong. Perhaps because continental Europe has a greater history of dubbing films it’s curiously unobtrusive as the film opens and a drunk clomps onto a station platform, and slurs at a man sat on bench. The man on the bench happens to be a boxer, Eriguchi. Left in peace by the drunk, Eriguchi meets a bathhouse woman, Naomi, and Eriguchi tells her the story of Kaori, the woman who has caused him to lose his faith as a boxer. What hits you as hard as the opening credits, where Eriguchi pummels the punch bags in a startlingly enticing and atmospheric opening, is how the films feels entirely like it should be a European film. Maybe this is also why the German dub doesn’t seem to matter. And if anything it is a film that really struck me that if it had been French it might, like Gushing Prayer in the first set, be considered a missing arthouse classic. It’s not radical in the way that film is but as Forbidden Techniques plays out in a series of intimate one on ones, it becomes a claustrophobic film, focussing on emotions and our character’s psychology. Again, there is very little nudity and though a lot what you’d term sex scenes each have a specific tone to them, and exist to express the character’s (especially Eriguchi ‘s) emotional state, whether romantic eroticism or distress or other. So that again if one is after a tonne of tits you won’t get it from Forbidden Techniques, instead you are more likely to witness angst and anguish. The film seems more interested in being visually and psychologically interesting as it is the sex (if anything the sex is by the by). The fight scenes seem to have as much, if not more, care taken of them than those when Eriguchi is with either Kaori or Naomi. Certainly the key fight that is shown in some detail is both visceral and focusses on Eriguchi’s mental state. It’s also economically filmed, in a wonderful way. Clearly with a budget of not much more than a fiver, Mukai uses some stock crowd footage and a washed out image of a boxing arena with a crowd so you can see nothing of the boxers while setting up the scene as being in a proper boxing auditorium with roaring crowd. Then the fight begins and a fight it really is; it is surprisingly brutal, again the camera is up close and personal so that you can see and feel very violent blow. It’s also shot so that you see only the ring, the background where clearly they hadn’t money for extras is blacked out, emphasising the sense of nothing existing outside the fight, nothing except Kaori that is. This visual economy is arresting and you could argue it is economy raised to artistry. The opening note to the film calls it beautiful, not a word that you immediately link to pink films, but often Forbidden Techniques really does manage to be beautiful, luxuriating in rain streaked streets, glistening on the screen. This is as good as restoration can hope to provide in black and white. I have no idea what influenced Mukai – if anything! - but the film structurally and thematically feels exactly like a Film Noir. Eriguchi describes his past with Kaori, a biter who likes a fighter, to Naomi after they go to a hotel. The relationship of Eriguchi and Kaori recalls Burt Lancaster having Ava Gardner under his skin in Robert Siodmak’s The Killers (one of my favourite Film Noir) – another film with a boxer whose obsession with a woman causes his downfall. Also, the way in which the film structurally progresses, with Eriguchi and Naomi’s evolving relationship intercut with scenes from Eriguchi’s past so that everything slowly unravels, is pure Film Noir structure, leading up to [spoilers redacted]. Casting Shusaku Muto as Eriguchi also works in the film’s favour because there is a little of Alain Delon about him. He has the same slightly detached yet haunted look about him that leaves his face suggesting more about his past then his character would ever be able to speak with words. As much as the film feels very European it also felt like it combined the precariousness of a boxer’s success and the griminess of the business shown in a film like Robert Wise’s 1949 boxing flick, The Set-Up then smashed into the emotional power plays and violence of Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tokyo Fist. Maybe that’s just me, I sometimes make curious comparisons that come to mind, though the violence in Forbidden Techniques frequently had the intensity of that in Tsukamoto’s film –and of course Third Window also release a lot of Tsukamoto’s films, another reason it comes to mind. (Though still waiting for a release of Tetsuo: The Bullet Man on Blu-ray to replace my US DVD version – just saying… no pressure…) Forbidden Techniques also has one virtue in common with Women Hell Song. Both are short films, about 70 odd minutes. Both would struggle to continue their narratives any longer and so bow out at just the right time. It’s a virtue in films like these that don’t have the time or luxury to reshoot scenes or have expansive shooting schedules that those restrictions provoke creativity and innovation; as the outspoken, great and occasionally nutty as fuck William Friedkin put it: given enough time and money anyone can make a good film. But only a few people can take a small budget, a limited cast and resources and make something remarkable and both Women Hell Song and Forbidden Techniques manage that, even if the former just about comes out as the better of the two films. This returns me to the strange description on the cover of the Blu-ray I opened with, as not just is Forbidden Techniques noted on the back as an extra, the splash screen on the Blu-ray has Vol 5 as Women Hell Song, Vol 6 as Forbidden Techniques but the extra is Underwater Love. Ah, Underwater Love. This time I managed to actually watch the film’s full yet admittedly still brief 85 minutes. Apparently shot in five and a half days and using one take only with the great Christopher Doyle behind the camera. The opening shot of the water is lovely as you would expect of Doyle, but many of the images to follow are not so sumptuous. The title of the film describes it as a pink musical, I think it would be better described as a pink film with a few songs, as to my mind the musical numbers were not integrated holistically into the film’s narrative enough for it to truly be a musical. Anyway… Fish factory worker, Asuka, rescues a fish, throwing it into the local river only for it to be eaten by a kappa. Oops. The kappa also happens to be the reincarnation of dead school friend, Aoki. Unfortunate really, as Kappa-Aoki starts hanging around Asuka’s place, working at the fish factory and just as she’s agreed to marry the fish factory manager, Hajime. To be blunt, the film just doesn’t do it for me. I’m sure there are people out there who will really enjoy it but I found myself sighing a lot as the film unfurled; much rolling of eyes was also in action. A lot of this came from the film’s obvious limitations: its short shoot and limited budget. But really the main issue for me was Kappa-Aoki, who is played with such loathsome charmlessness it left me wanting to reach into the screen and strangle him. I just found the Kappa-Aoki profoundly irritating. As we learn, unsurprisingly, that Kappa-Aoki liked Asuka when they were at school and that she may herself have feelings for Kappa-Aoki, suspension of disbelief was impossible. If I were Asuka or, well, anyone, I’d just want to slap the tosser and tell him to sod off. All Yoshiro Umezawa does as Aoki is make this continuing and irritating shrug of a gesture and talk in a dreary monotone that saps the soul and devastates the will to live. Curiously, kappa we meet later make the same gesture (and accompanying sound) and they are far, far less irritating – in fact not irritating at all. It felt to me like the actor had just turned up, read a line while wearing a kappa suit and just really, really wanted to go home and be done with the film. His lack of interest radiates out of costume, through the screen and… enough said. It’s a real shame as even though I don’t think it’s a true musical, the first song and dance routine that spontaneously breaks out in the fish factory is full of vigorous energy and a pervasive sense of fun. It also highlights the film’s great strength: Sawa Masaki as Asuka. Somehow you get the feeling the actor is the opposite of Umezawa and was having a whale of a time. She gives it her all whether this is bouncing around to a musical number, writhing around in the obligatory sex scenes – this is a pink film after all – or wading through water to find the anal pearl (don’t ask!). She brings life to the film and energy to the musical numbers and really holds the film together, whereas Umezawa threatens to kill it deader than a dead thing on a motorway having been repeatedly run over by heavy lorries laden with fish. Noticeably the one number that Umezawa gets is as limp as a month’s old stick of celery or a wizened cucumber that Kappa-Aoki so likes to chomp upon. Did I say that Umezawa as Kappa-Aoki is irritating as hell? If so did I also mention that Masaki as the the thirty-something Asuka has real charm and energy? By the time I finally pushed myself to watch Underwater Love, I’d already seen Women Hell Song twice and had just finished watching Forbidden Techniques just minutes before, so matching up to these films those up was always going to be tough. I like the idea, and how director Shinji Imaoka wants to try and subvert the pink film, but even with Christopher Doyle behind the camera he just cannot quite pull it off; but it’s nevertheless an intriguing film. I just wish Kappa-Aoki wasn’t played by such a gormless, fun-sapping nom. As we have three films, you have to say scoring them as a whole is difficult, as Underwater Love for me brings down the rating. Women Hell Song gets a standing-ovation worthy 9; Forbidden Techniques doesn’t finish as strongly as it starts, but it starts so strongly it threatened to eclipse Women Hello Song so a take a bow with an 8; Underwater Love gets a generous 5, for ambition in trying something new, for Masaki’s spirited performance, and for Doyle’s always well-shot, if sporadically excellent, camera work. Considered in the context of the three boxsets, Pink Films Vol.5 & 6 manages the surprising feat of surpassing Vol. 1 & 2. It’s a superbly strong finish, yes let down a little by Underwater Love but that at least provides an intriguing glimpse of where the pink film can and perhaps should go with a little more care and attention. Moreover, consider your average punter isn’t going to rush out to buy or watch these films (even if they really should) further kudos to Third Window for releasing these films – and to German distributor Rapid Eye Movies responsible for the original release. (Oh and as well as Tetsuo: The Bullet Man, I’ve not heard about a UK release of Sono’s Why Don’t You Play In Hell – I’ve not seen it. I mean I know it’s not all about me, but really, it is all about me.). In a word: recommended. 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Where To Get Free Summer Meals for Laramie Kids Phylicia Peterson Phylicia Peterson Published: May 25, 2022 Summer is fast approaching, and the school year is nearly over. Unfortunately, this time of year marks a period of uncertainty for many children as their access to regular meals ends with the closing of school cafeteria doors. Wyoming faces an alarming statistic - 1 in 5 children in the Equality State faces food insecurity. In an effort to combat the disparity, First Lady Jenny Gordon launched the Wyoming Hunger Initiative to provide our state's children access to food. The initiative has improved awareness of hunger and food disparity in the state and opened the door for more resources to provide food for needy children, families, veterans, and elders in Wyoming. Albany County's extension of the Wyoming Hunger Initiative has answered First Lady Gordon's initiative with enthusiasm. Check out the list here or by visiting nohungerwyo.org. Food Pantries and Essentials These resources offer both to-go food items and non-perishables and toiletries, diapers, and other critical essentials for kids and families. Family Promise - Albany 215 South 11th St. Laramie, WY Family Promise of Albany County is part of the national Family Promise group that seeks to help families experiencing homelessness. Their Diaper and Hygiene Cabinet offers free diapers, hygiene items, and food to families in need. Find out more about their pantry by clicking here. Laramie Interfaith 712 Canby St. Laramie, WY Laramie Interfaith is a non-profit dedicated to helping our city's residents through times of need. They offer several services to help families in need. The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) provides food assistance to qualifying individuals and families. The service distributes food monthly at the Laramie Interfaith building. Laramie Interfaith also hosts a food pantry open to all with no income qualification necessary. The pantry has non-perishable food items and hygiene products on hand, while perishables like milk and bread are refilled regularly by donations from local grocery stores. Note that the amount of products a family can select depends on family size. You can find out more about Laramie Interfaith's services by clicking here. Trinity Lutheran's Campus Cabinet 107 S. 7th St. Laramie, WY Trinity Lutheran offers a pantry service to the public that carries both perishable foods, non-perishables, and hygiene products. The pantry has no income limitations and is open to all who need it. Trinity's Campus Cabinet also offers grocery gift cards and takes requests for items. Find out more about their program by clicking here. To-Go Food Laramie also has several options for ready-made foods that kids can bring home for the day. Feeding Laramie Valley Feeding Laramie Valley has two programs serving the kids of Laramie. "Shares" is their year-round program offering a "shares" bag every week that provides 2-3 servings of fruits and veggies to each participant. The program also provides recipes to inspire participants on how to cook up their received produce. Kids Out to Lunch and Kids Home for Dinner are the kid-focused programs offered by Feeding Laramie Valley. Kids Out to Lunch offers healthy meals to kids from 11:30 p.m. to 1 p.m. every weekday. Lunch meals also come with to-go activities for the kids. Kids Home for Dinner offers weekend meals for youths during the school year and also provides engaging to-go activities for the kids. Find out more about Feeding Laramie Valley by clicking here. Laramie Soup Kitchen The Laramie Soup Kitchen provides to-go meals for any individual or family in need. Their hot, home-cooked meals include salads, baked goods, and other options. Their kitchen is open from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. every weekday. Find out more about the Laramie Soup Kitchen by clicking here. *Albany County School District #1 Backpack Program While the Albany County School District #1 Backpack Program is a school-year program, it's a great one to know about. The program helps students in need by providing weekend meals and snacks at the end of every school week for them to take home. Reach out to your student's school counselor for more information. 7 Facts You Probably Don't Know About Laramie, WY Explore interesting tidbits about Laramie, Wyoming. Source: Where To Get Free Summer Meals for Laramie Kids Filed Under: children and youth, county resources, free food programs, Laramie Wyoming This Weekend In Laramie…Trains, Stars, and Holiday Bazaars! “The Zone” – Laramie’s Newest Shop Opening This Week Does Wyoming Have the Only City Called “Laramie”? 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SJSU Research with SJSU SJSU Research Foundation San José State University Powering Silicon Valley Select a Catalog 2022-2023 Academic Catalog 2021-2022 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG] 2020-2021 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG] 2019-2020 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG] MyRoadmaps Catalog Select an option Courses Programs Departments and Colleges Policies and Procedures Entire Catalog Undergraduate University Graduation Requirements Graduate Studies Requirements Student Rights, Responsibilities & Conduct Graduate Advisor Directory Undergraduate Advisor Directory My Roadmaps Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) Training Program Certificate Print Degree (opens a new window) \| Print-Friendly Page (opens a new window) Program Director: Michael Bowling The Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) Training Program, offered by the Department of Biological Sciences , is a 12 month advanced certificate program that enables students to obtain a Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS) Certificate from the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), as well as a California Clinical Laboratory Scientist License issued by the California Department of Public Health. The program is approximately 55 weeks long. Students spend 32 hours a week training on site at one of our hospital affiliates, and 8 hours a week taking part in formal coursework online. If you are interested in applying to our program, visit www.sjsu.edu/cls. The Clinical Lab Scientist Training Program is approved by Laboratory Field Services, a division of the State of California, Department of Public Health (www.cdph.ca.gov). The program is accredited by the National Accreditation Agency for Clinical Laboratory Science (NAACLS) (www.naacls.org), and our graduated students are eligible to take the ASCP national certification exam. For more information, you can contact NAACLS directly at: 5600 N. River Road, Suite 720, Rosemont, IL 60018 or by calling 773-714-8880. You can also reach them on the web by emailing [email protected]. University Advanced Certificate Requirements Advanced certificate programs offers postbaccalaureate students coursework leading to a specific, applied, focused goal. In order to be eligible for admission to an advanced certificate, students complete an intake form or apply through CalState Apply and submit an official transcript(s) (noting the completion of a U.S. bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution or the equivalent of a U.S. bachelor’s degree from an accredited and/or recognized institution from a foreign country). Students must have a minimum of 2.5 undergraduate GPA. Students must maintain a minimum GPA of 3.0 in all advanced certificate coursework, with no less than the grade of “C” in any course. A maximum of 4 units of coursework with a grade of “C” can count toward an advanced certificate. A maximum of 4 units of coursework may be repeated. Undergraduate lower division courses are not applicable to advanced certificates. A maximum of 30% of any graduate degree program units (e.g., 9 units for a 30-unit Master’s degree) can be completed from another institution and/or units from Open University (including advanced certificate courses) at SJSU with approval from the department or school. The choice of grading requirements may have implications for transferability to degree programs (University Policy S16-17). The advisor/director of the program is responsible for verifying a student’s satisfactory completion of the academic requirements established for the program and for forwarding a copy of the certificate audit completion form to the Office of Graduate Admissions and Program Evaluations. The Office of the Registrar records the completion of the program on the student’s transcript. Certificate Core (24 units) MICR 291A - Advanced Hematology 4 unit(s) MICR 291B - Advanced Pathophysiology 4 unit(s) MICR 291C - Advanced Human Immunology 4 unit(s) MICR 291D - Advanced Medical Microbiology 4 unit(s) MICR 291E - Advanced Immunohematology 4 unit(s) MICR 291F - Molecular Based Diagnostic Techniques 4 unit(s) Additional Core (21 units) Three semesters of the following course: MICR 291G - Clinical Laboratory Management 4 unit(s) MICR 292 - Topics and Demonstrations in Clinical Laboratory Science 3 unit(s) Total Units Required (45 units) Back to Top \| Print Degree (opens a new window) \| Print-Friendly Page (opens a new window) All catalogs © 2023 San José State University.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.552780032157898, "wiki_prob": 0.44721996784210205, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1561478"}
New Sanford cancer center opening in Bismarck Backstrom, Wilson return as Capitals blank Blue Jackets, 1-0 by: By SAMMI SILBER WASHINGTON (AP)Nicklas Backstrom and Tom Wilson made their season debuts and the Washington Capitals beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 1-0 on Sunday night. It marked the first time Backstrom and Wilson took the ice at Capital One Arena since the first round of the 2022 Stanley Cup playoffs in May. Both underwent major procedures in the offseason – Backstrom had hip resurfacing surgery and Wilson had ACL surgery. ”You know, after an injury, it’s a little bit different. You’re expecting your body to show up but you never really know. I tried to put in all the work I could, and it held up, we got through it,” Wilson said. ”It felt better as the game went on. The guys battled for Nicky and I to get it done, and Kuemps played really well, and it’s nice to get the first one out of the way. But it was a really cool experience.” Following nearly eight months of rehabilitation, both were cleared to make their long-awaited returns and were integrated quickly into the top six. Backstrom slotted in as the first-line center between Alex Ovechkin and Conor Sheary while Wilson played on the second-line right wing with Dylan Strome and Evgeny Kuznetsov. Both also got time on the power play, with Backstrom running the half-wall on the top unit and Wilson getting a look on the second unit. ”It meant the world, and obviously I missed this and with not knowing what my future was going to hold, just coming back and playing, it feels great,” Backstrom said. ”I couldn’t ask for anything else.” Darcy Kuemper continued his strong play between the pipes as he made 37 saves and held off the swarming Blue Jackets for his fourth shutout of the season and second in five games. Despite the Capitals getting two of their stars back in the mix, the ice wasn’t exactly tilted in their favor, as Columbus, coming off a 4-3 win over the Carolina Hurricanes, dominated in shots on goal and limited Washington’s chances at 5-on-5 and on the man advantage. However, Erik Gustafsson’s goal just 2:43 minutes into the game secured the win for the Capitals. ”Good teams can find a way (to win) in a lot of different ways. Tonight was one of them,” Kuemper said. Elvis Merzlikins made 18 saves for Columbus, who have now dropped 10 of the last 12 games. ”That’s a game you want to win so badly, I think. That was one of the games for 60 minutes we put it all together … that’s the unfortunate part,” Blue Jackets defenseman Andrew Peeke said. ”Sometimes you got to tip your cap to the goalie, and we just got to take what the game gave us and move on from that.” NOTES: Gustafsson scored his seventh goal of the season, all of them in the last 11 games. … Garnet Hathaway and Gavin Bayreuther dropped the gloves in the first period … Anthony Mantha was a healthy scratch for the first time in his Capitals tenure, as he and Nicolas Aube-Kubel sat out with Backstrom and Wilson returning. Blue Jackets: Visit the Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday. Capitals: Visit the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday in the first half of a home-and-home series. AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/NHL and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports Professional Scores Western North Dakota football stars taking the next … New Salem-Almont football star AJ Heins signs with … North Dakota state house passes two Pledge of Allegiance … New Sanford cancer center opening in downtown Bismarck Celebrate US female composers with Bismarck-Mandan … Local Sports / 44 mins ago North Dakota lawmaker hopes to heavily tax out-of-state … Printing Teddy Roosevelt silver and gold commemorative … Family of Mandan couple discusses how they are doing … A new story for downtown Minot brought by NDSU students Cooking with KX: Wake up with these 4 flavors of … Minot State welcomes high school students to learn … Colorful igloos: A different take on staying ‘cool’	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5609203577041626, "wiki_prob": 0.4390796422958374, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1684173"}
Reaction Post: 2013 Newbery, Printz, and others So what did I think of the 2013 winners? Overall, a pretty decent year. No huge surprises, unless you count Wonder's total lack of appearance. I know a lot of people have been loving on that book, but I've been avoiding it. Now that it hasn't won anything, I don't have to read it. The actual Newbery winner, Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Ivan, is a book I've been hearing good things about, so I'm happy to read that. Huzzah for Bomb getting three mentions: a Newbery Honor, a Sibert medal for nonfiction for children, and a YALSA medal for nonfiction for teens. In fact, a lot of books ended up on the same two nonfiction lists. Tasha over at Waking Brain Cells pointed out on Twitter that so much of the really good nonfic out there is for grades 6-8, which also happens to be an overlap period for the two age ranges. Hmm. Interesting to think about. I had never heard of the Printz winner, Nick Lake's Into Darkness. That's not unusual for the Printz - in fact, this is kind of a banner year in that I've read two of the honor books (Dodger, Code Name Verity) and heard of one more (Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe), leaving only one honor and the winner as unknowns. The other big winner, besides Bomb, was Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz, which carried off a Printz honor, the Pura Belpre author award, and the Stonewall award. Someone pointed out that this is the first year a book with Latino characters has won the Stonewall. Initially, I went, "The award is, what, three years old? How is that significant?" And then I researched, and I learned that while it's only been included in the ALA announcements for about three years, it's actually been around since 1971. I am humbled. And yeah, that's big. Congrats, Ben Saenz! Finally, my personal, "EEEEE!!!" moment? Seraphina winning the Morris Award. You can see how much I loved that book. (But Bibliovore, what about the books for younger kids?) (I'm not ignoring those! Go over to Kid Tested, Librarian Approved for the scoop on that.) Posted by Bibliovore at 10:31 AM 3 comments: Labels: awards John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (H) Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz (H) Bomb: The Race to Build - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin (H) Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen (H) Creepy Carrots illustrated by Peter Brown, written by Aaron Reynolds (H) Extra Yarn, illustrated by Jon Klassen, written by Mac Barnett (H) Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (H) One Cool Friend illustrated by David Small, written by Toni Buzzeo (H) Sleep Like a Tiger illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski, written by Mary Logue for excellence in literature written for young adults In Darkness by Nick Lake (H) Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz (H) Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (H) Dodger by Terry Pratchett (H) The White Bicycle by Beverly A Brenna Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for the most distinguished beginning reader book Up! Tall! and High by Ethan Long (H) Let's Go for a Drive by Mo Willems (H) Pete the Cat and HIs 4 Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin, illustrated by James Dean (H) Rabbit and Robot: the Sleepover by Cece Bell for the best book about the African-American experience Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America by Andrea Davis Pinkney (H) Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by E.B. Lewis (H) No Crystal Stair by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie I, Too, Am America illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Langston Hughes (H) H.O.R.S.E.: a game of basketball and imagination by Christopher Myers (H) Ellen's Broom illustrated by Daniel Minter, written by Kelly Starling Lyons (H) I Have a Dream illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Martin Luther King Jr. Virginia Hamilton Practitioner Award for Lifetime Achievement Demetria Tucker - Roanoke Public Library system for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience Back to Front and Upside Down by Claire Alexander Middle Grade Novel A Dog Called Homeless by Sarah Lean Young Adult Novel Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am by Harry Mazer and Peter Lerangis for the 10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences Caring is Creepy by David Zimmerman Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman Juvenile In Justice by Richard Ross Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan My Friend Dahmer by Derf One Shot at Forever: a small town, an unlikely coach, and a magical baseball season by Chris Ballard Pure by Juliana Baggott The Round House by Louise Erdrich Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in children's video Anna, Emma, and the Condors by Green Planet Films for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature. Tamora Pierce (specifically for the Song of the Lioness series and the Protector of the Small Quartet) May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award recognizing an author, critic, librarian, historian or teacher of children's literature, who then presents a lecture at a winning host site Andrea Davis Pinkney The Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for substantial and lasting contributions to literature for children Mildred L. Batchelder Award for an outstanding children's book translated from a language other than English and subsequently published in the United States My Family for the War by Anne C. Voorhoeve, translated by Tammi Reichel (H) A Game for Swallows: to die, to leave, to return by Zeina Abirached, translated by Edward Gauvin (H) Son of a Gun by Anne de Graaf best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults The Fault in Our Stars written by John Green, read by Kate Rudd Pura Belpre Awards For the best books about the Latino cultural experience Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz (H) The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano by Sonia Manzano Martin de Porres: the rose in the desert illustrated by David Diaz, written by Gary D. Schmidt Robert F. Sibert Medal for most distinguished informational book for children Bomb: The Race to Build - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin (H) Electric Ben: the amazing life and times of Benjamin Franklin by Robert Byrd (H) Moonbird: a year on the wind with the great survivor B95 by Philip M Hoose (H) Titanic: voices from the disaster by Deborah Hopkinson Books of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered experience. (H) Drama by Raina Telgemeier (H) Gone Gone Gone by Hannah Moskowitz (H) October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepherd by Leslea Newman (H) Sparks: the epic, completely true blue, (almost) holy quest of Debbie by SJ Adams William C. Morris Award for a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens (F) Wonder Show by Hannah Rodgers Barnaby (F) Love and Other Perishable Items by Laura Buzo (F) After the Snow by S.D. Crockett (F) The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily Danforth YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults honors the best nonfiction book published for young adults during a November 1 – October 31 publishing year. (F) Steve Jobs: the man who thought different by Karen Blumenthal (F) Moonbird: a year on the wind with the great survivor B95 by Philip M Hoose (F) Titanic: voices from the disaster by Deborah Hopkinson (F) We've Got a Job: the 1963 Birmingham children's march by Cynthia Levinson Labels: awards, libraries, news Gothic Double Feature: The Dark Unwinding by Sharon Cameron and The Twin’s Daughter by Lauren Baratz-Logsted Book: The Dark Unwinding Author: Sharon Cameron Source: ARC from colleague Katharine, a poor relation, is used to doing her aunt’s dirty work for her. Sent off to the country in order to prove her uncle mad so that her aunt (not his wife; his sister-in-law) can gain control of all his lovely money for her spoilt son, she accepts it as another dirty job she has to do in order to keep a roof over her head. But in the country, she discovers a ramshackle country house, a fascinating and childlike uncle who makes mechanical works of genius, and maybe a home. Something strange is happening to her, however. She’s sleepwalking, hearing things, and nobody will believe her that she isn’t doing any of it on purpose. Is she going mad? Book: The Twin’s Daughter Author: Lauren Baratz-Logsted Source: purchased from BetterWorldBooks.com The day she answered the door, Lucy’s life took a sharp right turn. For the person at the door looked exactly like her mother--and yet, was not. It was her mother’s twin sister, Helen. Separated at birth and raised in very different circumstances, Helen wants nothing more than to meet her sister. Lucy's mother, for her part, greets her unexpected sister with apparently open arms. Helen gets adopted into the family, educated, dressed, and presented to society. As her aunt begins to more and more closely resemble Lucy’s mother, it becomes harder and harder for Lucy to tell them apart. Then tragedy strikes. One of the twins dies, the apparent victim of a murderous housebreaker, and one lives. The living one is Lucy’s mother . . . or is she? I ran across both these books in a span of about two weeks, and their Gothic nature was a surprise to me. I was expecting The Dark Unwinding to be a steampunk, mostly on the basis of the cover, and The Twin’s Daughter to be a historical mystery. They both had elements of the genres I first assigned them to. What, then, made them particularly Gothic? I have a little better awareness of this genre and all its tropes after reading Sarah Rees Brennan’s blog, which had a strong focus on Gothic novels leading up the publication of Unspoken, her own updated Gothic. There were all sorts of things, but what it came down to was girls facing down peril alone. She had a very neat post talking about how this reflected girls’ and women’s real positions before they had the right to vote, control their own money, or own property. They really were in peril much of the time, and around the world, many women still are. Simply to be in peril does not make you a Gothic heroine. You have to be the only one that recognizes or acknowledges it, your concerns are derided or ignored, and you have to fight it on your own. You can have a few allies, but it's really all you, and that's what makes it so compelling. Both these books drew their power from this girl-against-the-forces-of-evil tension. They weren't perfect novels by any means, but they kept me flipping pages. That is also the great fun of Gothic novels, and why they've been in and out of fashion in popular literature for at least two hundred years. Posted by Bibliovore at 11:19 PM 5 comments: Labels: book review, double feature, YA lit Book: Five Flavors of Dumb by John Antony Book: Five Flavors of Dumb Author: John Antony Source: Local Library Teen rock band Dumb has a new manager. She doesn’t know anything about music. She barely knows anything about the band members, narcissistic Josh, passive Will, and hardcore Tash. But she is ferociously good at chess, and she’s promised Dumb’s front-man Josh that she can wheel-deal Dumb’s way to stardom, or at least to paying gigs. Oh, and she’s deaf. As Piper dives deeper into the world of hard rock and struggles to juggle the five (she adds two new members) personalities that make up Dumb, she gains self-confidence and a better understanding of both music and how families, her own in particular, function . . . or don’t. This won the Schneider Book award a couple of years ago, and I generally add award-winners to my list. It’s so much more than a book about being deaf, though. Sure, it delves into that. Piper, the only deaf member of a hearing family and a hearing school, feels out of place and ignored. She never pities herself for that, however. She gets frustrated, sometimes angry, but never self-pitying or martyrish. She feels that her parents think of her as the “flawed” child, and come to find out, she’s somewhat right. But it’s also about music, and about people, and families, born or assembled. It's about business and standing behind the promises you make and functioning in an adult world. Piper trips and falls down over things that have nothing to do with her deafness, and then picks herself up again. There was one thing that did not set right. In the beginning of the book, we’re told that Piper’s parents raided her college fund to pay for her baby sister’s cochlear implant (something Piper is too old for). The money was left specifically to Piper by her deaf grandparents, and she has it earmarked for a specific university that serves the deaf and hearing-impaired, someplace where she will finally stop feeling out of place. This money is never replaced, and no real apology is ever given. Sure, it’s symptomatic of the fractures in the family that ultimately get repaired, and yes, medical procedure for a baby, but I’m still not happy that it was dropped with a “well, you can get financial aid!” That’s a nitpick I had to get off my chest. Overall, I'd recommend this to music-lovers, contemporary readers, and anybody who wants a great heroine. Posted by Bibliovore at 8:15 PM 5 comments: Labels: book review, YA lit Book Review: Hokey Pokey by Jerry Spinelli Book: Hokey Pokey Author: Jerry Spinelli Source: Review copy via NetGalley Hokey Pokey is a wild and wonderful desert place, where kids run wild and there’s not an adult to be found. The king of them all is Jack, who has the fastest bike, the kindest heart, and the direst nemesis. Then one day, Jack wakes up to find that his beloved bike, Scramjet, has been taken. Surely the evil girl Jubilee is the culprit, isn’t she? But as the day progresses, Jack begins to understand that his bike disappeared for a different reason. More, he comes to realize that it’s almost time for him to leave Hokey Pokey. But where will he go from there? This is a weird little book. Fables often are. Spinelli also uses the surroundings, a Wild West brand of Never-Neverland, and various oddball constructions and word combinations to reinforce the outlandish feel of the book, and the notion that the world of childhood is set apart from the rest of the world, and maybe from the rest of your life. Overly idealized? You could make a case for that. But we can argue about adult concepts of kids' understanding of the world some other time. That's not what the book is really about. It’s about the moment when you start to leave childhood behind, but instead of rushing forward to what’s next, this book dwells on what’s being left behind, and the gentle melancholy that comes when you realize that you've outgrown your skin when you weren't looking. The wars, the friendships, the simple pleasures and fears of childhood are all falling away. It also examines the reactions of those around Jack as they see him change and grow beyond them. His two best friends, the little kids who idolize him, even Jubilee, whose nemesis status fades over the course of the day, realize that he's drifting away and react in their own ways that ring true. It won’t be a slam dunk for every kid. In fact, I kind of want to try this out on a real kid before I make any conclusions on its likely appeal. (And side note: that cover? No. It looks like a pretentious adult literary novel, maybe about a kidnapped child or something. Just . . . no.) But I have the feeling that the right kid will read this book with a growing sense of recognition, either for what he is going through at the moment, or for what she passed through a long time ago and is only now realizing that it was a major shift in her life. Labels: book review, tween Stuff I've Missed Mind, you haven't missed it, because there are people living in caves in the Marianas Trench who've blogged about some of this stuff. But if I don't write about this, they'll take away my kidlit blogger card. Cybils! On the the 1st, the Cybils finalists were announced. And because they're awesome, the Cybils team already has a printable PDF for teachers, parents, and librarians of the finalists. I'm a second-round judge for the YA category. Did you see the list that my fabulous fellow judges and I get to choose from? It has Code Name Verity AND I Hunt Killers. Seriously, guys, this is gonna be hard. Comment Challenge! It starts today, y'all. MotherReader and Lee Wind are running their famous Comment Challenge once again, because they're awesome like that. Never done it before? It works like this: Sign up. Pledge to comment at least 5 comments a day for 21 days, from 1/11 to 1/31. (That is so 21 days. Shup.) Watch as other people visit your blog and comment too. Sound good? Hop over to Lee's blog to sign up. ALA Youth Media awards! Otherwise known as the Newbery, the Caldecott, and an increasing boatload of others. They're still a little over two weeks away, (January 28th), which means the kidlit community is progressing through the frothing-at-the-mouth stage of speculation on the winners and headed full tilt toward the uncontrollable twitches and vague death threats. (Probable actual quote: "If Wonder doesn't win something, I will BURN THINGS.") Me? I have no opinions. No, honestly. I'm still reading stuff from 2011, guys. I have no idea. I haven't even read Wonder. I just get up for the webcast at ridiculous hours of the morning for the Twitter party. Okay, that's enough. Over and out, folks. Over and out. Labels: awards, bloggers, challenge, news Reading Roundup: 2012 Teen: 194 Tween: 99 Children: 79 Review Copies: 102 Swapped: 5 Purchased: 29 Library: 189 Standouts (titles link to my reviews) Teen: Selected in June: Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein "This book tore out my heart, stomped on it, then sat down next to me and offered me a cigarette and a very strong drink." Tween: Selected in July: Liar and Spy by Rebecca Stead "How do you follow up a Newbery winner? With another book that seems simple on the surface, but bubbles with secrets underneath." Children: Selected in March: Keeper by Kathi Appelt "It's not an action-packed heart-thumper of a book, although there are certainly tense moments. It meanders, it daydreams, it wanders. It has that magical-realism-type acceptance of the marvelous and fantastical next to the everyday. You have to assemble the real stories from the crumbs dropped by the author." Posted by Bibliovore at 1:48 PM No comments: Labels: reading roundup About the Bibliovore Bibliovore I love picture books. I love YA books. Heck with it, I love books in general. This is what I think of the books that I read. Gothic Double Feature: The Dark Unwinding by Sharo... Love picture books and early readers? Check out Kid Tested, Librarian Approved! Subscribe with LiveJournal! Kid's Lit Around the Web Picture Window theme. 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Big levy payers discuss peak council structures, funding issues Large corporate and family-owned beef levy payers met with Meat & Livestock Australia and Cattle Council representatives in Brisbane on Thursday, exploring a range of issues surrounding industry structures, the way they operate and the way they are funded. About 30 of the nation's largest levy payers met with MLA chairman Don Heatley, deputy Rob Anderson and chief executive Scott Hansen in what was described afterwards by participants as a ‘frank and open discussion.’ Also present were CCA president Greg Brown and chief executive David Inall. Much of the dialogue focussed not on MLA, the industry service delivery company itself, but on the role and performance of peak councils, participating stakeholders said. While MLA itself chose not to disclose the contents of the meeting, one of the large levy payers present was Central Queensland cattleman Graeme Acton, who runs about 150,000 cattle with his brother Evan under their Acton Land & Cattle Co banner. He said discussions often drifted away from MLA-related operational or policy issues into broader industry structures and representation. “It was obvious that that was foremost in most attendees’ minds,” Mr Acton said. “Many felt it was important to get the peak council structures right and the interaction between the peak councils and MLA. Do that, and the rest will fall into place,” he said. He suggested there was widespread consensus around the room that the current CCA structure was in need of reform. One of the suggestions put forward was direct election of CCA members by levy payers, rather than through the state-based farmer representative bodies. “Many producers still think the MLA boardmembers are elected. In reality they are appointed, but the CCA boardmembers should be elected, as occurs in a commercial business. They, in turn, should appoint the MLA board members,” Mr Acton said. His suggestion, which he said attracted no opposition within the meeting, involved a ‘two-tiered’ CCA board voting process, as currently occurs with class-A and class-B voting within the meat processing sector. Fifty percent of CCA members would be elected under a weighted voting system based on the amount of levies paid, and the remaining 50pc on a one vote per levy payer process. That would provide an opportunity to adequately represent the interests of the large number of smaller levy payers, which currently made up 50 percent of MLA’s levy stream, Mr Acton said. “There has always been a little wariness between the larger and smaller levy payers, and such a system would go a long way towards easing that,” he said. Some discussion also focussed on the parlous financial positions of industry peak council groups, and how that could impact on their ability to function. Each time a merger or acquisition happens within the processing sector, such as the recent Teys/Cargill union, or the earlier acquisitions made by JBS, up to $50,000 could be removed from AMIC coffers annually. Similarly, CCA was being starved of funds from some of its constituent state-based member bodies, which are operating under considerable financial stress (see earlier Beef Central story, "Exclusive: CCA facing membership crisis"). Stakeholders at the meeting suggested that either CCA had to be assured of adequate funds to function properly, or another alternative would need to be found. “Some would say it has become dysfunctional now,” Mr Acton said. “CCA currently operates with just four staff and an annual budget of about $1 million. You can’t run the entire $10 billion Australian cattle industry on that,” he said. “The industry needs and deserves a strong Cattle Council in order to give MLA, the service delivery company, direction. If it doesn’t, we run the risk of MLA becoming too unwieldy, and becoming a great big bureaucracy,” Mr Acton said. Some stakeholders at the meeting were planning to seek discussions this week with Federal Agriculture minister Joe Ludwig about the perceived need to restructure and reform the peak council process. Funding peak councils through levies? One of the possibilities being put forward was funding peak councils through a contribution from the cattle transaction levy. “In the environment that the industry is going to be in from here on in, no peak council or state farm organisation is likely to be able to raise funds voluntarily,” Mr Acton said. Ken Warriner from Consolidated Pastoral Co said rather than robbing either research & development or marketing funds from the existing $5 transaction levy, it could be that a case could be built to raise the levy to generate appropriate funds to run peak councils. “I’m not against the state farm organisations or the peak councils, but if they are going to be effective, they have to be funded by industry rather than Government,” Mr Acton said. “The trouble now is that the state farm organisations, like AgForce in Queensland, are financed to a considerable extent by the State Government. Ag Minister Tim Mulherin has just given AgForce another $1.2 million to fight the mining industry. That way they become beholden to the Government, and cannot act independently, in the industry’s interests.” Obviously there would be a legislative process to go through in order for a percentage of the transaction levies to fund the peak council activity. “But it is the only way we can see for them to survive and govern the industry the way it should be,” Mr Acton said. “The industry needs to develop a clear plan, widely supported by stakeholders, to take to the Minister in order to get him to approve the use of industry levy funds to fund the Cattle Council operations. It can be done through a system that is not going to cost a lot of money, and will more closely connect industry stakeholders with their industry’s affairs.” One prospect being floated is a general public forum, possibly to be held the day prior to this year’s MLA annual meeting in Longreach on November 17, to discuss some of the peak council representation and financing matters. 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Institute on Human Development and Disability Destination Dawgs The application period for our Fall 2022 cohort is now closed. Please email [email protected] for further information. Must be: Between the ages of 18 and 25 in the year of admission. Not under a full or plenary guardianship as ordered by a court of law. Limited or partial guardianship agreements will be considered and must be shared. Able to remain unsupervised for 12 hours Independent in handling his/her own medication, specialized dietary and/or medical needs, as well as in the use of his/her own medication. Staff is not available to manage/administer medications. The Destination Dawgs Program does not take responsibility for specialized diets or medical needs Able to sit through a class period (1.5 hours) Able to read and write approximately at a 3rd grade level Willing to consent to being photographed and be able to consent to participate in research A personal desire - and support from family- to gain skills for self-determination, independent living, and career development at the University of Georgia A primary diagnosis of intellectual disability. An intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning (reasoning, learning, problem solving) and in adaptive behavior, which covers a range of everyday social and practical skills. This disability originates before the age of 18. The applicant must have been (or is presently) eligible for special education and related services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Completed high school with diploma/modified diploma/certificate of completion NO history of challenging behaviors Sufficient emotional and independent living skills necessary to participate in coursework and campus life Student must be able to be legally responsible for understanding and adhering to the UGA Code of Conduct: http://conduct.uga.edu/code_of_conduct/codeofconduct.pdf Transportation to and from campus A cell phone Willingness to participate in a mandatory, invite-based prerequisite Leadership Institute 706-410-7265 \| [email protected] Frequent Asked Questions (FAQ) Expand/Collapse section Financial Planning, Housing & Consumer Economics Textiles, Merchandising and Interiors Why Choose FACS? Scholarships + Awards Find Your Extension Agent Our Amazing People Email us at [email protected] or use the form below. For CAC Address/Map River's Crossing 850 College Station Road © 2023 Institute on Human Development and Disability. All Rights Reserved.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6402787566184998, "wiki_prob": 0.35972124338150024, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line382214"}
Review: Political Clay/Chicago Ceramic Center November 24, 2015 at 10:00 am by Elliot Reichert by Elliot Reichert November 24, 2015 November 13, 2015 Filed under: Media & Genres Margaret Israel. Untitled, undated. Earthenware. As one might have predicted, the attitudes promoted in this exhibit are politically correct, projecting an exhausted despair concerning the fate of civilization and the planet. There are no calls for free market capitalism or protecting the unborn, but neither are there ringing demands for social justice. The curator, distinguished gallerist Frank Paluch, could likely have pulled in work from any ceramicist in America, but his Chicago gallery, Perimeter, is primarily committed to an East Asian aesthetic. Harmony, high craftsmanship and identification with natural forces are offered as a welcome respite from civic life, rather than as a passionate participation. Accordingly, the focus here is not “political” but “politic,” which he defines as “wise, discreet, wary, mindful, intelligent, reasonable, sensible, wily and artful.” The modest earthenware human figures by Margaret Israel best exemplify those qualities. Their conflation of drama and balance presents what is timeless about the human condition, recalling similar ceramic figuration from ancient Greece, Japan and Mexico. She was a good sculptor and deserves more attention. Far better known is the Pittsburgh ceramist Edward Eberle. He applies a high level of classical figure drawing to pottery whose surfaces are broken and jumbled enough to represent contemporary civilization. Beverly Mayeri offers a similar conflation of classical aesthetics with contemporary issues. Her contribution is a serenely beautiful bust of a young woman. It might well have come from fifteenth-century Florence, except that it has apparently been ring-stained by ever-rising ocean levels. The most direct response to political events is delivered by Derek Walter’s white elephants, symbolizing the thirty-one states and the Supreme Court justices who made George W. Bush the 43rd American President. I might have appreciated this humorous dismay back when it was first shown during the Taste of Chicago, but now, like old campaign buttons, it’s just a historical curiosity. Less topical but more cunningly made are the tiles modeled by Richard Notkin. His miniaturization is amazing. But the other artists contribute nothing that’s remarkable, either aesthetically or politically. Whether folksy, like Jack Earl, David Trost, or clinical, like Catherine Schwalbe, they offer only a tired repetition of accepted opinion. (Chris Miller) Through January 8 at Chicago Ceramic Center, 1200 West 35th. Elliot Reichert Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert is a curator, critic and editor. She is the inaugural Curator of Contemporary Art at the Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University. She was formerly Curatorial Fellow at the Chicago Artists Coalition, Art Editor of Newcity and Assistant Curator at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University. www.elliotjreichert.net Building Worlds Out of Clay: Time Traveling With Ceramic Artist Jonathan Pacheco Pacheco makes abstracted sculptural work and masterful functional objects, experimenting with both soda and wood kilns. New Mythology: A Review of Luis A. Sahagun at the Chicago Cultural Center Sahagun strives to create a new mythology, including precolonial elements of Latinx culture and an emerging decolonial confrontation. Portals To the Center of the Earth: A Review of Josephine Pryde's "The Vibrating Slab" at The Art Institute of Chicago The exhibition represents a pivotal corner in Pryde’s body of work by combining two separate series that head in perpendicular directions, but come together, uniting themselves by touching for a brief moment within this space. Pebbles in the Sea: A Review of Unseen Things Are Still There at Riverside Arts Center Aono’s curatorial vision stems from “Stars and Dandelions,” a poem by Misuzu Kaneko, a beloved children’s poet in Japan who committed suicide as she was about to lose custody of her child to her abusive husband. Tribute and Collaboration: A Review of moniquemeloche presents at Lubeznik Center for the Arts Chicago-based Monique Meloche's eponymous and storied gallery is now entering its twenty-second year. The show spotlights her curatorial eye and celebrates how Meloche made a commitment to representing artists of color right from the start. Spellbound: A Review of Whitfield Lovell at the South Side Community Art Center Lovell reanimates the lives of his unknown subjects, pairing each with a found object that hints at both a personal and a collective history. 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Home > News > Archive [< 2012] > StarForce becomes an official global reseller and also Russia’s first of Microsoft’s Software Licensing and Protection Services. StarForce becomes an official global reseller and also Russia’s first of Microsoft’s Software Licensing and Protection Services. According to earlier press releases, StarForce, which became a Technology partner of Microsoft Corporation by joining the Microsoft Technology Adoption Program (TAP) has now also built a strategic relationship with the new Microsoft Software Licensing and Protection Services program (SLP Services). Within the context of this cooperation, StarForce has now joined the list of official global resellers and now also holds the pedestal of Russia’s first reseller for Microsoft’s SLP Services. SLP Services offers a powerful IP Protection and Licensing platform, which integrates easily with the StarForce Protection System. “Microsoft Corporation has optimistic views of our joint business,” says Thomas Lindeman, Director of Marketing for SLP Services at Microsoft Corporation. “Now that SLP Services is supported by StarForce and their excellent protection mechanisms, we can with confidence offer our worldwide clients another choice and a unique complete solution for software licensing and protection for the Windows platform. It is also important for Microsoft and the software industry that StarForce, with a full-fledged operating office in Russia, be the first to offer SLP Services locally for this strategic market.” Michael Kalinichenko, CEO of StarForce Technologies, states that StarForce Technologies is “glad to make another step forward in our cooperation with Microsoft. StarForce has been historically and successfully present in the international software and digital content protection market. Having customers worldwide, we are committed to work wholeheartedly as a reseller. Also being a company based in Russia we are keen to push forward in our domestic market and will promote SLP Services with maximum efforts.” About StarForce Technologies StarForce Technologies (www.star-force.com) is a leading vendor of information protection, copy protection and code obfuscation solutions for software, electronic content and audio/video files. Since 2000, StarForce has been successfully developing and implementing its state-of-the-art security solutions, providing copyright and intellectual property protection worldwide. Two of these solutions were transformed into StarForce cloud services: sfcontent.com protects e-Documents against illegal copying and distribution and sfletter.com secures emails. StarForce is a reliable and responsible Technological Partner for enterprises potentially incurring losses due to cyber-gangs, hackers, software piracy, unauthorized data access and information leaks. StarForce’s customers are Russian Railways, Corel, 1C, Mail.ru, Aeroflot, SUN InBev Russia, AMD Labs, ATC International, MediaHouse, Russobit M, New Disc, Buka, Snowball, 2Play, GFI, CENEGA, Akella, etc. [email protected]	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5491064786911011, "wiki_prob": 0.4508935213088989, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1732992"}
See Famous Haunted Hotel in Mineral Wells, Texas Come Alive [Video] Tamme Taylor Tamme Taylor Published: August 3, 2022 thebakerhotelandspa via TikTok You could write several books about the haunted history of the Baker Hotel and Spa in Mineral Wells, Texas. It all started in the 1880s, when people came to the city in droves to sample the magical mineral water, later known as Crazy Water. The mineral-rich liquid was said to heal those who used it. History of the Baker Hotel Hotel tycoon Theodore Basher Baker and architect Wyatt C. Hendrick decided to capitalize on the crowds coming for the healing waters, and the Baker was born. Despite opening during the first year of the Depression in 1929, the Baker was a success for several years, attracting celebrities and other well-known travelers. It was the first hotel in Texas to have a swimming pool, and other amenities included a gym, bowling alley, and beauty parlor. After a brief heyday, the hotel struggled for many years, and finally closed in 1972. However, in 2019, things started looking up for the Baker, with plans to renovate and reopen the storied Texas landmark in 2024. Baker Hotel and Spa TikTok Story When thebakerhotelandspa TikTok account went live, videos of the flip went viral, making everyone sit up and watch the hotel's amazing renovation. Mark Rawlings, general partner and restoration project manager for the hotel, is a TikTok sensation, with almost 100,000 followers keeping up with his progress. Bonnie and Clyde's Room According to the Texas Observer, famed bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde had the carpet taken out of the hall near their room so they could hear if police were approaching. Ghosts at the Baker Hotel There are many ghost stories and tales of paranormal encounters at the hotel over the years, especially after it closed. The historic site has even been featured on shows that highlight the unexplained, including Ghost Adventures and Celebrity Ghost Encounters. The mistress of T.B. Baker is probably one of the most famous ghost stories at the hotel. According to hauntedrooms.com, she jumped to her death from the 14th floor. Some visitors have reported smelling lavender perfume, which she was known to wear, while others claim to have seen the ghost of a bloody nude woman. So, are you ready to book a stay at the Baker Hotel when the renovations are finished? Who knows who (or what) might show up for the grand opening? Did You Know Texas Is One of the Top 10 Haunted States in the Nation? Two years ago, the Lone Star State was named the most haunted state in America, according to Forbes magazine. Texas has moved down on the list from movebuddha.com, but we're still in the top 10. Don't be scared...scroll onward to see which state currently holds the #1 spot for most haunted in the nation. The Most Dangerous City in Texas for 2022 May Surprise You According to FBI statistics, Texas had 438 violent crimes and 2,562 property crimes per 100,000 residents as of this year. For every 100,000 residents, there are 224 police officers statewide. Crime rates are expressed as the number of incidents per 100,000 people. Here are the ten most dangerous cities in Texas for 2022, according to World Population Review. Source: See Famous Haunted Hotel in Mineral Wells, Texas Come Alive [Video] Filed Under: Baker Hotel, Mineral Wells, news, texas TX Police Chief on Leave After Idiotically Raiding the Wrong Home Egg Smuggling is on The Rise at Texas-Mexico Border 2023 Victoria Livestock Show and Carnival and Beer Garden Lineup It’s Official – Dallas is Cheesier Than Houston Victoria Outreach Dockets Scheduled to Help Resolve Warrants Victoria Ends Boil Water Notice This South Texas School is Exclusively for Teen Mothers Next Mega Millions Almost $800 Million-Here Some Fun Odds	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7477244138717651, "wiki_prob": 0.7477244138717651, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line352000"}
Now reading: Writing A Will - Here's What You Need to Know Writing A Will - Here's What You Need to Know For most Americans, end-of-life planning is the last thing they want to think about. Who can blame them? Confronting our mortality is depressing and sometimes even frightening, especially when combined with taking stock of our finances. Perhaps that's why less than half of adults in the U.S. have a will. What happens when someone passes without a will? When someone dies without a will, their assets become "interstate," which means they'll be divided according to state law. In most states, after a lengthy and expensive probate process, personal estates go to the closest heirs, regardless of the deceased's wishes and how much family strife it might cause. So, you can see why taking control of your legacy planning is paramount, but how does one go about end-of-life preparedness? How to get started on a will One reason people hesitate to write a will is the perception that they'd need to hire an attorney. While an attorney is suitable for people with large or complicated estates, most can plan their estates independently. Wills don't even have to be written on a legal form. Have you ever seen a movie where a person writes a will on a bar napkin? You might be surprised to learn that that didn't come from a filmmaker's imagination. Even a handwritten (or "holographic") note will suffice in some states, as long as the wording is correct and there are witnesses. Fortunately, many online and in-store options make estate planning affordable and completely legal. You can either go to an office supply store or do a Google search for will kits. Make sure they ask you to specify your state since laws vary. You can start from scratch without a will kit, but you'll have to brush up on your state's laws. What to include in your will Your will should be titled "Last Will and Testament." Then include your full legal name and age and declare that you are "of competent and sound mind." and that this is your "last will and testament and revokes all previously made wills and codicils." Choose beneficiaries Next, choose your beneficiaries. Typically, beneficiaries include a spouse and or children, but that's not always the case. Many wills have more than one beneficiary and alternatives if something happens to the primary beneficiary. Choose a legal guardian If you have underaged children or even pets, choose a guardian. It's usually a good idea to include an alternate guardian as well. Make sure your choices are okay with it. Choose an executor An executor is someone who will work with the probate court to ensure that your end-of-life wishes are carried out. The executor may or may not be a beneficiary. Once again, make sure the person you choose is willing. Think about a residuary clause Your will can include pretty much anything, as long as it's legal. For example, you could stipulate that only you want green M&Ms served at your funeral. Have two witnesses sign Witness requirements vary from state to state, so check first, but two witnesses are usually enough. The witnesses should not be beneficiaries. Some states also require that wills be notarized. Written by Max Lemper-Tabatsky Intestates (those who die without a will) who hold property after their deaths fall under laws. Learn more https://www.thelegacylawyers.com/blog/transfer-of-property-after-death-without-a-will-in-california/ transfer of property after death without will in california January 13, 2023 How to Get Reimbursed by the Government for a COVID-Related Funeral 10 Strategies for Coping with the Different Stages of Grief The Thompson Urn in Grey The Lenox Urn in Poplar The Hyde Candle Urn in White The Lenox Urn in Black Walnut The Vega Vase Urn in White with Dark Wood The Wesley Urn in Striped Marble The Hudson Urn in Vibrant Multicolor The Lenox Urn in Cherry The Vega Vase Urn in Black The Wesley Urn in Rosemary Marble The Hudson Urn in Warm Brown The Vega Vase Urn in White with Light Wood The Madison Urn The Vega Vase Urn in Blue The Vega Vase Urn in Grey	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6514228582382202, "wiki_prob": 0.3485771417617798, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line106494"}
HomeDramaMovement on the stage Movement on the stage Movement expresses ideas and conveys messages to an audience. Objective of this post is to look at movement technically, creatively, and with motivation, by using your bodies and movement to tell a story and encouraging the fact that not all stories need to be told with speaking. When writing the script of the drama it is necessary to write guidelines of the movement. For that it is necessary to identify the acting space and planning according to it. Usually, we see the Proscenium TheatreStage for stage dramas. The proper planning of major actor movements called Blocking. For example: entering the stage and exiting, moving one place to another with a meaning. As mentioned before: not all stories need to be told with speaking; it can be done by properly planned movement of the stage. Read the basics of theatre dramas here. Stage Directions: In order that a director may designate an actor’s position onstage precisely. The acting portion of the stage is divided into areas: Stage Right: The actor’s right as he stands onstage facing the audience. Stage Left: The actor’s left as he stands onstage facing the audience. Downstage: Toward the audience. Upstage: Away from the audience. Below: Toward the audience. Same as “Downstage of.” Above: Away from the audience. Same as “Upstage of.” In: Toward the center of the stage. Out: Away from the center of the stage. Stage Directions Abbreviations X- to cross to another area of the stage C- Center Stage - midway between front and back, up and down, right and left DS Down Stage - The area closest to the apron in the center of the stage US Up Stage - The area closest to the back of the stage in the center R Stage Right- in the center to the right of the actor L Stage Left - in the center to the left of the actor DR Down Stage Right - The area closest to the audience to the right of the actor DL Down Stage Left - The area closest to the audience to the left of the actor UR Up Stage Right - The area closest to the back wall to the right of the actor UL Up Stage Left - The area closest to the back wall to the right of the actor Stage Areas: Apron: The segment of the stage in front of the main curtain. DSR: The strongest area of the stage. In our culture, we read left to right. The innate habit is to look left first when in the audience, then survey the rest of the stage. The audience left is stage right. Downstage is stronger than upstage, because it's closer to the audience. Onstage: That part of the stage enclosed by the setting which is visible to the audience in any particular scene. Plane: A segment of the stage running the full width or depth, as in "the downstage plane" Offstage/Backstage: All parts of the stage not enclosed by the setting. Wings: the offstage areas to the right and left of the acting area. Out-front/House: the auditorium where the audience sits. Major Stage Movements. Entrances (= Ent) You should get into character BEFORE the entrance. Begin your entrance in the wings. At least 5 to 6 feet away. Focus in the Wings before you make your stage entrance. Exits (= Ex) Remain in character until you are 5-6 feet into the offstage area. If the exit requires a long cross, make sure the last few lines are spoken near the exit. Crosses (= X) Stage Crosses means movements from one stage area to another. Generally, the actor takes the shortest, most direct route, which is a straight cross. Straight crosses convey strength and determination (strong). At times a curved cross is necessary to convey casualness, hesitation, or doubt (weak). Take “strong” crosses downstage (below) other actors, “weak” crosses upstage (above). Most crosses are made downstage (below) of the standing character and upstage (above) seated characters. “Strong” and “weak” crosses are determined by the purpose of the movement and the lines spoken. The shortest distance between two points is usually the best guide for a cross. A cross can be softened by moving in a curved pattern. Curved crosses can be used to convey a casual approach, hesitation, or doubt. Counter-Cross (= coX) To counter is to move from behind someone so one person will not be blocked by another.Actors adjust to each other’s cross by using a counter-cross. A counter-cross is a movement in the opposite direction to balance stage picture Crossing on a Line If you are speaking and must cross the stage, walk in front of the other characters. It is generally best to avoid moving when another character is talking, as your movement you will steal attention from the speaking actor. If you need to cross when others are speaking, cross quietly behind them. Keep in mind; The moving figure dominates! Turning (= ∞) Always turn toward the audience unless your director tells you otherwise. Read about body positions on the stage. Backing Up (=ß) This is a weak move and should be avoided unless the move backward makes a dramatic point. Sitting (=Š) Approach the piece of furniture without staring at it. Don’t telegraph the move. Stop in front of chair touch BOTH calves to the chair without moving it. Avoid plopping or slumping into an easy chair or sofa (unless your character would do so). Sit near the front edge of the chair to make rising easier. Avoid crossing your legs onstage. Females sit with ankles crossed or one foot slightly in front of the other males sit with legs slightly apart. Kneeling (= K) When kneeling with only one knee. The downstage knee should touch the floor, helping to keep an “open” position. When kneeling on both knees, the downstage knee should be lowered first; then the upstage leg can be lowered into position. An actor is said to be covered when another actor moves into a position between him and the audience, thus obstructing him from view. Covering is usually to be avoided. These principles and practices are generally to be observed: 1. The responsibility is on the downstage actor. In other words, do not stand in front of another actor. 2. If another actor does stand directly below you, make a small adjusting movement. 3. Since a moving actor usually should receive attention, make crosses below other actors so you are not covered. This rule does not apply if the moving actor should not receive attention. Movement of the stage is a major area if you are serious about the quality of the drama you stage. Prior planning not only makes the play technically advanced but also easier for the actors to understand their movement on the stage. If you have any doubt or things to clarify, let us discuss them in the comment section below. Subscribe to the blog to receive new posts right into your mailbox; do not forget to share the post.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.54936283826828, "wiki_prob": 0.45063716173171997, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line308179"}
5:28 a.m. A Largo Town Center-bound Blue Line train at Franconia-Springfield was delayed 5 minutes due to a track problem. 5:34 a.m. A New Carrollton-bound Orange Line train at Federal Triangle was offloaded due to a brake problem. Customers experienced an 11-minute delay. 7:06 a.m. A Vienna-bound Orange Line train at West Falls Church did not operate, resulting in a 6-minute gap in service. 11:08 a.m. A Greenbelt-bound Green Line train at Columbia Heights was offloaded due to an equipment problem. Customers experienced a 12-minute delay. 12:40 p.m. A Shady Grove-bound Red Line train at Rhode Island Avenue was offloaded due to a brake problem. Customers experienced a 6-minute delay. 2:44 p.m. A Shady Grove-bound Red Line train at Takoma was offloaded due to an equipment problem. Customers experienced a 4-minute delay. 3:43 p.m. A Largo Town Center-bound Blue Line train at Pentagon City was offloaded due to an equipment problem. Customers experienced an 8-minute delay. 4:07 p.m. A New Carrollton-bound Orange Line train at Rosslyn was changed to A Largo Town Center-bound Blue Line train for schedule adherence/improved train spacing. 4:26 p.m. A Branch Avenue-bound Green Line train at U Street was offloaded due to a brake problem. Customers experienced a 7-minute delay. 6:19 p.m. A Branch Avenue-bound Green Line train at L’Enfant Plaza was delayed 5 minutes due to police activity. 6:24 p.m. A Largo Town Center-bound Blue Line train at Arlington Cemetery was expressed for schedule adherence/improved train spacing. 10:21 p.m. A Shady Grove-bound Red Line train at Judiciary Square was delayed 31 minutes due to an equipment problem. 11:37 A New Carrollton-bound Orange Line train at West Falls Church was delayed 5 minutes due to a signal problem.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7179019451141357, "wiki_prob": 0.7179019451141357, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line82531"}
In addition to being a leader in regional oil and gas distribution, Holtzman Corp. also offers other services, from fuel transport to a bagged ice distribution company named Valley Ice. HOLTZMAN INTERNAL DIVISIONS HOLTZMAN CONSTRUCTION In 1990, we started Holtzman Equipment and Construction to install and service our retail and commercial petroleum equipment and sites. Our trained team can service and repair equipment at all of our fuel locations. Our construction team is responsible for the site work and construction of all of our new retail locations. HOLTZMAN TRANSPORT Holtzman Transport’s fleet of trucks operate 24/7 all year long to deliver gasoline, diesel, kerosene, heating oil, propane, and bulk lubricants to our customers. We pick up and deliver products to gasoline stations, bulk fuel storage plants, and our commercial customers. Our trucks share the highway with the motoring public, and we are proud of the professional, safe, and courteous drivers that operate our equipment. HOLTZMAN HAZMAT SPILL RESPONSE TEAM In addition to having an internal construction company, in 1996, Holtzman Equipment and Construction formed an EPA certified, Level B Hazardous Materials Response team. This team’s aim was and is to respond efficiently and effectively to any reported and unexpected fuel releases or spills at any of our retail locations, bulk fuel plants, on the road, or anywhere in between. Our HazMat Spill Response Team is highly trained in fuel recovery procedures and hazardous materials handling, to ensure the health and safety of our patrons, our community, and the environment. Valley Ice Valley Ice is a bottle water-quality bagged ice manufacturing facility located in Mt. Jackson, VA. Valley Ice distributes bagged ice commercially, primarily to convenience and grocery stores, as well as other industrial and commercial facilities in Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia. Our 16,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art ice manufacturing facility has the ability to produce 60 tons of ice per day. That’s 1,200 lbs of ice every 18 minutes! Valley Ice meets stringent regulations set in the industry for quality, under the International Packaged Ice Association. Our facility has a commercial-grade Reverse Osmosis system, which removes all traces of mineral content or impurity from the water and enables the water used in our ice to meet bottled water quality standards. Valley Ice Website	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7345414757728577, "wiki_prob": 0.26545852422714233, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line775837"}
Conquest 10 The game took the conquest game series to the next level. Our goal was to make this game the biggest conquest event to date. There were two factions in the game, each with their own base in the area. The game area of the Conquest 10 event was the Padasjoki training area managed by the Finnish Defense Forces. As in the previous Conquest games, the purpose of this game was to capture and hold the “tickets” or ticket boxes placed in the game area. The ticket boxes were also connected to the status system used in previous conquest games. In addition to capturing and possessing ticket points, the game also offered other tasks to the parties, which were notified to the parties using the same status system. We also got Atom Airsoft, Proairsoft, Milgear, Tradesoft and Gunfire as partners of our event. When organizing Conquest 10, our idea was to test a lot of mechanics and models related to the upcoming TSTOS Parola. In particular, the Status.ehasa.org system had been updated with the gps-location features. https://conquest10.ehasa.org/	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5411518812179565, "wiki_prob": 0.45884811878204346, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line51187"}
Tag Archives for: "Yanke Doodle" By Park West Gallery In Art & Gallery News, Artists & Special Collections, Tim Yanke Detroit Artist Tim Yanke Is Driven by the Motor City Park West artist and native Detroiter Tim Yanke says the Motor City’s two underlying foundations – the automobile industry and music – have directly influenced his career as an artist. “You’re a [...] In Albert Scaglione, Art & Gallery News, Art News Links, Artists & Special Collections, Tim Yanke Park West Gallery Talks Inspiration, Record-Breaking Art In The News From our artists to our cruise ship auctions, people are talking about Park West Gallery around the world. Here are some recent news articles featuring Park West Gallery. Park West CEO [...] Tim Yanke Brightens “Women Build” Home With Art For the last seven years, Cindy Randall fought to overcome the effects of Lyme disease while raising her children. As Randall struggled to regain her strength, she dreamed of moving her family [...] In Anatole Krasnyansky, Art & Gallery News, Articles, Artists & Special Collections, Peter Max, Tim Yanke Park West VIP Collector Brightens School with Artwork It has been proven that exposing students to art is beneficial, but curriculum and resources don’t always allow schools to teach the arts. That is why one Park West VIP collector and school [...] In Art & Gallery News, Artists & Special Collections, Media Coverage, Philanthropy, Tim Yanke Tim Yanke makes Brandon Township house a home with Habitat for Humanity Despite the fact that Park West Gallery artist Tim Yanke has donated artwork to many clients with Habitat for Humanity of Oakland County (HFHOC), it never fails to bring a tear to his eye. This [...] Tim Yanke inspires Nevada elementary students Inspiration can come from anywhere at any time, something artist Tim Yanke had the pleasure of learning upon receiving a letter from Virgin Valley Elementary School in Nevada. Lori Raines, an art [...] In Articles, Artists & Special Collections, Tim Yanke Tim Yanke’s Dragonflies and Doodles Following Tim Yanke’s solo show during Park West Gallery’s “Detroit’s Finest” exhibition series, learn from the artist what inspires two of his most iconic images: the dragonfly and [...] Tim Yanke featured in The Oakland Press Tim Yanke is making headlines in his hometown with his solo exhibition at Park West Gallery. The Oakland Press interviewed Yanke about his exhibition held during Park West Gallery’s “Detroit’s [...] In Art & Gallery News, Articles, Artists & Special Collections, Csaba Markus, Current Promotions, Exhibits, Tim Yanke Tim Yanke, an American Original When asked about his style, Tim Yanke found himself remembering a conversation with fellow Park West artist Csaba Markus. “Every time he talks to me, he tells me ‘you have the best name, [...] In Art & Gallery News, Artists & Special Collections, Current Promotions, Exhibits, Tim Yanke Detroit artist Tim Yanke reveals new works at Park West Gallery Park West Gallery is proud to unveil brand new works from Birmingham artist Tim Yanke during its July exhibitions showcasing Detroit artists. The second show in the gallery’s “Detroit’s Finest” [...]	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.6325802803039551, "wiki_prob": 0.6325802803039551, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1273141"}
U.S. Meat Export Federation Statistics & Trade Access About USMEF USMEF Annual Report Tools for Exporters Tools for Staff Research Recaps & Papers Export Results and Statistics Import Duties by Country USMEF Meetings Product Showcases Europe / CIS Region Middle East / Africa International Staff Gather in Denver for Market Update Meeting USMEF senior staff representing Mexico, Central and South America, Europe, the Middle East, the Greater Russia region and the Caribbean gathered in Denver last week for discussions on marketing priorities, market access and other trade-related issues. The meeting also included senior members of the USMEF-Denver staff. Updates on individual markets were given, along with in-depth discussions of specific issues affecting the pork, beef and lamb industries. These presentations were given by John Brook, regional director for Europe, Russia and the Middle East and Chad Russell, regional director for Mexico, Central America and the Dominican Republic, along with staff members from both regions. South America representative Jessica Julca and Caribbean representative Liz Wunderlich also provided updates on their respective regions, and a discussion was conducted on USMEF’s West Africa project. The team also participated on a panel at the International Livestock Forum held at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. The panel discussion titled, “What kind of red meat and poultry is needed for international sales?” was moderated by Mark Gustafson, who directs international beef sales for JBS USA and serves as chairman of the USMEF Exporter Committee. “It is critical that we gather our international staff on a regular basis to update each other on the challenges at hand,” said USMEF President and CEO Philip Seng. “In this fast-paced, global economy, it is more important than ever that we work together and learn from each other, so that we can continue to expand global market share for our U.S. agricultural industries.” In addition to the presentations by international staff, USMEF Economist Erin Borror provided an overview of global meat demand and market conditions and Technical Services Manager Cheyenne Dixon gave a presentation on animal welfare. Denver staff also provided updates to the international team covering industry relations, communications and accounting. A similar meeting is planned in March with USMEF staff members serving in Asian markets. USMEF complies with all equal opportunity, non-discrimination and affirmative action measures applicable to it by contract, government rule or regulation or as otherwise provided by law. USMEF is an equal opportunity employer and provider. USMEF Headquarters: 1660 Lincoln Street, Suite 2800, Denver, CO 80264 Tel: 303-623-MEAT (6328) Fax: 303-623-0297 Email: [email protected] © 1996-2023 U.S. Meat Export Federation. All rights reserved.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7210997343063354, "wiki_prob": 0.27890026569366455, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1899148"}
Meek Mill to Produce DAZN Doc About U.K. Boxer Anthony Joshua Meek Mill and Jay-Z's Roc Nation are partnering with sports streamer DAZN on a documentary about heavyweight fighters Anthony Joshua and Andy Ruiz Jr. 40 Days: Joshua-Ruiz will be presented as four… By Marisa Guthrie Marisa Guthrie LeBron James Sets ‘Black Panther’ Director Ryan Coogler to Produce ‘Space Jam 2’ ‘American Idol’ Producers Defend Reboot’s High Costs & Ryan Seacrest Bill O’Reilly Exits Fox News Amid Harassment Scandal Meek Mill attends the Billboard 2018 R&B Hip-Hop Power Players event at Legacy Records on Sept. 27, 2018 in New York City. Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Billboard Meek Mill and Jay-Z’s Roc Nation are partnering with sports streamer DAZN on a documentary about heavyweight fighters Anthony Joshua and Andy Ruiz Jr. 40 Days: Joshua-Ruiz will be presented as four six-minute episodes and premiere May 21 on Mill’s Instagram and YouTube channel. Episodes will debut each Tuesday and Thursday in the two weeks leading up to the fight. A special final edition of 40 Days will premiere on NBC Sports Network and several regional sports networks prior to the June 1 showdown. The 40 Days doc franchise – which follows the fighters during the grueling five-week training regime before a fight – kicked off earlier this month with the LeBron James-Maverick Carter produced doc about the Canelo Alvarez fight on May 4. “DAZN has created a program that explores a fighter’s heart and soul,” said Mill in a statement. “They tell the story of what makes a true champion. I love being part of a project that tells of their grit, sacrifices and dedication outside the gym. It’s those things that show true character and should be lauded just as much as the knockouts in the ring.” Meek Mill Pays Tribute to Nipsey Hussle With New Diamond Encrusted Chain Added Jamie Horowitz, executive vp of content: “The purpose of 40 DAYS is to pair globally famous boxers with compelling storytellers to give fight fans an original look at the eight weeks leading up to a fight,”. “It’s a series which is meant to let creative people be creative. We are excited to have Meek Mill tell the story of Anthony Joshua’s first fight in America through his unique lens.” Joshua, the 29-year-old former Olympic super heavyweight, is selling out stadiums in his native U.K. He packed 90,000 fans into Wembley Stadium for his 2018 title fight against Wladimir Klitschko. DAZN, which is headed by former ESPN president John Skipper, has made inroads in the direct-to-consumer space in part by doing deals with fighters. Last year, he signed Alvarez (who is represented by Oscar de la Hoya’s Golden Boy) to a rich $365 million deal to broadcast 11 fights. The platform also has deals with Matchroom Boxing, GGG Promotions, Bellator MMA, World Boxing Super Series and Combate Americas. This article originally appeared on The Hollywood Reporter.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.994936466217041, "wiki_prob": 0.994936466217041, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1281822"}
By Yuvraj Gurung on 24th December 2018 Maroon Tide Rising: Mohun Bagan AC wins back-to-back matches to put themselves in contention for the I-League crown. Photo Courtesy: @ILeagueOfficial Three points separate the top five teams after Real Kashmir FC ended Chennai City FC’s unbeaten run to blow the 2018/19 I-League wide open. East Bengal FC and Mohun Bagan AC picked up wins, while NEROCA FC missed the chance gather three points at home. Kisseka’s strike grabs three points for Mohun Bagan FULL-TIME: Minerva Punjab FC 0- 1 Mohun Bagan AC Mohun Bagan: Henry Kisseka (79′) A 79th-minute strike by Henry Kisekka helped Mohun Bagan AC grab three points against Minerva Punjab FC at the Tau Devi Lal Stadium, Panchkula. After a disappointing loss in the Kolkata Derby, the Mariners put up a strong display against the defending champions. Mohun Bagan had a chance to take the lead early on the match, Dipanda Dicka’s strike hitting the upright. Later in the 16th minute, a quick one-two with Henry Kisseka allowed Dicka to find the target but was ruled to be offside. Minerva goalkeeper, Arshdeep, led a charmed life. In the 40th minute, Bagan’s Egyptian midfielder, Omar El Hussieny, curled in a freekick from the left top side of the penalty area. Arshdeep parried the ball onto the post and the ball looped onto the crossbar and landed squarely on the goal line. A few inches denied the visitors a deserved lead. The Mohun Bagan defenders did well to restrict the Minerva attack, as the hosts did not have a single shot on target. However, at halftime, it was 0-0 and the game was hanging in balance. Two minutes after the break, Arijit floated in a cross from the right-hand side, only for Dicka to completely miss his header, while Kisseka kicked the air instead of the ball in the follow-up. Minerva coach Paul Munster threw in Makan Winkle Chothe in place of Yu Kuboki and the youngster managed to put the pressure on the Bagan defense with a couple of runs. At the other end, Minerva’s goalpost came to the rescue of the hosts in the 71st minute. A cross by Ambedkar from the left was met with a glancing header by Sourav Das. Kisseka failed to control the ball, while Dicka attempted to poke the ball in. Arshdeep produced a fine save as the ball hit the woodwork and ultimately in the hands of the goalie. In the 79th minute, Mohun Bagan got the winner. Omar put in a through ball to Kisekka inside the Minerva box on the left. The Ugandan was pushed further away from by his marker further. The forward unleashed a left-footer from a tight angle and put his team forward. Bagan held on to the lead and collected the three points. Both teams are on 12 points, while the Kolkata team has a game in hand. After the match, Mohun Bagan officials filed an official complaint to AIFF against the refereeing. “The match referees made some obnoxious decisions” read the statement, “…we were aghast as to why the decisions are only going against us.” https://twitter.com/MohunBagan/status/1075394499235405825 There have been some poor refereeing in the league, but it is safe to say that Mohun Bagan isn’t the only team at the receiving end. Click here to watch highlights of the game. East Bengal rally to beat Churchill Brothers FULL-TIME: Churchill Brothers FC 1- 2 East Bengal FC Churchill Brothers: Williz Plaza (3′); East Bengal: Jaime Colado (35′); Laldrindika Ralte (56′) East Bengal FC came from a goal down to beat Churchill Brothers FC at the Tilak Maidan, Vasco. The win enabled East Bengal to take their points tally to 15 at second place. Churchill Brothers FC is at the 5th position with 13 points. This is the second consecutive loss for the Goan team. The matchup used to a much-anticipated fixture in the past and this time around it did not disappoint. The match started brightly for Churchill Brothers as they went ahead within three minutes. A pass by Dawda Ceesay from the left flank found Willis Plaza in the box. The Trinidadian’s first touch took the ball away from the defender and shot goalwards. East Bengal goalkeeper, Rakshit Dagar, should have done better with his effort. The ball squirmed under him and rolled across the goal line. Churchill Brothers had the opportunity to double their lead in the 33rd minute. The East Bengal defense did not deal with a corner. The loose ball fell to Richard Costa and his shot from outside the box was close to the target. East Bengal leveled the score in at the 35-minute mark. Lalrindika Ralte floated a freekick towards Jaime Santos Colado. The Spanish midfielder teed up for his shot and smashed in a volley at Vigneshwaran Baskaran’s near post. Great strike from East Bengal’s new signing. After the equalizer, the visitors looked the stronger team, but Churchill Brothers fancied a couple of opportunities to take the lead. A layoff by Willis Plaza set up Dawda Cessay for a shot from outside the box in the 56th minute which missed the mark. The defense of Churchill Brothers was totally caught napping when East Bengal captain Laldrindika Ralte sent a curling free kick, which eluded the entire defensive line of Churchill Brothers before landing to the far corner of the nets, giving no chance whatsoever to their keeper Vigneshwaran. In the 90th minute, East Bengal was reduced to ten men after their substitute Bali Gagandeep was ejected as referee Maria Arokia issued his second yellow card for rough play. Indian Arrows stun Gokulam Kerala FC FULL-TIME: Indian Arrows 1- 0 Gokulam Kerala FC Indian Arrows: Amarjit Singh (66′) [P] Indian Arrows stunned Gokulam Kerala FC 1-0 at the Barabati Stadium. The young team made an early foray into the visitor’s box, only to be thwarted by the Gokulam defense. The hosts came close to scoring in the 32nd minute courtesy a long-range effort from Rahim Ali. The forward’s shot struck the outside of the bar with the goalkeeper beaten. In first-half injury time, Ashish Rai curled in a left-footer from the right flank which fell inches wide off the post. While the referee awarded a goal kick, the replays suggested that the Arnab Das had got his fingertips to the ball to make the save. The first half came to a close with no goals from both sides. The second half began with Gokulam displaying a more positive intent. In the 63rd minute, a free kick by Felipe Castro into the Arrows penalty area was wasted by Daniel Addo’s misplaced header. Soon at the other end, a foul inside the Gokulam box by Felipe Castro on Vikram Pratap Singh ended up in the hosts being awarded a penalty kick. The experienced campaigners giving the youngsters a chance to go in front. Arrows captain Amarjit Singh stepped up and slotted in the team’s third goal of the I-League season in the in the 66th minute. The hosts nearly gave up their lead in the 78th minute when a long ball found Ayeni Yinka outside the box with two defenders closing in. The Arrows goalie had a momentary lapse of reason and rushed out of his line. The layoff found Rajesh but could not find the far corner as Prabhsukhan Gill scrambled back to defend the goal. With this win, Arrows is on seven points in 9th spot, while Gokulam are in 8th place with 10 points. Real Kashmir end Chennai City’s unbeaten run FULL-TIME: Chennai City FC 0- 1 Real Kashmir FC Mohun Bagan: Kofi Tetteh (78′) Real Kashmir FC handed table toppers Chennai City FC their first defeat of the season at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Coimbatore to throw the title race wide open. The visitors created the first chance of the game in the third minute when a Surchandra Singh free-kick from the left flank fizzed past the defenders across the face of goal. Kashmir skipper, Loveday Pkechukwu, could not keep his effort down. Both teams were restricted to efforts from outside the box, but some wayward finishing failed to test the goalkeepers. In the 31st minute, Nestor was played into the Kashmir box courtesy a backheel from Sandro. The Spaniard’s effort trickled wide off the post. The home team had 78% of the possession, but the physicality of the Kashmir players disrupted the flow of the Chennai midfield. The first half ended goalless. The second half started with a shot on goal from both sides. Krizo and Manzi failing to hit the target for both teams. Krizo nearly opened the scoring in the 62nd minute when he collected a throw into the Chennai box. His turn and finish rattled the crossbar. Real Kashmir was given a lifeline in the 76th minute when Gourav Bora brought down Krizo inside the box. A needless challenge on the forward who was going away from goal towards the edge of the box. Kofi Tetteh stepped up and slotted the ball to the keeper’s right, but the referee asked for the spot-kick to be retaken owing to the infringement into the penalty box by the Real Kashmir players. Tetteh calmly sent the keeper to the wrong side again to give his team the lead in the 78th minute. Chennai nearly stole a point in the last kick of the game. Edwin Vanspaul floated a ball into the Kashmir box. Pedro Manzi beat two defenders and headed the ball goalwards only to see his attempt ricochet off the crossbar. The result takes Kashmir to second on the points table, just one point behind Chennai, who still lead with 18 points. Missed penalty haunts NEROCA FC FULL-TIME: NEROCA FC 0- 0 Minerva Punjab FC Defending champions Minerva Punjab FC and NEROCA FC played out a goalless draw in Imphal’s Khuman Lampak stadium. The home side outplayed the visitors in every department: 64% vs 36% possession, 12-5 in shots taken at goal, and 11-2 in corners. NEROCA even missed a penalty to miss out on a chance to improve their standings. NEROCA had their first chance to score in the 7th minute. Subhash’s cross from the left fell to Katsumi inside the box, but his effort went straight to keeper The Japanese was central to the NEROCA’s attacks, but was also on the receiving end of some hard tackling from the Minerva players. Early in the 2nd half, Minerva had the opportunity to take the lead. A poor clearance by fell in the path of Prateek Joshi inside the penalty box. His left-footed effort was kicked to safety by Lalit Thapa, who was a wrong-footed. There was sustained pressure from the home side, with Katsumi getting a good chance to give his team the lead. A floated ball from Malem was quickly closed out by the Minerva defense when the Japanese tried to control the ball. The pressure paid off in the 76th minute when Manandeep handled the inside of the box and NEROCA was awarded a penalty. Chidi stepped up to the spot kick and blazed it over the bar. Subhash and Katsumi created one last chance in injury time but the latter’s shot from just outside the box went straight into the hands of Minerva keeper Bhaskar Roy and that was that. The result meant that NEROCA stayed at fourth place with 15 points, while Minerva moved to sixth spot with 13 points. Shillong Lajong’s problems deepen after another loss FULL-TIME: Mohun Bagan AC 2- 0 Shillong Lajong FC Mohun Bagan: Yuta Kinowaki (47′); Henry Kisseka (60′) A banger and a goal-mouth scramble ensured that Mohun Bagan beat bottom-placed Shillong Lajong FC 2-0 at the Saltlake Stadium, Kolkata. Lajong’s goalkeeper Phurba Lachenpa was under constant pressure as he put up an outstanding effort to keep a clean slate at halftime. The best coming in the 20th minute as a shot from Omar Elhusseiny produced an outstanding dive from the custodian. The home side took the lead in the 47th minute. Abhishek Ambekar crossed in from the left, but a poor header by Dohling fell to Kinowaki. The Japanese who curled the ball beautifully into the net to make it 1-0. Six minutes later, Shillong Lajong captain Samuel Lalmuanouia made a good run into the Bagan box. He set Samuel Kynshi for a shot but Sankar Roy pulled off a fine save to deny the youngster. In the 60th minute, Mohun Bagan doubled their lead. A long ball drew Lachenpa out of his line but Kisseka beat him to the ball. Dicka found some space, but his scuffed shot was partially blocked by the Lajong defense. Some poor defending followed as Lajong tried to clear their lines but Kisseka’s slide ensured that the ball was bundled over the net. Mohun Bagan secured their first home win of the season to jump to fifth place with 15 points, while Shillong Lajong suffered their seventh defeat from nine matches and are at the bottom of the pile. Published in Chennai City FC, Churchill Brothers, East Bengal FC, Football in India, Gokulam Kerala FC, I League, I-League, ILeague, Indian Arrows, Indian Football, Match Report, Minerva Academy, Mohun Bagan AC, NEROCA FC, Punjab FC, Real Kashmir FC and Shillong Lajong FC	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8424016237258911, "wiki_prob": 0.8424016237258911, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line846369"}
Isla Vista Student Gov UC News Unmasking Isla Vista Columns/Features Around the NBA Fantasy Sports Island NFL Round-Up Nexus Top 10 Argument in the Office Ask AJ Outside Opinions Stories from Storke Artsweek Features & Essays Record Recap Society & Psychology Simply Stated SB County Alternative Eating Coffee Column First Bites Kitchen Know-Hows Meal Prep Mondays The Beet Daily Stench En el menú DAILY NEXUS Advertising About Staff/Contact Donate UCSB To Host Leadership Workshop February 8, 2006 at 7:59 am by David Faulkner Reporter Students interested in mastering the art of persuasion have the opportunity to hone their skills tomorrow at UCSB’s 10th Annual Student Leadership Expo. The event, which will run from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. in Corwin Pavilion, will feature guest speakers and skill-building workshops focusing on leadership necessities like networking skills. The event is free for all UCSB students, $3 for other California college and high school students, and includes dinner and dessert provided by Paterno’s restaurant in the UCen. UCSB First Year Programs and Leadership Education Director Britt Andreatta said she expects about 500 to 600 students from schools as far away as San Diego and San Luis Obispo to attend. “Literally, buses are coming up from other campuses to take part in this training,” Andreatta said. The theme of this year’s exposition, “Empowering Beyond Borders,” concentrates on how students can use their leadership skills to effect change in their lives and the lives of others. Santa Barbara-based humanitarian aid organization Direct Relief International President and CEO Thomas Tighe will serve as this year’s keynote speaker, discussing the leadership skills that earned Direct Relief a spot on Worth magazine’s list of “America’s Best 100 Charities.” The event also includes three sessions of workshops for students to attend, ranging from subjects such as time management to the art of delegation, said Korianne Tom, a Capps leadership intern and fourth-year speech and hearing sciences major. Some of the sessions will include panels featuring Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Michael Young, Dean of Students Yonie Harris, A.S. President Chaz Whatley and Graduate Student Affairs President Melissa Kwon. “There’s nothing to lose,” Tom said. “You’ll benefit in some form or personal way. It’s done that for myself. It helps you get the most out of UCSB.” The event is funded by the Office of Student Life fee initiative and is supported by UCSB organizations such as the Office of Student Life and local businesses including Zodo’s Bowling and Beyond, whichhave donated prizes ranging in value from $100 to $350, Andreatta said. Other leadership opportunities throughout the year include the Annual Leadership Retreat, sponsored by OSL, held during the first weekend of each fall quarter, and the Leadership Certificate Program, a co-curricular program of about 800 students. Andreatta said the programs help prepare students for the business world. “It’s skill-building – people are getting professional training.” Andreatta said. “Students could put this on their resumes and really have something to talk about.” Daily COVID-19 Cases Source: California Health and Human Services Agency Featured Comic Tweets by @dailynexus by @dailynexopinion The signs as beautiful and fleeting sensations March 21 - April 19 You are a lingering runner's high, watching the sun rise over the cliffs You are the cozy feeling the moment you wake up, nestled under the quilt you got from your grandma May 21 - June 20 You are the burst of inspiration (and motivation) at 3:42 a.m. in the library You are the lopsided Sharpie heart on your Cajé latte July 23 - August 22 When you take your shoes off at SBA security and know you're the hot, mysterious airport traveler August 23 - September 22 You are the rush after winning a debate concerning Domino's and Woodstock's September 23 - October 22 You are the random wave and smile from a semi-familiar face on the way to Biochemistry October 23 - November 21 You are the first bite of a warm Subway sandwich after a long day You are the relief of getting your feet wet at the beach in the middle of July December 22 - January 19 You are the first non-dining hall meal after a final You are the final stitch in your quarter-long knitting project You are the walk across campus to your favorite song on a cold day: "Sweater Weather" Icons made by bqlqn from www.flaticon.com	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.723211407661438, "wiki_prob": 0.276788592338562, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1366277"}
Nothing happens, no one notices. by dataphage at 12:06 pm filed under: australia, news Most of the news programmes over here have a section entitled ‘Around Australia’ or somesuch. Some of the channels devote a full half-hour slot to covering the news from all over the nation. The trouble is that Australia is, as has been pointed out before, quite big and has not very many people in the empty bits. This makes Australian regional news a bit like regional news from other parts of the world on a slow news day. One particular item in the news from the ACT (hover pointer over acronym for definition) was on the fact that bushfire victims get Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This in itself is not exactly surprising, bushfires are absolutely cataclysmic in scale and anyone caught in one could really be forgiven for thinking that nature was trying to wipe them out. The story was aimed at unpicking whether this had been acknowledged and enough support had been given. The article had a slightly accusatory note to it and contained an interview that suggested, however subtly, that not everything had been done to support these people. However, the interviewee seemed particularly well adjusted for someone that had been trapped in their house by a gargantuan fire. She was able to articulate how she had felt at the time and that recollecting the event made her shake physically. In short she had been given two years of ongoing state funded counselling. The end of the article was essentially a voiceover from the reporter stating that an independant oversight body had concluded that the government had gone well out of its' way to make sure that everyone experiencing ill effects from being caught in the fires was well supported. Non story? Kind of. What's being said is that bushfires have a well documented effect on people and that support has been provided in a timely and effective manner. The editorial team were trying to force a good news story (government provides excellent support to victims of bushfire) into the shape of a bad news story (government fails in duty of care to provide adequate support to victims of bushfire). The tendency towards tabloid journalism, of which this is a symptom is absolutely rife here. This seems to be a global phenomenon which is infecting every media type and angecy but the quality of investigative journalism in Australia appears particularly low and is often unnecessarily confrontational. Investigative style is often adopted to seem professional rather than because there is a specific need for it. Reportage seems unnaffected but even this isn't great. A lot of the time you get the feeling that the news format is being copied from abroad as is the stiff exterior adopted by most reporters, especially as a lot of the international news is bought from Reuters, The BBC, ABC(America) and others. This is in such sharp contrast to the character of the people that it is almost comical. Australia is still finding it's national voice but it isn't more than a few years away I think. Even when there are genuinely large regional events the pragmatic Australian national character essentially renders them non-events. As an example a few days ago Darwin was hit by an earthquake rating 5.3 on the Richter scale. 5.3 whilst you can feel it, isn't huge but it was enough for a murder trial to be interupted and it is scientifically quite interesting. What renderred this a non-story was the fact that the editor of this piece had chosen to include a vox-pop from a very typical Aussie whose reaction to an earthquake was typically low key: "Yeah, I felt it but to be honest it wasn't much and I wasn't sure that anything had happened. But when I looked around the office everyone else had felt it too and some of the light fittings were wobbling." Perhaps this muted reaction is because earlier in the year Darwin had a much bigger earthquake which was some 15 times more powerful. Would you beleive it earthquake fatigue! Other brilliant stories included, Brave Children Rewarded, Again (Melbourne) and Local Dignatory Switches on Christmas [Tree] Lights in Shopping Mall (Perth). Out of the two the Melbourne story was perhaps the worst. I couldn't help feeling sorry for the kids who were genuinely heroic in a "pull you out from under a collapsed wall" kind of way. As is usual for this kind of event there were lots of fawning adults and all the kids stood around with a look on their faces that says: 'Is all this really necessary? You'd have done what I did or you wouldn't be allowed to call youself a human being.' Funniest of all were the firemen who have to turn up to functions like this in uniform and look very solemn, pretend they aren't looking for recruits or thinking'Thank God I'm not on watch today, I am so sick of pulling kittens out of trees'. Anonymous Tuesday, November 29, 2005 6:44:00 pm news over here is uniformly dull...until that undercurrent of tension beneath the pathological social niceities rears its bestail head, and seriously nasty stuff happens...stabbings, concrete immersion, grannies pushed under trains...actually, there`s still a big hoo-haar over Koizumi visiting a shrine to Japanese War Criminals/Heroes...not been brilliant for Chinese/Japanese relations... and why the fuck do I have to be Mr Pink? dataphage Wednesday, November 30, 2005 8:59:00 am Just so that I get that reaction! Like I said pick a colour and I'll change it. Nothing too awful please!! Anonymous Wednesday, November 30, 2005 3:15:00 pm actually, I don`t really mind, sailor...I just like a bitchy stink now and then... Swimming in the dark = pissing in the wind Melbourne Cup? Bollocks! Gimme the beer...	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5862535238265991, "wiki_prob": 0.4137464761734009, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1529013"}
Aug 13, 2016 13 min read Notes from the Rockies A journey through the Canadian wilderness. The plane takes off and before we know it, we’ve put several thousand feet of air between the fuselage and the ground. I guess the reason that planes freak me out so much is that I’ve never piloted one and I have no idea how sturdy or flimsy they are or how much margin for error exists. If a column of air hits the plane in just the right way, I wonder, would it just cast us down from the sky? Descents always scare the shit out of me because they seem like they’re always barely controlled. We list with the thermals rising up from the rye fields. And so I curse rye whiskey, hipster bread and everything rye is used for, because I’m thinking that I really don’t want to die in Calgary, Canada. I mean, that would be so random. If I had to choose, I’d much rather smack into a peak in the Andes, or plummet to my doom into a small island in Micronesia. Something distant and foreign and mysterious. But we land without incident and the kindly flight attendant who re-seated us lets us know that two big planes landed at approximately the same time as us in Calgary and that it would be in our best interest to hustle to customs and get through before the lines stack up with a couple thousand people. Fiona and I rush off the plane as fast as possible, but we get stuck behind a disembarking elderly person for five or so minutes which adds to our anxiety. But then we’re off again shooting around masses of people, ducking and weaving and practically sprinting down the mysterious, dimly-lit, back hallways of YYC to get to customs. And we get there ahead of everyone and triumphantly look back at the swarms gathering behind us. The customs agent glances at us and asks us our business in Canada in an extremely flat tone. Very makes me wonder if he’s asking out of duty, some obscure training, or if he’s genuinely interested. We say we’re off to Banff to go trekking through the wilderness. He hands us back our passports without a word. We shoot off again and collect our bags from the carousel decorated with bizarre trinkets which are supposed to advertise the Alberta Ballet. "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy," huh? Fiona and raise our eyebrows at one another. We put on our backpacks and head over to the Budget Car Rental place, where we meet a bro-ish looking guy named Scott in line. He asks us if we're headed up to Banff and if we'd take him too if he gave us some cash. We welcomed the opportunity to subsidize our rental car, so we say sure. We jet off to Banff with Scott in tow. We hit a Tim Hornton’s on the way out of Calgary though and go through what seems to be a ridiculously complex drive-thru ordering process involving many followup questions about sauces and sandwich customizations. The drive to Banff then goes without incident except that Fiona gets a speeding ticket from a hilariously polite, but stern, cop. We try to blame it on a conversion error from mph to kph. It doesn’t work. Outside of this, we learn a lot about Scott’s bro life. He’s in finance, living in LA and single and 37, though he looks 25, and he‘s been a lot of places. He says ‘Machu Picchu’ in this strange way, like ‘maynu pitchu.’ He tells us that he isn’t in any kind of relationship, so he spends all his time off and all his money traveling the world. We drop him off with his bro buddies at Two Jacks Campground. And in a remarkable display of gratitude, he flipped us another twenty to put toward the speeding ticket. At this point, Fiona and I are time-crunched to reach our shuttle to the trailhead before 4pm at the Sunshine Village gondola station (which doesn’t run during the week, hence the shuttle bus). We quickly stop in Banff and grab two cans of bear spray, two cans of isobutane, and two fifths of whiskey and blast out of town again on the Trans-Canada highway up to the Sunshine Village Ski Resort. On the way up to the resort, we see a bunch of male big-horned sheep staring blankly at our car. A bachelor party, it seems. We’re the only passengers on the shuttle bus. The driver lectures us on all the cool sights on the trek out to Mt. Assiniboine. He’s very excited for us and going on in his thick Alberta accent. I pick up about half of what he says over the roar of the engine. I hear ‘ya have aboot a 50–50 chance of seein’ a bear’. He drops us off at the station at the top of the gondola. We go in and grab ice water from an Australian girl at the bar. It’s sort of awkward because she’s shooting the bar water gun into our Camelbaks and it takes a really long time, so we have to make conversation to get through the six liters. After this, we head up the hill and roam across the four miles to Howard Douglas campground, stepping around the chirping ground squirrels, which inhabit the ancient glacial plain. The plain rolls green, covered with wildflowers and opal, glacial pools, into the distance until it reaches the mountain ranges, which shoot up in every direction, jagged and bluish. We have a bit of trouble finding the actual campsite, but we meet a man who’s trekking 800 miles across the Great Divide trail. He’s an interesting fellow: solo, a resident of San Diego, a part-time accountant, and clearly not a huge fan of people. He split off from us as soon as we arrived at the campsite. It seems there are many people on this trail, solo, out to figure out something about themselves. We settle, pitch the tent, and eat our freeze-dried meals by the lakeside, swatting off mosquitoes and gulping whiskey until the sun sets behind the mountain. We wake up to the buzzing of mosquitoes. It’s the first time that I realize the bugs are going to be a real problem. We do our best to move quickly to prepare breakfast and pack up the tent, but the little fuckers follow in persistent clouds and settle on you to do their vampiric business if you stop moving for any length of time. Even the deet we brought doesn’t seem to deter them much. We have to walk around while munching our freeze-dried food. After breakfast, we make our way out again on to the trail toward Assiniboine. The meadows yawn wide and green and rolling off into the distance once more and the ranges of the mountains jut upward like castle ramparts. We pass a mountain called The Citadel. Our pace is very quick and we descend, after crossing Citadel Pass, into the Valley of the Rocks. We’re on edge for a moment due to the fact that many trees are scraped up and de-barked and we think this is because of bear activity. I heard somewhere that bears like to scratch the bark off of trees and then use naked trees to scratch their assholes . When I offer this idea, Fiona laughs and thinks this theory is ridiculous. Either way, we’re on the lookout for bear danger during much of the day. But we never see anything. Fiona checks her map and says, if we’re feeling up to it, we can push an extra 4.5 miles today to get to Lake Magog, at the foot of Mt. Assiniboine, which makes the whole distance from Howard Douglas about 15 miles. We decide to go for it. By the time we reach Lake Og (which is on the way, 10.9 miles from Howard Douglas) though, we’re sore and tired. My feet start developing bad blisters just below the middle toe on both feet. These haunt me for the rest of the journey. We filter water and eat lunch at Og. I had the beef pho, which is okay. All the meals already start tasting the same, even though they’re supposed to be entirely different flavors. I dump the dregs on the rocks for the flies to feast on. We pack up again and proceed to Magog, passing a set of mysterious caves. Luckily, these next 4.5 miles are relatively flat and fast. Still, we’re exhausted by the time we reach the next lake. We go for a beer (two actually) at the backcountry lodge . We're very pleased to discover that the Canadian Provincial Park flies out tourists and supplies by helicopter to this place deep in the backcountry! We sit next to a couple from Calgary who tell us that they’re getting a civil union at the lodge the next day. Apparently, it’s easier to get married in British Columbia than Alberta, less bureaucracy or something. They’re kind of rednecky and talk loudly about guns and make jokes about Justin Trudeau. We politely nod until we depart to our campsite at Magog with a bottle of wine. At this point, we see the mighty Assiniboine rising upward, a jagged cone, covered with glaciers, with a massive, aquamarine lake at its base. We set up camp and realize that we don’t have a wine opener. I borrow a knife from a fellow camper to peel off the foil and then use the butt of Fiona’s tooth brush to ram the cork inside of the bottle, spraying myself a bit in the process. During this time, Fiona goes pee in the bushes behind our campsite and then gets back into our tent. She still has her shoes on. She smells something reeking and notices that there’s a clod of human feces attached to her boot. I scream and she tosses her boots out of the tent. We check and ensure there’s no more shit in the tent. Fortunately, there isn’t. The piece of poop remains just outside of the tent for the rest of our stay. Neither of us wants to even touch it with a stick. We’re also just exhausted to all hell. We drink wine in the tent, make another fucking freeze-dried meal, and then go to sleep in the twilight. We wake slowly. We sleep for 12 hours in total. 9pm to 9am. During the early morning, I briefly woke to hear the voices of some New Zealanders heading out of camp (probably to summit Assiniboine). While that would be a great achievement, I’m not envious in the slightest. When we get out of the tent, we see that the peak is locked in by storm clouds and it’s cold out. Conditions look really harsh up there. As I fetch water from the glacial lake, I take in the view once more. The mountain surging upward, carrying its glaciers. We make more fucking freeze-dried breakfast (it’s really getting old, almost nauseating, at this point) and then hike up to The Nub. Fiona’s knee is stiff and beginning to really bother her. A remnant of our grueling day before. But we press on and make our ascent. We summit and spread out the pack we brought on the ground, making coffee and taking photos of the abundant marmot population there. We even see a pair boxing one another. More often, they just sit and look at you or each other, and chirp. The view from The Nub is jaw dropping, offering an expansive look at Assiniboine and its surrounding peaks, and the three bright blue glacial lakes beneath. When we start our descent about an hour later to go back to camp, Fiona’s knee is almost unbearably sore. She has to hobble down in a manner that doesn’t cause her knee to bend. We lunch at Sunburst Lake, At this point, I’m straight up done with freeze-dried meals, but I choke down a Shepherd’s Pie. Heading back down the trail 4.5 miles back to Lake Og, my blisters ache and squish badly. It’s like there are capri suns attached to the bottom of my feet. We arrive at the camp and set up our test, filter water, and sip whiskey. We get told off by a condescending, but very polite Canadian mountaineer who’s disconcerted by the fact that we aren’t using the designated cooking area on the other side of camp and that we’re causing an unnecessary bear risk because of it. So, we go over to the cooking area and strike up conversation with two guys who met in a Ju-Jitsu class and attempted to make Magog from Sunshine Village all in one day (20 miles), but couldn’t make it. We get in our sleeping bags and I think I hear a bear, but turns out to be the flagging of the tent tarp in the breeze. I think I’m deliriously tired. After my freakout, I enter a dead, black sleep until the sun shines down on our tent and bakes us out. Even in the morning we’re both imagining eating burgers, slurping down beer, and cooling our feet. We initially planned to just go back to Howard Douglas this day and to finish the last 4 miles to Sunshine the following morning. But I can’t even eat breakfast because I’m so sick of our backpacker food and a little hungover and headache-y. Fiona feels similarly ready to get back and to shower. So we decide to go for the whole 15 miles today. Everything is great until we arrive at what I dub The Great Bitch-cline: The ascent back up to Citadel Pass. It’s approximately 1500–2000 feet of elevation gain, straight up (because the Canadians don’t seem to believe in switch backs). This ascent is by far the crux of the entire 50 mile trek. We’re forced to stop several times on the way up to catch our breath. But this sucks because the amount of sweat we’re pouring out washes away the deet we’d applied earlier, leaving us susceptible to the mosquitoes, who swarm and stab. But we make it to the top, totally beleaguered and depleted. Gulping water from our Camelbak hoses. I completely bonk on my blood sugar levels just before we reach Citadel mountain with no breakfast and just energy gels to keep me going. I wolf down one of Fiona’s meal bars. The last few miles past Howard Douglas and to Sunshine Village are some of the most harsh and grueling (mostly psychologically as we’re so close to our destination and relaxation and food). With every step I feel pain shoot up my leg. My ankles feel weak and my blisters are pulsing. But by sheer force of will and desire for beer, we press on and finish our return to the Sunshine Village gondola station (the top) two hours before closing, way ahead of schedule. Victory. I pay a ridiculous sum for two pale ales, but we drink and sweat and revel in our sore accomplishment on the patio for a solid hour. We end up booking a hotel on the main street of Banff— the Mount Royal — whose accommodations are decent, but a tad worn. Still, showering there is one of the most pleasurable experiences of my life. We eat poutine and burgers at the Elk & Oarsman across the street. Our first proper meal in days is such a treat. 7/25/2016–7/27/2016 The Ice Field Parkway is an astonishingly long route from glacier to glacier pouring down the sides of the mountains that line the road. We dine at Lake Louise in the Glacier Saloon , which is in the basement of the lakeside Fairmont Hotel. It’s a beautiful, mahogany-adorned place, with a killer view of the water. We're forced to pay the tourist levy, but our dinner is cheap because Fiona finds a mosquito cooked into in our poutine skillet — the little fuckers finally did us one solid. The waiter is so embarrassed that he comps our poutine and our beer. Anyhow, after dinner we hike up to the observation deck that overlooks Lake Louise. The view is staggering, but we don’t remain there for very long on account of the mosquitoes, again. We spend our last day in Lake Moraine admiring its unique bright, bright blue nature. We canoe, hike and then eat in the lodge on the side of the lake. We rent canoes and paddle into the opal expanse. Later, we decide to don bathrobes and walk down to the canoe dock. With an audience of tourists who just poured off a big bus, Fiona and I take a running start and leap into the lake (which never gets above 6 degrees Celsius). It’s a blast of profound cold. We immediately swim back to the dock and pull ourselves up, panting, shivering and laughing hysterically. We dine at the lodge and then take a last round of pictures at the huge pile of rocks next to the lake, right as the sun is setting. Sign up for articles, podcasts, and videos about technology, adventure travel, and more. Nick Roberts © 2023	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5231741070747375, "wiki_prob": 0.47682589292526245, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1479078"}
How are Instagram Guides Useful for Content Creators, Businesses & Brands Instagram has become a favourite social media habitat for the majority of people. It has become a hub of entertainment, knowledge, business, promotions and networking. Needless to state its popularity among the people. If we look at numbers, Instagram owns 1 Billion+ active monthly users. Another big surprising number happens to be the number of businesses on Instagram, which is around 25 Million+ as per the reports of Statista, a company that provides statistics and survey results headquartered in Germany. These stats show that businesses are trusting Instagram for their growth. Branding and Marketing of businesses are happening online these days with the help of the Digital Marketing Strategy and Social Media Marketing strategy. When Social Media Marketing is considered, Instagram Marketing happens to be the prominent go-to for most brands, marketers and influencers. Brands are banking on this platform for their promotions to take advantage of the vast user base it has. Whether you’re a freelancer or an entrepreneur, an influencer or a brand, this platform has a lot of opportunities for everyone regardless of their work background they belong to. Instagram has been regularly adding updates to the platform to aid the user's needs. It was not long before Instagram introduced IGTV and the most discussed feature, Instagram Reels recently. As soon as Reels were introduced, they created hype among the public and were promoted widely by the platform as well. Just a couple of days back, Instagram rolled out a new feature named Instagram Guides. Earlier this year, Instagram guides were available only for the health and wellness advocates to spread awareness about the ongoing pandemic. But recently, the Instagram Guides feature has been made available to all users. Moreover, Instagram Guides in India also have been rolled out earlier this week. If you are wondering how do I make an Instagram Guide, let’s have a quick walkthrough of how to use Guides. How to Create Instagram Guides Click on the + icon on your Instagram profile to create a new Guide similar to how you create a new Reel. Select the Guides option from the menu that pops up. You are presented with 3 options to create a Guide: Places: Create a Guide for the places in your city, and also your favourite ones, including the restaurants, cafes, parks or any place. Products: Recommend your favourite products that are available on the Instagram shop. Posts: Create a Guide comprising any of your posts, and also the ones that you have saved from other creators. After you select the ones that you wish to add, give a title to your Guide, add a cover photo, a title for each post that you include in the Guide and add an optional description for the Guide. Finally, share the Guide or save it as a draft to publish later. You can find the published Guides on your Instagram profile page where a new tab gets added along with the posts, IGTV, Reels and Tagged tabs. Now that it’s clear how to share and access Guides, let me share an in-depth review of Instagram Guides. The foremost things that influence people on social media are likes and comments. But Instagram has not provided the feature of likes and comments on Guides, nor did it provide the insights. It gave an impression to people that Guides cannot expand their reach. But that’s not completely true. There are some underlying advantages to using Guides for brands, businesses, influencers and individuals. So, let’s find out what are the advantages of Instagram Guides. ADVANTAGES OF INSTAGRAM GUIDES 1. Filling the Content Gap Instagram is trying to make the platform a complete hub of the content of varied genres. You have the features like capturing images, and videos, beautifying them with effects and filters, adding short and long videos and messaging your friends. That makes it a complete hub. But something is still missing. Let’s find out what’s that? Generally speaking, what is content? Content can be classified into four types: Images, Video, Audio and Texts. Images: If you look at Instagram, images have always been the highlight of this platform. Images convey messages better, and that’s what leads Instagram to popularity. Video: If video content is considered, we already know how popular Reels are with people these days. Even the IGTVs are doing good for longer videos, tutorials and interviews. Audio: Speaking about audio, though Instagram doesn’t have a direct option to upload audios, you can upload your audios on an IGTV by having a static image and adding the audio to it making a video. Maybe witnessing the popularity of audio content, especially podcasts, Instagram may come up with audios too in the future. Text: Now let’s speak about the text. Instagram allows you to add captions for your posts and descriptions for your IGTV and Reels but other than that there is no option to add long texts. Obviously, people try to add text to the images and also upload carousels of 10 images to convey information in the form of long texts. But most of the time, this may not suffice. Consider the long text tutorials you wish to share, or if you wish to share your blogs, there is no such option to do so. But with the introduction of Guides, you can conveniently add long texts and publish your long blogs supported with the related posts. 2. Additional Content Space for Bloggers and Writers As mentioned above, with the Instagram Guides you can create blogs on this platform as an Instagram blog, and this comes as a great aid for the bloggers and writers. What bloggers usually do is that they share a gist of their blog or images from their blog on Instagram to promote it and then direct visitors to their blog outside the platform. But visitors usually don’t navigate outside the platform to an external space. They just consume the content on Instagram being satisfied with that. They don't move out unless and until if they are very much intrigued by the topic. With this limitation, bloggers are not able to exhibit their talent efficiently to visitors. This is not only with the bloggers but also with the writers, poets, authors and story writers. But now you can share a couple of blogs or stories on this platform, and start building a community of interested readers here, who would then eventually navigate to your blog in an external space. This is a great marketing strategy for all bloggers and writers to drive traffic to their websites. 3. Efficient Marketing Strategy We have highlighted the marketing strategy for bloggers and writers, but this marketing tactic can be useful for brands and businesses as well. Wondering how? What is one of the most prominent methods of marketing? Storytelling. Every brand tries to adopt storytelling to promote its products and services. Storytelling can be done efficiently with the Guides, and you can also include the best of your products or posts in the Guides for reference. By this method, people or potential clients would know more about your brand and products and can be easily influenced to buy your products or services. It is also helpful for the artists, freelancers, designers and everyone to give a holistic overview of their work. Doesn’t that sound to be a good marketing strategy? 4. Create Detailed Tutorials and How-to Guides You can share detailed tutorials in various niches and how-to guides that add value to the visitors. You can share your insights on various topics, and also you can share others' posts on your Guide to add more points to the discussion or add your perspective to the post. The bigger topics that you would have included in multiple posts due to the length, can now be clubbed into a single Guide. 5. Curation of the Products by Influencers Instagram influencers are often known to inspire the audience with the best products and services available in the market. They collaborate with brands to promote their products. For instance, consider a fashion influencer. If they wish to share a complete festive or party look including the outfit, makeup, footwear and accessories like watch, handbag and jewellery, the 10-images carousel may be insufficient, and they’ll have to add multiple posts and stories for the same. When you break an individual topic into multiple stories or posts, continuity is missed and the visitors might lose interest. But with Instagram Guides, these multiple posts can be added to a single Guide, making it a complete guide of the entire look. This is not only for the fashion influencers but for other niches as well. Sponsored products of brands can be well promoted by influencers using Instagram Guides. Curation becomes easy and more detailed with Instagram Guides. 6. Pinning of Best Posts "The first impression is the last impression". When a visitor comes to your page, the page must be well aligned such that visitors get a complete overview of your page in a couple of minutes. The best of your works/posts get lost among the other posts on your profile. To influence the visitors in one go, it would be good if you could pin the best of your works on the top of your profile. Twitter enables users to pin the best of their posts on the top of the profile so that when a visitor visits their Twitter profile, they find the best ones at first. Just like Twitter, what if you can pin posts on your Instagram profile? Though Instagram does not allow you to pin posts, there are a couple of Instagram hacks to do it. Wondering how to pin posts on Instagram? Hurray, I have got you covered! There are two methods to pin posts on Instagram. Highlights Method: Pin Posts on Instagram using Highlights Add the post you want to pin to your Instagram story and make a highlight of that story. Highlights on the Instagram profile are a great way to show the visitors the best of your work. These highlights stay on top of your profile forever. But highlights can be added only from the stories. And visitors might not slide through all the highlights. There is a second method as well. Guides Method: Pin Posts on Instagram using Guides Though Instagram doesn’t support the pinning of posts feature currently, Instagram Guides can be used to do so. You can now pin the best of your posts in Instagram Guides making it available on the guides tab of your profile forever until you delete them. 7. Advantage of being a New Feature We know that Instagram tries to promote the new features extensively as it did for IGTVs or Reels. Firstly Reels button was granted a place near the + icon on the bottom, replacing it with the search button. The explore page also started promoting Reels, and Reels got a place on the home feed as well. Clearly, Reels are gaining all the attention, and the reach for Instagram Reels is also assumed to be better than the stories and posts. So now it’s time for Guides. Instagram may try to promote Guides too making them a great feature on the platform. Now a question arises that Instagram Guides do not support likes and comments, nor is it explorable through hashtags, so how can you promote your guides? Share your Guide on Instagram Story and add relevant hashtags there so that you get a reach to your Instagram Guide using those hashtags. Additionally, Guides have the feature to be shared which can expand your reach. When the guide is shared, new visitors would visit your profile and also visit the profile of the creator whose posts you would have included in the Guide, making it an advantage for brands when influencers use your post on their Guide. So now you would have got a clear picture of how advantageous Instagram Guides could be! If you have additional suggestions on how these guides can be helpful, please do share them below. It’s time to explore the Guides and make the most out of them. Adding Links in Instagram Bio using Bio-Link Tools	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.6227188110351562, "wiki_prob": 0.6227188110351562, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line641343"}
Home Cannabis Stocks Under $2 For December Watchlist Cannabis Stocks Under $2 For December Watchlist Penny Pot Stocks For 2023 Top Cannabis ETF’s To Buy Now? 4 For Your 2023 Watchlist Published on 15 December 2022, 14:20 America/New_York best cannabis stocks, best marijuana penny stocks, Best Marijuana Stocks, buy cannabis stocks, buy marijuana stocks, cannabis stocks, CCHWF, list of marijuana stocks, LOWLF, Marijuana Stocks, marijuana stocks to buy, top cannabis stocks, top pot stocks Best Marijuana Stocks To Watch In This Downtrend Would you like to know which marijuana stocks to buy before the year is over? Short-term traders got a ton of possibilities this week because of the market’s extraordinary volatility. Top cannabis companies may see increased volatility as federal cannabis legalization moves forward on Capitol Hill. Cannabis penny stocks are one sector of the cannabis market where day traders and swing traders may find opportunities. Earlier this month, Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO) formally filed a bill to prepare the country for the previously anticipated federal legalization of marijuana. The Preparing Regulators Effectively for a Post-Prohibition Adult-Use Regulated Environment Act (PREPARE Act) would provide the attorney general instructions to form a commission tasked with offering suggestions for a marijuana regulatory framework similar to the one in place for alcohol. Many cannabis investors are actively trading marijuana stocks utilizing short-term trading strategies to benefit from the current volatility. Many of the largest cannabis companies’ current market valuations are comparable to those of penny stocks. Penny stocks are any shares with a price of less than $5. They are well known for their high volatility and capacity for significant daily price fluctuations. The two best marijuana penny stocks to watch in December are examined next. [Read More] Marijuana Stocks To Watch How to Make A Profit In Volatile Sector? Top Marijuana Penny Stocks For December 2022 Columbia Care Inc. (OTC: CCHWF) Lowell Farms Inc. (OTC: LOWLF) Columbia Care Inc. Columbia Care Inc.’s footprint in the New York area will expand dramatically. The company, one of the most significant cannabis growers on the East Coast, just bought a 34-acre Long Island facility. Currently, Columbia Care has 131 locations, including 99 dispensaries and 32 growing and processing facilities, dispersed over 18 American cities. In October 2021, the company unveiled a marijuana dispensary at its first site in Missouri. The business recently made public the location of Virginia’s third gLeaf dispensary. On March 23, Columbia Care was purchased by Cresco Labs Inc. (OTC: CRLBF), the largest MSO in the US, for a $2 billion total enterprise value. The business estimates third-quarter 2022 revenue climbed 2.4% QoQ to $133 million. The business’s gross profit increased 2.5% QoQ to $52 million. Retail revenue barely increased by 0.4% when compared to Q2 2022. However, wholesale revenue increased by 14% sequentially and significantly raised EBITDA. By June 2022, adult usage hours would have been fully implemented in New Jersey’s retail outlets. Market sales grew sequentially by more than 75%, while wholesale growth outperformed quarterly growth by more than five times. In Q3, no new retail establishments were inaugurated. The company opened Carytown, its fifth retail site in Virginia, after the quarter ended, bringing the total number of dispensaries to 85. CCHWF Stock Performance CCHWF stock closed on December 14th at $1.18, down 30.99% in the last month of trading. Currently, the stock has a 52-week range of $1.15-$3.39, down 58.75% year to date. According to analysts at CNN Business CCHWF stock has a 12-month average price target of $3.73 per share. In this case, this is an upside of 215.69% from its last trading price of $1.18. [Read More] Best Canadian Cannabis Stocks To Buy? 3 To Watch Before 2023 Lowell Farms Inc. Lowell Farms Inc., a well-known cannabis company based in California, is rapidly expanding its market share. The development of excellent cannabis brand licenses, artisan craft cannabis growing, and cutting-edge manufacturing techniques are the organization’s primary goals. The business and Ascend Wellness Holdings have a license arrangement. The two businesses will work together to provide the Lowell Smokes brand to dispensaries in Massachusetts and Illinois. In November, Ascend and Lowell officially decided to ship Lowell Smokes to Michigan. The renowned Lowell Smokes pre-roll bundles will also be available in Illinois, the business claims. Lowell Farms reported $8.7 million in revenue for the third quarter of 2022, a decrease of 31% from the third quarter of 2021 and 34% sequentially. Revenues from the Lowell brand climbed from 66% of CPG revenues in the prior quarter to 82% of CPG revenues this quarter. The company had an operating loss of $5.2 million in the third quarter, down from $7.0 million and $3.0 million sequentially in the second quarter. In addition to a net loss of $4.8 million for the third quarter, a gain of $2 million related to an acquired ERC credit was also recorded. Words From The Chairman “While these unaudited results are not in line with expectations, we remain confident moving into 2023 and beyond. The successful launch and positive reception that our 35’s pre-roll brand has enjoyed gives us great confidence. The market share for this coveted new product has increased substantially since the launch in September.” Chairman of the Board George Allen. LOWLF Stock Performance The shares of LOWLF closed at $0.1203 on December 14th, down 32.79% in the last month of trading. The stock is now trading in a 52-week price range of $0.1099-$0.525 and is down 62.22% year to date. [Read More] Best Ancillary Marijuana Stocks To Watch Now Best Pot Stocks For Watchlist Now Using financial data and press releases, you may find the most promising companies. Before taking a position, you should do considerable research on the company. Investing performance can increase as you become more skilled at utilizing technical indicators and chart patterns. Short-term traders may benefit from the current market conditions due to the cannabis industry’s quick local and international expansion. You could find it helpful to become familiar with various trading tactics in a downturn. In December 2022, you should add the above cannabis penny stocks to your watchlist. 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News...Straight to the point. ARLINGTON, TEXAS - NOVEMBER 25: Derek Carr #4 of the Las Vegas Raiders passes the ball during the first quarter of the NFL game between Las Vegas Raiders and Dallas Cowboys at AT&T Stadium on November 25, 2021 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images) Derek Carr Leads Raiders Over Cowboys in OT Thriller The Raiders snapped their three-game losing streak on Thursday, as they beat the Cowboys 36-33 in overtime. Derek Carr logged a gutsy performance, going 24-for-39 for 373 yards and adding an additional 21 on the ground. After the game, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones criticized the refs for over-penalizing his team, including a huge pass interference call against Anthony Brown on a third-and-18 play that led to the game-winner. Mabiala’s Goal in 90th Minute Lifts Timber Over Rapids The ever-growing MLS had its first-ever game on Thanksgiving day on Thursday, with the Portland Timbers facing the top-ranked Colorado Rapids. The Timbers won the semi-final matchup 1-0 off of a goal in the 90th minute from center back Larrys Mabiala who positioned the game-winner in the top left of the goal off of a corner kick. DeChambeau and Koepka Set to Clash in The Match Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau are set to re-spark their simmering rivalry on Friday as they square off in Capital One’s The Match. It’s the fifth installment in the smash-hit series, which has previously featured superstars like Tiger Woods, Tom Brady, and Steph Curry. Unlike the previous editions, there will be no amateurs competing with the pros. Just Brooks vs Bryson at the Wynn Golf Club in Las Vegas, with 12 holes in match play to determine which elite athlete is truly superior. No. 5 NC State Stuns No. 2 Maryland at Pink Flamingo Championship The Wolfpack pulled together a team effort, including 17 points off the bench for Diamond Johnson, to beat the No. 2 Terrapins 78-60 in the Bahamas. Maryland was short-handed for the game, missing Diamond Miller, Katie Benzan, and Faith Masonius, but NC State looked strong in the win. It was Maryland’s worse loss since 2019. USWNT to Debut Several New Players in Friendly Matchup with Australia The USWNT will close out their 2021 schedule with a pair of matches down under, and for those tuning in, the team will look a lot different. While the roster includes 10 players who were part of the squad’s bronze medal World Cup campaign, there are also six players making their first appearance and only two members who are over the age of 30 (Sammy Mewis, 30, and Becky Sauerbrunn, 36). The matchup will take place on Friday at 11:00 p.m. EST on FS2. Ralf Rangnick Picked as Interim Manager for Man U Manchester United has their new man. Ralf Rangnick is reportedly the new interim manager for the struggling club, which fired Ole Gunnar Solskjaer earlier this week following a disappointing campaign as manager. Rangnick currently serves as the Head of Sports and Development at Moscow Lokomotiv, and his selection is contingent on the team’s agreement to release him from his contract. Baker Mayfield Expected to Start Against Ravens The Browns QB has had a number of injuries this season, most recently dealing with a knee injury. However, he was a full participant in the team’s practice on Thursday, according to the NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, and is expected to start in Sunday’s matchup against the Ravens. College BasketballDallas CowboysDerek CarrLas Vegas RaidersManchester UnitedMLSNFLsoccerUSWNT	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8432198166847229, "wiki_prob": 0.8432198166847229, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line181418"}
KKR makes $12 billion approach to take Telecom Italia private A KKR logo is displayed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), August 23, 2018. Brendan McDermid \| Reuters Telecom Italia (TIM) has received a 10.8 billion euro ($12 billion) approach from U.S. fund KKR aimed at taking Italy’s biggest phone group private, the company said on Sunday. KKR’s move comes as TIM’s CEO Luigi Gubitosi battles for survival after coming under fire from top investor Vivendi following two profit warnings in three months. TIM said KKR had set an indicative price of 0.505 euros for its possible buyout offer — a 45.7% premium to the ordinary shares’ closing price on Friday. KKR would also offer the same price for TIM’s savings shares. The TIM board, chaired by former Bank of Italy official Salvatore Rossi, met for several hours on Sunday afternoon but in a short statement it gave no indication of whether it would support the approach. It noted that KKR had termed its action as “friendly” and aimed at winning the backing of the company and of the government. Italy’s Treasury said foreign interest in Italian companies was “positive news for the country” and the market would assess how valid KKR’s plan is were it to materialise. The government will closely follow developments with a focus on plans for TIM’s fixed-line assets, which would be key in determining whether it uses its veto powers. Rome has special anti-takeover powers to shield companies deemed of strategic importance from foreign bids. A new owner would also have to assume TIM’s 29 billion euro gross debt. Carve out Gubitosi brought KKR onboard last year in a 1.8 billion euro deal that handed the New York-based fund a 37.5% stake in FiberCop, the unit holding TIM’s last-mile network connecting street cabinets to people’s homes. KKR’s plan would see TIM carve out its fixed network to be run as a government-regulated asset along the model used by energy grid company Terna or gas grid firm Snam, two sources close to the matter said earlier on Sunday. The government wants any plans for TIM’s grid to be in line with the goal of rapidly completing broadband rollout across Italy, supported by adequate investments, and protecting jobs, the Treasury said in its statement. Gubitosi has started looking at ways to squeeze money out of TIM’s assets, revisiting in particular a plan to merge TIM’s fixed-line grid – its most prized asset – with that of fibre optic rival Open Fiber. Sponsored by the previous government, that project had run aground under Prime Minister Mario Draghi. Rome, preparing to tap billions of euros of European Union recovery funds to boost broadband connectivity in Italy, is aware of the need to find a way to shore up the former telecoms monopoly and protect its 42,500 domestic workers. Price ‘too low’ Vivendi, which is pushing to replace Gubitosi, believes KKR’s offer does not adequately value TIM, a person close the French media group said. Vivendi, which faces a steep capital loss on its 24% TIM stake after paying on average 1.071 euros a share, remains ready to work alongside Italy’s authorities and institutions for TIM’s long-term success, a spokesperson said. Vivendi sees Gubitosi as a short-term solution for TIM, people close to the matter have said. One person said on Sunday KKR’s plan may buy Gubitosi a few more months. Private equity firms CVC and Advent have also studied possible plans for TIM, working with former TIM CEO Marco Patuano, now a senior adviser to Nomura in Italy. A spokesperson for the two funds said they were open to working with all stakeholders on a solution to strengthen TIM, denying any contacts with Vivendi. To oversee a strategic asset such as the fixed line, state investor CDP has taken a 9.8% stake becoming TIM’s second-largest investor after Vivendi. TIM’s fixed network is also a key asset supporting the debt burden which was cut further below the investment grade level by credit rating agency S&P on Friday. TIM’s revenue have shrunk by a fifth over the past five years hit by aggressive competition at home from rivals such as Iliad, Vodafone, Wind Tre and Fastweb.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9481509923934937, "wiki_prob": 0.9481509923934937, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line12062"}
Homepage Losses and Aviation SafetyPhoto allegedly shows the bird strike that may have caused last May fatal crash of Snowbirds’ CT-114 Tutor Photo allegedly shows the bird strike that may have caused last May fatal crash of Snowbirds’ CT-114 Tutor By Dario Leone In a preliminary report issued on Jun. 1, investigators say video footage from the crash showed a bird was in very close proximity to the right engine intake during take-off. A bird strike may have caused the crash of a Snowbirds’ CT-114 Tutor jet last May, Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) investigators say. The May 17, 2020 accident killed the team Public Affairs Officer (PAO) Capt. Jennifer Casey. Pilot Captain Richard MacDougall was injured. As shown by the image in this post (which is a screenshot taken from the aforementioned clip and that was made available by RCAF), it’s possible that the bird (circled in red) struck the engine’s intake. As reported, the CT-114 Tutor aircraft belonging to the Snowbirds demonstration team crashed in Kamloops, BC. After the takeoff, the aircraft climbed into the sky before rolling over and plunging to the ground. The crash occurred the same day the Snowbirds were scheduled to make a trip from Kamloops to Kelowna as part of Operation Inspiration, a cross-country tour aimed at boosting the morale of Canadians struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic. This crash was the second involving one of the aircraft of the aerobatic team in less than a year (the May 17 crash in fact follows the downing of another team’s CT-114 in the US state of Georgia last October, where the team was scheduled to perform in an air show. Capt. Kevin Domon-Grenier sustained minor injuries when he ejected from the Tutor). Photo credit: Royal Canadian Air Force Dario Leone is an aviation, defense and military writer. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviation Geek Club” one of the world’s most read military aviation blogs. His writing has appeared in The National Interest and other news media. He has reported from Europe and flown Super Puma and Cougar helicopters with the Swiss Air Force. Airshows / Losses and Aviation Safety Snowbirds PAO Capt. Jennifer Casey confirmed dead in the team CT-114 Tutor Crash Airshows / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation Snowbirds’ CT-114 Tutor jet crashes after takeoff. Clip shows Ejection but pilot’s status is unknown. INTERESTING VIDEO SHOWS SNOWBIRD 5 CATCHING FIRE ON THE RUNWAY AFTER SATURDAY DISPLAY AT ATLANTIC CANADA INTERNATIONAL AIR SHOW	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7151265144348145, "wiki_prob": 0.7151265144348145, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line473061"}
Let the Gift Times Roll Julia Reed and Keith Meacham’s new shop readies for the holidays—and all the days By CJ Lotz photo: Courtesy of Reed Smythe & Co Julia Reed's beagle, Henry, sits beneath a William Dunlap painting in Jon and Keith Meacham's library. The winter holidays call for revelry, of course, but for the author and Garden & Gun columnist Julia Reed and her friend and fellow Mississippi native Keith Meacham, any time can be a party. “We’ve always been obsessed with entertaining in addition to our real jobs,” Reed says. The author Jon Meacham (Keith’s husband) vouches for the pair’s obsession with hosting: “Traditional occasions [are], for them, only the beginning,” Meacham says in an ode to the pair’s friendship. “A successful run to the dry cleaners? Let’s have drinks! A friend visiting from Mississippi whom you had just seen at the latest wedding or funeral? Send out for tenderloin! A Monday in March? Open up the Pol Roger!” That love of party-giving and the ever-presence of crab and capers led Meacham to dub the duo the “Crabmeat Caucus.” Julia and Keith gave themselves a more formal handle when they recently opened an online shop, Reed Smythe & Company. They reached out to their network of artisan friends to craft one-of-a-kind barware, jewelry, and home goods, and now sell them alongside books, art, and even stylish gear for dogs (Reed’s beagle, Henry, makes dapper appearances on the shop’s Instagram account). For celebratory times—whether they be Christmas, a christening, or a cookout, here are four of the friends’ favorite gifts to share. Original Green Goblet Years ago, Reed found a set of four deep-green vintage wine glasses at an antiques shop. While on assignment for Garden & Gun in Vermont, she discovered a glassblower who became a friend and then made a custom set of glasses inspired by Reed’s original antique finds. “The green goblets look so festive with eggnog, but they’re perfect punch size too,” Reed says. “Hell, I’ve made martinis in them.” Henry or Bo Bottle Opener “There is inspiration everywhere,” Reed says of this bronze bottle opener featuring Henry’s head, which Reed commissioned from a friend who is a sculptor. The Labrador version pays homage to her childhood pup Bo. Wrapped with a special bottle to share, they make a charming hostess gift or stocking stuffer. Catfish Jigger Here’s a sterling silver gift with a story: “I cancelled a wedding a million years ago,” Reed says. “My lifelong friend Helen Bransford, who is a super talented jeweler, made a silver jigger with a catfish that was going to be the groomsmen present. Well we didn’t have any groomsmen because we didn’t have a wedding, but I kept the jigger, and when Keith and I started the business, we reintroduced the catfish jigger and gave it the life it deserved.” Reed keeps the original on her bar and suggests sending one to “a deserving dad, super host, bartender, husband, wife, or mother,” or really anyone who loves a funny story and thinks the humble catfish deserves a sterling reputation. And although Reed and Meacham can make any time a party, they do nod to Christmas in particular with these custom hand-painted animal head ornaments. “In a world where everything is pretty much starting to look the same,” Reed says, “It’s hard to find something unusual or one-of-a-kind. All of our stuff has the hand of the artisan in it.”	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8363849520683289, "wiki_prob": 0.8363849520683289, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1393460"}
Review: The Strength of His Heart by Victoria Sue Title: The Strength of His Heart Series: Enhanced World: Book Four Author: Victoria Sue Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Category: Paranormal, Sci-Fi At a Glance: The romance in The Strength of His Heart was just a bit of a mess for me. This is still a strong series, though, with fascinating characters, and I look forward to the next installment. Reviewed By: Sammy Blurb: To protect and serve…. All Vance Connelly ever wanted to do was continue his family’s tradition and join the Tampa Police Department, but his dreams were crushed the day he woke with the enhanced mark on his face. After years of struggling to adjust to life as an enhanced human, by a stroke of luck, he met Talon Valdez and became a proud member of the FBI’s Human Enhanced Rescue Organization. Samuel “Angel” Piper is eager to leave his DEA undercover work behind as he joins the HERO team as Vance’s regular human partner. But Sam’s painful past is ever present, just below the surface of the life he has built for himself as an ambitious young agent. When the team investigates rumors of a new drug using enhanced blood, the case’s mysterious connection to Sam threatens not just his life but Vance’s. Trust doesn’t come easy for Sam, but Vance is willing to fight to convince his partner that the strength of his heart might be the salvation they both need. Review: Let me begin by saying that I have enjoyed Victoria Sue’s Enhanced series very much, and this fourth installment, The Strength of His Heart, should be read in order after the first three, or you will be unable to follow all the connective tissue between these novels, which includes a wide variety of characters. In this book the author focuses on Vance, the gentle giant of the enhanced team, who is one of the four that was partnered with a human counterpart. Fans will recall Sam being introduced in book three and will remember how he is vastly different from Vance, both physically and emotionally. It’s these differences that will initially drive Sam and Vance apart but ultimately allow them to find common ground. After a mission gone south lands Vance in the hospital, Sam realizes that the partner who threatens to undo all the careful walls Sam has built up against his painful past is willing to go to any lengths to protect him. Vance has a huge crush on Sam and with just the least amount of permission, that crush could blossom into much more. This was the sweetest element in the novel, in my opinion, and it also became a missed opportunity by the author to really create a beautiful romance. Sam cannot escape the dark memories of his past physical and emotional abuse, and finds trusting someone who could so easily overpower him hard to do. So Sam lies to Vance about his sexuality, even though it means the mixed up feelings Sam has growing for Vance are tossed aside. The two move forward in an uneasy partnership and when Vance is sent in undercover to the enhanced prison, it is a matter of time before Sam realizes just what he has tossed aside in the act of self-preservation. Now he must get to Vance and tell him before it is too late. Once again, author Victoria Sue weaves a fast paced action adventure featuring her uniquely enhanced team of FBI agents. With multiple twists and turns, this story seemed to be even more complicated, plot-wise, than its three predecessors. I admit there were times when I had to really think about who was part of the enhanced team so I could keep track of the multiple characters in certain scenes; however, that was easily sorted, but the romance aspect of this novel took a bit more suspending of disbelief, if I am honest. It was this that moved this novel from a complete success to something a little south of a five star read. The problem wasn’t that both Vance and Sam had some deep past trauma to sort through. Poor Vance, a giant of a man with incredible strength, strives to free himself from feelings of inadequacy, and the danger he has presented to his loving family in the past—this all due to a nasty team of educators who made Vance feel like a dangerous outcast in his teen years. Sam, on the other hand, was treated horribly at the hands of an addicted mother who used him in order to get her next hit and then tossed him aside. Foster care found him locked in a place where abuse was used to keep him in line by two older boys who used their strength and physical size to keep Sam intimidated. This then sets up the idea that Sam struggles to trust Vance, even though he knows the man would never hurt him. All the elements were present to make this story a sweeping romantic action adventure, but unfortunately, the romance angle seemed to disappear and reappear at intervals and really stretched one’s imagination to find it plausible or realistic. I understood Sam’s need to protect himself, but the lack of progression in his and Vance’s relationship, the constant pushing away of Vance, the seeming selfishness and fear that held Sam back from trusting Vance, that never got resolved, and the strangely rushed and totally unbelievable ending was just too much to absorb. We flew from one incidence of Sam being mean and pushing Vance away to Vance returning like a whipped puppy just so he could be near Sam. I struggled to call this a romance, primarily because there was never any real emotional growth or intimacy between the two men. The two attempts at sex both ended badly and resulted in Vance exiting right. Due to the confusion of what was the author’s attempt at creating a slow burning love story between Vance and Sam, the novel felt unfinished and the ending felt tossed in at the last moment in order to save it. I really enjoyed the introduction of Vance’s brother, Daniel, to the team, and I also thought the key plot to hurt the enhanced was well done. However, the romance in this one was just a bit of a mess for me and gave the novel a thrown together feel that made this installment the weakest thus far. This is still a strong series, though, with fascinating characters, and I look forward to the next installment. 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South Korea extradites suspect in suitcase murder case to New Zealand 29 November 2022, 12:37 PM \| A woman handcuffed by police when arrested. Image: Pixabay South Korea has extradited to New Zealand a woman suspected of murdering two children whose bodies were discovered in suitcases in Auckland this year. The Korean-born New Zealander was handed over to New Zealand authorities yesterday at the Incheon International Airport. She is suspected of fleeing to South Korea in 2018 after allegedly killing her then 7-year-old and 10-year-old children in Auckland. “Along with the suspect, the justice ministry has also secured key evidence and provided it to New Zealand as per their request,” the ministry said in a statement. New Zealand police launched a homicide inquiry in Auckland after the remains of the children were found by a family going through the contents of a storage locker they had purchased. South Korean police arrested a woman charged with murdering what is believed to be her two children, whose remains were found in suitcases in New Zealand last month https://t.co/6otZBDGjXs pic.twitter.com/gbVj0bqamW — Reuters (@Reuters) September 15, 2022 Tags: South Korea woman SAHRC investigates reports of child malnutrition in Eastern Cape India asked by sanctions-hit Russia for parts for key sectors: Sources Previous SAHRC investigates reports of child malnutrition in Eastern Cape Next India asked by sanctions-hit Russia for parts for key sectors: Sources	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7407554984092712, "wiki_prob": 0.25924450159072876, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line29783"}
7/28/21: Simone Bile’s Bravery What bravery. What strength. What misinformation & vitriol spewed. All in one day. I’m warning ya’ll. This is gonna be a long one, bc there’s a LOT to untangle & discuss, & so much nuance I don’t see being covered. Little necessary bkgrnd: When my own life started spiraling out of control in 2015 from MH, it happened what felt like, overnight. One day/night I was a CRO of a pro sports team, overseeing a growing staff, setting strategic directions, presenting to prospects in suites at our game. The next day – I couldn’t leave my apt, was agoraphobic, didn’t have the mental acuity to pick up the phone to dial out & order food off a menu, couldn’t remember the middle names of my nieces, needed to be hand-held to the car & on to the airport by my mother (she was visiting, witnessing this all first-hand). It. Happened. That. Quickly. At age 35. Now, looking back, there were signs leading up to that crash. But as an athlete…as a competitive SOB…it didn’t matter. I was always able to push thru any obstacle. Till I wasn’t. And to this day, bc of how my neurobiology has been impacted over long bouts of trauma – I get symptoms like: my right hand feeling weaker/slower to react than my left – typing, gesturing whilst talking, etc. My memories can feel inaccessible. A room-spinning dizziness can overcome me. When the CNS begins to overload, symptoms can feel like something out of the twilight zone. I share just SOME of my experience here, bc it’s super relevant to the misinformation being shared about Simone. Headlines starting popping up yesterday: “Simon Biles quit on her team, in the middle of the finals.” When it leaked that MH could have been the reason for pulling out, the new narrative in the media headlines & keyboard warriors became – “she’s using MH as an excuse bc she hasn’t performed well.” But what do we actually know abt the bkgrnd here? Simone went into this Olympics carrying tremendous trauma. In order to chase gold medals, she had to represent an organization (USA Gymnastics) that had failed her & fellow survivors from experiencing sexual abuse at the hands of their coach, Larry Nasser. When Simone first felt comfortable sharing the news w her mother about the assault, she ended up spending days depressed & locked in her room, unable to get up, bc of the overwhelming depression – the unmasking of the trauma she’d been holding in. Following that incident, and the openness with her mom, Simone shared: “Therapy and medicine,” are what helped her to “keep the demons at bay.” Fast forward to these Olympic Games. Over the weekend, Simone stumbled during the qualifying rounds, bouncing not just out of bounds but off the friggin’ mat after her second-to-last floor pass & losing her footings on landings on the vault & the beam. When have we ever seen this from arguably the best female gymnast of all time?? Critics looking back, yesterday, after she decided to pull out, claimed – “She’s bailing on her team because she didn’t like her scores. Didn’t like how she’d performed.” This is why I shared 1) how quickly MH declines can come over us (& did to me), & 2) how those declines mess up things like our coordination & spatial orientation (once again, like they did to me). I share the first-hand experience bc it breaks my heart to think how registering it must have felt for this top gymnast, who trained for so long, to have the crush of her trauma & MH fail her at her biggest moment. But we don’t get to choose when these things come over us. The weekend wasn’t “her failing.” The weekend was the earliest display of her MH failing her at the time. The mounting stress & trauma of the sexual abuse, the pressure of being the face of U.S.A. Gymnastics (which had not properly supported her & her teammates in crisis), & any any all personal life matters (that we seem to never take into consideration with these high-level performers). Tiger Woods, as his career went on, ring a bell to anyone? On Monday, before the team final, Simone wrote on IG that she felt “The weight of the world” bearing down on her: “I know I brush it off & make it seem like pressure doesn’t affect me but damn sometimes it’s hard hahaha! The olympics is no joke!” Do we not see that this girl was struggling coming out of that weekend event? She was putting it out there for the world to see! Should it have been so surprising then, to see that on the first rotation of Tuesday’s final, Simone bailed mid-air on her standard vault, which she usually completes with ease. While in the air, she appeared to lose track of her own motion, finishing just one and a half twists (PS she was going for more). Does spatial orientation…motor coordination sound like it was at play?? After she & her coaches made the decision for her to sit they remained of Tuesday’s competition, Simone stated: “Today has been really stressful. I was shaking. I couldn’t nap. I have never felt like this going into a competition, & I tried to go out and have fun. But once I came out, I was like, ‘No. My mental is not there.” “I was like, ‘I am not in the right headspace. I am not going to lose a medal for this country and these girls because they’ve worked way too hard to have me go out there and lose a medal.” She was being selfLESS, not selfish. She thought about the team. And she did prioritize what SHE was ABLE/UNABLE to do – just like any other “physical” injury. So when I see people like Clay Travis say that we are supporting quitters. And that this is like Scottie Pippen – who chose at the end of a game, to sit out bc his coach didn’t call his play – that false equivalency makes my blood BOIL. Or when I see Piers Morgan say: “it’s an excuse for poor performance”…I want to jump into the screen. Mental Health is not something we choose to go South. It happens TO us. It doesn’t mean we don’t have exercises and ways to work on releasing and rewiring and creating space. But we, as a community of folks who understand this topic, must continue to share that this is NOT a choice. That MH challenges can act up at ANY time…and that prioritizing our MH is an act of courage, not a choice to quit. We can do this. Simone is doing this!	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5172713994979858, "wiki_prob": 0.5172713994979858, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line612963"}
May 10, 2019 May 10, 2019 Tony Hymes Tech Commentary “Break up Facebook” – Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Writes in Explosive Op Ed It’s one thing when Elizabeth Warren starts talking about breaking up Facebook on the campaign trail. As a strong progressive voice, she understands that taking on Facebook has become a moral imperative. Her audience expects that type of discourse from her, and the other side of the public writes it off as liberal nonsense. It’s quite another thing entirely when one of the original founders of Facebook takes to The New York Times to provide the clearest and cleanest arguments for dissolving the blue behemoth. And that’s exactly what Chris Hughes did. The article is impressive not only for its depth but its breadth. Hughes provides anecdotes from the early days of Facebook that provide insight into Mark Zuckerberg’s character and mindset. He makes it clear that Zuckerberg is not on trial, that he is doing nothing nefarious, but simply that the position he is in has become too powerful for any one person to hold. Facebook needs to get trust-busted. I’ll admit to having no idea who Chris Hughes was when I saw the article gain steam across the web. But by the time I reached the end of the lengthy piece, there was no doubt in my mind that the break up Facebook movement now has a capable leader. Part history lesson, part ethical plea, and part business plan, Hughes leaves no stone unturned. The arguments for breaking up Facebook are strong. It qualifies as a monopoly in every sense of the term. Everyone uses it. There is no alternative. It commands huge market shares of attention and ad dollars. It gobbles up or copies any competitor so that no real competition can emerge. What’s worse though is that it’s gotten so big that it can’t even police itself. Hughes brings up the content moderators who suffer, the failures in limiting the reach of extremist content and even an example of mis-information spreading in Myanmar that Zuckerberg had to personally shut down. Hughes goes beyond just vaguely saying that Facebook should be broken up, he outlines that Whatsapp and Instagram should be spun off, each with public shares. He cites historical precedent and the positive results this can have on shareholder value. Breaking up Facebook makes good business sense. And he talks about what could happen if the playing field gets a bit more level for competition. New social networks with alternative business models that people could pick and choose between. He doesn’t get into specifics but that’s the whole point, just like before Facebook we never imagined that social media could be a thing, we can’t imagine what could come out of new opportunities. But we do know what will happen if things stay the same. I imagine that Zuckerberg was not particularly happy with this piece, Hughes tried not to paint him in a bad light, but with all the scandals and the subject matter, Zuckerberg is not exactly worthy of excessive praise (except in terms of shareholder value). We’ll see how Facebook reacts – be it speeding up their road map to integrating the messaging services or by coming out with a PR storm. But if you agree with Hughes as I do, this article might become the catapult needed to bring lawmakers to the table to do something about the effect that Facebook is having on our society. Tagged chris hughes, facebook, mark zuckerberg, op ed Published by Tony Hymes Digital specialist helping brands and businesses succeed View all posts by Tony Hymes Spotify Launches Voice-Enabled Ads Brands on Instagram: Survey Results [INFOGRAPHIC]	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5764048099517822, "wiki_prob": 0.4235951900482178, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line120853"}
Horsemanship for Health Wisdom, Wonder and Well-being The view from history I wonder what the next generation will think when they look back over this particular period in history. Will people think that we were trying to do our best for the world and those who share it? Will they think that we made mistakes, but that was understandable because in 2014 we simply didn’t know any better? The German philosopher Georg Hegel believed that we could only understand history retrospectively. By taking the long view of the way we came through the years we are able to see the routes we took, the decisions we made, the plans, projects and people that were important to us at the time. For Hegel the unfolding of history is a way of showing us who we are and what we are made of. By his understanding, history is not just a series of events, history is human progress. History is the way we move towards greater awareness, evolution and personal freedom. Hegel believed that there would come a time when the world was free from conflict. In this new dawn there would be no more slavery, no human trafficking, no child labour, no corrupt governments, no use of starvation as a weapon of war, no prejudice, no human rights abuses. By rigorously and systematically challenging our old ways we would come to realise what we could keep and what we could chuck into the dustbin of history. We’d carry on like this, refining and polishing our ways until we had no more improvements to make. Only then would we be actually free to follow our destinies. Does this sound like an impossible ideal? For many critics of Hegel, it certainly does and there are plenty of examples of terrible situations in the world that illustrate how humanity seems to be moving backwards. Sometimes, on days like today when I cannot get the image of the Syrian camps out of my mind, I cannot bear to listen to the news, but equally I cannot make myself tune to something less distressing because it feels like a betrayal of all those who are desperate that the world should not turn a deaf ear to their suffering. I don’t blame people for tuning out. There is only so much that people can take and even the Radio 4 reporter sounded choked this morning by what she had witnessed among those families starving to death in the camps that have been under siege for months. The word she used was ‘overwhelming,’ and that was the word that kept me listening and got me thinking of how people in starvation situations become so weakened that they cannot help themselves. Take food from people and you take their will to live. Cruel and corrupt regimes use starvation as a weapon of war. It is less direct than shooting protestors on the streets, and far less costly. Those who starve their people do not dignify them with opposition; they simply disregard them. They give them nothing so that they will become nothing. The question we must ask is why do some regimes fear people so much that they must starve them into silence? What history are such regimes trying to prevent? We know from the gulag, from the death camps, from the mass exterminations that these acts are remembered and documented. The names of the silenced and the starved will be forgotten, but their suffering will not because there are people who witnessed it, and can never forget it. Those who suffer as the warriors of atrocity are those who become the new history. Tags: Hegel, Modern history, philosophy, starvation, suffering, syria, witness When I first started secondary school teaching I was given advice on how to manage my classes. I was told that I mustn’t be too soft or the students would take advantage. Ideally, I wanted them a little afraid of me, and that way, I was assured, I would always get what I wanted, which was complete control of my groups. The advice was well-meaning and intended to be supportive. Soon after receiving it, I decided that I would ignore it. The way I looked at it the last thing I wanted was to walk into my work place every morning and feel the students retreat from me in fear. I had several reasons for not wanting to use fear in establishing my authority as a class room leader. The first is that I’m not an especially frightening person. I’m not very tall; I have a small frame and I don’t have a loud voice. I have an open and enquiring approach to life and my style of engaging with people is part of my approach. Before I entered teaching I worked as a journalist and author and had developed a communication style that was collaborative and compassionate. I knew that actively listening to people and being prepared to work with them to find creative solutions to obstacles and problems had proved invaluable in interviews and in the news rooms where I worked to fierce deadlines. You cannot survive as a national newspaper journalist if you are soft. My previous working life had demonstrated that I was not a pushover, so it was a bit of a shock to discover that a teacher who doesn’t use fear is a teacher who doesn’t get respected. In the early days of teaching, I often felt compromised. When democratic rule failed and I had to resort to using some tough tactics, it felt wrong. I believed that there was a better way to lead than merely acting scary and so I began to study leadership as an art rather than as a tool. The Italian thinker Machiavelli (1469-1527) would have derided my early attempts to bring my students on side without resorting to brutality. Machiavelli believed that that it was better to be feared than to be loved. As far as Machiavelli was concerned Cesare Borgia, who appointed a tough commander for a particularly unruly part of Italy, allowed him to rule with an iron fist and then had him dismembered and put on display for all to see in the town square, was exactly the role model Machiavelli was looking for. His view was that given half a chance people would lie, cheat and act out of greed and self-interest; it was unfortunate, but people were just made that way and couldn’t be trusted. Incredible as it seems to me, this line of thinking is still prevalent in many institutions today. As Machiavelli’s examples testify, undoubtedly fear as a form of control works. It makes people listen and it makes people behave. A whole generation of people schooled under corporal punishment understand the dynamic of fear and obedience. With this philosophy the ends justify the means. The consequence of Machiavellian thinking, however, is that obedience shuts people down. Entire nations were shut down and suppressed under fascist and communist rule. If rule by fear was truly as successful as Machiavelli believed it could be then those nations would have remained under control to this day. Machiavelli failed to see that rule by fear only works temporarily. After a while people get used to brutality and even become bored with it. Brian Keenan’s illuminating study of the mind and personalities of hostage and captor in An Evil Cradling writes of daily beatings and torture becoming ‘insignificant, a mere passing inconvenience.’ The real hurts are ‘psychic’ although if the trauma is too deep and too prolonged then there is the refuge of insanity, against which Keenan fought. It seems to me that Machiavelli did not believe in courage. He did not understand that people could be inspired either by their own determination or by courageous leaders such as Nelson Mandela. Perhaps the only role models available to him were demented and murderous ones: Macbeth as opposed to Henry V. And we know what happened to Macbeth, whose act of diabolical treachery against mild King Duncan turned against him and plunged him into the deepest form of paranoid fear. If you rule with fear, then fear to some extent will also rule you. Machiavelli was forced into exile by the Medici family who believed that he was part of a plot to overthrow them, and so we must view his ideas on leadership with an awareness of his own desperation to return to public life. More enlightened philosophers such as Kant recognised that it is not necessary to act like a beast in order to be respected. Human beings could thrive if they were treated as an end in themselves. With Kant we have the beginnings of humane philosophy. Nevertheless Machiavelli’s ideas are still influential and The Prince is still read by many politicians. The stream of meanness that runs through the popular entrepreneurial show Dragon’s Den has elements of Machiavellian thinking. On television and through social media cruelty is as popular as it ever was for creating an entertaining spectacle. The enjoyment of cruelty is perhaps part of the self-interest and greed that Machiavelli identified as basic human nature. It is challenging to do some hard thinking about what we truly admire over and above what we find frivolously entertaining. We perhaps understand cruelty too well. What we so often fail to stand up for is that leaders who treat their troops, their workers, their students, their followers as if they matter will always win over leaders who threaten and bully and use shame to diminish. Fear so easily ignites rebellion as shown by countless testimonies from the underground resistance movements of the Second World War. I also recognise this truth from teaching. Rebellion is a healthy way of testing whether fear is real. It lets the leader know that she is on the wrong track and needs to either change her leadership style or listen a bit more attentively. Rebellion also creates an opportunity for some mischief and this, too, can be valuable. Reindeer travel in large herds across wintry landscapes. The herds are led by the elders who know all the snow-covered tracks and have the wisdom of experience to navigate the way through. When it is time to rest, the elders can bring the entire herd to a halt to lie down in the snow. Sometimes, though, the younger reindeer want to carry on and they can get a bit playful and move to the front. In his study of leadership The New Leaders the Daniel Goleman describes such a scene in which the elders patiently get up and move the subordinates back in line. After a couple more tries, the elders give up and let the youngsters ‘take the lead.’ This is a fine example of a discerning leader who knows how to temper discipline with tolerance. Machiavelli could have learned a lot from watching reindeer. Tags: collaborative leadership, Daniel Goleman, education, fear and obedience, leadership, Machiavelli, philosophy, the art of leadership Compassion- our strongest instinct Staying open Skylarking about Equine Assisted Education Three Principles	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5565267205238342, "wiki_prob": 0.44347327947616577, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1606730"}
Renovating the Campus The AGHS campus receives several changes to improve the property. Dixon Smith The 300’s Wing Dixon Smith, Sports Department Head Stark, simple, and austere, the AGHS campus was in need of change. Grey concrete and pale pallets covered the floor, the walls, the ceilings, and the walkways of the campus. Now there lies blooming color in the white of the plain school hallways. The district and administration have made many alterations to create a better environment for the student body. So far, there has been a renovation of the space between class wings, a moving of the portables in the 900’s wing, and a renovation of the pool, and a renewal of the Eagle Hall. Eagle Hall recently underwent upgrades to combat flooding. (Staff) The spaces between the hallways of the 300’s used to be filled with concrete. Now they are full of pretty vegetation, nice bark around the flowers, and artificial turf. Brandon Sligh, a teacher at AGHS for 7 years, regards the renovation well. “As far as I can tell, all the changes have been incredibly positive; the new plants are beautiful, the artificial turf is perfect for daily use and walking, and the lack of maintenance means that the space will remain enjoyable for many years without additional costs,” Sligh said. Jeff Byars, a teacher and coach at AGHS for 31 years, enjoys teaching his classes in the portables. “I like the portables because you can control the temperature of the classroom,” Byars said. While Byars approves of the new location, he also feels that the moving does not currently affect him or his teachers very much. “I did not enjoy the move and packing and unpacking everything, but the final product should be worth the hassle,” Byars said. “I am guessing it will be 2 years before the new classrooms are ready to move in.” Another renovation, the pool, has received a complete makeover. Russel Peterson who has been a coach for the school for 10 years, feels very positively about the re-plastering of the pool. “The deck looks a lot better and is much safer now,” Peterson said. In the past, there have been some more minor developments, such as the additions of a team room and a records board. But these changes are small in comparison to recent updates. “Last year they removed the deck, which had been falling apart and wearing down at a very fast rate. They also re-plastered the pool- so we basically got a brand new pool,” said Peterson. Neighboring schools and those in other districts did not have the same opportunity to renovate their pool as AGHS. “We are very lucky to have the facility we do. There are a number of schools in our area that have much smaller pools, and it certainly affects their ability to train, host events, and build up their programs.” Peterson said. “We are lucky to have a facility that allows us to train at a high level with multiple levels of our aquatics programs and host awesome events. Our pool is one that people from outside our area want to come to.” Overall, many people are enjoying the adjustments on campus, feeling they were necessary and will have a lasting positive impact. The Quad and its many trash cans (6) (Dixon Smith) Dixon Smith, Reporter Dixon Smith is a Senior at AGHS. He enjoys learning Latin languages, crispy breaded chicken, and popping scavs in Tarkov, his most recent game addiction. Winter Spirit Week 2023: This or That FASFA/CADAA Application Information Snowball fight at Arroyo Grande High School AGHS Diversity Equity Inclusion Committee Begins 22/23 Meetings Carol of the Arts Inflation Nation: Housing Hardship Cal Poly Students Invade SLO’s Long Time Residential Areas	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7453363537788391, "wiki_prob": 0.7453363537788391, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line324773"}
Strategic recruitment & ANU seeks director for influential Crawford School 11 February 2022 \| Ian Bushnell Interim director of the Crawford School of Public Policy Fiona Yap: we’re committed to using our expertise to change the world for the better. Photo: ANU. The Australian National University (ANU) has launched a global search for a world-leading academic to lead its influential public policy school within the College of Asia and the Pacific. The Crawford School of Public Policy is presently led by interim director Professor Fiona Yap after previous director Professor Helen Sullivan was appointed Dean of the College of Asia and the Pacific last April. The ANU is seeking an innovative, inspirational leader with demonstrated capacity in leading a high-quality program of learning, teaching and other scholarly activities, contributing to institution-wide strategic activities. It says the successful candidate will need to be experienced in exercising influence, achieving impact, and working collaboratively to cultivate national and international relationships with a wide range of political, corporate, educational and civil society stakeholders. My Public Sector Federal, State, Territory? Sign up for the week's best public sector news delivered straight to your inbox. See it all without a paywall. The ANU describes the Crawford school as a unique institution in Australian higher education. It began in 2005 as a national centre for development economics, working specifically in the region. But it evolved into a broad-ranging, multi-disciplinary, global school that retains a firm commitment to the Asia-Pacific and to analyse Australia’s contribution in the region. School staff, students and alumni play an essential role in shaping public policy through research, education and policy engagement. The school is home to some of the region’s most prominent researchers. It tackles many of Australia’s and the region’s thorniest issues including public administration, climate change, energy and the environment, immigration and economic development. READ ALSO More online learning is not the answer for students or universities “Our proximity to parliament, our long-standing and strong relationships with the public service and non-government sector, and our commitment to using our expertise to change the world for the better makes us an institution that policymakers trust in and can work with,” Prof. Yap says. Many staff are active on government committees and in key advisory roles across government, business and civil society. The ANU says Crawford’s profile and purpose lie at the heart of the university’s new strategic plan, which emphasises being a positive contributor to ‘societal transformation’ through research, education and public policy engagement. Applications close 3 March. Stephen Saunders9:43 am 11 Feb 22 ‘The successful applicant will tacitly endorse left-modernist policies that are popular with LibLab governments and beneficial for the universities themselves. This particularly applies to mass immigration, the so-called export model of tertiary education, plus generous work and residency provisions for incoming students.’ World-leading economist adds Crawford interim director to honours list 25 April 2022 \| By Ian Bushnell Public reform specialist returns to lead Crawford School 4 July 2022 \| By Ian Bushnell New ANU Dean for Asia and the Pacific breaks the mould 13 September 2021 \| By Ian Bushnell Employment after public life needs tighter rules: academic study 23 December 2022 \| By Chris Johnson Longer lockdowns needed to crush COVID-19, says ANU study Academics criticise ANU's decision to cut ties with Russian institutions 10 March 2022 \| By Lottie Twyford Tributes flow for defence strategy giant 15 February 2022 \| By Ian Bushnell Canberra professor named Australian university teacher of the year 5 March 2022 \| By James Coleman	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9974104166030884, "wiki_prob": 0.9974104166030884, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line651734"}
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Bandits on rampage, kidnap 27 at wedding, 56 others Admin January 29, 2021 in Crime Watch, News Tagged 27, 56, bandits, kidnap - 7 Minutes Barely forty-eight hours after President Muhammadu Buhari appointed new service chiefs, bandits have gone on rampage in Niger, Kaduna and Taraba states, killing five persons and kidnapping 83, including 27 wedding guests. While one of the casualties was killed in Lapai and Shiroro LGAs of Niger State, and 56 kidnapped, four were killed in Kalgo community in Kaduna. The 27 wedding guests were abducted along Wukari-Takum road in Taraba State. In Niger State, Vanguard gathered that the Gunmen attacked Avu community in Gupa- Abugi ward of Lapai Local government in the early hours of yesterday and opened fire, killing one person and abducting six persons. A member of the community, Idris Musa Avu, told Vanguard that the gunmen invaded Gupa-Abugi village around 1:00 am yesterday, shooting to scare the villagers. According to him,”the gunmen arrived the village around 1:00 am in large number and upon seeing them, people scampered for safety as they were shooting sporadically and one person was killed and six others were kidnapped.” He added that the vigilantes tried their best but could not get police back as the attack. Progressed. Another set of armed bandits, it was learned, stormed Bassa community in Shiroro Local Government Area in large numbers on motorcycles and kidnapped 50 people. It was reliably gathered that the villagers were getting set for the day’s activities when the bandits struck. Consequently, many villagers fled into the bush to avoid being kidnapped by the banits. Co-convener, Concerned Shiroro Youths, Sani Abubakar Kokki, who confirmed the attack, described the bandits as terrorists, adding that it was time for government to redouble its efforts and flush out the bandits who now attack the area on a daily basis. “The invasion of these bandits in the state, especially Shiroro, is becoming a daily affair and government should now restrategise and get the new service chiefs to stem the trend. “Shiroro Local Government Area is now in dire need of help as the people have continued to live at the mercy of the bandits,’’ he said. When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, ASP Abiodun Wasiu, promised to get back to our Correspondent for more details but did not do so at press time last night. In Kaduna, the bandits attacked Nasarawa Kalgo community on the outskirts of Jaji, Rigachikun district in Igabi Local Government Area, killing four persons Samuel Aruwan, Comm-issioner, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Kaduna State, said yesterday that the bandits stormed the village in dozens, and killed one resident, Harrisu Ibrahim. Similarly, armed bandits attacked the Kujama area of Chikun Local Government Area but were repelled by local vigilantes. He said as the bandits retreated to their hideouts, they attacked Janwuriya village in Kajuru Local Government Area, and killed two brothers, Nuhu Ishaya and Yakubu Ishaya. In a separate incident, Aruwan said the bandits invaded Maraban Kajuru, also in Kajuru Local Government Area and killed one resident, Samiru Na Ya’u. According to him, Governor Nasir El-Rufai has expressed his distress at these reports, and prayed for the repose of the souls of the slain, while sending his condolences to their families. He also quoted the governor as tasking security agencies to conduct diligent investigations into the incidents and sustain patrols in the locations. Patrols are set to be sustained in these locations. In Taraba State, at least 27 wedding guests were kidnapped along Wukari-Takum road. Chairman of Takum Local Government Area, Shiban Tikari, who disclosed this yesterday, said the victims were returning to Takum when they were abducted. He said no contact had been made with the families of those abducted but disclosed that security operatives as well as the youths of the area have been combing bushes along the axis in search of the 27 victims. Contacted, spokesman of the state police command, DSP David Misal, confirmed the incident. Misal said: “We confirmed that they are missing, investigation has commenced.” In a similar development, Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram’s factional leader, has called on the newly appointed service chiefs to repent and convert to Muslim, noting that they cannot perform better than their predecessors. President Muhammadu Buhari had on Tuesday appointed, Major-General Leo Irabor, Chief of Defence Staff; Major-General I. Attahiru, Chief of Army Staff; Rear Admiral A. Z. Gambo, Chief of Naval Staff; and Air-Vice Marshal I.O Amao, Chief of Air Staff, as his new service chiefs following criticisms from Nigerians that the former ones had exhausted their plans. In a new audio obtained by the Humangle.ng, Shekau mentioned the names and roles of the new service chiefs and called them to repent since they can’t do anything to destroy his terror gang. “Leo Irabor, the head of the military, you should have sympathy for yourself, repent and convert to Islam. “There is nothing you can do. Maj-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru should not deceive himself because he has a Muslim background. “Even if you are a Muslim but you conduct polytheistic practices, you are no longer a Muslim,” Shekau said. Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday met with the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, led by the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, saying Nigeria was dealing with protracted security problem. The President, who assured that his administration was doing everything necessary to halt the menace, said government had continued to provide the military with the needed equipment and called on citizens to provide timely intelligence to the nation’s security agencies. While noting that government could not do it alone, Buhari urged the people to lend their support to the fight against insurgency. The President said: “Security is a protracted challenge. But we are not relenting in our efforts. We are equipping the military. We encourage localities to enhance their intelligence gathering and timely remitting to the security agencies.” He said his administration was diversifying the economy as it bids to reduce poverty in the country, noting that the war against corruption was relentless. The President assured that he would continue to promote religious freedom and be fair to all, “We are diversifying the economy to reduce poverty, we are combating corruption. We will continue to promote religious freedom as a constitutional responsibility. If the country must work, we must continue to work together, in spite of ethnic and religious differences. It is my solemn decision to be fair to all in the society,’’ he said. The president urged traditional leaders to give full backing to the Alternate School Programme (ASP) recently launched, even as he admonished them to lend their voices to the COVID-19 global public health crisis to curtail the spread of the disease. He reiterated that government was working hard to procure COVID-19 vaccines, pleading with the NCSIA to join in the drive to educate people on the importance. Earlier in his address, Sultan Abubakar commended the President for the successes achieved so far in the Northeast, calling on the government to deal decisively with the banditry that is raving the Northwestern states of Zamfara, Katsina, Sokoto and some parts of the North Central. While expressing confidence that security forces, with better synergy among them, will overcome present challenges, the Sultan solicited the cooperation of all the governors with the federal government, irrespective of their political leanings, calling on Nigerians to support the new leadership of the armed forces. The NSCIA leader also appealed to Nigerians, particularly religious leaders, to refrain from making inflammatory comments that tend towards sowing discord in the polity and exacerbate the current level of insecurity in the land. He asked that religious leaders making subversive comments be called to order. The meeting, which took place in the council chamber of the presidential villa, was attended by the Etsu Nupe, Yahaya Abubakar; the Ministers of the Federal Capital Territory, Interior, Information and Culture, Mohammed Bello, Rauf Aregbesola and Lai Mohammed respectively, as well as the National Security Adviser (NSA), Maj. Gen. Babagana Mongunu and the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari. 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DestinationsTour groups led by licensed guides are allowed back under new arrangements. Step up travel agents, Hong Kong needs you HKTB hopes relaxed Covid arrangements will encourage travel to Hong Kong, especially by consumers in short-haul markets. Photo Credit: Adobe/YiuCheung Travel agents will play an important role in ensuring the smooth operation of the Hong Kong government’s relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions for inbound tour groups. Under the new arrangements, those travelling to Hong Kong in tour groups operated by licensed tourist guides will be allowed to visit tourist attractions, including theme parks, temples and museums and designated dining premises when holding the Amber Code of the Vaccine Pass. The travel agents must, however, pre-register trip itineraries with the Travel Industry Council in Hong Kong beforehand. Hong Kong has had some of the world’s toughest Covid policies, including the mandatory 3-day hotel quarantine for arrivals. Currently, all inbound arrivals holding the Amber Code - those under medical surveillance - are banned from entering restaurants, bars, gyms, and salons. With the latest development, travellers in tour groups will be exempted from this ban. Those not in groups will still have to abide by the existing rules. If the new arrangements work without incident, authorities will look at relaxing the number of COVID-19 tests for group travellers. Dr. Pang Yiu-kai, chairman of the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) said the new arrangements send a “positive message” to travellers and trade partners. He said the new arrangements would encourage travel to Hong Kong, especially by consumers in short-haul markets. The HKTB in October, arranged more than 400 meetings with more than 200 local trade partners and representatives in visitor source markets, including tour operators, hotel and attractions, to discuss partnership opportunities and gear up for the return of visitors. https://www.travelweekly-asia.com/Destination-Travel/Key-role-for-travel-agents-as-Hong-Kong-eases-Covid-restrictions DestinationStep up travel agents, Hong Kong needs you	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7253332138061523, "wiki_prob": 0.27466678619384766, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1392755"}
Circulation Guide: Staff Picks Displays Staff Picks 2019 "In the Heart of the Sea" by Nathaniel Philbrick G530 .E77 P45 2001 chosen by Amber Monroe, User Experience Librarian "If you like the concept of Moby Dick without all of the extra symbolism, this might be the book for you. Based on the same events that inspired Melville’s work, In the Heart of the Sea is a gripping tale of survival on the open sea. In addition to providing an in-depth history of whaling, this book speaks to the complexity and resilience of the human spirit." Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangam, 1897-1922, Edited by Margaret Sartor and Alex Harris TR680 .M2956 2019 chosen by Becca Brody, Head of Library Collections and Content "This is simply the most beautiful book of portraits I’ve seen." From the Introduction: “The very best of his portraits open up and out and into the souls of the people who looked back at him. His studio was like a safe zone, the equivalent of a watering hole in a desert, a place where races and classes and genders gathered to be photographed by a man they trusted- a smiling fox of a man who radiated empathy and ease.” Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, Edited by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro F128.3 .N66 2016 chosen by Sarah Loudenslager, Research and Instruction Librarian "I find this book really fascinating! I discovered it after enjoying some of Solnit’s other works. There are 26 maps (but not just ordinary maps; some are works of art!) and accompanying essays that cover a wide range of topics and offer different perspectives from the multiple contributors. There’s probably something for everyone in this book. It’s fun to browse or jump from essay to essay, and impossible to walk away from without learning something new." Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande R726.8 .G39 2017 chosen by Erin Donahue, Library Assistant, Access Services "'Old age is not a battle. Old age is a massacre.' At first, Being Mortal is a punch-in-the-gut sort of wake-up call to the injustices of aging, the failures of geriatric care, and the ways in which dying (and our fear of it) have shaped cultures. At its core, though, it's a story of a life--of all lives--and the magic that makes living a precious, boring, unknown wonder." Your Favorite Band is Killing Me by Steven Hyden ML3534 .H93 2016 chosen by Lori Carrier, Library Assistant, Access Services "I wasted a good deal of my teens and early twenties arguing that the Beatles are far superior to the Rolling Stones. Silly? Yes. Because even if it is an objective truth (wink), musical taste is ultimately subjective. If you are curious why people lay so much importance on rivalries or how the human tendency toward team think will ultimately destroy your happiness, read this book." (Note: Photo taken at an event in which my Polish family gets together to make sauerkraut from scratch. Yes, that is a leaf of cabbage on my head.) Insomniac City by Bill Hayes CT220.5 .H39 2017 chosen by Suzanne Tiranno, Library Assistant, Access Services/Interlibrary Loan "Reading Insomniac City made me fall in love with Bill Hayes, Oliver Sacks, and New York City, all equally. It's the type of book you want to move through slowly, but then find yourself inhaling every page. A beautiful, compassionate, stunning, and captivating love letter." Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore HD6067.2. U6 M66 2018 chosen by Karen Canary, Library Assistant, Technical Services/Archives "This story of corporate greed and ignorance is a heartbreaking read due to the suffering that took place, but the strength these women had to overcome both their illness and the company that did not want to help them is truly amazing. At a time when radium was believed to be a healthful ingredient for the body, these women used their lips to get points on the brushes they used to paint radium on clock faces popular during World War I and used by soldiers to see the time in the dark. It is so painful to realize how long it took to bring the truth about radium to light. This is a chilling account of the struggle against illness, time, and greed." A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda E99. Y3 C29 1971 chosen by Oliver Zeff, Information Instruction Coordinator "Carlos Castaneda recounts an apprenticeship under a Yaqui Shaman, including, among other things, a spiritual awakening aided by the use of hallucinogenic plants." "Extraordinary in every sense of the word." (The New York Times) "An unparalleled breakthrough… Remarkable.” (Los Angeles Times) Fault Lines in the Constitution: the Framers, their Fights, and the Flaws that Affect Us Today by Cynthia Levinson & Sanford Levinson Education Resources Collection - KF4550 .Z9 L475 2019 chosen by Corinne Ebbs, Head, Education Resources Center "How many times have you heard 'The Constitution says this, or The Constitution says that?' This quick and up-to-date read uses recent political incidents to illustrate what the official Constitution of the United States actually says and what the impact of the times in which it was written had on the chosen language (ex.: 'Meanwhile, Back in 1787'). 'So What’s the Big Problem?' Read this book to find out. "Full disclosure: I normally stay away from stuff like this—but found it riveting!" Pym by Mat Johnson Popular Reading - PS3560 .O38167 P96 2011 chosen by Annie Searle, Library Assistant, Access Services "'If we can identify how the pathology of Whiteness was constructed, then we can learn how to dismantle it.' "This is the goal of Jaynes’ story, which is introspective and provocative while also being a hilarious social satire and modern fantasy. Armed with evidence that may prove Edgar Allan Poe’s only novel was, in fact, a true story, ex-professor Chris Jaynes leads an all-black crew to Antarctica. The possible truths of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket include a tropical island near Antarctica populated with black natives isolated from the rest of the world and mysterious hominid-like creatures living under the ice, enormous and entirely white." Big house, little house, back house, barn: the connected farm buildings of New England by Thomas C. Hubka NA8201 .H8 1984 chosen by Tom Raffensperger, Dean of Academic Information Services and Library Director "This isn't a new book, but is essential for anyone interested in the history of New England. This book traces the history of New England farms from the first English settlers to the early 20th century and explains why our farmhouses and barns look the way they do. In doing so, it also traces a cultural history of change, from small self-sufficient farms designed to feed a family to farms in the late 1800s producing commercial quantities of food for America's growing cities." Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters PS3525 .A83 S5 Also available as an e-book in our online catalogue. chosen by Robin Hassig, Reference Librarian (not pictured) "The Dead in their Graves share their Stories of Life in Spoon River." “When Spoon River Anthology was published in 1915, Edgar Lee Masters shattered the myth of small-town America as the bastion of American virtue. In his thinly veiled fictional town of Spoon River, situated in central Illinois near Lewistown, where Masters grew up, the honest, hardworking, chaste, and churchgoing live amidst corrupt bankers, abusive husbands, unfulfilled wives, sexual deviants, and failed dreamers.” - Wolff Scanlan, Laura. “How the Once-Banned Spoon River Anthology Made a Comeback in Lewistown: Poetic justice in small-town America.” Humanities, v. 36, n. 6, Dec./Nov. 2015. National Endowment for the Humanities, https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2015/novemberdecember/statement/how-the-once-banned-spoon-river-anthology-made-comeback-i The Low Countries: Arts and Society in Flanders and the Netherlands. 24, Published by the Flemish-Dutch cultural institution NX553 .L69 2016 chosen by Beth Gamble, Library Assistant, Technical Services (not pictured) Featured painting from the book: Documents Concerning the Treasury of the City of Amsterdam, Cornelis Brise, 1656, 19x24 cm, Amsterdam Museum, p. 82 << Previous: Days of Significance Displays Next: Film Displays >>	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.6004796624183655, "wiki_prob": 0.6004796624183655, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1362186"}
Google May Have Inadvertently Just Spilled the Beans About the Pixel Buds A on Twitter Sam Rutherford This image was posted alongside a tweet announcing the new Pixel Buds A-series. Image: Google Google I/O 2021 is just a couple of weeks away, but in the run-up to its annual developer conference, Google may have just accidentally confirmed the existence of the Pixel Buds A on Twitter. The Elon Musk Twitter Saga, Part 1 of Who Knows? Twitter Investor Sues Elon Musk Over Sneaky Stock Purchases The Best Smart Display For Controlling Your Dumb Home In a tweet from the official Android Twitter account that has since been deleted, Google showed off a new version of its wireless Pixel Buds headphones, while mentioning features such as “quality sound,” one-tap Bluetooth pairing, and an updated Fast Pair experience. Here’s a screenshot take of the tweet posted by the official Android Twitter account, which has since been deleted. Screenshot: Gizmodo While Google may have jumped the gun on the Pixel Buds A’s announcement, this isn’t the first time we’ve heard that Google has been working on an update to last year’s Pixel Buds, which came out in the spring of 2020. Earlier this spring, 9to5Google posted a report from a source who claimed that Google was prepping to release the Pixel Buds A as an updated and less expensive take on the standard Pixel Buds that would feature the same general design in a handful of new colors, including the all-white color paint job seen in a screenshot of the tweet above. Many people expected that Google would officially announce the new Pixel Buds A at Google I/O 2021, and while Google has since deleted the tweet, the timing of what seems to be an accidental tweet seems to suggest that may have indeed been Google’s original plan. Unfortunately, the deleted tweet did not mention anything about price or availability, so we may need to sit tight as we wait for more official details from Google. During Google’s most recent quarterly earnings call last week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai noted that Google will have some “significant product updates and announcements” coming soon, which along with the Pixel Buds A could include the Pixel 5a, some new security cameras from Nest, and more. We’ve reached out to Google for an official statement regarding its earlier tweet about the Pixel Buds A, and we will update the story if we hear back, In the meantime stayed tuned for more news from Google as we get closer to the official start of Google I/O 2021 on May 18. TechGoogle	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8790791630744934, "wiki_prob": 0.8790791630744934, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line617191"}
Ardagh and Friends of Glass Poland fundraise Ardagh Group Poland has joined Friends of Glass Poland to create a ‘Message in a Jar’ campaign to support the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity, raising vital funds for specialist local children's hospitals. Friends of Glass have worked with the founder of the Orchestra and well-known Polish journalist and social campaigner, Jurek Owsiak, to support the annual fundraising event. Polish celebrities have joined the campaign, each creating a special ’Message in a Jar’ for an online auction which ended on 14 January. Preparations for the 2019 campaign began more than six months ago with the production of sixty unique 4,250-litre jars at Ardagh’s glass production facility in Gostyń, each engraved with the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity logo. "We have been creating unique glass containers for the charity for a few years now. We hope that the 'Message in a Jar' will appeal to this year’s audience, not only because of the extraordinary contents, but also the unique packaging," says Andrzej Zagata, Hot End Manager at Ardagh Group in Gostyń. Jurek Owsiak signed the first jar and placed something special to him inside. Athletes Otylia Jędrzejczak (Olympic swimming champion), Kamil Stoch (World Champion ski jumper), Bartek Kurek (volleyball World Champion) and actor Marek Kondrat, followed suit. Otylia Jędrzejczak (swimmer) provided an autographed T-shirt with other Olympic medallists Oktawii Nowacka (pentathlete), Julia Michalska (rower) and Justyna Swiety-Ersetic (two-time European Championship sprinter) also contributing. Kamil Stoch (skier) autographed a pair of his ski goggles while acclaimed Polish athlete and world champion Bartek Kurek added a signed volleyball match shirt. "We are honoured to be able to work with the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity again and with such exceptional people who have placed their messages in our glass jars. We’re delighted that Jurek Owsiak liked our idea and agreed to co-create it with us" says Barbara Maciałczyk, Marketing Manager at Ardagh Group, representing Friends of Glass in Poland. Tags: Glass Europe Food Ardagh Poland's sustainable technology Ardagh Glass Packaging - Europe (AGP - Europe) has designed its newest glass furnace in Poland with the latest available suite of sustainable technology for reducing emissions and improving ... Ardagh’s ENERGY STAR plant certification Ardagh Glass Packaging – North America (AGP – NA), a business of Ardagh Group, was awarded an ENERGY STAR® plant certification for its glassmaking facility in Madera, California, from t... Ardagh Q4 & FY 2022 Results Ardagh Group S.A. will host its Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 earnings call on Thursday, February 23, 2023. A results release will be posted to our website at midday GMT (07:00 EST) on F... Ardagh reduces water use across Europe Reducing water consumption across Ardagh Glass Packaging - Europe (AGP - Europe) is a key element of Ardagh Group’s Sustainability Strategy, which targets a 26% water intensity reduction b...	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5002679228782654, "wiki_prob": 0.5002679228782654, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line373790"}
Mockingbird Overdrive! #FakeNews, Meet #StreisandEffect #NewQ #QAnon #GreatAwakening August 1, 2018 August 1, 2018 by Neon Revolt Before I begin, I have to acknowledge the existence of those posts that #QAnon didn’t post this morning. I can’t really talk about them – and if you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry – but yeah. I saw them. I don’t know if Q is just being coy, like with the “accidental” password reveal, but I’m going to take his last post before they were removed seriously, and just hold my tongue for the time being. But I did see them, I did read the attached materials, and I’m chomping at the bit to get to it. That said – boy oh boy, the #Mockingbirds have been working overtime today: ‘We are Q’: A deranged conspiracy cult leaps from the Internet to the crowd at Trump’s ‘MAGA’ tour The audience at Trump's rally Tuesday was awash with signs and T-shirts bearing the letter “Q,” which refers to the leader of an online conspiracy involving satanism, pedophilia and anti-Semitism. What is QAnon? Explaining the bizarre rightwing conspiracy theory The sprawling internet theory, beloved by Trump supporters, has ensnared everyone from Tom Hanks to Hillary Clinton QAnon: The alternate reality that was front and center at Trump’s rally A look at the online conspiracy theory that reared its head at last night’s Trump rally. Perspective \| As the bizarre QAnon group emerges, Trump rallies go from nasty to dangerous The president must discourage anti-press aggression before it’s too late. But, of course, he won’t. As QAnon Goes Mainstream, Trump's Rallies Are Turning Darker Under Trump, conspiracy theories and an all out assault on the truth have created a strange new reality Fans of bizarre 'QAnon' cult show up in droves at Trump rally Followers of QAnon were spotted at President Trump's rally in Tampa, indicating the online conspiracy theorists are moving from the internet to the campaign trail. Unhinged conservative conspiracy theory goes mainstream at Trump’s Tampa rally QAnon has arrived. Welcome to the hellscape. thinkprogress.org QAnon: Conspiracy theorists determined to expose a “deep state” child abuse ring show up to support Trump in Tampa At a rally in Tampa, Florida, Tuesday evening in support of Representative Ron DeSantis, President Donald Trump hit on familiar themes, boasting of being America’s most popular Republican ever, attacking the “fake media” and drawing chants of “build the wall.” Trump's Tampa Rally Was Full of Insane Conspiracy Theorists President Trump spoke at a rally in Tampa, FL this evening, supporting Florida Representative Ron DeSantis, who is running for governor. Trump’s speech hit many familiar talking points: he defended his increased tariffs, spoke about the need for voter ID laws, and bragged about bringing “Merry Christmas” back to… Trump rally attendee holds up sign linked to conspiracy theory An attendee at President Trump’s rally in Florida Tuesday night held up a sign promoting the “QAnon” right-wing conspiracy theory.Video from the rally shows an attendee near the front of the crowd … YouTube under fire for allowing conspiracy theories on A-list celebrities, public figures Videos of conspiracy theories and false information about A-list celebrities and other public figures are a growing headache for YouTube. Many of such videos are from a group call QAnon, a fast-growing right-wing internet community. The problem is raising new concerns about the massive website’s ability to keep its community safe. NBC’s Jo Ling Kent reports for TODAY. How a right-wing conspiracy is going mainstream (2018) \| CNN Politics CNN's Chris Cillizza explains how an online right-wing conspiracy theory is targeting movie stars and Trump opponents, like Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama. MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson Holds Insane Segment on QAnon Conspiracy Theories: ‘Pizzagate on Bath Salts’ MSNBC's Hallie Jackson used a portion of her Wednesday show to hold an informative segment about QAnon. Hmmm… it’s almost like they’re colluding to set the narrative or something… 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 I’ll echo what I said on Gab this morning, though. This is a drastic shift in tactics, and it shows how the MSM and #TheCabal are up against the ropes. For the longest time they’ve been avoiding talking about #QAnon like the plague. Why? Because that level of exposure means they risk actually growing the movement, by virtue of simply exposing more people to the core ideas. It’s called the #StreisandEffect, and yes, it takes its name from that time Barbara Streisand tried to sue to a photographer to take down a photo of her Malibu home, and ended up making the picture go viral because 1) people are naturally curious, and 2) the circumstances were so ridiculous. It’s basically the law of unintended consequences applied to information and memetics. It’s like that photo of Beyonce that spread everywhere a few years back and got turned into all kinds of glorious memes: Now, understand me. I’m not putting the Q movement on the same level as this kind of memery. It’s just that the more they kick against the movement, the more awareness they will inevitably spread, and the more momentum the #GreatAwakening will gain. Can’t stop us now! Critical Mass! Wow, those are some fantastic numbers! I hope nobody missed that Common Sense reference, though. Still, when Q says, “think email,” I had to stop and wonder, “What e-mail?” Anons had an answer: Q came back with some more drops after I posted this article, so I’m adding them here, now: From 2018: Explaining QAnon, the Internet Conspiracy Theory That Showed Up at a Trump Rally (Published 2018) Do you remember Pizzagate? It’s a little like that: a web of baseless conspiracy theories. And its supporters were highly visible at an event for the president in Florida. QAnon: The conspiracy theory explained, after Q posters spotted at Trump's Florida rally "Q" is a reference to QAnon, a group of people attempting to decode vague, anonymous comments posted on dark web message boards such as 4chan, 8chan. WATCH: Sarah Sanders Asked About QAnon at Press Briefing Sarah Sanders was asked a question about QAnon and other conspiracy theory signs that were held by Trump supporters at a Tampa rally as they chanted "CNN sucks" at Jim Acosta. Go deeper: The QAnon conspiracy theory showed up at a Trump rally QAnon followers believe Trump will purge the government of criminals and deep state operatives. You guys don’t need me to explain this. Q’s just going through showing the panicked Mockingbird reaction. I love the reassurance, though; the hint that Qteam was ready and prepared for this (and all other eventualities). Really makes me excited to see what happens next. Fox was the first to broadcast the Q cutout, last night. The media had been avoiding it (Fox, I suspect, under specific Trumpian orders), but yeah… they let it feature prominently last night and just scroll on by the screen for all to see. You know, I can’t find it now, but #CDAN had a Blind about this a while back (I’m talking possibly even late last year). He wasn’t positive about it (I think he called them something like “presidential lapdogs” or something along those times), but the gist was that Fox was the only news organization that was going to toe the MAGA agenda. Reddit (and their CEO, their “Cannibal Executive Officer” Steve Huffman) are not your friends. From the unprecedented censorship of subs like /r/The_Donald, and the constant promotion of Left Wing degeneracy, it’s clear they have not been interested in free and open discussion for a long time. This is how you doxx a multitude. By saying it was an “accident.” Oh, if it happens to me, you’ll see some interesting patterns for sure. Some interesting history. It’ll probably be a boon, tbh, because you’ll see how long I’ve been in this, and how my thought process has evolved over the years. It’s sad to say, but Reddit died with Aaron Schwartz. Now it’s just another Cabal content funnel, funneling pureed $#*% into the feeders’ mouths. I’m glad Q says “Fear not.” There was that old Q post that gave me great comfort a while back (and honestly, helped empower my efforts here). Q said: He’s actually said things like this a number of times, but when I saw those posts, I said to myself, “Okay. I’m going to push this as hard and as consistently as I can, until the whole world wakes up!” It was really as simple as that. I decided to trust what Q says, to take him at his word, and act accordingly. I’m convinced we’re still safe. So a big THANQ to Q and all the Operators out there, keeping us safe. We’re very grateful. Careful Juan… You’re starting to glow in the dark. Hey guys, thanks for reading and sharing my articles today. By now you know about my Threadless store, where you can buy all my lovely t-shirt designs, including the excellent Where We Go One, We Go All – Tigerstripes shirt. 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You can check out some of the other designs available in the sidebar, here on the site, and the whole store can be found at https://neonrevolt.threadless.com/ Categories Pizzagate, QAnon, Qconfirmations, Trump Tags CDAN, GreatAwakening, Mockingbirds, QAnon, StreisandEffect, TheCabal 62 Comments Post navigation 1776 WILL COMMENCE AGAIN! #NewQ #QAnon #GreatAwakening Introducing… #QAnon HATS! 62 thoughts on “Mockingbird Overdrive! #FakeNews, Meet #StreisandEffect #NewQ #QAnon #GreatAwakening” jimmy russel “300-350mm” what is mm? mm means millimeters, but where are you seeing that? It’s in the # Q posted. In this case it must mean millions. Oh, duh, sorry. It totally skipped my mind. Yeah, it’s millions. m is roman 1000, mm 1000 x 1000 Hansa Junchun Only if there is a line over the MM. Without lines, MM = 2,000. MMXVIII is this year. Jorb Jorbenson The Roman numeral M is often used to indicate one thousand, and MM is used to indicate one million. For example, an expense of $60,000 might appear as $60M. Sales of $3,000,000 might be written as $3MM. Internet advertisers are familiar with CPM which is the cost per thousand impressions. In recent years some people began using k to represent one thousand. For example, an annual salary of $60,000 might appear as $60k instead of $60M. In a recent business publication I saw million represented by mn and also by m (both lower case). This means it is possible for you to see $1,400,000 expressed as $1.4 million or $1.4mn or $1.4m or $1.4MM or $1,400k or $1,400M.” – https://www.accountingcoach.com/blog/what-does-m-and-mm-stand-for President Trump Meets/Prays with Pastors From Inner Cities . [Less than 10] – 4:30 mark ? Jogooders So can we find tge response to tge White House pool reporter asking about Q? Jogooders, Yes We can ! White House press briefing \| August 1st . . . Streamed live 4 hours ago Sarah Huckabee Sanders @ the [Less than 10]. second mark Mockingbird Overdrive! #FakeNews Sarah Sanders COMPLETELY DESTROYS Jim Acosta in EXPLOSIVE Exchange at White House Press Briefing She was sort of asked, but didn’t address it directly. https://youtu.be/SwaAHe9aCVg?t=1107 Thank you Neon. Been following and freQuently refreshing your page for a while now. Along with several other pages. Whilst not an American citizen (yet) i think one of the safer places to be in the near future will be the United States of America. Thank you for your reports! YT Stroppy Me as just shows those drops which Q asked to take down . Is it the ones with warning to Steyer links to email JP? Common Sense Media is Jim Steyer’s organization and email address. common sense is also a pamplet written by thomas paine, the man who said “give me liberty, or give me death” …but i may be overthinking written in #1776 Mary Kathryn Hagge The give me liberty or give me death quote is from Patrick Henry, not Thomas Paine. ❤️ 2385397 and 2385533 were valid crumbs The photo of an anon’s response is blank for me in this post. Can anyone else see it? Several people reported that to me. I think it’s a caching issue. Cloudflare probably just needs a moment to think and sort itself out. Ed Cummings Q is ranked number 17 on the twitter list in POST 1786 KEK! First, they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. Team Palin, love it! navigator1965 Hello Neon, appreciate the superb work and effort. A while back, you mused about Q and “think mirror.” Without specific drop context, I offer two possible interpretations for your consideration: Analogue clock. If both hands point at 5, the clock circle / hands form a Q. If we mirror this (symmetry), both hands would point at 11, or 11:11. Allusion to military parade on 11 Nov 2018? If so, I would interpret this as a double entendre, in which the Parade will reflect everything that is Q. My gut speculation is that this Parade will be a big reveal, possibly including field propulsion vehicles / Secret Space Program (SSP) type assets, but that is going way out on the limb. Q has mentioned “projection.” This is the psychological defence of projection of shame, common in narcissists. Tends to be a bit of the-pot-calling-the-kettle-black sort of thing (e.g., Dems / others accusing @POTUS of not caring about children on the border/illegal immigrants issue, when they only want these kids for child trafficking; or colluding with U1 Russians and then engineering / blaming @POTUS for what they did). “Mirroring” is also an accepted phenomenon in narcissism theory: narcissists need other to reflects back to them what inflates their damaged egos (e.g., Dems “caring” about kids separated at the border). From the principles articulated by historian Christopher Lasch in his classic “The Culture of Narcissism,” US culture (and, by extension, that of Western Civilization) has become progressively more narcissistic over the preceding century or so. Narcissism can manifest at collective / social scales. I’ve got a nascent strategic studies sort of conceptual thesis that is predicated upon Lasch, which I won’t bother you with (unless you’re interested–rationally explains rise of feminism and LGBTQisms). It will hopefully explains quantum mechanics behind the rise and fall of civilizations. What Q is doing from such a perspective can be construed as a sort of social scale psychoanalysis on the collective unconscious to mitigate the narcissistic Decline and Fall of Western Civilization. All the swamp stuff is HIGHLY narcissistic (which can be intergenerational) and would fall into Otto Kernberg’s concept of splitting of the ego, but at the collective social psychic apparatus scale. You would adore r/K theory, see Stefan Molyneux’s videos on it. B. Wyse The Steisand Effect did not come from “a photographer” rather it was aerial photography done by the State of California to document coastal erosion. She sued the State and lost. The irony is epic. MSM and #TheCabal are up against the ropes. And The Battle Cry Goes Like This ! Reminder – August 1, 2018 Spirit of Renaissance, false flag potential higher (Moon conjunct Chiron, Moon square Saturn) “Pivot Point in The Pivotal Year” A caveat is clear cut: a New Moon in opposition to Pluto and both in square to the Eris Point brings the Winds of Revolution. This is why the cabal is going full-throttle with the divide and conquer right now. This month is their best chance to get people to fight with each other (which only keeps the pressure and focus off of THEM). They want to control the energy of revolution that is natural to the astrology this month. This, also, isn’t going to work. More people are putting together the pieces of the control hierarchy (at all levels) than people who are acting out. INSTINCTS are being triggered. People who are awake or awakening are seeing new levels of the matrix and, in the process, freeing themselves. People who are not awake and not showing signs of rousing are reacting impulsively from the lower chakras, trying to maintain some sense of control or stem the freefall of soul sleep. August 2, 2018: fiery — take care with words and actions, use nourishing words (Moon trine Sun, Moon square Pluto) http://www.oraclereport.com/ Love that first article where we are “deranged”… like the Dranged Deplorables! BWHAHAH!!!!! For those of you not on Twitter, I stumbled on this group over there, and thought you might like them – the Deplorable Choir. The Mad Welschman The red hot hat pin, set to lance the festered Machiavellian Marxist boile …. Political Judo: Use your aponent’s mass and doubt against them. Objectivity and deliberate thought are invenicable. Breath, think, imagine, and contemplate. Temper rage with thought, but do not swallow it. Bagpipes and drums are penicillin against the zombie tool hordes. Invinicable Rebelghirl Your analyses are my favorite to read. Thank you again. Spellcheck be dammed ! kek hitTHEpost Today’s switch in tactics by the MSM is a true marker in the Q story. The fight will now be overground and with all the attacks and slander, will come the inevitable false flags. How soon? Days, weeks? Until a violent deranged supposed “Q follower” does what? Lets hope the Q team can prevent any violence. They truly are desperate. The Q train has left the underground for good. Dark to Light. constance dogood you hit the nail on the head. its the next logical development. time to pray coming soon. Feels like MSM prepping for a major FF to blame on QAnon! Pray this does not happen. I would assume Q has planned for this….. Okay, granted the fox show above is called “the five” but hear me out: the camera flipping between the man and the woman talking, each with the word “five” above their heads, well it looks like 5:5 too much of a stretch…or…coms? We are watching the show for which we hoped and prayed, and Q promised, unfold day-by-day before our eyes. Now, we must be even more patient, and prayerful. There will be much “bad” – but like with a serious infection, until drained, healing cannot begin. Sarah Sanders first words “It’s like the Q, you knew I was coming” First time poster, long time lurker here… Q has repeated that we are safe, but he can’t guarantee that. I would advise people to take precautions, in case. The cabal is just more than the media, corporations, and politicians. They are your neighbor. AG Schneiderman threatened his girlfriend at the time: “Manning Barish and Selvaratnam categorize the abuse he inflicted on them as “assault.” They did not report their allegations to the police at the time, but both say that they eventually sought medical attention after having been slapped hard across the ear and face, and also choked. Selvaratnam says that Schneiderman warned her he could have her followed and her phones tapped, and both say that he threatened to kill them if they broke up with him. (Schneiderman’s spokesperson said that he “never made any of these threats.”)” He warned her that he could have her followed. By whom? NYPD? FBI? Private investigator? These options create a problem for Schneiderman. There is a private army of people being funded by the cabal. Does this look cabal to you? (AC deserves all the credit for this) https://www.anonymousconservative.com/blog/amassing-what-we-know-about-cabal/ AC links to these websites: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/11/14/cia-organized-secret-army-in-western-europe/e0305101-97b9-4494-bc18-d89f42497d85/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c5b165a11fe1 https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Operation_Gladio#The_Strategy_of_Tension https://www.wanttoknow.info/ia/operation-gladio-false-flag What happens when these people realize their paychecks dries up? Do you think they are going to go quietly down? I understand why Trump wants a “parade” for the Military in DC. Good cover to make sure there is a large armed military force to counter resistance when they make the arrests of the mid-tier fish (Obama, Hillary, etc.). It could get ugly fast and we can’t afford to lose patriots. We’ve already lost too many to foreign wars, gutting of the family, not having kids (to pay for the immigrant’s children), etc. We need to play smart and be prepared for the WORST outcome. Northwdsnh “when they make the arrests of the mid-tier fish (Obama, Hillary, etc.)”…. What makes you think that this is actually going to happen? I have yet to see any evidence supporting this, other than promises continually being made by an entity called “Q”. Exactly what is it they are waiting for at this point (the latest excuse)? I am Not a shill, nor a Larp, just a disgusted anon tired of empty promises. North Korea was real proof for me. Why couldn’t any other president do this before trump? Also, there is a good video with Admiral Ace Lyons openly speaking about how they were going to go into Iran. Reagan approved the mission. His Sec of Def never issued the order. How do you defy a president and still hold your job? The cabal has its tentacles in EVERYWHERE. A sudden quick rush to cut it apart might allow it to sink back into the shadows or worse reform into something else. They have started cleaning out the lower level enforcers (MS-13) (Border Patrol, ICE, etc.) (XX,XXX indictments) Executive Order (human trafficking) cuts off the cabal’s money supply. Assault on Media and Social Networking platforms (Fake News) (Qanon). Tariffs to drive foreign policy (Americans PAY for EVERYTHING). Every other country has been milking this country dry. No more. Pressure NK and Iran to bend/break. I wouldn’t be surprised the cabal has been using Iran, NK, and Cuba to funnel/launder money through. It aligns with our embassy people getting hit with ELF (Extremely low frequency) weapons. Again cut the cabal’s funding. Fix the massive voter fraud occurring in the elections. What if its been 10-20% of the vote totals? Wouldn’t it be funny if California flipped red? Huber and IG have been investigating this for over a year (i believe). FISA bomb drops and this gets the ball rolling. The fake news media has a copy of the full unredacted document. Their timeline is election time. I really believe Q when he said Hillary would be arrested in October. Remember, he never said the year. I believe her public arrest will be October. That fits in with bringing in a large military force into DC to shutdown any cabal wind up toys (MS-13/MK-Ultra/Antifa/etc.). After the elections, Trump should be able to pass anything he needs with the majorities, that’s when the global unrooting of the cabal begins. I’m not new to the Global Conspiracy. Ever heard of CMKX diamonds? The naked shorting of stock? My first blatant experience with the cabal (yes, they were calling them that back then Neon). Global financial reset. White hats were winning. Led us down the path to dirty Clintons (boys on the tracks??? book), the creature from Jekyll island (Federal Reserve), etc. We saw the court cases and the delays by the government. It appeared to be moving along. There were shills trying to push disinformation as well. Well, it all went really quiet and nothing. Its been sitting there with no real updates. It could make 1 million millionaires. Was it true? Well, there are real stock certificates…..there is a registry still up and functioning. There was a Las Vegas shareholder party shutdown by men in blacksuits (didn’t identify). It’s been 20+ years now without resolution. My belief is that he has until Mid-terms. Been waiting 20+ years for CMKX, I think I can wait another 3 months. There needs to be some action by then. My biggest concern is how complicated this is. The majority of people in this country can’t follow the FISA abuse and its ramifications (coup!). It’s too complicated. That’s where Q and us (anon’s) come in. We need to redpill our friends and family. I just don’t know if that’s possible. The people I talk to look at me like i’m nuts in the head. They absolutely don’t believe the proofs. There is still too much of the “I trust the gatekeepers” vs. “any idiot on the internet can make stuff up”. The sad truth is the gatekeepers are the ones making things up. 3 months to go till Prime Time. Prepare for the worst and hope/work for the best. You are safe if you are a real patriot and not a pretender. Those serving higher CAUSE on this world have an abundance of guardian angels as needed… Trust that but be wise and listen within to warnings and such. As to military force.. remember also that all local police departments in the US of A are a military force. Started quite some years ago under FEMA and others to prepare them. I know some police officers who have gone thru the training to be MORE than a para military force. Are you familiar with the “CMKX” conspiracy? Kenneth Besig I am just a citizen of a small country and I am powerless to do anything to stop the Globalists, if I do get power the Cabal will try to coopt me, intimidate me, and if necessary even kill me, so tell me how do I help save the Judeo/Christian West? There is no such thing as Judeo-Christian Fascinating…its like mine clearance of delayed action mines by jumping up and down on said mines and saying’ see not dangerous at all’. The ‘elites’ on their exclusive pleasure island have watched the tide go out and expecting a blue wave to come back in in the autumn. Only the tide has gone waa…y out and some people on the beach have noted this and started to run away. Check out the number of Resignations of CEO’s and politicians who wont be contesting their seat. Note to the runners…there is no high ground on this island and it wont be a blue wave returning its gonna be a red tsunami!… We’re not in Kansas any longer and Q and ANONS have drawn back the curtain and us ‘normies’ have started to understand. #walkaway is the icing on the cake! MM = million members E-Mail = walnut sauce E-Mail from Podesta to [email protected] (deleted Q-posts) Yes, this ^^^ So happy to see that screengrab everywhere now. It’s perfect. Robin Walter Sure hope you start posting on BitChute. Just got an email from Glenn Canady with a link to this “QAnon Insider – How We Did it! I’m Sorry!” (supposedly exposing the Q phenomenon as a complete hoax? This guy has offered up some questionable intel in the past and this is just the latest. Thought you might be interested?: http://beforeitsnews.com/v3/alternative/2018/3629937.html JAnon Neon, would it be too much to ask if you could edit the title of a post to add [Updated] at the end so we can easily see which articles have newer content? I usually read your posts soon after you put them up, but I often miss the updated information unless I happen to see on Gab that you updated a specific story. Keep up the great work, I know you don’t get much sleep some days, but your efforts are greatly appreciated! seriousone72 As an aside to navigator1965: The Cabal has been working towards the dissolution of the family unit for a great long time. A bit of a History lesson for the normies,and for those who may not remember… Sherman set the way back machine… to the time Aarron Russo did the phenomenal seminal work” Freedom To Fascism”. Where he was friends with David Rockefeller, where David alluded to his families funding Gloria Steinum(sp) (feminism)to break up the family unit, and instead of only one tax payer, now you have two! After he published his 2 year study into the legality of Taxes (which are voluntary btw) he dies of a fast acting cancer! D. N. Correct! Social engineering that doubled the GNP, but no family was better off. Now it just took both the husband and wife working to provide what the husband provided before. Women were tricked into abandoning motherhood in service to equality and prosperity and freedom for their sex. Thankfully with the Internet, people are not so easily manipulated and have access to the truth. We women were duped. n.d I opened a reddit account in July should I close it? I used my gmail address. I want to be able to use the drop hub that they have but my phone is constantly ringing with weird non phone numbers, etc. I don’t know how to protect my privacy I am not computer savvy! Akzed https://youtu.be/785wTfagjaQ?t=898 Phantom Q posts explained by Sir Patrick Mack. Aaron Baumfeld http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index2619.htm This doesn’t read like Deep State to me….. Love what you do! Thank you!	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.711097002029419, "wiki_prob": 0.28890299797058105, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line100526"}
Microbiome medicine accelerated by new partnership between BiomeBank and Hudson Institute Media release, News, Science • BiomeBank and Hudson Institute sign a 4-year collaboration agreement to discover and develop microbial therapies. • BiomeBank gains exclusive license to paediatric IBD study, which identified key bacteria believed to be involved in disease onset and resolution. These bacteria were identified using a world-first method that unlocks culturing and metagenomics of colon biopsy samples. The translation of research into the development of innovative and life-saving microbial therapies is set to transform in Australia through a partnership between Hudson Institute of Medical Research and BiomeBank, a clinical stage microbiome therapeutics company. A Memorandum of Understanding between the two organisations has been signed, enabling BiomeBank to bring its experience in the discovery and development of microbial therapies to enable translation of Hudson Institute’s microbiome research. The partnership strengthens Hudson Institute’s business case for an Australian-first National Centre for Inflammation Research (“NCIR”) and will initially focus on the development of defined and targeted microbial therapies to treat unmet medical need for patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (“IBD”). BiomeBank, which has recently launched its Series-A funding round, has signed a four-year collaborative agreement with Hudson Institute to translate current and future microbiome research into microbial therapies. This includes a recent deal granting BiomeBank access to important research on how the microbiota could treat paediatric inflammatory bowel disease, which is unique because the research used culturing and high-resolution microbial analysis of the colon rather than stool samples. The combined strengths of the two organisations will put the new partnership at the forefront of the discovery and development of defined and targeted microbial therapies. “Together with Hudson Institute and along with its plans to establish a world-class NCIR, we’ll work to identify the key microbial strains which play a role in IBD and combine our capabilities to develop a safe and effective microbial therapy for patients. This partnership places Australia firmly on the map as a world-leader in the development of a new class of therapies to treat unmet medical need across the globe. - CEO of BiomeBank, Mr Thomas Mitchell The partnership between Hudson Institute and BiomeBank is a critical first step in translating our microbiome discoveries and developing a new generation of treatments for patients. - Hudson Institute Director and CEO, Professor Elizabeth Hartland The partnership will place Australia at the forefront of microbial research and drug discovery. Through our work at Hudson Institute, we have developed new ways to isolate human bacteria, resulting in one of the most diverse collections of human commensal bacteria in the world and a detailed understanding of how these may protect against disease. Modifying the microbiome as a treatment represents a new way of doing medicine. Working with BiomeBank will provide the opportunity to apply our cutting-edge discoveries to improve patients’ lives. - Leading microbiome researcher from Hudson Institute Dr Samuel Forster Why the microbiome? The human microbiome holds the key to how many ailments develop and play out in our body. Humans are mostly made up of microbes — more than 100 trillion of them. Those in the gut, particularly in the large intestine, play an important part in health and disease. Imbalances in our gut microbiome are known to contribute to complex conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), allergies, and obesity. About BiomeBank BiomeBank is a clinical stage biotechnology company developing a pipeline of microbiome therapies to treat unmet medical need. BiomeBank’s mission is to treat and prevent disease by restoring gut microbial ecology. Backed by a world-leading team of translational microbiome experts, BiomeBank’s platform uses a unique combination of machine learning and microbiology to identify bacterial strains which influence disease, leading to the discovery and development of new therapies. About Hudson Institute Hudson Institute is home to more than 450 world-class scientists, clinicians and students pioneering outstanding discovery science and translational research. As a leading Australian biomedical research institute, we convert scientific knowledge into new diagnostics, treatments, and cures. Our researchers push the boundaries of scientific knowledge in five areas of human health: Inflammation, Reproductive health and pregnancy, Infant and child health, Cancer and Hormonal health. The National Centre for Inflammation Research at Hudson Institute will harness scientific discoveries to curb the burden of disease, improve health for all Australians, attract international investment and grow Victorian jobs. 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Grave Site Listings Add a Grave Site Country Artists FOUND A GRAVE Records of Deceased But Not Forgotten Bill Baldwin (Bill Baldwin) Actor, Radio Announcer. Appeared in motion pictures and on television from the 1950s to the 1980s. Often played the “announcer” in his many roles. (bio by: A.J. Marik) November, 26, 1913 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) About Found a Grave With your free account at foundagrave.com, you can add your loved ones, friends, and idols to our growing database of "Deceased but not Forgotten" records. Click here to submit your listings. @foundagrave.com © 2023 Found a Grave, All rights reserved.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7682330012321472, "wiki_prob": 0.7682330012321472, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1367479"}
Native alternatives to plant instead of Bradford pear trees The Bradford pear trees crowd other native trees and limbs can start to fall off as they get old, causing damage to cars and houses. Author: WBIR Staff Published: 4:47 PM EDT March 22, 2021 Updated: 6:26 PM EDT March 22, 2021 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A tree popular in the late 1980s for landscaping has become an invasive species in East Tennessee. The trees were supposed to be sterile and not reproduce, but birds spread their seeds allowing them to grow across the region. Experts said there are a lot of native options that are better to plant in your yard. "Some much better selections for you to make can be our eastern redbud, of course, flowering dogwood are really starting to bloom with a lot of beauty this time of year," said Lee Rumble, UT Extension Agent and IFA Certified Arborist. He said if you do have a Bradford pear tree and remove it by cutting it down, you have also grind down the root. UT Gardens to host annual spring plant sale online this year Trees Knoxville giving away free tree saplings on March 13 Knoxville earns "Tree Cities of the World" recognition, one of 38 U.S. cities	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6531923413276672, "wiki_prob": 0.34680765867233276, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line433220"}
Government announces raft of state support measures for flood-stricken parts of Crete Mon, 17 Oct 2022 6:00 GMT A government task force visiting flood-stricken Crete on Sunday announced a package of support measures that will include the immediate disbursement of 400,000 euros A government task force visiting flood-stricken Crete on Sunday announced a package of support measures that will include the immediate disbursement of 400,000 euros to the municipality of Malevizi and immediate payment of compensation to those affected by the disaster from State Support funds. Alternate Interior Minister Stelios Petsas expressed his condolences for the deaths of two people swept away by the flood water and pledged that the government will do everything possible to help survivors "get back to normality" after the damage caused by the flash floods. "We will begin immediately with repairing the damage. This has already started to be recorded by teams from the region," he said, adding that the infrastructure ministry will assist the region's services for a faster recovery. #crete #disaster #flood #Malevizi #payment	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7994771599769592, "wiki_prob": 0.7994771599769592, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line262637"}
Mastering a Playstyle I have been so bad at writing posts lately. I seriously have about a half dozen half-written posts that for one reason or another I just have not gotten around to completing, from how much I love the Blood Princes fight, to the level 32 tank who ran SM Library like he was an overgeared 80, to a set of diagrams on how I think the mechanics behind the LFD system works (for those rare times you end up not being the tank or the healer in a heroic run. yes, a heroic run, as in level 80). But instead I'm writing this new post off the top of my head because of something Larísa blogged about. She was a little embarrassed to find herself in a heroic Forge of Souls run on her rogue alt, who only does heroics to earn frost badges that can be turned into Primordial Saronite for her main to use. It's not an uncommon practice. I know one guy who has five 80s and tries to run as many of them as he can through a daily heroic so he can get Saronite faster. What I thought was interesting though, was that Larísa did not feel competent about playing her rogue despite having leveling it all the way to 80. She knows that she could improve her ability to play by reading up on the class and playing with Rawr, but she wasn't interested in that. She listed her difficulties in playing a rogue and those reminded me of when my feral, Darkker, hit 80 and started doing heroics. The cat "rotation" is a bitch. No one tries to say otherwise. And plus we have to do it from behind. So when the tank's running around like a chicken with its head cut off or he can't decide which way he's going to face the mobs (I've had tanks that are extremely inconsistent about whether or not they'll turn the mobs' backs to the party), my dps shoots in the toilet. Mobs run out of range and suddenly I'm not doing anything. My Swipe target's out of range, even though other enemies are not, and suddenly I'm not swiping. Or the tank only pulls the mob out of the "bad stuff" far enough that he's not standing in it, but there's not enough room for the dps to attack from behind. I don't think I could ever be top of my game as a melee dps. Too much moving around. But past our initial difficulties, that's where Larísa and I differ. Even though I do not expect to raid as feral, I like to "master" my spec, in so much as I can. I have Rawr set up for Darkker. I pulled down the BadKitty mod to track my bleeds and dots. I keep Recount up to see how I perform. I ask myself questions like "Is it better dps to Swipe when there are two mobs or should I single target at that point?" "How long does trash have to last to make it worth putting up Savage Roar?" "Is it better to Berserk before or after a Tiger's Fury?" The upshot is that my non-raiding feral druid does much the same dps as my raiding moonkin in heroics. (I'm sure pitting them together in raids my moonkin would win because of the longer boss fights, but cat swipe spam is better heroic AoE and Berserk weighs short boss fights heavily in the feral's favor.) Most heroics Darkker dpses these days she's top of the meters and a favorite target of Vigilance from the warrior tanks, though I'm not entirely sure whether or not that's a compliment. I do try to avoid pulling aggro if I spot the risk in time. And it's not just with my feral druid alt that I try to be a better player. When I went back to my warlock a while ago, after having not played her in months, the one of the first things I did was read up on affliction warlocks at EJ and check out a few warlock blogs. It might not be the best raid spec, but I like the affliction playstyle so I figure if she's going to be affliction she's going to be good at it. Three levels later my warlock is level 54 and loving her fel puppy to death. Yes, I read blogs and EJ to figure out how I should talent my level 51, now 54, warlock. But that's the kind of person I am. I like working on my rotations, my talent specs, learning how I can perform better as the class and spec I've chosen. One of my fondest memories was from my scrub days as a warlock (who was my second character ever and started with a ready-made guild of people I knew IRL). A guildie/coworker found out I was struggling with leveling my warlock and I kept dying. Rather than help kill things for me (like most forms of help high levels give low levels), he took me out to Redridge where there were a lot of annoying gnoll mobs, some of which could not be pulled in groups of less than two. There he taught me how to handle multiple mobs at once. He taught me how to pull, which spells to use and why. He taught me how to Fear one mob while dps-ing the other. He taught me how to bring back runners with Curse of Recklessness. He taught me how to manage aggro on multiple mobs with my Voidwalker. I would be responsible for killing the mobs I pulled. He'd only intervene if it looked like I was going to die. I learned to play. More than that, my guildie had laid down the foundations for a potential warlock wrecking machine. Though I found the lessons to be frightfully hard at the time, it's now common for my warlock to move from one mob to another before the last one's completely dead, and Fear and Death Coil are second nature. My warlock rarely dies while questing anymore, even when she's fighting multiple mobs above her level. She's taken out elites the same level she is. I don't know what her performance would be in a raid, since she might never reach max level, but I like the feeling that I know what I'm doing, and I want the feeling with any character I play for an extended amount of time. I couldn't go to 80 on a character I didn't want to master. I might never get there, but I like to try. [Paladin] Season 7 is Over I'm a little disappointed in how season 7 turned out for me. My 2s team was just for fun so I never really expected much of it, but after having spent season 6 around 1700 in 3s it was a letdown struggling to make 1350, even if our team make-up stank. My 5s started up and looked like it would be fun. Even if our rating didn't go very high, the points would have been nice in comparison to how my 2s was performing. Besides, I like the quicker pace of 5s. Dancing around with a resto druid for a half hour for a measly 4 rating points just kind of sucks. With 5s the matches go quickly enough that I consider it the best "casual" bracket, get in there, get out, assuming one can muster the teammates for it. But then our priest faction transferred and that was the end of that. The theoretical bright star early in season 7 was going to be my 3s team. DK/ret pally/holy pally. The ret pally was a bit nubby by his own admission, but a good player and willing to learn. He and the DK were doing 2s together as double dps and doing all right. But then the DK vanished and for a while I had no 3s team. Some time later the ret pally came back wanting another go at 3s. Not having another team to play on, I agreed to heal again and the ret pally nabbed a mage to fill in the third spot. That comp was horrible. It really made me miss my season 6 team and the control we had. I don't mind losing to a well-played team. I'll be disappointed, yes, but playing with a ret pally and mage made me feel like I was trying to fix a broken sink with only half a toolbox. Everything was unnecessarily hard and teams that would have been pancaked by my old S6 team were now rolfstomping us. Then finally, far too late, a decent 3s team fell into place. It was only two weeks ago, and we hadn't the time to really devote to burning through the fat to our proper rating. Hell, we didn't even have much of a chance to settle into working with each other, but it has promise. I think we'll stay together for season 8. It still involves the scrubby ret pally, who, while better than he was at the start of season 7, is still learning not to LoS his healer, but he's gotten better. His spec has improved and he's taken to reading Arena Junkies for advice. He has a full set of furious gear now and relentless where he's been able to get it. But the biggest help I think has been the addition of Cursedhoof, the hunter from my season 6 3s team. He wasn't going to do 3s this season, but agreed to give it a shot. So my 3s team is now almost the same as it was back in S6 except that we now have a ret pally instead of an unholy DK. I'm going to miss those AMZs and amazing Death Grips, but the ret pally has potential. He knows how to toss a quick emergency heal if I can't cast and he's quick with the BoPs (for our hunter). With a little more practice so the three of us can better settle into working together I think I might have a real team again. Labels: arena, paladin, pvp [Druid] No Attack Poses with Weapons in the New Armory Quick post while it's on the top of my mind. I came to work this morning to find the new armory up. Yay. I play around with the model viewer. Hana's in her feral set so I don't really want to play with her pose until I can see it with my moonkin gear on. I decide to muck around with Gillien a bit. Find something kinda cool and take off his helmet. He looks like a arrogant jerk in the freeze frame I chose (perfect for a BE) which is actually part of the /bow animation. I go through all the other animations too; casting one way, casting another way, attacking normally, attacking with a special. Nice stuff, though I can't find the falling animation I really wanted (to match the one used in my title banner). Finally, I move on to Darkker, who's always in one feral set or another. After having seen Gillien posing in attack animations with his mace and shield, I'm looking forward to seeing Darkker in a threatening pose with her polearm. I wasn't expecting to have forms in the armory, it doesn't show off a character's gear after all, but I was at least expecting to have the same pose options as I did on my paladin. I go through all the social emotes (salute, cry, point, etc.) so I can get to the combat ones and what's this? Casting (targeted), Casting (general), Cast (targeted), Cast (general)... and that's it?! Where are my attack animations? Okay, maybe druids don't normally attack with their weapons, but I want something to show that she's a feral, something that makes her look ferocious and that she's ready to transform into a kitty bear at any second. Unfortunately my only option with her weapon out is the idle pose. Sad feral. Dungeon Finder and Dual Specs I've been mulling over this particular mini-drama ever since I won my Black Heart on Darkker, much to the consternation of the tank I'd been running with. (And before the tanks out there get pitchforks, know that normal ToC is so popular among tanks it's one of the few instances where you can queue as both tank and dps and actually wind up as dps.) I often queue as tank and dps on both my druids, and usually I end up as a tank; very rarely as dps though it's not unheard of. It doesn't bother me that I end up doing 5-mans more often in my off-spec than my main. Particularly on Hana, even her off-spec is geared enough for chain pulling. Besides, the queues are nice, and I can look at it as doing my part to help more instance runs get going. But it's not immediately clear what my main spec is to the random pugger. Or, for that matter, what I queued as. (Which is why the Black Heart was a point of contention.) Normal ToC I had to queue specifically for. You can't get it from the random heroic. I queued for normal ToC on my feral because I wanted the Black Heart, and being that I wanted in faster, I queued for both tank and dps. When I first did that I expected to go as tank to be honest, but it ended up being that about half the time I ran normal ToC I went as dps. Tanks love this place, and only one tank can go at a time. So I went in, we did well, and the Black Heart dropped. I immediately rolled Need for it. My roll for it was the first one that showed for all purples in the chat log. There was no waiting until the last minute to ninja-roll. I was pretty upfront about it, and no one said anything for several seconds, which is when the tank failed to win the roll. I'd gotten the heart. Then the party immediately said that what I'd done was not cool, that I shouldn't have queued as dps to roll on a tanking trinket. I explained that I do both and queued as both. In retrospect I could have said something at the start of the instance like "I'm here for the Black Heart. If you don't like it, leave and I'll switch over to my tank spec and we'll requeue for another dps," but I hadn't thought it would be a big deal. One thing I've noticed is that the rules of needing and greeding have changed a lot since the cross-server Dungeon Finder went into place. If you don't Need, even for your off-spec, there's a good chance you'll be looking at a shard. One run I went on with my paladin I discovered the paladin tank was main-spec holy off-spec prot, just like mine, and he needed on everything. I passed on all the prot gear (not realizing it was the other paladin's off-spec and we had identical off-specs), but the other paladin continued to roll on all the healing gear. The end result was the tank getting both the new 5-man tanking weapons (we did back-to-back PoS and HoR runs) because I kept passing. He didn't really need two weapons for his off-set, and he got a new healing ring too. Now was he wrong for doing this? When I found out and brought it up his guildie told me "if you need, you need, even if it's not your main spec." He wasn't being mean. He was just being frank, in a "hey it's no big deal, need if you need" sort of manner. And that appears to be the rule now. Most of the heroics I go on have behaved this way. Tanks roll on dps trinkets, dps on tanking plate, and so on. There's no discussion about main specs vs. off-specs. And in a way it makes sense, because people can legitimately be specced for both. Having gone through this environment multiple times, was it any wonder that when the Black Heart dropped I hit Need? I think for a random heroic, where it's quite clear that a dps ended up there via random selection (from their debuff), they should pass on tank and healing gear unless the tank or healer does not need. It might not be happening in practice, but I think someone willing to wait as a dps for a random dungeon is pretty solidly dps with little intention of tanking/healing and should leave the gear to those who would use it for their role. If the dps is a tank that's taking a break because they're burned out on tanking they probably have everything they need from 5-man heroics. (And if they didn't, they would have queued specifically for the instance they needed and not as a random.) It might be a bit of a bias, but I don't think it would be wrong for the reverse to happen though, for a tank or healer to roll on dps gear, if it's for their main spec. If I wasn't willing to tank on my off-spec that would mean one more dps sitting in queue and three dps that would have to wait longer for a tank. Each dps who can tank or heal but doesn't is potentially increasing the dps queue by four. Since the queues are longer for dps, I think tanks and healers who pug in their off-specs are doing a service by allowing queues to move faster (more runs for pure dps means more chances at gear), and they shouldn't be penalized from rolling on gear that would help their main specs. For specifically queued instances though, people should be able to roll on what they came for, because it's more likely they'll end up in an off-spec role (or off-spec for what they want to roll on). One normal ToC run I did actually had three tanks in it, as I found out when we requeued to replace a dps. The prot paladin queued as only tank, my feral queued as tank/dps, and the holy paladin queued as tank/heals. Arguably the run would not have happened without any of us, so I would think all three of us would have had legitimate reason to roll on the Black Heart had it dropped. We each took a different role, whatever it took to get the job done, and had circumstances been different any of us could have ended up the tank, but two of us didn't and performed the role given us. If the healer and I had queued as tank-only to ensure we showed up as a tank (as the complaining party said I should have done) we would probably have added to the glut of tanks and worsened the queue times for that particular instance. I wonder if it would help if the Dungeon Finder would list the other roles the other players signed up for but did not get to play as. That way if someone signed up as tank/dps everyone would understand that yes he has a dps spec, he probably uses it regularly (or would like to use it regularly), and if someone signs up as just dps they can be prodded to wait until after a tank or healer has a chance at a piece of gear. It also might clear up that ToC/Black Heart nonsense. People might fault a dps for rolling on tank gear, but they probably won't fault the tank the Dungeon Finder assigned as dps. [Paladin] Taunt the Adds while Healing on Saurfang My guild did its weekly ICC run, but still dealing with holiday absences, we ended up being short two of our three healers. I asked our one attending healer, Valiea, how he felt about two-healing it if I came on my paladin (we would have gone with three if we had to resort to out of guild folks), and ever up to a challenge, he said let's do it! Now I know it's not uncommon to 25-man guilds to do 10-man runs with only two healers, but being that we're a 10-man I'm always a little hesitant to accept that the content is as easy as some people claim. Valiea is also a paladin, which meant that we'd be two-healing ICC without the benefits of hots, chain heals, or priest shields. If anything, our run last night was a lesson in how to take an sub-optimal group through Lower Spire (we had four paladins in raid, wtf?), but we did it! And hell, it was a lot of fun with just the two of us healing. There were scary moments and I can't say we never died, but it was a very satisfying run. Aside from healing Lower Spire with two paladins, the biggest adjustment we had to make was our strategy on Saurfang. Our resto shaman wasn't there, so we had no Earthbind Totem (and no Bloodlust!). I was not on my moonkin, so we had no Entangling Roots. Our hunter was still there with his frost traps, but he was already pulling the right add towards him as soon as it spawned, which meant the left add would still be free, the one that I would aggro with Wrath spam and then root if I was on my druid. We had a mage, warlock, rogue, ret pally, hunter, and cat druid for our dps. Given that set up, we figured the mage should aggro one and Frost Nova it into place. But this turned out to be tricky, and she got herself squished the first time she tried it. The second time she couldn't pull the add off the melee. The blood counters were stacking up. Then someone said, "One of the paladins taunt it out." The only paladins at range were Valiea and myself, the two healers. Valiea's better geared since his paladin is his main, and we'd agreed beforehand that he would focus on the tanks and I would get the raid and the first mark. Figuring I had the bigger bandwidth, I hit the wayward add with a Hand of Reckoning and pulled it out of there. If it got out of the frost trap and into melee range of me before the ranged could kill the first add I'd stun it. By then the first add would be dead and our hunter would taunt the second one off me and pull it away. Being that I'm still using my hybrid raid/PvP spec I also had a 40 second Hammer of Justice, so I had a stun available almost every spawn, just in case. For a healer that really likes to make decisions, it can be quite a rush to be healing a party member taking steady ongoing damage from Mark of Blood, raid healing with single target heals the sporadic party members with Boiling Blood, and taunting and stunning adds all in the same battle. I've always been the kind of person that relished these kinds of assignments, where if you screw up the raid's probably doomed, and to participate in add control as a healer on a fight where you just can't let your target die or it'll probably be a wipe... it's something I haven't done before. It made healing the VoA 10 pug I did later that night incredibly boring. Labels: healing, paladin, raiding [Druid] No Attack Poses with Weapons in the New Ar...	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5751934051513672, "wiki_prob": 0.4248065948486328, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line499833"}
RRR's Naatu Naatu song under Oscar predictions for Best Original Song nominees- Cinema express RRR's Naatu Naatu song under Oscar predictions for Best Original Song nominees RRR is directed by SS Rajamouli Published: 11th November 2022 While it is already said and established that the success of SS Rajamouli's RRR is not only limited within the boundaries of India, but also received stupendous reception across other countries and West as well. Not only the film, the music of RRR is also having a better reach, that the Naatu Naatu song from RRR is finding place in Oscar predictions under Best Original Song category. The album of RRR is composed by MM Keeravani, with Naatu Naatu written by Chandrabose. It is sung by Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava. The sing features actors Ram Charan and Junior NTR as they dance to the fast-paced beats of the song with camaraderie. According to Variety report, the other frontrunner in the category includes Rihanna's Life Me Up from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever which she co-wrote with Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson. Apart from Rihanna's song, the category will also have competition from Billie Eilish and Finneas' Nobody Like U from Turning Red and Hold by Hand by Lady Gaga from Top Gun: Maverick. Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift also has two shots for the Oscar nominations with short film All Too Well, and Carolina. Junior NTR Ram Charan RRR Naatu Naatu	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9181646704673767, "wiki_prob": 0.9181646704673767, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1335712"}
Gear› Effects› Gibson Unveils Les Paul Reference Monitors The monitors will be available in three different sizes and multiple color variations. Nashville, TN (January 20, 2015) -- Gibson Brands, Inc. continues to honor the roots of Les Paul, who first pioneered the solid body electric guitar and later introduced multitrack recording with the release of the Gibson Les Paul Reference Monitors, which carry on his name as synonym for creativity and passion for music. Find the Les Paul Monitors at the 2015 NAMM Show (Gibson Meeting Room 300B, Level 3). Take a look at the sound engineer, the producer, the musician or the fan who loves a great listening experience. All of them share one dream: to have the one reliable reference monitor that they can trust and enjoy both in the studio and at home. With high expertise in musical instruments, speaker systems and recording, Gibson Brands created a line of monitors that satisfies the needs of true audio professionals and music enthusiasts alike. These monitors represent a new level of performance and were made to become the personal reference, whether mixing or recording, producing, being an artist, or simply listen to your music at home. The monitors represent superior definition with the iconic Les Paul styling, utilizing superior material, including diamond-like carbon coated titanium tweeters, non-woven carbon woofers and custom-made amplification to ensure ultra clean transient impulse response and large headroom. The Les Paul Reference Monitors will be available in three different sizes and multiple color variations, such as cherry, tobacco sunburst and cherry sunburst. Enjoy! The monitors will be available by February 2015 at a U.S. MAP of $599 (LP4), $799 (LP6) and $999 (LP8). whats-newnamm-2015recordingstudio-monitorsgibsonnew-geargear EffectsRecordingNAMMNewsGearReviewsNew Gear	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6997153759002686, "wiki_prob": 0.30028462409973145, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line151137"}
USC Football Recruiting USC Recruiting USC Football Recruiting: 4 Star ATH Julien Simon commits to the Trojans USC Football continues to clean it up on the recruiting front. This time they grab the commitment of 4 start ATH Julien Simon. By MatthewLowry@MattALowry May 10, 2020, 4:37pm PDT Share All sharing options for: USC Football Recruiting: 4 Star ATH Julien Simon commits to the Trojans The USC Trojans continues to revamp their recruiting after two down years. On Sunday afternoon they landed one of the top prospects in the state of Washington in Julien Simon. The four star athlete out of Tacoma, Washington announced his commitment via Instagram Live. Simon also held offers from Washington, Arizona State, Cal, and Michigan. I’m so blessed thank you lord Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers ❤️ pic.twitter.com/6uh4kQE97i — Julien Simon (@_JulienSimon) May 10, 2020 At 6-2, 221 lb, Simon is rated as the No. 5 athlete in the nation and the No. 4 overall prospect in the state of Washington per the 247 Sports Composite. He also ranks 99th overall in the 2021 recruiting class. USC was also the first school to offer Simon last year. Simon brings serious versatility on both sides of the ball. During his junior season at Lincoln High School (Tacoma, WA) Simon played running back and wide receiver on offense while seeing time at linebacker and safety on defense. On both ends he managed to find the end zone multiple times last season. While he does bring production and potential on offense, he’ll most likely come in on defense at either safety or linebacker. USC could potentially be lose linebackers Palaie Gaoteote, Hunter Echols, and Kana’i Mauga as they’ll be eligible to leave for the NFL early while Jordan Iosefa will depart due to graduation. It’s possible that Simon could be plugged in at linebacker to help fill that void. Simon’s commitment adds to an already strong 2021 recruiting class for the Trojans. He becomes the 3rd top 100 prospect in the class to commit to USC, joining quarterback Jake Garcia and Ma’a Gaoteote. Simon is also the second athlete in the class joining Anthony Beaver. USC is now up to 11 commits and is ranked as the No. 5 recruiting class in 2021 early on as they continue to build their momentum.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8068596720695496, "wiki_prob": 0.8068596720695496, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1417003"}
Amusement Park Buzz Read Carnival Industry Buzz Carnival Industry News Fairs and Events News Amusement Park News ---- Carnival Industry News from the Web Fairs and Events News from the Web Amusement Park News from the Web Barry Schaible Passes By: Obituary With great sadness, we report the unexpected and untimely death of Barry Schaible July 18, 2022 while working at California State Fair, Sacramento, California. Born November 25, 1955 in the state of New Jersey, Barry was the child of Grover and Alice (Randolph) Schaible. His parents preceded him in death. Also preceding Barry in death is wife, Tina Schaible. Surviving are son, Stephen Schaible and his wife, Carrie, of Lakeland, Florida; and, daughter, Kristen Myers and her husband, Jordon, of Altamont, Tennessee. Also surviving are granddaughters, Amber Schaible and McKenzie Myers and grandsons, Tristen and Kaden Orange. Barry was well known and respected as a career safety professional that worked tirelessly for 50 years with fairs, carnivals and parks. He was recognized throughout the amusement industry for his safety expertise and for his enthusiasm regarding all things carnival, amusement ride, circus, Richard Petty, Camo, Evel Knievel, firearms and vintage rock & roll. In 1972, Barry began in the amusement industry as part-time Ride Mechanic at Circus World, Haines City, Florida. He became Ride Maintenance Manager and then moved to Ride Operations as Assistant Director and later Director Ride Operations. In 1988, Barry became Safety Director at Boardwalk and Baseball for Busch Entertainment Corporation. At the closure of Boardwalk and Baseball, Barry joined James E. Strates Shows as Safety Director. While working with Strates, he was honored with Meritorious Service Award, State of North Carolina, Governor's Advocacy Council for Persons with Disabilities for the development and implementation of Strates Disabled Guest Admission Policy and Procedures, the first in the nation by a traveling carnival. In 1994, Barry joined Coulter Consulting Group and began working as a safety consultant with amusement parks, carnivals, fairs and recreation/entertainment facilities worldwide. He worked with clients in People's Republic of China, Saudi Arabia and most states in the United States of America. He was a frequent instructor at the annual Maintenance and Safety Seminar presented by A.R.E.A. and later by A.I.M.S. Intl. In 1999, 2002, and 2003 A.I.M.S. Intl. Seminar Students presented Barry the “Red Woods Award: Most Outstanding Contribution to Amusement Ride Inspection and Midway Safety”. He continued with Coulter until his death. Barry held several inspection certifications and credentials from Amusement Industry Manufacturers and Suppliers, Intl., National Association of Amusement Ride Safety Officials, State of Texas, State of Colorado, State of Florida; and in the past, State of Pennsylvania and Clark County (Las Vegas) Nevada. A memorial is planned for Friday, October 21, 2022 at Arizona State Fairgrounds. Anyone wishing to celebrate his life and share memories of Barry is welcome to attend. Those wishing to share memories and/or condolences with Barry's family and friends are encouraged to send those to [email protected]. Family, co-workers and a multitude of friends throughout the amusement industry grieve and sadly miss Barry. Other Amusement Park News Super Nintendo World Comes to Universal Hollywood FY2023 First Half H-2B Visa Cap Met Final Day to Subscribe to Amusement Warehouse Magazine to receive the Gibtown Special Edition! Six Flags Magic Mountain Makes History with Over 20 Roller Coasters Santa Cruz Foods Introduces New Line of ICEE Popcorn Flavors California's Great America Amusement Park Gets Lease Agreement, Park Can Continue to Operate for 11+ More Years Rhode Island Novelty Reports Product Price Reductions for 2023 Six Flags Continues 30 Year Relationship with Bolliger & Mabillard through Dr. Diabolical Coaster More Amusement Park Headlines ›› Carnival Industry News Fun Biz Concessions Credits Staff for Successful Year Midway of Fun and Silver State Amusements Expand Ride Arsenal and Route Remembering Richard Tinsley North American Midway Entertainment Adds 10 New Rides for 2023 and Beyond Modern Midways Expands Route and Ride Arsenal Wade Shows: Learning From The Past, Confident in the Future Kissel Entertainment Adds New Fairs & Events, Focuses on Branding Dreamland Amusements Resigns Fryeburg Fair, Adds New Rides More Carnival Industry Headlines ››	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8693239092826843, "wiki_prob": 0.8693239092826843, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1865609"}
Hamilton-to-Angels Is Setting 2013 Up for Some Serious West Coast Bias Jumping suddenly and aggressively into the fray, the Angels reeled in Josh Hamilton for five years and $125 million, delivering a sharp blow to the rival Rangers and further cementing the West divisions as the most compelling races for 2013. Industry consensus had Hamilton ticketed for a return to Texas, given Hamilton’s supposed promise to the Rangers that they could match any competing offer and the lack of rumors signaling a megadeal from another team. But as the Angels swept in last offseason to grab Albert Pujols and C.J. Wilson at the end of the 2011 Winter Meetings, so, too, did they pull off a shocker here. The Angels, who ranked fourth in the majors in runs scored for 2012, now project as the best offensive team in baseball for next season, at least at this stage of the winter. For all the dissecting of Mike Trout’s all-around game last season, he was a no-caveats offensive beast, ranking behind only Miguel Cabrera and Ryan Braun in Weighted On Base Average. After a terrible start to last season, Albert Pujols hit .312/.374/.589 from May 15 to the end of the season. Mark Trumbo is one of several Angels hitters who couldn’t draw a walk if his life depended on it, but he’s a major power threat, socking 32 homers in 144 games in 2012. The Halos did lose Torii Hunter to free agency (and made an enemy in the process). But a healthy Chris Iannetta for a full season, Kendrys Morales’s brutal ankle injury yet even further in the past, and Hamilton’s acquisition would make this a dominant hitting team, one that offers no real breaks in the lineup, with an obscenely great top five if Mike Scioscia comes to his senses and drops Erick Aybar to the bottom of the order. Hamilton is no sure thing. We covered his risk factors earlier today: This contract covers his age 32 to 36 seasons, and most players tend to peak before they hit 30; he’s struggled with injuries, with 2012 marking the first time he’d played more than 133 games in four years; he’ll add another lousy batting eye to a lineup with several of them; and you have to at least mention a history of substance abuse when discussing risk. He’s also likely to take a sizable hit in moving from Arlington to Anaheim. Per the excellent analytics site StatCorner, here are the two parks’ three-year park factors for left-handed hitters (a mark of 100 means average, so higher numbers mean above-average figures, lower are below average): 2010-2012 (LH) Doubles/Triples Rangers Ballpark 103 117 117 Angel Stadium 99 92 82 On the other hand, the Angels are paying half as much for Hamilton (in both years and total dollars) as they did for Pujols a year ago, despite both players coming off similar age-31 seasons right before they signed. You live with the swing-at-everything approach, because Hamilton is from the Vladimir Guerrero school of pummeling almost everything that moves, including pitches off the plate. And assuming we go by longer track record and not one year’s worth of data, he’s still a plus defender as a corner outfielder, with above-average baserunning skills, at this stage of his career. As for park factors, it’s all relative. That Angel Stadium is so harsh on offensive numbers only underscores how impressive the 2012 club’s output was, and how impressive the 2013 team’s could be. And if the park hurts Angels hitters, it also helps Angels pitchers. Which is great, because they could use all the help they can get. Zack Greinke’s short drive up I-5 to the 110 robbed the team of a front-line starter. Dan Haren’s departure to Washington certainly didn’t help, but subtracting Ervin Santana’s awful 2012 campaign surely would, especially if the Angels landed some big-time pitching talent to take his place. To date, they have not. Joe Blanton on a cheap, two-year deal is fine for this market, and Tommy Hanson represents an intriguing roll of the dice. But Blanton is fifth-starter material, and Hanson’s arm is a ticking time bomb. The Angels have dramatically improved their bullpen from where it was on Opening Day 2012, with next year’s relief corps featuring excellent lefty (Scott Downs and Sean Burnett) and righty (Ernesto Frieri and Ryan Madson) combinations in play. But the rotation’s screaming out for another high-quality arm to back Jered Weaver and C.J. Wilson. R.A. Dickey might’ve seemed a logical fit, given that the Mets reportedly have been dangling him in trade while lowballing him on a contract extension. But Newsday‘s ace Mets reporter Marc Carig reports that the Mets have no interest in a Dickey trade with the Angels, at least not for either of the two most obvious candidates. Those two players are Trumbo and Peter Bourjos. Both have struggled to get on base, but both also offer impressive skill in other areas: Trumbo as one of the best power threats in the league and Bourjos as a speed demon who’s also a preposterously amazing gloveman in center field. If the Mets don’t want either of those players, the Angels could always call the Phillies (who have no faith in Domonic Brown and want another outfielder, even after trading for Ben Revere); the Rays (who might still have some pitching depth to spare even after the James Shields–Wil Myers blockbuster, and could sorely use another bat); or the Cubs (who need … well … a lot). For now, we’re left with an Angels team that’s going to be must-see TV every time they flip to the top of the order, one that’s made several upgrades but also a couple of downgrades from last season’s 89-win club. We have a Rangers team that now figures to either double down on Dickey trade talks, make a spirited run at Anibal Sanchez, make themselves the front-runners for Michael Bourn, Nick Swisher, or Adam LaRoche, or many of the above. And let’s not forget the upstart A’s, who shocked the baseball world by winning the division last year and could see further improvement from several young players this year. Between that race and the battle between the defending World Series champion Giants and the shoot-the-moon Dodgers, get ready for some serious West Coast bias next season. Filed Under: Josh Hamilton, Los Angeles Angels, MLB, Texas Rangers More Josh Hamilton How Screwed Is Your Team? A Pre-MLB-Playoff Injury Index September 21, 2015 The Hamilton Papers: The Complicated Reunion of Josh Hamilton and the Texas Rangers April 29, 2015 Stronger Together: Why Reuniting Might Be Just What Josh Hamilton and the Rangers Need April 27, 2015 The 30: Are the Royals This Year’s Royals? 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Delta Chat: Instant Messaging Using... Email? 2021-02-05 7 min read Reviews Software Tech Tech explained Teknikal_Domain Unable to load comment count Core Infrastructure Autocrypt Level 1 Capable Clients Chat over IMAP So this is a fun one, and likely a long one. Come, let’s talk about the unlikely backing for a decentralized, privacy-focused communications platform, the very weird ways in which IMAP can be used, and a hopefully final wrap-up to my streak of rambling about PGP. To summarize buzzwords aside, Delta Chat is a IM-like, free, open-sourced, messaging app available for most major platforms: Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, and Linux. Delta Chat (or just ‘Delta’) is unique in that it’s… just an email client, really. The entirety of it is founded on standard email, with one special twist. Users do not all need to install Delta to communicate, and, realistically, being frank, it only provides two benefits over regular email: Autocrypt, and a Telegram- or, supposedly, Messenger-like chat-style interface. Do not get me wrong though, I really love these sort of interesting takes on “what can we do with the technology that we have,” and do not take that previous statement as me saying the app is a complete waste, far from it. But anyways, let me break down how it works. At the core of Delta is your email account, with your standard SMTP / IMAP settings. Delta likes to make three connections to the IMAP server when it’s up, and immediately put them into IDLE, meaning the clients will still received ‘untagged’ information as defined in the IMAP spec, like if the number of mails in a mailbox changes, but the server can safely shuffle those connections over to low-priority queues. Delta also will create the top-level folder “DeltaChat” on the IMAP server if it can, which is where it will put all messages that it has received and handled. As much as using plain email as your infrastructure has a lot of benefits, since you likely already have an email account (I mean, they’re literally necessary at this point), and privacy-focused people will likely have one that they trust and is secure (ProtonMail, maybe?), that means that you don’t have to worry about another account on another platform, and the security of your communications, and your user data, is completely in your hands and up to you. The disadvantage is that email can be slow at times, with things like multiple layers of spam checking, greylisting, trying to find a valid MX for a given domain… But usually, after the initial messages, you’ll likely be able to talk just fine, and if both users are using accounts on the same mail server then communication can indeed be faster than other instant-messaging apps, like Telegram. Receiving messages is easy, just spawn some IMAP connections, wait to be told there’s new mail, and either file it into the folder and display to the user, or just ignore it if it doesn’t apply, it’s that simple. Sending is also simple… it’s called sending an email. Authenticate to your account’s SMTP server and send it off. Delta can be told if you want it to actually care about all emails you get filing them under the heading “Conversation requests,” or just the ones that started with conversations on Delta in the first place, to avoid in-app clutter. Messages can be sent end-to-end encrypted as well as in plain text, though Delta will try to encrypt wherever possible. This is done through a standard called Autocrypt, which I will describe like such: Autocrypt is a layer on PGP, wherein it uses PGP as the base method of email encryption, why would you reinvent the wheel when there’s a perfectly good starting point right there, and adds the setup and configuration on top of that. In theory, there will be multiple levels of Autocrypt that a client can implement, but right now, we have one: Level 1. How this works is that Autocrypted emails have a Autocrypt header, which looks like this: Autocrypt: [email protected]; [prefer-encrypt=mutual;] keydata=BASE64 The addr attribute must match the email’s From header, the prefer-encrypt attribute, if specified, will only contain the value mutual (for now), which means that this user would prefer to use encryption wherever possible, and keydata is literally your entire public key block. The entire header cannot exceed 10KiB in size, meaning you should keep your keys relatively small, since a 4096-bit RSA key is already 5KiB. RSA keys are common, but you must support Ed25519 keys for signatures, and Cv25519 for encryption, which are smaller in comparison. From this, when a Autocrypt-capable MUA receives a message with the Autocrypt header, it can use the information to decide if it should grab the user’s public key from the header, and start encrypting messages sent to them. There’s also such a thing as a setup message, which is a special multi-part message which has a bit of PGP data on the end, allowing for one MUA to “export” its keys and status into a message, that others may import, allowing for multiple MUAs for a single user to have the same keys and preferences. Besides, well, this one, many clients right now support Autocrypt, including a Thunderbird extension, K-9, Enigmail, (Neo)mutt, Emacs… there’s a fair bit. The one part most fail at is the setup message as described above. So Delta will, by default, prefer mutual encryption, which means that when it can encrypt, it will encrypt, even when the receiving side does use non-encrypting clients sometimes. This can be changed in the settings though. And because your public key is in every message sent, it only takes one exchange, one email from either side, for a one-on-one chat to become fully end-to-end encrypted. In a group setting (which is perfectly valid!), it’s a little more complicated especially when you factor in key gossip which is a topic that’s just outside the scope of this article, but suffice it to say that groups work too. And Delta does have full support for Level 1 Autocrypt, including the setup message, allowing you to sync your Delta clients across all your devices to use the same keys. Of which, Delta, when first starting, will generate an RSA key pair, but you are more than free to load in ECC keys from another source if you so wish, and then use the setup message to sync the two. ECC keys, as described, would make your message headers, and therefore, entire messages smaller, resulting in faster delivery, scanning, and less storage quota used if your mail server cares about that (spoiler alert, they probably do). Some other cool features include the ability to set your user avatar, which is sent as an image attachment, as well as, well, supporting multimedia attachments. If you tell Delta to also save a copy of emails that you send in Delta, then you can have your entire conversation history stored in that DeltaChat folder, which, again, you are free to use any email client to access, but if messages have been encrypted before, you’ll likely want to export the keys Delta generated (unless you loaded your own in that you’re already using elsewhere) to add to your other clients, so they can read your messages too. Getting other users’ public keys is easy, base64-decode their autocrypt headers and add it as a public key. This is cool and all, and as much as Delta is a really polished app that I completely recommend, it did make me wonder, has anyone else tried anything similar before? As it turns out, there’s an actual spec for this that Delta doesn’t require, but it has said that it will support. The spec is called Chat over IMAP, or COI, and while I can’t find any documentation, it was designed to facilitate exactly this, by allowing for direct IMAP-to-IMAP communications, cutting the “send a message using normal SMTP” completely out of the process. Looking at it though, the idea seems to either be dead, or just lost to history since, while a neat concept, it seems that… nobody really picked up on this. Interesting nonetheless at least. So if you really value your privacy (as you should), it’s a free, simple app that allows you to communicate securely with almost anyone, since everyone has an email account these days. In 2021, it’s basically a requirement. And if everyone has one, everyone is a potential target. If you’d like to test that yours is working, feel free to send me a message at [email protected], I’ll tell you if it was a success or not. While other platforms like my current favorite, Matrix, do exist with most of the same selling points, privacy focused, decentralized, all that fun stuff, Delta is the only one I’ve seen that leverages an already existing technology, and requires next to no setup to use well. Autocrypt Chat-over-IMAP Delta Chat Email PGP	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.696379542350769, "wiki_prob": 0.30362045764923096, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line805402"}
Despite Giants fans’ outrage, the Empire State Building lighting up for a rival team is nothing new Viral graph falsely claims Earth’s current temperatures are historically low A graph shared by Jordan Peterson uses unrelated data from over a century ago to cast doubt on present-day global warming. No, a government-funded food pyramid doesn’t rank Lucky Charms as healthier than steak Joe Rogan and others shared a graph that ranks Lucky Charms as healthier than steak. But it isn’t a food pyramid endorsed by the federal government. No evidence Carole Baskin's husband has been found alive according to authorities A 2021 interview in which “Tiger King” star Carole Baskin claimed her husband was found alive in Costa Rica recently resurfaced. Police say he’s still missing. These two viral videos don’t show the fatal helicopter crash in Ukraine Two viral videos claim to show the Jan. 18 helicopter crash that killed Ukraine’s interior minister and about a dozen others. These videos weren’t from the crash. Viral claims about Social Security stories we VERIFIED in 2022 We looked into a lot of stories related to Social Security in 2022. In this video, we break down the top ones we verified. Video claiming to show Buffalo Walmart looting during blizzard is over two years old A viral video claims to show a Buffalo Walmart being looted, but it wasn’t taken amid the deadly winter storm this year. Christmas trees are recyclable but check on what options are available in your area Many municipalities offer ways to recycle live Christmas trees, so long as they meet local requirements No, Joe Biden didn’t award his uncle a Purple Heart after becoming vice president President Biden said during a recent event that he awarded his uncle, Frank Biden, a Purple Heart after becoming vice president. But that’s not possible. No, a photo of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson wearing anti-Trump shirt isn’t real A viral image appearing to show Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson wearing an anti-Trump shirt is a doctored image taken from the film “San Andreas.” Claims that Rep. Katie Porter said pedophilia isn’t a crime are false A video clip of Porter was taken out of context from a hearing where she spoke about people referring to LGBTQ community members as “groomers” and “pedophiles.” Yes, some snow globes contain a toxic chemical used in antifreeze “It does not take ingesting more than a few laps of ethylene glycol to potentially be fatal to cats and small dogs,” VCA Animal Hospitals says.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.888066291809082, "wiki_prob": 0.888066291809082, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line369593"}
Home > Project Gallery Browse by market All Markets Automotive Aviation, Aerospace and Defense Commercial Food & Beverage Industrial Manufacturing Pharmaceutical & Biotech Process Industries Utility Plant Support Browse by service Any Service Construction Design & Engineering Development & Financing Facility Maintenance Location Consulting Planning Any Region USA - Midatlantic USA - Midwest USA - Northeast USA - Northwest USA - Southeast USA - Southwest USA - West MX - Baja California MX - Bajio MX - Central MX - Chiapas & Tabasco MX - Northern Mexico MX - Oaxaca MX - Pacific Coast MX - Veracruz MX - Yucatan Peninsula Manufacturing Facility in Mexico The Austin Company, in connection with Alberici Constructors, designed and constructed a new manufacturing facility for Stanley Electric Mexico. Research Hospital Research and Development Facility When St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital needed a GMP facility to further its mission of finding cures for catastrophic childhood illnesses, they turned to The Austin Company to implement this critical project. Baking Facility Relocation and Renovation Lyon Bakery was founded by three like–minded friends in the spring of 2000. Skilled in the art of making gourmet artisan breads, the bakery expanded from modest beginnings into a thriving business, serving customers throughout the Washington and Baltimore metropolitan areas. 747 Aircraft Assembly Plant When Boeing’s 747 aircraft assembly plant was completed in 1968 by The Austin Company, it was the largest volume building in the world. Automotive Component Manufacturing Facility The Austin Company, in connection with Alberici Constructors, designed and constructed a manufacturing facility for Tokyo Roki de Mexico in Santa-Fe IV Industrial Park in Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico. Pharmaceutical Technical Center in Lake Forest IL The Austin Company provided architecture and engineering services for an R&D technical center for Hospira, an international pharmaceutical company. Commercial Printing Production Facility The Austin Company provided design-build services for a production facility for Cox Target Media. At the time the facility was completed, it was the largest industrial building in Pinellas County in St. Petersburg, Florida. Bakery Production Facility in Front Royal VA The Austin Company completed a $17-million contract to design, engineer and construct a new bakery and warehouse for Interbake Foods in Richmond, Virginia. Community College Athletics & Aquatics Complex The Austin Company provided overall site and facility programming, architectural and interior design, engineering, and construction phase support for this new Athletics and Aquatics Complex at the Santiago Canyon College campus. M3 Consolidated Laboratories The Austin Company provided Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems with architectural planning, design and engineering services for the remodeling of 87,400 SF within the existing M3 building. Automotive Parts Manufacturing Facility The Y-Tec Keylex Mexico, S.A. de C.V. (YKM) automotive parts manufacturing and assembly facility was implemented as a design-build project at the Mazda automotive complex in Guanajuato, Mexico. 777 Aircraft Assembly Facility When The Boeing Company needed to expand its massive aircraft assembly facility in order to produce the 777, Boeing’s value jetliner, the company once again called on The Austin Company to tackle the project. Toothpaste Manufacturing Facility Colgate-Palmolive, a global leader in oral care, solicited The Austin Company to provide site location consulting, and design and build a new state-of-the-art, 250,000 SF dental cream facility in Morristown, Tennessee. Heavy Industrial Manufacturing Facility Mitsubishi Power Systems America (MPSA) needed to expand their facilities to increase production of key gas turbine parts, provide complete steam turbine services and assemble advanced, fuel-efficient gas turbines. Select Tennessee Site Certification Program To increase the inventory of sites ready for industrial development, the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development contracted with Austin Consulting to develop and implement Select Tennessee, a rigorous site certification program. Bakery Production Facility in Lebanon PA The 22,000 SF Bohemia bakery, with 85 employees, turns out 336,000 bagels a day, seven days a week. Delta IV Rocket Factory Major components of the rocket, including the common booster core, were manufactured in a facility designed, engineered and constructed by The Austin Company in a joint venture with J.S. Alberici Construction Company. BSL-3 Laboratory Renovation The Austin Company completed an important renovation project for Pfizer in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan. The project included updating a vacated laboratory to current Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) Criteria of the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5091975331306458, "wiki_prob": 0.49080246686935425, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1373833"}
Family Games Guide How To Play Quidditch: The Harry Potter Game For Children Lynnette Backyard Games, Hobbies & Crafts Yes, the Harry Potter craze has made its way into schools, playards and backyards across the country …in more ways than one! But did you know the unique children’s game portrayed in the movie is now all the rage among kids? Everyone wants to play Quidditch! Quidditch, the children’s game, is a cross between soccer and tag, and it was invented by J.K. Rowling when she incorporated it into her many Harry Potter books. It became popular on playgrounds and such after Jodi Palmer, a mother and grade-school gym teacher in Ohio, put together a set of rules for her own kids to play Quidditch. Fortunately, she was also kind enough to share the rules for Quidditch with others… and as a result, thousands of children are able to enjoy this one-of-a-kind outdoor game! Realizing she was on to something, Palmer posted her version on a national website for physical education teachers. Now, a growing legion of gym teachers across the country are incorporating Quidditch into their curricula. A picture from an article that appeared in Better Homes & Garden magazine: How To Play Quidditch To play the game, children simply run away from an opponent, or chase one. They also must be able to throw a ball, and catch one. To put together the playing field, you’ll need: 8-10 players, per team (“chasers”, “taggers”, “seekers” and “keepers”) 1 foam soccer ball (quaffle) 4-8 solid color foam balls, each about 8 inches in diameter (bludgers) 1 small super-bouncy ball (snitch) 6 hula hoops (goals), which need to hang about 6 feet off the ground from a soccer net crossbar, tree branch, or something similar Here’s a description of all the player positions, including the Chaser, the Tagger, the Seeker, and the Keeper. Here are the rules for playing Quidditch. Here is Jodi Palmer’s original posting for P.E. teachers who wish to teach their children how to play Quidditch, including some interesting variations to the game (…like using brooms!) More Harry Potter Games & Fun Stuff Harry Potter Collectible Quidditch Set Harry Potter Online Games & Trivia Quidditch Board Games Harry Potter Wizzard Challenge Harry Potter Interactive Online Games I grew up playing board games and card games. It's a pastime that I've never outgrown. The games mentioned here are great for your home parties, family game nights, camping outings, and RV road trips. (We play some of them on our cross-country motorcycle trips, too.) When I'm not playing games with my friends and family, you will find me at the corner of Good News & Fun Times as publisher of The Fun Times Guide (32 fun & helpful websites). franklin.thefuntimesguide.com/the_face_behind_the_blog/ Categories Backyard Games, Hobbies & Crafts Tags kids games They’re Changing The Monopoly Board!… You Can Pick Which Cities & Landmarks Are Included Fun With A Frisbee: A Wide Variety of Disc Games & Events How To Build Your Own Cornhole Game Platforms How To Replace Damaged Boxes From Old Board Games How To Play Bolo Toss & Ladder Golf Backyard Lawn Games Board Games & Billiards Card Games & Dice adult games Bunco card games Cornhole Cranium dice Euchre Frisbees game cheats game humor game pieces and parts game shows geocaching golf kids games Ladder Golf Monopoly online games playing pool Rukshuk scavenger hunts Scrabble video games Washers	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7026562094688416, "wiki_prob": 0.7026562094688416, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line843463"}
The Screenwriters Association India celebrates the first Pitch Fest 2022! – ThePrint – ANIPressReleases Bombay (Maharashtra) [India], Aug 25 (ANI/PNN): SWA – Screenwriters Association successfully held its first-ever Pitch Fest – a bridge connecting aspiring writers with top producers and studios in the Indian entertainment industry. The event took place at Celebrations Club, Lokhandwala. Esteemed producers, talent agents and broadcasters came out to celebrate storytelling at its finest. “It was a PITCH MELA. 25 scripts approved and selected from 600 scripts were ready for presentation, submitted by writers from all over India. 20 PRODUCTION HOUSES were present in the same place. Organized by SWA, it was a unique event, a new initiative. Everyone was happy,” says Robin Bhatt, president of the Screenwriters Association. SWA announced its first-ever Script Lab for feature films in February 2022. SWA’s call for applications received over 600 scripts from across India. After an arduous shortlisting process, the judging panel arrived at the top 60 entries, then the top 30, then the top 6 winning scripts. These 6 screenplays were framed by 6 renowned screenwriters/directors. The 2022 SWA Script Lab mentors were Abhishek Chaubey, Alankrita Srivastava, Shakun Batra, Smita Singh Khan, Sudeep Sharma and Vikramaditya Motwane. Shortly after the conclusion of the Script Lab, the first ever PITCH FEST was co-hosted by the SWA Events Sub-Committee and the Education Sub-Committee on August 18, 2022, at Celebrations Sports Club, Lokhandwala, Andheri West , Mumbai. The SWA PitchFest process was twofold. The first part involved selecting the top 25 scripts from The Script Lab’s 60 shortlists. Afterwards, twenty top producers, talent managers and broadcasters were invited to the venue for the final part. Guest producers were given their own booths and the 25 writers had the opportunity to present and tell their works to the producers one-on-one. To help participating writers create a strong and persuasive pitch, SWA also held workshops. “SWA has always been committed to creating platforms and conversations for writers that aim to empower them and accelerate their careers on many levels. With Pitch Fest and Script Lab, we aim to identify young writers across India and train them under mentors to hone their skills and stories, and eventually have them pitch their work to 20 top producers/studios. We are overwhelmed with the response,” added Zaman Habib, General Secretary of the Screenwriters Association. Among the 20 studios, producers and broadcasters who participated in SWA PitchFest 2022 are Star Studio Disney, Bang Bang Media Corp, Zee 5, Culver Max Entertainment (formerly Sony), Lionsgate, Junglee Pictures, Maddock Films, Yash Raj Films, Excel Entertainment , among others. The event was a huge success, with over 500 interactions between guests and the 25 writers in just one day. In keeping with SWA’s mission to foster a sense of brotherhood, sisterhood, and unity among its members, Pitch Fest 2022 sparked a beautiful exchange of thoughts and ideas between industry stalwarts and aspiring creators. extremely talented! For more information, please visit https://www.swaindia.org/index.php. This story was provided by PNN. ANI will not be responsible for the content of this article. (ANI/PNN) This story is automatically generated from a syndicated feed. ThePrint declines all responsibility for its content. Dallas Media Alert, Call for Freelance Writers: The Dallas Observer Press Office is looking for pitches ‘The Dead Fitzgeralds’ Celebrates Zelda, Books, Writers and the St. Paul Era – Twin Cities	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8389970660209656, "wiki_prob": 0.8389970660209656, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line793058"}
A Top Trainer Shared the Best, Simplest Way to Get Lean Jeff Cavaliere breaks down how to consistently, sustainably achieve your goals By Philip Ellis In a new video on the Athlean-X channel, strength coach Jeff Cavaliere C.S.C.S. offers advice for anyone who is looking to get lean as a part of their New Year's resolution. As simplicity tends to lead to a better chance of consistency, he keeps it as straightforward as possible, focusing on "calories in vs. calories out." In other words, the calories you are eating, vs. the calories you are burning through physical activity. While running and other forms of cardio are popular calorie burners. Cavaliere recommends a 3:2 workout ratio, with around 60 per cent of your routine focusing on strength training, and around 40 per cent on cardio and conditioning. "The overall effect you get from a conditioning aspect in terms of creating that deficit isn't really that much," he says. "If getting lean is your main goal, conditioning cannot be your main weapon of attack for getting there." Should You Prioritise Sleep or Exercise? The reason Cavaliere suggests programming your training around strength workouts isn't necessarily because of the caloric burn they create while performing them, but rather the benefits in terms of building new muscle tissue, and the subsequent metabolic increase which will improve the body's ability to burn calories at rest. "You're really going to want to focus on those multi-muscle, multi-function splits, like total body, or push-pull-legs," he adds. However, the most important part of getting lean isn't about what you're doing to burn calories in the gym—it's the calories you're eating. (continued below) "It's not possible to out-train a bad diet," says Cavaliere. "No matter how many calories you burn, no matter what it is you do, you're going to quickly see that the nutrition side, the calories in, is going to matter the most." He advises looking at the level of satiety you get from what you eat, drawing a comparison between Doritos and eggs. You don't eat a single Dorito, you eat an entire bag. Meanwhile, you might only eat one egg, and struggle to eat more than a few, because they make you feel fuller quicker. How to Make 2022 Your Healthiest Year Ever Of course, with all that strength training, you'll need to support your workouts with sufficient protein intake. Cavaliere uses the formula of between 0.7 and 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight to determine how much protein you should be eating each day. One common pitfall that many people stumble into, he adds, is getting too restrictive on their carb intake, or even cutting out carbs from their diet entirely—but this is a recipe for failure. "What happens is you take such a departure from the lifestyle path you're on that you can't continue to keep that consistent path going, and wind up coming back to where you started." From: Men's Health US More From Weight Loss Eddie Nketiah's Incredible Body Transformation Walking Helped This Guy Drop 53lbs Study: Counting Calories the Key to Losing Weight How David Haye Achieved 10% Body Fat How This Guy Got Ripped and Lean in 3 Months Gregg Wallace Reveals Weight-Loss Secrets Paddy Pimblett's Pre-Fight Daily Diet Revealed Meal Prep Helped This Guy Drop 40lbs How This Man Lost over 50kg in Nine Months	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6138521432876587, "wiki_prob": 0.3861478567123413, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line627491"}
A new topology on the universal path space Virk Z, Zastrow A. 2017. A new topology on the universal path space. Topology and its Applications. 231, 186–196. No fulltext has been uploaded. References only! 10.1016/j.topol.2017.09.015 Journal Article \| Published \| English Export / Search Mark/Unmark publication Favorite/Unfavorite publication Virk, ZigaISTA; Zastrow, Andreas Edelsbrunner Group We generalize Brazas’ topology on the fundamental group to the whole universal path space X˜ i.e., to the set of homotopy classes of all based paths. We develop basic properties of the new notion and provide a complete comparison of the obtained topology with the established topologies, in particular with the Lasso topology and the CO topology, i.e., the topology that is induced by the compact-open topology. It turns out that the new topology is the finest topology contained in the CO topology, for which the action of the fundamental group on the universal path space is a continuous group action. Topology and its Applications IST-REx-ID ISTA Annual Report Virk Z, Zastrow A. A new topology on the universal path space. Topology and its Applications. 2017;231:186-196. doi:10.1016/j.topol.2017.09.015 Virk, Z., & Zastrow, A. (2017). A new topology on the universal path space. Topology and Its Applications. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.topol.2017.09.015 Virk, Ziga, and Andreas Zastrow. “A New Topology on the Universal Path Space.” Topology and Its Applications. Elsevier, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.topol.2017.09.015. Z. Virk and A. Zastrow, “A new topology on the universal path space,” Topology and its Applications, vol. 231. Elsevier, pp. 186–196, 2017. Virk, Ziga, and Andreas Zastrow. “A New Topology on the Universal Path Space.” Topology and Its Applications, vol. 231, Elsevier, 2017, pp. 186–96, doi:10.1016/j.topol.2017.09.015. Marked Publications Open Data ISTA Research Explorer DOI only CSV: text/x-csv Search this title in Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) – Library Am Campus 1 [email protected] © 2023 ISTA \| Powered by LibreCat	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8209203481674194, "wiki_prob": 0.8209203481674194, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line362007"}
Home Business Resolve Partnership Issues Through Lawyers in Lahore Resolve Partnership Issues Through Lawyers in Lahore harisbutt Resolve Partnership Issues Through Lawyers in Lahore: 1 Resolve Partnership Issues Through Lawyers in Lahore: 2 Sake of Brevity: 3 Sampatlal Mulchand: 4 Partnership Registration in Pakistan: 5 Acted Negligently: For all legal matters of business or partnership registration in Pakistan, you may contact Jamila Law Associates. Our Lawyers in Lahore & Lawyer in Lahore Pakistan will solve your all kind of partnership issue. So Now Get The Free advice Related to the Partnership by lawyer In Lahore Pakistan & Lawyers in Lahore Pakistan. So, since confidence in the particular person employed is at the root of the contract of agency, such authority cannot be implied as an ordinary incident in the agreement a sub-agent or “substitute” (the latter of which designations. Although it does not precisely denote the parties’ legal relationship in partnership registration in Pakistan through lawyers in Lahore. Sake of Brevity: We adopt for want of a better, and the sake of brevity); on the other hand, to constitute, in the interests and for the protection of the principal, direct private of a contract between him. The presumption under section 118 is one of law, and thereunder a Court shall presume, among other things, that the negotiable instrument or the endorsement was made or endorsed for consideration. In effect, the burden of proof of the failure of care on the make or the note or the endorser, as the case may be. In Jagmohan Prasad v. Sampatlal Mulchand: Sampatlal Mulchand, it observed that an agent borrows and executes a promissory note in his capacity under section 28, Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, the Agent alone can be held liable but, in a suit on the original consideration for partnership registration in Pakistan through lawyers in Lahore. The principal may be held responsible in a proper case where it is expressly mentioned in the power of attorney that the Agent can have no authority under section 188 of the Contract Act. Partnership Registration in Pakistan: In this case of partnership registration in Pakistan through lawyers in Lahore, a client gave his solicitor a power of attorney, which included the ability to draw cheques on the client’s banking account and apply money for the client’s bank. Signing them as an attorney for the client, he fraudulently paid them into his account with the appellant bank to reduce overdrafts. In a suit the client against the bank for damages for the conversion of the cheques, it held that thee cheques not being drawn for purposes of the client, the solicitor had n authority to remove them or to receive the proceeds; the cheques remain the client’s property; and, therefore, the bank, in presenting and receiving payment for them; converted them. Acted Negligently: The onus of proving that they had not acted negligently was on the bank; the bank knew that the solicitor was applying the cheques to his use to liquidate his debt to them, and the form of the signature to the cheques gave the bank notice that the money was not his money, especially given the terms of section 25 of the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882 for partnership registration in Pakistan through lawyers in Lahore. There was no possible inference that he was applying for the money in the discharge of liability of the principal and, therefore, the bank was negligent, under section 82 of the Act of 1882, in not inquire as to the solicitor’s authority to make payments; and were liable for the amount of the cheques as damages for their concession. Lawyers in Lahore Previous articleA Detailed Guide Answering All Queries About Home Loan Affordability Calculator Next articleKnow Way of Court Marriage for Lovers from Christian Community	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5048460364341736, "wiki_prob": 0.4951539635658264, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1678932"}
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Melbourne Brewers Club History In the year 2000, our club changed its name from the ABAV (Amateur Brewers Association of Victoria) to The Melbourne Brewers. The ABAV was formed in 1972 by Gordon Clark to act as an association to coordinate the activities of the Victorian brew clubs. This concept never got off the ground as the clubs wanted to remain independent. So the ABAV actually became a club in its own right, and it held its meeting on the last Wednesday of each month in Gordon's Glen Waverley brewery. Gordon was, and still is, a legend in amateur brewing circles throughout Victoria. He is referred to as the father of amateur brewing because of his pioneering brewing even before it became legal in 1972. Gordon served as President of the ABAV from 1972-1981, and Barry Hastings from 1981-1992 and 2000. We have had a variety of Presidents since 1992. Meetings at Gordon's brewery were legendary . He malted his own barley and grew his own hops, Bullion, in his back yard. He had a million and one contraptions in his brewery and scattered around his backyard. At one stage, I think he had 5 lauter tuns. He would improve on his last invention, and the predecessor ruthlessly consigned to the backyard. From 1981 - 1992 the meetings alternated mainly between the Clark and Hastings breweries. In 1992, Barry Hastings suggested to a meeting of members of the ABAV, that the club go national and call itself the ABAA. This was rejected by the membership as they did not want the responsibility of running and financing the proposed new national magazine, Ausbeer. Subsequently, Barry Hastings resigned as President of the ABAV to form the new national amateur brewing association, the ABAA. This association at its peak boasted 650 members, who all received Ausbeer by mail. Ausbeer lasted 22 issues over approx. 7 years. I was voted in as President for one last time in 2000 to reform the ABAV and change its name. It was ridiculous to be known as the ABAV because it never was an association, it was a regular club. Also, we wanted the club to be open to all brewers in Melbourne and not just a region within it, hence the new name, The Melbourne Brewers. The ABAV started running Beerfest around 1999 under the due care of Michael Guenzel. Over the years the Melbourne brewers has seen a few Presidents come and go. See a familiar name? Let us know! 2022-Present John Keske 2017-2022 Ian Bennett 2010-2017 Andy Davison 2004-2009 Haig Jason 2004 Paul Sorenson 2003 David Yeske 2001-2002 Shane Ward 2000 Barry Hastings 1999 Martin O'Connor 1995-1998 Doug Blair 1993-1994 Andy Graham 1981-1992 Barry Hastings 1972-1981 Gordon Clark The 'Old Dick' Since 1999, the Club Brewer of the Year trophy has been an unusual mechanical device, affectionately known as "The Old Dick". The trophy was built about 22 years ago by former Member Dick Seville who was a popular and eccentric Member of the Melbourne Brewers and the ABAV which preceded it. "The Old Dick" is designed to hold a 750ml bottle of beer and to gradually tilt it in order to pour the contents without disturbing the sediment, thereby obtaining a crystal clear beer. Dick an engineer by trade would regularly take the device with him when dining at BYO restaurants and drinking his own beers, mostly bottle conditioned brown ales. Longstanding Members will remember Dick as the quietly spoken gentleman who would bring a large plate of cheese and onion sandwiches to every club meeting which would be unveiled late at each meeting after the standard Club nibbles had been consumed. These would rapidly be devoured and were a traditional part OF Club meetings for many years. Dick was an inventive guy having a hand in building one of the first commercial washing machines ever built in Australia. Unfortunately, Dick passed away several years ago but much of his brewing equipment was donated and subsequently auctioned by the Club so many current Members have equipment designed and built by Dick and his legacy lives on. The Old Dick was donated by Dick's family and Colin Penrose. So next time you see "The Old Dick" remember that it, like our Club, has a rich history built on the efforts of eccentric good blokes like Dick Seville. Previous winners of "The Old Dick" have been: 1999 Don & Claris Liebe 2000 Michael Guenzel 2001 John Abbott & Michael Guenzel 2002 Darren Robey 2003 Tony Wheeler 2004 Mark Leathem 2005 Tony Wheeler & Mark Leathem 2009 Chris Taylor 2010 Robin Brown	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9579849243164062, "wiki_prob": 0.9579849243164062, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1193241"}
Matthew Gould confirmed as new CEO of NHSX by DHSC Government digital policy chief, Matthew Gould, has been announced as the new CEO of NHSX and will be responsible for setting the national technology agenda for healthcare. After months of speculation, Gould was unveiled as the CEO of the unit, which has been tasked with overseeing digital transformation in the NHS. It’s mission statement is to make sure patients and staff have the digital technology they need. The former government director for cyber security will join NHSX in the summer to coincide with the organisation’s July launch. Digital Health News understands the organisation will commence in “shadow form” from 8 April. From then, NHSX will mandate the use of internationally-recognised tech and data standards across the NHS. These include: A consistent language of clinical terms to help staff share information, such as patient records, seamlessly across health and care settings, improving patient safety Successful projects and technology developed within the NHS will be required to publish findings to allow evidenced innovations to be adopted elsewhere quickly Suppliers will need to demonstrate they can meet strict criteria before the NHS pays for their services. NHS organisations will be expected to demonstrate they are compliant with standards across their estate Gould will have strategic responsibility for setting the national direction on technology across all the family of health and social care organisations. He will be accountable to the health secretary, Matt Hancock and chief executive of NHS England, Simon Stevens. From July, NHS Digital will be sponsored by NHSX rather than the Department of Health and Social Care. Gould said: “Our single goal will be to improve the care that everyone in the country gets by making sure that both staff and patients have the technology they need. “I will know I have succeeded if in two years we have reduced the crazy amount of time that clinicians spend inputting and accessing patient information; if we have given patients the tools so they can access information and services directly from their phones; and if we have started to build a system in which patient information can be securely accessed from wherever it is needed, ensuring safer and better care as patients move around the system, and saving patients from having to tell every doctor and nurse their story over and over again.” In a string of announcements about NHSX, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), also said “digital experts” from the organisation will be “embedded in national mental health and cancer teams to help clinicians and policymakers improve patient experience through the power of technology”. If the model proves to be successful, it could be rolled out more widely across the NHS as part of the Long Term Plan, DHSC added. In addition, NHSX will recruiting in the summer for a chief technology officer (CTO) who will be responsible for designing and delivering a new Internet-based technical architecture for all of the NHS and social care. The CTO will also oversee NHSX’s engineering and infrastructure work. Hancock said: “I want to invite the very best talent to join NHSX. If you’re an innovator and you want to serve our society, I want to welcome you to join the growing band of HealthTech pioneers at NHSX who are going to be on a mission to transform harness technology to save lives. We want to invite brilliant people from Government, NHS and industry will work closely with clinicians to cut through bureaucracy – meaning patients get access to the best innovations more quickly. “NHSX is one of the most exciting things happening in the UK. It’s cutting edge, it’s mission driven, and it’s about harnessing the best. This is just the beginning of the tech revolution, building on our NHS Long Term Plan to create leading health and care service – for us all.” Digital Health News has previously reported that NHSX, which is seen as a joint initiative between DHSC and NHS England, will include setting the national strategy for cyber policy and supporting the use of new, emergent and effective technologies. Dr Simon Eccles, CCIO for health and care, said: “The NHS Long Term Plan builds on significant recent progress to a more digital NHS, from providing free WiFi, to helping the most advanced hospitals push the latest advances, to an Apps Library showcasing a range of digital tools that can help the public take charge of their own health. “To ensure the benefits of new digital technology can reach patients right across the country, experts from the NHS and Government will be working closer together as part of NHSX to help the NHS go further, faster.” Digital Health’s 2022 Review: Top 10 most read news stories Colin Brown 5 April 2019 @ 20:04 “A consistent language of clinical terms … ” is a start. But the terms are only the basic “words” of the clinical content: we need their “grammar” to be standard – the clinical models – and their construction into meaningful text to be standard too. Else whenever moving from one system to another, we’ll still be bound into paying vast sums to the industry to make the terms as useful as if communicating fully in one language. Terminology is only one component of a digital platform. Simon Threadbold Can anyone send me a copy of the advert and JD for the role? Myrkur Stjornu Laudable objectives for NHSX, however it throws an uncomfortable spotlight on NHS Digital – what is this organisation’s role going forward? If the NHSX CTO is taking on the responsibility for a new NHS “Internet Architecture”, engineering and infrastructure – is NHS Digital left to keep the lights on for existing national services such as PDS and SCR? And in a future of regional LHCRs the need for these central services is already being challenged by ideas for federation of LHCR capabilities. Interesting times. 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