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Trial By Error: Excellent News Coverage of UK Genetics Study in The Times 8 July 2020 by David Tuller Note: The DecodeME team held a Facebook Q-and-A this week. If you want more information about the study, you can watch the video here. Two major UK government funding agencies recently announced grants totalling Â£3.2 million to support a major genetics study of ME. Whatever the long-term findings of DecodeME, spearheaded by the CFS/ME Research Collaborative and the CureME Biobank at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the immediate results were impressiveâ€”the kind of fair and thoughtful news coverage that has been sparse in this domain of science, especially in the UK. In particular, The Times (the UK version, that is; to a New Yorker, there is only the other Times) published a package of six stories over two days–June 23-24–that took the issue and the illness seriously. Tom Whipple, an excellent science reporter at The Times (his book about sex, X and WHY, is informative and entertaining), has previously written several articles about key news events in the long-running PACE saga. These have included the publication of the special issue of Journal of Health Psychology, the publication of the PACE reanalysis paper, and my open letter to Lancet editor Richard Horton about the trial’s “unacceptable methodological lapses,” which was co-signed by more than 100 experts and more than 70 patient and advocacy organizations. So The Timesâ€™ interest in the DecodeME developments didnâ€™t really surprise me. However, given the extraordinary circumstances within which weâ€™re now all existing, many important news events not directly related to the pandemic do not receive the coverage they deserve. Despite current pressures, The Times made the welcome decision to invest the time needed to produce this cluster of articles. Most of them were written by reporter Sean Oâ€™Neill, with Whipple contributing a short summary of the struggle between the PACE proponents and others over research and treatments. Coverage of this illness in the UK has long been marred by aggressive efforts to portray criticism of the PACE-style treatment paradigm as irrational and driven by anti-science zealots. This narrative is as credible as President Trumpâ€™s portrayal of largely peaceful crowds protesting racial injustice as howling mobs of anarchists out to destroy America. The PACE enablers at the UK’s Science Media Centre played a central role in disseminating this dishonest and harmful narrative, which gained traction after The Lancet published the first PACE results in 2011. The UK press has repeatedly advanced this defamatory meme without subjecting it to robust scrutiny, or any scrutiny at all. Maybe thatâ€™s starting to change. Rechristening ME For one thing, it seems that DecodeME has successfully managed, at least for now, to rechristen the disease as myalgic encephalomyelitisâ€”what it was called, for better or worse, before the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention slapped it with the name everyone despises. (Everyone, that is, outside the precincts of the psychology and psychiatry departments of a few Russell Group universities.) In The Times, the main headline on the first day was â€œSearch for genetic clues of ME.â€ ME was referenced throughout, with the other name mentioned only in passing in Whippleâ€™s backgrounder. The awkward hybrid ME/CFS was absent. (I saw images of the newspaper pages; the headlines in the online versions did use chronic fatigue syndrome.) Second, the Timesâ€™ package of stories did not include any pompous or self-serving quotes from the PACE authors, Sir Simon and other pooh-bahs of the UKâ€™s medical establishment, and the gang of sycophants at the Science Media Centre. That could be a sign of somethingâ€”perhaps that the debate is finally moving beyond the limits imposed by the intellectually bankrupt and scientifically discredited CBT/GET treatment paradigm. The lead piece on the first day of coverage involved the study itself. After mentioning the â€œtoxic debateâ€ over the illness, it included this key passage about the current context: “Attitudes to the illness are, however, shifting. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is reviewing how the NHS should treat ME after criticism over previous recommendations that patients receive therapy and graded exercise. Its new treatment guidelines are due in Decemberâ€¦The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US public health agency, stated in 2018 that ME was ‘a biological illness, not a psychological disorder’ and patients were ‘neither malingering nor seeking secondary gain.’â€ The piece also appropriately noted that questions about the biological basis of the illness are highly relevant in the pandemic era, pointing out that the project is being launched “as people struggling to recover from coronavirus show similar symptoms to ME sufferers.â€ Indeed, while the planning for DecodeME has been underway for a long time, it would not be surprising if the very evident surge in post-covid patients experiencing persistent symptoms helped bolster the argument for this major investment in biomedical ME research. This story was accompanied by a sympathetic piece describing the experiences and challenges of three patients. One of them, Danny, is the teenage son of Action For ME executive director Sonya Chowdhury, who has been a key player in pulling the project together. Another, Nina Muirhead, is a dermatological surgeon who was seriously disabled by the illness. According to the story, â€œDr Muirhead learnt nothing about ME when she was a medical student and was dismissive of the condition after qualifying.â€ She now advocates for better medical education about the illness. Families facing custody threats The stories on the second day were about the terrifying threats faced by families when parents are accused of fabricated or induced illness, or FIIâ€”what used to be called Munchausen-by-proxy. Hereâ€™s the stark opening statement of the lead article: â€œHundreds of families whose children suffer from the debilitating condition ME have faced child protection investigations in the past decade, The Times has learnt.â€ (I would quibble with the news organizationâ€™s need to insert the phrase â€œThe Times has learntâ€â€”as if this information were newly available or as if The Times had gone to great lengths to uncover it. Any major news organization could have â€˜learntâ€™ about these horrors a long time ago, and some have reported on them. But thatâ€™s a minor quibble; I’m a former newspaper reporter, so I understand why that phrase is there. Overall, this is an excellent package.) This main article was accompanied by two harrowing case studies. The material included the necessary perfunctory statements from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health as well as the Association of Directors of Childrenâ€™s Services. But the weight of the argument was on the side of the parents alleging mistreatment and unwarranted accusations from social services and having to live in fear of being stripped of custody. Overall, the two days of stories included no anecdotes of patients engaging in purported harassment of eminent researchers. In contrast to some UK investigators of non-pharmacological treatments, the DecodeME scientists do not appear to be criticizing and insulting patients publicly. That positive framing could be interpreted as a sign that the strenuous attempts by the Science Media Centre and the PACE cabal to cast the patient community as a bunch of Flat-Earthers and hysterics could be losing its potency. Time will tell what results the DecodeME research will yield, and if those results will lead to real advancements in understanding of the mechanisms of illness. But the fact that top UK government funders have endorsed this biomedical approach suggests that the rehabilitative strategy no longer has a monopoly on funding devoted to this illness. (It is worth noting, however, that this investment still represents much less than the amount spent on PACE, without even considering inflation.) The NHS and UK academic and medical establishments have for decades treated and regarded chronic fatigue syndrome as a complaint requiring psychological treatment. Perhaps the announcement of these grants for bonafide biomedical research will prompt other funders, in the UK and elsewhere, to reconsider their own portfolios in this domain. And hopefully other news organizations will follow The Times’ lead and set aside their preconceptions based on pronouncements from investigators who peddle nonsense like PACE. Filed Under: David Tuller, ME/CFS Tagged With: CMRC, DecodeME, PACE, science media centre Jo Bruce says 8 July 2020 at 7:32 pm Wonderful summary David, thank you as ever for your tireless work. In my opinion, members of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) and/or Paediatric Mental Health Association (PMHA) and/or Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) should be investigated and held to account for giving a lowish rate of 4 to 10% for (adult) MUS misdiagnosis in their 2018 ‘MEDICALLY UNEXPLAINED SYMPTOMS (MUS) IN CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE’ guidance. They were informed in November 2018 that there are higher misdiagnosis rates in the literature (Nimnuan et al 2000) but they didn’t amend their guidance. [ as described more recently in this article -https://opposingmega.wordpress.com/2020/05/01/untangling-the-mus-web/ ]. They include the Nimnuan et al 2001 paper, (which reports on the same study as Nimnuan et al 2000), in the guidance bibliography, so it seems that they are happy to use the study to support their argument but will ignore its high MUS misdiagnosis rates when it suits them. The information they provide in their guidance could lull paediatricians and other doctors into a false sense of security when ‘diagnosing’ MUS in children because the MUS misdiagnosis rate could be much higher in reality, but they don’t appear to care. NB In the guidance they omit to explain that the MUS misdiagnosis rate provided was for adult neurology only. I assume that there is no MUS misdiagnosis rate available for children – why not? Doesn’t that reflect a failure by the NHS and leading child health organizations and/or research bodies to adequately protect children? Lady Shambles says Further to CT’s observations maybe the Times might like to report on the antics of the people involved in creating the MUS paediatric guidance? Now there’s a thought! Wrt the other coverage of DecodeME… in a way it matters not how cheery The Times presents DecodeME if the diagnostic criteria for its cohort is SEID which is very problematical as I’ve noted before in another comment on another blog, “.. the IOM definition is so inclusive that, whilst it draws in people with ME, it has such big holes in its net that it also draws in people who have all sorts of other maladies which arenâ€™t ME””. So I can’t honestly get as excited about this as others seem to be doing. It would be good if the full results of the Decode ME study were going to be publicly available, but from listening to the Q&A session it seems that they won’t be, (but they will be made available for other researchers to use). I don’t understand why they can’t be made public when all the data will be anonymized. I suspect that by using a broader definition any significant spikes in the results are more likely to be related to conditions like Ehlers Danlos syndrome which may have a higher rate in a broader range of sufferers but may not be the true cause of ‘ME’. I think it’s possible that the spikes which don’t quite make it to significance, which may have done so under a tighter definition, may be the ones of interest, but it seems that we’ll never get to find out where they are located and what they correspond to. Having said that, I hope that enough participants come forward to produce some positive results and I’ll be interested to see what the study yields. They didnâ€™t just slap the CFS name on it. They changed the symptoms to suit the â€˜fatigueâ€™ criteria. The list of symptoms for CFS are vague & support fatigue syndrome. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis presents actual brain/spine inflammation and a myriad of organ dysfunction. Fatigue is the least of our concerns. It doesnâ€™t help that researchers are using a hybrid criteria Fukuda/CCC/IOM because of the 3 the Fukuda is the only criteria written for research. The other 2 are for clinical diagnosis only. In fact Dr Carruthers et elâ€™ requested that the ICC & ICPrimer be used for both diagnostic & research and to void the CCC. How many patients realize that an author of the PACE Trial Study is also an author of the CFS Fukuda Criteria that is constantly being used in research studies resulting in inconclusive results since 1994. Perhaps itâ€™s time to remove ME from under PVFS and placed in a classification that supports â€˜Encephalomyelitisâ€™. The symptoms included in CFS are not the same as the symptoms in ME. ME can be proven using SPECT Scans, Viral Testing, Tilt Test & 2 day CPET. With respect to patients in the DecodeME study needing to have a clinical diagnosis of ME, this is meaningless. UK doctors in both primary and secondary care have repeatedly tried to pin a ME diagnosis on me. I refused to accept the diagnosis each time because there was no evidence that it fitted my symptoms and they didn’t exclude other possible causes. However, I think a lot of people who don’t have a good background knowledge of ME would accept the diagnosis in order to get validation and support. Doctors repeatedly use ME or CFS as a waste-bin diagnosis for medically unexplained symptoms, so the UK and her husband could get through the first stage of the DecodeME screening process. Perhaps the researchers don’t realize how bad the situation in the UK is. ME is not an entity in its own right. It is misdiagnosed hypothyroidism. You just need to trial and error the amount your body needs. The TSH tests are only normal for healthy people in a 95% population area. 5% of people lie outside the TSH reference interval. Patients with ME/CFS/PVFS just need to rectify their hormone deficiencies which is what ME/CFS/PVFS really is. The Glaswegian Dr Gordon Skinner has said this all along. You can read the hundreds of PWME he brought back to life after giving them the correct dose of T4 and T3 that they needed and sometime B12. Good luck next time you see your MD or GP. Glaswegians are clever little people. https://www.tpauk.com/main/article/transcripts-of-the-gmc-hearings-relating-to-the-late-dr-gordon-skinner/ Maybe less comprehensive, but not paywalled, the proposed study also got a supportive write-up in the Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jun/23/uk-to-launch-genetic-study-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-cfs	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.6460313200950623, "wiki_prob": 0.6460313200950623, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line82500"}
Eritrea Ministry Of Information By shabait admin on June 17, 2021 Eighty six patients have been diagnosed positive for COVID-19 in tests carried out today at Quarantine Centers in Central, Southern, Northern Red Sea, and Gash Barka Regions. Out of these, fifty three patients are from Quarantine Centers in Asmara, Central Region. Twenty eight patients are from Quarantine Centers in Mendefera (11), Adi-Kaieh (7), Tsorona (6), Decamere (3), and Senafe (1); Southern Region. Three patients are from Quarantine Centers in Ghindae (2), and Nakfa (1); Northern Red Sea Region. The last two patients are from Quarantine Center in Goluj (2), Gash Barka Region. On the other hand, one hundred sixteen patients who have been receiving medical treatment in hospitals in the Central (82), and Southern (34) Regions have recovered fully and have been discharged from these facilities. Sadly, 76-year old and 74-year old patients in the Anseba Region have passed away due to the pandemic. The total number of recovered patients to-date has accordingly risen to 4,654 while the number of deaths has increased to 19, The total number of confirmed cases in the country to-date has also risen to 5,194. Victories of Eritrean cyclists at several competitions Eritrea participates at Cairo Book Fair Henok Mulubrhan wins third place Message of congratulations	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6614120006561279, "wiki_prob": 0.33858799934387207, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line291532"}
Updated List Of Royal Rumble Match Participants Including Braun Strowman By John Canton • Published 21st January 2023 There are more names that have been added to the WWE Royal Rumble matches for the men and women including former Universal Champion Braun Strowman. During last night’s January 20th edition of Smackdown, wrestlers like Braun Strowman, Raquel Rodriguez and Shayna Baszler did promos about how they are going win the Royal Rumble. Zelina was on commentary on Smackdown as she declared that she will be in the Women’s Royal Rumble match as well. While Strowman has never won the Royal Rumble that takes place in January, he did win the Greatest Royal Rumble match with 50 participants in 2018. This past Monday on Raw, Cody Rhodes confirmed his WWE in-ring return by announcing that he’ll be in the Royal Rumble match. Cody is one of the favorites to win. From the list that appears on WWE.com, here are the confirmed names in the Men’s and Women’s Royal Rumble matches. The following Superstars have declared for this year’s 30-Man Royal Rumble Match: Kofi Kingston Seth “Freakin” Rollins Austin Theory Omos Braun Strowman Baron Corbin Santos Escobar Brock Lesnar is not listed there, but WWE has advertised him for the Royal Rumble on the poster for the show, so it’s likely that he will be in it. Lesnar won the Men’s Royal Rumble in 2022 and 2003. Karrion Kross did a promo on Smackdown that made it seem like he’ll be in the Royal Rumble. However, his name is not on the WWE list above. The following Superstars have declared for this year’s 30-Woman Royal Rumble Match: Liv Morgan Rhea Ripley Candice LeRae Shayna Baszler Zelina Vega That’s only six names for 30 spots, so WWE will likely announce many more women over the next week. The 2023 Royal Rumble takes place at the Alamodome in San Antonio on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023, at 8pm ET/5pm PT, streaming live exclusively on Peacock in the United States and WWE Network everywhere else! Ronda Rousey Likely To Miss WWE Royal Rumble Potential Spoilers On WWE Stars Returning At The Royal Rumble More Matches Added To NJPW Battle In The Valley	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9982583522796631, "wiki_prob": 0.9982583522796631, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line273320"}
EFF Backs Libraries in Battle Over Book Digitization Authors Guild Suit Against Reference Uses Flies in the Face of Fair Use San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has joined several national library associations in urging a federal court to find that the fair use doctrine permitted the creation of a valuable digital library. Although the case was filed long after the more famous Google Books lawsuit, Authors Guild v. HathiTrust presents a similar issue: whether digitization of books without granting full text access to the public is a legal fair use of copyrighted material. For the past seven years, major university libraries have been collaborating with Google to digitize their collections, with one result being the creation of the HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL). Via the HDL, more than 60 university and research libraries can store, secure, and search their digital collections. With the exception of some patrons who have disabilities, HDL does not allow for users to access books in their entirety – it simply does a search for keywords and delivers titles and page numbers as results. Nonetheless, the Authors Guild claims its members are due compensation in exchange for being included in the collection. In an amicus brief filed Friday, EFF and the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries, and the Association of Research Libraries argue that the copying of books for a database like the HDL is a clear case of fair use, and obviously in the public interest. "The HDL doesn't give most users whole copies of a book. Instead, libraries use the HDL to search for books titles that they should borrow or purchase for their users," said EFF Intellectual Property Director Corynne McSherry. "This is a highly detailed map – a reference tool – and doesn't take the place of book sales. 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Home page Jews in the Civil War Jews in the Wild West History of Palestine The Occident Virtual Library FUNERAL ADDRESS BY RABBI ISAAC M. WISE Delivered at Lodge Street Temple, Cincinnati, O., April 19, 1865. “And the Lord said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country; and out of thy birth-place, and from thy father’s house, unto the land that I will show thee. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing. And I will bless those that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse; and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken to him.” ABRAHAM LINCOLN departed, as the Lord had spoken to him. Abraham Lincoln, whose biography is too well known to be repeated here, the President of the United States, from March 4, 1861, to the day of his assassination, April 14, 1865; the generous, genial and honest man, who stood at the head of our people in this unprecedented struggle for national existence and popular liberty; whose words and deeds speak alike and aloud of his unsophisticated mind, purity of heart, honesty of purpose, confidence in the great cause, and implicit faith in the justice of Providence, which inspired him to consistency, courage and self-denial; this Abraham Lincoln, who endeared himself to so many millions of hearts, and gained the admiration of other millions of people, both at home and abroad; whom the myriads of freedmen consider their savior, and tens of thousands esteem as high as George Washington, and feel as sincerely and affectionately attached to as Israel to her David, Rome to her Augustus, and France to her Napoleon I; this Abraham Lincoln, whose greatness was in his goodness, and whose might was in his unshaken faith, was assassinated. Blush, humanity!—he was assassinated. This is the lamentable fact which today bends so many stout hearts with sorrow and grief—speaks by the tears of countless myriads, and the dark clouds of mourning which envelop the great Republic. Hark! listen to the voice of grievous lamentation, of woeful complaint, filling the very air of this vast country. “The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground; they are silent; they have thrown dust upon their heads; they have girt themselves with sackcloth, the virgins of Jerusalem have brought down low their head to the ground. My eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are heated, my liver is poured upon the earth, because of the breach of the daughter of my people. How shall I cheer thee, to whom compare thee, O daughter of Jerusalem?—to what shall I liken thee, to console thee, O virgin daughter of Zion?—for great like the sea is thy breach, who can heal thee?” Hark, listen to the doleful voice of woe, echoing from thousands of hearts: “Fallen is the crown of our head; woe to us, for we have sinned; therefore our heart is woe-stricken; therefore are our eyes dimmed.” This is the lamentable cause of our meeting today before God, to weep with the nation, to mourn with our country, to show the last honors to Abraham Lincoln. Why? Wherefore must it be so? you ask. Silence, mortals! Upon your knees, sons of the dust! “And the Lord said unto Abram, get thee out of thy country, out of thy birthplace, and from thy father’s house, unto the land that I will show thee. So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him.” Who of the finite and perishable creatures will unravel the mysterious ways of infinite and everlasting Providence? The drop comprehends not the seas, the mote understands not the sun; man, whose life is like a passing shadow, can not penetrate the counsels of the eternal and all-wise God. Worship with humiliation, look down with awe at the throne of glory, and proclaim anew the sacred words: “The Lord hath given, the Lord hath taken away, the name of the Lord be blessed.” We can only look in and about ourselves to find the proper answer to the question: How can we honor best the memory of Abraham Lincoln? Repent your sins. “Return, Israel, to the Lord thy God, for thou hast stumbled in thine iniquity,” this deplorable event cries, with a loud voice. God has punished us grievously. His mighty hand inflicted a deep and burning wound upon the heart of the nation, and He is just. “The Rock, his work is perfect, for all His ways are just. The God of truth and without iniquity, just and upright is He.” The Lord has revealed His powerful arm to remind us of our iniquity, and move us to repentance. Behold the man at whose command the mightiest armies of this world moved, and whose name is associated with the dearest affections of so many millions of men; the man upon whom the whole civilized world looked, and whom, to protect and shield, a great nation was ready, was destroyed by one mad villain. Must not this rouse us from our sinful lethargy to a consciousness of our weakness? All the power, wisdom, goodness and affection of man can not protect us when the Lord decrees to call us hence. Must not this rouse us from our sinful lethargy to a consciousness of our guilt? Abraham Lincoln was a good man; the millions testify, and history, with her impartial pencil will record it. Not in his sins, in ours, he died; “for before wickedness, the righteous is taken away.” He is the sin-offering for our iniquities. His death cries aloud, “Repent, repent your sins.” Verily, we need not inquire deeply to find our sins, when we know that an assassin was born and raised in our midst; the assassin of Abraham Lincoln brooded over his diabolic schemes in the very capital of our country. Where shall we begin to speak of the enormity of our sins? Must we speak first of the precepts of revenge which poison so many hearts and pervert so many minds to consider murder and assassination a matter of honor—assassination for offensive words—murder in duels? Or must we mention first the barbarous habit of bearing concealed arms to hide cowardice under the garb of crime? Or must we speak of the mercenary passions, which know of no intrinsic value of either persons or duties, honor or pride, art or science; which weigh or measure all persons and things alike by the standard of the market? Or must we mention the frigid hypocrisy which seeks refuge on the cushioned pews of fashionable churches; the haughtiness of little creatures embellished in costly garments and beglittered with gems, or such other dust; the scorn to which religion is subjected, the smile of pity cast on old-fashioned virtue, or the numerous and costly means to silence the crying conscience? There is no necessity for mentioning either of them, which are the mere fountains of our national sins, when we may look at once upon the broad and mad streams, with their impetuous billows and thousand whirlpools. Remember the frauds which were committed on the nation when hundred thousands of her noblest sons rushed to arms and offered their lives in vindication of her holy cause. Remember the legion of traitors and spies who surrounded our armies and penetrated into the most secret recesses of our Government. Or if that is too vast, too much to be remembered at once, then remember, simply, that our very President, the chosen banner-bearer of our people, the Messiah of this country, was slain by the assassin’s hand in the midst of his people; and we must cry with Cain, “Mine iniquity is greater than I can bear.” Repentance is the great lesson which this deplorable event should teach us. Away with your idols of silver and your idols of gold; away with haughtiness, selfishness, delusion, deception and barbarism; prostrate yourselves with humble spirits and contrite hearts before God; confess and repent your sins; be healed of your diseases, distill the Balm of Gilead in the wounds of your conscience; cry for mercy and forgiveness to your God, then rise better men, better citizens, true children of the living God—and you have honored the memory of him who died in our national sins; you have erected a durable and grand monument to that martyr of liberty whose untimely departure we lament. Let him live in your virtues, resurrect in your patriotism; let him glow and shine in your aspirations, for the benefit of humanity, and the triumph of justice and liberty, of light over night, and right over might; and Abraham Lincoln lives as he wished to live—the benefactor of his people; and Abraham Lincoln departed as the Lord had spoken unto him that God might fulfill his divine promise: “And I will make of thee a great nation.” So let us do honor to the memory of the departed martyr of liberty. Honor brethren, honor the deceased President of the United States, by securing to him a perpetual reign, and a dominion everlasting. How? The dead should reign, the deceased one have dominion everlasting? Yes, even so shall you do. The photographer or lithographer, the painter or sculptor, can not eternize a man; he can not give you more of him than a faint delineation of the outside, shape and features, the most unimportant portion, the mere case of a person. Monuments, however lofty and extensive, crowded with inscriptions and symbols, tell very little, after all, of the man himself, to whose honor they may be erected. The passions, feelings, struggles, victories, motives and thoughts of a great mind, and each of them is a real fraction of his existence, are so innumerably manifold and change so often, that no artist can represent a considerable portion of them. This is the case especially with the deceased, Abraham Lincoln. The best representation of his figure will not tell posterity who he was. His outside appearance bore no resemblance even to his real nature. The most skillful philosopher will fail in describing the man who stood at the head of affairs during this gigantic struggle, his cares and troubles, his sleepless nights and days of anxiety, his thoughts and his schemes, his triumphs and mortifications, his hopes and fears, and ten thousand more sentiments, feelings and thoughts, which moved his mind in the stormy period of his Presidential term. He will be obliged to satisfy himself with the focus in which all these rays of the mind centers, with the actions of the deceased. Let these actions be our political creed, and Lincoln reigns perpetually; his is the “covenant of an everlasting priesthood,” he is immortal in his people. “I will restore the Union,” he promised us, and twice he took the solemn oath to protect and enforce the Constitution of the United States. Let these two points be forever the beginning and end of our political creed. He gave liberty to an oppressed race, “And ye shall proclaim freedom to all the inhabitants of the land.” Let us adhere to this great principle. All shall be free, all equal before the law. He was kind, charitable, and lenient towards the enemies of his country, longed and hoped for peace.—Let also these be cardinal points of our creed. Let us not be led astray by blind passions, hatred, a spirit of revenge; let us act entirely and conscientiously in the very spirit of the departed man, and we honor him. He reigns in death, and holds his dominion as though he were living still. Let us carry into effect and perpetuate the great desires which heaved the breast of Abraham Lincoln; let us be one people, one, free, just and enlightened; let us be the chosen people to perpetuate and promulgate liberty and righteousness, the union and freedom of the human family; let us break asunder, wherever we can, the chains of the bondsman, the fetters of the slave, the iron rod of despotism, the oppressive yoke of tyranny; let us banish strife, discord, hatred, injustice, oppression from the domain of man, as far as our hands do reach, and we secure to Abraham Lincoln a perpetual reign and dominion everlasting; we set him the most durable monument in the hearts of the human family; then he is not dead, not removed even, from our midst, and will live forever. If his person was called from our midst, that we be guarded against the follies of apotheosis, which numerous admirers already approximated, to teach us again the great lesson, “Trust not in the noblest ones, in the son of man with whom there is no salvation,” or as the prophet Isaiah expressed it, “Withdraw yourself from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; because, for what is he to be esteemed?” If God permitted it that we learn the great lesson of the firmness and fitness of our Government, which is the people’s Government, depending on no man or party; or to wake us to a sense of duty to our Government, to unite and fraternize us more in mourning and the common sympathy with the deceased President and his mourning family, the abused and ill-treated Secretary of State and his sons; if God has permitted the sudden removal of THE PERSON of Abraham Lincoln from our midst, for any or all of these reasons, or for reasons unknown to us, (but just and wise they certainly must be); his personality, his essence and substance, his mind, his soul, his principles, may forever remain with us and be our guiding stars. So we may secure to him a perpetual reign, and a dominion everlasting; for the ideas of union, justice, liberty, peace, kindness, charity, forbearance and goodness are everlasting, like God himself. Murmur not against the justice and wisdom of Providence. God is just. Abraham Lincoln fought the battles for great ideas, and his enemies, of necessity, must be numerous and violent. He was a man, and where is the mortal one without his measure of faults and infirmities; with a great man, in a great period of time, they only become, with his virtues, more conspicuous. Every man has his mission, his destiny on earth; with men of eminent positions it only becomes more conspicuous. Whenever our mission is fulfilled God calls us hence. Abraham Lincoln fulfilled a great mission; he led the country through this glorious struggle to glorious victory, and bequeathed to us the ideas which, when fully developed and realized, not only will bring upon us the great blessing, “And I will make of thee a great nation,” but will also fulfill that sacred and most glorious promise, “And in thee all families of the earth shall be blessed.” All families of the earth shall be blessed by freedom, as the chain of the negro was broken; by union, peace, justice, equality, charity and kindness. So Abraham Lincoln shall reign perpetually and have an everlasting dominion. Therefore, “Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken to him.” Brethren, the lamented Abraham Lincoln believed himself to be bone from our bone and flesh from our flesh. He supposed himself to be a descendant of Hebrew parentage. He said so in my presence. And, indeed, he preserved numerous features of the Hebrew race, both in countenance and character. He was a man of many noble virtues, which may be our heritage; and God may forgive him his sins, and accept his soul in grace among the righteous men of all nations, and the martyrs of every sacred cause. May the Lord send consolation to his bereft widow and children, and heal the burning wound of this country which his departure afflicted on her. Brethren, let us read the funeral service for the soul of departed Abraham Lincoln. O, God and father! with bleeding hearts we submit to Thy paternal decrees, and acknowledge the justice and wisdom of Thy providence, although our eyes are too dim to penetrate the designs of Thy paternal goodness. Thou art God, and we are dust and ashes. Thou art the Great Cause of all causes, the Eternal Reality, the Infinite Substance, and we are small and perishable effects, whose life lasts but a few hours, and whose wisdom is too insignificant to be brought in account before Thee. Thou art the Father—the benign, merciful and gracious Father—and we are Thy children, Thine image; we submit with childlike confidence and faith, to the decrees of Thy holy will. O, God! turn Thy correcting hand from us, consume us not in our sinfulness; let us behold days of joy and happiness, as we have seen time of calamity, affliction and distress. Behold, O Lord! this bleeding, mourning, weeping land; heal us, for we are wounded; sustain us with Thy heavenly manna, for we are sick and woe-stricken. Guard us, that we may see war and rebellion no more; let us behold Thy blessing of peace. Protect us and preserve our Union, our Government, our freedom, to the blessing of all Thy children. Shield the administrators of our Government, inspire them with Thy wisdom, justice and goodness, that Thy will be done on earth. We beseech Thee, O Lord, to heal the wounds of Thy servant, William H. Seward, and bless him with many years of prosperity and happiness. We entreat thee, O Father, to console the widow and children of Thy deceased servant, Abraham Lincoln. Thou art the Father of orphans and the Protector of widows; with mercy Thou regardest the helpless and feeble ones. We pray Thee, O Lord, to vouchsafe Thy blessing to this city, this country, and to all lands where Thy children abide. Grant peace, justice, freedom and truth to all the sons of man. Blessed Father, bless this congregation; fulfill upon us Thy sacred promise: “For if the mountains move and the hills totter, My grace shall not be moved from thee, and the covenant of My peace shall not change, with Thy merciful God.” Amen. From Abraham Lincoln: The Tribute of the Synagogue; edited by Emanuel Hertz; Bloch Publishing, New York, 1927, page 92.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7137467265129089, "wiki_prob": 0.28625327348709106, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1881292"}
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THE MATERIAL ON THIS SITE IS COPYRIGHTED All material by InsightAnalytical and all contributors and guest posters are protected by U.S. Copyright Law. http://www.copyright.gov/title17/ Past Contributors: Grail Guardian and American Lassie; Chicago Correspondent – Leslie Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.–Socrates China, the Treasury, and Real Estate (As in the New World Trade Center); Cross-Pollination:The New America Foundation/Council of Foreign Relations Posted on March 30, 2009 by insightanalytical Editor’s Note: Last week’s post, Russia-China Proposals; “Rebalancing” Global Currency Reserves: Why the U.S. Can’t Take Anything for Granted Re: the Dollar, inspired American Lassie to develop a few observations/opinions: ~~By American Lassie China won’t be buying any more Treasury Bonds, for a while at least, because the yield is too low. Not enough bang for the buck. The Federal Reserve has been buying Treasury Bonds like a drunken sailor for a reason. To keep the yield low. They don’t want China to buy any more bonds, IMO. China has too great a strangle hold on America as it is. Bernanke and Geithner don’t want the people of America to buy bonds right now, another reason for keeping the yield low. It is my opinion, and many people will differ with me on this, that Geithner and Bernanke want Americans to invest in stocks to help bolster Wall Street and the banks, and to buy, buy, buy durable goods to help move the economy along. The plan being that if the banks are strengthened and do what they have been given all this bail-out money to do, they will lend more freely to make it possible for the people to buy these durable goods– cars, washing machines, refrigerators, household furniture, etc. If they free up the money needed by business to continue producing these goods, there might be a slim chance that this thing could turn around. But if the banks continue to put the bail-out money where they have been putting it, it will be the same old same old. It stands to reason that Americans won’t buy Treasury Bonds with such a low yield, especially when they have so little faith in their government. China may not be in the market for any more Treasury Bonds because of the low yield, or the fear that the large investment they already have in the notes is losing their vallue. But this hasn’t prevented their continued buying and leasing of U.S. real estate. The Vantone Industrial Co., Ltd, a Chinese real estate group has just become the first commercial tenant of the still under construction skyscraper to replace the Twin Towers destroyed on 9/11. They have taken a 20-year lease on the top floors of the 70 floor building to begin when the building is completed. It is projected to be completed in 2013. The floors 64 through 69 will be known as the China Center. Wonder what the 70th floor penthouse will be used for? Any guesses? Vantone Industrial provided the Port Authority with a $10 million dollar letter of credit. What goes on here? No more Treasury notes, but a real estate coompany establishing itself in the new trade center. This is indeed food for thought. Know thine enemy. Our intelligence people had better be on hand constantly while that 70th floor is under construction, and after, IMO. Our government notes aren’t so valuable right now, but the soil of the United States is still coveted by many. What better way to keep your ears peeled than to set up shop on the top floors of the tallest building in the city. http://www.costar.com/News/Article.aspx?…&ref=1&src=rss Regarding the 1st Bernard Schwartz Economic Policy Symposium sponsored by the New America Foundation (See this post for more details: A Reminder: Live Streaming of the First “Bernard L. Schwartz Economic Policy Symposium” Today (3/26) With a Rather Interesting Group & Agenda [To End “Fumbling” on Economic Policy]): It’s important to note: “The Honorable Laura Tyson holds the Chair in Global Management and Public Policy, at the Haass School of Business at the U of C at Berkley.” (Haas being Richard Haass, the President of The Council on Foreign Relations [CFR].) I will point you to an article, (that I was saving with other research for a possible post), that I think you will want to read. It’s a short article but it is very informative. http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/globalism/2008/trends.htm Let’s take a closer look at THE NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION… On the matter of the “New America Foundation,” don’t get your hopes up people because this is nothing new. It’s like the message we used to get continuously during the commercials in the old time soap operas. “Duz does everything”- “New and Improved” – “Better than Ever”, the blurbs go on and on, but we still got the same old soap only in a different box. The primary drivers in this group are the same re-cycled Democrats who brought you Hopey Changey politics this past election cycle. LAURA TYSON, the Chair of Global Management and Public Policy, Haass School of Business, Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley, has an impressive resume and there is no doubt that she is an extremely intelligent economist who need not take a back seat to anyone in her field. She was top economic advisor to former President Bill Clinton. She was head of the National Economic Council and Chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors. In fact, her skill and expertise, in my opinion, played a major part in the financial surplus that Bill Clinton left to the American people when he left office. I admire Laura Tyson greatly as an economist, but the fact that she is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) as are the people with whom she associates, disturbs me more than a little. Her association with Richard Haas, President of the CFR bothers me a lot. The following was written on April 2, 1997 by Fernando Quintero, a reporter for the Rocky Mountain News in Colorado. Mr. Quintero spent a number of years working in higher education. He was a writer and editor for the University of California at Berkeley Office of Public Affairs. “Over the past four years nearly a quarter of the University’s (U of Calif. at Berkeley) economics faculty at the Business School and the College of Letters and Sciences has taken leave to go to Washington. No other university outside the Ivy League has provided the White House with so much economic brain power.” -snip- The fact is, a Berkeley Mafia does exist and Tyson is the Godmother.” http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/1997/0402/tyson.html BERNARD SCHWARTZ, along with Tyson, is also a member of The Council on Foreign Relations. He is chairman and CEO of BLS Investments, LLC. His concern over our deteriorating infrastructure is legitimate. This has been his baby for a long time, but as in the case of Tyson his connections are to be questioned. Mr Schwartz is a very benevolent donor to the Democratic Party. GEORGE SOROS is another member of the “New America Foundation”. Mr Soros is a leading figure in the CFR and close with Henry Kissinger (who once made the statement that Jimmy Carter isn’t the President of the United States, the Trilateralist Commission is, and I am the Trilateralist Commission). Soros is also a confidante of Zbigniew Brzezinski and George Soros is also a partner in the Carlyle Group. He is truly a busy and involved individual. “The Carlyle Group specializes in seizing control of aerospace and defense contractors and then strong-arming contracts out of the Department of Defense.” “Shortly after September 11, George Soros developed a strategy how to manipulate messages within the media.”… http://911review.org/Sept11Wiki/CarlyleGroup.shtml http://911review.org/Sept11Wiki/Soros,George.shtml It is my personal opinion that George Soros is a very evil man, and anything he touches smells of fire and brimstone. This nefarious creature has caused untold damage not only to the United States of America, but to other countries. He is evil personified and he does not wish well for our country and any group that he is connected with, in my opinion, is just as dirty as he is. I love my country very much, my ancestors fought and died for this country, and to see this foreign-born billionaire, who was able to come to this country and make a fabulous fortune and then turn around and try to ruin us, makes my blood boil. He is one of the main players in the quest to level this country to third world status enabling himself and his cohorts to pronounce a New World Order. He recently said something to the effect that this crisis has satisfied his life’s ambition. What kind of devil makes it his life’s ambition to see people out of work, losing their homes, going hungry etc.? Old Beelzebub must be down there dancing a jig. “COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, a U.S. think tank. Some CFR critics say the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement were all arranged and approved by the CFR and the insiders. And that each one has played on a kind of reverse psychology: The more societal unrest there is , the more people will turn (sic) its govenment for control, eventually becoming so desperate for order that they grant their government more and more power over every citizen’s private life.” “Some of their directors hold important positions in many other worldwide connected companies or government related institutions: John Deutch, Richard Holbrooke, Theodore Sorenson, George Soros, or David Rockefeller.” http://911review.org/Sept11Wiki/Cfr.shtml So you can readily see why I think the New America Foundation is nothing more than the CFR. New and improved? Not at all. This is the same old bunch with the same old ambitions. Just using a new package to try to fool us old dumb citizens who they think will swallow anything. Not anymore, Buster. The cataracts are off our eyes and the wax is out of our ears and we have a steel rod up our spines and we say to you – fool me once, shame on you – fool me twice, shame on me. No sale, Mr. Soros and Ms. Tyson. Money is so tight right now that I’m mighty particular what I spend it on and your lying, treacherous words don’t fit into my budget. Take your global philosophy and eat it– I’m not buying and I’ll bet no other thinking and reading American will either. 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Foreign Missions MagazineThe Foreign Mission Trust Magazine is the platform for all Society missions to present the work they do in their part of the world. PublicationsWritten publications of the SSPX can keep you up to date with what is happening in the Society Catholic Guidelines for Dating Source: District of the USA When is company-keeping lawful and prudent? This may seem like a ridiculous question in our current society, but it is still a serious one. Originally published in the May, 1989 issue of The Angelus, by Fr. Jean Violette (from "Communicantes") Advice for young adults Are there circumstances when it is not allowed to date or "go steady" with someone? There are certain rules regarding this because there exist certain dangers in company-keeping; dangers with regards to purity or chastity which, because of the weakness of our human nature due to original sin, we must guard ourselves against. We will try in this little exposé to give some rules regarding dating and also some advice on how to avoid the occasions of sin. By company-keeping we mean steady, concentrated, exclusive association between two people of different sexes. Thus, for a young man to take a girl out once or twice a week over a long period of time, it is clear that he is concentrating on her and that she accepts the fact. They are keeping company whether they admit to it or not. Before setting down any moral principle, two things must be considered: The first is that steady dating or company-keeping has for its purpose marriage. This does not mean that two persons who date will necessarily get married. Even if the period of dating does not end with a marriage because of the discovery that a marriage between the two is out of the question, still, the purpose of testing, of finding out was still kept. And so the idea of possible marriage can never be excluded from steady company-keeping, because it is done to find out if marriage is possible. The second thing to remember is that because of our human nature there are many dangers involved in steady company-keeping. God has placed in both men and women an inclination to marriage in view of procreation. This inclination is there to help them in the right and favorable circumstances to enter into marriage where their inclination can be virtuously satisfied, i.e., in accordance with God's plan for the propagation of the human race. But it is clear that our inclination cannot recognize God's plan. This is where the dangers arise, in as much as their inclination to company-keeping or steady dating may induce them to do things which their reason and faith tell them are lawful only in marriage. This is what is called the occasion of sin. This danger or occasion may be legitimately allowed as long as it is rendered less by spiritual and practical means, and only as long as the principal purpose of company-keeping is kept in mind, i.e., finding out if a marriage is possible and as long as a marriage is lawful and reasonable. When marriage is unlawful, impossible, or out of the question entirely, there is no moral justification for steady company-keeping because there is no reason justifying exposing oneself to the intrinsic dangers of such a relationship. From these two principles we can conclude Lawfulness of steady company-keeping: only when a valid marriage is possible to both persons involved. Therefore all validly married persons whether they are living with their spouse or not (so long as the other spouse is still living) are forbidden by the natural law from steady company-keeping with anyone else than their spouse in marriage. There are many examples of serious violations of this natural law. The married employer who regularly takes a certain woman, let's say his secretary, for social evenings, has long meetings with her, lets her know how much he thinks of her and "needs" her, is keeping company contrary to God's law. The married man who, because of business, travels often out of town and who has a "girl friend" in one of the cities where he often goes. The married doctor or lawyer who uses his services to a certain client to regularly take her out to dinner or a show and above all spends regular hours alone in her company for the sake of her friendship is only deceiving himself and doing serious wrong. The married woman who allows a male friend to call on her regularly when she is at home, lets him spend hours with her, welcomes his attentions and displays of affection, is guilty of infidelity even before any adulterous action takes place. Because it is forbidden for married persons to keep company with anyone, it is equally forbidden and gravely sinful for single persons to enter into company-keeping with a married person. Steady company-keeping is unlawful for divorced but validly married Christians. The reason is the same as the one given above, i.e., the fact that validly married persons are bound to their partners for life even if they have obtained a divorce. Divorce does not undo a valid marriage, only death can dissolve a valid marriage. Divorced or separated persons who have doubts about the validity of their first marriage may not enter upon steady company-keeping — until they have set about finding out from the proper authorities whether their first marriage was valid or invalid; and until they have some authority (outside of themselves) for the opinion that their first marriage may be declared invalid. And until their marriage has been declared invalid by the proper Church authority, they must consider themselves married, since according to Church law the presumption is always in favor of the validity of the marriage. There is a principle in moral law that states that one cannot act in a state of doubt as to whether one's action is lawful or unlawful. To do so would be to accept responsibility for the possible evil involved. If however the first marriage is certainly invalid, as the case of a Catholic whose first marriage was before a judge instead of a priest, then company-keeping is lawful. He must however exercise patience before he can get married and wait for the declaration of nullity. Steady company-keeping is lawful only when marriage is considered an acceptable prospect within a reasonable time. This principle is based on the dangers connected with steady dating. If marriage is out of the question for years or already decided finally against in regard to a certain boy or girlfriend, there is no sufficiently good reason to remain in danger. Therefore the courtship or dating must come to an end. There are two special kinds of cases to which this principle applies: First it applies to school children, either in the grades or early high school years. Children and adolescents who would not and could not entertain the idea of getting married for several years, and who do not yet know too much about their own passions and inclinations place themselves in a very strong and dangerous occasion of sin by steady dating. Parents and educators have the obligation of training and watching over their children and helping them understand this principle early in life and put it into practice. Parents who encourage their young children to steady dating or who look upon it as puppy love, or who think it is cute, place their children in a serious occasion of sin and will have to carry that responsibility before God on the day of judgment. It is false to argue that if children are to contract a happy marriage they must start dating when they are young. School authorities have the same obligation of using their influence to prevent such activities. They would sin gravely if they promoted it. Secondly, this principle applies to mature persons who have kept steady company with someone for a considerable period of time, but have made the decision never to marry the one with whom they are going steady. Whatever the reason for this decision the company-keeping should stop when marriage has become absolutely out of the question. It is not lawful to continue dating someone when marriage is out of the question just for the sake of having a regular partner for dates and parties. This is certainly an occasion of sin and therefore certainly sinful. Those who are ready but external circumstances exist What about those who want to get married; for example a couple who are engaged, and yet they must wait for a long time before being able to marry? For example one of them has the obligation to take care of dependent and sickly parents who have no one else to take care of them. Or the young man will be without income because he has two or three more years of medical schooling and training or some other profession or trade. In such a case it is lawful to keep steady company on condition that both cooperate in the use of extraordinary means to remain free from sin while waiting for many years. They should receive the sacraments often, and they must avoid circumstances and intimacies that they know would tempt them gravely to sin. It is useless to pray to God to remove the obstacle to the marriage while living in sin. Remember God will not be mocked. Sometimes also the couple will put off the marriage for foolish reasons. The man wants to make a fortune before the marriage, or the woman wants to have her career before having children, or both agree to wait until they can afford the best house and all the conveniences. These are worldly and foolish reasons doubly malicious in God's eyes and are certainly not a good excuse to prolong the dangers of company-keeping. Though these are the guidlines and clear traditional rules of the Catholic Church, many situations require discernment based on particular details unique to the parties involved. In these cases, faithful are encouraged to not take these guidelines and "force" them to fit their situation, but to set a meeting with their local priest who can provide clear guidance according to their situation. The Unchanging Magisterium on Marriage We support the Catholic family! Video shows Angelus Press Conference on family Audio: Courtship and Preparation for Marriage Download the talk given by Fr. Patrick Rutledge at the 2015 Angelus Press Conference: Courtship & Preparation for Marriage Archbishop Lefebvre Never Celebrated the New Mass From the Archives: On the Withdrawal of the 1988 Excommunications Reflections on the Life of Pope Benedict XVI From the Archives: Thoughts on Benedict XVI’s Resignation Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Has Died Diaconal and Priestly Ordinations in La Reja – 2022 Copyright 2022 SSPX Society of Saint Pius X Block cookies Allow cookies	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.604872465133667, "wiki_prob": 0.395127534866333, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line445905"}
Police dog shot five times in dangerous stand off, survives thanks to a stranger’s donation Home » Police dog shot five times in dangerous stand off, survives thanks to a stranger’s donation The Animal Club Police dogs put themselves on the line every day to serve and protect. Watching a police dog in action, putting himself in harm’s way shows the true spirit of our four-legged friends who are faithful to the end. Nobody knows this better than Erik Johnson who has been with his K-9 officer Gabo for 7 years. The tragic events on a December afternoon in Arkansas were made even more distressing by the fact Erik knew his beloved dog was about to enter a dangerous situation. Erik told Gabo, “I’m sorry for what is about to happen.” Inside Edition/YouTube It was in Jonesboro in 2018 that Erik was training his 8-year-old German Shepherd when he heard reports of a shooting incident. A 56-year-old woman had shot a 41-year-old man who had entered her home to check on her well-being. She then fired shots at officers attending the scene. Erik knew he had to attend with Gabo and knew the worrying risk he was about to take with his loyal K-9 officer. The dangerous stand-off between the woman and police officers went on for five hours before Gabo arrived to help end it all. 🎂🎉🎉HAPPY BIRTHDAY🎉🎉🎂 Gabo! Jonesboro Police Department, AR, hero K9 Gabo celebrating his birthday today.Photo courtesy of Nelson Chenault Gepostet von Vested Interest in K9s, Inc. am Montag, 1. Juli 2019 But in doing so Gabo was shot five times by the suspect who then started firing at officers. Erik Johnson was overcome with grief and at the veterinary clinic lay by his beloved K-9 for hours as prepared himself for the worst. But Gabo miraculously survived the shooting and went on to receive the K9 Medal of Valor — all thanks to a bullet-proof vest provided by non-profit Vested Interest in K-9s. Watch what happens with Erik and Gabo finally meet the organization’s founder Sandy Marcel to thank her in person for helping to save Gabo’s life. Gabo is a true hero and deserves his medal! Please share to pay tribute to Gabo and all the other K-9s who risk their lives to keep us and the officers around them safe. Dog finally finds a home after 477 days in shelter Dog found 'cemented' to sidewalk now on the road to recovery after rescue Dog reunites with family after being missing for more than five years Beloved campus support K9 gets his own photo in the school yearbook Shelter's 'oldest doggy duo' with a combined age of 34 finally find a home together Fact Checking and Ethics	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.6178119778633118, "wiki_prob": 0.6178119778633118, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1817334"}
Owaisi’s Rise Is A Poser To BJP: Will It Repeat Pre-Partition Follies Of Nehru And Gandhi? by R Jagannathan - Dec 1, 2020 11:05 AM +05:30 IST All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi. If the BJP is to avoid the Congress’ fate, it must reassert its Hindu identity so that it can deliver justice to all. A party that represents no one, will deliver justice to none. Both Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi failed to realise this. Will the BJP repeat their mistakes? The arrival of the All-India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) as a Muslim political party to reckon with on a national scale has been welcomed by some liberals. Last week, Swaminathan Aiyar welcomed the party’s victory in some seats in Bihar with cautious optimism. He wrote in The Times of India that though Muslim parties have existed in parts of India (Kerala, Assam, Hyderabad), there was no all-India party to represent Muslims of India who constitute just under 15 per cent of the population. Aiyar is only emphasising something I have been talking about for nearly a decade. (read here, here). In principle, no democracy can deny the right of each community to represent itself through leaders who can articulate its interests and concerns fearlessly. The problem is that we are willing to accept that Muslims, Christians or various castes have a right to their own party, but this right must be denied to Hindus and Hindus alone. Anything Hindus do to unite and fight for their rights is opposed as communal, while the rest are automatically given a free pass to the secular club. This is evident from Aiyar’s claim that an all-India Muslim party is needed because of the rise of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He writes: “Under Vajpayee, the BJP was still a centrist party. Under Modi, the Hindutva fringe has become mainstream. Lynchings and other attacks on Muslims have made that community very apprehensive. Social media is chock full of trolls painting all Muslims as anti-national traitors.” Even ignoring the usual nonsense about lynchings being something that happens only to Muslims – he seems not to have heard of Kamlesh Tiwari, Ramalingam, the Palghar sadhus, or the murder of several Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) members in several parts of the country – Aiyar has got his cause and effect all wrong. It is not the rise of the BJP that provides the justification for a Muslim party, but rather the BJP has risen because all other “secular” parties adopted minority vote-bank politics and sold Hindu interests down the drain. Historically, too, Hindus began asserting themselves only in reaction to Muslims seeking separation for themselves. Long before Veer Savarkar gave us the idea of political Hindutva, Syed Ahmed Khan said that Hindus and Muslims were separate nations. A Muslim University preceded the setting up of a Hindu university, the Muslim League was established well before the Hindu Mahasabha or the RSS, and so on. Hindus have always been in reaction mode. The Jana Sangh and, later, the Bharatiya Janata Party, were seen as Hindu parties only because the so-called “secular” parties ostracised Hindu aspirations and identity as somehow unacceptable, while the same logic did not apply to other religion or caste-based parties. It was this hypocrisy that forced Hindus to accept the BJP as their only hope. So, Aiyar is wrong to imply that a Muslim party has a right to exist because the Hindus already have one in BJP. This is a moment of truth for the BJP, which is actually morphing into another type of Congress as it existed in the pre-Indira Gandhi period. It is trying to be more “secular” than the secularists, complete with special emphasis on special scholarships for minorities. If there is any lesson to be learnt from the rapid collapse of the Congress party, it is this: Muslims may ultimately never trust a “secular” party. Despite the fact that both Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi went out of their way to woo Muslims, from backing the ill-fated Khilafat movement to accepting separate electorates and Partition, Muslims backed Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the Muslim League. The 1946 elections, which were seen as a referendum on Pakistan, went completely in favour of Jinnah. Congress-backed mullahs and Deobandis lost to Jinnah and his appeals for Muslim separatism. The mistake the Congress made then was to presume that Muslims will back secularism, when Islam has no place for secularism at all. Muslim support for secularism is opportunistic, and where they talk about it, as Asaduddin Owaisi of AIMIM does often, it is little more than an effort to build a separate Muslim party that stands in contrast to other “Hindu” parties. Secularism is short-term strategy until full Muslim power is realised through demographic change and occasional intimidatory tactics. The lesson for the BJP is simple: don’t fail like the Congress by abandoning your core Hindu constituency for “secularism”, which is neither fish nor fowl. Nobody, except Hindus, believes in it, and hence it is worthless in the Indian context. If Muslims and Christians want to convince us otherwise, they can start by explicitly abandoning the idea of converting the whole of India to their faiths. Otherwise, secularism is just a ruse to eviscerate Hindus by demanding special privileges for themselves while denying the same to Hindus. The BJP can win a few elections by virtue of a silent Hindu vote, a vote which all other parties have so far abandoned. But the space for a truly Hindu party remains vacant, and is only partially filled by the BJP. It has to take the whole space or face splinter movements that will seek to fight for Hindu interests more openly. A true Hindu party has to do the following. One, it must seek to unite castes and fight narrow sectarian tendencies within the Hindu fold. Two, it must build Hindu economic strength and identity, especially by freeing temples and making them centres for community advancement and spiritual regeneration. Efforts to empower rival religions by legitimising “halal” certifications or Islamic banking must be stoutly opposed. Three, it must start changing the educational curricula so that Hindus know about their 5,000-year heritage without being made to feel apologetic about it. Leaving only Hindus deracinated while allowing rival religions to build their identities unhindered is a recipe for Hindu suicide or genocide. Four, it must educate Hindus about the realities they face against converting faiths, whether through marriage or outside it. Hinduism needs to become a proselytising religion in order to defend itself against its rivals. Women must be empowered to carry the Hindu identity forward in their own way. The key to rejuvenation lies with women, and not just men priests. It is only the rise of a Hindu party that can deliver justice to Hindus – and the minorities. Equal rights can only be negotiated from a position of strength. Any party that is secular and minoritarian is anti-Hindu by definition. It cannot deliver justice to the minorities, for it will not have the self-confidence to do so. If the BJP is to avoid the Congress’ fate, it must reassert its Hindu identity so that it can deliver justice to all. A party that represents no one, will deliver justice to none. Both Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi failed to realise this. Will the BJP repeat their mistakes? Jagannathan is Editorial Director, Swarajya. He tweets at @TheJaggi. 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Nazar's debut Hyperdub album is inspired by his family's experience of civil war: Listen "It's about the end, but it's also about dignity and remaining standing despite being mutilated" Nazar Hyperdub album Friday, December 13, 2019 - 17:27 Nazar will return to Hyperdub for the release of his debut album next year. Titled 'Guerilla', the album sees the Manchester-based producer draw on his family's experiences of the Angolan Civil War. Using a kuduro framework, Nazar looks, a press release says, to "sensitively examine and digitalize his family's collective memory and country's past," with his father having been a rebel general in the country who published a wartime journal, called 'Memorias de Um Guerrilheiro', in 2006. Nazar's mother and sisters feature on the album, as well as Hyperdub affiliates Shannen SP and Klein. "A couple of years ago, on one of many road trips I had with my father, we talked extensively about the conflict driving through Huambo and Luanda in Angola," Nazar explains, which is where some of the events of the album took place. Those trips were the roots of the ideas that make up this album, with the record taking shape across several trips back and forth, from Angola to his Manchester studio. Speaking about the album's closing track, 'End of Guerilla', Nazar says: "It's about the end, but it's also about dignity and remaining standing despite being mutilated." You can listen to lead track, 'UN Sanctions', which features a vocal sample from Klein, below. Earlier this month, Hyperdub released a compilation, featuring tracks from Burial, Kode9 and more, as part of a limited edition Sega Megadrive package. Last month, another 15th anniversary compilation was released in collaboration with TV network AdultSwim. Read DJ Mag's cover feature on Hyperdub, from earlier this year, here. Nazar Hyperdub Shannen SP Klein Hyperdub announces new EP from Chicago footwork producer DJ Hank London club Colour Factory announces Ahadadream, Danielle, Mechatok, Shannen SP as 2022 residents Burial releases new EP, 'ANTIDAWN', on Hyperdub: Listen Recognise: aya Burial announces new EP, 'Antidawn', on Hyperdub Jessy Lanza's golden age	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9811392426490784, "wiki_prob": 0.9811392426490784, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1602871"}
Accueil > Bibliothèque de la science ouverte > Towards a Research Integrity Culture at Universities: From Recommendations to Implementation Towards a Research Integrity Culture at Universities Pour la LERU, les universités ont la responsabilité collective de garantir et de démontrer comment elles soutiennent et promeuvent l'intégrité de leur recherche et de leurs chercheurs. L'objectif du document est de leur fournir un cadre, des recommandations, pour développer leur stratégie d'intégrité de la recherche. Towards a Research Integrity Culture at Universities: From Recommendations to Implementation League of European Research Universities (LERU) – Janvier 2020 The excellence of, and trust in, research produced by universities is inherently linked to the integrity of their researchers. Given that the research process increasingly involves collaboration that transcends disciplinary, institutional and national boundaries, universities have a collective responsibility in developing and implementing a research and educational environment which supports research integrity, thereby maintaining and strengthening confidence in their researchers’ work. As a network of 23 research-intensive universities within Europe, LERU wants to endorse this collective responsibility by encouraging its members and others to commit to making issues of research integrity part of their strategy (e.g. by developing a research integrity development plan which may be part of, or complimentary to, their general strategic plan). This paper outlines how this could be done. We propose five key actions which could support research integrity within universities: 1. Universities should empower sound research Universities should ensure that the research performed by their researchers is both sound and verifiable. This can be done by implementing measures to guard against suboptimal research practices, some of which are referred to as ‘sloppy science’ or ‘questionable research practices’ and can be applied across the whole project lifecycle. These include measures to improve research design and conduct, improving the soundness of reporting results, valuing negative results and replication studies, facilitating cooperative and multidisciplinary team work and ensuring a continuous effort is made in improving approaches to research integrity within a university. 2. Universities should educate researchers in research integrity at all academic career levels It is important that all researchers have the necessary skills to be able to conduct their research and themselves with integrity. Training could focus specifically on research integrity as a specific topic, or focus on providing further guidance on practical measures to promote research integrity. The overall aim of research integrity training should be to empower researchers to recognise and deal with problems of research integrity that they may face. Research integrity training should be available across all career levels from undergraduate to senior researchers and should cover all disciplines. Supervisors should receive specific training on how to supervise with integrity. Given the international nature of research, local, national and international differences in research integrity should be addressed and common standards developed for joint projects. 3. Universities should ensure that institutional guidelines and support structures are put in place The development of institutional guidelines and the establishment of institutional support structures and functions are essential in the framework of a research integrity policy. Staff with a specific responsibility for research integrity should be appointed to execute and monitor the university’s research integrity policy. Staff should be able to raise any concerns so confidential counsellors or advisors should be appointed at both the university and faculty level. Safe harbours should be developed to avoid anonymous reporting, and anonymous complaints should only be investigated in exceptional circumstances. Universities should develop a committee or committees to handle allegations of misconduct if not installed at a national level. 4. Universities should be transparent and accountable In recent years there has a been a cultural change in which the outcomes of research are expected to be available to a wider public, in what has been termed ‘open science’. This brings both opportunities and challenges with regard to research integrity and researchers should be made aware of this. With research open to a wider public, there are opportunities for greater awareness and scrutiny of research results. Universities should encourage researchers to make research data ‘open’ and provide a research infrastructure in which responsible management of research data is facilitated. Guidance should be developed for researchers on the appropriate use of secondary data from other sources. Research should be credited in a proper and transparent way through responsible authorship or acknowledgment, and previously published research should be properly cited. More broadly, universities should also be transparent at the level of the commitment to research integrity starting with an easy access to documentation on research integrity, procedures for handling allegations, and a way of reporting allegations. Finally, universities are encouraged to participate in the research integrity debate at the regional, national or international level. 5. Universities should foster a research integrity culture Research integrity should be part of the global research culture at universities. This will require a realignment of incentives within the university environment, where a reward system is introduced which is fairer to researchers who may conduct excellent but not newsworthy research. Universities should monitor and improve the research integrity climate by looking at the effectiveness of research integrity measures over time to assess the impact of initiatives taken to improve integrity. This paper consists of three parts: In Part 1, we present an overview of the recommendations of the paper in an easy to read manner. This section can be used by readers as a quick guide to check an individual universities research integrity strategy against or to identify particular elements of the main paper which they may be particularly interested in. In Part 2, we present the main part of the paper which outlines the five actions in more detail, together with a more detailed rationale for each of the recommendations mentioned within each of these actions. In Part 3, we outline some of the actions LERU universities have done to improve research integrity at their universities. We hope that this will act as an inspiration to other universities in developing their own ways to improve research integrity culture within their institutions. This paper has been written to provide universities with an aspirational framework for developing their own research integrity strategy. The actual recommendations which will be employed will, of course, depend on the specific circumstances at a particular university.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5582810640335083, "wiki_prob": 0.4417189359664917, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line944077"}
Mongabay Series: Indonesian Forests, Indonesian Palm Oil Singapore takes legal action against 5 Indonesian companies over haze by on 1 October 2015 Singapore has served APP and four smaller companies with legal notices over fires burning in their concessions in Indonesia. Fires across Sumatra have sent haze into neighboring Singapore, polluting the air. Indonesia is also investigating more than 100 companies in connection with the fires. Singapore is taking legal action against Asia Pulp & Paper and four other Indonesian companies whose concessions are full of fires causing air pollution across the region. Singapore’s National Environment Agency served the companies notice under the Transboundary Haze Pollution Act, a 2014 law that lets the city-state fine companies up to 2 million Singapore dollars ($1.4 million) for polluting its air. APP is part of the Sinar Mas conglomerate, owned by Indonesia’s Widjaja family. The other companies are Rimba Hutani Mas, Sebangun Bumi Andalas Wood Industries, Bumi Sriwijaya Sentosa and Wachyuni Mandira. “This is not a natural disaster,” Singaporean Environment and Water Resources Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said in a statement, as quoted by AFP. “Haze is a man-made problem that should not be tolerated. It has caused major impact on the health, society and economy of our region.” Singapore’s air pollutant index briefly hit “hazardous” levels last week, shutting down schools. The air quality remains far worse in Indonesia, where tens of thousands of people have reported acute respiratory ailments. In some places, the air has reached five times hazardous levels. Haze-choked Palangkaraya, the capital of Indonesia’s Central Kalimantan province. Photo by Jenito Indonesia is investigating more than 100 companies suspected of failing to prevent or starting fires, a cheap tool for clearing land. The disaster is harming relations between the two countries, with Singapore and also Malaysia calling on Indonesia to do more to stop the fires, which seem to crop up every year. As a sarcastic response to comments by some Indonesian politicians that Singapore should be grateful for the clean air it gets from Indonesia when the fires aren’t burning, some Singaporeans set up thankyouindoforthecleanair.com. “Thank You Indonesia for 11 months of clean air!” reads a banner on the page. A peatland burns in Riau, Indonesia, spewing haze into the atmosphere. Photo by Rhett A. Butler Article published by Mongabayauthor Agriculture, Environment, Fires, Forestry, Forests, Haze, Palm Oil, Peatlands, Plantations, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Southeast Asia Haze, Tropical Forests	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5424660444259644, "wiki_prob": 0.5424660444259644, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1416369"}
Inicio › News › Nature science › Conservation Agriculture increases carbon sequestration in extensive crops Density regulation allows for increased carbon sequestration in Mediterranean pine forests Study of Scots pine in El Moncayo (Zaragoza) The study, carried out by the Silvadapt network, demonstrates that silvicultural practices, such as thinning, help forests adapt to future conditions spawned by climate change Forests, and vegetation in general, have the capacity to absorb CO2 present in the atmosphere, thus reducing the presence of this greenhouse gas. This is known as carbon sequestration. If trees help reverse the effects of global warming, it wouldseem logical to conclude that the more trees, the better, in terms of CO2reduction. However, research published in the journal Forests, and involving researchers with the Agricultural and Forestry Systems Evaluation and Restoration (ERSAF) group at the University of Cordoba, has shown that thinning (reducing the number of trees in forests) actuallyhelps to increase carbon sequestration and improve adaptation to climate change. To carry out the study, ERSAF researchers coordinated a nationwide study using the Silvadapt project's Adaptive Silviculture Plot Network. This network conducted thinning trials with two intensities (light and heavy) in the reforestations of three Mediterranean pine species: Scots pine, bristlecone pine and Aleppo pine, located along the Spanish Mediterranean Arc. In 2021 all the measurements from each of the plots were integrated, including biomass and soil organic carbon data, to study the temporal change in carbon sequestration capacity according to the different types of thinning carried out. With all this data, the research team was able to determine the carbon content present both in the trees' structures and in the soil, finding that plots subjected to higher- intensity thinning (a greater reduction in forest thickness) sequestered more carbon. Thus, "thinning helps pine forests to adapt to climate change by optimizing forest growth, as well as favoring a greater incorporation of organic matter into the soil, which increases ′carbon storage′ in the forests," said Antonio Cachinero Vivar, a researcher with the UCO's ERSAF group. These results were accorded withthe findings of previous studies based on dendrochronology (measurement of the width of tree rings), which had already shown greater growth associated with a reduction in forest density, suggestingthat in the years after thinning the remaining trees have access to a greater availability of resources,due to reduced competition, and that with this increase in resources,they grow more and can sequester more carbon. The study, which was carried out within the framework of the Silvadapt network, which includes 14 Spanish universities and research centers, has helped to spotlight the importance of adaptive forestry in increasing the resilience of forests and its contribution to mitigating the effects of climate change. Rafael M. Navarro-Cerrillo, Francisco J. Ruiz-Gómez, Jesús J. Camarero, Víctor Castillo, Gonzalo G. Barbera, Guillermo Palacios Rodríguez, Francisco B. Navarro, Juan A. Blanco, Juan B. Imbert, Antonio M. Cachinero-Vivar, Antonio J. Molina, and Antonio D. del Campo, "Long-Term Carbon Sequestration in Pine Forests under Different Silvicultural and Climatic Regimes in Spain," Forests 2022, 13(3), 450; https://doi.org/10.3390/f13030450. Silvadapt Mediterranean pine silvicultural practices Más en esta categoría: « BONEX PROJECT \| A European project seeks to optimize the water/energy nexus LIFE SCRUBS NET PROJECT \| Scrub: an element to be assessed for the regeneration of dehesas »	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6854499578475952, "wiki_prob": 0.3145500421524048, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line82488"}
Since 1949 Team Vision Philosophy Structure Hydrogen & SynFuels Energy Markets Mobility Renewable Energies Resources Industry Grids Climate Neutrality Heat Digitalization Start Veröffentlichungen Master Plan Charging Infrastructure II Master Plan Charging Infrastructure II On July 8, 2022, the federal government published the draft of the new Master Plan Charging Infrastructure II [1]. The Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and Transport (BMDV) was largely responsible for its creation. The current draft will next be sent to all relevant stakeholders, such as federal states municipalities, associations, and companies, for further discussion of various measures. [2] With the master plan, the German government is outlining an overall strategy for achieving a nationwide, needs-based, and user-friendly charging infrastructure. This is intended to make it easier, more convenient, and faster to set up and operate charging points. At the same time, the attractiveness of charging infrastructure as a business model is to be increased, thus mobilizing greater investment from the private sector. As a result, Germany is to become the global lead market for electromobility. The German government is thus committing itself to the electromobility goals enshrined in the coalition agreement. [2] The key points of the master plan are summarized in the infographic below. Abbildung 1: Infografik Masterplan Ladeinfrastruktur II Download PDF 117 KB Bidirektionales Lademanagement (BDL) unIT-e²- Reallabor für verNETZte E-Mobilität Niklas Jooß, M. Sc. Adrian Ostermann, M. Sc. +49 (0)89 158121-50 [email protected] More Questions About the Topic Grid-serving charging of electric vehicles: concepts from the unIT-e² project Standardization Landscape for Electromobility Collaborative projects as a platform for interdisciplinary cooperation and innovation FfE Munich Current information about research projects and work of the FfE. © FFE Website 2023 FFE Website	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.70151686668396, "wiki_prob": 0.29848313331604004, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1880619"}
Golfing Celebrities/Athletes, History, Inside Scoop Top Golfers Take Aim at a Million from Rio Secco Floating Tee Posted on November 10, 2020 May 20, 2022 by admin It was a day to remember at Rio Secco Golf Club in Las Vegas when six of the world’s top golfers hit from a floating tee to the par 3, 16th green for a chance to win a million dollars for charity, but also to earn guaranteed $$$ for a charity on behalf of whomever was closest to the pin. Taking part were Team Troon members Justin Thomas, Gary Woodland, Matt Kuchar, Matt Fitzpatrick, Alex Noren and Cheyenne Woods. Click for Tee Times and Information for Rio Secco Golf Club As Thomas was riding in his golf cart en route to the shot, he crested a hill and had his first look at the situation and the floating tee. “What in the hell? I have to go out there? I did not see this coming,” Thomas said as he nervously laughed, envisioning his trek in a rickety boat to the floating tee box. Woodland said, “If I make it, I’m jumping in.” Alas, a soaked Woodland wasn’t meant to be. Troon CEO Tim Schantz was there to greet each player and witnessed the action. “The professionals we used to put this event together–the Breaking Par (TV) guys–really set the bar for us in terms of trying to show the industry that our business can be a little different than people think it’s going to be and this was a great example of that,” Schantz said. You can check the video out, but a spoiler alert is that nobody knocked in the 145-yard shot, but Thomas earned $10,000 for St. Jude’s Ranch For Children, a Boulder City charity located a few miles from Rio Secco and also just down the road from Cascata, the sister course to Rio Secco. Both are designed by legendary architect Rees Jones. Thomas hit his Troon Challenge shot to 4 feet, 3 inches for the victory. Click for Double Down Golf Packages with Rio Secco and Cascata During the challenge, each golfer’s first shot was part of the Million Dollar Challenge, with $1 million split between a local Las Vegas charity and a national charity if a golfer made an ace. Meanwhile all four shots counted in the Closest-to-the-Pin Challenge. Prior to the Challenge each golfer chose benefitting charities, with Troon donating $1 million for a hole-in-one or $10,000 for the closest-to-the-pin to a charity or charities in the winner’s name. Troon is donating $10,000 to St. Jude’s Ranch for Children, a Boulder City, Nev. based charity, in Thomas’ name. In addition, Troon donated $1,000 to each golfers selected national charity including: the Bill Dickey Scholarship Association (Cheyenne Woods); Camp Twin Lakes (Matt Kuchar); Sheffield Children’s Hospital Charity (Matt Fitzpatrick); Mia’s Miracle, Villegas Foundation (Alex Noren); Folds of Honor (Gary Woodland); and the Justin Thomas Foundation (Justin Thomas). As for Vegas as a golf destination, Kuchar summed it up nicely. “Vegas has a lot to offer,” Kuchar said. “Away from the Strip it has some very nice golf courses and then all the fun you want to have on the Strip as well … just the drive out here to Rio Secco I was blown away by the beauty.” The last word went to Jeff Krohn, VP, Vici Golf Properties, which operates Rio Secco and Cascata. “What makes Vegas a great golf destination and Rio Secco a better part of that destination is that it’s Las Vegas,” Krohn said. “You have your daytime entertainment and your night time entertainment. You’re up all night gambling on the Las Vegas Strip and then you come out here and play golf and it’s a whole different experience.” Legacy Offers E-Club, New Women’s Day, More Wildhorse Is a Unique, Historic, Affordable, Fun Vegas Golf Experience	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7065156102180481, "wiki_prob": 0.2934843897819519, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line448643"}
Top 10 Country Songs About Addiction The Boot Staff Published: January 29, 2019 Rick Diamond (2) / Ethan Miller, Getty Images In the 1995 comedy film Clueless, lead character Cher (Alicia Silverstone) offers this little nugget of wisdom: "It is one thing to spark up a doobie and get laced at parties, but it is quite another to be fried all day." And although this particular countdown, devoted to herbal refreshment, hard liquor and mood-altering pharmaceuticals, should probably come with a warning label, we hope the above sage advice is enough to encourage you not to overindulge in the recreational activities depicted below. With apologies to the Surgeon General, The Boot presents our countdown of the Top 10 Country Songs About Addiction. "Smoke a Little Smoke" Eric Church Vice-gripped lyric: "Kick back, give the blues spin, break out the wine, just forget again / Dig down deep, find my stash, light it up, memory crash." At first it seems Church is just looking for a good time, but he's actually trying to put the past behind by exorcising the memory of an old love. We've heard that smoking a little smoke can lead to memory loss. But we can't remember where we heard it. "I'm Gonna Hire a Wino to Decorate Our Home" David Frizzell Vice-gripped lyric: "There'll be Monday Night Football on TV above the bar and a pay phone in the hallway when your friends can't find their car." Although it sounds like a bad (or brilliant?) idea for a new show on HGTV, having a wino do interior design just so your man can stay home and drink himself into a stupor is called being an enabler. Liquor license denied! "Alcohol and Pills" Todd Snider Vice-gripped lyric: "The fame don't take away the pain, it just pays the bills, and you wind up on alcohol and pills." Fame might be the most dangerous gateway drug of all. And no amount of celebrity can guarantee a pain-free existence. Just ask Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, Janis Joplin, Gram Parsons and Jimi Hendrix -- if only we could. Lesson to future generations: Know what you're getting into so you know better how to handle it all. "Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die" Vice-gripped lyric: "Then take me out and twist me up and point me towards the sky / And roll me up and smoke me when I die." Nelson has never made any secret of his fondness for herbal remedies, and in this song, he proposes a unique solution to deal with his funeral arrangements -- a new form of cremation. There might actually be enough THC residue in Nelson's body to make this feasible. "Tip It on Back" Vice-gripped lyric: "Tip it on back, make it feel good, sip a little more than you think you should, let the smoke roll over your lips." Nothing cures the ills of an economic downturn quite like investing in your neighbor's cash crop or patronizing the local liquor store (or bootlegger). This tune from Bentley's album Home is less about a wild party and more about a relaxing, mind-altering diversion. "She Took a Lot of Pills (and Died)" Vice-gripped lyric: "But something went wrong, 'cause 40 years on, she took a lot of pills and died." Young, gorgeous starlet hits the big time, but the sweet ride soon screeches to a halt. It's a short trip from a Hollywood mansion to a "hovel on the lower East side." Although it's a zippy little tune, the message is a sad, sobering one. "Alcohol" Vice-gripped lyric: "You'll have some of the best times you'll never remember with me, alcohol." Paisley's unique take on a drinking song is told from the perspective of the actual intoxicating substance. Paisley -- who is a complete teetotaler in real life -- manages to make a fun song into a warning as well: "I can help you up or make you fall." "Sunday Morning Coming Down" Vice-gripped lyric: "There ain't nothin' short of dyin' half as lonesome as the sound of a sleepin' city sidewalk." Forget the funny movies; there's nothing comical about a hangover. And a hangover mingling with memories of a simpler time is even worse. So much worse, in fact, that all you long for is to just be stoned again. Sobering thoughts indeed. "If Drinking Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)" Vice-gripped lyric: "Lord, it's been 10 bottles since I tried to forget her, but the memory still lingers lying here on the ground." It's all fun and games until someone's passed out on the steering wheel. The lesson here, as in all of these cautionary tales, is that there are real consequences to drowning your sorrows in your chosen vice. Jones knew that better than most. "Takin' Pills" Vice-gripped lyric: "Well, who in the hell's gonna pay these bills when one's drinkin', one's smokin', one's takin' pills." Holler, Lonestar and Hippie Annie have three distinct personalities -- and each has a preferred vice. Our favorite line rhymes "hills of Kentucky" with "'til she lights up her Lucky" (as in Lucky Strike cigarette). We love all the clever songs, Annies, so please drink, smoke and take pills responsibly. What's Your Favorite Song About Addiction? That's plenty of songs to get the good (or bad) times rolling, but hey, it's country music -- we could list songs on this topic all day. Did we leave out one or more of your favorites? Let us know in the comments section below! This list was compiled by Stephen Betts and revised by Sterling Whitaker. 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Žanis Lipke MemorialArsenāls exhibition hall (Izstāžu zāle Arsenāls)Museum devoted to the artists Romans Suta and Aleksandra BeļcovaPauls Stradiņš Museum of the History of MedicineArt Museum Riga BourseRiga Museum of History and Navigation (Rīgas vēstures un kuģniecības muzejs)Riga Ghetto MuseumEthnographic Open Air MuseumMuseum of the Occupation of LatviaLatvian Museum of Naïve ArtPower Industry MuseumLatvian Railway History MuseumMuseum of Decorative Arts and DesignLatvian National Museum of Art« BACK « TO BEGINNING Destinations · Europe · latvia · Riga · Museums and galleries · Museums Pauls Stradiņš Museum of the History of Medicine Few people realize that Riga houses one of the three largest museums of the history of medicine in the world, in terms of the number of objects it holds. Founded by one of Latvia's most prominent physicians, Professor Pauls Stradiņš, the museum, which opened its doors in 1957, houses 199 000 exhibit pieces. The museum deals with the medicine of the entire world in all of its fields, placing it alongside the two main pillars that occupy this niche - one in London, England and the other Washington, DC. The museum's permanent exhibition provides a captivating voyage through the history of medicine, as well as a unique exploration of the human body. A separate hall houses a number of exhibits that are specially designed to help visitors understand what lies underneath the outer layer of skin that conceals how we function. One of the highlights is a specially made, full-scale and realistic model of the human body, which can be disassembled and divided up by its components. Visitors can actually remove the heart, open up the cranium and separate the muscles, bones, tendons, etc., thus acquiring a better understanding of the actual location, dimensions, shapes and structure of the organs in our bodies. In April of 2010, a new exhibition hall devoted to medicine in space was added. Among its exhibit pieces is the stuffed body of a famous, Soviet space traveller, a dog named Chernushka. Another room is devoted to exhibitions that deal mainly with contemporary health issues and the means that scientists are employing to address them. Closed: Sun and Mon Open: Tue, Wed, Fri and Sat 11:00-17:00 Thu 11:00-19:00 Antonijas iela 1 www.mvm.lv	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5195756554603577, "wiki_prob": 0.48042434453964233, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line80469"}
California Lottery winner allegedly killed by husband in Oklahoma months after win: report by Arup on August 10, 2021 A woman who won $2 million in the California Lottery last fall was allegedly killed by her husband in Oklahoma along with her 1-year-old daughter, according to reports. The bodies of Ex-Missouri police chief pleads guilty to beating man who allegedly tried to drown baby Greg Hallgrimson, the former police chief of Greenwood, has pleaded guilty to assaulting a handcuffed man who was being held Florida man, 18, allegedly held gun to friend’s head and forced him to flee traffic stop by Arup on July 1, 2021 An 18-year-old Florida man allegedly held a gun to his friend's head and forced him to flee from police on Ohio woman charged after allegedly driving around railroad gate with kids in car, getting hit by train by Avishek Rajbanshi on May 21, 2021 An Ohio woman was charged with child endangerment Thursday, months after she allegedly drove around a railroad gate and was Captain allegedly behind deadly San Diego boat wreck involving illegal immigrants charged in federal court by Arup on May 6, 2021 A man who was the alleged pilot of a boat that was smuggling immigrants when it broke apart off San Kristin Smart’s parents sue father of accused killer over allegedly hiding her body at his Arroyo Grande home by Arup on April 23, 2021 The parents of missing California college student Kristin Smart on Thursday sued the father of the man charged with killing their daughter nearly 25 years ago. The lawsuit filed in Many G.O.P. Governors Avoid Stating Plainly That Biden Won Democrats still searching for answers on Trump’s appeal to Latinos in 2020 election Biden Ends Partial Ban on Transgender Soldiers in U.S. Military	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5051377415657043, "wiki_prob": 0.49486225843429565, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line26888"}
Biden’s true colors remain vivid Joe Biden’s political life always has played out against one soundtrack; it came in 12/8 time and was written by Phil Spector, an inspiration that came from his father’s tombstone. It went this way: To know, know, know him Is to love, love, love him. Different ages are recommended different flu shots Single reader wants to get comfortable being alone DEAR HARRIETTE: I've been single for a while now, and I'm starting to feel overwhelmed by the prospect of finding someone new. I want to take this time to focus on myself and what I need. It's important for me to build confidence in myself and know that I can thrive alone if I need to. I know that a major part of being single is learning to create joy for yourself and to appreciate spending time alone, but I don't know how. How do I make the most of this time in my life? — Single Again DEAR SINGLE AGAIN: What do you enjoy? Think about that. What do you like to do in your spare time? New novel idea: Let the voters decide And now, here’s a preview of coming attractions! The kerfuffle over President Biden’s handling of classified documents from his vice presidential days raises many legal and political issues. But here’s one critical takeaway: Elections have consequences. Complimenting strangers is a good deed Ihave to say, that is a very nice hat!' I told the man as he passed me on the sidewalk. Despite success, reader suffers health setbacks DEAR HARRIETTE: I am embarrassed to say that I suffer from almost all the chronic health problems that commonly befall Black people in this country. I feel like such a failure in this regard. Outside of my health, I am killing it at work and have a good life. I checked off all the boxes toward success regarding education and building a career and family, but the health part sucks. In tornado-ravaged Selma, prayers and gratitude SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Outside his tornado-damaged Crosspoint Christian Church, Rev. David Nichols told his congregation there was much for which to be grateful despite the destruction around them. Holy water and orthodox memories of a vase of flowers After the Christmas season and before Lent, Orthodox priests have — for centuries — rushed to visit church-members' homes to bless them with prayers and splashes of holy water flung about with a foot-long brush or handfuls of basil. Moore, Jech, Howard and Thompson Participants in a Cardiac Rehabilitation Program at Clinton Regional Hospital, under the direction of Vicki Kiesau, concluded a six-week course including graduation and education. Some of the participants included Leonard Abrahams, Bill Roll, Dan Kraybill, Walter Stidham, Herbert Vogt, Jackie Shaw, Eva Fansler and Thelma (Imogene) Rockhold.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5723130702972412, "wiki_prob": 0.4276869297027588, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line100167"}
At No. 22 on Schindler’s list, Holocaust survivor Moshe Taube is No. 1 in the hearts of his Chatham audience May 21, 2014, 6:56 pm 0 Edit On a manicured lawn on Chatham University’s campus quad, students and guests gathered to enjoy kosher cheese and wine. Steps away, an elderly man in a blazing red vest and dark fedora collected his papers and entered Chatham’s Eddy Theater. As the crowd followed inside, Dr. Sean McGreevey, assistant dean of students, welcomed all to the principal event of the university’s Jewish American Heritage Month. Rabbi Shmuel Weinstein, director of Chabad on Campus, introduced Cantor Moshe Taube (cantor emeritus at Congregation Beth Shalom and former adjunct professor of Voice and Vocal Literature at Duquesne University), the evening’s featured speaker. “The Holocaust represents the darkest face of history. By adding light, we can illuminate the darkness,” Weinstein said. Get The Jewish Chronicle Weekly Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up In referring to Taube, Weinstein commented, “You have become a lamplighter to making this world a place of joy.” To much applause, Taube emerged from behind a curtain, approached the podium and shared his experiences as a Schindler survivor. “Being a Holocaust survivor gave me some notoriety,” he said. “Being No. 22 on Schindler’s list made me a bit of a celebrity.” As the evening progressed, Taube dazzled the crowd with anecdotes and one-liners. Like the red vest beneath his dark jacket, Taube’s spirit provided a splash of color juxtaposing hellish tales. “After Schindler’s List was released, I became a personage in much demand.” Prior to the film’s 1993 release, he was merely an accomplished musician and teacher; however, after the film’s debut, his status rose immensely – scores of letters and requests for speaking engagements and interviews came from around the world. After a reporter from Bologna, Italy heard of Taube, he asked the noted cantor to buy a ticket, fly from Pittsburgh and come to Bologna for an interview. Taube asked why would he incur such cost and time to go from Pittsburgh to Italy. The reporter exclaimed that in Bologna there is delicious bologna. Taube replied, “We have it as well, and in Pittsburgh it’s kosher.” When a listener later asked which notoriety Taube preferred – being a musician or Schindler survivor – Taube quickly chose the former. “It pays better.” Whether recounting camps, slave labor or Oskar Schindler, Taube exuded wit and grace throughout. He recalled how at age 17, he first observed Schindler – a gruff man dressed in a white shirt who constantly smoked and discarded each cigarette after a single puff. But, Taube explained, this was another of Schindler’s surreptitious heroic acts – while the Germans perceived Schindler’s discarded cigarettes as garbage, deprived Jewish prisoners quietly gathered Schindler’s strewn “trash” and enjoyed the smokes. “Schindler was a God-sent emissary,” he said. Taube then described his spiritual ascent throughout the war. “I came from a more traditional home. I became more religious in camp and after the camps when I felt the grace of God upon me,” he said. “It was the help of the Almighty. Hashem did it for me, and I thank him every day.” Upon concluding his remarks, Taube received a standing ovation. However, his mastery over the crowd continued, as several attendees asked to be photographed alongside the speaker. Brigette Bernagozzi, a graduate student in creative writing at Chatham, said, “I think he’s an amazing speaker. He was very gracious.” Sarah Menz, a graduate student in sustainability at Chatham, similarly stated, “He is a great speaker with an amazing story to tell. He gave his own spin, which was very entertaining.” Libby Zal, of Greenfield, said, “He was the best of all the Holocaust speakers I’ve heard. He added a sense of humor, and it was very important.” (Adam Reinherz can be reached at [email protected].)	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9408777952194214, "wiki_prob": 0.9408777952194214, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line757759"}
Please fill your details to purchase Voter List in Excel Home » News 9 Backroom Warriors in full gear for battle 2019 New Delhi: While candidates in the Dangal 2019 are busy with campaigning, there is another lot of warriors working backstage: busy mining through election data and making assessments, devising strategies and analysing and re-analysing the trends. These are the political consultants and strategists who are toiling for 12-14 hours a day and sparing no effort to clinch a win for their clients. Aiding them is an army of hundreds of young men and women – researchers, digital marketers, analysts and software engineers. Winning a seat needs much more and here comes the role of specialists who have different tags attached to them – campaign managers, political analysts, political consultants/strategists and election managers. According to trade association ASSOCHAM, there were nearly 150 political consultants in India in 2014, which have now grown to 300 as claimed by industry insiders. The number is still growing. Promising their clients a swing of the voting public, they employ a whole lot of innovative and cutting edge techniques and custom-made tools to fulfil their promise and achieve victory for their clients. Do they use different strategies when it comes to Assembly and Lok Sabha polls? Echoing his views, Vivek Bagri, Director of the political consultancy and management firm Leadtech, which claims to have devised over 1,000 campaigns across the country, says: “Our approach was to reach out to the voters directly in the Assembly elections and door to door campaign by volunteers and party workers were more important. But in Lok Sabha elections, indirect communication is an important factor.” About the specific strategy for Dangal 2019, he says: “In parliamentary election 2019, our main strategy revolves around the narratives and agenda built by the media and top 2-3 national leaders.” With the elections just weeks away, not only every day but every minute counts and the war rooms are full of hustle and bustle. “Due to social media, a lot of fake news comes so verification has also become a big challenge in the war room. The war room is full of hustle and bustle for the party or leader who is in the winning edge whereas, for those on the back foot, there is a huge seriousness in their arena,” says Bagri. With scientific data handling analysis and cutting edge strategies, some campaign managers claim they can ensure at least 2-5 per cent vote swing. “The right approach in formulating the strategy makes a lot of difference. Campaign managers and political consultants can actually increase the vote share by up to 5 per cent by hitting the bull’s eye at the right time. Using pre-poll surveys at the grassroots level, if proper voter segmentation, analysis of the electorate and trends is done, then a leader winning with a thin margin can actually turn the tables in his favour in a major way,” claims Bagri. Source: Odisha Sun Times	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6817744374275208, "wiki_prob": 0.31822556257247925, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1761308"}
Buildings that Bounce By Charlotte Barkla / Tech in Real Life (IRL) / October 2022 Issue Image by Image courtesy of QUT Check out what happens when you combine 3D printing with Auxetic geometries! Just imagine: a render you could apply over the walls of a building, to protect it from collision damage. Sounds like magic? It could be closer to reality than you think, thanks to engineer, Dr Tatheer Zahra from the Queensland University of Technology. She’s working on a unique, 3D-printed product that could be embedded inside a cement-water mixture. When applied to the outside of a building, it could provide a protective, energy-absorbing layer to protect buildings from collisions, gas explosions, earthquakes and winds. The secret behind it? Auxetic geometries. Dr Tatheer Zahra, from QUT ‘s Centre for Materials Science, has been inspired by running shoe material to 3D-print a design to protect buildings from impact damage. “Auxetic geometries are able to absorb a lot of energy,” explains Tatheer. “This is because, rather than flatting when stretched or bulging when compressed, auxetic materials expand or contract in all directions at once. My idea is to manufacture these geometries through 3D printing, then embed these geometries within a render that can be applied to a wall. If the building experiences a collision or impact force, the layer will absorb the shock energy, and protect the building.” Tatheer, a lecturer and researcher in civil engineering, says she was inspired to experiment with these geometries after noticing them being used in other applications. “Auxetic geometries are already used for energy absorption in sports shoes, helmets and body armour,” explains Tatheer. “They’re also used in biomedical engineering, in high compression bandages, and in making catheters that enlarge the arteries. I thought to myself, if the material is good for shock absorption in sports, maybe we can apply it in shock absorption for buildings?” At the moment, Tatheer is experimenting with the thickness of render, with her preliminary experiments showing that a 20 millimetre [3/4 inch] thick layer could withstand the force of a car travelling at 60 kilometres per hour [37 miles per hour]. An exciting example of engineering in action, Tatheer says the next step is to test the idea on full-scale masonry and concrete structures. “The theory and small-scale testing have shown positive results, and I’m looking forward to testing the idea on a larger scale, later this year,” says Tatheer. “I’m very interested in making structures more resilient to disastrous forces. Hopefully, in the future this can be a very helpful product in the civil engineering industry.” What are auxetics? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxetics auxetics definition https://www.definitions.net/definition/auxetics auxetics https://materiability.com/portfolio/auxetics/ Auxetics applications and possibilities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErnvTsCRDrs Negative Poisson Ratio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLU-k7LhtZI Dr Tatheer Zahra https://research.qut.edu.au/cms/people/tatheer-zahra/ tatheer-zahra profile https://www.stemwomen.org.au/profile/tatheer-zahra Running shoe material inspires building protection https://www.qut.edu.au/research/article?id=178836 Auxetics: Don’t Pull Me, I’ll Get Fatter https://www.iucr.org/news/newsletter/volume-27/number-2/auxetics Auxetic Smart Structures https://www.piper3dp.com/blogs/from-the-lab-auxetic-smart-structures/ Clothes That Grow https://thepanoptic.co.uk/2017/12/15/clothes-that-grow-petit-pli/ Charlotte Barkla 2022 Holidays STEAM Gift Guide A collection fo gift ideas for the holidays and any time of year! Computer Programming Projects & Puzzles for Kids Interactive Fiction Using Twine Learn to make an interactive fiction your reader can't put down with Twine! Getting Started with Open Source 3D Design Begin your 3D design journey with Blender! The Healthy Boundaries Conversation Technology is here to stay, so we should talk about how to be safe when using it. Kids Coding Articles Programming languages use data types to allocate memory and enforce data integrity. Coding Concepts Articles for Kids Partly Uploaded with a Chance of Storage Find out where 'the cloud" got its name from! Rickrolling Fun with ffmpeg Remix a classic meme with ffmpeg Minecraft Deep Dive Dive to new depths with this Minecraft mod! Loopy Secret Messages Improve your encryption skills with Unicode! Art with Fantasy Consoles Meet a computer that makes fantasy a reality! IoT at Your Service Experience a new level of futuristic luxury with your own robot butler. Computer Science Around the World Find out how your country compares to the rest of the world in CS education Language Lifeline Learn how digitization is being used to help preserve the languages of Indigenous peoples #worldpeacegoesviral Find out how social media is being used to build a more peaceful world Collection of interesting stories about technology from October 2022 Ethics and AI and Machine Learning Breaking down the issue of bias in AI & ML in a one-act play! Collection of the Learn More links from all of the October 2022 stories, in one place. If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. — Edger Dijkstra	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7866614460945129, "wiki_prob": 0.7866614460945129, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1485694"}
Performance Date(s): Mar 31, 2023 – Apr 23, 2023 Rachel Sheinkin This riotous ride is a delightful den of comedic genius. A fast-paced interactive crowd pleaser with hilarious, touching, and catchy songs; with each speller revealing their hopes, struggles and passions. Book by Rachel Sheinkin Music and lyrics by William Finn Directed by Dani Commanda Performances: March 31 – April 23 Masks are strongly encouraged but not required, except on the 1st Sunday Peformance (April 2, 2023)	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9666908383369446, "wiki_prob": 0.9666908383369446, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1400809"}
Tribe Times The Student News Site of Larned High School Larned’s most valuable building in shambles? LHS students host market day to gain business experience LHS’s fantastic pets and pet owners! The Larned High School play makes a reappearance Can you survive Mr. “Scheide?” Is turf the best decision for USD 495? Editor in Chief Arianna Hemken says no Lack of special education funding is affecting general education Hazardous drivers put LHS students in danger! The empty courtyard at Larned High School Student Spotlight: Caleb McDonald LHS students have mixed feelings about the mascot change New announcers carry on the torch following the Mark Slattery era Larned High School offers new content creation courses Coach Smith strives to rebuild the girls basketball program Fall sports programs celebrate successes and learn from losses as the 2022 season comes to an end Volleyball Victory Fall sports are back in action LHS girls BB vs Ellis LHS Boys BB vs. Ellis Keady Classic (Game 1) LHS Boys BB Season Opener vs. Pratt LHS Girls BB Season Opener vs Pratt LHS theatre performs “And Then There Was One-A Spoof” Mackenzie Reinert, Editor, Writer\|November 30, 2022 When Coach Jerrod Smith took over the Larned High School girl’s basketball team in 2021, the lady Indians had just come off a disappointing 1-19 season. Coach Smith’s primary message, the importance of mental toughness, resonated with the lady Indians, and helped the team win two more games than they had the year before. While, there is little doubt that the girls program made vast improvements during Coach Smith’s first year, both Coach Smith nor his team are determined to continue to grow as a program. Before Smith transitioned to the girls in 2021, he coached the boys for ten years. He spent five years as an assistant coach and when he was ready to take the reins on his own, he became head coach for five more years. During his years as head coach, he had put together a strong group of boys. They dedicated their time and hard work, and it all paid off in the 2019 season when they made it to state. They fell short that year and when the following season came around they advanced to the sub-state championship, but unfortunately they lost the game by two. With the experience that Coach Smith had to be successful, he wanted to incorporate that energy into the girls program. Transitioning was a little different for Coach Smith since the boys were more fast paced than girls were, but he knew that once he got into coaching the game, there wasn’t going to be a difference. Coach Smith was asked if there were any adjustments he had to make when he transitioned from coaching boys to coaching girls and he replied “Not really any adjustments, you guys are all basketball players just like the boys are. The hardest part is changing expectations and helping you figure out what it takes to be successful.” In his first year coaching the girls, they had to adjust to his expectations versus what expectations they had for themselves. “I try to set high expectations for myself so I can improve, but his expectations exceed my own. He is constantly working on each player to get them to be the best player they can be, and he communicates with us as well,” commented junior Abby Holt. For two years Coach Smith has reiterated the same two words to all his girls; mental toughness. You have to be mentally tough to push through hardships because not everything is going to be easy. When Coach Smith was interviewed on what improvements he wanted to see from his athletes this season going forward, he answered “The biggest thing I would like to see is developing the mental toughness and having to push through even when you’re tired. I want them to realize how hard they have to work and the dedication they have to have to be successful.” His returning players now know what expectations he has for them, and they know he will push them to their full potential to be successful. Because they are aware of his expectations, they can increase theirs, but also help the upcoming players figure out what they need to do to better the team as well as bettering themselves. The Lady Indians will start off their season on their home court against the Pratt Greenbacks on December 2, 2022. Donate to Tribe Times Your donation will support the student journalists of Larned High School. Your contribution will allow us to purchase equipment and cover our annual website hosting costs. This years OSHA graduates All Tribe Times Picks Reader Picks Sort: Newest	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6827296018600464, "wiki_prob": 0.3172703981399536, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line870565"}
Home News Final Matchups Set I... Final Matchups Set In Men’s And Women’s Curling Trials By Todd Kortemeier \| Nov. 18, 2021, 7 p.m. (ET) Team Shuster competes at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Curling on Nov. 17, 2021 in Omaha, Nebraska. OMAHA, Neb. — It’s pure coincidence that John Shuster’s final shot of double round robin play at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Curling resulted in a score of five, the same score that boosted his team to the gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018. But it’s certainly an indicator of how well Shuster and company are playing, as is their 9-1 record and No. 1 seed heading into the finals. But all four finalists go into the weekend with some momentum as each team capped the round robin with a win on Thursday at Baxter Arena. Team Shuster — also including Chris Plys, Matt Hamilton and John Landsteiner — had already locked up the top seed going into the final day of double round robin play and finished in style by beating Team Brundidge 11-4. They’ll face Team Dropkin, who could have faced a tiebreaker with Team Ruohonen had they lost their final round robin match, but instead prevailed 6-3 over Team Dunnam. The women’s bracket also locked into place Thursday morning when Cory Christensen clinched the second seed behind Team Peterson. Team Christensen went on to beat Rhyme 10-6 in the final draw of the day while Team Peterson beat Team Strouse 14-5. For Shuster, who has won nearly everything there is to win in this sport, it was satisfying for his team to play its best when the lights are brightest. “Obviously we had a great round robin,” he said afterward. “To come here and go 9-1 against this field in the round robin gives us lots of confidence going into the final series.” Team Shuster’s opponent is a familiar one. Like Shuster, Plys and Landsteiner, Korey Dropkin and third Joe Polo also hail from Duluth, Minnesota, and the teams know each other well. The teams split their round robin matchups with Shuster winning 8-7 in an extra end on Monday and Dropkin winning 6-1 on Wednesday. “It’s fun, we practice next to those guys almost every day,” Shuster said. “The other part about it is even last year, as our team was prepping for worlds, they came and did what they could do to scrimmage against us to also get us into a place where we could go and qualify for that Olympic (quota) spot. It’s obviously a pretty big rivalry.” Team Dropkin had a win-and-in scenario facing them on Thursday as they held a one-game lead over the team skipped by Rich Ruohonen. Team Dropkin lost its first match of the tournament to Team Dunnam, but Thursday was a different story as Dropkin — and teammates Polo, Mark Fenner and Thomas Howell — never trailed in winning 6-3. For Dropkin, it was a symbol of how his team has rebounded from an up-and-down round robin to be playing their best going into the finals. Team Christensen competes at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Curling on Nov. 18, 2021 in Omaha, Nebraska. “I think we were just starting to figure out the ice more, just adjust when it comes to draw weight and making more precise shots like the hit and rolls and the runbacks,” Dropkin said. “We just kind of got our mojo going. We’re feeling good out there.” While Team Shuster brings the gold-medal cred — minus Plys, the lone newbie from the team’s PyeongChang lineup — Team Dropkin is the reigning national champion and the first American men’s team to win an event in the Grand Slam of Curling. Dropkin is also eager for another chance at Shuster. “We always have really good battles,” Dropkin said. “I always enjoy playing Landsteiner, Chris, Hamilton, Johnny. It’s always fun battles out there, sometimes there’s some bickering. Chris likes to talk some smack, I just like to let him talk the smack and see how it all results. We’re going to the finals confident, we’re feeling good, and we’re looking forward to some good curling.” Like Team Shuster, the team skipped by Tabitha Peterson — with teammates Nina Roth, Becca Hamilton and Tara Peterson, Tabitha’s sister — had locked up their top seed in the women’s final early and were just awaiting their opponent. That will be Team Christensen, which won a hard-fought battle with Team Strouse in the first draw on Thursday to clinch their spot in the finals. It’s a matchup of the most recent two national champions, and Team Peterson won both of the round robin matchups between the teams. Being in the final is familiar ground for most of Team Peterson. With Roth as skip in 2017, the team including Tabitha Peterson, Hamilton and Aileen Geving won the trials and the Olympic berth that came with it. On the other side, Vicky Persinger of Team Christensen was on Jamie Sinclair’s team that was defeated by Roth’s. “Every little experience and pressure games like that help. You’re going to feel more nerves and everything so just knowing how to take care of those in a productive way (helps),” Peterson said. “Experiences can definitely be helpful for us.” Team Christensen has nearly the same composition as four years ago, with Persinger joining skip Cory Christensen, third Sarah Anderson and lead Taylor Anderson. But the result was quite different as Team Christensen in 2017 won just a single game at the trials. After back-to-back losses in the middle of the round robin, Team Christensen rebounded to win its last three. Christensen feels the team is getting better at exactly the right time. “We’ve kind of been building all week, we feel good about how we’re playing but we certainly know that we need to bring our ‘A’ game to beat (Team Peterson) because they're a great team. But we're feeling really good going into it.” Trial Highlights U.S. Olympic Team Curling Trials Highlights \| Final 3 Dropkin vs. Shuster U.S. Olympic Team Curling Trials Highlights \| Men's Award Ceremony U.S. Olympic Team Curling Trials Highlights \| Final 2 Peterson vs. Christensen U.S. Olympic Team Curling Trials Highlights \| Women's Award Ceremony Todd Kortemeier Todd Kortemeier is a sportswriter, editor and children’s book author from Minneapolis. He is a contributor to TeamUSA.org on behalf of Red Line Editorial, Inc. No Sibling Rivalry For Curling Teammates Tabitha And Tara Peterson Mixed Doubles Trials Done, Team Trials Up Next For Curlers With Beijing On The Line Vicky Persinger And Chris Plys Halfway To Beijing With Mixed Doubles Trials Title Cory Christensen Jamie Sinclair Chris Plys Vicky Persinger Nina Roth Becca Hamilton Matt Hamilton John Landsteiner John Shuster Joe Polo Korey Dropkin Rich Ruohonen Aileen Geving Tabitha Peterson Tara Peterson	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9905223250389099, "wiki_prob": 0.9905223250389099, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1059440"}
Sold prices in WA8 5BD Sort by A-Z Sort by Most Recent Sort by Oldest Sort by highest price Sort by lowest price 12 properties found in WA8 5BD. Name Type Last sale date Last sale price 84 Lunts Heath Road, Widnes Detached Jul 18, 2022 £285,000 92 Lunts Heath Road, Widnes Detached Oct 26, 2018 £302,000 108 Lunts Heath Road, Widnes Detached Nov 11, 2016 £514,995 106 Lunts Heath Road, Widnes Detached Aug 21, 2015 £510,000 102 Lunts Heath Road, Widnes Detached Jul 23, 2015 £285,000 100 Lunts Heath Road, Widnes Detached Jun 29, 2015 £314,995 98 Lunts Heath Road, Widnes Detached May 28, 2013 £439,995 104 Lunts Heath Road, Widnes Detached Mar 28, 2013 £299,995 96 Lunts Heath Road, Widnes Detached Feb 4, 2013 £299,995 Helvellyn 88 Lunts Heath Road, Widnes Detached - - 94 Lunts Heath Road, Widnes - - Area intel for WA8 WA55 WA1 WA5 WA6 WA16 WA7 WA14 WA11 WA13 WA1 Latest sales in WA8 1. 15 Frederick Street, Widnes £128,000 on Nov 10, 2022 2. 20 Cronton Lane, Widnes £285,000 on Nov 4, 2022 3. 44 Manor Road, Widnes £85,000 on Nov 4, 2022 4. 30 Lancaster Road, Widnes £156,000 on Nov 3, 2022 5. 26 Crown Avenue, Widnes £170,000 on Nov 3, 2022 Frequently asked questions about WA8 What is the average price in WA8? The average price in WA8 is currently £157,079. That's 74% lower than the national average of £273,762. Mouseprice is currently listing 134 properties for sale in WA8. What are the most expensive streets in WA8? The most expensive roads in WA8 are Cranshaw Lane, Falkirk Avenue, Heathfield Park, Upton Lane, Churchfields, which are priced at £895,000, £437,000, £318,000, £274,000, £292,000, respectively. What are the cheapest streets in WA8? The cheapest roads in WA8 are Market Street Mersey Road, which are priced at £62,500 £68,000, respectively. What schools are there in WA8? Nearby schools in WA8 include Holy Family Catholic Primary School, Aspiring Foundations Federated Nursery Schools - Ditton Nursery School, Birchfield Nursery School, Aspiring Foundations Federated Nursery Schools - Warrington Road Nursery School, Moorfield Primary School What stations are there in WA8? Nearby stations in WA8 include Widnes Station, Hough Green Station, Rainhill Station, Whiston Station, Prescot Station. The cost of moving home in WA8 for buyers is on average around £9,354 and WA8 sellers can expect to pay local estate agents an average of £196,349. Get a free conveyancing quote.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.6554582118988037, "wiki_prob": 0.6554582118988037, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line606894"}
With Shough Sidelined, Donovan Smith Is Now the Guy in Lubbock Rob Breaux Published: September 6, 2022 Paul Roberts, kkam.com In 2021, Tyler Shough injured his collarbone in Week 4 against Texas. Backup quarterback Henry Colombi took over, but eventually yielded the job to Donovan Smith, who got his first extended action against Oklahoma and his first start against Iowa State. In those two appearances, Smith looked like the best quarterback on the team and the future of the position at Texas Tech. Then, against Oklahoma State, his credibility took a hit. Smith would finish the season with a record of 2-2 in his starts, with wins over Iowa State and Mississippi State in the bowl game. The two losses were a rough appearance at home against Big 12 runner-up Oklahoma State, and his highest-rated game of the year against eventual Big 12 champion Baylor on the road. In the offseason, there was an offensive coordinator change from Sonny Cumbie to Zach Kittley, and Tyler Shough returned for another season after his injury. Not a surprise, but also not a guarantee after last year. Shough won the starting quarterback job with the new staff, but went down with another injury in Week 1 against Murray State. It's likely the same one he suffered last year. Head Coach Joey McGuire updated Shough's status in his weekly presser saying he would get another check on Wednesday, but would miss at least two games, probably three. McGuire also said that the bye week after Oklahoma State was in a good spot because it potentially gives Shough six weeks and an opportunity to return after the bye. Here's the issue with thinking that Shough will automatically return as the starter when he's healthy. Donovan Smith is really good. The dream scenario for McGuire and Kittley is that there's zero quarterback controversy in five games because Donovan Smith has played that well. In a quarter and a half in relief against Murray State, Smith was 14 of 16 with 221 yards and four touchdowns. For his efforts, he was awarded an honorable mention Player of the Week honor from the Earl Campbell Award. If Smith and Kittley can put up numbers that lead to 3 or 4 wins over the next five games, Shough will return...as the backup. If the Smith that played last season against Iowa State, Baylor, and the second half of Mississippi State is what Kittley can put on the field, it's not even a question in my mind. Smith has proven that he's durable and sometimes the best ability is availability for a quarterback. Another available quarterback is Behren Morton, who will play against Houston, according to head coach Joey McGuire. Both of the quarterbacks, but Smith in particular, will have every opportunity to seize the job from Shough in the next three weeks. If Shough misses more time, it's even more likely that he doesn't start another game for the Red Raiders. On the flip side, if Smith and Morton don't look good, the coaching staff will insert Shough back into the lineup as soon as he's cleared and available to play. I don't doubt Shough's toughness or ability, but the dream scenario here for the Red Raiders as a team is that Smith wins four of the next five and forces McGuire's hand to keep him on the field. Smith's first test is against the 25th-ranked Houston Cougars and their really good front seven led by defensive coordinator Doug Belk, who's one of the best in the business. Texas Tech and Houston square off Saturday, September 10th, at 3 p.m. at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. Highlights: Texas Tech vs Murray State (September 3rd, 2022) Check out our favorite shots from the Texas Tech Red Raiders' season opener against the Murray State Racers by Lubbock photographer Paul Roberts. Texas Tech Fans Rush the Field After 41-38 Iowa State Win Highlights: Texas Tech vs Iowa State The Texas Tech Red Raiders (5-4) square off against the Iowa State Cyclones (6-3) at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. (November 13th, 2021) Source: With Shough Sidelined, Donovan Smith Is Now the Guy in Lubbock Filed Under: donovan smith, Texas Tech Football, tyler shough Help Give Back to the Lubbock Community This MLK Day Texas Tech Fans Ready For The Texas Bowl Is Mike Leach Done at Mississippi State? Fat Little Girlfriends Are Asking An Open Letter to Whoever is in Charge of Texas Tech Football’s Uniforms Lubbock’s Own Xavier White Is a Finalist for Special Award Baylor LB Dunks on Weak Lubbock Atmosphere Baylor Wins In Lubbock For the First Time Since 1990 Texas Tech vs TCU Big Noon Kickoff Time Announced Two More Red Raiders Get Inducted into the Hall of Fame	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9225518107414246, "wiki_prob": 0.9225518107414246, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1667411"}
Weekly Planner: COVID-19 Remembrance Ceremony, Wolf Trap Salon Series, and Josh Lovelace Hannah Foley June 7, 2021 at 11:00am The Weekly Planner is a roundup of interesting events coming up over the next week in the Tysons area. We’ve searched the web for events of note in Tysons, Vienna, Merrifield, McLean, and Falls Church. Know of any we’ve missed? Tell us! Tuesday (June 8) Democratic Primary Election — 6 a.m.-7 p.m. — The Virginia Democratic Primary for Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General will be held on June 8th. Check your polling location. Voters must be registered to vote and can present a valid photo ID. View a sample ballot ahead of time. More information can be found on the Virginia Department of Elections. On Deck with Mercury — 6-8 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of Vienna (450 Orchard St. NE) — For his monthly community forum, Vienna Town Manager Mercury Payton will discuss upcoming events for Liberty Amendments Month with guests. The talk will be filmed and aired later on the town’s YouTube channel, but members of the public are also invited to come and watch. Duck Harbor (Online) — 8 p.m. — A heartwarming web series about a bi-coastal love story written by E.M. Lewis and Bob Bartlett, this online, live theatrical performance from 1st Stage will air for free every Tuesday at 8 p.m. for 12 weeks. All aired episodes and bonus content will also be available through Duck Harbor ALL ACCESS for $15. Wednesday (June 9) Fish Suncatcher Crafternoon (Online) — 3-3:30 p.m. — Pick up a Grab and Go Craft kit from the Mary Riley Styles Public Library in Falls Church, and join Ms. Meredith on the library’s Facebook page for an afternoon of stories and songs about fish while learning how to make a suncatcher. Kits are currently available via curbside pickup, and the instructions video will remain online after the event. COVID-19 Remembrance Ceremony — 6 p.m. at the Fairfax County Government Center ellipse (12000 Government Center Pkwy) — The Northern Virginia Regional Commission is holding a ceremony to honor and remember the more than 2,350 residents of the region who have died from COVID-19. Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeff McKay, Fairfax Health District Director Dr. Gloria Addo-Ayensu, Fire and Rescue Chief John Butler, and Police Chief Kevin Davis will speak. Thursday (June 10) Police Pursuits Town Hall (Online) — 7 p.m. — The Fairfax County Police Department will host a virtual town hall to collect community feedback on proposed revisions to its policy for vehicle pursuits. Community members can participate in the town hall through Zoom. Friday (June 11) American Red Cross Blood Drive — 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at the McLean Community Center (1234 Ingleside Ave.) — MCC is hosting a blood drive for the American Red Cross. All donors will receive a Red Cross T-shirt and a $10 Amazon Gift Card. Make an appointment online or call 1-800-733-2767. For more information, contact Melanie Hurley at [email protected] or Meosha Hudson at 410-375-5190 or [email protected]. Wolf Trap Salon Series (Online) — 7 p.m. — A series of online opera recitals curated by the artists in the show. The virtual performance gives “an intimate look into artistry…providing a unique glimpse into how they interpret art, songs and the world around them.” Saturday (June 12) UFC 263 Social Mixer — 7 p.m.-12:30 a.m. at Highgate at the Mile (7915 Jones Branch Dr., Apt. 206) — UFC DMV, a local group of UFC and martial arts fans in the D.C. area, invites fellow enthusiasts to meet new people, eat, and drink while watching Saturday’s title fights. Admission is $10, and food will be provided, but attendees should bring their own drinks. Sunday (June 13) Summer Sunday Concert: Josh Lovelace — 5 p.m. at the McLean Central Park gazebo (1468 Dolley Madison Blvd.) — McLean’s Summer Concert series kicks off this Sunday with a free, family-friendly show by Josh Lovelace, a member of the Grammy nominated rock band NEEDTOBREATHE. Photo via Chilhowee Hills Baptist Church/Facebook blood drive coronavirus election Fairfax County police McLean Central Park music sports town hall Weekly Planner Wolf Trap What Tysons area residents need to know about Tuesday’s Democratic primaryNeighborhood Expert: Best places to host a team party for kids in Vienna	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9243680238723755, "wiki_prob": 0.9243680238723755, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line217400"}
Homeless Vikings: Short-Lived BGP Session Hijacking—A New Chapter in the Spam Wars ;login: Enters a New Phase of Its Evolution For over 20 years, ;login: has been a print magazine with a digital version; in the two decades previous, it was USENIX’s newsletter, UNIX News. Since its inception 45 years ago, it has served as a medium through which the USENIX community learns about useful tools, research, and events from one another. Beginning in 2021, ;login: will no longer be the formally published print magazine as we’ve known it most recently, but rather reimagined as a digital publication with increased opportunities for interactivity among authors and readers. Since USENIX became an open access publisher of papers in 2008, ;login: has remained our only content behind a membership paywall. In keeping with our commitment to open access, all ;login: content will be open to everyone when we make this change. However, only USENIX members at the sustainer level or higher, as well as student members, will have exclusive access to the interactivity options. Rik Farrow, the current editor of the magazine, will continue to provide leadership for the overall content offered in ;login:, which will be released via our website on a regular basis throughout the year. As we plan to launch this new format, we are forming an editorial committee of volunteers from throughout the USENIX community to curate content, meaning that this will be a formally peer-reviewed publication. This new model will increase opportunities for the community to contribute to ;login: and engage with its content. In addition to written articles, we are open to other ideas of what you might want to experience. Dave Josephsen Download Article: josephsen_29.pdf Article Section: ;login: issue: December 2006, Volume 31, Number 6	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.614018440246582, "wiki_prob": 0.38598155975341797, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1715319"}
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IRS Has 13 New Compliance Campaigns for LB&I Taxpayers We previously posted on October 9, 2015 LB&I Agents Lose Autonomy To Centralized Office That Will Be Using Data to Identify Compliance Risks For Audit! where we discussed that Tax practitioners will face new questions from examination teams as the IRS selects compliance risks based on data, in the Large Business and International Division's (LB&I) move from individual audits of multinationals to broader considerations involving risk assessment. As opposed to the exam team coming out and identifying what areas will be looked at; the issues will be per-identified for the revenue agent. This change shifts the responsibility of selecting items to examine in an audit from the field agents to the revenue agents who are analyzing data in a centralized office. Exam teams will however, have the ability to raise other issues not identified from the data. LB&I Commissioner Douglas W. O'Donnell said that LB&I will be reorganizing its exam structure to save resources and create a more centralized approach. The Internal Revenue Service’s Large Business and International division is taking a new approach to tax compliance and released on February 1, 2017 their series of 13 new campaigns aimed at cracking down on tax evasion. The LB&I division is moving toward issue-based examinations and a compliance campaign process in which it decides which compliance issues present enough of a risk that they require a response. The response will come in the form of one or more “treatment streams” such as examinations and letters to achieve the IRS’s tax compliance objectives, leveraging IRS expertise in various compliance issues. 13 New campaigns. The campaigns are the culmination of an extensive effort to redefine large business compliance work and build a supportive infrastructure inside LB&I. These campaigns represent the first wave of LB&I's issue-based compliance work, and more campaigns will continue to be identified, approved, and launched in the coming months. The 13 campaigns selected for this initial rollout are: Code Sec. 48C energy credit campaign. This campaign ensures that only those taxpayers whose advanced energy projects were approved by the Department of Energy, and who have been allocated a credit by IRS, are claiming the credit. The approach for this campaign will be soft letters (generally, warning letters intended to encourage self-correction and voluntary compliance) and issue-focused examinations. OVDP declines-withdrawals campaign. The Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP) allows U.S. taxpayers to voluntarily resolve past non-compliance related to unreported offshore income and failure to file foreign information returns. This campaign addresses OVDP applicants who applied for pre-clearance into the program but were either denied access to OVDP or withdrew from the program of their own accord. IRS will address continued noncompliance through a variety of approaches including examination. Domestic Production Activities Deduction Campaign. Domestic production activities deduction, multi-channel video program distributors (MVPDs) and TV broadcasters. MVPDs and TV broadcasters often claim that “groups” of channels or programs are a qualified film eligible for the Code Sec. 199 deduction. Taxpayers are asserting that they are the producers of a qualified film when distributing channels and subscriptions packages that often include third-party produced content. LB&I has developed a strategy to identify taxpayers impacted by these issues and will develop training to aid revenue agents in examining them. The approaches for this campaign include the development of an externally published practice unit, potential published guidance, and issue-based exams, when warranted. Micro-Captive Insurance Campaign. This campaign addresses transactions described as transactions of interest in Notice 2016-66, 2016-47 IRB 745, in which a taxpayer attempts to reduce aggregate taxable income using contracts treated as insurance contracts and a related company that the parties treat as a captive insurance company. Each entity that the parties treat as an insured entity under the contracts claims deductions for insurance premiums. The approach for this campaign will be issue-based examinations. Related Party Transactions Campaign. This campaign focuses on transactions between commonly controlled entities that provide taxpayers a means to transfer funds from the corporation to related pass-through entities or shareholders. The approach for this campaign is issue-based examinations. Deferred Variable Annuity Reserves & Life Insurance Reserves IIR Campaign. IRS and Chief Counsel have agreed to accept the deferred variable annuity reserves and life insurance reserves issues into the Industry Issue Resolution (IIR) program to develop guidance to address uncertainties on issues important to the Life Insurance Industry. The campaign's objective is to collaborate with industry stakeholders, Chief Counsel and Treasury to develop published guidance that provides certainty to taxpayers regarding these related issues. Basket Transactions Campaign. This campaign addresses structured financial transactions described in Notice 2015-73, 2015-46 IRB 660 and Notice 2015-74, 2015-46 IRB 663, in which a taxpayer attempts to defer and treat ordinary income and short-term capital gain as long-term capital gain. The taxpayer treats the option or other derivative as open until a barrier event occurs, and, therefore, does not recognize or report current period gains. The gains are deferred until the contract terminates, at which time the overall net gain is reported as a long term capital gain. LB&I has developed a training strategy for this campaign. The approaches for this campaign will be issue-based examinations, soft letters to material advisors, and practitioner outreach. Land Developers Completed Contract Method (CCM) Campaign. Large land developers that construct in residential communities may be improperly using the CCM of accounting. A developer, whose average annual gross receipts exceed $10 million may only use the CCM under a home construction contract. In some cases, developers are improperly deferring all gain until the entire development is completed. LB&I will provide training for revenue agents assigned to work this issue. The approach includes development of a practice unit, issuance of soft letters, and follow-up with issue-based examinations when warranted. TEFRA Linkage Plan Strategy Campaign. As partnerships have become larger and more complex, LB&I has regularly revised processes to assess tax on the terminal investors. Recent legal advice provides an opportunity to make significant changes to how IRS approaches this process. This campaign focuses on developing new procedures and technology to work collaboratively with the revenue agent conducting the TEFRA partnership examination (i.e., the uniform partnership audit rules under the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA, P.L. 97-248, 9/3/1982)) to identify, link, and assess tax to the terminal investors that pose the most significant compliance risk. S Corporation Losses Claimed in Excess of Basis Campaign. The law limits S corporation shareholders' losses and deductions to their basis in the corporation. LB&I has found that shareholders claim losses and deductions to which they are not entitled because they do not have sufficient stock or debt basis to absorb these items. LB&I has developed technical content for this campaign that will aid revenue agents as they examine the issue. The approaches for this campaign will be issue-based examinations, soft letters encouraging voluntary self-correction, conducting stakeholder outreach, and creating a new form for shareholders to assist in properly computing their basis. Repatriation Campaign. LB&I is aware of different repatriation structures being used for purposes of tax-free repatriation of funds into the U.S. in the mid-market population. It has also been determined that many of the taxpayers do not properly report repatriations as taxable events on their filed returns. The goal of this campaign is to simultaneously improve issue selection filters while conducting examinations on identified, high risk repatriation issues and thereby increase taxpayer compliance. Form 1120-F Non-Filer Campaign. Foreign companies doing business in the U.S. are often required to file Form 1120-F (U.S. Income Tax Return of a Foreign Corporation). LB&I has data suggesting that many of these companies are not meeting their filing obligations. In this campaign, LB&I will use various external data sources to identify these foreign companies and encourage them to file their required returns. The approach for this campaign will involve soft letter outreach. If the companies do not take appropriate action, LB&I will conduct examinations to determine the correct tax liability. The goal is to increase voluntary compliance by foreign corporations with a U.S. business nexus. Inbound Distributor Campaign. U.S. distributors of goods sourced from foreign-related parties have incurred losses or small profits on U.S. returns, which are not commensurate with the functions performed and risks assumed. In many cases, the U.S. taxpayer would be entitled to higher returns in arms-length transactions. LB&I has developed a comprehensive training strategy for this campaign that will aid revenue agents as they examine this Code Sec. 482 issue. The approach for this campaign will be issue-based examinations. Being Audited by the IRS ? for a FREE Tax Consultation Contact US at The campaigns spotlight a variety of issues such as tax credits for advanced energy projects, people who withdraw from or are denied entry to the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program, TV broadcasters and channels who claim film production tax credits for distributing shows produced by third parties, and micro captive insurance. The IRS is not necessarily saying that when any of the campaign items appears on a return, that’s a sure sign of noncompliance. “What we are saying is that we either believe or have indication that there is risk or concern that there could be, and we need to look at it in more depth,” said O’Donnell. He gave the example of transfer pricing, in which the IRS recognizes the tax strategy is broadly used for conducting business internationally for pricing transactions between affiliates. “We look at the ones where we think there is risk and then we respond according to what we see, and that response typically in LB&I has been an examination,” said O’Donnell. The IRS wants to change taxpayer behavior from noncompliance to compliance, he added. The new “treatment streams” will not be limited to audits, he noted. They will include letters alerting taxpayers that the IRS is questioning an item. “We’ve talked about continuing to do examinations, but we use terms like ‘soft letters,’ where we might write to a group of taxpayers that have a particular item or issue on their return to ask them whether they meant to report it the way that they did, or is there something more to it,” said O’Donnell. “We might take up a guidance project where we’ve noticed that there’s a lack of clarity in an area and we want to pick that up. That could for example flow from an industry issue resolution, which is one of the items that came out in this first group, or we might be working on forms changes and instructions changes to the extent that that’s relevant and necessary.” He noted that the LB&I division has responsibility for businesses with assets above $10 million, along with wealthy individuals who have international tax compliance obligations. “We span a pretty broad spectrum of taxpayers with a lot of different compliance risks," he said. Accounting Today asked O’Donnell about the impact on the IRS and the LB&I division of President Trump’s executive order Monday requiring any new regulation to be offset by the withdrawal of two older regulations. “The executive orders are coming out and being reviewed by the Service,” he said. “The manner in which we'll respond to them is still under consideration, so at this point I’m not sure how that’s all going to play out.” He was also asked whether the campaigns would be considered a new regulation or just a new approach to compliance. “My understanding is that the word ‘regulation’ has a pretty specific meaning, and that what we’re talking about is what we view as a new way of conducting business as usual,” he said. “So it is new. It’s something we’ve talked about, but it’s going about dealing with issues of potential noncompliance and how we go about responding to them. That’s part of what our administrative charge is at the IRS, and that’s what we are going to continue to do going forward. We think we are well within the administrative responsibilities in dealing with the taxpayer base that we've got in our division, Large Business and International.” The IRS restructured the division last February, allowing it to better evaluate items of noncompliance to determine where there might be the most risk. O’Donnell noted that even though the IRS has a limited number of people who have expertise in areas such as transfer pricing, the new structure enables them to provide training and mentorship to others within the division. Brian Kittle, a tax controversy and transfer pricing partner at the law firm Mayer Brown, reviewed the new IRS guidance. “This long-awaited guidance provides a glimpse into the IRS’s campaign process,” he said in a statement. “But what is perhaps most interesting about this document is what it does not provide. Most importantly, it does not elaborate on how issue-based campaigns will be conducted and how they will fit into the already-established IRS audit and appeals structures, even though the IRS has stated orally that campaigns are not intended to completely replace or revamp the examination process. While the formal document briefly (and vaguely) describes the campaigns and generally how the IRS intends on approaching the issues, taxpayers are provided with little information on what to expect going forward and how the campaign implementation will take place. In essence, the formal document simply frames the Large Business and International division’s focus areas, rather than providing substantive guidance. Taxpayers are left simply hoping that the IRS will be more transparent in the future about how this new process will actually be put into action.” The IRS chose the campaigns through data analysis, suggestions from IRS compliance employees and feedback from the tax community, the IRS noted. As part of the effort, leaders of the LB&I division plan to continue discussion with the tax community to work on these areas to best meet the needs of the taxpayers along with tax administration. The 13 campaigns selected for the initial rollout are: • IRC 48C Energy Credit Campaign This campaign ensures that only those taxpayers whose advanced energy projects were approved by the Department of Energy, and who have been allocated a credit by the IRS, are claiming the credit. These credits must be pre-approved through extensive application to the DOE. The treatment stream for this campaign will be soft letters and issue-focused examinations. • OVDP Declines-Withdrawals Campaign The Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program allows U.S. taxpayers to voluntarily resolve past non-compliance related to unreported offshore income and failure to file foreign information returns. The campaign addresses OVDP applicants who applied for pre-clearance into the program but were either denied access to OVDP or withdrew from the program of their own accord. The IRS will address continued noncompliance through a variety of treatment streams including examination. • Domestic Production Activities Deduction, Multi-Channel Video Program Distributors (MVPD’s) and TV Broadcasters Multi-channel video programing distributors and TV broadcasters often claim that “groups” of channels or programs are a qualified film eligible for the IRC Section 199 deduction. Taxpayers are asserting that they are the producers of a qualified film when distributing channels and subscriptions packages that often include third-party produced content. Additionally, MVPD taxpayers maintain that they provide online access to computer software for the customers’ direct use (incident to taxpayers’ transmission activities, including customers’ use of the set-top boxes). LB&I has developed a strategy to identify taxpayers impacted by these issues and will develop training to aid revenue agents in examining them. The treatment streams for this campaign include the development of an externally published practice unit, potential published guidance, and issue based exams, when warranted. • Micro-Captive Insurance Campaign This campaign addresses transactions described in Transactions of Interest Notice 2016-66, in which a taxpayer attempts to reduce aggregate taxable income using contracts treated as insurance contracts and a related company that the parties treat as a captive insurance company. Each entity that the parties treat as an insured entity under the contracts claims deductions for insurance premiums. The manner in which the contracts are interpreted, administered, and applied is inconsistent with arm’s length transactions and sound business practices. • Related Party Transactions Campaign This campaign focuses on transactions between commonly controlled entities that provide taxpayers a means to transfer funds from the corporation to related pass through entities or shareholders. LB&I is allocating resources to this issue to determine the level of compliance in related party transactions of taxpayers in the mid-market segment. The treatment stream for this campaign is issue-based examinations. • Deferred Variable Annuity Reserves & Life Insurance Reserves IIR Campaign The IRS and Chief Counsel have agreed to accept the Deferred Variable Annuity Reserves and Life Insurance Reserves issues into the IIR program (pursuant to Rev. Proc. 2016-19) to develop guidance to address uncertainties on issues important to the Life Insurance Industry. The issues include amounts to be taken into account in determining tax reserves for both deferred variable annuities with Guaranteed Minimum Benefits, and Life Insurance contracts. The campaign's objective is to collaborate with industry stakeholders, Chief Counsel and Treasury to develop published guidance that provides certainty to taxpayers regarding these related issues. • Basket Transactions Campaign This campaign addresses structured financial transactions described in Notices 2015-73 and 74, in which a taxpayer attempts to defer and treat ordinary income and short-term capital gain as long-term capital gain. The taxpayer treats the option or other derivative as open until a barrier event occurs, and, therefore, does not recognize or report current period gains. The gains are deferred until the contract terminates, at which time the overall net gain is reported as a Long Term Capital Gain. LB&I has developed a training strategy for this campaign. The treatment streams for this campaign will be issue-based examinations, soft letters to Material Advisors and practitioner outreach. • Land Developers - Completed Contract Method (CCM) Campaign Large land developers that construct in residential communities may be improperly using the Completed Contract Method (CCM) of accounting. A developer, whose average annual gross receipts exceed $10 million, may only use the CCM under a home construction contract. In some cases, developers are improperly deferring all gain until the entire development is completed. LB&I will provide training for revenue agents assigned to work this issue. The treatment stream includes development of a practice unit, issuance of soft letters, and follow-up with issue based examinations when warranted. • TEFRA Linkage Plan Strategy Campaign As partnerships have become larger and more complex, LB&I has regularly revised processes to assess tax on the terminal investors. Recent legal advice provides an opportunity to make significant changes to how we approach this process. This campaign focuses on developing new procedures and technology to work collaboratively with the revenue agent conducting the TEFRA partnership examination to identify, link and assess tax to the terminal investors that pose the most significant compliance risk. • S Corporation Losses Claimed in Excess of Basis Campaign S corporation shareholders report income, losses and other items passed through from their corporation. The law limits losses and deductions to their basis in the corporation. LB&I has found that shareholders claim losses and deductions to which they are not entitled because they do not have sufficient stock or debt basis to absorb these items. LB&I has developed technical content for this campaign that will aid revenue agents as they examine the issue. The treatment streams for this campaign will be issue-based examinations, soft letters encouraging voluntary self-correction, conducting stakeholder outreach, and creating a new form for shareholders to assist in properly computing their basis. • Repatriation Campaign LB&I said it is aware of different repatriation structures being used for purposes of tax free repatriation of funds into the U.S. in the mid-market population. It has also been determined that many of the taxpayers do not properly report repatriations as taxable events on their filed returns. The goal of this campaign is to simultaneously improve issue selection filters while conducting examinations on identified, high risk repatriation issues and thereby increase taxpayer compliance. • Form 1120-F Non-Filer Campaign Foreign companies doing business in the U.S. are often required to file Form 1120-F. LB&I has data suggesting that many of these companies are not meeting their filing obligations. In this campaign, LB&I will use various external data sources to identify these foreign companies and encourage them to file their required returns. The treatment stream for this campaign will involve soft letter outreach. If the companies do not take appropriate action, LB&I will conduct examinations to determine the correct tax liability. The goal is to increase voluntary compliance by foreign corporations with a U.S. business nexus. • Inbound Distributor Campaign U.S. distributors of goods sourced from foreign-related parties have incurred losses or small profits on U.S. returns, which are not commensurate with the functions performed and risks assumed. In many cases, the U.S. taxpayer would be entitled to higher returns in arms-length transactions. LB&I has developed a comprehensive training strategy for this campaign that will aid revenue agents as they examine this IRC Section 482 issue. The treatment stream for this campaign will be issue-based examinations. These campaigns represent the first wave of LB&I's issue-based compliance work. The IRS said more campaigns will continue to be identified, approved and launched in the coming months. AccountingToday IRS rolls out Large Business and International campaign audit strategy New Audit Campaign Issues. IRS's Large Business and International (LB&I) division has described the issues it will be targeting in a new audit strategy known as “campaigns.” IRS identified 13 specific issues spanning a broad range of topics including partnerships, insurance, an energy tax credit, tax techniques used by the television broadcast industry, and foreign businesses and taxpayers. These issues were identified through extensive data analysis, suggestions from IRS compliance employees, and feedback from the tax community. New campaigns. The campaigns are the culmination of an extensive effort to redefine large business compliance work and build a supportive infrastructure inside LB&I. These campaigns represent the first wave of LB&I's issue-based compliance work, and more campaigns will continue to be identified, approved, and launched in the coming months. The 13 campaigns selected for this initial rollout are: (1) Code Sec. 48C energy credit campaign. This campaign ensures that only those taxpayers whose advanced energy projects were approved by the Department of Energy, and who have been allocated a credit by IRS, are claiming the credit. The approach for this campaign will be soft letters (generally, warning letters intended to encourage self-correction and voluntary compliance) and issue-focused examinations. (2) OVDP declines-withdrawals campaign. The Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP) allows U.S. taxpayers to voluntarily resolve past non-compliance related to unreported offshore income and failure to file foreign information returns. This campaign addresses OVDP applicants who applied for pre-clearance into the program but were either denied access to OVDP or withdrew from the program of their own accord. IRS will address continued noncompliance through a variety of approaches including examination. (3) Domestic production activities deduction, multi-channel video program distributors (MVPDs) and TV broadcasters. MVPDs and TV broadcasters often claim that “groups” of channels or programs are a qualified film eligible for the Code Sec. 199 deduction. Taxpayers are asserting that they are the producers of a qualified film when distributing channels and subscriptions packages that often include third-party produced content. LB&I has developed a strategy to identify taxpayers impacted by these issues and will develop training to aid revenue agents in examining them. The approaches for this campaign include the development of an externally published practice unit, potential published guidance, and issue-based exams, when warranted. (4) Micro-captive insurance campaign. This campaign addresses transactions described as transactions of interest in Notice 2016-66, 2016-47 IRB 745, in which a taxpayer attempts to reduce aggregate taxable income using contracts treated as insurance contracts and a related company that the parties treat as a captive insurance company. Each entity that the parties treat as an insured entity under the contracts claims deductions for insurance premiums. The approach for this campaign will be issue-based examinations. (5) Related party transactions campaign. This campaign focuses on transactions between commonly controlled entities that provide taxpayers a means to transfer funds from the corporation to related pass-through entities or shareholders. The approach for this campaign is issue-based examinations. (6) Deferred variable annuity reserves & life insurance reserves IIR campaign. IRS and Chief Counsel have agreed to accept the deferred variable annuity reserves and life insurance reserves issues into the Industry Issue Resolution (IIR) program to develop guidance to address uncertainties on issues important to the Life Insurance Industry. The campaign's objective is to collaborate with industry stakeholders, Chief Counsel and Treasury to develop published guidance that provides certainty to taxpayers regarding these related issues. (7) Basket transactions campaign. This campaign addresses structured financial transactions described in Notice 2015-73, 2015-46 IRB 660 and Notice 2015-74, 2015-46 IRB 663, in which a taxpayer attempts to defer and treat ordinary income and short-term capital gain as long-term capital gain. The taxpayer treats the option or other derivative as open until a barrier event occurs, and, therefore, does not recognize or report current period gains. The gains are deferred until the contract terminates, at which time the overall net gain is reported as a long term capital gain. LB&I has developed a training strategy for this campaign. The approaches for this campaign will be issue-based examinations, soft letters to material advisors, and practitioner outreach. (8) Land developers; completed contract method (CCM) campaign. Large land developers that construct in residential communities may be improperly using the CCM of accounting. A developer, whose average annual gross receipts exceed $10 million may only use the CCM under a home construction contract. In some cases, developers are improperly deferring all gain until the entire development is completed. LB&I will provide training for revenue agents assigned to work this issue. The approach includes development of a practice unit, issuance of soft letters, and follow-up with issue-based examinations when warranted. (9) TEFRA linkage plan strategy campaign. As partnerships have become larger and more complex, LB&I has regularly revised processes to assess tax on the terminal investors. Recent legal advice provides an opportunity to make significant changes to how IRS approaches this process. This campaign focuses on developing new procedures and technology to work collaboratively with the revenue agent conducting the TEFRA partnership examination (i.e., the uniform partnership audit rules under the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA, P.L. 97-248, 9/3/1982)) to identify, link, and assess tax to the terminal investors that pose the most significant compliance risk. (10) S corporation losses claimed in excess of basis campaign. The law limits S corporation shareholders' losses and deductions to their basis in the corporation. LB&I has found that shareholders claim losses and deductions to which they are not entitled because they do not have sufficient stock or debt basis to absorb these items. LB&I has developed technical content for this campaign that will aid revenue agents as they examine the issue. The approaches for this campaign will be issue-based examinations, soft letters encouraging voluntary self-correction, conducting stakeholder outreach, and creating a new form for shareholders to assist in properly computing their basis. (11) Repatriation campaign. LB&I is aware of different repatriation structures being used for purposes of tax-free repatriation of funds into the U.S. in the mid-market population. It has also been determined that many of the taxpayers do not properly report repatriations as taxable events on their filed returns. The goal of this campaign is to simultaneously improve issue selection filters while conducting examinations on identified, high risk repatriation issues and thereby increase taxpayer compliance. (12) Form 1120-F non-filer campaign. Foreign companies doing business in the U.S. are often required to file Form 1120-F (U.S. Income Tax Return of a Foreign Corporation). LB&I has data suggesting that many of these companies are not meeting their filing obligations. In this campaign, LB&I will use various external data sources to identify these foreign companies and encourage them to file their required returns. The approach for this campaign will involve soft letter outreach. If the companies do not take appropriate action, LB&I will conduct examinations to determine the correct tax liability. The goal is to increase voluntary compliance by foreign corporations with a U.S. business nexus. (13) Inbound distributor campaign. U.S. distributors of goods sourced from foreign-related parties have incurred losses or small profits on U.S. returns, which are not commensurate with the functions performed and risks assumed. In many cases, the U.S. taxpayer would be entitled to higher returns in arms-length transactions. LB&I has developed a comprehensive training strategy for this campaign that will aid revenue agents as they examine this Code Sec. 482 issue. The approach for this campaign will be issue-based examinations. LB&I Rolls Out New Issue-Based Compliance Campaigns; Considering Impact of Regulatory Freeze CCH Tax Day Report The IRS Large and International Business (LB&I) Division has identified and described the initial rollout of 13 new campaigns. These campaigns help LB&I move in the direction of issue-based examinations and a compliance campaign process where the organization decides which compliance issues present risks and the best way to respond to such risks. O’Donnell was also asked how LB&I planned to deal with the current regulatory freeze issued by President Trump’s administration (TAXDAY, 2017/02/01, W.1). “The executive orders coming out are being reviewed by the Service and that manner in which we will respond to them is still under consideration,” he stated. “Effectively, we’re thinking about [the campaigns] as a holistic response to an item of either known or potential compliance risks,” LB&I Commissioner Doug O’Donnell, told reporters on January 31. He stopped short of suggesting that compliance problems are pervasive in nature. “We are not saying that we know that we have a problem, nor that every instance where one of these campaign items might be on a return that there is noncompliance. What we are saying is that we either believe, or have indication that, there is risk, or we are concerned that there could be and we need to look at it in more depth,” O’Donnell stated. The 13 campaigns correspond with a number of different potential tax issues, such as the Code Sec. 48C energy credit, micro-captive insurance, related-party transactions and repatriation. The campaigns themselves fall within specific LB&I practice areas and have lead executives at the helm. “We look at the [transactions on a return] where we think there is risk, and we respond according to what we see,” O’Donnell described. “That response typically has been an examination. But what we are doing going forward [is] changing taxpayer behavior where there is noncompliance to compliance. So our efforts with treatment streams will not be limited to audits,” he said. “In thinking of [the campaigns], we are thinking about describing risks, describing what we would like to see a taxpayer do, and working through that whole process in a campaign utilizing a number of treatment streams.” O’Donnell said when describing LB&I’s aims with the campaigns. He described what LB&I is currently implementing as “a new way of conducting business as usual and dealing with issues of potential noncompliance and how we respond to them.” The Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday publicly released its first set of major focus areas that it will target during audits of the largest corporations with assets greater than $10 million since it first announced an overhaul of these audit procedures nearly two years ago. The agency’s Large Business and International division identified 13 so-called campaigns in a number of practice areas, including enterprise activities, cross-border activities and pass-through entities, in which it said it will move toward issue-based examinations instead of the old approach of placing large multinational businesses under continuous audit by a rolling team of examiners. “This is a significant milestone for LB&I in the campaign effort,” the IRS said. “This approach makes use of IRS knowledge and deploys the right resources to address those issues … LB&I is investing the time and resources necessary to build well-run and well-planned compliance campaigns.” Among the 13 campaigns listed, the long-awaited guidance seeks to ensure compliance in related-party transactions, “basket transactions” in which taxpayers try to defer and treat ordinary income and short-term capital gain as long-term capital gain, accounting methods used by large land developers in residential communities, the reporting of S-corporation losses, repatriation structures and the claiming of losses by U.S. distributors of goods sourced from foreign-related parties in transfer pricing structures. The announcement identifies the lead executives for each campaign and gives a glimpse of how the IRS will approach these audits by encouraging voluntary compliance, conducting stakeholder outreach, developing new procedures and technology, and carrying out issue-based examinations. Citing resource constraints, the IRS first announced a reorganization of the LB&I division in June 2015, which involved winding down the coordinated industry case, or CIC, program of continuous audits and targeting areas for examination based on compliance risks instead. Since then, there have been scant details on how exactly large business audits — when businesses are suspected of evading taxes on significant sums of money — will change under the new regime. The agency said that its campaigns are the culmination of extensive data analysis, suggestions from IRS compliance employees and feedback from the tax community, and that still more campaigns will be launched in the coming months. “Campaign development requires strategic planning and deployment of resources, training and tools, metrics and feedback,” it said.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5320147275924683, "wiki_prob": 0.5320147275924683, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1256644"}
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The wedding of Ivy Getty – an heiress of the Getty Oil household fortune – was a three-day extravaganza crammed with powerful people and much more highly effective imagery. ‘Here we’re, Sept. 30th, faculty has began, kids have been in class with masks and the protocols have been in place,’ Freeland stated on Thursday. The photos of Pelosi at the wedding ceremony have once more introduced into focus the sharp distinction between the political and social sporting of masks by lawmakers. Trump Ends Disastrous Shutdown Where He Began: With No Wall China Abandons Key Components Of Zero-covid Strategy After Protests	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.6868231296539307, "wiki_prob": 0.6868231296539307, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line12547"}
3 Mobile Apps to Help You Make Good Habits -- Or Break Bad Ones These digital tools can help you stay on track and stick to your New Year's resolutions, for once. By Cynthia Boris • Jan 1, 2014 Originally published Jan 1, 2014 It's that time of year when we all make a commitment to break a bad habit or develop a good one. First week of January, it's all smooth sailing but by the end of the month, not so much. It's not you. Habits can be difficult to make and break, especially when you're trying to make a change on your own. What you might need is some virtual support. Whether you respond better to social pressure, cold facts or satirical humor, there's an app to help you stay on track. Here are three that might be worth checking out: 1. Way of Life - The Ultimate Habit Maker & Breaker This data-driven app is designed to make tracking quick and easy. Simply type in the behavior you want to start or stop, then check the yes or no box on a daily basis. If you forget to check-in, the app sends a push notification to keep you on track. Once you've entered several days' worth of data, Way of Life creates a bar graph showing your progress in days or a percentage. You can also switch on the trend lines to get a better picture of your highs and lows. Habits take time, so the app has the ability to chart the last six weeks, six months or two years. If you're trying to develop a once-a-week habit, you can use the blue skip button so you don't accrue unwanted red marks for bad behavior. The free version of the iPhone app is fully functional but limits you to only three habits. To load more items, you can purchase the pro version for $4.99. Related: Business Apps to Use Now (Video) 2. Lift Instead of cold hard facts, Lift uses community support to help you make or break a habit. For almost every habit there's an expert-led group that can help you come up with achievable goals. Instead of "I want to lose 50 pounds" it's "Eat one fruit a day for 21 days." To record your progress, tap the big green button. Fall short one day? Lift says put it behind you and try to beat your best streak the next time. With the science of positive reinforcement at the core, Lift asks you to make a seven-day commitment. That's all. If you can stick with the plan for a week, then you're on the road to making or breaking a habit. Lift is free for the iPhone and iPad or Android phone. 3. Carrot Let's play a game. It's called "Don't Suck at Life." That's how the developer chose to introduce Carrot to the world. This app has attitude. Though designed for a traditional To Do list, Carrot can help you make or break habits by dangling rewards (aka carrots) in front of you. When you complete tasks you get points which you can use to unlock features, purchase cheat codes or gain access to a virtual kitten. . . a kitten you can dress in a pirate costume. Yes, seriously. Slack off and Carrot gets angry which leads to it calling you names and sending you angry messages. Even nice Carrot is a little mean because she's known to offer you a brownie as a reward when sticking to your diet. If you're extremely competitive and respond well to negative reinforcement, Carrot's the app for you. It's available for the iPhone or iPad and it costs $1.99. Related: How You Can Form Good Habits and Stick to Them Cynthia Boris Cynthia Boris is a freelance writer based in Orange County, Calif. Covering all things tech and TV, her work has appeared on websites such as Tecca, MarketingPilgrim, SheKnows and io9. Technology Apps Productivity Apps Habits How to Make Money in Logistics and Shipping as a Freight Broker Being a freight broker can be a lucrative career, but it requires sidestepping these 10 common mistakes. By Eric Weisbrot 'This Just Can't Be for Real': Fyre Festival Fraudster Billy McFarland is Now Hiring For His New Tech Company -- And He's Already Selling Merch McFarland was released from house arrest last September and is currently being ordered to pay $26 million in restitution to fraud victims.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5007864236831665, "wiki_prob": 0.4992135763168335, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line348893"}
Gran Canaria, the island that grew the least in population in 20 years The population of Gran Canaria has grown less than the average for the archipelago. / C7 The Istac director stressed in Parliament that in 15 years, the population of the archipelago will increase by 15.5% B. HERNANDEZ The Gran Canarian palms Friday, December 2, 2022, 01:00 Gran Canaria It is the island of the archipelago that has had, along with La Palma, a lower population growth in the last 20 yearsAround a This was highlighted yesterday the director of the Canary Institute of Statistics (Istac), Gonzalo Rodríguezin the Commission on The demographic challenge and the population balance in the Canary Islands of the regional Parliament. The expert stressed that the demographic framework in the Canary Islands and its projection is determined by variables such as the increasewhich will continue as it has occurred in recent decades, a "inexorable" aging» of the population, the feminization of agingthe increase in migratory pressure or the birth decline. In addition, he explained that when talking about the demographic burden of the territory, it is necessary to include the resident population, tourism and temporary laborbecause they allow the planning of resources. island growth In his speech, Rodríguez highlighted that in 1981the population in the Canary Islands amounted to 1.367.646 personas; 20 years latersaid, had grown 30%, up to 1,781,366 inhabitants. Nevertheless, in the next two decades grew less, a 22% up to 2.1 million in 2021. According to the data detailed in the parliamentary commission, Fuerteventura is the island that more has grown in these 20 years: practically a 100% reaching 120,000 people, followed by Lanzarotewho has uploaded a 62% and has 155,464 inhabitants. La Gomera has seen its population grow at a 18,8% up to 21,000 people at the same time The iron has been placed with 11,298, which is a 32% of growth. Tenerife has grown significantly, 31% and registers almost 930,000 people. Instead, he drew attention to the fact that Gran Canaria Its population has only increased 15% and stands at 852,688, while La Palma "has hardly gone up at all"according to Rodriguez. These figures, pointed out the Istac director, "obviously are related to the aging"which represents one of the most important demographic challenges. So, he said, the older than 65 years in the year 2000 they were 11.6% of the Canaries (200,000 people), a percentage that has risen by five points in 2021 (361,000). On the contrary, the inhabitants of 14 years and under has dropped from 16% to 12% in these two decades and stands at 272,800 people. demographic projection Refering to demographic projection according to him INEGonzalo Rodríguez pointed out that in By 2037, the Canary Islands will have increased its population by 15.5%which in his opinion "is not much because the autonomous community needs more population and more immigrants." As for the migratory balance expected, from the 12,700 people in 2021 it will go to 36,000 in 2026; 27,000 in 2031 and 18,000 in the year 2036. Tags: aging, birth rate, Canary Islands, demography, population, population growth Previous The Canary Islands and the State give themselves "a few weeks" to propose solutions to the rise in air fares Next The Government will analyze whether there are abusive practices by airlines X-ray of the Spanish politician: sociable, conscientious and imaginative The Government guarantees that the interests of the Canary Islands will be "well defended" at the Rabat summit The President of the Government stresses that the world food program is a unique instrument against hunger The Canary Islands will ask Brussels to extend the tax aid ceiling for audiovisual productions The "indecorous" behavior of the deputies will be penalized	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5904962420463562, "wiki_prob": 0.5904962420463562, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line282323"}
Bahzani Broadcast The Lastest News Maryland man’s persistence pays off with Pick 5 lottery jackpot By bahzaniorg July 22, 2022 July 19, 2022 A Maryland Lottery man who has bought a Pick 5 ticket bearing the same numbers every day since the game began earlier this year had his persistence pay off with a $25,000 prize. The 70-year-old Baltimore County man told Maryland Lottery officials he has purchased a Pick 5 ticket every day since the game started in February, and his tickets always bear the numbers 2-2-5-5-2. “It’s my birthday,” he said of the numbers’ significance. “As soon as Pick 5 started, I knew I had to play. I’ve always liked these five numbers together for some reason, so I knew the game was meant for me.” The man said he was shocked when the ticket he bought from Ingleside Liquors in Catonsville turned out to be a big winner in the July 1 drawing. “I walked into the living room just as the Pick 5 drawing was happening on TV,” he said. “I saw each number come up, the two 2s, then the two 5s and the last 2 — each in the exact order. I couldn’t believe it.” The ticket earned the man a $25,000 prize. “I’ve not been able to sleep much since I won. I’ve been excited and anxious to get the claiming process under way and finished. I’m afraid I’ve kept my wife up many of these nights,” he said. The winner said the prize money will allow him to make it up to his wife. “Our 25th wedding anniversary is coming up soon,” he said. “I told her to pick where she wanted to go and I’d make it happen.” Switzerland camp hit by stomach bug before clash with Sweden Amazon is giving away Mass Effect and a bunch of other games for Prime Day bahzaniorg VIEW ALL POSTS BY bahzaniorg The aim of whip rule changes is to influence behaviour, not issue penalties US hospital adverse events drop significantly Hedge fund Elliott, Jane Street invoke Human Rights in LME nickel lawsuit Intel’s 12th Gen CPU can’t handle the Bar exam Escaped kangaroo named Jackie Leggs captured in Alabama	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8967725038528442, "wiki_prob": 0.8967725038528442, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line719041"}
/ “Brothers” 16 x 20 20 x 24 20 x 30 30 x 40 60 x 40 16 x 20 - $534.00 CAD 20 x 24 - $669.00 CAD 20 x 30 - $804.00 CAD 30 x 40 - $2,027.00 CAD 60 x 40 - $2,972.00 CAD With Ermanno Cuoghi by his side, Niki Lauda won two World Championships, and then created the most heroic return in sports history, just missing a third title in 1976. Here, at the 1977 US Grand Prix prepares to win his second title. Friday morning, I ran into Ermanno outside the Ferrari team’s motorhome. He asked if I had any photos to deliver to Niki. I said, why yes! Ermanno suggested I enter the motorhome and give them to Niki. He then reached up, opened the door and told Niki someone was there to see him - and then pushed me up the stairs. I entered to find Niki, Carlos Reutemann and Mauro Forgieri in a white-hot discussion. Niki said, “thank Ermanno for sending you in, with a wink. “We’ll catch up later”. I couldn’t run down the stairs faster. That’s when a grinning Ermanno gave me the inside story. When Ferrari learned that Cuoghi was following Lauda to Brabham the next season, he had been fired on the spot and told to leave the team before the race started. Lauda had other ideas and demanded that his "brother" be with him as his mechanic "or else". The Scuderia relented, but told Cuoghi he couldn't wear his team jacket. Here, Ermanno hovers over Lauda, wearing his Scuderia jacket's black lining inside out.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5246465802192688, "wiki_prob": 0.4753534197807312, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1065980"}
The Carabiniers du Prince celebrate Saint Sebastian by: Staff Writer The ceremonies commemorating San Sebastián, Patron Saint of the Carabiniers of the Prince, were celebrated in the presence of HSH the Sovereign Prince and HSH Princess Stephanie, Godmother of the Carabiniers. A solemn mass, presided over by Monsignor Bernard Barsi, Archbishop of Monaco, and cocelebrated by Fr. Guillaume Paris, Vicar General, Fr Daniel Deltreuil, Parish Priest of the Cathedral and Father César V. Penzo, Military Chaplain of the Force Publique, was celebrated in the Cathedral of Monaco. HSH Prince Albert II accompanied by the Carabiniers during the ceremony at the Oceanographic Museum © Manuel Vitali – Directorate of Communication During the service, the Orchester des Carabiniers, conducted by Major Olivier Dréan, and accompanied by Stéphane Catalanotti to the great organ, interpreted the traditional music of San Sebastián. A cocktail, preceded by an address by the Prince Carabiniers Corps Chief, Commander Gilles Convertini, was then offered to the participants, in the conference room of the Oceanographic Museum. This year, for the first time since taking office, Colonel Tony Varo, Commander of the Force Publique was present alongside Commander Gilles Convertini. AS Monaco’s Groupe Élite were beaten by a stron	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5704519748687744, "wiki_prob": 0.4295480251312256, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line694639"}
Home » Gross Abuse » Imprisonment & Deaths Elijah Doughty and Trayvon Martin: Victims of Modern Vigilantism It remains to be seen how Australians will respond to Elijah Doughty's killing and the deep historical violence that underpins it. (Nathan Moris - ABC) Ethan Blue ABC Religion and Ethics 7 Sep 2016 Vigilantism is a concept often - wrongly, it turns out - associated with the nineteenth century, before the development of a fully modern legal system. But vigilantism, and especially in its ugly racial forms, is very much with us today. In February 2012, a self-appointed neighborhood watch member named George Zimmerman chased Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African American high school student, through the streets of Sanford, Florida, and shot him dead. Trayvon Martin's killing, and the courts failure to hold Zimmerman accountable, gave rise to the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Last week, a 55-year-old man, whose name is not yet publically known, hounded 14-year-old Elijah Doughty through the streets of Kalgoorlie, and ran him down with his truck. In each case, a vigilante suspected a young person of colour of wrongdoing, and pursued and killed him. In each case, the vigilante executed summary justice, believing that he was acting in the role of the police. In each case, he tried to replace the police who, as the family of West Australia's Miss Dhu and Missouri's Mike Brown know, have no great record of respecting the civil or human rights of young people of colour. George Zimmerman, (left) and murdered Trayvon Martin We only need to think about treatment of youngsters at the Don Dale detention centre, or the untold numbers killed by the U.S. police, to see how vigilante and legally sanctioned police violence treat these young people as an enemy to contain or destroy. Zimmerman was armed and prowling the streets anticipating violence. He carried a firearm and pursued Martin, even after police told him not to. We know from Facebook posts that many in Kalgoorlie had fantasized about killing youngsters for stealing bikes. "Run the fuckers over," read one post; "I'll run them over for ya buddy if I see them," read another. A third: "if the cops won't do fun [sic] all then what's stopping any one of yas from tracking these assholes down and dealing with them 'old school'??" The implication of "old school" is, of course, of a past of freewheeling white citizen violence, unencumbered by the rule of law, the rights of the accused, or due process. When the police, the courts, politicians and media impugn the dead children and symbolically or legally exonerate the grown men who killed them, can anyone really be surprised that their communities take to the streets to demand justice? No more surprised than when commentators fixate on protestors' momentary violence - a shattered courthouse window, a cut on a policeman's cheek - but say nothing about centuries of structural violence and dispossession. When West Australian Attorney-General Michael Mischin referred to Kalgoorlie's political uprising and protest as a "lynch mob" - the very phrase conjuring images of hooded Klansmen murdering black men accused of crimes - he revealed an astounding ignorance of who the historical perpetrators of racial violence have been. We deserve more from our politicians than this political sleight of hand, trying to claim victim status for the Kalgoorlie police, and portray Aboriginal protestors as the aggressor. As Doughty's cousin, Hayley Garlett explained: Elijah's family and their supporters say they want justice. (Picture: Bohdan Warchomij - news.com.au) "Everything that happened took away the focus over what happened to Elijah ... We want everyone to unite because we can't keep going on like this ... It's sad we've lost him and just want justice now." Aboriginal people, African Americans and Native Americans have reacted to generations of racist violence with understandable anger, but more so, with remarkable restraint. They have built new movements and revitalized older ones to cherish Aboriginal, Black and Native lives, and proclaim that their lives - like refugees' lives - matter. When they do, they hold Australia, and the United States, to the high ideals each country has long proclaimed but rarely met. George Zimmerman was exonerated of wrongdoing in Trayvon Martin's killing. Many are sceptical that Kalgoorlie justice is any more likely to hold Elijah's killer to account, and see street protest, and uprising as a necessary means of expressing discontent. It remains to be seen how Australians will respond to Doughty's killing and the deep historical violence that underpins it. Ethan Blue is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Western Australia, specialising in the history of punishment, immigration history and labour history. He is the author of Doing Time in the Depression: Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons. Aboriginal boys at a vigil held in Kalgoorlie after the death of Elijah Doughty. (Nathan Morris - ABC)	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5480963587760925, "wiki_prob": 0.5480963587760925, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1159408"}
3 Growth Stocks Peter Lynch Would Buy Today by 2ton Peter Lynch’s stock-picking acumen is legendary, and our top contributors think that if he were running Fidelity Magellan today, he might consider owning these stocks. Perhaps the most well-known portfolio manager of our time is Peter Lynch, who spear-headed Fidelity’s Magellan into a fund with tens of billions of dollars under management, and whose book, “Beating The Street,” was a New York Times best-seller. Lynch isn’t managing money publicly anymore, but the lessons he shared with investors in his book do offer clues as to what stocks he might favor today if he were. For instance, Lynch may have found Transocean Offshore (NYSE:RIG), First Solar (NASDAQ:FSLR), and IMAX (NYSE:IMAX) too hard to pass up. Read on to find out why. Alluring-ly good deal Todd Campbell (Transocean Offshore): Peter Lynch was a growth-oriented investor, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t like getting a good deal. The highly regarded mutual fund manager owned more than 1,000 stocks when he ran Fidelity Magellan, and many of those stocks were top-tier companies, operating in unloved industries, with cheap price-to-book values. In my view, that description matches up nicely with Transocean Offshore (NYSE:RIG), the country’s biggest offshore oil & gas drilling company. Oil & gas producers turn to Transocean to explore for new reserves during commodity boon times, and they shun the company when commodity prices plummet. Given falling oil and gas prices over the past few years, it’s unsurprising that demand for Transocean’s rigs has slowed to a trickle. The good news, though, is that the sell-off in Transocean Offshore’s shares means investors can buy this industry-leader for only 0.37 times its book value. Assuming Transocean Offshore isn’t going out of business (and I don’t think it is), its shares could be a bargain-basement buy if oil and gas prices improve. Interestingly, that may already be happening. The United States Oil Fund LP(NYSEMKT:USO) has climbed from a low of $8 a year ago to about $11 today, and that’s led to a bounce-back in rig activity. Last week, there were 665 active rigs in the U.S., up from about 400 rigs in May, according to Baker Hughes. Granted, it may take a while for increasing demand to prop up day rates for Transocean’s rigs, but with rig slack getting taken up, I think this company’s shares have a good shot at heading higher over the coming year as this company kick-starts itself back to growth. Fitting two categories of the Peter Lynch approach Tyler Crowe (First Solar): Peter Lynch liked to divide up companies into several different categories. One of those was known as asset opportunities. Basically, it’s a part of the market that Wall Street has either overlooked or viewed rather poorly as of late. As a result, the underlying assets of the business aren’t being priced appropriately. One company that seems to fit the mold of both a growth stock as well as an asset opportunity today is solar panel manufacturer First Solar. In terms of room for growth, solar power has a very long, lucrative runway. According to the Bloomberg New Energy Finance outlook, 64% of all installed generation capacity over the next 25 years, about 8.6 terrawatts’ worth, will come from alternative energy. Just for perspective, the U.S.’s total generation capacity currently stands at 1.1 terrawatts. Even if solar has to duke it out with wind for a piece of that pie, that is a immense pie to share. Even thought there is ample room to grow in this industry, it does tend to go through a few ups and downs, like any cyclical industry, and this is one of those times. As a result, shares of First Solar are trading at a price that makes it a unique asset opportunity. First Solar’s stock currently trades at 6.8 times trailing-12-months earnings. What is even more astounding is that the company has over $2 billion in cash on the balance sheet. If you back out cash from the market capitalization — something Peter Lynch professed to doing when valuing companies — then First Solar trades for an even more incredible 2.7 times earnings. First Solar and the rest of the industry may be headed into one of its tougher patches, but the way in which the market is valuing First Solar today screams “asset opportunity” in the Peter Lynch mold of investing. Focus on the big picture Brian Feroldi (IMAX): One of Peter Lynch’s principles was to “buy what you know.” As a movie lover, I can attest firsthand to the allure of IMAX’s brand. The company’s massive screens have a way of pulling in viewers like no other format can, which makes sense given that watching a movie in IMAX is something that cannot be replicated at home. Given that backdrop, you might be scratching your head as to why IMAX’s sales only grew by 2% last quarter. The answer is that the movie business is lumpy, so any given quarter’s results will be heavily influenced by box-office sales. For that reason, I like to keep my attention focused on installations and new theater signings as a way to measure the company’s progress. Thankfully, IMAX is doing quite well on both fronts. The company is guiding for at least 155 new installs in 2016, and it sold a record 162 new systems in the third quarter alone. Those are terrific numbers that should tell investors that the long-term thesis for investing in this business remains intact. Looking ahead, I think investors can bank on growth picking up in the not-too-distant future. IMAX’s current backlog of theater installs stands at 547, which should take the company several years to work through. Box-office revenue should also come roaring back to life thanks to new installments of the Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Wars, and Pirates of the Caribbean franchises on deck. Add it all up, and I can’t help but think IMAX is a stock Peter Lynch would love to own. History reveals potential Trump gold mine for 2017 We aren’t politicos here at The Motley Fool. But we know a great investing opportunity when we see one. Our analysts spotted what could be a $1.6 trillion opportunity lurking in Donald Trump’s infrastructure plans. And given this team’s superb track record (more than tripling the market over the past decade), you don’t want to miss what they found. They’ve picked 11 stocks poised to profit from Trump’s first 100 days as president. History has shown that getting in early on a good idea can often pay big bucks – so don’t miss out on this moment. Click here to get access to the full list! Stock Advisor returns as of January 3, 2017 Brian Feroldi owns shares of IMAX. Todd Campbell owns shares of Transocean. Tyler Crowe owns shares of First Solar. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends IMAX. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. 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The plumbers story by Sjoerd Visser > Index < A plumbing story We would like to start with a quotation: A plumbing story. There is an old story that goes something like this: A man calls a plumber to his home to solve a problem with one of his pipes. The plumber looks around and listens for about 10 minutes, and then he grabs a pipe wrench and hits a pipe three or four times in the same place. The problem is quickly solved. The plumber then hands the man his bill, and the man is shocked to see that the invoice is for $200. The man objects, “How on earth can you charge $200 for simply banging on a pipe three or four times with a pipe wrench? I demand that you clarify this bill.” The plumber takes the invoice from the man, recalculates it, and hands it back. The invoice now reads: Item one: Hitting the pipe with a pipe wrench–$2.00 Item two: Knowing to hit the pipe with the pipe wrench–$99 Item three: Knowing where and how to hit it–$99. If you’ve ever had a plumbing problem, and you are not a plumber, you know that doing it yourself is probably the most expensive option available to you. It isn’t what you do, and you don’t do it enough to do it well. The art of hitting the pipe with a pipe wrench resembles the diagnostic technique of medical percussion: Tapping several times on the body surface to determine underlying structures. Percussion was first described by the polymath Avicenna, the father of modern medicine. And like so many explorative diagnostic techniques, it can be done in a rather speculative way or in a more professional way. For a layman, the methods used by professionals and amateurs could look the same. What then justifies that huge difference in payment between them? Was it knowledge, skill and craft or just good luck that the father of modern medicine or a professional plumber based his decisions on? Probably both good luck and skills to evaluate beneficial events were initially needed. But lucky days do not last that long, so learned skills and craft become more important in time. For this reason the tapping and listening skills had to be replicated in time, to be refined and distributed among peers. And with growing experience under many different circumstances, by way of trial and error, clever heuristic skills could develop to become well established scientific techniques. Wisdom relying on empirically found facts, and thus not just based on from hearing say opinions found in wisdom books. The important empirical question becomes: Could you really hear a distinct pattern? Have you heard it before? When and where? How well do you tap? How well do you listen? Could you reproduce your findings? When doing percussion and encountering unexpected dullness in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen, physicians tap (probe) several times in that region before they would conclude that the patients liver or some other organ residing there was enlarged. They know that a normal liver is palpable after full inspiration just below the right costal margin. They know the human anatomy. They know where to look for signs. But do astrologers likewise know where to look for astrological signs? An amateur astrologer scanning a horoscope for significant astrological patterns might expect to have a hit with some incidental findings. He could get many like's on Astrology Forums with remarks like: I came just across some astrological pattern and I wonder about its meaning. Like-minded astrology fans could even fill long Astrodienst Forum threads with it. Just like the Hallelujah on religious forums when somebody returned to The Lord. Coincidence does not exist. It all comes true. But without any objective and rational means to evaluate your findings, it would only be some field-dependent astrological small talk. When the observation had a small sample size, here only one particular case, it would be impossible to jump to any conclusion. As one cannot generalise or judge on the basis of just one case. Even if fits your favorite theory perfectly well. Just like you cannot conclude that a dice is false after only a few throws. That conclusion would only be reasonable when you approach more and more statistical significance for that argument after many similar observations with only a few throws left... But ADB forum members could speculate on it endlessly under the wrong supposition that chance does not exist in their particular field of knowledge. As it once happened to them and for them important others, they saw its significance before. But there are also field independent methods to calculate the expected risks involved with a 12 sided dice (regular dodecahedron). For the polymath, gambler and astrologer Gerolamo Cardano binomial mathematics was such a basic tool. In elementary algebra, the binomial theorem (or binomial expansion) describes the algebraic expansion of powers of a binomial. ... The coefficient a in the term of a xb yc is known as the binomial coefficient or (the two have the same value). These coefficients for varying n and b can be arranged to form Pascal's triangle. We mentioned Cardano in our quantitative study on 79 art critics: Geronimo Cardano and the Book on Games of Chance. Between fun with dices and the law of the large numbers, there is a lot of room for speculation, the polymath Gerolamo Cardano found out (Wikipedia): Gerolamo (or Girolamo,or Geronimo Cardano (Italian:[d.e.r.lamo kar.dano]; French: J'erome Cardan; Latin: Hieronymus Cardanus; 24 September 1501 - 21 September 1576) was an Italian polymath, whose interests and proficiencies ranged from being a mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher, writer, and gambler. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance, and was one of the key figures in the foundation of probability and the earliest introducer of the binomial coefficients and the binomial theorem in the Western world. He wrote more than 200 works on science. Recently the physicist Michael Brooks wrote an interesting book about Cardano: The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook: The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook: A History of the Renaissance Mathematics That Birthed Imaginary Numbers, Probability, and the New Physics of the Universe Paperback – April 6, 2021 So, I would propose we should first study his ideas about our quantum reality. Ideas that were based on the triangle of Pascal and the thinking of other mathematical giants like Pythagoras: Four is all, but 1+2+3+4 sum as 10/1, a new beginning in the not yet ended sixth day. How to use and abuse the binomial distribution to do small scale astrology research A simple binomial calculator as shown below is very handy for probability questions like: I have seen 12 charts of plumbers. Four of them have Mercury in Scorpio. Do we have a case for astrology? [Of course providing a single case for that argument would not be that convincing, as we deal with astrological patterns that should be visible in the empirical reality. On the many exceptions on the rule a genial gambler like Cardano could not rely in the future] Of course the answer depends on the found and expected values. If this astrological finding would also be quite common in other professions, we would not have a case for astrology. Statisticians would say that the event might as well occur in any random sample. And this is almost always the case with scores near the expected mean. But most astrologers have little knowledge of the sampling error that is involved with the many deviations around an expected mean value. So when getting values of zero, two, three or four as times as expected, when on average one case could be expected under 12 plumbers, most statisticians would not be impressed. Even though the relative differences (this never happened before or I found this event twice to or even four times as often as expected) might look impressive. The problem is that the effect size of your first throw with a six sided dice, is also six times higher than expected. As you found one case against 1/6 expected. But that would not let you reasonably conclude that the risks of the other five possibilities should be much lower. That would be a thinking error. The point is that you cannot see all possibilities in a small sampling experiment. And to effectively deal with this fact, you have to use the laws of statitics, if you like it or not. A quick glance at the binomial distribution on the right would tell you that the risk of aselectively getting 4 out of 12 cases of Mercury in Scorpio is 1,19 % and that of the risk of getting 4 or more out of 12 is 1,19 + 0,19% is 1,38% (The 1-Cum value refers to >3, which equals to the risk of 4 and beyond). So this could be a case for astrology. As the found value of 4 out of 12, against only one expected (effect size 4) differs more than usual from the expected values 0 to 3, being on average found in 98,62 % of cases (Cum. table). Values of 4 and more would thus be statistically significant, as they lie outside the 95% range of values around the mean that scientists regard as to be expected by chance. But this finding could also be a case of selective attention. Noticing and discussing only what strikes you, but neglecting the many evident other usual events that did not fit your theory. Then your presented case would not be different from a randomly chosen sample, but a case of cherry-picking: Presenting a particular case that is not representative of the whole. An astrological explanation that plumbers solve problems with underground water pipes, so no wonder plumbers have more often Mercury in Scorpio might seem a valid symbolic explanation. But when a much larger study could not confirm that association, that symbolic explanation would have no value anymore. One question thus remains thus paramount when dealing with unlikely events: Could you or another researcher repeat this finding? For that reason, more data would be required. Of course not in the form of more comments and likes on facebook, but real data from another preferably a-selectively chosen sample of plumbers. When another researcher would do three more observations of plumbers with a negative result (having an expected risk of 77%, use n= 3 and p=1/12 in the calculator), the resulting score of 4 out of 15 could be expected in 2,53 % of cases and the risk of getting > 3 cases of Mercury in Scorpio would become 3,12 %. That result would not have enough statistical significance. But astrologers could believe that chance could not exist in this particular case. What is happening here? It is called regression toward the mean. Without doubt publication of this small scale plumber study in a scientific paper is unlikely to happen, because the results could so easily be refuted by doing some more observations. Only when suspected astrological effects could be confirmed by many more observations, we could speak of trend. Regrettably, writers of astrology books seldom mention probabilities. Instead, they typically use suggestive terms like could and might in tautological statements that are always true and thus cannot be predictive. Nevertheless, doing some fact checking should not hurt. Did we see more often find Mercury in Scorpio under ADB plumbers than expected? The ADB has a category Vocation / Building_Trades / Plumber. Here are the results of the adb_export_181128_2309 export file, which has 10 entries. With an expected frequency np is 10/12 = 0,83, Mercury in Scorpio showed up twice against 0,83 expected (mean effect size 2,4). Moreover, personal planets in Scorpio were found twice as often than expected. But as this plumber sample is very small, it is not yet possible to statistically associate Scorpio with plumbers. Even if some astrological symbolism seems to apply. Because higher and lower values than expected happen all the time when taking small samples of a larger population. And this ADB category of 10 plumbers from ten thousands of plumbers is unlikely to be representative. The binomial calculator But let us start with calculating the probabilities. You can download the binomial calculator spreadsheet used here as: Binomial_distribution_for_astrology.xlsx or Binomial_distribution_for_astrology.ods. It has two entry fields: n = for number, denoting the number of throws with a dice or the sample size and p = for probability is, which is the probability of the event you are interested in. Here we have a sample of 10 plumbers (n = 10) with a risk that planet X is found in one of the 12 signs of 1/12. If you fill in +1/12 for p, the calculator calculates it as 0,08333 for you. But don't forget to enter the + sign, otherwise you see an error. If you would fill in n is 1, you would get that in 91,67 % (1 - 11/12) of cases the score would be 0 and in 8,33% (1/12) of cases the score would be 1. That is obvious. But when the sample size grows, the binomial calculations become increasingly more complex and the binomial calculator will be of great help. The binomial calculator on the right shows that the value zero for planet in sign is expected in 4,189% (Px=0) of cases. Although the frequency zero scores are lower than the expected mean of 0,83, zero is also the most likely value (mode), so you cannot simply equate individual zero outcomes with less often than expected. We found them 34 times of the 70 counts (48%), thus only 6% more than the expected 29 or 30 of a random ADB sample of 10 (np=700,4189 = 29,3). Some zero values could be special, but we cannot infer which ones they are are. A much larger sample size would be required to study this. How large? You could estimate the needed sample size by filling in higher values for n: with n = 50, P(x -0) = 1,29 %, so getting a 0 would be significant at the 5% level, with n =70 the risk of getting a zero would be 0,35 %. We might observe that 6 of the 34 found zero values were found in the water sign cancer. How special is that? We might expect the 34 zero values to be evenly distributed between all 12 signs. The binomial risk involved with this event is 3,94 % (Px=6, n=34 and p = 1/12) and P (x>5, n=34 and p = 1/12) is 5,96% . The risk of getting a frequency of one is 38,08%. Frequencies of 1 were found 35 times (50% of 70), against 26 or 27 times expected (np is 700,3808 = 26,66). But because this second most likely value is so near the mean of of the group (0,83), we could ignore the found cases because of their small effect size (12/10 = 1,2) . The risk of getting a frequency of two for a particular planet in sign with 10 throws is 15,58%. Now 13 out of 70 (18,6%) values of 2 were found against 15,58% (10,9) expected, so nothing special happened. But their concentration in the water sign scorpio is remarkable. We come back on it later. The risk of getting a frequency of three is 3,78%. There were three cases (6%) against 3,8% (2,6) expected. They were Jupiter in Aries and Sun and Mercury in Pisces. Again water signs predominate. Frequencies of 3 or more were expected to be found in 4,45% of cases (The 1-Cum value for k = 2 or P(x>2)). That is more often than the 2,5 % statisticians would consider unusual. But getting two frequencies of 3 in one sign (pisces) is unusual, as the second case could be expected to be in another sign 11 of the 12 times. Planets in the water sign pisces are special, as they had the largest variance, even if their 9 out of 70 score is close to the expected mean. Groups having more or less variance than expected are worth attention. So we should look at both the column totals and their variance. Total planets Mean value The totals are the sum of 7 planets that could be in the signs above or not. In theory any sign could hold 0 to all of the 70 measured planet positions, but in practice you may expect variations around the mean value of 70/12 (5,83) for planets per sign. So we can use again the binomial distribution with n =70 and a risk of 1/12 per event. See the table below. The risk with any of the possible 71 outcomes of k is shown after Expect (value) under P(X=k). Under Cum. you see the risk of getting a value P(x < k or x = k). The values under 1-Cum are 1 - P(x < k or x= k) or P(X > k), so to get P(x=k or x > k), you have to look one cell above in the 1-Cum table. The lowest total value of 1 is found for the cardinal water sign Cancer. P(X=1) is 1,44% and P(X=0 or 1) is 1,67%, so this finding is statistical significant. Plumbers have according to this small ADB sample less likely planets in cancer with an effect size of 1 found against 70/12 expected is 12/70 is 0,17. This is a strong and significant effect. Do we have a case for astrology here? The second lowest value of 2 was found in Virgo. P(X=2) is 4,52% and P(X = 2 or < 2) is 6,18%, so this finding is not statistical significant. But planets in Virgo are found 70/24 times less often than expected under this sample of plumbers, having a not significant effect size of 24/70 is 0,34. This implies that you cannot be sure that plumbers always have less planets in Virgo. There could also be a small positive effect. For statistical reasons found totals from 2 to 11 are not that relevant. They are according to the binomial distribution just too close to the expected mean to be statistical significant. And the more closer to the expected mean, the smaller their potential effect size will be. But a found value of 11 would still be an interesting borderline case. As having a P(X=11) has a low risk of 1,72%, but P(X>10) is with 2,97% not any more below the 2,5 %. In practice it would show a high Cohen's d value, awaiting more studies to be done. For Libra and Pisces we saw the value 9. Nine has the not that impressive effect size of 912/70, or being 1,54 times more often found than expected. The risk involved with is 6,24% and values of 9 or more could be found in 12,67% of random ADB samples, so statisticians would not be impressed. But the counts of the balanced Libra had much less variance (0,20) than that of the unpredictable water sign Pisces (1,35). And that could again be a case for astrology, though astrologers might formulate it different. The water sign Scorpio had 12 times planets in it, against 70/12 = 5,83 expected (effect size is 144/70 = 2,06, p > 11 = 1, 25% using p is 1/12 and n = 70 in the binomial). The risk involved with getting a frequency of 12 or more hits with 70 throws is only 1,25%, so one can positively associate planets in scorpio with plumbers, having an effect size of 1212/70 is 2,1. Do we have a case for astrology here? Statisticians would admit that getting 1 or 12 planets in sign against 6 (5,83) expected would be an unlikely finding, when a single test was done. It would be significant at the 5% alpha level and the NULL hypothesis that plumbers do not more or less often have planets in Scorpio or Pisces than just by chance could be expected, would thus be rejected. But we did not test one hypothesis, but we looked at twelve counts for Planets in sign and found that two values were out of range. Notice that astrologers scanning a chart for peculiarities, actually do the same. We found the lower than expected value for Planets in Pisces (1 found, effect size 0,17, risk 1,67%) and the higher than expected value for Planets in Scorpio (12 found, effect size 2,06, risk 1,25%). We did some low scale data-mining and then significant results with an alpha of 0,05 are not that impressive any more. When doing 12 observations some 12/20 = 60% false positives could be expected against 5 % false positives in a single test. And getting two or more of them instead of the expected value 0 (54%) or 1 (34 %) would have a risk of 11,84%. See the picture on the right. So, we cannot simply state that we found AND the LOW value of one planet in Pisces and the HIGH twelve planets in Scorpio under plumbers, both being statistically significant with an alpha of 5%, so we have a great case for astrology. Using an alpha of 1% or lower would be more appropriate under those circumstances. Another problem is that we did not deal with independents risks, see A sampling experiment without replacement in 79 art critics. It just implies that if we get a high value for Planets in Scorpio, the risk for other signs will be lower than 1/12. But this is not a big problem compared to that of data-mining. Events with a low risk of 1,25 % are unlikely to be repeated again in small scale studies, unless plumbers really do have much more often planets in Scorpio. Again, you could use the binomial distribution to see how large a study must be to find at least one case (k > 0). Fill in p = 0,0125 and experiment with the value n to estimate the size of the study needed. P(x = 1 or x > 1) is the 1-Cum value for P(x =0), so with n is 10 it is 12% , with n is 100 it is 72% and with n is 200 it is 92 %. So when studying 200 plumbers we still had not 95% certainty to repeat one case! But if planets in Scorpio really could be found twice as often under plumbers as our small ADB sample suggested, encountering them again would not have risk of 1/12 but of 1/6 (0,16667). The risk involved with getting P (X >11, n =70, p =1/6) is not 1,25%, but 50,7% as seen on the picture on the right. Getting twelve planets in scorpio would be a quite common under plumbers and only a relatively small study was needed to confirm it. In all cases, it is always easier to do a single study with a large sample size than many small scale studies to proof any significant effect. If you increased the sample size to 120, the risk of getting a false negative value of 10 or lower would only be 0,37%. But astrologers like ADB editor Richard Vetter have serious problems with the empirical rules involved with Statistics: Most of them see the sampling error involved with any astrological study as a particularity that brings in meaning, as chance does not exist in their view of the world. Because of its quantitative view of numbers statistics are most inadequate to test the truth of astrology. The primary supposition of statistics - that accidental distributions are present everywhere - is fundamentally opposed to the astrological conception. ... In statistics particularities are systematically excluded and eliminated. In statistical testing all the things that are unique and special will fall outside of the table - though, in astrology´s view, individuality is the world´s central building-stone. Anyway, after reading our findings an astrologer might say: As I said, I associated plumbers with Scorpio and water signs in general. So these observations could not happen just by chance. And yes indeed, astrologers who clearly predicted and published this before had a case for astrology even with this small sample size. But we are not aware of them. Of course, astrology book authors that vaguely (might, could be) associated Scorpio with plumbers could not be credited for doing the initial research, as they predicted the opposite as well. Sadly, this is still the state of current astrology, that forgot to do the plumbers work with the plumbing tools of the 16th and 17th century again. The problem according to most statisticians is that you cannot base a rule on incidental observations. Even if your findings were quite remarkable. You could only base a specific working hypothesis on them. And after that much more cases should be studied to make an astrological rule of it. If the found effects were large and not just by chance findings, doing some more research to confirm them is not that difficult as we saw above. Just as doing some more research, to refute false positives is not that difficult too. If any astrologer had observed and published that plumbers had much more planets in Scorpio than expected before, then the above ADB findings could be a confirmation of that theory. But of course astrologers cannot first study the ADB, then formulate their hypothesis and after that present the same ADB findings as a proof it it. That trick might impress other astrologers, but not statisticians. The world if full of phenomena. Some are usual for you, but most of them are not. If you would better look at the individual level, no grain of sand would be the same. You will always encounter more unusual events, if you look for them long enough. Most of the times, they just happen to exist by chance, like getting three times a six with three dices (p = 0,463 % with one attempt). That would be an unlikely event. You could win a game with it, making the outcome even more exciting. But looking at the position of Jupiter to explain statistical rules is of no help. The empirical rules are just there. You can calculate the risks involved with it using the binomial distribution (p = + (1/6)^3) and experiment with n. Look for value 1-Cum for k =0, meaning P(k > 0). If you did 10 attempts, (n =10), the risk becomes 4,53 %. If you did 100 throws, you would encounter it at least in 37,1 % of the cases. With 1000 throws, you will see some cases in 99,0 % of cases. But the position of Jupiter, might still explain why some people do gamble more on some days than others, like the writer Geronimo Cardano of the Book on Games of Chance did. But we cannot check the historical facts, unless Cardano kept a diary. We Googled a bit to get astrological opinions on the astrology of plumbers. What did astrologers expect? Planets in water? Planets in Scorpio? Discover Your Life’s Calling \| Vocational Astrology\| Career Astrology Sun in the 6th house suggests having the identity of a worker, being identified with one's workplace role or trade. A man with Scorpio Sun in the 6th house was known to everyone as Todd the Plumber. Sun in the 6th house may represent a strong concern with health, an urge to purify, detoxify, and achieve maximum health. A woman with Sun-Pluto conjunct in Virgo in the 6th house is a disciplined practitioner of yoga, and is very health- and diet-conscious. Her day job is as an auditor and investigator (Pluto) for a large health insurance company (Virgo). It is tempting to believe these by astrologers expected co-incidental observations, because they are presented in such an obvious way. The astrological symbolic associations are presented by the anecdotal story teller as a matter of fact. Referring to Todd the Plumber sounds like a real-time mythical fact. But would statisticians agree with his speculations on Todd the Plumber? No, as single case study on Todd the Plumber would not impress them. It would be just be a case of better framing some history, without doing some serious research with control groups. In our ADB sample of 10 we did not encounter any Sun in scorpio plumber, but there is a 42% risk we missed it. So what? Do workers actually more often have the Sun in the sixth house? No astrology book we saw ever presented any research on it. But at the same time most in astrology believers would take the above presented expectation just for granted. But are they correct? We did not yet research this question, but we do have some ADB data on plumbers. Indeed, the scores on Sun in 4th (2 found, effect size 2,57), 6th (2 found, effect size 2,78) and the 7th (2 found, effect size 2,70) houses were at least higher than expected. The above effect size calculations were based on Using a control group to evaluate frequencies, thus not on the binomial 1/12. As they can differ a factor 2 because of fast and slow rising signs. But do we have a case for astrology here? Probably not, as much more astrological research should be done on plumbers. ChiSq Risk % North Node Astrologers could speculate a lot with the found variance in any sample. But when we submit the Sun in House row to a Chi square test, the value of 10,78 was found. See: chi-square.xlsx. And that tells us that in 46 % of the cases such a distribution could just pop up by chance, thus by taking some random sample from the ADB. But we admit, a little more often (54%) the found values were not as expected. The ten plumbers of the ADB had the highest Chi square score (variation) on Jupiter in sign (14,9), then on Sun sign (11,2) and then on Mercury (10,9). Here differences mattered most. But no value was statistically significant. That is the advantage of doing quantitative statistical research. It gives you a hint to what is more likely a rule and what is certainly not. More interesting are the tables in binomial_limit.xlsx which shows the binomial risks in percents involved with each event. It gives minus P(x< or = k) for a smaller than expected value and P(x> or = k) for a larger than expected value. Only a value between 0 and +/- 2,5 % would be statistically significant with an alpha of 0,05. Uranus in cancer (4 found) and Neptune in Libra (5 found) met this criterion. Getting a value of 3 or more for Jupiter in aries was expected in 3,41% of random ADB samples. -453,36 N Node Placidus Cusp 1 Cusp 10 Nh Node But could you predict with it? With items that have a large but not that not significant effect size? Certainly not. Even with very significant effect sizes in the order of two times as likely one cannot that easily predict as was shown in The calculation of the effectiveness of medication: All outcomes are statistically seen huge effects: There will be no discussion about the direction of the effect, as there is minimal overlap with regards to the estimated mean cure rate. So there is knowledge as actionable information you can base your decisions on. But when doing individual predictions, there still will be a lot of uncertainty. Will the treatment work for me? In both groups some people are cured (80 + 40 =120) and some are not (20 + 60 = 80). Most often it works with a cure rate of 80% against 40% found for placebo. That can be said. But at the individual level, predictions can only be given as possibilities. And explanations of established facts also have to take them into account. So one cannot say to an individual person: Oh, you are cured, so you must have had the medicine (this only applies to 80/120 of them), or conclude that the not cured patients must have had placebo (this only applies to 60/80 of them). The same uncertainty exists when you interpret facts afterwards as it does when you had to predict them before. But the last is typically ignored by people who see something that fits their expectations. And in between Falls the Shadow or Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the Shadow (T.S. Eliot) Without doubt statistical techniques have become troublesome for astrologers. Just like the fact checking of journalists can be annoying for politicians. Should astrologers get rid of the ADB? Or at least exclude the more sceptical ADB editors like the annoying user ganglion? Should they try to provide more convincing alternative facts? Of course not. Astrologers initiated, maintained and are still the major contributors of Lois Rodden's groundbreaking project. But contributions from other parties - hated or not- should always be welcome. As all facts do matter. Are then the statistical techniques used by scientists the problem? Of course not. Statistical techniques have always been used and propagated by predictive astrologers. Statisticians do not lie, they just present empirical facts where others can base their decisions on. The problem lies more in the different interpretations that scientists and astrologers give to statistical phenomena like the sampling error. A sitting president like Donald Trump could reason: The economy flourishes. My merit! Did under Donald Trump the US economy flourish? Yes! Did he cause it? Partly, but at the expense of other things like the sustainability of our environment. So a cost-benefit calculation should also be done. As it is not simply this particular claim against so many other possibilities. An astrologer could say: You had an accident. No wonder, when looking at your Mars transit! Was Mars responsible for your accident? That seems unlikely. As it is not simply this particular claim against so many other possibilities. The transit was just an unrelated coincidence a scientist would say. Did you study it genuinely as proposed in The relative risk of having an accident during a Mars conjunct Ascendant transit? Or did you just rely on the unproved In my opinion magic story telling of your astrology teachers? Replication crisis	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6107414364814758, "wiki_prob": 0.38925856351852417, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line833987"}
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18 Best Places to Visit in Germany (with photos and tips) Raluca Balas Growing up in a neighborhood in which most families had German roots, gave me the possibility to understand their culture from a young age. My first venture to Berlin was just the beginning of my adventure. I crossed Germany from north to south, and from the eastern to the western border always having the impression that I had left a “hidden gem” behind. Located in the heart of Europe, Germany is its number one economic power. It has over 82 million inhabitants, which make it the most populous EU state. I do not exaggerate when I tell you that Germany with its dreamy forests, snow-capped mountains, and Gothic castles is one of the most enchanting top touristic destinations. Keep in mind that this country is not all about “Oktoberfest”, craft beer, and wursts. its cosmopolitan cities never sleep the film festivals attract heavy Hollywood names well-preserved medieval towns take you back to times immemorial As a first-time traveler to this country, I advise you to include on your must-see list at least 5 of the following stunning places: Amazing Places in Germany to Add to Your Bucket List 1. The Grandiose Neuschwanstein Castle King Ludwig II of Bavaria, nicknamed “The Mad King” or “The Swan King” envisioned a castle standing up proud in romantic scenery. Built near the Tyrol mountains, the construction has superb architecture and a luxurious interior. Does its silhouette look familiar to you? I think it does! It inspired Walt Disney to draw the spellbound castle in which Sleeping Beauty was waiting for her prince. These following things left me speechless: the King’s bedroom with imposing wall paintings and an enormous sculpted baldachin bed the sumptuous Throne Hall that has a similar design to a Byzantine church the castle’s facilities which were ahead of their time: a lift for bringing food to the upper floors, running water, and telephones the tickets have the time and the date of your visit printed on them; do your best to arrive on time; the guides do not like latecomers do not take photos unless you have applied for permission first How to get to Neuschwanstein? An asphalted path will take you to the majestic gates. You need between 30 and 40 minutes to cover the distance on foot. Your car has to remain in the parking area. In case walking is not part of your plan, you have the following options: 1/ a romantic ride in a horse-drawn carriage 2/ the castle’s fast and practical bus 2. Museum Island in Berlin The area received the status of UNESCO National Heritage Site in 1999. This island encloses five of Berlin’s major museums, which hold national treasures and works of art. The Altes Museum shelters ancient Etruscan, Roman and Greek artifacts. Architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel gave the construction its Greek Temple structure. The staircase and the 18 Ionic columns are an iconic image for the German capital. The Alte Nationalgalerie The Old National Gallery was re-opened in 2001. It contains an extensive collection of 19th- century paintings and sculptures. Tourists can admire numerous works by well-known German artists and French Impressionist pieces. The Bode Museum Its grand re-opening was scheduled for 2006 after a decade of restoration work. The museum displays an impressive collection of sculptures and paintings. It is situated on the north part of the island and resembles a ship’s bow which plows through the river. Tip: spare some time for one of the richest numismatic collections in the world; coins, medals, and tokens of immense value are placed in huge cabinets The Neues Museum It showcases exhibits of prehistoric tools and Egyptian works of art. The bust of Queen Nefertiti is its most famous piece. Heavily damaged during the World War II bombings, it was reopened to the public at large in 2009. Other top exhibits include the skull of a Neanderthal child, a 700.000 years old silex utensil, and the Egyptian papyruses collection. The Pergamon Museum Here, you will find Roman, Greek and Babylonian antiquities. Tourists appreciate the huge Pergamon Altar and the market gate of Miletus. The Ishtar Gate is a blue wonder, decorated with lions, horses, unicorns, and dragons. While looking at it, you come to understand why Babylon was considered the capital of the world millennia ago. Good to know: you may buy a single ticket which grants you access to all museums At weekends or during the peak seasons the entrance queues are a bit overwhelming. You either book online or you get up at the break of dawn. Advice: The best alternative is to purchase the Berlin Welcome Card which spares you the trouble of reserving in advance. 3. The Worms Cathedral The Cathedral of Saint Peter at Worms, also called the Kaiser Dom or Emperors’ Cathedral, illustrates the mastery of German church architects. It is made of red sandstone specific to the medieval constructions in the area. The inside was destroyed during the 1689 fire. This explains why the furniture has a baroque design and the choir stalls a rococo one. Why is it so striking for the tourist’s eye? It has four high towers, two wide dome towers and a nave of approximately 100 yards long. do not overlook Saint Andrew’s Church; it hosts a museum with exhibits dating back to the Roman Worms cross the Nibelungen Bridge with its huge medieval portal 4. Rüdesheim am Rhein The picturesque town is located on the right bank of the River Rhine, at a stone’s throw from Mainz. Wine is sacred here. The inhabitants have devoted a whole museum to this refined drink. There is also a festival during which beautiful girls compete to become “The Wine Queen.” What do I do to have fun? The area is always crowded no matter the season. Thus, it is a bit difficult to take awesome pictures of traditional buildings. Besides tasting various types of wine, you should also: visit the Siegfried Museum to decipher the mysteries of old mechanical music boxes and cabinets tour the Toys’ Museum and discover a carefree universe jump into the gondola lift to enjoy a panoramic view over the valley explore the ruins of Ehrenfels Castle enter at least two restaurants on Drosselgasse, the town’s main pedestrian area Tip: The Rüdesheim coffee is one of a kind; mixed with caramelized sugar, it is a real treat for all your senses. 5. The Wonderful Europa Park Theme park enthusiast or not, you will be surprised by Europa Park. Divided into 15 areas, each inspired by a European Country, it offers a wide range of entertainment opportunities. No matter your age, you will love every second spent here. What is it’s best attractions? The 4 D Magic Cinema is perfect for some family fun. It is famous for its D-Box seats which give visitors the impression they are right next to their favorite movie characters Adventure Playground was projected for children; the kiddos spend hours in the intricate mazes or in the colorful ball pool Good to know: only kids with a height of maximum 120cm are allowed to enter the playground. The African Queen is a magnificent boat designed to transport tourists to the African village surrounded by wild animals. The circus shows, the dancing fountains, and the musicals are usually packed. 6. Rothenburg ob der Tauber The town is situated in Bavaria on a large plateau close to the River Tauber. It is an important point on the well-known “Romantic Route” which stretches along 372 kilometers in south-east Germany. It’s name means “The Red Fortress on the River Tauber”; the houses have roofs made of red tiles, offering a unique aerial view. All medieval buildings are well-preserved, and the massive defense wall is almost intact. The cobbled streets, the buildings with wooden beams, and the upright towers will remind you of old German folktales. I must warn you that it is almost impossible to decide whether to take incredible selfies or just admire the serenity of the place. How to make the most out of your stay? Rothenburg is far from being a dull provincial town. The stylish cafés provide tourists and locals with savory desserts, tasty sandwiches, and flavored coffee. The Imperial Museum hosts paintings, sculptures, and pieces of furniture which narrate the town’s centuries-old history. Saint Jacob’s Church has a majestic Gothic structure worth looking at. Sports enthusiasts will not be disappointed either. Hiking and cycling routes, climbing parks, and the golf course give the town a modern, active touch. To spice up your trip, book a hot-air balloon ride. You will fly over the Tauber Valley, fertile fields, and scenic villages. 7. The City of Nürnberg According to official documents Nürnberg was founded in the 10th century AD. Its tumultuous history is abundant in key events. The Nürnberg Trials, during which notorious Nazi leaders were found guilty of crimes against humanity, are one reason for you to come here. The old city center was severely damaged in 1945. At present, visitors may wander thought rebuilt houses, surrounded by fortified walls. Reasons to visit the city: The Bratwursthäusle Restaurant where they sell mouthwatering bratwursts with “sauerkraut” (fermented cabbage) the wide selection of beer, including smoked beer obtained from malt dried on fire Playmobil FunPark attracts young travelers with its numerous playgrounds, knights’ fortress, Noah’s Ark, and a toys’ store close to the exit Albrecht Dürer’s memorial house where you will find out about the mysterious rabbit which appears all over the city Tips:-stroll along “Konigstrasse,” a vast pedestrian area with beerhouses, restaurants, cafés, and souvenir shops -the Documentation Centre contains lots of information about World War II Good to know: The Christmas Fair here gathers over 180 artisans and craftsmen who sell traditional products; the fair has a very long tradition, dating back to 1628. 8. The Old Town Hall in Bamberg Built in 1386, the town hall of Bamberg is situated in the middle of the Regnitz River, being reachable from two bridges. According to the local legend, the bishop of Bamberg did not provide the citizens with a site for the construction of a town hall. This forced people to create an artificial island, by ramming stakes into the river. The exterior walls are covered in red frescos while the rooms inside shelter collections of China and faience. Fun Fact: a cherub’s leg springs out from one of the walls 9. The Cologne Cathedral or Kölner Dom The grandiose Cologne Cathedral dominates the city with its large pair of towers, the North Tower and the South Tower. The religious edifice is 145 m high and the cross nave measures 86 m. Its construction began in 1248 when the old cathedral was no longer considered to be representative of the expanding borough. The final touches were added six centuries later. The Cathedral possess an impressive thesaurus which includes: The Wise Men Sarcophagus, decorated with gold and silver statues covered in precious stones The Gero Crucifix, carved in oak wood The Jewelry Madonna with a silk dress garnished with gems donated by believers The relics of The Three Wise Men turned it into an important pilgrimage site for Christians around Europe. The fourteen bombs which hit it during the war did not manage to bring it down. 10. The Black Forest The name comes from the canopy of evergreens arising above the forest. Home to wooden houses, old towns, and antique cuckoo clocks, it is a fairy tale place, packed with folklore and traditions. You could spend weeks in this fresh-air area with gorgeous scenery. In case your schedule is tight and time a precious resource, you’d better head for: A European posh spa town which the rich and trendy have favored since the 19th century. It is the best spot to start your expedition. Plus, the spas provide top spoiling facilities, and the sports clubs have a diverse offering, ranging from tennis to horse riding. How to enjoy yourself here: You should tour the old town and admire its impressive Baroque architecture. While here, enter the antique stores, sip a coffee in the garden of a classy restaurant or purchase delicate jewels. The resort is a magnet for the artistic community. Hence, cultural events and art exhibitions are common all year round. The Fabergé Museum celebrates luxury and genius craftsmanship. Over 400 pieces form a unique and valuable display. The Rothschild Fabergé Egg occupies a central position. Tip: join a guided group to discover the tracks of the Black Forest National Park access to The Roman Baths is possible in exchange for a reasonable fee Do not leave without having seen the Paradise Cascade and its peaceful gardens. Situated in the north part of the forest, this lovely spa town draws tourists no matter the season. Close to the pass of the Enz River and surrounded by pine trees, it is perfect for extended pampering sessions. Its thermal baths hover around 35˚C. To break your spa routine, spend a few hours on the banks of Wildsee Lake or in the charming village nearby. 11. The Mainz Museums The main city of the Rhineland-Palatinate region is a land of old and new. Cathedrals, galleries, open-air markets, boutiques, and street art give Mainz its particular atmosphere. Its museums cannot be overlooked. Gutenberg Museum Johannes Gutenberg, the man responsible for the invention of the printing press, lived and worked in Mainz. The museum celebrating his work opened its gates in 1900. Tourists may explore different sections dedicated to printing technology, paper, posters, and graphics. -it is closed on Mondays (opening hours) -multilingual guided tours should be requested in advance. Good to know: it holds the famous Gutenberg Bible, which is the first printed book in the world. The Landesmuseum This cultural establishment is one of the oldest museums in Germany. It shelters significant exhibits which comprise ancient Roman items. Different ages and centuries have been allocated a room or a hall. The Golden Horse on the roof is a reference point for visitors and a symbol of Mainz. Tip: the custodians add new exhibits regularly, so even the veteran visitors always find something interesting to study 12. The Heidelberger Schloss The remarkable constructions perches on the hill above the city of Heidelberg. It comprises a few buildings and an enclosed inner courtyard. Each section emphasizes a different period in German architecture. Why will you leave amazed? The gardens form an Earthy paradise. Vivid flower beds and well-kept arbors are a delight for the eye. Sculptures, fish ponds, waterfalls, and orange trees do not overcrowd the place, but round its loveliness. Tips for the romantics: -couples have the opportunity to get married at Heidelberg Schloss 13. Wiesbaden The capital city of the German state Hesse is a millennia-old spa town. It is famous for its jaw-dropping constructions and enormous parklands. How to make your stay unforgettable? Nerobergbahn is a water-powered railway which locals and tourists use to reach the Neroberg peak. It dominates the city which spreads at its bottom. The views are fantastic, and your photos will be shared by your friends. Once arrived on top you may: venture on one of the numerous hiking trails visit the Saint Elizabeth Russian Orthodox church with its golden domes and the Roman temples’ ruins immerse into an open-air swimming pool Tips for gourmet travelers: Try the palatable Wiesbaden burgers which are a mixture of halloumi cheese, zucchinis, grilled peppers, and red onions Taste and learn about the regional beer varieties 14. Miniature Wunderland in Hamburg This is a fantastic spot for model building fans because it hosts an immense model railway system. The ensemble comprises miniature versions of different German cities and the mountain regions of the Austrian Alps or the German region of Harz. Hamburg’s miniature version encloses almost 200 square meters. Tip: avoid planning your tour during weekends and school holidays 15. The Eltz Castle It is a charming castle, tucked into the woods. Constructed in the 12th century, the building has had the same owning family for more than 850 years. Its name comes from the river Eltzbach, which means black Adler Tree. Generations of workers contributed to its elevation. The cornerstone was fixed in 1157, and the final finishes were added 5 centuries later. How to get to Eltz Castle? By Bus: on weekends (May-November) and during public holidays you can take the Castle bus which runs four times a day. By train: do not forget to get off at Hatzenport train station. Tip for hikers: the trail between the castle and the Hatzenport station has a length of 5.3 km; you will not get lost because it is marked with easy to spot signs 16. The Topography of Terror, Berlin This museum is not for the sensitive ones nor for children. Present authorities consider it an essential part in the process of acknowledging and assuming the country’s past. The brutality, the horror, and the absurdity of the Nazi regime are well illustrated here. Images, videos, and official documents show how extreme hearted led to atrocities which have no logical explanation. The area used to be the headquarters of the notorious and much feared German Secret Police. The Topography is an open-air museum, located in western Berlin. The blunt evidence is housed in a modern glass structure which covers a surface of 800 square meters. Good to know: a part of the exhibition is dedicated to the victims who were tortured and killed in the basement of the Gestapo building 17. Zugspitze Peak The highest of its kind in Germany, the peak is situated on the border with Austria. Trains, cable cars, and cogwheels will lead you to the top. For the more adventurous ones, there are mountain trails and glacier crossings. Splendid views and fresh air are just two of the reasons to climb up here. The cable car stop is anything but dull. It has a contemporary design with restaurants, cafés, and a museum. The Igloo village is opened during the coldest months. Tip: the place is crowded so be prepared to wait in a queue to get to the Zugspitze yellow cross. 18. The Sans-Souci Palace and Its Gardens Emperor Frederick the Great ordered the construction of the Sans-Souci Palace at the outskirts of Potsdam. It served as a summer residence for the Prussian royal family. Far from the bustling streets of Berlin, “Sans-Souci” is often compared with Versailles because of its elegance and remarkable gardens. These cover a large surface, being the greatest park in the Brandenburg region. long stairs framed by fig trees and vineyards surprising fountains and artificial lakes white statues embodying mythical characters winding alleys bordered by hedges and trees a Roman Bath, a Chinese pavilion and a Dutch windmill plan your journey carefully as the trains and roads are jammed during the weekend rent a bike to see the whole park It is said that you need a lifetime to learn German. In fact, you need ages to discover the country and its breathtaking views. Browse our giant travel bucket list or see whats on our popular article The 41 Best places to visit in Europe Visit Germany Attend Oktoberfest in Germany Do over 100mph on the Autobahn in Germany Become fluent in German	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5784856081008911, "wiki_prob": 0.5784856081008911, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1575029"}
COVID-19 Vaccine Options Getting vaccinated against COVID-19 remains the most effective way of protecting you and our campus community from getting sick or severely ill with COVID-19. It is extremely important that you not only complete the recommendations associated with your primary vaccine doses but that you also ensure you are no more than 6 months from receiving those doses and if you are, that you receive a booster dose. Your vaccination status will now play a role in the quarantine and isolation guidance that will be specific to you and your situation. If you would like to see additional data on the effectiveness of COVID vaccines, you can find that information here. How Missourians can get a free COVID-19 vaccine: MOStopsCovid.com CDC VaccineFinder search by ZIP Code Vaccines.gov - Search for COVID-19 vaccine locations Your COVID-19 Vaccination Before You Get the Vaccine Preparing for your Vaccine Vaccine Public Service Announcements In collaboration with Access Health and Family Care, Freeman Health System, Mercy Hospital Joplin and local news media outlets, KCU produced a series of public service announcements for broadcast in the Joplin area. These PSAs are intended to provide personal testimonials and additional information regarding the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines in an effort to help increase the regional vaccination rate. KCU Vaccination Policy As of Nov. 29, 2021: All full-time employees will be required to be fully vaccinated or present evidence on a weekly basis that they have tested negative for COVID-19. All part-time employees must be fully vaccinated. All new employees who begin employment after Nov. 29 must be fully vaccinated. Please, refer to the policy linked below for more details, including procedures, testing guidelines and vaccination exemption requests. KCU Supports Vaccination and Immunization Kansas City University strongly adheres to the medical evidence demonstrating that immunizations protect the public from highly communicable and deadly diseases. Throughout the university’s history, our student education has integrated and continues to support vaccination guidelines as set out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). KCU advocates for and will participate in efforts to provide easy access to COVID-19 vaccinations in order to further our mission to improve the well-being of the communities we serve. KCU considers any physician alumni who espouse disinformation regarding the COVID-19 or other vaccinations to be in complete misalignment with the teachings they received during their training at KCU. Protect Each Other Self-Screening What To Do If You've Been In Contact With Someone Who Tested Positive For COVID-19 COVID-19 Response home	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5828843116760254, "wiki_prob": 0.4171156883239746, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line91"}
C4 adds Hollyoaks and more to Snapchat Channel 4 and Snap Inc have partnered to put 300 short form edits of Channel 4 content on Snapchat’s Discover platform over the next year. The new agreement solidifies a partnership which first began in 2018, when Channel 4 was part of the launch of UK shows on Discover, Snapchat’s curated content platform. Since then seven shows have launched, of which Celebs Go Dating, Don’t Tell the Bride and Tattoo Fixers have reached over 19 million unique viewers on Snapchat. Starting today, Hollyoaks will air on Snapchat, with short-form made for mobile episodes going live immediately after they have aired on E4, All 4 and Channel 4. To celebrate the launch, there is also a bespoke augmented reality Lens which allows Snapchatters to create their own cliff-hanger finale, complete with the Hollyoaks theme tune and end credits. Other shows included are The Last Leg, Grime Gran and Five Guys A Week, with a range of shows from across Channel 4’s programming slate to follow. 4Studio, Channel 4’s recently launched Leeds-based digital content hub, will work with Snap and programme producers to create the made-for-mobile edits. Snapchat and Channel 4 commercial arm 4Sales will share sales rights on the shows. Alex Mahon, Chief Executive, Channel 4 said: “We are hugely excited to bring more Channel 4 to Snapchat. We have a unique brand and taste and reach into the youth-dominated audience of Snap so the fit is clear. This partnership allows us to further our mission to serve young audiences, to increase time spent with Channel 4 and to supercharge our social footprint across 2020. We are continually evolving and adapting to reach our audience wherever they are and this is the latest iteration. I am particularly thrilled that Hollyoaks will be the first ever soap to feature on the platform offering Snapchatters a unique introduction to the joys of the best British Soap.” Sean Mills, Head of Content, Snap said: “Channel 4 shares our passion for creating mobile content in new ways. We are delighted to extend our successful relationship and bring even more great shows to UK Snapchatters. We can’t wait to see their distinctive storytelling style reimagined for the vertical screen.”	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8425691723823547, "wiki_prob": 0.8425691723823547, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1133335"}
Best Bike Apps for Tracking Your Ride Tested: 4 Apps for the Stat-Geek Cyclist We test four that will record your speed, elevation, distance, location, and more. By Rachel Z. Arndt Published: Jul 2, 2014 Way back when, you needed a dedicated cycling computer to track your pedaling. Now all you need is a smartphone (and maybe a handlebar mount). Cycling apps abound that can measure distance, speed, elevation, and track your route on a map. Most of them also have some kind of social tie-in, for comparing (or competing) with your friends. Unlike bike computers—which count rotations of the pedals or the wheels to track mileage, and require calibration—smartphone apps rely on GPS, making them a whole lot easier to set up. Just download the app and you're basically ready. They do, however, require mounts if you want to watch your stats as you bike. And phones tend to have bad battery life, especially when using GPS and turn-by-turn navigation. Plus, they're not so great at withstanding the elements. Still, for someone like me, who carries a phone while cycling anyway, these apps are the way to go. While biking on the two-lane county roads near the border of Iowa and Minnesota recently, I tested four of the most popular apps. Most Competitive: Strava (iOS and Android) Strava presents a clean, straightforward interface both while riding and after. It's easy to browse rides, which the app displays as maps with names, distances, and dates. On each, there's a trophy icon that indicates you've competed against anyone else who's tracked the same route on the app and lets you see how you stack up. I find that information pretty superfluous, but Strava users love it: They race each other virtually to achieve king-of-the-mountain status. Most Crowdsourced: MapMyRide (iOS and Android) With its clunky, often ad-cluttered interface, MapMyRide sells itself not on usability but on information. The app pulls from a database of more than 70 million routes sorted by proximity to you. It can sort them by distance, elevation, and other metrics if you pay $5.99 a month or $29.99 a year for an "MVP" membership. Most Customizable: Cyclemeter (iOS only) Cyclemeter is about cold, hard numbers. There's no logging in to compete with friends or post routes. There are just stats, and lots of them: moving time, stopped time, average speed, fastest speed, elevation gain, estimated calories, and mile markers on each route map. The downside is that it's easy to get lost in the data, and the app is a touch buggy; it sometimes has buttons that do nothing when touched. Most Basic: My Tracks (Android only) Google's simple design comes through in this app, with its Google maps and clean line graphs. It provides less data than the other apps, but that makes the info it does collect—distance, total time and moving time, average speed, max speed—easier to take in. The coolest feature is exporting a ride to Google Earth so you can watch your travels retrospectively and from above.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8108198642730713, "wiki_prob": 0.8108198642730713, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line296895"}
Local North Country Trail President on Albion’s Trail Town Status April 3, 2019 Autumn VanHeulen Community, Features 1 Jane Norton, President of the Chief Noonday Chapter of the North Country Trail Association standing next to a North Country Trail Marker in Victory Park in Albion. Albion was designated as a Trail Town by the NCTA this year. (Photo by Autumn VanHeulen.) After writing an article about Albion’s new Trail Town designation, I was interested in learning more about hikers on the North Country National Scenic Trail, of which Albion’s River Trail is part. Albion was given this designation by the North Country Trail Association, showing the city’s dedication to welcoming hikers. Walking along Albion River Trail, I was joined by Jane Norton, volunteer president of the Chief Noonday Chapter of the North Country Trail Association, who spoke with me about this topic. As we walked, we were accompanied by the calls of far-off cranes. A slick breeze carried us along at pace almost too quick for me but just right for Jane. The paved path kept us on a steady route towards the cemetery where the first glimpses of spring life were began to show. Autumn VanHeulen: What is so exciting about Albion’s designation as a Trail Town? I know that it’s good for the local businesses, but what about for you? Jane Norton: We’re getting more “through hikers” because people want to do a 100-mile challenge — it’s exactly what it sounds like. A lot of Michigan people are “through hiking” Michigan. So with the Trail Town designation — that means the city knows about the trail — is supporting the trail and are friendly to trail people. Because a lot of times hikers are a little scruffy looking and maybe don’t smell perfect. People don’t always understand hiking. AV: What do you mean by “through hikers”? JN: That means they wear their house on their back. They’re spending multiple days hiking at one time. AV: Why is it important that cities like Albion support hikers on the Trail? JN: Hikers sometimes need doctors. They like to go to a library because of the Wi-Fi connection. They need groceries. They may need a motel. They can’t hike every day. If a town is a Trail Town, then in their website they advertise what is available in Albion, or whatever town it is. They can say, “We have a movie theater here.” Then when people are on the trail for a long time, they think, “Wow, that’s a luxury. I want to go see a movie.” Hikers generally like beer, too. So if they see there is a brewery, they want to visit that. They might also need equipment to fix tents and things like that. AV: How does the North Country Trail connect to other trails in this area? JN: So we piggyback on trails that are already there. Albion’s got the Riverwalk, Marshall has the Riverwalk, Battle Creek has a linear trail. Why build a new one when those are already there? So this trail is [part of] the Calhoun County Trail, the Albion River Trail and the Iron Belle Trail. AV: Who works on the trail? Is there a group of people who maintain it? JN: The [North Country National Scenic] Trail is divided into chapters and our chapter, the Chief Noonday Chapter… has from the Kent-Barry County line to the Hillsdale-Calhoun County line. That’s what we maintain as volunteers. So like that sign [pictured below], that is something we did. Down over here [near M-99 and the cemetery], there’s a small kiosk and we build that. It has maps about the trail. It maybe would have something about invasive species or even something about local hotels. It’s usually to say, “You are here.” We have 33 kiosks and we have one volunteer who is in charge of them. AV: What else do volunteers work on? JN: We rely a lot on our volunteers. Without volunteers nothing gets done. Most of our volunteers are retired people, but we can’t be working on [the trail] forever. So we want to get other generations involved in the trail and teach them how to maintain it. Sometimes groups like church groups or alumni groups from different colleges want to help work on the trail but we can’t always let people work on the trail they way they want to. It’s awful to turn down volunteer help but sometimes, for instance, trees fall down. Then we have to have a certified sawyer remove the tree from the trail with our equipment. There are only about six or seven people in our group who are certified. We have mowers that you have to know how to operate. And we have to train people on how to deal with invasive species. So we can’t let anyone just go out and start working on the trail. That’s why we want to get more people involved in the trail long-term. AV: How often do you lead hikes on this trail? JN: Well, our chapter has monthly hikes and we usually come through Albion. We’ve tried to get more people and students involved but we just don’t get a lot of people. The last two years, when we did one of the trails in the Whitehouse Nature Center, we had two or three students come, but that’s it. We would love to get more students as well. The next Chief Noonday Chapter free, guided hike is the Spring Wildflower Hike on Saturday, April 6. You can find more information here. About Autumn VanHeulen 12 Articles Autumn VanHeulen is a senior from Jenison, MI. She is an English major with a History minor and is involved in The Albion Review and the Albion Environmental Club. In her spare time, Autumn likes to read, bike and sing. April Fool’s: Black Squirrels to be Banished From Campus Opinion: Why Marvel Movies Win the Battle Against DC Mary Rebert Autumn did a great job addressing the subject with easily understood questions and interpretation of responses. Her description of the hike experience is inspiring.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5200096368789673, "wiki_prob": 0.5200096368789673, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line332815"}
NYC Guide Manhattan Center January 28, 2020 \|Local Tips - The New Yorker Hotel Are you having trouble finding the perfect Valentine’s Day gift? New York has the solution! Scroll down to read through our list of creative, romantic and mouth-watering gifts you can buy in New York. Sweet Treats and Desserts Do you or your partner have a sweet tooth? Valentine’s Day is a time of year when indulging in delectable treats is a must. Purchase a gourmet chocolate box from one of New York’s best chocolate shops. If you prefer baked goods, follow the link to read about where to find the best desserts in New York. Clean Beauty Products Going green when traveling has never been more important. Ensure you and your significant other look and feel your best by shopping and these clean beauty stores in New York. Nobody does clean cosmetics like Credo Beauty. Located in Lower Manhattan, this store sells natural and organic products that abide by a strict clean and eco-friendly code. Men will find hair products, deodorants, moisturizers, lotions and shaving products. While Credo Beauty is a great option for men and women, if you are looking for fun, colorful and non-toxic makeup, go to Winky Lux. This small and independent make up store has cute and creative products. They’re best known for a vegan lip stain balm that interacts with your lips’ pH to create a unique shade of pink. What’s more, some of them have a real chrysanthemum inside! Clothes, Jewelry and Souvenirs If you want to get a gift that your sweetheart can wear on Valentine’s Day, you’re in the right place! New York is home to some of the world’s best shopping. Here’s where you can find a variety of clothing and jewelry stores: Macy’s Herald Square Macy’s Herald Square boasts the title of the largest department store in the world. Shop from a myriad of brands and styles year round. Fifth Avenue and Times Square This avenue is best known for its world-class stores. Some of New York’s most iconic stores line the street: Saks Fifth Avenue, Apple Store, Tiffany’s, Niketown and more. If you head to Times Square, you’ll find some of the city’s most interesting and largest stores: Hershey's Chocolate World, The Shop at NBC Studios and M&M’s World, to name a few. The newest New York neighborhood is almost one year old. If you haven’t explored Hudson Yards yet, now is the time. Its mall has a great selection of stores to suit every taste. If you’re after a one-of-a-kind gift, New York’s flea markets are for you. Shop for vintage items, handmade crafts and jewelry, artwork and everything in between. New York Experiences Invest your money in great New York experiences! Anything from a couples class to a romantic stroll around Central Park counts. Check out our suggestions for romantic date ideas in New York or original ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Make this Valentine’s Day unforgettable by booking a Romance Package at The New Yorker Hotel! Eat & Drink (0) New York City Events (0) Local Tips - The New Yorker Hotel (0) The New Yorker History (0) Tour the Art of New York City Fun Day Trips from New York City The Best Shows on Broadway, 2020 Things to Do in New York, Spring... A Foodie’s Guide to NYC: Savory ... New York City Events Local Tips - The New Yorker Hotel The New Yorker History other stories you may like… Things to Do in New York, Spring 2020 A Foodie’s Guide to NYC: Savory Bites Fun Facts About the Empire State Building Top NYC Events, February 2020 #newyorkerhotel * I agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. 481 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10001 [email protected] About Events Sitemap Rooms Gallery Careers Offers Contact Dining NYC Guide Location FAQ About Events Rooms Gallery Offers Contact Dining NYC Guide Location FAQ Sitemap Careers © Copyright 2022 The New Yorker Hotel	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6302711963653564, "wiki_prob": 0.36972880363464355, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1036677"}
Thoughts on the film: Street Smart ( It's not very good) I tried to write this whole long post about Sunday's King of the Hill and how sad it is that NCLB has made a lot of schools try shady shit to pass the test, but it was a really boring post. I got bored just writing it, so I can only imagine you passing out and drooling on the keyboard and that's just not a good idea. So I'm looking out for you by being less boring. Instead I'll talk about how much Street Smart sucked. Street Smart is this movie with Christopher Reeve that was made in 1987. I don't know how it ended because I fell asleep. Beefcake kept making me wake up to watch something else that sucked so I'd raise my head up and look and go Uh huh and put my head back down. And then when he was done with his oatmeal he turned off the movie and we both went to sleep, so neither of us actually know how the film turned out. It sucked that much. Because that's my general rule: If you don't care how it ends, it's a piece of balvarine turd. (I may or may not have been playing Fable all day.) So here's an example of why it sucks. Kathy Baker plays a prostitute and there's this scene where she's having sex with Christopher Reeve and it starts with her telling him a story about some time she seduced this Russian guy. As she tells the story she acts it out until the end when she's on top of him and they're literally rolling on the bed together. Now here's what's wrong. This is the moment these two characters have supposedly been building up to, and now finally after some forced sexual tension they do it. It=sex. But while she's talking and climbing on him the camera is in a wide shot with no close-ups and for some reason "Natural Woman" starts playing so loud that you can't hear her Russian John story. And then every couple of seconds it fades out and you hear a sentence and then it comes back again. It's like the editor hated the dialogue so she covered it with music. And there was no chemistry so the director covered it up with a wide angle. Why did we watch this horrible movie in the first place, you ask? Well, it's what my mom and I coined a "back of the box" movie. My stepdad used to go to Blockbuster and pick up some random movie and read the back of the box and then rent it and it would be awful. So Mom and I used to ask him when he brought home a movie if is was a back of the box movie. So Street Smart was a back of the box movie. And it was awful. Posted by Emily Blake at 5:00 AM Joshua James 6:21 AM Morgan Freeman was nominated for a best supporting actor nomination for that movie, if I remember right. Sabina E. 6:28 AM haha. i never heard of this film, but Christopher Reeve? Ew. He made crappy films (I never got into the Superman films). He made crappy films (I never got into the Superman films). Save for "The Remains of the Day," (though he was not one of the main cast), a good performance considering his role as a 1930s foreign relations congressman who's part of Roosevelt's brain trust, and then goes on to purchase Darlington Hall decades later. Jeff Pulice 8:39 PM Indonesian TV showed 'When Harry Met Sally' when I lived there. While Meg Ryan was faking her orgasm, the censors BLOCKED HER MOANS BY REPLAYING HARRY CONNICK JR'S SONG. Because women aren't supposed to have orgasms, right? So I, of course, had to go around correcting THAT misconception. Don 10:28 PM I remember C.R. him putting in a decent performance in "Deathtrap". (A clue as to how old I am: I saw it during its theatrical run.) I was also impressed with "Somewhere in Time", after catching in on cable last year. Freeman was nominated for Best Supporting Oscar that year - and he won a few other Best Supporting awards from other groups, including the LA Critics Assoc. Mr. Peel aka Peter Avellino 8:51 AM I've never seen STREET SMART, but I've always been kind of curious. Freeman was nominated for it and it was probably his first step towards the megastardom that he achieved. The film was a pet project for Christopher Reeve, who was able to get it made at Cannon, partly by agreeing to appear in SUPERMAN IV. Of course, Freeman was the actor who wound up getting acclaimed for the film and SUPERMAN IV was, well, SUPERMAN IV. Hugo Fuchs 10:35 AM I watch movies like that alot. Sometimes they even have won awards. What I try to get out of them is: 1. Why it did not work. So I can avoid doing the same damn thing by accident. 2. Find the good things about the movie. Which is sometimes challenging, because sometimes it is only one thing in the whole movie. Sometimes it's a phrase, a delivery, the visuals, or maybe a good sound effect. But there is almost always something worthwhile in every film. Of course, some movies should come with a listing of the box that says "great sound effect in scene 3, at 12 minutes and 33 seconds in" or something like that to let you know there is some redeeming quality. Sometimes it's the basic story even when badly acted, scripted, shot, and with bad sound. My tragic fake love life I made pie today What I've seen lately Who's that guy? Play me a screenplay The noir saga continues with Brick Pitch Q My Open scene Another year, another missed second round Expo day one lessons My ego hurts Eh. Thoughts on the film: Street Smart ( It's not very... See one, do one, sit around and do nothing The Big Read is the Big Awesome Every Girl in LA is blonde How to make teenagers shut up and watch the damn m... Chinatown on election day Save the daisies!	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5229653716087341, "wiki_prob": 0.47703462839126587, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line994282"}
MediaCentre Back to AMSA Report shows zero-tolerance approach lifts shipping standards Tuesday, August 9, 2022 - 03:30 Stringent inspection regime continues to positively influence the quality of foreign ships brought to Australia. Zero-tolerance approach to sub-standard shipping continues to act as a deterrent to the owners and operators of sub-standard ships. Australia’s national regulator for shipping, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA), has released its Port State Control (PSC) Annual Report for 2021 – highlighting the positive effect that a consistent, zero-tolerance approach can have on the quality of foreign ships entering its waters. AMSA’s latest PSC inspection regime findings show that detention and deficiency rates per inspection continued to remain low in 2021, at just 5.6 per cent and 2.2 respectively compared to 2020, which had 5.9 per cent and 2.1. AMSA Executive Director of Operations, Michael Drake, said the regulator was widely reputed for having one of the most stringent inspection regimes in the world. “Ships that fail to meet international standards represent an unacceptable risk to the safety of seafarers, Australia’s precious marine environments and coastal communities,” Mr Drake said. “Our mission is to ensure safe ship operations and combat marine pollution from shipping. “We achieve that by taking a zero-tolerance approach during our inspections and by working collaboratively with our regional partners through intelligence sharing, concentrated inspection campaigns and awareness raising with industry. “These combined efforts have a positive influence on the quality of ships that enter our waters – it is a deterrent to the owners and operators of sub-standard ships which is why we continue to see low detention and deficiency rates.” Mr Drake said the 2021 inspection regime findings also helped refine the authority’s compliance focus areas for the year ahead, as published in the authority’s National Compliance Plan for 22/23. “We’ve identified trends in recent years relating to detainable deficiencies for ineffective implementation of safety management systems, fire safety and water/weather tight integrity, and we will be sharpening our compliance focus on these areas for the coming year,” Mr Drake said. Media releases in this series [email protected] Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays 8am to 5pm AEST For all media enquiries please email us during business hours. Outside of these hours we will only respond to search and rescue operations and emergencies. [email protected] 82 Northbourne Avenue Braddon ACT 2612 Resource library terms of use Safe and clean seas, saving lives © Australian Government	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9239545464515686, "wiki_prob": 0.9239545464515686, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line513685"}
Lancashire News Darwen Inside the welcome Darwen space trying to tackle the rising rate of suicide The Imaginarium is open to anyone who wants to pop in for a chat and a brew Amy FentonSenior reporter Jade Patterson, left, and Saffron Daley, right, who are part of the team behind The Imaginarium (Image: James Maloney/Lancs Live) Many of us have, sadly, noticed a rise in the number of suicides being reported in our communities. Jade Patterson has seen its impact first-hand. After a number of tragic deaths among her friendship group Jade was inspired to open a warm and welcoming space for anyone who "needs a breather". The Imaginarium in Darwen is whatever anyone needs it to be, she explained, somewhere for people to pop in, relax, have a brew and remove themselves from the stress of work or home. "I wanted to create a community space for people to come and have a break from life whether they're stressed out at work or home, somewhere they can come and have free tea and coffee or a chat," Jade, a qualified therapist, told LancsLive. READ MORE:I had to flee my home in the middle of the night for reporting the case of Ellie Williams "It's just a safe space to relax and breathe. We've got noise cancelling headphones if anyone has sensory issues." As well as offering a safe space the Imaginarium also has a fruit and veg bank. "The foodbanks aren't able to offer perishable items so we fill that gap and we have a lot of help from local businesses and volunteers." The Imaginarium offers a safe space for people to have a chat or just relax (Image: James Maloney/Lancs Live) Local crafters who run their own businesses from their homes are also on display at the Imaginarium including Tanya Taylor's Sign of the Time. Jade was keen to showcase the talents of Darwen people who had turned their hobby into a home business. Suicide is, as Jade explained, not biased and affects people from all walks of life. She hopes that the Imaginarium will help to tackle the rising number of people who feel they have no way out. Jade added: "There has been a really high rate of suicide, including in my friendship group, and that's why I set this up. Suicide isn't biased it affects everyone. Everyone is suffering and I just wanted to try and do something to prevent those numbers going up and the grief and sorrow." The Imaginarium is found at The Loft, 8 Borough Road, Darwen. For more information click here. The Imaginarium is in Borough Road (Image: James Maloney/Lancs Live) Terraced house next to Darwen mosque to become women-only Muslim prayer space Liam Gallagher gives out free Adidas trainers to Blackburn's young homeless people at Christmas Latest news from LancsLive Homelessness charity employee humbled by her own night out in the cold and rain at Ewood Park Businesses stay vigilant in the winter months as burglaries rise dramatically	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8262600898742676, "wiki_prob": 0.8262600898742676, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1473162"}
‘Tough’ Budget Situation Makes New Funding Unlikely For Kansas Mental Health System KCUR Published February 6, 2017 at 10:34 AM CST Meg Wingerter A key Kansas lawmaker says the state doesn’t have the money to fix problems in its mental health system, which a new report says are getting steadily worse. The report, the second from a task force created in 2015 to advise the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, says the system has continued to deteriorate. The task force’s first report, issued about 18 months ago, concluded the system was “stretched beyond its ability to provide the right care at the right time in the right place.” Download the updated report from the Continuum of Care Task Force. Rep. Brenda Landwehr, who chairs the House Social Services Budget Committee, agreed there are substantial gaps in the system but said lawmakers are virtually powerless to respond because of the depth of the state’s budget problems. “The situation we’re in is tough,” said Landwehr, a Wichita Republican. “We just don’t have the money to do that (pay for more services).” The state faces a projected $320 million deficit in the current budget year. Lawmakers must close that gap by the end of June to comply with a provision in the Kansas Constitution that prohibits deficit spending. Before adjourning, they also must cover a projected budget deficit of more than $800 million for the fiscal year that starts July 1. Given the amount of projected red ink, Landwehr said the state can’t afford to implement task force recommendations that would require significant new spending. Specifically, she said, it can’t afford to add psychiatric residential services for people covered by KanCare, the state’s privatized Medicaid program. A lack of supervised living arrangements for people who are too ill to live on their own but who don’t need to be in a hospital is one of the most critical gaps in the system, said Amy Campbell, a task force member who lobbies on behalf of the Kansas Mental Health Coalition. “If we are not going to create an opportunity for (supervised housing), we are going to continue spinning in the cycle,” Campbell said. When patients with serious mental illnesses are released from state psychiatric hospitals without adequate support, their symptoms can escalate quickly, forcing them back into the hospital, Campbell said. “When we did this last year, we didn’t have any money,” Campbell said, referring to the first set of recommendations made by the task force. “When we came back, we had lost ground. These are important investments that have to be made.” The updated report did credit the state for funding crisis centers in Kansas City, Wichita and Topeka that help divert patients from the state psychiatric hospitals. However, it said other decisions made in 2016 by Gov. Sam Brownback and members of his administration — such as cutting KanCare reimbursements by 4 percent and canceling contracts with state universities to train mental health workers — weakened the system. “The members of the ACC Task Force are discouraged at the continued erosion of the Kansas behavioral health continuum of care since the last report,” the update said. “While there have been positive developments (since 2015) … the overall system has degraded and cannot meet the statewide need.” In the updated report, task force members also signaled their opposition to privatizing Osawatomie State Hospital, citing concerns about the quality of care delivered by for-profit contractors in other states. “Other states have seen privatized hospital beds decertified or worse; patients and employees harmed because privatization cannot resolve the problems of understaffing and underfunding,” the report said. The state’s proposal to privatize Osawatomie State Hospital called for a contractor to continue operating the hospital with reduced funds from the state and to provide new facilities while maintaining 206 inpatient beds. KDADS officials began pursuing privatization after federal officials cut Medicare payments to the hospital over concerns about patient safety. The report also called for the state to reopen 60 closed beds at Osawatomie State Hospital. The facility has been running at a reduced capacity since mid-2015, forcing people in crisis to wait in emergency rooms for an open bed, the report said. Landwehr, however, said she thinks the state should look into the advantages and pitfalls of privatizing or closing Osawatomie State Hospital. It might no longer be practical to maintain a state hospital in an aging facility, she said. “I think we need that picture,” she said. “If we don’t start looking now, that critical moment is going to hit us.” Rep. Kathy Wolfe Moore, a Kansas City, Kan., Democrat, is among the task force members skeptical of privatization. “If we don’t start looking now, that critical moment is going to hit us.” “I’m not saying that we should never privatize,” Wolfe Moore said. “I’m saying that we need to have a comprehensive plan and then see how that might fit into it. And right now, I don’t think it does.” A majority of House members agree. More than 60 have signed on to a bill that would prohibit the privatization of either of the state’s mental health hospitals unless authorized by the Legislature. Other recommendations in the updated report include: Increase funding for community mental health programs that have shown results. Continue funding programs for people transitioning out of state hospitals. Increase the number of beds for substance abuse treatment. Small substance abuse programs are scattered throughout the state. Assist primary care practices with managing psychotropic medications or use telemedicine so psychiatrists can monitor patients remotely. Update rules to allow rehabilitation services in mental health nursing facilities. Meg Wingerter is a reporter for KCUR’s Kansas News Service, a collaboration of KCUR, Kansas Public Radio and KMUW covering health, education and politics in Kansas. You can reach her on Twitter @MegWingerter. Kansas News Service stories and photos may be republished at no cost with proper attribution and a link back to kcur.org. Government Kansas News Servicemental healthKansas LegislatureKansas budgetOsawatomieDigital Post Hungry For MO returns! KCUR's podcast Hungry For MO is back with more stories about Missouri’s iconic foods, from barbecue to pizza and beyond. A 116-year-old memorial was stolen from, then returned to, a historic Black church in Parkville 30 years ago, these Kansas farmers were told to use less water. Here's how they did it USDA strengthens rules and enforcement to make sure organic products are really organic Can a state organization charge $44,000 for emails? A lawsuit may answer that Support news that matters in Kansas City KCUR serves the Kansas City region with breaking news and powerful storytelling. Your donation helps make nonprofit journalism available for everyone. Brownback Budget Plan Cuts Nearly $20M From State Psychiatric Hospitals Kansas Issues Request For Proposals To Privatize Osawatomie State Hospital	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8299311399459839, "wiki_prob": 0.8299311399459839, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1457569"}
Multiple Call for Abstracts: Oslo Science Conference Organizers of Session 4.2, "Natural resource exploration and utilization," announce a call for abstracts. Organizers of Session 5.2, "Polar observing systems," announce a call for abstracts. Organizers of Session 5.5, "Space for polar science," announce a call for abstracts. This session will explore the development of large-scale natural resource utilization in the polar areas in the past and the present, as well as its geo-political consequences and the increasing tensions between different security perspectives surrounding oil and gas exploration. It explores the tension between the notion of freedom of access to the resources of the polar areas, and the networks of private capital, states, and international political and legal regimes that control and sustain this notion of freedom. Organizers invite abstracts for papers dealing with the development of large scale natural resources exploitation - whaling, mining, hunting, oil and gas - in the Arctic and in Antarctica, and its relation with polar science, different security perspectives and geopolitics. For further information, please go to: http://www.ipy-osc.no/article/2009/1246272385.62 Or contact: Dag Avango Email: [email protected] Louwrens Hacquebord Email: [email protected] Gunhild Hoogensen Email: [email protected] Linked physical, geological, biological, chemical, and human observations of the atmosphere, oceans, ice, and land, and multidisciplinary observations, including social and human systems and engaging polar residents, constitute an intensive activity of the IPY. Observing systems and infrastructure will leave a significant legacy of the IPY and provide long-term support to polar research. Improved spatial and temporal coverage of many data sets, and building capacity for observing and monitoring in local arctic communities, will enable determination of the present environmental status and establish a baseline for identifying and forecasting future change. Coordinated, international efforts to sustain and connect polar observing systems to larger global observing systems are underway for the Arctic and Antarctic. For the Arctic, the Arctic Council together with the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) and other partners have established the Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks (SAON) to achieve long-term, arctic-wide observing activities that provide free, open, and timely access to high quality data that will realize pan-arctic and global value-added services and societal benefits. For the Antarctic, the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is developing individual observing systems. The mechanism of coordination and or integration between them is under review. This session provides an opportunity to present and discuss community, ground, and ocean based polar observing systems. The conveners envision a session which will include sub-sessions looking at ocean observing systems, land-based, atmospheric, and cryospheric observing systems, as well as community based systems. Organizers encourage contributions from both the Arctic and Antarctic. Volker Rachold Email: [email protected] Shari Gearheard Email: [email protected] Mike Willis Email: [email protected] Martin Nweeia Email: [email protected] The unique dimension provided by regular synoptic views of the high-latitude regions by Earth observing satellites has resulted in breathtakingly rapid development of satellite data applications in all aspects of polar science. Since the flight of Sputnik, and coincident 1957-58 International Geophysical Year, this new space frontier has seen rapid technical advances towards today's satellite-based polar observing system infrastructure. IPY 2007-2008 has seen unified international engagement and response of Space Agencies to the scientific challenges posed by IPY projects. The result is a spectacular array of new snapshot satellite products and valuable new data time-series with which to address some of the most important scientific, social, and economic questions of our time. This session solicits abstracts that describe the broad array of unique space-based contributions to IPY, the new geophysical products, and examples of results from the world-class science being undertaken with satellite data captured over both poles. Mark Drinkwater Email: [email protected]	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7195221781730652, "wiki_prob": 0.2804778218269348, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1125437"}
Two Somerville teens charged in BB gun shootings at Bridgewater Commons BRIDGEWATER - Two Somerville residents have been charged with weapons offenses after township police investigated two reports of people being shot with BB pellets at the Bridgewater Commons. Isaiah C. Smith, 19, was charged with two counts of third-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and two counts of fourth-degree unlawful possession of a weapon. Corey Q. Robinson, 19, has been charged with two counts of third-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, two counts of fourth-degree unlawful possession of a weapon and simple assault. More:Bridgewater-Raritan district steps up campaign for $154 million March 14 referendum According to Mitzak, at about 6:59 p.m. Jan. 4, a victim reported being shot in the head with a BB or pellet gun while walking outside the Bridgewater Commons with her 1-year-old child. The victim suffered minor injuries and was treated on scene by emergency medical personnel. At about 7:22 p.m. Jan. 14, the chief said, the second reported while walking outside the mall near the AMC Theater he was shot in the back of the head by, what he believed to be, a BB or pellet gun. He told police he saw a white sedan driving past him at the time where he believed the shot had come from. The victim was not injured. The chief said that Bridgewater detectives through their investigation were able to identify the suspects. Bridgewater police:Man charged with assaulting McDonald's worker, spitting at officers Detectives applied for a search warrant for the vehicle which was owned Smith and inside the vehicle they found an Airsoft pistol, with the orange tip removed, making the gun appear as if it was a genuine Glock handgun, Mitzak said. Police also found Airsoft pellets during the search. Anyone with information about the incidents is asked to contact the Bridgewater Det. Sgt. Steve Zeichner at (908) 722-4111, Ext. 4183. Mike Deak is a reporter for mycentraljersey.com. To get unlimited access to his articles on Somerset and Hunterdon counties, please subscribe or activate your	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9336693286895752, "wiki_prob": 0.9336693286895752, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line128284"}
Jewish Soul Food: Traditional Fare and What It Means Jewish traditional foods often have symbolic meanings. A Passover matzo is a taste of Egyptian slavery. The Hanukkah latke reminds us of the little jug of oil that burned, miraculously, for eight nights. Noshing hamentaschen at Purim, we remember the villain Haman, and his thwarted plan to destroy the Jews. Even more than in the synagogue, Jewish life takes place around the dining table. Jewish sages compare the dining table to an altar, and that isn’t an exaggeration. Jewish meals are ceremonies and celebrations that forge a pathway between body and soul. In this unique cookbook, Carol Ungar links the cultural and religious symbolism of Jewish foods to more than one hundred recipes drawn from international Jewish cultures and traditions. She offers easy-to-follow recipes for Shabbat meals and all the Jewish holidays, from Rosh Hashana to the nine days before Tisha b’Av, along with fascinating briefs on how many Jewish foods―challah, kreplach, farfel, and more―express core Jewish beliefs. With ingredients that can be found in any supermarket, and recipes adapted for the time- and health-conscious cook, this volume is for anyone who wishes to flavor Shabbat and holiday meals with Jewish soul. by Carol Ungar (Author)	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7472991347312927, "wiki_prob": 0.2527008652687073, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line109029"}
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Home Condoms Unknown Facts about Condoms Unknown Facts about Condoms ‘It does more, it costs less and it Is that Easy’ Whosoever developed the description for the macintosh condoms firm, had hit the nail in the ideal spot. One of the most easily available, cheap, simple to use and effective form of contraception available, condoms sure did indicate the start of a revolution when it comes to birth control and safe sex. Advantages of condoms Condoms have assured that birth control no more remains limited to the conventional surgical procedures and have given every individual a chance to play a role in the endeavour towards birth control; to not mention the improved awareness caused to do so. As a result of condoms, what’s commonly known as ‘safe sex’ is no longer an inaccessible stadium. It is common knowledge that use of condoms is an effective way to block several sexually transmitted diseases to a substantial extent. 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Egypt Begins Trial Operation of Development Projects in Petrochemical Plants Cairo - Asharq Al-Awsat "Business" https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/3649966/egypt-begins-trial-operation-development-projects-petrochemical-plants Tuesday, 17 May, 2022 - 07:00 Petroleum Minister Tarek el-Molla tours the Petroleum Minister Tarek el-Molla. (Asaharq Al-Awsat) Egypt inaugurated on Monday comprehensive development projects at the factories of the Egyptian Petrochemical Company in Alexandria. Petroleum Minister Tarek el-Molla inaugurated the trial operation of the developed factories, including the chlorine plant and the new thermal cracking unit of the vinyl chloride monomer production plant. He stressed the sector's keenness on increasing production from petrochemical projects as a primary goal to replace imports with local products. In a press statement received by Asharq Al-Awsat, he stressed that the state will continue to implement the comprehensive development plan and increase the efficiency of the various public oil sector companies to maximize production. Molla said the Egyptian Petrochemical Company in Alexandria is a pioneer in the industry and witnessing significant projects that are developing its factories and increasing its production capacity. He pointed out that the petroleum and petrochemical manufacturing complexes serve as a safety valve to meet the local market's needs, especially in times of global challenges and crises. He discussed the integration between Sidi Kerir Petrochemicals Company (SIDPEC), the Egyptian Ethylene and Derivatives Company (ETHYDCO), and Egyptian Petrochemicals to maximize the utilization of resources. Molla also oversaw the signing of a contract between the Egyptian Petrochemicals and Petrojet to design, supply, and operate a new unit to maintain the continuity of operation with total production capacity and ensure the provision of capacity storage. On Sunday, the minister launched the operation of the second phase of the Midor Refinery expansion project with an investment of $2.4 billion. The project aims to boost the current production capacity of the Midor refinery by 60 percent to reach 160,000 barrels per day. Molla explored operational projects in the second phase, including the new four storages for crude and products with a total capacity of 400,000 barrels of oil and 290,000 barrels of intermediate products. The first phase comprised a unit for nitrogen production with a doubled capacity from the current levels, a new 49-megawatt power plant to feed in the project and a gas pressure reduction station with a total of 1.4 million cubic meters per day supply gas to Midor Electricity company. The minister explained that the Midor refinery expansion project is a part of the ambitious strategy adopted by the petroleum ministry in 2016 to execute a series of national projects to boost domestic gas output and narrow the gap between production and local consumption of oil products. UAE-France Program to Accelerate Clean Energy Development Saudi TAQA Completes Acquiring 100% of Mansoori Petroleum Services OPEC Oil Output Falls as Iraqi Exports Decline Saudi Energy Minister: We Aim to Boost Oil, Gas Production, Plan to Export Hydrogen AlUla Development Company Launches Operations to Turn the City into Global Tourism Destination Egypt Central Bank: Pound Slips to New Low against Dollar Türkiye to Host Summit of Gas Buyers, Sellers Next Month	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6001763939857483, "wiki_prob": 0.3998236060142517, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line58016"}
Manchester United interested in Italian Knight? Reports from Italy and Ireland are suggesting that Manchester United are preparing a £25m assault on Roma and Italian midfielder Daniele De Rossi. The player, who has been awarded the Cavaliere Ordine and Ufficiale Ordine al Merito in 2004 and 2006 respectively has always been a player greatly admired from most football managers. (The above Italian means he is a Knight and an Official in Italy). De Rossi was also awarded Italy’s Footballer of the Year in 2009, but news has filtered through that Manchester United may be interested in acquiring the Italian allrounder. The 27 year old is somewhat of a “textbook” midfielder, neither more defensive nor attacking in nature and being able to cope well with both roles admirably. Having played for Roma since 2001 one though is likely to be a big barrier for any club and Manchester United would have to fund any sort of deal with around £25m worth of cash. With other younger players available for less, and Inter Milan’s Wesley Sneijder making no secret of the fact that he would want to join Manchester United, this could just be one of those rumours although if De Rossi was offered on a plate, many doubt that Sir Alex Ferguson would not want an player with such experience and ability. Roma are currently in dire straits, having the worst start to the Serie A season in a long, long time. Placed in only 19th position, Roma may look for freshness to boost their title hopes next season whilst De Rossi will be desperate for some Champions League football – something that Manchester United can almost guarantee every season. Previous PostAgent tells Manchester United they can have Defour in JanuaryNext PostManchester United target TWO Spaniards One thought on “Manchester United interested in Italian Knight?” I would love to see Daniele De Rossi & Wesley Sneijder both in utd shirts but who would make way for these two i also would love to see Diego Forlan back in a utd shirt even if Michael Owen had to go and reports coming from Aston Villa & Liverpool i’m sure easy we would get 4m for him what have we going to lose … the bee male sexual drive and enhancer drug coke diet funny gummies delta-8 thc quick ways to bring down high blood pressure	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5723914504051208, "wiki_prob": 0.42760854959487915, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line658076"}
Bay Area Hip-Hop ‘Empowerment’ Selfies Are Burying a Turkish Women’s Rights Campaign Rae Alexandra A sea of images from Instagram, filtered through one of this week's most popular hashtags, #womensupportingwomen. (Instagram) f you’ve used Instagram even casually in the last 48 hours, you've seen them by now. Black-and-white selfies of women accompanied by the words “Challenge accepted,” along with the hashtags #womenempowerment and #womensupportingwomen. On initially encountering these images yesterday—especially with zero context—it was hard for me to fathom what the “challenge” was exactly. So I clicked on the hashtags in an attempt to find out, only to have my confusion compounded. I took the time to scroll through hundreds of tagged photos. And the only thing I felt challenged by was the narrowness of representation on display. Occasionally Instagram's algorithm would permit me to see a woman over a size 8 or the age of 45—but they were few and far between. There were some women of color featured, but overwhelmingly, it was a sea of whiteness. I counted only a few trans women and exactly zero with any visible disabilities. All of which sent a very unfortunate message about what kind of women deserve “support.” More from the #womensupportingwomen hashtag. (Instagram) Then this morning it became apparent that it wasn't just diversity that had been buried on my Instagram feed—the more meaningful origins of the black-and-white challenge had been erased too. What is now a light-hearted expression of female solidarity in America was originally, in Turkey, a campaign inspired by both the soaring rates of violence against women and the brutal murder of a 27-year-old student named Pinar Gültekin. Protests in the country broke out after Gültekin’s ex-boyfriend led police to her strangled and partially burned body, stashed inside an oil drum, five days after her July 16 disappearance. The murder appears to have been the last straw in a nation where women feel increasingly endangered. In 2019, 474 women were killed there—a 200% increase since 237 women were lost in 2013. It is also estimated that, so far in 2020 alone, 146 Turkish women have been murdered. After seeing the diluted message that her “international friends” were posting online as part of the #womenempowerment hashtag, one Turkish Twitter user named @imaann_patel attempted to explain the somber origins and meanings of the original challenge: Turkey is one of the top countries when it comes to femicides. Most often the murderers barely get a slap on a wrist or no charges at all… Our government is trying to abolish certain aspects of [the] Istanbul Convention which is a human rights treaty that protects women against domestic violence… Turkish people wake up every day to see a black and white photo of a woman who has been murdered on their Instagram feed, on their newspapers, on their TV screens. The black and white photo challenge started as a way for women to raise their voice. To stand in solidarity with the women we have lost. To show that one day, it could be their picture that is plastered across news outlets. New York Times reporter Tariro Mzezewa confirmed this on Twitter, after speaking to women in Turkey directly: Those original hashtags—#kadınaşiddetehayır and #istanbulsözleşmesiyaşatır—roughly translate to “Say no to violence against women” (kadına şiddete hayır) and “Enforce the Istanbul convention” (Istanbul sözleşmesi yaşatır). They have since been buried under the flood of #womenempowerment and #womensupportingwomen hashtags. Another New York Times reporter, Taylor Lorenz, insisted on Twitter that the #womenempowerment trend did not originate in Turkey, pointing out the fact that black-and-white photos accompanied by the hashtag #ChallengeAccepted have emerged on social media before. “In 2016, [they] were meant to spread a message of ‘cancer awareness,’” she wrote. “Over the years the photo trend has also been used to ‘spread positivity.’” One of Lorenz’ interviewees went on to suggest this latest round was born from “Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaking out against Representative Ted Yoho’s sexist remarks against her on the floor of Congress last week.” Still, many in Turkey remain steadfast that this latest round of black-and-white selfies first gathered steam there. Author Dr. Pragya Agarwal posted her own picture to Instagram, accompanied by the message: This was started by Turkish women to say that they are appalled by the Turkish govt decision to withdraw from the Istanbul convention… This is not just performative, this is hopefully not just tokenistic, this is for PINAR GULTEKIN, a woman of color. Say her name!! The problem is, the millions of non-Turkish women participating in #womenempowerment selfies are not saying Pınar Gültekin’s name. Hell, they’re barely even saying Breonna Taylor’s. Truthfully, they’re not saying much of anything at all. Just weeks ago, Black Lives Matter-related information sharing was impeded by a flood of well-meaning black squares that were hashtagged #BLM. This latest black-and-white trend will effectively prevent #womenempowerment and #womensupportingwomen from being used for anything other than black-and-white selfies for months. Yes, there is certainly value in publicly expressing unity with other women. And yes, the #womenempowerment trend has undoubtedly been a bonding moment for thousands of women. But the vast majority of black-and-white posts currently flooding our Instagram feeds could just as easily have been tagged #feelingmyself, #selfcare or #selflove, and accompanied by an appropriately light-hearted phrase like “Pass it on.” Using serious tags for uninformative posts isn’t just misleading, it can act as a barrier to constructive work.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.677366316318512, "wiki_prob": 0.677366316318512, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1628028"}
DEKA bionic arm The DEKA or "Luke" arm is a prosthetic arm that can perform multiple, simultaneous powered movements controlled by electrical signals from electromyogram (EMG) electrodes biomechanics - bionics - robotic arms 3.6 kg (SC System) 2.5 kg (HC System) 1.3 kg (RC System) 10 Powered 1 Passive Type Lithium-ion Mount Holster on a belt around the waist or on the back Voltage capacity 9 Volt Type Foot Control Pneumatic Bladder Myoelectrode The bionic arm can be controlled in a variety of ways, depending on the user's preference and ability. Some common control techniques include surface electromyographic electrodes (EMG) and foot-mounted inertial measurement units (IMU). EMG electrodes touch the user's skin and sense electrical activity from muscles in the residual limb that would have moved the natural limb in a desired way. In the case of the IMUs, as the user tilts his or her feet from toe-to-heel or side-to-side, accelerometers in the IMU on the foot send wireless signals to guide the prosthetic arm and hand. Signals from both EMG and IMU are received by a computer embedded in the prosthesis, which then instructs the motors in the arm to produce simultaneous, complex, multi-directional movements. Configuration and Technique The DEKA Arm is available in three configurations, or levels: 1. Radial configuration (RC) - For transradial amputees; 2. Humeral configuration (HC) - For transhumeral amputees 3. Shoulder configuration (SC) - For transhumeral amputees with very short residua, as well as persons with amputations at the shoulder disarticulation and scapulothoracic (forequarter) level. Appearance of DEKA Arm Gen 2 and Gen 3 Prototypes: (a) Gen 2 SC Arm on socket/harness without sleeve (left) and with sleeve (right); (b) Gen 3 SC Arm on socket/harness The prototype supports the use of up to six different pre-programmed grip patterns which provides options for both precision and power grasps. In power grip, the tip of the thumb closes against the tip of the index finger, while the other fingers remain in composite position, forming a loose fist and enabling an object to be held against the palm. Power grip is used to grasp large objects such as bottles, books, and handles. In fine pinch open, the tip of the thumb opposes the index finger and the remaining fingers stay extended and out of the way. Open pinch is used to manipulate and pick up small objects. Fine pinch closed is similar to open tip pinch except that the middle, ring, and fifth digits close in composite position instead of remaining extended. Six grips of the DEKA Arm (Gen 2 Hand): (a) power, (b) tool, (c) chuck, (d) lateral pinch, (e) fine pinch open, and (f) fine pinch closed. A chuck grip is similar to a tripod pinch. Chuck grip is used to grasp medium and small size round objects such as bottles, cups, or doorknobs. Lateral pinch is used to grasp flat items such as keys, files, or papers, and writing and eating utensils. In tool grip, the index finger flex to touch the lower part of the thumb, while the middle finger, ring finger, and small fingers close in semi-bent position. This grasp can be used to perform activities requiring a pointer finger, such as typing or playing the piano. If the user actively uses the grasp, the index finger can be flexed to activate a tool such as an electric drill, or utilize a spray bottle, while the remaining fingers remain flexed to stabilize the object. Grips with detents: (a) tool grip at first detent, (b) tool grip closed fully, (c) lateral grip at first detent, (d) lateral grip closed fully, (e) closed pinch grip at first detent. Powered movement The SC DEKA Arm has 10 powered degrees of freedom and additional passive degree of freedom .2,3 Powered degrees of freedom include shoulder abduction/adduction; shoulder flexion/extension; humeral internal/external rotation; elbow flexion/extension; forearm pronation/supination; wrist flexion/extension; index finger flexion/extension; middle, ring, and fifth finger flexion/extension; thumb flexion/extension; and thumb abduction/adduction. At the HC and SC levels, the control scheme has dual modes enabling the user to switch between a “hand mode” of operation (to control movements of the hand and wrist) and an “arm mode” of operation (to control movements of the powered elbow, shoulder, or combined movements, that is, Endpoint Control). In Gen 3, changes have been made to enable availability of up to three movements of the hand and/or wrist in arm mode, if sufficient control inputs are available. The arm is controlled by prosthetic movements with a combination of foot controls, myoelectrodes, pneumatic bladders or other commonly available prosthetic input devices. Users work with the prosthetist to identify the appropriate combination of these potential control elements, and did not necessarily use all, or any specific, control elements other than some type of foot control. IMUs, mounted on a clip that attached to the top of the shoe, utilizes gyroscopes and micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) accelerometers to sense small movements of the foot/ankle in space in relation to a flexibly programmed “zero” position. The user commands motion of the prosthesis by tilting his or her foot (and the IMU) in various directions. Three iterations of foot controls: (a) FSR footpad wired to ACI (left) and ACI unit and battery (right); (b) IMU-1 and ACI battery unit worn on shoes (left) and boots (right); (c) IMU-2 on clip (left) and worn on laces (right). These user inputs are received and digitized by one or more ACIs which then transmits these signals to a master control module (MCM). The MCM generates and transmits the arm control commands to the respective electrical module that controls the mechanical prosthetic movements. All control inputs are initially configured by a wireless graphical user interface (called the prosthetist interface (PI)) that run on a personal computer and is available to the clinician, but not designed for the amputee user. MCM: master control module. The wireless communication connection between the computer and the MCM, as well as between the foot controls and the Arm, is upgraded during Gen 2 and replaced at the start of Gen 3 with an updated wireless communication connection to increase signal reliability and decrease interruptions in device functioning due to communication losses. Gen 2 Master Control Module (left) and battery pack (right) worn on the back. The DEKA Arm is battery powered using a rechargeable lithium-ion battery typically worn in a holster on a belt around the waist or on the back. The control uses a standard 9-V battery that needs replacement when discharged. The size of the external rechargeable battery has been decreased between Gen 2 and Gen 3, and the holster in which it was mounted was redesigned for ease of insertion and removal of the battery. A power-save mode has been developed during Gen 2 and Gen 3 that can engage joint brakes to stop motors from running during inactivity, resulting in longer run-times for batteries in HC and SC Arms. In Gen 3, an alternating current (AC) adaptor and charging dock replaces the Gen 2 cable system that charged one battery at a time. The Gen 3 charging dock can charge two external batteries simultaneously and is easier to operate with only one hand. The Gen 3 for HC and SC also has the potential to include an internal battery built into the Arm. The internal battery itself is introduced late in the Gen 3 phase. RC level Gen 3 Arms does not have an internal battery. When an internal lithium-ion battery was used, the Arm was turned on and off by a button located in the forearm above the wrist area. Internal batteries are charged via an AC adapter between an electrical outlet and a charging port on the forearm of the Arm and are expected to offer run time of at least 1 h between charges, depending on intensity of use. In all cases, the internal battery can be augmented by an external battery which was expected to offer run time of at least 6 h between charges, depending upon the intensity of use. The internal ACI battery for IMU-2 is a rechargeable lithium-polymer battery with average run time specifications of a full day between charges. The entire IMU-2 unit is placed on a charging pad which was updated during Gen 3 by adding light emitting diode (LED) signals that indicated when the IMUs were charging. Although many have described the development of multifunctional prosthetic hands and other prosthetic features, there is a paucity of articles describing devices that have been evaluated in clinical studies of persons with amputation. Only a few powered multi function prosthetic hand designs, including the i-Limb products and the Ottobock Michelangelo Hand, have reached the commercial marketplace. Historically, the design and features of devices in the commercial marketplace have not been identified or fully described in the scientific literature and descriptions are only available through technical specification documents produced by the manufacturer after commercialization. Some prostheses are now available with passive wrist flexion and extension, and many commercially available devices have powered pronation and supination, at this time there are only a few commercially available wrists that incorporate powered flexion and extension. Two commercial wrists have powered wrist flexion: the Centri Hand and wrist which combines wrist flexion and finger flexion, and the hand and wrist supplied by Shanghai Kesheng Prostheses Co. Ltd, that has separate powered wrist flexion. We located only a single published peer-reviewed article describing the engineering design of a 2-DOF prosthetic wrist. However, the Intrinsic Hand supported by DARPA’s Revolutionizing Prosthetics Program (RPP) has a 3-DOF wrist that offers flexion/extension, radial/ulnar deviation as well as 360° rotation. None of the designs reported in the literature, or commercially available, utilize a 2-DOF compound wrist movement like the one available in the DEKA Gen 3 wrist. The success of DEKA’s optimization efforts will be reported in separate articles describing user and clinician feedback as well as users level of functional performance, dexterity, and skill achieved by these users of the DEKA Arm. The DEKA Arm is still an experimental, pre-production prototype, only available for research use and not currently available for commercial use. US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and commercialization will be needed to enable the fruits of these efforts to reach upper limb amputees. The DEKA Arm Very short paper introducing the bionic arm. Shows the methods, results, and has a discussion. MichaelHeath, 2014 The DEKA Arm: Its features, functionality, and evolution during the Veterans Affairs Study to optimize the DEKA Arm This article reports on the features and functionality of the Gen 2 and Gen 3 prototypes discussing weight, cosmesis, grips, powered movements Endpoint, prosthetic controls, prosthetist interface, power sources, user notifications, troubleshooting, and specialized socket features. Linda Resnik, Shana L Klinger, Katherine Etter, 2013 Do users want to receive a DEKA Arm and why? Overall findings from the Veterans Affairs Study to optimize the DEKA Arm. This article reports on the overall desirability of the DEKA Arm by prototype and by level of prosthesis, on user-perceived benefits of the DEKA Arm as compared to their current prostheses, and summarizes user concerns about taking the device home. L. Resnik, G. Latlief, S. Klinger, et al. 2014 biomechanicsbionicsrobotic arms Festo BionicSoftArm Whether free and flexible movements or defined sequences, the modular pneumatic lightweight robot can be used for a wide variety of applications in the context of human–robot collaboration depending on the composition and mounted gripper. Team Festo Festo Corporation- Refueling Satellites in Space, With the Help of a Robot Research team working with NASA on solution that could keep satellites operating longer Torie Wells- How I taught my robot to realize how bad it was at holding things As the Chief Technical Architect of the Shadow Robot Company, I spend a lot of time thinking about grasping things with our robots. This story is a quick delve into the world of grasp robustness prediction using machine learning. Ugo Cupcic- Nao Robot WasteShark	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5246339440345764, "wiki_prob": 0.5246339440345764, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line253969"}
Egypt First Time Hosting Asian Tour International The Asian Tour’s ground-breaking International Series has expanded its schedule, by confirming that it will visit Egypt for the first time in 2022. By taking place at Madinaty Golf Club, the tournament will be one of the new Series’ most exciting and exotic destinations it has ever visited. The International Series Egypt will be hosted at Madinaty Golf Club, in Cairo, from November 10-13. The event will boast prize money of US $1.5 million and play a key role in determining the Asian Tour Order of Merit champion, as well as the International Series money list winner. “This has been an unprecedented season and we are delighted to be able to announce exciting news about the Asian Tour’s first visit to Egypt,” said Cho Minn Thant, Commissioner and CEO, Asian Tour. “The International Series Egypt is a spectacular addition to our schedule that will provide our members with a unique opportunity to compete somewhere new while allowing the Tour to broaden its reach.” The announcement of the event coincides with the country re-emerging following the pandemic and the International Series is set to be the largest professional golf event staged in the country this century. Madinaty Golf Club, designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr. and opened in late 2020, is already playing a very active role in the Egyptian Golf scene, having hosted the prestigious Egyptian Amateur Championship. Josh North, General Manager of Madinaty Golf Club commented, “All of us at Madinaty Golf Club are delighted to be hosting the International Series at the club for the first time. Our agronomy team is already closely cooperating with the Asian Tour to ensure that the course is in peak condition come November. This will be an exciting experience for our wider team too and we are already hard at work to ensure that we hit our targets and achieve the same goal in making this the very best tournament it can be.” Mark Chapleski, Executive Vice-President of Troon International, who is a veteran when it comes to overseeing Troon venues host large scale events, said: “We are incredibly excited to be hosting the International Series for the first time in Egypt and we thank the Asian Tour for their trust in Madinaty and Troon to host this event. Madinaty Golf Club is a special venue and Troon would like to congratulate our team and ownership for being selected to host this major golf tournament.” Tags: golf, golf tournament Laguna Golf Lang Co, one of Vietnam’s leading clubs, has strengthened its ties with the Asian Tour by renewing its status as an Asian Tour… UEFA Changes Format of National Team Competitions Current Affairs & Updates on Football Premier League Giants Outmuscling Spanish Icons Australian Open 2023: No Covid Test Requirement, Novak Djokovic Can Compete Cristiano Ronaldo Leads List of Top Earners in Sports Brazilian Surfer Marcio Freire Dies in Portugal Top 10 Highest Earning Footballers in 2022 Novak Djokovic to Miss Indian Wells, Miami Open Seattle to Host 2024 Discover NHL Winter Classic Cristiano Ronaldo Officially at Saudi Arabia's Al-Nassr, How to Watch Ronaldo Russia Agrees to Work with UEFA to Return Competitions Ronaldo Joins Saudi Arabia's Al-Nassr Popularity of Golf Increases in Saudi Arabia Faldo Series Asia Grand Final Returns To Vietnam	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.79444819688797, "wiki_prob": 0.79444819688797, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line474764"}
Andrew Noel July 8, 2020 10:15 AM, EDT World’s Supply Chain Managers Bask in Their Extended Moment A man takes a bar of soap off a store shelf in Mumbai, India. (Kuni Takahashi/Bloomberg News) [Ensure you have all the info you need in these unprecedented times. Subscribe now.] Accustomed to crunch time and performing in a crisis, the world’s supply chain managers are having something of an extended moment in pandemic recovery mode. Procurement experts were center stage in the rush to secure alternative sources of household essentials, medical gear, raw materials and components to keep factories running when COVID-19 first struck. Now CEOs are looking to those same managers for more strategic vision and ways to shock-proof supply chains for corporate survival. From automakers to food processors, manufacturers that have relied on a strategy of low-cost supplies and minimum inventories are rethinking such an approach given the combination of the pandemic, trade conflicts and harsher natural disasters. The buzzwords now are flexibility and resilience. Alexander Lacik. (Carsten Snejbjerg/Bloomberg News) “This whole part of the equation has a higher prominence,” said Alexander Lacik, CEO of Danish jeweler Pandora Group with about 7,400 outlets. The chief supply chain officer “is not someone I speak to just once a month,” he said. When the coronavirus hit, it took some companies three to four weeks to understand the ripple effect on areas such as procurement and logistics. Those firms are now in the rebuilding phase, with one eye on what digital tools and other technology they need to stay on top when the next crisis comes, according to Kristian Park, a risk advisory partner at Deloitte in London. “There’s been a 50% increase in people coming forward who have realized they didn’t have the information they needed,” Park said. “As always with these things, it takes one seismic shift to change people’s perception of the risks.” News \| Photos \| Truck Stop Info \| Podcast Thanking Truckers \| Feeding Truckers That’s the sweet spot of a chief supply chain officer, who typically is more comfortable with a broad focus spanning procurement, logistics, strategic alliances and managing costs, he said. Recent studies support a move to introduce more flexibility. Companies with a resilient supply network grow faster because they better adapt to shifts in demand, potentially boosting their order rate by as much as 40% and customer satisfaction by up to 30%, according to a study by Bain & Co. Pandora’s Boxes Making its own jewelry in Thailand and owning shops across 100 countries means Pandora’s chief supply officer, Jeerasage Puranasamriddhi, has greater control. Yet the company still relies on airfreight and some 200 suppliers. As the pandemic snowballed, the company’s initial response was to push more inventory to its shop premises in case one of the large centralized warehouse facilities went down, Lacik said. Lacik now is reviewing his company’s set-up, from procurement of materials to surging online sales. Where possible, having a single source for an input will be avoided and backup plans put in place. Online sales are up as much as 300% currently, leading the Danish company to rethink its e-commerce strategy, and whether it could manage online sales internally rather than rely on a third party. It also may look at factories outside of Thailand, Lacik said. Two decades ago, less than 10% of companies had a supply chain director, according to Jan Godsell, a professor of operations and supply chain strategy at the University of Warwick. The number now is closer to 50%, with the role of a chief supply chain officer becoming more common in the past five years. They’re ascending the corporate ladder even more in the post-pandemic world, she said. “COVID-19 may have been a wake-up call to main boards of the importance of supply chains, and hopefully it will accelerate the rise of the chief supply chain officer,” Godsell said. RoadSigns · Roadsigns E35Preview COVID-19 has changed the rules of business, disrupted supply chains and created market volatility. Host Seth Clevenger revisits interviews with a broad range of industry experts and their evolving response to the pandemic. Hear a snippet, above, and get the full program by going to RoadSigns.TTnews.com. The median salary for a supply chain manager was about $78,507 a year for those with a bachelor’s degree and $95,750 with a graduate degree or higher, according to the Association for Supply Chain Management’s 2020 annual survey. The poll generated about 2,500 responses through Jan. 31. At large global companies, the top positions can pay $300,000 to $400,000. But even before the health crisis, there were chronic shortages of workers to fill the positions — about one applicant for every six openings, says Abe Eshkenazi, CEO of the Chicago-based association. As the jobs become a bigger part of a company’s strategic management team, he said more lucrative salaries will follow. “The demand for talent is going to be significant on the backside of this,” Eshkenazi said. “We’re seeing skills and expectations for supply chains increase exponentially.” All the sudden interest hasn’t gone unnoticed among students facing a brutal job market. Haslam College of Business, part of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, is among colleges offering supply chain studies that are seeing a flurry of inquiries from students and workers looking for a new career, according to George Drinnon, executive director of undergraduate programs. “This awareness is translating into more attention to the field,” he said. Virtual Demand Another anecdotal sign of the profession’s popularity: 6,000 registered attendees from 109 countries for a July 16-18 virtual conference titled “Preparing for the Recovery After COVID-19” and hosted by Alcott Global, an executive search firm specializing in e-commerce, logistics and supply chain executives. Speakers include the supply chain bosses from companies including Swedish appliance maker Electrolux AB, U.S. tool maker Stanley Black & Decker Inc. and Beiersdorf AG, the German maker of Nivea skin-care products. The Singapore-based recruiter sold out of sponsorships for the event in 10 days. “We are seeing huge interest,” said Radu Palamariu, Alcott’s managing director for Asia-Pacific. Want more news? Listen to today's daily briefing: Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Spotify \| Amazon Alexa \| Google Assistant \| More supply chain, Coronavirus Inflation, Tangled Supply Lines Are Gripping Economy FMCSA Extends COVID Emergency Declaration to Aug. 31 Sen. Klobuchar Presses Passage of Shipping Bill	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8131294846534729, "wiki_prob": 0.8131294846534729, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line935318"}
Artist Birthdays November 11 – PAUL SIGNAC In Artist Birthdays Artist Birthdays November 11 – PAUL SIGNAC2009-11-112009-11-11https://www.parkwestgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/pwg_site_logo_trimmed.pngPark West Galleryhttps://www.parkwestgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/bonaventure_pine.jpg200px200px PAUL SIGNAC (November 11, 1863 – August 15, 1935) Field: Painting Art Movement: Neo-Impressionism, Pointillism ARTiFact: He loved to sail and paint the water. In 1892 he discovered St. Tropez while on a yachting trip; he bought a home on the island (which he named La Hune), where he often invited fellow-artists such as Henri Matisse, Paul Cezanne and Pierre Bonnard. Artist Quote: “The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.” Notable Artwork (shown below): The Bonaventure Pine in St Tropez, 1892. Learn more about the artist Paul Signac More art puzzles and trivia Discover more about your favorite Park West Gallery artists artist birthdays November 11, fine art, Henri Matisse, La Hune, Neo-Impressionism, painting, Park West Galleries, Park West Gallery, Paul Cezanne, Paul Signac, Pointillism, Saint Tropez Park West Gallery Hosts Record-Breaking Auction for Tennessee Children’s Charity Park West Gallery Donates Art Collection to Children Are People’s HOPEfest 2022 See How Tim Yanke Created His ‘Call of the American West’ for the Monthaven Arts Grammy-Winning Jim Warren Named the Official Artist of the 2022 Amelia Island Jazz Festival Artist Birthdays November 10 – WILLIAM HOGARTHArtist Birthdays Artist Birthdays November 12 – AUGUSTE RODINArtist Birthdays	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5384976863861084, "wiki_prob": 0.4615023136138916, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1574338"}
Dog hitches 1,500km cross-country ride in truck By Patrick Williams Posted Tue 16 Jan 2018 at 1:34am Tuesday 16 Jan 2018 at 1:34am Tue 16 Jan 2018 at 1:34am , updated Tue 16 Jan 2018 at 11:34am Tuesday 16 Jan 2018 at 11:34am Tue 16 Jan 2018 at 11:34am Sorry, this video is not yet available or has expired Rusty has spent the past few days being cared for in South Australia. abc.net.au/news/dog-hitches-ride-from-queensland-to-sa/9332754 A crafty Australian terrier from outback Queensland has crossed 1,500 kilometres of the country, ending up in South Australia after stowing away in a passing truck. Laura Scudamore's dog Rusty had been staying with her in-laws on a cattle property outside Goondiwindi, on the Queensland and New South Wales border, while she and her family were on holidays. Loading Facebook content Earlier this month the three-year-old dog somehow managed to stow away on a truck stopped in the area. "Rusty's quite happy there [at the in-laws] but he makes a habit of sneaking off to the highway and trying to befriend people as they drive past," Ms Scudamore said. "He snuck down and apparently stowed away underneath this truck. "Some point along the trip the driver realised he was there, but he was in the middle of nowhere, so he took him home to Snowtown. "Thankfully Rusty had a collar on with a number for my in-laws." Ms Scudamore's in-laws were contacted and informed about the stowaway and are now trying to find a way to have Rusty returned. Funny thing is — this isn't the first time Rusty has pulled this kind of stunt. In late 2016 he made his way to Chinchilla, only 230 kilometres away from home. "So it's not completely surprising," Ms Scudamore said. "He's so friendly, that if someone pulls over he'll just happily jump in the car." Ms Scudamore is appealing for help on social media to help bring Rusty home. "I've been looking into dog couriers and they're quite expensive, so I'm trying on the off-chance that someone on my Facebook knows someone, and it's just gone crazy," she said. "The people who have him are really looking after him. They're sending us photos of Rusty down there. "We've just got to find a way home for him now." 'We just hope we can get him home' Down in Snowtown, Rusty has been in the care of Heather Reid and her family for more than a week. Rusty is enjoying his time in Snowtown, Ms Reid said. (Supplied: Heather Reid) Her husband Paul McDowell was the truck driver who discovered Rusty in his cabin the day after New Year's Day, when he was 60km out of Goondiwindi. "He got up at 5am and was checking the tyres before he started off again, and there's this little dog sleeping [in the cabin]," Ms Reid said. "He had no idea where he came from, he was in the middle of nowhere. "My husband's a real dog man. He just said he couldn't leave him on the road, he'd die." Mr McDowell looked in the immediate area for the owner, but there was no one around. "He went walking miles up the road but couldn't find a house, it was just bush. "He said, 'all right, I'll just have to bring him with me'." From there the pair had a four-day trip together back to South Australia. Ms Reid said while Rusty was safe and well with her family having a "grand old time", she was working with Ms Scudamore to get their pet back to Queensland. "We're trying to get Rusty home. I wasn't going to stop until I found Rusty's home, we knew he was something special because he's a special little guy. "You could just tell he's got a family." Ms Reid said the timing of Rusty's arrival was serendipitous. "We just lost a dog … we were heartbroken. Next thing he's got this little dog keeping him company. "It took our minds off what had just happened to us." Posted 16 Jan 2018 16 Jan 2018 Tue 16 Jan 2018 at 1:34am , updated 16 Jan 2018 16 Jan 2018 Tue 16 Jan 2018 at 11:34am Family dog found alive four years after disappearance Pet cat avoids predators to survive in outback for 12 months Missing dog found a month after owner killed in crash Remarkable recovery of tiny radioactive capsule leaves questions unanswered amid 'silver lining' Group removes sex abuse survivors' ribbons from cathedral fence ahead of George Pell's Sydney funeral Dos and don'ts in a heatwave: The basics of staying safe and cool 'The scariest thing was the speed': Firefighter warning as EV batteries linked to fires, toxic gas and explosions 'What else do we have to go through?': After Clinton's house flooded, it was 'trashed' by vandals These students learn the national curriculum, but their school is like no other 9m ago 9 minutes ago Wed 1 Feb 2023 at 9:26pm Memorial field to honour Australian baseballer Chris Lane 10 years after shooting death in US Live: Wall Street rebounds as Federal Reserve pulls back on pace of rate hikes, ASX set to rise The Tigers are betting everything on the spirit of 2005	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8250823616981506, "wiki_prob": 0.8250823616981506, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1889285"}
Boks Bench Shows Character It is seldom rare that every player jumping off the bench turns the game around but that is exactly what happened on Saturday evening when the Springboks came from behind to steal the show away from Argentina in a nail biting Rugby Championship encounter in Salta. Trailing the Argentineans late in the game, coach Heyneke Meyer made radical changes that saw the Boks emerging 33-31 victors over the South Americans to put pressure on current holders New Zealand who had earlier drubbed Australia 51-20. The win meant that South Africa leaped to the summit of the overall standings closely followed by the All Blacks. On Saturday, with 20 minutes to go, the home team led 28-16 but late tries in the final quarter by right wing Cornal Hendricks and replacement flank Marcell Coetzee swung the tide in the Springboks favor. A late penalty goal by replacement fly half Morne Steyn was the difference in the end. “I have said it before, but I really think Argentina is a much better team than what their world ranking shows, and they showed it again today. We are happy that we could pull it through but it could have gone either way,” said Captain Jean de Villiers at the post match press conference. Meyer was full of praise for the replacements and testified they had shown great character to pull this one through. The Championship will now take a two weeks break before resuming with the eagerly anticipated clash between the Springboks and Australia.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7299116849899292, "wiki_prob": 0.7299116849899292, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1066297"}
Viewers Flock Back To MSNBC For Rachel Maddow’s Return MSNBC has seen its 9 PM hour viewership nearly double in Rachel Maddow’s first week back. Rachel Maddow’s return has caused the number of total viewers for the 9 PM MSNBC hour to go from 1-1.2 million to 1.9-2.1. Without Maddow, the 9 PM hour performed on par with MSNBC’s other programming and worse than The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, which follows it at 10 PM ET. The viewers came back when Maddow returned, which creates a problem for MSNBC, as Rachel Maddow is cutting back to one day a week of hosting starting in May. When The Rachel Maddow Show was at its peak, MSNBC was challenging Fox News for cable news supremacy, but without Maddow, Fox has widened its lead over MSNBC. The network is at a fork in the road. Without Maddow, the ratings have slipped to a substantial degree, and the network will have to come up with a new star. MSNBC very much has a Rachel Maddow audience, and a substantial number of those viewers leave when she is not on the air. Maddow has been the face of the network for more than a decade, and her decreased presence will require an adjustment both for the audience and the future of MSNBC. (All ratings numbers via TVNewser) Mr. Easley is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements. Awards and Professional Memberships Member of the Society of Professional Journalists and The American Political Science Association Biden Shatters Republicans By Taking Credit For Low Unemployment Amid Manhunt Brooklyn Subway Shooter Had Dinner at Katz’s Deli, Roamed the Streets — FBI Was Too Busy Framing Conservatives After Lifting COVID Vaccine Mandate This Week J-6 Prisoner Jake Lang Interviews Trump Attorney Christina Bobb Who Just Released Her NEW BOOK! (AUDIO) 6 Outdated Shoe Trends I’m Removing From My Closet in 2023	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8871773481369019, "wiki_prob": 0.8871773481369019, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line546827"}
Bravery of Naomi Osaka must be backed up with action Mark Wall Labour sports spokesperson Senator Mark Wall has said sporting organisations at home and abroad must learn from the actions taken by Naomi Osaka to protect her mental health by withdrawing from the French Open. Senator Wall said that in the era of ‘be kind’, we must all be cognisant that mental health struggles can affect even the brightest of stars. Senator Wall said: “I want to acknowledge and commend the bravery of Naomi Osaka in speaking up about her mental health. Her courage should have been met with protection and support. There is something terribly sad about a young woman excluding herself from her career and sport due to a lack of backing from a sporting organisation. “Sports people are no different to the rest of us. We need to acknowledge that every person has their own story, their own struggles, their own challenges. It is a shame that the world number two has felt there was no other option but to exclude herself from the championship. “There will be many points of view on this situation but I hope that this will be a watershed moment for all sporting organisations to evaluate their processes for managing a situation where a player speaks up about their mental health and asks for help. Tennis and the sport is the loser today. I urge all sporting organisations in Ireland today to reflect on their internal practices managing mental health. “We live in an era where people are encouraged to speak up, saying that help is out there. What example does it set when one of the world’s top sports people asks for help and ends up having to exclude themselves from a competition?” Apprenticeships key to unlocking housing crisis solutions Tanaiste must push for change within Defence Forces Labour welcomes recommendations to update definition of family in the constitution Receive our latest updates in your inbox. The Labour Party 2 Whitefriars, Aungier Street, D02 A008 Labour is a member of the PES Socialists & Democrats PES Declaration of Principles © 2023 - The Labour Party Website by 54 Degrees	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9677256345748901, "wiki_prob": 0.9677256345748901, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1831933"}
ACCESS APPLICATION The online application includes three parts: Part A (to be completed by the mentor artist), Part B (to be completed by the apprentice) and Part C (to be completed by both the mentor artist and the apprentice together). Applications are due (by midnight) on Sunday, April 9, 2023. We recommend you prepare your answers in advance and copy and paste them into the application. Download an application document. If you would prefer a print application or to apply over the phone, please contact program staff at [email protected] or (434) 924-3296. We will consider applications submitted in languages other than English. Prospective applicants should contact Virginia Humanities grant staff (through an English-speaking interpreter or representative) before March 10, 2023 (deadline to submit a draft application for review). The Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program welcomes applications for apprenticeships in all forms of Virginia’s traditional, expressive culture. The mentor artist and apprentice should both be residents of Virginia. If one or both of the participants reside outside of Virginia, a compelling case must be made regarding the connection of the applicants to Virginia, and the importance of their proposed traditional skill to Virginia culture. It is also preferred, though not required, that masters and apprentices belong to the same cultural community. See our FAQs for more details. Recommended Support Materials Both the mentor artist and the apprentices are strongly encouraged to include photos, audio, video, or other relevant links (to professional websites or social media accounts) that speak to your abilities and introduce the review committee to your work. Please upload files (or provide a document with links) to review in your online application. Alternatively, you can mail physical samples to the address below. (Support materials will be returned at the conclusion of the review process only upon request, and only if a self-addressed USPS or UPS paid mailer is provided.) Re: Apprenticeship Application 946 Grady Ave. Suite 100 Charlottesville VA 22903 Mentor Artist Reference The mentor artist is required to provide a reference for an individual who can speak to their skill in the tradition. This can include a former teacher, a community member, a fellow artist, etc. The application requires a name, phone number and/or email address for this reference. Selection & Notification A three-person review committee comprised of a Virginia Humanities staff member, an external regional folklife expert, and a previous apprenticeship recipient will review applications based on the following criteria: Traditional nature of the proposed art or skill (20%) Expertise of the master artist (20%) Demonstrated level of commitment by the master artist and the apprentice to the apprenticeship (20%) Potential impact of the apprenticeship on the continued vitality of the tradition (20%) Relevance and importance of the tradition to the cultural history of Virginia (10%) Feasibility of work plan and the coherence of the overall apprenticeship (5%) Program needs (5%) December 7, 2022 – Application for 2023-2034 Apprenticeship Program cohort opens March 10, 2023 – Deadline to share draft application with program staff for feedback (questions can be accepted until Friday, April 7) Sunday, April 9, 2023 – Applications due (by midnight) May 5, 2023 – Applicants will be notified about the committee’s decision by this date May 17, 2023 – Public announcement of awards June 1, 2023 – May 31, 2024 – Apprenticeship award period Summer 2024 (dates and locations TBD) – Public film screenings of apprenticeship documentary and “graduation” celebration Requirements & Payment Teams accepted into the Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program must: Collaborate with Virginia Folklife Program staff to produce documentary materials about the apprenticeship experience and tradition—this includes working with us to schedule interviews and participating in photo and video opportunities. Artists are also required to participate in a public film screening and event (summer 2024, exact locations and dates to be determined) intended to celebrate and honor their achievements. (See the 2022 Apprenticeship Program films on our YouTube channel.) Register with the University of Virginia, providing all W-9 information, to receive payment. Instructions for registering will be provided upon award notification Payment schedule: $5000 awarded per team for a 12-month apprenticeship (Mentor artists receive $4000; Apprentice artists receive $1000; additional funding may be available for supplies) 50% will be paid in June 2023, and the remaining 50% will be paid in the final month of the apprenticeship (by April 30, 2024) Payments are made based on availability of grant funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and UVA’s Office of Sponsored Programs.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8478624820709229, "wiki_prob": 0.8478624820709229, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line602669"}
mytwospokesworth in Uncategorized, volta ciclista a catalunya March 20, 2018 906 Words Volta Ciclista a Catalunya 2018 Stage 3 Preview; Sant Cugat -> Camprodon Not as an explosive day as it could have been as the wind decided to not play ball. Instead, it was a long afternoon in the saddle for the riders as they headed towards Valls. A combination of Movistar and Mitchelton Scott pulling the front of the race on the final climb saw a fair amount of riders distance with only 90 or so guys heading to the sprint together. For a while it looked as if blog pick McCarthy was going to take it but he was out of position with 600m to go and working to regain those lost positions eventually cost him when he opened up the sprint. Impey looked like he then had it but as night follows day, it was Valverde who took home the win! The result puts him in the GC lead ahead of tomorrow’s stage so let’s have a look at what is in store for them. Well, it was nice of the organisers to change the route at just after 6pm UK time. Bit annoying as I had the majority of this wrote for the original stage route but oh well, at least it is better than them cancelling/changing the stage in the morning. @LasterketaBurua So apologies if this preview is a bit more blunt than normal but I don’t really have the time to re-write everything in massive detail and at the time of writing now I’m going off of limited info. The Cat-1 climb of Bracons is fairly tough, especially in the closing 5kms but it comes too far from the end of stage to be of any real impact. Port de Collabos is pretty much just an extended version of what we had at the end of today’s stage with a manageable average gradient of 5.3%. However, it is the 7.3km in length that might see the end of more riders than today. Once over the crest though the road continually rises though, although it is pretty much false flat, all the way to the finish line. There is a bit of confusion as to where the exact finish line is and I’m really struggling to see anything on a very grainy picture that is floating around on Twitter. I trust the judgement of Ricky and Raffele though from LasterketaBurua who say the following… Which would then make the final 1.5km look something like this on the road… 700m at 6.6% to act as a launchpad before a very quick final kilometre and fast sprint to the finish. Contenders. Valverde. Well, that’s that done… In all seriousness though Movistar have the firepower to try to keep control of the race in the closing stages and we all know what Valverde is like on these types of finishes. However, there is a chance for other teams but they need to be bold and go early. If they can get rid of as many Movistar domestiques as possible on the Collabos climb then attacks have to fly over the remaining 13km to try and wear the strong Spanish outfit down even more. The unfortunate outcome with that situation is that Movistar can just counter it by sending Valverde/Quintana/Soler into any dangerous move that tries to go. I’ll throw a few names into the hat here to look out for. Visconti. Was climbing well in Strade and he won’t be seen as a massive threat for the overall. He does pack a bit of a punch in a small finish so he might fancy his chances in a splinter group that forms at the head of the race. Mühlberger. McCarthy will hope to hold on for Bora but they do have another option in the shape of the strong Austrian. He’s raced sparingly so far this season but he has impressed on almost every occasion. An attacking rider, we might see the Austrian champions stripes at the head of the race in the finale. Bilbao. Why not make it two previews in a row that I mention the Astana rider?! The longer climb beforehand should see more of the fast men distanced and in theory that makes it easier for him in the sprint. Astana should have Chernetckii, Hirt and Bilbao at least in the front group so I can see them being aggressive in their tactics. I’ve stated numerous times before that the little Spaniard packs a good kick, time for him to deliver? We could also see a breakaway make it all the way to the line but given the easier stage I think a few teams will fancy their chances in a sprint. Movistar will no doubt want to keep things close for Valverde to try to gain more bonus seconds. I really should say Valverde here but I think we’ll see some attacking racing on that plateau after the final categorised climb and a small group will escape as long as it features at least one Movistar and Mitchelton rider. In the end we’ll see a surprise victory from Mühlberger! Or Valverde wins as usual. That’s what is going to happen, isn’t it? 0.5pt EW on; Muhlberger @ 125/1 Bilbao @ 66/1 Thanks as always for reading and once again apologies for the slightly shorter preview but I’m lacking the time to re-write everything fully. Who do you think will win? Anyway, Those were My Two Spokes Worth. #voltacatalunya camprodon catalunya stage 3 preview Volta Ciclista a Catalunya 2018 Stage 2 Preview; Mataró – Valls Women’s Driedaagse De Panne-Koksijde 2018 Preview	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7145534157752991, "wiki_prob": 0.2854465842247009, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line220848"}
Release: March 7, 2019 Genre: Contemporary Romance - office Heat: Descriptive Type: Standalone Format: eARC provided by Give Me Books PR Billionaire Jackson Spearman is impatient, demanding, and private. He’s practically a recluse. When his assistant goes on maternity leave, Amy Walker virtual assistant extraordinaire arrives to save the day. Or does she? Amy is inquisitive and far too optimistic. She isn’t impressed with Jackson at all. Is she even real? They can’t stand each other. Unfortunately, they can’t seem to resist each other, either. Soon, their work relationship starts to feel like something more… Even when Amy meets her dream man, she can’t seem to stop thinking about her annoying online boss. And the woman who ’s never fallen in love before, finds herself falling for two men. Both of them have everything she’s ever wanted. But she has to choose one. Can Jackson convince her that he can be everything that she needs? Or will her past come back to haunt them and ruin her chance at love? I'm in love with love stories that explore other tropes. Falling in heavy like via email or text messaging sounds like something I could really get behind. Maybe it's because it can go either way... the people behind the screens could be completely truthful... or be hiding so much more than just their appearances. In this book, Jackson and Amy were those people. Jackson was a successful and reclusive CEO. He didn't do well with people. He trusted very few and newbies didn't stand a chance. So when his assistant goes on mat leave, she hires him a virtual assistant. Someone who could handle all of his professional needs. Someone who could anticipate what he needed and even what he didn't know he did. However, he finds her extremely unprofessional. She gets too personal, when he doesn't like to share. She judges him for his behavior and choices and she ends each email with an inspirational quote. Who does she think she is? I found Jackson and Amy to be more alike than I at first believed. They were both hiding. They both found it difficult to let someone else in. They were both infinitely curious about the other. Their eventual relationship was everything that I could have hoped for and the author ended up giving me something sweet to love. I wanted to hug these characters and softly encourage them to come out of their shells. I was thrilled with how good-hearted they were and what they each brought to the table. Neither one of them was weak despite their vulnerabilities and their sensitivity only made me love them more. If you're a fan of romance for romance's sake, you'll fall in love with these characters and their story too! Claudia Burgoa, Contemporary, Contemporary list, Workplace	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6985853910446167, "wiki_prob": 0.3014146089553833, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line401217"}
Police should ‘explain or reform’ stop and search to tackle race disparities 24 May 2022 \| 8:07 am Police forces should adopt an ‘explain or reform’ approach to race disparities in their use of powers such as stop and search, the deployment of Taser and other types of force, according to proposals published by two leading police groups which this apologised for racism within forces. The Police Race Action Plan, has been developed jointly by the National Police Chiefs’ Council and the College of Policing, proposes that oversight should include scrutiny of body-worn video footage of police interaction with Black people. The report’s authors acknowledge that Black people have significant lower than average rates of confidence in the police, 64% compared with an average of 74%, and powers like stop and search and use of force are ‘disproportionately’ applied to Black people. The report flags data showing that Black people are almost nine times more likely to be stopped and searched than White people and the rate at which force was used was five times higher for Black people. ‘Policing lags behind almost every part of the public service as an employer of choice for Black people,’’ they noted; adding that just 1.3% of police officers are Black, compared to 3.5% of the wider population and, so far, only been two Black officers have reached the ranks of Chief Constable or Assistant Commissioner. ‘The relationship between policing and Black communities has been damaged,’ the report agues. ‘The overt racism many of the Windrush generation experienced included policing. The Scarman report, following the 1981 riots across England’s major cities, identified the harmful impact of policing on Black Britain. Stephen Lawrence’s murder in London in 1993 and the 1998 Stephen Lawrence Inquiry by Sir William Macpherson were watershed moments in facing up to racism in policing. The IOPC Operation Hotton report (nine linked independent investigations into Met officers mainly based at Charing Cross) shows the reality that racism still exists in policing.’ Key actions as set out in the plan include mandatory training for all officers and staff to increase the understanding of ‘racism, anti-racism, Black history, and its connection to policing through introduction of a mandatory programme of training for all police officers and staff’; reducing racial disparities in misconduct and complaints processes; trialling methods for better enabling Black people to have their voices heard and to raise concerns; increased action to address the criminal exploitation of young Black men; improving police response to missing persons from Black communities; and introducing a national standard across all recruitment and promotion processes to minimise disparities. In the report’s foreword, Sir David Thompson, West Midlands Police chief constable and vice chair of the Chief Constables Council and Chief Constable Andy Marsh, chief executive officer of the College of Policing wrote that countries around the world were ‘rocked by the outpouring of emotion’ following the murder of George Floyd’ in 2020. ‘This was the same in the UK. Although this was a wider expression against societal injustice, it was about policing,’ they continue. The co-authors accept that policing ‘still contains racism, discrimination and bias’. ‘We are ashamed of those truths, we apologise for them and we are determined to change them,’ they say. ‘We have much to do to secure the confidence of Black people, including our own staff, and improve their experience of policing – and we will.’ They described the need for change as ‘evident’. ‘Policing lags behind almost every part of the public service as an employer of choice for Black people,’ they write. ‘Confidence levels are much lower, and our powers are disproportionately applied to Black people. In some crimes, victimisation rates are higher. Black officers and staff leave policing earlier in their careers than White staff and the fact we have only seen two Black officers reach chief constable or assistant commissioner rank in policing’s history is a failure.’ According two the plan, the Independent Scrutiny and Oversight Board (ISOB), chaired by Barrister Abimbola Johnson, will have ‘a critical role in scrutinising the plan and its delivery’. ‘Data shows that sadly every aspect of policing produces or at the very least replicates racial disparities and racism: arrest; handcuffing; stop and search; strip searching; use of taser; remands in custody; and charging to name just a few,’ Johnson says. ‘When Black people are victims of criminality there have been unacceptable instances of them being let down and even actively harmed by the police who are meant to serve them. When Black people join the police, they fare worse than their White colleagues in terms of recruitment, disciplinary action, retention, and promotion.’ Study reveals Black people have less trust in the police Just visiting: How the public can improve police treatment… Met pays damages to two black men wrongly suspected of… Black children and teenagers’ trust in police dangerously… Priti Patel to lift restrictions on 'section 60' stop and…	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8196317553520203, "wiki_prob": 0.8196317553520203, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1126584"}
Latest Badminton News & Articles BadmintonPlanet.com Home Badminton News Tai Tzu Ying Doesn’t Want To Take the COVID-19 Vaccine, Yet Badminton News Tai Tzu Ying Doesn’t Want To Take the COVID-19 Vaccine, Yet Vincent Liew Tai Tzu Ying decides not to take the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. (photo: Shi Tang/Getty Images) Taipei: Most of the Taiwanese badminton players have received the COVID-19 vaccine end of last week, but, World No. 1 women’s singles player Tai Tzu Ying posted on her social media page that she chose not to be vaccinated due to personal reasons. Her father explained that it was because Tai Tzu Ying would like to play her best in the Olympics, and she was going through a menstrual cycle, therefore, she has to skip the vaccination for now. Currently, Taiwan only has the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine. On Thursday, it was reported that there had been a total of 168 major blood clots incidents worldwide following a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. The potentially deadly blood-clotting condition happened more often in women than men. Therefore, it’s understandable why Tai chose not to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine. The World No. 1 Tai Tzu Ying is the heavy favorite to win the Olympic gold medal. She won the 2020 BWF World Tour Finals and finished as runner-up at the two Thailand Open in January of this year. She is currently actively preparing for Malaysia (May 25 – May 30) and Singapore Open (June 1 – June 6). Tai’s father said that if there are other suitable vaccines for her in the future, she would still like to be vaccinated. As for now, she will take all COVID-19 safety precautions seriously when competing abroad. Tai Tzu Ying Previous articleBWF Named YONEX & VICTOR as Official Equipment Partners From 2022 to 2025 Next article8 More Malaysian Badminton Players Tested Positive for COVID-19 Kento Momota Falls Out Of The World’s Top 20 Rankings For The First Time In Nearly 5 Years Malaysia Drawn Alongside India, UAE, and Kazakhstan At The 2023 Asia Mixed Team Championships 2023 Indonesia Masters Jonatan Christie Thanks His Coach After Winning The 2023 Indonesia Masters Jonatan Christie To Play Chico Aura Wardoyo In Indonesia Masters Final Pearly Tan/Thinaah Muralitharan Advance To The 2023 Indonesia Masters Semi-Finals Lee Zii Jia Faces Potential Legal Trouble Off Court Kento Momota Falls Out Of The World’s Top 20 Rankings For The First Time... Badminton News Vincent Liew - January 31, 2023 Tokyo: Former World No. 1 Kento Momota fell to World No. 22 in the latest Badminton World Federation (BWF) World rankings published on Tuesday... Badminton News Kevin Zhang - January 31, 2023 Kuala Lumpur: The 2023 Asia Mixed Team Championships draw was unveiled on Tuesday, and Malaysia was placed into Group B together with India, UAE,... 2023 Indonesia Masters Kevin Zhang - January 30, 2023 Jakarta: World No. 3 Jonatan Christie won the 2023 Indonesia Masters after defeating his compatriot, Chico Aura Dwi Wardoyo, 21-15, 21-13 at Istora Senayan... Read the latest Badminton news and Badminton Videos from around the world. Contact us: [email protected] © Copyright BadmintonPlanet.com All rights reserved. BadmintonPlanet.com 2018 Denmark Open Semi-Final – Tai Tzu Ying (Chinese Taipei) vs.... Hong Kong Open: Son Wan Ho shocks Kento Momota, Tai Tzu... Tai Tzu Ying Plays One vs. Four in a Taiwanese TV... This website uses cookies. We use cookies to personalise content and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners. By by using this website, you consent to the use of cookies, agreeing to our Terms and Conditions agreement and Privacy Policy.Ok	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9989780187606812, "wiki_prob": 0.9989780187606812, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1437092"}
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Traumatic brain injury care report Write a 4-6 page evidence-based patient-centered care report on the patient scenario presented in the Evidence-Based Health Evaluation and Application media piece. Base your report on the information provided by the traumatic brain injury expert from the population health improvement initiative (PHII) described in the media activity and your own evidence-based research on this population health issue. In this assessment, you will apply evidence-based practice in patient-centered care and population health improvement contexts. You will be challenged to think critically, evaluate what the evidence suggests is an appropriate approach for a personalized patient care plan, and determine which aspects of the approach could be applied to similar situations and patients. Demonstration of Proficiency By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria: Competency 1: Apply evidence-based practice to plan patient-centered care. Evaluate the outcomes of a population health improvement initiative. Develop a personalized patient care plan that incorporates lessons learned from a population health improvement initiative. Competency 2: Apply evidence-based practice to design interventions to improve population health. Propose a strategy for improving the outcomes of a population health improvement initiative, or for ensuring that all outcomes are being addressed, based on the best available evidence. Competency 3: Evaluate outcomes of evidence-based interventions. Propose an evaluation strategy for the outcomes of personalized patient care plan and determine what aspects of the approach could be applied to similar situations and patients. Competency 4: Evaluate the value and relative weight of available evidence upon which to make a clinical decision. Identifyï»¿ the level of evidence and describe the value and relevance it brings to personalized care for your patient. Competency 5: Synthesize evidence-based practice and academic research to communicate effective solutions. Write clearly and logically, with correct grammar and mechanics. Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style. The charge nurse in your clinic has contacted you to assume primary care for a patient and develop a plan for follow-up care. The plan should be personalized for him based on evidence-based research provided by a community expert as well as your own research on the condition. You will also be challenged to determine which aspects of the traumatic brain injury (TBI) approach could be applied to similar situations and patients. You are a nurse who has been requested to provide primary patient care, including a follow-up care plan. You will revisit the interview with the community TBI expert and prepare a personalized health plan for the patient. Review the Assessment Case Study: Traumatic Brain Injury Care Report media activity. Review relevant evidence-based research from 3–5 additional scholarly or professional sources about traumatic head injuries to support your evaluation, recommendations, and plans. The following requirements correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide, so be sure to address each point: Evaluate the expected outcomes of the population health improvement initiative (PHII) that the community expert reported based on data. Describe the outcomes that were achieved, their positive effects on the community’s health, and any variance across demographic groups. Describe the outcomes that were not achieved, the extent to which they fell short of expectations and any variance across demographic groups. Identify the factors (for example: institutional, community, environmental, resources, communication) that may have contributed to any achievement shortfalls. Propose a strategy for improving the outcomes of the PHII for traumatic head injuries. Describe the corrective measures you would take in the PHII to address the factors that may have contributed to achievement shortfalls. Cite the evidence (from similar projects, research, or professional organization resources) that supports the corrective measures you are proposing. Explain how the evidence illustrates the likelihood of improved outcomes if your proposed strategy is enacted. Develop a personalized patient care plan for the patient from the scenario that incorporates lessons learned from the PHII outcomes. Identify a personalized care approach that addresses the patient’s: Individual health needs. Economic and environmental realities. Culture and family. Explain how the lessons learned from the PHII informed the decisions you made in your personalized care plan for the patient. Incorporate references to the best available evidence from the population health improvement initiative and other relevant sources. Identify the level of evidence and describe the value it brings to personalize care for your patient. Identify the level of evidence for each resource you referenced. Explain why each piece of evidence is valuable and appropriate for the community health issue you are trying to address and for the unique situation of your patient and his family. Propose an evaluation strategy to assess the outcomes of your personalized care approach. Identify measurable criteria that are relevant to your desired outcomes. Explain why the criteria are appropriate and useful measures of success. Determine the specific aspects of your approach that are most likely to be transferable to other individual cases. Organization: Use the following headings for your Traumatic Brain Injury Care Report: Evaluation of Population Health Improvement Initiative (PHII) Outcomes. Strategies for Improving PHII Outcomes. Personalized Evidence-Based Patient Care Plan. Analysis of Evidence. Evaluation Strategy for Personalized Care Approach Outcomes. Application for Other Cases. Length: Your recommended plan will be 4–6 double-spaced pages, not including title and reference pages. Font: Times New Roman, 12 points. APA Format: Your title and reference pages must adhere to current APA format and style guidelines. The body of your paper does not need to conform to APA guidelines. Do make sure that it is clear, persuasive, organized, and well written, without grammatical, punctuation, or spelling errors. You also must cite your sources according to APA guidelines. Patient Profiles From: Janie Poole To: Alexander At last week’s conference I spoke with Alicia Balewa, Director of Safe Headspace. They’re a relatively new nonprofit working on improving outcomes for TBI patients, and I immediately thought of Mr. Nowak. At his last biannual cholesterol screening he mentioned having trouble with his balance. This may be related to his hypertension, but he believes it’s related to the time he was hospitalized many years ago after falling out of a tree, and expressed distress that this might be the beginning of a rapid decline. Ms. Balewa will be on premises next week, and I’d like to set aside some time for you to talk. — Janie Director of Safe Headspace-I have a patient who might benefit from some of the interventions for TBI and PTSD you recently studied. What populations did your public health improvement initiative study? My father came home from Vietnam with a kaleidoscope of mental health problems. That was the 1970s, when treatment options for things like PTSD, TBI, and even depression were very different. Since then there has been a lot of investment in treatment and recovery for combat veterans. That’s excellent news for veterans in treatment now, but they’re not looking at my dad, and how his TBI and PTSD have affected him through mid–life and now as a senior. That’s why I started Safe Headspace: to focus on older patients who are years or decades past their trauma, and find ways to help them. Which treatments showed the strongest improvement? Exercise. We were able to persuade about half of our participants — that’s around 400 people, mostly men ages 45–80 — to follow the CDC’s recommendations for moderate aerobic exercise. Almost everyone showed improvement in mood, memory, and muscle control after four weeks. After that a lot of participants dropped out, which is disappointing. But of the 75 who stuck with it for another three months, muscle control improved 15%, mood improved 22%, and short–to–medium term memory improved 61%. We didn’t specify what kind of exercise, but we did ask them to record what they did every week, so that data is available. Second was medication and therapy. Most of our participants didn’t receive any kind of psychotherapy in the years immediately following their trauma, so we had everyone assessed by a team of psychotherapists. As a result of those assessments, 40% of participants started on anti–depressant medication and 9% started taking anti–psychotics. Those who started taking medications now have regular contact with a therapist to manage that care. With some help at home to stick to the regimen, all but a few have successfully followed their treatment plans. They’ve reported a 26% improvement in mood over six months, and a 6% improvement in memory. The third treatment I want to mention is meditation. We only had a small group interested in trying it, but the results were dramatic. We prescribed daily meditation at home, just 10 to 15 minutes, with a weekly hour–long guided group meditation for all 23 participants. After three weeks we lost two to disinterest, but the other 21 showed improvements of over 70% in mood and memory, and 32% in muscle control. Have you tried anything that hasn’t worked? Sure. There are memory exercises for patients in elderly care, and things like Sudoku and crossword puzzles. We didn’t see any gains with those. Some of our participants preferred strength training to aerobic exercise, and the only improvement we saw in that group was in muscle control, but only 4%, which is significantly less than the aerobic group. I should also say that we were working with a willing group of participants. They knew they needed help, and were motivated to get it. One of the hurdles we see with veterans, especially in older generations, is an unwillingness to acknowledge that they have a problem. We haven’t had to wrestle with that because everyone who volunteers to participate wants to be there. Your organization is intervening with people who have TBI and PTSD simultaneously. We have a patient with moderate TBI suffered almost 40 years ago, but no history of PTSD. Have you separated your population and studied each separately? We haven’t, no. In some cases we could, for those who come in with previous diagnoses and medical records. But we have participants who either weren’t diagnosed, were under–diagnosed at the time, or don’t have records to show us. Assessment Case Study: Traumatic Brain Injury Care Report My Questions Question: What were the outcomes of the PHII? Answer: I was able to gather information enough to know how to care for my patient. Question: How could they have been improved? Answer: I would have asked some more questions. Question: How do the results of the PHII relate to Mr. Nowak’s case? Answer: They give me enough information to be able to help the Dr’s better develop a plan of care. Grading Rubric: 1. Evaluate the outcomes of a population health improvement initiative based on demographic, environmental, and epidemiological data. Passing Grade: Evaluates the outcomes of a population health improvement initiative based on demographic, environmental, and epidemiological data. Identifies knowledge gaps, unknowns, missing information, unanswered questions, or areas of uncertainty (where further information could improve the evaluation). 2. Propose a strategy for improving the outcomes of a population health improvement initiative, or for ensuring that all outcomes are being addressed, based on the best available evidence. Passing Grade: Proposes a strategy for improving the outcomes of a population health improvement initiative, or for ensuring that all outcomes are being addressed, based on the best available evidence. Acknowledges challenges in the proposed strategy. 3. Develop a personalized patient care plan that incorporates lessons learned from a population health improvement initiative. Passing Grade: Develops a personalized care plan that incorporates lessons learned from a population health improvement initiative, and identifies assumptions on which the approach is based. 4. Identify the value and relevance of evidence used to support a personalized patient care plan. Passing Grade: Identifies the value and relevance of evidence used to support a personalized patient care plan. Identifies knowledge gaps, unknowns, missing information, unanswered questions, or areas of uncertainty (where further information could improve a personalized patient care plan). 5. Propose an evaluation strategy to assess the outcomes of a personalized care approach. Passing Grade: Proposes an evaluation strategy to assess the outcomes of a personalized care approach. Identifies aspects of the approach that could be challenging, with solutions. 6. Determine aspects of the personalized approach that could be applied to similar situations and patients. Passing Grade: Determines aspects of the personalized approach that could be applied to similar situations and patients. Exhibits insight into the broader application of the approach for the community. 7. Write clearly and logically, with correct grammar and mechanics. Passing Grade: Writes clearly, logically, and persuasively; grammar and mechanics are error-free. 8. Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style. Passing Grade: Integrates relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style. Citations are error-free.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6782433390617371, "wiki_prob": 0.32175666093826294, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line886094"}
All Events & Workshops Nduduzo Makhathini Quartet at the Vermont Jazz Center Vermont Jazz Center 72 Cotton Mill Hill #222 Brattleboro 05301 US Sign Up By Jun 11, 2022 Saturday June 11, 2022 Nduduzo Makhathini, piano Jaleel Shaw, saxophone Lonnie Plaxico, bass Francisco Mela, drums This show will be both in-person and livestreamed “As a player and a composer, he sits right beside McCoy Tyner and Pharoah Sanders, playing a forceful but lyrical style of modal jazz that incorporates African rhythmic concepts… The pieces they performed had a swelling, passionate quality, exploratory but never losing an essential earthbound feeling. Makhathini is at the head of a small but powerful movement of young South African jazz players, and the higher his international profile rises, the better it will be for that country’s music scene and jazz as a whole. He’s a major talent.” –Phil Freeman, Stereogum In Makhathini’s artistic world, like in much of African culture, there are no boundary lines drawn between creating art and living in harmony with the natural world. His presentations are musical experiences as opposed to concerts. They are expressions of a deeper life, a means to create shared, intentional, spiritual experiences where the energy of the audience is inclusive and pervasive. Makhathini has tried to capture that experience in his recent Blue Note Records debut, Modes of Communication: Letters from the Underworlds. Musical influences for Makhathini include the venerable legends of South African jazz: Bheki Mseleku, Moses Molelekwa, and Abdullah Ibrahim. His mentor Mseleku, introduced Makhathini to the music of John Coltrane’s classic quartet with McCoy Tyner. “I came to understand my voice as a pianist through John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme,” he says. “… I had always been looking for a kind of playing that could mirror or evoke the way my people danced, sung and spoke. Tyner provided that and still does in meaningful ways.” Makhathini is a member of Shabaka Hutchings’ band Shabaka and the Ancestors, appearing on their 2016 album Wisdom of Elders. He has recorded or toured with Logan Richardson, Nasheet Waits, Tarus Mateen, Stefon Harris, Billy Harper, Azar Lawrence, and Ernest Dawkins. Makhathini has released eight albums a a leader: Ikhambi won Best Jazz Album at the South African Music Awards (SAMA). His Blue Note debut Modes of Communication: Letters from the Underworlds was released in 2020 to wide critical acclaim. The New York Times naming it one of the “Best Jazz Albums of 2020” and DownBeat naming Nduduzo among their “25 for the Future” list. Letters from the Underworld also cinches a partnership between Blue Note Records and Universal Music Group Africa that has led to the creation of Blue Note Africa. Mahkhatini has performed at festivals around the world, at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City, and appeared as a guest with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra on their 3-night musical celebration The South African Songbook. He is the head of the Jazz Studies department at Fort Hare University in the Eastern Cape. You may purchase in-person tickets, $20-40 sliding scale, and/or donate to the livestream. Please give generously and support live music. Sponsored by Julian Gerstin & Carlene Raper, Vermont Arts Council, Vermont Humanities Council, & New England Foundation for the Arts. https://vtjazz.org/upcoming-events/sliding-scale-ticket-policy/ https://vtjazz.org/covid-protocols/ Mask required. www.vtjazz.org [email protected] Vermont Jazz Center 72 Cotton Mill Hill #222 Brattleboro VT 05301 Ginger Morawski [email protected] 802 254 9088	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7849735021591187, "wiki_prob": 0.7849735021591187, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1086622"}
Home > News > Post Content Delaware State University cancels nearly $750,000 in outstanding balances to more than 200 graduating seniors (4161 hits) Delaware State University officials announced today that it will cancel up to $730,655 in student debt for recently graduated students who have faced financial hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic. Antonio Boyle, Vice President for Strategic Enrollment Management, estimated that the average eligible student will qualify for about $3,276 in debt relief. “Too many graduates across the country will leave their schools burdened by debt, making it difficult for them to rent an apartment, cover moving costs, or otherwise prepare for their new careers or graduate school. While we know our efforts won’t help with all of their obligations, we all felt it was essential to do our part,” Mr. Boyle said. Mr. Boyle also noted that 87%, above the national average, of Delaware State University graduates are either entering their career of choice or graduate school within six months of Commencement. The funds necessary to cancel these students’ debt became available through the federal government’s American Rescue Plan for COVID-19 relief. University President Tony Allen explained the significance of debt relief action, saying, “Our students don’t just come here for a quality college experience. Most are trying to change the economic trajectory of their lives for themselves, their families, and their communities. Our responsibility is to do everything we can to put them on the path.” Dr. Allen pointed out that such debt reduction is consistent with Delaware State University initiatives to keep student debt manageable. “We haven’t raised our tuition in over six years; we issue every incoming student an iPad or a MacBook; we are replacing traditional textbooks with less expensive digital editions, and our Early College High School saves the average family of nearly $50,000 in college expenses.” Last year, the annual US News &. World Report assessment of America’s top colleges lists Delaware State University among the top 1% in Social Mobility, which is defined as “enrolling and graduating large proportions of disadvantaged students.” Dr. Allen says he is also optimistic about Senate Bill 95, which would extend the University INSPIRE scholarship from half the tuition for four years to full tuition for eligible Delaware students. Earlier this month the legislation, sponsored by Senator Trey Paradee, passed the Senate unanimously, 21 – 0. “Great universities have to go a step beyond ordinary,” said Dr. Devona Williams, the Chair of the University’s Board of Trustees. “This is that kind of moment for us.” Posted By: Reginald Culpepper Thursday, May 13th 2021 at 5:53PM BEL-AIR Free Virtual Advanced Screening and Exclusive Q&A: RSVP Now! Space Is Limited! Honda Delivers 2021 Civic Type R Limited Edition to Sweepstakes Winner; Fan-driven Project Supports TMCF Build Your Skills and Win Cash at the 2021 Unum Innovation Challenge: HBCU Edition Black Women Talk Tech's 5th Annual Roadmap To Billions Was An Event Unlike Any Other! Virginia State University Announces Nation's 1st HBCU Center For Policing Leadership and Social Justice Virginia State University Honors Black Women In Campus Buildings Renaming Alabama State University Releases Reopening Guide for Fall 2021: “Still Mask Mandatory” NASA Awards Alabama State University Million Dollar Grant to Advance Engineering/STEM Forward This Article Entry! siac alumni french creoles ultd.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5042657852172852, "wiki_prob": 0.49573421478271484, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1558960"}
xoogle BlackBerrys BBM App Gets 10 Million Downloads In A Day Beleaguered BlackBerrysmartphone maker Research In Motion may have found a way to stay afloat. The company has struggled in recent years due to tight competition from iOS and Android smartphones. Its latest BlackBerry Z10 smartphone had a lukewarm reception from consumers. Although the exact sales figures are not yet known, since the company has not shared them yet to the public, experts peg it at around 5 million so far. While it is looking bleak for BlackBerry in terms of sales, a particular area may be showing signs of eager demand. The company has recently launched its BlackBerry Messenger on the Apple App Store and Google Play for iPhone and Android smartphones. It is quite a departure for BlackBerry, a company that was once on the top of the heap among the big players. The decline in demand for its handsets have led the company to offer its other popular technology into other smartphones. It became necessary for the company to try offering its popular BBM client as an app for other competing smartphones. The move is showing promise for the company as the BBM app for iPhones and Android devices have reached 10 million downloads in a span of 24 hours. The company at least sees that people may still have interest in their other technology offerings other than its handset business. It shows that there are still people who love using the BlackBerry Messenger. It is a move that many experts see as a late one. Who knows what it would have done for the company had it opened up and made BBM available on other smartphones. As a result, other players may already have gained a better foothold in the same market. There are now other established messenger apps available in the market that BBM have to compete with. But based on the recent download spurt for the app, BlackBerry may be into something that will help change its fortunes. The company’s next moves will especially be very critical since it will determine whether they can get back from the ashes or slowly dissolve away into obscurity. Gadgets – GuideTo.Com Tags: BlackBerrys, Downloads, Gets, Million Ardent Editor All Articles From This Author Next Possible Facebook Development Focus- Voice-Based Browsing Yahoo Takes Top Spot Overtakes Google In US Traffic Tablet Shipments Predicted To Outpace PCs by 2015 Gartner Reports 102 Billion App Store Downloads for 2013 Toyota Announces Cars On Auto-Pilot In Five Years © Copyright 2023 xoogle. All Rights Reserved	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.6837930679321289, "wiki_prob": 0.6837930679321289, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1733362"}
ERROR: type should be string, got "https://sportswire.usatoday.com/article/royce-oneale-player-prop-bets-nets-vs-heat-january-8/\nRoyce O'Neale Player Prop Bets: Nets vs. Heat \| January 8\nJanuary 8, 2023 3:28 am ET\nRoyce O’Neale’s Brooklyn Nets will match up against the Miami Heat at 6:00 PM ET on Sunday. If you’re trying to place a bet on O’Neale’s props, we dig into all of his set ones, plus trends and stats, here.\nO’Neale puts up 9.4 points, 4.9 rebounds and 4.1 assists per contest, shooting 40.6% from the floor and 42.0% from beyond the arc with 2.3 made 3-pointers per contest.\nRoyce O’Neale Prop Lines and Game Time\nMatchup: Brooklyn Nets at Miami Heat\nTV Channel: BSSUN, YES\nPoints Prop: Over 8.5 (+105)\nRebounds Prop: Over 4.5 (+125)\nAssists Prop: Over 2.5 (-175)\nRoyce O’Neale vs. Miami Heat\nO’Neale scores 9.5 points per game versus the Heat, 1.0 more than his current over/under.\nHe grabs 4.5 rebounds per game against the Heat, which equals his current prop total.\nO’Neale averages 3.8 assists versus the Heat, 1.3 more than his prop bet over/under.\nIn games against the Heat, O’Neale has made the same amount of three-pointers per game as his current over/under (1.5).\nRoyce O’Neale Prop Insights\nSunday’s over/under for O’Neale is 8.5. That’s 0.9 less than his season average.\nHe has collected 4.9 rebounds per game, 0.4 higher than his prop bet on Sunday.\nO’Neale averages 4.1 assists, 1.6 more than Sunday’s prop bet (2.50).\nHis 2.3 made three-pointers average is 0.8 higher than his prop bet on Sunday.\nDomantas Sabonis Player Prop Bets: Kings vs. Spurs \| February 1\nDomantas Sabonis and the Sacramento Kings will hit the court against the San Antonio Spurs at 8:00 PM ET on Wednesday. Let's take a look at Sabonis' prop bets, stats and trends ahead of this outing to help you examine your best wagers.Sabonis paces his team in both rebounds (12.4) and assists (7.1) per game, and also puts up 18.5 points. Defensively, he puts up 0.7 steals and 0.5 blocked shots.Domantas Sabonis Prop Lines and Game TimeMatchup: Sacramento Kings at San Antonio SpursTime: 8:00 PMDate: February 1, 2023TV Channel: BSSW, NBCS-CANBA League Pass: The most live games plus NBA...\nKyrie Irving Player Prop Bets: Nets vs. Celtics \| February 1\nKyrie Irving's Brooklyn Nets will face the Boston Celtics at 7:30 PM ET on Wednesday. Let's break down Irving's prop bets, stats and trends ahead of this outing to help you examine your best wagers.Irving averages 27.3 points, 5.1 rebounds and 5.3 assists per game, shooting 48.6% from the field and 37.8% from downtown with 3.3 made 3-pointers per game (sixth in league).Kyrie Irving Prop Lines and Game TimeMatchup: Brooklyn Nets at Boston CelticsTime: 7:30 PMDate: February 1, 2023TV Channel: ESPN, NBCS-BOS, YESNBA League Pass: The most live games plus NBA TV. Free trialPoints Prop: Over..."	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8430028557777405, "wiki_prob": 0.8430028557777405, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line956985"}
NBA Tuesday: 1981 Awards Analysis, Volume II LANDOVER, MD - CIRCA 1981: Truck Robinson #21 of the Phoenix Suns shoots against the Washington Bullets during an NBA basketball game circa 1981 at the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland. Robinson played for the Suns from 1979-82. (Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images) * Local Caption * Truck Robinson Today on NBA Tuesday, we look at the 1981 season, which saw the coronation of a new Boston Celtics “dynasty”—for lack of a better word. General Manager Red Auerbach fleeced the league again, in two different ways in the last few years, to put together an amazing team full of future Hall of Fame players, and this was the first NBA title for this group of Celtics players. Enjoy the read! Remember also to check out the first miniseries entry on this year for context, because knowledge is power. 1981 NBA FINALS MVP: Cedric Maxwell, SF, Boston (original); Larry Bird, PF, Boston (revised) The Celtics beat the Houston Rockets in 6 games to claim their first NBA championship since the 1976 season, which seemed like forever then in Boston years. The winners had a deep roster, with 5 players averaging double-digit scoring in the Finals—including MVP vote winner, small forward Cedric Maxwell, who led the team with 17.7 ppg. However, we don’t see Cornbread as the MVP here at all. Power forward Larry Bird did more than Maxwell did: 15.3 ppg, 15.3 rpg, 7.0 apg, and 2.3 spg. He led the team in minutes played (42.8) by 5 mpg, and Bird topped the Celtics in rebounds, assists, and steals, too. What the voters were thinking here is not clear, as all Maxwell did was lead the team in scoring, but we can see with perfect clarity now, for sure. Bird was the man! 1981 NBA DPOY: Truck Robinson, PF, Phoenix Bird also topped the league in Defensive Win Shares for the second season in a row, too, posting a 6.10 mark to lead the league. He was closely followed by Philadelphia 76ers SF Julius Erving (6.07), with Philly center Caldwell Jones (5.38) and Phoenix Suns PF Truck Robinson (5.27) in the neighborhood for consideration here. The two 76ers cancel each other out, though, so … is it Bird or Robinson? Both Boston (62-20) and Phoenix (57-25) won their divisions with plenty of room to spare for postseason security, so with Robinson’s DWS mark being with 1.0 wins of Bird’s, it’s clear his defense had more value to a team that won 5 fewer games in the regular season. His D stats don’t jump off the page—9.6 rpg, 0.8 spg, 0.5 bpg—but the Suns needed every one of them to win the Pacific Division. Check in every Tuesday for our NBA awards historical analysis on The Daily McPlay! Boston CelticsCedric MaxwellLarry BirdNBA Award AnalysisNBA DPOYNBA Finals MVPNBA HistoryNBA TuesdaysPhoenix SunsTruck Robinson Previous Previous post: MLB Monday: 2017 Awards Analysis Next Next post: Fenway Frauds: 2005 Edition	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7128300666809082, "wiki_prob": 0.2871699333190918, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1767786"}
Home> Storage Best SSDs: May 2021 by Billy Tallis on May 14, 2021 8:00 AM EST In our series of Solid State Drive guides, here’s the latest update to our list of recommended SSDs. All numbers in the text are updated to reflect pricing at the time of writing. A solid state drive is often the most important component for making a PC feel fast and responsive; any PC still using a mechanical hard drive as its primary storage is long overdue for an upgrade. The SSD market is broader than ever, with a wide range prices, performance and form factors. The big news in the storage market right now is the Chia cryptocurrency craze. That has been driving up storage prices, but it's had more of an impact on hard drive prices and availability than on SSDs. We are seeing reduced supply and increased pricing mostly on larger (multi-TB) NVMe SSDs, but in other segments of the market pricing over the past several weeks has been flat or only slightly increasing. It's almost time for us to drop 250GB drives from the guides. In some market segments they're now only a few dollars cheaper than 500GB class drives, which will tend to be faster as well as offering more headroom for a modest media library or a few games. May 2021 SSD Recommendations Market Segment Recommendations Entry-level NVMe Inland Platinum 2TB $208.99 (10¢/GB) Mainstream NVMe Mushkin Pilot-E 1TB $109.99 (11¢/GB) Premium NVMe WD Black SN850 1TB $199.99 (20¢/GB) Mainstream 2.5" SATA WD Blue 2TB $199.78 (10¢/GB) M.2 SATA WD Blue 2TB $209.99 (10¢/GB) Extreme Capacity Inland Platinum 4TB $489.99 (12¢/GB) Above are some recommendations of good deals in each market segment. Some of these aren't the cheapest option in their segment and instead are quality products worth paying a little extra for. The next table is a rough summary of what constitutes a good deal on a current model in today's market. Sales that don't beat these prices are only worth a second glance if the drive is nicer than average for its product segment. May 2021 SSD Recommendations: Price to Beat, ¢/GB Market Segment 256 GB 512 GB 1 TB 2 TB 4 TB Budget 2.5" SATA 14 ¢/GB 10 ¢/GB 9 ¢/GB 10 ¢/GB 10 ¢/GB Mainstream 2.5" SATA 17 ¢/GB 11 ¢/GB 10 ¢/GB 11 ¢/GB 11 ¢/GB Entry-level NVMe 16 ¢/GB 12 ¢/GB 11 ¢/GB 11 ¢/GB 16 ¢/GB Mainstream NVMe 18 ¢/GB 14 ¢/GB 13 ¢/GB 13 ¢/GB 20 ¢/GB Premium NVMe 32 ¢/GB 20 ¢/GB 20 ¢/GB 20 ¢/GB 23 ¢/GB M.2 SATA 18 ¢/GB 14 ¢/GB 12 ¢/GB 10 ¢/GB As always, the prices and recommendations here are a mere snapshot of the market at the time of writing, based on major North American online retailers. The best deals in each market segment can change on a day to day basis, and availability of specific models and capacities can be unpredictable. Entry-level NVMe: Inland Platinum (QLC) The entry-level NVMe SSD market segment consists of drives that make significant technological compromises to cut costs. This is where we classify all the DRAMless NVMe SSDs and those using QLC NAND. For the most part these drives all offer better real-world performance than mainstream SATA SSDs, and with little or no price premium. Most of these drives use 4-channel controllers, but a few have 8-channel controllers which help them reach sequential transfer speeds closer to what we expect from mainstream NVMe drives. This is the most technologically diverse segment of the consumer SSD market, since there are so many viable ways to cut costs while still offering much higher performance than SATA drives are capable of providing. 240-256 GB 480-512 GB 960 GB-1 TB 2 TB ADATA Swordfish TLC, DRAMless $35.99 (14¢/GB) $56.99 (10¢/GB) $199.99 (10¢/GB) Crucial P2 Kingston A2000 TLC $42.99 WD Blue SN550 Inland Platinum QLC, 8ch $102.99 Sabrent Rocket Q QLC, 8ch $69.98 Intel SSD 670p QLC $59.99 Micro Center's Inland Platinum continues to be one of the most affordable QLC drives at the 1TB and 2TB capacity points. For smaller capacities, we recommend avoiding QLC and going with a DRAMless TLC drive if necessary. The WD Blue SN550 and Samsung SSD 980 are the two fastest DRAMless drives, and for most common use cases the fact that they're DRAMless won't be a handicap. Kingston's A2000 is the cheapest TLC NVMe drive with DRAM, but its peak performance is rather low due to the outdated controller. Mainstream NVMe: Mushkin Pilot-E and HP EX950 SSD performance that more or less saturates a PCIe 3 x4 interface is now pretty standard. This market segment has the most lively competition and a wide range of options. These drives all use TLC NAND and most use 8-channel controllers, so they're all plenty fast for almost any consumer use case. Many drives that were top of the line one or two years ago are still available at greatly reduced prices. A lot of models in this segment that have been on the market for a long time have unfortunately seen silent changes to their components. Updating from 64L to 96L TLC is usually nothing to complain about, but some of the controller changes really should have been introduced with new models. Switching from 256Gbit to 512Gbit TLC dies can also lower performance, especially for the lower-capacity drives. Many of the cheaper drives based around the Phison E12 controller have switched to the more compact E12S variant and reduced the amount of DRAM, which hurts performance a bit on the heaviest workloads. Some drives based on the Silicon Motion SM2262(EN) controllers have also seen tweaks that may hurt performance a bit. A few brands have even taken the more drastic step of switching between SMI and Phison controllers without renaming the product—we've seen kind of behavior before in cheaper market segments, but it's a new low for this market segment. Ultimately, despite such unannounced hardware changes, these drives are still suitable for inclusion in this category. The performance changes are minor and seldom noticeable in real-world usage. What we're seeing is really a result of the competition for the performance crown moving into the PCIe 4.0 space. SSD makers are much less focused on performance for their PCIe 3.0 products now and are making very reasonable compromises to deliver more affordable products. The only problem here is the lack of transparency. ADATA XPG Gammix S50 Lite (PCIe 4.0) $139.99 (14¢/GB) $259.99 (13¢/GB) Inland Premium $41.99 (16¢/GB) $63.99 (12¢/GB) $132.99 (13¢/GB) PNY XLR8 CS3030 $42.99 (17¢/GB) $64.99 (13¢/GB) $124.99 (12¢/GB) $249.99 (12¢/GB) Mushkin Pilot-E $47.99 (19¢/GB) $64.99 (13¢/GB) $109.99 (11¢/GB) $244.99 (12¢/GB) HP EX950 $77.99 (15¢/GB) $119.99 (12¢/GB) $234.99 (12¢/GB) Samsung 970 EVO Plus $89.99 (18¢/GB) $159.90 (16¢/GB) $299.99 (15¢/GB) SK hynix Gold P31 $74.99 (15¢/GB) $134.99 (13¢/GB) WD Black SN750 $58.99 (24¢/GB) $69.99 (14¢/GB) $129.99 (13¢/GB) $309.99 (15¢/GB) The PNY XLR8 CS3030 isn't quite the cheapest Phison E12 drive, but at the lower capacities it's only $1 more than the drives that come with shorter three year warranties rather than the standard five years. For larger capacities, the best prices are currently on the Mushkin Pilot-E and HP EX950, both drives based on the SM2262EN controller that provides great peak performance. The SK hynix Gold P31 has occasionally been on sale, but is mostly sticking to its original launch pricing that is a bit above average for this market segment. For consumers concerned with maximizing battery life without sacrificing performance, it may be worth paying that small premium. Premium NVMe: WD Black SN850 and ADATA XPG Gammix S70 Most of the major players have delivered their high-end PCIe 4.0 competitors. Silicon Motion's SM2264 controller is still MIA, and the various Phison E18 drives will soon be getting refreshed with 176L TLC. In the meantime, the WD Black SN850 seems to be the overall performance king by most measures, though real-world differences are very minor. ADATA's XPG Gammix S70 featuring the Innogrit Rainier controller is a bit slower than most of the other current flagships, but it's also discounted by a bit, especially for its 2TB model. At capacities below 1TB, none of these controllers have enough flash to reach full speed, so an older and cheaper Phison E16 based drive like the Sabrent Rocket 4.0 may make more sense—but those E16 drives are getting a bit harder to find in stock. ADATA XPG Gammix S70 $179.99 Patriot Viper VP4300 $224.99 Samsung 970 PRO $156.29 Samsung 980 PRO $79.99 Sabrent Rocket 4.0 $89.98 Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus $199.98 WD Black SN850 $128.74 WD Black AN1500 $299.99 The SATA SSD market is unsurprisingly pretty stagnant. It's becoming increasingly common for manufacturers to silently update the NAND in SATA SSDs without changing the product name, which is why products like the Crucial MX500 are still around with no successor on the horizon. While in the past we have strongly criticized this kind of silent swapping of components, a straightforward update from 64L to 96L flash doesn't have much impact on performance of SSDs that are already constrained by the SATA interface. We continue to condemn any invisible product updates that swap TLC for QLC or switch to a DRAMless SSD architecture. Options for high-capacity multi-TB consumer SSDs are increasing, with some product lines now going all the way up to 8TB. But at the opposite end, we're seeing disappointing prices on 256GB models: for quite a while they've been more expensive on a per-GB basis than 512GB and 1TB models, but that gap is widening. As with 120GB models, these lower capacities are starting to be left behind as flash memory technology pushes for higher capacities. These drives are still fine options for users with modest capacity and performance requirements, but stepping up to a faster 500+GB model is now usually very cheap. Mainstream 2.5" SATA: WD Blue 3D NAND We consider mainstream SATA SSDs to be those that use TLC NAND and have DRAM buffers. These offer performance and reliability that's a step above budget models with DRAMless controllers or QLC NAND (or both). We don't bother making recommendations for those budget-oriented models, because the right answer is usually just whatever's cheapest at the time, and with many of those products it's impossible to keep track of what kind of components they're using from one month to the next. 240-256GB 480-512GB 1 TB 2 TB 4 TB Samsung 870 EVO $44.99 (18¢/GB) $64.99 (13¢/GB) $119.99 (12¢/GB) $229.99 (11¢/GB) $479.99 (12¢/GB) WD Blue 3D NAND $44.99 (18¢/GB) $59.99 (12¢/GB) $99.99 (10¢/GB) $199.78 (10¢/GB) $426.99 (11¢/GB) Crucial MX500 $49.70 (20¢/GB) $55.99 (11¢/GB) $97.99 (10¢/GB) $210.00 (11¢/GB) SK hynix Gold S31 $43.99 (18¢/GB) $56.99 (11¢/GB) $104.99 (10¢/GB) For the lower capacities, the SK hynix Gold S31 is currently a great option, while the WD Blue provides good deals for the 2TB and 4TB models. Since low-capacity NVMe drives are faster than SATA drives and carry little to no price premium, the SATA drives deals that are most interesting are on the larger capacity models where there's still a significant premium for NVMe. Niche Product Segments M.2 SATA: WD Blue 3D M.2 The M.2 SATA form factor is also on its way out, but isn't as far gone as mSATA. PC notebook OEMs switched over entirely to M.2 NVMe SSDs over M.2 SATA SSDs for new machines. Even an entry-level DRAMless NVMe SSD allows OEMs to advertise that they're using NVMe, and for the most part the performance will indeed be better than with a SATA-based SSD. With OEM SSD shipments falling, SSD manufacturers are starting to abandon their M.2 SATA product lines. The Crucial MX500 M.2 has been discontinued and Samsung has made no mention of a M.2 SATA version of the new 870 EVO, so it's pretty clear that this form factor has reached end of life. Consumers who need a capacity upgrade for a notebook that doesn't support NVMe on its M.2 slot should probably upgrade this year while new M.2 SATA drives are still readily available at reasonable prices. The WD Blue 3D is the obvious choice with good pricing for both the 1TB and 2TB models. 250GB 500GB 1TB 2TB Crucial MX500 M.2 $69.99 (14¢/GB) $114.99 (11¢/GB) Samsung 860 EVO M.2 $44.99 (18¢/GB) $69.99 (14¢/GB) $127.04 (13¢/GB) $249.99 (12¢/GB) WD Blue 3D M.2 $44.99 (18¢/GB) $59.99 (12¢/GB) $99.99 (10¢/GB) $209.99 (10¢/GB) ADATA SU800 M.2 $37.99 (15¢/GB) $62.99 (12¢/GB) $104.99 (10¢/GB) Extreme Capacities: Inland Platinum QLC Options for consumer SSDs with capacities beyond 2TB are still few and far between, but this multi-TB market segment is no longer a mere curiosity. There are now at least three major brands offering 8TB QLC SSDs, and several more with 4TB options including some 4TB TLC NVMe SSDs. All of these high-capacity models carry a price-per-GB premium over the more mainstream capacities from the same product lines, and the best performance is usually found on the 1TB or 2TB models. So these models bring significant tradeoffs, and aren't necessarily the best way to equip a system with an excess of solid-state storage. But for notebooks with only one M.2 slot or other scenarios where the highest per-drive capacities are required, these multi-TB drives offer new possibilities and much lower prices than high-capacity enterprise SSDs. The hard drive market has generally cleared the way for compatibility with such massive drives. However, as far as we know none of these SSDs have switched to using 4kB sectors by default rather than 512-byte sectors. This means that cloning from a smaller SSD onto a 4TB or 8TB SSD and then expanding the filesystem is generally a straightforward process, but cloning from a 4k-native hard drive onto one of these SSDs may not be an option. QLC $208.99 (10¢/GB) $489.99 (12¢/GB) Corsair MP400 QLC $239.99 (12¢/GB) $596.99 (15¢/GB) $1354.99 (17¢/GB) Corsair MP600 CORE QLC, PCIe Gen4 $311.99 (16¢/GB) $644.99 (16¢/GB) PNY XLR8 CS3030 TLC $249.99 (12¢/GB) $699.99 (17¢/GB) Mushkin ALPHA QLC $569.99 (14¢/GB) $1199.99 (15¢/GB) Sabrent Rocket Q 4.0 Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus TLC, PCIe Gen4 $449.15 (22¢/GB) $899.87 (22¢/GB) WD Black SN750 WD Black AN1500 TLC, PCIe Gen3 x8 $549.99 (27¢/GB) $999.99 (25¢/GB) SATA SSDs: Samsung 870 QVO QLC $211.76 (11¢/GB) $399.99 (10¢/GB) $799.99 (10¢/GB) Samsung 870 EVO WD Blue 3D SATA drives still offer much better pricing at these large capacities: the Samsung 870 QVO is by far the cheapest 8TB option, and the WD Blue with TLC is cheaper than NVMe drives with QLC. For users willing to pay for NVMe performance, even a QLC drive will be pretty fast with 2TB or more to work with, so the Inland Platinum and Mushkin ALPHA are good choices. The PNY XLR8 CS3030 is currently one of the most affordable TLC drives with high-capacity options. cjeffcoatjr - Friday, May 28, 2021 - link Feeling very validated at my purchase of a 1TB SN850 and 2 2TB Blues for my new build.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6604528427124023, "wiki_prob": 0.33954715728759766, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line755454"}
Washington @ Philadelphia, 8:20p, ESPN (Eagles -6, O/U: 45) In Colt Mccoy’s first start of the season, replacing the injured Alex Smith, he kept the Redskins in the Thanksgiving game against the Cowboys despite not having much of a supporting cast from the backfield and throwing 3 interceptions. Considering the lack of weapons to throw to, he managed to complete 63% of his passes with 2 touchdowns all while having to rely mostly on his tight ends for the bulk of the targets. McCoy isn’t known for having a deep ball so having Davis and Reed as his crutch is pretty helpful. Peterson has his ups and downs and last week was a tough matchup for the old back as the youngblood defenders of the Cowboys didn’t give him anything to work with. He’ll need to take the ball outside of the Eagles box to take advantage of a young and inexperienced secondary to get those chunk yards we’re used to seeing from him over the last decade. The Eagles might’ve found a diamond in the rough with rookie running back Josh Adams who had a great performance (22 rushes for 84 yards and 1 TD). They’ve been looking for a consistent back to pair with Wentz to take some of the workload off of his shoulders. He’s proved that he can win and win big games but he still doesn’t look like last year’s Wentz. He’s only had 4 of his 9 games end with over 300 yards passing and still hasn’t clicked with newcomer Golden Tate. Despite this he still has a TD/INT ratio of nearly 3:1 (16/6). With Darren Sproles set to make a return along with Michael Bennett, has last week’s close call win walken them up for the tough stretch of games to close out the season and maybe make the playoffs(Redskins, Cowboys, Rams, Texans, Redskins)? Take the Eagles to cover in the over, Eagles 27-20. #beatyourbookie Author Jeremy KohlPosted on December 3, 2018 Categories Football, NFL, sports bettingTags #beatyourbookie, Adrian Peterson, Alex Smith, Alshon Jeffrey, American Football, ANALYSIS, ATS, BETS, Betting, betting lines, Blazing 5, Carson Wentz, Colin Cowherd, Colin Cowherd's Blazing 5, Colin Cowherds, Colt McCoy, Covers, Covers.com, EAGLES, Golden Tate, NFL predictions, Philadelphia Eagles, predictions, REDSKINS, Washington Redskins	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5392013192176819, "wiki_prob": 0.4607986807823181, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1035645"}
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Record LGBTQ movies in 2019 but very low racial variety and no trans characters GLAAD unveiled its 2020 Studio Responsibility Index (SRI) which examines and stories the amount, excellent, and range of LGBTQ characters in the optimum theatrical grossing movies produced in 2019. This year’s report has some highs to celebrate as perfectly as some lows that studios should really tackle. The research took a search at eight studios and 4 of their subsidiaries as noted by Box Workplace Mojo: Lionsgate, Paramount Photos, Sony Photographs, STX Movies, United Artists Releasing, Common Pics, The Walt Disney Studios, and Warner Bros. We’ll get started with the good news: of the 118 movies produced in 2019, 22 (18.6%) integrated characters that have been lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer (LGBTQ). The figures climbed a smidge from past year’s report which clocked 20 out of 110 (18.2%) films as LGBTQ-inclusive. This marks the highest share of inclusive LGBTQ-inclusive movies given that the claimed launched eight decades in the past. The history-large doesn’t automatically signify the studios handed with traveling colours when it arrived to LGBTQ inclusion. The SRI did not give any of the eight studios or its subsidiaries the grade of “Good” or higher dependent on the good quality, amount, and range of LGBTQ representation. In point, Lionsgate, Paramount Images, United Artists Releasing, and Common Images scored “Insufficient” grades although Sony Images Entertainment and Walt Disney Studios sent “Poor” grades. STX Movies did not strike the mark at all, as it was given a “Failing” grade with no LGBTQ representation. Racial diversity of LGBTQ figures in the films examined was down for the third consecutive calendar year. In 2019, just 34 percent of LGBTQ characters have been men and women of colour (17 of 50), down from 42% in past year’s report and a decrease of twenty-3 share factors from the 57% of LGBTQ figures of coloration in 2017. GLAAD is contacting on the studios to make sure that within two decades at minimum 50 % of their LGBTQ people are individuals of coloration. See also Pictures and words - Journal Dr. Comorcio Antonio Banderas was nominated for an Oscar for playing a homosexual filmmaker in “Pain and Glory.”Sony Pics Classics / Everett Selection As for transgender illustration, there was none as trans figures were being completely absent in main studio releases for the third calendar year in a row. The downward craze ongoing with the illustration of lesbian and bisexual individuals. Homosexual adult men have been highlighted in 68% (15) of inclusive films which is an boost from past year’s 55%. Lesbian illustration took a significant strike as it was down to 36% (8) of inclusive movies. Meanwhile, bisexual representation dipped to 14%, with only three movies that includes bi figures. To further more its study of intersectionality in film and Television set, the report tallied LGBTQ figures with disabilities for the first time. There was only a single character with a disability in significant releases with the character of Poe (Moises Arias) in Lionsgate’s Five Ft Aside. On the art home side, there ended up two LGBTQ characters with disabilities, both of those from Sony Pics Classics. “Film has the power to teach, enlighten, and entertain audiences about the world and, in today’s divisive political and cultural weather, we need to prioritize telling LGBTQ stories and the stories of all marginalized people today,” claimed GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis. “Despite viewing a document-superior proportion of LGBTQ-inclusive films this 12 months, the field still has a lengthy way to go in terms of relatively and accurately representing the LGBTQ community. If movie studios want to remain applicable to today’s audiences and compete in an field that is emphasizing diversity and inclusion, then they need to urgently reverse program on the diminishing representation of LGBTQ gals and people today of colour, as effectively as the total absence of trans people.” See also Poet Varavara Rao shifted to medical center soon after several requests from household, activists In 2018’s Studio Obligation Index, GLAAD gave important studios some homework. They termed on them to make certain that 20% of once-a-year releases incorporate LGBTQ people by 2021 and 50 % be inclusive by 2024. Out of the 8 studios, four of them strike this 20% aim individually. Paramount Shots hit 33% (up from 20% last 12 months while United Artists Releasing scored at 29%, Lionsgate came in at 25%, and Walt Disney Studios hit 21%. ‘Telling significant LGBTQ stories is not just the appropriate issue to do, it is also just intelligent enterprise.’ To enhance the depictions of LGBTQ figures, GLAAD’s SRI included recommendations to studios on how they can stay away from important problems and setbacks like escalating monitor time for queer characters, prioritizing intersectionality with folks of shade and characters with disabilities, the inclusion of genuine portrayals of bisexual persons and, of program, far more trans figures. Very simple as that. “Telling meaningful LGBTQ stories is not just the proper thing to do, it’s also just clever small business,” explained Megan Townsend, GLAAD’s Director of Amusement Investigate & Examination. “LGBTQ individuals are a considerable audience who are supporting LGBTQ-inclusive movies with our bucks and electronic awareness. Nielsen found LGBTQ audiences are more probable to see a new theatrical launch extra than when in contrast to straight audiences, and proceed to stay engaged consumers, with higher ranges of obtaining a electronic duplicate, subscription company, and spreading the phrase on the internet.” She adds, “Studios must realize the electric power of LGBTQ audiences and the want for tales that replicate our lives, by offering and unambiguously advertising films and franchises that include things like nuanced and reliable LGBTQ people.” See also 'Everything has it' - Match of Day pundits outraged over Leicester City duo after win over Brighton GLAAD’s SRI critiques films dependent on GLAAD’s “Vito Russo Test,” a established of criteria analyzing how LGBTQ characters are located in a narrative. The examination was named right after GLAAD co-founder and film historian Vito Russo and parallels the “Bechdel Test.” The test may possibly be a very good barometer for representation, but passing the take a look at does not warranty that a movie is absolutely free of difficulties when it arrives to queer illustration. The SRI discovered that 73% of LGBTQ-inclusive movies (16 of 22) released in 2019 handed the Vito Russo Take a look at, which is the optimum share recorded in the report’s historical past. Even so, in the broader context, those 16 films signify only 14% of the 118 movies launched. The SRI report comes two months just before the first-at any time digital edition of the GLAAD Media Awards ceremony which will stream on GLAAD’s Facebook and YouTube on July 30 at 8 p.m. ET and will air on Brand on Aug. 3 at 8 p.m. ET. 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Insight Editions Welcome Code Rumi's Tales from the Silk Road A Pilgrimage to Paradise Written By: Kamla K. Kapur The 13th century Sufi poet Rumi traveled in a landscape divided between the Persian and Byzantine empires, and his works express the passions, fables, and faith of both worlds. In this book, Rumi enthusiast Kamla Kapur reworks some of his writings into 30 tales of wit, wisdom, and faith. The basis for her stories is Reynold A. Nicholson’s translation of Rumi’s six-volume Mathnawi, an epic mystical poem of more than 25,000 verses. Kapur brings this dense, intimidating work into a far more readable form, putting her own spin on the stories yet remaining true to Rumi’s vision. In charming tales such as “The Witch of Kabul” and “Moses Learns a Lesson,” she brings Rumi’s verses to life as clever fables. Pilgrimage to Paradise gives readers one of Persia’s greatest literary treasures in an accessible form that enlightens as it entertains. Format: Main Book Trim Size: 5.585 x Kamla K. Kapur, Author: Kamla K. Kapur is the author of Ganesha Goes to Lunch, Rumi’s Tales from the Silk Road, and The Singing Guru. Kapur has also published two books of poetry, As a Fountain in a Garden and Radha Sings: Erotic Love Poems, numerous short stories, and a series of award-winning plays. She divides her time living in the Kullu Valley in the Indian Himalayas and in Southern California. Harry Potter: Holiday Magic: The Official Advent Calendar Supernatural Tarot Deck and Guidebook The Art and Soul of Dune Harry Potter: Crochet Wizardry	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.634386420249939, "wiki_prob": 0.36561357975006104, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1747543"}
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LibrariesDirectoryFor Current StudentsFor Faculty & StaffFor Alumniהקולג’ בישראלAPPLYDONATE ABOUT HUC Impact & Outcomes HUC AT A GLANCE About Us Mission History Schools & Programs Our Campuses Our Partners Support HUC Consumer Information Contact Us Leadership Faculty & Staff Directory Careers at HUC Strategic Direction Developing a Sacred Respectful Community Accreditation COVID-19 Updates News Publications Media Kit Events & Visits Rabbinical School Rabbinical Ordination and Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters/Literature Israel Rabbinical Program Zelikow School of Jewish Nonprofit Management The Joan and Phillip Pines School of Graduate Studies Doctor of Philosophy in Judaic, Hebraic, and Cognate Studies Master of Arts in Jewish Studies Doctor of Hebrew Letters Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music Cantorial Ordination and Master of Sacred Music Pastoral Care Programs Interfaith Doctor of Ministry Program for Education in Pastoral Care Sugiyot Chayim Certificate Programs in Israel School of Education Master of Educational Leadership & Master of Jewish Learning Executive M.A. in Jewish Education DeLeT Day School Teachers for a New Generation DeLeT Master of Arts in Teaching DeLeT Coaching and Induction Programs DeLeT LeHora’at Ivrit Rikma - Jewish Education Program unsure? explore all huc-jir schools & programs DESIGN YOUR PATH Programs for Working Professionals Concurrent Degree Programs RESOURCES & INITIATIVES Libraries Museums Institutes, Centers, & Projects Student Projects & Initiatives UNDERGRADUATE & FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS Louchheim School for Judaic Studies Jewish Ideas Fellowship HUC Teaching Impact Fellowship Find a Faculty Speaker PUBLIC PROGRAMS & EVENTS HUC Connect Upcoming Learning Events Programs on Demand Learning Archive Hebrew Union College Press About HUC / Strategic Direction HUC-JIR’s Strategic Direction for the Future After a two-year strategic planning process that included engagement, listening, analysis, and deliberation with hundreds of community stakeholders, the HUC-JIR Board of Governors approved a new path forward for the College-Institute in April 2022. HUC-JIR will be building on its historic strengths – outstanding graduate programs that train Jewish leaders and scholars, world-class academic resources, and field-leading faculty – to bring increased innovation and flexibility to the institution, embracing a future where technology allows us to build communities of spiritual and academic inquiry that are not limited by our historic four-campus footprint. We are consolidating our three U.S. rabbinical programs into one national rabbinical school operating on two residential campuses and creating a curriculum that is more flexible and outcomes-based, creating a new academically rigorous flexible residency clergy program to open up the rabbinate and cantorate to students who cannot relocate to a campus city, and reimagining our historic Cincinnati campus to ensure our world-class library, archives and museum serve students, scholars, and community learners in new and innovative ways. Through a strategic planning process that began in 2020, HUC-JIR adopted the following goals for our work over the next five years. Educational Excellence: Strengthen Academic and Program Excellence in All Areas Why: To ensure the formation of innovative, inspirational, learned Reform clergy, Jewish leaders, and scholars who shape the evolving spiritual, organizational, cultural, and educational landscape of 21st-century Jewish life in North America, Israel, and beyond. How: Through a vibrant and dynamic faculty and student body, exceptional educational programs, field-leading academic scholarship, and a learning community actively engaged in Jewish life. Student Experience: Strengthen the Student Experience at HUC Why: To create vibrant learning communities that ensure the conditions for robust learning, spiritual growth, and professional development, which nurture and sustain our students during their education at HUC. How: By creating an inclusive HUC community that appropriately supports and challenges students intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually. By ensuring our culture fosters strong personal relationships among classmates and with faculty and instills confidence in each student’s ability to pursue their professional calling and career upon graduation and ordination. Growing Our Impact: Expand the Reach of HUC’s Impact throughout the Jewish World Why: To cultivate and revitalize Jewish learning and Reform values throughout the Jewish world through the work of our graduates, and our faculty’s scholarship and thought leadership. How: Through the ordination, graduation, and placement of Jewish leaders to meet the spiritual and communal needs of our people, and by building public awareness of their work and ours through the teaching and writing of our faculty and students, to strengthen the student pipeline, support of our alumni, engagement with donors, and Jewish communities. Financial Sustainability: Manage HUC to Be Resilient and Financially Well-positioned for Our Future Why: To meet the unprecedented financial challenges of this moment, responsibly leverage and steward the sacred resources entrusted to us by donors, demonstrate mission impact that will present a strong case for giving, and ensure the thriving of our College-Institute for the next century. How: By striving for operational excellence, making strategic decisions to live within our means while investing in our future, optimizing our resources, and growing revenue through transformational fundraising and other revenue opportunities, all in response to our new and changing financial reality. Ensuring A Sacred And Respectful Culture: Secure HUC as a supportive learning community where all can thrive Why: To create a supportive and respectful environment at the College-Institute, recognizing that all of us, in all of our diversity, are created b’tzelem Elohim, in the image of God. How: By an ongoing, steady approach to listening and learning in order to change our culture and align our actions to the highest ethical commitments of our institution. By combatting all abuses of power, bias, and discrimination, including those based on race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disabilities, national origin, and other important personal characteristics, and by setting expectations and holding each other accountable for our actions. Quick Start Initiatives HUC-JIR developed the following initiatives to help us accomplish our strategic goals. These initiatives have broad consensus among our constituencies and many are already underway. Goal 1: Educational Excellence Create a center for pedagogy and learning to support faculty becoming excellent teachers for internal programs and external audiences. Develop preparatory online courses for potential incoming students in Hebrew, Judaica, and other needed areas. Redesign and update our approach to faculty by leveraging best practices for hiring, performance evaluation, recognition, and reward. Begin consideration, design, and research for the creation of additional low-residency programs aimed at students for whom current programs are not accessible. Goal 2: Student Experience Create a holistic structure of student development opportunities equally available to all students that include spiritual direction, writing tutoring, executive function coaching, assistance for mental health support, academic advising, professional supervision, and Jewish life mentoring. Create an Office of Student Support to support all students academically, emotionally, and spiritually. Create an environment where all students will thrive and seek to attract and enroll students from diverse populations (e.g. race, age, gender identity, ability, religious background). Create system-wide standards of quality when it comes to student fieldwork experiences (supervision, training, etc.). Goal 3: Grow Our Impact Build our recruitment pipeline to meet the increasingly diverse needs of our congregations and communities. Expand alumni learning and create a HUC Speaker’s Bureau to match HUC resources with congregational needs. Partner with organizations that may be reaching a target audience of ours, to enhance visibility and recruitment – in Israel, stateside, and online. Ensure that programs already started (website, online learning, donor stewardship programs) are maximizing outreach to potential donors and alumni. Develop more joint programming with URJ, CCAR, and other Movement partners and create more clarity around roles so programming can be complementary and not competitive. Goal 4: Financial Sustainability Improve financial management and reporting. Start to develop a fundraising approach and campaign built on HUC’s new strategy and 150th anniversary in 2025. Build a stronger HR function to create a more positive culture for faculty and staff. Continue the creation of an IT master plan to support new and existing initiatives with technology that is cutting-edge, accessible, and reliable. Centralize certain specific regional operations that currently create unnecessary bottlenecks or duplications, and create more organizational clarity. On April 11, 2022, HUC-JIR’s Board of Governors voted to approve recommendations proposed by the Administration that position the College-Institute for a sustainable and vibrant future. These recommendations included: developing a flexible residency clergy program to serve students who cannot relocate to a campus city, sunsetting the College-Institute’s residential rabbinical program in Cincinnati after 2026, and reimagining our Cincinnati campus in ways that elevate our world-class academic resources located there – the Klau Library, American Jewish Archives, and Skirball Museum. Throughout our two-year strategic planning process, we listened to hundreds of stakeholders, reviewed reams of data, and learned about our strengths and areas for potential growth. The process included two distinct phases: Phase 1) Stakeholder engagement, assessment and research; and Phase 2) presentation of recommendations to the Board of Governors and broad community engagement. Phase 1 of the process included interviews and assessments, the development of our four strategic goals (educational excellence, student experience, growing our impact, and financial sustainability), and commitments to implement 17 quick-start initiatives and to build out internal capacity to support the goals in financial reporting, communications and marketing, development and alumni affairs, and recruitment and admissions. Over 350 interviews and focus group conversations were conducted during Phase 1 of the planning process with approximately 250 unique individuals. The following is a breakdown of participation: 4 campus deans 8 program directors 32 faculty and staff from the HEART team 18 members of the Strategic Planning Advisory Committee (SPAC) of the Board 4 SPAC members comprised an additional financial advisory group 4 additional Board members 5 students (interviews) 45 students (focus groups including a brief survey) 2 representatives from the URJ 6 funders/donors 15 faculty and administrators from the Faculty Consultation Group 10 members of the Boards of Advisors 15 alumni from the Alumni Council 46 Rabbinic alumni from the President’s Rabbinical Council 40 faculty in the faculty meetings 94 staff in the stateside staff meeting 6 Jerusalem staff in a Jerusalem staff meeting 7 cantorial stakeholders in a designated meeting Phase 2 of the planning process included: 1) the presentation of recommendations by the administration to the Board to improve the fiscal health and educational excellence of HUC-JIR and, 2) a community engagement process to capture feedback from HUC staff, students, and faculty, alumni, donors, Movement partners, and other interested parties in relation to the administration’s recommendations. Over 25 stakeholder meetings were conducted during Phase 2 of the planning process that engaged hundreds of students, staff, faculty, alumni, movement partners, and supporters. Those meetings included: Four briefing sessions for students, faculty, and staff Follow-up listening sessions with students of each campus Two faculty meetings Seven meetings with Movement partners including URJ, CCAR, ACC, PRC, NATA, ARJE, ECE-RJ, WRJ, and Reform Rabbis of Canada Meetings with Western, Central, and Eastern Region Board of Advisors Three alumni town hall meetings An open forum at the 2022 CCAR Conference Additional individual and small group meetings with alumni and supporters The HUC-JIR Board of Governors voted to approve the Administration’s recommendations of consolidating residential rabbinical education on the LA and NY campus, sunsetting residential rabbinical education in Cincinnati after 2026, developing a flexible residency clergy program to serve students who cannot relocate to a campus city, and elevating the academic resources on our Cincinnati campus – the Klau Library, American Jewish Archives, and Skirball Museum – to serve a broader range of researchers, students, and community learners. Stakeholder engagement continues through town hall meetings, meetings with Movement partners, and the gathering of feedback through the HUC-JIR website. Administration shares additional details on their recommendations with the Board for the February Board Meeting, where continued discussions take place. Stakeholder Engagement begins, including: Briefings on recommendations provided to HUC-JIR staff, students, and faculty Continued engagement opportunities scheduled with staff, students, and faculty Meetings and town halls to capture feedback are scheduled with the HUC-JIR Board of Advisors, Reform movement partners, and HUC-JIR Alumni Israel Task Force report shared with the Board For the January Special Meeting of the Board, administration delivers the first of what will be several recommendations for the future of HUC-JIR. October Board meeting includes a focus on strategic decision-making. A Special Board meeting is held in November for continued conversations about key challenges and opportunities for HUC-JIR. Faculty representatives and Rabbinical School Configuration Task Force members are invited guests. Documents produced as part of the Rabbinical School Configuration Task Force deliberations are shared with the Board. Financial modeling to achieve a balanced budget issued to the Board. Morgan Lewis report released; findings are synthesized with strategic planning and an additional goal of creating a sacred and respectful culture is developed. Library task force completes its work and issues report. The finance team and senior leadership work through scenario building for five options, with a group of board members advising on the process. Deborah Naish engaged as a consultant at the end of August 2021 to bring the planning process through the next phase of strategic decision-making. The Board of Governors charges the administration with developing up to four scenarios to achieve a break-even budget by FY26. Cabinet convenes in Pearl River, NY over three days for discussion and planning. Strategic planning update town hall meetings with President Rehfeld for students, staff, and faculty. Phase 1 of our strategic planning process comes to end. Four goals are embraced. Quick-start initiatives and capacity-building directives are set. Four task forces launched on a shared governance model, bringing faculty, administration, and board members to look at four key areas of the organization: Israel Programs, Real Estate, and Property Management, Libraries, and the Configuration of the HUC-JIR Rabbinical School. December 2020 / January 2021 In December the Strategic Planning Advisory Committee met to discuss priorities for HUC’s clergy programs Wellspring continued to collect and aggregate a range of data to support goal-setting and specific initiatives for the strategic plan Wellspring held a meeting with stakeholders from the Cantorial School to think about growing the Cantorial School and increasing rabbinic and cantorial student meaningful interaction as part of clergy formation Wellspring continued to engage with leadership on the Jerusalem campus about ways to increase the utilization and impact of the campus in Israel During January, a set of draft goals were considered and refined in multiple meetings: Two meetings of the staff and faculty working group Two meetings with the Board’s Strategic Planning Advisory Committee (SPAC) One meeting of the Board of Governors Meeting of the Alumni Leadership Council The draft goals continued to evolve into early February as more feedback was received from the community The Working Group (President’s Cabinet + Faculty Representatives) came together for another session, as did the SPAC (the Board’s Strategic Planning Advisory Committee) Wellspring met with a group of Israeli students to solicit their input Wellspring joined a Board meeting to host a discussion around key strategic decisions A finance sub-committee of the board convened with Wellspring several times to continue advancing relevant financial modeling Wellspring continued to collect and analyze more data, including on student recruitment and job placement, and institutional finances Wellspring held two meetings that were open to all faculty, and one that was open to all stateside staff, to solicit broader input into key strategic questions Wellspring met with senior staff from the Jerusalem campus The Working Group (President’s Cabinet + Faculty Representatives) came together for another session to discuss new data and thinking Wellspring held a session with representatives from the Boards of Advisors The Faculty Consultation Group met with President Rehfeld to deliberate on key issues Wellspring brought its current financial modeling to a finance sub-committee of the Board of Governors for feedback Wellspring continued to collect and analyze more data, including benchmarking other rabbinical and cantorial programs and models Two focus groups solicited input from stateside students, and another engaged HUC’s Boards of Advisors Wellspring facilitated a meeting with the Board of Governors to update them on the strategic planning process and receive their input Wellspring has begun conducting interviews with funders to understand their perspectives on the organization, its challenges, and opportunities New data relating to HUC’s financials have been analyzed Over the next two modules, Wellspring will be taking a deeper dive into the Jerusalem campus. Module 2’s 41 interviews were completed, which included staff, faculty, Board members, students, and alumni Wellspring shared findings with and received input from the HEART group (program directors and senior managers), the President’s Rabbinical Council (alumni), and the Alumni Leadership Council There were two intensive sessions with Wellspring and the SPAC (the Board’s strategic planning and advisory committee) and a kick-off meeting with a financial modeling subgroup of the Board Wellspring also reviewed and analyzed a broad range of new data, including HUC-JIR’s historical financials, endowment, and restricted funds’ composition and trends, rabbinic admissions data, longitudinal enrollment numbers, job placement statistics across HUC-JIR programs, URJ congregational data, and internship and student pulpit placements Module 1 interviews were conducted with 12 staff and Board members Module 2 interviews will last through mid-August.  There are 41 interviews in all, which include staff, faculty, Board members, students, and alumni In the next two months, Wellspring will facilitate several focus group meetings with alumni and students In September, Wellspring will speak with approximately 12 external experts to gather their views.  These will include institutional funders, individual donors, and others who are knowledgeable in the field Full staff and full faculty meetings will be hosted by Wellspring in mid-October, to share findings and receive input regarding the strategic questions for the project Other work that will happen between now and December includes financial modeling, benchmarking of other institutions facing similar challenges, mapping the landscape, and sizing the market for students We expect the work to be completed by the end of 2020, with a final presentation to the Board in early 2021 Working Groups, Committees and Task Forces Phase 1 Working Groups And Committees In partnership with Wellspring Consulting Strategic Planning Advisory Committee Larry Tarica, Vice Chair, Board of Governors; Chair, SPAC Sue Neuman Hochberg, Chair, Board of Governors Patty Beck, Board of Governors Andy Berger, Former Board Chair; Chair, Nominating Committee Marty Cohen, Chair, Buildings and Grounds Committee Cary Davidson, Chair, Western Region Advisors David Edelson, Vice Chair Ken Gilman, Treasurer Joy Greenberg, Chair, Communications Committee Michael Halpern, Chair, Recruitment, Admissions, and Placement Karen Hoguet, Chair, Audit Committee Yaron Horovitz, Chair, Israel Board of Advisors; Co-Chair, Israel Committee Rabbi Lewis Kamrass, HUC-JIR Rabbinic Alum Matt Louchheim, Vice-Chair, Development Committee Rachel Margolis, RJE, MAJE/MAJCS, Immediate Past Chair of the Alumni Leadership Council Kevin Penn, Co-Chair, Investment Committee Rabbi Amy Perlin, HUC-JIR Rabbinic Alum; Co-Chair, Israel Committee Dr. Bruce Phillips, Faculty Chair Cantor Sarah Sager, HUC-JIR Cantorial Alum Rabbi Ronald Segal, HUC-JIR Rabbinic Alum; Chair, CCAR Debbi Sorrentino, Chair, Central Region of Board of Advisors Marcie Zelikow, Co-Chair, Development Committee Internal Working Group Rabbi David Adelson, D.Min., Dean, New York Rabbi Adam Allenberg, MAJE, Director of Recruitment and Admissions, National Sarah Benor, Ph.D., Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies, Los Angeles Rabbi Joshua Garroway, Ph.D., Professor of Early Christianity and the Second Commonwealth, Los Angeles Amy Goldberg, Chief Financial Officer, National Rabbi Andrew Goodman, Director of Student Support in the Office of the Provost; Dean of Students, New York Alyssa Gray, Ph.D., Emily S. and Rabbi Bernard H. Mehlman Chair in Rabbinics; Faculty Chair, New York Rabbi Jonathan Hecht, Ph.D., Dean, Cincinnati Joshua Holo, Ph.D., Dean, Los Angeles Rabbi Naamah Kelman-Ezrachi, Dean, Jerusalem Rabbi Dalia Marx, Ph.D., Rabbi Aaron D. Panken Professor of Liturgy and Midrash, Faculty Chair, Jerusalem Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D., President, National Michelle Slocum, Controller, National Liz Squadron, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and External Relations, National Rabbi Mark Washofsky, Ph.D., Solomon B. Freehof Professor of Jewish Law and Practice; Faculty Chair, Cincinnati Rabbi Andrea Weiss, Ph.D., Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Provost, National Rabbi Gary P. Zola, Ph.D., Executive Director, Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives; Edward M. Ackerman Family Distinguished Professor of the American Jewish Experience and Reform Jewish History, Cincinnati Faculty Consultation Group Joshua Holo, Ph.D., Dean, Los Angeles; Chair, FCG Rabbi David H. Aaron, Ph.D., Professor of Hebrew Bible and History of Interpretation, Cincinnati; Co-Chair, Editorial Board for the HUC Press Dr. Rachel Adler, Rabbi David Ellenson Professor of Jewish Religious Thought, Los Angeles Dr. Alyssa Gray, Emily S. and Rabbi Bernard H. Mehlman Chair in Rabbinics; Faculty Chair, New York Dr. Leah Hochman, Director, Louchheim School for Judaic Studies; Associate Professor of Jewish Thought, Los Angeles Rabbi Michael Marmur, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Jewish Theology, Jerusalem Dr. Bruce Phillips, Professor of Sociology & Jewish Communal Service, Los Angeles; Faculty Chair, Board of Governors Rabbi Haim Rechnitzer, Ph.D., Professor of Modern Jewish Thought, Cincinnati Rabbi Richard Sarason, Ph.D., Director, Pines School of Graduate Studies; Professor of Rabbinic Literature and Thought and The Deutsch Family Professor of Rabbinics and Liturgy, Cincinnati Cantor Benjie Schiller, Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman Professor of Liturgy, Worship and Ritual and Professor of Cantorial Arts, New York Rabbi Joseph Skloot, Ph.D., Rabbi Aaron D. Panken Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Intellectual History, New York Liz Squadron, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and External Relations, National, Ex Officio Rabbi Andrea Weiss, Ph.D., Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Provost, National, Ex Officio Dr. Sivan Zakai, Sara S. Lee Assistant Professor of Jewish Education, Los Angeles Israel Program Evaluation Task Force Yaron Horovitz, Chair of the Jerusalem Board of Advisors Miriam Heller Stern, Director, School of Education Summary: The mission of HUC-JIR as affirmed by the Board in 2017 commits us to work in North America and Israel without differentiation. And our work in Israel has significantly expanded over the last decades of the 20th century. This task force seeks to prioritize the work we are doing and ask what is essential that we continue, what opportunities we have to expand our mission impact, and what programs might be better suited to partner with other institutions to do more effectively. Real Estate And Property Management Task Force Amy Goldberg, CFO Summary: With new opportunities arising for partnerships, and the nature of work and study changing during the pandemic, as well as the changing texture of life in US cities, there are questions about whether our current buildings and locations allow us to maximize mission and financial impact. Libraries Task Force John Kampen, Past Chair, Alumni Leadership Council Joshua Holo, Dean, HUC/Los Angeles Summary: The HUC-JIR library system counts among our most prominent mission-based assets. Our faculty and external community have identified three key benefits to our maintaining our library collection: the holdings themselves are an important academic resource for our students and faculty; the library enhances HUC’s reputation as a serious scholarly institution, and it is important for HUC to maintain ownership of this precious resource as a legacy for the Jewish People. As we face maintaining a library system that fewer people are using, the Task Force will ask some fundamental questions concerning how to increase its use and impact, reducing our costs or both, and possibly in partnerships with other academic institutions. Task Force on the Configuration of the HUC-JIR Rabbinical School Rabbi David Stern, Member, Board of Governors; Former Chair, CCAR Dr. Rabbi Andrea Weiss, Provost Summary: Our institutional goals, current trends, and the exigencies of the moment mandate that we confront the most sensitive and challenging topic facing the College-Institute: the configuration of the rabbinical school. This task force will examine the benefits and costs of maintaining North American rabbinical programs in three locations. The task force will assess our ability to achieve our strategic goals and fulfill our academic mission in our present three-campus model or alternative configurations. The task force will make a recommendation regarding the number and location of stateside rabbinical school sites that we conclude we can successfully and responsibly manage while achieving educational excellence, providing a high-quality student experience, and ensuring that we can achieve financial sustainability. Recommendations and Supporting Documents Recommendations For HUC-JIR’s Future For nearly 150 years, HUC-JIR has embraced the spirit of dynamic innovation at the heart of religiously progressive Reform Judaism – a spirit that propels us forward as we make decisions about the future of the College-Institute. After two years of sustained work on a strategic planning process, the administration of HUC-JIR shared initial recommendations for the future of the institution with its Board of Governors on January 9 and February 6, 2022. Our work to date has included research, data analysis, stakeholder meetings, and much reflection on how best to fulfill our mission for the future. The next phase in this process is engagement with our many stakeholders, followed by decision-making. Once we commit to a path forward, we can continue to plan and build together to make our dreams for HUC-JIR’s future a reality. The Administration’s Recommended Path In the face of the opportunities and challenges before us, the administration of HUC-JIR has presented its Board of Governors with a recommended path forward. These recommendations are the first of several being developed over the coming months. The administration recommends: Restructure the Rabbinical School with residential programs in Los Angeles and New York. Reimagine the Cincinnati campus as a center for research and educational engagement, including strengthening the impact of the Klau Library, Skirball Museum, and American Jewish Archives (AJA), and creating new opportunities for rabbinic students, graduate students, visiting scholars, and Reform movement partners to study on our historic campus. Explore the development of a new academically rigorous, low-residency clergy program, enabling students to prepare as rabbis and cantors in communities with URJ congregations across North America and increasing our ability to serve more parts of the country. This recommendation was developed after extensive investigation and research and will advance the strategic goals set through our planning process: advancing educational excellence, strengthening student support, growing our impact, achieving financial sustainability, and ensuring a sacred and respectful culture. The key drivers of this recommendation include: Enrollment realities: While we remain the largest progressive seminary in the country, the number of rabbinic students enrolled at HUC-JIR declined by 37% over the past 15 years (mirroring trends across all liberal Jewish seminaries), while competition for students has increased as more seminaries and other options for rabbinical ordination have opened. Stretching limited resources across three campuses: Dispersing our relatively small numbers of students and faculty across three stateside campuses decreases the size, strength, and vitality of our learning communities. Benefits of vibrant learning communities: Consolidating our residential rabbinical program on two campuses would create larger and more diverse student bodies in each location, increase the collective strength of the HUC-JIR faculty, and allow us to better establish an overarching culture of sacred and respectful communities– an area in need of immediate attention as highlighted by the recent Morgan Lewis investigation into allegations of harassment and discrimination at HUC-JIR. Opportunities to enhance program quality: Consolidating our residential rabbinical program would enable us to strengthen the curriculum and be more innovative and responsive to students and the evolving Jewish landscape, ensuring that wherever students study, they have access to the experiences that we consider critical for rabbis in formation. To learn more, read A Recommendation for Restructuring HUC-JIR’s Rabbinical School. Why Field Residential Rabbinical Programs in LA and NY, and not in Cincinnati? After exploring a range of possible options for HUC-JIR’s Rabbinical School, the President’s Cabinet, including our provost, deans, and other senior leadership, modeled five possible scenarios, including consolidation of our residential rabbinical program onto only one campus. After determining that consolidation to two locations would best position us to advance our strategic goals, and recognizing that each city offered distinctive advantages, we then evaluated the tradeoffs involved in leaving each campus city. In order to compare the campus cities according to the criteria deemed most important for rabbinical education and the larger mission of HUC-JIR, we focused on these key variables: Impact of proposed changes on other academic programs on the campus Depth and breadth of the surrounding Jewish community Benefits of nearby Jewish seminary and academic connections and resources Cost of living, quality of life, and other factors that influence campus preference Implications of rabbinical job placement patterns on our ability to serve Jewish North America Philanthropic impact, including new funding opportunities and funds that may be lost After carefully evaluating these factors, we concluded that HUC-JIR would be best served by restructuring the residential rabbinical programs in Los Angeles and New York. To read more about the research and evaluation process that supported this location recommendation, read Location Recommendation for HUC-JIR’s Restructured and Reimagined Rabbinical School Growing From Strength to Strength: Reimagining Rabbinical Education in Cincinnati and Creating a Low-Residency Clergy Program From every challenging decision comes an opportunity for growth and renewal. The administration of HUC-JIR is poised to develop a series of proposals to grow our educational impact, improve our ability to serve Jewish communities throughout North America, and ensure our most treasured collections, the Klau Library, the American Jewish Archives, and our Skirball Museum in Cincinnati, can continue to inspire and be used by a large number of scholars and learners, both inside and outside of the HUC-JIR community. Research has begun to explore the establishment of a high-quality, academically rigorous Low-Residency Clergy Program that would allow students to become HUC-JIR ordained rabbis and cantors in any number of North American communities that are home to Reform synagogues. This would enable us to welcome more students who are called to the sacred work of the rabbinate but are unable to geographically relocate to a campus city, while also expanding the number of communities served by rabbinical and cantorial student leadership. This program would combine online coursework, in-person intensives several times a year in Cincinnati taught by faculty from all campuses, supervised fieldwork and mentorship at local URJ synagogues, and other features that go into rabbinical formation. Additionally, our historic Cincinnati campus is the ideal location for a HUC-JIR First-Year Orientation Program where all first-year rabbinical, cantorial, and education students can start their HUC-JIR journeys by learning about Reform Judaism, exploring our academic treasures, and getting to know one another before departing for the Year-In-Israel. Further programs we intend to explore include: Cincinnati Summer Session with courses for HUC-JIR and other seminary students designed to make the most of the history, academic resources, and cultural richness of the Cincinnati campus; Student Research Fellowships to allow HUC-JIR students to spend an extended period of time doing thesis research at the Klau and AJA; HUC-JIR Faculty Gatherings in Cincinnati to provide opportunities for study and sharing, strengthening academic and collegial connections, and advancing institutional projects and priorities; and Alumni Homecomings created in conjunction with our Reform movement partners to help us build community and provide ongoing professional enrichment for our alumni. Finally, our research collections currently operate as a center for research on Jewish civilization and American Jewish history, serving our entire four-campus system as well as thousands of users around the world each year. Recognizing the potential that we have to elevate these collections, we are actively exploring educational partnerships with the University of Cincinnati and others to advance scholarship about Jewish civilization, a core part of our mission. By restructuring the Rabbinical School in New York and Los Angeles and reimagining rabbinical education and scholarship in Cincinnati, these recommendations aim to make the most of our priceless resources and our celebrated past as we move toward an innovative and sustainable future. We appreciate the continued constructive engagement with our many stakeholders as we move ahead together. What Calls the Question A Recommendation for Restructuring HUC-JIR’s Rabbinical School Location Recommendation Strategic Planning FAQs Is the proposal to restructure HUC-JIR’s Rabbinical School being driven by the goal of educational excellence or financial sustainability? The proposed changes to our Rabbinical School program are designed to help us achieve all of our strategic goals: advancing educational excellence, strengthening student support, growing our impact, achieving financial sustainability, and ensuring a sacred and respectful culture. Restructuring our residential rabbinical program to two locations will allow us to create more vibrant and diverse learning communities, and advance desired innovations to the Rabbinical School curriculum. The development of a low-residency clergy program option will help us grow our impact, attracting more students and serving more areas of the country. The recommended changes to the Rabbinical School will also enhance our sustainability in the years ahead and reduce our pre-COVID structural deficit by at least halfway through the reduction of costly duplications in programming and resources across our three campuses. This, along with the adoption of a centralized management approach, will enhance our ability to attract donors who are committed to training Jewish leaders for the 21st century and feel confident that we are responsibly managing the institution. Does the recommendation to restructure the residential rabbinical program do enough to address HUC-JIR’s financial situation? Restructuring the residential rabbinical program will play an important part in reducing the College-Institute’s annual costs and enabling other financial solutions to take place. However, it is important to understand that the educational and operational benefits of operating two larger residential rabbinical programs, rather than three smaller ones, are critical drivers of the proposal, in addition to the financial imperatives. After average annual structural deficits of about $1.5 million per year in FYs 2010-20 and an operating deficit of nearly $4 million in FY 2021, HUC-JIR faced a projected 8.8 million dollar deficit in FY 2022. The proposed changes to the residential rabbinical program would result in annual savings of at least half of our pre-COVID annual structural deficits by FY 2026. Restructuring programs will also allow us to make important decisions about how we use our real estate, which we anticipate will lead to additional cost savings decisions in the future. Additionally, by consolidating our residential programs into two locations, we build confidence with philanthropists who have expressed an unwillingness to fund HUC-JIR because of our current three-campus Rabbinical School with the duplications and high overhead costs it entails. How do the recommended changes improve HUC-JIR’s competitive position among liberal seminaries? The consolidation of the residential rabbinical program into two locations will create greater student and faculty density, increasing the vibrancy and diversity of our campus learning communities. The choice of maintaining residential rabbinical programs in Los Angeles and New York is driven by the factors that contribute to rabbinical formation and training, and the projected impact on admissions of leaving either one of these locations at a time of increasing competition in those regions. Liberal seminary students today, regardless of their denomination, are drawn to innovative, dynamic, flexible programs with diverse student bodies that are situated in geographical regions they find attractive. The proposal to maintain residential rabbinical education in Los Angeles and New York is also driven by a growing collaborative spirit among other Jewish seminaries in those regions, which we believe will be essential to the future strength of liberal seminaries in the next few decades. How will restructuring of the Rabbinical School impact the Pines School of Graduate Studies? An attractive feature of the Pines School of Graduate Studies is the opportunity for masters and doctoral students to study with rabbinical students in courses taught by the Rabbinical School faculty. We recognize that this feature of the Pines School would change if the Pines School were to stay in Cincinnati without a residential rabbinical program. In the strategic planning process, we prioritized rabbinical education and decisions about the structure of the Rabbinical School as the first key step in the strategic decision-making process. Part of the reason we believe we can sustain a loss of rabbinical program in Cincinnati more so than in Los Angeles or New York is because we can offer a Ph.D. degree in other locations, and our co-located programs in Los Angeles and New York would be far more significantly impacted were the Rabbinical School to leave those campuses. At a minimum, we believe we will be able to maintain our joint Ph.D. program with the University of Cincinnati in Modern Jewish History and Culture since it is tied to the American Jewish Archives. After the Board makes a decision about the Rabbinical School and we conduct a program review of the Pines School, we will evaluate our options for the best future for HUC-JIR’s Ph.D. programs. It is important to note that all students currently enrolled in the Pines Graduate Studies Program will be able to complete their studies in Cincinnati. The faculty will continue to support students through the completion of their dissertations. Can the American Jewish Archives (AJA) and Klau Library thrive without local students in residence? The AJA and the Klau serve HUC-JIR through their extraordinary collections and exceptional staff, which will remain in place regardless of the presence or absence of a residential rabbinical program in Cincinnati. Based on data compiled by its staff, fewer than 17 percent of all researchers at the AJA have a connection to HUC-JIR. That 17 percent includes HUC-JIR Board members, donors, AJA council members, and faculty and students from other campuses. The actual number of faculty and students in Cincinnati who use the AJA for research is a much smaller number. The AJA has established itself as an international center for research and scholarship on the American Jewish experience thanks in part to its growing digital presence and educational programs, and nothing in the administration’s current recommendation threatens this work. Additionally, students and faculty from our New York and Los Angeles campuses currently utilize Klau’s collections for both research and teaching through remote access. Put simply, the AJA and Klau do not depend on local students in residence to remain at the intellectual heart of HUC-JIR. Both are used widely by our communities on all stateside campuses and beyond. Isn’t closing the Cincinnati residential rabbinical program just one step toward the closure of the Cincinnati campus? Absolutely not. Our vision for the Cincinnati campus is to continue a different kind of rabbinical education there and expand the research impact of the already strong AJA and Klau. This administration is committed to a vibrant future for the Cincinnati campus and believes that a wide range of scholarly programs are possible on the campus, with or without the residential Rabbinical School. Our Cincinnati campus will remain home to the Klau, AJA, and Skirball Museum — which are treasures to HUC-JIR, the broader academic world, and the broader Jewish community — and we want more students to benefit from their collections, even if they are not in residence on a full-time basis. We also envision the campus as a site for future college, high school, and congregational learning opportunities. Why not consolidate to one residential Rabbinical Program, rather than maintain two? While we explored this option, we concluded that the potential advantages of operating our residential rabbinical program on a single site would be outweighed by the potential disadvantages. We believe it would be a mistake at this moment to reduce our rabbinical program to a single location because of its potentially detrimental impact on co-located academic programs, admissions (if we leave a competitive regional market), our ability to cultivate donors, and our current and potential institutional partnerships. Why keep all three North American campuses instead of selling a campus? We see tremendous potential for future development in all three stateside cities where we currently operate. In Cincinnati, specifically, the Klau, AJA, Skirball Museum, and our back office are significant parts of HUC-JIR’s operations and without duplication anywhere in the system. We intend to conduct a review of all our programs to ensure they can operate with the greatest mission impact. As we do, we will be able to assess our facility needs, recognizing that right now we have too much infrastructure for the programs we offer. As our Real Estate Task Force completes its evaluation and brings proposals to the Board, we should expect changes in how we use our infrastructure. Will currently enrolled students be able to complete their studies in Cincinnati if the Board approves this recommendation? Yes. We are committed to supporting current Pines School and rabbinical students, as well as those accepted for admissions in the Fall of 2022 until they complete their studies. We anticipate that many of HUC-JIR’s senior faculty will stay in Cincinnati, which will enable them to teach and advise Pines School and rabbinical students until they complete their degree programs. Won’t this proposal harm midwestern Jewish communities and congregations where our Cincinnati-based students currently serve? While our primary goal as an institution is to provide an outstanding education for our students, we take our responsibility to the communities where our students serve in congregations, religious schools, and community organizations extremely seriously. If we transition out of the residential rabbinical program in Cincinnati, we will look at a range of solutions to continue serving midwestern and other communities throughout the country, including ensuring students on our New York and Los Angeles campuses can travel to serve pulpits in other regions, creating summer residency opportunities for students to serve in a diverse range of communities throughout the country, and exploring the creation of a low-residency rabbinical program to allow students to train as rabbis in communities across North America. April 2022 Update Why HUC? 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A Perfect Quest, Derailed By Samantha Toh The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida Clarissa Goenawan Soho Press (2020) / 278 pages / SGD 17.71 As most things do, this review comes with a caveat: it is written by a person who is a sucker. I blame it on Shunji Iwai. Since his 1995 film Love Letter, the Japanese student experience is a trope that has trussed my heart up by its ventricles. To any media that deals with this subject, I am immediately generous with my time, and overly forgiving of mistakes. I have never been able to put down that cross. So Clarissa Goenawan's The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida provoked ample curiosity. University students? Angst? Repression? A whodunit to boot? Chuck it over already, I screamed across the universe. The book checks all four boxes within the first 300 words. Ryusei Yanagi, a sophomore at Waseda, must find out why his schoolmate—and crush—Miwako Sumida killed herself. It is a simple premise, with sufficiently high stakes, to drive a reader to open the cover. But to understand the worth of The Perfect World, it must also be read within the context of Goenawan's first book, Rainbirds (2018), and not just because the synopsis tells us that they belong to the same "beautifully crafted world". The former is not a sequel to the latter. But they are, on the surface, very similar. Both novels have the same narrative hook: a woman dies brutally, and a young man she knows must embark on a journey to solve the mystery behind this passing. Both novels are set in Japan. Both novels have a brother-sister bond as one of the story arc's primary relationships. Parental supervision is conveniently removed (we have distant parents in Rainbirds, dead parents in The Perfect World), so that the novels' young characters can act autonomously. Neither novel aspires to the pretentious peaks of literary fiction, but are written in an uncomplicated, unadorned, and deeply refreshing style. They reference the same places (Kobayashi Clinic), the same characters emerge from one book as in the other (Jin, Miwako herself). And so, their premises, their textures, behave as though they come from similar worlds. When two novels of such closeness are released in rapid sequence by the same author, I believe that the sophomore attempt must reinvent urgently to be worth a reader's time. Nobody wants a washed-out twin; the firstborn, cruelly, should suffice. More urgently, The Perfect World was also Goenawan's chance to develop her own voice. I loved Rainbirds with my unwavering devotion to the Japanese student angst genre, but also because it was well-crafted. Goenawan embedded the appropriate cliffhangers, red herrings, and flashbacks that made you want to know more, and then some. But amNewYork's comparison to "the simple joys of early Haruki Murakami", I thought, was far too generous. In general, I feel sorry for all authors who feel passionate about any of the following: jazz, women with fetishised body parts, Japanese cigarette brands, mysteriously appearing women (or young girls), mysteriously disappearing women (or young girls), oblique references to the moon, haunted hotels, and inexplicable dream sequences… Any story with more than a few of these icons is going to feel like a Murakami wannabe. Rainbirds, for the record, had all of the above. In The Perfect World, I wanted, more than anything, for Goenawan to cast off these tropes, and grow into her own style. After all, her debut had an effortless quality to it. It was as though each chapter laid down a few loose threads that, at the end, with a single pull, came together in a satisfying knot. The Perfect World, likewise, does a fairly good job at laying out the initial questions, building up to the central mystery of why Miwako killed herself. The novel, divided into three parts, has Ryusei narrating the first section in first person, and this is where Goenawan seeds most of the initial riddles. Some narrative meandering aside, she manages to create sufficient tension, mostly from Miwako's own odd responses to her interactions with Ryusei. Miwako, for instance, is convinced that a relationship with Ryusei "wouldn't work out", without being willing to explain why; she clearly has issues with her mother's second marriage; she lies that there is no photograph of a cat even though there is one; she disappears ahead of her suicide, then writes Ryusei letters when she is away, and in one declares that there is something she has been hiding from him, and that she will soon tell him the truth. All very odd. All marvellously curious. It is the second section, narrated in third-person omniscient by Miwako's best friend Chie Ohno, that the process of answering these questions really takes off. The line preceding the Chie chapters sparks this narrative tension: Ryusei foreshadows, "Perhaps [Chie] knew something." It becomes rapidly evident that Chie does, and, caught between wanting to tell Ryusei and wanting to stop him from finding out "anything damaging" about Miwako, she accompanies Ryusei on a journey to the village where Miwako ended her life: Kitsuyama. The journey is a natural extension of the novel's objective: to find out why Miwako has killed herself. This is part of the chapters' appeal. Beyond that, Goenawan's creativity shines: she invents a weekly indie zine, The Secret Diaries, which collates diary entries that, when upvoted, push their authors' next entries to the front of the following week's magazine. The Secret Diaries serves as a proxy for Chie's and Miwako's initial friendship; Chie finds out that Miwako is the top-voted diarist, MK, whose haunting entries about a "little man" that climbs between her legs and "[dances] inside her every night" give us a sense of Miwako's untold traumas. When Chie does end up connecting with Miwako in real life, their interactions are easy, endearing; it is clear that Chie's loneliness is soothed; in a few short pages, Goenawan builds a picture of friendship across high school and college that makes the Chie-Miwako dyad command a presence on the page. Chie, with her years of intimate knowledge about Miwako, seems to have paved the way to the secret that our protagonist, Ryusei, will discover. But it is not to be. While Rainbirds uses "the quest"—one of the seven, more cleanly-defined seven basic plots—to propel itself to a disciplined conclusion, The Perfect World complicates the narrative in its third and final section, narrated in third-person omniscient by Ryusei's sister Fumi Yanagi. Bafflingly, Goenawan introduces ream upon ream about Fumi's backstory, involving childhood bullying and a family curse that allows her to see ghosts. Sure, there was already a hint of the supernatural in the Chie chapters. But I could stomach, even embrace, that; Goenawan had worked hard to create an otherworldly atmosphere in Kitsuyama, and so the magical realism she introduces into those pages becomes believable. But Fumi's ghost-sighting superpower is developed suddenly, and seems unrelated to the first three-quarters of the novel. So it felt like I had begun, in the third section, a completely different novel altogether, one that was really about Fumi's tragic past, not Miwako's. This detour is what disappoints. Goenawan loses track of the novel's point, and the story stops moving forward. It wallows instead in scenes about the first ghost Fumi sights, Fumi's childhood tormentors, Fumi going to a school reunion with said tormentors, and her work pouring drinks for men who refuse to acknowledge her gender identity. Goenawan introduces new characters—Ruri, and sudden showtime for Fumi's parents—before wrapping up Miwako's story (which should have been the novel's entire purpose) in seven pages. Seven pages, narrated at us, and without Ryusei even in the scene! It does not matter whether Fumi's story is or is not well told. That it appeared, clunky, in the last pages of the book, mostly tangential to everything the novel had been building up to, is what sounded the death knell: the solemn sound marking the end of my patience. That I was appalled by the sudden turn of plot needs no further elaboration; it was a waste of Goenawan's inventiveness, and all her painstaking plotting, that came before it. You might also ask, what of my wish for Goenawan to depart from all things Murakami? Did she, at least, break through? In that respect, The Perfect World fared better than Rainbirds. There were only echoes. The "transparent life" of Chie Ohno and the repeated use of the word "colourless" to describe the unnoticed and alienated reminded me of Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. The story arc around Miwako's lost cat, Tama, echoed Kumiko Okada's lost cat in The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. The "little man" that creeps into the body of diarist MK feels like 1Q84's little people (although I actually think Goenawan did it better). Certainly, to nod to the great writers of our time is something that writers do. This time, it did not seem excessive. But just as the minor flaw of imitating Murakami did not discolour my enjoyment of Goenawan's first novel, this minor saving grace could not redeem The Perfect World. If I overcome my disappointment, it will only be because my desire for Japanese student narratives is insatiable, and, left with few alternatives, I pick up Goenawan's next hit. I return to one of The Perfect World's opening scenes, with a goukon, with the standard tropes of flirt, desperado, and the stand-offish, handsome nerd, waiting to meet their girls on an arranged blind date. Wrapped in a fleece in this year's tepid Tokyo winter, the dregs of tea cooling as I flipped open the pages, it was so obvious: I was here, ready to be suckered. It would have been so easy to take my heart. But Goenawan did not. About Samantha Toh CRITICISM ELSEWHERE IN THIS ISSUE Bilingual Edition Jerome Lim reviews Hamid Roslan. Hit And Stay Michele Lee reviews Stephanie Chan. Movement In Search Of Form Teo Xiao Ting reviews Ashley Ho. Spoilt for Choice Daryl Lim reviews Crispin Rodrigues. How Hard It Is to Gather the Scattered Tse Hao Guang reviews To Gather Your Leaving. External link to Penguin Random House. Profile of Clarissa Goenawan External link to The Japan Times.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8094080686569214, "wiki_prob": 0.8094080686569214, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line912755"}
Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde / A.W.M. Suijkerbuijk (Anita), G.A. de Wit (Ardine), A.H. Wijga (Alet), M.J.W.M. Heijmans (Monique), M. Hoogendoorn (Martine), M.P.M.H. Rutten-van Mölken (Maureen), E.E.M. Maurits (Erica E. M.), R.T. Hoogenveen (Rudolf) and T.L. Feenstra (Talitha) Societal costs of asthma, COPD and respiratory allergy Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde , Volume 157 - Issue 50 Objective: Asthma, COPD and respiratory allergy are important chronic respiratory diseases that affect more than one million people in the Netherlands. The economic burden on society and individuals is considerable, due to the notable healthcare utilization and production losses associated with these conditions. In this study, we determined the societal costs of asthma, COPD and respiratory allergy in the Netherlands for the year 2007 and estimated future healthcare costs by means of projections. Design: Descriptive study: Methods: The prevalence of the diseases was based on nationally representative primary care registries and was obtained from the website of The National Public Health Compass and from Statistics Netherlands. Data regarding health care costs were based on national registries and surveys. The following components of health resource were retrieved: disease-related general practitioner, physician and physiotherapy visits were obtained from a national survey among patients with asthma and COPD. For respiratory allergy, general practitioner and physician visits were based on the literature. Hospital admissions and length of stay were derived from the website of Statistics Netherlands. Prescribed medication was obtained from the Landelijk InformatieNetwerk Huisartsen, a nationwide primary care register. Prescribed medication for the three diseases and oxygen use for COPD patients were combined with cost data of the Drug Information System of the Health Care Insurance Board. Information on the uptake of the influenza vaccination was derived from the literature. Data on home care and nursing homes were extracted from the website of the Dutch Cost of Illness Study. Data on COPD-related lung transplantations were obtained from the Dutch Transplantation Foundation. Unit costs were gathered from standard unit cost lists and all costs were expressed in Euros price level of 2007. The quantity of asthma- and COPD-related sick leave and work incapacity in the Netherlands was based on the study: "Werken met een chronische longaandoening". Production losses were calculated using the friction-cost method. No reliable data were available concerning productivity losses for respiratory allergy. Projections were made to estimate disease prevalence for the period 2007 to 2032, using merely demographic data for respiratory allergy and a simulation model for asthma and COPD. The disease specific model projections of prevalence were combined with scenarios for healthcare costs developed by the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis. Results: Healthcare costs for asthma, COPD and respiratory allergy in 2007 were estimated at 287, 415 and 103 million euros respectively. This is on average annually 530, 1400 and 170 euros per patient with asthma, COPD and respiratory allergy. Main cost driver for all diseases was medication; hospitalizations and nursing lead to high medical costs for COPD patients as well. Annual costs of sick leave due to asthma were on average 1200 euros and for COPD 1900 euros per employee. Sick leave associated costs were highest among employees aged 55 years and over. The mean annual costs of work incapacity of an employee with COPD were 1200 euros. Up to 2032, projections show an increase of the number of asthma patients from 443,000 to 567,000; the number of patients with COPD will rise from 335,000 to 600,000. The primary causes for these increases are population growth and ageing. The number of patients with a respiratory allergy is likely to remain stable at 625,000 patients in this period, as the disease is less common among the elderly. The health care costs for respiratory allergy are expected to rise by 73%, those for asthma to double, and those for COPD to triple by 2032. Conclusion: Patients with asthma and COPD have significant healthcare costs. Costs of sick leave are substantial for employees with asthma and COPD. In addition, the costs of work incapacity for employees with COPD are high. Up to 2032 the number of patients with asthma and COPD will rise as well as the health care costs of asthma and COPD. The expected rise in the number of patients with asthma, COPD or respiratory allergy and the associated costs of healthcare and production losses provide important information for healthcare policy in the Netherlands. Efficient prevention and treatment of the diseases are indicated, especially the efficient use of medication. As the number of elderly with asthma or COPD will rise, providing them with support is essential. Persistent URL hdl.handle.net/1765/85375 Journal Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde Suijkerbuijk, A.W.M, de Wit, G.A, Wijga, A.H, Heijmans, M.J.W.M, Hoogendoorn, M, Rutten-van Mölken, M.P.M.H, … Feenstra, T.L. (2013). Societal costs of asthma, COPD and respiratory allergy. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, 157(50). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/85375	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6671784520149231, "wiki_prob": 0.3328215479850769, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line56265"}
The ‘Mars Shot for Nuclear Medicine, Molecular Imaging, and Molecularly Targeted Radiopharmaceutical Therapy’ is a forward-looking glimpse into the future of nuclear medicine. The manuscript—published in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM)—outlines visionary but achievable goals for the many facets of nuclear medicine. The paper was written by a multidisciplinary group of scientists and physicians from the research and discovery domain of the SNMMI’s Value Initiative. The goal of the SNMMI Mars Shot Research Fund is to support innovative, transformative, nuclear medicine imaging and radiopharmaceutical therapy research. Today, we can prolong lives of patients with cancer with RPTs. Tomorrow, we maybe able to cure cancer in many patients with cutting edge use of imaging and RPT tools. Making the Case for Nuclear Medicine Mars Shot Overview (pdf) Cardiac Disease Digital Twin/Data Science Lobular Breast Cancer Overview & Panel Discussion Supporting the Mars Shot Giving Options \| Donation Form Contact Sharon Gleason to learn how you can get involved in the SNMMI Mars Shot Initiative. The Mars Shot Research Fund is excited to release a RFP for highly innovative research projects; specifically in prostate cancer, neuroendocrine cancer, breast cancer, or other research projects aligning with the Mars Shot initiative. The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging is recognized as 501 (c)(3) charitable organizations by the IRS. Our tax ID is 36-2496678. Your donation is tax deductible as per current IRS regulations. All gifts to the “SNMMI Mars Shot” will be recognized by SNMMI. Recognition opportunities will vary according to the level of support and the donor’s wishes.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7025996446609497, "wiki_prob": 0.2974003553390503, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1432457"}
My fellow Boston fans… the 2000’s are over When the game ended at the Staples Center Thursday night and Kobe and company were crowned as repeat champions, a thought crept into my head: This wouldn’t have happened in the 2000s. If this were the 2000s, the Celtics would have drained a bunch of threes in the last minute and the Lakers would come up just short. That’s the way the 2000s were for Boston teams it felt like. But it is 2010 now… and despite some nitwits insistence that it isn’t a new decade yet, the results on the field, on the court and in the rink suggest otherwise. For so long, the Boston sports scene was a place of futility. And after the 1986 Celtics title it was barren of titles. After the Celtics beat the Rockets that year you had the 1986 World Series and the legacy THAT gave Boston. You had Magic’s hook shot over the Celtics. That along with the deaths of Len Bias and Reggie Lewis, the breakdown of Bird and the M.L. Carr and Rick Pitino years turned the once proud Celtics into just another team on the schedule. You had the two Stanley Cup Finals where Edmonton waxed the Bruins (and the lights were shut off in the Garden during one of the games.) You had the Patriots in the Super Bowl against the Packers, only to lose and the Bill Parcells/Robert Kraft Soap Opera hanging over the entire game. And let’s face it, the Patriots were an afterthought in New England. For 16 years that was it. The 1990s saw each Boston team sinking into irrelevance and the Yankees AND Lakers transformed themselves into dynasties by the beginning of the 21st Century. It was tough being a Boston fan. We thought Drew Bledsoe, Joe Thornton, Antoine Walker, Mo Vaughn and Nomar Garciaparra would be the next great Boston sports hero… but all fell short. Then came the 2000s. And the change in Boston sports came without warning. The tuck rule went the Patriots way, but the Super Bowl was going to be yet another mismatch like the Bears in 1986 and the Packers in 1997. The Rams were going to kill them. But when Vinatieri’s field goal went through, I remember my friend and current workmate Jon Corbett yelling with disbelief “I can’t believe the Patriots won the Super Bowl!” It is hard for young Boston fans to understand how unbelievable this was. Using my theory that you don’t really follow a sports team until you are 8 years old, there are 16 year olds who only know Boston sports as a place where championships are expected. But between the 86 Celtics and the Patriots first Super Bowl win, there was a grand total of zero victory parades in Boston. That’s a 16 year gap. There were 24 year Boston fans where that Super Bowl was the first real memory of one of their teams winning. Then they did it again… but when Grady left Pedro in too long, it looked like more of the same for the Red Sox. Sure the Pats could win, but the order of the universe was still the same. Then Dave Roberts stole second… and anything became possible. Could the Red Sox beat the Yankees? Yes and in humiliating ways never seen before. Could the Red Sox win a championship? You bet… and like the Patriots, they could have MULTIPLE titles. Could the Celtics be champs again? Why not? And why not have one of the biggest thumpin’s in NBA history for a clincher against the Lakers no less? Could the Patriots go undefeated in a regular season? Check the videotape! Could the Red Sox win an elimination game where they were down 7-0? Do you even doubt it? The Duck Boats got a lot of miles on them and we Boston fans showed we could be just as obnoxious in victory as we were in victory. There were so many new heroes in Boston sports lore that they threatened to push many older legends out of everyone’s memory. Tom Brady! Tedy Bruschi! Richard Seymour! Curt Schilling! Big Papi Ortiz! Josh Beckett! Paul Pierce! Ray Allen! Kevin Garnett! And cult heroes like Kevin Millar, Ty Law and Big Baby Davis! But it was more than just victory… remember with every victory there is a team defeated and for a glorious period of time some of the most hated figures in Boston sports kept wetting the bed. The Yankees had two of their biggest collapses in team history in the 2000s with the 2001 World Series and the 2004 ALCS… and after 2004, they couldn’t make it out of the Division Series and missed the playoffs altogether in 2008. And the pick up of A-Rod seemed to blow up in their face as he kept folding like a tent and slapping wrists in the playoffs. The Lakers imploded in the 2004 Finals and the team was dismantled to please Kobe… and the titles dried up as Kobe couldn’t deliver a title without Shaq. And Peyton Manning had the stats, but Tom Brady was the CHAMPION. Phil Jackson and Joe Torre wrote books about how rotten things were behind the scenes. It was a glorious time and it was a petty time. It was a time of happiness for our team’s victory and for schadenfreude for other fan base’s misery. It was a perfect storm of our ability to celebrate and be pricks. And it’s over now. Manning? He’s a Super Bowl champ now and he’s won one more recently than Brady because of the OTHER Manning. A-Rod? He’s a World Champion now and he hit key game tying homers and game winning hits in the Division Series, ALCS and World Series to get his ring. Kobe? He has back to back titles now, the last one coming at the expense of our Celtics not being able to hold a 13 point second half lead. People are now talking about him in the same breath as Michael Jordan. Since October 2009, Papelbon let up 3 ninth inning runs to eliminate the Red Sox, the Patriots got blown out at home in the playoffs, the Bruins blew a 3-0 series lead and the Celtics blew a shot at the NBA championship with less than 6 minutes to go. The swagger is gone and that sense of impending doom has sadly crept back into our consciousness. It’s kind of like the movie Awakenings. For a brief moment we were able to come out of our slumber to experience the joys of winning teams, only to slip back into our immobile state. Now in full disclosure, I am not a Boston Bruins fan. I am a San Jose Sharks fan and they have their OWN issues! And my devotion to the Patriots is tenuous at best. I would trade all three Super Bowls for J. D. Drew to get a double off of David Price in the 8th inning of Game 7 of the 2008 ALCS… or for the Celtics to hang on to the 4th quarter lead on Thursday night. And I am sure my friends who follow the Bruins primarily would trade the 3 Super Bowls, 2 World Series titles, and the NBA title for one Stanley Cup. Maybe it will be good for us Boston fans to take a few lumps. It will help us appreciate what an amazing decade we experienced. What a huge class of water we had after a long thirst. I’m not saying we shouldn’t root hard for our teams. We should. I’m not saying we won’t see our teams win this decade. I bet some will. But perhaps it was appropriate that Manny showed up t Fenway the day after the NBA Finals loss. It was a reminder of that glorious decade where everything seemed to go our way. We may never have a decade like this again. Think of how lucky we are that we could experience it. I feel bad for the kids born in 2002 and are 8 years old just following teams now. They missed out on a great decade. Turn the page and let’s give those kids some memories of their own! Standard \| Posted in Uncategorized \| Tagged 2004 Boston Red Sox, 2004 World Series, 2007 World Series, 2008 NBA Finals, Boston Bruins, Boston Celtics, Dave Roberts, Manny Ramirez, New England Patriots, Red Sox fan \| 0 comments Strasburg makes a run at Rookie of the Year I’ve written a bunch about the NL Cy Young race this year. And while at this point Ubaldo Jimenez has the lead, if he stumbles, the likes of Adam Wainwright, Roy Halladay, Tim Lincecum, Chris Carpenter, Johan Santana, Josh Johnson, Matt Cain, Mike Pelfrey and Barry Zito all look like they’ll put up numbers that could have WON the Cy a few years ago. The National League is filled with ace pitchers and they are also showing a great crop of rookie stars as well. The NL Rookie of the Year race was already crowded. Jason Heyward, Mike Leake, Ike Davis, David Freese and Jamie Garcia have all made big contributions to their contending teams. And recently promoted Buster Posey and Mike Stanton both look like impact bats. But HO-LEE COW! Stephen Strasburg is somehow actually EXCEEDING expectations. Forget that his 2 wins. His ERA is 1.86, he’s throwing 7 innings a game. He has 32 strikeouts and only 5 walks in 19 1/3 innings. Now granted he has faced the Pirates, Indians and White Sox… so he hasn’t exactly faced the best teams yet. But what if he keeps this up? He might not only win the Rookie of the Year, but he might be mentioned in the Cy Young race as well. How good is Strasburg so far? Obama had to go see him last night… even with all stuff going on in the world… and who can blame him? Oh I am sure someone will. Standard \| Posted in Uncategorized \| Tagged 2010 National League Cy Young Award, 2010 National League Rookie of the Year, Barack Obama \| 0 comments Cliff Lee is holding up his end of the bargain If the Mariners want to get top value for Cliff Lee, then they need Lee to pitch like an elite ace. Well pitching a complete game shutout against a team that started in night in first place should do the trick. It was a 1-0 complete game shutout… as in he was able to pitch the whole game even though it was a save situation! I didn’t know managers were allowed to do that anymore! Lee should fetch a nice ransom. Whether it will match what Seattle gave up to get Cliff Lee is up in the air. The deal that sent Roy Halladay to the Phillies and Cliff Lee to the Mariners was so complicated that I think A.C. Milan and the Republic of Ghana were somehow involved. But in terms of players surrendered, the Mariners gave up three 21 year old players to acquire Lee. Starting pitcher Phillippe Aumont, who currently is not doing well at AA Reading. Starting pitcher Juan Ramirez, who is having a mediocre year in A Clearwater. Outfielder Tyson Gillies, who isn’t exactly tearing up AA Reading. If the Philles offered those three guys back for Lee, I wouldn’t make the deal. So if the Mariners could flip Lee for a better big league bet than the law firm of Aumont, Ramirez and Gillies, then in the end the Lee deal would have been a good one. They need a buyer and they need to have a kick ass product. And Lee has done HIS part. 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Category: Fasting of the Sick Person How should a person who suffers kidney failure fast? How should a person who suffers kidney failure and who has dialysis three times a week fast?. He suffers from narcolepsy and wants to take medicine during the day in Ramadan He has tuberculosis and is unable to fast The Standing Committee was asked: Does kidney dialysis affect a person’s fast? They replied: We wrote to the Director of the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and the Director of the Armed Forces Hospital in Riyadh to find out more about what is involved in kidney dialysis and whether chemical substances are used, and whether it is regarded as a kind of nourishment. They replied as follows: kidney dialysis involves taking the patient’s blood into a machine (an artificial kidney) which cleans it then returns it to the body. It also adds some chemical and nutrients such as sugars and salts etc. to the blood. After studying the matter and discovering the nature of kidney dialysis with the help of some experts in the field, the Standing Committee issued a fatwa stating that kidney dialysis invalidates the fast. And Allaah is the Source of strength. May Allaah send blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and his family and companions. Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked about a person who undergoes kidney dialysis – does having his blood removed during the procedure invalidate his wudoo’? How should he fast and pray whilst having dialysis done, if that coincides with the time of prayer? He replied: With regard to wudoo’, it does not invalidate wudoo’, because the correct scholarly view is that what comes out of the body does not invalidate wudoo’ unless it comes out of either the front or back passage. Whatever comes out of those two passages invalidates wudoo’, whether it is urine, stools or wind. Everything that comes out of the two passages invalidates wudoo’. With regard to that which comes out of anywhere other than the two passages, such as a nosebleed that comes out of the nose, or blood that comes out of a wound, and so on, it does not invalidate wudoo’ whether in small or large quantities. Based on this, kidney dialysis does not invalidate wudoo’. With regard to prayer, the patient can join Zuhr and ‘Asr, and Maghrib and ‘Isha’. He can plan his schedule with his doctor, to make sure that the dialysis will not take more than half the day, so that he will not miss praying Zuhr and ‘Asr on time. He can say to him, for example: Schedule the dialysis in the early afternoon, giving me enough time to pray Zuhr and ‘Asr, or bring it forward so that I will be able to pray Zuhr and ‘Asr (afterwards), before the time for ‘Asr ends. What matters is that it is permissible to combine the prayers without delaying them. Based on this it is essential to plan one’s schedule with one’s doctor. With regard to fasting, we are not sure about that. Sometimes I would say that it is not like cupping, because with cupping blood is taken and not returned to the body, and this invalidates the fast as it says in the hadeeth. In dialysis blood is taken from the body, cleaned and returned to the body. But I am concerned that dialysis involves some nutrients which take the place of food and drink. If that is the case then it does invalidate the fast. In that case if this is a lifelong condition with no hope of recovery, then he should feed one poor person for each day. But if it happens intermittently, then he should not fast when he is undergoing dialysis and make up that day later on. But if the substances that are mixed with the blood do not include nutrients, rather they simply cleanse the blood, then this does not break the fast. In this case he may use dialysis even if he is fasting. He should refer to the doctors about this matter. Majmoo’ Fataawa Ibn ‘Uthaymeen, 20/113. A person who is suffering from kidney failure should not fast on the days when he has dialysis, then if he can make up the fast he should do so. If he cannot make up the fasts because he is elderly and cannot fast, then he should not fast and should feed one poor person for each day. Ruling on an elderly person who is unable to fast The doctors told him never to fast, then he recovered five years later He is sick and the doctor told him not to fast How can a woman determine that her period has ended so that she can pray? What is the ruling on offering congratulations on Friday? Problem between a daughter and her mother Things that make ghusl obligatory If a female has an orgasm without intercourse	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7461283206939697, "wiki_prob": 0.2538716793060303, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1108675"}
ST. MARK LUTHERAN CHURCH Confirmation 6-8 St. Mark Facebook Page St. Mark YouTube First Communion Retreat Sundays at 8:30am & 10:30am WATCH A WORSHIP SERVICE ONLINE I'm new here. What should I expect? So glad you're here! In worship, we practice two different styles: traditional, liturgical worship led by the pipe organ (most often observed at the 8:30am service), and contemporary worship, led by a praise band (most often observed at the 10:30am service). It's important to us at St. Mark to give every person an opportunity to encounter Jesus in ways that are personally meaningful and life-giving. At any given Sunday service, you can also expect: - Each service to last about one hour - Moving worship music & singing - Soul-stirring messages, rooted in the Gospel - Fun messages for kids 8:30 a.m. Traditional Service 9:30 a.m. Sunday School and Fellowship 10:30 a.m. Praise Service Visit Us Soon! Worship at St. Mark SUNDAYS 8:30am Traditional Worship 10:30am Contemporary Worship In-Person and Online Live Stream 611 Woodville Rd.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7360686659812927, "wiki_prob": 0.2639313340187073, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line553213"}
: Kevin McCarthy elected House speaker, narrowly prevailing in 15th round of voting Top House Republican Kevin McCarthy succeeded early Saturday in his push to become his chamber’s next speaker, claiming the job after first falling short in well over a dozen rounds of voting. McCarthy could handle only a few GOP defections given his party’s narrow majority in the House of Representatives, but in ballots this week he repeatedly saw around 20 Republicans vote against him before finally prevailing. On Friday, McCarthy began to pick up some support from those Republican holdouts in a 12th round of voting, though it wasn’t sufficient to give him the job, so 13th and 14th ballots were held, followed by the 15th and final ballot. See: House moves to 15th speaker ballot after McCarthy falls one vote short in 14th Ahead of Friday’s voting, there were signs of a deal that could help McCarthy take the gavel. One of McCarthy’s critics, GOP Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, tweeted that he had switched to supporting the top Republican due to that deal. “The framework for an agreement is in place, so in a good-faith effort, I voted to restore the People’s House by voting for @gopleader McCarthy,” Perry said. See: Kevin McCarthy’s speaker deal to win over holdouts would ‘neuter’ him, and could mean more government shutdowns There hadn’t been a need for multiple votes for a speaker election since 1923, and it’s the most ballots required since1860, just before the Civil War, when 44 ballots were needed. Related: Think the McCarthy House speaker vote is wild? Meet Frederick Huntington Gillett and Nathaniel P. Banks. Analysts have warned that the tensions over what’s typically a ceremonial election could signal that the GOP-run House will be dysfunctional throughout 2023 and 2024. “In our view, the challenge to McCarthy underscores the difficulty that a narrow and fractured GOP majority will have in working with Democrats in the Senate on key issues such as the debt limit, government funding, and Ukraine in 2023,” said Benjamin Salisbury, director of research at Height Capital Markets, in a research note ahead of McCarthy’s election. Related: Fight over House speaker job offers ‘ominous portent of how the U.S. debt-ceiling fight will go,’ analyst says Republicans have taken control of the House thanks to wins in November’s midterm elections, returning to power in that chamber after four years in the minority. But the GOP’s hopes for a strong red wave two years into President Joe Biden’s term were dashed, as the party has claimed just a small House majority and Democrats have maintained their grip on the Senate. closed sharply higher Friday as a monthly employment report showed that wage growth had slowed even as the unemployment rate fell to 3.5%, fueling hopes that the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate hikes aimed at taming inflation are starting to have the desired effect. : Redfin CEO predicts ‘terrible consolidation’ in the real-estate sector, but says it will ultimately be good for the industry Mark Hulbert: Which stocks will fuel the next bull market? Don’t bet on the bear market’s winners.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8552382588386536, "wiki_prob": 0.8552382588386536, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line915805"}
See Her Hide (A Mia North FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 2‪)‬ Rylie Dark Fugitive FBI Agent Mia North knows that hunting down killers and solving new—and old—cases is the only way to clear her name. When a rash of high-school girls are found murdered, discovered on the soccer field, the case is personal for Mia. Can she find and stop the killer—and figure out who framed her—before she is caught by the U.S. Marshals? In SEE HER HIDE (A Mia North FBI Suspense Thriller—Book Two), Special Agent Mia North is a rising star in the FBI—until, in an elaborate setup, she’s framed for murder and sentenced to prison. When a lucky break allows her to escape, Mia finds herself a fugitive, on the run and on the wrong side of the law for the first time in her life. She can’t see her young daughter—and she has no hope of returning to her former life. The only way to get her life back, she realizes, is to hunt down whoever framed her. Mia’s former partner desperately needs her help: high-school soccer players are turning up dead in neighboring towns, with no rhyme or reason. Mia may be the only one who can solve it. But her position is tenuous and she has no one to back her up. Might she, working alone and racing against the clock, stumble right into the killer’s hands? An action-packed page-turner, the MIA NORTH series is a riveting crime thriller, jammed with suspense, surprises, and twists and turns that you won’t see coming. Fall in love with this brilliant new female protagonist and you’ll be turning pages late into the night. Book #3 in the series—SEE HER SCREAM—is now also available. In SEE HER HIDE (A Mia North FBI Suspense Thriller—Book Two), Special Agent Mia North is a rising star in the FBI—until, in an elaborate setup, she’s framed for murder and sentenced to prison. When a lucky break allows her to escape, Mia finds herself a fugitive, on the run and on the wrong side of the law for the first time in her life. She can’t see her young daughter—and she has no hope of returning to her Maggie Schneider Lukeman Literary Management See Her Scream (A Mia North FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 3) See Her Vanish (A Mia North FBI Suspense Thriller—Book Four) No Way Back (A Carly See FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 2) Caught You (A Rylie Wolf FBI Suspense Thriller—Book Two) Too Close (A Morgan Stark FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 2) Girl Two: Murder (A Maya Gray FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 2) See Her Gone (A Mia North FBI Suspense Thriller—Book Five) See Her Dead (A Mia North FBI Suspense Thriller—Book Six) See Her Run (A Mia North FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 1)	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7933637499809265, "wiki_prob": 0.7933637499809265, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1048732"}
Hasbro Coming To Take Our Money Stark - December 22, 2020 A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET: The Wes Craven Trilogy Suits Condemn SNYDER CUT Fans “Unacceptable” Behaviour SAW 10 In Development KISS Biopic SHOUT IT LOUD Bound For Netflix Behind The Scenes MacLeod - April 22, 2021 0 After a lengthy bidding battle, Netflix is near to closing a deal for a forthcoming KISS biopic, set to be called Shout It Out Loud. Both Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, founding... What Disney Have Planned For STAR WARS Movies Boba Phil - May 8, 2021 0 We all know that Star Wars is dead to a lot of its fans. We have three pretty much universally hated movies, two spin off movies that were OK at best,... Momoa Writers Credit For AQUAMAN 2? Movies Stark - May 22, 2021 1 Actor Jason Momoa was a guest on the Drew Barrymore Show and he dropped some details on the upcoming Aquaman sequel. James Wan is returning to direct. Momoa confirms that production... Unseen Concept Art For Blomkamp’s Shelved ALIEN Behind The Scenes MacLeod - June 3, 2021 0 Previously unseen concept art has surfaced from District 9 director Neill Blomkamp's scrapped sequel to James Cameron's Aliens. Now, AVP Galaxy has unearthed some more today that we’d never seen before. The site... Shawn’s Top 10 War Movies Outpost Contributor - June 17, 2021 0 The unintentionally hilarious (and extremely pretentious) website “The Art Of Manliness” has a list of Top 10 war movies I ran across while looking for something else. The Top Men over there... Behind The Scenes From ARMY OF THIEVES Behind The Scenes Boba Phil - July 7, 2021 0 After the success of Army of the Dead, a prequel is now in the works and Zack Snyder has shared some photos on social media. https://twitter.com/ZackSnyder/status/1412758297078231045 Snyder has written and is producing the... The Guys Are Back In JACKASS FOREVER Movies Boba Phil - July 24, 2021 0 Remember back to a time when people getting hurt was funny? I mean, it still is, but you have to be careful where you say that now. Well, the main focus... HOLLYWOOD HISTORY: The Most Special Of Effects Movies Stark - August 24, 2021 0 We take it for granted now. Photorealistic, computer-generated visual effects (VFX) that create worlds and action beyond our wildest imaginations. In many ways, perhaps it has replaced our imagination. Now that... Jordan To Direct For CREED 3 Movies Stark - October 25, 2020 0 Creed star Michael B. Jordan could be about to step into the directors chair for the third instalment of the franchise according to a report in The Playslist. MGM are interested... Razzie Awards To Go Ahead In April Behind The Scenes MacLeod - January 6, 2021 0 Nominations To Announced In March It's been confirmed that The Razzie Awards, which recognise the worst in film for 2020, are to go ahead and be handed out on Oscars Eve. The event's...	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8739367127418518, "wiki_prob": 0.8739367127418518, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line253546"}
In Materials Handling Raising Standards At Forklift Operator Of The Year 2018 With UniCarriers. The best lift truck operators from across the UK and Ireland proved their skills at the Forklift Operator of the Year competition 2018, sponsored by UniCarriers. Dale Smith from Wilko Retail Ltd took home the esteemed title following a day of heated competition on Thursday 21st June 2018 at the Talent in Logistics Conference in Telford, West Midlands. To be crowned Forklift Operator of the Year, Dale had to demonstrate his talent to expert judges during a series of tough practical, pre-use and theory-based challenges. “We at UCUK believe it is important to support operator competitions for two fundamental reasons,” says Chris Bates, Sales Director for UniCarriers UK Ltd. “Firstly, as a complete engagement piece, demonstrating the relevance of all business members being involved in an event with national scope. Secondly, to support the identification of high performers – who actually use the equipment we manufacture.” The contest rewards those operators who can demonstrate the broad range of professional skills needed to use materials handling equipment safely and efficiently and recognises employers for excellence in forklift training. Hundreds of visitors to the Talent in Logistics Conference throughout the action-packed day watched the entertaining, themed tests, which used the UniCarriers TX model counterbalance truck, were specially designed to test the core abilities needed in real logistics and warehousing operations. For instance, the ‘Surf’s up’ challenge tested skilled and safe operation when working with industrial racking and the rugby themed ‘Scrum’ test required careful and precise use of controls, and safe attachment usage. Knowledge of theory and the ability to correctly conduct a pre-use forklift check were also put to the test in the ‘Jigsaw’ and ‘Blockbuster’ rounds, while ‘The Wizard of Oz’ challenge saw operators demonstrate the proficiencies required for accurate vehicle loading and unloading. “Throughout the test exercises, the UniCarriers TX model counterbalance was used because it provides the pinnacle of safety in design for counterbalance trucks,” says Chris. “The TX ‘Provision’ concept provides exceptional all-round visibility while automatic travel and tilt reduction ensures that all loads are being handled appropriately. “The test drivers also enjoyed the benefit of an automatic parking break (although they didn’t require the anti-rollback capability) and the intuitive driving experience provided by the Steering Force System,” Chris continues. “Businesses are forever looking for efficiency gains and increased through-put speeds – it is vital that safety is not compromised in this process – The UniCarriers TX provides speed without compromising safety or energy consumption.” And the winner is…. Following a busy day of competition, the 20 finalists headed to the Talent in Logistics Awards to await the final results and hear who would be taking home the prestigious accolade. Competitors enjoyed a black-tie awards event with drinks reception and three-course meal before celebrity host, charming Sky Sports presenter Jeff Stelling, revealed Dale Smith as the winner. On stage, the trophy was presented to Dale by Chris Bates, Sales Director for UniCarriers UK Ltd, sponsor of Forklift Operator of the Year for the second year running. Winners of all the Talent in Logistics Awards categories were announced during the same evening. Details of the winners can be found at www.talentinlogistics.co.uk Forklift Operator of the Year 2019 will return as part of next year’s Talent in Logistics event, which takes place on Thursday 27th June 2019 at Arena MK in Milton Keynes. To register your interest in attending, find out about early bird ticket rates, or to learn more about supporting Talent in Logistics 2019, email [email protected] or call 01952 520 216.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.665025532245636, "wiki_prob": 0.334974467754364, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line181690"}

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